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His senior officials were briefed, not just brief, they were part of the drafting process. not only that, just back up here they get consulted and briefed, it goes through the office of legal compliance then get shipped out to the nsc and homeland security council. at this point, it went through a very thorough staffing process, so the idea of whether he got fully briefed -- he got briefed multiple times, saw the language from his staff made edits and it came back multiple times. im not sure how...

Incoming travelers. craig? >> ken delaney starting us off from washington, thank you. democrats trying to slow down process to fill out president trumps cabinet. four committees met today to hold votes on a total of six nominees. however, democrats on the finance committee decided to boycott votes for two of trumps crucial nominees, their absence forcing republicans to push back votes for treasury and for health and human services as well. that move as you might imagine outraging republicans i...

The secretary detailed multiple occasions in which he was briefed on it. his staff made edits to it. i dont know how much more, and 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 actually does. when we use words like travel ban, that misrepresents what it is. its seven countries previously identified by the obama administration where frankly we dont get the information that we need for people coming into...

Voters and every american very, very proud. this particular choice is one that the president takes very seriously. he knows it will impact the course of our countrys jurisprudence for generations to come. as such, he has taken careful steps to ensure this process has been transparent and inclusive. he has been speaking about the list of individuals that he may nominate since may of this year, and after consulting with several influential groups released a definitive list of 21 in september, pled...

Order. >> kevin before you step up, let me kind of frame it a little bit. we did know the e.o. was coming. we had people involved in the general drafting of it. you know, clearly it was, this whole approach was part of what then candidate trump talked about for a year or two. so we knew all that was coming. as i said, we had high levels of government lawyers from across the inner agency to include homeland security that were involved in the drafting of it, so we knew it was coming. it wasnt a su...

Came in when we were implementing the operational plan so we had to adjust our efforts a little bit. we worked quickly to implement and i think the process has smoothed out and just to clarify the initial complaint was in two hours of the executive order being received. >> reporter with congressional quarterly, two questions whoever wants to take this. several lawmakers and advocacy groups are saying that some border patrol agents ignored court orders and handcuffed passengers and tried to depor...

Interagency review, had other departments signed off despite the reporting that said it was otherwise. hold on, guys. david. why dont we just let me answer glenn so we can be polite now. the answer is that we went through the process. the office of legal compliance came back to say this is a compliant executive order, fully legal, and it can be executed. so then for the attorney general to turn around to say im not going to uphold the lawful executive order is clearly a dereliction of duty, she ...

Roles, -- he has to be confirmed first, but the u.s. trade representative is clearly the leader of negotiating trade deals, wilbur ross, peter navarro, jason have gray, and readily reposed and brilliant team that continue to work on behalf of deals and renegotiating, but it is a two-step process for your number one, we are going to read re-examine all of our current trade deals to see if we can do things with them but we will start talking to other countries around the globe including some of th...

Will make those voters in every american very, very proud. this particular choice is one that the president takes very seriously. he knows it will impact the course of our countrys jurisprudence for generations to come. as such, he has taken careful steps to ensure this process has both been transparent and inclusive. he has been speaking about the list of individuals that he may nominate since may of this year, and after consulting with several influential groups released a definitive list of 2...

Or in some cases the willingness to provide us the information necessary to ensure that the people that are coming into this country are properly vetted. this is not about refugees. it is about travelers. that is what this is about. part of what we are doing is frankly making sure other countries understand exactly what was in the order, how it applied, what it means to visas and waivers and all of this kind of stuff, but for the most part, you have seen a lot of panic and the people actually st...