ben carson has stirds up controversy by calling enclaved slaves immigrants. he was speaking to department employees today and spoke about immigrants at ellis island how they worked hard for children and grandchildren to create opportunities in the united states and then he said there. there were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships worked even longer and harder for less. but they too had a dream that one day, their sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great grandsons, great grand daughters might pursue prosperity. and happiness in this land. joining me now are political commentators paris denard and angela rye. this got a lot of pickup and controversy, kind of went viable. is it much ado about nothing. i think secretary carson may
we re rin reach of strategically defeating al qaeda. i think now is the moment. but here on the frontier of northern mali, al kay da is gaining strength. we have heard some horrible stories about what is happening and you re going to hear them now. today i called the military leader. it s the main islamic group linked to al kay da here. yes, this is omar, hello. translator: no, no. listen. i do not speak to a woman. if you would like to speak to me, give me a man. we do not speak to women. do you hear me? translator: no, we do not speak with women. it is necessarily to speak, it is necessary to give a man to speak with us vernlthsz i want to explain how we got here. mali is in the middle of a war that the world needs to watch. the it began when the united states and nato intervened in libya. when the weapons were stolen by islamic radicals. the tour egg used the weapons to fight and declare independence from mali. the country was split in half. the mali government w
guessing. he will always soar to great heights here on the riduculist. erin burnett outfront starts right now. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, al qaeda rising. i m live from a refugee camp miles from the border of northern mali. more than a quarter million refugees have fled the country, more than twice as many as syria. they are fleaing radical s extremists here is leon panetta shortly after the killing of tonight president obama said al kay da is on the run. we re rin reach of strategically defeating al qaeda. i think now is the moment. but here on the frontier of northern mali, al kay da is gaining strength. we have heard some horrible stories about what is happening and you re going to hear them now. today i called the military leader. it s the main islamic group linked to al kay da here. yes, this is omar, hello. translator: no, no. listen. i do not speak to a woman. if you would like to speak to me, give me a man. we do not speak to women
getti getting strength. and the fear is this could become a new safe haven for terrorists. we have heard horrible stories about what is happening and you re going to hear them. but sharia law is the rule. today i called the military leader for an czar al din, the main islamic radical group linked to al qaeda here. we wanted to tell you their side of the story, but here s what happened. [ speaking in foreign language ] translator: yes, this is omar. hello? hello. translator: yes, what do you want? good morning. good morning. do you speak english? translator: no, no. french is it. no, no. i have some help. can you ask him, are they hurting people? translator: listen, speak in french. no, no. listen. i do not speak to a woman. if approximate you would like to speak to me, give me a man. it is necessary to respect our religion. we do not speak to women. do you hear me? [ speaking in french ] no, we do not speak with women. it is necessary to give a man to speak wi
thanks. mia love. thank you, mia. blaine lutkenmeyer. keith roth. thank you, keith. very much. claudia tenney and ann wagner. these are people that have worked so hard. we ve been talking about this so long. so i want to thank all of them. i also want to thank vice president pence who has been working with me on our previous discussion long and hard. secretary steve mnuchin, secretary ross, secretary carson and administrator linda mcmahon. you ve been listening to president trump speaking in the white house. this is just hours after he formally announced via statement from the white house that he was pulling out of the upcoming june north korean summit with kim jong-un. the president just saying now,