we were doing the polling in the midst of that and even then, americans agree they want these children by large be returned safely to their home countries. mexico has offered asylum and visas, safe passage to these northern triangle family units and unaccompanied children were coming here. they can have their claims of your process while they are in mexico. laura: i want to get your reaction, kellyanne, to a debate over how many terrorists are apprehended at the border. the white house has thrown around a number of about 4,000 but u.s. customs and border protection says they encountered six immigrants with terror ties on the border with mexico in the first half of the fiscal year 2018. we don t know about the second half. i personally think one terrorist is a problem. we know it one terrorist can do when you look at what happened in paris. a few in each plane on 9/11. you know what they do, they take that and say you re trying to scare the people and it s a much smaller threat then y
currently traveling through mexico towards the u.s. crucially not in the caravan but somewhere in mexico. no evidence provided evidence that they had terror ties. that s a major difference. the president can make many arguments for a border wall but has completed a claim about a terror threat that the agency responsible for protecting the u.s. homeland from terrorism has not backed up. not backed up by the facts. even the president entitled to his opinion we have our guests to talk about all of this. look, guys, jim laid out really important facts. you cannot disspute those. here is another important fact in response to the president last night telling reuters i will take the blame when he is talking about a government shutdown. he said because we are closing it down for border security. the facts don t back it up.
have a background check. but no mental health screening. last year they came out with an alarms report of security and security terrorism. they found tr was 73 people on terrorist watch lists that worked at arrests. so it was looking at that as pengt, and this person has no i kind kagtss of anything like that. and people who wok at the airport could also have terror ties as congress reported last year. we have a mental health look hole we have to think about as well. and you think about the other
because he has met kim jong un twice, the highest-ranking american to have done so in nearly 20 years. state department officials say the secretary and president have spoken many times several times a day to prepare for this meeting. he s the one who is running preps on this, foreign pollsy on north korea and so we expect to hopefully find out from the secretary of state a little bit more about preparation. of course, we have been asking him about that for weeks now, asking about two visits to north korea for weeks now. sometimes he doesn t get all specific, heather. heather: thank you so much. we will carry that live for everyone here. thank you so much, rich. singapore security on high alert ahead of high-stake summit. authorities taking no chances turning away people due to possible terror ties. thousands are near where they
again, this goes back to why we are in syria to begin with. that is to defeat isis. this incident took place, the strike that the united states undertook on friday night into saturday morning was because syria is using chemical weapons on its own people. that s why we are there. we aren t there to force regime change. we are not there for any other reason. and that s why you saw this strike. bill: one last question here. in turkey there is a back and forth between our government and the government of turkey about an american age 50 andrew craig brunson on trial for alleged terror ties. what is his condition and whether or not you can get him released before trial? you are referring to pastor brunson. he has been held in syria for a couple of years now excuse me, in turkey for a couple of years now. turkey claiming that he was part of the coup that was attempted a few years back. we do strongly support our