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Please make sure your browser supports JavaScript and cookies and that you are not blocking them from loading. For more information you can review our Terms of Service and Cookie Policy.</s>White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer talks to the press from the White House</s>White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer is holding a press briefing at 12:30 pm ET.</s>(AP) – The White House is planning a major outreach effort to get Neil Gorsuch confirmed as the next Supreme Court justice.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer says the White House is planning a series of briefings with House and Senate staff about Trump’s pick.

Gorsuch is expected to travel Wednesday to Capitol Hill to begin meetings with lawmakers, including Senate Judiciary Committee members.

Spicer says the White House is “going to work really, really hard” to get Trump’s pick confirmed.</s>President Donald Trump will allow the refugee deal with Australia go through, White House press secretary Sean Spicer confirmed, despite the fact that it was negotiated during former President Barack Obama’s administration.

“The president is unbelievably disappointed in the previous administration’s deal that was made and how poorly it was crafted,” Spicer explained to reporters at the White House Press Briefing.

Speaking to Harley-Davidson executives and union members, Trump mentioned the discussion about the deal with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

“I just said why? … Why are we doing this. What’s the purpose?” he said. “We’ll see what happens.”

Spicer confirmed that the refugees would be allowed into the United States, but would go through a “very very extreme vetting process” to make sure they had peaceful intentions.

Trump signaled his opposition to the deal, after reports surfaced that he had an angry phone call with Turnbull.

“Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Why? I will study this dumb deal!”</s>Last week, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer announced the Trump administration would add four "Skype seats" to open up press briefings to journalists who live outside of the Washington, D.C. area and to organizations that don't have credentials for the White House. The Oregonian reports Portland's conservative radio talk show host Lars Larson will join Wednesday's press briefing at the White House remotely.

Start the conversation, or Read more at KOBI NBC5.</s>Did White House Press Sec Sean Spicer say Prime Minister Trumble or Turnbull? You decide

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer appeared to mispronounce Malcolm Turnbull's name — twice — during a press conference in which he stressed Donald Trump's "tremendous respect" for the Australian PM.

Speaking about the reportedly tense phone call between the two leaders, Mr Spicer appeared to say Trumble instead of Turnbull.

"The President had a very cordial conversation with Prime Minister Trumble, where they went through an extensive discussion of this deal," Mr Spicer told reporters.

After talking about how "disappointed" Mr Trump was with the refugee resettlement deal struck with the Obama administration, Mr Spicer appeared to mispronounce the name again.

"So he has ensured that while he has respect for the Australian people, respect for Prime Minister Trumble, that we do not pose a threat to the United States of America," he said.

Trumble has since become a trending topic on Twitter, with some fans of "Prime Minister Trumble" — and even a Malcolm Trumble parody account — emerging among the criticism of Mr Spicer.

But, some have also argued it could have just been a slip of the tongue. So what do you think: did he say Trumble or Turnbull?</s>US President Donald Trump seems to reconsider the refugee swapping deal with Australia. The president reportedly slammed Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during a phone call over the deal. Trump addressed the phone call as “the worst call by far.”

The US president compared the refugee swapping call with the conversation with various world leaders on that day and described it as the worst talk. The call was scheduled for long hours but it ended just after 25 minutes. Trump allegedly yelled at the prime minister as he believed that Turnbull expected the new US leader to follow the promise of the Obama administration. The agreement proposed America to accommodate 1,250 refugees in the nation from different detention centers across Australia.

The president during the call also added that Australia was attempting to send the “next Boston bombers” into the nation. Trump, besides calling Turnbull’s call as worst, also tweeted against the refugee swapping deal on Wednesday night. “Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal!” the US president tweeted.

Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, on the contrary, said that the government was in a good position as far as the refugee swapping deal was concerned. “The Prime Minister has spoken to President Trump and we had agreement from President Trump that he would continue the arrangement,” he said. “It seems to me that some of the hate media journalists on the left wing debate in this country are adamant that they want to use these people as pawns.”

While the White House is emphasizing on the reconsideration of the refugee swapping agreement, the Australian authorities have a different story to tell. Moreover, US State Department and White House also seem to have contradictory views on the deal. Where White House said that Trump was still not sure about the deal, the State Department told the ABC that US will go ahead with the refugee swap with Australia.

The American State Department had a conversation with the ABC following the statement from the White House. “He is considering doing it because of the long and good relationship we have with Australia,” the White House stated while adding that Trump was still thinking on whether to move forward with the refugee swapping deal. On Wednesday, US Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters that the United States will undergo “extreme vetting” before allowing 1,250 refugees into the nation. However, the comments were walked back later on.</s>White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer says that Donald Trump’s executive order is not a travel ban. This was a reaction to media reports claiming that the action set in motion for the next three months was unconstitutional and racially unfair.

The truth is that the act which the executive order is based on was actually signed into existence by former president Barack Obama. This is also the second time it’s been put in action. According to a report by the Washington Times, Obama enacted the same order in 2012, but it wasn’t strict enough to keep terrorist Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab from coming to U.S. soil and admitting on social media that he had already committed such war crimes in Syria.

Having returned to Syria in 2013, Al-Jayab reportedly joined a terrorist group and posted, “America will not isolate me from my Islamic duty. Only death will do us part.”

This was before returning to U.S. soil the following January and settling in Sacramento.

Obama’s initial order proved somewhat ineffective due to the fact that Al-Jayab had been among the first Iraqi refugees allowed into the United States after a six-month freeze. This means that the instant Donald Trump’s executive order is loosened for Syrian refugees, more potential terrorist-friendly people will likely be the first in line to take the opportunity for revenge. History does tend to repeat itself.

Obama only listed the nations affected due to their high-risk potential for terrorist immigrants and has stated he is not Muslim for the record. Spicer claims that Obama’s attempt failed drastically and that there is no way of really knowing who could be a threat.

Spicer also added that the executive order is not a travel ban and that the word “ban” was only used because it was a popular term spread by the press, and he blames the media for President Donald Trump using it repeatedly. According to the Hill, Spicer claims it is simply a vetting process to keep out potential threats and ensure the United States’ safety from potential jihad immigrants.

Trump has stated that the vetting process was long overdue, possibly referring to the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. That happened when his Republican predecessor George W. Bush had been in office for less than a year. Airline security has been tightened ever since, to the point that at one time you couldn’t even bring bottled water in your carry-on luggage because it might be a part of a chemical compound for a bomb.

Much of the shock from Friday’s order came from the fact that President Donald Trump didn’t really communicate his intentions clearly beforehand. He defended it on Twitter by claiming that if he’d given a week’s notice, “a lot of bad dudes” would come to the United States in that week. In that way, the short notice was intentional, though it parallels the actions of Richard Nixon, who had ordered wiretapping without communicating with the rest of the government first.

This likely led to the existence of the NSA, but it got Nixon in a lot of trouble early on.

The origin of the word “ban” being used to describe Trump’s executive order actually began with the New York Times, according to Fox News. In a press exchange between Spicer and NBC News’ Kristen Welker, the offending report had spawned a viral use of the word, and the public latched onto it.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer says Trump’s “extreme vetting” may have been a shock to everyone, but don’t call it a “travel ban.”</s>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will honor a U.S. agreement with Australia to accept refugees housed on islands off that country's coast although he is unhappy about the deal, the White House said on Thursday.

"The deal that was cut by the last administration is something that he's extremely, extremely upset with," White House spokesman Sean Spicer said at a news briefing. "He does not like it."

Spicer said that out of respect for Australia and its prime minister, Trump would allow the process to go forward under conditions set under by the deal that provide for "extreme vetting" of the refugees.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer says the U.S. is still planning on carrying through with the refugee resettlement deal.