Ed Rollins: Obama ‘Totally Misses Where the Country Is’ on Issue of Refugees

BARTIROMO: “Yes, the polls reflect that, but also, you have President Obama having been traveling all over the world, Ed Rollins. And when he first made the comment that, you know, he basically, you know, like sort of pushed back at Republicans, it was a political response to an issue that Americans are really afraid of.”
ROLLINS: “The president who is going to be above politics has been probably the most political president I’ve seen in my 50 years of politics. He totally misses where the country is on this issue. I think at the end of the day, we’re all shocked and saddened by the Paris situation, but we also know it could help here. And I think the concern about the Syrian refugees and certainly I — I think we have to have a humanitarian side to this. But at the same time, 26 people were all basically came here and planned 9/11 and 19 of them got in the country and they knocked down to towers and tried to knock down the White House. So –“
KISSEL: “But they did not come as refugees, Ed. That’s –“
ROLLINS: “But the issue –“
KISSEL: “-- to remember.”
ROLLINS: “-- the issue is how do we basically safeguard the people that are coming in here? We have no system and it’s this — the FBI and the CIA and Homeland Security cannot, at this point in time, guarantee who these people are going to be.”