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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. responds to questions about President Donald Trump's actions and agenda, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. responds to questions about President Donald Trump's actions and agenda, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Zamood Zokari, left, and Ali Elazab, right, post a sign on a window of Zokari' family deli in lower Manhattan, alerting customers that the store will close because of a protest against President Donald Trump's travel ban, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, in New York. Yemeni business owners who operate corner bodegas and neighborhood delis shut them down on Thursday in protest of the travel ban on people hailing from seven Muslim-majority countries including Yemen. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Zamood Zokari, a Yemeni immigrant, prepares to post a sign on the family deli in lower Manhattan alerting customers that the store will close because of a protest against President Donald Trump's travel ban, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, in New York. Yemeni business owners who operate corner bodegas and neighborhood delis shut them down on Thursday in protest of the travel ban on people hailing from seven Muslim-majority countries including Yemen. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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A sign posted on the closed doors of a deli owned by Haron Zokari, a Yemeni immigrant, alert customers that the store will close because of a protest against President Donald Trump's travel ban, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, in New York. Yemeni business owners who operate corner bodegas and neighborhood delis shut them down on Thursday in protest of the travel ban on people hailing from seven Muslim-majority countries including Yemen. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Zamood Zokari, left, and Ali Elazab, right, post a sign on a window of Zokari' family deli in lower Manhattan, alerting customers that the store will close because of a protest against President Donald Trump's travel ban, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, in New York. Yemeni business owners who operate corner bodegas and neighborhood delis shut them down on Thursday in protest of the travel ban on people hailing from seven Muslim-majority countries including Yemen. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Samira Rahimi holds her brother, Bashir Ahmad Rahimi, left, after arriving from Afghanistan Wednesday, Feb 1, 2017, in Omaha, Neb. The family became the last refugees to land in Omaha before President Donald Trump's executive order freezing all refugee resettlements took full effect (Megan Farmer/Omaha World-Herald via AP)
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Mohammad Mobin smiles while holding his nephew, Bashir Ahmad Rahimi, after greeting his sister's family that arrived from Afghanistan Wednesday, Feb 1, 2017, in Omaha, Neb. The family became the last refugees to land in Omaha before President Donald Trump's executive order freezing all refugee resettlements took full effect. (Megan Farmer/Omaha World-Herald via AP)
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FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2001, file photo, men shave, brush their teeth and prepare for the day at a refugee camp on the Island of Nauru. Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull insisted Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, that a deal struck with the Obama administration that would allow mostly Muslim refugees rejected by Australia to be resettled in the United States was still on, despite President Donald Trump dubbing the agreement "dumb" and vowing to review it. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)
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Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, left, talks with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, right, before a briefing on border security Wednesday Feb. 1, 2017 at the Texas Department of Public Safety regional headquarters in Weslaco, Texas. Secretary Kelly and Abbott toured the Texas border with Mexico in a helicopter following the briefing. (Nathan Lambrecht/The Monitor via AP, Pool)
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Gov. Greg Abbott, right, talks with Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, left, before a briefing on border security Wednesday Feb. 1, 2017 at the Texas Department of Public Safety regional headquarters in Weslaco, Texas. Secretary Kelly and Abbott toured the Texas border with Mexico in a helicopter following the briefing. (Nathan Lambrecht/The Monitor via AP, Pool)
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Protesters against a scheduled speaking appearance by Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos on the University of California at Berkeley campus seen on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, in Berkeley, Calif. A small group of people with their faces covered broke windows, hurled fireworks at police officers and threw smoke bombs, prompting UC Berkeley officials to cancel Yiannopoulos's talk Wednesday evening. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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Maltese Minister for Social Dialogue Consumer Affairs and Civil Liberties Helena Dalli speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, in Valletta, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. After a quarter-century as Malta's governing party, the conservative Nationalist Party scrambled to line up a transgender young man as a candidate for next year's Parliamentary elections in hopes of reversing a stinging, landslide 2013 loss to its socialist archrivals who came to power with an agenda heavy on LGBT rights. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Faithful pray in St. John Cathedral in downtown Valletta, Malta, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. After a quarter-century as Malta's governing party, the conservative Nationalist Party scrambled to line up a transgender young man as a candidate for next year's Parliamentary elections in hopes of reversing a stinging, landslide 2013 loss to its socialist archrivals who came to power with an agenda heavy on LGBT rights. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Politician Alex Mangion shows an official document where his chosen gender is registered, during an interview with the Associated Press, in Valletta, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. Lithe and dapper in a navy-blue suit as he gazed at this capital city's storied Grand Harbor, Alex Mangion proudly described becoming Malta's first transgender politician, winning a local office on the conservative Nationalists' ticket in a country that until just a few years ago had been a last bastion in Western Europe of social norms largely dictated by the Catholic church. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Alex Mangion listens to a journalist's question during an interview with the Associated Press, in Valletta, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. Lithe and dapper in a navy-blue suit as he gazed at this capital city's storied Grand Harbor, Alex Mangion proudly described becoming Malta's first transgender politician, winning a local office on the conservative Nationalists' ticket in a country that until just a few years ago had been a last bastion in Western Europe of social norms largely dictated by the Catholic church. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Maltese Minister for Social Dialogue Consumer Affairs and Civil Liberties Helena Dalli is seen pictured in a mirror in her office during an interview with the Associated Press, in Valletta, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. After a quarter-century as Malta's governing party, the conservative Nationalist Party scrambled to line up a transgender young man as a candidate for next year's Parliamentary elections in hopes of reversing a stinging, landslide 2013 loss to its socialist archrivals who came to power with an agenda heavy on LGBT rights. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Faithful pray in St. John Cathedral in downtown Valletta, Malta, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. After a quarter-century as Malta's governing party, the conservative Nationalist Party scrambled to line up a transgender young man as a candidate for next year's Parliamentary elections in hopes of reversing a stinging, landslide 2013 loss to its socialist archrivals who came to power with an agenda heavy on LGBT rights. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Alex Mangion arrives for an interview with the Associated Press, in Valletta, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. Lithe and dapper in a navy-blue suit as he gazed at this capital city's storied Grand Harbor, Alex Mangion proudly described becoming Malta's first transgender politician, winning a local office on the conservative Nationalists' ticket in a country that until just a few years ago had been a last bastion in Western Europe of social norms largely dictated by the Catholic church. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Alex Mangion looks out towards the harbor during an interview with the Associated Press, in Valletta, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. Lithe and dapper in a navy-blue suit as he gazed at this capital city's storied Grand Harbor, Alex Mangion proudly described becoming Malta's first transgender politician, winning a local office on the conservative Nationalists' ticket in a country that until just a few years ago had been a last bastion in Western Europe of social norms largely dictated by the Catholic church. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
