so we can know when someone comes here it doesn t undermine our security. if you don t do the time-out to actually look at what your policies are and come up with a system, you can t really assure the american people that a terrorist can t slip through. i think it s the right pollz. i do agree there was some chaos in how it was implemented and agree with his comments on that. melissa: laura ingraham talked about the roll-out. you can question the roll-out. i certainly have. question the merits of it. that s fine. but as to this legal issue we re seeing right now, this is a dangerous place. if the executive branch does not preserve its separation of powers from the judiciary and have that ability to make these calls we ll have a lot of monday morning quarterbacks. melissa: what about that? the roll-out was messy maybe and not done the way it should have been. but the underlying law, the
1950 immigration code is still valid. what do you think? several points on that. she is right it was messy. i remember not too long ago when republicans were rejoicing when obama s executive order on immigration was overturned by a court of appeals. for some reason that has shifted in terms of what the executive can do with conservatives now that the shoe is on the other foot. i will say this. you have countries that are being prevent people from some countries prevented from coming here despite we ve never had a terrorist attack on our soil with people from any of these countries. melissa: i have to correct you on that point. a.p. fact check came out and said you look at the somali refugee at ohio state. that was somebody that would have been stopped by this. another one the iraqi refugee it was a fact checked. it was the knife wielding man at ohio stai. you also had the iraqi refugee in texas.
very negative effect on our security. so i think when we look at the threats that we face going forward, the american people want us to be true to our freedoms and to our constitution for sure. but this judge basically is not reading the plain letter understanding of the law and what he is doing is inserting himself in a political concept. melissa: it is what matt is saying. when president trump came out this morning the first thing is he quoted the 1952 immigration code saying the president has the right to bar the entry of any aliens or class of aliens into the united states who would be detrimental to the interest of the united states. he can preclude those people from coming in. i m not a lawyer. the supreme court will take that up. courts have ruled against the president on this issue. we ll continue to see whether they do or don t. and certainly we have a court of appeals coming down now, the 9th circuit. you have a supreme court decision i suspect. to the actual policy itsel
reaction came pretty quickly. earth justice, the environmental law group issued a statement saying this decision continues a historic pattern of broken promises to indian tribes. trump and his administration will be held accountable in court. the 1200 mile dakota access pipeline is 99.7% complete. the final portion was in dispute as the standing rock soiux tribe is the tribe managed to stall things through the obama administration. something president trump changed. the corps conducted 360 meetings with 55 different tribes. the standing rock tribe chose not to participate. the corps made multiple attempts to contact them to insure their opinions were considered. the pipeline has been rerouted 140 times.
attorney general who is faithful to the law and the constitution. bill: you mentioned the obamacare debate with senator sanders. it is said there is no con gaoelg around any particular idea. what is the reality facing congress on repeal, replace, repair, whatever you want to call it? number one, we have to deliver on the promises we made. this election was a referendum of obamacare. for six years we promised voters we d repeal it. we have to deliver and i believe we re going two. there is a lot of agreement on elements to replace obamacare focused around expanding your choice, putting power in the hands of you the patient to make your healthcare decisions with your doctor without government getting in the way. some of those ideas, there is a lot of agreement on, is allowing you to buy health insurance across state lines so you drive down prices and expand choice. expanding health savings