I see Ricky Gervais is sharpening his knives. I bet we will gasp as he put it. Exactly. I was not talking about the globes. I was talking about your arrival here. Thats what people are getting excited about. Please have the lavender tealights ready for me, matt. We will. Look forward to it. Lots to get to this morning. Lets start with the top story. Two terrorismrelated arrests, one right here in california. This is sure to intensify that debate going on about refugees from the middle east. Nbcs justice correspondent Pete Williams is looking into that. Pete, what can you tell us . Reporter matt, good morning. Both of these men will appear in court later today to be formally charged. Officials say this is a case about fighting overseas, not about plotting attacks here at home. The Justice Department says a 22yearold man from iraq aws Mohammed Younis al jayab was arrested while he was living in sacramento accused of lying to immigration authorities. The fbi says when he was questioned in 2014 about whether terror group he told them he went to turkey a year before to visit his sick grandmother. In fact, the grandmother says he went to syria to fight with various terrorist organizations, first apparently against the assad regime. A second iraqiborn man was also arrested, 24yearold Omar Faraj Saeed Al hardan who lives in houston accused of providing support to isis by getting to syria. He was in touch with the Sacramento Man asking how he could join with jawedihadists overseas and hes denied of having any connection to terror organizations when he applied for u. S. Citizenship in 2014. As you know, both men came to the u. S. As refugees. Officials say al jayab, the man in sacramento, had already been to syria once when he came here and no suggestion that al hardan, the texas man, was radicalized when he came here 17 years ago as a refugee. Matt. Pete williams on this breaking story overnight. Savannah. Lets talk politics. The president ial race, donald trump held his first rally in vermont last night blocks actually from democrat Bernie Sanders campaign headquarters. The event drew a lot of supporters and protesters. Lets start our coverage with nbcs peter alexander. Peter, good morning reporter town of burlington, vermont, was on edge anticipating trumps visit, especially after his campaign handed out thousands more tickets than they had seats. Vermont, of course, is a deep blue state, not typical trump territory, and the candidate spent a lot of his night battling protesters. In the liberal bastion of burlington, vermont, Bernie Sanders country, the trump show felt more like the set of jerry springer. Trump, trump, trump reporter repeatedly interrupted by protesters the republican frontrunner taunted his unwelcome guests. Get them out. Get them out. Confiscate his coat. You know, its about 10 degrees below zero outside. Reporter even berating his own security. Move faster. We need security that moves fast. Come on, move faster. Pretty soon they are going to get so nasty we wont have any more protesting, you know, that right. Reporter after handing out 20,000 free tickets for the 1,400seat theater, the Trump Campaign enforced a loyalty test to get in. Pledge allegiance to trump or go home. The second we get inside, security sees we have a bernie pin on, even though we have tickets, they grab on to us and they firstbly eject us out of the building. No questions act. Reporter trump insisted he was simply taking care of his people. They are loyal to me, amend i am lime to they will, he said. The billionaire is also escalating his attacks on Hillary Clinton. Womens rights are human rights. Reporter posting this incendiary Instagram Video challenging clintons advocates are for women while flashing images of monica lewinsky, Anthony Weiner and bill cosby. Meanwhile, trumps closest rival ted cruz is dismissing john mccains comments seemingly his eligibility to be president. It is no surprise. Everybody knows that john mccain is going to endorse marco rubio. Reporter and rubio trying to solidify his place atop the establishment lane of the gop is locked in a bitter back and forth with Chris Christie. This guy has been spoon fed every victory hes ever had in his life. Is that the kind of person that we went to put on the stage against Hillary Clinton . I dont think so. She will pat him on the head and then cut his heart out. Reporter marco rubio has been calling out christie for days blasting him as a liberal republican. There was one other headline out of the rally in vermont. Trump vowing hell get ready of gunfree school zones on his first day as president. As trump put it, you know what a gunfree school zone is to a sicko, its bait. Matt . Peter alexander. Peter, thank you very much. As for the clintons, well, they are digging in the face of the new attacks from donald trump. Nbcs Kristen Welker has more on that side. Story. Kristen, good morning to you. Reporter matt, good morning thats right. President clinton is sticking to strategy, trying to avoid an allout war of words with donald trump. The Clinton Campaign believes engaging with trump would only escalate the issue, but the questions arent going away. I was with former president bill clinton on the campaign trail here in cedar rapids yesterday. A number of reporters asked clinton about the criticism from donald trump, about the fact that he continues to raise his past infidelities on the campaign trail. Heres how president clinton answered one question. Donald trump is again today making an issue of your past transgressions. Do you want to respond, and are you worried that your past could hurt your wifes campaign . I dont have a response. If he wins the republican nomination well have plenty of time to talk about it. Im trying to help hillary win reporter Clinton CampaignStill Believes that president clinton is the best surrogate for his wife. They believe that he helps with working class voters, for example, in a state like iowa which is must win. Note during president clintons Second Campaign event yesterday, he was in the middle of talking when all of a sudden his phone rang. Take a look at what happened next. There are other issues that keep americans up at night and my phones ringing. I have to call hillary back and explain why i couldnt take it. Snoofrp a re reporter a reminder to always put your phone on secretary. President clinton off the trail today and aid Hillary Clinton will be with women advocates including lena dunham and abby wambach. Back to you. Lets turn to Rachel Maddow, host of the Rachel Maddow show on msnbc and nicolle wallace. Ladies, good morning to you. Rachel, starting with you. Not taking the bait from frump, not going there, not going to do it. Can they continue to do that or do they have to engage. Sometimes they love to engage with donald trump because sometimes its really advantageous to the democrats and hillary in particular. Reporter on the issue of bill clintons transgressions. They will do it when it suits them. Strategically they have a larger issue of does it help you as a democrat . Does it help the democrats for the general election to elevate donald trump as face of the Republican Party . Sometimes they want to engage on him, when the american thinks about the Republican Party they want him to think about drew. On an issue like this they dont want to to become the basis of everybodys discussion on the morning shows. Trump going after bill clinton on his infidelities and transgressions personally, is that smart politics, and if it is why are the other republicans not following suit . Well, i think that all of the normal standards, all of the normal rules about decorum have been durand and discarded in this campaign season. Yeah. And i think trump is already the dominant figure in the Republican Party. He stands at almost 40 so the notion that theres any other republican standard bearer, that ship has sailed. What i think the peril is for the clintons at this moment is so far every attack launched by trump and every battle trump versus whomever, trump has prevailed in the minds of the viewers, in the voters, so when people see these attacks and the clintons make the determination, which is so anticlinton of the 90s era, the whole strategy of Rapid Response and of responding to every attack and prevailing was pioneered by bill clintons advisers, now legendary advisers from the 90s. The notion that they are going to ignore the attacks and that they will go away is foolish. In the few seconds we have left, can we turn to the rhetoric heating up between christie and rubio, christie really let a bomb fly with the latest remark about rubio. Pat him on the head and then cut his heart out. That combination of ideas is very disturb inging. Were not going to forget its a good reminder that Chris Christie when hes on offense and when he has a target that he perceives to be a soft target he is a little bit of a bully, but hes kind of an effective bully. He does it for political effect and it lands. We all on set went ooh when we heard what he just said about marco rubio. He can land a punch, nicole. He can, and the backdrop that the line was delivered on was that there is a, you know, hot war now in the establishment lane because there is a real chance that somebody other than trump could win iowa and somebody other than trump could win New Hampshire and then this whole race restarts. Thats what makes it so exciting. Rachel and new york. Programming note, by the way, donald trump will be joining chuck this sunday on meet the press. Meantime, president barack obama took on the hut button issue of gun control last night. The town hall meeting on cnn came days after he unveiled executive actions to help combat gun violence. The president mfa sized that he guns. I respect people who want a gun for selfprotection, for hunting, for sportsmanship, but all of us can agree that it makes sense to do everything we can to keep guns out of the hands of people who would try to do others harm. I appreciate you taking the time. Also during that event the widow of american sniper chris kyle confronted the president and challenged him on the effectiveness of gun control legislation. Were at the lowest murder rate in our country. Alltime low. Right. Of murders. Were at an alltime high of gun ownership, right . Im not necessarily saying that the two are core late, but what im saying is were at an alltime low for murder rate. Thats a big deal. If you look at where are the areas with the highest gun ownership, those are the places in some cases where the crime rate hasnt dropped down that theres pretty stiff restrictions on gun ownership, in some of those places the crimes dropped real quickly so im not sure that theres a onetoone correlation there. The president acknowledged his latest executive actions will not stop all attacks. The goal was to make a little progress, and as a reminder were taking our entire show to the white house on tuesday, is day of president Barack Obamas last state of the union address. Well talk to him and Vice President biden will join us live, and well also bring you special access inside the nations most famous home Tuesday Morning on today. Matt, out to you in l. A. All right, savannah, thanks very much. Lets talk now about growing concerns over the stock market after another brutal day on wall street. The dow dropped another 392 points on thursday. Its biggest loss in three months. That caps the worst fourday start to a year in history. Jim cramer host of mad money on cnbc is at the new york stock exchange. Jim, good morning to you. With me, and you said this was about china, and because china is a communist country they can do things that democracies cant. They can change the rules and stop this. Its clear now though they dont have control over this, do you . No, absolutely what they are doing is kind of winging it, matt. Its a little disappointing that they told us this week that there would be stability. They told us that they had things in hand. They were dead wrong, and because of their inability to offer any clarity the rest of the world is suffering. You said that this is obviously a time of volatility, but we probably shouldnt blame it all on china. I know youre a little concerned about some signs youre seeing coming out of the Federal Reserve as well. Yes. All week they have been saying, look, please disregard all of this turmoil that youre seeing around the world. All that matters is employment. When you put yourself in a box get off this game of being very strict and very tight because the numbers are not bearing up other than some strong employment. I know youre very careful about choosing your words, and in the past you have come on this show, jim, and said it is a time to sell. Would you say that again about this time . No, i think that those times that have come on, that i was able to avoid very big declines, there was systemic risk, maybe the system would fall apart. Here we have to take some pain, but this, too, will pass and anyone who panics now is just going to be able to try to figure out how to get back in when were a little bit lower. Matt, thats the suckers game and i wont play that with peoples money at home you say its going to pass because the fundamentals of the u. S. Economy are strong in your opinion. I think overtime it will become clear that our country once again is a leader and we can avoid a lot of the repercussions whatever china is doing and saying, but it takes over time. I cannot be incredibly bullish right here, frankly, because we havent seen a big washout worldwide. I think that at certain times like this, matt, you just have to say, you know. What its going to be difficult. Its going to be volatile, but if you stay the course youre not going to regret it. Jim cramer at the new york stock exchange. Jim, thanks very much. Thank you, matt. Savannah. Thank you. A disturbing shooting happening in philadelphia overnight. A gunman ambushed a Police Officer and tried to execute him. Matt delucia from our station in philly wcau has the late on the investigation. Matt, good morning. Reporter good morning, savannah. Both officer and suspected shooter are in the hospital this morning. The officer, were told, was rushed into surgery late last night and faces a long recovery. This Morning Police are investigating the shooting of an officer who miraculously survived being shot at point blank range thursday night. Shots fired. Im shot im bleeding. All scars stand by. We have an officer shot 60 and spruce. Nick got into a shootout with a man who police say walked up to the officer while he was sitting in his police characters opening fire with a. 9 millimeter gun and shooting at the officer 13 times. Gets closer and closer to the point where hes actually inside the car firing at the officer. Reporter suspect, hitting the officer three times in the arm, bullet holes riddling one side of the police cruiser. Police have not released the video they captured of the shooting but describe it as horrific horrific. This is absolutely one of the scariest things ive ever seen. I mean, this guy tried to exconsult the Police Officer. The Police Officer had no idea he was coming. Its amazing hes alive reporter 33yearold officer returned fire, hitting the suspect. Be advised officer did strike the suspect. Reporter hart nick, a fiveyear veteran suffered a broken arm and they are of damage after being hit. He was taken to Presbyterian Hospital for surgery overnight. This just speaks to the somebody would do something, i mean, so absolutely evil, its just beyond us. Reporter we are hoping to learn a little more later on today as the Investigation Continues with the questioning of the suspect and perhaps a look at that Surveillance Video that supposedly shows this officer barely making it out alive. Savannah. All right, matt delucia in philadelphia, thank you. The mother of the socalled affluenza teen, ethan couch, is back in texas this morning where she will be arraigned. Tonya couch had been held in Police Custody out here in los angeles since last week. Authorities believe couch and her son fled texas in november as prosecutors investigated whether ethan couch had violated his probation. The two were arrested in mexico late last month, although ethan couch remains at a Detention Center in mexico. The sheriff says hes confident of his return. There were scary moments for passengers on a flight from new the United Airlines plane was forced to make an Emergency Landing in detroit when a passenger became unruly. This is cell phone video for instance side the plane. Airline Officials Say the woman assaulted several of the over passengers. Police had to board the plane and carry her off with her hands and feet bound. They say the woman may have been suffering from a medical condition. Well shifflett gears now. Mr. Roker is here and some cold weather on the way. An amazing peeves video that tells you turn around, dont drown. Youve got to see this. This is from a guy named mark shegaris on state route 23. He sees some flash flooding and he throws his car into reverse. He smartly didnt try to drive through it. Hes backing up. Look at the debris, the mud flow thats coming through as he backs away. Hes actually driving through all that mud and finally gets to a clear spot and is able to turn around. My gosh, that had to be awfully frightening to see. Weve also got a f