hundreds of people, brave, determined, and big-hearted people all over the world working for my release. i had no idea that so much effort was being expended on my behalf. and now having found out, i'm just overwhelmed with emotion. >> also, what can the white house do about racial profiling by police? pressure is building for the president to use executive power to intervene in the relationship between police and communities of color. and oh, canada. burger king facing a whopper-sized backlash after striking a deal that will move the fast food giant's royal headquarters to toronto. but we start with the fast-moving developments in the middle east as major world powers attempt to confront the growing threat of the terrorist group isis. president obama is reportedly trying to coordinate allies for a forceful response that many analysts believe inevitably will include an expansion of u.s. air strikes into syria. and talk of war comes as the mother of one american hostage named steven sotloff offers her

plea to the leaders of isis to release her son. a freelance journalist captured last year. >> as a mother, i ask for justice to be merciful and not punish my son for matters he has no control over. i ask you to use your authority to spare his life. >> that mother's anguished words come on the same day that a separate american journalist was reunited with his family after spending two years as a hostage of a separate syrian terrorist group, the al nusra front. that group today added even more complexity to the situation in the middle east after reports which nbc news has not confirmed suggesting it gained control of a check point on the golan heights, bordering israel. the result of a skirmish with syrian forces that israel says wounded one of its soldiers. nbc's ayman mohyeldin joins me live from london. what's the status of u.s. efforts to try to build a coalition to go after isis potentially in syria? >> well, certainly the u.s. is

trying to reach out to some of its arab allies, those that are in the region that are of tremendous importance, including egypt, saudi arabia, united arab emirates, probably qatar. at the same time, they're probably going to be reaching out to turkey, which is a member of nato, to try and build that coalition. now, keep in mind the united states will have the blessing of the regional powers if it does choose to carry out any type of air strikes inside syrian territory. certainly it would be welcome news from the syrian opposition and those who are backing the syrian opposition. but at the same time, the u.s. can expect there to be some diplomatic ruffle, including from china and russia to security councilmembers. i think that's why the u.s. is going to try and get the backing of not only regional allies but also key allies in the u.n. security council if, indeed, it seeks some kind of resolution for that military operation. >> and ayman, you talk about the backing of potential allies in the region, but there's sort of a big elephant in the room, which is the syrian government

of bashar al assad. in no way an ally. really a pariah on the world stage. how likely would it be the united states take the kind of action we're taking in iraq into syrian territory? if so, doing so without first discussing with is the assad government. >> well, i think it's safe to say that the u.s. has made absolutely clear time and time again, officially and unofficially, that it will not communicate with the assad regime about any military operations inside syria. more importantly, that has drawn a very sharp criticism from the syrian government, saying that would be a violation of sovereignty and already coming out and saying it would not be acceptable. in terms of likeliness that the u.s. would carry out operations, i think it's very likely. i think the u.s. has made clear that although there is a border on the paper between -- on the maps between iraq and syria, isis does not recognize that border, and a lot of people are saying neither should the united states. if they feel that strategic positions of isis have shifted into syria, i think the united states will have legitimate grounds in their eyes to go

after those targets. >> all right. ayman mohyeldin, thank you very much. evan coleman is an nbc news terrorism analyst. ambassador mark ginsburg is former u.s. ambassador to morocco. evan, i'll start with you. this question of syrian sovereignty is very important, right. the united states, yesterday there was a pentagon briefing in which it was said explicitly that the u.s. understands there's a border there, but we have a history of not necessarily recognizing that. we went into pakistan when trying to get bin laden. so what is, indeed, the likelihood that the united states can simply act as if that border is not there, move those air strikes right into syria? >> our history has been recognizing sovereignty given state exercises sovereign control over their territory. in cases such as pakistan or yemen where central governments have been unable to exercise sovereign control over their territory and have been unable to remove security threats, they pose a threat not just to us but to them as well. yes, we have intervened.

i think this is an exact example of where that logic holds. will we intervene without the syrians? almost certainly we will in some form. and it makes sense if you think about it because we've been working for years now to try to undermine the regime of bashar al assad, teaming up with them, even against isis, is a bit of a questionable strategy. >> yeah, and, you know, ambassador, one of the -- well, the sort of glaring omission in that list that ayman mohyeldin gave us of regional powers that we are talking to about what to do about this threat of isis clearly did not include israel but the golan heights very clearly is right next door. it is now simply bringing this isis threat right to the israelis' doorstep. how much does that complicate what we're seeing here? >> it complicates it because frankly what happens in israel right now is that benjamin netanyahu has been equating hamas where there's just a cease-fire has been declared with isis as a way of garnering further isolation of hamas. evan is absolutely right. the problem is not that isis is merely taking syrian control,

but there's whole swaths of syrian territory that have been taken up and in control by isis. let me add one important point here. it's not merely that the syrian government should not be -- should be ignored here, because it should be given the stakes. but there are whole christian minorities inside syria that are facing genocide. moreover, let's also be clear, and i'm sure evan would agree on this, that the bashar al assad regime has been supporting isis as a way of isolating and in effect killing off the more reasonable moderate free syrian army. so assad has been a culpable felony murderer in the development of isis inside syria. >> and there are all of these complication. there have been three more u.s. air strikes inside the territory of ike. speaking of protecting religious minorities, that's been part of our mission there. there is factionalism even between hamas and isis because of hamas' previous support for hezbollah, who isis sees -- it's so complicated, evan. it seems almost impossible to

find an ally that we could so d solidly work with. >> yeah, look, on one side we're working with hezbollah and al assad, even indirectly. on the other side, we're working with isis indirectly. that's been the problem with the whole involvement in syria to begin with. that's why the obama administration was so reluctant to get involved in syria. no matter what side you take, you end up indirectly supporting an adversary of the united states. at a certain point, though, we have to start making calculus. who is the most clear and present danger? who represents the most potent threat? hezbollah, syria, they're a threat but not really a direct threat to the united states. isis now has upwards of 100 individuals possibly americans who have fought with it or are fighting with it. 900 french nationals have traveled to syria. hundreds of u.k. nationals. we haven't seen these kind of numbers of western foreign fighters since the heyday of afghanistan. even then we didn't see those kind of numbers. >> and that is the big, you know, problem that the united states -- that's what americans are paying to right now. you've now had one american at least die on the battlefield

fighting with isis. this becomes a much more pressing issue because these guys -- this guy had his passport in his pocket. >> i wrote an article several years ago about how anybody who's going to pakistan to visit grandma and is not back in two weeks should be immediately put on a watch list. all these people making their way through to the northern part of syria are going likely through istanbul. it's important as part of the alliance that the administration is trying to construct to make sure that the turks seal that border because a lot of these people are making their way to join isis through turkey. it's the underground railroad route for isis to recruit these people. so i'm hoping as part of this coalition that evan mentioned that the turks finally step up to the plate here. >> a lot of serious conversations to be had diplomatically. thank you both for being here. >> thank you. all right. coming up, when it comes to ferguson and the death of michael brown, why are some of

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today in st. louis county, the grand jury deciding whether or not to indict ferguson police officer darren wilson on criminal charges for the shooting death of michael brown will meet behind closed doors. now, while ferguson pd has said it will not release any new information in the case while the grand jury is seated, there is a new audio recording which i'm sure you've all heard by now that the st. louis county prosecutor said if authenticated could be a key piece of

evidence. on the recording allegedly captured by someone who says he lives in the apartment complex near where michael brown was shot, you can hear what sounds like six gunshots followed by a pause, and then the sound of four more. the lawyer for the man who says is he recorded the audio tells nbc news that the tape has been submitted to the fbi. the fbi can't confirm they have this specific recording, but the agency does confirm they are collecting any audio and video of the incident. law enforcement officials tell nbc news that at this stage, it's impossible to know the significance of this tape, considering we don't know what occurred directly before and after the recording. another thing we don't know, whether the grand jury of nine white and three black members will ever hear that tape. prosecuting attorney bob mcculloch would have to present it, or the panel could make the request to hear it themselves, since there are no defense attorneys present during the grand jury process. meanwhile, as we reported yesterday, the white house received a petition on monday from a group of 100 activists, advocates, and civil rights

leaders along with several members of congress asking president obama and the justice department to implement new rules to combat what they call widespread racial bias on the local law enforcement level. joining me now is nbc news senior political reporter perry bacon. perry, what has been the white house and justice department response, if any? >> so far what they have said is they're just starting this review that the president announced on saturday. they want to take a look at -- and the focus of this, there's a government-wide review happening led by the white house, led by the office of budget management. what they're looking at now is these programs to send sort of surplus stuff from the military to local police. they're looking at that now, but i'm told they're thinking about, should we expand this review as well to talk about issues like a police czar that would oversee police. i'm told now the review is focused on the military, but it may broaden out to focus on

broader policing issues that have come up. >> one of the things we've learned in the last few days is a lot of the equipment that ferguson and other departments have really didn't necessarily come from the military. they came from grants that the justice department issues, and the police buy them themselves. those grants provide a lot of leverage. you look at the justice department, its leverage of money over local police, and the laws that oversee thing like racial profiling. is it the sense among people in the white house world that they actually could implement some of the things that are being asked for? training, accountability, diversity, demilitarization, et cetera? >> it's going to be a little contentious. you have two different blocks here. there's the civil rights leaders on one hand. also, you've seen already the paternal order of police had a very strong statement saying, we oppose any bill that would change how we currently get our equipment. so you've already seen senate democratic leader harry reid say we should keep these programs going that send military equipment to police. so i think the white house can

do certain things with their administrative power, and they're going to review that. i think we should wait until the process finishes. but i think they are going to be limited by the politics. >> indeed. all right, thank you very much, perry bacon. >> thanks, joy. >> now, one of the big political mysteries in the discussion of ferguson, michael brown, and police tactics is the conspicuous absence of some major potential 2016 presidential candidates. political reports say the former secretary of state actually ignored questions from reporters on sunday while attending a signing for her new book. mrs. clinton wasn't always so reticent. back in 1999 and 2000, then-candidate clinton was very vocal about the shooting of amadou diallo. in 2000, the former first lady told "new york times" bob herbert that the cases were not

just horrific but symptomatic of the problem in the cities of overall policing. the real solution is to change the climate. angela rye is a political strategist and karen finney is a former dnc communications director. thanks to both of you for being here. i want to start with you, karen. back in 1999 and 2000 -- and granted she was running to be the united states senator from new york, hillary clinton was vocal about these major cases, including the patrick doorsman case where the mayor and police commissioner released his juvenile record. she actually was quite -- she leaned forward, i guess you could say, on issues of policing. why do you suppose she's not doing that now? >> let me just say because i actually worked on that campaign and was with her and part of that decision to talk -- she was asked about it many times. it was a very relevant question to the campaign she was in at the time. if you're running for senate in

new york at the time, those were the kind of questions you couldn't not answer, quite frankly. i actually think that going forward, the ferguson incident and what happens in the aftermath of it will be something that 2016 candidates are going to have to answer to at some point. because i think it will be relevant in a 2016 campaign, particularly if you're reaching out for the african-american vote. i think at this point, though, you know, i'm not quite sure why she hasn't decided that the timing was right to say something. look, i think for a lot of people, there's been -- you know, they felt like the president should be the person who was out there and obviously the attorney general. and i think there may be some who are waiting to see what the outcome of this case is, which is unlike the zimmerman case, where hillary clinton did make comments after the verdict came out. there's still this sense that, well, let's wait and see what happens. i'm not saying i know for a fact that's what's prevented her from saying is something, but i think there's time for her to talk

about it. personally, i would like to hear what she has to say. >> angela, you had major unrest in a major american city. you had several members of the congressional black caucus. you formerly worked with the caucus. you had maxine waters actually travel to st. louis in the wake of this. so you've had a lot of national figures speak out. long term going forward for people like hillary clinton, even for republicans, does silence for this long on this issue wind up being a liability? >> it's a huge liability, joy. i think when you have countries all over the world looking at the united states to see how we're going to react to people who are americans just like them and how bad it's been, it's time for not only former secretary of state clinton to speak out, but it's also time for the republican party to speak out. the dnc just passed a resolution on this very issue. they didn't need to wait for the president to act. there are leaders like you talked about with this letter that signed on asking the

president to look at many other ways to not only provide instruction to local law enforcement but to heal communities that have been ravaged by stop and frisk policies, racial profiling, so on and so forth. so the rnc needs to speak out per their gop autopsy review and report, and so does secretary clinton. this is not a political problem. this is about real american lives, whether they're black, white, or green. it is absolutely time for everyone to speak up, to speak out, and to act. we have to move on this. this is just a crisis. >> absolutely. i want to play what our colleague reverend al sharpton had to say last week. he was very pointed. he named names, and he named bipartisan names. let's listen. >> jeb bush, hillary clinton, don't get laryngitis on this issue. nobody can go to the white house less they stop by our house and talk about policing.

>> and karen, the issue of policing is a decades old issue in the african-american community. this isn't something that just started because of ferguson. you know, there it is. they've already been called to the carpet. as you well know, for hillary clinton, for the clintons, that race issue is a third rail ever since 2008. so how much damage do you think has been inflicted, potentially? she hasn't announced she's running for president. but also to the point, of course, is this is bipartisan. it's not just about her. >> look, i think it's something that every candidate, any candidate who is serious about running in 2016 is going to have to speak to. it's not just the policing issue. there are all of these institutional racism and systematic issues in terms of jobs and feeling unheard and sort of, you know, how we treat young black men in this country. there are a lot of issues that i think are very relevant in the context of a campaign. i certainly think anybody running on the democratic ticket, you have to answer to it because -- and i do think we're already seeing this with regard to hillary clinton -- the black community says, hey, don't just show up and ask for our votes.

we want to hear what you have to say on issues that matter to us. look, i think this is also shouldn't just be seen as a black issue or white issue. it's an american issue. that's why both sides need to be held accountable for saying something. again, it may be that are the longer it goes, that there is some political damage done, but i do still think there's time for either -- any of the candidates to come out and talk about it and talk about what they would do about it, frankly. >> and angela, there is a racial divide. the polls have shown it very clearly. this is an issue of much greater concern to african-americans than non african-americans. could it be that part of the calculation other than rand paul, who wants to try to broaden his base, people saying, you know, it might not be worth upsetting potentially reagan democrats or conservative voters who may not agree that this is a national crisis. >> of course that's part of the calculation. but joy, i would push back to you, and i would say what is

worth losing an election for? what is worth potentially just saying, you know, what, my character, my ability to sleep at night -- and rand paul just introduced the redeem act to address these similar problems. at some point, folks have to say what really matters? to move this nation forward, i'm going to have to sacrifice something. again, we just commemorated the 50th anniversary of the signing of the civil rights act. this is supposed to be freedom summer. the commemoration of freedom summer. at what point do you move forward so folks can really be free? >> brilliant, ladies. bo happy both of you could be here. >> thanks, joy. here are three things to know on this wednesday. the fate of an air force fighter pilot remains unknown after his jet went down in the mountains of western virginia today. no injuries were reported on the ground where large plumes of smoke could be seen from the

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broad street. great story. burger king is on defense today after it inadvertently became the public face, fair or not, of a controversial practice called tax inversion. now, if you don't know what that is, fear not. it's essentially when a u.s. firm merges with an overseas company to lower their tax rates. burger king announced this week it's acquiring tim horton's, a deal that would create a new parent company, whose headquarters would be in canada. that would allow the king to take advantage of canada's overall lower corporate tax rate and voila, tax inversion. while they may have legitimate reasons to make this deal, like boosting the fight against mcdonald's, the headlines have not been kind, to say the least. and they raise a question. if corporations are people, can they be rewarded for, to quote democratic senator dick durbin,

renouncing their citizenship? jared bernstein is the former chief economic adviser to vice president joe biden. is this essentially a reward for renouncing a corporate person's u.s. citizenship? >> well, i think you can certainly legitimately put it that way since once you engage in this kind of corporate inversion, you're typically facing not just a lower tax rate. and by the way, that's been somewhat misunderstood. many of these firms already pay quite low corporate tax rates because there's so many loopholes in our corporate code. that's not that hard to do. you just hire yourself up some sharp tax lawyers. what they really want to do is to further avoid u.s. taxation on profits that they will continue to make in this country. there's two ways they do that. it's calling earning stripping and hopscotching. but the point is that, yes, this is a move based on lowering the

amount of u.s. taxes that you pay. >> i should mention that we did contact burger king for a statement. we were directed to this statement on their facebook page which reads in part, the decision to create a new global quick-service restaurant leader were tim horton's is not tax driven. it's about global growth for both brands. burger king will continue to pay all of our federal, state, and local u.s. taxes. so that is burger king's story and they're sticking to it. >> so let me say something about that. in the case of burger king, there's something to that. now, i would more heavily weight what i said earlier, which is the tax advantages to this very much outweight strategic growth concerns. but there's a really interesting wrinkle here. canada told burger king, if you want to acquire this firm, this coffee and donut firm over there, you're going to have to do it such that you become a canadian company. because canada has a law that says we're not going to let our corporations do stuff that would

hurt the country. now, we need that same kind of legislation. that's what senator levin and others are trying to do. it used to be the case, you could say what's good for american business is good for america. in the age of globalization, that's not always so obvious. >> yeah, i wish we had a congress that could pass laws and things. that would be nice. >> imagine that. >> the beauty of capitalism is that competition is everywhere. so if burger king is making this decision for whatever reasons, then other companies can then try to compete for their business. people are mad, and you've already had ohio senator say, hey, people should eat at wendy's and white castle. they're based in ohio. now you're starting to see burger king theoretically could lose business to more american companies. >> that's a really interesting wrinkle here as well. we saw that same kind of public exposure issue when walgreens the drugstore was talking about inverting. some of these companies that invert, you don't walk by them every other block because they make medical devices or they

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right now the hash tag fit the description is bubbling up on social media. inspiring is even more calls for the kind of police training we

talked about earlier this hour. and here's why. according to 51-year-old charles belk, he was just walking in beverly hills last friday when he was detained, surrounded by six police cars, handcuffed, fully searched for weapons, and within an hour, belk says is he was photographed, finger printed, and put under a $100,000 bail and accused of armed bank robbery, all because, in his words, he was misidentified as the wrong tall, bald-head black male who was, quote, fitting the description. belk was eventually cleared and released six hours later. the beverly hills pd says it deeply regrets the inconvenience to mr. belk, however, officers correctly detained and arrested him based on the circumstances known at the time. mr. belk, first of all, i think we should ask, what were you doing that day? >> that day -- earlier that day -- and hi, joy.

thanks so much. i want to start off by offering my condolences to the parents of mike brown and the parents of all sons, daughters that have actually lost their lives in that condition. my circumstances were a little bit more fortunate, thank god. but earlier that day, i had been at a gifting suite, which is, you know, common around awards season where you bring in celebrities and different vendors will give them product. so we were at a gifting suite. then i went to stop and get something to eat before i went to another event that evening. >> and you wrote a really lengthy and poignant facebook post in which you detailed the situation, detail your own background, saying the police wouldn't have known that, you never had any issues with the law. you were actually going to your car to pay up your parking meter so you wouldn't break the law by overstaying your parking. first of all, the officers, after the six-hour-long wait,

after they realize you're not the guy who had robbed the bank, what did the officers say to you? >> it was the detective and two fbi agent. you know, it was an interesting process because as i mentioned, i was not allowed to make a phone call. i was not allowed to -- they did not tell me why i was actually being arrested or charged. they would not let me speak with my attorney for easily over an hour while he was out waiting. when they called me in about five or six hours later to talk with me, the fbi agents and the lapd detective -- i'm sorry, the beverly hills police department detective, i asked them, they told me what i was in there for, that i had been seen going to an from an atm machine several times inside the bank that caused confusion. i said, clearly you guys saw on the video it was not me. they said they had not reviewed the video. at that point, i could not believe it. i was like, i had spent six hours of my life in jail, my

rights completely taken away from me, and they could have easily verified that within minutes on the scene. >> and one of the things that really struck me in your facebook post is you said at the time that the police, you know, went after you, that but for a text or phone call that you had in your phone, you might have been running from the police. >> absolutely. i was so concerned about -- i hate parking tickets. i was so concerned about getting back to the meter so i wouldn't break the law that i would have normally ran back to my car. i was not running. a text came in. i was looking at my text, casually walking. i'm very fearful and thankful that i wasn't running. i probably would not be sitting here today, i think, telling this story. >> what message do you take away from this? is it something to do with police training? is it that they're just not informing themselves fully about who they're looking for? the idea it took hours for them to actually look at the video to see if that looked like you, that sounds really shocking, especially since you were fingerprinted and treated to the

full battery of arrest, including bail being set. >> yeah, i think, joy, the message for me -- because folks have told me, hey, just look at this and learn. the problem with that is there's absolutely nothing i can personally do differently that wouldn't guarantee this exact same thing wouldn't happen to me again. the description that i fit was apparently a tall, black, bald-headed male. i'm going to be that. so it's hard to kind of get away from that description. the interesting point that i noted is i'm trying to create awareness that, one, we don't all fit the description. two, there is a sense of trying to give a voice to all the black males out there that have not had that voice, either because their lives were taken or they weren't afforded the resources that i was lucky to have while i was in jail. and if it wasn't for my friend

who saw me there, who called my friend from the naacp hollywood bureau, who then called an attorney, i would still be sitting there to this day. they were not hearing anything that i said. >> an amazing, harrowing story. we're glad that you walked away from it safely. indeed, i think it's a profound message and important. charles bell, thank you so much. >> thank you. also, global citizen, the group that hopes to end extreme poverty by 2030 has been hosting days of action all through the summer. small things that you can do to plant the seeds of change. today that action is to grow hope. the idea being that hope leads to action and action leads to change. thousands of hopes have already been submitted. my hope is more americans awaken to the power of their vote and vote their interests. you can visit msnbc.com/globalcitizen right now and click on leaf to submit an issue you care about. by submitting today, you'll earn pointing to be entered in the lottery to attend the global citizen festival on september 27th with jay-z, no doubt, and f.u.n. so get started.

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the actions of police during the protests over the shooting death of mooiichael brown by a police officer have shined a spotlight on individual officers who police the community in and around ferguson, missouri. one officer was suspended and has since apologized for posting on his facebook page that the ferguson protesters, quote, should have been put down like rabid dogs the first night. a st. ann officer was suspended indefinitely for pointing a semiautomatic rifle at peaceful protesters and threatening to kill them. then there's this rant. >> i don't care whether you're christian or not. i personally believe in jesus christ as my lord and savior, but i'm also a killer. i've killed a lot. and if i need to, i'll kill a whole bunch more. if you don't want to get killed, don't show up in front of me.

it's that simple. >> that speech, which also included attacks on gays in the military, was recorded during a meeting of the oath keepers, a group founded three months into president obama's first term in march of 2009 by a yale educated former army paratrooper and ex-ron paul staffer named stewart rhodes. a 2010 report by mother jones describes the oath keepers as one of the fastest growing patriot organizations on the right, which has established itself as a hub in the sprawling anti-obama movement that includes tea partiers, birthers, and nine-twelvers. what makes oath keepers unique is its core membership consists of men and women in uniform, including soldiers, police, and veterans. at regular ceremonies in every state, members reaffirm their oaths of service, pledging to protect the constitution. but then they go a step further, vowing to disobey, quote, unconstitutional orders from what they view as an

increasingly tier ran call government. they showed is up at the cliven bundy ranch, those their alliance with the militias there ended badly, when the two groups wound up pointing guns at each other. rhodes in a 2010 interview said that the group is misunderstood. >> all we're really doing is saying, yes, we're reaffirming the principles in the bill of rights and that these are the lines that should not be crossed and these are what governments have done throughout history and we've added on some examples from the 20th century such as the internment of the japanese-americans which happened here and gun confiscation during katrina, which happened recently. >> of course, katrina and the designation of enemy combatants and other things that the oath keepers oppose happened during the bush administration. but rhodes explained why they only got focused under obama. >> it's also the part of the cycle of politics. when it was bush doing it, the democrats, liberals were quoting benjamin franklin and quoting

the constitution and calling him unconstitutional. now that it's flipped and you have more conservatives waking up going, oh, my gosh, i can't believe these powers are in the hands of the president. also, obama has reinforced those fears by calling returning veterans potential terrorist threats and by nationalizing gm and doing these huge bailouts for the banks and trying to nationalize health care. he's acting as though he's doing a scourged earth socialist program. >> some of what they advocate is libertarian boilerplate. but their website also includes a militaristic response to the merg son protest an assault on the bill of rights. the group insists they're not advocating overthrowing the government. but with an unknown number of police taking their oath, they are work paying attention to. and that does wrap things up for "the reid report." see you back here tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. eastern. be sure to join me tomorrow at 3:30 eastern for a twitter chat on ferguson and how it could be a starting point for creating

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from the heart of midtown manhattan 30 rock, you're in the cycle. it's a crisis. the most dangerous group since al qaeda, maybe more dangerous, appears to be taking a few lessons from its predecessor. ebola is back, a troubling new development for a part of the world that thought they had escaped the worst. a hateful crime in the city of brotherly love. two men drowned, one escapes. his story is bizarre. the city of ferguson, missouri, has become accustomed to playing defense, but the local high school football team, they got another goal. plus a veteran comic is finally able to laugh at one of the biggest struggles of his life. he's here in the guest spot. but as we come on the air today, isis is gaining ground in iraq and syria, using al qaeda's playbook. good afternoon. i'm luke russert here in new

york. they're doing so with ieds, the same types of roadside bombs that killed or injured 34,000 u.s. troops in iraq. this tactic changes the game. u.s. air strikes can't stop ieds. you can see how widespread isis is now in the region. president obama calls them a cancer. now, the white house is prepping for another humanitarian mission in iraq and possible strikes next door in syria. we don't know the details, but we do know it won't include working with bashar al assad. washington says he's a nonstarter. just today, the u.n. accused both assad and isis of mass atrocities. they say assad has once again used chemical weapons against his own citizens while isis is accused of waging a wall painca fear. we've heard about the mass public executions, but the u.n. says isis is also recruiting and training children, some as young as 10 years old. isis also has american