are really not set up to deal with the claims that people need to make. all right. what is the net effect of this action that the government is taking? what will actually change as a result of what president trump wants to do? that remains to be seen to some extent. you know, i ll make the comment that, you know, the proposed rule doesn t even exclude unaccompanied children. so just to connect for your viewers to, you know, the scenes that we ve witnessed coming out of the clint border patrol station, the very cruel treatment of child asylumseekers. this could have an impact on children as well. but i think the question now is what will a court do with this rule it and will you know, i think it s pretty clear that legal advocates will challenge the rule as soon as it goes into effect, or they at least will attempt to. and then the question is will a court decide to approve what s called a preliminary injunction. will it decide to stop the rule
the ones with xs, remained in their position. mike pompeo did transfer into a different position in the administration and so did mick mulvaney, he became acting chief of staff in addition to his role as director of the office of management and budget. alex acosta is still secretary of labor but just until friday in his effort for overseeing a deal for jeffrey epstein. joining me is chris whipple, author of the gatekeepers: how white house chief of staff define every presidency. what a quaint notion that the chief of staff would play a role in this. however, in this particular case the acting chief of staff mulvaney is the prototype, he s the example of how you stick around in trump s orbit. trump sent him to the consumer financial protection board basically to dismantle it, which is largely what he s done. but here s the problem. obviously, this has almost nothing to do with wilber ross
operations despite the president s weeks of warnings that he d mass-target 2,000 undocumented migrants to deport starting this past weekend. earlier today the president denied the criticism that the raids were overstated to generate hysteria among immigrant communities. is this to scare people, mr. president? the i.c.e. raids were very successful. people came into our country illegally. many were felons. many were convicted of crimes. many, many were taken out on sunday. you just didn t know about it. in fact, i went to i spoke to the head of i.c.e. i spoke to a couple of people. we had many people. it was a very successful day. all right. joining me now nbc correspondent julia ainsley who covers the justice department and homeland security department. joulia, there are some references including to the
last i checked the republican party was fully on side with the first amendment and the idea that criticizing your country is i often call the first amendment an obligation, not a right, because i think that if you don t practice it, you don t have it. and part of practicing it is being critical of your country, of your government, of the way things are going. right. the president tried to brand that today as something that was unpatriotic. it almost sounded like he was suggesting people are traitors wore criticizing their country. that s not a republican principle. it s not a principle upon which this country was founded. correct. this shouldn t be a partisan moment. we should be able to denounce the rhetoric that this president uses on a regular basis. it s that of a preschooler. i have a preschooler who i constantly have to tell please do the opposite. do not name-call. do not judge people by the color of their skin. these are virtues that we cared about in this country, and
on that issue of electability. he does the best of all the democrats against trump. he probably needs to be doing the best against trump in these polls to reinforce that argument he s making to democrats. bernie sanders, he also leads the president seven-point advantage. elizabeth warren is ahead, a little bit closer there a five-point advantage. then kamala harris she also leads a one-point advantage there. so all four of the leading democrats have the edge in this poll over president trump it. varies, though, from nine points on the high end with biden down to one point with harris. i ll show you what doesn t vary, though. you can see it, president trump s support, it s pretty tight here. 42% on the low end. 44% on the high end. and of course, ali, that tracks rather closely to the president s approval rating which sits at 45% in our poll. when a guy like you who understands polls better than anybody i know looks at numbers like that, how do you calculate the fact that national,