officials have called for a ban on electronic devices being allowed on board flights coming from 13 countries for the next 96 hours, including jordan. this does not have to do with the so-called travel ban. here s the rest of the tweet from royal jordanian. cell phones are permitted, shep. shepard: thanks. should news break out, we ll break in. your world with neil cavuto is coming up after this commercial breaks on america s choice for information on cable.
discentsing opinion. he wrote , it might be fair to ask whether his decision was a wise or kind one, but it s notice our job to answer questions like that. our only task is to decide whether the decision was an illegal one. judiciary committee members on both sides spoke about the need for judge gorsuch to remain insurance of the president. you may remember president trump has slammed the judicial system over the original travel ban and the revised version that the white house claimed would comply with the courts. a federal judge in hawaii blocked the new version of the ban last week. this all comes more than a year after the death of judge antonin scalia that left an empty seat on the supreme court and left the supreme court split 4-4 between conservative and liberal blocks. justice scalia was a self-proclaimed textualist.
include a pre-emptive strike and denigrated the past 20 years of what he called failed policy which has not prevented them from having nuclear capabilities. with these war of words going on across the pacific, it s hard to know where this is going to lead but it s clear that china is going to be the divisive action here. rex tillerson was in china and they have urged the u.s. to be as calm as possible in their approach with north korea but donald trump is determined to confront the north koreans, especially on this nuclear issue. it s a dangerous moment and it s going to be even more dangerous moving forward. richard, back to you. matt bradley in seoul, sou. and what we re learning about the impact of the original ban on refugees, especially muslims into plus, judge neil
vox crunched the numbers and found that all refugees fell sharply, 17.3, during that ban. joining me now is ari melber, host of the point starting in just a little bit here. the question out there was, did it unfairly target muslims coming to america? that data seems to show that the numbers went down precipitously compared to other groups. right. that s not a surprise to others who followed this. it further documents a natural consequence of focusing on regions that are muslim dominated or a muslim majority. legally, that doesn t end the question. take a different example. say, after 9/11, you pick a freeze only on saudi arabia, it would also that have co consequential issue but not targeting them. you ve seen folks that are refugees and they are in limbo
despite it being fairly clear that these two judges in these two states saying it is not in effect, the second travel ban. why might they be in limbo? you have the overall problem of the administration of these programs which are not just the simple turn them on and off. there s planning around what is expected to happen and it s fair to say it s been relatively chaotic throughout. the big difference here, though, is that we will know reasonably soon, within weeks, whether the appeals courts or the supreme court will reverse this. if they don t, it will become clear that the blockage will become the new stas quo until a trial on the ban. how strong is that case, do you believe? it s fascinating. because the case was supposed to be much stronger the first time around because there were so many problems. we reported on that. that s not what a good policy looks like regardless of what ideology you bring to it. right.