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And joining us also is robert costa of "the washington post." the disturbing news of the weekend came friday afternoon when the president decided to beat the rush to attacking american institutions and instead of attacking the independent judiciary on saturday morning, as he did a few saturdays ago, he went full mussolini and called the press the enemy of the people. is there any other precedent for a president saying this publicly? they all think it privately. nixon actually told it to other ad...

Obama administration tried very hard to work on immigration reform and to work on getting these illegal immigrants legal and the people who -- its affecting families, legal immigrants. a few people got stuck at the airport and you guys go nuts. >> thats not the way we see it. im not going to take that bait, charlie. neil: we have to watch the wording we use. it gets in the way of solving anything if youre making a blanket statement and equating

That in the parts of the world where we are having the greatest problems, something called a muslim ban or some blanket statement like this is going to do us more harm than good. and this administration would do well to take these setbacks as an advantage, sit back -- >> thats what adults do. have you seen anything that suggests they did that, ali? >> no. >> i hear eugene howelling. >> we heard the presidents reaction. the presidents reaction is this was a political decision. thats what the pres...

This was his big signature issue. >> thats part of the problem. when something is your big signature issue its hard to take the necessary turn into something that is actually relevant. again, as an immigrant to this country, i dont want bad people getting in here. i would like -- >> but nobody from any of the seven countries banned has done anything bad here. >> why dont we talk -- if they had been able to pivot to heres some smart immigration reform and legislation we need this this country, th...

Of course, only time will tell if that will happen when they reverse this reversal. sara sidner joins us from los angeles. first leets go back to the judge in washington state. how did this decision wind up in his courtroom? >> it is because of a lawsuit u that was brought by the washington state attorney general. bob ferguson brought the suit. he made it very, very wide reaching and this is important to decision because this judges decision has made it a blanket statement and ruling that affect...

Illegal immigration and border security instead of always looking to started world war iii. and bob corker wrote, it is my hope that many of these programs will be reinstated. now mitch mcconnell is also weighing in, though he was less critical of other fellow lawmakers. and paul ryan said, i support the refugee resettlement program and its time to re-evaluate and strengthen the visa vetting process. president trump is doing everything right to make sure he knows who is entering our country....

Computers are all vulnerable. we audience that. but its a question of managing risk were all vulnerable of walking down the street of possibly getting hit by a car or someone wi a gun taking a shot. there are dangeshot. there are dangers inherent. to make a blanket statement that computers are insecure, now were going to go back to some period that i dont even know if it fully existed in this way. its an attempt to undermean what did occur. >> good to see you. >> my pleasure, thank you. >> new i...

The term. meaning interfering with the operation of lets say the voting machines or something like that. >> no, no, im just saying wikileaks, the dnc dump that came out during that time with the podesta e-mails. the intelligence community says that has russia written all over it. >> im not going to make a blanket statement about a whole bunch of things. lets take these things one at a time. first of all, russia is always, as i said -- >> right -- >> -- trying to influence events and they do it i...

Changed their mind on how they were going to vote as a result of these allegations of improper involvement with these internet communications on the part of the democrats? i dont know of a single voter who changed their mind one way or the other. >> that is a separate set of issues. we need to stop it. >> put that to the side. you are right, there is no way to tell if it affected an individual voter and whether that changed the out come, yes, but if russia was able to get in, period. is this not...

Please forward this to others." >> look, there are a number of religions that need to be dealt with. thats not a blanket statement for everyone. and thats how were going to lead. when you think about immigration policy in that regard, president-elect has said that where systematic terrorism is taking place, where countries are harboring or in places or countries where people are training terrorists, were going to temporarily suspend that country from that region until a better vetting system has...