ali: i think so. so one of the larger the largest undocumented population among asians is actually the south korean community. and some of the organizing, community organizing that's happening with them suck the south korean community is absolutely incredible. so, in fact, with the supremearr this summer, last month, i should say, who was the opening speakers, if you will? it was the korean drum corps playing the traditional korean instruments. and they were there saying, you know, we are part of the asian community. we're young people. strts here . and just poll people and ask them, who do you really think daca is for, i would bet 99 percent would say, well, it's about mexicans and central americans, right. because the face of daca has become mexicans and central americans. why have asians really been left out of that conversation? do you think? do they not? do they not advocate for daca as a strategy around bringing more access to young people? ali: well, i think i mean, we have to acknowledge there

>> reporter: is better known by his stage name as wwe's star in the making mustafa ali. the high-flying charismatic former cop father of two and muslim. the story lines of pro wrestling aren't complicated. good guys versus bad guys. arabs and muslims, they've almost always been the bad guys. so was ali when he started. >> the worst thing that ever got yelled to me while performing is "i thought we killed you, osama." >> reporter: when one night he couldn't shake what he heard from a fan, ali decided he'd had enough. >> it was a young boy, maybe 6, 7 years old, jumps out of his chair and he put both of his fists up and it hit me like a ton of bricks right there. you just taught this kid to hate people that look like you. i never felt more disgusted with myself. >> reporter: he had to start all over again, trying to convince promoters in a post-9/11 america that muslim good guy -- >> ali! >> reporter: could work. >> you have to have a certain x factor to make it as a wwe superstar. and ali had it in spades. >> reporter: stephanie mcmahon, the brand manager for the wwe, wre

>> ali, right now it is sunrise in hawaii. the coast guard says it will be resuming its search at first light this morning. we just got information from the coast guard telling us crews will be searching on the air and water and more resources will be coming in to help with that search over the next couple of hours. they'll be looking not just at the water but also at inland canyons. this tour helicopter disappeared yesterday on the island of kauai. it was due back last night from a tour of the island's na pali coast. on board the green and white helicopter, one pilot and six passengers, including two minors. officials say that there is an electronic locator on that helicopter but no signals have been received yet on that locator. coast guard officials say the weather conditions are challenging, visibility is fairly low, winds today are forecast to be at around 28 miles per hour, creating some waves in the water. there's also scattered rain in the forecast. of course the island of kauai is 80% uninhabited. it's mostly covered

but a key detail emerged, ali. that some of the search warrant returns, when they were provided to defense attorneys as part of the discovery process, prosecutors have to turn over evidence. that when those search warrant affidavits, the reason why the federal government can go and get the information that they can get. some of those search warrant returns were provided blanked out, totally redacted. meaning that the government wasn't comfortable at this point sharing with the four men that have been charged in this case, some of the things that they are seeking and some of the reasons why they can get some of the information that they've been able to get. including search warrants of actual physical premises. so it's clear that there is definitely an ongoing investigation here. prosecutors definitely said that. but it's clear that there's things here that some of the people involved in this case, they don't want them to know about. and that's been filed under seal directly with the judge in this case. >> tom, than

ali velshi picks it up right now. hi, ali. >> may you have continued good luck this day. thank you. have yourself a good afternoon. it is, as katy says, friday december the 13th. and today i'm talking to you live from pittsburgh where i am moderating public education forum 2020 tomorrow with my colleague nbc news education correspondent. as the 2020 presidential hopefuls pitch their priorities by next week, the current president is likely to become the third president in american history to be impeached. house judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler says the house will act expeditiously after two days of divisive debate. this morning, nadler's committee approved two articles of impeachment against president trump in a party-line vote. the hyperpartisan dynamic fracturing american politics continued on full display as soon as the articles were approved. >> the house judiciary committee has voted articles of impeachment against the president. for abuse of power and obstruction of congress. >> i have never, in my entire life, seen such an unfair, rigged, railroad job against the pres

but then, ali, of course, because we're humans, we ruined it. we ruined it by -- by ganging up on this extremely talented phd who had helped to do the imaging of this. she'd built part of the algorithm that compaaptured the image. internet trolls see she's out there sort of discovering her work has made this possible goes viral. and suddenly, people are falling all over themselves saying she didn't really do this. it wasn't really her. it's because she's a woman. all of these terrible accusations. so we have this incredible achievement, right? this human achievement that really is just astounding and then we just hamstring ourselves by coming out with our ugliest side of our biases, our nature, all of that. so for me, that was 2019 in one nutshell for me. >> i think our viewers have come to know that i come to you when i have questions about things having to do with science and technology. and i called you up at one point several months ago. and you came in and we sat in my office and we talked about climate. we wanted to make the discussion tha

well, i recently spoke with tariq ali in london. the noted historian, activist, filmmaker, author, and an editor of the new left review. him to by asking elaborate on what is happening in this snap election. >> the first thing you have to understand is the british conservative party has effectively been taken over by the extreme right wing inside that party. and they are waging a very right-wing campaign on brexit, their own position has changed from when they were threatening a no-deal brexit to now, excepting a compromise with the european union. and boboris johnson has decidedo center the election on brexit because he thinks he can convince people that every other politician in the land, especially jeremy corbyn, will never push it through. the line corbyn has taken is achievesever deal he with european union will be put to the people and they will be given a choice again. now, this is unpopular with some of his own supporters but that is the deal. however, what corbyn has been arguing is he refuses to fight the election on brexi

a huge market e-commerce and africa and so far only one in 20 people are making use of it china us ali baba lead international trade platform could change that. also coming up the dockside off orange accord troops the telecoms companies falses drugs employ used to suicide. and the rise of e-commerce expelled bad news for south africa's glitzy mega-mall so. i'm on a good job. and this is do business africa welcome. online shopping is huge in most parts of the world in germany some 94 percent of internet use is over 16 shop online but the situation in africa is very different there are fewer than one in 20 people use e-commerce a huge potential market but there are hurdles regulations such as consumer protection are lacking in many regions and purchases often don't trust online retail infrastructure is another problem if roads are bad reliable deliveries can't be guaranteed rural regions often don't have street names house numbers and payment systems are often in adequate despite this potential online retail giants have been cautious amazon for instance invested in south africa and 2013

>> hey, ali. good to see you. president trump, in a tweet, said he is no longer going to read "christianity today." it's not clear he ever did. but look. why evangelicals have been steadfast in their support for president trump despite what they see, on one hand if you listen to conservative talk radio, you often times hear white evangelicals compare president trump to king cyrus. if you read the old testament in the book of isaiah, king cyrus was the persian king chosen by god to navigate through chaos. so that is the theological explanation they often uto justify their support for president trump. but white evangelicals for generations in their own self-interest and self-pragmatism identified policy goals. and then found politicians who helped them realize those policy goals. and so that is one of the reasons why despite president trump's interactions with stormy daniels, his -- his comments after the -- the charlottesville violence. the policy of separating children from their parents at the border. that is one

remember it was just yesterday, ali, the president said hurry up, go ahead. if you are going to impeach me, do it. you dared her, well, she's doing it. this as "the new york times" reports that the president is likely to beth impeached by christmas. joining us now daily beast reporter betsy swan and white house b correspondent for pbs ns hour yamiche alcindor. those are very strong words from speaker pelosi this morning. any idea when this is going to happen? the average person at home might feel like this is dragging. it is not dragging. the clinton impeachment in the senate alone took five weeks. >> this is really, really moving quickly andll the president was saying i want to be impeached fast, but the caveat is the democrats have already been doing that. democrats have the very beginning when nancy pelosi a few weeks ago announced an impeachment inquiry saying they were going to move expeditiously and they have done that. i iomean, that monster hearing week where they had public hearing back to back, six, seven hours, 12 hours at times, democrats have rea

this is good. >> ali: it's good! >> mahdi: it's very good, yeah. ♪ >> anthony: it was a hopeful time when i arrived in iran. a window had opened. there had been a slight loosening of restrictions since the election of president hassan rouhani, and there was optimism for a deal that could lead to an easing of crippling economic sanctions imposed because of iran's continued nuclear program. trade restrictions that have been very, very difficult for everyone. but there's a push happening between opposing factions in the government. on one hand, iranians are the descendants of ancient persia, an empire of poetry, flowers, a highly influential culture that goes back thousands of years. but the ruling clerical and military class are, at best, ambivalent; at worst, actively hostile to much of that tradition. severe religious based restrictions of speech, dress, behavior were ushered in by the rise of the ayatollah during the 1979 islamic revolution. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> anthony: so, how does one have fun in iran these days? thi

that's the big issue that she wants to have a ruling on and it's and it's a sensible way to proceed ali abunimah in chicago your reaction to this decision by the i.c.c. are you hopeful that the i.c.c. will move on to the next step and non-church comprehensive investigation well i think over the legal technicalities are important but we have to start by remembering what this means for palestinians for people on the ground and i think this will be welcome news for mothers like the idee who lost her son bests. daughter in law him and her granddaughters hal and jenna and a grandson when israel bombed their home in gaza on the 1st of august 24th scene that was so-called black friday when israel launched a massive indiscriminate bombardment of rafa using warplanes and thousands of highly and. inaccurate artillery shells and the idea of family is just one of almost $150.00 families in gaza who lost 3 or more members due to the israeli attack which killed in total more than 2200 palestinians including $551.00 children that's an average of 11 children a day killed during israel's attack on gaza

iraq's top shia leader has called for early elections and soon as possible grand ayatollah ali al sistani delivered the message through a spokesman pictured here last friday he said forming a new government is the only way out of the country's current crisis they've been more protests against the government after political leaders filed to choose a new prime minister mass demonstrations forced to step down last month al-jazeera dorsett is in baghdad she says this statement isn't telling from just any religious cleric the highest religious authority the grand ayatollah ali sistani him self issued a statement saying that the country must go to early elections in order to avoid chaos and uncertainty that is looming here this is all because the president has not been able to come up with a nominee for a replacement for the prime minister's post since he resigned on december the 1st that's because the constitution is not very clear about what needs to happen for the replacement to be nominated there is a constitutional crisis going on right now in this country and that's because the parliament

ali velshi is in for lawrence. >> your viewers do not have to get up in the morning to do this because anything good that happens on monday you will tell them about at 9:00 p.m. >> but it's live events. the impeachment hearing is live obviously on television at 9:00. that 9:30 emoluments hearing is one of those rare federal court hearings we're going to have audio of. so you're going to have watch in stereo. so it's going to be a crazy day. >>> ahead tonight, what does the white house want after weeks of protest that the administration couldn't participate in the impeachment proceedings, the white house's top lawyer has just rejected an offer to participate in the impeachment proceedings. and pelosi versus trump. the speaker of the house is taking the president head on as he attempts to derail the investigation into his ukraine actions. >>> plus at the end of the show what was the most shocking statement that came out of the trump administration this week? it is something that deserves a lot more attention than it got. but first tonight, the national security threat coming from the whi

campaigns, ali, they're like family. you have campaign organizers that are getting paid quite little amount of money to be living in states where they're not actively from and you're asking people to continue to back a candidacy and it comes to a certain point -- she hasn't been on the air waiwaves for sel months now and it became clear for kamala harris that the chance of mounting a comeback here, a significant comeback, was becoming that much more difficult. >> vaughn hilliard, thank you, joining us from montgomery, alabama. c this means that as of right now the debate stage will be made up entirely of white contenders. nbc senior politics editor and amy allison, the founder of she the people, a national network that seeks to engage more women of color in our election joins me now. seeks to and seems to, that's good. >> we actually do. >> we were talking about this earlier and saying this is the first candidate sort of -- who was considered adjacent at least to the front running candidates to leave and somebody said br

ali. >> hans, good to see you again in this show. hans nichols from west palm beach, florida. 2019's been a busy year at the white house. it began with a standoff to reopen the federal government and brought us the third impeachment of a sitting president in this country's history. and those are just the book ends. nbc chief white house correspond pt hallie jackson takes us through the year's highlights at the white house. >> 2019 started with fireworks over the longest government shutdown in history. are you still proud to own this shutdown? >> i'm very proud of doing what i'm doing. i don't call it a shutdown. >> after 35 # days of fighting over funding for the border wall, a presidential retreat that reopened the federal government and a state of the union delayed but delivered. >> it's called a state of the union. it's in the constitution. >> a week later? >> i just want to get it done faster. that's all. >> a declaration of a national emergency at the border. infuriating democrats and instantly setting off a court fight that con

but he was the friday prayer leader of tehran, which made him a major figure and his name was ali khomeini. well, of course, ali khomeini later on went on to be president of iran and is currently the supreme leader. at that time, he was an influential person but a lower ranking cleric and a young cleric by the standards of the time. so he came into the room where i was. where i was in solitary confinement. i spent, of the 14 months there, i spent about nine months of that in solitary. and i asked -- without really thinking about it, he and i entered a kind of interaction, iranian interaction, between host and guest. he was a guest in my space. i was the host. therefore, i have certain obligations as a host and he had certain obligations as a guest and we fell very easily into this pattern of interaction. so i insisted he sit down. i excused the fact i had nothing to off him to eat or drink because every host has to do, has to not do that as a host. serious shortcoming and we began to talk. and he asked me do you have any problems? anything that you are missing? i said sir, not really. i re

the politicians we want prime minister and a president to be elected by the people grand ayatollah ali al assad is listed and boersma distin is necessary for the nomination of a new prime minister and his the surgeon to no longer comment on political developments is regarded as pressuring political parties to choose someone protesters can separate out in silence also creates a leadership vacuum that some. fear could have worsened the crisis somewhat a whole team al-jazeera. well still ahead here on al-jazeera survivors of kazakhstan's a back and plane crash describe the hiring moments before the jet went down also the $1000000000.00 avocado industry in mexico that gangs buckling to control new stories after the break. hello again to welcome back to international weather forecast we're here across europe we do have a change of pattern right now and you can see here on the satellite notice the gray that you see here across central and also eastern parts of europe now some of this is clouds but that gray area that you see right there is actually low clouds and actually fog so very dense f

ali. >> what's giuliani trying to do here? i mean, what's he doing? what is he getting for this? is he working with the president for this? is someone paying him? is this in anticipation that he might be charged with something? >> he certainly could be because we know that he has been under investigation by federal authorities for his work related to ukraine. but what he's trying to do here is take the exact narrative that democrats have used against trump. that, essentially, they were trying to abuse their power. that trump was trying to use his power to pressure ukraine for negotiations. flip the entire script to make it that democrats and the obama administration, under joe biden in particular, were abusing their power. trying to cover things up. so he's trying to give an argument that it's, essentially, democrats guilty of all the things democrats say trump was guilty of. and we don't know if that's going to be believed by everybody but it's certainly giving fodder to the president's base. >> josh, good to see you. nbc news national political reporter. all right. senators are

ali baba uses the a link platform to help with statistical analysis machine learning and with generating personalized product recommendations one hurdle may be understanding the descriptions as for now these are mainly in chinese. much of china cyberspace remains cut off behind a great fire wall so the fact that chinese tech giant ali baba made the algorithms behind its ai platform public is a hugely surprising step one open source developers probably dreamed about in the pioneering beginnings. when the computer age was software was free to use then came the 1st companies that sold software for money and slowly programs became proprietary secrets the open source movement was a response to this development idealistic coders wanted to reintroduce freely accessible code and to this day open source those key principles it's free for everyone to study and use access develop and distribute. and everyone should contribute something. among the best known open source projects today are the firefox browser the operating system linux and the online encyclopedia. but open source software is not free

ali velshi is here right now. hey, ali. >> nice to see you, friend. >> you too. >> are you doing 5:00 today? >> i am. >> that's what you do because it's monday. >> i have a big smile on my face. >> have a great rest of your day. it's monday, december 16th. this is an enormously-solemn responsibility. just 48 hours before the house vote on whether to impeach the president of the united states, senate democratic leader chuck schumer is framing how the process could continue in the senate. in a letter that he wrote to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, his counterpart, it suggested the timetable for the trial and that it should be based on the rules that were adopted for bill clinton's impeachment trial in 1999. schumer also proposes the chief justice john roberts who would oversee the trial, issue subpoenas for four witnesses, including acting white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney. former national security advisor, john bolton. he says it's necessary to hear from these witnesses in order to get the full sto

>> well, ali, it's good to be with you. the major issue is making sure we have a fair trial in the united states senate. and if we're really going to call it a trial, that means that both sides get to bring the fact witnesses that they want. that's the way a normal trial would work. an abc poll came out today showing that 70% of the american public agrees, that if you're going to have a fair trial, you should have those relevant fact witnesses like john bolton, like mick mulvaney. so the very simple question is president trump keeps saying he's done nothing wrong, he wants all the facts out. well, send these witnesses down to testify and tell their stories under oath like all the witnesses in the house had to do. >> so to whaent end, though, senator? the polls as you see don't move much. do you think that having witnesses will move some of these republican senators? because no amount of evidence seems to be moving them. mitch mcconnell, lindsey graham have both said they don't even want to hear evidence and certainly don't

muhammad ali bus got the breaks, taking captain to batten at k forjust 16. naseem shah got three wickets the 16—year—old's best return in test cricket so far. the main resistance came from opener oshada fernando. he and wicket—keeper niroshan dickwella went on to get his first century. he was still there at the close, the final wicket for shah with the final ball of the day, reducing sri lanka to 212/7. pakistan just need three more bigots to clinch the test and the series. —— wickets. a good win for pakistan, and a good win for india, who chased down a big target to beat west indies and take their one—day series 2—1. the windies made 315/5 off their 50 overs, but india's openers gave them another good start — half—centuries for both rohit sharma and kl rahul. and then a top score of 85 from captain virat kohli took them within reach. they got to 316/6 with eight balls to spare. to golf, and australia's adam scott hasn't won a title in nearly four years, until now. his barren run came to an end after he emerged from a crowded list of conten

ali velshi is here now. >> i will be back at 2:00 and 5:00. it is thursday december 26th, search and rescues under way after an avalanche at a swiss ski resort. some officials might still be trapped. plus why are the holidays so tough for gig workers this year. changes in pay that have many people struggling to pay their bills and the biggest roll backs of the year, we're going to explain moves that could have the most devastating effects on the climate. two people have been injured at least following an avalanche. four others were rescued or freed themselves. there are no reports of missing persons so far. joining me now is ethan green, what are you hearing about this? >> well, really just the same media reports that you're hearing. it sounds like it was a popular ski place and it caught several people. sounded like there was a few people missing and i'm not sure if they have been recovered or not. >> what is the protocol for something like this? >>. >> it really depends on the situation. typically people are carrying a searchable device whic

ali baba uses the a link platform to help with statistical analysis machine learning and with generating personalized product recommendations one hurdle may be understanding the descriptions as for now these are mainly in chinese. much of china cyberspace remains cut off behind a great fire wall so the fact that chinese tech giant ali baba made the algorithms behind its ai platform public is a hugely surprising step one open source developers probably dreamed about in the pioneering beginnings. when the computer age was done software was free to use then came the 1st companies that sold software for money and slowly programs became proprietary secrets the open source movement was a response to this development idealistic coders wanted to reintroduce freely accessible code and to this day open source those key principles it's free for everyone to study and use access develop and distribute. and everyone should contribute something. among the best known open source projects today are the firefox browser the operating system linux and the online encyclopedia. but open source software is not

appears to have resonated i want to get your thoughts in particular on that but ali let's start with you we can you had a up an agency that's that's looking for investors what sort of investors are you looking for and why i think i mean the general trends in terms of protectionism populism. and it's always been negatively correlated towards investment and trade investment it is a very closely interlinked any destruction in the global trading or doing in the rules based multilateral system would lead to a negative impact towards f.d.a. inflows and we are seeing this now especially with regards to emerging economies now what this has led us to kind of rework or rethink is what are really really. be looking for in terms of attracting if the ai what kind of f.b.i. should we be aiming for and this is the question i think that has some clarity on the sentry looking for quantities in terms of really looking for quality f.b.i. and by quality i would mean transfer of knowledge and looking for skills talent and i think i have a lot to offer in terms of its own value proposition and i think man

he has expressed his admiration and his allegiance not only to the supreme leader of iran ayatollah ali khamenei but also the head of the courts force general hossam soleimani he has said that that is where his heart lies in iran and he is seen as a very close friend of the iranians in iraq and now that he's part of the parliament he's part of the ruling coalition in parliament that monopolization he is seen as a very very important ally within the iraqi government his organization the brother organization has been operational as a political party as a military has had a military wing as well since the 1980 s. with the help of iran and his presence at this event only highlights that this event is not a impromptu. protest that the people decided to actually storm the u.s. embassy in baghdad this shows that there were some planning that took place in terms of getting the leader of one of the most important parties in iraq to this event along with a crisis ali who is the head of his own political party as well known as the network his group also very active not only within the iraqi politi

i was ready to go about a year ago, ali. and really two or three weeks before -- before thanksgiving, i was ready to step out. and we learned just on the eve that my wife had been diagnosed with uterine cancer. and so we stepped back. that's the sort of thing that brings your -- your feet right back down to earth. i am so relieved to say that when we celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary in may, she is cancer free. >> that's amazing. >> it is. it is. incredible blessing. she got great care and she continues to be strong. and is very enthusiastic about my coming in. in fact, i continue to get encouragement about people -- from people about coming in from both folks i knew and total strangers that out of the blue said there's something missing in the field. so that brings me to the question you asked. you know, my range of life and work experience in and out of the private sector here in the united states and overseas provides me with experience solving a lot of problems. a lot of different kinds of problems. with a lot of d

ali. >> hans, thank you as always. hans nichols traveling with the president in london. up next, from increasing number of supermarkets in low income communities to expanding accessibility of school meals, 2020 presidential candidate julian castro has a sweeping plan to eradicate hunger here in the united states. he joins me next to discuss. plus, the supreme court hears its biggest second amendment case in nearly ten years. a case that tests the breadth of a person's right to keep and bear arms. we live -- we're live at the supreme court with the details. you're watching msnbc. welcome to the place where people go to learn about their medicare options... before they're on medicare. come on in. you're turning 65 soon? yep. and you're retiring at 67? that's the plan! well, you've come to the right place. it's also a great time to learn about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company.

and ali mohamed's goal—scoring has only provoked a positive response. close by, jewish and arab children from west and eastjerusalem play together, in a project known as team of equals. it's doing its bit to help bridge the divide in this complicated city. the organiser is also responsible for monitoring all discrimination in israeli football. ourjob is to make everyone understand that there is a difference between what you can do outside and what you can do in the football stadium. and i think, slowly but surely, everyone is moving in that direction in israel, and especially beitar. the atmosphere is very much changed in the past year. while things have calmed down, the real test will come if, or when, an arab—israeli joins this club, who steps out onto this pitch in the yellow and black colours of beitarjerusalem. in israel, pulling people together in a common cause is difficult, but at beitar, the new owner is showing a way to bring unity. alex capstick, bbc news, jerusalem. "a new era in human space flight" — with those words, the new starliner

they have been anti-government protests since october calling for political reform grand ayatollah ali al sistani the country's highest shia religious leader has been critical of politicians the not heeding the protestors demands but this week he declared he'll no longer get involved in politics some reports from not jeff and shia stronghold in southern iraq. as iraq slips deeper into political crisis the one man iraq has looked to for guidance is silent grand ayatollah ali al sistani is friday sermon the liver through his representative usually includes comments on political matters closely watched in streets and halls of government alike this week the cleric an announced he'd no longer speak on political issues and he passed a cryptic message to iraq's politicians explaining why. if you read history you'll find that the problem is not with the people who have wisdom and intellect but with those who don't listen to those who have wisdom and intellect. clerics close to stanley say his silence is a show of dismay that iraq's politicians are not heeding his advice to start his reclusion

deeper into political crisis the one man iraq has looked to for guidance is silent grand ayatollah ali al sistani is friday sermon the liver through his representative usually includes comments on political matters closely watched in streets and halls of government alike this week the cleric an announced his no longer speak on political issues and he passed a cryptic message to iraq's politicians explaining why. if you read history you'll find that the problem is not with the people who have wisdom and intellect but with those who don't listen to those who have wisdom and intellect. clerics close to stanley say his silence is a show of dismay that iraq's politicians are not heeding his advice to start his reclusion comes at a critical time on thursday president barham saleh said he would rather resign than appoint the nominee for prime minister danny seen as representing the status quo. what is the point of talking on political issues we are repeating the same points over and over again if they want to get advice they'll find in previous speeches. it's not the 1st time sistan has done

ali, you have been following this from london. you're normally based in teheran. there's people out there looking at this and they're thinking this has echos of benghazi and the iranian hostage crisis in '70s when students stormed the embassy in teheran. what can you tell us? >> that's right. it certainly does have echos of that and almost the same time of year and this is something that will make the u.s. very nervous. iranian fingerprints all over a seizure of an american embassy in the middle east. that brings up nightmarish memories in washington. but iran is playing this fairly quietly. the foreign ministry spokesman issued a very brief statement saying that america should get rid of its destructive policies in the region and blamed the u.s. of obscenity and bullying the iraqi people. beyond that they haven't issued any statement or warning being blamed for attack but, frankly, it would be hard for iran to disassociate themselves from this attack. the militia in iraq are firmly on the patronage of the revolutionary guard and the head of the international arm

so we know the call came in, ali, at about 6:30 this morning local time. now, just to kind set the scene for you here. the naval air station is a very busy base. there are some 10,000 people who come in and out of the base every single day. in fact, 6:30 in the morning is a busy time because if you can kind of see the road behind me, the bridge that leads to that entrance. that area is packed on a normal day. people just trying to come in. trying to come in the morning. so when we hear from officials what the scene was like this morning, we know that it was almost absolute chaos. in fact, i just spoke with the sheriff's captain who talked to me about what that scene looked like. he said that there was broken glass on the ground when he got there. some of the glass had blood. unfortunately, he saw some bodies there on the ground. so certainly a very chaotic scene. one final thing that i want to point out for you, ali, is among the eight injured, two of them are sheriff's deputies. that's because they were among the first to arrive. they engaged in a sort of

it simply won't be that easy and it will last years, ali. a great day for johnson, but, you know, britain is still a deeply divided country in spite of this victory. >> so why then if britain is so divided and people are still in their corners about this, did that happen? why did he get an overwhelming success? >> two things. two words. number one, brexit. and number two, corbyn. the main opposition leader 70-year-old jeremy corbyn, a hard left candidate was simply deeply, deeply unpopular. and, ali, there may be lessons here for the left in the united states because one of the lessons of this election in britain was that if centerist voters see a left wing candidate who they don't like, they are quite likely to go for a deeply flawed conservative candidate. they'll vote to the right. and i think, you know, it could be bernie sanders and elizabeth warren are both looking at this election possibly learning lessons from it. >> bill, good to see you, as always. thank you, sir. that's it for me. i'll see you at 3ic which. right now katy tur pick

ali, klobuchar may have the buzz this weekend, as you mentioned polls show she has a lot of work to do in iowa. dop they have more plans to try to close that gap? >> reporter: well, gigi, buzz at some point has to amount to something. after the last debate for klobuchar it amounted to dollar signs. she raised over $1 million in the hours after that debate performance, and that's something we've seen from her over the course of the last few debate performances. her getting enough high marks to earn herself an extra million or so dollars after each are those things she's putting right back into organizing on the ground in states like iowa and ticking up in polls slowly, but not high enough she's yet in double digits, but is high enough to be qualifying each round as the debate qualifying thresholds have gotten higher and higher. while she's trying to climb in the polls, other candidates are also taking their own approach to getting about even with her in some of these early poll os. especially in states so important like iowa. we talked about that and how it makes her feel. listen to wha

ali, we know about the fortified zone, the green zone, heavily fortified. talk to me about how it is these iranian-backed demonstrators were actually able to breach the barrier? >> yasmin, as you mentioned, it is a huge zone. earlier in the day these protesters, shia militia protesters backed by iran were holding funerals for those fighters that had been killed in those air strikes. once those funerals had finished, the numbered gathered and gathered and marched towards the embassy, apparently uninterrupted by any security forces, and before a very short period of time were outside the outer layer of the u.s. embassy. it didn't seem particularly hard for them to reach that area. it's actually breaching the embassy that's a much bigger task. as you mentioned, it's a huge embassy. it's on 100 acres. that's roughly the side of the vatican city. i think, if i'm not mistaken, it's the u.s.'s most expensive embassy built in a war zone at the time. so it's very heavily fortified. one has to put into perspective that the protesters that broke in there probably brok

ali arouzi is in tehran with us. walk us through how this all came together and was this a good, as those watchers might be considering now, was it a good swap? >> reporter: well, it was a swap and that's a good thing because it secured the freedom of at least two people, and it is a significant case because it marks a rare occasion where there's been cooperation between washington and tehran, two olden mes that usually can't agree on anything, also the timing was unusual. it comes during a period of extremely high tension between the two sides, since president trump pulled out of the nuclear deal. those tensions are showing no signs of going away, so it's surprising that this happened. mr. wang had been in a notorious prison here for three years. he always claimed his innocence, even though he had been charged with two counts of espionage, and had been given a ten-year sentence. just the fact that he didn't have to spend ten years in an iranian prison is a good thing, that he'll now be reunited with his family. rich