we stood hand to hand, shoulder to shoulder in front of the museum in front of washington d.c. to express unity and solidarity to what happened in france. and the message was we were united. and i held the koran and the sign saying we honour the pepn, we honour free speech. this is about people with no fath, people that believe others threaten them. i think the majority of us - muslims, christian, jews and people of no faith - have to be united against the few people and should not fall to their level when we start to mock each other, divide each other and alienate each other because we lack leadership and the wisdom to see and celebrate the diversity that god created us. >> we have care, glad that you were able to join us tomb. >> thank you. >> "consider this" will be right back. >> i'm ali velshi, the news has become this thing where you talk to experts about people and al jazeera has really tried to talk to people, about their stories. we are not meant to be your first choice for entertainment. we are ment to be your first choice for the news. >> i took the chance to get out

favor returned >> there are countless media reports from local news stations ranging from ping 5 in washington, illinois and nbc 11 in georgia. so many, in fact, researchers around the world have spent considerable time and money figuring out why dogs are such super sniffers. >> a bloodhound has 300 million scent recenters in his nose. a human has 5. the dog's brain that analyzes those receptors is 40% larger than that of a human brain. when you look at a dog, the nose is half its face >> another advantage. humans use the same airway to breathe and smell. a dogs one for olfaction, the other for res pration. breathing and smelling are two 13r59 functions. dogs can filter sense to a degree thooumz can't begin to comprehend. author and dog cognition researcher alexander horowitz breaks it down "inside of a dog." while humans may smell sugar in coffee, dogs can smell it in two olympic [ sighs ] swimming pools >> in west hills, the nc 2 foundation is screening and training dogs to detect cancer. master trainer dina safiris is choosing dogs based uponblied but more importantly, their person personal

from washington, i'm ray suarez. today on "talk to al jazeera." the actor thafng ethan hawke. >> you can make of the truth what you will. we make big moments define our life. the romantic moments happen on a bus ride. you can't anticipate. >> the coming of divorce and being a father. >> i've been a child of divorce, i have been as a parent. >> recognition in dead poets society, good kill in 2013 about drum warfare. >> we can assassinate people from anywhere in the world and it's not being policed. >> it's the movie "training day" for which hawke received his osk. in an attempt to keep hawke humble the actor's mother haste encouraged him to given back. >> she took me to haiti shortly after the duvalier administration. she thought i was going to be aspoiled brat. >> i had a chance to speak to ethan hawke with all of this. just as his film "boyhood" was being released. >> you play a father from his late teen years through when his family is going through divorce. tell me about this. you really have a personal connection to something like this don't y

. >> doctor gary franklin is a medical official in washington state. he was one of the first people to sound the alarm about the adverse effects of opioid prescribing. >> somebody would come into our system with a low back sprain, and be dead three years later from an unintentional overdose of opioids. i was shocked. i mean it was the saddest thing i had ever seen in many years in my job. >> franklin has worked to implement guidelines that limit the prescribing of opioid drugs in washington. since the rules went into effect overdose deaths in the state have dropped by more than a quarter. >> these are avoidable deaths. >> there's a sea change going on in practice and i think that the regulatory agent the fda in particular, rather than being out in front of the sea change, is being carried along. >> we would not be dealing with this problem today had the fda been doing its job properly going back to 1996. >> with well over 100,000 deaths this is the worst manmade epidemic in history. when i say manmade i mean made by organized medicine. >> catch more "f

from washington, i'm ray suarez.

from washington, i'm ray suarez. >> on america tonight. our one of the most feared organizations became a financial powerhouse. >> isil took over factories. they needed civilians not connected to them. i help them sell the product. >> nick schifrin with how isil fuels the money, and how the west aims to stop them. also tonight, swimming against the tide. what the life or death struggle of these rodents tell us about the depth of depression in some of the highest communi

from washington, i'm ray suarez. >> we're driving to a crime scene in a suburb outside of columbia, south carolina... we've come because more women are killed by men here than any other state in the country... around 10:30 in the morning, a family of four, including two children, were found here.

and we look at what is happening in washington as the new republican-controlled congress gets ready for business. those stories coming up tonight at 6:00. >> the first stop for many child migrants to the united states is this border patrol facility in mcallen, texas. >> "good afternoon, welcome to the rio grande valley processing center..." >> it opened this summer in response to an influx of unaccompanied minors from mexico and central america. >> do you think this is an immigration issue or a refugee issue? do you think some of them will be granted political asylum? >> we're not talking about criminals. these are innocent children, fleeing desperate times, whether it's poverty, whether it's violence, whether it's the draw of a better life in the united states. >> the obama administration has made it clear: most of the children will be deported. but they continue to arrive -- twice as many as last year, and 4 times as many as in 2011. >> we've been riding along the border all week and we're seeing some action in this area. we're not far away from the river and from mexico. we see some

. >> i spoke to the proposition 8 challengers in washington, d.c. in a minute, you will hear from chris and sandy. but first, my interview with the men. they have been a couple since 1998 and married last year. >> was there a moment or a series -- or a series of moments where you realized that you were not just disappointed people, as a lot of people were in california after prop 8, but ready to join the fight, ready to put the bit in your teeth and actually take this to court? >> your proposition 8 hurt. it hurt before it passed because the propaganda took a shift and the shift was to utilize this idea that children would be harmed, the institution of marriage would be harmed, heterosexual couples would no longer get married if you were to allow marriage equality. it was the propaganda that was filled with lies and misrepresentations of what our love represents that really lit the fire for us. before prop 8 passed, because we thought this cannot happen in california. but we saw that the tactics of t we saw the attack ads against us and prop 8 passe

. >> jobbing the regulators in washington have a cool about actual clinical applications of this very powerful medicine. >> are you heedful in the your career, things will change. >> i use to say now in my lifetime, but now i think i shouldn't shortchange my life, we have seen so much change in the past few years that maybe we are coming to a tipping point the pressure right now, i think is greater than it has ever been. to allow this research to go forward. >> in march, the government finally granted burgess group approval to study the effects of pot, it is the first time anyone has received federal permission to study the benefiting of smoking marijuana hof, researchers are still waiting for the plants to be delivered. >> over half of the american voting population believes that marijuana should be legalized. not just for medical use, but legal for recreational use and that's setting up an opportunity for the obama administration to step in, this won't require a vote or an act of congress, an executive email, from president obama requiring the process so this is the dollar bill meth

in washington, i'm ray suarez. this is al jazeera. this is al jazeera. >> a very warm welcome to the newshour. i'm mary ann lamaze in doha. in the headlines. egypt said the plane should thought have been in the air before it crashed. what tafnl investigates are italian investigators are looking at

washington, ray suarez. >> the united states is in the midst of the worst drug addiction epidemic in its history. but it's not a crisis of illegal drugs. it's one of prescription painkillers - oxycodone, hydrocodone, and other legal narcotics, all related to opium. collectively they are called opioids. >> these are the opioid painkillers. and prescriptions for drugs like these have more than quadrupled over the last 15 years - to the extent that the us now consumes more than 80 percent of the global supply of these drugs. >> overdoses from prescription opioid drugs now kill nearly seventeen thousand americans every year. that's one overdose death every thirty minutes. >> the overdose rate which might have been 1 or 2 a month in our emergency department is now more like 3 or 4 or 5 if not more than that, in a 24-hour period. >> that's a massive increase. >> massive. >> over the past 10 years, we've had more than 125,000 americans lose their lives to painkiller overdose deaths. >> the food and drug administration recently approved a powerful new opioid painkiller called zohydro - over

brings us to the end of this edition watch us on facebook join us on twitter i'm@ray suarez muse and in washington, ray suarez. >> the united states is in the midst of the worst drug addiction epidemic in its history. but it's not a crisis of illegal drugs. it's one of prescription painkillers - oxycodone, hydrocodone, and other legal narcotics, all related to opium. collectively they are called opioids. >> these are the opioid painkillers. and prescriptions for drugs like these have more than quadrupled over the last 15 years - to the extent that the us now consumes more than 80 percent of the global supply of these drugs.

us to the end of this edition, watch us on facebook, join us on twitter i'm@ray suarez muse, and in washington, ray suarez. on america tonight, the most likely race to die at the happens of police, may not be what you think. a death, an officer, and doubt. the police said this was not racism. what do you think. >> what would he just come to a native right away you have to pull out a gun? you can't do nothing else but shoot us. >> our in depth look at crime justice, and the american indian's tough questions do native l

. >> reporter: they know them well, the two friends now living in washington d.c. cringe at the thought the gay men being harassed and doused in urine in these types of videos could have been one of them. >> when i see this movie i imagine scared. >> reporter: and they didn't know each other when they lived in russia and grew up in different cities but both know what it's like to be a target of antigay violence there, and he says he was once attacked by a group of men as he left a gay club with his friends. >> they just start to beat us up and yet just for fun. >> reporter: many victims like him never go to the hospital. >> if you go to hospital, they will call the police and you have to tell the police what happened. and russian police is actually homophobic. >> reporter: the story is similar and also beaten outside a gay club, what did you think was going to happen? >> i could be killed. >> reporter: according to a resent report by human rights watch, violence against gays intensified in russia after a 2013 law went into effect, the law bans gays from public disp

they talk about wanting a big overhaul of the tax code that has been in washington for years now. unless the big companies are willing to give up tax breaks, i don't see democrats moving on that. as libby said with tax and spin you're also going to hear from the president the follow up. he's going to want a seven percent increase. they're not going to want to go along with that either. >> is that an open bargaining point? in the past the president has seemed to give his best offer first and then democrats accuse of negotiating with himself. is he striking a hard negotiating stance right now? >> i think he's laying out what his vision is and the contrast in the event that nothing can get done. he wants to show where democrats stand and what their ideas are for targeting aid to the middle class in conjunction with hillary clinton. her aides, his aides, they've been talking a lot. their allies in the think tank have been talking a lot. you i think what you see is a you gauntlet being thrown down. president obama has two years to finish his legacy. he thinks that he will if he can get

in washington, i'm ray suarez. somebody once said to me "what's the difference between gay marriage and straight marriage?" i said, well, there really isn't a difference. >> in 2008, voters in california approved proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage in the state. two couples challenge the law in a case that went to the u.s. supreme court. half of the plaintiff team is chris perry and sandy steer. >> you grow up believing you are a second-class citizen from the moment you recognize you are gay or lesbian. and until recently, you didn't think you ever would be equal. >> the other couple involved in

it doesn't need to be dictated from philadelphia or washington because the guys in west virginia know what's best. >> why do companies have a hard time not violating their permits? it seems like permit violations are part of the game? >> i don't know if they are part of the game. there are so many moving parts on a mining operation and so many standards to meet. you're going to have some interruptions. if they are serious they need to be fixed. the vast majority of the people and the people i'm proud to represent they are wanting to do the right thing because they live here. they are not going to do anything to mess up the future of the state. dj estep is trying to help his community face the uncertainty about the health of the water supply after the freedom industries spill. most people in the us never have to think about whether the water in their tap is safe - dj has been thinking about it since he was a teenager >> 17 years old, having back pain, throwing up blood, you went to a doctor and what did you find out? >> it was a rare kidney disease >> a rare kidney disease. do they kno

in washington, i'm ray suarez. today on "talk to al jazeera." astronaut chris hadfield. >> it's the raw human experience that's at the core of anything that matters. >> it was a young boy from ontario that became the first canadian to walk in space. >> it's hard relentless. the selection process to become an astronaut is nearly impossible. >> the research lab a politically complicated program coordinated between 15 countries, including the u.s. and russia.

meanwhile, just outh my home down of seattle washington. i was given a basic watch to try. i decided to test it during a different type of activity. i'm about to go to sleep wearing the basis b1. it will track my sleep and tell me how much of my time i spent in light sleep, deep sleep and how much i spent in rem sleep and will track the number of times i tossed and turned throughout the night. the number of times my sleep was interrupted and in the morning i should wake up to a summary telling me about the quality of my sleep. i'll put it on, i'll see what i wake up to in the morning. couldn't. couldn't. in the morning i synced my watch to my mobile device. in a few minutes it tells me i slept 7 hours and 15 minutes, 19% of the time i was in rem cycles, 25% of the time i was in deep sleep and 56% i was in light sleep. and that i tossed and turned 21 times and have zero interruptions. i have a sleep score of 95%. it's a way of crushing the data and giving me a number that indicates the quality of my sleep. 95% is pretty good. >> so you are actually wired up now, yes? >> i'm

. >> our whole behavior and philosophy and everything is so diametrically opposite to washington d.c. in general. it is pathetic...we don't want anything to do with washington d.c. >> speaking of nasa, when you say you don't want anything to do with dc, but you've signed a contract with nasa for $18 million dollars. >> being willing to criticize nasa, or government in general doesn't make us stupid enough not to take the money when it's offered to us! >> the rocket burner burns for a bit and it turns off. and the moment it turns off-everything inside the ship will become weightless-so you'll be able to get out of your seat, unbuckle your seatbelt, float around the cabin, and then come back in. and we'll ask people to get back in their seats. and you'll just do a glide using the wings of the vehicle down to the runway that you took off from. >> virgin galactic - the space offshoot of british aerospace giant virgin -plans to take customers for a ride into low-earth orbit to experience zero gravity. flights are expected to begin this year. leonardo di caprio and justin bieber are signed-

we'll see you at the next inside story in washington. ♪ >>> september they had 400 followers. today, there are thousands of people who adhere ladenism. >> a counter-terrorism expert runs an intelligence firm that bears his name that advices governments and corporation >> the only thing they want is a religious war. >> he led the investigations of the

he joins me from washington. seth one does not need to be an expert like you to understand that jobs create prosperity. so why is the reality that these jobs are not moving wages up? people associate gaining wages with becoming more prosperous, and they're rightfully not seeing that. >> ali we are doing a lot better on jobs, 3 million jobs last year but still not enough jobs for the number of people who want to work and can work. we still have millions and millions of americans who are working part time when they want to be working full time. we have people who have left the labor market who like to come back this. we still have people looking for jobs who are not finding them. with that slack in the labor market wages are not going to rise and workers do not have enough bargain thinging power and force their employers to give them a little bit more in their paychecks. >> one thing that the people have come to understand is the relationship between tighter employment, lower unemployment, more jobs, and wages is n

because many in washington, d.c. don't know their hiv status. every year there are an estimated 50,000 new hiv cases in the united states. >> youth think a whole lot differently than we did in my generation. if you were ten years old in 1996, now as a 28, 29-year-old you have never seen that death and dying. we have changed power behaviors because of fear of dying. >> i've seen friends get sick but never die from hiv. >> 24 yeerd devon bearington ward has chosing to take truvada. >> is something about truvada or prep, seeing so many of their friends die off and not wanting to see that happen, we have to recognize that we are in a different space in the etch demic and have to evolve in the times. >> he knows he lives and daylights in a community with some of the highest hiv rates in the country. >> i know the statistics not just from a place where i read them on paper from the epidemiology report, but those are my friends. those are people in my sexual networks. those are people in my community. at this point in my life, i do know more men who ar

with "the washington post" reporting that the u.s. government is reporting 11 billion, news organizations have a fight on their hands, a fight >> sunday night. >> 140 world leaders will take the podium. >> get the full story. >> there is real disunity in the security council. >> about issues that impact your world. >> infectious diseases are a major threat to health. >> "the week ahead". sunday 8:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >>> ever since the advent of the printing press, the past few years tells us that mobile in the hands of people are just as powerful. conventional news is struggling with the process, they need to adapt to keep up with the devices in the pocket and i way it's used. it used to be a place for legacy, and big name newspapers to represent their front pages digitally. big media needs to have a host of new line platforms to deliver stories they are interested in in the form that we want, whenever and wherever we want them. the "the listening post" in some of the shifts we are seeing in news technology and eng

join us again next time in washington. i'm ray suarez. >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ >>> a very warm welcome to the news hour. our top stories from doha. a huge search is underway in northern france for the two brothers accused of the charlie hebdo attack. >>> paris stops for a minute of silence to honor the dead. >>> suffering through the storm, how syrians are now facing a battle against the elements. >>>

international issues that will dominate the president's addresses, and one of the most important events on the washington, d.c, political calendar. all that and much more straight ahead. >> president obama is getting ready to deliver his state of

john isn't standards the same whether it's washington or south carolina or anywhere, u.s.a? >> it's supposed to be the same. the tooling you use to check is supposed to be all the same. so if there's different quality coming out of the different plants that should be a concern to management. and listening to cynthia a few minutes ago and also listening to one of the reporters earlier one of the things that comes out pretty loud and clear is, the employees' dissatisfaction with not being listened to which always leads to a disgruntled employee and public disclosures. so boeing's management has a responsibility to their employees to listen to their concerns and address them and that's clear from what's been said here that that hasn't happened. now how much of that is going to equate to an unsafe product at the end of the day from afar i don't think any of us can say one way or the other that it's going to definitely lead to an unsafe product. but the drug use in the facility is a concern. and if, you know, no matter where you are there are abuses of produce. you go into toulou

godeski has been homeless in washington d.c. for nearly 7 years. last night, like most, he slept outside. with affordable housing getting increasingly scarce here there's been a spike in the number of homeless. churches, food pantries, the city, are all scrambling to meet the demand. at the public library's main branch, homeless individuals rush in when the doors open, some are even dropped off by a shuttle bus from the homeless shelters. once inside, they log onto computers to job hunt or check email. they meet friends or just read protected from the elements. >> for many years we would sort of open our doors and say "okay, we've done our job", because we're providing them a warm place to go if they've got no place else to be. >> now, social worker jean badalamenti will help provide information on homeless services and will "sensitize" staff. while government, residents and local businesses argue over the role of the libraries, david godeski is just glad they're here. >> having a place like this where things are controlled, it's a godsend. >> so g

join us again next time in washington. i'm ray suarez. >> coming up at 6:00 p.m. eastern on al jazeera america we'll have all the latest on the deadly attack on a french magazine including a look at some of the social and cultural issues that may have influenced the gunmen. also the head of the fbi said that he isn't sure about much, but he is sure that north korea was behind the cyberattack on sony and today he talked about some of that evidence. and a break in the search for airasia crews say that they have found the plane's tail. that and more coming up at 6:00. a show about innovations that can change lives. . >> the science of fighting a humanity and we are doing it in a unique way. this is a show about science by scientists. let's check out the team of hard-core nerds. specialising in ecology and evolution. rhinos have been hunted to near

it's a new day in washington, and it's inside story. >> hello i'm ray suarez. the new congress starts work this week. a new senate majority takes up work putting republicans at the legal ams of all the economies as chairs, and kentucky's mitch mcconnell in charge as majority leader. speaker john boehner of ohio will lead the large republican majority in the house of representatives, but there were two dozen members willing to stand as candidates against him or vote against him. since the democrats were soundly beaten in the 2014 midterm election speculation has been growing of what it would mean to have republicans back in charge of both chambers since 2006. it's a new year in washington, that means new jobs for 58 representatives. >> congratulations. you're now members of the 114th congress. >> and 13 senators. >> i'm going to ask you to please raise your right hand. >> it's the first time in decades the republicans have had this strong of a majority in congress. all but one of the new senators sworn in tuesday were members of the g.o.p. >> we recognize the em

and washington director for reporters without borders. give us the latest on your brother's health. he has been on this hunger strike for 334 days. that's the longest in egyptian reported history. >> first of all i would like to say that mohammed was not initially arrested for his activism on twitter. he was picked up at our house as the forces were raiding the house looking for my father, and they found mohammed and arrested him. and only three days after his arrest they issued a warrant. as for his health, he is completely cut off, we haven't had any news from him in the past two to three weeks. he has been in solitary and icu in the prison in cairo. before that he was moved over to the icu, because there was fear that he was going into another coma, as he had multiple seizures within the prison. so right now he could fall into another coma. he could have another stroke, but for that we don't know, because he has been cut off from the entire world for over two or three weeks. >> what has the u.s. government done to get your brother released from your perspective, has it been enoug

here in washington, the president is set to lay out his plan for the year, in his state of the union address. we're curious what you think our nation's priorities ought to be right now. "america tonight's" digital team wants to hear from you, in the award winning editor podus project. we asked you to weigh in and thousands of you did tweeting and e-mailing us about the issues you wanted washington to take on. this year we've reached out to some people we've met on "america tonight," like sarah wolf a remarkable woman who did almost the impossible. she got lawmakers of both parties to back her bill, the able act, allowing people with disabilities to save for their own futures, without receiving penalties to their benefits. sarah has already a box for tuesday night and another item on her to-do list for president obama. we will report on a family who what happens when the person comes home. cin kinsey says, her message to the president, end a ban on medicaid fund he abortions. try to keep it short, take a lselfie, and e-mail it to sharingmy mystory@al jazeera.net. you can find more inf

washington was quick to blame the hacked on north korea. many in the news media could not wait to do the same. the "new york times" and "the washington post" were among the outlets that quoted anonymous intelligence officials, despite denials from north korea, and a chorus of cyber experts beyond dubious. pyongyang's response that releasing it would amount to an act of law was considered overreaction. when looked at, and the hack job, you may reconsider. nick muirhead on how a screw ball comedy turned into a serious story, failing to get the coverage that it deserved. >> movie reel: tell me you know it's a stupid idea. >> reporter: forget for a moment movie. set aside the cyber theft angle that sony had communications stolen by unknown. and park the freedom of expression argument. it could be a distraction. the real story is intelligence, and the western media. >> the feds determine who is to it. >> reporter: regardless of whether it's the far east or the middle east. >> the media immediately accepted the narrative, fbi narrative that north

in washington, d.c. i'm ray suarez. >> coming up at 6:00 p.m. eastern on al jazeera america. oil is the cheapest it's been in years. that is throwing the markets for a real loop. ali velshi will be here to explain what it means for your bottom line. one member of the grand jury that cleared a ferguson missouri, police officer wants to speak publicly about the decision. and we look at what is happening in washington as the new republican-controlled congress gets ready for business. those stories coming up tonight at 6:00. >> the first stop for many child migrants to the united states is this border patrol facility in mcallen, texas. >> "good afternoon, welcome to the rio grande valley processing center..." >> it opened this summer in response to an influx of unaccompanied minors from mexico and central america. >> do you think this is an immigration issue or a refugee issue? do you think some of them will be granted political asylum? >> we're not talking about criminals. these are innocent

from washington, i'm ray suarez. >> what took place that night? >> my eldest daughter runs along here and she gets her father and says, the young man is attacking sarah. my husband is holding the pistol down at the floor and he says to him, "you have 4 seconds to leave this house."instead of leaving the house, the young man

reporter: and yet the economic squeeze of child care has increasingly forced moms like jessica christie, a washington, d.c. mother of three out of work. >> working for the law firm was one of the most satisfying jobs i have ever had. >> reporter: christy gave up a litigation assistant job when her second son was born, but like many families she couldn't afford to give up a second income all together. she picked up consulting work to keep their budget afloat. but even for parents with full-time jobs, professional sacrifice is a constant. she recently landed a coveted teaching fellowship for the fall, but worry that she and todd won't be able to afford the extra baby sitting. >> if we can't get the salary increases that we need for next year, what will dwoe in what is the plan b? there is no plan b. we have a tiny bit in our savings that will go away that won't be enough. and that's sort of that. >>> studies have shown the expense in difficulty of finding child care hurt the overall economy. a non-profit focused on business investment in education, employee abcentimism cost companies $3 billion each ye

we'll see you for the next inside story in washington. . >> and a very warm welcome from me david foster to this al jazeera news hour. these are some of the stories that we're looking at in detail in the next 60 minutes. troops in the streets for the first time in decades after a number of raids. we have the latest from bruce he brussels. >> protesters in niger target churches and the police.

in washington, d.c. i'm ray suarez. >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ >>> hello, welcome to the news hour. i'm jane dutton in doha. a palestinian man convicted of the murder of three israelis is sentenced to life in prison. >>> over 50 people are dead as isil launches a series of attacks in western iraq. >>> the wife a shamed mexican mayor involved in the disappearance of 43 students is charged with organized crime. >>> i'm robin ada

mike viqueira is in washington, d.c. this morning. mike republicans have been digging into her background what are we expecting them to grill her about? >> well dell you are absolutely right. in the sense that loretta lynch is not expected to face any

let's start with al jazeera senior washington correspondent mike viqueira. why did the president cut short the visit with the indian prime minister. >> saudi arabia, a country that president obama described as key to a very complicated group of nations. that might be an understatement. he tut cut short his visit. he was going to be sightseeing visiting the taj mahal. he has a habit of having to cut short these trips to asia. but if he had done that, and this had gone forward, and he had not been in saudi arabia with this incredibly large american delegation, there are stars of administration past and present, eyebrows would have been raised. if he had gone forward with the original plan and send vice president joe biden the president and the vice president would have been out at the same time. and yes the president's absence at the paris march at the charlie hebdo march was a factor in this decision. make no mistake, it's a big deal. the white house sending a very big importance to this relationship. >> what is happening? >> i had been with the president in