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I'm a critic of the state department. >> there is something to criticize, there is nobody there. it's cricket. >> it's useful top diplomats and people running the defense department. >> mark halpern, how is the state department hiring process going? >> these aren't, again, normal fights you have but somewhat supercharged a lot of people in the white house haven't seen this movie before. takes a long time to pick people and get them through the background check process and their papers up to the hill. every president i've covered has failed to do hands-on, you know, spending time saying what is...

Attorney representing mr. darweesh. i want to get your reaction to president trump's tweet. he said "in the ban was announced a week before, a lot of bads would race to the u.s., there are a lot of bads out there." what is your response? >> that's not true. this is a person who has faced threats because of his service to the united states government, and he has gone through a very lengthy and extensive background check process, a visa process, he had a valid visa to come here and he deserves to come here and not be detained upon arrival. >> tell me how the events played out. as you mpsed, he w...

That's what everyone universally is asking for. let's deal with the mental health component. about the background checks, one of the mass shootings i covered in charleston, south carolina, that was a guy who should have been flaggeded in a background check. he had a felony narcotics charge. >> absolutely. >> what the president said connected to that, there simply isn't the manpower, these background checkers, there are not enough of them. he's calling in his executive action to add more background checkers, for the background check process to be shorter so you don't wait out the three-day back...

Campaign trail. >> i think that's right. that's an excellent point. when i speak of this issue, i try to be responsible and not engage in a lot of hyperbole and exaggeration. you are correct. these are refugees, syrian refugee family that went to the laredo point of entry and basically turned themselves in for political asylum. they were not infiltrating to conduct terrorist operations. i think it's important, you're right, to keep the facts to the facts. my facts are clear that i do think some of these military age males could present a threat to the united states and all we're asking for is ...

>> right? >> yep. >> a me dollian taxi in new york is a million dollars, correct? >> something like that. >> lobbyists work for the unions representing those taxi drivers. but uber has really eaten into the cost effectiveness of what it is to run a cab. >> and there's a tremendous amount of money from lobbyists and the taxi industry and around the country and around the world existing taxi companies have pushed back at the idea of uber any driver could set up shop without going through that permitting licensing background check process. >> thanks for being here. back with much more after this....