tweet storm about his executive order on extreme vetting. the president writing: the justice department should ask for an expedited hearing of the watered down travel ban before the supreme court and seek much tougher version! calling it a travel ban contradicted what his aides have been saying when they downplayed a notion that the executive order was a ban. it s not a travel ban. it s a vetting system. plain and simple. the president doubled down in the language, tweeting this morning: people, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want, but i am calling it what we need and what it is, a travel ban! some people saw the tweets as potentially undermining the defense of the executive order. kellyanne conway s husband george, who last week turned down a position in the doj s civil section, took issue with the tweets, writing these tweets may make some people feel better but they certainly want to help the office of the
this is not a travel ban. this is a temporary pause that allows to us better review the existing refugee and vetting system. back to the issue of the travel ban. first of all it s not a travel ban. when he use words like travel ban that misrepresents what it is. it s not a travel ban. it s a shall it s a vetting system to keep america safe that s it plain and simple. this was president trump s tweet yesterday if the ban were announcewood a one week notice the he says it s a ban. he is wording the words the media is using at the end of the day hold on hold on it can t- welcome back to the eleventh hour a look at some trump dplrgs officials on the notion of is it or is it not at travel ban we have assorted members of the press with us catty guy kwshs
travel ban before the supreme court and seek tougher version the president tweeted adding people the lawyers and courts can call it whatever they want, but i m calling it what we need and what it is, a travel ban. the president s use of the term travel ban directly contradicts his own aides. this is not a muslim ban. it s not a travel ban. it s a vetting system to keep america safe. from that podium sean spicer said it s not a travel ban. is it a travel ban? i don t think the president cares what you call it. the bottom line is, he is trying to protect the citizens of this country, the danger is extremely clear. reporter: top white house officials insist the media are too focused on the president s tweets. this obsession with covering everything he said on twitter and little of what he does as president reporter: kellyanne conway s own husband who is under consideration to become solicitor general, said the tweets may jeopardize the administration s push for the
integrate better here. it s not fair to say. eric: here s the point. we are different and we still are different but you understand the donald trump was elected president. if hillary clinton was elected president, she planned for four times the amount of refugees to come in. we left in 116,000 last year. she was looking for 400,000 or 500,000. are we going to be safe if we let 400,000 or 500,000 refugees in? tom: no, and the obama administration admitted the vetting process was susceptible. president trump wants to put a pause on the refugee program so we make sure the vetting system will keep us safe and secure. that s why he s angry. he knows these guys are out there and there s no practical way of stopping them. they have a pathway in thanks to these recent court rulings and the lack of any secure vetting system to keep them from coming.
the president is making the argument it does not. but here are his own words. here he is. many refer to it as a travel ban. we ve always looked at it as a pause. these seven countries, what about the 46 majority muslim countries that are not included? right there it undercuts this nonsense it is a muslim ban. it s not a muslim ban, it s a vetting system to keep america safe, that s it, plain and simple. not the sound bite i thought it was going to be. but jason, let me give you a chance to respond, because this is on the point of the word ban matters. those are advisers to the president saying it s not a travel ban, it s not a travel ban. they think those words matter. he now says it is. the words that really matter here is the u.s. code that i referenced earlier that clearly gives the president permission to do this. when it goes up to the supreme court, they re going to rule in the president s favor on this. this goes back to the point, the seven countries that were