american national guardsman turned islamic militant. >> the responsibility of the islamic state is to protect those who can't protect themselves. if it's not assad dropping a barrel bomb, it's going to be obama launching a drone strike. so it matters not to me who the enemy is. >> civil wrongs. the justice department now investigating the ferguson, missouri, police force and alleges of racial profiling. and the excessive use of force. how is it playing with town leaders? >> the department of justice feels they can shed light on this, we hope that we'll have an opportunity to tell our side of the story. >> plus, shark attack. two kayakers have a close encounter with a great white off the coast of massachusetts. >> i saw at least four feet of its head. four feet of it came up out of the water.

good day. i'm andrea mitchel in new york. president obama and world leaders are at the nato summit in wales today confronting russia's challenge to the military alliance and the growing threat of islamic terrorists like isis or isil to the u.s. homeland. maybe one of the most consequential meetings in decades. how will nato respond? i'm joined by lisa monaco, the president's top adviser an homeland security and counterterrorism. thanks for being with us. first of all, at the nato meeting, they are taking up the issue of isil or isis. how serious is the isil threat? >> thanks for having me, andrea. the isil threat first and foremost is a regional threat. it poses a threat to our personnel in the region. and that's why you have seen the president take decisive action

to make sure that we protect our personnel, that we protect vulnerable populations in iraq. and that we are working to build an inclusive iraqi government and also to build up the iraqi security forces. so we can combat what is a shared threat and a regional threat. >> it's a regional threat. also a threat to our home ln and you are primarily responsible for all of the above. our own richard engel reported on an american from north carolina. he was a former member of the national guard. his name is daniel morgan. he went to syria to enlist in isil. he returned, was arraigned today on an unrelated weapons charge in north carolina. what's your reaction to his case or a similar case of americans going over there and fighting in syria with isil? >> well, andrea, any time you see an organization like isil that has demonstrated military prowess, freedom of movement, has safe havens, has secured

manpower in the form including of western passport holders, has secured resources, money and other resources. we are going to be very concerned about the potential threat that poses to the homeland. chiefly, in the form of foreign fighters like the report you mentioned. >> joe biden made it really visceral. this is what he said in response to the latest beheading, the murder of steven sotloff and james foley before him. >> as a nation, we're united. and when people harm americans, we don't retreat. we don't forget. we take care of those who are grieving and when that's finished, they should know we will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice. because hell is where they will reside. hell is where they will reside.

>> he's clearly reflecting american anger, the president ui'm sure, feels the same way. how do you follow isil to the gates of hell if we're not yet prepared to follow them to their headquarters in syria? >> well, andrea, what you saw from vice president biden is a shared sentiment. the brutality that we have seen from isil. our heart goes out to the foley and sotloff families who we've lost two brave americans, two brave journalists who were there reporting on the horrible situation in iraq and syria. what you saw reflected in the vice president's comments and in the president's comments is a determination to disrupt, degrade and ultimately to defeat isil. we have a comprehensive strategy that we are working on. we have a plan to build a

regional and international coalition. and you've heard the president speak about that. and secretary hagel and secretary kerry and myself will all be in the region in the coming days to build that coalition. and make no mistake about the resolve of this government to combat this threat. >> there was one of our closest allies is the uae, and from there, ambassador to the united states, there was this comment about isis. islamic extremism is a middle east problem, but it is quickly becoming the world's problem, too. now is the time to act. the uae is ready to join the international community in an urgent, coordinated and sustained effort to confront a threat that will if unchecked, have global ramifications for decades to come. are we going to get help from our allies, from the uae, saudis, from turkey, from jordan. are they going to do things militarily to help if we end up going after isil in syria? >> i believe we'll get that help, andrea.

and we welcome and commend the statement of the uae yesterday. and we expect to secure other such commitments. and the reason we're confident about that is because isil poses a threat, first and foremost to our partners in the region. and what we're seeing is for really the first time, this threat forming a common goal and galvanizing our partners. and i am confident that we can build on the coalition that we've already seen take some steps in terms of arming and assisting the iraqi security forces and the peshmerga and in assisting in humanitarian aid in iraq and in syria. and so i'm confident that we will see more such statements. >> one of the reasons why the president has been cautious in his approach wanting to see the plans before he moves is the

lessons of saddam hussein, lessons of what happens if you go after assad and don't have the right rebel -- mix of rebel groups. and look what happened in libya. we had only the last couple of days militia groups taking over one of the american residents there in tripoli, swan diving into the swimming pool. we took out gadhafi, but were we really not prepared for the day after? isn't that one of the concerns? if you go after isil, you strengthen assad. if you go after assad, you strengthen isil. >> well, there's no doubt that it's a complex set of problems and considerations. and what you've seen the president talk about is the need to be deliberate and that's exactly what he's doing. the need to build a regional and international coalition. because that's the only way we'll be able to achieve this defeat strategy. and it's going to take time. any counterterrorism professional will tell you that there's a continuum.

there is disrupting immediate threats and potential harms to our people. there is degrading, and combating that threat on a regular basis. and ultimately, there is defeat. and that is going to require all elements of our national power and it's going to require regional and international partners. >> lisa monaco and safe travels to you and good luck as you are working on trying to build that coalition of the willing. thank you very much for being with us today. >> thanks, andrea. >> and the justice department today opening a federal civil rights investigation into whether the ferguson, missouri, police department racially profiled and also used excessive force. joining me is nbc's ron allen live in ferguson and nbc justice correspondent pete williams. pete, we should make it clear, this is not specific to the michael brown case. this is the larger issue of what has been going on for a while in ferguson, which they are going to announce later today. >> right. they'll be looking at the

conduct of the police department over the past several years. the issue is whether there is a pattern of civil rights violations. so it will be a much wider investigation than the one already under way into last month's fatal police shooting of an unarmed teenager. the government will look at complaints of excessive use of force and other potential violations of the civil rights of the people that the police come into contact with and arrest. the justice department will also be looking at the practices of the st. louis county police but a government official says that will be a more cooperative investigation. so one issue is likely to be the police department's hiring practices. the community is about two-thirds black. but only about four of the 53 officers in ferguson are black. this has been something that the attorney general eric holder has used more aggressively since he's been in office. these pattern and practice investigations in big cities and small towns. about three dozen under way now. >> ron allen, you've been on the ground. you've just interviewed the

mayor and police chief. let me play a little bit of their response to this anticipated investigation. >> if that's what they are going to look at and that's what they are looking at, policies, procedures and practices, i'm confident we've been making strides over the past several years to improve that and i hope the department of justice will recognize that. >> we've done an excellent job policing this community. and we continue to police the community every day. we answer calls and respond to the citizens. >> ron, is that the reality that you've been covering there on the streets of ferguson? >> not necessarily, andrea. when we were here last week and the week before covering the michael brown incident, there were countless people who came forward with stories about being harassed by the police. young african-american men being stopped for no apparent reason. they claim excessive force. there's just seems to be a real disconnect between the heart of the urban community here and the police force. some of it has to do with the demographics. the police force is primarily

white. the community is primarily black. and people don't connect. they don't see themselves there when an officer comes. they don't feel the officers understand their likes, needs, concerns. now how many of those cases are real and could rise to the level of a civil rights case? it's unclear. the cops and the authorities here say that in the aftermath of the michael brown incident there's been what they called a piling on where there have been a number of cases they say have been settled that are now coming out again. and they think that these are opportunists coming forward to try and take advantage of them while they are perhaps on their heels if you will. but it is clear that there's lack of mistrust here. clear that many people in this community do not believe that the police act in their best interest. and there were people calling for eric holder to come and hope up a wide investigation in the days before the michael brown case. people were saying there are deep-seeded problems here that go back for a long time. not just in this small part of

st. louis county, but the couny jr generally. also the militarization of the police force during the sometimes peaceful and sometimes violent protests. the police force said they have all the equipment they need. they think that perhaps there was perhaps some of the wrong tactics used against the protesters, but they were very confident and positive when they said, talking about what they have, that they need, that they don't think that they've become too militaristic. the bottom line, there's a lot of bad feelings between the community and the police and that seems to be what the justice department wants to get to the bottom of. >> thanks to ron and pete. >> there's a court ruling, an interim ruling on health care which is a partial victory at least for the obama administration on the mandated health care law. >> it's a big victory for the obama administration. and here's why. the question is, whether the

obama care law allows a subsidy for people who buy their insurance on the federal exchange and that's, of course, most of the people who get their insurance. only about one-third of the states have state exchanges. so that's the vast bulk. on one day in july, we had two different rulings on this. the d.c. court of appeals here, a three-judge panel said you can't get the subsidy. the fourth circuit said, yes, you can. well, today the full d.c. court of appeals said it will rehear the case. which was what the obama administration had asked it to do. that has two effects. first it erases the lower court ruling. now there's no longer a split on this. and it puts the matter before a court that is generally thought to be more favorable to the obama administration on this question, and it also probably means now that we won't get this in the coming term of the u.s. supreme court. >> thanks for clarifying all of that breaking news. pete williams, thank you very much and thanks to ron allen, of course. coming up -- the recruit.

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the pentagon says more than 100 american fighters have joined isis in syria. nbc's richard engel introduces us to one of them. >> islamic name is nasar abdul rahim. >> this is american donald morgan. nbc news interviewed him in beirut through a freelance journalist. he didn't hide his intentions to join isis. >> i purchased a ticket with the intent of entering the syria either joining up with medical and food aid convoys or directly with islamic state. >> reporter: morgan was raised catholic and educated at a military academy. >> my entire life growing up was

surrounded by the idea that i would be 82nd airborne. i would be special forces. i would serve dutiful, duty, honor and country. >> reporter: now he speaks of his country as a potential enemy and of isis, also called the islamic state, as a savior. >> the responsibility of the islamic state is to protect those who can't protect themselves. if it's not assad dropping a barrel bomb it's going to be obama launching a drone strike. so it matters not to me who the enemy is. >> reporter: morgan wasn't always like this. he served in the national guard, worked as a deputy sheriff, living in salsbury, north carolina. this is the house where don morgan lived. at the end of a quiet street in a middle class neighborhood. and the question on the minds of his co-workers and neighbors is why would someone want to leave suburban north carolina to join the vicious fight in syria?

>> it is frightening that someone could go to that extreme. >> reporter: brian beaver has known morgan for 15 years. >> i would say he was a certain on edge. it was like, what's it going to take to -- this guy is going to fall off the handle one day. >> reporter: after getting in trouble with the law, morgan, an amateur body build ir, converted to islam in 2008. he followed the wars in the middle east on the internet. under the twitter handle abu omar al amreeki he pledged al g allegiance to the leader, head of the caliphate. morgan tried to center syria, traveling through turkey but was turned away at the airport and deported to lebanon. running low on money, he decided to go back to the u.s. aware of the risk. >> i think there's a strong possibility that they'll charge me with supporting terrorist

organizations and participating in terrorist activities. >> and richard engel joins me from turkey, not far from the syrian border. morgan came back to the united states. he pleaded not guilty to one count of possession of firearm. this is an unrelated charge. what happens next to him and what about other recruits because isis or isil had been so active in social media, they really are recruiting through the most modern techniques. >> isis has created a virtual state. an effective domain in syria and iraq. it is putting out lots of propaganda. claiming successes, claiming to create this paradise on earth where all are welcome to join the fight and that the islamic caliphate is just the beginning and will continue to spread. there's a certain segment of society, in europe in the arab world and in the united states

that finds this kind of thing appealing. you heard in that interview that don morgan was afraid to go back to the u.s. he thought that he could be charged potentially with supporting a terrorist organization. after our interview, he did go back to the u.s. and he was arrested at jfk airport. he was arrested in early august, as soon as he landed. but he wasn't charged with terrorism. he was arrested -- he's accused of trying to sell a firearm online. and because of a previous felony conviction that morgan had, it would be illegal for him to own a firearm, let alone try to sell one. today, morgan was in court. he is still in u.s. custody, and he was in north carolina. he pleaded not guilty to that weapons charge. and it remains to be seen if the charges will be escalated, and he'll be accused of some sort of

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of all the big senate races we've been covering all year, could it be possible the race in conservative kansas is the one that could help democrats keep control? joining me for our daily fix, chris cillizza. "usa today" washington bureau chief and kansas native susan paige. and the host of "up with steve kornacki," nbc's steve kornacki. tell us about greg orman and why we care about him today. >> this is the perfect early morning weekend show, you put a random guy on from kansas and two weeks later -- >> it is the weekend early morning show. >> thank you. so we saw what a lot of people saw two weeks ago. there was this poll that showed this independent candidate greg orman in kansas pulling over 20% in the race against pat roberts. pat roberts was leading overall. but if you took the democrat out and he didn't have much support

from his party, greg orman shot into the lead. we thought let's have this guy on and if he gets in the senate, what's going to happen. which party will you caucus with if you win. he wouldn't say. >> let's in fact, play that. >> sure. >> if i get elected, there's a reasonable chance neither party will have a majority in washington. if that's the case, what i've said is i'm going to caucus with whichever party is willing to actually go to washington and try to solve problems as opposed to just pleasing the extremists in their own base. >> translation, i will caucus with whichever party i can throw control to. >> the impression i have is he's probably more of a democrat than a republican. he'd almost run as a democrat against pat roberts, but if it got in the situation where republicans had 52 seats, it doesn't really matter which side in terms of control he'd go with the republicans. if it does matter he'd go with the democrats.

that's the expectation. but it's not something he wants to be saying running for office in a state like kansas. >> susan paige who knows kansas so well, let's talk about what's happening here. pat roberts, a veteran senator, but does he have a residency problem, one of those problems we've seen pop up in other races which was not very favorable for dick lugar, for instance? >> he lives in alexandria, virginia, not in kansas anymore. he has an address in kansas that's just a recliner in the home of some supporters. that feeds the perception that he's not very connected to the state anymore. that's a dangerous place for a candidate from anywhere to be. kansas is a pretty conservative state, pretty republican state. i doubt greg orman could win as a democrat. but there's a landscape here that makes it possible for an independent to draw supporters from this fractured republican party in kansas and the small number of democrats, about 25% of the state are democrats.

and actually be a veteran republican senator. it is remarkable. chris cillizza, what about claire mccaskill. is it conceivable that claire mccaskill played some role in pushing chad taylor, the democrat, out of the race and giving orman a better chance at defeating pat roberts? >> let's say it's not inconceivable that that happened, andrea. look, i had heard and steve smartly had orman on. i heard around the same time something is going on in the state. orman is really well organized. orman is passing up taylor. that taylor was sort of dropping off. orman was rising. now i don't think -- it's not as though taylor bore a huge amount of loyalty to the democratic party big wigs. he had sort of -- they didn't really recruit him. this wasn't a targeted race. so my guess was something was presented to him that made him want to leave the race at such a late date. they quite clearly have a better

chance with orman though i would say and steven notes this, but it's a better chance. orman can't be labeled as a democrat any way, shape or form because then you're back to the republican in kansas verses democrat in kansas. it's been since the 30s since a democrat won a senate race in kansas. he has to stay in that middle ground. take advantage of the split driven by conserve of a republican governor sam brownback within the state's republican party and appeal a ton of republicans up. this is not an easy task by any means. why democrats have a better chance today than they did 48 hours ago, but it's not a 50/50 chance. >> and then there's chris christie, down in mexico. and steve kornacki, you've been a chris christie watcher and have covered him intensively. there has been a lot bubbling up on whether or not there was going to be a potential conflict of interest involved in the investigation. here he is in mexico, not going to the border and trying to drum

up business for new jersey in mexico. not talking about immigration. and also sort of stepping it up a little on foreign policy issues. >> it illustrates there's an awareness. when you look at the fact he's in central america, the fact he's in mexico, there's an awareness of the importance of the latino vote to the republican party and a simultaneous awareness of you can't touch immigration as a republican presidential candidate in any other way than skepticism if not outright hostility. he wants to stay away from the issue but seen to be reaching out to voters. chris christie brings a little extra baggage. back in his new jersey days he said things on immigration that made him particularly a suspicious figure to conservatives in the national conservative party. he can't go any further than he's gone. he's backtracked a lot from that. that's the awkward position of the entire party he's in. >> to speaking of awkward positions, susan page, the president who promised a decision by the end of the

summer now signaling that -- not so fast. they're not going to try to deal with immigration in a big way before the midterms. >> yet another, i think, unforced error on the part of president obama. not really a need for him to put out a timetable. now it looks like they won't meet that timetable. that will be dismay news to supporters. especially latino ones who have been waiting for more dramatic action when it comes to immigration and opens up the charge he's only waiting for political reasons to get past the midterm elections to avoid hurting the prospects of republican senate candidates in red states. and that criticism most likely true. >> well, thank you susan page and steve kornacki and chrissils i chris cillizza. you can catch "up with steve kornacki" here at 8:00 a.m. on weekends. stephen colbert thinks this calls for a different president, frank underwood.

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the world health organization is now predicting the ebola outbreak could reach more than 20,000 people around the world. it's also taking a toll, even of those not of infected by the virus. that's because of food riots caused by shortages. deliveries have become bottlenecked by the health crisis. usaid has been instrumental in

providing relief throughout the ravaged reason. joining us to break some news on how the obama administration is ramping up america's response, u.s. aid administrator dr. rajiv shaw. tell me what is next. what can the u.s. do to help these regions in africa? >> well, thank you, andrea. thank you for highlighting that this is in fact, a christmas cri -- tremendous crisis with so many ebola cases already confirmed and more than 1900 deaths. this really is as dr. tom friedman noted, an epidemic. especially in liberia. we're accelerating our response. we're announcing today a commitment to make more than $75 million of additional funding available, bringing the total u.s. government and u.s. aid response up to almost $100 million. but it's not really about the money. it's about the effectiveness on the ground at saving lives and helping to tamp down the epideming.

these new resources will help stand up, we hope, 1,000 medical beds so that people with ebola can get treatment inside liberia, as well as scaling up critical prevention measures, including how people handle burying dead bodies. we actually had a shipment of body bags arrive in liberia because that's what's critical to allow for safe, dignified burials that do not further the transmission of this horrific disease. >> and dr. shaw, i wanted to share with you something that our teams in monrovia, i believe, had shot. and this was just how dire the crisis is. this was a hospitalized patient. the man, you see a man in a red shirt. he escaped from quarantine because he was starving in the hospital trying to get food on the outside and they surrounded him and eventually those workers who obviously are dressed in protective gear got him and put him back in the back of a truck

to get him back into quarantine. the fact is even those who are in hospital don't have enough food to eat. >> well, that's right, andrea. i spoke with president johnson of liberia just yesterday and we discussed accelerating support for a variety of projects including providing resources for her to keep her government and health system functioning. providing significant amounts of food, water and other humanitarian commodities throughout the country to make sure people have adequate nutrition which, as you point out, is a critical and urgent and immediate need. and scaling up the treatment response which, you know, you need people like that to be getting effective medical care. and, frankly, it's been hard to get medical workers to go to liberia and provide critical care services. that's why today we're asking american critical care personnel, nurses, doctors, physicians, assistants who want to volunteer to be part of this response to please go to

usaid.gov and register. we have a network of ngos and medical organizations standing by ready to train and receive volunteers. and we're putting in place treatment and medical evacuation so that volunteers can be assured that they will have protective equipment and access to effective medical care and they can, in fact, be safe as they do incredible humanitarian work in trying to save lives an the ground. >> this is really important. we'll help push this out on all of our -- on social media and on our websites. the issue is, can people, how will they be supported as they go and volunteer? do you have the money? usaid has been dialing wieal wi around the world. where are you going to get the funds to protect them while they are there delivering medical care? >> we're working with congress to make this real. and viable. we've announced $75 million to

help make sure the resources are there on the ground immediately to support this response. in addition to that, we have more than 100 u.s. government personnel. these are first responders, disaster assistance specialists, epidemiologists, technical leaders from the centers of disease control that are helping to support the government and international organizations like the world health organization in leading the response. and perhaps most importantly, we do now have a series of partners who are ready to provide and build out ebola treatment units throughout liberia. but they are asking us to help find medical volunteers. so our assurance to medical volunteers is, we will do our best to protect their safety and ensure that their families know that they'll be cared for during this response. but we really do -- now is the time we desperately need hundreds of critical care nurses, medical doctors, trained physician assistants.

they will get professional training on how to be part of an ebola treatment unit and most of all, they'll be safe as they are helping to prevent a very significant epidemic from wreaking even more havoc and destruction on the country of liberia and the entire region in west africa. >> and the website again is usaid.gov? >> the website is usaid.gov. from there you can link to a registry if you apply through that process. we are taking all comers and we'll have you sent and connected to an ngo or medical organization that can use your skills and services. and we will be able to provide the kind of training and protection so medical workers know they'll be safe as they scale up what really will be, i hope, a historic response that prevents an even broader catastrophe. >> this is a really important appeal. i'm glad we can do what little we can to help. thanks for everything you and your teams are doing. >> thank you so much, andrea. and coming up next from restaurants to rallies, fast

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to unionize. how is this -- do they think, going to help the cause? >> well, you know, these protests, these fight for 15 protests have been going on since late 2012 and today organizers say they are starting a new chapter. and that chapter is civil disobedience. they've decided one of the best ways to raise awareness about the low wages for fast food workers in this country, one of the best ways to do that is to have folks get arrested. this morning, there were 19 arrests, as you indicated. 15 men, four women got arrested outside a mcdonald's in times square. right now at the corner of eighth and 56th. and i can tell you, i just saw probably about two dozen additional arrests as well. i want to show you the scene behind me. you can probably see police -- a number of policemen wrapping things up. that protest just wrapped up about ten minutes ago. it may have gone 15, 20 minutes,

max. but i talked to a member of the protesters this morning. fast food workers, members of cler clergy. we haven't seen any of the home health care workers here, but they tell me they don't expect this is something that is going to happen overnight. that, in the next six months we're going to see the minimum wage for fast food workers or minimum wage in general go up. but they do hope that this is part of a larger movement and this continues to give their movement life and breath. >> we should point out that mcdonald's issues a statement saying mcdonald's and our independent franchises support paying our valued employees fair wages aligned with a competitive marketplace. we believe that any minimum wage increase should be implemented over time. wendy's statement was, we're proud to give thousands of people who come to us for an entry-level job the opportunity to learn and develop important skills so they can grow with us or move on to something else. so, greg, this is a long-term

process, but you're out there right in the middle of it. thank you, craig melvin. middown manhattan. i want to take a moment for a personal note. i want to recognize a friend and colleague ann compton. she's covering her last presidential summit after an incredible 41 years as a network correspondent. she'll be retiring next week after her record-breaking run. most of it at the white house. president obama echoed the sentiments of all of white house work with ann going back to gerald ford's presidency. >> ann compton, everybody here knows is not only the consummate professional but is also just a pleasure to get to know. i was proud to be able to hug her grandbaby recently, and i suspect that may have something to do with her decision. but i just want to say publicly, ann, we're going to miss you, and we're very, very proud of the extraordinary career and work that you've done. and we hope you're not a

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so which political story will make headlines in the next 24 snow showers chris cillizza is back with us. hillary clinton and harry reid headlining in las vegas. it's an energy conference. there will be no interviews other than a staged interview with bill clinton's former chief of staff, top official in the obama white house now, don podesta, asking her questions an stage. i believe it was harry reid who first went to barack obama when he was a seniority freshman and said why don't you run and told him he could be president. >> absolutely. harry reid, i think, one of the first people not in the obama inner circle who was very encouraging of the then freshman senator, getting a lot of attention, but i think even in his own mind wasn't sure if it

was something he could do. look, i do think other people will run for the democratic presidential nomination. i think martin o'malley, the current governor of maryland may run. bernie sanders, senator from vermont may well run. but this -- the analog of this, the 2008 is not accurate. hillary clinton is the front-runner now, as she was then. but there is no figure outside of eliz beths warren who certainly seems uninterested in running, who is coalescing another base of support other than hillary clinton. and it seems many of the people, claire mccaskill, tim kaine, these are the people early endorsers of obama against hillary clinton. they are now all publicly for her. even chichi hasn't announced yet. >> she'll be in iowa on september 14th. >> that's pure coincidence, i'm sure. >> anyway, thank you very much, chris cillizza. we'll see you in washington. that's does if for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." follow the show online, on

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they sid, quote, if terrorists think we'll weaken in the face of their threats they could not be more wrong. countries like britain and america will not be cowed by barbaric killers. it was published on the first day of the nato meeting in wales. david cameron opened the session an a dire note. >> we meet in a crucial time in the history of our alliance. the world faces many dangerous and evolving threats, and it is absolutely clear that nato is as vital to our future as it has been in our past. >> just a couple minutes, we'll take a closer look at the resources sustaining isis. and talk to one senator who has a plan to cut off those resources. here at home, we've just received words of eight new charges filed, including murder in the grand jury indictment against that georgia father whose toddler died after being left alone in a hot car. justin ross harris told police he was supposed to take his son to day care but