david french is standing by and "washington post" columnist david millbank. if you want to respond to anything you just heard in the oval office, that's fine. because i cut you off before. i did want to get your take on whether you think the supreme court decision will embolden this president as he moves forward with trying to tackle the immigration policy now. >> no. i think that the supreme court decision, if he's actually reading it properly -- that's a completely different question from how he's going to actually read it. but if he reads it properly it's really a focused decision that says here is a federal statute, passed by congress, that gives the president an enormous amount of latitude in this one particular area. it says, you know, when there's a finding that's in the interest of the united states he can bar from entry any alien or any class of aliens. this is an enormously broad statute. that's what justice roberts pointed out. so this wasn't -- the president shouldn't be thanking the court. he should be thanking congress. and if we don't like this

studios at millbank but funnily enough nobody came out to means of years or filmed it as far as i know they're not given much probably city to the other side of the argument the argument that says we had the referendum we reached a decision and now we should have left and we certainly should be leaving as soon as possible but mrs may doesn't really want to leave she's a reminder she leads a government and a majority of the house of commons who don't want to leave and they haven't really done very much for two years they've gone about it in completely the wrong way he said of keep asking the european union how we can leave they should be telling them the european union how it's going to work there's no such thing as a hard brooks or a soft there is leaving the european union and if you want to know what that. it's like all you've got to do is to look at every other country in the world that isn't a member of the european union it's not complicated they're trying to make it as complicated as possible. the white house has taken a swipe at the media for taking an image out of context and u

and dana millbank is with us as well. charlie, just a few moments ago president trump doing what he is proned to do, tweeting. he tweeted this related to our last topic. the democrats are forcing the breakup of families at the border with their horrible and cruel legislative agenda. any immigration bill must have full funding for the wall, and in catch and release, visa lottery and chain and go to merit-based immigration. go for it. win, all caps, exclamation point. charlie, why is president trump blaming democrats? i mean, that's just the beginning of it. there's a lot in that tweet that isn't true. and quite frankly, doesn't make any sense. what's he trying to do? >> well, he's trying to deflect responsibility. as one of our colleagues told me, fact checking the president today feels like paying into a hurricane. there's so much misinformation here. look, the policy on the border is calculated cruelty. i think dana described it. he's also losing this argument about the separation of the families. you're starting to see

i want to play something that dana millbanks said about this time yesterday on this program. take a listen. >> bill clinton was not the first politician, the first president, to lie in office, but i think if we look back in retrospect we see the beginnings of what we see now. and you saw some of that in your interview with him yesterday. it was a -- it was -- i mean, there was the original lie. there was the, you know, personal indiscretion, but also as joe lockhart said, a tendency to make himself the victim, which we, of course, see all the time in president trump. there was also a tendency to blame the press. >> in an opinion piece, dana milbank described clinton as trumpian portraying himself as the victim here. to a certain extent. do you see it like that? >> i don't know it's necessarily trumpian. i think men that are in these situations where they're accused of wrongdoing, have committed acts of wrongdoing often paint themselves as the victim. it's not necessarily something you can only put within the context of politics. this is a common trend that you see harvey wein

joining me now from our millbank studio is baroness meacher, a cross bench peer who chairs the all partyguing two years ago, of course. based on the evidence from across the world, and of course, it is absolutely wonderful that the government are now going to have a review and they say, if there is significant evidence, that cannabis is a valuable medicine, then they will be schedule cannabis from schedule one, which is for dangerous drugs with little or no medical value, to schedule two of four. that is what we have been calling for all of this time. the importance of that is two fold. 0ne time. the importance of that is two fold. one is that about1 million people probably could benefit from medical cannabis, people with severe pain, obviously children with terrible epilepsy, there are 200,000 people in this country with uncontrolled epileptic seizures. those people, m —— ms sufferers, cannabis products are other people with parkinson's and cancer, so many people who must be celebrating today, and diane celebrating with them, obviously. and as you say, you have been campaigning and spea