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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...

The screening process is, for those that need to get into the u.s., it sound rigorous to the point of being exclusive? >> reporter: i have spoken to counterterrorism officials here. they think it is very unlikely that a known militant would be able to get into the screening process, lands in an american airport, would come in through a ob a cruiseship, they think if isis is going to reach out in the united states, it would be swollen who self recruited. or perhaps a militant who came across the ...

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. ...

Refugees. there also is a very real humanitarian crisis. how do you balance those two? >> its awfully tough. lets take as an axiom that the vast majority of these syrians that are fleeing are decent people just desperately trying to escape the calamity of their homeland. theres always going to be some bad apples. unfortunately, the screening process is now in the hands of those countries in western europe, notably germany as well as austria and slovinia that have to back track to where these fol...

How confident are you that we have an adequate screening process here. >> megyn, im not confident at all. i have no confidence. by the way, neither does the f.b.i. or the other agencies in our government. we dont know who these people are. there are no records, theres no personnel records we can go to. we dont know who these people are. we know isis does want to infiltrate with these refugees. in addition to that, you have them going down to syria to be trained as terrorists. once they get to eu...

Military satellite at the time of the explosion, calculations about what might have happened, a number of u.s. officials are telling cnn they do have a working theory about this potential bomb. they believe at this point it was most likely placed on board by someone on the ground with access to the plane, probably not somebody that got past the screening process. may based on their calculations of the heat flash, the explosion that is believed to have been heard on one of the data recorders, the...

All the chatter that people have been talking about afterwards that this was supposedly the intelligence that israel picked up and all these other people. so the truth of the matter is, and this is the part we dont know. >> thats a good point. peter, what is the screening process for airports here in the united states, for baggage handlers, caterers, other who is have access to these kinds of commercial airliners? >> well, when they say this event could be a game changer if its a bomb, thats wha...

Such as the shoe bomber and many attempts to blow up airplanes. so its not a new thing. do not underestimate these people. theyre capable of hitting us any way they want. >> theres been a lot of security. and the united states, we like to believe -- we like to believe -- that we have a better system. that our tsa agents have a screening process in place that when they make us wipe down our hands and so on, theyre testing for bomb residue, that thats going to stop a bomb from getting on board a u...

The sharm el sheikh airport. lets get the latest from max foster in london. >> reporter: that is based on the activity that is all around. they are not telling us the intelligence which caused the decision to cancel flights between u.k. and sharm el sheikh. we know the british team on the ground there is focusing at the airport on security. we heard from british ministers suggesting they are not yet happy with the security and screening process. they are happy to get to a point possibly by tomor...

Advice. in part she she asked mr. bush to get specific on his own policies. >> talk to me about policy. president obama has accelerated the release of more than 6,000 prisoners. are you comfortable with that? >> i would have preferred that he do it the old-fashioned way. which is to find people that agree with him that we need to reform our federal criminal justice system. people on the republican side. theres large numbers of republicans that believe we need to reform it, as well. work through ...