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Jeff sessions ordering a review made of all troubled departments. he wants to make sure they dont conflict with the presidents goal of promoting officer safety and fighting morale. since 2009 the department of justice has conducted 14 decent decrees and agreements. the white house following through killing off a series of obama era privacy rules. president trump signing into law a repeal of protections that would have required internet service providers to get your permission before sharing da...

>> i think it would be a stretch to say we came to agreements. the reason w went to meet with him we wanted to answer a question. remember, he raised during the campaign what do african-americans have to lose? we wanted to tell him we have a lot to lose, and in fact, in the first two months of his administration weve already lost a lot. if you look at the budget, a budget is reflection of his values and the way he has cut certain agencies that will have detrimental impact in african-american com...

Frankly, in the first 60 days of your administration, weve already lost a lot. one of the first things that happened was for the federal government to pull out of the voting rights lawsuit in texas, rolling back the disent decrees to look at police departments in baltimore and in chicago. those were two things that the administration did even before the secretaries of those departments were confirmed, and so we believe -- >> congresswoman, i dont mean to interrupt you. >> thats okay. >> youring ...

President jefferson said things like that. >> he was slightly before my time. >> but presidents say these things. congress says things. then judges decide. thats the way our system works. and senator, all i can committee to you, again, is im a judge, i take that seriously. and you better believe i expect judicial decrees to be obeyed. as i said yesterday, a wise old judge who youre going to hear from tomorrow, one of my heroes, says that the real test of the rule of law is where a government, a ...

Of bad dude. how does mexico make of the mixed message and consistents of this administration in. >> in this case they are not mixed. decrees are decrees. they are written texts. these are not statements. these are guidelines issued by secretary kelly to the i.c.e. ask cbt agents in the field. the guidelines say that the u.s. will try to send none mexican nationals back to mexico to await asylum hearings. secretary kelly says, no were not going to to that. changes the guidelines. i think this is...

>> i would say syria is one of them. >> tucker: syria is in pretty good shape now? >> turkey. thats all part of helping turkey keep their borders open so people can flee and see keep their life safe. >> tucker: kevin, thank you for joining us. more debate tonight, we are going to talk about a democratic congressman who has opposed the border wall that appears to be on its way. thats coming up. first, more details on trumps new executive orders. they are just the latest waves of decrees. trace ga...

House, theres a due process. its called ipc, d.c. principals economy, i would hope this new team starts to use inder agency process to start to develop their policy. by decree and tweet confuses us were trying to guess what are behind the presidential decrees its not great way to make foreign policy. >> we have a secretary defense general james mattis and he has stated publicly that he does not necessarily believe in torture, water boarding, or enhanced -- i

Baltimore, thats your turf. you were out in the he streets, you know better than anyone whats going on there. >> we are hoping that the justice department -- they delayed the court hearing on it. we expect that to be in front of a judge. i think once its being ruled over by a judge it will be -- well probably be able to make some headway. but the problem is, andrea, this was a consend decree in baltimore where everybody came together, the police, the community, the religious community and electe...

Define its legacy is the work that was done to address the problem of policing reform. almost two dozen investigations across the country over the last eight years into chicago and baltimore and new orleans. and there are now consent decrees in place like in baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. and this is hard work. baltimore is just heading down this road. the ace is on the paper, but the work lies ahead to make sure we bring about a culture change that...

Because they dont want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted. youre the mayor of baltimore. you just won an election, so you clearly were not over the police department when a lot of things were found in this report, but you have served as an elected official there. how do you respond to sessions implying that these things are more reputation-savers than really dealing with a real probl problem? >> w...