President Trump escalated his fight with the federal courts today as the president called for the impeachment of the federal judge who ordered a halt to the deportations of hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.

Mr. Trump's threat comes after Judge James Bosberg scolded the DOJ for failing to answer questions about the deportations of alleged gang members.

Rallying behind the president, Attorney General Pam Bondi said the DOJ would look into taking action against the judge.

He's attempting to meddle in national security and foreign affairs, and he can't do it.

What he's done is an intrusion on the president's authority. You know, this one federal judge,

again, thinks he can control foreign policy for the entire country, and he cannot. And right now,

we're evaluating our options. Okay. So you may, the administration may continue doing these flights?

Absolutely.

These are foreign terrorists.

The president has identified them and designated them as such,

and we will continue to follow the Alien Enemies Act.

Our White House correspondent, Laura Barone Lopez,

has been covering the latest and joins us now.

So let's pick up there, Laura.

What did the Justice Department say today in their response?

They're filing to the judge, Judge Bozberg.

So at the heart of this, Jeff, Judge Bozberg is trying to figure out if the Trump administration violated his weekend order to turn planes around that deported migrants under Trump's use of this century's old Alien Enemies Act.

And so in the filing today, the Trump administration essentially argued that they only had to follow a written order from the judge,

not a verbal one that came at least an hour earlier. And they said in their filing that the flights in question left U.S. airspace, and so the

occupants were removed before the written order was ever issued.

Now, I talked to a number of trial lawyers who essentially said that a verbal order is just

as binding as a written order and that they don't think that those arguments by the

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