Travel ban from seven predominantly muslim nations. The president calls it a political stunt. Whats the next move here . Well talk about it with john roberts whose live on the north lawn. There trying to figure out what to do next. It behind me, you can see that the color guard here is practicing for the arrival. A press conference this afternoon, it will be our first opportunity on camera to ask President Trump about what happened yesterday at the ninth Circuit Court of appeals. Clearly, the president is frustrated. He tweeted out. Lawfare remarkably, in the entire opinion, the panel did not bother even to cite this the statute. A disgraceful decision and also, see you in court, the security of our nation is at stake after the ruling came out, Kellyanne Conway laid down what happen at the ninth circuit. This ruling does not affect the merits at all. It is in interim ruling and we are fully confident that we will get our day in court. The white house isnt formulating its response. If t
We have new reports suggesting deeper ties between the House Intelligence Committee chairman devin nunes and the white house. Now there are more calls for him to step down from investigations into the trump administration. And finally, going nuclear. Senate democrats continued their obstruction to the president s nomination of judge neil gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Democratseem on course for a filibuster attempt of judge Neil Gorsuchs Supreme Court confirmation. Does that mean republicans will trigger the socalled Nuclear Option . There is a lot to get to. We begin, though, with that old yogi berra line, when you come to a fork in the road, he said, take it. Thats not an option for the trump white house, but now that his Health Care Replacement plan has collapsed, the president has to choose between two very different paths forward. He wants to move on from health care. He wants to move on to his next bigticket item. That is tax reform. The question is, how . Option one for trump, he
In 1975. Im ali velshi coming to you live from new york. New reactions from President Trump to a federal Appeals Court unanimous decision refusing to reinstate his travel ban. The president tweeting remarkably in the entire opinion the panel did not bother even to cite this statute, the president adding a disgraceful decision. That follows the president s initial reaction minutes after the threejudge panel in San Francisco issued its decision tweeting in all capital letters see you in court, the security of our nation is at stake which he repeated while talking to reporters off camera a few hours later. Heres what he said to Hallie Jackson last night. Well see them in court. Its a political decision that well see them in court and so you believe the judges made a political we have a situation where the security of our country is at stake and its a very, very serious situation. So we look forward, as i just said, to seeing them in court. Democratic governor jay inslee of washington, who
Locals trying really hard to help but many have lost their homes. Military is now on site, and i will be there tuesday. Wish press would treat fairly. Lets get to some indisputable facts out there. Tens of thousands of containers of food, water and medicine are backed up at the port. There arent enough drivers to distribute those supplies and there isnt enough fuel to power the trucks. Adding to the desperation, hospitals are running low on fuel to power their generators but yesterday, the acting Homeland Security secretary elaine duke described the federal response as a, quote, good news story. Something that illicitted this response from san juans mayor. Well, maybe from where shes standing thats a good news story. When youre drinking from a creek, its not a good story. When you dont have food for a baby, its not a good news story. When you have to pull people down from their buildings because, im sorry, but that really upsets me and frustrates me. I would ask you to come down here a
Over private plane use . Plus a racist attack at the prep school, prompting the attorney general to tlifr thdels message. And if you cant treat someone from another race or different color skin with dignity and respect, then you need to get out. Well have more on the speech that everyone is talking about today. Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to the the lead im jake tapper well again with the national lead. Crisis in puerto rico and growing division between the island and washington d. C. Its a chasm that almost seems to match the actual ocean and distance ta separates the two. In puerto rico this morning, some good news, some reports of progress. We have 36 hospitals that have been open that are either in power by generation or powered by diesel with the effort of hhs and leadership o fema, diesel has been able to be distributed to all these hospitals. We have been able in the last couple of days to distribute around the island over 2 million liters of water, and close to 1 million m