at the under lying thing is it is unconstitutional. right. absolutely. i think what the 9th circuit has said in the washington case as well as what we re arguing in our case is that context matters. the government has repeatedly said they really think beyond the four quarters of the document. the supreme court in other cases have said you have a establishment clause of the violation of the first amendment can t simply close our eyes and look at neutral policy there s a discrimina discriminatory purpose behind it there s no way you don t look at that. here you have statements over two years all the way to the time that he is the president where he is displaying anti-muslim bias. all right stand by will you mr. attorney general douglas
temporary order which typically is isn t appealable but now they have this preliminary injunction will last longer which gives them something to appeal to those judges. as we know there s also now an appeal in the 4th circuit court of appeals on the east coast because a maryland judge also halted the travel ban two weeks ago. so it s potentially setting up a real and circuit court show down if these two circuit courts come out any differently then it s certainly headed directly to the supreme court. i want laura and carl to stand by as we continue with this breaking news federal judge in hawaii granting extended injunction halting travel ban, what do you make of this attorney general. thank you very much for the toint. opportunity.
critics than the first one did. it says that he according to the ban, says it s implemented to keep the country safe from terrorists. but opponents say it amounts to a ban on muslims. the new executive order goes into effect thursday. it would block immigration from six muslim majority countries for 90 days. unlike the original version, it does not forbid travel from iraq. the new measure also blocks refugees for 120 days, but removes the indefinite ban on refugees, specifically from syria. it also provides exceptions for green hard holders. still several states are going to court to stop the bap from taking effect and hawaii was the first to issue a legal challenge. the state attorney general douglas chin is joining me from honolulu. thanks for being here with us. what is your argument against the new ban? our biggest objection to the new executive order is that it s still like the first, discriminates against people
florida. in all, 14 bomb threats by phone or e-mail in ten states have happened this week bringing the total since january to 135. in response to the latest round of threats, all 100 u.s. senators signed a letter calling on the trump administration to take swift action. press secretary sean spicer said sthe white house would continue to condemn the constant threats. president trump s new travel ban is getting a new challenge from out west. hawaii is suing to block the most recent execute uf order which the state attorney general lls muim ban 2.0. the state initially challeng the president s original executive order before it was blocked by a federal judge in seattle. state attorney general douglas chin slammed the order saying it leaves the door open for even further restrictions. fbi director james comey wrapped up some rarkss at a cybersecurity conference in boston. he didn t talk about the latest document dump from wikileaks which claims to have obtained the most sweeping collecti
and i didn t think that we would be facing this flurry of orders and we would be responding as much as we have been. with all of the different decisions that have been made, to our minds the violations of the constitution and the statutes, it is something that we i m just on behalf of the states, need to be able to speak up. and that s why we re doing what we re doing. douglas chin, attorney general of hawaii. thanks for being with us. much appreciated. john, thank you so much. tears of joy at airports across the united states, as families kept apart by president trump s travel ban are reunited. we look at what s at stake in tuesday s appeals court hearing. it is 24 past 2:00 in the morning and they are still at it. the democrats on the floor of the u.s. senate, mounting a last-ditch effort which has zero chance of succeeding to stop president trump s education