rights, has written several opinions and sort of expanding the definition of the second amendment and so we re told those two have the inside track and then a third person who is mentioned by the people close to the president is william pryor, who is perhaps the most conservative, 54, from alabama, as is jeff sessions, the nominee to be attorney general but he said some pretty strong things about the roe v. wade abortion decision calling it the worst supreme court decision and atrocious decision that legalized murdering young children, so he might be i think the thinking gs right now the toughest sell politically. we hear various things about the president s thinking on this, but it does seem to be between gorsuch and hardiman at this point. tom goldstein, would any of these three be considered main stream, could any three overcome let s just call it the schumer objections? well democratic senators certainly wouldn t regard any of them as mainstream because
wall? former mexican ambassador to the united states said you should call it the great wall of america, this no, sir nothing to do with mexico and everything to do with failed policies not adra addressing the real issue. since 2008 we ve seen a negative decline of people crossing the border. the issue what do we do with the 11 million undocumented people we find within our border. the president i think is trying to capture another headline, little depth similar to the carrier deal when he promised he won a whole bunch of american jobs. it s just not deep. it s not deep but it fulfilling a campaign promise and probably reassuring constituents in terms of those who voted for him, those who believed in that campaign rally which was at every single trump campaign we covered.
around the country and cuts refugee admissions in half at a time again where we as one of the most industrialized countries in the world need to play out our responsibility to the rest of the world including to people who are fleeing wartorn countries, mothers, children, families, that s the majority of refugees in this country. is there anything you think like-minded members can do, mostly democrats but there are some republicans who agree with you. that s right. refugee resettlement in particular has been an area of tremendous pirbipartisan suppor for many decades. i hope we step up in a bipartisan way address the fact that we have a responsibility to refugees, to asylees along the border. we heard president trump will stop asylum seekers at the sornt border and also i believe that if he wants to focus on jobs and if he wants to focus on the economy there is no question
the counter argument to banning refugees, first this goes against the american values to ban refugees and secondly, that again, this is perhaps one of the safest ways to ensure people are coming into our country, but this is obviously one of president trump s key campaign promises and it speaks to this point, when you spoke to a lot of trump voters out on the campaign trail, a lot of them said he s not going to follow through with that promise building a wall, banning muslims. he s going to create jobs. that was what they heard from him on the campaign trail and what we are seeing he is, in fact, moving to follow through with a number of those campaign promises that he made on the campaign trail. andrea? kristen welker has a busy day covering the white house today. reporter: indeed. and thanks to gadi schwartz and alan gomez. this morning president trump promised white house backing that millions of undocumented
and as we ve been reporting in about an hour the president will be next door at homeland security, signing an order authorizing the first stage of that wall along the mexico border. joining me now is maria teresa kumar, president and ceo of voto latino and msnbc contributor. so according to apc, he said the plan something going to start right away that taxpayers would pay for this first stage and that he still believes mexico will repay, we ve got the mexican president coming january 31st and we ve already had reporting from the border from gadi schwartz saying people he s spoken to there the mexicans saying why should we pay for the