{"id":2442,"date":"2018-06-17T12:18:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T16:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/press.nbcnews.com\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2018-06-17T12:18:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T16:18:57","slug":"mtp-exclusive-conway-says-nobody-likes-this-policy-of-separating-migrant-children-from-parents-at-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nbcuniversalnewsgroup.com\/nbcnews\/2018\/06\/17\/mtp-exclusive-conway-says-nobody-likes-this-policy-of-separating-migrant-children-from-parents-at-border\/","title":{"rendered":"MTP EXCLUSIVE: CONWAY SAYS \u2018NOBODY LIKES THIS POLICY\u2019 OF SEPARATING MIGRANT CHILDREN FROM PARENTS AT BORDER"},"content":{"rendered":"

PLUS: Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway Calls on White House Official Quoted by Washington Post to \u201cHave the Guts to Come Forward\u201d <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) Calls House Intel Chair Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) Receiving Leaked Information from the FBI \u201cDeeply Disturbing\u201d <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) Reacts to Losing Tuesday\u2019s Primary: \u201cI Wasn\u2019t Trump Enough in the Age of Trump\u201d <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

NEW THIS MORNING: \u201cMeet the Press\u201d Joins Forces with the American Film Institute for Second Annual Documentary Film Festival This October<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

JUNE 17, 2018 \u2013 \u201cNobody likes this policy\u201d on separating migrant children from their families at the border, says Kellyanne Conway <\/strong>to \u201cMeet the Press\u201d moderator Chuck Todd in an exclusive interview this morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a mother, as a Catholic, as somebody who has got a conscience \u2026 I will tell you that nobody likes this policy,\u201d continues President Trump\u2019s counselor, ahead of his immigration meeting Tuesday. \u201cYou saw the president on camera that he wants this to end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conway also reacts to the unnamed White House officials who told The Washington Post<\/a> that the president has \u201ccalculated he will gain political leverage in congressional negotiations\u201d by separating migrant parents from their children at the border: \u201cBy the way I want that person to say it to my face. I really do. I’ll meet them at the White House today because I think that’s a disgrace. That person should have the guts to come forward and put their name to that quote.\u201d Watch the full interview.<\/a><\/p>\n

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.),<\/strong> ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, reacts to this week\u2019s revelation of FBI whistleblowers leaking information in 2016 to committee chair Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.): \u201cThis is the first that we’ve heard about it, and it is deeply disturbing, because if this was shared by New York field agents with Devin Nunes, was it also shared with Rudy Giuliani? Or did Devin Nunes do something, which we have seen subsequently, which is coordinate with the Trump team?\u201d<\/p>\n

In the exclusive interview, Schiff also addresses migrant children being separated from their parents at the border: \u201cWhat the administration is doing is they’re using the grief, the tears, the pain of these kids as mortar to build our wall, and it’s an effort to extort a bill to their liking in the Congress. It’s, I think, deeply unethical.\u201d Watch the full interview.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t Trump enough in the age of Trump,\u201d shares Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.)<\/strong> in an exclusive interview after losing this Tuesday\u2019s primary race hours following a last-minute Twitter broadside from Trump. He continues: \u201cPeople are running for cover because they don’t want to be on the losing side of a presidential tweet.\u201d Sanford also argues that \u201cthere is no seeming consequence to the president and lies,\u201d contrasting the \u201cincredible consequences\u201d he faced for \u201cthe story of 2009 and my implosion.\u201d Watch the full interview.<\/a><\/p>\n

Todd announced<\/a> this morning that this October, the broadcast joins forces with the American Film Institute (AFI) for its second annual \u201cMeet the Press\u201d Film Festival in Washington.<\/strong> The #1 most-watched Sunday show first hit the big screen last year in a dramatic brand expansion, with Academy Award nominations for three of its featured films. Learn more.<\/a><\/p>\n

Republican strategist Al Cardenas<\/strong>, The New York Times\u2019 Helene Cooper<\/strong> and Bret Stephens<\/strong>, and NBC News\u2019 Carol Lee<\/strong> joined this morning\u2019s roundtable for insight and analysis on the week in politics, including the president\u2019s impromptu press conference on the White House lawn on Friday.<\/a> \u201cYou have to hold the president clearly accountable when he is contradicting information that he has previously purveyed,\u201d argues Stephens.<\/p>\n

Read the full transcript of \u201cMeet the Press\u201d<\/a>\u00a0this morning.<\/p>\n

Follow the show\u00a0on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for the latest, and watch\u00a0MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMTP Daily\u201d<\/a>\u00a0at 5 p.m. ET for more from moderator Chuck Todd.<\/p>\n

PLEASE CREDIT: NBC NEWS\u2019 \u201cMEET THE PRESS WITH CHUCK TODD\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n