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Landfall last night. first, the president pardoned former arizona sheriff joe arpaio, the controversial lawman was convicted of criminal contempt related to targeting undocumented immigrants and was facing an october sentencing. then word came that trump's controversial white house advisor sebastian gorka was no longer working there. and that was followed up by another major headline, as the president signed a directive banning transgender military recruits. cnn white house correspondent athena jones joins us now to walk through all of these developments and the storm of controversy that these...

Transgender ban though, to alice's point, if he is catering to appealing to his base, at what point, doug, does this president think beyond broadening beyond his base and broadening support? >> well, i don't think he has at all. and unfortunately, i think for republicans, at least a lot of the ones i talk to in the house of representatives, in the senate, you can focus on red meat as we call it on the conservative side all you want, but we had a whole month where we could talk about tax reform, a whole month to taub about repealing and replacing obamacare, those things as we move into a very d...

Unconstitutional? >> yes. >> and i can understand why you might be a little frustrated with the language. >> i'm not frustratesed. i'm happy as a clam. >> let me stop you because i don't have much time. i've got a lot of ground to cover. >> okay. >> i don't mean to wax too metaphysical here but at what point does an act of congress or an executive order become unconstitutional? >> well, it all depends on what the act does. >> i mean, at what point -- i can look at a statute and say i think that's unconstitutional. does that make it unconstitutional? >> i think the issue we faced at the downof ...

Chief. what made you suspicious during your initial interview with amy robertson? >> i think just some of the words that she used, some of the phrases she said, like she had lived in california and spain and new york and she commuted. some of those things were glaring. i think at that pint we realized we had stumbled on to something much larger than any of us -- >> what do you mean it was glaring? >> it didn't seem plausible. it wasn't realistic. even just looking at her educational background through a lens, we went through a website, broken links, accreditation mill, just various google sear...

Recoup, figure out what the court has said and then reassess the strategy. i don't want to get ahead, as you point out, you're reading it to me now. i would like on the opportunity to go read it and actually have a lawyer read it, since -- go ahead. >> thank you. on anti-semitism, is there anything the federal government can do to protect jews and institutions? also on sequester, what can it be lifted? >> i think we have to go through the process to lift the sequester. we'll deal with that. with respect to some of the activity we've seen at jewish cemeteries in particular, we have to work with...