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The Biden administration says it has "broad" authority to be able to revoke the visas of those foreign nationals who support terrorist groups like Hamas.

Its allies and who now are stuck in the country. like one afghan, who is going by the name of abdul to protect his safety and the safety of his family. his fear is evident in this voice mail we played yesterday. [ crying ] >> the american soldiers are forgetting about us after everything we did. the sacrifices we made. why are they leaving us behind? i dont want to be killed by the taliban. they are going to cut our heads off if they find my location. please help. >> "outfront" now, the man behi...

Dozen injured at anti taliban protests. reuterss reporting that. desperation growing among afghans on the ground like one man that only wants to use his first name abdual to protect his safety. he worked for five years as an interpreter for u.s. special forces. hes a visa applicant stranded right now and hes frightened leaving this voice mail with my next guest just this morning. [crying] >> why are the american soldiers forgetting about us after everything we did? [crying] the sacrifices we mad...

Applicants case. my supervisor couldnt tell me to change my opinion. its that type of role each adjudicator plays in assessing a visa applicant. and the visa applicant may return the next day and seek out another playing the judge game. and finally quickly, do you that level to properly assess on the people? >> our state department manpower to deal with because was in the early 60s. growing so much over that time was had to take many officers who would otherwise be doing economic and political r...

Searches, so for the fbi this is pretty much a nightmare. >> bob, i know in talking with you earlier you said you were part of vetting with the visa lottery and president trump tweeted after the attack on tuesday, "ive just ordered homeland security to step up our already extreme vetting program. being politically correct is fine, but not for this." if im hearing you correctly, vetting isnt necessarily the answer it seems, but is it a change of attitude toward people coming into this country? is...

Thats what was promised but the budget cuts, how are they going to do this? it takes now 120 days or so to handle maybe i have the numbers incorrectly fixed in my head. >> every administration has a responsibility to take prudent and appropriate measures to protect the american people but what has been described at least in news accounts to date strikes me as the possibility of a muslim ban by a thousand cuts. this is the muslim ban turned down by two courts in two different iterations and we ne...

Would like to see before we can now lift those limits again and allow people to more freely enter this country? >> if you look at the pace. ive been working here for two weeks and i feel like ive been here for two months the amount of things weve produced. it is incredible. if you look at which the pace this former businessman is executing his mission as a commander-in-chief it is enough time to identify the problems, the gaps in the system we inherited from the obama administration. absurd thin...