Garlin conner and well have more on his story later in the show. But lets begin with the politics lead. What the president is calling a tremendous victory in a, quote, moment of profound vindication and what his critics are calling bigotry and unamerican and cruel. The Supreme Court in a 54 decision upholding President Trumps third version of his travel ban. That ban started during the campaign as a blanket ban on all muslims entering the u. S. Just a proposal. The first actual ban after he took office was an executive action which halted visas for individuals traveling from seven majority muslim countries and wreaked havoc at the nations airports as you might recall. That issue and order was stayed by the courts and then the Legal Process began of course. This third version which the highest court in the land today ruled constitutional restricts ebtsry into the u. S. From five majority muslim countries and also those from venezuela and north korea. They ruled the president has broad p
Wildly from the stated Mission Rather than prosecutor strictly following the law with this letter saying the special counsel and his staff failed in their duty to act as prosecutors and only as prosecutors. And it goes on to blast the special counsel team for not doing what the special counsel regulation required it to do, make a judgment on obstruction and provide a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions and instead it said the special counsel, quote, intentionally and unapologetically refused to do so and called the obstruction section of the report part Truth Commission report and part Law School Exam. Now the special counsel addressed in its report why it didnt reach a prosecutorial decision on obstruction saying that one factor was the olc memo at doj saying you cant indict a sitting president. The letter also addresses the idea that muellers report was intended as a road map for congress as weve heard democrats on capitol hill claim. Now this lett
like to wish away trump here, but we can t and he is the president and this is his measure and he ll continue to be the president for at least the foreseeable future. you ve been decrying president trump s bigotry and you used to follow somebody who continually expressed sexist anti-lgbtq, lewis farrah khan i would disagree with that. what do you disagree with that comes up in this context. and you are declaring victory and he is a pretty clear bigot. right. and i agree that is true. and i think i made myself very clear. but back to the false equivalency. i don t have any support for the individual you just mentioned stands for, nor do i agree with trump s bigotry either. but then again, any time somebody tries to say that something is unfair and bigoted or one time you sort of said something or somebody said you said something and then