Monday Morning Politics: Tax Returns, Sanctuary Cities, Julian Assange

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 15, 2019

Mara Liasson, NPR national political correspondent, reports on the latest national political news from Washington, D.C.

"It's sort of a self own," says @MaraLiasson about Trump's threat to send asylum seekers to sanctuary cities. "He did it to punish liberals, but mayors of sanctuary cities are like 'okay that's fine. We'll take em.'"

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