government used chemical weapons and now it appears the white house is considering military options. among them cruise missiles shot from navy destroyers and submarines in the mediterranean. >> we cannot sit here. we have to move and move quickly. >> this has to be an international operation. it can't be unilateral american approach. >> to think we can change things immediately because we are america, that's not necessarily the case. these are internal struggles and the party insiders in the country are going to have to sort it out amongst themselves. >> i hope the president, as soon as we get back to washington, will ask for authorization from congress to do something at a very surgical and proportional way. something that gets their attention and causes them to understand that we are not going to put up with this kind of activity. >> ayman moi yelledin is covering this from cairo.

what is the reaction there in cairo? >> reporter: certainly a lot of arab diplomats are expecting some type of international response what they have described as a chem wall weapons attack. there is no hiding the fact that some of the countries in the region including saudi arabia and qatar and united arab emirates are pushing for more international intervention of different types of sorts. not necessarily militarily but without a doubt more pressure on the syrian government to try to get them to change course and for the removal of president bashar assad. in terms of eminent threat it has a lot of people here on edge. we have been speaking to organizations who are preparing for a worst case scenario and that preparation under way some time. a worst case scenario as they described it does involve the military strikes or military operations.

that would lead to an unprecedented rate or an accelerate rate of refugees streaming across the border from countries or from syria into countries like jordan and turkey and iraq. >> any latest information on the inspectors? >> reporter: we understand from the u.n. itself their inspection team did come under attack today and under sniper fire as they tried to visit this site and thled them to exchange a vehicle and head back out. we understand from the united nations they were able to get to the site of alleged chemical weapons attack. no clear indication yet if they have been able to special to witnesses and take samples or what their initial findings may be but we understand they are still on-site carrying out that inspection, richard. >> ayman, thank you so much. i to bring in eleanor cliff and chris fray. good morning to you both. chris, i want to play a clip of senator bob corker on "morning joe" this morning. take a listen to this.

>> i think you're going to see a surgical proportional strike against the assad regime for what they have done and i support that. >> chris, chuck hagel reaching out to britain and france about syria. we know the president and secretary of state john kerry calling for european allies and when you consider putin blocking any action here, who does the white house need to get on board and what would they do? >> i think what the white house is doing, you've seen this the last couple of days they are taking steps toward some kind of strike in syria. after saturday's meeting where the president convened his top national security advisers on sunday. on sunday, an official put out a statement it's pretty clear that weapons, chemical weapons have been used in syria. and what we are looking at is that red line. the president really has bumped up against it and he has made the case that if chemical weapons were used in syria, he would take action. i think what we are looking here, richard, is some kind of missile strikes.

we have seen the navy be repositioned in the middle east. some of the carriers that were going home have stayed and not come back to the united states so that they are ready and in position. and i think when you hear senator corker talk about a strategic strike, those are the kind much options they are thinking of because, remember, the american people are not in any mood to put troops on the ground anywhere and this could look a lot like libya did where the united states was joined by a coalition of forces from europe and they were able to overturn gadhafi. certainly syria has much better air defenses than libya did but i think if any action is going on to be taken we are looking at some kind much air strike. >> eleanor, when you look at the military actions is that enough to accomplish what they are trying to do and how might this process be a test for the president? >> i think it is clear that there are some cruise missiles going to be launched in the very near future. all of the comments from the

white house and pentagon on background basically have been steering us in that direction. i think the president is broaden the coalition and getting support from turkey and arab nations it gives much more credibility. this isn't going to be shock and awe. i think very limited strikes and i think the message you cannot use chemical weapons. i think what they are probably debating in the white house how does this affect the larger situation over there and i think the answer, it doesn't. this is not really, i don't think, a strategically thought through step where they know all of the chess moves that come next. this is basically just following through on the president's threat really that if they cross this red line, that he would act. if he didn't act, he would look -- on the national stage and other countries, particularly iran could take a

message on that. >> take a listen to what the president said before. >> a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. that would change my calculus. >> the red line here, chris, as was mentioned there by eleanor, iran is watching and bashar al s assad, if this went by okay, do it on credibility. >> i think that is where the president is forced to act and why we are seeing the signals from the white house where they are clearly saying they are not going to accept any kind of johnny come lately u.n. inspections because they are worried that the evidence will only continue to disappear the longer assad is able to keep u.n. inspectors out and that is sounds like they have decided that, in fact, chemical weapons were used which is different than the more recent small scale chemical attack reports that we had. remember, the president never, you know, signaled that he thought, in fact, chemical

weapons had been used. now we are getting these -- now we are getting signals that this time, they do believe that. and the credibility of the president is on the line here and when congress comes back, you're sure to see lots of noise from republican lawmakers in particular and even democrats who will push because the calculus here really has changed with chemical weapons and there is a credibility that when the president and the united states say that you cannot do something and you cannot violate human rights with chemical weapons, that that is not just words. and i think we will see some action soon. >> stand by. i want to bring in congressman gregory meeks. congressman, thanks for being here. i'll launch off what chris was saying there. hat president done enough in the last two and a half years and some republicans say, no, he has not. >> i think the president has. he has not acted in a unilateral way. you want to act in a

multilateral way and similarly as we did in libya. we have allies there. when you talk about the jordanians who taken the refugees in and the turks and dealing with the uk and france and the entire nato of work collecting together to get things done because we have to make sure there is roles played by everyone. and i think that is what the president has done. the president has shown he doesn't hesitate. once he makes up his mind and get the facts together and has everything together and feels in our best interest to move, he moves. >> what do you think is needed in terms of an alliance moving forward? does he need nato here? does he need the arab league or the u.n. to move along? >> yeah. i think that it is very clear he has to do it in a multilateral way. >> is it lyikely? >> yeah. from listening to conversations. i've had conversations with even some of my colleagues overseas. that is likely. people are concerned about the

humanitarian crises taking place and the utilization of chemical weapons. >> what did you learn from those conversations with parliamentians overseas? >> the number of rev genes coming over in their border. number two, they are concerned about just the violations of human rights by the utilization of chemical weapons. so they don't want to sit silently by but they want to do so not just the united states by itself because if you do it by yourself it's a similar situation as happening in iraq. if you do it by yourself, you bomb by yourself, you bomb, you own it. everybody has to work together. we have to think what we do and how we do it and what are the necks step here. >> another consideration is the public going to support that here in the united states? is the public war weary? in fact, we have the latest word a poll shows 25% of americans would support military

intervention if bashar al assad used chemical weapons to attack his people. is that enough sport for any action there? >> he told the american people here is what our role is. it is limit to this and it is not going to cost us more than this and what the roles of our other allies are. people respect that and he i think that the public will understand that the president, in that regards, have to do what he has to do. what people are afraid of is what took place in iraq where it was us basically by ourselves going at it lealone. we were in iraq a long period of time and unlike the situation how president obama handled it in iraq -- i mean in libya. >> congressman, you've been back and forth from d.c. as we look at the 50th anniversary of the "i have a dream" speech and switch gears to that right now. the president is going to be having a meet at the white house with some of the faith leaders. you're going to head back down later this week for the actual date of the anniversary. i want to play this little bit.

here is what john lewis said. >> can the past 50 years, we have witnessed what i like to call a nonviolent revolution in america. a revolution of values, the revolution of ideas. and our country is a better country. we have a lot of work to do. the dream is not yet fulfilled. >> that 16-minute speech laid out a dream. how do you think dr. king would discuss the dream today? >> that we have made a lot of progress. no question about that. that we have come a long way. you look at fact only five measures of the congressional black caucus and 23 now. we cannot sit back and rest. we have to move forward with economics. you look at -- the economics and unemployment for african-americans is still way above that of any other ethnic group. that we have got to make sure that education is -- is -- is -- is increased and improved so

people can enjoy in america. then concern about the recent roll back, especially in north carolina and texas and florida of voting rights and that we have to make sure we are diligent and stay on it. so that the dream, have we made progress? absolutely. but we still have a lot of work to do and we have got to make sure that as reverend lowrie said we came to commemorate and we have to agitate in our districts and that is important and dr. king would want us to continue to move on and work hard as john lewis says and still have the comeback. i think we are feeling the effects today of a southern strategy put together by richard nixon some time ago to dilute the power of african-american legislators. we have less power in the sense we are not in houses where we are in the majority. and so we have got to figure out how we work that and we need people to come out to vote like never before, especially in local elections, city council and state assemble and state

senates and mayoral election p.m. that makes the difference on the bigger ends so the african-americans have the power that dr. king dream was all about. >> the dream is everybody. >> that's what i'm saying. >> representative, thank you for coming back. president obama is the first black president but not a civil rights leader. how important is his speech coming up on wednesday on the 50th anniversary of the march on washington? >> i think it's a very important speech. if the president does anything well, it's give a powerful stirring address. i think we can expect to see that and expect to see where the president thinks we need to make progress as a nation and certainly his justice department is involved in some of these voting rights cases. justice department has brought a lawsuit in texas trying to stop some of the changes after the supreme court ruling and that is going to be a tough -- that's a tough position for the justice department. it's unclear whether or not they can win that case but whether you look down the street and to

pennsylvania avenue to congress, it would also be difficult for the president to make changes to the voting rights act with congressional republicans, although it sounds like there is some room there, house majority leader eric cantor, the number two republican in the house, has said that he wants to work with the president. so we will see. >> eleanor, we have talked a lot about voting rights. the front page of politico is obama's big voting rights gamble. he and attorney general eric holder suing texas over the voter i.d. laws. what if they lose that effort? >> well, i think it's an important confrontation and if they lose, they keep fighting. and i think the saturday march in washington, you saw the reception that attorney general holder got. i think this is going to be his legacy almost more than barack obama's, is fighting for this next round of civil rights and fighting against these really new jim crow laws that are going to impact on voting rights.

and so, you know, i think that is the next frontier and what is amazing to me is that it is so blatant that the states which have basically republican-led legislatures and republican governors really do see this as a way to affect the vote in the future and they are pretty open about it. i think it's a fight that even if they do lose in texas, there are other on states where they are going to win. if you send cruise missiles into syria to send a message, this is sending some cruise missiles into these various states, if you will, to just let them know this administration is serious about this issue. >> eleanor cliff and chris fray, thank you both so much. >> thank you. one of the california's largest wildfires in history is threatening san francisco's water supply and has interrupted the city's hydroelectricity supply this morning. because of that the governor jerry brown has included the city in its state of emergency. right now the rim fire as it's called is about 225 square miles

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the #roar. the sequester is not hurting terrorism apparently in washington, d.c. year-to-year hotel stays for first week of august is up 9%. smithsonian visits up over the same period last year. finally the first lady was part of the weekend kicking off the 2013 u.s. open telling the kids she makes her girls play tennis because it's a lifelong sport. she used the opportunity to promote her lets move campaign. this afternoon, president obama award the medal of honor to ty carter. he is being honored after running through a hell of bullets to deliver aid to his troops in 2009. he is fifth living recipient to receive the medal of honor award to troops in afghanistan. (growls)

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first checkup. it is robust and fully form. it was a side business for donald trump. now it's front page news and causing donald a whole lot of trouble. trump university renamed the trump entrepreneur institute faces claims of fraud and deception and 40 million dollar lawsuit from the state of new york. the donald unveiled his for profit school in 2005 promising an education that would lead to great riches. students paid up to $35,000 but eight years later, new york's attorney general is suing and donald trump's defense he says he is being extorted. the new york attorney general eric sniderman joins us now. what did the institute do wrong here? >> they did everything wrong. they called themselves a university when they weren't registered as a university. state of education department tried to get them to do the right thing. they kept telling lies and

defrauding the state education department. they didn't get their teachers certified. trump said they were hand-picked him to teach them insider secrets and get inside information about lenders. the teachers were not hand-picked. he thinks he only met one of them ever. no secrets. the lenders they were supposedly getting insider information about turned out to be a xerox copy of pages out of a popular magazine and they were promised a mentorship program that wasn't working. the thing was a scam from begin to end. it was a debate to get more people to spend more money. >> some of the items have been fixed. which are the items that brought to you file this lawsuit? >> well, look. they fleeced 5,000 people for over $40 million over a period of years and they actually ended up closing up shop in 2011 because the complaints were coming in the regulatory

pressure was on. they only changed the name from trump university to trump enterprise institute or something like that during the last year. people were defrauded. this is a bait and switch swem where they were promised they would learn the secrets of success in real estate. they took people who can't afford it and desperate fmoney. >> donald trump responded to some of your criticism and concerns here on the "today" show. >> during the investigation, he was asking people in my firm, including one of my lawyers, for campaign contributions! whoever heard of this? he is asking for campaign contributions while he is looking into trump! i mean, what kind of an attorney general is this? >> the state board of elections record shows that mr. trump contributed here $12,500 to your campaign in 2010. how do you respond to what he is saying here? >> we are used to people and all prosecutors are used to people who can't respond to the allegations in a complaint making crazy allegations to

distract from them. mr. trump supported someone else against me in 2010 after i won the democratic primary. he gave me a check. the last money he ever gave to me. the facts of the case speak for i was. this is a massive fraud and this is a guy -- we have gotten their playbook. we have gotten the testimony of the former president of the university. this was a scam from top to bottom. they were telling people to raise the limits on their credit cards who did. so they could use that money to buy more trump programs. >> what about the argument that has been made that you can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars with an ivy league education and still not find financial success? is that enough to sue? >> that's not a fraud. harvard is registered as a university. they have professors that are equal equalived. we have dozens and dozens of complaints already and more pouring in every day. this was a bait and switch scheme. this was not a university.

people were not taught real estate secrets. it was a fraud. >> they say they had 98% approval rating of their program. we could go on longer with this but we are out of time. appreciate you coming in. >> thank you. none of what he is saying has to do with merits of the case. the complaint speaks for itself. >> we will be right back. i'm phil mickelson, pro golfer. when i was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis, my rheumatologist prescribed enbrel for my pain and stiffness, and to help stop joint damage. [ male announcer ] enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal events including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma, other cancers, nervous system and blood disorders, and allergic reactions have occurred. before starting enbrel, your doctor should test you for tuberculosis and discuss whether you've been to a region where certain fungal infections are common. you should not start enbrel if you have an infection like the flu. tell your doctor if you're prone to infections, have cuts or sores, have had hepatitis b, have been treated for heart failure, or if you have symptoms such as persistent fever, bruising, bleeding, or paleness.

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help us if he gets to be anything more than the senator from texas. >> let's bring in amy holmes and jason stanford. amy, what do you think? does he have plans to be more than just a senator here, ted cruz? >> he says he is focusing on the job. let's face it. he's gone to some early primary states been to iowa and south carolina and new hampshire. all of that stuff. it looks like somebody is trying to build a national profile. let's face it. he has been a very vocal proponent of his ideas as a tea party senator. he is the junior senator from texas. the senior senator jon cornyn. i'll get concerned if cornyn gets concerned. >> more about him wanting to do more? >> perhaps about ted cruz staking out positions that might be a little outside of what senate leadership wants. >> jason, ted cruz saying he is likely to stay out of the 2014

incumbent primaries including of that john corncornyn. why not make some endorsements here? >> i think he will down the line. they is playing in some primaries despite what he is doing now. he wants to run for president and wants the republican nomination. one thing you get when you're involved in that is you get an enemy. he can't get enemies right now. during the congressional recess, most senators went to their home states to have town halls. he had national town halls to defund obama care. ted cruz is running for president. >> in 2016. he has a countdown clock on his website and appeared in ads when you have seen on networks. given the criticism of fellow republicans if he says calm down a little. is he really worried more about

the ted cruz brand than he is the republican brand? >> i'm not so sure is a fair dichotomy there. i think cruz will tell you tea party should be the libertarian brand but, again, tom coburn, a solid conservative from oklahoma, is not behind the ted cruz funding. i do think it's certainly a worthwhile pursuit to put the focus, the emphasis on obama care which, as we know, is still hugely unpopular with the american people. i don't think ted cruz is wrong about that. i think he understands as well as anybody that a democratically controlled senate with a democrat in the white house whose names is on this piece of legislation, this law, is not going to, you know, roll it back. sorry. president obama is not going to veto -- sorry. he is not going to -- you know my point. obama care is going to go forward because we have a senate -- democrat-controlled

senate and democrat in the white house and ted cruz is saying we need to put republicans in there if we want to roll it back. >> why does ted cruz who has been a senator for eight months here wield so much influence you think in the republican party right now? >> ted cruz is the it of the republican party right now. for a long time, the establishment republicans could count on the conservative voters to back them up. we saw that with george w. bush and saw that with john mccain and saw that with mitt romney when the republican primary voters wanted to win more than they wanted to be right in their own minds. i think they are sick of compromising their ideals to win. now they want some guy like ted cruz who just says what they think is true. and they really think getting rid of obama care will save the country. they don't care if it takes shutting down the government. in fact, they think shutting down the government is a good idea and ted cruz is with them. he doesn't think it's a problem. after all the post office closes on the weekends. >> i wish we could talk more. thank you. a wall street trail blazer for women has died at 80.

michelle is here to talk about that. mickey as she was known by some, she broke into the all boys club. that is just one of the reasons as to why she is a legend to many. >> yeah, she was the very first woman to actually have a seat at the new york stock exchange. that means could trade at the new york stock exchange. that was back in 1967. she would be the only woman for ten years. an incredible achievement for that era. she was always really pushy. for example, she wanted a bathroom on her floor! but since it was basically an all males club, there wasn't one. finally she said i'm going to have a port-a-potty delivered here unless you install a woman's bathroom and they finally did. she was on cnbc frequently as a guest and she missed here. >> amazing person there. we switch subjects. we have to start thinking about booking our thanksgiving get away flights?

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today marks what chicago mayor rahm emmanuel calls a new beginning for the cash strapped school system the third largest in the nation. more than 400,000 students back in class but nearly 13,000 attending a different school. nearly 50 schools were closed as part of the effort to close a massive 1 billion dollar budget deficit. nbc john yang has more. >> reporter: a new school year is under way in chicago. the mayor was on the south side at an elementary school talking to students. he spoke briefly to reporters. this school year opens with a district reshaped in rahm emanuel's vision as he tries to revamp this school system. 47 fewer elementary schools opening today than opened last

year. there are about 2,000 fewer employees, including teachers. 12,000 students because of the school closures, are taking longer walks to school and sometimes crossing dangerous gang turf. and because of that, there is a new program called save passage, trying to identify safe routes for these children to their new schools. lining these roots, along these roots, not only police, but city workers, water, sewer workers and parking enforcement workers, all eyes and ears to watch these routes for violence, to listen to the kids, to listen to their concerns. there are a number of community activists groups taking part in this program and budgeted for 11.4 million. already the police has been paying overtime, a big overtime bill because of the violence issue in chicago. although the police will point out that shootings are down

about 25% from last year. murders are down about 25% from last year. the city is on pace to have the lowest number of murders since 1965. but still a great deal of concern about these kids taking longer walks to school as this new school year has begun. richard? >> thank you, john, for that report. i'd like to bring in erika clark, cofounder of chicago's parents for teachers. this is an important day here as we look what is happening there in chicago. 1500 teachers lost their job as a part of the budget cuts and they are planning to add 1,000 vacant positions, fill those positions and testing made more stringent and scores dropped at the same time. a lot of things happen here. where does your organization stands? >> well, we think it's going to be a very chaotic and in many communities, dangerous year for the children of chicago in

public schools here. and we are not at all happy what with see happening in the direction our schools are taking. >> how much time will you give it to see whether all of these changes, wholesalely yield a positive net? >> i don't think anyone really in the schools expects these changes to have any positive benefits for children. i mean, when you hear the pr coming out of city hall and out of the district, it sounds all wonderful but when you go into the schools and you see that class sizes are going to go up, you see that children are going to be having to cross very dangerous gang lines to get to their schools. parents in the schools do not have the sense of optimism that the police department at cps is putting out. they are out of touch with the reality that parents, teachers and students see in our public schools every day and that is one of the big problems. >> we have to talk about this

and as a safety of the students as they changes are undertaken the program that was mentioned by john yang, the safeway program getting the kids to their location, what do you know about it? >> it's called safe passage. i saw the workers on the corners this morning and saw about a dozen police officers in front of the school. now, first of all, i don't think those police officers are going to be manning our public schools every day for the next nine months while children are having to go to and from school. and the safe passage workers, you know, one of the safe passage workers was quoted over the weekend as saying one of the things they learned in their orientation was that when the bullets start flying, hit the ground. and that is what you hear parents saying. they don't have any faith that these people are going to be able to keep their children safe. it's window dressing to cover up what is a really dangerous and disastrous policy for the children of chicago. >> let's take a look at the

50,000 foot level of this policy. the school voting on a 5.5 billion dollar budget on wednesday. that's it, right, money? your group is calling for a boycott on wednesday. you want parents to rally outside the board of education meeting. why are you calling for this boycott? >> right. because we think that we have to take a stand and parents need to show cps and city hall how really serious they are about getting some real changes in our schools that are going to benefit. we are facing not only the largest round of school closings ever in the nation, putting thousands of children in harm's way. we have got about 160 million in budget cuts to neighborhood schools. at the same time, that they are increasing funds for the charters. we just don't know how our school district is going to continue like this. it is going to be a very, very terrible year for students and

we think it's really important that people come out and take a stand if you're doing this with our kids, wernts sending our kids to your school. >> you mentioned the charter schools. 15 new charter schools opening there in chicago amidst those other closures we were mentioning. it brings the 130 charter schools. they say these charter schools have higher performance. what do you say about charter schools in chicago? >> well, gens again, if you rea press releases that is what it says but if you look at the data that is is not true. nationally the credible research studies show the charters do a little better and in some cases, worse. on average, they perform just about the same as the public schools and that is true here in chicago. and when you consider the fact that they don't have to take as many special ed kids, they don't have to take as many english language learners, they are able

to weed out and force out the most difficult to educate children, they should be doing a lot better and they are really not. >> erika clark, thank you for your time today. >> thank you. it's the talk online on tv and here in our newsroom even. did you catch the miley cyrus performance on the mtv award last night? it was sexual in nature and performing with robert thicke and his wife in the audience. reported taken during miley's performance. they can't believe what is happening. the guy on the right can't look. rihanna was looked as looking unimpressed. twirking equals tweeting. miley had most twitter mentions last night plus her performance with robin thicke lead with

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