The Fight

Chief Justice Roberts: I, Donald John Trump,

do solemnly swear...

Donald Trump: I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear...

Roberts: That I will faithfully execute...

Trump: That I will faithfully execute...

Roberts: The office of president

of the United States...

Trump: The office of president of the United States...

Roberts: And will, to the best of my ability...

Trump: And will, to the best of my ability...

Roberts: Preserve, protect, and defend...

Trump: Preserve, protect, and defend...

Roberts: The Constitution of the United States.

Trump: The Constitution of the United States.

Crowd: (chanting) Immigrants in! Donald Trump out!

Immigrants in! Donald Trump out!

Always the most difficult decision of the case,

which tie to wear.

And yet they're both almost exactly the same.

News Anchor 1: Breaking right now, President Donald Trump's

executive order to ban immigration

appears to have taken effect already.

New Anchor 2: Homeland security officials started holding

immigrants this morning who were arriving

from these seven Muslim countries in the Middle East.

The president's order bans nearly a hundred...

Trump: I'm establishing new vetting measures

to keep radical Islamic terrorists

out of the United States of America.

We don't want 'em here.

News Anchor: All day, demonstrations have been

growing outside at JFK airport.

The crowds there chanting...

Crowd: (chanting) Let them out!

Lee Gelernt: I was at home. I'm slowly seeing

the news coverage at the airport.

News Anchor 1: More than 100 people detained

or denied entry into the United States

at airports across the country.

Michael George: We've seen volunteer lawyers,

and they're literally in the terminal,

sitting on the ground on laptops trying to write arguments,

write briefs to try and get these individuals released.

News Anchor 2: The Trump administration

holding firm that the president not only has the authority

to pursue the order, but a duty.

Gelernt: I said to my wife and kids,

"I'm going out to court," still not really grasping

the magnitude of what was happening.

Crowd: (chanting) A-C-L-U, we are here we stand with you!

A-C-L-U, we are here we stand with you!

News Anchor: The ACLU have gone to a federal courthouse

in Brooklyn to try to implement a stay for the Executive Order.

Gelernt: And the judge came in and said to the lawyers

for the government, "Can you tell me right now

that letting these people come into the country

will threaten our national security?"

The government said, "Well, the president believes so."

Someone from the audience came rushing up to me.

And he handed me a piece of paper and said,

"My client is about to be put on a plane in 20 minutes

back to the Middle East.

And she will be in serious danger."

News Anchor: We're going to take you straight

to the federal courthouse there in Brooklyn, New York.

Correspondent: We have not received any word,

they're not letting anyone else in, but the crowd here

is sort of anxiously awaiting word from inside

as they all sort of press their noses up to the glass

and look inside to see when the lawyers come back out.

Woman: Just leaving the courthouse...

The stay was granted!

The stay was granted! The judge was amazing,

giving love to the ACLU! Thank you to the ACLU lawyers!

Crowd: (cheering)

Correspondent: The immigration lawyers are raising their fists

in the air! They're pumping their fists!

Crowd: (cheering)

Anthony Romero: This is Lee Gelernt,

deputy director of the Immigrants' Rights Project,

who argued in the federal court just now.

Lee, why don't you tell us what the judge granted

and what you asked for?

The judge, in a nutshell, saw through what the government

was doing and gave us what we wanted,

which was to block the Trump order.

Everyone now who came is safe.

The president could not override the courts.

Crowd: (chanting) Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Thank you!

Man: Thank you all!

News Anchor 1: The Supreme Court today ruled that states

may not forbid the teaching of evolution in public schools.

News Anchor 2: The Lovings were convicted under Virginia law,

which forbids any white person

and colored person marrying each other.

News Anchor 3: The Supreme Court today legalized abortion.

News Anchor 4: The ACLU urged that the government stop trying

to regulate pornography.

News Anchor 5: The American Civil Liberties Union

is maintaining the Nazis are being denied free speech.

The American Civil Liberties Union planning

to make same-sex marriage legal nationwide.

So help me God.

Roberts: Congratulations, Mr. President.

Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete

shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.

We've never seen anything like this

in our 96-year history.

Trump: I would absolutely bring back waterboarding

and if it's gonna be tougher than waterboarding,

I would bring that back.

Do you believe in punishment for abortion.

There has to be some form of punishment.

Chris Matthews: For the woman?

Yeah. There has to be some form.

I want surveillance of certain mosques, okay?

I will build a great, great wall.

Jane Doe: (speaking Spanish)

Brigitte Amiri: Somewhere in this pile

is the anonymous letter that was sent to me.

This is it.

Uh, my name is handwritten in pencil, uh, misspelled.

So I can read parts of the letter but I can't read

all of it, because it has identifying information.

It says "Today is 12/17.

There is a girl at blank shelter in blank state.

She wants an abortion, but O.R.R. will not allow it."

Amiri: The government can't ban people

from accessing abortion.

I called the Department of Justice when I found out

this was happening, and I said,

"You can't be serious. You cannot be physically

obstructing someone from accessing

their constitutional right to an abortion."

And they said, "So sorry, that's our client's position."

And I said, "Well, then you will not be surprised

when I challenge it in court."

I wanna know, like, how he was appointed,

who contacted him, how he came to work for O.R.R.

-Things like that. -Yeah.

Amiri: And then it's like, who has he talked to

about abortion? VP? President?

Why can't I ask that? I can ask that, right?

You can ask that. Yeah.

Videographer: Will the court reporter

please swear in the witness?

Court Reporter: Do you swear to tell the truth,

the whole truth, and nothing but the truth

-so help you God? -I do.

Amiri: This minor had been raped, correct?

Uh, well she claimed to have been raped, yes.

Amiri: Do you have any reason to disbelieve her?

No.

This minor had thoughts of self-harm?

She expressed something along those lines, yes.

Amiri: You also believe that abortion is a sin.

What does that have to do with anything?

Amiri: It has to do with a lot. I get to ask the questions.

-Sure. -Amiri: Mr. Tomlinson

can object. So my question is,

do you believe abortion is a sin?

-Yes -Tomlinson: I can object.

He's testified in the past that he does not let religion

guide his job.

Amiri: I'm trying to understand what the policy really is here

with respect to abortion requests.

Okay, then let's talk about the policy.

Amiri: Okay. I'm trying to understand

whether there is any abortion request

that you are ever going to approve.

And the answer is which I've answered

is, "I don't know."

Trump: Now for the first time since Roe v. Wade,

America has a pro-life president,

a pro-life vice president,

a pro-life House of Representatives,

and 25 pro-life Republican state capitals.

That is pretty good.

That is pretty good.

Wow!

Brock Stone: The first thing I knew about the tweet was

I'd had a friend that texted me that morning, and she was like,

"Well whatever you do, don't look at Twitter

and don't look at the news." And I was like,

"That's a weird thing to tell me."

And what am I gonna do?

The first thing I'm gonna do is look at the news.

News Anchor 1: The latest presidential tweetstorm

seemed to blindside his own Pentagon,

which promptly referred all inquiries

back to the White House.

News Anchor 2: The Pentagon estimates there are roughly

2,500 transgender service members on active duty.

Stone: It was kind of shocking. It was kind of just, like,

a disconnect. Like, it didn't feel real at first.

News Anchor: Look, transgenderism

is not an actual thing.

It's a mental dysfunction. We have two genders right now...

Stone: I think I just kept rolling over in my head,