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Claiming immunity under a 1976 law that limits the ability of foreign nations to be sued in u.s. courts. last week, a federal appeals court rejected that claim. but on sunday, chief justice john roberts order add week long pause in the fight while the high court decides whether to take any further action. so basically, a big unknown. as to a lot of what's going on here. joining us to talk more, danny cevalos and welcome to you. danny, why all the secrecy? >> it's the same assy grand jury matter. there must be secrecy. what's different in this case is the magnitude of the secrecy. you may close...

Years, and we don't know what the reaction will be from russian and iranian-backed forces on the ground in syria. those forces have been very active, controlling a good deal of ground, launching their own missions. so it is really -- it is not a massive surprise. president trump had wanted to get out of syria. the timing is a little odd, a bit unexpected, and we don't know what will happen now going forward. that is really the question. the big unknown. isis is on the rise, as you say, jim. there have been any number of attacks there and hundreds to thousands of isis forces and isis loyalists ...

Will, ali, about whether or not this will be able to create the amount of jobs they say it's going to. >> that's the big unknown, right? it used to be very clear -- people always talk about reagan. reagan took taxes from here to here so you saw a big effect. taking the corporate income tax rate from 35%, it's really not, it's about 27%. that's the effective rate, down to 15%. it's not clear what effect it will have. my only small recent experience is in canada where they did this, and it didn't have that desired effect. it's not clear. i don't know enough to say it won't work or it will work. ...

>> reporter: very simply, a 16-block radius, no vehicular traffic at all. that will start at 3:00 in the morning on friday morning. having done previous inaugurations and grown up in washington, d.c., that will probably start about midnight on thursday. the easy answer for that is they're not going to allow any vehicles anywhere near where you are all the way down to where i am. >> how about people. any about all the protesters coming this weekend. what are they doing about them? >> so that's going to be the biggest challenge. they don't have a good grasp of the numbers of protesters that that...

Satellite company. they used to determine the plane's path ending as they now said. that was in the southern indian ocean. you mentioned caveats to their analysis. such as? >> the big caveat, the big unknown is in order to make this tal clagz work, you have to plug in a presumed speed. they used 450 knots which i think is a reasonable speed to use. every plane flies at the most reasonable speed at the most reasonable altitude. the speed that corresponds to mach 22 varies. presuming this speed and there is a route that you can plug in. you get a certain point at which it arrives. there is uncer...