Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late night series Real Time with Bill Maugh.

We're back on Ralph.

Many churches are taking in Syrian refugees, but Trump is called for a ban on Muslim immigration.

What side do you take on that issue?

I think that we ought to take a serious look at who's coming in before we decide who comes

in.

I think I know personally Christians who have had to flee Syria and are staying there in

Lebanon or there in Jordan.

I have a humanitarian organization that I have good friends that support and they've

had to get out of there because it's a war zone.

On the other hand, you've got a lot of Islamic fighters and some really bad people in Syria.

So it's a very tough issue.

And I don't know how as people are entering, how you're going to be able to tell exactly

good from the bad.

It's going to be difficult.

You can't tell what's in somebody's head.

We have a pretty thorough vetting process.

I mean, it's like you cannot vet the inside of a person's mind.

That's right.

You can't.

But, I mean, they take an extraordinary amount of resources and time to do as much background

as they can.

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