table during the trump administration, of course, because trump was basically chose his own people in the justice department. that s how the tables have turned a bit, but i must say, the democrats in part have themselves to blame for not moving on some subpoenas that were ignored during the trump administration. john bolton in the first impeachment proceedings, for example, and then many in the second impeachment proceedings, so the contempt power has been vastly diluted but the issue in this moment is we just have to think, victor, if donald trump gets in office again, there will not be any mike pences or pat cipollones or jefferey rosens that are going to push back. it will be a full lockdown and the department of justice authority does not extend to ignoring election results and that s where chuck grassley is flatout wrong. we heard from stephanie grisham earlier this week if former president trump is elected again, she expects the january 6th crowd will be making up the staffin
we have invested significantly in reducing the flow of drugs into our country, we want to do it in a way that actually works. the president is fixated on this border wall, this vanity project that s not effective and won t achieve what it s trying to achieve. i think his own republican colleagues by voting on this voted for things that will actually work. david cicilline, thank you for joining us. have a great weekend. during his announcement, the president made a number of assertions about the situation at the southern border. tomorrow form tom foreman is here to fact them. we find out many are dubious at best, flatout wrong at worst. one of them that he s repeated many times is that the wall is already being built. and he echoed that theme today. we re right now in construction with wall in some
dangerous. part of the backdrop to negotiations and might conceivably push the chinese to use slightly more influence with the north koreans. what john bolton wrote is flatout wrong. he confused specifically at the risk of losing your viewership p preemptive and preventative strikes and an imminent threat and a gathering threat. under international law, so go after gathering threats, we didn t do it against the soviet union or china. we told the soviets not to do it in the 1960s. that would be a constant war. if this were to actually happen, this would cause an enormous war and again we would find ourselves isolated. i m hoping it s nothing more than rhetorirhetoric. you mentioned something which i want to come back to, which is that this is a bilateral summit. so far the united states has always tried to do something
everything you heard about daca being illegal is wrong. no, it s blatantly illegal. this decision by president trump was a political decision and it s a morally bankrupt one. president after president for over four decades have used what s called prosecutorial discretion to determine who is a priority for removal and who is not. and that is exactly what the daca program is. so you hear a lot of words from this other commentator about rule of law, the constitution, this is exactly what presidents have done under their authority to enforce immigration law, under their authority to take care of the laws, under the constitution. so, your other commentator is flatout wrong. i want to be very clear that this is a political decision. daca has never been declared illegal. yes, texas, the attorney general here in texas, where i am, has led the charge against daca, but no court has ever said that daca is unconstitutional. in fact, this is exactly what
most cutoff nation on earth. he s flatout wrong. the u.s. has been holding back on a number of sanctions and only last week, the u.s. sanked a chinese bank and we know there s evidence for a lot more. right. in talking with the north koreans, just last month, bruce, what else did you take away from that? that you can share. right. that they were just very emphatic that they were not interested in denuclear azing or returning to negotiations. and that when we tried to offer different options or suggest options, they became irritated. they just said, stop thinking of different options. we are a nuclear state. and they were much more self-assured self-assured, even cockier given the recent successes in their nuclear missile test. did they say anything about otto warmbier or the other americans that were over there. our meetings were in between times that state department official was meeting with them. we didn t know that at the time but certainly in the meeting we