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jim acosta where the president will make history tomorrow, being the first sitting u.s. president to visit ethiopia. thank you both. i want to go to washington now. major development. it is not every day that you hear one senator calling another essentially a liar. especially in that sacred chamber. it is exactly what happened. gop presidential hopeful ted cruz had words for mitch mcconnell. yesterday, the most powerful man in the senate. sunlen serfaty joining me from washington. take us through this. reporter: well poppy, cruz is really mad at mcconnell for procedural moves that he s making that cruz says are dishonest of mcconnell. cruz claiming that mcconnell promised him that he would not cut a deal and allow for a vote on something called the export-import re-authorization. this is something that many conservatives are against. ....
Punishable by prison time. president obama compared that to legalized racism and said kenya s approach to gay rights is flat-out wrong. when you start treating people differently not because of any harm they re doing anybody, but because they re different that s the path whereby freedoms begin to erode. and bad things happen. and when a government gets in the habit of treating people differently those habits can spread. in ethiopia, that is where the president is heading next. jim, it was widely expected that president obama would go there, if you will. he would address this. and we knew it was going to be controversial. what do you make of the words that he chose? well poppy, you re right. ....
Patrols. they re also asking new yorkers to be vigilant. if you see anything out of place, please report it to law enforcement anyway. boris, thank you very much. i want to go now to sun lishgthe white house. they had a trial run at the navy yard all those security elements responding. what are they doing there in washington specifically at the white house? reporter: well poppy, there is definitely some increased security jitters here just this morning at the white house just a few minutes ago the secret service cleared pennsylvania avenue cleared lafayette park right in front of the white house where a lot of tourists usually mill about. that situation is over just in the last moment tourists allowed to come back up to the white house fence but this sort of jittery security response how quickly they are responding to these sorts of potential threats underscores how on edge a lot of law enforcement is around the security threat. ....
Released from five years of captivity in afghanistan in exchange the united states transferred five guantanamo inmates to qatar for one year. that deal expires on monday. u.s. and qatar officials are meeting to decide what to do with the men now. let s talk about it with tom fuentes, kimberly dozer and bob baer. when you look at this, you have the u.s. that has a say. you have qatar that has more of a say because they are holding these guys. and afghanistan, the taliban in afghanistan has somewhat of a say as to what happens. what s the safest thing for the world to happen to these guys? well poppy, let me put it this way. what s going to happen is they are going to send these guys to pakistan who will promise to watch them and they ll get back into the taliban one way or another. i don t think it s particularly catastrophic for us in the sense that five loose guys back in ....
Seriously are the authorities taking it? reporter: well poppy, authorities are definitely taking it seriously in light of what happened over the weekend in waco. the bulletin is based on unsubstantiated information from an informant who claims to have obtained it from members of the bandidos and another group called the black widows. you know the texas department of public safety issued this warning, saying they believe some members of the bandidos were actually giving the group grenades and c-4 explosives to retaliate against police for what happened in waco texas, over the weekend. i want you to listen to what the waco police department has to say about this new threat. the incident that occurred here sunday afternoon was an absolute tragedy. however, those of you that were there know that we did absolutely nothing to start that. we would ask you to remember ....