stunning. the ignorance of the new jersey county prosecutor who walked ray rice is incredible. >> that prosecutor should lose his job. >> it's way too early morning joe. right now it's time for peter alexander and "the daily rundown." new developments this morning in the ray rice assault and suspension. the nfl says the league did not have access to that shocking tape from inside the atlantic city elevator as questions rise over the intensity of its own investigation. meantime, president obama tries to secure congressional support for the next steps in stopping isis. are international allies ready to line up with the u.s. to help make that happen? . plus, scott brown's bid in new hampshire. and also on the ballot for the last primary day of 2014.

good morning from washington. i'm peter alexander. it's tuesday, september 9th, 2014. we expect the latest ebola patient to arrive in atlanta. we want to begin with the white house finalizing a plan to beat isis. aides insisting president obama will go wherever is necessary. but the president want this is to be an international effort. and he's dispatching his secretary of state, john kerry, to visit with key arab allies, jordan and saudi arabia. >> i will travel to the middle east to continue to build the broadest possible global partners to confront, degrate and defeat isol. >> u.s. officials including kerry hailed iraq's formation of a unity government late monday as what they describe as a major

milestone. president obama called the new iraqi prime minister who committed to work with all in iraq. many sunnis and kurds remain skeptical. defense officials say a round of deadly air strikes in iraq over the last 48 hours killed 60 to 70 isis fighters. will the president extend the strikes into syria? with options still under consideration, senior administration officials tell me likely tark likely targets could include weapons supplies and training. as kerry and chuck hagel try to build this coalition abroad, the president begins laying out his case here at home. last night he had dinner with a bipartisan group of foreign policy advisers.

an opportunity to preview and sell his plan to opinion leaders. this time he will meet with congressional leaders. they will brief members of the senate and house members on thursday. they are not viewed as being keen to have a war authorization vote. a lot of them believe the president should formally come to congress. >> congress have to have a war in declaring war. one generation can't bind another generation. you can't vote in 2001 and say that allows us to commit war in 2014. >> what i believe is constitutionally required, but also ultimately the best thing for the the men and women we're going to ask to risk their lives is for him not to tell congress what's up, but to seek congress' approv approval. >> new polling shows america views isis as a serious threat. 71% say they support air strikes

in iraq. that's up from 54% three weeks ago and 45%? june, and 65% support air strikes in syria. more than double the support for strikes a year ago after the syrian government used kep call weapons on its own people. 61% of americans oppose u.s. boots on the ground in either country. that's spg the president told chuck todd he hads ruled out. kelly o'donnell is live on capitol hill. i want to get your sense. we know former president dick cheney will be meeting with house republicans. this was a previously scheduled event. how much does the specter of the iraq war hang over the debate in congress? >> sometimes timing does bring some comparisons. and because this was previously scheduled and it's off campus nearby capitol hill but not at the capitol itself, there is so much of the sort of echoes of that war authorization and what

it meant both to the country and what it meant politically to members as you heard rand paul talking about the vote before he was in the senate. the specter of iraq definitely hangs over this. at the same time. there's a strong real estate among members of both parties that the isis threat is real and will require the u.s. taking some form of action that is still to be determined. so you're hearing different takes. some believe the president has the full authority. others who want to see, especially if any won't of combat forces on the ground, congressional action. we also have the realities of the calendar. there's a limited amount of time before the midterm elections. both the house and the senate have a tentative time line of being able to wrap up their own business by the end of september, allowing them to be in their home states and districts to campaign in

october. that means limited debate in a formal sense and certainly limited time in a vote. sort of the guidance i'm getting from people in both parties is there is no big expectation that the president will ask for a formal thorks or additional funding. but i was also cautioned that the meeting with the top four con gregs nad leaders will be an instructive and important meeting. a real meeting to talk about what do congress members want and what does the white house feel it needs in going forward. peter? >> the white house saying it wants to begin the conversation. kelly o'donnell on capitol hill. thank you so much. we want to bring in angus king of maine. he's joining us now live. senator, i appreciate your time. right off the bat, do you believe the president needs a war authorization vote to broaden strikes in iraq or to begin them in syria?

>> it depends entirely on what his real plan is. i think if he goes into syria, that's a different story. a lot depends on what the duration, what the plans are. whether they go beyond air strikes. i think we have to hear from the president starting this afternoon with the leadership and when he talks to the country. i suspect the president will not ask anything of congress. that still leaves the question of whether we ourselves should be debating this. i'm not comfortable with congress sitting back and criticizing and second guessing. particularly if the president is proposing a wider use of force than what's been gone so far. >> so let's get a sengs of where you stand as a member of congress. do you support air strikes?

>> well, the second part you said is most important. we have to define the mission. that's one of the things i want to hear from the president. what is the mission? what's the goal? what's the vital national interest at stake? >> what would satisfy you? what do you believe would make it wor think of strikes in syria? >> i think if the mission is to degrade isis, i think you have to go to syria. that's where their headquarters is. they're ignoring the border between syria and iraq. and i'm not sure we should pay special attention to it if that's where the head of the snake is. on the other hand. if we're talking about a broader kind of -- i've heard rumors of a three-year campaign, it should not, i don't believe, involve combat troops. we learned in iraq that doesn't really work. it has to be a coalition. it has to be an inclusive government to gain the confidence of the sunni

population where isis is located. if doesn't happen, nothing else will work. >> you said before that you doubt the u.s. can quote/unquote win against isis. i want to get a sense from you. are you concerned about what would fill the void in syria? sh if there were to be a short term campaign in iraq and syria, who fims that void? what happens when the u.s. ultimately leaves? >> well, ultimately this is a middle eastern war involving interests and historical differences that go back hundreds if not thousands of years. and those people ultimately have to make the decisions. that's a big lesson of iraq is that you need to have the local people making these decisions. and engaged in this struggle. i think one of the most important things is what happened yesterday with the new government in baghdad. the question is, it sounds good, but they didn't do interior and defense. those are the most important positions. and if those -- if the regime in baghdad is viewed as simply

shia, that excludes kurds and sunnis, then i think it's going to be practically impossible to dislodge isis from mosul and northern iraq, and eastern syria. >> senator very quickly, finally, did the the administration drag their feet? did they wait too long before taking action in syria? already reports are that the free syrian army, the rebel groups were decimated. there is no opposition group presently there because we waited so long. >> well, again, it's easy to second guess on that situation. i can tell you from having looked at it and worked on the syrian issue since arriving in congress a few years ago, it's one of the most complicated and difficult to assess. there were 1,200 opposition groups at one point last year. i think criticizing the administration for not acting sooner is pretty good 20/20

hindsight. at the same time, the approved course of arming the rebels that we could vet and assure weren't going to operate against our interest. even then i understand the weapons we supplied have fallen into the hands of isis. a very difficult situation. but now the president needs to tell us exactly what he wants to achieve and how he's going to do it and build that international coalition. zblf we'll wait to hear from the president tomorrow. senator king, we appreciate you time. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> the president told chucked to he has the power to expand air strikes into syria without congressional authorization. but yesterday josh earnest said that doesn't mean he doesn't want congressional involvement. take a listen. >> it's important in the mind of the president for congress to be a partner in these decisions. they have a responsibility as the elected representatives to the american people to be engaged in this process.

but ultimately it is the responsibility of the commander in chief to make the kinds of decisions related to our military that rest on the shoulders of the president. >> we want to bring in ron johnson of wisconsin now. senator johnson, appreciate your time. right out of the gates. you recently told a hometown audience that boots on the ground may be necessary in syria to defeat isis. what would that look like? >> peter, we already have boots on the ground. we have to recognize reality. isis does represent a serious threat to americans, to our homeland. we already have a thousand military personnel on the ground. my guess is a number of those people are already in harm's way. what i need to hear is a clearly articulated goal and then convince everybody he's completely committed to it. if we do that, that will help us to design the strategy that we need to engage in to achieve that goal.

>> those 1,192 boots on the ground as you describe them are described assed a virzs and personnel in iraq. do you belief there should be special forces on the ground in syria or american boots on the ground in syria itself? >> here's my concern. right now the presidency saying three years to degrade and delaware stroi isis. we're already at war with isis. they've been funneling 30 to 50 suicide bombers into iraq own an monthly basis. deputy assistant secretary of state said it wouldn't be much trouble for them to if you believe the same suicide bombers that hold western passports into europe into merck. so what? are we going to sit and wait and have that threat hang over our heads for three years? in the goal is to destroy isis, let's destroit them. let's do it as quickly as possible. my concern is we're signaling we may bomb you. what are they going to do?

this is a time to act. i'm happy to be cautiously -- proebt lit cautious. right now we have to act. back in january after isis took over with the jv team. he's denying reality. we have to face reality. we have to act on reality. >> senator, thumbs up or down. do you need believe a congressional vote is needed? >> i think we should. i'm not sure it's necessary. i think it's a good thing. i was part of a bye partisan group of senators in the white house talking about a new authorization for the u.s. of milt tear force. it will basically equip any president, whether president obama or his successor to deal tw this long-term threat of terrorism. we can destroy isis, but there's other forms of this. we have to deal with that for quite some time. >> that's an important point. you say this isn't going away for the president.

told chuck todd thest not the role of the u.s. to occupy the mideast. so who or what fills that vacuum if they mound a short-term campaign in syria? if the u.s. does something that leaves, doesn't this grow up once again you can't get rid of this with military action in the long term, can you? >> again, this threat from terror is a reality. we're going to have to deal with it long term. when america doesn't lead, there are voids created. that's the historic blunder of this administration. not leaving a stabilizing force behind has let to the disintegration of iraq. has led isis to rise from what was once a defeated al qaeda in iraq. that's that dangerous reality that we're having to deal with right now. we have to face reality. we have to be committed to it. we have to act. >> senator ron johnson of wisconsin, we appreciate your time. thank you very much. >> have a great day. >> up next here on the daily

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vice president joe biden is speaking out about a shocking incident is that got a star nfl player kicked out of the league. thises a the white house mark

the 20th anniversary of the white house against violence on women act. this video shows rice hitting his then fiancee in an elevator in a new jersey casino. rice was already us suspended for two games over a separate video of the same incident. ray rice was indicted and put on probation. he later publicly said his actions were unacceptable. the new more graphic video has outraged fans across the country and players in the nfl. they cut rice yesterday afternoon and the nfl imposed an indefinition suspension sportily after. the white house released its own statement saying in part hitting a woman is not something a real man does. that's true whether or not an act of violence happens in the public eye or far too often before they close doors. stopping domestic violence, the

state went onto say, is something bigger than football and all of us have a responsibility to put a stop to it. in an exclusive interview, vice president biden said the nfl should have acted sooner, but ultimately he says it did the right thing. >> the first reason they responded is there's so many women fans in this billion dollar industry. all the sudden, wait a minute, he got suspended for a couple of games? whoa, that's not enough. then they got more sensitized. then it was longer. then when the video was out there and saw how brutal it was, the ravens did the right thing. fired him immediately. you can argue they should have done it sooner. they didn't want it. whatever the reason is, it's happening. >> tamron asked the vice president how public perception changed since he first drafted the act in 1994. >> there were so many laws on the books that lay the the

presumption that if somehow i raped you, and i abused you, you must have done something. no man has a right to raise a hand on a woman. no means no. that was my position 20 years ago. it was like, oh, that's a little too strong. that's too much. the society didn't want to pull back this -- peel this scab back. >> you can see the rest of tamron's exclusive interview with the vice president at 11:00 eastern time on news nation here on msnbc. the vice president is also giving a speech on the violence against women act this afternoon at the national archives. meanwhile, the national football league is getting new pressure to explain the stance on domestic violence and whether they should have acted sooner. joining us now is josh elliott with nbc sports. josh, we appreciate your time. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me, peter. >> i want to pose you some questions in a second. we're hearing for the first time

from janay rice. she posted to instagram. it reads i woke up feeling like i had a horrible nightmare. feeling like i'm mourning the death of my closest friend. but to have to accept the fact that it's reality is a nightmare in itself. no one knows the pain that the media and unwanted options for the public has wanted our family to make us relive a moment in our lives that we regret every day. to take something away from the man that i love that he worked his ass off his whole life is horrific. this is our life, she writes. what don't you all get? if your intentions were to hurt us, embarrass us, make us feel alone, take all happiness away, you've succeeded. we will continue to grow and show the world what real love is. that is the statement from janay rice, the wife of ray rice. the first comments since her husband was booted from the league. i want to ask you, it's the most

popular sport in america. but they face a real pr crisis right now. whether or not they knew or saw this video. >> and that is really now going to be the question. they adamantly insist that they asked any and all video that was available that they did not see this again until yesterday along with the rest of the country. and taking that at face value. you can look at the steps they had taken and the timeline here makes sense. we saw in all of this a very rather stunning admission on the part of nfl commissioner roger goodell. when he came out and said i didn't get it right. it's something in it of itself in speaking about the two-game suspension that he levied. the public outcry then was intense. the pressures put on by advocacy groups was intense. and so we saw the nfl amend its stance on this issue.

reraising, you know, the penalty for a first offense of any sort of assault, physical or sexual in nature to six games. a second to banishment. and obviously those would be -- those would be out on a case-by-case basis. and still having seen the second video and the visceral collective reaction that everybody who has seen it has had, you now get a real sense that the league here, the baltimore ravens here and perhaps the atlanta county prosecutor's office is now really chasing this story. >> and one of the real questions right now is what, of course, the nfl knew and when they knew it. right now i'm getting handed a statement that was given to our affiliate in new york city, wnbc. this comes from new jersey state police, and they say as follows, we're unable to determine whether a request or that video, that elevator video was made or not. the answer would have been not our case. as he added, the case wasn't ours. it never was ours. we never had the video. i want to get a sense from you

about roger goodell and his position on this. are you hearing that he will say anything publicly? >> they haven't made an official statement about that, whether or not he will address this. as this now reaches an ever more fevered pitch, really by the moment now, it becomes increasingly likely he will have to say somebody publicly. he can explain the tick-tok and explain the time line of events because as we're hearing now, part of 11 on tmz said they would release information this morning showing the nfl was willfully negligent. and he did come out and said according to hotel employees, had any requests been made for the video taken in the elevator, they would have provided it to

anyone. again, considering the number of different investigative bodies conducting their own investigations here, it is rather remarkable that nobody would have requested that video. and again, it becomes increasingly likely that we will have to hear from the nfl. and that means hearing from the commissioner. >> and baltimore ravens scheduled to play on thursday night. appreciate your time today. >> thanks for having me. >> moments alaska at dobbins air force base, a plane carrying the latest american to contract the ebola virus landed. the unnamed patient will be treated at the same location where kent brantly and nancy writebol were both treated and cured. four americans in total have been brought back to the u.s. from west africa where they contracted the virus. we'll have more on that later in the show. coming up next, the rare outbreak to send them to emergency rooms, that's spread

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nancy? >> reporter: good morning, peter. this is a virus particularly hitting kids hard. and at rocky mountain hospital for children. over 900 kids with the the city. many of them in the hospital. and several of them right now on ventilators upstairs in the intensive care unit. this is a group of respiratory viruses. this is particularly a troublemaker. it's hitting kids with already compromised immune systems and problems like asthma. in the early stages, it looks like a bad cold. so we want parents to know about going back to school, if your child comes back with a cold, but it's not getting better, in fact, it's getting worse and respiratory problems are coming with it, call your pediatrician. if there's a real concern about breathing, call 911 and be seen in the emergency room. >> real concern, dr. nancy

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department. they want to abolish the administrative fees that affect low-income residents the most, like towing and traffic fines. meantime the department of justice continues its own investigation into the ferguson police force. these clashes, of course, shed new light on the pentagon's policy of shipping military grade to the local police force. today the senate's homeland security and governmental affairs committee is holding a hearing on the kinds of equipment that local police really need. so were local police departments overequipped? i'm joined by kevin faulkner. great to visit with you, mr. mayor. >> great to be here. >> san diego police department, you have about 100 specially trained terrorism prevention officers. do you need that many? what does a city like san diego need? >> well, peter, we call them

terrorism liason officers. really an outcry after 9/11. it's our existing officers that have been cross trained in terrorist prevention. it's really a focus on the community and making sure our officers are working with neighborhoods, really in terms of information share and othering. the push has been if you see something, say something. and for us to have the men and women trained out in the community every single day, every single night. every single shift. it's important. particularly because it's the eighth largest city in the country. and it's really about community to opposite relationships. >> so you've engaged community members and obviously appears to be working in san diego specifically. so many cities around the country where they have large stockpiles of military grade equipment. do you believe that should be revisited to hand me down extra pentagon supplies handed out to local police departments? >> i believe it is. it's really not the story in san

diego. you have to have a police department integrated with your community. that's a thing we focus on so strongly in san diego. community policing. it cannot be an us versus them administration. >> is body cameras something san diego is out in front on? implemented about a year ago. >> it is. >> how is it working? how has that changed the situation? many cities viewed ferguson as a way to combat that. >> it's working very good. it really gets down to a transparency issue. it's helpful for the officers out there. it's also important for members of the public. to have that openness. to have the information that is available. we've seen very good positive results already. we're marching to make sure every single officer will ultimately have that body camera. it's working. i think you'll see other cities across the country follow san diego's leads.

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as we like to say on the show, if it's tuesday sh somebody is voting somewhere. new york, new hampshire, massachusetts, rhode island, delaware all holding elections. some of the hottest races today are for governor. first, new york, governor andrew cuomo was supposed to spend this year ponderring the the possibility of a white house run. instead, he's facing a challenge from the left. though he hardly mentions her name. the law professor has cuomo nervous enough about his margin to spend money campaigning. >> we had the new york style of gridlock. which was much nastier than washington style of gridlock. we had cussing and fighting in albany. they were calling each other names. and nothing was happening. that's what we walked into. >> this campaign wasn't supposed to happen. there wasn't supposed to be a

serious challenge. but every step along the way we've been underestimated. right now we're looking at another moment. >> she has focused her campaign on convincing several key members of the state senate to defect and form an alliance with the republicans and his decision in march to shut down an anti-corruption commission. the main question tonight, what's cuomo's margin, and really what will his running mate win her primary by? by the way, cuomo has an 11th hour boost from hillary clinton who recorded a robo call, urging democrats to vote. new york isn't the only place where it's the margins that really matter. former massachusetts senator scott brown is trying to run up a score against new hampshire, which includes former senator bob smith. brown's campaign is alreadytry ing to downplay expectations. sayi

saying ayotte emerged with 28% of the vote. also in new hampshire, the republican race to challenge democrat governor maggie has become a test of houg strong the tea party and new jersey governor chris christie is in the granite state. he has the backing of the republican governor's association and christie managed to make it early 2016 to stump for him. and could martha coakley repair her reputation? that was four years ago now. she faces two other democrats in the primary. she will take on charlie baker in the fall. finally, the closest race may be the democratic contest for governor of rhode island. lincoln threw his support blind

a newcomer less than 24 hours before polls opened. pell issing locked in a top three-way race putting democrats on display. pitting main street against wall street. women's groups against latinos. and republicans pick a nominee for governor in rhode island on tuesday. and nbc senior political editor mark murray. that's a mouth florida. we have a whole lot to keep up with today x mark. let's start with you can right now, if i can get a breath in. here's what andrew cuomo told the "washington post" about whether he has a problem with progressives. he said you guys in washington are starting to make it sound like you're either/or. you're a moderate democrat or a liberal democrat. the best basketball player. you can go to your left and go to your right. how did cuomo, who was elected overwhelmingly back in 2010 and has millions in the bank, get to this place? >> peter, it all comes down to party loyalty.

andrew cuomo has big progressive achievements when he first took over as governor. including getting gay marriage legal. since then, there's been accusations as well as perceptions that he's done more to aid state senate republicans than people in his own party. and you're either on my team or against me state, it's going to be interesting to see what the margins are in this primary. everyone expects andrew cuomo to be able to win? but does he beat teachout by 15%? 20%? that will give us an indication of the juice he has with his party. i'm not sure he's a 2016 candidate. be going forward in 2020 and beyond. >> and casey, i want to ask you about scott brown, if i can. at one point this looked like it could be a race. what are you watching for there tonight? i think you talked about that memo trying to lower expectations a little bit for how well brown is going to do.

there are old names from new hampshire politics on his list. including bob smith. and brown's campaign has threatened to sue harvard professor who is backing jim ruben, because he labeled brown a lobbyist. that doesn't necessarily say too much about how, you know, brown's team feels going into this. but i think we're at the point where everyone expects brown to pull this out. that said, the margin could be important because this is a race where, you know, the sort of momentum swing have been important. in the beginning of the race a lot of funding went that way. the d.c. establishment was excited. then people got to be more down on brown's chases. that one poll came out showing the ground had shifted and more money started going scott brown's way. >> and speaking of, we should talk about martha coakley here. what does she need to do to salvage her political

reputation? >> and in some ways she still seems to be running against scott brown. she needs to prove she's working hard. there's still anger among democrats that she lost that sh kennedy senate seat to scott brown and created brown as a political force. she has been working very hard in the final days of the primary, but i think she needs to convince voters she's going to keep it up. >> your favorite race is rhode island, mark. >> we don't know what the result is going to be. we know the results are going to be in the other primaries in new hampshire, massachusetts. in tiny rhode island you have three top-tier democrats that are running for this. the democrats don't have a lot of female governors. emily's first is firmly behind her. angel taveras is the mayor and clay pell is the son of claiborne pell.

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strategy to beat back isis. one of those leaders will be house speaker jane boehner who is expected to make remarks at any moment. that's the shot on the left. we're expecting a dueling news conference from democratic leaders. that's the shot on the right. ahead of those high level meetings, the president will meet behind closed doors this hour with secretary of state john kerry who is about to head to the middle east and drop off more support for the military campaign to defeat isis. the meetings come after another deadly round of u.s. air strikes against isis targets in iraq. the one u.s. official telling nbc news as many as 60 or 70 isis fighters were killed in the attacks. let's bring in nbc senior white house correspondent chris jansing this morning. >> good morning. you said high stakes. no kidding. both the speech and the meetings today -- you can sense the importance of what is going on when you'red in the white house. let's start with what the president is going stay. that speech is beingke