until the rest of that process plays out, you have a process between two individuals and the president has chosen to support moore. even if that person supporting has again, we said the allegations are concerning. if true, he should step aside. we don t have a way to validate that. that s something for the people of alabama to decide. we maintain that. it will come down to the people of alabama to make that decision. david? can you tell me about the process and timing on how the president got to the potential jerusalem announcement tomorrow? you have a back story announcement on that? it was a very thoughtful interagency process in terms of specifics. that is something that will be addressed in greater detail this evening at the background briefing and further by the president in his remarks tomorrow. and how crucial is the faith advisory council? the president wanted to make
in alabama. we want strong borders, we want stopping crime. we want to have the things that we represent and we certainly don t want a liberal democrat that s controlled by nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. it may be that the president and his party are backing moore because he s improving. maybe they can t bear losing the seat in the senate. here s what the white house had to say today. the president feels that he would rather have a person that supports his agenda versus somebody who opposes his agenda every step of the way. and until the rest of that process plays out, you have a choice between two individuals and the president has chosen to support moore. we ve said the allegations are concerning, and if true, he should step aside. but we don t have way to validate that. and that s something for the people of alabama to decide. meanwhile, on capitol hill, some, although not all
executive order is a pretext to discriminate against people tr their religion. federal law i read out gives the president. the authority. this is what we argued in the first one. for a judge to talk about tweets or interpreting something that happened during the campaign trail is not in keeping with how they are supposed to interpret the law. we tailored that second executive order to comply with the judge s order. i think so to go back and say base ued on how the first order was conceived makes no sense. the justice department says it olympians to awe peel and may ask the court to let the ban take effect while the process plays out. the administration keeps pushing forward their plan for health care clearing the budget committee narrowly. but that came with defections from conservative members. three broke ranks. the president. s plan won praise from the house speaker. . i got to tell you.
you had issues going on, and what i m saying, i m thinking the mind-set there was, okay, we re going to push it up to the very end, but also this nation is a hotbed with this right now. i m not saying that they were justified in what they were doing, but i m looking at the time and trying to understand as a journalist why they would wait and why this was, when it first went out in the news, it was a story about 200 to 300 words. just to jump in, i think april makes a very understandable point, because of those public safety implications, but, again, this is not only about those kind of decisions. there is a legal process, and there is freedom of information. that is the law that justified this release. the idea being, and i m sure we re in an agreement generally, i understand you re talking about what the officials have to think about, but, again, in the courts, this is public information. that s why it s out. and the citizens of chicago have a right to view this type of material and
what i m saying, i m thinking the mind-set there was, okay, we re going to push it up to the very end, but also this nation is a hotbed with this right now. i m not saying that they were justified in what they were doing, but i m looking at the time and trying to understand as a journalist why they would wait and why this was, when it first went out in the news, it was a story about 200 to 300 words. just to jump in, i think april makes a very understandable point, because of those public safety implications, but, again, this is not only about those kind of decisions. there is a legal process, and there is freedom of information. that is the law that justified this release. the idea being, and i m sure we re in an agreement generally, i understand you re talking about what the officials have to think about, but, again, in the courts, this is public information. that s why it s out. and the citizens of chicago have a right to view this type of material and make up their own mind. whet