The next of your people. These were the final words from the man in black. It was before he killed the journalist and it is believed the same man killed the journalist james foley last month. It is a propaganda technique and it is to gain attention. By gaining attention they gain recruits and they gain notoriety. The terrorism expert says beheading journalists is taking things to a new and disturbing level. He doesnt think isis will stop and neither does swalwell who is meeting with egyptian leaders and we spoke to him by phone. We cannot bury our head. We will pretend this is not going to affect us. It will unless we act. Swallow wants to create a coalition to fight isis. I am worried about them. Still journalists continue to be targets. Thats why the south asian journalist is considering sending a message to members to be careful. I think it is a shame. I think it is a slap into the face of journalism. They promise a Firm American response which could come in the form of airstrikes a
An address to congress tonight. And stocks getting a slow start to the week. The s p falling for a fifth straight monday. Today is tuesday, anyway, february 12th, 2013. And squawk box begins right now. Asian markets shrugging off the tests in north korea. But markets in china, taiwan remain closed. North korea says a miniaturize ed Nuclear Missile was tested. The u. S. Ambassador to south korea responding to all of this. Its a very provocative act that undermines Regional Peace and stability and i think it would be critical for us to coordinate very closely with you and our colleagues in south korea going forward. Were going to talk more about washingtons reaction and what this all means for geouncertainty and our guest hosts for this hour, Jared Bernstein who works as the chief economist for joe biden. Tony is joining us and Capital Alpha markets managing director Chuck Gabriel. Theyre also going to talk state of the union. John harwood sat down with dave axlerod yesterday. He will jo
Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Its virtually unheard of, a pope admonishing a u. S. President ial candidate. In this case, donald trump over his immigration plan. And trump quickly fired back. It began when pope francis, returning home from his trip to mexico, took a reporters question about trumps pledge to build a border wall. And in his answer, implied that trump is not a christian. It was a highlevel rebuke to say the least, but true to form, trump is not turning the other cheek. Nbcs katy tur has details. Mr. Trump, the pope made a statement about you. Reporter donald trump proving today there is no thing and no one too sacred for his political ire. He actually said that maybe im not a good christian or something. Its unbelievable. Reporter the lapsed presbyterian lashing out athe head of the Catholic Church after pope francis was asked about trumps plan for a border wall between the u. S. And mexico
Nations Law Enforcement telling them to, quote, dont be too nice. But we start with whats going on inside the white house and the future of healthcare in this country. Joining me now is kirsten hagland, a conservative commentator and zalita max well, the director of progressive programming for sirius xm and former director of progressive media for the clinton campaign. Let me start with you. The week has been more some would say unusual, i would say crazy, than the preceding weeks and every week seemed crazy to me, but this is particularly crazy. So we end it now with the chief of staff coming in, general kelly, after last weekend we saw spicer going out and all of the up and down upheaval in between as a conservative, how do you try and make some rational sense out of this . Well, i think as you said quite eloquently rationality is not necessarily a word that can apply to the political situation right now and i think that frustrates so Many Americans no matter what side of the politic