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And whats the truth about it? >> what theyre using as justification is terrorism and drugs. the vice president was able to come to the podium in the rose garden and talk about the numbers of drugs, qualifying and quantifying drug issues, smuggling, and what have you. and the president stood there and listened in support of this. the vice president is the one who came and said all of this. we didnt hear from the homeland security head, but we heard from the vice president on this. and they are sa...

Numbers of drugs, qualifying and quantifying drug issues, smuggling, and what have you. and the president stood there and listened in support of this. the vice president is the one who came and said all of this. we didnt hear from the homeland security head, but we heard from the vice president on this. and they are saying that this, especially the terrorism issue, is one of the preeminent issues. but you dont have just terrorism coming from the southern border. you have terrorism coming through...

While we need to focus a lot of attention on terrorism because it attracts so much attention, at the same time were a country thats losing tens of thousands of citizens every year to gun violence. we dont seem to be able to get control of that in the way weve gotten control of the terrorism issue. >> thats a good point -- >> i suspect someone is going to want to turn this into an immigration story. this is not a story about lax immigration rules. >> does that someones name rhyme with stump? >> m...

The issues that we think are most important. president trump has been focusing on the terrorism issue and hes trying to convince the european leaders, the japanese, to be more centrally involved in the fight against the islamic state. some of them are, britain for instance and france. some of them have not been. second, this group, the g7, these are the seven largest industrial economies. of course china isnt part of it. another forum where they enter it. they focus on the global economy, how do...

I think it has been less solid with our allies in asia and youre. the president has tended to downplay our lingss. tole, thats the source of american strength in the world. our alliances. so i think the trump administration needs the reassure the allies, and not just keep focusing on the terrorism issue. for instance, the survivability of the youre penal unieuropean. >> how does donald trump navigate it? it is one of the biggest existential threats u.s. faces. >> no question. one of the most dif...

None of them alleged to have been in any form of terrorist activity. they have to go through rigorous screening already. it is one of those sounds good but as a practical matter is not making a difference to the terrorism issue which is overwhelmingly a domestic terrorism united states problem. 9/11 was carried out by 19 foreign born arab terrorists. we conceive of it as a problem that comes from outside when in fact it is a problem that is internal to the united states. >> the chilling observat...

Event that you might relate to what we saw in brussels? or is this something more from somebody that had mental issues like virginia tech shooter, the newtown massacre and movie theater attacks in colorado. i mean, what really is this? and people automatically and you have to look at the terror angle at the very beginning until you can pretty much dismiss it. and then find out what that motivation and why the mental illness if thats the issue and why he got the gun that he got, when did he purch...

Terms of himself that is a mental health issue, a sad one, that needs to be treated. but in terms of the fact that isis raises its ugly spectre even in the area of mental health, what do we make of that? >> i think what the mental health professionals might tell us, richard, is that this person was looking to explain his, his homicidal ideology by the most oppressive group he could think of. isis was the one he thought of. if isis hadnt been there, it would have been al qaeda. if it hadnt been a...

You at all? >> not so much, but it is a civilian organization. its run very differently than the pentagon. youre dealing primarily with civilians. you do have the coast guard as part of homeland security. but youve got to be able to multitask. on the same deal happening with a terrorism issue, something happening in the air with a terrorism issue, youve got to deal with cybersecurity, which is an emerging threat that no one yet is adequately dealing with. >> are there any of the cabinet picks yo...

Approval rating amongst registered voters is at just 40% there. can he move the needle? >> i think that finding reflects the kind of tone deafness that hes had on the terrorism issue in the last few months. and he tried to address this in an oval office speech. not very successful. it was his second kind of unsuccessful effort to get in tune with where the american public is on this issue. you will see him make a third effort in the state of the union to convince people that he is responding app...