the federal government into your life? i think that something a lot of republicans, and i think they were honest with themselves, a lot of democrats would agree with. it should not be a taxable transaction. and state and local taxes customer asked if you and i live in different states and let s assume we make the same amount of money, which we don t, but let s assume we do, shouldn t we be the same amount of federal tax? i think the answer is yes. when he talks about fairness that s what he s talking about because right now that s on the case. folks in south carolina who make the same as folks who live in virginia or new york, we pay more and that s not fair. you re optimistic tonight? very much so, even more so than i was yesterday when i found the house is looking to accept the package on thursday. by the end of the year? it s more likely today than it was yesterday. thank you for your time. it s always a pleasure. speak out the white house is always announced its n
trace, how is this going to work? who says they can lie about that? reporter: both good questions. yeah. the current vetting process, john kelly said they have really not much to work with, so when it comes to screening refugees and visa applicants they have to rely mainly on documentation and background questions. course, when you re dealing with failed states like syria and somalia, other forms of identification may not be accurate. which means some of the vetting process comes down to the honor system. not very comforting. one of the ideas being bantered about is the ability to check a refugee or visa applicant s social media footprint. listen. they come in and say we want to say, for instance, what websites do you visit and give us your passwords so we can see what they do on the internet. it might be a month. may take some time for us to vet. if they don t want to give us
time magazine put him on its cover, calling him the great manipulator. the story inside is headlined is steve bannon the second most powerful man in the world? bannon s actual title is chief white house strategist. he s a key member obviously of the president s inner circle who now has a seat on the national security council. today house minority leader nancy pelosi called bannon a white supremacist and said putting him on the nsc is making america less safe. bannon as you may know is the former chairman of breitbart news the far right media outlet that bannon himself has touted as a tablet of the alt right which espouses extreme views. bannon hasn t spoken much in public since the election but in the past he s talked at length about his views on zblimz and refugees and immigrants. gary tuchman tonight reports. reporter: nine months before steve bannon joined the trump campaign he had this to say about screening refugees from syria. i don t understand. what do you mean vet? why
nine months before steve bannon joined trump campaign had this to say about screening refugees from syria. what do you mean vet? why stop. why go through the cost on vetting. vetting is important. only vet commander only vet to let them in. why let them in. his concerns over immigration and islam apparent in hours of interviews conducted by bannon for brietbart radio show. i think most people in the middle east at least 50% believe in being shariah compliant. harshly criticizing former president george bush calling islam religion of peace. only the second dumbest comment that one of the dumbest presidents. shrub, made the dumbest that islam is religion of peace.
ringleader of those attacks abdelhamid abaaoud returned to france by way of greece. the greek island leros. greece has been inundated with refugees trying to flee this war back home. it is not clear if abdelhamid abaaoud exploited the refugee processing system to cross the borders. just this it afternoon we heard from president obama defending the u.s. process for screening refugees. he spoke from the national counterterrorism center. any refugee come iing to the united states, some of them victims of terrorism themselves, will continue to get the most intensive scrutiny of any arrival. they go up to two years of vetting including biometric screening. cnn terrorism analyst and editor in chief paul cruickshank