Would the media like to hear Mick Mulvaneys report or would you find it extraordinarily boring and therefore not fit for camera . Yes, please. Would you like to hear it . Yes, please. Why dont we do this. Well say grace afterwards. We are actually going t use that as an opportunity to take a bit of a break here. President trump there, weekly cabinet meeting, calling on his Budget Director Mick Mulvaney for a presentation. We will go back when the president starts to take some questions there from reporters who have assembled in the room. Craig melvin here once again from mcallen, texas. You heard President Trump there going on a bit about the economy, going on a bit about the bad hand he has been dealt with regards to iran, with regards to north korea as well, and, of course, with regards to mexico. All of this coming just less than a day really after President Trump did an aboutface on his Policy Of Separating children from their parents as they illegally try to
cross the border here
fault, courts were allowing us to do this. stop prosecuting people for unlawfully entering the country. if you want to send them to immigration court and let them deal with their asylum claims and be deported is one thing. that s what s always happened. so the fact that they decided to use limited resources let s not forget when we consider this, use limited resources to prosecute misdemeanor violations of the immigration law where the sentences are time served, which means no jail time. that takes away resources from the other serious crimes that the president talks about, the gang violence with being drug trafficking, m schlms-13. you can send as many j.a.g. attorneys down there to handle immigration as you want but you are make being the country less safe. ultimately the message is stop prosecuting these crimes. attorney general jeff sessions announced the trump
immigration cases. congressman ted lewis is a former jag attorney, jags are not trained in immigration law. jag mission is to help commanders fight our wars, not prosecute misdemeanors. is it in your opinion, is it a wise move to send attorneys here with limited immigration law experience into this situation? are they going to be able to help at all or do you foresee that being more of a hindrance? well, you know, i m not familiar with the jag attorneys background or professionalism. they handle that duty. what i am aware of is, that it is completely absurd that the u.s. attorney s office and now potentially jag attorneys, will be prosecuting asylum seekers for the misdemeanor of arriving on our country at a place that
summer to afghanistan. but even then i still felt there was more i could do. that s where i founded the captain jonathan grassbaugh veterans project at the ohio state university college of law. thank you for flying in to be here today from ohio. what does that project do? what we re doing is essentially helping veterans that are coming back to ohio. ohio has 900,000 veterans over 900,000 that are currently in the state, which is the sixth highest in the country. a lot of them have significant legal issues that they don t have any other place to turn for advice when they come home. so what we re doing is taking law students pairing them with practicing attorneys, many of whom are in the ohio national guard as jag attorneys, and those students are working with those lawyers to provide veterans with free legal services in landlord/tenant disputes, credit card issues all these things that can cause such a stress. really, if we can just address them earlier in the process, it
remember they know they are not going to get jag attorneys to put on a headscarf. the whole point of it is to rub our faces in the fact that they got a western lawyer to stand up and ask and demand that alaah, their god be respected. the attorney for ksm stood up in the voir dire of the judge which is done in a military commission. megyn: that s standard. actually asked him what his religion was as if anything other than islam was going to be somehow a case for having him removed from the case. megyn: one of these defendants got up and turned around and faced some of the family members in the back, and smiled and gave him a thumb s up to the victim s family members. it s not clear to me that he would have known it was a family member. megyn: the mocking that they are doing. how are we supposed to react to that, debra so we don t give them what they want? here is how we react. by the way it must be said that