Trump: Dreamers "Shouldn't Be Very Worried"
JOHN KING, CNN ANCHOR: -- itself to shelter and protect anyone who's targeted unjustly. They can use my office. They can use any office in this building. They'll be able to use this building as a safe space. New York's mayor saying I'll see you on court Mr. President. Now, these are blue (ph). There are viewers around the world watching. Democratic areas where the mayors are probably on safe political ground for them to stand up but where is this fight going.</s>ABBY PHILLIP, THE WASHINGTON POST: I mean, I want to just point out that there was a giant loophole in that executive order which is that all of these places rely heavily on federal funds for security. And that is the one exception that is written into the executive order. So there is a lot of vagueness. This is maybe my hobby horse today. But there's a lot of vagueness in this executive order that does not spell out how this is going to work and exactly what funds will be cut off, and whether or not they will automatically be cut off. It just directs the Department of Homeland Security to look into the issue. And I think that they will find that there are a lot of really good reasons not to do that, even in spite of the sanctuary city issue.</s>KING: But planting a flag perhaps, so it sounds good to his supporters. We'll see what happens when it plays out. One other quick issue where his supporters might be dismayed, and some conservatives already complaining. Donald Trump sounds tough on the wall. He sounds tough on sanctuary cities. We'll see how that plays out. But listen to him here in this interview with ABC that aired last night about the so-called Dreamers. Young undocumented brought into this country the young age when they were not old enough to make the judgment themselves, brought in by their parents or by other relatives who've grown up here. Many are in college, many have jobs, many are productive. And some conservative say that he should have immediately reversed an Obama executive order that allowed them to stay or at least reduced enforcement. Listen to Donald Trump.</s>DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: They shouldn't be very worried. They are here illegally. They shouldn't be very worried. I do have a big heart. We're going to take care of everybody. We're going to have a very strong border. We're going to have a very solid border. Where you have great people that are here that have done a good job, they should be far less worried. We'll be coming out with policy on that over the next period of four weeks.</s>DAVID MUIR, ABC NEWS ANCHOR: So Mr. President, will they be allowed to stay?</s>TRUMP: I'm going to tell you over the next four weeks.</s>KING: Certainly sounds there like he's going to be much more moderate than he was in the campaign. And much more moderate than many conservative, I call an immigration hawks want him to be.</s>MARY KATHARINE HAM, THE FEDERALIST: Well, and this is a place where so many of my ideological liberal friends who's --are running around with their hair on fire all the time. This is the part of Trump that I think we should recognize that is perhaps heartening which is -- that he is not this ideological creature. And perhaps the dream part of this, the most sympathetic immigrants that he's talking about here were part of a negotiating tactic where he says, OK, I'm going to do these two things and I'm going to enforce current law and I'm going to tell sanctuary cities you're on notice. And you don't take this money for granted from the federal government if you don't do this thing but over here I'm willing to talk about this. So it seems very Trumping (ph) to me.</s>DOMENICO MONTANARO, NPA: In that executive order and during the campaign, he stressed that it was going to be criminals that they would go after. There was the secure communities act which they want to bring back to be able to coordinate more with law enforcement to identify folks who have committed crimes. And catch and release, for example. And finally deport some of those folks. I do wonder, though, ideologically, what this says going forward to Mary Katharine's point about federalism and what weighs out, right. Federal jurisdiction, state jurisdiction. And I -- and as Jeff Sessions is going to move in to be attorney general, most likely, and will get confirmed given Republicans have those votes, he's somebody who's very anti-marijuana, for example. He has said that bad -- good people don't smoke marijuana. What happens in Colorado? What happens in states like that when you have a justice department that believes that the federal law weighs out and that ideologically, very much against what that state is doing?</s>KING: A lot of questions as the new administration take shape. Everybody sit tight for one minute. We're going to work in a quick break here. Inside Politics will be right back. President Trump on his way to address the important republican retreat right there in Philadelphia. We'll get right back to it in just a minute.