stage. >> chairman mccall, this report that i referenced earlier, i want to quote from it, gaping security weaknesses overseas, especially in europe, are putting the u.s. homeland in danger by making it easier for aspiring foreign fighters to migrate to terrorist hotspots and for jihadists to return to the west. ben rhodes, one of the president's closest national security advisers, says they are confident of their procedures in dealing with refugees and how they screen these folks in. you and your democratic partners here, this was not just your report, this was a bipartisan report, you seem to believe there are a lot of holes. explain. >> there are a lot of holes, gaping holes. there are a lot of foreign fighters. this was a foreign fighter event. we have 5,000 foreign fighters in europe that have traveled to the region and come back. this is what happened in paris. we've had hundreds of americans who have traveled and many of them have come back as well. i think that's a direct threat. when you get to the syrian