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The crowds fought back with bricks, iron bars and giant sling shots. some protesters have been waving the american flag and calling on president trump to intervene. jonathan chancer, senior vice president of research and a former counter terrorism analyst at the u.s. treasury department, its great to have you. president trump spoke about the situation in hong kong before heading to camp david yesterday. take a listen and ill ask you to respond. >> the question was do i see a connection between h...

United states to lean on some of our allies in the region who are geographically closer to the situation, say japan, south korea, to say hey, we need you to speak up about the situation in hong kong? >> i absolutely think that both of those countries -- i visited both of them recently. i believe they should be speaking up. i think both countries are somewhat fearful of the chinese. its worth noting had they have their own t spat with each other, the koreans and japanese are at each others throat...

Public safety director speaking this morning about the horrible mass shooting weve been reporting about in the synagogue there. officials saying there are multiple fatalities and injuries and the man in custody, the suspected shooter identified as 46-year-old robert bowers. he allegedly yelled, all jews must die, when he rushed into the synagogue and started shooting. it is considered a hate crime. federal authorities are taking the lead in the investigation. so what is the state of domestic ter...

Theyre just not identifying as isis. who would? >> jonathan chancer, a former tracker at the treasury department says the toyota procurement demonstrates how isis runs itself as a mafia gang and major corporation. its got spread sheets on missions assassinations and captured assets. some terror groups vehicles are clearly from other car makers, not just toyota. this ford pickup truck still has decals of a plumbing company in texas. the company tells us after they traded it in it must have gone t...

The controversial interim agreement with tehran. will it really stop an iranian nuclear bomb or can congress make it tougher? jonathan chancer joins us now vice president of research at the foundation for the defense of democracy. always good to see you. first of all, right now it is believed that iran has enough uranium, enriched uranium, to make a bomb or the elements of a bomb within two to three months. this new deal we are told pushes that so-called breakout period to one year but man, oh, ...

>> meanwhile, they had been chanting death to america among their supporters thats on the list of the state sponsor of nations for terrorism. they have not renounced that or not renounced the continued apparent calls for the destruction of israel. well see how this plays out through june when they say they will be hopefully they think that final agreement. jonathan, thank you for joining us this saturday afternoon. >> thank you. dramatic video as a tourist attraction becomes the scene of an al...

When the terrorism expert gabriel and terrorism analyst jonathan chancer. i will go to you first. who are the rebels? do we even know? >> they are a collection of islamic radicals that bond and came from all over surrounding countries. even countries including russia and the caucuses. they are coming from libya and lebanon and egypt because this is an opportunity for them to establish an islamic state. there nine different collections of terrorist organizations right now forming the rebels in sy...

They know iran is establishing a strong shiite base to sonker the sunnis. they want shiites in the middle east. they do not want that. thats why they agreed to fund the war with the mercenaries to fight their shiite brother and their enemy and do their dirty work for them. we shall be smarter than that to fight a war for them to make sure they can maintain themselves against iran. >> jonathan, what do you think the reaction from assad will be with the limited strike? >> this is what i have been ...

Looking at the special secret web site that has all the names on it. >> as i understand it, the information was passed on from tsa to all the different airlines but it takes a little bit of time for that information to populate so emirates air may not have been able to update all the information that was provided to them by the time he got to the counter. but again, i think that this is a problem of officials, u.s. intelligence, of not swooping him up quicker. what if this individual decided to ...

They did an outstanding job identifying him as a person on the j.f.k. flight last night. >> but if he was on the no fly list, why was he allowed to get on the plane to start with? and how do you gain citizenship in the first place for somebody like that? a lot of questions right now joining us, weve got jonathan chancer, former countederterrorism expert for the office of analysis under george w. bush. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> ok. first of all, lets start with are you under the im...