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People, and i can assure you that this individual will make those voters and every american very, very proud. this particular choice is one that the president takes very seriously. he knows well impact the juris prudence for generations to come. as such, he has taken careful steps to insure that this process has both been transparent and inclusive. he has been speaking about the list of individuals that he may nominate since may of this year, and after consulting with several influential groups,...

>> we will learn at 8:02 eastern time who the supreme court pick is. >> its kind of like the apar"t apprentice." and thomas hardiman was half way between pittsburgh and washington d.c. and sosurces close to the process is that the idea is to conceal who the pick of donald trump is, were told through our sources there are increasing indications that judge gorsuch, a conservative judge 49-year-old, will be his pick, but he has changed his mind. we saw it with vice president pence. so that could de...

Consultation of any meaningful sort. pete williams you cover homeland and justice and its been pretty tumultuous. he is clearly falling on the line -- lets listen in as the head of i.c.e. is speaking. >> -- we had calls with stakeholders, air carriers and airports starting a few hours after receiving the order so they would understand how to operate. we also overnight on friday and saturday worked through a process to be able to wave travelers that were in transit, or had sensitive cases that sh...

Democracy that we respect disseptembering views. we do not live in an authoritarian system where you have to agree or get out. i cannot believe that kind of a statement was made and perhaps it would be useful if people read the constitution. >> when we think about the way this white house is structured now, you have a controversial national security adviser mike flynn retired general, but now it seems from all the reporting that steve bannon, steve miller, who coauthored the inaugural address, a...

That is given to somebody who is supposed to execute orders that are handed down to them properly, of which that executive order was 100% done. ironically it went through their offices the department of justice office of legal compliance. so the idea that it went through the entire process of which they were part of, and then she chooses not to execute it actually is bewildering as well as defiant. >> sir, a follow-up with that. is the president laying down a marker now to all of his cabinet sec...

That of course is what set up the raucous. he spnd responded to saying nob from homeland as far as hes concerned violated the court order or ignored the court orders on the order of steve miller from the white house but hes looking into that. >> reporter: i think thats exactly right. he said some individual within the department of homeland security were involved in the drafting process. it is clear, he said like most americans for the course of the last year and a half to two years he knew this...

Are democrats slow walking his nominees just to obstruct the process? >> oh, yeah, totally. we dont have the numbers actually to stop these confirmations, so we are slow walking the process because we want to ask more questions. i know chuck schumer has made it clear he wants to know with each and every nominee, where they fall on the travel ban, muslim man or whatever we are calling it at this point. he wants to at that done, and they have a series of questions that they do not feel have been s...

Accused the acting attorney general of betraying her own department by expressing a counter opinion. dont you think that kind of language has a chilling effect on the public safety? >> press secretary spicer: i think there is a big difference but think of the process at work here. the department of justices office of legal compliance provided the executive order, send it back to us to say it was completely compliant. the acting attorney general goes out to say i am not going to enforce it? you t...

The refugees from those countries. thats the alternative fact situation and i think that we really have to be careful in terms of the chaos that this has created and i think the order was more like a press release rather than trying to figure out how the united states government in fact follows uhm on something that affects so many peoples lives, and has created such sadness and really not been how people need to be welcomed into the country where the statue of liberty reigns. >> let me ask you ...

Finding? >> i think the presidents made very clear with respect to energy policy that he wants to review all of the options that we have to use our natural resources to better the country in terms of wind, power, solar, clean coal. were in the process of reviewing all of our energy policies. id go back to note we dont have an energy secretary confirmed right now, because the senate hasnt yet moved forward with that. i hope once thats done well have further updates on energy. matt? >> saean, sall...