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I will say at the level of the obama administration they've been defensive on the issues. >> coming out today and saying we're looking at fixing it and every aspect, do you have a sense of what they're looking at and can change? >> what they seem to be suggesting with the pilot programs and with some of this they want to at least find a way to incorporate social media to priority reviews, so basically to people for sub si tif reasons are a higher priority because they may be related to a threat level. this is a common sense thing.

This program. it was ultimately not adopted. >> let me stop you there. you're telling us not only did the administration say no to this proposal to review social media accounts but they actually enacted firewalls to prevent people from taking a look at an applicant's social media page, facebook pages, twitter accounts. >> they existed to keep people from goofing off on the job. fine, maybe for some but we had folks that prevented this type of review. i called and spoke to marsha there and she said the department is actively considering additional ways to dispute the ways. they don't dispute th...

And they say they have three pilot programs within the last year to try to figure out how to do this. but the headline is that at least some people within the dhs as far back as 2010 were trying to make these changes and tell us and the documents suggest they were frozen out of doing that. that was not successful and years later now the country's assessing whether there are ways to bolster this and do something many employers do which is make social media review a part of the process. >> malcolm, we do know that in the paris attacks, there were secret dark apps that were being used so that the...

A number of lawmakers are talking about legislation that would make it mandatory for immigration agents to review a foreign applicant's social media activity with the white house emphasizing today that the homeland security department has started three pilot programs to incorporate social media reviews in the last year. >> they've acknowledged part of that review is to consider ways to incorporate the use of social media vetting in their screening programs. not sure why any specific legislation would be required. >> tashfeen malik exchanged messages with her future husband even before entering...

Only take the pizza? >> i don't like the stick. >> oh you mean money? >> cut the middle man. >> you are ordering from pizza hut? >> this is disturbing. >> i hate to fact check you on this, but sadly his facebook page is not all bough key me pages of -- bikini pictures. >> sorry about that. >> tom, you mentioned that homeland security now has i think three pilot programs aimed at checking the social media? why do we need a program? just check their social media. >> i don't know what the pilot is. >> do we need three programs to figure out that you look at the stuff they post publicly? >> yeah, ...