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WASHINGTON, Feb 16 (KUNA) -- US President Donald Trump announced Thursday plans to sign a new executive order on immigration that will "comprehensively protect our country."
The president, a press conference, elaborated that the move will be tailored against a "very bad decision" by the court system that blocked his previous order, which blocked immigrant visas from seven majority-Muslim countries.
"There has never been a presidency that's done so much in such a short period of time. And we have not even started the big work yet. That starts early next week," he said. "To be honest, I inherited a mess."
The US will "never have had a military like the military we're about to build and rebuild" that "I hope we will never have to use," Trump added. It does not have "the right equipment and their equipment is old. I used it; I talked about it at every stop... it won't be depleted for long."
Despite Trump's firing of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn on Monday, and the withdrawal of his Labor Secretary nominee, he maintained his administration is "running like a fine-tuned machine."
Flynn resigned on Monday after admitting he lied to the vice president about contacts he made with Russia regarding the Obama administration's sanctions.
"You know, (Flynn) was doing his job. The thing is, he didn't tell our vice president properly, and then he said he didn't remember. So either way, it wasn't very satisfactory to me," Trump said.
The president also said he called the Justice Department to look into what he called the "criminal leaks" that exposed Flynn's discussions.
Trump insisted that he "would love to be able to get along with Russia," but that "nobody I know of" reached out to the Kremlin during his presidential campaign other than Flynn. (end)
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