in this case, it is quite jam packed. we re covering what s gown on in saudi arabia, all of that and vladimir putin going to that neck of woods, iran next week. let s talk about what happened this week with the president s trip, wrapped up now in the royal kingdom. peter doocy in jeddah, saudi arabia, with more. peter. reporter: neil, the president is aboard air force one. we expect him to take off for joint base andrews in maryland any minute. he came to the middle east looking for gulf leaders to boost oil production capacity because he thinks that might help lower gas prices back at home. but he just got some bad news from the saki crown prince saudi crown prince who basically said they can t really increase their oil production capacity much more. finish translator: the kingdom will play its role in this era to increase the level of maximum sustainable production capacity to more than 13 million barrels. beyond that, the king.com will not have any kingdom will n
if they were done in furtherance of a tax violation or in furtherance of an election law violation. got it. so, so trump s attorney, michael says that he won t accept a plea deal and that he s gearing up for a fight. let s listen to that first. you know, president trump will not take a plea deal. in this case. it s not gonna happen. there s no crime. i don t know if it s going to make the trial because we have substantial legal challenges that we have to front before we get to that point. we also heard from his attorney yesterday, saying that they re going to file motions to get these charges. dismissed i mean, what are the chances of that? well. on the question of whether these misdemeanor violations become a felony when they are undertaken to evade federal campaign finance laws. i think there s a argument there, and i think that trump s lawyer is right to say we will file motions to challenge that theory. i don t
are you to doing? well, we re trying to kind of take it under control ourselves. we have the opportunity to perhaps do our own prosecution here in the city of whittier, so we re looking at doing that right now because we re just not happy with the fact that we ve got over 700 misdemeanor violations that have not been prosecuted by our district attorney. so it s a very, very neil: misdemeanor prosecutions, just to be clear, would have to go to him to decide. you re saying take those at least away if his jurisdiction so you can settle the matter in your town, right? so that s, neil, that s one of the questions, because that s what we thought. it could very well be that if we do those misdemeanors, he might not do any misdemeanor prosecution, and we have over 1,000 misdemeanors per year neil: wow. so it s kind of up in the air, we re not quite sure. neil: you might want to be careful what you wish for.
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
with three misdemeanor violations: assaults carrying a concealed weapon, and public swearing and intoxication. he pled guilty to the assault charge in exchange for dropping of the other charges. he fell on to my face and his ear or his mouth was in my ear and he said it again. but even more hateful and he was on my face so i pushed him away and he slapped my son. people saw. a manufacturer based in idaho where he works says he has been suspended. another passenger on the flight heard derogatory language coming from the rear of the plane and he got up out of the seat and got to the back of the plane and witnessed the attack. the f.b.i. is investigating. molly, thank you. we have brand new images of a