Fox News Alert White House National Security Advisor John Bolton is
announcing president Trump's second summit with Russian President Vladimir
Putin will be delayed until next year saying the president wants to wait until
the quote Russia witch hunt is over the announcement coming just before
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo faced fierce questioning during a Senate panel
hearing yesterday over the recent Putin summit Peter Doocy is live for us on
Capitol Hill with the latest on this Peter Harris when Putin does come to DC
the first part of next year he's not coming to the Capitol unless he's part
of a tour group that is because lawmakers here who have repeatedly voted
to sanction Russia aren't going to invite him but Republicans still seem
supportive of delaying this second summit hopefully that gives us more time
to prepare and hopefully for more people to talk about how detrimental it is down
a private meeting like this allowing the Russians to characterize it and when we
aren't prepared to do so and so that's I hope that we've learned
anything we've learned not to do that again lawmakers just had an opportunity
to ask several hours of questions about the last Putin summit when Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo came to the Capitol some Democrats would have preferred to
have heard from the translator who was in the room with the President and Putin
but there was no translator just the top diplomat this president runs this
government his statements vacuous so now we understand that when the president
speaks it is the policy that are you see they saw they're for 200-plus sanctions
when you've seen them sending us your questions senator I understand some I've
now been here three hours and you're making up you've got a political silic
we want to talk about politics if President Obama did what President Trump
did in Helsinki I'd be peeling you off the Capitol ceiling a few minutes ago
the house gaveled out for the last time until September so investigations into
Russian activity during the 2016 election over on the house side are
going to slow way down until after recess heiress Peter Doocy
thank you very much Republican Senator James rish of Idaho is a member of that
Senate Foreign Relations Committee and was there yesterday always a pleasure to
have you on the program senator what did we learn yesterday if
you could just give us a couple of takeaways that you want us to know as a
wider public from secretary Pompeo well a couple of things number one for
Americans who really want to hear what's going on you need to do you need to dig
quite a bit deeper than the than the cable news stuff that comes out on the
NATO summit all we came out of the NATO summit on our news cycles were the the
spat between the president who's trying to rightly get the other 28 members of
NATO to do what they're supposed to do and committed to do financially
certainly there's a disagreement on that but look the President believes I
believe Pompeo mr. Secretary of State Pompeo believes this is the most
successful military alliance in the history of the world and what we did
what America did when we met up the summit was to cement some things that
are very important to us another another country was brought in we talked about
the counterterrorism things we all have a real intense interest in and move
forward on that also the mobility question being able to move troops and
assets around in Europe we're on the table you didn't hear a word about that
all you heard about was the spat but look every president has tried to get
and and we here in Congress have tried to get that all the NATO countries to
pay their fair share and it just hasn't been happening since the president has
brought this to the forefront they're actually starting to make progress in
that regard so that's something that's fascinating what you just said about the
mobility of troops around Europe and and the kind of agreements that you would
have to have in place in order for that to happen so that's some of what what
people learned what specifically did you learn that you wanted to know that that
we all should know about the Russia summit that the president just had well
I think primarily there was a real focus on troop mobility that that's one thing
that's important and getting Montenegro and is another country particularly
where it's is strategically located as it is both of those are incredibly
important but really didn't get any didn't get any play at all out of the
out of the summer and North Korea was a focus yesterday as well and and there
were some points there that we learned and what made an impression on you with
regard to what comes next with North Korea because they they don't seem to be
doing what they say they're gonna do and then yet we get reports that they're
dismantling a specific test site well you know first of all I sit on the
Intelligence Committee as well as foreign relations so not much of it was
a surprise to me as far as what's happening in North Korea but look this
president needs to get tremendous credit for bringing the North Korea us
relationship back from the edge the north the North Koreans are doing not
just talking but doing in the past all they did was talk but they've done a
number of things that have indicated that they are going to move forward with
with what they said they were going to do and that is move towards complete
denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and Secretary of State Pompeo was very
very firm on that and and talked about the kinds of things that he could talk
about in an open setting but there are Koreans were doing yeah you know I mean
this is a person who led the charge by meeting with North Korea's top spy chief
before he was even nominated as Secretary of State
they were equals when he led the CIA so it is interesting to get his take on it
but most importantly it's an expertise point that very few people actually have
anywhere in terms of being able to sit down with North Korea a real quick
question is it just the function do you think of the news cycle because I hear
you taken a couple punches of how capable cable news covers the headlines
and whatnot and I hear you on that but is it just that function or is there
something about this administration that is neutralizing things like discussions
with North Korea to the point where we can actually talk about it and it's not
just war on the on the precipice of war all the time you know that's a really
good question first of all I get the news business it's got to be interesting
enough that people will watch by having having said that looked at this
president unlike any human being I've ever seen has the ability to capture the
attention of the US world and the media more so than than anyone and for better
or for worse so when he talks when when he takes the directions people are
interested in it and the media is rightfully interested in that and that
kind of sucks the oxygen out of the air and we are where we are yeah well and
hopefully it brings people together because that's what this is going to
take we are in it together as yeah absolutely senator Risch at the great
state of Idaho thank you for your time thank you always glad to be with you
thank you for having me sure well the Trump administration meet
today's deadline to reunite family separated at the South border and what
about parents who have already been deported with their children now
remaining here a lot of talk among Democrats that there should be renewal
for them what would that look like the
politics of ice a new poll shows support for the agency is deeply divided along
party lines we'll talk with former acting director of ice I mean he's only
been out of the job for a few days he's next a close
today marks the deadline for the Trump administration to reunite migrant
families separated at the southern border but that effort is expected to
fall short KC steagle is here with the latest from Dallas now Casey what's
happening yeah Harrison and it depends on how you
look at this falling short in terms of 900-plus children out of 2,500 or so are
deemed not eligible for reunification more on that in a second because the
federal judge actually praised the government praised the federal
government the same judge who ordered this deadline calling it a remarkable
achievement saying that out of the people that have been deemed eligible
for reunification the government appears to be on track to meet that deadline
today according to the feds more than a thousand reunions have already taken
place another 500 have been green-lighted again that's out of 2551
total kids ages 5 to 17 separated from their parents or families at the border
but lawyers for the ACLU say that the government has essentially manipulated
the numbers in their favor listen there are many other people that will
ultimately need to be reunified so when they say they're gonna meet the deadline
it's only for those individuals they've declared to be eligible for
reunification by the deadline see you see that where the ACLU is
saying it depends on how you look at it more than 900 kids not eligible or still
pending and that same federal judge out in California also admonished the
government over that saying that this policy lacked forethought with regard to
keeping track of people because there are more than 450 cases of those nine
hundred some-odd where the parents have already been deported and you also have
a hundred and thirty people according to that court paperwork that signed
paperwork waiving reunification but the ACLU and other immigrant rights groups
Harris want to know and they want to contact those people to make sure that
they were fully informed of the rights before signing that paperwork and that
they weren't court to do so KC steagle thank you very much
let's bring in now Tom Holman former acting director of ice director great to
see you today these are complicated issues now with
deadlines and there seems to be a moving ball on these families in terms of how
many there actually are well look you know first of all I think the judge he
picks an arbitrary date out and says I want reunification done by now without
basing that any metrics and any information how the process works for
instance I just heard you kind of correspond to talk about several hundred
kids still had to be the parents have to be sent to a suitability assessment it's
all right it's all about the safety of these kids so I think the safety of kids
a little bit more important than the deadlines an arbitrary deadline set by
Judge but we look at the the first group of kids under five you look at who they
were five or five to seven percent of those after DNA testing proved they
weren't the parents so if now the extrapolate that to the the bigger
population 2,500 you're talking between one hundred twenty-five hundred
seventy-five people that I mean now the country is tasked with vetting parents
who actually turn out not to be parents what does that mean cause the abortion
act this judge has made a decision that DNA testing takes long so absent
extraordinary circumstance they should do it this shows us slows up the process
of reunification so we're even cutting that process out absolutely so or
there's some instances where we really don't know who we're giving these kids
to I think HHS is doing the best job they can but I would be a fool to think
that some of these children aren't being released the traffickers the the amount
the the the instances of trafficking of these children of people claiming to be
parents that weren't parents have increased over 300 percent this past
year so you can't tell me every one of these 2500 family groups are legitimate
family members absent DNA testing director Holman this is a process that
did not just start in April with the current administration's no or
zero-tolerance policy it started well we know pictures from children in cages
back in 2014 under the previous administration and you have been in the
business of dealing with border issues for a very long
and law enforcement how did it get to this point well lucky it's an open
border issue families are coming across this border we have a Ninth Circuit
decision saying we can't detain them for more than 20 days which means
immigration court not worked that fast which means they're basically gonna be
released from ice detention many don't show up in court when they do show up in
court up to eighty percent of them lose their cases so they're ordered removed
from the country and they don't leave so it's an open wars issue so what this
administration tried to do which I agree with they had to do some sort of you
know a law enforcement operation to try to maintain control that border keys
right now the way the systems playing out is an open border families there's
no consequence no deterrent of families enter this country legally
alright I want to hear you talk a little bit more too about how ice and the
Border Patrol actually are in the business of doing something people don't
talk about in that saving lives and I'll get to it this way there is a new poll
that's out on ice and it shows more than 70% of Democrats have an unfavorable
view of the agency the same number of Republicans have a favorable view first
of all the disparity is is interesting and maybe based on exactly what ice does
that people do and don't know well a couple of things we got assess rates a
lot of these politicians calling for the abolishment of I started with the family
separation at the border the whole issue first of all I just don't separate
payments at border that's the Border Patrol so it's a different agency so
these politicians need to educate themselves before they start talking
about abolishing an agency what irritates me most is the politicians
that call for abolishment advice because what they're doing is saying we're going
to Bala shap federal law enforcement agency rather than fixing the laws this
agency ice enforces laws that these congressman's in Congress of men enacted
the laws they passed so they wanna you know abolish an ASA for enforcing laws
they enacted I didn't think Congress is in the habit of creating laws they
didn't want enforced they haven't asked FBI not to do their job they haven't
asked to DEA not to their job they can't ask I still nor the law director Robin
what happens if we lose ice and there's not an immediate sort of replacement I
mean some Democrats are saying well you you know you
almost like a repeal and replace they're stealing some language there but others
are saying yeah just get rid of it so what happens let's talk about in the
past year what would have what wouldn't happen the past year 981 thousand pounds
of narcotics would not have been seized off American streets over eight thousand
people would have got a visa into this country
that didn't pass vetting by our visa security unit that made new danger this
country they would they would they would enter this country with a visa we would
say that over nine hundred children victims of sex trafficking wouldn't been
rescued over two thousand they're seeing that come across our border well it's
obvious interior investigation into United States over two thousand sexual
predators won't be behind bars right now but let's talk about the immigration
aspect if I use did not exist if you're lucky enough get by the Borg go into
this country legally if you get by the Border Patrol you're home free no one's
looking for you if you get arrested by the borracho and claim asylum or say you
want to see a judge you get released until you see a judge and that judge
later orders you removed you're not gonna leave because no one's looking for
you if you overstay a visa no one's looking
for you abolishing ice equals open borders well one thing I want mentioned
I've got to mention on the whole family reunification issue everybody's having a
fit over this the population 2500 let's talk about what's not talked about four
times as many over 10,000 children were smuggled to this country by criminal
organizations that families chose to separate themselves pay a criminal
organization to have their child put in a trunk of a car or back to
tractor-trailer and make that dangerous journey with a criminal organization you
want to talk about trauma Wow but no one wants to talk about they want to talk
about the government put them in a licensed daycare because their parents
were arrested for a criminal violation which happens to American parents every
day but no one wants to talk about this 10,000 that's that's not talked about by
anybody I want to bring you back you mentioned those interior investigations
and what would happen without ice I hope that you'll come back and talk more with
me Tom Holman good to have you today the White House
is doubling down on a decision not to allow a CNN reporter access to a rose
garden event but could that move backfire on the Trump administration or
fire up the president's base Howie Kurtz on all of it next
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