Continues right now. And and im rob schmidt. Jillian the start your day with us. Rob a federal judge throwing a big wrench in the Trump Administrations plans to end protection for Illegal Immigrants who into this country as children. Jillian this comes after the immigration debate heated up with donald trump and a Major Campaign promise. Should be a bill of love. We can do it. Can we do it without the wall . No. Jillian where do we go from here . Griffin can live in washington dc with all of that. Reporter the department of justice responding to the judges decision to temporarily block the administrator and if decision to end daca, the doj responding in a statement of fox news saying, quote, this doesnt change the department of justice position on the fact. Daca with implement unilaterally after congress declined to extend these benefits to illegal aliens. As such, it was an unlawful circumvention of congress. They continue that they will defend vigorously their position. Donald trump,
Developed a plan to force out secretary of state Rex Tillerson, whose relationship with President Trump has been strained and replace him with mike pompeo, the cia director perhaps within the next several weeks. Trump today dodged questions about tillersons future, lets listen. Do you want Rex Tillerson on the job, mr. President . Hes here, document him to stay in his job . Thank you very much, everybody. Its been widely reported tillerson, whos often disagreed with the president on policy, could leave the administration by the years end. In october, msnbc news reported that tillerson had openly disparaged the president , referring to him as a moron. White house chief of staff john kelley was said to have put the plan in place, but both state department and white house officials publicly say tillerson isnt going anywhere yet. What i can tell you is that chief of staff kelley called our department this morning and said that the rumors are not true. That those reports are not true. When
Mental gymnastics. Up and down. Ive heard that before. Up and down. Up and down. Donald trump has plenty of love hate relationships. So is Steve Bannons mea culpa enough to bring him back into President Trumps loving inner circle . You have to take the oath, you know. Michael wolffs new book describes a white house in chaos. We also have with us Steven Miller. No, we wont. That was something. Holy moly. I could have told you. The thing is, i dont know if were supposed to be shocked by that, but barnicle no. We saw that last season, in the debut season of trump the presidency. I already saw that Steven Miller episode and was like, wait a second. I dont know what this is. Maybe one of his principle policy advisers sent on to, i mean, embarrass himself, speaking as jake tapper aptly pointed out, to an audience of one. Audience of one. It was horrifically embarrassing. When you worked, elise, for other president s and the state department, we would actually send people that worked for the
Over what the president really wants, and of course its far from over. Democrats say they have the votes to block it in the senate, and if they do, or if republicans cant agree among themselves and a shutdown happens, that would make history. The first one ever when the same Party Controls congress, the white house. A lot to get to. We continue our coverage from the capitol. What do we know about how this vote came together . Reporter well, anderson, its a day that started with confusion. The president seemingly to imply he was opposed to a key element of this bill. It continued with fierce lobbies behind the scenes by republicans. With recognition they were going to get no democratic help. They needed to do this themselves. There were conservatives that had real problems with the scale and scope of what this government funding bill would actually do. But by the middle of the day, i was told by top leadership aides that speaker ryan and his team felt like they were in a good place. In