civilized world itself, how it is able to defend itself. israel accepted and hamas rejected the egyptian cease-fire proposal of july 15th. i want you to know that at that time, the conflict had claimed some 185 lives. only on monday night did hamas finally agree to that very same proposal which went into effect. a full 90% of the fatalities in this conflict could have been avoided had hamas not rejected then the cease-fire that it accepts now. hamas must be held accountable for the tragic loss of life. it must be ostracized from the family of nations for its callous abuse of civilians and hamas must be presented from rearming as part of gaza's

general demilitarization. that is the sure way to guarantee that this conflict will not repeat itself. and i'm very glad that secretary kerry and others have put forward the need to demill ta rise gaza. this is a long-standing palestinian obligation yet to be fulfilled. setting a new long-term goal is important for israel, it's important for the people of gaza and for all of us who want to see an end to the violence and an end to the suffering. every civilian casualty is a tragedy. a tragedy of hamas' own making. i think the nobel loriat said it well when he said hamas is engaging in child sacrifice and this is something for which it must be held accountable, for the sake of all our children, it must not be allowed to get away with this. >> thank you, prime minister.

we'll now do questions. >> questions are being asked of prime minister netanyahu right now. we can't hear them because the reporters are not miked but we're waiting his responses.

>> the second question, if i may, we've seen in the west bank operations, the gaza operations a rise in attacks in jerusalem, violence in jerusalem, and i just wanted to get the response spread about the violence. thank you. >> thank you. we have started dealing with the tunnels. first of all, we were going to deal with the threats posed from gaza either by military means or diplomatic means. one of the two or both. we began dealing with the first tunnel before the egyptian initiative. i don't know if you're aware of it, but we had information about

an impending attack from one terror tunnel and we took action before we had the air attacks on -- before we had the attacks and the response to their rocketing attacks, we actually dealt with one tunnel. if we could have dealt with the rest of the tunnels through the egyptian proposal, which had an immediate cease-fire, as we have now, and both sides can raise the topics and specifically the issue of security would be raised that was mentioned, when we said security, we meant obviously that we would bring up the questions of the tunnels, could we deal with it through nonmilitary means and the other threat against israel, that's preferable. as it turns out, hamas rejected this and therefore we had to deal with it with military means. by doing the -- by actually going in. that first tunnel was struck from the air. it's very hard to achieve that

result from the air. you either achieve it by agreement or by going into the other side, finding the points of origin of the tunnel or a point of origin, identifying the trajectory of the tunnel and then dismantling it or destroying it through various means. if we could have done it diplomatically, fine. the army just told us we completed this activity and then we went out. we went in to deal with the tunnels, we went out after dealing with the tunnels. >> the jerusalem question. >> well, obviously we're concerned. we hope that everyone, everyone will work now to calm the situation. that has been our goal from the very beginning in jerusalem, everywhere, the palestinian areas. we don't need to see loss of life there any more than we want to see it on the gaza front. i want to make sure -- you mentioned the temple mounts. i want to make sure that everyone knows that israel

respects the status quo on the temple mount. we know the traditional rule of the kingdom of jordan and we are not about to change it. >> cnn in the front row. >> that was israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying hamas must be held accountable, saying that israel has abided by cease-fires and that hamas actually rejected the july 15th cease-fire and saying that everything could have been avoided had that not been the case, calling for the world to respond to them. we're going to keep listening to that and come back to you if there's news out of that. here's other stories at the top of the hour. a two-star major general was killed yesterday. the body of harold greene will be flown to the u.s. >> they believe the army, as

well as afghanistan and america, has lost a true hero today. he really believed in what he was doing over there. >> we're learning more about that insider attack that left the general dead and nearly 20 others injured. general greene was among a group inspecting a new tank when an afghan soldier opened fire in a nearby barracks. he was shot five times. he was the highest active duty killed since world war ii. >> these are new photos of sergeant bergdahl as he is preparing for questioning. his lawyer said this about the accusations of desertation. >> some of the things that they

have said is false. >> did he dessert? >> we're not going to get into that because we're not going to try the case on television. >> bergdahl was freed by a prisoner swap in may after five years in taliban captivity. and at this hour, a federal appeals court in cincinnati is hearing same-sex marriage cases from four different states at the same time. this is the biggest issue to hit the court yet. plaintiffs from kentucky, michigan, ohio, and tennessee will argue that they have a constitutional right to marry. here's a breakdown of that. the first three are about the right to marry inside of those states. ohio is a little different. it's about whether that state has to recognize out of state marriages. ohioan wanted his husband's name on his death certificate but. >> it's a more conservative panel of three judges, so i don't know. i want to believe it will be

another win but if it isn't, i'm not stopping. >> nbc justice respond pete williams is following this story. thanks, pete. gay rights activists have won these, almost 20 times so far. but constitutional law professors say this could be the first victory for the other side. why is that? >> they have won all of the victories so far since the defense of marriage act. some are saying that the sixth circuit -- there is a democratic appoi appointee that this circuit could go the other way. it's risky to handicapped the outcome based on the party who appointed these judges given that some of the decisions below that have struck down bans on same-sex marriage have come from judges who were appointed by republican presidents. >> pete, we just looked at a graphic of the three judges that

are hearing the case. it's a grab bag. there is one clinton appointee, two bush appointees. the one from the bush side is a wild card. what do we know about these judges? >> i guess you're talking about jeff sutton, the one on the left there. >> right. >> he surprised some people by declaring that obamacare was constitutional, which to some extent was a different direction than many republican-appointed judges -- the direction that they had been going in as that case reached the supreme court two years ago. >> for everyone at home wondering why these cases are being decided together and why in ohio, why is that? >> the little arc of states that you showed, they are all part of the same federal judicial circuit. that's the whole sixth circuit right there. right next to that is the seventh circuit. we're going to have arguments in wisconsin and indiana in a couple of weeks and then from the ninth circuit, the two

states that are not shown in yellow, which is idaho and nevada, they will be going to the ninth circuit, too. remember, the tenth circuit has decided a same-sex marriage case. they chose to hear those separately for the case of economy now, the federal courts are saying, let's get on with it. the legal issues are the same. the constitutional issues are the same. so let's lump them all together. >> pete williams, thank you for sorting that out for us. >> you bet. >> and so if this court does decide against gay marriage, it would leave federal courts divided. gloria allred is joining us and a former adviser to president clinton on lgbt issues. thank you both for being here. gloria, if this federal appeal's court finds it unconstitutional, what recourse do these plaintiffs have? >> well, it may well be that

ultimately u.s. supreme court is going to have to grapple with this issue, ronan, because when they struck down the defense of marriage act, they did not go to the merits of whether or not it is unconstitutional for a state to ban marriage equality. i challenged the ban on marriage equality in california in 2004. we fought that for six years. twice to the california supreme court. we won the right in california for our clients, robin tyler and diane olson to be married and also thousands of couples to be married. however, the u.s. supreme court has not decided the merits. justice kennedy is going to be the swing vote. he thinks there's a liberty interest that we shouldn't have two-tiered marriages, one for

heterosexuals. it is demeaning to same-sex couples not to be able to marry and they have the right to dignity under the united states constitution. >> and the decision overturning doma argued just on that grounds, that it denies them dignity. richard, you've written in "the new yorker," that this may be the final stages for marriage equality. why do you think that is? >> well, since the windsor decision last summer, we've seen this incredible explosion of these cases which have all gone in favor of gay marriage, all in favor of gay rights proponents. even though gloria is absolutely right, in the supreme court, they did not decide whether there was a constitutional right to marriage, the reasoning that they have taken on the issue have said that we have to find that there is a federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage. now if -- i don't think they are

going to lose in the sixth circuit after the argument today but if they did, it would provide a divide. the fourth circuit has ruled and the tenth circuit has ruled in favor of gay marriage. so now we're at the sixth circuit. if there's a division, the supreme court would most likely take the case. >> i a agree. and i want to say how proud i am of individuals who are gay and lesbian who are not going to stand for denial of their rights and they are going to win the right to marry. i personally am going to perform a marriage for a gay couple in ten days and i'm looking forward to that. >> thank you. and you've been a great champion of this. >> well, thank you very much. it's about equality for everyone. it is about equality. >> there's this incredible sound of senator rand paul responding to a question about whether he would support legislation of

marriage explicitly between a man and woman? >> i am in favor of traditional marriage which has been in effect for thousands of years and the loss of the idea of marriage is really probably the leading cause of poverty in our country. >> i've got to say, i'm a rand paul fan. i don't want to caricature him. he said that comes from having children out of wedlock. >> the poverty stance is because of deadbeat dads and that is the number one reason that women are living in poverty with their children. the failure of the legislature, the congress to pass laws which make it easier to collect child support from these deadbeat dads forces them on to aid. >> and he's so out of sync.

in a few short years, that seems so out of sync. >> it already does. appreciate both of your insights on this. gloria allred, richard, pleasure to have you on. it's just after 1:00 p.m. do you know where your logon and passwords are? there may be the biggest hacking ever from the russians. stay with us.

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the first signs of improvement. they are undergoing experimental treatment at emory university hospital. writebol was wheeled in on a stretcher covered in protective gear. on the other hand, in africa, the outbreak of ebola is getting worse by the day. new cases in guinea, liberia, sierra leone. and today, a milestone ten years and 4 billion miles in the making. a manmade spacecraft entered a comet's orbit. it's called rosetta. take a look at this animation from the european space agency. you can see the satellite's path as it dovetails with the comet.

later, rosetta will release a small probe that will land on the comet's surface. and back here on earth, it's being called the largest data breach ever. 1.2 million, roughly the same as china. the breach impacted around 420,000 websites, from small sites to fortune 500 companies. joining me here on the set is anthony roman and maggie, senior writer for c-net. thank you both for being here. anthony, the group claiming responsibility for this is cyber -- >> they are similar except at the top of their game to other cyber rings in europe.

they have no extradition so they are beyond the reach of the law. they compromise local law enforcement through bribery and they have been successful. to date, this crime ring along with the others, compromised $500 billion. >> it's a bigger economic terrorist threat that could bring down the country in huge ways and it's a significant story. maggie, on an individual level, though, what actions can people take, especially given that thus far the firms tracking this have refused to reveal who exactly is affected well, i think everyone should assume that they have been affected and change your passwords for critical sites that you have. for all of the financial institutions that you deal with, social media, you don't want anybody out there trying to impersonate you or lift

information that they can use to impersonate you. and then, you know, do this on a frequent basis. you want to make sure that you're always updating instead of just waiting until an attack. >> we just mentioned that the group that actually uncovered this, a group called hold security based out of milwaukee and gave this information to "the times" is not going to disclose who's affected, which sites are impacted because they have clients that they have nondisclosure agreements with. anthony, given that this keeps happening, we saw this with target, that company volume lun tearily disclosed who was affected. >> that's up to the legislature. this is such a new crime. this is such a global impact that it's taking time to catch up with regard to new legislation. should there, shouldn't there? well, that depends on all of the privacy laws of a particular country. so it has greater impact in our initial consideration. maybe corporations don't want

their information put out to the public that they have been compromised. so there are a lot of factors that go into it that has to be carefully considered and we'll see what happens in the near future. >> maggie, do you think there should be legislation? >> absolutely. in 47 states there are some laws that are locking at this. the problem is we don't have anything at the federal level and the problem with that is that if you don't have companies who are disclosing this, who are not being open about it, not only does it hurt consumers as the attacks are happening, it doesn't give us enough data. if companies are hiding this data, if they are not being forthcoming about it, we don't know what the true cost is or how the attacks are manifesting or how they are getting in there. so certain cases are studied but we really need more transparency and more disclosure so that companies know how much this really costs them. you brought up a figure, you know, we don't really know what

the true cost is of this to businesses. and until companies -- >> i assume they would understate that pub electrically. >> right. and the truth is, though, if it's not affecting the bottom line, companies are not going to act. i think what we see over and over is security in i.t. departments, it's kind of like a back office place and it's not in the forefront. it's not seen as something that is as important as it should be and that's something that needs to change if we're going to really protect consumer data, we really need this to be top of mind. >> we're talking about private attacks but this could signal larger vulnerabilities. do you see this as extending to government targets, anthony? >> it does extend to government targets. we have to look at the investigative perspective with regard to public des closure, whether it's the government being compromised or a private individual or a corporation. keeping it secret does have its benefits for a fixed period of

time because it does help us pursue the criminals. if they don't know we know, then we can track them electronically. >> i think if you go back and look at aviation, until we had the government investigating these crashes, why they happened and there was more transparency, you had a lot of companies wanting to disclose that. >> this is an issue that definitely needs more sunlight. anthony, maggie, appreciate you both being here. coming up, we've got a heavy hitter with us. samantha power, u.s. ambassador to the united nations, is going to talk to us about a terrorist proceeding ground that you should know about. stay with us. [ male announcer ] we all deserve a good night's sleep. thankfully, there's zzzquil. it's not for colds, it's not for pain, it's just for sleep. ♪ because sleep is a beautiful thing™.

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specific actions that they are prepared to take with their countries in an effort to guarantee that the war comes to an end. >> secretary of state john kerry just yesterday on the fighting in south sudan that has now killed thousands and that could plunge a region that is already a terrorist hot spot into all-out chaos. kerry met with south sudan's president yesterday at the u.s. africa summit. as the clock begins ticking this week on a last-ditch peace effort. at least 10,000 people have been killed since violence erupted there in december. sudan has been a haven for everyone from al qaeda to the lord's resistance army to hamas, according to the state department. can we afford to let this become a failed state? i just spoke with samantha power, u.s. ambassador to the united nations, a key player in

this crisis. how much pressure are she and president obama putting on south sudan's president? >> enormous pressure on him, enormous pressure on former vice president who led this rebellion, ethiopia, jabuti, uganda, they are all here pressing here to go back to the peace talks but the key issue right now is that the vice president did not show up at all and he, of course, has broken the recent cease-fire on the ground, seems determined to take territory and it's not evidence that the government is committed to peace. we have to keep it up and use the fact that not only are people dying every day in what has deteriorated into an ethnic conflict, but the court now

faces horrible famine. that includes 50,000 kids. they are at risk of dying over the course of the next year because of malnourishment. >> the u.n. warning that tens of thousands of children could die, one of the worst potential famines in the world. $394 million of assistance has gone to south sudan as of june to assist this. why isn't it making more of a difference? >> well, i think those numbers, as stark and as terrifying as they are and heartbreaks as they are would be a lot worse without the investment from the united states. it's no secret that there's a lot going on in the rest of the world right now and other countries have not stepped up to quite the extent the united states has on the humanitarian front in south sudan. one of the things that we are doing is going country to country and urging that other countries contribute resources

but it's not just a money each. it's really an access issue and the fighting that continues to go on notwithstanding the fact that the rebel leader and the president signs the pieces of paper that are put in front of them because the fighting continues, it makes it impossible for the humanitarian aid deliveries to go through dangerous areas, particularly when has just happened yesterday, people of the wrong ethnicity are pulled out of trucks and systematically executed on ethnic grounds. without dealing with the core political problem and now what has become an ethnic conflict, it's going to be very hard to get the humanitarian situation back on track. >> and the state department warns that the lord's resistance army is a huge problem in south sudan, that they are supporting hamas in certain ways. is this creating a vacuum in which terrorists can flourish? >> that's always a risk and certainly we have seen elements

from darfur make their way into the area and that is, of course, a is arisk and in sudan, the connections between the government there and terrorist actors i think are well known. but we also want to focus on the welfare of the population in south sudan, as we've discussed, but also in darfur and sudan where the killing and air strikes and the use of food as a weapon of war also continues. the irony is, the situation is south sudan has gotten so bad that it's diverted from the pre-existing situation in sudan and not enough focus, i think, is being put on the government and its misdeeds there in terms of not allowing food to the people who need it. >> samantha, i'm glad you

mentioned that. there are ongoing atrocities there. you've written and spoken a lot in the past about the responsibility to protect and you've charged his regime with ethnic cleansing. is there responsibility for the u.s. to intervene? >> we look at all of the tools in the toolbox when mass atrocities are occurring and when it comes to sudan, what we have sought to do is get a diplomatic process back on track, tried to get humanitarian assistance to the people in need. and there is a peacekeeping force, as you know, on the ground in darfur, but it has underperformed, to say the least. so one of the things that i'm doing on the security council is trying to get the peacekeepers on the ground to protect civilians. it's extremely variable. you have some of the best in the world because they themselves suffered mass atrocities 20 years ago and are determined to

never again allow civilians to be in that kind of peril but other units hang back and hack out in their barracks while civilians are crying out in need. troops should be on the ground offering that help to them. >> it seems to have become less opposed to it. should he be sent to the icc? >> i think the evidence that has caused the icc to issue an unprecedented indictment to the head of state is overwhelming and, indeed, the evidence just racks up more and more every day. i think what is really important is that the continent of africa turn up the heat much more on the president of sudan in light of the crimes committed in the past for which he's committed and all of the crimes that he's committed since. the reason these are so

important is that when individuals or units have committed mass atrocities in the past, it is predictive and it is predictive not only of a propensity to do it in the future but also an indicator of how reliable an actor is going to be on other concerns, like terrorism or fighting extremist and so forth and we have seen bashar both in the way that he streets his people in monstrous ways and in terms of connection with hamas and iran and others. >> ambassador power, thank you for taking the time to do this. we need you out there doing that. >> thank you, ronan. for this week's call to action, we've been calling that threat of act of terrorism and whether it can proliferate across sudan and across the continent. we're asking you to send a clear message, to remember our girls

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>> wnba veteran becky hammon making headlines today. she joins the san antonio first female paid coach. it's still a big first. how important is this hire? let's ask rob from nbc sports radio and cindy from "the washington post." thank you, both of you. we have a special guest joining us on the phone. jason collins, who broke another barrier earlier this year as the first openly gay player in the nba. jason, thank you for calling in. what can a wnba player teach players in the nba? >> she has the basketball iq and she's shown that, demonstrated that. the players clearly trust her and respect her and i'm looking forward to watching her on the sidelines for the san antonio spurs.

>> jason, you know the culture in pro sports firsthand. do you think players are going to show becky the same respect as a male coach? >> yes, i really think the -- especially with the san antonio spurs, greg popovich being the basketball coach, a hall of fame back coach, everyone respects him and as a result they will respect everyone on his staff. >> jason collins, thank you. we know you have a plane to catch so we'll let you go. >> thank you. >> take care. becky isn't the first woman to go in the nba. there's some qualifiers to that. she also put her job in perspective. she was pretty humble that. take a listen. >> it's just the fact that this is basketball and there's women that have trail blazed much bigger paths and really trail

blazed the path for. >> it's important because she's going to be involved in the xs and os. there have been women that are more involved with video and peripheral issues related to the team and didn't really travel with the team. gregg popovich is so respected. this team just won the nba championship and popovich is known for being no nonsense, for being honest. there's a real sense here, this is not in any way a publicity stunt for popovich. he hired her because he thinks she can do the job. >> we'll talk about this for a couple of days but becky hammon has immense respect. she's played in the olympics.

she's played for 15 years. she's one of the all-time greats as far as women go in basketball. there's things that cross over between women's basketball and men's basketball when it comes to playing point guard and how you pass, how you find open players, how you're running in offense. those things translate well. you don't have to be 7 feet tall or 280 pounds to play that position well. becky can translate that to the men. >> you think she'll bring something unique by playing that position? >> there's no question about that. she's incredibly accomplished. she has court vision, which is what you need as a point guard and she'll be working with tony parker on that same stuff. >> cindy, do you think this will trigger more female positions in other sports? >> possibly. maybe in the nba. i think it will be interesting to see who the second is. in many ways i'm more interested to see who the next one is. when there's an nfl coach

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>> our thanks to the reporters at evocative for braving a lot of shirtlessness to get us that report and for the panel to

sticking around. rob, you think that's going to catch on? >> that's really different. that, to me, is a mix between mma and rugby, you know. i don't know why they call it soccer. they're not using their feet to kick the ball. there's a lot in that, that we can sort of see in modern sports. from the combat fighting, which has been very popular now, to the idea of throwing a ball to the goalie. just sort of shows you, sports have been violent for a long time. what people think is violence in sports today is tame by the comparison to what they've been doing here for thousands of years. >> and the mayans and indian she want -- and ancient romans. cin cindy, i'm guessing you think a more violent take on soccer is not a good thing. >> i think i've had enough of the violence in sports. i'm not sure i needed to have it amped up. i applaud the shirtlessness. i can't really argue against that part of it. >> it is definitely colorful. thank you, both of you. appreciate your take on this. rob simmelkjaer and cindy boran. that wrap things up for today's edition of "rf daily."

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hello, everyone. i'm joy reid. this is "the reid report." we begin with the investigation into bowe bergdahl.

>> some of the things that people have said about my client have been extremely unfair. >> former taliban prisoner bowe bergdahl formally questioned by an army investigator today. >> grilled about his skbeninten on the day he disappeared. >> the fact we have a major general conducting this investigation indicates how seriously the military thinks about this. >> then new details about the two-star general killed in afghanistan and the afghan soldier accused of shooting him. also ahead, i'll speak to a doctor who's gone to incredible lengths to provide care to mississippi women at the state's last remaining clinic that provides abortions. but we start with army sergeant bowe bergdahl answering questions for the first time surrounding the circumstances of his capture in 2009. new pictures show bergdahl healthy and ready to discuss his capture five years ago. specifically, how was he captured? and most importantly, what was his state of mind at the time? leading the questions will be

major general kenneth dahl,s who find report could determine how higher ups handle a case of major controversy. bergdahl's lawyer tells nbc news' gabe gutierrez that they're ready for this questioning, in part to clear his client's name. >> at least some of the things that people have said about my client have been extremely unfair, and in a number of instances outright false. >> nbc's gabe gutierrez join us us from outside houston. do we expect to hear any public statements after today's initial slate of questioning? >> hi there, joy. good afternoon. that's really up in the air at this point. the army saying bergdahl is scheduled to be questioned this afternoon. it's unsure if that's already started. as for a timetable, army officials say there is none at this point. they're prepared to listen as long as bergdahl is willing to talk. bergdahl's attorney