this is to you, if you can get on a plane in tripoli, libya, all right all right, anybody can get on plane. there is no government in place, no one is checking anything, the worst terrorists in the world get on a plane in tripoli, fly to paris, change planes, then, land in jfk eight hours later. our right? that is what this refugee thing is designed to stop. is it not? >> i think this is an executive order is designed to protect the american people, to make america safer, and to save american liv. if you look at what is happened with europe with a huge refugee influx there, thanks to angela merkel's disastrous open borders policy, europe has a massive problem. individuals who took place in the paris attacks and 2015 came in under the guise of being migrants. there is no doubt about it. isis is using the refugee flow in order to infiltrate europe. it will attempt to infiltrate the united states, as well. this is a forward-looking policy designed to preempt action by isis in the united states. to >> bill: i understand that theory. but gillian puts forth, she is certainly not alone, tha

the eu is currently training the tripoli's coast guard. he warned it was not enough. >> we hope the eu mechanisms to help libya will be more practical. we are not going to mention the amount of money dedicated to libya for this help because it is a humble amount. it is now the main gateway to europe with some 181,000 refugees arriving in 2016. sources say another 350,000 are still waiting in libya for brother -- for better weather conditions. the plan to reach a turkey style deal is widely supported. >> we have to call operate with them. it will be very vigilant and proactive. >> carbon migration and brags it may not be the most important issues on this agenda. fears that president trump's policies pose a threat to the eu are set to overshadow the evening. the council president concluded united we stand, divided we fall. the summit is supposed to show europe can keep it together in spite of trump, brexit, and the migration crisis. >> the u.s. president trump is questioning a deal struck the obama administration to take in 1600 3g's rejecte

you have a government in tripoli, backed by the muslim brotherhood, and supported by qatar and turkeyer on the ground at all. the muslim brotherhood supported government and is about to set up a new army, and in order to consolidate its power in the west. the problem is, which we are facing, haifa is a very clever man, i hate him personally because of the langley things, but anyway, what he is doing, he used the immigration card to put pressure on the west, on britain, italy, france and the united states, saying look, you ignore me, you don't recognise my services, my power, i will use this immigration card against you. and he used it very well. after six years, they are throwing in the towel, please come and help us. we have to leave it there. that's it for dateline london for this week. you can comment on the programme on twitter @gavinesler. we're back next week at the same time. make a date with dateline london. goodbye. north—west scotland seeing the best of the sunshine today, just as they did yesterday. elsewhere, plenty of cloud, some patchy rain, sleet and snow. the biggest a

you know, you have a government in tripoli and this government is backed by muslim brotherhoods and supportedon the ground. now the muslim brotherhood is about to set up a new government. the problem we are facing is haftar isa very the problem we are facing is haftar is a very clever man, despite — i hate him personally, because of a long time ago my leftist way of thinking. anyway, so what is he doing? he used the immigration card to put pressure on the west, on britain, italy, france and the united states. saying, "look, ok, you ignore me. you don't recognise my services. my power. i will use this immigration card against you." and he used it very well. after six years, they say, they throw the towel, saying, "please come and help us." towel, saying, "please come and help us." we will have to leave it there. that's it for dateline london this week. you can comment on the programme this week on twitter. you can engage with our guests. we're back at the same time. please make a date with dateline london, bye, bye. there is the potential for there is the potentialfor some rain across east ang

our guest, co-host of fox and friends, on fox news radio, also author of thomas jefferson and the tripoliates, brian. he is funnier than a clown choking on a whoopie cushion, writer dave d'angelo, thank you for dressing up. and dryer than my aunt linda's coffee cake. katherine. interesting fact, stonehenge are his toe nail, tyrus. all right. and that is it for tonight. join us tomorrow, brian, thank you, you came from pirro, you co-hosted a great job, with gene huber on. >> on the show, i didn't see the whole walk up until i saw the show, i never saw the cut away, it is an amazing story. >> it is amazing, what do you make of the, vent? >> as if he wrote the speech, it was so trump, there have been speeches before written for him, i thought he needed it. he looked to future, i thought in the beginning it of a bad idea, after i saw it it was a great idea. greg: that is typical. you change your mind. stay away from my notes, these are my notes. >> i had no idea. all right david. what did you make of it, people accused him of playing to his base. but didn't obama do that every time he went on

hypothetically, and isis killer could board a plane and say, tripoli, libya, with a fake passport andly to paris, to grow our flight, change planes,. nobody in libya will prevent that man. so, he would arrive here with a decent chance of entry. therefore, the president wants to impose stronger security oversight on nations like libya and six others that are in chao. federal law seems to favor the president. section 212 states "whenever the president finds that the entry of any aliens or any class of aliens into the united states would be detrimental to the interests of the united states, he may by proclamation and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens." the law seems pretty clear. so, president trump suspended immigration in seven countries for 90 days. in syria, he also stop also stop refugees from entering until further notice. enter the states of minnesota and washington, where the attorney general challenged the travel ban, saying it harmed individuals and businesses and was unconstitutional because it targeted muslims. federal judge in washin

hypothetically, an isis killer could board a plane in, say, tripoli, libya, with a fake passport, thenly to paris, two-hour flight, change planes, fly onto new york city. nobody in libya will vet that man. so he would arrive here with a decent chance of entry. therefore, the president wantsof to impose stronger security oversight on nations like libya and six others that are essentially in chaos.ya federal law seems to favor the president. section 212 states, "whenever the president finds that the entry of any aliens or any class of aliens into the united states would be detrimental to the interests of the united states, he may, by proclamation and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens." the law seems pretty clear. so president trump suspended immigration in seven countries for 90 days. in syria, he also stopped refugees from entering until further notice. enter the states of minnesota and washington, where the attorneys general challenged the travel ban, saying it harmed individuals and businesses and was unconstitutional because it targeted musli

anybody can get on a plane in tripoli, go to paris, change planes, and come to kennedy in new york. have objected to the order. why? >> first of all, let's back up. i affirmed the goal of what thef president is trying to do. fundamentally, we haven't taken borders seriously enough in this country for a really long time. and we need to do more rigorous vetting of people who are coming to this country, specifically from places where you have failed states. so syria and libya, where theree isn't functionally any central government. you have terror trainingin grounds. the goal of the order is a good goal. i affirm the president's objective there.nt the details also matter.iv we're the kind of nation that keeps our word. we have translators who fought alongside american troops -- >> bill: that has all been corrected, from what i understand. >> my criticism was that the rollout was so clunky -- >> bill: now you are okay with that? >> there is a a lot of details to be worked out in the implementation. people working in the airports trying to implement, there are details that general kelly

and now, there is a book on the best-selling list about jefferson and the tripoli pirates. one reason is because each of the founders have been the subject of massive documentary res research into their papers and one into the 20th century, and each of those collections have been going towards a glacial pace that we now have for the founders as a whole, the fullest documentary record ever put together for to a political elite inle world history. all you have to do is to sit down and read 87 volumes of the washington papers, which i had to do, and the material there. there's the second reason that i think that the founders are in vogue. we are unhappy with the current political leadership. we believe that the gold standard is back there in the late 18th century, and the current leadership, republican and democrat, represents a debased form of the currency. or as henry adams the grandson of john put it in the middle of the 19th century, you look at the history of the american presidency chronologically, and you have to believe that darwin got it exactly backwards. [ laughter

organisation said the bodies were found near the town of zawiya and will be taken to the capital tripoliions estimates that 5000 migrants drowned trying to cross the mediterranean to europe last year. government finances were £9.4 billion in surplus injanuary, according to the office for national statistics. the first month of the year traditionally sees a surplus, because of the high level of income tax receipts — but this is the biggest january surplus for 17 years. our business editor, kamal ahmed explained why this is good news for the government. the main reason since the referendum the economy has performed better than people thought which means we are paying more taxes, whether we are paying more taxes, whether we are individuals or businesses and that means the government is borrowing less. of course that means the chancellor has a bit of wriggling room looking forward to the budget of next month, could he spend a little bit more money on that toxic issue of business rates, ease some of that pain, could he pay a bit more money and spend more money on the nhs which we have been re

thomas jefferson and the tripoli pirates. many of these authors have or will be appearing on book tv. you can watch them on our website booktv.org. >> it's a rapid pace of change. i think what people are saying, and i hope it won't be in an overly destructive way is that we want government to slow down a little bit. we want a little more sense of control slow down the pace of change. we live in an era of very rapid technological change. people feel dislocated as a result. what they are saying is we want a level of government control. we realize government can't stop the world, but they can control the pace of change. i think that the commonality between what's going on here and in europe. it seems to me it's a challenge are setting up for yourself. >> politics or how we balance the different demands of society. if you look at the trade stuff and you go back to the vote on the tokyo world trade agreement, 1979, the house bill was 395 in favor and four against. overwhelmingly the american people and their representatives are in

but i did have access to salafists in other countries, so i went to lebanon, to tripoli where they all are, and i started reading back to them their tweets that they had tweeted in arabic. and the, at least three salafists said i didn't tweet that, somebody else did. [laughter] and so what's interesting and, you know, we can in another conversation get into sort of the power of the internet and social media. but because i think it encourages people to be more aggressive than they would be normally. >> yeah. >> and to create more hostility. but they were trying the con to vince me that they -- convince me that they didn't tweet that. and so, you know, and then finally it was one particular salafist who i said, okay, so if you didn't tweet this, just answer a question. do you think the shia are real muslims? and he said, no. so, you know, if you, if you sort of -- i think that the danger of twitter in addition to a lot of other dangers is that it gives people the license to be much more aggressive, and if they had to confront to strangers like me or to anybody be else outside of their co