Cooper: Accuracy, speed should both be important to Trump

President Donald Trump apparently emphasized speed but forgot accuracy.

In an attempt to fulfill campaign promises to keep America safer, he signed an executive order Friday temporarily halting almost all travelers from seven majority-Muslim countries with histories of terrorism.

That’s what Americans said they wanted and is the right thing to do until the administration can put together its policy on refugees and travel from the specific countries, but in the process t’s weren’t crossed and i’s weren’t dotted. That is absolutely not the way to go about something so sensitive – we’re practically all descendants of immigrants, after all – and something so politically divisive.

Travelers already in the country were halted, and some of the people detained had helped the U.S. with its war efforts. Worse, several of the administration’s Cabinet offices were not even informed of the policy.

That’s not smart.