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Intelligence committees and the house and the senate saying please help defend us to "the new york times" and others about this story. >> highly, highly inappropriate. and in fact, the fact that the chairman actually made those phone calls show they have an inherent conflict of interest and cant be independent and impartial in the investigation. >> david frum, whats your reaction to these developments? >> im her with a commercial commercial message, please stop talking to the special prosecutor....

>> i agree with richard stengel, there are things we want to know, should be books written about them, right now there are people in the west wing with access to important information including names of american agents inside other countries who may be security risks and have to exclude them and do it fast. i dont want members of congress on this commission. i want professionals. the commission must be appointed by congress but make it go fast, find the risks, identify them and isolate them from...

About trump, but about how theyre doing this and how trump responded because trump has played into their act. he has been what lenin called a useful id the yot iot to their which no one has done since 1982. >> i agree with richard stengel, there are things we want to know, should be books written about them, right now there are people in the west wing with access to important information including names of american agents inside other countries who may be security risks and have to exclude them ...

In our best interests. >> they said, for example, mexico will not take back people that the united states is deporting who have crossed the border who are not mexican nationals. as rex tillerson and secretary kelly walk into this meeting today with mexicos president, what leverage do they have? >> i think they have a lot of challenges. secretary videgaray from mexico made it very clear this issue is going to be a priority in the conversations. it wasnt part of agenda as of two addition ago. but ...

Football. i mean, its incredible. >> zerlina, very quickly, donald trump just reduced the pay of all of his foreign national workers because he only hires apparently at mar-a-lago foreign nationals. >> i think this is the biggest security risk ive ever heard of. in some ways it sounds like a television show except were living it. i cant believe were only in week three. im very alarmed not just because of the security risks in mar-a-lago but also business ties that havent fully been investigated ...

Out with a new order of some sort, what changes do you think he could make that would stand legal muster? >> i think the first thing is that there cannot be discrimination. there cannot be picking and choosing among countries based on religion. simply tweaking it is not enough. the stain of discrimination is there. the fact that he may remove certain things a the last minute, like he did before, doesnt eliminate the intent to discriminate against the muslim religion. i think it would have to be ...

Campaign promises, which includes the travel ban. i want to get your view tonight because he says hes issuing a new executive order, because this is about security, he doesnt have the time to fight through the courts. we asked him tonight on the plane to mar-a-lago how this would be in the new report. >> were going to have very, very strong vetting, i call it extreme vetting and were going to have very, very strong security in our country, were going to have people that want to be here for good ...

It at this point and whats taken it on. there are a lot of judges who face security issues. we talk flippantly about judges in any way or any conversation about judges we miss the fact that they face a lot of threats. they deal with the criminal element and difficult cases and very often they face very serious security risks. >> do you want president trump to tone down the rhetoric about judges. >> actually period for all of america. this is a good time to be able to help us get back to discours...

But the stakes clearly for the us and for so many people around the world are norm us right now. >> they are enormous. as we deal with both security risks and realizing who we are as a nation of open immigration and a nation thats very aggressive on this. president obama slowed down those refugees coming and did a short-term stop for the immigration from some of these areas because we wanted to make sure we got it right. i understand the president trump wanting to check the obama administration ...

Referred to the u.s. for resettlement. what happens then? >> how can you vet somebody when you dont know anything about them? how do you vet them? you cant. >> we know a lot about them. they are subject to the highest level of scrutiny, the security check they have to go through is the highest category of any traveler to the united states. that means background checks by the state department, the fbi, the department of homeland security and the national counterterrorism center looking for securi...