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My gosh, i'm beginning to think there's more freedom in north korea sometimes than there is in the united states. when i go to the airport i have to get in the surrender position. people put hands all over me. i have to provide photo i.d. and a couple different forms and prove i really am not going to terrorize the airplane. but if i want to go vote, i don't need a thing. >> this weekend mike huckabee, rand paul, ted cruz and other potential 2016 presidential candidates gathered at the new hampshire freedom summit, an event organized by citizens united and americans for prosperity. that offere...

Wars," producer and writer of the film by the same name. jerry, you were in somalia. there's footage of you being on a rooftop with incoming fire from al shabaab fighters, basically. what do you make of the conflicting reports about whether al shabaab or al qaeda did it, and who is al shabaab and how are they different from al qaeda? >> right, well, first of all, al shabaab was a group of relative nobodies in 2006 during the bush administration. they were a sort of outlier in a group called the islamic courts union, which was largely made up of almost exclusively made up of somali actors. and ...

Easily discernible, but a significant number, nonetheless. >> ron allen, clearly, a continuing situation. thank you for joining us from nairobi and stay safe and thank you for reporting for us. >> reporter: thank you. >> for more on the standoff and the group that is claiming speedometer, i would like to turn now to nbc terrorism analyst, roger cressey, who joins me from washington. nice to see you this morning. >> you too, melissa. >> tell me about the group, tal shabaab? >> they were the military wing of the islamic courts. that took over south somalia in the 2006/2007 time frame. and the th...

The usual thing in the republican world, business interest want immigration reform. >> they wanted it in 2006/2007, too. >> right, but you have a republican establishment that is panicked. >> what's interesting about that, that establishment, i don't think of that establishment having a great amount of control over the grassroots hot button issues like this, but what i'm seeing play out here is maybe they do have a lot of control. >> i don't think it's as hot an issue as people think it is. if you put just a question of amnesty up, that gets the grassroots riled up, but the question of the bro...

The usual thing in the republican world, business interest want immigration reform. >> they wanted it in 2006/2007, too. >> right, but you have a republican establishment that is panicked. >> what's interesting about that, that establishment, i don't think of that establishment having a great amount of control over the grassroots hot button issues like this, but what i'm seeing play out here is maybe they do have a lot of control. >> i don't think it's as hot an issue as people think it is. if you put just a question of amnesty up, that gets the grassroots riled up, but the question of the bro...