seems to have offended everyone. it is thursday february 19th and this is now. >> the notion that the west is at war with islam is an ugly lie. >> president obama today really gave a rallying cry. >> to refute the notion that groups like isil somehow represent islam. that's a falsehood. >> critics argue this is president obama failing to look this problem squarely in the eye. >> refusing to call islamic terrorists islamic terrorists. >> george w. bush never used that phrase. >> the talk about terminology, maybe taking up too much of the oxygen surrounding the summit. >> we need to address the social, economic and political marginalization of this challenge. >> and people want to know what will actually come out of the summit action wise. >> it's not a question of jews or christians or muslims. we're all in the same boat. and we have to help each other to get out of this crisis. >> this morning as prt of the

white house effort to combat violent extremism, president obama addressed a group of dignitaries from over 60 countries. >> obviously there's a complicated history between the middle east, the west but the notion that the west is at war with islam is an ugly lie. and all of us regardless of our faith, have a responsibility to reject it. >> an ugly lie. the remarks are the the latest in a series of speeches by the president, including a lengthy white house address yesterday. . ones that seek to not only rally and support, but to address the fire storm of criticism coming from conservatives at home who say the president is downplaying the role of islam in the isis threat. so far the president's efforts have not exactly found a warm reception. >> judae christian philosophy

versus jihad. president obama is flat out wrong in not describing the terrorist threat accurately. muslim fanatics want to kill us. and there are millions of them. period. >> he said i don't want to legitimize these people by using the words islamists. it's as if he refused to call nazis nazis. ft this they had a per vekted idea of nationalism. >> what undermines the effort is for the president of the united states to be an apologizeing. >> but even ted cruz was no match for rudy giuliani who last night at a prooifd fund-raiser for scott walker had this to say. i do not believe that the president loves america. he doesn't love you and he doesn't love me. he wasn't brought up the way you were brought up and i was

brought up through love of this country. asked to clarify this morning, america's former mayor instead chose to double down. >> he's a patriot, i'm sure. what i'm saying in his rhetoric i very rarely hear him say the things i used to hear ronlds reagan or bill clinton say about how much he loves america. i hear him criticize america much more often than other american presidents. >> joining us now, a law professor of accountability, responsibility project. and washington bureau chief for time michael scherer. this seems to be the ultimate rock and a hard place. yesterday was from one side he's talked too much about islam. and from the the other side a visceral response that he is not talking enough about islam or the muslim world and as such is not a true american the way the rest of the country is.

there are people upset that this whole extremism summit was really 90% about muslims. it wasn't about other threats that statistically are more of a threat to us in america over the last five years than killing americans than any kind of islamic tide in this country. >> but in terms of if nationaler intive and where americans concerns are focused -- a lot of energy spent on what is happening in the middle east. >> i get this. people on the right, i would love to tell me if you use the word radical islam, how do they change the policy? we can't fight them unless we find them. i define them for you. can we not just agree on that and move forward? we're playing game over words here. president bush is equally responsible, not using terms

like radical islam. there's a reason that is strategic and it's helping us in this fight. that should be the number one issue. not partisan fighting over words. >> michael, what did you make of the white house decision making process through all of this? it is a very very careful line. there's a lot of behind the scenes negotiations and discussions. it sounds like inside the white house, in terms of how much this president was going to talk about the muslim faith. >> look there's two fronts in the war. the military front, that is happening far away from us. against people occupying the land. that will likely go on for a number of years. and then there's a recruiting war going on. and that's what the president has been addressing this week. and i think the white house has been very clear that using this terminology hurts our cause. and what is interesting about what the president did today and to a lesser extent yesterday, is he elevated his critics. you usually see the white house

ignore what is being said on fox news on a day-to-day basis. and among the republican presidential field this has been a very much line of attack against him. he is elevating and saying these things being said by pundits in the press, he uses euphemisms, are actually going to hurt national security. i don't think he's doing it to win political points. he's doing it because he thinks on the substance that there's a recruitment issue here. and if this story line becomes the west versus islam, as the islamists want it to be or that isis begins to represent islam in the eyes of many americans, as the president said today, most of them don't know a muslim person. then there's enormous danger of a future recruitment. >> there's multiple questions embedded here. one is about targeting those of a certain faith. the other is a civil liberties question. and how you actually -- to

michael's point, prevent recruitment. and i would like to know your thoughts about the prescriptions that have been offered thus far on these three days of summit on the subject of stopping or combatting extremism. >> yeah i think it's important for all sides of a discussion to sort of step back take a measured rational look at the facts. and the discussions. if we're talking about isis, we should start with the premise that the primary victims of isis, it's not even close. are muslims. the primary victims of any of these groups in pakistan iraq or syria or muslims. and so you have to keep that in mind. it's not directed at the quote/unquote west. the people mainly in the cross hairs are fellow muslims. and when you're talking domestic acts of political violence and terrorism, remember again the facts. since 2009, most americans who have been killed by domestic terrorists have not been killed by so-called islamists.

>> let me interrupt you for one second. clearly the numbers speak not to a scourge of isis terrorism threatening the united states but domestic terrorism. that said, the narrative of isis is terrifying in a way that domestic terrorism, for whatever reason, doesn't seem as scary to the american population. and there are those of us in the west that look at muslims being slaughtered by the tens and hundreds of thousands and saying we all need to do something about that. so takeing isis as its own specific thing. from the civil liberties perspective, how do you deal with it and also secure the basic democratic principles upon which america was founded? >> from the standpoint of sound policy, effective policy the last thing you want to do is exceptionalize that and give them a pedestal higher than they deserve. deal with the challenge without amplifying it and that serves

the agenda of those driven to serve those acts of violence. when you look at the violent extremism framework, one of the many reasons it's problematic is it further stigmatizes american-muslim communities that are already stigmatized. s that not helpful from a civil right standpoint. that's not helpful from law enforcement standpoint. you don't want to do that. especial pli when the framework is based on flawed notions of radicalization. the idea you can somehow predict violence in the future. there is no reliable, accurate way to predict violence. >> and that's probably at the root of this. nobody has exactly a very good idea. and then in in each way you can map out the long-term consequences. they are not particularly good. this very awkward and difficult position that the white house and law enforcement finds itself

in is to what degree do we talk about islam when we talk about isis? graham wood, the atlantic has a cover story on isis. and the ideology upon which it is based. he writes the reality is the islamic state is very islamic. virtually every law adheres to what it calls in the press and a pronouncements and billboards license plates stationary and coins, the prophetic methodology, which means following the prophesy and example of muhammad in detail. i won't say anything about that word, that's the first time i've said it on this program. >> right. >> but to the notion that islamic state is islamic. as a muslim-american, how do you respond to that? >> to me, i would rather rely on over 125 muslim clerics from around the world, including leaders for the muslim world who sent a letter to the leader of isis in september. written in english and arabic going in great detail. where their acts violate the teachings of the prophet

muhammad. to me i side with this them over the article by graham and who he sites in his article. isis and al qaeda. both terrorists groups are in competition with each other. they will use anything they can. and counterterrorism experts said islam is not the big point used to recruit most of the people. it's much more like gang recruiting. it's about giving people self worth. they're marginalized. they're not part of society. come and join us. we'll make you feel good about yourself or pay you four times the wages the average muslims are getting. >> so what is the counter point to that? the sensationalism the prophesy of end rewards and pr dice. how does -- how does the city of baltimore combat, i mean from a practical standpoint what does law enforcement do? >> i think law enforcement needs -- there's a number of

things law enforcement needs to stop doing, which is infiltrating, spying on communities, all the measures that do not exactly communicate trust, that don't help to build trust between targeted communities, american-muslim communities and law enforcement. because again, i think in large part this is a problem. this is a solution in request to a problem. i don't know that there are hordes of young american-muslims rushing to join isis. to the extent there may be a few in certain communities. you want the members of the communities to talk to them. there's such a climate of fear in those communities creating by the omni presence of surveillance if you were at a mosque in minnesota and you suspected a young man may be tempted to go join isis or another organization in syria, you're going to be too afraid to talk to that young man. you're going to think, maybe actually he's an informant working for the government to get me in trouble. so even in that slim minority of cases, you really want

meaningful engagement by law enforcement. treating all muslims as though targets for informants or tarpgts as terrorist threats. >> michael, i want to ask. to romney's point. the recruitment t issue is one piece. and it's in libya. there's reports for the daily beast that the the italians are now worried because of the geographic call proximity. to what degree do you think that's a top line priority for the white house? >> i think the change is very much a concern in the reason for this event. you know a couple of your guests said that most domestic extremist acts are not happening because of muslims. that's certainly the true. what is is different is you have an expansion of an ideology that has been proven to be very damaging in a number of

instances. it's enormous concern for europe. i think it is worth pointing out that a lot of this is the rebranding of groups that exist. there's an evidence that isis is targeting the u.s. at this point. the u.s. intelligence establishment is pretty -- speaking with one voice when they say they have not found this. isis' own ideology is very focused on where they're at and what they're doing. and it's a unique threat. and i think the president and the white house are very concerned about the degree to which this has spread. if you think back two years ago, isis was then called al qaeda and iraq was not really seen as much of a concern. and they've become an enormous destabilizing force occupying enormous territory and there's a real fear that could grow. i think that fear is real. >> thank you guys all for your time. >> thank you. we have breaking news out of las vegas where police have taken a suspect connected to last week's road rage shooting into custody. police say the suspect is

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drones hit the headlines in a big way this week. on tuesday the federal government announced it will begin exporting armed drones to our friends and allies just as new faa rules thought to limit their commercial use here at home. that dealt a blow to large companies like amazon, whose dreams of prime air long distance drone delivery service, those dreams will have to wait. the new faa rules stipulate commercial drones can fly up to an altitude of 500 feet and at a top speed of 100 miles per hour during daylight hours only. also they must be within site of the operator at all times. the rules did not address private hobbyists who are still essentially free to do whatever they want, as long as they fly below 400 feet and stay away from airports. joining me now is staff writer for wired. and from washington senior fellow at the center for a new american security, paul shori.

let me start with you here izzy. amazon is unhappy with the decision. we are committed to realizing our mission and are prepare to deploy where we have the regulatory support we need. it's like the amazon army. how likely is it that we will see amazon or whatever large company delivering goods by drone in the near future? >> well the faa has been very clear about the fact they do not support this idea of drone deliveries. the proposed rules substantiate that. there is a comment period. so amazon has substantial sway with the business community. so it could throw its weight around a little bit during the comment periods. it's tough to say if that will have an impact. where they have the regulatory support they need. there are other companies interested in this. alibaba is testing in china.

this could use drones to survey their land. if you have to watch the drone. then they can't go very far. >> 100 miles per hour seems very fast to me. what do i know? i don't have my own drone. paul, there are two pieces to this. there's the commercial aspect and there's a military aspect. john kirby said this about the potential threat of drones falling into the wrong hands. this is not the first time we have workeded with the state department to transfer or sell. it suits our interest and i think it should suit the american people's interest to know that we're going to be involved from soup to nuts. >> okay, so paul that amounts to me as don't worry about it.

we got it. but is the story of big weapons falling into the wrong hands -- i mean people -- everybody knows that story and how it ends. how confident should we be from the security standpoint that this technology will be secure? >> i think the most important thing to realize is the united states does not have a monopoly on drones. sometimes there's a perception that drones are a special technology we only have. and it's certainly not true. there are over 20 countries that are currently developing armed drones. and some of them like china will certainly sell those to other countries as well. so the key question is what will countries do with it? how will they use drones? one of the key things in the new policy by the administration is the the countries that agree to get drones from the united states, need to agree to principles for appropriate use. they will use them lawfully internationally and domestically. >> and how likely is that?

>> this isn't a relationship with countries. this is not like selling drones out of the back of a van. >> selling drones and following the the grateful dead. >> that's right. go ahead. >> so these drones only countries that really need to sell them to are countries with very close relationships to the united states. and they're not going to jeopardize the the relationship or future sales of other weapons while violating the terms of the agreement. >> this feels like the wild west. there are agreements to map this out. commercially, there's something called nofullyzone.com to allow consumers to set up restricted air space above their zones. who is enforcing that? there's no drone police to capture unwanted drones. >> exactly. and the faa didn't answer that yes. they say if you're flying a commercial drone you can't fly it over people not involved in the operation. but who is going to catch you and what are the repercussions? >> to the point of the rules

around the military use. the countries -- you mentioned the chinese, and they are selling this technology. is there any kind of sense that we have that there's a call for the chinese to restrict the use of these and the countries they're sold to. >> i think it's unlikely they would want to do that. you make a good point about the availability of this technology. now there's obviously a difference between a predator drone and dinds ofkinds of small quad copters crashed on the lawn of the white house a few weeks ago. but we're heading towards a world that will be saturated with many kinds of drones available to individuals, to non-state groups. hezbollah and hamas have drones of their owns and to militaries. it's not possible to stop that. the question is what will people do with them and how do we shape expectations for appropriate use? >> yeah the faa estimates within a decade paul, private drones will constitute a $90 billion industry. i wonder if this is people in the mid 90s talking about

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appreciative of eddie and i applaud his actions. joining me now is cohost of the cycle torre and one of the stars in black women jesus. you know him from "friday." comedian john witherspoon. it's awesome to have you both onset. >> awesome to be here. >> john you have worked with eddie murphy before. >> yes. >> you are a comic. >> yes. >> what do you think of his choice? >> well, you have to say no to a lot of things. if i would have broke, i would have done it. >> you would have? >> what do you think -- and from both of you guys do you think not doing the cosby role is a show of support for bill cosby? or do you think it's i don't want to get into this. >> you have enough money you don't have to sort of do this thing. eddie murphy is retired. he's not doing stand-up. he's not doing movies. he doesn't want anything to do with this. this was a sort of bye y'all. i don't have to do anything and i'm not going to do anything. but i don't think not doing a

comedy bid is the same as supporting eddie. -- supporting cosby. part of why eddie was so upset with snl is david spade did a bit about him that called him out specifically. and eddie said let's not do jokes that specifically attack particular individuals the way that i was hurt. that doesn't mean you're condoning rape. judd apatow was way out? and to some folk who is have defended eddie's choice. he says he's a rapist? that's not loyalty. it's choosing to support a rich rapist over 30 victims. bill cosby has denied any allegations. that said two new accusers came forward last week. and more than 20 women overall have come forward. >> oh, that's a lot. >> yeah. and i guess i wonder in the world of comedy, you know there was a moment this cosby thing has gone through a curve, right?

there was these allegations that have been sort of around for a while. >> yep. >> and then there seemed to be momentum a couple months ago where more women were come forward. it was talk around the water cooler. more comics were coming forward. now it feels like maybe we're going back to the status quo. i wonder if you think comics can talk about bill cosby in light of these allegations? >> i wouldn't. i won't. and i don't. but i think you get 30 some women now. >> something like that. >> i don't think all these ladies are -- i think people are jumping aboard. >> you think that it's -- >> i think that there are more women who haven't said anything and the invisible war that we have both talked about. they say the average assailant -- rape assailant has 300 incidents in their lifetime. so i'm not saying bill cosby has that. but there may be more than we even know about rather than saying some of these women are coming out and gaining nothing

for it. >> yeah but i guess i wonder. . this doesn't -- there's no trial as of right now. and none of us know i mean there's certainly a lot of women bill cosby is denying it. you don't want to talk about it right? >> some comics talk about it. >> a lot of comics talk about when you're young, you idolize pryor. when you get older, you idolize mr. cosby. so they still have the deep respect for him before all this. they may not want to attack him. but also it's low lying fruit at this point. everybody has had that kick at this point. what do you gain? >> i do want to talk about eddie. i think this is interesting. do your point about where he's at in his career, right. he doesn't have to do any of this. he's retired. he didn't say any jokes. he didn't do any sketches. i think people were excited about eddie murphy coming back to "saturday night live" because he's played the most seminal

characters on the show. why come back at all? >> he turned down the the last time they offered him to come back. maybe he just wanted to smash it in the face. i'll come out and won't say anything. >> you think the way he came on was a statement in its it of itself? >> yeah. when they did the bit about him that embarrassed him. >> david spade. >> he didn't like that. plus he didn't like saturday night live. they thought they ripped him off. >> well, this is also -- and salon has a fairly unstinting assessment of eddie's career. anna writes eddie finally returned the to snl after 31 years and did no comedy at all. i don't think it's a question of murphy quicking a man when he's down or knowing the laughs are not worth it. rather it's an image monitoring in line with the current public persona. >> i'm not sure what anna is talking about. this is one of the greatest immediate congressmans of comedians of his era and he's not the arena anymore. >> she makes a point in the

beginning of his career. he would talk about richard pryor, would talk about bill cosby. was out there. he's gone to very successful comedies, but ones not nearly as edgy and is this just part and parcel of where he is at? >> when you are young and hungry you will do anything for more. you get mature. he has a legacy now. he's in the greatest comics of his generation if not bigger. you don't do those sort of things. with see this with writers and politicians. >> eddie murphy it would have been embarrassing to do something about bill cosby: that would be embarrassing for eddie murphy to do. >> because not only cosby but snl. >> bill cosby got enough trouble for eddie murphy to come out of retirement and do something like this. >> and you know when seinfeld did the joke about a friend that did not go over well in the room, right. ? so kicking a man when he's down does not always work. >> no.

it's just not right. >> and i will say, it is interesting how other comics have talked about this. chris rock in new york magazine doesn't talk about cosby specifically. he says -- he doesn't talk about the allegations specifically. he says i love cosby and i hope it's not true. it's a weird year for comedy. we lost robin williams. we lost joan rivers and we kind of lost cosby. this seems to be about as far out as people want to go. he's not in the place he used to be. >> it would be horrible to lose cosby. >> everything was lost here. between talking to nbc. on netflix, right? they were playing the show still on tv land. there's something downstairs that has all the stars of nbc past. useded to have bill cosby. no more. it's been erased. you can't talk about bill cosby in a positive way anymore. and that makes sense. >> eddie murphy didn't say he

didn't want to do the cosby sketch. norm mcdonald tweeted it out. i don't think eddie murphy relishes being the subject of this discussion because of this sort of cryptonit. thank you. thank you for your time. thank you both. you can see john live at gotham comedy club in new york this weekend and on adult swim's black joo sus. and catch torre weekdays at 3:00 p.m. on msnbc. thanks, guys. coming up, for just a few hours he was in charge of the entire north carolina state legislature, expanding medicaid giving teachers raises and saving puppies, sort of l. we'll talk to the one-man congress just ahead. ♪ how did i set a new personal record today? i started with a test run.

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day ever as the siberian express continues to roll across the country, shattering temperature records in several states. and chicago's o'hare this morning, the mercury dropped to negative 8 degrees, an all h-time low. also cincinnati and ohio experiencing record lows. and louisville, kentucky at negative three. over 100 records could fall today and tomorrow including potentially boston washington, d.c. and new york city. jining me now from nashville, tennessee, is grey grey. how is the south dealing with the cold snap jay? >> reporter: oh, this isn't what they're used to down here alex. don't let the sunshine fool you. still bitterly cold. 19 degrees. wsh in the single digits. so they're not getting a break here right now. and they've set a record here in music city again. five degrees this morning. a new record low.

it's one of several over the last week when they haven't been above freezing here since lard saturday a brief warmup tomorrow will be in the 20s. maybe even 30. so that's great news. the bad news is more snow and ice on the way, alex. they've already had one round. crews are still working to repair those. now they have to deal with more. it's a tough go. >> what about schools. in terms of budgeting for this. does this data count for weather like this. boston has run through their snow funding. i would assume nashville doesn't have big costs for stuff like this. >> not at all. and schools continue to be closed. they'll reassess over the weekend here. e a lot of businesses telling folks to just work from home if you can. it's tough to get the things cleared away.

now they've done a decent job clearing the ice. the problem is more is on the way, alex. they've struggled to get to this point and now they have to deal with it again. and everyone, as you might imagine is exhausted. the crews and the people are saying, it's time for spring. >> i'm with you on the time for spring. thanks for your time. >> see you. >> the the extreme weather in north carolina gave democratic state senator jeff jackson the perfect opportunity to rule by fiat. albeit fictional. alone in the chamber because all of his fellow legislators took a show day. he took to media for a one-man super session. he expanded medicaid. he outlawed puppy mills and restored university funding. and he wasn't done there. independent redistricting, check. investing in wind and sewolar, check. early childhood education,

check. north carolina is quickly becoming a national model for progress. if only. joining me now is a man himself, north carolina state senator jeff jackson. thanks for joining me. how did you decide to do this? was this a plan? a dream long held? >> no this was a rare once in a lifetime opportunity where i show up to the capitol, security tells me sir, you're the only legislator we've seen today, so i think, this is a great opportunity. let's turn the state around. let's make north carolina a national model for progress. >> i wonder you know we talk about these pieces of legislation that you pseudo passed. and there's a point in time when north carolina or many other states in the union would slr consider them on a bye partisan bay sis. you restored university funding. you approved nonpartisan redistricting. you made investments in green energy. early childhood education. talk to me about the climate in north carolina when it comes to

bipartisan slegs. >> well we're a purple state, and we've had a history of political balance. but over the few years, we lost that sense of balance. we've been pulled hard in one direction. i think it reminded people if just for a moment of what it would feel like to be back on track with the bipartisan agenda. >> and getting the state back on track. how far away buzz it feel right now? north carolina passed one of the most stringent voter i.d. laws in the country country. there was a decline to expand mid kad under the affordable care act and of course the refusal to extend long-term unemployment benefits. those seem a very far cry. >> you're absolutely right. in order to take this agenda from a facebook agenda to a real agenda, it's going to take years. nothing can be done in a day. even in this magical snow day. people have to vote.

we can make incremental progress in here. with early childhood education. we need to fully fund pre-k for the at-risk kids. right now we're not doing that. so that's an incremental step we can take. if we want to really put our state back on track and get the big things done it's going to take a lot of people coming to the polls. and now receiving lots of calls from actual lobbyists. even the false appearance of power getting their attention. >> it's true. how have fellow legislators responded? the early childhood education thing, that seems like maybe a good idea. >> well i would say the reactions broke down along party lines. my sought thought it was very funny. >> so no one on the right side of the aisle said that seems like maybe a decent idea. >> no. there are a lot of people on the right who think these are decent ideas. but not all of them are in

leadership positions. we have to move forward, and we have to find a way to work together. m and we're not sure how to do that because things are so far apart right now. but it's too important a mission to admit defeat. we have to find a way to make this work. >> north carolina state senator, jeff jackson. i wish you many more snow days ahead. thanks for your time. >> thank you. >> coming up a tv show dedicated to the new white house communications director a tv show in russia. propaganda and sake at night. when we come back. you total your brand new car. nobody's hurt,but there will still be pain. it comes when your insurance company

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good evening, americans and welcome to the ed show live from new york. let's get to work. five years after the spill. cat island's disappearing act. >> cat island was ground zero to the the oil spill. so this is all that's left. >> this is it. >> this is it. if we don't rebuilding these islands, we'll lose it again. >> and later, what drone exports will mean in the fight against terror. >> the state department is putting out an announcement about the much wider exprt of armed drones. >> i called on the international community to come together and rad eradicate this extremism. this isn't a challenge alone. it's a challenge for the world. >> plus,