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You are trying to give specifics about what is happening, what is the concern about the fallout from other countries who are viewing this still in a certain way? have you looked at the fallout and how to counter it and how to work with these other countries that may be allies or maybe not even allies in order to prevent something from happening? >> press secretary spicer: i think one of the things we are doing is trying to make sure people understand what actually happened. i saw a reporting tod...

Conversation with secretary kelly to make sure that we separate fact from myth that we make sure that the confusion gets cleared up very quickly. >> he who has the presidents ear has the power. but for how long. >> joining me now one of the writers of that "washington post" article. phil rucker. talk to me about what is going on in the west wing. is there mounting anger on reince priebuss side about losing control and losing influence to president trump? >> you know, i think mounting anger is a ...

They like to be kept in the loop. if trump keeps doing these executive orders and not fill people in, the hill is going to dismiss him and its going to quickly turn into the obama presidency where the president of the united states has absolutely no relationship with anybody on capitol hill. and thats what people are afraid of. its unconscionable that the speaker of the house had no idea about a major change in immigration policy let alone the fact, another thing we reported in that story last n...

Were showing did not trust general mattis to give him information about the details, nor did he trust general john kelly, who actually is the head of the department of homeland security. nor did he trust the director of the cia to keep him in the loop. nor did he trust rex tillerson. all these people donald trump said were superstars. >> corker. >> 30 something, john kelly, rex tillerson, director of cia all left out in the cold. ari, i cant even begin to ask the question would george w. bush ev...

We will see how they clean this up. they are only 10 or 12 days in now. but clearly they have got to work things out and get through the growing pains. >> this is not your paper but david brooks today wrote that basically the gop has struck a deal with the devil, and they are going to pay too high a price for it. i know in your past life you covered the gop more broadly, and congress. >> yeah. >> in your estimation, at what point is the gop ghog to say you know what, we need there to be -- we ne...

Even from the secretary of homeland security and those maybe immediately around him about what was going on. right? >> thats right. so what were told through our sourcers at department of homeland security, as president trump was signing this executive order the new homeland security secretary as well as other career leadership at dhs were basically being fully briefed for the first time on the details of this executive order. briana. >> he said that -- he said that the people who needed to be b...

He saved the taxpayers money and brought jobs back. there is generally criticism in the media about his use of twitter baits shows he can go around the media and get things done. but he can also be successful because there is such a reaction to his message. howie: the media dont like that because they feel cut out of the loop. >> the idea he can have this direct conversation with the american people. congress is going to take up an action. he didnt think it made sense in terms of the level of pr...

Into the country who planned to do us harm. thats not a sound strategy. the people that needed to be kept in the loop were kept in the loop. the people that needed to be briefed were. again, this is largely overblown. when you look at the context of how big this was and the number of people that it caught up its relatively minor as a percentage of the overall total. so when you look at how this worked on a saturday, 109 people out of 325,000 were slowed down going in. i truly believe that it is ...

Steve bannon, and reince priebus and by all accounts they are getting along better. the way trump has the white house set up, he has different power centers. and they are all competing for a slice of donald trumps brain. so at times you see them undermining each other in the press. howie: you heard sean spicer say about reacting to cable news on twitter. he said when the president uses twitter a lot the press corp feels cut out of the loop. >> there is something new about when you are awake at 5...

Coordination with congress and other agencies was necessary for national security reasons. he said they couldnt give advance note in order to prevent, quote, bad dudes from coming in. people on capitol hill seem to think the executive order is, a, too sweeping and, b, incompetently implemented. >> if you want to look at a way to expand confusion and expend political capital unnecessarily, they are saying you can look at the way donald trump rolled out the travel ban, even though the white house ...