i'm ray suarez.a is a virus on the move. the world health organization has declared the mosquito-born illness a global health emergency. there have already been an estimated 1.5 million cases in the hemisphere. some 3700 each in honduras and venezuela. many infected have only experienced minor systems, but far more frightening are the babies being born with microcephaly. my guests are still with me, and doctor, before the break, we were talking about how that link with microcephaly has not been nailed down. similarly the transmission through sexual contact in the texas has not been confirmed. how important is it to nail those variables down? >> sexual transmission is less important. we had a case reported in 2008 in colorado. but this microcephaly link is novel avenue, and driving the public health response among citizens, so this is very, very important. a lot of these actions are premised on the fact that this is microcephaly. so we need to make sure we get this right, that there are not other fact

i'm ray suarez.c opinion researchers have found a big and persistent gap in black voter sentiment on hillary clinton and bernie sanders. margin. bernie sanders was the at large congress member then a u.s. senator from vermont, one of the whitest states in america. so goes the thinking, the map looks good for the former secretary of state. the action this week testing that assumption has been fast and furious. the political action committee of the congressional black caucus endorsed hillary clinton, keith ellison and others endorsed bernie sanders. secretary clinton and her husband the former president, are the fast friends of black america. the daughter of eric garner who died during a confrontation with the nypd, endorsed sanders. clinton and sanders met in a debate last night in milwaukee. sanders related the issue with black america as persistent gaps. >> if you have african american poverty rates of 35%. when you have youth unemployment at 51%, when you have unbelievable rates of incarceration, w

i'm ray suarez. donald trump had a theory about a different way to win iowa. a campaign not obsessed with hitting all of the counties. and not concerned with a long presence on tv and radio. trump relied heavily on free media, and didn't start to spend much until close to caucus night. he even skipped the last debate in the race. ted cruz used something closer to a play book drawn from recent history. mike huckabee and rick santorum who worked hard, became fixtures on christian talk radio, and spent a lot of time in iowa. in a deeply fractured field, 28% was good enough to win, and maybe good enough to slow down a trump train the polls said could be unstoppable. >> and while americans will continue to suffer, under a president who has set an agenda that is causing millions to hurt across this country, i want to remind you of the promise of scripture. weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: marco rubio was also testing a different model for r

ray suarez is next. have a great night and a great weekend. ♪ ♪ ♪ there comes a time in every republican candidate's debate when the state of the u.s. military comes up. and thus becomes a candidate to candidate serial lament over how bad it is ill equipped, demoralized, weak, in need of a lot more money a lot more stuff. the audience applauds but is it true, is american military decline in absolute terms or compared to rivals around the world, real? a giant in decline? it's the "inside story." welcome to "inside story." i'm ray suarez. one of the most widely held opinions among the candidates in the large republican field vying for the republican nomination is simple, that president obama has presided over an era of decline in u.s. military. planes and ships, as simple numerical evidence, power and preeminence, at the recent debates i watched the candidates broadly agree and insisting insg they're the once to less well equipped, is this kind of thing easy to allege but difficult to quantify, is the unit

i'm ray suarez.rom outside it might look pretty simple, heck for many it looked simple from the inside, the republican party does badly among latino voters, get some latino candidates, do better. it's not as simple as that. cruz came to adulthood far from the hot beds of cuban political [ technical difficulties ] >> -- said he would not resend president obama's illegal amnesty. i have promised to resend every single executive action, including that one. >> i don't know how he knows what i said in you any vision, because he doesn't speak spanish. [ speaking spanish ] >> look this is a disturbing pattern -- >> cruz's comeback is pretty effective. for spanish speakers, it's clear, as he himself has admitted he is no servant. but just a couple of lecterns over stood jeb bush, fully spanish speaking. his wife lived in latin america, who early handicappers predicted would have an edge among latino voters, and he was not part of that conversation. >> ted cruz at a committee hearing passionately said i want

i'm ray suarez. it's right there in the first amendment to the accusation i constitution.n you are raising millions to pay for a presidential campaign, deep possibilities are only too happy to pay for a political campaign. when an industry is interested in the future of a particular law, how int plat can the relations of campaigns and candidates be and stay within the law? different campaigns have answered those questions in very different ways. here is hillary clinton who says her policies would be tougher on wall street than bernie sanders but she made millions in speaking fees not to mention donations from goldman sachs and other big wall street firms. on the republican side there's donald trump who has talked about raising taxes on wall street billionaires but whose real estate deals depend on wall street loans, and ted cruz got more than $1 million in personal loans from citigroup and goldman sachs, where his wife is a director. and then marco rubio, who says he wants to reform dodd frank. >> we need to repeal dodd frank. it is eviscerating small businesses and small

i'm ray suarez.urious thing happened after a killer walked into a bible study at an historic black church in south carolina and killed nine people there. along with proclamations and arguments about racism and gun control game a backlash against a symbol carried by dylann roof, the confederate battle flak, with a blue st. andrew's cross on a battlefield with 13 stars was not folded and put away. it was carried by confederate veterans, knight riders terrorizing free men, counter-demonstrators part of the resistance to integration as jim crow laws were defeated. it's flown in defines, and pop culture, used in ways maligned and begin nine -- benign. del walters looks at the battle. >> reporter: what we know is the confederate flag was not the original flag. that was inspired by the united states flag. the one we see flying next to the carolina state capital is derived from the confederate battle flag, and defenders say it represents southern heritage. opponents see it as a symbol of white supremacy and

i'm ray suarez. there are about 320 million people living in this enormous, continent sized country. an estimated 56 million of them are the children of the spanish empire in the new world. they include people whose families have been in what is now the united states for centuries, and people whose families moved from their homes into the united states after 19th century wars, and people who have moved from almost 2 dozen countries in the western hemisphere to make a home in the u.s. and their descendents. they come from all colors, all socioeconomic classes, speak the native language or hardly speak it at all. and the u.s. is in the mix of taking spock in what this growing population means to the u.s. had legal defense and education takes stock and calls a national summit to look at how almost one fifth of the country is doing, economically, housing, socially. are they living in segregated communication or moving to the places their aspirations and income would carry them with no barriers. in terms

i'm ray suarez. the emergence, the explosion really of the zika virus in latin america and its steady march to the united states is a straight-ahead medical story, sure. but its also a story about the decisions human beings have to make in real time, sometimes in the absence of complete information. in response to the possible link between zika infection and microcephaly, what can you do if you are early in a pregnancy or contemplating getting pregnant in a country that's turning up morens by the day? terminating your pregnancy would be crime in many countries in latin america and the cri carib. prenatal care spotty and unavailable and there's no court of appeal, no cure no treatment for a baby born with the devastating condition. brazil has seen an enormous spike in microcephaly, that corresponds to the spike in zika virus infections. lucia newman reports. >> it's carnival time in brazil but nothing festive for scores of pregnant women whose babies are being diagnosed with microcephaly. rebecca who

i'm ray suarez.emember those cliff hanger negotiations in switzerland last spring and summer. china, russia, the u.s., and america's big european allies, france, germany, britain, struck a deal with iran over its ongoing enrichment of nuclear materials. they wanted to make sure iran never developed a nuclear weapon. iran wanted to assert his national sef earnty, keep refining nuclear materials and get out from under crippling sanctions. while president obama applauded the handiwork of his secretary of state john kerry, congressional republicans deplored it with slashing rhetoric that suggested the obama administration had been duped, was enabling terrorism, funding a renegade government, and endangering israel. 47 republican senate remembers sent a letter to iran's leader promising no support. the deal went on to become a talk point in stump speeches and candidate's debates in the republican presidential primary with a unanimous conclusion. >> i have been doing deals for a long time. i have been maki

i'm ray suarez.f the most widely held opinions among the candidates in the large republican field vying for the republican nomination is simple, that president obama has presided over an era of decline in u.s. military. planes and ships, as simple numerical evidence, power and preeminence, at the recent debates i watched the candidates broadly agree and insisting insg they're the once to less well equipped, is this kind of thing easy to allege but difficult to quantify, is the united states a giant in decline? as senator marco rubio would have it, on purpose because president obama's actual aim is to make the country weaker, take away its head and shoulders above the rest military status? hey, it's a campaign. the idea that you're the guy to fix things is not unusual, it's the diagnose what i find unusual, of weakness of disarray. >> i would restore the military. the sequester needs to be reversed. i would have a strategy to destroy i.s.i.s. and i would immediately create a strategy of containment in

i'm ray suarez. much of the 20th century, the most conservative religious voters were not fought over by national campaigns, but a bunch of things happened at once. the really -- reassignment of the south, searching databases, and growth of big non-denominational churches connected to radio and television ministries. during the same years these big trends were taking route, supreme court decisions blocked the tax deducible status of religious school tuition, and opened up legal abortion to all 50 states, the table was set for four decades of increase christian in the republican party. senator marco rubio of florida. >> it is because in this nation, we are influenced by judeo-christian values that teach us to reach out to the needy, to love our neighborhood. this is what made our nation so special. and you should hope the next faith. and when i'm president, i can tell you this, my faith will not just ininfluence the way i govern as president, it will influence the way i live on my life. my goal is to

i'm ray suarez. this president, barack obama, is going to be want president for 11 more months. almost a full quarter of his term. because the next president and the next congress have not yet been chosen, he's in the time honored sense of the term, lame duck. he's a president in the last year of a four--year term, one that he won by 5 million votes. he reminded people in california that article two of thing constitution, which lays out the ground rules for filling a supreme court vacancy doesn't have asterisks or time limit counts. the presidential appoint, with consent of the senate. but in this case, the advice he's getting is, don't bother. in this case, the law, the constitution and the delineated politics, in this congress, blocking a democrat from replacing a conservative jurist will work. rolling the diagnosis, let's begin with washington's seniorer washington correspondent, mike viqueira. >> i don't believe that the president should appoint someone. >> almost from the moment of his passing, the fight has been a political stroke that could leave the supreme court with 8

i'm ray suarez.eases move. they have always moved. what is different in the 21st century is how quickly it happens, and how viruses outsmarted our best efforts to contain them. the latest is zika, an illness first mound in -- found in the mountains of east africa. who is infected? who gets sick in are mosquitos the only vector or just the main one. and here in the united states, can we stop a disease that so far as mainly arrived here in the bloodstreams of infected travelers from becoming one that is swimming in the guts of american mosquitos. robert ray begins our program. >> reporter: the colorful smallvillage in this puerto rico has a problem and the major is on edge. >> i'm very concerned because this is big problem that effected many of our families. >> reporter: of the approximately 20 cases of the zika virus in puerto rico one third are here. every evening the health department sprays the streets, hoping to kill the mosquitos that kill the virus. >> fumigation works on the adult population, b

i'm ray suarez. conventions of campaign reporting leave you shaking your heads times. no, no one state contest marking the beginning or anything of end, except in retrospect. the republican field vying for the presidential nomination is still pretty large, and inevitably reporters and commentators are drawing lines in the sand on the beach or on the shores. this candidate has to do this or else he's finished. if they guess right, and one or more candidates doesn't make the trip to south carolina, they will pat themselves on the back and say they called it. but if that same candidate underperforms and soldiers on, that commentator won't be remaining us about how wrong he or she was. the sense of urgency is on display. the snark more biting. alan fisher on the last debate. >> dr. ben carson please come out on the stage. rf bizarre opening with candidates seemingly wandering on to the stage. donald trump was back, but the front runner in new hampshire was not initially the main target of attacks that wa

built for business. >> welcome back to "inside story," i'm ray suarez. rolling the dice, embedded politics around the supreme court nominations. my guests are with me, and ann, you heard the professor rolling out two halves to an outcome later this year, all involving risks for both sides of the confrontation. if the president were to send -- nobody's wild eyed liberal, does that send a different signal to the senate than from say nominating eric holder? >> that would be fun. i would love to go to that hearing. eric can be as good as it gets. i don't think anyone, and i say this with great regret -- is going to be confirmed. so frankly, i think that the president just needs to put the best possible person on. and many of the names that are out there are -- would be wonderful choices as far as i think most organizations and individuals are concerned. i don't think that we have to debate liberal versus moderate because i think that the republicans are going to close down the process. >> what is being said around washington and the country, the person who d

i'm ray suarez. we're looking at what may end up being the long-term consequences of the death of associate justice scalia with 11 months left in the term of president obama. my guests are with me in washington. and bruce, you were just about to say... >> yeah, i think that the partisanship in congress is so extreme, they don't care, it's all about winning for that particular time and day. and it's all driven totally bipartisanship, and it's a joke for the united states. they will be hoisted, and they don't care about that, it's quite it discerning. >> you said, jp, you don't think that we'll get to that. so what happens? outside pressure? the very fact that , the people that they want to please, they will be on the outside. >> they will feel pressure as this debate broils, but senator lindsey graham said that he's open to this. and senator graphly started to walk back his position today. so for good reason, it would be unprecedented and unconscionable for the senate to not perform its duty in this c

i'm ray suarez. disorder in the court, this time on the program. my guests are still with me in washington, and you were just about to jump in. >> i was just going to say, i don't applaud the situation, but it's oftentimes when you have a full contingent on the court with different parts of the country for a protracted period. and they may want to try to resolve the conflict because neither side will prevail, and that's not unique. but when you're trying to word the situation, the republicans may find that they end up in 19 -- in 2007 with a democratic senate and a democrat in the white house, and they end up with a new replacement for scalia who is far more liberal side, blue than red. i remember in my experience, in 1986, with president reagan, he nominated justice scalia to the beverage, and he won 9-0. and the republicans controlled the senate at that time. and strom thermon was the chairman. and one year later, there was a vacancy, and justice scalia, judge bork, he was nominated in 1987 by reag

ray suarez is up next with ""inside story"." have a great night. >> in the last lap of his presidency, barack obama is wrapping up unfinished business. like the promises of u.s. senator, candidate and new president, barack obama, to close down the prison at the american naval base at guantanamo bay, cuba. fewer than 100 inmates remain, and some have waited for years for trials, and some are already understood to be not guilty, but have no place to go. but what happens now? a problem of our making, it's the "inside story". welcome to "inside story," i'm ray suarez. in 2021, the united states was attacked. hijackers boarded planes in u.s. airports and crashed fully loaded jets in new york, virginia and pennsylvania. networks of men prepare to attack americans and america's allies, new alliances, new enemies for a new kind of wars. the u.s. and it's allies invaded afghanistan and iraq and began to pick up prisoners who weren't soldiers necessarily, not like german prisoners who end you want in camps on u.s. soil who went home after

i'm ray suarez. think about a presidential campaign. it starts publicly early in the year before the primaries. the conventions, and the general election. but it starts long before that, behind closed doors, in planning, calls to early donors, the establishment of campaign committees and political action committees, and all the while, money is being spent. it varies from campaign to campaign. some run lean, shepherding resources until actual voting begins, and some spend formably. think rudy guiliani, who burned through $50 million had virtually nothing to show for it, when he suspended his campaign. my guests are still with me. and john, what role will money play with a still crowded field going forward? >> well, the herd, we have had two republicans drop out and i think that john kasich is going to raise some money now, but can he raise enough for a national organization? jeb bush has enough money, and marco rubio's donors will be hanging back to see what happens in south carolina. so that will probably narrow the republican field ove

i'm ray suarez and this is "inside story". service in this country's armed forces moved from a mass experience to a rare one. the shift to an all volunteer military made uniform service a matter of personal desire rather than the nation's broad based needs. every president from harry trueman to george hw bush served in the military. a big percentage of men elected to the house and senate for decades had some form of military experience. now only a tiny percentage join the military and are strangers to vast numbers of civilians. while a tiny does 100% of the fighting and dying in combat, the kinds of wars the country fought over meant multiple deployments in combat areas, reservists heading over seas for multiple tours and injuries that would have killed people in earlier wars, amputations, newer neurological damage. it became commonplace to thank vets and in the place of your high. >> veterans died and people got raises and only three people have been fired because of that. so there's a lot of things we need to do to fix the v

complete. >> you're watching "inside story," i'm ray suarez. and back with me now, nancy hollander, manuel, and maurice davis. you were part of this process, and what didn't happen that was understood that was supposed to happen that got us here? these people weren't nuts, they made plans, they made legal finds and laid out a process for handling these men that probably didn't anticipate that we would be where we are in 2016. what didn't happen? >> what didn't happen was listening to the senior leadership in uniform back in 2021. you won't find any of the senior military officials around at the time that were in favor of creating guantanamo military commissions, and enhancing interrogation. that was the product of political appointees who just ignored the advice of the military leadership. and if you didn't get the answer, you were shut out of the discussion. so here we are now, almost 20 years later, you're suck with this mess. you see the trials, and i was involved in designing the the ex expeditionary legal complex, and we designed it within

aim ri ray, goosyria -- i'm ray suarez. thank you, and good night. >> this is aljazeera america, live from new york city, i'm richelle carey, and tony harris has the night off. the conservative governor mentioning a possible supreme court nominee. winning, winning, winning. donald trump hits the jackpot in nevada and it increases his odds of winning the republican nomination. a show of support for the former new york city police officer haven'ted in the fatal shooting of an

ray suarez is up next with "inside story." have a great night and a great weekend. end. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the conventional which tom means plaque and brown voters and they're a lock for hillary clinton. that tightly packed bunch of assumptions, tv chats about fire walls, who has done more for who for longer. could hillary clinton, should hillary clinton, rely on black voters? should anybody

ray suarez is next. have a great night and a great weekend. ♪ ♪ ♪ there comes a time in every republican candidate's debate when the state of the u.s. military comes up. and thus becomes a candidate to candidate serial lament over how bad it is ill equipped, demoralized, weak, in need of a lot more money a lot more stuff. the audience applauds but is it true, is american military decline in absolute terms or compared to rivals around the world, real?

. >> ray suarez hosts "inside story". only on al jazeera america. >>> this is talk to al jazeera.y guest this week is jazz artist cassandra wilson >>> you've been described as someone who has been a peace maker between jazz and other genres. in this kwoelt they were talking about rock of. -- quote. genre bending jazz diva. what do you think about that? >> i love the idea about bending things, bending reality. that is always fascinating to me. i don't know if i care for the word "diva" >>> i saw this song and i thought what was it about and it was an awesome polyrhythmic thing going and you started to sing a song about someone who died. this is something that i've read that you find a connection to your dad. now, explain that, please. how a song entitled death letter connects you to your father? >> because of the emotion that you tap into, you remember. the cooling board is where the body cools. i remember when my father passed away, he was at the college funeral home, and i had to look at him before they could sign off. they wanted it to be as close to how he looked in life. so so

that's all the stories, ray suarez is up next with "inside story," have a great night. >>> new threats arrive, and force us to take new ideas on board about risk and vulnerability. you may have long since stopped worrying about ebola, are you ready for zika. the infection is spreading quickly throughout latin america, and has u.s. officials waiting for the cases bound to arrive in bloodstreams or in the next mosquito that lands on your arm next summer.

ray suarez is next with "inside story". have a great night. night. >> the iowa caucuses are a bit like a kindergarten soccer tournament, everybody is a winner. each party's process resulted in surprises and a relaunch heading to the new hampshire primary. but last night's big winners are undoubtedly ted cruz, and bernie sanders two guys talking to and about very different americas. bernie, ted, and the road ahead. it's the "inside story."