it was much lengthier, which i think caused some of us to speculate that all of these delays related to some juror issue, but the jurors are all back. there s been no further discussion of the reason for the delay. testimony is ongoing. the other intriguing thing that happened today was about sealed testimony about some rick gates testimony that could have to do with an investigation that is still ongoing. when we consider what investigations are still ongoing that rick gates might have to do with, we re looking at the larger special counsel investigation into the russia probe. what do you make of that testimony being put under seal by the judge? well, that came after an objection when the defense asked rick gates if he was asked questions by the fbi about his role in the trump campaign. and so at that point there was this sidebar where no doubt they discussed the scope of rick gates cooperation. it would not surprise me if he wasn t providing information about the time that he
It s now on democratic governor gavin newsom s desk awaiting his signature. the ncaa is allow promoting a bill that would allow college athletes to get paid. basketball superstar lebron james so that s basically the point and the ncaa should pay college players across the country. speaking of paying folks, seattle city council members are proposing $1 million fund to pay homeless people to go back home. the proposal because it family reunification for the seattle homeless who came somewhere el else. if a team of trump administration officials are in california right now, learning about the growing homelessness crisis. the fact-finding mission comes to report that trump is pushing for major crackdowns on homeless
She endured two decades of severe domestic abuse. they had a journey to the united states, usually very hard rowing and now they re going through this very complicated process. it s hard to imagine going through all that, and then being turn turned around. on top of being the lead plaintiff in this case. the president has been very anti-chain migration. he calls it chain migration. everybody else calls it family reunification. yesterday his parents-in-law, melania s parents, were in new york and they were they were taking their oath of citizenship. right. remember, just in his last state of the union, the president said that chain migration is a threat to american society. he has repeatedly called for ending it. the fact is that the american immigration lawyers association calls the term chain migration which we use as shorthand, they recognize it as a pejorative term. it s family unity.
But i d like to have this debate on immigration and something i think the president wants to also a lot of those poor irish and italian immigrants did not come here legally. and if you want to talk about unskilled immigrants and have a conversation about melania trump s parents who are here under what do we call it family reunification when it is her parents and we call it something else, when it is the parents of other people. i think her father was, what a driver in her native country. i am glad they are here. i am glad they are here to help her daughter, to help raise their grandchild. i am glad that melania trump s parents are able to reunify with her daughter. i wish others had the same chance. if for our viewers at home who might not be familiar with john kelly s comments in the interview yesterday, i m going to read them here. he said the following, and i m quoting, they don t integrate well or have skills, speaking about immigrants. they re not bad people, they re comin
Ends extended family miergs for new politics existing applicants grant grandfather in ends diversity lottery. $25 billion more a border wall and security programs. how much of what the white house laid out do you think that they will get or make into law? well it s very difficult to tell because donald trump himself with regard to immigration keeps on changing his mind. i mean, two and a half weeks ago he said he would sign anything with regard to immigration, that everybody came up with. then he has had two since then two bipartisan panels coming up to him and saying here we are and he says no. with the d.r.e.a.m.ers he has been all over the place. i don t think he has any idea what he wants. i think the white house itself is split. i think if people like stephen miller whispering in donald trump s ear fuel the flames of hate, fuel the flames of anger and big timery. chain miergs. that term itself is such a hateful term. we used to call it family reunification in the 1965