especially just so many children who have known nothing but war. back to you, chris. bill neely, thank you so much. and it truly is just a little ray of hope when you see that some of these children who have broken our hearts are okay now. i want to go to msnbc s cal perry. we were talking about bana, the 7-year-old, cal, who has been tweeting daily. her mother, we ve come essentially to know them and the horror of their situation. i understand her mom gave an interview via skype to nbc news. what can you tell us, cal? she s become so symbolic of the struggle that so many syrians are facing in the other urban areas and spoke as her daughter slept and it was the first time in a long time we ve been able to see her daughter sort of sleeping in a safe place. her mother said that she s sad to be leaving as so many refu e refugees are, take a listen. she is very sad because she
how he at least thinks that americans can defend themselves. with the arrest of these two middle east refugees that just happened over the past 4 hours, senator cruz he s calling for what he calls retro active vetting of refugees already settled here in the united states. you spent some time with him. yeah, i was actually last night with the cruz campaign in iowa, small town of iowa, town of 600 people and had 200 people at this event. pretty impressive. afterwards he made a comment about the arrests in california and houston of these iraqi refugees. i asked him, well, these refu e refugees were already in the country, would you go back and vet all of the refugees from countries who have significant al qaeda or isis presence, and he said yes. he was short on details but said he wants to go back and retroactively now vet refugees from these countries. that obviously might raise some serious civil liberty issues if he s serious about it. presumably if he doesn t like something they
more than a million people packing into times square for security. more than 6,000 nypd officers were on hand. in london, intense security there, greeting the thousands who turned out for a spectacular fireworks display. pope francis rang in the new year this morning, welcoming 2016 with a message of mercy. the pontiff called on the world to end, quote, the arrogance of the powerful, end quote, as he invoked the image of the millions of migrants and refu e refugees displaced around the world. john allen is live for us from rome. john, you were watching. what else did the pope say? reporter: hi, fredericka. happy new year to you from a somewhat chilly rome on a new year s day. it s been a very busy day for pope francis. this morning he celebrated a mass in honor of mary is the mother of god. at noon he delivered his
another civil war in which there s no end to it and sch you ve caused more problems getting in. compare what happened in iraq to syria. iraq was 4 million people displaced. and basically, we took in a hundred thousand of them because of the damage we caused. what about that, mark. you ve heard some testimonials that the vetting process is lengthy, extensive. age that we=ñ$aven t identified any terror to come in. at worst, it appears that one of the eight or nine terrorists may have been a syrian refugee. the main problem was not refu e refugees. no, the refugees aren t the problem. look. 99% of these people maybe more,