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A notification of intent to withdraw from the transpacific partnership, a potential disaster for our country. instead, we will negotiate fair bilateral trade deals that bring jobs and industry back onto american shores. on regulation, i will formulate a rule which says that for every one new regulation, two old regulations must be eliminated. so important. >> in the video, trump steered clear of some of his biggest campaign promises, cluding repealinobamacare and building a wall along the u.s./mexico border. his transition briefly offered only this on immigration -- >> on immigration, i will d...

I'm very proud of him. male vo: comcast. on immigration, i will direct the department of labor to investigate all abuses of visa programs that undercut the american worker. >> vowing to tackle immigration reform as a list of actions he

Citizenship in congress. then we have cruz, not exactly supporting that, but making the visa system a little easier. in this climate, where you have americans on edge about who the u.s. is letting into the country. do you think cruz and rubio are handling this the right way? should they own up to how they voted in the past and say the climate has changed? >> for rubio, it has been a problem for him among conservatives that he support the bill that provided a path to citizenship. he has distanced himself from it since then. it was interesting to see him basically try to cast doubt on cruz's con...

Vetting would have prevented the attacks. that's not what the state department's implying in what they're reviewing here, which is trying to make a more robust process for the visa programs. which the president referenced in his remarks, too. this issue is getting a ton of attention right now. but secondarily even if you say this is not something that would have prevented an attack, it is something we're learning, many officials inside dhs wanted to do earlier. the big question here is how do you ramp up these screenings for maximum security within the pressures that are on these departments b...

Not post anything about jihad or terror on social media despite earlier reports. so nothing out there publicly, but the new review will be led by the departments homeland security. they'll look at how the process employs social media vetting in certain immigration benefits programs and it is committed to expanding use of social media vetting and is examining appropriate opportunities in conjunction with interagency screening partners to do so across the range of visa programs including the k-1 program. msnbc chief legal correspondent ari melber joins me now. let's talk about this because there...