White House Postpones New Travel Ban To Milk Speech "Moment"
KELLYANN CONWAY, WHITE HOUSE COUNSELOR: Go buy Ivanka's stuff is what I would tell you. I'm going to go get some myself today. It's a wonderful line. I'm going to give it a free commercial here, go buy it today, everybody. You can find it online.</s>KEILAR: You likely remember that moment. This just in, the White House is now concluding that one of the president's top advisers, Kellyanne Conway, did violate ethics rules when plugging Ivanka Trump's brand during a TV interview from the White House briefing room. But the news here is that the White House says after meeting with counsel and after a review, Conway did so, quote, in their words, "without nefarious motive and is highly unlikely to repeat the mistake." The review makes no mention of any punishment. We'll bring you updates as we get them on that front. But also new this morning, the White House is pushing back on plans to announce a revised travel ban. Why? According to a senior official, they don't want to step on positive reviews coming from last night's address to Congress. Here's what we know about the reworked order. It's likely to not include legal permanent residents known as green card holders or existing visa holders under the ban. Plus it's expected to revise language prioritizing refugee claims of certain religious minorities. All right. You've got this new ban that is expected to be rolled out but not rolled out today, as it was originally expected. Let's go to Capitol Hill now for more on this. I want to bring in Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff. He is the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. Congressman, thanks so much for coming in after a long night for all of you. You were very outspoken against the travel ban. Are you feeling more comfortable with the details that are coming out now?</s>REPRESENTATIVE ADAM SCHIFF (D), CALIFORNIA: No, I'm not. It's still the same basic problem, and that is the choice of these countries is very arbitrary, and indeed the imposition of this ban, the perception around the world and all too accurate, that it's a ban targeted at Muslims, is going to make it more difficult for us to get cooperation from Muslim nations in the fight against terror. It's not going to protect our security. These are already the most highly vetted people coming into the country. And the fact that the president thinks, well, we can wait another day so I can get a political benefit from a day focused on my speech, tells you they don't see that much urgency with this either. So it looks arbitrary and political, which is exactly, I'm afraid, what it is.</s>KEILAR: That's what I wanted to ask you about, hearing from the White House that they're scrapping plans for the rollout today, you say in your view you think that's patently political? It couldn't be anything else?</s>SCHIFF: Absolutely. I mean, it's either urgent or it's not urgent, it's either important that all these seven countries be included or it isn't. And of course, why these seven countries, why not Pakistan, which has been so much of the source of plotting and planning? It looks and is arbitrary. The effect will be not to improve or security but to make it more difficult for our troops overseas to get cooperation in places like Iraq and elsewhere. So I think it's very ill-considered and the idea of singling out a faith for discrimination, and this is really of course what is behind this, this campaign promise, to ban Muslims and to try to dress it up as something else, that's antithetical to the whole history of the country as well as a Constitution that protects the free exercise of religion.</s>KEILAR: You may say that, but it seems that the White House is trying to take pains now to not have religion be an element of this ban. It obviously is more going to geography, but you can continue to have your disagreements there. I want to ask you about -- more about last night, though, you tweeted after the president's big speech, "For all who continue to ask will this president act to unite the country, can he grow in the job, the answer tonight was a discouraging no." Congressman, 57 percent of people who watched the speech in a CNN poll overnight had a positive reaction to it. What did you hear that they didn't?</s>SCHIFF: Well, you know, certainly there were things to have a positive reaction to. I think the guests that the president brought and alluded to in the gallery, some were the spouse of a war hero that is deserving of a lot of applause. But when you look at what the president talked about substantively in terms of his policies, again it was a repeal of the Affordable Care Act with no proposal to replace it. Again it was a view of immigrants as all murderers and the whole discussion of immigration last night was in the context of people who were murdered by immigrants. That is the same dark vision that we heard when he accepted the Republican nomination. Nothing has changed and for the president to say, I'm for women's health, as he did last night, but for the Congress to be eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood, for the president to say I'm for clean water and air, of course, that gets high approval, but then he appoints Pruitt to head the</s>EPA. KEILAR: But Congressman, on immigration, it appears, he's saying, at least, that he's moving on immigration. I mean, he told a group of anchors before the speech last night, he was open to compromise and then beforehand, he said he was also open to a pathway to legal status for millions of undocumented immigrants. Is this a place -- do you believe him, is this a place you could work with him?</s>SCHIFF: You know, if he's not willing to say it publicly, no, I don't believe it and frankly, a lot of what he does publicly is very hard to believe. Look, we all want to read into the tea leaves of things he says not for attribution, off the record, as holding out some promise that maybe he'll be a different kind of a president. But he had the opportunity last night to talk to the American people with the biggest bully pulpit in the world and he said nothing to give us encouragement. The only real new agenda item that he had was the creation of a new office for the victims of immigrant violence. That is not someone who is trying to bring the country together on the most challenging issues, that of immigration reform. You know, the plea for building a great, great wall, again, another divisive proposal. You have to judge him by what he is willing to say publicly, and when he is willing to say publicly is the same old divisive and dark view of immigration.</s>KEILAR: Got some work to win you over. That is clear, Congressman Schiff. Thank you very for coming on. We appreciate it.</s>SCHIFF: Thank you.</s>KEILAR: All right, in just minutes, House Republicans will be heading to the Senate to sell their new version of the Obamacare replacement plan. Can they get all of their members on the same page? That might be the toughest job in town right now. And Nancy Pelosi just compared the president to a jerk boyfriend? Ahead, her advice to Democrats why she thinks President Trump's voters will eventually turn on him. We'll be right back.