I think you are going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks. The Health Care Bill gets a key vote this morning. Republicans are saying its going to have to change. We have a score, we can make necessary improvements and refinements to the bill. Lets get to it beginning with President Trumps travel ban blocked by two federal judges hours before it was set to take effect. For the second time in six weeks, the president is threatening to go to the Supreme Court. We have a great team to break it down. Im going to pete williams. Pete, walk us through why these judges blocked the revised version of the travel ban. We were under the impression this new version was designed specifical to make its way through. It was and it didnt work. Both judges said it basically discriminates on the basis of religion. The first ruling came in hawaii less than six hours before the travel restriction was set to take effect after midnight. The judge there and the ju
Refugees and anyone from seven muslim countries is filled with requests for reports and information. The department of homeland security, the state department, are asked to provide information on the numbers of Foreign Terrorists, and then to issue progress reports on the policy with more data within one and three months. So let me save the government some money and offer the data right now. Alex of the cato institute, a conservative think tank, has tallied the number of americans killed by citizens of the seven countries banned from 1975 to 2015. They are as follows wrk from iraq, zero. From iran, zero. From syria, zero. From yemen, zero. From libya, zero. From somalia, zero. And from sudan, you guessed it, zero. Incidentally, that number from saudi arabia is 2,369, from the uae 314. From egypt, 162, according to cato. Why seven countries are on or off this list is truly myst mysterio mysterious. Some newspapers have noted correctly that none of the muslim majority countries the have
Whats the lay of the land . I was told he wants to cut through the bs. I dont know if theres been any. Get the answers to the questions about how long this will go on. And this was what was most interesting. One of my sources says hes going fo find out if we have to fight. Then where this leads. They seem to think that he will be the one to do that. Where nobody else was able to do that before. In some interviews he talked about his prior relationship with Robert Mueller. Its not clear to me how a prior relationship with mueller would impact an Ongoing Investigation sfwl he told that in his b interview. I should remind people john doud the lawyer who quit had a prior relationship. With mueller. Rudy worked with mueller after 9 11. The mayor of new york and mueller was the head of the fbi. At the time. But i think that whole we have a relationship and we get along can be over done. Because a lot of people have worked with mull over the years. He said today that when she pushed him on a
Bitter battle over Brett Kavanaugh is coming to a head. And heres what senators are combing through and have been all throughout the day. 45 pages of interview summaries, 9 people interviewed, 1,600 pan pages from the fbi tip line and what was in all of those pages . It literally depends on who you ask. I know, youve heard the story before. It has become the definition of a tale of two reports. So, lets start with republicans. What did they see . What we know for sure is the fbi report did not corroborate any of the allegations against judge kavanaugh. The witnesses they have identified saying they were present at the event have all refuted their allegations, so i think that ought to settle it. After investigations from both the committee and the fbi, we have found nothing, absolutely nothing, to corroborate accusations against him. And we need to confirm him right away. Republicans clearly focusing on what was in the report. As for the democrats, their focus is on what was not in it.
Im jake tapper. Welcome, a major defeat for President Trump on capitol hill. No, it did not come just from democrats. This was a bipartisan review. The president could issue the first veto of his presidency. In fact, moments ago he tweeted that word, veto, after republicans joined all 47 democrats to slap down the declaration of emergency to get the border wall. Republicans murkowski, collins, lee, paul, portman, romney, alexander, toomey, moran, blunt, rubio and wicker. He tweeted a vote for todays resolution by republican senators is a vote for nancy pelosi, crime. Hyperbole on twitter, whether such tweets have any real affect anymore. Abby philip starts off our reporting. Call the role. Building the wall, as 12 republican senators join democrats in repudiating his National Emergency declaration to build the border wall without going through congress for the funding. The ayes are 59. The nays are 41. The joint resolution is passed. Reporter despite lastditch drama, an attempt to twis