every major tv network to make the case for military action in syria, we're also dealing with a possible out for the white house and it involves the russians. yikes. we'll break down the possibilities in two minutes. i always joked how could we put a man on the moon but can't develop a scanner that would allow me to keep my shoes on at the airport? i might need a new phrase. while you were sleeping, the san diego chargers were choking. nfl week one in the books after two dramatic monday night games. this is "way too early." >> fake to foster. ♪ good morning, brian shactman here, tuesday, september 10th. we got a diverse show for you. michele bachmann talks and you never know what you're going to get there. we'll have that in a few minutes plus an ex-yankee manager gets in a spat with the current manager. we'll have that in sports. plus jon stewart gives his syria

take a little later in "the cooler." first, the latest on syria and this one is getting more knew angsted by the second. as president obama prepares to address the nation tonight, new polls suggest military intervention could be one of the toughest sells of his presidency. a new nbc/"wall street journal" poll shows that after a week of public lobbying more than half of americans don't think he's made a convincing case. and approval for the president's handling of the crisis, 57% disapproval and just 28% of people approve of the job he's doing on this particular issue. 58% of americans say congress should not back military action at all. and our one-on-one interview with "today" show anchor savannah guthrie he admits it's been an uphill battle? wow act without congress? the answer could be yes, no or i haven't decided. >> i think it's fair to say that i haven't decided. i read polls like everybody else

and if you ask somebody, if you ask michelle do we want to be involved in another war the answer is no so i recognize how important that debate is and it's my belief that for me, the president, to act without consensus in a situation where there's not a direct imminent threat to the homeland or interests around the world that that's not the kind of precedent that i want to set. >> meanwhile, russian leadership embraced a plan that appeared to have been floated rhetorically by secretary john kerry yesterday when he suggested assad could avoid an attack if he surrendered chemical weapons to international control. the president an other top members of congress responded to russia with some guarded optimism. >> are you skeptical? does it seem like a stalling tactic? >> you know, i think a famous american president once said,

twus but verify. you have to take it with a grain of salt initially, but between the statements that we saw from the russians, the statement today from the syrians, this represents a potentially positive development and my preference consistently has been a diplomatic resolution to this problem. >> instead of just crediting the kerry comments president obama also said the plan is a continuation of conversations he's had with president putin for some time. the president also picked up backing from former secretary of state hillary clinton who called for a strong international response and urged caution at the russian proposal. another issue for the white house is what mr. kerry said about the level of a u.s. commitment to military action. >> we're not going to war. we will not have people at risk in that way. we will be able to hoeld bashar

assad accountable without engaging in troops on the ground or any other prolonged kind of effort in a very limited, very targeted, very short-term effort that degrades his capacity to deliver chemical weapons without assuming responsibility for syria's civil war. that is exactly what we're talking about doing. unbelievably small, limited kind of effort. >> unbelievably small is the phrase that people glommed on to. the white house later said it was not a gaffe but senator john mccain tweeted the comments were unbelievably unhelpful. whip showing support and reid says they will delay a vote on it in the senate. president obama set to meet republicans and democrats over lunch today. watch his nation to the address tonight right here on msnbc at 8:00 p.m. joining us right now is editor

in chief of politico, john harris. i guess i want to start with this russian over tur, olive branch if you will. how realistic is this possibility? >> it depends how badly the united states wants off the ledge and how badly syria wants off the ledge. everything i'm hearing from the administration is they badly want off the ledge. they know that if the vote were taken right now, who knows how minds were changed but if the vote were taken right now, obama would lose this. putting him in an unbelievably situation politically, presumably the syrians welcome this because the russians are effectively their allies. i don't think we would ordinarily consider this a promisi promising diplomacy but in a moment of desperation f they could find a way to make it work they would embrace it. >> there are a lot of nuances. it is an acknowledgement they have a cache and have to show people how much they have and verify that we have all of it then there's israel which their

guest stockpiles were acting as a deterrent to israel so there are a lot of nuances and we're still in a civil war. doesn't solve that problem but the current problem that we have said chemical weapons -- >> right. it doesn't do anything to the administration's stated goal, assad must go. you know, it's really as you point out very hard for verification schemes for people to know whether they've worked, right? that's what we had in iraq for ten years before saddam. >> very quickly, do we expect to hear anything different from the president tonight than what we heard with the six major networks? >> we should hear something different because he's got directly to those members of congress and literally flip several of them which is very, very hard to do in politics. >> all right. john, we'll see you later on "morning joe." appreciate the insight. other news to get to. george zimmerman back in the news yet then this time for allegedly pulling a gun on his estranged wife and punching his father-in-law in the face. i'm not making this up. police raced to the house of

zimmerman's in-laws in lake mary, florida, after shellie zimmerman called 911. "the daily news" reports shellie accused george of having an affair. here's an excerpt from the call. >> is he still there? >> yes, he is and he's trying to shut the garage door on me. >> is he inside now? >> no, he's in his car and he continually has his hand on his gun and he keeps saying, step closer, he is just threatening all of us with his firearm. and he's going to shoot us. >> okay. >> he punched my dad in the nose. my dad has a mark on his phrase. i saw his glasses were on the floor. he accosted my father and then took my ipad out of my hands and smashed it and cut it with a pocketknife. >> zimmerman was taken into custody but released soon after. hours later when his wife changed her storytelling police, quote, she never saw a firearm

in the end both shellie and her father refused to press charges. while, this next story is for our travelers out there. you may be able to keep your shoes and coat on the next time you go through airport security. more than 25% of american flyers deemed low security risk will have shorter wait times thanks to a brand-new tsa program. that's about 450,000 flyers a day who gets chosen is an interesting question. you won't know you're picked until you get your boarding pass or when you show your boarding pass to security, you still have to go through the metal detectors and put your carry-on bags through the x-ray machines. the plan takes effect next month. so we are one day before the 12th anniversary of 9/11 and republican congresswoman michele bachmann under some fire for suggesting the muslim brotherhood was behind the attacks. >> we have seen the threat that the muslim brotherhood has posed here for the people in egypt. we've seen the threat that the muslim brotherhood has posed around the world.

we stand against this great evil. we are not for them. we remember who caused 9/11 in america. we remember who it was that killed 3,000 brave americans. we have not forgotten. >> she made those remarks during a congressional visit to egypt with republican congressman louis gohmert and steve skink and thanked the military for ousting mohamed morsi has president. the muslim brotherhood, by the way, strongly condemned the terrorist attacks after they took place. the dow coming off its best day in two months and all three major indices posting gains. to geoff cutmore in london. good morning. >> hey, good morning to you. well, we're keeping a wary high on the markets. obviously we have a positive tone today but we'll see how that goes. some fascinating stories out there. the cftc, the regulate other in the derivative space, taking a good hard look at high-speed trading. it looks like they may be

thinking of putting some controls in place here to prevent another flash crash of the kind we saw back in 2010. elsewhere, moody's concerned about a drop in enrollment in higher education in the u.s. the first time in six years this has happened. they say it could put the squeeze on college budgets and we know the states are not raising their budgets, so that could be of concern to some of those institutions. and apple, big news today. we're waiting on an announcement. we're expecting a lower-priced colored handset from apple. possibly with some new fingerprint technology. those shareholders will be hoping that this gets the stock back somewhere towards that $700. the all-time high. we're still something like 28%, 29% away from that now so fascinating business stories out there. >> back to you. >> hopefully the battery life is longer on that. geoff, thank you very much. we're tight on time. i'd love to split the atom on

this next one. you have the eye in london but las vegas building a new attraction. that will be the world's largest ferris wheel going up in vegas on the strip. now, i just got to be honest. people made a big deal yesterday. i don't understand the appeal of the ferris wheechlt i think it's pretty boring. people think i'm a curmudgeon but i just don't get it, okay. so i want to know can you tell me a ride that's less fun than a ferris wheel because i don't know one that's less fun than a ferris wheel. your most creative tweets ewing the #waytooboring. still ahead on "way too early," things get testy in baltimore. the yankees and orioles vying for a playoff position. and miley cyrus, back in the news. the research that says she's dominated the internet and i'm depressed. that and a check on weather when "way too early" comes right back.

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and a monday night football doubleheader as we fodder the rides are more boring than a ferris wheel. texans/charger. houston qb tipped and intercepted not boding well, very next play, chargers' qb, phil rivers connects with matthews, 14-yard td. fastest opening touchdown in their history. the texans, by the way, were down 21, and they weren't down 21 for very long.

brian cushing picked it off. a pick six in the fourth and later the texans would kick the winning field goal and come all the way back, 21 down, they would win 31-28. all right, eagles/redskins, chip kelly, by the way, 53 plays in the first half. his players were sick they were so tired. vick, two touchdowns and 19 until rg3. some would say garbage time, but he was back, his knee held up well, got a lot of yards in the fourth but they would lose. philly takes the opener, 33-27. how about this one, u.s. open, men's tennis final, number two seed rafael nadal topped ranked novak djokovic and one of the best rivalries in tennis. this point coming up here was one of the greatest rallies of all time. we'll speed it up, a4 shots. took more than a minute to lay so we got to fit it in. we're heavy. this is it. yes. novak djokovic won it. he gets the point and the break.

how awesome? >> yeah. >> watch more tennis. >> yes. >> splits the first but nadal pull as way and wins the u.s. open. his 13th grand slam title. we'll show it again? no, we're not. nadal has had an incredible year. only lost three time. >> two majors. baseball, yankees/orioles. between the first and second innings that's buck showalter. he's mad, he's chirping at joe girardi, the yankee manager because the yankee manager accused the third base coach of the other yawls of stealing sign, a no-no, buck and joe prideful guys, calmer heads prevailed. nobody got ejected except with girardi's spirit going out so did the yankees' spirit and lost the game, 4-2. so they are struggling in their effort to get the wild card. mr. cairns -- >> buck would have went down. >> if they would have gone at it, pedro versus zimmerman. that's not the point. accuse somebody of stealing sign, that's a strong

accusation. >> wasn't so important there may have been retaliation. but those games are important. tropics, today is the peak of the hurricane season, time of the season where we expect the most activity and have it out there. just off the east coast, anyone interested in bermuda, tropical storm gabrielle has reformed. we had this about a we week & dissipated and now it's back and will move parallel to the east coast over bermuda and clip arias of newfoundland and nova skosh virginia tri and saturday but avoids the u.s. and humberto should become a hurricane, the first of the season a little later today but zero threat to the u.s. and should be out over the open atlantic at least over the next week so back at home what's pretty quiet weather and yesterday was incredibly hot in the mid the of the country. schools release early that didn't have air-conditioning. same thing today too. we'll be very warm from chicago to st. louis to kansas city, mid-90s today. humidity levels will be high and everyone on the east coast all this hot air is slowing heading our way.

91 in d.c. in areas from boston to new york, one more summer day wednesday it looks like low to mid-90s. >> where were you in 1992? >> '92 i was graduating high school? >> you were. >> i'm a couple years older than you. it was my sophomore year in college. >> it's that obvious. >> that's the last year the pirates had a winning record. one more sports note. they have a winning record. >> bonds and bonilla. >> and yep and now gm, i went to college with. congratulations. coming up on "morning joe" the presidential push and the white house puts the president front and center tonight but can he vicinity a war wary public to support syrian air strikes and when we come back "around the cooler" a follow up to this incredible twerk video. the information you need to know when we come back. i guess you do need to know bit. is really made of cheese?

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15.7 million items were surrendered. including knife, guns, ammunition and box cutters. that's how smart we are as a country. love it. all right, forget the news. a man of incredible intellect, mr. lewis. >> miley cyrus headlines keep rolling in. check out this racy video. ♪ like a wrecking ball i never -- ♪ ♪ all i wanted was to break you up ♪ ♪ >> that 's a video of "wrecking ball." americans' interest in miley cyrus after ver vma award dwarfs their interest about the crisis in syria and more likely to view that page than syria by 12 times. miley hit the stage to perform with little people "we can't stop." it happened on a german tv show

and sang backup and even twerked. miley also spanked one of the little people dancers. now, some say miley has inspired the ultimate twerk fail video that we showed you actually but our crack investigative team has found the real story behind it. take a look. ♪ >> oh, my god. [ screaming ] >> yanks, jimmy kimmel. >> doend mind at all, ma'am. >> you see him in a pink shirt and the story of video is a stuntwoman, already been viewed more than 9 million times. it's pretty brilliant. now, moving on to "the daily show" where jon stewart is fired up about bashar al assad's attack on his country.

>> i think the most important part of this now is let's say the american people but the polls show the majority now don't want a war anywhere not only against syria. >> what kind of balls does a ruthless dictator have to cite public opinion polls? [ laughter ] you know, you might want to slow down there mr. gallop. i'm pretty sure gassing your own people isn't hitting double digits either. talk about supersizing, mcdonald's is steaming up with kansas city chiefs for what they' they're calling a blitz box. what's inside, two quarter pounders with cheese, two medium fries, 20 chicken mcnuggets that will cost 15 bucks in more than 2900 calories. the only thing missing an extra large diet coke. for now available only in kansas city and, mika, guess where i'm going, to the paris of the plains, the heart of america. i'm going to kansas city to get my hands on one of those blitz box.

>> not even stoppeding. i'm not going to. just not going to. all right. moving on, coming up on "morning joe," president obama gets ready to deliver a major address to the nation tonight as new poll numbers show more americans increasingly wary of military action and talk to jay carney live to preview the president's words. meanwhile, russian president vladimir putin changes the debate after an offhard remark by john kerry. we'll talk to senator snowe manchin about why he thinks that's good news straight ahead. all week we'll mark five years since the collapse of the financial markets. today we'll bring back the money party. are you all ready for this? i'm not sure i am actually. dylan ratigan joins us here on set. get ready for that, all that plus eugene robinson, chuck todd, kelly o'donnell, much more straight ahead on "early joe." >> and the nicolle wallace. >> yes. >> of course. >> we're chatting. >> i know. still ahead on "way too early," vegas, they add a new ferris

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what rides are more what ri then a ferris wheel? >> the ride from davenport to omaha. someone said the ride to jail. whatever happens on the ferris wheel stays on the ferris wheel. "morning joe" starts right now. today secretary of state kerry said the strikes would be unbelievably small. what does that mean? are we talking a pin prick, a knock out blow, a punch in the gut? >> the u.s. does not do pin predicti pricks. when we take limited strikes it has an impact on a country like syria that does not have a trdo