consistently he said we re going to terminate this program, do it on day one. when he was exposed to some of the stories of daca, when he was exposed to the political reality surrounding it, that many in his own party don t want him to get rid of it, he saw this as sort of a untenable situation and was looking for a way out. in some ways, pushing this to congress is his way of doing that. and also i would hike to point out, that tweet tonight, may will reflective of something we were given a heads up to watch for. this is a president who this afternoon and this evening has likely been watching the media coverage of his decision. and if he found that it was very negative, he might send a tweet to soften it. so allen, jonathan talks correctly the president looking for a middle ground. is there a middle ground for the dreamers? does his tweet change anything for them that was set in motion earlier today? i don t think it does at all. when you put yourself in their shoes, we can sit he
so allen, what do you think the resistance, the opposition looks like, and how big is it from here on out? i think what we ve seen on the streets today is only going to be the beginning. because this is another one of these situation where is the president has laid in congress lap an incredibly controversial, difficult thing to pass. and without really giving them much guidance. so now for these next six months, he s given them this deadline and a clear timeline on when this needs to happen. so activists around this country, 800,000 young undocumented immigrants, now have a clear timetable on how to protest, how to rally. we ve seen hunger strikes start already. ky tell you that i ve been hearing from advocates about their plans over the next six months to really put pressure and now all of a sudden what the president has done is shifted the focus away from himself and put it squarely on paul ryan, squarely on mitch mcconnell, and made them the recipients of what s going to be a v
seen their voice, their influence really weakened in light of charlottesville. gary cohen criticized the president s response to that racial clash a few weeks ago. he s seen some of his juice disappear in the white house. and it s a triumph for the attorney general. jeff sessions, of course, said from the beginning that he did not believe the justice department could defend this or would defend this order. he believed it would fail in the courts. it s something he s been against throughout his career, and this is his, in some ways, reward for putting up with the rather remarkable public rebuke that he took from the president a few weeks ago. he stayed the course, he kept his head down, and he was the leading voice on this issue. so allen, what do you think the resistance, the opposition looks like, and how big is it from here on out? i think what we ve seen on the streets today is only going to be the beginning. because this is another one of these situation where is the president
is his, in some ways, reward for putting up with the rather remarkable public rebuke that he took from the president a few weeks ago. he stayed the course, he kept his head down, and he was the leading voice on this issue. so allen, what do you think the resistance, the opposition looks like, and how big is it from here on out? i think what we ve seen on the streets today is only going to be the beginning. because this is another one of these situation where is the president has laid in congress lap an incredibly controversial, difficult thing to pass. and without really giving them much guidance. so now for these next six months, he s given them this deadline and a clear timeline on when this needs to happen. so activists around this country, 800,000 young undocumented immigrants, now have a clear timetable on how to protest, how to rally. we ve seen hunger strikes start already. ky tell you that i ve been hearing from advocates about their plans over the next six months to reall
position as nobody really wants to work for this president. so allen, a new nbc news poll says just 29% of americans approve of trump s firing of james comey. lindsey graham as we ve made reference to him says the next director needs to be an fbi agent. there need not be politics that will impact the decision of who is selected. is any of them possible particularly based on the pattern of behavior of this white house and that trump himself and everyone around him has talked about the importance of loyalty? no, it s not possible. and the real headline from that clapper interview was his fear that the president of united states is undermining our democratic institutions to serve his own political purposes. as i point out in my book the case for impeachment, the founding fathers, and they were fathers in those days did put in