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Administration without getting senate confirmed. we ll see if that s a last step they could take. clearly democrats, another tactic to try to delay donald trump from getting some of the more controversial nominees confirmed, john. the democrats might have seemed more emboldened in recent days. they ve seen the protest in this about the president s travel bans. they re getting calls telling them to toughen up, stand up and fight more. is that what this is a product of or do they just sense some political weakness up there, and they see some opening to make a stand. i think it s a little bit of both. they re definitely being pulled by their base to take a very firm line on whoever donald trump has nominated for some of the key cabinet positions. the question is will they take that same tactic? also for the supreme court nominee, i m told from a number of democratic senators, they do not want to go that far because they believe that a conservative supplely replacing a conservative it ....
come on up. probably best to be in front of the microphone. who is first? thanks. two quick questions. first to the acting ice director. is ice planning on growing detention states for people and extending the time in which they are held? then, also, on cvp, you mentioned you spoke to people about the order within 72 hours. would it have been easier if you had any guidance before this order came out? could confusion have been avoided? on the first question, yes. we got to secure our borders. those of us entering the united states, we need to detain those people. we re in the process of identifying detention capacity. increasing the length of stay, we look to do just the opposite. we like to keep them in custody as little as possible and make sure they get their due process. once they get that order from the judge, execute that order. ....
Implementing the operational plans, so we had to adjust our efforts a little bit, but we worked quickly to implement and i think the process is really smoothed out. just to clarify, the initial he calls weren t within 72 hours. they were within two hours of the executive order being received. reporter with congressional quarterly two questions, whoever wants to take this. there are several lawmakers and advocacy groups that are saying that some border patrol agents ignored court orders and handcuffed passengers and tried to deport some of them. can you reassure people that, in fact, they were following the orders? the second thing is the president has called the executive order an extreme vetting. can you describe what that over and beyond what has already happened? i will say beyond question, no member of the homeland security team ignored a court order. nor would they ignore a court ....
There s been an escalation since the weekend. i would add the airport protests to that as well. you really saw members of congress going out to the airports sort of pleading to get access to the detainees who were apparently being deported, notwithstanding, what general kelly said earlier. there seemed to be some disconnect between the facts he was asserting and other facts that lawyers are claiming about people being told to sign away their green cards and sent to ethiopia or things like that. it will be interesting to see over the next few days how some of those facts are hashed out. i think you call that taking one for the team. interesting to see that was taking one for the team. this climate also includes the president s decision yesterday to fire the acting attorney general, who was an obama hold-over who said in her view they e she would not implement this kbektive order because she thought it was unlawful, and she was using that, the statements he made in the campaign, that ....
for 18 months or so. it didn t matter. if the opposition is fractured, if he keeps the 46%, it may not be a majority, but it s the biggest piece. if he keeps it. can he get the votes on capitol hill? there s a question about the tone and being that ticks surrounding everything. a lot of these moves could have been made without some of the provocative language. some of the sharp edges could have been buffered off. some of the things could have been deferred. there was no reason that immigration order had to be issued, you know, a week into the presidency. it could have been deferred, as jeff was saying, to sometime later on, and instead they decide to rush everything fashd, and sometimes it s important to make a clean entry. think about health care.gov. you know, he may have had a good plan. if you don t come out strong at the beginning, that s all anybody remembers. an excellent point. when you say that, it reminds me of what they saidat the homeland security briefing. this ....