Gloria Borger: Separation Policy Has Backfired on Trump in a ‘Huge Disgraceful Way’

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BALDWIN: "Okay. So, there you have it, the president sitting in the oval, hef has officially signed this executive order keeping families together. Let me be totally transparent and say we didn’t get a heads up into what would be in the substance of this executive order. Does this affect the zero tolerance policy? What exactly happens to all these families and children? We don’t entirely know yet. That said, let’s work with what we do know. Goreia Borger is back him being real with everyone. We don’t know a ton. Kerry, to you, we don’t know what’s in this. When we were talking watching the tape. You were saying he didn’t need to sign an executive order. What do you mean by ha?"
BORGER: "First of all, the president did not need to sign any executive order in order to end the crisis that’s taking place right now, which is children being separated from their families, young children being separated from their families. He didn’t need to do that. The reason that that situation has emerged over the last couple months and came to a crisis situation is because the attorney general directed that 100% of misdemeanor illegal entry cases be prosecuted. The result of that was that because those parents were then put into criminal prosecution realm, the children were separated as a practical matter. I this I this entire thing happened because there was no actual policy for how the border patrol was supposed to hand him the families. For whether or not it was legal to take children from their parents and so now what the president has done, is he’s signed an order, we’ll see what’s in it. It may allow the children to stay with the parents for some period of time, but there also are other restrictions on how long families are allowed to be detained."