mitnick also noted that this could be self-defeating, that transporting an undocumented immigrant to a place he or she has no ties could increase the chances that that individual would become a flight risk and skip deportation proceedings. . another warning to the white house from general counsel mitnick, do this and there will be lots of lawsuits, because this would violate, theoretically, the due process rights of the migrants, or at least that would be the charge. one senior administration official told me that, quote, once the lawyers explained it, the issue was ultimately dropped, unquote. back in february, until today, of course. when president trump just tweeted it out. cnn's abby phillips joins me now to talk about this from the white house. abby, let's talk about this sanctuary city proposal, which dhs general counsel mitnick said would run afoul of the law. how is the white house trying to explain this. >> reporter: well, the white house had spent the last 12 hours saying that this was not a proposal that was being considered any longer. they said it had only been briefly r

john mitnick, and we've been hearing been the department of homeland security that this is one of the reasons why one of the president's top aides stephen miller wanted to get rid of mitnick because he pushed back on this idea and said it was likely illegal, and now the president is the putting it back on the table. as you pointed out, just a few hours ago the white house put out this statement calling the story a non-story. they said the simple question that was formally -- inform israel asked was in order to relieve the border on those receiving communities, illegal aliens already being released on a daily basis could be sent to and cared for by sanctuary jurisdiction whose stated policy is to welcome and embrace illegal aliens. the idea was briefly and informally raised and quickly rejected. no one at i.c.e. was pressured by anyone at any time. quickly rejected is how the white house framed this. just a few hours ago and now according to the president it's back on the table. it just goes to show this is something that's coming straight from the top. the president was the one wantin

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his own witness jack mitnick, his cpa for he and his father when asked under oath about the tax return looked at it and said, that's my signature. but neither i nor my firm prepared that tax return. that's as good a badge of fraud as you can imagine when you are a prosecutor. >> then what happened? >> in one case donald was ordered to pay all the taxes, fines and in the other because the only copy filed was a federal copy which is how jack mittnick's signature was on it the judge weighed the fines out of caution but excoriated trump for claiming double taxation when he said it was a case of no taxation. >> it's interesting. the tax returns in question are for the last six years. it doesn't go back as far as as the time period david is talking about. when we talk about time periods that might be the biggest weapon the white house and the president has on his side now. they can drag it out. >> that's true for all the congressional investigations of white house documents. when you think about how congress works, it's not quick to try to find the president in contempt you have to have a vo

and lee cissna and john mitnick will be out soon as well. as for what's next the "wall street journal" reports that administration officials said trump recently told steven miller one of his most hard-line advisors quote you're in charge of the administration's immigration policy. political reports that miller has been telephoning mid-level officials at several federal departments and agencies to demand they do more to stem the influx of immigrants. vacancies at dhs have some top lawmakers expressing their worry about disorganization at the department. here's the republican chairman of the senate homeland security committee ron johnson. >> i'm concerned. i'm concern of a growing void in leadership within the department of homeland security and this is a department that's charged with trying to grapple with some of the most significant challenges facing this nation open i'll be talking to the cpb commissioner who will be the acting secretary. we'll talk about what's happening inside the department and how we'll fill these leadership positions

to the point that in february, the general counsel for the department of homeland security, john mitnick, sent the white house legal guidance, written legal guidance, basically saying, you can't do this. i mean, first of all, we can only spend the money from dhs to transport these detainees -- not detainees, to transport these migrants or undocumented immigrants, if it's in accordance with our purpose, meaning, we're sending them to get medical care, or we have to move them because facilities are becoming too crowded. and the unsaid was, we can't do it for political retribution. he also made clear that there would be lots of lawsuits, as a result, because this is a violation of due process, to take people and just send them hundreds, if not thousands of miles away from where you apprehended them, where they have no community, no job employment opportunities. and he also made the point, look, if you do this, the odds that these individuals do not attend their deportation hearings will become much higher. so in other words, if you do this, not only will you undermine the rule of law, you'r

citizenship and immigration services, and john mitnick, general counsel of the department of homeland security, could be next to leave the administration. in related news, nbc news reports trump has been pushing monday to revive his family separation policy at the southern u.s. border for months and that nielsen's resistance to the move further drove a wedge between the two. unnamed officials who spoke to nbc said nielsen told trump the department of homeland security could not act against fedederal court orders barring the policy, and that trump would be defying his own executive order last year that put an end to it. kevin mcaleenan, head of customs and border patrol and incoming acting dhs secretary, reportedly was open to reinstating a form of family separation in which families would have to choose between being separated or being taken into long-term detention with their children. meanwhile cnn is reporting trump , told border agents not to let migrants in and to tell judges "we don't have room." on friday, trump repeated his call to get rid of immigration judges while speaking