people that claim asylum in the country? most of the interviews, wolf, happen on the telephone. they don t even necessarily happen in person. in lebanon, trying to get this done, we have a team that comes in and does quick interviews. i think we re deeply concerned that if you re going to bring in people to the united states they have to be vetted. i don t think that s an unreasonable ask. i don t. ben rhodes the president s deputy national security adviser. thanks very much for joining us. thanks, wolf. merry christmas to you and your family as well. thank you. does the visa system provide terror ifs with dangerous loopholes that can exploit? our experts coming up. discover card. hooh, you re real??
different opinions. and anyone who watched the events in paris as they happened, i mean, these people are creating terror. the terror ifs are succeeding in creating fear. but we have to fight back against that. and i think this is and this is we are at war and we have to recognize that winning a war is not just military. we re fighting for the hearts at some point five, ten years from now, syria, we ll win this war and we ll want people to go back to syria and want to live there. and we want them to come with some sense of that this is where democracy can be. and ideally, they will want to live there and defend their country and fight for it in a way that they can t do or at least they feel they can t do now. finally, let me show you a paul ryan quote, the speaker paul ryan said this, we cannot let terrorists take advantage of our compassion. this is a moment where it s
in, safe haven, if you will how that didn t work as a way of protecting people because they started a fire using diesel fuel, it s lethal so quickly. the terror ifs were quick to take advantage of using a safe hafben and threatening, ending the life of the ambassador in doing of. i thought she was compellingen i don t think she was phony. i thought she told a story firsthand, or rehearsed it may have been thought about. jonathan carp, publisher of her book, hard choices put out freebie, rare in the publishing business, the chapter in her book about benghazi. i was reading on the plane here. it s quite a chapter. if you want a fuller look at what it s like to be hillary clinton during this whole horror, it s all in the chapter, which anybody can get for free, i think, online from simon and shuster. it s smart that she told that story because, until now, that
i don t know if you can hear us now, we played that audiotape already. chilling it is to listen to. we were going to ask you, though, throughout this, there s been i think the number is 63 people, still officially listed as missing. what s going on with those people? where are they? what are their relatives going through? reporter: well, what s slowing the process of actually giving some kind of final solace, you could say, to the relatives of those still missing is that it s just been extraordinarily difficult going in there, clear that rubble. we ve been seeing pictures of the collapsed shopping center and a lot of the bodies are still under there. throughout the day we ve been hearingi explosions whatever th terror ifs left behind is going up. it s slowed the process of getting bodies out.