I guess [Trump] assumed, and I would have thought, that I would have looked at putting into effect a provision of 13848 that would have allowed the machines to be secured in four or five states or cities," Powell said, referring to a draft executive order Trump considered signing, but did not, that would have given the Director of National Intelligence the ability to conduct an assessment of any information indicating that a .......

I think this is not about the EO itself, but a course of action based on this EO.

There's been other reporting that talks about this draft that Trump did not put into action and I think it's referring to that