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What i think gets lost in the hostility between the white house and the press and all the terrible things that the president has said about the press is that from a reporters point of view, there has been more information coming out of there either from the white house itself or from people near the white house, and, i mean, just the idea that we read draft executive orders that were floating around, but we -- can you remember that ever happening in previous presidencies? >> ant at this scale. >...

Transcripts of three conversations with three different world leaders, the prime minister of australia, mexico, russia, all leaked. we have had more than a half-dozen draft executive orders, including some of them dealing with highly classified things like terrorist interrogation leaked to the press. weve learned that general mattis was considering interdicting an iranian ship. we learned that they are considering sending troops to syria, all classified information leaked to the press. we have t...

Security council in new york that could come later today. >> we begin the john roberts. lets start with the travel ban, the travel pause, whatever you want to call it. a defiant tone from the white house. >> good morning. the president not backing down one bit in his plans to increase the vetting of refugees or other visitors or immigrants who would come into this country. we dont know what they are planning at this point. theyve had the weekend to think about it. a couple of draft executive ord...

The federal government and with contractors for the lgbt community. thats great. but at the same time, we see these executive orders, draft executive orders being circulated that basically take the hull out of that boat of protection. so the executive order that president obama put into place is really a boat of protection for the lgbt from discrimination and these executive orders would actually gut that. you would be left with a boat with sides and nothing to prevent you from drowning. dont fo...

If youre taking away rights of women, you are attacking lgbt people. if youre attacking people of color, you are attacking lgbt people. this divide and conquer, this whirlwind that were on, has just got to stop. and people have to be able to rise up and say enough. i think were all exhausted from this carousel that weve been on. and, you know, if these things like draft executive orders dont have any weight, then someones got to come out there and stop it. someones got to close the door on these...

The federal government and with contractors for the lgbt community. thats great. but at the same time, we see these executive orders, draft executive orders being circulated that basically take the hull out of that boat of protection. so the executive order that president obama put into place is really a boat of protection for the lgbt from discrimination and these executive orders would actually gut that. you would be left with a boat with sides and nothing to prevent you from drowng. dont forg...

Are attacking the lgbt community. if youre attacking the muslim community, youre attacking lgbt people. if youre taking away rights of women, you are attacking lgbt people. if youre attacking people of color, you are attacking lgbt people. this divide and conquer, this whirlwind that were on, has just got to stop. and people have to be able to rise up and say enough. i think were all exhausted from this carousel that weve been on. and, you know, if these things like draft executive orders dont h...

Or the u.s. presence in afghanistan. no major policy shifts there. secretary mattis is really taking the time to meet with commanders and talk to allies and get his assessments of what is going on. they are taking a wait and see approach. one thing that raised issues when draft executive orders made its way to the media over torture techniques or setting up safe zones in syria, something that is challenging for the military. those were not necessarily discussed in detail with the pentagon before...

>> youre now the president. do you want waterboarding? >> i will rely on pompeo and mattis and my group and if they dont want to do, thats fine. if they do want to do then i will work toward that end. i want to do everything within the bounds of what youre allowed to do legally. do i feel it works? absolutely i feel it works. >> the question of torture came up in this abc news interview tonight because this morning -- late last night, actually, the "new york times" reported draft executive order...

Mr. sanger, nice to have you here. thank you for coming in. >> great to be back with you. >> do you have insight in terms of this disavowel by the white house? it came as quite a surprise. >> it did. i dont know where the document originated. it could be that these draft executive orders since theyll be signed by the presidents are circulating within the white house among white house staff, among white house lawyers, going through all the review you would expect. so where the document had its or...