this impeachment inquiry is sucking up a lot of the oxygen in washington. the business of the trump administration continues at a pace, including with a new policy move, one condemned by humanitarian groups around the country, a decision to restrict the number of refugees allowed into our country to 18,000. that is almost a four decade low. julia joins me now. not a shock, not a surprise. we've known that this is probably coming but now it's official and there are a lot of people, activists and advocates who aren't happy. >> reporter: so to put this into context if you look back at the past decade, we've had an average of about 85,000 of a refugee cap. now they are cutting it to 18,000. before trump came into office we were over 100,000 to try to take in more people fleeing the syrian civil war. so now people who are concerned about refugees, people in the international community and the united nations, they're all looking at this number as very