Decision means for the president s travel ban. Its obviously a historic decision and an important one for the rule of law and for the people in the state of washington and the people of our country i said from the beginning it is not the loudest voice that prevails in a courtroom, its the constitution. Thats what we heard from the judge today. I want to be very clear about what his decision does then ill turn to my sister general who will add a few comments as well. Judge roe bar robards decision halt to president trumps unconstitutional and unlawful executive order. I want to repeat that. It puts a stop to it immediately nationwide, so for all those individuals that relief is there. Folks can travel to this country as they could before the executive order. That relief is immediate, it is happening right now. The attorney general was asked if the timing of the decision might cause any problems coming late in the day on a friday. The question went to, hey, because this happened at 4 00,
We need a transparent and independent investigation into the russian involvement into our election process that is the very core, the bedrock of our democracy. And if we arent sure about that, then we cant be sure about anything else. That voter is at a town hall last night in virginia hosted by firstterm republican congressman scott taylor, the man you see there, who was shouted down after responding theres no need at this time for an independent commission to investigate the russian issue. Russia was the first issue to come up with this morning at a town hall with republican senator Chuck Grassley who chairs the Senate Judiciary committee, along with Ranking Member dianne feinstein, grassley is asking the Trump Administration for a full briefing on the circumstances surrounding Michael Flynns ouster as National Security adviser including any transcripts of flynns intercepted calls with the russian ambassador. And that is just one of several probes into different aspects of the russia
President be selling . On the plane to nashville today, press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters white house officials would be flooding the zone on tv tonight to push for the repeal and replace effort with both trump and hhs secretary tom price making the case for the bill amid growing opposition from both conservative and more moderate republicans. House snepeaker paul ryan was making the rounds notably seeking to Share Ownership of this bill which the cbo says will reduce the number of people with Health Insurance by 24 million while providing a massive tax cut for the rich. Were working and in glove with the white house. We meet with them constantly daily. Weve worked on this bill together. We jointly drafted this legislation, house, senate, and white house so we are working on this together. The president s all in on this. The president is making phone calls. Hes talking about this. Hes traveling on this. We are all in this as a team together. Team fighting for the Gop Health Ca
Theyd been planning for this big rally due to happen the morning after boris got killed. Ultimately it turned into a funeral march and ultimately they wouldnt even let alexei go to boris proper funeral. They locked him up and held him on charges of illegal leafletting on the day boris had his funeral and was buried. Well, now as we have talked about before on this show, Alexei Navalny, the survivor of that friendship, he is running for president of russia against Vladimir Putin. They have election this is Time Next Year and putin and his government, they do keep finding ways to put alexei in jail. The most recent rabbit they pulled out of a hat was they had him convicted on embezzlement charges against a staterun russian company, something having to do with timber futures . Nobody believes it was a real case but it was a real conviction and technically that conviction disqualifies Alexei Navalny from rubbing against putin. Keeps him off the ballot. That embezzlement conviction they coo
Good morning, it is wednesday, march 15th. Im katie tur alongside cal perry and louis burgdorf. This morning the world is learning more about Donald Trumps taxes. The president refused to release them throughout his campaign, the transition and his administration. But last night Rachel Maddow got ahold of some of them. She revealed two pages of the 1040, but no itemized pages. It showed 38 million paid to the federal income tax, 150 million in income and 103 in losses. Nothing to show how he made his money were included. These were obtained by someone from dc. Org. The filing apparently came in the mail. Who sent them . Its a mystery. If you havent solicited something by the way, let me point out, it is entirely possible that donald sent this to me. Donald trump over the years has leaked all sorts of things. The president paid a tax rate of 25 because of the alternative minimum tax. Mitt romney by comparison paid 14 and took heavy fire during the 2012 campaign. As maddow prepared to go