Been particularly outspoken about President Trumps travel ban. That ban now before the ninth circuit court, out in california. Arguments being heard later today. What is your expectation for what will come of that . First of all, thank you for having me back. All love washington journal. My expectation is like with anything that involves the courts, no prediction is can be guaranteed. The courts tend to throw a curveball. But i will say is that while most of the arguments in the Public Domain have had to do with the constitutionality of it, the morality of it, the fact that it does violate the spirit of our country, there has been precious little talk about the fact that, oh, by the way, this does absolutely nothing to make us safer. If you look at the september 11th attackers, if you look at the tsarnaev brothers in boston, san bernardino, none of the terrorists would have been captured because of this travel ban. So this is at the end of the day, this is an unamerican and mean spirit
What is your expectation . Having menk you for back. I always love washington journal. No prediction is can begin teed. The courts tend to throw a curveball. While most of the argument in the Public Domain has to do with the constitutionality of it, the morale of you have it, it does violate the spirit of our country, there has been little talk about this does nothing to make us safer. If you looked at the september 11 tick tack ors, the brothers , noneton, San Bernardino of these terrorists would have been captured because of this travel ban. In the end of the day, this is an unamerican and meanspirited ban that does nothing to make us safer. I cosponsored a bill that ended up being taken over. What we did was we tried to look at the situation in brussels and paris where you had french, belgian, european nationals. They were part of our visa waiver program. They could come here at any time, but had become radicalized. If you have in the last five years traveled to iraq, syria, etc. ,
The stubborn refusal to look reality in the face and the wish for a good old daddy saviour has been our norm for 75 years. Amidst the advocacy of unrealistic planning, inability to make timely.