imminent does starts right now. thank you so much, reverend sharpton. hello everyone. i m alicia mendes. we begin this saturday with america on edge of a financial cliff. a test it presents for congress and for the new house speaker, kevin mccarthy. a huge test for him, specifically given how much he gave away to become speaker, handing away power to those who prioritize chaos over governing, which is not what you want when the task at hand is paying the nations bills. instead of working to keep the global economy on track, the biggest headlines we saw this week about republicans where this was the circus surrounding republican george santos it is very complicated relationship. nbc news confirmed he lied about his mother, attack being in the towers of 9/11, turns out his mom wasn t even in the united states during those attacks. this week santos also denied claims he stole money from a veteran s gofundme page that was set up set up to help a man s dying dog. are republicans o
imminent does starts right now. thank you so much, reverend sharpton. hello everyone. i m alicia mendes. we begin this saturday with america on edge of a financial cliff. a test it presents for congress and for the new house speaker, kevin mccarthy. a huge test for him, specifically given how much he gave away to become speaker, handing away power to those who prioritize chaos over governing, which is not what you want when the task at hand is paying the nations bills. instead of working to keep the global economy on track, the biggest headlines we saw this week about republicans where this was the circus surrounding republican george santos it is very complicated relationship. nbc news confirmed he lied about his mother, attack being in the towers of 9/11, turns out his mom wasn t even in the united states during those attacks. this week santos also denied claims he stole money from a veteran s gofundme page that was set up set up to help a man s dying dog. are republicans outraged?
attacks. that is something that everyone has access to. so that s why we don t that s where the difficulty comes in, right, in figuring out is there a direct line, has this person traveled to somewhere where they may have been influenced by a group or are they online which doesn t invalidate the idea that this may be a radically inspired act, but we re trying to figure out those connections. that s precisely correct. if it s difficult to do it after the attack, imagine how difficult it is to do before an attack occurs. one thing with this attack being in spain is no stranger to terrorism. 192 people died in 2004 in a transit attack. spain s proximity to northern africa. in several meetings i ve had with u.s. officials point to the northern africa region as, hey, this is an area that is a problem and is going to become a big problem when it comes to isis, al qaeda, people leaving iraq and syria and going to northern africa. geographically it s not a long
suddenly, he was gone. so investigators will be spending all weekend poring over all of the evidence that was recovered from inside the town home and also had several crime scenes. it is going to be very important here. investigators can confirm this potential isis link. if you are looking at this attack being, perhaps, the bloodiest one on american soil with ties to foreign terrorists since 9/11. you hear from the family of farouk themselves. their attorneys saying they don t want anybody to jump to any conclusions but quick to judge that they want the fbi to come up with conclusive evidence that he was radicalized. let s talk more about this with cnn law enforcement analyst, jonathan gilliam and national security analyst, peter ber kin. he is also the author of united states of jihad investigating america s home grown terrorists. let me begin with you. this radio station that is claiming the shooters were isis
do you feel differently about him now? i could be happy with him as a nominee. you haven t picked your person either, like me. not solid. i have a few preferences. and what do you think? i think newt, especially when it comes to foreign policy debates, he s a man that he has a lot of knowledge in that head and it s very impressive to the american people who a lot of these things are above most normal american people. you are like what is that foreign policy, what are we talking about here, what is that? he s very intelligent when he speaks. i thought it was great the other night when he looked at mitt and said like mitt said and gave him kudos with something he agreed with instead of attack being and i appreciated that. the rest of the guys sound like an ap course in high school compared to newt. not like obama, apologizing for america.