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Families. jillian: where do we go from here? joining us is fox news contributor steve cortez, thanks for joining us. you had elizabeth warren saying donald trump tend to take a hit, i want to bring up a statement from judge derek watson who said national security interests are legitimate objectives of the highest order. they cannot justify when the president has wielded his authority unlawfully. how are we going to come to agreement on this? >> one way is for judges to stop acting as activists a...

Closed case in the supreme court. but i do think the trump administration probably has a better chance in the supreme court than it has, particularly in these courts in the ninth circuit court of -- in the region covered by the ninth circuit, hawaii and the west coast of the united states were most of these cases have originally come up, which tend to be the more liberal courts in the country. the supreme court is certainly more on the conservative side. >> all right. standby for me, jeff toobin...

Revises this travel ban. it was supposed to go into effect tomorrow. a federal judge finds a way to stop it in its tracks. hawaii federal court judge derek watson stopped the second travel ban. issued an opinion calling this latest and third version of the ban detrimental and discriminatory. he said the travel ban signed by the president late last month, quote, suffers from precisely the same problems as its predecessor. it finds sufficient findings that the entry of more than 150 million nation...

Million nationals from six spestied countries, specified countries, would be detrimental to the united states. so the administration has not proven that barring these people would help the situation in the united states. and he also said that the executive order, quote, plainly drim nig discriminates based on nationality that is antithetical. this was the third version to go into effect tomorrow. a judge, a federal district judge in hawaii, has now ruled that this travel ban cannot go into effec...

Judge derek watson. and judge watson was one of the judges as well back in march who also struck down the travel ban 2.0 executive order as unconstitutional. he stopped it from going into effect. so its important to note that the presidents travel ban was supposed to go into effect tomorrow. now, this was the latest it ration of the travel ban that pertained to six different countries, not all of them muslim majority as the administration pointed out. it also included venezuela, some government ...

Toobin, the chief legal analyst to talk about this. jeff, what is your reaction? >> reporter: well, this is a continuing saga of the travel ban. what is interesting about this ruling is that travel ban 2.0 was supposed to be addressed by the supreme court this month. but the court dismissed that case because it was moved, the travel ban 2.0 was no longer in effect. but what i think is almost certain now is that this ruling about travel ban 3.0 will be on a rocket ride to the supreme court. and w...

To stick to him. as soon as he changes his mind, declare victory and move on. so theres a question as to whether hes politically affect upped by these as other people are, but i dont think he would mind to get a deal done. ironically, the one that keeps this annoying part of to bobama in place. >> a federal judge has now blocked the travel ban 3.0, the third attempt at the travel ban. i want to bring in now jaime metzel at the atlantic council that used to be on during the clinton administration...

Hawaii? to expand the exemptions to allow close relatives of u.s. citizens to visit their famili families? it also applies to refugees being processed by resettlement agencies. how do you see? >> absolutely not. congress gave the president the power to determine when and who can come into this country. a judge expanding this definition is out of the context of what the constitutional powers are for this particular judge. for example, in this country in order to immigrate to the country there are...

Its fighting a ruling that could allow thousands who come in from largely muslim countries. >> the department of justice filed the petition asking the supreme court to step in and black the ruling of a hawaii judge and clarify the decision made by the supreme court last month. the supreme court handled the administration a partial win ruling it was reasonable for the government to enforce travel restrictions on people coming from those muslim majority countries if they did not have a claim of re...

>> eric: meanwhile, president trumps travel ban is going back to the supreme court yet again. hawaii federal judge, derek watson ordering a wider interpretation of those with that close familial relationship to people who already live in the country. that they say could potentially open the door to thousands of people. jeff sessions has appealed the decision directly to the high court. allison barber has the latest on this from washington. >> the supreme court is given the state of hawaii till n...