remember, isis said they re actively trying to exploit this law. honestly, i get that part. i m just saying wouldn t you rather the president confer with lawmakers who represent the people? we prefer consistency. how about when the cuban adjustment act at the end of the obama administration, where was the the outrage from the president, where was the outrage from the left and the democrat party when the president unilaterally changed that policy, people fleeing a dictator to come here. president obama is now no longer president. i have to interrupt you, congressman, i apologize, senator orrin hatch is giving an impromptu press conference. they should be ashamed. they should be ashamed. as you see, senator orrin hatch, saying the democrats should be ashamed. yesterday he called the democrats idiots for blocking
going to do, and accomplish the things they sent us here to accomplish. and i understand where you re going with that, but here s the thing. critics of jeff sessions are afraid he will not challenge president trump on constitutional issues, because he s such a trump ally, right? i know you re going to disagree with that, but can you reach out to those critics and assure them that checks and balances in place in this country will stand? yeah, even former vice president joe biden, as long as jeff sessions takes the oath to uphold the law, he should are confirmed, giving the latitude to the commander in chief. never forget what we saw in the last justice department. we saw the subject of the investigation s husband get to meet with the attorney general just days before the subject of the investigation was going to be interviewed by the fbi. so to say that somehow jeff sessions, who is more political than what we had before, will be too political to do his job, i think is laughable whe
nominees who have been confirmed thus far. when the president has to wait that long for the rest of them, that hurts our ability to get done what the voters sent us to do. here s the thing. president trump s inner circle did not inform you a travel ban was in the works, correct? i mean, you serve the people of ohio. shouldn t they through you be part of such momentous decisions? no one saying that tactically, strategically there could have been things done differently on the rollout. i do think it s consistent with the law and with what we passed last year. wouldn t you have liked to know this is happening, as a lawmaker who is responsible for the people of the state of ohio? that would have been fine. but i m not disagreeing with the policy itself. i think it s a good policy, sound policy, consistent with the law. and frankly, as i said, consistent with what we did a year ago. i understand. democrats voted with all the republicans i understand that. but the rollout was
after delaying the nominee for steve mnuchin and price, there s a list of demands now. manu raju is hot on the story. good morning. good morning, carol. this letter just obtained by cnn, sent by the senate finance committee, democrats saying they re not going to show out at a key committee vote, trying to deny a vote from happening on steve mnuchin s nomination to be treasury secretary and tom price to lead health and human services department, laying out a series of demands, demands that include congressman price is, quote, inaccurate and misleading answers to questions about his stock purchases. that s according to the democrats words, as well as they say mr. neil gorsuch chin s inaccurate known as robo signing when steve mnuchin was working with one west bank, issue
understand, but there are ways to stop things. apparently the democrats have found another way. i want to bring back errol louis and ron brownstein. the democrats are trying every which way? hardball. democrats under tremendous pressure from their activist base. last night in new york city there are a big march, hundreds of people who marched from downtown brooklyn to the home of chuck schumer, the democratic conference leader. the message was go in there and fight. no rolling over, no playing ball, no playing by normal rules in a senate where the republican majority frustrated the president on a supreme court nominee for nearly a year. so they have no choice but to react to this. i think that s what you re starting to see here, as well as substantively these are important issues. the foreclosure crisis, the role that certain banks played and seem to have gotten away with, the insider trading which gets to the core of the conflict of interest questions surrounding both members of con