for instance, only 109 people were affected. that s not true. 109 people were detained at american airports, but there were hundreds, if not thousands who were pulled off flights over the weekend, my wife witnessed firsthand two people being pulled out of the line. and prevented from boarding that aircraft. so, we don t know the full details of this pathetically incompetent rollout of the new policy. so before we can staesz, we first have to understand right, so here s and we ve already had the issue obviously people with green cards, people who are permanent residents, they happen to be out of the country, it gets announced suddenly they can t get back. they are now dealing with that. the administration also says they are now drawing up a list of people who are exceptions to this pause of immigration from
the senate, you need republicans to come on board if you re going to take down this whole order. already you have the administration making some adjustments here with this issue of green cards, with the idea of come part-tipiling a list of in. do you think what the administration has done today is going to address the concerns of those republicans that you need if you re going to stop this order? well, i think that remains to be seen. the fact is, donald trump s executive order was is un-american, it undermines our values, it undermines the contributions that immigrants have provided to this country. and it undermines our fight against global terrorism. because, in fact, it can be used as we ve heard john mccain say as something that the terrorists can use to attract recruiters. so i think it doesn t do any of the things that donald trump said it was going to do.
helped out. that doesn t mean we give them a pass. the obama administration let two people through the iraqi program in. they came to the united states and tried to plan an attack in kentucky. people who have helped this country may not be citizens at the time to want come here, and we need to appreciate the service that they ve had, that doesn t mean we don t let them in without a certain degree of vetting. reporter: and it is our reporting from our pentagon team that the secretary of defense is currently writing off essentially a list of exemptions. people who will not be held to the standards of this new immigration executive order based on certain categories, for example, interpreters as you heard sean talk about there, steve. hallie jackson, thanks for that. i want to bring in hugh hewitt, msnbc political analyst and host of the hugh hewitt show and jonathan alter, msnbc political analyst, columnist at the daily beast, hugh, let me start with you over the weekend, i think an
germany taking in more than half a million syrian refugees. now compare what the united states has taken in at 16,218. this country and the united states are low on that list. now look, we can have a policy debate, we are having a policy debate about the right number of refugees to be taking in. some even questioning whether we should be taking refugees in, but whatever you can say, the united states, the number it s taken so far, it pales in comparison to the scope of this crisis. and that number is going to get lower now. we re not accelerating the rate we bring them in. at least in the near future. we thought we d put the refugee in a crisis in perspective there. most important number of the day, 4.9 million we ll call it. coming up, as the white house faces criticism over the rollout of the immigration order. what new clues does this reveal about inner workings of the new presidency? i m going to discuss it next. when your pain reliever stops working,