this morning, we re learning former attorney general loretta lynch is joining the nfl s legal defense team as it fights a race discrimination suit against the league in three teams brought by former dolphins head coach brian flores. joining me is cnn laura jarrett. the nfl has deep pockets to be sure. this is a big name, high-profile hire. you can understand why they want her on her team. she is the first black woman to lead the justice department under the first black president who is now going to be involved in a very high-profile assault in a league that has only currently two black head coaches. now, her firm, paul weiss, has represented the nfl for years. she worked on an nfl case for the washington football team. for outside observers, her
to these sham interviews, sort of this pro forma application of the rooney resule. when the nfl talks about this, they don t say things like there s not a problem here. they re very careful, to be clear, they have work to do. it will be interesting where they draw the line on this. does this give us any sense on where this is going? . they have called his case meritless. they have talked about larger issues. goodell has talked about that. but she is going to be involved in a case where they say he has no case here, an interesting position to have her in. laura jarrett, thank you very much. so the irs grappling with a backlog of millions of tax refunds from last year. why are so many americans still waiting? an american held captive in russia for two years says he s coughing up blood and hasn t
already have visas because they re allowed to come in. laura jarrett keeping track of that for us. thank you. a win for the president after waiting months, whether you agree or not, waiting for these policies, a chance to implement during the campaign. first call the muslim ban. the administration argued repeatedly there s an urgency. critics say, if so, nothing bad happens no terror attacked happened during the long stretch in the courts. when do we have a better sense of the grade for irmplementing this? we re talking about countries not the source of the terrorist whose carried out the biggest attacks in the united states. aren t even talking about home-grown issues now. they re claiming victory because we ll be safer because we re keeping these people out. hopefully we won t have anything bad happen. nobody wants that to happen, but he has to get through the next stretch of time until it gets to the supreme court and the
parts of the trump administration s travel ban took effect a little over 16 hours ago and the white house making the case americans are safer from terrorism. i think it was a great victory for the president. we re going to focus on these six countries alone who have really failed states with terrorist bases in them. what do we know about the first hours of the new policy? cnn laura jarrett helping us keep track. reporter: we haven t seen the same scramble at airports this time around and senior administration officials tell us it s almost impossible to know how many refugees and visa applicants will be affected but already contested in court. the supreme court says people from the six muslim majority nations must prove a bona fide relationship to a person in the
president trump s past criticism of hillary clinton s e-mail scandal when her i.t. chief took the fifth now coming back to haunt his administration. if you re innocent, why are you taking the fifth amendment. all this as the top democrat on the house oversight committee says flynn and to have lied to investigators about who funded his foreign trips, including a trip to moscow. chris, comey has agreed to testify before the senate intelligence panel after memorial day but we ve learned he wants to speak with special counsel mueller before he goes public. former fbi director will testify before the house committee today. everything could change with this personal counsel, what he wants and what he sees with his investigation. we know you ll stay on that, laura. appreciate it. what do new reports mean for president trump. the reporter who broke the story about talks with intel chiefs joins us next. i noticed it as soon as we moved into the new house.