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john huddy reporting live. thank you very much. here at home this week president obama committed the u.s. to taking tens of thousands of migrants beginning in october they have acted slower because it must do intensive vetting. but how well can that be done in a crisis of this magnitude and how could this affect our homeland security? a cia covert operations officer and the senior policy adviser on counterterrorism and init tell generals, the chairman on the house homeland security committee, joshua, thank you for joining us. we re hearing reports of tens of thousands at a time, we know the civil war in syria has been going on more than four years. we saw upwards of 4.7 million refugees. what s the real number we re looking at here? the number of refugees worldwide is well over 4 million and it will increase. ....
Of the white house s desire to downplay the strength of al qaeda. flynn explains the white house was so married to the narrative al qaeda was close to defeat that it clouded how the administration fought against the ideology as it spread. who is briefing the president? how does he get to those sentences? for me to sit here and tell you why he says what he says, i don t know. what i know the init tell generals said was not necessarily what we hear. it was diametrically opposed, wasn t it? i would say from my perspective it was just the opposite. you can t sit here and say that al qaeda was defeated when we re still looking at elements of al qaeda that are conducting operationals. ....
Any thoughts on that? i m not so sure that it s an either/or. i frankly think what we re seeing is cade cal qaeda has ad to many things we put in place to protect ourselves. we got greater security, init tell generals, law enforcement against those who would do us harm.o what do you do? you try to recruit people inside thunited states and who had ability to travel across our borders. you look at things like times square, nidal hasan at ft. hood and christmas day. the lone wolf is an incredibly difficult thing for law enforcement to target and be effective against and that s exactly what makes it so valuable to al qaeda. it requires trendous resources and some luck and we re going to identify tm before theyhe act. and it s the old saying, drew, they only have to be right once and secretary napolitano and all the men and women who try to protect us have to right ....