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In federal court asking the court to determine that the travel ban was unconstitutional. now, the judge tonight did not rule on the constitutionality, but what we're seeing from reports tonight is that he put in a temporary restraining order, in order to make sure that the provisions of the order that we've been talking about for a week now -- so deportations and the like -- will not happen anymore, and it's a ban nationwide. >> and does a federal judge in washington have the authority to institute a freeze nationwide? >> yes. a federal court has the ability to do that, and that's exactly what...

[ everyone talking at once ] -- taking effect immediately. >> but are you aware that that's been done as we speak? >> i have not seen it, but the judge was crystal clear in his oral ruling today. he did say that he would have a more extensive, written order subsequently this weekend. >> this weekend, all right. >> yeah, it could be as soon as tonight, but yes, he made it clear that he was going to be executing this tonight. it may be short in terms of the execution tonight. my apologies if i wasn't clear, but a more extensive ruling. my understanding -- again, i'm working off memory from what ...

Is aware of this ruling out in washington state. we understand that a statement could be coming, that they're working on a statement, but no word yet as to when that is going to come. but we should point out, the trump administration is very confident that this is going to hold up in court. the office of legal counsel with the trump administration put out a guidance saying that they felt this executive order was legal. but keep in mind, from a legal standpoint, this has been very controversial all week. you'll recall the acting attorney general, sally yates, was fired personally by the preside...

Point is an oral order from the bench that sort of relayed to us by the litigants. we haven't seen any paper yet. and this is a government not only of laws but of paper, and they're going to need that paper to enact or carry through on any judge's order. right now, all of this order is apocriphal. >> anderson, i think people would be foolish to jump on airplanes to come to the united states when over the weekend, this could be reversed. and although everybody has said things like this have happened before, it's very, very rare. usually in the federal courts, we like to have these things percol...

And just in the very practical sense, i have a great deal of sympathy for the people at the airports, whether they are with the immigration service or with homeland security, you know, trying to interpret what to do in their jobs. you know, today, because this law is -- this executive order is currently no longer the law of the land, but what does that mean for people standing on line at airports? i think, you know, there is going to have to be some guidance sent to them very quickly, and we don't have -- and none has been forthcoming yet, which is not surprising since this order came down abo...