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Reporter: that's right, the secretary alejandro majorca spoke out about a derogatory background of some of the people entering the country. but others have been flagged actually on terror watch lists. >> we deny information that is not resolved and we do not feel confident in the safety and security of the american people. >> the former secretary of state says no matter how confident homeland security feels about them coming to america, mistakes can be made. >> we didn't catch the right folks. >> the department of defense insists the screening process making it onto american soil has come a lo...

Take them out of the normal processing line and put them in a different location so that we can have some isolation and have a little bit of extra time to make sure that everybody is safe and secure as possible. lita, that's a big be end or a little map description. it's a lot more complicated than that. we refined this process over the last ten days. as you can well imagine, if we wind up in situations that we're backed up with evacuees at certain locations, if the screening process is too exorbitant, too slow, we can wind up having serious problems. when we initially started operations in eu...

Seen in the processing. >> i will tell you i don't have the fact that's your quoting with what came out of hkia to the middle east and here. i can tell you a number of folks that i told you we processed, we're in a position to where we have 792 amsix, 900 legal permanent residents. aside from those qualifiers with respect to the individuals -- >> martha: we're going to keep a close eye on this briefing with the air force general, todd wolters. a lot of these questions have to do with the screening of afghans that are coming back in the process through europe with their ultimate destination of ...

Course concerns around lawmakers, large numbers of refugees that might be deemed a security risk of sometime, what reassurances can you give about the screening process and attempts to make sure somebody like that doesn't make it his or her way here? >> secretary psaki: i can assure you that nobody is coming into the united states of america who has not been through a thorough screening and background check process. there are many individuals, as you noted, who have not been through that process and they've gone to lily pad countries as the process has been completed. it doesn't mean that ther...

Facility. it has a level two trauma center. that means they can get 24-hour coverage by a surgeon and anesthesiologist. they are getting hop quality, jim. >> it can be heartbreaking to see those bodies. they do a great job of saving lives. you're a few miles from the ramstein airbase. that is where 14,000 afghan evacuees are awaiting word about their next destination. there is a screening process. do we know how long that takes and where they're all going? >> reporter: yeah. ideally it would only take 48 hours. the reality is many people were there for as long as a week. they are living in bas...