The Note: Warren Silenced in the Senate

Trump’s First 100 Days with ABC’s RICK KLEIN and SHUSHANNAH WALSHE Day No. 20 THE BIG STORY: “Some things are law,” President Trump said Tuesday, on his travel ban that’s now stalled in court,” “and some things are common sense.” While that may serve as a useful distillation of the president’s legal philosophy, it won’t stand up by itself in court, as the judges hearing his administration’s appeal made clear in asking for evidence. Just as telling was the scene that played out on Capitol Hill, where Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said there’s no proof that someone is coming to the US with an intent to do harm “until the boom.” Leaving aside the law, that’s a rather impossible political hurdle to overcome. And that’s the context for Trump’s inaccurate statements about under-covered terrorist attacks. Common sense dictates that the Trump administration wants fear, based on hypotheticals, to drive policy. THE SLEEPER STORY: The immediate focus is on Elizabeth Warren and Jeff...