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Telegraph our position ahead of time to ensure that people flooded in that br that happened and before it went into place. >> the problem is, bob costa, the people that needed to know did not know when it came to lawyers, whether it was the state department or dhs or all of these other places. if you look at the chaos that happened, i dont think anybody at this table is denying that donald trump didnt promise to do this. but if you look at the chaos happened, it happened because they -- whoever ...

Others object to object taking a harder look at foreigners coming into our country from war-torn nations with known terror networks and as joe mentioned 40 countries and territories with majority muslim population that were not included in the travel ban. still, confusion was rampant over who the executive order actually applied to and how to execute it. agency lawyers reviewed the eo but nbc news reports it came out of the white house and not through the standard interagency process, a process ...

Anxieties out there, and potential fear but that the system, the interagency process, and the federal agencies responsible for ensuring the safety and the security of the american people are on the job, and that is from the military to the department of homeland security to us at the state department. today, secretary kerry is in new york having an important meeting on the future of syria, and they are meeting with the international syria support group later this afternoon, and trying to go to t...

Recommendations i make to the president. so the president will make his decision at an appropriate time. we have forwarded the recommendation of the state department and now is in the interagency process. and he will make the decision. >> if -- i take it though the fact that there is a process means you recommended a change? >> well, either way it has to be evaluated, chuck. im not going to tip my hand as to what were doing but we made a recommendation. >> let me move to iran. iran is on the sta...

Mr. secretary, welcome back to "meet the press." >> thank you. glad to be with you. >> lets clarify something. there has been anonymous sources that say you have recommended taking cuba off the state sponsor of terrorism list to the president. have you done that? >> well, chuck, as you well know, i dont discuss publicly whatever advice or recommendations i make to the president. so the president will make his decision at an appropriate time. we have forwarded the recommendation of the state depa...

Americans are used to when a disaster happens in this country. obviously this is a developing nation. but whats the problem? >> jake, i think the problem is that the malaysians dont have experience with this kind of disaster. its up with of these kourncoun, that it hasnt been tested with a disaster like this and i think stress -- on a stress test they are failing in terms of coordination among interagency process and communication with the world and with their partners. >> and what is the cultur...

Some of the press coverage has been overwritten, hes harshly critical of the political operation, i think that would include you, political advisers to the president -- >> i think he intimated i might have been the deputy secretary of defense. ? and hes critical about interagency process, in other words, there was a feeling that the president himself had that the military was trying to jam him on the idea of surging up forces. >> i think one of the things you take away, at least from the excerpt...

Im reading the book and i think some of the press coverage has been overwritten, hes harshly critical of the political operation, i think that would include you, political advisers to the president -- >> i think he intimated i might have been the deputy secretary of defense. ? and hes critical about interagency process, in other words, there was a feeling that the president himself had that the military was trying to jam him on the idea of surging up forces. >> i think one of the things you take...

Commander, cant stand afghan president hamid. for him its all about getting out. chris, how scathing is this of obamas leadership? >> it has a certain tone to it but i think he is right in the sense that president obama ran on the campaign do get us out of afghanistan. that was his mission. theres nothing wrong with that. he makes it sound like theres something wrong with that. the policy of the president coming into office, got into office is wind down two wars. he did so. maybe thats not gates...

Attention to warnings and why would we need that, either? >> congressman, there are people, democrats, saying the republicans on a witchhunt because of this but reading that sentence like that, that sure as heck sounds like the democratic administration was playing politics with this last fall. >> i think what was happening here is you had two facilities, one a state department diplomatic facility, one that was an agency facility. and so, state department i think felt why is cia trying to set it...