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Is archaic, anti-quaked, sips 9/11 everything has changed and it has to be gone. ainsley: the president says he wants it to be gone. you might remember this name mohammed at attachment he was one of the egyptian pilots. he tried two times. he got in the u.s. on different visa to study aviation. he did try under that diversity visa program. steve: what was mode of murder? once again it was a vehicle. two years ago, the new york city police department started doing extensive outreach to truck rent...

Something clearly changed. a lot of questions what caused that if there was any radicalization that took place the we see in these lone wolf attacks but there are questions about the visa program with which he came. >> 50,000 people a year coming through the diversity visa program. the program was set up to make sure underrepresented countries can send their people into this country too and he did that in 2010. >> reporter: we know sayfullo habibullaevic saipov underwent surgery for two gunshots...

General kelly, there are no records that can be easily checked or followed or addresses checked up on. are we going to do jim, an fbi background check on some of these characters from turkmenistan or uzbekistan or all the stanes? i mean, this is insanity. >> there is no positive right to enter the united states for any reason at all. it is up to us to decide who comes in the country. president trump has the right both constitutionally and under existing law to decide for any reason he can stop i...

>> there you have it. you can see the senators in the intel committee were grilling facebook, twitter and google and theyre very much on the defense here on capitol hill. behind me is the room where theyre going to be testifying before the house intel committee beginning at 2:00 today. >> jo, thank you. we had some issues there with the sound bite. while try to get that to you a little later. meanwhile, how will lawmakers reacting to president trumps calls to do away with the diversity visa prog...

Mechanical issues with the truck he was driving, he was arrested a year later because he didnt pay that fine but other than that no lengthy criminal history but also the visa program, something mark levin talked about last night. reaches 50 people you coming to the diversity visa program because the diversity visa program was set up to make sure underrepresented countries can send people into this country too. he did that in 2010. >> reporter: sayfullo habibullaevic saipov underwent surgery for ...

Folks who have been impacted by this evil terrorist act, that program needs to know and i dont know if it was a bill that chuck schumer sponsored or what, but it needs to go. >> chuck schumer did sponsor it, it was signed into law in 1990 by president george h.w. bush. >> what we know is the situation today, and common sense will tell you its time to change the immigration program, this diversity visa program needs to go. thats what the legislation would do. if you talk to the american people, t...

It feels horrible that we even have to talk about this tonight and your son is gone, darren drake, we will all remember him, and we are mourning his loss this evening. thank you for coming on it telling you and your wife and your family story. >> thank you for having me. >> sandra: all the best to you. still to come... >> we will go backwards and find out what hes done over the last couple of months. >> sandra: so how did this terrorist stay off the fbis radar? and when did he radicalize? former...

It was very thorough and where we had challenges. it wasnt with regard to what the american government was doing. it was with regard to the capacity of the originating government. thats why the presidents picked those half a dozen countries or so who he believes cant give us the right kind of information. it is not that kind of country. in fact if anything it may have two strong control over their citizens, their identities and their records. so i get the point that we might want to base our imm...

Cut act. is that accurate? >> if its called the cut cut bill, great. the biggest priority he has is making sure it does what he has laid out or his priorities in that piece of legislation. that is providing tax relief for middle class, making it more fair and simple. those are the things that hes mostly focused on. if its called cut cut cut and has massive tax cuts, well be fine with that name. >> is the federal reserve chair going to be a man of a woman? >> i cannot echo that its not major garr...

Problem on your hands. you need to play a bigger role in helping us fix this. because you say texting and emailing, tweeting, the ending. >> harris: thats a conversation that we had with san bernardino. over the phone company is going to because thats a different thing. the fast way to get into one of those phones that they need to. >> sandra: i want to alert in here because the president has a meeting at the white house. we know he is seated with oxytocin and james mattis on either side of him....