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Prime minister modi in the united states later this year. today the present work on fulfilling one of his most significant campaign promises to the american people by making america safe again by taking steps to secure our borders and improve immigration enforcement inside the united states. the president intends to sign to executive orders after observing the swearing in of secretary of homeland security kelly. the first order is the border security and immigration enforcement improvement. it a...

United states later ts year. today the presidents focused on fulfilling one o his most significant campaign promises to the american people by making america safe again by taking steps to secure our borders and improve immigration enforcement inside the united states. the president intends to sign two executive orders after observing the swearing in of secretary of homeland security kelly. the first order is the border security and immigration enforcement improvements, it addresses long overdue ...

>> thanks for having me. >> lets talk about the position that the doj would take under senator sessions leadership on issues like immigration, terrorism and maybe just crime in general? >> well, jeff sessions will be the first trump nominee out of the box on tuesday morning. democrats have talked a lot about jeff sessions experience and defeated in the judiciary committee on charges that he was quote, racially insensitive. you will see democrats and the groups around them bring up some of that s...

Democrats who do vote for sessions. yeah, theres going to be a lot of opposition. theyll say that he will be -- wont be strong on voting rights, that he wont be strong on lgbt, other social issues, sort of rights and he will change the direction of the justice department as it has been under eric holder and loretta lynch. the last part is really true. >> homeland security and governmental affairs committee will interview john kelly, president elects choice, general kelly has said the drug-relate...

Back in the past that democrats could fixate on. ic you will get a lot of talk about immigration issues, border security issues and also about interior enforcement issues likes e-verify and visa entry-exit systems, things that are effective if enacted in stopping illegal immigration, all the talk about the wall, border security and all of that stuff will be under him if hes confirmed the secretary of department of homeland security. i think we will see a lot of talk about immigration, not just i...

The reaction there in dc, garrett. >> the president elect received that intelligence briefing on friday and he raised some eyebrows the next morning when he said that he wants to improve u.s. relations in an extended post on twitter. he wrote, having a good relationship with russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. only stupid people or fools would think that it is bad. we have enough problems around the world without yet another one. when im president, russia will respect us for more than they ...

Unilateral authority when it comes to that. well see. there are big, big differences between trump and the mainstream republicans on the hill over basic economic policy. you know, just speaking theoretically on immigration, if trump were more of the deal maker and less of the idealogical, the jury is out on that, potentially, you could see a very big immigration deal, where democrats went for very strict, very severe border security issues if republicans moved on what a lot of people now would c...

A family hostage. they had to be stopped. new yorks finest, the state police they did a fantastic job. they had everything going against them, everything going from the weather to the silly tricks with the pepper to throw off the k mine and they were lucky, thousands of cabins and millions of acres but at the end of the day one dead, one laying on his back helpfully in great pain. >> problem mentioned -- rob mentioned they were so close to candidate that the guards were tipped off and they were ...

When i worked in the white house. somebody said if we go, then well own the problem and be the face of the problem and we didnt cause it. i understand all that. optics do matter and showing up matters and he actually might learn something, not from rick perry, but if he meets with the faith leaders and border folks, he -- hed actually learn something so i do think its a good idea for him to go. >> paul is right, but when the white house yesterday said they werent concerned about the optics, you ...

I think that if it were not for the haster excuse, right? this rule thats not really a rule in the house, we would be able to have a vote on this bill now. we have 185 democrats who have signed on to hr-15, to the immigration reform bill in the house that has a pathway to citizenship, that addresses the border security issues, et cetera, and i think that we can probably see 195 to 200 democrats on that bill. we now have 29 republicans in the house who have come out. thats over 218 votes. >> righ...