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Briefed, not just briefed, they were part of the drafting process. it went through not only that, just back up, so they get consulted and briefed. is goes through the office of legal compliance and shift out to the nfc and the homeland security council. this went through an extensive staffing process. the idea whether or not he got fully briefed he was briefed multiple times, saw the language, his staff made edits. im not sure how much more briefing you can do. >> zoe daniel from australian broa...

Because that country doesnt have maybe the systems in place or in some cases the willingness to provide us the information necessary to insure that the people that are coming into this country are properly vetted, this isnt about refugees. its about travellers. thats what this is about. part of what were doing is frankly making sure that other countries understand exactly what was in the order, how it applies, what it means to visas and waivers and all this kind of stuff, but for the most part y...

Executive order on immigration. got put aside today even by paul ryan, the house speaker, who has been positive in the effort to tighten vetting, saying it created problems he didnt need to because. should be seen as a little bit of a warning for the trump administration that may be the speed and drama and action is costing them to implementing the policies. >> bret: i will say the homeland security secretary today said his people were in on the drafting process. they knew it was coming, that th...

States." we are a great country and our greatness comes from our diversity. >> madeleine albright, a woman known for her pins, among other things and today it is lady liberty that you are wearing. >> yes. >> thank you very much, madam secretary. joining me is the washington investigations editor for the "new york times" mark mazzetti, covered national security in the last decade. we heard from john kelly at homeland. they are retroactively trying to say there was no chaos, that there were peop...

Process. sought feedback, went into the inner agency review, had other departments sign off, despite the reporting that said was otherwise. hold on. guys. >> is it a betrayal? thats -- >> why dont we just let me answer glen so we can be polite now, huh? and what the answer is that we went through the process. the office of legal compliance came back and said this is a compliant executive order. its fully legal. it can be executed. then for the attorney general to turn around and say im not going...

Consulted. you know the process. you sat at the national security council for so many years. your reaction? >> i find listening to general kelly difficult to compute, given what we saw over the weekend, and activities i think that the white house and the people there in the nfc were totally unprepared for what is going on. listening to secretary kelly makes it even more complicated in terms of what he knew and when he knew it so chaos was created. and that chaos has had unintended consequences i...

Were driving this and the rest of the administration across the agencies were playing catchup. general kelly said he was unaware of an order, but certainly wasnt regularly briefed on the details, and said he was relying on what the news media was reporting to hear the latest. were only a week and a half into this, right, but already pretty clear theres a group of advisers at the white house that want to do things quickly, they want to do this flurry of executive orders and dont entirely trust ye...

Occasions in which he was briefed on it, his staff made edits to it. i dont know how much more, and so i think part of what were trying to do is make sure that people actually understand what happened, what the process was and what the order does. when we use words like travel ban it misrepresents what it is. its seven countries previously identified by the obama administration where frankly we dont get the information we need for people coming into this country. what this isnt about is not just...

Buy-n, so you want their feedback. if the administration wasnt soliciting his feedback, that is the problem, and i dont know if they were or they werent, he did not say they were, he said they were aware that there was a drafting process going on, he did not say he was a part of it. >> harris: maybe it was semantics, he said he was not tasked with looking at the grammar of that executive order, which i guess well leave some people by myself that if you are looking close enough to even consider g...

Least two drafts as it got closer to friday. again, dont exactly know other than some of my legal shop representatives were involved. i would imagine on the landing team i would imagine some of them but the point it s it came to the department on a close hold basis. we didnt distribute it to anyone in the department. myself included my chief, and the lawyers and so it was a back-and-forth process. i did talk to representative in the white house, oh, probably certainly early in the week, about wh...