Saw fairly recently at the white house when President Trump announced judge neil gorsuch would be his pick to replace justice scalia. Several people people will be in attendance whose family were killed from undocumented immigrants. At President Trumps Campaign Rallies hed bring people on stage to talk about this with regard to immigration. This will be a discussion of potentially economic security, national security, and possibly immigration as we look ahead later in the week, ali, to the president revealing his revised travel ban. On friday remember, it will be a month that original ban has been tied up in Court Essentially since the stay was put on it. The president might talk about his budget, too, something a lot of members of congress are particularly interested in hearing. Heres what he had to say when it came to what he would do with Entitlement Reform with cuts to medicaid and Social Security. Listen. You have an omb director finally. He says you have to take an axe to entitle
Capricious, ash tear or made sense. The Supreme Court in boumedin struck it down saying it was not an adequate substitute for habeas. Thats correct, senator. Your role was to find out a way to engage congress on the Detainee Treatment because it was your view that congress, being involved, would strengthen the president s hand . As a lawyer . Yes. I was not a policymaker but i did advise. As a lawyer. As did many others. There were very other many fine lawyers, too, senator, who advised the administration that Engaging Congress would be a good idea, because we had read our youngstown and our justice jackson. Any lawyer i think who understands this area of the law would suggest the president is stronger when he has congressional support. The Signing Statement. Is it fair to say there was a conflict between the Vice President s office and other parts of the Bush Administration about what the Signing Statement
should say or look like . Thats my recollection, and thats about all i can reca
Happy easter to those of you celebrating. We have a lot of politics to get to. But first, the growing tension between the United States and north korea. North korea last night launched a Ballistic Missile from the Submarine Base in sinpo, but the missile exploded minutes after launch. This happened as mike pence landed in south korea for talks on how to counter the growing Nuclear Ambitions and he spoke to american troops at a breakfast there this morning. Im joined by Senior National security analyst juan duarte, the failure, the New York Times this morning leans hard into the idea that the failure wasnt necessarily a north korean failure, but maybe sabotage and possibly sabotage from the United States. What can you say . This is a Missile Program thats been replete with failures. And the challenge is we dont know yet. It could be sabotage. It could be poor engineering or bad luck. Its the nature of the Missile Programs but its clear that
many trump voters though are forgiving. At lea
To publish it. It is not illegal for us to publish it. Watch this question of this revelation tonight brings forward. This 1040 report and getting into reporters hands, there is reasonable to expect that there is more out there and well see more of this come up. You know how much the president made and paid in that one year. We only have two pages. There is still a long list of questions that could be answered by the president if you want to release more or anybody else does of this source that gets it in our hands. Thanks for being with us tonight. Well see you again tomorrow. Now, it is time for last word of lawrence o donnel. Rachel, you know normally at 9 00 p. M. I have some stuff to do to prepare for a 10 00 p. M. Live tv show. All that stuff, i made sure it was done at 8 59 p. M. I got to watch every minute tonight. This has been an amazing
out on this program that there is absolutely no proof and never has been proof that any of Donald Trumps relevant tax returns are being audi
Special counsel . Eventually can he fire everyone . I mean, its going to be fascinating tomorrow. Were going to hear every one of those questions. What we dont know is how many answers were going to hear. Yeah. That were not sure of. Yeah. This question of Executive Privilege and what theyre going the call Executive Privilege and such a i mean thats a difficult legal theory anyway. Thats not a cut and dried thing even in the best of circumstances, i think were going to get into Appeals Court territory pretty quickly tomorrow. And i have a feeling that Jeff Sessions isnt going to rely on the feelings pleading that we heard last week from dan coats and the director of nsa. It is my feeling that i shouldnt talk about this. I have discomfort. Yeah. Yes. I have a gavel. We will seattle. Thank you, rachel. Thanks. When president nixon fired the special prosecutor investigating him, he did it on a friday night and shocked
headline writers who immediately called it the Saturday Night Massacre.