Breaking News , President Trump fires acting Attorney General Sally Yate...

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The Department of Justice won't be defending President Donald Trump's executive order that bars refugees and people from seven muslim-majority countries from entering the United States in a letter sent to staff monday acting us attorney general Sally Yates said she's not convinced defending the order is consistent with the departments responsibility yet also said she's not convinced the executive order is lawful Yates is serving as acting Attorney General because the role of attorney general hasn't been filled the senate judiciary committee is expected to vote tuesday on Trump's nominee for the post Senator Jeff Sessions if his nomination move forward the full Senate will then vote former president barack obama appointed Yates to the deputy attorney general post in 20 15 though she has served in the Justice of Justice not to defend mr. Trump's executive order on immigration now the order signed on Friday temporarily halt the u.s. refugee program and bans entry to the US from seven muslim-majority countries for 90 days in a statement the White House says that Yates and Obama administration of pointy is quote betrayed the department of justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect US citizens now US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Dana wednesday will serve as acting Attorney General until the Senate confirmed president Trump's pick for attorney general Senator Jeff Sessions joining us now on the phone from the American Center for Law and Justice a secular j give us your best take on all of this.

Well i think first of all the president was acting within his authority in firing an acting us attorney would not comply with federal law and that federal always put in place in a waffle order from the President on that the issue of the refugee status and immigration she did not have the authority could fuck that wall so to speak she did and that's the president made the decision as the commander-in-chief and it's the chief executive United States and terminated her appointed another acting so these individuals unlike the FBI director serve at the pleasure of the President on this was a lawful order she had no business doing by the way that lawful order was signed off by the Office of Legal Counsel both in the White House and the Department of Justice so she was way outta line.

And she's not the consequent so this this was a pollutant basically a political hit job by an obama point the now the president donald trump said the acting Attorney General has betrayed the department of justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States disorder was approved as to the form and legality of the department of justice Legal Counsel arm what is that meat can you think of another incident like this where something like this happening and it does bring up the issue of the Democrats slow-walking Donald Trump's appointees well quarters would have been an issue if jeff Sessions would already have been confirmed which he will be in the next two day so number one this but this was all politics but what is outrageous as an officer of the court and evaluates is an officer of the court is she did not do her job as the Attorney General as a lawyer in defending a policy she may have disagreed with the policy but for her to go forward and say I'm not going to defend it on moral grounds and that's basically what your third is not only illegal in her position but also the violation of her own oath of office so the president was not only correct and terminating her she had no business doing what she did it was pure politics and at the end of the day the only people that suffer here are the American people and this nonsense has to stop these are unelected entrenched bureaucrat unelected in Prince bureaucratic here's what i want to ask you though da alright so the person that will be taking over this to the US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is serving in the interim now this person gave a statement that i'm honored to serve president Trump in this role until senator sessions is confirmed I will defend and enforce the laws of our country and ensure that our people and our nation are protected on you think there was a discussion as to this specific executive order and her interpretation of this i'm sure they're looking should event I mean the president has the right it may not have been right for the president could have been from his legal counsel it could have been up from other officers within the White House but did you have to know that the person you're pointing is going to faithfully execute the laws and defend the Constitution of the United States period and this order i'm even those that.

Challenging this order have a real stretch to say it's my constitutional again evaluates the acting Attorney General could disagree with the policy that does not give her a basis to not move forward with a defendable position on this order which is clearly not only dependable but well within the President and it is horribly within the president purview.

Can you think of any historical precedent any moment like this because people are trying to bring up the Watergate situation with richard nixon and the termination of the Attorney General would fire the Special Counsel this is completely different this is an order an executive order of the President signed off by LOL the Office of Legal Counsel and and the Attorney General decided not to move forward with this so that's what you've got here this is the Attorney General of the United States not doing their job you know it may we talk a lot about the slow walking j of all of the president's appointees compared to especially Barack Obama back in 2009 does this not show a certain vulnerability and by the Democrats playing politics it creates problems that we didn't anticipate that could be beyond difficult I think Sean there is no doubt about that in fact what this is done is set up the scenario where basically its flawlessness up for a period of time here you had an executive order you had the rollout of that executive order they had the issue with the pieces they corrected and then you have an attorney generals and well I don't like it's locker enforcement or even defense would force it who is the law of the land here the president united states has the authority under this the Attorney General supposed to enforce that law for the Attorney General to be the law themselves very dangerous and I do think the political ramifications that are really serious.





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