Computer problems force delta to ground all domestic flights overnight. Theyre back flying, but scrambling to make up hundreds of cancellations today, monday, january 30th, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone, welcome to today on a monday morning. Hoda filling in for savannah this week. Thanks for filling in. Great to be here. What a busy weekend it was. And were starting off with a busy week. Lets get right to that breaking news overnight. Theres been a deadly shooting at a canadian mosque during evening prayers. It is being labeled a terrorist attack. Ctv news is at the scene in quebec city. Good morning. Reporter good morning, matt. This morning two suspects are in custody after gunfire erupted at the Islamic Center here in quebec city. It is an act that the canadian Prime Minister is calling a terrorist attack, and it has left six dead, eight others injured. Fear and confusion after gunfire interrupts evening prayers at the quebec city islamic cultural center. Paramedics rushing to the mosque filled with more than 50 worshippers when the shots started ringing out. In a statement overnight, canadian Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau calling it a terrorist attack on muslims. Adding it is heart wrenching to see such senseless violence. This Morning Police confirming two suspects were arrested shortly after the shooting. Investigators say the motive of the attack remains unknown. It comes just days after President Trumps controversial immigration ban sparked international outrage. The president s executive order prompting Prime Minister trudeau to tweet to those fleeing persecution, terror and war, canadians will welcome you regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength. The premier echoing trudeaus message. We should work together, strive together with society. Reporter the quebec city mosque has been a target of hate before. Last june someone left a pigs head during the muslim holy month of ramadan. This latest incident has authorities in the states beefing up security. Were told demonstrators will gather in front of the mosque tonight in support with the Muslim Community here. Back to you, matt. Thank you very much. And now to more on that growing outrage over President Trumps controversial immigration order. Demonstrations were held coast to coast last night but the white house is showing no sign of backing down. We have complete coverage from the white house to the airports and were going to talk to Senate Minority leader chuck schumer. Let us begin with nbcs peter alexander. Peter, good morning. Reporter hoda, good morning to you. The criticism has been fierce. This morning the white house is claiming the implementation of President Trumps travel ban is, quote unquote, a massive success story, but the swift reaction from around the country shows a very different reality. Overnight another surge of protests against President Trumps controversial executive order. Demonstrators at san franciscos airport met by riot police, capping off a weekend of massive demonstrations. Including many at airports across the country and the streets around the white house. Hillary clinton offering her support to demonstrators, tweeting this is not who we are. In the face of those protests, this assessment from team trump. What youre seeing is a small reaction from a small number of people. Reporter amid the chaos, President Trump is defending his actions. The statement reading to be clear, this is not a muslim ban as the media is falsely reporting. This is not about religion, this is about terror and keeping our country safe. But trumps argument is seemingly contradicted by one of his advisers, Rudy Giuliani telling fox news trump consulted him and others. When he first announced it, he said muslim ban. He called me up, he said put a commission together, show me the right way to do it legally. Reporter while trumps order bans refugees, migrants and foreign nationals from seven mostly muslim countries, the president points out 40 different majority muslim Countries Worldwide are not affected. Its working out very nicely. You see it at the airports, you see it all over, its working out very nicely. Reporter a growing chorus of critics disagree. This executive order was meanspirited and unamerican. Reporter even some republicans are urging caution. You have an extreme vetting proposal that didnt get the vetting it should have had. I think we should be careful. We dont have religious tests in this country. Reporter senators john mccain and Lindsey Graham slamming the move as a selfinflicted wound against terrorism. Trump firing back accusing the two of always looking to start world war iii. The reaction worldwide was swift. Canadas Prime Minister tweeting this photo welcoming a refugee, said his country would take those banned by the u. S. Irans foreign minister attacked trumps order blasting it as a great gift to extremists and their supporters. Late sunday the new head of Homeland Security insisted green card holders would not be blocked from returning to the u. S. White house officials backed up their boss, comparing trumps order to action taken by president obama in 2011 restricting visas to iraqi refugees after a threat. I cant imagine too many people out there watching this right now think its unreasonable to ask a few more questions from someone traveling in and out of libya and yemen before being let loose in the united states. I think in terms of the upside being greater protection of our borders, of our people, its a small price to pay. Reporter also fueling a fierce backlash, trumps reshuffling of his National SecurityCouncil Making chief strategist steve bannon a regular member while topranking intelligence and military officials will attend only when discussing issues per taping to their responsibilities and expertise. Having the chief strategist for the president in those meetings who has a significant military background to help make guide what the president s final analysis is going to be is crucial. Reporter to be clear, bannons addition to the National Security council is unusual. Advisers from the political side of the white house are generally not included in the meeting, certainly not on a permanent basis. President obamas former National Security advisor, susan rice, put it bluntly on twitter calling President Trumps move, quote, stone cold crazy after a week of crazy. The white house is also trying to tamp down another controversy after it failed to mention jews or the jewish mention by name in its statement on National HolocaustRemembrance Day friday. Aides here say they took into account all those who suffered, including the jewish people. Hoda and matt. Peter alexander, peter, thank you. Ari melber is nbcs chief Legal Correspondent and has the fact check on all of this. Ari, good morning. Lets talk about terminology. You hear people referring to this as a muslim ban . Are muslims even mentioned in the executive order . That is the controversy, matt. We can show you this executive order does not mention muslims or islam by name. It uses countries. But experts say that in its effect, it will ban muslims from those selected countries and still allow in likely more christians. When youre talking about the refugees, ari, trump seems to be wondering what all this fuss is about, the demonstrations and all the court orders and all that stuff. We did talk about it in peters piece, that president obama had done something similar back in 2011 when it came to iraqi refugees. So is there a difference here . There is a difference. This is all about basically donald trump saying, look, barack obama did this. When you look at that, what that was all about, though, was slowing the vetting and the entry for iraqis because it was a wartorn country based on a specific threat. It was never a complete ban and it didnt involve those other countries. When you look President Trump says this is about protecting us from terror brought in from overseas. If you look at the last 15 years and the terror attacks that have taken place on u. S. Soil and you compare the sources of those attacks with the countries on this list, is there overlap . This is the most important point and probably the largest legal problem for the administration. The travel ban list is these seven countries. It is true that they have been cited in prior laws. It is not true that they were cited by the congress as a source of immigrant exported terror. That is very important. And to your question, matt, you can look at some of the largest attacks weve had on the home front in 9 11. 15 of the 19 from saudi arabia, 2 from uae, egypt and lebanon. Other attacks a similar story. Pakistani immigrants on basically a basis of being a Family Member as well as that terrible orlando nightclub shooting, that was an american there born to afghan immigrants. So even when you look up the chain in the family, what we find here and what is an important distinction is none of these seven countries have actually sent people who have been involved in these deadly attacks. They were named for a different reason, matt. They were named as a place that were basically dangerous to visit when europeans on the Visa Waiver Program were coming in, not as a place sending killers. Thank you very much. Joined now by senator chuck schumer. Senator, nice to see you. Glad to be here. Everybody knew this was coming. Democrats knew, republicans knew. Anyone who paid attention to the campaign for the last year new that donald trump was going to do this in some form. You got very upset about this. Is it the breadth of the order, the implementation of it, the message, what . Yes. All of that. First, it was done in such a sloppy and careless way. Major agencies, the border patrol, customs didnt even know about it. There were major holes in it. It seems like back of the envelope. Even for those who might be for this, and i am certainly opposed, the slap dash way it was done was appalling and created the chaos. Much more importantly, this will make us less safe. John mccain is exactly right. It will encourage lone wolves here in america. They have created most of the terrorism. The biggest problems weve had with terrorism are not from these countries. In fact theres something called the Visa Waiver Program which allows people from france or belgium, places where there are known terrorists to come in, no questions asked. I dont even get what they were getting at because theyre not stopping terror, theyre instead doing what is in effect as Rudy Giuliani said a muslim ban. Now, that is against what america is all about. We set together on the day of the inauguration in washington a little more than a week ago. You said you thought it was crucial for democrats to be the bull work against some of the things donald trump wants to do. Not to sound like were on the playground but what do you intend to do about it . I will ask for a vote to repeal this. Senator feinstein has very carefully thought out legislation to repeal this. I hope Mitch Mcconnell allows that vote. Already 11 republicans have spoken out against it. We should repeal this and then we should silt down in a careful, thoughtful way, figure out ways we need to tighten up things against terrorism. Speaking out against it on the republican side is very different from them taking the next step. Lets hope theyll do it because this is what america is all about. You know, yesterday i sat with two families. One, a brave man from iraq who had served as a translator and his life was threatened because he was translating for our soldiers. He came in january 5th. Had the order been january 1st, he would have been dead. Another family who had parents, grandparents were americans. Suicide bomber blew up stuff in front of their house because of their affiliation, their religious affiliation. They too could have been dead. This is a blanket ban, hurts innocent people and doesnt stop terrorism. Its just appalling. All of this happens as many of Donald Trumps nominees for key cabinet positions are still waiting action. I think only two of 15 have actually been approved. Are you willing to connect the dots . Yes. Tonight another thing i will do is ask that they delay the nomination, the vote on mr. Tillerson for secretary of state because when he was questioned in committee and asked about a future muslim ban, because we didnt know that it was occurring, he was very mealy mouthed so im going to ask for a delay. Whether mcdonnell grants it is another thing. What about the other cabinet nominees. Were going to ask for every one. Youre going to be told youre taking political hostages. Arent the American People entitled to know the positions of these cabinet people before they come in . Real quickly, there is word that President Trumps pick for the Supreme Court could be announced as early as today or tomorrow. Given what happened with Merrick Garland last year how messy is this going to get . Were not looking for pay back but were looking for two things. Number one, a candidate who will be in the mainstream. The last four nominees to the Supreme Court, two by a democratic president , two by a republican president got bipartisan support. Has the white house reached out across the aisle . They have asked in general our views with nothing specific. Senator chuck i told them we wanted a mainstream judge. Lets hope and pray he listens. Senator chuck schumer. Nice to have you here this morning. Thank you very much. Why dont we bring in Nicolle Wallace and jerry bash. He served as chief of staff at the Defense Department and cia and is now an nbc news National Security analyst. Good morning to both of you guys. Nicolle, lets start with you. Donald trump said he was going to do these things in the campaign and, lo and behold, in all the chaos he did do these things. Were you surprised by what happened over the weekend . Well, i think that matt hit the nail on the head. It was the implementation that destabilized sort of the political mood, which was already very, very shaky after Donald Trumps rather you know, i think Steve Kornacki said it was a political shock to the system. Even if you are a widely enthusiastic supporter of a ban of immigration to these seven countries, it was implemented in a manner that is far less than methodical or sound. And less than 36 hours before implementing it, they had to roll back key elements so it seems they werent prepared for the fallout. For all those people whose hair is on fire, it does aptly describe whats going on on windchi capitol hill, the checks seem to be appointees like general kelly and general mattis. That played out. General kelly suggested letting in green card holders and that will begin to calm the political waters. What does that tell you about all the people around him because he made these executive orders without consulting a lot of these people. It throws into the spotlight something that i know kept jeremy up last night which is the addition of steve bannon to the National Security council and the intermingling of Campaign Promises and Campaign Staff in the deadly Serious Business of this countrys National Security. That move to put steve bannon at the National Security table, how unusual, how troubling is it to you . Its a strong break from precedent. In the obama administration, the director of National Intelligence and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff had a regular standing invitation to that principals Level Committee meeting. Now they have basically said someone who is the editor of breitbart, a website, can be there but the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff has to get an invitation. Going back to the executive order, jeremy, there obviously are people who think that this is going to make us safer, donald trump among them. You have heard from some key republicans and senator schumer. He thinks this will be used as a powerful tool by the very people were trying to diminish. Counterterrorism requires focus, it requires following leads, penetrating plots. If you put an entire civilian populous under suspicion, youre not going to go after the true threats. With the stroke of a pen, the president has handed isis a major propaganda victory. They have been on social media all weekend basically inspiring,in citing people to attack americans. This is not going to make us safer at all. Both of you, thank you very much. I appreciate that. Lets head over to mr. Roker for our very first check of the weather. Hey, al. Nice stretch. Well, we are looking for a little bit of a clipper coming off the midatlantic coast bringing snow into parts of new jersey. This next one comes in and well look at that in the next half hour. Plenty of sunshine from the southwest into southern california. Were going to get to vo maybe it was here, when you hit 300,000 miles. 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