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Iraq. its been racked with jihadist violence. iran is the enemy. somalia as well. its a reasonable list i think. when we use the term "ban," that sounds permanent. this is 90 days while there is a reevaluation. thats three months. its not a long time. see what happens at the end of the 90 days, what the policy is at the end of the 90 days. for right now highlighting the seven countries which the obama administration had already pointed out as being particularly dangerous, seems reasonable. it mi...

Watkins. my producer just got in my ear and said start wherever you want to start. there is so much to talk about. let me start about the fallout the immigration executive order signed friday. it is 72 hours or so old but clearly the administration is continuing to play defense on this hoping and trying to turn the page. crystal, let me get your reaction. >> i think one thing even putting aside the moral ramifications, putting aside how chaotic this was, putting aside how incompetent and putting...

>> chuck, glad to be with you. >> let me get your reaction to this executive order and to reince priebus defense of it. is there any part of the idea of pausing the refugee program that you support, even if you dont support how president trump worded it in this order? >> well, chuck, ill just go right to what reince said. he demonstrated complete confusion about what the order did because he went back and forth in the interview with you over whether it did or did not affect green card holders. i...

Is there any part of the idea of pausing -- pausing the refugee program that you support even if you dont support how president trump worded it in this order? >> well, chuck, ill just go right to what reince said. he demonstrated complete confusion about what the order did because he went back and forth in the interview with you over whether it did or did not affect green card holders. it does affect green card holders and theyre being caught up in it. it affects people on special immigrant visa...

And were not saying that were never going to let them in. in fact the ban allows the secretary of state and the secretary of homeland security to allow people in despite the ban on a case by case basis if theres a need to do so. so theres a catch all, safety net for people who deserve to come to our country. people are talking about people help our country, fight terrorism, and interpret languages for our country arent going to be allowed in. theres a clause in the executive order that allows an...

>> for instance, only 109 people were affected. thats not true. 109 people were detained at american airports, but there were hundreds, if not thousands who were pulled off flights over the weekend, my wife witnessed firsthand two people being pulled out of the line. and prevented from boarding that aircraft. so, we dont know the full details of this -- pathetically incompetent rollout of the new policy. so before we can staesz, we first have to understand -- >> right, so heres -- and weve alrea...

Ask your doctor about xarelto®. insurance changes? xarelto® has you covered. if we announce this allot earlier, it would have given people plenty you have time to flood into the country who could have done us harm. thats not a sound strategy. right. so the people that need it to be kept in the loop were kept in the loop, the people that needed to be briefed, were. >> white house press secretary sean spicer responding to criticism about keeping people certain people in the dark. certain key p...

To have many allies come to us in the future. were not going to recruit interpreters in future wars. i cannot stress this enough. this is not some willy-nilly process where people can sneak in. these are people that go through every possible measure theyre -- they meet with agents from the department of homeland security who traveled to the region to sit across the table from them, looked them in the eye and asked them about their religion, about beliefs and friends, about their service. they ch...

With talking points in advance, where they had carveouts for permanent legal residents, people in transit, people for interpreters and those types of people and limited the pause moving forward. i think we would be having a different conversation about the policy. but that is not what happened, and therefore there is a debacle that the administration has been cleaning up for the last 48 hours. >> bret: david, what about donald trump tweeting "109 people out of 3 and a 25,000 were detained and he...

Office holders in place in the obstruction by democrats in the senate is part of this problem and we should make sure to underscore that as well. >> all right. we will see. we do not have any poll numbers yet on how this went over. and obviously well see how the stories, the scenes over the weekend affect how people do this as well. hugh hewitt, jonathan, thank you both for joining it. joining us now, susan page, washington bureau chief. thanks for spending a few minutes with us. let me ask yo...