traditionally republican candidates, presidents, senators have been. the question is why. everyone should know. when he makes a deal with russia, whatever it is, you don t want anyone suspecting it s done because he s got hotels there. seven countries on the list, saudi arabia, which had more terrorists come into the u.s., including the ones involved in the world trade center. saudi arabia wasn t on the list. there is speculation. i don t know if it s true or not. he didn t put them on the list because he had hotels there. bret: they say that visa checking in saudi arabia is adequate enough. the six countries don t have that. why do more terrorists coming from saudi than other countries? are you saying they should be on the list? every country ought to be vetted. i think they did a poor job of it in general.
softer on putin then traditionally republican candidates, presidents, senators have been. the question is why. everyone should know. when he makes a deal with russia, whatever it is, you don t want anyone suspecting it s done because he s got hotels there. seven countries on the list, saudi arabia, which had more terrorists come into the u.s., including the ones involved in the world trade center. saudi arabia wasn t on the list. there is speculation. i don t know if it s true or not. he didn t put them on the list because he had hotels there. bret: they say that visa checking in saudi arabia is adequate enough. the six countries don t have that. why do more terrorists coming from saudi than other countries? are you saying they should be on the list? every country ought to be vetted. i think they did a poor job of it in general.
counterterrorism policy. nice to have you with us. thank you for having me. mr. kraft, you ve been listening to the discussion we just had, you heard ari melber s reporting, let me start with the k-1 visa program which the administration said they re now going to investigate. they re going to look into the policies and procedures that are being used. what can they do at this point to make it a better system? well, first of all, they should be looking at all sources. i find it very hard to understand why they did not look at social media and other sources rather than just checking the data banks. and frankly, i think part of the problem goes back to when dhs was involved in the visa checking. this is implemented as part of the homeland security act of 2002 which for some reason congress decided that dhs would be involved instead of state department counselor officers.