>> class of 2014 moved on to the next phase of their lives. congratulations, amelia. we are so proud of you. >> going to johns hopkins and going to be a track star. >> thank you, coach jim mitchell. >> mika is not afraid of owls, mika is not afraid of the president, mika is a little afraid of her father. >> i am. >> if it is way too early, it's "morning joe." thank you so much for watching. stick around, here's chuck todd with the daily rundown. usa, usa, usa, go team usa, we're proud of you. the long, hot summer kicks off with mississippi's republican runoff. a democratic divide in harlem and a fierce fight in colorado between the gop and an old internal, yet familiar foe. also this morning, secretary of state john kerry arrives in baghdad to try to help iraqi leaders avoid a total political collapse. but can the country's prime

minister survive any shakeup? plus, welcome to the land of joe biden. the tdr 50 train touches down in del marva. for a week-long look at the politics that drives delaware in maryland. it's monday, june 23rd, 2014, this is "the daily rundown." the first daily rundown of the summer. secretary of state john kerry arrived in baghdad early this morning. part of it is to pressure prime minister maliki to form a new, more inclusive government. he also spoke with iraqi leaders about the type of assistance the u.s. is prepared to provide to combat isis. now kerry met with maliki for an hour 40 minutes behind closed doors. the trip comes as militants from isis and their allies now control nearly all of the border with syria. today they took over areas near jordan too. in cairo on sunday kerry did not call for maliki's resignation, but just like the president late last week he made it clear that the u.s. expects a lot, either

out of maliki or the leaders. >> it is up to the people of iraq to choose their future leadership. but we do note that the kurds have expressed dissatisfaction with the current situation. the sunni have expressed dissatisfaction with the current situation. and some shia have expressed dissatisfaction. >> it's a message president obama echoed in an interview with "morning joe's" mika brzezinski. >> the test now, not just for mr. maliki, but for all the leadership in iraq is are they able to set aside their suspicions, their sectarian preferences for the good of the whole. and we don't know. the one thing i do know is that if they fail to do that, then no amount of military action by the united states can hold that

country together. >> now, the new iraqi parliament is supposed to convene on june 30th to choose new leaders. for maliki to continue to govern, his coalition must form a majority in this new legislature. late on sunday isis militants seized control of the border crossing between iraq and jordan. this morning the last border patrol agents escaped between their post and the jordanian posts. the gains put the militants within easy reach of jordan and saudi arabia. kerry's trip is also building a coalition with arab leaders claiming iran is the one gaining the most from this crisis. this was discussed sunday on "meet the press." >> there are two actions you have to take. one is to take the actions that you deem necessary to counter the isis takeover of iraq. the second is not to allow iran to dominate iraq the way it dominated lebanon and syria. >> but suspicion of the u.s.'

strong security leader said he is against any intervention in iraq and in egypt kerry was forced to defend the u.s. policy. when an egyptian journalist asked if the u.s. invasion of iraq had caused the current situation. >> what's happening in iraq is not happening because the united states in terms of this current crisis, the united states shed blood and worked hard for years to provide iraqis the opportunity to have their own governance. >> meanwhile, that initial decision in 2003 here at home is turning into a big battle inside the republican party between the interventionists rand isolationists wings and it was fought big-time over the air waves. >> were they right in their predictions? were there weapons of mass destruction there? that's what the war was sold on. was democracy easily achievable? was the war won in 2005 when many of these people said it was won? i do blame the iraq war on the

chaos in the middle east. i also blame those who were for the iraq war for 'em boldening iran. these are now petrified of what iran may become. >> rand paul and his philosophy is basically an isolationist. that didn't work in the 1930s, it sure as heck won't work in the aftermath of 9/11 when 19 guys armed with airline tickets and box culters came all the way from afghanistan and killed three,000 of our citizens. >> nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell, is traveling with secretary kerry in baghdad. andrea, let's start with what you have learned from that hour and a half meeting between maliki and kerry. >> reporter: well, this is a work in progress. we're about to go in and get an opportunity to question john kerry at a press conference and the security is so tight that we're not able to feed that out live. that's just another indication of the tight security with which he came here.

as a matter of fact, we understand kuwait is withdrawing their ambassador. most of the thousands and thousands of personnel here at the u.s. embassy where i am today in baghdad, 8,000 at its peak, we are told, most of them have been relocated to safer posts. but kerry came here because he thinks this is really a critical point that iraq could fall apart, because isis is not only advancing and taking ground, they're holding ground, chuck. this is a direct threat to the sovereignty of iraq. they put a lot of the blame at the feet of prime minister maliki with whom he met. he met with other leaders here in baghdad so he went around the table, as it were, meeting separately with all of these leaders and trying to very gently put pressure on maliki, but not too heavily because that would back fire. >> i know that they're walking this line, andrea, between trying to put real pressure on him and obviously not having him somehow just run into the arms

of iran. but is kerry -- is there an alternative of the maliki that's ready to go? is there an alternative to him that kerry and the u.s. is working with yet, or not yet? >> reporter: they are working behind the scenes with all of them and they won't name who they think might be the alternative. they are very loathe to be in a position of the u.s. picking the winners, because that perhaps would be the kiss of death on anyone the u.s. chose or designated and certainly would alienate iran. the ayatollah came out very strongly against what the u.s. has even suggested doing militarily and that sounded much like an endorsement of maliki. this after a very prominent iraqi ayatollah came out sort of against maliki, kind of pulling out the rug from under him just two days ago, so this is a very complex political process.

militarily there isn't much time to lose because isis has just taken more border crossing points, on the syrian border, on the jordanian border. they now have a supply line directly from their skier january strong hold. as my colleague, richard engle, has been reporting so wonderfully, this is a real crisis for iraq. >> all right, andrea mitchell in baghdad, traveling with secretary kerry. andrea, thanks very much. let me bring in sandy berger, former national security adviser to president clinton. mr. berger, nice to see you, sir. >> good to see you, chuck. >> debating history here is going to matter at some point, so let me ask you this. is this current crisis the war itself? would we be in this situation -- do you think we'd be in this situation if we had not invaded iraq in 2003? >> you could have a lot of narratives here.

isis grew up in the aftermath of the invasion in resistance to our occupation and presence in iraq. so in that sense, some of this is obviously the result of our having gone into iraq. but there are a lot of -- >> a lot of mistakes made since then, there's no doubt. >> their deep, historic aspects of this. there's a deep sectarian element of this, there's a regional contest here between iran and saudi arabia, iraq and iran, so i do think that the invasion of iraq made a difference here. but i don't think it's the only factor. >> i was intrigued by something that prime minister netanyahu said, because obviously on one hand one of our priorities should be the security of israel.

and he said, well, we can't have isis taking over iraq and he doesn't want iraq to be a state of iran. okay. that's the rock and the hard place here. >> well, obviously we don't want iran to dominate iraq. there's some natural antipathy between iraq and iran. they did fight a ten-year bloody war. but iran has provided help to maliki and will play some sort of role here in terms of whether maliki goes or stays, not really clear. so what we need to do is to try to create a new government, or push for a new government in baghdad that is a legitimate government, that is a broad-based government, that has some legitimacy across the board in iraq that can gain the support of a large group of its people, including sunnis and on

that basis be able to proceed against isis. and withstand an iranian effort to dominate it. >> it seems that to me one of the undercover parts of this story that i think will put a lot of pressure on the united states is the squeeze that's taking place with jordan. the iraq -- the border is now a mess. never mind they have had this syrian refugee problem for some time. the king of jordan, i would argue, the second most important personal ally to the president of the united states after israel. what can we do to make sure jordan doesn't end up insecure and isis just rolling through there? >> i absolutely agree with you, chuck. i've been concerned about jordan now for more than a year. there are a million syrian refugees in jordan of the the second largest city in jordan -- >> is a refugee camp. >> and he's with stood enormous amount of pressure.

part of what we have to do is in syria in terms of trying in my judgment to accelerate some sort of resolution of the syrian problem. but we certainly have to provide as much assistance as we can to him to be able to deal with this refugee flood and as much as he needs militarily to protect his border. >> and do you think the united states should think about doing as much as it can to help him secure his border if they have to? >> i think we're doing a lot, but i think whatever he needs to secure that border, we should provide. >> and do you think this overall counterterrorism strategy the president outlined, which is the yemenization of iraq, which is just going after isis when you've confined them, is that the only strategy to pursue now? >> well, i think it's part of a strategy. obviously i don't think we want

to be providing air cover for maliki's counteroffensive. a counterterrorism strategy i think can be part of this. it's not that easy. you know, as you're bombing iraq, a little hard for the iraqi people to know what you're bombing only isis and not sunnis. but i think that's fundamentally a good strategy. >> sandy berger, thanks for coming in, sir. handful of blockbuster supreme court decisions are expected in the next seven days. they have to come in the next seven days. some of those are also possible to actually happy in the next hour. we'll go live to the court and pete williams for a preview. much more on "the daily rundown" to come. the president, vice president and first lady all speaking at today's white house working families summit. a little more of a political angle here than you might realize. after a short break, you'll hear what the president told mika

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the obama administration today is hosting a summit, it's called on working families. the president and the vice president will join business leaders, economists and working families to talk about possible policy changes that could help employees. the council of economic advisers reports this month most american children live in households where all of their presidents work. the president talked about the stress of juggling work and child care with mika brzezinski.

>> the biggest source of stress for us, and we were a lot luckier than most, was these issues surrounding work and family. you know, i'm away down at the state capitol, michelle is back home, she's got her own job. the teacher calls, sasha is sick or suddenly the baby-sitter didn't show up for some reason or, you know, some other emergency comes up and how do you deal with that? the problem is, is that unlike every other advanced country on earth, we've sort of said this is something that individual families should deal with on their own. >> first lady and dr. jill biden also plan to attend the working families summit today. there is a political angle here. democrats want to exploit the gender gap. it's something i pointed out about the how much better democrats are doing among women than they were this time four years ago. this is another issue to working

women, an important swing vote that matters to them. developing now, we could soon get some big supreme court decisions on the first attempt to limit the affordable health care act on religious grounds. the owners of hobby lobby, a chain of 500 craft stores are challenging the affordable care act. they're concerned about the requirement to provide a wide range of birth control to workers. hobby lobby's owners are evangelicals and say some contraception eliminates life. there is another a similar suit owned by a family who are mennonites. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams is live at the supreme court with more. hobby lobby is the biggest one politically, i think, when i look at it in my world, if you will, pete, about stuff that

could have some traction on the campaign trail, depending on which way the decision goes. what's your sense of which way that decision you thought was headed at the time and what else are you watching? >> reporter: well, we may get that decision this week. it could be early next week, we don't know. but judging from the oral argument, it did seem like the court wanted to find some way to accommodate companies that are held, closely held by a family. the question is given that these are corporations, the justice department says a corporation is intended to be at arm's length from the owners. that's the whole idea of a corporation. does a corporation have religious beliefs and can it assert that in saying that providing contraceptive coverage would violate those religious beliefs. so that's the question for the court. we're also expecting, i think, another issue that will be of interest to your viewers is this question of recess appointments. democrats and republicans have argued about this for years. can the president fill vacancies in the administration when the

senate is out of town. the senate goes into session and rattles some chicken bones and says here we are, presto, or do they have to be in town. that looks like it's going to go badly for the administration. the court does seem it's -- >> just to jump in real quick, pete, because of the decision by harry reid to do what he did on the so-called nuclear option and how they -- it sort of obsolete now in many ways. it's still a constitutional argument. >> reporter: and the other question here, which the lower court said, if the court goes this far i think it would be bad for the power of the presidency. the question is can you only fill vacancies that actually arise when the senate is out of town or can you use the recess to fill any vacancies that exist. that's another question. if the court decides that one, that would really cut back on the power. we're also expecting decisions in these final days on a challenge to an internet startup

company called aero which allows people to watch broadcast tv on the internet. the networks say that violates the copyright laws. cell phone privacy is another big question. protests in these zones that are no-protest zones are also being challenged, so a lot of big cases yet to come, chuck. >> it's going to be a busy week for you. at least it's a nice day for you to stand outside. >> reporter: so far so good. >> pete williams, thank you very much, sir. coming up, what to watch before polls open in six states tomorrow. it's a bigger day than you might realize. plus they're divided by the mason-dixon line but politically they're pretty united. tdr takes on both maryland and delaware to try to answer the age-old question. is delaware really a part of maryland or really a part of pennsylvania? but first today's trivia question. who was the first female democrat to serve in both chambers of congress? the first person to tweet the correct answer is going to get the on-air shoutout. the answer and more is coming up on tdr in 180 seconds.

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four different times. neither state has voted republican since 1992. they voted democrat six elections in a row in delaware, which is made up of just three counties. the blue shift is primarily due to the dominance of the northern part of the state. newcastle county is larger than the rest of the state combined, including two-thirds of the state's businesses and the majority of the state's democrats. it went to the president by 34 points delivering more votes itself than mitt romney received statewide. kent county went to obama by five points and sussex county was solidly red. while northern delaware has shifted to the left, southern delaware has gone the other away, daupting a more southern rural ideology. a development even "the daily show" poked fun at back in 2010. >> the voters in the south are much more conservative, more agreraian. they tend to be more religious, more white. >> the people from the south?

>> no, the south of delaware. >> there's a south in delaware? >> yes. >> delaware? >> delaware. >> is it really called south or is it just called like over there? >> over in maryland, the democratic shift has also been swift. in the '90s african-american began moving out of washington, d.c. and into the maryland suburbs, including prince george's and maryland counties. there was an ethnically diverse and economically upscale population, particularly montgomery county where the median income is close to six figures. they turned into solid democratic strong holds. in the '80s montgomery and prince george's counties weren't any more whether you thblue tha the state. these two states will be in the spotlight all week and in the days to come we'll look at many

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man who has defined d.c. politics more than four decades and he has a new book out to tell his story and his new memoir "mayor for life" he describes his childhood in the south that led him to the civil rights struggle of the '60s. working with the naacp in college, then becoming the first national chairman of the student nonviolent coordinating committee and then leading a boycott of d.c. buses in 1986. a year later he co-founded a jobs program for unemployed black men that helped form his power base in washington ahead of his transition to local politics in 1971. in just seven years, marion berry went from d.c. school board to the city council to the mayor's office, becoming a national figure in the process. he was re-elected twice before his stunning downfall in 1990. he was caught on tape using crack cocaine, sentenced to six months for drug possession. barry said at the time that he was set up. for most politicians prison time

would have menlt the end of their political careers. but he jumped back in portraying himself as the underdog who simply keeps on fighting. >> people who have been knocked down and fallen down and been kicked down to get up. i've been an example of someone who's been kicked down and knocked down to get up. >> he got back on the city council in 1992, elected to a fourth term as mayor in 1994. after a temporary retirement for politics, he got back into the city council in 2004. but that's when a bit of legal troubles began to pile up, including accusations of public corruption. despite that he's remained on the city council and is now serving his third consecutive term. he sums it up by saying i had to get overall my bad decisions and embarrassments and trust that people will still judge me based on what i fought to do for them rather than emphasize my personal struggles. joining me, city council member and the former mayor of washington, d.c., marion berry. when people ask me about you, i

said you've got to understand the role he played in the civil rights movement and the respect he garnered for a whole generation of washingtonians. do you feel as if you tarnished your own legacy? >> i, i do not. let me put it in perspective. one, it happened 24 years ago. regardless of whether people like what happened or didn't happen, nine jurors voted to acquit me on all charges. the federal government never proved there was crack in that pipe. jurors didn't believe it. the answer is no. and so, therefore, people ought to stop -- >> so you deny that you ever smoked crack? >> yes. >> never smoked crack in your life? >> never smoked crack, as simple as that. but that's not the issue. the issue is that's a little sliver of time in my whole

career. that night is a sliver. i want people to judge me by my entire life, not this little sliver. in terms of the vista, i've asked -- i've apologized to regina morris, i've apologized to her family, to my family and my son, i've apologized to the people of washington, d.c. this is a country of second and third and fourth chances. >> no doubt, no doubt. >> in fact jesus was asked how many times would you forgive a person and he said 70 times 70. so that ought to be enough for me that we put this behind us. i regret going to that hotel. i regret going into that room. it was a stupid decision i made. but that's over with, 24 years ago. i've done such an incredible amount of things before that and

after that. >> you're 78. >> i have a mission. god instilled in me courage, resilience, stand-upness, don't give upness. and i want to serve as an example for those who need the same kind of encouragement. there are thousands of washingtonians, millions of americans who are going through all kinds of things and they need some inspiration to say if marion barry can do it, i can do it. >> it does seem as if the city, just among african-american leaders, that there's a generational divide about where to move things, whether it was what we just saw with muriel bowser with the mayor or fenty. the older generation is in one place and the new generation is in another place.

>> i think that's a figment of some people's imagination. we have a lot of barry haters in the press. we have people like yourself and others who are honest journalists. i think black people, whether they're old or young, they want a better life for themselves. they want to be able to send their kids to college. they want to send their kids into careers. they want life to be a lot easier for them than it was for their parents. there's no generation gap. now, we may differ on tactics and strategy, but we know that there's still a need to level the playing field. we've got to close that economic gap. give people a sense of hope that they can make it in this american system. >> let me ask you about something that's going to hit $residents perhaps. are you for the olympics coming here? >> i tried a long time ago -- >> there's another bid going on. >> i would love it. >> and the washington football

team, should they change their name? >> well, of course i've been on that for a long time. >> the book "mayor for life" which people used to throw at you as a prejoer afternoon sometimes -- >> what happened is that ken cummings, the loose lips and the city paper did that. >> you didn't like it at the time. >> because it reminded me of papa doc and be known for that even as i went through life, did a lot of incredible things. >> but you embrace it now. >> the people embraced it. call me mayor forever, mayor for this, notwithstanding this. so mayor for life, go out and buy as many books as you can. >> you have to say marion barry, it's very interesting the history he has lived and made of himself here in washington, d.c. all right, developing now, this just in from msnbc. the supreme court has declined to hear a challenge that was brought by the state of new

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josh duggar stumped for mcdaniel. this weekend it was game show host chuck woolery on the trail. mississippi does not register by party, but cochran is reaching out to voters who do not traditionally vote in republican primaries. the 84,000 people who did cast ballots in the june 3rd democratic primary cannot vote in the republican runoff but it's unclear how enforceable that is. still one problem for cochran, our nbc news/wall street journal poll shows 74% of tea party republicans said they plan to vote in the gop primaries this year versus just 59% of non-tea party republicans. if that doesn't tell you something about that. if you're asking, the republicans are split into two. another incumbent who might be on the ropes tomorrow is in new york, where charlie rangel faces a former supporter, now foe, adriano espaillat.

the district is much more divorce, much less african-american than it was. it's more hispanic, actually. rangel got in a little trouble that his only credential was his ethnicity. espaillat's show cases a calculated get out to vote effort, much more sophisticated than what we've seen from rangel. also tomorrow, a race for senate isn't oklahoma. given james lankford and t.w. shannon is the statehouse speaker, can it really be billed that way? there's a crowded field vying to take on the democratic governor in colorado, john hakickenloope. joining me now, sam hall, assistant managing editor and dan balz. sam, let me start with you. this issue of the cochran

campaign reaching out to african-american voters, do you see any evidence that it's going to work? >> we've seen a lot more activity in the jackson area, predominantly black precincts, and they have a huge push in the delta. whether or not it's going to work is the million dollar question. it's hard to get turnout in midterm elections. it's hard to get turnout in runoffs. now you're asking them to come out and vote for republicans when they're traditionally voting democrat. so i think it's going to be tough. but talking to people who are working on the ground there, they say that they're seeing a good bit of life out of courthouses and city halls. so that's what they have got going for them are those elected leaders on the ground who are really pushing them out because they value cochran and his seniority. >> i've been surprised at how much late -- it just shows you that obviously establishment wants cochran but believes he still has a chance.

they wouldn't be risking their own political -- phil bryant wouldn't be doing an ad at the end, i don't think, risking their own political stature there on somebody that might lose. >> but also there's a lot of money at stake here in their estimation. >> real money, federal dollars. >> and i think it's fascinating that in the runoff, senator cochran has not moved to the right. if anything, he has moved to the left. he is making an argument on behalf of the federal government and the importance of the federal government. i was talking to a democrat down there this past weekend who said, you know, we haven't heard an argument like this made about the federal government since jimmy carter ran for president in 1976. and so that gives you an idea of kind of the spread and the gamble that senator cochran is taking. >> you know, it's interesting here with charlie rangel, thad cochran, both may lose and in fact if they do, does it mean the narrative -- it's not just a narrative that's alive and well

but there is maybe an anti-incumbent atmosphere out there or is it just uniquely two guys who outstayed their welcome? >> i think that's probably closer to it. i think the mississippi race there is more of an ideological issue there with tea party people thinking he is not sufficiently conservative. we know he's conservative. with rangel, i think it really is a question of has he stayed too long. he's obviously been a tarnished figure because of the ethics problems that he ran into and he had a very close race the last time around. >> cuomo got behind him, he got a few people to get behind him late, but no president obama new york city bill de blasio, mayor of new york city. very important there. sam, what happens on wednesday morning if the republican nominee is chris mcdaniel. is this fight so bitter between the two sides that significant cochran supporters, big cochran supporters, not rank and file, will ending up with travis childers, the democratic nominee? >> i think behind the scenes, yes. i think definitely so.

i think that you'll see bryant and some of his key supporters, bryant of course and the elected officials will get behind the nominee, whoever it is, but his will do what they can to work. his donor base will. i think there's a contingency of the business community and those donors who will definitely get behind childers. there is such an aid logical split. it's gotten really personal. and so they won't do it publicly. they'll do it behind the scenes. >> i'm curious. do you think it's a -- do you think that childress has the credibility to, i the race with the business community. they won't want to make a symbolic protest against mcdaniel but get in there whole hog behind him? >> i think they'll wait and see what happens in the first, you know, few weeks. the anticipation is that it will

come down with money, do a little bit of tv. try to build up the name. he lost a contested race to congressman nunly. i think the same storyline they used to treat him then is the same thing this time. it'll be a tough race but it opens up an avenue of democrats. >> democrats kind of need mcdaniel now at this point, nationally. they feel as their map keeps narrowing? >> yeah. they need to add prices where they can claim at least a legitimate chance to take one away from the republicans. >> all right. thank you very much. what a crazy -- by the way, tomorrow is a very, very busy day. new york, maryland, colorado, a lot of good races. thank you, both. trivia time. maryland senator was of the first woman democrat to serve in both chambers of the congress.

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