it remains unclear as to whether or not they are prepared to do that. i have to leave it there. herald lewis and david khalen, thank you so much. christine romans is following this story for us. what in the world does the travel ban have to do with the markets here. markets have been very, very enthusiastic about swift and comprehensive tax reform with house republicans leading the way, and they re worried dissent within the republican party with the republicans in the house and senate could be a problem for tax reform and that could derail what is their biggest wish list, and the concern is how the travel ban hurts his ability to work with congress. you can see futures down again yesterday, and about 122-point decline on the dow jones industrial average. asia closed lower and oil is
it s not that he is immune to this kind of outpouring of reaction, but i do think that he is enjoying the fight. what happens today, david, when this flury of cabinet picks are up for votes, and what obviously the democrats don t like what they have seen with the travel ban, what can they do? make a lot of noise. they are not going to be able to prevent donald trump from assembling the cabinet of his choosing. jeff sessions likely to get out of committee and be the next attorney general, which is why what i think what we saw last night was more theater than anything else, because we are days away from jeff sessions becoming the attorney general. quitting on behalf of yates and then making the statement on behalf of yates that she can t defend it and the firing of trump, that was all washington theater. how much risk is the president creating of a pendulum affect? he got people whipped up and
sean spicer, says, quote, the majority of the americans support trump s travel ban. is that true? let s get to david khalen. do you know the answer to that? i don t know. then get out. does sean spicer know the answer to that? i doubt if he knows that is factually true right now, and it was rolled out friday, and there has been saturation coverage, and we will get first polls showing actually, but we do know that issues of border security do poll really well. this is a popular sentiment in the country, and even more so after incidents like san
they want the solid credentials. one thing about judge hardiman, we are not sure. yeah, and so talk to us about what this means to be conservative? it s not the same thing as it means politically. how does it play out with some of the big names in the past? there s a mantra out there from some conservatives that says no more david suitors, and david suitor was appointed by george bush in 1990, and the chief of staff said he will be a home run for conservatives and knew him from new hampshire, and it turned out that he was one of the most liberal members of the modern court and voted to uphold abortion, and uphold affirmative