aj platkin, i'll start with you if i can. your reaction to this back and forth between trump and the president of colombia. >> well, i'm not sure. >> my. >> takeaway from the. >> november elections. >> was. >> that people want. >> to pay more for. >> coffee and flowers. >> as we head into valentine's day. but look, we saw in the first trump administration that president trump likes to govern by social media. he likes to govern by crisis. >> as attorneys general. >> we are focused on whether what the president is doing is consistent with the laws and the constitution. >> of. >> this nation, and whether it hurts our residents. >> and when. >> he violates the law and. >> violates the constitution. as he did. >> on monday night when. >> he signed. >> a patently. >> unconstitutional order for the first time in. >> 157 years. >> to. right birthright citizenship. >> out of the united. >> states constitution, we are prepared. >> to. >> stand up. >> and take. >> him to court. >> let's talk about that, if i can, attorney. >> general. >

joining us now is new jersey attorney general matthew platkin. >> general, it's good to have you on this morning. this is this is disturbing news that's developing around these executive orders, specifically with respect to the constitutional rights of people here in the united states on this soil. how how is your office preparing for all of this? what measures or steps do you see yourself or your office taking necessarily on a proactive as opposed to a reactive basis? >> well. >> thank you for having me. and i think you saw. >> the level of preparation that we have in our office and in offices like mine across the country. when we filed a lawsuit less. than 24 hours after president trump. signed one of the. most unconstitutional. >> unprecedented and. >> i think extreme. orders ever signed by. >> a president of the united states. >> attempting to rewrite the constitution and eliminate a 157. >> year old. >> provision that has been accepted as law. >> in. >> the united states since the civil war. so we're certainly. prepared to stand up for the rights. of the residents. of this country.

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joining us now to discuss is new jersey attorney general matthew platkin. he's co-leading one of these lawsuits. sir, thank you so much for being with us this afternoon. walk us through your argument against this executive order that would end birthright citizenship well, boris, birthright citizenship has been. >> part of the fabric of this nation for centuries. >> and since the civil war, 157. >> years ago, we put it. >> in the constitution so that there would never again be debate about whether a child born on american soil would be entitled to the rights and privileges of being an american citizen. this is plain and simple. the president of the united states has broad powers, but he is not a king. he cannot rewrite the constitution with a stroke of a pen. and when we talk about the rule of law and standing up for the rule of law, that is exactly what we mean. >> so i was speaking to ken cuccinelli. he was trump's deputy homeland security secretary during his first term. earlier in the afternoon. and he essentially argued that the basis for these argument

one of them joins me now, new jersey attorney general matthew platkin, a democrat.have sued the trump administration over the president's executive order to rescind birthright citizenship. new jersey is leading 18 of those states, the district of columbia, and san francisco is legally challenging the order, which has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge who called it unconstitutional. in addition to overturning the 14th amendment and harming thousands of children in the process. tell us, attorney general, how this order will hurt states like new jersey economically? >> well. >> rev, it's great to be with you. >> and the. >> federal judge got. >> it right. >> the birthright citizenship has been part of the fabric of this nation for centuries. >> it's been. >> in the. constitution for 157 years. >> and the president, on monday. >> night, for the first time ever, tried to rewrite the constitution with a stroke of a pen. and so, as you note, we've stepped. >> up and we. >> have challenged that order. we've we've sought to uphold the rule of law and also to protec

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new jersey attorney general matthew platkin. okay, so here we go.lans. >> well, it is, mika. >> it's such a flagrant violation of our constitution and of. >> the norms of. >> this nation. >> birthright. yet i would never say never pertaining to donald trump. so i'm just not saying it's completely impossible. i guess you can't. >> look. >> birthright citizenship has been. part of the fabric of this nation for centuries. it's been in the constitution for 157 years. even. i think. president trump knows that. >> this exceeds. >> his authority. and we're going to have the. court say that. and i am confident that this order will never come into effect. >> reverend attorney general platkin, you and i have worked on some civil rights cases in new jersey. talk about the overtones that this gives to a lot of people that are concerned, because the 14th amendment really came as a result of the dred. >> scott decision. >> where they were saying that the slaves could not be citizens even though they were born here because they're black. so this really goes to the