Time magazine editor: Controversial cover a 'powerful, important statement'

Time magazine’s top editor on Sunday stood behind his publication’s controversial cover of a crying migrant girl photoshopped beside a towering President Trump, even though the girl was never separated from her mother.

“We discussed it as we discuss every cover and we felt that, I felt that this photo symbolized this moment in America,” editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal said in an interview with CNN’s “Reliable Sources.” “She became the face of this debate, of this crisis, and juxtaposing her with the person whose decisions, in whose hands her fate was held, I thought was a powerful, important statement of the decisions we have to make as a country.”