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Ban as it makes its way through the courts and probably the supreme court. these are fascinating arguments today. what you heard from the lawyer from hawaii that you just played is he says basically, look, lady ju justice may be blind but she aint deaf. weve heard donald trump talking smack to muslims around the world. >> reading about himself in the third person. i mean, i remember that, remember watching it with my jaw on the floor. >> on the flip side, the trump justice department rolled out ...

>> let me segue to that because i think thats a profound and interesting point. we have seen the succession of executive orders from the president of the united states. that is part of the kind of executive prerogative and some of them seem squarely within the article ii powers of the executive, some of them seem outside of that. you were critical of the immigration executive order. are you concerned that we are seeing the executive in the early days of the trump administration reach out past wh...

I think thats a profound and interesting point. we have seen the succession of executive orders from the president of the united states. that is part of the kind of executive prerogative and some of them seem squarely within the article ii powers of the executive, some of them seem outside of that. you were critical of the immigration executive order. are you concerned that we are seeing the executive in the early days of the trump administration reach out past what its constitutional power is? ...

Deportation which is an executive prerogative here in mexico whereby the executive branch can deport any foreigner without cause and without a trial when ever they deem fit. they are yuzusing that in lieu an extra traditidition would re them to have cause and other requisites that may not be present in this case. >> so if it is deportation, and tell me where i am wrong in what i am about to say. as i understand it, the u.s. citizen can cross over the mexican border and be in a zone close and pro...

Dreamers, no worksite enforcement, sanctuary cities. all those things add up. if you look at the numbers released by the administration. this is a four-year snapshot. if you look at the total deportations, youll see that those declined from 400,000 to almost 200,000. now i want to look at those two sub groups there. the president also claimed to be tough on criminal aliens but the red bar, criminal alien deportations are down four years in a row. the green bay. down 31%. so why is it happening? ...

Out on this. you have people who havent been paying very close attention to the drone program now focused on it. bill: probably some in his party who are eager as you have stated, eager to stand up to this white house and president and in this case he did for the past 13 hours overnight. but why is the answer so mushy? why is it so evasive? what explains that? >> well, i think the white house is basically trying to retain for the president some executive prerogative in terms of fighting a war. w...

Its really difficult when lawyers start to speculate about what their clients may decide to do. its not the president saying anything about the fifth amendment, its rude giuliani talking about and thats indicative of whats been happening throughout the week, with giulianis statements, the facts have to be nailed down and the evidence needs to be nailed down. now emmett flood is coming in, he knows all these issues, he understands executive privilege, understands executive prerogative. he represe...