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Anti-immigration policies being executed under the trump administration and everything that stephen miller pop gaited and pushed the refugee conversation was one of the toughest. it's a known thing across the united states government across people who worked on in issue that we were walking on eggshells whenever weld have the discussion. and these meetings were held working groups across the national security councils where people have state department dhs, many people were very vocal. the pentagon especially was vocal about the s.i.v, 32 people iraqis people in movingants helping our troops w...

Years. did you sign off on this decision to reduce the number to 30,000 and do you support the cut? >> we all gave our own opinions on what we thought that number should be. at the end of the day there's a national security council process that goes through that. this is what i'll tell you, the united states is the most generous to refugees of any country in the world. like you said, i've been to see the syrian refugees in jordan and turkey. i've been to ethiopia, democratic republic of congo and the united states makes sure we're taking care of refugees closest to home. never did i hear a ref...

Years. i know you have made working i with refugees a priority. do you support the cut? >> we all gave your own opinions on what we thought that number should be and at the end of the day there's a national security council process that goes through that. this is what i'll tell you, the united states is the most generous to refugees of any country in the world. i mean, like you said, i have been to see the syrian refugees in jordan and turkey, i have been to ethiopia i have been to the congo, because never i have heard refugees say i want to go to america, they say i want to go back home. so w...

That's a plus for him. on the other hand, he doesn't have a foreign policy and the trump doctrine is incoherent at this point. but it will be fascinating to see what he does because what he has said in the past what he ran on may be very, very different from what he's inclined to do now. i have no idea what the trump doctrine is or what the next step is and i don't think anybody else does either. >> who is running this government? >> a collaboration of individuals. obviously a lot of people said jared kushner is running the government. but it is donald trump is the figure head and all the rest...

Language of refugee instead of immigrant might be helpful for moving the president's agenda forward. >> i think it's going to be impracticality, difficult to move the conversation from immigration to a refugee conversation. i just think, in terms of how the dialogue works because they're coming on the southern border, i think, you may be right in the definition, i think it's still a challenge, but what i think is important is a couple things. one to focus on why these kids are coming here. and think of the heart ache of, you know, i'm a mom, you're a mom, of feeling this is the only chase i ha...