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jacob soboroff, what happens next?n the case in washington and then judge zabra in the southern -- look, i knew nothing about immigration law and immigration cases and what happened in federal court before i saw these kids locked up in cages. judge sabra is the reason these children are being reunited in the first place. the government never had a plan. the aclu brought this case out here in california and the judge basically said, where is the plan? the government said, there is no plan. and a judge literally ordered the government to come up with a plan. that is what is being cared out right now. >> totally remarkable. jacob soboroff, remarkable, unbelievable. you name injury superlative. >> unbelievable. >> thank you very much. jacob soboroff, paul schmidt, thank you as well. >> thank you, katy. >>> meanwhile, dozens of children in yemen were killed when their bus was hit by a bomb. how was the united states involved? your business. so this won't happen. because you've made sure this sensor and this machine are inte

nbc correspondent jacob soboroff has more on one father's story. >> reporter: where are we going righte one of our clients. he is a dad who is separated from his son. >> reporter: lindsey teslowski is executive director of the immigrant defenders law center. today most of her time is spent representing separated families, and it turns out many ended up in the los angeles area, some parents still behind bars. >> we are going to the detention facility which is about 90 miles outside of l.a. we have attorneys up here almost every day of the week. >> reporter: lindsey and other lawyers head out here on a regular basis to push back on the government's contention that parents of 154 kids didn't want to be reunited and intentionally signed documents giving up that right. >> you're representing ten people in this facility alone who are fathers who were separated from their kids, and signed papers that basically said i don't want to be reunited with my kid. >> yeah. >> reporter: so this guy, his name is what, ascencio. >> yes. >> reporter: did he give up his right to be reunited with his son? >

let's bring our msnbc jacob soboroff, he's been following migrant families for months now. >> and our radio talk show, is with us as well. >> jacob, what can you tell us the mom and the daughter that's deported and landed in el salvador in the middle of this proceeding. >> it was unbelievable to follow le th this in realtime. i talked to the attorney in this case as the mother and the child were en route from texas to el salvador landed and stayed on the airplane, a government chartered airplane that's used by i.c.e. to deport people and flew back. i want to tell you about carmen and her daughter. despite the asylum claim of fleeing two decades of sexual abuse by her husband who routinely raped her. those are the vast majority of people that are coming to this country to seek asylums. he does not want to come and pass a credible fear interview if they are able to stay here. >> joshua, we have a federal judge threaten the attorney general, the highest foreign officer in this country for contempt over the administration. how did we get here? is this by design or bad planning. >> remembe

my friend jacob soboroff. help us through this because melania's parents' lawyer said they followed all of the rules, came here legally, but if president trump got his way, if we ended this type of immigration system. there would be no easy pass for her family. >> no. and congratulations to the president's in-laws, i should say. this is exciting time for them. just like it is for so many people that are coming from all around the world to be reunited with their families. this is the administration by the way that has torn apart another type of family. families that come and present asylum at the southern border. irony is obviously rich that the president continues to rail against this issue of chain migration. advocated for this point based immigration system like they use in canada, and his own -- just looking at the pictures, it is so ironic his own in-laws are the ones to benefit from this. and he hasn't said a peep, by the way about this. >> do we expect the white house is going to say something. i'm sure

msnbc's jacob soboroff has been following the story for months for us now. jacob is live.ve a new statement from the aclu where they say the government appears to be taking the remarkable position that it is the job of private entities to find these parents and it can largely sit back and wait for us to tell them when we find people. you have to imagine the aclu wants to help reunite these families, but at the end of the day, the government separated them. isn't the government's responsibility to put them back together? >> you know what, peter? i was thinking of when you sat down with the secretary of homeland kirstjen nielsen, are you going to be able to unite them? we are not going to cut corners. it appears that is exactly what they are doing right now. they are cutting a corner, 572 children large at this point. basically saying the aclu is the one that is the plaintiff in this lawsuit. they're the ones that want the children reunited. so, hey, aclu, why don't you guys take the lead and we'll be in the supporting position here to put the rest of these children back wit

msnbc's jacob soboroff who has been on top of this border crisis from the very beginning has the latest from a court filing, jacob. >> reporter: that's right, andrea, we have a court filing that came in from the aclu and the trump administration, the parties in this case. first, an update on the numbers. remember, 2,551 children overall were separated from their parents by the trump administration in a systematic way that had never been done before. as of yesterday during this filing, 572 of them still remain in government custody. they have been calling this category "ineligible for reunification." that word does not appear in the latest court filing, but essentially it's the same group of kids we were talking about before. 410 parents from that group were deported before they were able to be reunified with their children. what is most extraordinary, andrea, but what we learned in this latest filing late last night is that the administration is essentially suggesting that the aclu now go take responsibility for tracking down and reuniting these children with their families. to say this

and we will be joined tonight by reporter jacob soboroff to explain what set that federal judge off today. meanwhile, donald trump is back at his own golf club in new jersey. he's going to stay there for two more weeks. we learned that from rudy giuliani, who now claims that trump will, once and for all announce whether he's doing that much-discussed interview with special counsel robert mueller, who himself was busy wrapping the first week of the trial with trump campaign chairman, paul manafort. that's not only the only legal news. remember all that drama over the first publication to ever release the first trump/russia dossier? it was the website buzzfeed. they made the choice, law suits ensued. late today, i don't know if you heard about this yet, but it's potentially significant. news broke there is a judge who's going to greenlight fascinating fact finding in this case. buzzfeed will be able to pursue legally james comey and other key federal officials to depose them under oath, all of this to address some of the questions we've all been wondering, like, how did that dossier make it

well i am joined now by jacob soboroff. a lot of people on both sides do respect the organization.lps out people who weren't too popular. and your thoughts about this new reliance of the trump crowd. >> it is a bizarro world. and to watch that clip, the trump administration wants to put the aclu at the center because they have absolutely no plan to put these kids back with their parents. we are talking about the administration that separated 2,550 kids from their parents down at the border. i was on with you from down there. i saw the kids in the cages. and you know, i will never see anything like that again and i don't think many of us in our lifetime will see anything like that again. we separated them, but we don't know how to put them back together so the organization that are suing us, we will suggest why don't you guys do that and we will be the support can player and the judge said no. >> we have no line on those who were sent back to those countries of origin. how would the aclu be able to find those people down there better than the u.s. government. we have everything down

>> jacob soboroff and keir simmons or as one of our audience members called us piers morgan.fashions. >> oh my god, i'm looking forward to that. >> fanny pack that goes around the shoulder? >> it's a spare tire actually. and keir wearing black socks. >> oh, no, no, no. mr. roker, give us the weather before you go. >> let's look at your weekend forecast. check it out. here's your weekend outlook for tomorrow, heavy rain in the northeast, showers along the southeastern atlantic coast, hot and humid through the mid mississippi river valleys, triple threat digit heat out west, and sunday, sunday! it continues the sunshine report turns to the northeast, stormy conditions through the central plains, sunshine down through that's what's going on around the country. here's what's happening in your neck of the woods. >> right now, seeing fog in san francisco, cool temperatures later on, highs only in the 60s. haziy skies in san jose, already climbing into the mid-60s. unfortunately, smoke around concord. towards mt. diablo. 61. we have a smoke advisory for the north and east bay locati

and we will be joined tonight by reporter jacob soboroff to explain what set that federal judge off todayat his own golf club in new jersey. he's going to stay there for two more weeks. we learned that from rudy giuliani, who now claims that trump will, once and for all announce whether he's doing that much-discussed interview with special counsel robert mueller, who himself was busy wrapping the first week of the trial with trump campaign chairman, paul

i'm al ker. >> i'm keir simmons. >> i'm jacob soboroff. megyn kelly isac onion this week.utecthis,se i don't think there isn't a person out there who doesn't love ruth bader ginsburg. >> rbg! >> 85 years old, and she vealed she haso plans to retire. she wants to stay on the supreme court for another five years.

tonight, andy cohen, msnbc correspondent, jacob soboroff, author, rebecca makkai, featuring the 8g bandh meyers. this is "late night." how's everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ] well, that's great to hear. in that case, let's get to the news. well, move over gettysburg address. [ laughter ]

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let's bring in jacob soboroff, who has been following this story. what's going on?he government wants the aclu to do the dirty work? >> think about what you said. the government is asking can -- the trump administration is asking ngos and the aclu through the court to take on responsibility for finding the missing parents, which begs the question, why are the parents missing in the first place? the answer to that question is because the government separated them from their children. so the government who separated these kids, 2,551 total, now 572 left, in u.s. government custody months after they were taken from their parents is now saying, essentially, put your money where your mouth is, aclu. if you want them reunited so bad, you do it. >> is this government admitting they don't have the resources or capabilities to find these parents? >> well, what the aclu says -- how could the government say this? this is the united states government with unlimited supply of money. the resources in terms of manpower in order to dedicate these people across hhs and the departmen

government custody according to my colleague jacob soboroff. 365 of them had their parents deported.ration is hitting a road block after deciding the domestic and gang violence cannot be used as a reason for seeking asylum. u.s. district judge emmet sullivan this week halting the deportation of a mother and daughter, ordering them to be flown back to the united states. the woman is fleeing sexual and gang violence according to a lawsuit filed in part by the american civil liberties union. the judge even threatened in all caps to hold attorney general jeff sessions in contempt of court for deporting a plaintiff in an ongoing case. the government's latest plan is for the state department to locate the deported parents. the aclu will then have to track them down and determine if they want reunification. if so, the government will be responsible for transporting the children back to their country of origin. coming up, charlottesville preparing for a tough anniversary this weekend as the city declares a state of emergency. we're taking a look at race relations in america one year after th

. >> jacob soboroff, thank you for bringing us this story. >>> the judge in the manafort trial back peddles on his own favor for behavior which seems to favor the defendant. that's next. >>> he's described himself as a caesar in his own rome, but the federal judge in paul manafort's trial today realized he may have gone too far. for days, t.s. ellis has berated, interrupted and criticized robert mueller's prosecutors but this morning he began the day with an apology, referencing a tense exchange he had yesterday with the lead prosecutor over a witness in front of the jury. ellis committed he, quote, may have been wrong. wow. and added that he makes mistakes like any human, and, quote, this robe doesn't make me any more of a human. chuck rosenberg is back and has appeared before judge ellis. has he ever apologized before as far as you know? >> look, in court, nicolle, particularly in trial, you're stressed, you're tired, you're cranky, everyone makes mistakes. i've been in front of judge ellis a whole bunch of times and he's admitted when he's

joining me now is jacob soboroff. cob, what was the response of the court to the request from the trump administration that the aclu, a private civil rights organization, reunite some 500 parents that the trump administration separated from their kids? >> so we can't actually see into this courtroom, joy, because they are now doing telephone conferences which you can listen in and i can imagine that the judge was kind of just like what -- what is this? i mean, that was what he said. he said this is an unacceptable plan, the idea that the trump administration which systematically separated 2,551 kids is now saying to the organization that is suing it, hey, why don't you guys take the lead in reuniting the remaining 572 children since essentially you want to do it so bad. it's just a bizarre idea. that's really the only way to describe it. why would the trump administration put onus on the agency, the group, the outside group, nonprofit group, with limited resources, finite resources that is suing it to do -- to do its o

nbc's jacob soboroff has that ory. good morning. >> this is unbelievable.ew video released this week shows thehocking incident. it was caught on camera, and i warn you, it is very disturbing. tw menttacking a sikh man wearing a turban. the father of one of the suspects i a local police chief, saying his family's been shaken to the core by his son's arrest. this morning, a community and a family are reeling from this brutal attack, some calling it a hate crime. police say sahib singh mat was alking near a park monday in manteca, california, when two people in hoodies approach him. singh mat, who doesn't speak glish, tries to walk away, but the attackers confront him and begin kickingim inhe chest, knocking him to the ground. he attempts to defend himself when one of the attackers kicks him again. thettacker kicks him several more times, finally spitting on him before leaving. onednesday, police arrested 18-year-old tyrone mcallister and another 16-year-old, charging them with attempted robbery, elder abuse, and assault with a deadlyweapon. nearby unionity po

joining me now is our correspondent who's been following this story jacob so soboroff.reat to have you with us. it is hard to wrap my head around in a little bit. what is the government's argument that it is up to the aclu that should be responsible for reuniting these families? >> this has been a slow motion train wreck of a disaster and it continues to sort of amaze and astonish in every turn. the government separated these children from their parents in a way we have never seen before. as a deterrent, john kelly, is now saying the aclu who wants to do sued them to reunite the 551 kids separated from their parents should be responsible for it, basically because they wanted to happen. it is an impossible thing to understand. the government is the one that has been ordered by a judge to do these unifications and now they're saying because of aclu and another ngo's on the ground, they should be the one to do it. they should essentially take the lead. >> there are about 572 kids remains in the government's custody. regardless of whose responsibility it is, it literally fa