U.S. House Votes to Pause Acceptance of Syrian Refugees
BOLDUAN: He just said that yesterday.</s>MCSALLY: We need to make sure we can close any gaps we're aware of. The task force I was on identified 32 findings, which are across the board, related to the terrorist threat, the foreign fighter flow, and the homegrown extremism we're seeing. Having been a former combat pilot and participated in targeting and air campaigns on many different levels, we have to unleash American air power in Iraq and Syria. We have to take the gloves off our pilots and stop having them come home with our weapons while we allow ISIS to fund their terrorism and export it abroad.</s>BOLDUAN: You talk about tone in criticizing the president. Tone has been a big question on the presidential campaign trail. I want to get your take on a couple of points. In praising this move to make it more difficult or making stricter rules, one of the front-runners, Ben Carson, he said this. I hope you can hear this one. He said this about some of those refugees making a comparison to rabid dogs.</s>BEN CARSON, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & RETIRED NEUROSURGEON: If there's a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you're probably not going to assume something good about that dog. And you're probably going to put your children out of the way. Doesn't mean you hate all dogs.</s>BOLDUAN: Equating some of them to rabid dogs. What do you say to that?</s>MCSALLY: We are the most compassionate country when it comes to refugees. We take in more than any other country. We spend a significant amount of resources to help refugees. The American people really want to make sure we keep our country safe. So, this --</s>BOLDUAN: Is he helping that?</s>MCSALLY: I can only tell you what we're doing. I've spent hours in classified hearings and briefings this whole week, working on our own legislation. My intent as a member of the House of Representatives with a national security background is to address all of these threats to make sure we keep America safe. We need a strategy more than ever. The president is failing in that regard.</s>BOLDUAN: One thing that would fall on Congress, if this would actually happen, is Donald Trump in Iowa, he seemed to suggest just yesterday that he would put in place or want to put in place a national database for Muslims in the United States. Is that something you think is -- should happen, would happen? You would support if that came before Congress?</s>MCSALLY: No. Look, what we identified is there is a sophisticated threat of homegrown extremism. That doesn't necessarily mean if you're Muslim. We've seen individuals being radicalized, the average age is 24, from Western countries. We have investigations right now in America, in all 50 states. 70 arrests so far this year. And the uptick is really straining our resources with federal investigators. This is something we all need to work together, all hands on deck.</s>BOLDUAN: What about that?</s>MCSALLY: We've got to make sure we in our own neighborhoods and communities are identifying those that are becoming radicalized for any different reason. It doesn't have to be, you know, related to their faith. I think the Muslim community also needs to step up because their religion has been hijacked. This is a very complicated issue.</s>BOLDUAN: Complicated, no question. I mean, if there was --</s>MCSALLY: And we need a comprehensive strategy, which this administration has not given to us. We need leadership, we need resolve and we need a strategy that is coherent --</s>BOLDUAN: You want to change the leadership in the White House, no question. You want a Republican in the White House. If this Republican is in the White House and he wants to make a national database, is that --</s>MCSALLY: Right now we have someone in the White House, commander-in- chief, leader of the free world, and what we need right now -- we can't wait another 14 months. Right now my focus is this current commander-in-chief is stepping up, showing leadership, coming up with a comprehensive strategy to hit ISIS where they are, work with our allies in the region, to keep our interests and allies safe, and also to address the homegrown extreme that's happening here. We have very real vulnerabilities. Our task force identified them. I'm focused on getting solutions right now and not all the political theater.</s>BOLDUAN: Congresswoman, thank you for your time. I really appreciate it.</s>MCSALLY: Thank you.</s>BOLDUAN: A very urgent time, a very urgent need for solutions. Absolutely. Let's get back to our other big breaking story at this hour, the attack ongoing, an ongoing situation at the hotel in Mali in West Africa. U.S. Special Operation forces are assisting in the situation. We'll talk about that, their role and what's next, what's going on there right now in Mali. Also, an important programming note for all of you this week in the premiere of "The Hunting Ground," that airs this Sunday. The film is an in-depth look at how two college students, both survivors of sexual assault, join forces to challenge universities to take sexual assaults on campuses more seriously. Take a look.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've known for probably 25 years now that the problem of sexual assault on college campuses is enormous.</s>DANIELLE DIRKS, AUTHOR: On college campuses it is not the person jumping out of the Bushes or in the parking lot who is going to rape our sexually assault you. It is a person whom you know, the person you may have classes with, the person you see at a party. You think about, you know, the people we don't know that we should be worried about but it's really the people that you do know you should be worried about. JOHN ROUBERT (ph),</s>PROFESSOR, OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY: I think a lot of parents think, well, we'll drop our daughter off, she'll have a great college experience and everything will be fine because the college has a reputation for being a safe place. It's not.