us is martin smith. he has a new documentary out tonight to take a look at childhood separation at the border. good morning. have heard a lot about this issue over the last couple of weeks. where does your documentary come in as far as the timeline is concerned? we are on the current timeline but we go back to look at previous administration efforts to deal with a coming up immigration policy. structure was done under the obama administration but they stopped short of separating children although they did consider it. that is an interesting part of the documentary. consider it for long but it came to the table and they rejected it. whatal with the dangers of people are fleeing. what they go through to get here. what they face when we come over the border. we have policy discussions with obama and former trump administration officials, the the policy ofwhen separations was rolled out. we look at policy and families and children. puig under about the consequences for them about links separated for their pa

frontlines martin smith he says he was aware of individual militia members in the commanders but not militia groups. i did not see militia groups in the special police during the time that i was there did you feel. different. to have prevented the development of these militias that were developed by your lie again don't i have not seen you know we heard we kept hearing this all the time martin that this or that to find the absolute evidence of this has actually been quite difficult but jerry buck who is a senior advisor in police affairs to the iraqi interior ministry says that the trace must have known that organized shia militia were dominant in the police commanders he had to have known these things were discussed openly whether it was staff meetings or you know before or after various staff meetings and general conversation. pretty much the whole world in iraq knew that the police commandos were about a brigade and he must have known about the death squad activities and yet it was common knowledge and across baghdad even to trace his own special adviser in the military chain of c

martin smith made the documentary and joins me. start with the history, something you reveal in this piece there was a conversation happening publicly about whether this administration would implement this policy. and all the while it was being beta tested, to use a term -- they were trying it out here. it was being implemented before we even knew that it was. >> yeah, right after the election in march, then the department of homeland security chief goes on television and says that he's considering this policy of separating children from their families, as a deterrent to keep people from coming across. then a month later, he walked that back at a senate hearing. but then in the summer of 2017, over a year -- a year ago, they start rolling out a sort of a pilot program to do just that. and then by the fall of 2017, they're doing it. as a matter of practice. and it's not until may of 2018 that it's made explicit by the attorney general, sessions, on a border visit to san diego. so it's been going on for some time. it gets a little bi

americans united for life steve hayden addresses brett cavanaugh's supreme court nomination and martin smith will talk about his most recent documentary which followed immigrant children operated the us-mexico border. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal seven eastern tuesday morning. join the discussion. >> had this week, the judiciary committee hears from government officials on the administration's policy for handling migrant families at the southern border. live coverage on c-span. on wednesday the senate intelligence committee examines how foreign actors use social media. we will join it live on c-span after washington journal ends at 10 am eastern. next, the senate energy and national resources committee looks at factors impacting global oil prices. they heard from researchersin the energy industry . at the start of the hearing committee members voted on for nominees. this runs a little over two hours. >>. >> ..

morning from americans united for life discuss brett kavanaugh's supreme court nomination and then martin smith will talk about his most recent documentary, which follows immigrant children separated at the u.s.-mexico border. watch "washington journal" tuesday morning light at seven eastern. -- live at 7:00 eastern. join the discussion. >> tomorrow officials will testify on border security and policy for migrant families coming to the united states. they will speak before the senate judiciary committee at 10:00 eastern on c-span. tomorrow, president trump holds a campaign rally in florida, speaking in support of three candidates. you can see that rally live tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. wednesday from a hearing examines foreign influence operations and the use of social media platforms. at the senate intelligence committee cannot live at 10:00 a.m. eastern's c-span. >> next, mike pompeo and wilbur ross outline the trump administration's strategy in india and the asia-pacific. pompeo announced initiatives aimed to support the digital economy, energy, and infrastructure. u.s. chamber

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steve hayden discusses brett kavanaugh's supreme court nomination and the frontline correspondent martin smith will talk about his most recent documentary which followed immigrant children separated at the u.s.-mexico border. be sure to watch "washington 7 a.m. easternt tuesday morning. join the discussion. on c-span this week in prime time tuesday, on president trump's proposal to create a military space force. wednesday, the 2018 national governors association summer meeting on transformation of the workforce by artificial intelligence. thursday at 10:00 p.m., the netroots conference from new orleans. with new jersey senator cory booker and john federman. and friday, more from the netroots conference with kamala warren, andabeth deborah holland. this week in prime time on c-span, c-span.org my and on the free c-span radio app.

frontlines martin smith he says he was aware of individual militia members in the commanders but not militia groups. i did not see militia groups in the special police during the time that i was there did you feel. different. to have prevented the development of these militias that were developed by your lie again don't i have not seen you know we heard we kept hearing this all the time martin that this or that to find the absolute evidence of this has actually been quite difficult but jerry buck who is a senior advisor in police affairs to the iraqi interior ministry says that the trace must have known that organized shia militia were dominant in the police commandos he had to have known these things were discussed openly whether it was staff meetings or you know before or after various staff meetings and general conversation. pretty much the whole world in iraq knew that the police commandos were about a brigade and he must have known about the death squad activities and yet it was common knowledge and across baghdad even to trace his own special adviser in the military chain of co

frontlines martin smith he says he was aware of individual militia members in the commanders but not militia groups. i did not see militia groups in the special police during the time that i was there did you feel. different. to have prevented the development of these militias that were developed by your mind again don't i have not seen you know we heard we kept hearing this all the time martin that this or that to find the absolute evidence of this has actually been quite difficult but jerry buck who is a senior advisor in police affairs to the iraqi interior ministry says that the trace must have known that organized shia militia were dominant in the police commandos he had to have known these things were discussed openly whether it was staff meetings or you know before or after various staff meetings in general conversation. pretty much the whole world in iraq knew that the police commandos were about a brigade and he must have known about the death squad activities and yet it was common knowledge and across baghdad even to trace his own special adviser in the military chain of co

frontlines martin smith he says he was aware of individual militia members in the commanders but not militia groups. i did not see militia groups in the special police during the time that i was there did you feel. different. to have prevented the development of these militias that were developed by your lie again don't i have not seen you know we heard we kept hearing this all the time martin that this or that to find the absolute evidence of this has actually been quite difficult but jerry buck who is a senior advisor in police affairs to the iraqi interior ministry says that the trace must have known that organized shia militia were dominant in the police commanders he had to have known these things were discussed openly whether it was staff meetings or you know before or after various staff meetings and general conversation. pretty much the whole world in iraq knew that the police commandos were about a brigade and he must have known about the death squad activities and yet it was common knowledge and across baghdad even betrays his own special adviser in the military chain of co

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frontlines martin smith he says he was aware of individual militia members in the commanders but not militia groups. i did not see militia groups in the special police during the time that i was there did you feel. different. to have prevented the development of these militias that were developed by your lie again don't i have not seen you know we heard we kept hearing this all the time martin that this or that to find the absolute evidence of this has actually been quite difficult but jerry buck who is a senior advisor in police affairs to the iraqi interior ministry says that the trace must have known that organized shia militia were dominant in the police commandos he had to have known these things were discussed openly whether it was staff meetings or you know before or after various staff meetings in general conversation. pretty much the whole world in iraq knew that the police commandos were about a brigade and he must have known about the death squad activities and yet it was common knowledge and across baghdad even betrays his own special adviser in the military chain of comm

and martin smith talks about his most recent documentary, which followed immigrant children separated at the u.s.-mexico border. watch c-span's "the washington post" live at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. >> here is what is live tuesday. a senate panel gets an update on immigration in horsemen and family reunification efforts. the acting head of the u.s. border patrol is among those testifying before the senate judiciary committee at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. subcommitteeoon, a holds an oversight hearing on the structure of the federal courts. coverage begins at 2:30 eastern. on c-span2, continued debate on the nomination of rick raymond for the 11th circuit of appeals. ae senate is working on package of spending bills for 2019 funding. in the evening, president trump speaks in tampa florida where -- for three republican candidates at 7:00 eastern. >> next, u.s. ambassador to be u.n. nikki haley explained the trump administration's decision to withdraw from the human rights council after her remarks on ways the u.s. could promote its agenda outside the human right

coming up tuesday morning, america's united for life discusses judge kavanaugh nomination and pbs's martin smithumentary which followed immigrant children separated at the u.s./mexico border. be sure to watch c-span3's washington journal live tuesday morning at 7:00. join the discussion. >>> this august on american history tv on c-span3, watch our nine part series 1968, america in turmoil where each night will look back 50 years to that tumultus year marked with war, political assassinations and the rise of the political left and right. starting monday august 6th, we'll discuss the vietnam war. on tuesday, august 7th, a look at the presidential campaign of that year. wednesday, august 8th, civil rights and race relations. on thursday, august 9th, a discussion about liberal politics and friday, august 10th, conservative politics. on saturday, august 11th, women's rights. sunday, august 12th, we'll look at the media's role. on monday august 13th, a discussion about the vietnam war at home and on tuesday, august 14th, will close out the series focusing on the cold war. watch 1968, america in turmoi

. >> and "frontline" correspondent martin smith joins us now. martin, obviously quite an interview.look, he takes a very simple approach to this. it was abundantly clear after talking to him that he sees this as a simple case of there's a law about how you legally enter the country and he's going to enforce it. and the president has accepted that kind of approach to this. you know, if you want to have a humane process of deciding who can come and who deserves to come, who is fleeing violence and needs asylum, you have to have judges. you have to have a robust asylum process. the president says he doesn't want judges. well, that's what judges are for. >> right. >> to judge whether or not somebody -- has a decent case to make. so holman says enforce the law. >> did you sense from him and do you sense from other i.c.e. officials and other people who tried to tackle this issue a frustration, a belief that you hear out of this administration that people in the past have brought children up with them to make their passage into the united states easier? >> you know, he didn't -- he didn't

we arejoined by we are joined by martin lipton and penny smith. stay with us for that.ening. parts of the uk have had almost a month's rainfall in just a few hours, as thunderstorms replaced the long summer heatwave. lightning strikes added to the misery of thousands of travellers, with cancelled flights and trains, on one of the busiest weekends of the summer. stanstead airport and eurotunnel were badly affected. here's simonjones. the holiday getaway from hell. the queues grew and grew at stansted airport as flights were cancelled. blamed on the thunderstorms that meant planes could not fly safely. ryanair, the main operator at stansted, has apologised to customers. it's incredible how unaccountable they are. there is no one here to deal with it. the queues are neverending and people are supposed to wait. it's ridiculous. we were on board the plane for six hours and then they say, "it's delayed. the flight is delayed." then we come back here. another queue for ten hours. the storms that swept in forcing middlesbrough‘s friendly against sunderland to be abandoned... an

with me are the deputy sport editor of the sun, martin lipton, and journalist and broadcaster penny smith the sun's chief sports reporter. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the sunday telegraph says that theresa may has been warned by her own constituency chairman that she must not concede any further ground to the eu in any brexit deal. the sunday mirror has a full page splash on the possibility that there may be more of the deadly novichok nerve agent hidden around salisbury. the sunday times leads on whistleblower claims that the qatar world cup bid team broke fifa's rules by running a campaign to sabotage rivals competing to host the tournament. the observer is one of a number of papers to show a picture of geraint thomas securing his tour de france victory, the first welshman to do so. and finally the sunday express covers news that a water company is urging snoops to inform on neighbours who use hosepipes in breach of a ban. let's begin with that sunday times story, its own exclusive about the world cup and allegations about qatar. tell us first what they are. the alleg

martin....and fedex. the company's founder fred smith..."r reskill 512,000 people in the next 5 years...thank you fred...thank you..."president trump signed an executive order ...creating a the national council for the american worker. the white house says working through the council...business and government leaders will identify ways to help both younger and older americans learn valuable vocational skills.first daughter ivanka trump says she was inspired by a school in new york, that's already training kids for modern jobs.robert felder says his program is giving him the skills needed to become a mechanical engineer."this creates a lot of opportunity for kids to come behind me, we need a lot more engineers... felder says because he's learning important skills at a younger age...he's more likely to find a job...and a lifelong career.in washington, i'm mark meredith. coming upi got caught behaving badly in the city of san leandro, in just three hours 327 tickets were issued... it was a driver crackdown from alameda county's high intensity t

giving a special tribute there to fred smith, ceo and founder of fedex among the other companies involved here, ibm, general motors, microsoft, wal-mart and lockheed martin. >> a few defense companies he mentioned there. >> we'll continue to monitor the event and bring you any headlines from the president in the meantime let's bring in eamon javers >> that executive order is going to create what they call an interagency council in the administration that's going to focus on these issues of the work force of the future part of the concern here that technology changing, robots coming into the work force, companies are having a hard time finding workers because the unemployment rate has come down so far this is about retraining and retooling the work force to get them ahead for the work for the future the white house says they're going to get about 500,000 new opportunities for workers. not necessarily new jobs out of this, but retaining opportunities for people who have been displaced or abilities to get their skills into another field entirely so all of that very much a focus of ivanka trump. as you mentioned she introduced the president just the presiden