i don t you are prepared if and when they come knocking to interview. brian, the supreme court will take up the travel ban in october. in the meantime, the court is letting part of the ban go forward immediately. i want to read what the court wrote about who can come and who can t come into the country. it says the ban may be enforced against foreign nationals who have credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the united states. but then it says foreign nationals who lack any bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the united states are temporarily barred. is this a victory for the president as he s claiming? i think it certainly is. it was a very clear repudiation of the circuit court opinion. this was an unusual opinion. it was an opinion by the court. it was unsigned. there were three justices concurring and dissenting.
it s been 150 days. the rational, does it make any sense? it does not. unless we banned all muslims from the six countries, the terrorists would be streaming over our borders. as you noted that was 150 days ago. so the original rational for the ban has gone out the window. that s why i think this was a narrow victory for the president today, but it was a hall row victory because this as a counterterrorism measure was never put in place. it never protected the country and now what the supreme court has done is lifted the lower court injunction. not only can the ban go into place, but also and i m watching the screen to see if the president comes out, not only will the ban go in place, but the vetting can go forward. and the vetting will happen over the course of several weeks. with pete.
of the southeast. 30 s across atlanta and raleigr. thursday night we ll be below freezing all the way to parts of alabama and even mississippi. another surge of cold air actually returns on thursday. the high temperature in minneapolis, one degree below zero and out west, i heard you mention earlier the drought. guess what? storm system arrives tomorrow bringing in much needed snow for the higher elevations and lower elevation rain and it should remain unsettled for days through the weekend. nice to end on a little good news. much needed rain as you mentioned for the west coast. thank you very much. jon: a word of warning for all dieters. it might be harder to lose those pounds when alcohol or even your friends are around. we ll give you some food for thought coming up. major league baseball moving forward with its plans to do away with those high speed collisions at home plate. does the ban go far enough?