restricts the intelligence community to the techniques included in the army field manual. if this executive order goes around that law by essentially saying, okay, fine, we re going to edit the army field manual, that s a potential problem. a lot of these republicans went through a very difficult, very emotional debate. a lot of them have read speaker ryan, speaker mcconnell both get high level briefings not available to others. there was a torture report that says pretty clearly that these techniques did not work, that they had the opposite effect, they damaged potentially created false information for intelligence communities. this is going to be a major sticking point in the president in consultation with mattis and pompeo go forward with this. i want to go to kristen welker standing by at the white house before president trump leaves and heads here to philadelphia in the next 15 to 20 minutes, this is a key
place in 1994 under former president bill clinton. that s a lot tricki, though, tamroncause that requires congressional approval. it also requires a sign-off from mexico and canada. tamron? thank you very much, kristen. let s bring in mark murray standing by. let me get you in on this. we start this morning if stephanie is still here with the administration it seems trying to change the conversation from the huge march on saturday, i think it s fair to say a debacle from kellyanne conway, the alternative facts is now trending to now trying to talk about jobs. we have this headline of executive order, and yet again still no clarity behind the words of executive order and what this administration plans to do. yes, tamron. even if the march hadn t happened, if if you didn t have the sean spicer moment from saturday night, every new administration wants to have a sense of urgency, we are getting down to work and how the executive orders come in.
means as president trump starts to get high intelligence briefings. thank you so much for joining us. greatly appreciate it. we have kristen welker standing by, i think. chris jansing, standing by. we were talking earlier about whether or not donald trump has been to the white house before. there s a photo circulating of him being greeted by ronald reagan. if it s not a doctored photo at this point but the internet, but there is a photo that appears to have shown donald trump being greeted by ronald reagan at some point during his administration. yeah. so, you know, it was funny because we reached out to the campaign a couple of times and also reached out to the folks here at the white house. all they could tell us is he had never been here throughout the course of eight years of the obama presidency and that they had never met. so he has been here before. if we believe that photo, having said that, it s obviously a very different thing that he s coming here now as the president el
that was always the risk. and i think we may have to watch the consequences play out here. kelly o donnell covers capitol hill, standing by with more information. i m sure you just heard howard s analysis there. reporter: it prompted some thoughts. when howard talks about names being floated to reassure, where we are with forming a trump administration be a couple of different things. there s the work happening behind the scenes with a transition team that has like a couple about 100 people working for it and has been based here in washington, d.c., the clinton team had one as well. then there s the political world where friends of the trump campaign would obviously be in the conversation. and then there s the strategic floating of names. earlier stephen hadley, former security adviser to president bush was named because, in part, he was in the never trump movement. and is widely respected for his knowledge of the world.
bush, bush 41. barbara and i congratulation donald trump, wish him well as he guides america forward as our next president. his family is in our prayers. we re also told that president bush, bush 41 at least, has also called donald trump to wish him luck as well. it should be noted for purposes of this conversation we re about to have, we don t know if he actually voted for donald trump. we know that bush 44, we also know there was no other republican presidents living that campaigned with him or publicly supported him. it will be work it to see how this dynamic playing out over the next few days. kristen welker standing by. also msnbc political analyst rick tyler, former cruz campaign spokesman, and beverly gage as