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>> have you experienced racism in your life? >> unfortunately i have. its happened on multiple occasions. in spite of that, i do my best to not let my past experiences affect my future espnsxperiences i meet. >> does it come from your military training or parents or both? >> its a combination of both. i was always raised to see the world with eyes open. see people without color, give everybody a fair chance. when i got to the military, that was even more expounded on. because when youre in the m...

Difficult. every week you sit here and talk to people who have accomplished great things and you must be struck as i am when i observe these kinds of people how often they do not come from the most privileged and comfortable of backgrounds. right? its a cliche that we talk about. doesnt that mean if you are someone contemplating raising a child that you should think twice about providing everything you can for that. i remember having conversations, in my last book i had a chapter on the generati...

>> in the new testament gospels, jesus starts his mission traveling through galilee and judea, gathering followers. from them, he chooses 12 to be his closest disciples. >> the term "disciple" simply means learner or student. so when jesus is calling disciples, hes simply gathering a group of students around to learn from him. >> the disciples come from a wide range of backgrounds. from fishermen to tax collectors. >> there was recruitment by jesus, deliberate recruitment. and he wanted a divers...

The memories of our viewers, there was this inspire magazine this jihadist magazine that had instructions on how to build a similar bomb but this one was different and you and your law enforcement sources say that neither brother had the expertise necessarily to -- necessary to a, build these bombs and certainly not to do the rewiring that actually happened? >> its the rewiring thats got them confounded because they really improved that device considerably and to make sure it went off and the re...

Trying to join the islamic state and returned her to her family which had reported her missing. and just last month, the united nations said that kids had become vulnerable to recruitment in iraq and syria. "children as young as 12 undergoing military training and have been used as informants to patrol, to man checkpoints, and to guard strategic locations. in some cases, they have been used as suicide bombers and to carry out executions." a recent u.n. report showed that the number of foreign fi...

>> in the new testament gospels, jesus starts his mission traveling through galilee and judea, gathering followers. from them, he chooses 12 to be his closest disciples. >> the term "disciple" simply means learner or student. so when jesus is calling disciples, hes simply gathering a group of students around to learn from him. >> the disciples come from a wide range of backgrounds. from fishermen to tax collectors. >> there was recruitment by jesus, deliberate recruitment. and he wanted a divers...

Litmus test. that applies to christians muslims, janes, hindus, thats a question we went through the past two presidential cycles but none of the questions were about religious liberty. over the last six years we have had constant assaults from the little sisters of the poor the hhs mandate, and one thing after another. we need to know up front where candidates stand on -- >> do you feel like your faith is under attack? >> i think faith in general is under attack because i think theres a secular...

>> in the new testament gospels, jesus starts his mission traveling through galilee and judea, gathering followers. from them, he chooses 12 to be his closest disciples. >> the term "disciple" simply means learner or student. so when jesus is calling disciples, hes simply gathering a group of students around to learn from him. >> the disciples come from a wide range of backgrounds. from fishermen to tax collectors. >> there was recruitment by jesus, deliberate recruitment. and he wanted a divers...

>> i think thats where we would like the conversation to shift. its difficult to have the conversation shift in that direction. i think a lot of students would like to say this is an isolated incident and that the hatred or the recklessness of one student doesnt necessarily give a commentary about what the campus culture is like, but i think thats just not true. i think the black student alliance has released a set of four action points for the min administration to consider. were hoping that th...

Frankly weve been talking about. weve been talking about the jihadists efforts to recruit westerners really since 9/11. and back then youd get the occasional success from the jihadists point of view, but for the most part when you would talk about this, talk about them reaching out to europeans and americans, the media would roll its eyes and say, thats ridiculous dont be silly. what were seeing now, whats changed is a very simple thing. its the manifestation of a caliphate. its the fact that th...