President trump announce his Supreme Court pick coming up. Well be announcing a Supreme Court justice who i think everybodys going to be very, very impressed with. Cnn has learned that the top two candidates, neil gorsuch and Thomas Hardiman, both were summon Todd Washington today. Hardiman driving himself from pennsylvania. This drama oshg straighted by trump resembling an apprenticestyle announcement tonight, not tipping his hand on who hes saying youre hired to. The reason, one person says, trump likes a contest. As for the one who isnt chosen, its not a youre fired, apparently. Trump doesnt see second place as a bad thing. This source telling cnn there will be other openings on the court so the person not picked will be runnerup, all in an attempt to distract perhaps from the growing controversy surrounding the travel ban. Today the Trump Administration tried to deny that it even is a ban. It cant be a ban if youre letting 325,000 people in. This is not a travel ban, not a ban on muslims. The problem of course is that trump himself has used the word ban to describe this travel change. Much more on that in a moment, but first pamela brown is out front. Moments away from this big announcement, apprenticestyle built up by the president. What do you know . Reporter thats right. It appears to be Supreme Court apprentice. As you point out, one source says donald trump likes a contest and this is certainly playing out like one. In fact, were told from a source that packets of briefing materials on both of the top finalists are being prepared tonight to hand out to the senators. Were told through our sources that the leading contender here, judge neil gorsuch, was covertly flown to washington, d. C. , from his home in colorado yesterday. The other contender, Thomas Hardiman, a judge in pennsylvania, left his home this morning, in fact, one of our producers caught up with him at a gas station in between pittsburgh and washington, d. C. He declined to comment but whats clear her is that the white house is trying to build suspense and its taking extraordinary measures to conceal the top pick. However, our sources are telling us that there are increasing indications that donald trump will pick judge neil gorsuch to fill Justice Scalias seat. Hes young, hes 49 years old, has a conservative track record. But again, well have to wait and see what happens during this primetime address at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Erin . Pamela, thank you very much. Everyone awaiting that. Of course judge gorsuch interesting enough has never actually ruled on abortion. Much more on this pick if he is indeed that pick coming up. Also the fallout over the president s travel ban growing and not just among democrats. One of the president s earliest and closest supporters throughout the campaign, the new jersey governor, calling the rollout of the ban unacceptable today. But the white house is Standing Firm against criticism tonight. Jim acosta is out front. Reporter across the Trump Administration, all of a sudden there seems to be a ban on the word ban. This is not a travel ban. This is not, i repeat, not a ban on muslims. Reporter new Homeland Security secretary jon kelly insisted the executive order barring travelers from seven predominantly muslim countries doesnt amount to a ban. First of all, its not a travel ban. Reporter tell that to the president who tweeted yesterday if the ban were announced with a oneweek notice, the bad would rush into our country during that week. A lot of bad dudes out there. And he said this on saturday working out very nicely. You see it at the airports, all over, its working out very nicely. Were going to have a very, very strict ban and were going to have extreme vetting, which we should have had in this country for many years. Reporter White House PressSecretary Sean Spicer tried to explain it this way. Using the words the media is using but at the end of the day it cant be hold on. It cant be john, thanks. Ill let kristen talk. Even though spicer used the word ban himself on sunday. Its a 90day pan. Reporter then what one of the president s top surrogates, Rudy Giuliani, told fox over the weekend. When he first announced it he said muslim ban. Called me up, said put a commission together, show me the right way to do it legally. What we did was focused on instead of religion danger. Reporter spicers answer for that . Then you should ask mayor giuliani. Thats his opinion. Reporter the administration is still pushing back on the notion it botched the rollout of the executive order which led to chaos at airports across the country. We knew it was coming. It wasnt a surprise. Then we implemented it. Reporter paul ryan criticized the execution of the order but not the policy itself. I think its regrettable there was some confusion on the rollout of this. No one wanted to see people with green cards or special immigrant visas like translators get caught up in all of this. Reporter the white house is stand big the firing of acting attorney general sally yates who balked at carrying out the executive order, saying she betrayed the department of justice refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States. Were hearing from sources on capitol hill that will secretary of Homeland Security jon kelly did meet this evening with the chairman of the Homeland Security committee over in the house. Michael mccaul and a source familiar with that conversation that occurred just in the last couple of hours, erin, is indicating to us at this point the administration does not have any plans to make any changes to that executive order, which, of course, caused so much controversy over the last several days. Jim, thank you. Out front now, the democratic congressman adam shift, top democrat on the house intelligence committee. Thanks for being with me. You just got out of a meeting with the Homeland Security secretary, jon kelly. You requested that meeting out of concern with the travel ban. Did he answer your questions . A group of us met with the secretary including chairman mccaul and, you know, he did his best i think to put the best face on a policy which i think has been quite disastrous. The issue that i raised with him was whether any consideration was give on the impact on our allies around the world. I was in iraq about two weeks ago and i can only imagine this where were competing for influence with the iranians what a gift this was to iran. Iraqis i think are now in a very difficult position as are jordanians and just about everybody else in the region about overtly working with a country that would ban people of the muslim faith from coming to america notwithstanding the ban on the word ban and the ban on the word muslim apparently. It is what it is. I think Rudy Giuliani put it accurately in a rare moment of a nonrehearsed answer that this was a way to put the best spin on a muslim ban. And let me ask you this, they say its not a ban. You heard sean spicer. Of course trump said it was a ban. It doesnt impact more than a billion muslims. Theyre saying its temporary until a vetting system is put in place. Does any of that convince you . Did secretary kelly convince you with any of those arguments . No. And i dont think the secretary would downplay the impact on our allies. Its very real. And while it may not affect a billion people who arent trying at the moment to come to this country, it does affect them and their perception of what america stands for and whether muslims are welcome in america or whether we are really in a war of civilizations as al qaeda and isis would like to portray it. So it has quite a demonstrable impact even on people not trying to come here. Obviously those that came or were turned away at the airport overseas who you know, had a new life, the expectation of a new life in front of them taken away at the last moment are the most impacted. But imagine, you know, we had the king of jordan well be meeting with tomorrow, what pressure he is under not to coordinate too overtly with the people of the United States. Doesnt surprise you. We just got this interview in from a man who had worked with the u. S. Military, u. S. Army in iraq, detained coming into the United States. One of those who was putting his life on the line to help american troops. What he said when he got rae leased finally and cleared was, asked about trump, he said, quote, hes a good guy, very good, there is a system, its okay. When you hear that, are you surprised and do you still have belief as this young iraqi does that there is a system and its okay . Well, listen, you know, this gentleman comes from a country where it is very hazardous to speak out against the government. He is a new immigrant on american soil. I think he would be naturally very wary of criticizing the commander in chief and whatever concern he might have that that could be taken away from him. But, you know, at the same time, you know, notwithstanding what our commander in chief says, people continue to have faith in america. And, you know, unfortunately that is reliant on the view that the president of the United States doesnt speak for most americans i think on this subject he doesnt speak for most americans. But theres only so long you can do go with so many policies like this before the world starts to think he really does represent american values. And that concerns me greatly. I want to interrupt you for a moment. We have breaking news from capitol hill. I want to go to manu raju and bring you back. Manu, can you give us the news on trump cabinet nominees . Reporter tempers erupting after democrats boycotted a Key Committee vote earlier today on trumps choice to lead the Treasury Department and health and human services. Democrats believe tom price and Steven Mnuchin did not answer questions honestly in the committee. So theyre delaying a vote in the committee and the question is whether or not donald trump will have to recess a point those nominees because of the democrats lack of cooperation. Also Jeff Sessions to be attorney general, democrats pushing back the vote for one day by not allowing the vote to happen in the committee today. This is all procedural moves to try to make it as hard as possible for donald trump to get his cabinet nominees confirmed but at the end of the day, erin, expect all of these nominees to eventually get the votes because republicans for the most part are supportive of the nominees except for two which could be close. Betsy devos facing criticism over plagiarism allegations and nick mulvaney, for budget director, john mccain telling me he may vote against him tomorrow. But the money is on donald trump eventually getting all these nominees confirmed. Thank you. Congressman, you heard that reporting. Snatch hatch calling democrats idiots and amazingly stupid, among what he told manu about this for delaying the confirmation of so many of trumps nominees. Are your colleagues delaying the inevitable . We all know the reality. Almost all of these folks if not all are going to get confirmed and this whole waiting is leaving americas most important institutions leaderless and dysfunctional. I think democrats need to thoroughly vet these nominees even if the result is going to ultimately be their confirmation because the republicans have their votes. If nominees arent being fully candid, if their background checks havent been fully completed, they ought to demand they get the thorough vetting they should before any of them vote on this. So i think theyre doing what they need to do but frankly i think all of this will be overshadowed with what happens later tonight. Senate democrats vigorously opposing any Supreme Court justice every bit as moderate as Merrick Garland, to do anything else to rereward the gop vacant veet for an entire year. Well see that happen again unless we insist on a moderate like Merrick Garland. Youre not getting that. We may not and if we dont i think we should filibuster and oppose all the way. Hold that vacant as long as you possibly can . We ought to insist on a consensus choice because anything less will reward the Senate Republicans for what i think is the most severe debasement of the Supreme Court weve ever seen. Well see that tactic again if it is rewarded. Its more than just a tit for tat. It is i think a repudiation of what the republicans did. So i think they need to insist on a consensus and moderate candidate or if i were in the senate i would vigorously oppose any new conservative to the court. All right. Thank you very much. I appreciate your time. As we said, the congressman pointing out we are moments away from this major announcement. In the meantime, the white house calls it a betrayal, doubling down on firing the attorney general for defying the president. And how are muslims reacting to trumps travel ban . Muslims in america . I say to muslims they should have more confident in trump, trump is going to protect them. Maybe not what youre expecting to hear. 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Today the white house doubled down calling yates action a betrayal. Joe johns is out front. Reporter sally yates was the acting attorney general until monday night when donald trump fired her. She was rightfully removed. That is a position of leadership that is given to somebody who is supposed to execute orders that are handed down to them properly, of which that executive order was 100 done. Reporter the dramatic clash began when yates told Justice Department lawyers not to legally defend trumps widely protested executive order on immigration and refugees. Riding in a letter, my responsibility is to ensure that the position of the department of justice is not only legally defensible but is informed by our best view of what the law is after consideration of all the facts. She was told she was fired by a handdelivered letter from the president. According to an administration official. And the white house released a statement saying the acting attorney general sally yates has betrayed the department of justice. Was the president laying down a marker . All of his other cabinet secretaries and officials to say if i give you a directive and you do not follow it youre gone . I think that kind of comes with the job, right . He has an agenda he articulated clearly to the American People and it is his job to lay that vision out and the people that he appoints and nominates and announces as Staff Members or cabinet or agency heads, their job is to fulfill that. If they dont like it, they shouldnt take the job. Reporter she was set to serve until Jeff Sessions, trumps nominee for attorney general, was confirmed. I