was referred to in shorthand. basically it was taking people showing up at the border seeking asylum and saying you have to stay in mexico while this is all adjudicated. there are shelters in suarez, preyed upon by kidnappers, yada, yada. the trump administration says we re reversing this policy. we don t want to do this anymore they get sued by texas and what does the lower court federal judge rule? this is actually quite unusual. this was a trump appointee in texas, matthew kizmarik and said that the policy decision had been underexplained by the administration, he actually ordered the administration to reinstate the policy pending the appeal. the appeal is going on but they gave the administration exactly a week to reinstate the policy. that prompted the emergency
compatriot, and is complaining about the procedure, they took him from his house, scared his dog, scared his wife. why the predawn arrest? there s a couple of reasons why you arrest somebody. one is he has been charged with committing a crime, not to be overly simplistic here, but that s one reason you arrest people. the other reason is because he was charged also with tampering with witnesses. when you re talking about obstruction of justice or witness tampering, even though he did not have a criminal record as far as i know, even though there s no crime of violence alleged, when you start to mess with the criminal justice system you re really waving a red flag. you re telling federal prosecutors and federal agents this might be someone you want to arrest. simply telling him to come in and present himself on a summons doesn t always work with people who obstruct justice. pete williams, let me ask you about some of the other highlights of this indictment, as you ve been going throu