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And to make it legal. we look forward to getting more documents and e-mails and taking devotions to strengthen our case that this is a muslim ban. >> this is different than washington state. you are not joining them in hawaii? >> hawaii is seeking a temporary restraining order. our argument is we already have one. the president can't say it no longer applies because he cleaned up parts of it. we now have been joined by oregon and new york and massachusetts. they are joining the litigation as well. we feel the coalition is growing here. >> jeff has questions for you. >>ed @min station made clea...

>> jeff, do you think the white house has covered themselves legally speaking? >> i think they've come a lot closer. i think this is much more likely to be upheld by the courts. basically, the first executive order was seen as a muslim ban, as a form of religious discrimination. they have taken out the religious content, the special preference for christians and explained that it's not muslim countries that we are objecting to immigrants from, it's countries where there is no functioning government or a terrorist-supporting government that we, we don't want to trust. so those get the order out...

Special preference for christians and also explained that it's muslim countries we are objecting to immigrants from, it's countries where there is no functioning government or a terrorist supporting government that we don't want to trust. so those get the order out of the realm of unconstitutional discrimination and the president has a lot of power when it comes to immigration and i think he exercised fairly into it is interesting, the same administration that denied there was anything problematic with the first rollout is now saying this should go swimmingly. >> they were very careful to say ...

>> jenna: there is no functioning government really in yemen right now. talk to us about the different foreign hands involved. obviously, we are doing drone strikes inside the country, highly publicized raid as well inside the country, you mentioned others, what about the iranians or saudi's? >> one of the things that has been playing to the a key advantage is this ongoing saudi-iranian conflict inside of yemen. it became life when the civil war started, one of the factions received iranian support in saudi arabia was leading against the faction to reinstate the internationally recognized gove...

Regardless, especially if a situation where there is a failed government like yemen and somalia. >> would you include iraq? >> i would not personally. the iraqi government is more reliable because of our relationship. when you're dealing with yemen, al qaeda has been very active and trying to target the united states. that's long been aspirational for them and that's well-known and that is a failed state with no functioning government currently. >> we were told iraq was included in the first executive order because so much of iraq including the second largest city, mosul, a huge chunk of mosul...