Tag: Paul Waldman

KELLY: So we started the week with zero tolerance and with families being separated at the border. KELLY: Eliana, what is your read on this about-face by the administration this week? JOHNSON: You know, this really seemed to me to be - regardless of what you think of the zero tolerance policy, to be a crisis in large part of the administration's own making. KELLY: Well... DIONNE: And I - could I say... KELLY: Please. KELLY: All right, now, to follow up on a point you made, Eliana, about Republican lawmakers, Congress was also trying to work on immigration this week. I think there was an idea when Trump came into office that the Republican Congress would be able to do whatever it wanted because the president didn't have clear policy views. DIONNE: ...Because I think you've got two big problems here. Problem one is this bill - this second bill which they can't get through is described as a compromise. It's a compromise among Republicans. DIONNE: And to you.