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and make this the summer of style. amid new u.s. air strikes in iraq, confirmation this morning the cia is arming kurdish fighters. the conflict juxtaposes a new cease-fire in the region between israel and hamas. we'll go live to the middle east. back at home, a democratic divide in hawaii as the incumbent governor gets ousted by over 30 points and the senate standoff is too close to call in a primary haunted by a late senator's legacy. also this morning, we're marking 40 years since an unprecedented week in american history when richard nixon resigned and the presidency passed to someone elected by one house district in michigan. good morning from washington, it's monday, august 11th, 2014. this is "the daily rundown."
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i'm luke russert in for the great chuck todd. we start with the u.s. role on a battlefield americans thought they had left behind. u.s. officials now tell nbc news that the cia is directly arming kurdish forces battling isis fighters in northern iraq. up until now, the u.s. had been channeling those weapons to the iraqi government in baghdad. here's what defense secretary chuck hagel said while traveling in australia. the decision to arm kurdish peshmerga fighters follows several days of u.s. air strikes outside isis outside the kurdish capital of erbil. those air strikes appear to have worked to some extent. kurdish fighters retook two key towns on the outskirts of erbil, although isis seized a different town about an hour northeast of baghdad. the air strikes and direct arms shipments represent a dramatic escalation of u.s. involvement that began with humanitarian aid to iraqis fleeing their homes. thousands of iraqis belonging to
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a minority religious group remain trapped on mt. sinjar. thousands more have escaped to syria. back home the obama administration is facing sharp criticism for its handling of the crisis. >> the president says that he's going to protect american troops and try to prevent humanitarian disasters. that's the extent of his policy. there is no policy and so, therefore, there's no strategy, so, therefore, things are going very, very badly. >> a top concern for critics, particularly republicans, is the potential threat that isis poses to the united states. >> if he does not go on the offensive against isis, isil, whatever you want to call these guys, they are coming here. this is just not about baghdad. this is just not about syria. it is about our homeland. and if we get attacked because he has no strategy to protect us, then he will have committed a blunder for the ages.
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>> despite that, democrats say there's only so much that they can or the american people will support. >> escalating it is not in the cards. neither the american people nor congress are in the business of wanting to escalate this conflict beyond where it is today. >> we are not going to get in the middle of a civil war and use american military where it should be iraqis taking care of their own needs. >> but there's one very notable democrat breaking ranks with president obama. in an interview published over the weekend, former secretary of state hillary clinton said the president missed a chance to nip the isis uprising in the bud in syria. she said, quote, the failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protest against assad left a big vacuum when the jihadists have now filled. to make matters even more complicated, the obama administration is dealing with a political crisis in iraq as
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well. prime newminister al maliki is threat to take action against the newly elected president. the shiite coalition bypassed maliki and nominated the deputy speaker of parliament to take his place. also iraq's president is asking that the naum fee to form a new government, something maliki will likely resist, secretary of state john kerry said the u.s. is squarely behind the new iraqi leadership. >> the government formation process is critical in terms of sustaining the stability and calm in iraq. and our hope is that mr. maliki will not stir those waters. >> we have this story covered both at home and abroad. nbc's jim miklaszewski joins me from the pentagon along with nbc's duncan golestani who's live in erbil.
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mik, what can you tell us about the arms the u.s. is giving to those kurdish fighters and the recent cia involvement to get those directly to the fighters and bypass the iraqi government in baghdad. >> quite frankly, it's not what i can tell you it's what deputy national security adviser ben rhodes told chuck todd on "daily rundown" on thursday. in an interview from the front lawn, here's what he said. if we see isis advance, we're going to hit it and the peshmerga are engaged with isil and we're going to support them and we have increased the flow of arms to the kurdish forces as well so that they're reinforced. so actually that news was broken on thursday. the additional news is that flow of weapons was actually not going directly from the u.s. to the peshmerga but was being channeled through iraqi forces as per u.s. law and an agreement with the iraqi military. in fact, we're told that two
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c-130 cargo planes loaded with weapons were flown from baghdad to the kurdish region by the iraqi military. those former rivals are now combining their forces as best they can to take on the isis rebels. >> mik at the pentagon, thank you so much. let's turn now to duncan golestani who's live in erbil, iraq. duncan, we're hearing some reports of obviously the u.s. air power has been able to allow for some kurdish gains in the area, sort of helping the psyche of those on the ground. what is the feeling amongst the citizens in erbil and specifically the military forces guarding that city? >> reporter: luke, i think there's a sense of calm in the city. there's also a sense of optimism. they have a little momentum behind them because they have the united states air power behind them. over the weekend because of those continuing air strikes,
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the peshmerga were able to take two strategic towns. they are two important towns because they're about half an hour away from where we are in the center of erbil. so important because that underlines the fact that isis was getting within 30 minutes of what has typically been known as the safest parts of iraq over the last decade. now the peshmerga have been able to take that territory. the question is can they push even further, perhaps on to sinjar, where we know the humanitarian crisis has been developing. we know that some of the minority religious group have been stopped coming down via one route of the mountain bringing horrific tales of what they have endured but still it's feared perhaps as much as 10,000, maybe more of the yezidi community are still hiding in the mountains.
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they will need continuing air drops and continuing air support if the peshmerga is to keep pushing in and making ground here. >> nbc's duncan golestani from erbil, thank you so much. stay safe. turning now to the cease-fire in the middle east that started at midnight local time, for right now it appears to be holding. talks between israelis and palestinians have now begun in cairo as the two sides try to hammer out a long-term peace deal. remember, previous attempts have fallen short. there are concerns if the fighting begins again it could get much, much worse. bill neely has more now from gaza. bill? >> reporter: the cease-fire that was agreed at midnight seems to be holding here in gaza through the day noch. no missiles fired from here or from israel and that opens the window for peace talks. that's the crucial thing, what
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it means, how you can build on this. so israeli negotiators and palestinian negotiators are meeting separately with egyptian mediators in cairo, trying to hammer out a deal that will last longer than three days. the israelis want, as benjamin netanyahu said yesterday, they want quiet. they want quiet and security for their citizens. people here, and they have been telling us all day, wanting the blockade lifted. they want some sort of freedom. freedom, for example, to go to the west bank. at the minute the two sides are very far apart. one issue is concrete. rebuilding all of this will take a lot of concrete to come across from israel, but israel says they won't guarantee that won't be used to build more tunnels for hamas to use to attack israel. so although we have a pause in the fighting, a cease-fire, this is a very long way from real peace, real security. back to you. >> nbc's bill neely, thanks so
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much. hopes are high that diplomatic efforts can ease the crisis in the middle east. the situation in iraq is testing the obama administration's willingness to use military intervention to end the threat from isis. nbc senior white house correspondent chris jansing is traveling with president obama and joins me now from martha's vineyard. chris, what's the reaction from the president and white house officials to criticism he received over the weekend, and is there any role they can have in formulating a strategy currently under way in iraq? >> reporter: good morning, luke. let's start with the criticism and i think it's fair to say that there is no one in this administration who's surprised by it or particularly concerned about it. where they are giving a lot of pushback is the suggestion that the president is setting up the united states for another 9/11. they say there is nothing in the intelligence that suggests that isis is prepared or even has interest in attacking the u.s. homeland and they also say that they have a track record, not just osama bin laden but air strikes that they have done in places like afghanistan, action
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they have taken in pakistan and yemen, that if they obviously see a threat to the united states, the president will take the appropriate action. so they're somewhat dismissive of that. on the second question, which is has it impacted the strategy, they would say no. this is something that has long been in the works. it's clear that the situation on the ground in iraq in particular was deteriorating over the past week or so. there were a lot of conversations going on before the president on thursday morning made the decision to say go ahead with the air drops and to based on intelligence do the air strikes and of course he addressed the nation after they began on thursday night. so right now he has a much larger national security team here than was originally planned. they're giving him regular updates and we may hear from some members of that team at some point later on. >> chris jansing, thank you so much, we appreciate it. up next, a peaceful vigil turns violent in a st. louis
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suburb. dozens of arrests as anger erupts. before the break a look ahead at today's daily planner. check out rick perry of texas bouncing around iowa today and the president drops by a fund-raiser at martha's vineyard tonight. a little bit of a working vacation there. you're watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. [ aniston ] when people ask me what i'm wearing, i tell them aveeno®. [ female announcer ] aveeno® daily moisturizing lotion has active naturals® oat with five vital nutrients.
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started as a prayer vigil and peaceful protest last night. but overnight things turned violent. a dozen stores were looted and 32 people were arrested. nbc's john yang reports from ferguson, where more protests are expected today. >> reporter: good morning, luke. it's the end of a chaotic night here as the outrage and anger boiled over, over the police shooting of 18-year-old michael brown, who was killed on saturday midday in an apartment complex here in ferguson. police say the incident began with somehow a confrontation with the police. they say that there was an assault on a police officer inside his police cruiser. a struggle for a gun. at least one shot fired inside the car, didn't hit anybody. the struggle spilled out onto the street and that's where brown was shot multiple times fatally. now, there is a great deal of skepticism about this among the
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community, about this police description, because the police acknowledge there are some details that they are still trying to figure out. they are still trying to figure out what started this encounter. why did the police and brown come together on this street. they're also trying to understand exactly what happened inside the car, inside the police cruiser. this comes as attorney general eric holder has directed the attorneys and the justice department's civil rights division to keep a close eye on developments here and family of michael brown has hired benjamin crump, the same attorney who represented the family of trayvon martin. luke. >> john yang, thanks so much for your report. up next, a look at two southern state rivals that share a deep history of political turmoil. the tdr 50 train rolls into mississippi and alabama, the birth place of the modern civil rights movement. first, today's tdr 50 trivia question. the teddy bear was named after
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montgomery was the confederacy's first capital. it was also where in 1955 a woman by the name of rosa parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, triggering a bus boycott led by the little known minister of dexter avenue baptist church, martin luther king jr. eight years later and 100 miles away in birmingham, police commissioner turned fire hoses and attack dogs on children who joined in peaceful protests. in the west in selma in 1965, marchers for voting rights were beaten and attacked with tear gas that became known as bloody sunday. 14-year-old emmitt till was kidnapped, beaten and killed in mississippi in 1955. in june of 1963 metgar evers was shot in the driveway of his home in jackson. that violent history has always shaped politics in the two states. they both became solidly
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democratic states after the civil war but split from the party in 1948 over civil rights planks that had been proposed for the party platform. alabama and mississippi were two out of the four states to vote for states right and strom thurmond in 1948. in 1960, six unpledged electors in alabama and six in oklahoma cast their vote for harry byrd. in 1968 alabama and mississippi voted for segregationist george wallace. the four-time governor of alabama and four-time presidential candidate who became a symbol of resistance to the civil rights movement. well known for famously blocking a door at the university of alabama in 1963 to prevent black students from enrolling. since 1972 when richard nixon carried 78% of the vote in mississippi and 72% in alabama, both states have voted solidly republican. that was, of course, the nikds
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southern strategy. the exception was in 1976 when jimmy carter swept the south. in 2012, president obama won just 38% of the vote in alabama and 44% in mississippi. alabama didn't elect republican senator by popular vote until 1980. now the state hasn't elected a democrat since 1992, when voters picked richard shelby. he switched to gop two years later. this year jeff sessions is running unopposed after alabama democrats failed to field a candidate against him. the only state where a major party did not run a nominee. wow. republicans have held both senate seats in mississippi since the retirement of john stennis in 1998. in 2010 republicans in alabama won back the state legislature for the first time in 136 years. the gop currently holds 65 seats out of the 105 in the state house and 23 out of the 35 in the state senate.
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republicans took control of the mississippi legislature for the first time ever in 2011 and currently hold 65 out of the 122 seats in the state house. and 32 of 52 in the state senate. mississippi is 37% african-american, the highest percentage of any state, and it has the most black elected officials. the second district home to the mississippi delta and most of jackson is the state's only african-american majority district and its only democratic one. it gave barack obama 66% of the vote in 2012. three years ago hattiesburg mayor, johnny dupru was the state's first nominee and lost to phil bryant. divisions over the race have not gone away. in 2001, 65% of voters chose to keep the confederate battle cross in the state flag, but the state has lagged behind on many measures of wealth, health and
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education. that gap is narrowing. in 1952 the average income in mississippi was 52% of the national average. today the per capita income is up to 77% of the national average. that's still, however, the lowest in the country. 22% of mississippi residents live below the poverty line. the state ranks 50th out of 50th in health care and trails d.c. at 51 in education, according to education week. just 21% of fourth graders read at a proficient level and mississippi has the nation's highest teen pregnancy rate. we'll be taking a closer look at both of these southern states over the rest of the week as our tdr 50 rain keeps rolling, rolling, rolling on in alabama and mississippi. it's going to be a lot of fun. we may even talk a little elvis later in the week. up next, marking a key moment in american history that still affects this country today, chuck todd's special coverage of richard nixon's resignation 40
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but as president, i must put the interests of america first. therefore, i shall resign the presidency, effective at noon tomorrow. vice president ford will be sworn in as president at that hour in this office. >> it was without question a turning point in the country's collective consciousness about power, the presidency and the press. and as chuck says, it's a day that is in many ways a triumph of american democracy. >> the highest office in the land was handed over not via an election but a resignation. it was done so peacefully. there was no blood shed, there were no riots in the streets. in the midst of an unprecedented upheaval in the government, americans trusted the democratic process. it's a moment, oddly enough, no matter what your views are of nixon, that deserves to be
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celebrated. how many other countries in the world would have handled this as well as americans handled the nixon resignation? of course it all began with bra break-in that happened june 17th, 1972. when police arrested five men for breaking into the democratic national committee headquarters. one of the men was named james mccord, as reported the next night by nbc. >> mccord is a former cia employee. now he runs his own private security service. and guess what else he is? a consultant to president richard nixon's re-election campaign committee, hired to install its security systems. >> red flag number one. as dan rather told me, it was about much more than a break-in. >> here's what it was not, a simple break-in. >> no. >> that's the important thing. >> the widespread criminal conspiracy led in part by the president of the united states himself. this was a constitutional crisis
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unique in our history because you had a president talking about firebombing people. you had a president talking about killing reporters. jack anderson, a whole conversation about killing him. authorizing the break-ins of private homes. you go down the list and it still takes my breath away. >> it wasn't until ten months later that president nixon finally talked about it in a nationally televised address. it's his first watergate speech. he had responded to questions, of course, but this was an address to the nation and it was to announce the resignations of the attorney general along with top aides, h.r. hard lickman and johner lickman as well as the firing of john dean. >> in any organization, the man at the top must bear the responsibility. that responsibility, therefore, belongs here in this office. i accept it. and i pledge to you tonight from
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this office that i will do everything in my power to ensure that the guilty are brought to justice and that such abuses are purged from our political processes in the years to come, long after i have left this office. >> the firings were the first attempt to stop the political bleeding for nixon, but there were signs then that it was actually just the beginning. >> richard nixon was smart. whatever else one may think of him, he was smart of as time went along, at each step i would say to myself, yes, he's probably involved in some peripheral way, but i can't believe that he would be dumb enough to do this and also wouldn't believe that he would hate enough to do it. i use that verb measuredly. however, when it reached the point where he was lifting h.r. bob altman and john urhichman,
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but he was giving them up to protect himself, at that point i said to myself, he's in really deep trouble. >> so that april 30th speech when he addresses the nation, the first time he addresses the nation, that was the one you went, wow, if he has to give those two guys up, this is the dpining of the end. >> that's exactly right. >> it was one long dramatic thing after another. a lot of people had already gone. and he thought he would just cut it off that way, but there was no doing it that way. he also called haldeman afterwards, how did i do today. >> here he supposedly fired him and he still needed his advice. >> i love you. i love you like a son. let's say i think maybe -- he'd say, bob, would you call around and see how my speech went over and haldeman very delicately said, well, i think under the
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circumstances, mr. president, i might not be the person to do that. nixon said -- that was his first concern, how did my speech go over to the guy he just fired. >> so walk me through when you get the sense that nixon realizes he's not going to finish his presidency. >> well, that's what surprised me. nixon repeatedly says, he says it to kissinger, he says it to rogers, his secretary of state, he says it to lots of people, he tests them as to whether he should resign. this is in -- particularly after the march 21, march 23 period and in april. he is very pained and very reticent about firing them. he calls it a resignation. he later calls -- behind their back he says they're fired, just like dean was fired, they're all fired. he doesn't mince any words privately. >> so before the president himself starts openly
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contemplating his own exit, another attempt to clamp down on the crisis comes on october 20th, 1973. it's, of course, the so-called saturday night massacre when the president essentially fired the top men that were investigating him and the watergate break-in because he didn't want special prosecutor archibald cox to release those secret oval office recordings. he ordered elliott richardson to fire cox but richardson refused so he hired william ruckelhaus to fire cox but he refused. the role of attorney general fell to solicitor general robert bork, who carried out nixon's order to fire cox. as nixon accepted the rez nations all in one day, the cred crystallized concerns of abusive power. shortly after the white house
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ordered fbi to seal off their offices. it sparked outrage far beyond the capital. >> all of this adds up to a totally unprecedented situation, a grave and profound crisis in which the president has set himself against his own attorney general and the department of justice. nothing like this has ever happened before, and what it means is that the worst dreams of everyone who is worried about the president's secret tapes have now become true, have become reality. >> now a month later the president famously tries to make a personal appeal with yet another address to the nation. >> i welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. well, i'm not a crook. i've earned everything i've got. >> weeks later, news surfaced of the 18 1/2 minute gap on the infamous audio tapes and two more months of probes and pressures made the president more defiant than ever. >> i believe the time has come
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to bring that investigation and the other investigations of this matter to an end. one year of watergate is enough. and i want you to know that i have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do for the people of the united states. >> that, of course, was president nixon's 1974 state of the union address, but that was before a smoking gun emerged when everyone knew it was over, including the president. we'll have that piece of the story tomorrow. of course you can watch chuck's entire nixon special right now on our website, if you're into that on demand thing. rundown.msnbc.com. it's a chuckumentary, it's great, i've seen it twice, you'll enjoy it. great for political junk ees, great for history buffs. you've got to watch it. coming up, it's too close to
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murdering james brady? i'm joined now by nbc news chief justice correspondent pete williams. pete, i was sort of taken aback by this. is there any precedent for this type of charge 33 years after the fact for the death of someone who was originally found not guilty by reason of insanity? >> appears not to be so it's a very open question here. first of all, there's a question of proof. was the bullet wound the cause of his death 33 years later at the age of 73. the medical examiner's conclusion is not a legal one. secondly, there is a legal question here. there is a general rule and it appears to apply in d.c. and in the federal system that says you cannot charge a murder if the death results more than a year and a day after the crime that caused the injury. so that may be an obstacle. and then there's this question you mentioned of the original finding that he's not guilty by reason of insanity. is the government stuck with that and can he be tried again. legal issues aside there's a public policy question, what good would come of this.
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some people may believe he shouldn't be receiving these extended visits with his family down in williamsburg, could this affect that. and finally there's the question of what sara brady wants. a spokesman for the family said she'll defer to whatever the prosecutors want. but i'm sure they'll talk to her and see if she wants to pursue this or doesn't want to go through it again. >> is part of this predicated upon the idea that, look, this guy iout for perhaps 17 days a month with his mother. many people believe he's still a very disturbed individual. that perhaps that original sentence was too lenient and that someone who tried to kill a united states president probably should be put away on a more permanent basis? >> there are many people who say that, including the man who prosecuted him at the time, but the judge has ruled that he is much better, that he's no longer a threat and he's allowed him to take these roughly two-week visits. the family wants ultimately to have him have the ability to stay in williamsburg in essence full time, so there's a question of whether they pursue these
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charges or not, would this affect that, and who knows. >> unbelievably fascinating story. pete williams, thank you for explaining it to us. trivia time. sharky county, mississippi, is the location of teddy roosevelt's famous bear hunt in 1902. he refused to shoot a bear that was captured and tied to a tree. this gave way to a cartoon drawing depicting the softer side of the rough rider president and eventually toy makers capitalized off the image and the teddy bear was born. congratulations to today's winner, lily west. we'll be right back on "the daily rundown." that's like trolling and fishing if you shoot a bear tied to a tree. don't do it. dietitian.n. and back when i wasn't eating right, she got me drinking boost. it's got a great taste, and it helps give me the nutrition i was missing. helping me stay more like me. [ female announcer ] boost complete nutritional drink has 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d to support strong bones
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2014's most combat indem on dem senate matchup is going into overtime after the saturday primary.
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the hawaii contest is stimtoo close to call. he leads by over 1600 votes. the campaign now turns to the big island more than 8,000 registered voters will be mailed ballots in the next few days after tropical storm iselle left thousands without power and water. election officials postponed voting in two presicinctprecinc. the governor became the first incumbent governor to lose an election. it wasn't even a close one. challenger david ige won 66% of the vote in the primary. ab com bee lost despite 10-1 advantage. form are honolulu mayor is running as independent. 10-1 you get beat that badly they still like you. joining me now r.
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i want to start off with you guys with the big story this week, i think over the weekend so far. hillary clinton distancing a little bit from president obama in regards to policy and syria saying perhaps we should have done more to back up the rebel factions so isis would not have filled the vacuum. every time there's any they light between barack obama and hillary clinton we're going to go crazy. i thought it was interesting to see it this weekend. >> i think it was the tone that was different. we knew from hillary clinton's book and other coverage she differed with the president specifically on the issue specifically on the syrian rebels. he used the word failure to describe how the president's policy on this. and, you know, when you have a president our latest wall street jornl showed the approval rating for the president on foreign policy at 36%. even lower than the 40% overall approval rate. it's not surprising you're seeing her want to distance herself especially with the harsh language. it's not a total policy rever l
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reversal. she's been something she's been talk aboutingen road promoting her book. >> it's something that the rnc likes to see. >> it's a clear sign she's running. she's making policy stabiliteme. not worried about dancing close to the line about declaring a presidential bid. >> i think she's trying to get ahead of the fad. >> she's also been a little bit more hawkish than obama has been on foreign policy. so in a lot of ways it's not a total surprise. but remember, of course, she's going to be lumped into the president ice foreign policy as we have seen the foreign policy and the crises happen overseas. it's going to be tied to her if she runs for president. if she can show a little bit of distance from the president maybe it helps. >> it kind of reminded me with gore in the issue in 2000. any time you try to distance himself from clinton, he would say you were there in the room
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you were part of the decision. for the first four year period hillary clinton is going to have to deal with it consistently. >> specifically on foreign policy. as former secretary of state. even if there are failures playing out since she left the post. republicans were going to say you were the person making decisions. even if you disagreed with the president it's part of your legacy. >> interestingly enough we have given credit to president obama in terms of ranking and polling. he was above 50%. drew us back from weary war. that's completely reversed. it has to be alarming to hillary clinton. it used to be something she could say fine otherwise contentious first term. >> you wonder if the president sits next to clinton. she's getting out there from having the cozy relationship. now she's breaking away. it's a sign of politics and where she's heading in 2016. >> it's going to be difficult for her to completely separate herself from the president. she will need the president's
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supporters to come out and support her particularly if she gets challenged from the left. >> fascinating. iowa we're starting to see the emergence of real campaigning and infrastructure there. rand paul has been chris crossing the state. rick perry is there today. ted cruz has been visiting a lot. around the hord who do you think is a little bit out front right now in iowa? >> it sound like from the reception over the weekend rick perry and ted cruz got a big response. ted cruz was laying out republican victories. rick perry was talking immigrations. he seems to be moving past it now. >> ted cruz has the heart but rand paul has the best game in iowa. >> i agree. what is interesting we'll see what happens with the huckabee supporters. huckabee, of course, is polling pretty well. he won that caucus in '08. assuming he doesn't run, where do they go? >> it will be fascinating to see. two years out.
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arming the kurds the cia is giving weapons directly to the iraqis fighting isis as a fourth drop of humanitarian aid reaches the ya zee tees stuck on sinjar mountain. an unarmed teen shot by police. a morning demonstration cancelled after fears of more violence. we'll have a live report.
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plus, the story about the changing face of america that j lo and her sister are bringing to the small screen. how a high school soccer team made up of latinos is changing a small southern town in north carolina. all coming up this monday, the 11th of all. -- august. >> good morning, i'm jose diaz-bat later. nbc news confirmed the obama administration is arming the kurdish forces in iraq directly in the fight against islamic militants. this as the kurds make gains over the weekend against those militants. regaining control of two vmg villages from the terrorist group isis. they're getting help from u.s. military forces from the air. overnight strikes continue to pummel isis near irbil where some u.s. people are being located from the state department. and the u.s. continues to dro