other committees. trying to get to the bottom of that. the kansas attorney general who helped write part of the immigration order over the weekend. sir, how are you, good morning and welcome. i want to get to the bottom of really the order is. do you believe this is on solid legal footing. based on your input or the input of others, what was important about drafting it to make sure that it s legal? well, the legal footing is absolutely unquestionable. title 8 section 1182s of the u.s. code says the president, whenever he believes it s in the interest of the united states, can suspend the entry of any alien or class of aliens and there is another section of the legal code that gives him the authority to set refugee levels. the legal question is not a close one. one of the things we saw on the transition team and speaker ryan mentioned this, too, the refugee program has been abused for many decades. just since the 90s, bill, there
funeral, people who want to go to their dads funeral in two months. they have been trying to get to them to see them. they are not going to be able to do that. with those of the stories we are hearing and i think the way this was handled was callous, but it also created chaos. bret: as we put up the seven countries involved, the administration is 22 immigration law and they are also pointing to the obama administration, singling out these seven countries. federal immigration law includes section 1182 which states whenever the president finds the entry of any aliens or class of aliens would be detrimental to the interests of the united states, he may by proclamation suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants or impose any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate. that a section 1182. he has the right to do this. i think that will be
be a great thing to challenge. it is not this thing. this is not a muslim ban. a court is not going to read into it that this is a religious test because it excludes most of these other countries. a judge is not going to get ahead of herself on this, she s not going to look at it to say i don t think the president is right on this. the judges tend not to do that. jenna: advisor to president trump and attorney as well, and francisco hernandez, immigration attorney and author of the arizona immigration bill, great to have you both. it is a hot conversation. there are a lot of different sides to this. i m curious, just had the news that the state of washington is filing a lawsuit, federal lawsuit to try to stop president trump s executive action peer do they have a case? i don t think they do. you mentioned some of those stats we have had over the year, the statutory authority for the president to do this is very clear, title eight, section 1182f and the u.s. code and it says whenever
i don t like this order. i think it s a terrible mistake. but that doesn t go into the legal analysis. the court has been extremely deferential to presidents. on the border. in fact, president obama just last year was telling the court that courts shouldn t be second guessing the decisions based on national security or immigration from the president. in 1882, you had the really infamous chinese exclusion act, which was upheld. then you have things like section 1182 of the federal law that gives sweeping authority to the president to withhold either individual aliens or groups of aliens. all of that works to the advantage of president trump. what is not going to happen, i don t think, is that i do not believe a federal court will view this as a muslim ban. i don t think the court can. regardless of what the court may think of president trump s motivations, the fact that other muslim countries are not included is going to move that off the table. and what s going to be left is
administration. she froze the action of the party fls this case because she believed she believed there would the damage unless she did so. the law does favor president trump in this regard. i don t like this order. i think it s a terrible mistake. president obama was telling the court that courts shouldn t be second guessing the decisions based on national security or immigration from the president. in 1882, you had the really infamous chinese exclusion act that was upheld and you have things like section 1182 of the federal law that gives sweeping authority to the president to withhold either individual aliens or groups of aliens. all of that works to the advantage of president trump. what is not going to happen, i don t think, i do not believe a