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No matter how rigorous you are you can flip people. go ahead, rick. >> lets talk about who is actually doing rigorous process. its a first-term foreign service officer who is on the front lines and we have not given that young foreign service officer the tools that he or she needs to actually understand what they are doing. they are going to have a quick meeting, they are going to look at a data base. they are going to ask a couple of questions and then they have got to make a judgment of thousa...

No matter how rigorous you are you can flip people. go ahead, rick. >> lets talk about who is actually doing rigorous process. its a first-term foreign service officer who is on the front lines and we have not given that young foreign service officer the tools that he or she needs to actually understand what they are doing. they are going to have a quick meeting, they are going to look at a data base. they are going to ask a couple of questions and then they have got to make a judgment of thousa...

Would have the vice president of the united states, joe biden, secretary clinton, general petraeus, leon panetta, bob gates before him, richard holbrook when he was with us. it was a very strong group of principals. and indeed one of the things that i am quite happy with over the last four and a half years is that we have not had the historical norm. the historical norm is that you have a tremendous amount of public conflict among very high-profile and strong-willed national security principals....

He insists on rigorous process, as i said. he insists on seeing all the options fully developed. he insists on hearing from his advisers. and has asked the same question over and over again, whats in the national interest? and very importantly, and this goes back to your question on syria, for example, asked not just what would seem to be a good idea today, but how does this play out two and three and four steps down the line. and ive seen this now, again, close up for four and a half years. >> ...

They did in terms of the scale and scope of the assistance that were providing to the opposition. stepping back on searia, its a tragedy. ive been to syria many times. and for assad to wreck that country, its heritage and impose the cost it has on its people is appalling. and we have from the outset organized the international community to support the opposition. we have been the leader in the humanitarian assistance, now $850 million worth of humanitarian assistance. we have said for a long tim...

Is that we have not had the historical norm. the historical norm is that you have a tremendous amount of public conflict among very high-profile and strong-willed national security principals. we havent had that in this administration, very little of that. the reason i think is, is that president obama has insisted that we run a process here where its effective, views are heard and the president gets them directly. so i just think thats wrong. i think weve run a process here that has been fair, ...

Carrying an i.c.e. flag. he arrived under the obama administrations refugee program. the same program our former president touted for its tough vetting process. >> they are subjected to the most of rigorous process. the intelligence community vets fully who they are, biometrics are applied to determine whether they are in fact somebody who might threaten the united states. jesse: officials say it is filled with vulnerabilities. >> that refugee application was replete with lies and misrepresentat...

Carrying an i.c.e. flag. he arrived under the obama administrations refugee program. the same program our former president touted for its tough vetting process. >> they are subjected to the most of rigorous process. the intelligence community vets fully who they are, biometrics are applied to determine whether they are in fact somebody who might threaten the united states. jesse: officials say it is filled with vulnerabilities. >> that refugee application was replete with lies and misrepresentat...

Carrying an i.c.e. flag. he arrived under the obama administrations refugee program. the same program our former president touted for its tough vetting process. >> they are subjected to the most of rigorous process. the intelligence community vets fully who they are, biometrics are applied to determine whether they are in fact somebody who might threaten the united states. jesse: officials say it is filled with vulnerabilities. >> that refugee application was replete with lies and misrepresentat...

Joining, this is fort campbell where the president is minutes appear from addressing the troops including a lot of navy seals. but not a whole bunch because it is a relatively small force. you would want to be a navy seal, you went through the rigorous process. explain it. >>guest: well, the process is, there is a six month basic water demolition in seals school and people apply to go on. it is volunteer in. volunteer out. it is not a super secret government program. its just people who want to ...