york times about this. started a lot of questioning on sunday. that the discussions were going on from the day i announced until the day i won. giuliani quoted trump as saying. below that, this morning in the new yorker, giuliani says, didn t say that. the interviewer goes, the times got it wrong? giuliani said the times deliberately misupped whndersto i said. i started by saying these conversations did not take place. and we know from the signs from robert mueller and things that cohen has said and the other one involved in this, they made it clear this deal stopped in june or july. that there was a decision made, let s stop this in june. why they can t stick with that story, i think they re trying to buy themselves possibly some wiggle room. something else they don t know
don t make them nationwide injunctions. just let the injunctions apply only to those people who actually have gone to court to challenge these. but this order is broader. it says the entire orders of the lower courts putting us on hold are stayed so the military can enforce this transgender ban. i think it is a surprise. nbc s pete williams outside court there, pete, thank you very much for bringing us that developing story. let me bring in the folks sitting around the table. you covered this white house. this is something as pete noted, announced via tweet in july 2017, blasting that out and put the defense secretary at the time jim mattis on notice. and caught a lot of people off-guard. saying this ban did not come through as a large agency process. and there were a lot of questions about where the president came to that decision.
what is the reaction, where does the new acting defense secretary stand on this, shanahan? we know where mattis has been. what s your sense of how shanahan views this issue? we ve heard little from him about it. we don t really know. we haven t heard a ton from him since he became acting secretary. we haven t heard much from him. we re going to look to get a statement out of the pentagon and see. i suspect they re going to push this back on the courts and see we re waiting for their guidance. kourtney, thank you. i want to thank pete williams for bringing us that news from the supreme court. a win essentially for the trump administration of banning people from the military. we want to talk about another story developing over the past couple weeks. the 2020 contenders sharpening their messages j especially this week as we start to get a better picture of where they stand on the issues. that includes michael bloomberg
more taxes and solve this. microsoft just announced half a billion dollar investment in a fordable housing. why? because companies like microsoft have had a renaissance in seattle and their school teachers now have to live two hours away. while maybe it should have been the responsibility of local or federal governments to step in, they didn t. saying hold on, our government isn t working together. they re shut down literally. we ve got to step in and do something. they re saying it. we re actually seeing some, i ll say some action. stephanie ruhle, it is great to see you. we will see you all week long from davos. president trump weighs into this the debate over this video that went viral showing an apparent confrontation. but now new reaction from students this morning that may tell a different story. we re taking you live to kentucky next. plus, some good news for starbucks drinkers.
right? it s inconceivable to many of them. behind me, there are dozens of volunteers getting ready to open the doors of the world central kitchen to thousands of these needy federal employees and their families. today they re inaugurating a resource center next door. they ll be offering everything from diapers and pet food to legal and financial advice for these furloughed workers. it s not just here are in the nation s capital. four out of these five workers work in places like the greater d.c. area, virginia and maryland. yesterday, i spoke from a church who was handing out grocery bags to government workers. every single story is heartbreaking. but one that really hit home for me is a story of shaun. a mother of three. works for the department of treasury. and has stage two breast cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy.