isis picks up thousands of fighters united in terror but is their core divided? i'm toure. and as we come on the air this monday the military group boko haram has pledged 9,000 fighters to isis. the largest group signup at once we've seen. broek -- broek has been terror terrorizeing nigeria, most recently with the kidnappingle 276 school girls. and many wonder how this could work and some think boko haram is signing up in name only. overnight the u.s.-led coalition carried out 14 air-strikes. and the air-strikes, including

one on an isis controlled oil refinery are having a crippling impact on the militants. and on the key city of tikrit and inside of the ranks and a group struggling to maintain control. one analyst said the key challenge facing isis is more internal than external let's bring in jim miklaszewski at d.o.d. let's start with isis in iraq focusing on tikrit that is a key city. >> reporter: that is right. and tikrit has become critical in determining whether the ultimate u.s. strategy to defeat and degrade and push isis out of iraq with work and that is because the iraqi forces, without u.s. assistance from the air or any on the ground obviously, are going to attempt to take tikrit from isis fighters who have been holding the city now for some time.

but included along with that are not only isis fighters but shia militias backed by iran. and the concern among u.s. military officials including general martin dempsey, the joint chairman in iraq the past couple of days the concern is that if those shia militia move into tikrit and push isis out, but at the same time seize the city from the sunni-held population, then that could be a game-changer that could mean lights out, game over for any kind of strategy to get shia and sunnis to work together. and without sunnis in this fight against isis the u.s. campaign and coalition campaign can never success. >> mik, today they are wrapping up drills and then after the boko haram pledge to isis and what does that mean to american security? >> not much. boko haram obviously does not

pose any kind of direct threat. they neither have the wherewithal or the ambition to attack the u.s. and neither does isis. they are too busy creating their caliphate. but the main concern is all of this hype and publicity and all of the western recruiting joining isis could, in fact encourage the lone wolf ak thats in -- wolf attacks in europe or the united states at this point. >> jim miklaszewski thank you. and let's bring in navy commander jim harmer a senior naval analyst at the institute for the study of war. and thank you for your service. and do you think isis is spreading itself too thin, sir? >> i think it is inevitable it will collapse as a nation state. they started out as a terrorist organization and they were

incredibly effective. from there they morphed into an insurgency and they were a little more effective and now they are trying to work as a caliphate and the reason it is not working out is you don't fight a multi war front simultaneously unless you can help it. they were fighting a war on the western front against the hezbollah, peshmerga, the free syrian army and six separate organizations fighting in syria and a second front in iraq. initially they had success and now they pulled the united states into the war and between all of those simultaneously and i think they have reached the point of their geographic lyally situation. >> i read over the weekend, that boko haram has pledged to fight

along isis just the latest group to fight with isis. how concerned should we is this something that could strengthen or spread them too thin where the commanders lose control of what they are trying to do? >> from a tactical perspective, boko haram aligned with isis is irrelevant because they won't provide fighters to isis. what will they do when they back down. the real fight here the strategic fight, is who is going to lead the sunni jihadist movement? it has been al qaeda. isis is challenging for leadership of the sunni jihadist movement. boko haram and others pledging allegiance to isis says if and when the caliphate collapses, isis will exist just morphing back into a terrorist construct.

>> and talk, if you will about the military progress on the ground. what has the impact of our air-strikes been and has the air-strikes that we are applying to isis has that helped to sew the internal divisions we are hearing about. >> air-strikes are tactically good it looks good on tv and it can hit any target in iraq or syria. the problem is it is not paired with a political strategy. in iraq we have the political strategy which is the reinvigoration or the re-establishment of the government. the fact that it completely under cuts the government in baghdad. when they withdraw from tikrit who is in control once they leave. right now it looks like iran and the islamic -- the shiite will be controlling. >> and you are talking strategy.

i have a simple question for you. what is going on with all of this destruction of art that we are raiding about over the -- read being over the weekend and why is that something isis is interested in. >> it is saddening to see this. you saw the same thing with the taliban. it is the logical extension of their interpretation of their fundamental ideology there can be no idols. it is saddening to see these artifacts destroyed. to them it makes sense. it appeals to a very narrow and radical, very ideologically motivation of their population support base. >> chris, thank you so much for your time. let's head to madison, wisconsin, where demonstrators have packed the capitol, and this is protesters, after a 19-year-old was killed.

officer matt kenny is on leave. the state department is following the investigation. we'll follow that and other stories. and please tell me you saw snl this weekend. move over amy pohler there is a new hillary clinton. and there is a new watch in town, but does anybody have time for you. and we're watching new nbc poll numbers. should jeb bush be alarmed? >> oh, no. >> the clock is ticking until the cycle comes back. don't move. >> you are on a roll, mister. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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my work e-mails are professional and my e-mails with friends are innocent and fun. like this one, a friend wrote to me, hey girl still up for a movie tonight. i heard that new bradley cooper one is hot. what do you want to see? and i responded with i want to see myself as president of the united states of america. see, just fun woman talk. and in e-mails to bill the only thing you'll dig up is a little bit of mature romance. take a look at this sexy e-mail i sent him on our anniversary. dear sir or ma'am, congratulations on your continued marital success, i would like to schedule a sit-down at your earliest convenience. regards, the office of hillary clinton. >> that was saturday night live

with an epic cold open. that is what we call it in the biz. but i would argue that open was red hot. >> whoa! >> the real hillary clinton has not addressed the scandal yet. she passed this morning, but it is suggesting she will speak on it this week. but her alter ego did. >> so i shall rise again like a phoenix, like a hillary clinton and i will ascend to the high office of president and claim my rightful place in history. if i choose to run. i don't know. i don't know. i'm so iffy on the whole thing. >> if she runs. who knows. really. nbc senior political correspondent perry bacon. nice to have you here in studio. great to see you. so senator dianne feinstein put pressure on hillary clinton over the weekend on "meet the press."

let's take a listen. >> what i would like is for her to come forward and say just what the situation is. because she is the pre-eminent political figure right now. she is the leading candidate, whether it be republican or democrat for the next -- to be the next president. and i think that she needs to step up and come out and stay exactly -- state exactly what the situation is. i think at this point, from this point on the server -- the silence is going to hurt her. >> democrats frustrated a little bit with hillary in the lack of response so far. >> this is important. obama and hillary had a famous meeting after their campaigns where they got together. it was at die on feinstein's house. the fact that she said this is important and tells you. there are two core questions here. why did you only have a personal e-mail account and how secure was it? were you vulnerable to a hacking of any kind.

and she's going to address those two questions this week. and democrats are -- they are not looking for their candidate. they are behind hillary but they are like what is going on and are we going to have more problems from the 1990s come back to haunt us. >> they are behind her but there is a bit of hesitancy when it comes to hillary clinton. we talked about kate mckinnon, she is probably the best thing that happened to snl. here is another part of the opening skit where she mentioned elizabeth warren. take a listen to this. >> people still want someone like listen warren to run instead. god bless elizabeth. lizzy. i love you girl. we need more women like you. but it is not your time. >> it's my time. >> people are rallying around elizabeth warren that would love to see something like her run and when a controversy comes out like that comes out with lists

of people who could run against her, is this a bad week for her or is there something much deeper. the globe, democrats shouldn't let hillary clinton coast to nomination. is this something bigger? >> no. there are like 60 members of congress that have endorsed her. she's hired the most prominent democrats, people are leaving to work for hillary clinton. most of the donors are behind her. it would take a big change. >> are they excited about -- the liz wedge warren people are excited. >> as long as you have this much strength. it doesn't matter. not a lot of republicans are excited about jeb bush but the fundraisers are. >> i feel like abby sounds like that lauren michaels impression. it got a laugh but did it get the right laugh. >> and when i think about the

robber movies when they are going into the house and there are dobermans there and they throw off raw steaks and they rob the house before they realize and it is like that do you think hillary clinton would have written down anything that could possibly embarrass her. so they throws this off, the republicans eat on this and by the time she's out of the house, oh, my goodness, we've eaten a nothing burger. >> i don't agree with you. yes, are voters analyzing her e-mail releases? i doubt it. but is this a good policy? it seems cabinet secretaries have managed to follow the laws an the rules. >> but if we go through this and no e-mail that is embarrassing and nothing inappropriate, then won't it have been a journey much ado about nothing? >> don't think so. we have guidelines and making sure your e-mail is on the

government and the reason why these procedures are online. it is not about the electoral process but should she follow the guidelines the rest of the obama administration did and yes. >> but it is how she handles and responds to the controversy. >> and that is why this is a good conversation to have. and we haven't heard her out yet. and having said that this is not new, perry. and people make joet -- jokes about g-mail versus dot-gov, and you look back on nixon, he put in extra record keeping in the white house because he thought he could use it as control and it was his undoing. and hoover kept files in his office and that told us about him. and donald rumsfeld has the record of writing more memo than

any other cabinet secretary because he said they dropped like snowflakes and it affects the bankruptcyureaucracy. does this tell us something, that including other fellow cabinet officers that she could be different. >> making sure they could go off the record books. ike eric holders some of the e-mails have been released and there are controversial things and john roberts e-mails came out in confirmations hearings. and i agree toure, there may not be no smoking gun but that doesn't mean you should violate the guidelines to do so. but i want to hear her explanation and maybe she has one i have not heard yet. i do think in a week and a half she's had enough time if there was a great answer we would have heard it. >> we're waiting.

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developing right now, day three of testimony in the boston marathon bombing trial, including some very graphic testimony from a doctor who was on the scene that day. nbc's rahima ellis is outside of the courthouse in boston with an

update. >> reporter: hi there. the ninth witness of the day on the stand right now. some of the testimony we heard earlier of what you talked about, one of the witnesses that you testified, a doctor of how he tried to help some of those victims from the day. including a little girl who lost her leg and come to find out that she was the sister of the child killed martin richard, 8-year-olds who died at the scene. and the jurors heard testimony from the fbi expert from quantico he talked about for the first time the jurors movement and showing images of tsarnaev with a backpack and showing him dip down and the prosecution then ask do you ever see the backpack on the defendant's shoulder again and the fbi expert said no he does not. and there is cross-examination of this witness. this is only the second time in

about 25 government witnesses that the defense has cross-examined asking of the two brothers tamerlan the older one and dzokhar, who is in front, they are trying to suggest who was in the lead in this crime case. and also we heard from a witness jessica kenski who lost both legs as a result of the bombing. she had her one leg amputated this past january and describes her injuries from the bombing. she said they were war wounds. she was treated at the walter reed medical center and because they are accustomed to treating people who in military situations and in war situations suffer the kind of injuries that so many people -- 260 of them injured in april of 2013 so many of these injuries people describe were like war wounds. >> thank you for reporting on

that important trial. back on the political trail. many of the top republican presidential hopefuls hit iowa for a farming summit. the agricultural mogul questions candidates on crop and tax credit that are important to iowa and him. it shows how iowa tilts national attention and candidate's policies toward priorities of that tiny state. and it was written that iowa is twice as rural as the rest of the nation more religiously conservative and much less hispanic and black. and frank is here at the table to talk politics. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> i'm of two minds of your iowa idea. there is no question it is representative and has the problems that you articulate in your piece.

on the other hand i worked in iowa in 2004 i had 19 presyncs s presync -- precincts and i was impressed about how they approach but as barack obama and others have shown, it is the last place where retail politics and not money can push a candidate forward. >> it is not a candidate state so we need to take it in proportion. you've been in iowa, probably everyone here has been there during the caucuses and it is as if the entire press corp has arrived. and by giving it that much attention we have candidates that fall by the way side because of iowa. we have candidates that stay in the race a whole lot longer because of their performances in iowa and they happen to connect with that particular electorate and they shouldn't be around as long and so i think media

shouldn't smother them as much as we do. >> and you wrote a piece at the media, called despicable us and why politicians are disgusted with the media today and a list of suggestions people should do. one leave is the spouses alone. and don't buy tickets to the circus act, i'm someone guilty of this. >> i've been guilty too. >> when they say these things it is like crack for the media. so how do you get the media to stop that? >> well we're the media. we need to show restraint. yes, we are businesses and worry about clicks and eyeballs but -- or should worry about them to a point. i mean the amount of coverage you see in various blogs of sarah palin is ridiculous. she's not a factor in the republican party. >> you would never know that based on the coverage. >> you would never know that based on what we write and see

on tv and it behoves, us we are not just any business we are supposed to be part of the democracy and not just to titillate them and work them into a pattern. >> and we are the media in the way you describe and the specific things you say i totally agree with but then on a larger level, politicians like to blame the media when they make mistakes and when we as the media are giving them ammunition to fulfill that narrative are we not? >> i would say if we corrected those things that we should correct, they would have less ammunition. because i agree, when they are talking about how horrible they are, more often than not they are trying to distract people from their own short comings. so what is the answer to that? it is for us to take a serious look at ourselves and do our jobs that is more above prepoach and -- reproach and had they

lodge the complaints, they don't have any standing. >> so using the framework you lay out in your piece, what has been consequential and we should pay attention to in what we'll call the invisible primaries. >> what we should be paying attention to as what we should not. one thing that i think is interesting is jeb bush. by various metrics he is doing well and he should be. he has the money and the premier staff. he's got the name the media recognition and yet none of that has translated into any sort of enthusiasm on the ground that is measurable yet. i think that is a legitimate story and we need to cover that better than we have. i think if we look at scott walker's problems with what he said in aggregate and we write about them in a tempered way, we would have find we have takers. if we stop at any one gaf, and isn't just one gaf, this is a

first road block and big trouble and cry wolf too early, we neuter ourself in taking power. >> and the tendency to cover this as a game it is not a game, it affects their lives. thanks for joining us today. >> great piece. we have developments for the business world. the big apple is san francisco, where the biggest tech company unval d unveiled its newest gadget.

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array of products they took the stage to announce. from an exclusive partnership with hbo to a new diagnostic relationship with companies. but the biggest news was called spring forward was the apple watch. you say why would i need a watch made by apple because i have one already. and they argued you don't want to take your phone out of your pocket. if you have an important e-mail maybe there was a headline or a stock quote you were looking for or order an uber or check into a hotel or a flight on your wrist and it didn't take long for compareisons to dick tracy were made and if you want one it will

cost you. and some of the first generation things have had kinks in the past and it has taken a way to iron out the kinks. they have three product tiers. the first is the sporty and it is made of aluminum starting at $349. and then in stainless steel will start at $549 and go up to $1099. that is $1099. and if you are in the dog house with the significant other, starting at $10,000 you can get the apple watch edition and that is in 18 karat gold. and that is important to apple for a couple of reasons. they haven't introduced a new product since early 2010 when the ipad came out and also this is the very first product launch under tim koch as ceo and past have been with steve jobs at the

helm. so it will be important to see how apple will handle the new products and if you want one, you can get your hands on one in the middle of april. >> kayla in the silicon valley, thank you. and here is something we are watching. and the preacher in chief, reminding us there is a link between the civil rights movement and his election. and he says nothing has changed, we know there is much more to do. when the ferguson report is scathing and the black unemployment rate is double and many people living below the poverty line. and april ryan has been a white house correspondent for 18 years. that is abby's entire life. this is the presidenty in black and white and we are honored to have you april ryan on the

show. >> thank you, toure. >> and i read your book. it is interesting and showing how honored you are to be in the white house. you graded the last three presidents on how they rated on race. and you give barack obama on a b-plus, before the d.o.j. report and a powerful selma speech. i saw you on other network we won't name saying one of the greatest speech of his pressy and how did you give him a b-plus and given the recess address would you alter that grade at all? >> well let me say, the grade the president had prior to this going into publication was a different grade. it was a lower grade. and in the galleries i was hearing information about ferguson and my brother's keeper and i'm getting more and more information and saying wait a minute. i have to change this grade and anticipating what was happening

in this second term fourth quarter, we knew he would start to target issues in the black community that have been a problem in this country for decades that other presidents haven't tackled. so i changed the grade to a b-plus. so all of this is incorporated and particularly the last three weeks of all of this race. the issues of race. the trayvon martin third year anniversary was recently. my brothers keeper one year anniversary, the ferguson report and selma. so all of this is incorporated in that b-plus. >> april like others was moved over what happened this weekend, the speeches. you could feel the passion there. and the country has changed so much even in the past seven to eight years when obama first came into office. politico has a piece out about the impact of this week and how much the mood has made allowing politicians to speak freely about race in this country and

it made me wonder if the president would be able to do this seven years ago and march over the bridge and speak the way that he did as passionately as he did in his first year in office? >> he would have been able to march and have an event but i don't think you would have seen this president -- maybe about four years ago, i don't think you would have seen this president four years ago. this president today is a totally different person than what he was first term. he had to navigate the waters to get the second term to be the president we see today. race does play an issue. what follows this president historically will be politics and race. that is something he cannot walk away from. but they have to figure out how to work in washington when washington -- many in washington don't want to work with him, particularly on matters of race. >> exactly. >> he had to navigate the waters to get to the second term to be able to boldly as you go out to say, reverend doctor barack obama, saturday in selma.

>> and to your point, what he has had trouble getting from congress is something he spoke to on saturday. let's listen to that. >> the voting rights act was the astounding acts. and president bush signed it renewal. and 100 members of congress have come here today to honor people who were ilg to die for the right to protect it. if we want to honor this day, let that 100 go back to washington and gather 400 more and pledge to make it their mission to restore that law this year. >> and that is such a difference here, that we've covered the voting rights act on this show just as you have covered it in your work. i don't think anyone would seriously claim this president wants to renew that law less than reagan or bush. to their credit they signed it. but they were working with a congress willing to pass bipartisan civil rights

legislation. that doesn't exist today, does it? >> i'm not going to say it doesn't. but when you give something, you have to get something. and it is a lot of give and take in this town. and the unfortunate thing is things change but they stay the same. remember when the voting rights act was passed the southern states were dealing and now we have battleground states and southern states we need to have things tweaked but need to stay on the books. that is the issue. how do you work successfully to tweak it and keep it. it depends on which party you are in in the mindset of what is happening. there are still racial issues at the polls and you cannot -- cannot deny it. you can go to the justice department and look up the complaints. that is something that we know and the reason why the voting rights act is in place. to deal with the issues at the polls.

so you have to walk down this road with fact and that is the biggest piece the president would have. >> if i have to give you a grade for this piece, i would give you an a-plus. >> that is what i'm talking about. >> thank you. and president obama reacted to the letter about iran saying any deal iran strikes with the u.s. would not be enforced. listen to what the president said as we head to break. >> i think it is somewhat ironic to see some members of congress wanting to make common cause with the hard-liners in iran. it is an unusual coalition. i think what we're going to focus on is actually seeing whether we can get a deal or not. and once we do then we'll -- if we do then we'll make the case to the american people and i'm confident we'll be able to implement it.

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the people from that part of the middle east like to dance and celebrate. when i did the evil comedy tour i went online to see what people were saying and i ended up on the sean hannity website, a conservative website and one guy wrote, i never knew theme peas laughed. you never see middle easterners laugh. mike like a little evil -- woo, i will kill you in the name of allahh. but never ha ha. >> and we have maz jordan i'm not a terrorist. so can iran man men be funny? >> i think we can be funny. >> i hope so. >> i've been trying for 17 years. we smell good. we wear a lot of cologne. we like to drive fancy cars dress nice. this isn't bad.

but you guys look great. fantastic. >> beautiful audience. >> i'm going to invite you to a persian party. >> i would love that. >> throwing hankies? >> that will be very nice. fantastic. >> i find his tie holiday-ish. >> it is all right. it looks good. >> and so you are a comedian in a post-9/11 world and you talk about growing up iranian and the stereotypes to grow up with that. how difficult is it to find the right balance to being funny and not disrespectful. >> and as a comedian you have to say what is on your mind and be as funny as you can. the goal is you want them to laugh. i do some self-deprecating. my bald head is a good self-starter. but once people say you are making fun of yourself they come on board. i think that is very important. and the audiences that come out, they laugh.

i get diverse people coming out. you know who has been offended? chiropractors? i do one joke where i some people out. do you know who is offended by my shows? chiropractors. i do one joke. they come up to me after the show and say, hey, we had a great time, but we're doctors. >> you came here from iran when you were six. you moved to california. talk about growing up and did the folks around you understand what to do with a person who was iranian-american? did they tease you? did you have a hard time? >> i came to america in the late 70s. people didn't know the revolution was going to happen. my father was on business in new york. he spent for my mother and my sister and i to come for winter break. we packed for two weeks, but we

stayed permanently. marin, northern california it is a wealthy place, but a lot of people there are very very -- very subtle in their wealth. they'll drive saabs and volvos. >> very humble. >> my persian dad buys a rolls-royce. during the hostage crisis he's driving me around town. dude, what is your problem? i'm trying to blend in. >> they don't wear cologne there, i'm guessing. >> i didn't know what was going on in the fourth grade. there was a sixth grader who would pick on me. he would call me an iranian. >> maz, you talk about the fact that you played terrorists and

you were getting signed up for these stereotypical roads. when did you decide to not go down this road anymore? >> you're middle eastern, great. can you say i was killed in the name of allah? yes, but how about the doctor? >> they're going to come after you now, buddy. you'll get a lot of tweets. we're doctors. >> but no man. i actually did a chuck norris movie of the week thank you very much early in my career. when you're in a chuck norris movie of the week you know you're going to die. they have to have chuck saving the world. i did it and i did the part and i played a terrorist who was in

chicago. i really didn't like it. i came back and said i don't want to do these parts anymore. i have taken a stand and don't do it. >> thank you so much. before we head to break, check out this picture that has gone viral on instagram. you have probably noticed this is the iconic san francisco home featured in "full house." do you notice who is standing in front of it? john stamos. the fans don't seem to notice him. it sparked this epic response from uncle jesse himself. i wish i could have been there. hash tag, turn around. hash tag everywhere you look. no? we'll be right back. is where she grew up. what?

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i feel proud watching the president's speech from selma, proud to be an american. he did as always bring the nuance. that's how he is. the president said we have made racial progress but he said we still have much to do. >> of course, a more common mistake is to suggest that ferguson is an isolated incident that racism is banished, that the work that drew men and women to selma is now complete and that whatever racial tensions remain are a consequence of those seeking to play the race card for their own purposes. we don't need a ferguson report to know that's not true. we just need to open our eyes

and our ears and our hearts to know this nation's racial history still cast its long shadow upon us. >> america is very much a work in progress especially on race. struggling throughout our history to rectify our promise of liberty and justice for all in how we treat our citizens who are black, gray or immigrant. if you're fighting for a better america, the founders made the right to free speech the first amendment because we are meant to critique this nation. >> the idea held by generations of citizens, who believe that america is a constant work in progress, who believe that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. it requires the occasional

disruption, the willingness to speak out for what's right, to shake up the status quo. >> they are being true patriots. they are taking america at its word that all americans are created equal and that matters because as the president pointed out when we fall short for all our citizens it compromises our ability to tell other nations what they need to be doing. the critics who agitate for america are making america are better. they are being inherently american because the impulse to make demands has always been in american blood. >> the americans who picked up the torch to cross this bridge. >> that instinct has made this nation what it is and the deep love of this country that comes from the heart of the true patriots who challenged america to be its best self will be what

keeps this nation great for centuries to come. that does it for "the cycle." "now" starts right now. a racist chant resounds in a dark echo of decades past. it's monday march 9th and this is "now." >> there is zero tolerance for this kind of racism and bigotry. >> a fraternity is shut down after students are singing a song on a bus that is racist. >> we must speak out. >> massive crowds gathered in selma, alabama, over the weekend to commemorate the 50th anniversary of bloody