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Family chain migration after his uncle won visa lottery and got his mother and siblings into the u.s. before turning 21. ullah told investigators he reserved online how to build a bomb and built it in brooklyn apartment two to three weeks ago. then he set it up in podesta passageway port authority busy monday morning to try to maximize casualties. the investigation isnt over. the focus is on who else may have helped and known or might be plotting to pick up where ullah left off. >> our investiga...

The man accused of an attempted suicide bombing in the new york city subway just the other day facing a federal judge right now. akayed ullah is in video conference from his hospital bed. he has been there since monday when police say he partially detonated a homemade pipe bomb in a tunnel near times square. rick leventhal is in new york city. rick? >> as we speak we believe ullah is being formally presented with those five terrorism charges presented against him not in a courtroom but at bellev...

It will be a multi-pronged approach. jillian: how do you get people on board with that line of thinking to have that surveillance? >> reporter: a lot of people are against it but you have to educate people is constitutional and what is not, a lot of people think because they are uncomfortable that that is unconstitutional or unlawful and that is not true. the constitution is not a suicide pact. we dont have to allow people who wish harm on americans to be doing that. law enforcement has to get i...

>> reporter: now he has some numbers that help him prove his point. 90% of coverage on abc, nbc and cbs about donald trumps negative according to a new study from the media research center which points out 1228 statements, only 100 were positive about donald trump so there you have it. jillian: brace yourself for another round of snow, 7 inches in parts of the midwest and bundle up bone chilling temperatures across new england, janice dean tracking it all. it looks cold and windy in new york. >>...

Minor injuries. the suspect, 27-year-old akayed ullah, a new york man of bangladeshi descent detonating a homemade pipe bomb. a source telling cnn he pledged allegiance to isis. more than 200,000 commuters pass through the bus terminal every day, located in a busy part of manhattan, one block west of times square. lets bring in now james clapper, the former director of national intelligence, to discuss whats going on. good evening, director. tonight, investigators confirm that this suspect had a...

Perspective in the immigration system, how it works or how it didnt work in this case, and what are the sorts of things that our administration is proposing to change to make it better. so as you all know, yesterday the suspect akayed ullah was arrested in an attempted bombing in new york city. there is an immigration aspect to this. the aspect is that he was a green cardholder, lawful permanent resident. he came to this country based on a family connection to a u.s. citizen. he was a national b...

Family member who was a citizen here, and you hear trump talk about the chain immigration. that is what he is talking about. and he alluded to it today in his comments. >> and there are reports that akayed ullah wanted to specifically attack new york during the holiday season. >> yeah, a senior law enforcement official tells nbc news that he was inspired by the call for threats during the christmas season. attacks during the christmas season. that official went further and said that there was ac...

Fourth category is brothers and sisters of u.s. citizens and their children. thats the category that yesterdays suspect came in under. so the suspect in yesterdays bombing came in under the most extreme remote possible family based connection that you can have under current u.s. immigration law. that being the child of the sibling of a u.s. citizen. under the employment based categories, thats a much smaller number, only 140,000 slots are allocated in a year to that category but really getting h...

Rick leventhal with more. hi, rick. >> weve seen the criminal complaint. in it, authorities say the suspect akayed ullah admitted to building the pipe bomb and detonating it intentionally. law enforcement sources said he gathered the pieces from job sites where he was an electrician. he used christmas tree lights, wires and a 9 volt battery for detonation and zip ties to attach it to his body. the complaint says that ullahs radicalization began three years ago in 2014 when he used pro isis mater...

Outside the u.s. >> the president is exactly right to call attention to these issues and to how they affect our security. in just the last two months, weve seen two terrorist attacks in new york city. carried out by men who are here as a result of failed immigration policy. the diversity lottery, which makes no sense and has never made a sense. >> according to documents released earlier today, law enforcement says the new york terrorist suspect akayed ullah was inspired to carry out the attack f...