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One year, they all said the same thing. we just want to go home. they are waiting to go back into syria. they want to go back be and rebuild syria, they want to take everything that they have done in these camps which is, is that right their own businesses and create their own schools, all those things. they want to take that back to syria. none of them said we want to come to the united states. >> on the development front, are you comfortable with the first drafts of the budget in terms of these priorities you're talking about, foreign aid and the refugee programs? >> i think that -- i was a ...

Below. so hawaii has an interest in making sure that its refugee programs, dollars spent are actually able to be used. a flat ban on all refugees, which is what that executive order is, would basically force those dollars to be wasted. with respect to dr. el shiek he, too, has standing with respect to the refugees. his mosque has a refugee in it. he is the imam of the largest mosque in hawaii. for all those reasons, there would be standing. >> does he have standing on u 1152? >> he does. >> if that applies tonal immigrant visas, does he have standing? >> he does because she is seeking an immig...

Proceedings below. hawaii has an interest in making sure that its refugee programs and the dollars it spends are able to be used. a flat ban on all refugees which is what that executive order is would basically force those dollars to be wasted. he, too, has standing with respect to the refugees. his mosque has a refugee in it. he is the imam of the largest mosque in hawaii. i think for all of those reasons there would be standing. >> does he have standing on 1152? >> he does because -- >> if we assume that that only applies to immigrant visas, does he have standing? >> he does because seeking ...

Investigations. by going dark, do we mean 100%? >> we're headed towards 100%. 702 is our window into the really bad guys overseas and if we close that -- i don't know why on earth we would close that window. >> we have thousands of investigations of potential homeland security threats evenly split by either people who have self-radicalized or some influenced, some who have come over in refugee programs that we will basic pull the rug out from under you in terms of being able to actively investigate them. >> it will certainly impair our ability to investigate them. folks often say why can't you...

100%? >> we're headed towards 100%. 702 is our window into the raeld bad guys overseas. and if we close that, i don't know why on earth we would close that window -- >> so we have thousands of investigations of potential home loond securi land security threats either by people who have self radicalized, some influenced, some who have come over in refugee programs that we will basically pull the rug out from under you in terms of being able to actively investigate them or i should say expeditiously investigate them? >> certainly impair our ability. folks say why don't you get metadata. you can'...