Besides firing sally yates, the white house attacked her personally, in line with mr. Trumps way of answering questions. Today the speaker of the house weighed in on all this, and nancy cordes is on capitol hill. Regretly the rollout was confusing. Reporter House Speaker paul ryan faulted the travel bans launch but not the substance. What is happening is something we support. You have a lot of military and Intelligence Experts warning this is going to serve as a recruiting tool. The rhetoric around this could be used as a recruiting tool. Reporter its more than just rhetoric. Officials throughout the that the timing of this has given isis a lifeline. You could not have given our adversaries better propaganda material. Ryan argued its a risk worth taking. There is an issue with respect to terrorists trying to infiltrate our refugee population. But they havent been able to partly because our let me answer your question. There is nothing wrong with taking a pause and making sure we have t
Firestorm over his travel ban. We actually had a very good day yesterday in terms of Homeland Security. Reporter he hoped to put an end to the chaos and outrage. Protests were all over the country. 108 people were detained including an iraqi and a nineyearold boy separated from his iranian mother for hours. Today they called it a small inconvenience in the name of safety. And tensions mounted as memos circulated, slamming the ban, counter of core values of discrimination. That prompted the white house to release this threat. These bureaucrats have a problem with it . I think they should get with the program or they can go. Reporter but the administration facing a barrage of legal challenges, and democrats today also vowing to block the ban, which restricts travel for seven muslim majority countries for 90 days and stops all refugees for coming to the u. S. For 120 days. Opponents insist there is no evidence it will make the country safer. I got a kid in the military. People overseas on
Then treasury secretary on the right. Now, democrats have decided to boycott those Committee Votes on those two nominees, they say they want more information, and because they are boycotting the committees and the nominees cannot move forward. Heather on top of that, tonight President Trump makes perhaps the biggest announcement of his new administration, nominating a Supreme Court justice, a lot of folks waiting for this. Acting attorney general sally yates, meantime, was dismissed after publicly questioning the constitutionality of mr. Trumps travel orders and refusing to defend them. And then a federal prosecutor from virginia, dana puente was sworn in as acting ag, even as senators move forward on the nominations of Jeff Sessions and other cabinet choices. The process that President Trump criticize, tweeting kristin, bring us uptodate. Heather, this is shaping up to be the biggest day of Donald Trumps presidency so far at least. Not only is he hours away from announcing his Supreme
Im George Howell. Im christine romans. It is tuesday, january 31st. 4 00 a. M. In the east. It is hard to overstate the nature of the rapid developments we saw in washington overnight. In a move that evokes president nixons mass firings in 1973, the Trump Administration creating a level of chaos after a week and a half on the job. A new acting attorney general has been sworn in to replace the old acting ag sally yates after she did not defend the travel ban in court. The u. S. Attorney for eastern virginia, dana boente took the oath and quickly rescinded yates order. More on that in a moment. Evan perez joins us with the latest. Reporter george and christine, in an extraordinary series of events, President Trump fired sally yates, the acting attorney general, because she ordered the Justice Department not to defend the travel ban. The travel ban to the United States from seven countries deemed to be security risks. Yates is an obama appointee. On monday evening, they told Justice Depar
It is transformation of the face of humanity. Pelley and living stronger, how a septuagenarian is winning the race against time. How long do you think you will keep swim something. It will have to be taken from me. I am not going to give it up. This is this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley this is our western edition. President trump nominated federal Appeals Court judge neil gorsuch to fill the vacancy on the u. S. Supreme court. If confirmed by the senate and there is a big battle ahead on that, gorsuch will restore the high courts conservative majority. He clerked for justices byron white and Anthony Kennedy and was appointed to the bench by president george w. Bush. Gorsuch is 49, lives in boulder, colorado with his wife and two daughters. He raises horses, chickens and goats and got his sheepskin from columbia, harvard law and oxford. We have more now from our chief Legal Correspondent jan crawford, jan. Well, scott, judge gorsuch has a conservative judicial philo