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ABC News Consultant Rips Into Rubio as Refugee Hypocrite on 'The View'
2015-11-16-The View
PAULA FARIS: This morning the president reiterated we are going to let those 10,000 Syrian refugees into the country. How can Americans feel safe that that policy and the protocol is stringent enough to not allow people like this into our country?
RICHARD CLARKE: I thought the president today was almost emotional about this. He said we are a country of immigrants. We are a country of refugees. The people we're allowing in are the victims of terrorism. We shouldn't punish victims of terrorism. Now, clearly ISIS is trying to infiltrate them alright? They’re trying to slip their guys in which apparently they did in this case in France, so we have to do all the background checking possible and not let anybody in until that background check --
FARIS: Marco Rubio made a point, too, you can't do a background check on a lot of these refugees. You just can't call someone up in Syria because it's hard to track them down.
CLARKE: Marco Rubio is here because the United States allows in refugees. Marco Rubio is a citizen of the United States because his family were refugees that we allowed in, and now he wants to shut the door on refugees?
- See more at: http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/michael-mckinney/2015/11/16/abc-news-consultant-rips-rubio-refugee-hypocrite-view#sthash.iyERDzU3.dpuf
PAULA FARIS: This morning the president reiterated we are going to let those 10,000 Syrian refugees into the country. How can Americans feel safe that that policy and the protocol is stringent enough to not allow people like this into our country?
RICHARD CLARKE: I thought the president today was almost emotional about this. He said we are a country of immigrants. We are a country of refugees. The people we're allowing in are the victims of terrorism. We shouldn't punish victims of terrorism. Now, clearly ISIS is trying to infiltrate them alright? They’re trying to slip their guys in which apparently they did in this case in France, so we have to do all the background checking possible and not let anybody in until that background check --
FARIS: Marco Rubio made a point, too, you can't do a background check on a lot of these refugees. You just can't call someone up in Syria because it's hard to track them down.
CLARKE: Marco Rubio is here because the United States allows in refugees. Marco Rubio is a citizen of the United States because his family were refugees that we allowed in, and now he wants to shut the door on refugees?
- See more at: http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/michael-mckinney/2015/11/16/abc-news-consultant-rips-rubio-refugee-hypocrite-view#sthash.iyERDzU3.dpuf
video at link
