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mike chael flynn s contacts and were there any people in donald trump s universe as a candidate who were in contact with entities in russia, russian agents, that kind of thing. it is significant but it s also the standard way they would begin an investigation. the white house acknowledges it will preserve these types of records. i want to go to the white house. kristen, what do we know about these memos, signed by the secretary of homeland security? reporter: halle, these are draft memos, not etched in stones. the white house saying these are among the choices under consideration but it shows that the white house is looking to get tough on immigration. they include hiring 10,000 agents and officers for custom enforcement, expedite the removal of undocumented immigrants in the u.s. for two years or left. it would call for deputizing local law enforcement and then it would also potentially hold parents who pay smugglers to bring in their children accountable. they could face p ....
increasingly under scrutiny for his past statements on islam and other issues, stephen bannon whospower is writing within the new white house, andrea mitchell reports. reporter: he s at the president s side at nearly every photo op. chief white house strategist steve bannon aside from the family, first among equals in president trump s power circle. what bannon wants? nothing short of a revolution. a pop lift revolution in the united states. republican in name but trump in style. reporter: his influence stretching from politics to foreign policy. now on the national security council principles committee. he s got a tremendous understanding of the world and the geopolitical landscape. surprisingly a retired general who served both president bush and obama. how unusual is it that steve bannon has a seat at the table? i think it s unprecedented. bannon described as brilliant but his power alarming critics. his warning to the media to keep its mouth shut. that extr ....
any better. craig, thank you. thank you. and thanks very much to all of you for joining us, don t forget, you can watch out front any time, anywhere. just go to cnngo, a.c. 360 s.t.a.r.t. starts right now. and good evening, thank you for joining us. we re waiting to hear from fbi director james comey who s going to speak at a dinner for the intelligence community. we ll bring you those answers to questions live when they happen. earlier today, the top two members, the senate intelligence committee spoke to reporters in advance of their first public hearing tomorrow into all things russia. and while it s obviously too soon to draw any conclusions as to the shape of their investigations, the shape it s going to take, it s hard to miss the sharp contrast between today s rollout between straight forward, devoid of policy, a train wreck over on the house side. both the house and the senate intelligence committees are supposed to investigate russian meddling in the last el ....
let s face it. the big show is going to be the supreme court. and i think also the planned parenthood funding. some republicans are squishy on that. one other thing he said this morning that will cause concerns on the hill from his party was talking about a border tax, instituting a border tax on companies that ship jobs overseas. that s something when he talked about that after the election, republicans were running away from that. majority leader of the house, kevin mccarthy warned it could start a trade war. paul ryan started to distance himself from that saying we ll worry about doing this in a larger tax reform bill. trump today made it very clear that he wants to go that route. as president, you do have fairly wide latitude to impose tariffs. does he carry through with some of those threats? i agree with karen. a lot of stuff is symbolic. we knew tpp was dead. a symbolic move. when we get into details of legislative push on obamacare and supreme court nominee and on ....
hearts we weren t going to kill them. that was training. that kind of training helped prepare them for the treatment that they got. john mccain was tortured. what they did to him in the hanoi hilton and other prisoner of war sites in north vietnam was torture. we ve never done that kind of thing. never condoned it. some of our allies may have done it but we department. the bottom line is, when congress made these things illegal, they re going to stay illegal until congress changes it. neil: when i hear the president said as he did today in this press conference and that he would defer i hope i have the right wording there to his defense secretary, what did you make of that? well, i make of it donald trump became famous for saying year you re fired. if he doesn t like that the secretary of defense won t do it i know these mean well. i know jim mattis very well. he was not going to issue that kind of order and he has the authority to issue though orders. he s no ....