we take a look back at the life and times of dictator ben ali in tunisia. for r more than twtwty years h he was an only presesent but untntouchable lea. until the jasmine revolution of january two thousand eleven. zine al abidine ben ali was almost inescapable in tunisia. he's rise began in the military. after training in france been on the rose to the rank of general in the tunisian army. he founded and ran to his his military security force for ten years before turning to politics. finally reached the highest echelons of power w with breaknececk s speed in nineteen eighty six he became interior minister. just onene you're wrog he moved on up the ladder to become prime minister benjamin tracing the frail pleased in florida. little over a month later i can be so cold medical to data. doctors declared the eighty five year old boy diva incapacitated. interview president was sworn in an alley. one of his first acts was to abolish life presidency speaking to french tv ten months after being sworn in. he insisted he was reforming tuninisia. the democratic way t.

so the evolution continues. >> you mentioned muhammad ali was a part of that movement. how long did that movement last ads an athlete? >> for muhammad ali, it probably lasted longer through the 196 owe's for he than my other athleefments as you know, because of political, his political stands, cassius clay, who later became muhammad ali, actually was stripped of his heavyweight title, and so his struggle went on into the 197 owe's. so it can be argued that the most prominent black athlete is the one who lost the most in the 196 he's, could easily be called muhammad ali. and so even today, the fruit that we see happening in the life, from the life of muhammad ali, and in the life of colin kaepernick and in the life of eric reid and in the life of lebron james, it's born from the stand, the courage from muhammad ali. >> and were there some other icon that is we may be less familiar with that you can talk about? >> doug johnson from the 1920's, a prominent boxer, who refused to allow himself to be paid in chicken feed. he was a world champion boxer in the 1920's. he was th

ali? >> i think we lost ali, so i will take it back here in new york. there you have ali velshi and kathy park both in charleston, south carolina. while ali is out there in the harbor, right there in downtown when you think about that flooding, we have right now the charleston mayor on the phone with me. mayor, south carolina simply cannot with stand the mass amounts of flooding that could come from this storm. i know we are already seeing parts of your city under water. how are you going to handle all this? >> well, as was mentioned, we've been preparing for this for some days and the governor had an evacuation order about a quarter or a third of our population evacuated, maybe a little more than that, and the rest have learned how to hunker down and get prepared for a storm. so we are the low country. i wouldn't say we're not dealing with this. it is a number one issue for our city. that's clear. but we've certainly learned over the last four years how to prepare and respond to hurricane and water. it was mentioned, comparing this to irma, we've got m

now it's time for ali velshi >> it will affect our profitability. it will have to change >> this white house got criminal justice reform done. it's an issue the president brought up repeatedly. he brought it up last week at the public retreat his daughter, senior adviser, wants to get something done, or she says she does. this is a moment where something could change potentially we'll see if it happens. >> your continuing reporter pressure on this helps have a good afternoon. >> you, too, ali >>> the federal reserve has cut interest rates for the second time this year they announced in this hour they are lowering to .25% to a range of 1.75 to 2%. the world global economy necessitated the cut >> since the middleful last year, the global growth outlook has weakened, notably in europe and china. other political risks, including brexit, remain unresolved. trade policy tensions have waxed and waned and uncertainty is weighing on imports and exports. >>> take a look, at happened at 2:00 that's what happened with the market the market spent the day in the

>> hey, ali. two sources now confirm that the house intelligence committee and the senate intelligence committee will get the thing that democrats have been requesting for days now. and that is the full whistle brother complaint. my colleague and i have confirmed that the whistle-blower complaint will be made to members of the respective committees in what is known as a skeuiff, a secure ar. you will have to go down and read that information. tomorrow morning on the house side, we will hear from the acting director of national intelligence and the inspector general of the intelligence community in an open setting before the house intelligence committee. and then those two gentlemen will appear in a closed setting. >> the senate intelligence committee. this pertains to the ukraine question. the thing we have heard from republicans, including president trump, the chief talking point is there was no quid pro quo. there was no explicit ask. democrats make the point no quid pro quo that was needed. the

ali who is also a military contractor accused president c.c.f. corruption he posted several videos online on social media that have been viewed hundreds or thousands of times how much of a threat is mohamed to c.c.'s power who is he and why does his message resonate currently with the egyptian people at the allegations of corruption and nothing new in egypt what why are people listening to what he's saying he's a significant threat to c.c. and one of the reasons why is we have to remember the context over the last several years sisi has come out in multiple public addresses and went out of his way to sort of reminded gyptian how poor the country is he says for a week and he repeats this we are very poor at the same time the government is cutting subsidies to essential goods for egyptians and he's reminding them again we have to do this because we don't have any money while this is all happening muhammad ali is alleging that sisi has spent tens of millions of dollars not egyptian pounds tens of millions of dollars on several presidential palaces a

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mohammed ali is not a political leader but his message has resonated with menu gyptian is the majority of whom live on just 2 dollars a day or less that it was the people are starving my life savings have evaporated why why the c.c. starve us while he lives in the curious palaces why is he trying to humiliate us he is supposed to be a public servant working for us this season who is in new york for the united nations general assembly denies corruption allegations describing them as lies. banned all unauthorized protests after he led the military coup which deposed egypt's 1st democratically elected president mohamed morsi 6 years ago tens of thousands of egyptians were arrested and jailed in the government crackdown which followed now human rights watch has poured in a new direction government not to repeat past mistakes urging leaders to protect the right to peaceful protest in upholding egypt's obligations under international human rights law authorities should immediately release all days arrested for soli exercising their rights whilst there are parallels that can be drawn with the

ali: valuations are not low.e are back to the $3.5 trillion health care market, so not everything is trading high. if we combine the spaces we really understand and build better businesses that either have optionality ongoing public, looking to grow their own businesses, we can find a home for that, but it is a competitive market. that means we have to be better at finding spaces we understand or have a real angle. if we ask why we should own this business or part of this business and can't answer that, we should move on. jason: in terms of the exit side on the os of t deal, there have been some existential questions about the current ipo market. is that the preferred route, or do you see a lot of bigger strategic's that are hungry to buy some of the stuff you own? ali: we've seen both. pra was a company we took public and sold down over time. thought the best home was raising additional capital privately. that is a company that could stay public or be a strategic target. we had businesses like our ajax platform,

muhammad ali is the guy that you sit down with at the cafe and have a who go with on a thursday night everybody understands him they feel him he connects everyone knows that there is. massive systematic corruption and much of it has been linked to the control of the army of the economy and laid out in very clear terms by names by numbers by they go to the hmong in the city of baghdad where in the food. and the very fact that he also came out and said that he himself was corrupt even more credibility and that paved the way for the kind of viral takeoff of his videos he claims that he was contacted by the army to build a palace for a few months and according to ali of those 250000000. members of the. moon. so these sort of allegations very detail very tangible and given his position within this transaction it sounded credible and it really shocked the public. 12 days after the 1st of mohamed al these videos went online knowing that millions of egyptians were watching from president abdel fattah el-sisi responded on allie's stories of lavish presidential spending in a country where more

i'm ali velshi.ant to go up the coast to nags head. we find katie beck. what's the situation where you are? >> ali, it's been a pretty pleasant day here for most of the day. that's all change iing now. we're seeing some dark clouds starting to roll in. the winds are getting stronger. and actually our first signs of rain starting to come down on the beach now. there is obviously a mandatory evacuation for all of the out ir banks. there's a curfew of 8:00 p.m. no one will be allowed to cross the bridge into the outer banks after 8:00 p.m. tonight. hotels, restaurants, all the businesses that are normally flooded with tourists completely empty right now. even the hospitals taking extra precaution. they moved all the patients inland and are keeping a a skeleton crew in the emergency rooms. they are going to see a surge of people trying to get to the e.r. with storm-related injuries. they are going to have doctors and nurses bringing in their sleeping bags and toothbrushes and staying overnight. now the s

nbc news bureau chief ali arouzi. and former senior director for the national security council during the obama administration ned price. everyone thank you for joining us. the president has contradictsed himself on the issue of iran saying he would not meet with the supreme leader without any preconditions but secretary of state mike pompeo said he would -- just listen to this. >> i would certainly meet with iran if they wanted to meet. >> do you have preconditions for that meeting? >> no me conditions, no. they want to meet, i'll meet. anytime they want. anytime they want. it's good for the country, good for them, good for us and good for the world. no preconditions, if they want to meet, i'll meet. >> do you want one-on-one talks with the ayatollah -- >> anything that they want -- >> no preconditions? >> no preconditions. >> andrea mitchell, on this issue, how do we trust the administration? how does the american public trust the american government on the issue of war or armed conflict in the middle east? >> well,

a chink in the of the egyptian army there seems to be a little bit of a panic now this man mohammed ali has managed to really get his message across and people are out on the streets do you think that the army is position is weakened that the president has met his match. thanks for the question actually i see the opposite completely here because initially your point may be correct there was some warry some maybe possible level of panic. but when there the reaction of the people to mohammed ali message was so weak and this is not my opinion this is the reality on the ground as seen on the reuters and in many other news media that the number of people was too small compared for example to generate 25 revolution or assume 13 of illusion again as we see when the nations of the people of the nations a revolt against a leader like morsi for example they went into ins of millions the same with mubarak so in this situation we are talking about few hundreds or few thousands of people in the streets so my point is the magnitude of that the action i see that if i am in the egyptian army i would be

we also have the ali baba postponements i'm sort of wondering will the ali baba because boman now the reverse possibly if there is a state push to get money into hong kong it's always been the way with beijing that they try to appeal to the commercial instinct in hong kong and i think this is evidence of that so. maybe we're going to see more of these kind of efforts and maybe the so far failed attempt to buy the london stock exchanges is another sign of that right to certainly very interesting sort of east west. dialogue going home when it comes their ongoing clip akun and their thank you so much for the us. than the european central bank's decision to launch an aggressive round of stimulus is easing investor worries about a global slowdown stocks in asia followed european and american markets and reacting positively to the announcement is the president mario draghi declared a return to quantitative easing the lowering of the main interest rates deeper into negative territory all measures aims sluggish growth. well that's luggage growth that is something that's on the minds of eurozo

so far no response, ali. that's one of the areas we're tracking today. and it all comes as the president is speaking out really for the first time about why he fired bolton. you played some of his sound but notably the president also slammed bolton for an early mistake he made. you may remember this one, ali, it's when bolton essentially referred to north korea within the context of the libya model. in the libya model, gadhafi was killed by u.s. forces. those comments infuriated the north koreans and president trump felt derailed any chances on diplomacy. take a listen on what he had to say on that point. >> take a look at what happens to kgadhafi on the libya model. i don't blame him not wanting to have anything to do with john bolton. it's not a question of being tough, it's a question of being not smart. i wish john the best. we got along very well. i'm sure he'll do whatever he can do to spin it his way. >> reporter: so that's president trump giving a more fleshed out response of some of these clashes that the two had. so now the search for a fourth

i'm ali velshi. our coverage of hurricane dorian continues. dorian is now a category 4 storm. it's got winds of up to 140 miles an hour. despite the downgrade from a category 5, don't let that confuse you. this storm is deadly and expected to being deadly as it creeps toward the southeastern u.s. coast. right now the storm is stalling over the bahamas, literally, hardly moving, ripping apart the region with catastrophic flooding, unprecedented damage, at least five confirmed dead. the damage is so widespread, we don't have a full picture of what things looking in the bahamas. meanwhile, millions of residents under a mandatory evacuation order. bridges in florida are set to close at midnight in anticipation of the storm. fema urging residents in those areas, stay vigilant, prepare for the worst. nbc news meteorologist bill karen is with me now. this is unusual in its behavior. it's moving a mile an hour. we're normally used to seeing a pattern. >> we're waiting for them and now we're waiting for it to

>> reporter: that's right, ali. if you look at a map of florida, you will see west palm beach where we are right now. it juts a bit out further into the atlantic ocean. that eye wall of hurricane dorian is almost exactly 100 miles east of us right now. so as those outer bands of that category 4 storm continue to skirt the florida coast, we are going to be feeling those tropical storm force winds that rain we just got pummelled a few minutes ago with that rain completely soaked here. our crew is completely soaked. but still this weather, these conditions are not stopping surfers from getting out there and enjoying that surf. of course that is not something that is sanctioned by local officials here. and by the way, local officials will be checking the identification of everyone who makes their way to palm beach island, where we are right now is just about two miles away from mar-a-lago. and so if you're not a resident of this area, you will not be allowed on this island after 5:00 p.m. today. this is one of the areas

joining me now our ali arouzi. let's start with lindsey graham's comment how do you see iran interpreting the united states coming out with more sanctions? >> iran and foreign minister just tweet this is further economic warfare against the iranian people it certainly going to make any dialogue between the united states and iran and amazingly difficult. it was not easy to start with. this almost kills any prospect of dialogue. drop all the sanctions and we may talk there are no signs of that happening. this is going to definitely put the final nail in the coffin or any talks between iran or america. it is going to make iran dig in deeper the reality is sanctions have had a very bad effect on iran. there is no doubt about that it has not had the objective that's to make regime and iran it is different of the results and made them dig in deeper and made them more aggressive. i am not sure what effects any more sanctions it will have. they sanction the country so heavily. there is not a lot left. they're sanctioning t

scribed what sort of democracy mohammad ali and the other people are demanding if one percent of the society want to directed their country against their will of the majority of people especially when we know the fact that there mohammad ali himself thanking the military and the police for not using harsh harsh hand with the demonstrators the allow them peacefully in most cases to live in a straight and and yet the egyptian people didn't go into the street so no one can say that there is even god because they were scared of the police and military that that guy himself mohammad ali the guy who initiated the stations thanking the police and the military for being peaceful with the people in the streets yet the egyptians didn't go so i see that the many egyptians recognize that these allegations are they they can have some base yeah that's there is some things or palaces that have been built but this could be corrected the situation to improve the image of the country this may be incorrect as usual in all situations it's not a proof of course no money went into the bank account of pres

thank you, ali. [ applause ] thank you. you, watching from heaven looking down right now with love and pride. he is so proud of you. thank you very much. incredible. also joining us is the viggiano family. for generations the viggiano family has served in the military and in the new york fire and police departments these are two great departments. i grew up with them, i know. on september 11th, nypd detective joseph viggiano rushed into the world trade center and died rescuing his fellow citizens. his brother john was a new york firefighters. he also gave his life that day at ground zero. at the time joseph's three sons were just young boys ages 8, 6 and 3 months old. this morning they are with us. the youngest, john just started his freshman year of college at suni maritime college and he plans to join the military. joseph jr. is a marine reservist and just like his father he's a proud member of the nypd and james is a kcorporal in the marines. on his last deployment james was stationed on the "uss new york," a ship made u

joining me is nbc's tehran bureau chief ali arouzi. we don't know what evidence that the government is putting forward that it was iran. we do know that when we talk about drones, we're not talking about those little ones you buy and send up with your camera. this was a drone capable of taking out a major, massively defended oil facility in the world's biggest oil producer. if is not likely to be some random group of rebels who did this. >> that's right. we just received breaking news. we said earlier the saudis had been quiet about this, hadn't pointed the finger at iran. now we're hearing from the saudi foreign ministry that they say preliminary investigations are showing that the weaponry used on the iran attack were iranian weapons. that's the first major indication they're points the blame on iran. if it's proved without a doubt that iran was behind the attacks, this could put us on the war footing. most of iran's regional neighbors and beyond would like to see -- tehran has some powerful enemies in the neighborhood. they haven't

ali velshi, on the road live in north carolina. we are tracking hurricane dorian as a category one hurricane continues to creep its way up the atlantic coast before moving out into the atlantic ocean. dorian's whipping the outer ban banks. storm surges are expected to be seen throughout the day. hundreds of people could be trapped on an island, dorian made landfall in cape hatteras bringing sustained winds nearing 90 miles per hour an hour with it. this image showing dorian's eye wall engulfing the barrier island entirely. overnight on south carolina's coastline, dorian leaving a trail of mass flooding and hundreds of thousands of power outages in its path. and today we're still monitoring the devastation that remains in the bahamas. the u.s. military and several rescue organizations are fighting to save for lives from t the horrors after dorian's wrath left both areas in complete ruins. i want to send you down to ali velshi covering dorian live from moorehead city. the sun has come out this friday. >> the sun is out above us. ther

and it's a very difficult process, ali.ng the nauz conference earlier today. again, they did see some they believed had come to rest on the ocean floor, but they also saw some they believed was inside the wreckage. it's upside down. it's moving around. so their priority number one is to try and stabilize it so they can get in and get to the rest of the victims. now, one thing that we learned from the news right now is they're in the process of trying to figure out the question that so many people have is what exactly started that fire in the first place. how and where did that fire start? we know that they're talking with the five survivors from that wreckage. the five crew members who were able to jump off, make it to safety. they're interviewing them right now to try to get some idea of where that fire started. again, complete devastation as you're seeing in the pictures. >> ntsb are sending a big crew in to start looking at this. >> reporter: that's right. a crew of 16 coming in today. we're hoping to get some sort of br

ali, this is a massive move.f you consider what an enormous retailer walmart is, what an enormous employer it is. and we can sit here in a newsroom and say this is a very clear cut issue. it's not a clear cut issue. gun culture is a really important part of america. >> right. >> and walmart sees more of america than any other business in this country. >> without a doubt. to see doug mcmillan the current ceo sort of stand up and step up at a time like this is a massive move. >> so just keep in mind if you were starting a retailer today, you wouldn't populate it with guns because there are other things that are just higher margin, better business. but when you already sell guns and you want to try and restrict them it causes -- the nra i'm sure momentarily will come out with a statement criticizing this -- but walmart is not actually probably going to hurt their bottom line to sell fewer guns and ammunition because they can sell other things they sell more of. >> walmart sells so many products but the question will

ali, thank you. ali: thank you. brent: u.s.histleblower edward snowden's memoirs went on sale today and immediately, the u.s. justice department said it is suing snowden's for the books contents. it says his book violates the secrecy agreement that snowden promised to respect when he worked for the nsa. snowden could face life in prison if convicted of stealing classified information and leaking it to reporters back in 2013, but that would require snowden to first to be in the u.s., which he is not. for six years, he has lived in exile in russia. but his visa runs out at the end of this year. reporter: some see him as s a hero. others condemn him as america's most wanted trader -- traitor.. edward snowden told german television he is concerned abobt the fate of f future whistlebeblowers. >> i t tnk it is one of thehe saddest lessons from the storyr. what does it say to ththe next whistleblower and what does it say to the w world, aboutt ourselves? when the only place on americans can be heard is from places we would not expect.

since the 2011 revolution and ali had been in intensive care for 3. months sharon for takes a look back at his legacy that's when he was swept from power by a wave of popular protest fleeing tunisia saudi arabia a former military man and diplomat. ben ali took the presidency in 1987 with a bloodless coup unseating the country's 1st post colonial president in every election since he was returned to power with enormous majorities his opponents said the votes were rigged human rights groups described his government as authoritarian and undemocratic cracking down on any attempts at press freedom and handing out jobs and favors to a select band of supporters. ultimately protests over unemployment brought the people out of the streets demanding change. to me just economy looked relatively strong when the uprising began it was ranked 1st in africa the competitiveness. but accused of running a corrupt police state with money concentrated in the hands of a few powerful families including his own most tunisians felt excluded under ben ali tunisia pursued a pro

think about running a campaign, ali b ev ali, even if it energizes your base, having to answer questionsnquiry day after day, that takes a toll, too. >> kristen, thank you. >> thank you. >>> joining us now for a closer look at the international implications of this is higar shamali, former spokesperson for the the united states mission to the united nations and former treasury department spokesperson on terrorism and financial intelligence. there are so many elements to this saga that are playing out, but one of them is the country that's involved. ukraine. this is a country that has been at the forefront of russia's tendency to want to expand and because it was not a nato country, it was open for russian expansion. and there are some who say that the united states did not have a strong enough response when that first started happening. but the idea that we were providing ukraine with $400 million was purposeful. that was congressionally approved money because we thought it important in the fight. if that was part of any quid pro q quo, that's problematic from a national security perspec

ali, the big concern with you, right, the high tide. a few hours away at this point. >> that's right. let me give you a sense of it. the water is higher and higherish the hurricane is 60 miles south southeast of here, through the channel you can't see, past fort sumter. we're at a stone pier rnlgts. very solid. we're not at high tide, haven't seen the worst effects of the storm and yet we're almost within a few feet of the bottom of that pier. that's the situation. the pier is a high point, over the water. the city is not. most of the city is flooded. half a million people in the general area. that been under evacuation on the. everything shut down, allow people to go, contraflow on the highways. this is a region that floods normally. unless flooding, coastal flooding and then the storm surge combining with high-tied. can you expect it to be the worst in charleston from about now until protect about 6:00, 7:00 or 8:00 p.m. fema is gone. hopefully they have boats, high water vehicles. they are ready for rescues. mayor and emergency manag

ali, good to see you on the ground. i first want you to walk us through what will you've been able to see. describe what you say you saw, which is everything is the absolute death in the area. >> reporter: yeah, it's the hottest part dft dof the day ri now. it's 88 or 90 degrees. and the wind shifts. when we cover disasters, there are ways we can frame a shot for tv that makes it most impactful. jim, my cameraman, can put his camera on any part of this island. it's not all the same but it's destruction. take a look at this, this is a staircase for somebody's house. there's no house. a vacuum cleaner. these are personal belongings in here. this is what the whole place looks like. on the coast now, the shore is just behind me, if you go in less than half a mile in there, it's something called the mud. it's sort of a lower income area that a number of haitian immigrants lived in so the structures were not built nearly as well. some structures were built well around here. they can sustain a category 5 hurricane but they wer

there you see our msnbc anchor ali velshi. we don't see him actually. there's simon boyce who will join us. michelle, let's start with just where we are with this storm and what we're looking at in terms of hitting the carolinas. >> yeah, hi there, chris. well, ali is in charleston mimp do want to mention they didn't get that inundation of water because actually their highest water height happened during low tide. that will not be the case for north carolina. so we're going to talk about that. we're also worried with this system with severe weather we do have a tornado watch for parts of south carolina until 4:00 p.m., parts of north carolina until 7. we're going to be watching this very, very closely. this is spawning off a lot of super cells. that's something we're going to watch. the latest, as of the 2:00 p.m. advisory, not much has changed except for the location. 60 miles south of myrtle beach, south carolina, winds are still at 110. that makes it a category 2 storm. and it's moving at 8 miles per hour. not super fast but not super slow. we do exp

that's ali and i. right. ( laughter ) >> stephen: though you do an amazing ali. >> i was being roasted and he was on the dais and he got up and said, "i like your jokes. i like your style. but you ain't paying me nothing, so i won't be back for a while." >> stephen: were you guys friends? >> oh, yeah, he was one of my closest friends. >> stephen: that's nice. that's amazing. >> when we grew up-- maybe you'll remember this because i grew up before you did. roasts weren't televised. they were closed door things at the famous friar's club, where all the greats closed the doors and banged away at each other. and because they said they love each other, they could just humiliate them. and you wondered what went on. then dean martin, you know, did the roasts other than and those were televised. and those were kind of fun. i did a couple of those starting out and now they're, you know, a big deal. so i-- i thought, you know, let's do this app where people could actually roast somebody. but let's-- let's finish

corruption but it was a businessman in spain that storks the fire calling for the protests muhammad ali started posting videos on you tube and facebook and early september he leaked cissie and his military wasted millions of dollars of public money and palaces and hotels he said he knew because he built them i want to know why spend a huge amount of money building these houses i never understood his decision the problem was that since these wife didn't want to sleep in the same home when mubarak's wife stayed taken low level corruption to a new label i built 5 villas for theses a palace for the president and a military camp in cairo. a slap to the one week ago speaking at a youth summit in cairo president says he did not directly address the accusations of corruption against him and his army but he did say this. how much do you think a day of operations in sinai costs we don't talk about this then we see someone daring to come out and defame the army someone who wants to shock you panic you someone who dares to try to disparage the great value of our great army when cici little military

ali, i want to start with you, my good friend, my road warrior. i want to show a clip of biden versus warren from a few years ago. it might give us a preview of what we might see tonight. >> i submit, senator, that there are many in the credit industry right now who are getting their bankruptcies prepaid. they squeezed enough out of these families in interest and fees and payments that -- >> usualry rates, not bankruptcy. >> i'll be the first. >> i know you will. but let's call a spade a spade. your problem with the credit card companies is usery rates in your position. it's not about the bankruptcy bill. >> senator, if you're not going to fix that problem, you can't take away the last shred of protections for these families. >> you're very good, professor. thank you. >> so is that what we're watching out for, ali? >> i don't know. i mean, these two have a long history. i guess we're going to see if it comes to fruition once again. but we've seen them spar on bankruptcy, the credit card industry. over the course of this campaign there have been co

ali was the 1st lady to be toppled by the arab spring protests in 2011 he fled to saudi arabia where he lived in exile until his death on thursday he was 83 years old ben ali ruled in his ear for more than 2 decades eventually frustration over high unemployment and his reluctance to embrace democracy sparked the uprising against him. and security forces have been deployed to central cairo after rare anti-government protests broke out on friday evening in the egyptian capital as well as other cities demonstrators called on president abdel fattah el-sisi to step down amid allegations of widespread corruption. say it don't be scared sisi has to go hundreds protest in and around her here square in cairo egypt calling on president. sisi to step down. these demonstrations are a rarity in today's egypt sparked by a pill shared on social media to take to the streets in opposition to government corruption and depression since l.c.c. was elected he's consolidated his power and not to an unprecedented crackdown imprisoning thousands of political islamists secular opposition figures and popular

i'm ali velshi in for brian williams. tonight we come to you from san diego, but all the action is in the nation's capitol where on day 981 of the trump administration, there is yet another bombshell report from "the washington post." it is about what trump told two russian officials, foreign minister sergei lavrov on the left of your screen and sergei kislyak on the right in the now-infamous meeting in the oval office in may of 2017. the day after he fired former fbi director james comey. tonight "the washington post" reports donald trump told the russians that, quote, he was unconcerned about moscow's interference in the u.s. election because the united states did the same in other countries an assertion that prompted alarmed white house officials to limit access to the remarks to an unusually small number of people. that's according to the three former officials who have knowledge of the matter. but in an interview with lester holt just one day later, he treated russian interference more seriously. >> if russia hacked

afghanistan ali polls or closing we've already heard about violence in the country is this affecting voting today. the violence is definitely affecting it didn't always happen in fact the bigger problem right now is the logistical problems so i want to vote early in the morning today and since then i've been to 4 different. 'd polling stations and in each one when i walked in i saw 203040 people 'd going to election officials saying that we were told that our names are not on the list we weren't found on the biometric devices and were not allowed to vote even though they had voted in the parliamentary election in october at the same location with the same id with the same sticker and this is becoming a problem we heard throughout the country but what's really worrying people is that it's happening in kabul and other major cities think joel can dollars what does that mean for the villages and districts so this is creating a lot of worries intentional fraud or trying to keep people from the vote. and so this has been the worry from the beginning that more so in security that it would a

and so this was the message of assisi when he wants but muhammad ali doesn't have to prove corruption only has to do is a legit the genie is then out of the bottle and people out on the street want to bring you in here. it's hell people are out there now people are out in the streets this built you you know we saw this in 2011 but these are protesters very seemingly people who are younger and probably weren't on the streets in 2000 level who have come out on the streets today couldn't get the. it could egypt has all the structural conditions for a successful resistance campaign mobilization very young population on one and. intense sustained grievances that have been going on for a long time even beyond this generation. and especially on 2 issues highlighted one is the issue of corruption that the moralists became sparked and sparked in a way that is unconventional in a way that was a lesson in strategic communications if you wish with the guy that's not even have a university degree he gave a lesson to there all the ph d.'s in the opposition how to communicate with the working class

we are blessed to have ali here with us at today's ceremony. thank you, ali. thank you. . [ applause ] >> thank you. research and ali, i know your dad is watching over you. he's right up there. he's watching from heaven, looking down right now with love and pride. he is so proud of you. thank you very much. incredib incredible. also joining us is the vigiano family. for generations, the vigiano family served in our military and new york fire and police departments. these are two great departments. i grew up with them. i know. on september 11th, nypd detective joseph vigiano rushed into the world trade center and died rescuing his fellow citizens. his brother john was a new york fire fighter. he also gave his life that day at ground zero. at the time joseph's three sons were just young boys ages 8, 6 and 3 months old. this morning, that i are with us. the -- they are with us. the youngest john just finished his freshman year of college at sunni maritime college and he plans to join the military. joseph, jr., is a marine reservist and just like his father, he is

has died he was inside eurabia where he'd been living in exile since the 2011 revolution ben ali had been in intensive care for 3 months sharon saga for takes a look back at his life and legacy. he was swept from power by a wave of popular protests. i mean tunisia saudi arabia a former military man and diplomat. ben ali took the presidency in 1987 with a bloodless coup unseating the country's 1st post colonial president in every election since he was returned to power with enormous majorities his opponents said the votes were rigged human rights groups described his government as authoritarian and undemocratic cracking down on any attempts at press freedom and handing out jobs and favors to a select band of supporters. ultimately protests over unemployment brought the people out of the streets demanding change. to me just economy looked relatively strong when the uprising began it was ranked 1st in africa the competitiveness. but accused of running a corrupt police state with money concentrated in the hands of a few powerful families including his own most and asians felt excluded un

where he'd been living in exile since to 27 revolution ben ali had been in intensive care for 3 months she got 4 takes a look back at his legacy that's when he was swept from power by a wave of popular protest fleeing tunisia saudi arabia a former military man and diplomat. ben ali took the presidency in 1987 with a bloodless coup unseating the country's 1st post colonial president in every election since he was returned to power with enormous majorities his opponents said the votes were rigged human rights groups described his government as authoritarian and undemocratic cracking down on any attempts at press freedom and handing out jobs and favors to a select band of supporters. ultimately protests over unemployment brought the people out of the streets demanding change. to me just economy looked relatively strong when the uprising began it was ranked 1st in africa the competitiveness. but accused of running a corrupt police state with money concentrated in the hands of a few powerful families including his own most tunisians felt excluded under ben ali tunisia pursued a pro western

reporting live tonight in san jose, ali wolf, nbc bay area news. >> ali thanks very much. >>> well, hurricane dorian now a category 4 storm and getting stronger. the bahamas and the east coast are on edge tonight, bracingndf track has shifted a , georgia,o. locals are spending this last holiday weekend of the summer boarding up windows and collecting emergency supplies. >> how worried are you that it's still going to flood? >> i'm still worried. >> just in case it turns the other way you've got to be ready. >> in parts of florida mandatory evacuations are expected to begin tomorrow morning. tonight millions are on edge as dorian swells to 500 miles across with 150-mile-per-hour winds. >>> vianey arana has been tracking dorian for us all day. vianey, what can you tell us about all this craziness before it makes landfall? >> yeah, you know, right now hurricane dorian is closing in on northwestern bahamas. as a matter of fact, they're already starting to feel the impact of that. remember, hurricane warnings are active for the northwestern part of the bahamas and they're going to expect a rough n

>> reporter: ali, that's right. before the ntsb even came out with its summary today and we'll talk about that in a sec, the coast guard decided to issue a safety bulletin. now, they've said, quote, we hope that boat captains consider limiting the unsupervised charging of lithium-ion batteries and extensive use of power trips. one of the things investigators are looking closely at after that labor day fire that killed 34 people is whether a lot of people were charging their phones. electronics. you know, it's a cuba diving ship. people have underwater cameras and gopros. one of the big questions was whether people were charging them overnight and whether that contributed to the fire. now, we have just heard from truth aquatics, the boat's owner on this subject. and they tell us, we all hope and anticipate new regulations will come as a result of the investigation. and then i'm just reading here, they say we would ask whether safety agencies that have been aware of the dangers of lithium-ion batteries in other modes

center, and muhammad ali used to live in kentucky.aid i saw onee of your fights, and he said great. you got knocked down in the third round. he said it wasn't my fight. he said my dad took me, it was this great father/son experience, but you got knocked down in the third round. he says, wasn't my fight. he said i've never been knocked down. i'm either up or i'm getting up. new hampshire has never been knocked down. new hampshire is either up or getting up. the democratic party has never been knocked down, it is either up or it is getting up. the unions of the united states of america have never been knocked down. they are either up or getting up. america has never been knocked down, america is either up or america is getting up. tim ryan for america. let's win this election. [applause] ♪ announcer: president trump holds a campaign rally in north carolina on the eve of the special election for the ninth congressional district in the state. watch live monday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2, online at c-span.org, or listen live on the fr

it's definitely a ghost town tonight, ali. as that storm is moving slowly and taking its time, it seems like people here in savannah were in a rush to get out after those evacuation orders. as you can see, sandbags here at the doors. restaurants and hotels. most hotels today shut down around noon asking guests to leave after those evacuation orders. we were among some of those guests. we had to find a different place to stay here in savannah. the options are very limited. as we talked about earlier, this is a thoroughfare for nightlife, traffic, and there isn't a single person in any of these restaurants or any of these hotels along the way. sandbags at the door. hotels closed. the mayor of savannah giving a press conference tonight really stressing the importance of being vigilant and taking this as a life-and-death situation. as you said, just a slight shift on that track can be the difference between dodging danger and total disaster. here's what the mayor had to say. >> folks, you don't ride out storms like that. you don't

chris harrington joining me for today's breakdown are 2 guys decking dish it out with the best of them ali always in a good mood moody pleasures always cress pleasure's mine as well and we have yanick never late space how are you doing on it i'm good mate i think that's a bit of a stretch but i think i agree with that all right now before we hear what they have to say we have some football to show you started in frankfurt the eagles invited title hopefuls dortmund's a town the black and yellow hat the most to gain in this one a win on the road would see them leapfrog a handful of teams in the standings after 2nd but frankfort haven't lost at home yet this sees it well they say there's a 1st thing for everything or is there a. front for can be an intimidating place to play and don't mind arrives having no one in their last 5 visits and he knows they may have had with banished early on and sanchez tested kevin tracked. and then talk and has set up actual vigil for the opening strike. one mill after just 11 minutes. but only defensive issues came back to haunt torment when andre silva conferr

tunisia's former president ben ali has died in exile after a long battle with illness and more controversy for canada's prime minister a 3rd set of pictures like this one of him in brown face as setlist. we begin with breaking news this hour and russia and china have vetoed a resolution on syria at the united nations security council the resolution which was backed by the vast majority of members called for a ceasefire in the northwestern province of idlib that's the last rebel house stronghold in syria let's speak to our diplomatic editor james basis at the u.n. for is james tell us what was in this resolution and why the russians and chinese veto it. once again a grim day for syria what the idea of this resolution was and it was drawn up by 3 of the council members the kuwaiti there was one of those he's speaking to the security council right now and he was joined by the belgians and the germans have been working for over a month on this trying to get a cease fire in they knew the problem which was russian objections because of course russia along with the syrian government is a volved i

what muhammad ali began from barcelona has been followed up by egyptians posting their own videos andmany of them appear to be military personnel that and some other developments gyptian saw last year suggest that what is unfolding is not a popular uprising but the 1st signs of what could be a soft coup elements within the military who were once loyal to the former general turned president now preparing to depose him. now these videos are showing is that there might be growing fissures from within the military establishment and if we think about the last presidential election in egypt of last year most of those that sat challenge presidency say the former military man they would not have run for office if they didn't think there was internal support and muhammad ali has been saying it's not the military that's right there are actually good people it's ccs mismanagement of the military for his own benefit is what the problem is and that is sisi is number one concern it is not a simple as a dictator gone broke and the people rising to tell him leave. there are forces a clear. early with