visas.here are temporary visas for tourists, business travelers, short-term employment, and students. each visa type allows a person to stay in america for different lengths of time. longer-term visa applicants need to show strong ties to their country of origin as proof they'll return home. student visas allow a person to stay for the duration of their studies. and more than 650,000 foreign students attended u.s. colleges and universities last year. temporary worker visas permit a three-year stay with roughly 100,000 issued per year. the most common tourist or business visas allow a six-month stay. immigrant visas are for those looking to become a permanent u.s. resident. those applicants need sponsors like an american relative or u.s. employer. the u.s. state department can deny a visa to individuals with criminal records, certain diseases, or suspected terrorists. the alleged detroit bomber already had a visa but some critics say the process needs to work better to keep the bad guys out.

every visa applicant who comes into the united states embassy in the fight for a united states visa, or her name is run against a complete database that includes entries from the fbi, entries from homeland security, entries from the terrorist screening center, entries for dea. we take entries from all these agencies daily and load them into our database and so no one who applies for a visa, no one was issued a visa without a complete scrub against the full interagency database and additionally, there also scrubbed against the complete dhs and fbi fingerprint science of individuals who are concerned with those agencies. so we ran this complete screen. then, anytime someone is moved up so to speak on the screen list for either of our partners within the national security, that information is immediately transferred to us. we then run that new information against our list of issued visas to see if those agencies have obtained new information that they have not been made available to us earlier. and then we found that. and if that phone has moved up on that list, we then moved to revoke

a visa. the state department has retained the ultimate authority to revoke these once issued. i think all of us have a role, along with the state department, in measuring pre- existing visas. that is a part of the tightening that we talked about. >> thank you. >> those are excellent questions. i want to make two brief points. the first is to say that i share the senator's concern about trying abdulmutallab in civilian court. . -- senatohtethe senator's concern about trying abdulmutallab and civilian court. i am troubled that secretary napolitano was not asked to comment on that because there are obvious homeland security are obvious homeland security implications and trying totr try a terrorist suspect. we are going to convene a hearing on this subject in february. the homeland security implications of the decisions to try terrorist suspects in federal courts, in to focusing on the visa question, i think the senator has put her finger on an important point. we want to raise a fresh question.

and 237,000 immigrant visas granted in 2009. one big problem is people overstaying their visas.e department of homeland security estimates roughly 40 million people are overstaying them right now. congress is calling on the state department to revamp its visa regulations and close loopholes. in light of the christmas day plot, they are trying to find out if suspicious individuals they're tracking also have visas and they may start automatically notifying airlines if a person's visa has been revoked. >>> the president has a reputation of being cool as ice. so no surprise there is an equally chilly tribute to the commander in chief in the state of hawaii. we're taking your comments and question on twitter, facebook, myspace or ireport.com. send them in. we had a great discussion on iran and your tweets are coming in about them. i would love to get some on the air. ( laughs, click ) when you hear a click, ( clicking ) you know it's closed and secure. that's why hefty food bags click closed. hefty! hefty! hefty! so you know you've helped lock in freshness and lock out air... to help

>> well, just to clarify in the visa waiver program you do not need a visa, but there is a travel authorizationat is required. aunt an advanced travel authorization that's runs the same checks basically that dave visa check would do. it is also done the same kind of recursive review of the watch list and things like that to revoke or refuse authorization is done. and, i understand your concerns about it but let me just say if visa waiver program includes a number of additional enhanced opportunities for cooperation information sharing to include reporting of lost and stolen passports, standardize passports, sharing of screening information, sharing of data information, and recurring auditing or review that we have with these countries to evaluate overall security, which we don't have with the non-visa waiver country so there a number of the enhanced security measures that are actually supplement security and the vwp programs, and so i am not sure i would agree with the characterization. >> i am not sure i would agree with what you said so perhaps we can debate this sort discuss it separately. >

visa., even if you get a visa, the fail-safe of if you present your visa at the port of entry, the final decision as to whether you get in the country is made not by the state department but by customs and border protection. broadly speaking, we are comfortable with the process put in place since 9-11. that said, there was an issue in this particular case, not with the decision to issue the visa in the first place, but whether in light of this information, the visa should be revoked. that is the larger point from your question. there is this tendency when a specific failure comes to light that we want to change the whole process. >> you are changing the whole process -- >> you change vol -- the process. çthis case showed gaps in the y the administration is functioning. the president has said that was unacceptable, and we're going to fix that. we are working across agencies to do that, and that is why the national security team is meeting with the president this afternoon. >> i and tristan

visas. but that response is not sufficient.the government should immediately identify and suspend the visas of all persons listed in the broadest terrorist database operated by the nctc known as the tide list. until a further investigation is undertaken in each case. these visa-holders with suspected connections to terrorism should shoulder the burden of proving that they do not intend to harm this nation or its citizens. and if they cannot meet this burden, then we cannot take the risk of permitting them the privilege of traveling to our country. but immediately revoking the visas of suspected terrorists is only the first step. the department of homeland security has an obligation to confirm the validity of visas held by every foreign passenger. this is done only in some airports now. instead, what happens now is that confirmation of valid visas only occurs once the passengers have arrived on our land. there is no technological reason why this cannot occur. we did not choose this war. it was thrust upon us by terrorists who ar

visas.t sufficient bentham the government should immediately identified and suspend the pieces of all persons listed in the broadest terrorist database operated known as the tide list until a further investigation is undertaken in each case. these of these up holders with suspected connections to terrorism should shoulder the burden of proving that they do not intend to harm this nation or its citizens. that they cannot meet this burden, we cannot take the risk of permitting them the privilege of travelling to our country. immediately revoking the vises up suspected terrorists -- the visas of suspected terrorists is only the first step. this is done only in some airports now. what happens now is that confirmation only occurs when passengers have arrived on our land. there is no technological reason why this cannot occur. we did not choose this war. it was thrust upon us by terrorists who are determined to destroy our way of life. our counter-terrorism efforts must be tireless and steadfast.

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diplomatic posts overseas to review individual visa applications and to initiate investigations of visa-security related matters. fast forward eight years, it's eight years later, and as i understand it, dhs personnel are only in about 15 out of the 220 state department posts around the world. and that small number is even more disturbing when you consider that dhs and the state department have identified 57 posts as being high risk. i also understand that request to expand to three more of these high risk posts were waitingw6 your office for more than a year waiting for approval by the secretary. i realize part of that preceded you, but you've been in office for about a year. and that you signed them just recently. why the delay? here you have a need in a high risk area for dhs personnel. why let it languish for a year? >> it was not languishing, senator. and let me talk about this. it was being evaluated in light of all the work being done at the department about where assets -- people, people needed to be to have their highest most effective use around the world. and in conjunction with the w

visas. that response is not sufficient bentham the government should immediately identified and suspend the pieces of all persons listed in the broadest terrorist database operated known as the tide list until a further investigation is undertaken in each case. these of these up holders with suspected connections to terrorism should shoulder the burden of proving that they do not intend to harm this nation or its citizens. that they cannot meet this burden, we cannot take the risk of permitting them the privilege of travelling to our country. immediately revoking the vises up suspected terrorists -- the visas of suspected terrorists is only the first step. this is done only in some airports now. what happens now is that confirmation only occurs when passengers have arrived on our land. there is no technological reason why this cannot occur. we did not choose this war. it was thrust upon us by terrorists who are determined to destroy our way of life. our counter-terrorism efforts must be tire

and but he was given a visa by the visa officer who probably didn't do enough work, didn't inquire tooeeply. when the british denied him a visa a year ago, when they took his visa away, that should have gone into the system and his visa should have been canceled at that point. >> the d.a. will need to enhance screening technology. we talked about the body scanning screening process that would have prevented him from getting on the plane in the first place. these procedure, this needs to be reviewed by this panel and other transportation sectors, how, though, is the panel going to approach this and deal with privacy rights and civil liberties which often seem to be getting in the way and perhaps or the reason why this man got away with it in the first place. >> i'm one of those people that believe technology is not completely developed yet. it's very expensive and probably should be used in secondary screenings alone. right now we can take someone we think is smuggling drugs and strip search them in an airport. so there is really not a privacy issue on secondary screenings. the problem

, business visas, tourist visas.nd we're not supposed to give these temporary visas out the people who might be intending from the very beginning to break those regulations, and to stay here beyond the stated amount of time on the visa, or to do something, other than what the visa is issued for. and you know, there are certain parts of the world where governments have been very friendly to jihadists, and this obviously -- you don't have to guess, it includes places like saudi arabia that sent us 15 of the 19 hijackers. it obviously include yemen, which is the operating base for a.q. ap and the plays that trained the crotch bomber. and so yes, we need to be very discriminating about handing out future temporary visas to people from those places. we shut down the visa express program after 9/11. which have never had it in first place. it was a means of expediting the visa process and skipping all the steps as a way of pandering to the saudi government. and that is a problem that the bush administration had in which i'v

take way visas from the department. when there are threats to security, the feeling of the country is to do whatever it takes. most americans opposed the closing of guantanamo. most have opposed trying sheik mohammed in civilian courts. this is the challenge that he faces in trying to make a more sustainable legal basis for trying these people. >> senator lieberman also said that the fallacy of the false alternative is to assume that you treat someone like this in criminal court or you don't have a rule of law. there's a substantial bodyf law of war. that's the paradigm he's suggesting. >> obama has not said he will not use military commissions. >> he's said there are moments when he would keep people without charges. >> as you point out, an attack like this is an acid test. politically. now the country gets a sense of who president obama is as a commander in chief in a time of terror. has president obama been politically damaged? has secretary napolitano? >> i don't think, certainly, president obama has not sustained l

. >> carriers have indicated that information regarding passengers visas dad this is not available in real time when a passenger checks in at the airport. we will actually be taking addresses and other similar problems. >> so, the visa revocations and these are refusals or did nylz are checked prior to boarding an individual. bair check this part of the preflight screening process that is ongoing and has been ongoing for some time. >> okay, so do you think there is an issue with them not having this visa information in real time? >> the state department uploads all of these issuances that it makes to databases that are coming that we share with the law enforcement intelligence community. my understanding is that, when the airline files its manifest passenger list for this claim, there is a process called afis, automated passenger information system, that then checks all of that material and by tsa and then give sago, no go to the carrier on that's though though the airline may not know that you have baby one visa or a jade visa are any of the various types, they know when they get the

was corrected within a couple of days that basically no one went back to check on whether he had a visa? pandith that is correct, until of course they found out on december 25th and if that is correct, at what level did that happen? we don't need names, but i mean, where did that happen in the process? >> it is something that we are still trying to reconstruct. and just to put this in perspective, obviously as the president said yesterday, as deputy national security adviser john brennan said yesterday mistakes were made. this was a system failure. we are part of that system and as the report details, there were human errors that were made on our part. the ms. spellings spin the initial. >> of viper report was corrected within the nctc within a couple of days. the tuygan tree that was opened up on this particular individual had his correct spelling. as to whether or not any individual through this process check from that point forward to see if there was a active these up, we are still trying to sort that out. i can say we know that anybody did in fact from the point the database was op

. >> carriers have indicated that information regarding passengers visas dad this is not available in real time when a passenger checks in at the airport. we will actually be taking addresses and other similar problems. >> so, the visa revocations and these are refusals or did nylz are checked prior to boarding an individual. bair check this part of the preflight screening process that is ongoing and has been ongoing for some time. >> okay, so do you think there is an issue with them not having this visa information in real time? >> the state department uploads all of these issuances that it makes to databases that are coming that we share with the law enforcement intelligence community. my understanding is that, when the airline files its manifest passenger list for this claim, there is a process called afis, automated passenger information system, that then checks all of that material and by tsa and then give sago, no go to the carrier on that's though though the airline may not know that you have baby one visa or a jade visa are any of the various types, they know when they get the

visas. is that correct? >> that is correct but approximately 2% are in u.s. positions. there are a significant number that can come into the united states without a visa. >> that is an excellent point and it is of great concern to us for some time particularly when we are looking at individuals in great britain who may have dual citizenship in pakistan and england and maybe using one passport to travel to pakistan and their british passport to travel to our country. i realize it is an issue for another day but if it's of great concern. we have to -- >> we have to learn the lessons of this case but not over learn the lessons. using this data is very much integrated in the equation. let me ask a question in when dhs was established in 2002, they wanted to assign personnel today's issue in diplomatic posts overseas to review -- eight years later. dhs personnel as i understand it are in about 15 out of the 220 state department posts around the world. that small number is even more disturbing whe

, a business visa and a tourist visa.and we're not supposed to give these temporary basis of to people who might be intending from the very beginning to break those regulations and state your beyond the stated amount of time or do anything other than what it is issued for. there are certain parts of the world where governments have been very friendly to jihad and that includes places like saudi arabia that sent us 15 at of the 19 hijackers. obviously includes yemen which is the operating base for the place that train to the bomber. yes. we need to be very discriminating about handing out future temporary visas to people from those places. we shut down the visa express program after 9/11. we never should have and the first place it was a means to expedite the process and skipping the process to pander to the saudi government. that is a problem of the bush administration which i have been vocal and the obama administration. i criticize the bush in illustration for reopening the visa plan to give them to steer them pilots af

and there was a visa that was issued. the people from the administration acknowledge that there's nothing in the way that the computer systems are put together that would do anything like a google search to connect these. you're only checked for a visa at the moment you apply. the second failure, a post afghanistan decision failure. which is that we recognize that the war has moved to afghanistan, the rationale that the president gave for going in was to keep a weak state from turning into another al qaeda haven. and yet, clearly, yemen is a weak state. there was little public discussion of that or some good reasons through much of the year. i think the result is americans are not prepared for what senator lieberman called the coming conflict. >> i have to agree with -- disagree with george on two of his points. the first, is yes, they had millions of dots to connect. there was a failure of common sense here. how many times does a father who is prominent, credible, going to an embassy and say i'm worried about my son. he

under the visa lottery program, visas are awarded to immigrants at random without meeting such criteria perfect example of the system gone awry is the case of hashem mohammed ali hadayyat who killed two and wounded three during a shoot spreeg at los angeles international airport in july of 2002. he was allowed to apply for a legal permanent resident status in 1997 because of his wife's status as a visa lottery winner. in fact, since this program was established in the early 1990's, nearly one million people have come into the united states regardless of the need for them to enter this country, regardless of the unemployment rate, which today stands above 10% and with 15 million americans looking for work, we give 50,000 visas to people to enter the country, not based upon any family ties, not based upon job skill, simply based upon pure luck. the state department's inspector general testified before congress recently that it continues -- he continues to believe that the program contains significant risks to national security from hostile intelligence officers, criminals, and terrorists

visa. they have a cons lar section right there in the embassy. if they didn't check the records right there they could certainly check back and get an answer. at that point his name should have been flagged so it would show up at the airport in amsterdam he would have been stopped. but that didn't happen. and that's inconceivable that didn't happen. >> charles? >> well, the secretary of homeland security saying on all the talk shows on sunday that system worked, she's been ridiculed. and it will live in infamy like the statement that george bush george bush made after katrina or during katrina when he said heck of a job, brown yes, about his fema director at the time. it was a combination of system not connecting the dots and human error in the sense that those who got the story from the father into nigeria should have known that this not an em bittered ex-spouse, it was the father concerned about a son who called from yemen, this is a high level of index of suspicion. and there was not an

if they apply for a visa in the future we will a doggett de visa -- evaluate the vis-a-vis all of the criteria for entering the united states with the exception of this particular section. >> can i just ask q. generally every time we ask about visa or most of the time you won't discuss them. it is a privacy issue. what gives the? >> in one particular case this was a matter of an ongoing court case so there is a public record about it. >> i realize that, but this goes to, i mean it really is a complete a double standard basically the rule i think is you guys will talk about the visas and side the privacy act unless it suits your purposes and to be honest with you it's inconsistent and frankly it's kind of ridiculous you guys will pick and choose which visa, whose application you want to talk about. so, maybe you could take that under advisement and see what the people in consular affairs have to say about it. >> the associated press is interested in less information. okay. >> interested in more. i want more information on visas. >> the site is set to be your meeting with campbell and b

this individual had a valid visa.r as the white house report said yesterday that this affected the risk assessment. >> still umar farouk abdulmutallab had a valid u.s. visa in his hand when he boarded that almost doomed plane on december 25th. >> molly live at the state department. thank you. new developments in a story we brought you here yesterday. two high-profile congressmen calling for the treasury secretary tim geithner to testify after a new report that his new york federal reserve told aig to withhold information from the public. bloomberg news reports that the new york fed crossed the line out in a filing detailing how aig paid billions in taxpayer money to a wall street bank. geithner, now secretary geithner, was head of the bank at the time. he is already facing very tough questions before congress on the bank bailouts. president obama speaking just a few minutes ago on the economy. but the job front still is very much imperfect. we'll talk to "fox news" sunday anchor chris wallace what the white house says

visa. been a cold, long week as we welcome in 2010, the first full week -- work and school week. you'll notice a huge differee in terms of wind chill. it will feel a lot better than it did today. wednesday and thursday, dry, but thursday night and into friday we will see the updated potential for a wintry scenario. >> have a great night. potential for a wintry scenario. >> have a great night.

visa.ncy of progress. >> less windy and still call will be the name of the game for the next few days. 31 degrees for the day tomorrow, flurries on tuesday. wednesday and thursday will be dry, but friday looks like it has the potential for a cold system to bring us some snow. we will update you tomorrow.

given the tens of thousands of abuses of tourist visas, work visas and other visas, how confident is the prime minister that he has a firm grip on this nation's national security?

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and it seems to me you had state, of course, which has the visa problem. other people on the airline side. what is the center? >> isn't it the ntct? isn't that why that was created? >> that's exactly where i was going. i think that's exactly right. what you find out, was the information sent to that unit and what did they do with it when they got it, because i think that's where the buck stops. and that's the last place. quite frankly, i think if there's going to be a problem for anybody in high authority, that's where it's going to be. >> all right. there is, peter -- >> i agree totally with that. >> go ahead. >> i was going to say, i totally agree with that. look, we were supposed to have these computers now that talk to each other. you should have one agency that's running this show. but also you need stronger -- you need more bomb-sniffing dogs. you need more of these body scanners and you need international cooperation. everybody has got to be on the same page here or it won't work. >> that's easy to say. haven't we been saying this over and over and

visa. currency of progress. >>> i told the president today, i let him down.nt's assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism. and i told him that i will do better and we will do better as a team. >> chris: that was white house advisor john brennan, apologizing over the failure to connect the dots that resulted in the christmas day bomb plot. and it's time now for our sunday regulars. brit hume, fox news senior political analyst. contributors mara liasson of national public radio. bill kristol of the "weekly standard." and juan williams also from national public radio. so i want to show you all all the different ways that president obama has referred to umar farouk abdulmutallab over the last two weeks. let's put them up on the screen. in his first statement in hawaii on december 28, it was isolad extremist. a day later it was known extremi extremist. back in washington, the president called him a suspected terrorist. and finally, it became known terrorist. brit, what do you make of the evolution and the president's language and what do you can think o

there were other facts that the british had revoked a visa for immigration reasons. still, all these dots had not been connected. should they have been? >> i would think all of us would say yes. i think the administration is saying yes, they should have been. but the problem is where exactly was the breakdown? was it because people weren't putting things in the system. was it because no one was taking a hard look. make you can explain the computers. i would have thought when you had an intercept with a partial name of umar farooq and you have a father coming in talking about his some, u march farooq, somehow the computers would have gone ding, ding, ding. >> the technology exists to do just that, but what the technologists require are the policy decisions that allow that to be put in place. i expect that john brennan, as he goes back and does a more thorough and detailed scrub of exactly what happened and where, those are the sorts of things that absolutely should be put in place, including the revoked british visa, jessica, that you mentioned. that certainly should

abdulmutallab for a visa because of immigration concerns. he put on his form a school that he wasn't -- that didn't exist. that was not related to terrorism at all. we had the information throughout the course of the summer and the fall about al qaeda in the arabian peninsula's plans to carry out attacks. we had information about umar farouk but didn't have any type of information that really allowed us to identify mr. abdulmutallab. the system did fail. everybody -- a lot of people buy their tickets in africa with cash. that is the way things are done because there's so much fraud there. that wasn't a necessary bell. people in the airport didn't know he bought the ticket for cash. he did bring on carry-on luggage. tlrp there were a lot of things out there. we're doing the diagnosis, figuring out how we could have stopped this. >> are you saying there isn't a way you could have stopped it? >> i'm saying there was information in the system that should have allowed us to stop it. yes. that's what the president is determined -- >> what was the

coming up to the congress, myself on the judiciary, saying don't give the authority to approve visas to department of homeland security. we want to keep it in -- >> that's a fair point. i should correct my errors, karl rove and me. but look, you know as well as i do, everybody knows at this point, that the obama administration has dismantled the bush-cheney apparatus. they dismantled it. if i were vice president cheney and i assume president bush will do this in his book, which is going to be out in september, you've got to say, look, this is wrong headed. we had the right policies. we kept america safe after 9-11. now they're dismantling it and putting everybody in danger. as karl rove said, that's the responsible thing to say, is it not? >> i don't think they're dismantling it. >> come on, come on. no customers interrogation, civilian trials for heinous criminals, closing guantanamo bay and you're saying they're not dismantling it? come on. >> those are some of the outward symbols. >> those are big! those are huge! >> i don't think those are. >> you don't think a ban on coerced int

and other visas, how confident is the prime minister that he has a firm grip on this nation's national security? >> mr. speaker, at every point we try to be as vigilant as possible in the way we run the services that are necessary for a national security. in immediately after the detroit attempted bomb on christmas day, it was for us also to make sure that our arrangements, security about people coming into the country, was satisfactory. and i ordered a review of these arrangements as i said to the house lastly, equally we decide also the coordination of our different services is an important issue, and facing new technology and new methods being used by terrorist groups we had to do more to ensure the full ordination of all our services to do with incident that that is another set of work that has been put in motion so at all times we seek to be vigilant that i have to say that the introduction of these is and that of the keyboard or system will be of great benefit to our us to be able to identify people coming in and out of the country. i also hope all party support for the. >> emplo

secondly, our visa revocation system. his visa should have been immediately revoked and it wasn't. so the question comes why and what we can do. i think these are three things that can be... that should be looked at right away. >> schieffer: i want just to underline what you just said about getting on this no-fly list. i mean i agree with you. i think it would be easier to get into the pentagon tank where they keep the secret war plans than it would be perhaps to get on the no-fly list. i'm just going to read a little of the language that this constitutes where somebody gets on it or not. must meet the reasonable suspicion stand stand or to review. reasonable suspicion requires articulate facts which takes together rational inferences warrants a determination that an individual is known or is suspected to be or is engaged in conduct constitutesing... on and on and on. i won't even finish it. how can anyone in the government know what that means? >> that's right. and there's another thing. when this father, a respected nigerian family, came forward and gave information and said, loo

a british decision to deny him a visa. abdulmutallab's cash purchase of a ticket. he didn't check luggage, vague warnings about holiday attacks. on new year's eve, the director of national intelligence, dennis blair, issued a statement to his employees noting the obvious, that it had been an especially challenging week for the intelligence community. he said the president's judgment that there had been intelligence failures was a tough message to receive, but it was time to move forward to outthink, outwork and defeat the enemy's new ideas. jeanne meserve, cnn, washington. >>> now some more proof that lapses can happen despite the best efforts of airport security. a united airlines expresses flights bound for chicago yesterday had to do a u-turn, an express flight had to do a u-turn. airline learned after takeoff that the name of one of the passengers matched on a tsa restricted list. the mistake irritated many of those passengers. >> if there was that kind of concern after it was off the ground, somebody's just dropping the ball here. if we have these computer sys

his visa was only two weeks and he was here for over two months.nment is trying to figure out where he was for two months and how he could stay here for over two months illegally without having a visa very easy and without being questioned by the authorities in yemen. the crisis here is not that he was in yemen but how he was able to live in yemen illegally. >> describe the neighborhood where the u.s. and british embassies sit and what it looks like there and what it looks like now with these embassies closed. >> the embassy area is very -- has very high security right now. they're closed. security's very high, as usual. but today actual security there and helicopters are there in case attacks do happen. we do not expect al qaeda to have any attacks today or tomorrow. usually al qaeda attacks happen at times where the u.s. and government is not ready for the attacks. now the last attack on the u.s. embas embassy, al qaeda was able to reach the main door of the embassy. but the helicopters of the yemeni government were able to combat al qaeda while

visa. currency of progress. creamer which you can pick up from the william sonoma along with as any cook will tell you a whole lot more. martha tirber... teichner introduces us to the williams behind the williams sonoma franchise. >> reporter: once upon a time before it had 263 stores, before it sent out 50 million catalogues a year, long before the williams sonoma name meant a $3 billion retail conglomerate whose stock is traded on the new york stock exchange, before most americans knew high-end cook wear like this even existed, in 1953, a man named chuck williams who lived in sonoma california and loved to cook took his first trip to france. so when you went to paris, you saw these and fell in love. >> yes. i saw them in paris and thought this is something we need in america. >> reporter: so he figured out how to import french kitchen ware never seen here before and opened a shop. it's something of a tourist attraction. this little shrine to foodee history. in the window of what's now a frame gallery. >> i hav

given the tens of thousands of abuses of tourist visas, work visas and other visas, how confident is the prime minister that he has a firm grip on this nation's national security? >> at every point we try to be as vigilant as possible in the way we run the services that are necessary for our national security. immediately after the detroit attempted bomb on christmas day, it was for us also to make sure that our security arrangements for people coming into the country were satisfactory, and i ordered a review of those arrangements, as i told the house last week. equally, we also decided that the coordination of our different services is an important issue, and, facing new technology and new methods being used by terrorist groups, we had to do more to ensure the full coordination of all our services to deal with potential incidents. that is another set of work that has been put in motion. so at all times we seek to be vigilant. i have to say to him that the introduction of biometric visas and then of the e-borders system will be of great benefit to us in being able to identify people

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visa. mind blowing.of the moment is, not just who's head is going to roll, but really why is al qaeda in the arabian peninsula for the first time, again a very regionally focused terror group, why are they trying to attack us here in the homeland with what was a pretty sose fis cated -- pretty sophisticated bomb that turned out to be a does, it didn't work, thank god. >> i want to ask you while we have you about the developing news this morning involving the u.s. embassy and the british embassy in yemen, the decision to close the embassies after general david petraeus met with yemeni officials yesterday. what do you make of all of it? >> well, the u.s. embassy in yemen has been attacked before and, of course, you'll recall ten years ago almost, the "uss cole," missile frigette, probably getting that wrong, but a navy destroyer, was anchored in the gulf of aden off yemen and was attacked by al qaeda and blown up and a couple dozen -- almost couple dozen sailors were killed in that attack which occurred no

can't get the visa in britain. put the information and give him a patdown before he gets on the plane. he may not be on the no-fly list but he certainly should be on some list. all of us, chris, i'm guessing you have -- i know i have -- i have been pulled out of line at times because you're anxious to get aboard and don't want to miss the plane and they checked everything out two, three times. why wasn't that done? the point here, the problem with the administration you're talking about tuesday, that's ten days after the event. the point is, there was nonchalance and dipidence and let's go snorkeling. conservatives didn't make it up. it was here on that network, that's sunday and monday, all over all day long and the administration got behind it. >> i think, peter, your point is fair is the concern that was raised in this case as opposed to after the shoe bomber. setting that aside, i think it's also fair to say george w. bush took a lot of heat when he was on vacation and thing es happen and it was felt like he wa

shouldn'have a visa, shldn't be allowed on plan at all. we've got to go afr this kind of siation at the sour. and if i have a shoroming that is still prent there, is the fact that we didn't introgate this man long enough. we far too soon deded to charge him in a civil urt when think we could have gotten much more informaon about his sources if we ha waited, trted him as an lawful combatant and interrogat him thoroughly before we decided how to t him. woodruff: i do want to ask you both one queion about e structure of the intelligence community and that comesut of a "the wall street jourl" editorial toda i wi start with you senator gort, essentially ey are complimenting the esident but they go on to say the director onational telligence, the apparatus under him has become such g bureaucracy t spends a lot of i time essentially duplating what the cia does. is there a legitimate argument there? >> it may be that that i somewhat t large an ency. but i wi have to say, and i think jamie agre with me on this, theongress didn't adopall of our remm

shouldn't have a visa, shouldn't be allowed on planes at all. we've got to go after this kind of situation at the source. and if i have a shortcoming that is still present there, it is the fact that we didn't interrogate this man long enough. we far too soon decided to charge him in a civil court when i think we could have gotten much more information about his sources if we had waited, treated him as an unlawful combatant and interrogated him thoroughly before we decided how to try him. >> woodruff: i do want to ask you both one question about the structure of the intelligence community and that comes out of a "the wall street journal" editorial today. i will start with you senator gorton, essentially they are complimenting the president but they go on to say the director of national intelligence, the apparatus under him has become such a big bureaucracy t spends a lot of its time essentially duplicating what the cia does. is there a legitimate argument there? >> it may be that that is somewhat too large an agency. but i will have to say, and i

american embassies in london and nigeria don't have a visa security unit. and when the father said he was dangerous, the information was ignored by our state department. the underwear bomber paid cash for a ticket, had no luggage and was on the watch list. united states state department was warned by his father he was a threat. he had been denied entry into the united kingdom because he applied for a visa to go to a college that doesn't exist in the united kingdom. buts authorities let him fly the friendly skies anyway. he should not been allowed on that airplane. the american people need to know why this person was allowed to enter the united states with a visa knowing all of these facts. after the failed attack, umar farouk abdulmutallab bragged about 20 more terrorists ready to attack and said they were training in yemen. according to a member of the 9/11 commission, quote, he was singing like a bird and then we charged him in federal court, he got a lawyer and quit talking. instead of turning over the terrorists for interrogation or letting him keep on

visa works with parents and teachers to bring these programs to millions around the world. of progress. >>> an >>> and now two-time oscar nominee amy adams is in the studio. fresh off of "julia & julia." that is not the only production you have coming? >> no. >> when are you due? >> the spring. >> do you know if it's a boy or girl? >> no, i don't know, but i'm going to find out. >> you definitely want to know? >> yeah, yeah. >> no surprises. let's talk about the movie "leap year." you play anna who is in a longtime relationship with your boyfriend and he just won't propose. >> there's a legend in ireland that on leap year, a woman can propose to a man in ireland. >> the hook is if she proposes in ireland, he has to say yes? >> that's some rule? >> exactly. >> let's take a look at the clip you have here. you're in wales. your boyfriend is in london, is in dublin, but you have to get to him? >> yes. >> and you run into an unusual man that's going to help you find the way. >> yes. >> let's take a look. >> hello. thank you. >> how's that work? >> can you be careful with that, t

it failed when his visa was not revoked, even though his father had warned our embassy in nigeria aboutis son's ties to islamic extremists. it failed when the intelligence community was unable to connect the dots that would have placed abdul mutallab on the terrorist watch list. it failed when this terrorist stepped onto the plane in amsterdam with the same explosives used by the shoe bomber, richard reid, or than eight years ago. but today i want to discuss another failure, a failure that occurred after abdul mutallab had already been detained by authorities in the troy, an error that undoubtedly prevented the collection of valuable intelligence about future terrorist threats to our country. this failure occurred when the obama justice department unilaterally decided to treat this foreign terrorist as an ordinary criminal. abdul mutallab was questioned for less than one hour before the justice department advised him that he could remain silent and offered him an attorney at our expense. once of for the protection our constitution guarantees american citizens, this foreign terrorist law