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Side of the aisle for a long time who tried to give voice to some of the issues that these muslim american, muslim women, the first to be elected to congress being sworn in today and some of the other firsts represent, it is something different to have members of those communities on the house floor voting in the committee rooms with the ability to shape legislation and to lend their voices as members to the debate. i mean, i was struck by the picture the white house put out yesterday of that meeting in the situation room about the shutdown where everyone around the table was a white man, exce...

Communities. one happens to be somali and the other is iraqi. both would have been banned by trump's measure. >> it is interesting because the -- really one of the few people that directly came from overseas involved recently in on attack was the wife in the san bern bern d-- san bernardino ats from egypt. >> the other two, people are wondering why this list was -- why these seven countries in particular were compiled and the answer is, these countries happen to be unstable. we can't vet ref fuf geugees. if ref fugees and people fleein war, where should they come from? stable countries where t...

State.com joshua keating joins us now. josh, where does it stand right now? are there odds on any particular favorite? >> the markets like merkel and pope francis. part of that might be because of name recognition they are better known than the other favorites on the list. the thing to remember is the noble peace prize is a particularly hard one to predict unlike science prizes we saw awarded earlier in the week, it's not always clear the criteria. sometimes they are awarding a diplomat that's concluded a peace deal and sometimes an activists in authoritative country. they have thrown some cur...