versus the obama administration? mr. spicer: when you look at the confidence indexes, i'm not going to get into -- we don't have that kind of breakdown. i think you've seen the actions that he's taken, whether it's carrier or other companies, sprint, softbank, clearly there's a desire for companies to want to come be part of this agenda and build, manufacture, create jobs, bring jobs back. but i'm not ready to start parsing the b.l.s. and other reports as far as where that that comes down. but his team, lead by gary cohen, was pleased with the number this is morning. obviously we're pleased that 227 jobs is a great kickoff. we hope they get better. we know there's more work to do. that's why the president continues to meet with business leaders, union leaders to figure out how to grow the economy. reporter: it was revealed 100,000 visas have been revoked as part of the travel ban. does that include visa holders in the united states and will the government begin finding them and trying to deport them? mr. spicer: i hav

we were in the obamaed administration b harkens back to the bush administration. my view is the bush administration approach to settlements, they supported a u.n. resolution that would have frozen all settlements including natural growth was consistent with where the obama administration was. the trump statement that came out yesterday said three ings. settlements are not an impediment to peace is their view but potentially not helpful, but then it said there's no official position by the administration yet. it's hard to draw conclusions based on a statement that has these internal contradictions. >> and juan, on the subject of iran, boeing's deal with tehran is not involved so companies are warned not to be engaged with those who are sanctioned and can't have a financial relationship, but the quds force, the revolutionary guard, is not really going to be constrained, is it, and iran's government will have the benefit of these mega deals that have now become possible. >> that's a bit of the challenge of the current construct. i think david's right. i think what the

-- that the trump administration is the unreasonable actor. collapses, iran won't be at fault. my dealings with europeans and others suggest that is the narrative and that means our partners are not going to join us in re-opposing any sanctions. one other example of an idea that was put out there in new sanctions -- designating the iran revolutionary guard corps as a terrorist organization. it seems designed to warn against doing any business with iran, given the pervasive role of the enterprise plays in the iranian economy. but that would be the letter. that'll be the purpose of that. and there is no economic purpose designated. iran has authority designated as a country as a state sponsor of terrorism for good reason. but if it is to be designated, and i think it is coming, i think it would be wise until west mosul falls. because irg-supported militia is involved in the attack on isis in western mosul. and it would be counterproductive to sanction their sponsor, it would create difficulty in continuing to press that battle. and it would incr

the u.s. in january does a p tribute to his administration versus the obama administration? ook, when you look at the confidence index, i'm not going to get in, unfortunately we don't have that kind of a breakdown. i think that you've seen the actions that he's taken, whether it's carrier or some of the other companies, sprint, softbank, clearly there is a desire for companies to want to come be part of this trump agenda and build and manufacture, create jobs, bring jobs back. but i'm not at liberty to start parsing the bls and other reports as far as where that comes down. but look, his team led by gary cohen, was really pleased with the numbers this morning. obviously we are pleased that 227,000 jobs is a great kickoff. we hope they get better, we know there have been a lot more work to do, and that is why the president continues to meet with business leaders, union leaders, to help figure out how to grow the economy. >> the government revealed in an alexandria court case that over 100,000 visas have been report revoked as part of the president's travel ban, which includes

administration. the obama administration some would argue took a somewhat tougher tone. this administration has stressed the importance of the relationship with israel. the obama administration did obviously as well. a little bit of a shift in tone, amid word that israel is about to or considering expanding its settlements. this was from sean spicer who said we don't believe the exi existence of settlements to peace expansion beyond their current borders may not be the goal. >> i hope you have your running shoes on, kristen. i want to bring in stephanie ruhle and ali velshi. i want to start with the executive order coming down roughly around noon from the white house and it seems to be this symbolic expression of core principles. the signal is they're trying to weaken dodd-frank. what does dodd-frank do and not do? >> so it was named after senator chris dodd and congressman ba barney frank in 2010 as a result of the financial crisis. it was a bunch of laws that all got. together in one. it was basically

how many of the 227,000 jobs added in january attributes to his administration versus the obama administration? >> when you look at the confidence in numbers. i think that you have seen the actions you have taken whether it's carrier, sprint, clearly there is a desire for companies to want to be part of this trump agenda and create jobs and bring jobs back, but i'm not going to start parsing the reports as far as where that comes down. his team was pleased with the numbers this morning. we are pleased that 2727,000 jobs is a great kickoff. we hope they get better and there is a lot more work to do and the president continues to meet with business and union leaders to help grow the economy. reporter: over 100,000 visas have been revoked as a result of the president's travel ban. will the government begin -- mr. spicer: i have to get back to you on that. reporter: [inaudible] reporter: has the president seen the letter sent by senator mccain and he is looking into arming the ukranians? mr. spicer: i don't know. reporter: ambassador haley came out on a strong statement, does the administration ha

they are looking to the administration. in russia is what will the reaction of the trump administration to the in fighting. will they change the pro russian position and be more anti-russian and hawkish toward the kremlin? that is not beneficial to moscow. these are concerns which are articulated. one from the senior russian lawmaker here saying the target of the resignation, the target is not flynn, but the relationship with russia. reaffirming that idea that this is the issues with russia. >> fascinating and fast moving developments. thank you for being on top of it. matthew chance. >> it is interesting how hear how they are handling it. so many issues swirling around. serious questions about whether he might. during the conference the president had standing by the prime minister of canada. you may think the president may be asked about general flynn. no. why? because the president took two questions from reporters, friendly to the administration. the white house tried to manage the message. nothing new or different about

the trump administration has slapped these new sanctions on iran. president trump saying iran is quote not behaving and issuing a warning on twitter that iran is playing with fire. >> today, sanctioned 25 entities that support the ballistic program and missionary force, these are in response to iran's on goigoing ballistic testing, january 29, 2017 as well as tehran's support for terrorism. >> this is just the latest in the valve laavalanche, by the t administration, including israel's plans for potential settlements in the east bank and russia and interference with crimea, some notice these are notably similar to those made by the obama administration made before them. let's begin with michelle kosinski. first talk us through this missile test in trump administration response? >> reporter: so the trump administration has made that messaging very tough not only in statements but in person and of course in those tweets that you read, so they want the message to be out there as one member of the administration pointed, an advisor saying there's a new s

threaten to undermine the trump administration overal overall. we have fox team coverage great amy kellogg is in milan, italy with how the russians are viewing the trump administration turmoil. catherine herridge in washington with what the intelligence community is saying about the leaks. we start off tonight with chief white house correspondent john roberts and an earlier than expected first casualty of this administration. good evening. >> only 25 days. the white house today said it's not the crime, it's the cover-up, acknowledging that the national security advisor did not come clean about telephone conversations he had with russia's ambassador to the united states. >> fantastic job. stick with the president had nothing to say today about firing his national steering advisor at his press secretary t general michael flynn was shown the door because sin had lost the president's trust. >> would been reviewing and evaluating the issue with respect to general flynn on a daily basis for a few weeks, trying to ascertain the truth. we got to a point,

the u.s. administration going forward. particularly when it comes with how it deal was russia. >> clare, thank you. >>> turning to iran. the white house is expected to announce new sanctions possibly as soon as today. the additional sanctions are a response to the ballistic missile test on sunday by iran. the president campaigned hard against the nuclear deal, but sources say the sanctions are not expected to affect that agreement. joining us live is thomas erdbrink. he is reporting this morning from iran. thomas, thank you for being with us. iran has been very weary of the administration. how are they likely to receive new sanctions coming down for the missile test? >> reporter: well, good morning. clearly they will not be very happy. at the same time, the pivot we are discussing where the trump administration is coping the obama administration in the foreign policy, we are seeing in iran because where everybody was expecting the trump administration to try to ren renegotiate or cancel the nuclear agreement. we are seeing

in january does the president attribute to his administration versus the obama administration? look at the confidence indexes, i'm not going to get into -- we don't have that kind of break down. i think you've seen the action that he's taken whether it's carrier or some of the other companies, sprint and softbank. there's a desire for companies to want to come be part of this trump agenda and build and manufacture and create jobs and bring jobs back. i'm not at liberty to start parsing the bls and other reports as far as where that comes down. his team led by gary cohen was really pleased with the numbers. we're pleased we're 227,000 jobs is a great kickoff. we hope they get better. we know there's a lot more work to do. that's why the president continues to plemeet with busin leaders and union leaders. ashley. >> the government revealed that over 100,000 visas have been revoked as part of the travel ban. does that include visa holders already in the united states and will the government try to deport them? >> i'll have to get back to you on that. i don't have all the details.

jeff sessions is the top attorney in the trump administration. one of the few things that the white house press secretary sean spicer made very, very clear this afternoon at his press briefing was this: do not expect an investigation at least from the administration's side of things into the former national security advisor, michael flynn. listen. >> people are free to do what they wish. they'll find what the president first believed and what the white house counsel concluded. there was not an issue of law. it was an issue of trust. >> the argument from sean spicer was two fold. white house counselors said there was nothing illegal that michael flynn did. he just lost the president's trust. that hasn't stopped the folks about a mile to the east of us on capitol hill from talking about this. roy blount, a republican on the senate intelligence committee said he would like his colleagues on the committee to speak with mr. flynn "very soon." back to you. >> neil: thanks, blake. a lot of people in the white house are concerned about the leaks. how this

the obama administration argued the president's judgment on administration was largely unreviewable. he argued that he could refuse, ordered the failure to enforce immigration laws. but the arguments were very, very similar. and for all the democrats objecting now, i didn't hear a peep of objection from them when just last year these arguments were being made by the same justice department. >> it's just an interesting debate. we will be calling on you many more times. thank you, professor. thank you kelly o'donnell. thank you, michael and ali as i said is stuck with me for the night. coming up how does the white house handle its first real blow to one of its signature policy issues? that's next when the 11th hour continues. >>> welcome back to "the 11th hour." this decision on president trump's travel ban is the first big set back for this white house. so, how will the president react? i'm going to bring in former chief of staff jeremy bash, columnist robinson and keep alley here to talk about that subject with me. jeremy bash, isn't it a fact that someone applying to be a refugee and

and the first day us of the trump administration. still lots of questions, a big one is when did vice president mike pence know about all of this? what did he know and questions there. you've also obviously got the discussion more broadly about why it took so long to take action here, steve. >> okay. hallie jackson over there at the white house, thank you for that report. both democrats and republicans on capitol hill today saying that flynn's resignation raised more questions than it answered. many joining a growing chos for congressional investigations, take a listen. >> do you hear that? do you hear the silence? this is a sound of house rooms conducting no oversight of president trump. zero. >> i think significant dysfunction in the national security apparatus of the trump administration. >> it wasn't flynn's lie that brought him down, it was the public exposure of that lie. >> i'd like to know that did he just do this as a rogue general flynn? that she just decided to call the russians up one day and say, you know, we're going to

cnn has confirmed the administration is looking at scrapping the obama administration's program for countering violent extremism saying it was politically incorrect. instead a new program may take its place, wolf, that focuses on the president's concerns about what he calls radical islamic terrorism, wolf? >> did you, jim accosta at the white house. the breaking news as president trump talks tough on iraq sources say the white house is planning to respond to the iranian missile test with more sanctions against iran. let's go to our global affairs correspondent elise lab it. what else are you learning about this, elise? >> well, wolf, these are very similar to the sanctions that president obama put on iran over the past few years when it launched a ballistic missile test. so, what it is is an existing executive orders, presidential executive orders that deal with both terrorism and also weapons of mass destruction. so, these will be additional designations of entities and groups barring them from doing any u.s. companies from doing business with iran. of course, this is in response to that iran

well known to at least one member of the administration. becomes the permanent national security adviser. >> ryan browne for us in the white house. there are questions raised about the past. thank you. >>> the resignation of michael flynn followed chaos and contradictions all while the president is silent about the fate of his national security adviser. i want to get more from dan merica live from washington. the change in tone and actual words from white house officials every hour was remarkable. >> reporter: it was difficult to keep up at times if i put it politely. you had kellyanne conway saying at 4:00 that donald trump has the full support of general flynn. then a mere 64 minutes later, you have sean spicer saying his post is being evaluated. and let's take a listen to trump when he was swearing in steve mnuchin. >> do you have confidence in michael flynn? >> when will you be evaluating michael flynn? >> thank you. >> reporter: we are told by one op official that donald trump wants to move past this. that will be difficult because of t

we hear from the administration every day. ill be very interesting some of the questions that were just posed by the democrats where you go in the briefing room that you're looking at live when the press secretary sean spicer steps up in a short while. we are on the story. stay with us. what's it like to be in good hands? like finding new ways to be taken care of. home, car, life insurance obviously, ohhh... but with added touches you can't get everywhere else, like claim free rewards... or safe driving bonus checks. oh yes.... even a claim satisfaction guaranteeeeeeeeeee! in means protection plus unique extras only from an expert allstate agent. it's good to be in, good hands. >> fox news alert. democrats are still responding and we're also waiting for the white house press briefing to get started, too. so we have two optics going on in terms of the departure of general flynn from the national security adviser position today. >> can i take my time. >> please take it. question is how do republicans take this moment forward? >>

this is going to be a terrible story for the trump administration. it really depends on how quickly they can get someone else into the role. you do not need senate confirmation, the president can pick the person, and the person goes in. that's why flynn who has been very controversial was able to move into that position easily. as gloria borger is reporting, david petraeus is going to be at the white house tomorrow. he's no stranger to donald trump. remember, he actually interviewed to be the secretary of state. ultimately that didn't happen, and he bowed out gracefully, it was just a few weeks ago, david petraeus was on capitol hill, he was not necessarily enamored with how donald trump put in the muslim ban or the travel ban, however you scan want to call it. he thought that better implementation and better planning would have made things go a lot smoother in that. it will be interesting to see how the conversation between president trump and david petraeus happens tomorrow, as gloria did note, for all his controversy, david petraeus is well liked b

the process that the administration's taking -- >> i think this is -- yeah. this is what i was basically talking to cecelia about, which is the president's made clear, when you have 12, 14, 15 million people in the country illegally, there has to be a system of priority. right now i.c.e.'s priority is going to make sure that we focus first and foremost on that. he specifically in the guidance it talks about that daca and dapa, unless someone who fits under that program fits into the subcategory is not subject to what is being dealt with now. remember, everybody who is here illegally is subject to removal at any time. that is consistent with every country. not just ours. if you're in this country in an illegal manner, obviously there is a provision that could ensure that you be removed. but the priority that the president has laid forward and the priority that i.c.e. is putting forward through dhs' guidance is to make sure that the people who have committed a crime or posed a threat to our public safety are the priority of their efforts, first and foremost. >>

republicans are so far declining to check or slow down the administration on anything. o you see the states becoming now much more involved in trying to be that check on the administration, whether it's on this or things like sanctuary cities and immigration. do you expect to be in litigation with this administration for some time? >> i suspect there will be many places where this occurs, unfortunately, because we have a very unpredictable executive branch which seems to relish petty fights rather than helping forge consensus and listening to people. we saw the horrendously inhumane rollout of the executive order which caused so much chaos so i don't think this is the end, i don't think it's the beginning of the end, i think it's the end of the beginning of our efforts to protect our citizens and states will be major players on that and this is perhaps the first victory for states and i think that there will be more and it's not just this. you look at histories like climate change where we are going to lead the country in climate change. we will not be stopped by preside

he of course was involved in the obama administration, was a top official in the obama administration but resigned from that position because he had shared classified secrets with his mistress. and another retired admiral, bob harwood, is apparently also under consideration for the title of national security adviser. and this will get sorted out probably not right away. it will probably take several days. what we're hearing from the trump white house is that the president has already moved on from all of this. and that general flynn did not get fired. he resigned. according to senior administration officials. president trump tried to hang in there as long as he could, we're told, but eventually what you saw happen tonight simply became as you said an untenable situation. >> and jim, i'm wondering you know, how much now is going to focus on who knew what and when did they know it? you know, it was interesting that the president just on friday on air force one said he had not heard the reports about michael flynn, but the justice department warning according to "the washington post," th

so it's just unrelentingly bad news for the new administration in this new national poll. in terms of how the country views the president, his policies, his credibility, broadly sneaking the country doesn't even believe him when he asserts that something is true. this is interesting, though, even though every question in the national poll turns up a topline result that is bad news for the new administration, look at this. this is question 32 in the new poll. "would you support or oppose impeaching donald trump?" answer, dunno. hmm, sure, 46% of the country is all ready to impeach the president three weeks into his time in office and that's remarkable but look at the opposed number. even steven, 46-46. 10% of people say they're not sure so maybe that's some comfort to the new president. three weeks to his first term he's four points away from a majority of 2 country wanting hitch impeached. there's another way to look at the impeachment number, which is worse for the new president and the new administration. think about it. it's kind of interesting, right? you look at result

what is their view of the trump administration? >> i think they feel better after vice president pence spoke, and general mattox, america first has been a little hard to understand, a lot of people believe it is going back to the 20 or 30 it is isolation where america sort of retreats from the region. vice president pence's speech was terrific, we are going to be more involved in nato, not less. we are going have more troops supporting our friends in europe against aggression by russia. there seems, the theme america first is not withdrawing from nato or the world but asking our partners to do more and they should. >> dickerson: the defense minister of estonia where you were in december and which feels some pressure from russia says russia has become more aggressive since the election. what is your sense of that? >> that is right. russia has interfered in every democracy in their backyard. they are coming after the french and the germans. they tried to interfere in our election, even though they didn't change the outcome, they did i

does this look like a shift in enforcement from the obama administration to the trump administration? >> if going after people who are just hard working and haven't committed crimes, anything like that, it's more aggressive than before. that's one thing we're trying to figure out now. >> donald trump, president trump, said he will defund sanctuary cities like your and my hometown of los angeles. if they don't cooperate with i.c.e. on the immigration raids. is that legal? >> well, it is legal to a small extent. they can overplay their hand, as this administration has tried to overplay their hand. bottom line, it is a narrow opportunity for them to do that, yet at the same time the real issue, if they do that they'll hurt the economy of the cities, hurt the safety of these cities. you look at immigrants who come to this country documented or not, they have less crime rates than people actually born in the country. slightly better. bottom line, sanctuary cities are doing fine, keeping communities safer and for the federal government to step in try to thwart that will hurt america. >> one

the obama administration argued the president's judgment on administration was largely unreviewable. he argued that he could refuse, ordered the failure to enforce immigration laws. but the arguments were very, very similar. and for all the democrats objecting now, i didn't hear a peep of objection from them when just last year these arguments were being made by the same justice department. >> it's just an interesting debate. we will be calling on you many more times. thank you, professor. thank you kelly o'donnell. thank you, michael and ali as i said is stuck with me for the night. coming up how does the white house handle its first real blow to one of its signature policy issues? that's next when the 11th hour continues. just like the people who own them, every business is different. but every one of those businesses will need legal help as they age and grow. whether it be with customer contracts, agreements to lease a space or protecting your work. legalzoom's network of attorneys can help you, every step of the way. so you can focus on what you do and we'll handle the legal stuff

we are independent of the obama administration, and the trump administrati administration, and being independent is not opposition. and so i am disturbed that part of being independent is part of the opposition. and part of the diversion that after 9/11 george w. bush said that if you are not with us, you are with the terrorist, and it sounds like that on the domestic front. so, we are not, you know, with them in the sense that we are part of them, and we are not terrorists either, and we are just doing our jobs. >> and while this has hit the administration fairly early, it is not up up usual for the administration to at some point suffer what it feels harm through the leaks and then to all of the sudden be tough on leak, and it is not at all unusual for somebody to be like a senior intelligence official to come to d.o.j. and say that we send you all of the crime repor report, and we are report all of the leaks to you, and why not any cases made. so that pressure on the system has certainly existed before, and you know, i obviously recognize that, that the amount of the pressure can v

actual news of the administration, that's not good. lynn's decision to step down. as we've said earlier today, 4:00, kellyanne conway said that he had the full confidence of the president. an hour later we heard it's still under review and under investigation. they're looking at it. and it wasn't much longer than that, where we understood, as i was hearing throughout the evening, is that the president still had trust in him, and was holding on and standing by him. but it was flynn himself who made the decision that it was too much of a distraction and made the decision to step down. this is not so much that phone call, but it was as he said, his inadvertent leaving out information to the vice president, that was the big crux of this, and as we've said, the straw that broke the camel's back, the inadvertent mishandling of relaying on information to the vice president that really did him in. >> and joseph, did he really have a choice, the president? i know he may have wanted to stick by michael flynn at this point, but considering as alic

the techniques were used under the bush administration but ramped up significantly in the obama administrationwhat was your reaction when that happened and how did you force these documents as well just as you have done in the interrogation documents? what was the concern? >> i guess there were parallel concerns. one was the transparency in the news articles in 2009, 2010 about the ramp up of the program we were interested to know who were only targeting. that was kind of a transparency concern that we had raised with respect to other programs. and then right at the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010, there were news reports that the government was going to target this american citizen and we -- there were these new stories in the 2010 indicating that the cia and the special forces were spee targeting this american citizen. in other words intended to kill this american citizen. the proposal was essentially two years they have proposed extrajudicial attention. there were differences but it's an awesome use of power by the government. it was the subject. one results in the collateral damage.

federal appeals court rules 3-0 against the trump administration. people from seven banned countries can now travel to the u.s. despite the executive order last month. fight likely to go to the supreme court. president tweeting see you in court, security of the nation is at stake. plus kellyanne conway is counseled for what she said was free commercial for ivanka trump's brand. and twitter attacks on richard blumenthal and john mccain. is white house running wild or is there a method to the madness? we'll discuss all of this. pamela brown, mark preston. laura coates. alan dershowitz, f. michael higgin both am at university of baltimore and constitutional attorn attorney paige potaaid joins as well. super uber panel. you've been digging into the court documents. complete repudiation of the travel ban. >> it certainly is. big blow to the trump administration and three judges repudiated the travel ban saying in 29-page opinion that the government failed to provide enough evidence to support why this travel ban was necessary for national security, the ur

but you're seeing that the administration is starting to develop plans and actions. it's not just about what are the talking opinions on the area going to be. it's the actions to facilitate peace and stability and that's where the focus of the administration the united states is going. >> do you have any plans to undo the monthly talk about the palestinian question and the three monthly open debate on it that is on the agenda of the security council? >> i just put tout the members the security council to help me understand when we have so much going on in the world, why is it that every single month we'll sit down and have a hearing where all they do is obsess over israel. that's the problem. and so what i'm saying is that we want to have constructive influence itch think what is happening is it's out in becoming counteractive to peace process. when the u.n. comes into the middle of it and is more of divider than a united it is a cause for concern. think everyone is well intentioned. they are trying to find stability, but this obsession every month to continue to go o

support for kiev compared to the obama administration. >> stewart: how did the trump administration react, as compared to how u.s. ambassador nikki haley reacted? >> well, i think the trump administration is playing a two-level game here. they're trying to reassure congress that they will not give away the store in any negotiations with russia around ukraine. remember, congress is putting forward legislation that would prevent the president from lifting sanctions unilaterally without congressional approval. so i think part of nikki haley's statement was designed to reassure congress that the trump administration will not give away the store, and that there is no need for this legislation that would tie president trump's hands. >> stewart: what is it president petro poroshenko wants from the united states at this point? >> he wantaise stronger position at the bargaining table. there's been negotiations around minsk 2. this is an agreement whereby the ukrainian government would devolve some sovereignty to the two regions that are in conflict, and that there would be free and fair elections

a setback for the administration. l be asked about the controversy about his national security advisor who has said there's the room right there, the east room where the two leaders will speak. he has said he did not discuss the issues on a post-election call of russia's ambassador. now that is in doubt because of intercepted u.s. intelligence calls. quickly to the table, do you have a question for the president today? what would it be? >> this is the issue that i have been concentrating on. i would ask what did he think of what kellyanne did and will there be disciplinary action? >> there are a number of other issues too. this is the second time the president of the yates has huni has had a news conference at the white house. the british prime minister has visited. our special coverage continues in just a moment with wolf blitzer here on cnn. thanks for watching "inside politics." see you sunday morning, 8:00 a.m. as after a dvt blood clot,ital i sure had a lot to think about. what about the people i care about? ...in

or at least weaken the trump administration. not trust the intelligence community to maintain classified information that's protected by law and facing with a potential ten-year sentence in the federal penitentia penitentiary, you've got to do something to clean up the intelligence community. congressman, does he have a point that classified info being leaked is the danger? >> look, i don't support an investigation by leak. i didn't like it when the clinton investigation was conducted that way, and i don't think this investigation should be conducted that way either. at the same time, i think this is a distraction, a sideshow, a gop effort, frankly, to put the leak issue front and center and ignore potential illegality in the white house. it's much less threatening to them, they don't have to contradict the president. they can still push for tax cuts and all the gimmes about where the evidence trail leads. that's not going to fly. the real gravamen of the issue is were there trump campaign people colluding in that election, in th

what exactly is the trumpearly administration plan glaxo wellcome clearly the trump administration intends to pursue an aggressive agenda when it comes to mining and drilling on our public lands and waters, and the president and his senior advisers have made clear their intention to undo what are reasonable protections put in place in environmentally sensitive areas. protec that the administration will renew its efforts to reverse and o protections of important onshore and offshore areas, and based on energy plans posted on the white house website, just immediately after the presidents inauguration, the president seems to be committed to simply opening up as much federal land as possible to coal mining andri energy development. the administration has said it would use money and drilling and mining of all our public lands and waters to pay for billions, sorry, multibillion dollar infrastructure packages. and my constituents want to know where did you draw the line? where does that stop? the administration has already suspended rules insuring l polluters on our public lands don't have to pay

the >> the administration and the uk government. it was enacted and since then we have worked hard to secure the exceptions that we have. the [inaudible] can they strengthen the representation by working closely in cooperation with the counterparts in the european union? >> we worked very closely on that matters and will continue to do so once we have left the european union. i am grateful to the secretary for the statement. there's the legal right to be here to apply. there's 11 countries on the list banning citizens from entering. every one of these countries regarding the policy that is invited as wrong. the house should be aware of that and the house should also reflect on the fact that all policies are by their very nature discriminatory between the nations. >> the secretary is right about one thing and i stand with our friends. can i get the attention back to the cause in the middle east many of those affected are those that have been striving to save lives so what contact has he had to make sure? >> there are people that had

prior to the administration taking office and the trump administration, that's there now, how they are executing these raids may be different, actually? i think you're seeing a shift now that is more in line with what has been communicated with the executive orders. so in the past while i.c.e. prioritized targets to the level of criminality where they focused on criminals, felons, for those that had a minor offense, i.c.e. was discouraged to take those people into custody in fact they were strongly encouraged to exercise discretion and not focus on those types of people with that background in the past. >> now the mexican government, i didn't mean to step on you there. i wanted to bring in another element to the conversation. because the fear is very real. the mexican government issued a statement to mexicans living in the u.s. to take extra precautions if you're an undocumented ingrant living here, make sure you get in touch with the immigrant services that are available to you. what protection do you have if an i.c.e. official knocks on your door? >> there are regular enforcement pol

so others in the administration were aware that the national security adviser of the united states had mid left -- had misled other administration officials who then in turn misled the american people. and they were ok with that. the administration was ok with the fact that the american people were laboring under the falsehood that they had not discussed the sanctions with the russians. flynnsignation of michael was brought about not by discovering the falsehood, but by the fact that the falsehood became public. and that ought to be deeply disturbing to everyone, that the white house would have even antemplated tolerating national security adviser who had lied to them and to the american people through the vice president. this eggs a lot of questions about whether those conversations between flynn and the russian and basilar were sanctioned -- the russian ambassador or sanctioned by the president himself and others in the ministration, and why those who were knowing did nothing to correct the record when the american people were told otherwise. all of this merits investigation. that in

then when the obama administrati administration. the memos that were the foundation of the cia. >> did you think you had a business at that point? >> well, you know, yes, sort of. it was clear we would have some sort of carryover litigation which was clean up litigation from what with gone on from the previous eight years. from my perspective, the first few months of the obama administration were heavy times, the torture memos were disclosed as everybody knows one of president's first act was to formally disavow, torture, reverse the transparency presumption that prevailed under the freedom of information act. he committed to close guantanamo bay. some of the cases i had been litigated got settled in the first few months after president obama took office. i had been litigating these two cases on behalf of cases related to foreign scholars who had been excluded from the united states and both of those cases were settled and the obama administration, the state department under secretary clinton actually, agreed to allow those foreign s

now with the trumpet administration in power, how does the trumpet administration or what does the trump administration wants from the gcc on iran , on isis, on the israeli issue. he sees a change, i'd like your analysis on that. >> i don't represent the trump administration and so i don't want to be in a position where i would be asked to try to say i know what their policy could be. i might not express it very well. but i think what we at least drawing from the press conference, it does seem that the president, at least, has an interest in broadening the circle, creating a regional approach in the issue. which is not a simple thing to do. and i do think that, you would know this as well as anybody, that both the saudi's and everybody's at this point are hopeful about the administration. they viewed fairly or not that the obama administration saudi arabians as being part of a solution to the problems and the solution, not the source and therefore they became deeply distrustful of the administration. they i think they liked when the administration puts iran on notice, they didn't like th

the law the trump administration is using to defend, the president's constitutional executive order is very clear, there is no ambiguity here. it reads the following. "whenever the president finds that the entry of any aliens and any class of aliens into the united states would be detrimental to the interest of the united states, he, meaning the president, made it by proclamation and for such. as he shall see fit suspends the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens immigrants nonimmigrants or impose any entry on aliens any restrictions he made deem to be appropriate." of the left knows this, that's why their cart targeting liberal courts, liberal justices, that's why they're going judge shopping and defining jurisdictions that they know will be favorable to them. so that they can be grandmother radical agenda down your throat. what they can't get done at the ballot box, what they can't get done legislatively, they're using the courts through judicial activism. whether it's in your best interest or not. we would be very, very foolish to ignore what is the bigger plan here, that's wha

of administrator of the environmental protection agency. it is a disappointing turn of events, but let's review some history. 1993, epay 20, administrator nominee carol browner under democrat president bill clinton was confirmed by the senate. this is one day after he took office. on january 30, 2001, epa administrator nominee chris because whitman under bush was confirmed by the full senate. on january 22, 2009, nominee lisa jackson under democrat president barack obama was confirmed by the full senate two days after he took office. today is february 1 and the minority has now obstructed even having a vote in committee on president donald trump's nominee scott pruitt. i hope this is not the new normal. we cannot afford for the epa to go without an administrative for -- administrator for the foreseeable future. this will impact future epa administrator nominees. these precedents for this delay will likely have long term impacts after today's nominee has left office. this boycott not only affects the epa, but it also prevents this committee f

and the prior administration because the american people deserve the truth. >> what is the big issue here? what is lost? what is the cost to the administration, a new administration losing the national security adviser after 24 days, and dysfunction widely reported within the nsc. you can have other resignations, other people refusing to come in, high-powered people from past republican administrations saying they don't want to work for this white house. >> i think it's an embarrassment, not something you want to have happ. every new administration has to ge their legs under them, they run into stutters. this is a big one so hopefully this is an opportunity for the administration to say okay we've got to shake some things up in the nsc. it's new. again it didn't work out the arrangement we had. let a's get somebody good, maybe pa tray was or the other names pushed around for director of that and i think an opportunity to make this better, stronger and help to reclaim america's role in the world, and you know we've got a lot of questions we

>> exactly what this order and how the administration is responding to it is a big deal. previously they used a judicial loophole for not responding to court orders that pretty much demanded the exact same thing. what they had said before is the previous court orders say they reject those visas. so they're finally realizing that and backing down. >> jonathan, we have one u.s. attorney in one of these court cases say in open court that they -- as soon as these judges started to rule, they revoked 100,000 visas of people who were in these countries waiting to board aircraft and that's why whiwe had lawyers in some of these foreign countries taking passengers to the airport every day trying to board planes in compliance with federal court orders and there's no information in the foreign airports that they're allowed to board planes. >> and remember sean spicer was saying there are only 109 people affected by this. it's not clear whether it's so,000 or 100,000, but there's a tremendous number of people that are affected by these decisions. the sweeping nature of this order is

first up, and other personnel casualty in the trump administration. the second in three days. this time it's the president's pick to run the labor department. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel's on capitol hill tonight with the breaking details. >> good evening very late today and a poster announced he was withdrawing from consideration to be the next secretary of labor, saying "i am honored to have been considered by resident donald trump to lead the department of labor and put america's workers and businesses back on a path to sustainable prosperity." the democrats alone could not stop the puzder nomination. a senior source says a dozen republican senators expressed reservations or concerns about puzder. this senior capitol hill sources majority leader mitch mcconnell conveyed the message of the white house but i'm told mcconnell did not push for withdrawal but noted in conversations with the white house that they had a serious numbers problem with the puzder nomination. four senate republicans initially expressed reservations this week. susan collins of maine,

no offense to sean spicer, but if you look through the jobs in the administration, the president hasbinet level, he's now nominated his cabinet. he's still having trouble getting people confirmed. you see the highlights, that means they have been confirmed. some of these trump nominees have also been late getting their paper work in. so a problem at the cabinet legal. but this is where the problem in government is striking, the stepity assistant secretaries, the people who make the day by day, minute to minute decisions about the government. let's look some more, you see no facings in any of these jobs because the administration hasn't named anybody to these jobs, these are the people nominated and confirmed. at the cabinet level, eight still awaiting confirmation, four 14 have been confirmed. additional key positions requiring senate confirmation, 12 waiting cfirm mags, 51 -- below that nearly 3,500 other jobs, political appointed cabinet affairs, we're six weeks in now, a lot of the government still has obama holdovers or transition administrations trying to manage affairs, the que