. >>> jeffrey toobin and alan dershowitz. jeffrey, i'm going to start with you. you wrote "the nine," which is about the supreme court justices. explain the justices' ruling. >> when the court splits 4-4, they just write one sentence. affirmed by an equally divided court. we're only left to assume what their reasoning was. the reasoning of the lower court, the reasoning of the court whose decision is now the law of that part of the country was that the executive order that president obama issued about these families was outside his power as president. if he wanted to say to these families -- and they were mostly families who came into this country illegally and then had children, who are american citizens -- if he wanted to allow them to get work permits, to start to reintegrate into legal american society, he need an act of congress. he couldn't do it on his own. that was the gist of the lower court decision, and that we are left to assume is what the supreme court left in place. >> okay. so, remember all this talk about merit garland, if president obama's supre

i want to bring in jeffrey toobin and dana bash. jeff, first to you. let's go back to the big decision on abortion. 5-3. this is it. we expected it could be 4-4. then it would have difficult for abortion rights activists in that state. it means what for the rest of the country? >> ashley, we have spent a lot of time appropriately talking about justice scalia, one thing that today and this last week's decision reminds us, this is still anthony kennedy's court. where he goes, that's where the majority goes. four liberals can't do anything by themselves. they had anthony kennedy with them today. this is a decision of immense significance. it is not just texas. it is louisiana, mississippi, wisconsin. many states have passed increasingly restrictive rules on abortion clinics in recent years. what justice brier's opinion says, unless you, the state, can prove that these restrictions really do benefit women's health and not just pretext to make it harder for clinics to stay open, these restrictions are going to be struck down. there are lots of challenges co

let's bring back senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. his own legal team praised the judge? >> he can't. his lawyer in this case at the moment, he had quite a few, is dan pet which he ee. he was the lawyer against simpson. quite appropriately he had no part of the crazy donald trump crusade against the lawyer. he said only good things about the judge and that's the only thing you can say. in this country you cannot seek to recuse a judge because of ethnicity. because he's mexican. having a hard time with that word. >> ethnicity. >> thank you, wolf. so he just can't do it. this lawyer who is a smart person will not. >> could there be legal repercussions for trump due to the personal nature of the attacks? >> i don't think so because judge curiel has a lot of integrity. a point we haven't madoff e oft enough, he most ruled in favor of donald trump, he declined to dismiss the case all together, which is what trump wanted, but he narrowed the case, reduced possibility for damages for plaintiffs, so the idea there's some pattern of bias here

joined by senior political commentator and former adviser to president obama, david axelrod, jeffrey toobin, mark preston, and chief political correspondent dana bash. jeffrey, let's talk about this order today. listening to president obama, it sounded like he was saying don't worry too much, this doesn't iviscerate the things that i was trying to get done but how this will matter for the next president. walk us through his order and what it will mean for the next president. >> what happened is the supreme court split 4-4, which meant the lower court was affirmed, even though it's not now a precedent for the whole country. what president obama tried to do was, he said this 4 million people whose children are american citizens but they are illegally in the country, he said we are not going to try to deport you and we are going to set up a procedure whereby you can get working papers and start to integrate yourself into american society. what the court said today by splitting this way is that the deportation process doesn't change. they are not going to be deported. but this process of lettin

>> jeffrey toobin, do you take umbrage with that? >> the words we have not uttered yet, it's the people who want more gun control, the people who want more restrictions, they are interested in the issue but they think about a lot of different issues. they think about climate change, they think about the economy. the people in this country who care about gun rights, who want to preserve guns, it's the single most important issue to them. and they vote based on who will protect their right to bear arms. and they control the entire republican party at this point. the republican party is not a party that supports any restrictions on the right to bear arms. and that's why we're not getting gun control. it's not because -- it's -- the 90 to 10 is misleading because the 10% are so passionate and they control so many votes. >> that goes directly to you, congressman, and something that the police commissioner of new york city said was that congress was completely controlled, our lawmakers are controlled by the nra and that's why no sensible g

let's bring in senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. there's outrage over this sentence.ng only six months? what was the thought process? >> he got a lot of advocacy from powerful people. his lawyer, his father who described what his son did as 20 minutes of action. he shouldn't lose his future over what his father called 20 minutes of action. which is sort of even more repulsive when you think about it. he was a stanford student. he comes from a prominent -- not a prominent family but an economically successful family. the real contrast here is six months for this sort of violent rape and when you look at the sentences of other violent rapes from people who are for the from wealthy families, you get a very different picture and i think that's the real cause of the outrage. >> i want to get to that in a second. in terms of the legal process, can the prosecutors appeal the sentencing? >> no, they really can't. this was a trial. the defense is going to ask that the whole trial be overturned. the judge had the discretion to sentence mr. turner to six months. the judge had a

joining us, senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. you've seen the article.hat do you think of what he said? >> first of all, it is clear that donald trump has first amendment rights, he's allowed to criticize judges like anyone else, however the notion that a judge being of mexican heritage is a conflict of interest in any case involving a politician who may have interest in mexico is completely outside judicial, the current idea of judicial ethics. african-american judges sit on discrimination cases, catholic judges sit on cases of separation of church and state. there are two organizations, one is in fact an advocacy group for immigration rights but that's not the one that this judge is a member of. he is a member of an organization that's hispanic judges and lawyers that advocate for sort of -- more a social organization, like there are jewish lawyer organizations, catholic lawyer organizations. it is certainly not a conflict of interest. donald trump can say what he wants, but what he is saying about the judge is completely wrong under all of the current

as a matter of fact, i want to play something from jeffrey toobin earlier today from bernie sanders.ll of this talk about bernie sanders and you know how nice you have to be. there's a word for what happened to bernie sanders. he lost. and the idea that she has to spend the next several week coddling him, cut the you know what. you want donald trump to be president? fine. but i don't think bernie sanders wants donald trump to be president and i think this incredible sort of coddling and worrying about bernie sanders is just outrageous and he ought to just get in line and just like hillary clinton did eight years ago. >> maria, i was getting dressed to come in here and i watched that and i said, go, jeffrey toobin, not because of the affinity for hillary clinton or bernie sanders, but that's because how we operate in the real world. my boss says, stop it. this is what is happening. if you don't like it you know what you can do. that's the way it works in the real world. am i right? >> absolutely. i'd love to be a fly in the room. >> but is he right? >> he's right in the context that h

cnn's manu raju is in with the details and senior analyst jeffrey toobin and manu, i want to start broadou, if i may. we hear about four measures on capitol hill today. we also hear they've been there before and failed before. we hear there's a fifth one that maybe has more of a chance of success but why is everyone so certain that today's votes will go nowhere when so many americans want them to do something about gun control? >> ashleigh, the two parties are at fundamental odds over how to prevent from buying guns, closing that so-called terror gap that you mentioned. that's where much of the focus has been towards the aftermath of the orlando shooting. they want the ability to block anyone on the terror watch list from obtaining a gun but republicans are in that provision is too broad and sweep up innocent americans on that list. they have their own plan to give the fbi a chance to weigh in on whether there's reason to believe someone is indeed going to use a firearm and then ban the sale of the firearm and then believe the standard will never be met. we end up with more gridlock but

bob beckel, jeffrey toobin, kayleigh mcenany., what is the point to intimidating trump supporters? if you don't support trump, i understand, a peaceful protest is in order. burning the american flag, jumping on cars, what is going on here? >> well, what's going on is not good. this reminds me back in the anti-vietnam war days when some of us were peacefully protesting and others were burning flags and jumping on cars. it reflects badly on people against trump but you'll get that kind of thing when you get inflammatory statements like trump makes and you'll find any group of protesters will have a percentage of people who are very angry and out of control. that's what you see. and it's newsworthy. that's the most important thing, i think. the cameras focus on them and they know that. if it were up to hillary clinton, i'm sure she would prefer not to have them there. >> kayleigh, there's a tweet from john podesta. he says "violence against supporters of any candidate has no place in this election." >> i'm pleased to see that. we've

so will the court watcher, jeffrey toobin. first, chief political correspondent dana bash with the decision and immediate impact. >> reporter: raw emotion outside the supreme court as those gathered learns of the 4-4 deadlock that effectively ends president obama's executive order allowing some 5 million undocumented immigrants to stay. >> any time i could be deported. >> reporter: at the white house, the president made no attempt to hide his disappointment. >> we have to make a decision about whether we are a people who tolerate hypocrisy where the workers that pick our fruit, make our beds never have the chance to get right with the law. >> reporter: the gop house speaker called it a victory for the constitution. >> it is a win in our fight to restore separation of powers. presidents don't write laws, congress writes laws. >> reporter: the fact that the president tried to use executive authority to go around the gridlocked congress to allow some immigrants to stay illegally, republicans united in opposition, even those for i

>> i think it's interesting what jeffrey toobin pointed out but there's something a little different is particular opinion that came out today on abortion rights and i don't know if jeffrey would agree with me. but the way it was written, even though it was written by justice breyer, was very much in the fashion of how a justice kennedy swing-like opinion would have been written. he signed on to it, he didn't write it. it was very technical, it talked about medical evidence, it laid out the argument against texas. so i do think that while this is interesting that kennedy did come out on the side of the "liberal" justices, i don't necessarily think it sets a precedent, so to speak, that he's now going to the liberal side. jeffrey, i don't know if you'd agreed with me. >> it's also interesting, though -- and i'll let you jump in -- that he didn't write the opinion on the major abortion case, he has but he wrote it to breyer. >> well, he was writing the affirmative action opinion at the same time and they try to spread the work around. justice kennedy is a mercurial figure. you cannot pi

as a matter of fact, i want to play something from -- this is jeffrey toobin earlier today regardingie sanders. >> she won. i mean, you know, all this talk about bernie sanders and how nice you have to be. you know, there's a word for what happened to bernie sanders. he lost. you know, and the idea that she has to spend the next several weeks, you know, coddling him and being nice to him, you know, someone is going to say to him -- maybe the president of the united states on thursday, maybe harry reid when he sees him -- cut the you know what. you want donald trump to be president? then fine. go be off in a petulant snit. but i don't think bernie sanders wants donald trump to be president, and i think this incredible sort of coddling and worrying about bernie sanders is just outrageous. he ought to just get in line just like hillary clinton did eight years ago. >> maria, i was getting dressed to come in here, and i watched that, and i said, go jeffrey toobin, not because of any affinity for hillary clinton or bernie sanders. it's because that's how we operate in the real world. when

senior legal analyst, jeffrey toobin. political commentator, bob beck l.t read that and when it came out, i kind of got a little nervous kick in my stomach. three week. oh my gosh, here it comes. john, trump changing his immigration policy. is this a pivot or is this a wholesale change? >> well, it is a pivot to the general election, but it's also part of donald trump the gauche negotiator. donald trump says you should aim high, accept half a loaf and make sure what you end up getting is something close -- >> wait, let me stop you there. i understand what you're saying. is it trump or paul manafort and new people saying you have to appeal to more people than just your base? >> he wrote the art of the deal a long time ago. i'm sure it's consistequintesse trump. you can't give someone a cheeseburger during ramadan and have them eat it at high noon and determine whether or not they come into the country that way. you're going to have to have some empirical way in terming how you allow to emigrate to the country and who you don't. it was always going to be som

. >> jeffrey toobin, legal analyst for cnn. the california primary just happened the other day and bernie sanders hasn't dropped out. >> this incredible codin

. >> jeffrey toobin, legal analyst for cnn. california primary just happened the other day and bernie sanders hasn't dropped out. >> this incredible coddling and

jeffrey toobin is still with us. jeffrey, when you look at this immigration case, why was this such a tough case? >> because the issue in this case is how should two groups of people be handled? basically one group is the parents who were in the country unlawfully of american citizens, that is people who came here unlawfully and had children born here who are american citizens. the other group of people are the people who were brought here as children through no choice of their own and have grown up in the united states. those are two very large groups, a total of 4 million people, and the question is how should those be handled? now, it could be that congress could pass a law describing how those people should be treated. congress failed to pass comprehensive immigration reform. the senate passed it, the house didn't act, and the president said i'm going to do it on my own. and the question in the case, the legal question in the case was does the president have the legal authority on his own to say, i am going to use

and, actually, two years ago, right in february, jeffrey toobin wrote a piece called -- it was thomas' outrageous conduct, the fact this he hadn't asked any questions for, at that point, eight years. we then got to the ten-year anniversary, and then about three weeks after that he asked a question just a couple of weeks ago. and i was asked to respond to toobin. and what's so interesting is how thomas prepares for oral argument. every judge, justice typically will have one of his four clerks write a bench memo on a particular case that's about to be argued, and then he'll meet with that clerk and go over the kind of questions he should be thinking of asking, what briefs do i need to pay particular attention to, etc. thomas does the same, but then he has the bench memo sense to the three other clerks as well as to him, and then they meet for about four hours on each case and sit there and just talk about, okay, if we decide this way, what are the long-term implications for the law. if we decide the other way, what are the implications. and so he comes enormously well prepared. his view

joining us, senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. you've seen the article. you think of what he said? >> first of all, it is clear that donald trump has first amendment rights, he's allowed to criticize judges like anyone else, however the notion that a judge being of mexican heritage is a conflict of interest in any case involving a politician who may have interest in mexico is completely outside judicial, the current idea of judicial ethics. african-american judges sit on discrimination cases, catholic judges sit on cases of separation of church and state. there are two organizations, one is in fact an advocacy group for immigration rights but that's not the one that this judge is a member of. he is a member of an organization that's hispanic judges and lawyers that advocate for sort of -- more a social organization, like there are jewish lawyer organizations, catholic lawyer organizations. it is certainly not a conflict of interest. donald trump can say what he wants, but what he is saying about the judge is completely wrong under all of the current rules

i want to bring in jeffrey toobin and dana bash. this was a 5-3 decision. what is the basis behind this ruling? >> in the ruling you referred to from 1992, the court said that states could not impose an undue burden. that was the phrase. an undue burden on women's rights to choose abortion. what steven briar's opinion for the court said these restrictions on doctors and clinics which in effect forced many of them to close in texas representing an undue burden on women's rights and unconstitutional. safe abortion should be a right not just on paper but in reality. her campaign went on to issue a statement highlighting donald trump and his position on abortion, how he once said that women should be punished for having abortions and he also pledged to defund planned parenthood and to appoint supreme court justices that would overturn roe v. wade. does this have an impact? >> i think it will have an impact because abortion is front and center in voters minds. this has not been an issue in a significant way in a couple of decades, basically a generation. hillary

simpson" jeffrey toobin featured prominently in the documentary. wrote the book on o.j. but say there are things in the documentary that surprised even you. >> absolutely. and let me give you a real important example. the length and intensity of o.j.'s abuse of nicole. there's an interview in this documentary with o.j.'s -- with nicole's roommate when she went on her first date and she came home with all her clothes torn. all of us knew, of course, that o.j. had been convicted of domestic abuse once. but it was so much more than that one incident and that is something that is a very chilling, chilling fact that comes out of this documentary. >> that is chilling. you know, last week i was talking to gil garcetti and he said he learned that o.j. deliberately didn't take his medication for arthritis so his hands would swell and he wouldn't fit into the glove. it's a real focus of the documentary and the defense implicated mark furman planted it. he is a big part as well. what is your impression? >> mark is not an appealing character at all. my original

i want to bring in florida congressman john micah, and jeffrey toobin, thank you for joining us both.ohn, you're wanting to know why the department didn't receive more anti-terror grants, tell me about that. >> well, two years ago, dhs, which is charged with assessing the vulnerable to terrorist risks for all of our metropolitan areas, to put more grants forth to combat terrorism. last year, my district came closer. i've been working with the sheriff and police chief to get that request. we were denied every time from the dhs to consider orlando as having possible terrorist threats and moving up on the scale. they gave new york $178 million, and los angeles $168 million. we got zero. so i called for a hearing, there will be hearings to find out what went wrong to their assessment process. it's unfair to this community to have left us hanging. >> the president said today in his remarks that it is going to take more than the military. he also brought up the gun issue. i want you to listen to that. >> if you have lone wolf attacks like this hatched in the minds of a disturbed person then

jeffrey toobin is with us. were you surprised?n justices ruled on this because elena kagan recused herself. she had been solicitor general when it was argued earlier. >> this is a somewhat surprising issue because justice kennedy, who was the swing vote, has expressed a lot of misgivings about affirmative action over the years, but in this case he had clearly very much endorsed affirmative action. the texas plan is that most students are admitted to the university of texas under the so-called 10% plan, that the top 10% of every public high school is automatically admitted, and there's no racial consideration, but there is a group of students who are considered under what's called the wholistic review. it considers a lot of different factors, but very explicitly that factor includes race. they say that diversity is a value that they want to preserve at the university of texas, and the supreme court today said that is okay. diversity is something that can be considered in admissions, and that's a very big deal. >> jonathan turley is

jeffrey toobin, last week he said there's going to be a contested convention in philadelphia in july.emed to be a bit more mellow today at his news conference. >> i don't mean to be parsing too much like a lawyer but there are different kinds of contested conventions. he could be saying that we are going to contest the platform. we are going to contest what the party stands for without necessarily saying he is going to refuse to acknowledge that hillary clinton is the nominee of the party. i mean, he has also said repeatedly the importance of defeating donald trump. so i think he has left himself plenty of room to lead a unified party behind hillary clinton while at the same time pushing to the issues that he cares about. >> dana, we're hearing from white house sources maybe as early as this week we will see the president of the united states actively go out there and start supporting hillary clinton. >> right. the biggest, worst kept secret in washington or maybe even in the country that barack obama is much more in favor of hillary clinton. but what it means once he gets to that poi

cupp, jeffrey toobin and mark preston. what are you hearing about how all of this went down, mark?, we've been hearing that this really came to a head this past weekend but from folks involved, they told me that the latest iteration to remove lewandowski from the trump campaign has been going on for 10, 14 days. we've also heard that reince priebus, the chairman of the republican committee was one of the folks who was telling trump that it was time for a change. now, wolf, we have got to acknowledge, this is not unheard of in any kind of presidential campaign. whenever things are not going the way that they should be going, you often see a change at the top. this is what happened with corey lewandowski. what happened is that donald trump literally did not have a full campaign operation in place and there are those in the republican party that said that he was -- it was his fault that donald trump hadn't been on message and, b, put a presidential campaign in place. >> it sounds as if donald trump's children had a huge hand in this. were they the driving force? >> i think at the end

i know that pie good friend jeffrey toobin is up at bat next.st control of the courtroom. guess what, game over. t.j. holmes is up next talking about the cavs, talking about golden state. imagine if steph curry doesn't listen anymore to steve kerr, game over. this judge has got to get off the bench, game over. >> wow. >> good analogies. sunny, we thank you. >>> teeing us up for our next two topics we'll talk to toobin. the compelling abc, espn documentary, "o.j.: made in america" on his double murder trial author of "the run of his life: the people v. o.j. simpson" jeffrey toobin featured prominently in the documentary. jeffrey, you literally wrote the book on o.j. but say there are things in the documentary that surprised even you. >> absolutely. and let me give you a real important example. the length and intensity of o.j.'s abuse of nicole. there's an interview in this documentary with o.j.'s -- with nicole's roommate when she went on her first date and she came home with all her clothes torn. all of us knew, of course, that o.j. had been con

>> i defer to jeffrey toobin. i don't think it is good versus bad reviews. these are reviews filled out much like if you remember in school when you filled out a teacher evaluation at the end of a course. these are people coming out of a three day, five day, motivational speaker course, they were fired up. they thought like bob geo, thought they would make millions. they signed up, paid their money, they were ready to do it. that's when they filled out the forms. >> jeff, what do you think, he repeatedly refers to those. >> yes, they will. remember, the thing that donald trump is so angry about is that the judge in this case denied summary judgment and ordered the case to go to trial. what that means is he said, the judge that is, there are disputed issues in this case. some people felt deceived, some people felt like they got a straight story. that's why we have trials. there's certainly in the information released today and the information to come, there's contradictory evidence about whether this university was a scam or not but it does seem to me to unde

. >> jeffrey toobin, legal analyst for cnn.nia primary just happened the other day and bernie sanders hasn't dropped out. >> this incredible coddling and worrying about bernie sanders is

senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. the thing trump has been kind of thrown out there about this case, does it make sense to you? >> i think it's important to separate two things. one is these alleged conflicts of interest that the judge has, which as far as i can tell are completely nonexistent. the important point about those is trump himself has never remarked about them. all he has talked about is the fact that the judge is mexican. once he was correct about that, the judge is of mexican ancestry. that's the only reason he said the judge was biased. so the fact these other issues have been brought up after the fact to try to, you know, offer some support is just ridiculous because donald trump is the one running for president and the only issue he's raised is the judge is mexican. >> what about the eidea of -- some people will hear, why is this big law firm paying the clintons all this money? is that standard? >> it is fairly unusual to have a law firm pay that much money to any sort of public figure. the firm is kn

supporter michael nutter, former mayor of philadelphia and here to lend expertise senior analyst jeffrey toobin, definitely a lot of moving pieces in this statement, but if anybody was looking to donald trump to say i was wrong, i'm sorry, that's not what this statement says. >> no, it wasn't. and he's never said that during the campaign. i think people shouldn't expect that from donald trump. what i think he did do is try to walk it back to a degree by saying i do not feel one's heritage makes them incapable of being impartial. but then he kind of reiterated the case again and said i'm done with it, i'm not going to talk about it anymore, which is clearly in response to the fact all these republicans are twisting themselves into knots trying to figure out how to deal with it and distance themselves from donald trump on this particular issue. he's caused such headaches in the republican party it's kind of astonishing to watch. because these people have lined up to endorse him because they want to keep the party together, they want to save races down the ballot. and he's given them every reason

i want to bring in florida congressman john mica and jeffrey toobin, legal analyst, and john, i wantstart with you, you are probing into why orlando did not receive more grants from the department of homeland security, and more ant anti-terror grants. tell me more about it. >> well, two years ago, dhs which is charged with assessing the vulnerability for terrorist risks to all of the metropolitan areas put orlando towards the bottom of the lists to be eligible for the federal grants to combat terrorism, and the last year my district changed and came closer to this area, and i have been working with sheriff demings, and the police chief to get that restored. we were denied every single time, every request by dhs to consider orlando as having possible terrorist threats and moving us up the scale. they gave new york $178 million, and they gave los angeles $68 million, and we got zero. so i have called for a hearing, and there will be hearings to find out what went wrong in their assessment process. it is unfair to the community to have left us hanging. >> and the president today said in

let's bring in evan perez, law enforcement analyst art roderick and our senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. art, let me start with you. for three hours after officers engaged with this shooter, there was no shooting. the fbi and law enforcement says this transitioned from a hostile shooter, an active shooter to a hostage situation in which it remained for three hours until they went in. >> that's exactly correct. they shifted from the protocols you use in an active shooter scenario to the protocols in a hostage barricade armed individual situation. negotiators come in and as you can see from this transcript the transcript is also not just 911 calls. >> no, right. >> it's also radio transmissions or a summary of some of the radio transmissions that occurred. so what you've got is once this turned into a hostage barricade shooter situation, then they attempted to negotiate. and he kept the negotiation going as you can see from the transcript but also said that, you know, had referenced explosives and we've heard other witnesses say that there were other individuals possibly involved. so that

joining us, cnn senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin.in august called "american heiress." he's written extensively on the supreme court. also joining us, planned parenthood president cecille richards. this is the most sweeping decision on this issue in decades. >> absolutely. we talked a lot about the vacancy since scalia's death but this is still kennedy's court. the fact he joined with the four liberals here made all the difference. justice breyer wrote the opinion but this is so important because state after state has said, especially since the republican landslides of 2010 that we are passing abortion restrictions to help women, to protect women, and what justice breyer's opinion said was you know what, we see through what you're doing. we recognize, this is nothing to do with protecting women's rights. our analysis of these laws says these are designed to restrict abortion, not to protect women's health. >> you agree this goes well beyond texas? >> absolutely. jeff is exactly right. this really talked about the importance that laws

so will the court watcher, jeffrey toobin.spondent dana bash with the decision and immediate impact. >> reporter: raw emotion outside the supreme court as those gathered learns of the 4

jeffrey toobin is joining us now. bench trial versus jury trial. why?l from the passions of the community. it is often the case when police officers have been charged that they opt for bench trials rather than jury trials because police worry that jurors who have to go back to the community feel an obligation to convict independent of the evidence. whereas a bench trial, you feel like you have a more neutral passion-free decision maker. that's the theory behind these decisions. >> does the defendant get to decide? >> it varies by state and by jurisdiction. in federal court, both sides have to agree. in maryland, the defendant alone can agree. so it varies. >> this is the same judge that decided the last case. the edward nero case. does that surprise you? >> these cases are going badly for the prosecution. i mean, this is not, you know, we said when these cases were charged, wow, she really, the prosecutor went to the book at them and so far, it hasn't worked out. you can see why the defense probably is feeling some confidence. >> what's the risk? in a b

joining us in studio, jonathan turley, jeffrey toobin and dana bash. jeffrey, let me start with you, are you surprised by this ruling? the supreme court could have divided 4-4, kicked it back to the lower court, which would have upheld the law, but they staked out a stance on this. >> as we have said so often, this decision was in the hands of anthony kennedy, who was the swing vote. every time the abortion issue has come before the court since he joined the court in 1987. and he has gone back and forth. sometimes supporting abortion rights. he did in the famous casey decision of 1992. but this time, he has supported abortion rights in a very major way. >> you mean the casey decision, he supported abortion restrictions? >> no, no, he supported abortion rights. he was one of the group that wrote the opinion saying we are not going to overturn roe v. wade. here, what makes this decision so significant is that after 2010, after the republican landslides in all the state legislatures, many states, not just texas, passed restrictions that are very similar to

jeffrey tu bin, our go-to guy on all of this. gentlemen, welcome. mr. toobin, to you first.t happened to these 4 million people? >> well, the president said two things. he said, in terms of deportations, we are not p going to pursue them just as we have not been pursuing them in the past. that's not a guarantee that a different president would have different priorities. certainly, for the remainder of president obama's presidency, they are not going to be pursued. the other thing he said is our plan to give them permission to work, to let them come out of the shadows, to start paying taxes in an open way, all of that is on hold. that is not going to happen because of the supreme court's decision. >> so when you look at the politics of this, we are well into this election, professor. the president only has six or so months left. when you talk about legacy building, this was such a key cornerstone for him. this executive action on immigration. how big of a blow is this? looking post oval office. >> it is very significant. immigration is one of the areas of policy where he got

>> three books to your viewers and a novice where publishing jeffrey toobin book about patty hearst, her kidnapping, what she did while she was in the liberation army and have very germanic tribal. as people know, a new yorker staff writer and chief legal correspondent and the author of the and also the o.j. simpson case which is recently made it to a television series. what is so fantastic about this book from my good as everyone says we are living to this terribly tumultuous time. in the early 1970s that ballot country was having a nervous break down. an average of 1500 terrorist bombings here. nixon was being impeached. political turmoil, economic malaise. patty hearst was kidnapped into my are enlisted in the sudan liberation army. the story has amazing twists and turns. the one thing, the largest police shootout in american history took place in los angeles where everyone were killed in something that also happened for the first time i might national television. and then we get to the trial that incredible twists and turns. the nation falling apart, but across political radicali

bring in dana bash, gloria borger, and jeffrey toobin.mp to revoke press credentials for "the washington post." >> it kind of leaves me scratching my head, as sara was saying, this is something that the campaign has done in the past, they didn't like a head line on the piece. >> on "the washington post." >> on "the washington post" story. the question is that trump in that interview was really unclear. the question to me is what was trump trying to say there about president obama. >> i think it is pretty clear what he was saying. >> he was insinuating the president has another agenda. >> that he is not a real american, a loyal american. let's remember why donald trump is famous as a politician in the first place, because he spent months claiming that falsely that president obama was not born in the united states. the whole birther story is how he became a politician and this statement is simply an extension of that suggesting that the president is not a real american. >> he did tweet that's not what he meant, but didn't tweet out what he

we're joined by dana bash, jeff zeleny and jeffrey toobin.to you at the top of the hour, this was a moment. it's one we'll look back on, i think, as not only a pivot for president obama but as kind of a demarcation, one of many actually, in how the 2016 campaign is going, in that, you know, he used the bully pulpit in a way that no one else can because he's the only president. but the fact that, as i mentioned earlier, i'm told that he was kind of looking at the coverage yesterday afternoon of donald trump's big speech, getting angrier and angrier, it was pent-up for a very long time, he went and told his aides let's do this, this briefing before he came out and spoke was already scheduled. it was actually scheduled before the orlando attacks and he decided he was going to tack on. some may question whether or not it was appropriate to give that kind of high live political speech in the east room with the chairman of joint chiefs next to him but i can tell you in talking to democrats, this is the kind of robust, aggressive messaging that they

reporter manu raju, washington correspondent for new yorker, ryan lizza, and cnn legal analyst, jeffrey toobin very much. sara, secretary clinton has the support of the current president and the first lady as well, expected to get endorsement soon from vice president joe biden, senator elizabeth warren, her husband part of that all-star campaign group of surrogates, she's going to have a lot going on for her right now. how will they be used specifically by the campaign? >> that's absolutely right, wolf, it is a big contrast to what you see on the republican side, the fact that hillary clinton has a deep bench of experienced surrogates, willing to go out and hammer home her message. it sends a signal that the party is uniting behind the nominee. this is the opposite of what we see on the republican side, wolf, you see leaders of the republican party hold their noses and say they're going to endorse or vote for donald trump, and as of this week people are saying i don't know if i'm ever going to be able to get behind this guy. sets up a contrast between how parties are trying to come together or

we bring in cnn senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. ton and abc news senior legal correspondent sunny hostin is good enough to be with us in the studio. good morning to you both. let me start with you, jeffrey. you were there in that courtroom every day. what did you make -- >> i was. >> what did you make of darden's performance? >> well, i thought he did a competent job mostly. the issue in the case was far more in jury selection and where the case was tried. the glove demonstration was a disaster. there's no question about it. but when you look at a jury that deliberated three hours in a six-month trial, one courtroom mistake didn't make the difference. they were going to lose no matter what. >> yes, because of that quick verdict that they reached. and sunny, we heard christopher darden say, you know, if he had to do it over again he wouldn't have him try on the glove. and do you think that he has shouldered much -- is this fair that he has shouldered much of the blame for asking him to try on the glove. >> he shouldn't have done that

let's bring in senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin, loni chen, policy director for mitt romney, davidria borger. gloria, you heard house speaker paul ryan's response when i asked him if he trusts donald trump. he sort of laughed, said it is a binary choice, doesn't agree with trump on some issues. does that response in still confidence in republicans that are grappling with the idea of donald trump as the nominee? >> you know, wolf, i'm not sure it inspires confidence but what it does is it shows them a path forward to getting to yes. i was struck about how he kept talking about the by narrow choice, which means compared to what. he kept saying over and overlook, i may disagree with donald trump. i think when compared to hillary clinton, donald trump has a better chance leading this country in the direction i want to take it, so he doesn't have to say look, i agree with him on everything, which he clearly said to you he doesn't, but he kept going back to a notion of i don't want hillary clinton leading the country for a host of reasons. and that's why i'm going to be here for donald t

bring in gloria borger, senior correspondent jeff zeleny, senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin.hn mccain caused a stir when he blamed the president of the united states for what happened in orlando. listen to this. >> barack obama is directly responsible for it because when he pulled everybody out of iraq, al qaeda went to syria, became isis and isis is what it is today thanks to barack obama's failures. >> caused a big stir, and issued a misstatement, i didn't mean to imply he was personally responsible, i was referring to his national security decisions, not the president himself. it underscores the angst out there now. >> right. and look, john mccain if he's been consistent on any issue through the last decade it is this question of isis and iraq and how we needed to be more muscular in response. he has been critical of this president throughout. he clearly got his gander up in the hallway interview, dana is laughing, we know john mccain can do that, and he did. he had to kind of take it back, say i misspoke. what he didn't want to do and it sounded like he was doing it in th

jeffrey toobin and councilman joe barelli. welcome, welcome, to all of you. joe, i have my sights set on you out of the gate. >> of course, of course. >> good to see you again. >> you, too. >> yes, there is now on the republican party, party unity. party unity against your guy, donald trump. condemning what he's been saying about judge curiel. trump is on an island. >> right. you have to let me in the category of people who want to disavow what trump said. >> you do? >> yeah. no. i think it's fundamentally wrong. that said, if donald trump believes the judge is impartial, he has the right to do it. a more appropriate venue would be the court system or issues raised about the judge appointed. and here in new york we have an attorney general bringing an action who's part of the hillary clinton leadership team. those are fair things to criticize the impartiality of the judge on. >> to read the quote of jim acos acosta's comment with raul curiel, he's not like the kkk. that's something the voters are listening to. >> sure. look. i don't think donald trump is a ra

in august we are publishing jeffrey toobin's book about patty hearst, her kidnapping, what she did while she was in the sudanese liberation army. jeff too bin, as i think people know, is a new yorker staff writer and the author of several bestsellers, the oath and also the book on the o.j. simpson case recently made into a television series. and what is so fantastic about this book from my perspective is everyone as in any era, oh, we're living through this terribly tumultuous times, but in the 1970s there were an average of 500 terrorist -- 1500 terrorist bombings every year. of course, nixon was being impeached, there was political turmoil, economic malaise, and in the midst of this, this fan fantastically sensational crime happened. patty hearst was kidnapped and two months later declared she was not to be known as tonya. the story has amazing twists and turns. for one thing, the largest police shootout still in american history took place in los angeles where everyone except for patricia hearst and two comrades were killed. and something that also happened for the first time on live

joining us now, senior legal analyst, jeffrey toobin, and the friend of the stanford rape victim, michelleing the viewers, who may have lost track of what happened in this case. what has transpired since this shocking sentence was given out. let me show people on screen here, some jurors -- sexual assault case, a petition, as you know, to remove persky, it has more than one million supporters, and plans for a recall campaign against percent ski getting him off the bench. >> what is so unusual is you have the prosecution moving to recuse a judge in a case, because of bias. in my experience, i mean, i'm not saying it has never happened before, but i've never heard of it, where the prosecution, which remember, has to appear regularly in front of a judge, who has a criminal docket, says the judge is too bias to hear a case. it is just an indication of how -- what an extraordinary a situation this is. >> why, despite michelle, your deep concerns about the outcome of this case, why do you think this kind of action should be taken against the judge? what did he do wrong in his role? >> we feel st