more than 2 million people have been displaced by the fighting, caused by the boko haram insurgency.of them are living in sprawling camps, and they are entirely dependent upon aid hand—outs. tens of thousands of children are currently at risk of dying of starvation. that's how serious a crisis this is in that part of the country. and this acknowledgement from the nigerian government that aid is effectively being stolen, whilst shocking, is not a huge surprise. i have spoken to a humanitarian organisation up there as well as local officials, and they say this has been an ongoing problem. what the government says is that previously up to half the trucks delivering assistance or aid, those trucks would be diverted. effectively, the aid would be stolen. in order to fix this problem, the government now says that those aid convoys will be accompanied by soldiers and police, to make sure that aid goes from the warehouses to those that need it the most. now, even if all that aid does reach the camps, the most vulnerable — some of the most vulnerable anywhere in the world — that might not be

i don't have any thing to say you don't want to talk about boko. you don't want to talk about the kids that are sick there i'm sorry it wouldn't be appropriate for me to spend it. so we thought of another solution. we would bring our questions directly to the personal residence of the c.e.o. of dow mr liveris along with this letter we displayed an american style election sign to make sure that he would miss it. and i'm not on the property here. though are. you working for mr d. there is over at the company are you working for. are you concerned about syria are you concerned about what's happening in bhopal you know there are two clinton aides in the kids look at russia now she's just thirteen years old is terrible so why does not doing anything. i don't know sir. but doesn't touch you you don't mind. so well dolly's not doing anything. a few days later we finally received an email from dow the company in the manse bhopal it was a terrible tragedy that we will never forget. but they relieve themselves of all responsibilities stating that we acquired

our hearts out with these congress nanoand we are going to keep the promise to repeal and replace boko haram. >> reporter: the president will pitch new worker training programs. >> it will generate $1 trillion in infrastructure investment. >> reporter: it comes after an ininitiative trump called infrastructure week. but like much of the domestic plan it overshadowed by investigations into russian interference in the 2016 election, and the testimony of fired fbi director james comey. >> he asked specifically of loyalty in the context of asking me to stay. >> i hardly know the man. i'm not going do say i want you to pledge allegiance. who would do that? >> reporter: white house aides say the president has kept promises to nominate neil gorsuch to the supreme court and to pull out of the paris climate agreement, but i go issues like tax reform, a formal travel ban and repeal and replace of obamacare don't appearing to be going anywhere soon. >> you could go lieu the entire first year without any major accomplishment. >> reporter: with the russia investigation generating new headlines near

relations and we told you all sorry why i don't have any thing to say you don't want to talk about boko. if you don't want to talk about the kids there are six there i'm sorry it would be appropriate for me to say anything. so we thought of another solution. we would bring our crew.

think where chairman thornberry and the trump administration as they are both foring about $65 million boko -- >> that's the iraq and afghanistan-based initiative. joe: correct. we do not know what the truth number is going to be in afghanistan and is that is going put pressure to increase the overseas contingency count. is interested in putting more competition into the process. you have been watching this process for a long time. will major defense contractors have a lot of pushback on that? gordon: senator mccain was complaining the other day during testimony before the pentagon's , who represents these top five companies that essentially are responsible for 90% of makeup on some level of the pentagon budget. mattis clearlyry wants to do some reform of some of this -- some of the internal stuff, and as soon as he get some people in like shanahan, they can start to work on it. said theyhornberry were starting kind of with a deficit in terms of time. they still do not have the people even really to do that. there was going to be pushed back on reforms. there always are, but i think mr. tru

to groups like a queue, al qaeda, boko haram and isis.last week islamic ideology combined with solid fee -- optical and implement different viewpoint on this but our other point is islamist ideology combined with salafi theology crates the modern manifestation of jettison practice intellectual social and practical movement now has preachers and emergent part of islamic academic literature and thanamendment to justify their legitimate interpretation of islam that should be practiced in some instances as an emerging school of islamic thought or jurisprudence. now, what does this mean? let's be clear, there's a distinction between conservatism and older conservatism, and salafi jihadist. in many circles there's a difficulty distinguished what is, in fact, conservatism that is not nefarious and in any way and somehow, someone is spoken that salafi jihadist is ready. if you love me where finishing the report i do want to parse out this nuance. the center of the salafi agent is their beliefs. and which despite push back of her and strong theolo

getting people inside these terrorist organizations, al qaeda, boko haram, isis, insanely difficult.. it >> mike: it causes a greater reliance on technical collection, technical coverage would goes back to what we were talking about earlier. you've got to expand the playing field, white and the parameters so we can do more to be more but then you have undoubtedly the cries about privacy and civil liberties. i understand that. you need checks and balances. >> kat: it's really important. >> eboni: mike, you said you've been in rooms where everyone is having this conversation we've been having and everybody almost agrees we need to lose my handcuffs and yet we never get there. why? >> mike: because we are all like raccoons chasing the next shiny object. we tend to think, there is an attack and it's horrific. we are focused on security and the pendulum moves. then we are willing to give up things and then there's not an attack and we get busy and we are tired of taking our shoes off and we want life to go back to normal. there's also an element that says no, you can't do these things bec

in nigeria, , fighters with h te boko haram movement launched an assault on the city of thursday, sending thousands of residents fleeing in panic. one eyewitness said three children were struck by bullets during the failed assault. the raid came six months after nigeria's president claimed the militant group had been largely defeated. the continuing violence has hampered relief efforts in northeastern nigeria, where the u.n. warns nearly 1.5 million people are on the brink of famine. in climate news, a new study predicts coastal u u.s. cities will be deluged by frequent and massive floods unless greenhouse gas emissions are slashed dramatically. researchers at princeton a and rutgers s universityty estimatet so-called once in a century floods could become e commonplae by 2050, witith the risk of majr flooding events increasing forty-fold. in the united kingdom, polls are open today in an election that pits conservative prime minister theresa may against a resurgent labour party led by anti-austerity and anti-war candidate jeremy corbyn. on the final day of campaigning, may told voters she

troops that are in western africa leading the fight against boko haram.is early to see exactly what the trump administration is doing. i think they're in a heavily court and a policy with africa, but i think we will see more troops on the ground, mores. base this is the way things have been going for years now. amy: the danger journalist's face goioing to south sudan. the people in south sudan obviously face massive danger. >> definitely. local journalists face the most difficulties. they are threatened, detained, tortrtured, even killed and no e has ever been held responsible. the crackdown against foreign journalists has become greater. more and more people are being accused of being spies. i was myself. thread with gels. just threatened with jail. 20 foreign about reporters, people who know the country best. difficult environment. amy: we're going to link to your article deck of -- and ghost nation. that does it for our broadcast. very happyirthdayy to karen ranucci! democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captionin

whether it's isis, boko haram, al qaeda, the taliban, and narrowed it down to just those areas, would that pass this? >> i think so. it would depend on the context but it very much would. that's exactly what congress didn't do this doesn't. this is what the district court 61, where people have come and visited. waiver program doesn't work like where you're born. it worked somewhat passport hold -- it's based on what you have recently been. if you are a swiss citizen and have gone to sedan your covered by the 2015 banned because that's precisely for the reason you are saying judge hawkins, which is, in 2015 congress determined security threats in sudan. but what this does is says, if you are a syrian born in switzerland, spend your whole life in switzerland, then you want to come to the night states, no. you can't commit to us by your nationality. that's not something presidents have ever done in our lifetime. >> that's quite as specific as judge hawkins is suggestion, but the order refers to conditions in the country that are listed. why is that not sufficient for this -- >> that evid

nation states' pushing for wordhat spac ideology building of fertile ground that the taliban or isis or boko haram can sprout as we have conversations of flu is doing what through extremism that united states can gets serious about what we know of the spread of ideology and why so that for decadeshicha worth the effort and we have to get real so what we knoww very quickly as i have been thinking about this issue in a sobering where i have the book coming out called how we win because i am optimistic. there is a way for bird did you sit here in the -- chanting what will we do i know these solutions are available and affordable. but why aren't we? looking for a the footprint i would like to see every calibration of the money needed. so this case to do more and it is our turn and our timeill o if government doesn't put the money in than we need to put the money in so we cans build the scale and focus on the goal those young people i coming forward and finally and with the strategy's.finally in to talk more broadly of that strategy and that cannot happen with just hard power that with hard and s

ideology that is actually building the fertile ground from which an al qaeda or isis or taliban or boko haram can sprout. and until it's very timely today here in washington. as we have conversations about saudi arabia and qatar and the conversation about who's doing what vis-a-vis extremism that we as the united states get serious and be honest with the american public about what we know about the spread of ideology and how it is foemting around the world and why. there is an actual system in place around the world in which that kind of four decades worth of effort has made a difference. and i think we have to get real about it. so those are the things that we know that we've learned. very quickly, matt just looked at his watch, so i have a minute. what do we do next? as i have been thinking about about this issue in a very sobering way, i have a book coming out the beginning the 2018 called "how we win." because i am actually optimistic. there is a way forward. if you sit here and wring your hands and fingers and think what are we going to do? we can't do anything, i absolutely know t

we must solve not only the violent entities like isis i'll qaeda boko haram and others but also dismantle the network up dawa. above all we need to challenge the principles of sharia law. i look forward to your questions. thank you. >> thank you ms. ali prepare next witness is ms. noz run the bonnie. ms. novotny is the co-founder of muslim reform movement the author of standing alone american woman and the struggle for islam. she rents a student faculty investigation into the murder of her friend danny pearl who was executed by members of al qaeda. >> thank you so much. thank you chairman johnson and vice chairman cass colin thank you senators for this invitation to be here today. our hearts are indeed gripped with war from this morning shooting. i feel empathy and compassion for you because this day takes me back to a day 15 years ago when i felt the same grouping on my heart. i learned that day that my colleague and friend daniel pearl from "the wall street journal" had been kidnapped. we learned in the weeks that followed that he had been kidnapped by militants and it was 15 years ago

we see the same with similar incidents with top lieutenants over at boko haram, who were killed or wiped all of sudden they emerge somewhere else like coke roaches. people get reassured when they hear this sort of stuff. how do you advise them to stay vigilant? >> well look, we haven't, again, this is the difference between individual personalities and then the idea. it is relatively easy to hunt down and kill an individual, bomb a tank, you know, take a city. it is very difficult to bomb an idea and just like it took 50, 60, 70 years to undermine the legitimacy of the idea of communism, it is going to take the same thing with islamic extremism. so we have to have in the short term we have to go after these guys. we have to disrupt them. it does affect their ability to recute. it custodies rapt their ability to plot and plan but we have to have the long-term strategy in place as well. why can't -- there were terrorist groups in the '80s and '90s, that recruited and conducted terrorist attacks in names of communism. why can't the shining path and red brigades can't recruit anymore. their

and then whenit comes to nigeria and somalia, just dealing with alshah boband boko haram are going to continue to be issues as deterrences to getting the food in. i think what's most important is we continue to talk about it. thank you, thank you, thank you for the billion dollars because that was hugelyimportant when it came to the famine relief. thankd we need to continue to do that, but it's also the reason i'm going there in the fall. so i can see it in terms of what else can the u.n. be doing, what else can the u.s. be doing in terms of helping with that situation. >> when we did go when chairman smith dand go, even thoughfamine has been rolled back in south sudan, we did find that people are only getting enough food for half a month. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> so maybe it's that they're not dropping dead as quick, but, you know, they still are very much in a crisis. and then i hope, you know, you mentioned mr. beasley chairing -- heading up the world food program. but yet our budget calls for cuts tothat. and so i'm hoping that, you know, in your position you can push back and encoura