our reporters brian bennett and jerry markon. i want to start a conversation about the confidence level that american citizens should have based on both of your reporting. should they? jerry: i can talk about that with my story on the only systems. there is a lot of frustration out there with the uscis's service in the immigrant community and immigrant lawyers. the system in 2016 his entirely on paper. it is unlike almost any agency even in the u.s. government. you file something. it gets moved into a lockbox somewhere. you make it a response three months later. you may need to fill out one more sentence. you may need to do that once a month. director rodriguez is a very accomplished director. people speak highly of him. he seems to be doing as well as he can, but they are sort of behind the eight ball as decisions not made effectively five or 10 years ago. host: from your national security perspective, this has been such a big topic on the gop campaign trail. so much criticism of the numbers of people coming in and how well they