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plus, live reports from the ground on devastating wildfires in california. new pictures coming in. we're also focused on the threat of mass ive floods and very dangerous conditions facing big parts of this country. it is wednesday, september 17th, this is "the daily rundown." we begin with the admission from the military's top man that the president's plan may not be enough to win. the congressional hearing that saw lawmakers spent three hours poking holes in the strategy. the chief says the u.s. may be forbesed to send ground forces. he says he's not ready to make that call yet. >> coalition is the appropriate way forward. i believe that will prove true. if it failings to be true, then i of course would go to the president and make a

recommendation that includes the use of ground forces. >> later said that dempsey believes the current strategy is appropriate and the administration reiterated president obama has been categorical in taking a ground invasion off the table. >> the president's been very clear. we will not have troops on the ground in cop bmbat roles. >> president obama will be briefed at centcom headquarters on syria. he is expected to speak just been noon. the air campaign will not be a shock and awe style barrage but it could take years. that part of the campaign seems to enjoy broad support on capitol hill. tuesday's hearing revealed serious questions about whether the u.s. plans to train 5,000 syrian rebels and whether that will be enough to counter an isis force more than 30,000 strong. arizona republican senator mccain pressed dempsey on the question of whether the u.s. could keep the rebels focused on

fighting isis once they had been trained and equipped. >> you think these people you're training will only go back to fight against isil? >> we can establish dejectives that der that challenge into the future. we do not have to deal with it now. >> that's a fundamental misunderstanding of the entire concept and motivation of the free syrian army. >> lawmakers on both sides said they have their doubts about the strategy. >> the president's strategy to defeat isis is fundamentally detached from the reality on the ground. >> we've got al qaeda, isil, al shabab, al nusra. this is geopolitical whack a mole. >> i'm not confident how this is going to happen without the assistance of our trained special operators on the ground.

>> makes no sense to me and i can't sell it. you can't sell this stuff. >> i believe we need to be honest with the american people on what lies ahead. and with the request as it is, we are not being honest with the american people. >> of course this debate is not just defined to washington. isis made it clear they're watching as well. we now have the story cover from all angles across the globe. our justice correspondent pete williams in our washington bureau, nbc's chief global correspondent bill neely is in beirut. bill, we will begin with you. >> yes, peter, isis, rather like the other islamic group, al nusra, affiliated to al qaeda, have a slick propaganda wing and it released a short video called flames of war, fighting has just

begun. and in it, you see images of american troops, almost certainly from the iraqi war. you see image, of the white house. president obama and images of isis executing its prisoners. it has been said this is some kind of declaration of war by isis on the united states. i think that's going a little bit too far, but it is clearly a response to president obama's expanded campaign in iraq and a message to the united states. as i said, it's very slick. it almost looks like a hollywood trailer. yes, it's threaten being the united states. but it's doing other things. this is a rallying cry. reminding people of the campaign against american troops in iraq and all about that war. it's also a recruiting tool. it's very slick and it's meant to appeal to young men in the middle east and in the west. of course president obama, even

the ground troops are shown in that video, saying ground troops will not be used, martin denmpsy saying they could be used. it would appear air strikes are continuing in iraq. 167 so far. including five new air strikes in iraq in the last couple of days. over in syria, no sign president obama is targeting isis. in fact, he appears to be targeting the free syrian army who are opposed to isis and civilians. 50 dead in one city in one air strike. so in syria, a messy dirty civil war. in iraq, the u.s. campaign deepens. peter. >> bill neely would just left syria, thank you very much. questions have been mostly split down party lines. many democrats are worried about getting in too deep. while republicans say the white house is simply not doing enough. the house could approve a plan to arm syrian rebels this afternoon. that vote scheduled for i think 4:30 today. then it heads to the senate

where it could be voted on as early as tomorrow. >> i frankly think the president's request is say sound one. i think there's a lot more we need to be doing. there's no reason for us not to do what the president has asked us to do. >> in the hopes of running up the vote totals, top officials have reached out at least 50 ties to members of congress including a dozen calls by president obama himself. even so, still unclear how many lawmakers, particularly those democrats, will let their doubts keep them from supporting the measure. >> we've trained and equipped iraqi soldiers for over a decade. for what? to watch them shed their uniforms and turn their weapons to isil. is that what we're doing again? >> rejecting the resolution today does not mean that we should do nothing. >> there is a significant difference between confronting the savagery of isis and initiating a multi-year war in the region.

>> nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker is joining me now. kristen, is the white house comfortable with this measure as is? >> they are, peter. what they want is to see this legislation pass before congress leaves for recess. they believe the best way, the most expedient way to get this passed is to get it done with the cr. that's of course the spending measure. they think it's a way for democrats to get on board, to have a little bit of cover. because of course they would be spending, authorizing and arming rebels. i spoke with an aide who told me this is expected to pass with bipartisan support today in the house and it is believed it will ultimately pass in the senate as well. as you point out, though, there is still a lot of argument and debate about this legislation. some more hawkish republicans saying it doesn't go far enough. then some democrats say they're concern ed about arming the

opposition because ultimately they worry the arms could end up in the hands of isis. as the senator from virginia said there are risks here, but what other alternatives do we have. so they're thinking it will pass today. >> it is not confined to battlefields overseas. we're learning more about a new york man indicted just yesterday for allegedly plotting to kill members of the u.s. military and provide support to isis extremisextremists. nbc's justice correspondent is pete williams. >> this man's been in custody since may, coming to the attention of the fbi after he posted messages on social media saying he wanted to help muslims carry out jihad. 30-year-old mofeed is a naturalized u.s. citizen from yemen. he was arrested in may.

accused buying handguns from two men who he did not know were undercover inform ands for the fbi. prosecutors say he told them he wanted to carry out mass shootings, targeting shia muslims in the rochester area. in these new charges, prosecutors say he urged these two men to go to syria and join us with isis. he helped one of them get a passport, unaware they were informants. the fbi says he also sent $600 to a man he knew in yemen and urged him to go to syria too. there's no indication in the court documents that man made it there. >> pete williams reporting from washington. thanks very much for that. we're joined now by the ranking member of the armed services committee, oklahoma republican senator jim inhofe. senator, thank you for being with us. >> nice to be with you. >> you said you believe the current plan is likely to fail. yet dempsey and hagel believe it can work. are they being disingenuous?

>> i didn't say it was going to fail, i said that, you know, the president made a speech, he talked about america's safer. we know that isn't the case. i thought yesterday in the hearing the secretary of defense and dempsey did a very good job. they talked about the fact, yeah, there are boots on the ground. all this talk about -- the president's trying to say there's not boots on the ground. the policy of arming the conservatives out there is you don't really know who they are and yet i'm concerned that they have to have a coalition with them. voting on that is not the -- that decision should be made by the military, not a bunch of people worried about what people think at home. >> what you also said the president should admit we already have boots on the ground, that you think sending

troops is the right move, even though polls show the public doesn't want that. why is that? >> well, first of all, the general, knows what he's doing. i asked what will happen if we have one of our guys up in the sky have to bail out, are we going to have people on the ground to protect him. said yeah, we are. we're also going to have people directing the war that's taking place down there. so we have boots on the ground now. we're going to continue to have boots on the ground. whether it's popular at home or not. >> that raises the next question. how many boots on the ground would you send. isis, i think the number's believed to be 30,000 numbers by estimates. where do you draw that number? >> i don't make the decisions, in fact -- >> what are you comfortable with? >> i had an amuf authorize the

use of force so the military would make the decision how many troops are going to be on the ground. that would be a product of how much cooperation we get from the others that are there. you get into iraq and you have the kurds. you have barzani up there. they are good fighters. they need support. what we should have never done, and we put it down in writing and begged the president not to pull everything out. at least leave the isr there, which is intelligence surveillance -- we don't know and we can't say, that should be a military decision. but this notion we're not having boots on the ground that the president is saying is just not true. we have boots on the ground right now. there's going to be more. >> senator, clearly, that idea of support from arab allies in that region is so significant to the president's plan here. do you expect that the plan being considered in the house will hit any roadblocks in the senate? >> i don't know, but i think when you look at our allies, we have some that really are

allies. jordan comes to mind because the prince of jordan was in my office two days ago. he said, yeah, someone has to be the lead. no one else has the capability. >> are they going to show up with the numbers that the u.s. needs for this effort to work? >> well, i'll say this, peter, there's no easy answer to all this stuff. we don't know what exactly is going to work. we just know we're in the middle of the war. for the president to characterize this as some kind of a rag tag group of people, terrorists out there, when it is a giant army now. it's growing every day. they have tanks. they have artillery. this is a war. people are going to have to get that into their minds and understand we have to woin tin war. it does affect the homeland. that's the big issue. all of them admit it, including the two issues yesterday. also, i'm very pleased the polling is showing 70% of people in america have had a wake-up call and they know our homeland

is in danger. it's a big deal, it's war. >> senator inhofe, thank you. >> thank you, pete effort. another bombshell in the nfl abuse controversy. adrian peterson now banned from team activities among allegations of child abuse. we'll have new details. first, a lack at today's planner. a lot going on on the hill and so many campaign trail action as well. vice president biden is in iowa with the nuns on the bus. governor christie stumping for scott brown in new hampshire.

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we're back. you're watching "the daily rundown" here on msnbc. domestic violence scandals rocking the league. adrian peterson to stay away from all team activities. and just in, the nfl has now responded to the decision in a statement responding, this is a quote, this is a good decision that will allow adrian peterson to resolve his personal situation and the vikings to return the focus to the football field. that's a quote just minutes ago. the league's players association has officially appealed the suspension of ray rice and he's foot t not the only one challenging how the nfl handles this. the league's biggest sponsors are now demanding answers and results. overnight, the minnesota vikings reversed their decision for monday, and are now banning the football star from all team activities while allowing him to take cash of his personal situation until the legal proceedings are resolved.

the vikings star who admits he disciplined his son with a stick but faces a criminal charge of recklessly injuring the 4-year-old, was set to return to practice and play on sunday. the team, explaining the decision by saying, we've concluded this resolution is best for the vikings and adrian. adding, we want to be sure we get this right. the news just hours after the nfl's players union challenged ray rice's decision. the union singled out nfl commissioner roger goodell, arguing the indefinite suspension wasn't fair or imp impartial. in a game where winning is everything, the nfl may be at risk of losing some key sponsors. mcdonald's, general motors, bridgestone and others all voicing concerns but no pulling support for the nfl. the league's biggest partner anheuser-busch sent a strong message.

that so clearly go against our own company culture and moral code. the nfl responded saying, we understand, we are taking action and there will be more to come. >> the average nfl sponsor gets back more than $2 in profits for every dollar they spend on nfl sponsorship. it's really hard for them to give that up. >> meantime, rihanna took to twitter to blast cbs for pulling her song from last week's ravens game. ya'll are sad for penalizing me for this. cbs moved in a different direction and pulled the song permanently. pray and keep moving, god bless. it could be a while until peterson's legal case is resolved. it was supposed to happen today. instead, his arraignment has now been moved to happen october 8th. three weeks from now, the vikings have announced they will

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bulls fire. it's all the folks would live in a small northern town to evacuate. this is where a fire has destroyed a lot of that town and is still only 20% contained. a little bit closer to the oregon border, the kick fire, as it's called, has burned nearly 13,000 acres. air and ground resources continue to be challenged by the rough terrain. >> this is just one subdivision here in the community of weed. the damage and destruction stretches so much further than you can see. the families are picking up the pieces of their lives while crews battle the blaze on the front lines. the fire here is at least 20% contained. more than 100 properties have been destroyed. the damage is in the tens of millions of dollars. across california today, they're

battling at least 12 major wildfires. the work on the front likes and in the air will continue around the clock. the concern is going to be the winds across california. these 40 mile an hour winds are fabbing blazes all across this state. it will be a long day on the fire line as crews and families here on the ground begin the process of moving on. now back to you. >> yeah, just unbelievable pictures from weed today. now to that crop call storm. it's already battered the ba that peninsula. now it has the southwest bracing for record breaking rain. flash flooding as well. the most concentrated cluster of storms will move through southeastern arkansas today and tomorrow and then hitting new mexico on thursday and friday. nbc's gabe gutierrez is joining us. it's en route. >> hi, peter, it's quit incredible, flash flood wraps and warnings are in effect for

five states. here in tucson, the rain has yet to begin but it's expected. the national weather service expected about 3 to 5 inches of rain here. other places could see much more. now, the remnants of hurricane odile are expected to travel through arizona and into new mexico and texas. this after the storm sliced through mexico and made landfall on sunday with winds of more than 125 miles per hour. battering cabo san lucas and destroying, heavily damaging the airport. the mexican military has evacuated some 30,000 stranded tourists. forecasters here in the desert southwest say some areas could see half a year's worth of rainfall in just 24 hours. again, we're here in tucson. this area's expected to see

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with the ebola outbreak now spiraling into a global security threat, president obama says the u.s. intents to step up and do more to combat unprecedented human suffering. the world health organization estimates it has killed 2,500 people, infecting 5,000. mostly in liberia, sierra leone and new guinea. after being briefed by staff,

the president announced what he called the largest response in the history of the cdc. >> in west africa, ebola is now an epidemic. the likes of which we have not seen before. it's spiraling out of control. it's getting worse. it's spreading faster and exponentially. it's a potential threat to global security if these countries break down. if their economies break down. if people panic. >> the president has named major general daryl williams to lead operation united assistance. deploying 3,000 american troops to a joint command center in liberia, build 17 new treatment center, adding about 1,700 beds. train health care providers. and this week u.s. aid will airlift 60,000 home health care kits from denmark to liberia. the defense department has requested $500 million to provide urgent humanitarian

assistance. a step towards the $5 billion the united nations says is needed to fight this epidemic. critics exsprepressed concerns u.s. is not coordinated enough. >> who would be the person in charge? a i.d.? freedom? dempsey? kerry? >> i take your point, senator. >> american survivor dr. brantly met with the president and testified before the senate where he called the ebola epidemic a fire burning out of control. brantly will testify before a house committee just about 30 minutes from now. he spoke exclusively to nbc's kelly o'donnell, telling her the humanitarian effort may confront obstacles. >> the fear and the superstition that pervades culture in that region of the world and the

fear, especially around this disease, makes it hard for people to accept help from anyone and so bringing in foreigners adds another dimension to that. >> democratic senator chris coons of delaware shares the subcommittee on african affairs. so you pushed for the u.s. to take a more aggressive approach to ebola. i guess the question is do you believe the steps the president announced are sufficient. is u.s. help needed. will there be more help needed to satisfy this effort? >> u.s. help is needed to bend the curb of the ebola outbreak in west africa. officials are shocked at how rapidly the transmission, the infection, the fatality rate of this has accelerated. had a depressing and difficult talk with the president of liberia, ellen sirleaf johnson, just two weeks ago, and president sirleaf was desperate

for help at that point. we spoke again yesterday. she was grateful for the president's dramatic announcement of significant increase. we need to move quickly. and it needs to be coordinated. we need to have an overall white house appointed civilian coordinator and we need to make sure that the unique dod and public health resources of the united states are delivered swiftly and effectively. >> give us a sense. the researchers suspect this epidemic likely started i believe last december with one case in guinea. now there are newly 5,000 cases and experts predict 55,000 next month if we don't get this crisis under control. so for our understanding, what does a worst case seb facenario like? >> the likely current case scenario includes many other cases that have not been reported. the three countries we're talking about, liberia, sierra leone, guinea, are some of the poorest in the world have virtually no public health

infrastructure, no water, power, roads. so a lot of this disease is being born by desperately poor people in very remote places. very close to this are other much more populous countries like nigeria. where if ebola breaks out, it could become dramatically greater in its impact. the worst case scenario is this version of the ebola virus will mutate to being transmissible by air and air transmission means it would threaten, literally, the world. >> you've heard the concerns. three americans overseas with ebola when they were working there as aid workers. now american troops heading in that direction. how do you satisfy those concerns of people who say why are we putting our own people in what's potentially a biological harm's way it. >> well, i do think we can and should have confidence that the united states armed forces know how to deploy our combat engineers, our logistics specialists, our public health personnel going to this region

how to do that and keep them safe from infection. there will be special facilities set up to treat for and to care -- any public health worker or d.o.d. personnel infected. it is still not transmissible by means other than direct contact with fluids. i'm optimistic u.s. personnel can be engaged in making a life-saving difference. >> we heard house speaker said the administration should have, in his language, acted more quickly on this threat. even your fellow democrats, including barbara mikulski, were surprised the president had no point man on ebola until yesterday. have we been too slow to act? >> wahat's important is to focu on the path forward. while this has gotten away from us, i think the united states is responding with the president's leadership decisively. the challenge is to further

accelerate the engagement of the developed world, of our allies, and of the private sector. there were significant announcements of contributions from the gates foundation, from other private foundations, in the hundreds of millions of dollars. i'm optimistic about the new treatments and potentially a vaccine. a significant amount of funding in the continuing resolution that we will take up here in the senate is dedicated towards accelerating that path forward and the possibility of our having an ebola vaccine. >> while you're with us, i need to ask about the export import bank. you're chairing a meeting of the senate democrats with ceos who will be there, urging congress to reauthorize the export import bank. this has been the sleeper fight. the bank that lends to foreign buyers. has now taken a lot of criticism. from some house republicans who said this is crony capitalism.

now it looks like another nine months. is that strategy ultimately to try to strip reauthorization from that must pass legislation and ultimately kill the bank? >> yes, i think it's clear that some in-house republican leadership are opposed to the reauthorization of the export/import bank. i expect we will hear from ceos of businesses large and small. manufacturers who export and help create american jobs. they need the export import bank. on the international playing field, our companies looking to export american products face stiff competition from china, from germany, india, other countries that provide more robust export financing. i think it is shocking republican leaders who claim to care about manufacturing are once again offering just a short-term chip shot reauthorization that will barely

get us into next year, rather than the long-term reauthorization and the support for american jobs that our exporters deserve. >> senator, thank you. the export import bank has been around since 1934. it's been reauthorized 16 times with relatively little debate. killing the bank has become the tea party's new celeb. the senator says he will not stand in the way of the spending bill that reauthorizes the bank through june. he says ultimately it must go. house majority leader kevin mccarthy opposes ex-im. not long ago, it was democrats saying the bank had outlived its usefulness. >> i'm not a democrat who believes that we can or should defend every government program just because it's there. there are some programs that have been duplicated by other

programs. we just need to cut back. like the bank that's become little more than a fund for corporate welfare. >> joining me now, ambassador kirk, of the safe energy coalition. as we acknowledge, this can be a little esoteric. i'm going to try to boil this down. give us a better understanding of why this bank is important. why the energy industry thinks this is critical. >> at the end of the day this is about jobs. a big part of our growing our economy going forward is that all these new consumers around the world that have looked on with envy at our economy say we want more of that. they now got choices. they're either going to buy from products made in the united states or china or germany or france.

so we want to empower our u.s. exporters to have every ability to go out and compete. when you shop for a car, which all americans now are empowered with more knowledge because of the internet. they go into the dealership. if one dealer says, i can get you 2% interest and the other dealer says, i can get you zero, that's a pretty easy choice. it's the same thing in the international market. >> clearly, the opposition to this has grown. there are thousand thoughts the republicans may kill it when it's separated from the cr. give us a better understanding of why you think there's such opposition, specifically, amob the tea party, in the same vein as things like the fed, the imf and others. >> without sounding partisan, i frankly don't understand it. i think the club for growth and tea party sort of key voted this a few years ago and i think frankly stunned --

>> is the president himself said this is corporate welfare. >> well, i think this is one place were i think the pretz's had a, president's had a change of heart. for example, china is buying eight westinghouse nuclear reactors. they can buy them from us or the french or the germans. the four reactors support 15,000 jobs here in the united states. and you can pick an industry, where it's boeing airlines or a high-tech company. 85% of the bank's loans go to small and medium sized businesses that otherwise wouldn't be able to go out and compete in the global marketplace. and one of the pour things for your viewers to know, the xm bank doesn't cost taxpayers one single penny. they're self-financed. they return almost $1 billion to the treasury. i frankly can't understand why we would want to disadvantage american farmers, manufacturers, entrepreneurs, by having them go

out and compete in an environment that's stacked against us. >> big companies. give us a sense what sort of companies we focus on. >> i think it's too easy for people to just say, oh, it's all boeing. >> it's only big companies? >> no, it's not just big companies. 90% of u.s. exporters, what we define as small and medium sized businesses. but you can't ignore you know when boeing goes out and sells five new planes at $5 billion a pop, that supports not only thousands of their employees, but all of their suppliers and all of the smaller businesses boeing produced those planes. whether it's boeing or caterpillar or westinghouse or nuclear reactors or technology, they all benefit from having the back stop of the export import bank to help them compete against other countries who all have their own credit agencies. because we understand, if you win those global contracts, then those jobs are created in your country. >> ambassador, nice to visit

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we're waiting for a trio ever congressional hearings to kick off on capitol hill. homeland security secretary jau johnson will testify on the house hearing on threats to the united states. ebola survivor kent brantly will speak to the house foreign affairs committee, and the house special benghazi meeting is

about to hold the first hearing. it comes more than two years after the attacks occurred killing four americans and leading to seven congressional. it's courtesy of the benghazi select committee. created by speaker boehner in may. today's hearings is not designed to get in allegations of the cover-up. it's supposed to look at security recommendations. but republican matters made noise about revisiting some of the old allegations. luke russert is joining us now. >> yesterday house democrats had a press conference. the withins on the committee where they explicitly said they didn't know where this committee was going. they said they had no organizational meetings. they had no long-term timeline. they didn't know where the investigation was headed. if you speak to republicans,

they say that's been done purposefully because trey gowdy is taking all the time he needs to do a thorough investigation. it's been investigated seven times by various entities here on capitol hill between senate and the house. there's some disagreement about one thing in particular. whether there's a stand down order issued for those protecting the ambassador. it's a whole plethora of things investigated. the idea of stand down order. talking points that susan rice went on the sunday shows with. were they cooked and favored president obama ahead of an election. everything we've seen so far they were not down for political purposes. the stand down order was not given from the investigations so far. these things they want to be looked at closely through the prism of trey gowdy's prosecutorial experience. we'll see where the committee

goes. it's the only one so far today that is open to the press. there's some confusion about whether or not there will be more open ones in the future. but gowdy and folks saying we want to keep them closed because we want to have a thorough investigation. >> the conversation continues. luke is watching. nice to see you. >> take it easy. that's going to do it for this edition of the daily run down. coming up on busy washington wednesday. jose diaz-balart has news on all three of the hearings. a live report from california as another day in the wild fire fight gets underway. [ breathing deeply ]

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we know we're not the center of your life, but we'll do our best to help you connect to what is. good morning. i'm jose diaz-balart. it's 10:00 a.m. in the east. 7:00 a.m. in the west. we're closely following a trio of house hearings kicking off on capitol hill. worldwide threats to the homeland with homeland security

secretary jay johnson and jay comb my set to testify. in the middle box, members of congress and witnesses filing in for the benghazi select committee that is just getting started. at the bottom, a house committee on the worldwide fight against ebola. we start with the fight against isis. a fresh reminder from the terror group which put out a hollywood style propaganda video called flames of war threatening the white house and troops. it comes after a update new york man was indicted on charges he tried to aid isis. hours ahead of a crucial house vote on president obama's plan to train and arm syrian rebels. the president right now discussing the isis strategy with top military commanders in florida at us central command. let's start with the first of our two lawmake