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Before he flies off to san bernardino, california, to meet privately with the families of the victims of the attacks out there. on thursday, the president going to the national counterterrorism center meeting with experts, saying theres no specific and credible threat against the homeland at this time. also announcing that he has launched a review into the so-called k-1 fiance visa that allowed one of those attackers in san bernardino to get into the country. the president adopting a mostly reas...

The young man who federal prosecutors say planned an earlier attack with syed farook but suddenly got spooked when he heard of unrelated terror arrest in the southern california area. thomas, something i just want to also update your viewers on who have been following this story is that the two shooters were very quietly on tuesday and they wont say exactly where theyve been buried, but sources tell nbc news that it actually took them a week to find a graveyard that would accept the bodies. lots...

The republican party. the base, its not just a question theyve been not listening to, its that they have grown and they are more of what use to be the fringe is now basically the center of the republican party. >> lets remember at the same time donald trump on a number of issues, on gun control and entitlements and trade is the furthest to the left in the republican presidential field. yes, i think part of it is true. >> i totally agree with that on an issue basis. i think that tells us the repu...

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Not post anything about jihad or terror on social media despite earlier reports. so nothing out there publicly, but the new review will be led by the departments homeland security. theyll look at how the process employs social media vetting in certain immigration benefits programs and it is committed to expanding use of social media vetting and is examining appropriate opportunities in conjunction with interagency screening partners to do so across the range of visa programs including the k-1 pr...

>> there was a lot of criticism, because of the fact that perhaps this was publicly visible and this wasnt known when malik applied for her fiancee visa before she emigrated to this country. these communications were happening in direct private messages, and they occurred, brooke, between malik and farook, who she yet had met. they hadnt even started dating really. they were just communicating online. and between malik and other friends. those communications have now been uncovered now that the ...

Saudi arabia or syria, it has to be done, tom. >> tom, you were talking about the fiance visa and how strict it is. but isnt most -- arent most of the objectives of that process to figure out whether the marriage itself is legitimate? that someone is not scamming the visa process to get a quick entry to the u.s.? is it really set up, the background checks, to look at you know, possible beliefs of theirs? possible you know, radical ideas they may have? >> its not set up to look at radical ideas, ...

Marriage, so its more permanent. different than a work visa that is considered probably temporary. the person is probably going to go back to the country that they came from. but in the k-1 process with the marriage at the end of that visa issuance, its a pathway towards citizenship for people to get that visa so it is a much stricter process. >> you know, phil, right now, donald trump has talked about not letting muslims into the country, a temporary pause until the u.s. figures out what the si...

These vetting processes, a pilot project under way and three of they will right now to do this and looking at expanding it to all visa applicants and all of these k-1 or fiancee applicants. >> with all due respect, seems like one of the things where the government is three steps behind everybody else. employers looks at the social media experience before they offer you a job. >> they do other things that employers dont. they look at criminal records, this was never anything that they did in the ...

All the time. senator tim kaine is a democrat from virginia, on the armed forces and foreign relations committee. senator, good to have you. >> good to be back. >> early christmas wishes to you and the family. >> you, too. >> there are checklists of things that need to get fixed. >> yes. >> lets go through them. the first one is the visa waiver program. >> yes. >> what do we see with the k-1 fiancee visa? its an old visa, people argue its abused for many years. now what happened in san bernardin...