Coming up. The path to the white house in 2016. It apparently includes comments on president obamas religious faith from some potential gop candidates. Hey, there, everyone. Its high noon in the east. 9 00 a. M. Right here in the west. Welcome to weekends with alex witt from los angeles. We begin with developing news. A somaliabased terror group is issuing new calls today for terror attacks on western malls. The Group Al Shabaab released a new video overnight calling for westgatestyle attacks on Shopping Centers across the world, including the mall of america in minnesota. Now, it is the same group that claimed responsibility for the attack on a mall in nairobi, kenya, back in 2013. Already, the mall of america says they are taking the threat seriously and will have enhanced security. The department of Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson is urging people to be vigilant. I would say that if anyone is planning to go to the mall of america today, theyve got to be particularly careful.
Ties, and the president pushing back today on all of that as, quote, fake news. Meanwhile, the immigration front, the travel ban coming out as early as this week, and the New York Times reporting today dhs getting tougher, reportedly, emboldened by Donald Trumps policies. The white house starting to pick the contractors i mentioned to build the border wall. Well explain all of that. Lets get right to it with howard dean and kristen tate, conservative columnist for the hill and author of government gone wild. Richard stengel, former top diplomat of the Obama White House and msnbc analyst and joe conson, author of it can happen here a book about the risk of authoritarianism inside the u. S. , a ton to get to. Let me start with governor dean on a republican here in darrell issa calling for an independent investigation of russia. Most interesting thing about that, darrell issa, one of the previous chairs that delighted in the benghazi investigation and all this other stuff. So what has hap
Now. Lets talk to Nick Peyton Walsh andize a swarish. Nick is at the border. I am going to get to you first. Watching your reports all morning. It looks very dicey. Whats happening there as we speak . Reporter dana, i am about a foot inside the line here on the border seemed to be early on. It is a tense atmosphere. Drawing many numbers of the crowd, demonstrating with the venezuelan riot police next to me. The shields were across their face and they lowered them, that was to drop the temperature here. It is significantly calmer. Protesters responded in kind by a more congenial atmosphere here. The big outstanding question is the humanitarian aid. They have been shouting, the protesters, at the police, that the aid is coming across, regardless of what the riot police have to say. They are saying theres a larger more boisterous crowd of progovernment protesters on the other side of the bridge that strangely were joined in unity, singing the National Anthem with venezuelans from the oppo
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