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>> there was a lot of criticism, because of the fact that perhaps this was publicly visible and this wasn't known when malik applied for her fiancee visa before she emigrated to this country. these communications were happening in direct private messages, and they occurred, brooke, between malik and farook, who she yet had met. they hadn't even started dating really. they were just communicating online. and between malik and other friends. those communications have now been uncovered now that the fbi obviously has been able to get warrants and has reason to go get the content of these communic...

Saudi arabia or syria, it has to be done, tom. >> tom, you were talking about the fiance visa and how strict it is. but isn't most -- aren't most of the objectives of that process to figure out whether the marriage itself is legitimate? that someone is not scamming the visa process to get a quick entry to the u.s.? is it really set up, the background checks, to look at you know, possible beliefs of theirs? possible you know, radical ideas they may have? >> it's not set up to look at radical ideas, you're right. part of it was started because of organized crime all over the world bringing peopl...

Marriage, so it's more permanent. different than a work visa that is considered probably temporary. the person is probably going to go back to the country that they came from. but in the k-1 process with the marriage at the end of that visa issuance, it's a pathway towards citizenship for people to get that visa so it is a much stricter process. >> you know, phil, right now, donald trump has talked about not letting muslims into the country, a temporary pause until the u.s. figures out what the situation is here at home. even in the visa process is there any way to even actually tell if somebo...

These vetting processes, a pilot project under way and three of they will right now to do this and looking at expanding it to all visa applicants and all of these k-1 or fiancee applicants. >> with all due respect, seems like one of the things where the government is three steps behind everybody else. employers looks at the social media experience before they offer you a job. >> they do other things that employers don't. they look at criminal records, this was never anything that they did in the past and now it looks like they'll do it in the future. >> while you're here, the other reporting y...

All the time. senator tim kaine is a democrat from virginia, on the armed forces and foreign relations committee. senator, good to have you. >> good to be back. >> early christmas wishes to you and the family. >> you, too. >> there are checklists of things that need to get fixed. >> yes. >> let's go through them. the first one is the visa waiver program. >> yes. >> what do we see with the k-1 fiancee visa? it's an old visa, people argue it's abused for many years. now what happened in san bernardino has it in sharp focus. >> it does. >> they're using it as proof that you can't keep us safe, yo...