Tonight, the Trump Administration is taking steps to speed up deportation. As immigration activists celebrate the release of a man taken into custody last fall after reentering the country illegally after having been previously removed. He has a drunk driving offense come up previous deportations on his record. Today he walked out of the Immigration Office in San Francisco. His attorney argued he would be persecuted and sent back to mexico. We have team coverage. Trace gallagher covering the show down over the mexican caravan. We begin with chief National Correspondent ed henry. Breaking, an official at the Justice Department has confirmed a fox that the Trump Administration is posing quotas on federal Immigration Judges to speed up deportations of illegal immigrant. The Union Representing these judges had prohibited these metrics from being put into place but a Justice Department official tells us these performance metrics which were agreed to by the immigration judge union that is no
Background ons this documents that the president is referring to. Thats right, ryan, the president has been threatening electoral consequences for jon tester for a few days now. But clearly tester is unfazed by this. And in part because many of the allegations that are out there against Ronny Jackson are not totally answered by some of the documents being presented by the white house to refute them. Now these allegations have come forward not just to jon testers committee, the va committee and the senate, but also cnn has spoken to multiple sources, current and former colleagues of Ronny Jacksons who detail series of behaviors they believe were inappropriate. Going through these allegation, some of the most serious are ones that john tester detailed in a document he released this week about the allegations against jackson saying that at one point he was intoxicated and wrecked a government vehicle. Now the white house released a doubt yesterday saying that they looked at the use of gov
President only knew about this ten days to two weeks ago. How can you be aware of something ten days ago, but in the same time, paying retainers that cover the reimbursement to Michael Cohen. Again, i cant get into the details of the ongoing litigation. I refer to you the president s outside counsel. You said on march 7th, there was no knowledge of payments from the president. He denied all of the allegations. Were you lying to us at the time or were you in the dark . The president has denied and continues to deny the underlying claim. Again, i have given the best information i had at the time. Can you state you were in the dark . It is a fairly simple question. I have given you the answer several times now. On thursday, the president confirmed the payment in the series of tweets and denying any connection to the campaign. The source says the legal team is calling it one play at a time. Lets bring in areva martin via skype. So many leave questigal questio. Now Rudy Giuliani trying to g
Presence in the south. And mandatory evacuations in hawaii as the volcano erupts. Lava now heads for residential areas. Look at those pictures. Good morning. Welcome to early start. You thought you were going to have a tough day. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. May the 4th be with you. Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani seems to have thrown a wrench into the legal strategy. Others were angry and confused when Rudy Giuliani said trump reimbursed Michael Cohen for a hush payment for the alleged affair with Stormy Daniels. Giuliani said he and the president are on the same page to get this wrapped up with and doesnt take a life of its own. The white house is struggling after the president spent months denying he knew about the rush money or reimbursement. The president did talk about monthly retainers in the tweet and Rudy Giuliani said the president only knew about this ten days to two weeks ago. How with you be aware of something ten days ago, but in the same time, paying retainers that