does por taend portend a lot of legal battles ahead. and as alan dershowitz has been saying over the last few days, it brings into focus that the checks and balances of the constitution have become very important. there are guard rails. the president and the executive branch cannot go beyond certain bounds. and what you have here is a national security argument being put forward by the government as it often does, in insisting that he has, the president can do whatever the hell he likes, versus the constitutional argument about the protection of rights here in this country. i don t, i m no authority on standing, but i do think it s worth pointing out, there are almost 100 companies, many of the biggest tech companies in this country who are arguing that this hurts them. right. and universities, there s no question of public universities being damaged by this to-ing and fro-ing and the chaos. i hope finally whatever comes down, if the courts rule in favor of washington state, i ho
fro-ing and the chaos. if the courts rule in favor of washington state, i hope that s not treated well, they re just playing politics, but if they go against washington state, well, we re present being t we re protecting the authority of the president. appreciate all our panelists. coming up next, reports of white house infighting and a battle over bathrobes. and why senators are holding an all-nighter. and if devoss s agenda was put in place. well, a 103 yeah, 103. well, let me ask you guys. how long did it take you two to save that? a long time. then it s a fortune. well, i m sure you talk to people all the time who think $100k is just pocket change. right now we re just talking to you. i told you we had a fortune. yes, you did. getting closer to your investment goals starts with a conversation. schedule a complimentary goal planning session today.
square. with christmas celebrations as they get under way with that crowd. we re going to continue to watch that throughout the morning. president-elect donald trump released a letter that he received from russia s president vladimir putin. a week after it was written. in this letter, president putin s hopes to restore u.s./russia s relations. what does all of this mean for the future of nuclear policy? cnn s chief mrilt cal correspondent dana bash has more details. victor and alison, anyone watching the to ing and fro ing from vladimir putin to donald trump about nice letters and nuclear arms race should rightly not know what s going on but that could be the point. each trying to keep the upper hand. it s one thing, though, doing that negotiating business deals, it s quite different when talking about nuclear arsenal.
got what one stage is looking like another super typhoon which was following pretty much the path of haiyan. it has deebiated and going to move further north. one of the newspaper, i came down from manila today. one of the newspapers, one of the headlines was please, god, not us again. that was from a survivor from tacloban. it s interesting driving down the road, i see a lot of new tin roofs particularly. there has been a lot of rebuilding going on and also still a lot of smashed structures. a lot of schools missing ro ing here. the actual master plan to get the entire rebuilding effort underway here was only approved by the government about two months ago. so there is a lot of work here still to be done obviously. money s no object. it s getting people working together if you like. certainly as i look around as
tried to separate themselves sometimes from the overt racism and white supremacy that launched their movement in the first place. but after a lot of new attention to these groups, after the bomb k in o ing in oklahoma city, nbc s nightly news sent a hidden camera into a missoula gun show and the reporter for that segment, fred francis, he found all those old threads still knotted together. in many cases the hate groups of the past have reconstituted themselves into these militias. in isolated regions like this it s easy to find people who worry about losing their weapons. but once involved many find there is an ideology driving the militia craze. white supremacy. with the christian identity movement deep in the background. nearby, a branch of his militia was selling guerrilla manuals along with blatantly anti-black, anti-semitic literature. this comic book aimed at school kids features the hero white will and contains graphic images of whites beating blacks.