Obama misspoke about Malik's visa

President Barack Obama addressed the nation on the threat of terrorism and the government's response following attacks in California and Paris from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Sunday night December 6.

The President misspoke when he said the female assailant in the San Bernardino shootings, Tashfeen Malik, came to the United States under the visa waiver program.

In a prime-time televised address, Obama said he has "ordered the departments of State and Homeland Security to review the visa waiver program under which the female terrorist in San Bernardino originally came to this country."

Malik came to the U.S. on a K-1 visa, known as a "fiancée visa," when she moved to the United States to marry Syed Farook, her husband and accomplice in the massacre in the Southern California city last week.

The White House has acknowledged the error.

- AP