From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the Daily.

Today, as a candidate, Donald Trump called for a total Muslim ban.

Now that he's president, the courts won't let him forget it.

And as the White House fights to protect the travel ban, the immigration story of our vice president, Mike Pence.

It's Friday, March 17th.

We have seen the devastation from 9-11 to Boston, to San Bernardino.

Hundreds upon hundreds of people from outside our country have been convicted of terrorism, related offenses.

In Nashville, Tennessee this week, President Trump laid out a familiar case for his travel ban.

For this reason, I issued an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration from places where it cannot safely occur.

But then a development.

But let me give you the bad news.

We don't like bad news, right? I don't want to hear.

And I'll turn it into good.

But let me give you the bad, the sad news.

Moments ago, I learned that a district judge in Hawaii.

A judge in the Ninth Circuit Court.

A judge has just blocked our executive order on travel and refugees coming into our country from certain countries.

It was the second time, the second time that Donald Trump issued a ban on travel from predominantly Muslim countries.

The second time that a federal court blocked the ban.

And the second time that a judge gave this explanation for the decision.

The basic idea was that President Trump and his allies and supporters have said so many things about wanting to bar Muslims

that even a revised and on its face neutral travel ban order is animated by hostility to Muslims and religious discrimination.

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