There you go:
Australian ambassador to Washington, Joe Hockey, met with White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and strategist Steve Bannon on Friday as Trump later echoed the promise that the deal would proceed, saying that if the “previous administration does something you have to respect that”.
Asked at a White House briefing on Thursday afternoon whether the deal was indeed going ahead, Spicer said the widely reported conversation between the world leaders had been “cordial”, and said the refugee deal would go ahead on the condition of “extreme vetting”.
“The President is unbelievably disappointed in the previous administration’s deal that was made and how poorly it was crafted and the threat to national security that it put the United States on,” he said.
“He has tremendous respect for the Prime Minister and the Australian people, and has agreed to continue to review that deal and to ensure that, as part of the deal, which was always part of it, we would go through a very, very extreme vetting process to ensure that every single person that is being offered is coming here with peaceful intentions and poses no threat to the United States.”
Spicer appeared to twice mispronounce Turnbull’s name during the press conference, calling him “Mr Trunbull” or “Mr Trumbull”.
Bit of a win there for Do-nothing Trumbull.
