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Clear this morning in the four tweets. he has basically said in those four tweets, i've had the same intent from beginning to end. from my campaign statements until 6:44 a.m. on june 5th. his intent has been the same. and that is, to constitute and institute a muslim ban. >> right. the idea of being that if that is the intent, that is going to be hard for a court to sign off on that, right? >> that's absolutely right. the other thing he did in one of his tweets, the last one where he says, in any event, we're doing extreme vetting right now, to completely smash his lawyers' arguments that they...

Think he had a key role in the prosecution of basketball mcdonald the former virginia governor. which is a story we followed on this show. we know his first act was to rescind the order from sally yates the woman who was fired tonight from the president. which essentially means that dana bonte has ordered justice department lawyers that they must defend the trump executive order in court. how do you think that will play out? >> i don't think this is an order that's defensible in court ultimately. the constitution is very clear that you can favor a certain religion. you can't disfavor another r...

Reporting or any further understanding about how this happened in the justice department or the consequences now that it has? >> we actually just got word just about ten minutes ago now that the replacement for sally yates, dana -- has now rescinded her order. so that was his official act as acting attorney general was to announce that he was rescinding yates's order and defending the immigration order. that just came down within the last few minutes. >> terms of that order it's presumably the case that the department of justice lawyers who would be defending the order in court -- would those ...

Who i don't like to think of myself as keeping up after midnight because he is in charge of a lot of important stuff. david, thank you for abobeing w us. >> good to be with you again. >> we have got confusion in terms of what is happening with this ice job, the customs enforcement replacement. putting that aside for a second the larger news tonight is the firing of the acting attorney general. can i just ask you as from your reporting your experience how big a deal you think this is and what you think the immediate consequences will be? >> i think it is a big deal. i also think it is an entire...

Where are senate republicans when their republican president issues an order forthing one religious group -- targeting one religious group. president trump acted unilaterally to issue this order. and make no mistake, while it might not affect every muslim in the world donald trump's executive order is a muslim ban. >> after elizabeth warren spoke tonight -- again, she spoke tonight for an hour on the senate floor senator chris murphy of connecticut went next. today he introduced legislation that would essentially defund president trump's executive order. it would call it illegal and effectivel...