purpose, as you just heard, the press secretary said if we announced this a lot earlier, it would have given plenty of time for the bad guys to flow into this country and do us harm. he said bad guys, donald trump tweeted bad dudes, i believe this morning. also interesting the language in donald trump s use, he used the word ban when he maintains that wasn t a muslim ban. i agree, i wasn t surprised by what sean spicer said, he was defensive and tried to shift the blame to the obama administration. saying that you want to look into seven countries is not the same as restricting travel or banning immigration from those countries. we also, the syrian refugees, this is not something first of all is popular with people in the united states of america. but but there s no senior official saying there is cause to halt this program f you go back to what happened in 2011, the favorite of people on the right right now to say, well, bar rock obama banned iraqis, there was an imminent threat,
parents and don t pose a threat. to assume because of some one s age or gender or whatever they don t pose a threat is misguided and wrong. let me ask you about the rollout as well. did secretary kelley find out about the executive order as it was being signed and did secretary mattis find out hours before i m going to tell what you has been briefed out previously, all appropriate agencies and individuals that needed to be part of the process were. everybody was kept in the loop at the level necessary to make sure it was rolled out properly. on that note, how well were those departments briefed? i mean you just said yourself that the willing is willing to act quickly when he has to keep the country safe. is there a lesson to be learned about what happened last week in terms of maybe better preparing the departments that are relevant? well, but, right, i understand the question that you re asking. there s two things that have to be cleared up. one is if we announce this a lot
netanyahu will be visiting the u.s. on february 15. that s interesting but not surprising. prime minister netanyahu has been tweeting plenty of support for donald trump and looking forward to that visit, especially i m sure to discuss moving the beam s i si to jerusalem, donald trump has said he will support that. one surprise line, relating to the jewish people, i couldn t believe that sean spicer said they went out of their way to ak nl the holocaust in acknowledge the holocaust on holocaust remembrance day. that was a big shock. but sean spicer is doing his job, just like kellyanne conway does every weekend. they both must be xaused. a lot of work being done. mercedes, what took you by surprise? sean spicer has business boxing gloves on every time. oneshing shawn does well, goes back to the media, say there was one tweet out there regarding they were downgrading the joint chiefs of staff, he s not going
about who is sitting at the table with the president s security council meetings. watch this. the president also signed a memorandum modernizing the structure of the national security council and the homeland security council. there s been a lot of misreporting this week about what this memo does and does not do. so let me walk you through this real quick. there s two issues at hand. one is the makeup of the nsc and the other is the makeup of the principles committee. the principle committee is merely the nsc minus the president. the idea is that the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the dna are being downgrade ordinary removed is utter nonsense. utter nonsense. chris is political director, what did you make of that reaction? well, here s an interesting situation. if you re the white house press secretary and you re out there talking, the subject at hand isn t just that they have discuss excused these members of the security council from meeting.
i think with respect to h1bs and other visa, it s part of the greater immigration reform efforts through executive order and working with congress. but you ve already seen a lot of action on immigration. whether it s that or the spousal visas or other type of visas, there s a need to look at all of these programs. you will see both through executive action and comprehensive legislative measures a way to address immigration as a whole and the visa program. since we re doing two, i have two for you. on the nsc reorganization, with regards to the president s chief strategist on the nsc, wasn t something that existed in president obama s tenure. what does that speak about mr. bannon s role within the white house and the policy structure? david axelrod walked in and out of nsc meetings quite frequently, by his own account and several of your accounts.