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Scans, but whether officials are going to pull people out of line based on certain profiles. that is probably in the years ahead going to be one of the more sensitive issues regarding the privacy concerns. >> big concern that was again right after 9/11 too. michael sheehan, thank you. >> thank you, alex. to a daring heist that seems like a scene straight out of a movie. a group of maved and heavily armed men stormed into a poker tournament in germany and stole the jackpot. police are trying to...

Long. lets get more on the daring heist we brought you earlier in what seems like a scene straight out of a movie. a group of armed men stormed into a poker to your knowledgement in germany and stoelt jackpot. they were armed with automatic weapons, even machetes and hand grenades. police are not commenting yet. but joining us from london, nbcs michelle kosinski whos been following this story for us. whats the latest on this incredible story? >> reporter: i guess to get the jackpot you dont ne...

From the ocean and where im now standing one week ago today, possibly at this very hour was now underwater because of a 30 foot wave. meanwhile, i can tell you that aid has started to arrive to much of the very hard hit areas and almost every street corner you see military in place, equipment with automatic weapons, if you want food, want fuel, want water you must wait in a line, a line that could require you waiting for hours and hours, but many here grateful to get the help. and arriving today...

This year because the texas department of public safety is issuing whats really an unprecedented warning telling students and their parents to listen up, stay out of any mexican border towns because its just too dangerous. tila is in austin, what kind of problems are we talking about here? pretty significant ones. >> reporter: were seeing increased levels of drug-related border violence in the cities along the texas border. and the amount of the violence that were seeing makes us very concerned ...

>> you cant keep and bear that. you cant keep and bear that. these are weapons that you can keep and bear. >> automatic weapons. can you have an automatic weapon without the government getting in your way? should you be allowed to have a -- >> its none of their business. >> so in the 1930s when they outlawed tommy guns, they were wrong. >> yeah, what did that hurt? did it reduce crime? did it reduce crime? no. all it did was embolden people that had them like anybody that was the gangs in chicag...

A lot of explosives. shields sw the rest of it. and the right weaponry to out shoot this guy. it it doesnt sound like its particularly going to be difficult. these things usually earn out well unless hes intent on killing people. but once you come in with the s.w.a.t. team with a lot of grenades and weapons, its over very quickly. but they need set up and as i said collect intelligence. thats really key. this guy probably doesnt have explosives, automatic weapons. but you still need that intelli...

The fact that these were devices to turn semiautomatic weapons into more automatic weapons. now the president is talking about doing something about it. we hear him talking about the need of democrats and republicans to come together to strengthen background checks in his view. but its difficult to know what he means by any of it and how much of it is actually going to become law as opposed to just talking about it and using language that sounds good but when you get into details it doesnt chang...

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Of a tight rope on gun control. president trump: theres nobody that loves the second amendment more than i do and theres nobody that respects the nra, theyre friends of mine they backed us all, theyre great people and patriots but great people but we really do have to strengthen up, really strengthen up background checks. neil: i want to bring into this debate lieutenant colonel ralph peters who served in the army decorated soldier, himself but he drew the line in an editorial that is getting wo...

Suicide bombers and ieds in a central location. this seems to be one in the same thing. this would have been seven attackers, suicide bombers and men with automatic weapons who could shoot down innocent civilians. this is what president putin appears to thank president trump for. timely and helpful advice from the cia to the russian intelligence. fredricka? >> so fascinating. thank you so much. meanwhile the russia investigation comes on under attack for the lawyers in the trump presidential tra...