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Save the children also spoke with syrian refugee children in lebanon. >>. [ speaking foreign language ] >> well, health experts say the exposure to violence j stress, and lack of resources are putting an entire generation of young people in jeopardy. for more on their plight, lets turn to a child protection technical advisor in lebanon. thank you for talking to us. going through aull the

Understand both the beauty but also the fragility of the island eco systems. >> president obama citing his childhood spent in hawaii and indonesia. meeting with nations that face the disappearance of their islands. tonight we imagine the plight, the islanders could join a flood of climate refugees as john sutter found out. ♪ >> reporter: this is a country way out in the pacific. its already super tiny, and its about to get smaller. why is that? the country is sinking. or the ocean is rising, d...

>> 23-year-old jessica is more than 600 miles away from her home in arkansas. >> is this all you had on? >> yes. >> this high school graduate tells police sh this is her first run in with the law. >> have you ever been arrested before? >> no. >> never for anything? >> no. >> how long have you been working. >> not that lock. >> how long have you been in chicago. >> three weeks. >> where are you staying. >> at a friends house. >> among jessicas belongings, they find condoms, receipts for stays in ...

Okay. >> uh-huh. >> 23-year-old jessica is more than 600 miles away from her home in arkansas. >> is this all you had on? >> yes. >> this high school graduate tells police sh this is her first run in with the law. >> have you ever been arrested before? >> no. >> never for anything? >> no. >> how long have you been working. >> not that lock. >> how long have you been in chicago. >> three weeks. >> where are you staying. >> at a friends house. >> among jessicas belongings, they find condoms, recei...

So when these african-american ministers when it was made out they were going to meet with mr. trump, people appreciated the outreach, but when it was made to be an dorsment, they said, wait a minute, this is not the language of someone who represents the ideals and values of this country and let alone the plight of african-americans struggling day by day. im glad that this was put on pause. but what donald trump is showing is this is just not just a trump issue but a larger republican party iss...

Its back to the campaign grind for the men and women who would be president following the holiday weekend. ben carson has been learning first hand about the plight of syrian refugees. he took a visit to a refugee camp in jordan. joining us to go over the latest political bus, eric bradner. the image of carson at the camp and interviews from jordan is obviously meant to brush up foreign policy credentials. how did he do? >> he badly needs to do that. it was a big problem for his campaign. he seem...

Rubio and chris christie. is donald trump doing the right things to get you on policy issues? were not talking about policy issues with donald trump. were talking about a theater of show of events of, you know, this is how i deal with things and the exciting tmz part of the campaign trail. i think thats where he gets himself in trouble moving forward. he may have maxed out his base. he may not be able to add many more votes to the numbers. >> ben ferguson, jeffrey lord, we have to leave it there...

Certainly islam is in line with that, as well. questions of democracy and fair ps. these are all things that islam does deal with. the question of sharia law is far more complicated than he would like to acknowledge. its about a range of things and its not a plight in every country or every way. so to say somehow because you have an investment in sharia law means somehow youre a radical or youre necessarily anti-growth, anti-democracy, anti-modern, its just not true. >> i have to say, i think it...

It was clear he was supportive of this idea of registering muslims into the database by the federal government. so he did offer specifics. for the first time he saw -- not for the first time, but unusually he saw actually some blow back from his competitors who had been generally loathe to actually critique him because hes so popular. >> particularly ted cruz. he was -- he really did juxtapose his position with that. we heard ron allen talk about the president who was visiting that refugee cente...

Us to turn our sights away from their plight, is not representative of the best of who we are. >> reporter: the president is here in malaysia primarily for summits about regional security issues and trade. especially that trans-pacific partnership the historic trade deal that the united states agreed to with 11 other nations from this part of the world, that the united states is trying to push the congress to approve, something the obama administration is running in to some difficulty with. when...