laura bush or secretary nielsen, i'm going with laura bush. ouvriere government should not be in the business of warehousing children in conslerted box stores or making plans to place them in tent cities in a desert. >> okay. so, don't believe the press reports. as our colleague jacob has been out there and reported, i believe last week, gave us the narrative of being informed by the officials there to smile at the children so that way you can show them they're not animals. okay. if they're not -- >> they don't feel like animals in cages. >> thank you. so, if that's what the press is being told when they're coming in to take a look at these facilities, to smile at the children so they don't feel like they're animals in cages, what does that tell you about the situation these kids are in? that the people who are overseeing this would think that those kids get the impression that they're animals in cages. >> jacob, you want to try to answer that? >> on top of all of that, it doesn't matter as one official said to me, it doesn't matter if you put

laura bush rarely speaks up about policy. so the fact that she weighing in and the fact that she used those words, cruel, immoral, she picks her words very carefully. she picks her moments very carefully. and i think just to go back to what you said in the beginning, this is hugerisis for the white house. donald trump is in trouble when former first lady laura bush, when his own wife, melania trump who doesn't weigh in about policy very often says something. franklin graham earlier this morning on the air, his friend anthony scaramucci said the president should pick up the phone. forget about tomorrow, he said he should pick up the phone today and end this policy. so there will be republicans coming to the white house to meet with the president tomorrow. this is a building cri for them. and donald trump knows about the power of images. remember, we saw him react to the children being gassed in syria. he understands the impact that those cages, that those images are having. so i think you're just going to see a tidal wave of p

—— those are the comments that have come in from laura bush.sing results at the world cup in russia. and england will kick off their campaign against tunisia later. the bbc‘s lucy hockings is in moscow. lovely to see you. football fans worldwide were glued to their screens yesterday, the stadiums were packed. it was a surprising day. what a day, sally. absolutely unbelievable, a day of not only surprises, those celebrations you talked about all over the world, the mexican fans have been incredible since we have been here. they have taken over moscow. since we have been here. they have ta ken over moscow. i since we have been here. they have taken over moscow. i spoke to some of them before they left for the stadium, they were so confident, it turns out it was absolutely justified. their team played a blinder, beating defending champions germany. then a a few hours later, all the bars and cafes glued to brazil, the favourites of, and they failed to win their opening game. the first time it has happened since 1978. they drew 1—1 against switzerla

we will hear from laura bush and melania trump on the emotional issue of immigration. it is one that will dominate this week and republicans set to week as the white house ills tries to deflect all of the outrage over the zero tolerance border policy by blaming it on democrats. administration critics accusing the president of separating migrant children from families for political leverage and here is why. the president tweeting over the weekend democrats can fix the forced family break up at the border by working with republicans on new legislation for a change. this is why we need more republicans elected in november. democrats are goodt only three things. high taxes, high crime and obstruction. >> later, he s should get together and work something out. don't wait until after the election because you will lose. several democratic lawmakers chose father's day for the tour of the detention centers along the border. they got a look at the zero tolerance policy. let's get more from nick valencia in brownsville, texas. >> reporter: dave and christine, this is the stop on

joining us now, anita mcbride, former chief of staff to laura bush and kate anderson brower.senior most official to go visit the border in the midst of this white house-created crisis of separating parents from their children, the message is i care, getting a firsthand look isn't a bad thing. we'll talk about the jacket in a second. but the trip in and of itself, what did you make of it? >> well, i thought that it was very important that she did that. it appears she pulled that trip together very quickly and there are a lot of details that go into a trip like that. i remember certainly making so many visits to the gulf coast after katrina with laura bush after 24 to 48 hours. i think it's important because it does bring a sense of humanity and a sense of i do care what's happening to these children, to these families, because i think she's very sincere about caring about kids. so that's important. maybe it helps to bring back a message to the white house. i hope that it has some effect. that's the one thing that she really is in a unique position to do, very different than an

laura bush, the former first lady.who have stuck by trump, his base, even through controversies like his affair with a porn star, you are seeing some of these leaders decrying this policy. you are seeing a lot of his typical allies and pockets of his base come out against this but of course, the core base does usually stand by donald trump. they largely agree with this policy. these congressional republicans, a lot of which are facing tough re—election races, and you can imagine the attack ads being cut around these images, the perfect audio we are getting. us president donald trump wants to form a sixth branch of the us military: a space force. mr trump says it's important for the country's security to establish what he called american dominance in space and that it would be unacceptable to let either china or russia take the lead. when it comes to defending america, it is not enough to merely have an american presence in space, the must have american dominance in space. so important. joining me now live is dr rachael

but that is not going over well with everyone, including former first lady laura bush who issued an op ed over the weekend comparing it to japanese internment camp. bush wrote i live at a border state. i appreciate protecting our international boundaries but this breaks my heart. and melania trump supporting families even while her husband's administration is pursuing this policy. melania trump issued an extraordinary statement of her own, in some ways distancing herself from the policy but in other ways echoing her husband's language about it. the statement wrote mrs. trump hates to see children separated from their family and hopes both sides of the awful can come together to achieve successful immigration reform. we need to be a country that follows all laws but also a country that governs with heart. the president has not been willing to take ownership over the weekend. he said the policy belonging to democrats. he said it would be used as a negotiation tool. two tweets over the weekend. the president blames democrats. he also implied if democrats want to change it -- if democrats

number one, former first lady laura bush is calling the trump administration's new policy of separatingheir children cruel and immoral. bush adds it's breaking her heart. the former first lady made the comments in "the washington post." >>> number two, investigators are looking into a string of 13 ous spi shows fires in sflan rosa. no buildings were damaged. no one was reported hurt. >>> number three, police investigating after a man was spotted multiple times secretly taking photos of young children. the most recent incident happened over the week into at the san mateo county fair. police say so far the man has done nothin illegal. >>> number four, at least three people are dead after a 6.1 magnitude quake in japan. one of the victims was a 9-year-old girl. the quake was centered in osaka. >>> we're watching the stock market this morning. number five, the dow is down amid trade tensions with china, down 205 points. stocks were down most of last week because of fears over a ed tra war. >>> number six, expect sunshine this afternoon. slower breezes and temperatures warming back to averag

laura bush recalled another republican first lady, her mother-in-law, barbara bush who while first lady at the height of the aids crisis in this country visited a home in washington d.c. for children with hiv/aids. in those days many americans believed they could catch aids simply by touching a baby with aids. those babies were even sometimes called the untouchables. laura bush remembers the photograph that we all saw of first lady barbara bush picking up, quote, a dieing baby named donovan and snuggled him against her shoulder to smooth him. my mother-in-law never viewed her embrace of that fragile child as courageous, she simply saw it as the right thing to do. so we are at another possible first lady moment. a moment where the first lady can actually do something that none of the rest of us can. in the jails that donald trump is now running on the southern border for children and toddlers and babies, the rules say that none of the people working there can touch the children. it is against the rules to hug one of the toddlers. and you don't have to be a pediatrician to know the large

incluso la ex primera dama, laura bush hablÓ en contra de esta prÁctica y la llamo cruel.araciÓn de familias en la frontera . en la casa blanca, la secretaria del departamento de seguridad nacional dice que ellos no crearon la medida. advirtiÓ que hasta que el congreso no actÚe, no serÁ posible mantener a las familias juntas. [hablan inglÉs] janet: en 2017, el exsecretario y ahora jefe de gabinete john kelly habÍa admitido que sí consideraban la medida. la secretaria demÓcrata harris pidiÓ la renuncia de nielsen. >> hay muchas cosas que se pueden utilizar y no llegar a un proceso radical como este en el que crean un problema muy grande para los niÑos. janet: no son sÓlo los demÓcratas de los que critican y piden un fin a la polÍtica de cero tolerancia que ha llevado a casi 1000 niÑos separados de sus padres. >> los republicanos se tienen la responsabilidad de llamar la administraciÓn y el presidente para unir estas familias. janet: la ex primera dama republicana, laura bush, quiÉn se mantiene alejado de la polÍtica escribiÓ en un artÍculo de opiniÓn que la polÍtica de cero

we had laura bush ina very express concerns.orial in the washington post, likening it to the japanese internment camps during world war ii, saying it was very cruel and did not represent america. she comes from a border state, texas and her husband is a former governor of texas. and then you have the even more remarkable in many ways intervention of melania trump issuing that statement yesterday, exposing concerns as well about separating children from families and saying it was one. but one reason why her husband occupies the white house and why melania trump is now the first lady is because her husband spoke so toughly on immigration right from the get—go. member when he descended the golden escalator and described mexican immigrants as rapists. we analysed that and we thought that that was his big mistake but we were wrong. we wrongly thought that republicans had to extend the appeal of the party to immigrants but donald trump flew in the face of that and guess what, he won?! obviously, what is coming up in the two bills whic

cruel and immoral -- that is how laura bush, the former first lady, described the separation of parents from children as they cross into the u.s. illegally. the trump administration has taken nearly 2000 children from their famili in the past six weeks. despite the criticism of what is happening at the u.-mexico border, president trump is soartanding firm, saying he won't allow the u.s. to become a migrant camp. here is our north america correspondent nick bryant. nick: children held in what looked like cages. the trump administration's zero-tolerance immigration policy is being put into actione at thintion center in texas.he it is not justuch vaunted border wall that the administration hopes will act as rentor terence -- as a deter to those who crossed the mexican border illegally, but also this wiremesh fencing. the detainees are calling it the dog kennel. in these dusty facilities, the trump administration isn't just detaining children, but separating them from their parents. nearly 2000 sons and daughters have been tan away from their mothers and fathers in a month-long period. this

and she pointed to laura bush stepping out on policy. but also said can you imagine what barbara bush is saying, stomping around in heaven being really mad about this? >> great point. what is your take, anita, on the jacket that melania wore? >> the jacket is unfortunate because it really detracts from the good visit that she had down there. i'm really never comfortable with the word first, the word first lady and the words i don't care in the same sentence. ever. so i think that that -- i don't know what statement she was trying to make. i know the white house is trying to give us an answer on that. but when you're in elected office or you're a spouse of an elected person, everything you say, you do, you wear, has meaning and this is, i'm sorry, it was unfortunate. >> sure was. thank you for coming in. appreciate it. great to see you. >>> coming up, game over. that is republican congressman mark sanford's take on any hope for immigration legislation right now. and that's not the only warning that he has for his republican colleagues. be

ted cruz, laura bush. i'm not editorializing. i'm reflecting the views of an overwhelming majority -- >> the alternative is the way the courts have ruled is to say you have 20 days to then release them with parents. that's the choice. parents are bringing children in illegally. there's an incentive to pair up with children, come across the border. they can get full asylum and stay with their children if they come through ports of entry. they are breaking the law coming in where they are. >> you are a father. you have kids. how do you explain this to your kids that these kids who are being separated from their parents are being ripped apart? what are you going -- >> the same way i did here on your show. it's a terribly choice. >> what is more moral? maybe they will disappear but they will be together. what do you say to the leaders of the catholic church, most of them are saying, this is a bad, bad policy. >> it's to say we need help from congress to provide the tools necessary so we can handle this better. right now, you are face

although we very much appreciated laura bush's lovely letter. it was a disaster for obama. >> well, it has to do with and war developing the arctic circle for exploitation for fossil fuels i suppose. why did he take a shot on laura bush who everybody likes? >> he's because a petty person. he can't help himself. he likes to take those shots because it makes him feel strong especially when he has a crowd behind him. and he gets revved up and likes to stick it to everybody who he feels he can stick it to the master of trolling, if it's not trump, mitch mcconnell. his political team took a victory lap after today's supreme court ruling tweeting this picture of the senate with justice neil gorsuch. frequently called the democrats ob strukt instructionist famously blocked obama's pick just two years ago. how do republicans manage to pretend to forget that the democrats wanted a bill on immigration in '13, they wanted a vote on their supreme court nominee, they wouldn't bring it up. they wanted to finish the recount in florida. they wouldn't let them d

the first lady and her predecessor, laura bush, are weighing in.e house. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. nearly 2,000 children spent the first day in the u.s. apart from their parents at federal detention centers, sparking protests outside of the facilities. president trump blaming democrats, saying they opposed every measure to close loopholes. it was the president's attorney general, who in may announced this new zero tolerance policy, which has prompted federal authorities who pull apart families who enter the u.s. illegally. laura bush, a lifelong texan, called the policy cruel and demoral. and the first lady, melania trump, says she hates to see what's happening and calls for a country that governs with heart. savannah? >> kristen, thank you. >>> now, to the rising temperatures from the midwest to the atlantic coast. it's hot enough to pose some health has hazards. al is back with that. >> we have warm, humid air in the gulf. the jet stream is up to the north. we're looking for temperatures, and heat advisories, up to 74 million peopl

cruel and immoral — that is how laura bush, the formerfirst lady, has described the separation of childreneir parents as they cross into the us illegally. the trump administration has taken nearly 2,000 children from theirfamilies in the past six weeks. despite the criticism of what is happening at the us—mexico border, president trump is trying to blame the democrats, and saying he won't allow the us to become a migrant camp. here is our north america correspondent nick bryant. children held in what look like cages — the trump administration's zero—tolerance immigration policy being put into action at this detention centre in texas. it is notjust the much—vaunted border wall that the administration hopes will act as a deterrent to those who cross the mexican border illegally, but also this wire mesh fencing. ‘la perrera,‘ the detainees are calling it — the dog kennel. and in these dusty facilities, the trump administration isn'tjust detaining children, but separating them from their parents. nearly 2,000 sons and daughters have been taken away from their mothers and fathers in just over a

zero—tolerance policy on migrants has been condemned as cruel and immoral by former first lady laura bushwife, melania, said the country needed to govern with a heart. mexico's world cup win over champions germany has triggered mass celebrations in mexico city, and stunned fans across the globe. and on the markets: addiction to electronic games has for the first time been officially recognised as a mental health condition by the world health organization. that is the story we are asking for your opinion on the day. keep sending in your thoughts. now it is time look at the stories making headlines across the world. we begin with the financial times, where german chancellor angela merkel is locked in a coalition showdown on how to deal with the refugee crisis. it comes as the aquarius, a rescue boat carrying hundreds of migrants, arrived safely in the spanish port of valencia. let's look at mexico's national paper, milenio, where el tri's shock win over germany is is being called a historic triumph. it is of course a very different story in germany. ziet online says it is now time to start

then you have laura bush treating i live in a border state.he need to enforce and protect our international boundaries. but this zero tolerance policy is cruel. it is immoral. and it breaks my heart. well, michelle obama has just retweeted that with one line -- sometimes truth transcends party. we're all over this story and will continue to be throughout the day here on msnbc. >>> hillary clinton, meantime, receiving an award, just spoke moments ago. >> when it comes to conflict, when women are seated at a table, they are more likely to reach peace agreements and those agreements are more lasting. we have an urgent responsibility to stand up to the human rights for girls here and around the world. just last week the administration announced that they will not provide asylum to survivors of domestic violence who seek refuge in the united states when their own countries fail to protect them. meanwhile, what's happening to families at the border is horrific. nursing infants being ripped away from their mothers. parents being told their toddlers a

crece el de clamor para que regresen con sus padres, melania trump pide que se gobernar con corazÓn laura bushe. >> sigue la fiesta tras el espectacular triunfo del tri frente alemania llueven los memes pidiendo perdÓn al tÉcnico y elevando en categorÍa de santo a memo ochoa. >> esta abuelita que dicen que ayudÓ en la victoria del tri. >> hablamos con marta gonzÁlez la abuela del milagro. desde rusia. >> tomamosl pulso al mundial desde rusia, les contamos esta s a julio v. >> en padres e hijos. >> han movilizado apolÍticos. >> y tambiÉn republicanos en la primera dama. >> asÍ viven esos niÑos en el centro de detenciÓn de mcallen en texas. >> en especies. >> sin saber de estÁs imagenes. >> en el interior de estos centros. >> preste atenciÓn. >> (llantos) >>> es como ven un documento sonoro de gran importancia porque muchos hasta ahora intuir cuando los separan de sus padres, tiene la grabaciÓn completa que hemos ilustrado con imÁgenes que son igualmente desgarradoras. >> (llantos) >>> es el sonido del llanto desconsulados que fueron separados. >> la niÑita de 6 aÑos que no quiere que deporten a

you look at laura bush. how many times did we hear from her when she was the first lady of the united states when it came to policy issues? this is a matter that crosses party lines and needs to be addressed immediately. this is not america. >> ann, the former new jersey attorney general, our legal analyst right now. you heard the secretary of homeland security say their hands are tied. what does the law actually say? >> nothing could be farther from the truth. the law does not require this. i think everything she said confirmed that this is a policy and it's a choice that they are making. when you think about the law, she was talking about, it's a 2008 law related to unaccompanied minors. basically who were being smuggled in. that's not the situation we're talking about. we are talking about kids coming in with their parents, with their family, who are being ripped from their families. what we know that the law in every state in america protects is children. it protects children. the question that courts as

that's traumatizing to the children who are innocent victims. >> reporter: former first lady laura bush condemning the practice in a scathing op ed, comparing them to japanese internment camps. bush wrote i live at a border state. i appreciate protecting our international boundaries but this breaks my heart. and melania trump supporting families even while her husband's administration is pursuing this policy. melania trump issued an extraordinary statement of her own, in some ways distancing herself from the policy but in other ways echoing her husband's language about it. the statement wrote mrs. trump hates to see children separated from their family and hopes both sides of the awful can come together to achieve successful immigration reform. >> 6 x 10 area. you get out two hours a day. that is who i think a child 10 years old is a prison. >> reporter: republican senator susan collins and jeff flake sending a letter to the white house demanding clarification about whether the practice is being applied to asylum seekers. homeland security secretary kirjsten nielsen insisting the childr

we saw laura bush speak out in her comments echoed by michelle obama today. we had mitt romney speak out. some republicans have said this should stop, this is not what we stand for, but all the administration has done today is double down in order. unless there's been a remarkable sea change in the last few hours i think we'll see nielsen step to that podium and do the same. it will be an extremely contentious briefing. that audio, some reporters had it playing aloud in that briefing room a few minutes ago. those reporters have heard this audio. those questions will be asked of sarah sanders and secretary nielsen. >> they're characterizing all those people as criminals. are those babies criminals? >> that's the message coming across. >> you can't punish the children for the actions of the parents. that is wrong. >> let's bring in texas republican congressman will hurd who visited a facility for teenage boys at the border who arrived there as unaccompanied minors. what did you see? >> a manifestation of a flawed policy. i've said this before in the land of the

we've got laura bush who compared them to the internment camps in this country.'ve got really serious charges against the lack of a moral compass from this white house coming from highly regarded republicans who for decades have had some influence. you've got the wall street journal editorial. what moves them, if not this response? >> i mean, i hope it did move them some. they said some good things this morning. i think they are gin whenuinely offended. >> they're not children, they're congressmen. >> i agree. that would be more easily done by the president and the attorney general ordering that as opposed to legislation. there are plenty of ways. we've all been in washington. there are plenty of ways for powerful members of congress to pressure the white house. there's all kinds of things the white house wants that mitch mcconnell and paul ryan and/ or hatch can tell the president. >> that takes courage. >> the other way to go would be to pass legislation. there's been some talk about that. maybe we'll work with democrats to pass legislation that wouldn't do eve

we're sworn to do which is to enforce the law. >> to follow up on that question, former first lady laura bush compared to this japanese internment, one of the darkest days of our history. do you believe the affect of this policy, not the law, but the affect on separation children from families is moral, is ethical, is american? >> what i believe is that we should exercise our democratic rights as americans and fix the problem. it's a problem. let's fix it. >> how is this not child abuse? >> which, be more specific, please, enforcing the law? -- images >> the cages that you were talking about and the sounds that we've seen from these big box stores, wal-marts and other stores, when you see this, how is this not specifically child abuse, where these innocent children, who are indeed being separated from their parents. >> so, let me be clear on a couple of other things, the vast majority, vast, vast majority of children who are were sent here with their parents. conflated have everything but they are two separate issues. 10,000 of those currently in custody were sent by their parents with strang

you a chance ive to respond to laura bush, she cruel, she supports an application of the law. even the current first lady, has said we should be a nation of laws, we should do so with heart. you want toanything tell them? do you believe they are misunderstanding the situation or do you believe there is any of this policy which as you've outlined other administrations have done but it in a way that's ore intense and creates the separation issue. >> my response would be is ttention to this matter is important. it's a very serious issue that's resulted, after years and years of congress not taking action. i would thank them both for their comments. i would thank them both for concerns. i share their concerns but congress is the one that needs to fix this. by your licy is not definition in any way cruel? >> it's not a policy. at dhs is to do what to e sworn to do which is enforce the law. >> to follow up on that question, former first lady laura bush compared to this one of the ernment, darkest days of our history. do you believe the affect of the law, but ot the affect on separat

former first lady michelle obama weighing in as well and citing laura bush and tweeting "sometimes truth transends party." roslyn carter said, "it is disgraceful and a shame to our country." condemning what's been done, including texas senator ted cruz late today. >> all of us who are seeing these images of children being pulled away from moms and dads in tears were horrified. this has to stop. kids need their moms and dads. >> the president says he hates this. he hates what's happening. yet he and his top officials refuse to take responsibility for the policy decision that they in fact made happen. in fact, late today, the dhs secretary would not even concede the existence of a policy. listen. >> this administration did not create a policy of separating families at the border. >> so keeping them honest, secretary nielsen seems to be splitting hairs, no, the administration did not literally create a policy to specifically tear children from their parents. it created a zero-tolerance policy that resulted in children being torn from their parents. what's more, they were okay with that. in

laura bush calls the zero tolerance policy cruel, immoral and says it breaks my heart.ichelle obama tweet that had she agrees with laura bush, writing, sometimes truth transscends party. hillary clinton writes, quote, every human being with a sense of compassion and decency should be outraged and roslyn carter raegsed a statement calling it disgraceful and a shame to our country. just how unique it is for every first lady to agree on something like this and to speak out on something so divisive. with me now, kate anderson brouwerry is with me. nice to have you here. the significance that we're hearing from all of them united. >> it's really unprecedented and i talked to one republican operative in texas who says, unusual sound you hear is the sound of reason. it is really a bridge too far for a lot of these women who are united as mothers and as first ladies, it's incredibly unique that they would come out on something that is really political. >> yeah. >> and very divisive. it's astounding to me. >> especially since our new cnn polling this morning shows 58% of republi

former first lady laura bush also spoke against the policy. >> let's bring you an analysis on this.glas joins me in the studio. you saw the report. let's be honest. if trump wanted to end the policy, he could, couldn't he? feinstein stated simply. donald trump could snap his fingers and this would be undone. so that begs the question why esn't he snapped his fingers given the outrage? there is moral outrage across the spectrum. yoyou mentioned ththe former fit lady's husband was hardly a pushover when it come to borderl security and security and migration. she has likened this policy to an intern camp in world war ii. that is not an exaggeration some people say. the question does go to the crux of of the matter. he is not changing it. not only is he not stepping his fingers to end this policy, he is shifting the blame. he is asserting that this is actually the democrats' fault. you might raise your eyebrows and follow it and how is it possible? a false claim. it is alive when he says that. it has nothing to do with the democrats. the fact of the matter is, as you said, part of a new

. >> in an opinion piece published last night in the washinon post laura bush had harsh criticismrumpad nistration's zero s. bush wrote i live in a border state. i appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries but this zero tolerance policy is it is immoral and its my heart. she went on to say our vernment should not be in the business of warehousing children in converted box stores or making planso place them in tent cities in the desert. >> next up harry potter fans are fuming at warner brothers after the movie studio announceki it's crac down on local fanestivals. warner brothers says it's necessary to sto unauthorized commercial activity. >> new guidelines prohibit festivals from using any names, places or objects fromth. one fanrg who helps oize a yearly festival outside of i philadelphia st's almost as if warner brothers has been taken over by voldemort trying to use dark magic to destroy the lighow of a littlen. >> finally expect to see lots of leg and other body bits when mtv airs its movie andv awards tonight. ages from the red carpet for the sho

i think it was laura bush who said it would not take much at all.l i think it was laura bush who saidt take much at all. a lot of people, including members of his own party, laura bush is a republican, married to george w bush, the former president, a lot of people quite close to president trump, say it would take a single phone call from the president to say, stop this policy of separating children from their parents, and what was noticeable from the speech he gave this morning was that he focused mostly on his anger towards the democrats, he didn't really address the issue head—on of the children being taken to these separate centres from their parents. he has in the past said he didn't like it but he certainly didn't address it today. it's day five of the world cup. and england has beaten tunisia in their first game of the tournament. the game finished just a short time ago. here are some highlights. the team got off to the perfect start via captain harry kane. but tunisia struck back, levelling the game in the 35th minute via a penalty. then it was a man of the moment again — harr

laura bush. been a supporter of conservation for decades. as firsther platform lady to visit more than 30 national parks and also served as the honorary cochair of the national park service centennial. she also practices what she preaches. she has been the visionary behind the wildfire -- wildflower preservation. natural thatery those efforts transition to the bush center and the creation of our 15 acre native texas park. i hope everyone takes time to enjoy that while they are here today. founder of texas by nature. a nonprofit organization restoration prairie efforts and teaching texans the importance of conserving our states natural resources. it is my great honor to introduce one of america's most beloved first lady's, my friend, mrs. laura bush. [applause] thank you all, thank you everybody. thank you very much. thank you to brian. hats around here and one of those is making sure the push center looks good every day. thank you for taking care of our building and grounds and for making the bush center such an attractive destination for vi

. >>> laura bush lashing out for the trump administration for separating children.are for the first lady to criticize the ofce. in the washington post, she writes, quote, i live in a border sta i appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international borders, boundary, but this is cruel and immoral and it breaks my heart. >> kellyanne conway claims nobody in the white house likes the policy of separating migrant children from parents. but the trump administration is using the practice to force democrats to the table on border security. >> as a mother, as a catholic, as somebody who has a conscious and would not say the junk that somebody said apparently allegedly. i would tell you nobody likes this policy. congress has to act. >> he can end it on his own. >> chuck, congress passed a law it is a crime. this is a congressional law from many years ago. it is a crime to enter this country illegally. if they don't like that law, they should change it. >> separating migrant families is a policy announced by the trump administration this spring. the white house canno

agree with laura bush. but i could see the same level of outreach -- of outrage when barack obama was deporting more people than any other president in history. people -- the majority of the first years without criminal records and separating families at the border and throughout the country, where was the outrage. most democrats were not talking about it. >> there was some outrage. >>a few but not the majority. >> there is a difference between what the politicians are willing to tolerate and the people are willing to tolerate. people were out there on the front lines protesting president obama calling him the deporter and chief. and we can't okay this from any administration. and they thought it was under the trump administration but happened under president obama but we're dealing with president donald j. trump is in the white house right now and he has the power and rarely followed president obama on anything. so he should not blame this on president obama now. he has the authority to change this. >> thi

get laura bush -- >> but stephanie, t abo this, you keep hearing from guys like kelly. it's a deterrent. it makes m think of that old t-shirt, you know, the beatings will continue until morale improves. well, whose ameri are they protecting here by taking children away from their parents? and somebody ought to explain to this president who treats the nobel peace prize like it's the lombardi trophy in pro football, that it's going to kind of be hard to win it when these pictures -- and don't believe what they're saying. believe jacob soborov whose reporting has been so brilliant. believe him and not them. >> let's talk about the need for the deterrent. i'm in search of the migrant crisis. in february, the president said border crossings are down 80%. then a few weeks ago the rnc said when are democrats going to help us with this border problem? a week later, they said, look, things are going reallll at the border. yes, things are up. kirstjen nielsen said 200%. this time, this year, than they were last year. but overall, lookt the last decade. we're going down, down, dow

you can't be more emphatic than laura bush was. you said susan collins uneasiness in having to defend this. you sense that from the secretary of homeland security. so we are still a country where these images of suffering, of the caring for other human beings matter and i think we're going to need enough public pressure that president has to look at this and do something different because republicans ll demand it. if republicans don't voi that feeling that's out in the country, this is wrong, i want to believe they'll pay for a price for it. >> i'm going to just beg, i mean, i will make a plea to republicans this morning, that it is on you to speak out. we need to hear from you. what exactly does this president need to do to get you to step up? what is it? how bad does it have to get? >> nick pointed out, there are three actually corker, flake, susan collins. >> three. >> those three could tip the balance on almost anything this president wants to do or not do. all they have to do is use their voice. >> it's the american voter. the

this is former first lady laura bush. the good news is that because the american people spoke up, because some republicans finally had the guts to do the right thing, and convey their displeasure to the president, trump has changed his policy. but let us be cle that the today goes nowhere,nowhere, ed nowhere as far as it should go. first of all, mr. president, and i would ask unanimous consent to enter into the record an article from the daily beast, publication that came out tonight, and what they say is there is no guarantee that in this executive order, as senator kaine has indicated, that the fate of the 2400 children currently imprisoned will be changed. there's nothing specific in the executive order that says that those 2400 kids will, in fact, be reunited with their parents. presumably this will apply to future apprehensions where children will be imprisoned with their parents. second of all, there is an effort in this executive order to overturn the 1997 flores settlement that has the children in detention and pl

all three living former first ladies joined laura bush in condemning the policy. >> anyone of us who has ever held a child in our arms, every human being with a sense of compassion and decency, should be outraged. >> [ applause ] >> former first lady mi obama retweeted laura bush, adding, sometimes truth transcends party. and rosalyn carter called the policy disgraceful and a shame to our country.>>> former south bay congressman mike honda said that the images remind him of the japanese american internment centers where he and many others were held during world war ii.>> my father said to me, when i was young, if it was for our own security, why were the machine guns pointed in, and why were we the ones inside the barbed wire fences?>> mike honda says that he believes that children taken from their parents will likely be marked for life by the trauma, but he said that one difference between then and now is that there is more public outcry against the separation of families. >>> new at 6:00, lawmakers are searching for ways to better protect young women on college campuses from being

laura bush calling the situation cruel. it's somewhat atypical to hear republicans speaking out against their own party. >> it is. what we are seeing is the power of images here. we haven't seen a lot of images. last week some small group of reporters toured the former walmart in brownsville, texas that is turned into a holding center for boys. they couldn't take their own photos and videos but the department of homeland security gave out hand out videos of the center. that seemed to be triggering this response. you mentioned laura bush, she has an op-ed in our newspaper. she mentioned the images in the first sentence of her story and you see that in melania trump as well where she says govern with heart. she is not explicitly opposing her husband's policy but coming close. >> what is the next step? >> if you go with what the president said a few minutes ago, he is space council meeting. he is trying to put the ball in democrats court. the thing to watch for is whether democrats will be willing to move any closer to the pre

in a tweet, laura bush said sometimes truth transcends party. >> in the meantime, there is now heartwrenching audio of children just separated from their parents at a detention center at the border. take a listen. >> our question tonight, do you agree with the immigration policy? you can weigh in on abc7news.com/vote and watch your vote count in real time at the bottom of the screen. >> in the meantime, a delegation of lawmakers is headed to the boarder to see exactly what's going on first hand, and that delegation includes peninsula congresswoman jackie spear. >> abc7 news reporter carolyn tyler talked with spear. she joins us with more. >> a group of democratic lawmakers went to the bordertown of mccallum, texas, yesterday, in what was billed as a father's day of action. now a mostly female delegation led by san mateo congresswoman jackie spear hopes to continue the pressure on the trump administration. >> reporter: nearly 2,000 children have been taken away from their families since april when the trump administration announced a new zero-tolerance policy on illegal immigration. >> it is i

former first lady laura bush says i live in a border state. i appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero poll tolerance policy is cruel. it is immoral and breaks my heart. former first lady michelle obama weighing in as well and citing sometimes truth trance sends party. democratic and republican lawmakers have weighed in. including ted cruz. late today. >> all of us who are seeing these images of children being pulled away from moms and dad in tears, are horrified. this has to stop. kids need their moms and dads. >> the president says he hates this. yet he and his top officials refuse to take responsibility for the policy decision that they in fact made happen. the dhs secretary would not even concede the existence of a policy. >> this administration did not create a policy of separating families at the border. >> keeping them honest, now the administration did not create a policy to specifically tear children from their parents. they were okay with that. listen to chief of staff john kelly when ask

the laura bush op-ed is part of what i referred to earlier. there is starting to be more push back in the republican world against this. melania trump very rarely comments on policy, so it is notable in that regard. it is definitely a critique of what they are doing, although it is still her wording that both sides need to come together to fix it together. it is not a fairly a criticism of her husband, but it definitely indicates distance between her and this particular initiative. host: the president is up and tweeting. "why don't the democrats give us the vote to fix the world's worst the -- world's worst immigration laws? where is the outcry for the killings and crime being caused by gangs and thugs, including ms 13, coming into our country illegally?" caller: i want to know why the media keeps putting donald ismp's blatant lies that it the democrat laws causing the separation at the border. earlier on call in the deficit talk. donald trump has been in office for 512 days. 158 of those days have been spent at his properties. 116 of them at

that is what laura bush said. in the me.sh: nick. >> before you burst a blood vessel, before you burst a blood vessel -- >> for a good reason. these kids are helpless. trish: let him finish. >> i tell you who needs to use judgment. i tell you who needs to use discretion. parents. what kind of parents go put their children -- trish: maybe the answer you don't come here illegally to begin with. >> agreed. trish: okay. >> exactly. >> totally agree. trish: but how do we make sure that people aren't coming here illegally to begin with? you reform all of our immigration policy right now and that includes strengthening the border. i think the president is trying to say we can fix this, we just need to actually do the right things to fix it. >> republicans control congress. they control the white house. trish: so there is opportunity here. >> let them pass a bill that the president will sign. that is not going to happen because there are too many republicans who frankly don't agree with the president's policies. they certainly don't

the former first lady laura bush, a republican, has penned a ska scathing column.his zero tolerance approach of the trump administration is just one part of the trump doctrine that we're going to delve into with my guest jeffrey goldberg. he is the edit in chief of the atlantic. he has been speaking to people close to the president to ask them to define what exactly that doctrine is. jeffrey goldberg is joining me now from washington. welcome to the program. >> thank you. >> so, jeffrey, your title of your art hicle has a bold headline. senior white house official defines the trump doctrine, we're america and i'm going to say it rhymed with rich. were you shocked by that. >> i'm not shocked by anything anymore. that was one of the slogans that people came up with for me when i was asking them this question, if you could put into a slogan or a saying, something other than america first, which we know obviously. this is one of the them that came up. this was a very high ranking official. the attitude behind it is what's interesting. the attitude behind it, which is t

today it is a cult of donald trum trump. >> even though laura bush has a 70% approval rating, this is of trump and not the party of bush. that's the past. >> on trade, on tariffs. >> on everything. congressman jim himes, thank you for being on. thank you for your hard work. coming up, we heard melania trump's take on the administration's family separation policy. but what about the senior adviser to the president, ivanka trump, who was supposed to be the champion of families in the white house? we'll be joined by emily jane fox, the author of a new book on the trump family. "morning joe" is coming right back. [ roar ] [ heavy breathing ] [ scream ] rated pg-13. man: it takes a lot of work to run this business, but i really love it. i'm on the move all day long, and sometimes i don't eat the way i should. so i drink boost to get the nutrition i'm missing. boost high protein now has 33% more protein, along with 26 essential vitamins and minerals. and it has a guaranteed great taste. man: boost gives me everything i need to be up for doing what i love. boost high protein. be up for it. i