And held for questioning. Yeah, why such a fuss . That was the official line from the white house. Wasnt that many people, why did everybody make such a big deal out of this. Were talking about a universe of 109 people. There were 329,000 people that came into the country, 109 of them were stopped for additional screening. Uhuh. That was monday, that was bull pucky. On tuesday, badgered by recorders, the press secretary said okay, the 109 number was referring only to people initially detained but he gave no more numbers of who else got stopped or stranded thereafter. Thats the only number theyve ever copped to. 109 people temporarily showed down. Weve all had delays in life. 19 people, you can imagine the shock in a federal court in virginia when a lawyer from the Trump Justice Department cleared up that actually its more like a thousand times that number. The admission by the Administration Lawyer today reportedly leading to an audible gas in the courtroom. Apparently in addition to what we were told the president ordered on friday night he also told the state department on friday night they needed to revoke existing visas from people what had visas, those are people who are already cleared to enter the country. We didnt know this at the time but they revoked 100,000 visas. 100,000 people. That order was issued friday night. They didnt let anybody know that order had been issued until days later. For some reason. Like a secret order . You could hear the shock in the voice of one of the lawyers challenging the president on this as he emerged from that virginia courthouse today. Reading the executive order was horrific enough. Comi to learn this, that the secret order had been signed two days later was even more shocking to me and today coming to learn that there were over 100,000 visas canceled. Really is just something that i dont even have words to express. Not a hundred people, a hundred thousand people. As this muslim ban, this refugee ban continued to stumble through the courts, we learned today that there are parts of it we didnt even know existed when the court cases started. And we know that the white house has been lowballing its affects by roughly a factor of a thousand at least. Right . Makes you wonder what else there is to know about it and makes you wonder what else will happen in the courts in response. Well, tonight theres been a major ruling in a federal court in washington. A federal court in Washington State has placed a temporary restraining order snationwide. Joining us now is professor laurence tribe, professor tribe, great to have you with us tonight. Great to have you here. Great to be here, rachel. Weve been watching as this executive order has been pinging through various parts. At any time the judge has a crack on it, the judge puts a halt to it or says something needs to be stalled or reviewed. Whats your take on the legal status of this policy that the president tried to introduce last week . My take is that its under a very dark constitutional cloud just take a 30,000 foot view for a moment. This is clearly a muslim ban. Not all muslims, only muslims from seven countries but then targeted muslims with a preference for christians. Clearly a violation of the establishment clause, its done in the dark without hearings. Its done in a way that is a violation of due process. Theres even reason to believe thathe picking of these seven countries that the Obama Administration had originally targeted for what might be called extreme vetting are the very countries that didnt need anything more because weve had no terrorist attacks from those countries given how effective the Obama Program is and yet they picked those seven, perhaps coincidentally, but its hard to believe. All of the countries that were responsible for attacking us on 9 11 are countries that were not targeted for this ban so in the end when constitutional rulings are finally rendered on the merits, this policy has no chance of standing but weve also learned that they are making law in an invisible way. Its truly shocking that they came into court, made it look like all was hunkydory as you say, nothing to worry about, nothing to see here, move on. In the meantime they secretly without informing the courts, arguably in contempt, they had secretly eradicated all these visas and many of them were visas of students who were going to return to school around the country, among other places, in minnesota and in the state of washington which is why minnesota and washington were the states whose attorneys general prevailed in the ruling that came down just this evening. And the department of justice said again to the states, what do you care . You have nothing at stake. You dont have standing. Thats the standard argument but they had very clear stakes so what we have is a global crisis. A lot of Business Leaders believing that the rule of law in the long run helps them and that law made in invisible ink and in the dark in ways that violate our constitution and in yshat are not remotely transparent hurts them, it hurts everybody. So i think that this cloud is one thats going to rain a storm pop this administration and it deserves it. Laurence tribe, professor of constitutional law at harvard. You were the first person i wanted to call to get a grasp on this today as weve been watching this court cases, thank you sir. Thank you for calling me, rachel. We have much more ahead tonight. Stay with us. Beyond is a Natural Pet Food that goes beyond assuming ingredients are safe. To knowing they are. Going beyond expectations. Because our pets deserve it. Beyond. Natural pet food. This is what appears to be a Delicious Food blog. Im always hungry in winter, instagram makes it way too easy to look at delicious pictures of food, even while im sitting at my desk eating Animal Crackers or whatever. But on this particular food blog you cant really afford to just look at the photo, you have to look at the caption, because thats the important part. For example, on this instagram post, this appears to be just a delicious and beautifully plated seafood entree. This is posted a couple days ago. But if you look at the caption it proves it is so much more. Heres the caption we are ohfishally hungry. This chef has prepared a brainhealthy disk that may help prevent mood disorders. Wait, what . Mood disorders are, like, bipolar disorder and depression. This dinner is going to fix that. That is some veryancy fish. But that is what they mean. Look at their next post. This one, again, looks delicious. Looks totally delicious. But theres more than meets the eye. You have to read the caption. A dish that will surely warm your insides on a cold winter night. But it also acts as antidepressants. What . This is not a normal food blog. This is the instagram feed of neurocore centers. Neurocore was founded in michigan years ago by a guy with a masters degree in theology. He initially called the program hope 139 which was named after psalm 139 in the bible and they marketed themselves mostly to religious schools mostly in michigan as a biblically inspired way to cure problem behaviors in school kids. The company has evolved over the years. They operate what they call brain performance centers. Theyre still mostly in michigan but they have a couple in florida. The New York Times profiled the program recently, including revelations from former Staff Members at the program who confess that mostly what they did in neurocore sessions was show people movies and then interrupt them in the middle of the movie. That was pretty much the therapeutic program. Now, as with anything like this, there are definitely people who swear by it. Honestly, i think my hair started to go gray the data patriots traded vince wilfork. We all have ideas about what affects our health and ourselves. But there is even though there are definitely people who swear by it, there is controversy around this neurocore group because of their unimaginable claims to effectiveness. They claim to be just unimaginably effective at curing important things like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, adhd which lots of kids have, lots of adults have it, too. Neurocore centers claim to have a 90 improvement rate when they do their thing on kids with adhd. They claim a 76 basically a cure rate of 76 . They say 76 of kids with adhd go into a nonclinical status after going through the magic of neurocore. And you know this is a serious thing. If your kids got adhd that might sound like a miracle cure. A 76 cure rate, 90 improvement rate. That sounds amazing and maybe if youre desperate or if you tried other things that havent worked or you feel like youre up against the wall maybe you wont notice that neurocore haas never published anything that backs up its miraculous claims in any Peer Reviewed medical journal ever. But you know what . They make up for that with great advertising. Theyre really well funded, they are really, really, really good at marketing themselves, theyve got multimillion dollar backers and if you think you might want to give this thing a try for your kid all youve got to do is fork over 2,000 and they will, you know, interrupt your kid while hes watching movies and who knows, maybe it will work. See what happens. Or try the sea bass, neighbor will do it. We are ohfishally hungry. This will cure your mood disorders. Im officially weirded out by the fact that this malarkey, which has been aggressively marketed to schools, this thing on which lots of parents have spent thousands of dollars, this is one of the Major Investments our new education secretary is planning on keeping if she gets confirmed to the cabinet to run education policy for this country. And this is not a vestigial thing. This is not like some sideline thing she forgot to address in her confirmation process. Betsy devos is a billionaire, she was born into a billionaire family, she married into another billionaire family. During the confirmation process she promised to divest from a whole bunch of things that would pose a conflict of interest if she gets put in charge of u. S. Education policy but even with that divestment plan, even though shes giving up other stuff, shes planning on holding on to her multimillion dollar investment stake in neurocore. Which promises to cure your kids moods problems and depression problems and mood disorders and all the rest of it. Theyll cure it with berries and movies and your 2,000 please. I mean, attention issues and behavior issues, freedom issues, therapeutic issues, Mental Health issues in kids, really big deal in terms of education policy. How can she possibly be involved in any policy around that issue as education secretary if shes also got 5 million to 25 million invested in the well cure you with fish place . But this kind of stuff, these continuing revelations about betsy devos and what she has been involved in on the fringes of education policy, that continues to drive whats turned into a nationwide uproar over her nomination and last night we got news that really didnt seem to make sense about how republicans were going to try to get her confirmed. You have probably heard by now her nomination is the most endanger of all the trump cabinet nominations thus far. Shes on the bubble. All Senate Democrats and two Senate Republicans have said they will vote against her. Thats 48 democrats and two republicans. That puts the vote on her nomination at 5050. That has two practical consequences. One is that the republicans cant confirm alabama Jeff Sessions to be attorney general until this betsy devos thing is settled because they cant afford to lose a republican senator. They need him to still be a republican senator so he can cast a vote for her or she will not be confirmed. Up until a few days ago, the white house was complaining about how slow the confirmation process was going for Jeff Sessions. Notice how theyre not claiming that anymore . Its because they need to slow down the confirmation of Jeff Sessions because they need them to stay a senator so he can save betsy devos. Even if they can plain that three card monty game with the Jeff Sessions confirmation theyre also going to need mike pence. Theyre also going to need the Vice President to go down the senate in his role as president of the senate, theyre going to need him to break the tie in favor of her nomination. Its 5050. Vice president mike pence will have to cast the 51st vote in order to have her confirmed. If that happens, that will be the first time a Vice President has ever had to cast a tiebreaking vote to confirm a member of the president s cabinet, ever. So this is really fragile, this is barely going to happen if it does happen. If anything goes wrong it wont work. And so in a circumstance like that, right, youve got to move fast. You dont time to let anything else hap anything jostle loose. They have to get this through while theres this thin possibility they can get this through. And that is why we havent been able to understand why the republicans were not voting on the betsy devos nomination as soon as they can. By the Senate Calendar and the senate rules the first time they could take a vote to get her confirmed would be tomorrow. Tomorrow morning in the United States senate and i know is its a saturday but honestly, last chance for your billionaire neurocore investor to get in and she might not get in. Better act fast. Its weird, though, even though they could vote on her tomorrow and they ought to be voting on her as soon as they can, theyre not doing that. So interesting. Its been a puzzle to us as to why that is. They really cant afford to let this fall apart any more than it already has. Why arent they voting tomorrow . Now we know, and the answer is kaching. Republican senators are all going to palm beach, florida, today, where maralago is. Theyre going to be there today and tomorrow for a big fundraising event with major donors. So, yes, they want to get betsy devos confirmed, its very fragile, the soonest they could do it is tomorrow but there are donors to meet, theres money to be made and priorities are priorities. Senior republican staffers told the hill today there will be a attendance issue that will prevent the devos vote on saturday. The attendance issue is theyll be attending a Campaign Donor soiree in south florida in Donald Trumps neighborhood with rich people. But the republicans in craven tu opportunism lies other peoples opportunity. The republicans prioritizing meeting with donors and taking that cash instead of voting Bonn Betsy Devos tomorrow, it does create this opportunity for people all over theountry who have been trying to push this fragile nomination so hard that it falls apart and listen antitrump folks have not psyched about anything this new president and his new administration has done but its clear the betsy devos nomination is special. It has fired a lot of people up. Where in complaining about the betsy devos nomination folks have basically broken the phone system in washington. Senate office phone lines have been shut down over the past week with so many callers weighing in against betsy devos. Every office is receiving tens of thousands of letters asking the senate to reject her. Almost 40,000 have come in to my office alone. Over 3,000 people have contacted me opposing her, ive had 20 contacting me supporting her. The phones are ringing to 12 to 15 calls a day. Some senators are not answering their phone. Ive never seen folks in connecticut respond to a nominee like they did after that hearing. Since the hearing, ive had 11,000 people from my tiny little state call or write he to oppose her nomination. Almost no one has called to support the nomination. Thats extraordinary. I know that my phone lines i assume all of our phone lines have been bombarded by calls. Have you got a call or two yet . Only senate or burr cant remember those calls. This is a strategy. Lets face it. Thats why senator scott got all the calls he did. Thats why i got all the calls. Thats why my wife gets calls. My son gets calls on cell phones. To zwlifr a message to me. On cell phones. Whether or not this is a strategy, senator burr, it is a strategy that is working to inundate senators with the nationwide opposition to betsy devos. Senator brian schatz of hawaii sent out this as i think it was meant to be an encouraging message. The last three days have been the busiest in capitol switch board history by almost double. This is working, keep it up. Local news stations across the country are running stories about the busy signals at their senators offices and how constituents are getting desperate to reach their senators. We titled this segment s where it . There it is. Ham pineapple democracy. We call everything ham pineapple democracy. We call this ham pineapple democracy because of one utah woman who is a constituent of senator orrin hatch. She got tired of not being able to get through to her senator, orrin hatch. Nobody can get through to their senators. Always a busy signal, everyday all day all night long. This one utah woman rather than keep pounding her head against the wall she came up with what i think is a delicious and excellent alternative approach. She tried sending orrin hatch and his staff a delicious hawaiian pizza. Crucially she ordered that pizza from a delivery site where you could attach a note to arrive with your order. You can see it here. This is the special instructions which may result in additional charges for the delivery. From a salt lake constituent, police deliver to orrin hatchs office. From a salt lake constituent. Please vote know on betsy devos, she is an inappropriate choice to lead our Public Schools. Please attach that to the pizza and deliver this pizza to orrin hatchs office. Yes, that cost 12. 99 for a small ham and pineapple pizza plus the delivery fee so not everybody will be able to do that, it costs money. But appreciate the effort here. Unfortunately for that creative Salt Lake City constituent, the Security Guard at orrin hatchs Salt Lake City office did not accept the gift message play for his attention pizza. The senators Security Guard called it a suspicious pizza. I have gotten a call about a suspicious pizza and the suspicious pizza was not allowed into the office. Ng it would get much better than that but it gets better. One of the specific concerns about betsy devos, of course, is not just that shes a multibillionaire whos never had anything do with Public Schools in her life but also that shes a committed life long conservative activist and a multimillion dollar Republican Party donor. In most administrations, being a multimillion dollar donor to your party gets you an ambassadorship and thats embarrassing enough. In this administration theyre trying to give her the keys to every school in the country. But as people opposed to betsy devos have been scouring the roster of republican senators looking for just one more vote to peel off, all they need is one more vote to end her nomination, one of the things theyre running up against is that betsy devos has given thousands and in most cases tens of thousands of dollars to a very large proportion of the republican senators who are about to vote on her nomination and how do you compete with that . Well, literally, you could try competing with that. And that is next. Stay with us. There are over 47 million ford vehicles out here. That has everything to do with the people in here. Their training is developed by the same company who designed, engineered, and built the cars. Theyve got the parts, tools, and knowhow to help keep your ford running strong. 35,000 specialists all across america. No one knows your ford better than ford. And ford service. 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It happened first in pennsylvania where senator pat toomey has been absolutely inundated by, among other things, antibetsy devos constituent messages. Local news stations in pennsylvania have been running stories about now no constituents can get through to pat toomeys washington office. They cant get through to any one of his constituent offices anywhere in the state of pennsylvania, either. Literal lly this local station interviewed constituents who havent been activists before but they want to convey to senator toomey please dont vote for betsy devos and they have no way to do it. Pittsburgh postgazette reports on a retro turn in efforts by senator toomeys constituents to meet with him. He wont meet with them in person, thats why these tuesdays with toomey protesters have been complaining outside his office every tuesday for the last few tuesdays now. Also every single one of his office is completely jammed in terms of phone lines. According to the pittsburgh postgazette that has led people to faxing pat toomey. Did you know you can still fax people . If the number of messages sent through freefaxes. Com is any gauge, senator toomeys office is busier than most according to that one online faxing service, nearly 1400 faxes were sent to pat toomeys office in one 24hour period between noon monday and noon tuesday. On top of all that, check this out, this is what i wanted to show you, this is a go fund me page, sort of a real lastditch effort to reach senator pat toomey through the only medium his constituents have not been able to monopolize so far. Theyre using money. Theyre literally trying to buy his vote. Betsy devos has donated more than 55,000 to the campaign of u. S. Senator pat toomey. Despite all evidence to the contrary, senator toomey things betsy devos would be a great choice to lead the department of education. If betsy devos can buy senator toomeys vote, we should be allowed to do the same. In one day, more than 2,000 people offered to donate money to pat toomey to try to compete with what betsy devos has donated to him over time. They set their goal for the fundraising as the amount of money that betsy devos and her family spent on them so they could be heard just as loud. If they reach their goal fast, who knows . Maybe they can get a last minute invite to palm beach for the republican donor summit. Imagine senators being lined up by their staffers to meet their 50,000 donors, right, hello, rich person, hello, rich person, hello lobbyist person, hello cabinet secretary nominee, hello 2,000 of my own constituents. [ laughter ] how did you guys get in here . After that go fund me page was posted to buy pat toomeys vote, a very similar version of the same idea went up in arkansasment buy senator tom cottons vote. So far betsy devos and her allies have contributed 8,300 to tom cotton. I propose we try to raise 8,301 to outbid them. People who started that in arkansas, the buy tom cottons vote go fund me, they tell us they honestly had no idea it was already happening in pennsylvania to buy pat toomeys vote. They didnt know when they set up theirs but once they realized they had the same idea and somebody else was doing this for a different republican senator they posted this teasing update saying pennsylvania folks are pitching in to help buy their senat senators vote but ours is much cheaper. In both of these cases, they say, they are not actually trying to bribe their senator. They will donate the money they raise if they hit their target to Worthy Charities in their senators home states but still, point made. So it will be interesting to see what happens here because, you know, republicans prioritize their meeting with major donors tonight and tomorrow in south florida. They gave up the chance to nail down the betsy devos nomination tomorrow morning. Theyve got no margin for error. They have the thinnist possible pathway to nomination. Youd think they want to act fast. They gave that up to meet with donors and what theyre facing is this incredibly creative fastevolving joice ining joyfue of pressure on senators all across the country and this pressure is trying to just peel off one more vote. Because they are meeting with donors insteadf voting, people opposed to betsy devos get two and a half more dies to burn up phone lines and get their home state senators terrible press about how afraid those senators are of their own constituents and how much money they took from people they are voting for despite the express wishes of their constituents in overwhelming numbers. So this is Political Science. Were living a Political Science experiment. Its happening right now, its going to happen all this weekend. In addition to all the republican senators going to palm beach, florida, to meet with their donors instead of voting on betsy devos, the president is also going to be in palm beach, florida, this weekend, hes taking a weekend off. Whew, been a tough two weeks, time for a vacation. Its expected there will be protesters opposed to the new president and his cabinet nominees and refugee ban and other executive orders. Its expected there will be protests this weekend in south florida around the president s visit. The fact that all the republican senators are there as well will make it a particularly rich target for protest this is weekend and im sure authorities in south florida are expecting that. Its also probably safe to assume there will be protests at the super bowl in houston. Frappe al frankly, its probably safe to assume there will be protests the day after the super bowl when the senate reconvened in washington and they try to get that betsy devos vote in and the other remaining cabinet nominees. We are in a new era where two brand new things are upon us as americans. We have pa new president and all that entails, but, too an immediate instan stain white house reaction to that first one. We have a huge new movement of people mobilized against that new president and what he is trying to do. Bloomberg news and the l. A. Times report on 10 states across the country where republican legislators have introduced legislation to crack down on the right to protest in those states. It will be interesting to watch what becomes ofthat, but clearly republicans in those states are unnerved. The Washington Post today reports on an embarrassing incident involving a planned visit by the president to ha harleydavidson plant in milwaukee, wisconsin. The post reports air travel had been booked, hotel rooms were booked on the ground for security presence and other people who would be traveling to milwaukee in advance of and in support of this president ial visit to wisconsin. Once word leaked, though, to harleydavidson factory workers and people in milwaukee that the president was going to visit thursday, harleydavidson started getting, you guessed it, inundated with calls from people who were hundred happy they were planning on hosting the president. And protesters in milwaukee made plans to protest that visit by the president. If theres one thing americans have shown in the last two weeks its that we as a culture have not forgotten how to protest on short notice, in places where you wouldnt expect to turn out a lot of people. A lot of people can turn out if they have reason to. So the white house tried to make it seem like they never planned that trip to wisconsin. There was no intention to have the president go there. That has been exposed as a lie. They were definitely planning on having the president go there and as far as we can tell the white house just chickened out because as much as this president likes to deride people in the streets in record numbers protesting against his every move, you can call them professional anarchists like he did on twitter today, whatever that is. You can call them paid protesters, whatever. You can call them anything you want. When its a Million People in the street against you, it doesnt matter what you call them anymore. So its going to be an interesting weekend. I am officially excited to see what happens. Also im in a great mood ever since i had that sea bass for lunch. Weve got lots ahead tonight. Stay with us. Afoot and lighthearted i take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. The east and the west are mine. The north and the south are mine. All seems beautiful to me. 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In 2014, three years later, colin call became Vice President joe Bidens National security advisor. There he is to the right of the Vice President. Now because theres a new Vice President , colin call has moved on from his time in the white house but now, from outside of government, hes one of the people who is loudly pushing back on what the Trump Administration is saying about their First Military action. The disastrous raid in yemen that killed a u. S. Navy seal, that wounded three others and that the pentagon says killed multiple civilians including children. That operation incidentally resulted in a 70 million osprey aircraft being abandoned on the ground in yemen and later blown up. With everything going so wrong about that operation, questions are being raised about the process of how this thing was approved and why it was approved. So far, the Trump Administration is blaming president obama. On january 6, there was an interagency deputies meeting, the deputies recommended at that time that they go ahead. It was so easily approved it was sent straight up. The conclusion was at that time to hold for what they called a moonless night which, by calendar, wouldnt occur until then president elect trump was president trump. January 6 an interagency deputies meeting, the deputies recommended at that time they go ahead. It was so easily approved. One of the people who was in on that january 6 meeting was colin kahl. He says he was there. He says that particular raid was never discussed in that meeting. He says the Trump Administrations claim that the Obama Administration cleared the yemen raid thats just gone so disastrously wrong, he says that is false. He says the decision was deferred to trump so he could run a deliberate process. Instead, he hosted a dinner. That refers to news that presidt trump made the call to green light this yemen operation over dinner with, among other people, his 35yearold soninlaw who is a former real estate executive who none of us knew was even cleared to discuss the existence of jsoc let alone green light operations like this. Today the military also distributed explosives training videos they said had been collected as part of this yemen raid, basically to brag about the dangerous and valuable information they collected on this raid. After questions from some baffled reporters, centcom later admitted those videos were over a decade old and they had nothing to do with this raid at all and they retracted the announcement. Simple mistake, maybe. But one of a string of disturbing turns in this strange apparently botched and indisputably fatal First Military action by this new president. And colin kahl joins us next. Because, actually theres 5. Aaaahh ooohh uh holy mackerel. Wow. Nice. Strength and style. 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Panera. Food as it should be. On january 6, there was an interagency deputies meeting, the deputies recommended at that time that they go ahead. It was so easily approved it was sent straight up. The conclusion to hold was at that time to hold for what they called a moonless night which, by calendar, wouldnt occur until then president elect trump was president trump. That is what the Trump Administration is describing as the process that led to this disastrous ground raid in yemen that led to the death of a u. S. Navy seal, the injuries to three others and the killing of multiple civilians, including children. When he talks about that meeting on january 6, hes talking about real people who are still around and can answer for them themselves and one of the people who says he was in that january 6 meeting says the administration is characterizing in the a way that is false. Joining us now is colin kahl, a professor of georgetown, a former Deputy Assistant to president obama and he was National Security advisor to Vice President biden, professor kahl, thanks for joining us, appreciate your time tonight. Great to be with you. I recognize and appreciate a lot around this discussion is sensitive and or classified and you cant give us the details. Within those parameters, can you tell us whats different about understanding of the green lighting of this operation . Whats different about your understand aing compared to the way the white house is characterizing it . I think it would help for your viewers to understand that the United States has been engaged in counterterrorism against this group, al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a deadly al qaeda affiliate for years. Weve been doing that through drones and air strikes. Weve had a samesex couple number of special Operations Forces at times in an advisory role not a combat role. So some time before christmas the pentagon came to the white house and basically asked for expanded authorities to allow other special Operations Forces to take more direct action to do raids against al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in support of our Coalition Partners engage in that fight so we had a discussion about the deputies level can which is the subcabinet level which make recommendations to the president. We had that discussion on january 6 as sean spicer noted. The pentagon 6, as sean spicer. The pentagon outlined their request for an additional general. But they did not brief a single specific raid, a target, a compound or what we call a con op. And the deputies made no decision. Basically since we were so close to the end of the Obama Administration, the recommendations were simply to provide the recommendations to the trump team. And trump agreed he wasnt going to this is something the new president had to own and run a process for. When you say the recommendation was to provide information to the Incoming Administration to dplieliberate process. What do you mean by deliberate a process. The secretaries of all the main agencies, usid, the United States representative at the u. N. , we all sat around and discussed pressing issues of our National Security. When engaged in Counter Terrorism operations, if they request an expansion of authority so they can do more, put more boots on the ground, take a more active role in a combat situation, thats what we discuss afternoon the table. The secretaries make a set of recommendations to the cabinet and then they make recommendations to the president. In temperaturrms of how the t did run this process, we are told about the timeline, that his National Security advisor briefed him on the operation one day, the next day at dinner, with his senior strategist steve bannon and with his soninlaw Jared Kushner and secretary of defense and other principle level personnel, he made a decision around the dinner table and then it was launched immediately. Does that seem like a small, close process. Does that seem like the kind of processes that have been around potentially deadly raids in the past. Especially in the context where a raid like this represents a significant escalation in the nature of our actions in yemen, there are broad authorities behind that that deserve deliberation, you also need the state department at the table, so they can go through the political implications, what happens if civilians die, what are the implications for tribal relations. You need the communicators in our room, you also need your legislators in the room so you can notify congress. The problem is, even if youve got a bunch smart capable people around a table at dinner, like secretary mattis who i think the world of and the chairman of the joint chiefs, you need a fuller picture than those two gentlemen can provide for the president to make a decision of this gravity. Somebody who has provided us a window into this process, that bothers me about the way the white house is characterizing it. Thank you for your help, sir. Sure. Appreciate it. I tried hard to quit smoking. But when we brought our daughter home, that was it. Now i have nicoderm cq. The nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release Technology Helps prevent your urge to smoke all day. Its the best thing that ever happened to me. Every great why needs a great how. Its about moving forward not back. Its looking up not down. Its feeling up thinking up living up. Its being in motion. 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