with talking points in advance, where they had carveouts for permanent legal residents, people in transit, people for interpreters and those types of people and limited the pause moving forward. i think we would be having a different conversation about the policy. but that is not what happened, and therefore there is a debacle that the administration has been cleaning up for the last 48 hours. >> bret: david, what about donald trump tweeting "109 people out of 3 and a 25,000 were detained and held for questioning. big problems at airports caused by delta computer outage. the tears of senator schumer. senator kelly said all is going well with few problems. make america safe again." that was reiterated by sean spicer at the briefing about the numbers. >> that data point is a powerful one for the administration but i think they got caught behind all of this and i think they lost