tweet storm about his executive order on extreme vetting. the president writing: "the justice department should ask for an expedited hearing of the watered down travel ban before the supreme court and seek much tougher version!" calling it a travel ban contradicted what his aides have been saying when they downplayed a notion that the executive order was a ban. >> it's not a travel ban. it's a vetting system. plain and simple. >> the president doubled down in the language, tweeting this morning: "people, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want, but i am calling it what we need and what it is, a travel ban!" some people saw the tweets as potentially undermining the defense of the executive order. kellyanne conway's husband george, who last week turned down a position in the doj's civil section, took issue with the tweets, writing "these tweets may make some people feel better but they certainly want to help the office of the