thomas homan was the subject of a washington post article last year that said, "thomas homan deports people and he's really good at it." earlier this evening the president fired sally yates, acting attorney general, a holdover from the obama administration, this after she ordered the justice department not to honor the president's travel ban because she believed it was not legal. dana boente will now serve as acting attorney general. the white house doubled down today insisting the ban is legal and will make americans safer. >> we're not going to wait till we get attacked and figure out out how to make sure it doesn't happen again. >> it treats all people guilty until proven innocent. >> reporter: cair filed a lawsuit against the obama administration saying the travel ban is unconstitutional and just wrong. >> it targets the world's populations who need us most, refugees fleeing war torn lands who don't have homes who want to come live in america for a better life. >> reporter: we also talked to some bay area folks today who agree with the president. >> i haven't felt safe in years a

and he was replaced with a mon named thomas hoe homan who was until now the chief enforcement officer at ice. detentions and deportations. >> sorry to interrupt you there. so was this -- does this mean that, you know, thomas homan is now going to serve in the job for ten days and they have got some other person in mind? is this an unexplained musical chairs thing or does this mean thomas homan is the choice of trump administration to be the new head of ice. >> from what i understand homan is the choice as announced by johncaly tonight. he is the choice to lead ice. his expertise is in law enforcement. he calls himself a cop's cop doing a cop's job. he used immigration enforcement as really as a law enforcement and not you know a paperwork or a refugee or a complicated issue. he is a guy who finds people who shouldn't be here and gets rid of them. and i think this reflects what the trump administration has said they were planning to do which was really to reemphasize the detention and deportation elements of u.s. immigration policy. >> forgive me though, but he was an obama administrat

president trump named thomas homan to the position late monday, firing acting ice director daniel ragsdale. homan is not new to ice... he has served as the agency's executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations since 2013. and another major staffing announcement coming today. president trump preparing to announce his pick for a new supreme court justice. and sources say that list is down to three final contenders. all three are young, george w. bush appointees who currently serve on seperate circuits of the u-s court of appeals. the two front-runners are judges neil gorsuch and thomas hardiman. gorsuch is a natural choice for any republican president and expected to have similar principles as the late justice antonin scalia. hardiman is a solid conservative who was active in republican pol federal bench. the third choice - william pryor is still in the running but is fading, according to people familiar with the search process. all three met with trump in new york during the transition period. the president will announce his final pick at eight o'clock tonight. meanwhi

thomas homan takes over. unlike the turbulent situation of the justice department, he continues to keep his job as deputy director. >>> mr. trump wrapped up interviews last week for supreme court. he is said to reveal his choice in the east room of the white house at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. these are the most likely finalists. gorsuch and thomas hardiman as well as william pryor jr. democrats are concerned that republicans would deploy the nuclear option which reduces the threshold for carrying a filibuster from 60 votes to 51. >>> the big question on wall street this morning, will president trump kill the trump storm market rally. the dow had biggest loss since election day. futures are down again this morning and abrupt pull back after a 10% climb after election day fueled by lower tax rates. the market is a run up of trumpenomics. >> when you look not just at the ups and downs of a market, but consumer confidence and a lot of the other market catindicate on indicators. more businesses want to work with the

immigrations and customs enforcement was replaced by thomas homan. homan is an ice agent famous for his deportation record. ragsdale was not fired. he will remain with theepartment as a deputy director. today - president trump will announce his pick for a new supreme court justice. the court has been down a justice since antonin scalia's death almost a year ago. that announcement from president trump is expected around eight tonight. we;ll break down the presidents final three contenders - coming up at 5:30. another great escape from the national zoo. this time - a bobcat breaking free from it's enclosure. the search happening now in rock creek park, coming up. i've spent my life planting a size-six, non-slip shoe into that door. on this side, i want my customers to relax and enjoy themselves. but these days it's phones before forks. they want wifi out here. but behind that door, i need a private connection for my business. wifi pro from comcast business. public wifi for your customers. private wifi for your business. strong and secure. good for a do

in 2016, "the washington post" profile him with a lead that read -- "thomas homan deports people and he's really good at it." they also reported monday that jon feere is slated to join the department of homeland security. he is a longtime employee of the center for immigration studies. the african union has agreed to readmimit morocco as a full l mr of the union 33 years after morocco quit the bloc over the status of morocco-occupied western sahara. on monday, 39 out of 54 states approved morocco's return to the union even though morocco's , occupation continues. western sahara has been occupied for 41 years. many consisider it to be afric's last colony. prosecutors have dropped felony rioting charges against four of the journalists who were arrested during street protests against t trump's ininauguration january 20 -- journalists evan engel, matt hopard, john keller, and alexander rubinstein. but journalists aaron cantu and shay horse are still facing felony charges. well over 200 demonstrators are also facing the charges, which carry a maximum 10 year prison sentence. the boy scout

. >> good morning, i'm thomas homan, the acting director for i.c.e. i can tell he was a great honor to be contacted and step up. my plans to retire were put on hold, and i did so because i chose to serve my country once again. for those who don't know me, i have been in immigration enforcement business for 33 years, i started on the front lines and in the office of investigations homeland security investigations for over 20 years and climbed the ranks there. now i'm on enforcement operations on the back end, i certainly know the immigration life cycle and how to enforce immigration law. i chose to come back and act in this capacity because of my concern for the communities in the safety of our communities. you know, folks, there are jurisdictions across the country where aliens are rusted, criminal aliens convicted of serious crimes that walk out of these jurisdictions without any cooperation with i.c.e., so they are back in the community. and that causes my officers to once again go out in the community, knock on the door, arrest somebody they should

unlike the firing of yates, the firing came with no explanation, he was replaced by thomas homan who worked for ice since 2013. >>> democratic snaenators led a protest of the immigration ban last night. protest came after senate republicans blocked the democrats efforts to overturn the executive order. meanwhile the state department says it will grant an exception for about 900 refugee who is were traveling when the immigration ban came down. does not apply to refugees from the seven nations who are barred from traveling to u.s. >>> meanwhile allentown family has ended up in the middle of the immigration fight. >> today they plan to take a new step toward fighting back. family members were sent back to middle east after landing in the philly international. joins us live in digital operation center with what they plan to do today. >> lawyers from a handful of groups including the aclu will file a lawsuit in federal court this morning. the family has been fighting the government's refusal to allow six relatives in the u.s. hours after they landed on saturday. relatives they were sent o

daniel ragsdale was replaced by thomas homan. he has been in ice and removal operations since 2013. there was no immediate reason given for the change, but the homeland security secretary john kelly said, i am confident that homan will continue to serve as a strong, effective leader for the men and women of ice. homeland security said late last night that daniel ragsdale returns to his full-time position as deputy director. >>> and now to the decision to give white house chief strategist steve bannon a seat on the principle's committee. the former nsa director michael hayden expressed concern saying the move seems to put ideology over the expertise of the director of the national security and the joint chiefs chairman. >>> and former obama senior adviser david axelrod is weighing in saying, he woke up as an alternative fact at press secretary sean spicer said this on "morning joe" and later at his press briefings. >> david axelrod attended national security meetings, as did robert gibbs. so all we did was become transparent and put down on paper who is going to attend. >> well, let'

a short time later trump made another personnel change naming thomas homan the new acting director of immigration and customs enforcement. this is what we heard from the white house press secretary last night. >> i think that they should either get with the program or they can go. hold on, hold on. this is -- this is about the safety of america. and there's a reason that the majority of americans agree with the president. is 'cause they understand that that's his number one priorit priority. >> now that's sean spicer. what he was referring to is word that dozens of diplomats drafted a formal letter of dissent. they argue it will mean a drop in international did that will towards commence david you're tracking spotty snow showers. >> spotty snow showers this morning. they'll start to build a little bit later on. storm tracker6 live double scan has been showing us that we are looking at some of that snow shower activity and right now i've actually got future tracker up showing you better temperatures for tomorrow so let me just flip this over real quick. i was in the middle of doing my

president trump has named thomas homan. be back tomorrow night with reaction to the supreme court picked. see you w then. >> bill: "the o'reilly factor" is on tonight. >> loud and clear! >> bill: massive controversy over president trump stopping some muslims from coming to the usa. but what is the real story here? "talking points" will lay it out. >> they are not properly vetted, you have extreme bedding -- vetting proposal. as a result, the implementation, we have seen some problems. >> bill: even some republicans are critical of mr. trump for not explaining the anti-terror problem clearly. charles krauthammer and brit hume have thoughts. >> bill o'reilly wants to know how you think this country ist doing right now. >> bill: also ahead, we are in california this evening, where jesse watters is causing some trouble. >> is bill o'reilly fair and balanced?

he was replaced by thomas homan who has worked for ice since 2013.town bound syrian family barred from entering the u.s. will take legal action this morning. >> attorneys for the family will file a federal lawsuit on their behalf to try to get them back to the united states from air issia. hours after they landed syria, relatives sent back despite having visas they worked 13 years to get. last night in easton, a rally to end the immigration ban. some folks there are new immigrants themselves. >> i wanted to see that we are not alone at all. i mean, we really last two nights i was really worried. i really had fear about what was going on. >> i will support the president in everything he does against illegal immigrants, but people who followed legal process and have not broken that process, deserve to come here. >> following what happens this morning. attorneys joining mayor philadelphia jim kenny in city hall to talk about what's next. >>> tonight president trump announce his choice to fill the vacancy on the u.s. supreme court. learned there are two

. >> in yet another swift move monday night, president trump naming thomas homan as the new acting director of u.s. immigration and customs enforcement, demoting dan ragsdale to deputy director. meanwhile, the president's travel ban met with growing outrage in washington and across the country. only ten days after leaving office, former president obama weighing in. a spokesman saying the protests are exactly what we expect to see when american values are at stake. trump's white house slamming any opposition. telling dissenting state department officials to quit their posts if they disagree with the policy. >> i think they should either get with the program or they can go. all this as president trump moves up his supreme court nomination announcement by two days, scheduling a prime time address tonight. >> i think you will be very impressed with this person. >> now, the person has met personally with at least three finalists for that supreme court position. that's to replace the year long vacancy of the late justice antonin scalia. cnn has learned that the two leading candidates are neil gor

this administration is, in fact, replacing daniel with thomas homan, someone who served as the executive associate director of ice. and he's 33-year veteran of law enforcement, he has 30 years of immigration experience according to the statement that was put out by the trump administration. so, what we can tell you at this hour is that the tone of this announcement very different and this may just be about the president wanting to bring in his own people. but, again, that official announcement didn't come with any explanation for why he was making this decision. of course, it comes on the -- on a night when there has been a lot of twists and turns. so, we're still tracking this and trying to get to the bottom of exactly what happened. >> white house correspondent kristen welker, at the end of a long day, they seem to bleed into the next day these days. kristen, thank you for joining us by telephone. also live with us by telephone is a law professor and constitutional scholar at yale university. his experience includes clerking for supreme court justice briar. and, professor, i've heard i

that the administration is, in fact, replacing daniel rusdale with thomas homan, someone who served as executive associate director of i.c.e. and he's a 33-year veteran of law enforcement. he has 30 years of immigration experience according to the statement that was put out by the trump administration. so what we can tell you at this hour is that the tone of this announcement, very different, and this may just be about the president wanting to bring in his own people, but, again, that official announcement didn't come with any explanation for why he was making this decision. of course, it comes on the nights -- on a night when there has been a lot of twists and turns and so we're still tracking this and trying to get to the bottom of exactly what happened. >> white house correspondent kristen welker at the end of a long day. they seem to bleed into the next day these days. kristen, thank you for joining us by telephone. also with us, live by telephone, is akeel reid omar, a law professor and constitutional scholar at yale university. his experience includes clerking for supreme court j

the president named thomas homan to the position late yesterday after firing acting ice director danieltch came just hours after president trump fired acting attorney general sally yates. homan is not new to ice...he has been with the agency for over thirty years, and was honored for deporting nearly one million undocumented immigrants in a three year span new this morning.... president trump will leave intact a 20-14 executive order that protects federal workers from anti-l-g-b-t-q discrimination. the white house released a statement earlier this morning. it says trump is, quote, "determined to protect the rights of all americans, including the l-g-b-t-q community." the directive protects people from l-g-b-t-q discrimination while working for federal contractors. and protests continue at san francisco international airport for a third straight day. demonstrators are gathering to protest president trump's travel ban. this is video from yesterday's protests one woman tells kron 4 that she waited four hours for her husband after he was detained. the couple has been in america for six mont

. >> the trump administration announced as i mentioned last night that the president's chosen thomas homanbe acting director of i.c.e., he's been involved for three decades as he mentioned in the press conference. most recently in charge of the obama administration actually their deportation of nearly three million undocumented immigrants. as you know, more than any other president ever before, what do you think about this choice and what does it tell you about the trump administration's priorities on immigration? >> i am mainly concerned about the trump's administrations attitude towards deportations. they have greatly strengthened and enlarged the definition of those that fall under a criminal category. and as a result, are going to probably be doing many, many more deportations, but my question is whether those deportations will make us any safer. for instance, if the criminal activity for which the person is being picked up for is due to the fact that they are undocumented, for instance, they are driving without a license, then is that -- is the picking up of that particular undocument

that the administration is, in fact, replacing daniel rusdale with thomas homan, someone who served as executive associate director of i.c.e. and he's a 33-year veteran of law enforcement. he has 30 years of immigration experience according to the statement that was put out by the trump administration. so what we can tell you at this hour is that the tone of this announcement, very different, and this may just be about the president wanting to bring in his own people, but, again, that official announcement didn't come with any explanation for why he was making this decision. of course, it comes on the nights -- on a night when there has been a lot of twists and turns and so we're still tracking this and trying to get to the bottom of exactly what happened. >> white house correspondent kristen welker at the end of a long day. they seem to bleed into the next day these days. kristen, thank you for joining us by telephone. also with us, live by telephone, is akeel reid omar, a law professor and constitutional scholar at yale university. his experience includes clerking for supreme court j

last night the president also announced the appointment of thomas homan as acting assistant secretaryhomeland security and director offer of ice. he has a long career at ice. most recently serving as the executive associate director for enforcement and removal operations. having a professional in place like this to serve as the acting director is critical to insuring the efficient administration of the president's agenda. one other update from a story yesterday, i hope you all saw the statement that was put out from the joint chiefs of staff where chairman dunford noted -- discussed the reorganization of the national security council, and he made it clear that he would continue to fully participate in the inner agency process and provide the best possible military advice to the president and members of the nsc. i really hope that that statement closes the book on the misleading narrative and this should hopefully be the final time we have to address what was in the national security directive. the family of the president also has -- the president also had a very somber and lengthy con

last night the president announced the appointment of thomas homan as acting assistant secretary of homeland security and director of i.c.e. mr. homan recently served as executive associate director for enforcement and removal operations, having a professional in place like this to serve as the acting director is critical to ensuring the efficient administration of the president's agenda. one other update from a story yesterday i hope you all saw the statement put out from the joint chiefs of staff, chairman dunford discussed the reorganization of the national security council, and he made it clear that he continues to fully participate in the inner agency process and provide the best possible military advice to the president and members of the nfc. i really hope that that statement closes book on the misleading narrative and hoflly be the final time we have to address what was in the national security directive. had, excuse me, the president also had a very somber and lengthy conversation with the family of chief petty officer william ryan owens. the president offered his sincerest condolen

, the president also announced the assistant secretary of home security and director of ic for thomas homan. he has a long career at ic eight recently serving as the associate director for enforcement and removal operations. having a professional in places like this to serve as the acting director is critical to ensuring the efficient administration of the president's agenda. one other update from yesterday, i hope you saw the statement put out by the joint chiefs of staff where chairman dunford discussed the reorganization of the national security council and stated he fully intends to continue to participate and provide the best military advice to the president and members of the nsc. i hope that statement closes the book on the misleading narrative and this should hopefully be the final time we have to address what was in the national security directive. the family of the president also had a very somber and lengthy conversation with the family of chief petty officer william ryan owens. the president offered his sincerest condolences to the officer's wife, his father, and their three chi