To protect our borders and to protect our country. Julie doug mcelway is live from the white house this morning. Bill were headed for another major showdown immigration after the president signaled his intention to sign an executive order ending birthright citizenship saying it lures many illegals here for the purpose of producing anchor babies. President trump you can do it with an act of congress, but now theyre saying i can do it just with an executive order. How ridiculous, were the only country in the world where a person comes in, has a baby and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States for 85 years with all of those benefits. Its ridiculous. Its ridiculous and it has to end. Sarah sanders was asked just this morning what Legal Authority the white house is citing to sign this executive order when many legal scholars says the 14th amendment can only be done through another constitutional amendment. There are a number of things allowed under the law. Were looking at al
Tester are proving false. The secret service is unable to confirm and deny any of the phony democrat charges. Tester should resign. The great people of montana will not stand for this kind of slander when talking of a great human being. Add mir jacksmiral jackson is t man that those in montana would most respect and admire and now for no reason whatsoever, his reputation has been shattered. No fair, tester reporter as the president assigns blame for the bungled confirmation process of Ronny Jackson, it suggests he isnt taking on wnership for not properly vetting jackson. The president , we believe, retrur really trusted his gut, his own rapport with jackson and nominated him for a position that many republicans and democrats say he was not qualified for. Today the president is targeting tester because, one, hes a red state and hes responsible for bringing to light the allegations that derailed his approval process. Senators say they take very seriously their responsibility to vet nomin
Joseph moreno, jack quinn, former white House Counsel during the clinton administration, dana bash is with us, and Gloria Borger is also here. Gloria, youre getting some new news about Michael Cohen, his legal team at this critical mom been with him for many months, now gone . Yeah, gone, probably by the end of the week. Theyve got some wor to finish up, reviewing an awful lot of documents. And were not quite sure exactly what the reason is. I was told this morning that theyre parting ways because Michael Cohen wants attorneys who are very familiar with the Southern District of new york, where he potentially faces criminal charges. The New York Times is reporting that it was over legal fees. So we dont quite know the answer, and we are also speculating here, that this could signal a shift in legal strategy. Weve been told that cohen has not met with anyone from the prosecutors office. And were not sure whether he is interested in cutting a deal or whether the prosecutors are interested
That this switch may have something entirely to do with the Southern District of new york who has been handling this probe. Thats right, brooke. There appear to be various reasons why this i happening now. Theres a deadline on friday for going over 300,000 r them to pages of documents, plus another million items that were turned over as part of this raid. But theres also the matter of the fact that this is an investigation being handled out of the Southern District of new york in manhattan. So the law firm that Michael Cohen has been using is a washington law firm, a very prestigious law firm. They were handling his investigation, his testimony here in congress and as well as the new york investigation, which, as you remember, was at least partly referred or at least partly began as a result of a referral from Robert Mueller to special counsel. So now theyre apparently at a very crucial stage where one person told me theyre moving into a new phase of this case. This is a criminal case
More likely and could it also signal something greater, like cooperation . Evan, tell me more about the split from the lawyer. Reporter this appears to be happening at a crucial time because the legal team has been spending hundreds of hours going over millions of pages of documents that were seized in that raid that you talked about back in april when the fbi came to his hotel and his office and took away all these documents. Theyve been going over all the documents to make sure that they separate anything that is privileged. So hes under tremendous financial pressure, its very expensive to hire the white shoe law firms that have been representing him both in the congrenal investigation and the federal, the fbi criminal investigation. So its a key moment for Michael Cohen. We also know that obviously the pressure from prosecutors here is something that there is this pressure to perhaps make a deal and provide whatever information prosecutors believe they need as part of their investig