. >> ayman, we are ready to say this is now over. very dramatic developments in just the past two hours. at about 10:00 p.m. local eastern time, our time, that raid began on the restaurant with commandos entering that restaurant. there was a hail and exchange of gunfire. we're talking about the rapid action battalion that's basically like an s.w.a.t. team equivalent in bangladesh. that raid went on for ten to 20 minutes. there was a series of explosions. i want to go through mamuna. we've been speaking to her. give us an update of what you've witnessed, what you saw and heard over the course of this operation as it unfolded from your vantage point. hello, can you hear us? all right. it seems that we have lost mamuna. >> hello? >> hello, are you with us? okay. we're going to try to re-establish that connection if we can. but with us here in studio, we have with us malcolm nance. malcolm, we've been talking about the significance of this operation. some very important pieces of the muzzle that we've learned. some of it, we're not able

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ayman, let me go to you on this. obviously, there's a lot of backdrop here on the relationship between president obama and president netanyahu, the iran deal at the center of it. this is just the latest and perhaps final in their strained relationship as president obama leaves office in a month. where does this leave the relationship between israel and the united states? >> well, there's two ways to look at it. one is the kind of diplomatic relationship that is very deeply engrained, very institutionalized. you can make the argument that intelligence sharing between the united states and israel is at an all-time high. you can make the argument that the united states has sold israel one of the largest military deals, about $38 billion worth, under the terms of president obama or when he was in office. you can make the argument that people-to-people relationship and all the cultural exchange has been as strained as it's ever been between the two countries. but you're no doubt you're absolutely right that there's a pers

i'm alex wit alongside ayman mohyeldin >>> the president leveled an extraordinary accusation against his predecessor. >> claiming president obama tapped his phones. >> the president opened a whole new set of questions. >> whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016. >> this was unleashed a storm of reaction here in washington. >> where did you get the authority to run those taps? >> no place. i just did it. >> it was preliminary. we had cause, but no case. >> do you think you have a case now? >> prove it. >> prove it. that is where we stand after yet another remarkable and unprecedented weekend in american politics. the sitting president of the united states in another unchecked saturday morning tweet storm accusing his immediate predecessor of tapping his phone. this leaves two possibilities. either one, commander in chief falsely accused another of one

. >> ayman, stay safe there. we are going to stay with these pictures, but you stay safe. >> joining us now from east jerusalem, nbc news foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin. it doesn't look in any way this is going to deescalate very fast, is there? >> reporter: right now, there are definitely some growing concerns. let me give you a quick sense what have is happening here. this is the scene where we were yesterday. very different today. you can see a bit of traffic flowing and debris and broken rocks and stones and burnt-out buildings as a result of those clashes. off to my right is the biggest indicator why this situation isn't coming down any time soon. the blue tent is a funeral at any time set up by the palestinian teenager who was killed. they expect to see his body at some point. the israel police have not released his body. his body was so burnt it wasn't recognized at the time of his discovery. now they are collecting dna samples from the family to confirm it is who everyone knows who it is right now.

we'll go to nbc's foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin live in gaza first. ayman? >> reporter: good morning, mika. let me bring you guys up to speed on what is happening here on the ground. according to the israeli military, operations are ongoing now searching for this israeli soldier that was captured by hamas, according to the israeli military. the operations are taking place in south gaza near the city of rafa but that is as much information as they are going on. meanwhile according to palestinian health officials, the number of fatalities rising tar as a result of this morning's attacks has now climbed to above 40. hundreds more have been injured since this morning's fighting broke out between the two sides. there's been a lot of confusion as to when this happened, who broke the cease-fire and obviously, as you can imagine, both sides are accusing each other. hamas is saying that this violation of the cease-fire was by israeli soldiers who started shelling into the neighborhood of rafa but more importantly they are saying that the cease-fire at the time, accor

i have a question forame ayman. we're being told on one hand that it's a sophisticated, planned attack, something that's been in the works for a while. on the other hand the timing is not suspicious, it's clear that it happened a few days after salah abdeslam's arrest. it seems retaliatory in that respect. ho you do you square those two things? >> i would say look at it from a few different perspectives. you could say that this is not sophisticated in the sense that it's maybe two individuals with their explosives who went to these locations. on the other hand you could say it's sophisticated because it requires the coordination. even after salah abdeslam was arrested the cells were still capable of being activated. do they demonstrate that if abdeslam had been the leader and after he was taken down they were compelled to attack. either because they felt he would rat them out or to avenge his capture. >> i want to ask you about connecting the dots. because the entire country became conversant in the concept of break

ayman? >> reporter: the comment that secretary of state john kerry made we see it here on the ground. israel has said time and time again it is using surgical strikes. they describe what's happening here nothing short of a massacre. in the eastern part of the gaza strip yesterday, the single deadliest day since this conflict began, the most people killed in a single neighborhood. air strikes and shelling that took place that have now pushed the death toll to more than 500 over the past two weeks in fighting. israeli bombardment. you can probably hear some of that shelling taking place behind me. we are getting reports that overnight an israeli air strike targeting a member of hamas killed him but also 27 members of his family. it is precisely that type of casualty toll that palestinian officials and medical sources say is disproportionate. human rights organizations are saying it is disproportionate the type of force that israel is using to try to stop palestinian rocket fire out of gaza. th

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i'm ayman alongside alex witt on this christmas eve morning. we hope everyone is having a very nice start to their holidays braving all the traffic and travel out there. >> yeah. >> final push. >> can we just say something? i see your voice is a little gravelly it's because this is the amennet work thyman network we have a lot to get to. it was the morning before christmas and all you there the house. democrats may be considering additional articles of impeachment against donald trump. plus we'll have rudy giuliani, he is really the gift that keeps on giving. if you want to look at this way, at least had it comes to conspiracy theories. we're going to tell you about his new controversial interview with new york magazine. we'll bring you the very latest developments with boeing after that aerospace giant fired its ceo yesterday. i think there was one headline that talked about him being the teflon ceo. >> not anymore. a lot of questions around that. but we want to begin this morning with the latest on the impeachment bankrupt will. in the week o

ayman is join us this time. got your name right this time. mangled it a little bit, sorry about that. >> no worries. the podcast delivers an important service to anybody who listens to it and everybody should because this process shows just what has happened over the past four years and how many have fallen into the wrong direction and i would like to maybe ask you to tell us what more we can expect from learning from roseanne's story and your hope from creating this platform. >> thank you so much for that question. we finish out the series with this podcast and particular episode called "monsters and martyrs," it brings us back to what you are talking about a few minutes ago, the narrative around january 6th. our final one called "monsters and martyrs," they described january 6th as a terrorist attack. the reality is right now you have this phenomenal that's playing out with the far-right. members of congress, marjorie taylor greene and others who were exploiting roseanne's death. people trying to portray her as a martyr and when they do the

ayman, do we know where yanukovych is? >> not yet. there have been reports he's hiding out in a monetary in crimea, the only part ethnically majority russian. there are some that say that's where he is, that's according to ukrainian media. there's been no word or confirmation as to where he is. that's an area very important, because that's where the russian navy maintains a very large fleet on the black sea. so it is also an area where thousands of people over the weekend were called to join these types of unofficial brigades to protect crimea. >> ayman, there seems to be a gnawing question in the west as to what move putin's move will be this week. is there any emerging consensus on options putin might take to prevent the ukraine from further slipping to the west? >> that's the million-dollar question. the president of russia, vladimir putin, has also seen it as part of his fear of influence. they can make the argument they have valid reasons to protect the minority -- minority russians in ukraine and perhaps use that as a pretext fo

. >> ayman mohyeldin is here. >> general hayden i want to get a sense of going forward. what's the solution to this problem now that we're seeing this explosion of attacks, whether they be lone wolf's in sidney or random acts here and there. there's a growing trend. what's the systematic approach to doing the right thing here in trying to end this for once and for all. >> let me be a little dark. there are no solutions. this is a condition. now we can manage the condition better. we can make these attacks somewhat less likely. somewhat lesley that will. but without changing the characters of our societies, we can't make them go away all together. let me add another thought here too. you know i was talking to you guys about 12 months ago about these masses amounts of data that nsa held in storage. that meta data doesn't look that scary this morning and i wouldn't be surprised if the french services pick up cell phones associated with the attack and ask the americans where have you seen these phones active globally? so, we're going to have to don't struggle with that balan

thank you so much, yasmin and ayman. greatly appreciated it. >>> coming up, we turn to the president's impeachment and a new column that says democrats are the ones who stand to suffer from delaying the senate trial. "the washington post" explaining that argument next on "morning joe." at argument next on "mornig joe. searching for a way to help stop your cold sore? only abreva can get rid of it in... ...as little as 2 1/2 days when used at the first sign. abreva starts to work immediately to block the virus and protect healthy cells. abreva acts on it. so you can too. >>> what is your message to americans who might have concerns about your ability to be an impartial juror given your comments coordinating with the white house? >> i'm not an impartial juror. this is a political process. there's nothing judicial about it. >> i have tried to give a pretty clear signal i have made up my mind. i'm not trying to pretend to be a fair juror here. >> there wasn't any doubt here. >> that's a little preview of how the senate majori

aging soccer star ayman mohyeldin is back with us. so all-american soccer player in high school. >> a little bit. >> say how it ended. >> how did it end? >> i was drawn to the lure of journalism. >> oh, really? i thought you said you were partying too much. >> i wanted my life to have meaning and purpose. >> you said you went to college, you got drunk and ended up a journalist. i think that's everybody's story, right? we also have gene robinson in washington, d.c. gene, always good to have you here. thanks for being back. let's figure this out. okay, we've got to crack the code. what is isis? is isis, ayman, like the new grave threat? or are they a jv team? obviously they don't look like a jv team. we've been showing this morning all of the horrible, horrible images. mika and i were talking a couple of hours ago about our friends calling us up asking if america is next. they seem to be a grave threat. they want to kill a lot of americans. and yet david rohde who was captured in afghanistan said they're only 15, 16, 17,000 of them. we

that's why the runways have been shut. >> ayman, quite a road that led them. yesterday reports they were being chased throughout the country side at one point, got out of their cars stole another car. went to a gas station. held up a gas station. so what have you been following over the past 24 hours? >> yeah. i mean my assessment of this is these guys want to make a statement. they want to make a last stand type of statement and the stage success set for that. you have the media descending on the town. they have made contact. they have a hostage. what we've seen from the moment of this incident from the killing, every one of their actions, deliberate attack on the newspaper was to make a political statement. escaping leaving the scene as we were talking earlier. these guys had an "escape plan." they were wearing masks. they looked like they were ready to fight. at the same time we were prepared to leave. the situation, the calculus of the authorities is going to have to be whether or not they give them what they want which is to become glorified martyrs in th

i'm wondering, ayman, what reports you're hearing out of the middle east if it's seeming more evident there as it is here that there is no way the crown prince is going to be able to survive this without saudi arabia forever being a rogue nation. >> that's a really good point, the point that you brought up at the end about the crown prince and it's almost important to emphasize with all this information that was coming out from the saudi arabian government late friday evening one of the most important pieces of information came out was that the king has actually formed a ministerial committee headed and chaired by the crown prince to investigate this murder as well as to reform the intelligence services. so in simple terms, the king is doubling down on his son. anybody who thinks that this may have been an opportunity for some royals and others to perhaps push the crown prince aside or express their dissatisfaction with what has happened, the king has really put an end to that really quickly. that's the first part of that. the second part of that as you were saying, there are so many

ayman reports on one of them who happens to come from his own town. ayman is joining us now. tell us what we learn in this new episode? >> we have been following the journey of owe roseanne boylan. what we focus on in episode 3 which is now available is how this person and others like her who are subscribers to the qanon conspiracy, how do something jump from the fringes of society make its way into the mainstream and certainly conservative american politics. i want to play this sound byte back in 2020 on the campaign trail. >> president trump joined by an nbc town hall moderated by savannah guthrie. she pushed him about qanon. >> i don't know. >> let's waste the whole show. you start off with white supremacy, i denounced it. you start off with something else. keep asking me these questions. >> let me tell you what i do hear about it is they are strongly against pedophiles and they agree with that. >> by 2020, qanon followers come to believe trump had a secret plan to overthrow pedophiles for good. he needs to win an election to make it happen so they were preparing to mobili

the arab world has been relatively quiet. >> ayman, thank you. >> thank you so much, ayman. just incredible reporting by ayman. nicole, let me ask you. we never talked about israeli before. i've always been, like, 100 supporter of israeli. the joke when i wanted a key to the tel aviv i could get a gold-plated one. i'm sorry. this is asinine. this continued killing of women and children in a way that appears to be indiscriminate is asinine. it is bad. of course, it's tragic for the palestinian people. it is bad for the israeli people. i mean, we will roo the day this is happening every day and women and children are being seen. you know what? as much as we all hate hamas, what is going to replace hamas is going to be much worse. it's going to be a radical islamist group instead of power hungry corrupt people that despise israeli. this is such a nightmare that is unfolding and the biggest nightmare is that hamas was on the run! the arab states hate hamas. and israeli has made them not only relevant again but champs of the israeli people. this problem keeps unfolding and gettin

and ayman mohyeldin will join us. generations in the making. but first, bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill? >> mika, it's cruel right now. it is snowing in northern jersey. it is snowing in western massachusetts as you walk outside. pitt is 33 with snow. probably even getting out there on the lawn. big cities with the cold chilly rain for you from boston to new york down to philadelphia. we'll have airport delays early today. that will clear out this afternoon into this evening. heavy rain on cape cod. showers for charlotte. we have thunderstorms rolling through florida so be prepared. ft. myers, the storms have cleared through your area. west palm beach, miami also some storms in your forecast. the weather pattern right now, and this is the weather pattern we've been in a lot for the last year and a half a very extreme pattern. we have this horrible drought in the west with the big ridge, dip in the jet stream in the east. all the cold air is flowing down from the north. today, 30 in chicago. cold air goes into new england this wee

ayman? >> go ahead. go ahead. if. >> if you don't know the true story, it was a great movie. tremendously entertaining. a lot of value. >> i want to hear what you think the value is. >> it's a story if you in fact as the director was saying a story about post traumatic stress disorder how they come home return to society is posed with a lot of problems and chal challenge challenges. from that perspective it is compelling and thought-provoking, emotional moving p. >> but? >> when you juxtapose it to the real chris kyle -- >> you're talking about the stories when he was back home in texas which may have not been true? >> a lot of his own personal opinions about what he was doing in iraq, how he viewed iraqis. some people described as his racist ten racist tendencies when he was going on killing sprees in iraq on assignment. i think there are issues -- >> killing sprees? chris kyle was going on killing sprees? >> when he was involved in his -- on assignments in terms of what he was doing. >> right. >> a lot of the description that has come out from this book and some of the term

going on online, ayman can speak to this better than i can. we're hearing from different sources, egyptair and military. we're hearing from the greeks and various countries, the french as well. that's confusing the situation. that's got to make it that much more dionne families waiting for a visual sign of this aircraft. >> cal, thank you. willie. >> chris, unfortunate we've spoken to you from paris different circumstances going back to charl"charlie hebdo.heb" what can you tell us about the last year and a half? >> it's very heavy security. 86,000 employees working at charles de gaulle airport. they have badges. they can move around. they are check. there is surveillance of their activities. there was recently articles in the french press people dealing with security at the airport saying we can't rule out the possibility one or two or a few of these employees will be radicalized. that's a major concern. will the flight -- this particular flight at that moment, there had been two other stops before, eritrea and tunisia. all sorts of possibili

. >> ayman covers as closely as you do and you look at this alliance that president obama has pulled together. is it a real alliance? is it something that can hold together? are these nations willing to be in it for the long haul or initial show of force, we're in it with you and will they be there one year from now, three years from now? >> i think time will tell. i think the issue is militarily this alliance is not significant. the u.s. could have done this militarily oniliti its own. a message, also, that is not being sent, which i think is also missing. there has to be pressure by the u.s. to get these countries to push towards good governance and that's something, again, you could ask the ambassador about. how do you ultimately change the, how do you get people to believe in hope back in the region that they can be a part of the society and a state that's functioning, not like what we see in the arab world. >> ayman, thank you so much. >>> stay with us, if you can. >>> still ahead, the president's isis plan finally gets the clinton stamp of approval. bill and hillary gets behind

we've got to defend ourselves. >> nbc news foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin, good morning. what can you tell us this morning? what's new? >> reporter: we had a chance to put that allegation that the israeli prime minister directed toward hamas, and they responded. in terms of today, as they usually do in the morning hours, palestinian medical workers tend to go out and survey some of the attacks from overnight. they tend to try to recover the bodies that may be in buildings. this is one particular story today that's certainly grabbing a lot of headlines here in gaza. a residential building was struck late last night. the israeli air strike was targeting a specific apartment in that building. as rescue workers and paramedics arrived to rescue them, the building collapsed. at least 11 people have been killed as a result. paramedics and workers are still trying to assess the damage of the building. this is a multi-story building, high rise building here in gaza. it will be one of those situations. it's a dangerous situation because officials are concerned that the building may

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and he's got a question for you, ayman. >> ayman, good to see you again. >> how are you, buddy? >> good. i want to shift a little back to the rand paul discussion on drones and get your take on how this plays out in the middle east, in particular, given our extensive use in the region. we were talking earlier about some 50 nations or countries have or are developing their own drone program. how do you see or read the reaction to the debate that we saw played out on the floor of the senate with what's really going on on the ground and the concern that, you know, americans have about this happening to us here. and yet we're doing it to other nations and how those nations look at that program in total. >> well, i think the critics, those that have been speaking out against the drone policy, will say, you know, the united states is now waking up to the problems of the drone policy. there are so many ethical and moral and legal questions about it being used on u.s. soil against american citizens. critics say why didn't you have this debate over the past ten years when you were carryi

ayman. >> reporter: good morning, mika. today is the first day of that three-day holiday period here marking the end of ramadan. it is a period that is often marked with celebrations. families get together, have meals. children receive toys and gifts, very much like christmas in the u.s. but here today a very different atmosphere, a very somber feeling among many families. some not even leaving their homes, just assessing the damage. over the weekend a lot of damage was visible for us and others as we traveled across various parts of gaza. to see the results of the fighting that thaz crippled the gaza the past several weeks. the death toll now stands at about 1,039. a lot of people believe there are hundreds more buried, particularly in the southern part of the gaza strip where there has been some of the most intense shelling over the course of the last few days. on the political front, this is this kind of de facto cease-fire that has emerged. both sides clearly right now restraining themselves a little bit. yes, we have h

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>> ayman, should we expect saudi arabia to be developing a nuclear program now? >> i don't necessarily think as a result of this deal that you're going to see a major shift in any of these country, nuclear posture, so long as the deal is intact and it's going to depend on what happens in congress if the deal does actually stick come june 30st, i think it's not going to change a lot in the region. but the deal itself the fact that the u.s. in iran were able to strike a deal that's going to change. this is a transformative moment in the middle east because you now have the united states and iran sitting at a table talking about one of the most pressing issues. that is now more of a major concern for some of the sunni/arab countries in terms of what's happening in the region. if they're talking about the nuclear program it could pave the way for them to talk about iraq yemen syria, and that could be a major cause of concern. >> ayman you mentioned congress. let's get to reaction. it didn't take long for potential 10 20 16 candidates to reaction of a nuclear deal wit

ayman, i thought, said it well. >> a couple of more headlines and then to the break. my dad is on the other side and he is nervous already. >>> raising the minimum wage on the arkansas state ballot after a petition received more than twice the signatures it needed. what more do people need to know about what we need to do here? if passed it would raise the state's minimum wage from $6.25 and hour to $7.50 an hour in 2016. mark prior embraced the increase in february calling it the right thing to do and signing on to the petition. his opponent republican congressman tom cotton has yet to make an decision. >> this is an important issue. i said it after labor day and believe it now. this is a bigger issue as we move forward and puts republicans, like tom cotton and like myself when i was in congress, you know, a couple of decades ago, in a difficult position. >> is it hard to take a position on this right now at this time? >> i don't think so. i don't think so. >> it's not. >> if you can get a deal out of it. >> exactly. >> mitt romney said on your show and he endorsed i

. >> and standing with us is -- ayman. >> well, we made ayman stay. >> i tried to talk to ayman when he was on his show a few minutes ago. i can't talk to you while i'm doing a television show. >> a really good impression. >> that's exactly -- >> how it sounded? >> i have to work on my delivery. >> and it's staccato. >> talking about it in the commercial break. he gave me -- >> i tried to do it in the commercial break. >> we like to do it now. do it now. so, today, without a doubt, the biggest day so far in the world cup. a lot of fun. uruguay and france. who do you like? >> france. more experienced, younger team, come back from behind victory against argentina kind of lifted their confidence. plus just playing with so much energy and excitement. going with france on that one. >> yep. jonathan? >> also going france on that one. >> white house reporter for -- >> france. >> good choice. >> mika speaks french. she'll go with french. >> same here. >> and by the way, this is a shock. a lot of the smart people are going with uruguay. which means we're probably all wrong. >> possibly. we'll

. >> let's bring in msnbc's ayman mohyeldin. ayman? >> reporter: the gas station you just referenced, where the gunman parked his car shooting first outside the church and then working his way in. 26 people killed, ranging in ages. two bodies recovered outside, 23 inside the church, some as young as 5 years old. we're hearing about the pastor, who was a guest pastor this week. he, along with his wife, killed, according to their 30-year-old son. absolutely devastating the community here. this is a very tight-knit community where everyone pretty much knew somebody who attended this church. we spoke to a worker here at the gas station, telling us that shortly after she heard the gunshots her first instinct was to call her friends and relatives that she knew attended this church as well. it gives you a sense in a city and town of 400 people, when you're talking about 26 people killed, how devastating it is to the psyche and safety of this community. interestingly enough it was also a member of this community who chased down the gunman and

also with us, co-host of "morning joe" "first look" ayman mohyeldin. he has a new piece in "vanity fair" investigating the murder of jamal khashoggi. we'll get to that in a moment and also, yasmin vossoughian is back as well. thank you both very much. senator murphy, i guess first of all let's talk about the president's twitter feed. i want to get to the new choice of the dni, at least but you're going to unfollow the president. what is it going to accomplish? >> if i want to unfollow the president i need to get into a different line of work. >> yeah. >> yesterday morning, i just decided that i had had enough of starting my days with this kind of racist, hateful, demeaning negativity. obviously i'm in this business and i am in the united states senate to try to stop his hateful agenda from moving into law. but it's just -- to my, i think a moment in time where we all need to find ways to sort of lift up the way in which we talk. sometimes i get trapped by reading the president's twitter feed and trying to immediately respond to it. i don't want to be i

ayman. >> reporter: good morning, mika. the humanitarian truce that israel is putting in place is actually going into effect just now, just a few minutes ago. it was actually something that developed very quickly. it seems to have been at least a unilateral decision by the israel military. however, they did stipulate two very important points. one, that areas where israeli soldiers are still operating, which means inside gaza, they will continue to operate. and israel will respond to any attempt to harm israeli civilian life that may be emanating out of gaza. so they have clarified that. but others are looking at this as a possible window, an opportunity that perhaps this could be extended and create an atmosphere of a rolling cease-fire for longer periods of time that can pave the way for something more substantial. but s but today has also been a violent day. there was an attack at a u.n. school that killed at least 15 people. the united nations has told nbc that their initial investigation leads them to believe it was an

that's -- >> ayman said a brilliant thing there. religious liberty was our first liberty. it was one of the things we really got right at the founding. the constitution disestablished federal test you could not have a federal test religious test to hold a federal office. freedom of conscience freedom of religion is absolutely fundamental. >> shouldn't officials go in and close it down? it's against the law. beyond disgusting. >> these two people were not muslim. they were hindu. they were hindu. they weren't muslim. >> i know. >> the woman who runs the gun range posted on facebook wrote, we refuse to ale lou people to shoot here who display behavior irrational or indicate under the influence of alcohol or mind-altering drugs but did not elaborate on that point. implying that maybe? >> ayman is going to have more on the gaza efforts to rebuild 8:30 on his road map show on his msnbc shift. he's also doing to be taking part in a twitter chatn't the paris terror attacks at 1:00 eastern time. ayman mohyeldin, very busy. >>> republican roulette as the party's presidential hopefu

ayman is telling us the story. the radicalization of one of the capitol rioters. ayman is joining us now. tell us what you found out. >> the country was consumed of this tragedy. i received a facebook message from an old high school friend of mine who told me his sister in law was among those that died at the capitol. roseanne boylen was radicalradi. the family given us exclusive access to speak to them and her close friends and trying to understand how this young woman who was very a political had never voted in her life transformed into a trump supporter and a qanon. >> for most of her life, roseanne boylen hated politics. >> she was super involved. we are always into each other's business and hanging out. >> reporter: the summer of 2020, her family started to notice something is a bit off. >> she started getting close off and distant and on christmas she was here but she was on her phone all the time. she was not participating in the opening of presents. >> reporter: roseanne began to withdraw and instead going down qanon rabbit hole. >> she's like hey have you

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we greatly appreciate it, ayman. later we're going to have general stanley mcchrystal with us and throughout the show we're going to be talking about yesterday, what happened, information coming out that robert mueller's investigation looking now at president donald trump. and a series of three or four tweets yesterday attacking that investigation. newt gingrich inexplicably said some things that he knows better about. it was stunning but yesterday was a day that you had a lot of smoke, building up around the investigation. then last night a very interesting statement from rod rosenstein. >> shortly after 9:00, the deputy attorney general released this statement, quote, americans should exercise caution before accepting any true stories attributed to anonymous officials, particularly when they do not identify the country. let alone the branch or agency of government with which the alleged sources are supposedly affiliated. americans should be skeptical about anonymous allegations. the department of justice has a long

>> by the way, we will go to ayman mulldean. i separate isis from hamas. hamas is going to fly planes into buildings in new york city. it's the same thing with he's bhola. are they terrorists? yes, they're terrorists, it's a different brand. it is not driven by -- >> i don't know about that they have islam or allow, hezbollah, the party of god. they claim to be actth in the name of allow. >> but you actually have the leader of hezbollah coming out condemning this type of violence as well. and it's far different than what's happening here. again, 23-year-olds flying planes into buildings. let's go to ayman mulldean from tel aviv. >> this will be interesting. >> reporter: a lot of angles to go on. let start with the reaction you are following in egypt. we just talked about the president of egypt. but in egypt, about the printing of the new issue of charlie hebdo, what are they saying? >> reporter: yeah i was just hearing that conversation but yesterday late in the evening, one of the major religious authorities there, a body that effectively issues edicts to

joining us live from brussels, msnbc correspondent ayman mohyeldin. ayman, what can you tell us? >> this is very much an active investigation as we've known for the past several hours. moving pieces to this, linking not only these three individuals to the paris attackers but also linking them to the fight in syria. we'll start with the development this is morning as you are reporting. conflicting reports out of belgium attributed to two different media outlets here saying th saying that jim laachraoui was captured in a city about 20 minutes away from brussels. other media reports saying he was not arrested and you can understand there's been conflicting reports. he also traveled at one point with a different alias so that could be a source of the conflicting reports. we are expected to hear from the federal prosecutor here in brussels in an hour's time. he'll explain more about these developments but a big breakthrough came in the identification of these three individuals, the two brothers you mentioned, ibrahim and khalid el bakraoui. the two brothers believed to be involved in

msnbc political director rick tyler, and ayman and josh green. josh, welcome. heilemann, i've got to pick up on a point you've made about 2016. it's been a terrible year. muhammad ali, justice ska leila ya, nancy reagan, merle haggard. you could play this terrible game for an hour. it's unreal. >> i think when the george michael thing happened on christmas, i mean people had a sense earlier in the year because of bowie and prince passing so early in the year. but just the -- on christmas there was just a ton of social media traffic. my god, when is this year going to end. who's -- there's still a few more days here to go and then you've got carrie fisher shortly there after. some of them are on the older side but those who died very young, particularly in the realm of music. >> prince and george michael were very young. >> epic figures in their genres who died in their 50s and 60s, it's been a really staggering year. >> alan thick, garry shorthaand. it's been a helluva year. >>> kerry warned that peace efforts are now in jeopardy as israel's prime minister ques

ayman just wouldn't stop. he kept attacking baptists and i had to defend them. >> it's a fascinating conversation. >> some of my best friends are baptists. >> the centers for disease control and prevention, dr. tom frieden. doctor, i saw you where on "meet the press" and want to follow up to something you said about medicine to treat ebola being in very short supply, being very hard to make, taking a long time to make. if that is the case, how can we be sure that we really have our handle on the situation here in the u.s. if it were to come in larger numbers? >> that's a great question. in fact, the way we're going to stop ebola is not only by caring for individuals, but most importantly, by making sure we track every single contact, make sure as texas has done, that they have tracked every single day and none of them there have had fever or symptoms, if any do to isolate them. that's how you break the chain of transmission. because of our public health and health care systems in this country, that i'm confide

on the phone is msnbc ayman mohyeldin. what can you tell us? >> reporter: the egypt government officially says the hijack situation is over and the hijacker has been arrested. this again is according to egypt air. egypt air is declaring the release of all hostages and arrest of the hijacker, they will continue to provide updates on this developing story. as for what happened earlier today and what continues to unfold, we know the egyptian government has been in close contact with the cypriot government, and that the egyptian government has also sent a plane to larnika to bring back all those stranded passengers who were either on their way to cairo before that plane was hijacked. the reporters were now getting is the situation is officially over. we still don't know much about the identity of the hijacker except his name. he was identified as seif eldin mustafa, but as far as the demands, that has not been verified. >>> we do have a lot of politics to get to, a new poll shows that donald trump is nearing the 50% mark with republican voters. he'

let's bring in nbc news foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin live in london. if the u.s. air strikes and militants in syria, does that mean our objectives line up with those of bashar al assad? that is the question. >> in the short term they might and that is because the growing risk of is circumstancis and th to the united states is presenting a very dark, if you will, threat. no doubt the overall differences between the united states and the syrian government are still very stark between the two sides. i mean, obviously, the u.s. foreign policy is official calling on president bashar to step down from power so there is now doubt the u.s. is not going to be cooperating in any capacity with the syrian regime to carry out attacks against isis. in the short term there may be an alignment in interest but in the long run no plan of cooperation presented on the long run. >> it's in assad's best interest for us to stamp isis out or at least weaken them. yet we are hearing the syrian foreign ministry saying don't let this happen. are they voicing a protest they know we are going

. >> ayman, can you bring us up to ukraine? the political unrest is there stunning. >> it's very important. ukraine is one of the most important countries in europe and more mornl russia. you have to go back to november to get a quick sense what this was about. ukraine was on pace to sign an agreement with the european union to join the eu or open trade deals. the president of ukraine says he doesn't want to do that and have closer ties to russia and that led to a sit-in protest in place now seven to eight weeks. yesterday we saw the government step up its campaign to break these protests up. you're seeing these hors terrific images on the screen. it felt like a battlefield, more like a war zone. three protesters have been killed and the opposition says the number is even higher. they are angry with the ukrainian president opting to be closer to russia than the european union. we are talking about the olympics in sochi and this is one more political crisis that the russian government has to deal with on its western border. >> a

obviously, ayman, this has been a war-torn country for some time. a heavy french presence after you had the islamists take over the country in 2013. what can you tell us about the country and why we're seeing another massive terror operation there? >> it's important to emphasize we still don't know the ident y identity. a lot of turmoil over the past several years in 2012 when the military in that country carried out a coup against the president, and shortly after that, the country saw an immediate split. you had a group of rebels in the northern part of the country, some affiliated with al qaeda in the maghreb which is the al qaeda affiliate that operates mostly in the western part of africa. they began a rebellion and began to take over the northern part of the country. it was at the time a very disturbing scene to see mali split up that quickly, right after that military coup. that prompted international condemnation and led the french government at the time to lead a series of military campaigns to help dislodge some of those rebels from the nor

nbc news foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin is standing by. ayman, we saw part of your interview this morning with that grieving father and husband. bring us up to date on the latest so far today. >> reporter: good morning, mika. well, you know, as it has been every morning, you wake up and you get a sense of what happens overnight. most of the time it's some disturbing news about some of the results of the overnight air strikes. this morning has been no different. today's concentration has been in the southern part of gaza. we are getting preliminary reports and we emphasize these are preliminary reports that we're getting from eyewitnesses and residents in the area in the southern part of gaza that overnight at least several israeli shells landed in the vicinity of a residential neighborhood, killing up to 40 people. now again, we're still getting the initial reports. according to eyewitnesses on the ground, palestinian eyewitnesses on the ground, overnight there was intense shelling. a group of families huddled together to try to make their

and ayman, we'll be seeing you on "morning joe" first look weekday mornings right before "morning joe." >>> still ahead on "morning joe," the legal implications of mick mulvaney's admission of a quid pro quo involving ukraine. we'll talk to former federal prosecutor joyce vance who says even the highest standard for an impeachable act, criminal conduct has already been met. >>> plus, former secretary of homeland security janet napolitano joins the conversation. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. you're wat" we'll be right back. day 23. i'm about to capture proof of the ivory billed woodpecker. what??? no, no no no no. battery power runs out. lifetime retirement income from tiaa doesn't. guaranteed monthly income for life. nooooo! guaranteed monthly income for life. month after month i'm doing it all. the supplements... the veggies... the water. but i still have recurring constipation, belly pain, straining and bloating. my doctor said i could have a real medical condition called ibs-c. for my recurring constipation and belly pain from ibs-c... i said "yes" to linzess.

our thanks to ayman mohyeldin as well. we'll be right back in a moment. >>> time now for final thoughts of the morning. joe, why don't we begin with you? >> okay, i will go to andrea. andrea, your final thoughts? >> just that we don't know if we're at the beginning of a cultural change but i think these young people are way ahead of the politicians and politicians should watch out. >> we've been talking about two stories. the mueller investigation and shootings. they've merged together in one piece now that we know there are twitter accounts linked to russian bots that immediately after the shooting in florida went in, began to divide people and activate on those two issues, pro and active gun control. which means the russia investigation and the florida shootings are really now one story because until we fix one, we're not going to get the other fix. >> heidi. >> we don't know where we are in this cultural shift. but we do know one thing. there will not be measurable shift unless this next election comes and goes and the

ayman, good morning. what more can you tell us about this blast at the u.n. school that killed 16 people? what happened there? >> reporter: well, i wish i could play for you guys the sound that's happening behind us right now. it's a real juxtaposition of what life has become like in gaza. you're hearing on one hand the sounds of friday prayers and it's juxtaposed pierced pie the sound of artillery shelling every few seconds. but in terms of what happened at the u.n. school, there are two narratives coming out of this, one from the united nations, one from the israeli military. the united nations says its gps coordinants were given to the idf. they say that they don't necessarily have any hard evidence that this was a direct israeli shell. they say all the indications are that it was an israeli shelling because it was one of several in the area that were coming from the direction of the israeli military. in addition to that, they are calling for a full investigation. but they are also citing something that's very important. they say this is now the third scho