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There is a lot more caselaw to fall on the side of the president then there is to fall on the side of campaign statements. >> martha: michele, that stuck out to me. jonathan turley and alan dershowitz both look at this may say, there is a lot of emotion around these judges decisions. but it will stand up. the president does have the right to ban entry from countries if he deems limbs to be a national security risk. it is a 1952 law. >> i think i have -- my mother is a minister and my dad is an attorney. my entire life i have been guided by two things, the law and our values. and the constituti...

We'll defend the executive orders in court and sean spicer said it again. they haven't filed the notices of appeal but there is no question that they'll do that. both judges said the problem with the executive order is that it's basically a dressed-up version of the president's call during the campaign for a ban on muslim travel. that evolved during the campaign and the president said on "meet the press" in july that it was now based on territories, not muslims. the judges said, if you look at the campaign statements by him and his surrogates, that's what it is, the challenges are likely to pr...

Essentially religious discrimination. they have drawn on statements from president trump on the campaign trail and statements of other supporters of his and senior advisers and they say this order essentially shows religious discrimination. the justice department strongly contests this and said in multiple hearings the court should not look at campaign statements whatsoever, but clearly this judge in hawaii at least has been persuaded efor now. >> the travel ban part two basically stops travel from six muslim majority countries. used to be seven. iraq was taken off that list. is that part of t...

The trump administration. people worried about terrorism and certainly those who are lined up against the trump revised travel band. there are federal court hearings in three states. one in maryland is going on now filed by the aclu on behalf of local muslims. a similar case will happen this afternoon here in washington state. in hawaii the state is suing to get a nationwide restraining order. the executive order which now affects six states is scheduled to take effect at midnight tonight. people with valid visas and green cards will not be affected. this is still an effort to ban muslims, som...

On muslims. hawaii is saying you can't do this. >> it's affecting the residents that can't receive visits from family, affecting tourism and their economy. you can see the reason behind it. whether or not it's unconstitutional is another matter. there's some legal experts that say that campaign statements can't be used in a process like this. >> shepard: and they didn't use those. they went with the other matters. but most legal scholars agree this isn't going to fly. >> we'll see. i think a lot of states will be taking a lot of action against this executive branch because it's a new check, as...