Spicer: Countries in Trump’s executive order were first flagged by Obama

Published January 29, 2017 3:24pm ET



White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Sunday that the seven countries from which President Trump has temporarily halted immigration were flagged as “countries of particular concern” by his predecessor.

“The Obama administration put these first and foremost and said that these countries need to have further travel restrictions based on the intelligence that we have,” Spicer told ABC’s Martha Raddatz.

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