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But the people who come in and out of the country, you know, as an example i work as a hospital full-time, boris. many of our doctors are iranian, and they still have relatives in iran. so i dont think its a good idea to prevent all people from those countries from visiting their relatives, immigrant whos have come here before who have established a pattern of life here, student whos are pursuing degrees here and looking to stay in the united states. its a universal ban that affects so many peop...

Very close hold on the white house. steve bannon and steve miller, who senior aides, very influential, kind of ran this operation. they didnt brief a lot of people. they said, oh, it might leak. it wasnt thoroughly vetted, thoroughly informed by the border patrol, even the customs people, so you had confusion. green holders, for example, were they under it? were dual citizens, and were interpreters? it was a lot of confusion. >> yeah. and be theres some confusion about the confusion in that, for...

Putin ramping up the military operation in ukraine right now here at the onset of the trump administration. how do you read the timing of this? >> i think iran is testing trump by test firing the missiles and saying were going to continue to do so, russia is testing trump. theyre engaging on one hand and trying to push forward in even ukraine on the other. so heres what im going to do in a bipartisan fashion, im going to introduce new sanctions on russia for their interference in our election th...

Consulted. theres no way that defense or state would have ever signed off on a policy that would have impeded the ability of interpreters from iraq to travel into the united states. we just passed the defense authorization bill late last year, again, to facilitate the movement of translators into the united states. so thats a priority. i think they really need to go back to the drawing board on this order and try to get it right. >> with the degree of congressional oversight should they be movin...

Planes and come to the united states. my sense of it is that its unlikely that thats going to happen. but once again, were sort of in this legal limbo as to whats going to happen with this very controversial executive order. >> we should point out, jim, in terms of people getting on planes coming to the united states, those would only be people who already had a visa, who had already been approved and then had had those visas, i guess rescinded would be the word, if im not incorrect. this is not...

>> martha: we are back with our panel for one last segment, we have been discussing this travel ban, whatever you want to call it that excludes people from seven countries. it obviously brings up a lot of emotions. one of them come up the feeling that it represents or is against all muslims. i think thats one of the most serious things that we have to deal with here, because i think the order is designed to protect us from violence. >> one of the things it is not being looked at here is the fact...

Direction in terms of defending our country, and i think he was extraordinarily ill-served by the way it was presented. >> stop grading on the curve. most botched foreign policy. general mattis carved out interpreters in combat with american soldiers so they dont die when their planes -- you want a person who comes to the republican field, you came with a lot of foreign policy, knowledge, experience, and depth of understanding. how could that happen? >> well, listen, you know this from working w...

They think or who knows thats how long its going to be, they think this really is a showdown between the west and islam. im not talking about al-baghdad i. >> people who propagate that version of events need to get out of -- what did ben roeds call it, the echo chamber. this bubble the media has created for itself on the left and on the right coast, its not the reality. i spoke to an iraqi today who told me his friends in iraq who are now delayed for certain amount of time said, this is excellen...

Which obviously were, and then trying to defend it as if what you see is not what you really see. what it allowed the presidents adversaries today was to call it a muslim ban, which it is not. it took the president further back than it needed to. tonight, frankly, the president was ill-served, took a reasonable defense position than he had taken in the campaign, and its one thats in the right direction in terms of defending our country, and i think he was extraordinarily ill-served by the way it...

To get to the united states, commit acts of terrorism, does the security measures we take now meet that threat? i would argue probably not. and there were things to do. so a temporary ban for the purpose of reconfiguring your security measures through the processes of these seven countries made a lot of since to me. what didnt make sense was that lack of coordination on green cards. not knowing that you would in fact impact, the way the order was written, moons you just didnt, you werent inclusi...