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patriotic duty of defiance french citizens lined up before dawn hoping to get their hands on now what is a historic edition of the paper written by the "charlie hebdo" surviving staff. >> "charlie hebdo" is the french southpark southpark. and even my muslim friends love "charlie hebdo." it is a magazine that makes you laugh when everything is tragic. >> and while many are crediting victory for france as two more copies of "charlie hebdo" are in the works, today french freedom of speech is being called into question. at least 54 people have been detained by police for defending or inciting terrorism. among those arrested dieudonne, who he felt charlie coulibaly,
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merging the names of "charlie hebdo" and amedy coulibaly. and we have seen this paper on e-bay and demand is not dying down. what is the status there in paris? >> reporter: we're not sure when the additional 2 million copies are wokking out ingking -- are coming out. and this is being distributed in many city and 15 or 16 different languages and you can imagine that a magazine that was struggling almost bankrupt trying to produce 20,000 copies but they are getting help from donations around the world and pop and businesses that want to support the magazine so it has a future. and behind me in the background there is a street pianoist named
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david pelo who is known for playing music. i don't think you can see it because it is so dark. but he is playing the piano and there is a crowd around him and there is soft music that is very calming and peaceful and it is a nice moment in this plaza, where on the other side there are people lighting candles and leaving tributes for the 17 frenchmen who were killed here last week. i hope you can hear it but if you can't we'll try to turn it up so next time you can. just a break from the anxiety and tension which is still here because there is such a high security presence still 10,000 or more soldiers on the street along with police officers. the president of france today, francois hollande made an annual speech to the military thanking them for their service and saying how grateful the nation is for them being out there and
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essentially indicating this will go on for some time. it is unclear when france can step back from this position, this posture. just yesterday the french parliament renewed the commitment to continue airstrikes with the united states and other coalition partners against isis in iraq. so that aspect continues. the war on the streets here continues against terrorist. and again, just a nice moment out here in the square in the plaza where we've been for so long just nice and peaceful which is a break from the tension and anxiety of the past week or so. >> indeed. and ron, quickly, on the other end of the spectrum the arrests that have taken place, 54 people arrested for speech is there any response from the french community to what does seem like a suppression of free speech and also if you could talk about what we've heard is an increase in attacks and threats to mosques in paris? >> reporter: well i don't think there are many people who will step up and defend people who are saying supportive things
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about terrorists who have killed 17 people in this country any time soon. the -- the mood here the feeling here it is just not going to happen i don't think. and the people that have been arrested, as we understand it they have said things very supportive of or cheering the -- the gunman who carried out these attacks. i think for now that the culture of this place, the sentiment of this place right now is just not going to tolerate that. and i saw that this morning and thought of the apparent contradiction in it that you would have free speech and the hate speech. but the laws here are tough about hate speech and it is interesting how france is going to have to move forward to balance this thing. but it is an interesting phenomenon that people are arrested and when at the same time there is a demand for freedom of expression. joy. >> thank you very much ron allen in paris. one week after the attack
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isis released a new propaganda video urging followers to carry out more attacks in europe and the u.s. and there is new video from al qaeda in the arabian peninsula but not on the attack of a kosher market or a french policeman. there is an overwhelming vote to continue in airstrikes with the u.s. against militants and as part of that effort francois hollande announced charles degal will be deployed to help. and laij talk about al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and the attacks. >> thank you for having me on. the arabian peninsula has attempted to attack in the west
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launching slightly successful but for the most part targeting civilians, whether it is the late 2009 plot to bring down the airliner or the kidnapping of fluke somers and executing him in the botched rescue operation. so they have been walking in the footsteps of bin laden. they are still in his vision carrying out these operations specifically targeting western countries. >> and laij the two brothers that carried out at tack on "charlie hebdo" headquarters did make references to al qaeda in yemen or the arabian peninsula, is there anything tieing them to one of these two terrorists? >> well according by a.p. the attack to "charlie hebdo" is directly connected to their
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leadership. of course, we know that ala lackey killed in september of 2011 had a role in making this community happen between the kouachi brothers and the al qaeda leadership on the other. and they cated that -- indicated that the top leader in al qaeda was aware of the plot and gave his blessings. so it appears that al qaeda was directly connected to this plot. now the question remains is were they just connected back in 2011 before the death of al-awlaki or the plot remained and the guys went in a sleeper cell mode before executing operations when they got logistic support. >> i'm just getting this in lathe, nbc news has chosen to release four of the cartoons contained in the new editions of "charlie hebdo." we have a picture of a figure of
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death that reds "charlie hebdo" and it says i am subscribing. the second one shows a clown-like feature and said watch out, dangerous magazine. there is a third that shows a man in a blacktop saying oh, finally i am charlie and the fourth is a cartoon released on the day of the attack. the last thing tweeted out by the "charlie hebdo" twitter account and it shows al-baghdadi and his new year's wish and he says in most of all, i wish you good health. what do you expect the reaction to be, and your organization monitors the social media of the militant groups to the fact this edition was released and we haven't shown them but there are cartoons depicting the prophet muhammad. >> well if "charlie hebdo" remaining insulting the prophet and mocking jihad in general, it is only calling for more attacks. not only on its headquarters but
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on the french society generally speaking. if the french community is supporting "charlie hebdo" then they believe the french people are as big of a this so-called mockery in crime against islam and jihad. so the backlash has been negative so far and people are saying with "charlie hebdo" releasing the new issue, printing 3 million copies into 16 different languages, they are only trying to call for more attacks and it is pretty provocative. that's the reaction so far. >> thank you very much laijal cory. back here at home a security scare at the newcastle air national guard base in delaware. a personnel reported what could be suspicious activity near the base. and now joining me the chief pentagon correspondent, joe miss
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lieu ski. there was activity at the entrance gates to the base where drivers would pull up and claim they were lost and ask for directions or go right up to the gate, which are heavily guarded of course and then suddenly make u-turns and turn around and drive away. and some of those in those automobiles -- vehicles driving up to the gates were described of mideastern decent probably arabs. all of this was conveyed to the security forces there and the commanding general decided out of extreme caution, decided to raise the security levels and threat potential there at the base. so that at this point, anybody going on the base there will be 100% i.d. check, any visitors will be thoroughly checked out and any baggage and deliveries will be thoroughly checked and examined and there are other steps that are taken that are
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classified that quite frankly the military will not share with us. but they stress there was no specific threat or no specific individuals identified in any of this. but after the events that occurred last week in paris, the commander decided out of an overabundance of caution that they would take these updated and increased security procautions, joy. >> thank you very much. nbc's jim mclaugh chef ski. and turning to nasa where straurnts have been forced to evacuate into the russian portion of the station after a warning. they believe there might have been an ammonia leak, but they think it was triggered by a card in one of the triggers. >> we think that made the pressure change that gave the team a little bit of a question
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about -- at the time it looked like a pressure increase and now we are thinking this may just be normal reactions to the events that start to unfold. >> tom costello covers aviation and space for the news. is this a card failure in the computer? >> yes. you just heard from the man who runs the space program for nasa and he is stressing that it appears they have some anomalies and that is nasa speak that we have problems with sensors for a false alarm. they are not sure. they are keeping the crew on the russian section and they have the air latch closed not letting the americans back to the american section yet. they hope to and expect to do that probably they think by dinnertime or evening. the space station operates on gmt, not on east coast time not on russian time on gmt.
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so you are looking at file video. but nasa is stressing everybody on board the station is safe and it was out of an abundance of caution that they removed all six crew members, three russians and two americans and one italian over to the russian side because of the alarms which suggested there might be an ammonia leak. and that is one of three emergency scenarios that could force at band onment of the space -- the abandonment of the space station. a toxic leak or a fire or smoke event and a decompression event. those are the events that nasa takes so seriously and they drill for and if they were having to evacuate they would do it in a space capsule and return to kazakhstan. but all indications are these were false alarmed. they moved the crew over to the russian side out of an abundance of caution and russian side doesn't use ammonia in its cooling, it is the american side that does that.
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>> even after all of these days of space exploration, it still makes you nervous. >> more than 250 miles above the earth and the six people only have each other. if something goes wrong, they have to depend on each other, doesn't matter what country you are from and so the stakes are high. >> tom come est-- costello thank you. in less than an hour two men hope to make history. they are trying to become the first people to free-climb the 3000 foot section of yosemite's el capitian. they are looking at live pictures of the climb as they scale the wall. hallie jackson is live at the base of the mountain. what is going on up there? >> reporter: hi joy. we are here on the meadow and a lot of people are gathering because we are potentially hours away from the two reaching the summit and making history. there is a lot of excitement and perhaps none more than tom
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caldwell's father. and when you look at where these guys are, what is going through their mind where are they emotionally and mentally? >> there is a combination of summit fever. intense desire to finish this climb today. but there has to be a certain amount of fatigue. the last day of something like this is very emotional. and a lot of highs and lows. it is an emotional roller coaster up there. >> emotional up there and down here. what is it like for you? >> you know i would like to see them climbing a little bit more smoothly and making more progress. it is a roller coaster down here as well. >> reporter: tommy has been working on this for years, seven years. this is something he's been planning meticulously, he's tried and failed and it looks like he'll succeed today. what does that mean for you and your family? >> you know it has been so much a part of our life i wonder if there won't be postpartum
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depression but it has been an important part of our lives so long. he'll go on to do other things. but he's going to miss this. in the middle of the project when he thought he might not make it he said i'm just enjoying the process, whether i make it or not. and that realization helped him keep going. >> it is about getting there? >> yeah. or being there. >> reporter: mike, thank you so much. joy, we'll toss it back to you. we'll keep an eye from the climb here in the meadow and hope to have good news for you later in the afternoon. >> hallie jackson in yosemite national park. thank you. it is beginning to look a lot like 2016 for republicans and it feels like anyone who has thought about becoming president is suddenly making moves. coming up we'll run down a list of who is in and who is thinking about being in and who has the best shot of appealing to the republican base. and still ahead, the nigerian battle against boko haram. what are they doing to stop the group and why is the world remaining relatively silent?
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an alert from capitol hill where the house has passed a bill to fund the department of homeland security through the fiscal year. but the big issue here are the amendments which included five aimed at blocking the president's executive actions on immigration. the bill faces an uphill climb in the senate and a veto threat from president obama. and we'll have much more on what the new congress is up to ahead on "the reid report." officially, no candidate has declared himself as a candidate for the 2016 republican presidential nomination unofficially. but it does seem like just about everybody has decided they want to get in. this friday for example, mitt romney will speak aboard the uss midway aircraft carrier in san
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diego. and today rand paul visited the first in the nation primary state of new hampshire. both of which come after separate state of the state speeches by chris christie of new jersey and each touting their 2016 days. and with so many gop past and present considering a run and many of them boasting deep pockets, the question becomes is how does one stand out from the pack. the publisher of the ferderalist, a web magazine that covers politics and policy. ben, thank you for being here. >> great to be with you. >> so ben, i tend to think of the republican party that is separate and has an overlap from the conservative public. you have the evangelical wing an the business wing and the movement of the party, is there a candidate among the many, many many many names out there
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that kind after peels to two of those? >> it is a good question. and i think that is a fair way to frame the party. the thing i think is going on right now, like the scene from anchor man, where all of the channels are coming in for a royal rumble and when you think it is over that is what is showing up. and that is what mitt romney is this time around. and that is interesting, because in terms of this it will be a more crowded field when it comes to getting the establishment and money and support so early on. when jeb bush came in and came in loud i think that was designed to push mitt romney and others away but it has had an opposite effect and everyone is accelerating and people who benefit from that are rand paul and tom cruz who have more strong support in their factions. in terms of people across that dia gram. i think you mentioned scott
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walker, who has a lot of good feeling from the different buckets. you saw him trolling chris christie in the state of the state address, talking about hugging the owners at the packers' stadium and he could certainly appeal across a lot of the different ways and see some of the other governors, like bobby jindal and maybe rick perry find more appeal than you might expect given so much of the focus on the big names today. but this is really going to be a real rumble in terms of the different clashes that will potentially happen here and a lot of big money that will decide pretty early on which horse they want to back. >> and thank you for making me feel smart by mentioning scott walker. i have been saying he was the sleeper candidate. everybody pays attention to the jeb bushs and mitt romneys but scott did the big survive recall and he is an evangelical and how fervent he is and then he is a
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governor which is important. and he is in a state with the bradley foundation and the coke foundation and a lot of potential money, could he take it away from jeb or romney? >> the interesting thing about the positioning, sometimes it is better to be the second or third choice of a lot people. now in the past that hasn't worked out. saw what happened to tim pawlenty. but walker is somebody who has established who will fight for conservative causes and endure flack from the other side to akiev things and that -- to achieve things and that earns him credit for his base. and as a governor he is pro-business and there are chamber of commerce types who might prefer someone like jeb but would come back and support walker if that is what the base went to. and there is one thing interesting to see how it plays out this cycle, is how much immigration will matter. if you contrast this field to the one you had last time
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remember how much mitt romney used being a hard liner on immigration against rick perry, this time around there will be people on stage that have squishier views and it will be interesting to see who plays to that. >> including jeb bush who has had a couple of different positions on immigration. we have to talk about mitt romney because he's done the biggest morph from his latest run, his third run. and he is trying to signal he is interested in more questions of poverty but you do have mitt boosters, med viner said in the globe, if rm any was president -- if romney was president, there won't be an isis and putin would be put in his place. can you pull off this change of position and focus on domestic politics and poverty. >> there have been so many different versions of mitt
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romney over the year. we're at 4.0 or 5.0, whether it is the can-do social liberal to the liberal he ran at in '08 to mr. fix-it in 2012. this time it is hard to make the case i should be president because i was right about russia and the foreign policy issues. but he was wrong in terms of the economy and other issues. but i'm glad to have him back in the race because my perspective, it is useful from trying to have a republican party that works past the romney issue. and if he still has the fire in the belly to get in there and make the case, this time i'm going to get it right. we haven't tried true romney-ism yet and it helps jeb because it makes him new and fresh by comparison. so i think it will be an entertaining cycle and i, for one, am just enormously glad to
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cover and most of what is inside of the edition because many of the cartoons are considered offensive. but for those who do want to see it. bbc correspondent furgo queen tweeted what is inside. i've been into the small office where the magazine was put together and the copy has 16 pages, much of it crude, sexual satire. featuring the prophet cartoon and crude sexual content on the the pope. thanks to the millions who increased solidary. but it attacks that it was islama-phobic. and that millions said je suis charlie are also secularists. more on "charlie hebdo" after this. it's happening in here. [ sirens wailing ] inside of you. even if you're treating your crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis,
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flagrantly offending people. how does that filter out where you work? >> well npr, decided not to show it. they say it is not consistent with the standards and practice of npr to show such transgressive behavior. and i'm speaking on my behalf. i didn't get a say in those decisions. >> and here they say it is deemed offensive and they will not show it. there is a dichotomy. some media outlets are showing it. fox news the bbc, the ard, the australian broadcasting corporation are showing in and the wall street journal and the washington post and usa today are showing the cover as well as the daily basketball and online outlets and it is free to get online and it is out there.
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and nbc news are not shoughmsnbc, the dale news, some are not showing it. does it change the telling of the story to describe something they can't show? >> absolutely. look, i think there are a couple of elements to this. people are -- in the immediate aftermath of the terrible killings last week people wanted the cartoons to be reproduced and journalists wanted it as a sign of solidarity and they freedom won't be silenced and there is a more journalistic point being made, can you tell the story without showing the precipitation of the act and the responsibility lies with the killers themselves. there are two different strands. you've seen people secular, lib liberals to show it is not above sat tire and people on the right
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say it is cowardly not to show it because there is a stream of islamic jihad against the west and cultural values and they want to allow an expansion of what kind of offensive statements can be made about islam and people that are observant in that way. and the tensions in france in the secular larger society and here in the u.s. as well. >> and in the end, the news organization is not an advocate. that is not what we're here to do. but we are here to present the news. if somebody calls someone the n-word doesn't mean we'll show it on the air. >> pun person's -- one person's sensitivity and judgment is different. we should produce some of the images objectionable and i disagree with npr but it is not
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1978 and we can find it with a couple of clicks and otherwise every time there were a controversy about what somebody did online would you be handing over your editorial people that are the most provocative. "the new york times" is entitled to make a decision and we can disagree it. >> and in a world where people have access to the information, it is a relief we are not in the three-network world, where if three news organizations decided not to show an image, there weren't places to get it. but now there is democracy, you can access if you want to. and i want to show you the images nbc has approved for us to show. these are the only four approved. and there is a picture of death saying i'm subscribing. and then a clown saying watch
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out, dangerous magazine. and i man saying i am charliement and then the last thing tweeted before the attacks and it showsal bagdadi from isis giving his new year's greetings saying i wish you good health. and here is a sampling of the content but not the content that gives you the context. >> it is a slight context. you have the banner on top of the cover that says irresponsible publication. and to sort of tweak their critics, they had the similar banner on the front that said responsible publication and it was a blank white cover. they wouldn't publish anything if they were being stopped. and goring their own oxes on the left as well and it should be transgressive to give scrutiny
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and to make criticism. that doesn't mean everyone will feel comfortable doing that. i think that you're seeing an argument taking place about whether their inclusion at time of clearly transgressive and even seemingly racist imagery who was making fun of themselves as they were racist or somehow violated the lines themselves and you are seeing in france an argument over free speech and the french authorities have arrested a comedian who was avrnt semitic and -- anti-semitic who expressed his sadness over the last couple of days. thank you very much for being here. >> you bet. >> all right. we'll be right back. bertolli. your house? si, si. ♪ ♪ [ laughter ] [ laughter ] [ chef ] this is bertolli's chicken florentine farfalle. bow tie pasta, grilled chicken, spinach
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present that it begs the question why no similar response to the attacks in nigerian. joining me icony who is nigerian and has written about the politics of that country for our website. china, thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> and so i think when people look at the attacks by boko haram in nigerian which did take place days before the apack in paris, where you had from hundreds up to maybe 2,000 people killed why in your view did that horrific attack not prompt the kind of international outrage you saw in paris? >> oh, where to be start. the fact that you said anywhere from hundreds to 2,000 is already disturbing. nij earia has no accountability. there is no accounting. how do you know as a country how many people have died. and secondly when people talk about the global media coverage and response
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to -- the response the media had to these events i ask is nij earia an infant? why must there be this centralization around a country that has a media. nij earia has people and they have people on the ground that can stem movement. when you look at egypt's arab spring that was a global event covered because there were people on the ground that cared. nigeria is missing a factor of caring. and what people don't understand when they use a western psychology when they talk about nigerian events it is that they live in a numbness. not a numbness of not caring speaking of the people that comes from knowing that your government is not there to help you, whether you are rich or you are poor whether you live or you die, it is not of their concern. the president jonathan -- i'm sorry. >> no, go on.
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>> the president jonathan only responded to the recent attack after he responded to the paris attacks. so why are we blaming the media when the very president of a country is responding to attacks more than a week after they actually happened. when paris happened the president of nigeria responded in solidarity with paris. >> you make an excellent point because the most recent kind of thing to compare it to was the kidnapping of the shibat girls, the girls. and then you have the first lady protesting on the veracity of whether it happened at all. so does the media blackout that people are complaining about in western media, is it happening in nigeria? do people there have any more idea of what is going on than we do in the west? >> you talk about media and market system that is
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questionable. the hash tag bring back our girls was turned into bring back jonathan by the president himself. so that is a marketing campaign knowing just what a joke these people expect this media to be. journalism itself is full of corruption. when they go to cover events they have bags of money waiting for them under their seats so they can tell the stories that the people they are covering want to hear and want to see in print. journalism is not some objective endeavor as you see in the united states where there are principles and standards, there is corruption around the journalism itself and you kept that with the apathy that the people of nigeria must endure because they know they are helpless, you are talking about a culture of numbness and nothingness that creates the abyss we are looking at when we look at this nation's state.
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the 114th congress is just two weeks old and already hard at work. today the house passed five amendments to a $39.7 million homeland security funding bill seeking to stop president obama's executive action on immigration. who amendments are getting around the homeland security that deals with immigration is entirely self funded through the fees they collect from applications and congress does not appropriate funds for any of the operations including immigration status or work permits with the exception of the e-verify program. in other words the
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appropriations process cannot be used to defund the agency. they say no fees can be used for deferred action. this is some of 100 bills introduced by the megamajority house. can you see them here on the thomas register from the library of the house. authorization of the keystone pipeline and then the affordable care act and the flat fair tax and even the tax code termination act of 2015 that states no tax shall be imposed by the irs code beginning after december 31 2019. yeah, no taxes. and republicans have introduced five anti-abortion bills and including a national ban on abortions after 20 weeks introduced on the very first day of the new session. and did i mention that the new house majority includes one
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woman committee chair. candice miller chairman of the house committee that overseas parking lots and the capitol cafeteria. and something that chips away the vocal rule in wall street reform which prohibits banks speculating on the market with taxpayer funds. and that bill faces an unfortunate future. and burny sanders plans to force the keystone vote to determine whether people believe in climate change. and perhaps the most prolific climate change denier and the head of the environmental committee. and ted cruz and marco rubio who head the committees responsible for nasa and the oceany an ikic
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two big stories starting the hour, the world reacts to the new "charlie hebdo" cover. and al qaeda claims credit for the murders of the magazine staff. i'm ari melber. as we come on the air today, 2 million additional copyies will be hot off the press. and that is 5 million copies and the massive spike of the usual run of 60,000 copies. station msnbc supports the right to publish but will not show the cover. and there is reaction online. and a muslim civil rights group is asking to protect free speech in this area.
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>> why do we defend the right for someone to speak their mind and draw whatever they want we are not willing to respect the feelings of almost 2 million people around the world. respect is a two-way street. >> and while that peaceful debate continues, in many parts of the world terrorists are seizing on the magazine attack for their own ends. al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is claimin
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