the first former president to testify publicly under oath. how this will test our legal and judicial systems alike. that wake up call. senate republicans are finally condemning monthslong tommy tuberville s blockade of military promotions. what took them salon? and all eyes on ohio. reproductive rights are on the line this tuesday with a constitutional amendment to protect abortion access on the ballot. i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. tomorrow, donald trump will become the first former president in american history to publicly testify under oath, taking the witness stand in his own defense in his new york civil fraud trial. it will undoubtedly prove to be a surreal test, yes for the u.s. justice system, with judge engoron and the prosecutors who are actually working this case. but it will actually be one for trump himself, a man whose bombastic nature, shall we say, a penchant for half truths will be restrained before perhaps like never before. as lauren camera writ
tonight on ayman, taking a stand at last. donald trump is about to become the first former president to testify publicly under of. how this will test our legal and judicial systems alike. that wake up call. senate republicans are finally condemning monthslong tommy tuberville s blockade of military promotions. what took them salon? and all eyes on ohio. reproductive rights are on the line this tuesday with a constitutional amendment to protect abortion access on the ballot. i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. tomorrow, donald trump will become the first former president in american history to publicly testify under oath, taking the witness stand in his own defense in his new york civil fraud trial. it will undoubtedly prove to b a surreal test, ye for the u.s. justice system, with judge engoron and the prosecutors who are actually working this case. but it will actually be one for trump himself, a man whose bombastic nature, shall we say, a penchant for half truths will
weekends. but it still remains clear that republicans on capitol hill and elsewhere believe that they simply were not informed. it s as much of the substance as the controversy of the rollout. that many people here believe was quite shaky. he also responded, jeff, to the shakeup on the national security council. what we re seeing here is that you have the for the uninitiated it s pretty weedsy, right, but you have the principles committee. and there are just a handful of people who are necessarily a part of that but then there are also others. and two of the folks that the trump white house is taking off are the dni and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and then adding in as a permanent member is steve bannon. arguably, and this revealed this, a top aide to president trump, who is very controversial, we can t forget. right. he is the chief strategist at the white house. but by elevating him to a permanent seat on the the principle committee of the
that s for several reasons. first of all the seven countries that are targeted as a part of this ban are muslim majority countries. second of all, we saw those could have yachts in the form of vary nows tweets by president donald trump indicating that krichbl refugees would be given different treatment you read out from the executive order. it does make clear there is religious preference going on here. thirdly, people overseas do watch the u.s. media as well and people have seen the former mayor of new york city, mayor giuliani appearing on fox news explaining that president trump approached him and said how can i enforce this muslim ban in a way that s legal and that this was indeed the framework that he had recommended to president trump. so in the eyes of the international community which is watching all of this play out very closely and with a great deal of anxiety, it has to be said it is very clear that it is being seen as a ban against
about a 2011 policy that had to do with iraqi refugees, it said the president fundamentally disagrees with the notion of discriminating against individuals because of their naitd or religion. so he s coming out faith or religion. so he s coming out and directly responding to what he is hearing from president trump and those around him. do you think that we are going to be hearing more of this? and is this going to end up being this struggle between the current president and the former president? well, president obama is one of the greatest presidents that this country has ever produced. he s a friend. he s a mentor. as a constitutional attorney, he knows that the founding fathers outlined very specifically and intentionally our right to show dissent and our right to protest, full. i would hope to hear more from the president. i know he wants to take a tone of not being disruptive to a degree. but he also stated that when he can no longer sit back and remain silent he will speak out