Extremism, the ideology the networks, the capacity to recruit young people this has met aft isized and it is widespread and penetrated communities around the world. We do face a very face a extremist islamic terrorist threat in america and across the world and we have to be incredibly vigilant in terms of that threat and strengthen our police and security we ought to make sure we do everything we can to keep our country safe and that involves annin he had credibly an np incredibly hard and discipline add poach. Chris jansing is live at the white house. What was the takeaway from the News Conference today . Reporter a couple of big things. Lets start with terror because obviously the timing of this meeting, the 14th between the two men, comes on the heels of thwarted by Belgium Police of a terror attack that could have been on the level of what happened in paris, ore over several days 14 people were killed. And including over belgium, france and germany and this proposal that this push
Ally aimed at americas heartland. A Group Responsible for the slaughter in a Shopping Center in kenya is now calling for attacks on Shopping Malls in the west including minnesotas huge mall of america. That comes as a top u. S. Spy chief says there are now blind spots in tracking terrorists and the defense secretary gathers top commanders for an urgent huddle on combatting isis. As the parents ever slain hostage Kayla Mueller slam the policy i talk with peter king from the Homeland Security and intelligence committees. He is standing by live along with cnn correspondents and analysts. Lets get the very latest from brian todd at the mall of america in minnesota. Brian . Reporter wolf this latest video from al shabab has prompted officials here to really ramp up security, but it is a huge challenge. This mall the mall of america, has more than 80 acres for officials to patrol to monitor. More than a dozen entrances here at the mall of america. Tonight we have new details on the threat an
Chief, dr. Borger, to make sure everything went well before i head home. Im honored and privileged to be here as a physician in this county. I dont look at it as work. We are committed to this service. Ill stand back. If theres any question later on, ill let my partner, dr. Singh, comment about his experience. Thank you. Can you tell us where you emigrated from . Well take questions from the end. I apologize. Good morning. I work at arrowhead Regional Medical center. Been there for about seven years. As dr. Neeki explained, on december 2nd, i was called in to assist with the care of these victims. My thoughts and prayers and deepest condolences to the families of the victims. It started out as a regular day. I was on campus doing administrative work when received call of this incident. As dr. Neeki mentioned his efforts in the field, as well as dr. Ewing, dr. Greg fanadi. Trauma is a team endeavor. And there are a multitude of departments involved besides emergency medicine, trauma, nu
Fictional characters. Im chuck todd joining me this morning are former White House Press secretary to president obama, robert gibbs. The cook political reports walker. Former chief speech writer for george w. Bush and columnist, michael gerson. Welcome to sunday its meet the press. This is meet the press with chuck todd. Its been a battle that has raged since isis shocked the world with its cult of violence and death. What should president obama call this enemy . Hes refused to use the terms islamist or radical islam. Insisting that were not at war with islam. But with some perversion of a great religion. Conservatives argue that in doing so mr. Obama is failing to recognize the true face of the enemy. So we wondered in this debate about semantics and security is there precedent for the president s position . We went back to the videotape and heres what we found. The terrorists do not speak for over a billion muslims who reject their hateful ideology. All is not the true face of islam.
We dpin with a tightening lead in the republican president ial race. Donald trump just 4 points ahead of ted cruz. A food reason for him to believe in the comment its turning into a twoman race. Its a matchup that cruz says gives quote a good choice to the american people. Reporter good morning, ted cruz momentum showing he is chipping away at Donald Trumps dominance. Trump is still in the lead. But his lead over ted cruz is getting smaller. This quinnipiac pom showing that cruz has gained 8 point in the past four weeks. He is now within stwieking distance of drumplt the two are the front runners. He says this is encourage. I think was interesting. Donald said a couple days ago, he thought the republican race could come down to him and me. I think he may be right. We are surging in the polls. Donald may be right this is turning more and more into a twoman race between donald trump and me. I think if thats the case, the decision will be made by the voters. Today in oklahoma city, ted cr