decisions are made inside kim s inner circle. who, for instance, he says will come up to kim and say, don t do that, boss? glean says chinese president xi jinping can t stand kim. brian todd, thanks very much. joining us, the state department deputy spokeswoman, marie harf. thanks very much for coming in. i want to get to jim sciutto s exclusive report. he was in the poseidon surveillance plane. what are the chinese up to from the u.s. perspective? why is this becoming such a major source of concern, these manmade islands they re building hundreds of miles off the chinese coast? it really is the pace and the scope of how they ve really upped their efforts to reclaim some of this land. you saw it firsthand here. i was just in china with my boss secretary kerry, who in every single meeting he has, starting with the president of china all the way down raised this issue because we are concerned it could raise tension
lying to agents about travel to somalia. he was put on probation for three years. a short time ago in phoenix, the fbi began searching the apartment he shared with the other gunman. let me catch you up on what police say happened in that dallas suburb of garland last night. officers say simpson and his roommate drove up jumped out of their car and began shooting. they hit an unarmed security guard before being shot and killed by police. inside the building hundreds were attending inging a mohammad cartoon contest. i want to look into the past of these gunmen. what more have you found out? we found the court documents of those prior terrorism related arrests. let me just break this down for you. this came out of arizona in u.s. district court in 2010 and the
condemning settlements in the west bank and jerusalem. an accusation the white house has denied. ahead of kerry s remarks, israel reportedly canceled a vote on building hundreds of new homes and settlements in east jerusalem. reuters reporting the request to postpone that vote came from prime minister netanyahu himself in an attempt to deescalate tensions with the outgoing obama administration prior to secretary kerry s remarks we re going to be listening to in a moment. also this morning, strong statements from trump who tweeted, we cannot continue to let israel be treated with such total disdain and respect. the beginning of the end was the horrible iran deal and now this. u.n. stay strong, israel. january 20th is fast approaching. to which prime minister netanyahu responded in the past hour tweeting president-elect trump thank you for your warm friendship and your clear-cut support for israel. as we wait for the secretary of