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L.a., a firefighter has gone nearly a year without a paycheck after being put on leave without pay for refusing the shot. new york city cutler was denied a religious exception despite being a deacon in his church. >> mr. president, if you would please listen to my story. please think about all my fellow brothers and sisters who are in new york city or other areas who have been affected by those who won't let this mandate go. please put them back to work. >> this is much bigger than my paycheck and much bigger than a pension. this is for the freedom and sovereignty of the citizens of this count...

Where it won't pass and it would be a poison pill they would hand over. for the president this is seen as fulfilling a campaign promise and this is where he has been for a very long time. he doesn't see the point. he think it's questionable science. we've seen that over and over again. this is a nonbinding agreement. i think what the implications are something that needs to be thought about. what it really means. symbolically it will send a strong message. >> this sas the second step after the kyoto agreement which was a real agreement this is different. obama did this, i think, by executive m...

That government agencies sent a report to the white house saying there is no imminent threat to the country now that would justify a ban? >> absolutely. i think that the place for deliberation was at the very beginning when they were coming up with it at this point to say the consideration here is making sure that the travel ban has its own moment is not a national security consideration. that's pretty clear and i think the courts will look at that and they will say then how do you justify a ban that is, you know, it's similar as the previous ban. pretty widespread. that is going to come under...

Will be yet but we're compiling it all with the help of the attorney general and rest of the cabinet members as well as legislative action we believe that is required. bill: this is top pick a, now. stephen hayes, senior writer "weekly standard." good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. bill: what type of order would fit an executive mandate in this case? >> there are a couple different things the white house is considering. one would be harvesting the information already available to a wide variety of government agencies and passing that onto the fbi for inclusion in its database about who...

nato command center were targeted. you're going to see rooftop to rooftop fighting, today in kabul. >> these are u.s. security forces that are returning fire from what we're told was a well-organized taliban attack ugz rocket-propelled grenades, also machine guns. street fighting lasted several hours. it is over now, and there were casualties. want to go straight to the capital of kabul where our own suzanne malveaux has been there for a better part of a week and a half. she has now details there. suzanne, just begin with, can you confirm what we're being told, that all of the asill ...