letterman. that's it for this week's show. thanks to my panel, thanks to you for watching. hope to see you right here next week. eric: we begin with a fox news alert, isis now claiming responsibility for this morning's palm sunday bombings at two with christian churches in northern egypt that has led to the president of egypt now declaring a three month emergency. those attacks just the latest targeting christians in that country, killing at least 43 people and leaving about 100 others wounded as christians around the world are attending palm sunday services. hello and welcome to a brand new hour of "america's news headquarters," i'm eric shawn. arthel: and i'm arthel neville. the explosions in alexandria and the nile city of tanta striking the center of the christian community on this holy day after

isis vowed to step the up its attack on christian civilians in egypt. today's blast coming just weeks before pope francis is scheduled to visit the country. david lee miller is live with the latest. david lee? >> reporter: arthel, it bears repeating just moments ago the president of egypt on television declaring a three month state of emergency now in the aftermath of these twin attacks targeting coptic orthodox churches. dozens were killed and more than 100 people were injured, but this day could have been more lethal. both incidents were caught on camera, and what you're about to see and hear is disturbing. surveillance video of sunday's second attack shows a suicide bomber with a blue sweater draped over his shoulder outside historic st. masker's cathedral -- mark's cathedral. the bomber is detoured to a metal detector. he then detonates the bomb

causing a huge fireball to erupt outside of the cathedral. minutes earlier in that cathedral the leader of the coptic church finished services in observance of palm sunday. local reports said he was still inside the building at the time of the blast, but he was not hurt. at least 11 people were killed including three police. the cathedral is considered sacred and serves as the historical seat of the coptic pope. the day's first attack was in the nile delta town of tanta where 26 worshipers were killed. the church's youtube channel was transmitting as the bomb went off. the video abruptly ends, but the chilling shrieks of victims can still be heard. a witness who lived across the street described church deacons in blood-stained white robes running from the scene. more seriously hurt victims were rushed to nearby hospitals in private cars. as you mentioned, isis claimed

responsibility for both of today's deadly blasts. in a recent video the terror group threatened to increase attacks targeting egypt's minority christian community which it refers to as infidels, and egypt's president speaking tonight on live television declared a state of emergency. he said, quoting him now, the fight against the terrorists is going to be long and painful. what is happening here is an attempt to tear egypt apart. and during his remarks, arthel, the president spoke about terrorist groups, but he also mentioned what he described as countries being to blame for what is happening in egypt causing the instability, but he did not specifically name those countries in his remarks. but now a three month state of emergency will be underway in egypt as the investigation continues into exactly what happened leading up to these two terror attacks at christian churches. arthel? arthel: david lee miller, thank

you very much. and we have a fox news alert. a u.s. navy aircraft carrier group right now making its way toward the korean peninsula to maintain readiness and presence in the western pacific. this amid tensions over north korea's recent ballistic missile tests and efforts to justify its nuclear program. lucas tomlinson has more now from the pentagon. hi, lucas. >> reporter: hi, arthel. when his first interview as president trump's national security adviser, h. r. mcmaster says the decision to send the strike group is the prudent thing to do. >> north korea has been engaged in a pattern of provocative behavior. this is a rogue regime that is now a nuclear-capable regime. the president has asked us to be prepared, to give him a full range of options to remove that threat to the american people and to our allies and partners

in the region. >> reporter: last month the battle group took part in annual military exercises with south korean and japanese allies, sending a signal to north korea. on saturday president trump spoke to the heads of south korea and japan to discuss the north korean threat. and that same day, arthel, the head of the pacific command ordered that u.s. aircraft carrier to reverse course, canceling a previously-scheduled port call in australia. among the warships in the carl vincent strike group are two destroyers and a cruiser capable of launching tomahawk cruise missiles similar to those fired into syria thursday night. this ability to launch missiles might be an even bigger message to send north korea than the aircraft carrier. in the wake of recent missile tests by north korea, the pentagon is also seeing signs the rogue regime is preparing for another nuclear it's after two last year. north korea likes to peg its tests around high profile visits at home, and april 13th is

considered the biggest holiday of the year in pyongyang. and there's also an american submarine with the strike group capable of launching cruise missiles, but u.s. officials around here don't like to discuss those types of operations. arthel? arthel: indeed. lucas tomlinson, thank you so much. eric? eric: well, arthel, the deployment of that battle group to the korean peninsula certainly a strong message from the trump administration with secretary of state rex tillerson now saying that the u.s. missile strikes should be, he says, a warning to other countries. those strikes, of course, after a chemical weapons attack in syria that left 70 civilians dead last week. fox news spoke to one survivor of that attack. he's a man who lost and buried his entire family including his twin babies. benjamin hall now joins us live from turkey for the latest on this. he is not far from the syrian board. hi, benjamin. >> reporter: yeah, hi, eric.

it was watching videos of that horrific chemical attack which drove president trump to intervene in syria. and speaking to survivors, speaking to the people who lost their families in front of them and witnessed that pain, it is easy to understand what drove them, and it's also incredibly sobering. among the people we spoke to was abdul hamid, he's become the face of this tragedy and was today reunited with family members who did survive, though he lost 22. he described to us some of the things he saw. speak -- >> translator: as i entered the house, the whole family was dead. grown-ups dead, family on top of each other. my wife, my children, my brother, his wife, their children, my nieces, all of them dead. after a few minutes, i fainted. >> reporter: among the dead also, his 11-month-old twins. he buried them and his wife with his own hands but couldn't bear to put them in the ground, gripping them until the bitter end.

he also spoke to us about the american strike. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: i want to tell president trump the first strike was good. it saved us. but just a few hours later, the air base continued working. it's like a challenge from assad. i can still attack, and from the same base you attacked. >> reporter: and not only are planes still taking off from the air base, they're still bombing the town. and apparently, at a greater pace than before with nobody to stop them. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: assad is a criminal, and he's killing not only human beings and children, but animals as if they were the same. >> reporter: the feeling here is one of great gratitude towards the u.s. there was so much optimism with trump's intervention here and also light at the end of the tunnel, but people are afraid that unless more is done to pressure iran and russia, assad will just go back to doing what he's been doing for the past six years. eric? eric: benjamin, just a vivid and

stunning and heartbreaking reminder of the tragedy, the human toll because of bashar al assad. thank you. well, the missile strikes on syria and american tensions with russia and north korea are shaping some of the first major foreign policy decisions of the new administration. those issues, though, have exposed a bit of a split between the white house and some in congress over the use of military force. peter doocy is live at the white house with more on the tug-of-war, so to speak, between the white house and capitol hill. hi, peter. >> reporter: hi, eric. a lot of folks in d.c. have been wondering if president trump would approach possible future airstrikes against the assad regime any differently because there has been so much noise on capitol hill from lawmakers who want to weigh in before the next order is made. but president trump's u.n. ambassador, nick city haley, says -- nikki haley, says the white house will never wait to act when they think they need to. >> we are all going to keep calling out the international community and asking them to push for a political system.

we're going to continue to call out bad actors when they do something like this, and you're going to see this administration act when they think it's appropriate. >> reporter: as for what the t appropriate to address next, the secretary of state, rex tillerson, suggests it is not getting rid of president assad. tillerson says it's breaking apart the islamic state and its fighters. >> once the isis threat has been reduced or eliminated, i think we can turn our attention directly to stabilizing the situation in syria. >> reporter: those terror attacks against churches in egypt have president trump's attention today. he tweeted twice this, quote: so sad to hear of the terrorist attack in egypt. u.s. strongly condemns. i have great confidence that presidential city city will handle the -- el sisi will handle the situation properly. there has been a major staffing change, kt mcfarland is on her way out. she came in with michael flynn but continued as deputy national security adviser under h.r.

mcmaster. we have seen mcmaster try to set up the nsc so it has more of its own people on it, and mcfarland is now expected to be nominated as u.s. ambassador to singapore. and because singapore is what the white house considers to be in a very strategically important part of the world, one official tells fox news that this is a big promotion for her. eric? eric: peter, thanks so much. arthel? arthel: well, eric, a fun day at a church carnival takes a terrifying turn when a bounce houseflies off with five kids inside. an update on what happened to those children. eric: also, judge neil gorsuch is on his way to the highest court in the land after that contentious fight in the senate. coming up, we'll take a look at what he will face after he is sworn into the supreme court tomorrow. arthel: plus, president trump getting high marks for taking action in syria, but now lawmakers want to know about long-term strategies. we'll break down the future of u.s. involvement in syria. ♪ ♪

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that gust of wind ripped the bounce house free of the stakes holding it to the ground. world war ii veterans gather in san francisco to mark 75 years since the notorious baton death march. thousands of american and filipino troops were forced to march 65 miles through the jungle the a prison camp after japanese forces overwhelmed them. a funeral for chuck berry is being held in st. louis today. the pageant concert club opened its doors for the public ceremony. you know, the iconic singer, song writer and guitarist died last month. he was 90 years old. arthel: president trump receiving bipartisan support for sending a strong message to syria, but now some lawmakers in congress are wondering what's next. senators from both parties appearing on fox news sunday this morning saying they'd like to see a set plan for syria as the president stresses he wants to remain flexible in his

policies. >> what we saw was a reaction to the use of chemical weapons, something that i think many of us supported. but what we did not see is a coherent policy on how we're going to deal with the civil war and also deal with isis. >> congress needs to work with the president to try to deal with this long-term strategy, lack of strategy really, in syria. we haven't had one for six years. we definitely need a strategy. we need to work with the white house to come up with one that has bipartisan support. arthel: christopher bedford, editor-in-chief for the daily caller news foundation. christopher, here we go, a call for a coherent strategy in syria including dealing with isis there, but president trump saying, listen, flexibility is key. so who gets their way and on what does it depend? >> so "the new york times" have gotten pretty excited, but i wouldn't think this is the beginning of a war. trump really doesn't want to get involved with a war, in a war with syria.

it's way too complicated on the ground. russia's got a say, iran, al-qaeda, hezbollah, isis, assad, all these different forces, and part of his campaign promise was not getting us entangled in another middle east war, at least dramatically. and now we've seen russia -- which was publicly embarrassed by these people, -- by this, thy had people on the base. guys, never do this again. if you do this, there'll be a reaction. to so trump probably doesn't want to get involved and he's going to try and avoid this unless assad breaks the rules again, and he doesn't have a good reason to. arthel: at some point world leaders will want to know president trump's strategy, so will he be pressured to put forth at least a truncated version of his plan there? >> i think he will, and our allies in turkey saying you should be bombing more, and people inside the trump white

house and that campaign are wondering, few key, why aren't you taking care of this? this is right on your border. we'll see a lot of pressure, but trump is going to stay, very likely and by all indicators, focused on isis. the only thing he wants to maintain with assad is that the norms of war are basically followed, and a serin gas attack specifically targeting civilians is something that the united states can't allow. also his attack put notice to the rest of the world. he had china, which always says they do not like american unilateral action, they lean towards being sympathetic to russia, they're sitting there as guests of ours, and trump did something they cannot do which is launch a unilateral strike on the other side of the world with no one even having the ability to respond to it. and he's sitting there as a guest, he can't even attack trump. it was really a dominance action by the united states. arthel: president trump showing force on multiple levels. you mentioned serin gas. look, russia not even act among thing assad's -- acknowledging

assad's use of chemical weapons, let alone not pushing for assad to be forced out of power. so, you know, apart from what you just raised, christopher, which is basically a slap on the hand, a slap of assad's hand, what's russia's next move in this situation? >> so russia's not motivated by any deep love of assad. they don't have anything -- what they're seriously invested in in syria is a massive naval base that assad's allowed them to have in there in return for them having this military operation. also russia's military forces, they get a lot of fan play in american hollywood movies, but our suggested budget increase for the u.s. military is more than the budget for the entire russian military. they cannot afford serious engagement, so russia's next move is probably going to be you loudly and quietly el -- crow loudly and quietly tell assad, listen, stick to the rules of war, win this battle. because if the united states does come in, assad's going the lose.

it's in russia's interests that he stays in power, doesn't create any massive global problems, and if they keep that naval base where they can project force. arthel: circling back to the top though, calls for president trump's plan. you're saying that president trump, look, he's not trying to start a war, doesn't want to get entangled in military action, but he's leaving those options on the table. congress asking for a plan, so what is president trump going to do in, to answer those calls? >> i suspect that you'll start to see his advisers reach out, you'll see the white house speaking with congressmen and senators. a lot of it will probably be behind closed doors. i don't -- congress, if he does any more actions that he wants to launch against the foreign government of syria, that he would be pressured from within his own party and white house privately to seek congressional approval, and that would be the next step if he wanted to go to war. but i think right now trump's going the pull back, and once we figure out what russia's going to do next, because our commanders don't want to send

our pilots into combat in a place where they could get shut down by russian air defenses. it seems like they indicated they're not going to do anything so long as we don't hit another base, so we'll go back to supporting the takeout of isis. arthel: christopher bedford, thank you so much. we'll talk to you again. >> thank you. arthel: eric. eric: tomorrow marks an historic day at the white house. judge neil gorsuch is set to be sworn in as the 113th supreme court justice. he's going to have to get up to speed pretty quickly as the high courts could soon hear potentially landmark cases. lauren blanchard now has a look at what will be waiting for him on his desk. >> reporter: now that the senate has confirmed judge neil gorsuch to be the next supreme court justice, republicans and democrats alike are waiting to see exactly how he votes on the bench and how closely he falls in line with president trump's ideas. >> the nomination of neil m. gorsuch of colorado to be an

associate justice of the supreme court of the united states is confirmed. >> reporter: hitting the grown running on thursday, the new justice will meet with his colleagues to decide whether or not to hear a number of cases in the full term. but there are still a couple of months left in the current term for the court which ends in june. gorsuch fills the conservative-leaning seat left vacant by the late justice antonin scalia, and his new conservative voice could be the tie-breaker vote. under consideration by the highest court whether or not to hear cases about second amendment rights as well as if business owners may refuse to offer services to same-sex couples. and a case both parties will be closely watching, how in step the new justice is with the president and his revised travel ban on refugees. but getting dwor such on the bench hasn't been easy for the president or gop leaders. after a bitter confirmation battle in the senate which prompted republicans to use the nuclear option.

now blame for the historic move being tossed between both parties. >> both democrats and republicans have blame here. both democrats and republicans have handled things in a way that shouldn't have been done. we should change our rules by bipartisan, we shouldn't change our rules to accomplish a purpose. >> reporter: tomorrow morning gorsuch will become the 113th justice in the court's history. he will be sworn in privately before a -- publicly in a private ceremony. eric: you can catch the fuller is moan tomorrow at 31 a.m. time -- 11 a.m. eastern time, and we'll carry it live right here on the fox news channel. arthel: president trump is getting ready to head back to washington, d.c. this afternoon after a weekend at his mar-a-lago estate. moving up there close to air force one awaiting him to depart or from palm beach, florida, and getting back to home in d.c. at the white house in a few hours.

and meanwhile, a massive search underway for a man accused of stealing several guns and sending a threatening manifesto to president trump. the latest on the manhunt ahead. eric: plus, christians in egypt again slaughtered on one of the holiest days of the year. and as usual, isis is claiming responsibility. up next, we'll talk to ambassador dennis ross on what we can do about the ongoing threat from the radical islamic terrorists who target people just because they are christian. ♪ ♪ yeah, then how'd i get this... ...allstate safe driving bonus check? ...only allstate sends you a bonus check for every six months you're accident free. silence. it's good to be in, good hands.

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the -- arrested a second suspect in the attack. eric: in norway, police conducted a controlled explosion of a suspicious device found at a busy unway station -- subway stationing in oslo. that forced the evacuation of nearby bars and restaurants. authorities did arrest an asylum seeker from russia for that. arthel: and a military chief had just been sworn into office in mogadishu and was driving in a convoy when a bomb exploded, 13 people killed. el shah bob claiming responsibility. eric and this is a fox news alert on the latest on the palm sunday massacre in egypt. the death toll now standing at at least 43 from the twin horrific attacks that targeted coptic christians on one of the holiest days of the year. more than a hundred others were wounded in those two separate bombings at the churches in egypt. isis claims responsibility for this latest attack, and it vows

to step up attacks against christians just weeks before pope francis is due to visit egypt. so how can the radical islamic terrorists be deterred from such barbaric actions, or is that even possible? ambassador dennis ross joins us, former special middle east coordinator, author of the book "doomed to succeed: the u.s./israeli relationship from truman to obama." ambassador, always good to see you, and it is so sad and tragic on this day because people are being targeted in church just because they're christians. it's not stopping. president el sisi has declared a three month emergency. what type of actions do you expect the government there will take to try and stop this? >> well, i think the declaration of a state of emergency is done principally so that president sisi can demonstrate that he's doing something. i think this comes as a real surprise for the egyptian leadership and government, because i think they felt that today had made progress in terms

of dealing with the isis threat. last year they actually suck is seeded in de-- succeeded in, i think, destroying the leadership, decapitating the leadership of isis in the sinai, but they're now been replaced, and they've been replaced, unfortunately, but those who have more direct connections to raqqa which reminds us of even when you set them back in raqqa or mosul, it doesn't mean the threat's going to go away n. some ways, it proliferates more widely. so i think what you're going to see now, the declaration of the state of emergency is designed to highlight the high priority that's being given to this and the shock of this. this was done specifically on palm sunday, precisely because they knew the crowds would be big, and you see what the consequence has been. eric: well, of course, president el sisi, you know, took over kind of after the muslim brotherhood was outlawed in that, in a military push, and he did so partially on the promise of stability and safety and

bringing some type of sense of order back to egypt. let me play you a sound bite from his interview with bret baier the other week in which he discussed some of his responsibilities to do just that. >> we also have to protect -- [inaudible] [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: in the region that is very unstable and ideas and elements that are extremist living in our society. and so as we move in that direction, we should not harm our citizens, but also we have to maintain a balance. eric: so when he says maintain a balance, is he talking about human rights? is he saying, you know, there'll be more of a crackdown against the extremists and those suspects? >> i think that he's suggesting that he will do this in a way that's designed to preserve some balance in life, a structure for law and order, a recognition that the threat and dealing with the threat come first, and some

of the concerns about human rights come second. i think one of the challenges that he faces is how to respond to these groups but not do so in a way that alienates some within the egyptian society who otherwise would not be supporters of isis, wouldn't be drawn to the muslim brotherhood. i think this is a basic challenge for egypt and for president sisi, but i think he puts his priority first and foremost on security. ultimately, i think that he has general support within egypt because there's a profound fear, a, of instability and, b, of not coming and looking like libya or looking like syria. in a sense, what we've seen with the upheaval in other countries, it has created a chilling effect in egypt, in places like jordan. no one wants to look like that, and president sisi, i think, has been given a kind of license because of that. in the end, he also has to be seen as succeeding, and i think as i said again today, this was a shock. i think one of the things we

might be doing is doing more to share intelligence with egypt in part because what seems to be part of the problem in the sinai now is that more and more of the support is coming from raqqa. the leadership in raqqa, the isis leadership in raqqa. we may assume they're completely tied down because of the attacks against them, but they clearly are looking to try to create a kind of horizontal presence outside of raqqa. they're trying to show that they're not being defeated or at least even if they're set back there, they will exist elsewhere. we need to have a strategy with those who are fighting them and, obviously, egypt is one of them. eric: and egypt has suffered so many attacks in the sinai, the metro jet, the russian plane bombed out of the sky, devastated the tourist industry for you. when you talk about raqqa, are you saying basically cockroaches? when you stomp them out one place, now they're spreading, they could be spreading into the area that the egyptian authorities just can't control?

>> i'm afraid that the reality is that when you do tend to wipe them out or at least defeat them -- i think it's a better way to say it, is you defeat them. because many of them find a way of getting away. and because of that, they show up in other places. and they're trying to show that even when they suffer setbacks, they still will be operating, and they'll carry out these outrages. for them, carrying out these kinds of outrages becomes an emblem that they're still there. it's a kind of station identification that they're still there, and they're still able to do this. part of what we have to do is have a strategy that not only defeats them in one place, but helps those who are fighting them in other places. and at the same time, has a broader strategy that also competes with the idea that they represent. we can't defeat their idea, only other muslims can defeat their idea, and we have to do a lot working with them to help discredit them. eric: and finally, what type of strategy that you talk about would you propose? what do you predict, what do you

think we should do? >> well, the strategy has to have a military element, for sure. because they're going to carry out these kinds of actions, and you have the keep them on the defensive, and you also have to undercut the image they try to create. they try to create an image of inevitability about their victory. but that can't be the whole story. again, you have to think about how do you change the environment economically, how do you insure or that there isn't such a level of impoverishment and poor governance, corruption, how do you create a rule of law? in a sense, you are trying to create a kind of multifaceted strategy that has a military component, an economic component, a governance component, the development of the rule of law. there is such corruption that you see throughout so many different places in the middle east, this too is one of those realities that isis sees to exploit and play upon. eric: ambassador dennis ross who has decades of experience in that part of the world, thank

you for your insight and, certainly, we all hope that the forces of good can win. thank you. >> thank you. arthel: and here's a look at air force one, soon to be wheels up, leaving palm beach, florida, where the president spent the weekend at mar-a-lago, heading back home to the white house in washington. and a fox news alert, a massive hunt underway, manhunt underway for a suspect considered a national threat by law enforcement. police say 32-year-old joseph jakubowski stole firearms from a wisconsin gunshop and threatened to use them against several schools. he is also accused of sending an angry manifesto to president trump. will carr joins us live now from our west coast bureau with more on this. hey, will. >> reporter: authorities tell us they're keeping a close eye on churches in wisconsin after they discovered alarming details in the manifesto, and it comes

after police working on a tip raided a janesville, wisconsin, home last night. nothing turned up from that, so more than 150 members of law enforcement are continuing to search round the clock. this started tuesday when jakubowski mailed his 161-page manifesto to president trump. it espoused a hatred for politicians and law enforcement, and he called for a rebellion in this cell phone video. >> here it is, you can see it's getting shipped. revolution. it's time for change. >> reporter: later that night, jakubowski allegedly stole 16 fire arms from a local gun shop, torched his car and disappeared. police have been poring through his manifesto and say it makes generic threats to schools, police and possibly places of worship that has caused law enforcement to step up patrols at churches and other religious venues. at least one church has canceled palm sunday services. add it all up, and nearby

residents desperately want jakubowski behind bars. >> absolutely, absolutely. everybody will take a big sigh of relief when he's finally caught. >> reporter: the fbi is offering a $10,000 reward for any information that leads to an arrest, arthel. arthel: okay, will carr, thank you very much. eric? eric: tens of thousands of people are right now out in the streets of dallas marching in support of immigrants and against the president's immigration policies. look at that scene downtown. it's called the reform megamarch. coming up we'll bring you there. arthel: also gun violence in chicago about as bad as it gets and has been for years. our next guest will tell us how he survived and made his way out of a life of crime and offer some ideas in how to help others do the same. ♪ if you total your new bike, they replace it with a brand new one. so, kinda like your second husband. kinda.

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protesters marching through the downtown for a massive protest and demonstration against the trump administration's immigration policies. police say tens of thousands of people were expected to march towards city hall this afternoon. it's being called the immigration reform mega-march to protest the president's policies and announcements. organizers expect as many as 100,000 people to join that martha afternoon. march this afternoon. the marchers include immigrants, refugees and their supporters. they say the order discriminates against muslims, and they are calling for unity. there you see them gathering around downtown city hall in dallas. arthel: violence in chicago is trending down lately, but it is still too high for anyone's comfort. the murder rate is down almost 10% from the same time last year, but the city is still on it way to one of its worst years in nearly two decades.

our next guest is one of the people who managed to escape a life of crime and is now fighting for a solution, amir baraka is an educator, actor and the author of the book, "the life i chose: the streets lied to me." i'm so glad to have you, i had the pleasure of meeting you in person for the first time a few weeks ago in new orleans, and i was so impressed, is so i wanted to get you on. >> thank you. arthel: if i may, let me set up your background. dyslexic, illiterate, poor, served a long prison sentencer . you taught yourself to read while in prison. out 18 years and working in the film industry and mentoring at-risk youth. why do you feel like you still had a choice? >> well, what i realized is, arthel, that i always had a choice. it was a self-imposed limitation that i had, i placed on myself because i couldn't read. and i didn't have the necessary

tools, the values, the strong values and the strong morals that i needed to, in order to combat the forces of the streets. so daddy being absent, and when my dad did come back, we snorted heroin together, we sold drugs together, so he wasn't a good role model for me. so there was a multiplicity of things that sort of impacted me and caused me to go down a downward spiral. but i began to dream while in prison, arthel. i began to see myself interviewing on oprah winfrey, doing things like i'm doing right now. i divorced those old values that i had about what it was to be a man. you know, i was taught if you kill, it made you real. if you sold done, you become this -- dope, you become this hero guy. it almost cost me my life. i was given a second chance, and i want to make do with it. arthel: just hearing you lay that out is such a fascinating story. what do you say to someone who

is currently face what they believe to be dead end circumstances? you read the headlines coming out of chicago. what do you think is missing? >> what's missing, first and foremost in my opinion, is the family structure. there's been a breakdown in family structure. african-american men are leaving their children either by force because of being incarcerated or by their own volition which is making babies, jumping here and there. we have to address those issues first and foremost before we get anything done properly. secondly, mothers who are being very derelict in their duty. they're not properly trained on how to raise kids. we need to truly revamp this whole parenting system because that's where the problems and issues evolve. i mean, poor morals and poor values brings on distorted thinking, and that distorted thinking forces you into the street life. arthel: and let me jump into it from another perspective, calling it urgent, friday a federal judge approved a plan to overhaul the baltimore police

department going against attorney general jeff sessions, asking the court to delay proceedings on the plan. now, you have worked with law enforcement in louisiana trying to give them your eyes, also getting insight into their perspective as law enforcement. tell me about the success of that program, and mostly, emir, short on time here, how can cities like baltimore and chicago apply your method to their city? >> well, first, by calling me and i calling my colleague, dr. peter shaw, who's a renowned criminologist. we took the challenge of going boo gretna's police department and educating them on the necessary tools that we all need such as emotional intelligence, conflict resolutions, unconscious bias, distorted thinking. these are things that officers have, and they don't know that they have, but we're there to bring this kind of stuff out and teach them how to apply it. because, you know, when an officer goes into an african-american community, the

aggression he may see, he may misinterpret that as being towards him, and it's not actually fact. i mean, we're just very aggressive people. so these are things that we have to learn. i first start off by going and telling the officers who i am, telling my story, and i'm dressed sort of like a thug, and then i change out, once i'm done, i change out and put on a nice suit, and they're like, wow. so that's that unconscious bias that we have. and my language begins to change as well. so i think it's imperative that these officers are trained and equipped with the necessary skills, because they're here, arthel, to protect and serve. i had a couple officers that put drugs on me when i was coming up -- arthel: i hate to cut you off, it's a fascinating story, but i want to have you on again. you have a perspective on how to teach both sides, the thugs as well as the police officers. ameer baraka, thank you so much, and nice to have you. and we'll be right back. ♪

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eric: pope francis leading mass before tens of thousands in st. peter's square today as christians around the world celebrate palm sunday. in his message the pope strongly condemnedded the's deadly attacks on those two coptic christian churches in egypt, and he addressed those around the world who are undergoing suffering by war, terrorism and

violence. brian general nas has more on the message. >> reporter: millions of christians around the world gathering for palm sunday today, thousands at the vet can commemorating jesus' triumphant entry into jerusalem days before he was crucified and resurrected according to tradition. pope francis led the solemn ceremony at the vatican as cardinals and the faithful clutch on to braided palm fronds in the shape of a cross. the pope expressed his deep consol doll lenses and -- condolences and prayers for those injured and killed in today's churches in egypt. in jerusalem tens of thousands of pilgrims waved or threw palm branches as a sign of homage. according to tradition, jesus rode into jerusalem on a donkey and was received by cheering crowds waving or throwing palm branches, hence the name palm sunday. in the philippines, catholic worshipers held a profession in the capital of manila, palm

sunday is one of the most important days of the year in the philippines, the only predominantly catholic country in asia. at mass in syria, worshipers lit candles and prayed for the syrian people, and palm sunday mass took on a different mean anything stockholm, sweden, today just two days after the terror attack friday that killed four and wounded some 15 others. pope francis today also decried suffering of all forms from terrorism and war. eric: bryan, thanks so much. that does it for us, at least for a little bit. arthel: yeah. we'll be back in one hour, at 6 p.m. eastern time. stick around here on the fox news channel. eric: see you in an hour. ♪ spring is on, so it's time to get started. but first things first- call trugreen, america's #1 professional lawn care company. millions of homeowners like you trust us to give them a lawn they can live on. start your trugreen lawn plan today for only $29.95.

>> we see these beautiful pictures at night from the decks of these two u.s. navy vessels in the eastern mediterranean. i am tempted to quote the great leonard cohen, i'm guided by the beauty of our weapons. and they are beautiful pictures of fearsome armaments making what is for them a brief flight over to this airfield. greg: i don't know, i think he made it all up. [laughter] ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause]