. >>> i'm joined now by senator brian schatz, a democrat from hawaii. senator, your reaction to the ruling? >> chris, it's a really exciting day. this is a good day for constitutional government, for the rule of law, it was a decisive decision. one of the things that struck me in the 29 pages is that they were more ambitious, less narrow than they needed to be. they wanted to sort of walk up to the line and talk about whether or not sort of looks like a duck acts like a duct quacks like a duck, it looks like a muslim ban. they wanted to talk about standing and i think they were especially irritated, if you read the decision, at the prospect that certain decisions of the executive branch are, in fact, unreviewable. now i don't have a law degree but when i heard that the government was going to argue that the president had unreviewable authority in this matter that struck a chord with me and it's consistent not just as a legal argument but it's very trumpian in its argumentation. this idea that because he declares something to be true that it must be true

it will become a core value of this department. [ applause ] >> from the senate floor, senator brian schatz, a democrat from hawaii, on the recent executive order on immigration. >> it's not even as though we arate trading liberty for security. we are getting no additional security. this is all about being cruel to muslims because it's good politics for some people. >>> white house press secretary sean spicer on media coverage of president trump. >> headlines on one network today that talked about how we are pulling out the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and downgrading hip. that is just -- it's wrong, it's insulting and the idea of calling it journalism is pathetic. >>> british prime minister theresa may on immigration policy. >> first of all, on the policy that were you ever has introduced this government is clear that that policy is wrong. >> national security adviser michael flynn on iran at white house briefing. >> president trump has severely criticized the various agreements reached between iran and the obama administration as well as the united nations as being weak and ineff

. >> that's democratic hawaiian senator brian schatz who is speaking there. in the early morning hours of tuesday here. now, the billionaire gop donor, betsy devos and former chairwoman of the michigan republican party as she is on track for confirmation later today by an evenly split senate. >> that senate confirmation vote is scheduled for noon and senate democrats are hoping that this all night session will succeed in getting at least one more republican to be cross the aisle. >> right now, it's not looking very hopeful. abc's mary bruce has the latest from the capitol hill. >> reporter: democrats vowing to talk for 24 hours straight. >> now is the time to put country before party. >> reporter: a final hail mary attempt to block trump's controversial pick for education secretary, billionaire betsy devos. >> we need just one more republican to join us. >> reporter: two republicans have already said they will not support her. if just one more opposes, her confirmation will fail. devos, a strong supporter of school vouchers, is under fire for her lack of expe

senator brian schatz of hawaii sent out this as -- i think it was meant to be an encouraging message. "the last three days have been the busiest in capitol switch board history by almost double. this is working, keep it up." local news stations across the country are running stories about the busy signals at their senator's offices and how constituents are getting desperate to reach their senators. we titled this segment --s where it? there it is. ham/pineapple democracy. we call everything ham/pineapple/democracy. we call this ham/pineapple/democracy because of one utah woman who is a constituent of senator orrin hatch. she got tired of not being able to get through to her senator, orrin hatch. nobody can get through to their senators. always a busy signal, everyday all day all night long. this one utah woman rather than keep pounding her head against the wall she came up with what i think is a delicious and excellent alternative approach. she tried sending orrin hatch and his staff a delicious hawaiian pizza. crucially she ordered that pizza from a delivery site where you could atta

it will become a core value of this department. [ applause ] >> from the senate floor senator brian schatzcoverage of president trump. >> the entire headline on one network today that talked about how we're pulling up the chairman of the joint chief of staff and downgrading him. that is just -- it's wrong, it's insulting. and the idea of calling it journalism is pathetic. >> british prime minister theresa may on immigration policy. >> first of all, on the policy that president trump has introduced, this government is clear that that policy is wrong. >> national security adviser michael flynn. on iran at a white house briefing. >> president trump has severely criticized the various agreements reached between iran and the obama administration as well as the united nations as being weak and ineffective.

brian. i want to thank jeff merkley and those who led the charge. all the members. chairman carper, senator whitehouse, senator schatz, who has been a beacon on clean air and clean water change in this congress. let me just say for years, it seems we all heard from republicans, including president trump. all we heard from them is emails, emails, emails. countless taxpayer dollars, congressional resources were spent discussing emails. well, just yesterday, as you heard an oklahoma judge ruled that scott pruitt, president trump's nominee to lead the e.p.a., must turn over approximately 3,000 emails relating to his communications with the fossil fuel industry. you'd expect my colleagues to be up in arms, my republican colleagues. ter all, in 2013, gina mccarthy waited 122 days to be confirmed for e.p.a. because they felt she wasn't honoring a commitment to transparency. remember the strain over lisa jackson's emails. surely my republican colleagues would be concerned about a similar lack of transparency from a soon-to-be e.p.a. administrator. but what is the republican leadership's response? strap blinders on their memb

it will become a core value of this department. [ applause ] >> from the senate floor, senator brian schatz, a democrat from hawaii, on the recent executive order on immigration. >> it's not even as though we are trading liberty for security. we are getting no additional security. this is all about being cruel to muslims because it's good politics for some people. >> white house press secretary sean spicer on media coverage of president trump. >> the entire headlines on one network today that talked about how we are pulling out the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and downgrading him. that is just -- it's wrong, it's insulting. and it's just -- the idea of calling it journalism is pathetic. >> british prime minister theresa may on immigration policy. >> first of all on the policy that president trump has introduced thrgs government is clear that that policy is wrong. >> national security adviser michael flynn on iran at a white house briefing. >> president trump has severely criticized the various agreements reached between iran and the obama administration as well as the united nation