Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Donald Trump said he thinks his administration was too aggressive on deportations and that he was open to an arrangement to allow some undocumented immigrants to remain in the US. The president said, in his first major interview since his party lost control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections, that his deportation policy was part of the reason Republicans lost. He told CBS’s ‘60 Minutes’ in an interview that aired on Sunday: I think it might be too tough, yeah. And a lot of people would say that it’s great. But a lot of people think it’s too tough. The president’s comments were an unusually frank acknowledgment that one of the defining policies of his second administration had become a political liability. But they were seemingly at odds with his decision on Friday to elevate Stephen Miller, the architect of his immigration crackdown, to White House chief of staff. Trump said that he thinks he could reach an agreement with th