hugh hewitt, maria teresa kumar, white housrrespondent kristen welker, and robert costa, national political reporter for "the washington post" and moderator of washington week on pbs. before we get to the issue of guns, kristen welker, i think we heard interesting news there from secretary mcaleenan where he admitted that in hindsight, the mississippi raids, the timing was unfortunate. contrast that to the president of the united states almost cheerleading them and saying, hey, this is what we're doing, it's a deterrent. how is that going to go over? >> well, i thought it was a striking discrepancy in tone after you pressed him a number of times. he finally said the timing was unfortunate. again when i asked president trump about this the other day, he said, yes, it's a deterrent. he really leaned into this strategy. the bottom line is there wasn't a plan for dealing with these kids. the trump administration had promised there weren't going to be any more family separations. there clearly were, even though some of those families have been put back together. i think the focus does become on