this is what john roberts wrote. we do not have obama judges or bush judges or clinton judges, what we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal rights to those appearing before them. president trump made appe habit blasting judges that rule against him. >> an alternate plan for the asylum seekers. the plan called "remain in mexico" would force those seeking asylum in america to do just that, to wait in mexico while their cases are processed. it would be a major break of current screening procedures. >> joining us now cnn political analyst, margaret tall kwreuf, and nathan gonzalez. welcome, friends. happy thanksgiving to you all. >> happy thanksgiving. >> you were in the white house or administration when john roberts was nominated to be the chief justice of the united states by president bush, and he is, of course, a republican-appointed judge. i think a pretty mild mannered guy. it takes a lot for him to weigh in the way he did. i am wondering why you think he chose this

his comments to justice john roberts, chief justice john roberts, came hours after the report that trump had pressured an independent wing of our government to do his bidding. you'll recall according to the "new york times" trump wanted the justice department to prosecute two of his political adversaries, hillary clinton and james comey, whom he fired. to help us make clear just how unusual this is, we are joined once again by the author and presidential historian michael beschloss. his latest work essential reading, especially during these times, is called "presidents of war." it is available now wherever fine books are sold, as they say. so michael, not that historians have a moment to jump off the train and do what you do best and assess, but take just this week. how will we assess this reported attempt to use the justice department to harm an adversary? and today this attempt to discredit the federal bench and chiefly the supreme court. >> well, we've seen a president really trying to get americans not to trust the judicial branch of our government. i never thought i would live to se

. >> good evening, i much ashley in for lou, our top stories, supreme court chief justice john roberts weighing into politics day after trump slams an active obama act pointed federal judge for ruling against trump asylum prob la maproclamation that wouh en our borders. roberts said there no such thing as a obama judge. take up that chief justice's comments and why he should stay out of politics with former federal prosecutor sydney powell. >> and house republicans will hear testimony from prosecutor appointed to investigate corrupt dealings of the clinton foundation, while hillary clinton served at secretary of state. appears that g.o.p. is interested in answers. >> and sarah carter will join to us take up latest with the investigation. and new reports of increase chinese hacking, aimed at stealing more u.s. technology and intellectual property. this as president trump is scheduled to meet with his chinese counter part, xi jinping at the g20 summit next week. as president said yesterday, he will not allow chinese to rip off americans any more. >> i have another 250 billion dollars wor

roberts just shortly after john roberts issued that really rare rebuke of what president trump said yesterday as he was departing to come to west palm beach, florida, saying he wanted to file a complaint after the ninth circuit court ruled against his asylum changes. and now he's going after the chief justice of the supreme court. i'm not sure too many people had the president versus the chief justice as something that was going to happen over the thanksgiving holiday but that's what we're seeing play out right now on the president's own twitter feed. jim, this seems to be a recurring pattern from the president with anyone who stands up to him or offers any criticism of anything he said, and clearly john roberts was offended by the president's remarks to reporters yesterday which caused him to issue a very rare statement that we do not often see from him. now, it's unclear what the president is going to say next. but it does seem to be john roberts suggesting that the president has a simple misunderstanding of what it is that the judiciary is supposed to do. jim? >> remind folks, jo

this time with supreme court justice john roberts. this latest skirmic began tuesday on the south lawn of the white house with these comments in response to a court injunction on the administration's asylum policy. >> this was an obama judge. i'll tell you what. it's not going to happen like this any more. everybody thats to sue the united states, they file their case in the 9th circuit and it means and automatic loss. no matter what you do. no matter how good your case is. and the 9th circuit is something we have to take a look at. >> the chief justice said this, we don't have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges, what we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. the president came off the golf course on wednesday firing back dismissing the chief justice's point ever view while calling theth circuit very dangerous and unwise. joining me now kelly o'donnell and others. kelly, let me start with you down in florida. this is unprecede

it's a big deal that john roberts said this considering that john roberts doesn't say a lot of things quite often particularly when it comes to being critical of the president. the idea john roberts criticized the president or suggested that the president's criticism of judges is misguided, seems important to me. >> extraordinarily important for one branch to stand up against another branch, this is what the founders envisioned. for the branches to check each other. and roberts was doing that standing up for the rule of law, standing up for an independent judiciary. the big question is whether there will be more of this to come and whether in some of his decisions, whether he will side with the moderates on the court instead of just going right down the line with conservatives on say questions of whether a president can be subpoenaed and other things that relate to the investigation of trump when they come before the supreme court, which they're likely to do in the next couple of years, roberts is no longer quite as predictable a vote as he was before because he believes that this pre

chief justice john roberts says there are no trump judges or obama judges. moments ago, the president fired back on twitter. is the president now spoiling for a fight with the judiciary branch? >>> law school exam. the president's lawyer tells cnn the questions robert mueller submitted to mr. trump in the russia examination were like a law school exam but he answered them anyway. tonight members of the president's legal team say they expect mueller could come back with more questions. >>> and we're learning why mr. trump waited so long to respond to mueller in the first place. >>> fudge bows out. representative marcia fudge backs out of the house speaker race one day after it comes to light she wrote a letter supporting a man now suspected of killing his ex-wife. the congresswoman says the case has nothing to do with her decision, but did her decades-long friendship cost her the speakership? >>> and frozen turkey. bad weather could create travel nightmares. snow, ice and the coldest air of the season may snarl traffic and delay flights. we'll have the latest

john roberts weighs in. and from twitter to kind of live tweeting in the president speaking out in the way he just did. >> harry lichtman, let me turn to you now. at the root of this is the fact that the ninth circuit blocked the president's attempts to deny asylum to those who are crossing the border. what do you make of this extraordinary war of words? this is a president, though, who is not afraid to engage with the judiciary. >> well, that's one way to put it, yes. shocking. remarkable. unprecedented. all of the above. but it is really stunning that roberts, who is a very buttoned down chief justice, felt moved to have to weigh in and give what in the sort of muted tones of a supreme court justice is a screaming rebuke to the president and then the push -- the sort of ghost of trump to then push back in these terms. it really is -- i can think of a few instances in history where there's been harsh criticism of the court from the president, but always in terms of the law and constitutional interpretations

now, you played that clip of president trump criticizing john roberts back during the campaign but john roberts has never criticized president trump before and that is why this statement was so rare for him, rebuking the president for what he said, that he was going to issue a complaint with the ninth circuit court, though he didn't say who he was going to issue that complaint with and the white house didn't shed any more light on that, but john roberts didn't even mention president trump in his statement by name, but he didn't have to after everyone who watched that interaction yesterday. now, erin, this fits back into the president's typical pattern of criticizing anyone who criticizes him or disagrees with what he says publicly, even if it is john roberts, but this came after the president had spent five or six hours or so at his golf course here in palm beach, florida, for the thanksgiving holiday, and that was his remark just shortly after john roberts issued that statement. now, john roberts isn't likely to get in a tit for tat with the president and respond back to this. sources

john roberts, who took issue with mr. trump, calling a federal judge a quote obama judge. >> he views himself as the single and sole arbiter of who is constitutional, what is right and what is american. and that's where we have a danger. >> subpoena speculations. the president's lawyer rudy guiliani is adamant the special counsel will not subpoena president trump in the russia investigation. if he does, he says, the president will refuse to cooperate. >>> and 2020 vision, presidents begin jockeying to take on president trump. we got the inside scoop on who could be the biggest potential contenders. >> we have this chance to do something amazing for this count country we love so much. >> this time the president has a feud with chief justice john roberts, appointed by another president. the battle began tuesday on the south lawn with these comments in response to a court injunction on the administration's asylum policy. >> this was an obama judge. and i'll tell you why. it's not going to happen like this anymore. people sho

>> the message from john roberts is exactly right. he should be standing up for the independent judiciary against in attempt by the president as he does with any institution he thinks can threaten to delegitimize it. on the other hand, it is reasonable to look at john roberts record and see whether he is a credible messenger. he has engineered decisions, all of the justices voting against big issues like the shelby county decision, which is probably the reason we are engaged in the year's long fight of obstruction of the ballot box, was his hollowing out the voting rights act, which was a decision president obama criticized. he is right to be doing it, questioning the president, but his own record kind of, you know, to your point, kind of does suggest he has been voting -- and i wonder if this may be counter productive for the president because by forcing roberts to more explicitly defend the independence of the judiciary, will that make him more reluctant in the future on big issues to have them decided by this 5-4 party line vote? i

but john roberts has never criticized president trump before. that is why this statement today was so rare for him, rebuking the president for what he said that he was going to issue a complaint with the 9th circuit court though he didn't say who he was going to issue that complaint with. and the white house didn't shed any more light on that. but junior robeohn roberts didn mention president trump in his statement by name, but he didn't have to after everyone watched that interaction yesterday. this fits back into the president's typical pattern of criticizing anyone who criticizes him or disagrees with what he says publicly, even if it is john roberts. but this came after the president had spent five or six hours or so at his golf course here in palm beach, florida, for the thanksgiving holiday. that was his remark just shortly after john roberts issued that statement. now, john roberts isn't likely to get into a tit for tat with the president and respond back to this, sources close to him say. but the question ofwhether or not president trum

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and chief justice john roberts has not commented since that initial statement. in it, though, he even alluded to today's thanksgiving holiday saying the independent judiciary janai. >> and our thanks to emily on this thanksgiving morning. >>> well, breaking overnight, a new proposal from the trump administration regarding migrants who seek asylum in the united states. "the washington post" reports the administration wants to force asylum seekers to wait in mexico while their cases are processed. it would be a major shift from the current policy, which allows migrants to wait in the united states until they get a hearing with an immigration judge. in the meantime, troops recently deployed to the southern border ahead of the election have now been given new authority to use lethal force to protect border patrol agents but only in cases of disorder or violence. >>> turning now to that gruesome mu i new jersey town. hundreds gathered for a candlelight vigil for the caneiro family. authorities say keith caneiro was shot, and his wife and two children were stabbed bef

that's a statement from chief justice john roberts. the timing coincides with a bomb shell report from the new york times. another example of trump's vision of a very personal justice department. "the times" reports the president wanted to order the justice department to prosecute his rivals, hillary clinton and former fbi director james comey. and when he posed the idea to then white house counsel don mcgahn, mcgahn rejected the proposal and wrote a memo warning that trump could face a range of consequences, including itch peachment. now mcgann is gone. whitaker's views on clinton have been clear to the media on several occasions. he wrote an op ed in 2016 titled i would indikt hillary clinton. for the latest joining me now is white house correspondent kelly o'donnell. also with us intelligence and national security reporter ken delaney. kelly, this is interesting. the report is that the president asked his white house counsel and the white house counsel thought to memorialize it in a memo to say no, you can't ask for a prosecution. y

it's just curious to me about why this time, what bubbled up in john roberts that he felt like he had to lash out -- not lash out but issue a very carefully worded public rebook. the ninth circuit is not the most reverse circuit court. there are two circuit courts that get reversed more. it gets reversed more than some. and there's no institution clearly that he feels sacred enough not to go against if he feels it goes against him. >> that's right. the president has even gotten into a fight with the pope. this is classic trump. this is surprising for john roberts to issue that rare rebuke of president trump, but it's not surprising for what president trump said and for him to responded so quickly to the chief justice's statement yesterday, and he did two hours or so after roberts issued the rebuke of president trump. we have seen that pattern throughout his presidency that regardless -- and years before that as well, regardless of who it is, the president will speak out. this is a republican-appointed supreme court justice, the chief justice of the united states supreme court that is

i know chief justice roberts, john roberts, has been speaking a little bit about it. and i think we have a lot of respect for him. i like him and i respect him, but i think we have to use some common sense. the ninth circuit, everybody knows, it's totally out of control. >> president trump turning his ire on the judiciary branch, feuding with chief justice john roberts, after he defended the ninth circuit from trump's attacks. let's discuss. bill cristol, your thoughts? >> the chief justice was appropriate. for chief justice you want to say let's treat the court with dignity. we need to also preserve the principle that rule of law stands above partisanship. it's one thing for the candidates to talk about it but the president of the united states shouldn't treat the courts as though they're mere political entities. >> i wish that were true, but the courts have become mere political entities. the reality is that donald trump is reflecting what at least a large swath of republican party believes. this is one of the reasons trump, even though he says outrageous things, re

although not certain with john roberts. i think fundamentally he is a constitutional conservative, and i think that he will rule on cases before him based on the law in front of him, not the politics of the situation in which he finds himself, which is really in some sense untenable for him. but it could be he finds a way like with the upholding of the obama care decision to look for a legal way to uphold it for political end. i don't expect that. but to the point that you are raising, jim, it is possible that he's so disgusted with what's going on here that he looks for alternatives. >> let's talk about the latest challenge to matt whitaker. this one here for folks at home who aren't following, an obscure campaign law. did he take campaign contributions when he held another role in government. are you concerned that all these questions circling around matt whitaker undermine his future as the acting attorney general? >> i think he and everyone realized once his name was announced in his position, he was going to face treme

directly responded to roberts or bottle in a pair of tweets saying sorry chief justice john roberts but you do indeed have all bamma judges and they have a very much different point of view than the people who are charged with this safety of our country it would be great if the ninth circuit was indeed an independent judiciary but if it is why are so many opposing view on border and safety cases filed there and why vast number of those cases overturned please study the numbers they are shocking we need protection and security these rulings making our country unsafe very dangerous and on wise ok let's speak to bruce fein in washington d.c. he's a former u.s. associate deputy attorney general as always bruises great to have you on the program thank you very much indeed for giving this your time i'm guessing that this kind of conversation these kind of comments are things that normally go on behind closed doors in the legal chambers and in the white house the significance this time around is that we're seeing this play out in public but why is that so significant. the significance comes be

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. >>> also tonight, in a rare move, supreme court justice john roberts publicly slamming president trump. the immigration ruling behind their fight. now, the president firing back. >>> toddler's desperate escape. the dramatic moment. residents trapped by a raging inferno dropping a child to good samaritans below. >>> hidden deals. less than 48 hours until black friday. and rebecca jarvis with the secret ways to save even more money. >>> plus, the incredible inside story of a dramatic mountaintop rescue. several people, their dogs, running from the california wildfires. the pilot team that flew right into the smoke. >>> and good evening. it's great to have you with us on a busy wednesday night. i'm tom llamas, in for david. and we begin tonight with the record cold for thanksgiving, as record travel for the holiday hits its peak. tens of millions of americans now on the move. highways jammed at this hour from new england to chicago, dallas to the san francisco-oakland bay bridge. and take a close look at this. this is from chicago tonight. traffic bumper to bumper on the highways. and ear

john roberts on the north lawn. john? >> and we know that the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein is on his way over to the white house for a previously scheduled meeting. he comes here a number of times during the week, shep. so in the past, it has been read into that somebody may be up in terms of rosenstein. there was a time not too long ago when rosenstein came here to the white house and told colleagues on his way out the door from the department of justice that he expected to be fired. he had a meeting with chief of staff john kelly when he arrived at the white house at which we're told that kelly told him that he wouldn't be fired. for all we know right now, shep, and again, the reporting is still early on this, but the white house is making no moves to try to have any kind of an impact on the mueller investigation. the president said in the press conference earlier today that he could shut it down if he wanted to but he doesn't really want to. in fact, they really want to get it over with. making any kind of ch

donald trump fired back sorry, chief justice john roberts but you do indeed have obama judges and they have a different point of view than people charged with the safety of our country, donald trump attacking the third branch of government is nothing new but for the head of the judiciary to respond so publicly hasn't happened until now. >> the back and forth between donald trump and chief justice roberts earned the president a lot of criticism. jillian: michelle malcolm calls a political posturing and says the president should be praised for keeping his promise to keep americans safe. >> i don't appreciate that kind of compulsion to do this kind of virtue signaling and posturing and justice roberts has done this before. i think donald trump treated it as it should be, brushing it off his shoulder but the policy issue is a serious one and thank goodness we have a president who is trying to tackle it. our asylum system is a joke the people, those radicals who are funded by left-wing groups in the immigration lawyer's lobby know it is not over until the alien wins. with asylum fraud you h

supreme court, john roberts, it started when reporter asked president about a federal judge, who ruled administration could not enforce a ban on asylum seeker who crossed the southern border illegally. >> this was an obama judge. i'll tell you what. it is not going to happen like this any more. everyone that's to sue the united states, they file their case. in 9th circuit, it means an automatic loss. guy: total obama judge. in a rare move, roberts weighing in, we do not have obama judges, or bush judges, clinton judges or trump judges. that independent judiciary is something we should be thankful for. a few hours later president fired back tweeting, sorry chief justice john roberts, but you do have obama judges, they have a much different point of view than people charged with safety of the nation. it would be great in 9th circuit was a independent judiciary, why are so many opposing view on border and safety cases filed there and why are a vast number of those overturned, study numbers they are shocking we need protect and security, thied these rulings mr country unsafe, druz and wise

john roberts is drawing a line here. this started after a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the trump administration from barring migrants who entered the united states illegally from seeking asylum. that prompted this response from the president. >> well, you go to the ninth circuit and it's a disgrace and i'm going to put in a major complaint because you cannot win if you're us, a case in the ninth circuit. i think it's a disgrace when people file -- every case gets filed in the ninth circuit. the ninth circuit, we're going to have to look at that because every case, no matter where it is, they file it practically, i mean practically, for all intents and purposes they file it in what's called the ninth circuit. this was an obama judge. >> the chief justice of the united states, john roberts who, by the way, was appointed by republican president george w. bush, took issue with that. the issue was clearly a rebuke. in an official statement he said, quote, we do not have obama judges or trump jud

janet: en un pronunciamiento inusual john roberts crÍtico a donald trump. el juez dijo que no hay jueces de ningÚn presidente. donald trump respondiÓ con una serie de tweets. dijo: lo siento, sÍ hay jueces de obama. que el juez que frenÓ los cambios al ley de asilo es un juez de obama. el presidente fue crÍtico de las cortes y muchos jueces que han fallado en su contra. segÚn un reporte del "new york times", tambiÉn quiso tirar las leyes a su favor para enjuiciar a sus enemigos polÍticos. querÍa ordenar al departamento justicia que procesara judicialmente a hillary clinton y alex -- al ex director del fbi james comey. >> no se puedehacer una persecuciÓn criminal de tus enemigos polÍticos sí te da la gana, porque nuestra constituciÓn no permite est janet: esa fue la respuesta que le dieron los abogados de la casa blanca al presidente un todo -- blanca al presidente. el fbi investigÓ el uso de un servidor privado por parte de hillary clinton y determinÓ que no deberÍa enfrentar cargos criminales. el mandatario nunca ordenÓ investigaciÓn de s

maya, you know how careful john roberts is. you know how he happens to be on many legal issues on the more conservative side of jurisprudence. what does it tell you? >> it tills ell us that donald has crossed the line for justice roberts. it's not a new line. this is the donald trump that attacked a federal judge for making a ruling based on his mexican heritage and suggesting that somehow he was not able to make independent decisions because of his mexican heritage. it's far from the first time i'd say donald trump's attack on an independent judiciary are second only to his attack ons the nes media. i'm wondering what the interview process is looking for the white house turkey in terms houf it wi -- of how it will be pardoned. i expect there's a long list of questions about its loyalty to donald trump. >> i haven't thought about that. you bring ideas we haven't fully processed. you think there might be corrupt approach to the turkey pardon? >> i think the turkey is going to have to demonstrate that it will violate the constitu

. >>> know that chief justice roberts, john roberts, has been speaking a little bit about it. i think -- i have a lot of respect for him, i like him and i respect him, but i think we have to use some common sense. this ninth circuit, everybody knows it's totally out of control. >> totally out of control, that's how the president describes the u.s. ninth circuit court of appeals as he fumes after a federal judge blocked his executive order threatening to cut funds to sanctuary cities. the president called that judge an obama judge. it's turned into a war of sorts with supreme court justice john roberts who rebuked the president saying we do not have baum judges, bush judges, clinton judges. country. kimberly at kins and allen smith are back with me now, joining the panel is criminal defense attorney, veno vagese. the 9th circuit does not have the highest rate of overturned decisions. is there any truth to what these claims are, what the president is claim something. >> well, this is just sort of the president's more visceral reaction to seeing a lot of these cases filed against

i know that chief justice roberts, john roberts, has been speaking a little bit about it. and i think i have a lot of respect for him. i like him and i respect him, but i think we have to use some common sense. in the ninth circuit, everybody knows it, it is totally out of control. >> he calls them out of control. he also mentioned that rate at which they have been overturned. it is still the highest among the circuit courts, according to the president, the real issue is obviously are they actively targeting trump administration policies? i think that is a debate right now. leland. >> leland: the president pointed out a number of times what they did with his travel ban. pushing policies aside for a second, kevin, what is the president stay like this? we have the call with the u.s. service members, then a visit, now what is he doing? >> well, you are right. i'm glad you mentioned the visit because fairly often especially for those who don't live in the northeast or maybe in a coastal part of the country, the coast guard frankly can be unheralded. they are heroes, and the pr

. >>> now to washington where president trump and supreme court chief justice john roberts clashed in a rare public dispute over the independent judiciary. nikole killion has details. >> reporter: president trump and the chief justice of the supreme court engaged in a war of words focused on the judiciary. it started tuesday after ninth circuit u.s. district judge john tiger in san francisco ruled against president trump's migrant asylum order. >> this was an obama judge and i'll tell you what, it's not going to happen like this anymore. >> reporter: on wednesday the chief justice responded we do not have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges. what we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. the president fired back on twitter, sorry, chief justice john robert, but you do indeed have obama judges and they have a much different point of view than the people who are charged with the safety of our country. it's not the first time president trump has targeted the ninth circuit and cali

first to the man that broke the story, john roberts live on the north lawn. john? >> only by virtual of our terrific producer at the department of justice, jake gibson who said he had information. we got it confirmed. so the president this morning asked for the resignation of jeff sessions. this was before he went in to that sometimes crazy press conference that was scheduled for 11:30 a.m. he knew that there was going to be a

i know that chief justice roberts, john roberts, has been speaking a little bit about it. i think we have to use some common sense, the ninth circuit, everybody knows it's totally out of control. it's a disgrace, frankly. essentially, they are legislating, they are saying what to do. >> mike, it's important to point this out. there are a are a party plenty of reasons to believe that the president will follow through on his threat to shut down the "whole border." you may remember it was back on monday when the port of entry wasn't shut down for several hours amid security concerns concerns. mike? >> mike: kevin corke with the president, west palm beach, florida. many thanks. republicans trying to tie up loose ends before they lose control of the house next year, planning to out with a political bang. correspondent lauren blanchard tells us they are summoning two of the top justice officials from the obama administration for one last grilling. >> a thanksgiving surprise. the house judiciary committee serving up subpoenas to former fbi director james comey and former attorney

, john roberts has been speaking about it. we have to use some common sense. everybody knows they are totally out of control, a disgrace, frankly and they are legislating, saying what to do. >> it is important to check out there are plenty of reasons to believe the president will follow through on his threat to shut down the, quote, whole border. it was on monday when the port of entry was shut down for several hours amid security concerns. >> kevin cork, many thanks. republicans trying to tie up. sends before they lose control of the house planning to go out with a political bang. lauren blanchard tells us they are selling two of the top justice department officials from the obama administration for one last growing. >> reporter: a thanksgiving surprise, house judiciary committee hearing subpoenas to james comey and loretta lynch. the committee wants to question the two on their decision the fbi and the doj during the 2016 presidential election, confirming the subpoena, quote, i will resist a closed-door thing because i have

shep. >> john roberts from the white house. ivanka trump, while a government employee as assistant to the president sent hundreds of e-mails from a personal account, even after her father spent many months ark tacking hillary clinton about private e-mails, according to the "washington post." the paper reports the first daughter and presidential advisor, used her personal e-mail to contact white house aides and cabinet members and others. when asked about if, she said she was unaware of the rules. again, her father made hillary clinton's e-mails a driving force in his campaign, he called for hillary clinton to be put in jail, again, and again. of course, there are differences in the two cases. they are numerous. ivanka trump is not accused of using a private e-mail server, she's not accused of deleting any e-mails. she's not accused of sending classified information. but the "washington post" reports similarities were enough to worry some of the president's own advisors. house oversight committee under the leadership investigate

that last part was after chief justice john roberts in a rare and stunning rebuke took the president to task for claiming a recent ruling against him was a disgrace from, quote, an obama judge. cnn's senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny joins us now with the very latest. >>> jeff, we're going to get back to you in just a minute. now i'm told we have jeff zeleny in florida racing to the microphone, braving the warm weather to be with us. jeff, tell us what the friction between the president and chief justice is all about. >> reporter: john, sorry about that. we had been here at our post. i think the good weather might have interfered with the microphone. looking, the reality here is about two things. the independent judicial branch of government and tribal politics. and the president clearly does not, if not recognize certainly appreciate the independent judicial branch of government. the chief justice doing something he rarely does by weighing in saying, no, no, mr. president, it's an obama judge, it is an independent judge. and the president clearly did not accept that as an

(vicki) and up next a war of words between president trump and chief justice john roberts... what started the public feud and hear the chief justice's rare rebuke of the president ... (vicki) an extraordinary war of words between president trump and chief justice john roberts...(ken) roberts is the highest authority in the federal judiciary and he made a rare statement today pushing back against president trump after he slammed the ninth circuit court of appeals... reporter jeff zeleny explains. president trump in an extraordinary public feud tonight with chief justice john roberts.on the eve of thanksgiving, an unprecedented and unseemly exchange that started earlier in the day when the chief justice issued a rare rebuke of the president ...... for criticizing a member of the federal appeals court as an obama judge. graphic:"we do not have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges," roberts said.graphic:"what we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. that independent judici

c reporter: for chief justice john roberts, it was a moment to defend the judge and the independence of the entire judiciary, with a highly unusual ghbuttal of the president. "we do not have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges," roberts said in a statement. "what we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them." and within hours after roberts apbuttal, the president made flear the admonition hadn't changed his mind, firing back with a tweet, "sorry, chief justice john roberts, but you do indeed have obama judges, and they have a much different point h view than the people who are charged with the safety of our country." afis is the first time roberts has responded to the president, but he has long defended judicial integrity and independence. >> we do not sit on opposite sides of an aisle. we do not caucus in separate rooms. we do not serve one party or one snterest. we serve one nation. >> reporter: now, the president kept the fight going on twitter, slamming the ninth circuit as to

and unprecedented move john roberts is defending the judicial branch after comments by the president. the controversy stemming from an obama appointed judge's willing to block the president's plan to crack down on migrants who enter the us illegally and then ask for asylum. thousands of central american migrants are at the southern border. welcome to fox news at night. upping the stakes tonight the chairman of the senate judiciary committee is weighing in. chuck greatly tweeting chief justice roberts rebukes trump for a comment about judge's decision on asylum. i don't recall the chief protecting obama when that president reviewed alito during the state of the union. the washington post said this wondering why does president obama criticize the supreme court so much. kristin fisher is looking into the details. >> donald trump challenging individual judges is nothing new. what is new and truly unprecedented is the chief justice of the supreme court has responded. tensions between the executive and judicial branch in the trump administration has been building for some time but it really

john roberts send it out earlier. the problem with this is, it could, if anybody believes all of this, take down trust in the system. the system which protects us from those that might not want the system to work just perfectly for personal reasons. john roberts says don't worry about us. we got this. the president's second part of the tweet should be coming soon. the dow is closing. it was a sort of slow day down there. the volumes are really low. those the numbers were big earlier, not so much. hope you have a fantastic holiday. and i hope the rebels beat the bulldogs. i'll see you back here monday. >> holiday get away is on. americans from coast to coast hitting the roads and airports for thanksgiving as shoppers gear up for the biggest shopping day of the year. we're everywhere. welcome. i'm charles payne in for neil cavuto. this is fox on top of americans hitting the roads. mike tobin at o'hare airport on the big travel day. lauren simonetti in new jersey on the big holiday shopping push. mike? >> we're expecting

john roberts looked at that and saw it as calcification and that the voting rights act unduly picked on the south. we talked about the poll tax, literacy test, white primary, we talked about 3% of age eligible african-americans being registered to vote in the south while the us was fighting nazis. in the early 1960s in mississippi it was in the single digits in terms of percentage of african-americans that were registered to vote. this is and picking on -- why are you making yourself so pick up all? there were also bail in provisions and bail in provisions took into account other jurisdictions that were discriminating against their citizens so california, areas in california and new york and arizona and alaska that had been bailed in. this is and calcification. this is protecting the rights of american citizens to vote. john roberts didn't see it that way because he is a protÉge of william rehnquist who would become the chief justice of the supreme court and rehnquist got his start doing massive voter suppression, voter intimidation at the polls in arizona. the hatred of the voting

sorry chief justice john roberts, but you do have obama judges. and they have a much different point of view than the people who are charged with the safety of our country. it would be great if the ninth circuit was an independent judiciary but if it is, why, dot, dot, dot, are so many opposing view on border and safety cases filed there. and why are a vast number of those cases overturned. please study the numbers. they are shocking. we need protection and security. these rulings are making our country unsafe. very dangerous and unwise. so i guess the caravan ran out of its political usefulness to him. he's now beating up on the 9th circuit, chuck. that does seem like a trumpian tactic and a very, very political argument from the president. >> it say political argument from the president. we shouldn't be surprised by that. but if i may humbly offer a brief history lesson, in u.s. v. nixon, the supreme court case in which the supreme court ruled unanimously, one justice recused, against the president, four of those judges were appointed by preside

john roberts himself voted to reserve the individual mandate t of obamacare. i disagreed with his decision there. i thought the reasoning was wrong. but i understood he was following when he thought was the dictates of the law, not the person who nominated him. where i probably would criticize the chief justice, i wish that he was more active in policing the court itself. justice ginsburg, the late justice scalia, both were criticized for political or unwise statements made in commentary chief justice has not beene proactive. >> isn't the president making more of a basic point here, which is that you have democrats and republicans and they slog it out out at election time, one or other party wins. we're increasingly at a time where instead, who ever wins, we have government by judges, in which judges essentially are microlegislating aspects of particular policies. in a way that would have been unrecognizable to judges and politicians of the late 18th century. >> mark, i have criticized the ninth circuit for some of the decisions that they have handed down agai