wording that we ve pretty much heard from him consistently now? reporter: don t expect him to make news here. there is not going to be anything that s breaking. having said that, it will be a little bit different, i think, than what we did hear from the pentagon just because the nature of what he s going to be talking about with these officials is a little bit different. otherwise i think this is really about, as you said, calming americans fears, making a show before he heads out for his vacation to let people know it s safe for you to go on vacation. okay. chris, thank you very much. and developing now, we have tu informati new information on the type of visa one of the shooters used to get into this country. as reported, tashfeen malik entered the u.s. on that so-called fiancee visa. msnbc has now learned that the department of homeland security actually considered a plan to vet social media for those types of visas but did not adopt it. ari melber will join me in a short few
america, the cwa, their president saying in this statement just a minute ago bernie has called for a political revolution, and that is just what americans need today. so the cwa has about 700,000 members. sanders had also picked up earlier endorsements from the postal workers union, from a nurses union. that said, hillary clinton s campaign can claim endorsements from some major unions that total about 12 million in members. so hillary clinton dwarfing bernie sanders when it comes to total support from unions at this point. you say that debate is coming up on saturday night between hillary and bernie. that will be held in manchester, new hampshire. new hampshire, the site of the first in the nation democratic primary. the most recent polling out of new hampshire again, this is interesting given the relative lack of attention to the democratic race lately, their most recent poll does show bernie sanders ten points ahead of hillary clinton. and that lead-off primary state. we should qu
strength, that generation of americans who have stepped forward to serve in uniform. what a good man that is. secretary of defense leon panetta. the man that had a lot to do with catching bin laden. speaking at the pentagon, right on the ten-year anniversary of the attacks on the pentagon almost ten yearation. this morning wall street held a moment of silence to commemorate the vick testimonies of the f9/ attack there s. a moment in history, retired lieutenant corner report darlington in the white house bunker that morning with vice president dick cheney and wrote about the book entitled 24 hours inside the white house bunker . and traveling with president bush, consulting out in with purple strategies. i want to get to the cheney part and what happened in the white house. you and president bush, with him
report of a terror threat on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks stepped up concerns around the country. but our nbc news/ wall street journal poll out this week findings the number of americans that say we re safer now is on the rise. 4 percen 2% say safer than befo. and a hike from a year ago. one-third say as safe as we were before the attacks. one in five says we re less safe. we ll be right back.
back to hardball. the news of a potential terrorism threat right now using car bombs in bridges and tunnels in both new york and here in washington broke last night. it s already added to the heightened security in both cities, and with this weekend s 9/11 memorial events marking what happened ten years ago. and calming americans and tell them to remain vigilant. i m not sure what you re supposed to make of those two calls. listen to the vice president explaining the threat on today early this morning. this is information from a credible source that indicated this was an intent. we ve not been able to confirm, nor that source confirm that we know who the individuals may be that are trying to find access to the united states, and but we re taking it seriously. joining us now, nbc terrorism experts, analysts rather. i don t know if anybody s an