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And i wanted to go back to the executive order on immigration. you talked about these dual track, where you'll doing the new executive order and still fighting that in court. can you give us a status update on where that legal fight is and what we should see happening? >> so, with respect to the executive order, there are several courts that this be is being fought in, ten or so. we continue to deal with that in all of those venues. and then, again, i guess the only way to say this, and obviously on the dual track side, we have the additional executive order we talked about earlier that will c...

I think the president this time, we were very careful to understand what the court's concerns were and address them in the follow-up executive order. with respect to when we're going to announce it, part of this is to make sure we work with the appropriate departments and agencies on the implementation of it, to make sure it is executed and continued to be executed in a flawless manner, it meets the intent it was served. we understand the challenges that may come, so we want to do this in a manner that makes sure that hill, other members of congress, the appropriate agencies and departments ar...

The nominees he wants for some very important positions? >> well, thanks, john. i'd say, on the first part, as you know, and i'll give you the same answer we give executive orders, we don't comment on personnel decisions until they're made, until they're finalized, so i've got nothing for that. on the second part, what i would say is the president is very confident we have a deep bench of folks who during the transition we talked about this, a number of people who have expressed a huge interest in joining the president in fulfilling this agenda. and that list is robust and long. however, that ...

Court enjoined this because it hadn't followed the law and it hadn't -- the procedure, the comment period and the solicitation of opinions and ideas wasn't followed. it was jammed down the process. so, we're actually following the law on this one. i think that's the way it's done. john? >> reporter: the human rights campaign -- >> i wasn't finished. sorry. >> i'm following your question. >> i understand. >> why don't we let april follow on and then we'll get to john, kristen and -- >> reporter: i have something on another issue. on the executive order, we understand the executive order coming ...

For people who are hiring people. and the impediments they're having to create additional jobs, hire more people. obviously, while the president values their opinion, and that's why they've been involved in some of this, this was specifically a manufacturing, people who hire, people who manufacture, people who grow the economy, and that's a vastly different situation. andre? >> reporter: thank you. question on russia. general dunford have had meetings. is the president pleased with the meetings? >> yes. >> reporter: what comes next? >> both of them had an opportunity to meet with their counter...