Television
Jun 19, 2018
Families separated at the border: “This is our story”

“Sadly, realistically, this is the American story now…This is our story. The story of children being taken hostage on a hot Texas landscape, held in cages, away from their parents, being used as pawns to get money to build a wall, by a Republican Party whose policy is to separate them from their families, from their mothers and their fathers. That’s our story in America today. And it’s up to the people of America and the people who represent them in Congress to decide whether that’s the story they want to go with,” says Morning Joe veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a conversation with former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele about the Trump Administration’s decision to separate migrant families at the border. Listen in here.