my guest tonight is jameel jaffer who needs no introduction. he is the author and editor of the "the drone memos." the book, much of the book contains the fruits. jamal's wanted to bring more transparency to the obama's drone program. he was involved in litigation involving these memos and other activities while he was the leg legal director and personal in charnel charge of a legal program at aclu. he started out his career just after 2001 as a line attorney or not sure what you call it at the aclu. his first initiative was during the bush administration when he used foya aggressively and impact litigation to get access about interrogation and related activities during the bush administration. so, before we get to the meet of this book starts off with a 55-page essay by jameel which a critique of the drone program. can you start us telling us how you got into the business of litigation against the government and what you thought you were doing and how you came to do it. take us through the bush administration till the contents of this book. >>

and we wrap up our prime time lineup at 11:00 with the aclu formal legal director, jameel jaffer who weighs in on the u.s. drone program. first up, here is mary aiken. >> mary aiken, what is a forensic cyberpsychologist and what do they do? >> cyber psychology is the study of the impact of technology on human behavior. forensic considers the criminal behavior aspect. >> how did you get into this line of work? >> i first studied psychology back in the day and worked in the industry for a number of years. in the late '90, i came across artificial intelligence from a chat box. have you spoken to a chat box? i would recommend it. i thought wow, this is fantastic. this learning algorithm that can talk to human and mimic our behavior and knowledge. i thought this could be fantastic and i thought or maybe not and i really realized that nothing in my training as a psychologist to date. i came across the work of writers here in the u.s. who wrote about cyber knowledge and i thought that is the future. everybody told me i was wrong and i went back to masters of science and back to do a full ph

the president met in the oval office today with jameel shaw sr., whose son was shot by a gang member in los angeles in 2008. and jessica davis and susan oliver, who were married to california police officers killed in the line of duty in 2014. c-span's coverage of the president's address begins tonight at 8:00 eastern with a preview program with the president's speech at 9:00. next, a look at president trump's immigration policies from washington journal. r next adriano epresentative espaillat, joining us, democrat from new york, serves 13th istrict, including manhattan and the bronx and a member of foreign affairs and education workforce committees. morning. guest: good morning, thank you for having me on the program. host: thank you for being on the program. can you talk about your background, including immigrant xperience that brought you to the united states? guest: i came to the united states at the age of nine, with brother and y sister. visa and business overstayed visa, just like many people did back then. grandparents here, who paved the way for us years so we we got here, a

because you have all these great important documents and there's really consequential essay that jameelow. i was struck in the essay on what i think was a paradox. on the one hand you are saying there is no rule of law here, only barely paraphrasing. there is no rule of law in the drone a-gram. on the other hand the documents reveal this highly bee rock or ties highly legalized internal process where it's just been lawyer to death and the processes are very elaborate and there are a lot of words. that seems like a paradox to me. >> i think it is kind of a paradox. it's one of the points i try to make an introduction that you think that there is a lot of law here but it's not really law. a lot of the terms that the administration, the administration deliberately chose terms that sounded like constraints but redefining those terms so they weren't that constraining. the operative terms were cherry-picked indifferently law regimes and even to the extent that the government has adopted a free market in regard to that framework and the policy framework rather than a legally binding one and ev

the president met in the oval office today with jameel shaw sr., whose son was shot by a gang member in los angeles in 2008. and jessica davis and susan oliver, who were married to california police officers killed in the line of duty in 2014.

and jameel congo both 23 were killed along the 2200 block of north market street. police are still looking for the killer. >>> to northeast philadelphia now 27-year-old man has died after a serious crash yesterday. police say dennis alexander was standing in front of his mini van on woodhaven and horton -- thornton roads he was pouring fluid into his radiator when a car crashed into his van rear ended him. two-year-old twin sisters who were passengers in that van are in critical condition tonight. police say the driver of that third car is behind it all. admitted he was distracted by something in his car. no charges filed as of yet. >>> break to go night another major policy change in president trump's first 100 days. federal prosecutors for transgender students rolling back the obama administration issued the pro allowing schools to less transgender students use bathroom and locker rooms that matched gender identities. now, it will be up to states and school districts to decide also today the president sent his top aids to mexico with immigration reform that's one

just as the president is expected to appoint a guest sitting with first lady melania trump including jameel shaw. democrats are counters that with their own guests who are impacted by the president's travel ban on majority muslim countries. >> he talks like a populist but governs like a pro-corporate, pro pro-elite hard right ideologue. >> reporter: facing skepticism of his plan that ramps up defense spending while slashing domestic programs, a plan budget experts say will blow a hole in the budget. the improving economy, the president said, will make up any shortfall. >> i think the money's going to come from a revved up economy. i mean, you look at the kind of numbers we're doing, we were probably gdp of a little more than 1%. and if i can get that up to 3%, or maybe more, we have a whole different ball game. >> reporter: but there are looming questions hanging over the president's speech such as the multiple investigations into his campaign's contacts with russia during the election. in an interview with fox news, the president blamed his predecessor without offering any evidence. >> i t