are presiding over this fisa court, which has to do with terrorists, do you really want your name out there? because, if you are doing something terror-related,. ainsley: it could be your family. steve: guy lives over on maple street. brian: keep the judge masked but find out we will put him behind the curtain like 60 minutes does a lot with mobsters. we have him speak in a silhouette. brian: redact out his name and let us see the transcripts. steve: have you heard this the president of the united states when he was a within candidate he wants to build a big beautiful border wall. the state of california has been suing the federal government saying you are breaking a whole bunch of e.p.a. rules and environmental rules by fast tracking this. well, yesterday, a judge from donald trump s past actually gave donald trump a win. ainsley: this is the judge, judge curiel is his last name can we put up his picture? you will remember when you see his picture.
i want to bring in our senior washington correspondent now, joe johns. why doesn t the president make this announcement himself? reporter: the official position of the administration is that the president has been very vocal on this issue of the new epa rules and the white house is simply not trying to distance itself between the president and epa. on the other hand, this has already been seen as an attack on the coal industry as erin mentioned and it s likely to create real political difficulties for democrats in coal producing states during the midterm election year. now, you can make the case that if mr. obama were to have appeared at that announcement initially it would have put him front and center and just added to the controversy but it s very hard to make that case. the white house does see this as a legacy issue for mr. obama. but if there is any way to mitigate the fallout for democrats and soften the blow, the white house is going to think of ways to do that down the road.
noxious position. what we have seen also is certain senators, or at least candidates beginning to push back on that idea and beginning to run into the wind of the aca, and actually put out campaign commercials touting this idea that this has been good for the country. so it will be interesting to see how it ultimately plays out. from a political standpoint, it makes sense for the republicans to play the cards they have. i personally would not necessarily rely exclusively on that card, but, you know, but some in leadership believe that will be their way to winning the senate this fall. you know, kate jonathan chafe points out that the president has set out to do other things that republicans in another parallel universe would be happy to run on, including the long awaited epa rules, and the white house is hinting they ll announce things relating to immigration. there s a narrative that.
spokesperson disagreed with. there is no information that they are losing jobs because of the implementation of the affordable care act. the law going into effect now will need to be amended before it can tackle the problems with providing health care. mike, thank you. the dow lost 185, and the s&p dropped 12, and nasdaq fell 15. on the week, though, the dow is up a half percent. the s&p is up 1.3%. up next, a look at the controversial new epa rules. here is what some of the fox affiliates are covering tonight. denver follows to cover the devastating denver all across the state. coloradoans returning to homes are finding stomach turning destruction. and apple fans waited in lines overnight to get their