blog. cindy, this is a sbuubject you know well. you began with the post as a nfl red skin editor. you can answer better than most. when it happened, what was your reaction and how big a blow is it to the team and what it means for them going forward? >> well, you know, this actually happened once before in the late '90s. a group of native americans sued the trademark issued a similar ruling and wound the way through the courts for 17 or 18 years, and finally the court determined that it had gone on too long. and they overturned the ruling. well, here we are again now with a new group, a younger group of native americans lead by amanda blackhorse in the lawsuit. and i think it's it gets a lot more attention than it did before. it was a washington story before. now it's a big national. maybe it helps maybe this is where it begins to turn the tide.

>> will we see another cycle of multiple years. you were saying 16 or 17 years going by before maybe owner dan snyder has to do something? can he continue to defend the name based on what is now come down from the patent office? >> well, i think the next step is to seek a stay of the ruling, you know, so people aren't all a sudden profiting from printing up redskins papraphernalia and stuff. and there will be an appeal. i can't imagine in this day and age anything taking 17 years to be resolved. especially something that has become an hot button topic like this. >> did you know it was happening and coming down the pike today. we could see a decision from the patent office? >> i think most people in the area knew that this was coming down the pipeline whether it was going to be today or exactly what today. i think people knew it was coming. >> so we've talked about this at

length up to today. how much is at stake here? how many millions of dollars are we talking about when we're looking at licensing materials a with big as we know when it comes the nfl? >> it's enormous. in the hundreds of millions. the red skins are one of the most popular teams. you know, nfl licensing of everything is just stratospheric valuable. and the red skins are one of the most popular. a lot of people have said won't a new name be popular too? maybe. >> talk about the patented office. is it political in the office itself based on an appointment or strictly the five native americans going to the patent office and saying it's not good. >> i don't think it was any different than 1999, i believe, when it first was brought before them. i think it's, you know, an administrative office -- i don't see that it's anymore more political now than then.

>> we were getting all the letters and the interest coming from various elected officials -- >> congress. yes. senator maria cantwell, harry reid. >> with the breaking news this morning, thank you very much, cindy. the patent office cancelling the trademark for the washington redskins. appreciate your time today. we're also following two other major stories including the capture of the alleged master mind of benghazi attack. first major developments in iraq. they attack the largest and most important oil refinery overnight in the northern city of bay gee which is driving up worldwide prices. nbc hasn't been able to verify the latest video. militants in control here in most of the plant you see here to the northeast. kurdish troop battling to keep

them from the northern oil fields. in addition to that fighting rages near baku baa. it's less than an hour drive from the capital of baghdad ab you look at the area. also, the insurgent's next target. they expect it to be baghdad airport. they may not be able to hold it. they could disrupt operations after insurgents sweeping in from syria toward the capital capturining mo sul over a week o and heading south toward baghdad. president obama meeting with congressional leaders in few years to talk about u.s. options in iraq. and that is where we start our coverage now. with nbc ayman. he joins us from iraq on the top topic. what is the latest on the oil refinery we were talking about? >> well, it's effectively sent shock waives throughout the northern part of iraq and pretty much throughout the entire gas

industry. because this refinery was the largest one in iraq. and certainly now that 75% of it has somewhat fallen into the hands of the rebels, you can expect it's going to increase the anxiety levels among ordinary iraqis. it will have serious implications on the day-to-day lives. we have seen the anxiety creating long lines at the gas stations here. we expect to see shortages in electricity over the next couple of days as a result of this. the refinery itself was closed a few days ago with several of the foreign workers already being evacuated. it was still under the control of iraqi special forces. that seems to be falling. oil refinery seems to be falling into the hands of those isis fighters. it gives you a sense of how strong they are and how determined they are to continue their territorial gain that have -- they i have been pushing into areas like baku baa and elsewhere. >> thank you very much. as we said president obama meets with congressional leaders in

awe if hours to discuss options. nbc news white house correspondent joins us. kristin, the white house ruling out manned air strikes. that's the word. what is the detail around that announcement? >> the concern about air strikes, richard, there would be a number of civilian casualties. the measures doesn't want that. if president obama were to take military action, sources here say that he is leaning toward targeted drone strikes. what is challenging about taking any military action is getting the intelligence right. that is what the administration with president obama currently focussed on. making sure they have accurate intelligence so if the president were to decide to take targeted drone strikes. those strikes would be precise and there wouldn't be any civilian casualties. but i also anticipate, richard, when president obama announce his path forward in iraq it will include some long-term element as well. possibly beefing up the

intelligence support of the iraqi government. increasing the spepersonnel at embassy. coming to the white house later today. john boehner's office saying he expects to see a hard plan when he gets here and arrives at the white house and meets with president obama. i don't anticipate that is what congressional leaders are going to get today. instead i anticipate they are going get the latest on the president's thinking. the latest about what he is weighing right now. the various options he's weighing. adds you know, there's a lot of pressure on president obama particularly whether republicans who say he hasn't been strong enough to come to a conclusions. i think we're a few days out. >> congressional leaders to heading to the white house. hearing more from the president. thank you very much kristin walker at the white house. let's bring in lo wis frankel of florida. a member of the house foreign

affairs committee. whose son served in iraq and afghanistan. what house speaker said in the past hour about what he hopes to hear today from the president which kristin was alluded to. >> we're hoping to hear from the president today is the broader strategy for how we help keep the freedom that we paid dearly for the people of iraq. and more than one step here. i'm looking for the overall strategy that will help secure the gains we've made. >> so congresswoman, you heard the speaker there. do you agree with his comment. do you agree that based on what we are understanding at the moment, that manned air strikes are off the table? >> well, we are facing a very serious dilemma. i think most americans would agree that when we went to war with iraq in 2003 during the

bush administration it was a failed policy. it was based on lies. we had deaths and casualties and a loss of billions of dollars at the detriment of this country. now we're seeing years later iraq spiraling out of control with the government that is very weak, that has not been inclusive which is its own worst enemy. and this is not the fault of president obama. it is a serious situation because a failed iraq -- >> congresswoman, let's talk about the solutions moving forward though. do you agree with manned air strikes being removed from the possibilities? and if you do, what do you suggest should be done here? >> well, i think definitely one of the first thing we should be doing is which we are doing is having our marines secure our embassy and the thousands of personnel that are in iraq and

sending warships in case we have to evacuate them. that's the correct thing. we have to most likely beef up our intelligence. before you start sending in aircraft or even drones, you have to know what you're doing. because you don't want collateral damage by killing and injuring innocent people. so i think there's a lot more that we need to know before we start sending out aircraft. >> let me get your reaction on this. i want to get your reaction to the wall street journal. former vice president dick cheney and his daughter liz wrote, quote, rarely has a u.s. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of many. president obama told us he's ending the war in iraq and afghanistan as a wishi ining mat so. all that being said, is the president stuck in a way because the idea? >> well, you know, i want to be as respectful as possible to

vice president cheney. i don't think he's the one to be giving advice on how to proceed. in a lot of ways he helped -- i won't say he directly credited the mess but certainly getting into the war in 2003 was not a good thing. it doesn't result in anything positive for us. our president and our country we have a serious i ddelimb ma. we don't want iraq to become a breeding ground. european allies those in the mideast would be most immediate targets for some type of terrorism. so we have to be concerned about that. i would say a caution is our best friend. i hope and i expect there is going to be some very thoughtful discussion. i know, the president has been around the clock with security advisers. he's going meet with congressional leaders today. i hope we take cautious, wise steps. i don't think taking advice from

vice president cheney would not be first on my list of things to do. >> congresswoman lois frankel in florida. thank you for your time. the alleged leader of the benghazi attack is heading to the usa after the daring light night raid. he was reportedly planning to attack americans. >> no matter how long it takes, we will find those responsible and we will bring them to justice. well, will the capture silence critics a the white house and hillary clinton? and this? >> questions need to be answered and changes need to be made to prevent this from happening others. >> the families whose loved ones died over injured crashes linked to the gm flaw demand executives take action. the company's ceo is on capitol hill. millions from the plains to atlantic are at risk for severe weather. many are cleaning through the overnight twisters.

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and developing now the alleged ben gaz city master mind in custody. ahmed abu abu khattala is heading toward the u.s. reuters saying u.n. ambassador samantha power telling the u.n. in a letter justifying the capture abu khattala planned more than attack on americans. president obama said he's keeping promise to keep those responsible for the 2012 attack to justice. >> when americans are attacked, no matter how long it takes, we will find those responsible and we will bring them to justice.

and that's a message i said the day after it happened and regardless of how long it takes, we will find you. and i want to make sure that everybody around the world hears that message very clearly. >> nbc justice correspondent pete williams happen following the story. as you know every over the last six months and folks asking why now and why does it make sense? >> it's one thing to call someone to ask them to meet you for an interview. it's another thing to ask them to be arrested. the fact that reporters can get to him doesn't really tell you very much. the u.s. had to get a team there. they had to make sure they could get him out of the country. no journalist, i think, had the wherewithal to smuggle him out of the country. i think they are incomparable. i guess it could be fairly asked

why did it take so long to do what the government eventually did? as you remember, last fall there was an attempt to arrest him. they ended up getting another man who was now awaiting trial in new york for his role in the african embassy bombing. they had a couple of attempts last year. they were watching him and wait for the best time to grab him when they thought there would be the least amount of opposition and the greatest chances for success. that's what they say they achieved over the weekend. >> pete, what you we know about what happens when abu khattala gets to u.s. soil. he's making his way. >> we know a lot. with know what will happen. the u.s. said he'll be coming to the federal court system. he'll be coming to washington, d.c., because the charge were filed here. we know under seal last july in federal court. why washington, d.c., perhaps he's accused of killing employees of the state department, which is based here. but in any event, he'll be come

together federal courthouse here in washington, d.c., at the foot of capitol hill. he'll be treated like any other criminal defendant. there's some republicans in congress who say that's the wrong thing to do. nonetheless, that's what the administration has decided to do. so when he gets her, we don't know when it will be. who knows depends how long the entire gracious will take. he'll come for the initial appearance. a lawyer will be appointed. he'll probably be held in the d.c. jail and initial appearance and treated like any criminal defendant. >> peter, talking about what some of the responses have been. the real value of him is how he might give us more intel. is that a reasonable criticism based on what you know? >> what the government says they're trying to do both. they believe the right way to treat him is in civilian court. that's been the obama administration's policy here and the practice to bring the folks to the u.s. to face trial in

federal government. but at the same time, they recognize the need to get intelligence. they have a two-track process. that is what is going through right now. the intelligence folks talk to him first. when they believe they've gotten out of him what they can, they walk away and a new team comes. the fbi lead they read the miranda rights and interrogate him for the purpose of gathering evidence for a criminal proceeding. and the administration says that works. they've done it before. the republicans who criticize it said you're rushing the process and should take them somewhere, maybe guantanamo. and interrogate them for so long as you can. don't rush the criminal process according to the republicans. nonetheless, the administration decided to undertake the plan that i just outlined. >> pete, as always, thank you very much for the latest on that. nbc justice correspondent pete williams for us. a new report said slave labor in asia is helping put

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brand new polls by nbc news and the wall street journal paint a troubling picture for president obama right now. he's tied for the lowest job approval rating of his presidency at 41%. new lows on foreign policy as well. just 37% approve a record high of 57% disapprove. and 54% don't think he can still lead and get thing done compared with 42% who believe he can. nbc news political director chuck todd put the numbers in blunt terms. >> this is amazing. this is as if the public is saying your presidency is over. >> joining me live right now mark murray. good to see you, mark. we gave some of those numbers out there. how bad are these when you put them in context for us? >> they're not good at all. president obama is tied for the all-time low and the nbc wall

street journal when it comes to the overall job rating. richard, when you think about all the events this white house has been taking, all the water it's been taking whether it is the controversial bowe bergdahl release, the va hospital controversy. whether it was the crisis in ukraine and now the situation in iraq. this becomes very difficult for the administration. just our last poll two months ago president obama was starting to make a little bit of an improvement after the health care wows. he goes back down. it's a troubling situation for him and his party. >> is not only the president and the gop. as republicans are they in a bad position here? >> absolutely. so president obama finds himself in a worse position now than in 2010. in 2010 was a very big year for republicans. but our poll also finds republican party as well as the

tea party are in worse shape than 2010. republicans seem to be on the verge of making gains this midterm season. a lot has to do with the red ta state map. some is unpopular, some is struggles with women as we find in our poll could limit the gains. >> thank you very much, mark murray. appreciate it, my friend. americans buy tons of shrimp every year. very often at places like walmart and costco. a new reports the shrimp on our table tops could have gotten there thanks to slave labor. the guardian finding men working on thai fishing boats are bought and sold for $400 apiece. using them to keep the shrimp cheap conditions include torture and execution-style killers for low performers.

methamphetamine used to keep them awake and work. beating to keep them online. restless because they worked on the boats for years. this is how the slave labor gets shrimp to the tables. they cash what is called trash fish, young and/or inevitable fish. it's ground fish meal. t lead to shrimp. or fed to shrimp. it's sold to u.s. companies like walmart and costco. walmart says they have joined project esara. costco is saying it prohibits use of slave labor and working toward solutions. joining us now is felicity lawrence one of the reporters on the guardian investigation. and mark former ambassador for the state department office to monitor and combat trafficking in persons. thank you, both. felici felicity, i'll saturday with you. thailand is the biggest shrimp producer in the world. how much of the shrimp that

americans have they're eating includes slave labor? >> well, it's impossible to say. because the supply chain is kept secret. it took six months to follow it. we followed boats where we knew they were enslaved. we followed them to sea where the fish catch was being delivered. who was processing it and buying it. what we have had from human rights activists and people who have campaigned on fish conservation for a long time is that is an industry wide problem. we pursued it down the line. we want to show how it fit together. we didn't have time to pursue every single boat, obviously. but it is truly horrific story of the most extraordinary

conditions. >> what can companies like walmart and costco do given the complexity of the supply chain here? i think they wield enormous power. there's an enormous democratic deficit. they wield the power and the power and the global food chain is completely unbalanced. the workers at the bottom of the pile are regularly abused to keep costs down. it's not to say the retailers on their own can solve this. this is a agrgeopolitical probl. in some sense is bigger than individual countries. and the powerful transnational retail probably has more leverage than an individual country to persuade the ties to act differently to persuade the they government to enforce the laws they have. >> is it possible to eliminate

slave labor from the shrimp industry what we see on the tables here in the united states? we're so comfortable with low-priced seafood. >> there is no reason in a world of globalization that the desire for cheap products and cheap food means there has to be slavery. it touches our lives. and as the guardian has done a great service of taking studies that were done by the international organization for migration, the u.n. office on drugs and crime, and others and gotten into the detail of the evidence of how it touches the supply chains. i shop at walmart, i shop at costco. other consumers like me should be stunned a the possibility what they buy, you know, is in fact made of slave labor. >> many would be surprised to hare a report, no doubt. they expect it wouldn't be the case here, ambassador. the u.s., as you know, about to put out the annual slavery

report, ambassador. it it downgrades thailand on froitd lowest level, which is the same level north korea is at. will it slow this slave produced shrimp that we are seeing here in the u.s.? >> it will do a lot of good. i used to head the state department office that puts out the global report and high octane to giving grades to other country. if given the lowest grade, it means that countries in the united states worked with smell the coffee, as it were. they have to act on it. t not for nothing that the ambassador of thailand to the united states has asked me to come see him next week when he learns the grade. not only does the slavery happen on boats as felicity has covered. but i met victim was those in the seafood processing industry in thailand who were abused. >> do you expect, ambassador, they will be downgraded? yes or no? >> i do. >> okay. >> i think secretary kerry showed guts last year on downgrading russia, china.

i expect that is what will happen. >> and felicity, is this more than shrimp? >> yes. i first interviewed slaves in thailand 12 years ago, they were working on chicken farms. it's not just thailand. we've seen this whenever we see new agricultural frontier on new agricultural frontiers. i've seen it in the amazon in soy production going into livestock feed. it is a global problem. it is the flip side of the coin when you deregulate everything you open up the borders but don't expect people to my grate and don't have enough controls and don't have enough power vested in the people on the ground. and the workers. i mean, the real answer is to organize workers to give them power back to fight for themselves. >> felicity lawrence of the

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marcus wellons and john winefield was put to death. the another large tornado touching down in nebraska late yesterday. several farms were destroyed. no deaths or injuries have been reported. it was one of multiple slow-moving twisters that loomed over the northeastern part of the state a day after the rare twin tornados levelled the town of pilger. a terrifying accident with a tractor trailer. a jeep cher key slams into into it flipping over the trailer. one person was injured. police investigate if the driver was impaired there. prosecutors in physical are asking an appeals court -- aget john f connelly was initially convicted of second-degree murder for his role in the 1982 murder allegedly org straited by bulger. the conviction was tossed due to an issue with the statute of limitations.

connelly's case is just one of many that all lead back to the boston mobster who l.a. fall was sentenced to two consecutive life terms on more than two dozen counts ranging from racketeering to murder. one of the most infamous crime bosses and fbi informant is the subject of new documentary. >> i'll kill you. i'll stab you and kill you. i'm like, holy jesus. >> whitey killed my sister. >> whitey killed. >> shot him in the head. >> he buried people there, buried people there. and went to sleep there. 25 years bulger ruled the organized crime world. >> joining me now is the drek

drektd -- director. thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> several claimed sisters. there's my me brother's keeper as well as paradise lost. >> i have an interest in the criminal just is system. when it go office the rail i think it's the duty of all citizens to shine a light on alleged corruption and injustice. i think the bulger story we've only heard the tip of the iceberg. the conventional story he was a informant and john connelly was responsible for a lot of murder and may heim that ensued. the film challenges that. connelly did bad things. it's the theory of the film that there is a possibility that this corruption was more wide spread and went higher up the line and the film also looks at evidence that the defense put forward at trial to suggest the bulger might not have been an informant that's a cover story for a deeper conspiracy. >> answer that.

was he an informant? >> i don't know. there are a lot of -- >> which way do you lean after doing your sflerj. >> i lean toward there are a lot of -- if it was an informant there are a lot of strange irregulari irregularity. the informant file is slight and doesn't look like an informant file. the fact that bulger was a head of the gang and the fbi's basic rule you don't target the head of the gang to be an informant. there's a lot of things that hold water with the story. the point of the film wasn't to say he was or wasn't. there are some troubling questions that need to be looked into. >> do the troubling questions involve john connelly you had all the access and great interviews give a better understanding of the alleged involvement in this? >> the fbi is somewhat of a para military organization where there's approvals and chains of command. to think all the bad things, all of these murders and the

extortion that happened under the fbi watch while he was allegedly an informant is so solely the responsibility of john connelly and his corrupt supervisor john morris. it strains credibility. there seems to be more people who have been involved. so while connelly, i believe, did some bad things. i think he has been scapegoated as the sole person responsible for the stuff that went on in boston. bulger was on top of the criminal empire in boston for 25 years. wasn't even stopped for a traffic ticket. >> the legend of bulger. many movies around who he was. many investigation s jack nicholson's character. >> very loosely connected to whitey. we know three films in the work including one in the works now starring johnny depp. how is yours different? >> well, you know, i wanted to use the trial.

the actual trial of whitey bulger to separate the man from the myth. there have be so many books and accounts about whitey. my film is the first time whitey has willing participated in a project. we hear from whitey in the movie and his side of the story. that's not say we should endorse whitey's side of the story. the film is no apology for bulger. she he's a brutal killer. what enabled him to do the terrible things, i think, is a question that needs to be answered. >> joe, thank you. director of the whitey documentary. up next an msnbc original. colonel jack jacobs profiles a marine who receives the highest honor for a heroic action that left him wounded in afghanistan. that's next. for the first time.. ever she let him plan the vacation. off the beaten path: he said

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and here is one thing we just thought you should know. toronto mayor rob ford holding an audition for "rob ford the musical." dozens of actors looking like the embattled mayor showed up for the audition. as for the man himself, ford is currently in rehab and has written a letter to the city clerk informing he'll be back to work on monday, june 30th. that is just one thing we thought you should know. tomorrow, lance corporal william kyle carpenter will receive the highest military award. he will receive the award during a white house ceremony for his heroic actions in afghanistan in 2010 when he dove on a live grenade to save the life of a fellow marine. carpenter lost most of his jaw, an eye, fractured his right arm in more than 30 places and had a

whole host of injuries. he spoke with military analyst retired colonel jack jacobs. they spoke in south carolina. >> reporter: six weeks over you woke up at bethesda? >> yes, sir. i remember opening my left eye, my good eye, and i was blinded in my right eye. but waking up and my mom had hung christmas stockings up on my wall. >> were you absolutely shocked that you were alive? what were you thinking when you opened up your left eye? >> i remember a few things waking up in icu. really, i just remember hallucinations and that was kind of my first real, i'm not hallucinating, i'm safe in a hospital bed thought. >> and you were awake.

you were actually alive. that must have been a shock by itself. >> it was. very much. >> how much time did you spend at bethesda? >> i got medevaced into bethesda of walter reed in 2010 and i medically retired out of there end of july of last year, 2013. >> was there any possibility that you would -- did the doctors think that you would lose your arm? >> i was actually scheduled and my parents had been told by doctors that they were going to take my right arm. and a doctor came in kind of last minute and said, you know, i think we can take a shot at it and maybe save his arm and he did and it's come a long way. >> does it have steel in there and all of that? >> it had two rods and -- it had three rods and now it only has two. they took one out at one of my last surgeries at walter reed. oh, yeah, it still lights up on

the x-rays. >> colonel jack jacobs joins us right now. you just want to listen to that conversation as long as it can go. seems like a nice guy. of course, you have often told me off camera, medal of honor recipients, great guys. >> circumstances put us in a position where we had to act and it's not something else that anybody else wouldn't do so he's just like everybody else. >> what did you learn about him off camera? >> well, he's an interesting kid to the following extent we think all the time about the trials and tribulations veterans go through and somebody like him in particular because they had very, very grievous wounds and almost died a number of times. he doesn't wallow in it. he's going to the university of south carolina studying psychology. he's a smart kid and it's not that he wants to put his marine service behind him because it will always be part of him and he's soon to be a medal of honor

recipient and therefore he's going to represent lots and lots of people but he's got a life, too, and he's going to pursue it. >> i'm always impressed when i get a chance to speak to you. what's it like for you to speak to one that's about to become one? how did that go? >> well, i'm looking at it from his standpoint. when i was a new recipient, the first guy who told me how to act and what to do was jim jimjimm jimmy dolittle in the early part of 1942. >> i bet you were nervous about that. >> i was much more nervous being told what to do by jimmy dolittle than i received the medal of honor by nixon. when i spoke to kyle, he said the same thing. >> we'll see what happens. colonel jack jacobs, thank you so much. appreciate that. your interview with colonel corporal tomorrow continues at

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>> there is a need for immediate action. there is a need for immediate action. every day that goes by, there is greater sectarian violence, there is greater success by isis. i do not believe they can take baghdad. look at the places they've already taken. >> and the fog of war. hillary clinton's explanation for benghazi as the interrogation has begun on the alleged ring leader of the benghazi attack now being brought back to the u.s. to face prosecution. clinton faced her own grilling on fox. >> this was the fog of war. my own assessment careened from the video had something to do with it, the video had nothing to do with it. and gm's ceo mary barra called on the carpet again from congress for ignoring the ignition switch problems for more than a decade.