g news h. is cnn tonight, and i'm don lemon. tonight, breaking news. >> belgium lawnunches an extensive anti-terror operation which itt describes an imminent terror attack. it had orders from a isis terror cell. and we will do that and with the belgium links to a terrorist

attack. and a man linked to 1,000 lashes in a country ha the united states considers a major ally. and how can this happen in a can cup country in 2015. we will begin with the break news. belgium launched raids against a a group of e terrorists who were planning major attacks. terrorists were killed against police in the raids. phil black, you were there, and tell us what happened. >> it happened when police moved many in quickly and shut down the road and moved en force and heavily armed into the property just up the road here. the authorities say that when

they entered the building the occupants, well, thaey opened fire straight away. that gun battle followed. the locals tell us it went five to ten minutes and very fierce and he i have weapons were used they say and they heard a number of distinct large detonations and one of which they believe triggered a fire on the ground floor of that building. when it was all over the authorities say that two suspects had been kill and a third had been injured and is now in custody. this raid and oter thises across belgium tonight are all of the result of an invest xwags that the authorities say that been going on for some time pre-dating the are recent terror attacks in paris, don. >> so there are raids going on right now? >> we don't know where or to what extent where else in belgium they are taking place or if they are taking place as we speak. they are not happening here in

ver viase verviers. >> and deborah feyerick what are your sources telling you about the raids? >> we are learning that the dozen authorities had already known the exextremists on their radar, but they had key pieces of information that accelerated the urgency of the timing of these particular raids. you have to keep in mind don, there rin vestigations all across europe and not just france and belgium, but the netherlands and germany according to the source but with respect to belgium, two pieces of information, and one from a belgium arms dealer, and the second involves two men recently returned to belgium from syria. and mou the belgium arms dealer

it is believe had that he provided weapons to the kosher market gunman ahmedi coulibaly and he had names that matched the known extremists already on the belgian's radar, and that was a critical piece. and two men who also were from syria flew into belgium, and they were taken into custody and also the information they pro provided also led the authorities to step it up and that something was imminent and time was of the essence and they could not wait any long e. >> you said that something was imminent. do we know the possible target of the attack? >> well, a number of high value targets in belgium. we are not hearing specific areally the targets, but you have to keep in mind that european commission headquarters are there, nato is there, and

remember a number of u.s. troops stationed there, and the terrorists always go after the same targets again and again. belgium is very, very significant and symbolically and also for the number of people and countries that could be effectively be targeted. >> and phil and deborah, stand by. i want to bring in paul kruk shan shank who is the co-author of "agent storm" and things are happening very quickly in belgium, and what are your agents telling you? >> yes, very quickly. i have talked to a counter terrorism agent who said they have been ip vestneen investigating this cell for quite some time and they suspected them to launch at a attack in retaliation, and

they are not clear about exactly where, but they were believed to have kalashnikovs and other weapons at their disposal and they are treating this very, very seriously indeed and trying to round up the whole cell. >> they believe it is a terrorist cell and they have broken apart a larger network here? >> absolutely. and posing an imminent threat that is similar to the attack within perhaps hours that this group was under surveillance and possible that wiretaps led to this of their cell phones which generated information which is concerning to the bellgium officials, and obviously the attack in paris as well and some concern that it could have inspired them to accelerate the plans, don. >> was all of this triggered by what happened at the kosher grocery store do you believe? >> there is not a link between the group? pair -- between the group in paris and the group here in belgium

linked back to isis in al qaeda and this is the group linked back to yemen. >> and this is the wepapons guy, the arms dealer who is connected to coulibaly, and what do you know about that? >> well, the supposition is that he may have provided some of the weapons for that attack on the grocery store. it is unclear at this point exactly what links he had to some of the belgium militants that deb has been report ging new stuff tonight and phil is looking through all of it trying to figure it out, don. >> and through the reports of people living there, but there are raids going through the area tonight, and this is not our information, but reported pr other agencies that there are reports throughout the country. >> yes, loud bangs throughout the country, and everybody is on edge and false alarms in some places there and this is unprecedented moment for europe. the idea that this group, isis

is now pivoting towards focusing on launching attacks against europe and using the resources has about 1,000 european recruits in the area and all of the money and the warriors that are going to inflict carnage on the streets of europe. >> you say it is a game-changer, right? because of isis? >> well the game-changer and because of what i was describing because of the pivoting launching attacks against the west using all of the resources and the warriors that syria and iraq are only going to be a safe haven for several years to come and we are seeing the air strikes everyday and at most 20 but it is not a concerted air campaign. be big questions for the international community, and the united states and the administration here. do they need to sort of accelerate the program in terms of taking on isis in syria and iraq pa because otherwise, we are doing to be seeing more of these events unfolding on the streets of major western cities. >> we are watching it very close

ly here on cnn along with paul cruikshank. and we have so much more coming up tonight on the coverage including the investigation in belgium. and what do we know about christopher lee cornell who was a jihadist planning to attack the capitol. a wrestling team says that his anti-government blog postings turned him off. we will speak to him next. cold medicines open your nose over time, but add a breathe right strip and pow, it opens your nose up to 38% more. so you can breathe and do the one thing you want to do sleep. add breathe right to your cold medicine shut your mouth and sleep right. breathe right. and look for the calming scent of new breathe right lavender in the sleep aisle. in my world, wall isn't a street... return on investment isn't the only return i'm looking forward to. for some every dollar is earned with sweat,

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our breaking news tonight, belgium police are launching a series of raids against terrorist terrorists across the country, and saying that the attacks were imminent. what what is go g oning on in belgium? the same situation as we saw occur in france? >> well, it is certain lyly a similar situation. you could tell that the city here, and i would not necessarily say that the whole city is on edge but a number of the security services are on edge. i am standing in in front of the national police headquarters and the folks here are at a heightened state of alert. the state of anti-terror alert has been heightened from 2 to 3 on a scale of 4. and you can see the cop car racing past me right here as we are speaking. that is the state of the security forces at this point in time. we heard nathat the raids here in brussels and other places were going on through the night, and might possibly be going on and another indication of another

big concern here in society, don, is that the jewish schools in towns like anthrop and brussels will be closed tomorrow. that is why people are concerned here. >> why so many jihadists in in belgium, fred? >> well, it is a very good question, because one of the things that we are talk about for two years now is that there was a threat of jihadists leaving places like belgium and france and germany and coming back and going to syria, and then coming back here to europe to possibly perpetrate an attack and something that the european societys have been tauk talking about for a long time, and we have been seeing a abstract threat to him until what happened in paris and today, and paul cruikshank talked about it a game-changer, and it is in the way that the europeans perceive the threat. belgium is specifically a very, very special case. first of all, a very large muslim population, and 6% of the population is muslim. they enacted tough laws in the

aftermath of 9/11 in 2001 for instance women are not allowed to walk around in veils here, and that is illegal. and so also, this is a country of 11 million, and belgium is the country with the highest per capita of people who go to fight in places like syria and iraq. so they have a very large population and a lot of it is due to the fact that you have a very large muslim population who feels disenfranchised and has felt that way for a long time. >> fredrick pleitgen in belgium. we are learning more about the ohio man who is allegedly plotting to attack the capitol. the fbi says that christopher cornell hatch eded a plan that was in the late stages and ready to go, but cornell didn't know that the partner was an fbi informant, and so i am joined now by a former high school s we are ling teammate who asked us not to use his name.

i want to thank you for joining us. and tell us about the classmate christopher. >> chris was more of a quiet guy, but he never really talk ded much. he wrestled seventh and eighth grade and in the freshman year, and then he quit. after he quit i never really talked to him after that, but i would see him around the halls, and it was just that he was more of a quieter type. he never really talked. i only saw him hang out with his brother, and after high school, i followed him on facebook for a little bit, and he started posting more and more anti-government post and that is with when i un-followed him and i didn't see anything about him until yesterday on the news. >> what kind of things was he posting? >> just different anti-government, anti-military, just against everything every

government and every military thing that there was. >> did you ever think that he could be capable of what he is accused of? >> i didn't think that he would ever be able to do something like that. >> he never spoke to you about isis or any sort of terror organization? >> no not at all. he was just quiet all of the time. it was a surprise to me when found out that he did it. >> how did you find out? >> i actually, my girlfriend texted h me and told me about it, and then my mom texted h me, and her friend was getting -- and her phone was getting blown up and so was mine. >> thank you for joining me on cnn about it. >> and let's talk about it with jim reece, former homeland

security adviser, and juliet kayyem as well a former adviser. is this out of central casting, but it seems it is? >> yes, a kid against the military and the government can, and reading things that he has a sense of himself who is greater than he is ever going to be and -- >> all of the markings? >> yes. and what we don't know from the investigation perspective, the chicken and the egg factor and was this a guy sort of talk big talk and then the fbi comes in and says, oh, with the informant and i know how to get you guns or was this a guy further enough along, and that is going to with be coming out in the affidavit, but it is what h we have seen before and unfortunately, we will see it again. >> and quiet and kept to himself, and then he starts to post these things and what do you think? >> well, it is just like what you said, a lot of the young kids are disenfranchised and they are looking for groups and don't know what to do and isis

is so good at the propaganda and they get sucked up into it and it is their chance to be be a rock star. >> and you don't think that he is part of isis? >> no, he is not part p of isis but it is the self-radicalization here in the u.s. that is concerning. >> and i want to talk about the video that we have bneen seeing coming out of the anti-terror raids going on. and the video from one of the raids and break it down for us. >> so here is what you have right here, and this sis the initial breach here, and any time at 4:00 this the morning, and you hear a big boom people get up out of their beds. so this is flash bang and it is a diversion their tool to get the bad guys to look up, and in the apartment houses, they cause fires quickly, aped it is a scare piece, and the thing is that the guys had to fight up the stairs here. >> so it happened in the dark and not latet at night, but it was in the evening just before 6:00 p.m. but it was done in the cover of darkness?

>> yes, this is what you want to do. in paris, i think that the one thing they wish they could have done is wait for it to with be dark, because everybody could have seen the approach and the element s elements are surprise, speed, and pal lance of the action and let the guys get in and close this in on the bad guys. >> and let's look at the the other piece of the video here. >> so now you aret the top of the stairs and the engagement is happen ing happening. >> you can see the smoke and the camera there go ging up. >> and the flash bangs going up, and the pressure there cracks the windows and shatters the windows and the fire at the base of the staircase and the fire going up a and thes a stault force is moving up the stairs. and you can hear the different cal calibers of the ak-47s and the pistols going off. >> and one thing, this is happening simultaneously throughout belgium, and the organization to pull this off simultaneously in different places is remarkable. we saw nit france, if you are going to be taking out multiple

spots, take them out at the same time so that nobody can communicate that, you know that it is over. >> how quick is a european government or are the governments this in europe to handle these operations? >> well not very in some respects, and i mean, this is the scenario that everyone had been worried about that the organized, sophisticated well planned targeted attacks that we saw on 9/11 in the years immediately after were going to reform in some other way in on the european streets. we had a gap of time and fortunately in which there were a lone wolves self-radicalized guys and the big hit this week. and everyone is waking up to it, and intelligence sharing is going to be getting more sophisticated, sophisticated, but it is clear that the challenges that we have in the united states with the intelligence sharing that the european s europeans are having as with well. the agencies abroad know more or less han the agencies domestically and ultimately, it comes down to the radicalization

happen ing in happening in their own country. >> and colonel, you said ha the radicalization in in with belgium makes it a transnational terrorist. >> yes. they have focused on syria, and now focused on getting land at the caliphate, and now they have had the fighters in syria, and have come out, and that makes them transnational. >> do you have to change the ta /* strategy now? >> does the u.s. have to change strategy? >> yes. >> well, i don't know if it is changing the strategy, but it is another group on the block they have to look at, and we don't have the assets to track everybody. >> thank you, both. >> and coming up two nations that are not any more different one a representative of democracy and another is a country that flogs and punishes people in saudi arabia. we will talk about that coming up. ♪

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the u.s. doesn't have many strong allies in the middle east east, and mags to israel greatest ally is the king dom of saudi arabia and a nation at first glance could not be more different than our western

democracy. >> reporter: the map in the white shirt is a sawudi arabian citizen is sentenced to ten years in prison and 1,000 lashes with a cane. his crime is starting this blog called "free saudi liberals." >> translator: every lash killed me me. >> reporter: his wife and three kid cans fearing their own safety have fled to canada. >> he did not do anything. raif did not carry a weapon. his only weapon was a pen. >> reporter: this is his fate every friday handcuff and put on public display and hit 50 times with a cane. the first round last friday and 19 fridays to go and 950 lashes ahead ahead. the shocker here, the lashes carried out the same week ha the saudi ambassador to france marched along with millions of others in the name of free speech. saudi arabia home of the most

holiest sites say that in shariah law, the punishment fits the the crime. >> the king dom willt tdom will not back down. >> the united states government call s calls on the saudi authorities to cancel this brutal punishment. >> reporter: but we have bneen here before, saudi long criticized for the dismal criticism of the freedom of speech, and beheadings and cutting off body parts for crimes such adds theft. >> the saudis play to their own tune. they don't care. >> reporter: former cia operative robert baer has written extensively about it, and he says that the country gets a pass because not only can it alone, koncontrol the price of oil, but it is america's best friend in a tough neighborhood. >> the way we look at it is that the saudi royal family keeps a lid on a country that could come

apart if it weren't for them. and it can be something much worst.. >> american presidents bush senior clinton, bush obama, have been tested with their relationships with the saudis and like never before the september 11 attacks. 10 of 11 terrorists from sawudi arabia. >> we have still not seen the terror report from there. >> reporter: the kingdom has made reforms. but classification of 28 of the 9/11 report pages have still been debate and it was highlighted in the 2004 michael moore film "fahrenheit 9/11." >> the bush white house censored 21 pages of the report. >> reporter: a dual relationship of the kingdoms because of this man, raif and his 1,000 lashes.

tomorrow his wife says he is due for the next installment of 50 more. miguel marquez, cnn. >> thank you. i want to talk more about america/saudi e relations with sara lee, and james zogby who is president of the american arab institute. sarah you wrote a piece saying that where are muslims getting the idea that violence against journalists who offend them is okay, and you say that we we need to look at saudi arabia? >> well, they are carrying out the punishment, and the violence against the writers like raif and carrying out the e beheadings as a fitting crime, and doing so this the name of islam, and doing so in the nim of defending islam, and so we should not be surprised that isis and al qaeda are modeling

the behavior and i making a mockery of fighting a war against isis and al qaeda, because we are shocked at their behavior when our ally in this war is saudi arabia and doing the very same things. >> and you say that you also make the point that there are not much that governments can do the influence the extremist groups if the they influence an ally and so what should the u.s. and other countries do? >> well, at a minimum do more than put out a meek statements that they are troubled by the gross abuses of the the human rights by a close ally. they should rethink the alliance in a war in an actual military campaign and political campaign against isis because it undermines the war against extremist groups when the ally is an extreme group. there are many levers that the international community does take against the abusers and sanction, and travel bans and

asset freeze ss, and those should and can readily be d deployed. >> i want to get jim in. i know you condemn what they are doing the blogger, but should the u.s. put more pressure on saudi ar rab saudi arabia? >> no. it is not going to to be productive. the saudis are making changes, and doing it at their own pace. there are saudis wo want change, and there is a liberal and conservative current. there rare people inside of saudi arabia who are not happy at all and frustrated with the pace of charngs but they understand that the change is coming. i think that is the important thing. understand something that we look at saudi the arabia and the e be havior and we have to look at the relationship with them, and they look at us and our behavior and there is a bit, and i think that the governments have to approach each other with a sense of humility and we do after all have terror and torture exercised by the u.s. government and iraq around the world and they know the video ss

and the pictures from abu ghraib and frankly, no accountability p in our country for this behavior, and so i believe that the president has struck the right tone. he has been critical of them and spoken to them about it but then he has not gone to the length of trying to publicly embarrass them because frankly it would not work, because we don't have the morale authority as far as they are concerned to take that stance. >> okay. sarah, do you want to e rerespond? >> sure. we have been hear nag the change is coming for a long long time but in fact if if you look at the the record the only change coming from saudi arabia is aggression and more activists in jail and more people being flogged and no ra real serious loosening of the absurd restrictions against women and in fact, just in january, already, in this year alone, saudi has beheaded ten people already including a burmese woman beheaded today. and again, if we don't think that these are good things when isis and al qaeda do them then

sitit is not good when saudi arabia do them. >> they are not good thing ss at all, and in fact, the fact that we speak about them, sarah, and the fact that you take the lead to speak about them is very important, and it is important for the people in saudi arabia to speak about them, but it is not fair to say there are no changes, because there are changes. textbooks have been revamped and thousands of teachers have been find thousands of imams have been remove predators the mosques, and the entire education curriculum has been changed, and they want to change it for h themselves because they have to break the back of the religious establishment in the country and it is something that the king is committed to. it is slow work and it is happening, and frankly the religious imams have less control than they do in the country today than they did long ago splchlt the

ago. >> the u.s. has said that it is important relationship but how much of it has to do with oil? >> well, the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia is a complex one, and oil is only one factor. and another factor is of course stability, and who is willing to fight isis? many strange bedfellows many this alliance against isis. and it is a complicated reason. >> jim? >> well when we were fighting in iraq which is a war that saudis did not think was a good idea, but the surge was possible because they helped to stabilize the situation to allow the american forces to leave. and the saudis have taken it upon themselves to deal with other problems when they found it was not us being sup porportive, but they have taken the arab peace initiative and that was a big deal to the say in 12 years ago when everything that was going on in the second intifada to say that we will have

recognize israel and normal izize relations if they withdraw from the territories, and it was a very big deal, and nobody paid attention to it. >> thank you, james zogby and sarah whitson, thank you for coming on. and many believe that anti-semitism is the highest it has been since world war ii. should there be concern in france's jewish community? me stories. polluter. frustrater. time thief. [cars honking] and one day soon we'll see the last one ever. cisco is building the internet of everything for connected cities today, that will confine the traffic jam to yesterday. cisco... ...tomorrow starts here.

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among the paris terrorist attacks vicktims, benjamin nett and the yaw -- netanyahu was there to speak out against the attacks. joining me pow to talk about it do you believe that the world is more dangerous now for jewish people? >> absolutely. certainly in europe. you have seen a rise in an

anti-semitism in the last if few years. last year france had 400 different anti-semitic incidents and about 4,000 jews have decided to move to israel. >> and now, four bodies have been brought back to the israel to be bury and why not back to france? maybe it has to do with the prime minister telling jewish people they should leave france and israel and if they should, they are welcomed in israel. is that the right message to send? >> it is the same message that has been sent for hundreds of years. israel is the homeland of jewish people and our message to jewish people is that you should be safe where you are and the governments should take actions to make sure that they are safe, and every jew should know that israel is a place to call home. when they come they are not treated as foreigners when they arrive but treated as coming home. >> and what is the message of the bodies being taken back to israel to be buried? >> well, it is a request of the

families and an offer that the prime minister made, and i think that it is a personal decision for the family and you had a huge turnout at their funeral, because it is important to send a message that the jewish people stand with those families and i think that it is a very special place to be buried. >> ambassador, the prime minister was front and center at the unity parade in paris, and why not encourage french jews to stand their ground in the state of the terror and stay. doesn't france need the jewish population? is >> well, it is good for france to have a jewish population, and the french president said that if the jews leave france france is not france anymore, but look, israel is a country a that since the inception, it has called op jews throughout the world to come wherever they live. we hope they will come because they want a better life in israel and maybe a more mean ing meaningful life in israel. we hope they are not having to flee persecution, but it is important, don, to the understand something that no one is asking themselves today about those french, the french jewish

community is do they have anywhere to go? the jews throughout history who faced persecution, who faced murder murder, and they had nowhere to go, and the gates were closed to them. the gates of america, the gates of other countries were closed to them, and israel was established to make shurure that jews everywhere will always have a refuge, and that is a message that every prime minister proudly says, and he said it in france france. >> and you talked about the acts of violence being carried out against jews anti-semitism the, and certainly, the staggering number of jew ss that left israel and it was 2014 7,000, and in 2015, 10,000 jews expected and are the european leaders doing enough to protect the jewish population and condemn anti-semitism? >> angela merkel in germany is a good example, because she had spoken out against

anti-semitism, but at the end of the day, what is happening to the jewish community. are they being protected? two years ago we had a horrific attack against a a school in toulouse where four children were kanld a lot of commitments made and strong message of solidarity bu tt the jewish community feels very unsafe this in france to daiday, and i hope that today, maybe it is a wake-up call to the french authorities to not only talk the talk, but to walk the walk, and do whatever they can to protect the community, and it is important for france and the jewish community as well. >> what does this do for the relationship between france and israel? does it strengthen the relationship or make it weaker? >> i am sure it strengthen ss it, because the prime minister came to france because he wanted to express his solidarity with the people. and israel asked the world to the stand with us if in our battle against terrorism a, and we

believe we are engaged in the same battle, so through this common experience and struggle against militant islamic terrorism, i should say, that israel and france will grow stronger together. >> and what about france's support for palestine? >> i think it is unfortunate and they rewarded bad behavior among the palestinians, and one person in the march is president abbas of the palestinian authority, and it is great that he is marching against the attacks in paris, but the problem is that he is in a government whose charter call pors the murder of jews worldwide, so what type of message does that stand? the if you are going to stand against terror ismism, stand against terrorism of all types, even the terrorism against jews. and coming up, we will talk about the host of "new day d" allison cammarata and chris

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by name he did say that it is not right to the denounce god by killing those who speak out against him. and now, joining us is chris cuomo and allison cammarata. >> thank you for that introduction. >> and now, a great friend says a swear word against my mother and punctuates it, and it is normal, and it is normal, and one cannot make fun of faith or -- does that sound like it is okay? excuse that he is blaming the victim? >> no, he is saying two other things. you have to think about them

separatetally. he said that freedom of expression is a basic human right. and you cannot kill in god's name and separate and apart from that he is talking about decency and decorum and he said that you cannot insult someone's mother and not expect repercussions. >> and he said there are no limits. >> and what does don lemon believe, could there be limits? >> yes i believe that you cant not put a swastika somewhere and that and or the n-word somewhere and say it is a tears sa satirical -- >> well, morally or legally? >> well there is a paradox. >> and do you have the legal right or the moreal right and what we are dealing with "charlie hebdo" and people in the united states and it is free it is free, and free expression and everything is

okay. but that was never the intention of the first amendment that you can insult me as much as possible, and that is what the limit is supposed to be. >> and by that measure of the pope, any criticism of religion can p be answered with violence. does he actually understand that some people may interpret it that way? >> i have to believe that one, i'm a big fan of the pope and whatever he says i tend to ing a gree with him, and not because i'm a catholic but because he can does not intend ill will but he has gone too far. because you can insult religion certainly in the united states and anywhere that allows freedom of expression. >> but we are lumping it together, because any time you insult religion you deserve a pun inch the nose. but there are decency and decorum, and there may be repercussions, and he is not advocating violence. >> but if you say something about my mother, you may get a pun flch the nose. and he say ging that hate speech

is not allowed under the first speech. and very likely insulting this man's mother right to his face, and francis bergolia and if you did that to him, he might punch you in the nose. >> that would be something. >> and you know earlier on the e show the oscar nominations came out, and let's talk about it who got snubbed, and some are calling it the oscar s ares are the most whitest that oscar is so white that it is trending. have you seen it oscar is so white -- >> yes, i have seen it. and i agree with it. i haven't seen trending the racial divide. >> have you call itted the white men, it is called the oscars. that is what kevin o'keefe tweeted. >> and do you believe it is mutually exclusively. >> let's listen to this and then

we will talk about it. >> those who have gone before us say no more, no more and that means protest, a and that means march, and that means disturb the peace and that means jail, and that means risk, and that is hard. we will not wait any longer. give us the vote. >> "selma" nominated by the best picture and they felt that ava de de devornay would be nominated as the director. >> and does that mean it is racist? hollywood the bastion of p.c., a and that as an industry would want to be mutually exclusive? >> well, the academy, itself it

sis not that diverse, because there are 7,565 members of the voting academy, and 70% of them are white, and 77% are male and only 14% are under 50, and that is not representative of the united states. ta that is a skewed representation. >> and having watched "selma" and i don't go to the movies a lot, and i went to a screening of selma, and i went back to see it it. it is an amazing movie. >> but it is inherently an opinion. there is nothing objective. >> it should be -- >> and look, we want to strive to have every institution to be a reflection of who we are as a people. >> and chris, nobody is saying they want a female director or write writer or someone to be nominated gratuitously just to can check a box, but it is very white. >> and i think that my point is betr for you that you had "12 years a slave" and "a butler" and only one got attention and

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while some believe that the academy awards snubbed "selma" one place did not believe so the white house. president obama will host the cast of "sellma" tomorrow night. i'm don lemon and that is it for us tonight. "ac360" begins right now. and the fight on terrorism has been happening for over a week in france and now today, there sis a deadly raid in belgium. according to belgium security there is one raid going on right now that hit a terrorist cell that was on the verge of carrying out an attack. it left two suspects dead and one in custody. some members of the cell had met with isis in syria