this is "now." >> the big question, was this an isis attack? ♪ ♪ >> we are learning more about the gunman now identified as michael joseph hall. >> the recently reported to islam and changed his name. >> did he have direct contact with isis or is he a lone wolf? >> at the mosque where he practiced he was asked to leave. >> authorities will be looking to see if this is simply a deranged person. >> zehaf-bibeau is on a terror watch list. >> they were carried out by canadian citizens. >> we're dealing here with two terrible incidents of young men who fell through the cracks and became radicalized. >> this sort of attack is so impossible to prevent because of they were radicalized on their own. >> there is a potential for others to follow in their wake. >> they're an ultimate and

indispensable weapons and that's what these people will thais. ♪ lone wolf, muslim convert, petty criminal, erratic and possibly mentally unstable. as we struggle to understand what drove michael zehaf-bibeau, the man responsible for the shooting spree in canada there is no shortage of labels. was he a homegrown jihadist or just a deranged man with a gun? while we know little about his motives, the white house echoed canadian leaders this afternoon in describing the attack as terrorism. >> our hearts go out to the victims of the despicable terrorist attacks that occurred canada this week. canada is one of our closest allies, partners and friends in the world and we stand shoulder to shoulder with them in solidarity. >> bibeau's parents offered little more insight into a motive, only grief. in a statement weighted with distress, bibeau's mother on

behalf of herself and her husband. no words can express the sadness we are feeling at this time. we have no explanation to offer upon. i am mad at our son, i don't understand and part of me wants to hate him at this time. bibeau's mother said before a lunch last week she had not seen her son in five years. she described him only as lost and alone. just moments ago canadian police offered the latest on the suspect. >> his criminal record indicated infracks related to drugs, violence and other criminal activities. uncorroboratined information suggesting he had associations to an individual who was known to us. i can confirm that zehaf-bibeau was not one of the 90 travelers of the rcmp is currently investigating. according to some accounts he was an individual who may have held extremist beliefs. >> all of this comes as a shaken canadian government returns to work. this morning both the prime minister and the opposition leader resolved to keep calm and to carry on.

>> canada will never yield to terrorism and neither will this house of commons. we carry on. these acts were driven by hatred, but also designed to drive us to hate others. that's not going to happen. [ applause ] >> joining me now is senior managing attorney and co-founder of counsel on american-islamic relations mihad awad. let me start with you. just in terms, the news we have at this hour that there was no apparent connection between what happened in parliament yesterday and what is being characterized as a terrorist act on monday. i wonder what you make of the assessment by both white house officials and canadian government officials that this was a terrorist act. how much of that do you think is connected to the the fact that we are talking about someone who converted to islam?

>> first of all, thank you for having me and our hearts and prayers go out to the families of the victims of this tragic incident that happened yester y yesterday. i will leave it up to the intelligence communities to decide whether this is a terrorist act or an act by deranged individual, but the more we see information about the the background of the gunman, the more we hear about his -- and learn about that he is a troubled individual with criminal history, obviously with mental issues and this is an important factor that we should keep in mind as we look at this incident that happened yesterday. the the other packer is i'm saddened to see that many media commentators and politicians are using the islamic point here by saying he converted to islam.

he reverted to islam, that there is an islamic component in it, and i believe this shows either ignorance or lack of information, lack of knowledge about islam itself. had the religion of this individual been not islam, it would not have an issue. it would not have been an issue, and unfortunately, people do not know that. if you are muslim. if you are a devout muslim, and if you go to a mosque that means you are more likely to be peaceful and to protect innocent lives and not to hurt them. so the fact that islam is being wedged into this incident it shows either ignorance, hostility and in either case it doesn't serve the purpose of securing our nation, protecting our fabric and in a way, let me just say in the end that i'm impressed by the police chief and some politicians in canada in reaching out to the interfaith community, to the

muslim community to make sure that they are safe because if the intention behind this terrorist attack or murder that took place yesterday was to cause us to hate each other then they failed. >> right. >> it needs leadership and it needs broad understanding and not just to have --? indeed. >> not just a knee-jerk reaction. >> let me go to you. in terms of the rush to judgment here. there are a few folks who in the aftermath of this have said wait a second, there r is a difference between someone who is a terrorist and someone who is a deranged, unhappy person with a gun and yet it has been surprising, i think, to see josh earnest at the white house who said consider it a terrorist act and from the the constitutional, civil liberties and rights perspective, how disstressing is that? >> it shows how far we are from the coherent notion of what the

terrorism means and, you know, a whole bunch of other things connected with that. >> and the inextrickable link between what some folks see as one religion and if that religion is associated with an act of terror. >> it seems much more like an ordinary crime, someone with a troubled past, a history of run-ins with the law and drug problems and so forth, right some harper is out there calling it a terrorist act because he wants to link it with canadian resolve to stay the course with military actions oversea, but again, i think there is a long history of disaffected, marginalized people, and as opposed to government oppression and using that to justify their lashing out. tim mcveigh talked about ruby ridge and waco and isis itself has alluded to guantanamo and put the image of orange jump suits in that video and so forth. some of the isis military

commanders seemed to have been saddam's commanders and now isis is a sort of sunni, former sort of rebellion, right? against the shiite government. this is not anything new. one of the really troubling things about this whole thing for me is that his mosque apparently, when he started asking oddly, asked him to leave. upon. >> and i think that's a hugely important piece here. nihad, to that component, reza has a piece that preceded what happened in canada, but it's important that we remember these words in a time like this. isis has managed to draw muslims from around the world to their cause by setting themselves up as a group that was addressing their grievances whatever those grievances may be. you are one of us, not because you believe the things that we believe, not because you share the same ideology that we share,

but because we share the same grievances. i feel that that's an important point to remember that isis is a clearing house for people that are frustrated and have a certain set of grievances and not particularly because of the muslim faith. >> absolutely. in pack, despifact, despite the faith they're doing this. isis has exploited legitimate grievances in the region and had we as western nations and super powers including the united states, had we acted in advance in support of the syrian people and their quest to freedom we would not have, you know, so-called isis. had we stood by the iraq i people after the invasion and had we not supported the sectarian regime in iraq, we would not have isil and isis in iraq. so lack of the intervention and correct foreign policy on time, working responsibly in the

region and looking at the issues has given extremist organizations like isis to exploit the absence of leadership to recruit our young people, but also let me say that it is very important for people to know that isis is acting in spite of islam, i am one of the 120 people who will sign an open letter to isis refuting their religious argument and justification for what they're doing and we have proved in that open letter that isis is not only unislamic. it is acting against islamic faith that prohibits the hurting and killing of innocent people, emsear emissaries and journalists and a document has dismantled the argument that isis has been exploiting and recruiting young, uninformed and the people with troubled history.

? nihad, i'm sorry to interrupt you, but we have footage of the alleged shooter. this had is from outside, i believe the building in advance of the attack and i think that's him and you will see it circled in the green. part of the reason, i think that had has -- we can talk about this a little bit in terms of their -- the video that we had yesterday of inside the hall and this video now showing him approaching the building. this does a lot to increase the level of fear. necessarily, i think people are scared when they see footage like this, but it also, i think has longer term effects, right? this is part of a traumatic period in american culture and american society in politics and a lot has been done to, i think, keep that fear with us, whether it's the rhetoric that we are hearing or the policies that we are put in place, i guess i wonder as we look toward the future both in the short and the

long and the medium term, you know, how do we react to this stuff in a way that preserves the fundamentals in term of our democracy and transparency. >> here's one of the interesting things about it. it's canada, right, which doesn't have its own sort of direct experience with 9/11 and there have been a whole spate of incidents this week involving the french canadian background guy who tried to run over two soldiers last week and the guy who died on the battlefield with isis who was old stock canadian and this guy, the shooter yesterday, his mom was french-canadian and a libyan immigra immigrant. you have the homegrown threat, citizens, canadian citizens, born and bred. on the one hand, i think it's a little bit scarier and the homeland tv series sense that these are people living among us sort of idea, right? it's interesting to kind of compare, you know, what we had in the u.s. after 9/11 which is a perceived threat coming from outside. these guys on visas from saudi

arabia and elsewhere, right? so our response was quite disproportionate and quite impressive because it was directed entirely at non-citizens. you can get away with that in that democracy and it's only directed at the non-citizens or the occasional brown citizens. upon in canada you have the situation that's homegrown or quote, unquote, and in the uk after 9/11 and it's much more measured, the response. you're not going to have the disproportionate response and the quote, unquote, ordinary canadians. >> let me ask you on that note, what more should the muslim community be doing to push back on this kind of what i'll call lumping together of the islamic faith and radicals who are playing off of grievances shared by various elements of society and calling it part of the islamic faith? >> again, there is no connection

between the acts of murder and killing innocent people of the islamic faith, absolutely. if people continue to make that assertion that means they don't understand the islamic faith and they're hostile to it because of political grievances. second, the muslim community both in canada and the united states have been working closely with law enforcement and they have many of these cases, probably 20% to 40% of the cases that have been by the american muslim community and the percentage of these incidents are minute compared to the number of muslims in canada and in the united states. >> right. >> each case is too many. one case is too many, but however, it's not like widespread. they're not like many and my fear is the media and politicians play on fear and hysteria to, you know, create this atmosphere in society when, in fact, so many people, so many people are being killed every

day because of other causes, but when we insert religion unfairly and for political reasons, definitely it becomes a hysterical mood in the society and also suffer from it the minorities and those who are concerned about their civil liberties and we put billions of dollars in just security at the expense of civil liberties. >> i really think to that and it is worth saying over and over again. we cannot say it enough, the mosque that bibeau was trying to worship at said you can no longer attend prayer services. there was a clear rejection of him by the muslim group that he was trying to worship with. that is a very important caveat to all of this as we talk about his quote, unquote, radicalization. thank you both for your time and thoughts. >> thank you. after the break, a health care worker in new york city is being tested for ebola after returning from west africa. we'll have the latest details on

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out. when we stay home they win. so they're assuming that we won't care. they're hoping that we won't be organized and energized. they're praying that we just stay put. >> the latest "usa today"/suffolk poll shows udall down seven points and the most alarming evidence of a slide in each of the last eight polls. why? colorado has elected a republican senator or governor since the year 2002. udall has made this campaign about women especially cory gardner's support for a personhood bill. senator udall has donated over half of his ads to that issue. >> politicians like congressman gardner shouldn't be getting between me and my patients. >> it comes down to respect for women and our lives. so congressman cory gardner's history promoting harsh anti-abortion laws is disturbing. >> gardner's eight-year crusade

would ban birth control. >> seriously? it's 2014. >> seriously? that is a fair point. the left-leaning editorial board surprisingly endorsed corey gardner saying udall's obnoxious one-issue campaign is an insult to those he seekses to convince. it is a criticism that's been shared by others in the media. >> he used to have a double-digit gender gap. now that jumped to about nine points. so there's evidence that some of this singular focus. >> and of course, it backfired. >> the issue has so dom nighted the cycle will that senator udall has repeatedly had to fight back charges that he's using the issue for political gain. >> are reproductive rights the most important issue facing colorado. >> i'm proud to stand with the women colorado. roe v. wade is on the ballot. the supreme court balance is

obvious to all of us here. the next senator from colorado will vote, i predict, on at least one, perhaps two supreme court justices. >> then again, when your opponent is cory gardner can you really blame the guy? >> you continue to deny that the federal life at conception act which you sponsor is a personhood bill to end abortion and weir not going to debate that here tonight because of the facts. >> the bill you're referring to is a statement that i support life. >> what i'm asking you about here is what appears to be the willing suspension of the the facts. everybody seems to have a cohesive idea of what this is with the exception of you. >> the bill that you are talking about is simply a statement that i support life. >> and the idea of personhood is conferring rights of normal, human beings on the unborn. i mean, that's what the bill says. >> again, i support life and that's a statement that i support life. >> joining me now is senior editor, jonathan.

>> i find a hard time fault pointing for the extremist positions that cory gardner is taking here, but would you find fault in senatoric ca iudall's campaign focusing on those issues alone. >> it's true he's focusing most of the issue because that's where the most undecided voters are, so he's doing it for demographic reasons, but it's also true that this is actually one of the most important decisions you're going make for a senator in the next two years. the biggest thing that's going to change if republicans gain control of the senate is that president obama isn't going to be able to appoint very many or any federal judges or supreme court justices if somebody dies or becomes incapacitated. otherwise, that's it and you will have gridlock since republicans took control of the house, but the senate is the only body that took control of the senate where obama can get something done and that will stop if republicans take the senate.

so this had is actually real. >> you could, this is a walk and chew gum question, right, brian? >> yeah. to some degree there's got to be space to talk about things like immigration or economic policy and reproductive rights and when you look at the polling, among, for example hispanics in the state of colorado. udall is getting 65% and gardner is taking that seems to me that you're leaving an awful lot of people hanging in the balance. >> there is an interesting aspect to this campaign where senator udall was expecting to be able to campaign very heavily on executive actions that president obama had already taken to curtail deportations and when president obama decided to delay those actions, that removed sort of from the immediacy of the campaign his ability to say this had is the kind of thing that in the senate i will support and my opponent won't. removed that as an issue that's hard for him to talk about.

he hasn't played up his role as one of two senators who have been, you know, riding the nsa about surveillance issues because that, i think, speaks to younger voters who are also part of the rising american electorate that he wants to turn out and vote which leaves him with women's issues and there's something pretty profound about what he's saying about the supreme court, right? president obama will only be present for two more years, but cory gardner if he wins the senate seat will have the six-year term which means the next democratic president will be four years past obama for the supreme court justice retired and for the next president to nominate one and there's real truth to it and it's more about just president obama and the near-term fight over contraception and things like that. >> i don't know. i'm obviously not a political strategist though i play one on television. the idea that everyone's running scared from the democratic party and its figurehead president obama, i think some of us watch

this crisis unfolding in the democratic midterms or in the mid terms where democrats are having a crisis and they wonder why democrats aren't touting their accomplish ams more vocally especially if a large part of the win will rest on the shoulders of the base. >> the 29 and 10, and that's when all of the accomplishments came. >> the unemployment is under 6%. the idea that that could be litigated as a met riblg that we want to judge ourselves by in terms about a candidate in the south. wait a second, since when is unemployment not a figure that you want to talk about on the campaign trail? >> that's right. the problem is you've had gridlock since republicans took control of the house and you will continue to have gridlock and republicans have control of the house regardless of what happens in the sen the at. it's hard to come up with a good, clear answer as to what will happen if you vote this party or that party into the

control of the senate. there is one big exception. you have some executive actions on the environment which are important and those aren't easy to explain and not super popular, either. you will have executive actions on immigration and those all got put on hold and colorado is one of those states that where that hurts the democrats. >> i may be banging a drum that has been beaten one too many times in the senate. democrats have some policies that they agree on. republicans and especially republican governors are in trickier positions when it comes to the minimum wage or obamacare where you're seeing a number of republican candidates say the medicaid expansion is good and we'll keep that or the kin are connect website is good and you keep that and are not acknowledging the realities of a requested law. >> i would try to distinguish, i think, between what republican senate candidates and republican governors say about obamacare and the sort of needle they're

trying to thread there because what they're trying to do is channel resentment of president obama by saying a word, obamacare, that basically carries his name. >> right. >> and what the challenge is for senators in udall's situation, how do i get the people who turned out to vote for me the last time turn out again. it is marked by gridlock and resentment and by talking about obamacare will not end up being as fruitful as trying to convince unmarried women who have this huge drop-off effect during midterm elections that are issues that are critical with them right now at stake. this has been a frustration for affordable care act, and there is electoral science and focus grouping behind it. >> there is deep focus grouping. jonathan, talk to me, if you will, before we close this out about this discrepancy in messaging mere between democrats

who are going out of their way, begich saying i did vote for him, but that's irrelevant, getting as much distance between himself and the commander in chief. what accounts for different there? is it just that they're speaking to different audiences or do you think that there say disconnect? >> i think there is a disconnect. i think these senors understand the political situation pretty well. mark begich is running in a state that didn't vote for president obama. he needs people who didn't vote for president obama to support him and those are the marginal voters and i don't understand why president obama keeps saying that these guys are on my side when they don't want him to say that. it doesn't make much sense to me. >> bear hugs that aren't wanted. thank you guys for your time. >> yeah. thanks. just ahead, there is now some closure on a horrific chapter on the u.s. war in iraq. four american contractors are held accountable for the

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it was one of the darkest chapters of the iraq war. seven years ago on the morning of september 16, 2007, blackwater security guards working as private contractors for the state department opened fire on unarmed iraqi civilians at a crowded baghdad intersection. they killed 17 civilians. seven years later that chapter may finally be coming to a close. yesterday four of the blackwater guards were convicted of murder, manslaughter and weapons charges in a u.s. court and they were jailed immediately. throughout the trial 30 iraqi witnesses were brought to washington to testify. the largest number of foreign witnesses ever brought to the united states for a criminal trial. one of those who testifieded was a man whose 9-year-old son was shot in the head and killed that day while riding in the backseat of the family car. a few years ago in an interview with the nation and democracy now he recounted the details.

the four blackwater guards found guilty yesterday still await sentencing ask the former head of blackwater, eric prince has not been held accountable and continues to work in the highly profitable business of security contracting. joining me now is the co-director of the liberty and national security program at the brennan center for justice, faisa patel and she represented, susan burke. given your background on this painful chapter in american history which a lot of people would argue is not yet closed. is this the justice that victims

have been being looking for? >> it really is. and i have to commend the justice department for staying with this. at the beginning they gave a dread portfolio job and gave these folks conditional immunity which led to a lot of problems and the justice department stuck with it and what we've seen is the type of justice that america is famous for, a fair trial in civilian courts that reached the right outcome. >> faisa, let's get your the thoughts on this. we talked about this chapter and whether it is ongoing and the crimes that happened in the gauzy haze of war and some would argue continue to happen today. do you feel like this affords some kind of closure? >> i think it certainly affords closure for the victims and their families in this particular case, but as a broader policy matter we haven't really grappled with what it means to have private contractors part of our military operations. we still don't have clarity as to when we should be using contractors, what roles they should be playing alongside u.s.

troops and really importantly, in hiring contractors are we taking account of the human right rs record because blackwater continues to have the large contracts with the government as do many of the other companies with human rights abuses and that for me is a huge, ongoing question that we haven't grappled with. >> to faisa's point, eric prince is still working and writing op eds on his company's website saying we're not happy with the u.s. performance on isis you should hire us, basically. he has not been held accountable at all. >> no. >> how has that happened? >> well, and it's really a national disgrace that what we've done is let government agencies continue to hemorrhage money to these contractors without having systems of accountability. for example, there can be a mercenary who uses excessive force for one company. he gets fired for that use of

excessive force, but gets turned around and gets picked up by another one. we need to follow the lead of britain and other countries and tightly regulate this industry. if not, actually outlaw it completely. >> faisa, to the point of contractors, in july 2012, we had 6.6 million dollars in contracts with academy which is the new name for blackwater. in may that number had had gone up to 8.8 million. you talk about the folks we are contracting out to do the dirty work overseas, what is it that we put any oversight in place. upon. >> to give the u.s. government credit, since blackwater and other abuses, they have tried to tighten up the contracting procedures, but they haven't gone far enough. as i mentioned, the big piece, when they're figuring out who to give a contract to, they're looking at their ability to protect staff and they look at cost, right?

but they also need to be looking more broadly at what the human rights record is and what reputational connence skwes it's going to have for the united states to hire particular companies and from what i can tell that certainly doesn't publicly factor into their calculations and they need to be thinking about that. >> do you think that's driven in part by the fact that it's much easier and neater to outsource the war to security contractors and we have an interest in having a successful relationship with security contractors because we have the debate over boots on the ground and this is a much easier way of dealing with the enemy. >> that's right, in the bush administration there is this drive toward privatization is a good thing whether it's in the military or the prison system and there was this overall mindset and certainly using contractors means that the number of actual u.s. forces that you have on the ground is limited and in harm's way and you're not getting those body bags coming home and the true

cost of the war coming home to people here. contractors allow you to kind of hide exactly what it is you're doing and they give you a step back from accountability. so it wasn't the use government or u.s. soldiers that didn't do it, it was blackwater. it was them, it wasn't us and that creates some problems. >> that distance creates a huge amount of problems. >> this case has gone through various iterations. was it at one point dismissed. obviously, it seems to have come to some sort of ending here. there is some talk of appeal. do you think that this is it it as far as this incident with blackwater? >> in the sense that we've had an american jury who heard from people on the ground, heard from the same victims that i spoke with who told the story of what happened that day. so we now have for the history books an irrefutable indication that this was murder. this was manslaughter. it never should have happened.

what happens of what happens on the appeal that jury verdict will always stand for that historic point. so in that sense, it is over. justice has been rendered. obviously, the criminals are going to try to get the verdict overturned and use different forms of arguments to do so, so as a legal matter it will continue to proceed. upon. >> but it is an important moment for our criminal justice system and the department of justice. faisa, before we go just to highlight the point you're making, the ratio of contractors for the american military was one for every 50 soldiers. by 2011, private contractors constituted over 50% of the force in iraq and afghanistan. it is dramatic how much we're using these folks. thank you both for your time. >> thank you. coming up, more on the doctor in new york city who is being tefrted for ebola after returning from west africa. begins with the cloud.

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tested in a new york city hospital after treating ebola patients in west africa. the patient who worked for a physician for doctors without borders in guinea was transported from his harlem home earlier today after experiencing symptoms of fever and nausea. the cdc will get a sample from that patient, and ready a team to head into new york city if needed. in the meantime the patient is being held in isolation at bellevue hospital in manhattan. coming up, new details about the deadly shooting in ottawa, that's next. but first, morgan brennan has the cnbc market wrap. >> here's how the stocks stand going into tomorrow. all of the major u.s. indexes surging today. we saw the big sell-off last week and that's really reversed course this week. the dow hitting 300 points during the trading session before settling up 215. the s&p closing higher, as well at 24 points and the nasdaq composite gaining almost 70 points. that's it from cnbc, first in business worldwide.

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>> the shooter in canada's parliament yesterday was a lone actor, that is the judgment of canadian police today as they release new surveillance video of the suspect, michael zehaf-bibeau entering parliament. they also said there was no apparent link to another attack in quebec on monday. notably, bibeau had had applied for a passport, but did not turn up on any security watch lists. his mother told police that he wanted to go to syria. zeh zehaf-bibe zehaf-bibeau's email was found in the hard drive of someone who had a terrorism-related offense. chris jansing, what can you tell us about how the administration is responding to this? >> i just a second talked to lisa monaco, the president's homeland security adviser. she told me she did speak to the president and updated him this morning. he is following this very closely, obviously, and as you well know, alex, he spoke to the

prime minister of canada yesterday, late yesterday and pledged support. lisa monaco told me this is in particular from the intelligence and law enforcement community, investigative help that they might need and the big picture we heard is something that this administration has been talking about for a while and that is the lone wolf scenario, the counterterrorism efforts that are in place to make sure that that doesn't happen and so that is a key component of the conversations that are going on in the white house today. >> nbc news' chris jansing, always good to see you. >> coming up, ted cruz is on a crusade against the texas equal rights law and we'll break down his latest ted talk coming up next.

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houston, techs tech, has become ground zero in america's culture war. the city made history when it became the largest city to opelt an openly gay mayor. it it banned discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation and businesses that served public. opponents of the measure included local pastors submitted a petition to strike down the equal rights measure. one of the pastors stated fears, quote, the perceived threat of male sexual predators dressed in drag entering women's restrooms. that is a really specific threat. as if that wasn't ludicrous enough, ted cruz, ted cruz has stepped into the fray because he is worried that somehow the city will prevent the pastors from preaching their sermons as part of this whole legal battle. not that the city has expressed

the intention of stopping pas r pastors from preaching any sermons or exercising religious freedom, but when has reality stood in the way of senator ted cruz. >> you do not need to seek the permission of a king, queen or president or mayor -- [ applause ] to preach the word of god. caesar has no jurisdiction over the pulpit. [ applause ] and when you subpoena one pastor you subpoena every pastor. >> caesar. cruz later added that he feared a future when pastors would be, quote, hauled off if they did not preside over marriages of gay and lesbian couples which is hard, if not impossible to

imagine. but, hey, owhen has reality eve stood in the way of ted cruz. that is all for now. i'll see you back here tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. eastern. "the ed show" is coming up next. good evening, americans and welcome to "the ed show," live from new york. let's get to work! ♪ ♪ >> we have regulators gone wild. we had to finally have an energy policy. >> hey, you guys! >> a policy of all of the above energy and the keystone pipeline and the policy like approving the keystone pipeline. people across the country want the keystone pipeline to be built. >> let's make them squeal in have america become an energy

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