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>> different chambers, different rules. ones the house, one is the senate. theyre just different issues. >> lets move to the travel ban. you have called for it to be "refined." clearly the president does not believe that it needs to be refined. what specifically would you change about the action? >> i think youve already seen it refineded. my point is as a physician, i know many physicians from those countries that provide valuable services to americans, and theyve been in practice 20 years, som...

France, everybody else? out a focus on this and set of the world? is to be equal for everyone. we should protect to the market people first. the same thing happened with president obama when he was elected, and nobody talked about that, but because its president trump, everybodys talking. we needed to protect our country and theres a lot of people who want to hurt american people. we need to be on edge. dont look at whats been going on in the last eight years. san bernardino, orlando, the list g...

Prudent. however, we did ask for exceptions, we wrote a letter to the president and we asked if they could look at those interpreters and others that worked with the military, special operations community, people in political process or allies that were ousted from positions with no place to go and then children. we are talking those with severe burns, missing limbs that could come to our childrens hospitals for life saving care. it would be temporary, then go back. we have a number of cases whe...

Good friends when he he was ina rack with an iraqi interpreter. i want political strategist to come in and help a lot with this. everyone he wants our borders to be secure. this is exacerbated under president obama. i think there has to be a meeting in the middle when were talking about people like interpreters. >> sandra: to go back to the president, yesterday, he said judges will be to blame if we suffer an attack. >> abby: he also said the road was beautiful. it went how i wanted it to go. i ...

And a percentage beyond that certainly that are getting medicare -- excuse me, medicaid expansion support in 31 states. so its a complex problem. weve got exactly the right speaker in paul ryan. hes a policy guy. weve got really good chairmen and were moving quickly. it wont happen overnight. cant do it that way. >> congressman, quick question. ninth circuit obviously going to be reviewing the presidents executive order on immigration. should the president have the right to make these determinat...

Friend and also at the same time we have such strong relationship with them on the ground, that they know that america will have their backing, that we are there for them. look at interpreters for example, the military uses, all over the place, afghanistan, iraq, syria, now when they come to the united states were putting them in jails in the airports. sometimes lives of members of their families, you know, we have to be very careful how we treat our allies and how we are being perceived around ...

Anybody as the chaos we saw at the airports when this order came down. the next day it was unclear should people with green cards be admitted, what about the interpreters and translaters who helped the military. what about this argument that hey, why dont we put the implementation on hold, while we go through this question of is this constitutional, is this fully legal? is that a reasonable thing given the chaos we saw when we tried to implement this immediately? >> steve, i dont think the chaos...

Interpreters, and you will remember, since the signing of the executive order, even people in washington who supported the merits of the executive order questioned why there was no exception issued for those people who worked with the government. so now even as the government continues to argue that this ban should be put in place, there will be this exception in the national interests, the words they use here, for those holders of the iraqi special immigrant visas, and 50 of those are given out...

Northern iraq. thank you so much for joining us. first i want to get your reaction to iraq being included in this travel ban. >> well, all of the countries on the travel ban are a little bit concerning to me, boris, because it was done so quickly, and it was an extension of a ban and some vetting that had already been put in place earlier but in a very haphazard way. the concerns about iraq specifically is there are about 2,500 -- ill say that again -- 2,500 individuals there who are under this ...

Presidents refugee order. >> right. paul: now, presumably theyre going to go ahead with that anyway. they modified it a bit or at least explained it a bit better now. whats your advice going forward after the suspension period is over, just give it up and allow the refugees, allow more of them in? >> no. i actually support a timeout in terms of these seven countries. theres nothing unusual about a pause on failed states in terms of future flow of refugees. my problem was you need to think about ...