steven sotloff. >> i can't confirm those press reports right now. >> if the video is genuine, we're sickened by the brutal act taking another life of a u.s. citizen. >> isis represents a very complex new threat to the world. >> other extremist groups have been emboldened by isis' success. >> the president shaz sahas sai not going to be forced into doing something. >> there's not a regional consensus on what to do about syria. >> war is not the only option. >> how do you dry up reservoir of this ideology in the region? sthas not going to happen with any air strikes. >> we need to think first and shoot second. >> i'm luke russert in for alex wagn wagner. another video purports to show the beheading of steven sotloff,

showing him on his knees with a knife in hand wearing an orange jump suit before being beheaded by the same militant that killed james foley. this afternoon the white house, the state department and pentagon all said they are working to authenticate the video. >> our thoughts and prayers foremost are with mr. sotloff and his family and those who worked with him. if there's a rid video ha has been released it will be analyzed carefully by intelligence individuals to determine the authenticity. >> the intelligence community will work as quickly as possible to determine its authenticity. if the video is genuine, we're sickened by this brutal act taking the life of another innocent american citizen. >> if confirmed, the execution

of steven sotloff comes two weeks after isis killed james foley and another life is threatened, david hainz. the group controls territory larger than the entire united kingdom and the rise of terrorism is hardly limited to iraq. last night u.s. drone strikes struck an area negotiate of mogadishu. a u.s. official told "new york times, they are 80% sure the leader of al shabab was killed. since august 8th, the u.s. military launched 123 air strikes. yesterday president obama for l formally notified congress he widened the campaign against isis. now the beheading of yet another american journalist would shift the obama calculation on isis,

that's a point which remains unclear. joining me now to help us figure out that question is nbc news foreign correspondent, ayman mohyeldin and former director of the national counterterrorism center, michael leiter. michael, i'll start with you, what does this mean for u.s. foreign policy? obviously we saw the air strikes come after the beheading of jim foley, that journalist. this now again seems to be isis' almost calling out of president obama by a second time by name. what can we see in terms of reaction from this? >> i don't think this is going to shift the president's broad policy efforts. he's made very clear after some strong statements from secretary hagel and others last week that he was pumping the brakes and that he really does want some broader coalition, some broader plan brought forth before he pushes beyond iraq into syria. and every terrorism official,

national security official understands that you can't stop isil without going after syria. going after them in syria is a far more difficult problem than is iraq. i think this will be -- this is obviously very news worthy that he may have been executed but i don't think it will shift the president all that much. >> ayman you said something on our earlier shows that i found extremely interesting. one of the reasons that isis is able to flourish is because the financial assistance they receive from wealthy individuals and other arab states, places like qatar. what can the u.s. do to try to reign in governments to try to crack down on those individuals that fund isis? >> we have to be clear about one thing. we don't have any strong evidence, certainly nothing that has come out transparently that the governments of these states are actually supporting isis as a group. the big loophole and problem that exists in terms of financing comes from individuals and charitable organizations and religious organizations deeply

rooted in that part, sometimes close to the ruling families of these countries because of the wealth that exists there and it's through the back door channels that so much of the funding is taking place. also, fund raising by people sympathetic to isis and their affiliates sending the money into the battlefield, that is extremely problematic for the u.s. and they did a good job tracking money in the post 9/11 era, trying to get the uae and others to close the loopholes and the front has proven challenging in addition to that, isis, after raiding banks and setting up their own economic infrastructure, taxing the transport taking place inside these areas they control, they've been able to raise some of the funds themselves. it's a two-pronged approach that is very challenging for the international community to address. >> how would you advise the president in terms of trying to cut down the financing available to isis and try to empower the neighboring states to go after them in a way that's similar to

the coalition that george h.w. bush had in 1991 against saddam hussein? >> i would disagree a little bit with ayman that today isil is getting a relatively small percentage of its funding from outside donors. other opposition groups within syria still are, especially from qatar and other countries in the gulf. one of the problems we face with isis, it is a governing entity. it controls large portions of territory and getting funding from kidnappings and funding from extortion and collecting taxes fundamentally and stolen over $400 million from a bank in mossul and getting oil revenue. this is going to be denying isil ground to operate in in iraq first, bringing in that international coalition to point out it is a regional threat and i think we have strong support for the turks and jordanians and others but then coming up with a solution that provides opportunity for moderate

opposition in syria. if you take down isil in syria, what takes its place? >> ayman, from your reporting on the ground, there's been questions regarding timing, are we too late in trying to stop the isis threat and too late to assemble this international coalition to have a lasting impact. where do you fall on that? so much of this especially in iraq depends on the central government exerting real force, something they have not been able to show in the past. this involves us trying to figure out what comes after isis if we're assisting bashar al assad. >> there's two things, hindsight is always 20/20, if the u.s. would have gotten involved in syria two years ago, we wouldn't have isis, they have con many calculations once they saw the ground swell in the western part of the country. in terms of the timing, it can also still get a lot worse.

if the united states doesn't build that coalition of arab countries and get them involved and to take some action, i think we're going to see the situation continue to worsen. one of the issues in terms of turkey, which has been a major conduit for isis, that is a nato country. gateway to europe. it's very easy for isis to turn sights on turkey. they can start wreaking havoc on turkey as much as they have created problems inside iraq. >> especially on the border area where they would find sympathetic fellows in those towns. michael, in terms of what this poses as a direct threat to the united states, we heard from saudi king abdullah that said within a month they would be in europe and two months in the united states. how do you read that. >> i think that's a general warning from the king that he wants the u.s. and west to be more involved. that's largely what he's been saying less publicly over the last two years. i don't think we should built them up to say they are 10 feet

tall. there are more than 1,000 westerners fighting in syria who have western passports and can travel easily to turkey and western europe and united states. isil and other groups had a clear and strategic intent to strike the west. we know they have some technology that would help them do that. all of that adds up and says to me as a counterterrorism guy, we have to be on the offense because we're not going to catch all of them just playing defense. and that's why i think being passive at this point for too long really does start to increase the risk. >> let's say the u.s. government becomes more aggressive and there's a coalition of forces in the region that becomes more aggressive and goes after isis, what though at the end of the day can actually aside from constant military force by the u.s. and our allies actually mitigate this threat? how do we establish that society where you talk about there is opportunity in the middle east?

>> you need to fight the ideology and best way to do that is establish good governance. that's never going to happen at the end of the an american gun or with western and military intervention. it has to be an organic process. there was probably a glimmer of hope with arab spring that they could turn the corner and establish good governing practices in these states. that hasn't yet happened but that's going to be the hope. one of the things i've heard throughout the course of the coverage and in a lot of the debate, it's eesh al assad or isis, that binary approach cannot accepted by a lot of syrians who are refugees and rejecting both of those. you're going to see somewhat moderate syrian middle group come into the form of trying to fill that gap. can they do it on itself right now? not in the current landscape. it does need the help of the international community. >> a myman mohyeldin, nice to s

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we are continuing to follow the breaking news this hour of video from the terrorist group isis claims to show beheading of steven sotloff, nbc news has not confirmed the authenticity. it would make sotloff the second journalist killed in two weeks. his writer appeared in "time" and national interest. >> steven was a valued contributor to "time" and other news organizations and gave his life to readers would have access to information from some of the most dangerous places in

the world. our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family. meanwhile, members of congress are weighing in with their own thoughts on the killing. house foreign affairs committee chairman he had royce said, the threat from isis seems to grow by the day working with key allies the united states need to be acting urgently to arm the kurds on ground fighting them and targeting isis from the air with drone strikes. joining me on phone is democratic senator from florida, bill nelson. senator nelson, thanks for being on the program. steven sotloff and his family were constituents of yours down in southern florida. have you had contact with the family yet and what is your initial reaction to news of his possible death? >> we have and i've stayed in touch through their representative with the family and we've reached out to that representative today to express how our hearts go out to the family and the friends of

steven. his family not only lives here but he also went to college here. i am going to see this video next week in the one of our national security committees but you don't have to see a video to know that the united states is the only one that can put together a coalition to go after this outfit that is so intense barbaric cruelty. and in this case, we have to go after them in northern iraq and kurdstan and that helped in holding them at bay with our air strike so that ground troops and

near the mosul dam and iraqi army, can go after them. now we're going to have to join with the free syrian army who not only started out fighting president assad's regime in syria, but fighting isis. so we're going to have put together the coalition that goes after this outfit because it's very clear they are coming after us. >> senator nelson, in the context of you there calling to the united states to assemble a coalition to go after isis, would you support american personnel on the ground if they were fighting next to arab state neighbors or perhaps a coalition from europe in going against isis? >> not at this point, luke. americans don't want to even consider the fact that you're going to put american boots on

the ground. in fact, you may have to put some through special operations troops, for example, american boots have already been on the ground in the attempted rescue of those hostages. the problem was that the hostages weren't wear our intelligence had told us that they were. but what you do is you put together the plans, the ability to strike these people are clearly coming after us and if there is a question of is it legal, does there need to be legal authority to go into syria, then that can be resolved and i will offer an amendment to the defense bill when it comes up. >> let me elaborate on that.

to go into syria, in order to combat isis? >> that's correct. the legal authority for the president as articulated by the white house in iraq was for the protection of americans. there were americans in erbil, thus the strikes as isis was moving on that kurdish capital. likewise with regard to the mosul dam because there were americans down river, especially in baghdad that if the dam had been blown up, there would be a flood down the river and of course there are quite a few americans in the capital city of baghdad. so if there is a legal question that in syria there are not americans and the president needed that legal authority,

then i want to clear that up, majority support of the armed services committee in dealing with an amendment on that defense bill and at the end of the day, i think we'll have considerable majority the senate to pass -- >> senator bill nelson, thanks for joining us at this time. >> with us now, white house correspondent at the huffington post, sam stein. thanks for being on the show. you heard very interesting comments from florida senator nelson. i'll start with his desire for the united states to assemble a coalition with the possibility of special forces personnel on the ground with even the possibility of extending into syria to go after isis. do you think there will be a lot of support in washington at this magnitude for that type of operation? >> well, i think rea torically yes, we've seen lawmakers from

across the idealogical spectrum talk about the need for international force, but pry marchly a muslim arabic based force, coalition to supplement the u.s. mission of going after isis. the question is what are the details. other people, including retired general said we need to reconceptualize what we thinks as boots on the ground. you're hearing a growing drumbeat for the boots on the ground component to u.s. military operations and say it's not actually combat force but more intelligence forces and but that's where the rubber hits the road. will the u.s. population support something like that. the senators seem skeptical, i think i am as well. >> lindsey graham released a statement about mr. sotloff's reported deaths. mr. president, if you can't come up with a strategy, at least tell us what the goal is regarding isil.

the white house is dealing with a very complicated conflict right now. there's so many areas which they can go, they are trying to get more international involvement, european allies later on today in estonia. they are between a rock and hard place right now. >> absolutely. we have to separate two things, what the administration is doing in iraq and what they are planning to do with syria. i think in iraq, there is a growing consensus of support around what the administration has done. we're talking over 115 air strikes sean deliberation of the mosul dam and another city yesterday. people say it was probably too late but in support of what the administration has done. where we're seeing criticism is what happens in syria. the administration is taking on a lot of political water for being cautious in some cases what people would say overly cautious about this from the administration's perspective, they don't want to do anything that would be too disruptive without knowing what the

consequences will be. they want to be prudent about this. what i've heard from people who talk with the administration is that one of the reasons they don't want to simply react to events as they unfold is because if the united states goes aggressively into syria, whether it's through bombs or tactical forces on ground, it serves as a disensen tif for allied countries to join them. we've seen what that has done in the middle east in the past decade. that's one of the reasons why the administration is being cautious here. but it's very obvious that they are taking on a lot of political heat because of it. >> it's interesting. they've also kind of fallen in the trap a little bit to a degree in ukraine in terms of freeloading of allies with us taking the lead. >> sam stein, thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks, luke. >> president obama hit the trail yesterday to try to steer the conversation back to the economy. is his message breaking through? i'll discuss with david corn next on "now."

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help with his approval rating below 40% in hotly contested states. the new york times reports, national democratic leaders have essentially encouraged their party's candidates to make sure their differences with the president. joining me now, washington bureau chief of mother jones, david corn. >> good to be with you, luke. >> president obama is trying to make the minimum wage a big issue, essentially though you see in a place like wisconsin where he's still somewhat popular in urban centers there and other swing states like pennsylvania, north carolina. trying to sort of get out the vote, this get out the vote effort. the one thing i hear from democratic operatives who are trying to push back on this narrative that the republican senate majority is in the bag is remember our get out the vote effort in 2012. it was vastly superior.

how would you gauge that? >> they have a model in terms of getting die-hard voters out. did it in 2014 and terry mcauliffe race last year in an off-year election when people thought the democrats usually don't do so well. they are very good at targeting the obvious groups, union voters, single women on reproductive rights issues, minority voters, african-americans, gay voters. and trying to target them. it's very hard to sort of get some of those voters to change their mind. might not have too good a job with independents but if these are low turnout elections, they think they have a fighting chance. doesn't mean they think they are going to win. you send the president out there and he pumps up the issues they care about in terms of minimum wage and equal pay for women and try to show his own voters that they have some skin in this game or convince them that they have skin in the game. >> and if you look at the

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doorstep, the likes of which europe has not seen since world world ii. putin was quoted as saying he could take kiev in two weeks if he wanted. putin claims it was taken out of context. as fighting in eastern ukraine rages on. there are reports today that the ukrainian military pulled back its forces from a second key airport near donetsk. after losing the battle for the airport near liluhansk. nato is now weighing a rapid response force capable of quick deployment to the region. the white house wouldn't say today whether that could include any u.s. troops but said that the response force will be part of the discussions at the nato summit in wales later this week. joining me now is the author of politico, susan glasser. thanks for being on the program.

i was struck by a comment that vladimir putin made recently that he rejected the idea of statehood and possibility of what could come for eastern ukraine, his pr guy quickly walked that back, no, no, mr. putin was not implying a state hood in that sense, just sort of still strong ties between russia and eastern ukraine. is this idea being pushed back statehood being pushed by putin really a new gam bit by him. how significant is it? >> luke, i think you're right to flag that as something very important. remember in the last few months, you've heard the russians not putin personally but you've heard other russians talk about this supposed country that they are working on. this is note something when i was stationed in moscow you heard anyone talk about. it's very significant. they are out there trying to prop gate this idea that there should be a new legal entity, new state called new russia.

so i think that putin -- it was not a mere slip of the tongue over the weekend when president putin started to talk about sovereignty and possible statehood for this entity. that does seem a part of the case that they are now making. and i think obviously for president obama, this is going to be front and center and what his entire trip to europe this week is about, how to respond to this russian -- both military and political assault on the neighboring country of ukraine. >> it's hard to see a slip of the tongue and a press conference on your own state media channel with your own state approved interviewing. all of that being said, we were talking earlier and president obama will go to estonia. some members of the eu have been reluctant to really push forward aggressive sanctions that outside observers say are necessary to try and bring russia from having all of this influence in eastern ukraine. can nato fill that gap that the eu will not fill because of

their hesitancy in pushing sanctions because so much of their energy is dependent on russia? >> i do think you'll see a marked change in the conversation this week, by moving away from the purely economic realm that europe and united states have been focusing on up until now. we're going to be now having a security conversation around what more nato can do militarily, whether it's in establishing bases in eastern europe, where they have not been before and president of estonia, in fact has come out and said that's exactly whattize going to be asking president obama and other leaders for. it's unclear they would say yes to this but you're going to have a big robust conversation around whether there should be more significant military aid going to the ukrainian army for now the united states has been reluctant to provide that kind of assistance. i think there's going to be a robust debate inside the administration here in washington and with nato allies

at the summit this week around that particular question. >> and that question of military aid, the president is taking heat from republicans and democrats on this. bob menendez, senate foreign relations committee said in an interview, we should be providing ukrainians with the types of defensive weapons that will impose a cost upon putin for further aggression. how far can the u.s. really go down that road of giving defensive weaponry to ukraine and perhaps other nato countries in the area without really angering the russians and perhaps reprovoking them to move further? >> well, look, i think there clearly is more that the united states can do militarily. that's the sense i have, that that debate is already taking place inside the administration here in washington, that it's not just senator menendez on the outside but there are people inside who would like to do more and believe we can do more when it comes to providing lethal aid. president obama himself has both

ruled out the use of u.s. military force in this emerging conflict and also up until now has held the line against that kind of aid. but i think you're going to see that menendez is not alone in making calls for that but europe remains very divided. what the eastern europeans what to do is different than the french or germans what to do. >> susan glasser, thanks so much for joining us. take care. >> coming up, the battle lines drawn by isis are putting america on the same side as iran, al assad and shiite militants. the woodrow wilson center miller joins me to discuss it next on "now." but we have these three beautiful little girls, and they make us look like amateurs. so i'm living in a world of tiny sweaters and dolphins and weird greasy mystery stains. i'm gonna get you. but this new tide ultra stain release

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arrogantly rejected all warnings and tried to make this a dispute between iraq and

united states of america. well he failed. tonight 28 nations, countries from five continents and europe and asia and africa and arab league have forces in the gulf area standing shoulder to shoulder against saddam hussein. >> that was president george h.w. bush you can ses any managed to assemble a coalition to stop saddam hussein. can president obama do the same thing to stop isis? leading a coalition of this character is hard, uncertain work. george h.w. bush, the president whose foreign policy president obama seems to admire most did it successfully in 1991 by intensive personal engage many. the task of assembling the coalition against isis will fall to john kerry and secretary of defense chuck hagel at this week's nato summit. in a new york times op-ed, kerry said dozens of nations have

already rallied to the cause and the goal will be to enlist the broadest possible assistance. following their pitch to nature toe allies, secretaries kerry and hagle will travel to the middle east. >> already reaching out to a range of countries that have a range of backgrounds and populations to address this threat. there are different capabilities and different countries will have. it may be humanitarian and military or financial. nato is an opportunity to discuss that. the president spent time over the weekend talking to counterparts and around the world and that effort will continue. >> joining me now is distinguished scholar at the woodrow wilson center and author of the end of greatness, why america can't have and doesn't want another great president. he is aaron david miller. thank you so much for being on the show. >> pleasure. >> i'll start with a question here regarding the ability of president obama to put together that type of coalition that

george hw. bush was able to achieve in 1991. how can the u.s. put together a coalition like that and how can we do it so the u.s. does not become the face of the coalition and in fact basically ends up doing the work with the allies getting a free ride, which is some concern about that in the white house? >> i worked for bush xli and this isn't the same problem. not in the same way, i suspect that former president bush did. saddam invaded kuwait and they vulnerable to attack. extraordinary sense of urgency. there was oil, there was the prospects of weapons of mass destruction, saudis were our allies and threatened. there was an urgency in i am nens and relentlessness in some respect to saddam's actual invasion, not even akin to

putin's invasion of ukraine. a different sort of coalition led primarily about military forces in the united states. the largest single projection of military force since the end of the vietnam war. this is a very risk adverse president and relatively risk adverse american public, we are not going to forge the type of coalition that allows for thousands of boots on ground in iraq and syria. it's much more sophisticated and difficult and it's exacerbated by the fact we have to rely to a degree, we really didn't to that extent on regional allies because if isis is going to be defeated, it took ten years to beat al qaeda. a decade. it could take 20 to actually deal with the isis threat. obama is going to be gone frankly within -- he's got about 1,000 days less in his

presidency and successor will have to deal with the isis problem. we're going to need regional allies and kurds and iranians are a mixed blessing here. the enemy of my enemy is my friend and that's a cute phrase and works often. >> the iranians and u.s. have this unlikely alliance, "new york times" said the fight appears to be the first time ma slish shas backed by iran worked with a common purpose even though the obama administration said there is no direct coordination with the militias. how long is something like that feasible, this sort of not a direct alliance, but a sort of common understanding that we both want to attack isis. that doesn't have a long-term prognosis sis for success, does it? >> no, it doesn't. without a kind of reframing of u.s./iranian relationship and kind of change in iran's behavior and so many other

issues, it's a marriage of convenience at best. we have to be careful frankly that we don't identify too closely and do not become the arm and instrument of the shia community. that's in large part what happened in iraq with maliki alienating so many sunnis, iraq but luke, you haven't put out the strangest bedfellow, which is bashar al assad. >> i'll ask you an academic question, is it possible to get this type of co-is a ligs in this day in age, where social media, that governments can become more fearful because they have the ability to rise up more so than in 1991, if they were upset with the alliance with the united states. >> i won't look for dramatic

endings for this one. isis is really a threat to the region and ultimately to us. >> the woodrow wilson center, aaron david miller. we appreciate it. >> pleasure. >> eric cantor may have been fired by virginia voters earlier this year but his new gig will pay 26 times the average income in his old district. i'll tell you who hired him next on "now."

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you had a great labor day weekend. we start with breaking news, there are reports american journalist steven sotloff was beheaded by isis. the white house said the intelligence community is working as quickly as possible to determine if the video is genuine. this is a freeze frame from the alleged video, is sis has not officially released the footage but sotloff has been missing since august of 2013. the reported murder comes a week after sotloff's mother made a plea to isis to release her son. >> i ask you to please release my child. as a mother i ask your justice to be merciful and not punish my son for matters he has no control over. >> sotloff's