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Dhs quotes non-u.s. person flagged based on a analysis of travel patterns. dhs has never indicated the special interest alien designation means more than that. how does he overcome his truth deficit tonight? >> he doesn't. that's the part that's so frustrating here. i mean the lies are so obvious and so plain in your face. yet he's going to come before the cameras with this, you know, straight faced serious concern telling us that, you know, with we're being overrun at the border by these special interest aliens. who, in fact, could be your cousin who happened to have a travel pattern that fla...

You can go from one per month to suddenly getting 4,000 by the end of the year. what the vice president is talking about is something different, people who are called special interest aliens. this term started around 2004 when they were identifying people from special interest countries, mainly outside of the western members tehemisphere, al outside the western hemisphere, who would show up at the southern border and the question was why are they coming by foot on that route. a lot of these are from countries in the middle east. several high ranking dhs officials told me there is a working def...

To come in -- >> it's a misleading claim. it's been fact checked as i believe you're aware because that number is for all ports of entry, including airports. >> that's what i was saying, it is from all ports of entry. last year alone on the southern bored, 3,000 special interest aliens were apprehended trying to come into our country. those are individuals whose travel patterns or backgrounds represent the need for additional screening and represent a potential security threat to the united states of america. there are two different categories, and they often get conflated. >> oh, my god. >> d...

Those are people on databases. it doesn't mean they're going to be arrested or charged with a terrorism related crime. that's a higher bar. these are people who have named on a database that are known to the united states and law enforcement officials. now they're changing it. they're going to a lower category, known as special interest aliens. saying that 3,000 of those cross the southern border in a year. that may be true. that's not data that i have. i'm focused on the data from the known and suspected terrorists. special interest aliens are even further than what we would characterize as a...

Before that, i want to be clear on this. some people may not have the benefit of your reporting and critical analysis on this. i want to be plane hear, the president said it several times, and let's listen to it and i just want to slow it down so we can fully evaluate. >> we have stopped 3,000 special interest aliens trying to come in on the southern border, they are aliens who the intell community have identified are of concern. they have travel patterns identified as terrorist travel patterns or they have suspected ties to terrorism, she is talking about over 3,000. she is referring to them ...