proud of what the department of justice accomplished on my watch and the trump administration. in 1940 attorney general robert jackson explainedrn the governmt lawyers must at times risk ourselves and our records to defend our legal processes from discredit and toro maintain a dispassiona dispassionate, disinterested and impartial d enforcement of law even if it requires us to incur criticism. i took more than my share of criticism, but i kept the faith. i followed the rules and i left my office in good hands. those are the things that matter. a federal judgein has banned long-time trump ally roger stone from speaking publicly about his case. this after he was hauled back into court to answer for a controversial instagram post. nbc news chief white house correspondent hallie jackson has theon latest. reporter: roger stone is heading home not to jail for now and not to a tv studio either after a judge ordered stone to stop talking about his case.
rights organizations and attorneys that are all sort of getting together to try to give pro bono representation. to what extent they will be adequate numbers of people is an open question. but right now, most of these people have not seen their children. they re still in detention and as of a few days ago, there were 2,300 of them. i know even this week i followed the courts down where i am in brownsville, children at least until yesterday were still being taken. so it is going to be more than 2,300 peoplee time this is over. debbie nathan, so happy we had you back on. thank you very much. your article on intercept is an a abused woman came to the u.s. seeking asylum. the u.s. governmt to her son. she got him back. next up, lies, finger pointing, backtracking and flip-flopping. just another unbelievable week, and it is only thursday. in the trump white house.
28 for melendez there s people willing t take a look at somebody else. especially senator menendez has been in washington for 25 years. we have 46% undecided. that s a shift from where they ve been and looking now. my name recognition is going up. people get to know me, know i care about people and the issues of new jersey. we re going to put new jersey first. we reoptimist. that is dana: he laid his cards on the table for how he will attack you. it s because you have been involved in the pharmaceutical industry, you ve been successful. i think across the country democrats are going to focus on healthcare and the high cost of it and especially when it comes to prescription drug prices. the president said there s things we want to do from the federal governmt level. how do you plan to respond to those attacks? a couple different fronts we need to fix healthcare. you saw the latest funding
table on repeal and replace, and it s going to be politically unpalatable to go into 2018 without having fixed some of these problems with the marketplace. people would be in very dire straits and the republican party, because they are running all blanches ranches of governmt now, is going to be blamed for that. it s not even just on health care. you could add other republican senators who are standing up to him, lisa murkowski, and senator mccain on that powerful speech on the senate floor but what he s saying about the afghanistan, and we know about the quotes from the book by jeff flake. the honey moon is long over. is this just the beginning of what s to come? i think it is. first of all, these senators don t want the president, who has threatened to break obamacare, who has threatened to end these subsidies, because he knows that it would break obamacare, but that would also hurt millions of people, and that s what the senators don t
immigration laws. can we salvage the functional nation from two groups that despise each other? it s a real question. joining us tonight as a former new york city public advocate. he recently founded a shadow cabinet to oppose every action of the tromp administration. thanks a lot for coming on. thank you. congratulations. you have left my career go. talent plusen lock. i am walking on both. tucker: i have known you for a long time and i don t agree with your politics but i think you are smart and thoughtful. i want to talk you broughtht ths benefit wow specifically. there are always debates between the stateo and federal governmt as to who ought to have authority. that is the tension and the separation of powers, what you are seeing now seems to be different profoundly so. you have entire states, california among them, saying we don t recognize federal authority in important ways.