john eastman is a senior fellow at the claremont institute and constitutional law professor at chapman and anniversary. anna fox news contributor. john, i want to start with you because you wrote in "the new york times" that birthright citizenship is not actually in the constitution. so why does the left think it i is? >> they have misunderstood one of the causes and the constitution. there's actually two requirements for automatic citizenship. you have to be born on u.s. soil, and you have to be subject to the jurisdiction. they read that last clause out of the constitution as if it's not there, as if it means the same thing as being physically present there but for those that ratify and those that drafted that language, it meant subject to the complete jurisdiction, not subject to allegiance to any foreign power and that is what mandates birthright. out what and certainly the peope who are children of to and are not even lawfully present in the united states at all -- president trump's executive order just wants to get the constitutional right. >> laura: the reaction today was over t

john eastman is the director of claremont institute center for constitutional jurisdiction. you mentioned you are familiar with him. he was quoted in "the new york times" saying it is long past time to clarify that the 14th amendment does not grant u.s. citizenship to children of anyone because they managed to give birth on u.s. soil. there is the argument. >> that is the argument. i think that is very much minority view. let's look to a couple of people who have weighed in just today. hardly to the left, speaker ryan says, no way this can be done. and a professor at berkeley, somebody i know well, who once worked for the office of legal counsel for president george w. bush says, no way. again, it's so unlikely. even by statute, it's very unlikely that that would ever be upheld by the supreme court. >> all right, david levine, appreciate you coming in today. >> good to be with you. >>> this comes as president trump today went to pittsburgh to pay tribute to the 11 people killed in a mass shooting at a synagogue on saturday. president trump and first lady melania trump visite

. >> i do want to give credit where credit is due, john eastman. constitutional scholar and lawyer, he litigates constitutional questions. edward earlier, donna really scholarly work. i learned this argument from them. they are two of my teachers. but it's true that it had kind of gone dormant for a while. >> tucker: dormant! this is flat earth society stuf stuff. everybody believes we have a constitutional mandate to allow the illegal children of aliens. >> they base that on a misreading of the first sentence. all persons born or naturalized in the united states are citizens. they leave out the part in the middle, subject to the jurisdiction thereof. they either leave it out or just means you have to obey the law. if you are a tourist coming from england or canada or anywhere you have to obey u.s. law while you're in the united states. it doesn't make your children a citizen or u.s. citizen. subject to the jurisdiction meant something specific to the people who wrote the amendment. they said it, you read the debates over the amendment. they said i