Good evening to you. If we thought we would ease into the weekend, jim, we were mistaken. Federal judge is granting that Washington State attorney generals request to immediately halt this executive order on immigration. You have been looking at the details. Bring us up to speed. Right. According to what has happened out in Washington State, there is now a temporary restraining order that was issued by a judge in that state, essentially siding with the Washington State attorney general who has asked for a restraining order, a stoppage to this executive order that banned people from coming in from seven predominantly muslim countries, according to the Washington State attorney general who has been on the air for a good portion of this night. This is now a nationwide restraining order issued by this judge and i do believe we have some sound for this attorney general. Heres what he had to say earlier tonight. Judge robarts decision puts a halt to president trumps unconstitutional unlawful order. It puts a stop to it nationwide. I dont want to preempt what is going to be said. What shes been saying talking to her sources, customs and Border Protection has been in touch with the airline saying that they can get back to business and start reinstating visas and so forth. I have just gotten in touch with eyesores over the department of Homeland Security, don, trying to get more guidance on this. Im told some kind of statement is going to be coming from the department of Homeland Security. Heres a critical reason why. Don, weve been here for several hours at the white house tonight. We have not gotten any kind of guidance or statement from this white house as to what just occurred in Washington State and so the question that i have in my mind, don, how could customs and Border Protection issue that guidance to u. S. Airlines saying were going to get back to business without the approval of the president of the United States, the man who signed the executive order . But at this point we have no clarity, no kind of statement from the white house at this point. Though i am told by a source at the department of Homeland Security that they plan to issue some kind of statement tonight. The state Department Released a statement saying basically the same thing. Theyre looking at what has happened in Washington State and theyll be working with the department of Homeland Security on the next steps. But it is i think its an Extraordinary Development if the airlines are going to be getting back to business before this executive order, don. It appears the judge overruled the president. Well get more guidance coming up. Renee, jim mentioned the visas aring e. Being reinstated. Thats the reporting we have. This is a really Extraordinary Development if that is happening. Yeah. Thats not an understatement. Extremely extraordinary. We do know, based on a source with the airline industry, an airline official telling me that around 9 00 there was a Conference Call between customs and Border Protection, as well as the major u. S. Airlines. On that call, customs and Border Protection informed the airlines that things were going back to business as usual before the executive order. On that call, the airlines were also told that visas would start being reinstated. I can tell you that since we got word of that bit of information, weve been monitoring all of the airlines websites and so far we noticed that American Airlines has stripped down all of the travel alerts related to the bans. That is no longer on the website. Were starting to see the airlines, one by one react. Again, so far American Airlines stripping down the travel alerts that referred to that travel ban from their website, don. What does this mean for the people who had been banned or couldnt come in . Can they now come back in . So just as jim said there, although were getting this information from the sources who were actually on that call, we still havent heard anything official from the government. So were waiting for that. But lets just say that this is what the situation is and things are going back to business as usual prior to the executive order. What would happen is that cbp would need to reset the parameters so when someone does show up at an airport with the documents and its scanned through the system, the airline doesnt get a noboard message, they get a board message. It will be up to cbp to make all the changes so this can go smoothly. I think right now the focus is making sure everyone understands where cbp stands on this, where the federal government stands on this as it relates to this ruling. The airlines will follow what theyre told. They will not make their own decisions on this. Ive got don, ive got a statement from the white house. Go for it, jim. This is a statement from White House Press secretary sean spicer. Hit my inbox. At the earliest possible time the department of justice intends to file a department of defend the executive order of the president which we believe is lawful and appropriate. The president s order is intended to protect the homeland and he has the Constitutional Authority and responsibilities to protect the American People as the law states whenever the president finds that the entry of any aliens, thats government language are or class of aliens will be detrimental to the interests of the United States. He may be for such period deemed necessary suspend the entry of all aliens, government language here, or class of aliens as immigrants or impose on the entrance any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate. Don, the statement there from the white house that i just read, it was a lengthy statement. I apologize to the viewers. It seems to be a very strong signal from this white house that they intend to go right after that temporary restraining order as soon as possible and a legal argument they appear to be making here, its one that we heard throughout this evening on this network is that this white house believes the president of the United States has the authority, has Broad Authority when it comes to controlling the nations borders controlling the executive branch of this government and running the dp of Homeland Security. I think its going to be the argument they make in the coming days. Jim, i want you to stand by. You as well, renee. I want to bring in the governor who is in seattle now. Governor jay ainsley. Thanks for joining us again. We have our correspondents, the experts in the field. Theyll be listening to us. Did you hear the statement from the white house, governor . I did. It does not obviate the fact that this president is totally bound by this order. We expect him to abide by this order. We will not accept any deviation from this order whatsoever. The constitution is supreme in this country. Im proud that Washington State has led the country in standing up for the basis values and will not allow anyone, including the president and washington, d. C. To contravene the values. We had a federal judge appointed by george w. Bush decide in a forceful decision, frankly, that this is a country that we are not going to allow a test of religion to determine who comes in our country, we are not going to allow decision that is actually jeopardize our National Security. Look, the fact is in this case that the people from these seven countries, there have been 700,000 refugees admitted since the disaster of september 11th, not one incident has occasioned where people from these seven countries caused a fatal terrorist act. I know they want to talk about aliens. Theyre microsoft engineers, theyre boeing salesmen, students at the university of washington, cancer researchers, helping build my state economically. This order hurt my whole states economy, besides being unconstitutional. Im quite glad that this federal court has stood up and provided what this nation needs, which are checks and balances. We expect this president to follow them. Theyve got a right to appeal. Well let them do so. I think we know that the values of this country will be defended in the courts. Governor, can you stand by. I want to bring my attorneys in. Can we get Alan Dershowitz and allen higginbotham. The governor says the president is bound by this order and by this judge. First of all, i think its very important, the white house statement, the white house statement could have said that the president is going to follow the order of the massachusetts judge and he could have caused a major confrontation with the washington judge. Its very important that the white house said no, the president is going to appeal the order to the ninth circuit. Thats the way it should be. Were going to get an appeal to the ninth circuit by the president , by the Justice Department. Were going to appeal to the First Circuit by the plaintiffs who feel that they got with the wrong result when the judge in massachusetts denied them a temporary restraining order. Were going to get potentially conflicting decisions by different circuits ultimately to the Supreme Court divided 44. The justice nominated to serve on the Supreme Court, gorsuch says in his yearbook, attributesing the quote to kissinger, the illegal we do right away, the unconstitutional takes a little bit more time. Say if were talking about a system of checks and balances, i think we have a little bit to worry about when the new ninth justice comes on the court who has at least as a young person said he has no problem with illegal or unconstitutional. Stand by. Weve still got time for that. That hasnt happened yet. Michael, i want to bring you in before i bring the governor back. The governor is saying that the president is bound by this order and this judge. Do you see it that way . Well, yes, i do. I think its important if you look at the statement, i think its very important that the president follows the rule of law. We have a separate of powers principle. Its very important. Each branch must respect the other branches. So the president executes the law. But the courts interpret the law. Here you have two judges, one from washington, one from massachusetts, they have conflicting interpretations. And that must be decided by the court. Youre going to appeal to the court of appeals, ninth circuit, First Circuit. Theyll make a decision. This will eventually go to the Supreme Court. Thats whats supposed to happen. Thats what makes our country so special. Governor ensley, youre an attorney as well, correct . Correct. How long given the circumstances of the information that we have now, the statement from the white house, what the judge ordered earlier, how long will it take to play out and unraffle . I cant predict that. We dont know the answer to that. Were not looking at a matter of a couple of days . Its possible the court of appeals could act with that a lack rah at this. Its important that people understand that. I do believe, at least in my lifetime, except when president nixon was around, this is the moment where we, in most in need of judges in the separate branch of the judicial system to save our liberties. I have to tell you, we need a strong judiciary in our country. Were at risk of those who put us in the situation of choosing one religion over another. This is the moment we need a strong judicial system. Ible weve got one. Im proud that we had the beacon of liberty shining out of seattle tonight. Jim acosta read the statement. I want to read the first time. At the earliest possible time, the department of justice intends to file an emergency stay of this outrageous orders and defend the executive order of the president and he said which we believe is lawful and appropriate. So to file an emergency stay, how long would that take . Can they do that at this hour . I suppose thats possible. But rather than speculate, lets just know one thing right now. President donald trump doesnt have the right to call anybody outrageous given the chaos he caused by this unplanned decision, which has created tumult and trauma and injury across the nation. We dont appreciate that characterization. This judge is a republican appointed judge. He ruled on the constitution and the facts. He looked at the fact that none of the people from these seven countries were involved in one terrorist acts. Im involved from a National Security standpoint. I have people fighting iraq. The last thing we want is a recruiting poster for isis. Thats frankly what this executive order is. For a lot of reasons, i hope were going to continue to have a strong judicial system to rein in this president who has done damage to this country already. Our renee marsh who is listening says theyre getting back to business and ordered that all visas from the seven countries singled out in this executive order that they were revoked and so what does that mean . They said its back to business as usual. What do you make of that . Governor . Well, listen, the customs it sounds like what the agency is doing is following the order, which erases this as if it never happened. Now, again, well be able to have salespeople from what ive heard, im relying on your excellent reporting for that. I dont have independent confirmation about it. If thats what the agency is saying, these folks ought to have the same rights they had as if the executive order never happened. Thats important. These are my neighbors and executives and physicians and cancer researchers and because this president didnt give two seconds thought as to what they were really doing because he didnt bother to pick up the phone and talk to cabinet members, he issued a rogue order against students and others. Governor inslee, thank you for your time. Dont go far from the phone. We may need you. We thought we would ease into our weekends. Not the case. Thank you so much. We appreciate it. I want to get back to jim acosta and renee marsh. The governor is relying on your expert reporting. Tell us again about the visas being reinstated. Hes assuming that they can now come back into the state. Again, i want to clarify. Cbp was passing on information to the airlines, of course, it would be in the hands of the state department to do the physical duty of reinstating the visas. One would have to think that by saying were going to reinstate those visas, that means if you have one and its ni now valid, you will be able to come into the United States. The question is how long will the process take. Earlier today, our Laura Jarrett reported that the number of people that had the visas revoked was about 100,000 individuals. We dont know how long that process will take. Based on the language that cbp gave to the airlines. It sounds as if this is something happening as we speak. I know you have to get off the lawn because there are rules and restrictions. I want to ask you. This is the first bit of information and the first statement and guidance. We dont know when they will file an emergency stay for this. But they intend to . Reporter thats right. I think thats a pretty clear statement from the White House Press secretary. That this president is not going to take this lying down. That this is going to happen as quickly as humanly possible. We were hearing from officials over here at the white house, that they were working with attorneys as we speak tonight to deal with all of this. This happened very suddenly. But the president of the United States is finding out there are three coequal branches of government and in this case, the judiciary branch, the Judicial Branch of government does have a say in all of this. As you heard the governor there a few moments ago say, democrats, they dont control the white house, they dont control capitol hill. So theyre pinning their hopes on the Judicial Branch of government to stop this president and this executive order. The question though, is don, i think this is going to be difficult in terms of people who want to see this executive order struck down. From what we understand the executive branch of government, the president , the white house, has pretty broad latitude when it comes to controlling the borders. It will be interesting to see how far it gets up the chain, to the Supreme Court and what is ruled in the long run. For a while, the courts have given the executive branch of government pretty wide lat sued. Thank you, everyone. Michael and alan, i want you to stick around. Rene and jim, well be getting back to you, im sure, throughout the coming hours on cnn. Stay with me, everybody. When we come back, much, much more on the breaking news. A federal judge temporarily halts president trumpS Immigration orders. What will happen next . The highly advanced audi a4, with classleading horsepower. New pure clay masks from loreal skin need an instadetox . 3 masks enriched with pure clays green to purify black to brighten red to exfoliate pure clay your way new pure clay masks by loreal skin expert paris imy moderate to severeng crohns disease. I didnt think there was anything else to talk about. But then i realized there was. 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