reporter: that s right. when the vice president took off after refuelling, we were on the plane as well. he refueled in alaska. it was within an hour that they got word up in the front of the plane where they had communication. we departmeidn t in the back of plane. we got word they launched a failed missile test. this was staring them in the face as this plane was headed toward the korean peninsula where we are now. the vice president and his aides maintained and no reason not to believe them based on what we have seen from north korea in the past few weeks and months and years. they he mamaintain they expecte something along the lines because of the big anniversary where showed off the weapons on saturday, the day before the test. it wasn t a surprise, per se.
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secretary sean spicer tried to explain it this way. using the words the media is using but at the end of the day it can t be hold on. it can t be john, thanks. i ll let kristen talk. even though spicer used the word ban himself on sunday. it s a 90-day pan. reporter: then what one of the president s top surrogates, rudy giuliani, told fox over the weekend. when he first announced it he said muslim ban. called me up, said put a commission together, show me the right way to do it legally. what we did was focused on instead of religion danger. reporter: spicer s answer for that? then you should ask mayor giuliani. that s his opinion. reporter: the administration is still pushing back on the notion it botched the rollout of the executive order which led to chaos at airports across the country. we knew it was coming. it wasn t a surprise. then we implemented it. reporter: paul ryan criticized the execution of the order but not the policy itself. i think it s regret
we knew it was coming. it wasn t a surprise. we implemented it. and a little bit of a back and forth round and round during the briefing about the language to describe this extreme vetting order. spicer was asked if it was a ban. he said no, it s not a ban. it s an extreme vetting order whereas the president and the secretary of homeland security said today yes, it is indeed a ban. so we ll see where they go with that. for viewers that missed the briefing, john, tell us what the white house is saying about the firing of secretary yates or attorney general yates. they re absolutely backing it up. she was one of about 30 or so holdovers from the obama administration that were left in place in those high level jobs while the confirmation process was taking place. looks like we re not going to get a vote on the confirmation of jeff sessions until tomorrow at the earliest. they re saying she wasn t just offering a difference of opinion or a legal opinion as you saw,
run through bismarck. you talk to people here, they re exhausted from the protests. exhausted from the media. yesterday the post office in downtown bismarck was shut down by riot police and protesters. there are people here who want this to be completed. cal, thank you. hundreds gathered near the white house yesterday to protest president trump s executive orders on those pipelines. more protests took part around the country, including a large rally in seattle. at the standing rock reservation, the center of the resistance, some tribal leaders say they were prepared for president trump s orders. it wasn t a surprise. we knew this was going to happen, and we ve been preparing for it. you have to take an historical perspective of who we are. we ve been resisting since point of contact. the chairman of standing rock, david archibald, thank you for your time. so i know that you are looking into limits of the executive