00:00Can I continue with Andrea's question a bit? When it comes to the travel restrictions,
00:05I mean, there are a number of countries that were taken quite a bit by surprise by this.
00:09Just Chad right now said that they're going to retaliate, not let in Americans.
00:13I realize there probably aren't that many Americans clamoring to go to Chad.
00:16But nonetheless, if you look at Iran, for example, it's no secret that many Iranians are not very keen on the Islamic Republic,
00:22the diaspora, as many critics.
00:24Is there a sense more broadly that the United States is losing the proverbial hearts and minds
00:28by blanketly saying that all these people just purely on basis of nationality have no right to come in
00:34rather than seeing them as individuals?
00:35Well, look, this is a national security imperative.
00:38What we are seeing is can we have trust that, first of all, that we're vetting people properly?
00:41Is there in some of these countries, and I'm not going to go country by country again,
00:44refer you to the White House fact sheet for more information, which they've made publicly available.
00:48But do we have the ability to vet people coming in?
00:51And this, again, has been that priority from the beginning of this administration.
00:54Can we say with confidence that people coming to the United States have been properly vetted?
00:58Is there a central authority in these countries that can confirm that?
01:00Can we trust what they're telling us?
01:02A whole host of different issues that are important to figure out here.
01:05And I think another part of this is we're in constant communication with countries around the world
01:09to try to determine ways that we can have that be the case where we can have proper vetting procedures,
01:14where we can have confidence with who's coming into this country.
01:16But again, it's part of that broader action from this administration on a whole host of visa issues
01:21to say we're going to properly vet people coming into the United States.
01:24Then people that are here, if they take actions that are contrary to what their visa reported
01:28when they applied for that visa or broke our laws, they may see that visa revoked.
01:32It's about making sure we're enforcing our laws, have confidence in who we're letting into this country.
01:36And I believe the American people expect that.
01:38I think a lot of Americans watching at home would want to make sure we have that confidence.
01:43And again, I want to stress that this is a country-by-country basis,
01:47but that each person that applies for a visa is also case-by-case.
01:50So we have that country-by-country basis, we have those concerns,
01:53but then there's also exceptions that are listed in the proclamation,
01:56and each visa determination is a case-by-case determination.
01:59Just a couple things on that.
02:01Of course, the previous administration, this took place somewhat similar in the first Trump administration
02:07and the previous administration didn't have these blanket bans.
02:10I mean, was there a sense that there was a problem that you said that, you know, that there's a problem with screening?
02:14Were those problems existing?
02:15Obviously, there's an attack in Boulder, but the Israel in that case is from Egypt,
02:19which wouldn't be applicable in this case?
02:22Well, as the president said in his video announcing this proclamation,
02:26there was a discussion going on within the government to try to determine the proper course of action here.
02:31And looking at these countries, a country-by-country basis, again, looking at different concerns.
02:35Visa overstays.
02:36Do we have the ability to properly vet it?
02:38Are there other security concerns?
02:39That was a country-by-country basis.
02:41Those terminations were made.
02:42We saw the proclamation.
02:43We also saw the president in his proclamation outline the idea of further analysis of these within 90 days, for example,
02:49than 180 days thereafter.
02:51So I would refer you to the proclamation for more details exactly how that would go forward.
02:55But ultimately, what we're talking about here is a national security imperative.
02:58And I believe Americans watching at home would want us to have confidence that when we're issuing visas,
03:03we can say they've been properly vetted.
03:05Do we have that ability?
03:07And this is part of that broader effort from this administration to make sure that we're properly vetting people that come into the United States.
03:13That's what you said.
03:14Some.
03:15Yeah.
03:16In this reelection, you said that's dramatically unusual at the pas uterus.
