but all three have been on the front lines of this war for the last 15 years. all three dedicated their entire lives and careers to the service of the united states. now they are taking a back seat to people like formal naval officer steve bannon and young stephen miller. i don t know him at all. the level of sadness that initially washes over you when you think of this is just enormous because of what it means, perhaps, to the future. let s go to carol lee s reporting of this. it s up to those people and say never again. if you are going to implement an executive order that has any impact on our fight across the globe, is going to make general mattis s job easier or more difficult, rex tillerson, easier
stephen miller that that general who that given his all, given his son for this country, should be left in the dark about an executive order that actually impacts homeland security, impacts our fight against terror. what exactly in mike pompeo s background, rex tillerson that made steven miller think he could not trust these men to give them the information they needed to implement this in a way that didn t embarrass united states and administration in the eyes of the world. what was it, willie? i m going to say this, every
betrayed? oh, chairman bob corker, betrayed. all of them betrayed by stephen miller, steve bannon, and, yes, the buck stops with donald trump. all of them betrayed. you want to talk about betrayal, that was betrayal of men who have fought and given everything to their country. let s go to the top three. in the united states you have three war fighters, general dunford chairman chiefs of staff. his term was up. i didn t talk about general dunford, betrayed. general john kelly from brighton, massachusetts and general mattis, united states marine corps, all three united states marine corps. they have been at this task of keeping america safe, as the president keeps alluding to, in a hot war for 15 years. what have they lost? general kelly lost the ultimate. he lost his oldest son.
they were selected for a different set of reasons. they were selected for, okay, if you are somebody who can enter the united states under our visa waiver program, because you come from a country we trust, if you have traveled to one of these places in the last x amount of time, then we are going to increase the vetting. i think there are some major distinctions there. i will say, to connect this back to what we ve been talking about all morning. i understand there are major distinctions. i m just talking about when people say muslim ban, these were the seven selected by obama administration as the most dangerous. and that is, i think, one of the things we spent criticizing stephen miller and the implementation of this. the trump administration is clearly very attentive to how this will play politically. what they have done by doing this is, a, have this defense about seven countries that president obama had selected in this kind of roundabout and different way. they have been ab
order that should have prevented that, which is a much bigger question. so we have all this with the background of democrats holding a rally, which we need to get to, because the story speaks for itself, and it will. stephen miller is also at the heart of reports inside the administration. washington post reports inside the west wing tensions flared as differences in management style emerged between two factions, one led by chief strategist stephen k. bannon and senior policy adviser stephen miller who wrote the immigration order. and the other composed of reince priebus and deputies who are accustomed to operating with a more traditional chain of command. the piece goes on. a washington official with anonymity to speak candidly, underconfidence and insecurity can breed paranoia and backstabbing. the source said of priebus, we