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Administration without getting senate confirmed. well see if thats a last step they could take. clearly democrats, another tactic to try to delay donald trump from getting some of the more controversial nominees confirmed, john. >> the democrats might have seemed more emboldened in recent days. theyve seen the protest in this about the presidents travel bans. theyre getting calls telling them to toughen up, stand up and fight more. is that what this is a product of or do they just sense some pol...

>> come on up. probably best to be in front of the microphone. who is first? >> thanks. two quick questions. first to the acting ice director. is ice planning on growing detention states for people -- and extending the time in which they are held? then, also, on cvp, you mentioned you spoke to people about the order within 72 hours. would it have been easier if you had any guidance before this order came out? could confusion have been avoided? >> on the first question, yes. we got to secure our ...

Implementing the operational plans, so we had to adjust our efforts a little bit, but we worked quickly to implement and i think the process is really smoothed out. just to clarify, the initial he calls werent within 72 hours. they were within two hours of the executive order being received. >> reporter with congressional quarterly -- two questions, whoever wants to take this. there are several lawmakers and advocacy groups that are saying that some border patrol agents ignored court orders and ...

Theres been an escalation since the weekend. i would add the airport protests to that as well. you really saw members of congress going out to the airports sort of pleading to get access to the detainees who were apparently being deported, notwithstanding, what general kelly said earlier. there seemed to be some disconnect between the facts he was asserting and other facts that lawyers are claiming about people being told to sign away their green cards and sent to ethiopia or things like that. i...

>> for 18 months or so. >> it didnt matter. >> if the opposition is fractured, if he keeps the 46%, it may not be a majority, but its the biggest piece. if he keeps it. can he get the votes on capitol hill? >> theres a question about the tone and being that ticks surrounding everything. a lot of these moves could have been made without some of the provocative language. some of the sharp edges could have been buffered off. some of the things could have been deferred. there was no reason that immi...

President as a member of the white house pool, and i asked him a question, which he didnt answer, and i think its one of the most important ones. has he talked to senator mcconnell about the nuclear option on this pick? that means not having 60 votes here, losing eight democrats. that is the question here. democrats are going to fight both of these two candidates, but its a reason that william pryor is not on the list here. he, of course, is from alabama. he is viewed as much more conservative o...

Straight forward manner. they say they "lied" according to the democrats, and they wanted more information before agreeing to that vote. republicans are furious. i talked to senator orrin hatch, the chairman much the finance committee, and he teed off on democrats. take a listen. >> well, they are idiots. anybody that would do something like that, its just complete breach of decorum, a complete breach of committee rules, a complete breach of just getting along around here. >> now the question, j...

It might be certainly an accounting of what websites they visit. it might be telephone contact information so that we can see who theyre talking to, but, again, all of this is under development. those are the kind of things were looking at. social media. we have to be convinced that people that come here, theres a reasonable expectation that we dont know who they are and what theyre coming here for and what their backgrounds are. right now there are a number of countries on the planet that dont ...

Country, the specifics of hispanic outreach have been few and far between. he was asked a question about that earlier today. >> which he didnt answer. >> exactly. which he didnt answer he was very short on exactly what he was going to do. i think its also important to note that there has been data and studies done that show that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native born -- >> a whole host pugh northwestern justice quarterly. >> thats right. so the notion that because someone i...

1,060 lawful permanent residents of the united states as well as an additional 75 waivers granted to immigrant visa and non-immigrant visa holders. permanent residents, special immigrant visa holders are allowed to board they are flights and will be processed for a waiver upon arrival. again, weve done that over 1,000 times so far in the few days of the implementation. secondly, immigrant visa holders and non-immigrant visa holders will be denied before they board their aircraft and will be refe...