about the issue i ll talk about today? of course i ll talk about isis but today we re talking about is a community in which half of the people don t have jobs, we re talking about a community in which there are hundreds of buildings that are uninhabitable. that was bernie sanders in baltimore last week, sort of taking a question from a reporter about isis that question in response to a directive to reporters from his campaign spokesman not to ask the vermont senator about the islamic state. sanders has avoided taking, talking about terrorism, an issue that dominated the campaign trail in the wake of attacks in paris and san bernardino. new poll shows terrorism is now the number one priority to americans even over the economy and that s a dramatic change from just one month ago as you can see there. while hillary clinton s campaign is reportedly confident this will benefit her a new survey found concerns over a major attack in the u.s. has not
isis. but today we re talking about a community in which half of the people don t have jobs. we re talking about a community in which there are hundreds of buildings that are uninhabitable. that was senator bernie sanders in baltimore on tuesday. sanders wanted to keep the conversation on socioeconomic issues in the black community. senator, thanks for coming on. let me get you to first react to this full-fledged complete poll on donald trump s plan, the large majority of the country against it. what is your initial reaction? my reaction is that demagogues historically try to play people off against each other. what we have seen in the last many years in this country is people playing whites against blacks, men against women, straights against gays, native
but today what we re talking about is a community in which half of the people don t have jobs. we re talking about a community in which there are hundreds of buildings that are uninhab uninhabitable. that was senator bernie sanders frustrated at a news conference in baltimore when he was asked about his press secretary request of reporters to, quote, stay on topic, and not to ask about isis. we re back and here with me again is republican strategist katie burke. also joined by hallie jackson and steve kornacki. steve, i ll start with you. as the campaign has taken a turn to national security, he s looked uncomfortable during debates and then like a moment like that, it just adds to this idea that he doesn t like to deal with national security issues. it s funny, i think just a few moments ago, we said this was the race, this was the climate, this was the year that bernie sanders career had been
face very different futures. and they think about the current political tensions in very different ways. are you afraid when you re on the streets? i wouldn t say i m afraid. certainly more anxious. i guess more on the alert. reporter: have you ever felt personally you are going to explode? you come up here every day and look at all this. basically where we are, it s to learn, to live a peaceful life, just live like anybody else. live like anyone else, a peaceful live. aman is joining me now, a fascinating life of the two college kids with different perspectives. i find it fascinating that they face humiliation from the israeli government. absolutely. to try to understand this current cycle of violence, one of the reasons palestinians will always say is the humiliation and frustration that the young people are experiencing, these are young people who don t have jobs. unemployment is rampant throughout eastern parts of
parts of london and et cetera, where it s really they re many islamic nations inside of these places. there s places that the police won t go. you add in the imams in the mosque, oh, yeah, it s the french s fault you don t have jobs, you can see how quickly they ll become radicalized. germany alone is going to have 800,000 this year. other countries are having 10, 20, 30,000. the larger countries are accepting that. and the problem is it s not how do you solve today s crisis, it s how do you solve the crisis a year or two down the road? the war and the fighting in syria and in iraq, it s not abating. there is no clear winner. the fighting is continuing to spread beyond those borders even. so the number of refugees that are going to try to leave that entire region and find their way to better a better environment in europe, that number is only going to increase. they re now seeing refugees as far away as afghanistan. what s interesting though is that all these folks are heading