Parliament begins the debate on triggering the formal exit process. Hello, welcome to 100 days. Im Katty Kay In Washington, Christian Frasers in london. There is no room for dissent. The message from the white house to american Civil Servants if you dont agree with President Trumps agenda, then it is time to leave. And the first to go was the Attorney General sally yates, who refused to enforce the president s temporary ban on refugees and visa holders from seven majority muslim countries. In her place, mr trump named this man dana boente. Hell run Thejustice Department until Senatorjeff Sessions is confirmed by the senate. In the past couple of hours, the secretary for Homeland Security, john kelly, has been taking questions about the president S Immigration order. He insisted it is not a ban on almost than is coming to the United States. The vast majority of the 1. 7 billion muslims that live on this planet, the vast majority of them, all other things being equal, have access to the
the new york times magazine. a big thanks for all of you being with me on a friday. goldman, let s start with barr, the president s pick to be attorney general, considered widely to be a mainstream republican choice. however, he did write in an editorial early last year that trump was right to fire sally yates for not defending his executive order on immigration. the washington post found this quote from a bob woodward book, that he regularly considered firing lawrence walsh. your general opinion of mr. barr? i think he is far more in the mainstream conservative legal circles and well established as bona fide have been well established, not just because he was the attorney general for bush, but in his subsequent career. i think we need to take a lot of these comments with a little bit of a grain of salt because it s very different to be a commentator on the outside and then go on the inside, and for example, with his comments about
do you expect barr to limit the mueller probe, for example, in any way if in fact he becomes the attorney general, if he is confirmed by the u.s. senate? a statement like that is going to appeal to trump. rebecca mentioned he also said it was okay to fire james comey. he also said it was okay to fire sally yates. he also said it was okay to look into hillary clinton. so he really does check a lot of the boxes in terms of whether he is going to limit the mueller probe, if if he is nominated, not only republican senators are going to push him on that because they ve been pushed to have this mueller protection legislation. so far mitch mcconnell and several other republicans have said it s not necessary because they don t believe that the president is going to fire mueller. you have to imagine the next ag is going to be held to that, and be held to his answers that he gives the committee should he be nominated. as you know, laura, we could see some significant developments in the russ
takes us one more tweet toward a constitutional crisis. congressman meeks, look at the pattern of what i call the slow motion saturday night massacre. he gets rid of comey, got rid of mccabe. he got rid of yates. he s just going down the list. now he s going after this guy rosenstein who is a apparently a lifelong republican because he s in his way. i think he is. we all know he s heading for mueller firing anybody that dares to challenge him in terms of enforcing the law. which is why my colleagues on the republican side of the aisle from the leadership on down and olympian announce, the track they re going down is baffling. they have a responsibility. our first responsibilities as a separate branch of government is to make sure that we protect and preserve our institutions. and for them to become co-conspirators with this president to begin or to try to discredit and turn and tear down this institution where we ve been following, you know, what
show on for nine years called about firing people. he ended up firing people. now it s reality tv again. here s the president of the united states in his slow motion i can fire comey, i can fire mccabe, i can fire sally yates. i can fire rosenstein. he does it relentlessly with the same sort of grinding power. now he has a pretext to do it again and fire rosenstein in the next few days for all we know. out of watching that or reading the memo, the thing that stuck out to me, what s the big news here? when you start looking at the one paragraph that lists sally yates, james comey you start realizing one of these names is not like the other. only one is still employed. even though there s to do about the memo, it s about that one paragraph. it s an indictment. did you notice they weren t redacted? he didn t want the names redacted, jonathan? he wanted the names in there. he did. there were people who obviously wanted the names redacted obviously. but with regards to rosenstein, i