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It is limited to a small number of countries and a lot of muslim majority countries have the same abilities to travel to and from the united states as they did in previous administrations. i think that alone in action answers your question clearly. >> reporter: i just wanted to follow up on dr. ronny jackson. yesterday the president suggested he does not have the experience to run the department of veterans affairs. is that affair assessment? >> that's not what the president said. i think you're taking some of his words out of contact. i know you don't appreciate when people take your words ou...

Affairs. i worked at the v.a. from 2009 to 2012. it's a $185 billion budget. this is not something he has the experience to do. you got to remember that previous v.a. secretaries, one was an arm a chief of staff, secretary mcdonald was the former ceo of procter & gamble and they faced a lot of serious challenges with this. you're going to take a guy who is the white house physician and never managed more than a few dozen people at a time in his life and throw him in that crucible. not only are you setting him up for failure butt 20 million veterans in america up for failure. >> do your other v...

We understand he fired off a three-paragraph memo that basically said he's reorganizing the staff there and essentially gave the employees no advanced notice, he was not taking any input according to a senior administration official who told cnn about the existence of this memo. so it seems according to this official that more departures in the national security team are on the way. keep in mind, brooke, obviously john bolton will want to have his on team there. nobody is saying he shouldn't have his own team but there are a lot of very pressing national security issues on the front burner rou...

He's never successfully faced or even faced issues like this before. so it's insane that they would nominate this man who by most accounts has had a very honorable service in the military. with or without these allegations that have surfaced recently. it's setting him up for failure and setting veterans up for failure. the president campaigned on talking about how much he was going to do for veterans and what he is doing now is showing total reckless disregard for the care the veterans receive in the v.a. system. >> brandon thank you so much for that point and jonathan and catherine thank you ...

To run the v.a. sarah sanders said i had taken something out of context at the press conference yesterday. the president said with respect to this issue of experience, he said, quote, i know there's an experience problem because lack of experience, the president say quite plainly yesterday that dr. jackson seems to have an issue when it comes to having the right amount of experience to run the v.a. so i think that more than anything else, perhaps more than these other allegations that are swirling around the doctor may be the one issue that trips him up the most when he goes into conformation ...