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As a candidate -- >> total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states. >> reporter: and as president. >> the protection of the nation from foreign terrorist into the united states. we all know what that means. >> has the president ever disavowed his campaign statements? has he ever stood up and said, i said before i wanted to ban all members of the islamic faith from entering the united states of america. i was wrong. >> the yuz department urging the judges to look at how the president's words have evolved arguing the ban has nothing to do with religion. >> over time the presi...

Muslims. the core issue was whether the courts should consider comments made by trump and his officials before and after the presidential campaign about banning muslims. acting solicitor general jeffrey wall defended trump saying the president disavowed his original muslim ban remarks. take a listen. >> has the president ever disavowed his campaign statements? has he ever stood up and said, i said before i wanted to ban all members of the islamic faith from entering the united states of america, i was wrong, i've consulted with lawyers. i'm now addressing it simply to security needs. has he ev...

Arabia, israel, and the vatican. he also meets today with the crown prince of abu dhabi, and tomorrow he meets with turkey's president. all right, later today a federal appeals court will hold a hearing in seattle to decide whether to uphold the president's revised travel ban. the ninth circuit already put the first ban on hold. will this time be any different? let's go live to washington and bring in cnn justice reporter laura jarrett. laura, good morning to you. what do we expect today? >> reporter: hey, good morning, dave. well, for the second time in just the last few months, the fate of...

But that shouldn't be the thing we decide at the beginning. so i think there needs to be an approach that says let's talk about talking and see where we can get. a couple days ago, the north korean official talked about once again that north korea would like to talk to the yieund states. we really need to see if that's true. >> a little fact check on that. talks about talk. david wright, thank you so much. next, three judges deciding the fate right now of president trump's travel ban. his campaign statements about keeping muslims out of the u.s. in the heart of the heated arguments. we'll de...

>> well, it did it in a section called reviewability. to the extent that what washington said, judge paez, was mandel can't govern broad policy determinations. even plaintiffs don't try to defend that reasoning. i don't think this court should overread it. under that standard i'm glad to hear counsel say we wouldn't be up here if it weren't just the campaign statements. those are not statements in an official capacity and don't tell you what the official objective is. people say things on a campaign trail and take an oath to uphold the constitution, form an administration and consult with them...