Saw fairly recently at the white house when President Trump announced judge neil gorsuch would be his pick to replace justice scalia. Several people people will be in attendance whose family were killed from undocumented immigrants. At President Trumps Campaign Rallies hed bring people on stage to talk about this with regard to immigration. This will be a discussion of potentially economic security, national security, and possibly immigration as we look ahead later in the week, ali, to the president revealing his revised travel ban. On friday remember, it will be a month that original ban has been tied up in Court Essentially since the stay was put on it. The president might talk about his budget, too, something a lot of members of congress are particularly interested in hearing. Heres what he had to say when it came to what he would do with Entitlement Reform with cuts to medicaid and Social Security. Listen. You have an omb director finally. He says you have to take an axe to entitle
the white house budget director came out at the beginning of the press conference and speak the language of we re getting a budget out there and going to go through the process, going to get passed and we ll get back to the business congress is supposed to do. nevermind naming post offices and things like that. they need a budget. this is like the famous parable of the dog that caught the car and what is it going to do with the car? there s been ten years of republican oppositional taunts like we re going to repeal obamacare on the first day. everybody in the country should understand the president and the congress are controled by one party. i think there was a lot of confusion before because of the star power of somebody like barack obama or whoever is the president. so not only will the republicans in congress have to grapple with these numbers, whatever the tone we hear from the speech tonight, they will own that, too. after the most divisive and dark inaugural address ever and
it authorized the use of torture as american policy. it s a lifetime appointment. he s not going anywhere. to torture guy. republicans now filibuster everything in the senate. they require a 60-vote supermajority for everything down to the level of naming post offices. and their beltway argument of justifying that is, well, you know, under george w. bush, democrats used the filibuster a lot. yeah, democrats definitely used it under president bush, but not for every piece of normal business in the senate. they used it to try to block the kind of amazing nominations that george w. bush made on legal issues. like, for example, priscilla owen. priscilla owen had been in the texas supreme court alongside alberto gonzalez. and even a fellow bushy had denounced her on the court for what he called her unconscionable judicial activism against reproductive rights.
in arkansas he nominated to be federal judge the former president of arkansas right to life. who said if you favored abortion rights you re like a nazi. he s the one that wrote concern for rape victims is a red herring because conceptions from rape occur with the same frequency of snowfall in miami. he should be a judge. then there was jay bybee famous nationally only for authored the memo of bybee. it s a lifetime appointment. he s not going anywhere. to torture guy. republicans now filibuster everything in the senate. they require a 60-vote supermajority for everything down to the level of naming post offices. and their beltway argument of justifying that is, well, you know, under george w. bush, democrats used the filibuster a lot. yeah, democrats definitely used it under president bush, but not for every piece of normal business in the senate. they used it to try to block the
convention. the texas congressman will join us live this hour. we ll talk about his presidential hopes and the 2012 election. and if you re fuming about surprise credit card fees or lousy service, there s now a place where you can share your complaints with the entire world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is just coming in to the the situation room right now. take a look at this. wow. it s a huge, huge crowd that has gathered at tahrir square in cairo. tens of thousands of people back at the site where last year s revolution started. the demonstrators are protesting the moves made by the egyptian military leadership, which they say could hurt the presidential election results. also, only moments ago we have confirmed that the former president of egypt, hosni mubarak, has suffered a stroke. that according to officials in egypt. his heart apparently has stopped. but it was revived. he needed critical condition care. he has received it. we re monito