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Briefed, not just briefed, they were part of the drafting process. it went through not only that, just back up, so they get consulted and briefed. is goes through the office of legal compliance and shift out to the nfc and the homeland security council. this went through an extensive staffing process. the idea whether or not he got fully briefed he was briefed multiple times, saw the language, his staff made edits. i'm not sure how much more briefing you can do. >> zoe daniel from australian broadcasting. the australian government made a deal with the obama administration whereby the u.s. woul...

Because that country doesn't have maybe the systems in place or in some cases the willingness to provide us the information necessary to insure that the people that are coming into this country are properly vetted, this isn't about refugees. it's about travellers. that's what this is about. part of what we're doing is frankly making sure that other countries understand exactly what was in the order, how it applies, what it means to visas and waivers and all this kind of stuff, but for the most part you have seen a lot of panic in the people actually stopping reading the order and realizing, oh...

Executive order on immigration. got put aside today even by paul ryan, the house speaker, who has been positive in the effort to tighten vetting, saying it created problems he didn't need to because. should be seen as a little bit of a warning for the trump administration that may be the speed and drama and action is costing them to implementing the policies. >> bret: i will say the homeland security secretary today said his people were in on the drafting process. they knew it was coming, that the executive order was coming and they were part of the drafting. all of the hyperventilating about ...

States." we are a great country and our greatness comes from our diversity. >> madeleine albright, a woman known for her pins, among other things and today it is lady liberty that you are wearing. >> yes. >> thank you very much, madam secretary. joining me is the washington investigations editor for the "new york times" mark mazzetti, covered national security in the last decade. we heard from john kelly at homeland. they are retroactively trying to say there was no chaos, that there were people who were not unfairly detained that extreme vetting is needed and that he was part of the process...

Process. sought feedback, went into the inner agency review, had other departments sign off, despite the reporting that said was otherwise. hold on. guys. >> is it a betrayal? that's -- >> why don't we just let me answer glen so we can be polite now, huh? and what the answer is that we went through the process. the office of legal compliance came back and said this is a compliant executive order. it's fully legal. it can be executed. then for the attorney general to turn around and say i'm not going to uphold this lawful executive order is clearly a dereliction of duty, and she should have bee...