margaret carlson, eli, i'm impressed with your writing about bannon and what he's up to. jennifer, you're something. thanks so much for coming on. that's "hardball," thanks for being with us. we'll have continuing coverage throughout the evening on msnbc. we're into this one. fall this with chris hayes, appropriately titled tonight starts right now. >>> good evening from chicago, i'm chris hayes. we were, of course, meant to air a town hall tonight exploring the challenges facing this city, we taped that town hall earlier today. it will now air tomorrow in this hour. the reason is that because tonight we have big, big breaking news. a unanimous ruling by a federal appeals court against president donald trump's travel ban. the trump administration asked the ninth circuit court of appeals to overturn a temporary restraining order on the ban put in place by a lower court las

guy benson, and margaret carlson, columnist more "the daily beast."hen he makes that attack they are made up, do people believe that? >> there is a big difference between anonymous sourcing and anonymous quotes. his claim journalists are making up anonymous sources is wrong. if you do that you will be fired like jason blair when he did it for the "new york times." he's right we should have fewer tea anonymous quotes. the "new york times" has tried to get more of those anonymous quotes out of the story. howie: you can't do some of these stories without relying on people who would be fired if they were publicly identified. campaign officials, don't they speak off the record to reporters all the time? >> all the time. there are the whistleblowers and the background briefings. i think it is good to sort of cut down on our diet of anonymous quotes and anonymous sources and some anonymous quotes are vital elements of journalism. trump has been an tea anonymous source. during the birth certificate stuff he was constantly quoting unnamed people who were telli

margaret carlson, eli, i'm impressed with your writing about bannon and what he's up to. jennifer, you're something. thanks so much for coming on. that's "hardball," thanks for being with us. we'll have continuing coverage throughout the evening on msnbc. we're into this one. fall this with chris hayes, appropriately titled tonight starts right now. >>> good evening from chicago, i'm chris hayes. we were, of course, meant to air a town hall tonight exploring the challenges facing this city, we taped that town hall earlier today. it will now air tomorrow in this hour. the reason is that because tonight we have big, big breaking news. a unanimous ruling by a federal appeals court against president donald trump's travel ban. the trump administration asked the ninth circuit court of appeals to overturn a temporary restraining order on the ban put in place by a lower court last friday. instead, this decision keeps that restraining order in place. in other words, it blocks president trump's executive order nationwide and continues to block it as a lower court fund. we've alread