administration with laws about both immigration and about voting rights that were being promulgated by a midwestern politician, conservative politician named chris cobat, who was essentially writing and shipping these bills out treating states like they were laboratories, trying different versions of bills in different states. the arizona immigration bill was very restrictive. the papers, please, app. they tried something that was even stricter in alabama that would have stripped the rights of american citizen children and other children whose parents weren t documented to go to school. that s always been the trajectory of this litigation. it s no surprise that there are a number of groups and individuals vying in this space on abortion. mike schmidt at the new york times has a brilliant piece of reporting this morning talking about the origins of the texas bill written by a former law clerk for justice scalia. so i think the question you re asking, and it s an important question, is
quite friendly, what is the 120 days expiring, most courts would say the issue is moot, doesn t matter anymore because they backtracked it. i think this is a big splash to say he has compliant with his campaign promise, maybe he has, but we are skipping over the fact that congress has to act peer republican senate, republican house, republican president, let s skip these lawsuits. jenna: only 20 seconds, you are very involved and offer the arizona immigration bill, sorry about that, they added the correction. do you think because of this move by president trump that perhaps it will add some momentum for immigration reform down the line? preach on. it could possibly spur congress to act, but i think the important part is the president already has many statutes on the books already that can be enforced, in this one is a long overdue reform. part of this executive order included looking at our refugee program. since the 1990s, we have 18 major terrorist coming into the
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
humanitarian crisis right here on our soil. hundreds of children who illegally crossed the border in texas are being dumped in arizona without parents. the federal government green lighting the move to alleviate overcrowding in texas detention centers. why are these people being kept in warehouses? we have nowhere to put them and we need billions to support them. joining us is kansas secretary of state, also the authored arizona immigration bill. chris, why now? well, this is a direct consequence of what s happening right now is a direct consequence of a policy that president obama s administration put into place before the election in 2012. you may remember in june of that year, obama announced this deferred action directive where he ordered ice agents to break the law and to allow illegal aliens who claim they came to the country before the age of 16
i could not see going out on stage and having a party without first finding some sort of peace with what took place. he also reveals why he s rapping again. i m a bit of a king in the rap world, sir. you really are. they re talking about you in every club. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening, big story tonight. truth, power and the media, colliding like never before in the newsroom. alan sorkin gave us the west wing and social network and now taking on cable news, i ll talk to him in a moment and jeff daniels plays the cynical anchorman and who he based his character on and the hit maker with a hit show, l.l. cool j and opening up about his private life and what it really means to be a role model. first, the big story, hbo s newsroom. now the show s creative writer. alan sorkin and jeff daniels. welcome to you both. i was at the premier of the newsroom in new york, a very gradios affair with all the great of media there, lots of cable news anchors racin