Knees, your nephew. I am not the only transgender student in Gloucester County. I am just a human. On monday, the Supreme Court opted not to hear his case. And then to on monday, the supre court opted not to hear the repr against obamacare. Pres. Trump i am calling on all democrats and republicans in congress to work with us to save americans from this imploding obamacare disaster. Amy Congressional Republicans have introduced legislation to repeal the nations most Significant Health care law in half a century. Insurance companies appear to be big beneficiaries of the new bill, but what about the sick and the poor . All of that and more coming up. , welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President donald trump issued a new executive order monday temporarily banning all refugees, as well as people from six majority muslim countries from entering the United States. According to white house officials, trump signed the executive order out of public view a sharp departure from the , way he signed his first travel ban order, which caused nationwide protests at airports before being blocked by the court last month. The new ban applies to people from syria, sudan, iran, somalia, libya, and yemen, but not those from iraq. The band will not apply to people from the six countries with green cards or who already have a visa. Despite the changes, immigration advocates say the new ban still discriminates against muslims. This is nihad awad from the council on americanislamic relations. This administration is actively working to undercut religious liberties and freedom of mayor can muslims. And american muslims. Despite freedom of religion to all. Amy the new ban is set to take effect march 16. Well have more on the new ban after headlines with faiza patel. Israel passed its own travel ban monday, barring supporters of the boycott, divestment and , sanctions movement, known as bds, from entering israel. The bds movement is an International Campaign to pressure israel to comply with International Law and respect palestinian rights. The Israeli Parliament voted to ban nonisraelis from entering the country if they, or any organizations they are a part of, support the economic, boycott. The law calls it to new front of war against israel. House republicans unveiled legislation to repeal much of the Affordable Care act monday, including its expansion of medicaid. The proposal includes a large tax break for Insurance Companies that pay their ceos over 500,000 per year. It also defunds planned parenthood and eliminates abortion coverage. The republican proposal does retain obamacares requirement that insurers cover people with preexisting conditions, however it scraps the revenuegenerating , mechanism that makes this possible the individual mandate, which required all americans to sign up for Health Insurance or pay a fee. The proposal now goes to two house committees for review. Republican lawmakers have been facing increasing resistance from their own constituents over their vows to repeal the Affordable Care act. Last week, thousands confronted republicans at town Hall Meetings, including South Carolina republican senator lindsey graham. Here is what were going to do. Heres what is good replace obamacare. Employers Affordable Health care. Employers are eventually going to drop coverage and everybody that worked for a company is going to go into a state exchange. Are down to one company one company, will have a choice i tell you what. Youre going to get kicked out in about 30 seconds if you dont shut up. Amy well have more on the republicans plan to repeal parts of the Affordable Care act later in the broadcast. In a setback for the transgender rights movement, the u. S. Supreme court has announced it is sending a landmark transgender case back to a lower court. The suit was brought by virginia Transgender High School student gavin grimm, who sued his local School District over its policy forcing him to use a separate, singlestall restroom that no other student was required to use. In a onesentence order, the Supreme Court vacated an Appeals Court decision that had ruled in grimms favor. The ruling comes less than two weeks after President Trump rescinded president obamas directive telling Public Schools to let transgender students use the bathrooms matching their gender identity. Well have more on the Supreme Court decision later in the broadcast with gavin grimm and chase strangio of the aclu. Secretary of housing and urban Development Ben carson sparked outrage when he described monday enslaved africans as immigrants. Aboutt is what america is , a land of dreams and opportunity. There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer and harder for less. But they, too, had a dream. ,hat one day there sons granddaughters, great granddaughters, greatgrandsons my pursuit of prosperity and happiness in this land. Amy dr. Carsons comments true widespread criticism. The naacp tweeted out simply immigrants . Awardwinning director ava duvernay tweeted their dream . Not be kidnapped, tortured, raped, forced to mate, work for anothers gain, torn from family and culture. White House Press Secretary sean spicer has refused to hold a televised White House Press briefing for seven straight days. On monday, there was no way for the public to watch his press conference where he addressed trumps unsubstantiated claims that president obama had trumps phones tapped during the 2016 election. At the briefing, spicer offered no evidence but said there is no question something happen. The question is, is it surveillance . Is it a wiretap . Or whatever. In toronto, organizers have canceled an event after learning that khizr khan, the father of a muslim u. S. Soldier who was killed in iraq, was told his travel privileges are being reviewed. The event was to take place today. The gold star father and his wife, ghazala khan, were verbally attacked by thenrepublican president ial candidate donald trump over the summer after the khans took to the stage at the Democratic National convention, where khizr khan addressed trump directly. Donald trump, you are asking americans to trust you with their future. You, have you even read the United States constitution . [applause] i will gladly lend you my copy. Speech, trump made fun of ghazala khan, suggesting she hadnt spoken on stage because she wasnt allowed to. Khan has lived in the u. S. Since 1980 and both he and his wife are u. S. Citizens. Its not known which of his travel privileges are under review. Their son, u. S. Army captain, was posthumously awarded the bronze star and purple heart after he was killed in iraq in 2004. Planned parenthood has rejected a proposal by President Trump under which the federal , government would stop threatening to defund the Womens Health organization if planned parenthood stops providing abortions. In response, dawn laguens of the planned Parenthood Federation of america said lets be clear federal funds already do not pay for abortions. Offering money to planned parenthood to abandon our patients and our values is not a deal that we will ever accept. Providing Critical HealthCare Services for millions of american women is nonnegotiable. An afghan couple and their three Young Children have been released after being detained at the los angeles airport thursday and held in custody over the weekend, despite having valid visas to enter the United States. The family all arrived with special immigrant visas, which they had received because the father had worked for the u. S. Government in afghanistan. They were released just before a scheduled hearing this is the monday. Familys lawyer, mark rosenbaum. This is happening way too often. This is a recruitment antiposter, to say to individuals in afghanistan and other nations where we count upon nationals to our assist our military, that if you do it for a decade and then you come to the United States with your wife and three children, the response is going to be, were going to put you into minute for 40 in comedic auto hours, label you terrorists. Amy on monday, the white house released a statement on exxonmobil that included an entire paragraph lifted from an Exxonmobil Press release issued less than an hour before. , which celebrates exxonmobils investments in new Oil Refineries and chemical manufacturing projects, was first noticed by Washington Post reporter who posted the sidebyside comparison on twitter. At three 2 p. M. And the white house statement was an to reporters at 3 44 p. M. Besides all copy editing, they differed by only one word for the exxonmobil release calls its project the growing the gulf expansion program, while the white house calls it the growing the gulf program. The final sentence of the white house statement is also nearly identical to one in the exxonmobil release, which claims it will create many more jobs. Longtime exxonmobil Ceo Rex Tillerson is now the secretary of state. The pentagon has opened an investigation into an invite only Facebook Group were a male marine where male marines have been posting thousands of naked or sexually suggestive photos of their fellow female marines, along with a barrage of misogynistic comments, including some saying the women should be raped. Some of the photos were clearly shot without the consent or knowledge of the women, such as a photo of a corporal bent over. Others are private photos, or photos taken off social media sites such as instagram. The inviteonly group is called marines united and includes 30,000 men who are activeduty and veteran soldiers. The naval criminal investigation , nci s, has launched an investigation and e marine corps has warned soldiers they could face courtmartial by participating in the group. A 2014 pentagon report found the marines have the highest rate of Sexual Assault of the u. S. Armed forces with an estimated 8 of , activeduty female marines experiencing Sexual Assault in 2014 alone. Dozens of schools have announced they will be closing for the wednesday nationwide day without a woman strike on International Womens day. The entire Public School system of alexandria, virginia has , announced it is closing after 300 women requested the day off to participate in the strike. Schools are also closing in chapel hill, north carolina, and in new york city. The day without a woman strike was called by the organizers of the womens march on washington, the largest nationwide day of protest after an inauguration in u. S. History. And internationally, womens protests marking the upcoming International Womens day have already begun. On sunday, thousands of women took to the streets of warsaw and other polish cities to protest government plans to even further restrict abortion access. Meanwhile, thousands women also marched in london, where human rights activist Bianca Jagger denounced President Trump. So i am calling today for equal pay for gender equality, the end of violence against women and girls. I am calling as well for us to think about what we are facing with the president in the u. S. Who wants to be little women, who once to reduce our rights, andwants to diminish us that we should stand up. Amy and those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Juan and im juan gonzalez. Welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. President donald trump has signed a new executive order on monday temporarily banning all refugees, as well as people from six majority muslim countries, from entering the United States. In contrast to the fanfare that accompanied trumps rollout of januarys illfated travel ban, mondays signing was a decidedly more lowkey event. Trump signed the executive order out of public view. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson later outlined the details. The executive order signed by the president earlier today protecting the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the United States is a vital measure for strengthening our National Security. It is the president s solemn duty to protect the American People. And with this order, President Trump, he is exercising his rightful authority to keep our people safe. Juan the new ban applies to people from syria, sudan, iran, somalia, libya, and yemen, but unlike the original order not , those from iraq. Trumps first muslim travel ban was blocked by the courts in february amid massive nationwide protests. Unlike the first ban, the new executive order will not apply to people from the six countries with green cards or who already have a visa. Amy immigration and human rights advocates say the new ban still discriminates against muslims and fails to address some of their concerns with the previous order. This is nihad awad from the council on americanislamic relations. This new executive order ofll stigmatizes thefaith islam and muslims. It does not make america any safer. But does make america less great. This muslim order still blocks travel to the u. S. By citizens from six muslim majority countries. Continues to receive reports from systematic ideological questioning of american muslim citizens and foreign travelers by cbp about their religious fell use and political views. Amy for a more were joined by faiza patel, codirector of the Liberty NationalSecurity Program at the Brennan Center. Welcome to democracy now you say this is still unconstitutional and you still call it a muslim ban. Explain. Peoplee categories of were covered by the first order. People who had green cards, people who had visas, but also people who will come into the country in the future. And what this new version of the order does is it takes care of the first two categories, but it keeps in place the restrictions, the ban on travel, for anybody else from those countries. So what it is doing at the end of the day is saying, making a determination that, you know, we just assume that people from these six muslim majority countries are terrorist threats, so we are just not going to let them and. To me, that is a muslim ban. Juan in terms of the difference that you feel between the Trump Administration continuing to say this is not a muslim ban because there are many other muslim countries that are not included in the order, obviously . I think the selection of the countries is primarily a political judgment. We certainly have seen that now that they have dropped iraq from the list and the justification given for that is a sickly they are our counterterrorism basically, they are our counterterrorism partners. We are against al qaeda and isis. In my view, that kind of undermines the overall argument for the band. On this point that just because it doesnt discriminate against all muslims, it is not a muslim ban, to me, that argument is laughable. If you had a law that discriminated against some black people but did not discriminate against every single one, say a literacy test for voting, you lawd not say that wall was not discriminatory. You would understand its target was only one race, one ethnicity or one religion. To me, that is the essence of discrimination. Amy what about the fact iran has been taken off the ban list. It is gone iraq. It is gone from seven countries to six, apparently. Secretary of state tillerson in the department of Homeland Security secretary kelly wanted iraq removed from the list because of many people, like interpreters who were helping u. S. Soldiers, were getting caught. They initially had already said they were not going to use this panic is people who have these special visas, for people who had worked with the United States in iraq. But the fact is that im happy for the iraqis, will put it that way. On the other hand, the fact that counterterrorism cooperation is the yardstick by which we measure whether or not summit he can come into the country does not strike me as the right measure. When youre looking at whether or not to issue a visa, you basically look at a couple of things. You look at the likelihood the person is when to stay in the country, that theyre going to become a permanent resident by any other means. And you look at whether this present a security threat. U. S. Embassies around the world, including in the six countries mentioned in the order, do that job. If you look at