of this? any actual victories?? no, i think they don t get any actual victories. i think, to their base and to their most angry constituents, it is may be satisfying somehow to see the temporary frustration of jefferson sessions becoming attorney general and the president getting his way on that. they will block, stall, delay, complain, criticize, attack, of course, their allies in the media, who are legion, part of the whole picture here, they will get a lot of help from that. this is going to be a noisy and rancorous atmosphere, perhaps more than we have seen. it has been pretty bad. i think it is going to be bad and perhaps worse for as far as the eye can see. tucker: i need to ask you one last question. if you look at the groups against trump, i think there are things to criticize in the trump administration, but if you look at the professional agitators
countries at issue here in order to ensure adequate standards, the language from the order, for visa screening, was plainly constitutional. the district court s order, which contained no assessment of the legality of the order, was in error, and we encourage the court to stay. o a key factor in the order and its temporary nature is what the president s determination that there was a need to review existing practices for screening foreign nationals who apply for visas. tucker: okay. not a very exciting picture but an interesting argument. that was the administration s side of things. here s what the state had to say in response. absolutely, your honor. absolutely, the parties have agreed to a briefing schedule. the preliminary injunction motion will be fully briefed by a week from friday. i am confident that the judge will rule, schedule a hearing quickly after that. i would also point out that the
immigration pause will remain in effect. i must say, have a mess to the arguments, those judges got pretty far afield from the country. did the country have the authority, under his constitutional duties, to impose this temporary ban and did the judge who ordered it, halt at temporarily, have the authority to do that? those of the questions, it seems to me. before you know it, the judges were asking for evidences of danger. that is way beyond the purview of this particular hearing at this particular stage of this case. tucker: you hard part of this exchange. let me tell you but the lawyer, saying, the question of intent, knowing this was an intentional muslim ban, based on statements that the now president made during the campaign. is that the constitutional questions of the heart of this?
betsy devos. they ended up, and the end, mike pence cast the decisive vote and betsy devos as a secretary of education. tucker: extremism tends to grow from weakness rather than strength.ec even members of democrats in the house, who we think of as far out, avid lefties, they seem moderate by comparison to a lot of democratic voters. do you get that impression? l i don t think they aree moderate because maxine waters is already talking about when the time comes, she will move to impeach the president. she said that, a somewhat different news conference when she said that russia invaded korea. i think she meant crimea. maxine waters, all sorts of things get said. i think those people are pretty far out there. for the democratic caucus as a whole to be as far out on these
african-american community didn t support them, although they didn t turn out for hillary they did for barack obama.ty i think you are right about that. it is the top and the bottom. tucker: after the election, we talked about this, we saw the industrial midwest go to trump against most expectations. at that point, we thought, holy smokes, they got to figure out a way to run people like senator casey or democrats with a proven record of an appeal to the middle of the country, the middle class. but you haven t seen, at least in public, efforts to figure out a program to appeal to those voters. do you think they have given up on the middle class? well, i don t know the answer to that.en i do think, tucker, if you look at the race for the chairmanship of the democratic party, i doesn t look like anybody isat looking for a centrist. what you have is left and lefter. the democratic party is nowhere near dead. it will come again. it will come back sooner than we think. but in the near te