right now, isis advance and u.s. launches air strikes to repel an isis attack in western iraq. as our new nbc poll gives

surprising support for sending in ground troops. they say the u.s. is not doing enough to find their son. >> there needs to be someone made accountable directly for the safe return of hostages. we think someone reporting directly to the president. >> and next we'll talk to the parents of james foley, a u.s. hostage beheaded by isis last fall. and richard engel with an exclusive report on isis' terrorizing of women and girls. >> a long way from peace. will putin grab moreland in eastern ukraine before sunday's ceasefire. joining me state department spokesperson. a sister in mourning the family calls for justice after three muslim american students in north carolina were murdered executive style. was this a hate crime or as local officials first said a parking dispute? >> to call it a parking dispute,

when in fact no one was parked in even that visitor's parking spot that does not belong to him is outrageous to me and it's insulting and trivializes their murders. ♪ good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. today a new wave of violence 150 miles west of baghdad. a major offensive by isis militants in al baghdadi that took a mix of air strikes to contain. richard engel is live in northern iraq. richard has new exclusive reporting on the horrors of this war both in iraq and syria. richard, what can you tell us about what happened? >> reporter: andrea we so often have been talking about isis and its atrocities and sometimes it

doesn't register. it just seems like terrible things happening to people far away and occasionally hostages. well, we found a story that really brought it home to us. we talk to some of the survivors from a little village called, not being survivors in this village. they killed the men and took the women away. the u.s. started bombing isis to stop an atrocity the systemic slaughter of a small religious minority called the yasidis. not all were saved. thousands of men have been killed and yaz siddy women were taken as slaves. we met this 12-year-old and 19-year-old in northern iraq. they had been bought and sold raped and beaten for months before escaping from their

tormenters. she didn't want to show her face but told her her painful story. what did you say to them i asked her? we said we are human beings they said you are our property. they said you are infidels and we will do what we want with you. >> richard, what can happen now to these young women, one is a child? what help can they get? >> reporter: well, they are getting some help. they frankly need a lot of help the 19-year-old girl tried to commit suicide seven times while she was being held by isis. the little girl, the 12-year-old girl when she came out fr first several days she was speaking incoherently for two days straight. she just couldn't stop talking but wasn't making any sense. then she stopped talking completely for two months. now she speaks very haltingly

and broken sentences. there's a charity here and an exceptional woman from the charity trying to help these girls and help hundreds of other girls just like them. so they are getting some help. their community is actually embracing them. this is not one of the situations where these girls because they have been sexually assaulted they are coming home and being beaten by their families. the community has decided to make it a blanket policy that the girls need support and need to be welcome back into the social fabric. there is some hope but there are still hundreds of girls from this town and other towns that are still being held by isis including these girls' relatives. >> richard engel, thanks for bringing this to us. i know you have a lot more to report. you can watch the entire report tonight on "nbc nightly news." joining me now, jen sackky. i know you read the intelligence

and know what is going on there. richard has brought this home to us just in the powerful storlryes of these children who are being raped and traded as chatle by isis. >> i want to thank you and thank richard for bringing light to these types of story. the horrific atrocityies that women and children are becoming victims of at the hands of isil. this is an untold story about what's happening in syria, what's happening in iraq and something that we really all need to be talking about. it's something we're very focused on here at the state department. we have an international whole office on international women and girls. they talk about this frequently but we should all be screaming about how terrible this is. >> and i know the state department has a whole office as you point out, which we don't pay enough attention to i feel. we in the media. thank you for pointing that out

as well. we have a new poll new nbc news poll which to some surprise shows a strong amount of support even for ground forces, 26% for large ground forces, only 26% saying no ground forces at all. my own interpretation would be that this is the result of some of the atrocities that have been reported and the beheadings that this post-paris and what happened to our own hostages has really united american public opinion more than some might have suspected against taking this on. >> well i think there's no question that when you see american citizens be headed and the atrocities that have been shown on television and we've talked about for the past couple of months the american people tune in and they -- we have certainly quite a bit of patriotism in this country. and people want us to do more. i will say that we have learned a lot of lessons from the past

and the president has been very clear and the secretary certainly supports him that having ground troops on the ground, united states ground troops is not something we are considering, not something on the table. the troops on the ground need tore iraqi forces syrian forces. we're training these forces and equipping them and certainly do think that fighting back along with our air strikes is something that will be effective in this fight. >> i want to ask about our hostages, i interviewed mark and barbara tis, we know his cap tors are not believed to be isis, that's the latest information that they have. but let me play a little bit of their concerns that the u.s. government is not doing enough to advocate to find their son. >> we're not asking for negotiations because we're -- what we're asking for is diplomacy and dialogue between

two governments. >> yeah and i guess that's the -- one of the points and one of the main differences in austin's case, as far as we know, we're not dealing with an extremist group. in fact no one has taken responsibility but we do know that he's in syria and if a foreign citizen goes missing in the united states their family would look to united states authorities to try to find them and get them back safely. >> austin tice was a former marine, law student at georgetown prides winning journalist, george polk award. isn't there any way through the syrian government we can try to find him. >> he's been gone more than two years. i don't know how any parents could be satisfied when their child is still missing. and we all understand that. this is a case we have raised through our check protecting power, we have raised and means

of talking to engaging with the regime. we have raised this case the secretary raises this case with interlock ters as well we do everything we can, whether through diplomatic channels. we don't outline those publicly and that can be frustrated at times. we're also doing a review which every family member who has gone through challenging circumstances invited to and is participating in to review our hostage policy. and that's something that we're taking a close look at through the interagency of the united states government. >> and they have been interviewed for that review. >> i want to ask about ukraine. we have the sunday cease fire. at least 25 people have died so far in the last 24 hours of fighting. how do you have any confidence that vladimir putin, who's denying that russian troops are involved, is going to observe the ceasefire and that they won't just take advantage and

grab more territory? >> well andrea there's an old saying, full me once shame on me, fool me twice -- you know the old saying. the point here this is not about what's on paper. we're not just holding up the paper saying look this is resolved. we're going to be looking closely at how they are implementing this. it starts sunday morning, certainly what they've done over the past couple of days have violated the spirit of this agreement, even if the ceasefire has not begun. if they do not abide by it and don't pull back their troops and weapons, then there will be consequences and every option on the table that was on the table a week ago remains on the table, not just the united states but i expect the international community will continue to engage and discuss next steps if needed. >> jen psaki, thanks very much. the american hostages families of those held captive speak out. we'll hear from more of the parents coming up next. this is "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. ♪ ♪

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as we've mentioned, there is a growing outcry from the parents of american hostages saying that the u.s. is not doing enough d. not find enough to find their children including paying ransom if needed. >> the last known american hostage in syria, award winning freelance journalist austin tice, a law student and former marine kidnapped two and a half years ago but u.s. officials and his patients believe not being held by isis. his parents want the administration to do more to find him. >> what we really want our government to do is to engage in a dialogue with the syrian government you know how can we have this fantastic state department and global diplomacy if we're not speaking.

>> for the safe return of hostages, we think someone reporting directly to the president. >> there has been no ransom demand from his cap tors but his frustration echos other families. president obama told buzz feed he will not change that policy. >> what we don't want to do is make other american citizens riper targets for the actions of organizations like this. >> the white house refused a prisoner trade for kayla mueller. they wanted the president to trade a convicted terrorist, lady al qaeda for their daughter. the white house wouldn't. now he has posted a picture of her on his facebook page

writing, i'm sorry i didn't hold on to you with so much strength that even god couldn't take you away. the president has ordered a review of hostage policy as jen psaki told us he says paying ransom would encourage more hostage taking. that is a tough message for grieving families asking why more wasn't done. one of those hostages was james foley, working as a freelance journalist in syria when he was kidnapped in 2012. he was killed by isis in august after a failed rescue attempt and hostage negotiations. joining me now his parents, diane and john foley. good to see you again and thanks for your patience through this period. i wanted to ask you about your reaction to the state department, what they are doing, what they are not doing? what would you tell them about the president's review of the policy? what needs to happen? >> first of all, we're very grateful.

we're, you know grateful that the president has ordered this review we've participated and thankful to all families who are adding their experience to this. five americans have been killed in the last six months. >> the fear is this may be increasing in spite of our policy. we just call on the white house to really look at the recommendations and to truly consider what may be -- primarily communication, we feel is one issue with families and between the agencies. we have a big bureaucracy. and also within internationally with our allies too. we feel there's a need for much more communications so that we can work together in a stronger effort against isis if you will. >> now, the president just this week in his interview with buzz

feed flatly ruled out changing the policy of no negotiating, no ransom being paid. do you think that that really should be addressed, either of you? >> the problem is that that leaves us only with military intervention and that's really 'pretty simplistic approach to these situations. you know i think isis always knows that it's going to come sooner or later after the european hostages were released we mounted the mission and i'm very, very grateful to the military personnel involved but they weren't home. they are evil and vicious but i don't think they are stupid. >> what about the fact that the foreign hostages do survive, french and italians get out because governments pay or there are private payments? >> we became -- spent some time in europe and became quite

friendly with the young men who had been released. they've actually become our son. we didn't talk to jim in a year and a half and we wanted to be in communication who are close to them. i am thrilled that they are out and able to try to rebuild their lives, which is necessary. i feel very very sad that jim and others steven and peter and kayla won't get the chance. >> they were there to bring a lot of suffering, awareness of that to the world and we need these brave young aid workers and journalists. so we're very thankful for the review. we're thankful for the coalition of news organizations that are trying to -- that just presented new safety standards for freelancers and the organizations that employ them. last night at columbia we think that's a first step towards

media working together to protect their own also so thank you. >> at this stage, do you think that having one person or a group of people in the national security council or state department to work with the families and communicate better would that be helpful? were you not getting enough information? you have the state department and white house and fbi, are there too many agencies involved without you getting the feedback? >> yeah i think that's imperative. we need as the government -- a specialized hostage unit which can cross all boundaries and which is willing to give us meaningful information and declassify some of that so that we can be part of the solution as well as opposed to being part of the problem. this is done in great britain. they obviously don't pay ransom. but in this situation, the journey would be much more meaningful if we sthared as opposed to being kept outside.

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candidate could pick up the social media in 2016. chris cillizza in person and "washington post" editorial columnist ruth marcus. so great to have you both here on a friday. chris, it's so different. i mean we are breaking new barriers but it's pretty funny. >> it is funny. i looked at about 9:00 last night and the video buzz feed uploaded to facebook on thursday morning had been viewed 16 million times. which speaks -- i guarantee it's over 20 million by today, haven't had a chance to look. what's remarkable about it there's the viralty and power that that -- that's a lot of people and frankly, it's a lot of people in the demographic that president obama, the young invincibles, 18 to 29-year-olds of people that president obama needs to sign up for healthcare.gov. is he using buzz feed at some

level? you bet he is. buzz feed speaks to that crowd as well, are they using him? yeah, because buzz feed got to sit down with president obama, which by the way the publication ruth and i work for hasn't had one since december 22nd 2009. look i think this is a situation -- >> 23 million views. >> you were close. >> 23 million -- it was 16 million last night. so you're talking -- it's growing, not 16 17 18. so -- of course he's going to be criticized for this and he knew he was going to be criticized for this. he's doing it because he thinks it either helps about his brand or accomplishes the goal of getting more kids to sign up. >> among the 2016 group and we've got two who are named bush and clinton, not known for their social media skills inherent skills, who's going to be the best to inher it this if this is the way to reach mill len yells.

>> i have my eye on #grandma doing a good job not running but not disappearing at very strategic moments with very clever hash tags with grandma knows best making her social media presence and her to be campaign presence known. i think you don't have to be a 20-something to understand how to use social media and it's clearly going to be an essential tool in -- in the last campaign and any campaigns going forward. it is amazing how instantly and i have to say here my children are not watching this right now because they are supposed to be in school. but if i tell them about this they will be laughing very loudly at the notion that their mom is giving instruction on proper use of social media. they are instantly aware of everything that's going on through their use of social media. >> they are native unlike the rest of us who had to learn

along the way. chris christie has done a video, other politicians are good at doing funny videos. >> christie has done well i think with his, we're seeing a good one there. he's done well with his. i think ruth is right. i think it's a misconception to say age is the way you understand these things because i always point to dan balz who works with us our colleague, who you know well senior political reporter. >> best around. >> are you calling him old? >> i said veteran. he's an adopter of all of these things, instagram, twitter, writing for the web exclusively, not just an age thing. i think it's a personality think and i don't think barack obama does the selfie stick and talk in the mirror and fake shooting baskets in 2011 before he gets

re-elected and not in 2009 but he's where he is in his presidency. >> we have to leave it there. and think about who -- what david carr might have written about all of this one wonders whether david carr would have enjoyed the irony of appreciating that his obituary is above the fold on page 1 of the new york times today. acclaimed "new york times" man and media columnist was an unlikely hero of journalism and champion and critic of the media. he collapsed in the newsroom last night after moderating a potential with glenn greenwald with edward snowden participating from moscow. he had wrestled with drug addictions and other demons and destructive behaviors and documented all of this in his gritty memoir night of the gun. it was written, david carr was one of the most gifted journalist who ever worked at the "new york times," the

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>> her arms aren't swaying and she's carrying something. >> she's got a grenade. handing it to the kid. >> a woman and a kid? >> eyes on this can you confirm? >> negative. your call. ♪ >> does the film realistically portray our veterans and the war they fought? that is the question at the heart of a new program called sick certified, challenging the entertainment industry to give a more accurate portrayal of veterans and it launched with the help of first lady michelle obama. entertainment leaders and bradley cooper the star of qult american sniper", charlie

ebersole is the creator and driving force behind the program. it's grateseat to see you again. >> you too. >> tell me about the inspir spirgs, what is the problem you're trying to fix? >> chris marvin was a veteran of the iraq and afghanistan wars a helicopter pilot shot down and when he came home a very very badly injured and broken basically every bone in his body, he started to realize a lot of view of veterans was skewed to these extremes of victim or hero. and in an effort to combat that he looked at the power of the media to change that landscape. similar to the way the lgbt moment with movies like "will and grace." he created a program called got your six, which is a foundation with support of all of the studios to figure out how to do it. when chris and i met last summer, as part of honoring the

veteran program, i suggested to him that we start looking at ways to celebrate companies and productions that do a good job and born out of that conversation we created sick certified which we were-- 6 certified. >> and in fact here's what michelle obama had to say about "american sniper", about the film at the launch. >> this movie reflects those wrenching stories that i've heard. the complex journeys that our men and women in uniform endure. the complicated moral decisions they are tasked with every day, the stresses of balancing love of family with a love of country. and the challenges of transitioning back home to their next mission in life. here's why a movie like this is important. the vast majority of americans will never see the stories.

they will never grasp these issues without portrayals like this. >> have you seen "american sniper" and if so do you think it's accurate? does it warrant the certification, the 6 certified? >> you know i saw the film. i met chris kyle several years ago and a lot of people i've worked with on a lot of shows including the show for nbc the wanted where we had a group of navy s.e.a.l.s tracking down terrorists who knew him well i think the film is an accurate portrayal of his perception of what happened through his book and his wife and people around him. it's important to recognize what we're trying to do is tell a balanced story, that everybody doesn't have to be this hero that came back from the war or this victim who's totally broken. i think this film does a spectacular job of telling an even an honest version of who chris was and what chris faced

going to war. because the truth of the matter is after world war ii i had millions come home and the economy surged on the back of highly trained and respected soldiers who we as taxpayers spent a fortune sending over there. now they come back and survey after survey shows that americans think it's a burden on the economy that we have veterans coming home which is a tra vesty, when you consider taxpayers spent a lot of money to get the guys not to be a burden. about the also they just spent this time supporting our country and they are built on duty and honor and hard work. and now they come into our workforce as an employer this is the guy i want working for me or girl i want working for me. the ideal people. >> you're doing a great job with all of this and we'll put all of the standards up on the website as well to really let people know that they should hire a veteran and bring veterans into their programming and try to be as accurate as possible. it's called 6 certified and

charlie ebersole is the creating of it. >> thank you very much. >> as a community mourns the murder of three muslim-american students family members are accusing local officials at least initially trying to cover up what they say is a hate crime. >> i think it's absolutely insulting insensitive and outrageous that the first thing they come out and say an issue a statement that this is a parking dispute from the first time they arrived having seen my mom, who also wears the head scarf, they had been harassed. fewer choices in retirement. know that proper allocation could help increase returns so you can enjoy that second home sooner. know the right financial planning can help you save for college and retirement. know where you stand with pnc total insight. a new investing and banking experience with personalized guidance and online tools. visit a branch, call or go online today.

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much research points to the widespread existence of unconscious bias. many people in our white majority culture have unconscious racial biases and react differently to a white face than a black face. we all, white and black, carry very biases around with us. i'm reminded of the song from

avenue q, everyone is a little bit racist the part of which goes like this. look around and you will find no one is really color blind. maybe it's a fact we all should face everyone makes judgments based on race. you should be grateful i did not try to sing that. >> james comey. professor ogletree, how significant is it that the fbi director made this speech and unlike the attorney general and president of the united states we're all hearing this from a white man, not an african-american? >> i think it makes a big difference because now we're finally seeing this issue of race and what racism is affecting all of us. i think he really understand what it means.

he also does a lot of we do here at the institute for race and justice, we've been talking about this for a long time and making sure people understand implicit bias. we're not calling them racists, but the whole idea of implicit bias they have something in their brains that makes them see things in a way that makes them see race makes them see gender and home phobia in a way that's all very negative. this is a timely and very important message to be seen and i hope people hear it and he continues speaking about having a view on race that is different than the rest of us. >> this is poignant not only in the african-american context, other minorities and muslim-american community in north carolina suffering after murder assassination style murder of these three students a man, his wife and his sister-in-law, we know there's a lot of investigation going on

the initial claim from the local officials were that it could have been a parking dispute. but it's just so profoundly disturbing, the community, thousands of people turning out in support of this family and we had part of a radio interview that one of the victims, yusor abu salha, talked about being a muslim american i wanted to play a little bit of that. >> growing up in america has been such a blessing and you know, although in some ways i do stand out such has the head covering, there's still so many ways i feel so embedded in the fabric that is our culture that's the beautiful thing here. it doesn't matter where you come from, there's so many different people from so many different places of different backgrounds and religions, but here we're all one. >> just married and maybe a month ago, the fbi has opened an

inquiry. what needs to be determined to discover -- to establish that it is a hate crime? >> it's very hard to prove a hate crime. and the reality is that the penalties aren't that substantial for hate crimes as opposed to other crimes committed in a criminal justice system. but this is something that i send my condolences to all of the people here three people killed just because of their religion, because of their dress and head scarf. and it makes no sense at all. i don't think it had anything to do with a parking space. i think it had a lot to do with what is engrained in our society. we have this sense about race and about religion. people were dressed differently and talk differently and look differently and live differently are somehow not part of the american way. that is wrong. i think the president spoke against it, i speak against it. most of my colleagues black, white, brown, women and men, left and right speak against it as well.

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was that first group of people that you put together the reason we're sitting here 40 years later? >> no question the show stands on their shoulders, them and the designers and musicians, every aspect of the taste of the show came from really you know seriously creative people. >> matt lauer and lorne michaels talking about sunday's three and a half hour reunion special, the 40th anniversary weekend. even though it is live from new york washington, d.c. has provided enough fodder for snl's funniest sketches and spot-on impressions, steve kornacki shares some of our favorite presidential moments. this is a long tradition and

begins with chevy chase. >> you go back 40 years ago to the beginning, 1975 since then seven presidents have been skewered by saturday night live. we thought we would take you on a tour. you take a look and chevy chase, gerald ford. you notice chevy chase didn't look much like gerald ford but he fell down a lot. he would be tripping other things. gerald ford when he was president, he took a stumble twice coming down steps in the airplane. got that reputation for being sort of clumsy. it was something americans hadn't seen before the first episode where chevy chase displayed gerald ford they put on a disclaimer this was not actually the president. take a look next president was jimmy carter and dan aykroyd, going for more of a physical resemblance. there was classic sketches with aykroyd as carter where he took questions from random americans and talked a guy through an acid

trip. then you move on to ronald reagan, a lot of different actors tried their hand at ronald reagan. at one point they brought robin williams in and joe piscopo and my favorite was phil hartman, a bunch of classic reagan lists. in my opinion it was the best it got on quts zpa saturday night live. >> well, it was good see you, jimmy. >> what are you talking about? i just got here for crying out loud. >> i know but i have -- well a meeting. >> well, that's just great. i'll just stick around that's it i'll just stick around and it will be educational for me yeah. >> well jimmy, i'm sorry, you can't stay. >> come on dutch -- >> jimmy, don't make me have to kill you.

>> and then there was dana carvy, no one ever did george bush 41 better than dana carvy. >> the four-year bush presidency, he had done so many bush invited him to the white house and had him do it in front of the entire white house staff. he liked it by the end. >> let's take a look at that. >> all i can say is we are on the track, we're getting the job done. we can do more but let's stay the course. 1,000 points of light. well unfortunately i see my time is up. >> mr. vice president, you still have 1:20. >> what? well, no i must have spoken for at least two minutes. >> governor dukakis, rebuttal? >> i can't believe i'm losing to this guy. >> what about the clintons between bill and hillary clinton they must have had plenty of snl time. >> the '90s and so much you can

reuse today. darrel probably the most famous to play bill clinton. the first two years it was phil hartman and bringing in january hooks to play hillary clinton, no longer around. then you move into the bush years, will far rel, remember his one word debate answer. then we move into the obama era, it was fred armson for a couple of years before that. obama may be the toughest one to caricature but they have a few years to figure it out. >> well just in one word defense of gerald ford he was an all-american but snl really undermined his ability to win re-election as a matter of fact. thank you very much. thanks for that. that is the preview and the ramp up to the 40th anniversary is saturday night special is just getting started. tune in to msnbc tonight for the reunion that we've been waiting for. >> all over the country, there are protests and for the first time in my life everyone agrees

withmy. folks are high fiving and inviting me places. this must be what it feels like to be beyonce. >> reverend al sharpton will meet his snl match, keenan thompson at 6:00 eastern. and be sure to watch weekend mornings for "up with steve kornacki. that does it it for a busy week this edition of andrea mitchell reports. follow the show online and on twitter. and my colleague ronan farrow joins with what's coming up next. >> good to see you, andrea. good coverage of snl there, marking that 40th anniversary, we have an interesting take up ahead on that and diversity of snl which by many counts first latino cast member and an interesting take on news sending shock waves through the military, that the army is going to give gender reassignment hormones to chelsea manning while in prison and in their

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