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From the homeland security secretary today, kelly, saying this is not a ban and it is about keeping americans safe? >> listen, understand when you want to use a sledgehammer when a scalpel can do, given the fact that a skap pell would have been far better here, kate. the american people are justifiably apprehensive about radical islamic terror. but there are many things the trump administration could have done if it had more policy reviews over what is really the art of the possible. first examp...

Who was involved and how quickly it was implemented where. >> for someone who was part of the team when president obama brought osama bin laden to justice, we have meeting after meeting for months on end with all of the relevant cabinet officials, subcabinet officials who needed to be part of that decision. that didnt get out, and similarly, when weve looked at immigration issues in the past, theres been a very deliberate process, and everyone has been in on the decision. >> when -- do you belie...

Sentiment or rebuke coming from other world leerds now seeing this unfold? >> well, i think there are these narrative that donald trump has created. he won the presidency, but that tweet sort of reflects, he mentioned isis and hes painting this picture of this world thats out of control. the total nump americans who have died in terrorist attacks in the united states since the large tacks in 2001 is roughly 125. thats 125 people over 15 years. there was an increase in attacks. the terrible in sa...

The wall and left beforehand. some people are looking to leave anyway. this is unprecedented. what he did is gut the management bureau. people who run the building, run the diplomatic outpost and foreign missions. these are the people who do the nuts and bolts that keep it running day-to-day. they did not stay on until a replacement was found was shocking. >> this is the beginning of the exodus? >> it is the middle. >> other agencies across d.c.? >> that is right. what the concern is that if you...

>> well, jefferson beauregard sessions is a person who is no friend of civil rights. he is going to take a sledgehammer to our federal protections. i mean, his role is going to be just like the others who are being appointed by trump, which is really to diminish the role of the federal government. historically, we know that civil rights has been enforced by the federal government. weve had to turn to the federal government because the states were not protecting us. i mean, when you think about v...

Departments, five, six, seven people. you dont have murder cops on staff. you dont have forensic professionals on staff. >> so by the time shannon arrived at the hospital looking for her mother, an agent of the colorado bureau of investigation was there to meet her. along with aaron. how did she take it? >> about as well as you expect anybody to get hit by a sledgehammer or whatever. first youre just kind of shocked, then a little bit of denial. >> suddenly i realized that that last conversation...

Tamara neil from southern virginia told us for her at least the reports of trumps mistreatment of women were outweighed by other concerns. >> he has the courage and the fortitude, obviously, to withstand all the blowback from saying what hes saying about muslim immigration and the difficulties that lie there, building a wall and illegal immigration and just one issue after the next after the next after the next. hes willing to say what, frankly, i think most of us were thinking, and he can take ...

>> so by the time shannon arrived at the hospital looking for her mother, an agent of the colorado bureau of investigation was there to meet her. along with aaron. how did she take it? >> about as well as you expect anybody to get hit by a sledgehammer or whatever. first youre just kind of shocked, then a little bit of denial. >> suddenly i realized that that last conversation i had with her was -- that was it. >> no fresh start now. her mother was dead. and then shannon saw ralph. >> and he los...

They thought no way. were not going to have the white house. maybe keep both houses of congress. its easy to use it as a political sledgehammer. >> tom price has a bill. he actually wrote a plan. and speaker ryan has another plan called a better way. >> more better. >> michael warren, thank you. happy holidays to both of you. still ahead on "morning joe," rahm emanuelamously said never let a serious crisis go to waste. that was on display yesterday as mayor de blasios office turned a bomb scare ...

Clear conscience. >> in this room is the area thats -- where the drugs are actually administered, through this port here. also in this room, obviously, is a red phone. if theres a stay of execution or a change in order whatsoever, then it would be communicated through the red phone. once the executions completed, the body of the inmate is brought through this door here out this door into the sally port where there would be an ambulance waiting to remove the body. >> ive been in prison since 2000...