executive branch to protect the people of this country from danger and will seek review of this case in the united states supreme court. laura jarrett, looks like it is going to the supreme court. yeah, not a surprise here. their options were pretty limited. they could try to see if the full panel on the fourth circuit wanted to reconsider, but given the decision here that seemed unlikely. so their only path here was really to try to go to the supreme court, get an emergency stay of this decision and see if they have any hope there. but obviously, wolf, this was a decisive blow to the trump administration. it was a 10-3 decision and obviously the justice department, relying there on the dissents which were strong, three republican nominated judges came out and said the president was well within nis authority to do this. 10-3 vote against the president. in a white house statement, by the way, quoted one of the dissenting judges as saying the real losers in this case are the million
though there is evidence of miss handing, our judgment is no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. reporter: democrats say that criticism of flynn by comey set a chain of events in motion that helped trump win the presidency. now sources close to the investigation tell the newspaper that the document was fake and may have been intentionally planted to harm clinton. and the man who was the leading candidate to replace comey, former senator joe lieberman, has bowed out. in a letter to president trump he cited the president s hiring of mark tasowitz who is a partner at the same law firm. there s been widespread dissatisfaction with lieberman for the post and officials say the president wants to expand that search. thanks so much. let s get more on all of this. jake sullivan is joining us. he was joe biden s national
kig wi . we re following breaking news. the fbi now declining the house oversight committee s request for documents related to president trump s communications with the fired fbi director james comey. back with jake sullivan. he was vice president biden s national security advisor, former policy adviceor to hillary clinton as well. they re citing the justice department, the fact that the new special council robert mueller, a former fbi director, has an ongoing investigation. that s why they re declining the release to congress of these memorandum, memorandum of these conversations. do you believe the mem ranorand should be sent to congress? i believe they shut sit down and work it out so congress can get them and perform the oversight function. threes there s a way for the investigation to proceed and the congress to get the memos and they should work it out. comey hhat that is, if not about the separate investigation? look, i don t want to weigh in on whether he should be fire
and our correspondents and specialists are also standing by. let s begin with breaking news about president trump s revised travel ban. our justice reporter laura jarrod is working the story for us. laura, 10 of the 13 justices who heard the case ruled against the trump administration. yes, wolf. another significant setback for the trump administration in this ongoi ongoing legal drama over the president s travel ban. this time a majority of judges on the fourth circuit court of appeals up holding a lower court s decision to indefinitely halt the ban, finding it likely violates the constitution because its primary purpose was to disfavor muslims. the court s ruling was lengthy and scathing, explaining in part that the congress grabted the president broad power but when it comes to immigration the president s power cannot go unchecked when as here the president wielded through an executive edict that stands to cause irreparable harm to individuals across the nation. the president th
outcome? it is unclear because as kyung was saying, you could envision a scenario where democrats in a special election, off year, who may not turn out street are inspired to sort of take it on. you could easily imagine some gianforte supporters not necessarily encouraging more body slamming in our politics, but who could be like, oh, he took it to the media, i m okay with that. so i don t think it is at all clear how it will affect. remember, wolf, both sides, republicans and democrats are moeldi modelling off the 2014 election as perhaps the scope of the electorate, the size of the electorate. if that s the case, roughly seven in ten voters may have already voted before any of this news was out here. here is what i think was clear. you saw a candidate there on a hair trigger. this race is so much closer than it ever should have been, and that republican candidate gianforte was clearly feeling that and snapped. i m not excusing his behavior, should never do what he did, but that i t