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Anti-immigration policies being executed under the trump administration and everything that stephen miller pop gaited and pushed the refugee conversation was one of the toughest. its a known thing across the united states government across people who worked on in issue that we were walking on eggshells whenever weld have the discussion. and these meetings were held working groups across the national security councils where people have state department dhs, many people were very vocal. the pentag...

Years. did you sign off on this decision to reduce the number to 30,000 and do you support the cut? >> we all gave our own opinions on what we thought that number should be. at the end of the day theres a national security council process that goes through that. this is what ill tell you, the united states is the most generous to refugees of any country in the world. like you said, ive been to see the syrian refugees in jordan and turkey. ive been to ethiopia, democratic republic of congo and th...

Years. i know you have made working i with refugees a priority. do you support the cut? >> we all gave your own opinions on what we thought that number should be and at the end of the day theres a national security council process that goes through that. this is what ill tell you, the united states is the most generous to refugees of any country in the world. i mean, like you said, i have been to see the syrian refugees in jordan and turkey, i have been to ethiopia i have been to the congo, beca...

Thats a plus for him. on the other hand, he doesnt have a foreign policy and the trump doctrine is incoherent at this point. but it will be fascinating to see what he does because what he has said in the past what he ran on may be very, very different from what hes inclined to do now. i have no idea what the trump doctrine is or what the next step is and i dont think anybody else does either. >> who is running this government? >> a collaboration of individuals. obviously a lot of people said jar...

Language of refugee instead of immigrant might be helpful for moving the presidents agenda forward. >> i think its going to be impracticality, difficult to move the conversation from immigration to a refugee conversation. i just think, in terms of how the dialogue works because theyre coming on the southern border, i think, you may be right in the definition, i think its still a challenge, but what i think is important is a couple things. one to focus on why these kids are coming here. and think...