Today, the Trump administration again escalated at spite with the courts.

In stunning remarks to reporters this afternoon, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen

Miller said the administration is considering suspending habeas corpus.

Habeas petitions give people the right to contest unlawful detentions.

Well, the Constitution is clear, and that of of course, is the supreme law of the land,

that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion.

So I would say that's an option we're actively looking at.

Look, a lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not.

The courts aren't just at war with the executive

branch. The courts are at war, these radical rogue judges, with the legislative branch as well too.

Miller's comments come as judges across the country have blocked major parts of President Trump's

immigration agenda, including ordering that some students being targeted for deportation by the administration

be released from detention. Our White House correspondent, Laura Barone Lopez, joins us now for the

latest. So, Laura, can the president do this, as Miller is suggesting? So habeas is the most

basic entitlement to judicial review of unlawful detention, as you noted, Jeff. And essentially,

I spoke to Steve Lattuck, the constitutional law scholar, who said that habeas is so fundamental

that it is a right that is in the original constitution under Article 1, and that the overwhelming

consensus is that it's long been that only Congress can suspend habeas corpus. The only other time

that a president has essentially done this is when it appears as though Congress is not in session.

President Lincoln did this when Congress was not in session at the beginning of the Civil War,

but then Congress later authorized the ability to suspend habeas.

Another constitutional law expert I spoke to said that this is significant because without

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