let's talk to dan abrams about that.ou always have to be careful about reaching conclusions from the questions but that was a pretty stunning concession. >> it was and it's true that you can't tell what they're going to do because they were tough on both sides, right? they intentionally asked provocative questions on both sides but those of us who watch these things still read the tea leaves sometimes incorrectly an i think what we saw from this is i think it is unlikely that they are going to overturn the temporary restraining order, meaning -- >> only thing at issue. >> correct. as a practical matter most people believe that the current halt on it which is just temporary will continue to stay in existence. >> but then you get to the underlying question on the overall executive order and there were a lot of questions from the lawyers about and from the judges about whether or not there was discriminatory intent, whether the intent of the order was to discriminate against muslims. >> there i think they were being tougher

. >> let's get more from dan abrams. terry moran as well and let me begin with you. 3-0, unanimous but a sweeping decision. >> it was so broad. i mean the court criticized the court criticized the way the order was publicly defended so you see language in here and as john just talked about, for example, saying that the administration is absolutely wrong that the court has no place in this at all. one of the administration's biggest arguments was this shouldn't be reviewable by a court. this is a national security question. the court saying that's absolutely not true. so, you look at it again and again. every argument that the administration made, particularly on something like the seven countries these pose a particular risk and the court saying there's no evidence of that. that's important because they had to demonstrate why there was immediate harm because, again, we're talking about the timing here. >> and terry moran, one thing the court didn't do is reach a decision on whether or not this discriminates against musli

. >> let's bring in our legal analyst dan abrams and brad garrett. dan, i'll begin with you. heard the president calling these leaks criminal. is that the case? >> they could be. certainly. there are a lot of statutes that you can use to prosecute people for sharing information related to the national defense. doesn't even have to be officially classified information. then you've got the possibility of classified information. you've got a whole host of statutes to use. if you want to and want to dig in to figure out who did it and whether they should be prosecuted. >> it is confusing because we heard president trump say the leaks are real but the news is fake. how do those two things co-exist? >> they don't. either there are people with access to national defense information or classified information that are improperly sharing this accurate information or the immediate media is making this stuff up, right? if the media is making it up or if these people who are in government are taking the media for a ride what do you investigate? you're investigating nonsense so either it's

. >> let's look at the law and the politics with dan abrams and matthew dowd. issue today? they could make a ruling as early as tonight just on whether or not this travel ban should stay on hold. >> that's right. district court rules temporary restraining order. no one has decided on the ultimate merits of the law yet. the question is do they need to immediately stop it. that's what this judge did nationwide. so now the government is appealing to the apell at court, the ninth circuit court of appeals there, saying we would like that particular ruling overturned. so all we're fighting about for now is the limited question of do we need to stop it immediately as we wait to evaluate the broader issues involved. >> even that can go to the supreme court. >> absolutely. in either case if the ninth circuit -- however the ninth circuit rules, expect some sort of appeal. the big question is does the supreme court take it. everyone seems to think it's obviously going to go to the supreme court. yeah, it's obviously going to get to the supreme court but that doesn't mean t

brad garrett, dan abrams, more to come. you so much. >> okay, thanks, guys. >>> hard to remember by the end but the president opened the press conference by announcing his new pick for labor secretary, alexander acosta. mary, the president moved quickly after he had to withdraw his first choice, andrew puzder. >> reporter: he certainly did, george. overshadowed in the press conference the president's announcement of his labor secretary nominee and named alexander acosta to replace andrew puzder who withdrew two days ago. he is seen as a safer pick, former law school dean and former assistant attorney general and it confirmed he could be the first hispanic member of the cabinet. >> a safer pick but democrats are raising some questions. >> reporter: yeah, george, right now consider this, president trump has more unconfirmed nominees than any president at week four in history. just 13 of 22 cabinet nominees have now been confirmed. in fact, they have been up here railing all night long. democrats against the next to have a vot

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i spoke to dan abrams. welcome. >> good to see you.owie: did donald trump help or hurt himself at the news conference slamming the press, and is this toxic cycle going to go on indefinitely? >> if you want to ask the 25% or so of people who are big donald trump supporters they would say donald trump helped his case. he stuck it to the media. good for him. you have got the 30% to 40% of people who don't like donald trump, and that re-even forced their view of him. the question is, what about everyone else, the people who voted for obama and switched to trump. i don't think he's helping himself with those people. i don't think constantly obsessing over the minutia of media coverage is helping him in any way, shape or form. it's not going to help him get his policies passed, it won't reinforce a sense of stability. it won't help him with republican senators who are having questions. >> before it counters what he seize as a negative media negative. isn't the distaste much deeper than that. don't most of the journalists dislike this preside

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we saw the twitter attacks continuing with the federal judge. >> i'll never oppose dan abrams oppose stuff. as i was watching the super bowl, i was thinking about a whole new group of patriots, founders of the constitution who i think would be looking at the last 72 hours in befuddlement and watching the checks and balances and a lack of understanding about what our constitutional values are in this. i think it's amazing to me that donald trump has criticized a federal judge who was appointed by george w. bush who is a republican constitutionalist more than vladimir putin. >> could those comments about vladimir putin, could those hurt him? >> i think they the first time, the break in the republican wall, i think they have been united bmeh in the first part of his presidency but as you watched george's interview yesterday with senator sass and other republicans, a huge amount of republicans are coming out and saying you cannot make a moral kwiflsy between vladimir putin and the united states of america and i think it's upset everybody from across partisanship. >> it does appear that w

terry moran and dan abrams with more. terry, you've covered much of the supreme court. judge gorsuch, solid conservative and doesn't change the balance of the court but what about over time if he gets confirmed? >> reporter: there's no question he will fit in here like a glove, george, because he worked here. he clerked here. he is, in fact, the fourth former supreme court clerk on this court now and he clerked for justice kennedy who still sits there. that's a first. what he can do over time in replacing justice scalia in terms of the law they're very similar, but justice scalia was a happy warrior, a brawler up there. he didn't care sometimes if he convinced other people he wanted to get his opinion into law. what we can expect from judge gorsuch is a much more gentler and more collegial style and will try to make convert, not just make law. >> we saw president trump talk about the fact that judge gorsuch was approved unanimously by voice vote for his appeals court position. that's not going to happen on this one. >> reporter: not going to happen this time around. all

. >> let's get more on this from our chief legal analyst dan abrams right here.the practical impact of what the president has done? >> instead of viewing this as a civil rights issue, a fundamental question of discrimination where the schools don't have any choice it's now going to go back to them to be able to decide what they want to do but keep in mind there's already a nationwide temporary injunction in place which effectively means this directive from president obama isn't being executed right now anyway. so when it comes to what happens today, is there a difference today, no. is there going to be a difference in the future, yes. >> and eventually this whole issue of transgender bathroom rights almost certain to be decided by the supreme court. >> it's already in front of the supreme court. there's a case, the gavin grimm case which is supposed to be a big case. the problem is that the lower courts were deciding that case based on the president obama directive. that became an important point, so if you don't have that directive anymore and you don't have the

abc7 news chief legal analyst dan abrams was on gma this morning. >> it could go to the entire 9th circuit court of aeels and say, we want the whole court to hear this. some people do that. that's unlikely, i think, in this particular scenario. the other choes is to go to the supreme court and appeal this. the problem there is they need five of those eight votes to overturn this stay. i think they're going to recognize that's unlikely. >> the federal government has 14 days to ask the 9th circuit to reconsider its decision. it could also file an emergency appeal with the u.s. supreme court. >>> president trump seems to be changing his tune on the long standed one china policy. he affirmed to the chinese spotlight that the u.s. would honor the policy which considers china and taiwan both inalienable parts of a single china. nerves were rattled right after he was elected when the president had a call with taiwan's president, something no u.s. leader had done in decades. at the time, china warned the president that the one china policy was nonnegotiable. >>> now a live desk update with jessica

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she denies bullying sutner and dan abrams will weigh in on this case coming up at 7:00.e california public utilities commission is going to host a public workshop in san francisco on friday about criminal background checks for uber and lyft drivers. city officials have said third party background checks used by those companies don't do enough because they only look at names and social security numbers. now, compare that to taxi cabs in the city, they have to have fingerprints and compared to the department of justice's database. friday's workshop is going to be held in the cpu golden gate room on van ness avenue. >>> the sonoma rail transit authority just rejected san rafael's plea to delay a train extension to larkspur. according to the marin ij, san rafael wanted to wait until it built a new downtown transit center. that could take at least five years. s.m.a.r.t. nixed the delay, citing a possible loss of federal funding. the agency fears money that is unused or appears unneeded is a prime target to be redirected by congress or the new administration. larkspur extensio

abc news chief legal analyst dan abrams had this to say on gma. >> the u.s.me court very well may say at least for now, we're not going to hear this. we're not going to hear the question about, should the -- should the temporary restraining order be in place. if that happens, that means that the administration cannot move forward with the order, at least for now, and that's a big delay for them and a big setback. >> these arguments are slated to start at 3:00 this afternoon. and you are going to be able to listen to them live on our free abc7 news app. make sure you enable push alerts and we will tell you when they begin. >>> 5:35 and breaking international news coming into the live desk. >> several people are dead, dozens are hurt after a bombing overseas. jessica has more on that. >> at least 20 people are dead after a suicide bomber attacked the supreme court building in kabul, that's the capital city of afghanistan. and reports show at least 45 people are hurt. some of those critically. so we do expect the death toll to go up. there's no immediate claim o

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dan abrams back at the table with us and complex magazine's alex gale. good to have him joining us.with angelina jolie, alex. speaking out for the first time about her divorce from brad pitt and this is what she had to say in an interview with the bbc. >> it was a very difficultim and we are a family and we will always be a family and we will get through this time and hopefully be a stronger family for it. >> alex, we know that she was there in cambodia to promote her new film there, but she was asked about her impending divorce. what do you make of her statements, alex? >> this interview was really, really powerful. it's obvious she's still wounded but not at all afraid to show it and first time she's spoken about it and she didn't say a lot in her words but the tears really spoke volumes but as honest and as raw as the interview was it's also interesting to look at the parts that were obviously pretty planned. i mean look at the beautiful setting in cambodia where the film is focused on. look at the way they're sitting cross legged looking at each other. angelina is very, very sma

more from our chief global affairs anchor martha raddatz, legal analyst dan abrams.e list. there's dozens ofdliry. >> in front of the military which is supposed george, the press is embedded with the military and told their story again and again and one of the great ironies to me here when i hear president trump talk about the press and we're not covering this, he also talks about isis beheading people. james foley was the first person beheaded. he was a journalist. >> you see a pattern here. the judge rules against the president. so-called judge -- they're fake news. clearly an effort here to delegitimize those who might be a check on the president. >> it almost seems like the strategy don't believe those people no matter what they say and this time he's not only saying don't believe them, he's >> in that o'reilly interview we saw another instance last night of ukraine suggesting maybe putin is not behind those separatist who are moving into eastern ukraine. >> some more extraordinary comments. he really hasn't said anything bad about russia or about putin and keeps

. >>> and we are back with our big board and the legal team here, dan abrams, sunny hostin and a loties we'll get to starting with that bombshell lawsuit. howard stern, a woman suing him for invasion of privacy claiming he aired her confidential conversations with an agent at the irs live on his satellite radio show. let's listen for a second. >> but when you make the payment it's going to go towards the tax. it's always going towards the tax -- >> jimmy. >> well, if he's working we can't interrum him. >> are you a collector. >> yeah, for the government? because it was about tax. >> this is a wild, wild story. so this woman calls an irs agent, wants to deal with her taxes. he had been calling howard stern and the lines got crossed. >> he's calling howard stern's show to get on the show. he is on hold. he's an irs agent. you know he's got some time to kill. he's on hold. why not do my job. my job is to take calls from people calling in about questions. takes the call while on hold on the "the howard stern show" and that ends up with the howard stern people, they start commenting on it

. >> thank dan abrams and martha raddatz.ot a good time for general kelly and tillerson going down to mexico and taking in a lot of these deportees from other country. >> it will be very difficult, negotiations, george. we've already heard mexican government say, no way they're paying for the wall and taking in new people, it's going to be a very, very difficult task and as you said the timing really couldn't be worse. >> here at home, dan, the administration, much sounder legal ground than they were with the travel ban. >> right, two totally different things. when it came to this executive order, the travel ban, the question was is it legal? is it constitutional? and the courts have now weighed in and that's still being worked its way through and probably will be a new executive order, et cetera. this is about enforcement of the current laws and how those current laws are going to be enforced. and so the question here becomes less about what do the pol say and more about how are they executed? what do they do in trying to do

our chief legal analyst dan abrams joins us. charge serksd degree involuntary manslaughter, does that include bullying? >> look, typically these are the kind of cases that end up in civil court, not criminal court. and what they're saying here is that she caused the death. that's going to be the legal question, negligently causing the death. the defense, of course, is going to say, wait a sec. there were all these other people bullying him and you're pointing the finger at her saying she caused him to commit suicide. that's going to be the challenge. that's why this could be a precedent-setting case. >> how do you go about prosecuting it? >> you talk about how awful it was for this kid. you talk about what they did in this coroner's inquest meaning they want to get the jury so angry at this person to say, this isn't normal. this isn't typical bullying. this isn't the sort of thing you hear about. this was so bad it was so different that it led him to take his own life and, you know what, someone like her should have known it cou

we are back now with our big board and dan abrams is here at the table for our first story.'s get to it. everyone is talking about -- many people talking about o.j. simpson on the heels, of course, of that big oscar for "o.j.: made in america," our friends at espn. now there's new focus on the possibility of his parole. the former nfl star scheduled to go before a parole board this summer and could be released from prison as early as october. so, he has served just nine years of a 33-year sentence here. >> i think a lot of people will be shocked to hear me say he should probably get parole. why? because he was eligible for parole after nine years in the 33-year sentence. if you look through all of the factors, everything from the type of crime to his age to his behavior in prison, he gets the checks on almost all of them and as a result, if he wasn't o.j. simpson, i would say to you, yeah, he's probably going to get parole. why wouldn't he? remember, he was actually paroled on some of the other charges in 2013. >> that's right. >> so he's just waiting on the most serious cha

more from our chief global affairs anchor martha raddatz, legal analyst dan abrams.list. it's kind of nonsense. there's dozens of -- covered extensively by the press. others have not said it is a terror attack. others with no casualties. the president delivering this in front of the military. >> in front of the military which is supposed to be n nonpolitical but gave a stump speech in front of the military and think about it, george, the press is embedded with the military and told their story again and again and one of the great ironies to me here when i hear president trump talk about the press and we're not covering this, he also talks about isis beheading people. james foley was the first person beheaded. he was a journalist. >> you see a pattern here. the judge rules against the president. so-called judge -- they're fake news. clearly an effort here to delegitimize those who might be a check on the president. >> it almost seems like the strategy don't believe those people no matter what they say and this time he's not only saying don't believe them, he's telling