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department. and the u.s. continues to drop humanitarian aid to thousands of yezidis trapped in the sinjar mountain. some managed to escape to all places syria. many are too weak to make the trip. oo iraq isn't just in crisis. there's a political crisis as prime minister nuri al maliki tries to hold on to power. he's accusing the country of the president's of staging a cue by not naming al maliki as prime minister. this morning naming the deputy parliament speaker in his place. john kerry warned al maliki this morning against stirring the waters. >> we believe that the government formation process is critical in terms of sustaining the stability in iraq.

our hope is that mr. maliki will not stir the waters. >> joining me now from irbil, iraq. we hear the kurds are out outgunned. what are you seeing this morning? good morning. yes, they are outgunned. isis has the latest hardware and weaponry that was u.s. made given the iraq koe army, which the iraq army left behind. they've been able to use those and inflect damage. it's affected morale on the parent her georgia. many have not been paid in months. with those territorial losses

and damage being inflicted on them. it has affected morale. over the weekend, as you said, there's been a little bit of push back with the united states able to maneuver into two strategic towns. which are only about 30 minutes away from where we're in irbil. they're very important. because that really set panic here in the city when it was to isis. which was a half away from penetrating which has been the safest part of iraq. now they have taken the territory. can they hold on to it. surely the continuing air strikes by the united states and now weapons coming through directly will help that. jose? >> and duncan, let's talk about the situation with the 40,000 people trapped on the mountain. what is going on with that? >> yeah, again, the united states air strikes, that has

helped to open up a corridor where some of the yezidi religious minority community have been able to maneuver away from the mountain through syria and kurdish, iraq where they've been helped. they're bringing horrific stories of what they've had to endure as they've been hiding in the mountains away from the isis fighters. many people dying of starvation and dehydration. the incredible temperatures up there. it is feared that tens of thousands of yezidis are still up in the mountains. jose? >> thank you, so much, duncan, for that live report from iraq. for more i'm joined by mark ginsburg and washington editor at large and msnbc contributor steve clemons. steve, let's talk about the nudnews that the obama administration is arming the kurds directly. what does it tell you in the confidence that the iraq may or

may not have in the iraqi government? >> right now it's wobbly. and it was six weeks ago on july 1st, we had a commitment from maliki to have formed by then a new government. of course, it hasn't happened. formally it has happened but maliki is not accepting. right now in baghdad things are a mess. thorough evolution with activities with iraq. kurdistan has been a solid member. for a long time, we have asked kurdistan to stand down and stick with the iraqi project and work with maliki. they have done everything that we asked. we have helped them. they've been steadfast. so i think it's important we stand with kurdistan and we are arming those rebels. should they go, should isis really make enormous inroads into decimating or crippling the person her georgia, then at that point there's little hope for iraq at large. >> do you think we should be doing more to support the kurds?

>> well, i think we should be giving them everything they feel they need to arm themselves and protect kurt stan. they've been that good an ally. they have held back and shown restraint so many times when we asked them to. i don't believe on boots on the ground in this situation, i believe that kurdistan is in a lightly different category, in my mind, than the rest of iraq. and the group and the interaction with joe biden and president obama. there have been many times where kurdistan wanted to take the chips and leave and extract itself from iraq because it saw the mess coming. >> ambassador, i want to talk to you. this morning we report order the fact that the prime minister is naming a different president that is not al maliki. how big a threat to iraq is al maliki? >> jose, first of all, steve read it so right about the situation inside baghdad. it's important for our viewers

to understand that we'll never ultimately get to rolling back the ebola virus that isis represents to the future of the middle east. that's the dangerous terrorist threats unless the situation inside baghdad politically stabilizing itself. maliki consistently has been a paranoid shiite first leader that undermined the democratic and nationalistic cohesiveness of the country. the fact that the eye toll ya, the leading cleric of iraq has called for maliki's removal and the fact that the president of iraq has not chosen him as the prime minister to lead a third term is a good sign. it shows that there is a coalescing of people around politically inside baghdad that want to see this terrible leader finally leave the scene and perhaps maybe bring some semblance of restoration of some

stability with the sunnis, after all, have left the shiite cohesive government of iraq and joined isis. they're so angry with al maliki's rule. >> and ambassador, the president said that we're in for a long air campaign. a lot of people are wondering how long a long campaign could be >>well, look, this president's policies has been overtaken by events so many times, hoe spap the fact of the matter is, none of us are surprised how isis has been able to roll through syria and iraq. the fact it's taken the humanitarian crisis to galvanize the white house into action is almost a shame. we knew it was coming and we knew the people were in harm's way. many, many weeks ago. if the president says that it's going to take long if not longer and that is to keep it open-ended. all the power to him. isis is not just a threat to these people, jose, they're a threat to our allies in the region to jordan and lebanon.

we've got to understand that isis and its fate should not be directly tied to the future of political leadership in baghdad. >> you know steve, it's pretty amazing to think that some people are actually running into syria thinking that actually syria could be less threaten to their future than is iraq. >>well, i mean, this has been a tragic situation for a long time where the enemy of our enemy was a monster. isis was an unwanted ally in taking on assad. assad, of course, is on the opposite side of isis. i wouldn't be surprised at all to the degree that assad trying to up his game actually began to set out and provide some refuge for the yezidi. there are no clear lines anymore in this region. one of the things i find disappointing, mark raised the question of the jordanians and

the lebanese. you have saudi arabia, everyone is saying they don't support isis. we're there with british support and french humanitarian support, but where are all the other regional players in rolling back or working to roll back isis right now? they are cowering not wanting to attack these groups in fear they will come into their campaigns. and the u.s. is in this militarily alone. i think that is shameful. >> and you know what? the silence is defenafening. thank you for the conversation. check out the front page of the st. louis post. days of protests nights of frenzy. the ferguson suburb erupts. overnight 32 arrests, looting and violence. missouri town in turmoil after a teen was shot and killed by police. the justice department is getting involved. more protests were expected today. we'll have a live report after the break.

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outrage over the fatal police shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old leads to looting and vandalism. police shot and killed michael brown during a scuffle. last night people began running into nearby stores and looting. st. louis county police made 32 arrests. all were related. a doesn't stores were looted but at least one was burned. we just lost our correspondent in the area. police are making him move from where he was. we're going to try to reestablish contact with him in this hour. things are still very fluid in there. i would like to bring in the

editor and chief of glob globalgrind.com. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> paint the picture for us. we satisfy with the st. louis county's police department's investigation? >> no. you said it. there was a scuffle. that is an alleged scuffle from the police department saying there was a scuffle. there is no other independent witnesses saying there was a scuffle. so until we get an independent investigation within we're certainly not satisfied with the investigation. we want to make sure that if in fact that michael brown was killed by the police officer 35-feet away and eight shots there might be an arrest in the case. >> and attorney general eric holder ordered the justice department civil rights division to monitor the case. what do you think should it be a federal investigation? >> there should be a monitoring of the case. i think attorney general eric holder is doing the right thing to ask them to monitor the case and make sure it's not a civil rights violation. at this point there's so much

information we don't know. police chief of st. louis county said yesterday they haven't spoke tonight police officer in length who shot brown. until that happens and other eye witnesses come out and give their testimony, we don't know a lot of information here. i think the attorney general is doing the right thing. and everything should be investigated. >> and certainly more information is going to come out today. apparently there's agreement that there was some kind of a scuffle that prompted this. what specifically would you like to see from police as far as the investigation? what information would you like to see come out today? >> i think there's a lot of information we don't know. the police chief said yesterday the crime scene was 35-feet. he shot one or two times. he wasn't sure how many times he shot after he left the car. multiple eye witnesses say mike brown had his hands in the air. as you saw peaceful protests throughout the weekend. last nuight we saw something different. so many people have called for calm and peace. even last night there was

hip-hop artists and guys from st. louis who came, you know, who were trying to stop things. and they were trying to calm things down. as you see images of looting, let us not forget that an 18-year-old unarmed teen was shot and killed by the police just two days ago. and many people, including the parents, of this young man, are calling for peace. >> and that's key. because michael brown's parents did say what they saw last night in the looting is not how they wanted people to react to this. now, you know, the situation is very fluid. there was a protest this morning and that was cancelled. apparently the parents and the police department everybody felt it was not time to have a protest. but my question is, chris brown how do you put these things into perspective and until there's an investigation that is independent and that can tell us what did and did not happen, how do we kind of deal with the frustration and anger that a lot

of people feel when they see something like this? >> there are many amazing community folks that are trying to talk to the young people and calm down their anger. certainly when a young man is killed in broad daylight with possibly ten bullets. we're hearing maybe a bull let to the head. and his body is left there for four and a half hours and police won't let his mother identify the body. no ambulance was called. there's no ambulance on the scene. he was dead quickly. the police didn't think they could recess tate him. unless we have answers i think we have support the leaders in the community asking for calm and certainly out of everything support the parents and send them our prayers and our best wishes during a very, very tragic time. >> michael, thank you so much for being with us this morning. we appreciate your time. coming up, rich, well armed, and potentially more dangerous than al qaeda. we'll dig into isis and the leader. democratic congressman greg meek's reaction to the

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criticism like that of congressman king and others like senator mccain graham saying the president is not dealing with the root of the issue and thins could get worse? >> i think that they should focus an what the issues are. let's look at fact. foreign policy is not black or white. grow have to go by what is on the ground. what is taking place. the president here clearly i think he made the right steps. we're arming the kurds on the ground, which i think is important, and bombing from the air. the president has said we're going to stop isis. i think he's also talking to, it's important i listen to your other guests on the shop. it's important we get some of the others in the area involved also. and their silence has been deafening. we need to make sure we're working with turkey, the kurds in the area. i think the president is doing what is necessary to try to make sure. he indicated we're going stop along with others isis moving in

and creating a genocide in northern iraq. >> you have brought up so many fascinating points. i want to focus on one of the issues you talk about about bombing and about hitting isis and president prepare the american people over the weekend. he said it could be long-term. you back the president on friday noting limited and targeted action is okay but does months of action qualify as limited? >> yeah. because what is happening here, i think where again, i agree with the president is and i would ask my colleagues on the other side whether they want to put american troops on the ground. i think we should not put american troops on the ground. therefore what we do is continue to attack on the air. that's why it's important to arm the kurds because they then are the ones on the ground. the combination of the kwururds

the ground with the proper military equipment and the united states doing what it needs to from the air is going to push back the isis. i think it's going to take time. i think that's what the president is giving knowledge of what is going to happen. i think that's how. >> the issue of the kurds the fact there is supply not through the central government of iraq but directly by them. our correspondent was saying that for a lot of these kurds they haven't been paid for months. should the united states expand the support of the kurds that maybe even some direct financial aid as well? >> well, you know, again, as your previous guest indicated, i think the kurds have lived up to their word. and we've got to look how we strengthen them at this particular time. we want to prevent the again side that would take place by the isis group. and so we better look at a number of ways how we strengthen and keep their morale up.

they have proven to be individuals who will stay in the fight. they're not ones that will be giving up the weapons of some of the iraqi troops have done previously and not so dysfunctional as some of the rebel groups in syria. i heard some people talk about syria. those groups were so -- were not together at all. we don't know who would have taken the weapons that was there. this group has been steadfast and therefore we need to support them. >> it's interesting you mention the criticism. the most recent call from hillary clinton calling president obama's policy on syria failure. how do you -- how does the president elected because the stance against war deal with a continued issue that is going to continue coming up? the place is so dysfunctional? >> i think the president campaigned against the war in iraq at the time. which is still the basis of the problem that we have now. you didn't have the disruption and what is going on in the area

until we went into the war in iraq. that the particular time, so that was why the american people were such opposed to the particular war. you look at the scenario we have now. you have to deal with the realities now. we have a group that is worse than al qaeda, from all assessments i've read, and are moving to take territory and looking to create a so-called islamic state. the president now has to adjust his foreign policy based upon what he has on the ground. and what he's doing now with reference to the kurds is trying to make sure. that's why you see the air strikes and preventing a genocide. he indicated we have to do that. saying it's going take time to accomplish what we need to accomplish. >> congressman gregory meeks, pleasure to talk to you. a terrible accident. a race car driver on an upstate new york track gets out of car and is hit and killed by nascar driver tony stewart.

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we continue to follow developments in iraq senior u.s. officials say the obama administration is directly arming kurdish fighters to take on the terror group isis. kurdish fight verse been little match for the organization which has managed to amass wealth and resources at lightning speed. joining me now is nbc news terror analyst. good to see you. >> good morning. >> thank you. u.s. spy agencies have been seeing fighters jump from al qaeda to isis. why are they doing this? >> well, look, most powerful element in the field. people gravitate toward the

force that is achieving victory. what happened is isis has been beating al qaeda not just in fighting but directly in arm clashes with al qaeda. al qaeda's most senior envoy, the person, the leader of al qaeda personally sent to syria to try to organize things there, was assassinated in a suicide bombing. that's why they're dominant and attacking al qaeda fighters. they have beaten al qaeda. >> and let's talk about isis. the leader announced the caliphate and demanded muslims everywhere swear loyalty. he was once detained and quickly let go. he went to a detention camp in 2009 and told his captors i'll see you in new york. what is the line on the guy? >> look, he's not a established fill figure. he's a street thug who managed if get a higher organization.

they suffered a series of serious casualties between 2006 and 2010. most of the senior leadership were taken out in u.s. pill tear operati military option. there was a power vacuum and let the individual arrive at the top. he has to political education. he's not considered to be a terribly thoughtful individual. what we're hoping here is that this guy is so fanatical he's going. with crazy results that the group has come up with. they're giving 70 lashes to anyone who calls them by the name of isis instead of islamic state. >> never underestimate a whacky extremist. isis has launched a social media campaign with as much intensity

as the ground campaign. members tweeting gory photographs of beheading and threats to the u.s. another 9/11 is coming. do intelligence officials want the sits shut down. or are they critical to tracking the enemy? >> a lot of websites serve as satellite that allow us to track where the individuals are located. there's no way of shutting down all the social media locations. it's kind of like, you know, it's a needle in the hay tastac. the more important thing here is to track the people that are visiting team. not just the people in iraq visiting sites or syria, with more importantly people here in the west. we're having an isolated group of people living in the united states who are trying to join isis. we need to find the individuals and it provides an important key to finding them. >> thank you so much for being with us this morning.

u.s. cargo plaens flew over sinjar mountains this morning dropping food and water. take a look at the images. more than 74,000 meals and 15,000 gallons of water have been dropped over the mountain terrain since the humanitarian effort began. joining me now former u.s. ambassador for religious freedom. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. my heart goes out to those who have lost loved ones. >> yeah. and this weekend president obama referred to the humanitarian crisis that you're talking about as a potential act of genocide. isis fighters reportedly giving yezidi and others a choice convert to their brand of islam or be slaughtered. >> convert or be slaughtered or flee. it's not much of a choice. it's again side. it's a religious again side tge

that is happening. >> is there anything we do? you know, i guess, the complete annihilation of isis. >> the first thing being done is done now. the giving of humanitarian efforts by food and water to those who are in the mountains. the other is that international partners can join us. understand from the administration europe, partners and others are joining and assisting in the effort. it is to assist with the kurdish forces and those internally in iraq who can help, you know, scorch this situation. swell issue the situation. it's been going on for a long time. you have to a immediate strategy and a long-term strategy. last week, just wednesday, there was a ya zee tee population that came to washington and met with some of my colleagues. the chair of the evangelical chair alliance. the delegation of 100 of them who live here in lincoln, nebraska. he put me on the phone.

they were getting reports then of loved ones who were dying because they could not make the journey. they were in the mountains. they had to flee with everything they had. they had some cell phone service. we're depending on information that is limited. but the immediate strategy is to get food to them. that's the humanitarian effort. >> you know you have to remember it gets to 120 plus physical therapy heigfairn height. christian represent the minority. 200 and 400,000 christians still remain in iraq. it's down from a million before the war. how worried are you about the efforts to purr fie the region? >> i'm very concerned. it's been an ongoing effort. i was able to meet with the syrian community here in the united states about two years ago, and they were very concerned for their live e love. at that time their concerns were not just in terms of being fo e

forced to flee but not social and economic stimuli to keep people in ooish. so they were trying to get a lot of their loved ones other here to america or there are some going to northern european countries as well. that's what is happening with the yezidi community. congress was concerned with the christian community as well as other religious minorities. we were on it quite a bit two to three years ago. and the numbers have dwindled for many reasons. but it's ethic, a religious genocide. there's a war going on and we have to deal with it and confront it. >> what happens over there will have an impact on us here. >> thank you for your time. investigators in upstate new york say there's no reason to believe nascar driver tony stewart intentionally hit another driver killing him on saturday night. the video posted on youtube is disturbing. you see 20-year-old kevin ward, junior racing side by side and spinning out on the wall. you see it.

ward get outs of his car on to the dark dirt track gesturing at stewart before trying to confront. that's when stewart hid ward. he later died at the hospital. the whole incident is traumatic for fans to see. >> walking down the track why is he walking so close to the cars racing? just to point and get in somebody's face then tony stewart revving his engine when he did. it was pretty upsetting to see that. >> these people go in with the expectations they may not walk away, and they die doing what they love doing. >> nbc sara is live in new york. and sara, tony stewart is known for being a bit of a hot head. have investigators spoken to him already? >> they have spoken to him. they say he's cooperating fully with the investigation and that he was visibly shaken following the accident. right now no criminal charges

have been filed, although investigators not now not ruling out the possibility. they are asking spectatorors wh took video or photographs to turn them over to reconstruct the scene. they are analyzing conditions at the time of the accident including dim lightening. you can see in the video. the conditions of the track. and the fact that the victim was wearing that dark suit when he got out of the car. now jeff burton raced with stewart spoke earlier and said he doesn't believe the accident was intentional. >> tony is not the guy of that would intentionally hit someone. this is honest will i a heartbreaking tragedy. there's nothing good from this. and tony is just having a tough time with this as everybody is. >> tony stewart released a statement which reads, quote, there aren't words to describe the sadness i feel about the

accident that took the life of kevin ward, jr. stewart dropped out of yesterday's race yesterday. no word so far if he'll race in sunday's upcoming race in michigan. as for the victim, 20-year-old kevin ward, jr. he's being remembered as a promising young racer who got behind the wheel of a go cart at age 4. >> it's so odd to think in the middle of the race, in pitch black darkness someone would think they should come out of their car and then get in the middle of track the as the race is going on. i don't care if you have neon lights. these are cars flying by. is there anything you think that nascar could do to, you know, safety changes or rule changes? >> that's a good question, jose. one we're going to be looking for in the days to come. as nascar and other races entities analyze what happened. this actually isn't unheard of it in the sport.

tony stewart himself has gotten out of the car to confront another driver on the track. even at one point throwing his helmet at the car. nascar, for its part, so far, released a statement saying they support tony stewart's decision to pull out the race. they'll respect the process and time line of the local authorities here. >> thank you so much for being with us this morning. ebola vaccine tests. an unusual protest at the prison break. clinical trial of an experimental ebola vaccine will begin before the end of the year. british drug maker is codeveloping the drug with american scientists. even if it's fast track, the vaccine wouldn't be ready for wide spread distribution until next year. ebola surfaced in nigeria. health officials there announced 10 confirmed cases and two deaths. an unusual immigration protest in tucson, arizona after

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thank you, both. linda, what attracted you to the story of loss jets? what do you hope people will learn from it? >> in our media, we don't often get the real stories of americans who are latinos. so we felt strongly about wanting to bring those stories. but also, we feel that this show, this documentary series is one you want to watch if you have the correct conversation about immigration. and a lot of issues that are important to latinos. paul tells a story in the show about going to a town in the south, 10 to 15 years ago and seeing the boys who became the boys on the soccer team deal with a lot of struggles, racial struggles and issues of community and belonging. and today the boys on the team deal with issues of immigration and integration. whether they're undocumented or not. and that's the very modern very real time story we wanted to tell with this. >> yeah. and, paul, silver city in north carolina has a population of

more than 8100. the wilatino population explode in the past 15 years. the rapid growth sparked racism from some in the community and in the stand. how do the kids fight through the comments like the ones that, you know, we see on screen? >> well, you know, one of the things i do in terms of coaching the kids when confronting those things is for them to focus on their game and to play through that. there's nothing we can do to control the fans in terms behalf they're saying. but the kids can control their game. they can just sort of brush it off and continue to play. it's one of the things we have encountered over the years. and i will have to say that the city is such a wonderful representation of immigration and immigration in america today. it's not the town it was 15 years ago with this issue. it has moved beyond some of the anger that was there previously. it's in a much better place and

closer toward acceptance to the changes that happen to it. >> all right. i think the american people for the most part are great and they deal with these issues in a wonderful way. linda, what did you learn from this project? >> you know, one of the big things i learned is that we should be spreading the message that there are a lot of different latino experiences and latino stories in this country. i wasn't even as ware as i should have been in the south, for example, there is such a latino migration happening. there are communities exploding that are becoming, you know, largely latino and their experience was different from the experiences we see in other places. and so it gives a different voice to the immigration issue. a different voice and different things we can look at and the stories we can bring. >> it's important. it's not just an area occurring in florida or california or texas. really the country as a whole is going to have to deal with the changiing face of our nation. and do so in hopefully a positive way. i want to thank, linda and paul,

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violence and looting erupted following a rally and vigil when a 300 officers had to be called in. there are still many unanswered questions surrounding brown's death saturday afternoon following what police describe as a physical confrontation between brown and an officer. it is a case that is now gotten the attention of a attorney general eric holder. he's instructed the justice department's civil rights division to monitor it closely. and this morning we learned brown's family has hired the civil rights attorney who represented trayvon martin's family. we have more now from ferguson. [ chanting ] >> reporter: vandalism. tensions boiled over in the st. louis suburb overnight following the death of teenager michael brown. there were several reports of looting, fires, as angry protesters demanded answers in a stand off with police. investigators have given new