Refugee resettlement has no experience in reasonables or resettlement of anyone. What he has done is hes a very prolific antiabortion activist and even within that movement, hes known as a foreliner, he argued its not enough to make abortion legal, he argues it should also be a posed to birth control. Now, why someone with a pag for that particular issue should be put in charge of refugee settlement with no experience in that field. Anybodys guess. But that choice by the Trump Administration has hurricane u turned out to be a consequential thing for a lot of individual young women whose lives are very much now subject to that one officials directive. Court filings of this one 17yearold shows as of march of this year, hhs believed they had 38 pregnant girls who were being held by this agency. According to lawsuit, the head of this federal office the guy in charge of the office of refugee resettlement, he directed employees underneath him in his agency to tell girls parents about their pregnancies against the girls will. Hes directed federal employees to physically take girls to christian Counseling Centers in texas. So antiabortion activisactivisd try to talk them out of having abortions. And at least in this latest jane doe case, it appears they have been physically holding this girl in the child immigrant when she is being confined, even though kids in facilities have a right to get doctors and have medical care, obviously, that i have to under the close supervision of the guy running that agency this pregnant 17yearold, they apparently have been refusing not just to take her to a doctor so she can have this procedure, they have been refusing to allow anybody else like an attorney or anybody to take her to the doctors, so she cant go, theyre stopping her from going. She filed her own deck la reagan with the court, quote, she says i feel like they are trying to coerce me to carry my pregnancy to term. So on wednesday this week, federal Court Ordered the government to some doing that, to get out of the way by tomorrow and let the girl have this procedure, now tonight an Appeals Court has given the Trump Administration another week and a half, given them until the end of the month to see if they can find somebody who the Trump Administration approves of the government will designate to take her out of the facility to have the abortion done f. That seems like a job this agency might not perform with much enthusiasm, keep in mind, the timing here matters. The longer they hold on to her and physically block this girl from being able to get this legal voluntary constitutionally protected medical 44 that she has the mean toss pay for, i mean, the longer they wait the less likely it is shes going to be legally able get one. Shes being held by the federal government in texas. Texas bans abortions at 20 weeks, so tic toc to this teenage girl, depending on what hhs chooses to do here at this girl, it looks like the antiabortion activist who trump ordered to run the resettlement. He may succeed by physically blocking her ability to see a doctor to end the pregnancy until it is too late for her to do so. There were protests today outside the hhs building in d. C. People protesting she should be allowed to have an abortion if she wants one. This young woman has a right to do it. Shes in the United States. Right. But watch this space on this one. Obviously, theres the critical matter of whats going to happen to this one teenager. But this may also be, this case may also be the best public window that weve bought the into what may be happening much more quietly, with what may well be dozens of teenage girls in the same circumstances. Again, from court filing, we know, as of march, hhs believed there were nearly 40 teenage girls who were pregnant who were under the supervision of this office. At least in the case of this girl, about whom this case is being fought, her doctor visits really are being blocked by an antiabortion activist who somehow got this job that gave him the personal individual control over womens lives and bodies that he previously could have only dreamed about as an antiabortion activist. The official in question here, again his name is scott lloyd. Hes the director of the office of refugee resettlement. But this case to keep an eye on has been filed under the name jane doe. For that plant teenager. Tonight were also watching puerto rico at exactly one month since Hurricane Maria made landfall. Electric power is still out in much of puerto rico and remarkably, that is a statistic that is still getting worse t. Proportion of puerto rico without power yesterday was 21 . Today the proportion of puerto rico with power yesterday was 21 . Today it is 12 . It went from 21 with power between yesterday and today, today parts of the capital city of san juan went dark. And roughly a million american citizens on the island of puerto rico are still without running water. And as these intolerable circumstances have stretched on for weeks now, we have been continuing to report on the mortal threat that is no longer reported by the storm which has gone on. The phenomenally inadequate federal government response there. Chief among the failures, obviously, is the inability to get people safe Drinking Water, people can survive without food longer than they can survive without water, but the dire lack of Potable Water has forced these american citizens for a month now to do what they got to, do to improvise the whauts water however they can. They were reportedly tapping wells at superfund sites, people checking rain water and water from gutters. Today the death toll in Puerto Rico Rose to 49. And the latest death is attributed to leptospirosis. Its a disease you have to rely on open air water sources also contaminated with animals, when the first two deaths were announced, officials in puerto rico says there were four additional cases of possible leptospirosis. Today the epidemiologists suggested the number they are identifying for today has jumped. It was four, its now 74. Hurricanes dont give you leptospirosis. Lack of access to clean Drinking Water because of a failed recovery effort after the hurricane, thats what givers you leptospirosis. These are deaths, that es are illnesses that will be attributed to the failed response to the hurricane, not to the hurricane, itself. Now, we dont know how many of these potential lepto cases, theyre investigating 74, we dont know how many are fatalities or people who have been successfully treated or people currently in treatment, but 74 cases being investigated is a very alarming football, if are you worried about the prospect that puerto rico is evolving from a Natural Disaster into a Public Health catastrophe. So were going to have more on that story coming up this hour, including some pretty remarkable new very specific details on the way the Trump Administration responded to Hurricane Harvey in texas, versus the way they are responding to Hurricane Maria in puerto rico. So thats it today has been a day of surreal fallout from yesterdays truly unusual statement in the White House Briefing program from white house chief of staff john kelly. John kelly yesterday gave those emotional remarks about how he was notified about the death in combat of his son and that very intense emotional context, he defended trump for the, excuse me, defended President Trump for the president s condolence calls he placed to military families recently, john kelly went into an extended and apparently prepared just pitiless critique of a Democratic Congress woman Frederica Wilson from south florida. She had been physically with the family of sergeant le david johnson, she had been with his widow when sergeant johnsons widow took the condolence call, the widow took it on speaker phone so members could hear the conversation n. That conversation, President Trump used language intentionally or not that the family found disrespectful and hurtful. John kelly yesterday criticized Congress Woman wilson for having been on that call. Now, that was an unusual line of attack. That decision was made by sergeant johnsons widow. She seems like somebody who doesnt need to be attacked by anyone right now. John kelly then also criticized the Congress Woman at length for comments he said she made at an fbi ceremony in miami in 2015. Comments he said he remembered and he and many other people found quite distasteful at the time, but said nothing to the press. Now i mentioned these sounded like prepared remarks from john kelly, there werecogent remarks, they were well laid out. He at times appeared to be speaking from notes, this remark in maek miami made up a significant bulk of the total remarks he mid yesterday and he was speaking from the white house podium. Usually people are prepared to do that. What he said the remarks he attributed to her were not anything that she said. This event he was recounting, there was tape of her full remarks t. Tape shows her asking Law Enforcement personnel to stand up, it shows her getting a standing ovation at the end of her remarks, speaking at length and with passion about the depths of the fbi agents for whom that building is being renamed, thanks to a renaming effort she has led, john kelly accused her of getting up at that event, said nothing about the agents and how she got funding for the building. Congress woman wilson never bragged about or even brought up the issue of funding for that building. She absolutely did talk at length about those agents she got their names right. He got their names wrong yesterday. Confronted with that, confronted with the tape of her remarks today, which absolutely contradicted what the white house chief of staff said about her, the white house spokes woman said there would be no apology, that general kelly would not take back his remarks. They will let it go. The white house spokes woman Sarah Huckaby sanders looking for anyone to correct on this would be behaving in a manner highly inappropriate. She said that would be going after general kelly. That would be getting into a debate with a four star marine general and that would be highly inappropriate. General kelly is a four star marine general what he said about Congress WomanFrederica Wilson was absolutely untrue and thats the sort of thing that would usually cause resignations from the white house, particularly if the white house refused to give an apology for the remarks, but this is a different time. What started this week of lying on this fraught issue was the president still unexplained decision to not make public acknowledgement, public pronouncement about the deadliest combat incident of his presidency thus far, the loss of those special forces in an ambush attack carried out by islamic groups, so far, no group claimed responsible. I reported up with of the reasons the president might be reluctant to talk about the prospect, it might be carried out to a group linked to isis t. President is interested if getting credit for eliminating isis. So that doesnt fit well having to explain how an isis linked group may have claimed the loss of american lives. We reported the Trump Administration recently, late last month enragened and bewilderred the government of the neighboring country of chad. When it comes to the fight of islamic militancy in that part of the world, where groups have held major cities and large swaths of territory, chunks of mali, nigeria, they claimed the ilammic state at one point, in that part of africa the military from chad has often been the lead and many experts see them as the most effective force when it comes to fighting it islamic groups in that part of the world. Up with of the outward facing signs is so many of the Multinational Task forces and military operations against militants in that region are head quartered in the nation of chad. Chad, itself, does have some problems with islamic militants carrying out attacks on their own territory. But their problem is nothing like they have to deal with in the nearby countries of mali and nigeria and niger. Still, though, in all those countries, it has been troops and special forces from chad who have been in the forefront of the front lean fighting. Even though they dont have to deal with it as badly at home, they are very active in the region that fronts line fighting and efforts to retake territory from militant groups and boka haram an isis and others, despite that track record in chad, despite that demonstrated and proven antiterrorism and commitment from chad the Trump Administration reportedly ignored vehement protests from the u. S. Defense department and the u. S. State department and at the end of last month inexplicably, they lied chad on the new travel ban and really nobody knows why. The Associated Press reported yesterday, one of the reasons they might have put chad on the list is chad ran out of passport paper recently, therefore, they werent able to submit a fresh passport in time to avoid being put on the list because of something that 1250u7d. So the Trump Administration made their travel been announcement september 24th, baffling everyone, as to why chad was included on that list. It prompted the government of clad to put out a statement expressing its quote incomprehension of the Trump Administration decision. Many experts in the field, in fact all experts in the field joined the government of clad in expressing incomprehelping for what the Trump Administration did. The following week, chad started removing all of its troops from neighboring niger, where they had been deterring and fighting a off insurgent militant groups t. Week after that the week after chad started pulling its troops out of niger, the week after that was the ambush in niger near the border of mali which claimed four american lives. Over the course of the day, lots of people have been upset with me with reporting that last night. Which is fine. I didnt know you cared. But that upset over my reporting that last night doesnt mean that anything i reported wasnt true. Everything i reported was true. Now this also doesnt mean that chad withdrawing their troops was necessarily the cause of those u. S. Troops ambushed. It is described by a the pentagon as a shock. There is now an investigation into what went wrong there. How it was the u. S. Military had no idea it was coming. They were so unprepared for. That obviously, if you are looking at the central domestic mystery here, which is why the president didnt acknowledge those deaths. He was asked today by nbc news if he had ordered the physician i mission that resulted in those deaths. The president walked away without saying anything. He is noting a only ining or speaking to or commemorating in anyway the loss of those soldiers. Hes made into public pronouncements about it whatsoever. If you are interested in the president , why he is so reluctant to talk about that or take questions on that, well, it really is true, his administration took what is widely believed to be inexplicable reaction to insult the country that is our most effective military partner in the part of the world where these attacked happened. Nbc news reports a congressional source briefed on the ambush, called it a quote massive intelligence failure on the part of the United States, reportedly no u. S. Overhead under surveillance of the mission. So no manned acre watching over what those soldiers were doing, no drones, no way to get eyes on the ground when things went bad. There was also no American Quick Reaction force available to rescue the troops if things went badly or if they went missing. The wall street journal was first to report alongside the pentagon investigation of what happened, the fbi has now joined the investigation. Now that is not unheard of in a military incident like this, but it doesnt happen all the time. According to journal, the fbi has the authority to take over the investigation from the pentagon that it has not done so. So its friday, a lot going on, i foley a lot of news stories that broke are things that are likely to break through this weekend on the niger ambush story, its important knowing sergeant le davids body was not recovered until two days after the ambush t. White house is recounting what the president said if his conversation to her, sergeant le David Johnsons funeral is tomorrow in florida. So that alone will likely keep this story in the spotlight over the weekend. I expect we may also start to learn more about the preliminary results of the investigation into this matter, which now involves both the pentagon and fbi, Congress Seems town on its hind legs pushing for information as well. Expect that story in particular to develop over the week. Heres one last thing, in terms of the what is going only this week in the news, we look back on this week, weeks and months down the road, despite all of the insane news that happened this week. We may find that the thing that happened that has the biggest longterm impact on our politics is something that really flew under the radar this week except in legal circles. This was something drused right when trump was sworn in, then because of everything else, it kind of faded from view. Thanks, so this court case, it came roaring back. We have the most qualified person on set to talk with us next. That story is next. Stay with us. Anyone who calls it a hobby doesnt understand. 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