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Others are not listed in this. were talking about countries with no functioning government like yemen, libya. war-torn countries like libya saying, we do not know many of these people are and there is no government to be able to talk to to ask who they are. we should be more careful because we know that isis is involved there and the administration is taking very seriously. >> senator, thank you for your insight is always valued here at fox news. >> thank you. >> a federal judge in chicago rulin...

Bit more. you heard president trump earlier say that he was willing to shut the government down unless congress appropriated the money to build his border wall, which a lot of lawmakers are saying we dont know if this is the time to do it. now the administration is backing off a little bit, its more important to keep the government open, to appropriate money for hurricane harvey victims. youre even hearing some lawmakers sound a little more conciliatory on the debt ceiling. i think congress and ...

To deportation. >> yes. and this is where it gets complicated i think for both progressives and the trump administration. so because these are iraqi christians, if they are sent back, they will face persecution producing mike pence st. francis the christians are subject to genocide in iraq. >> in iraq, remember this is not serious is iraq they have a functioning government, police and so on but youre still saying that they will face persecution in iraq. >> yes. and if you look at what happened t...

Manchester bomber has been be arrested in libya as well. and that comes across, the alleged fathers bomber said said the other son was arrested as well. it may be two brothers in custody and also saying at one point, he himself was an a sylum seeker. he left for united kingdom and gaddafi sources put out an arrest warrant. as jillian pointed out. all of the sud issen, in the 72 hours we are getting the dots. >> jenna: we are trying to sort through the logistic and we are getting the information ...

Separate. theyre seeking a temporary restraining order. our argument is we already have one, the judge already has one in place, our argument, we now have been joined by oregon and new york and massachusetts announced today they would join our litigation as well. they really feel the coalition is joining them. >> bob, you have -- the administration has made clear that the reason these six countries were chosen, was that they have either supported terrorism or have no functioning government so we...

And to make it legal. we look forward to getting more documents and e-mails and taking devotions to strengthen our case that this is a muslim ban. >> this is different than washington state. you are not joining them in hawaii? >> hawaii is seeking a temporary restraining order. our argument is we already have one. the president cant say it no longer applies because he cleaned up parts of it. we now have been joined by oregon and new york and massachusetts. they are joining the litigation as well...

>> jeff, do you think the white house has covered themselves legally speaking? >> i think theyve come a lot closer. i think this is much more likely to be upheld by the courts. basically, the first executive order was seen as a muslim ban, as a form of religious discrimination. they have taken out the religious content, the special preference for christians and explained that its not muslim countries that we are objecting to immigrants from, its countries where there is no functioning government...

Special preference for christians and also explained that its muslim countries we are objecting to immigrants from, its countries where there is no functioning government or a terrorist supporting government that we dont want to trust. so those get the order out of the realm of unconstitutional discrimination and the president has a lot of power when it comes to immigration and i think he exercised fairly into it is interesting, the same administration that denied there was anything problematic ...

>> jenna: there is no functioning government really in yemen right now. talk to us about the different foreign hands involved. obviously, we are doing drone strikes inside the country, highly publicized raid as well inside the country, you mentioned others, what about the iranians or saudis? >> one of the things that has been playing to the a key advantage is this ongoing saudi-iranian conflict inside of yemen. it became life when the civil war started, one of the factions received iranian suppo...

Regardless, especially if a situation where there is a failed government like yemen and somalia. >> would you include iraq? >> i would not personally. the iraqi government is more reliable because of our relationship. when youre dealing with yemen, al qaeda has been very active and trying to target the united states. thats long been aspirational for them and thats well-known and that is a failed state with no functioning government currently. >> we were told iraq was included in the first execut...