Orders to roll back the Affordable Care act, expedite environmental reviews for truck projects and issued orders on immigration including one that authorizes work on a new wall along the u. S. Mexico border, triples the number of immigration officers and cuts off federal funding to sanctuary cities. Heres what President Trump said. From day one ive said it, and i mean the immediate removal of criminal aliens. Theyre going to be gone fast. And finally, at long last, cracking down on sanctuary cities. And joining me now with a closer look at immigration are republican strategist sean walsh and kqed Senior Editor of california politics and government, scott shafer. Welcome to you both. We will get to you the issue of undocumented immigrants in just a moment. Sean, let me first ask you about something that just happened this afternoon. President trump signed an executive order that severely curtails the Refugee Program to keep out radical islamic terrorists. Will that actually do anything
More. Congressman, welcome. Thank you for having me back on. I want to ask you something that happened this week about donald trump, the president , of course, tweeting that perhaps u. C. Berkeley should lose its funding as a result of of the protests and cancelation of a right wing speaker. Hes threatened funding for sanctuary cities such as san jose and San Francisco. As a member of the Budget Committee, is that just bluster to you, or how seriously do you take it . I certainly dont think my republican colleagues would go along with that type of intimidation. There are many people who believe in the first amendment. Im hopeful that on the Budget Committee i will be able to convince republicans and democrats not to do that. Of course i disagree with that. Any of the president s tweets, that type of intimidation messages. On the other hand, theres a possible funding hit on obamacare, the Affordable Care act. The republicans have talked about repealing that. California gets about 15 bil
After they heard oral arguments. President trump vowed to fight on. He tweeted, see you in court. The security of our nation is at stake. So well be doing something very rapidly, having to do with additional security for our country. Youll be seeing that sometime next week. In addition, we will continue to go through the Court Process and ultimately i have no doubt that well win that particular case. And joining me now to discuss the case and other legal developments are Melissa Murray, interim dean of uc berkeley law school. Kqed Senior Editor of california politics and government, scott shafer, welcome to you both. We just heard what President Trump said this morning. Its a mixed message it seems. What does that mean . He seems to be implying there might an new executive order, but theyre also going to push something through the courts . They have 14 days to ask for whats called an enbanc review from the full ninth circuit, they could also decide to appeal right to the Supreme Court.
Recent measures to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. President trump as a way to bring back coal mining jobs. My administration is putting an end to the war on coal. Weve financial to have clean comb, really clean coal. With todays executive action, i am taking historic steps to lift restrictions on american energy, to reverse government intrusion and to can sell jobkilling regulation. But critics say the order will do little to help the coal industry since other source of energy, like natural gas are already cleaner and cheaper. Joining me now from the academy of scientists, jonathan foley. Nice to have you here. Thanks, for having me here today. What is your reaction of president trumps rolling back mandate fighting Climate Change . Theyre down right bizarre the climate is clear its bad for the u. S. Economy and our interests around the world. Also, these measures wont bring back coal jobs. Those jobs have been gone. They have been replaced by automation and machine. They will not ben
Scene of intense political clashes in recent months. So much so that on wednesday, u. C. Berkeley canceled the appearance of right wing pundit ann coulter out of safety concerns. A day later, the university reversed itself and invited coulter back. Joining me to talk about this further is frances dinkelspiel, cofounder of berkeleyside. Com. Thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. Theres been a flurry of activity in the last 24 hours. Bring us up to speed. What are the details of u. C. Berkeleys new proposal, and how are ann coulter and the Berkeley College republicans reacting to that, that group being the Group Florida invited her . The university that group that invited her . The University Extended an olive branch to coulter and the College Republicans saying, look, we cant accommodate you april 27th, but well accommodate you may 2nd. It turns out that that date is not available supposedly to ann coulter, and shes not happy its in the middle of dead week, when no students