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A rare appearance in washington for first lady melania trump. she honored women at the state department today, presenting 12 women with the 2017 secretary of state's international women of courage award. the award recognizes women who demonstrate leadership in advocating for peace, justice, human rights, gender equality, and women's empowerment. she said it's time to put an end to the era of brutality. >> together, we must declare that the era of allowing brutality against women and children iover. while affirming a time for empowering women around the world is now. for wherever women are dimi...

Can the administration of what a second straight defeat on this issue? trace gallagher no mike gallagher live. hey, trace. >> sang most of the states fighting the travel ban, working on the adage, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, more than willing to let washington state lead the charge on this. the lawsuit filed against the first travel ban that led district judge james rollbar to issue a temporary ban. then siding with judge robar keeping it in place. now washington state attorney general bob ferguson joined by asking james robart to continue it. >> contains many of the same legal weaknesses...

Can the administration of what a second straight defeat on this issue? trace gallagher no mike gallagher live. hey, trace. >> sang most of the states fighting the travel ban, working on the adage, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, more than willing to let washington state lead the charge on this. the lawsuit filed against the first travel ban that led district judge james rollbar to issue a temporary ban. then siding with judge robar keeping it in place. now washington state attorney general bob ferguson joined by asking james robart to continue it. >> contains many of the same legal weaknesses...

They're trying to do in the white house is get donald trump up on a podium, have him start talking, have him fight with the press, make that the headline, and they can push to the side the other very big news stories that are going on. one of them general mike flynn. the other one russia and whether his team or anybody that he knew during the campaign had contacts with the russians. what was his answer, peter? >> i was going to say in simple terms this is a guy who was the author of the art of the deal. what he proved again today is he may as well authored the art of the deflection, focusing o...

And you know there has been controversy about the canal. in other words, transferring it to panama and so forth. my friend said, bob, i knew you would figure out a way not to give that canal to panama. you are taking it out one piece at a time. >> keeping it -- i mean, aside from being remarkably beautiful, it's significant. what is the impact really for both the u.s. and panama with the transfer? >> well, first of all, panama was well trained. they were ready to take over the canal. we had a law whether you liked the law or not, the treaty required us to transfer the canal. the challenge we h...