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Bankruptcy. frankly i cant see a path that we get through this without bankruptcy. and were very fortunate. we threaded the needle multiple times to find financing and find backers to keep us afloat during that time. >> with the very survival of the company in the balance, they relied heavily on what jeni calls talent, hustle and guts. qualities they look for in their employees and partners but never expected would be tested. >> you want to say youve got talent and hustle and guts but you dont r...

As long standing argument. a few years ago, he argued yes, putin is a bad guy but he should be our allies. that was the view that he brought into the white house, look, the white house is not going to waiver in saying there is no there, there. it is hard to handicap criminal investigations as the same way we watch a political campaign. this is turning on and you can see the anxiety among some of the presidents defenders. i want to talk about voters fraud commission, secretary of state. in new ha...

Nefarious than the intent at the time. so i think similar point relates to -- i think a good example of what im talking about is with jeff sessions. there were accusations that he covered up meetings with the russians. those meetings were innocent arranged for him by others. one was a passing meeting where many other people were present. its true that he didnt declare it and make it a big deal and felt he had to recuse himself from anything to do with russian. all these intricate details in the ...

Will that make it harder for you to argue that the state of washington -- could you make the same claims with this order as you did with the last one? >> so we recognized that the revised order, chuck, is more narrow. it does not apply to as many people as the first, extremely overbroad order did. we recognize that. we filed 50 or 60 declarations like other states who have joined the litigation all showing harm, for example, to our colleges, universities, students at those colleges, who -- it im...

Muslim ban will never stand. the supreme court will not give weight to the fact that the president during his campaign talked about a muslim ban or rudy giuliani did, not going to fly in the supreme court. standing argument probably wont fly. its most extreme standing argument ive ever seen made. argument that because you exempt religious minorities establishes a religion is absurd. war rfgy interact 1934 applied tonal jews because victim of nazi -- that was constitutional. they have a hard case...

But i do think that the attorney general is over stating or over evaluating his position when it comes to the united states supreme court. i think the standing argument is a stretch. i think the application of the unconstitutionality ruling of people who have never been in the country under any circumstances is a stretch but i think youre going to win on all the stay orders and the only, i think, the fear is that when it gets up to the united states supreme court, if it does on the merits, that ...

In the united states, meaning you cant discriminate based on religion. if this is truly a muslim ban, it is unconstitutional. on the state of washington is arguing as the muslim ban, after all, trump called for a muslim ban in the campaign. thats the basis of the argument. >> listening to the line of questioning from the three judges, it seems at least two of the three had a fairly harsh appraisal of the travel ban. is it safe to assume that those two judges may be leaning toward keeping this st...

Religion. you cannot establish a religion in the united states. meaning, you cant discriminate based on religion. if this is truly a muslim ban, it is unconstitutional. and the state of washington it is a muslim ban. trump called for a muslim ban. giuliani said trump wanted a muslim ban and thats why he did this. its a ban of seven muslim countries and the christians are accepted. so thats the basis of the argument. >> listening to the questions from the judges, two of the three had a fairly har...

Protection. >> not u.s. citizens. >> tay talked about the mandel case, a free speech case, involving a socialist belgian professor who wanted to come many into the united states during the nixon administration and wasnt allowed to because he was a marxist. the claim in that suit was american citizens are being deprived of their right to hear free speech. the other case that was cited frequently was a case involving a woman who married a foreign national and he wasnt allowed in and could the wife...

Judicially conniezble. across the country there are lawsuits where theres standing. there are people impacted by this order and there are cases across the country where we dont have type of standing argument. but in this case theres a lot of law that says states cant step into the shoes of their -- in this context. if we credit them, there would be no limitation on standing. in that context it doesnt make sense to extend jury ris predense to cover this point. it is over broad and should be immed...