Good for the economy. Lets pick it apart, kelly jane torrence, diane furthgotroth, former reagan and atima from the young democrats. What do you make of the stats that scream to show americans are increasingly confident in the economy and feeling that things will get better still . It doesnt quite cut equally among democrats and republicans, but there has been a surge for both. What do you make of that . Yes, i think its definitely in the economy, has been shifting in the right direction. That is, obviously, to credit of some of obamas work in the last eight years, taking Unemployment Rate from 10. 9 to a little under 4. 9 currently. If youre definitely an investor, if youre definitely, you have a large, large business, youre definitely looking forward to a Trump Presidency and easings up of economic regulations. The big question will be and this is what diffentiates democrats from republicans, is whether some of those tax cuts will be also for Small Business and middle class people to
House speaker and the white house forced to admit the Health Care Plan needs changes. On capitol hill Senior Republicans rejecting claims that President Trump was wiretapped by president obama. Overnight President Trump saying wiretapped doesnt mean what we think it means. It seems less and less likely congress is buying it. Finally, just a short time ago, the white house released its proposed budget, huge reductions. Dramatic plan to radically restructure government that wont cut the deficit and also wont pass. So its a special kind of drama. Were covering this from every angle. Lets start with the travel ban, cnn justice reporter Laura Jarrett in washington. Explain why this was blocked and what the president is now saying about it. Reporter the ruling from the federal judge in maryland coming just hours ago. The judge was focused on the First Amendment problem, treating muslims differently than nonmuslims. The judge said i cant ignore the unrebutted evidence of the president s own s
of technical issues brought up by the court. it s interesting, and i know, laura coates, this gets to intent. when we re dealing with campaigns and dealing with politicians, can t they change their mind? couldn t donald trump have been for a full muslim ban during the campaign, but not for one now and actually write an executive order that is not a full muslim ban? absolutely. in fact, we expect the campaigning candidates to be different than the ones fully briefed on national security. here is the problem. people still believe this is basically a rose by another name and a muslim bannon the less. the reason for that is there seems to be a continuation of the campaign rhetoric into this administration, not by using the terms muslim ban but by the comments donald trump made yesterday and stephen miller previously cited in that video about this being a technical change and a policy outcome that was largely the same. in reality, the legislative intent is different than the intent of a