mid-february. so before we ring in the new year, ari melber, msnbc s chief legal correspondent and host of the beat takes a look at the top ten legal stories that dominated the airwaves in 2018. number 10, the border fights. president trump separating immigrant families. if you don t want your child to be separated, then don t bring them across the board illegally. a federal judge halted the policy and ordered the administration to reunite the families, while other judges struck down trump s policy to defude fund sanctuary cities. number 9, trump attacking the rule of law. president trump was poised to order the criminal prosecutions of two of his biggest political adversaries. president trump ordered the firing of special counsel robert mueller back in june. legal experts say those moves would be illegal and trump s own white house counsel blocked them. number 8, the rise and fall of
president trump separating immigrant families. if you don t want your child to be separated then don t bring them across the border illegally. a federal judge halted the policy and ordered the administration to reunite families. while others struck down the policy to defund sanctuary cities. number nine, trump attacking the rule of law. president trump was poised to order the criminal prosecutions of two of his biggest political adversarie adversaries. president trump ordered the firing of robert mueller book in june. legal experts say those moves would be illegal and trump s own white house counsel blocked them. number eight, the rise and fall of michael a gnvenatti. he surged in a political climate hungry for warriors against president trump. when they go low, i say we hit harder. avenatti ended the year announcing he won t run amidst a
cabinet, and the swamp will be a little less foul without him. his departure is one of four major staff shakeups since november midterm and president announced chief of staff would leave at the end of the year but director set to replace john kelly as acting chief of staff. the u.s. ambassador to united nations haley is leaving her job. the president is hoping the senate will confirm state department spokesman heather as her replacement. attorney general jeff sessions resigned in early november at the president s request. mr. trump s later announced his plan to nominate former attorney general william barr as mr. sessions replacement. president trump has had more turnover in first two years than predecessor dating back to wilson led to rumors of chaotic white house of people not wanting to have powerful and coveted jobs in the white house. the president pushed back on that speculation those rumors on twitter, saying that when it comes to chief of staff job at least many people want a b
the man chuck went over well. you are right about that. greg: they are the lenny and squiggy of cable news. i get it. trump made them that way. but this guy, mike pence. as sick to as a as stoic as n easter island attraction. he reminds me of me when i watch sara silverman tell a joke. but he s just doing his part to represent trump s grandest promise, a wall. he became at that moment a wall. and trump was saying if we don t have a wall, i m going to send a thousand pences to the border. they will lock arms and remain motionless. look at pence i did wonder what the hell was he thinking?
the government sound bad. he s ruining america. he knows people are going to freak out. he treats them like a family going to disney. i ll turn this car around. and they say no, no. he says i will do it. i m going to shut it down. and it all works out. i don t mind the government shutting down, kat. i think you would agree with me. kat: i do agree with you, greg. and i don t think anybody who supports trump is going to care even fit is his shutdown and he says it s his shutdown. it s for border security. that s one of the things he ran on. the reason why a lot of people voted for him. they are probably happy to see a republican standing up for things instead of just caving like a lot of republicans have in the past.