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i have no crystal ball, but i know jeff sessions is going to be asked to answer the question that he asked sally yates, will he tell the president truth when it comes to what is lawful and unl unlawful. >> reporter: that moment was notable given all the questions of senator sessions. the president's immigration executive action certainly is handing democrats up here on capitol hill more fuel to their fire to push back on him, and you have top democrats like senator schumer who is saying senator sessions should go on the record one way or the other what he thinks about trump's travel ban. we know sessions, according to a written answer that he submitted overnight, he said he had no direct role in president trump's recent executive order, but that
that's important on a go-forward basis. and we have to secure our border. we have a border security problem. we have security concerns given this age of terrorism, given the fact that we have drugs coming across our border, we have an opioid problem. there are lots of reasons why our focus first is on border security. >> that was paul ryan, pressed repeatedly as you heard about that controversial immigration executive action taken by president trump late on friday. the house speaker calling the roll-out confusion regrettable, in his words, but expressing confidence in the department of homeland security chief kelly. overall he emphasized the importance of protecting national security.
get it of it. steve: the green people, the greenies, people who are proenvironment, they love this. lisa: so much. i have a suspicion that trump is not as worried about those guys. steve: next card. immigration executive action. the dreamers and others. >> and others. this was executive action from president obama. this got a lot of blow-back as well. something that president obama has vowed to take action on immigration within first hundred days. this is something that he see him reverse or at least blocked by the supreme court court as well. steve: iran nuclear deal. lisa: donald trump has been -- president-elect trump has been critical of the iran nuke deal as well. but there are some people like senator who bob corker that we
happening. >> you're talking about co-equal branches of government, separation of powers. now the president himself said 25 times before he issued his immigration executive action that he didn't have the authority or the power to do it, but he did it anyway. the republicans didn't stop him. >> that's right. >> did that embolden him now to pretty much decide write laws on his own through executive action, violating the constitution and the rule of law? is that how you see it? >> the republicans did not stop them. he's getting away with murder. this recent budget situation which is basically gave obama every single thing he wanted having to do with the syrian refugees coming into our country, having to do with borders and weak borders and all of the things he wanted, he just got in this new budget. i've never seen a budget pass so fast. it looks like it got done in a day. and i'm just saying where is ryan and where are all these people to, you know, to do something, to negotiate or to do something? he got everything he wanted. we got nothing.
it's unbelievable what's happening. >> you're talking about co-equal branches of government, separation of powers. now the president himself said 25 times before he issued his immigration executive action that he didn't have the authority or the power to do it, but he did it anyway. the republicans didn't stop him. >> that's right. >> did that embolden him now to pretty much decide write laws on his own through executive action, violating the constitution and the rule of law? is that how you see it? >> the republicans did not stop them. he's getting away with murder. this recent budget situation which is basically gave obama every single thing he wanted having to do with the syrian refugees coming into our country, having to do with borders and weak borders and all of the things he wanted, he just got in this new budget. i've never seen a budget pass so fast. it looks like it got done in a day. and i'm just saying where is ryan and where are all these people to, you know, to do something, to negotiate or to do something? he got everything he wanted.
take a look at a little bit of the ad. >> they admitted there's one candidate who scares hillary clinton and that's marco rubio. democrats say he's the one they don't want to face. bill clinton even calls him the biggest threat. >> so it's true. >> look, i'll tell you this, we're not -- i'll be honest, we're not really concerned about anyone in this field in particular. in part because donald trump and ted cruz now on the issue of immigration. this is a place where after the last election they said they needed to get right. they needed to go to this party and -- >> right, but rubio, that is not an area where hillary clinton can attack him on. >> that is absolutely not true. marco rubio has turned his back on the path to citizenship. marco rubio is against the dream act. marco rubio's against the president's immigration executive action. i mean, he has -- you know, he's only less extreme because of where donald trump has led --
so developing now, new reaction of the white house after appeals court created a major setback to president obama's immigration executive action. the ruling against protecting up to 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation. >> we're confident in the power of the legal arguments and that's why i think you've seen the department of justice make such a quick decision to move this on up to the line to the supreme court. >> the department of justice says it will go directly to the supreme court over president obama's immigration plan. now, 26 states have challenged the president's executive order along with many republicans. texas governor abbott called it another win for texas. laura vasquez is an analyst for the national council of laraza. how much of a setback is this? if josh earnest is correct about the right language of a law in
as the powerful descent recognizes president obama's, as are fully consistent with the law. who is brandy who came from the domestic finance department at treasury to tell the judges at the fifth circuit that they chose to misinterpret the facts in the law. maybe you should get a law degree before you start lecturing. >> i have a feeling with the law degree you can probably argue more effectively. >> she irritates me. >> she's coming up with the political justification for the immigration executive action. and the court was split. there was a powerful descent you had. >> two to one. but the descent said this is judicial fiat. >> they got that one, but they lost the other two. >> no kidding. >> and in accordance with the law. >> i suspect there's going to be