there's not one way to do something. no details too small. american express open forum. this is what membership is. this is what membership does. happy friday. # first 24eu7bgs things first. the beltway keeps telling us is totally over divisive social issues. the very first thing the republican congress moved on after they got control in washington was abortion. they intro tuesdayed five or six different abortion bans or abortion restrictions right off the bat at the start of the new congress. they decided the one they would run with would be a federal nationwide 20-week ban on abortion. they ran it through

committee. they put it on the schedule. it was going to the floor of the house for a vote. they pulled their own bill. the next one was a border bill. a border security bill. securing the border was all they wanted to talk about in the campaign for the last election. they ran it through commute. scheduled a vote on the house bill and then they yanked that one too. they couldn't pass their own legislation with only their own votes. they couldn't do it. there is this manufactured crisis at the homeland security department. they know homeland security is due to run out of

money at the end of february. they knew that was the case. so far the republicans, even though they are in complete control of congress they have not been able to pass a bill. right now apparently there is no plan to do that. there is nothing in the works to avoid a shutdown of the whole giant homeland security department in just a couple of weeks. now, to be fair in this month that the republicans have been in charge, they did manage to pass a bill to force the construction of the keystone pipeline. they passed it as gas prices dropped below $2 a gallon. as new poll numbers came out showing even republican voters want political action to combat climate change. and in a three-week period there were no fewer than five pipeline explosions and ruptures in our country, including one of a north dakota pop line that was less than a year old. that

rupture caused the largest spill of its kind in state history. right after that everybody ready to vote on keystone? seem like a good time now? even before they took that vote president obama announced they had veto the bill. they did pass that one. it's going nowhere. the republican congress did also get up on its hind legs. by some counts for the 56th time they got up on their hind legs and they voted to repeal obama care again. can you smell the excitement? as the washington post summed up for much of the debate on repealing obama care for the 56th time, no more than a dozen seats were occupied on the repeal it side of the house. more than once the republican party had nobody available to speak on their side at they geared up to do it one more time. it's like it is not even exciting any more, but they did do it for the 56th time. it has been one month, exactly

since they took full control of congress. it has not been an auspicious first month. you know, but hope springs eternal. they're the only congress we've got, and we do all really need to have hope here that congress is up to the task of doing stuff that only congress can do. not only because the homeland security department is about to shut down, but because they will finally have to do real work and make a serious decision on the matter of isis. the foreign relations committee in the senate, the foreign affairs committee in the house, they're expecting draft language for authorizing the use of military force against isis. foreign relations and foreign affairs will be the lead committees for dealing with this in congress, but it is expected that there will be hearings and debate on this matter in the armed services committees and the intelligence committees.

that may all start next week. it is a little awkward because the war effort is already sixth months old. there has been two,000 air strikes in the syria. congress is about to have to weigh in on it. from the structural perspective of our constitution and our divided system of government, that is great news. congress is supposed to make those decisions. from our position as contemporary humans, looking at this particular ridiculous congress and all it can't do, it is scarey to imagine a decision like this in their hands. that work, that debate, that decision making will start in washington next week. they will have to get real serious real fast. today, meanwhile, cent-com confirms further air strikes against iraq and syria. the u.s. only ever announces it's u.s. and coalition fighters

carrying out those strikes, but the nation of jordan today for the second day said their planes were included in the attacks today. they continue to be enflamed about the killing of the pilot in the isis video this week. the air strikes ought to get some attention. particularly as we head into this debate next week. the air strikes are not the only military part of this campaign. they're not the only fighting going on. richard engel, nbc's own, is in northern iraq right now with the kurdish peshmerga fighters who are fighting isis. they are holding the main road between iraq and syria and that part of this isis threatened territory. and the strategic importance here, if these fighters in northern iraq can continue to

hold that position, continue to control that road, it is possible that isis could be split in half between these two countries. between iraq and syria again instead of how it has been for months now which is them controlling territory in both countries as a way this erases the border. watch richard. we joined kurdish fighters in northern iraq. america's closer allies, and travelled to their front line position just outside of mosul. captured two weeks ago, the captain explained why they fought so hard to take and hold this ground. >> this position is strategic because from here we control the road from syria, he said. now we have cut it off, cutting the road means the kurds have severed isis's main supply line and isis wants it back.

>> there was just a incoming round and luckily it overshot this position. you see where the fighters are looking. let's find a more secure area. >> the kurds fire back to keep back isis. sometimes mortar attacks followed by ambushes. the kurds took this base and have lost three men holding it. they will lose more unless they get more help from washington and soon. that was richard engel reporting from northern iraq today with these kurdish fighters. and all of the ground level reporting about the air and what richard was witnesses firsthand, all of that is dominated by the sad news about this young american woman who has been in

isis custody. i'll skip to the end here. we don't know her fate at this hour, but her family has given news organizations to release her name and photo so we can now tell you without worrying that her family believe it's will jeopardize her safety. she is 26-year-old kayla mueller from prescott, a arizona. she has done humanitarian work overseas. in 2012 she went to the turkish and syria border, and tried to help syrian kids who had been displaced by the fighting in their country. on august 4th, 2013, not last year but the year before, her family says she was kidnapped by isis in the city of aleppo after leaving a hospital for doctors without borders. as recently as two weeks ago, there had been some specific information about her that led the u.s. to believe that kayla mueller was still alive in syria.

none of that has been confirmed on the record by a named source, but she has been held by isis for a very long time. the u.s. government has known that even though you have not heard her name in the press before today. she was reportedly one of the americans who the special operations troops were trying to rescue when they dropped in that high risk helicopter attempt last july. that was an attempt to find all american hostages held at that time. now, that raid last summer, that special-ops raid in syria, it was not a fiasco. none of the special operators were killed or seriously wounded. there was one minor injury. they got in and safely got out of that most dangerous place on earth where they believed the

hostages were being held. the place they went where they thought the hostages would be, the hostages were not there. after that raid, three of the four americans held by isis, the three men, were all killed by isis in those brutal murders that isis turned into execution propaganda videos. all of this time it has been interesting that isis, who reportedly have held her since august of 2013, they have never chosen to parade her on camera. nobody knows exactly why that was. i will say there is speculation that in the internal logic of their theologically inflected crazy barbarity there was it was strategic that they didn't want to be filmed treating a woman the way they were treating the men. maybe it seems unlikely the way they have treated men.

for whatever reason they never parade rad kayla mueller on camera and as far as we know they have never filmed an execution video of her. today, the day after jordan proudly proclaimed they were involved in the air strikes, now isis claiming jordan killed her. it was definitely jordanian warplanes. it wasn't isis that killed her after holding her for a year and a half. no it is somebody else a's fault that she is now dead. it may be true that she is dead, or killed in the air strikes, but there is reasons to be skeptical. i mean, the first one is the most obvious. it is a little too tidy, right? a little too perfect for them as an explanation especially if they didn't want to be responsible for killing her because she is a woman. that is convenient. simultaneously trying to deflate

the patriotic fervor in jordan right now. the national jet stream of outrage against isis. they're trying to deflate that by blaming this hostage's death on jordan's air strikes. it is way too convenient. the second reason is they provided no evidence whatsoever that she was killed by those air strikes or any other means. the only thing isis publicized was this photo of a damaged building they say was in raqqa, but there is no images that prove that at all. then there the is third point. the location. the location in which they say she was killed. these are the air strike videos released by the pentagon today. this is the opening slate. jordanian air strikes.

interesting, of course, they're naming jordan as the country carrying these out since they have not been naming coalition companies, and hitting targets near al hasakah. it is an isis-controlled area of syria. but it's not anywhere near raqqa. so, it has been reported today that american aide worker kayla mueller was killed by air strikes while being held by isis militants. that may be true. it may not be true. even the claim is obviously of grave concern. it must be a very very harrowing time for her family.

anyone who is taking isis's explanation of what happened here as truth, as the journal istic truth, they are doing their propaganda work for them. it is like posting a isis propaganda video online for everyone to see, you have just done their work for them. some they have earned the right to be known as liars. joining me is andrea mitchell, great to see you, thank you for being here. you reported tonight on nightly news it was a shaky claim at best when isis said today that she was killed. why is it a shaky claim? >> for many of the reasons you cited. i'm so clad they yo were appropriately skeptical. first of all it is too

convenient. right after the rallying, in a previously divided country about the wisdom of these coalition air strikes including the father of the dead pilot. now you have a region united. the other arab leaders. they're so repulsed, and isis went too far, and perhaps it was a turning point. we don't know. but there was a coming together. now 24 hours later they say it was a jordanian pilot that killed the american hostage. far too convenient. plus the location. they showed us a picture, we don't know if that is in raqqa,

the rubble. and the jordanian and u.s. led coalition did not hit, if we are to believe, the pentagon and coalition leaders, they didn't hit any targets there, they were 140 miles away. that doesn't make sense. we have not seen any proof, and in the past, they have come up with evidence, visual evidence that is fairly rapidly confirmed by the education experts and the intelligence officials and acknowledged by jordan by the white house. that has not happened in this case. so there is reason to hope. the fact they are liars, the fact that the jordanian pilot was dead for weeks before they started negotiating for his release, and intelligence established that, that also leads one to believe that something horrible could have happened to her and they did not acknowledge her death. one hopes and the family hopes, and we just have to hope and pray that she is still alive and the lack of evidence bears that out. i have covered a lot of stories as you know.

i go back a long way. this got to me. i felt that i knew her somehow in reading about her, in absorbing the information about her, and in keeping it secret at the request of the family, agreed to by the government that the best hope was to not make this too big of a deal. to not feed into the propaganda machine. we tried to keep it as quiet as possible until this announcement today. and she is like all of your young idealistic and young women in our news room today. they were devastated by this and i found myself reacting and channelling their aspirations that a young woman that would go to this border, join doctors without borders as a volunteer, who previously had been in india, israel, palestine, and came back to flagstaff and

worked in an hiv aids clinic, she is the best of america and we hope she is alive. >> and because she was held so long. so have held the story and to have seen her story having to hold on to this hope for so long. knowing what she has been through, and the terrifying circumstances she has been in. i feel like the only responsible thing we can say now is admit what we don't know. andrea mitchell, thank you so much. thank you. >> thank you rachel. >> an stkraeu ya mitchell reports. >> all right, we have breaking news next, we're just getting into the news room. i have not even fully digested it yet. it is about the fight against isis breaking from the justice department and we have that ahead, stay with us.

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six people in the u.s. were sending him support. sending him cash by western union and pay pal. and also sending him clothes, firearms, accessories, military boots, camouflage, gloves and on other kinds of things that would help him. the people that have been charged here, three of them are from the st. louis year. a husband and wife that are 40 and 35. one is from utica, new york, and another from chicago. they are charged with indirectly supported isis by supporting this man who the government says went to syria in 2013 and they say they believe he was killed last year at some point. >> is he named as one of the people who they are charging, even if they believe he has been killed? >> no, and for that reason

they're not charging him. they say they believe he is dead, and therefore he can't be charged. of the six that were charged, as you point out, they say that five were arrested in the united states. the sixth, and they don't tell us which it is, is still overseas. they don't want to give that person a heads up, that they're on to that person. they're trying to get that other country to make the arrest. >> i see. so that was my confusion. so the person who received this material support from the united states, at least according to the complaint is believed to have been killed, but one of the people alleged to have sent that material support is no longer in the united states, and is being sought abroad? >> that's right. they do say that one of these six people, the person who lived in utica, new york tried to go to syria, but did not succeed. so we don't know who the other person is, and we don't at this point know what country that other person is in. >> one last quick question for you.

do we know, is it an allegation these six people were working together or did they form any sort of -- i hate to use the word cell that they were in a group in this country, or was this averaged by happenstance because they have different connections to this dead isis fighter? >> it is not clear how they came to know each other. what the government says is that he communicated by social media, facebook, and sometimes by phone and used coded language. it is not clear from this relatively bare bones indictment that was just been unveiled tonight whether they were all in essence in cahoots with him before he left the country, or whether he formed some alliances with him after they got there. in any event, the government says they sent this material to him through the postal service to turkey, and then intermediaries took it from turkey into syria and gave it to

him. >> pete williams, thank you for joining us on short notice, i really appreciate your help with this. >> thank you. >> breaking news from pete williams is that an indictment was just been unsealed tonight. six people charged with material support for isis fighters. specifically one isis fighter who had become an actualized citizen in the united states. went to syria, fought for isis and was killed there but six people are being charged with helping him fight and sending him stuff. five of the six people are under arrest. another is being sought. a dramatic story just breaking tonight. we'll be right back.

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the first one tonight is an important one, you have probably seen this story in the last 24 or 48 hours. a lot of media reports in the lath day or so. federal investigators released a new federal investigation into governor chris christie and his administration. no, not the bridge thing where the christie administration may have closed down lanes on a bridge to gridlock one town. this is a different thing and no, not the hoboken thing where they say they may have stiffed

the city on super storm sandy recovery money. no, not that thing, this is a different thing. also, it is not the jersey city thing where local officials said the christie administration stuck that city with economic efforts. it is a different thing. it is also not the travel thing, and the rga thing where governor christie has taken gifts from people with business before the state. not that thing either. not even the other brand new thing where his mentor and top appointee to an agency called the port authority has been asked to explain basically whether he got united airlines

to do him the favor of creating a brand new flight route between newark and his vacation home for the duration of the time that he was chairman of the port authority and the united airlines had business before the port authority. they reportedly canceled the chairman's flight after said chairman had to resign from the port authority last spring. i know it is a little hard to keep track of all of the investigations and allegations that fall around governor christie. i know it is hard to keep track sometimes of what is following him around. but the chris christie story that we're talking about here is one that you might remember from way back. that is about the cat police. it is a case that originated in hunterdon county. with fake credentials and part of the spca. we have reposted our segment on this story at maddow blog tonight in case you want to watch it again, it's great. so for all of the details, the

allegations of wrong doing for governor chris christie and his administration boil down to the prosecutor saying the christie administration quashed his indictment against some of the christie allies. like i said, it's a juicy story. and ben farlin has been pursuing this case for a long time. the new reports this week are sort of shocking. federal investigators are now launched a formal from criminal investigation into this hunterdon scandal. so you might have seen those headlines this week. is it true? you have seen the headlines about it this week. is it true or is that false?

false. or at least we don't know. here is the thing. ben varlin, the local prosecutors, has been spoken to by federal investigators. he has been asked about his allegations against governor chris christie. that does not necessarily mean there is a new formal federal criminal investigation into the administration. the headlines have been juicy but they have been overblown. we spoke to the former prosecutor ben barlyn today and he says he spoke to prosecutors and he has no idea if an investigation has been launch into his allegations. they would neither confirm nor deny whether they would speak

with ben barlyn but they say reports characterizing an investigator speaking about ben barlyn those reports are, and i quote, a tremendous leap forward. we talk to people all of the time. it doesn't mean we're investigating anybody. any characterization that we are investigating the governor about this is just not true." and that is the horse's mouth. so there is a federal criminal investigation about bridgegate, as far as we can tell, but not this unrelated scandal, there may be another for the cat police story at some point, but if there is yet, nobody knows about it and the prosecutor is not saying. so national news organizations jumped the gun on this one, don't believe the hype. ♪ (playful growl) vo: because every moment matters, so does your network.

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two terms as a republican in the state senate. he is a well known politician in the state of mississippi. he has served mississippi as an elected republican official for five different terms in three different offices. senator tim johnson is also pretty well known because of this. that is him in the white suit with the red scarf. he is an elvis impersonator. he performs as elvis all over mississippi and has had good success performing across the country. now he has decided to make a big, big change. >> today, ladies and gentlemen, i have an announcement. i am announcing today that i am switching to the mississippi democratic party. [ cheers and applause ]

and i also want to announce that i am running to be the next lieutenant governor in the great state of mississippi. >> mississippi is a very republican state. so much so that the democratic party is sometimes recently had a hard time even fielding candidates for statewide races. but the democratic party of mississippi just got a former two-term state senator and a very well known elvis to join their team. he gave this heartfelt speech today saying he was switching in part of obama care. they won't expand medicaid in the state and that will close a lot of mississippi hospitals including the one that his mother is in right now in his hometown and he says he cannot abide it. so elvis has left the building.

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richly tanned and fresh from his honeymoon. seems like you're wearing it well if you're not a great husband, we'll all be furious with you. we will set up on you like locusts we like her so much. after that threat who is playing on the friday night news dump? >> we have monday ya from atlanta, georgia. she is getting a ph.d. in political science. >> okay. >> she has dunfield work in mozambique. and she is obsessed with maps. >> monica very nice to meet you. thank you for coming on the show. >> nice to meet you. >> political science is not useful for anything. take it from me. >> i know. i've been in it for a long time. >> were you doing political science. >> subsaharan african politics. one day i will finish my

dissertation. >> how long do you think you are? >> i know you have probably had that? i'm getting into the data. it's a work in progress. >> my secret about the theory chapter is they don't really read it. they're going to read the mozambique stuff more than the hoppermoss stuff. >> that's good voice because i have been pulling my hair out and getting migraines over my theory chapter. >> worry about it but if there is a place to cheat, that's it. all right. this is the way it goes. i'm going to ask you three questions. if you get two or more of the three questions you will win -- nick what is monica's prize? >> a rachel mad dough drink shaker. >> teeny tiny drink shaker. if you need extra credit or if you only get one right and you

need a consolation prize we might send you something random we found in our office. what are the choices? >> this nfl football, from our deflate gate. or we have something very special, we have this chain, and this big daddy four knuckle ring. >> these are of no value. >> they're of no value. we had not known where this was, but somebody on the staff remembered. this was worn by kent jones. he looks great. >> we dressed him up. >> i'm from atlanta, so that speaks to me. >> that's what you're going for then. we also need to bring in the disembodied voice of steve. the guy who determines whether or not you got the right answer. >> good evening to both of you. >> ready? >> yes, ma'am.

>> from monday's show, on monday's show, we talked about a trip that then presidential candidate mitt romney made to england in 2012. it was a trip that did not go well. on this trip, one of the things that didn't go well is he addressed the head of the labor party by the wrong name. what did he call him? did he call him, a, mr. labor. b, mr. party. c, mr. leader. or d, mr. bean? >> i love mr. bean, but i know it's c, mr. leader. >> monica get that right? >> let's check monday's show. >> repeatedly described him in that appearance as mr. leader, which sounds complimentary. that's not a term used in britain. >> i wish he had said mr. bean, too. monica is correct.

>> you have to get two right to win at least the shaker prize. on wednesday's show, we talked about one of our coalition partners, one of the u.s. coalition partners in the air strikes against isis refusing to fly coming missions in syria after isis captured that jordanian fighter pilot. back on new year's eve. they demanded more military assets get positioned closer to the action in case more pilots needed to get rescued. the question for you is, which country reportedly decided not to put pilots in harm's way until more got done in terms of search and rescue report. was it a, kuwait. b, saudi arabia. c, bahrain. or d, the united arab emirates. >> it's d. the united arab emirates. >> steve, is she right? >> let's check wednesday's show. >> we also learned that the

united arab emirates suspended its participation in air strikes against isis. they suspended that key part of their involvement in the u.s.-led coalition in december. >> yep, that's right. correct answer is d. and monica is correct again. >> well done. and the day after, the u.s. announced they did move more search and rescue efforts closer. ready for the last question? >> i'm ready. >> this is from thursday's show. we introduced america, we talked about c.j. and charlie. they're bears. two oregon high tech bears, two guys who have owned the website jebbushforpresident.com since 2008. so the question is, what do they plan to do with the url? do they plan to a, sell it to jeb bush for a million dollars. b, post content about gay rights on the website.

c, make it redirect to rand paul's website or d, post pictures of their dog, which is named jeb bush? >> i wish it was all like c, d and a. but i know it's b. >> steve? >> that's correct. they plan to post content about gay rights and monica is correct once again. >> we got a letter from them after we did the segment. do you remember at the beginning i said if there's any justice in the world they'll be on the show. they said, as to the question of appearing on the show, let me answer with an old southern saying, which is has a cat got climbing gear? which means they want to be on the show. >> wii love our bears in atlanta. >> everybody loves bears. they're the universal lunch.

nick, did monica win the prize or prizes? >> she did. she got the shaker and you get all three right. >> the football or the big daddy? >> you know, i feel like you guys were attached to that bag of balls and i live in atlanta, so i will rock that chain. >> we will send you that cheap chain and the big daddy ring. thank you for playing. it was great to have you here. >> thank you. >> that was really fun. if you want to be like monica, even though you no longer have the opportunity to be the big daddy, send us an e-mail and tell us who you are, where you're from, where you want to play the friday night news dump. that's cheap stuff in our office with your name on it. week ends with alex witt starts now. new, six people charged in the u.s. on allegations they helped support isis. what exactly are they accused of doing? new details on the american-held hostage by eyes and claims of her death by the

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