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Until we get a vetting system we can better trust. paris hass" taught us a couple things. number one, they can infiltrate the refugee process. but theres 20 other ways to get into america. what i want to do is stop the reason to leave syria. i want to get on the ground with about 10,000 americans and 80,000, 90,000 arabs and destroy the caliphate and i would like to send people back to syria, stop this war before lebanon and jordan become a victim of it and we get attacked here at home. there is...

Subjected to more screening and more vetting than anybody else who enters the united states and why further incouple bering that process with even more bureaucracy may be effective as a political -- a piece of political rhetoric and not going to do anything to improve the national security of the united states. >> reporter: and the administration does acknowledge that there could be some areas with visa waiver program which is with -- about three dozen countries that the u.s. has good relationsh...

Likely theyll get these refugees. now lets look at the big picture. theres been nearly 785,000 refugees who have been admitted to the united states since 9/11. only about a dozen -- roughly one one thousandths of 1% -- have been arrested or removed from the u.s. due to terrorism concerns. none of those folks removed were syrian. the fact is, its not easy to get into america via the refugee process. let me walk you through how this works just with syria. the united nations has referred just over ...

Process. let me walk you through how this works just with syrians. the united nations has referred just over 23,000 syrian refugees to the united states. of those 23,000, 7,000 of them were thought to be worthy enough to be interviewed by the department of homeland security. by the way, they were interviewed outside of the united states. of those 7,000, just 2,165 were accepted into the united states. now, heres the issue -- the real vulnerability that u.s. lawmakers may want to look into is not...

Until we get a vetting system we can better trust. paris hass" taught us a couple things. number one, they can infiltrate the refugee process. but theres 20 other ways to get into america. what i want to do is stop the reason to leave syria. i want to get on the ground with about 10,000 americans and 80,000, 90,000 arabs and destroy the caliphate and i would like to send people back to syria, stop this war before lebanon and jordan become a victim of it and we get attacked here at home. there is...

Until we get a vetting system we can better trust. paris hass" taught us a couple things. number one, they can infiltrate the refugee process. but theres 20 other ways to get into america. what i want to do is stop the reason to leave syria. i want to get on the ground with about 10,000 americans and 80,000, 90,000 arabs and destroy the caliphate and i would like to send people back to syria, stop this war before lebanon and jordan become a victim of it and we get attacked here at home. there is...

All of whom or many of whom, the gop are threatening to override him if he vetoes his bill that limits the syrian refugees? >> the house vote was very close to the veto proof majority. its going to be interesting to see, obviously what the president is trying to do, hes trying to change the face of what people are expecting. its very powerful to say what if one person, one if one man slips through, is approved by the refugee process and comes in and commits an act of terror, thats the fearful th...

About the refugee program. the refugee program requires a significant vetting process more likely that a syrian terrorist could get here through a student visa or visitors visa thats how the 19 terrorists who engaged in the 9/11 attacks got here. none of them were refugees. none came through the refugee process. >> he makes a great point if he would worried about the 2,000s or so refugees come over in the last year maybe we should be worried how many countless came across our southern border and...

The homeland security website addresses the potential gaps in vetting related to the refugee program. one of the 32 findings. we had fbi director and secretary jay johnson testify before the homeland security committee there are certainly potential gaps if the vetting process because its only as good as the information we have. isis has said that they want to try and use the refugee process to potentially infiltrate and the fact that we have our highest security officials saying look, you can, t...

Than all the tourists that pour into the united states every single day. just doesnt jibe with the reality. >> the speaker said this is not a partisan issue and the president should accept the bill. >> let me comment about his veto threat. it baffles me. i for the life ofe dont understand why his veto threat came as it did. >> senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said there should be a pause in the refugee process to make sure the proper screenings and policies are in place. senate sources not...