Midmarch. And a lot of the case had to do with whether its based on religious discrimination. The challengers claim that it was. They said all you have to do is look at all the statements that donald trump made during the campaign, especially when he called basically for a ban on muslim immigration. So, the legal issue here, stephanie, was do those statements by the candidate count . The government said no. The only thing that matters is what is in the executive order itself, and statements the president made about the importance of this order to National Security, but the Appeals Court said, we think the judge was right to say that its proper to look at what drove this order, and they believe that it was religious discrimination that did. So, now as you know, the Justice Department says they think this decision is wrong, and that they are going to seek review, is the way attorney general sessions put it, to the Supreme Court. So, the government has two options here. It can simply appe
For a united front in fightingm terrorism following the deadlyct bombing at a concert in manchester, england. The Islamic State to credit for the attack carried out bye 22yearold britishborn muslim. He recently returned from a three week trip to libya and may have had isis training. The slk monday after President Trump addressed aaron leaders in saudi arabia, urging them to drive out the terrorists and extremists in their midst. Drive them out. Drive them out. Drive them out of your places of worship. Drive them out of your communities. Drive them out of your holy land. And drive them out of this earth. Joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist dan hettinger, and mary kissell and Columnist Bill mcgurn. The lets take a look at the whole trip, what you think, success or not . I think he has been largely successful in getting his message of across in the first part with the middle east with rome. Tr trying to get the three big religions on the same page with terrorism. Th
And i want to make sure that im linked to him and sink oh patd with him in the way that he likes. But i dont want to waist his time and sit in the oval office unnecessarily. Thank you. Thank you. Obviously i would have been happy for him to stay up here all day and continue to exhaust all of your questions, but one, i figure i probably should answer a couple today and also, the president has an eept here shortly, so i want to try to work through as many as i can. And with that im actually going to start with jess mason sinceible it is maybe your last day and my first. So with that, jeff, take it away. Thank you, sarah. Can you talk a little bit about how this will affect, this change will affect the press office and and can you speak a little bit for scene about how hes feeling and how he took this news . How he made the decision to resign . You know, im not going to speak for sean in detail. Ic say that he understood that the president wanted to bring in and add new people to the team
Kellyanne conway, Newt Gingrich banging on about Robert Mueller, people hes hired and the fact theyve given money to Hillary Clinton forgetting the fact that the president was a democrat until 2009 and jared and ivanka giving money to democrats and gary cohn is a democrat. Reporter thats right. This is consistent with what we have heard from top officials here and even the president himself. He said that he thinks there may be some conflicts of interest so the New York Times Washington Post reporting now that the president s legal team actually looking into that possibility effectively trying to discredit Robert Mueller, even saying that theyre looking into the possibility of what are the president s pardoning powers. Now, john dowd, who is part of the president s legal team firing back, pushing back against that reporting. Heres what he has to say. He says the story is not true. It is nonsense. The president s lawyers are cooperating with the special counsel, Robert Mueller, on behalf
That was essentially the urging and bipartisan message we heard from the Senate Investigation into russian meddling. They dont hold this kind of briefing very often. The Top Republican offered findings that directly contradicted President Trump on russia while avoiding a direct confrontation with trump when pushed by a reporter. The president has said that any talk of collusion is a home. And youve gone through all these documents, interviewed all these people. At this point strks president right . Im going to let you quote the president and ask him questions about what he said. It wont be the xlee. Do you have any he evidence to suggest the president knew anything about any of these contacts . I thought i was clear. The issue is still open. That we continue to investigate both intelligence and witnesses. Still open. Senate investigators are not ruling collusion in or out. That was the biggest headline from this briefing today. Then senator burr turned to the infamous dossier. It is a