executive order i didn t see any specific direction. jacob, unless you did. no. something that occurred to me, if the administration doesn t get an exemption from the floors settlement, they basically have 20 days to figure this out. a great point. the executive order directs the attorney general to petition the judge who oversees that consent degree to be allowed out of the 20 day part of that consent degree. if they don t, they have 20 days to literally set up tent camps on army bases around the country. right. there is also just a question of what the court is going to do, right? i mean, this is facially an assault on one of the conditions of the flores consent decree what was the ruling in 2017 that the administration habit poing. to this is going to be litigated very quickly. we would imagine the plaintiffs in floor are going to file a motion quickly as well. if we wanted to get ahead in terms of places families may be detained together they were looking at fort bliss in
there is pattern in two respects. one is that the family detention that was pursued by the obama administration in 2014 through 2016 was essentially struck down under the consent degree called flores in 20 is where they said you can t hold people for 20 days because you can t hold kids. here s what the trump executive order is setting up, a collision course for the courts. we have seen this twice before. it looks a similar to me as the travel ban 1.0 rescinded, followed up with 2.0, rescinded. followed up by 3.0. we have a daca rule which is awaiting further litigation. what we may wind up with here is an judicial holding pattern because it would seem this executive order is in violation of a court order. a big question is what
james comey faces another investigation. new development on the family separation controversy at the border. it is becoming clear who is behind the policy and where the trump administration will go from here. trace gallagher examines the consent degree you may not have heard about until today but that clinton era ruling is where the current controversy started. welcome to fox news at night. number of major stories breaking but we begin with the latest in the investigation into the investigators. prominent senators accusing christopher ray of trying to minimize stunning findings of anti-trump bias into my around 2 of the house panel, team coverage tonight, details on what is next as the gop aims to overhaul the current immigration system, kristin fisher following the national enquirer over separating of the family speaking to a head today but catherine herridge is here with new developments and trouble
george w. bush struggled with it. president obama. now president trump. people looking to get into the country illegally figured out if you bring along children, it may be your children or in some cases it s not your children. you have an easier time staying illegally. we d all as the current first lady tweet said we would all like to see a different outcome here. we don t want to see the families separated. but to say we are enforcing the law and arresting people seems reasonable. it s a consent decree that means you can t bring the children along if someone is arrested. eric: consent degree from 1997 says you can t house arrested adult with the children at the same time. so are the administration hands tied? or could the president say we ll stop this. i think you need legislation or you can go to court to change that consent decree.
ii. you were on capitol hill last week speaking with the ceo of facebook. this was a highly anticipated hearing before a committee that you are on, the energy and commerce committee. what were you most concerned about? i watched closely the senate hearing the day before. senator ed markey talking a lot about having people elect to give away their privacy first of all, outlining concrete things that this company should be doing. as you walk away from that house hearing the following day, were you satisfied that this company knows what it needs to do? i don t know the answer to that, but i had suggested that facebook look to legislation which i am a co-sponsor, the browser legislation, that would require opting in by the american people, instead of opting out. and it would apply across the board to edge providers, as well as isps. i think that s the move that should occur, that we should pass that legislation. also there was a consent degree in 2001 between facebook and the