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Significant delays for the refugee screening program. congress should focus its efforts elsewhere. >> the idea that somehow they pose a more significant threat than all of the tourists that come into the united states every single day just dont describe wit-- jibe with realit. >> it baffles me. i for the life of me dont understand why a veto threat came as it did ee special gli ent -- especially given the fact that his own law enforcement came and testified there are gaps in the refugee program....

Overwhelmingly passed a bill to suspend the programs program to admit up to 10,000 syrian refugees. and then intensified the screening process of them. the president threatening a veto of that bill and spent the week along with a number of other democrats mocking the republicans. >> apparently theyre scared of widows and orphans. >> ive been disgusted, mr. president, in recent days to see some of my republican colleagues shun the american tradition of displaying compassion for those in need. of ...

Removed, he went negative. >> its amazing, i mentioned food stamps and that guy who was seriously overweight went crazy. he went crazy. amazing. >> trumps questioned as dangerous, proposals by ted cruz, jeb bush and others to allow percent indicated christians into the u.s. the president derided the idea as an unfair religious test. after filing for the new hampshire ballot, bush pushed back. >> in the law its a requirement as you go through the screening process, that religion is an element. he...

The effect of stopping it. the white house has issued a veto threat. what is your position on that piece of legislation? >> well, i think that the screening process is very rigorous. it takes 18 to 24 months. its under review from the state department to the fbi. and other intelligence and law enforcement agencies. its a very rigorous process. we cannot allow politicians who are elected by the people to use this incident. our heart goes out to those folks who are impacted in france and other pla...

An officer whose job is to determine nationality of the migrants. some migrants might carry documents, some might carry no documents. as we know so there are often document experts involved in the screening process who look at the documents, check them out and try to determine if they are genuine or not. >> so trying to determine if theyre genuine or not. have you encountered any instances in which refugees were trying to become foreign fighters. have you uncovered any people who were not honest...

Recognize the over 8 million muslims who are part of the fabric of our society, who have been here since the inception of our great nation, where you have muslim judges, my father-in-law happens to be the first muslim judge in the country. you have police officers, you have lawyers, you have engineers. you have muslims in our intelligence communities who are fighting to keep our countries safe each and every day. and any person who claims they want to represent our country should really consider...

Say the words, but they are supporting a policy of bringing tens of thousands of syrian muslim refugees into this country knowing full well that we cannot vet them to determine who is coming here to wage jihad. >> the european union is also finding itself in its own conundrum when it comes to accepting refugees, what it means to looser borders throughout the eu. the spokesperson at an agency that manages the borders of the european union. good to have you with us. we know that more than 715,000 ...

Discussing what hes now learned about this screening process and as we noted, it is described as being rigorous. are you comfortable with this screening process that has allowed your agency to bring in syrians into the united states to settle? >> i am. and i think anyone whos involved in refugee resettlement is comfortable with the rigorous screening process. the u.s. governments screening process for refugees is the most intense, rigorous screening process in the world for refugees. it is multi...

It takes refugees that are to be resettled in the u.s. up to two years. theyre screened by the fbi, by the department of homeland security, by a number of agencies. so the screening process will practically ensure that terrorists will be filtered. >> thank you very much. and to stress the scale of this issue, on that one small island alone, the island of lesbos, sometimes 5,000 to 10,000 people a day arriving on these boats. just taking in a few thousand is a drop in the buckets. thank you very ...

Refugees. >> reporter: thats right. this is propped up as perhaps the oddest domestic political issue. its been injected into the 2016 campaign. you have several republican campaigns going after the president. some like jeb bush and ted cruz are saying we should let in syrian refugees who say theyre christian not the muslim refugees. the president went right after those critics today and really slammed members of the republican party who he said are more concerned about tough questions at debate...