Protesters are taking action against the prosecutes crackdown. Activists say the recent wave of arrests is striking fear into families who pose no criminal threat. Ice Officials Say that the arrests were in fact routine. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez joins me from atlanta. Gabe . Hi, there, amon. There were several arrests in atlanta alone. Ice Officials Say these were routine Law Enforcement operations, but immigration advocates say this is what they have feared. On the same week that protests ecorrupted in arizona as a mother convicted of using a false Social Security number was deported. Families of undocumented immigrants say they are now living in fear from california with donald trump being president , i see no hope for us. To north carolina. This week immigration and Custom Enforcement raids in at least six states. Ice says the raids were routine, no differentiate than those in the last administration. This is where the raid happened. This is where the rai she says theres a sense of panic
dan. it sounds like they went back at least as far as december involving senior commanders and that sort of thing. can you lay out a bit of what this looked like in terms of how far it goes, who it involved, that kind of thing? thank you. yeah, dan, i m not going to be able to go into more detail than i already have. this was several months in the planning. it included actual physical rehearsals, as i said dozens by the special operations forces as well as you can imagine some tabletop planning as well. i don t have a ticktock of exactly how all that process worked out. it was extensively planned, extensively resourced, and quite frankly extensively formed turnover course of several months. jen? talking about russia and ukraine, there s a report that
0 the control of central command. tony. two quick questions. what happened to his body? was it carried away like with bin laden s body or too badly damaged? and two, administration officials told reporters today this had been planned for a long, long time, the president was presented in december with a tabletop model of the compound or the building. why was the raid now versus two or three weeks ago or a month ago? can you shed any light on that? yeah. his body was left at the site. as for the time being, it is correct, this was a mission long planned, months in planning as i mentioned to jen, but, look, you have to build enough context around the individual s pattern of life, and you have to factor in external factors that you don t get to control like the weather. so lots of things go into make a decision about when you execute a raid of this complexity and this danger, and there were a lot of factors that had to line up to be just right. you have to, you know, make sure that you
joining us now as well. jason let me ask you about what we re seeing here. the president said something rather extraordinary and then follows it up with a statement or tweet. we certainly had that happen turnover course of this week. he was asked about this by reporters in the oval office and we got the tweet from him yesterday. what does it say to you about the president, about this administration? this is not new, david. we have watched all along that this is an administration that is openly hostile to women, not just in the personal behavior of the men who both run this administration that they hired, but also in the policies they promote. and i think what s really important to understand here is we re not just talking about duis or domestic swablz. these are men with histories of abuse, steve bannon, the president himself. in every single instance they don t have an example of a man who was accused of abuse bay woman where they said this is too much, this is too far.
she was on sunday shows this morning defending the white house and what happened at the white house turnover course of the week. let s listen to more of what she said to say. you can feel somebody did a great job for you. you can talk about somebody s competence and that s what the president did. and you can still feel horrified when you see pictures and contemporaneous reports. brittany, you can still feel that. that s what s been missing here, kellyanne conway describing the fact that you can have both things at once but the white house haven t ventured into talk about that. no, it s ban defense of rob porter. and john kelly was absolutely terrible floating this story that he tried to get rid of him 40 hints after he learned about these accusations. the default position is the country doesn t believe women