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General kelly took one for the team here. listen. >> in retrospect, this is all on me, by the way, i should have delayed it just a bit so that i could talk to members of congress, particularly the leadership of committees like this, to prepare them for what was coming. the desire was to get it out. the thinking was to get it out quick so that potentially people that might be coming here to harm us would not take advantage. >> general kelly, by the way, is a proud member of red sox and patriot na...

Between staying put or going. we have a journalist that were consulting with, on this delicacy, god forbid hes ever put on a plane or not returned properly to the united states. the stakes are very high. the power of congress is really what rules the roost when it comes to immigration. and unfortunately, the president, at this point, has used the vacuum created by the deafening silence in washington to do something, but i dont think hes done it properly. purely a breach of our constitution. your...

Gary within do you think that inherit in this job is a sort of diplomatic speak and a way to carry yourself, especially with leaders of western allies? >> look, there should be some -- a way about you when you are discussing other leaders and other things around the country. around the world. but, look, there are has been a leak here. and i can promise you. theres been plenty of tough talk between president of the united states and other countries throughout the last 100 years. this is not new. ...

Zones of cooperation, counterterrorism, the arctic, so i think a policy of confront where we must, we heard that from ambassador haley, but cooperate where we can. ths avoiding stumbling backwards. >> steve, i thk we have another problem with the leaks coming out from the krvegss with the president of mexico, yesterday with prime minister of australia, those leaks really hurt. and i think any presidential conversation with any foreign leader is never pretty when it gets out there. >> what is the...

Is not nearly important as unit states/australian cooperation and working together. >> casey just mentioned lawmakers occasionally felt out of the loop. they are being caught by surprise with some of these reports as well. you are hearing, jake, that republicans are in any way frustrated so far with this presidents performance in his first two weeks? >> maybe not on substance. but on style, i think definitely theres a huge gap between what republicans on the hill want to see and what they are se...

To be clinton including me and i didnt vote for trump but he deserves this pick and hes going to get confirmed. hell be a great justice. >> do you support a nuclear option if it were to come to that in the senate? >> it would be sad to me if we have to go that route with a man like this but hes going to get confirmed. ive took a lot of crap voting for obamas judges. i thought they were qualified. ive tried to be fair to everybody the best i know how to be. i didnt think garland should have been ...

Like this but hes going to get confirmed. ive took a lot of crap voting for obamas judges. i thought they were qualified. ive tried to be fair to everybody the best i know how to be. i didnt think garland should have been picked in the last year of obamas term after we started the primary process so if thats the argument its very unpersuasive. this president won, he deserves the right to pick qualified people and this is one of the most qualified people ive ever met so time will tell. >> forgive...

Passed. a number of republican allies on the hill said they were not consulted and taken by surprise. if they do agree with the travel ban and what it includes, they do not agree he with the sloppy rollout. despite all of that, the white house vig obvioorously defended move. >> if we announced this earlier, this would give time for people to flood into the country to do us harm. the people that needed to be kept in the loop, were kept in the loop. >> reporter: no indication however that presiden...

>> of course. >> with all of this happening and as you are trying to give spechks about whaegts happening, what is the concern about the fall-out from other countries who are viewing this still in a certain way? have you looked at the fall-out, and how to counter it and how to work with these other countries that may be allies and may not be allies in order to prevent something from happening? >> i think, april, one of the things that were doing is trying to make sure that people understand what...

Earlier, it would have given people plenty of time to flood into the country who could have done us harm. thats not exactly a sound strategy. so the people that needed to be kept in the loop were kept in the loop. >> reporter: republican house homeland security chairman, mike mccall, who backed the idea in general, wasnt consulted either. >> this was an overreach. >> reporter: several high profile republicans say the sloppy executive order will actually help recruit potential terrorists. >> i th...