Interviews with newsmakers and roundtable discussions cover the top news stories of the day. Interviews with newsmakers and roundtable discussions cover the top news stories of the day. Simply the fact that this strategy on the part of mueller and the other district of new york prosecutors may be working right now. One interesting question will be to what extent will there be information relating to state law charges against some of these people and that is legally significant because the president s pardon power does not extend to state law crimes. Harris all right, what you have seen with cohen and manafort and perhaps pecker and allen weisselberg, the cases, they have struck deals for immunity, you wouldnt imagine they would go anywhere legally. If the president wanted to pardon anyone, we are still within the zone with the previous men. State law doesnt tend to change that. As we look ahead in all of this, the president , though, does have something to consider as he is being asked
this is a war on teaching and a war on truth ultimately. it s very dangerous to the health of our democracy. look, i m talking to you from silver spring maryland 25 miles from where my great grand father was enslaved in gathers burg maryland. that happened. that s the truth. so many of our challenges are tied to that history around slavery and segregation and red lining. we can t wish it away. we can t bury it. if we do, we risk undermining our ability to improve our society. and that sadly, i think is the hope here that we sort of freeze our society in the systemic racism that plagued us since the beginning. i believe the place where john booth hid out was maryland, harriet tubman. some of it is disingenuous. a couple months ago he pretends
employed with that place for up to four years. is there a connection or cross-path between that and people on our southern border crossing in illegally? what do you see? look, this person was in the country illegally. this person admitted to killing this young lady. that is the two facts, right? he successfully hid out, hid from authorities for four years, doesn t make it okay. that is why in the last year and a half, i was pushing, we do prioritize criminals, 89% of everybody arrested had a criminal history. you can t forget about everybody else. you can t wait for them to commit a crime and make it a priority. we have to enforce immigration laws across the board, prioritize criminals. when i was acting ice director, i increased enforcement. take that magnet away, he came here to get a job f. that magnet would have been taken away, if we had a wall, the loophole in immigration system fixed who knows, if he wasn t here, the
my client was targeted because he regularly came to the united states on a daily basis to attend school. and he had a study pass which is a pass that allows drivers to come from mexico to the united states without having to wait in the normal lines that people have to wait in. so it saves people about two hours. but they have to go through a special screening in order to get this pass. and when they do, all they have to do is drive up to the certain point in the port of entry, show the pass, and then they get in. and they re targeted because they are relatively easy to get in with this pass. he was a sitting duck. he was easy prey, going back and forth, the cartels hid out. when you look at your client s case, luis and look at what we saw with yanira maldonado, what are some of the similarities you sydney. some of the similarities is that it is a people don t realize how beneficial it is for drug cartels to use people who
understanding of islam. reporter: benotman s risk would leave him vulnerable to attack. but after 2 1/2 years, it paid off. more than a simple peace agreement, the libyan jihadists issued their manifesto. more than 400 pages of complex religious arguments that challenge, point by point, the very justifications al qaeda uses to recruit young men to violence. translator: i have over 20 years experience in the libyan islamic fighting group. reporter: this prisoner, tariq durman, was picked up in jordan, where he was a commander running a cell. he d previously fought in afghanistan. hid out in suzanne sedan sudan yemen. reporter: we came to the conclusion that fighting skprinls was not the way forward. to start with, he book withed at sharia law, and there is no evidence in the koran or in the