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. >> then another former red flex employee named michael schmidt approached him. red flex ceo karen find leigh fd john bils. >> john bils had a meeting with karen finley and several of her top executives to coach them on how to behave at the next day at city hall. >> this is schmidt's first time on camera describing what john bills said to him. >> he looked directly at me, i'm going to talk to you like i don't know you and you have to go along with it. i looked at his boss karen finley, she held one finger up like this then put it down and shook her head just a little bit. >> at this point the fix was in. red flex was awarded a contract, worth $129 million to install all the red light cameras. but the investigative articles which started in 2012 drew the attention of federal prosecutors which led to a remarkable turn of events. in may 2014, john bills was indicted on a federal bribery discharge. as an assistant transportation commissioner bills received as much as $2 million in bribes from red flex. red flex's headquarters in phoenix, arizona, came under scrutiny.

. >> well, michael schmidt is an report with "new york times." leif, how do we put that together? based pong what happened in paris. then you have the politicians talking. feinstein is an impressive person, i don't know mccall very well, but they're talking about deep concerning. which is it? >> i think it's all unpredictable. you cannot -- look, the threat to new york remains steadfast before isis issued the video and after. new york city is probably the most desirable targets among jihadists worldwide. so we have to take the threat seriously, but it's not because isis released the video about it. they have recycled video before, but new york city remains the number one threat. they said so. >> i read something interesting in the "new york times" today. about the challenges that officials face monitoring home-grown terrorists. it scares me. for fbi agents, watching islamic state suspect in the u.s. is a study in anxiety. being an islamic state sympathizer is not against the law. neither is expressing hatred for the united states on twitter. buying guns is also legal. investigator

i'm joined by "new york times" reporter michael schmidt. u recently wrote about the home-grown threat. does this new bulletin demonstrate just how concerned we are? >> well, with the federal government -- the fbi are most worried about are what's known as home-grown violent extremists, young men between ages of probably 16, 17, and maybe 30, who are at home and who are looking at isis propaganda online and are feeling inspired by it to go out and do something. as one law enforcement described it to us, these are people that are susceptible to school shootings and take acts of violence in their own hands. but this is not the larger terror networks that we saw in paris. these are not hardened soldiers who had gone -- muslims who had gone to syria that have now come back and are plotting larger attacks. these are usually just individuals. >> you write at least three dozen people in the u.s. are suspected of having ties to the isis but the u.s. is having trouble tracking them? >> they are difficult to track because they are individuals. if they'

i think it is michael s. schmidt's siren. mark: that's a nice accoutrement.ll about a lot of the candidates in play. if it came down to a cruz-rubio final, how would you handicap that race? jonathan: it would be a barn burner. to do what a able lot of conservative candidates haven't done in campaigns, which is coalesced the right pretty quick. jonathan: with the money. -- john: with money. jonathan: most conservative candidates have a hard time coalescing the vote, and they aren't able to do so until later in the campaign. if he can do so later in the february window, that would be incredible. rubio, there would be a flood of establishment support to him, because everyone would want to stop ted. that john madeer earlier that got me thinking, its import for viewers to know there's a distinction between the polling it comes to primary --es and generally general elections. the voters are not deciding necessarily based on their archaeological worldview. ,t's much more of a personal and at times, it can be ethical decision. i like so and so. he was great in the de

i'm joined by steve schmidt as well as michael steele. both are msnbc political analysts.el, you first. if you were a governor of a state, what would you be saying? >> i would be saying no. i take the paul ryan mention and amplify it. let's take a pause here. i have no confidence in federal government's confidence in its own program. i think that's one of the things driving this. irrespective of paris, polls reflect there was concern even before then about how this type of a program is being implemented and would be implemented. as you noted, chris, there are two categories of individuals we're talking about. the women and children who are clearly refugees, who are clearly in harm way and the young men who are coming in separately on their own who aren't nearly coming in as persecuted and so forth. so that's the real pause here. and i think the 31 governors who said so need to be paid attention to. >> you know, steve, we've always had the conceit that in this country, people who come here from other parts of the world are assimilatable. they become americans. in france, yo

schmidt. darlene and michael have the mornfug off. chris has the morning off. everybody is off. dave price is here with the forecast. >> not us. >> lots of folks getting an early start this morning. need to tell you of a dense fog advisory in effect through much of the viewing area. visibility is at a quarter mile or less in a great area around the tri-state. bend very careful on the roads. warm and 61 degrees at noon. 63 as a high. a nice wrap-up tonight at 60 degrees withlouds rolling in. changes for the weekend. we'll tell you about that in a while. in the meantime, that's your first look at weather this morning. let's check in with emily, who is in with us this morning. so hi, good morning. you mentioned very foggy. definitely take it easy. very serious crash in queens. we have tracie strahan there to give you the latest coming up. grand central is closed stbound after rft bridge. also, another accident on the garden state parkway in new jersey southbound. the ramp is closed at exit 143. we'll have more weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. >>> now to that breaking news y

. >> michael steele is rnc chair, steve schmidt was a top strategist in the 2004 bush k b campaign, and a senior adviser to john mccain's 2008 campaign. robert costa, national political reporter with "the washington post." michael steele, this guy can get away with charlie chan impressions. what's this, "we want deal," we don't even notice that he talks like this anymore. but it is tough talk. is he going to be able to stay on message, so knock everybody's block off, because as he's told us a few times, he's a multi, multi-billionaire? >> yeah, you know, i think this is an opportunity for him to try to take a different tact. don't come after ben carson or anyone else on that stage on the personal stuff, on the things that the press has been talking about on the last few days. this is his sweet spot. show us how you make the art of the deal. show us how you create the jobs and have been a part of this economic pulse of the country in a way that these other candidates have not. i think for donald trump, this is a defining moment. this is his sweet spot, as was said before. you're either g

schmidt, thank you for that. this affects a lot of people obviously. that's why we have our next guest, the tech editor international business times. thanks for being here, michael. as we can see, this is in full swing, the ratings system. it's got a lot of clout. >> we become accustomed to being able to rate everything. it has an impact on businesses and real people. we're now able to -- people are accustomed to rating businesses on yelp or ray's pizza or olive garden. now we can rate the server that served us, brought us food, that drove us somewhere. it can have a real impact. ernie: a lot of people question is it a true read? some say it's a flawed system. you know, that a company can actually ask somebody to say something nice about them, get a good rating, and against their competitor. what do you think about that? >> i think we're in danger of making ourselves a nation of terrible bosses. we need to think about the fact that that person who gets under a five-star rating, this could get them removed as an uber driver or a post mate's delivery person. it has an impact on their lives. the courts haven't sorted this the ftc is looking at this. there's no regu

steve schmidt was a strategist in senior adviser to john mccain's 2008 campaign and michael steele isoining us from out there in -- where are you tonight? new hampshire. >> new hampshire, my friend. >> let's go to andrew. andrea, the hot stuff, tomorrow in the headlines. i think they will be arguing about war powers and stuff, war policy. i think they haven't figured out how to digest the iraq war because they lost numerous elections on the issue after '04. now they are not sure if they can say they really like the war a little bit. >> you have a clear dichotomy, but i think rocco rubio staked out his claim as the hawk. you have a time when syria is front and center with this egyptians crash and fingers pointed at isis. this is a critical point in foreign-policy and very hard not to be hawkish. >> i think a lot of americans look at russia going to war after the attack on their airliner. that sounds convenient for us. why don't have the russians join us in fighting isis? maybe it's a practical statement. it made sense to me. >> actually, russia getting involved has made it a lot harder