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Refugees -- it dropped to a historic low of six he 7,000 refugees. president obama increased the limit to 110,000 refugees and 2017 and now president trump is expected to drop the cap to 45,000 refugees for the 2018 fiscal year beginning next month. refugee groups blasting saying it breaks from america's tradition of helping immigrants in need. marie, i'm going to you first since he worked in the state department. very familiar with refugee issues. the uss historically limited refugees based on national interest, national security, the economy, why is what president trump is doing wrong or sho...

The twesupreme court said. aunts and uncles, grandparents, not covered pap questi edcovere. a question the way they rolled it out. blocked by courts. now a chance to implement this and we'll see, do we expect protests? expect debate? >> i think you can expect protests. because there are aclu and other groups that are going to make political hay of this. whether there's going to be the mass confusion at the airports we saw when this first went through, that -- we're not hearing that's going to be an issue like it was. >> the challenges for the department to decide. i think deciding a bona fide ...

Refugees. what that means is that the supreme court said refugees could come to the u.s. if they had a relationship with someone here or with an entity here. the question is, does entity include the kind of organizations that sponsor refugees, churches, refugee groups? if someone is sponsored by a u.s. group like that, to be a refugee in the u.s., does that count as a relationship with an entity? and we're waiting to hear the answer to that question. i think that question will be answered here in a couple of hours, hallie. >> and, pete, we'll be watching that along with you. pete williams in o...

Foreign minister who just in the last hour said we have an obligation to help these people as leaders of nations. what do you say to that? >> there are a lot of stories out there, anybody who denies that doesn't have a heart or eyes. but there's been a huge backlash in threats against the refugees coming in there. and how could they not? after the terrible violence that they've seen and the attacks in paris and other places, where a priest's throat was slits. the truck in nice. how could they not have a backlash. france -- let's talk about rehab. how they ban head scarfs for muslim school girl...

>> keir, my question for you, this is a place this hotel in particular, sort of a safe haven, a place where clearly western diplomats and leaders of refugee groups were coming to have this meeting. a big target on its side. is there a sense you have -- here's a country that is no stranger to this kind of violence. what's the feeling on street there today? >> i think the sense of shock and, you're right, they also have had these jihad it's attacks on a regular basis. perhaps not in the capital so often. so there's a certain sense of resignation. beau why they targeted this hotel, as you mention...