alan gomez from "usa today" joins me now on that part of the story. so, alan, was this a special case, an outlier? what if anything does it tell us about the current situation with visas? >> this was a complete outlier. understand the trump administration made clear throughout its time that it will handle any visa application on a case-by-case basis, exceptions can be made and this case represents a very sharp departure from what has been a pretty clear strategy from this administration to limit, to restrict, to in some cases completely suspend immigration from terror-prone countries. you understand that, you know, we're still dealing with the travel ban that the president has been trying to implement now for months, directed at six countries that have been labeled as having very close ties to terrorism. he completely suspended the refugee program all in the name of national security. and afghanistan has never been on any of those lists of countries, but, you know, i think it would be pretty easy to make a case that afghanistan has a bit of history wit