concerned about it. and a rumble on the bay. napa valley wine country is picking up the pieces after the biggest earthquake to hit northern california since the big one in 1989. good day. i'm chris matthews in new york today for andrea mitchell. in st. louis, missouri, the funeral is taking place for michael brown. the 18-year-old is being laid to rest 16 days after his death which ignited protests and a national discussion on how police deal with minorities. the brown family asked protesters to pause their demonstrations while they bury their son. politicians, activists and celebrities from around the country are attending today's service, including three white house officials. msnbc's craig melvin joins us from outside the church in st. louis.

craig, thank you so much. tell us about the feeling out there and who is showing up and what that means. >> i can tell you that they have respected the wishes of the family. there are no protesters here. everyone has been solemn and somber. they started lining up an hour and a half before the funeral service. there was a line around the church. the service is running about 30 or 40 minutes behind schedule. the main sanctuary is filled to capacity. they've got some space in an overflow room. folks are being sent there right now. we've seen a number of notable politicians and celebrities as well. senator claire mccaskill is inside. mayor ferguson is also inside. spike lee, tom joyner, martin luther king iii. all of them inside paying their respects to the family of michael brown. i spent some time yesterday talking to not just michael brown's parents but also the

parents of trayvon martin. they have come into town, come into ferguson to be part of a peace rally yesterday. i just so happened to have the conversation with them right after they had viewed their son's body for the very last time. take a listen. >> i looked down. i talked to him. i touched him. >> it was like a dream. >> a nightmare. dreams are good. >> smiles, talk. we used to talk every day. and i had a conversation with my son, it really bothers me. he was saying, how do you feel? what's going on today? and seeing him in the casket today made it reality. >> i also asked michael brown's

parents about the investigation. there's been so much talk about the local prosecutor, bob mccullough, whether he should recuse himself or step aside. governor nixon saying that he is not going to do that. the prosecutor saying that he is not going to step aside. michael brown's parents said yesterday they wish that he would, chris. >> thank you so much, craig melvin doing great reporting in st. louis. thank you again. for more perspective on the national impact of the michael brown shooting, michael from the national urban league and charlotte who is president, director counsel of the naacp legal defense and education fund. thank you both. >> thanks for having us. >> let's talk about the first thing. justice. and i am trying to figure it out as a newsperson how that is answered. how the question of justice, demand for justice is answered. is it -- maybe i'm being optimistic, but is it about

reform, incarceration, punishment of the officer? is it simply that or a combination of things that show respect for the deceased? >> in the instant case it is about accountability for the officer who took the life of michael brown. and while we are going to have a much broader discussion in america about police community relations and criminal justice reform, we cannot lose sight of the fact that this is about justice for this gentle giant, this teenager michael brown who lost his life at the hands of this officer. here's the challenge, chris. the challenge is historically when we've had instances like this, the criminal justice system has not delivered justice. too many instances, too many cases where officers engage in excessive uses of force, they are exonerated. they are either not indicted or they are tried and they are acquitted. that's why these feelings are so

raw because the history points to the fact that it's difficult to achieve justice in cases like this. >> so an indictment for homicide is the minimal demand here? >> i think an indictment, a charge, and i'm not going to get into right now what that charge should be. i know people are saying it should be homicide it should be murder. but i think an indictment for excessive use of force, whether it comes in the context of a civil rights case or the context of a state law case, we have got to have accountability or these tensions, these tensions will not abate. >> let me go to charlotte. you are the lawyer here. explain this. the grand jury is an unusual situation. they aren't exactly fair. not exactly a courtroom. but is it a majority vote? we have 12 members of this jury. three minority, african-american. i'm a political guy. i'm thinking if you get the three minorities if you get three then you only need four more to get a prosecution here. how do you look at it? >> of course, everyone is talking about the make-up of the

grand jury. the grand jury system is usually the tool of the prosecutor. the prosecutor as they say can get an indictment for a ham sandwich. of course, it has to be a prosecutor who wants an indictment. and in the normal course of circumstances in this kind of case, were this not a police officer, we'd assume an indictment would be forthcoming. but this is not the case. >> what's your basis for making that judgment? >> you have somebody who was unarmed who was shot and killed by someone else, right? >> but a police officer. >> but once you add in the police officer, now it raises the question of, what is the will of the prosecutor. >> but i'm asking about the -- you're the attorney, i'm not. a police officer has flexibility in terms of doing his job or her job. it goes beyond some character named zimmerman who thinks he's a night watchman for the world. obviously they are different cases. even though the emotions in the city are similar. >> if this were not a police person, we'd expect the indictment to be forthcoming. once it's a police person, not only for the reason you suggest, but for the history that mark

described, for the benefit of the doubt that police officers are so regularly given, we don't necessarily expect there's going to be an indictment. you lay ter over with the racial tensions, layer it over with not only that this prosecutor has such a strong relationship with the st. louis police department, but most prosecutors have a strong relationship with the police department. and you have the recipe for perhaps not getting that indictment. >> i watched this politically. i've never heard of a -- it almost sets up a prejudicial case. >> now we're just talking about an indictment. >> it's not just an indictment. you are indicting for murder or homicide. i'm asking you next step. >> in the rodney king case you had people charged and brought to trial and they were acquitted. >> if you bring in a special prosecutor, especially with a -- your defendant is a police

officer. would you want to see a special prosecutor brought in with the idea she's going to indict? >> i think every prosecutor who assembled a grand jury, people assume there's going to be an indictment. that's already a -- the idea of a special prosecutor. >> this is a sitting grand jury. >> the idea of the special prosecutor is someone disconnected from the facts of the case. that should benefit both sides. what you should support a fair outcome. >> bring in a special prosecutor. do they have a nonbiased approach to the case? >> i should hope so. i don't think anybody, certainly not me as a lawyer is asking to bring in someone who is going to put a thumb on the scale. we're asking for someone who is removed from the local pressure and from the relationships with the local police officers. >> -- the special prosecutor is exactly that. that they're not connected, not elected in this jurisdiction. so they'll not be swayed as much, quote, by the court of public opinion. >> should we change the venue of the case?

>> you said there would be public opinion involved. put this before a regular jury? why change the prosecutor but not change the venue? >> one of the reasons why you might consider changing the prosecutor is because of mccullough's history and reputation. >> it's the family relationships. they are all intertwined. i accept all that. but the community has a point of view, too. how do you find anyone in a jury pool in ferguson? we've had this on the air for two weeks. other networks have covered it. it's in everybody's soul right now. everybody has an attitude. we don't all have the information unfortunately. we're all judging this -- >> my point of view -- >> -- through glass darkly. >> the policy of the justice department is to deforelocal officials. my point of view is that the best case, best place to prosecute police misconduct cases are in the federal courts under the federal civil rights laws. what you get is you'll get a jury from the region of st. louis, not simply a jury from st. louis county.

you have a broad -- >> what do you think? this guy does face, in a sense, double jeopardy because it's involving the police. could be a civil rights case. i grew up with that. are the police going to do the job? that's a civil rights case. could he get both? >> i think it's a -- >> could he be indicted twice? >> he could be. the question is, would that happen? >> if he were indicted and convicted, would there be any reason for the federal authorities to come forward and bring forward a case? probably not if they'd consider it overkill. they tend to do it as in the rodryney king case where the state prosecution failed. then there are these other civil rights charges pending and they prosecute that case. >> governor rendell and the great district attorney of philly. >> all the arguments about fairness. if you are the defendant, what do you want? he said the local guy. depends on how you look at it. we shouldn't be talking like this on a funeral day, but it's the next question after the funeral. >> yeah, it is. >> that's why the question you asked at the top of the hour

about justice, i'm glad we're talking about the funeral. this is a human being. this is not just the justice of one knas somebody going to jail. it's about making sure this doesn't happen in the future. >> i agree. >> we're talking about a parent's agony. >> what made that argument for me, four hours lying in the street. thank you. thanks for joining us. much more ahead on "andrea mitchell reports." we'll be right back. ♪

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we've got new developments in the investigation into journalist james foley's death. intelligence officials using voice analysis and facial recognition technology have identified the voice on the tape of the man who executed foley. meanwhile, an al qaeda offshoot group released a reporter being held for more than two years in syria. peter theo curtis is expected to be reunited with his family in the next few days. hostage situations are part of a complex situation for the obama administration as they debate whether to use military action to deal with the threat from isis. let's bring in ayman mohyeldin and chuck todd, business in chief white house correspondent and starting two weeks from now, the moderator of "meet the press." first on the update over there, is there a sense over there that there's a lot of people coming from the west, perhaps islam

nick their backgrounds but living in the west in europe and the united states who are part of a network that we're trying to get into and figure out by going after this killer who cut the head off of james foley? >> yeah, british intelligence officials, obviously, backed by the west, including the u.s., are tapping into these communities. particularly here in london. obviously, the people that are going to fight in syria and iraq are not doing so an their own. they are part of larger support network that includes recruitment and more importantly, the persistence of an ideology finding a home in some of the communities in europe where there's growing dissent and discomfort. obviously, british intelligence sources are going to not only investigate the videotape and use some of the intelligence means they have at their disposal but also using a lot of the community here to try and find out the identities of these people who are the people that are going, what are their families doing, who is financing

this travel to try to bring this situation under control. >> take a look at this exchange between keir simmons and a group of extremists over the weekend discussing isis in iraq and the death of james foley. >> there are a lot of people who would feel they do have a duty to protect themselves and defend against america. >> killing a journalist isn't protecting yourself. >> who is really to blame for the death of james foley? i believe it's the foreign policy of obama. >> it's the man who put that knife in his neck surely. >> the fithing you've got to as why was this particular man chose snen it seems like he was chosen because he was an american citizen. >> i don't know where that takes us. what do you make of that comment? obviously, an attack an our country, an attack on america. they picked out an american to do this to. what is all the nonsense about this guy? >> well, certainly there's no doubt it's a very disturbing sound bite to hear from that

individual. certainly in the minds of individuals like that and some in the community, and they are not representative of the larger population. that's important to keep in mind. at least for the supporters of isis and other groups, they don't see a distinction between american citizens and the american government. >> i don't buy that. the american government is elected. they don't follow american history. what did we do against isis except allow them to exist by breaking up the iraqi government under george w. bush? we created their opportunity. how are we their enemy? what did we do to them, isis? >> well, again, you have to put in the context of broader stuff in the middle east and where the u.s. stands on supporting so many of the regional governments there. >> we helped knock off gadhafi, we took a pretty strong stand against syria and knocked off saddam hussein. knocked off all the secular leaders. why aren't the islamists happy with us? factually, we did their work for them. we pulled the rug out from under all these people who were

secularist so these islamists could grab those countries? what's the knot with us? >> you are looking at it from a short perspective. isis' grievances don't just start with the formation of the group. they go back decades. the u.s. has supported governments that have not been democratic. keep in mind things like what they're seeing in u.s. the u.s. supporting and turning a blind eye to the crackdown there against the muslim brotherhood has only let groups like isis say the u.s. does not want democracy in the middle east. these are extreme draconian, very brutal in their tactics. you are talking about two different things. their tactics and methods and the groundswell of resistance that exists. and that's really -- there's two things at play. what can the u.s. do to stop isis as a group? what can the u.s. do to try to dry up that ideology from the region. that's a two-pronged approach that the united states and local populations, local governments

have to deal with. this is not a u.s. problem alone. the majority of people that isis are killing are muslims. this is something the governments have to stand up and address. many of them are deferring to the united states. >> i've never heard it said better. very well said. chuck, the president, almost a blood speech this week he gave about james foley. and i thought it, too. then he goes off and plays golf 32 minutes later. what's the real obama here? is he really angry enough to have a gut reaction to this, not fighting to reclaim iraq or put it back together but to go after isis? is he really going to go after them? >> they are going after isis. i think you see, you know, this is a deliberate way the president makes these decisions. you have aides saying it first. martin dempsey, ben rhodes. they know the pattern they're going to take. he doesn't do it quickly. he always does it a little -- takes a little long irer than

some people would like to see. he's going to end up doing something. part of the issue in syria is not just figuring out targets but legal justification because there is a legal question about bombing syria. iraq, he's -- >> you think he'd have any trouble getting a congressional resolution that allowed him to bomb isis in syria? >> there has to be narrowly defined. it's not as easy as you think. this is an election year. look what happened when he tried to get assad. was using chemical weapons. and i think that becomes more galvanizing. makes it harder for these members of congress to vote against. the streak is still there. still a whole bunch of -- here's the irony. the congressional leadership secretly hopes he doesn't ask for congressional approval. they'd rather criticize him an the back end. >> let me ask you -- >> i do think you have a -- there's ways to do this. clinton got back-door

congressional approval on yugoslavia because they essentially agreed to fund it. that's how eventually these guys will not ever have to cast a vote on whether they approved air strikes in jasyria, but they'll -- >> we're hitting isis and knocking them hard. the question is whether we should do it also in syria. then dempsey comes out yesterday and says we can hit it there if it's a strategic threat to the united states. it's not going to be that. so why is he drawing a line? it's like the vietnam war. we couldn't hit them in the north or cambodia. had them in the south and they beat us. >> that's them searching for legal justive kags. they don't have it yet. they haven't figured that out yet. martin dempsey has to act -- >> put it to the american people right now if they want to get even with isis and do. >> you'll see some movement in congress. how do they do it? how quickly do they do it? and they also need to acquire the target. >> wouldn't anybody like to run against a member of congress who would refuse to fight back if

they killed a guy. >> you remember in 2002 and 2003 and all those members remember that wasn't a good vote. >> it's different. >> we'll see. >> we didn't declare on -- we went to war with iraq instead of al qaeda. that was the problem. >> i think that's going to be -- that's wearing on these lawmakers more than you realize. >> they have to get their acts straight. >> thank you nbc's chuck todd and a great man ayman mohyeldin. i appreciate having you on. please come on "hardball." now ft. lee army base in virginia where an active shooter situation had the base on lockdown for a short time this morning. an active duty female army sergeant entered a building brandishing a gun and then barricading herself into an office after located by ft. lee police. after a brief discussion, she turned the gun on herself and fired. she was life flighted to a richmond area hospital. her exact condition and name have not been released. what a tragic situation.

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>> yes, chris, i think we absolutely should have a vote and i think we should have it sooner rather than later. why passed actually a resolution indicating that if there were any further expansion in iraq, we thought that congress should be involved as it relates to a debate and a vote. also, i led with a letter with congressman mcgovern and riggle and others saying that we felt if there were any additional expansion in -- as it relates to military intervention, u.s. intervention in the region, we should have a congressional debate and a vote. this is serious. isis is a threat. it's a dangerous organization. it's a terrorist organization. we need to be in washington, d.c., talking about the pros and cons, talking about what options are available for the president and, in fact, i think that it's absolutely essential that congress engage in a debate on this very important issue. >> i keep thinking about what i'd do if i were president. i'm sure you do because you're

in office. i think about it all though time. if i were obama, i look for a place to put a vote to congress where they'd have to agree with me. an offer you can't refuse kind of thing. it sieems if you offered these hawkish republicans an opportunity to say i support a resolution to allow them to conduct an air strike against a group that killed our guy, i find it hard for a republican or anyone to vote against it. what do you think about the republicans. are they resisting a vote, or what? >> i don't believe members of congress are resisting a vote. again, when you look at -- i'll cite the mcgovern/jones/lee resolution that passed 370-40 saying that congress should engage in a debate and a vote as it relates specifically to combat operations. i think what's important is if the president believes that military -- the military option is the only option and that

limited strikes are warranted and that that would address issues around our own national security, then congress should have a debate and a vote. i believe that people want to hear this debate. we don't want to get involved in a full-scale war. in 2001, it was the resolution i voted ga ed against. that was a blank check that led to the foundation and basis for the iraq resolution which led to a war that we're still paying for in blood and treasure. so this is serious. congress needs to be very involved. we need a debate and authorization. and we don't know where members will fall. democrats or republicans. >> interesting. >> but we need to exercise our constitutional responsibility. >> as you remember, ted kennedy before he died said it was the most important vote of his life, voting against that war. let me ask you about living out there in berkeley on the san andreas fault. there it is talking to us again the other day. what was your feelings about that and what it meant in terms

of the ten-second preparation we had because of technology. how are we doing on earthquakes? >> first, my prayers and thoughts are with those who were injured and hope for their speedy recovery, chris. i've talked to congressman thompson. the community, because of new earthquake preparedness and standards, are recovering more quickly than occurred during the earthquake in 1989 right here in oakland where it was a total tragedy. so preparedness, especially with vulnerable populations, earthquake standards have been tightened, and certainly the recover is much better. but we have to understand we're living on several faults. i live in oakland and felt this jolt. it was just as if the earthquake was right next door. and so we have to remember that california and other countries -- other states, excuse me, have this very

natural disaster preparedness that we have to keep in mind. there's a website. i believe it's california seismic.gov that people should read about being prepared. it appears that in spite of this being a 6.0 quake, which is very strong, that they are pulling together. they are unifying and they are coming to grips with their recovery efforts. once again, we have to be concerned about those injured and we pray for their speedy recovery and for the community's recovery. >> barbara lee, thank you for joining us from the university of california at berkeley. we'll have more about napa and the earthquake right after this. but first an update on tropical storm cristobal. no longer expected to make landfall in the u.s. they expect it to continue

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right now the power is back on for 99% of napa valley residents one day after the bay area was hit with a earthquake at a magnitude residents of the region haven't felt for 25 years. we're getting a look at what happened through security camera coverage and through residents who experienced the event. alexander pelosi was near the epicenter. good to see you under strange circumstances. i think they put you right in front of some damage there. tell us about -- >> yeah. it's crazy. have you ever been through an earthquake? >> i just missed the '89 when i was covering something for cbs back then. i was out there for the baseball

game between the giants and the a's. >> of course you were. it is like a snow globe, like someone takes your house, picks it up, shakes it and then all the pieces justice fall somewhere. it's really a crazy experience if you haven't been through it. like '89, this one was harsh. it really felt violent. it felt dangerous like the big one. >> where were you? were you in a car? people tell me when you're in a car you can't feel it. >> no, i was asleep. what do you think i do at 3:30 in the morning? i was asleep. i was at my parents' house. i vacation with my parents in the summer. i was at my parents' house. they have a nice place nearby here. and what was remarkable was how little damage there was considering how violent it felt. it really felt like a real sort of epic kind of dramatic big earthquake. and when you see the damage, sure, some wine collections got

destroyed and that's tragic and there's some real serious property damage but i have to say, i'm really surprised there were no casualties. >> is it like being in turbulence on an airplane you dont know whether it's going to get worse? do you get a sense this is as bad as it's going to get or do you worry it's going to escalate as it's happening? >> it's kind of like the end times, armageddon, apocalyptic. when the earth starts moving underneath you, it's a crazy feeling. unlike other natural disasters where mother nature is cruel, she can take don this building and leave this one standing. in an earthquake it's all about how the buildings were built. that building was going to come down because it's not built for an earthquake. so now when you are going through the streets and seeing which buildings stood. it's not much of a mystery. you can see which ones were built well and ready for this kind of thing. now a lot of the blame for some of the damage comes on the buildings themselves, not on the actual -- you know what i mean?

you've been to those tornadoes or hurricanes where you say how come that one is standing and that one is destroyed. >> you are a great guest. let me ask you about living in northern california. it has the best weather, the views are constant -- no one can go inside to read a newspaper because they are riding a bike all the time. it's so nice throughout. is this something in the back of your head all the time, the idea the big one might come some day? the san andreas fault is beneath us. it's a fact? >> when you go to school growing up in san francisco you do the earthquake drills. like in other parts of the country they do lockdowns for all kinds of -- in san francisco they still have the earthquake drill where they teach you to get under your desk and put your arms over your head and hide or stand in the doorway. so we were trained. this was the kind of training you got. you're always waiting for it. ironically it comes at 3:00 in the morning when you don't know where your shoes are. that's why there's so many

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is good and what does the lord require of you? but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your god. there has been a lot said in the last few days. this afternoon, leaslie and michael sr. will have to do something that is out of order. they will have to lay their son to rest. order says that children bury their parents. it is out of order for children

to be buried by their parents. we should not sit here today and act like we're watching something that is in order. in all of our religious and spiritual celebration, let us not lose sight of the fact that this young man should be doing the second week in college. religion ought to affirm what we are doing, not be an escapism from what is done. and some of us are so heavenly bound that we're no earthly good. before you get to heaven, before

you put on your long robe, before you walk down the streets, you got to deal with the streets in ferguson and st. lou louis. god is not going to judge you by your behavior in heaven. he's going to judge you by what you do on earth. he will not judge you by what moses did at the red sea. he will not judge you by what joshua did at the jordan. but he will say what michael brown, 18-year-old boy, laid out in the street, hour and a half before the detective came. another hour or so before they came in remove his body. family couldn't come through the ropes. dogs sniffing through.

what did you do? what did i require of you? we sit like we have no requirements, like it's somebody else. but all of us are required to respond to this. and all of us must solve this. i watched as it went back and forward. i got a call from the grandfather, reverend toom from national action network field office. there's a man, mr. mcspaden, on the phone. said that his grandson was killed in ferguson, missouri.

i said where is ferguson, missouri? he says right outside of st. louis. and i said, well, let the officer -- no, he said you have the ipad with you? i said yeah. he told me what to punch in. and when i saw michael laying there, i thought about how many of us were just considered nothing. how we were just marginalized and ignored. whatever the circumstance an investigation leads to to have that boy laying there, like nobody cared about him, like he didn't have any loved ones, like his life value didn't matter.

and i said, i don't know what happened, but whatever we can do, i'll be there to do it. that night, violence started. next night, we there were tuesday. and we went in front of that old courthouse. and with the mother. and they had to break to stop people from looting and riot. do you imagine they're hea heartbroken, their son taken, discarded and marginalized and they have to stop mourning to get you to control your anger like you more angry than they are.

like you don't understand that michael brown does not want to be remembered for riot. he wants to be remembered as the one that made america deal with how we going to police in the united states. this is not about you. this is about justice. this is about fairness. and america is going to have to come to terms when there's

something wrong. that we have money to give military equipment to police forces, but we don't have money for training and money for public education and money to train our children. america, how do you think we look when the world can see you can't come up with a police report but you can find a video?

how do you think we look when young people march nonviolently asking for the land of the free and the home of the brave to hear their cry and you put snipers on the roof and pointed guns at them? how do we look?

how do we look? when people that support the officer, and they have a right to do that, and an obligation if they feel that, but if they support him, they're supporters. but if we come to support the family, we're dividing the country. what does god require of us? in three weeks we saw marlon pinnick, a woman in los angeles,

lay down on the freeway, congresswoman maxine waters. a california highway patrolman hit her 15 times on video with no weapon in her hand, nothing. no threat to her. right after that, a man, they said that he had cigarettes and they put an illegal chokehold an him. man videoed it 11 times. he said i couldn't breathe and the man, a policeman wouldn't let him go. later that week, we see michael laying on the ground. america, it's time to deal with policing. we are not the haters. we're the healers. >> that does it for this edition

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right now, michael brown's family lays their son to rest. and a nation searches for lessons in the loss of a young man posted these words on facebook before he died. everything happens for a reason. >> there's going to be negative energy. there's going to be disappointment. >> treated our son like a dog on the street. >> what's going to be the hardest part? >> walking away. walking away from that casket. >> british intelligence has reportedly now identified the terrorist who killed james foley. >> one of the main sources of intelligence they've been able to gather is the actual video itself. >> at the same time we're learning more about peter curtis. he was held captive by a different terror group in syria for almost two years and freed after a deal brokered by the

qatari government. >> we'll have more on those white house meetings and the growing threat from isis later this hour. first, here's what you need to know right now. the funeral of michael brown is under way this very hour in st. louis. he was shot and killed more than two weeks ago by a ferguson police officer. his parents haven't spoken at today's service but other brown family members did speak about the teen they called mike-mike. >> we have a church for real today. and i know that michael would be smiling that big gentle smile that he always gives whenever he greeted you. because michael was a big guy, but he was a kind, gentle soul. and before he left this earth, the day that he was killed, he was out spreading the word of jesus christ. this moment, michael also stated to the family that