options there s aggressive enforcement taking place. dhs and ice officers visiting 7/11 stores around the country on make sure their employees have the right paperwork. thank you. president trump calling for a, quote, bill of law for dreamers during yesterday s bipartisan meeting. take a listen. pvpt i feel having the democrats in with us is vital. president trump: this should be a bipartisan bill. it should be a bill of love, truly, a bill of love. we can do this. former florida governor jeb bush tweeting, he s encouraged by all of the efforts. but does anyone remember when the president said during the 2016 campaign, after bush called illegal immigration an act of love? president trump: the weakest person on this stage by far, on illegal immigration, is jeb bush. they come. they come out of an act of love. president trump: he is so weak on illegal immigration
house has not yet provided. kristen welker, my colleague over in the briefing room of the white house. thank you very much. i m joined by congressman ted lew, representing part of l.a. county and a member of the judiciary and foreign affairs committee. thank you for being here. and we you are coming with us here on a very busy newsweek. i want to start by this call by president trump for an investigation into voter fraud. what s your overall response? thank you for that question. we know in less than a week that president trump now lives an alternate reality. he just makes stuff up. he s lied about his small inauguration crowd size. he s lying about 3 million to 5 million voters voting illegally, and my response is, bring it on. i want a lot of investigations because i will bet a great bottle of california wine that they cannot find a single credible witness who will take the oath in a congressional hearing and say, yes 3 million to 5 million voted illegally because that s just
news. donald trump is asking for a major investigation into allegations of voter fraud. and depending on the results he ll call for strnengthening u voting procedures. this after sean spicer tried to back up his boss claim that millions of people voted illegally in november costing him the popular vote. also directing federal resources toward building that wall along the u.s./mexico border. this is the first in a whole series of things expected this week to crack down on immigration. hundreds of demonstrators from seattle to washington, d.c., staging rallies against his other executive orders to advance a couple of controversial pipelines. the keystone and dakota access pipelines would hurt the environment. backers say it would create thousands of jobs and cut energy costs. in a little more than a week, a week from tomorrow, president trump will make one of the most consequential decisions
that s something senior administration officials continue to insist. but as recently as january 11th, hallie, the president of mexico, enrique pena nieto was quoted as saying, mexico, of course, will not pay. and president trump will be meet with the president of mexico in the coming weeks. it sets the stage for that bilateral meeting. we also expect him to sign another executive action that s going to prioritize the, quote, removal of criminal aliens. and also in the works, steps to take put into action those extreme vetting measures he talked about which would potentially call for preventing refugees from majority muslim countries like syria, like yemen, like iraq and iran. immigration will be the focus. highly controversial measures here, hallie. but this is yet another moment where we see president trump saying, i am putting my campaign promises into action. hallie? kristen, one more quick question from you on these
allegations the president has made. without evidence these baseless, false, inaccurate claims of voter fraud. the white house has been pushing this and now the news that the president wants an investigation into this. do we know anything else about how this would work hypothetically? well, look, you and i were in this briefing room where i m standing right now, hallie, pressing sean spicer, the press secretary, on this very matter saying if the president is going to make these claims that there was widespread voter fraud, why not call for an investigation. early today, this was the tweet from the president himself who tweeted out, i will be asking for a major investigation into voter fraud, including those register to vote in two states. those who are illegal and even those registered to vote who are dead and many for a long time. depending on results we ll strengthen up voting procedures. how is this actually going to work? those are the questions we ll be asking today in the briefi