airport for two days consecutively. in battery park across from ellis island and the statue of liberty, protesters are turning out to criticize these orders. joining me now, a ban in the middle of this fight, jerry nadler whose district includes manhattan and brooklyn. judiciary committee. we re looking for the folks watching. we ll keep an eye on these protests, looking here across new york city, the aerial shots show huge gatherings. gatherings across the courthouse last night where the aclu had that victory. we ll keep an eye on these protests and joined by congressman nadler. you looked at a lot of constitutional issues, vocal during the bush administration when there was a lot of debates about the limits of executive power. big picture. what do you think we are seeing over the last three days? where does it fit in your mind
this executive order is widely interpreted, despite the disavows of the white house, as being an anti-muslim ban. there is nothing that is better positioned to evoke anger amongst muslims around the world and offend countries, muslim majority countries that we would wish to partner with in the fight against isis and many other national security goals. how will countries respond to this? well, that s very much in play. you mentioned, of course, the conversation with angela merkel. when the chancellor of germany, in effect, has to give a tutorial to the president of the united states on refugees and international conventions, that s not a good sign for u.s. leadership. i have seen i haven t been
now to the broader part. donald trump started running for president saying we re going to ban people based on religion. exactly. by the end of his campaign he was saying different things. today there is a new marker. in the past 15 minutes president trump says, quote, this is not a muslim ban. your view, because you have litigation that goes just broader than the urgent part. you are arguing in can court this is a religious ban. how do you prove that if the text doesn t mention muslim orris llama and as president trump just said many other muslim countries are unaffected? let s be clear. i ll get to legal arguments and why we think it s clearly a muslim ban that will fall afoul of the statutes. it s dog whistle politics. how can you have a man who runs on a campaign statement to ban all muslims and put out an executive order that goes right there and only with damage control, people turning out at streets, airports and courthouses say it s not a
their way out of this program. and those question marks, certainly, about how they will do that. it gives us kind of an emphasis on this being temporary. it s a lot in one statement. we have it on our twitter feed if people want to read it in full. it really suggests that they needed, throughout this day, to digest what the public discourse was, protests around this country and lawmakers from both parties have been saying. as the day is wrapping up here, they came up with this statement to drive the coverage for the next day and try to answer implicitly some of the questions that have surfaced from all the activity we ve seen today. ari? let s go through it a little bit more, having walked through what it says. i want to discuss which parts of it are true and which are debatable. misleading and false. fact checking this new statement from president trump he talks about the many countries not listed in this ban that are muslim majority. we can confirm that is the case.
that we can t stand for this and we need everybody here to continue fighting against this administration on the racist, fascist policies it s implemented. are you at all surprised by the size of this crowd, how massive it is? i am, and i m not. i got to battery park, it was a lot smaller. but it s new york and we re passionate and it s not going to stop. reporter: the question becomes one of what do you do after this rally? we have to listen to our colored friends and family and everybody that we know and we have to combat white supremacy every day in our daily lives. reporter: thank you. one of the things you re hearing here and some of the chants say no ban, no wall. we are immigrants. one person had a sign that said ninth generation immigrant. a little boy was on his shoulders and said my mother is an immigrant. so this is a city of immigrants, as is our nation. but maybe no more so than right here. city officials tell us that