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Isil. >> reporter: not sufficient. isis leadership may be well dug in in syria and iraq, but this is a group now bursting across the global scene, jake. >> okay. thats interesting. barbara, i want to ask you about another important story breaking today. we learned this morning that the obama administration released ten detainees from guantanamo bay delivering them to the country of oman. that made it the largest gitmo transfer under president obama. what can you tell us about these detainees bei...

Says the screening process has improved. >> we do have to be concerned about the possibility that a terrorist organization may seek to exploit our refugee resettlement process. that is true of this country. thats true of every other country that accepts refugees. that is why we have in place a very thorough multilayered process for evaluation of refugees. >> and this isnt the first time refugees have been arrested in the u.s. five years ago two other iraqi refugees turned out to be al qaeda link...

Sufficient. mike mccall said today these arrests show why the u.s. should clamp down but administration said repeatedly the screening process is rig laos for those coming from syria. wolf? >> pamela, how many other refugees from the mideast have been arrested for terrorism charges prior to this? >> we know of at least one case, wolf. those two lived in bowling green, kentucky. from iraq and moved here as refugees arrested about five years ago after their fingerprints were found on bombs used aga...

They went after one guy, a cop pulled up at a stoplight. doesnt sound sophisticated to me or sound like a cell or network and im sure what will come out in future days will be this guy was a lone wolf, as we say. >> bob bear, these two individuals, refugees from iraq who were arrested in the united states, one from houston, the other in sacramento, both accused of lying to officials of terrorist ties communicated about linking up with terrorists in syria. do these arrests raise new questions abo...

Picking and hitting his head on door frames. lets start the show. >> we screen the visa applicants for everything. almost everything. abc news reports that a secret u.s. policy prevents the immigration officials from checking the social media accounts of foreigners applying to live in our country. the san bernadino shooter, malik, reportedly spoke openly on-line about the violent jihad and martyrdome before deciding to marry farook and move to the u.s. none of this was discovered in the visa app...

They met in person. and then suddenly, somehow, it was approved anyway. so youve got,clearly, a giant bureaucracy looking to almost box check, as we know with so many of these bureaucracies thats what happens. theres such an overwhelming volume, they dont know how to handle it, so they shuffle it through as a de facto decision without analyzing what was in the file, without really knowing whether they met and any sort of validation of whether its factual. so you get what we got. and you wonder w...

Yeah, you are right there. could be people in this country who came here for nefarious purposes that could be a risk. >> could be? you just said could be. >> im sure there are. im sure there are eric. i think that you know, the tastes argument which we hear is offensive acred herring. every time we have the seen the terrorist attack performed in this country done by people here illegally. >> illegal immigrants. thats so comforting, so far every terror attack done in america is done by illegal im...

Have gone through some kind of screening process. almost 30% of them are back on the battlefield, including this guy kosi you were talking about, who is very big in al qaeda, in the arabian peninsula. they are the one of all the al qaeda elements, theyre the ones who have tried to attack the u.s. the most times since 9/11. they are the most deadly toward the u.s. isis obviously is a greater power. but as far as wanting to attack the u.s., thats where kosi went is to the arabian peninsula. he sho...

Social media and other things should be reviewed, which is a story, of course, we were reporting on extensively last week. then on the individual level, im not sure we know enough yet, tamron, to be able to say whether it was sloppy because at the bottom line level, there havent been the kind of indications yet to know whether there was enough material that would have prevented this individual from entering the u.s. even if the system worked properly, so thats at the anecdotal level, but at the ...

Have gone through some kind of screening process. almost 30% of them are back on the battlefield, including this guy kosi you were talking about, who is very big in al qaeda, in the arabian peninsula. they are the one of all the al qaeda elements, theyre the ones who have tried to attack the u.s. the most times since 9/11. they are the most deadly toward the u.s. isis obviously is a greater power. but as far as wanting to attack the u.s., thats where kosi went is to the arabian peninsula. he sho...