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MSNBCW NewsNation January 14, 2015

In new video posted a few hours ago, al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula based in yemen again claimed responsibility for the assault on the magazines offices that took the lives of 12 people. A Senior Leader of the group claims aqap ordered, planned, funded the attack on orders from al qaedas top leader ayman al zawahri. The claims a day after the new video of the attack was released, shows the brothers calmly reloading rifles as they prepare to make a get away after the attack. One also shouts weve very longed the Prophet Muhammad. One brother opens fire on a police car which then goes into reverse. Within seconds, the brothers killed a plan at point blank range. Ron allen joins us from paris. Lets talk about the reaction and number of people that grabbed a copy of charlie hebdo, even though we know the threat is still very present in paris, and quite honestly around the country at this point. Reporter well, it is impossible to get a copy of the newspaper here for most people. We do have a copy and we are not showing it because theres a lot in here people might find objectionable or offensive or worse. Many in the Muslim Community say the whole magazine especially the cover, is insulting and provocative to their religion. But it is edgy. I think theres a curiosity factor about this. It is a very edgy magazine high brow satirical. Their goal is to make humor, poke fun. There are strong messages in the magazine and in the commentary for the need to be a secular country, not dominated by religion or religious extremists. Jabs at the pope as well as a lot of jabs at jihadis coming back from the war to try to integrate into france being turned away, being ridiculed, that sort of thing. But it is basically a curiosity factor. I believe there are auctions on ebay where editions are selling for thousands of dollars. If theyre going to print 2 million copies i suspect theyll be snapped up quickly as well. As i said it is almost impossible. Impossible now to get a copy of this they went in minutes and people lined up overnight to try to get one. The other Development Today is that the president of france Francois Hollande finished addressing the nations military an annual event he does to start the new year but of course it takes on added significance now because of the high alert that the country is on the highest alert possible. Basically his message to the military was to say thank you that the nation is grateful for their service and he said by the end of tonight there will be some 10,500 military troops on the streets of france working alongside security, Police Security which is a unique situation that the country has never seen before and the need for everyone to stay vigilant. Thank you for the latest details from on the ground there. Let me bring in the Communications Director for the council on American Islamic relations. Thanks for having me. Theyre searching for possible accomplices and trace the funding trail, all of this taking a back seat to the headline that the very newspaper the extremists wanted to silence, now 5 million copies have been picked up and people are clamoring for more. Theres still the conversation of who has chosen to show the cover, who has not, including this network for fear of offense. Whats your take here . First of all, american muslims like all muslims worldwide condemn the horrific attacks in paris. I dont think thats the issue here. But the issue of publishing, not publishing, we believe the magazine has the absolute right to publish even derogatory material attacking religious figures, whether the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, or other prophets. But we also reserve the right to be offended by these derogatory representations, and react to them in a peaceful manner to challenge with more speech to counter act sometimes good speech. So we believe in freedom of speech, we believe in freedom of expression, but we also have the right to respect our own religious figures and object peacefully when they are denigrated. And that is the message not just from your organization but a number of other moderate if you have to put that description in front of the word muslim but moderate muslims, and followers believe you have a right to not pick up that copy you have a right to be offended but they have the right to the publication. Yes. And the portrayal with that said is that the message that you hope is the overwhelming perception obviously of people who follow islam, not the extremists with the startling and heart stopping video, but one that you can be tolerant and still be offended. I mean just as muslims worldwide reject terrorism, reject religious extremism, they also reject gratuitous insults to their faith and any faith. Muslims objected and we as an organization objected when the socalled artist put a crucifix in a jar of urine. We objected when another artist made an image of mary mother of jesus, peace be upon him using elephant dung. Many americans object when a flag is burned. But they wouldnt have a law that prevents flag burning, even though they reserve the right to object to it. Thats the same thing as muslims. You have the right to be even an antimuslim bigot if you want but we reserve the right to object to bigotry and to speak out peacefully against it. Let me ask about deep fears, 5 mlt copies high alert security still in place. You and i know the idea of this many copies distributed in some ways seen as poking fun at them that may be plotting something now. I dont think extremists need excuse to carry out their violent actions. People use the excuse. I mean they do these things even though the vast majority of muslims worldwide said dont do this. This is wrong, this hurts islam, this hurts the image and interests of muslims around the world, but they continue to do it anyway. So you know we have an obligation to speak out against extremism and terrorism and we do what we can to counter act that kind of thinking. Thank you so much for your time. We greatly appreciate your insight. Thank you. Also following the trial of dzhokhar tsarnaev. The judge denied his attorneys request for delay in jury selection, in light of recent terror attacks in paris. The defense was seeking delay of at least a month to allow coverage of the attacks to subside, arguing news accounts have drawn parallels between the paris and boston attacks. In his ruling the judge said he believed a fair and impartial jury can and will be chosen to determine the issues in this case. Another developing story now, Counter Terror and military sources are telling us of a security scare at the new Castle Air National Guard base thats in delaware used by Vice President joe biden. Lets go to Jim Miklaszewski live at the pentagon. What can you tell us about this developing news. Reporter we are talking about delaware Air National Guard base at the new castle commercial airport just outside wilmington. And employees reported seeing suspicious individuals who may have been surveilling the base at least they thought so. They reported it and by the way they reported that they appeared to be men at one point, four men who appeared to be of mid eastern origin, arabic perhaps, in a vehicle who appeared to be suspicious. It was reported to base security and the general in charge of the base immediately raised the threat level at the base to bravo, which increases the security level as well just in an overabundance of caution. Not only because of the events in the terrorist attacks in paris last week but also because that happens to be just about 15 minutes from the delaware home of Vice President joe biden, he occasionally flies in there. No indication that he flew in there recently but the commander there put the base on alert. Did not go up the chain of command, he took the action on his own, again emphasizing that u. S. Officials say theres no specific threat or individuals identified, but that base remains at the higher threat level. Thank you, we will check back with you. American crew members were forced to evacuate the u. S. Section of the space station this morning over fears of possible ammonia leak. Nbc tom costello following that for us. Tom, whats the update from nasa . Reporter just checked in with nasa seconds ago. It is stressing that everybody on board the station is safe and they do not believe there was an ammonia leak on board the station. Out of abundance of caution earlier this morning, all six crew members moved to the russian side of the station, because of concern there might be an ammonia problem. Earlier this morning an alarm went off on the american side of the station, about 3 45 a. M. East coast time. Mission control saw an increase in water loop pressure then increase in cabin pressure. Those two issues could be indicative of an ammonia leak something thats very serious, poses a very serious risk to the traunts. All six crew members, you have americans, russians one italian, told to don emergency oxygen masks and go to the russian side where the readings were normal. They then closed that section, closed the hatch, were told they could take off masks and wait. They waited thought they were given the all clear, went back to the american side the alarms went off again. They went back to the russian side yet again, closed the hatch again. Thats where we stand now. Nasa now says it believes this is a false alarm, that sensors may have gone bad or given them a bad reading. They believe it is safe on board and it is likely that in fact the americans will be allowed to go back to the american side of the station. They do not believe at the moment that this was an ammonia leak but out of abundance of caution took the appropriate steps. Back to you, tamron. Thank you. The alleged murder plot against john boehner. Right now an ohio bartender is under psychiatric evaluation when he threatened to poison even shoot the House Speaker. We are learning how much access this man had to the gop leader. Plus new questions in the deadly d. C. Metro incident. Why did crews in the Nations Capital take more than 40 minutes to rescue passengers trapped in a smoke filled train, which is one of many questions people are asking about this one today. And where are the women . An Orthodox Jewish newspaper removed Women Leaders in this powerful picture from the paris unity march. It is one of the things we thought you should know today. Join our conversation online. Find the team at newsnation, and find me on facebook twitter, instagram under my name. We will be right back. I wish. Please, please, please, please, please. [ male announcer ] the wish we wish above all. Is health. So we quit selling cigarettes in our cvs pharmacies. Expanded minuteclinic for walkin medical care. And created programs that encourage people to take their medications regularly. Introducing cvs health. A new purpose. A new promise. To help all those wishes come true. Cvs health. Because health is everything. Latte or au lait . Cozy or cool . Exactly the way you want it. Until boom, its bedtime your mattress is a battleground of thwarted desire. Enter the sleep number bed. Save 300 on the final closeout of the c3 Queen Mattress set. Hes the softy. His sleep number setting is 35. 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Investigators say michael hoyt came in frequent contact with boehner, was a bartender for five years at the House Speakers country club and served him many times. Speaker boehner took to the house floor in the past hour addressing a controversial dhs funding bill making no mention of the incident. Investigators say hoyt threatened to kill boehner in october, saying he thought the speaker of the house was the devil and responsible for the ebola virus. Court documents reveal hoyt even emailed boehners wife telling her i could have poisoned his wine many many times. Nbcs luke russert joins us. Luke, obviously the allegations are true the access the man had to the House Speaker are chilling given he was a bar tender and was there many times. It is frightening, in fact. We know that john boehner sort of knew mr. Hoyt as a bartender at his local Ohio Country Club and the speaker is often there playing golf and enjoying merlot two of the things he likes to do in his off time. The other thing, tamron thats chilling about this is the fact is that mr. Hoyt did have a lot of weapons at his home. It was found at his home the ammunition for an sks assault rifle. Thankfully his mother in fact actually took the rifle out of his apartment when he wasnt around because she was worried about her sons mental state. So this is certainly something that caused alarm on capitol hill. The speaker of the house is protected by Capital Police but not the same secret Service Detail as for the president or Vice President. Theres some semblance of advance team but not like people are screened to the left and right like the president and Vice President. The speaker said Speaker Boehner is aware of the situation and sincerely thanks the fbi, Capitol Police and local authorities in ohio for their effort. We tried to interview him last night about this didnt say anything didnt respond, he is taking it in stride. This is i believe the third threat on his life in the last year tamron. Theres an element of anger against the speaker, everything from this person who is clearly mentally disturbed and other people mad that he wasnt moving on Unemployment Benefits that threatened his life. Certainly a chilling incident in ohio his home state. And as far as mr. Hoyts background he was treated for psychotic episode two years ago. As we mentioned, he has a 45 day mental examination, and House Speaker told investigators as you well know he did not recall any negative interactions with this individual. Right, and that he sort of just knew him as the bartender. I think what also is frightening about this is the contact this individual had with House Speaker John Boehners wife as you mention, sending her those emails, essentially saying i could have killed your husband. Thats not something that would be taken lightly by any spouse so this was somebody who is definitely in the speakers purview and had direct access which i think is one of the reasons why Law Enforcement is taking this seriously, and from what i heard, tamron will reevaluate things moving forward if perhaps they need to have more sets of eyes on these types of developments. All right. Thank you very much luke. Greatly appreciate the live update. Up next boko harams deadly rampage, the african terror Group Launches new attacks after the groups deadliest attack yet with nearly 2,000 people killed. Newly released dash cam video shows moments after a montana officer shot and killed an unarmed suspect. This as the officer learns if he will be punished in this case. [meow mix jingle slowly and quietly plucks] right on cue. [cat meows] meow, meow, meow, meow. Its more than just a meal its meow mix mealtime. With great taste and 100 complete nutrition, its the only one cats ask for by name. 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