Im not going to giving it up. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley in nation divided over the president s travel ban, the latest opponents include more than 800 u. S. Diplomats. In a draft of a letter to the state department today, they say that the ban stands in opposition to the core american and Constitutional Values that we as federal employees took an oath to uphold. And they say it will not make america safer. The ban stops all refugees from entering america for at least 120 days and bars travel from seven predominantly muslim countries. The democrat temporarily running the Justice Department took a stand against the president s order and was fired by mr. Trump last night. Heres Major Garrett at the white house. Reporter President Trump fired acting attorney general sally yates, a career prosecutor and holdover from the obama administration, for refusing to defend the immigration executive order. The Justice Departments office of Legal Counsel approved the order
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Reporter President Trump fired acting attorney general sally yates, a career prosecutor and holdover from the obama administration, for refusing to defend the immigration executive order. The justice Departments Office of Legal Counsel approved the order, but yates said in a statement that wasnt good enough, arguing her job required she seek justice and stand for what is right, adding she was not convinced the order was lawful. In a statement, President Trump said yates betrayed the department of justice. White House Press Secretary sean spicer. If you have a legally executed order and the attorney general says, im not going to execute it, that clearly is a betrayal. Reporter Senate Democrats like vermonts Patrick Leahy called the firing shameful. His accusation that she betrayed the department of justice is dangerous. The attorney general is the peoples attorney, not the president s attorney. Reporter in her 2015 asked about the independ
And militant islam, Donald Trumps United States has become a threat to europe, according to donald tusk, the president of the European Unions most powerful body. We cannot surrender to those who want to weaken or invalidate the transatlantic bond, without which global order and peace cannot survive. Reporter what frightens the eu is President Trumps support for the british to leave, expressed to Prime Minister theresa may, and for other countries to follow. That and his perceived lack of commitment to nato and now the refugee ban. This action is inhumane. Its racist. And its immoral. Hear, hear. Reporter his unpopularity is expressed in parliament. The wretched, bigoted man. Reporter and the petition calling for the president s planned state visit to be canceled has clicked up over 1. 7 million signatures. Demonstrations, angry words in parliament, petition, condemnations from foreign leaders, the travel ban has driven yet another wedge between donald trump and the european allies. Don
Warned u. S. Diplomats that the timing of this has given isis a lifeline. You could not have given our adversaries better propaganda material. Ryan argued its a risk worth taking. There is an issue with respect to terrorists trying to infiltrate our refugee population. But they havent been able to partly because our im not here to debate, im here to answer your questions. There is nothing wrong with taking a pause and making sure we have the proper vetting standards in place. Reporter emboldened by protests, democrats are taking a harder line on a series of trump decisions. Today, they walked down on confirmation votes for the health and Human Services and the treasury department. Ohio democrat sherrod brown. We have great concern that senator hatch is asking us to vote on two nominees today who have out and out lied to our committee. Reporter republican orrin hatch was left to preside over an empty hearing room. Im very disappointed in this type of crap. My gosh, theres no excuse for
Besides firing sally yates, the white house attacked her personally, in line with mr. Trumps way of answering questions. Today the speaker of the house weighed in on all this, and nancy cordes is on capitol hill. Regretly the rollout was confusing. Reporter House Speaker paul ryan faulted the travel bans launch but not the substance. What is happening is something we support. You have a lot of military and Intelligence Experts warning this is going to serve as a recruiting tool. The rhetoric around this could be used as a recruiting tool. Reporter its more than just rhetoric. Officials throughout the that the timing of this has given isis a lifeline. You could not have given our adversaries better propaganda material. Ryan argued its a risk worth taking. There is an issue with respect to terrorists trying to infiltrate our refugee population. But they havent been able to partly because our let me answer your question. There is nothing wrong with taking a pause and making sure we have t