so it will still be in effect. this 90-day pause on issuing visas. it can now go into effect on this issue of visas from six muslim countries. unless the people who apply tr visas have a close relative here in the u.s. they are coming to visit or stay with are a student or a teacher or are coming here to accept a job. anyone who has a connection to the u.s., in other words, the travel ban is still in place. the ban on enforcement is still this place. so it s a a partial victory tr the president, but it was a 6-3 vote to allow people still to come here if it they have a connection to the u.s. so part of their justification was the interest in preserving national security is an urgent objective of the
policy, counterterrorism requires focus. you need to actually have specific information that loads you to specific plots that can be disrupted. if you put entire populations of individuals because of the nationality, because of the national origin, because of their religion and the way they look or they operate, if it s broad suspicion is, that s going to take away resources, focus from those individual who is need to be focusing on specific plots. every counterterrorism official i have spoken to believes that focus is the number one key to counterterrorism. we re seeing members of the indian delegation go to their seats as well. we re awaiting president trump and prime minister mode to take the podiums. we re going to get donald trump s reaction on camera to the travel ban. we re going to see if they take any questions as well. does lifting this injunction set a precedent that the president s
it s going to give democrats wind behind their back and now trump, who has said everything under the sun you could potentially say about health care reform and is clearly not a details guy on this stuff, is going to have to deal with real human fallout from his actions. apart from the original travel ban where people were bogged up in airports, you are now going to see a very large pool of americans of all demographic categories suffering from this and trump is going to have to own that problem. unsurprisingly i have a statement here from budget committee chair had that only talks about the deficit reduction, the number of people who would go unb inshired. not vising whatsoever. stay with us. we re going to come back later in the hour. coming up, part of the travel ban is back on the books as the supreme court say it is will weigh the issue this fall.
means that the travel ban can now largely be enforced as we wait for the supreme court to hear the case this fall. the court s final ruling on the travel ban will come after that. the president hailed the news saying this part the unanimous supreme court decision is a clear victory for our national security. today s action by the court also gave the administration a potential road map to argue its case. but still a lot of questions remain about what this decision means legally, politically ask what it means tr national security. the court gives president trump a victory on one thing he wanted. he wanted the court to take the appeal of these lower court rulings against them and they said yes. so that s a clear victory and a pathway to prevail.
united states, outside the uk. as a law enforcement or intelligence officer, you rely on the community as part of that first line of defense. and so just as a practical matter, when the president of the united states comes out and reactions to a terrorist attack is to push a muslim ban, it s going to do nothing more i ve gotten e-mails from people that complained that their assets are very concerned about this. when you have the president of the united states coming out and saying, pushing the muslim ban, it makes it not only harder to recruit people in that community, it makes it harder to retain them. you talk about terrorism, that is giving up a massive line of defense that we have against this scourge. ned, how do you balance i guess the question for me is, what how do you have the rest of the government deal with this at the center? at this point it is what it is. the president s going to tweet. it seems to me that basically we re asking for the other institutions of gover