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Markwayne Mullin\" width=\"896\" height=\"500\" data-v-543741ec=\"\"><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture> <span class=\"overlay\" data-v-543741ec=\"\">Video<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"info\" data-v-543741ec=\"\">\n<div class=\"caption\" data-v-543741ec=\"\">\n<h4 class=\"title\" data-v-543741ec=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6363283348112\" data-v-543741ec=\"\">Biden-Harris policies are \u2018choking out\u2019 the US economy: Sen. Markwayne Mullin<\/a><\/h4>\n<p data-v-543741ec=\"\">Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., shares new details about an Afghanistan national allegedly tied to an Election Day terror plot and discusses his swing state tour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<div class=\"article-gating gated-overlay\">\n<div class=\"article-gating-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"article-gating-title\">Join Fox News for access to this content<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-gating-subtitle\">Plus special access to select articles and other premium content with your account &#8211; free of charge.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-gating-legal tablet-desktop\">By entering your email and pushing continue, you are agreeing to Fox News&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/terms-of-use\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terms of Use<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/privacy-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Privacy Policy<\/a>, which includes our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/privacy-policy#fi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Notice of Financial Incentive<\/a>.\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"message error hide\"><span>Please enter a valid email address.<\/span><\/div>\n<form class=\"article-gating-form\"><input placeholder=\"Enter your email\" name=\"gate-email\" type=\"email\" disabled required=\"required\" class=\"article-gating-input\"> <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gating-legal mobile\">By entering your email and pushing continue, you are agreeing to Fox News&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/terms-of-use\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terms of Use<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/privacy-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Privacy Policy<\/a>, which includes our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/privacy-policy#fi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Notice of Financial Incentive<\/a>.\n      <\/div>\n<p> <input type=\"submit\" name=\"gate-email-submit\" value=\"Continue\" class=\"input-submit hide\"><\/form>\n<footer class=\"article-gating-footer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/help.foxnews.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/23074352680475-Are-you-encountering-any-technical-challenges-while-trying-to-log-into-Fox-News-to-access-special-content\" class=\"article-gating-help\">Having trouble? Click here.<\/a><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Lawmakers are raising new concerns about potential terror threats after the arrest of an Afghan national accused of planning <a>an Election Day <\/a>attack. On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/shows\/fox-and-friends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Fox &#038; Friends&#8221;<\/a> Tuesday, Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., raised concerns about the vetting process for foreign nationals, warning &#8220;thousands&#8221; of individuals were &#8220;rushed&#8221; over in the wake of the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s botched Afghanistan withdrawal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container tablet ad-h-50 ad-w-300\">\n<div data-iu=\"lb2\" id=\"tablet-tw-ad-lb2\" data-ad-size=\"\" class=\"ad gam\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-container mobile ad-h-250 ad-w-300 ad-placeholder-load\">\n<div data-iu=\"ban1\" id=\"mobile-mw-ad-ban1\" data-ad-size=\"\" class=\"ad gam inline\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/afghan-charged-election-day-terror-plot-raises-questions-fears-from-lawmakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AFGHAN CHARGED WITH ELECTION DAY TERROR PLOT RAISES QUESTIONS, FEARS FROM LAWMAKERS: \u2018THIS IS REAL\u2019<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SEN. MARKWAYNE MULLIN<strong>:<\/strong> <i>I was briefed a few weeks prior to this, not by the FBI, but from a different agency. What we understood is this individual was vulnerable to touch points, meaning that they were accepted in on an SIV, special immigration visa, but there&#8217;s confusion if he was prior or after the withdrawal. We believe that he was rushed with an SIV after the disastrous <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/house-foreign-affairs-afghanistan-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>withdrawal from Afghanistan,<\/i><\/a><i> and it wasn&#8217;t proper vetting to actually say he was an SIV. The issue that we have here is there&#8217;s thousands of individuals that [were] rushed over here because of the Harris-Biden withdrawal, and they weren&#8217;t properly vetted. And when you don&#8217;t probably vet them, you don&#8217;t know what their touch points \u2013 touch points mean their vulnerabilities \u2013 \u00a0vulnerabilities mean what can be leveraged against the individual to make them turn on their host country like this individual did. Fortunately, the FBI was doing their job. They did it correctly that no one was actually at harm, but they caught the individual. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-harris-admin-refuses-reveal-nationalities-terror-watchlist-migrants-nabbed-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>How many individuals are out there<\/i><\/a><i> that we&#8217;re not paying attention to?\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/343\/192\/afghan-arrested-terrorist-plot_02.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/686\/384\/afghan-arrested-terrorist-plot_02.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1 2x\" height=\"192\" width=\"343\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/672\/378\/afghan-arrested-terrorist-plot_02.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1344\/756\/afghan-arrested-terrorist-plot_02.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1 2x\" height=\"378\" width=\"672\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/931\/523\/afghan-arrested-terrorist-plot_02.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1862\/1046\/afghan-arrested-terrorist-plot_02.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1 2x\" height=\"523\" width=\"931\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/720\/405\/afghan-arrested-terrorist-plot_02.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1440\/810\/afghan-arrested-terrorist-plot_02.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1 2x\" height=\"405\" width=\"720\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1200\/675\/afghan-arrested-terrorist-plot_02.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><span>Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi is seen making the &#8220;Tawhid&#8221; gesture in a photo taken. \u00a0<\/span> <span>(Department of Justice)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-container desktop ad-h-50 ad-w-300\">\n<div data-iu=\"lb2\" id=\"desktop-desk-ad-lb2\" data-ad-size=\"\" class=\"ad gam\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Authorities announced last week the arrest of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/afghan-man-oklahoma-plotted-election-day-terror-attack-us-isis-justice-department-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, an Afghan national<\/a> who came to the U.S. in 2021 after the withdrawal from Afghanistan.\u00a0Tawhedi is charged with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to ISIS and receiving a firearm to be used to commit a felony or a federal crime of terrorism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container mobile ad-h-250 ad-w-300 ad-placeholder-load\">\n<div data-iu=\"ban2\" id=\"mobile-mw-ad-ban2\" data-ad-size=\"\" class=\"ad gam inline\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Authorities say he liquidated his family&#8217;s assets to finance his plan, including purchasing rifles and one-way tickets for his wife and child back to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container tablet ad-h-50 ad-w-300\">\n<div data-iu=\"lb3\" id=\"tablet-tw-ad-lb3\" data-ad-size=\"\" class=\"ad gam\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;This defendant, motivated by ISIS, allegedly conspired to commit a violent attack, on Election Day, here on our homeland,&#8221; said FBI Director Christopher Wray in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container mobile ad-h-250 ad-w-300 ad-placeholder-load\">\n<div data-iu=\"ban3\" id=\"mobile-mw-ad-ban3\" data-ad-size=\"\" class=\"ad gam inline\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Court filings initially stated that he came on a special immigrant visa but have since clarified that he came to the U.S. via humanitarian parole and later applied for SIV status.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mayorkas-refuses-answer-questions-afghan-accused-election-day-terror-plot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>A senior administration official<\/u><\/a> told Fox News last week that Tawhedi was screened three times. He was screened first to work security for the CIA in Afghanistan, then for humanitarian parole to enter the U.S. in 2021, when he was vetted and screened in a third country, and then for special immigrant status, for which he was approved. His status has not yet been finalized. Officials believe he was radicalized after coming to the U.S.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container tablet ad-h-50 ad-w-300\">\n<div data-iu=\"lb4\" id=\"tablet-tw-ad-lb4\" data-ad-size=\"\" class=\"ad gam\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><i>Fox News&#8217; Adam Shaw and Chad Pergram contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<div caption=\"Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram has the latest from Capitol Hill on 'The Story.'\u00a0\" originalimageurl=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/694940094001\/4398560c-eac3-4936-be84-49ff0e345162\/41e264ff-1a4d-4c3f-9c83-5c95f34f990d\/1280x720\/match\/image.jpg\" class=\"embed-media fn-video\">\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div data-video-tags=\"on_air,on_air|the_story_with_martha_maccallum,personality,personality|chad_pergram,primary_politics,politics,primary_us,us|terror,us,us|terror|bombings,us|terror|counter_terrorism,world|terrorism,primary_world,world|conflicts\" data-video-title=\"Afghan man charged in Election Day terror plot, lawmakers demand answers\" data-video-id=\"6363258079112\" data-video-domain=\"foxnews\" data-video-type=\"CLIP\" data-widget-type=\"embed\" class=\"m video-player\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6363258079112\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/694940094001\/4398560c-eac3-4936-be84-49ff0e345162\/41e264ff-1a4d-4c3f-9c83-5c95f34f990d\/1280x720\/match\/720\/405\/image.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Afghan man charged in Election Day terror plot, lawmakers demand answers\"> <span class=\"overlay\">Video<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>This article was written by Fox News staff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>close Video Biden-Harris policies are \u2018choking out\u2019 the US economy: Sen. 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