here is the problem, here is the choke point in this. the secret service knows what has to be done. you can put double fencing, you can angle the fencing outward so it s nearly impossible to scale. you can put more personnel and special weapons teams on the south lawn. , but the choke point is, there are interests in the white house, staff interests, maybe not from this administration, but certainly from prior administration that have stopped that because, oh, it doesn t look good. we don t want to make it look like an armed camp, which is ridiculous. everybody knows the security at the white house, there are other interests that say, well, the history of the white house, we don t want to disturb the look at it. folks, this is the serious time. we have terror groups. if you think the secret service right now under the current security plan is prepared for a multiple plan tactical assault on the white house, you re out of your mind and sadly, that s not putting an idea in anybody s h
agency, at least, recently, dhs, does that ring true? i would say the first point not, they are incredibly prepared. morale is horrible. they are spread thin. even when you go to the white house and go to pebble beach, you go through white house room, you go through secret service screening, it s not hard not to hear them grumbling, bad pay, schedules, we all work a tough schedule sometimes but when you hear it across the board, it does make you wonders, the guys in charge of protecting the president and his family, foreign missions of the united states are they underfunded for a lack of a better term? they are underfunded. and who needs it the secret service, the coast guard which has held together by bailing tape and bubble gum, desperately
and reinstates some of the identical policies as the original. consequently it is equally subject to the injunction that we obtained from judge robart on february 3rd. the problem for president trump and the administration on the last ban, however, the white house has taken into account all of the concerns regarding that first executive order, they said they worked huard to appease many critics with the new order. the president said he s confident the new version will survive the courts. so it s going to be a wait and see, laura, back to you. all right, rob, talking about the executive order and the changes, thank you so much. all right, here to put this all in context, doug smith former assistant secretary at the department of homeland security. so break this down for us, doug. come thursday, are we going to have the same i don t want to
use chaos but same questions and issues that we had before? i think we have already seen that. the night it was announced hawaii filed suit. just this week with wikileaks and as you reported the white house jumper, there s pending real national security while they put the energy on fighting this ban. you can argue and scaled back from the way they were. you brought up the issue of the white house jumper. he was out in his golf course 35 minutes from the white house, brisk saturday afternoon and he s there with some of his staff along with cabinet secretaries including general kelly from dhs. the white house pool was brought in and the president was asked about the white house jumper last night.
as for what we re seeing around here, again, really, no enhanced security president that we can tell. there are a lot of things going on behind the scenes that you can t see. putting this into historical context, you know, there s been a lot of white house fence jumpers, notably in 2014 when somebody made it right inside the front door of the north side of the white house, that was when president obama was obviously inside, that caused or in office that obviously caused a great deal of security reviews inside the secret service, and so now, they re going to be looking into how this guy, this man, got that close to president trump. it s an investigation that s ongoing and as soon as we get any more information, we ll bring it to you, leland. kristin fisher at the white house, now on this saturday. kristin, i m interested, were we expecting to hear anything out of the white house? it was pretty shocking, we got a tweet from president trump this morning, so he knew about the intruder,