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Circle. he is the one person in the west wing to whom donald trump cannot say "you are fired." >> bret: and a fighter for free press and protecting press rights. the russian news agency says russian media gave more airtime to president trump in january then vladimir putin. thats apparently changing as russian officials scale back their optimism over what one top diplomat calls a post-westworld order. >> the kremlin has ordered russian state media to curtail its positive coverage of president don...

Responsibility for it. but what to do about it remains an unsettled issue. angry environmentalists will no doubt fight back, using a tactic pruitt knows well, the lawsuit. back to you. >> bret: dog, thank you. bright breitbart editor milo yiannopoulos has resigned. he wrote "i would be allowed to let -- wrong to allow my poor choice of words to detract from my college reporting." the publisher canceled a book deal for his upcoming memoir. uber has hired eric holder to participate in an investiga...

Order on extreme vetting, attorneys at the white house, department of justice and dhs are putting the finishing touches on it. whats unclear is whether the president will rescind his original executive order as court papers that he would or if you continue to fight that case in district court in seattle. >> bret: john roberts, thank you. we take a ground-level look at the effects of crime committed by illegal immigrants, many of whom have been deported multiple times. steve harrigan reports from...

Risk of further restrictions and by essentially looking like an actor that is unreasonable. >> as the world is put on high alert, snyder says the one thing president trump should not do is issue empty threats or bluffs at north korea. he cautions words will have to be backed up with actions. >> bret: thank you. israeli military court has sentenced a soldier to 18 months for a fatal shooting of a palestinian attacker as he lay on the ground. palestinians are calling it a mockery of justice. suppo...

Causes communities in america to question whether they should work with law enforcement here. >> bret: homeland security issuing a memo leg out the policy as we wait for another version of the extreme vetting executive order that has been challenged in court. we dont know if they will continue to challenge it or pull it off and use the new one. heres what the memo says on the immigration crackdown. prioritizing criminal illegal aliens and others, including those convicted were charged with any c...

Going to be popular but the democrats are going to portray this as a mass deportation forces going door-to-door. >> bret: the empowerment of local police officers mentioned in the memo. this is what they were dealing with in arizona. >> you have had other jurisdictions making the same request. i think laura is right. if you look at what president trump is proposing to do, he is proposing to do the most popular things, the things most republicans will agree with. i dont think you are going to see...

Baltimore, was transferred to gitmo after he was picked up overseas. he said he was a career for al qaeda and is awaiting sentence next year. beyond the legal obstacles, critics emphasized that the commissions are inefficient. a decade after the five 9/11 suspects were sent to the navy base, there is total trial dates. >> bret: the good cop, bad cop team of vice president pence and president trump is in its second month. in some ways they are opposites. tone, tenor, delivery, background. are the...

>> bret: talking about the border wall. >> the border is a different place. texas is different than yuma. we will talk to people on the ground. there are places we need to get at the issue of a physical barrier right away. >> bret: the memo goes into specifics. el paso, texas, tucson, arizona, california. a wall will be built where a fence is no longer effective. no one really believes that its going to go wall to wall across the entire border but this is what dhs is laying out. >> every preside...

Speak with those in the trump campaign. despite these differences both u.s. and russian officials say there is a potential for the two countries to work together. u.s. lawmakers in both parties are pressing the trump administration to resist easing sanctions against the putin regime. the presidents choice to leave the national security council, h.r. mcmaster, has accused russia of running a sophisticated operation to destabilize governments and alliances in the west. and influence foreign electi...

>> bret: in the agencies, and the field, telling me they had no clue. sometimes, they would drive around in a jeep and ask questions. >> the stories you would hear are scary. president trump can reverse that. he can reverse it quickly. whether he decides that he needs to reinstitute some form of enhanced interrogation, and the very least, we can start asking hard questions and gain the intelligence. that is the most important thing we can do with respect to prosecuting this war on terror. >> i r...