of troops. the american people don t want a wore in the middle east. the president said yesterday he s not a hawk. he s not a dove, but he is a man with common sense. do you see this indicative of a strategy of a man being led by common sense? well, first of all, i was in the cabinet, the national security cabinet. if he was going to have military strikes, he would have known there would be casualties. apparently he did not know, so it s a scramble. at the same time i commend him for not proceeding with a military strike that would have been very unwise. ambassador bill richardson, thank you. appreciate it. straight ahead, presidential candidate mayor pete buttigieg under fire for racial tensions in his hometown. can he balance a run for
throughout the night for us, again, this is a scene that has been developing for more than seven hours now. richard, thank you. also joining us, nbc s chief global correspondent bill neely, who is in paris, as well, this morning. let s talk a little bit about the apparent target of this. abdelhamid abaaoud, and why he is so important in this investigation. yes, good morning. i m at a slightly different location from richard. i m just come from one of the side streets where we saw a man being led out of the building. there was a police officer holding virtually a gun i mean two meters from his head, and he was being held between two other police officers. he had a shirt on, but it appeared to be nothing on underneath that. we don t know who he was. whether he was a suspect, but that happened about 45 minutes ago. otherwise, as richard says, it seems to have calmed down a little bit here.
there on christmas day. the white house condemning these blasts. nigeria s president calling an end to the sectarian violence voug to catch those responsible. churches also bombed in nigeria last christmas season. more arab league observers are on their way to sir yeah here s why. an opposition group says security forces killed more than 20 people in the city of homs today. the observer planned to go there. u.n. says more than 5,000 people have died since syria s crackdown on protests began in march. a suicide car bomber in iraq got through six security check points before setting off an explosive device at the interior ministry. at least five people killed there, 39 wounded. this happened after iraq s prime minister was meeting with the senior security officials to talk about how to keep the country safe. a series of explosions killed almost 70 people in baghdad just last week. mexico says it s captured the chief of security for one of the most wanted alleged drug king