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Border so she could give birth here. >> i met a woman who was 81/2 months pregnant. they packed all their belongings up and headed to the border. and told by customs officials things were also left and no way she could get in. united states senator, changed the tune. >> that is unbelievable. a sitting us senator gaming the system with an illegal immigrant. she is with a us senator. i wonder if a constituent in his own state gets that quick treatment. nice going. that's just what our founders thought about, the birthrate citizenship issue.

Joined a dangerous group. and the citizenship issue is whether or not you win or lose the fight she is actually a citizen. >> absolutely. i am not here to defend her actions. i am here to defend her citizenship. >> martha: she has every right to go through that process. hillary clinton has another reason that she lost the election. >> i was the first person who ran for president without the protection of the voting right act and it makes a real big difference. >> martha: we will look at the numbers on that when we come back.

Official was september 1st. still by the time she was born at the end of october her father was not a diplomat. she had citizenship by way of her birth. the united states constitution guarantees citizenship to everyone born on u.s. soil who is not immune from u.s. laws. her father was not immune from u.s. laws at the time she was born. this is what made her a bigger issue. much bigger than hoda. the power of the president to simply declare without court process or due process somebody is not a citizen. we have courts for a reason. let's use the court system. >> martha: thank you very much. goo...

Go back to the states? what do you think would happen if you were allowed to go back? >> of course i would be given jail time. >> dana: deputy assistant attorney general under president george bush joins me now. i'm fascinated with this. this has been an issue long time in coming. not just for the united states, but for other countries that had young people that decided to fight with isis and now what's going to happen to them? her case in particular, she won't be the only one, but this one is very interesting on the citizenship issue, the united states government is saying she is not a sit ci...

Status on the census. there's a -- there's a lawsuit about the citizenship issue. we know the commerce secretary was -- he had steve bannon and others on speed dial when he was doing that. the reasons they arctticulated r doing that, i know that having led the civil rights division, were absolutely bogus and not based in any sort of fact. so, there is a lot of power there. and we're going to use it responsibly to make people's lives better, to focus on the issues that matter most to people. that's what we're going to do. >> we've been trying to figure out donald trump like a lot of people are ...