you think 15% of the people who are not citizens in this country voted in the last election. when we re complete and satisfied, we ll expose the list to the public. good morning, welcome to saturday. always good to have your company with us, i m christi paul. i m victor blackwell. president donald trump has a very busy day ahead. he s got phone calls with five heads of state, japan, australia, russian and germany. vladimir putin is on the list, too. president trump said he is interested in warmer times with russia and it s too early to discuss lifting sanctions on russia. mitch mcconnell is going against it telling the national journal, quote, i d be opposed to that if there s any country in the world that doesn t deserve any kind of sanctions relief, it s the russians, unquote. all of this over concern of
promise that he made who was widely panned by many people, including mike pence, his v.p. so, eugene, to you think this will be extended it s also worth noting there are countries that have attacks that we ve covered cells that are not on this list. turkey is not on the list. uea, saudi arabia, egypt, the high irks of 9/11, noted in the purpose of this executive order, they re not listed. so is there some expectation that this will be extended to include those countries? or are those just so politically add to add to this list that we don t expect to see them? well, the administration definitely made it clear that this is not a final lesson that there could be additional countries added to this list. what countries could join the list aren t quite clear yet. as critics pay close attention to countries that donald trump is doing business with, those are not countries that are
expected to be on the list. so people are trying to figure out who these who this executive order will target. and who will suffer most. i think a very interesting point to pay attention is that one of the demographics that supported donald trump white, might evangelicals, have been quite critical of this order so far considering that christian nonprofits in the u.s. have been very active in the resettlement process. so it s interesting to see if the president is able to continue to appeal to his base while some of other aspects-em. errol, let s look at the call between german charges lore angela merkel. there are asp sides of accepting syrian refugees specifically. we know that the u.s. has from the ban of the executive order, over 1 million in germany. we ve heard from reporters that this is going to be an
if you put it through a political filter, you may remember, victor that initially when he was a candidate, donald trump said he wanted complete and total shutdown of all muslim immigration into the united states. a furor ensued. this is a substitute for that simply saying well, no muslims will be able to come in. you identify seven areas, this is the fallout, it won t be about muslims. the combination now shifts to have the united states has the united states ever been directly attacked, or imperilled by people coming from these countries? and the answer is no. so, we ll see how the debate plays out. but right now, i think, what we have say president trying to play catch-up with a political
migrants trying to cross into america. and also the volunteers trying to stop them. reporter: on the borders edge from nogales, arizona several gather near the initiative. it s were jesus garcia is trying to figure out how to get into the united states. over a map, he recounts how far he traveled since he left home the day before donald trump was elected president. so, you started here in honduras. made his way across guatemala, into this little town into mexico. he says he hasn t been able to cross. he left home november 7th of last year. he s tried three times already to get across, but he hasn t been able to. reporter: garcia says it s the first time he s ever tried