so just in the last hour we learned that the attorney general former president obama s hands off policy toward enforcing federal law against marijuana. jeff sessions is making the announcement today. with more on that, nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. hallie, what this means is the attorney general is ending the federal government s hands off policy toward enforcing the federal law that makes marijuana illegal. senior justice department officials tell us that sessions is rescinding the policy put in place four years ago under president obama. in essence, that said federal prosecutors would turn a blind eye to the growing legalization by the states and would step in only when there was some significant federal interest, such as distribution to minors or involvement of gangs or organized crime, sales beyond a state s border or growing
good riddance. the enabling has been enough. president trump weighed in. i ve known harvey weinstein for a long time. i m not at all surprised. very few actually seem surprised. you wouldn t be surprised, sandra, if a few more shoes drop and a few more movie moguls are feeling very nervous today just given the nature of the industry here in hollywood. sandra: we ll keep following it. thank you, jonathan. bill: we are minutes away, major announcement from the head of the epa told he is likely to roll back a major policy put in place by the obama administration. why some argue that move to bring back jobs to coal miners in america. is the president ready to strike a deal with democrats over dreamers? he has a list of demands he wants in return. will he cut a deal? brit hume with his take on all of that on a monday edition next.
numbers. none of those numbers are a direct reflection of policy put in place. it s about enthusiasm. some of the dodd-frank relief is to get the small banks out of the cross hairs of the regulations. of course the biggest banks love regulations. they get to sort of write them, they get the benefit from them because they can afford to comply. it s much harder and this is true of all financial regulations, much harder for the little guys. on the consumer protection bureau, let s remember that this agency has more power as a regulatory agency than almost anything else. the d.c. court of appeals last october said that the head of that the director of that agency has more power within the federal government than any single person beside the president. and they don t always use that power for good. they ve monkeyed with individuals very sensitive consumer financial records there without asking authorization or permission. so there s a very legitimate reason to look at the structure of t
pamela brown, your job is covering the justice beat. so when you hear this conversation from the president saying that he had three conversations with comey, under which he said, you are not under investigation. you hear sarah sanders today saying she s spoke to countless members of the intelligence community, questions of conflicts of interest of interest arise, how is that okay? it certainly violates policy put in place by past attorney generals that prohibits direct communication between the fbi and the white house involving sense ty investigations, such as th this, of course the russia probe and collusion with the trump campaign. there is strict protocol and that protocol is in place to protect the independence of the fbi and the department of justice, because without that independence, there could be, of course, massive ramifications. sop i have to tell you, when i
that would i mply there are people in the trump circle undermining the national security. which begs the question why he would tweet that because it would implicate him. i think it s pretty clear, instead of expressing concern over russian irnt feernterferen was trying to say i m worried about the fbi or intelligence community s activities and i really think that the president should be backing our intelligence officials, not the russian intelligence professionals. while i have you here, there are reports that the white house is in the process of giving more authority to conduct lethal strikes without a presidential sign-off. this is going to be a reverse of a policy put in place or preferred by the obama administration to get the cia out of drone strikes. what s the importance of this? it would give more authority to the commanders in the military. these tools and air strikes are