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Ruling said just look at all his campaign statements. this is a ruling basically saying the president violated the law in these executive order. the ninth circuit court of appeals, it's an unsigned unanimous opinion. it says, yes, it's true that the law gives the president broad power to control the entry of people from other countries and take actions to protect the people, but the ruling says, immigration, even for the president, is not a one-person show. so the court says he didn't sufficiently explain why it was necessary to bar the entry of people from these countries in order to protect ...

Administration tried to justify to ban foreign nationals from six muslim majority countries on national security grounds, but at the end of the day trump's own words doom any leal justification his lawyers could have offered in this case with a ma zwrort of the judges finding that then candidate trump's campaign statements revealed on numerous occasions he expressed anti-muslim sentiment as well as his intent if elected to ban muslims from the united states. now, we haven't heard any reaction from the white house or the justice department on next steps here, and we also still await a decision ...

Questioning from judges in the fourth circuit. administration lawyers were repeatedly pressed on statements the president made during the campaign about a muslim ban. cnn's lauren jared was at the hearing. she joins us today. good morning, laura. what did we hear yesterday in the hearing? >> those judges pressed for nearly two hours, but they highlight a tension between the courts trying to defer to the president's national security judgment on the one hand and safeguarding constitutional rights on the other. the judges challenged the plaintiff's lawyer specifically to explain how exactly the ...

Operate, taking campaign statements into consideration. so we'll see what further appeals think about it. >> jeff, to your point, also interesting because the court referenced steven miller who's obviously an adviser in donald trump's white house. steven miller was talking on fox news about the new travel ban and i want to read what he said about the new one as compared to the old. he said, fundamentally you're still going to have the same basic policy outcome for the country but be responsive to technical issues brought up by the court and will be addressed. but those basic policies are still...

Watered down version of the first one. is this judicial overreach? >> lot of people are wondering that don and could be a point of contention moving forward in this. lot of people saying should we look to intent as stephanie mentioned, intent of someone not even president at the time, making campaign statements. point out something interesting though as all of this was unfolding in hawaii and looking at cases tonight, interesting opinion came out from the ninth circuit tonight. as you remember they upheld the temporary restraining order way back in february and likely will be the court where t...