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Says. we must respect the rule of law unless he doesnt like that rule of law, and then he calls the man who flouted the law a hero and pardons him. he takes away every sense the justice system judged him and found lacking. do you agree with that? >> no, not the way its characterized. i will say this. i have been making this case on the judiciary committee, on the airwaves, and i dont remember if ive written about it or not. im concerned americans believe the broader definition, not racial profil...

By the justice department. that is what they told joe arpaio he was doing and they said stop it. >> i dont agree. >> what dont you agree with? >> i dont agree profiling is wrong. if you take profiling away from the tools of law enforcement you couldnt describe a criminal in any way whatsoever. >> youre simplifying the issue, congressman. what happens when you profile? >> thats not generalized. theres a difference between racial profiling and a broader profiling with all of the descriptions that ...

Good to see you, as always, congressman. justify the pardon. what is your case? >> well, i watched this unfold, chris, from my seat on the judiciary committee in the house of representatives. we had democrats in majority and we had president obama elected. and i saw that justice department react to what i thought was a political statements of the democrats on the judiciary committee and start to put the squeeze on joe arpaio because they didnt want enforcement of our immigration laws down in mar...

Law. again, the president has the right to pardon basically anyone he wants to. the question is whether or not it was right to reward joe arpaio for something the federal court found to be wrong. theres the issue. lets discuss it. we have congressman steve king, republican from iowa supports the pardon of sheriff arpaio. good to see you, as always, congressman. justify the pardon. what is your case? >> well, i watched this unfold, chris, from my seat on the judiciary committee in the house of re...

Law enforcement, you couldnt describe a criminal in any way whatsoever. i will say that -- >> youre simplifying the issue, congressman. what happens when you profile? >> thats not generalized. theres a difference between racial profiling and a broader profiling with all of the descriptions that are there. i say its wrong and the justice department has issued a directive that says you shall not racially profile if thats the only component. but if its a component in broader profile -- >> what broa...

>> i dont like it at all but the language in sb-1070 prohibited that there be anyone targeted because of race or ethnicity for that specific purpose. as long as it is part of a list of other things, profiling is necessary for law enforcement. racial profiling set by itself is wrong. >> you say racial profiling as if that wouldnt capture what was happening here. obviously if you were targeting a group of people because of their demographic qualities, their physical qualities, not their behavior, ...

Immigration law in arizona and not have some hispanics caught up in that effort. >> nobody is saying that youre not going to have hispanics caught up in it or latinos caught up in it. >> he said if he rounded up brown people. >> im not saying it. its what the justice department said and youre well affair of these facts whether or not you agree with the facts. >> how are you going to enforce immigration law? every once in a while you get somebody who is a citizen by accident. >> it wasnt by accid...

Brown people. >> thats what he did. im not saying it. its what the justice department said and youre well affair of these facts whether or not you agree with the facts. whether or not you agree with his practices is something else. >> how are you going to enforce immigration law? every once in a while you get somebody who is a citizen by accident. >> yes, i know. i know. it wasnt by accident. it wasnt by accident. thats the whole point. he was ordered not to do the practice anymore and he boaste...

Time sb-1070, arizonas immigration law, up until such time as the supreme court invalidated parts of it. >> right. >> i said to him, joe, ill help you. and he said i dont need your help. i have all the authority i need to enforce the law. >> the law gets tricky and i think this is more about the morality than the legality. frankly. ill talk to you about the law in one second. this is about morality. sb-1070 got knocked down the supreme court in part, not completely. youre allowed to ask for immi...

Treated like terrorists. another pakistani official that i spoke with said they were temporarily taken to some area aside from the gate where they had discussions and tried to rebook them. the tsa and the tsa, we contacted them said they never interacted with the delegation. the only agency left on the scene might have been the airport police, and we contacted the washington metropolitan authority and have not heard back from them on this. >> and there could be some diplomatic fallout as a resul...