. >> danny cevallos, bring you in here in new york. do we have a sense, the names, the types of folks, the potential candidacy who the trump administration would look to for this? because it seems like the nature of these appointments and these nominations to the supreme court, there is this universal awareness, if you make a pick, it could last for 30 or 40 years. age is in the mix. ideology is in the mix. there's paper trails that are in the mix here. with that in mind do we have a sense where the trump administration might already be looking? >> we do. there have already been informal and formal lists released. you are absolutely right, the modern approach by presidents is to pick someone as young as possible, someone who is in a prestigious court or prestigious position but they haven't done anything too controversial. the d.c. circuit court of appeals is a fantastic place to look because of the nature of a lot of cases that they hear. not surprisingly, some of the names on the top of many lists

i'm going to rephrase this question to danny cevallos who's right here with me in the studio. danny, you may know where i was starting to go with that, but it is basically this. if republicans don't have much of a margin for error in the senate on this, 51 votes with mccain, 50 if he remains sidelined, if it is that, they have margin of error of one on this. is there a risk of this administration overreaching, if roe versus wade is an issue, a republican like, i don't know, susan collins, lisa murkowski, is there a republican out there, you think about john mccain with that thumbs down moment over health care. >> there is a huge risk for exactly the reasons you stated. that's why this is a different process than it was with gorsuch. you could make the argument that gorsuch was a return to the status quo. he was similar enough to scalia. was democrats were not happy about the merrick garland situation, at least once scalia passed the idea was that he was essentially being replaced. you will not be restoring the court to a status quo with this next pick at all. that's why it will

i'm danny cevallos in for philip. >> i'm frances rivera. democrats led by minority leader nancy pelosi will converge on a controversial detainment facility in brownsville, texas, to protest the trump administration's zero tolerance policy separating families at the u.s./mexico border. >> just as republicans head to the white house for a strategy session with the commander in chief, along the backlash over the current state of affairs reaches a fever pitch. nbc's jacob saverof is at the largest processing center in the u.s. >> reporter: this is not a new facility, it's been here under multiple administrations. it is at the epicenter of the trump administration's family separation policy. in fact, more children are being taken from their families inside this building than anywhere else that is because directly under the trump administration policy called zero tolerance. for the first time ever we were allowed inside without cameras. this is what we saw. the facility serves as an intake for the busiest sector of the southern border, the bigges

some legal perspective on this from danny cevallos, an msnbc legal analyst.ill wine banks, former watergate prosecutor who has years of working on immigration law. jill, the president seemingly unaware of the process of asylum, that people flee their countries to come here for very important and critical reasons. how do you react to what the president's laying out in those tweets this morning? >> his tweets are outrageous. it is lawful to come to this country and present yourself for asylum. those are lawful entrants to this country, and they should be treated with dignity, respect and be afforded all the due process that our country allows to them. and it is outrageous for him to have said that. it is outrageous for him to think that wooshd just be e sho deporting people even if they came illegally without coming here for asylum without due process. that's what we afford and taking children from the families makes it even worse. it compounds the problem. >> it showcases to my mind at least, the president's ignorance about this entire process. >> yes. >> dann

danny cevallos, i wanted to start with you. on the border there. so we have the president talking about we don't needo send a flood of judges down there to the border to deal with these cases, to expedite them, saying we don't necessarily need due process rights for any of these migrants. this is what the president's saying on twitter. it is what he is saying publicly in terms of what's playing out on the ground. is what the president is saying on twitter having a bearing on what you are seeing on the ground there? >> if you are talking about the president saying that we should just remove these people without a hearing, the president likely cannot do that because it would likely be unconstitutional. migrants, or aliens, as they're called in the law, are not subject to the full range of constitutional protections in a removal hearing. but they are entitled to fifth amendment due process. and that means an opportunity to be hard. so any attempt to divest them, to take away that opportunity to be heard would probably violate due process. practically

. >>> good morning, i'm danny cevallos in for phillip. >> i'm francis rivera. >>> the outcry over the trump administration policies reaching a fever pitch. protests took place coast to coast. supporters gathered to demonstrate what they call inhuman tactics by the trump administration. >> that as they get a political titan on their side. laura bush saying separating children from their parents breaks my heart saying it is cruel. kelly o'donnell has more on the backlash hitting the administration. >> outrage outside of an administration center protestors railing against the trump administration action that separating children from parents accused of violating immigration laws. inside, members of congress crammed into the lobby for what they called an unannounced inspection. >> tearing the children from the arms of their mother and father is not the right decision. >> it's father's day and you have a right to president. >> the first ladyei in with a statement fromofcer. mrs. trump hates to see children separated this from their families and hopes to see congress come to an agreement soo

leading off our discussion now is msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos who spent today at a courthouse in mcallen, texas. danny, what did you see in the proceedings there? >> we walked into the courtroom and 60 to 70 defendants were all shackled, one hand by their waist, the right hand left open to sign documents and swear an oath. this is a very unusual thing in federal court, lawrence. you typically have a half dozen defendants waiting in court for their case. having 60 to 70 defendants in a courtroom waiting for these misdemeanor 1325 cases is very, very unusual for federal court. you see that in state court. the other thing that was unusual was the way they combined the initial appearance, the plea, and even the sentencing all into a one-time event that lasted really just one or two minutes per defendant and still took the better part of two to three hours. the result is prosecution of these misdemeanor cases in a conveyor belt fashion, and sentences being handed out, same-day service, and almost 100% of all defendants pleading guilty rather than elect to take a trial. >> danny, wha

danny cevallos and robert costa, gentlemen, thank you so much for being part of our conversation. coming up for us, the remarkable staying power of a cabinet secretary under 15 separate investigations. what it might reveal about his boss, the president, and the question, will we someday refer to something called chick-fil-a gate? "the 11th hour" back after this. ♪ when i first came to ocean bay, what i saw was despair. i knew something had to be done. hurricane sandy really woke people up, to showing that we need to invest in this community. i knew having the right partner we could turn this place around. it was only one bank that could finance a project this difficult and this large, and that was citi. preserving affordable housing preserves communities. so we are doing their kitchens and their flooring and their lobbies and the grounds. and the beautification of their homes, giving them pride in where they live, will make this a thriving community once again. ♪ >>> administrator scott pruitt. thank you so much. administrator, you are doing real, really well. everyone is very imp

but tom winter and danny cevallos, thank you very much. >>> in california, while senator dianne feinstein may have cr place, her bid for a fifth mid-term will not go unchallenged. democrats will face off on november 6th. li state senator kevin deleone joins me now. >> good morning, preciate i congratulations on your and f moving on. thank you. >> why do you think that you can ultimately beat senator feinstein? she's -- as of now, she's raised ten times more than you. what is your plan to take her on and what obvio expensive medirket central in california? >> well, first and foremost, welcome back home to california. you are right, she outspent me on a 10-1 ratio during the primaries out here in california. but i do believe strongly it is time to have a debate on the values, on issues, on the prioritieson the ideas that we care deeply about as californians. californians want a voice in washington that willon the front lines, not the we can allre dangerous times -- >> what do you mean by the front lines and not the sidelis? what specifically are you talking about that you think dianne feins

msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos is also in mcallen, texas, outside a federal criminal court and cal perry is in tornillo, texas near one of the tent cities housing children. kelly, start with what's going on in this administration. there seems to not ever be a real plan for how to enact their more extreme policies, their policies that anybody could easily say are going to cause a lot of drama. the muslim ban. that travel ban that he tried to institute eaon in the administration. no plan for that. no plan for the separation of the kids. now no plan for the reunification. what's going on? >> reporter: well, katy, the hot-button issues that you just highlighted that gave the president red meat as a candidate and in many ways continued to animate his presidency are about that ideological view. some of the people who are around him share, and even propel, his ideology on those topics. part of the dna of the trump administration has also been sort of an anti-government approach where they don't have people steeped in government operations. they don't have the numbers of people to carry ou

danny cevallos an msnbc legal analyst. th natasha bertrand. a gabe, let's start with you. my reporting from a source close to cohen lines up with your reporting, that he is worried about being arrested on friday or potentially next week. there's also some new reporting from our colleagues here at nbc that he's telling other friends different things, that, no, he is not worried about it. this is kind of been the way it has gone when reporting michael cohen news. there will initially be reports about how he is feeling from people who do know him well and people that reporters have built a relationship with andtrust. and then when that starts to break through into the new cycle, suddenly there is a v reversal, and suddenly, thno, i never said that. >> this has been sort of the cycle from the beginning since the me h office, hotel room and residence were raided. michael cohen originally said he would take a bullet for donald trump. as weeks draked gged on and the president wasn't reaching out and helping him and it didn't seem like there was aay for him, he started to signal p

daniel goldman, and danny cevallos. this is an all star team to help us with this. natasha, you just wrote about this. what does this mean for robert mueller's investigation going forward and what is the signal that mueller and his team appear to be sending to paul manafort? >> well, prosecuters are probably very happy right now that they have managed to revoke paul manafort's bail. this is going to make it much more likely that he ends up cooperating with the government. but it also is just a sign of how much it's not really the crime here. it's the coverup. i mean, whether it's george p papadopoulos or others. all these players, michael flynn. they all are in trouble with the feds for essentially trying to cover up their crimes. for essentially trying to basically lying to the fbi for paul manafort, it was about witness tampering. it was about writing an op ed when he first got arrested to kind of shore up his image even though it was a court gag order. this is strike two for him. it's a signal to anyone else who chooses or who may choose to lie to the government

pete williams is outside the supreme court for us and here in the studio with us, legal analyst danny cevallos. pete, start with you, sir. did the court address -- well, actually, i guess the best question is what did the court address and what did the court not address, argues is gijust a important? >> reporter: allegations are important. this is a nir scenario ruling an it be narrow 7-2 vote? on very narrow grounds deciding that the baker of denver should prevail only because of t way his specific case was handled in colorado. the justices said in their majority opinion they didn't give his religious views serious enough attention. for that reason the finding in his case was defective. colorado has a human rights law, you can't discriminate on sexual orientation. two men went in and asked for a cake to celebrate their wedding was turned down. they sued and they failed. because colorado didn't give the baker enough consideration and take his religious seriously enough, he wins. what didn't they say? didn't give a clue about how to resolve similar cases in the future. justice kennedy who wrote

. >> joining us now, danny cevallos. what's the likely had paul manafort is going to go to jail? >> strong. this is a face palm moment for his attorneys who -- and this is frustrating. it's happened to all defense attorneys. you're working a case and doing everything you can. all your client has to do is n make trouble, and when you -- >> yo, yo, yo, i'm in trouble. don't tell anybody we did that. >> but i want you to know how silly this is if true, because defense attorneys, we have investigators to go out and talk to witnesses and find out what their story is. good, bad, or ugly, or what have you. so i have to believe that his attorney had no idea he was contacting these folks and probably want to throttle him if he was. this was completely unnecessary. and if he was contacting them, and if he was saying hey, you remember that business we had, it was only in europe and not in the united states? well, courts have looked add statements like that, and that constitutes tryingo convince or coerce a witness to give false testimony. >> what's off limits? if i'm manafort, is it off lim

we want to bring in danny cevallos for more. what does this mean? >> it could just mean they want to have extra. so ask for 75enas shows maybe they intend to use at least 50. it could also just be a strategy to keep the government wondering wh world will they try to subpoena. will they go through 75 blank subpoenas? probably not. but they could. it's possible. >> this is onef the cases. he's got two cases going on righw. >> yes, that's right. he has two different cases going on right now. in related news, the judge has alson his other cases ordered additional information about n the indictment. there's a lot going on in manafort's cases. he has a hearing friday at which i think it's substantially certain a judge will revoke his bail and remand him into custody for violation of the terms of his pretrial release. >> thank you, danny. >>> let's turn to two countries with a lot to gain or lose from the summit with kim jong-un. china and russia. both of themre allies of north korea. china and north korea's main ally said it supports president trump's ann

we sent our legal analyst danny cevallos to the federal courthouse in mccanal, texas. he's sitting in on hearings there today and just stepped out. danny, great to speak with you. help us understand the challenges these folks are facing. talk about confusion in the abstract. what's it look like inside that courtroom? >> reporter: this is a federal courthouse and it's only federal criminal matters heard. this is not immigration court, but as someone who handles federal criminal defense cases, this is unlike any courtroom that you normally will see in a federal courthouse. because somewhere between 60 and 70 defendants cases were heard today. you might see that in state court. you don't see it in federal court very often, and they combined today for these misdemeanor entry cases the initial appearance, the plea hearing and the sentencing, all into one day. again, very unusual for federal court, but that just gives you an idea of the strain that this court is under with so many defendants being prosecuted. keep in mind that over the past years, apprehensions and prosecutio

joining me now our zerlina maxwell and danny cevallos, clint watts and jameel smith. thank you for being here. let's take the viewers back to that infamous donald trump jr. statement about that trump tower meeting. he wrote in that statement, it was a short introductory meeting. i asked jared and paul to stop by. we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children that was active and popular with american families years ago and was since ended by the russian government but it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow-up. and then sarah huckabee sanders says in august 1, 2017, she denied that trump dictated this statement. let's take a listen. >> he certainly didn't dictate, but, you know, like i said he weighed in and offered suggestions like any father would do. >> danny, i have to come to you first on the legality of all of this. we now know in a confidential memo back in january, jay says that the president dictated a short but accurate statement legally, what are we looking at here? >> take the underlying facts. this whole ru