Week, trump made even more controversial comments, like attacking the federal judge presiding over his Trump University fraud case. I have a judge who is a hater of donald trump, a hater. Hes a hater. His name is gonzalo curiel. Reporter and then tossing out to the crowd that the judge is mexican. So what happens is the judge, who happens to be, we believe, mexican, which is great. I think thats fine. Reporter but it is not accurate. Judge curiels parents may have been mexican, but he was born in indiana. During the gop primaries when trump made remarks about mexicans that made many in his party cringe, his popularity grew. Theyre bringing drugs. Theyre bringing crime. Theyre rapists. And some, i assume, are good people. Reporter that was the first of many teflon moments for trump. Unconventional, even offensive statements not sticking. In fact, even helping with Republican Voters looking for someone different. The question now is whether that trump teflon still works with the general
Most americans dont realize how difficult it is to do business over sea and the state Department Needs to focus on that more than what they have and be helpful to countries that do want to do business overseas. A lot of times thas to go through government sources to get into business over there. And so i was impressed with with that. And i am glad having your business background, you will be helpful in that regard and helping the state department further understand its responsibilities. And the state department, everyone of them as travelled oversea and sometimes in bipartisan fashion. And we are always treated regardless of the Political Party so well with with our state Department People. And we have talked a lot. Russia has a lot of play in this meeting and we havent talked much about iran and north korea. And those are challenges for us. And those policies, as far as those two countries are concerned, really need to be rethought and recalibrated and reannounced in a way that they u
Anderson, this is an extraordinary order from the acting attorney general sally yates. Shes ordering the Justice Department lawyers not to defend this executive order that the president the new President Donald Trump issued on friday with regard to refugees and immigration. She says in her order to the Justice Department lawyers that she does not believe that this order is lawful. Thats a big deal for the government, because now theyre facing challenges in at least five jurisdictions, five states right now, anderson, where judges are hearing challenges to whether this lay, this executive order from the president is legal. What she had, and ill read you a little piece i am responsible for ensuring that the positions we take in court remain consist arent with this institutions solemn obligation to always seek justice and stand for what is right. At present i am not convinced that the defense of the executive order is consistent with these responsibilities, nor am i convinced that the exe
Escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula, saying President Trump has created a, quote, war situation. Doug mckelway is following all this from washington. He joins us live. Hi, doug. Reporter hi, julie. With tensions as hair trigger as we are seeing this week, misinformation is dangerous. And we saw one example of that this morning. The Chinese News Agency reported that north korea has fired a new projectile. Well, bloomberg picked that headline up and then retracted it when it proved to be wrong. It turns out north korea only displayed a new missile in todays founders day parade. Kim jong un did not speak at todays parade in which his full military might was put on display, but his vice minister of Foreign Affairs was bellicose in a friday statement saying that the north will go to war if the United States chooses to provoke it. He added President Trumps policy is, quote, more vicious and aggressive than president barack obamas. Well, that is unmistakably true and for good reasons,