and says it will be down half from the current level of 110,000 by the end of the fiscal year. what do you make of this? it s a very, very sad day because america is no safer than it was 24 hours ago. but 60,000 people who have been through the vetting process around the world victims of terror around the world aren t going to be able to come here. what s more, america s reputation as a humanitarian leader has been lost. and a propaganda gift for those extremist who s want to say america doesn t want muslims to come here. this is a dangerous day really. a hasty and harmful set of decisions because remember, it s harder to get to america as a refugee than through any other route at the moment. these are victims of terror who are seeking haven. you said it don t make us safer. explain because there are many people watching saying the people who can possibly harm our country are looking to shah had iia law and for terror and to bom bomb us and hurt us. they won t be getting in.
how complete is the search across the databases. one of the reasons i think the government wanted to wait a little bit and phase things is was to complete that testing, but i m quite sure if there s a problem they re going to come back to congress and say you ve got to fix this. donald trump the republican front-runner obviously raised a lot of eyebrows when he talked about a total complete ban on muslims coming into the u.s. jeb bush and others have made the case that actually makes us less safe. lindsey graham very passionate last night saying you re making the world more dangerous. what do you think? look, this is speaking from a personal standpoint. i think it would be a huge mistake to ban all muslims from coming into the country. it would be a huge overreaction. and it would be the single best propaganda gift we could give isis because they would say, you see, the westerners, christians, jews, they hate all muslims and put muslims in a position to feel, my god, the only game
washington, d.c. a few years ago. we have seen the russian intelligence services for years have used the porous southern border. we have that border and over other nations know it. it s not surprising to me. i think in honduras they had some 13,000 individuals who came to honduras trying to go up north that they intercepted to get into the united states. this is five but there are thousands more to try to use that southern border to get into the united states. do you think it feeds into a bigger isis narrative or plan? absolutely. this is the biggest propaganda gift to al qaeda and i would say to isis. when you tell them the syrian refugee who chose the west. they didn t choose to live in an islamic state, it s a slap in the face of isis, who actually in their website and their