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talked to his attorney general yet. that s right. reporter: i had a chance to catch up with kellyannec conway. i asked her whether or not the president views this decision as some sort of set back or defeat. she didn t exactly answer that question, but here s what she had to say. this is a defeat? do you see this as a setback? he sees it as the statute provides a president with great latitude and authority to protect the citizens and protect the nation s national security. this was not argued on the merits. now that we ll have an opportunity to argue on the merits, we look forward to doing that. i think his tweet was perfect when he said, we ll see you in court. there you go. some confidence being expressed by kellyanne conway at the white house. not a lot new in terms of arguments being laid out by the white house in response to this, just the very tough talk that we re going to see you in court. that is not exactly going to win the day at the supreme court. i asked kel ....
A president is not only am i president but i also am going to usurp the power of the courts or the referees in this case. congress would have no choice if any president and this president decides that he s going to completely usurp the power of the courts than to move for his removal. congressman, castro, thank you very much. appreciate talking to you again. back to the unreviewability issue. start with the legal side, obviously it s crucial and at the core. your perspective following this and looking at the context donald trump said if something pad happens to the country it will be the judge s fault for the rules against me. do you think that s part of what they did? they wanted to speak as judges to this president? there is no value more central to what constitutional democracy means than the courts ....
If this was so crucial for security, he would say, forget it, i ll throw it out and write a new one and it will be done perfectly and go into place and there are no issues. he s already tweeted out in all caps, see you in court. he ll fight over the one he already did. exactly. he said i ll see you in court, and maybe that means the supreme court. one thing about this opinion is so interesting, remember during oral arguments and judge friedland asked the government, she said, is this unreviewable? and then there was this long pause. and then they said yes. they wrote there is no precedent to support this claim of unreviewability which runs contrary to the fundamental structure of our constitutional democracy. strong language. ....
University case. now, how did he respond to adverse rulings in that case? he attacked the judge, calling him a mexican. but he did ultimately settle. he ultimately settled the case, but his initial reaction is always aggressive fighting back, freigthreatening appeal. he said he hadn t talked to the attorney general. after one of the things that surprised me is that normally when the government loses a case, you get sort of a vanilla statement that says we respect the decision of the court, we re going to look at the decision and decide whether to appeal or not. but the response here was a twitter response. professor foley one of the main arguments from the department of justice was that the president s decisions about immigration when motivated by national security concerns are unreviewable. it says, quote, this is no precedent to support this claimed unreviewability. ....
Is throughout this litigation the president has asserted that his actions in signing this executive order are unreviewable and you heard the question posed by the ninth circuit judges in the oral argument this week, the question was asked is it the view of the justice department thoez actions are unreviewable? after a lengthy pause, the answer was yes. here s what the ninth circuit had to say about that there is no precedent to support this claimed unreviewability which runs contrary to the fundamental structure of our constitutional democracy. i m so proud of our team. as many of you know they ve been working literally around the clock on behalf of the people of this state. it s the folks you see here who we ll be introducing shortly but also attorneys and professional staff around our office in different offices spread out across the state. all working in different ways to ....