classified intelligence information to russian officials during a meeting at the white house last week. while the white house denied the report trump tweeted this morning he has, quote, absolute right to share information regarding terrorism and airline flight safety. a federal appeals court has not said yet when it will rule on president trump s temporary travel ban. monday it heard arguments on whether the ban discriminates against muslims. the syrian government is denying the state department s accusations it built a crematorium at a large military prison near damascus in an effort to cover up mass atrocities there. a u.s. official said monday the assad regime could be killing, listen to this, at least 50 prisoners a day, and burning the bodies at the crematorium. hillary clinton has officially launched a new political organization called onward together. it is aimed at funding groups resisting president trump s agenda. and in sports my team wants
immigration hawks, in particular, national review is one of them, trump has a tendency to undermine his case, and this is a great example. well, i think that maybe the combination of those stories and the court action on the travel ban suggested that maybe going slow here, a little slower on a subject this sensitive is a smart court. it s not like the idea of taking a tough every line on immigration is not politically unpopular thing, but how you do it does matter. all right. i m going to leave it there as we leave you this morning, a programming note, we have live coverage of president trump s address to congress tuesday, beginning at 9:00 eastern where i ll be joining my colleagues, lester holt and tom brokaw. that s all for today. back next week because p it this sunday, it s the sunday after miami beach 2, but if it s this sunday, it s meet the press. see more end game and post game sponsored by boeing on the meet the press facebook page.
travel ban, 54% of boomers say it s a necessary safeguard against terrorism while 59% of millennials say it s unnecessary and goes against american principles. on the affordable care act, 47% of boomers call it a bad idea while 48% of millennials say the opposite. some of this goes back to the divisive election we saw in november. boomers came out for donald trump while millennials failed to show up for hillary clinton. the generational divide goes beyond explicitly political issues. take foreign trade. 44% of boomers say it has hurt the united states while 50% of millennials say free trade has helped this country. so why does all this matter? politics of today is always setting up the politics of tomorrow. the baby boomers of yesterday, weren t they on the left? you never fully know. maybe baby boomers are happy with the first part of the trump presidency and providing them a solid floor. the future of the country will be in the hands of millennial
bill: they re coming off a one-two punch. a lot of folks are digging out from last week s storm. we had one of the more forgettable days in memory here in the northeast. shannon: in what way? bill: we had rain and we had snow and we had sleet and we had wind and we had gray skies. it was as far as the eye could see. i said you know, it s so gray on this february day, it feels like communism. it was that bad. shannon: you look up your weather app what it says for the day, communism is your weather for the day. bill: anyway, we ll get through it together. shannon: spring will come. bill: it s why they call it winter. shannon: legal fights over president trump s temporary travel ban is raising concerns about what it could mean for his supreme court nominee. if confirmed neil gorsuch could adjudicate the case seated on the high court. chuck grassley talks about that
leading up to 9/11, terrorists were responsible for the bombing of the kovar towers, the bombing of the embassies in tanzania and kenya, a deadly attack on the uss cole, and even the first world trade center attack. in 1993, plenty of warnings similar build up now of violence all across the world. europe has been rocked by terror attack after terror attack at here at home, islamic extremists remember, san bernardino, the pulse light nightclub in orlando, chattanooga, fort hood, boston marathon. isis has repeatedly declared war on this country, just as al qaeda did prior to 9/11. right now those so-called journalists and the ultimate left radical mainstream media, they re lying at their calling president trump s temporary travel ban a religious test or muslim man. they are doing a complete disservice to you, the american people. if we do not take this threat seriously, it s not a matter of if, it is a certainty, it s a