now senator amy klobuchar. >> thank you to all members. listening to senator ted cruz talk about lower in a lynch i was thinking of your statement that people should be unwilling to confirm someone that has somehow in your view not upheld the law or said they won't of told the law and i was thinking of one issue that is a major one for a lot of our colleagues across the aisle and this is the immigration issue the fact the president has issued this executive order and the fact that loretta lynch said she felt that this was correct under the law. every president since eisenhower has issued such an order and presumably this means they were advised by their attorney general many of whom were confirmed by people in this room or voted for by people in this room that was okay to do that. look at george h. w. bush 1.5 million immigrants involved in an executive order, 1.5 million immigrants involved in executive order and for those of my republican colleagues that were around at that time i assume his attorney general, that that was legal and that

we'll be asking minnesota senator amy klobuchar about that.ome-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

senator amy klobuchar told me no, but honestly, she seemed persuadable. senator claire mccaskill of missouri didn't even exactly say no. she said, in hillary clinton didn't run, then she probably wouldn't consider running either, but she phrased it like that. she seemed persuadable too. i know nobody apparently believes there's going to be a democratic presidential primary. i don't either. but if there is going to be one, i think we might have started it right here on this show. >>> in 2012, republicans pulled off a neat trick. less than half of voters chose a republican to represent them in the u.s. house of representatives. and yet, republicans came out of that election with a 33-seat majority in that chamber. democrats got over 1.7 million more votes nationwide, but republicans won 33 more seats. how'd they do that? a big part of it was something called red map. every ten years, states redraw their election districts based on the latest census data, and in most states, that re-drawing of districts is done by the legislature. and in general, the party i

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joining us now is senator amy klobuchar. from the great state of minnesota. >> i thought we were coming in on boxing with the lead-in. but harry was once a boxer. >> he was. >> he looked pretty tough in that photo. >> when he fist did his home video explaining i know i look like i have been run over, he gave a litany saying i wasn't fighting a boxer, i was not riding a bull. i slapped myself in the face with exercise equipment. it feels like we're in a new fighting era in washington where we don't know what the contours are. president obama vetoing this legislation and a partial shut down may be coming. i feel like i don't know what to expect. >> first let's look at what we're fighting for on homeland security. people in minnesota woke up sunday morning to see a video. a terrorist group, the ones that killed 60 people basically saying we want to go after mall of america, and calling on people to do it, calling on them to go after jewish owned shopping centers. this happened. we're glad the fbi and homeland security secretary

joining us now is senator amy kloba -- klobuchar. >> when he fist did his home video explaining i know i look like i have been run over, he gave a litany saying i want fighting a boxer, i was not riding a bull. i slapped myself in the face with exercise equipment. it feels like we're in a new fighting era in washington where we don't know what the contours are. i feel like i don't know what to expect. >> first let's look at what we're fighting for on homeland security. people on minnesota woke up sunday morning to see a video. a terrorist group, the ones that killed 60 people basically saying we want to go after mall and america, and calling on people to do it, calling on them to go after jewish owned shopping centers. we're glad the fbi and homeland security secretary said you should be free to the mall. i talked that night to 500 hospitality workers that worked near or at the mall. they went to work that day. they did their jobs. and the leaks that we can see out of the republican side is to fund homeland security when we have cyber threats out of north korea. people shot in paris. w

amy klobuchar, the democratic senior senator from minnesota, is one of the lawmakers leading the chargehion. she just returned recently from cuba and joins us now in washington. welcome, senator. >> thanks kelly. it was a little warmer in cuba or in minnesota. >> i would imagine. what about relations between the u.s. and cuba? >> that's what was the most interesting. there's some hesitancy, i will say, to make change. the people are way ahead of that. there are now 600,000 people in the private sector that have started businesses from taxi companies to seamstresses in their own homes and they are so excited. what i didn't expect was that every person would say one date to us. it was all over their artwork. december 17th 2014. >> which is? >> it means nothing to us. it is the day that both presidents said they were interesting in normalizing the relation. so you feel this sense of hope and entrepreneurship there, and that is what's going to carry the way, because clearly they have two currencies. they have had open possibilities for investment with other countries and some of it's starti

we are then going to hear from amy klobuchar who has an interesting twist on what's happened over the weekend. we'll hear from michael kelly, who is here representing the fire department in sandy spring, maryland. he's volunteer fire department. also with us today is fire chief richard bowers, fairfax county fire and rescue. neither mr. kelly or bowers will be speaking but they are here to support what we are doing. with america facing threats from terrorists determined to attack us here at home, it's hard to believe that we are four days away from the department of homeland security shutting down. not being funded. what does that mean? as senator mikulski has spoken so well the last couple weeks about how important the coast guard is we have secret service, we have customs, we have the people who take care of us in our airports, about 220,000 of them. that's what we are talking about. it's not funding something so essential to protect the homeland. we need a real resolution to this problem, not a stopgap measure. last night the majority leader moved to bring a bill to the floor that

we will then hear from amy klobuchar who is an interesting twist on what's happened over the weekend. we will hear them from chief michael kelly who is he representing the fire department from sandy spring, maryland, his fire department. also with us is richard powers, fairfax county. fire and rescue. neither mr. kelley or powers will be speaking but you here to support what we are doing. >> with america facing threats from terrorists determined to attack us at home, it's hard to believe that we are four days away from apartment homeland security shutting down. not being funded. what does that mean? as senator mikulski is spoken so well the last couple of weeks about how important the coast guard is we have the secret service, we have customs, we have the people who take care of us in our airports, 220,000 of them. that's what we're talking about. it's not funding something so essential to protecting the homeland. we need a real resolution of this problem not a stopgap measure. last night the majority leader -- brought a bill to the for that has nothing to fund homeland secure. of the

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