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exclusive new comments to msnbc just one hour ago by secretary john kerry. as he and president obama get set for this week's u.n. summit. also, security concerns very close to home for the first family. happening today in new york, the clinton global initiative led by the former president and secretary of state. find out what bill had to say about elizabeth warren. who some see as an alternative to hillary. she's headlining an event just blocks away from the clinton compound. plus, the latest on that man hunt in pennsylvania where police signal they are closing in on the killer. and new developments in the search for missing virginia college student. where the top cop there sets his sights on the man he believes was the last person who saw her.
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good morning to you from washington. i'm peter alexander. it is monday, september 22nd, 2014. we're now officially ticking down those final hours of summer. this is the "daily rundown." we begin today with the growing anticipation and really growing question, about the fight against isis. with congress having signed off on his plan to back syrian rebels, president obama heads to new york later this week to make his case to the united nations and share a security council meeting on that very threat. secretary of state john kerry is already there for meetings. this morning, he spoke exclusively to "morning joe" about america's isis strategy. >> the judgment of everybody is that a great deal can be accomplished and perhaps even the whole deal can be accomplished by training the free syrian army in the open, saudi arabia has agreed openly to do that training in saudi arabia. that's a remarkable step forward. countries in the region have
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made commitments to be part of military action. i think we have to let the beginning begin. >> u.s. ambassador to u.n. samantha power tried to provide a measure of confidence about the syrian forces the u.s. will be supporting. here's what he said on nbc's meet the press." >> we think these fighters, who have actually held their own against this wide array of actors fighting on all fronts will be in a much stronger position, both to go after isil and put pressure on the regime so we can get back to the negotiating table for a political solution. >> both secretary kerry and president obama will be spending a large part of this week trying to add to the international force fighting isis. in a sunday op-ed in the tampa bay times, president obama wrote that more than 40 countries, including arab nations, have offered assistance as part of this coalition. this morning, kerry put that number at closer to 50 nations. said more than that exactly.
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naming some of them, including jordan, bahrain and the uae. joint chiefs chairman dempsey said we want isis to wake up every day realizing they are being squeezed from multiple directions. secretary kerry said on "morning joe" all the countries of the region need to play a part in this effort because all of them face a threat from isis, including iran. >> and this is a fight for the region. every country in the region is deeply threatened by this. and that includes iran, includes lebanon, includes, you know, all of the neighborhood, and it's absolutely fair and appropriate to expect that region will fight for itself. >> this morning, isis reportedly released a new recording threatening members of the coalition. nbc news is still in the process of authenticating that recording. but it underscores the concern about the extremist group. a concern that members of congress share with the administration. even if they do not agree on the
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plan. over the weekend, the biggest point of the contention appeared to be over president obama's assistance that the u.s. will not send ground troops to the region. >> we probably shouldn't lay out our battle plans but we shouldn't take anything off our battle plans. >> i think it states a strategy. now, strategies develop. >> what dempsey has said if circumstances down the road pose a threat to the united states, he'll make a difference recommendation. >> i don't see how ultimately we can avoid putting combat troops on the ground in some capacity. >> nevertheless, former joint chiefs chairman mike mullen said there is no reason to think that president obama and top military brass are on two different pages. here's what he said on "meet the press." >> there should not be any question in the end who decides this and that's the president. i think it's been blown way out of proportion in terms of the disagreement between the
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military and the president. >> joining me now is nbc's chief foreign affairs correspondent, of course, the host of "andrea mitchell reports." andrea mitchell joining us from new york. give us a sense of what you make of what secretary kerry had to say this morning. i know you met with him privately as well. >> well, first of all, they are not saying who the arab leaders are that are going to join the coalition, peter. but they say that there will be. you heard samantha powers say there will be members of arab nations, the neighbors to syria, that will join syria and iraq. that said, nobody's anti-ed up. turkey is still not all in. and he acknowledged to me afterwards that turkey needs to close its borders. it's through turkey that the foreign fighters are just walking across the border, and through turkey that oil is being smuggled to isis, which is helping to fund them. 5 million barrels a day some say. we're talking about a very reluctant alliance.
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they're working, some say, both sides of the street, especially qatar, which is supporting qatari citizens, at least. if not the government supporting some of the radicals in syria and also saying they're going to help the coalition. >> and, andrea, on the issue of ground troops right now, of course, the president has tried to make it very clear that no american combat troops will be involved in this process but obviously there have been a lot of questions raised in recent days about the potential need for american troops or for troops certainly in some capacity. what did secretary kerry have to say about that? >> kerry said that there could be a need down the road. hypothetically. and if that were to be the case, it should be regional troops, not american combat troops or troops -- americans in a combat mission. that said, most experts will acknowledge there are already americans on the ground, already americans calling in our air strikes. so those are boots on the ground but they are not, quote, in a cop bat role. but they're forward deployed. they're at risk. >> andrea mitchell in new york
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for us, andrea, we'll see you today at noon, thanks very much. much more of this of course on andrea mitchell reports today at noon. as president obama prepares to head to the u.n. tomorrow, he's going to work to rally allies in the face of a global threat. the kind of threat he hoped was on the decline. here's the president addressing the u.n. almost exactly one year ago. >> the united states, these new circumstances have also meant shifting away from a potential war footing. the world is more stable than it was five years ago. >> the world certainly doesn't feel very stable right now, putting a lot of pressure on this administration. chris janicing is nbc's senior white house correspondent. she's joining us now live from the north lawn. chris, give us a sense of what the president and his advisers really hope to accomplish at the u.n. this week. >> peter, i think part of it just addressed, and that is trying to add to this coalition, shore up the coalition that the president started and john kerry
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started back a few weeks ago during nato. there's something very specific that the united states is proposing. that would be a banding united nations resolution that would call on all countries to penalize anyone who allows foreign fighters to leave, to come back. some of the european countries are already looking at this. obviously, we know and have reported for months now there are hundreds of foreign fighters from some countries who carry passports from places like the united kingdom would have gone to places like syria to train and could come back. and so they're looking for countries to put in place laws that would make it very difficult for that to happen. now, those kinds of things are also tough to enforce but they think it's going to send a message. and just the fact that president obama is only the second president to chair a meeting, the u.s. president, to chair a meeting like this, they think sends a message about how seriously they take this topic, peter. >> and, chris, taking a right turn here, but over your
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shoulder, just a couple days ago, there was a man who turned out to be armed who was arrested for climbing the fence. we know these fence jumpers, that happens often, as you and i have witnessed. but he gets literally to the front steps of the residence. what more is happening today? what's the focus for secret service? >> he's 42-year-old iraq war veteran, omar gonzalez. he's going before a judge today. peter, this is absolutely unprecedented. as you said, we have often seen what we call fence jumpers here. for them to get to the front door and get into the white house has not been seen before. it's raising a lot of questions about the secret service, the president and his family had just left for camp david. there are questions, did they let their guard down. there obviously are safeguards in place. one are canines. they were not let loose. there's going to be an investigation into why. of course there are always sharpshooters. why wasn't a shot taken? they have some discretion on that. they look to so, does the person
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appear to be armed. do they appear to be carrying, for example, explosive material. they're going to look very carefully at how this was allowed to happen. never before has one of these fence jumpers gotten into the white house, into the front doors of the white house, which were unlocked, also raising questions. >> striking that it turns out he was armed. chris janicing on the north lawn right now. >> with the knife. >> that's right, with the knife. appreciate you keeping track. turning now to an update, some developing news. another threat taking place right now in massachusetts. this is where a massive search is on for three afghan soldiers who went missing while in the u.s. for a military training exercise. it's believed they're actually not a threat right now. nbc's chief pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski has the latest on that. >> any foreign nationals who come to the u.s. for any kind of military training get very rigorous vetting to determine if, in fact, they do have a
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shady past to militant organizations or, in this case, the taliban. two captains and a major were cleared in that vetting process. by the way, of all things, it appears they disappeared while they were on a saturday night shopping trip to cape cod. these things have happened in the past. and just last week, for example, out of quantico, virginia, two afghan soldiers disappeared. they were found wandering around the georgetown shopping district, getting a taste of america, if you will. what's disconcerting about this, is nobody knows for certain if, in fact this was a spur of the moment decision on their part to go ahead and try to see america or whether they planned this in advance and what for. now, u.s. officials emphasize at this point they were not carrying any weapons and do not appear to be any imminent threat. nevertheless, federal, state,
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local and even military law enforcement is seriously looking out for these three, peter. >> that's a bizarre situation in massachusetts, thank you. coming up, two big events for two presidential possibilities, hillary clinton and husband bill, both speaking for day two of the clinton global initiative. in new york city today. and senator warren headlines an event for the political group emily's list. we have more on both, including what bill clinton had to say about his wife's potential rival. also, it is day ten in the hunt for a cop killer that has rattled a community in pennsylvania. we have just found out that pennsylvania governor tom corbett will hold a news conference at 11:00 this morning on that manhunt for the killer in his home state. we will have an update on that search coming up next. first, though, again, a look at today's planner. secretary kerry, as we've noted, speaking today, will focus on climate change at 10:00. a lot more on that and this show when felipe calderon, former
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we're back. you're watching "the daily rundown" on msnbc. now more on that manhunt in pennsylvania. we've found out the gom governo tom corbett, will hold a press conference. officials believe they're closing in on this man. while there have been no confirmed sightings of it is suspect, 31-year-old eric frein, over the weekend, police recovered items in northeast pennsylvania that they believe belonged to frein. among them, an assault rifle.
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now, the latest on day ten in this manhunt. how close are officials to narrowing down where the suspect may be? >> well, peter, they feel with every hour, they are getting closer. they are focused on a very specific area now on the borders of monroe and pike counties. that is near where frein lived with his parents. officials say they did have the upper hand in the beginning since he knew the area so well. but after this lengthy search, ten days now, they feel they know it just as well as he does. and they say it is only a matter of time before he's captured. now, not only did officials recover that weapon you mentioned, that ak-47 assault rifle, they also found some ammunition and some other items. they feel frein either abandoned or he hid for later use. the search area we're talking about is about 15 miles from here. the secene of the crime. the police state barracks. they don't believe anyone has helped imto this point. the area we're talking about,
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they're very concerned for the safety of the residents so they're encouraging people to stay indoors and away from windows. keep their yards well list at night. schools in that area, the pocono mountain school district are closed again. other schools in other areas beginning to open as police zero in on this very specific area, peter. >> all right, sara, thank you very much. we hope for resolution there soon. another mystery. this is a disappearance of a university of virginia student named hannah graham. authorities in charlottesville, virginia are searching for the man who they believe was last seen with graham more than a week ago. >> i believe jesse matthew was the last person she was seen with before she vanished off the face of the earth. >> police have issued arrest warrants for 33-year-old jesse matthew. there he is on the scene. they charged him with reckless driving. after he stopped by the police station asking for a lawyer, then after the lawyer, left the station, leading police on a high-speed chase and eventually
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losing officers. investigators had questioned matthew and searched his home and his car but they are waiting for forensic tests. he has not been charged with the disappearance of the 18-year-old. at a press conference on sunday, hannah's parents spoke publicly for the first typime, asking anyone with information to please come forward. >> what we want to do now is to bring hannah home safely. i appeal to anybody who knows anything. please, please help us. >> graham was last seen in the early morning hours on september 13th after leaving a party alone. police believe matthew is the man seen on a surveillance camera walking with graham moments before she disappeared. right now in florida, a second trial for a man charged with killing an unarmed teenager during an argument over loud music. in february, a jury deadlocked over whether michael dunn was guilty of first degree murder in the death of 17-year-old jordan davis. dunn was convicted on three counts of attempted murder for
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shooting three other teens as well as one count of shooting or throwing a deadly missile. the retrial begins today with jury selection. as will a decision over whether to move the trial to a different venue. and turning now to a preview of a brand-new msnbc original series. we're calling it chicago under the gun. that looks at the toll of gun violence on communities in chicago. the windy city. homicides there are half of what they were a decade ago. the death toll from guns has not fallen nearly as quickly as it has in other cities like new york and l.a. injuries from violent crimes remain high. just living in a neighborhood is enough to make you a target. >> earlier this year shawn was driving his 16-year-old daughter to school through the humboldt park neighborhood of chicago. >> normal routine, same route we've been going for the last two years. >> he normally drove a pickup truck but that was in the shop so he was driving a rental car that morning. while they waited at a traffic
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light, shots rang out. >> as a natural reaction, they bent over to protect his daughter. >> i pushed her down, got over the top of her, protect her. >> he was hit twice. once in the shoulder area. and then he had a bullet go through his body from about here and then out here. >> msnbc's tremain lee is joining us now. extensive reporting on a city we focus on from time to time when we hear these just violent episodes. this is an issue that doesn't go away. what is the focus of this series of reports? >> with journalists and filmmakers have captured so magnificently is from start to finish this horrible process. this expensive process that takes a toll physically, emotionally, financially. i think people can chalk it up, when you think about chicago, it's kind of normalized here. this is where gun violence happens. each time a bullet shatters a body, it shattered a whole family. it shatters a whole life.
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getting in from the very beginning when you see the emotional and the physical, trying to rebound from that, trying to rehabilitate one's physical self. who's fighting to heal these communities. >> what is working in chicago when it comes to reducing gun violence? >> one thing that works, seems to be working in piecemeal form is giving young people, especially, opportunities. these neighborhoods are so depleted of resources. lack of access to quality health care. so when community groups, some who are funding themselves out of their own pockets, out of cookie cans and jars, they're getting young people trying to mentor them, trying to provide summer employment. short of that, nothing seems to be working because when you go to these communities, again, chicago is one of the most racially and economically segregated communities in the country. there's nothing coming in but there's a lot coming out. >> the series is called chicago, under the gun.
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we appreciate your reporting. we'll be paying attention. thank you very much. >> thank you for having me. coming up, what bill clinton had to say about elizabeth warren, the senator some see as an alternative to clinton. that's ahead. it in the last 100 years, how many presidents were elected after serving in the house but not in the senate? the first person to tweet the correct answer@peter alexander or @dailyrundown will get an on air shoutout. the answer and much more coming up on "the daily rundown." 're ds and an excellent source of fiber to help support regularity. mmmm. these are good! the tasty side of fiber. from phillips
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and i would have taken the chance. i also agree with her when she said we can't know whether it would have worked or not. isis has plenty of money. it's one of the great bank robbers in human history, among other things. they were going to get their weapons one way or another. so i would risk it. besides, when with were talking about doing it, there was no isis. >> the syrian debate has not just given hillary clinton an opportunity to separate herself from the president. it has also revealed the gap between clinton and progressive favorite elizabeth warren who voted against arming and training the syrian rebels last week. saying, quote, i do not want america to be dragged into another ground war in the middle east and it is time for those nations in the region that are most immediately affected by the rise of isis to step up. bill clinton was asked about the massachusetts senator popularity with grass root democrats. >> the one person who energizes
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them is elizabeth warren. do you think she's the future of the party? >> i thing she's an important part of it. people, the democrats at least rrn are worried about people having an equal shot at prosperity. and, you know, when i was president, i've told you this before, the thing i was most proud of, we moved as many people from poverty to middle class as under reagan. >> elizabeth warren will be just across town. she's headlining emily's list. aimed at getting democratic women elected this year. and fittingly, stephanie shreock is the president of emily's list. nice to see you. >> absolutely, great to be here. >> give us a sense of what you think senator warren really brings to a conversation about women voters in 2014 that no one else can. >> well, what i can say is we are so excited about this 2014 election.
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it is about women. it is about women voters. women's issues. it's definitely about women candidatings. and so when senator warren joins us this afternoon, it will be a conversation about the importance of providing a fair shot for economic opportunity for women and families in this country. and we know that when we do that, we stand in clear contrast with the republicans and women will come out and vote for democrats. >> and, stephanie, elizabeth warren has repeatedly said she is not running for president but a lot of progress ifs aren't convinced of course. why do you think some on the left still have not bought into a clinton candidacy? >> well, we don't have any candidates running yet. i think what's so important here is both secretary clinton last week at the democratic national committee's women's leadership forum as well as all of our women are focused on ways coming next, which is this november election where so much is at stake. >> what more do people want to hear from hillary clinton on the left? what are they looking to hear
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they're not getting? >> i think we were hearing it and heard it last friday when secretary clinton was talking about the importance, again, of providing a fair shot for women and families in this country. talking about equal pay. about minimum wage. about access to health care. we know at emily's list through our polling and through conversations just with our friends that these are the driving issues of women voters this year. and i think it's going to continue not just in 2014 but for cycles to come. families are just looking for a fair shot. women leading those families are in need. >> before i let you go, an important question. which is the fact you are now being mentioned as a possible replacement to chair debbie wasserman schultz. "the washington post" has you on a very short list of two. is that something you would ever consider? >> well, there have been zero conversations about -- >> would you consider it were
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there any? >> right now, i'm thrilled about the leadership debby wasserman shuts has been providing. she's been a fighter for democrats and a fighter for women and families in florida. we want to just continue working with her to win these elections in 2014. >> the president of emily's list, appreciate your time, thank you. coming up, someone somewhere is intercepting cell phone tower traffic around our nation's capital but who is it? a new report offers a lot of new questions and some serious concerns. also when the baltimore rave bes knew the details behind ray rice's alleged domestic abuse incident. that and a lot more ahead on "the daily rundown." begins with arthritis pain and two pills. afternoon arrives and feeling good, but her knee pain returns... that's two more pills. the evening's event brings laughter, joy, and more pain... when jamie says... what's that like six pills today? yeah... i can take 2 aleve for all day relief.
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phone intercepters through washington, d.c. these are hacking devices pretending to be cell phone towers that allow people to potentially listen in on phone calls. the security firm esd america says they've detected these interceptors all over d.c. near the capitol, the russian embassy, even the white house. this raises the question, who could be secretly spying on phone calls right here in the nation's capital? cnbc has been covering the story. joins me now with more stories. amman, what's the latest we know about the existence of these cell phone intercepters? >> this is one of these stories that makes your paranoid to use your cell phone in the nation's capital. what we know is hackers have known for years these cell phone interceptors can be made. it's essentially nothing more than a laptop with wireless antenna with special software. what it does is imitate a cell phone tower and catches all the cell phone signals operating in a given region. once that phone hooks on, it
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thinks it's a cell phone tower and communicates and that's when the hacker sucks down your information. esd america now claims they've got software that can detect these interceptors in action and they spent some time last week. we drove around with them in washington last week, detecting any place they could find interceptors. they say they found 15 separate locations. no idea though who's operating them. all they could say is they found these interceptors operating. they said they suspect it could be anybody from foreign intelligence to corporate espionage to u.s. intelligence, even political researchers. >> the sleuth in the back of that car driving around d.c. is there any sense there's any investigation broader than esd america? is the government involved looking into this in some way beyond that? >> that's a good question. we talked to pretty much every government agency we could think of, including the fbi, department of justice, homeland security. they all declined to comment on who they thought might be involved in this. i should note we talked to the
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federal communications commission, which of course has jurisdiction over cell phones in this country. they said they're concerned enough about these cell phone interceptors that they formed a task force over the summer to look in to who might be using them inside the united states. it would be illegal for anybody to use one without authorization. of course there's a lot of speculation that u.s. law enforcement and u.s. intelligence with particular authorizations could be operating these cell phone interceptors themselves to go after people, particularly if they have a warrant to go after that person in an investigation. >> that's a heck of a headline. we're going to hear more about it. i'm sure you'll stay on it. thank you so much. joining me now is new york democratic congressman elliott engel, the ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee. i want to ask you about isis of course and want to get your reaction to this story about cell phone calls intercepted all around washington, d.c. what's your take on that? >> well, my take is that every time you speak on your cell phone, assume someone's listening in. that's what i always do.
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it doesn't really surprise me. it doesn't really surprise me that it's in washington. and i think it's probably way beyond washington as well. >> all right. let me move on to isis. what we really brought you in to talk about today. you've been talking about these syrian rebels. what do you make of all the skepticism about the strategy? is it warranted, is it fair? >> it's always fair to second guess. when you're voting on these important issues. you know, you could take anything, any decision, and nitpick it to death and say, well, what about this and what about that. and who did we know who these rebels are and you can just go on and on. i mean, we have only bad choices left in syria and in iraq. >> well, let's focus on -- >> the worst choice i think is to do nothing. i think the president and the congress are attempting to do something. i think it's the best course of action for now. >> let's focus on some bad choices, including the process of trying to, you know, vet these syrian moderates. how do you do that?
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how do you make sure those you are vetting don't take this weaponry and use it against us in some form? >> well, you can't -- obviously, you cannot 100% make sure that doesn't happen. you try -- i'm not an expert on the entire vetting process. but obviously, you can try to figure out where these people have been and what their loyalties are. i think it was a mistake two years ago not to arm and train the free syria army. when the civil war started in syria, that was the first arab spring. i mean, assad has been brutal. he's murdered his own people. these were people that wanted democracy. and they -- you know, they died on the vine, they withered on the vine because they needed the arms, we didn't provide it and isis moved into the voice. so now we have a chance. people say they don't want american boots on the ground. neither do i. in eye rob, we have the kurtz on the ground to be our boots and the iraqis. we need people in syria and
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that's where these well vetted rebels would come in. they'd be our boots on the ground there. >> congress man, just very briefly, isis is calling for a tax on members of this coalition. i want to get a sense from you right now, if you feel certain that none of these partners, including arab ones, are going to back out. how confident are you in the support the u.s. has from these allies that are supposed to do the fighting on our behalf? >> i've said it. others have said it. it's important the arab nations are part of this. >> do you have faith in them though? >> i think we have no choice. as i said, there are only bad choices left. the worst choice is to do nothing and allow isil to get stronger. guarantee if we do nothing there will be a tax on the u.s. homeland, there will be abe thats on our allies both in europe and the allied world. we cannot afford to sit back and do nothing. we did that once before in afghanistan when the russians were thrown out. we aloud the taliban to allow al qaeda in and the result was september 11th, 2001. they had a -- a no-man's-land
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where they could train and that's the same thing happening now with isil in syria and in ir iraq. we just cannot sit still and allow them to get stronger and wait until they attack our homeland. >> sure. congressman elliott engel in new york with us today, congressman, thanks for your typ time, we appreciate it. >> thank you. coming up, former mexican president felipe calderon will join us live to talk about the need to ramp up global coordination. also, new questions about who knew what and when they knew it in the ray rice domestic violence case. before, though, the white house soup of the day. they are serving up gazpacho. much more "tdr" just four minutes away. a brand new start. your chance to rise and shine. with centurylink as your trusted technology partner, you can do just that. with our visionary cloud infrastructure,
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morning. new questions about when the baltimore ravens knew the details about what happened with ray rice and his then fiance at that atlantic city elevator. this is as the nfl gets ready to meet with advisers this week to help overhaul its personal conduct policy in the wake of its domestic violence scandal. another sunday. another game day. where football at times was overshadowed by controversy. >> sometimes it is appropriate to affix blame when the criminal justice system finds you guilty at least at one stage of horrific behavior, there's blame. >> the nfl has just been woefully behind on this issue. >> the baltimore ravens planned to address a new report this morning saying team officials knew from the start what happened between ray rice and his then fiance inside that casino elevator. espn's "outside the lines" says ravens executives were made aware of the details of the incident within hours and began extensive public and private campaigns pushing for leniency for rice. the team only changed sports after tmz sports released that
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video. >> it's common sense. the ravens won the super bowl two years ago. of course if there's an incident involving their star player, they're going to push to get all of that information. >> in a statement, the ravens said the espn report contains numerous error, inaccuracies, false assumptions and perhaps misunderstandings. while thousands of fans lined up to exchange their jerseys, others proudly wore their jerseys. >> i think it's too little, too late. >> i think they've handled it terribly. these things have happened months ago. i mean, not just yesterday. >> and as the nfl faces criticism -- some have asked why u.s. soccer has let goalie hope solo play while she faces two assault charges. accused of attacking her sister during a house party in june. solo has pleaded not guilty. u.s. soccer says it will wait until the proceedings come to a
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at the top of the hour secretary ever state john kerry will deliver remarks at the climate week. kerry's speech will try to build on sunday's remarkable display of worldwide concern over climate change. this, of course, is an issue that rarely tops anyone's agenda in washington these days. there were marching all over the world from london to peru.
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in new york city alone between 300 and 400,000 people poured in the streets in an effort to rally support for action. it was the largest climate protest in history. among those in the crowd former vice president al gore, bill de blasio. >> there is no plan b. we do not have planet b. we have to walk. >> it's part of a weeks worth of events focussed on global warming and climate change. tomorrow the u.n. kicks off the climate summit in new york. the latest attempt to get international leaders to agree not just on climate change but a plan to do something about it. this coming weekend msnbc will be hosting the global focus. it's been a victim of cost
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benefit analyses. a new report from a global commission says that long held assumption could end up being flat wrong. it said savings in terms of lower health and fuel costs could more than offset the additional $270 billion to shift to a more earth friend ly. we appreciate your time today. >> thank you very much. >> i want to get your reaction to the outpouring of public concern we witnessed yet. will that help move the need until term of government action. does it need to be people protesting together to make change? >> of course. there's a growing concern around the world about this issue. what could move politicians to take action is exactly what is among the people. votes are coming in favor of take action on climate change. >> if we focus on your report.
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the idea you put the money out front and get paid back over the long-term. it's not something congress or leaders in general are very good at. >> in our report i invite everybody to read it. we're suggesting several ways we can get both at the same time to reduce carbon emission. one is that whatever we can invest in energy efficiency will be paid back more than we're investing today. we're talking about several drivers of new economic growth. one is resource efficiency. the second is investment in clean technology, the third is invasion like always is the most powerful driver for any kind of economic growth we're looking for. at the same time addressing the serious problem. >> your report points out it won't be easy. it's not painless. it says, quote, not all climate
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poss are win win. many jobs will be created and there will be larger markets and profits. some jobs will be lost particularly in high carbon sector. that's a real issue here in the u.s. does that make it a tougher sell in the post grade recession world? >> the point is we're completely open and transpiring. there will be winners and losers. let me tell you, we can be able to generate equal or even more jobs in the new climate economy than the jobs we have today. currently, for instance, there could be more jobs in wind energy or solar energy here in the united states. but it doesn't imply we're suggesting to abandon those people. we need to provide and support coming from the society and retraining and even economic support. it is possible to decide that fair transition.
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we take the action toward these new kind of economy. we will have economic growth and we will have the jobs we are looking for. >> and simply put in the final second together. what do you hope your leave the u.n. climate summit this week with? >> i hope there will be a new level of commitment from the cubs. i hope several announcements can be made regarding the unilateral commitment to reduce carbon emission. i hope our ten recommendations we're doing in the report better growth, better climate could be taken into account. some countries could be committed to take action exactly in that way. >> president felipe, it's a pleasure to visit with you. again, this saturday as we noted. september 27th msnbc will serve as broadcast partner for the global citizens festival. a concert to end extreme poverty. you can watch it live from central park right here on
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the three afghan soldiers, two captains and a major were here in the united states for an annual training exercise that's been underway since 2014 at the national guard base in massachusetts. what u.s. officials emphasize here is that before they even get this far, they are vetted to find out if they have any kind of militant or any this case, afghanistan taliban ties. otherwise they wouldn't be allowed into the country. never the less, while they're not considered to be an immediate threat to americans, local, state, program and military investigators are trying to find out exactly where they went and where they are. >> and, i didn't mean, we hajim names. why no images? as i understand it there are some images. we don't have them. but some images have