oren hatch, tro senator f utah had eleven republican s that he sent to the president. they're asking for a temporary stay to stop this right now un congress can come up with aix. who knows if the ey seem to be digging in righth now. i think if we're going to see some movement on this it will be to be able to keep the ' inrogress. we're runninglf out of time. we sentetter after letter,ft letterer letter canning these cmittees to investigate the trump ad mrgs ' policy, which is now resulting in childen ter meant nops. but we have gotten he response. look, even if you believe people shall in our country iegally, even if you vah lem claimshe in t own country, f even if you believe immigration should be halted entirely, we all should be able to agree t in the united states of america we will intentionally children from their parents. >> so, look, emotions areun r when you see the images, buty let's remember here in a lot of these cases you do have people seekingemsigh. it's heart breaking, but what do you do if you're not gong t hold these kids -- what do y do i what's the

just a few minutes ago, oren hatch, sooun senior republican from utah told reporters that intends to circulate a letter among senators, he wants signatures from both parties and he wants to be send it to the attorney general jeff sessions calling for a moratorium on these border separations with this important caveat. a moratorium until congress can address this issue. what this does to me, what this says to me from a political perspective, this is oren hatch trying to give the white house a graceful way out of a mess that they have created by saying congress will do this at some uncertain time at the future, but can we get out of this mess of separating children at the borders while we have a chance to work ton? a -- on it. it's the kind of thing you might expect an ally of the white house who disagrees with this policy as much as anybody else. it will be very interrogatory see how many signatures this can pick up. i suspect it could get a great deal of support from both chambers if they're inclined to circulate it on the house side too. >> let's talk texas. because you have the sen

republicans who were in discussion with the white house trying to get to that outcome and one was senator oren hatch who has been a close ally of this president goes out of his way to publicly praise him. more or less as often he's can. hatch sent a letter yesterday to the attorney general signed by another dozen or so republicans all asking for what i think we ended up seeing today, which was a temporary stop to this practice of separating children from their families at the border while congress can work something out. we are being told by senator hatch's office that those discussions continued overnight last night between the staff at hatch's office and staff at the white house and the justice department trying to come up with a solution like this that might be able to pass muster with the president and with the courts. the folks we're talking to in hatch's office suggest that this executive order when we do see it might lay out a very short-term solution, as pete as said, something ha would go into effect right away, but that may not have a lot of shelf life here. in part because of the legal li