has denied the diplomatic status of mr sands. and the foreign ministry of the u.k. has said that. the only way for mr us to go out of that of the. embassy to actually. get out of it and face justice is the only way to go or are there any alternatives now i believe that. it is imperative to. maintain the legal. norms of regulating the situation. when a person six asylum in an embassy doesn't necessarily mean that he needs to face justice anywhere any person who is seeking. seeking asylum in an embassy is under risk of his rights being violated and this is the reason why he is granted asylum so in this case. we need to protect the life of the person who is threatened and the government who. asks is supposed to provide asylum to human and guarantee of human from save him from these threats. and yes i would like to support what has been said ecuador of the u.k. and other countries involved has. signed and maintain a number of documents international legal documents and we have to. abort and maintain these norms of international law we abide by these norms for example but the principle

the second alternative was to provide to grant citizenship to mr sands. she applied to the ministry of internal affairs of ecuador and asked for. sixteen for the country to provide citizenship to him up until that point she was protected by international laws for five years she remained. on the in the premises on the premises of. doors. c. in london. she was.

and creating things that were good for the american economy, and they kind of drew a line in the sand. mr. rubenstein: if the democrats were to regain control of the government at some point, let's say congress and even the white house at some point, do you worry the tax bill would be undone because there are no democratic votes? sec. mnuchin: not at all. first of all, i think it is an unlikely hypothetical, but even if it were, i think that that period -- i think it will be clear that you have the economic growth. if there is growth, it is not going to be unwound. sec. mnuchin: money is going to be -- there is a tax on money that is offshore, so you are going to bring money back or put an excise tax on it. presumably companies will bring it back. there is no requirement that they invest it in job creating kinds of things. why was there no requirement that use it in a certain way? sec. mnuchin: that's a good question. that is something we talked about a lot. various people came up with ideas. should we put conditions, attach it to this? i think our view was if we create the right incentiv

mr. schumer if that was a line in the sand. >> look, i'm not going to negotiate against ourselves, but bottom line is, we believe there should be border security, real border security, and help for the d.r.e.a.m.ers. >> so as you can see, he wasn't willing to say he was going to rule out anything along these lines, and so i do think that there's a lot of peril here for democrats. they're going to be caught potentially between a government shutdown and their own political base. you saw those protests around daca get pretty heated right before christmas and we may be heading for a repeat of that. >> kasie hunt on capitol hill for us today. thanks for getting us up to speed. >>> up next, the white house take as step towards what it's calling deconfliction on the korean peninsula, putting a freeze on military exercises with south korea for the next couple of months. why now? and what the implications are, when we come back. whoooo. going somewhere? here's some advice. tripadvisor now searches more... ...than 200 booking sites - to find the hotel you want and save you up to 30%. trust this bird's

mr. johnson. to be i think we ought able to secure borders, have a system that allows us to legitimately can be here and who we want out. we can't put our head in the sand and pretend the problem will go away by itself? john, do you have a follow-up? caller: i am going to add two points, mr. stein was talking about exploitation. times aware of the l.a. rticle where certain employer necessa the /*s in california are threatening employees with i'm get ice after you and recipients are school. or going to guest: i'm not familiar with that daca data you have there, that is not my understanding. secondly, you're confirming my point, if employers call up workers with deportation, that is exactly my point. system of , it is a labor exploitation, why do you want to justify it economic or ground, it is wrong and should not be defended by anyone. somerset, new jersey. independent, go ahead. caller: hi, how is everybody today? well. doing caller: i just wanted to speak a illegal t about how immigration and immigration as a whole has affected me. upstate new york four years ago to come back to help with a sick sister. have worked in healthcare, came back here, initi

. >> an explicit attempt to throw sand into the gears end quote. led to one of mr. trump's spokesman to quit because he believed it was obstruction of justice. his explosive new book has a startling ace ses. for the ku klux klan to president trump. privately he kept trying to ration lies why one would be a member of the kkk. they might not actually believe what the kkk believed and they probably do not believe what it used to believe. anyway, to really knows what the kkk believes now. >> it of course represents white supremacy. trump of course blamed both sides from the deadly charlottesville violence walking back and saying it again days later. bannon fired by the end of that week. >>> a few cautions to offer about the book. michael wolff has a history of writing that make as splash. his journalistic sources and methods coming under scrutiny. he paints quite a few scenes without direct quotes add all and sources at times vague. but much of what's in the book cross-checks with earlier reports from credible media outlets. >> he was seen on campus. he was a fly on the

president's legal team thought that statement was an explicit attempt to throw sand into the investigation's gears, and it led one of mr. trump's spokes men to quit, because he believed it constituted obstruction of justice. how significant is that? >> extremely significant. if you were to look at those things as the tendency is -- look at it in isolation, you cannot do that, you have all of the context that's been provided to say, you have a pattern and a theme here that's emerging. the president of the united states, who is having a hand in either crafting or trying to someone a particular narrative, as opposed to providing truth, that is what the premise of any obstruction of justice charge is going to be, essentially saying, are you getting in the way of an investigation? an active investigation? are you doing all this within your drudgers to try to undermine our ability to seek the truth. >> even if it's lying to the media? >> you can lie to the media any time you want. but what you should remember at this point in time, they were aware it wasn't just the media who was listening, it was robert mueller, his very ex

mr. miyagi's going to have to paint a lot of fences and sand a lot of decks to make up for this one. [ laughter ] the governor apologized too. hawaii governor david ige spoke with reporters in an attempt to explain how what happened happened. >> can you explain that error in depth as much as you can? >> it was a procedure that occurs at the change of shift where they go through to make sure that the system is working. >> jimmy: well, it is working. [ laughter ] i love that everyone on every island in a state just went through a terrifying ordeal. he shows up in a shirt with purple flowers on it. [ laughter ] as if he's on the way to a luau or something. you wouldn't see that in south dakota. that's right. hawaii, they're even laid back when they're in crisis mode. after the governor spoke a spokesperson for the agency responsible answered questions from members of the local media. we have the clip here. >> in response to this terrifying incident we are reviewing our procedures to make sure this never happens again. i will now take some questions. yes, sir, in front. >> is it all good, bra? >> y

but in another excerpt, an explicit attempt to throw sand into the investigation gears end quote. wolff said it led one of mrtrump's spokesman to quit because he believed it was obstruction of justice. also this this morning. "new york times" reports president trump lobbied attorney general jeff sessions no the to recuse himself from the justice department's russia probe. that might considered new evidence of obstruction of justice by the president. "new york times" reporting special counsel robert mueller is aware last march he ordered him to stop overseeing the investigation. >>> another possible example. ty cobb, a lawyer for the president told cnn he respectfully declined to respond. congressman, top democrat called him -- he says mcgann should make himself available to the committee. >> times also reporting four days before then fbi director james comey was fired last may and aide to attorney general sessions asked the congress staffer whether he had damaging information about comey. the person with knowledge of the meeting tells the times sessions quote, wanted one negative article a day in the news me

sand. and if trump crosses that, we must take to the streets as never before. >> laura: i was waiting for mrks like she's auditioning for a guest spot on overcoat madame secretary" where they all seem to be auditioning auditioning -- >> i feel that that is problematic. i hear a lot of comments come about simply an action, what she is auditioning for. we can't sit there and attack what they look like. that is part of the issue that they are talking about. >> laura: that's all they did with trump? they said he was fat! >> we can't throw stones at them for what they look like. this was a woman, you are saying that -- >> laura: oh, wendy. oh, come on. wendy, if you want to dish it out, let's not play the shrinking violet here. we are not damsels in distress. i know -- again, we felt this way when obama was giving his state of the union speech, which was a good first speech. it wasn't pleasant to be a republican that night and guess what, we lived through it for eight years and it's time for the democrats. >> the republicans didn't boycotted. they were gracious. >> they also didn't have -- >> one

mr. johnson. to be i think we ought able to secure borders, have a system that allows us to legitimately can be here and who we want out. we can't put our head in the sandretend the problem will go away by itself? john, do you have a follow-up? caller: i am going to add two points, mr. stein was talking about exploitation. times aware of the l.a. rticle where certain employer necessa the /*s in california are threatening employees with i'm get ice after you and recipients are school. or going to guest: i'm not familiar with that daca data you have there, that is not my understanding. secondly, you're confirming my point, if employers call up workers with deportation, that is exactly my point. system of , it is a labor exploitation, why do you want to justify it economic or ground, it is wrong and should not be defended by anyone. somerset, new jersey. independent, go ahead. caller: hi, how is everybody today? well. doing caller: i just wanted to speak a illegal t about how immigration and immigration as a whole has affected me. upstate new york four years ago to come back to help with a sick sister. have worked in healthcare, came back here, initially t

sand and pretend the problem will go away by itself? host: john, do you have a follow-up? caller: i am going to add two more points. mr. stein was talking about exploitation. is he aware, there is an "l.a. times" article where certain employers in california are threatening their employees with, i'm going to get ice after you. and also, 95% of daca recipients are working or going to school. guest: i'm not familiar with that daca data you have there, that is not my understanding. secondly, you're confirming my point, if employers call up threatening workers with deportation, that is exactly my point. my point is, it is a system of labor exploitation. why do you want to justify it economic or moral grounds? it is wrong and should not be defended by anyone. host: karen in somerset, new jersey. independent, go ahead. caller: hi, how is everybody today? host: doing well. caller: i just wanted to speak a little bit about how illegal immigration and immigration as a whole has affected me. i moved from upstate new york four years ago to come back to new jersey to help with a sick sister. i have worked in healthcare, i came bac

sand hurst in the u.k. where that meeting is happening journal what's happened today so far. kemal there inside the sandhurst military academy world famous it is at the moment mr mrs may and mr macron having having seen it on a guarded military honor guard another sitting in closed door talks in a bilateral meeting defense and security top of the agenda of course but everything overshadowed by breaks it that said these are the two sort of preeminent military powers in europe they're accompanied by their intelligence sheaves who will be meeting face to face at this level for the very first time these are two countries that face common external threats international military threats and also threats at home they've both been the target of attacks recently with the loss of substantial innocent lives they also of course as you were mentioning there share a border on the french side including that sometimes controversial port of kalai and all the migrants and refugees that build up there mostly try to make their way to britain so there's an awful lot to talk about the headline pledge is expected to come out of this in a press conference in a short while tens of mil

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