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>> one specific aspect that you focus on is the connection between our technology companies in the chinese military and you've got a specific proposal on that. tell us about that. >> chinese researchers who want to come over to the united states should have to, and work on sensitive technologies in our lab should have to go through background screening to make sure they're not actually agents of the chinese government or the chinese military. it's an additional layer of security to make sure again china is not using the researchers to be spies. unfortunately we know they are trying to do this....

>> one specific aspect that you focus on is the connection between our technology companies in the chinese military and you've got a specific proposal on that. tell us about that. >> chinese researchers who want to come over to the united states should have to, and work on sensitive technologies in our lab should have to go through background screening to make sure they're not actually agents of the chinese government or the chinese military. it's an additional layer of security to make sure again china is not using the researchers to be spies. unfortunately we know they are trying to do this....

Who is checking out these people? are the criminal histories being vetted thoroughly? i'm in that business so i know the same legal of dill gainsays accorded to these personnel with access to airlines 0, aircraft, have the same level of background screening as, say, a visiting news or mid level party city employee. this is an stunning example of where conceivably there's such a chink in the armor of the mechanism to provide and vet personnel who are the gatekeepers, for these aircraft that could be devastating as it happened here with 224 dead. this is scary stuff. >> you know, we obviously --...

Schumer, a big part is border security and identifying the individuals that are here in doing this. it also comes as whether you want to call it amnesty or legalization or whatever your term of art is, it comes with this. it creates anxiety for a lot of people. because not all 11 million people will be subject an f.b.i. background screening. >> megyn: dzhokar tsarnaev who did not raise the red flag with the f.b.i. other he was a family member and who was granted citizenship. this is the man we're looking at right now they say placed the bomb next to the little eight-year-old boy martin. he was...

this will be a topic of heated debate here in the city of new orleans. sean payton has been a beloved figure ever since the saints won the super bowl after the 2009 season in the years after hurricane katrina. sean payton and quarterback drew brees, you know, were the faces of this team and in the city for a team that had done so much to kind of bring this city out of the doldrums here. so the punishment against him, i think, will be a hot topic of debate here in the city. >> a lot of people, new orleans saints being one of my favorite teams having my family being from new orleans. c...