President Trump Signs Travel Ban for 12 Countries

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00:00The president has announced a travel ban affecting a dozen countries around the world.

00:04Now, here he is speaking in the White House.

00:07Very simply, we cannot have open migration from any country where we cannot safely and

00:13reliably vet and screen those who seek to enter the United States.

00:18That is why today I am signing a new executive order placing travel restrictions on countries

00:25including Yemen, Somalia, Haiti, Libya, and numerous others.

00:36Let's get more with our Bloomberg editor, John Harney, joining us from Washington.

00:39John, we've seen travel bans before from Trump, but this sort of seemed to come a little bit

00:46out of the blue and catch a lot of people by surprise.

00:48So why now exactly?

00:50Yeah, day and night here in Washington, this quickly captured a lot of attention and evoked

00:58memories, as you point out.

01:00This harks back to the first travel ban, which caused a lot of chaos at the very beginning

01:10of his first administration in 2017.

01:13What this does, though, is broadens it.

01:16It includes, I believe, all the countries around the original ban and expands them to countries

01:23like Chad, like Afghanistan, like the Republic of Congo.

01:30The rationale here is the attack in Boulder, Colorado last weekend on marchers who were trying

01:40to show support for the hostages in Gaza held by Hamas, the man who was suspected of carrying

01:49out this attack, according to the authorities, was Egyptian, and his visa ran out last year.

01:56Trump said that this showed that there were too many dangerous people in the country.

02:01Of course, Egypt itself was not on this list, but it's all part of his continuing emphasis

02:12on immigration, on the border, which was a centerpiece of his presidential campaign in

02:202020 and 2016, but especially in 2024.