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Campaign trail. >> i think that's right. that's an excellent point. when i speak of this issue, i try to be responsible and not engage in a lot of hyperbole and exaggeration. you are correct. these are refugees, syrian refugee family that went to the laredo point of entry and basically turned themselves in for political asylum. they were not infiltrating to conduct terrorist operations. i think it's important, you're right, to keep the facts to the facts. my facts are clear that i do think some of these military age males could present a threat to the united states and all we're asking for is ...

27 years old, a belgian-born man. his own family had disowned him at this point. >> well, they had. they believed that he was killed in syria last year. and they were rejoicing about it. they gave interviews where they said they were glad that he was dead. remember, this is someone who recruited his 13-year-old brother to join isis. so his family had long ago disowned him. and then that set up a whole series of intelligence and police activities after he was believed to be dead last fall. they apparently tracked his cell phone to athens and realized that he had returned to europe. and they hav...

He was not there. so he is someone who has been behind a series of terrorist operations, leading up, obviously, they believe, to what happened here in paris on friday night. such a story, as somebody who started out as frankly a petty criminal, and somebody who hung out after a short prison stint, with known drug dealers at a local bar in belgium. and i think it's worth noting, as we reported earlier, that one of the eyewitnesses that was interviewed by richard engel said in that actual apartment that they were going to raid, was known to be the apartment of drug dealers in that neighborhood. ...

Terrorist operations against us, against western europe, then i think that is the inevitable result. i think where our mistake in afghanistan has been is to try and donation building. i would scrub that activity entirely. i don't think it works. but i don't think we can allow our security to depend on the performance of afghan government troops. we're there not to help them, we're there to defend ourselves. >> but given the -- the topography -- how many years have we been there? >> we've been there since 2001. after the september 11 attacks. >> 14 years. we haven't stopped them yet? >> but fra...

Terrorist operations against us, against western europe, then i think that is the inevitable result. i think where our mistake in afghanistan has been is to try and donation building. i would scrub that activity entirely. i don't think it works. but i don't think we can allow our security to depend on the performance of afghan government troops. we're there not to help them, we're there to defend ourselves. >> but given the topography -- how many years, ambassador, have we been there? >> well, we've been there since 2001, after the september 11th attacks. >> 14 years. we haven't stopped them y...