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He was general milley's translator in afghanistan 17 years ago. he had a certificate from milley from that time to prove it, he caught out of kabul part of the visit today was to see how the fbi and others are vetting the evacuees. >> we saw security measures taken today, are you comfortable before these evacuees are brought to the u.s.? >> i am i talked to customs and border patrol, i talked to the fbi here, the dhs folks here and all the other agencies here, state department from usda and all the different roles so i talked to the security folks so what they are doing, i think they've had i ...

Are you comfortable that enough vetting is being done here before these evacuees are brought to the u.s.? >> i am. i talked to the customs and border patrol. i talked to the fbi that was here, the dhs folks that were here, along with other agencies here, state department, i know a lot of people have different roles. i talked to the security folks. what they are doing as people come in, they are getting their names registered, doing the biometrics, check their iris's, do fingerprints, take a full facial photo. they run that against the 20 years of databases that we have in the interagency. run ...

Focused on the city, but by bringing together that intelligence, a number of mechanisms for doing that including interpoll, the international police organization as well as the national intelligence entities. number one is intelligence and international cooperation. number two, yasmin, is something we've struggled with here in the united states. it is interagency cooperation. in a u.s. context it's how are we fusing the intelligence from the central intelligence agency, the department of defense, the national security agency, the federal bureau of investigation? how are we fusing that? in thee...

There was security there. tell us what you said to the security folks as you left. >> it was really funny. i was leaving. i made a little joke. i was like oh, yeah, i'm sorry you had to come out this morning because i'm just such a rowdy person. the whole time -- i would say the whole town hall is just very peaceful. and sometimes it got a little, like, my questions were -- we would have an honest conversation about things. i didn't like his answers sometimes. but i didn't -- i just kept my cool and didn't get mad and they didn't find it funny that i was just -- they didn't laugh at my joke. >...

Give you pause. does the investigation run its course. >> if you see the full body of evidence, you'll see he was harassed. they threw head phones at one of his security folks. so really these young men were harassed and pushed to the precipice and they reacted. not only they reacted, but they reacted after they were harassed. so we want fairness. we don't want any special treatment. we want all three young men -- i believe they are innocent. and they should be back home. >> you vouch to keep fighting? what specifically are you going? >> we have spoken to the swedish authorities, the ambassado...