to be clear, i think there s a difference between being a cynic and being a skeptic or, you know, in an evangelical way of looking at it, this was a marriage i wasn t sure should happen, but i want the president to succeed. cynics are unable to hear anything good that the new president is saying. he is saying we want immigrants in our country. we just need to have a process to do that right. and we will fight radical islam, he didn t use that term, but we need to help muslims and christians dying. and the king of jordan was in front of him. and it was an excellent speech overall. i appreciate your perspective and sister as well. thank you so much. we appreciate it. coming up next, what uber ceo is doing in response to president trump s execiutive order. the travel ban. he joins us on how the order is being received among islamic
reporter: sources say the president was so upset with the prime minister that he abruptly ended the call, and he had another phone conversation with the mexican president where he offered to send troops to mexico to help go after, quote, huff hombres. they said it made the harsh language of white house staffers turn white. not to worry, said the president. believe me. when you hear about the tough phone calls i m having. don t worry about it. it s time we re tough. we re taken advantage of by every nation in the world, virtually. it s not going to happen anymore. it s not going to happen anymore. reporter: still, top republicans were spending the day reassuring a keyst ally. i don t think australia should be worried about their relationship with the new president or the country for that matter. this, in my view was unnecessary and frankly, harmful
and not the only one as jim acosta reports tonight. translator: president trump is doing cleanup down under offering praise for australia. following the closure of a tense phone conversation. i love australia as a country. at issue is a deal cut by the obama administration to take in political refugees currently held in detention centers off australia. who fled from some of the muslim nations now barred from sending people to the u.s. under the trump administration s new travel ban. refugees, the president incorrectly calls illegal immigrants. they had a problem where for whatever reason, barack obama said that they were going to take probably well over 1,000 illegal immigrants who were in prisons. and they were going to bring them and take them into this country, and i just said why.
presidents. i mean, washington was, you just don t do this. that is the line that got us to end the cold war, win it. i hope the cold war ends between us and australia some day. he said tear down this wall, which is very different. the state department than hanging up the telephone on somebody. i think this is the reason so many republicans and depressed, keep hearing from all sources that they are questioning the stability, the moe educationemo maturity and stability of the president because one after another of these incidents keeps occur occurring. keeping them honest update how president trump made a week ago, he was up in arms over voter fraud or alleged voter
they sort of disappeared like somebody got the spelling wrong at the charlie brown spelling bee. they just disappear from the screen. the question is will that happen to steve bannon if he continues to be on the cover of time magazine? bannon is a survivor. he s clearly stayed in the background. he doesn t like to give interviews for the most part. but he had a coming out of sorts over the last week because of the executive order and because he just got this very powerful role on the nsc. and i think he s now very visible. he s on the cover of time magazine. trump likes advocates. he likes loyalists. he likes people who will advocate his viewpoint. he doesn t like people who get more air time and more attention than he does. and that s historically been the kiss of death for anybody who s an adviser to him who isn t a family member. tim o brien, thanks. thanks, anderson. we ll be right back. so we have extra sets of eyes on our wells every day. because safety is never being