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Judge where he questioned this assertion that this was a national security basis. i heard somebody say he asked the homeland security how many refugees had been involved in fatal terrorist attacks and he said he knew the answer, which is zero. so this is a big step forward. >> governor, you talked about the checks and balances. republicans are so far declining to check or slow down the administration on anything. do you see the states becoming now much more involved in trying to be that check on...

Al qaeda in yemen. the military has now released a first look at what it recovered from that operation in yemen. for more were joined by our pentagon reporter and our cnn military analyst. ryan, i take it theyve now released the pentagon five brief video clips that were found among the al qaeda and yemen terrorists. what do they show? >> thats right. these videos are what the military is calling do it yourself videos for committing acts of terrorism. theyre really well known for this kind of thi...

Other service members injured when their aircraft crashed in an attempt to rescue the wounded. that aircraft was subsequently destroyed in a u.s. air strike. officials obviously are not happy about how things went down. however, they are saying information gleaned during the raid including computer hard drives on al qaeda is providing intelligence helping the u.s. military and intelligence services prevent future terrorist attacks down the road against the u.s. and its allies. this group is cons...

And grenades. one of the air strikes against the building where the s.e.a.l.s are taking part, 14 were killed. as you mentioned, there was a fat fatally wounded s.e.a.l. an aircraft sent to aid the s.e.a.l. obtained a malfunction and destroyed by a u.s. air strike. a couple things went wrong. military officials say the information with the hard drives gathered is already yielding valuable intelligence. al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is considered the most capable franchise and directed terror...

Driving the new pollz. there was one in 2011. we tightened procedures because of it. this seems to be a much broader across the board, you know, lets lump all these countries together. if we look at the actual threat, who has killed americans in terrorist attacks? not refugees, not syrians, it is people from countries not on the list. quite frankly. which is per -- perplexing. >> shannon: we know there are those who have come to the country who have been arrested from some of these places. thank...

Around the globe. theres no way around no matter what they say at the white house, theres no way around what this executive order does. it is a muslim ban of people from majority muslim countries from coming into the country, and we need to make one other point here, none of the countries on the list have anything to do with terrorist attacks that have happened in the united states. >> all right, jonathan capehart, thank you, appreciate it. well be right back. ress open cn help you take on a new...

Here. they dont know whether they should leave, come back. now you have -- the state department memo, this is what weve been talking about this dissent channel. what started with dozens is now more than 100 career diplomats and civil servants who are saying, in this memo, not only does this policy not keep america safe, it actually harms america from preventing terrorist attacks. its really a -- these career diplomats serve both republican and democratic administrations for decades, this is a ve...

This current struggle. its not yet a war between civilizations. its a war within this great mono theism. when we do the kinds of things we did this last weekend, we strengthen the forces within islam who want this to be a war between islam and the west, between islam and modernity. what weve done, jake, to those folks who are helping us, those who are yet undecided, weve done things that make our enemies within islams narrative seem to be true. thats going to motivate more people to oppose us an...

Around the world here. lets start with those who were trying to get into the country over the course of the weekend and this travel ban on the refugees. there was so much outcry and outrage on the part of some people at the way this implemented, even some republicans as it was russian over the weekend at the border agencies didnt know what they were supposed to be doing. what is your take? >> i think there was a prize in washington was that donald trump is actually doing what he said he would do...

The only people propagating this gift is isis and al qaeda for who this plays into their narrative. >> james, weve heard some republicans raise this issue too, that this is something that will ostracize muslims, and could make some of them even more sympathetic to terrorists and their message and this could be a great recruitment tool for isis and al qaeda. is there a point there? >> no. ive heard that kind of silly criticism before. here are the facts that we know. president obama came into off...