40 miles north of baghdad. one of the things that struck me when i first arrived at that camp in 2005 was this big sign at the main gate that read is today the day? i saw that sign almost every day for the year that i was there, a reminder that any day could be our last. i was confronted with just how true this was as i worked in a medical unit every day, experiencing the high human cost of war. and it caused me to reflect. what am i doing with my life? am i making the most of every day that i have to do my best to be of service to god and to others? the question on that sign is today the day, it s just as relevant to everyone of us now here at home as it was to us in iraq so many years ago. i spoke to tucker recently on my podcast, the tulsi gabbard show, about this most important topic. here s part of our conversation. tucker: moving toward death had pretty high speed and one of the first things to go is my sight. i can t text without my glasses on. tulsi: i ve been f
happy new year. tulsi: ul diaz arrived in the united states in 2021 on a k-1 visa before that, he was a computer science teacher in cuba earning $12 a month. he has a youtube channel with his wife who is an american. the channel is about diaz s appreciation for america and how blown away he is by even the smallest of luxuries here. here is one of his recent videos from fenway park. my god. wow. second baseman, number 33, brendan donovan. this is really, really cool. [speaking spanish]
there s something there that is tremendous hatred there. it s radical islamic terrorism. there s a lot of hatred. i think islam hates us. you have people coming out mosques with hatred and death in their eyes. this is a person who comes off as anti-muslim. there s no other way to describe those comments. at the same time he said the comment, he talked about how he had many muslim friends. they are great men and women. he made those comments that we could have played. he did con tell me what happened in new zealand immediately. when you play these comments this was at a time, many of those comments a few days after 14 lives were lost in san bernardino and someone got in this country on a k-1 visa and conducted those murders. that person does hate us. he didn t talk a person. he talked about an entire religion. he talked about an entire religion. it s the radical elements of
those people were killed by americans! the family got here on a k-1 visa. something is a wry and we owe the families. you know, kaylie how disingenuous that is. the muslim ban or temporary halt or whatever it is called would not have changed any of that. yes it would. we shouldn t wait until the next bad thing happens to retroactively fix it. i don t like that argument. just because the seven countries were not behind san bernardino. or 9/11. doesn t mean it won t be the next one. we should be cautious and careful. get a massage tomorrow and get all the kinks out. it s hard to get into this country.
standing with, is his fiancee on the h1visa? what s the visa she submitted for to come to the states into. reporter: thomas is asking what type of visa has? she has a k-1 visa, a fiancee visa. reporter: when did she get that? january 14th. so, applied about five months ago. it finally was approved. reporter: so, you re understanding there shouldn t be an issue here. she should be allowed in. i called the department of homeland security on friday afternoon. they said she s fine, good to fly. she flew thursday night. rorter: and she just came back and she s being held here now. yeah, the order was made while she was in the air. reporter: pretty incredible. thomas, back to you. adam reiss at jfk, thank you and keep us posted as we expect other protests to happen at airports, specifically jfk again today. now, another person that s been caught in the travel ban confusion and the chaos is a 75-year-old iranian woman in l.a. she arrived yesterday at the airport where hund