from jerusalem. nova, you were tweeting throughout this speech. what is the reaction in -- where you are, in jerusalem, to this really hard-hitting, very in your face speech by the israeli prime minister? >> well, i think people in jerusalem are used to netanyahu's style. in a way, there's nothing really shocking for people who follow him. i think israeli journalists are commenting on the fact that he actually pulled away from the iranian subject. in other words, his last two u.n. appearances were almost devoted entirely to the possibility that iran could go nuclear. and now, with the new configuration in the middle east, he seems to have realized that that would not go over well and that the united states sees iran potentially as even a partner fighting isis and that there's still hope for nuclear agreement. and so he pulled back and restricted his attacks on iran to these kind of generalized

attacks you were just describing. >> it was generalized but lumping in iran, which he at one point called the islamic state of iran. not the name of that country. lumping that in with isis. and also really going after mahmoud abbas. his purported partner in trying to make a peace deal. really going after abbas, going after hamas, lumping all of that together. talk a little about what the potential fallout that could be in trying to actually form a peace, because it's going to have to be formed at some point with hamas and with mahmoud abbas. >> i think you're right. if there was anything shocking to me or eyebrow-raising in this speech, it was his real assault on abbas. abbas' speech two days ago was not great for anyone who hopes for peace. and i think it my have been a tit for tat thing because he seemed to not make any

distinction between hamas' efforts, and i think in most cases successful efforts to lead the palestinian authority en route towards, you know, real statesmanship. and these other movements that are obviously different but all islamic nationalist movements of some variety. and i think that may be what stands out from this speech. >> all right. thank you very much. appreciate it. and joining me now is zanav salva, and you and i were together listening to the speech. we were struck by how pugnacious it was and how many desperate groups were lumped together. persians, hamas in gaza and throwing it all together. talk about the differences between these groups that, yes, these are all muslim groups but very different. >> well, absolutely. actually arabs, who usually hate

iranians and persians. iranians usually history arabs. there's historical tension between us, usually. but the issue here is to humanize the other side. this is, we have to humanize this conflict. as long as we dehumanize the other side, then we're never going to have a resolution. i am not a politician. i'm a humanitarian person who had a chance to go to gaza. it's 1.8 million people locked into a place they cannot have any access to anything. no exit. if you're sick, you cannot leave. if you want pencils and pens for your kids for skill, you also cannot have, except for the tunnels that smuggle weapons and also smuggle cameras and books and pencils and hygiene items for women and all of these things. we have to understand the psychology of bombarding them. hamas is wrong in shooting the missile. that's one issue. but to bombard them and kill 2,000 people. 1,400 of them are civilians, we're not going to resolve

anything. we're creating more extremist this is way. we're not going to solve the situation. we have to understand why are people resisting? because they're blocked and we have to find solutions for them so they actually come to our side and not to resist even more. >> it's interesting because i was struck by the lack of attempt to find common ground with anyone really in the region. the kind of contrast between that speech and the one president obama did where he said, you know what, we're not lecturing the muslim world. he's saying we have issues too. we have ferguson. what i was struck by was the lack of that element in netanyahu's speech. there was no recognition there is extremism in every country, even israel. there are factions inside israel that have rather extreme views. >> and people in israel speaking up about the bombing of gaza. i spent two days with wonderful israeli peace activists saying this is wrong for our sake. this is wrong for our own moral values. we need to hear these voices because there are other voices

saying, we have to give palestinians their land and their country. we have to give them dignity of living in order so they don't fight. we have to hear these voices because this military, military of addressing the whole region, frankly, might take us some way but is never going to resolve the underlying issues and going to keep us in war forever. we have to humanize the situation. we have to understand why people are making the decisions they are. we have to give them jobs. we have to give them homes. when we put palestinians homeless, that's not a good solution, you know, for anybody. >> and the fact that isis is actually primarily attacking muslims in iraq, in syria. it was pretty stunning. not a lot of that in this speech. thank you for being here. appreciate it. netanyahu's comments came as air strikes against isis continue as the white house today is defending president obama's comments in an interview aired sunday night about his administration having underestimated the threat posed by the terrorist group. >> i think our head of the

intelligence community, jim clapper, has acknowledged that. i think they underestimated what had been taking place in syria. >> chris jansing is nbc senior white house correspondent. the continuing fallout the white house is facing over that interview on "60 minutes", what is the white house comments about that, the question of whether isis was underestimated by the administration? >> got a number of pushback from reporters, a briefing that just ended. the focus that josh earnest wanted to make is that the president was really talking about how difficult it is to predict the will of fighters. the fighters who were going up against isis. but it was clear from the president's comments, if you read that transcript, that he had a much broader view. clearly, there had been a lot of warnings out there and many were pointed nout briefing. bretd mcguirk, a specialist in iraq, who brought it up back in november. in january and february the head

of the -- the director of the defense intelligence agency talked about it. dianne feinstein talked about it. all of them talked about a possible land grab by the end of the year. and so it was really an interesting series of exchanges to see basically josh earnest saying, ultimately the president is commander in chief, the buck stops here. but there are people questioning whether or not he essential threw intelligence agency under it is bus. >> chris jansing, thank you very much. malik nia-malika henderson. let's start with the "60 minutes" interview. the sense, as chris jansing just mentioned, you're going to start to see pushback from within the intelligence agencies. you've already seen some leaking out. that the president in that interview basically blamed the intelligence services. what is the potential fallout of that in d.c.? >> well, you know, i think the

potential fallout is more of what we're seeing, which is the intelligence community pushing back. you heard in that interview that president obama said he did put the blame squarely on them. he said they underestimated what the potential of isis was. and this goes back to a conversation president obama has been having for a while. you flashed back to the "new yorker" interview where he talked to isil interview, and likening them to a jv team. you've had reporters over the last few days go back at him and try to get him to admit that there was a misreading in terms of the potential of isil. and then, of course, he finally did. that was very much his mistakes were made moment. not putting the blame on himself. putting it on the intelligence community. i think what we will also see is that throughout the country, as we are 40 days out to the midterms, you'll see this

trickle down to midterm races. you ee see that in the tillis and kay hagan race and as well in new hampshire where folks -- republicans primarily making an issue out of this. making an issue out of obama not wanting to take responsibility. >> and nia, the interesting thing is republicans have been quite absent. john boehner not willing to put a vote on the floor. now you're starting to see john boehner decide he does want to talk about isis. i want to play you what boehner had to say on sunday about what a lot of americans are thinking about, whether or not boots will obtain ground. >> maybe we can get enough of these forces trained, get them on the battlefield but somebody's boots have to be there. >> if no one else will step up, you recommend putting american boots on the ground? >> we have no choice. these are barbarians. they intend to kill us. if we don't destroy them first, we're going to pay the price. >> my yeah malany sign john boee

to take those opinions about what should be done back to the workplace and put a vote on the floor about what should be done to include potentially boots on the ground? >> in that interview he talked about, yes, folks should come back. unlikely it's going to happen. i don't think congress is slated to be back here for like 45 days or something. certainly after the midterm election. he's also talked about this idea of win a vote for authorizing military force would come. would it come in a lame duck session? would it have to come when the new congress is sworn in? when would it happen even if they want to wait until the lame duck. a lot ret since. you had that poll out that showing a plurality, something like 72% of americans i think ultimately there will be combat troops on the ground. and i think a plurality also saying they would back that

idea. so, on the one hand you have the president very much in some ways boxing himself in saying absolutely no combat troops on the ground. and then republicans in their way suggesting that at some point there might have to be someone's boots on the ground. who someone's boots those are, you know, they're suggesting they would have to be american boots. >> it would be nice to see some boots in the halls of congress so they could talk about this where it counts and not just on the campaign trail. i guess you'll be waiting for them in washington when they decide to get back to work. my yeah malik ka henderson. a scathing report that shows security lapses made by those sworn to protect the president. after a weekend of violence in the st. louis area, we're reminded of the frayed edges that still remain in ferguson. if i can impart one lesson to a

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this afternoon the white house is standing behind the secret service. white house press secretary josh earnest told us the agency has the president's confidence after a scathing report in the washington post saying the secret service fumbled a 2011 incident in which a gunman open fire on the white house private residence. according to "the post" it wasn't until four days after the incident a housekeeper noticed broken glass and a cement on the floor that they realized the white house was hit seven times by this man, oscar hernandez who was able to park his honda accord south of the white house in a closed lane of constitution avenue, point his semi-automatic rifle out of the passenger win doeshgs aim directly at the home of the president of the united states, pull the tryinger and drive away, all while the president's youngest daughter and michelle obama's mother were

inside. jim cavanaugh is an nbc law enforcement analyst and retired atf specialist. i should note the secret service has responded to this story saying that immediately following the incident, the secret service made notification to the u.s. park police and the metropolitan police department as well as initiated protective sweep around the outer perimeter of the white house complex. what good is that after the fact when in the first instance someone was able to get that close to the white house and fire seven shots into the building? >> well, that's right, joy. the service has got to be aheated of the assassins or killers. that's the job of the secret service. they need to respond afterward, of course, but different from other law enforcement agencies, their job is to be there before and to stop it. so, the ever-increasing outer rings of security. one of the lapses that carol lenning from "the post" put in

her piece, great reporting but one roving car out. i'm not sure if that was one unmarked car or how they determined that, but one car out that went to gas up. and so certainly they fixed that by now. you can't have a scenario like that. overall, this exposes tremendous vulnerabilities to a worldwide terrorist apparatus that watches everything we do and is extremely media savvy. so, that's the biggest danger from all these revelations. >> you know, jim, i think what was really -- the whole piece was harrowing but on top of the fact that you have this sort of failure to report or missteps in reporting after the fact is that it seemed during it is incident there was a lack of situational awareness by the people supposed to be guarding the residence. the president is away and it's almost casual friday because the president is not there. but his family is there. this family has faced inordinate amount of threats during the

campaign. he received more threats than any other presidential president. there was a lot of anxiety around him as the first african-american president. how can there ever be a casual friday when you work with the secret service? >> you know, that's exactly right. and i'm always amazed when there's a plot uncovered or how quick service is to say, oh, you know, that wasn't real or it wasn't that big. i had a case a few years back when the president was first elected where we had a couple of nazis, guys tattooed with swastikas on them with huge rifles and planning to kill the president. they first wanted to kill 88 african-american school children in a school. now, this was pre-newtown. they had the plots, the guns. they were going to kill those kids in the school. their plot was ongoing. then they wanted to kill the president. they probably never would have got through to do it but it was a real plot. you can't downplay those kind of things. they're very, very serious. i think the service has got to

change. it's got to tell the congress and the president that they're changing quickly. >> and does this put that fence-jumper incident in a new light for you, jim? you did have this happen in 2011 and yet three years later someone was able to jump over a fence and get right up to the white house yet again. it does not seem they change very much at least in that period. >> you know, you make the best point there. one thing as a commander i could never tolerate was the same mistake twice. i can almost tolerate almost any mistakes. we're all human. sometimes we don't see a vulnerability. something might happen, an investigative shoe is dropped. but when that same thing happens again, you know, all the agents that worked for me knew that i would be extremely, extremely angry. i was tolerant of the first time but i couldn't stand the second time. i think the service's problem, it bears out in carol's reporting, and that is, that they -- they're not listened to. the agent on the balcony on truman balcony felt she wasn't listened to. she felt she couldn't speak up.

that happens when organizations are not functioning properly. second is no trust is pushed down from the command to the people doing the job. you've got to listen and then you've got to push trust down. that's how you have good morale and a great mission and you won't let mistakes occur again. >> hopefully this won't be a mistake that ever happens again. jim cavanaugh, thank you for being here. three things to know on this monday. afghanistan's new president ghani was sworn in today. he replaces hamid karzai. tomorrow, he's expected to enter into an agreement to allow u.s. troops to remain in afghanistan beyond the end of the year. more than 400 flights have been canceled at chicago o'hare international airport today. fallout from the fire at a faa-controlled facility in illinois on friday. today the head of the federal aviation administration called for review of the security practices and contingency plan for all air traffic control centers in the united states. a special grand jury today began hearing evidence in the

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appearance for mary burke. in the latest market university poll, burke trails walker by 3 percentage points. well within the margin of error. meanwhile, jeb bush is dropping in to raise money and heb out senator pat roberts in kansas, following visits from sarah palin and john mccain. roberts is in the race of his political life against independent greg orman. tensions remain high in ferguson, missouri, after a week of renewed protests in michael brown's memory and questions surrounding a separate officer-involved shooting. police say eight protesters were arrested last night after bottles and rocks were thrown at police. at the same time, police are still looking for a suspect who they say ran away from an officer who tried to question him during a routine check outside a closed community center saturday night. during the chase police say the suspect open fire and the officer shot back. the police officer was wounded in the arm. you may recall after the michael brown shooting, ferguson police were equipped with body cameras. as "usa today" points out, when

asked to provide the body camera video from the shooting, ferguson police chief tom jackson said the police officer had a camera but it was not turned on. jessica, let's start about -- with the issue about that body camera. you've had the ferguson police chief give a statement in which he said the officer was not expecting to have interaction with anyone and did not have his body camera activated for the routine building check. you're a long-time reporter. aren't police expected to behave accordingly, even if they're expecting to interact with someone? they're never expecting to interact with someone. >> that's a good point. i think possibly the only explanation is that they just got these cameras. they're just starting to get acquainted with them. perhaps that officer didn't even remember he was wearing it. this is all sort of speculation. but, yeah, it's a good point. the point of the cameras is that they're supposed to be on all the time. so, yeah, why it wasn't on? that's the explanation. a lot of people are not very happy with that.

>> talk a little about the unrest we saw over the weekend. we saw protesters saying police were aggressive once again. what touched those protests off and are they expected to continue? >> yeah, those protests will definitely continue. i think things have been slowly ramping back up. there was a confrontation outside of a pizza place in ferguson on thursday night in which the owner of that pizza place confronted some protesters. at one point he came out with a gun in his pocket, according to his wife, the co-owner. and that really inflamed tensions in terms of those protesters feeling like that business owner was racist and things kind of continued. i mean, they moved away from that pizza parlor eventually, but that seems to have been sort of a spark. and then last night what was sort of interesting, you saw these groups that were much larger than have been out there in the past couple of days. and i'm hearing that's -- i'm

not exactly sure who put this call out, but a call was put out for more white activists to show up and to show that there's a diverse coalition behind these michael brown protests and so a lot more caucasian faces were out there last night and the crowds got to be about 100, 150 protesters. >> in your reporting, are police officers now wearing their badges? have you seen any of those wrist bands, those i am darren wilson wrist bands we've heard police officers have been wearing and spotted wearing around ferguson? >> i've not seen anyone wearing a darren wilson wrist band aside from that one screen grab i think most people have seen on social media. there's varying reports about whether or not officers are wearing their name tags the way they're supposed to be. one of our reporters last night said that he saw some police vests sort of covering name tags such that he couldn't see them. whether or not that was deliberate is up in the air. and so there's definitely some -- you know, a lot of the

wrist band stuff and name tag stuff is coming from doj and it's not clear whether or not the local officers feel obligated to follow that or if they're sort of begrudgingly following it or intentionally not following it. >> jessica, thank you for being here. >> maria is a missouri state senator who represents ferguson. stated senator, thank you for being here again. >> thank you. >> i want to start where we ended with jessica, with the reporter. the question about these wrist bands, the justice department civil rights division sent a letter to chief thomas jackson and it said the following. it said, we write to confirm our understanding that you will prohibit ferguson police department officers wearing i am darren wilson wrist bands while on duty. you still have officers covering their name tags or not wearing them. is the tension between police and civilians in ferguson any less now than it was at the height of the protests? >> not at all. in fact, i think that our

tensions have increased over the last week. we had several announcements last week. the apology and announcement from bob mccullough and eric holder and his resignation. right now there's so much uncertainty. the key here is communication between the protesters and the police officers. there is some culture differences that i do believe police officers should be aware of. and then protesters at the same time need to understand what some of the expectations are of police officers. because of the lack of communication and understanding, i think our tensions are worse than what they actually can be. >> is there still a no stopping order in force in ferguson? is there still a curfew in place in ferguson? >> yes. in fact, in the last few days -- thursday really hit it off. and then friday there were several reports of people being stopped, not in ferguson, in ferguson, throughout st. louis

county. and that was a huge concern of mine. i wanted to make my constituents aware about their safety. friday was uneventful. saturday, as you know, we had a lot of events that occurred, including two officers that were shot, which you reported on. but i think where we have to go from this point on is to have a clear understanding between the two groups. you know, there was an officer last night who brought out -- i don't know the name of it, but a huge gun and another officer had to say, put that away. because it was going to incite the protesters. in terms of moving, initially the protesters were not moving and just doing business as usual with our white-out campaign last night. and what ended up happening is that police officers said, if you don't get off the street, we are going to start arresting you. unfortunately, and your audience should know this, joy, they're doing hog ties. they're tying up protesters as if they were animals and then

arresting them. here's another thing your audience should know. the treatment between those who are arrested, those who are white and those who are black are different. the mannerisms in which the police officers are handling african-americans, especially darker complected african-americans is atrocious. we have video of that and we're trying to let community members know that officers should not be handling people who have different backgrounds differently. but they should be cognizant of the fact that they are treating my constituents, especially peaceful protesters, as if they were animals. >> and state senator, there is already a doj investigation under way into the shooting itself. has the information that you just gave to our viewers, has that been pass add long to the justice department civil rights division? >> well, we have been talking about it very loudly in this community. it's all over twitter, all over instagram. we have our eyes on ferguson's

facebook page, which we have been putting some video posts about what police officers are doing in communities. lost voices have a youtube video up of how they were handled. you can see the differences of how people are arrested. it's absolutely absurd and insensitive to the community we're dealing with right now. >> where is the mayor? where is the city council of ferguson? where are all of they when this is going on 1234. >> i have to tell you, the mayor was working at his job down the street on south florissant on saturday, and protesters went down to the dmv where he works and protested. i have only talked to one of the councilmen in the last couple of days. that would be dwayne, who is our only african-american on the ferguson council. and we had some back and forth. but what i am concerned about right now, especially as an elected official, the fact they are instituting a curfew on

protesting. and i've never seen anyplace that had a curfew on protesting. and i want to know what that engagement is like when it comes to the constitution and what the supreme court would say about that. >> yeah, indeed. i think a lot of you joining us in wanting to know the answers to that question. state senator, thank you for being here. >> thank you, joy. >> thousands take to the streets of hong kong to participate in pro-democracy protests. we'll discuss the ripple effects on our economy right after the break. to map their manufacturings at process with sticky notes and string, yeah, they were a little bit skeptical. what they do actually is rocket science. high tech components for aircraft and fighter jets. we're just their bankers, right? but financing from ge capital also comes with expertise from across ge. in this case, our top lean process engineers. so they showed us who does what, when, and where. then we hit them with the important question: why?

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taken to the streets. with protests helping to shake up stocks here today. worries turn to how beijing will respond to the umbrella revolution. chief strategist for asset management and former associate professor of economics based in beijing. let's start with why it's called the umbrella revolution? >> because people were holding umbrella's to shield themselves from the pepper spray. they all carry umbrellas. >> help us to understand why these protests are taking place. what are all of those students we're seeing more pictures of in the street, what are they upset about? >> for the past 17 years, ever since britain handed over hong kong to china, they've lived under what's called one country, two systems. that means even though china is part -- hong kong is part of china, it's still different. it has its own laws. it has a separate court system, freedom of speech, there's religious freedom. it's more like the outside world. >> right. >> and this is really a big test

of what are the limits of the two systems and how different is hong kong system when push comes to shove. beijing has hand-picked the chief executive of hong kong, essentially the mayor, ever since hong kong was handed over. and now the people in hong kong want a say. >> they want a vote. >> they want a vote in who is going to be their mayor. and beijing says no. >> so, now, what could be the repercussions if, let's say, china were to retrench and pull hong kong and yank it inside its system and take away that democratic patina the city has had? >> hong kong has been economically the goose that lays the golden eggs. people want to locate in hong kong. businesses want to locate, money wants to locate in hong kong because it's seen as different or safer than the rest of china. there's better rule of law. there are these freedoms. and if beijing were to crack down like it did, for instance -- in beijing in 1989, that would really ruin what

makes hong kong special and different. >> you mentioned 1989 because t tiananmen square. there was an unexpectedly ferocious response to these protests this time. and that did give echoes of tiananmen square. >> people say a crackdown is inconceivable, but it felt inconceivable in 1989 when a lot of people were peacefully occupying the square. beijing, the communist party in beijing, has a very brutal sense of its authority. when it feels it's challenged, we'll see how they respond. i mean, hopefully they'll respond with a little bit more far-sighted sxns maturity but they could react in a very negative way that could have a very devastating effect. >> talk about how social media has changed the complexion of what's happening now. there's a lot of control over social media inside china proper, but obviously social media has informed the way these protests are being put together. have you the hands up ferguson,

sort of signatory. you also got people referencing occupy, even calling it occupy hong kong. social media changed this in a way that might alarm beijing? >> first of all, the way i found out about these protests breaking out over the weekends was over twitter. a lot of people exchange views and ideas and pictures. in fact, one of the first things china did was to shut down instagram within china to prevent the pictures from coming in to china. yes, a lot of these ideas, they circulate. and so, i don't know whether actually the hands -- there were some pictures circulating on twitter saying that the hands up was emulating ferguson. maybe some people were aware. they interviewed some people and said, we don't know what that means. just holding our hands up. >> universal symbol. >> certainly, these ideas circulated on a global basis now. >> and the ferguson protesters have actually responded to it and they've certainly aligned

themselves with those protesters there. what should we look for on wednesday? >> well, whether things cool off or whether the confrontation heats up and how does beijing respond? i sent around on twitter a picture of the pla, the chinese army headquarters. in the middle of hong kong n downtown hong kong, i said, that's the building to watch. >> we'll follow on you twit sorry that we can see what you're talking about. thank you very much for being here. next, our continuing series "saving detroit," we head to the motor city to talk with residents and local business owners about how they're working to move forward in the wake of that record bankruptcy. diabetic nerve pain. the pain felt like my feet were on fire. i had these very burning, needle-like sensations. i knew i needed to see a doctor. my doctor said, "let's try lyrica." lyrica has helped relieve my pain. it's known that diabetes damages nerves lyrica is fda-approved to treat diabetic nerve pain. lyrica is not for everyone. it may cause serious allergic reactions, or suicidal thoughts or actions.

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"saving detroit," week five in the city's landmark bankruptcy case. as a judge considers whether to approve a plan that would wipe out $7 billion of the city's debt, the trial has taken a detour into the growing -- the ongoing controversy about water shutoffs. today bankruptcy judge steven

rhodes ruled he doesn't have the authority to stop detroit to shutting off water to those who can't pay their bill. 15,000 customers have had their water shut off between april and june of this year. officials say 30,000 customers are enroadway rollinged in two-year payment plans. critics argue it's not helping the poorest detroit residents. i went to detroit to talk to residents and business leaders about the struggle to bring detroit back. and i found people to be surprisingly, well, hopeful about their city's future. take a listen. >> when i came here 13 years ago, i was literally chasing prostitutes off the corner. so, now, you know, we have a spanish restaurant across the street. there's a beautiful row of businesses on willis.

there's just a lot of growth that's happening in the midtown area. >> while many people are down on detroit, in the midst of a record bankruptcy reorganization, she's focused on her city's possibilities. >> there have been establish the businesses for, i don't know, maybe 15 to 13 years, like myself. we have seen the change. we have supported each other through this particular change. so we're like family. >> she says it's part of detroit's unique culture. >> detroit is very much city/country/city. >> explain what that means. >> it's kind of like you got a little smidgen of down south culture, where everybody knows everybody and we're all related and we treat each other that way, even though we're not. >> her customers seem to share her optimism about their city's future. >> how long have you been a detroit resident? >> all my life. >> and what kind of chainges hae you seen in the city over that time?

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