law, essentially they are trying to figure out whether or not they can lock them up. brian: so de blasio, rahm emanuel, mayors in major cities. steve: philly, california, los angeles, cook county, illinois. and chicago are already on a last call list. ainsley: senator kamala harris had this conversation on this topic. acting director homan said he asked the justice department to quote look into criminal charges for elected officials with sanctuary policies as they are harboring illegal aliens according to 8 usc 1324. this comment was specifically about california elected officials u after the enactment of the california values act. my question is whether dhs is currently working with the justice department to bring section 8 usc 1324 charges or any criminal charges against state or
bring section 8 usc 1324 charges or any criminal charges against state or local officials. i believe the request for made. the department of justifiable is reviewing what avenues might be available. martha: the answer to that is yes they are looking into it. good evening, everybody. i m martha maccallum and this is the story. also tonight some reporters at the white house incredulous as the white house doctor declared that the president is in excellent mental and physical health. watch this. can you tell me how a guy holler all those diet cokes and never exercises is in as good a shape as you say he is in. it s called genetics. i don t know. martha: everyone wants to get on that plan. he rarely sees the president when he terms as stressed out conditions. he has the ability to wake up every day and sort of re-set when he is faced with the pressures of the office. more to come on that fascinating afternoon news conference today.
if you re ailing a smuggler and smuggling people for a living, that is one sales pitch. we can get you to a sanctuary city where they will help shield you from immigration. i ve said it every time i speak, i say sanctuary cities need to help us. they don t want to endanger public safety. they endanger my law enforcement officers. hohmann is strongly feeling that way. he s threatening prosecution of aiding and abetting men and women to safe havens known assangeary cities. hohmann s prosecution would not be wrong. beyond blatantly breaking the law, it s absolutely against the law to conceal, shoot or harbor undocumented immigrants. look at the code. 8 usc 1324. also, it s flagrantly disregards and doesn t cooperate with existing law. that doesn t make anybody safer. the dynamic created by willfully
bill: impact segment segment tonight for the sanctuary city controversy getting hotter. today, beers from all over the country met today. joining us now from washington, kelly cohen who was there. what is the headline of the reading, kelly? the headline was about to less than ten mayors from the so-called sanctuary cities. they met with the department of homeland security john kelly to say we are not breaking federal law. you can take away federal funds from us. as we know, with executive order in january, that was one of the threats and attorney general jeff sessions threat in that earlier this week. if you continue sanctuary policies, you will lose federal money, federal grants. bill: it s an unending debate, searching cities and counties say, we don t have to obey the detainer request from i.c.e. although, everybody is starting to title eight u.s. code 1324. it is pretty explicit that let me read it to the audience, we will have another segment on this. it says that an ali
illegally and have a criminal record or have a warrant out for their arrest, telling them as well, hey, look out, don t open the door because the bad guys are coming for you. what would she do, steve, if it was a d.e.a. raid with one of our task forces. would she notify the smugglers and the drug dealers about the same thing? this is the most outrageous thing i have ever heard an elected official to do completely undermining their oath and undermining law enforcement s efforts to keep the community safe. steve: i understand you had a meeting yesterday. you have another one today. you say leaders of sanctuary cities should be arrested. explain that idea. look, any elected official in this country that openly defies federal law under section 1324 clearly states anyone who knows someone to be in the country illegally and attempts to harbor or conceal them is commits a felony under federal law up to five years per alien. and elected official shouldn t be held less accountable for con