Week. You know, he has four basic options, martha. And it sounded like from his News Conference today he might take two at the same time. Lets look at those four options. One would be to appeal to a larger panel of the Ninth Circuit. Its called an en banc hearing. 11 judges picked randomly from the remaining 26 judges in the Ninth Circuit. He could appeal to the u. S. Supreme court and he could try the case on its merits in district court. He seemed to suggest he would do that by saying that he will win eventually. The fourth option would be to rewrite the Executive Order. Make it clear that legal permanent residents such as green card holders are not affected by the travel ban. The white House Counsel tried to clarify that when it comes to enforcement. But it was after the fact. So, if the case goes back to judge robart, we know that a schedule could happen as soon as next week where we have briefs and judge robart as i said, in his ruling, in issuing the t. R. O. Said it is likely th
contributor. great to have all of you here. let s take it on. 21 days in, it feels like we have been here for about 1,000. so much has happened. chris, what s your take on what looked like this week for the trump administration? well, we are still in the early going and there were definitely misses. but there were some successes. there were pretty notable successes. one is we saw bipartisan agreement on the position of the administration startinged to rough out last week on iran where you saw democrats and republicans coming together on sanctions that was a sign on the foreign policy front things could be moving in a good direction. something you heard echoed today when he was with the prime minister of japan talking about agreement with china and so on and so on. you are starting to see good things there. as you pointed out, the ninth circuit in that decision and the constant outrage surrounding that issue not so good. martha: what grade would you give the week, chris? i m going
martha: julie roginski is going to give him an a plus i just know it. so close. martha: such fan. julie, what did you think? how did he do this week. chris is right. did he have some successes and alex is right as well. he did get his people confirmed. there is question of betsy devos she was confirmed. in that sense it was a good win for the white house. i will say the most troubling thing to me this week is actually what happened yesterday and this morning with michael flynn which is a problem that could potentially last much longer than just the week where michael flynn seemingly forced the vice president to come out and say something that charity tabbably could be called several untruths about whether he discussed sanctions with the russian ambassador prior to him becoming national security advisor. and so that becomes a big problem that potentially could open this administration up to hearings on the issue. and so as a result of that, i would give him a c minus. martha:
martha: julie roginski is going to give him an a plus i just know it. so close. martha: such fan. julie, what did you think? how did he do this week. chris is right. did he have some successes and alex is right as well. he did get his people confirmed. there is question of betsy devos she was confirmed. in that sense it was a good win for the white house. i will say the most troubling thing to me this week is actually what happened yesterday and this morning with michael flynn which is a problem that could potentially last much longer than just the week where michael flynn seemingly forced the vice president to come out and say something that charity tabbably could be called several untruths about whether he discussed sanctions with the russian ambassador prior to him becoming national security advisor. and so that becomes a big problem that potentially could open this administration up to hearings on the issue. and so as a result of that, i would give him a c minus. martha:
if this is the predicate for that kind of investigation to be launched, that could be a massive headache for the trump administration going forward. martha: so going back quickly to the nordstrom question, chris because i know you are a big shopper. you can tell. martha: i m going to give you the last word on this here. what do they need to do to make sure because this is going to happen again and again with business and interest. they need to be on the same page they white house, do they not, about how they are going to respond to these kind of questions? not only do they have to be on the same page of the white house but they must not steal the president s central message something we would say in west virginia jay rock follow ler came down there to be senator, he is too rich to steal. make sure that is carried forward. donald trump is seen as doing the people s business and not enriching himself and family even if it s a dad being nice to his daughter. martha: you guys are