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Nonviolent offenders are frequently held in county jails rather than state prisons. critics say that law has led to criminals serving shorter sentences than they previously would have. >> bret: thank you. president trumps pick to run the environment protection agency told employees today people being regulated need to know what is expected of them. tonight doug mckelway looks at how new administrator scott pruitt could bring huge changes and much trepidation to the epa. >> regulations to make th...

None of the his supporters are go to hold him to building a concrete wall for every mile on the border. >> bret: but there will be a big, beautiful door. [laughter] >> what will republicans accept? >> some people might want that rephrased. its a poetic way of saying we are a welcoming country, which we are, but you have to do with the right way. >> every time you hear an overreaction to what i think most people regard as common sense measures. >> bret: next time, will president trump said americ...

He was released from gitmo, got a million pound compensation from some lawsuit he filed. these are bad dudes, to quote trump. they need to be kept there. >> bret: the bbc is reporting the pentagon want to go that far as of yet. there is clearly a problem that has been all over the globe. i want to turn, mara, to this issue of anti-semitism. the president dealing with that today. his daughter, ivanka, tweeted out last night, "america is a nation built on the principle of religious tolerance. we m...

Anti-semitic is just preposterous. >> that is not the idea. he is not anti-semitic. as every one of those press conferences said, he got the orthodox community, he won. those people adore him. >> they dont like his phrasing or his answers. >> he has until today not been able to give an answer. >> he has done this in the past. in the easy answers, he gives either answers. he gave it on the david duke interview. you dont want to get sucked into a series of these things. when you get an easy questi...

>> president trump: i watched president obama talking about gitmo, guantanamo, which, by the way, we are keeping open. we are going to load it up with some bad news, believe me. >> if an american terrorist suspect was picked up overseas, would you support sending them to guantanamo bay for questioning? >> if it was legal, i think guantanamo bay offers some opportunities. >> he believes that guantanamo bay does serve a very, very healthy purpose in international security and making sure we dont b...

Affect the obama-era protections for dreamers. the aclu issuing a statement saying the memo confirms the trump administration is willing to trample on due process, human decency, well-being of our communities and protection for vulnerable children in pursuit of a hyper- aggressive, nasty deportation policy. president trump does not have that last word. the courts and the public will not allow this on american dream to become reality. thats where we are. lets bring in the panel. stephen hayes, ma...

Because for the first time in eight years they are on the outside looking in. >> bret: peter, thank you. missouri democratic congressman william lacy clay is suing congress over the removal of constituent artwork from its capitol hill display. the painting showed a pig in a police uniform. pretty you may remember we covered this. clay and his republican colleagues alternately took down and rehung the painting for a few days before was permanently removed. clay calls that arbitrary and unconstitu...

Cut off from support, isis has been severely weakened. insurgents control a fraction of the territory they did two years ago and are losing ground. iraqi forces are expected to enter westernmost so in the next few days. is that fighting continues, conditions for some 600,000 civilians are deteriorating with food, water, and basic items in short supply. we were starving, this man says. god was merciful and we were able to leave. >> u.s. commanders have said that even once isis is defeated, americ...

Crossing the border has to be taken seriously. otherwise we save we could find you and you commit a crime, we will remove you. that continues what weve seen which is putting young people in danger. >> bret: the point we come to is how do you deal with the millions who are here? we dont know how many millions there are. >> i have said once you build up credibility of the border than people are more hospitable to making reasonable compromises. right now we have little credibility on the border. we...

Think about, having to do with the divide, anti-semitism, likewise, it is just terrible. >> bret: they reiterated that at the press briefing. >> they even had a statement that he read about it. he has had a couple opportunities recently to talk about it. for some reason, nobody can quite fathom, he hasnt been able to, he has been asked a couple of questions. at one point, he blamed the incidents on his opponents. they were the ones drawing swastikas and trying to blame it on his supporters. i do...