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His senior officials were briefed, not just brief, they were part of the drafting process. not only that, just back up here they get consulted and briefed, it goes through the office of legal compliance then get shipped out to the nsc and homeland security council. at this point, it went through a very thorough staffing process, so the idea of whether he got fully briefed -- he got briefed multiple times, saw the language from his staff made edits and it came back multiple times. i'm not sure how much more briefing you can do. >> reporter: from australian broadcaster, thank you for taking my q...

Incoming travelers. craig? >> ken delaney starting us off from washington, thank you. democrats trying to slow down process to fill out president trump's cabinet. four committees met today to hold votes on a total of six nominees. however, democrats on the finance committee decided to boycott votes for two of trump's crucial nominees, their absence forcing republicans to push back votes for treasury and for health and human services as well. that move as you might imagine outraging republicans in particular committee chairman orin hatch. he called democrats stupid. >> this is the most pathet...

The secretary detailed multiple occasions in which he was briefed on it. his staff made edits to it. i don't know how much more, and i think part of what we're trying to do is make sure that people actually understand what happened, what the process was, and what the order actually does. when we use words like travel ban, that misrepresents what it is. it's seven countries previously identified by the obama administration where frankly we don't get the information that we need for people coming into this country. what this isn't about is not just the people. it's about the information that ano...

Voters and every american very, very proud. this particular choice is one that the president takes very seriously. he knows it will impact the course of our country's jurisprudence for generations to come. as such, he has taken careful steps to ensure this process has been transparent and inclusive. he has been speaking about the list of individuals that he may nominate since may of this year, and after consulting with several influential groups released a definitive list of 21 in september, pledging that his nominee will solely come from that list. he sought the advice and consent of both rep...

Order. >> kevin before you step up, let me kind of frame it a little bit. we did know the e.o. was coming. we had people involved in the general drafting of it. you know, clearly it was, this whole approach was part of what then candidate trump talked about for a year or two. so we knew all that was coming. as i said, we had high levels of government lawyers from across the inner agency to include homeland security that were involved in the drafting of it, so we knew it was coming. it wasn't a surprise it was coming, and then we implemented it. so go ahead, kevin. >> right, our job at the oper...