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State department, homeland security, all to review how they vet social media before granting fiancee visas and the whole visa process. of course, tashfeen malik, syed farooks partner in if san bernardino killings. joining me, malcolm nance, a career counterterrorism and intelligence officer, david ignatius, editorial columnist and ari melber, chief legal correspondent for msnbc. ari, first to you. to your exclusive reporting today, the whole question of social media postings and what homeland do...

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There are a lot of civilians? yes or no? >> you would carpet bomb where isis is, not a city, but the location of the troops. you use air power directed and you have embedded special forces to direct the air power. >> reporter: but directed strikes, as he calls them, are the opposite of carpet bombing. the senator also blamed the obama administration for not identifying social media posts made by san bernardino shooter tashfeen malik before being granted a visa to the u.s. >> we didnt monitor the...

Posts made by san bernardino shooter tashfeen malik before being granted a visa to the u.s. >> we didnt monitor the facebook posting of the female san bernardino terrorist because the obama dhs thought it would be inappropriate she made a public call to jihad and they didnt target it. >> reporter: while its true maliks social media trail was not reviewed during the visa process, her views on jihad would not have been found without a warrant because they were expressed in private direct messages,...

Public. its for other people to see. >> thats right. it wasnt until very recently they started to check social media as a regular part of the visa process. two, there were privacy concerns. three, the understanding was that oftentimes people might not say on social media exactly how they feel. they didnt consider it to be a necessary step. that has changed recently. the department of homeland security only in recent months adding this is one step to the visa vetting process. >> i know cnn is lea...

♪ sleep train [train horn] ♪ your ticket to a better nights sleep ♪ new new insight into that flawed visa process that allowed tashfeen malik into the united states. malik chatted on social media about jihad before getting that fiancee visa. the only problem, there was no policy in place to check her social media at that time. paul is in san bernardino with more on this. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carol. malik passed three background checks in all. as you stated, no protocol ...

She even came to america. tashfeen malik reported report writing on line, passed not one but three background checks before being allowed to enter the country. john than hunt, from san bernardino again today. jonathan, the visa process will be scrutinized after this, one. reporter: certainly will bill. this revelation, that social media posts are not routinely checked for background screening process that tashfeen malik came in. we have her july 27th, 2014 entering the united states at chicago o...

Process difficult which is one of the concerns people have over the visa process itself and the presidents effort to bring additional refugees from syria to the united states and the ability to do full background checks to determine what the risks are. congress has taken action just last week toughening up the standards regarding visa waiver programs and as we get information about what occurred in california certainly will will be congressional action that occurs. as you were describing the pre...

Apparently according to "the new york times" social media postings made openly talking about support of violent jihad, wanted to participate in it and made no effort to hide her support and her views according to "the new york times" report and citing some sourceless here in the u.s. law enforcement area. now, we have learned that that visa process is something thats very much under scrutiny right now. the obama administration ordering a thorough review and also learned that they have in the pas...

Fight against isis. do you think hes succeeding? >> i think the presidents policy is in the right direction. id like to see a little more aggressiveness. my hope is he sets up counterterrorism military bases around the world. maybe thats why hes going to that center. i think we need a no-fly zone. i agree with secretary clinton. we also need to increase our military pressure on sunni countries, the saudis, iraqis to put troops on the ground. weve got to start telling turkey, youve got to start h...