of our country. and a good night in ferguson after attorney general eric holder meets with officials. officers, community leaders and students. >> i wanted the people of ferguson to know that i personally understood that mistrust. i wanted them to know that while so much else may be uncertain, this attorney general and this department of justice stands with the people of ferguson. >> last night was the quietest yet an the streets of the st. louis suburb since the shooting death of michael brown nearly two weeks ago. >> tonight was a very good night in ferguson. good day. i'm chris matthews in washington in today for andrea mitchell. we're following breaking news today out of atlanta where the two americans infected with

ebola in western africa have been discharged from emory university hospital and declared disease-free. just moments ago, dr. kent brantly hugged and thanked all those who cared for him while in isolation for three weeks. he spoke about his friend missionary nancy writebol who was released as well from the hospital on tuesday. >> my dear friend nancy writebol, upon her release from the hospital, wanted me to share her gratitude for all of the prayers on her behalf. as she walked out of her isolation room, all she could say was, to god be the glory. nancy and david are now spending some much-needed time together. >> joining me from cleveland is dr. frank esper, an infectious disease specialist at university hospital's case medical center. doctor, this is one of those great american stories about our medical ability here in this country. people come from all over the world to be treated here. whether they like us or not, we're the best. what does this is a about the

ability to deal, doctor, with this terrible disease, this frightening disease? >> yeah, i think one of the great stories about this is that we also, we went and retrieved these individuals, these americans and brought them to our country, even with the angst and with some of the concern about the possibility of spreading the disease here within the united states, as low a possibility as that was. we were up to the challenge. and that we went over there and said we can help these individuals. not only that, by bringing them to the united states, we had, especially over at emory and at the centers for disease control, the ability to truly monitor and get a lot of data that you are just not able to get in the fields over in eastern africa. we can look at their immune response. look at the virus response and that way we can understand the virus a lot more and dedicate a lot more effort into specific medications to help these patients. >> how do you project this ability to deal with a couple of cases americans brought home

here in very special circumstances with the public health question over in west africa. over there, there are people holding people in a quarantine situation which looks pretty tough. and i wonder how the help that you've been able to do here in america, we've been able to do in america will translate to how they deal with a much more of a public health situation in west africa. >> well, they are -- there are several different ways we have to attack ebola and viruses like ebola. there are certain ways that are just on the ground that are unique to the situation in eastern africa. the way to control the population. the way to educate the people who have very limited resources from the government and from the local population that we are very fortunate to have much more rigorous infrastructure and medical support. so what we're going to get by helping these patients here, we're going to have a much better understanding at some of the much more detailed science, at some of the more detailed

immune responses so that we can help with making vaccines and help with making medications that then we can send over there. but a lot of the support that they need are not just medical support, but they need infrastructure support and they need the willingness to go over there and to help those people, to control them and to control the fear. and the fear sometimes is actually even worse than the disease itself. >> what's the infrastructure that's required here? >> i think it's, you know, the biggest infrastructure is in education. to help the population to understand what it -- where this virus comes from, how this virus is transmitted, how to help people from getting infected themselves. a lot of the patients who become infected are because they are caring for individuals who are sick themselves. and so to -- how to prevent, how to get them to understand what it takes, what is contaminated

or what can be contaminated, what can be infectuous and what isn't infectious. also to give them some sort of support from a standpoint of gowns, gloves, for clean water, for washing hands and things like that. those are things we can provide. >> well, the cdc, the centers for disease control, has released now a statement on those discharged ebola patients. cdc has advised emory university hospital that there is no public health concern with the release of these patients. they no longer have ebola virus in their blood and, therefore, pose no risk to household contacts or the public generally. there are no restrictions to the patients' activities of daily living here in this country. thank you for joining us, dr. esper, on "andrea mitchell." we're learning more about journalist james foley's time in captivity before his gruesome murder at the hands of isis militants. this is new details emerging about an unsuccessful attempt by u.s. special forces this year to rescue the journalist who was brutally murdered by isis. helicopter teams engaged with

isis militants in a gun battle pulling out of the area after determining the hostages were not at that location. in the big concern now for our government is steven sotlov, the other journalist being held right now by isis. richard engel is nearby in turkey on the trkey/syria border. before we discuss jim foley, what can you tell us about the latest round of u.s. strikes, air strikes, against isis today? >> the u.s. military tap has been turned on. it still could be turned off but we're now seeing regular missions against isis targets in northern iraq around mosul, around erbil. these are not just limited strikes, with each one having to be authorized at high levels. we're now seeing a rolling military campaign. most of it being carried out by special operations forces, not

necessarily by big army, big air force, but by groups that are led quite intelligence division. and this campaign is why we believe -- why the militant group said that it killed american journalist james foley. by the way, u.s. military officials also believe that was likely the reason that once those strikes began, that isis started feeling the pain of those strikes. it took out one of the americans in its captivity and beheaded him in a gruesome fashion. >> are we going for the kill? can you tell if we're going to eliminate isis as a reality? how far are we going in this? >> no. this is -- these are pinpricks. they are painful, but isis is a big group. probably 12,000 foreign fighters. it controls huge amounts of territory, not only in syria but northern iraq. it is not the kind of thing that is going to be defeated by a few air strikes, even a few dozen

air strikes a day or every couple of days. it would probably take a major military offensive. not necessarily led by u.s. boots an the ground, but somebody's boots on the ground. so, no, what we're doing right now could contain the group. perhaps is causing pain to the group but is not going to eliminate them. >> any evidence right now that the people who might join us in this fight against isis are taking to the field? >> well, the real question is, who could join us in this fight? and the irony if you will is that our ally in this, our biggest ally is bashar al assad. we have effectively reconciled with bashar al assad because his forces are bombing isis militants. our forces are bombing isis militants. our forces are conducting raids against isis militants. the unsuccessful raid in july that tried to rescue foley and other hostages. so we and the government of

bashar al assad are now on the same side in this. the rebels who we were initially supporting, the moderate rebels that john mccain and others wanted us to support, they have been pretty much brushed aside. they were given many promises that aid would come, that weapons would come and that never materialized. >> you spoke to the belgian father of one of the recruited isis fighters. >> dmitri crossed from syria into turkey today. he knows a lot about foreign fighters. his own son was one of them. dmitri says he was lured in, believing he'd be helping muslims. >> you know, inside, step by step, they change the minds. >> reporter: radicalizing them. so dmitri, an ex-soldier did something. >> you decided to go in and find him yourself? >> i don't have another solution. i couldn't stay at home. >> reporter: dmitri went to syria, found his son and brought him out. now other parents have asked dmitri to help recover their

children. >> richard, how many of these people who have joined isis from around the world don't have islamic or middle eastern backgrounds? how many of them are like western people who just like the politics of isis and joined it from across ethnic lines? >> probably around 3,000 or 4,000. moistly european. has a heavy european flavor. and the vast majority of the people who are joining up with isis. isis doesn't even need right now to recruit people. it's having people just showing up and offering their services. there are probably 3,000 or 4,000 europeans primarily, but there are many more iraqis. iraq now has an open border. isis controls territory in iraq. it controls territory in syria. and many iraqis who don't like their shiite government, don't like what's happening in their country are just crossing over, fight with isis hoping that they can take over syria and then come back and take over iraq.

so it has become a one hand washes the other situation. >> tell us what you've been able to learn that you can report about the captivity of the person just released. what was he like as a person? >> well, he was a very brave journalist. he was known for taking risks. he was taken hostage one time before. captured by forces loyal to moammar gadhafi in libya. then went into syria. was taken hostage there. we were told captivity was quite brutal. that he suffered a lot. he tried -- we were just told a short time ago to convert to islam. this was most likely a forced conversion. so much so his captors didn't believe that it was true. we've been told that all of the hostages that are taken by isis are forcibly converted to islam that part of the program is a

month-long training session where they are put in a room. they are showed videos. they are taught the isis interpretation of islam. and after they go through that, they are treated a little better. they are treated more like human beings but that before that treatment, they are treated like animals. but even that, even after he went through this training -- this forced confession, it clearly wasn't enough for his captives because they beheaded him. >> it seems to be forced conversion is an ox oxymoron. it may do something for the captors but not for the captive. thank you. by the way, thank you, richard engel in the turkish/syria border. family, friends and colleagues describe james foley as passionate, courageous and selfless in his drive to shed light on some of the darkest corners of the world. before he was captured in syria he was doing just that. courtesy of global post, this is foley's exclusive footage as he reported an the assad army and

their assault on a town in northwest syria. in this report on the youngest casualties of the brutal civil war. >> the regime has bombed hospitals, homes, even people standing in line for bread. >> today a lot of children. >> our location in aleppo, this is james foley for global post. save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance.d everybody knows that. well, did you know pinocchio was a bad motivational speaker? i look around this room

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a grand jury has begun hearing evidence in the death of michael brown but it could take weeks to determine if there will be criminal charges. this as ferguson saw the quietest night so far with protesters and police presence both dwindling. >> tonight was a very good night in ferguson. there were no molotov cocktails tonight, no fires, no shootings. we did not see the single

handgun. there were no confrontations. last night, at 2:00 a.m., the number of reearrests were 47. tonight, the number was 6. >> that's way down. joining me with the latest from ferguson is msnbc's craig melvin and "usa today's" yamish alcinder. craig, i don't know when you sleep. i watched you all day today and all night last night. you are the man with the thumb on the pulse out there. what do you hear? what do you feel? >> i tell you, chris. we were just talking about the fact that right now there is not a single protester along this main drag here. and every day this week, even in the middle of the day, at least a couple dozen. so far today, not one protester and also, i have seen maybe two or three police officers making their way up and down this street. so you get the sense, you get the feel that perhaps the tide has turned here in ferguson, although, of course, with the

funeral being monday morning it remains to be seen whether the emotions, that that's likely to conjure up, whether that changes the dynamic on the ground. as you can see, the streets are pretty empty. and last night, i mean, half dozen arrests. keep in mind monday night into tuesday, more than 70, tuesday night into wednesday, more than 50. and then last night, a half dozen. i talked to law enforcement official. all six of those arrests were failure to disperse. like they were not violent arrests. >> if you can tell me what people are saying to you as a reporter. i'd love to hear what you haven't said an the air. they see you are a reporter and see you with a notebook and a mike. what are they saying about us being there, about reporters, about the way this is being played out nationally and internationally. >> i think people here for the most part of grateful that there are so many reporters here. i think the people in this community are so used to feeling ignoredor like nobody is listening to them.

you see people almost having mini press conferences about their personal experiences. i talked to a man who said, i've been telling people for years and years and years the police in ferguson have been bothering me and no one cared. no one listened to me. now the media is here to do this. i think people are grateful for the coverage they are getting. sometimes people walked up to me when they see me with my notebook and say thank you. so i think for the most part it's been positive. a couple people have said you are feeding into this. we need you to go. what really, i must admit i think those people are from outside. i haven't seen somebody who is from ferguson tell me, i don't want you to be here. >> let me ask you ethnically. are the african-american people the ones we're glad we're showing attention and the white people saying, get away. >> can i break it don that neatly? >> no. it's a diverse crowd of people. and so the african-american people and the people that are white have both walked up to me and said thank you. i've had people and interviewed people just yesterday when there

were reports the police had come to a church. i talked to a white man who said please put this on twitter. put this on social media because i want you to tell people that i was here and that these police officers violated what we considered to be a safe haven. i don't think it can be broken down by race. >> that's good news for america what you just said. thank you. craig me craig melvin and yamiche, thank you for joining us. this morning the justice department announced the largest settlement ever between the federal government and a single company, bank of america has agreed to a deal to pay nearly $17 billion over its role in the sale of risky mortgage-backed securities in the run-up to the infamous financial meltdown. the second largest bank will pay nearly $10 billion in cash and another $7 billion in consumer relief. want proof that pantene makes your hair healthier...

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nation, we have long memorying and our reach is very wide. we will not forget what happened and people will be held accountable. one way or the other. jim is a journalist. and he made tough choices to do the kinds of things that make our society great. information. information gathering. giving us a view of the world in very dangerous circumstances. and i think that in part that's what led to his death. he was a jourmi ijournalist andl of what is right about the united states. >> the united states government refused to pay isis for their release of foley. what does that mean for steven sotloff. thank you congressman for joining us. first of all, the way this administration addresses these issues like criminal matters. these are geopolitical enemies.

how do you find the person who put the knife to the guy's throat or the individual when they are part of a zealous, fanatical group. isn't the grop itself culpable? don't we have to make war on them not the individual that was the instrument of terror that day. >> the group is culpable. we do want to find those who held the knife, go after them quite specifically. we may not at the end of the day be able to hunt down every isis current, former member, but we want to hunt down those who are most immediate. >> why don't we kill baghdady. >> i'm certain if we had the opportunity we would do that. >> let me ask you about this european versus american cultural difference here. the french, who are very pragmatic, we know. some would say they're cynical. but if they have somebody captured, they pay and we don't. explain if that's justified or just idiosyncratic. why don't we and why do they? >> it's a very hard decision, i'm sure, for the president and

for other countries as well. israel has dealt with hostage takers. >> and prisoners. >> they've traded prisoners. at the same time when you look at what isis was asking here, if the public reports are correct, they wanted $100 million for the release of these hostages. we can't be in the business of effectively funding and subsidizing isis. >> so if they asked 20 bucks, would they have done it? >> you said the magnitude was the issue. >> it's not just the magnitude but the fact is that the europeans and others, when they pay these ransoms are funding people who are taking others hostage and killing scores of innocent people. when you pay these ransoms you are basically buying death. you are buying other people's death. and that's what makes it, i think, unacceptable. having said that, chris if it was a member of my family i'd be in there saying pay the ransom, which is why we don't have members of the family making

these tough calls. >> let's talk about the politics. i don't want to be crude about it but it is a political question, a policy question. ronald reagan in the late days of 1986, when he was doing okay politically, suffered a huge drop in public approval because he was caught sending arms to the iranians. and he was doing it to get one of our hostages out, william buckley, the cia station chief because he was listening to the voice of the guy being tortured as our guy over there. and he felt for the guy and went along with this plot, this scheme to get him over there sending missiles over there through the israeli agents, salesman. that killed him politically. >> yes, absolutely. but i think here, the broader point is that just doesn't work. if you look at the europeans who are paying ransoms, is that stopping europeans from being kidnapped? no. it's not stopping them from being murdered either. so it doesn't work. >> so they can always grab another guy? a missionary, a business guy

or -- >> it has what has funded a lot of terrorist organizations and that practice is spreading and they are mimicking others. so it doesn't work in the long run. just breeds new hostages and new death. but it is incredible, painful choice. at the end of the day, though, chris, we'll have to contain this threat because as you say, it's not just the immediate hostage takers. it's the group itself. they'll have to be contained. they'll have to be defeated. and that's a long-term tough project, particularly when we're not putting boots on the ground. >> let's talk about the attempt to free him. when did you get that word and why was it put out now? i don't see any problem with it but some people think it shows the aggressiveness of the administration in a way that is just political. do you think they should have put out the word that they tried to rescue james foley and the others? >> i don't think they should have, unless as they have said their hand was forced. basically, the press was going to report it. they want to get out ahead of the story. it does serve a purpose that they get to communicate to the

country they are making every effort, have made every effort and that's an important thing to do. >> does the military want this out? >> no, i don't think they want it out, and i don't think the administration would want it out in the bigger scheme of things because it makes subsequent operations more difficult. but i do think their hand was forced and it does -- having been forced, serve a valuable force in letting the american people know we're doing everything we can to rescue our people. >> it seems it's like what a little power does. israel was able to do it most heroically. and the big countries ought to take on the other side. and i'm not a hawk. when you try to do these little go in and sneak in and sneak out, that's what little countries do. don't we have to take them on? >> we've done what big countries do in iraq and afghanistan and it hasn't worked out that well. we have to be careful not to let the horror of this goad us into doing things not productive for us. >> i feel that desire to get even, too. thank you. great to see you on the job in

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surface underlying tensions that have existed for many years. there is a history to these tensions s and that history simmers in more communeities than just ferguson. >> the justice department has promised to perform a fair, thorough and independent investigation on this case. one of those community members who met with the attorney general is xavier suitor, a sophomore and student government president. he joins me with harvard law professor ogletree. let me ask you, xavier, what is your -- just talk. i want to hear what you think. what do you think about everything right now? >> what i think about everything is that it is really saddening for the community to be this way. our campus is really sad about this situation that it happened.

but we have planned listening sessions for our ferguson residents and for our students and that was created by our campus administrators, our president, some of the campus leaders, wesley bell and rhonda wilson have come together to come up with ideas to -- as best as possible. >> what's your feeling and thought about whether eric holder has brought moral authority to the case here, to the situation involving the officer and the death of mr. brown. is he bringing moral authority to the scene or not? do you feel it? >> can you say that again, please? >> does the attorney general's visit yesterday tell you as a person who cares, a young leader, that the government of the united states at least in the person of the attorney general, is bringing moral concern, moral concern to this case? >> yes, it does actually.

his visit yesterday was very inspiring. the fact that he wanted to visit with our campus students was really uplifting for our community that he wants to come out and get our views of what we feel that should happen next. and just the fact he is concerned about us, he encouraged us to be great leaders on our campus, to stay involved and to make sure we keep our students uplifted, despite the situation that happened. just to keep moving on. >> xavier, my advice to you is to run for office. keep running. don't just be a student leader. be a real leader. i mean it. you got to run. politics is not about -- we don't pick our leaders. they pick themselves and we choose among them. pick yourself. get out there and run. i mean it. go for it. mr. ogletree, thank you for joining us. a totally different line of questioning from me to you, sir. this whole question of interposition or does the federal government move in and say this is a civil rights case? this involves constitutional rights. what do you think is the appropriate way to grade that? when do you move in and have

evidence that the local district attorney isn't up to this in terms of fairness? >> well, two questions, chris. let me respond first. what the attorney general is doing, i'm really applaud what president obama is doing making sure that everybody who is involved in law enforcement is involved and what's happening in ferguson, missouri. and i really appreciate xavier being there. it shows young generations are understanding this is their struggle, too. even though he's in community college now, you are right. he's going to be out and running things in a very short period of time. i think everything that needs to happen is happening right now. the good news is that we see people calmer than they were the first few days. i completely understand the protests. i completely understand the demonstrations. i think as congressman john lewis said it should be nonviolent. there should be nobody throughithrough i throwing rocks or breaking into stores. this has to be a peaceful protest about what happened.

an 18-year-old black kid was shot repeatedly by an armed police officer and the kid was putting his hands up saying, i'm innocent and saying don't shoot. don't shoot. that's a picture that will be, in my mind in xavier's mind and in your mind for a very long time. >> how do you know that happened that way? because there's conflicting testimony from eyewitnesses. some say he did do that. some say he was rushing the police officer. there was a familiar evidence an the face of the police officer. you don't see reasonable doubt here that he may well be innocent? >> not at all. let me say this. the jury is going to decide whether or not he's guilty or not but the reality is he should be charged. he should be arrested. he should be indicted. the jury should decide what should be done. i'm a defense lawyer. that's what i've done all my life. >> so you see probable cause here for what charge? >> the reality is this -- this is an assault on somebody, some kind of a homicide. no question about that. and remember, this kid was saying don't shoot. he had his hands up.

it's hard to say that he was in a sense involved in a battle with the police officer. and it's very early. let's wait and see what the evidence shows. but right now the evidence shows that this is a kid who was killed and this police officer has to answer for it. the district attorney has, as we've already known, and the press has made it very clear, his own conflicts of interest. and i think once this case is going from the state to the federal, i am putting my money behind eric holder. and i hope the department of justice, the police officers, the law enforcement, will be doing what's right and making sure that this police officer is brought to justice. but if he didn't commit a crime that he should be acquitted. >> so you discount the witnesses who have said that the person that was killed here, the victim was rushing toward the officer? you accept the witness statements of those who say he had his hands in the air? how do you distinguish between what you accept and what you deny? >> you look at the autopsy report. and they'll tell you whether this kid was shot in the front or the back.

you look at the autopsy report and the police reporting, this kid had no arms, had no gun. had no defense for himself. you look at what you see televised that he had his hands up saying don't shoot, don't shoot. you look at all these things, and i think that's going to be important. more and more will come out. i'm very glad that daryl parks -- >> what's was televised, sir. what was -- how did you see televised pictures of his hands in the air? how did you see that? >> they've been on -- not this station but on stations since this happened almost two weeks ago. and if you look at the autopsy report in "the new york times," just a week ago, it shows the injuries to the back of his head, the injuries coming through his front eye. the shots in the back. it shows the bullet places as well. the autopsy -- there's been several autopsies done. that information has been valid as well. it's not i'm discounting what other people are saying. the reality is that people have been watching, addressing and seeing what's happening.

and i think we can keep an open mind, no question about that. let the jury decide. but i think if you look at all this evidence, there's going to be a lot that's out there. and i think that a young man died and we need to answer to that. >> okay. we'll wait and see. that's your position. i respect it. >> i agree. wait and see. >> i'm not going to try this case on television. xavier suitor -- >> you've already tried it on television. let me just say this. if you look at what's happened, they are trying it on television. the first day, you saw the police release information about this young man with a video of him at the store, things like that. purported to be him. so you've already tried it. this person was called a hoodlum, a criminal. he did steal some cigars. no question about that. that's very different than somebody who was shot multiple times by a police officer when he says don't shoot. >> well, that's all part of the conflicting evidence here, sir. we'll have to find that out in court if there is a trial.

thank you, xavier. again young man, sir, i hope i'm not being too paternalistic. if you get elected president of your school, that's the first step. bill clinton did that. he lost his race for student council president. but he got elected to the big job. so go for it. by the way, i don't like the low voter turnout in these municipal elections in that area. grab the local government first. >> i agree. >> and you should go to congress, too, at some point. thank you, professor ogletree. thank you both for joining us. a day after the cease-fire collapsed between israel and palestine, gaza has turned back into a war zone. hamas says three senior military leaders have been killed in an air strike in the gaza strip. israeli aircraft have carried out more than 100 strikes in the last two days while palestinian militants launched more than 180 rockets at israel. this is a hot war. us" our accounting firm's mobile plan. and "minus" our expenses. perfect timing. we're offering our best-ever pricing on mobile plans for business. run the numbers on that. well, unlimited talk and text, and ten gigs of data for the five of you would be...

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>> reporter: from the cover of "sports illustrated," to round the clock media coverage, this year's tournament has been all about mo'ne. and if she was nervous before gametime, she didn't show it. warming up and signing autographs like a pro. >> go in calm and confident. that's how i'm going to go into the game. >> reporter: right off the bat, a run for las vegas. and mo'ne's confidence clearly shaken. >> take a breath. >> you can just feel the fight in mo'ne davis. still she fought through it. she said she came out here to strike boys out. and 44,000 people, including these guys right here, came out here to see her do just that. in 2 1/2 innings, she struck out six. mo'ne is just the 18th girl to play in the little league world series. back in 1989, nbc featured the

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