And the game itself. This is a live look at houston. It could turn into an historic game for a number of reasons. A live report just ahead. First, breaking news out of seattle where a federal judge has put a temporary stop to virtually every aspect of President Trumps executive order on travel to the United States. The judge who was a george w. Bush appointee sided with the attorneys general of washington and minnesota on a lawsuit seeking to overturn the order. The ruling temporarily shuts down the ban as well as the 120 day suspension of the refugee program. In a statement, the white house vowed legal action saying at the earliest possible time, the tent of justice intends to file an emergency stay of this order and defend the executive order of the president which we believe is lawful and appropriate. As a result of this ruling, at least one report suggests customs and Border Patrol told Major Airlines tens of thousand of visas which had been revoked will be reapinstated. This was j
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Affirming the u. S. Position and our joint position of maximum pressure with our south korean partners is very important. President trump said that gun policy would be the top issue on his agenda in his meeting today with the nations governors, and it was. He discussed banning bump stocks, meeting with nra leaders, and reiterating his call for bonuses to teachers who carry weapons in schools. Democratic governor from washington informs that meeting. Were waiting for the tape to be played back. Hes been speaking for more than an hour. Tell me your headlines because i understand that you challenged the president on some of his gun recommendations. I did do that. I think more importantly, the educators of america are challenging him and rejecting his illconceived notion to turn first grade teachers into sort of pistolpacking first grade teachers. The educators, the counselors, the principals, theyve rejected this idea, as many Law Enforcement folks have said, because if you were going to
New reporting at the white house a couple of weeks ago the president s soninlaw Jared Kushner was facing significant issues over getting a White House Security clearance and a guilty plea in new charges in the russia investigation. Sarah, rick gates, the former Trump Campaign deputy chair pleaded guilty today. Walk us through the details. Thats right. This is in d. C. Federal court. He pleaded guilty to two federal charges. One was conspiracy to defraud the United States and the other was making false statements. And in these charges he pleaded guilty to prosecutors kind of outlined how he and his Business Partner hid all this money from the Ukrainian Government work, from the federal government and proceeded to lie to investigators about it in 2016. Rick gates had immediately pleaded not guilty to these charges and talking about the change of heart in deciding to plead guilty, why he did not want to go through a trial. We know he had been under enormous financial and personal pressure
Were following breaking news in the russia investigation. The wall street journal reporting tonight that the special counsel, robert mueller, is looking into a claim by trump ally, roger stone, that he met in 2016 with Julian Assange, the founder of wikileaks that released dnc emails hacked by russia. The journal reports that during grand jury testimony, muellers team has specifically asked about an email in which stone said he had dinner with Julian Assange. Ill get reaction from the former cia director, leon panetta. And our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. First, lets go to our justice correspondent, evan perez. Evan, why would the this alleged stone assange meeting be significant . Well, wolf, it would be a big piece of information for the special counsel, simply because this lies at the center of what the special counsel, robert mueller, is supposed to be investigating, which is whether or not there was any illegal coordination between People Associated with the D