but the reality of the tense details about the phone use d a minister. it s remarkable for a long-standing u.s. ally. if the president s actions and words were more thoughtful, there wouldn t be these leaks. what we ve seen is steve bannon, the president s counselor telling the press to keep its mouth shut when in fact the person who ought to be choosing his words much more carefully and using the mouthpiece of the presidency is donald trump and he is undermining himself and the national security of the united states through these kinds of conversations with our allies and reckless words and actions. jeffrey, i get, you know, certainly a lot of trump supporters say look, this is why we voted for donald trump. we want him to shake things up and be a disruptor and rethink longly held alliances with countries like australia. the fact, though, that the white house then has to have the australian ambassador come to
seen between such close allies and not the only one as jim acosta reports tonight. reporter: with australuse tr australia. i love australia as a country. reporter: a deal cut by the obama administration by refugees in detention centers off australia that fled from muslim nations barred from sending people to the u.s. under the trump administration s travel plan. refugees the president incorrectly calms illegal immigrants. we had a problem where for whatever reason, president obama said 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 said why. sources tell cnn the
the white house and meet with steve bannon and reince priebus the next day, doesn t that sort of signal that at least some folks in the white house are concerned about what the president is doing? anderson, there is a piece being left out of this story. on november 22nd, senator grassly and congressman bob from virginia, respectively the chairman from the house, senate and house sent letters to secretary kerry and secretary jay johnson about this australian agreement. they were very upset it was classified. they wanted to know why. they were very angry. they didn t get a response. they repeated the requests on december 2nd in another letter all of which released to the public. this has been out there long before apparently the president, president trump is now, you know, has found out about it. he was not happy about it with reason. so i mean, this is kicking around for quite sometime in the system. yeah, but i guess the
president was so upset with the prime minister he abruptly ended the call and said the president had another testy phone conversation with mexican president enrique pina neto. a source told cnn the president s hash languapresiden e president s harsh language made the staffers faces turn white. believe me, when you hear about the tough phone calls i m having, don t worry about it. don t worry about it. they have to be tough. it s time we have to be 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: top republicans were spending the day reassuring a key u.s. ally. i don t think australia should be worried about the relationship with our country or our president for that matter. my view was unnecessary and harmful open dispute over an
question is there are ways to address those things and i mean, again, this maybe just be a style thing or too conventional but there are ways to deal with an ally that don t involve, you know, ending a phone call abruptly i mean, australia is not exactly staten island. it s a pretty big place. 2400 refugees. they are not going to let these people into australia? keeping them on offshore islands. we re supposed to take i think i don t jeffrey, you don t hang up the telephone on the prime minister of australia. that s the real question. yes, you do. carl, yes, you do if you want to make a point. if you want to make a point, yes, you do. i think australia has taken in quite a few refugees but i don t have the numbers but just throughout history. let s be clear, the tradition has been if one president makes a commitment to another country, the next president is sort of bound by that and you can if