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What really is the bottom line here is that you see, as i mentioned, different agencies moving to sort of reinvent how they do business on immigration enforcement and trying to, you know, sort of build the apparatus to deport more people. a lot of this also does depend on funding and right now congress is split on this. it does not seem likely it would be easy for them to get a lot of this funding. >> and it just so happens theres a nice private prison industry that is eager to provide those ten...

Dhs. he could also prosecute for misrepresenting themselves. a lot of people drive without a drivers license to try to get to jobs in the country. look, the supporters of donald trump might say thats fair game. these people are in the country illegally to begin with and theyre committing other violations. what really is the bottom line here is that you see, as i mentioned, different agencies moving to sort of reinvent how they do business on immigration enforcement and trying to, you know, sort ...

With the north atlantic treaty organization and it was indeed a much anticipated visit. tillerson spent his remarks touching on three main points, the fight against isis and containing russian aggression. these are long standing policy points that have carried over from the previous administration. but as you mentioned, he seems to be moving away from some of the points that donald trump himself had mentioned on the campaign trail. theres been a lot of that around here. but the big issue remains...

Saying, this is just not far enough. in fact, i think at least one person called it a slap in the face. does it fall short? >> i mean, obviously, it falls short on the policy points and the points of the law that still are in tact. but -- and for myself, and i think most people who love the state of north carolina, wed like to see everything go away and go back to the way things were when we didnt really have a problem with this in the first place. but the truth is, the political climate here ri...

Day ahead. president trump is in sales mode. halley jackson has more from the white house. good morning, hallie. >> reporter: a yman, the president is working to keep his focus on health care. the new bill has conservatives pretty riled up. last night he met with outside groups like, for example, the heritage foundation. they have some concerns about the bill. the sense coming out of the meeting was the president was willing to negotiate, willing to compromise on some of the policy points ther...

I.c.e. has been taking care of her. lets get other -- -- >> meghan: bob and i took our sensitivity training together and i dont believe you can say goon. they are promising and optimistic -- not a state of the union but the closest thing. i would love to come out with morning in america and a uniting message for all americans across the country. tone doesnt matter nearly as much as policy points. this is going to be a different audience than the audience during the inauguration. going into this,...

Power in these issues. thats simply not the way the american system of checks and balances works. we are seeing a civics lesson which we are seeing the courts say, you dont have all that power. there are going to be checks in your power. hes not liking it. its a higher stakes issue. it has everything to do with hara harassing and high milluating and scaring other parts of the political process and showing the ta nasty he thooz go all the way, in his mind. >> the argument that president trump is ...

Codes, but you cannot throw trial balloons until you start to get some details in place, until youve sat down with your advisers. >> what if this is less of details, this is more of a thre to acally begin negotiations for broader renegotiating of trade deals? donald trump likes to throw out bold statements as a first bargaining position in a negotiat negotiation. >> this is government. this isnt a negotiation. you set out policy points. you let everybody know where youre coming from before you g...

Issue. >> if you want to investigate voting in this country, probably the most productive thing you can do is investigate that and try to ascertain whether these stringent new requirements in some states have -- more stringent new requirements have kept some people from voting. we should be encouraging voting in this country, not discouraging voting in this country. thats the hallmark of a strong democracy. >> people will say, wow, you guys are negative on trump. when obama said isis was a jv te...

Franks of arizona joins me now live from the hill. congressman, you just heard that, i hope, quite a bit of a sound between donald trump and his cabinet members disagreeing on many of his key policy points. isnt it the job of trumps cabinet picks to represent his policies, especially since he was elected on those policies? >> well, i think that from the overarching perspective, thats true. if you look at what these cabinet members or these appointees have said, theyre largely in general keeping ...