and the american civil liberties union... all announced lawsuits.the groups argue that the president is using the emergency declaration... to circumvent congress and fulfill a campaign promise... but not a national emergency. ( robin ) there were several rallies held monday in solidarity ... with the nationwide day of protests on president's day. hundreds of protesters gathered outside the san francsico federal building to sound off their opposition to president donald trump's emergency declaration for funding to build wall on the u.s. mexico border. some of these protesters say if there is a humanitarian crisis at the border, the president's immigration policy is responsible

an effort to bypass congress, which would not give him full funding for his wall.the american civil liberties union says it will file a lawsuit challenging president donald trump's emergency declaration to fund a wall on the u.s.-mexican border.the friday announcement came hours after trump signed the declaration and said he expected legal challenges. the civil rights group will argue that trump's use of emergency powers is unprecedented and can't be used to build a border wall.aclu executive director anthony romero says the declaration is 'patently illegal.' their legal action would be separate from anything congress may do.house speaker nancy pelosi (puh- loh'-see) and senate minority leader chuck schumer have also raised the possibility of legal action. they say trump's decision would "shred the constitution" by usurping congress' power to control spending.white house officials say some of the money would come from military construction projects. president donald trump has signed legislation to avert another government shutdown and pay for limited fencing along the u.s.-mexico border. press secr

through the help of the american civil liberties union, we were able to proceed. john: our lawyer passed away a few years ago. he was a young lawyer at the time, maybe 29 years old when he won the supreme court case. he said if you win a supreme court case at that age, the rest of your career tends to be anti-climactic. [laughter] >> we have a question from kevin submitted online. from lopez early college high school in texas. how did you feel when you presented your case to the supreme court not knowing how they were going to rule? john: we didn't do that ourselves, personally. we testified here in des moines at the federal court. i testified first. i was a little nervous, but i wasn't excessively nervous. i had an audience full of adults and students who i knew supported me. it was an interesting situation. our lawyer was very good, very friendly, able to make asked -- to make us feel comfortable on the stand. the school board attorney was not so friendly. he was trying to rope us into saying something that would be detrimental, but honestly, i felt like i could

use doorbell cameras as a surveillance tool for police and immigration officials the american civil liberties union slammed to the whole system as all for a tarion. amazon is building the tools for authoritarian surveillance that advocates activists community leaders politicians and experts have repeatedly warned against even amazon's shareholders are now calling for an end to law enforcement's use of recognition perhaps spays also was just trying to make an easy buck but the writing is on the wall and many think that amazon c.e.o. is finally getting a taste of his own medicine there's a real irony in this that he's been caught sort of host on his own petard as we say being. a in his organization have a very tight link with the n.s.a. the national security agency and has been helping them with their surveillance techniques so they're intimately connected with the whole surveillance state that the u.s. has been developing when you see something like this happening to one of the world's most powerful men it should say to you wow if they can do that to him they certainly could be doing that to me and

an effort to bypass congress, which would not give him full funding for his wall.the american civil liberties unionsays it will file a lawsuit challenging president donald trump's emergency declaration to fund a wall on the u.s.-mexican border.the friday announcement came hours after trump signed the declaration and said he expected legal challenges. the civil rights group will argue that trump's use of emergency powers is border wall.aclu executive director anthony romero says the declaration is 'patently illegal.' their legal action would be separate from anything congress may do.house speaker nancy pelosi (puh- loh'-see) and senate minority leader chuck schumer have also raised the possibility of legal action. they say trump's decision would "shred the constitution" by usurping congress' power to control spending.white house officials say some of the money would come from military construction projects. president donald trump has signed legislation to avert another government shutdown and pay for limited fencing along the u.s.-mexico border. additional miles of border fencing, well short of the

the american civil liberties union involved, others who want to say this is the president circumventingches where the power of the purse, the power to spend the taxpayers' money belongs to congress, not the executive. that's one of the big arguments that you have among those who believe that the president is overreaching with his national emergency declaration. that is a power that has been on the books for about 40 years. its original intention was for the unforeseen disaster or crisis where it would be very difficult to in a hurry-up fashion try to appropriate money, things like a public health crisis, natural disaster, a terror attack. those sorts of things where the government would want resources right away. but the appropriations process would take too long. the president using it to say there is an invasion of drugs of undocumented individuals of human trafficking coming across the southern border. that's his argument. of course, we know it's also been a campaign promise of his that mexico would pay for a wall. he's given up on that part, makes a case that somehow a new trade dea

the american civil liberties union and public citizen also say they are planning to bring legal actiongainst the emergency declaration. anne-marie? >> all right, marc. marc liverman here in new york. thank you very much. >>> the state department says president trump will make an announcement about a new u.n. ambassador nominee very soon. heather nauert announced that she was withdrawing her name from consideration. cbs news confirms a nanny issue came up during her background check that may have caused a problem during congressional hearings. "bloomberg" reports the immigrant nanny was in the u.s. legally but was not authorized to work. the president announced that he was picking nauert in december, but her formal nomination still needed senate confirmation. >>> chicago police want to re-interview actor jussie smollett after new evidence emerged about the attack against him. sources tell cbs news two brothers told police smollett paid them to stage the attack. tony dokoupil has the details. >> reporter: a celebrated young actor -- >> regarding a friend that was assaulted and battered.

americans may lose something far more valuable reaches the integrity of the legal system that's exactly what i'm concerned about and particularly when liberals and civil libertarians support prosecutorial abuse when the american civil liberties union. which is supposed to stand up against abuses supports the search of a lawyers office michael cohen's office without any real effort to separate out evidence of crime from lawyer client privilege information when the a.c.l.u. favors the prosecution you know that there is a real problem look i would love to see reform both in the united states system and in the russian system i think every great country in the world want to have a criminal justice reform to make sure that there is fair treatment in the one nine hundred seventy s. i spent time in the former soviet union representing refuseniks and soviet dissidents people like soccer often and sharansky and others and i saw some of the unfairness is of the former soviet system i know some of them have been remedied since the end of the soviet union but not all of them and the united states we had a very effective system of balancing law enforcement and civil liberties and then balance now has been compromised by civil libertarians and l

and the american civil liberties union... all announced lawsuits. the groups argue that the president is using the emergency declaration... to circumvent congress and fulfill a campaign promise... but not a national emergency. ( james ) there were several rallies held monday in solidarity ... with the nationwide day of protests on president's day. hundreds of protesters gathered outside the san francsico federal building to sound off their opposition to president donald trump's emergency declaration for funding to build wall on the u.s. mexico border. some of these protesters say if there is a humanitarian crisis at the border, the president's immigration policy is responsible

surprising to see that in january more than eighty five human rights groups including the american civil liberties union national lawyers guild chapters and freedom of the press foundation wrote to microsoft google and amazon demanding that they stop selling privacy crossing technology like facial recognition software to governments militaries on law enforcement agencies but apparently the heads of those companies did not see or understand the moral message of the science fiction films we watched we growing up because of the world economic forum in davos this year when business insider asked the president and chief legal officer of microsoft bribed smith about the letter he replied i do not understand an argument that companies should avoid all licensing to any government agency for any purpose whatsoever a sweeping ban on all government use clearly goes too far and risk being cruel and it's humanitarian the fact joining us now to discuss which is more cruel selling the u.s. government dangerous surveillance technology or not selling the u.s. government paper it's a rather thrown out of date as guns are

administration already faces multiple lawsuits over his declaration, including one from the american civil liberties unionpresident has wide discretion over what constitutes a national emergency. donald trump saw the lawsuits coming. when he announced his decision to override congress, he said he expected to be sued and that the matter would probably end up being decided by the us supreme court. peter bowes, bbc news. fashion brands and retailers should be charged a penny for every item of clothing they sell. that's the idea from a group of mps who want to end the throwaway culture which saw 235 million items of clothing sent to landfill last year in the uk. the mps say a penny levy would fund a clothes recycling scheme — as our environment analyst roger harrabin reports. the best designs from london fashion week will be copied and sold on the high street, but there is concerns about where they will end up. at a sorting centre in kent they are sifting the residue of fashion, many clothes barely won. some will go to eastern europe, southern africa. mps say it is time for fashion producers to pay towards so

already the american civil liberties union has said they are going to go ahead and challenge this insideistened to donald trump today, he made it very clear he was expecting challenges inside the courts himself. but he remains confident that he believes he can push his presidential powers to this state and he can go ahead with doing what he wants to do. but in the meantime, you are going to have a legal battle which prevents a wall from being built. what is fascinating about this, chris, is that it fascinating about this, chris, is thatitis fascinating about this, chris, is that it is notjust about the issue of the wall, but this act of declaring a national emergency, it goes to the heart of the balance of powers within american politics. because what president trump effectively seems to have done is undermine congress' key control, which is controlling the pursestrings? yeah, we often talk in america about these checks and balances. the constitution was set up balances. the constitution was set up essentially to make sure that power was distributed across congress, across the courts, an

and the american civil liberties union... all announced lawsuits. the groups argue that the president is using the emergency declaration... to circumvent congress and fulfill a campaign promise... but not a national emergency. ( james ) there were several rallies held monday in solidarity ... with the nationwide day of protests on president's day. hundreds of protesters gathered outside the san francsico federal building to sound off their opposition to president donald trump's emergency declaration for funding to build wall on the u.s. mexico border. some of the protesters we talked with say the humanitarian crisis at the border was created by the president's own immigration policy.

the center for biological diversity, border network for human rights and the american civil liberties union... all announced lawsuits. at the core of each lawsuit is the argument that the president is using the emergency declaration... to circumvent congress and fulfill a campaign promise.. but not a national emergency. (grant) today in the bay area.... today in the bay area.... there were several rallies held in solidarity ... with the nationwide day of protest on this president's day. (ken) rallies were held in walnut creek, oakland and in san francisco... where kron4's haaziq madyun reports hundreds of protesters gathered for a rally here outside the san francsico federal building to sound of their opposition to president donald trump's emergency declaration for funding to build wall on the u.s. mexico bordersotsome of these protesters say if there is a humanitarian crisis at the border, the president's immigration policy is responsiblesot/protestor"we

and the american civil liberties union... all announced lawsuits.he groups argue that the president is using the emergency declaration... to circumvent congress and fulfill a campaign promise... but not a national emergency. ( james ) there were several rallies held monday in solidarity ... with the nationwide day of protests on president's day. hundreds of protesters gathered outside the san francsico federal building to sound off their opposition to president donald trump's emergency declaration for funding to build wall on the u.s. mexico border. some of these protesters say if there is a humanitarian crisis at the border, the president's immigration policy is responsible

the american civil liberties union took the case all the way to the supreme court, which ruled in 1969, that neither teachers nor students leave their 1st amendment rights at the school. >> you said the career and 1st amendment issues, why is this particular case important? >> it's important less to what the specific holding in the details of that holding work, then for the great language and aspirational nature of the case. it signals with the 1st amendment is about, and young people are not left out of that principle, even if there may be some issues on the margin on how to apply it to them. but, at least, it gives young people something to aim for and to aspire for and strive for. >> will have 90 minutes at the table, and we are going to learn about the court at that time, with the arguments were by the lawyers on both sides, with the decision was, and what that impact is. in 15, 20 minutes, we will start taking telephone calls and questions by twitter. i'm going to give you the phone number is now so you can get in queue, and we hope you'll be part of the discussion. in eastern or

the american civil liberties union and other national organizations also announced plans to sue overhe national emergency declaration. (jrs) one of the first on the list to consider suing the president ... is california. both governor gavin newsom and attorney general xavier becerra .. ...say there is no emergency at the border, and president trump does not have the authority to make this declaration. the details of the president's emergency declaration are being analyzed to figure out how this will affect california's funding and resources. earlier this week ... governor newsom directed the national guard to re-deploy troops from the wall to help with transnational drug crime..<((newsom")) that is exactly the work that now is at risk because of this declaration of emergency. that irony is not lost or should not be lost on any californian.">(jrs) the state has sued the trump administration more than 45- times when exactly this latest lawsuit could be filed... is still to be determined but the attorney general says, it will be soon. (justine) governor newsom also tweeted out his endor

beth: the american civil liberties union, the way they conduct a lot of their cases with pro bono lawyers, lawyers who donate their time. we had a wonderful lawyer named dan johnston, who was not only good at arguing the case but also good at helping us to feel safe and secure, which was a problem at that time. money.no we had a large family. thanks able to proceed to the aclu. john: our lawyer passed away a few years ago. he was a young lawyer at the time, maybe 29 years old when he won the supreme court case. he said if you win a supreme rest case at that age, the of your career tends to be anti-, attic. -- anti-climactic. [laughter] online, how did you feel when you presented your case to the supreme court not knowing how they were going to rule? that we didn't do ourselves, personally. we testified here in des moines at the federal court. i testified first. i was a little nervous, but i wasn't excessively nervous. audience full of adults and students who i knew supported me. good, verywas very friendly, able to make asked feel comfortable on the stand. attorney wasard not so friendly.

the american civil liberties union has called civil asset forfeiture a violation of due process that disproportionately targets communities of color. after wednesday's ruling, the aclu tweeted -- "this will help stop state and local authorities from using people in the justice system as their piggy banks." for more, we go to washington, d.c., where we're joined by lisa foster, co-director of fines and fees justitice center. her group along with others, , filed an amicus brief in the supreme court case. lisa foster is a retired judge and served in the justice againstnt to lead excessive fines and fees. lisa foster, welcome to democracy now! why do you lay out the significance of this unanimous decision of the supreme court. >> good morning. it is a pleasure to be here. the supreme court forcefully told state and local governments the excessive fines clause fees, andnes, forfeitures. they said it, as you pointed out, unanimously. that is critically important. observer casual of firm knows, it is rare for the court to be unanimous. agreed of the justices not just that the excessive fine

the american civil liberties union, environmental groups and others all vow to sue. >>> let's get the latest from scott lucas. scott teaches international politics at the university of birmingham and joins us from birmingham, england. >> thank you, george. >> without delay, this process is already started to find the money and make plans for this new wall. at the same time, lawsuits are coming to challenge the president's national emergency which will surely bring delay. how do you see this political tug-of-war playing out in the weeks ahead? >> it's not just a tug of war, it's a bat royale in three rings. the first ring is over the money itself because white house officials are saying that $2.5 billion will be taken from military counternarcotics programs which is kind of ironic since donald trump said a drugs invasion was the reason for the national emergency. and then they'll take $3.6 billion from military construction projects. now the acting defense secretary, patrick shanahan, said this won't be housing on military bases but that could be gymnasiums, schools, shops, other facil

weekend, the center for biological diversity, border network for human rights and the american civil liberties union. all announced lawsuits. at the core of each lawsuit is the argument that the president is using the emergency declaration... to circumvent congress and fulfill a campaign promise.. but not a national emergency. (vicki) president trump says an "illegal coup attempt" has been made against him. (grant) adding that the would-be perpetrators are former acting f-b-i director andrew mc-cabe... and current deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. from our partners at c-n-n reporter jessica schneider explains. the president -- on a twitter tirade against andrew mccabe, insisting the former acting fbi director was "fired for lying" and calling mccabe's tell-all"deranged."mccabe was fired from the fbi last march....one day before he was scheduled to retire. his ouster came after the inspector general concluded mccabe misled investigators about his role authorizing the release of information to the wall street journal.now, mccabe reveals, he believes he was actually forced out for his role invest

the american civil liberties union will sue in the next few days. california's governor is telling the trump administration we'll see you in court. >> california is prepared to call this what this is. a theater of the absurd. california prepared to remind the american people this is a manufactured crisis. >> the president himself anticipated the legal challenges. >> we will have a national emergency and we will then be sued and we will possibly get a bad ruling and we'll get another bad ruling and we'll end up in the supreme court. and hopefully we'll get a fair shake and we'll win in the supreme court. just like the ban. >> house speaker nancy pelosi and chuck schumer calling this a power grab. and representative alexandria ocasio-cortez will introduce a resolution to condemn the national emergency. that will trigger the senate vote to force a position. the house judiciary chief is asking for those involved in the declaration to testify in the hearing, quote, in the coming days. >> who advised them? what is the advice? do they consider certain thin

the american civil liberties union and other national organizations also announced plans to sue overe national emergency declaration. (grant) and coming up at 9:30... we will hear how governor newsom is responding to the national emergency... we also have analysis from sonoma state political science chair dr. david mccuan (vick) senator kamala harris held her first townhall meeting as a presidential candidate friday. she met with a large group of people in a church gym in north charleston, south carolina. harris talked about her support for an assault weapons ban and universal background checks. she also emphasized her support for medicare-for-all and her. <"cause, right now, they are playing us. they are motivated for the most part by profit, not healthcare."> earlier this week harris said she supports legalizing marijuana --- and she would like to see research done on how it impacts a developing brain. and tonight governor gavin newsom announced his he will be endorsing harris for president. (grant) the ongoing saga between colin kaepernick, eric reid, and the nfl has come to an en

challenges or have given notice that they intend to sue, the aclu is one of them, the american civil liberties union, but the big one is the one is 16 attorneys general challenging what the president did. >> i saw some of the tweets late yesterday from both the first lady and president meeting with the nation's governors yesterday, the dinner at the white house, part of the governors association meeting in washington. in general how are these relations with state governors? >> it depends. it was interesting to me, i was looking at the guest list and saw gavin newsom's name on the list. >> california. >> he was there last night, the governor of california and california has been in a huge back and forth with the white house over money for their high speed rail line, for environmental issues and now california is leading those 16 states that are suing over the border wall. but, you know, you get in a room with the president of the united states, you are at the white house, everyone is kind of on their best behavior, right? when you go to the white house as a guest. and then in other areas things get a

. >> reporter: smith is hoping the american civil liberties union will fight on her behalf, arguing that the fees should be waived entirely. she's also set up a gofundme page to help other families in similar situations. brooks to rose, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> we are checking in on the weather again. we have a lot of rain overnight were going to continue to see some heavy rain in the north baileyton night and early tomorrow morning, but things are generally for most of us tapering off. things are backing off a little bit, but you see my focus in the north bay because look at the orange everything north of very good. san rafael, visible light in that area now, so getting ready for that, and you see a little bit of shower. it's going to be in oakland and haywood. the storm reports are fast. these are national weather service folks were reporting this. this is for: 42. let's see, i'm just hitting these randomly. nonetheless to wind damage, we have a mudslide. you see a lot of months light up in these areas right now, and that's especially in the north bay, sonoma, chp said is it severe traffic

inappropriate behavior, or using force causing injury or death. 2 investigate and the american civil liberties union found at let the state are refusing to comply. arguing the lot is not retroactive and anything before this year should stay secret. >> once you dispose a person's private information, you don't get a second chance to do it right, and so what we are trying to make sure is we do it right the first time. >> reporter: becerra's vision not to handle files from the justice department officers he overseas is having a ripple effect in the bay area. palo alto police and san mateo sheriff department told to and investigates the records would be released by now have reversed course, and they're not alone. we told we were to 11 agencies flip-flopped because of the service becerra's position. >> we have not told anyone what they should do. we poorly explained to those requested information from us what we are going to do, and so what others do, respect what any agency does, how they handle that. >> reporter: some california agencies are making the files public, so far 62 releasing records. still t

on the effort to block the president's national emergency border wall declaration, the american civil liberties unionew lawsuit in san francisco, the aclu argues there's no emergency to justify the president's actions. thsu aused the tru administration of violating constitutional limits on presidential authority. the state of calor >>> this lawsuit was filed in california, probably no surprise to the president. >> and likely part of a strategy, scott. >> you know what? mike, i mean scott, we can't hear you. you have a great presentation there. can you check your mike really quick? okay, we're going to check in with him, he's going to check his batteries in a little bit. just live tv, that's what happens every once in a while. let's move on now. >>> more than three months after devastating fire, of course the one we're talking about in butte county, a lot of animals were separated from their owners, but we want to show you this amazing moment on monday when a paradise family received their 12-year-old dog, kingston, got him back 101 days after he jumped from the back of their truck. he was scared, no

. >> reporter: smith is hoping the american civil liberties union will fight on her behalf arguing fees should be waived entirely. she is also set up a go fund me page to help other families in similar situations. >>> coming up, paying up just to enter san francisco. not talking about bridge tolls, the proposal to add tolls just to drive into the city that is now gaining traction. >>> one of the top dogs from the westminster dog show joins us live in studio. his owner tells us what makes the breed so special and why the east coast winner was a little hard to handle. with advil, you'll ask... what sore muscles? what pounding head? advil is... relief that's fast. strength that lasts. you'll ask... what pain? with advil. before discovering nexium 24hr to treat her frequent heartburn, marie could only imagine enjoying freshly squeezed orange juice. now no fruit is forbidden. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? . >>> stocks rebounding after the government reported a surprise drop in retail sales last month. co

the american civil liberties union said it will sue in the next few days and california's governor is telling the trump administration we'll see you in court. >> california is prepared to call this what is it, theater of absurd. california is prepared to remind the american people this is a manufactured crisis. >> the president himself anticipated the legal challenges. >> we will have a national emergency. we will then be sued. we'll possibly get a bad ruling. then we'll get another bad ruling. then we'll end up in the supreme court. and hopefully we'll get a fair shake. we'll win at the supreme court. just like the ban. >> house speaker nancy pelosi and senate minority leader chuck schumer calling this a power grab and vowing to defend the constitution. represent. ives alexandria occasio-cortez and joaquin castro will introduce a resolution to force a senate vote. in a letter to the president the house judiciary chief is asking for the people involved in this declaration to testify in a hearing quote in the coming days. >> we would advise them what the advice was, to consider certain