Republican ken paxton, thank you, sir, for being here. Appreciate t we also have with us, kevin diaz, with the houston chronicle, the washington correspondent for them. And josh who is senior White House Reporter for politico. Josh, today. Republican ken paxton, thank you, sir, for being here. Appreciate t we also have first go ahead. Welcome, mr. Attorney general. Wanted to start by asking you about i think one of the programs or controversies you have been associated with most recently which is the daca program for dreamers. Litigation threatened by your Office Appears to have spurred the Trump Administration into winding that program down. At a hearing just a few weeks ago in new york, a federal judge seemed very perturbed by the way the wind down was carried out. He called it, unacceptable to me as a human being and as an american, and he also called the winding down of that program heartless. How do you react when you hear those kinds of comments about a policy change that many pe
Citizenship. Its not a permanent fix. If congress chooses to make changes to this law to do so through the process set forth by our founders. Deirdre that was u. S. Attorney general Jeff Sessions laying down the loft announcing president President Trumps decision to phase out what he calls unconstitutional obama era protections for socalled dreamers or immigrants who were brought into the u. S. Illegally as children. Putting the ball in the congress is court with this giving them a sixmonth window to fix fix it. Welcome to risk and reward i am cheryl casone. Great to have you here. A lot of news to get two for the day. Well we will start with what happened on wall street, the triple digit dow dropped. That dao diving more than 200 points as north koreas latest bond test watt rattled wall street. We will talk about the impact on your portfolio and now the ball is in congress as court to act on the controversial obama era executive order is calling for deferred action on the illegals who
Published by the clinton the ministration. We want to know your view. If you are in a Law Enforcement, host . If you are in Law Enforcement, 2027488000. Experience with the criminal Justice System, 2027488001. And all others, call 2027488002. While we wait for your calls to come in lets go back to the cspan archives to show you what bill clinton had to say when he signed the bill into law, describing what it would do. Bill clinton when this bill is law three strikes and you are out will be the penalty of the land. The penalty for killing a Law Enforcement officer will be death. [applause] we will have the means by which we can say punishment will be more certain. We silwill cut the federal workforce over a period of year its 270,000 positions to lowest level in 30 years and take all of that money to pay for this crime bill. [applause] the savings will be used to put 100,000 Police Officers on the street, a 20 increase. It will be used to build prisons, to keep 100,000 violent criminals
To the advocacy groups more broadly to the changes . Are you still absorbing it . A wait and see approach . Thanks for the question, lynden. The American Immigration Lawyers Association ultimately opposed the secure Communities Program that mary described. There was so much controversy about the program. We opposed it largely based on the impact within the communities as well as the legality and the constitutionality of the detainer hold requests being used on a widespread basis where immigration Customs Enforcement would request that a local Law Enforcement agency would hold somebody for a longer period of time foreign a immigration purpose even though the local Law Enforcement agency was done with that purposes. Ala ultimately opposed secure communities. And as lynden was flagging on november 20th when the memo came out we were pleased that the secretary had signalled a need for a reboot of the program. The memo that the secretary issued specifically referenced conference that severa
Donald ritie, thank you for ing with us on america history. The senate jority leader i not a position in the constitution. How did the job evolve . That puzzles a lot of people. We once had a former speaker of the house contact us and say i was the president pro perso ray in the pro tempore but not the majority leader because e speakers of e usee the nate majority leader as their equivalent, their functional equivalent on the senate side. Ofourse the speaker of the house is written ito the constution, and the president pro tempore is. But no mention of a majority leader or minority leader and thats because the constitutn did n ancipatepolitical parts. I think they thoughat it was probably gng to happen, but they didnwant to encoure litica parties. Theyake no provision for it. And for most ofthe history of thesenate we had no jority lead. Om 1789 until 1913 there was noajit leader ofth senate. There re chairmen committees who wld sort of take care of things on the floor, there were th a