michael steel, joe watkins and verlinda gray. going 0 speak to someone involved in reuniting families and the legal battles they're forced to endure. >>> good morning, i'm david gura in for alex witt at msnbc world headquarters in new york. it's :00 in the east, 6:00 out west and here's what's happening. where are they and what's being done to get hundreds of migrant children back into the arms of their parents? live reports on the chaos from the u.s./mexico border. >>> and the president pointing to what he calls waves of migrants as a security threat. and the report about michael cohen and his connection to a tabloid during the 2016 campaign. >>> we begin with a live picture of the white house. any moment now, president trump scheduled to leave for las vegas for events with nevada's republican party. he lives for the trip amid fallout over his separation policy and his row luck tans to end it on thursday. fresh insight into what led president trump to retreat on that policy. and the confusion his executive order created between

our panel is back with me, danielle mills and joe watkins and michael steele. there no seeming consequence force the president and his lies? >> this are and there will be. mr. sanford brought a lot of baggage to this race that was of his own making. he almost lost his primary challenge last time. he lost with a ton of money still on hand. he basically didn't take his opponent seriously enough and lost a primary election that was not a total surprise at all. but i think to your larger question, the point of the mueller investigation, the point of all of the discussion we're having about the president's inability to correctly clearly and accurately answer questions, there will in the end be consequences. >> what's your take, danielle, to the extent to which the president may have helped to bring about mark sanford's downfall with that tweet that he put out at the 11th h on election day tuesday? >> i mean nothing comes as any surprise, coming from donald trump. if he does not like you, he's going to take you down. if it's between him and you, he's always going to

aground former adviser to the director general of the world trade organization in philadelphia joe watkins a republican strategist and former white house aide to president george h. w. bush and the lancaster u.k. . so in our international economist of the lancaster university thank you for joining us philip what is trump trying to do here is he defending the u.s. interest or is he trying to change a world order that has prevailed for many years. well obviously he's trying to curry favor with the voters at the same time i think he's itching for a fight this. he's taking incendiary measures against a close u.s. allies on the bogus pretense that their imports threaten american national security and he's doing this in a week where he's reignited the trade war with china and where he's also recently launched an investigation into car imports also on the bogus grounds or national security which could lead to an even larger asked escalation of hostilities this is not in the interests of the u.s. economy it's not in interests of u.s. jobs i think he's itching for a fight and i think the consequenc

let's bring on gas into the show we have joining us from philadelphia joe watkins a republican political strategist in new york lincoln mitchell a political analyst and in mount dora florida by skype david ward a retired border patrol agent welcome to will let's start with joe than the scenes have been harrowing haven't they do you think they'll prompt congress into action and find a solution well clearly this is a midterm election year in the united states and so every seat in the congress that is the u.s. house of representatives is up for reelection and many u.s. senate seats are up for reelection as well so congress may feel some pressure to do something because some of the seats may be affected by how they stand this issue although i'm doubtful that anybody would lose their seat over this issue although it's right now dominating the news lindsey graham only reason have to lose this seat have. you explain that part to us joe there's often a lot of skepticism and pessimism about whether a congressman wants to quote unquote take a risk to try and fix this why well because members of co

the most for us and discuss on this spot in the fred we are out of time that's thank contest then joe watkins lincoln mitchell and david ward. you can see the show again any time by visiting our website. the discussion. page. story join the. i'm sam is a dam in dar with a look at the headlines here now just syria pro-government forces say they've taken control of her davis airport but the fighting continues the enemy army is also blocking the road between her day the province and the capital this would cut supply lines and stop reinforcements from the who through stronghold santa simon may burn is a lecturer in international relations of the middle east at lancaster university he says the fighting in her data is going to have a massive impact on the country. i fear it's just a matter of time before the city falls and before we see an escalation of violence and casualties and devastation in the city itself if you look at the makeup of the forces and and the real strength of the saudi and their r.t. led coalition it seems to be just a matter of time in terms of just the basic numbers and the sh

let's bring on gas into the show we have joining us from philadelphia joe watkins a republican political strategist in new york lincoln mitchell a political analyst and then mount dora florida by skype david ward a retired border patrol agent welcome to will let's start with joe than the scenes have been harrowing haven't they do you think they'll prompt congress into action and find a solution well clearly this is a midterm election year in the united states and so every seat in the congress that is the u.s. house of representatives is up for reelection and many u.s. senate seats referee election as well so congress may feel some pressure to do something because some of the seats may be affected by how they stand on this issue although i'm doubtful that anybody would lose their seat over this issue although it's right now dominating the news lindsey graham only reason have to lose this seat have. you explain that to us joe there's often a lot of skepticism and pessimism about whether a congressman wants to quote unquote take a risk to try and fix this why well because members of congres

. >> zerlina maxwell, joe watkins, and republican political consultant singleton, contributor for the hill. very good saturday morning to all three of you. we will get first to you, joe. so politico has this new piece on the potential strategy behind nominating a woman for that seat. it reads in part, some conservatives say nominating a female justice may assume a loomi defuse a looming fight over abortion rights. >> justice kennedy was somebody who was a swing vote on social issues. certainly the president is well aware that susan collins, senator collins and murkowski are key votes in this upcoming supreme court fight. so he is smart to consider a woman. i wouldn't be surprised if he ended up choosing one. >> zerlina, let's get to a clip now. this is about the president and how roe v. wade could factor into his conversations with the candidates on that seat for the supreme court. let's take a listen to him. >> are you going to ask your nominees beforehand how they might vote on roe versus wade? >> well, that's a big one. and probably not. they are all saying don't do that. you don't

joe watkins and rick tyler. my saturday morning family. thank you so much for joining me. rick, to you first here, this nbc news article had this summary of the president's first day at g7. look at the headline. come late, leave early. offend host, alienate allies. ouch! then the president arrives late to this morning's breakfast meeting. how much of this do you think is strategic? how much of it is the president just going off-script? >> i think it's very strategic, it's not surprising, alex, two things can happen here. there are some unfair trade practices and then president trump is right to bring them up. milk products in canada are taxed at nearly 300%. and that shouldn't be. same with lumg ber. the g7 is a chance to show the democracies of the world, the largest economies of the world, by the way russia is not even close, tiny little italy is much bigger than russia's economy, they should not be included. but he just, he uses that to cause a crisis. when he causes a crisis it causes him to gain leverage. and politically, his supporters are saying look at this. he's t

[applause] aaron: as well as photographs by roland freeman, joe friedman, ron comedy, and claire watkins. i would say with the claire watkins photographs, these are also new discoveries. we found about 1600 frames of photographs of caravans coming to resurrection city. they had not been seen before. we found these negatives that were here at the smithsonian. the smithsonian archives have them. when they heard about this exhibition, they called and asked if we would like to have the negatives transferred to our collection. of course, we said yes. the other thing to pay attention to about the exhibition, would be all of the color. generally, with the civil rights exhibitions, we are accustomed to seeing photographs and media images in black and white. but what we are doing, which is pretty innovative, is showing the civil rights movement, particularly one that honors the memory of king's life and memory, we are showing them in color. i have been studying civil rights images for a long time. it is rare to see so much color in an exhibition. it also speaks to the importance of a visual cultu

about four reporters total, joe, receive some type of contact from this james wolfe. so it is not just this one ali watkin's to buzz feed, politico and "new york times" reporter, there were others as well. we do not know more about what they received if anything? >> no, not yet, but i can tell you whether he served for 29 years with republicans and democrats, this is part of the trump derangement since dumb. he did that because he does not like donald trump. but the bottom line is, also was obviously having an affair with the reporter from buzz feed. so there is that. but the bottom line is this is all part of a pattern. if it involves donald trump you can do anything you want. there are no rules. good, bad, indifferent. this guy went over the line and every way. he is going to do time. he is going to prison. >> according to the indictment, he was in his 50s and she was an undergraduate. in college when they begang having an affair. this is a bad idea on his part, shows terrible judgment. and she breaks a big story which was really a big story about the cia spy on the senate intelligence committee. when she