basement and beat donald trump. there s more second-guesting going on from the 18 other co-defendants and coconspirators. can you imagine the conversations around the kitchen tables. when the spouse is saying, tell me why we re going to cash in our life savings and soil our reputation for something you don t believe happened? i can t imagine how difficult the conversations are. that s an interesting knows. one, how impactful money is to mount a defense against the united states governor or the individual state. it s the notion of all of this, and the premise may not be they believe what is happening. it is a tactic added to delay or to figure something else out. that s a steep hill to climb in any defense, if you didn t believe what was being said. on another notion, you know there are and there continues to be momentum, to oust the d. aca.
the introduction of the raise act which would produce enormous benefits to our country. this is how our democratic process works. there are many pow irful interest groups in the country and every one has a constitutional right to advocate their views and represent whomever they choose. but the department of justice does not represent any narrow interest or any subset of the american people. we represent all of the american people and protect the integrity of our constitution. that is our charge. we at the department of justice are proud and honored to work to advance this vision for america and to do our best each day to ensure the safety and security of the american people. thank you very much. you use the personal information of daca recipients attorney general that was attorney general
have many states attorney general defend the health safety and welfare of the individuals within our border. as concerning as this is for you, as devastating as it is for participants in the daca dreamers program, do you really think it s going to come to fruition? the president is actually doing is punting this to congress saying work it out. we know the homework list from the president is massive at this point. whether it s tax reform the debt ceiling, funding harvey relief and now health care and now he s putting the dreamers program on their plate. is this something you actually think six months from now is going to be a real problem or is this just part of a narrative that the president could be creating to say blame them not me? it was just a few weeks ago we thought we were not going to see the transgender ban and general mattis said hold your horses. traditionally washington has always played politics and president is punting, there absolutely is a real public safety urgenc
light of litigation that we reviewed the obama administration s daca policy. our collective wisdom is that the policy is vulnerable to the same legal and constitutional challenges that the courts recognize with respect to the dapa program, enjoyed on a nationwide basis in a decision that was affirmed by the fifth circuit corporate of appeals. this fifth circuit specifically concluded that daca had not been implemented in a fashion that allowed sufficient discretion and that dapa was for closed by congress s careful plan, close quote. in other words, the immigration law that congress passed foreclosed this possibility of daca. in other words, it was inconsistent with the constitutional separation of powers. that decision was affirmed by the supreme court on an equally undivided basis.
sessions make a deeply political appeal being sanitized in legal arguments. i don t buy it for one second. the daca program has been in existence for five years. it s been a very successful program. and it s entrepreneurs and university graduates, folks who are really contributing to the economy have come out and are part of this program. and what jeff sessions is doing is hiding behind legal arguments. this program has withstood all prior legal challenges to date. to suddenly introduce this sanitized legal picture, there s a real reason why the trump administration put jeff sessions up with the department of justice s emblem behind it. don t question for a second this attorney general and steven miller on his staff and steven bannon with him president has been talking throughout last week had an anti-immigrant agenda that has what they ve been doing. put their agenda aside. do they have a legally do they