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barking dog and that appears to be what alerted the hostage s captors to what was going on. during the firefight that then followed, u.s. forpdss saw a militant go into the shack where the hostages were being held. it is believed that is when he shot both of the hostages, both of them died as a result of those injuries, as u.s. forces were transporting them away. u.s. intelligence did not know the identity of the other hostage being held with somers. he has since been identified as south african teacher pierre korkie. a char that worked with korkie says he was due to be released today. to discuss this and many of the other top stories for the week, joined by our panel, bring in democratic strategist basil smythe, jr., political consultant and former adviser to mitt romney, cater packer gauge and msnbc correspondent, casey packer hunt. obviously on this hostage story, we are learning the details, obviousiously a heartbreaking story, another report i know in the new york times this ....
so there s no training behind this. there s no standard attack in any of this. so, actually, we can see it going any way. but i think the i think the longer it goes on without violence the more likely there won t be any. welcome back, everybody. i m john vause at the cnn center. i m natalie allen. thank you for joining us. we ve been here several hours with this breaking news out of australia. and we will continue to bring you the latest now. and we d like to welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world. we d like to give you the update now. a gunman is still holding an unknown number of people at a lindt coffee shop in sydney s main business district. sky news australia reports that the hostage taker, seen here, is calling himself the brother. he has forced hostages to speak with three media outlets over the phone. he apparently has two demands. he wants an isis flag. he also wants a conversation with australia s prime minister. we also have video ....
voters, between the ages of 18 to 34, by 2020 they ll be the largest segment of the american electorate. they re not part of this trend. white millennials will almost certainly not vote for donald trump, young white people. the children. heather mcghee, fernand amandi. we ll be right back here on saturday after joy reid s bonus hour. we ll be here, if my voice makes it. be sure to tune in for that. the rachel maddow show starts right now. do you know that i have magic throat lozenges that cure everything? i ll go right to your office and steal them. they sell them at my bodega. i think they re illegal. thanks for being with us here this friday night, this friday before the election. it s very exciting. i m very excited. when john f. kennedy beat midmanhattan with our rca 501 computer. only one-tent of the total vote is in, we re going to have what we call projections. that s estimates on what the final vote will be in a popular and then what the final vote will be in t ....
we ll break it down and president obama s spirited farewell speech included a forceful defense of his record, an emotional thank you to the first family. it falls to each of those to be those anxious, jealous guardians of our democracy, to embrace the joyous task that we ve been given to continually try to improve this great nation of ours. i will be right there with you as a citizen all my remaining days. tonight, as i m sure you heard, there s a stunning report that s surfaced regarding what donald trump was told last week in his briefing of russia s roll in the u.s. election. the materials prepared for trump s briefing last friday included information that made damaging allegations about trump s deelgts with the russians. the officials say that the material initially circulated among opponents of donald trump and was passed to u.s. intelligence agency. the information has not been verified and the sources would not comment on the nature of the allegations. neither of th ....
tonight. this is one of the backward and nasty executive orders the president has issued. also today thousands of anti-abortion protesters gathered in washington for the annual march for life. mike pence told the crowd the president would announce a supreme court nominee soon and trump hinted strongly at the person he s choosing. the person i pick will be a big, big i think people are going to love it. i think evangelicals, christians will love my pick. and we ll be represented very fairly. jeff zeleny begins our coverage tonight out front at the white house. trump signing a flurry of executive orders this week, up to 14, but these on immigration, do they really have teeth? reporter: indeed they do. the ones that he signed late today, they do sort of play out exactly what he talked about in the campaign, extreme vetting. it should come as no surprise, but they are going at the heart of refugees coming here to the country, particularly syrian refugees. the white house ....