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Shes trying to keep a perfect balancing act in everything she told you, showing she was personally loyal to the president but at the same time creating distance, saying shes different and more sensitive. she knows if she runs in 2024 mike pence is very likely to be in that republican primary. she purposely avoided praising him or saying that he would be a good president because she knows that youll bring up that clip in three orr four years and ask her about it. >> we probably would. congressman...

Right now the supreme court is hearing arguments on one of its most consequential cases this term. it could affect close to 800,000 people. protesters are outside the court as the justices consider whether prs can end daca. thats the deferred action for childhood arrivals program, the program thats allowed nearly 800,000 undocumented people brought to this country by their parents to stay in this country. msnbcs mariana attention yeah is with some of those protesters right now. what are you seei...

>> historic, only the third time in the history of our proud republican. hallie jackson, thank you. craig melvin here at msnbc headquarters in new york city. firming up strategies. we are now roughly 23 hours away from the start of public impeachment hearings on capitol hill, and we are getting a clearer picture of the case democrats will lay out against president trump and how republicans plan to counter. also, nikki haley has more to say. the former ambassador continues her back-and-forth with...

President in u.s. history. well bring you updates on his health as we have them through out the day. right now in our nations capital, hundreds of folks gathering outside the united states supreme court as the high court takes up one of the most important cases of this term, the future of daca. nearly 800,000 young people in the united states could be affected by the courts decision. well head there live in a few minutes. also, more to say as nikki haley defended her claim that former member...

Courts review it or is that subject totally to an agencys discretion and cant be reviewed? thats what its going to come down to. is this a question the supreme court can review or did the administration do a good enough job when it shut it down? i think we know where eight of the justices are. i dont know where the ninth one is. that would be the fifth vote on whichever side will prevail. i wouldnt make a guess here. i think chief justice roberts is going to be the deciding vote, and i also thin...

Remain. it cant predict it. i think its going to be close. >> pete, while i have you here, can you clear up something? you alluded to the presidents tweet. in that tweet the president implied that many of the folks who are participating in the daca program are criminals. to participate in the daca program, dont you have to have a clean criminal record? >> reporter: yes. i think the president is wrong about that. in order to be eligible for daca -- remember, this program started in 2012. to remai...

Its pretty clear that the courts four liberals are going to say daca is valid and should remain and the courts four most conservative justices probably will disagree. the question justice john roberts. the basic point of the defenders of daca is this, that the way the trump administration wanted to shut daca down wasnt proper, that what the administration did is say, well, were not saying whether we like it or not. were saying we had to shut it down because its illegal. what the supporters of da...

Legally and historically dubious and all but invited a legal challenge to come to the high court. when justices will decide whether the president has the authority to end the program for dreamers, the obama era directive for people brought to the us illegally as children with renewable work permit and a path to citizenship. three injunctions by federal judges income for you, new york and washington dc have blocked the presidents efforts to end the dac a program and john roberts is decisive. afte...

Victory for the trump administration, the supreme court announced that beginning in its october 2019 term in just a few months, it will hear one hour of arguments on daca. the trip administration said they want the supreme court to listen to their arguments for why the daca program should be scrapped. the obama administration put into place in 2012. the trump administration in 2017 said we want to get rid of this daca program, lower courts ruled that they did not have the authority to get rid of...

John cornyn have come on record and said, look, this is not necessarily the best thing to be exercising executive power in this way. and they point back to the example of how they disagreed with president obama when he used executive authority to institute daca program. and this is essentially a different side of the same coin. so republicans are in a difficult position because they never wanted to take this vote that theyre going to have to take here within a matter of weeks, which is to essent...