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if motion stay we ask that you deny it. thank you. thank you i ll give you five minutes for rebuttal. i want to address a couple of quick points. whatever den says about looking at counselor decision-making does not suggest we look behind national security determines made by the president that determination four corners of determination are based on the congressional determination that the country at issue is of different. i thought you were using den and mandel as your now you re saying it s distinguishable, are you relying on those cases or not? we are relying on them for the limits that the court reviews this issue. i m adding when you have a document itself and that s best evidence of intent of the president relies excluively on the cause made by congress by the safety concerns presented by the countries at issue that is the end of the inquiry and should be. the fact i know counsel for the other side cited this court car danous decision and they in dedescribing t ....
intelligence and heads of the cia, fbi and national security agency will brief the president-elect on alleged russian meddling in the presidential election, certainly he has called repeatedly challenged. he said, well, maybe it s not the case, maybe even sided with julian assange tweeting even last night questioning the validity of the information he s about to receive. well, we have it all covered for you from every angle. kristen welker, what do we expect will go down here? reporter: the backdrop to this briefing is very tense, that s for sure. you have the president-elect just last night again questioning the intelligence community. he was infuriated after details leaked out about the report and actually what s in the report and intelligence officials telling us that some of the details in the report include intercepts which prove that top russian officials were celebrating president-elect trump s win. we were also learning they ve identified some of the go-betweens who deliv ....
election, haven t provided anything to lead me to believe or should lead you to believe, and i continue to see reports coming from media sources saying when they checked in with law enforcement or intelligence community sources. there s nothing more than has been previously reported over and over again. so at some point you do have to ask yourself what are you actually looking for? how many times do you have to come to the same conclusion before you take the answer? that s what i m saying. mara? just to follow-up, did you personally reach out i m not going to say what we discussed internally. we did our job about making sure that when people had reporters had questions, we let them know what subject matter experts were available to discuss the accuracy of a newspaper story. mara? i m sure people will come back to the budget question, which is during the campaign, the president said he was not going to touch medicare, social security. treasury secretary repeated that. sou ....
tonight. this is one of the backward and nasty executive orders the president has issued. also today thousands of anti-abortion protesters gathered in washington for the annual march for life. mike pence told the crowd the president would announce a supreme court nominee soon and trump hinted strongly at the person he s choosing. the person i pick will be a big, big i think people are going to love it. i think evangelicals, christians will love my pick. and we ll be represented very fairly. jeff zeleny begins our coverage tonight out front at the white house. trump signing a flurry of executive orders this week, up to 14, but these on immigration, do they really have teeth? reporter: indeed they do. the ones that he signed late today, they do sort of play out exactly what he talked about in the campaign, extreme vetting. it should come as no surprise, but they are going at the heart of refugees coming here to the country, particularly syrian refugees. the white house ....
week. you know, he has four basic options, martha. and it sounded like from his news conference today he might take two at the same time. let s look at those four options. one would be to appeal to a larger panel of the ninth circuit. it s called an en banc hearing. 11 judges picked randomly from the remaining 26 judges in the ninth circuit. he could appeal to the u.s. supreme court and he could try the case on its merits in district court. he seemed to suggest he would do that by saying that he will win eventually. the fourth option would be to rewrite the executive order. make it clear that legal permanent residents such as green card holders are not affected by the travel ban. the white house counsel tried to clarify that when it comes to enforcement. but it was after the fact. so, if the case goes back to judge robart, we know that a schedule could happen as soon as next week where we have briefs and judge robart as i said, in his ruling, in issuing the t.r.o. said it is likel ....