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Is going to happen. there have been talk that the president would announce the end of daca today. there is some reports it wont. paul ryan talking to wisconsin radio saying he doesnt think it should happen. >> orrin hatch said he didnt think it should happen. ceos are pulling together a coalition doesnt think it should happen. they dont believe the president is going to make an announcement on that today. its a bit of a moving target. >> this is orrin hatchs comment youre seeing on the screen. a...

It requires an individual case by case review of each applicant. they have to produce evidence of how long theyve been in the country, what theyve been doing in the country. they have to have a clean criminal record. and then its up to cis officers to grant daca or not grant daca. and work authorization. so its really a procedure by which those cases can be reviewed and reviewed on an individual basis. and so because its designed that way, its firmly rooted in the law of proscutoreulate discreti...

That went on around the comey firing, what truly motivated the president, what was he telling people? and, you know, it seems like the comey -- the decision leads up to comeys firing were really important to this administration. its the reason that we have bob mueller and its the reason that theres a dark cloud from mueller over this white house. and that this is something that this white house really has had to confront and deal with. so were trying to understand as much as we can about that. a...

Of state chris cobach. >> great to be with you. >> trying to figure out the math. youre the secretary of state for kansas, youre running for governor of kansas and have a side gig as a columnist at breitbart. is that how its working out? >> yeah, pretty much. >> youre busy. >> after dinner some nights i write a column. >> i know your argument that youve made and im sure youll make it again, that there are legal issues with daca in your opinion, it is illegal and thats why it should be ended. i w...

Prosecutorial discretion, prioritizing prosecution and getting to the most important issues first. tom bossert said were going to give priorities to getting the people out of here who are both undocumented immigrants and have committed some sort of crime. again, by definition, if you are in daca, you cant have committed a crime. if you committed a crime, youre out. >> and cant get renewed. >> from a -- >> cant get renewed, correct. from a perspective of prosecution discretion, these guys arent a...

Prosecute all of them and so they are released. used to be before daca that the local county sheriff would release them to i.c.e. in the hopes i.c.e. would deport them. we have many cases of such individuals getting the daca amnesty. theyve been arrested and havent been convicted. but that arrest isnt enough to disqualify them from daca. the daca, we shouldnt have any illusion, it is a cross section of the illegal alien population. there are criminals and scholars, but its not a -- an especially...

He has to do something. >> why not allow the courts to just rule on it? >> well, he potentially could. however, president trump campaigned to say he would eliminate this and he said hed do so on day one. here we are 200 plus days in the administration and he hasnt done it. >> this has come up over the recent weeks and theres pushed the decision, pushed the decision. there was a sort of hesitancy to make a final decision. the president himself at times has seen torn about this. he seems touched b...

Democrats want to keep daca, republicans want some sort of face saving measure on the border. theyre not going to get a wall, i can tell you that with near 100% certainty. theres some sort of immigration package that could be cobbled together in the coming months according to republicans i talked to. now, i dont think that republicans in congress are going to vote to overturn what trump did. i dont think they have the political will, the political courage or the capital to do so. but paul ryan i...

Happened in 2016. and whether it did or not, donald trump did something probably illegal in firing james comey to keep the truth from coming out. so you cant put it out there if is all -- all out there is problematic. >> does that -- some people call them cover-ups, others say its them changing their story. does it concern republicans there are so many varying explanations for things? >> look, in order to get anything done, nothing moves in congress unless its pushed and that requires the full b...

Optimistic, hopefully i wont be eating my words. paul ryan came out and said, he does not think that trump should take this action, orrin hax and other right wing republicans have said the same thing. and i think it would be very embarrassing to be overruled by congress. what happened most of saul showing that he is powerful. >> you mentioned paul ryan, the speaker of the house. he is under some pressure now for republicans on the hill not to end the daca program. >> theres a lot in the news rig...