the difficulty is it look like it was written by the obama for president campaign committee, not by the government of the united states. before january 20, 2009, the horizon was dark in the united states. but in the last 19 months things have been looking up. megyn: really turned things around. we appreciate you being here as usual. not banking on the kind of dough you dreamed of? why not apply for a job with uncle sam. any idea what the average federal employee makes working for the man? it s good work if you can make it. you may in the wrong business. he won best actor for his role as gordon gecko wall street. now the sequel is set to hit the silver screen in september. a couple weeks away. but michael douglas may have to
the freedom to fly the flag act super creeds the association sueder seeds the association rules. i didn t want to go through all the aggravation, but i was going to defend the flag all the way. megyn: a neighbor who happens to be a lawyer worked on the case free of charge. but he says would have paid all the money he had to fight for his patriotism and freedom. a number of troops serving overseas may not be able to vote in the upcoming elections. five states have been let off the hook. the department of justice saying no problem. five other states and the district of columbia were just
offices of chief counsel should promptly move to dismiss proceedings. once the field office director is notified the fod must release the alien. this would, megyn, effectively drop thousands of pending deportation cases allowing illegal immigrants to go free, and in fact the memo refers to some 17,000 removal cases pending in a written statement issued yesterday ice denied it was engaged in any back-door amnesty program. now this new policy has triggered tension and internal divisions at ice between career officials and political appointees. according to a report in today s washington post, in fact ice attorneys say they are down right angry that they have been instructed to drop deportation cases, and the union representing immigration officers issued a vote of no confidence in the author of that very memo, this memo, john morton. senator charles grassley says
said the reason there is a resources problem is because the obama administration did not ask for more resources. they did not request a single new detention bed in the most recent budget credit request. therefore if they have trouble housing the arrested illegals they have only themselves to blame. your thought as a machine who is immersed in the midsh of some of these cases, john. budget constraints are an issue. this isn t new. i ve been practicing for eleven years and we have seen a steady increase in the time in which it takes to take these cases forward, even during the bush administration, now during the obama administration. i just got reset on cases the other day in immigration court and they are set well into the latter part of 2011. megyn: but your clients are free pending those adjudications, aren t they? they are on bond and they had to post bond and in some cases very significant bonds in order to be able to be out. if they don t appear obviously for court they could
wait until you see the back side of this wall. the wall runs two miles and you can see the arc here, two miles long, it s 12 feet wide and 26 feet high. you look over there, the back side of the thing, everyone one of those pillars another 600 of them are actually going down in the water some 200 feet to support the surge from the back side. again, massive, it s enough steel to build 8 eiffel towers, enough concrete to cover 95 football fields with a foot of concrete, and this will give some people in the 9th ward just a short distance that way, a little more piece of mind nothing that when this knowing that when they go back to their neighborhoods, like we showed yesterday, megyn, they have at least got a first line of defense to back them up. megyn: that s got to give them piece of mind. before i let you go. i get the life jacket but what is with the hard hat. reporter: that s what i said i never had to wear a hard hat