chuck schumer for that. let s go to jessica schneider and to have these two potential bosses showing up to work, talk about awkward and now this is ultimately going to be decided by a judge. this will be played out in court and perhaps very soon. we know the judge will take immediate action and we just got word that thomas kelly has called for a motion for a temporary restraining order minutes from now. and that will happen unless both sides agree on a different time in a half hour. so this judge, brooke, recognizes the urgency of the situation since as you ve recounted there for the several hours both mick mull vainy and leandra english, and mulvaney
appointed by cordray and everyone is in full agreement that he is the director of this office. what agency is operating under director mulvaney. much better than it has in the past. we are not going to put political ambitions as the number one priority and we ll do what the agency was created for. on the senate race in alabama, does the president plan to campaign for roy moore? the president is not plan anything trip to alabama at this time and frankly, his schedule doesn t permit him doing anything now any election day. over the weekend the president tweeted about this race on twitter and does the president does he have plans to continue his campaign against the democrat in alabama doug jones. i am not going to get into a back and forth from the podium program i ve declined that opportunity many times, and i can tell you that the president
out of washington. a lawsuit seeks to halt u.s. president donald trump s choice to run the consumer financial protection bureau. that is a government watchdog that oversees wall street. on friday, mr. trump named mick mulvaney to name it. but the outgoing director richard cordray had already named his own successor. her name is leandra english, and she is behind the lawsuit trying to block mulvaney s appointment. hope you re still with me on. this white house press secretary sarah sanders said this about the lawsuit. the law is clear. director mulvaney is the acting director of the cfpb now that the cfpb s own general counsel who was hired under richard cordray has notified the bureau s leadership that she agrees with the administration s and department of justice s reading of the law, there should be no question that director mulvaney is the acting director. well, president trump is
spewing out from the crater become dangerous for people who have been experiencing very hard time to breathe. so it becomes very eminent for people who live even the outskirt of the 10 kilometer radius zones to also leave the area. all right. reporting there from cnn indonesia on the situation there with the volcano in bali, a beautiful resort island with lots of tourists there. and so many people, their lives in danger at this very moment. keeping a very close eye on that. and we will have more from the danger from the volcano in about 30 minutes from now with our meteorologist allison chinchar. we ll take a short break here. but president trump faces a new legal battle over his appointee to run a consumer watchdog agency. the latest on mick mulvaney controversy ahead. and president trump has also waded into the alabama senate controversy. will that derail his efforts to push tax reform and a spending bill during this critical
now that weren t reported last year? the ones that he s questioning. so what is the official policy on assad s position? should he stay or go? look, as we said, we don t have any changes and to pass statements that we ve made on that front. nothing new. blake? on cfpb, does the white house believe that leandra english is unqualified for that position? we believe that director mulvaney is the right person at this time to lead that agency and that s why he s over there. if you believe that he s the right person, i guess the follow-up then is what is the white house or what does the president have against leandra english in that spot? i m not saying that we do have anything against her. we want director mull vain toe lead this agency and that s the decision that the president is allowed to make and one that he s made and has legal authority to do so. john? thank you, sarah. two questions about personnel. the president s appointment of