the justice department has vowed to crack down on opioid fraud and abuse. and yesterday the president says the administration plans to increase federal drug prosecutions rapidly. the trump administration has increased the number of deportation orders since taking office but the number of actual deportation levels is behind president obama. they ordered 57,000 people to leave the u.s. from february to june of this year. but more than 16,000 of them won their cases allowing them to stay. the data shows that 17,000 deportations a month under the trump administration so far, compared to 20,000 a month under president obama. the current administration is making more arrests but deporting at a slower pace. there is a current backlog of more than 600,000 cases which the justice department says it is working through. all right. let s get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist kill carnes. some severe weather and flash flood warnings from east texas
he could be in charge of deportation levels, immigration, deportation the executive orders we know will be cancelled. the dreamers, all of that. he can do that quickly. they can overturn quickly. on mitt romney. you covered him. how surprising is it given his declarative opposition to donald trump during the primaries that he would be going to register for either a round of golf or a lot of talk this weekend and potentially being considered for secretary of state? i got to tell you, the moment this news came out, i immediately called all the folks i know in the romney community still and spoke to someone close to romney, they were out of breath. they were stunned to hear this news, they didn t think it was possible given the bitterness of the back and forth these two men had over the course of this company. i what there in salt lake city for the remarks. you see that video where he basically said donald trump was a phony and a fraud. before eng else, romney is a