From overnight now in a big victory for the Trump team at the Supreme Court on the travel BAM
Those justices allowing the current version to go into full effect at least temporarily, but the battle could be far from over for now
72 decision good morning i'm bill hemmer live inside of America's
Newsroom hey doing good. I'm doing all right. Good morning. Good to see you
I'm Sandra Smith seven of the nine justices agreed to allow the Trump administration to enforce the travel
ban the White House praising the decision saying quote the
Proclamation is lawful and essential to protecting our homeland. We look forward to presenting a fuller defense of the proclamation
The Trump administration arguing that blocking the full ban
Which impacts eight countries was causing quote irreparable harm to national security so our chief legal correspondent
Anchor of Fox News at night look who it is shannon bream. Good morning to you on the steps
What does this decision mean right now for the administration once you start there over the protests in the back?
Yes, we do have protests will talk about those coming up
But this could not have been a better decision for the White House after various lower court decisions
Blocking all the different forms of the travel ban in whole or in part the Supreme Court has now sent travel ban 3.0
That's the one that came out in September it can move forward being fully enforced while the lower court
Challenges continue to play out it is important to note
This is not a decision on the merits meaning the Supreme Court is not saying that it finds travel
Ban 3/4 knows completely legal or constitutional only that the justices will allow it to be enforced for now travel ban 3.0
Does impact travelers from 8 different countries now critics vow that they will keep fighting that includes the ACLU saying this quote?
President Trump's anti-muslim prejudice is no secret
It's unfortunate that the full ban can move forward for now we continue to stand for freedom equality and for those who are unfairly being
separated from their loved ones
Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayor both indicated. They would not have allowed traveling 13.0 to go into a black belt all right so now
What is at stake for the for the case and for the court now next?
Okay, so what you're hearing today are both sides of this argument that the justices will tackle today balancing the idea of religious freedom
against the rights of LGBT couples and others it pits
Basically a baker from Colorado Jack Phillips is his name masterpiece cakes and bakery is his business
He says he will serve anyone who comes to him
but he will not craft specific items for events or
Messages he finds in conflict with his Christian faith in this case. It was same-sex marriage. I
Serve everybody that comes in gay straight Catholic Muslim atheist I welcome everybody into my shop
I just don't create cakes for every event that's
Presented to me
So we talked exclusively with the couple at the center of this case charlie Craig and David Mullins they visited Phillips, Lakewood
Colorado shop in 2012 before same-sex marriage was legal in that state
They asked him to design a wedding cake for their reception which was going to be held in Colorado after they were legally married in
Massachusetts Phillips declined to make the cake, but offered to sell them ready-made items in the bakery they say the whole experience was humiliating
you know it's embarrassing to say, but I cried we
Teared up it was a very
Painful and emotional moment for us I feel like the moment made us feel helpless
Now both sides of this dispute say they're feeling confident today
They are out in full force the case will be heard at 10 a.m.
Eastern a decision is expected by June all right, so what's the noise behind you or off to the side? What's that?
We do have both sides here. We have those who are advocating on behalf of religious business owners who say listen
I'm happy to serve anyone
I don't turn anyone away for service
But if you want me to craft something using my artistic skills or specific abilities for your event
That's where I'm gonna have to say no if it offends my deeply held religious. You genuinely held religious beliefs
Those are the criteria the court will look at the other side. We have many LGBT
Rights supporters. They are rallying here today to say any denial of service is a denial of service
It's discrimination and this court must not allow
So we'll see what the nine justices we shout nice to see again shannon shannon bream on the steps of the Supreme Court Thank You
Fox News Alert now president Trump digging in on tax reform as Republican lawmakers work to meet his Christmas deadline
Vice President Mike Pence will be heading to Capitol Hill today to meet with
Senate Republicans the president weighing in promising to spread the holiday cheer with massive tax cuts
without one huge step closer to delivering to the American people the
Historic tax relief as a giant present for Christmas remember. I said we're bringing Christmas back
Christmas is back
chief White House correspondent John Roberts is live at the White House a Christmas present for the American people sounds lovely John
And the president reminding folks there in Utah as well that he is saying Merry Christmas again
He's bringing Christmas back the president working the phones today to talk with folks in the Senate in the house about tax reform
He's having lunch today with a small group of Republican senators senator Lamar Alexander
Tennessee Cory, Gardner of Colorado
Bringing over a handful of people who wanted to talk face-to-face with the president about a number of different issues this lunch will not be
specific to tax reform, though
I am told tax reform will definitely be part of the agenda the White House cautiously enthusiastic about how things are being
Are progressing in the Senate and in the house Senate conferees?
Being appointed today the White House hoping to limit the scope of the conference that
Reconciles the House and Senate versions of the bill to try to make everything as expedient as possible
some areas
That's put them up on the screen for you here where there is more work to be done small business taxes the so-called pass-throughs
Move to get the Senate bill closer to the House bill
Also more work to do in the state and local tax deduction some members looking for more flexibility
I'm told and how the deduction can be applied both bills currently capped the deduction at 10k
And no push to change that just to add more
Flexibility to it the White House also wants to fix the AMT the Senate bill did not repeal the AMT
That was kind of a last-minute pave
For that they thought that they could fix in the conference don't forget the president made 31 million dollars in AMT according to that leak
2005 tax return in Alabama politics, and this is pretty big the president yesterday
I took the controversial step of giving
full-throated endorsement to Republican candidate Roy Moore the president called Moore from Air Force One
Yesterday as he was headed to Utah to give him his support finish the call by saying quote
Go get him Roy now
The White House won't say whether or not the president will do in a campaign events for more. He does have an event in
Pensacola on Friday Pensacola very close to the Florida Alabama border and Pensacola reaches into the Mobile
Alabama market
So it's possible that there could be something for Roy Moore in that the Republican National Committee
Also reopened with more the decision was made that since he's not dropping out they can't afford to lose the seat to Doug Jones
So they're back in the game
What might happen to Moore after?
He is elected should he be elected though Sandra is
Another question still a lot of questions here at the White House a lot of debate as to whether or not
He will actually be seated in the Senate. We'll see where it goes
It's a week from today all right John and how has the FBI agent Peter stroke affected the investigation on Russian interference?
Well certainly it's a affect that the perception if anything because we found out yesterday that as part of the investigation Peter stroke did
interview
General Michael
Flynn and now we find out that his role strokes role in the Clinton email
Investigation is now under review that prompted a tweet from the president yesterday what you said quote report anti-trump FBI agent. Led
Clinton email probe now it all starts to make sense
Stroke has maintained a very low profile as an FBI counterintelligence
Investigator we don't even have a photo of him the Department of Justice inspector
General is reviewing his role in the Clinton email scandal including reports that he watered down
Language in the final Comey report changing the words quote grossly negligent - extremely careless
The president took aim at the FBI broadly yesterday tweeting that his reputation is in tatters
Which prompted the current FBI director Christopher Rea to sent an email to FBI personnel in which?
I am continually reminded of the breadth and significance of our work and that he is quote inspired by example after example
Of professionalism and dedication to justice demonstrated around the bureau it is truly an honor to represent
You gray ended the memo with his favorite Maxim. Which is keep calm and
Tackle hard it certainly. We're only just hearing the beginnings of all of this as it relates to Peter stroke Sandra got it
John Roberts live at the White House
Thank you another way of saying carry on write more now Byron or to put a correspondent watch The Examiner Fox inhibitor Byron good morning
To you morning three topics quickly now does the FBI have a credibility issue now or not as far
as these heavily politicized
Investigations are concerned yes, they do
Peter stroke seems to be a figure who's popped up in all of these and not only the Hillary Clinton
Probe and not only the Muller probe, but you have to remember the FBI started its
investigation its counterintelligence
investigation into the Trump Russia affair in the summer of last year of 2016
Went on for almost a year before Muller was appointed and Peter stroke was part of that too, so in terms of these politicized
Investigations, yes, okay now on taxes Nancy Pelosi laid it on the line when she said the following late yesterday
The debate on health care is life. Death this is
Armageddon
This is a very big deal because you know why there's really a very hard way to come back from this mm-hmm
What is the?
concern as this moves the conference because apparently Kevin Brady said the
Obamacare mandate will be included on the house side as it has been in the Senate side. Yeah well
I think I think Democrats as you saw you don't get much bigger than Armageddon
I think there in the throw your body in front of this stage of the legislative process
for
Republicans there are some big questions that they have to resolve between the House version and the Senate version a big one being the
Obamacare individual mandate it is eliminated in the Senate version not in the House version
But you got to imagine that most House Republicans are gonna like change
Then there's the number of tax brackets
You know there are seven in the Senate version just four in the House version
There are other differences over the estate tax and tax rates and other things all of these differences though seem to be
bridgeable gaps
After the House and the Senate took the big steps of passing their bills
Yeah
Thank You Byron check out your piece from the Logan act yesterday very interesting a
Busy news day senior counselor the president Kelly and Conway talks about tax reform, and the latest on Michael
Flynn and all that coming up next hour here on America's newsroom
squeezing like 20 pounds into a
Four pound bag today, so that's coming up. I even say it's a busy news day
Every day all right well breaking overnight a police officer shot dead after an ambush-style attack what we are now learning about the suspect
Plus the UN trying to reach out directly to Kim Jeong unsetting a top official to Pyongyang former, UN
Ambassador John Bolton weighs in on that plus there's this
They were talking about collusion this time six months ago, but there's no evidence of that so now they've pivoted to obstruction of justice
president Trump's attorney sparking a debate about obstruction of justice
as the Special Counsel investigation appears to pivot in a new direction
We'll talk about this as we learn more about the role of that anti-trump FBI agent with Alan Dershowitz
The swamp is sicker
More corrupt more dishonest than we thought it was so we just have to dig deeper throw the rascals out
we have to recognize the election of 2018 is going to be truly historic because it's going to be between a
Radical left that is stunningly corrupt and the rest of us
People have the right to assume the people that are investigating them are objective and have not already made up their minds
That's why we need to see the text and we need to interview this special agent
But the bureau's had a really bad last 18 months and and and this
This makes it worse for Emily trey gowdy with Brent last night on the question surround the FBI as we learn now several months later
the FBI agent fired from the Special Counsel matter after sending
anti-trump text messages
That agent was one of several oversaw the the interview of Michael Flynn
We now know he was also the same agent who convinced then FBI director James Comey to alter the final language in the Clinton email
Exoneration from grossly negligent to extremely careless how big a deal is all of this Harvard Law Professor
Alan Dershowitz with me out of florida sir good day. Good morning to you Wall Street Journal editorial
Here's the headline the special counsel is stonewalling Congress and protecting the FBI to you sir
Do you believe there is a?
Conflict of interest here on behalf of Robert Moore
Well, I think there was a conflict on the part of the FBI agent. He should have recused himself immediately
He knew before anybody that he had sent these tweets. He knew before anybody that he had a bias
I do not believe that it was he who made the decision to ultimately change the accuse a ssin against Hillary, Clinton
From gross negligence to whatever extreme carelessness that was obviously a decision that had to be approved and made
by Comey himself
so
As far as we know in the summer he took him off the case
I think he should have been more transparent about it and made that public but on balance
I don't think this really reflects badly on the entire FBI or on the entire
investigation I have problems the investigation
independent of that
But I think call me ultimately I think ultimately Muller did the right thing okay a bit of a connection here issue here
Hearing me, but I apologize. I'm walking over here that last point there, but now you're good. You're good
You're coming on skype you wrote a piece about why did Flynn lie?
And I'm not here to ask you to answer that
But the obvious answer is you think you're doing something wrong and therefore you don't tell the truth
The the more important point I think you make in the piece is that?
The fact that he was charged with lying is a sign of weakness on behalf of the special counsel now
Why do you make that point?
Well, I think when the special counsel wants to indict some
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