[ male announcer ] look for the easy-open red arthritis cap. breaking news on "andrea mitchell reports." crisis in egypt as the capitol city descends into chaos. at least 149 people have been killed, hundreds more injured in violent clashes after pro morsi supporters were forced out of their protest camps with tear gas and armored vehicles. richard engel was on the scene. >> reporter: egyptian security forces here are clearly using live ammunition. they are firing into the side streets. there are front line positions between protesters, security forces all over cairo. and this one looks like it is about to get very ugly. >> fortunately he and the rest of our crew safe. at least two journalists killed there. today the u.s. embassy in cairo has closed. the white house says it strongly

condemns the use of violence against protesters in egypt. >> the world is watching what is happening in cairo. we urge the government of egypt and all parties in egypt to refrain from violence and resolve their differences peacefully. >> egypt has now declared a month-long state of emergency. we are going to have a live report from cairo coming up. deadly crash. this is the fiery scene after a ups plane went down near an alabama airport this morning, killing the pilot and co-pilot on board. also today, primetime players, anthony weiner may be fading in the polls, but his opponents had plenty to say in last night's debate. >> i think it's very clear to all new yorkers that neither me nor anybody else on this stage or any new yorker, quite frankly, should be lectured by anthony weiner about what we need to apologize for tonight or ever. >> i don't want to talk about

anthony and that's not why i'm here tonight. >> i've made very clear that mr. weiner should step aside for the good of the city because we need a debate on the issues. joining us this hour, the man who uncovered the incredible story that's primed to become hollywood's next blockbuster bringing oprah winfrey back to the big screen. >> everything you are and everything you have. of course, that movie is "the butler." we will tell you the real story behind the film. good day for you. i'm peter alexander, in for my friend, andrea mitchell. we want to get to breaking news. a month long state of emergency for a nation divided. a curfew imposed in cairo and ten major provinces went into effect moments ago.

the death toll from clashes between the government security forces and members of the muslim brotherhood now stands at roughly 149 people. it has been steadily rising throughout this day. the wave of violence has pushed through cairo to cities further south as well as up along the egyptian coast and nbc's ayman mohyeldin is live in cairo with the very latest. it's now after dark there. the curfew is in effect. have things calmed down at this hour, ayman? >> reporter: good afternoon, peter. well, a short while ago police confirmed that they are now firmly in control of the major sit-in protest location where those demonstrators have been encamped for more than a month now which effectively means that both of the sit-in operations are now under the control of egyptian security forces, and that's nearly 12 hours after the military or police operation began and more importantly just as the curfew here is going into effect. what we do know in cairo,

particularly in some of these areas where these clashes were taking place, is that it has somewhat calmed down and i use that word very cautiously because we understand there are still marches taking place, however, the kind of confrontation that we saw lasting throughout the course of the morning has somewhat decipitated. there are still a few cars out here. little bit of traffic. this is just as the curfew is going into effect. now the government here has warned that anyone who is caught out and some of those governors that you mentioned, anyone caught out on the streets after the curfew goes into effect from 7:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. will be imprisoned. they are not messing around. they are taking this very seriously. they are trying to restore security here after the breakdown today. more importantly, the government has also authorized the egyptian army to deal with protesters and anyone who violates that curfew in addition to the country's police force. a very volatile situation not only in the capitol but

elsewhere across the country as well. >> ayman, we haven't seen or heard from mohammed morsi in weeks since this military takeover took place. obviously he is the source of all the anger from the muslim brotherhood right now. is there any sense where he is? obviously he's encouraging his supporters to make him a freeman and put him back in power. >> none whatsoever. there's no indication as to his whereabouts. his detention has been extended for another 15 days by an investigative judge who was investigating hills criminal wrongdoings while he was in office or the time before he became the country's first democratically elected president, but we have no word as to where he is being held. that certainly exacerbates the situation. it makes it very tense. it makes it very difficult for the government here to negotiate. in fact, it is one of the reasons why the current or now previously interim vice president resigned from the government a few hours ago. it is because he felt that there

was an opportunity to resolve this conflict or to resolve this standoff politically through negotiations and certainly so didn't the u.s. and others, but now after today's bloody day led by the police and others he resigned because of that failure. so certainly it is exacerbating the tensions here across the country. >> ayman mohyeldin reporting. former congressman jesse jackson jr. has been sentenced. jackson pleaded guilty to stealing $750,000 from his campaign fund. nbc's justice correspondent pete williams just got out of the courtroom where the sentence has now been read. what is that sentence? is there a sentence yet for his wife sandra? >> reporter: just a few minutes ago the judge sentenced jesse jackson to 2 1/2 years in federal prison. that's well below 4 years the prosecution had asked them to

impose and roughly below the 4 years 9 months that was the maximum within the sentencing guideline range. what the judge said is that keeping jackson in prison longer than 2 1/2 years would have diminishing returns given the expensive incarceration and the fact that she acknowledged that he does have bipolar disorder that needs treatment and therapy and that while the bureau of prisons could provide some of that, it probably wouldn't be as good as what he would get from his own doctor in more familiar settings. she also indicated that he has a potentially bright future ahead of him. after spending a long time talking about how serious his crimes were and what a disloyal service it was to his constituents and to contributors, she nonetheless said he has the potential to turn himself around, that he's fundamentally a good person that's shown the capacity to do good works. it took her about 25 minutes to get to that point after roughly three hours of a hearing this morning. it's clear that his mental

health played a role in that. the lawyer for his wife sandy, a former chicago alderman, who has admitted failing to report income taxes on some of this income, asked that she get probation so she can care for the children. it seems unlikely the judge will not impose some prison sentence but we haven't been told yet what that is, peter. >> pete williams reporting for us in washington, d.c. pete, thank you very much for that. joining us now for more on that situation that we started our broadcast with in egypt is harvard university's nicholas burns. he is the former u.s. ambassador to nato and a global correspondent. gentlemen, thanks for being with us. steve, i want to begin with you if i can. the tension, the frustration has been brimming in cairo and across egypt. how much worse do things get during the following month-long state of emergency? this is really the situation that many people had feared and it really has the potential to

become a prolonged civil war. >> i think we've just gone over a very serious cliff. you have the resignation of the vice president, a muslim brotherhood source of mine says that the death count is well above the 149 that has just been announced, and, you know, we just had john mccain and lindsey graham in egypt, both communicating with the command staff, general al si si and others about trying to encourage them to move to a more inclusive process and if that didn't happen they both predicted a real nightmare in egypt. i think we're at the precipice of a real civil war that could become very, very nasty within egypt. two niee tunisia is a tinder box. we haven't been paying attention to the region. the whole region is watching what's happening in egypt right now and it's a terrible mess. >> ambassador burns we heard from the white house where deputy press secretary told

reporters basically that the white house, the obama administration strongly condemns the violence taking place there right now. but how poor or how good, perhaps, is the line of communication between the people making decisions in egypt and the obama administration? both sides and egypt fault the u.s. government, one saying the u.s. was come police sit, the other side saying the u.s. isn't standing behind it? >> well, i think the obama administration has to be extremely disappointed. this has been a terrible day in cairo. the military authorities as steve suggested has miscalculated. they have a short-term plan to take protesters off the street but in the long term they'll deepen the divisions within egypt. the united states is not come police scitsicity -- come polic complicit. the united states has not wanted

to consider curtailing or cutting off u.s. military or economic aid. they have to consider that. after today's event it's abundantly clear in the state of emergency that there is a dictatorship in place in egypt and they've profoundly miscalculated today. >> steve, what does this do to the conversation that's being had about whether or not the u.s. should pull its funding, roughly $1.3 billion of military aid to egypt? >> well, i just tweeted a short while ago, how can you not call this a coup? once that word coup is used. >> you have to pull the money. >> the president is under the obligation to pull the money. the problem with pulling that money, this is the real dilemma between the united states on a real politique tract versus being a promoter of democracy. when morsi was removed from office we needed to begin looking at what are we really about, trying to promote and encourage in this region?

and part of it was calm. we've been behind the curve in responding to events rather than in front. and in my view i think the issue now is do you as american policy makers, nick knows a lot about this, basically decide that you're no longer in the democracy promotion business in the midst of what used to be called the arab spring but now looks quite dead. are you going to try to initiate a war against political islam broadly in the region or are you going to try and get back on a democracy track. in my view, there are a lot of other issues. the relationship with israel will be affected. if you withdraw all of the support from the general, if they really do get control of egypt you could have, you know, problems right around the egyptian area that have really serious implications for the united states. we're in a mess and we don't have a strategy, in my view, to deal with it. >> ambassador burns i was reading some posts where you've described this impossible

diplomatic dilemma for the u.s. you've argued that the administration should keep pushing the egyptian military to release mohammed morsi. what would that resolve or what would that cause? >> well, the military has to provide the people of egypt with a long-term plan of hope, a plan that would transcend the present instability and would indicate to all the different political parties that are peaceful in egypt that they have a role in future elections that there will be an inclusive process. the military didn't do that. they swept people off the streets, they killed a lot of people, but they're not providing any islamist in egypt who's an egyptian national list for hope that they can be included in the system. i think this does pose a considerable challenge for the obama administration. i'm very sympathetic for what washington is going through now. we have to speak out for human rights in the arab world during these arab revolutions and at the same time, as steve has suggested we have real interests

in preserving a relationship with whoever rules, because of the camp david peace treaty because egypt has been a fundamental part of the blocking of iran in the middle east and because egypt has been a partner on counter terrorism. i think the administration will try to preserve a close relationship with the current government but there has to be some additional measures to express just how disappointed the united states is in this government -- in the egyptian government today. >> ambassador nicholas burns and steve clemons, i appreciate your time, thank you. right now a crew of experts from the national transportation safety board is in birmingham, alabama, examining the wreckage from a ups cargo plane. it crashed. it killed the pilot and co-pilot. the plane crashed into a ball of fire on this field. it happened in its approach to birmingham's airport this morning. the mayor of that city said the pilots sent no distress signal before the crash. and in other news making headlines today, in louisiana a

hostage standoff turned deadly overnight. around noon yesterday a man took three employees hostage at the tensas state branch in saint joseph. releasing one nine hours later. after midnight the suspect shot the remaining two hostages. police returned gunfire killing the suspect. one of the two hostages wounded in the standoff we have learned has died. and in california, someone claiming to be hannah anderson, the 16-year-old kidnapped survivor, is speaking out on social media websites about her ordeal. posts from the website details her abduction by james dimaggio. in one post this person claims that james dimaggio had a gun and threatened to kill her and anyone who ofrd to help. when asked if she was glad he was dead, she said, absolutely. neither hannah nor the an der

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do you really have information -- >> if you read -- if you read the transcript, the question was do i know what my wife is doing. and the answer is, yes. it is a joke. you know, have you ever heard that sometimes people say, yes, but if i tell you i'd have to kill you. it was a joke. everyone laughed. it was a joke. >> anthony weiner after tuesday's mayoral vote confirming that most of us presumed that he is not a member of the clinton's inner circle. not exactly breaking news. joining me for daily fix, chris saliza, politico senior

editor maggie haber man and eugene robertson in studio. maggie, we'll talk about anthony weiner in a second. i know you've been talking a lot about the clinton's next act. people are saying it's drama, in fighting, more of the same. how involved is hillary clinton in this foundation? how should we expect it to serve as a nerve center for her future plans? >> she's very involved. she's been involved. they tried to succinct her very specifically in the 2008 campaign and while she was at the state department. her office is there now. she has an executive director who is a well-regarded person who has worked in nonprofits. it is the bill, hillary, chelsea clinton foundation. it was made up of largely bill clinton loyalists and people around for a long time. as you say, you know, there is now sort of this sense of we've seen this movie before with a

lot of in fighting, a lot of questions about the management style. it is a three-person board which very rarely has been meeting. that was one of the criticisms in a 2011 audit and it's part of why you're seeing chelsea clinton stepping up in a big way and taking it over. i do think that hillary clinton is going to find a way to make this a platform for very specific issues she wants to work on. she has to be careful because people examine nonprofits carefully. >> chris, what's the impact of things that say this is a problem. >> peter, i think my guess is for your average person that the headline sort of comes and goes but i think what is telling is that what maggie was mentioning, which is it's the same -- it's bruce lindsey. it's doug ban. it's people we've long been associated with the clintons who have been somewhat controversial members of their circle. if the clintons have a blind spot politically, they are very loyal to a small group of

people, many of whom have been with them since their arkansas days. some have come while bill clinton was in office and some after. they have this loyalty to them. that loyalty can and does sometimes get them into a little bit of mercy waters. >> eugene, you'll indulge me as we talk 2016. is this for hillary clinton the achilles heel? will it be the issue of benghazi or will it be the old stories of the clintons and the back story behind some of the challenges that exist? >> clearly the old stories will be there, peter, and they'll get rehashed. and so the foundation will be looked at and all of clinton world will be back in clinton world and we'll be looking around and seeing what's there. a lot of that stuff is known and discounted by the political market. i think what happens going forward absent some benghazi surprise that i don't anticipate, what happens going forward will be more important. >> i want to ask if we can very quickly about cory booker right

now. maggie, we know that cory booker obviously with a big win in new jersey expected to run through the general that's going to take place next month right now. what should we expect from cory booker? what role? where would he fit into a u.s. senate? >> that is the $64,000 question where he's going to fit in the senate. the senate is not the type of body he is used to. it's something where you have to essentially fit in with a bunch of other people, you have to make deals. he has very much been a one-man band. what i think you are going to see is a big focus on urban issues. he'll make pieces of his legislative agenda and priorities that we have not seen in the senate in a while. beyond that, the real question is how he fits in personality wise. i think that's everybody's question. >> obviously his challenge has been his celebrity, his best asset day one in the senate. if he wins he could easily have the highest profile of any u.s. senator. >> yeah. you know, we've written about this and i think the only

debatable person really in terms of a national profile is probably elizabeth warren from massachusetts who was also elected in 2012. i think people like maggie, myself, gene, we know harry reid, we know chuck schumer. i'm not sure they're known nationally. in some ways not to bring it all back to the clintons, cory booker is not as big a star as hillary clinton was when she was elected in 2000. she is a celebrity that crosses the political entertainment pop culture boundary as much as anyone currently in the senate. that is a very -- it's an interesting path, an interesting profile for him. my guess is that he's got his eye on future things. he says he doesn't. he told maggie he doesn't. my guess is once he gets in the senate there will be a lot of people talking to him about how long he'll be there and what else he will run for. >> eugene, what are we looking for in cory booker? >> the question is is he going to be a tourist in the senate and use it for photo ops or will he do what hillary clinton did,

which is to really immerse herself in the institution. learn how to become effective. she became an effective senator. is he going to do that or just passesing through? >> good conversation. i hope you all appreciate we didn't say anthony weiner's name in the introduction. >> but we thought it. >> we all thought about t. nice to see you. thanks, maggie, chris, eugene. thanks as well to you. we'll be back. this is "andrea mitchell this is "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc.

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effort responded by saying, mayor filner obviously believes his policy initiatives excuse his being a sexual predator. san diegans want a mayor who doesn't grope and demean women. nbc's luke russert joining me from los angeles with the very latest on this. luke, give us a sense. what is the status of this recall effort? >> well, the recall effort will get underway, peter, sunday when that's the first day they can legally do it. they have about 40 days to get 102,000 signatures. now folks leading the recall effort feel that because of these allegations against mayor filner, that that should not be a problem and they'll be able to get this process in motion. filner has taken this week for personal time as his law firm has called it after his two weeks of treatment for sexual harassment. he says he intends to go back to city hall on monday. that is the day that the people trying to push the recall plan to have a protest on city hall t. will feed into the circus

like atmosphere that has engulfed san diego. hooters are putting signs in their window saying they are refusing to serve mayor filner. this fits into the whole plethora of people who want him gone, peter. every member of the san diego city council, both senators from california and the chair of the dnc have said he should get out and resign. a lot of people are wondering why he's staying in. from conversations we've had, the city attorney perhaps could be trying to cut a deal with filner. remember, there is a lawsuit against him for sexual harassment that gloria allred filed. his only real source right now is organized labor and that's even dwindling. >> even the impact on the economy in that community, i was in san diego traveling with the president, they're saying that it will affect the economy of that community because people are staying away now. >> absolutely. that is something that you have seen sort of in the conservative

blog gee sphere, this idea of boycott san diego. the mayor had these signs up there saying we won't serve anyone involved with sexual harassment in this state. peter, it's worn on the psyche of san diegans. when i go out and do stories like weiner, chris lee who got in trouble, you'll find a few that say give them their day in court and they deserve to have their voice heard. i've spent three days there. i haven't found one person who said, you know what, bob filner deserves his day in court. the allegations are so strong and so sick and so striking that most people are saying he should not bring the city through this so that's why it's going to be fascinating next week to see how long he hangs on and how much longer this whole saga goes on because it's not only deeply embarrassing for san deag gans, it's becoming increasingly

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mohyeldin reports. we know the stock exchange and national banks will remain closed tomorrow. we know some new arrests are taking place within the last several hours. what do you know? >> reporter: that's correct. part of the efforts to clear out the square. police have said they've arrested eight senior members of the muslim brotherhood. many of them had been wanted by police. today they have confirmed a short while ago that, in fact, three of those or at least eight in total have been arrested, among them three top senior leaders of the muslim brotherhood were hiding in the mosque adjacent to where the protests were taking place. the curfews have been pushed back to 9:00 p.m. local time. that should be starting in an hour's time from now but it gives you a sense that the

operations still ongoing as they clear these squares. peter? >> ayman, it raises questions about what's happening today about whether the interim government can stand, whether or not they can transition any quick period of time to some free democratic elections there when you consider the fact that the government appears to be falling apart. we know the interim vice president has now stepped down and it's committing this violence on the streets. >> reporter: that's a very good fact. what today exposes are the divisions within the government. make no mistake about it, that this was a civilian government but really today highlights that the people calling the shots remain the security forces, the military and the police. they gave this go ahead to break up these sit-ins despite the fact that the vice president and others within the government came out on record saying they oppose the use of force to break up the demonstrations.

so the fact that the vice president had been on record saying he opposed it, the fact that he is resigning, you can expect some other resignations in the coming days. it is going to challenge this interim government which people argue had very few powers to begin with. for them now to try to get this country back on track to hold elections in seven months and to impose law and order and get the economy on track is a tall order that many say is not going to happen any time soon with the way things have unfolded. >> ayman, thank you very much. coming up on the broadcast, the man who uncovered the incredible story that's poised to become hollywood's next big film. >> your' very popular around here. you're the man who got them raises and promotions. i had no idea. >> i i shall with i could take credit for that. >> i would like to invite you to

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somebody who had worked in the white house during the era of segregation in this country before the big civil rights bills were passed in 1964 and 1965. i thought if i could find such a person, they could really illuminate what the moment might mean to generations of americans. >> he's such a remarkable character who served, as you know, in the white house in 1952. president trueman called him gene. he talked golf with president ford. you had an opportunity to visit with eugene allen on multiple occasions. what do you find in his basement? >> i did not know what was going to be down in his basement. he lived with his wife, helene. they had been married 55 years.

i had to establish a level of trust before he took me down in his basement. he told me to hold on to his arm. he was quite elderly and frail, and when we got down there he turned on the light and it was as if i had been transported to some oz-like land. >> what did you find? >> photographs. there were photographs of him with the president. him and harry truman, dwight eisenhower, him and president kennedy, him and president nixon, him and president reagan, him and various stars who visited the white house, sammy davis jr., ella fitzgerald, dean martin, elvis presley, michael jackson and he had never talked to anybody at length or a long narrative about his life. i'm looking around, and i asked him, i said, mr. allen, nobody has ever written a lone story

about you or something of that nature? and he took a step closer to me and he said, well, if you think i'm worthy, you'll be the first. and it was so haunting that i stepped away from him because i was getting tears in my eyes that he did not realize that his life was so important. >> sure. the central theme of course of this movie is its focus on civil rights and that movement. i want to play another clip of the movie very quickly and then get another sense from you about the message it sends. take a listen. >> something precious is going on down here, dad? >> what's so special about another colored man? >> what you do, pop, are you even in school? >> i'm trying to change the way knowing grows -- >> the law, the judge just sentenced you to 30 days in the county work house. >> if i can't sit at any lunch counter that i want, i might as well be dead. fighting for our rights.

>> trying to change the nation's consciousness. >> you know what's in me. >> hey! who the heck do you think you're talking to? i brought you into this world, i'll take you out of it. >> forest whittaker playing the part not of eugene allen but the character of cecil gains. what is the lasting message that people will leave theaters on the issue of civil rights as they're so impressed by this character, by this individual? >> we've come a long way as a nation. we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the march on washington this summer, and the 50th anniversary of many epic moments in the civil rights story, and we still have some ways to go before we are the absolutely perfect society, if that's possible. but we also as a nation have done remarkable things in the past 50 years and mr. allen was one of the people who cast the vote for the first

african-american president in the nation. and so his life, the humble butler, really shows the amazing sweep in arc of this country. >> wil, this last country. oprah played a significant part inspired by eugene allen's wife. >> yes. >> why was eugene allen's wife so important to his life? >> well, he was so shy. he was so humble. i really think it was her who encouraged him to talk to me. >> she said, who are your people? >> yes. yes. she asked me where i was from and various questions like that. two days after i interviewed both of them in their home their son came to visit, charles. and charles said, mama, how you doing? she said, i'm so happy. i'm just elated. a writer has come over and he's

going to write a story about my eugene, and then she looked at her son and hugged him and she said, i'm so elated, i'm going to go upstairs and go to bed. and she went upstairs and went to bed and she died that very a the day before the 2008 election. >> will, it is an incredible story, a remarkable movie. we appreciate you spending time sharing part of it with us today. >> thank you so much for having me. >> thank you very much. some sad news to share with you here in washington. legendary journalist and newspaper columnist jack germond has passed away. he was 85 years old. his wife alice wrote an e-mail to friends saying, i think he was a great reporter. he had a bold journalistic ethic, and that matters. he was fortunate to spend his life working at a job he would have done for free. for us here at nbc news, he was also a familiar face at the "meet the press" round table. he was known for his no-nonsense

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which political story will make headlines in the next 24 hours? chris is back with us right now. chris, we take you out to wyoming. mike enzy holding his first listening session in wyoming today. of course, he's going up against liz cheney. that should be an interesting one. >> yeah, you know, peter, it's interesting. the huge amount of publicity when liz cheney, daughter of the former vice president, announced she was going to primary mike enzi. not so much since then. look, mike enzi, it's going to be hard to come up with a reason for liz cheney why mike enzi

should be fired. you see why he's doing these events in the state. he's making sure -- hey, i'm your guy. i'm not a big superstar, but i've done what i said i'd do in washington. that's the argument liz cheney has to find a way to sort of penetrate and upend. the race hasn't started all that much yet, but i think that's going to be tough. >> we'll see what happens there. chris, thank you so much. that's going to do it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." be sure to follow the show online and on twitter. thomas roberts that z a look at what's next on "news nation." good afternoon. >> hey, peter. good afternoon to you. hi, everybody. we're going to have a lot coming out of egypt. the developments peter's been following that last hour, we update you. also, a fiery plane crash out of alabama where officials say both the pilot and the co-pilot were killed. we bring you the latest as the investigators try to recover the black box. plus, two hollywood moms take on the paparazzi. how halle berry and jennifer

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