was involved in planning terror attacks in 2011 and 2012 and that he actually bought the rifles and makings of the pipe bombs for those planned attacks. they were never carried out. the government says they got cold feet because there were some unrelated terror arrests. what the government says in the filings before this hearing is that there is a danger to the community and a flight risk and for those two reasons he should be held without bail pending the trial. so he won t enter a plea today. that will happen next month. this is strictly about his detention. sometimes in these detention hearings, which tend to be rather short, the government may say additional things that go beyond what we learned about in the criminal complaint that was unsealed last week. another area of this case, tashfeen malik, the judiciary chairman in the house, bob goodlatte, saying the terrorist s immigration file shows some vetting steps were missed. i can tell you there s a real interest in what happened
that you don t have a clue, do you? you can see why we re scared to death that this administration, the department of homeland security, the state department is not protecting the american people. fiery hearing indeed. joi joining us, the major general with the university and a major player in the world of counterterrorism. welcome, sir. great to have you on the program today. great to be here. it s about major flaws in the vetting process with visa applications, learning more about the vetting steps missed on malik s immigration file with the not having a face to face meeting with her as was requested and also learned as you saw on the committee hearing in dc that we lost track of folks who may have had ties to terrorism and whose visas were revoked and essentially don t know if they re still here in the u.s. or not. it s so troubling to learn how many holes there are in the system we thought was set up to protect americans. your reaction to all this?