This is cnn break news. Hello, welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Just 11 00 here on the west coast im john vause. Im isha sesay. Breaking news this hour, President Trumps second try at a travel ban has been blocked by a federal judge just like the first one. A judge in hawaii made the decision hours before the ban was supposed to take effect. The execute executive order would have stopped travel from a majority of muslim countries. Mr. Trump told a crowd just a while ago he will fight this decision. A judge has just blocked our executive order on travel and refugees coming into our country from certain countries. The order he blocked was a watered down version of the first order that was also bl blocked by another judge and should have never been blocked to start with . We spoke last hour to hawaiis attorney general about the judges decision. Bottom line here, did judge watson, the judge in this case, did he essentially decide that the executive order, t
Due to take effect. Mr. Trump had revised his original executive order from january, which caused havoc at u. S. Airports and was ultimately struck down. The new ban would stop people from six mostly muslim nations from entering the u. S. The president told supporters in tennessee, he would appeal to the u. S. Supreme court if necessary. The order he blocked, was a watered down version of the first order, that was also blocked by another judge, and should have never been blocked to start with. This is the opinion of many, an unprecedented judicial overreach. Well, quite a different reaction from the attorney general of washington. He successfully challenged the first travel ban. Take a listen to this. Look, bottom line, thats fantastic news. Exactly what were seeking, and what the immigrants rights project were seeking, what the plaintiffs in the case in maryland are seeking, what all of my colleagues, new york, maryland, massachusetts, oregon, what we are all seeking. So its fantastic
Viewers here to United States and around the world. Thanks for joining us. This is cnn necnn newsroom. U. S. Attorney general Jeff Sessions has offered to testify before the Senate Intelligence committee tuesday. Sessions is skipping a different hearing on the justice departments budget, he said that he offered to resign over tensions with the president , donald trump about his decision to recuse himself. Sessions appearance havent been worked out just yet. Hi, there, its going to be up to the Senate Intelligence committee to decide whether to allow to testify on tuesday and whether to have that session be open to the public or closed to the public, according to reporting by my colleague, this request by sessions to testify caught the committee by surprise. Thats why we havent gotten immediate definitive answers about their plan. We also know from the reporting that there are some on the committee who are concerned that sessions may be trying to avoid testifying publicly. Among those c
Positions. On actually is mrs merkel has failed and it is about time that she goes. Kate. We are facing a situation in the history of the federal republic of germany. Which we never had before we know the difficult situation our country is in now. We are not prepared to enter a grand coalition so. We are not afraid of new elections. Also coming up Zimbabwes President Robert Mugabe he survived a military coup last week he ignored a deadline to resign today next stop impeachment charges and an attack on his wife. I mean challenged that. Allowed his wife to use it which is no power when shes not noted to the government. And we begin the day with the most powerful woman in the world weaker than she has ever been at home late last night after four weeks of marathon talks to form a new Coalition Government chancellor im going to marry her was forced to admit failure to the free democrats known as the f. T. P. Walked out of the talks saying it just isnt working america had hoped to bring the
Im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside nbc White House Correspondent jeff bennett. We start with President Trump on his way back to washington this morning. After spending the memorial day weekend in japan. There he met with u. S. Troops and also down played the recent missile test by north korea. Even praised that countrys leader for the move. During the course of his visit, trump suggested that he was not personally bothered by the short range missile test carried out by pyongyang earlier this month. In a tweet on saturday the president wrote this, north korea fired off some small weapons which disturbed some of my people and others but not me. I have confidence that chairman kim will keep his promise to me and also smiled when he called Swampman Joe Biden with an an instead of an en. The president made that claim despite those missiles pose a potential Security Threat to allies in the region including japan. During a press conference yesterday following hours of talks between the two leade