Mika on Trump’s Immigration Policy: ‘This Is One of the Sickest Things About This Presidency’

‘This is one of the sickest things about this presidency’

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BRZEZINSKI: "And forget the politics of it. This is one of the sickest things about this presidency. Hans Nichols at the White House, what are you looking at today as you continue to cover this story and the dynamics around it?"
NICHOLS: "I’m looking to see whether or not her departure date gets accelerated and we have a situation similar to Mattis where he was supposed to stay on for two months and all of a sudden was out by the close of business once the president figured out how critical he was to the president. Joe, just to a numbers point, the president doesn’t believe those numbers. He believes his gut. When he talked to, say, the Jewish Republican coalition in Las Vegas, he goes back to the midterm elections in Ohio and Florida. He somehow feels — he insists he’s winning with his base and that’s why he continues to press this. He looks at 2018, the midterm elections, and he sees a resounding endorsement of Trump’s policies specifically on the border. He lost a lot of seats in the suburbs but I don’t think he’s losing a lot of sleep on that. He’s looking at this race state by state, not county by county and he’s certainly not looking at it as an opportunity to bring the country together and have some sort of working agenda after he gets elected. He simply wants to get passed that election date. He’s just thinks it’s much big are than we do. It’s going to come down to whether or not Donald Trump’s gut is right or whether or not the facts are right.” 

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