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Article ordered a view that background checks are expanded. does it just come down to money and manpower? >> you can only expand it so far. you cant do an investigation on the ground in a foreign country unless they want you to or allow you to. so if youre trying to do backgrounds on people that arent even from the capital and islamabad and other parts of pakistan, there is no ability for americans to go physically go around the country and do that kind of background. they rely on the pakistanis...

Lost his composure as the list of charges continues. jury convicted him on 18 counts of targeting more than a dozen poor black victims with criminal backgrounds. one victim was raped on her mauriothers front porch. what a sad story. >> the jury deliberated more than 40 hours. picking victims based on criminal histories and forcing them to perform sex acts. and then as the judge read some of the guilty verdicts he started sobbing. his head was down and he was rocking in his chair. as you mentione...

Washington post" editorial columnist ruth marcus. in terms of what happened in court and what the city is doing about this, as i understand it, it was an all white jury and the victims were all african-american which is one of the issues here. >> reporter: thats right. it was an all white jury, so a lot of people thought that will this town be able to turn out a verdict, a just verdict in this case. it turns out they did, according to the people involved in this case. this case involves a police...

Is a matter of different backgrounds from different places. its really hard for any intelligence to understand what those people really -- >> our national intelligence director, i want to ask you the question about people that grow up in a culture that is diametrically the opposite of ours, the antithesis of ours, that means under shariah. what are your thoughts about, do you think people -- i would imagine most want to come here for freedom. but maybe some want to come here like theyve gone to ...

Clarissa, youre the newby among this group. let me start with you. youre everywhere, global, youve been roaring from everywhere since you got to cnn a couple months ago. what are you hearing? are you hearing things about this presidential race and donald trump on the ground? >> were hearing a lot, i this i, about donald trump, particularly about these comments which weve seen, you know, theyve been dismissed i think as arrogant and ignorant and absurd even by most europeans and middle eastern pe...

Immigration service, and 23,000, at least, visas came in k-1 visas of that nature, these are fiance visas, came in to their organization in 2013. now that doesnt mean you can take shortcuts and not interview everyone. they have to be interviewed. and whether or not this person was interviewed i guess is unclear. depending on -- based on what the director has just said. but, if that -- if there were no interviews that took place then that would be a serious issue that would have to be looked into...

U2 last night. we would like to welcome them our stage tonight. >> fwhoen gaving an emotional introduction to the band. it was u2s second and final show in the city of lights after having rescheduled their original dates after last months attack. 89 fans were killed in that attack. happened on the 13th of november. time magazine releasing its short list for the 2016 person of the year award. finally contenders very influential in todays current event. we have a closer look at the finalists. >>...

All he said is she was nothing out of the ordinary. she did cover her face at university. the majority of the students cover their faces there already. she used to sit with the female students, but that was nothing out of the ordinary. he condemned the incidence. the spokesperson of the university condemned the incident saying it is unthinkable that someone can commit such an act. the university has students from all sorts of backgrounds. it seems and everyone seems astonished that someone from ...

People that includes 1.6 billion people in the world but be careful what peoples backgrounds are. are they on the watch list or terrorist watch list or no-fly list. what are their connections to terrorism? i think we need to be careful about that and take extra scrutiny particularly if people coming from these unstable countries in the middle east. that is definitely part, should be part of the policy. but we dont want, what you said what should muslims do, i think its incumbent upon muslims, pa...

Uncovered and lots of girls with faces covered with the burka and going around doing their day-to-day activities. she was a quiet student and high achiever. she didnt really stand out. the word ordinary was repeated while we were spoking to the spokesperson and professor. john. >> what can you say about the region in terms of fostering radicals? >> reporter: we were there and it has a vibrant community with sports clubs and students from all backgrounds. it does not have a history of radicalizat...