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Directed the department not to follow that policy and to defy that policy? >> i'm not but i'm not aware of a situation where the office of legal counsel was advised not to tell the attorney general about it until it was over. >> reporter: there's no clear timetable right now for a decision by the fourth circuit. the ninth circuit on the west coast is expected to take up arguments on the travel ban next week. no public event on the president's schedule today. chris and alisyn? >> some interesting moments going on between senator ted cruz and sally yates. jeffrey toobin and david druc r drucker,...

Questioning from judges on the fourth circuit. administration lawyers were repeatedly pressed on statements the president made during the campaign about a muslim ban. cnn's laura jarrett was at that hearing for us and she joins us this morning from washington. bring us up to speed, laura. >> christine, the judges grilled the parties for about two hours on a host of issues. what stood out is how this case highlights a real tension between the deference the courts want to give to the president's national security judgment on immigration on the one hand, while also safeguarding constitutional rig...

Virginia. the judges are questioning department of justice attorney trying to make a case that executive order, second one by the president is not a muslim ban thaent campaign statements should not apply when the president said during the campaign he wanted a ban on muslims. what's your response to that? >> my concern here is that there is not a significant change between the first and second executive order and that there were abundant statements on the course of the campaign trail. by now president trump about his intent. his desire to find way it ban muslims. i will remind that you former m...

People will be arguing about that forever. it's not a lasting matter. >> bret: how long do you think it will take before we hear some democrats say sally yates should run for office? >> in the pantheon of liberal heroes, she is right up there. i heard complaints in my twitter feed, people saying -- i don't think you can make a case for her partisanship. she conducted herself ably. >> bret: thank you. another of president trump's early moves short-circuited was argued today. at issue is what we talked about, the trump travel ban on citizens from muslim majority nations. was it about religion or...

Democrats, but by member of his en0 party. >> the hall mark of the presidency is always to get permanent legislation through congress. you really want to put your mark on the statute books of the country. >> but it often takes far longer than 100 days to put legislative points up on the board. ronald reagan's first 100 was more scene setter in what would come in the months to follow including his signature tax cut in 1981. >> this represents 750 billion dollars in tax cuts. >> candidates often backtrack from campaign statements as they roll out their presidency. but president trump's reversal ...