tucker: we are happy you came. i appreciate you having me on. thank you a lot. tucker: thanks a lot. breaking tonight, a federal judge in seattle has blocked tha travel ban, joining us now is michael wilde. he s an immigration attorney who as it has happened last work with melania trump. he s also a critic of the order. just to clarify, i clarified her immigration status. i represented the trump organization over a decade. miss universe, mr. trump owned it as well. but i m here to talk about the order that happened less than an hour ago. tucker: there are many ways to criticize and support this. i get the one that annoys me the most, the least true, the claim that this is specifically legally excluding muslims. the order as you know, since you read it, says we give priority to the people of religious persecution, minorities. we did that for decades during the cold war with jewish people
washington state ag provided evidence that his order would do immediate harm, target muslims and violate the constitutional rights of immigrants and their families. washington governor tweeted. no person, not even the president, is above the law. we should feel heartened by today s victory and more resolute than ever that we are fighting on the right side of history. in a response, attorneys for the trump administration said washington state lacked standing to bring the challenge and the president has properly exercised his authority saying every president over the last 30 years has invoked this authority to suspend or impose restrictions on the entries of certain aliens or certain classes of aliens. in some instances, including classifications based on nationality. we ve not yet heard from the white house but they expect the trump administration to abide by the judges ruling and seek an emergency repeal of the ruling.
what it says is that religiouss minorities, religious minorities will have priority in acceptance of the refugees. under this in these seven countries, we know who the religious majority is and we know who the religious minority is. majority is muslim, they were given a subordinate position in the priority for these highly sought after refugee status. now we understand tucker: wait a minute. we have very limited numbers ofhe refugee spots of non-muslis ahead of muslims. and by the way, there are a bunch of whiny liberals this is a federal judge tonight appointed by president george w. bush. tucker: come on, governor. you did not hear me say that for one thing. this judge is liberal and if you know it. let s not pretend otherwise. apparently george bush thought he was okay when he appointed him. tucker: he appointed many of liberals by the way, for what
it s worth. there is actually a lot of precedent for moving religious minorities and persecuted people to the front of the line in our admittance process. that goes back hundreds of years and you know that. i m not saying that there aren t problems. there may beg philosophical problems with that in the first place, but is it demagogic of you to pretend that something is not true, which is that this band of muslims to put them in the back line? that s not t true. we have plenty that say it s a persecuted group, let s bring them here first. you ve seen it before. what is unique in this situation, we ve never had a president of the united states who entered into this exalted office and said it was as clear intent to ban allen muslims, mae it very profound that from henceforth, i donald trump will make sure that muslims do not comeot into this country, then goes to rudy giuliani and says, is there a way i can do this? to keep muslims out ? by the way, one thing you and i