i'm charles coleman junior in for ali velshi today. one of the first major policy controversies of donald trump's first term was his muslim travel ban. his first try was unexpectedly announced late at night, just days after taking office, and it targeted several muslim majority countries. after sowing chaos and confusion, it was struck down by the courts, as was trump's second attempt. the supreme court eventually allowed a revised version to take effect, which president biden rescinded as one of his first acts in office. now, nbc news has learned that trump is prepping another travel ban, one that could be announced in the coming days and looks to expand on his original policy. joining me to discuss this from the white house is nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard. vaughn, thanks for beinge. tell us which countries would be affected by the new ban and when we might expect it to be implemented? >> right. >> we're expecting here within the next week or two, as soon as the next couple of days. this expanded travel ban to be implemented

i'm charles coleman junior in for ali velshi today.are following breaking news this morning where firefighters are working to contain a series of brush fires on new york's long island. high winds and low humidity caused the fires to spread quickly late yesterday, with the largest stretching for miles. new york governor kathy hochul has declared a state of emergency and has assigned new york national guard helicopters to assist in the firefighting efforts. nbc news correspondent maya eaglin reports. >> reporter this morning, a shocking scene not far from the heart of new york city. wildfires ripping across parts of long island. thick black. >> smoke billowing. >> into the sky. officials telling residents to close their windows and stay inside. the fires, not far from the upscale hamptons area. major roads nearby shut down. this satellite image shows smoke billowing from the area. on saturday, new york state governor declaring a state of emergency. officials with this alert for the public. >> this fire. >> at. >> its largest. >> which is

joining us now to help us understand and break it down, msnbc legal analyst charles coleman. court. how is this ruling going to play in the bigger picture, as the trump administration attempts to continue reshaping the federal government with moves exactly like this one at usaid? >> well, ali, one of the things that i've been. >> saying is. >> that. the future of. >> american democracy. >> rests in. the hands of. >> the judiciary. >> and what i mean by that. >> is that what we're going to see. >> more and more. >> are cases like these being. >> bought to, at a minimum. >> slow the different reshaping, as you just described, of the american of the american government. >> that this administration. >> is attempting to do. now, in this particular case. >> it's important. >> that viewers. understand this is not a final ruling. >> this is a ruling about basically a temporary. >> injunction, a temporary. >> restraining order. >> a temporary stoppage. >> of the. >> payments that were being made. >> in the. >> instance, or a temporary stop stoppage. >> to the freeze such that these sho

charles coleman is a civil rights attorney and former counsel at the equal opportunity.times. and ali shaheed is a veteran democratic strategist. and they both join me now. did you all know it has only been 42 days? >> not until you. >> just said. yeah. i mean, what do you think the through lines, the chaos. we're kind of talking about it in the break, but i, we've been talking a lot about what donald trump is doing and the people that are affected by what is happening. and it just feels like america is drinking from a fire hose. >> i think. >> there are two things that come to mind when i'm looking at the past 42 days, which have seemed like the past the longest. >> six years. today, i said, it's been three months, right? it's been. >> a very long. >> six years. it feels like over the past 42 days. >> his beard was black before. >> yeah. exactly. right. >> so the first thing is we've spent a lot of time talking about what donald trump and this administration is doing. and i don't think enough time talking about whether they can. >> actually do it. >> and there are peopl

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i'm charles coleman jr and ali will be back next week. you can catch fauci every saturday and sunday morning from 10 a.m. to noon eastern. tune in later this evening at 5:00 eastern. my colleague, reverend al sharpton will host his program politics nation live from selma, alabama, for the 60th anniversary of bloody sunday. stay right where you are because inside with jen psaki begins right now. >> okay, folks, jen is on a well-deserved vacation. but boy, do we have a lot to get into today. we all know donald trump wants to be a king, right? so this week he sat back and watched his court jesters fight it out. plus, after the white house stopped sharing intelligence with ukraine, vladimir putin was ready to take full advantage. and later, maga world turns on amy coney barrett, all because of one ruling and one sideways glance. donald trump has been president for almost two months now, but we all know he really wants to be a king. he's not subtle about that fact. not at all. take exhibit a on tuesday night, when he used his joint address to

charles coleman, waleed shahid, thank you both very much folks. that's all for this hour. i'm sandra townsend. i will see you again tomorrow night at 7 p.m. eastern. i'm going to join that panel with psaki and ari melber inside with jen psaki though starts right now. >> okay. >> donald trump seems to be doing a lot of things right now that are making vladimir putin. very happy. i mean, just in the last half hour, we learned that the trump administration. >> is pausing. >> all military aid to ukraine. and at the. very same time, he's doing a lot of things that are making our closest allies very angry. just hours ago, trump confirmed that tariffs on canada and mexico will go into effect at midnight tonight, just a few hours from now. and i'm going to talk to chrystia freeland, who could very well be the next prime minister of canada, about all of that in just a minute. and ahead of trump's joint address to congress tomorrow night, i'm also going to talk to congresswoman ilhan omar about how democrats are pushing back and how they will tomorrow. well, the thought of donald tr

prosecutor and civil rights attorney charles coleman jr. >> and paul. >> rieckhoff. >> founder and. >> ceo of independent veterans of america and the host of the independent americans podcast. >> his latest. >> episode is. with navy vet and arizona senator mark kelly. it is a must listen. >> okay. one of the main. >> reasons president trump won in 2024 was the economy and day one, a promise to bring prices down. let's start with what we're witnessing, because what we're hearing from the president, the treasury secretary, the commerce secretary, it's not going to be inflation. we may have some short term pain, but then things will smooth out short term pain to what. i'd love for us to be a massive manufacturing nation. again. that doesn't happen overnight. >> no, i think it's going. >> to be a lot of pain short term, long. >> term, everywhere in. >> between for everybody. >> and i think. >> that's. >> what this. >> is another. >> week of pain. >> happy friday everybody. >> here we are again. new kind of pain. but i think hitting more and more people in. >> their guts and in their walle