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Security. theyre screened by the national counterterrorism center as well as the fbi terrorist screening center. their names are cross-checked with a massive database thats maintained by the u.s. intelligence community and the department of defence. the process that have to handle these refugees in the united states is completely different from the disorganized chaotic and completely organic process that is happening in greece where feel are just showing up climbing on to shore and trying to get...

How do you understand this compared to those already taking in more refugees than the u.s. is anyway. >> reporter: rachel, you mentioned that the u.s. government has agreed to take in a total of 10,000 syrian refugees. thats a tiny fraction of what many other countries around the world are taking. but the rules are a huge difference between how the refugees are being processed in europe and compared to the united states. when we were if greece last week, watching thousands and thousands of syria...

U.s. is anyway. >> reporter: rachel, you mentioned that the u.s. government has agreed to take in a total of 10,000 syrian refugees. thats a tiny fraction of what many other countries around the world are taking. but the rules are a huge difference between how the refugees are being processed in europe and compared to the united states. when we were if greece last week, watching thousands and thousands of syrian and other refugees come ashore, most of those refugees were arriving in europe were ...

10,000 syrian refugees and thats a tiny fraction of what other countries around the world is taking, and theres a huge difference of how the refugees are being processed in europe compared to the united states. when we were in greece last week watching thousands and thousands of syrian and other refugees come ashore, most of those refugees were arriving in europe were effectively going unscreened and they were just arriving in those rubber rafts crashing on the shores and climbing on to dry land...

Ability to search a persons background is only as good as the database that you have access to. there are some limited databases, but for the most part, syria is such a mess, that theres an inadequate database in order to search the backgrounds of the people coming here. im not talking about their medical back grounds, but their political and legal back grounds. >> thats how it sounded this weekend, when the white house was in sharp disagreement with pete king how good the screening process is. ...

Was in an isis propaganda video, not authenticated but where they threaten washington, d.c., where youre standing right now. i wonder if you have questions for the fbi about that. are you feeling safe and secure this afternoon? >> ive always been concerned that isis has been underestimated, not just by the united states, but by most western countries. they are into big headlines using modest resources to achieve it. so the extent to which we have an home-grown terrorists, we need to be all over ...

>> i have spoken to counterterrorism officials here and they think its very unlikely that a known militant would be able to get into the screening process, would at an airport, would come in through a, on a cruise ship. they think more likely if isis is going to reach out in the united states, it would be someone who is self-recruited, recruited online. or perhaps a militant who came across the land border with canada. its a very long border. very hard to control. they think those are more likel...

Benghazi into syria. because we run guns, we create isis. all of these decisions that the president has championed, that causes the refugee crisis in germany, france, all over europe. thats how we get to paris. this guys wrong every single time. every time hes wrong. when he says that we dont have a way to screen them, its funny, megyn, because we have a way to screen them. we have -- i know you havent done any research, but i know youre smart enough to figure this one out. how many christian me...

Claim to be. its a far from perfect system and thats why the mayor was saying they wanted more representatives here on the ground to help them with the screening process, people that have more experience than the coast guard and the police here do have because as you were saying, they are one of the paris attackers did come through here on a fake doctored documented. he was fingerprinted but at this stage no red flags were raised and that is of course of great concern and more and more people wi...

Security. theyre screened by the national counterterrorism center as well as the fbi terrorist screening center. their names are cross-checked with a massive database thats maintained by the u.s. intelligence community and the department of defence. the process that have to handle these refugees in the united states is completely different from the disorganized chaotic and completely organic process that is happening in greece where feel are just showing up climbing on to shore and trying to get...