do everything at the united nations, i think what you have seen the president used a lot of sanctions whether it s been venezuela, whether it s relate today syria or related to russia and human rights, there s been a lot of things that we have done and taken action. we have never sat back and watched bad things happen, we do wait and use military force as last response to that, but we ve always acted in every way related to every incident, in some form, just to let them know how much the united states condemns it. chris: i want to ask you about the u.s. actions and how we are responding, though, when it comes to the displacement and torture of the syrian people. i want you to look at some state department numbers on how many refugees have come into this country over the last three years, in 2016, more than 15,000 syrian refugees came into this country. last year, 3,000. so far this year 11.
acknowledge it, we can try and do everything at the united nations, i think what you have seen the president used a lot of sanctions whether it s been venezuela, whether it s relate today syria or related to russia and human rights, there s been a lot of things that we have done and taken action. we have never sat back and watched bad things happen, we do wait and use military force as last response to that, but we ve always acted in every way related to every incident, in some form, just to let them know how much the united states condemns it. chris: i want to ask you about the u.s. actions and how we are responding, though, when it comes to the displacement and torture of the syrian people. i want you to look at some state department numbers on how many refugees have come into this country over the last three years, in 2016, more than 15,000 syrian refugees came into this country. last year, 3,000. so far this year 11.
happening more and more. in some places you have these massive floods because of intense rains. in other places you had the worst droughts, and in the horn of africa where we have other insurgency problems and instability, there you had massive droughts. you have desperate people on the move. then you have the military, u.s. military going in and so on. what we re not doing is understanding that at the core of this, we re not taking care of the future. in fact, you know, this newspaper, the wall stre wall s journal says climate change is a myth. people that read this believe it and we re creating a world that is going to be extremely dangerous, and it s getting more dangerous all the time. and it s because we re pretending. dick s doing great work trying to get attention. but we re going to see this kind of crisis all over the place because we pretend that nothing is happening because we want to. because that s the votes, that s
keep them alive and feed them. the pakistanis and international agencies are doing a pretty good job. in the other area they re starting the go back. what s going to happen is they re going back home but there s no homes to go back to. the livestock is gone, the crops are gone, everything is gone. there is s s going to be a staggering thing there. those are state department numbers, 18 million people affected. 1,667 estimated deaths. 1.2 million homes damaged. richard, let me ask you, when we were talking about this before, why is it that after the tsunami you had every news organization rush over there? is it because it was a huge event, it came in, the waters receded and then we could tell all those stories? why haven t we had the same type of coverage in pakistan? part of it may be fatigue with this kind of issue. part of it may be pakistan s overall image in the u.s. the deeper reason is media driven. tsunamis and earthquakes are bang, they happen, the press
acknowledge it, we can try and do everything at the united nations, i think what you have seen the president used a lot of sanctions whether it s been venezuela, whether it s relate today syria or related to russia and human rights, there s been a lot of things that we have done and taken action. we have never sat back and watched bad things happen, we do wait and use military force as last response to that, but we ve always acted in every way related to every incident, in some form, just to let them know how much the united states condemns it. chris: i want to ask you about the u.s. actions and how we are responding, though, when it comes to the displacement and torture of the syrian people. i want you to look at some state department numbers on how many refugees have come into this country over the last three years, in 2016, more than 15,000 syrian refugees came into this country. last year, 3,000. so far this year 11.