President donald Trump from the East Room of The White House takes a question from a BBC reporter he does not like too much about the travel ban. (Listen In)

Here is a transcript of the question and answer:
Q Can I just ask you — thank you very much, Mr. President — the Trump —

THE PRESIDENT: Where are you from?

Q BBC.

THE PRESIDENT: Okay. Here’s another beauty.

Q That’s a good line. Impartial, free, and fair.

THE PRESIDENT: Yeah, sure.

Q Mr. President —

THE PRESIDENT: Just like CNN, right?

Q Mr. President, on the travel ban — we could banter back and forth. On the travel ban, would you accept that that was a good example of the smooth running of government, that fine-tuned —

THE PRESIDENT: Yeah, I do. I do. And let me tell you about the travel —

Q Were there any mistakes in that?

THE PRESIDENT: Wait, wait, wait. I know who you are. Just wait. Let me tell you about the travel ban. We had a very smooth rollout of the travel ban, but we had a bad court. We got a bad decision. We had a court that’s been overturned — again, maybe wrong, but I think it’s 80 percent of the time. A lot. We had a bad decision. We’re going to keep going with that decision. We’re going to put in a new executive order next week sometime. But we had a bad decision. That’s the only thing that was wrong with the travel ban.

You had Delta with a massive problem with their computer system at the airports. You had some people that were put out there, brought by very nice buses, and they were put out at various locations. Despite that, the only problem that we had is we had a bad court. We had a court that gave us what I consider to be, with great respect, a very bad decision. Very bad for the safety and security of our country. The rollout was perfect.

Now, what I wanted to do was do the exact same executive order but said one thing — and I said this to my people: Give them a one-month period of time. But General Kelly, now Secretary Kelly, said, if you do that, all these people will come in, in the month — the bad ones. You do agree, there are bad people out there, right? They’re not everybody that’s like you. You have some bad people out there.

So Kelly said, you can’t do that. And he was right. As soon as he said it, I said, wow, never thought of it. I said, how about one week? He said, no good. You got to do it immediately, because if you do it immediately, they don’t have time to come in. Now, nobody ever reports that, but that’s why we did it quickly.

Now, if would have done it a month, everything would have been perfect. The problems is we would have wasted a lot of time, and maybe a lot of lives, because a lot of bad people would have come into our country.

Now, in the meantime, we’ve vetting very, very strongly. Very, very strongly. But we need help, and we need help by getting that executive order passed.