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CSPAN Washington Journal September 20, 2016

Candidates as they prepare for next weeks first debate. We ask our viewers are these recent terror attacks going to impact your 2016 vote . You can call him, democrats, call 202 7488000. Republicans, call 202 7488001. Independents, call 202 7488002. You can also catch up with us on social media, twitter, cspanwj or facebook. Com cspan. Good tuesday morning, events unfolding quickly in the bombings in new jersey and new york. Out york times, lays events as they has happened as they had happened. A pipe bomb exploded the 5k run, saturday 8 30, a bomb exploded near a dumpster in chelsea. Manhattan, Police Troopers find unexploded bomb on 27th street. Host yesterday, Police Capture ahmad khanromney rahami. Police have a suspect but few answers to the motive about the bombings. Us, goodr joins morning to you. What do we know at this point and what dont we know . Guest the latest year is that u. S. Officials, although not publicly, are saying that, cant money Ahmad Khan Rahami radicalizedome during a series of visits that he made to pakistan. And a fairly his native afghanistan. Apparently his native afghanistan. While the suspect was apprehended monday in dramatic fashion, he has not yet been charged with any connection to the bomb related incidents in new york and new jersey over the weekend. Aside, assuming what authorities are saying is accurate, the big question remains why did he do this . As fbi and Homeland Security well as a growing contingent from the cia and wider u. S. Intelligence community are scrambling to find out what they travel tohis alleged pakistan. There are conflicting statements at the moment. My own sources are not 100 clear on it. I think you will hear more throughout the day about it. That hereports are travel home to afghanistan sometime around 2012 when he was 24 years old and in return to new jersey after the trip, and friends in new jersey say he was a changed man after that trip. But he stopped wearing western clothing, that he began praying a great deal in the back of his familys chicken restaurant in new jersey, and that he was just generally less congenial. There are now reports this recentlyhat he also made a visit to pakistan, where he apparently stayed with family for roughly a year, up until 2014, before returning again to new jersey. The big question here is whether these visits assuming that the statements are accurate, whether these visits contributed somehow to his radicalization and his motive. Host you talk about what he is and what he isnt charged with. What is he facing right now, and what additional charges is he likely to face . Guest right now, he has been charged at the local level in new jersey essentially with assaulting a police officer. To yesterdays highstakes manhunt and shoot out that resulted in his capture. There were two new jersey local Police Officers who were injured. He was also shot in the leg during the apprehension. , again, as severe as they are, they would carry big prison time. They are not yet tied it to any clear evidence that he was maker orthe bomb bomber. There are Big Questions here about the extent to which he acted alone. Yesterday, the head of the fbis new York Field Division said there was no evidence showing the presence of any terror cell connected to him. Thats really what were looking he was extent to which completely operating by himself, with and others were involved. The sources im talking to her saying it seems incredulous that a 28yearold man anywhere in a crowded suburban area like northeastern new jersey would be build ascquire and many homemade explosives as he allegedly did without having some kind of a footprint that attracted the attention or the help of at least several other individuals. Thats where we going with the investigation today. Question on his background. He is a naturalized citizen. When did he become naturalized . Clear onm not 100 that. He came to the United States of the child with his parents, born in 1988. They came in early 1990s. I would assume that his naturalization happened sometime in the mid to late 1990s. He has been an american citizen most of his life. Host in terms of the other arrests and the people who were detained on sunday evening, with a connected to him were they connected to him . Guest there were some individuals detained, they have now been released. Yesterday, the fbi announced that they had been released and not charged. Its not clear whether these were people that knew him sometly, or there was just tangential aspect of the investigation that unfolded with those. But those individuals have been released. Host guy taylor covering it all for the Washington Times. As we asking our viewers go through these reports and try not to get ahead of the investigation, we are asking will the recent terror attacks and bombings in new york and new jersey and the stabbing in minnesota that we talked about yesterday will the impact your vote in 2016 . Headline from the front page of as trumpington post, plays that profiling, clinton says rhetoric aids isis. We want to hear your thoughts, the phone lines are open. Start with stephen this morning in ashland, kentucky. Caller thank you. It morning. I just wanted to say that with sheinton, she wants said she doesnt want them control, but the fact of the matter is she would probably nominate judges to the Supreme Court who would overthrow the heller decision, which recognized the Second Amendment as an individual right. Therefore, we really cant take her word for that. Thats very important in the situation with the terrorists. If you think back to a couple of years ago when we had the shooting of the marine recruiters in chattanooga you had an immediate nationwide mobilization of volunteers providing armed guards to recruiting stations all across this country. These were individuals, own ns, who took their andided their own weapons contributed and donated their time and put their lives on the line to protect our military. You are saying any new restrictions would inhibit people from taking those kind of actions on their own to help out where they see the need . Caller very likely, yes. Host the minority leader of the senate, senator harry reid with a tweet yesterday bringing up the issue of new guncontrol measures in the wake of these attacks over the weekend. Congress can do more to prevent terror, we should close the loophole that allows potential fbi terror suspects to legally purchase weapons. One aspect of the political debate that may be happening going forward. Harold is in mansfield, ohio, republican. Good morning. Caller good morning. We are supposed to vet these people that are coming to this country. And yet, we will let people go to pakistan, which we spent millions of dollars every year, who harbor or enemies left and right, and they come back to this country and blow the place up. I dont understand why they are allowed back in this country. Host harold, are you talking about anybody who travel to pakistan should be kept from coming back into this country, even if they are american citizens, as this man from the reports so far seems to been . Caller its already been back,ed that when he came when he first came back, before he went back to pakistan, that he had a change in attitudes. Host youre talking about the reporting from after his trip to afghanistan . Caller yes. Host so what do you want, harold . Do you want more travel restrictions for market citizens who travel abroad to these places, where these Terror Networks are . Caller i will tell you something, it was impossible to travel to cuba for years, wasnt it . Host you want those conversations on afghanistan and pakistan . Caller those kind of sturgeons on afghanistan restrictions on afghanistan and pakistan . Caller yes, i do. Host next caller. Caller lets get this conversation back. Host still with us . Man, andm a black what i would like to say is Hillary Clinton [indiscernible] shes not talking about the issues that its affecting the black community. Isise not worried about with this type of attack. About corrupt cops and crooked politicians in our neighborhoods, the ku klux klan, flag flying, duck dynasty type people who do all these atrocities against black people. Donald trump is putting these people up [indiscernible] out, you are going in and but i think you got your point. You mentioned Hillary Clinton and donald trump making statements yesterday worried here is some of Hillary Clintons statement. Clinton they are looking to make this a war against the they want to use that to recruit more fighters to their cause by turning it into a religious conflict. Been very i have clear, we are going after the bad guys, and we are going to get them, but we are not going to go after an entire religion and give isis exactly what its wanting in order for them to enhance their position. Host that was Hillary Clinton yesterday. We want to hear your thoughts on whether these recent terror attacks will impact your vote in 2016. The phone lines again for democrats, call 202 7488000. Republicans, call 202 7488001. Independents, call 202 7488002. Heres donald trump from yesterday making his statement. [video clip] Hillary Clintons policies in iraq, syria, other places, are largely responsible for the rise of isis in the first place. Me are all meant to deflect from her record of unleashing this monster of evil on us and all over the world. In her claim that my opposition to radical islamic terrorism this is something she said today , that is my strong opposition to these people that as a recruiting tool and it demonstrates a level of ignorance about the Terror Threat and its motivations let me just tell you. She is not the right person to here a problem that largely and obama gave us. That was donald trump yesterday. We want to hear your thoughts today on the washington journal. We will revisit the question of the end of the program today as well. Lets go to wane in weaver, alabama, democrat. It morning. Good morning. To changes not going my vote, i am still voting for hillary. The ones they are picking on now for doing this, thats just what they do. We got to understand, thats their culture. They do this stuff. Host who were the ones they are picking on . Explain that. Caller the ones like this guy , that was by the volkswagen. Are pickingms, they on these guys, making them a scapegoat. To see what im saying . This is their culture. Just like if we went over there and they were picking on us for driving a chevy. Its just what we do. Or afford. Causehese guys do is terrorism. Its what they do. Why are people surprised when this happens . I dont understand it. Its just the nature of the beast, so to speak. Host that is wayne in alabama. Heres james robin in todays usa today, he sent for more than a year, donald trump has been losing raising alarm about terrorism, or missing to address it headon. Host he ends the column by saying clinton has offered little in new ideas to fight the domestic Terror Threat if she Even Technology is the threat. Host we want to hear your thoughts this mine. Patti is next, in connecticut. Independent. Go ahead. Caller im with you, im sorry. Host go ahead. Caller i just want to make a few comments, youll bear with me. The head of Homeland Security, jeh johnson, i read he got his job because he gave obama a pretty big donation. I dont think he was vetted. He just released over 800 violent criminals, a mistake by immigration. And now, what do we do . Were stuck with him. Its bad enough whats coming in, these refugees. As far as the terrorist yesterday, i would strip him of his citizenship. He is an enemy combatant, i would put him in gitmo. Trump, voting for donald because hillary is going to carry on the same thing that obama has. Ignore it, never say the word islamic terrorist, and just continue on with the same procedure, which is killing us. To add some context to a patty was talking about with the dhs and what they did with immigrants that were supposed to be deported, they shouldve been deported, Washington Times, notes the hundreds of Illegal Immigrants and dangerous countries were granted citizenship by Homeland Security because officials never checked their fingerprints to find out the real identities, according to the departments Inspector General in a new report released yesterday, the report was released as the country was learning the identity of the suspect in the new york and new jersey bombings. It became an issue on the president ial campaign trail. Froman read that report the Inspector General at the department of Homeland Security, getting a lot of headlines today. Dorothy is in new brighton, pennsylvania, republican. Good morning. Neighbor, hee my dealt with clinton in the army. Woman dont know what shes doing. He wouldnt even trust her with his dog. Want the people to know that she is bringing these mexicans arounde taking the jobs the pittsburgh and Beaver Valley area. Worked foraw has eight months because of the mexicans. Man that was saying kkk, clinton is big unit. People better wake up. ,ll of us here were democrats we are all turning republican because shes giving us the same things she did in 2000. Her, to downgrade the citizens of the United States, shes already saying what she feels about the americans. I wouldnt vote for her for nothing. Host thats dorothy in pennsylvania. Arbor is in chicago, illinois. Democrat. Good morning. Caller good morning. I would like to remind people that the original terrorist in this country where the ku klux klan and White Nationalist groups. I wish they would be as concerned about the original terrorists as they are about the new terrorists. They dont address the original terrorism in this country, im just wondering, im going to look it up, how many people were killed by the original terrorists in this country, the knights of the ku klux klan. Host bring into this weekends events and whether you think that these latest attacks are going to influence the selection at all, or influence people in your area in chicago . Caller no, i dont because when you change my vote. Im voting for Hillary Clinton because anyone voting for donald trump, his base is made up of the ku klux klan members. In the White Nationalist groups. Host why you say that . Caller because david duke is his supporter. This guy did he just added to his campaign from the crazy itsite, i forgot the name of , its a White Nationalist type website. The Southern Poverty Law Center tracks all the hate groups in this country. Not stupid. When obama was elected, the number of hate groups rose by 75 . Thats barbara in chicago, illinois with her thoughts. Present obama also speaking yesterday about these recent terror attacks. His response, heres a bit from that. [video clip] obama that kind of toughness and resoluteness, and the recognition that neither individuals nor organizations like isil can ultimately undermine our way of life. That is the kind of strength that makes me so proud to be an american. That is the kind of strength thats going to be absolutely critical, not just in the days to come, but in the years to come. By showing those who want to do us harm that they will never be us, by showing the entire world as americans, we do not and never will give in to fear, thats going to be the most important ingredients in us to feeding those who would carry out terrorist acts against us. Host president obama will be at the u. N. In new york today, talking to the United Nations general assembly. Thats excited to begin at 10 00 a. M. We will be showing here on cspan this morning. Washington times, with reporting about what the president will be talking about. Read in hisama will appeal for World Leaders to accept more refugees in his final appearance of United Nations on tuesday. Host in the Washington Post, there is a map, talking about specifically Syrian Refugees, showing where Syrian Refugees end up in this country. You can see Syrian Refugees from where they4, and are. The largest bubbles on this map showing areas where of the 600 Syrian Refugees have been resettled in this country. You can read that story in the Washington Post, this morning. Curtis in richmond, virginia. Caller good morning, cspan. Im a proud black man, i used to love to say that i was a proud 45 year, United States marine. This thing has gotten so out of hand. You cant perpetuate violence throughout your own home country and then perpetuate violence throughout the world and think theres not going to be a backlash. The last couple of days, i have watched on the news, this is all i have seen. A one saying anything about black man who was shot down and tased, shown by helicopters and the cop cam on their police car with his hands up being shot. Host the tulsa, oklahoma incident yesterday . Caller i am not seeing the corporate media, not cspan, i love cspan along with free speech television. It is not seeing anything about that. Ago,lm x. Said a long time you been flimflam, hoodwinked, bamboozled. I would never vote for donald trump. Hes an overthetop racist and bigoted. Hillary clinton is a closet racist. Look at what she signed and pushed as far as her husbands signing into law the three strikes youre out law. Millions of black men and women and children, they are putting black children as adults when they are charged now. Host what are you going to do on election day . Caller im going to vote for jill ste

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