. ♪ >>> ramadan.ommunity observe. the religion of islam, as well as many of south africa's most beloved and most delicious dishes and ingredients like sambal, chutney and bunny chow, come from malaysia, indonesia, india. during apartheid, many south africans would have been referred to as colored. colored didn't mean black. it meant everybody else who wasn't exactly white, asians and mixed race. >> it's garlic, ginger and chiles. >> in the observatory neighborhood of johannesburg, the rasdian family prepares for the meal at sundown when fasting for ramadan is broken. >> some curry powder. >> joey is a standup comedian and actor of cape malay background. this dish, panang curry with beef and eggs. joey's wife, cindy, prepares a chicken pie. son, hakeem, makes the traditional ramadan shake. daughter, laya. >> i can cook. ♪ >> everything smells terrific. >> that's soup. >> it's nicer to have soup after you've not eaten the whole day. it's light and nourishing and filling and all of those good things. >>

we liz-and-a-half dad and happy kwanzaa, happy hanukkah and happy ramadan, i guess.bye. >> guys, meet little gillian. >> stop, stop -- what, what happened? >> you know what [bleep] tyler? i've had about enough of your [bleep] meet little gillian, she's been battling brain cancer at the children's hospital of philadelphia. she beat the odds and is headed home for the holidays, but she's now on a mission to bring christmas to her friends and family at the hospital that won't be able to go light the tree at their own house. the 4-year-old started a toy drive to give back. the original goal was 50 toys, she's already raised over 1500. if you'd like to help gillian, visit her facebook page. >> after being set up with terrible experiences at the car mechanic and just not knowing enough about her car, patrice banks left her career as an engineer to start the girls' auto clinic. it's supposed to be a safe space for women in upper darby, pennsylvania. >> incredible opportunity to create a safe space, because there was nothing out there that was saying to women we understand h

they did that notably during ramadan where they had this unprecedented bloody wave. as they are losing ground in syria and iraq, it makes sense for them to try to carry out terrorist attacks abroad to show they are a potent force. laura: much as the intelligence authorities might anticipate something like a christmas market is a soft target, how can one guard against attacks like this if this turns out to be an attack? daveed: that is the nature of soft targets, they are difficult to protect. same thing with the anticipation that american malls could be attacked, something we have talked about for a while, but ultimately, if you securitize malls, it defeats the purpose. you want them to be places people can go into. same thing with the markets in europe. the whole purpose is that it is open-air, friendly place for people to go to, and the more securitized it is, the more you defeat the purpose of the market in the first place. laura: france and belgium have seen planned and sophisticated attacks. what is the threat level assessed at in germany? daveed: there is certa

>>> during ramadan, people don't eat or have a drop of water from morning until night. this time of year was about 15 hours. it's 102 degrees. but at the end of each day, families all come together for a special meal to break the fast called iftar and i'm honored to be invited to share it with hanan's family. >> his her dad. >> very nice to meet you. >> i wonder if the mayor has spoken to him about this afternoon. >> fatima is her mom. >> so glad to meet you. okay. >> thank you. hanan is very quiet. there is a tension in the room. it's hard to know if it's the camera or something else. so i asked hanan's father how he feels about her education and far from disapproving of it, he says -- he now works a day job and all night to be able to afford to live here where there are schools. i can see where hanan gets some of her spirit. her father's mother who is illiterate herself is optimistic and insistent for her grandchildren's studying. >> she wants to make sure that the first lady takes care of the program. >> earlier i saw a plate being prepared for someone not at the tab

see increased chatter and increased coordination for attacks particularly around the beginnings of ramadan as well as the commemorations of battles fought by the prophet mohammed. >> one more call and this is patti from connecticut independent line. patti you're on. >> i'm calling because i noticed that all these lone wolves seem to be second generation of islamics. in other words i believe anchor babies and another thing, obama is going to take a group of refugees from australia and it's going to be a big group. australia does not want them so i'm wondering why we're getting them. thank you. >> quickly i think it's very important for any refugee that is coming from a battleground in the middle east or from a muslim state where there's a significant amount of terrorism to be properly vetted to the satisfaction of the american people. >> so if you, as far as hearing from google and youtube and all of that do you plan to continue to lobby them or will you have a discussion with them at one point continuing gattis cousins? >> i hope to have. i have engaged in this dialogue with google now. it

i say congratulate somebody on ramadan and say i hope you have a beautiful, holy peaceful ramadan. >>founding document say? there's no establishment of religion. we don't want donald trump saying everybody must celebrate christmas in their homes and no law to pro hint the free exercise of religion. that's what the founding documents say and don't be afraid of being specific. >> santa claus is coming to town? >> i don't believe you. >> great answer, father. >> not true. >>> o holy night or something. >> think hard on it. >> colin kaepernick disrespects the national anthem and -- >> when a coach does it, he gets in serious trouble. >>> wondering what to do with your extra vacation days. we have a top destination for a quick winter get away. there she is. come on in. generosity is its own form of power. you can handle being a mom for half an hour. i'm in all the way. is that understood? i don't know what she's up to, but it's not good. can't the world be my noodles and butter? get your mind out of the gutter. mornings are for coffee and contemplation. that was a really profound observati

with deadly effect, john, and i think you have to go back six or seven months to the holly month of ramadan in june when you saw a series of this back to back to back coming in the heels of the biggest christian holiday of the year. how does a president elect trump now get himself aligned to deal with this? >> you know, one month from today when he takes office he's going to have his hands full, the fact that he has named us general james mattis to be defense secretary he's at least putting the best team possible to take the fight to them overseas. they're not playing here in the united states. whether or not they can be rolled up, that's a big question. obviously this has been a problem going back decades and, you know, president obama claimed that al-qaeda was on the run, in fact, he's going to leave office with al-qaeda and isis stronger than ever. and the president -- the president elect is going to have a lot in his hands and ultimately responsibility will fall on his shoulder. he's assembling a pretty team to do that in the fight against isis. definitely. bill: john, thank you. analys

see, in effect, increased chatter, coordination for attacks, physically around the beginnings of ramadancommemoration of battles fought by the prophet muhammad particularly in northern syria. host: one more call. patty. connecticut. independent line. patty, from north brantford. you are on. caller: ok. i am calling because i noticed that all of these lone wolves ofm to be second generation islamic's. in other words, i believe anchor babies. another thing, obama is going to take a group of refugees from australia, and they are not vetted. it's good to be a big group. australia does not want them. i am wondering why we are getting them. guest: quickly, i think it is very important for any refugee coming from any battleground in the middle east, or from a muslim state where there is a significant amount of terrorism, to be properly vetted to the satisfaction of the american people. host: so, if you, in this effort of yours from hearing -- in hearing from google, youtube -- do you plan to continue to lobby them, will you have a discussion, continuing discussions? guest: i am engage in a dial

i really really enjoyed and prone to really respect and admire both ramadan and dir.garcia. >> thank you sheriff hennessey. let me first just thank president breed for initiating this process. i have to say just listening to all of the people key players we have not heard from the public yet but that the spirit of collaboration is really lovely to see in the fact that you're all doing this in an intellectually honest way over issues that are extremely complicated that there are no easy fixes for whether it's a few bad days here in a few days there to get us to zero. which i think is our shared goal but i understand and appreciate sheriff hennessey's government we do at the end of they have this horrible facility county jail number three and four and a building that i think everybody agrees is long past its lifespan. it's not seismically safe to have to keep our eyes on solving that situation as well and we have for a number of years been attributing various functions out of that building the goal of someday demolishing it and having a new safe hall of justice in san f

i really really enjoyed and prone to really respect and admire both ramadan and dir.garcia. >> thank you sheriff hennessey. let me first just thank president breed for initiating this process. i have to say just listening to all of the people key players we have not heard from the public yet but that the spirit of collaboration is really lovely to see in the fact that you're all doing this in an intellectually honest way over issues that are extremely complicated that there are no easy fixes for whether it's a few bad days here in a few days there to get us to zero. which i think is our shared goal but i understand and appreciate sheriff hennessey's government we do at the end of they have this horrible facility county jail number three and four and a building that i think everybody agrees is long past its lifespan. it's not seismically safe to have to keep our eyes on solving that situation as well and we have for a number of years been attributing various functions out of that building the goal of someday demolishing it and having a new safe hall of justice in san f

i really really enjoyed and prone to really respect and admire both ramadan and dir.garcia. >> thank you sheriff hennessey. let me first just thank president breed for initiating this process. i have to say just listening to all of the people key players we have not heard from the public yet but that the spirit of collaboration is really lovely to see in the fact that you're all doing this in an intellectually honest way over issues that are extremely complicated that there are no easy fixes for whether it's a few bad days here in a few days there to get us to zero. which i think is our shared goal but i understand and appreciate sheriff hennessey's government we do at the end of they have this horrible facility county jail number three and four and a building that i think everybody agrees is long past its lifespan. it's not seismically safe to have to keep our eyes on solving that situation as well and we have for a number of years been attributing various functions out of that building the goal of someday demolishing it and having a new safe hall of justice in san f

i really really enjoyed and prone to really respect and admire both ramadan and dir.garcia. >> thank you sheriff hennessey. let me first just thank president breed for initiating this process. i have to say just listening to all of the people key players we have not heard from the public yet but that the spirit of collaboration is really lovely to see in the fact that you're all doing this in an intellectually honest way over issues that are extremely complicated that there are no easy fixes for whether it's a few bad days here in a few days there to get us to zero. which i think is our shared goal but i understand and appreciate sheriff hennessey's government we do at the end of they have this horrible facility county jail number three and four and a building that i think everybody agrees is long past its lifespan. it's not seismically safe to have to keep our eyes on solving that situation as well and we have for a number of years been attributing various functions out of that building the goal of someday demolishing it and having a new safe hall of justice in san f

i really really enjoyed and prone to really respect and admire both ramadan and dir.garcia. >> thank you sheriff hennessey. let me first just thank president breed for initiating this process. i have to say just listening to all of the people key players we have not heard from the public yet but that the spirit of collaboration is really lovely to see in the fact that you're all doing this in an intellectually honest way over issues that are extremely complicated that there are no easy fixes for whether it's a few bad days here in a few days there to get us to zero. which i think is our shared goal but i understand and appreciate sheriff hennessey's government we do at the end of they have this horrible facility county jail number three and four and a building that i think everybody agrees is long past its lifespan. it's not seismically safe to have to keep our eyes on solving that situation as well and we have for a number of years been attributing various functions out of that building the goal of someday demolishing it and having a new safe hall of justice in san f