i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. those arrests were part of a multi-city sting operation. immigration and customs enforcement, or ice, with the help from f.b.i. and local law enforcement caught terrorists in new york city, philadelphia, and l.a. this piece is from a former assistant secretary of defense and former deputy director of the c.i.a. a quote. the terrorism warning lights are blinking red again. f.b.i. director christopher wray in front of congress eight days ago. when i sat here last year, i walked through how we were already in a heightened threat environment. and since then, we ve seen the threat from foreign terrorists rise to a whole other level. harris: the number of terror watch listen counters at the southern border now is surging. all under president biden. look from 2017 to the moment he took office in 2021. look across the stream there. we had two in 17 under trump. you fast forward to the moment that biden flipped trump s polic
And that is going to wrap up this hour of msnbc live. Katie tur is going to take over. Its 11 00 a. M. Out west, its 2 00 p. M. In washington where it is day two of french president emanuel macron are meeting at the white house. Well see if that special relationship between macron and the president can change the president s mind on a host of issues, primarily the Iran Nuclear Deal. Even as the president hosted his french counterpart, mr. Trump was pressed on issues here at home. And at this afternoons joint Press Conference, it was his embattled pick to be the next secretary of Veterans Affairs. I havent heard of the particular allegations, but i will tell you, hes one of the finest people that i have met. Admiral jackson, dr. Jackson, hes a wonderful man. I said to him, what are you needed for . And as far as experience is concerned, the Veterans Administration which is approximately 13 million people, is so big, you koucould run the biggest Hospital System in the world that is small
before. so as a result, we see particular con send straegss in te texas, california, maryland and virginia and pennsylvania. reporter: but there is now pushback from some conservative political figures on the plan to bring afghan evacuees to america. stephen miller former top adviser to president trump went on fox news to say that resettling afghans is little more than a costly political move. those who are advocating masks, afghan resettlement in this country are doing so for political and not humanitarian reasons. it is extraordinarily expensive to resettle a refugee in the united states. they get free health care, they get free education, they get free housing, get free food. reporter: plus miller suggested without evidence that afghans who have been granted those visas could pose security threats. we know longer are in control of the central apparatus in afghanistan to be able to vet
so as a result, we see particular concentrations in texas, california, the d.c. metro area, including maryland and virginia and then pennsylvania. but tonight there is push back from some conservative political figures on the plan to brig afghan evacuees to america. steven miller, former top adviser to president trump went on the news to say it is a costly political move. those who are advocating it are doing so for political reasons. it is extraordinarily expensive to resettle a refugee in the united states. they get free health care, free education, free housing, free food. plus, miller suggested without evidence that afghans who have been granted those visas could pose security threats. we are no longer in control of the central apparatus in afghanistan to be able to vet anybody. advocates who have helped afghan refugees are pushing back hard on miller saying it is
the president doesn t care particularly to vet anybody in there administration. do we know how the vetting process works, even if there s a team of people at the white house? there is a team of people who handle that at the white house and they work for the chief of staff in this case john kelly, so this is raising new questions about john kelly s role in overseeing all of this. as part of the vetting that is done, there are often times conversations with, in this case, it woulders on the hill, whether or not the nominee would have an easy nomination process. it appears that that conversation didn t even happen. so if the white house isn t doing the careful vetting on the small things, what sort of big picture issues are they missing as well. mitch mcconnell was asking the nomination process a moment ago, let s play that. with regard to the jackson nomination, i m waiting to hear from both chairman isaacson from the administration, what they believe the way forward should be, a