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Executive order get written? why is it so very sloppy in a lot of ways, it seems like? it seems like a lot of the relevant lawyers were not consulted which i think is sort of crazy. so -- and then to your point and how the media, it's like damnedm if you do, damned if you don't. if you're trump, you're like, well, look at these countries that aren't on it like saudi arabia and pakistan. would anyone rescind their criticism if he added two more countries to it? i don't think they would. there are legitimate criticisms and ones that are sillier. >> but i think there were criticisms that by sheer...

It was easier country to country. howard: you think he personalized it. >> yeah, he absolutely did. how're howard now, i happened to see you in the briefing room on friday evening after trump had signed those two orders having to do with refugee policy. explain what you were trying to do at that moment. >> well, you know, he had signed those orders around four, and this was several hours later,, and none of the press had seen actual text of the orders. so we needed to understand what the actual text said in order te report on it, and so what we were all doing was hanging around in lower press ...

Inauguration day, why because -- why does he keep taking shots at cnn? >> when you take a look at the week he has, it actually iss historic in terms of how much he's done by executive action, how many meetings -- howard: so you feel some in the media have acknowledged the progress he's made. >> it's definitely a minority.e and, again, when i ask reporters privately what do you think of the week we've had so far, the number of people we've met with, he sat down with union leaders, business owners, carit manufacturers and by and large, when you meet with these individuals and ask them how many t...

On a surge of murders in chicago, the president said he might send in the feds, whatever that means. >> right. howard: critics are saying this is no way to make policy finish. >> but that assumes that that is exactly how it's being done, and i think that's a very simplistic way of looking at it. he's constantly getting briefed by a team of advisers on a whole host of issues, and i think people will go backwards and m find a story and say that must have been what he's talking about. at the end of the day, the president is constantly in meetings with individuals and his staff and advisers about ...

President trump said to sean hannity, well, what they're really saying is i'm a racist and, of course, that story was retracted and apologized. >> yes. the reporter did retract it, but it gives him the excuse to go out and paint everybody with the same false brush.cu look, i come at this from the soviet union which is where i was born. i remember pravda, i rememberrm having an arm of the press, searchly, act as an d essentially, act as an arm of the government. and if that's what president trump wants, if he wants the press to look askance at anybody who criticized him for what he said that's ...