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Were going to have more on the presidents racist comments and more on haiti coming up. there was another surprising moment at the white house today. the whole dust-up was over a series of contradictory tweets sent by the president. they came as the house was set to vote on a reauthorization of the foreign intelligence surveillance act otherwise known as fisa, specifically section 702. its been credited with stopping terror plots. critics say it allows warrantless surveillance. at 7:33 the presid...

By the way by the house this afternoon. the white house had just endorsed it hours before. he did this before the house again voted on the program, which in part allows intelligence community to monitor foreign communications. it has been credited with stopping terror plots while critics say it allows warrantless surveillance. here is the reaction. it is create confusion. it gave everyone pause. democrats begging republicans to delay the vote because of the presidents tweets this morning. so jus...

For a fisa warrant. a fisa warrant to spy on trump campaign officials under the guise of using what we would call reverse targeting. in other words, tucker, lets pretend we are targeting a foreign agent as a predicate reason to really listen to an american citizen were targeting in the first place, hence the term reverse targeting. which by the way tucker, entirely defeats the purpose of the bill of rights. thats why libertarians and strong conservatives out there have always been skeptical abou...

Weird. >> what is the ethic, the idea of politics within a service branch like the fbi or the cia? do agents sit around and talk about their politics? or is that the sort of thing like in a naewsroom is really discouraged? >> i didnt see much of that in 25 years of service. i served at both the cia and fbi. you might hear a comment around the water cooler. im sure people are commenting about the presidents twitter habits. its not just that federal officials are forbidden from participating in th...

Level. >> the house is preparing to hold a standalone vote for a warrantless surveillance program at the intel community says is critical to stopping terror plots as republican senators rand paul and mike lee said they would vote against government spending bill including authorization of that part of the law. rob: across several states for two escaped prisoners including an accused killer. david allen anderson and ross pardo broke out of their cell in florida by chipping through the wall and sq...

We have to take a major focus in securing what we refer to as the main quadrant in new york city on new years eve, 14th street to central park south. you see the resources consisting of the nypd, ems, state troopers, focus on these splits, the internal and external threats. heather: 26 terror plots have been foiled by nypd and federal authorities so it is being done. >> we look at, primarily fortifications and tunnels bridge to that effect, the national guard is activated by governor cuomo and y...

Russia were to discover information on terror plots towards the united states. joining me now is josh lederman from the associated press. back with us once again is charlie savage, "new york times" reporter and msnbc contributor. great to have you with us. josh, this is the second phone call between the two leaders in the past three days. the first was initiated by president trump after putin praised him in his four-hour, year-end press conference. how beneficial is it for the united states to f...

Security? when you talk about all of the possible terror plots that have been thwarted, it doesnt seem like america feels like the numbers low. it seems like america thinks its out of control. >> look, this is exactly it. i think commissioner bratton puts it exactly in perspective. we just had a mass shooting in las vegas in which 58 people were killed and we act as if -- it almost never happened. theres -- what happened to legislation to at least stop bump stocks from turning semiautomatics int...

Drills are pushing the region to the brink of war. only last week pyongyang launched one of its most advanced missile tests further inflaming tensions. that missile has the potential range to hit the us are flown in a straight trajectory. in the uk british media say two men in a london court charged targeting british prime minister teresa may, the men allegedly planned to detonate a bomb in the prime ministers office to assassinate her in the aftermath, this comes a day after a report on the rec...

Uzbek and one extra note is that there was an uzbek national that was responsible for a deadly truck attack in stockholm this year which killed a number of people in the swedish capital. so there is a track record of uzbeks getting involved in these kind of plots and uzbek groups having links to terror plots in the west, in fact, there was a plot all the way back in 2007 against a u.s. air force base, the ramstein base in germany, linked back to an al qaeda affiliate uzbek group in the tribal ar...