homeland security, the two families presented themselves to border patrol agents in laredo, texas. this new development immediately got the attention of, well, presidential candidate donald trump who tweeted eight syrians were just caught on the southern border trying to get into the u.s. isis maybe? i told you so. we need a big and beautiful wall! nbc s mark potter is in miami monitoring this for us. mark, good morning. what do we know about these families? hey, jose. what we know is that the department of homeland security is saying officially that eight syrian family members, two sets of parents and four children, walked up to u.s. customs officials, presented themselves at the official port of entry at laredo, texas, on tuesday. they came from mexico, and again, they walked up to the agents. we re told by officials they made no efforts to sneak into the country at all. the two women and the four children have been taken to a processing center in dilly,
group. rick: well, the wider group is the vast majority of muslims in the world who of course are peace loving people and is that who he s trying to get the attention of, muslims who might be in pakistan, you know, who might be a little bit desperate for whatever reason right now and looking for something to did? right, well, i think he sees they re not unintelligent and the media wing of al-qaeda that crafts some of these messages for bin laden and the other, i don t want to call them sophisticated, but they understand how the world works and during a natural disaster like flooding in pakistan there s opportunity and they ve shown in the past, extremist groups, whether we re talking taliban, hamas, elsewhere have shown during times of natural disaster they ve been able to step up, provide that immediate on the ground relief and from their perspective that s great publicity and basically they re in a position in pakistan where they can reach out to the general population and say,