futures. well, the pressure is mounting for wisconsin congressman paul ryan. as his house colleagues urge him to enter the race to succeed outgoing house speaker john boehner. this after majority leader kevin mccarthy stunning withdrawal this past week. ryan, the chairman of the house ways and means committee and the 2012 gop vice presidential nominee is reportedly taking the weekend to soul search over a possible bid. sources tell fox news that speaker boehner may stay on in his current post until a candidate can secure the required 218 vote majority. joining us now, 12 term congressman peter king of new york. he served on the house homeland security committee. and is also chairman of the subcommittee on campus terrorism and intelligence. joining us is mimi walters of california, serving on the judiciary and transportation committees. good to see you both. thank you for joining us. thank you.
intelligence community which is able to tell the truth. they cannot be pushed to accept a narrative, and that s why you have analysts speaking out now. do you think this ever is being made at a time when it is very clear that the efforts against isis have failed and we have not been able to gain traction, that isis continues to dominate the middle east and caliphate is in place that is trying to minimize what it can in terms of the fallout here. because right now the pictures are telling of a different story. exactly. in a big way. you can only go so far, uma, in telling a false narrative because reality catches up and that s what we have seen here. i sixth has not been diminished. they have grown and are now influencing the refugee flow into europe and america. these are i heard peter king talking about it earlier, that s valid. they said they will put people in the stream and will do it. they have not been diminished
american people to make sure they are not killed by terrorists. peter king, thank you so much for joining us. always appreciate it. it s a tough situation and a horrific situation forhose migrants and ref yugees. thank you. thank you, uma. all in a bid to make it appear that isis and other terrorist groups are not as dangerous as first feared. lawmakers want answers now on how this might have happened. and police are questioning someone in connection with several shootings near busy interstates. more on the person of interest and why the nightmare may not be over yet. normally when you see an arrest, you don t see too much officers.
the country, the chairman of the house homeland security committee, michael mccall, says they will continue to listen to the american people and keep working to stop the deal. it will leave iran with the ingredients for a bomb. and the infrastructure to build it. and it will give iran a cash windfall freeing up over $100 billion to fuel the regime s global campaign of islamist terror. incredibly the agreement also failed to curve iran s intercontinental ballistic missiles, which the ayatollah says they will now mass produce. so the stakes remain quite high. joining us now, republican congressman peter king of new york. a member of the house homeland security committee. welcome, sir. great to have you on the show today. thank you, uma. thank you. lots of fireworks in congress this week over the nuke deal and the gop s efforts to find a way to block its movement in the house and senate. but even with the vocal opposition, it appears the
with an ever growing humanitarian crisis today, the white house announced a change in policy. the obama administration says the u.s. will accept at least 10,000 syrian refugees over the negs year. and while that is a significant increase, the u.s. has taken in about 1,600 syrian refugees in total since syria s civil war began. the effort still lags behind other countries. germany has said previously, it would accept about 800,000 refugees. and part of the reason for the lag in u.s. response is a lengthy screening process, designed to identify militants and prevent criminals from entering the country. an average asylum seeker from syria can expect an 18 to 24-month wait before he or she is granted refugee status. despite the safeguards, peter king of new york took today s announcement as an opportunity to raise the specter of terrorism. i oppose this decision, we do not want another boston marathon bombing. there are so many things wrong with that statement, it s hard to know where to s