This is something the president predicted was right was never a legal basis for this, correct . President trump won the legal argument today. And the Supreme Court came out on his side and lifted the stay that the Appeals Court put in place. But the legal argument was never the strongest argument against the ban. Its the policy argument. Really bad policy. Tucker will you concede that there was a legal argument against it, that the left as a group made and it was that a single judge in hawaii had more power over americas Foreign Policy and control of americas borders than the president did and the Supreme Court today said thats absurd. It wasnt just hawaii, tucker. There were a number of court cases in a number of courts that stayed this travel order. And it was a close call legally. It was a close call for the Appeals Court that upheld the stay. It was also a close call for the Supreme Court. Tucker the president has got a right to make judgments like this and enforce them with law. T
Thats why we have a president. You will concede that. I think thats a valid argument and thats the argument that was made. Thats one of the arguments that persuaded the Supreme Court today. Although, keep in mind, that the court only lifted the stay. It will hear the merits of the case in october. But, yes, you are right. But, as i said, the stronger argument against this travel ban is its really bad policy. It doesnt accomplish the goal which is notomake america safer. Tucker it doesnt. You would argue the counter case that the more immigrants that we have from say somali coming into the country the safer we are . What point are you making. What i would argue on Policy Grounds this ban is both too broad and not broad enough. Let me explain. Heres why its too broad. It denies muslims from six predominantly muslim countries. Tucker let me stop and correct you. It makes no reference to religion at all. It doesnt badge muslims. It bans people who live in six countries the Obama Administra
i m not going back to that. that is the number one argument. the president himself is fond of saying, don t compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative. when the alternative is donald trump, they like their chances. there s polling that suggests a lot of americans don t believe the final two will be biden and trump. it may not be until the spring or summer when americans start paying attention, because many simply are not paying attention. when they do, the biden camp believes even if they re lukewarm on the president, have reservations about his age, whatever it might be, they ll not want to go back to the chaos of donald trump. to pick up on elizabeth s point, because that s something the biden campaign says a lot, people simply haven t heard donald trump in a while. he s become background noise. his reach is so much smaller than it used to be. we can t overlook the fact of the downgrade from the audience he had on twitter to now truth social. no one hears that. thos
with iran on three fronts. obviously, hamas unleashed the attack on israel in october, killed americans, took american hostages, and are continuing to hold six hostage. there have been 150 attacks against american service members bases in iraq and syria. now, the 27 attacks against shipping in the red sea in defiance of american warning. i think we are in a proxy war against iran, and i think this is going to continue. marc, how important were these attacks last night? i think it is absolutely critical. we had to kind of regain this aura of deterrence, which, frankly, we were losing. you know, our enemies have to both respect and they have to fear us. i think it is absolutely critically important, not only for international shipping but also in, as jeremy just said, this proxy war that we re in with iran. look, you know, kudos to the intelligence community for the strikes yesterday in the sense of, you know, certainly, there was an all source intelligence soak. we ve been flying i
because it is confined. confined to the conservative news media space. when it starts breaking through to the wider public and americans start listening, the biden campaign believes his numbers will go down, and that s to their advantage. coming up, we ll get a live report from israel on two major stories out of the middle east this morning. the united states and allied strikes on houthi rebels, as we mentioned, as well as israel defending its war against hamas in an international court. plus, an update from iowa, now three days away from the caucuses where it appears the race for second place is getting a little closer. we ll discuss the significance of that ahead on morning joe. when moderate to severe ulcerative colitis takes you off course. put it in check with rinvoq, a once-daily pill. when i wanted to see results fast, rinvoq delivered rapid symptom relief