this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. reporter: president trump fired acting attorney general sally yates, a career prosecutor and holdover from the obama administration, for refusing to defend the immigration executive order. the justice department s office of legal counsel approved the order, but yates said in a statement that wasn t good enough, arguing her job required she seek justice and stand for what is right, adding she was not convinced the order was lawful. in a statement, president trump said yates betrayed the department of justice. white house press secretary sean spicer. if you have a legally executed order and the attorney general says, i m not going to execute it, that clearly is a betrayal. reporter: senate democrats like vermont s patrick leahy called the firing shameful. his accusation that she betrayed the department of justice is dangerous. the attorney general is the people s attorney, not the president s attorney. reporter: in h
declining to participate in some immigration laws she believes betray community trust. in order to have community policing, you have to have the confidence of the community. reporter: the sheriff says that the city will continue to honor valid criminal warrants and court orders but not voluntary requests. live in san francisco outside city hall, carolyn tyler, abc 7 news. carolyn, you mentioned that there are hundreds of other sanctuary cities around the nation. any word whether they ll join this lawsuit? reporter: well, dennis herrera was asked that this morning and so far though there are other cities like new york that have vowed to take a stand, this is the first lawsuit. carolyn, thank you so much for that report. we have breaking news to tell you. this is out of west sacramento where police are responding to a bomb threat. that car you see there is the suspect s vehicle. officers have shut down the nearby tower bridge as well as surrounding streets. a witnes
and militant islam, donald trump s united states has become a threat to europe, according to donald tusk, the president of the european union s most powerful body. we cannot surrender to those who want to weaken or invalidate the transatlantic bond, without which global order and peace cannot survive. reporter: what frightens the eu is president trump s support for the british to leave, expressed to prime minister theresa may, and for other countries to follow. that and his perceived lack of commitment to nato and now the refugee ban. this action is inhumane. it s racist. and it s immoral. hear, hear. reporter: his unpopularity is expressed in parliament. the wretched, bigoted man. reporter: and the petition calling for the president s planned state visit to be canceled has clicked up over 1.7 million signatures. demonstrations, angry words in parliament, petition, condemnations from foreign leaders, the travel ban has driven yet another wedge between donald tru
warned u.s. diplomats that the timing of this has given isis a lifeline. you could not have given our adversaries better propaganda material. ryan argued it s a risk worth taking. there is an issue with respect to terrorists trying to infiltrate our refugee population. but they haven t been able to partly because our i m not here to debate, i m here to answer your questions. there is nothing wrong with taking a pause and making sure we have the proper vetting standards in place. reporter: emboldened by protests, democrats are taking a harder line on a series of trump decisions. today, they walked down on confirmation votes for the health and human services and the treasury department. ohio democrat sherrod brown. we have great concern that senator hatch is asking us to vote on two nominees today who have out and out lied to our committee. reporter: republican orrin hatch was left to preside over an empty hearing room. i m very disappointed in this type of crap
besides firing sally yates, the white house attacked her personally, in line with mr. trump s way of answering questions. today the speaker of the house weighed in on all this, and nancy cordes is on capitol hill. regretly the rollout was confusing. reporter: house speaker paul ryan faulted the travel ban s launch but not the substance. what is happening is something we support. you have a lot of military and intelligence experts warning this is going to serve as a recruiting tool. the rhetoric around this could be used as a recruiting tool. reporter: it s more than just rhetoric. officials throughout the that the timing of this has given isis a lifeline. you could not have given our adversaries better propaganda material. ryan argued it s a risk worth taking. there is an issue with respect to terrorists trying to infiltrate our refugee population. but they haven t been able to partly because our let me answer your question. there is nothing wrong with t