major campaign promise and signed executive orders tomorrow. these are significant orders. we understand there to be two broad categories, one, restricting refugees coming to the united states, and the second one banning visas from seven minority countries until dhs can change the vetting process. elise, what more are you learning? there are seven countries involved in the ban? that s right. and they include iran, iraq, syria, libya, other countries that donald trump has said that were kind of terror-prone countries and basically, i think you could see this as an evolution of what started as what president trump called on the campaign trail a muslim ban. he said perhaps we should ban all muslims from the country because the majority of terrorist attacks are coming
is they like that he hits back, fights back against the media, but the same teem who say that don t understand why there s been this obsession over crowd sizes. i don t think it s one or the other. you can like trump s personality but also pick his battles wisely. whether it s crowd sizes or who s showing up to vote on election day, you re saying they like that he fights back but maybe not on those things. i was talking to a friend of mine who supported donald trump, and one of the things she said is just who cares? why is the media talking so much about crowd sizes? why is the president talking so much about crowd sizes? but one important thing that came up in our conversation is she wasn t totally sure that she could trust the media, so she referenced a media report that later turned out to be false, and she really was searching for a credible source of information. i think it speaks to something important at this moment, which is that the media has to really tread lightly and tr
them. they are not the appropriate people to be running these two critical agencies in the united states. i want to play one specific exchange from nick mulvaney s hearing today. one of your colleagues, senator mark lee, forced him to admit president obama had a larger inauguration crowd than president trump. this happened today in the hearing. let me play the exchange for you. i have behind me two pictures that were taken at about the same time of day in 2009 and 2017. which crowd is larger, the 2009 crowd or the 2017 crowd? senator, if you allow me to give disclaimer i m not sure how this ties to omb, i m happy to answer your question. which is from that picture it appears the crowd on the left-hand side is bigger than the crowd on the right-hand side. the reason i m raising this is because budget often contain buried deceptions. you and i talked in my office about the magic asterisks.
probably the most controversial thing he s done today but he s overshadowed himself with his lies about the about voting. the politics, though, of this are significant and i think we need to make this point. there are more muslim countries in the middle east who are not on this list than are on this list. it s going to come down to politics as to which country got on and which sunt. egypt, saudi arabia, kuwait are not on the list. iran, iraq, syria, sudan, somalia, yemen, they re on the list. when you look at some of those countries you mentioned like saudi arabia, they are considered an ally of the united states and help keep a foothold in trying to keep the middle east stable at this point. so again, erin, this is going to be something that is going to be embraced. look, if you don t like donald trump, you re not necessarily going to like his decision to move forward on this. but if you like him, you think he s following through on this promises. thank you very much. next,
. breaking news, the vote for nikki haley overwhelming. and ben carson for hud. these will go to the floor and pass. there were some serious fireworks on capitol hill today. trump s picks for health and human services, which will of course oversee obamacare and budget director both had a very hot tday opinio. manu raju is out front. reporter: congressman tom surprise under fire from senate democrats in a contentious hearing over his nomination to lead the health and human services department. democrats pushed price to explain what he would do to replace obamacare. what we have after the repeal is trump care. reporter: price often deflecting questions, including whether he was working directly with trump on a plan to replace obamacare. president trump said he s working with you on a replacement plan for the aca,