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innocent. >> i respect a lot of people but that doesn't mean i'm going to get along with them. >> this guy is a fraud. >> you have illegals and dead people it's a bad situation. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to new day. we begin with the legal fight over president trump's controversial travel ban. >> he is even suggesting americans should blame the judge or the courts if a terror attack happens. we're 18 days into the trump presidency. we begin our coverage live in tampa florida. you're there because there's a big lunch with the president later today in your location.
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>> that's right but over the weekend the president extremely vocal on camera and over twitter. he took square aim at that federal judge out in seattle that overturned donald trump's travel ban on friday. >> president trump launching attacks against the judge that temporarily halted his travel ban. accusing him of opening up the country to potential terrorists even suggesting americans should blame the judge and court system if something happens. all of this after calling him a bush appointee a so-called judge when the ruling was handed down on friday. >> the president of the united states has every right to criticize the other branches of government. >> defending the tirade and saying the white house believes the ruling will be overturned.
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>> we are very confident that he's operating within his right as president. >> equating the american government actions with russian president putin's regime. >> do you respect putin? >> i do. >> why? >> well i respect a lot of people but that doesn't mean i'm going to get along with him. >> putin is a killer. >> a lot of killers. you think our country is so innocent? >> putin is a former kgb agent and thug. there's no equivalent between the way the russians conduct themselves and the way the united states does. >> there's no morale equivalency between the united states of america and the murderous thugs that are in putin's defense vice
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president pence will head a commission investigating voter irregularities but no proof that voters voted illegally. >> we can be babies but look at the registration. you have illegals and dead people and this. it's a bad situation. >> and the president acknowledging that the timetable to replace obamacare could take longer than promised. >> i'd like to say tend of the year. >> once here he will receive a briefing from senior officials. he'll sit down with service members for a lunch and he will make remarks to coalition reps and also senior u.s. commanders. >> thank you very much. lawyers from washington state and minnesota say reinstating president trump's travel ban would unleash chaos again. they filed new briefs hours ago.
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that's what the appeals panel wanted them to do. the justice department has about 11 hours to defend the president's order written and we'll see if there's going to be a hearing on this dan is live outside with more. that's where there would be a hearing. what's the latest? >> exactly right. they have to determine whether or not the suspension should remain in place and the next step is for both sides to present their legal briefs and they have already done so and the federal government has until 6:00 p.m. eastern time to make its position known. in addition you have a lot of other folks weighing in with their various positions. nearly 100 technology companies filing a brief basically saying that this is bad for business and you have many officials
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saying they're not aware of any specific threat in the world that would justify this ban. you have a three judge panel that will decide this here at the 9th circuit. they could have a hearing in person or by video or phone but most legal experts believe ultimately this is one step in the process. whoever loses here will appeal things to the supreme court. good morning. how are you? >> i'm well. are you comfort wbl the president of the united states comparing u.s. leaders to vladimir putin? >> well i'm not comfortable perhaps where it went as reported by the press and we have to get back to. >> well, we saw the clip.
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>> trump wants to go to. >> i just want to be clear congressman, we saw the clip. this wasn't reported by the press. this wasn't fake news. we all watched with our own eyes the clip and that's where mr. trump said we have a lot of killers here too in reference to how putin is perceived and how u.s. leaders are perceived. >> he's going to continue to work with any and all leaders to defeat isis and we have to admit that china and russia are civilized country. i would not have used the words he used in that context but he's saying he'll work with the u.s. to defeat isis. >> what is he saying about the u.s.? who are the killers?
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>> i don't have a comment to make. within that context i didn't totally follow it. >> sounded like he was talking about the u.s. military. >> and that could be, again i can't speak for what the president was thinking in the back of his mind when he said those words it is true that our military does take out terrorists using drones and other means but certainly not on u.s. soil which is what certainly most people acknowledge russia doing to their political opponents so you can't compare russia to the u.s. at least on that basis. >> so why is the president comparing russia to the u.s.? >> i think it's the aggressive press we have that tries to push president trump into an area where he'll say something and they jump on and the context of
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all of this goes back to president trump saying i'll work with any and all world leaders to defeat isis and keep the world safe and that could include russia and china and then the press pushes and pushes and it is what it is. >> so that was a gotcha interview by bill o'reilly. >> there's a gotcha piece in every interview that the press has more or less with president trump to push him in. he speaks off the cuff. >> he does speak his mind. so on his mind he feels that there are killers in the u.s. government that are akined to vladimir putin. >> he may have been referring to what we're doing overseas. >> is taking out terrorists as you just said, does that mean
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that our u.s. military leaders are killers? >> no, no. it is what it is allison and there are some things that the president in the context that he was thinking of it may be different than you or i but what he is doing is putting america first and trying to make america safe. >> see that's funny that you say that congressman about putting america first but republicans used to call rhetoric like that blame america first. >> what i'm saying is the press is all over him on the travel ban and everything to do with claiming it's a muslim ban which it's not. a religious ban that it's not. trying to keep america safe and it's the frustration of push, push, push. you say something and people
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jump on that particular word or three words or 8 words and i wouldn't have used those words. he is trying to keep america safe including the travel ban. >> let's talk about that. as you know a federal judge disagreed with it. are you comfort wbl the president calling a federal judge names? >> well, president trump if he disagrees with someone tends to go to a point i may not go but that doesn't mean that the judge didn't make a very poor ruling which most people will say the president of the united states has a lot of latitude. >> is he a legitimate judge or a so-called judge. >> he is certainly a confirmed legitimate judge but his ruling many of us disagree with that
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ruling. >> but sit appropriate to call a federal judge a so-called judge. >> that's terminology and rhetoric. i would not have used those words but it speaks to the ruling that came down that most of us would say overreached in what the president of the united states has in relation to immigration issues. >> what if the judge called donald trump the so-called president. >> you have people like bill clinton calling him an electoral college president. a lot of the liberal media calling him the electoral college president. >> and i'm sure he doesn't like that. >> i'm sure he doesn't. >> when will you have a repeal of obamacare.
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>> it could come in the next two months. we'll be replacing it piece by piece but as i said the coverage will not change for the next two years. people on obamacare do not need to worry their coverage will change over the next two years as we put together a more patient centered plan that gives businesses the ability to offer the insurance that their employees want people can buy insurance. more competition, more coverage at a cheaper price but to put all of this together it's going to take awhile but it will stay in place. >> very good. >> so there's the spin from one side. what are the democrats going to do about president trump's supreme court nominee and other big issues? one democratic senator is accusing the gop of stealing the open seat. he doesn't want to consider the
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democrats say that they may filibuster president trump's nominee for the supreme court. a new cnn poll finds most americans want to see president trump's pick get confirmed. one democratic senator says that supreme court seat is stolen and democrats should try to block him. he joins us now. make the case. >> absolutely. >> it's the first time in our history that a senate majority has refused to act on a nominee to the president of the supreme court. and it means to vet and vote on whether or not any individual nominee and at the end of the term we have an election coming. we have a whole new
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administration coming in. that's the rational. >> it's january of last year. basically a full year has passed so there's plenty of time to holding the vetting and process. >> coming up on the anniversary marking one year. so the argument of mitch mcconnell was simply hold a conversation about his nominee and the reason why is they are concerned that the nominee might consult in the court and the dark money is corrupting our campaign. and pass it to the next administration hoping it will be a republican administration. it's in the court. >> but that's something that party is trying to do. they had leverage that they were able to do. they did it. and figure out what you do and
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you want to play a similar game. >> it was a nuclear option. never has the majority refused to hold a conversation and a vote. so therefore we have an illegitimate status for this seat. and we take that and then throw in a new nominee that is of the far extreme right. >> when you look at his opinions do you believe he is that different in terms of what came before him. >> should be able to use the courts to seek redress for discrimination. he doesn't like the idea that citizens that are victims can join in a class action lawsuit to rectify the action. it's a burden on the company. it's a whole series.
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they will be fully vetted. the democrats will hold the committee hearing. they will hold the committee vote. the issue will go to the floor. that's the process that should have happened with garland but it didn't happen. >> someone that wants to stall this vote. >> the same standard that's applied throughout our history is a super majority and majority now with 60 votes. and blowing that up and at that time you'll remember mitch mcconnell. >> and we left the super majority for the supreme court. it is such a key institution. >> he set the precedent for blowing up the filibuster. >> well on a different level. that is folks that are below the supreme court.
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and do you think that there's a chance he gets 60 votes. >> i think my crystal ball is of course they're all cloudy. you'll have great difficulty getting 60 votes. can he put merit garland back in. and the crime against the constitution. and he can't appoint anyone like merit garland and therefore what he is doing is completing the theft a year ago. >> it's in an area with probably the most authority. and security risk and got to deal with temporary restrictions of who can come into the country and a ton of authority there and
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you can believe you may not like it but the president does have the authority to do the ban. >> i'm not a constitutional lawyer. it's going to be very interesting to see what happens today. the president's team has to file another brief by 3:00 p.m. today. the judges are probably going to say part of it stands and part of it falls but they're going to have to sort out a lot of detail. but the concern i have is that whatever the constitutional issue, it is extraordinarily damaging to our nation on multiple levels. and they're being targeted and their relatives and their country are being targeted and it feeds right into the isis recruiting argument that america has a war on islam so the president is fuelling the fires of the very folks were trying to put out those fires. >> they're not trumps lawyers. this is the department of justice that is out fighting this ruling. we keep hearing this is going to be bad.
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this is going there and still here legally. why would they want to get in to a risk of security. how would you know this would hurt troops or fuel isis. >> first of all the president's decree is not based on national security. refugees are the most vetted group coming into the united states. it's often a two year process. if you're someone wanting to do the u.s. harm you would come in on a student visa, a tourist visa, a business visa and you wouldn't come as a refugee and not only on the refugee side but the fact that this ban effects families. right now we have, i was work over the weekend to get a 4 month old iranian girl to the oregon health sciences university for a heart operation. this is -- its incredible that this little girl and her parents are being denied the opportunity -- i think we got it
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rectified by the way. >> did you? i have been hearing a lot about that, that time is of the essence. >> a plied for a waiver and we got the waiver. i think she is going to be arriving shortly. so that's good news but you think how that reverberates. an individual whose fiancee needs to travel back into the country and because it has inherit in it the way it was designed by the administration and has a religious test that is what makes it unconstitutional. >> appreciate you being on to make the case. >> great to be with you. >> let us know what happen with the girl. >> the trump administration is giving conflicting thoughts on russia. president trump defending putin. republican members of congress at odds over it. we discuss that, next.
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the new england patriots once again here's the play. this is what ended it in overtime. first super bowl in overtime. that was running back james
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white reaching across the goal line with a second effort. that won the game. super bowl champion running back james white joins us now. everyone is trying to get in your ear about what happened. i'm sure you're happy to talk about it. take us to the moment in the huddle when you hear that it's your number that's called. >> once i heard my number called i feel like everything went into slow motion. won a championship for your team and me actually being in that moment i was just really excited. i just wanted to do whatever it took to get that ball in the end zone and make a smart play at the same time and offensive line did a great job and this is an amazing team victory. >> you did a great job too. first contact hit you about a yard and a half out. you had both hands on the ball and you had to make a decision
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how to deal with first contact. what made you make the decision to release the ball and try to get it over the line. were you thinking or just doing. >> i saw a little crease. but i saw a guy come in but at that point in the game you just got to do whatever it takes to get the ball in the end zone. you have to make a play for the team it's a really surreal moment. still seem fax to me but i mean i'm still really excited. i don't know when it's going to actually hit me but it's a lot of fun. a great atmosphere. patriot nation was very alive out there and man, i'm just still excited. james what were you thinking when the point spread was 28-3 falcons up. >> i mean, guys are still
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motivated. tom kept us motivated. all our leaders kept us motivated. went in the locker room at halftime. second half is a new game for us. we didn't play well the first half. we knew we could play better. that's what we did in order to put ourselves in position in the football game. >> do you think that the patriots are the best organization in history and tom brady deserves to be called the best quarterback in nfl history. >> i think coach belichick was the greatest coach of all time. i think tom is the greatest quarterback of all time. i mean, i don't even know how you compare them to anybody else and an amount of times and thomas is a great player.
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amazing person. amazing teammate. >> who has got the jersey. >> do you have his jersey? >> i don't know. >> have you seen it? >> i know you're a big guy. you got the jersey. that's going to fetch a lot of money. >> gone by the time i got to the locker room. >> james, has president trump called you yet? >> no. he has not. >> you might get a call. >> you never know. >> so here is the cover of the boston globe win for the ages and it has tom brady, hoisting the trophy in just victory over his head so that's got to feel good this morning. >> it feels good like i said.
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once in a lifetime opportunity. >> you score the touchdown. thanks for joining us on new day this morning. >> thank you. >> thank you i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> all right. that is a great story. turning now to politics, mixed messages on russia from the u.s. ambassador. vice president pence and president trump so where does the u.s. stand on this? joining us to discuss, cnn global affairs analyst former secretary of state and former deputy national security advise sor and we have seen a major
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crisis in ukraine. and bill o'reilly the other day on fox. >> do you respect putin? >> i do respect him. >> why. >> i respect a lot of people but that doesn't mean i'm going to get along with him. he's a leader of his country. i say it's better to get along with russia than not. >> putin is a killer. >> there's a lot of killers. we have a lot of killers. you think our country is so innocent? you think our country is so innocent. >> i don't know of any government leaders that are killers in america. >> well, take a look at what we've done too. we made a lot of mistakes. >> do you agree with that assessment?
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>> it's hard to. we made our share of mistakes but this moral equivalence pulling us down to russia's level is fundamentally at odds with the facts and american versus to be asking themselves where does this come from? the idea that the united states and russia are on the same level when it comes to freedom of the press, freedom of religion, we're in opposite camps when it comes to those things. and we have seen the russians try to undermine at the election. >> when you heard president trump say this. >> i don't think these statements, these contradictory statements have much to do with russia. this is all about the president and a characteristic and his personality we have seen throughout the course of the campaign and when he views
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retreat as weakness and he backs off nothing that he says. i have been reflecting on the whole campaign ever since he descended on that an instance and he put himself out there during the course of the campaign that he hoped to build with vladimir putin and now he's at odds with what his un ambassador and vice president are saying. it will just not allow him to back off. >> sometimes discretion is the better part of valor. he did back off his voter claim last night. he waived it away. let's go on to registered voters. >> he's still stuck to the idea that he believes that level of people. >> people agree with him. >> $1.7 billion in cash and we
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put the money up. the president said last night that iran got $1.7 billion in the u.s. and that that was u.s. money that was fronted to them. >> you'll remember this chris, we had money that was from before the revolution. arms that the iranians bought that we never delivered and president reagan agreed this would be arbitrated and the settlement that we reach with them under president obama resolved this matter very much more favorable to us. >> i think the amount was roughly about that. >> it's iran's money in the sense that this goes back to weapon bfrs the revolution and agreed at the time that we would arbitrate this. >> i want to ask you about the travel ban because a lot is
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going to be happening today. you believe that if president trump were able to find a way to abandon now his call to a travel ban to say well the court's decided against it somehow it would be a win for him. explain that. >> well i think that the travel ban was ill conceived. i think it was clumsly rolled out. it serves as great recruitment for isis and for all of those reasons it's not in the united states interest. and he should say to his supporters and the court system was at odds at the proposal. he is going to be successful in front of the 9th circuit for all in the country. but to the point i made earlier about russia it was part of his personality that he is just incapable of accepting anything shy of full victory.
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so he will keep fighting even if it's a losing argument. >> the president says it was only 109 people. that all this is all hysteria. that it only affected 109 people. there was no chaos that secretary kelly said it all went very smoothly. do you accept that? >> first of all the president took a sledge hammer to the wrong party. the fact of the matter is that refugees coming in, the most vetted people possible if you were terrorists trying to get to this country the last thing you do is go through the refugee program. how much of this is about isis saying we're going to infiltrate the refugee programs. >> well, look as a factual matter it's not true to the extent we have a problem here it's mostly home grown terrorists and this is exactly as michael said the wrong thing to do to get at that problem because this handed a huge
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propaganda tool to isis at this moment. and it's a lifeline to them at a time when it's downward. it's something like 90% of republicans believe president trump is on the right track. he is keeping his campaign promises. so even if it's messy or clumsy it seems to be working for him certainly with his base. >> right. no doubt that it plays to the base. he's playing for bigger stakes now. there's a global community paying attention to this. 17,000 college students caught up in a category. i look at those as the greatest ambassadors they have. would you rather have them get their information about the united states from the supreme leader to 12,000 plus iranian students educated here and then go back home.
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>> thank you. >> all right. so there's a new report in the new york times that says president trump is still closely tied to his business empire. what does this mean in terms of this conflict? but there's no law in place. is anything too much? we're going to speak to the new york times reporter that wrote the story, next. their training is developed by the same company who designed, engineered, and built the cars. they've got the parts, tools, and know-how to help keep your ford running strong. 35,000 specialists all across america. no one knows your ford better than ford. and ford service. right now, get the works! a synthetic blend oil change, tire rotation, brake inspection and more -- for $29.95 or less.
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all right there's a new report in the new york times that says public records show president trump still has broad legal authority over his assets and he is the soul beneficiary of the trust involved. joining us now is one of the authors of the report.
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new york times governor and politics reporter susan craig along with the author of trump nation. tim o'brien. why talk about your reporting when i can talk to you? what did you find out. >> there was a press conference and whether or not the trust was revokable and we found out through a freedom of information request submitted not only who the trustees are, there are two of them. one is the son and another is a close associate and also take the power back and learn there's a soul beneficiary of the trust. >> what does that mean? >> he was separating himself from and would no longer be involved. >> he has stepped back and he has talked about that and stepped back from the day-to-day operations. what we learned is he is still
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very much in control. he can revoke it and she the beneficiary and he gets updates on how the company is doing or not doing and there's still a great deal of concern over. >> they're what they are called rev kaable. one of the big questions you pointed in that press conference. we have been monitoring it over time. if the right documents have been filed in the right states to show change of control and as of last week they weren't recorded. not only for donald but for ivanka trump as well. they haven't been formalized publicly. >> that's a really important
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issue. >> you saben officially. >> he's ultimately the beneficiary. >> in terms of conflicts of interest, what does this mean? >> it's all been window dress sog far. he hasn't released his tax returns. we still don't know what kind of money might be flowing into his pocket and he hasn't taken any of the strong steps you would expect the president to take to formally distance himself from his businesses and nor has ivanka up to this point. we have seen no proof of that. essentially what they're both saying is trust me and i think what sue is reporting is there's very little reason to trust that they'll comply with the letter or the spirit of conflict of interest issues. >> we also don't know if the president is under audit. he said he is under audit.
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>> the irs has said he's not going to release kellyanne conway. >> clearly he doesn't release the taxes. >> 2008. >> absolutely. he could do a lot of things. he has chosen not to do them. in your reporting what are your next layer of questions now that you're looking at based on what you were able to figure out so far. >> the interesting thing coming up that we're watching is a lot of what was done with the trust was done and the information was drekded at the old post office and the lease says an elected official including the president can't be on the lease. he's trying to distance himself from it because he wants to potentially avoid conflict there
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or he's trying to address the conflict there. that's going to be big going forward. >> on a separate note the washington post is also reporting that eric trump, son of donald trump, recently last month went to uruguay for a trump organization promotional visit and it cost the taxpayer in secret service fees $100,000. >> right. >> is that okay? >> that's okay. the first female is amily is en receive security and protection. trump tower is going to cost tens of millions of dollars to protect but the federal government has always spent money to protect the wellbeing of the president and the president's family. the weird lil twist in all of this is that we're actually using taxpayer's money to protect eric trump on a business trip to help run a business that will also financially benefit
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the president so you have this very strange chain of taxpayer money protecting the trump family's business interests and a president that won't come clean about what his real financial interests are. >> the boggling question and it goes to what i just pointed to about donald trump's personality is he doesn't back away. imagine if he put out his taxes how much trouble he . >> maybe it would have created more. >> he says nobody is interested, he should then release them. if there's no interest, why not release them? >> at least the information would be out. he could deal with what's there and what isn't. >> sue, tim, thank you very much. anti-semitic crimes are on the rise in cities across the u.s. what is causing this wave of hate? the anti defamation league speaks out next.
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public places. in a new york subway riders took matters into their own hands, using hand sanitizer to clean off the graffiti and erase the hateful messages. what's behind the rise in hate? joining us is the community service and policy director for the anti-defamation league. thank you very much for being here. can you describe this spate of hate that you've seen? how bad is it? >> well, it's bad. since the election we've seen a wave of anti-semitic incidents and actually bias that covers all groups. what we saw this weekend is reflective of some of that. >> meaning that this weekend in terms of vandalism or in terms of actual phone calls, calling in threats to synagogues. >> we'll talk about the threats in a minute or so. this weekend we saw swastikas in new york, synagogue targeted in chicago, swas stick ka in houston. this anti-semitism is not new,
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of course. what we've seen since november has alarmed us and caused us great concern for obvious reasons. >> you're also getting an uptick in bomb threats? >> yes. in january there were three waves called in against jewish community institutions, jccs across the u.s. 65 separate incidents and 55 unique jccs that were targeted. the fbi is working on this. there are challenges to the investigation, even though the fbi has terrific technology and terrific man mauer to tackle this, the challenge has been that the technology is a step ahead. >> meaning the technology of the hate groups that are doing this, what technology are they using that's a step a ahead of the fbi. >> they're using the technology which masks the caller, distorts the voice. but also technology which spoofs the phone number. when the calls are received by the jcc, it looks as if it's coming from inside the building.
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>> that's horror movie stuff. >> exactly. >> what's causing the uptick? >> i want to be careful. we have to avoid easy answers any time you ask about the why. there's a lot of layers. certainly the part we can't ignore is that the campaign for some reason released this ugly pandora's box of bias that targeted not just jews, but many minority groups. that's been of grave concern to us. >> it's your belief that somehow the rhetoric during this campaign did heighten all this? >> yeah, we believe that. i work in one of our new york offices, initially it was anecdotal. we knew our phones were busier than they had ever been. then we saw the stats come in, nypd reporting a spike of incidents after the election and it's of grave concern to us. >> what are you doing? what are you advising the jewish
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community to do? >> when it comes to security issues, number one thing to do is have a plan. when you have that anxiety, you have to channel it into better security practices. adl has worked with jewish communities to practice those plans and revisit those plans after an incident takes place. there are community resources available to them. that's the first thing to do. the second thing to do is take charge within our own stat that of society, work within our schools, work to strengthen hate crime laws. our schools have anti bias and anti bullying education. people can look at what are we teaching our kids and to take control. on a very personal level we can, as well, see how are we speaking to others? how do we speak to our children? it can be very empowering. the incident you refer to in new york city, here are ordinary workers who went in with hand sanitizer, decided we want to do something about it. if there is a silver lining, it
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is that this wave of hate has really caused people to stand up and say we want to do something about it. >> that is a silver lining. thank you very much for telling us all this. please come back with an update. thank you. >> thank you. >> we're following a lot of o news. let's get right to it. >> he had 109 people out of hundreds of thousands of travellers. all we did was vet those people very, very carefully. >> president trump's travel ban is now in legal limbo. >> we're going to challenge the judge's order. >> the vetting order wasn't vetted. >> i say it's better to get along with russia than not. >> putin is a former kgb agent, a thug. >> a lot of killers. you think our country is so innocent? >> patriots win the super bowl! >> it's really a surreal moment. >> we're bringing this sucker home! >> this is "new day" with chris
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