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maybe any of it is good or all good. we'll let viewers decide that. >> that is all for us in warm and chilly washington. enjoy the rest of weekend. we'll leave you with more video of robotic cats. >> what could be better. [screaming] >> dying all around us. uma: dramatic images as passengers cower in terror at fort lauderdale airport as esteban santiago retrieved a semiautomatic hand bun from luggage, murdering five people and injuring six others. i'm uma pemmaraju. welcome to "america's news headquarters." here is the latest on the investigation.
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the fort lauderdale airport is back up and running today with the exception of terminal 2 where the shooting occurred. we're told santiago and his family is cop rating with investigation. family members say the 26-year-old was being treated for mental health issues. investigators believe santiago acted alone. they have yet to uncover a possible motive at this time but still not ruling out terrorism. >> indications are that he came here to carry out this horrific attack. we have not identified any triggers that would have caused this attack but again it's very early in the investigation and we're pursuing all angles. uma: we have fox team coverage on a story that continues to raise many questions. steve harrigan, live at the hospital where the victims are now being treated but first, let's go to phil keating who has the very latest from fort lauderdale-hollywood international airport. phil, what can you tell us?
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reporter: uma, the broward county sheriff says it took 70 to 80 seconds from the moment of the first shot being fired for his deputies here on scene at the airport to confront and engage the lone gunman. they say esteban santiago then peacefully sat down and sure surrendered after brutally shooting 11 innocent travelers, some of them point blank in the head, killing five of them. santiago was discharged four months ago by the alaska national guard, for quote, unsatisfactory performance. he served one tour in iraq in 2010 and 11. according to family members when he returned from the middle east he return ad changed man and lost his mind. sometimes seeming normal. sometimes seeming out there. the investigators say 1:00 yesterday santiago flew in from anchorage, via minneapolis, to fort lauderdale, intending to retrieve his properly-checked
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gun from baggage claim and started shooting. >> he used a semiauto handgun. it was a 9mm. we're not ready to release the make of the handgun and every indication he did follow tsa procedures and checking in the weapon. we continue to look at all avenues and all motives for this horrific attack, and at this point we are continuing to look at the terrorism angle in regards to the potential motivation. reporter: the u.s. attorney of south florida could this afternoon announce the long list of charges that santiago will be facing. he is supposed to be arraigned monday in fort lauderdale at the u.s. courthouse. as for the airport, it reopened 5:00 a.m. today, aside from the baggage claim area at terminal 2, that still remains closed. airport operations are expected
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to be 85% of normal today after what was a hellacious day yesterday. half of all flights canceled. there were 23 planes out on the tarmac for six hours with trapped passengers for six hours before they could get into the airport and get out of here. 20,000 pieces of luggage still need to be returned to travelers basically sitting this out in fort lauderdale, instead of going on their intended vacations. uma? uma: phil, i understand that the authorities there are trying to work with the people, the passengers who were stranded there by trying to get their i.d.s and passports back to them because many them were on their way to other destinations including some cruise lines? >> right. many people fly into miami and fort lauderdale to go directly to port everglades or port of miami to get on a cruise ship. you have to have a passport and have to have your driver's license. people just dropped everything and scrambled and ran yesterday, leaving behind luggage, purses,
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cell phones, you name it. so it is really humongous logistical issue trying to gather up all these 20,000 pieces of belongings. get 20,000 owners or roughly that amount of people to get back here to the airport to retrieve them. they will put them all in one facility here. this will take two or three days, maybe longer according to the director of airport operations whom i spoke with about two hours ago. uma: very tough situation indeed. phil, thank you very much. the victims of the shooting brought to broward health medical center about three miles from the airport. steve harrigan joins us live from the hospital with the very latest is happening there. steve? reporter: uma, right now six of those wounded by gunshots are still in the hospital. of the 6'3" are in critical condition in the intensive carry units, three are in good condition. one of those is expected to be released today. doctors here at this level one
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trump -- trauma hospital train regularly. the first victims arrived 20 minutes after the shots began. here is what one doctor had to say. >> 2 looked like chaos but it was under control. no one arrived at the hospital expired. they're all doing in the hospital, best as we can do right now but everybody is stable. reporter: of course in addition to those wounded by the gunshots, there were about 30 other injuries, many smaller, some of them happening in the panic after the initial shooting. people twisting their ankles or suffering from heat exhaustion being out on the tarmac for several areas -- several hours. we're hearing more from the families of those five people killed. appears many were seniors. many of them coming here to fort lauderdale to take a vacation. many of them getting on cruise lines. olga waltering was from georgia. expected to start a cruise today
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with her husband and she was gun down and killed in the baggage area of terminal 2. she is grandmother and great grandmother. uma, back to you. uma: such a sad situation for her and her family. our thoughts are with her and other victims. we have tom blank, former tsa deputy director. good to have you on the show today. >> uma, nice to be with you. uma: there are questions how the suspect managed to travel and get his gun in baggage claim. he followed correct procedures, carry a gun and store it in his case in baggage. he declared the to authorities with firearm in his baggage, shouldn't a red flag, according to the reports, gun was only item allegedly packed in his bag. shouldn't authorities have talked to him about this. >> this is something that will have to be evaluated as the investigation unfolds. we'll see whether or not he was traveling, the normal kind of things, which would be a change
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of clothes, toiletries and some other personal items and the gun was also in there, or whether it was a gun and simply, simply a gun. what we do know is that tsa would have been aware of that gun, and think would have seen it in the baggage check x-ray, and it would have raised any unusual flags for them. they do have the capability to identify the owner of that bag, find them in the terminal, and ask them additional questions about security. if there was something that looked unusual. and, perhaps it was missed, if it was simply a gun and a gun alone. that is something that has to be evaluated in the aftermath, in the after-action reporting process. uma: you're saying whenever someone declares they're carrying a firearm, tsa is automatically notified? >> tsa is notified about the declaration and they are going to find that gun as part of the
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baggage screening process. and, they would normally say, that is not supposed to be there, unless they have a notification to expect that. they may choose to open the bag and evaluate whether or not it's been properly packaged in the approved case and properly locked. they may just pass it through if they determine that, that was declared, and everything looks like it is on the up-and-up, let it go. they do have an awareness of weapons being, are being transported. uma: you say they ever the option of peeking with the passenger if they believe there might be a concern. so this is something that is very interesting to me because i did not know this. i bet a lot of people didn't know the fact that they have the option to speak to these individuals but it is up to them how to decide who gets talked to essentially? >> well this would not be just for firearms. if the tsa baggage screeners find something in luggage that raises a concern, that they have questions about and they want to
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see the person that checked that baggage, they do have the capability to work the system inside of the airport, find the passenger, and, interact with the passenger in terms of some questioning and interrogation to resolve whatever suspicions or concerns may have presented themselves during the baggage inspection process. uma: doesn't this underscore a major vulnerability at our airports when it comes to people who travel with firearms? >> well, oomph marks i think you have to ask the question, of, what is the overall risk profile in the non-public parts of the airports. you know the biggest problem that tsa has, one of the biggest problems is, people that forget they have firearms, and come to the check point and put a briefcase or a satchel through and there's a firearm in it. that happens approximately 10 times a week for tsa. they confiscate those guns and it's disruptive.
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but, i think the overall risk profile, at least any current analysis doesn't say that you would have a much safer aviation system if people were not allowed to legally transport firearms through the approved system. uma: let me ask you this though. many people have a lot of questions and concerns about this. do you think procedures should be changed, that the firearms should be banned for airport travel and folks would have to ship their firearms ahead of time to their destinations to avoid any type of vulnerability? >> well, i wouldn't be prepared to say that at this point. i'm not aware of another situation since 9/11 where a shipped firearm has been used to perpetrate a tragedy like the one we saw yesterday. you know having said that, one of the things i think we have to look forward to next week, is confirmation of second-designate general john kelly, who is the first full-blown national
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security professional to be proposed to take over the department. the rest have been lawyers and distinguished people but this is the first full-blown national security profession. i think he will run the kind of after-action report and risk assessment needed to take into consideration whether or not it is a real risk or whether one we have to to rate to keep airports open and functioning properly. uma: tom, thank you very much for providing your insights. really appreciate it. a lot of folks will be looking for answers, trying to pause for a moment to see what we can do to better protect people at airports. really appreciate it. thanks for joining us. >> thanks, uma ♪ >> i think that what is true is that the russians intended to meddle and they meddled. we have to remind ourselves we're on the same team. vladmir putin is not on our team. uma: that's president obama
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reacting to the new find frogs top intelligence officials who say russian president vladmir putin himself was behind the hack attack on our presidential election. that report released yesterday also claiming that russia ran interference to help elect donald trump. president-elect responding by twitter following a meeting earlier in the day with those intelligence officials saying, quote, intelligence stated very strongly there was absolutely no evidence that hacking affected the election results. voting machines, not touched. in another tweet he blamed the dnc for allowing the hacking. saying grease negligence by the democratic national committee allowed hacking to take place. the republican national committee had strong defense. bryan llenas standing by live from trump tower in new york city with more. bryan? reporter: good afternoon, uma. after weeks of president-elect trump casting doubt and skepticism on our nation's
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intelligence agencies over their conclusions that the russians interfered in this election, president-elect trump said his two hour meeting with top intelligence meeting with intelligence officials was constructive. post-meeting his message is concentrating two major points out of the intelligence report. one, he believes the intelligence report says they did not meddle, the russians did not meddle with voting machines and actual tallies. the second point he is hitting on this is issue on cybersecurity, promising the first 90 days to come up with a plan to strengthen cybersecurity infrastructure. in the statement he also went on to say, while russia, china, other countries outside groups and people are consistently trying to break through the government institutions businesses, organizations including the democratic national committee there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election including the fact there was no tampering whatsoever with voting machines.
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it is important to note this classified-unclassified report says it is not the job of the intelligence agencies to assess whether or not russian interference had an impact on the outcome election. in a tweet mr. trump blamed the dnc of gross negligence for allowing the russians to hack their system, but it is informed to note that the intelligence reports that russians infiltrated both republicans and democrats alike, but chose only to disclose the democratic information in the manner which they did. now in tweets this morning, it appears mr. trump is not willing to get into contentious relationship with russia put vladmir putin when he is president. having a good relationship with russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. only stupid people or fools would think that is bad. we have enough problems around the world without yet another one. when i am president russia will respect us far more than they do now. both countries practices work together to solve pressing
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problems and issues of the world. mr. trump is expected to choose former indiana republican senator dan coats to be list director of national intelligence. uma? uma: bryan, thanks for the update. let more reaction from mike huckabee, former arkansas governor and gop presidential candidate and fox news contributor. governor, good to have you. do you think the fallout of russia and hacking outrage is a big concern we need to safeguard against cyber attacks has become so politicized. given the intel community discovered russia cyber attacks in 2015 well before donald trump was the republican nominee andep to delegitimize trump's victory. >> interesting that they didn't get exorcised until after the election. they didn't expect the results to be this way. they spent every day to find a
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scapegoat, russia, james comey. whether it is donald trump's tweets, whether the media. they look at everyone but themselves. so this blame toward the russians when there is not a scintilla of evidence that the russians actually had an impact on the election. now, did they hack machines? probably so. did they perhaps get involved by sending misdirection, misinformation? doubtful that they did anymore misinformation than did "the new york times," "the washington post," or the major networks, that ignored the content of some these emails that was explosive in its contempt for conservatives, christians, people in the middle of the country, catholics. there was some things that they never really covered. so, it's just one more way in which they're trying to say, gee it really wasn't us, when in fact, uma, it really was. uma: the fact we've had other major cyber attacks not just from russia but china too. why didn't we see the white house waging a public
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campaign to express its concerns and tackle the issue in a meaningful way? we didn't see diplomats kicked out back then? >> no. we didn't see diplomats kicked out back then and the whole idea of meddling an election, i want to point out to everybody, it was the united states that meddled in a foreign election in israel in 2015. the re-election bid of benjamin netanyahu. $350,000, from the state department that is taxpayer money, went to an organization called, one voice, who used it for building databases and voter lists to defeat netanyahu. and then jeremy byrd, one of obama's top lines in the 2012 election, helped put in an organization called v-15 together in israel to defeat netanyahu. they raised millions and millions of dollars to get rid of netanyahu. of course he still won. when they say we can't believe some, there would be an attempt
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by a foreign government involved. uma: i want to ask you about israel. this is certainly a good contrast. the fact they are saying this is outrageous what happened with the russians, yet our own white house did try to impact the elections in israel, as you point out, they were not successful but they spent taxpayer dollars to try to do that? >> well, and that is what makes it even worse. so if the senate will get all exorcised, let's have hearings and get to the bottom of this, terrific, they should. what is what the senate's there for. while they're getting to bottom of interference in elections, get to the bottom of the u.s. and obama administration and taxpayer dollars from the state department getting involved in the israeli elections. i would love to see that investigation going down but i guarranty you it isn't going to happen in the next few days before obama leaves office. uma: what impact do you think declassified report accusing putin of ordering a campaign to hurt mrs. clinton's campaign will have on the public just two
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weeks away from the inauguration? do you think this casts any kind of shadow on trump's victory in the context of public opinion? should the public look at declassified intelligence report as part of an effort to try to help the dems save face in the wake of a defeat? >> i mean i know that the people who are in the bubbles of washington and new york, and to a large degree hollywood are certainly looking at this and saying, there is, there is something of great consequence here but i'll tell you, average american is not looking at it, and certainly not in any way affected. they're glad for these eight years to be coming to an end. they voted for donald trump. they know why they voted for him. nothing to do with vladmir putin. not for once did they believe vladmir putin was sitting down at a mac book somewhere in moscow making keystrokes to try to change the election in america. nobody has really proved that. there has been a lot of speculation. a lot of people say we have high speculation. we have high confidence, but
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high confidence and speculation from people who were politically appointed, i don't think is as credible as show me the money. uma: i appreciate it very much. thank you so much for your insights. we're up against the clock. i appreciate it. we'll be right back after this. oh, how waso good!en house? did you apply? oh, i'll do it later today. your credit score must be amazing. my credit score? credit karma. it's free. that's great! um hm. just whip bam boom, it's done. that apartment is mine! credit karma. give yourself some credit.
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snow is pounding the northeast. they could get three to five inches of snow this weekend as part of the storm that has hit
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the northeast, already crippled the south where thousands are without power. the winds are picking up through the course of today. that is not helping. the weather really created travel nightmares up and down the east coast. flights have been canceled or delayed and traffic has been snarled, in a number of states. listen to a tow truck driver in north carolina talking about the dangerous driving conditions. it can get so bad, slick ice, it can stay home, one car into the other. we'll be out there, it will be non-stop. port board on west coast we're being battered by rain in here and other parts nevada. there are concerns of mudslides t could lead to the worst flooding this region has seen since 2005. listen to a california resident who says she is preparing for the worst. >> we were just looking at the water, checking it out, making sure it is not getting up like it died in '95-'96, when it
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really flooded. reporter: good news the rain in california is helping out with the drought. the map is on the left what we have now compared to one year ago today. there. is still a large red swath through the middle of the state. we have a long way to go. uma, i will leave you with this, i lived in california and southern california for 3 1/2 years, i never seen as much rain we have had in the past couple weeks. we'll take certainly what we can get now. uma: lots of rain there and snowing here in the big apple the will, appreciate it very much. all right, the fort lauderdale airport reopening one day after that bloody rampage leaving five people dead. what we're now learning about the gunman behind that attack, and an extensive intelligence report laying out the depths that russia went to in order to swear our presidential -- sway our presidential election.
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we have reaction coming up from a former intelligence operative who tells us how he thinks the u.s. should respond. stay tuned for that.
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uma: we are back with this fox news alert. authorities are expected to file charges today against esteban santiago. he is the iraq war veteran who is accused of opening fire yesterday in fort lauderdale airport killing five people and wounding six others. that incident prompting authorities to put the airport on lockdown, forcing many people to shelter in place. while others running for their lives. the airport, reopening now authorities believe the gunman acted alone and not ruling out any possible motives including terrorism. the fbi in alaska will hold a briefing later this afternoon. a new intelligence report claims russia carried out a comprehensive cyber campaign to sabotage our presidential election.
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now the assessment depicting russia's interference as quote, unprecedented in scale and also claims vladmir putin gave those orders. caroline shively joins us live from washington with the very latest on this caroline? reporter: hi, there, uma. the report lays out how putin himself order the attacks with the eventual goal helping donald trump in his presidency. the report says that the kremlin's position was to hurt the democratic process to hurt hillary clinton and undermine her presidency. like u.s. pollsters, they thought she would win. the report goes into long list of other ways the kremlin tried to influence our election, including quote, russian government agency, state-funded media and third party intermediaries or trolls. they say russia will take what they learned in the campaign against the u.s. and try again. >> we need an act aggressive focused response.
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we haven't, you know, some agency, the fbi in particular, cia, have been doing very good work in this space but we're still playing catch-up with regards to the aggressiveness of our daily attacks against our infrastructure. reporter: the report says it collected information on republican affiliated documents but did not have a disclosure campaign. they said the if it affected out come that is not their job but they said the attack did not affect vote counting. uma? uma: thank you very much. let's bring in retire army lieutenant colonel tony shaffer who spent time as a intelligence operative and senior fellow at london policy research. good to see you. i want to get your reaction overall to the high-profile declassified intel report accusing putin waging a campaign to influence our presidential elections and efforts to give
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th >> there are two-ways to interpret it. the first way, if you take everything they say on face value, if everything you say it is true, they're laying out their even failure. look at details, step away from all the propaganda, look how the intelligence community lays out their failure! think about this one of the things that has been noted is that, you know, we have got to get a handle on the russians. got it. why haven't we? why now are we hearing about it? i would argue this is politicized. that goes to my point. if it was something minor that didn't warrant the level of scrutiny, built up like a snowball, shame on the intelligence community, either way you cut it, people in charge should be fired. they massively failed to detect this early on and tell the president or the american people or after the fact they're playing politics. so the bottom line here it is bad. i agree with mike baker what he was saying this is a threat, uma, that we've been studying for the past 20 years. the russians developed a very
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sophisticated not only cyber capability, what you talked about in the opening was essentially psychological operations against the american people, using social media as the conduit. that is not hacking. so we've got to get ahead of this. i do agree with what donald trump is saying in his statement regarding his post-briefing reaction. we've got to put together a real hard look, studying the threat, determine what the threat consists of, and figuring out what methods across the government we can mount to counter the very threat. uma: some lawmakers like senator john mccain, saying until you treat cyber intrusions as act of war we'll not make any headway against potential enemies trying to hack into our systems. do you agree with this? >> i think, look i respect john mccain a great deal but he is wrong. this is not the same as nuclear warfare. this is not a zero-sum game. we have to figure out a way essentially understanding the reality of the existence of cyberspace, of social media.
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uma, we're not going to launch a nuclear weapon based on so one sending a bad tweet. let's get real. that is what john mccain is getting towards. we have to be realistic to understand the environment for what it is. during the cold war, in the '80s and '90s before we had the internet we knew a great deal how to influence and shape opinion. we got away from it because the war was over and a lot of us were friends. but the russians never stepped back from the battlefield. when the wall came down in 1989, it was not the end of the cold war, it was new war of information. the information environment, cyberspace is a legitimate and ongoing sphere of warfare. and then we act as such. we don't pretend we can only do these massive retaliations. we've got to work like it's a guerrilla operation in the jungle. that is what it is. cyberspace is one big junk nell. uma: the fact the intelligence community put a high confidence
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label on this highly classified report on russia, indicated that putin conducted cyber operations on both parties, not just the democrats but did not include full supporting information on key elements of the influence campaign. because of this does the report carry less weight? >> i think it does carry much less weight. they talked about in the dhs report on this grisly step how thousands of sites were attacked. uma, every time they talk they lower their own validity of what they're saying. it says the republicans were hacked too. one of the things they didn't bother to say, the fbi said the republicans gave access to their servers and allowed the fbi to give them good advice. the democrats didn't do that. uma: you're right. >> face it, panetta, podesta's email password is password? are you kidding me? how can anyone be held responsible other than person doing something stupid like that to a hack? so, i think we have to understand that the democrats,
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for whatever reason, basically practiced very poor cyber hygiene. and republicans didn't. no matter what, the information has been put out, uma, no matter what you think about it, no one disputed about the accuracy of podesta email or what came out. this is distraction of political appointees like clapper and brennan distracting american people the content. if russians helped us that the campaign concluded truthful information we should look at it what it is. we should figure out why the russians were doing it and counter the russians from doing it again. uma: i did some research and i found there was a recent report that says the u.s. government comes in at the very bottom of 17 major industries -- >> no doubt. uma: retail and non-profit industries fared better preventing cyber attacks. >> right. uma: we reported a major story of cyberattack in addition to the russian situation, we shouldn't forget for example, that the office of personnel management. >> yes. uma: found more than 22 million --
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>> i was hacked. my record was hacked. uma: personal information was stolen. >> that's right. uma: why hasn't been so difficult for our intelligence agencies to get ahead of these hacks? >> well this is where i'm on the intelligence agency's side. this is not a threat or warning issue. this is policy issue. the white house and those in charge have ignored this. just remember, that jim clapper knew all the information before january. they just didn't act on. this russian threat has been going on for decades. we just didn't act on it. this is matter of policy, the intelligence community, those doing hard work of detecting, penetrating foreign threats, determining what enemies are trying to do, we know this. there is survey says we're at the bottom. this is something this white house has failed to appreciate or take action too. i was one of those affected by that china hack. and the chinese suffered no consequences. let me tell you, there is other harder hacks that the chinese did that the american public are not aware of. we had a white house unable or
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unwilling to address the very threat we know is most close to us as a people. uma: very disturbing indeed. >> it is. uma: tony, thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. uma: lawmakers from both sides of the aisle rallying around israel after the obama white house allowed the u.n. to pass a resolution condemning the u.s. ally. >> our government abandoned our ally israel when she needed us the most. uma: so what policy changes can we expect under the trump administration? congressman lee zelden will be on deck to answer that stay with us for that. ♪ ever try something so good,
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♪ >> do not be fooled. this u.n. security council resolution was not about settlements, and it certainly was not about peace. it was about one thing and one thing only, israel's right to exist as a jewish democratic state. uma: that from house speaker paul ryan this week blasting the u.n. resolution against israel concerning its settlements. the obama administration allowing it to pass by abstaining from that vote, breaking with decades of tradition in protecting israel at united nations. earlier this week the house passing a measure with more than 100 democrats along voting with republicans condemning condemn .
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congressman lee zelden, member house for inaffairs committee and chairman of the house republican israel caucus. good to have you on the program today. >> good to be on here. uma: what was the point of passing resolution in congress following u.n. vote? was it more of a symbolic move or do you think there will be action following this measure that you passed? >> i think it is important on several accounts. sends a message, within our own country to our allies in israel. sends a message to the united nations and rest of the world, being in support of israel, which i believe is our nation's greatest ally, has long been something of bipartisan support. as we saw with this resolution passing with over 100 democrats in support of it, sends a strong message that what the obama administration has done on its way out of the office at the u.n. security council is not one has the support of americans,
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and the speaker was right in his floor statement. what was passed at security council goes way beyond the issue of settlements. for the first time ever, the u.n. security council's passing a resolution that declares the area of east jerusalem and. >> diaw and samarra as occupied territory. we have not just standing strong with israel but taking positions at u.n. and elsewhere that we don't believe it is a illegal occupation for israelis to be at the western wall praying. >> what the do you make of the vote at the united nations? this is more of a personal attack against benjamin netanyahu payback by the obama white house to netanyahu to try to do, this is a parting shot? >> that is certainly part of it. the timing is no coincidence. it's kind of ironic with all of this talk about russian meddling
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in the united states election, president obama had a whole lot of his supporters, his political operatives in israel in the beginning of 2015 trying to out of bibi netanyahu in middle of his election. it is pro-palestinian, anti-israel, anti-jewish resolution that was pass, essentially ethnically cleansed this area we're describing east jerusalem and judea and is is a march i can't. -- samaria. secretary kerry's speech went over an hour, angrily going after israel. personal an any mossty and daylight between the two. i think it goes further than that, in a desire to support this pro-palestinian, anti-israel movement into the future. i think you're also seeing part of what the democratic party has become, and should be noted as you look at that resolution that passed in the house this week,
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one of the democrats who voted against it is the front-runner to become the leader of the democratic national committee, congressman keith ellison. there is a growing element ever the democratic party starting to break away from the strong pro-israel position and take on the pro-palestinian positions and support and hold the water for the administration and the u.n. the u.n. which is becoming a force that you could argue is the opposite, the force that the u.n. was created to fight against. uma: i have a few seconds left. let me ask you really quickly, what can we expect from the trump administration in your view? >> move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. recognize jerusalem officially as the capital of israel. condemn the growing bds movement on college campuses here as well as foreign countries and foreign companies abroad trying to tackle the israeli economy. the list goes on, ways that we
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could be stronger with our relationship with israel. uma: congressman, thanks for joining us. appreciate your insights today. all the best. >> thank you. uma: family and friends saying final good-bye to hollywood icons, carrie fisher and debbie reynolds. the mother and daughter were laid to rest at a funeral in california. a leak in the roof. luckily the spider recently had geico help him with homeowners insurance. water completely destroyed his swedish foam mattress. he got full replacement and now owns the sleep number bed. his sleep number setting is 25. call geico and see how much you could save on homeowners insurance. afoot and light-hearted i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine. the north and the south are mine.
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uma: welcome back, everybody. more on our top story right now, the fort lauderdale international airport reopening following yesterday's shooting inside of the baggage claim area, the suspect behind the attack, esteban santiago, is, going to have charges that could be filed against him sometime this afternoon. five people were killed yesterday in that shooting. six others wounded. we're expected to hear from the fbi in alaska sometime today where he started that flight. well, solemn day in paris as the city marks two years since the radical islamic terror attack on "charlie hebdo." the city leaders and members of
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the public laying a wreath and paying tribute to the those that lost their lives at the satirical magazine. 2015 two gunmen stormed the paris offices killing people and caught two days later in a shoot without with paris police in a printing factory. century in the making. texas man marking his 100th birthday with tandem skydive. crowds watching him soar to the air. the jump makes him the oldest american to ever do one. he said it was thoroughly enjoyable. next on his bucket list, the northern lights. good for him. have a great day and great weekend everybody. we're putting away acorns to show the importance of being organized. that's smart. who's he? he's the green money you can spend now. what's up?
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