there on the right, an active duty combat medic. thank you both for being with us. thank you. thank you. why did you want to fill the gallery with people of muslim faith? to send an important signal there are no second class citizens in america. everyone is welcome to the american table, we re all equal and it s not okay to say that muslims can t emigrate. have to carry i.d.s or anything like that. you know, our country has grown from the ugly periods before. you know? the chinese exclusion act. japanese internment. segregation. anti-catholic sentiment. anti-jewish sentiment. we won t go back to the ugly days and inviting the colleagues to invite muslims guests, that s what we had in mind and stand up to it and one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. muslims, to. elijah clearly you disagree
and, richard, anymore about the victims? reporter: we re being told that nearly all of the victims among the dead and injured were german tourists. almost all of them from one particular german tour group that went to the old city. the main tourist hub in istanbul on a tour bus this morning. toured the sites. then the group actually split in two with some people going shopping and others staying with the guide. and it was the group that stayed with the guide that was approached by this suicide bomber. the guide reportedly tried to yell, say go ahead, way, go ahe alert the group that something terrible was about to happen but the bomb went off. the guide was also injured in the leg and then so many people were killed and injured. ten dead. 15 injured. most of them germans from that group and also some other foreigners who were in the area. wow. i know you know that area so
that last night saying maybe she isn t so inevitable after all. we see the battle lines redrawn. kate? thanks so much. let s turn to nbc s ron mott from new hampshire. ron, what did chelsea clinton have to say? reporter: well, it s a busy day for her today, kate. good afternoon. you see some of the campaign staff out here planning to sign up some volunteers. the event we think they know how loud i can talk so i stepped outside. she spoke about the family an power of her mother and believes in her mother. chelsea gave birth in 2014 to a young girl. she s also pregnant now with baby expected this summer so she opened the day talking about early childhood education and something that secretary clinton says she is very much committed to. chelsea is fielding questions from a lot of people about all manner of things, criminal justice, foreign policy, you
u.s. military power in the region whose credibility is vitally important to keeping the peace. so hopefully the iranians will turn back the vessels and the crews and do it rapidly and put this behind us. general barry mccaffrey, thank you very much. as we heard from democratic whip steny hoyer who will be attending in short order the president s state of the union address, this will be part of the backdrop tonight. all we know is what jim miklaszewski initially reported from the pentagon and that is that these two vessels, one of which apparently had mechanical problem. they re called riverine vessels and that kind of sweeps up an entire category of u.s. navy vessel. again as we ve been saying if you re familiar with the film apocalypse now, that type of
i m retired navy, but i still use the lingo, and that s exactly what task saturated means and people focus on the one thing at hand and they don t think about the other things they need to keep in mind. no apology necessary, it is a great phrase and a net gain for all of us linguistically. also with us on the telephone, u.s. army retired four star general barry mccaffrey, a military analyst for nbc news. general mccaffrey, what was your reaction what you heard this headline and now when you ve learned the subsequent reporting? well, everyone is going to try to make sure that the tendency to escalate this is tamped down. and obviously there s a lot yet to learn technically about what has occurred. however, i think this is very bad news. why didn t the navy have surveillance of their two small boats? why wasn t there a report