Michael Barbaro

Because the editorial is saying that American credibility and the future of our foreign policy requires us to keep our commitments to those who risk their lives for the U.S., that it's foundational to our ability to function in the world.

Miller's statement completely bypasses that and says broken people from broken societies are just an existential danger to the U.S., therefore we can't let them in.

But what Miller's argument doesn't grapple with at all is the reality that America played a part and a pretty big part in breaking Afghanistan in the first place.

Right.

It's kind of an open embrace of collective punishment because in Lock and Wall, we clearly have someone who, and we don't quite understand the mechanics of it, but becomes at some point in his life radicalized.

But he's just one of thousands, if not tens of thousands of Afghans who the U.S.

previously made a commitment to, to protect and bring to the U.S.

And

Trump and Stephen Miller are now saying, because one of them did this thing, none of them can come to the U.S.

Just to end, Hamed, I don't want to entirely lose sight of the National Guard and its place in this story.

The second guardsman who was shot remains in critical condition in a hospital.

And this deployment of the National Guard in Washington remains a source of really profound controversy.

Mohamed, thank you very much.

We appreciate it.

Thank you for having me.

On Sunday, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, told NBC News that the alleged shooter may not have become radicalized until after he immigrated to the United States.

That conclusion, if true, could undermine the Trump administration's claims that the Biden administration had failed to properly vet him before he arrived into the country.

We'll be right back.

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