specifically. it was a couple days later that the white house counsel said it doesn t apply to green card holders. this one will be for explicit. secondly, this one will say that anybody who is in the air when the executive order goes into effect will be allowed to enter the country. that shoulreduce the kind of chaos at the airport that we s when the original executive order was rolled out. secondly in terms of immigration we had the new memos from the department of homeland security today. telling in essence the nation s federal law enforcement officers, i.c.e. and cvp how to carry out the president s executive orders from january how to get people heringly back into their countries of origin, out of the country. same topic but two different aspects of the topic. right. karen, let me start with you. immigration. when sean spicer was asked what they would be what he would consider, what this administration considers being a
going to see deportation for this? is this mass deportation? sean spicer said no. it remains to be seen. we know from the first we heard of this it created a lot of fear and anxiety in communities across this country whereas sean spicer and president trump have stood there and said it s only bad guys and drug dealers, but that s not actually true. we ve seen mothers and fathers and families with mixed status where their children are now here in the united states and their parents have been deported. talk about the expanded definition of a felon that we might end up seeing. i think the important thing here is that we all agree our immigration system is broken. we need to fix it. there is aore sensible and humane way to handle this. but simply not enforcing the law shouldn t be the default action. there are folks out there who wonder why there was so much emphasis on president obama, quote, unquote, not enforcing the law when he ultimately did deport more people than past
talked about in the past prioritized what we go after first, second, third. the president has made it very clear he understands the plight of some of those individuals. he s got a big heart. he understands the impact it has on many families and many communities. but we will continue to develop policies that will address that. and again today s focus is specifically on those two executive orders. i m going to limit it to that. sean. yeah. at the beginning of the month, senator john mccain sent a letter to the president requesting that the administration provider arms to ukrainians fighting russian separatists within their country. when will the president respond to senator mccain s letter? and what is the administration s position on lethal aid to ukrainians fighting russian separatists? i don t have anything for you on. that i ll try to get back to you on that i know we are pleased
country and why he is going to enact the policies he is going to enact. john, george i m sorry. thanks sean. let me ask you about the vice president s european trip. yes. i m curious whether he received any commitments from our european allies to commit more in terms of their financial contributions to nato? i think several of them, i saw chancellor merkel s comments previous to that noting that they understand that the u.s. is asking for that commitment. look, we are one of the only countries there is a handful that are doing what nato requires, which is 2% of gdp, some are at one point something, and some are below that. we have got to ask them to do what they agreed to do. i think we have had a positive reaction from most of the nato countries that understand that the financial commitment that they agreed to is something they need to live up to. i think the vice president continued to receive assurances much like the president has through his foreign leader calls where p
through on it. is it an ongoing process? of course. we need to follow up to ensure that the commitments they are making are followed up. dave. sean, thanks. the dhs memos today, obviously, these immigration enforcement efforts cost money, hiring more agents. right. do you indicate that the current budget is sufficient? right now i.c.e. and dhs in particular as well as cvp are looking at what this is going to cost and how much and putting a request together and figuring out how much can go handled through reallocations how much we can save in another area then we will work with congress. one other subject, there was an election record report out today that the president raced more small donations in 2016 than hillary clinton or bernie sanders campaigned. did they have a reaction to that? i would advise you to go through the rnc on that.