for voicing foreign policy concerns without retribution. and from the white house, a blunt warning. the president has a very clear vision. i think that they should get with the program or they can go. one long time career officer pushed out by the new administration used his farewell address to urge colleagues to stay and uphold their oath to defend america from all enemies foreign and domestic. the policy without professionals is by definition an amateur policy. you have to help make the choices that bring this country forward. reporter: in addition to a restless diplomatic corps, the trump administration must also con front allies concerned the white house is increasing the isis threat with the latest moves. they will use any opportunity they can to make difficulties to create the environment they want to radicalize people, to bring them over to their side. so it is a propaganda opportunity for them potentially. reporter: in canada, one
colleagues to stay. the policy without professionals is, by definition, an amateur policy. you have to help make the choices of bring thing country forward. reporter: in addition to a restless diplomatic core, tillerson must confront allies concerned the new administration is increasing the isis threat with its latest moves. isis will use any opportunity they can to make difficulties to create the environment they want to radicalize people to bring them over to their side. so it is a propaganda opportunity for them potentially. reporter: in canada, one lawmaker compared trump s policies to fascism. we will call for immediate action and for the canadian government to finally start standing up to the fascist donald trump. reporter: and wolf, president trump is expected to swear in rex tillerson within the hour. he s expected to start work
the authorities take control of the situation and identify the people they ve captured or killed. we ve heard from the kenyan officials that they re using cctv footage from that area to identify the people in there as being male. we know that nef some level of knowledge about who they are. this claim that some are americans, it can t be substantiated. what we have to remember looking at this is al shabaab sees this as a huge propaganda opportunity. this complex attack, taking hostages to give them the maximum opportunity to get their message out. one of the messages they want to get out as being part of al qaeda is they have a long reach, they have members from the united states and from the united kingdom, britain. certainly, there s some evidence to support that. 40 people at least believed to have left the united states over the years to join al shabaab. over 100 have left the united kingdom for the same reason. it doesn t mean to say that they re in this attack.
we won t really know until the end and, of course, twitter feeds this associated with al shabaab or not, it can t be determined until this operation is entirely over. we just have to be cautious. this is a propaganda opportunity for al shabaab and they will exploit it every and anyway they can. nic, with the ready availability of some of the people would get trained and come back. when it comes to recruiting people, leading lives in places like the u.s. and europe, what s the sales pitch that al shabaab is using? reporter: the sales pitch is a simple one. they re appealing to people who are perhaps economically deprived, insular in their communities, whose lives are not going as well as they would like, perhaps first generation immigrants or perhaps born to parents who left somalia are the
u.s. if he agrees to that then he could have temporary asylum. ultimately he says he still wants to go to latin america, to venezuela, nicaragua or bolivia, which have all offered him asylum. what is interesting is moments ago here in washington, the state department spokesman said from the podium at the state department that the u.s. government is disappointed in russia for giving snowden this opportunity for what she described as a propaganda opportunity. she said he s not a whistle-blower, he s wanted on charges here in the states. also over at the white house, spokesman jay carney said something similar, that this was a propaganda opportunity, essentially, for snowden. but he also added that he did not want this snowden case to come between the u.s. and russia at this very important time politically for the two nations. the president, as you mention, is going to call vladimir putin, president putin, later this afternoon. now, jennifer, do we know what the statistus of his passp