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Find out how his comments were playing. One source says the president loves the controversy. Getting physical. Amid a swirl of questions about his Mental Fitness and seemingly unhealthy lifestyle, President Trump undergoes his first medical exam since taking office. Will he get a clean bill of health . And terror drones. Russia says its bases in syria were attacked by swarms of unmanned aerial drones armed with explosives. If terrorists now have these cheap, small and hard to detect weapons, how vulnerable are americans targets overseas and at home . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Breaking news. After setting off a huge controversy with comments on immigrants widely condemned as racist and facing new questions about his Mental Fitness, President Trump has just been through his first medical exam since taking office. Were waiting for a statement from his physician. The president is now on his way to his florida resort, maralago. He leaves behind a mess. At a white house immigration meeting, the president rejected a bipartisan deal on the d. R. E. A. M. Ers and used vile and vulgar language, disparaging haitians and smearing some african nations with a disgusting slur. The president today issued a weak denial and two conservative allies strangely say they dont recall the slur, but democratic senator dick durbin says he heard it, calling the comments hatefilled, vile and racist. And republican senator Lindsey Graham says he confronted the president when he heard his ugly words. In fact, sources say the president spent the night asking people how his remarks were playing, and one says the president , quote, loves the controversy. Even as the president today paid tribute to Martin Luther king jr. , the shockwaves are spreading. A haitian american republican congresswoman is demanding an apology from the president. A gop senator calls the president s language repulsive. Haitis government on this the an verse reiff eye of a catastrophic earthquake calls the president s words abhorrent and a United Nations official calls the president s remarks racist. Ill speak with congressman Hakeem Jeffries of the Judiciary Committee and our correspondents and specialists are standing by with full coverage. Lets begin with the truly extraordinary firestorm triggered by the president s remarks on immigration widely condemned as racist. Lets go straight to our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. Jim, the more we learn about this today, the worse it seems to get. Reporter it does get worse and worse, wolf. President trump declined to answer any questions today about his ugly racially charged comments, instead he offered a vague denial on twitter. But a top democrat who heard the remarks, as you said, says mr. Trump is not telling the truth. Today we gather in the white house to honor the memory of a Great American hero, the rev rend, dr. Martin luther king jr. Reporter it was a moment filled with sad irony. The same day the president signed a proclamation honoring civil rights hero Martin Luther king, mr. Trump was dodging questions about his own racially charged rhetoric. Mr. President , are you a racist . Reporter the president is running away from comments he made to a Bipartisan Group of lawmakers on immigration. The president said why are we having people from all of these shithole countries come here, wondering why more people couldnt come from norway. To protect haitian immigrants from deportation, saying why do we need more. Mlks nephew told cnn the president talked to him privately about the controversy. The president simply said to me im not the man being described in the media nsa do you believe him . I dont think President Trump is a racist in the traditional sense as we know in this country. I think President Trump is racially ignorant or racially uninformed, but i dont think hes a racist in the traditional sense. Reporter the president tried to deny he made the remarks, tweeting, never said anything derogatory about haitians, never said take them out, made up by dems. The ladies and gentlemen was tough but not the language used. What was really democratic senator dick durbin at the meeting says the president is not telling the truth. Said things which were hatefilled, vile and racist. He said haitians, do we need more haitians . And then he went on and we started to describe the immigration from africa that was being protected in this bipartisan measure, thats when he used the vile and vulgar comments calling the nations they come from shitholes. Reporter two other republican senators tom cotton and david purdue issued a joint statement saying we dont recall the president saying these statements specifically. Lindsey graham who was also there all but confirmed the remarks, saying in a statement, diversity has always been our investment, not our weakness. The president has a long history of making racially insensitive remarks. From his comments on mexican immigrants. Theyre bringing drugs, crime, theyre rapists and some i assume are good people. Reporter to his defense of white supremacist protesters. We are a people reporter is in charlottesville last year. Very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people. On both sides. Reporter the president s latest comments raised questions about past white house denials that its immigration policy is racially motivated. Youre trying to engineer the racial and ethnic flow of people into this country. Jim, that is one of the most outrageous, insulting, ignorant and foolish things youve ever said. Reporter lawmakers worry the president s remarks could jeopardize reforms to the immigration system. I read the comments later last night. The first thing that came to my mind was very unfortunate, unhelpful. Reporter now earlier today, the president underwent a physical exam over at walter reed. The white house is expected to release a statement on the president s checkup and hold a briefing next week. Across washington and much of the world, there is less concern about an update on the president s health and more the condition of his soul. Wolf . The fallout continues and escalates. Jim acosta at the white house, thank you very much. The president s remarks certainly have left many, many lawmakers stunned and outraged. Lets go to our Congressional Correspondent Sunlen Serfaty up on capitol hill. Whats the impact this is having on members up there . Reporter wolf, many members up here on capitol hill are deeply disturbed by these comments made by President Trump and some are even making formal moves to reprimand him. The Congressional Black Caucus chairman Cedric Richmond says that he will prepare a censure resolution for next week, which would amount to a formal statement of disapproval against President Trump, but meantime beyond the initial reactions and condemnations of lawmakers against those statements, the undercurrent of all of this is that congress is in the middle of a very complicated situation, and this just potentially complicates it even further. Theyre right in the middle of these delicate negotiations over daca, over immigration protections for d. R. E. A. M. Ers, and that that makes it even more delicate. You had one republican senator, susan collins, today saying rather bluntly it could hurt efforts for a bipartisan agreement and that is a sentiment shared on capitol hill by many congressional aides, the feeling or sentiment this potentially pours more fuel to the fire of a situation that was already very politically charged. Sunlen, this is also happening as congress careens towards another very, very serious deadline, right . Reporter thats right. They have just one week until january 19th to solve the Government Shutdown idea. The fact that theyve got to get a Government Spending bill passed in just one week. Democrats here, theyre under an extreme amount of pressure from their base, from their members, from many outside groups that want to make sure that they tie daca and the extensions for d. R. E. A. M. Ers, protections for d. R. E. A. M. Ers with the government funding bill. We heard speaker of the house paul ryan today say very clearly that republicans will not attach daca to the spending bill, but its unclear how he would be able to get the votes for that within his own party and very unclear where daca negotiations go next. Wolf . All right. Sunlen, thanks very much. Sunlen serfaty up on capitol hill. Joining us now, democratic congressman Hakeem Jeffries of new york. Hes a member of the Judiciary Committee. Congressman, thanks so much for joining us. Thanks for having me on, wolf. Describe your initial reaction, if you can, when you first learned that the president of the United States made these racist, inflammatory remarks about people from african countries. Well, i was deeply saddened for our country and what it means to have a commander in chief, who would conduct himself once again in such an irresponsible way, but unfortunately, wolf, i was not surprised. This a man who throughout his entire adult life has never hesitated to fan the flames of racial hatred in order to advance his own petty political, personal or professional objects. We know for five years he perpetuated the racist lie that barack obama was not born in the United States of america, as part of a malicious effort to delegitimize the nations first black president. He then rode that racist lie into the white house. He plays political footsie with people like david duke. He provided aid and comfort to neonazis and White Supremacists in the aftermath of charlottesville. He continues to embrace the altright, even though hes in the middle of a fake cat fight with steve bannon. And so its not surprising that this president would make such racially charged remarks in the oval office, but its sad for your nation. House democrats, your colleagues, say they will seek a formal resolution, a censure resolution against the president over these most recent comments. Do you support that effort . I absolutely support that effort. I was pleased to see that congressman Cedric Richmond, the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, would be leading that effort. Im just hopeful, wolf, that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle will finally decide to put decency ahead of partisanship, to put love for country ahead of their love for their president and realize we are a separate but coequal branch of government. We dont work for donald trump, we work for the American People. And the American People want to see a country that moves together, embraces the gorgeous mosaic that is america. Out of many, one. E plurib e pluribus unum. Is something that the president is obviously unfamiliar with. Hopefully the United States house of representatives, republicans and democrats, will embrace the notion that were better off together and will denounce these vile statements by President Donald Trump as soon as we get back next woke. Do you think you have the votes to pass such a censure resolution . Well, thats not clear. One thing that is clear is that we should hear from some of the Republican House members who were in that oval office meeting. In particular, wolf, the number two house republican, majority leader kevin mccarthy, was in that meeting. What does he have to say about the vile and racist nature of Donald Trumps remarks . Is he troubled at all that the nations commander in chief, the leader of the free world, would characterize people from haiti and africa in such an ignorant fashion . By the way, wolf, this is another example of the fact that this president operates in a factfree zone. Immigrants from africa are amongst some of the most educated in the world. They have contributed in a mighty way to city after city across the United States of america, including in my own congressional district. It would be nice if the president once in awhile would actually Pay Attention to the reality on the ground. And haitians have contributed a great deal as well. Ill just tell you, two republican senators who were in the meeting, they issued a statement referring to senator durbins comments, the accusations levelled by senator durbin about these racist comments. They said, we do not recall the president saying these comments specifically. That was senator cotton and senator purdue of georgia. You want to react to that, we do not recall the president saying these comments specifically . It kind of sounds looib like jeff sessions. I mean, lets think about this, wolf, youre in the oval office with members of the United States senate and members of the United States house of representatives. With the president of the United States of america. Talking about an incredibly important issue around the d. R. E. A. M. Ers and perhaps taking steps towards comprehensive immigration reform. He either used a racially inflammatory curse word to describe people from africa and or haiti or he didnt. But to say less than 24 hours that you do not recall whether the president said those words or not is an incredible copout. I would think that those two United States senators should step up one way or the other and either agree with the president , who said he didnt say those things, or acknowledge that he made a terrible mistake at minimum, demand that he apologize and figure out how we can move forward, if at all possible from this moment. In contrast to nose senators, r senator Lindsey Graham, he all but confirmed what senator durbin was saying. Lindsey graham said following comments by the president , i said my piece directly to him yesterday. The president and all those attending the meeting know what i said and how i feel. Ive always believed that america is an idea not defined by its people but by its ideals. Strong words from tLindsey Graham. Youre pleased to see what he said. Lindsey graham i think has been a straight shooter throughout his time in the United States congress. Its also important note, wolf, that Lindsey Graham apparently had a conversation with senator tim scott, who has indicated that based on his communication with Lindsey Graham that the president s words as being described in the Public Domain were accurate. And that is just a terrible thing for this nation. We have to decide as a country that we are better than this, and its going to require people on the left, on the right, progressives and conservatives, democrats and republicans to speak up, to stand up and to denounce this vileness coming from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. As you know, the president did honor dr. Martin luther king jr. In the oval office today. He was joined by dr. Kings nephew, isaac Newton Ferris jr. Who later told cnn he doesnt think the president is racist, just, quote, racially ignorant and racially uninformed. What do you think of that analysis . Well, i mean, i think clearly the president has engaged in behavior that would be consistent with being at minimum a racial arsonist, fanning the flames of hatred to advance his own agenda, certainly on the campaign trail and increasingly as the president of the United States of america. I can understand why there is a reluctance amongst many americans, including members of congress, to characterize the president as a stone cold racist because you just dont want to conclude that the person leading our nation who was put in the office by maybe around 60 million americans is such an individual. But its going to be harder and harder for many of us not to draw the conclusion that he may, in fact, be a bigot if this type of behavior continues. Im hopeful hell learn from this moment and will dramatically change course. So youre not ready yet to label him a stone cold racist . No, my view is that my job as a member of the house of representatives is to continue to lay out the facts as it relates to not just his behavior as president or his behavior on the campaign trail, but to point things out like in the 1970s, you had the Trump Administration sued by the Nixon Justice Department for Racial Discrimination against black and latino housing applicants. Even in the 1980s, it was donald trump who led the lynch mob against the central park five, black and latino teenagers who were wrongfully charged, wrongfully convicted, wrongfully imprisoned for a crime they did not commit. The record continues to add up. He is the president of the United States of america. He needs to change course, but its going to become increasingly difficult, wolf, for us not to draw a troubling conclusion about who he is as an individual. Congressman, stand by. There is more we need to discuss. Ive got to take a quick break. 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Congressman, at least some in the white house actually believe this will resonate, what the president said, with his base. One official even told cnn this was a victory lap for the president. Whats your reaction . Well, it seems like the white house is acknowledging that at least some portion of their base are filled with racist individuals. Now, ive long since concluded that not every american who voted for donald trump is a racist, but every racist in america voted for donald trump. So clearly there is a segment of the population that the white house is now acknowledging. They count amongst their base who would be the only individuals in the United States of america who can somehow be pleased with these remarks. Let me add, wolf, i am pleased to see that mia love, who is a republican member of congress from utah, also a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, has denounced these remarks, is calling for an apology. Im proud that i represent one of the largest haitian American Communities in the country in brooklyn. They are hardworking, entrepreneurial, communitycentered, spiritually grounded individuals and the president should be ashamed of himself. Im glad that mia love has stepped up. Mia love, representative from utah, a republican, as you point out. Shes a haitian american as well. So these words are very, very powerful for her, for your community in new york, indeed for so many people out there. Congressman, thanks once again for joining us. Thank you, wolf. Coming up, growing fallout from the president s remarks on immigration. Confirmed by a u. S. Senator who calls them vile and racist. Russia says its bases in syria were attacked by swarms of unmanned aerial drones armed with is ploesives. These weapons are cheap, small and hard to detect. How credible are american targets overseas or right here at home . Stay with us. Youre in the situation room. We know life can be hectic. Thats why, at xfinity, weve been working hard to simplify your experiences with us. Now, with instant text and email updates, youll always be up to date. You can easily add premium channels, so you dont miss your favorite show. And with just a single word, find all the answers youre looking for because getting what you need should be simple, fast, and easy. Download the xfinity my account app or go online today. Our breaking news. The president is on his way to florida after undergoing a medical checkup, leaving behind the growing firestorm over a slur of immigrants from some african nations. New reactions to the president s remarks surfacing almost every hour, coming from both democratic and republican members of congress. Lets bring in our political specialists to discuss. April ryan, let me begin with you. You were there at the white house. You were one of the pool reporters who went in when the president was having the statement honoring dr. Martin luther king jr. As he left the room, you and your colleagues started shouting questions. One of your questions was, mr. President , are you a racist . He didnt answer anyone, any of those shouted questions. But tell us about that moment. Wolf, it was a very hard moment, you know, tomorrow will be 21 years for me at the white house. I remember starting, you were there, we were there together when i started at the white house. Ive never heard a question like that asked of the president of the United States, but with what was said or alleged to have been said and many members of congress are now confirming this, the question was looming. And i had asked the naacp what is the definition of a racist . And they said when racial prejudice and power meet. And that begs the question. So today, you know, understanding that this was a momentous day for this proclamation and naming the Martin Luther King National site to a historic park, having the president speak about that and talk about the day of service for methartin luther king day a then dr. Ben carson speaking, and then the nephew of dr. King, it was hard but the question had to be asked. There was such irony there. You had a celebration for a man of peace who wanted inclusion, who wanted firstclass citizenship for this nation and then i had to ask a United States president , are you a racist . Would you apologize for those statements . It is a sad day and its hard. This is not anything to jump for joy about. Yeah, i know it was difficult for you to even raise those issues, raise those questions with the president of the United States. Abby, youre one of our White House Correspondents. There is a history now for this president of racially charged comments. Let me put some of them up on the screen. That president obama was not born in the United States. Some mexican immigrants are rapists. Calls for a shutdown of muslims entering the United States. Attacks on a u. S. Judge of mexican heritage. Very fine people among the White Supremacists and neo nazis in charlottesville. Uses the personal pocahontas. New york times reported quoting him as saying, the white house deny it is, nigerians will never go back to their huts, same with haitian immigrants. Supposedly the president said all have aids. The white house denies that and just the other day, yesterday, this comment about african countries. So there is a history here. There is a history. There is a pattern. And every time an incident like this happens, the white house struggles to find a way to just what was said or done, and in this case, you know, think whats important to note, that the chain of events over the last 24 hours. Last night when this story broke, the white house put out a statement that did not address the underlying claim of what the president said. They didnt deny it. And they could have denied it. And the president s statement this morning on twitter was very specific to haiti. He said, i didnt say anything bad about haiti. But, again, the underlying conduct is not something that this white house denisees, and think on that list a lot of people say that the most important thing to know about this president is how he entered on to the political scene and it was with the very first thing on that list, which was denying that barack obama was born in the United States. It is a very important fact about his political history, about how he came to be on the political scene and its something that he took years to remotely roll back. And that is what a lot of africanamericans in this country still believe to be the sort of cardinal, you know, racist comment of the trump political of his political career. Yeah. And even some of the president s closest allies privately, some of them have come on cnn and other places and tried to not necessarily defend but tried to explain and justify. Privately, though, i am not hearing that at all. I mean, i talked to one person who has known the president for a very, very long time today who is outraged and disgusted and very upset, saying that this is top of all of the list, maybe the most consequential with regard with what it means for america and then just in terms of the global geopolitical situation. Of how unbelievably bad it is for the american presidency and for the american spirit, despite, you know, the fact that this person has a close relationship with the president. People all over the world are watching. We know the president s been calling around trying to sort of gauge responses to this. And i was told by somebody who spoke with the president that he loves this. And that he thinks this will work for him and that, you know, this source said to me, you know, this is a person who likes to take things up to the edge and prove to everybody that he doesnt fall over and fall off that cliff. And he does this time and time again and that this friend said to him, no, this isnt good for you, this is a huge mistake. Youre going to alienate constituencies. Its not goods for the office of the presidency. Youre even going to alienate business. But the president did not clearly did not want to hear this and this person also said what makes matters worse is that there is no one inside the white house really pulling him back, because according to this source, general kelly, the chief of staff, is in a kind of let trump be trump mode. I think its also important to note the difference between i think how a lot of people perceived the president s most controversial comments over in the campaign as president now, the comments and his actions are finally starting to meet. I think thats one of the reasons why this is so troubling for people. Its not just right it was about what he was saying, it was what he wanted to do. Making policy. Exactly. About making policy. He has the ability to do that. Go ahead, april. Wolf, i think abby is right, but moving beyond this, people are upset, and i talked to one africanamerican influencer this evening and she said to me, she said, you know, shes a child and a product of the 60s. The next step is action. And, you know, we saw a little bit of that after charlottesville, but she says its about organizing, coming together and activate. She said the way that you do this is like what they used to do in the 60s, you know, an economic impact, where, you know, if the president wants to say she said, yeah, you know, its one thing to say ask if hes a racist and thats okay, but the next thing is, you know, since this continues to happen there needs to be something to change the dynamic. Some kind of leverage. And this influencer said what needs to happen, and its kind of she made me laugh with it, but its real. She said what people need to do, black and brown people need to do is pick up the phone and start calling the airlines and saying book me a ticket to shole. And if they say we dont have that, say, well, look again. The influencer said you also need to call the Telephone Company, tie up the lines and call the Telephone Company talking about i need to have my International Phone plan include shole. I mean, they are there is talk now about what to do to change the dynamic of this because the president s talking about his base, but there is a large portion of america who does not accept this kind of thing and theyre now thinking about what can be done because we now have to go off of twitter and move into action to change this dynamic. All right. Everybody stand by. Were getting amazing, extraordinary reaction, not only from around the country, but, indeed, from around the world. That right after a quick break. I can do more to lower my a1c. Because my body can still make its own insulin. And i take trulicity once a week to activate my body to release it, like its supposed to. Trulicity is not insulin. It comes in a onceweekly, truly easytouse pen. The pen where you dont have to see or handle a needle. And it works 24 7. Trulicity is a onceweekly injectable medicine to improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exercise. 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The african United Nations University Mission to the United States has just issued a lengthy statement condemning the president s remarks. Let me read two sentences. Ex disappointment and outrage over the unfortunate comment made by mr. Donald trump, president of the United States of merica, which remarks dishonor the celebrated american creed and respect for diversity and human dignity. The African Union mission condemns the comments in the strongest terms and demands a retraction of the comment as well as an apology to not only the africans, but all people of african descent around the globe. Gloria, this represents, you know, dozens of countries in africa, and they are outraged right now. Well, you know, weve seen today that the ambassador in botswana had been summoned. You have a president creating an International Incident here. With a lot of ramifications. I mean, you know, we are president s have gone in recent decades have gone out of their ways to establish good relationships around the world, including africa, and this is a president now who is in the process of undoing everything that has been done. And, you know, you have the Congressional Black Caucus talking about censuring the president of the United States. So i think that, you know, what can i what can i add to that . That i can say that doesnt surprise me. But that but it is important to note and to underscore the fact that this isnt just something that is that makes people in this country, that people who are the president s the citizens of this country upset. This has real, real ramifications around the world. It does. Not to mention the idea that, you know, if you are somebody in a farflung place who already has antiamerican tendencies and was looking for an excuse to be radicalized and you hear the president of the United States, that he said Something Like this, i mean, this is also a National Security issue. You know, abby, does the president not understand the contribution that african immigrants have made to this country . You go to hospitals, you see doctors, nurses. You go to universities. Africans have made an amazing contribution to the United States. Clearly not. I think this is a one of the perplexing things about this comment was that it was made based on a false assumption that immigrants from africa or from places like haiti or from wherever dont contribute more than immigrants from places that are predominantly white like norway. It actually is not backed up by any fact and i think the white house would struggle to find data points that back up that ridiculous notion. Youve seen people like marco rubio in a tweet storm today talking about the enormous contributions that haitian americans make to his state of florida. Look, the president is the owner of a company that has resorts in florida, in south florida where a lot of his employees are immigrants. These are people who are in this country working very hard and there is no there is no evidence given really ever when kind of these blanket statements are made based on whether the countries seem prosperous enough to produce and, april, he seemed to contrast no more immigrants from africa with lets get immigrants from norway. Right. I mean, white versus black. I mean, you cant dance around that. But what i will say is, this white house seems to get this issue wrong and there is collateral damage, as it was said before. I talked to some of the president s of historically black colleges and universities, they are very upset, and one of the reasons is because they have an International Component of students that come from africa and the caribbean and theyre now going back to their student body to assure them that theyre safe and everything is fine and we welcome them. Once again, just like with the nfl, when the president got into that taking the knee stand, they lost money. The hbcus that are still trying to survive after meeting with the president last year, theyre still trying to financially make sure theyre stable, this could impact their dollars and students. Like, you know, i talked to the president of Tennessee State university, dr. Glinda glover and she says 10 of her student body come from africa, international students. 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Call geico and see how affordable Homeowners Insurance can be. Theres news of an attack by a swarm of drones carrying explosives near a military base in syria. Among the unanswered question, where did isis get the drones . And could such an attack happen right here in the United States . Cnns brian todd has been looking for answers. Brian, what are you finding out . Just hours ago the Russian Military announced they killed several militants in syrian and destroyed a stockpile of drones. This is video of the russian air strike. Were told tonight that this is a new terrorist tactic that u. S. Security officials are very well attuned to this threat and are scrambling to address it. The potential for swarms of potentially dozens of armed drones to attack at one time large crowded venues like the upcoming super bowl is now a huge concern in the American Homeland following the two attacks at two russian bases in syria. These drones displayed by the Russian Defense ministry appear to have small bombs on them. The russians claim swarms of the unmanned vehicles, 13 drones in all, attacked two of their bases in syria in recent days. They blame isis for the attacks. Russian Officials Say no one was injured and the antiaircraft units brought down the drones. Tonight experts are concerned about the swarms on drone targets. They are relatively small and hard to detect. The radar is not looking for something flying as typically low as a drone or as small as a drochblt al drone. Also, when the drones are launched in a swarming matter, this creates a redundancy and a saturation fact. Reporter russian officials believe the drones were launched from 30 miles away from their targets but could travel 60 miles. How could swarms be operated . The idea of launching multiple drones at a single target really isnt that difficult, especially if they have a gps capability and theres a way therefore to preprogram a way point in the drone so that it lands, basically crashes at a certain point and becomes a cam ckamaka. Reporter cnn officials are scrambling to keep up with the latest swarm of drones. A lrnlg evearge venue like this vulnerable to swarming drones with bombs . The reality is a bunch of people in a wide open space, of course they are vulnerable. We already know that because we have seen attacks in new york city and other places and mostly in vehicles, right . So what we have done is to protect ourselves on the ground pushing things out further to protect the clouds. But this is new coming overhead. Reporter highprofile targets like the upcoming super bowl could potentially be threatened by swarms of drones. A key question tonight, how can security teams defend against them . You find the bad people and stop them before you do anything. The second one is all the things are radio controlled. So you interfere with the electronic signal commanding the aircraft. And the third thing to do is to shoot them down. They are fragile and light. You could take them down with a highprofile rifle. Reporter are steps being taken to protect americans against swarming drone attacks . The pentagon and home land security Officials Say they are, but they wont say specifically what is being done. Saying a lot of that is classified. One Homeland Security official did tell us some of the measures are being used to protect big crowds at significant events. So wolf, watch out for the upcoming super bowl on that potential threat. Brian, thank you. Brian todd reporting. Coming up, theres growing fallout right now here at home and abroad from President Trumps shocking remarks on immigration. We do whatever it takes to fight cancer. 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