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Swedens immigration policies. the swieshd swedish embassy offered their own response. saying we look forward to informing the u.s. administration about swedish immigration and integration policies. >> john mccain has been critical of decisions in the last month. what did he have to say about general mcmaster? >> reporter: he has been a thorn in president trumps side, and he seems to have relished at that at points, but he was one of many that we saw heaping praise on this national security pick ...

>> and he invoked a puzzling security concern. >> you look at what is happening last night in sweden, sweden, who would believe this? sweden, they took in large numbers, they are having problems like they never thought possible. >> but nothing particularly note worthy happened in sweden over the weekend. trump later said via twitter his comments came after watching a fox news segment related to swedens immigration policies. the swedish embassy offered their own response. tweeting, we look forwar...

>> in fact, the presidents speech at the summit was remarkable sounding more like an address made by an american president. it praised trade, integration and openness and promised to ensure that countries dont close themselves off. looking beyond his angry tweet, beijing seems to conclude that donald trumps presidency might prove to be the best thing thats happened to china in a long time. for more go to cnn.com/fareed and read my washington post column, and lets get started. what do we know a...

I mean, even republicans such as flake, senator flake and mccain have said that this is a nonstarter. the wall is a ridiculous idea. its not going to change our integration issues. >> let me follow up quickly and i want to bring in congressman collins in. it distracts from reform. thats not what donald trump was running on in the campaign. didnt the result of the election take that off the table? at least for the foreseeable future? >> the result of the electoral college made that decision. lets...

Because he -- as he put it, were putting ourselves at risk because were taking it off the democratic platter. he knows very well that whatever they do is going to be compared to what came before and that the democrats will start calling it trump care and if people lose any benefits that they believe they have, that it could become a huge liability. and he knows that, and the people sitting in that room, wolf, know that as well. and thats something that they are trying to figure out how to handle...

>> now you got all the engineering schools are full of people from south asia and east asia. and its not that people have any problem with those folks learning but they come here to take these jobs. isnt the beating heart of this problem right now, the real beating heart of it, of what wevgot to get sorted here is not illegal immigration, as horrific as that is, and its horrific. dont we have a problem weve looked the other way on this legal immigration thats kind of overwhelmed the country. is ...

These are not unforeseeable concerns, and your prepared remarks did very little to allay the concerns of those people. is there anything youd like to add now in our closing minute? >> well, thank you. my comment about the naacp arose from a discussion that i had where i expressed concern about their statements that were favoring, as i saw it, efforts and communist guerrilla efforts in central america so i said they could be perceived as un-american, and weaken their moral authority to achieve th...

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Populism. >> the politics in all of our countries is going to require us to manage technology and global integration and all these dem graphic shifts in a way that makes people feel more control, in a way that gives them more confidence in our future, but does not resort to simplistic answers of divisions of race or tribe or a crude nationalism. >> no doubt those final words were meant for president obamas successor donald trump. who has been huddled in trump tower. white house staff is descendi...

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