new proposals including health care for young adult illegal immigrants, quoting it will make california the first state in the nation to cover young, undocumented adults through a state medicaid program. if the new governor also promised to expand obamacare. again, he did not elaborate on how he plans to fund his so-called california for all agenda. shannon. shannon: trace gallagher on the west coast, thank you very much. sanctuary to all who seek it, that is california s message to illegal immigrants, the trump administration sites for its border fence. let s talk to former homeland security department spokesperson under president obama, thank you both for being with us tonight. thank you. good evening. shannon: so where do we start here? there is so much here that seems to get lost in translation because we know in the past as our last guest said, both parties have voted for the stuff in the past. former congressman trey gowdy brought this up to me. i want to play a little
stockholm native with a very different take than the congresswoman. sweden is not the idealistic social estate many americans think it is buried shannon: stick around for tonight s power panel. we will debate it all with michelle ritchie, charlie hurt coming up. amazon prime video is now on xfinity x1.
my policies most closely resemble what we see in the u.k., in norway, in finland, in sweden. shannon: freshman progressive congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez on 60 minutes telling america her model of socialism comes not from venezuela, cuba or the soviet union. instead, she is looking at nordic countries for socialist ideals. a documentary that aired on pbs late last fall produced and hosted by a swede casts doubt on the narrative. check it out. low income earners paid a lot more than low income earners in america. despite the fact that sweden looks like sort of a socialist country which taxes which exorbitantly high, the truth is the opposite. the success of nordic countries is not because of big government. it is not. the story is free markets really work and americans need to understand it. so sweden is not the idealistic
shannon: it s a situation now weather has been a law passed there and everyone agrees that what happened with the officer and his death wouldn t have been prevented by the new sanctuary state law because the man who was accused now of the killing was here ahead of some of those provisions. but what can the state say it s doing moving forward to prevent another case like that for somebody who should not be here, who should be in custody if nothing else, who has prior to and criminal convictions is moving freely because they have protections there now? it s still not clear whether ice has ever apprehended, arrested or deported this individual but what we do know is that he had to cope prior dui s. so law enforcement again should be able to have direct line of communication with ice for these certain instances in california, lake cook county as well and all of these other cities should be cooperating with law enforcement. shannon: i want to play something from representative rowe, t
the government back open, let s move forward. shannon: will talk a little bit more about this idea that the president could declare a national emergency, the legality of that. this is from john wiseman joaquin castro, part of the group that visited the border. here s what he said about what that means for congress. it would be profoundly inappropriate for the president of the united states to circumvent the legislative branch of the united states government. the united states congress and single-handedly against the will of the american people and the american congress put up a border wall on the u.s.-mexico border. shannon: as a member of congress you have specially delineated powers, do you think this would be an inappropriate power grab by the president to go around to? i would certainly prefer and hope that we can come to a deal where we have an appropriate authorization and we have an appropriation. that s our system and that s what i hope we can stick to. i hope we can ge