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There is a north and south they can walk right across. >> ari: 18 to 24 months pair they have to go through dod interview, department of homeland security interview. >> eric: coming through the southern border? >> kris: there is a refugee program. a lot of people claim asylum, they come across the mexican border and they are smuggled in. once they are here, they claim asylum and it's very similar standard, similar program. you get the same benefits of the refugee and they can just disappear and to the fabric of the country. we have to make sure we stop people at the front end where there is an...

What is the thing here? >> it was either a vetting problem or a problem of the message not being passed at the line or somebody thinking all they had to do is give certain advice to an attorney who called in. sean spicer told us an attorney acting on behalf of michael flynn called an attorney at the transition and said, by the way, we're looking for an opinion on this. he's been doing this work. should he register as a foreign agent. the attorney said it's not to me to make that determination. you need to decide that yourself. spicer left it there saying that that attorney did what he was lega...

And out in the public when we polled those who watched the speech, gave really good marks. >> transitions from the high marks to the low marks, one of the turn-abouts was that people said, well, did you set too low a bar for the president in the joint session because of everything that came after it. what do you make of the low marks? >> obviously the mike flynn firing, resignation, was a debacle, showed a huge vetting problem, one that even in today's headlines is continuing, how much trump and his team really knew about flynn and his association, so that was a dark mark on the administration...

Presidential race. flynn was a foreign agent and on the campaign trail for donald trump at the same time. among other things, flynn wrote an op-ed for the turkish leader. while flynn was national security advisor to the president, the turkish president said he confirmed evidence with pictures and videos showing america supports the terrorists. the state department called that ludicrous. for his department, the president of turkey won't fight isis. flynn lobbied on his behalf and got $500,000 for doing so. the white house first asked flynn to resign after he lied to vice president pence about h...

>> let me ask you first about the ohio state university attack. the president-elect tweeted in response to that attack, he said isis is taking credit for the terrible stabbing attack at ohio state university by a somali refugee, who should not have been in our country. do you agree that this was a vetting problem? >> well, i think after the fact we can be pretty accurate that this is something who had past activity that should be called into question, and current activity that obviously looks like a terrorist attack, sponsored or at least in some way connected to isis. so i think at the curren...