know there were about 8 weeks or more to prepare for the running the, the country. so this time around, not only are they prepared, but we're seeing some familiar faces. caroline love at the white house press secretary was in the previous administration when donald trump was in office. also as steven miller road deputy chief of staff, and also a steven shaun who is in deputy chief of staff of communications. these people have all been here before, but the other big difference that we're seeing this time around is a lack of resistance. legal. remember the day after in 2017, there was one of the mass of march is in washington. one of the biggest protest marches in us history that was taking place this time that is not occurring. but kimberly, how can of the white house? thank you so much. we'll talk to you again a little later. donald trump is also cracking down on integration and an authorized

border crossings. he has shut down asylum and refugee admissions, declaring that all illegal entry will be halted and millions of people will be deported from the united states. and trump has declared a national emergency at the southern border, and he's told the department of defense to move troops to the border. and the wheels are in motion for that for trump's integration and board and policy overall . but it comes at a time when the unauthorized crossings at the southern border are actually lower than when trump left office in 2020. that is currently the reality of the border. so look for on both sides of the board or covering this. i'm sure it was john home and is it the busiest motor crossing in the western hemisphere that some don't want to mexico? first speak to. how do you show castro live in texas? how do you have coverage? immigration, a policy and you have covered the border at various points during the by new administration when border crossings were very high. and then when they were lower and now we're 24 hours into this new reality where trump is issued a national border emergency. what do you see a sarah,

i'm saying things are relatively quiet because as you just mentioned, this is the least number of unauthorized border crossings in 4 years time. and it is in fact lower than when trunk left office. so as a national emergency declaration for this region, many of the people who live here are wondering where is the invasion that trump has used to justify making that declaration. speaking with the sales person for the rest of the border patrol here in the sector, he says they're still waiting to see how that declaration will trickle down into instruction for what the agent should do. but for now it's business as usual. and despite trans, saying that the border was completely sealed, well, there had been actually 91 people who were, who were taken to a migrant shelter yesterday after having crossed between ports of entry. and that was after trump took the oath of office. so right now it's still business as usual,

but of course we are expecting to see troops arriving here in perhaps a few weeks time. i lived on trump has promised famously to the port millions of people from the united states. as a reminder of yours there, about 11000000 undocumented immigrants who currently reside in the us. he says these guys report millions, maybe all of them you've met some of those people who are afraid of being sent back to their countries. tell us about that. a yeah, they are afraid, but they're also wondering how, how could he make good on his promise of deporting just about everyone and there is no simple answer to that. yesterday. he said he would begin the process of deporting naomi, and those are his exact words and his inaugural address. but he never detailed exactly how to do so. and so people living here and really across the united states . so it's 11000000 people who are undocumented. many are greeting this news with

both fear, but also defiance. i guess those things are part of the 19 year old honest sophia has lived her whole life worrying that us immigration officers will take away her mother and her when i was a little girl. and i was scared about us for sometimes because i would be for your life, for whatever amount doesn't come from her mother be at least left mexico 20 years ago and settled in the us without authorization. what are we on the sophia was born shortly after as a us citizen, and the to have been inseparable. we cleaned houses to survive. now they sell vegetables at a market near the border. some of the other one, the i was scared when she was left to now she's old enough to get by on her own. but i would do anything to stay as they trying to put me be a 3 says she has no criminal record, but of immigration officers arrest her mother and daughter. have a plan to cook and i must be i think. so let me make one phone cool. oh, cool,

my daughter and tell her how to close the business payoff the house. i don't know that would be so much to do the alamo. flea market has been here for 40 years, but never has been the target of an immigration rate. now with terms of promise that he will find undocumented immigrants where ever they are underneath the markets buzz, there is a current of fear. i really don't know. like i think it was just like closed down for away or maybe it was opened up at the police to be close down. there would be no where to shop. about 11000000 undocumented immigrants live and work in the us economies safety putting all of them would devastate economy. and the mayor of macallan, texas, a republican agrees because a lot of times you have people that come illegally, but they are now very good, productive residents of the united states. are you advocating that someone like

that stays? definitely. terms mass deportations also face major funding hurdles, leaving honest, sophia, who both they won't happen is a very, very big fear battle. i hope he's so incompetent where he can't go through or whatever he sees a are people say he's like a 2 hour. he just barks but doesn't bite. and that's what is the sort of thing for now. mother and daughter say they'll carry on as normal on a, sofia is studying journalism and college and be a priest says she's proud of her daughter. they hope to continue living there. american dream together. heidi joe castro, outage the rest, alamo, texas and john home and is on the other side of the us. mexico border year into one of mexico. john, what are you seeing? yeah, i think you mentioned it sir. were the busiest boot or crossing point by lined in the western hemisphere. i guess let's just have a look at it. it's just a sign of how in to link these 2 economies uh,

between mexico in the united states about 80 percent of mex correct sports. go to the us. uh, mexico itself actually is the united states. one of its too big is trading partners together with canada. so of course trade links to, to do so i migration link these 2 countries, not just from mexico itself, but from other countries. and that was one of the 1st things that president shame down towards about in her morning press conference that she holds daily. it was a 1st jones to really respond to donald trump and not flurry of executive orders. first off, she said, let's stay calm. we're going to negotiate now the president trump administration is empower and see what we can do. one thing she did talk about dogs was remain in mexico. one of the 1st things that donald trump said that he was going to do is this policy that he had during his 1st administration. basically it means the asylum seekers the in the process up to now they've been able to stay in the united

states for the time. that process plays out about 10 years instead is gonna push them across the border into mexico, from wherever they from. and to know of in cities here, some of which are in control who can always crime pol itself, which makes it dangerous for migraines. and of course that means that humanitarian button as well for mexico. what she said is we're going to face humanitarian. we're going to take care of it. then we're also going to look 3 pot trait, the to the countries. what that, what that might mean is if they all report traits, it is going to be very hard for them to continue their a silent process in the united states. so complications their ministries just trying to figure this out as a battery issue as terrorist john, what is the mexican government saying to that? because of course, donald trump has threatened to impose 25 percent across the board terrace on goods coming from mexico into the us. how are they responding

to that stop? so each here is usually given the figures we just talked about, the amount of x boats of mexico sent to the united states. well, mexico, steering at the moment. remember that those power, if all depend, he said on mexico, not being able to get down the migraines heading to the us, he wants it to stop that. and he wants to mexico to stop fentanyl to the us. mexico already got moving on that it brought about little of new laws at to a prohibit sub production defense the new in the country. and it also has been for months now trying to stop migrants getting through basically by discouraging them, by stopping them in the country and then sending them right back to the south. the country, the start of the route. a lot of them get discouraged at that point. again this morning president shane bottom and have foreign minister put up a golf showing how much the migration has gone down. getting to the us to southern board. they said by 78 percent. so the whole thing,

i guess so they can negotiate and convince donald trump that they've done enough before the 1st of february when he says, so he's pirates to come in john, hold that report in from the honda and mexico. thank you very much, john. now let's look at how popular or not these policies are with the american public. a nationwide poll conducted last week took the pulse of americans to find out how much support for trumps agenda. there actually is about 44 percent of us adult say that they are against deporting all undocumented migrants living in the us. we have not been convicted of any crime. so 44 percent against 37 percent of them are in favor of reporting. all of them and you see in the middle 20 percent 19 percent undecided about half of americans say that they're opposed to ending birth rights. citizenship on the 28 percent so that they favor ending that practice. which means, which is granting citizenship the children born in the us to non citizens parents. so that's where we are in the holding on these major issues at this point. the

spring and melanie sloane, who is a former federal prosecutor. so you're currently an attorney with special expertise in government ethics. thank you so much for joining us. we'll get to the ethics part of this. i can't wait a little later. let's start with the legal part. donald trump is a powerful man, president of united states. he can set policy, he can dictate terms on many things he can make promises. he can even sign executive orders as he has done dozens of them. but it's still not legal. ultimately, it's not going to work. and that was kind of the lesson from the 1st term, many of the things he wanted to do, more legal. what do you see in this space at this moment? well, he makes a lot of promises that many of his supporters want to see immigration, obviously one of his best issues. so he's immediately come in and said he's ending birth right citizenship only he can actually do that because it's part of the us constitution. so we immediately, what has happened? is there been several lawsuits already filed, one by 18. state attorneys general filed up in massachusetts,

and 18 states are suing donald trump. 24 i was addressed so far. i mean that the website more will join in, but that lawsuit is likely to lead to a nationwide in junction stopping trump from trying to enforce this new van on from, on a birth rate citizenship. so i don't think we'll see that it will be, you know, when he gets way through the courts for quite some time. we reported lee reportedly, steve miller, who is in a very, very close in the in trump's, here as been an adviser, has been an architect of his immigration policy and is now back in the white house with him has been in these things. these are getting the executive orders for legality, and you're telling me actually a lot of it is probably going to be blocked again. okay, that's what is absolutely going to be blocks. i mean, there's going to be a big constitutional debate. there's almost no constitutional scholar who would say that this is again, this is okay. again, a lot of times what trump does is he wants to see it his base and make people happy . and then if he can't do it later, he'll just, you know,

that would be years down the line and it will be close to the end of his presidency . by the time this is finally litigated, but he'll try, he's declared a national emergency, a national emergency, the board or a national energy emergency, whatever legal consequences because you don't do that only for politics and only for how it looks right. oh no, i think you're largely do it's complex. are there not legal consequences if you declare a national emergency of the board or that makes it easier to appropriate funds for what you want to do to get actually get the money etc. yes. well, also with the issue of the border, he wants to be able to use us troops to, um, uh, to secure the printer. there definitely some legal questions that will come up with that. that is not clear that the us troops are allowed to be used for that purpose . they're also talking about moving a lot of national guard troops from around the country there. so he's setting up new legal battles on that front. and as you said earlier, there are many fewer immigrants coming in, so it's also what is, what are all these us troops going to be doing while there are mass down the border, like they're,

they're not about to just invade mexico. so i or maybe they are head back. i mean, i guess that's we'll, we'll wait and see what happens from a legal standpoint. do you see other pitfalls for donald trump? we are so many pitfalls. so, i mean, almost everything that he's talking about doing is facing immediate legal, pushed back, he has this new, free is on federal hiring and those are rescheduling, what kind of how, how employees work for the federal government taking them out in the civil service trying to make them all political already. we're seeing 2 of the unions who are suing about that. yeah. yeah. which is an interesting one. by the way, i think this kind of gets lost for international audience. but he is reclassifying civil servants as political hires, which makes it easier to fire them. yeah. your, as we said, ethics expertise. what do you see in the space of ethics? donald trump is. busy in short, that he's been accused of folding short of ethical standards in pretty much every way that exists. what do you see is dangerous for him now in that field? well, i think one thing we've already seen him do is the day before, is that our gratian. he started his own crypto currency,

trump coined and it's already worth apparently over a $1000000000.00. so there's going to be conflicts with the financial policy now is going to be making policy regarding crypto currency. and a lot of crypto people were very excited about the advent of trumps presidency because they said he would be more favorable. but now he's got a direct financial interest in that. another huge conflict is the role of ill on boss, the world's richest man who has his hand in so many pies in the united states gets so much federal money for so many different kinds of thunder. and contracts not just that tests like cars these most known. 1 but satellites, for example, there's a lot of contracts with nasa and now he's the person in charge of deciding what gets caught, who gets money and who doesn't. if you like, must also hasn't filed yet the, the paperwork that most government employees have to file that looks for conflicts of interest. and that would have to reveal all of his finances. it'll be interesting to see if he actually does file it. but if he doesn't, the problem is the office of government ethics really doesn't have in force enforcement authority, something we saw last time around with other trump,

employees, trump, administration, employees had conflicts of interest. and it's very hard to enforce the law regarding conflicts. and especially when you have the justice department under pam bondy, is there a trump loyalist. you don't perhaps not that concerned about these condo complex. uh, before i let you go, i need to ask you about d e i. this is a very specifically american thing that i think our international viewers will be interested to learn about diversity, equity, and inclusion. can you explain to our audience what that is? why donald trump is going after it? and how do you think that's gonna end diversity equity inclusion has been the policy of trying to make the american workplace more fair and more diverse, particularly given our history of slavery did applies both to, to women as well as minorities and trying to just make sure that you hire, you give everybody an equal chance and that they're paid fairly. donald trump has immediately come in and said he's ending all of those policies in the federal government. federal government has historically in, in recent years,

better place where there has been a lot of equity, but he's trying to end all of that and says he's only going to be judging people on the character of their uh, on their character. not the color of their skin or their gender. on the other hand, he's also said he's judging them on their political loyalty. melanie sloane, thank you so much for joining us for braving the cold. still, it's still very cold today about minus 12 degrees celsius. as we speak reality, thank you. have donald trump's picked for ambassador to the united nations has appeared at a confirmation hearing, at least to sonic was quizzed about whether is real, has a biblical rights to the occupied westbank. listen to our ass. i did ask you whether you subscribe to the views of finance ministers, much rich of i am, sorry, if i most rich, this is rarely finance ministers. most rich and, and the former national security minister, ben, you the, or who believe that israel has a biblical right to the entire westbank. and in that conversation,

you told me that yes, you share that view. is that your view today? yes. all right, else is there a valid sessions or is this life from capitol hill? allen? i think you heard that at least the phonic, the person who is likely to be the next us ambassador to the united nations just answered yes to the question of whether israel has a biblical rights to the, to the west bank. i mean this, you know, they say in, in washington the personnel is policy. i think this tells us where the trends, instead of this administration is headed. a listening to the that is the fine. a confirmation. here you are all going very much to plot with answers that you'd very much talk to you about how she's going to follow donald trump's policy of strains. and i'm trying to reform the united nations. then there was this moment the set top by correspond hold by saying that he thinks you've never been surprised by a meeting in his office when he got an answer. but he was this time in us,

at least to find it to repeat what you said. this would mark a significant change in american policy for very, very long time. it has been that there is a 2 state solution in the middle east between the palestinians and the 3 links. and that, that should be established and put in place effectively what at least the phonic is doing here is, but that is not the case that she believes that these are at least could take over all of the way spike the i to that the fact that donald trump didn't interview back in december when he was asked, should there be a 2 state solution? he said he wasn't sure what form any peace settlement in the middle east would take, even though he was on the record in 2020 saying that he supported a 2 state solution. so perhaps his view has changed as a bold. another hits being reflected by his perspective, you and, and by so that it is a significant change in american foreign policy. if that's the case, and a slight click to be pushed by the person who's more likely to be in the you in

a box of those 2 in new york in just a few weeks is everybody pulling in the same direction as far as a israel policy and this upcoming trump administration or the any different voices or does everybody agree on this kind of thing? it was the going to take as all the nominees for all the cabinet positions. they're going to take the lead from donald trump. they will do exactly what he wants them to do. so you remember that charted cushion on donald trump, son in law, who was a special advisor to the president, came up with a plan for peace in the mid least. that was largely the right it across the board. he had of course, rates of teen books. and them, at least as part of his preparation for this plan adult from only 24 hours ago, was talking about gaza and how it was a great place in the world because it was next to the sea and there was so much potential there. so this opened up the idea that something different. i was in

donald trump's mind rather than the 2 state solution, which would be an american port phone policy for a very long time. there is the possibility of course the donald trump does have a different view in this. you'll remember that the most significant change in the middle east and the last 25 years came through the abraham accords. when donald trump put in place agreements between israel and various nations, and that was significant because we've never seen anything like that before. so maybe has a different approach. but certainly what we're seeing from at least the phonics is a new approach saying that she agrees with these really right wing politicians that the westbank is part of israel's biblical claim to portland. and lived in and with the palestinians have existed for centuries. the houses there was ellen fisher reporting from capitol hill. thank you very much. i'm going to bring in our pedal, patrick, mar, executive director of the republican party here in washington dc. thanks for joining us. and laura blessing is with us as well. you are

a senior fellow of government affairs, the government affairs institute of georgetown university. thank you very much. both of you look, we've talked about the immigration, we have talked about foreign policy to some degree. we need to have another conversation here, which is one about economics, specifically terrace, and specifically also prices. okay, 2 headings, 2 chapters. donald trump has threatened terrace on many countries on europe, on china, on canada, or mexico. i might be forgetting some, but he's also saying that he wants to being price is down for us consumers. that is a big part of pretty much every speech that he gives yesterday was the capital one . sports arena, saying your apples are 2 or 3 or 4 times more expensive than they used to be. you can't buy apples, i'm going to bring the price of apples and other things dumps for those 2 things. and those 2 things exist together. let's start with you, patrick. yeah, sure. i think i think they can. i over the last several days i have the opportunity to attend the rally the inaugural rally. i was at the in our group all. i watched

the swearing and on tv and it all 3 of those events president trump talked about, drill, baby drill. and so that is about expanding american energy production. and so i think that is a big component of the trump agenda is to expand that energy project production, bring energy prices down, and henceforth allow, you know, businesses to expand, allow the consumer to spend more because of that increase energy production. but then this is something that many republicans have interested for quite some time now, but present trump is adamant about increasing american energy production. laura, i love your questionnaire in terms of pairing the tariffs and potential price. yeah . and price increases or decreases because his plants are tariffs and of course are couple of them. they're evolving as we see, but they've been pendant by large spectrum, illogically of economists, tariffs would add to add prices to consumers. and so these 2 different policy go.

busy are in direct conflict with each other. all right, so let's get to go ahead. patrick, if i may ask, you know, president trump's, you know, will say. ready they'll say a lot of, you know, he has a lot of proposals and was the card to tears. it's not, you know, possibly it's not possible to tear up. do all every single one of these parents for president trump likes to negotiate. and so i think that in time this allows them to negotiate better with countries or, you know, negotiate possible trade agreements with countries. okay. and it's, it's more of a, i think a lot of this is negotiating point for that. some say there won't be tire. okay. you're, i understand you're saying that you're saying this may not come to pass the question we're asking right now, right now is, is it even a good idea, right? because sitting here, none of us can say which terrace will end up existing which will not exist. then and if they do exist, what rate of tears? so the question, is it a good idea to impose terrace for when you're also trying to reduce prices for us? consumers? sure, and again, i think this is, this is certainly,

this is the negotiation piece because he is going to bring back american manufacturing. this is a big part part of the trump agenda as well. the tim cox has a great firm of apple. the apple sierra was agreed to bring some of the, some of his manufacturing back to united states as a, as me, that's american terrace. well, i, i think this is, this is part of it. yes. okay. do you think it's worth just as policy to say, hey, we're, we're, you know, the price is for consumers will go down. okay. are you care plans are the question because i struggle with the logic, right? because i listen to the economist and they say this doesn't make sense. yeah, the, those economists are right to be concerned and to be sure what exactly we're going to see is questionable. we've seen plans for a 10 percent and 20 percent baseline tariffs are the campaign. the current is a standpoint is that he's going to have a 25 percent care of him. but canada and mexico and the messaging as of yesterday. and again, this changes is that those will go into play and february, 1st i would imagine it's going to be pushed back by then. and what exactly those

percentages it it's, it's hard for us to know is as you've just said, uh that being said, that should be a concern for prices that do get passed along to consumers with terrace in terms of manufacturing. i, i think that's kind of a larger conversation to have, but of course, sheriffs are part of it. and we can also look at the records of, you know, while there are good things about the economic records and different metrics for both the end of the trump administration and by new ministration. one big difference is the much higher number of manufacturing jobs under button. all right, i got to run patrick. i'm so sorry, but i got to run. we're just out of time. there's a lot of news to get through today. thank you very much. the both of you, patrick mara, laura, blessing. and with that, i'm going to hand it back to door to important to laura and don't change the oil. that's fine again, that you will not pub before we see you again. now the colombian present, gustavo petro has declared a state of emergency is thousands of people free buttons in the northeast capital,

the region, well, the 100 people have been killed in the flies even to the national liberation domino . ellen destined falk rebels since thursday, conflicts ought to be over the control of the co payment production. the federal has suspended peace talks and accuse the ellen of committing will crimes. fall groups signed a piece agreement with colombia in 2016, leaving ill and the only major rebel groups still to be fighting the government. a so m 23 levels and the democratic republic of congo have seized a key town in the east. local officials have confirmed the comp to of minerva says town on a supply route to gala, which is the capital of north kiwi province. within 230000 people have been forced to flee the fighting between the government forces on the m 23. since the start of the yeah, that's it for me, laura kyle,

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