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Like the social media manager get a security clearance. >> a lower level person had to quit this week, this past week because he smoked marijuana in 2013 and would not pass a back ynd check. that was recently reported. it could be that, or it could be more substantial. >> although interestingly, you can still pass a security test if you have smoked marijuana in 2013. more likely, he smoked marijuana and lied about it to the investigative agencies, and these guys lie. you know, trump is a congeni...

Portion of the population and they will believe it short -- theres no real way of convincing them. i mean, the experts on authoritarians say there really is no way to convert these people. you simply have to make sure they dont get power. and we sort of failed that first test. >> clearly. david jolly, very quickly, donald trump made a comment today when he was speaking with some sheriffs, one of the sheriffs mentioned there was a state senator that was giving them problems and he said "whos the ...

>> listen, that is how he is presiding right now which is if you oppose him hes going to destroy you and unfortunately he has the ability to do so. the security test is real and we need to make sure that we respond to the americans concerns about orlando, san bernardino, paris and so forth. we can do that with a security test without a religious test and that is where the president is pushing the narrative that is false and emboldening the dark angels among the american people when he should be ...

Everybodys arguing whether or not its a ban. call it what you want. it is about keeping bad people with bad intentions out of the country. do you believe, senator, the white house needs to do a better job with its messaging? >> sure they do. i think this was unnecessarily confusing and the way that it was rolled out and they deserve to give more clarity to the american people on a big decision like this. but the end of the day its a security test. this is not a religious test. and we do have a r...

Events of tonight including your understanding, your reaction to the executive order that the acting attorney general tonight, the first acting attorney general of the night, thought was unlawful and a new acting attorney general has now been put in to try to fight to defend that order in court. your reaction to the order and to what weve seen happen tonight. >> yeah, lawrence, look, you nailed it with the monday night massacre. i think if this is week one of the trump administration, it indicat...

Of congress, he called all members of congress idiots. i know a lot of viewers might agree with that, but thats not a way a president works with the congress. listen, lawrence, the test for congress right now is youre seeing a lot of silent members on the right refusing to speak up. and on the left, youre seeing members raise money off of this. we need a congress to step up and do the right thing and push back and say, listen, we should have a security test, we should, we should make sure vettin...

He blamed delta. this is not a security test by the president. he is blaming others and now he is firing somebody with credentials at the department of justice because they failed to execute what was, i believe, an unawful order. >> john feiner, obviously hes firing someone whose performance he didnt like saturday, trying to enforce an order they couldnt make sense of with the administration, itself, changing the order verbally saying, well, yes, green card holders are not allowed back in the co...

Staff was told that they were ordered not to talk to congress, that the white house ordered state department staff not to talk to members of congress or their staff. you know -- >> look -- >> we keep wearing out this word, "unprecedented." >> sure, its authoritarianism by any other name. listen, each executive branch official, each president from bush 43 to obama now to trump tries to seize more executive authority. trump has indicated he has no interest in working with congress. understand when...

Understanding, your reaction to the executive order that the acting attorney general tonight, the first acting attorney general of the night, thought was unlawful and a new acting attorney general has now been put in to try to fight to defend that order in court. your reaction to the order and to what weve seen happen tonight. >> yeah, lawrence, look, you nailed it with the monday night massacre. i think if this is week one of the trump administration, it indicates that within the first year, we...

>> he said a muslim ban. >> he is talking about vetting people who come into the country. when isis is saying theyre going to try to infiltrate and bring people into the united states who are terrorists we need to take it seriously and people who come in ought to be vetted and that we secure the federal border. >> all muslims? goss the gop conference -- over muslim has to be subject to the extreme vetting that donald trump spoke about during the campaign? >> its not a religious test. its a secur...