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Give legal status to people who werent americans. i would say on this ruling go back and be able to clarify it. reimpose it, be able to check and make sure that anyone coming into our country is a country that we have vetted. >> bill: do you think were at risk as the process plays out legally? >> we arent at a point where there is a heightened sense of risk on something specific but weve been at a heightened general risk for months and months, several years now. there are real threats of those i...

>> you actually have -- >> a volume for every year, bob. >> every subject he had to take responsibility for something, he turned backward and talked about -- >> still about the economy. >> i think people need to be forward looking, i actually disagree with sebastian gorka. i dont think this was a referendum on national security, more than the third terrorist attack in france. >> i do agree with you about that. i want to come back. not about obama, it is but the democrats today who are going craz...

Breeding confusion at airports. sean spicer is defending the roll-out, and calling the criticism overblown. >> if we announce this a lot earlier, it would have given people plenty of time to flood into the country who could have done us harm. thats not exactly a sound strategy, right? so the people that needed to be kept in the looked were kept in the looked. >> trump also tweeting if the ban were announced with a one week notice, the bad would rush in. a lot of bad dudes out there, but the refu...

Exercising their constitutional right to assemble, organize and have their voices heard by their elected officials is exactly what we expect to see when american values are at stake. and the former president also rejected president trumps claim that his travel ban is similar to what president obama did in 2011 regarding refugees from iraq. saying, quote, the president fundamentally disagrees with the notion of discriminating against individuals because of their faith or religion. "the washington...

>> we know that terrorists are trying to infiltrate the refugee process and we know the immigration process at large is struggling to fill holes in the vetting process. so im saying that in principal what donald trump has put forward is not unreasonable policy. i object strongly to the way in which he went about this in terms of rollout. i think he shot himself in the foot in a significant way, but in principal going after the refugee process and trying to strength be the vetting procedure is re...

Jihadists in countries across the middle east are trying to infiltrate the refugee process. theyve succeeded in europe. its obvious theyre trying throughout the u.s. process and we have good intelligence on that. lets start from the fact this is a problem. >> we have a very different refugee vetting process here than they do in lets say ger n germany. it takes two years to get through the vetting process and we dont have evidence of a strong unit of refugees who have launched any attack on the u...

Western powers and all this populist talk about protectionism and scratch their heads. it does appear as youre saying today in davos, carrying the mantel of milton friedman, the leader of communist china. >> right. the leader of the free world is a chinese president that leads a country thats not free. lets be clear if donald trump might listen to this, hold on, china has been protecting its own economy for years. thats my problem. by the way, chinese lecturing how to deal with refugee process, ...

>> and tom, we know tension has risen in germany as these numbers have mounted. how is this playing out politically there? >> this is producing immense pressure on those public officials, like chancellor angela merkel, who has argued that a continued open door policy needs to stay in place. she says this refugee process is something that they need to continue. but with each terrorist incident, and as you note, we have no idea yet if this was tied to anybody who was an immigrant, but every time s...

Media. its far more pervasive and frequent and talks in their language. >> and seth, phil is saying this is less immigration, more the strength of isis propaganda. but the idea of this -- these guys being refugees, this does speak to the fears of a lot of people that terrorists will exploit the refugee process to make it into the united states. how big of a problem is this, from your perspective? >> look, i think the data is indicative here. and that is, the largest percentage of people that are...

Measures that would be taken into consideration that arent already? >> well, i think what youve seen, the concerns about the syrian refugee crisis is obviously greater database assessments by whoever is coming in, and particularly men, thats the reality we live in, men between the ages of 18 and 25 years old. there will have to be validation of their previous travel, and once allowed in, a stronger review and surveillance of them and their travel once allowed in, because they may go to turkey to...