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In his first two weeks, its been about keeping campaign promises. judge neil gorsuch as we talked to him this morning and with chuck, is at least as well-qualified as any other conservative out there in america. he is a supremely qualified nominee. i am glad to see president trump, i applaud him today, telling the senate in his instruction to submit to mitch mcconnell that if, in fact, the filibuster comes, they invoked harry reids role in the lower the threshold from 6251 and roll right over. t...

Grounding this executive order at least for the next few days that sally yates is in office as the acting attorney general. as you know, jeff session is the nominee by president trump and awaiting confirmation by the senate. ill read you part of an order she issued to her lawyers today saying my responsibility is to ensure the position of the justice department is not only legally defensible but informed by our best view of what the law is after consideration of all the facts. in addition im res...

Defending executive orders that are issued by the president. obviously shes only attorney general until jeff sessions comes in to take office but this will have an effect even beyond after she leaves office. >> it is pretty extraordinary. there are five legal challenges that have now before the courts in virginia and new york, massachusetts, washington state, and california. here you have the acting attorney general of the united states saying, you know what, were not going to challenge -- >> we...

Sitting. they didnt know whats going on. t they asked. they didnt tell them, we dont have the permission. we dont know if you guys are coming in or going back. were waiting on washington. >> as you represent clients like elias, whats next? can you fight this in court? what can be done? >> well, we took a lesson from what happened in new york city and massachusetts over the weekend. we were getting ready to file a habeas if necessary, a motion to allow the release of his parents, because they hav...

With no instruction. it did not deal with the nuances or the complexities of the visa process to the united states of america. it didnt take into account those who would be traveling by air prior to the issuance of the executive order and landing after the fact. there was so much chaos created and it really spoke to the incompetency of this agency, its leadership and by extension of course donald trump. >> a series of these executive orders are essentially campaign promises the president decided...

People who have been there since the 1970s, people who have been there since the 80s. career senior management. career foreign service officers. career diplomats. one former high-ranking career diplomat first appointed by george w. bush said today "as a career diplomat, i experienced many presidential transitions and i never saw anything like this dangerous purge of public servants now under way at state. now under aat state ahead of rex tillerson taking over. another former assistant secretary ...

U.s. state department. the state department that rex tillerson is about to take over. people who have been there since the 1970s, people who have been there since the 80s. career senior management. career foreign service officers. career diplomats. one former high-ranking career diplomat first appointed by george w. bush said today "as a career diplomat, i experienced many presidential transitions and i never saw anything like this dangerous purge of public servants now under way at state. now u...

Maybe well have another chance. >> ambassador, what do you say to that? >> i can tell you what president bushs policy was because i discussed it with him a number of times. he did not want to fuel the contention that we had gone into iraq because of the oil so he almost bent over backwards not to make a special effort to gain access for us to the oil resources. so he let the sort of competitive field play out in a natural way, if you will, which meant that other countries were able to bid as wel...

Times reported an image of that including with yesterday and it appeared and trumps inauguration compared with trumps inauguration and that was not very popular after that tweet came out. the park service retweeted that times report the tweet and that was not going over well with the white house. and there was an instruction that came down from the national park service that there will be no more tweeting or retweeting until further guidance comes out on monday. we know donald trump on the campa...

Been quoted saying this was deliberately a nationalist address. what message do you think he was trying to send to the rest of the world? >> the same the same message he was sending through the campaign. by american in higher american. the phrase is a little dry to some people. >> american first you mean. >> yes, i dont dont think thats necessarily where hes going. i think is talking about putting americas economic interests first. i dont know are the policies to be put in place. his own clothin...