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>> do we have a good understanding of what the breakdown is? is it the united nations? if you listen to people who are critical of open borders, very critical of the refugee process, they will tell you 70% of them are single males and present a threat as possible foreign fighters or disaffected people that will wreak havoc. and then you talk to people that work with refugees in the refugee camps and they said the majority are women and children, and displaced families. what do we know for sure? >> the majority of people are as mentioned before, middle-class people from varying professional bac...

Targeting, versus who the united states wants to target are completely at odds an who they say they are targeting and actually targeting are different things. these are middle-class people now. many of whom speak english, have professional skills are pouring out by the tens of thousands. >> right. you have to understand, as well. in syria, before the war started it was a middle-class country by and large. a high education and income. this war struck the lives of these people living normal lives. many of them engineers, doctors, people with professional skills that are fleeing the country in th...

Terrorists actually were part of the syrian refugee process that isis themselves said they want to exploit, infiltrate the west. this causes grave concern about the whole refugee program. as the president of the united states looks to bring tens of thousands of these syrian refugees into the united states. i would hope he would take a second look and suspend this and put a moratorium on this until we've had a better chance to see whether or not we're putting americans at risk. i've had the f.b.i. testify before my committee telling me that this would pose a national security risk to the americ...

Those investigations of suspicious people in these states or actual operations that have happened and rounded up people? >> it's a total of 900 investigations against potentially isis plotters and isis people who are radicalizing in the united states, either over the internet or foreign fighters who traveled back. so i think that's the greatest threat to the homeland right now, the f.b.i. and homeland have done a great job of stopping most of this. as we saw in chattanooga, they only have to be right one time. >> on the intel you're seeing. >> a belief that it is going to spread with more of t...

Them. >> well, had a couple of complicated mixed and contrary feelings when i heard this news today from the white house. first of all, 1,500 to 10,000 is numerically a large increase in terms of what the united states is planning on taking in. proportionally, 10,000 is very small compared to what we're seeing from other similar countries and big strong economies. i also had feelings about the refugee process, in terms of the way it's designed in the united states, it takes a long time. takes a year and a half or two years on average for anybody to clear the refugee process. that just seems li...