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Forward there and also one step back today, another judicial decision that seeks to derail the presidents move on sanctuary cities, as a federal judge slaps down president trumps order to withhold federal funding from the sanctuary cities. president trump making some stunning remarks about the courts. we will tell you what he said in just a moment. well be joined by constitutional law expert jonathan turley who says he thinks the judge in california in this case has jumped the gun. first, we sta...

The trump administration facing another legal challenge to one of his executive orders. a federal judge in san francisco stopping the presidents order that aimed to cut federal money to sanctuary cities. the third legal setback in the first 100 days. joining us to discuss this is republican senator david perdue of georgia. are you surprised this judge blocked the order? >> im not surprised. it is a technicality. the president is trying to enforce federal law. i find it ironic, the judge is in th...

Businesses including his own. one giant white house challenge, even the presidents own budget director worries the plan explodes the federal deficit. >> we need more upward mobility in the country again. thats whats this tax bill is designed to do. if it does lead to deficits as a conservative, that bothers me a little bit. >> and stunning administration language after another setback in the courts. the white house says leaders of sanctuary cities will have blood on their hands and a federal cou...

Need. >> senator angus king of maine. thank you so much. >> thank you, wolf. >> after another legal setback, a legal blow to his immigration policies, is he putting the safety of some of the federal judges at risk? will members of the presidents party rally behind his big plans for major tax cuts or stand in his way. truecar shows you what other people paid for the car you want. you already know that; youve probably heard me say it. but heres something you might not know:

Working around the clock to fulfill that promise. he has directed a halt of funding to jurisdictions that do not comply with federal immigration laws. >> just hours after he said that, a federal judge in california blocked that part of the executive order. joining me is our panel. seems another big setback for president trump in terms of his first 100 days. this is something sean spicer was touting as his first accomplishments in the first 100 days. >> it was also not vetted in much the way the ...

This is also on flynn for not disclosing thousands of dollars coming from the russian government to him. that smells bad. they got rid of it eventually. they had a course correction, but an initial mistake, especially when someone like h.r. mcmaster who now holds that post was available on the lawn flynn their first with a checkered background, clearly an error. >> jon: we continue to await the president there at the interior department. thank you both for joining us. a speed to another legal se...

The justice department should find ways to take away their federal grants. the judge said, you cant do that. only congress can set the rules for federal grants. and once it awards them, you cant change the rules later. you cant take away money that doesnt have anything to do with immigration. so for a variety of reasons, he said what the president did is too broad and took away a lot of the steam from this executive order. but the justice department has said there is a law that requires local po...

Whether los angeles, new york city, all over the country. how much of a setback is this to the trump administration? >> first of all, not fully unexpected. every time the president does something like this, it is pretty easy to find a left-leaning judge somewhere in the country that would block it at lower level. have you circuit court and supreme court above that. every time the president does this, he gets sued over it. they dont unravel it until you get higher up. >> travel bans, travel ban o...

Correspondent jim acosta is joining us with the very latest on this major development. jim, weve just gotten new word of a legal decision in california. >> reporter: thats right, wolf, another setback for the presidents executive withholding grant money from so-called sanctuary cities that dont cooperate with immigration authorities. that has been blocked by a federal judge. the judge has now frozen that executive order saying those cities would have been harmed by the presidents decision. presi...

Point. wolf, i think that is significant given the fact you will recall during that travel ban fight fween the administration and the courts, the president was tweeting about it. he referred to so-called judges. and you had the white house drafting statements and releasing statements that were pretty scathing of the courts during whole process. at this point we dont see any indication of the white house that the president will lash out at the judge in california for issuing what is essentially a...