Trump told "60 Minutes" his immigration policy was too tough. Then he promoted Stephen Miller.
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[0:00] All right, it's been less than a week
[0:02] since voters gave a striking rebuke of
[0:04] President Trump and Republicans last two
[0:06] years in power, and the
[0:08] commander-in-chief is discussing it all
[0:09] with 60 Minutes. The president
[0:11] exclusively sat down with Ross Doward
[0:13] for his first sitdown interview since
[0:15] the midterms, and he said his aggressive
[0:17] immigration crackdown contributed to his
[0:20] party's losses. Listen,
[0:22] >> I think it both helped and hurt. I think
[0:24] I got an A+ for closing up the border. I
[0:27] get very high marks for getting the bad
[0:28] ones out. But I get hurt because we also
[0:32] took people that had good jobs that that
[0:35] created one violation for breaking of
[0:38] the law. That was that they came into
[0:39] the country illegally.
[0:40] >> So you think your deportation policy
[0:42] went too far? It was too tough.
[0:44] >> I think it might be too tough. Yeah.
[0:46] >> But Democratic Senate leader Chuck
[0:48] Schumer isn't buying this admission from
[0:50] the president. Schumer wrote that Trump
[0:52] installing Steven Miller, the architect
[0:54] of the immigration crackdown, as his new
[0:57] chief of staff, is quote, "Not a course
[0:59] correction, it's a promotion." CBS News
[1:02] White House and Politics reporter Aaron
[1:03] Navaro kicks off our hour from our DC
[1:05] bureau with more on this. Aaron, good
[1:07] Monday morning to you. What more did
[1:09] President Trump have to say about the
[1:11] widespread GO