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Their efforts in addressing violent extremism and helping individuals at risk. to do so without compromising free speech. joining me now to take a closer look at this is jennifer, a social media researcher and an assistant professor at communications at syracuse new universitys new house school of communications. thank you for joining me again. important for context is that to have the moral leadership from the white house to bring internet companies together to combat violent extremism online i...

Picked will step in, joseph maguire, the current director of the national counterterrorism center and a former official in the office of the director of national intelligence warns that this is a very dangerous situation if it is a way of politicizing intelligence by installing an acting dni who will do the presidents bidding. joining me now is ali, former senior director for counterterrorism at the security council who has over 20 years. thank you for joining me. let me ask you about this. inte...

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Heres something you may not have known about the climate crisis. its got a lot to do with food and how we use land. i want to take a closer look at this. a new report by the intergovernmental panel on climate change warns that the crisis is not, if its not addressed, things crisis is not addressed, things like rising temperature, extreme weather and land degradation could trigger a global food crisis. more than 100 scientists co-authored this report, which took a look at two factors, how agricul...

I think that if the senators vote their quicks, we will have no difficulty in passing comprehensive background checks. we are concerned that mitch mcconnell will bring it up in a way that may not lead to that type of a result. let the senate do its will. >> you are the co-sponsor of a bill with senators feinstein, murphy, and blumenthal about assault weapons, that the president made a comment a couple days ago that said there isnt widespread support for that. tell me about this. we had an assaul...

Sake. in the same way a machine needs the parts but not extra parts -- >> we should have regulations. >> we have rules like we dont drive on both sides of the road. its good. >> a lot of the world survives on basic crops and protein. >> rice. >> take rice. and theres research that had gone into the decreasing nutrients in rice as a result of carbon in the atmosphere. this is important because if you look at a poor country where youre really dependant on rice and you start to get fewer nutrients ...

Care politically. i dont want to have crazy people having guns. >> mitch mcconnells office by the way says hes not totally on board with universal background checks and that he has not endorsed any specific gun legislation. whats your sense of how this is moving forward? >> well, ali, this is a no-brainer to enact a comprehensive background checks without any loopholes. we shouldve done this a long, long time ago. the house has passed legislation doing this. the senate needs to bring it up and v...

With the pressure the president has put on intelligence community and the way hes contradicted intelligence is a real fear. >> dan coats was a republican, is a republican. there was not criticism of him for virtue of being a republican. in fact, people thought that he executed his job quite well. so to the extent that there are some people who say anything donald trump wants to do is going to be challenged by democrats, thats not what this is about. >> not at all. i mean, democrats and republica...

Systems as good guys? whats going on? >> so -- yeah, its so interesting, ali. its so interesting to talk to folks here. some wont tell us where theyre from or their names. many exist in a world it doesnt pay to be identified, certainly not on national news, and yet they are patriotically motivated. theyre here almost in an intellectually curious way to see what they can do. but when you get to talking to them, there are people here who were former intelligence analysts, former military people, a...

Out. its really an incredible thing to watch. >> what is the verdict? how safe do these people think our election technology is? >> it does not look good, ali. let me show you, they cracked open a common system over here you would uds to register your votes. they make little notes along the way, firm ware update, check this out, they figure out the password. admin password is rogue somehow for this device. i dont know how they figure that out. but they did in under two hours. we were talking to ...