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Figure owl hoe we should sensitively treat people who are transgender, the civil rights division backed them up, and essentially the department of education said title ix guards against sex discrimination. we didnt talk about transgender identity being sex, but its the same thing were talking about protecting people. well, the supreme court will now hear the case march 28th, because the fourth circuit set were going to rely on the president, president obamas guidance at that time. so if trump th...

Of his mouth. is this going to be a sufficient response for critics? >> i think some critics will be critics no matter what. i dont know that it will be sufficient in that way to complete quiet critics but i do think its a notable and market shift from what we heard from president trump last week. you said delegating. i think maybe following, having those that work for him or his family members lead the way on this for the president to get here. it was quite stunning last week in back-to-back ne...

Vice president, mike pence. is europe viewing the presidents attacks on the media as an affront to european ade ideals? >> its interesting, vice president pence gave a very important message, i think, for european partners to hear, that the united states is still committed to those values. but his comments really were belied, both the day before, and almost immediately after by tweets that were sent by president trump, in which he referred to the mainstream press as enemies of the american peopl...

And several eastern european countries on the backyard. that got russia back up and sees that as an affront on its sphere of influence in europe. so that is what it says created all of this tension and essentially saying, youre forcing us to go into ukraine and forcing us to do this because were feeling a threat. i mean, obviously, europeans dont see it that way, but you heard russian foreign minister lavrov essentially saying that the post-cold war order is over. and, you know, russia needs to ...

Other issues like the affordable care act, like an infrastructure bill. a lot of these issues are going to languish because theres so much division over this travel ban. he should just scrap it altogether. all right. former ambassador, governor and secretary bill richardson and always good to have you on the show, bill. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> rallies are scheduled nationwide in support of refugees including one that upon w wrapped up in new york city. lets get to morgan radford. w...

These issues, and the nomination of devos, you know, similar to what i talked to congressman jefferies about with sessions, is almost the direct affront at a lot of the things that many in the civil rights community, the labor community all fought for for the last 25 years. >> its as if you would have a pediatrician and kids walking into a pediatrician and the pediatrician putting a sign up saying, no, im not doing anything, or yeah, you have a fever? just go home and deal with it. or worse, you...

Whats different is donald trump attacking judges in this juvenile high school way, which is just the way he expresses himself, but the idea of criticizing judges i really just dont think is so bad. >> david answer lig, where do you come down. >> calling judges is not attacking the merits. >> i think that he was just nominated by donald trump. and donald trump will take this as a personal affront. im telling you this. >> yeah. and hell think why did i nominate this guy who is criticizing me. ther...

Of the most liberal -- if not the most liberal circuit in the country. that narrative can be pushed, which is unfortunate, because as a policy, this actually does make sense, but because of the way donald trump himself has handled this, the words that hes used, hes been combative about this. all he had to do was give -- just like salena said, give some explanation and context as to why he thought this travel ban was necessary. and even why it originated in the bush -- in the obama administration...

We will join with other state attorney generals. our job is to stand up for the constitution, to stand up for the rule of law and no president, president trump and his administration are not above the law. thats what was made clear in the courts ruling so far. thats great news. it is critically important. and unfortunately, we have an executive who doesnt seem to get it. >> let me ask you this. what state, because youre one of the 16, at least so far. what state are you watching now that where a...

Amazing affront to our values. -- there was the prayer for arnold schwarzenegger at the national prayer breakfast. and of course there was the rupturing of over relationship with australia, which really, really took some creativity, i think, thats a hard thing to pull off. >> and, frank, this is the white house in which frederick douglas is still alive? >> i was going to say i loved genes lit any right there, but one of my favorites of the week was his meeting with a very small group of chos...