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People should keep pushing. the republicans run everything. you made the point. but if they don't move forward, which they won't, we have an election coming and change is coming. >> senator elizabeth warren is is among the democrats now calling for i.c.e. to be abolished. we've heard similar calls from senator gillibrand, but listen to what warren said today. >> president's deeply immoral actions have made it obvious we need to rebuild our immigration system from top to bottom. starting by replacie ining i.c. with something that reflects our morality and values. >> mean titime president is pus...

We are trying to help the community to be safer by turning these individuals over to i.c.e. and not letting them return to the communities and commit more crime. >> sean: do you have a response to the attorney general and the comments that he made tonight? because i took them as a little threatening towards you. >> well, they were threatening. i would say my hope would be that he would read the language of the law that was passed. it very clearly says in there what we can and cannot do. we cannot communicate with i.c.e, in and of itself, returning us back to a pre-9/11 condition legislatively ...

Decision is the orange county, california, under sheriff don barnes is with us. sir, first, i want to applaud you secondly i took what your attorney said in california as a threat. in other words, he would almost insinuated he might try to arrest you for just putting out who is in jail and when they are getting released. isn't that legal? >> well, it is completely legal. under the law was passed under senate bill 54 there is a provision clearly cannot do. we cannot communicate with immigrations and customs enforcement, but it says we can make this information available to the public, which is ...

To go in and hold them accountable for crimes, would i be abetting and obstructing justice? >> potentially. that would be a little bit of a stretch. this is what we are very clearly doing, we are going after very serious offenders who are in custody in our jail. being convicted of very serious crimes. sb-54 allows to us notify i.c.e. on those under the trust act which was passed in 2014, previously passed legislation, and that's what we are doing. we are still notifying i.c.e., the sheriff has that discretion. last year we turned over 580. we have 57,000 bookings. so that's a small percentage ...

Eric: president trump has made the bo, as you know, a cornerstone of his campaign. now as the government is about to start testing prototypes you see there, the president says controlling the southern border will be a significant step in the war on drugs. >> an astonishing 90% of the heroin in america comes from south of the border where we will be building a wall which will greatly help in this problem. [applause] it will have a great impact. eric: meanwhile, the arrests of illegal immigrants by border agents is reportedly way up in recent months. immigration and custom enforcement is looking...