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>> well, certainly, those pictures of the kids that were being -- that had the chemical weapons applied to them is a bad deal. it can't help but influence you. when it comes to the refugee process, america has always taken refugees. we will continue to take refugees. obviously, how the refugees are vetted is a matter of discussion and certainly a matter of negotiation between all parties involved in this. but we're always going to have refugees here in america. >> well, not necessarily, if it was according to the original travel ban coming from president trump. that was going to ban refugees c...

And as we discussed there's hyperbole from the left from my opponent. and what the trump administration needs to focus on is the fact that it's about national security and the countries on the list are state sponsors of terrorism and we're talking 90 days or 120 days which is temporary. >> our vetting has worked. >> there's at least 300 -- >> shannon: let's not talk over each other. and the fbi just released there are 300 people who came here under refugee status that are now the subject of terrorism investigations that came through the refugee process. >> the vetting has worked and we have be...

Director comey has made reference to refugee process before. here is a little bit what he said before. we can query our databases until the cows come home. nothing will show up because we have no record of that person. you can only query what you have collected. he is referring to countries like the seven that were listed that are either in war torn or don't have those systems. we don't know who these people are how dangerous is it when we are admitting people into our country. now with advance notice that they're flooding in and we don't know who they are. >> it is very dangerous. that's ongo...

This travel ban is the best thing that's happened to america in a long time? >> i think it's really, really important that we keep american as safe and as secure as possible. there is no greater responsibility for the government than to keep americans safe. i think that this is a common sense move made by the president. it's so unfortunate that so many people are holding it um and getting in the way of it. pete: nic, people are calling it a ban it's actually a pause to review the refugee process in certain countries and the entire system. you went through coming to america through the legal pr...

There is a lot of questions that president obama did not want to answer when we first started bringing refugees here. 30-plus governors, members of both parties said we have some concerns about the vetting process for refugees. secretary -- director comey had concerns, the intel community had concerns. and rather than reassuring the american people that we are going to address those, we're going to take a hard look at our current vetting process and make certain that it is national security focused. we turned it into a partisan issue. i don't think we have fully recovered from that because of ...