How Trump's bungling turned his top issue into his greatest liability

About this episode

Julia Ainsley discusses how the Trump administration's mismanagement of immigration policy became a political liability.

Julia Ainsley, senior Homeland Security correspondent for NBC News and author of the newly released, "Undue Process: The Inside Story of Trump’s Mass Deportation Program" talks with Rachel Maddow about her original reporting into how the Trump administration's series of ad libs on implementing Trump's immigration policy led to a cascade of failures that turned Trump's biggest political boon into a disaster that turned the country against him.

People in this episode

Host: Rachel Maddow

Guest: Julia Ainsley

Topics covered

• Trump administration
• immigration policy
• political analysis
• mass deportation
• media reporting

Keywords

• Trump
• immigration
• deportation
• politics
• NBC News

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NBC News

Books & works: Undue Process: The Inside Story of Trump’s Mass Deportation Program

Places: United States

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