Of interviews with important players in the immigration issue whether at congress or the administration and this mornings guest is senator cotton, the junior senator from arkansas and senator cotton served as an Army Infantry officer in iraq and afghanistan. Hes on several committees, banking intelligence Armed Services and obviously, well talk about today is immigration. Hes been a leader in the immigration issue even before the president raised its profile and i appreciate, senator, youre coming in and giving us some time and hell have to bolt for a meeting on the hill. So well cut this off at 8 time 15. My first question is. Youre, as i understand, a sixth generation arkansan. Its attracting more than it used to, but its clearly not an immigration state. What is it that attracted you to get involved in this issue and become really something of a thought leader and a debate leader . Mark, first off, thanks for having me this morning and thanks to the center for Immigration Studies an
Host good morning. My name is mark krikorian, executive director of the center for immigration studies, and we have done a series of interviews with important players in the immigration issue, whether in congress or in the administration. This morning touching guest is senator cotton, the junior senator from arkansas. Senator cotton is a harvard law grad, served as an Army Infantry officer in iraq and afghanistan. Hes on several committees, banking, intelligence, Armed Services but we are going to talk about todays immigration. Hes been a leader on immigration issue even before the president kind of raise its raised its profile. I appreciate, senator, you coming in and giving us some time. He will have to bolt for a meeting on the hill, so we will cut this off at 815 a. M. My first question is that you are as i understand six , a generation arkansan. Arkansas has been attracting more immigrants than it used to, but it is clearly not a leading immigration state. What attracted you to ge
Arkansas. Senator cotton is a harvard law grad, served as an Army Infantry officer in iraq and afghanistan. Hes on several committees, banking, intelligence, Armed Services but we are going to talk about todays immigration. Hes been a leader on immigration issue even before the president kind of raised its profile. I appreciate, senator, you coming in and giving us some time. He will have to bolt for a meeting on the hill, so we will cut this off at 8 15 a. M. My first question is that you are as i understand, a sixth generation arkansan. Arkansas has been attracting more immigrants than it used to, but it is clearly not a leading immigration state. What attracted you to get involved in this issue and become something of a thought leader and a debate leader . Sen. Cotton first off thanks for having me here. Thanks for the center for hosting this conversation and also the important work the center does on immigration. Immigration is a central issue for the United States, really for a lo
Officer in the iraq and afghanistan. He is on several committees, banking, intelligence, armed services, but obviously today we are going to talk about immigration. He has been a leader on the immigration issue even before the president raised its profile. I appreciate you coming in and giving us some time. He will have to bolt for a meeting on the hill, so we will cut this off at 8 15. Is irst question understand you are six generation arkansan. Arkansas has been attracting more immigrants than it used to but it is clearly not one of the leading immigration states. What is it that attracted you to get involved in this issue and become something of a debate and thought leader . First of all thank you for having me this morning and thank you for the center for hosting this conversation and for the very important work the centre does on immigration. Immigration is a central issue for the United States, really for a lot of countries around the world. Touches on so many concerns that arkan
Jake tapper and we start today with Breaking News and a cnn exclusive for the first time the man and only previously known as Employee Number five. In the Trump Federal classified documents case, is publicly going on the record about what he saw Behind The Scenes at maralago and how he ended up handling boxes of classified documents without even knowing it or having the clearance to do so trump Employee Number five is a man named brian butler he has worked at maralago for 20 years. He wasnt just any regular employee. We should note he handled the car service at trumps florida resort. Often directly making sure that donald trump and all of his belongings were moved from place to place, meaning he saw moments and movements and heard conversations that are now part of special counsel jack smiths indictment of Donald Trumps cnns Kaitlan Collins, Katelyn Polantz, our breaking the story for us and joining us now, Kaitlan Collins, it start with you, so you sat down with butler earlier today.