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Obama laid out in 2008 in that it is incrementalist. is he focused on reducing american exposure overseas and treating terrorism through kind of death of a thousand cuts. this travel ban doesnt -- its not going to stop every terrorist attack. but as one tool in the toolbox, it can help manage the problem which is a little bit how president obama addressed the terrorism problem throughout the course of his presidency. steve: sure. and you wrote in the new york daily news in an op-ed yesterday tha...

You cant criticize a judge. i dont think judge gorsuch would say you cant criticize -- chris: no, he said these comments were disheartening and demoralizing. he said it not only to senator blumenthal, he said it to ben sass, a republican. >> kelly ayotte put out a statement, that is not what she said he said. what we do know is senator blumenthal -- we all know his vietnam scandal, how much he has a credibility problem. its a serious problem. thats what should be the focus of this conversation, ...

I dont think judge gorsuch would say you cant criticize -- chris: no, he said these comments were disheartening and demoralizing. he said it not only to senator blumenthal, he said it to ben sass, a republican. >> kelly ayotte put out a statement, that is not what she said he said. what we do know is senator blumenthal -- we all know his vietnam scandal, how much he has a credibility problem. its a serious problem. thats what should be the focus of this conversation, the degree to which that sen...

But not to get off track here because were going all over the place. lets be very clear and straight forward in saying the following: the united states of america has a terrorism problem. we have had hundreds of cases of foreign nationals entering our country from other countries and plotting, attempting or even carrying out terrorist attacks. we spend countless dollars a year, and we have thousands of federal officers and investigators who do nothing but run around the country trying the stop t...

Terrorist recruitment. >> it only takes once and the immigration vetting is sloppy and porus and this is us getting stronger and tighter. >> the immigration vetting is the tightest vetting we have. it takes an average of two years for a refugee to be vetted. if youre worried about potential terrorism, by the way, the terrorist incidences we have here are home grown american terrorists. people born here and radicalized but if youre looking at people coming into the country look at the 20 million ...

Everything opens up. you can work with ngos, you can work with ngos from this community and they will be the advance radar on the issue. we have dismantled the whole resistance. second, we need to educate the public. we have seen so many cases where citizens were the first responders to tell the law enforcement what is going on. >> walid, youre 100% right. gillian, moderate muslims can get involved, too. but, again, is it a realistic goal to solve the terrorism problem by attacking the ideology?...

One. when you do it, everything opens up. you with work with ngos in the community. now weve dismantled the whole resistant. we need to educate the public. weve seen so many cases where the citizens -- >> youre 100% right. the respect and moderate muslims can get involved. is this a realistic goal to solve the terrorism problem by attacking the etiology? >> its realistic but its not something thats going to happen in the short term or the median term. >> what do we do? >> as a starting point, it...

Up. you with work with ngos in the community. now weve dismantled the whole resistant. we need to educate the public. weve seen so many cases where the citizens -- >> youre 100% right. the respect and moderate muslims can get involved. is this a realistic goal to solve the terrorism problem by attacking the etiology? >> its realistic but its not something thats going to happen in the short term or the median term. >> what do we do? >> as a starting point, its about hearts and minds, partially so...

In afghanistan. one of the things that german soldiers are best at is police training. we asked them to do more. thats not going to solve a refugee problem. >> but i dont want us to overblow the terrorism problem. i was reading -- >> there is no possibility of that at this point. in all seriousness. >> in fact -- >> thats what caused it. he is the genesis is radical e jihad. >> this is to my pal greg, here is a quote. from 2001 to 2013, 400 americans killed on soil by guns. during the same perio...

Resisted islamic terrorist group in indonesia was actually destroyed during the earthquake and tsunami that hit that country about, you know, ten years ago. so theyve been crawling back up since that time. and only recently since isiss rise have these small knnucleus decided this is the direction they want to go to. >> and the folks that carried out this attack in indonesia, not a lot is known at least publicly about them, but as you say, they were waiting on warnings that something could happen...