at every stage, including any possible appeal to the united states supreme court. all turns on the meaning of the word "shall," and you don't have to go to law school or be a supreme court justice to understand that word. treasury shall furnish the committee with any requested tax return. it may take awhile, but there is absolutely nothing that can stop chairman richard neal from eventually getting the trump tax returns. joining us now is a senior member of the house ways and means committee, democratic congressman lloyd doggitt of texas. i can't pretend there is any suspense in this legislation, other than how long the law will take. it's just too long. it's just too simple. i will say i learned a few things about the history of the law in this masterful complaint today, including this very important fact that i wasn't aware of, that the audit of presidential tax returns is just a guideline of the irs. it's been going on for so long that i assumed it had slipped into law, but it is not actually protected by law. >> that's right, lawrence. and i agree completely wi

united states. previously he was the deputy director of the federal judicial center which he first joined in 1977. before that he also worked at the national center for state courts and the united states supreme court. he has written extensively on the united states courts, including on judicial ethics. mr. wheeler has a ph.d. in political skooicience from the university of chicago and a b. a. from the college in illinois. welcome, sir. professor charles gardner geyh is the john f. kimberling university of law in bloomington, indiana. his writings on judicial conduct, conduct, selection, independence, accountability and administration include more than 70 books, book chapters, articles, reports and other publications. prior to enter academia in 1991 he served as counsel to the house judiciary committee and administration. professor geyh has both his b. a. and j.d. from the university of wisconsin. welcome professor. welcome back home. now, we welcome all of our distinguished witnesses and thank them for participating in today's hearing. before proceeding with testimony, i here by remind each witness that all of your written and/oral statements made to the subcommittee in connection with this

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you have to go to the united states supreme court. a point ofthis with personal pride. a former attorney general of california went on to become the chief justice of the united states supreme court. knowing how important the subject was, it was really integral to a statement about who we are as a nation, and our principles and ideals. part of the history of that, earl warren said this is a case that is so fundamental in terms of who we are. it is critically important for a unanimous decision. if you read the history behind the case, he pushed there would be eight unanimous decision that there was, to integrate the schools and the california. fast-forward almost 20 years. i was an educator in urban public schools. 20 years. this is berkeley, california. people think of it as being a progressive place, right? in berkeley, california, i was only part of the second class to integrate berkeley schools. this is the reality of how all that played out in our nation, which is it didn't just -- 1954, it got decided, and the key was unlocked. there had to be policies and pressures

the united states supreme court overturns lower court injunction, allows border wall to proceed. big win for border security and the rule of law. no question, this is a win for the white house. albeit a temporary one because so far it hasn't been determined whether the president can use that money or not in the long term, fred. >> all right. and then, boris, there has been swift reaction to the president's twitter attack on elijah cummings. the president writing the district is a disgusting rat-infested mess. if he spent more time in baltimore, maybe he could ep clean up this disgusting place. that coming from the president's twitter. talk to me about the reaction not just from cummings but from the house speaker and other members of congress. >> that's right. there are obviously questions about race baiting and a president speaking this way about a member of congress and about a community that in which a diverse group of people live, not only ethnically, but in terms of income. representative cummings fired back on twitter. mr. president, i go home to my district daily, each mor

the united states supreme court has ruled the trump administration can use military funds to build a wall on the border with mexico the decision frees up billions of dollars and pentagon funding to upgrade parts of the border barrier trump hailed the decision as a major victory several strong earthquakes have struck islands in the far northern philippines killing at least 8 people and leaving dunned dozens of others injured locals flood their damaged homes and took shelter in town squares as aftershocks shook the region public buildings including a 19th century church were severely damaged and. hundreds of people have been arrested as they attempted to rally on the streets of moscow demanding free and fair local elections that comes after a raft of opposition and independent candidates were barred from running in the city's upcoming city election the protest was declared illegal and police began to detain people gathering for the demonstration before it even began. our correspondent emily sure one joins us now from moscow where those arrests occurred now emily you were there as polic

and we sure went in there the united states supreme court has ruled that the trumpet ministration can use military funds to build a wall on the border with mexico the decision strains of billions of dollars in pentagon funding to upgrade parts of the border barrier it's the 2nd reason victory for trump in his quest to keep migrants out of the country he has also used the threat of tariffs to push guatemala into agreeing to stop central americans trying to reach the u.s. . trump says he's done what others couldn't deal to halt would be migrants in their trucks and keep them out of the u.s. until they've been approved to come legally never mind that guatemalans highest court says the deal is legal trump calls it a success before but one of the things that studies about what a ball is we've never had a better relationship right now they've agreed to do something that's very good for the united states. we're going to work with them also we're going to bring you it's going to be a partnership. but central americans the group that make up most of the migrants coming to the u.s. seem unfazed

the united states supreme court has ruled that the trumpet ministration can use military funds to build a wall on the border with mexico the decision frees of billions of dollars and pentagon funding to upgrade parts of the border barrier it's the 2nd recent victory for trump in his quest to keep migrants out he has also used the threat of terrorists to push water into agreeing to stop central americans trying to reach the u.s. . trump says he's done what others couldn't deal to halt would be migrants in their tracks and keep them out of the u.s. until they've been approved to come legally never mind that guatemala's highest court says the deal is illegal trump calls it a success before one of the things are. what of all as we've never had a better relationship right now they've agreed to do something that's very good for the united states and we're going to work with them also we're going to it's going to be a partnership. but central americans the group that make up most of the migrants coming to the u.s. seem unfazed many say they won't stop trying to cross the border for a better li

the united states supreme court has ruled the trump administration can use military funds to build a wall on the border with mexico the decision frees up billions of dollars in pentagon funding to upgrade parts of the border barrier in the tweets trump hailed the decision as a major victory. well staying in the u.s. now president trump has announced a new migration deal with white amala just days after he threatened to impose tariffs on it both countries agreed that migrants from central america who pass through guatemala must seek asylum their 1st business leaders in guatemala had pressured their government to accept the deal for fear of economic reprisals but despite the signing the deal faces legal hurdles in the u.s. and could violate rulings by guatemala's high court trump says is that ministrations new policies are working one of the things that's nice about white amala as we've never had a better relationship right now they've agreed to do something that's very good for the united states and we're going to work with them also we're going to be it's going to be a partnership an

the streets in longmont ts bolinger reporting for us from hong kong thanks very much the united states supreme court has ruled that the trumpet ministration can use military funds to build a wall on the border with mexico the decision frees up billions of dollars in pentagon funding to upgrade parts of the border barrier it's the 2nd recent victory for trump in his quest to keep bike routes out he's also used the threat of tariffs to push water mala into agreeing to stop migrants and route to the u.s. one tweet says it's all a huge victory for united states president donald trump whose main campaign promise was to build a wall the court's 9 justices were split $5.00 to $45.00 conservative justices in favor of using pentagon funding for the wall and for liberal justice is against the decision comes on the same day a new immigration deal is signed between the u.s. and what tamala it says migrants from honduras and el salvador who pass through get a mile up must seek asylum there 1st just days before trump threatened to impose tariffs on guatemala if it didn't stop migration to the u.s. the models' hig

in 2007, he was a writer for the four hour pbs history of the united states supreme court which was awardedhe international documentary association's award for outstanding limited series. in 2007, he was a writer for the four hour pbs history of the united states supreme court which was awarded the international documentary association's award for outstanding limited series. in 2008 he was nominated for a prime time emmy in the category of outstanding achievement in outstanding filmmaking and achievement in writing for his pbs program on walt whitman. he's also the author of awill you miss me when i'm gone: the carter family and their legacy in american music,a which came out in 2002. it was one of new york times notable books of the year. it was an american library association editor's choice and a finalist for the national book criticaward. this evening, we will delve into his second book, "the statesman and the storyteller," and that's what brings us here tonight and i'd like to thank you very much for being with us and sharing this book on the day of its release to the public. >> thank

he is a repeat player in the united states supreme court. this isn't just about their integrity vis-a-vis the census/citizenship question, this whole endeavor in the events of the last obviously several months, but certainly in the last week i think go to the core of the integrity of the justice department and the willingness of this administration to flout the law. and an attorney general who is basically just acting at trump's beckoning, ignore that we have a supreme court decision that has said what -- that what they had been doing was unlawful. and the attorney general doesn't get to flout the law. this was not an advisory opinion. and so, you know, now they're scrambling to find an entirely new rationale so they can wipe the slate clean but they can't. >> well, that's the question. quickly on this, you know -- >> yeah. >> there is this idea that the executive order. there is the unring the bell problem, right? we need to "men in black" your memory and everyone in the supreme court and everyone in the public who knows this was pretextual

night the president touted the court's ruling on twitter, wow, big victory on the wall, the united states supreme court court injunction, allows 7 border wall to spreed, big win for border security and the rule of law. these funds are part of the roughly $6.7 billion the white house targeted for the wall earlier this year when president trump declared a state of emergency after congress refused to fund his signature campaign promise. this morning on "fox & friends" the president of national border control council said the new stretch of wall will make a difference in securing the border. >> this ruling by the supreme court is going to allow border patrol agents to better secure the border by dictating where illegal border crossings take place especially the narcotics and the criminal aliens that are entering the country. >> democrats aren't convinced the wall will make any difference, though, senate minority chuck schumer criticized the court's ruling saying it's a sad day when the president is cheering a decision that may allow him to steal funds from military to pay for in effective, expensive wall f

and this is how he reacted to the news on twitter he wrote a big victory on the war the united states supreme court overturns lower court injunction allows southern border war to proceed big win for border security and the rule of law had to go high and has the latest from washington. u.s. president dolls from taking to twitter claiming a huge victory at the u.s. supreme court and for now it is a victory the conservative justices ruling that he can't begin spending about $2500000000.00 in money that was meant for the u.s. military to begin signing contracts to replace border wall on the southern border now it's a little bit more complicated than that basically this lawsuit was over the question of whether the president can simply ignore congress declare a national emergency and use money the congress doesn't need it for other areas of the government to fund his wall to earlier judges that said we don't know if that's going to be legal but in the meantime you can't build the wall the supreme court is saying go ahead you can start building the wall but they're not deciding on the merits of the case t

outrageous is that the president is looking to make an end run around a decision by the united states supreme court. now i understand that the president likes his mulligans at golf, but you don't get a mulligan in the supreme court. the supreme court struck this down. it ruled that it was illegal to try to put this question on the 2020 census. and what reason they try to contrive now, i don't think it will make any difference. >> part of the strikedown of the supreme court, the whole case was basically you were arguing that the administration lied about why it was trying to put the question on, that it was misrepresenting it. it misrepresented it before the court and congress, and basically they'd they did so it egregiously that two different courts and the supreme court said you're lying and that's against the law. justice roberts said come back with maybe another reason. they basically nod to furnishing another rationale. it seems to give away the game that there are some people who are going to invent some other reason? >> that's what they seem to suggest that they may try to do here. but i want

. >> it's very interesting, all these legal scholars have an opinion. 2005, the united states of the supreme court arthur anderson petitioner versus united states. the district court level, he lost, the fifth circuit, they. [inaudible] among others, andrew weissman, the director of mr. mueller. arthur anderson went broke, 80000 people lost their jobs and the supreme court reversed the law of courts in a 9 - 0 opinion, six, seven, eight pages long. what they say in here is, wait a minute, you can't just accuse someone of obstruction because you don't like what they said. there are elements to this crime and the not so easy approve. knowingly dishonest and a corrupt intent, the president of the united states said this is white house counsel. if in fact this is true, the president denies it and says to his white house counsel i want you to get hold of the justice department and get rid of mueller because he's conflicted and he's got a whole bunch of people who are conflicted. how is that obstruction of justice if the president is saying, not be because he wants to kill an investigation, clearly every

there's some major breaking news that we're just getting in from the united states supreme courts. the supreme court has handed president trump a major victory right now by letting his administration redirect $2.5 billion in money approved by congress for the pentagon to help build his promised wall along the southern border with mexico. it was a conservative majority in favor 5 against 4 who disagreed with this final decision by the supreme court. this represents a pretty important win for the president. >> i think it is potentially significant for the president. obviously it's breaking while we are sitting here on air so we don't have time to dig into the legal rationale. but this is a sign the courts aren't going to constrain this president. what we've seen donald trump do is seize on provisions of the law that allow the president with some authority and basically flagrantly abusing them. saying i'm saying it's a national security emergency. everybody knows it's not but i'm going to invoke this provision and i dare you to stop me. this is the supreme court showing once again desp

united states? all of these questions and many more. we can't ask the question, are you a citizen of the united states? the supreme court found the executive branch was granted the authority by the united states congress, and that is the commerce secretary himself, to form the questions on the census. this is a constitutional authority that was specifically granted to the executive branch of government by the united states congress, but the court says, you have the authority to ask the question, but we think you have the wrong reason to ask the question. so now we remand it back to the lower court to come up with a better reason. here's my reason, we want to know how many citizens are in america. that's all you need to ask. it's as simple as it can be. they're well within the law. they're well within the constitution. it's just that the obama-appointed judges don't seem to be reading the constitution and the law and they seem to have political motives. so, mr. speaker, i'll close with that and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. lipinski, for

the united states supreme court overturns lower court injunction allows southern border wall to proceedbig win for border security and the rule of law. that now overturned injunction was handed down in may by a federal judge who put a hold on the use of military funding for the president's wall saying it's up to congress to allocate federal expenditures. this after the president declared a national emergency in february attempting to divert money from the pentagon to build the wall. >> what the president tried to do was basically completely disregard our democratic process. and just take money that congress hadn't given him to bid the wall anyway. >> this order by the supreme court came in response to a lawsuit filed by the american civil liberties union challenging president trump's use of emergency powers for border wall funds. the aclu responding vowing this is not over. asking the ninth circuit court of appeals to expedite the ongoing appeals proceeding to halt the irreversible and imminent damage from the border wall. marci gonzalez, abc news, los angeles. snir in the south bay, si

today he said his administration is weighing his options and they actually try to defy the united states supreme courtion blocking that question. credits for argument. it could lead to an undercount in some states including california and that could affect federal funding and congressional districts >>> today pg&e began aerial inspections of powerlines in the east bay the goal is to reduce wildfire risks the helicopter took off from buchanan field in concord to check on powerlines in cc and alameda counties pg&e has four of these choppers equipped with light detection and ranging or lidar, and the technology works as a plan to manage vegetation after the 2017/29 -- 2018 wildfires. >> we are actually going to do more than 25,000 miles of line doing the lidar. >> you may see that helicopter flying pretty low around the bay area 300 to 500 feet in elevation to measure how far the vegetation is from their distribution lines. >>> i know we started off talking about the earthquake in southern california but i know s happening in the bay area >> we have sunshine and warmer weather tomorrow and cooler weather

united. one of the things i did in my former life, i was a constitutional law professor for many year, and looking at what the supreme court of the united statesid in citizens united, i can equate it with a couple of other rulings which i think citizens united will have a similar history. pre plessy versus ferguson, and the ruling in precivil war, saying that black people are not citizens, those were two great mistakes that the supreme court of the united states made, the two greatest mistakes. the third one in my opinion is citizens united in terms of the effect upon democracy. and as some point we, as our history has shown, comes together as a democracy and says this is simply not right. this goes against the whole framework of democracy. and there will come a day -- and i'm no profphet, but the supreme court will confine citizens united to the same file that did dredd scott and plessy. as you mentioned, supervisor mar, one big allowance that we can still take care of in terms of people being sure that government is not totally bought, and that is disclosure, that even though money can be given by anyone, the people that are giving it, the u

last week, the united states supreme court blocked this move by the trump administration to have thisd president trump is now saying that he might seek to override that with the use of a so—called executive order. the question being, martin, does he have the authority to do that, for the simple reason that the us constitution vests the power in overseeing the us census with congress, and not with the president himself? right, so it's going to go to the courts again, do we think, david? this one's going to — it's going to run and run, this argument, presumably? it is going to run and run. it will now go to the courts. us government lawyers say they are looking at legal grounds for some sort of appeal, if you like, or to re—present their case to the us supreme court. so this will move forward, president trump digging his heels in on this. he believes that it is vital to determine the number of foreign nationals in the united states. he's also argued, of course, martin, in the past that millions of illegal immigrants voted in the 2016 presidential election, the election that brought him

supreme court that paves the way for defense department funds to be used for the wall. the president tweeting shortly after the ruling, wow, big victory on the wall. the united states supreme court overturns lower court injunction, allows southern border wall to proceed. big win for border security and the rule of law. this is a significant supreme court ruling along ideological lines in the president's favor. it is not a permanent ruling. this can still play out in the lower courts, but certainly it hands the president a big win on the campaign trail because now he can taut to his supporters that he's following through on his 2016 campaign programs, that his wall is being built. we should note that these funds that are being used will go also towards replacement fencing along with building new walls. all of this happened after the president directed funds from the pentagon to be used for the wall after he didn't get what he wanted from congress. you'll recall that long government shutdown, 35 days, and after that the president ended it by directing the funds that he didn't get from congress. shortly after that there were certain groups that challenged it in the co

now, last week, the united states supreme court blocked a move by the trump administration to have thatt trump now saying that he might use an executive order to basically overrule them. so, if he issues that executive order, does he actually have the authority to force that question into the census? it's a very good question, and in actualfact, a lot of legal scholars are saying that he probably doesn't, for the simple reason that in the us constitution, it falls to congress to oversee the implementation of a census here, not so much the president himself. so this is clearly destined for some sort of protracted legal challenge, given that government lawyers have told a federaljudge that they intend — they have been told to basically prepare additional arguments to go back to the us supreme court and see if they can get that verdict overturned. things are heating up in alaska — the us state has just experienced a new record high temperature. the us weather service says 90 degrees fahrenheit — or 32 celsius — was recorded at anchorage airport on independence day, ajuly. the previous high

as the ninth circuit court of appeal, the president tweeted big victory on the wall, the united states supreme court overturns lower court injunction, allows southern border wall to proceed, big win for border security and the rule of law, the department of justice issued a statement saying it was pleased with the decision. the aclu not so please, quote, border communities, the environment and our constitutional separation of powers will be permanently harmed should trump get away with pillaging military funds for a scene of phobic former wall congress denied. the sierra club sued to block the wall saying it would hurt wildlife and the environment. determined to fight on. >> thank you very much. democrats on the house judiciary committee are pushing ahead with investigating the president. chairman jerry nadler laying out that plan despite the largely anticlimactic mueller hearings. that story tonight. >> reporter: we are hearing at least one democrat sound the alarm bells on impeachment, not that it must happen or the president is a threat to the idea of america but impeachment is a threat to the de

this is what he tweeted not long ago saying wow, big victory on the wall, the united states supreme courtn border wall to proceed. big one for border security and the rule of law. this is a significant ruling by the supreme court along ideology lines and the president's favor allowing those from the defense department to be used to build the wall. you'll recall that the president directed those funds to be used for the wall after he didn't get what he wanted from congress. as you'll recall, that led to the longest government shutdown in u.s. history and the president ended it when he called for a national emergency. after that, groups immediately lower court agreed with the group's challenging it saying that congress has the power of

supreme court. >> the united states supreme court building is one of the most opposing. they were the meeting place for the tribunal of the land . >> to get to decide the most important issues back in 1790 when six, knox nine justices met, fast-forward to the race to the white house and now there are calls for as many as 15 . >> 15 members but only 10 appointed in the political fashion. five can only be seated by a unanimous agreement to the other 10 . >> elizabeth warren told politico expanding the high court is a conversation with have it. the constitution does not mandate the number of supreme court justices, back on the bench since 1869. the last time the court got close to making a significant change, 82 years ago. >> the justices will override the congress. >> reporter: frank and roosevelt was so upset in 1937 he would not go forward with the new deal plan. supreme court packing was born. >> even the vice president would support. >> he argued for the supreme court 21 times, beginning in 1986. roosevelt eventually was back in the action claim. >> he was manipulating

race and soo thats why we believe many of these lawsuits that have been filed up to the united states supreme court had ruled in favor of the employer because they've not had the law -- to really resesort to in terms of acknowledging personal traits a race based traits. the law follows a series of incidents in which african americans were denied jobs for wearing dreadlocks or braids. in one incident that went viral last december a high school wrestler new jersey was forced to cut his dreadlocks to take part in a match. at this los angeles hair salon stylist and clients alike are glad that the law passed. i have had other jobs where i feel like personally i had to change who i was for the job. and in the beginning -- it hurt because i wasn't i was always a person or will i might actually- california legislators hope that other states will follow suit. for now one city has made a step in that direction. new york which issued guidelines in february aimed at protecting natural hairstyles. it remains to be seen w whether the trend will catch on between the coasts. well you'll have to wear it proudly reg

the united states supreme court overturns lower court injunction. allows border wall to proceed. big win for the border security and the rule of law. boris, this is still not the dollar figure that the president wanted back in february, but it is a big jump toward that, enough to make people in the white house very happy this weekend. >> yeah, that's right. if you remember back at the beginning of the year when president trump declared that federal emergency, it was just after the government shutdown when he wanted to get some $6 billion from congress. he couldn't get that from democrats tochlt the white house came up with this 2 1/2 billion dollars from the pentagon. a judge decided that the white house couldn't use these funds and a broader decision was made in the lower courts was made about the president using these funds. the supreme court in that 5-4 decision didn't weigh in on whether it's appropriate generally for a president to use those funds to bypass congress to build his long-promised border wall. this is a win but potentially a temporary one. nevertheless as you saw

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even the united states supreme court said so.e has a history of prosecutorial misconduct and sending innocents to jail. how can anyone believe he randomly selected the best lawyers, so many trump haters, hillary lovers and not accidentally get one republican in there is just plain stupid. democrats say mueller did not exonerate the president. exonerate? where the hell is that from? that is an attempt to malign the president. i told you this before. i don't know one prosecutor who has ever said anything like that. you either indict or you say nothing. by saying you cannot exonerate mueller or whoever prepped him up for this hearing is leaving the president with an anchor around his neck, not allowing him to even rebate the claim he's not exonerated from is. this is the democrats turning lady justice on her head. republicans we know from the brebrett kavanaugh hearing are t entitled to the presumption of innocence. now we have a totally new fear in our justice system which is a limbo that can never be resolved since you can never p

united states supreme court overturns lower court injunction allowing southern border wall to proceed. big win for border security and the rule of law. >> build that walli, build that wall! >> on the campaign trail, immigration has been the rallying cry of donald trump's campaign and time at the white house. earlier scott jennings explained why this is such a big win and the timing is prime for the u.s. president on this issue. >> number one it is a political victory at a time when the president had come under some attack for not building the wall so he can now check that box. and this is also at a time when the most recent gallup poll shows that immigration is at the top of the list. so the president is being responsive to that. and i think it validates the president's position. he said the border issues has been a national emergency all along. since he declare national imagine, what has happened? thousands more people have come, we've all seen that it is an actual emergency. so he is valley dauleidated on . and i think this supreme court decision will bait the democrats into saying

judiciary committee wanted to mack sure that he could handle the rigors of serving on the united states supreme court. history has shown us that justice john paul stevens had not only a strong heart but a good heart when it came to serving on the united states supreme court. sadly that mighty heart finally did stop beating last week. justice stevens was 99 years old. he died peacefully with his daughters elizabeth and susan by his side. my state of illinois is proud to claim john paul stevens as native son. he was a member of a prominent chicago family and grew up in the luxury of his family's hotel, then known as the stevens hotel now known as the hilton hotel on michigan avenue. he never used his family's wealth to shirk his responsibilities. in world war ii he was a lieutenant commander in the navy and awarded the bronze star after downing a plane who planned an attack on pearl harbor. after the war he was a champion of good, ethical government. it was john paul stevens' integrity, as much as his brilliant legal mind, that convinced president gerald ford to nominate him, then a federal judge, on t

the united states supreme court overturns a lower court injunction letting the southern wall be builtn for border security and the rule of law. moments ago the news came out the supreme court said yes, president trump is right to be able to reprogram money already appropriated to the pentagon and other agencies for the border security. he can now use that and reprogram it for the wall. ned ryun, your reaction? >> i have been arguing section 284 authorizations by the defense budget. we can repurpose it. this is his right as commander-in-chief to use the funding to have national security and secure the southern border. i am encouraged to hear that. we know $2.5 billion is a start in the right direction. there is going to be a lot more money needed but this is a massive step in the right direction. liz: we for a year have been going through the existing regulations, the cbo saying the president is within his rights to do this. next up, we'll bring you a breakdown of the bias in the media on the mueller hearings. this time it's "the washington post" claiming law makers grilling robert mue

the united states supreme court overturns the court injunction. meanwhile nancy pelosi in a tweet of her own said the supreme court is allowing the president to quote/unquote steal defense didn't money. so others are vowing to move forward with court fights, but for now, a big victory for the president, jo. >> thank you very much. >>> danny, do you think this is a big win for the president? >> it is. these cases are always confusing. you have injunctions, which by their very nature are confusing. now the supreme court stopped the stopping. the supreme court can be confusing to keep track of. you can take money from one purse to use it for another purse. the plaintiff is saying, no, you kilometer do that. all the court did last night was say that the construction can begin while this case is being litigated. so it's not truly an ultimate win, but in a sense it's a win because while we're waiting for this case to get resolved, the government gets the win in that it can commence building. it'sing are interesting. justice brier filed a consent. one of