daniel ragsdale was replaced around 10:30 this evening. again, we don't have any explanation as to why he was taken out. tonight's personnel moves come as multiple lawsuits have come challenges the constitutionality of friday's executive order and after huge protests erupted at airports nationwide following the temporary detention of people traveling to the u.s. with valid green cards and visas. today five judges in five districts all ruled against the order. the order went 0 for 5. also by council on american-islamic relations the largest muslim civil rights organization in the country. there is a lot going on. a lot of it is as yet unexplained. again, the big headline tonight, president donald trump firing the acting attorney general of the united states sally yates after she refused to defend his executive order in court. this story broke in the 9:00 p.m. eastern hour. and one of our guests in our 9:00 p.m. eastern hour was eric lish bloe blou, an investigator for the "new york times" who was essentially learning the news as we were as

daniel ragsdale was replaced by thomas homan. he has been in ice and removal operations since 2013. there was no immediate reason given for the change, but the homeland security secretary john kelly said, i am confident that homan will continue to serve as a strong, effective leader for the men and women of ice. homeland security said late last night that daniel ragsdale returns to his full-time position as deputy director. >>> and now to the decision to give white house chief strategist steve bannon a seat on the principle's committee. the former nsa director michael hayden expressed concern saying the move seems to put ideology over the expertise of the director of the national security and the joint chiefs chairman. >>> and former obama senior adviser david axelrod is weighing in saying, he woke up as an alternative fact at press secretary sean spicer said this on "morning joe" and later at his press briefings. >> david axelrod attended national security meetings, as did robert gibbs. so all we did was become transparent and put down on paper who is going to attend. >> well, let'

president trump named thomas homan to the position late monday, firing acting ice director daniel ragsdale. homan is not new to ice... he has served as the agency's executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations since 2013. and another major staffing announcement coming today. president trump preparing to announce his pick for a new supreme court justice. and sources say that list is down to three final contenders. all three are young, george w. bush appointees who currently serve on seperate circuits of the u-s court of appeals. the two front-runners are judges neil gorsuch and thomas hardiman. gorsuch is a natural choice for any republican president and expected to have similar principles as the late justice antonin scalia. hardiman is a solid conservative who was active in republican pol federal bench. the third choice - william pryor is still in the running but is fading, according to people familiar with the search process. all three met with trump in new york during the transition period. the president will announce his final pick at eight o'clock tonight. meanwhi

contrary to reporting, daniel ragsdale has been i.c.e. dep tip director for more than four years and remains deputy director. so what exactly does that mean? was he never acting director? was he promoted and then demoted? how do e we follow this when we're not sure who to believe? joining us is the white house reporter if for "the huffington post" and she's been covering this story all evening. thank you for coming on the show to help us understand this. i. >> thank you for having me. . >> it's a little confusing at this point. can you tell us who daniel ragsdale is and what just happened to him. >> certainly, daniel is the now former acting director of i.c.e. he was the acting director for exactly ten days. from the 20th to now, from trump's inauguration. as a civil servant, he was simply deemoted and replaced with a man named thomas whoman, who was the chief enforcement officer at i.c.e. >> sorry to interrupt you. was this -- does this mean that thomas is now going to serve in that job for ten days and they have some other person in min

. >> the president just replaced daniel ragsdale as the acting director of immigration and customs enforcement, appointing thomas holman to take over and previously he led isis efforts to identify, detain, and deport undocumented immigrants. the statement on this from john kelly gave no reason to switch. after the presidential remarks i just heard, the leaked copy of the state department memo landed in the hands of reporters. it's signed by 100 diplomats who served republican and democratic administrations, and there's a few versions of the memo out there tonight, all object to the temporary bans now in place. sean spicer had something to say about that earlier. >> i think that they should either get with the program, or they can go. >> now he is one of the most visible faces in the trump administration, and he often spars with reporters but tonight sean spicer opened up about why he does the job the way he does. here's garrett haake. >> before i get to the news of the day, i think i would like to discuss the coverage of the last this hours. >> reporter: the pilot episode of the new washington

he replaces acting director daniel ragsdale, will maintain previous full-time position as deputy director. >> as you just heard, one of the frontrunners on president trump's list of picks for the supreme court has tide pennsylvania. federal appeals court hardiman, 51, serves on the same court as the president. the third circuit court of appeals is based in philadelphia, but judge hardiman works out of pittsburgh. >> i have argued before judge hard man, several times, and i have both won cases and lost cases before him. based on that experience i would say that he is an excellent judge. >> the choice would replace the late justice anthony scale ya who died last february. cbs news will have live coverage of president trump pick for the supreme court that coverage begins tonight at 8:00 right here on cbs-3. >>> and in other news the fbi and philadelphia police hope you can help them ida bank robbery suspect. take a look, they believe this man walked into the bb and c branch 1600 block of market street monday morning, handed the tell area threatening note, and left with cash. of course if you

department veteran thomas homan replaces the acting director daniel ragsdale. ragsdale keeps the job of deputy director. >>> a dramatic 12 hours and more drama ahead today. president trump preparing the choice for supreme court tonight. that announcement in the east room at 8:00 p.m. mr. trump wrapped up interviews last week. closes source to the issue say these are the most likely finalists. neil gorsuch, thomas hardiman and william pryor jr. despite options, democrats are concerned republicans would deploy the nuclear option and reducing the threshold for declare aing a filibuster from votes to 51. >>> stoking concerns on wall street this morning. the tax cuts are not the priority. the dow tumbled for the biggest loss since the election. the growing fear of divisions with republicans could stall the number one goal of investors. in a meeting with small business leaders monday, the president brushed aside criticism of the rally he started. >> the stock market has gone up massively since the election. everyone is saying the market will go down. the market's not

daniel ragsdale returns to his previous post. and you may recall last week four top state department officials left, along with the border patrol chief. when asked about dissent over the president's immigration order today, press secretary spicer said they should, quote, get with the program or they can go. >>> well exits do occur during a presidential transition, but how unique is it that we're seeing it play out this way? >> joining us with some more per speck s speckti -- perspective nbc's senior politica let's start with the acting attorney general. she probably would have been out of a job within days as soon as the president's choice is confirmed. but are you surprised at how all that was handled, in particular the very tough language calling her weak? >> yes. certainly the statement about betrayal is something i haven't seen with someone leaving even when someone is fired from a position. but all political appointees end up serving at the pleasure of the president of the united states. so most legal experts say that it was

ragsdale, last night without the any explanation. so ragsdale was let go just two hours after the president fired sally yates. >>> you're fired. >>> he is used to say it and said it a lot yesterday. >>> another major announcement slated tonight for president trump, this is big in prime time. he will reveal his pick for the vacant seat of the supreme court and a pennsylvania judge is in the running, alex. >> from our area it is judge thomas hard -- hardiman, he is serving the in the u.s. court of appeals third circuit. he is serving in the philadelphia area the second pick is likely to be neil gorsuch, 49 year-old judge irving in the tenth circuit court of appeals. tune into tonight at "fox news" at 8:00 to find out who will be the next supreme court justice. it will be in prime time. >> people always say, reason to vote for president, number one reason to vote for a president of the united states is because that person is likely to appoint a supreme court justice. >> this could affect a generation. >> yeah. >> years and years. >> he

ragsdale without the any explanation, ragsdale was let go just two hours after the president fired sally yates. >>> happening right now, lawyers are working to get the two syrian families back to the you had after their visas were cancelled at philadelphia international airport when that he ban went in effect. these two families are syrian christians with relatives in allentown who are u.s. citizens. they were denied entrance on saturday and returned to syria the family obtained their visa after a 13 year effort. >>> pat toomey weighing in on president trump's executive order on monday releasing a statement saying in part quote unfortunately, the initial executive order was flawed. it wases too broad and poorly explained. this apparently resulted in denied entry in the united states for lawful permanent residents and others who should have been allowed immediate entry. >>> out of office for just ten day former president barack obama is breaking his silence. spokesperson for mr. trump released this statement saying in part the president fund. ly disagrees with the notion of the discrimina

immigrations and custom enforcement replacing formerer acting ice director daniel ragsdale no reason was given for his dismissal. >> developing right now police are searching for a gunman that shot and killed a man at the bp gas station on walters lane in disstrict heights. "fox5" was first on the scene. they do not know if the shooting was random or targeted but it appears to be a robbery. >> the man suspected of kid fanning and forceing a georgetown student top withdrawal cash from atms in the ea january 26 in the 3400 block o street northwest and the suspect's vehicle is described as light gray or silver suv. >> and 5:06 is the time. michael thomas you certainly are a man of the morning. bringing you back in to talk about the cold temperatures. >> i'm more relaxed than yesterday all that chaos. >> there was a lot going on yesterday morning. >> this morning mostly cold temperatures. snow for some. here in d.c. i think we might escape this morning without getting more snowfall. there's satellite and radar. look at the last couple frames there you can see how things are turning back

ragsdale. the switch came just hours after president trump fired acting attorney general sally yates. homan is not new to ice...he has been with the agency for over thirty years, and was honored for deporting nearly one million undocumented immigrants in a three year span new this morning.... president trump will leave intact a 20-14 executive order that protects federal workers from anti-l-g-b-t-q discrimination. the white house released a statement earlier this morning. it says trump is, quote, "determined to protect the rights of all americans, including the l-g-b-t-q community." the directive protects people from l-g-b-t-q discrimination while working for federal contractors. and protests continue at san francisco international airport for a third straight day. demonstrators are gathering to protest president trump's travel ban. this is video from yesterday's protests one woman tells kron 4 that she waited four hours for her husband after he was detained. the couple has been in america for

no explanation given for why daniel ragsdale was removed from that position. he was replaced with thomas hommen, who was an executive director with i.c.e. >>> and paul ryan is defending the president's executive order to restrict immigration from seven majority muslim countries. he says the order is in keeping with the president's authority. >> there is nothing wrong with taking a pause and making sure that we have the proper vetting standards in place, so that we do not have a problem like france had with paris. >> speaker ryan said the order was similar to legislation that the house passed after the paris terror attacks. >>> and new this morning, an allentown family is filing a federal lawsuit against a trump administration over the travel ban. the family and lawyers are holding a news conference right now in center city, about the lawsuit. here's a live look at it. philadelphia mayor jim kenney is speaking right now. he opposed president trump's immigration travel ban. authorities for the -- attorneys for the family are filing a lawsuit on their relatives.

the white house made the announcement after president trump fired ice director daniel ragsdale, last night without any explanation. ragsdale was let go just two hours after the president fired sally yates. >>> another major announcement slated for tonight for president trump in prime time. he will reveal his pick for vacant seat on the supreme court. and pennsylvania judge is in the running. from our area is judge thomas hardiman at 51 years old he is currently serving in the u.s. court of appeals third circuit he served in pittsburgh but now serving philadelphia area his office is down the street from where we are right now. the the second pick is likely to be neil gorsuch, he is serving in the tenth circuit court of appeals in denver. president trump will make the announcement during an address to the nation tonight at 8:00 o'clock. >> we will have it for you. >> this is a very big thing. so many people have been waiting and talking about this >> as i said hours ago, one of the main reasons you need to vote for president of the united states because that person is likely to announc

immigrations and custom enforce m and he rereplaces ice director daniel ragsdale no reason was given for his dismissal. he has served since 2013. morning. hi, tuck. >> good morning, it feels chilly. >> feels like end of january. >> good to us. >> couple light showers and snow flurries flying across the area those quickly pushing off northeast as we get a warm front moving on through. reagan national 43. dulles and bwi marshall are both below freezing. most of the area below freezing be prepared for a cold morning. i think we'll warm up a little this afternoon. upper 40s to low 50s expected for daytime eyes. leftover snow shower activity well east of us at the moment looks like up towards baltimore and as it continues to push away here should drag clouds with it and partly sunny this afternoon. i mention breezes with us throughout the day today. it will be i bit breezy out there and daytime highs 50 with sunshine. 7 day has snow on it. >> yes. >> and the weekend we'll look at that the momentarily. >> i can't remember if he sees his shadow or n honest. >> i thought if he sees it six mo

daniel ragsdale will return to his previous job as the agency's deputy director. he was being replaced by executive director thomas hohmann. there has been no explanation for that change. brexit minister david davis is naming british lawmaker aston -- asking british lawmakers to trust the people. he called on the house of commons, warning there was no turning back on brexit. >> there must be no attempt to remain inside the european union, no attempt to rejoin through the back door and no second referendum. the country voted to leave the european union and it is the duty of the government to make sure that we do just that. >> the house of commons>> is the 17 word bill that would let prime minister theresa article 50y trigger of the treaty. global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. david: thanks very much. to some headlines now, secretary kelly, head of the department of homeland security speaking outside that agency addressing that the immigration executive orde

thomas holman replacing president obama's holdover daniel ragsdale served as isis executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations since 2013. former nypd officer and border patrol agent who is described as being, quote, really good at deporting people. the u.s. navy seal who gave his life in that massive terror takedown in yemen has now been identified as chief petty officer ryan owen. he was killed as members of seal team 6, which he served on, stormed al qaeda headquarters in that country. they killed 14 operatives. he was from poor i can't, -- pea illinois. he was awarded with two bronze stars. he was just 36 years old and leaves behind a young family. we are praying for that family today. so sad and what a tragedy. brian: and the three hurt. all right. thanks, heather. heather: thank you, brian. brian: 13 minutes after the hour. think all muslims are against president trump's immigration order? think again. >> i thank president trump in his first week for beginning to safeguard the lives and circumstances of muslims not only in the united states but around the w