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The President's Executive Disorder

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News Commentary, News, Politics

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to David Miliband, the President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), about the effects of President Trump's executive order on refugees worldwide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:04.9

I think the effect will probably in some areas give ISIS some more propaganda.

0:12.4

Call me up. He said put a commission together. Show me the right way to do it legally.

0:17.0

And if there folks that shouldn't be in this country, they're going to be detained.

0:21.0

And so apologize for nothing here.

0:23.6

Welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Hefernan.

0:30.2

Trumpcast is the show about the man whose contempt for the Constitution is rivaled in horror

0:35.8

only by the fact that nine days ago he made a vow to uphold it.

0:40.7

Yesterday morning, President Trump issued an executive order called protecting the nation from

0:46.0

foreign terrorist entry into the United States. Reporters quickly parsed the astonishing

0:51.4

document and dubbed it what it is a Muslim ban. Rudolph Giuliani conveniently confirmed yesterday

0:57.7

on Fox News that the order was indeed a Muslim ban and that he himself had been asked by Trump

1:03.2

to show him the right way to do it legally. That is show me the way Rudy to clean up this Muslim ban

1:09.6

so we could pretend sort of that it's something else.

1:14.2

Among the most disturbingly lying elements in the executive order is a line that asserts

1:20.5

ex nihilo that the United States cannot and should not admit those who do not support the

1:26.3

Constitution or those who would place violent ideologies over American law. Well, if we're

1:33.3

deporting anyone who doesn't support the Constitution, I have a reality show host turned

1:38.2

president who fits the bill. Today we're talking to David Millaband, a former British foreign

1:44.7

secretary who's the president and chief executive of the International Rescue Committee, a humanitarian

1:50.2

aid organization that focuses on the global refugee crisis. We're going to get straight to it

1:56.2

and we are honored to have you on Trumpcast today, David, after what's bound to have been a rough day.

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