only bad for him but bad for the country, they rarely say it publicly. he is. and he is putting his relationship with him with the president on the line. i mean, it s over, at least for now. so that is why it s significant. why we have to take it at its face is because scarmucci doesn t have doesn t represent constituents, he s not an elected official who has to answer to people who really like donald trump who are living in their districts or their states, which is what you see with so many members of congress who are quiet about the president, and in some cases very supportive of the president in public and in private saying, i don t know, i don t understand this guy. that is the major difference. he is somebody who has a career right now and it s probably not the worst thing in the world for him, scarmucci, to be calling out what he considers racism. not a bad thing no matter what
has led the charge in the oversight committee in calling mr. mcaleenan before us to answer about his actions. you mentioned oversight. i wanted to ask you a very different topic. jeffrey epstein, his death. i am hearing a lot of calls for investigations by congress of what happened in the jail and what went wrong there. will the oversight committee be investigating the federal prison system on this? do you want them to? i haven t heard about such calls. i would obviously follow my chairman, mr. cummings, lead on this particular issue. however, one thing i can say is fanning the flames of any conspiracy theories is wrong-headed and i think that absolutely is the wrong way to go and i would strongly counsel anybody who does that, including the president, to stop. let s see, i think no one should hold their breath to see if the president is going to
to be different. it is different, and i think here s the thing. you can t separate what he says and what he does. that idea that we can magically separate the two, i think doesn t stand up to the facts. you do need to use your judgment. but when he accuses a president when he retweets somebody accusing a past president of conspiring to orchestrate a jail suicide, yeah, that s a different level of crazy. that s worth calling out. that s for the history books. when you put it that way, i hear what you re saying. i really appreciate it. this just in to cnn, the trump administration has just taken steps that could limit the number of legal immigrants coming into the united states. the big implications that this could have on those seeking green cards or visas. this is nonsensical, that s how
new this morning, the trump administration announcing a new rule that will make it easier to reject green card and visa applications, which means it could dramatically cut and limit legal immigration into the united states. the regulation they put out in 837 pages and it says applications can be rejected on the basis of low income or little education because the administration argues that makes those applicants more likely to depend on government assistance. the rule takes effect in 60 days. joining me right now is a democratic congressman from illinois. congressman, thank you door being here. thank you so much. you come from a family of immigrants. i ve read many times and you ve spoken about when your family moved to the united states, you moved when you were an infant, and for the time you lived in public housing and depended on food stamps. what is your reaction to this move, then, by the president?
it was a huge weekend in iowa. the democratic candidates for president flooding the state and the famous iowa fate stair to meet voters. for joe biden s campaign that also meant playing cleanup not once but twice in four days. here was the latest one from the former vice president. i watched what happened when the kids from parkland marched up, i met with them and they went off the hill when i was vice president, to go into those neighborhoods. all the congressman were like i m not here, don t tell them i m around. they re afraid of it. they should be exposed. i watched what happened when those kids from parkland came up to see me when i was vice president and some of you covered it, and you watched what happened when they went up on the halls of congress. congress was cowering, not wanting to see them. they did not want to have to face it on camera.