stephen miller.you very much. >> thank you. >> martha: get to see you. >>> so far it two of president trump's nominees have passed the confirmation test and been installed in very high ranking cabinet positions. but a handful of others during the next hours and days ahead will face crucial tests. first up tonight secretary of defense pick pete will get his vote this evening. how is it looking and is it on shaky ground? we will go through that coming up next. >> he someone who will fix the pentagon and deliver on president trump's vision of peace through strength. hegseth is exactly the type of leader that the pentagon needs in the face of an increasingly complex and escalating security situation that will occur around the world. total beets, america's best-selling beets brand, is available at walmart. total beets blood pressure support soft chews contain a key ingredient clinically shown to deliver two times better blood pressure support. take control of your health. head to walmart and get total bee

but really, stephen miller and tom homan that we just heard from there. they're going to be spearheading this based on on what we've heard from people in terms of what those executive orders and what this immigration policy is going to look like. >> absolutely. look, stephen miller has been the architect of these policies for trump for some time. he is one of trump's closest advisers. he is the person, as jonathan swan and charlie savage and david fahrenthold and i reported this week, he has spent the most time of anyone who was in the first trump administration trying to map out what a second trump administration could look like on policy. he is channeling trump. these are things that he knows that trump wants. he is very good at distilling trump's voice in speeches, which he often writes, and immigration is his his big issue. one thing that really got overlooked, caitlin, by the way, when stephen miller's title was announced, deputy chief of staff over policy, yes, but also the homeland security adviser. and in that capacity, he is going to be working v

tara, your reaction to stephen miller, what he just said there? down my spine. and it should for any american who is a good and decent person, who is concerned about the fact that we have people like stephen miller in control of it. this country needs to get ready. i don't think a lot of people fully appreciate what they're about to usher in. tomorrow, when donald trump takes office at the seneca project, we put a video out called get ready because people need to be fully prepared. we have got to be prepared for what the next four years are going to look like. the idea of mass deportations and the cruelty is the point. and this imperialistic presidency is incongruent with what our democracy is supposed to stand for. it's incongruent with people who are not the oligarchs and the elitists who aren't going to benefit from the power elite. it's incongruent with that. i don't know how any of this, and i'm curious to see how maga is going to explain how any of these 50 executive orders or this imperialistic presidency or this ruling by fiat is going to

it's not just about not stephen miller. it's about who do we want to be, right? i care about this because i love my community. i love my neighbor. i want to show up for them. i want to live in a country where you can have both, where the us-mexico border can be a place where we have a free flow of idea of trade. i mean, like, imagine if we thought of the border as this vibrant place where there was possibility and things could happen instead of the narrative that he has put out there. and a lot of folks have stepped into, which is it is simply a place of risk and crime. yes, people want an orderly border process, there is no doubt about that. you are right. when you talk about the polling, i think when you talk about deporting people, if you dig into the numbers, that is not actually what people are saying they want. they want the us-mexico border to work. they want to believe. and the answer to that is not a simple answer. it's not a sexy answer, right? it has to do a lot with investing in home countries. it has a lot to do with making sure that you actually hav

that's just a fact yet. >> yeah. >> that's why stephen miller is working posthaste. >> that's it. >> you, man. >> yes. stephen miller, you have an open invitation to come on the weekend from jose antonio vargas. yes, yes, we would all love to chat. >> we would love to have that conversation. up next, historian jon meacham will be joining us as we prepare for another transition of power here in america. you're watching the america. you're watching the weekend, a very special edition. struggling with the highs and lows of bipolar 1? ask about vraylar. because you are greater than your bipolar 1 and you can help take control of your symptoms, with vraylar. some medicines only treat the lows or highs. vraylar treats depressive, acute manic, and mixed episodes of bipolar 1 in adults. proven full-spectrum relief for all bipolar 1 symptoms. vraylar is not approved for elderly patients with dementia-related psychosis due to increased risk of death or stroke. report changes in behavior or suicidal thoughts to your doctor. antidepressants can increase these in children and young adults. report

stephen miller has shown us who he is, donald j. trump has shown us who he is, and they are going to continue to not only flood the flood airwaves, but they're going to showcase their their prowess here when it comes to everything that it takes to work to demolish our democracy. i think that those are things that are going to force americans, not just democrats, but everyone, to have to fight back because they don't think that there is an end in sight when it comes to the unconstitutionality of what they plan to do. and that's going to put democrats on notice. >> you know, ruth, trump isn't even in office yet. he's already reportedly planning to declare a national emergency over the southern border. as you mentioned in your first answer, that would pave the way for him to, in his eyes at least, possibly use the military on a domestic population. but do you see this as an example of the autocrat playbook that you've written about, where demagogues exploit powers to declare national emergencies and then take advantage of that to furth

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with that we bring in stephen miller president-elect trump's deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security advisor. the very important role welcome it's good to heavy with us. >> thank you what a beautiful and hopeful and exciting moment we find ourselves in today. >> martha: let's look at that and let's look at this transition period because i think there is a lot in what president biden said last night about this morning to the country and i want to get your reaction. let's play a slightly different cut of what he said when he made that interesting turn in his speech and said i've something i'm concerned about that i want to warn america about. what this stephen. >> i want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. this is a dangerous kayak it's a dangerous power in the hands of vary few ultra wealthy people. an oligarchy is taking shape in america. extreme wealth and power influence. it literally threatens our entire democracy. >> martha: what are your thoughts on that and the comparison to eisenhower's warning about the military-industrial complex witch if

yeah. >> so stephen miller did kind of outline some of the details of the executive orders they planto do on the border and immigration. i had multiple sources in the room who told me that they kind of said that they were going to be 100 executive orders, maybe not all on immigration, but that's kind of the number they're telling them and unclear if they mean specifically executive orders or executive actions from agencies as well. and part of that included stephen miller walking through the details of some of the immigration proposals, specifically one that several sources mentioned to me was reimplementing title 42, which, if you remember, this was the pandemic policy that essentially, you know, points out concerns about illnesses coming across the border and allows officials to very rapidly deport, expel migrants at the border without giving them the chance of seeking asylum. >> steph, where are democrats in all of this? because you did see some democrats support the laken riley act over in the house. it's uncertain in the senate. you've also had john fetterman, democratic senator

its project 2025 playbook, and almost obsessively, anti-black figures like stephen miller, who seemsbe running the trump government. if obnoxious performative proclamations like ending the commemoration of black history month and mlk day in federal agencies, and no longer teaching about the tuskegee airmen in the naval academy, which they retracted, or any indication. but if you look deeper into what this second trump administration is doing, not just the provocative stuff that they're saying, it sure seems like something else is going on. i think to understand it, you first have to realize that federal contracting is the single biggest source of wealth in america. it's a nearly trillion dollar pot of tax money each year spent with private companies. getting federal contracts is literally how companies and their founders and ceos become super rich. think spacex, owned by elon musk and blue origin, owned by jeff bezos or unitedhealthcare. all are among the biggest federal contractors in the us, though nothing is bigger and eats up more of our tax money than defense contractors. and wi

stephen miller is white house staff. she is the senate confirmed presidential. exists wholly within the responsibility of the secretary of dhs. so if tom homan calls her up and says, i want you to do x, does she have to respond and comply with the direction from someone who's white house staff? and i'm not sure. we got a whole lot of clarity on that today. >> and, michael, as we look at these hearings, it does look as though right now at least hegseth has the votes. some of these more controversial choices. we haven't yet had a hearing for tulsi gabbard because they haven't finished the background check, apparently, and there may be some problems there. nor for rfk jr is one scheduled, i think, as of now. so there is still a couple of controversial choices. and kash patel, of course, at fbi. but so far, pam pam, bondi, hegseth and others, certainly marco rubio, who is not controversial in terms of the republican majority and many democratic senators who admire what he did on the intelligence committee and think he's a 14 year veteran. and, you know, senator, and

i started crying watching stephen miller tonight. is it really happening? it's happening. mass deportations are here. it's all for tonight. dvr the show. hannity has donald trump up next. and always remember, i'm watters and this is my world. >>

thanks for joining us again, stephen miller. do appreciate it. all right. coming up, democratic strategist james carville makes a humbling admission. plus, you won't believe kamala harris's latest gaffe. oh my goodness. wait till you see this one. victor davis hanson, brianna lyman and doug schoen will join us with reaction next on this special edition of hannity. get the lights back. >> okay. go again. he's breathing. >> okay. >> when i saw that ethan was not breathing, i determined that i needed to use something to remove the obstruction from his airway. it's very important for every household to have a life vac. >> everyone should have one in their home. anything can happen at any moment. >> i want my friends and family and people that i serve to know that we have this device to potentially save lives, protect your family. >> go to life net. >> go to life net or call 877 lifevac. >> do not buy generic viagra until you check out this program. giving away 100mg generic viagra for just $0.87. cvs and walgreens don't want you to know about this, because they

so during this closed door meeting with senators donald trump and his longtime adviser stephen millerhis hawkish immigration stance, stood up and told senators about some of their aggressive plans. starting on day one, they plan to really hit the ground running on january 20th, and they're already starting to prepare. what they've told senators is 100 executive orders that they plan to roll out, and many of these are addressing immigration and the border, which, of course, is no surprise if you've been following this campaign over the past few years, this has been the number one issue for them. and one, one of those plans that that stephen miller laid out for senators in this meeting was reinstating title 42, which, if you remember, was a pandemic linked policy that was initially put in place when covid was first breaking out in 2020 and was only recently ended under biden in 2023. and this essentially allows immigration officials to very quickly expel people who cross the border without even giving them a chance at asylum. and what's important here is that this policy is a public hea

i bet you, you will see it day one executed by stephen miller, my good friend close the border. close it off. and then we begin kicking out the people we can find. arresting others and starting to clean this mess up. this is absolute under the umbrella of the national security council and stephen miller is homeland security advisor will have a leading role. mark: the other side of this coin is the money pouring into here for the faculty at her colleges and universities. the indoctrination of american citizens for this guy in new orleans was an american citizen. as a red light radicalized by he was reading isis stuff online there pouring money these terrorist organization the terrorists tastes iterrorist tar country to influence our country. isn't this something that also needs a very carefully worked looked at? >> click to or absolutely write what i described day one, week one, month one activities. shut down the border. start rounding these individuals up. make sure we have an accurate internal intelligence picture of the fbi to counterterrorism. and which kash patel, when he w

ladies, try to calm down, he's the canadian stephen miller. good to see you, professor.ways. >>> america says goodbye to joe biden. ♪ ♪ >> what will be joe biden's legacy? >> his legacy was being [bleep]. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> jesse: johnny has been on the streets asking people about biden for the last couple of years and people have always been honest. they weren't fans. so now that his presidency is over, what is your favorite moment? johnny went to find out. ♪ ♪ >> come monday joe biden is out. are you going to miss him? >> not really. >> not really. >> hell no. >> no. >> i will miss him. >> is that a joke? thank you. >> what has been your favorite thing that joe biden has done for you? >> i don't know. >> he tried to forgive the student loans but no luck. >> the only thing he's done is fall down some stairs. >> ten years from now when you look back at the biden presidency, what would you say is the most memorable moment? >> falling off a bike. >> really like ice cream. >> sleeping. sleepy joe. >> what the [bleep] has biden done? >> if you remember his wife kissed errors max has

stephen miller has a clear agenda.how much more successful will he be at getting his agenda through? >> it is a fascinating question because -- >> what did you say? >> you always ask fascinating questions. >> the question is, what is his agenda? they want to renew the tax cuts and maybe there are tariffs that he will do unilaterally, but he is not deep or rich in policy. the agenda is the enemies list and taking down anyone who crosses him. in that case, it is a very different set of actors and i think something interesting to watch for on the policy agenda, the influence that he has, donald trump is a lame-duck and he was not before. that is not to say he will not have any power. he will come in with a lot of momentum. they will want to do those other things but at some point you will start to see donald trump is on his way out and his influences on the way in. one of the ways of hedging that is bringing in the alien air to be the heavy now. we have already seen some incidents of that and i think we will see a lot mor

el asesor principal en temas migratorios, el presidente stephen miller anunciÓ un proyecto de desnaturalizaciÓnue crearÍa un grupo especial para revisar las aplicaciones de naturalizaciÓn con el fin de detectar posibles fraudes causÓ preocupaciÓn en muchas personas. la denominada segunda mirada no es una medida nueva. algunos abogados de migraciÓn la consideran poco probable. >> las personas no deberÍan tener temor en ese sentido de que haya de pronto la posibilidad de una imposiciÓn de una desnaturalizaciÓn masiva. guillermo: pero si alguien obtuvo su ciudadanÍa cometiendo fraude, mintiendo u ocultando informaciÓn en su formulario de aplicaciÓn podrÍa estar expuesto a que le revisen su caso y le inicien un proceso de desnaturalizaciÓn, algo que no es nuevo, pero podrÍa ser mucho mÁs riguroso en el gobierno que acaba de empezar. >> las personas que hayan obtenido la naturalizaciÓn por medios ilegales, es decir, a travÉs de algÚn tipo de gran civilizaciÓn material de un hecho, a travÉs de evidencias falsas, tres personas y pudiesen estar en riesgo. guillermo: estas son algunas de las cua usadas

and according to one of trump's top aides, stephen miller, the white house is tapping multiple agencies to help with deportations once they get rolling. >> not only is it going to be ice engaging. >> in these raids. >> but also they're going to have support from their law enforcement partners in fbi, atf, dea, and u.s. marshals. >> we're going. >> to. >> leverage the full. >> power of federal. >> law enforcement. >> and president trump's command and. >> direction to save this country. >> from this occupation. >> meantime, if state or local officials are seen as trying to interfere with the crackdown, the justice department has been ordered to potentially file criminal charges against them. what's unclear is exactly how it can all be enforced. but the net effect now is fear among immigrants and confusion for many government employees. nevertheless, the trump white house is not slowing down. the very first bill on trump's desk, one that got significant democratic support in congress, is a strict immigration detention order named for lake and riley. she's the georgia nursing student who wa

to get through the committee process and you have johnson working on bills to get approved and stephen miller leading policy initiative in white house getting executive orders done. they are attacking from three different poens of view and that is because president-elect knows washington and understands process. >> brian: and chicago and new york getting hit with ice. >> lawrence: final deportation order, already ajudindicated or criminals with warrants out. >> steve: looks like marco rubio will be confirmed today. brian brought it up, will it be next pete hegseth or john ratcliffe? chad pergram said with pete, democrats won't speed things up. chad pergram said look for filibustering, could take weeks for that. >> brian: the chairman said pete will be up and he said try to get through and they will break the filibuster. >> steve: senate later today, good news for president-elect because he's been behind us, senate will finish work on laken riley act and send to the house and to the president who could sign it with lightning speed. >> ainsley: the clock is 8:19, 8:00 a.m., j.d. vance supposed

american immigration reform, a group pretty close to the incoming white house deputy chief of staff stephen millerwho also had a pretty strong role in the first trump administration. this group has proposed a series of reforms to the h-1b visa program in particular. number one, prevent employers from paying h-1b visa workers less than americans in the same role, reward applicants who earned a masters degree or higher from an american university. require employers to demonstrate that they sought american workers positions to qualified ones before turning h-1b workers, something similar to th other -- implement more effective enforcement mechanisms and increase investigations including random audits and then the h-1b guest worker program would be for temporary workers and should not be a pathway to citizenship. what do you think of some of those supposed rules? guest: overall it's objectionable because it's all about increasing the restrictions on the visas. i mentioned they're already required to be paid the prevailing wage which is based on what u.s. workers are paid for the same positions, contro

trump, stephen miller. ♪ stephen: in just one more day -- [cheers] just one more day, it's goodbye, joe, and hello to the golden age of america and welcome back, donald j. trump. it's been four long years. it's felt like 400 years. four years of weakness. four years of humiliation and embarrassment. your years of persecution. four years of inflation, poverty, incompetence. four years of betrayal. four years of wide-open, undefended, unprotected open borders. but tomorrow, at 12:00 p.m., that's all going to end. [cheers] because after four years of fighting, after four years of struggle, after four years of pain and, yes, suffering. after four years of trials, we are now at the dawn of our greatest victory! and each and every one of you, each and every one of you shares in this victory. your homes, your dreams, your sweat, your sacrifice, your devotion and nose of millions of patriots around this country has delivered america to this moment where we can proudly say that the 47th president of the united states is donald j. trump! and the vice president of the united states is shred vance.

all you need at a hotel party with kid rock is stephen miller, miller, gad, saad, and kid rock.hat place is hot. phil from bradenton, florida. if you know what's good for you, you'll go straight home after the inauguration. well, emma's actually going to be with me at the balls, so we're going to be at all of them. john from savannah, new york, kid rock goes, hi. when michelle obama goes lo. didn't see that coming. i sure didn't. and who knew? he played at the obama inauguration? carol from atlanta, georgia. you won't wish another man happy birthday, but you'll lick a nude photo of harold ford jr. i didn't lick i motorboated there's a big difference. cory from ontario, canada. do you actually live by your rules for men or just to pretend on tv? no, i do, i make an exception. i drank out of a straw when i had the coconut. i'm watters and this is my world. and welcome

now, i've been a boxer all my life, but because of my frailty, but i would come back to punch stephen millerse he is the most hideous in terms of his policy, i don't know the guy personally, in terms of this policy, he is absolutely draconian, he's the definition of it. he doesn't want to resolve the issue, he wants to scapegoat certain people that where in his mind, it would resound favorably to president trump. i think this is a horrible idea, a showcase of raids in the d.c. area, you know what that's going to do? it will heighten uncertainty in the immigration world, it'll infuriate the democrats and it'll motivate that base and it will absolutely garner him no additional points. he needs now to use this bluster and use this moment and use these first 100 days to make deals. he prides himself on being a dealmaker, he did it in his other life when i knew him better. make a deal. >> i've got something else to show you and i know you are passionate on the issue. we oppose all types of violence, you might be using some political rhetoric, i know the president-elect uses rhetoric this time, bu

stephen miller, do appreciate it.ing up, democratic strategist james carville makes a humbling admission. you won't believe kamala harris's latest gaffe. oh, my goodness. wait 'til you see this one. victor davis hanson, breanna lieman and doug schoen will join us with reaction next on this special edition of "hannity." >> jason: welcome back to this special edition of "hannity." after confidential-of-confidently predicting a kamala harris victory, democratic strategist james carville is now admitting that his crystal ball was wrong and it's hard not to put a smile on your face with this one. conceding that he failed to listen it his own famous advice: it's the economy, stupid. it was that and a whole lot of other things. carville also proposed that the democratic party needs to go big and go populist after losing the economic narrative. but here's another piece of advice democrats should consider: stop nominating terrible candidates! just today, kamala harris seemed to forget the words of the pledge of allegiance! wat

shannon: white house at deputy chief of staff stephen miller doubling down on week one crackdowns onates to end birthright citizenship spark immediate legal challenges in a constitutional debate let's bring in our legal panel to break it down. george washington university law professor jonathan turley and assistant attorney general. good morning gentlemen. >> thanks, thanks. shannon: will start here with copies operations going on immigration deportation around the country and number cities and states are saying we are not going to cooperate. several state attorneys general led by new york say this the constitution prevents the federal government from commandeering states to enforce federal laws. tom, how do you see this playing out? is there a commandeering, cooperation don't resist don't block our federal efforts? who is in the right? >> quick ftse is certainly true under our constitution the federal government cannot commandeer or conscript state officials into serving federal policies. but, the state time state officials cannot act in a way that obstructs or thwarts immigratearth

as stephen miller said, we have 20 hours until our long national nightmare is over.rts act. [cheering] yes. it passed once before, but this time we control the senate. we have a much better shot. we still have to get 60 votes. we are looking good. struck down joe biden's discussing changes in title ix which has been stopped in its tracks and will be killed entirely good things are happening all around the country beat pete hegseth was testifying this week that military recruit is already going up in anticipation of their new commander-in-chief. the deal in gaza, right before trump takes office as he said it's not done by the time i get there, all [bleep] is going to break loose. i woke up this morning i was 2 inches taller, pound the thinner i had skin like jennifer lopez. that lesson is not true. okay, speaking of j.lo, how happy are you that her candidate lost? it is so delightful. these hollywood celebrities get up there and try to tell us how to vote, really? celebrities know nothing about anything alton jehle knows about what to do is ruin and marriages she's an

stephen miller will be with us, too. devin nunes a significant role with this administration.tacks on kash patel e worked with kash to stop the russia hoax before it actually resulted in impeachment. and charly arnolt will give us the latest-on-the media. coming up history, liberty and laughs. i want everyone to join me. fox nation will stream it february 15th in jacksonville, florida, and do it again on march 22nd. inspirational, motivational and patriotic. live on stage, brian kilmeade.com. straight ahead, the march for life happening today in our nation's capitol and some big names will be there. none bigger than rachel campos-duffy will be covering it. she will be with us next. ♪ copd is an ugly reality. do you have his medical history? i watch as his world just keeps getting smaller. but then, trelegy helped us see things a little differently. with 3 medicines in 1 inhaler, trelegy keeps airways open for a full 24 hours and prevents future flare-ups. once-daily trelegy also improves lung function, so he can breathe more freely all day and night. trelegy won't replace a re

and in fact, stephen miller wants to go beyond that.u look at the list of what donald trump has said he wants to do on immigration, it includes getting rid of birthright citizenship. it does include going beyond the criminal elements among the undocumented population. and so by definition, that is going to mean separating families. there are millions of families in this country that are mixed status families that are made up of u.s. citizens, residents and people without documents. those families are going to suffer. and so this is where i think you're going to see a big backlash among the american people, because, yes, in general, if you ask them in a vacuum, they do support deporting undocumented immigrants, but where it becomes a problem is when they start understanding what that actually means for the communities that they live in. it means deporting the teachers, the people who run the markets on the weekend, the people who work in construction, the people who take care of their children, the people who work in the hotels that they

but by and large, this is a stephen miller operation. stephen miller is the most powerful unelected man in washington. and he has the ear of the president. he drafted these orders. he's an expert in immigration. he would like to see as little immigration currently as possible and has spent four years, well, eight years really studying that issue and drafting policies. so i think unlike last time, they are probably going to see more success. yes, they're going to be met with a lot of problems in the courts. but another thing which you touched on in your interview, that they're going to have a problem with is if you are going to have mass deportations, where do you send people to? and homan just sort of glazed over that, like, oh, other countries will take them. like, really? which ones? they don't have an answer for that. >> and what about the notion of yes? he's continuing to say that they will go after people who they pose. they believe pose a danger to american citizens. but that others who don't, who are, you know, living their lives.

i've had stephen miller on the show.here are debates about immigration in this country, and undocumented immigration has been rising, and there's a question about how to deal with that in a holistic way that is humane but protects national security. i'm i'm curious what you think of something that's already being billed as a kind of quote, show or advertisement. isn't this issue more important than making a dc show for the dc media market? >> you know, i'm an old man now. i've been a boxer all my life. i've given it up because of my, my frailty. but i would come back to punch stephen miller in the nose because he is the most hideous in terms of his policy. i don't know the guy personally, but in terms of his policy, he is absolutely draconian. he is the definition of it. he doesn't want to resolve the issue. he wants to scapegoat certain people that will, in his mind, it will resound favorably to president trump. i think that this is a horrible idea, a showcase of raids in the dc area. you know what that's going to do? i

and not a moment to big change is coming. >> stephen miller leftism is to discredited. trump is coming to save america. it's going to happen and it's going to happen next week. >> all right. appreciate it. we'll be watching closely when we come back gavin newsom trying to defend his horrific response to the california wildfires. we'll explain. and special counsel david weiss ripping joe biden to shreds in his long awaited report on his investigation into hunter. that and more straight ahead tonight on hannity. >> israel needs you. we desperately need tens of thousands to respond. >> the war is here. >> a great storm from the north has come against israel. you've got the scriptures calling each one of us not only to pray for the peace of jerusalem, but every city throughout israel that's under siege. this massive grocery store should be crowded. people are lacking food. exactly. the international fellowship of christians and jews is preparing meals for precious elderly citizens who can't get out. so many bombs yesterday, 71 because of the war. much of her roof is gone. t

he'll also be competing against stephen miller, who has big plans for how he wants mass deportationsried out. then you have the soon to be, presumably secretary noem. she didn't seem to face much opposition today. she, of course, is dhs secretary, is going to be in charge of 250,000 people. big on their plate is the southern border. so how all that gets mapped out still has to be seen. but as we understand it, they really want to have immigration policy held within the white house. i'm right down here at a place where they will be doing deportation flights. in fact, the biden administration already runs about three planes a week out of this airport for deportations. we understand that could get a lot busier. but when it comes to the mechanics of those plans, how it's staffed, the security they have to get on these planes, the detention space they need for the migrants before they're deported, and everything else. the question will come is that ultimately left up to the dhs secretary? or how much of a hand will miller and homan ultimately have in that process? because right now, homan

or is he going to listen to elise stefanik and stephen. miller? >> stephen miller clearly has an historically has had trump's ear, so that that is going to be a very interesting. but let's drill down a little bit. how do you think and why do you think the biden administration, for instance, allowed, from your perspective, the leahy act not to be fully, you know, fully respected? >> so, first of all, it wasn't, of course, just the biden administration. the leahy law has been on the books since 1997, and there have been no administration since that time that has properly applied it to israel, israel being the exception. and under the biden administration, a whole process was created that was exceptional for israel. and so i think what we face is actually a deep structural problem, a deep systemic problem within u.s. politics that is not going to shift, not going to change overnight with any one president, with any one change in administration. this is something that i think americans are going to have to work at shifting for many election cycles and

his adviser, stephen miller, was up on the hill over the weekend laying out for congress what these initiallans are going to be. and you obviously ran worked on a campaign against donald trump in the primary, the republican primary. you have a conception of whether this is a mandate. and, you know, we see it all the time in politics, right? people come in with a mandate. sometimes they overreach. and this applies. this is not a partisan thing. both sides do it. what what is your sort of understanding of of where trump is right now? the plans that he has and whether the american people are going to continue to stick with him? >> look, we can we can discuss whether it's a mandate. i could say yes, megan could say no. and it doesn't change one thing. i think what really what it is about is when you come into office, how do you use it? right? do you use the kind of propulsion that you get, especially in those first 100 days, whether it's an election or a reelection or whatever this unique scenario is with him coming to power a second time to to go after the issues that you were elected on. righ

stephen miller is the one person who really learned, both in the white house last time and in the four years since. and so i do think that they are going to move faster and likely more effectively. do i think it will necessarily hit the goals that trump talked about? possibly not. but i do think that the overton window has shifted specifically on immigration. i think on tariffs to some extent too. so what the public is willing to tolerate on this is very different than in, say, 2017. >> trump's pick for attorney general, pam bondi, told senators on wednesday that there will be no enemies list. but then trump posted on social media just a few hours later, naming 11 people who i guess he feels have wronged him, that if you worked for them, you can't work in his administration, including a number of people who worked for him in the last administration, including mark milley and james mattis and mark esper. i mean, does that undermine the no enemies list that looks like something of an enemies list? >> i think there's a difference between we're not going to hire certain people and we're go

we know that homan is in charge, and stephen miller, the deputy chief of staff, are in charge. i've worked at agencies before. when a white house wants to own an agenda, it owns an agenda. if she gets confirmed, secretary noem will be told how and whether to enforce. we now know she won't push back on it. but if you the trump presidency is about immigration and he's and he's made that clear, this is you know, this is just descriptive at this stage. and that is going to be run by homan and miller. and that will include some of the things that we're reporting on. um, so she'll, she'll, she'll be she'll use the department as the white house wants the department to be used. and, and her representations otherwise, um, may have been told to her, but there's no way that stephen miller or homan everyone who's seen what's going on knows will defer to her on this issue simply because she's not a subject matter expert. i mean, they didn't they purposely chose someone who knows nothing about immigration or very little about immigration because they want it run out of the white house. most

. >> have you talked to stephen miller about it? had discussions with a lot of people about this that i have not talk to the president. we have an internal revenue service set up on 1913 right when we answer the panic of 19 june 19, 2007 one of the drivers i would love to see an executive order is to set up external revenue service that we went and just look at tariffs but tariffs paid for everything up until the early 20th century but you wouldn't just look at tariffs you look at everything about how you can charge for your fees on investment or access to the country. no reason n american people and corporations have to pay for everything. i think we have to rethink that. is on revenue other things on economics and immigration are important not just illegally been focused so much on illegal immigration we tend to forget that in the 16 campaign particularly 16 primary one of the biggest things president trump had going for him was talking deabout. >> you got your perch in the war room but as far as we know you're not going into the

she's got stephen miller. we know what he thinks about doing for border security.goes bad, she's going to be the one who gets hauled in in front of the committees to answer questions. and if you're known operationally, who do you take orders from? >> you honestly unenviable. you get what you get and you don't get upset. sister. you wanted the job. but how is it, chris, that truly she's up there and she's basically like, oh, stephen miller and homan, they're going to be in charge. like on what planet does that work for? homeland. >> well, that was their point. >> yeah. that was how does that how does that work? >> i'd rather be governor. and if i was being asked to be secretary of state, i'd stay as the senator from florida. >> really? >> yeah i would. >> isn't that funny, though? think about all these people. right. and people were clamoring this time around to join trump's administration. and i talk regularly to a to a member of trump's former administration who's sitting back laughing, saying, these people are yucking it up with him at mar-a-lago. they have no id

i think that's stephen miller's vision of the sort of accelerationist race conflict that he has been looking for since he was a teenager, and they're going to try to start it, and americans are going to have to decide both what our values are in this, in this context, but also what is constructive and protective and nonviolent and, and, and helpful against, i think, an administration that right from the outset is going to be pushing to see what it can get away with and what fights it can start, that it can turn to its own purposes. >> the immigration piece is obviously incredibly grave, very serious, very real, very much on the horizon. there are other parts, though, of trump's agenda that he's announced, whether it's like ending bidenomics and starting maga nomics or annexing greenland or buying greenland. and i wonder kind of whether you're thinking has changed at all about the sort of seriousness with which we should cover and discuss this sort of pie in the sky ideas like making canada the 51st state, or taking the control of the panama canal or greenland, which, by the way, the

and when you have people like stephen miller and the awful things that he has said about immigrants and tom homan, another person who has said some very troubling things about the approach to national security in our border security, these are unelected bureaucrats. i remember when republicans used to be very upset about that, when democrats wanted to have, quote, czars in certain positions. but now that seems to be the way they want to rule, so they can avoid accountability and oversight, the proper oversight by congress, that should not be okay. and i hope that democrats continue to push back and are very diligent in raising these questions in interest of the american people in the constitution. and one last thing. kristi noem wants to be the department of homeland security secretary, but that oversees the secret service. she needs a little history lesson as to what the original purpose of the secret service was. it was not protection. it was counterfeiting and financial crime. and it was 36 years later, after 1865, when the secret service was created, created two more assassinations.

one of his key immigration advisers, stephen miller, is on the stage. he'll be playing a key role in tomorrow. as far as the executive orders that we're expecting to see after that, trump and the first lady, incoming first lady melania trump, will hold a private candlelight dinner tonight. donors who wrote some of the biggest checks to his inaugural committee will be there, and supporters who either gave a donation of $250,000 or raised half a million, will get two tickets to tonight's dinner, as well as other events, including tomorrow's swearing in ceremony and black tie ball. those who either gave a donation of $1 million or raised 2 million, will get six tickets for the featured events, plus two seats at an intimate dinner with the vice president elect, jd vance, and his wife aisha. as cnn previously reported, trump has seen a parade of ceos trekking to mar-a-lago to curry favor with him since his victory. >> that includes meta ceo mark zuckerberg, who is slated to co-host a reception ahead of tomorrow night's balls. >> all of this is going on as ou