of a judge. we'll keep an eye on that. politics and promises did the closed door meeting with the white house soothe the outrage with some lawmakers? we'll ask one dreamer whether the new time table goes far enough. and ray rice fallout. several female fans showing support for the athlete who attacked his fiancè perhaps proving the point that the domestic violence conversation is way bigger than football. on this friday, the 12th of september. good morning, i'm jose diaz-ball latdiaz diaz-balart. our first focus building support here at home and overseas for what president obama said is the mission to degrade and ultimately destroy isis. right now secretary of state john kerry is meeting with prime minister of turkey. turkey, a key nation taking the fight to isis inside syria.

after kerry met with arab leaders in saudi arabia yesterday. at least ten countries in the region have vowed to, quote, do their share to fight the islamic terrorist group. the state department spokesperson tweeted out the headline. u.s.-arab coalition vows to crush isis. it's a fight that may be more challenging than some previous thought. the cia said new intelligence leads them to believe there are a lot more isis fighters. more than 31,000, in fact. kerry is stressing it's not a war. >> i believe what we're engaged in is not a full-fledged war like before. it's a heightened level of counter terrorism operation. and it will have its on pace, it's own dynamic, it's counter terrorism. >> as part of the counter troechl mission for the first time president obama has given the approval to target and kill isis leaders. as the u.s. prepares for air

strikes in syria, the military campaigns the bombing campaign of isis targets in iraq. our ally australia raised the terrorism alert from media to high as a result of the growing threat from isis. in germany a crack down on isis with the government banning images and activities linked to the terrorist group. here at home, lawmakers in the house and senate got closed door briefings from the administration on the strategy to defeat isis. vote to authorize a president's plan to arm and train syrian rebels is expected next week. let's bring in former senator. he's a potential u.s. senate candidate for pennsylvania. >> as -- a battle group in the war against terrorism, let me ask you about the president's new strategy. what do you any? >> i think it's correct. and jose, to be honest, i think it was a little bit slow getting there. this is a threat, not today, but other time that if we just let

isis have a a safe haven there in broad areas of iraq, they have the resources, they're the richest of all terrorist groups in the world to do damage against us eventually. by doing surgical air strikes, and being able to have the intelligence, which is so much better today than it was back when we invaded iraq a decade ago. having the training on the ground for the kurds as well as the baghdad forces that eve eventually there will be the troops that roll them out. that's objective one. objective two, then, is putting out the fire. that's in syria. that's difficu different. the isis in baghdad -- iraq. but it's going to be jordan helping us train as we have done the last two years with about 300 special forces the moderate

rebel forces. >> let's talk about those forces that will help take isis out of syria. there are concerns for many about plans to arm and train the rebels. experts tell the new york times their loyalties are all over the map. who are the rebels the president wants to arm and train can we trust them? do we have any allies friends in that area? >> well, it's not a question that sometimes you have allies and friends of the moment. but we would fight with the devil right now to make sure there's no damage to us. we gave radios over three years to these rebels out there. we didn't give radios to them, jose, because it was charity. we put chips in them. we listen in and figured out who was who. jordan's military intelligence organization that gave us the head of the al qaeda in iraq years ago is all the over this. our advisers are there. we have a pretty decent idea who

these moderate rebels are. doesn't mean at the end game they're going to love us all the way. it doesn't mean they're going to be against us. we have pretty good idea, frank my we -- would have been less possible. >> i want to talk about the politics. chuck todd interviewed paul ryan. here's what he said about the president saying there would be no u.s. boots on the ground. >> it's one of the mistakes the president consistently makes is telling our enemies what we'll not do. at this point, i think -- >> can you imagine -- >> if the president is challenging his policy for the better, we should believe supporting it. >> it was a mistake, joe, you think for the president to insist there will be no ground troops? >> i think the president should

have been much more blunt. there's already hundreds of special advisers on the ground. make it clear without them training these moderate rebels, without them advising the sunni militias or forces our surgical strikes couldn't be as accurate. that said the thing often lacking, i worked at the national security policy for president clinton. when people talk about military strategies, they don't set a clear objective and benchmarks the means by which you can accomplish it and measure whether you're achieving them. the president said no safe haven. got it. number two, he says and should make it clear how we achieve it. if we're not achieving it he has to change the strategy and come back to the public. i don't think we need any combat forces on the ground right now. nor in the future. >> i think in the point the president let the american people know it's the policy and the plan.

because, you know, in the past, things can really creep quickly, i think, the president that statement is more for americans than isis. >> jose, that's a wonderful point. because i feel that the transparency and the clearness of what a mission is is absolutely critical in the means to accomplish. it's why i came on msnbc a couple of years ago scene said i didn't support the libya incursion. it wasn't clear what our real mission was. the removal of gadhafi or save 100,000 people in benghazi. we have to be clear. i think we as an administration haven't historically done that well. >> what a pleasure to have you on. look forward to seeing you soon. let's bring in congressman mike turner republican from ohio. a member of the armed services committee. a pleasure to see you. >> i know you and your colleagues were briefed yesterday by senior administration officials on threat posed isis and the strategy to defeat them. what can you tell them. >> the president doesn't have good options here.

president allowed the situation to unfold where iraq has become destabiliz destabilized, isis has a stronghold in syria and as a result essentially invaded iraq and hold a significant amount of territory. with a destabilized iraq the conditions that are in syria, the president is now seeing, i think, correctly so, eye skis has a national threat to the united states, i think his strong statements of a commitment to defeat isis is important. this it a murderous group of people who clearly see the united states as their enemy. and certainly the president cannot allow these events to continue to unfold. >> i think back about the iraq thing about the armed forces and how they ran. there were 200,000 iraqi members of the armed forces trained, supplied, given tons of ammunition and anything they needed by the united states of america and when push came to shove, they ran quicker than my 6-year-old goes to bite ice cream. in other words, the americans can't be doing everything for everybody.

someone needs to step up and say this is my area, this is my country, and i need to fight for it. >> you're absolutely right. the force you're speaking of is not the force they have today. it certainly is the one that was left when the united states pummeled out. if you go back to the president's cairo speech. the president made the statement he was going to withdraw u.s. troops but he said he was going to support a sovereign and democratic iraq in their constitutions and support holding slamtic extremists at bay. unfortunately he only did the first part. the iraq you have today, the destabilized iraq is the result of neglect and the pact that the president turned his back on the whole area as soon as our troops left. so did the united states influence and its continued efforts. >> nbc bill neely spoke with syria's foreign minister who said president assad welcomes u.s. air strikes against syria. let's take a look. >> we have no reservations whatsoever to work together with

any force that wants tomenace. now the united states and syria are facing the same enemy. >> this from a representative of a regime that has already killed 200,000 of its own people by striking isis. are we helping these people? >> certainly, again, becoack toe president having no good options of because of allowing the circumstance to unfold. you have a situation here where because after the president did his rather odd right lane of chemical weapons used only and walked away once the deal occurred. you have syria with this large territory where isis has the stronghold that threatens obviously the entire area and the united states. the fact it's been allowed to evolve puts the president in this situation where there will be those who benefit from his actions we would not want to benefit, those, of course, we will be supporting that need our support. but this is a situation where

i'm glad the president has finally come to the conclusion. isis didn't just evolve yesterday. but the president has this week that this is a threat to the united states and he needs to take action. >> representative mike turner, thank you. and later in this hour we're going to take a much closer look at the relationship between isis and women. both of the brutality of the terror group against women and the women sympathetic to the isis cause. developing right now oscar pistorius is out on man no-- ba now. >> the accused is found not guilty and is discharged instead he's found guilty of cullble homicide. >> the former olympics runner sta stood straight.

pistorius could face up to 15 years in jail. coming up, we're going to piece together what the white house told latino lawmakers behind closed doors yesterday. and ask one dreamer already arrested once this week for her reaction to the president's latest immigration time table. we know we're not the center of your life, but we'll do our best to help you connect to what is.

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congressman luis gutierrez saying the meeting went as well as expected. deportations are, listen to this, on track to be the lowest ever. dropping almost 20% since this time last year. for the latest on the politics surrounding the immigration cris crisis. >> what was the goal of yesterday's meeting? >> jose, the goal for yesterday was important for the hispanic caucus to meet with members of the president's government of the white house they're the closest group to latino voters. it was important for them, number one, to express the disappointment they're hearing from their constituents back home. it's also almost like an accountability meeting. saying, look, you told us to go out there and assure our voters, to assure the latino community you were going to take action by

the end of the summer. it didn't happen. and the process we lose credibility. so in essence, jose, it was an important meeting for them tow express to the white house you're going to have to act. and also, ask what are you going to do next. we understand that hispanic caucus got a commitment from the white house that no matter the results of the midterm election, that meaning if the republicans took control of the senate, that the president would act. and they seem to understand that he will not change his mind again and that sometime after thanksgiving or before the end of the year, the president will announce what executive actions he will take. >> and what should we make over the normally outspoken hispanic caucus not saying much after the meeting yesterday? >> i don't think we have heard the last. they're democrats it's hard for democrats to criticize democrats. we know next week they're going to be meeting to lay out their next steps of what they're going to do and i imagine they're

going to continue to ramp up the pressure on the white house. look, one of the congressman said yesterday that they are sure that the president is going to act but they want verification. and so i think that is work we're going to see between now and the time the president acts if that is to happen sometime before the end of the year. >> thank you so much. it's weird speaking to you in english after speaking with you in spanish all the time. we can handle. let me bring in someone on the front line of the immigration fight. united we dream national field organizer. thank you for being with me. >> thank you for having me. >> on tuesday you were arrested outside senator majority leader harry reid's office demanding he keep his word. what more can senator reid do at this point. it's in the president's course after the house decided not to act. >> right. we have seen that republicans have stalled immigration reform

and have been asking president obama and democrats to come out boldly for our parents, for my mom who is in threat of deportation. we decided to do that action in senator reid's office because he's been standing silent. the president's decision to delay has been shameful. and my mom -- there has been no justice has been denied to my mother because of the delay. i had to do something about it. >> and so -- i want to bring in the human aspect of it. it's easy for people watching at home to hear you and say it doesn't make sense. but you're saying, in your case, your father is not with you anymore? >> no. my dad was deported six years ago. my sister just graduated from college and he wasn't able to see her. every day i'm scared my mom is going to be deported again. and my family just barely made it through, you know, surviving population from my father. i don't know if we can do it again. >> this is why it's important to

listen to the voices. because it's not just about politics. it's not just about republicans and democrats. it's also about families, about kids like the one you're seeing here that can't see her father and that fears being left without a mother. now what do you think that could be done to try and let america know why it's a good thing or it's not, to have immigration reform. because really it's some people say it's about taking jobs that, you know, americans need right now. >> i think the reality is my mother needs an administrative relief today because she needs to stay with her kids. i think every neighbor, every person that i come to understands the need for a mother to make sure her child is safe and has everything they need. my mother is able to work with dignity and drive without fear and be able to visit my sisters without being scared that a policeman is going to come

behind her. i think the american public understands that. we have been young talking to people across the country and they get that my my mother needs relief now. i think it's because of politics my mom is still stuck in limbo and that, you know, president obama has made a political calculation to say that it's okay for my mom to wait. it's okay for 70,000 more people to be deported for more fathers to be separated from their daughters. all because of politics. >> and meanwhile house republicans had a shot at it. thank you so much for being with me this morning. >> thank you. coming uptake a look at this picture. this is snow september 11th. south dakota. we'll update you on some extraordinarily wild weather across the country. also, later we're going to talk about ray rice and why his caught on camera attack has done nothing to change the minds of some female fans like this. >> i'm not selling my jerseys,

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a convicted high school shooter back behind bars following a prison escape overnight. t.j. lane is serving time for the 2012 shooting death of three students at a high school in ohio. two other prisoners who escaped with lain are in custody. the men managed to climb over the perimeter fence to get out. incredibly intense fire overnight at the warehouse in bridge port, connecticut forced the evacuation of 400 nearby homes. the five-alarm -- balls into the area. a dramatic rescue caught on video in mississippi. a you can see a firefighter approach a man whose car got stuck in flood waters. as he gets out within you c s o car go underwater. we're watching a tropical disturbance over south florida. from coast to coast it has the potential to move into the gulf of mexico and become a tropical

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individuals. meantime the ukrainian government and pro-russian rebel forces exchange dozen of prisoners today as part of the latest seicease-fire agreement. they enslave, they torture, they kill anyone they oppose including women whom they often sell as brides. at least 30 known european woman and one woman from canada hav j groups. this week 19-year-old shannon pleaded guilty to a terror charge. the fbi arrested her in april as she was preparing to fly to turkey with her syria as her ultimate destination. today the guardian reporting that at least three young women from minnesota travelled to syria to join isis. and joining me now the director of middle east program at the

wilson center and -- >> well a lot of western women are attracted to the idea of being in the islamic caliphate. they're atrangted to the idea of performing their obligation, their individual obligation for jihad. but i think as you've explained, it's a disconnect between what they think involvement will be like and what the reality is. >> and mia, your new book is titled "bombshell: the many faces of women terrorists" for the women who have joined. talk to me about how they're using social media. what kind of spin is the isis social media putting out there to lure them? >> we're seeing a lot of women online that are using twitter or

tumbler or facebook in order to attract other western women. now women like miss connelly that think they're going to go and be on the front lines and fight, really are delusional because oven though she trained with the u.s. army explorers, isis is not engaging women in this way. in fact, in her poetry on facebook posted i want to be a martyr. but the reality is the women will be baby machines and be given as rewards to the foreign fighters. >> and you wrote a piece for the "wall street journawreat wall street journal. you say it gets scant attention. talk about the brutality isis is inflicting on women. >> what i hear is terrible stories. let me give you an example. two days ago, i had an e-mail from a woman from israel who

said that she had read my piece and said she has a friend in syria whose wife was abducted by isis and isis demanded a huge ransom to free her. so the husband paid $30,000, which is a lot of money for that part of the world, he got his wife back. the wife told him that she was raped hundreds of times. i repeat hundred times. she was pregnant then. so this is just one story of the cruelty of these barbarians and there are child brides and women who are sold in the makeshift slave markets. it's unbelievable what it's done to these women whenever isis enters. >> this is a horror of this

story you tell us. yet it happens day after day after day. these people are being brutalized and yet you still find women willing to go >>well, look, i just think that the reason why we have 400 or whatever women who have joined the ranks is just for the same reason that men from western countries join the ranks. i mean, why should men from the west who have grew up in a more -- in a freer society with respect for women and respect for human rights why should they join the ranks of isis for precisely the same reason. it's probably they think they're serving their brand of islam.

once the women get there they notice that this is not the kind of life they had expected, but i doubt whether they can just freely return to their family and the west. they're captives there, too. >> thank you so much for being with me this morning. i appreciate your time. >> thank you for having us. >> thank you. >> now to the latest developments in the ray rice case. actually, a football headline. the baltimore ravens rolled to vkt i are last night against the pittsburgh steering whelers. the league commissioner roger goodell continues to defend what he didn't know when he first published and punished race with a two-game suspension for the video tape elevator attack on then fiancè janay rice. if you think women are outraged?

look at that. several female fans showing up wearing rice jerseys. >> i wear the jersey? support of ray rice. i love ray rice. i'm sorry. i don't believe in abuse. any woman who can hit a man can be hit back. sorry. that's my belief. point-blank. >> joining me now is mary reid the president and ceo of women in distress. good to see you. thank you for being with me. >> good morning, jose. >> does this reaction surprise you? there really several men wearing rice jerseys as well. the women wearing jerseys and saying what you heard. does it surprise you? >> it's disappointing. this is a moment where we have unprecedented opportunity domestic violence is on the top of the news cycle, people are outraged. there's a chance here to make a real difference. it's an issue that affects

everyone women and children. >> absolutely. families are torn apart by this. already, i guess, a lot of us in the media and probably people at home are talking more about the nfl side of it. i want to bring it back to the domestic violence issues. how can we, as a society, continue this conversation that can maybe have a positive impact on those people who are suffering? >> it's a very good point. it starts with awareness and education. there are domestic violence -- 42 here in the state of florida. but hundreds across the country. it begins with being aware, knowing the signs of domestic violence. everyone we know whether it's a person your neighbor, your work mate, is affected, probably, by domestic violence in some way. estimates are one in four women will experience this at some point in their life. so it starts with awareness, education. if we have any hope of breaking this cycle, it is a cycle,

domestic violence often perpetrators have grown up in violent dysfunctional homes. we need to stop blaming the victim or the survivor. we need to turn the focus to the perpetrator and break the cycle. >> and, mary, i'm thinking out loud with you. it's not just when it gets to a point where the person is beaten. there are some things along the way that point to a person that is has propensity to violence. it could be even in words >>well, abuse takes many forms, jose. that's a good point. we think of the physical and it's shocking, emotional, verbal, financial, sexual abuse are damaging, and if someone is told for their self-est steam is destroyed they're told you're worthless. you can never leave me, no one will love you. people begin to believe it or they feel trapped. they're isolated.

survivors or victims are isolated from family and friends. so we need to, as a community, recognize these signs, reach out, let people know help is available in free and confidentble basis. they will be protected. laws are protecting the survivors and children. >> thank you very much sonk. there is always help out there. you're not condemned to that darkness. thank you for being with me. appreciate it. and developing right now keeping an eye on a pair of events taking place in the next hour. president obama will speak at the nationwide pledge ceremony on the white house south lawn. it marks the 20th anniversary of the national service program. former president clinton will be arriving. hillary clinton will arrive and speak at the celebration for maya angelou. angelou died the 28th of may.

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through is increasingly fighting the way from american suburbs from coast to coast. there are now some 669,000 heroin users in the u.s. many young adults. joining me mow mark potter has been on the ground discovering the issue since day one. where is the heroin coming from? >> almost all the heroin arriving in the united states comes from mexico. they grow the poppies and the heroin gathers in mexico, make the way to the u.s. border. the traffickers usually the drug cartel, the powerful cartel in mexico, moves the heroin across hidden in trucks, buses, cars, sometimes in backpacks. sometimes people carry it. it spreads throughout the u.s. to hub cities like l.a., chicago, atlanta up to the northeast. it zpreeds far and wide throughout the united states to all areas. >> why this sudden explosion of

heroin users? >> the heroin surge in the united states is directly linked to the surge, the crisis, the epidemic of a prescription pill use abuse in this country. as the federal government cracks down on the opium prescription pills heroin is filling the road. it's cheaper, more powerful, and unfortunately, a lot of young people are now turning to the use of heroin, young people who used to use pills. >> they think it's -- they think it's a cool thing? >> it's taken on a cash shea it's almost a club drug. >> we had the lead story about the explosion of coke being planted and harvested inside mexico. it's no longer in the high end of peru or other places. >> it's a frightening thought. cocaine use and the arrival of cocaine in this country has been

down over the last few years. to think it can be grown more easily all that much more closer to the united states is frightening. if it can be grown in mexico why can't it be grown in the united stat states. if you think about that one step further. that's a frightening development. >> a pleasure to see you. thank you so much. i want to bring in denise mariano. her son michael is recovering from a vicious 40-bag a day drug addiction. i'm happy to see you. thank you for being with me. >> thank you, thank you for having me. >> tell me about the recovery. how difficult is it for someone who is in a heroin addiction to get clean? >> it is very difficult. not only from, you know, just them coming back from the disease of addiction but oftentimes there's a lack of treatment. that is the reason why i do the

parent advocacy and i'm a parent coach today. i hope to reach some parents out there and let them know it's difficult but there is hope and they can recover. my son and hundreds of thousands are proof of that. we need to let them know we care and there's options. and the family can be a big part of the solution. >> denise, it's got to be scary as a parent when your child becomes addicted and all the sudden essentially becomes a different human being. you don't see those things you used to see in your child. how do you, as a parent, help that child take his first steps out of that hell? >> you know, it's funny, and that is some of the misconception, you know, when my son was using to use prescription pills, as your last guest said, he was striving. he was getting straight a's he

was playing sports. that's why many parents get blind sign blind sighted. there are symptoms you don't see them until the end. during the years they get worse and worse and we couldn't get him in treatment being denied all the time. all we could do was love and not give up hope. now he's in recovery, god bless him, he often says to us, thank you for never giving up on me. because, you know, you can go to the counselors and treatment centers. i learned this from the center of motivation and change. if you didn't love me, i wouldn't be here today. you were all i had. so the parents are a big solution, you know, love your kids and they can look normal. there is no face to this. it's not the old what people think junkie in the street. these are our beautiful kids. >> thank you so much for being with me this morning. i appreciate your time. coming up, historic play for

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hill. in less than one week the scots will go cull -- full kilt for their independence. scottish independence. what would it mean for scotland? they would have to reapply for nato and the e.u. queen elizabeth would technically be their royal ruler just with no royal powers. not that she has any right now, right? i can't think of one. that's just me. what would it mean for britain? the brits might not be able to be called british anymore because great britain include scotland. the british economy might have a lot less scotch whisky to go around. you know the horror of that. number three trending if scotland goes rogue the u.k. probably has twitter to thank with hashtags like yes cause. trending from russia to china. and north korea's government chiming in siding with the movement because they like the taste of whisky. i should say the dictator likes the taste of whiskey.

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