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That of course is what set up the raucous. he spnd responded to saying nob from homeland as far as he's concerned violated the court order or ignored the court orders on the order of steve miller from the white house but he's looking into that. >> reporter: i think that's exactly right. he said some individual within the department of homeland security were involved in the drafting process. it is clear, he said like most americans for the course of the last year and a half to two years he knew this was coming in some form. eight not clear that he knew the specific details as they were announce...

Are democrats slow walking his nominees just to obstruct the process? >> oh, yeah, totally. we don't have the numbers actually to stop these confirmations, so we are slow walking the process because we want to ask more questions. i know chuck schumer has made it clear he wants to know with each and every nominee, where they fall on the travel ban, muslim man or whatever we are calling it at this point. he wants to at that done, and they have a series of questions that they do not feel have been satisfactorily answered at this point, and they are going to keep a slow walking it. i think they be...

Accused the acting attorney general of betraying her own department by expressing a counter opinion. don't you think that kind of language has a chilling effect on the public safety? >> press secretary spicer: i think there is a big difference but think of the process at work here. the department of justice's office of legal compliance provided the executive order, send it back to us to say it was completely compliant. the acting attorney general goes out to say i am not going to enforce it? you tell me how that jibes because at the end of the day, if the acting attorney general has an office ...

The refugees from those countries. that's the alternative fact situation and i think that we really have to be careful in terms of the chaos that this has created and i think the order was more like a press release rather than trying to figure out how the united states government in fact follows uhm on something that affects so many people's lives, and has created such sadness and really not been how people need to be welcomed into the country where the statue of liberty reigns. >> let me ask you about the principals committee, that is an overlooked part of the nsc, the principals committee th...

Finding? >> i think the president's made very clear with respect to energy policy that he wants to review all of the options that we have to use our natural resources to better the country in terms of wind, power, solar, clean coal. we're in the process of reviewing all of our energy policies. i'd go back to note we don't have an energy secretary confirmed right now, because the senate hasn't yet moved forward with that. i hope once that's done we'll have further updates on energy. matt? >> saean, sally yates was an obama appointee holding over through the transition. how many more are there t...