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Mercedes, headed to the supreme court in the administration obviously is changing its perspective from where the obama administration was on the issue and needs to let the court know. >> the guidelines are simply guidelines. they are presenting their position and this has to be something that local and state deal with. not at the federal level. it's interesting when you look at the poll numbers, about two-thirds of americans oppose the obama guidelines on the transgender bathroom. it was an issue that you had 13 states suing the federal government because of this directive. it's emotional. it'...

Again begin enforcing the travel restrictions. it could file that as early as today. >> pete williams, thank you for that. joining us now, author of qu "game change" is mark halperin. they are saying to see you in court, how likely is this going to the supreme court? he's talking about the solicitor general and getting him in on everything, it could be a while. >> well, the question is, now the white house has the ability to get to the supreme court to change the status quo. nobody can say exactly what the supreme court will do, but i suspect the chances are more likely than not if they go t...

So-called judge. you have to wonder if the supreme court will consider the judiciary under attack. and will he say, you know, we need a decision, not a split court here. i think you'll see a decision from the supreme court. >> paul raises this point about trump attacking judges. he did. he sent several tweets out about this this weekend. cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril. people pouring in, bad. when you read that, as a judge. what do you -- what is your reaction? he's saying if there's a terrorist attack, it's going to be this judge's fault? >> it's very disconcerting...

Promised to do is put a not only constitutionalist, but an originalist up in that all-important robe. and i think that's very critical at this point when we have so many issues that are still, because we've had this split court whether it's immigration, marijuana, still has a lot of vetting to be done on the state level versus the federal level. harris: right. kennedy: and we'll see if court will take something like that up again. to meghan's point, ted cruz is a constitutionalist, you know? this is not a political appointment for him, and i think it would be very interesting to see what he wo...

it was a key question today. the secretary of homeland security, the department which oversees the secret service was in the hot seat on capitol hill. >> to your knowledge, is this the first time something like this has happened? >> there was nothing in the record to suggest that this would happen. >> and in fact, it said one agent that wasn't implicated in the matter but talked to the post off the record said, quote, of course this has happened before. this is not the first time. another agent said, and i quote, you take a bunch of guys out of the country and a lot of women showerin...