Apparently Samantha Bee’s segment last week on migrant children being separated from their parents was permanently scrubbed and will not be coming back. At the beginning of this week’s show she made a brief statement regarding the controversy (and there’s an interesting discussion between Chris Hayes and Rebecca Traister: here). That intro was then followed by this segment with an update on the situation.
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