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Topping our political radar today, the new york city police department has suspendied officr daniel pantaleo after it was recommended he be terminated. he was caught on video in 2014 putting 24-year-old eric garner in what appears to be a choke hold. garner was unharmed and repeatedly told the officer he could not breathe. the nypd commissioner will make the final call about his career. hes been on desk duty since the death and protesters have called for his firing. senate democrats vowing to ...

No evidence he has ever prosecuted a terrorism case. there were no terrorism cases in his district when he was u.s. attorney. his office points to a case against the holy land foundation in dallas but his role there was to investigate juror misconduct not terrorism or prosecute terrorism. the idea he put terrorists in prison just appears to be false. >> ken, would you have us believe donald trump has picked someone thats lied about their qualifications? >> dont be sassy. congressman, philippe, k...

Activists, mostly american, to question as they crossed in and out of san diego. now nbc has learned that more americans are being stopped by agents in states across the southern border and sometimes detained for hours. nbc news national security and justice reporter julia ainsley spoke to them on camera for the first time. >> as soon as i got up to the inspection booth, i could tell that something was different. >> reporter: taylor levy works with imgrachbts in el paso and says in january she w...

>> great questions. first department of homeland security and customs and border protection have not commented on this piece of reporting. we have given them days to have a comment. the first story we broke with knsd we had that list and they said it was just happening in san diego and the inspector general was looking into it. as this shows its wider than that, its happening in arizona, el paso. i have talked to multiple people with the aim stories, they get stopped, pulled aside, its obvious t...

Zealand. >> you prosecuted terrorism cases. this was a lone wolf, he did it on his own, he was crazy. lets talk about the degree to which rhetoric matters. what you hear from the president and other government officials. to your point, how does it affect those waiting in murky waters and living in the mainstream and processing what we are hearing? >> i think the take away is, our words have consequences, the words have consequences. whether its islamic extremists that are radicalizeed by fiery s...

Nationwide when i was in the justice department. and i have never seen a detention memo start way science like that. so that was really stunning. >> we put up the target list and we know he was looking into media figures, democratic political figures. we also know that he had been reading the manifesto from a european terrorist, that 15-hundred page manifesto from anders breivik. what does that tell you? >> that focus is interesting to me. the breivik incident happened and his attacks happened, ...

That president trump and all americans want to keep us safe, the fbi focused on informants who they can no longer pay, and investigations that they can no longer fund. heres 106 to our producers were we have lost several source whos have worked for months and years to penetrate groups and target subjects. these assets cannot be replaced. this is realtime. in realtime they say they are losing their ability to crack terrorism cases. >> i think theres another piece of this. youre pointing out the f...

This time coming out within just the last two hours in the mueller probe. >> well, were still covering robert mueller and his prosecutors and -- >> his name may come up later. >> exactly. but i think that the prosecutors who went to trial for the manafort case were tight-lipped and invisible. but theres still these figures that loom large over all of our politics. and if you dont believe he, check out president trumps twitter feed. >> the defenders get a little trickier, because these are people...

But i think that the prosecutors who went to trial for the manafort case were tight-lipped and invisible. but theres still these figures that loom large over all of our politics. and if you dont believe me, just check out donald trumps twitter feed. >> the defenders get a little trickier, because these are people who have stepped forward and said, ill help you walk through this mine field. one of them stands out as being more famous than the rest. >> rudy? >> yeah. >> put up or shut up, what hav...

>> well, were still covering robert mueller and his prosecutors and -- >> his name may come up later. >> exactly. but i think that the prosecutors who went to trial for the manafort case were tight-lipped and invisible. but theres still these figures that loom large over all of our politics. and if you dont believe me, just check out donald trumps twitter feed. >> the defenders get a little trickier, because these are people who have stepped forward and said, ill help you walk through this mine ...