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underwood. left to right want to be fake real. wake up america. that's harsh. have a great weekend, everybody. we begin with this fox news alert. danish media reporting that there have been shots tired at a café in denmark and there are reports of injured people, including a uniformed police officer. hello, everyone i'm uma pemmaraju and welcome to "america's news headquarters." >> i'm leland vittert. we are just getting images from the scene and the café there was hosting event titled art blasphemy and the freedom of expression. that event was hosted by swedish artist who has faced numerous threats for character touring the prophet muhammad back in 207. there are a number of photos of wult holes there at that scene reports of at least two people
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being taken out with stretchers a lot of police officers with automatic weapons as well. we are continuing to monitor the story and bring you the very latest ng. the associated press reports that at least so far they believe this car noonist was not injured. and now we continue to fight sbes islamic extremists in the middle east after stopping an isis suicide attack against the air base in iraq and the american along with iraqi troops there are on high alert. roughly two dozen fighters including some suicide bombers, some reportedly dressed in iraqi military uniforms launched the attack yesterday morning. the base is home to hundreds of u.s. soldiers training members of the iraqi army. the attack came just after islamic state militants took control of a town that's just about seven miles away, the town of al baghdadi a look. conor powell is live with the
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latest. >> reporter: leland, isis fighters reportedly gathering around in the area of ala sad for several weeks now including just in the past few days taking over that town. ala sad is a massive and straulg military base, there are about 2 3 00 or so u.s. marines there who are there to had help train and advise iraqi military. the attack was reportedly easily spotted and the iraqi troops were able to push back the fighters who were wearing iraqi military uniforms, but at least eight of the isis fighters were able to get through the outer perimeter. now, the pentagon says all of them were killed either by iraqi troops or as a result of detonating their own suicide vooess. there were no iraqi carpets or american kaernltsz. u.s. officials says the marines were never in danger and at no time did the inn surges events ever get toes clothes to where they are. the attack does seem designed to create headlines rather than take over the base it it
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certainly does raise questions about the iraq military and that i saw ability to fight isis. isis troops getting so close to this base and even getting on to this base doesn't say much for the iraqi military. there is a lot of talk about an iraqi offensive to push voois out of their strong holds and reverse the momentum. pentagon officials throwing cold water on that idea, saying that the iraqi military just simply isn't led ready but here this this part of the world there are a lot of calls for a ground offensive. the u.s. led air strikes have done some damage to isis and particularly in the northern part of iraq where there are ground fighters, the kurdish fighters and sheia militia to back up those air strikes but there is a lot of talk about some type of iraqi offensive but clearly we see that the iraqi military isn't up to the task, but still there are calls that more needs to be done, leland, to take on isis because really they are still is very powerful
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and rfl strong military outfit in this part of the world. back to you. >> and fighting a force in the iraqi military that all but collapsed a couple of months ago, now the u.s. trainers are working to try to fix that. conor powell monitoring it in jerusalem. thanks conner. now the attack on the ala sad base is putting more urgency on the white house and congress to work out an portion authorization of force deal. with anger growing in washington and especially president obama for seeming to not have a firm plan to fight the islamic extremists, according to a new fox news poll a majority of registered voters don't believe that the president has a clear strategy for defeating isis. that's up 10% from september. and more than half currently disapprove of the president's response to terror threats in general. joining us now with more two congress men serving on the house armed services committee california democrat and colorado republican, gentlemen, great to have you here today. >> good to be with you, happy
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valentines into congressman, let me begin with you as congress gates whether to support the war authorization act against isis lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are saying that he really needs to define this strategy and that's he needs to call for the complete destruction of the terror network. isn't it a fact that you cannot defeat isis with air strikes alone, you need a coordinated effort with our troops in place on the ground to seize control? >> well that would be the third iraq world in full armor. there's a real question we're going to have to deal with it, doug and i and the other members of the armed services committee exactly what are our options. do we stand with the air strikes, try to bring the ground troops from other countries or are we going to provide the ground troops. this is a very profoundly important question for us. we need to understand all of the ramifications the costs both human, financial as well as the political realities of that area. it's not just a matter of the
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way in which the aaumf is written, it is real men women boots on the ground or in the air. we need to understand this. for me i don't want to go back into a third iraq war and put our military on the ground as we did in the previous wars. >> but there are many military leaders saying we don't have to do that. you could have a limit number of troops on the ground there to to very specific tasks. >> well, that's a real possibility and that's how we have to be very careful as we write the aumf. are we authorizing unlimited opportunities and the way the president presented it to us it could be read that he could for a limited period of time unspecified, have full military operations on the ground armor artillery, brig aids all the rest. i think we want to be very careful. i don't want to go there. we'll see where congress wants to go. in any case, we need to understand the human cost, the military cost, the financial cost of the options that are out there and as you said what is
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the strategy. >> that said, congressman land born we're so frustrated to many americans there is no real sense of urgencying to get this job done at a time when the white house is waiting for congress to give a green light and congress is going to take sometime deciding whether to support the authorization action. right now there's a real crisis happening in that region in addition to the horrific murders of hachblngs this week alone we were forced to evacuate our embassy in yemen further degrading its ability to conduct counter terrorism operations there and innocent people are dying every day at the hands of isis. why the lack of urgency? >> it seems like the president does not understand the threat. earlier this week he told an interviewer that fighting terrorism was like a big city payor fighting crime. i don't see criminals in a big city trying to kill the mayor and take over the city government, but that's what isis is trying to do. so the president doesn't get it. until he understands the threat and then goes in front of the american people with a strategy
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and shows leadership leading the american people and also leading our allies such as the arab countries in the region we're not going to deal with this threat very effectively. the aaumf he sent us has so many restrictions in it and that's a problem also. >> i want to throw up a map for our viewers to take a look at the growth of isis in terms of its dominance in this region. back interest last year you can stake a look at the image we're going to show you where you have very few spots there where you see that isis isn't in control you know, contrast that with today and you can take a look and see there's much more. there you go. so congressman, the president cited yemen as a success story back in september. let's play that so you had for our audience to refresh their memory. it's coming.
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>> this counter terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady relentless effort to take out isil wherever they exist using our air power. and our support for partners forces on the ground. this strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us while supporting partners on the front lienls is one that we have successfully pursued in yemen and somalia for years. >> okay. so he cited yemen as a success story. why, then, does the president appear the president's reaction to the turmoil abroad in yemen not just there but the murder of our hostages and that jordanian pilot he kpuds an alarming passive response. aren't you and other democrats concerned about this when isis is showing no signs of backing down as we showed on those maps just a moment ago. >> first of all yemen has been had in chaos for mon than 20 years, it swings back and forth to various tribes, one dominating then losing to another tribe.
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the current tribe that seems to be in control, the houthis actually are she i can't say. it's complex, it's tribal, it's religious, the complexion it in the area is extraordinary. >> but doesn't it bother you, sir, to hear the president citing yemen as a success and though we're witnessing that complete -- that region completely in crisis at the moment? it seems that the twhaus wasn't prepared for this situation as it has drawn out over the last few days. >> well, yemen is different than the situation in the syria and iraq. it is an area that has been in turmoil with shifting alliances and shifting power structures for well over 20 years. so we need to take each of these areas as a unique but very important and in some cases they are combined it's apparent that it's possible and some would say
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apparent that iran is supporting the houthis in the yemen area, that also brings iran into the iraqi situation where they are supporting the shiias in baghdad and beyond. very complexion. the bottom line of this is that our policies over the last 30 years in that area have not been successful. we're seeing an uprising of tribal as well as religious forces and all of the economic issues involved in it. a solution to this area is going to have to come about with the countries in the area, turkey the kurds, jordan, the gulf states, all of thoels people coming together and deciding that they have to put their boots on the ground. >> that's something that we're going to have to wait and see. i'm out of time due to the breaking news i do appreciate both of you joining us today. we're going to watch the situation as it unfolds. thai very much. >> thank you. >> and we urge you to watch our
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exclusive interview with house speaker john boehner on fox news sunday. check out your local listings for the time. returning you now to the breaking news out of copenhagen denmark where there has been a shooting with automatic weapons, multiple shots fired and the associated press reports one person dead at a café the café was hosting an event about free speech. at that speech and talking a lot there was a swedish cartoonist known and underer police protection at times for a 2007 cartoon about the prophet muhammad in which he was depicted as a dog. the shooting happened just about two hours ago, danish police say one man is confirmed dead, 40 years old the perpetrators are still on the loose they were last seen driving away from the scene in a volkswagen and witnesses there report at least 30 bullet holes there inside the windows of had this café where they were having that free
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speech discussion this saturday morning. we're obviously going to continue to monitor this situation bring you any developments as they continue and it seems as though the news there is getting worse not better. we now have another fox news alert for you, this time out of the ukraine where we are a little under five hours away from the planned start of a ceasefire in the bloody battle for eastern ukraine. in the past day seven ukrainian soldiers have been killed, 23 wounded in the fighting. ukrainian president said attacks by the russian backed rebels have intenseified and the peace deal that was reached earlier this week is is in grave danger. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot joins us live with the latest. >> reporter: leland, as you note that ceasefire deadline is fast approaching, but peace in eastern ukraine nowhere in sight. right in the center of the biggest rebel held city in the east, not too far from where fox
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news usually is based, ukrainian shells raining down, killing at least two civilians at the same time there is a rebel offensive near the ukrainian held city of mariopl but the largest fight is over the key ukrainian held transport hub, 6,000 to 8,000 ukrainian troops are there surrounded by rebel fighters and a lot of hardware much of that according to the state department coming from russia. today state has released satellite photos showing artillery, rocket launchers air defense systems surrounding that town they say supply and supported by the russian military and there are reports of new moves by russian troops and vehicles all around eastern ukraine. no wonder the ukrainian president is putting out hose words of warning about this apparently russian backed push. also saying late today here in key he have if fighting continues he will declare a state of marshall law in this
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country that means a mass call up of troops and putting the whole country on wartime footing. again, for his part vladimir putin are saying there are no russian troops, there is no russian military hardware inside ukraine, that is what vladimir putin is saying. leland. >> he may be saying it there doesn't appear to be a whole lot of people hobble him as the russian army looks to be a distinction without a difference between the separatists. the u. has stopped short of sending any type of weapons. here in washington there has been this argument that the administration isn't doing enough to help ukraine. what i'm wondering when you're on the streets there in kiev and talking to folk are they saying thank you, america, or are they saying where is america we need more help in this stand off? >> reporter: leland, i think the first thing to say is there is a pro u.s. mood in general here in this part of ukraine at the very least, but there is according to
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some people we've been speaking to according to what we've been hearing a feeling that there are very strong words coming from washington, a deep concern is the phrase that is repeated on the streets here, but not enough action. the president has said with almost certainty that he hopes and believes that the united states will at least come through with these, quote/unquote, defensive lethal weapons that would help end the fight, but -- and that sentiment is echoed among analysts, other officials and people on the street. so far those weapons are not forthcoming. there is no call i must add, leland for u.s. boots on the ground, trainers yes, and as we've been reporting the past week there will be 600 u.s. soldiers coming from italy next month to train up -- train up some of the security forces here. they will be doing that we must add, though, in the far western side of ukraine, nowhere near the fight. >> we'll see how much help those trainers are and obviously
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whether the president and congress decide to do anything more to help the ukrainians. just a couple of hours away from the ceasefire. thanks, greg hoo. a developing story out of canada with officials saying an anonymous line to a tip line led them to stop a valentine's day master plot. canada's justice minister saying it was murderous ms. fits not islamic terrorists that came up with a plan to open fire at a hall fax sopping mall today. the police foiled that attack even before it began. >> information gathered suggested that a 19-year-old male and a 23-year-old geneva illinois female had access to firearms and it was their intention to go to a public venue in the hall fax region on february 14th with a goal of opening fire to kill citizens and then themselves. >> law enforcement sources are saying that the two suspects were obsessed with death, the male suspect shot himself to death as police surrounded his
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home. the woman was arrested at the airport. two others are being questioned at this time. and we are continuing to follow the breaking news from cope hagen denmark where there has been a shooting at a café with at least one person killed at the café right now there is a lot of police with automatic weapons. earlier today a couple of hours ago there was a conference of sorts about free speech, added a cartoonist who was known for sketching the profit muhammad something that earned him a lot of death threats over the next couple of years. we're going to talk to a reporter from denmark about the latest on this developing situation as the gunman remains at large. know that chasing performance can mean lower returns and fewer choices in retirement. know that proper allocation could help increase returns so you can enjoy that second home sooner. know the right financial planning can help you save for college and retirement.
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>> there is the confirmed death and the three injured police officers and also they just found the getaway car in another part of copenhagen so that's the latest. >> give us a sense of the coverage there. is this being treated as a terrorist tack there? we're looking at pictures of what appears to be s.w.a.t. teams surrounding this café. all the way going baun to 2005 there has been controversy depicting the prophet muhammad in those cartoons. >> it's being called a terrorist attack and they're talking obviously about the "charlie hebdo" attacks recently in paris, it's being compared to that. i haven't personally seen these guys before, the s.w.a.t. teams you're talking about. you don't see them much in denmark it's a major thing here. >> obviously we're hearing that the gun gunmen are on the loose. there was a masked gunman that
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they saw at the time. do we know anything more about the condition of the cartoonist who evidently was there and the big name at this conference about free speech. any idea about his condition? >> he's fine. there was already -- there was intelligence that was there already because he was a controversial man because of his cartoons. he was fine. >> i want to stop you for a second. are you saying that there were already police and some kind of pro tech there at this café because of how controversial this was? >> of course. there were police outside. and there were -- they called into the fbi, they had agents there already. >> unbelievable as this is developing. is there any idea in terms of how many suspects there are or danish list talking about who they're wanting to look for? we saw one report about a volkswagen. i know this only happen two and a half hours ago. >> there's two suspects they both got away and jumped a car
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in copenhagen and they are on the loose. one was described as looking middle eastern. >> what's the relationship with the muslim community? after the "charlie hebdo" attacks there were so many discussions about what paris was like and do you have those sort of issues there in denmark or is it pretty much everybody that goes along and gets along? >> the vast majority of the muslims in denmark are living their life peacefully. there's a small minority who has been radicalized we have at least 100 people who have gone to syria to fight and we have had many foiled terrorist attacks in denmark since the cartoon chris is. the newspaper who published it has been threatened to be attacked a few times. there are a very small minority that are radicalized. >> give us a sent of sort of the feelings there on the streets as it relates to the camp toons. 2005 you had the cartoon controversy there was a danish money that published some
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cartoons of the prophet muhammad that started this, 2007 this artist published cartoons of the prophet muhammad. is this something that's talked about in denmark or are they really on the free speech side of saying if you want to public this we can and everyone should be tolerant. >> i think most people are becoming more strict on their stance of free speech that we really want -- people should have the right to be able to pretty much say anything they want or draw anything they want. that's pretty much the general idea here. >> tom carlson a journalist in denmark. so far that we can confirm one person killed in the attack on a café in copenhagen denmark where a cartoonist was holding a seminar, if you will on pre speech. that cartoonist under police protection at the time of the attack because he had drawn the prophet muhammad as a dog two suspects still on the loose, the getaway car now found those suspects at least at the time of
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. welcome back. as isis continues with its terror campaign it's also attracting more people to its slick recruitment efforts. there are growing concerns that if the u.s. doesn't lay out a clear strategy to defend isis the situation will only get worse. our mention guest knows firsthand how radical islam networks operate and once served as a top recruiter setting up red cal groups in denmark, islam and egypt until his arrest in the after matt with 9/11. after spending time with hard core prisoners he realized in a his ideology was wrong and renounced all advertise to radical slam. he document his story in his book "cadradical" recently he shared his concerns with me about what he calls the u.s. undefined passive response against isis and his reaction to
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the houthi takeover in yemen. >> i think we have to -- obviously we do have to be concerned about the tact fact that if the u.s. appears that if its in retreat across the region and if the foreign policy of the united states appears as if it's not addressing the issues but rather is pulling back from the area then of course isil will be able to use such decisions for their ownpropaganda that they are defeating the united states. >> when you take a look at what is at play right now give us a sense of these young men and some women of course who are joining isis right now. what are the common deenominators denominators. >> i think obviously they are from sunni regions. when we look at the issue in iraq and syria there are probably different reasons to why iraqi fighters join isil and syrian fighters would join and foreign fighters from across the world will join.
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the most ard ent activists are the foreign fighters, those who travel from europe central asia south asia particularly to india and north africa. muslim majority nations fighters travel from there who are committed jihadist idea logs and these are the ones who take positions of responsibility in isil's hire arc yees and enforcing their very very rigid interpretation of the faith of islam over the rest of society. the sunni arabs who are joining in iraq are primarily joining as a form of dis consent against the corruption and inept tud of the she i can't led iraqi legislation. >> what impact does it have for example, when the enemy ears directly from our president saying what he's not going to do, like sending in the ground forces? >> i argue that the threat here is very clearly islamist
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extremism and if we recognize it's not just a small organized fringe but there's an ideological insurgencey across certain countries within the region then that helps you to recognize which ideology in tick we have to blunt. here it is the islamist ideology. that's not the same as the religion but it is somehow justified by the religion in the eyes of those who follow it. beyond that i think there needs to be a wider strategy to deal with it and what i fear that currently president obama not only hasn't named the ideology but has admitted to not having a strategy. i think we need to have a bit more leadership in the long run. >> so many military leaders have said similar -- have expressed similar thoughts like you are right now, saying that you have to name the enemy and without doing so you really cannot win. >> if we are so scared of naming the islamist ideology as the motivating factor for many of these foreign fighters then we
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aid that atmosphere of list rei can't where people are frankly they are gentlemen just petrified and that can lead to even more anti-muslim hate crime because if they don't know -- if they're unable to pinpoint specifically that we're dealing with the islamist idea nolg and nafr ignorance they blame all muslims. so i think it's actually -- it's better if we wish to protect mainstream muslims from anti-muslim hate crime to name the very specific ideology we're talking about which is slammism and different that in that from islam the faith. everyone has a role to play, all of society is sfaekd by terrorism, when a bomb goes out it doesn't discriminate likewise all the society must respond. frankly they moment i see that many people across the board in society are stepping up the challenge this ideology to challenge big tree and unfortunately i don't see that my own communities are doing
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enough and i think they should be far for vocal. things can spiral out of control very quickly. and what i'm worried about at the moment is we have a complete breakdown of law and order in isil controlled territories and sort of lynching, public beheadings and all the atrocities, parading prisoners in public and burning them alive. what i fear that libya and other person areas in north africa, news lick majority regions, have very strong isil affiliates and in large parts of libya there's a very grave concern that we're going to witness a similar breakdown to law and order. that's what i'm worried about is a spread of the isil style jihadist barring richl like a virus across regions where people are frankly dis contented and upset with the status quo and resorting to this form of
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man operation of the gel ron to express it themselves. >> painting a so he boring portrait. he's running for a seat in the british parliament and he's running a tight race. we'll keep you posted on his candidacy throughout the next few weeks. now back to our top story we have new video for you from that shooting in denmark, danish tv now calls it an act of terrorism. it happened at an event organized by an artist known for depicting the prophet muhammed as a dog in a cartoon and has received threats in the past. at the time he was under police protection. danish police now confirm that one person a 40-year-old pan was been killed there are also multiple repor injuries including the possibility that three police officers who were there to protect this cartoonist at the event were injured as well. the event was a symposium, if you will about free speech. we have also heard that the
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gunmen, one described as being middle east origin, one of two gunmen, they are still on the loose. witnesses report large bursts of automatic weapons fire there at this café. this is some new video that is coming into us there from copenhagen denmark. the attack happened just about two hours and 40 minutes ago, which was about 4:00 p.m. local time on saturday afternoon. the ap is reporting that lars lars vilkis who is the cartoonist in this case is okay. danish police there trying to get a handle on exactly who may be behind this and obviously find these two suspects, armed gunmen in the shooting death of at least one person at a café at that café a cartoonist known for depicting the prophet muhammed as a dog. we're going to bring you the latest including more from copenhagen as we have it it.
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to wrong. his trial brings up a physical of issues from using ptsd as a defense to having a trial as a movie about the victim -- victim's life is up for an oscar. troy slater is a criminal defense attorney in los angeles and former criminal prosecutors in westchester county and new york city. troy first to you in the sense that the insanity defense is hard to prove. do they even have a chance there in this trial? >> they do. all they have to show is that he was suffering from such a mental disease or defect that he didn't know right from wrong and he couldn't control the impulse to do the wrong thing. >> all right. dan, let's look at the case a little bit in this sense i want to play quickly the 911 call from the sister of the suspect right after the shooting. >> he says that he killed two guys. they went out to a shooting range. it's like he's all crazy. he's psychotic. i don't know if he's on drugs or
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not. >> and after that there was a police chase from the sister's home eddie ray left and police eventually caught him. in this sense for you, dan, people don't run from the police if they don't know what they did is is wrong. so if he knew enough to run from the police does that in that sense prove that he knows what he did a little while ago was wrong? >> right. and that's a strong argument for the prosecution. there's no doubt the defendant suffers from mental illness but there's a big difference between having mental illness and have ago legal insanity defense that you can win with on trial. you have to show if you're the defense that he didn't know what he was doing was wrong. he ran from the police, he told the sister according to her 911 call that he had just committed murder and a sheriff's deputy testified that he said he shot these two people because they weren't talking to him, a clear motive. a lot of evidence showing that he did understand what he was doing and that it was wrong. as i said, he has mental illness but that's not an instant
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defense. >> troy, as a criminal dwebs attorney you've got this suspect who says i shot them because they were in the back seat and they weren't talking to me that's according to at least two sheriff's deputies. at the same time you have this text message from chris kyle saying, this dude a straight up nuts. as he can talking to his friend there about this person they are taking out to the shooting range. at some level would the defense -- do they have any other options but to take the insanity defense here or could you come up with something else? >> no the insanity defense is their only defense because it's clear that he did it. even his attorney stood up and said that he did it but the text message and the 911 call from both his sister and the decedents, the victims here chris kyle say that he was nuts, he was it -- the sister said he was psychotic, he was babbling, he was clearly crazy. and with regard to the car chase, that could just show that he was suffering from paranoid delusions and thought that everybody was after him.
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it doesn't necessarily show consciousness of guilt. >> so, tan, if there's no consciousness of guilt in this case sense, allow allegedly during his confession he did say to one of the sheriff's deputies i think they photographer give me referring to the people he had just shot. why is there no plea deal? they're not going for the death penalty but he has not pled guilty. do you think they can get him off? >> well, there's no plea deal from the prosecution because they have an extremely strong case. he shot and killed two people without any argument of self defense, he just picked up weapons and shot and killed them. now, insanity defenses like this are usually a against of last resort when someone has no factual or legal defense they go for insanity. he has mental illness but there is a lot of evidence to show that he doesn't have enough for the defense to succeed. they have to reason to plead this case down.
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>> insanity is a legal defense. insanity is a legal defense and the only issue is whether he's going to prison or whether he's going to a prison mental hospital. those are the only options here. >> well -- >> go ahead dan. >> if he's found not guilty by legal i will sanity he will probably go to a mental constitution. you don't know how long he will be there for. if he's convicted of murder he will be in prison for probably the rest of his life. >> we saw that has played out in the past in some very high profile trials. dan shore there is troy slaten, we appreciate your time here as you break this case down. the trial continues next week and we're going to continue to watch it closely. thanks. coming up in our next hour, still ahead, we're going to be talking about the standoff taking place on capitol hill as congress is just days away interest shutting down the agency sobl with keeping our borders safe and going after illegal immigrants. can they make a deal to keep
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hello, everybody. welcome to the second hour of "america's news headquarters" in washington. >> updating our top story right now police in denmark are on the hunt for a gunman who killed at least one person and injured three police officers. danish media are calling it an act of terrorism. the shooting happened at an event organized by lars vilks. he faced several death threats since depicting the prophet mew muhammad as a dog. when necessary denmark he is under police guard. we are told a couple of the police officers injured were those there to protect him. and to talk more about this let's bring in foreign policy inesh tiffin finishinitiative fellow. it happened about 4:00 p.m. local time. that's about three hours ago. but in this sense you have to draw the connection back to the "charlie hebdo" attacks.
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>> if you draw a cartoon people find offensive, then your life will be at risk. it's very unfortunate but that's the unfortunate reality and i find it somewhat hypocritical. if you lack at papers in the arab world or muslim world you'll find cartoons you could pull out of nazi germany and you don't see jews going around assassinating muslim cartoonists or burning down muslim embassies. >> that hasn't happened lately. >> this is something we have to live with. >> we talked to a reporter in copenhagen. you could hear the shock in his voice, the idea you see the bullet holes there at the cafe. we're told it was, at least by witnesses, automatic weapons fired. two suspects, one of whom was of middle east origin. they drove away in a volkswagen and found a getaway car. but not so far the gunmen. give us a sense how denmark
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relates to france in terms of its islamic relationship and also consider that in 2005 denmark itself had a large problem with a cartoonist who depicted the prophet muhammad. >> denmark is a very open society. it takes pride in its speech and this is a difficult problem to deal with in terms of integrating in some cases individuals who might not agree with the ideals of danish society. so it's going to be a challenge for them. obviously you do see some muslims going to fight in syria can and iraq. the training turnovers. >> the is rammic state has made a lot of proclamations about attacking people had who depict
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the prophet muhammad in a way they don't find acceptable. this is new video we're getting in from copenhagen. you can see the number of bullet holes. we saw one person taken out be on a stretcher. at some point anyone who says something bad about the prophet muhammad going to have to be under police guard as this guy was? >> i don't think we're there yet. you might recall someone propose proposed a draw muhammad day and to this day lives under protect merely for proposing this idea. i think he's a real threat for our freedom of speech that we can't discuss these things. >> i want to connect this to the islamic state. we don't know where these people received their training, if they did at all. we know the "charlie hebdo" people received their training
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in yemen. we saw the attack on the base where the united states soldiers were. we have seen those kinds of events. is this an indictment in the way the united states isn't doing enough to count he this extremism at its roots as the symptom rather than the cause? >> if you look at the authorization for military force the president proposed, putting a three-year limit on this, as if we know now. >> this guy droou his cartoon in 2007. >> the original you muhammad cartoon started in 2005. this is going to be a generational struggle. to say now in 2015 that we can end this in three years is a little premature but it goes back to the president pulling troops out of iraq in 2011. i think that's a large part of the problem we're daelg with today is we finished up too
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early it there. >> i want to end on the thought here, is this a new reality? it seems at some level they had to know in denmark that this was a possibility, this shooting in the sense you have the "charlie hebdo" attack. they had the equivalent of think fbi there. three police officers and still you have one person dead, at least three injured and just by count ing the bullet holes thousands of rounds of automatic weapons fired. the way they're treating their own people. this isn't the way most muslim people want to live. completely brutal savages and i think this is going to be a battle that muslims will have to wage against their own . we'll have to fight with the muslim community to assist us. >> when you talk liberal values in the sense this happened at a conference about free speech, one person dead.
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a number of others injured. we appreciate your time, insight, and alalysis as well. uma? turning now to the middle east and developments from the al asad air base now on high alert after iraqi forces stopped a suicide attack from causing widespread damage and fatalities. that attack happening just after islamic state militants gained control of an iraqi town just about seven miles away. president obama and congress authorizing the use of military force against isil. but there's still division on what that authorization will mean. peter? >> reporter: uma the daring attack was disrupted but there are more than 300 american troops at the al asad base where they are teaching iraqis how to fight. there is new concern it will happen again and again until the islamic state has more success. >> those 300 marines are the
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toughest around and they are well armed. the fact the isis attack didn't work doesn't mean that it couldn't work in the future it doesn't mean something bad couldn't have been done. the fact is when you have the enemy only nine miles away and that's almost like a pool table. >> reporter: as many as 25 islamic state militants wearing iraqi army uniforms descended on the al asad base friday. the first group blew themselves up with suicide vests and followed by more than a dozen gunmen quickly killed by iraqi security forces as american apache helicopters race to provide support. this episode showed the coordination isis is use to go carry out attacks and similar attacks in the future could leave the americans in the area cornered. >> the reality is 320 surrounded by, what you know, 1,000 2,000, 3,000? how quickly? it only takes about 20 to 30 minutes of these guys from al
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baghdadi to get to this area. so in terms of an actual rescue, i think at this point if those plans haven't been put into place it's a little bit too late for us to start moving things in quick order. >> reporter: the threat remains isis now controls the nearby town of al baghdadi. the pentagon is stressing this weekend that the ultimate result was positive because the iraqi army did repel this big terror attack. uma? >> peter, thank you very much for that update. we all know what we need to do. we have to build stronger defenses and disrupt more attacks. we have to make cyberspace safer. we have to improve cooperation across the board. >> that was the president speaking about cyber security in california california's silicon valley. he called cyberspace the new wild west and told the crowd of tech seeceos the private sector must do more to stop attacks targeting the united states. meanwhile, the health care
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company anthem is offering free identity theft protection for current and former customers. hack hackers broke into the company's database and stole information on 80 million americans. anthem continues to investigate exactly how the breach occurred. well, two weeks until the department of homeland security funding runs out. the house passing a $40 billion budget that derails the president's executive action on immigration. but it hasn't been able to move to the senate just yet. congressman louie gohmert has been on the forefront of the immigration battle and is joining us now from texas. welcome, congressman. great to have you here again today. >> good to be with you uma. thank you. >> some are charging house republicans are more worried about caving in on immigration than a shutdown. is that true? >> no, that's not true at all. actually if the democrats in the senate will will get serious about the need in homeland security we'd get the budget passed immediately.
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some people keep asking, what is plan "b"? we're in plan "b." plan "a" would have been to hold back everything that the president cares about dramatically cutting, say, the epa, the irs agents that are out there taking people's money without just cause. cut the white house budget 20% because the house has cut our own budget over 20%. we didn't do any of that in the omnibus bill that passed in december. that was plan "a." take the things the president cares the most about, which does not include homeland security, hold those back. use those for leverage. also, it's a dirty little secret but the fees that get paid in for the immigration visas the president is twisting and using for people who didn't pay fees that are getting -- that came in illegally, those fees are funding homeland security. and how else would they have been able to get this massive
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building over in crystal city to start pumping through the illegal immigrants visas the president has unconstitutional granted. the senate needs to wake up. let's deal with this issue and if you don't like something the house put in there then make an amendment and take it out . the senate democrats will not het this come to a vote. and how interesting, uma, to hear the president of the united states say we have to build more fences for cyber security. the secret service director is saying we need better fencing around the white house. we put up bicycle racks but they won't build a fence on the southern border. how much sense does all of that make? >> when had all of this came into play, the speaker of the house promised the gop these
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executive actions would be dealt with in this session by denying certain funding in order to override the president's executive action that he implemented last year. many people didn't expect it to had hit this roadblock. are you surprised you are where you are, that this was supposed to have a smooth sailing course. technically you still have money for the department. it's not going to be completely running out. things will still be operating. politically this doesn't make the republicans look good if they're going to be responsible for this shutdown. >> this is plan "b." plan "a" would have held back the things the president cares most about like goss on federal lands.
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send that money back. we didn't do that. we held out as leverage homeland security that will run on its own with all the fees of getting in. some of us knew we would get to this point because senate democrats would hold up the bill for debate. that has to be key and i hope people across the country during this week people are home that they will let their democratic senators know you get in there and debate at least amend the bill if you don't like it and get it passed. we passed what we believe. we conference it. we get a compromise and that becomes law. that's how it's supposed to work. they just have to do their job. we should have held out for
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leverage, the things the president cared about. we didn't do that. >> we're out of time but do you expect the shutdown to happen? really quickly what's your prediction? >> i don't think there will be a shutdown at all. the department of the homeland security has plenty of money to keep running. i hope the senate will bring it to debate. homeland security is the thing republicans care about most of all. if the president just takes some of the money he's processing illegal immigrants with, homeland security will be running a long time. >> thanks for your insights today. and certainly an extreme weather alert. new england is bracing for the one thing they don't need any more of. more snow and a big wintry
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blast. the area could see over a foot of fresh powder. january he is dean is tracking it all from the severe weather center. >> every single weekend we are watch this clipper system that will bring us another blizzard. this will bring the potential overnight and into tomorrow across long island up to maine. six states are under a blizzard warning including the u.p. of michigan. this is still not only a northeast storm but a midwest storm. all the areas shaded in red are blizzard conditions. very dangerous travel tonight into tomorrow with wind gusts 70 miles an hour. in some cases over a foot of
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snow but it will be the winds and the blowing snow that make this storm exceptionally dangerous even down to the mid-atlantic. wind chills, cold can air that we haven't seen in decades down towards the mid-atlantic with wind chills feeling like minus 20. we have the poetential for an ice storm. sunday into monday you need to be prepared for the potential of dangerous conditions as we head into the new workweek. cold air the potential for more storms across the mid-atlantic and northeast. sunday into monday for our friends across the south, it is going to be a bessie one this weekend. back to you. >> you are fuel of good news, janice. >> happy valentine's day.
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>> you're going to be busy. >> it's a busy one. make sure people are safe. >> it is dangerous. we make light of it but it can be deadly. uma? and straight ahead right after this break, terrorists threatening mel tear families here at home via seener attacks. we'll talk to two women fighting back to help protect their families. and the add ven turp of a lifetime in outer space where zero gravity rules. it's all about the science on the international space station. our interview with two american astronauts onboard coming up next. >> two and a half hours of physical activity working out doing aerobic and ann aerobic exercise. it's go go, go pretty much all
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members are taking over the twitter and facebook accounts of several military spouses this week. here is what we're talking about. take a look. while your president and your had husband are killing our brothers in syria, iraq and afghanistan, we're coming for you. we know everything about you. your husband and your children and we're closer than you can even imagine. it's scary as these families deal with this cyber terrorism. two women here to share their stories. angela and lori, both are joining us to tell more about the threat they received. em glad you could share the story with our audience because it's important one. you maust must have been quite alarmed when you received a threat via your social media can account. >> i was alarmed for a second,
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for a while. and then i think we kind of blew it off and thought it was just, you know a crazy message. as the day progressed, we started to take it a little more seriously. and, yes now we're -- we've heightened our security we're being very vigilant from the federal and state level down to our city police and our neighborhood hoa. we're taking a lot of measures to tight enen our security. >> lori, knowing that this group has your personal information, it must be very, very troubling, uncomfortable and also leaves you feeling vulnerable to an unknown entity. how did you respond to this? >> my heart was racing immediately, of course. i was shocked to be called out by first and last name. when you were reading the message just now, may heart started to race. it's shocking to hear them call
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you out by first and last name. as angela said when you put the facts together and you know the fbi is on the case and i had our local law enforcement call and offer their support as well you realize how much support you have. >> your husband has been deployed eight times including four times in iraq and afghanistan. what assurances are you receiving from law enforcement right now? >> what assurances am i receiving, is that what you asked me? >> yes. >> they're all over it. we couldn't be in better hands. my husband spent the day at northern command here where he works with fbi and cid and police. yeah, i mean, i'm not worried with about our safety necessarily. we've really tightened our ship. >> lori these warnings have been out a few months ago. to let military families know they might be targeted. have these threats forced you to change your lifestyle or
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activities on a regular basis? and if so, how? >> you know, when i made a decision to write stories for military families and publicize that, i'm ceo after very public communications firm, i can't really go back and rewrite had history. my information is out there for anyone who has a computer. you still can be vigilant. that message was intended to invoke fear. and obviously we're concerned and we're vigilant but i think the message military families are hearing is not to be afraid. fear is a choice. we can still be aware of the danger and vigilant without being afraid. >> absolutely. there is a difference between being afraid and living in fear. angela, what do you say about standing up to this kind of threat? i know that it's a way to say, you know what i'm not going to take this we don't need to cave in like this or be afraid. so are what are you doing?
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>> well, the one thing that i do not want to see happen with this is i don't want to see this become one more thing for military spouses to grandstand over and use as a way of feeling relevant relevant. each of us targeted, we're featured in a cnn article that asks us about the isis threats towards military families. i think that i said something like if isis gets to a point where he they're targeting yappy army wives, i'm screwed already so it's too late for me to pull back. i wrote a kind of controversial book called no man's war that came out last summer. it's on bookshelves across the country. so it's, you know, the fbi told me it's too late for me to pull back. so here i am. >> well ladies, you are -- i would say very courageous to come forward and talk about this. you're not going to be operating in fear. you're going to be moving
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positive in ways to encourage other families who are victims as well. we appreciate you joining us and keep us informed on how the investigation is going. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. all the best. >> core ajurageous women as well. stay with us. we'll bring you the latest on the shooting in denmark. an event held by a cartoonist who once drew a picture of the prophet muhammad as a dog. he's okay. but one person is dead. three police officers injured in a hail of automatic weapons fire. the gunmen are still on the loose in copenhagen in denmark. we'll bring you the very latest when we return.
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speech event. police say the gunmen fired through the cafe window. the danish media are calling it an act of terrorism. joining us now with more on what's been developing out there there, tom, i understand you have some new information for us. what can you tell us? >> reporter: the police did a press conference the newest thing they found the getaway car about a mile and a half away from the venue. the people the suspects, have not been found yet. the police also said two out of the three police officers were security services similar to the fbi in america. they were there -- posted there -- for security purposes because this was such a controversial person lars vilks, who they were trying to kill. >> we are looking at live pictures from the area. you mentioned lars vilks who is a controversial cartoonist there attending the event correct? >> reporter: yes. he was actually the organizer of it. >> he's the organizer.
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for people who don't have awareness about who he is, give our audience some insight about his background and why he's part of this investigation. >> reporter: he drew the prove et muhammad as a dog a couple years after the big danish crisis in 2006. then he drew muhammad as a dog. basically ever since then he's been living under gro or less, because people want to kill him. so it's not so surprising they're going after him. >> it's interesting he's been living underground but you say he organized the event. >> reporter: it's a symposium. a left wing, liberal newspaper, activists from fema -- not fema. i forgot the name now but a feminist activist group was there, french ambassador there after the event in paris.
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>> what's going on at this hour? are poelice searching other neighborhoods? are other areas being evacuated or are the police combing through specific combs? >> reporter: yeah, i was just informed they're going through a pack where they think they might be. obviously looking all over copenhagen where it happened trying to find them. i heard reports about maybe locking down the bridge to sweden. there was a report of a carjacking. police are waiting to be confirm that. so there's lots and lots of stories going around and it's very confusing. >> this will certainly be keeping police very busy for the next several hours. we appreciate you joining us with an update because this is a story that obviously raises big questions, again, ties to terrorism and something that isn't going away anytime soon. thank you for joining us and we'll check back with you later on.
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>> reporter: thanks. all right. we did have a sound bite and a little bit of video of president obama in a selfie video he made on tuesday. it's reminding a lot of folks -- there's the video. it is reminding a lot of folks of the obama care can sign-up deadline. this one included. in the video he was using a selfie stick. at one point or another playing air basketball. and at the end he explained yo will lo, which for those of you not as hip as the president of the united states is slang for you only live once. is this successful in its attempt to connect with young americans or is it an example of a behavior not consistent with being the leader of the free world? here now fox news political analyst angela mcgowan and chuck rocha. angela, on the same day, as much as we can tell that he learns
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caleb yuler dies should he be making light of what he's doing? >> no. ronald reagan wouldn't even take his jacket off in the oval office. now we have a president doing a stick selfie. it's ridiculous. >> if you like the president you think this is the greatest thing. >> i do campaigns for a living. he has had a great record reaching out to millennials. >> can you reach out by being serious and sober and this summer he caught a lot of heat for talking about the death of james foley on the golf course.
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president bush back when he was president said i'm not playing golf because i'm not put in a position of making statements and having you go out on the golf course doing these things. is that the kind of lead erer and did that show leadership by running around with a selfie stick? >> if you're a republican you hate every bit of it. >> when we're in war and turmoil, i support my commander in chief. when president obama was running he was a candidate. he was far ahad head in dealing with technology. now he's president. he's our commander in chief. we have people being beheaded and we have a president saying y olo and a selfie stick. >> if you have to resort to these kinds of things, are you losing control? we saw him being interviewed by a woman who was famous for one reason, that was because she jumped in a bathtub filled with milk and frootl oops.
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>> the movie got a lot of views. >> and so the way you reach out to millennials. they told nixon when he went on live, that would be the end of his whole presidency. you can back to your black and white tv and your atari. >> an actual person who goes out and talks to millennials. >> i think it was cool that we did more outreach. i think it's a good thing. >> not in the oval office and not the president of the youunited states. >> that's where we disagree. >> we'll agree to disagree and we'll have more of a discussion during the break. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. up next, a trip to outer space as we talk with our american astronauts onboard the international space station about the adventure of a lifetime and working onboard that amazing ship. stay with us.
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welcome back, everybody. they are part of one of the most exclusive fraternities in the world. a group defined by their pioneering spirit and passion for exploring the last frontier. american astronaut commander butch gilmore and terry birch have been living out their dream looking to the stars and extending hughmanity's reach into the unknown. both have been high above the earth for months now. i had a chance to talk with them about their groundbreaking reser research and awe inspiring add ven turp of a lifetime. >> it's busy. we're scheduled with two and a half hours of physical can activity working out doing aerobic and anaeshg akrobic activity. >> the effects of micro gravity on cells along with the
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long-term impact on the human body. wouldn't you say this is krit critical? is. >> that's one of the most important functions that the space station performs showing people can live and thrive in space and come back in good shape. we're doing a lot of human ex pernts with various scanners to look at our heart, our brain, our eyes. somebody it is getting scanned in some way. seeing how our bodies react and adapt is very important. with space stations before it, we've shown people can live and work in space for a long time. that's what we need to do. >> you've been in space now for
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many months and you returned back to earth next month. what impact so far has this had on your body? as you pointed out you do exercise and that's part of the requirement, isn't it, to exercise day onboard the space station? >> it is. what he can does it have? we'll find out when i get back. i've only missed two days of working out since i've been here and i've been here four and a half months. those two days were days we had space walks in october. so it is every single day and it does make a difference. i'm stronger now. we're able to eat here and not gain wait. we need to eat more to maintain our waiteight. >> i recently interviewed scott kelly who plans to break a record by living in space for a year and he'll be joining you and your team next month.
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what do you think the biggest challenge will be? >> concentrating on everything you do. there's a lot of detail and procedures that we work. the psychological aspect will be a bigger challenge and probably more interesting results. >> you were both hooked on the idea of space travel. what was it that actually inspired you to follow through with your dreams? was it the early images of the space pioneers who landed on the moon? >> what you see would take place on television. that was certainly inspiring. it was many events many people throughout my life that inspeared me to do my best with what the good lord gave me.
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>> the first book i read was about "apollo." my mom and dad worked at the goddard space center. i had an f-16 picture. it was something i was interested in since i was a little boy. >> give us a sense of the majesty of being far, far away. >> being able to see so clear for thousands of miles. no way to put it into words. it's epic. it's awe-inspiring. >> unfortunately we're fighter pilots and not poets. you can't put words to what you see. the pictures are amazing. when you look down on creation they can't do it justice. >> they have so much fun
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onboard. those guys are really loving it. >> if you're not having fun there -- >> being in zero gravity, they seem to be embracing it. >> they embody the right stuff as much talk of role models in the world and pop culture. >> they're inspired by the apollo astronauts. i would loolove to take a ride up there. >> there's a man hunt under way in denmark for two gunmen who opened fire on a crowded cafe. inside the cafe was an event going on hosted by a man who was under death threats and under police protection because he had drawn pictures of the prophet muhammad. one person is dead. three police officers injured. we are told sweden is stepping in to help in this investigation. it is now dark there. we'll have the latest up next.
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feared diseases and now most cancer patients have been cured thanks to the hiv virus. we have the details in the break through experimental treatment. >> well, hi. well so far 125 patients with acute or chronic leukemia or non-hodgkins lymphoma have gone into the full or partial remission, including 36 children. scientists at the pennsylvania school of medicine are reprogramming billions of the patient's cells to fight off their own specific cancer and much is credited to the hiv virus. researchers are only using the part of the virus that allows it to sneak into and infect t-cells or white blood cells. >> in this case, we're using it to bring in genetic material not from the hiv virus, but bring in genetic material that will reprogram the patient's t-cell
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to fight their cancer. it is not hiv. patients can't get hiv from this. >> once reprogrammed in the lab, the new cells are put back into the patient's body where the cancer fighting cells reproduce. in some cases offering an alternative to dangerous bone marrow transplants. one of the patients is dr. doug olson. he's had four cancer treatments since he was diagnosed with chronic leukemia in 1996. in 2010, half of his bone marrow was cancerous and he was running out of options. he signed up for the therapy and in less than four weeks he was in full remission. >> basically, my goal was to stay alive long enough that somebody was going to come one a cure. literally it was next week that that -- i sat in dr. porter's exam room and he said that they couldn't find a cancer cell anywhere. >> well, dr. olson has been cancer free now for four years and he even ran his first half marathon with his son. now, there are still unanswered questions though, like will this
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treatment work for other cancers? but one thing is certain dr. porter says the future of medicine is now. pretty remarkable stuff, leland. >> medical miracle, and to think it was something that we ought thought would kill folks. bryan llenas, thank you. we'll come back with the latest on what is developing in copenhagen as investigators continue to search for those suspects involved in that attack at a free speech event in copenhagen. we will bring you the very latest after this. oh i'm on the cookie air diet. you just... and that's it. i prefer real food
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♪ ♪ a manhunt is on in denmark for two gunmen who shot at the copenhagen cafe, killing one man and injuring three police officers there. there's word that sweden is helping the denmark police. >> as we're hearing police are looking for two men in dark clothing. drove away in a dark volkswagen that had been carjacked. the car was later found, but not the gunmen. the shooting happened in the event organized by swedish cartoonist lars vilks. he has faced death threats in the past. he's come under attack since he depicted the prophet muhammad as a dog in a cartoon in 2007. we are told there was police protection there at that event.
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and they may have been the police officers who were injured. from u.k. prime minister david cameron, i condemn the shooting in copenhagen. my thoughts are with the danish people. that's all for us here in washington. this week on "the journal editorial report" the administration lays out the national security and puts climate change on par with terrorism. are they down playing the real threat? and plus president obama's war irresolution. and move over, scott walker. a new midwestern governor is taking on public sector unions. so can bruce ronner clean up the mess in illinois? welcome to "the journal editorial report." i'm paul gigot. the white house released its 2015 national security
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