four different judges who ruled against the trump administration came to the same conclusion the post notes, quote, that the government s stated reason for ending daca that it was unlawful was virtually unexplained. three judges rejected adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 census because they did not find commerce secretary w l ross s argument that it would improve voting rights believable. numerous courts have struck down the court s efforts citing failure to defend their actions. courts have blocked trump s ban on transgender people serving in the military, his attempt to pull funding from sanctuary cities and his promise to revoke grant money from teen pregnancy programs.
to his other job as the head of the office of management and budget. this week, we learned there are even bigger staffing problems in the trump administration. some of trump s appointees, who have actually been confirmed by the senate are apparently taking their cues on how to do their job from president trump. on monday, nbc news reported that housing and urban development has kept a light work schedule while running the agency. a list of appointments in 2017 shows that he held one senior staff meeting a week and spent half of his fridays leaving early or taking the day off altogether so he could fly to his mansion in florida for the weekend. sounds like someone you know? i m joined by hudd secretary from 2014 to 2017. he is currently the only former head of a federal agency running for president. and prior to that, he was the mayor of san antonio. good to see you. thank you for being with us.
to get into this investigation big-time. i don t think the president will be very happy about those elected officials and what they re about to investigate. one of those people is elijah cummings, who said president trump s actions violate our constitutional fundamental principal of checks and balances. there should be no doubt about why. this has nothing to do with presidential harassment and everything to do with unprecedented obstruction. i wonder, neil, from listening to the president today whether this is a game in which he believes his base or his supporters will play or whether he has a fundamental misunderstanding of the fact that because he won an election it doesn t prevent a report being written about him, an investigation taking place about him and that special counsel robert mueller isn t a guy off the street. yeah. i think donald trump really does show that he believes that this constitution is all a time and it s just subject to rhetoric
president trump s continued attacks on george conway and the late john mccain seem to be the shiny objects he d like us to focus on instead of the looming release of robert mueller s report of his russia investigation. today the president tried to challenge his report nearly two years into the investigation. some of what you are about to hear from the president simply isn t true and much of it simply doesn t make sense. i just won one of the greatest elections of all time in the history of this country, and even you will admit that and now i have somebody write a report that never got a vote? tens of millions of voters and now somebody is going to write a report who never got a vote. the man out of the blue just writes a report. i got 306 electoral votes.
i don t have a habit of defending president trump. i have written i think he is unfit for office, and he is. i will say if we had any president that had a senior adviser in the white house whose spouse was basically out there saying all kinds of things about how terrible the president was, it would be a little bit weird for that president, too. i have to say of all the things that i object to with trump, the idea that he finally responded to one of his senior aids husband just constantly attacking him, if anything, he showed bizarre restraint for donald trump in this case. this thing gets we ve seen it before. martha mitchell, the wife of the attorney general john mitchell for richard nixon was sounding the alarm during watergate. a lot of people dismissed her as kind of a cook and she turned out to be raising some significant points. thanks, guys. good to see you both. coming up, president trump