and that is why things are frozen. >> brown: let me let eric schwartz respond to that on the security issue. >> sure. two quick points. first of the 70,000 or so who have come in over the past three or four years, about 10 to 15,000 of those have come directly from iraq. trudy's correct. the rest have come from neighboring countries, that's point one. on the security, there are dual imperatives here. on the one hand we have a profound commitment to resettle people who have been associated with the united states. i think government officials take that commitment very seriously. on the other hand we have the imperative of protecting americans. and the fact s the unfortunate fact is there have been refugees and siv applicants who have come into the united states where there have been serious security concerns identified. that's why over the past year there have been additional security screening procedures which trudy is correct, have slowed the process. the only answer to this is perseverence by government officials. we need to throw more resources at the effort to investigate these cas

and that is why things are frozen. >> brown: let me let eric schwartz respond to that on the security issue. >> sure. two quick points. first of the 70,000 or so who have come in over the past three or four years, about 10 to 15,000 of those have come directly from iraq. trudy's correct. the rest have come from neighboring countries, that's point one. on the security, there are dual imperatives here. on the one hand we have a profound commitment to resettle people who have been associated with the united states. i think government officials take that commitment very seriously. on the other hand we have the imperative of protecting americans. and the fact s the unfortunate fact is there have been refugees and siv applicants who have come into the united states where there have been serious security concerns identified. that's why over the past year there have been additional security screening procedures which trudy is correct, have slowed the process. the only answer to this is perseverence by government officials. we need to throw more resources at the effort to investigate these cas

like clinton or like schmidt practice what they preach joining me from our studio in new york is eric schwartz executive director of demand progress and i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and before we get into some of the nitty gritty of what clinton had to say i mean i guess this is a positive development that at least internet freedom is something that's being discussed on a global scale. oh yeah i mean you know props to clinton for going out speaking in favor of internet freedom and putting the onus on the private companies that have been exploiting this surveillance technology you know we can criticize it and i'm sure we will but at the very least this is a really positive development and it's putting the pressure where belongs all right well let's take a listen to exactly what she said when it came to private companies selling that technology to certain actors. when companies sell surveillance equipment to the security agency of syria or iran or in past times qaddafi there can be no doubt it will be used to violate rights. now. i think about a good point right a lot of pe