engel: well, mrs.eagan liked to get her hands dirty in politics and in policy within the white house, almost court politics, if you will. she would frequently call up advisers to the president and admonish them for one thing or another and really tried to maneuver people throughout the administration, putting people that she liked in different places. mrs. bush never did that. she is a person who did not directly involve herself in policy. but there's an important distinction to be made there. she cared a lot about politics. she knew what was going on in washington. she knew all the players. she knew all the actors. she made sure that she knew the gossip. but she wasn't interested in changing the policy. that was the president's job. ms. swain: and during the campaign times, was she involved in campaign strategy that you know of? mr. engel: less about campaign strategy than being out in front for the campaign, because especially as the president moved into campaigning for his second term in 1992, she w

engel: thank you. at this point i yield three minutes to the gentlewoman from new york, my good friend and the ranking member of the appropriations committee, mrs. lowey. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. mrs. lowey: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i want to particularly thank chairman ed royce and my good friend, our ranking member of the committee, eliot engel, and all those who are so involved in putting this important resolution together. i rise in support of house resolution 354. it was introduced by the co-chairs of the bipartisan task force for combating anti-semitism. in the aftermath of appalling anti-semitic incidents throughout europe, including the devastating terrorist attacks at the paris kosher supermarket and the great synagogue of copenhagen, this important resolution urges the united states government to help improve the safety and security of jewish communities in europe. from austria to belgium, germany to the united kingdom, ukraine to france, there's been a

engel. mr. speaker, i want to thank chairman royce and ranking member engel and their staffs for working to bring this bipartisan resolution to the floor and i want to thank my friend and colleague and neighbor, congresswoman ileana ros-lehtinen for partnering with me on this effort. there have been in the month of october more than 50 stabbings in israel, there have been attempted stabbings, there have been shootings, cars rammed into civilians. terrorists have killed 11 and have wounded more than 10 times that number. in a span of just 12 hours today, there were four separate terror attacks. now, this resolution is important because these attacks aren't to protest or -- aren't a protest or political statement about holy sites or politics, it's terrorism. it flows from incitement at the highest levels of the palestinian government. i have said many times that all attacks on innocent civilians should be condemned and should be condemned regardless of who commits them. i have to point out tha

correspondent richard engel is in paris.s the next discussion, is there a bomb-making factory still in operation somewhere within driving distance of paris? all seven of the terrorists were wearing suicide vests, which makes friday the first suicide bombings if france's history one of the largest coordinated suicide bombings everywhere ever. all the vests were basically the same, push button debt fators, shrapnel to turn into deadly projectiles. they used triacetone, patp is made with essentially odd combinations of odd concentrations of regular household products. it's a known killer. tatp has been used in fatal terrorist attacks before. including the london transit bombings in 2005 which killed 52 people. today it isn't the most difficult explosive to get your hands on, it is easy to blow yourself up accidentally making tatp. as a compound, it is volatile. too much heat or friction or an electric shock can cause an accidental detonation. but the other thing that can go wrong is that it can be a dud. just two weeks after th

i'll be right back with richard engel in paris.oving touch stimulates his senses and nurtures his mind. the johnson's scent, lather, and bubbles help enhance the experience. so why just clean your baby, when you can give him so much more? >>> richard engel, we are a few hours away from dawn in paris. what do you expect in the day ahead in terms of the investigation and the reaction to these attacks. >> i think the investigation is ongoing. there's going to be more raids. but already here in france there is a sense of what happened. the french president described it as an attack that was far up in syria. it was organized in belgium. it was executed here in france. and this horrific combination of extremists who are homegrown, reaching out across into a war zone and getting combat training there, that is a terrible combination. i don't think we've seen the last of it. >> richard engel. it's been a real privilege to join with you tonight. thank you for being here for this hour. it's been great to have you here, my friend. "first look"

and i want now, if i can, to bring in ben plesser who travels with richard engel. you all have been to different ends of the earth. and i wonder if you can give us a little bit of an idea here of being there in france and how different this was to see something like this go down outside of paris. >> yes, you're right. we spend a lot of our time in the middle east and other sort of war-torn countries. one of the things that is surprising about this year is that the wars of the middle east have kind of landed in paris, for the second time. earlier this year, we were here for the "charlie hebdo" attacks, and now we're here again. and as we stand here in this neighborhood, we were walking around while the raid was going on, talking to people, to the neighbors who had come out to see this. and the truth is, the more popular spoken language was arabic. we did several of our interviews in arabic which richard engel speaks fluently because that was the language people here were more comfortable with. it really feels like a little island of the middle east just north of par

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we'll go live to richard engel who is live in turkey's capital.t francois hollande visits the white house today, set to meet with president obama for the first time since the attacks in paris. the big question, whether hollande will leave washington with the support he's asking for. >>> and the politics of terror. playing out on the campaign trail with fiery new rhetoric from donald trump about bringing back waterboarding. that and much more coming up next on "morning joe." so what's your news? i got a job! i'll be programming at ge. oh i got a job too, at zazzies. (friends gasp) the app where you put fruit hats on animals? i love that! guys, i'll be writing code that helps machines communicate. (interrupting) i just zazzied you. (phone vibrates) look at it! (friends giggle) i can do dogs, hamsters, guinea pigs... you name it. i'm going to transform the way the world works. (proudly) i programmed that hat. and i can do casaba melons. i'll be helping turbines power cities. i put a turbine on a cat. (friends ooh and ahh) i can make hospitals run mor

richard engel has the story. amateur video captured some of the heavy automatic gunfire that erupted when elite french forces raided an apartment outside paris this morning. the main target officials say was the alleged mastermind of the paris attacks. but as the raid began, a woman in the apartment blew up a suicide vest. police ordered residents to stay inside... anyone who approached was told that no uncertain terms to back away. neighbors, many of them muslim immigrants, were evacuated by police and searched. we stopped this resident who was rushing down the street. he said in arabic that he had witnessed the whole thing. i saws the raid. twenty cars passed by here. then five minutes later, the shooting started he said. you heard the gunfire i ask. i saw it with my eyes he said. meanwhile, the police focused on one apartment on the third floor of this building. that neighbors say is the apartment where the raid's targets were holed up. the main target officials say was abdelhamid abaaoud, the man they describ

we will turn to richard engel standing by live in istanbul, turkey. anyone trying to connect the dots would note the plane that may have been blown out of the sky over egypt a couple of weeks ago, the suicide attacks in lebanon, for anyone trying to link this to isis, what should they know. what are you hearing? >> reporter: the u.s. intelligence community is working hard to try to piece this together to figure out who was responsible. there have been no immediate claims of responsibility but one senior u.s. intelligence and counter-terrorism official told me that the suspicion right now is that this was not the work of isis. that it bears more of the hallmarks of al qaeda or an al qaeda affiliate because of the sophistication and the coordination that is involved. we're talking about potentially in multiple locations, all across paris. many of them in that same area where the charlie hebdo attacks took place a year ago. that attack claimed by not isis but al qaeda. that is what one official says is the main suspicion right now. if it were, however, i

(on cam) s/ richard engel/ nbc news/ istanbul, turkey :??-:?? "but it seems unlikely there are going to be any productive conversation s between turkey and moscow right now. russia says it is reevaluating its relations with turkey, perhaps the most that can be hoped for now is for this whole situation to deescalate. richard engel, nbc news, istanbul." >> despite a low grade for handling the economy, former secretary of state hillary clinton has the support of 51 percent of iowa likely democratic caucusgoers in a new poll. the poll, from quinnipiac university shows senator bernie sanders trailing clinton by nine-points. the only other democrat in the field, former maryland governor martin o'malley, has just 4-percent support. this is virtually unchanged from the results of an october 23rd survey done by quinnipiac university. you can help decide which turkey gets a presidential pardon today. president obama will hold a traditional ceremony where he spares a turkey before thanksgiving. there are two contestants... a turkey named "honest" and anoth

i'm told we have lost our connection to richard engel. former general wesley clark, former supreme allied commander of u.s. forces in europe. general clark, you are often talking about united states armed forces, the classic criticism fighting the last war, both in terms of training and materiel. at the same time, it is not uncommon these days to hear talk that we are in our next world war, we are in the middle of an asymmetrical slow motion world war. the question is, what would you like to see, what do you think you need to hear from the american president at least at today's event? >> we know what to do militarily about this in the near term, brian. what we need to do is we need to go after the isis forces, we need the forward air controllers in there to be able to call in the air strikes and so forth. but the real issue here is political. what can we do politically to bring the opposing sides together. that is what's the future of syria. is it a unified state or is it a broken up state, and will religious minorities be respected. will

. >>> also tonight, richard engel inside the massive intelligence failure. the ring leader hiding in plain sight under their noses and europe's first female suicide bomber. new video in her final moments before blowing herself up as police closed in. >> at home, how safe are we? what the fbi director is now saying is his biggest fear. "nightly news" begins right now. >>> good evening. we learn today the man believed to have hatched the coordinated terror attacks here almost a week ago is dead. officials confirming he was killed in that blazing gun battle just outside paris yesterday. but the death of abdelhamid abaaoud doesn't have the city breathing easier. we'll explain in a moment. we start with an nbc news exclusive tonight. for the first time, an inside account of the dramatic police raid that ended the hostage siege at the bataclan theater where nearly 90 people were massacred. the man who led the raid is speaking only to us, describing the daring assault from start to finish. for his own security, his face is covered and he goes only by his first name

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richard engel with an upclose look at the migrant crisis as europe try to push back the human wave. >>> play by play in mandarin. the new language of american football on one college campus. "nightly news" begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" can kate snow. >>> good evening, the governor of colorado today calling the shootings at planned parenthood in colorado springs a form of terrorism as new details emerge about the victims from the standoff on friday and also about the man police say are responsible for killing three people and wounding nine others. those who knew robert lewis dear describe him as reclusive. while police are not discussing his motive, some say it was clear in the words he spoke. nbc national correspondent ma gale alga mere is in colorado springs tonight. >> after he was taken into custody, a law enforcement source says robert dear rambled about president obama, politics and abortion saying no more baby parts. the 57-year-old accused of wounding nine and killing three at this planned parenthood lived off the grid

richard engel is here next. stay with us. >>> we've got a coalition.f 65 countries who have been active in pushing back against isil for quite some time. russia right now is a coalition of two. iran and russia supporting assad. >> president obama at a white house press conference today saying that the u.s. is part of a coalition of 65 corrupts operating in syria right now. while russia is a coalition of just russia and iran. that press conference today came after a russian fighter jet was shot down in syria by f-16s from our nato ally turkey. joining us now from istanbul is richard engel, nbc news chief foreign correspondent. thank you for being here. i have to ask you first, does the turkish explanation for why they shot down this plane, does it hold water? does it make sense? >> reporter: not very much, frankly. turkey aid that it -- there was a violation of its air space than has been confirmed by nato, by the united states. but a few second violation on a border that is hardly airtight doesn't necessarily seem like the kind of thing that would prom

joining us now, nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel, who witnessed much of the raid last night. set the scene for us as you see it now, richard. >> well, people here are not obeying that order anymore not to stay outside. they have come outside. they are looking around, they are inspecting to see what happened here just a few hours ago. and it began with that raid when police, riot police, planned to go in with the dog to try and capture the mastermind that french officials say organized the paris attacks. suddenly they were met with gunfire and a female suicide bomber who detonated her device. after that, you just played some of it, an amazing amount of gunfire. but that wasn't it. afterward, we arrived a short time later. the police set up a huge cordon. when we got here the cordon was still being put in place. police were very tense. they were raising their rifles at anyone who approached them. they were stopping cars. they were turning people around. they were focusing primarily on that one building where the raid took place. they were illuminating it with torches, wi

we turn to richard engel on that. >> he tortured victims and taunted the u.s. but last night on a street in raqqa, the so-called capital of the islamic state in syria, a missile came for him. the few hostages who crossed his path and survived describe the man they call jihadi soako path. he relished his role as isis' chief beheader of foreign victims, including three americans. muhammed emwazi, a kuwaity born citizen. late last night u.s. officials tell nbc officials three reaper drones, two american and one before theish were tracking him when he and another man walked out of a building on raqqa's clock tower square and into a car. one of the u.s. drones fired a hell fire missile. the two men were, quote, incinerated. >> it does suggest that perhaps the job of coalition and the u.s. is perhaps going to be a little easier if they do have legitimate credible forces on the ground. >> reporter: and u.s. officials were quick to send a message to other isis militants. >> the terrorists associated with daesh need to know this. you're days are numbered. >> reporter: h

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richard engel, nbc news, paris. president obama is condemning the attack in mali saying he refuses to give these terrorists a safe haven. "like the heinous attacks we saw in paris, and attacks we see all too often elsewhere, this is another awful reminder that the scourge of terrorism threatens so many of our nations. and once again, this barbarity only stiffens our resolve to meet this challenge." obama made those comments at a summit in malaysia. he said the mali hotel attack only motivates the u-s and its allies to fight terrorism. after promising to help the west african nation with that fight within its borders, the president also extended condolences to the families of those who lost loved ones in the attack. the terrorist attacks first in paris and now mali are striking fear in congress that radicalized refugees could enter the country. senator joni ernst says there will be a time to welcome refugees, but now isn't that time.. she was in des moines last night, speaking with the "christians united for israel a

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there was another eyewitness who richard engel talked to very early this morning. he also describes intense gunfire at about 4:30 in the morning. he said he may have heard explosions as well. he spoke to richard in arabic. he identified himself as abdel nor aljazz eerie. an immigrant. he said he saw police raiding a building. he said the man living in the apartment that was raided is a known drug dealer in the neighborhood, and that he had two guests with him. he said he thought the drug dealer who lived on the third floor of the building was mor ok an. he also said he believed all three men might have been killed, or at least i guess in some way injured. we don't have confirmation that there are three, but if there's a drug dealer connection here, it makes sense on a couple of levels. one is that we know that in belgium, the mastermind of this, abdelhamid abaaoud, who may be the target of this operation, often hung out with known drug dealers in a bar near his home. in addition to that, this is one of the ways that isis differentiates itself from other terrorist o

engel: were you covered in blood? theresa: yes." the gunmen spoke french, but said they were "doing it for syria" syria, of member of the coalition that's been bombing it. in a statement today, isis said the attack was revenge "let france and all the nations following its path know that they will continue to be at the top of the isis target list as long as they continue strikes against the islamic state, and the scent of death will not leave their nostrils as long as they isis has now gone far beyond its middle east strongholds and the heart of europe. a french prosecutor today said 7 attackers are dead. they all wore suicide vests and at least one has been partially named by but with no record of terrorist activity. a syrian passport for abdul akbaq b was found near 2:13) and already some of those connections are being and a top security expert here in paris said what by isis, that could also target the united states. hitting closer to home -- a rochester realtor and his girlfriend are in france -- and were only a mile away from th

nbc's richard engel reports. amateur video captured some of the heavy automatic gunfire that erupted when elite french forces raided an apartment outside paris this morning. the main target officials say was the alleged mastermind of the paris attacks. but as the raid began, a woman in the apartment blew up a suicide vest. police ordered residents to stay inside... anyone who approached was told that no uncertain terms to back away. neighbors, many of them searched. we stopped this resident who was rushing down the street. he said in arabic that he had witnessed the whole thing. i started he said. ask. i saw it with my eyes he said. meanwhile, the police that neighbors say is the apartment where the raid's officials say was abdelhamid abaaoud, the man they describe as the mastermind behind the paris attacks. a belgium national, he had gone to syria to join isis. as day was breaking, the raids seem to be winding down. but then several explosions echoed through the streets. it's common in situations like this for p

richard engel/ nbc news/ paris, france "police have now reopened this area, they say the raid is over. but france's president francois hollande says this country is now at war with isis and called internationally to come up with a cohesive strategy to fight the group. richard engel, nbc news, north of paris." >> some republicans are pushing back against their party's opposition to syrian refugees resettling in the u.s. it's a rift they say threatens to complicate the party's outreach to minorities heading into next year's presidential vote. democrats have likened the refugee backlash to the u.s. government turning away jews fleeing nazi germany and placing japanese in internment camps during world war ii. but conservatives cite security concerns following the paris attacks and signs that one of the attackers may have entered france posing as a syrian refugee. the islamic state group has released a photo of the bomb it says was used to bring down a russian passenger plane in egypt last month, killing all 224 people on board. the picture was published in the extremist group's english- l

but we had to report -- richard engel reported the drug dealer and two people in there. your earlier reporting where laura said, that there were two dead and one alive, two dead and one alive. that was the reporting earlier. police were reporting that through the sources laura had. now we have a report of dying i- with a suicide vest. that maybe, we're not sure yet, but could be all three and might coincide from what richard found from the witness. so one or two could have been shot by the snipers and then somebody detonated a suicide vest. of course this could be a location of just a hide-out, or it could also be a location where they have facilitated some of the terror from as well. >> let's reset the scene for your listeners who might just be joining us here, 2:00 here on the east coast. it's 8:00 a.m. there in paris. i will show you the scene right now that unfolded around 4:40 a.m. local time there. this is a northern suburb that is justth

. >> sune engel.hank you. >>> president obama in paris meeting with world leaders trying to fight climate change. we are live next. >>> protests erupting on the streets of paris happening as president obama meets there with world leaders on the topic of global warming. will there be any breakthroughs? >>> new information on the man accused in the deadly shooting spree in the colorado planned parenthood as he gets ready to face a judge. i'm christine romans. welcome back to "early start." >> i'm alison kosik. chaos on the streets of paris. the historic climate talks begin today. police arrest hundreds following a battle that include protesters throwing bottles and candles that came from the paris memorial. officers respond with tear gas. president obama arriving sunday in paris for the talks. visited the memorial at the bataclan theater with the president hollande laying a single flower. how to hammering out a deal to limit greenhouse gasses. almost 150 world leaders in town for two weeks of intense ne

our chief foreign correspondent richard engel has the late details. >> reporter: the attackers operated in three teams, carried assault rifles, and wore matching suicide vests. france's justice minister told us all seven are dead. >> no one who has participated in the attack is still alive. >> reporter: but, she said, the hunt is on for their accomplices. >> we have working in order to identify all of the ones who helped them. >> reporter: france put out a special alert for abdeslam salah. nbc news has learned he signed the rental papers for one of the cars used by the attackers. french authorities have now identified most of the seven attackers' bodies. including 29-year-old omar ismael mostefai. he was known to be linked to radical islam. the cars were rented in belgium, and, the suspicion is, the weapons acquired. this combination of angry young muslims from france with weapons from belgium is exactly what was behind the assault nearly a year ago on a french is a tearial magazine. after the charlie hebdo attacks, french officials said they would give more attention to neighborhoods l

richard engel joins us from istanbul with more. good evening, richard. >> reporter: kate, today the dispute between turkey and russia got even worse. turkey released audio recordings of what it said were repeated warnings sent over radio to the russian bomber. >> turkey said that the jet was warned ten times and that in the moment it didn't know the nationality of the approaching aircraft. but the russian navigator who ejected from the jet said he heard none of this. experts say it is possible they weren't tuned into the same channels. it appears they are not watching the same radar either. turkey released a flight path showing the russian jet cutting across an outcropping of turkish territory. russia gave its own version of the route, claiming its jet was on the syrian side the whole time. isis is taking advantage of all of the divisions among the enemies and launched an unprecedented campaign of incitement, calling for attacks on the united states. it is a scare tactic, the simplest form of terrorism. and this is on the agenda of

our chief foreign correspondent richard engel has more from saint denis, where the raid took place, less than 30 miles outside of paris. >> reporter: amateur video captured the moment. french police storm a terrorist safe house outside of paris. tipped off, the accused mastermind of the paris attacks, abdelhamid abaaoud, and his gang were holed up inside. but the terrorists heard the police approach and fired back. a suicide bomber, likely a woman, blue up her explosive vest. destroying part of the building and injuring five officers. that is when we arrived. police here still seem very tense. they have sealed off some of the area. they are shining search lights on to the buildings, down the alleys. there is a helicopter above. this raid does not seem over yet. >> reporter: s.w.a.t. teams used lights and lasers to point out targets on the third floor apartment, the terrorists' hideout. a helicopter scanned the area as more gunfire and explosions echoed in the street. some families were evacuated, searched and told to stay away. as he hurried down the street, we stopped one man. he said h

joining us now from istanbul is richard engel, nbc news chief foreign correspondent.hank you for being here. i have to ask you first, does the turkish explanation for why they shot down this plane, does it hold water? does it make sense? >> reporter: not very much, frankly. turkey aid that it -- there was a violation of its air space than has been confirmed by nato, by the united states. but a few second violation on a border that is hardly airtight doesn't necessarily seem like the kind of thing that would prompt a violent reaction from turkey especially in this climate where the world is trying to pull together. where there's so many calls for a unified strategy against isis. and then turkey does this very provocative move destroying a russian plane for the first time a nato as you mentioned earlier, first time a nato country has done that against the russians or the soviets since the fists. so why did it do it? that is a question a lot of people around the world are asking. and analysts i've spoken to, a u.s. official that i've spoken to has another reason. says it