hello, everyone i'm joy reid and we begin this "the reid report" with developing news out of washington. just over an hour from now at 3:30 p.m. eastern time the president will deliver a statement from the roosevelt room of the white house. detailing a request to send to capitol hill today requesting war powers to degrade and defeat isis. lawmakers did receive the president's draft authorization for use of military force one day after isis hostage and arizonanative kayla mueller's death was confirmed. kristin welker joins me live from the white house. christen what are we -- what are we expecting to hear from the president today? >> we expect the president to map out his case for why he's asking for congressional approval to authorize force against isis. congress has said all along they believe the president can campaign against isis but they

want congressional buy-in because congress say they want to have authorization over this. so you are going to i anticipate make the same arguments in the letter he sent to congress saying that isis poses a threat to israel but also to the u.s. so here is a look at what is in the aumf request. it would sunset after three years. and authorizes the president or associated persons or forces. and it repealed 202 aufm for forces in iraq. it does not authorize offensive ground combat operations and the white house must report to congress in every six months. the ground combat operations is

key because congress wants to say they know what that means. and josh earnest got a number of questions about why that language is so fuzzy, so vague? take a listen to an exchange earlier today. >> the language is fuzzy, is it not in. >> intentionally so. >> intentionally so? it is intentionally fuzzy? >> yes. so there aren't overly burdensome complaints so he can respond in a military conflict like this. >> now some democrats say that the language should ban the use of ground troops altogether. they also want the language to include geographical constraints. josh earnest pressed back against that saying that president needs to have authority to go after isis where ever that terrorist group may go. republicans, by the way, say the

language is to limited and could tie the president's hands or tie military commanders' hands and that is where the battle lines are being drawn. there is a lot of pressure on both sides to get this passed quickly but i'm being told the debate could last weeks if not months. >> thank you, nbc's kristin welker. and the white house said they didn't have anything to say confirming that the hostage kayla mueller was married off to an isis fighter prior to her death. much of the detail about mueller that we've learned since her death was confirmed yesterday and it involved an extraordinary person that she was. on tuesday, one of her aunts stressed what an amazing live the 26-year-old aid worker lived. >> at a very young age, kayla knew her passion and her calling. a lot of people never have the opportunity to say that. kayla's call was to help those that were suffering whether in her home town or prescott or on the other side of the world.

she has done in her incredible 26 years than many people can ever imagine doing in their live time. >> meanwhile, in just a few moments we'll speak live with rear admiral john kirby about the fight against isis and much more. and res president obama will be speaking soon about the military plan against isis. we'll bring you the president's remarks live on msnbc in about 90 minutes. our other big story out of chapel hill north carolina where a community is in mourning after three muslim students were shot dead in an apartment complex close to the university of north carolina. the alleged gunman, 46-year-old craig steven hicks seen entering court this morning has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder. 911 calls released an hour ago vividly show the chaos in the moments after the shooting. >> i just heard gunshots and don't know what building it came from but i heard kids screaming. >> okay.

how long did you hear it? >> how long? >> uh-huh. >> probably 30 seconds ago. >> how many shots did you hear? >> multiple. >> i mean at least between five and ten i would say. >> deah barakat and his 21-year-old wife and her exist razor. barakat was a dental student and was set to go on a mission to help those in turkey this year. the messages left by the killer on a facebook page leave some questioning the killing. they suggest the crime may have been prompted by a dispute over parking but they are looking into the possible this could be a hate crime. mark potter is in chapel hill. what can you tell us mark about this alleged shooter? >> reporter: well, joy, the question you talked about, was

this a parking issue or a hate crime, that remains to be answered. but it is interesting, when you talk to people here they describe mr. hicks, accused, as being a very very angry man who was angry virtually at everyone here and the things that would set him off is parking issues and noise issues. we talked to one student, samantha mainis who lives around the corner and the accused lived up in that corner apartment. the victims were around the back, the three who were murdered and so that is how close they were in proximity. the student told us that he would come out frequently yelling at people being very confrontational, in their faces, about people who would park in a way that he didn't like, about noises that he didn't like hearing in a student complex and that he was someone who was feared. feared to the point, because of his actions toward everyone that in the spring or winter of last year she couldn't quite remember when, they had a

meeting here among residents and she thought maybe the apartment owner to talk about him and complain about him and he was someone they were worried about. when i asked him point blank if she thought this was a hate crime, she said she didn't know. and i asked her if she showed hatred toward someone because of race or religion she said no he was just mad at everyone. it would almost make more sense if it were a hate crime rather than a parking issue but she couldn't say it and feared it may just be because he was angry. app that was the description -- and that was the description from her, this guy was someone known in this area as being very very angry and that is going into the police investigation. of course that is part of the equation now. >> all right. nbc's mark potter, thank you for these details. and this shooting has been a fire storm on social media. prompting the hash tags three muz ims and muslim lives do

matter to trend. this morning islamic trends asked for the motive behind the shooting and we'll keep our eye on the story and bring you developments as we get them. but joining me right now on the phone is dr. al dea n atar. he was working with deah barakat and they were going to travel to syria together on a medical mission. and thank you for joining us. our condolences on the death of your friend and colleague. tell us about the mission you were planning to do in syria? >> thank you very much for having me on the phone. yeah i knew deah barakat through the phone and he was helping me coordinate medical missions for dentists. we were going to go to turkey. he called me specifically because he wanted me to help him with his team and help them organize and get started.

i've been talking with him every week for the last six months through sam's. he was a young man, a dental student who would come and be part of the team and he would work along with us. >> and did he ever express any fear or nervousness about this man, we just heard our mark potter report that the alleged shooter was an angry person in general that lashed out at people over parking issues. had he ever expressed concern about that building and that parking lot in dealing with this person? >> no. last time i talked to him was last saturday and there was no expression of fear in his voice. i know he had just recently gotten married about a month and a half ago and i knew everything was going well. so i didn't hear anything of that nature in his voice. so nothing of that sort. >> and the community, the muslim

community there in chapel hill the response to the shooting, although it is not confirmed to be a hate crime. tell us how people with responding and feeling today? >> well i mean i think it is pretty devastating. these are three kids and the sister-in-law was shot as well apparently from what i understand, they were shot in the head and i mean the community there is reeling. and it is a sad time. the muslim community has been galvanized and they are going out on social media and trying to go through the social media outlets just to show the world that some of the muslims are trying to do good things too. >> indeed. we'll continue to follow this story. thank you so much for your time. al saw dean attar. and as american sniper draws crowds across the country. the real killing murder trial of

chris kyle is under way. he appeared in a courtroom today moments before the attorney's opening statement. ralph has pled not guilty to killing kyle and his friend chad littlefield on february 2nd 2013 at a fire range. after the shooting his sister made this 911 call to police. >> who did he say he had killed? >> he says he killed two guys they went to a shooting range. like he's all crazy. he's psychotic. >> and we are outside of the courtroom in stevensville. so we do know he was suffering from ptsd and his lawyer may use an insanity defense. how is this playing out in that small town? >> here in stevensville the courtroom is packed waiting to here the sequel to american sniper. we don't know much what about

the conversation was like when ralph was being driven from dallas all the way to the shooting range by littlefield and kyle. but we do know today that kriel picked up his cell phone and texted his buddy in the front seat next to him and said this dude is straight-up nuts and littlefield replied, watch out, he's right behind you. watch your six. but they did know something was not right about ralph. of course they were later murdered there at the shooting range. ralph stole their guns and the pickup truck and got away. ralph's attorney say he is suffering from psychosis and did not know right from wrong at the time of the murders. his trial is expected to last another two weeks here in stephenville. joy. >> steven had lock in stevensville. thank you. and faith, let's talk about this insanity case how is it difficult to prove? >> it is difficult. app it is rare that you have a

criminal defendant that is adjudicated by reasons of in sanity and it is not just the fact that the defendant suffers from mental illness, there are a lot of defendants that do and in this case i think the jurors will conclude that ralph did suffer from some type of mental illness. this is a individual hospitalized in the months prior to the shooting and look at chris kyle's own text about him in the truck. this guy was straight-up nuts. his family had taken away his guns. but the issue is did he know right from wrong at the time of the shooting? that is why you have his criminal defense attorney in opening statements today using those buzzwords. he didn't know what he was doing. he didn't know that what he was doing was wrong because that is the legal standard that the jurors will have to decide. >> i want to just quickly switch gears and talk to you about a story here in new york which is the rookie officer who shot akawhi gurley in a stairwell,

being indicted on criminal charges. what do you make of that? it is rare for a police officer to be indicted? >> it is rare especially in the back drop of the recent cases we've seen especially eric garner right here in new york. but in this case the grand jurors heard the testimony and decided it wasn't just an accident it was a crime. this is a first step probable cause that a crime was committed and this officer going forward to possibly mace manslaughter. and his gun was out and he shot and killed akawhi gurley and he had conscious use of that firearm when he used it. >> thanks for that faith jenkins, we appreciate you being here. and still ahead, spike lee has a new joint. >> dr. green, if i may say so you don't look that good. >> go away. >> who are you?

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president's speech we want to talk about one particular word in his request to congress the word is "enduring." he said it does not authorize the use of united states armed forces in enduring offensive ground combat operations. if that word seems familiar it is because the 2001 version of this war authorization okayed the fight in afghanistan, which is officially known as operate enduring freedom. but winding down that war has been enduring into the the 14th year. just a short time ago the white house explained what that one word does and does not mean. >> the reason this phrase is put in there in the way it is it is designed to again, be very clear about what the president does not envision and again, what he does not envision is long scale combat ground operations like we saw in iraq and afghanistan previously. but what he does want to preserve is the ability to react

to contingencies. and in some cases reacting promptly to contingencies may require ordering military action that does involve combat boots on the ground. >> and joining me now rear admiral john kirby. thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> and i want to start with what the components the president is asking for. among the four points to fight isil with persons or armed forces. this repeal of the 2002 aufm for forces in iraq does the administration believe that even without that 2002 specific authorization, the 2001 operation what conference calls consider far-reaching authorizations that could be quote, "enduring." >> what is the 2001 authorization gives the military, is the freedom to

continue to go after terrorist networks and targets around the world. we are focused as rightly as we should be on the middle east right now and iraq and syria in particular when it comes to isil. there is no doubt that al qaeda and their affiliates operate around the world and that 2001 aumf provides that flexibility for us. >> and i want to talk about the critiques that we have been doing so far and the doubt of whether the air-strikes that the u.s. military have been conducting has been successful in slowing the strikes in syria. and some say they are gaining ground despite the air-strikes. from a military point of view does it make sense to conduct an operation that does not have u.s. eyes on the ground and substantial military forces on the ground to fight against the isis insurgents? >> that is a great question. i would tackle it in three ways. i will take issue that the

air-strikes have not been effective in iraq or syria. we know we put immense pressure on them and even isil have said they have given up the fight for kobani which was a huge strategic defeat for them. and there are areas in syria that they have been pushed to. but where they are pushing to are ungoverned spaces and very little value to them as well. so i take issue with the fact they haven't been effected there. now to your question about u.s. eyes on the ground we have been very effective over seven months now of conducting air-strikes and being very deliberate and measures and precise in what we are hitting and without u.s. boots on the ground so to speak in terms of forward air controllers or spotters. we can do this. now it helps if you have people on the ground that provide that and that is the third point. we know we need competent partners on the ground but they

don't necessarily feed to be u.s. boots on the ground and that is why we are working so hard to train and advise the peshmerga forces and the iraqi forces and trying to get the syria training and equipment mission up and running. yes, you need partners on the ground for a fight like this but we believe and we've said this from the beginning, they need to be indigenous boots on the ground. >> and i need to ask you about how much we trust the partnerships we are getting, as you said, indigenous eyes on the targets and just finding out that american aid worker kayla mueller is killed and isil is claiming she was killed in a jordanian-led air strike calling into question whether the allied forces know who they are endangering in the strikes. how much confidence should americans have in the forces that we are aligning ourself with whether that is syrian forces to train up or even the

iraqi military who in the early stages of this fight just turned tail and ran away? >> and that was -- in the early on performance of iraqi brigades up in the north, certainly surprised us as well. that is a result of three years of neglect but the prime minister. that is why this is so important, we have to raise the combat power and capability of iraqi services and we have to get after training and advising a moderate syrian so they can get inside of isil. and i want to talk about the strike by jordanian pilots. people have the wrong impression that this was separate and away from coalition air-strikes. u.s. aircraft performed some support missions for that. those missions were carefully planned and the targets were carefully chosen. it was part of a greater air tasking for the day, so it was a coalition mission even though

the bombs were dropped by the jordanian, it was a greater mission for the day. >> and our questions by americans is how far we will wind up getting winded in. and i'm struck and most americans still very much had iraq on mind and how likely from a military perspective this can get done without substantial numbers of american troops marching essentially into syria? >> we believe that the strategy we are implementing right now is working and having an isil there and they are in a much more defensive crouch than they were just a month ago. they are a different group now. they are operating in and -- and maneuvering differently because of the pressure on them. but as we said it will take time. and from a military perspective, we are looking 3-5 year effort so it is important for americans to know this is a threat to our

interest and our partners elsewhere around the world and they have to stay at this and keep the pressure on and that is why it is so important to work closely with iraqi forces on the ground and help boost up their combat power to get them ready to take back their own territory and defend their own people. >> thank you for being here. we appreciate you taking the time. presbyterian press secretary rear admiral john kirby. thank you. and we'll be right back. press secretary rear admiral john kirby. thank you. and we'll be right back. press secretary rear admiral john kirby. thank you. and we'll be right back. press secretary rear admiral john kirby. thank you. and we'll be right back. press secretary rear admiral john kirby. thank you. and we'll be right back. press secretary rear admiral john kirby. thank you. and we'll be right back. press secretary rear admiral john kirby. thank you. and we'll be right back. press secretary rear admiral john kirby. thank you. and we'll be right back. press secretary rear admiral john kirby. thank you. and we'll be right back. press secretary rear admiral john kirby. thank you. and we'll be right back.press secretary rear admiral john kirby. thank you. and we'll be right back.ress secretary rear admiral john kirby. thank you. and we'll be right bpress secretary rear admiral john kirby. thank you. and we'

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history and google it happens. >> and now the leader that is an african-american. >> dr. cheryl moon heiser and she's doing her best. and i think you'll continue to see it like this year. >> and i remember a time when the black movies were you and you created the renaissance of black films that were you and got acclaimed, and not necessarily an academy but what do you make of the crop of millm makers coming up because there are diverse zwroirs being told and trying -- story being told and trying to be told about the african-american and what do you make of the generation of filmmakers. >> i think every generation is

making fine films, but it is just the matter of getting financing. i think we'll be remiss if we don't see films with what it means to be an african-american to live in this country today. i mean i love historical pieces. we have to honor our history. but what about today? a place where we have an african-american president, we have ferguson trayvon martin the black under class and so where are the film that say what it means to be an african-american today living today in this country, in the united states of america. >> and it is funny that you mentioned that because i looked today and realized that time flies, last year was 25th anniversary of do the right thing. and we are on a day when there was been an indictment of the police officer that killed akai gurley and that is very rare. i want to play a piece that you

cut together after eric garner an unarmed african-american man was killed in new york and had a little bit of reference to that. let's play a little bit of that. >> don't [ bleep ] touch me. don't touch me. [ yelling ] >> and a lot of people especially on social media made that connection between radio rahim andash garnerment what does it say about us as a society that 25 years after that was made we are living that out with a real live person. >> first of all, when i wrote that script the murder of ray rahim was based on the murder of michael stewart. so i wasn't making this up. michael stewart was a young black men, jumped on and was

killed. but when i saw that clip i called my editor barry brown who was editing and i said we have to put this together and show -- you know it was -- i'm still upset upset. hopefully the feds can come in and change that decision. but eric garner should be alive, in my opinion. >> you've lived in new york a long time. today was the first day in this interview i realized you were not born in brooklyn. >> georgia. >> you're from atlanta, georgia. but do people recognize that the fact that this has not changed and still leading up to 25 years, what is wrong with us as a society that people are surprised when something happens like that in an eric garner case? >> i think, number one, that we tend to turn our head away.

and commissioner bratton is the one who outlawed the chokehold by nypd 27 years ago and it still reared its ugly head. and the choke has been used not only on eric garner but we just had the video tape of it. so we are in a very messy time here in america when it comes to race. but i've always felt that it is right under the surface and it takes like an o.j. or whatever it is and then it just explodes that we have town hall meeting on nbc. let's have a town hall talk about race and then it goes down and comes back up again and nothing is really -- >> resolved. >> resolved. >> and i do want to take about

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all of this. >> what drew kayla to syria is to help those that were caught in a conflict of a humanitarian disaster that the united nations described as one of the worst in history. but the conflict in 2011 largely civilian protests against bashar al assad exploded across the area, refusing to relinquish power and said they were terrorists an the demonstrations became more military and those who supported the overthrow of assad, and the fighting became a full-blown regional war and a proxy war and the rebels began to splinter along ideologies with some groups drawing their ideology from extremists like al qaeda. as syria plunged into the civil war, sis -- isis seized their

time and they quickly spread into syria where today they control large swaths around syria and iraq in their self-proclaimed islamic state. this map up here shows they are still firmly in control of damascus despite the opposition rebels, some of which the united states and allies are training and equipping, but the syrian rebels are fighting isis, and isis is battleing opposition rebels, syrian and kurdish and iraqi forces. joy, you can see why syria and iraq has become such a kwagquagmire with the u.s. and after the request for military use sent to congress today, it is clear why there is a reluctance to get u.s. troops on the ground, with a question of who do we fight on the

ground. >> thank you. and here with me is former vermont governor howard dean. and you heard the discussion there and i was drawing a triangle here and if we go in in a big way, to fight crisis is it possible for the u.s. military to know who to fight? >> we aren't going to do that. and the thing ayman didn't mention is we went in and caused iraq to collapse and the iraqi army is worthless and there is no sense in training them and don't know why our military is bothering and there is a proxy for iran which is not a great group of actors. this is a mess. we should not have boots on ground because we should never be involved in a war where people aren't willing to fight for themselves. i don't mind arming them. i think the air-strikes are good but we can't have bootsond ground and people calling for that need to read history of the last ten years to find out what

happens when you make that mistake. >> and we've had the authorization go to congress that the president will talk about shortly that includes the flexibility to do just that have boots on the ground while it repeals the 2002 aumf and keeps the 2001 firmly in place. >> and i'm of two minds. i believe the president needs to have flexibility to conduct foreign relationships and military relationships. so in general i suppose i'm not sure how i would vote if i were in congress. but i don't think we ought to have bootsond ground but i would give this president the ability to do that. and to define boots on the ground loosely and i don't think the american people would put up with a huge armed presence in the middle east. >> and you ran on an anti-war platform and against iraq war like don't do stupid stuff as a

mantra. is there a public debate about what we are about to do whatever that is. >> i think that has been a lot. and to be fair it is true that i ran against the iraq far but i supported president bush's father against war and in afghanistan. i thought the government was lying about why we were going there and i think that has proved to be true. and secondly it doesn't take a great middle east scholar to realize that iraq is not a real country and it hasn't been and neither is syria and i'm predicting will never be again. they were conveniences to the french after world war i. it was obvious we would go in and interrupt everything and we did and now there is the question of what do we do. and there is not wanting to be engaged and wanting no bootsond grand and having to carry out a responsible american policy in addition of a number of presidents. most foreign policy is actually

bipartisan. lately it has been hard to do that because the republicans aren't interested in anything bipartisan but we do need to support the president and i would grant his request but i don't think boots on ground or anything thinks that should be done. >> and i think you speak for a lot of people former governor howard dean. thank you. >> thanks for having me on. >> and we'll bring you the president's live on stash tashmsnbc in about 40 minutes. and we'll be right back. from long island to all across upstate new york, more businesses are coming to new york. they are paying no property taxes no corporate taxes no sales taxes. and with over 300 locations, and 3.7 million square feet available, there's a place that's right for your business. see if startup-ny can work for you. go to startup.ny.gov. americans drink 48 billion bottles of water every year. that's enough plastic bottles to stretch around the earth 230 times.

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