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Closed on sundays if grandmas visiting. these kinds of bars were born during apartheid times when black south africans not allowed to own businesses in white areas adapted and improvised. they did their own thing. created these little micro, under the official radar restaurants known around here as eat houses. >> back in the days, obviously, it was illegal. >> right. >> during apartheid. so they will have meetings to actually plan what theyre going to do. >> right. so this would be considered a ...

During apartheid times when black south africans not allowed to own businesses in white areas adapted and improvised. they did their own thing. created these little micro, under the official radar restaurants known around here as eat houses. >> back in the days, obviously, it was illegal. >> right. >> during apartheid. so they will have meetings to actually plan what theyre going to do. >> right. so this would be considered a hotbed of sedition. >> exactly. >> now its just a hot bed of drinking....

Undermine this president and that clip to me embodies what this is talking about. >> i was on arizona steve stockmans webside yesterday and he is running for senate and he has a whole web site dedicated to should i impeach the president. of course hes trying to raise money on that. i think the long-term danger is really about the republican party more than anything else. it is sort of this hotbed of what might be politely called paranoid populism. this is a party that needs to expand beyond the ...

Complicated region these winter olympics will be held in less than 48 hours from now. >> nick paton walsh. you were just in another dangerous part of that area, dagestan. all of us remember the bombers in boston. their families came from dagestan as well. thats not all that far away. heres the question because you know this region well. lets hope this doesnt occur, but if there were some sort of terrorist attack at the winter games in sochi, who would be the likely culprits, if you will? >> well...

Good news but not reassuring. >> theres always going to be risk attached to large crowds, regardless of whether the olympics are in sochi or atlanta, as we sadly remember. difference here is the proximity of sochi to the caucasus, which is a sort of a hotbed of islamic militancy and a place where in a number of these caucasus republics theyre fighting a low-grade civil war. before we knew about this threat, one of the things a lot of counterterrorism, perlts were talking about was less the idea ...

Its halloween, october 31st, 2007, in a chicago suburb of palos heights. just 30 miles outside the city, this small town is described as a sleepy bedroom community. but behind the quiet facade the idyllic suburb is a hotbed of bank robberies. >> within a four-year period, we had 13 bank robberies which is unheard of for a town our size. theres only about 15,000 people that live in town. >> it still was considered rare when the bank robberies started. the fact that they were armed robberies i thi...

By the way, massachusetts does not have the death penalty. this would be a federal -- >> this was attorney general eric holders decision to go after the death penalty. should be interesting to see what happens with that. >> no doubt about that. we go to russia next where the olympics opening ceremony takes place one week from tonight. a top u.s. counterterrorism official says theres a, quote, substantial potential for a terror attack, although, most likely outside that so-called ring of steel....

Us now from sochi. nick, what prompted the state department to put out this very specific warning now? >> there are two real answers to that. the first is i think theres something more specific u.s. defense officials and the state department are concerned about. they have made suggestions that militants might hit, quote, soft targets. that will be when you leave this ring of steel area where the venues are protected by 37,000 russian police and military and you head out to the rest of russia. th...

>> then they win. i hate the thought that were going to change our behavior because some terrorists say theyre going to target the olympics. this happens all the time. they target everything. i walk saed out of a show one d and a guy texted me and said i have my eye on you. im going to hit you with a baseball bat because of what you said about unions. >> that was bob. >> you cant change your behavior, otherwise they win. by the way, mitt romney, good job. i agree with you. >> what was not put on...

We will speak to an expert a little later in the show about this, troubling sign there is if russia right now. one thing to be certain of, though, is the russians are pretty humors on this topic, incompetent a lot of times as we have seen. certainly, no liberals for example chechen separatists hanging by their thumbs, at the first hint. >> even vladmir putin not coming out and talking about the terrorist attacks that happened in the former city of stalingrad. i remember the attacks that happened...