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Angela merkel. >> too heavy of a focus on multiculturalism. >> hillary promise, 100,000 syrian refugees, some number like that. we took in 17,000 syrian refugees. you have completely to different competing ideologies on refugee programs. >> i grew up with a family that did a lot with lutheran world relief and refugee resettlement in denver. i've got personal stories in terms of how america can change people. at that time, though, that was people leaving the soviet union and the oppression of communism. this is an added complexity because you do have this sizable sum of potential terrorists wit...

Paperwork or no paperwork, is the default to let them in or give them deference or is it to say until you come up with something that looks legitimate, we're not letting you. >> the default system is these people appear to be legitimate refugees or asylum seekers, less let's find them, a refugee is applying to come to the united states as a refugee. an asylum seeker somebody who is already here or at a port of entry to the united states. they are the same basic program, but we consider them as two different types of entries. so when somebody comes here to the southern border of the united stat...

Eric: president-elect trump really criticized the u.n. in a tweet, let me read it to you what he said. the u.n. has such great potential but right now a club for people to get together and talk and have a good time, zoo sa is that really fair, steve? look, the world food programme feeds 80 million people a day, 20 million children. >> right. eric: refugee programs house two million if not more. unicef eradicated polio in some parts of the world. they inoculate children and keeps millions of people alive. it is only hope, the only humanitarian hope for many of these people. is it fair to trash ...

Of this? why would the president do this now with just a few days left to go in office? why would this be a goal? why would it be anything other than symbolic? >> i don't know. look. there's a bunch of things that president dos when new parties are come in to replace them to kind of cement their legacy. i really have no idea why he's doing it at this point. but as carl himself pointed out, it hasn't been used in seven years. >> but by doing this it slows president-elect trump's ability to revive it or whatever his plans are for it. carl higbee, last word to you. >> president obama is putting t...

Of this? why would the president do this now with just a few days left to go in office? why would this be a goal? why would it be anything other than symbolic? >> i don't know. look. there's a bunch of things that president dos when new parties are come in to replace them to kind of cement their legacy. i really have no idea why he's doing it at this point. but as carl himself pointed out, it hasn't been used in seven years. >> but by doing this it slows president-elect trump's ability to revive it or whatever his plans are for it. carl higbee, last word to you. >> president obama is putting t...