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hour. also in the news making headlines, more signs in ukraine that the cease-fire is unraveling before our eyes. the united states and britain now discussing the possibility of new sanctions against russia. this just a week after that cease-fire supposedly went into effect. in the united states the fight continuing over president obama's executive action on immigration. a battle that could end up cutting off funding for the department of homeland security only five days from now. we're on shutdown watch officially this week. scott walker seems to have turned his rudy giuliani problem into a scott walker problem by saying he doesn't know whether or not president obama is a christian. we'll look at what he said. also the oscar frenzy goes to new heights. we'll look at a better's guide to tonight's oscars. why does it always seem there are few surprises that win and a lot of sure things that come in. we begin with president obama fighting back on two

fronts for one of his top priorities. his immigration action is under fire from congress and from the courts. the president scrambling to rally the public trying to protect policies that would defer deportation of as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants. these are policies that obama implemented unilateral lay because he says of congress' refusal to act. the president heading to miami this week, on wednesday, to speak with that city's immigrant community. a town hall event. it will hair in prime time on msnbc on wednesday night. at the same time the obama administration is upping its legal battle. just in the next 24 hours they plan to ask a texas federal court to block last week's ruling that would postpone obama's immigration actions. it's being described as the most aggressive legal approach available to the white house after that set back in the courts. immigration fight has prompted

the latest battle on capitol hill. republicans insisting a bill to fund the department of homeland security include a provision that would block obama's immigration actions from taking effect. house speaker john boehner saying house republicans will let the dhs shut down five day frgs now rather than let the president's planned actions continue. some voices in his party are calling for a different approach. >> it's not a good idea to shut down the department of homeland security. we should be working together despite the onbstruction of democratic colleagues. now we have a perfect reason not to shut it down because the courts decided at least initially in our favor. >> joining me now with the latest on the war over immigration, we have kristen welker. as we say two fronts in this.

the public opinion, the battle over the shutdown, also talking about the legal battle what is the white house trying to do? >> first to the legal battle, as early as tomorrow, the obama administration will file that emergency injunction. >> did we lose -- sounds like we lost kristen welker there. we will try to get you more of an update on what the white house is looking to do on immigration. as we're saying the battle over the president's immigration policies would leave millions of undocumented immigrants in limb box unsure if they will be shielded from deportation as the president intended as his action was blocked before that court, you may remember the name astrid silva. president obama shared his story when he announced his executive actions to defer deportations three months ago. here's what she had to say this week. >> our families are waiting for any type of relief.

we need to make sure they're allowed to stay in the country. every day that passes by is one day less that our family sies are able to live in peace and without the fear of immigration coming and knocking on the door. now our community doesn't know the date or if this will happen. >> joining me now to discuss president obama's immigration actions and what their delay means, jose antonio vargas founder of "define america" and executive editor of "emerging us." also with us republican strategist danny vargas no relation. former chairman of the national hispanic ae simably. danny, let me start with you. it certainly seems like we're heading towards this dhs shutdown showdown. republicans in the house, many in the senate basically saying we would rather shut down deny funding to the department of homeland security this week than implement -- have the president implement these immigration

policies. do you think that's the approach the republican party should be taking? >> i don't. good morning. i think the department of homeland security is an incredibly important department. it needs to get funded. the judge's ruling i hope gives us breathing room to allow dhs to get funded and allow republicans in congress and the senate to craft their own version of immigration reform. there was a set of legislative solutions that republicans and the house were putting forward last year that never got anywhere in the senate. now there is a republican controlled senate, i hope we can move forward with a piecemeal approach for immigration reform that jose and i think are both looking for. >> as danny gets to there, one of the criticisms from some republicans at least of the president on immigration, on his executive actions, is that they

would say he short circuited the legislative process. hey, we could have had reform in congress. what's your take on that? >> for far too long the republicans -- president obama gave too much ground to the republicans. that's why he deported more than 2 million people in six years, right? he deported that many people because he kept saying look let me work with congress. let me work through this way. let me make sure we're following this in a matter that the american public would support which is going through congress. that didn't work. how many times did obstructionists in the republican party try to stop any sort of movement and development on this issue? this is the same party that said you know latinos have cantaloupe legs. this is the same party -- >> you're talking about a comment from congressman steve king from iowa. >> it's hard to keep saying let's wait for congress to get its act together when they don't want to acknowledge simple facts

about this issue. i read this stay that the texas judge issued last week. i'm one of the 5 million people who would benefit from something like this. this is the kind of policy that i'm waiting for, so i can go see my mom this spring after 21 years. now politics is happening. does the judge know there are 1.7 undocumented people in texas who in 2010 paid $1.6 billion in state and local taxes? just in 2010. does he even know how much we contribute to the state economy? to the national economy? that's nowhere in that 120 pages. >> we live in a republic we do not live if a monarchy. we have a president. we don't have a king. we have a legislative process that affords the people and representatives to craft a law. it's up to the executive branch to faithfully execute those laws. if there's a demand to change the laws we have a process by which we can do that.

i'm an advocate of immigration reform. we need do it for the needs of our economy and security and for our nature as a country to move forward with immigration it has to be done in a legal way. the undocumented population deserves a permanent solution with the force of law behind it. >> okay. let me -- >> executive action is a band-aid approach. it doesn't provide a level of security. >> let me follow up on that. when we talk about the executive actions from the president, we're talking about two phases. a broader thing he announced two months ago. that's been put on hold by this court in texas. before that in 2012 he did this thing called deferred action, daca that has benefited not as many people but currently is benefiting a large number of people in this country. the question is would you as a republican, now that the president has done this would you like to see that rolled back? those protections that exist for these people rolled back? >> i want to see a solution that is worked through congress.

i want to see a permanent solution to our immigrant system. our immigration system is broken. it's not just about the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country, it doesn't need the needs of the economy or security. >> we agree. but the problem is how do we get this republican congress -- now that you control both houses what do we do now? i completely agree with him we need a permanent solution until something happens, what do we do? do we deport 1,000 people every day? do we roll back this daca that has made undocumented people go to college, pay taxes sh ses which contribute to this economy.

what do we do? >> we never had a situation where the republican controlled house has had an opportunity to work with a partner in the united states senate. the democrats in the united states senate have blocked what the house is trying to do. they have to work together and reach a consensus and an agreement on how to move forward. the house wants to move forward with a piecemeal approach the senate wants to move forward with a large, come prehence i. bill. those are two different approaches. the two houses need to come together. now that there are republicans in control of both houses hopefully we can move forward. the president stymied that action with executive action and poisoned the well for us to move forward in a consensus approach. >> jose we talked about the legal situation, that's unresovr unresolve unresolved. are you optimistic when you look at what you want out of this, are you optimistic that will happen? >> we have a moral bankruptcy here that's happening, right? this is an issue that's impacting peoples daily lives.

yet we see it played this kind of -- a lot of us were expecting this judge, given he's been a conservative judge, rallying against immigrants in texas for years, so we knew this was happening. the fact that the predictable partisan politics is being played phrases like spoiling the well we heard that so many times. i think the american public who, the majority of whom back the president's action they understand something that to happen. unfortunately toxic politics like this is presenting something from moving forward. >> it's going to be the story to watch this week. that shutdown clock is in effect effect. we'll see what happens in congress and how the public reacts to this. thank you both. thanks for coming in this morning. this programming reminder president obama will be talking more on this issue with our own jose diaz this week in a town hall with the president in miami

on wednesday. he will take questions from those attending and also people who send them in via social media if you have a question send them in #obamatownhall. watch wednesday night at 8:00. also this morning, hollywood's best and hollywood's worst. up next is i don't know still an acceptable answer for a politician asked whether president obama is a christian. who is in hot water after this.

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the mayor can speak for himself. i'm not going to comment on what the president thinks or not. >> did you agree with those comments? were you offended? what was your reaction when you heard them?

>> i'm in new york. i'm used to people saying things that are aggressive. >> wisconsin governor and likely republican presidential candidate scott walker on thursday trying to say as little as possible about rudy giuliani's inflammatory remarks delivered at a walker event where morning a new controversy involving walker about president obama's religion. walker saying i don't know whether the president is a christian. i've actually never talked about it or i have not read about that. i never asked him that you asked me to make statements about people i have not had a conversation with about that. how could i say if i know either of you are a christian, talking to two reporters there. this is a classic example of why people hate washington and increasingly dislike the press. the things they care about don't remotely come close to what you're asking about. walker's spokesperson later

clarified that of course the governor thinks the president is a christian. this also comes more than a week after walker made headline ss telling a british interviewer that he would punt on the issue of evolution. the way he's handle new media scrutiny is prompting questions about whether he's ready for prime time. matt lewis saying in a column campaigns are crucibles, if the last couple of days are a harbinger of things to come he's in trouble. we have robert george and basil smiklej and christian bellantoni. three times a trend, they times a charm. it's evolution a couple weeks ago, then the rudy giuliani comments and now is the president a christian. we read through everything he says in those reporters, the

spokesperson says about eight words. of course president obama is a christian. hasn't walker learned that's how you answer a question like this? >> there's a million things you could say. president obama loves this country a ton, but heats the worst president we're had. you tie yourself in knots, which is all the media will talk about the next four days. he'll keep getting the question asked of him. i've been covering barack obama since 2006. this question continues to come up. it's feed nothing these quiet narratives, he's trying to make a broader point about this is the press' fault for asking wrong questions. you can shut it down. >> that's the point that matt lewis is making. saying conservatives don't ask these questions, democrats you don't ask about x. he says if that's true or that isn't true put that aside, because if you're a presidential candidate you need to know better than this. >> it's rather early in the

game. it is also kind of a got you question. it's kind of funny, it said president obama's christianity questioned. why was the question asked in the first place especially when he's not running again? that's the thing. if scott walker does want to run for president, he's going to be focusing on the fact that barack obama is not going to be running again. not to run for a third time. it shouldn't matter. he says he is a christian. he will be out of office in two years, i want to talk about the future of the country. end of story. >> the significance of the moment, it is early, but we always call this the invisible primary. this is the moment where all those donors, opinionmakers are sizing up the candidates taking sides, that has a huge effect of who is in contention a year from now. scott walker the last few weeks he has gotten a surge in

polling. polling in new hampshire says he has moved ahead of jeb bush but now when he handles questions like this influential people in his party start looking at him saying i don't know maybe we have other options. >> are these quiet narratives as you say, being spun. this is his attempt to test one of those narratives and it was clumsily done. the more he keeps tying himself into that stepping into this i don't see a tightening of his message or his narrative. to me i think the republicans broadly are going to look at him and say, well not only do you have to start explaining yourself more but just the american -- the voters will ask the same question. >> dpan so there's the conservatives saying the press is asking these got you questions, at the same time when he handles them this way this will invite the press to ask more questions.

i was talking to my produce their morning, will he now start getting questions about was he born in hawaii? >> and he's also about to start hanging out with the president for the winter meeting, and this is leading up to cpac. you know every candidate on stage will respond to the media saying they are bring up dumb controversies. it's tying yourself into a pretzel for no reason. i think the reporters shouldn't be asking this question either. it's kind of dumb. it's something for debate stage. you get all ten republicans, look is this an issue that's settled or not settled? if you have individuals like rudy giuliani out there making a lot of these comments that all it does is keeps these questions out there, keeps the reporters active. it gets to a point where candidates like walker and

others have to say are you going to repudiate louis farrakhan. they will have to do the same thing. i think to the extent that republicans want to keep a long the straight and narrow path they'll have to push people like giuliani out of the picture. >> the other aspect of this is republicans in general get frustrated by the idea that they have to somehow speak or repudiate every other republican, not just whether it was a former mayor of new york before some dog catcher in iowa. he said this. do you agree with that? they get tired of those got you questions. this is not way to respond. >> you can get tired of it, but it seems like presidential campaigning 101 if you don't want stories like this especially if you have gone through this twice in the past

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5.0. i'm trying to think what the first four were. second of all, i don't know marketing coke now marketing hillary clinton? >> i actually will defend this. it sounds dumb this is how a lot of voters vote. they vote with their gut who would you rather have a beer with when you test negative messages, this is how mitt romney you have a certain sentiment about him that people feel. if you can find anything that reinforces that narrative. that can torpedo a campaign. >> it's weird they're talking about comparing big macs to chip chipo chipolte -- >> both are high calorie. >> there's a precedent for this. >> that was nixon. >> yeah. >> you don't want that precedent. >> which is odd, but apparently

this works. >> how do you market hillary clinton? >> that is part of the problem. you are talking about somebody when 216 comes around who has been on the stage for 25 years. and it seems to me that just the fact they're call it 5.0 shows how many different versions there were. >> the 18-year-olds are not familiar with her so they're reintroducing her. >> let's hope the person from coca-cola is not new coke person. the a.p. "birdman" flies high at independent spirit awards. michael keaton wins becht actor. "birdman" wins best picture. this was held in a tent at santa monica. but this is a harbinger for the oscars. last year all the spirit award

winners won the oscars. it's oscar night, all "birdman." i haven't seen the movie. i don't know. >> right now they say it's between "birdman" and "boyhood." "boyhood" is the love letter to filmmaking because it took 12 years to film. as the young man grew up and so forth. it's not surprising that would be the thing that the old guard in hollywood loves. "birdman" has this independent sensibility about it. beautiful -- >> it's about the industry. it's about -- >> they are both. >> "boyhood" is more about growing up. >> plus i think there's a redemption in it. as we were talking earlier, we are both science fiction and comic book fans to see michael keaton who played batman and come back in this role -- >> almost winking at his own background. >> something wonderful about this. >> i don't like that they do the sub title thing, "birdman" or

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political importance. he said i don't have the infrastructure for this i have to put together a team that looks into running president. and he said i have controversial stances on immigration, common core. is there a path for me to the nomination without changing those principles? so he spent a year putting together his team. coming up with strategy for i'm not changing these principles, so i will need to raise a ton of money quickly to be able to -- >> how much are they talking about here? >> 50 million to 100 million. a lot of people think he could go over that? >> raise that when? >> end of the first quarter. >> so a month from now, jeb bush might have $100 million -- >> a bit more or less. this is a lot of money he's putting together. he knows he has to run a lot of

ads in iowa new hampshire, to explain why common core is not a bad decide. why comprehensive immigration reform is not a bad thing. the idea is raise all this money early on so he can do retail politicking in iowa get the base numbers up. >> new hampshire has one television station. i think 100 million will take you far there. christina, what do you think of that as a strategy? >> in some ways it's possible that he can do it. his team thinks he has the likable factor nailed down. what yes, he'll have to answer questions about his last name. but he's out there. he can connect to people on a human being level. he has that yes east telling me the truth factor. yeah. i think it's going to shock and awe if he raises that much money. >> what i think about with the strategy is what his brother did, george w. did in 1999 into

2000. a huge wave of cash. six people quit the race after he put his fund-raising numbers out that year. but the republican party is in such a different place. with bush with dubya, they talked about conservative compassionate. i wonder if jeb sells the way george w. did. >> it will be a lot harder. z money makes it harder for the message to gut out there. jeb bush has a way of selling himself, making himself look different from his brother. yes, it's tough making the case within the party. but if he comes out on stage with his family he has a way of personalizing the immigration issue in a way that no one else

can. it may not sell perfectly with the pure base but keep in mind with such a wide open field, and if he's got money, there's really a percentages that he just needs to convince in iowa. >> you don't necessarily need 51% in a rounded try mare. basil, that idea the line from jeb bush that's been used is willing to lose the primary to win the general election. not falling for the traps that mitt romney fell for in the primaries in 2012. when you look at jeb bush as democrat, do you think that's the toughest guy we could face next year? >> on paper he might be a tough candidate to beat because he brings in the immigration conversation in a way that a lot of other republicans can't. one of the things that i wonder about him, going back to the republican base i always thought rand paul was the one, if he wanted to if he had the time to move the party in a direction that made him a strong

general election candidate. i'm not sure particularly with things like common core if jeb bush, even with his money, can move the base of the republican party. especially if you have folks to the far right really upset and feeling disenfranchised. >> i have the same doubt about that. ben, how is the rest of the field reacting? mitt romney is forced to act fast. he's out. chris christie, all these stories about doneors going to jeb instead. >> romney looked at it, saw all the donors going to jeb, said there's not a window for me. chris christie having some big names. you'll see more of that. they worked hard to pull the romney supporters over to them. the rest of the field sees that they can go relwell to the right.

the bush stradtegy is farewell in iowa, then super tuesday and the big states. >> south carolina sounds like a tough place. >> that's a tough sell. >> south carolina, a little harder. >> can these other candidates -- bush will raise maybe the most money. how competitive can the other ones be? >> they can't be that close. rand raises great small dollar donation donations, he'll have enough money. he'll have probably one or two big ticket supporters. you mentioned walker and his troubles with some of these comments about obama, plays well with the base, does not play well with the rest of the establishment, who says if we go with a guy like this, there's a danger he employees up terribly in the general election. do we hold our nose and say jeb is not with us on everything, but he can win. >> if hillary is going to be the

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leading actress. best actress in a movie. here are the nominees. >> this one is done. it was done about four five months ago. julianne moore is going to win. the only way it won't happen is if matthew mcconaughey goes rogue and says reese witherspoon. >> why is that such a sure thing? what about her performance makes this so much better than the others? >> one, she's playing a person that has a disease, which is a popular oscar thing. she has early onset alzheimer's. she has never won before. they like to award people who had long careers. and it's considered a weaker race. she had a strong performance. it really was never close. >> julianne moore. if you have your pool at home pick her. best actor? is this one closer? >> it is closer. it's actually very close. eddie redmayne is probably the favorite. it's a showy role.

>> playing steven hawking. >> big transformation. some could say bradley cooper has a chance because this movie made a lot of money. "birdman" could because of the redemption story and if "birdman" runs the table, michael keaton will win because he's part of -- >> i want the -- >> eddie redmayne will win. >> so we have a wild card here. sound mixing. sometimes during the ceremony they announce the category and you say what does that category mean. there's sound editing, there's sound mixing. what does sound mixing mean? frnlgts>> sound editing is creating sounds, sound mixing is how loud that sound will be. >> sound editing was made with the visual effects.

sound editing always goes to war movies. so "american sniper" should win. sound mixing often goes to songs with music. so whiplash is a favorite for that. but sometimes the categories are combined, because oscar voters don't know the difference. "birdman" has a chance again, if it runs the table. >> whiplash" won the bafta for it. >> here's one everybody knows about. directing. "boyhood," "birdman" are the two big pictures here. is this a race between those two? anybody else have a chance? >> it is a race between those two. director and best movie are usually paired. if "birdman" is the favorite that would give richard linklater a chance. because bir"birdman" won the director's guild i think it

will go to "birdman." >> this is one of those things. you're watching the ceremony, they will give out director before best picture. if "birdman" wins it's sewn up. at this point, we'll get to it but i think "birdman" -- >> we shouldn't kill the suspense. the one everybody cares about. best picture. again, race between these two? "selma" have a chance? >> no there's an outside chance of "american sniper." some people say maybe imitation game could surprise people because there's a lot of older voters. it's a two-film race. really it's a one-film race. at this point, "birdman" won directors guild, screen actors guild. it will be hard for "boyhood" to win. it would be a great surprise. "boyhood" premiered at sundance. >> if you have the oscar ballot who are you voting for? >> i would vote for "boyhood" what they did was more

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another packed hour of news still to come. including reports that the mall of america in minnesota is increasing security after being named in a terror video. all the details on that in a moment. we'll be asking minnesota senator amy klobuchar about that. she's here to discuss president obama's plan to combat home-grown terrorism in places like the twin cities. and one mother's incredible story about what happened when her son traveled to syria to join isis militants. we talked about the oscars this morning, and we'll get to something called the razzies. it's the same weekend that celebrates its best it also chastises its worst, and with apparent good reason. here today we will talk about the mayor whose tourism board encouraged visitors to skip upstate new york this brutally frozen winter for the florida keys. we will begin this hour with that new video released overnight from the somalia-based terror group, al shabaab.

it names western shopping malls as potential targets. this is the same group that claimed responsibility for an attack on a mall in nairobi, kenya, in which 67 people were killed. for the latest on this video, let's go to kristen welker what do we know right now about the video? >> reporter: here's what we know so far. according to top u.s. officials, al shabaab the group you mentioned, released a video calling for attacks on shopping malls in canada the uk and the united states. those who have seen the video say there it the terror group references that attack on the mall in kenya, which left more than 60 dead. in a statement last night, a spokes spokesperson said we are aware of the reported call from al shabaab for west gate style attack s attacks against shopping centers around the world to include the united states. in recent months the fbi and

dha have worked closely with our state and local public safety and counterparts of the private sector to include mall owners and operators to prevent and mitt grade these types of threats. so officials are suggesting that the security posture has not changed because they are already on heightened alert when it comes to mall security. the mall of america also relossed a statement saying that the mall is aware of that video. and that "we will continue to monitor events with the help of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. we will continue to follow the situation along with law enforcement and we'll remain vigilant as we always do in similar situations." a bit of background on al shabaab, it's a somali based per ror terror group that claimed responsibility for a number of attacks, including a moge ing aing a mogadishu

attack on friday. law enforcement officials say they don't believe there's a specific threat against the united states, but they are taking this video very seriously. >> kristen welker appreciate that. president obama is going to continue to emphasize the need to tackle the problem of violent extremism, including home grown terrorism right here in america. three cities this week were name as communities of focus, greater boston, los angeles and minneapolis. as we already reported and you heard from kristen welker the mall of america outside of minneapolis increasing security after being threatened from al shabaab. 15 yoengung people from the twin cities joined isis just this past year. the first american killed while fighting for isis was douglas mccain, he was from minnesota,

before he was recruited. henapin county holds the largest group of somali immigrants. law enforcement is trying to build and create jobs and trying to build out relationships with fractured communities. this is how the president characterized that notion this week. >> in los angeles and minneapolis, boston these are partnerships that bring people together in the spirit of mutual respect. and create more dialogue and more trust and more cooperation. if we're going to solve these issues, the people most targeted and potentially most affected have to have a seat at table where they can shape and strengthen partnerships. >> here to talk about countering

violent extremism in the united states amy klobuchar. she attended the white house summit this week. robert george of the post basil smicle and christina bellantoni. governor klobuchar, what is your reaction to this threat to the mall and what has been washington's response to this? >> this just came out yesterday. this is something we've seen before, sadly n minute ly nshgssadly, in minnesota. we have seen al shabaab target young men in our community. they did it in a video showing a plane ticket from minneapolis, st. paul to somalia to fight with the terrorist group. we're seen these slick videos before. our fbi and law enforcement is ready to respond.

they upped the security at the mall. as you noted. the threat was made regarding the mall in london a mall in canada. this is what this group does. that is why we have been focusing not just on going after the evil of isis overseas but also home-grown terrorism. the fact they are targeting young men in our own communities, not just in minnesota, all over the country. >> in minnesota, talking about your experience there. where are they targeting? how does this work? you mentioned some of the propaganda, how do they recruit in your community? >> what we have found, steve, i used to be the chief prosecutor for hennapin county. they tend to use the internet. we have not seen as much recruitment as you might have seen in other places. they use the internet go after young men. the parents don't often know it's happening. that's why the answer has got to be from the community.

we are proud of our somali community in minnesota. we have half the somalis in the country in minnesota. they helped us with these cases. there arewere 20 indictments nine convictions, and recent indictments involving those recruited to fight with isis. so we know this is a real problem in our community. the somalis in our community, they are serving in elected office, they are running businesses. they are a fabric of life in the community and also part of the collusion. >> robert george, you have a question. >> here in new york we had some of these controversies where the nypd has monitored mosques here in the city and in new jersey there's been controversy about the idea of violating potential civil rights. how do law enforcement agencies engage with the community and try and identify problematic

actors that might be laying in wait? >> our u.s. attorney has made clear thatth community outreach that's part of this latest effort is separate from the law enforcement work that goes on. but i will say that building these relationships, i certainly found this when i was chief prosecutor, having those relationships with the community, so people feel comfortable coming to the police, the minneapolis police chief and st. paul police chief and our elected sheriff, we're all out there in washington with the president this last week stlechlt. >> they have hired officers who are somali, that makes a difference. all those agencies have hired somali officers and there's a trust with the community. if you don't have that you can never build these cases. >> christina bellantoni with roll call you talk about the community and there is a large muslim population in minnesota

and michigan. i wonder how the killings in north carolina might complicate this outrage, trying to get the community involved to find those bad actors with all of this concern about this possible hate crime in north carolina? >> exactly. i know that's being investigated. that was a horrible horrific crime. of course i've spoke ton many of the muslim people in our community about that. they take it personally. it was a very very bad thing. that being said one of the things i learned, we in minnesota, a regular citizen, a pilot called to law enforcement, moussaoui, the 20th hijacker one of the things we did before that, the bush appointed u.s. attorney, we spent a lot of time going out to the muslim communities, meeting with them. there were hate crimes against them at that time. we made sure those were prosecuted and brought out in public so you have that trust

build up so people don't feel they're alone. that can lead to reactions that are not helpful for public safety. you have to there for them and understand that not every one of these people is involved in this. to the contrary most of them are law abiding citizens. no parent wants their kid to go over to syria and fight for isis and fight for al shabaab and be a suicide bomber. that's how you have to look at this as you work with the community. >> senator, basil smikle columbia university. given this conversation about terror, i imagine it's hard to separate that from other conversations around washington, d.c. and immigration and growing and expanding the middle class. how is that conversation taking place in your state? >> our state actually has a very

low unemployment rate. we are working hard. we want to get more help for some of these kids that have potentially the ones that will be recruited and make sure they're graduating from high school. they're getting jobs. every community has the same problem in the inner city. overall we tried to focus on that employment peegs.iece. i'm glad you raised that immigration issue. when we get back to washington, my republican colleagues have a choice. we have the homeland security funding. with the latest threat and video, that needs to get funded. secretary johnson has been clear about this. we need to fund our homeland security and not weigh it down with extraneous matters and poison pills related to immigration issues that really are not related to the funding of homeland security. that is what happened over in the house. it came over to the senate. i think -- i hope this latest video and some of the things we're seeing overseas will bring

a lot of my republican colleagues, who i know many of them didn't want to have these immigration provisions built into this bill that we can pass a clean bill and get this done. >> senator we were talking about that earlier. the clock is on we're five days away from now what are the chances of a dhs shutdown at the end of this week? >> i hope given what we have seen, nothing but escalating violence overseas i hope this -- and now threats on our own homeland on a mall in our own country, i hope that will bring my republican colleagues to the table and enable us to pass this bill. i don't think there's another choice. i think there is plenty of time to try to work on comprehensive immigration reform. i believe we need to get it done. but they are basically deciding to try to debate this on a bill that is not related to it. they're talking about dreamers when this is about homeland security. we should pass this clean bill

and fund our homeland security an not furlough security workers. >> amy colorado democratic senator from minnesota, thanks for the time. >> thank you very much for having me on steve. look forward to being on again. still ahead in the show young men and women choosing to run away to syria in order to join isis and the families they leave behind. >> what would you say to a young person who came up to you and said i'm thinking about joining isis. >> translator: i will tell him my whole story. i will tell him don't do it. know that chasing performance can mean lower returns and fewer choices in retirement. know that proper allocation could help increase returns so you can enjoy that second home sooner. know the right financial planning can help you save for college and retirement. know where you stand with pnc total insight. a new investing and banking experience with personalized guidance and online

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stopping homegrown terrorism. a young man was recruited by isis in syria when he was just 15. he recently escaped across the turkish border. >> halid was once part of isis. he didn't like it so he escaped. it all started, he says because he wanted revenge against the regime of bashar al assad. his neighborhood was under attack. isis offered food and medicine. they gave you a bit of hope. you wanted to join them. >> translator: we hoped they would become strong and fight the regime. >> reporter: so at the age of 15 he joined the isis child army. ♪ isis calls its child soldiers lion cubs of the califit. it celebrates them in propaganda videos like this one. children are trained to use a rifle, taught classes in

religion, taught to love isis and hate its enemies. then the children are sent into combat. for hadlid, that came sooner than he expected. it was two weeks after he was trained with a gun. he was shot in the neck. his mother heard he was wounded and found him at the isis camp what did she say to you? >> translator: she said take care of himself. >> reporter: he can't continue telling his story without crying. overseas this morning, a desperate search continues for three british teenage girls thought to be traveling to syria to join isis militants. the families issuing public appeals for them to return home. the girls were on a break from their school in london when they flew to turkey where it's feared they crossed the border into syria roughly 150 u.s. citizens have traveled or attempted to travel to syria to support armed groups there since

the start of the conflict in 2011. the canadian government says they are aware of more than 130 people suspect the in taking part in terror related activities in syria, iraq and other countries. one canadian mother who participated in the white house summit knows all too well how this happens. her son, damien converted to islam as a teen then travelled to syria to join isis militants, losing his life there over a year ago. her son's radicalism motivated her to help other parentses in communities look for the warning signs and to help prevent the next generation of homegrown terrorists. she joins us live from calgary. thank you very much for being here. appreciate it. i think i would like to start, the thing most people are curious about, your story. how did your son a western teen become an isis militant? what was the process like? >> i think it was a combination

of things. so when he converted to islam, he was -- it was 2008. he was only 17. so changes didn't start happening for him until much later in 2011. at that time he just changed where he was living met a different group of friends. i think the ideologies were introduced to him and then he was led to the internet to reinforce those messages, and research. >> at what point does he tell you he's going to go overseas? >> well in 2012 in the summer of 2012 he brought up that he wanted to go back to school, he wanted to go to university to study linguistics and arabic and he wanted to do that in egypt. i encouraged travel and learning about other cultures before he settled down. so we had no reason to think he was going anywhere else. we never heard of foreign

fighters. we never heard of canadians joining these groups. we were quite surprised to learn much later that he didn't go to egypt, that he had gone to turkey and crossed into syria. >> at what point did you find that out? was it -- was he in contact with you while over there? did you only find out after he was killed? what was that process like? >> he went over in november of 2012. we stayed in contact on the telephone every two, three days. i believed he was in egypt. the last phone call we got was december 23 2012. he just went off the radar. at the end of january 2013 our security intelligence in canada showed up at our home and started questioning us about, you know do we recognize these photos of other gentlemen? i said it didn't matter damian was in egypt, he want in canada.

they said that's the problem. we've been watching him for almost two years with a group of young men, we suspect he's gone to turkey, gone to a training camp and then crossed into syria. at that point i didn't hear from damian again until the end of february, which we remained in contact up until june of 2013. >> when you look back at t whether there warning signs that you look at now and you say i wish i had seen this? other parents should be looking for this? >> yeah if i had known what to look for that there was a concern, maybe the red flags would have been there. his behavior started to change. he started becoming much more rigid in his beliefs, he was agitated all the time he wouldn't come to the table if we were having a bottle of wine. he started discussing western media how it was portraying lies, that what was going on in the middle east we were not doing enough. we were being selfish, people

were being tortured and killed. you could see the agitation there. you could see he was starting to look at other things, other parts of the world. >> did you ever -- you mentioned you were still in contact with him about two years ago. did you have conversations with him where he talked about this at all? >> yeah. when he finally did contact me again at the end of february of 2013 at that point i didn't let him know that the security intelligence had been in. but i did say i noticed the country code on the phone and that it indicated he was in syria. he admitted it. he came clean at that point. he said mom, i have to be here. i have to do something productive with my life i'm trying to save women and children who are being tortured murdered and raped. over time you could see changes in him. he would go on a couple of field trips or a vacation as he called tell, and he became

colder emptier, more distant. >> do you, from a -- there was a summit you attended this week in washington from a public policy standpoint. are there things you look at with the government whether in canada or the united states, can and should be doing? >> we have to start on the preventive side. the costs for military and everything, it's a band-aid it's reactive. you can only do so much for that. we need to educate our young children so they build up resiliency and understand how these people are trying to reach out to them and try to counter that to deliver some models so they can speak to it. with extreme dialogue that's what we've done. we created the resource guides, the films to raise those questions, to offer opportunity for our kids to discuss it at a younger age and be prepared. we can't be with them 24/7 when they're on their ipads, on their

smartphones, and we can't watch over everything that they do. with all the outside influences it's important. we have to strengthen our communities so we're prepared for this. >> all right. appreciate the time. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> still ahead, just how miserable has this winter been in the northeast? it's so bad that one city's tour. bureau is encouraging people to stay away from that city. the mayor of that town will join us in a bit. we talked about the best in film making this year ahead of the oscars now it's time to talk about the worst. that's next. h copd sometimes breathing air can be difficult. if you have copd, ask your doctor about once-daily anoro ellipta. it helps people with copd breathe better for a full 24hours. anoro ellipta is the first fda-approved product containing two long-acting bronchodilators in one inhaler.

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this is the anti-oscar ceremony every year. come cameron diaz and ben affleck bring home the razzies. kirk cameron won both picture and actor for "saving christmas." i didn't see many good reviews for this one. >> the last thing he was in that was good was "growing pains." >> along with leonardo dicaprio? >> he was brought in at the late end of the run as the cute new kid because the other ones were aging out. >> had a good run. what else? cameron diaz worst actress for the other woman an sex tape. >> sex tape was a terrible movie. i watched this on an airplane. they edit out all the good parts. it's an even worse movie without the sex. >> i imagine a short movie, too. >> didn't cameron -- isn't she

the only person who showed up for the razzie? >> that's a good move. showing up. >> sandra bullock for cat woman. >> that's a great move. >> an honor is an honor. >> last one here the worst supporting actor, this was for four different movies kelsey grammer, dr. frazier cane in expendables 3, legend of oz -- nfrnlg fairness to him, he has big alimony payments you have to take a check. >> i'm sorry he left "boss." >> very little watched show on the starz net work. he's better on tv. >> he is. >> let's see what else we have? this is from bloomberg. here's what the dnc thinks will help democrats win more elections. the 2014 midterm election autopsy. the party has a messaging

problem because no one knows what party stands for. that's a messaging problem. the republicans did this in 2012, change your views on gay rights and immigration reform. the democrats say they need more of an outreach to white southern voters. >> one things that republicans did do looking at that autopsy is go out and recruit more minority candidates, women candidates that turned out to be successful in 2014 at the state level and in terms of electing two to congress. if the democrats do seriously look at that yeah they are going to have to figure out what the party stands for. but sometimes these autopsies can bear fruit. >> it's the most diverse group of house republicans as well. not just the two prominent female senators. with this issue, you go for an

autopsy. the democrats when you talk to them, they say if we stand for the middle class fif we're the party that cares about your economic well-being we win. >> part of the problem was they didn't develop the infrastructure. not only did part of this report and other folks talking about it said they didn't focus on any of the down ballot races, but the fact of the matter is in this social media age, going back to 2008, the president's campaign was about creating a movement around him. because it could be so segmented and specific it's hard to bring other folks and other candidates along in the process. so you develop no state party infrastructure. >> my solution, wait for the next presidential election. they seem to do much better in the presidential races than the mid terms. did not have time for this one, lebron james wants to host "snl" again. i was hoping to talk about that. there it is. thanks to the panel. robert george basil smikle

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if the obama administration does decide to slow the u.s. exit from afghanistan, that's something that ashton carter suggests might happen. if the u.s. decides to make that move the american public may be more open to the possibility. this poll asked about ground forces to fight isis. a majority of those surveyed by cbs news said they favor sending boots on the ground into iraq and afghanistan to fight isis. that's an 18-point jump since september.

similar reports in the nbc news mar marist poll with 54% saying they want their member of congress to vote to authorize action against isis. so nearly a dozen years after iraq, here now attitudes are shifting in america with a nation that was war weary not long ago growing more and more comfortable with sending troops overseas, to the middle east. so what does this mean for america's role in the fight against isis? joining me now are jim mcdermott of washington state, republican bob dold from illinois. the american people seem to be shifting in a direction of more of an interventionist direction here. do you agree with that shift? is that something you yourself have felt as you look at isis? >> i'm very uncomfortable with it. in 1991 george w. bush led us

into the gulf war. 2001, george bush 2 led us into that war. now an extension beyond the end of obama and into the next presidency. suppose its jeb bush. we'll have the third bush war. the question is what will happen that will end the sentence that says after this happened the troops came home. when will we have success? it's not in that aumf. >> on that this is the authorization that the administration submitted to congress, is that something you would be voting against? >> i would be uncomfortable with the one on paper now. it's going go through debate a lot of action in the congress. so i can't say what exactly aislei'll do but the one on the table now, i'm not supportive of. >> what is your view of boots on the ground to fight isis?

>> hearing from my constituents there's no question that people are starting to say this is an extremist organization that is beheading people and frankly when they threaten our president, when they behead an american, they are an american of the united states and our allies. i do think that fatigue cannot be something that we take into account when we talk about national security. >> how do you look at this authorization the white house has submitted? it's sort of a working document at this point, how do you look at it now? >> i look at it as too narrow. if we're going to put men and women in harms way, we need to make sure we're giving the president all the authority do whatever is necessary for what may come up. i think the authorization for use of military force presented is too narrow at this point. >> that's an interesting thing. the gap here between both sides. this doesn't necessarily break of predictable partisan lines. one side says this is too much. the other side says too little.

congressman mcdermott, is there a scenario something the administration could have put on paper or something you could hear in intelligence or strategy that would make you more comfortable about an expansive commitment? >> i would have to hear more about who they think isis is and how do you fight an ideology. protestantism has many different types of protestants. you are fighting an ideology and that's hard to put down. people believe in that they're willing to give their lives for it when we walk in there, we better understand exactly who we're going to fight. we're not going to the second world war or korea or vietnam or any place else. we're going against an aspect of islam that is dedicated to what they believe. i think it's hard to construct a way in which we could go in and

wipe them out. >> what about this idea, congressman dold, you can't fight an ideology with a military? >> defeating an ideology is difficult, as my friend from washington noted. isis has a set territory. they're controlling about 6 million to 8 million people and draw some power from those resources that we actually have a defined area unlike al qaeda. i think we have to when i talk about the use of military force, giving the president all the options, we want to make sure all the options are on the table if we're putting men and women, american troops in harm's way. that's up to the president, the commanders on the ground in terms of what the best use to achieve victory is. i would agree that i would like to see more about what that strategy is. because i don't want to put men and women in harm's way without a clear path for victory. >> what are you hearing from constituents? we show these changing poll numbers. i'm getting the sense that the stories about the beheadings the nature of isis, has changed

the psychology of this country as it relates to troops and war. what are you hearing? >> that's what we're hearing. when you march 21 egyptian christians down to the beach and behead them when you behead journalists, it starts to change what people realize, that this is going to be something that comes and impacts the united states. secretary clinton, secretary panetta, general democracy, secretary hagel, all have come out to say this is you know an organization that we need to step up and do something about. they encouraged the administration to take action earlier. this is something that the united states needs to take a leadership role in. >> thank you both for getting up early this morning. the mayor of one new york snow-covered city will try to convince us to go there.

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solution. the big issue here is this just about every interstate, every freeway is elevated. look at all that concrete. the cold air surrounds the surfaces and they freeze first. so we have rain coming in in the next couple of hours. about 10:00 tonight, numbers will fall to the magical number of 32. that's it. once it hits the freezing level and below, it will stay freezing into tuesday. even though the sleet will end tomorrow tomorrow evening, into tuesday we will have issues. we won't have any sun, daylight certainly, but without the sun and temperatures staying below freezing, this place will shut down. i snow i know this will be a travel nightmare tomorrow in dallas/ft. worth. and ice predicted as far east as birmingham, alabama. this one will not come up the

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we surrender, go to keys instead. the message has since been taken down. local businesses and ski operators were reportedly not too happy with it. we thought we'd invite ithaca's marion to our show to defend his city so joining us from cold snow-covered ithaca new york is mayor myrick. i don't know if you did this or just the backdrop behind you but i'm noticing there's snow on the window and a palm tree drawn into it. >> honestly it's student here at cornell university. we found this on campus and thought it was the perfect backdrop for today's conversation. >> so where do you come down on this? should people -- i don't know who would be thinking of traveling to ithaca right now. should they go to the florida keys right now? >> no of course not. i mean here's what we thought, and i have to say i can't take

credit for the decision. bruce stoff has earned his salary and then with with this idea but i stand fully behind it. look, we know that upstate new york is a wonderful place to be year round. if you don't mind the cold there's so much to do here in the winter in ithaca and the surrounding area. you can visit the corning museum of glass or the johnson art museum here greek peak and the ski resorts here. we also knew that in february particularly with this cold snap people weren't looking for us. people were not thinking about ithaca, new york. so we had to find a way to draw attention to all the offerings we had and we said why not tell the truth. >> draw attention to it by saying go somewhere emslse? >> and it worked. we were averaging 1500 hits a day on our website. after this break, we had 120,000 hits in one day. because we were telling the truth. which is that if you want to go to key west i don't blame you, part of me wants to go myself. and of course right now the

weather is much better there. but we still have things to offer here and we needed to find a way to bring attention to it and it worked. we did just that. >> so is there -- there was a statement, i guess, from the chamber of commerce or the tourism council in the florida keys saying it was unconventional but they appreciated it. are you expecting that in the middle of the summer key west or the florida keys is going to say hey, enough sun, enough warmth go up to ithaca. are they going to return the favor? >> i don't know. we certainly don't expect them to but they have been very gracious and they have played along with us quite well. in fact they have gotten so much attention from this marketing campaign that they have reciprocated. they have offered free nights in key west in vacation packages that we can raffle off up here to the charity of our choice so they have been very generous helping us play along. >> this sounds like the birth of some great sister cities kind of relationship. it's the dead of winter it's 9 below zero there's 100 inches

of snow outside. what do you do in ithaca? >> what do i do in itdhaca? i stay indoors mostly. but we're a hearty people. we are used to the cold weather and used to taking it in stride. my brother lives in dallas and is seeing his airport shut down right now. we are used to this. so we go skiing we go snowshoeing, we go to the chilifest on our commons on our downtown outdoor pedestrian mall. we make it work for us. frankly we look forward to spring summer and fall during which you couldn't find a more beautiful place to be. >> there it is the mayor of ithaca, getting in all the good stuff about his home city. there's some publicity for them. thank you for joining us. thank you for getting up with us today. programming reminder msnbc's jose diaz jose diaz-balart will host a town hall with president obama on wednesday.

send questions using #obamatownhall. then watch wednesday night at 8:00 for that town hall. up next is melissa harris-perry followed by taking the hill. we will see you on this show next week. have a great week. we come by almost every day to deliver your mail so if you have any packages you want to return you should just give them to us i mean, we're going to be there anyway why don't you just leave it for us to pick up? or you could always get in your car and take it back yourself yeah, us picking it up is probably your easiest option it's kind of a no brainer ok, well, good talk i have the worst cold with this runny nose. i better take something. dayquill cold and flu doesn't treat your runny nose. seriously? alka-seltzer plus cold and cough fights your worst cold symptoms plus your runny nose. oh, what a relief it is. good job! still running in the morning?

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