he's considering a longer deployment? xbl. >> terrorism is changing becoming much more brutal. because of the weakening state system are collapsing syria, iraq yemen, libya, it's expanding. ♪ in gayday everyone, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. ted cruz political thorn in the side of his own republican colleagues is first in. choosing an iconic christian university attendance for students was required. >> today roughly half of born again christians voted. they are staying home.

imagine instead millions of people of faith all across america coming out to the polls and voting our values. >> joining me now for our daily fix, msnbc political correspondent kasie hunt and chris cillizza and founder of "washington post" fix blog and susan page. welcome all. kasie, that was an electric appearance at liberty university as we reported. the kids had to go students had to be there. but liberty university founded by the late reverend falwell was a very important place and that signifies a lot. >> reporter: it does it shows how he's going to focus on the conservative grass roots. they had something of a wayning influence in recent years but cruz' s speech came across almost like he was a pastor in a

megachurch wearing a microphone that sat along his jaw line that we associate with some sermons like that. he hit on applause line after applause line all tied in or largely tied into his own faith and experience with evangelical christianity. he started off saying his father found jesus and credits that for the reason why he came back to ted cruz and his mother when cruz was growing up young. >> and in fact the controversy over ted cruz here's a freshman senator and not unlike barack obama, right out of the box running for president without a whole lot of time under his belt, but his time in the senate has been very controversial. look at the filibuster and his government shutdown, which he is blamed for and also what john mccain said. this was an interview with john mccain in march of 2013. he said, it's always the whack owe birds that get the media meg

phone. there's a belief among the american people that they are the views of the majority of republicans, they are not. he was then asked to clarify who specifically he was talking about. he said rand paul cruz amash, whoever. >> this was not a wacko bird speech. he was concerned about immigration, endorsed a flat tax which a lot of republicans do and ene embraced traditional marriage this was not an out of the mainstream type of speech. he was where the republican is and trying to i think broaden his appearance -- we know he's a hero of the tea party movement, that's how he got into the senate and beat the establishment candidate in the texas primary in 2012. he's trying to broaden his appeal to include some of these christian eevangelical voters also cultivated by mike huckabee and rick santorum. >> chris cillizza watching jeb bush and scott walker who has

moved to the right and looked also towards the evangelicals as he thinks about iowa seeing how well they have done with the party establishment, this is ted cruz not establishing a committee, he's just getting right in there so he can try to get attention. >> yeah look in some ways he almost had to be first because he's got to get attention and get fund raising money. he's going to have a whole day -- might have a whole couple days or whole week whereas if he announced in three weeks or a month, he wouldn't. i thought the speech was quite good. i had sort of a unique experience. i listened to it on the radio, while driving, so i paid more attention than usual because i wasn't tweeting or anything. you mentioned barack obama, some of the similarities careerwise, i thought cruz dedicated the first 900 words of that speech to telling his sort of origin story, who his parents were and where they came from and wife came from and what his life was like. it reminded me a ton of the

barack obama 2004 democratic national committee speech which sort of, i'm an unlikely person to get here but that's the greatness of america. i think barack obama and ted cruz have almost nothing in common idealogically or policiwise but that founding story, cruz will like obama did, put that at the center of that campaign. that was sort of intriguing. >> it would be a very sharp contrast with hillary clinton. take a look at what jerry brown had to say to chuck todd on "meet the press" about ted cruz's denial after climbal al climate change. >> climate disruption of many different kinds. and that man betokened such a level of ignorance and direct falsification of the existing scientific data. it's shocking and i think that man has rendered himself unfit to be running for office.

>> it doesn't hurt ted cruz in a republican primary but would make him an extraordinary contrast with the presumptive front-runner, hillary clinton. >> it certainly does. i think actually andrea that's part of ted cruz's main argument when he talks to voters you'll hear him talk over and over again and we've heard this before from more conservative candidates that the republican party continues to nominate what's the moderate or establishment candidate, whether it's a bob dole or john mccain or mitt romney and cruz over and over again is saying, that has clearly not worked for us. what we need is a candidate who can galvanize the base. i think you've seen here today the beginning of the execution of that strategy. >> now, while all of this is take place, hillary clinton was at the center of american progress home base at the round table speaking about hispanic americans and challenges in many of the urban areas in fact. and there was an excerpt i

wanted to share with everybody from the boston globe. it would be unprecedented for hillary clinton to march to the nomination largely unoo posed which many predict could happen if warren doesn't run. so this is an appeal from the boston globe senatorial page chris cillizza for elizabeth warren to do what she has said she's not doing, to get in and challenge hillary clinton from the left. >> i think that op-ed was striking. just sort of the elizabeth warren you should run for president. i would note as pointed out by someone in the newsroom it was one of four pieces that ran in the sunday boston globe in some way shape or form tackling elizabeth warren for president. you know, massachusetts is used to having people run for president, right? john kerry, mitt romney we can go back, michael dukakis, i thought it was intriguing i

don't think it changes elizabeth warren's mind. the opening has been there, she could have run and still could run at hillary clinton's left. i don't think in her heart of hearts she wants to do it but intriguing the boston globe picking up the mantle. >> and susan page hillary clinton is in washington today at the campaign for american progress, tonight she's going to be speaking actually at a journalism found razor in honor of our friend and late colleague robin toner of the "new york times." then what, timing? >> in terms of her announcement? i think it's coming next month. i think the e-mail furor has reinforced a point that her supporters have made that she needs a infrastructure in place to respond. these stories are not going away as with the latest round of benghazi e-mails. >> suggesting some of her senate colleagues were using their private e-mails rather than having government e-mails so it

would have been captured. to be continued for sure. susan page great to see you, chris cillizza and kasie hunt, thank you so much. over overseas, shiite rebels battle the ousted sunni government in what is becoming a proxy war between iran and neighboring saudi arabia. all of this creating an opening for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and isis. richard engel on home base joining me from new york. you know yemen, been there so often. this is the worst we have seen in a number of years. >> yemen has been a fragile country for the 20 years or so i've been talking about yemen. but i've never seen yemen like it is right now. you said it's on the brink of a civil war, maybe it's even in a civil war. you have the u.s. backed government, which the u.s. is backing financially and militarily for several years.

you have the government now operating as a government in exile in a small portion of the country. and these shiite rebel groups known as the houthis, allegedly backed by iran if you ask other people in the region they'll all say it is a direct iranian proxy, fighting it out for control of this country and tip of the arabian peninsula. while this war is going on real war with tanks and artillery and cities new city was just taken over the weekend, while this is going on and the country is in chaos, you have isis making a run for it and isis trying to eclipse al qaeda, trying to establish a base in the country and carrying out several attacks, including the one on friday, which about 140 people were killed. >> and when we talk about isis and isis' ability to use social media. i want to ask about something

which is less important in a way than what's happening in yemen but profoundly disturbing. they are publishing a list of u.s. current service members and some back home and apparently according to the pentagon not from a hack but from social media and public source documents. publishing names and addresses and family names. this is profoundly upsetting because they are basically saying to sympathizers and lone wolves, go after these people. >> that's exactly what they are saying, a list of 100 service members with their photographs and claim to be their home addresses, personal details and it's a public call by isis for people in the united states presumably to go out and find these military personnel and to kill them. and it wasn't according to the pentagon any hacked data. it was not a classified file. but it was a compiled list that

isis put together by stripping information in photographs from the internet social media and news accounts. it's a scare tactic. it's certainly incitement to violence, but it is not as significant i would say as what is happening in yemen. what's happening in yemen is there's a new place where isis can have a base. yet again, the sunni/shia conflict now spreading across the islamic world and across the middle east part of the islamic world in particular isis is finding a home on that very volatile and ancient fault line between sunni and shia muslims and that's a problem for the region and united states especially when you consider isis is a group which has said many times it considers the united states, its avowed enemy and wants to do what it can to

respond and attack. >> and by the way the saudi foreign minister in a news conference today issued a call and said that other arab sunni nations are going to answer this call to try to counteract this shiite rebel onthere. >> what he said is the way he was couching that call he said that this shiite rebellion in yemen is a state attacking another state. he was directly accusing iraq of being behind the shiite uprising there and iran of spreading its influence trying to take over yemen. if you're sitting back from the saudi perspective, by the way, yemen is next to saudi arabia. you're seeing iran spreading its influence in your neighbor yemen, and iran spreading its influence in your other neighbor iraq. >> and one quick point just to talk about that geography, along

that border where there has been a low level insurgency for years, on the other side the best and most productive of the saudi oil fields. they are taking this very seriously indeed. great to see you, thanks very much. >> up next president obama responding to our interview with israel's prime minister benk anyone netanyahu, his comments about arab israelis and later afghanistan's president meeting with secretary kerry up at camp david. find out what he told us about the u.s. troop withdrawal to come. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc.

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well it took a few days for president obama to call benjamin netten nanyahu after the victory last week but that did not heal the

rift in a relationship further damaged by the israeli leader's preelection comments and election day warning that arab voters were voting in droves. >> i'm very proud to be the prime minister of all of israel's citizens arabs and jews alike. >> that's not the way it sounded on election day. >> if you heard what i said you might reconsider what you just said. >> what was your reaction to the warning on election day about arab voters heading to the polls in droves. >> we indicated that that kind of rhetoric was contrary to what is the best of israel's traditions. >> sam stein is political editor and white house correspondent for "the huffington post" and got the first reaction from president obama to all of this. congratulations on your big interview. what was the president's state of mind about all of this? it was pretty edgy as far as all

of the briefings we got from the white house on and off camera. >> yeah you know what struck me is how much more -- i guess i want to say emotional, but he was more critical about the arab voters in a language than netanyahu used there than the dismissal of a two-state solution in netanyahu in the days before the election. i think the reason why is because that arab voters comment touched a nerve for the president. obviously we've had our own problem with racial histories and voter issues with respect to racism. i think when the president heard that language it resonated with him at a different way than the geo political stuff. he made it clear in the phone call, he let netanyahu know this was not acceptable if israel wanted to consider to be a lone democracy in the middle east. >> following up on that usually when we follow up on either comments said by josh earnest when they were in ohio it was

an off camera press gaggle on the plane, and then of course on thursday on camera usually when we follow up they say, it's not that bad. this time all of the guidance was it was more important and exactly to your point, they were saying to me it was that comment. when i asked israelis -- i was on israeli television on thursday. and -- wednesday night, the days all meld together. and they said what's the big deal? why did the white house react to that? i said the 60s, 70s and '80s and recent race issues that we've had, it struck a note with this white house, with this president. >> absolutely, just replace arabs with blacks and put it in context of a u.s. election. that was pretty simple for the president. to your earlier point, it is very remarkable and sort of a turn of the page that they are just barely covering up their frustrations at this point, with

the most rudd meant tri of dip plo speak. it's very clear they don't think netanyahu's walk back that he gave on your show is legitimate. they take him at his preelection word and operating on an understanding that he's not invested at all in the peace process. but they are now publicly saying that they don't believe that there will be a palestinian state during his time as prime minister and they are actively looking for other avenues to pursue some sort of negotiation. that's pretty remarkable at this point. >> now, the next big breach -- potential breach in the relationship will come with a sunday deadline on an iran nuclear framework. here's what -- of course you asked president obama about that. >> they have not yet made the kind of concessions that are going to be needed for a final deal to get done. but they have moved. and so there's the possibility. and the other thing is going to

be me being able to show not just the american people or the israeli people but the world that in fact we have mechanisms in place that will prevent iran from having a nuclear weapon. >> and so it's going to be a very technical final round as secretary kerry will head back for thursday and friday talks. still to be resolved is the level of verification when the sanctions would be lifted, the ayatollah wants them lifted right away. the european position has been they would be phased out gradually and french are saying the u.s. position isn't tough enough on iran. >> it's tough to know whether it is a good cop/bad cop routine or there are legitimate grievances here. when we did the interview, he said they are not quite there yet. i sort of took that to mean that he wanted them to move forward, not that he was ready to cut off things. i think from what i understand the biggest hurdle is the

international sanctions relief. can they phase it out over time? >> do they have to give the relief up front? these are murderles that re -- hurdle that's remain area we're coming on the 11th hour. we'll see. >> and finally, this holdup on loretta lynch, probably the best qualified nominee for attorney general one could imagine. she's not only a woman but an african-american woman and yet the vote is all tied up in a dispute over whether or not abortion language should have been in that human trafficking bill that had bipartisan support. what a mess. this is your comment -- i'm going to play a bit of your question to president obama and his reaction to it. >> senate dysfunction is part of it. but part of it i think is just a stubbornness on the part of republicans to move nominees period. >> they say they've got -- they are holding up her nomination until they get to this human

trafficking bill with a controversial abortion provision in it. would you encourage democrats to let the bill go through so you can get a confirmation. >> you don't hold attorney general nominees hostage for other issues. >> so sam, what was his feeling about that beyond what he said on camera? >> frustrated. beyond frustration. for the -- on the hill you hear people like senator dick durbin for instance suggests that there's a racial component to this. and he stedfastly refused to say that was the case. this comes down to essentially immigration. loretta lynch's willingness to say that the president operated under what she perceives to be his legal authorities with this deferred deportation policy. republicans would hold up any nominee if they took that position at this juncture and the president is left in a box. he has people like rudy

julianany coming out but you see little budging if any among senate republicans and i don't know what the end game. i don't think the white house knows what the end game is except to admonish republicans for holding up what would be a historic nominee. >> and someone who has a a prosecutor in new york convicted terrorists and had the kind of record that rudy giuliani would support. sam, thanks again. great interview. now to a very special delivery this weekend in naples as pope francis rolled through town on saturday, a local pizza maker managed to fight through the crowd and security to hand deliver a special pie to the pontiff. yellow cherry tomatoes and mozzarella chosen to match the colors of the vatican. the pope missed being able to go to a pizzeria unnoticed.

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september. he's expected to ask president obama to delay the withdrawal of troops from afghanistan. i spoke to the president yesterday at blair house, the afghan president across the street from the white house, about the increasing threat to afghanistan as isis tries to gain a foothold there. >> i'm here to thank the american people the congress of the united states and president obama for an immense commitment to afghanistan. over 2,000 servicemen and women have lost their lives, over 20,000 wounded in action. the people of afghanistan want to say thank you. >> what are the threats? what are the threats now to afghanistan, the security threats? >> the security threats first is that terrorism is changing. it is becoming much more lethal. it's morphing very rapidly and

becoming much more brutal and because of the weakening state systems are collapsing syria, iraq yemen, libya, it's expanding. from the west it's moving in. >> which we often refer to as isis or isil? >> exactly. >> how much is isis moving into afghanistan? what evidence do you see now of it? >> fortunately we've prevented them from acting with sufficient evidence that they were targeting us because to their narrative, to their storyline, afghanistan is central. >> so they are targeting afghanistan, they are trying to gain a foothold in afghanistan just as american troops are scheduled at least to start withdrawing. clearly according to people i talked to in the u.s. administration, they are very

sympathetic to wanting to keep troops longer. how much do you think you need? >> president obama whom i admire is a man of deliberate race and determination. so we need to examine the situation together which a common understanding and on the basis of that make decisions on those critical questions. >> the afghan security forces in 2014 have the worst casualtyies, are they prepared to take over? >> we are challenged but we have one of the best special forces in the region because they have been -- the best their american counterparts. and we are determined. >> with all due respect in the past we've had terrible problems with insider attacks by afghan security forces against americans. have you been able to counteract that? >> we have but in today's

world, it has happened also inside the u.s. army. so we need to understand what this humanly possible. over a million american soldiers in rotations have seen service in my country. the number of incidents of -- there were sab tours attacking americans, very regrettable, incredibly small thank god. >> how would you describe the differences between your vision for afghanistan and your relationship with america and your predecessors? >> i consider our relationship with the united states to be foundational. tragedy brought us together. i was -- a couple hundred meters away on 9/11. >> you were hear at the world bank? >> i was here at the world bank. new york my wife and i are graduates of columbia university my daughter was in

new york. one of my best friends was 100 meters from the twin towers, towers 9/11 was very personal for me as it was for you. we have made consider bl sacrifice but it's our country and we're bound to that. the americans had a choice they could have ignored the situation in afghanistan but they did not. america chose to help us and i'm thanking america for that. >> can you make peace with the taliban? >> sure. a lot of countries have had internal conflicts and the resolution of that ultimately is the negotiating table. but the gains of the last 13 years, particularly the gains have to be preserved. >> your message to the president when you see him this week? >> first of all, thank you. i like working with president

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long time friend susan berman. the 11th day of the boston bombing trial it under way in the federal courthouse in boston. the jury heard testimony from an fbi expert who last week described extremist materials found on his computer. the agent was questioned about text messages recovered from tsarnaev's phone. ron mott joins me outside the courthouse in boston. the latest from the courthouse today? >> reporter: hey, there, andrea this is extensive testimony that the jury heard going back to thursday from kevin swindone with the fbi, in their cyber department. he has extensive things to say about the evidence the government collected on dzhokhar tsarnaev's laptop desk top and enthusiasm drives and his phone. there were text messages this was probably about thursday after the marathon bombings on monday. an fbi press conference and one of his friends in college, sent him a text have you heard the

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as the threat from isis grows overseas a new york times special report is looking at americans recruited to join the terrorist organization according to the article, about two dozen americans have traveled to syria to fight with isis. about two dozen others have been stopped by the fbi before getting away. joining me now is new york times national security reporter scott shane. thank you very much. you profiled abdy nor, 20 years old, from minneapolis and fighting for isis. tell me about him and his friend

yusef who was stopped as he tried to leave the country. >> it's 'a very interesting pair of stories because the endings are so different. abdi recent high school graduate from minneapolis, lived in the south minneapolis somali-american community. and suddenly early last year in 2014 according to his family he switched mosques and may have come under the influence of some adults who were quite radical, started dressing differently and talking a lot more about religion started a twitter account where he talked a lot about religion. then one day just disappeared. and they -- the family managed to reach him when he was in turkey. he said he was going to fight jihad and since then he's been in syria with isis.

>> and there was no alarm in the family -- one of the things that homeland security tells us they are working closely, especially in places like minneapolis where there's a large somali ex-pat community, trying to get community leaders and a lot of help and work from mosque leaders to identify kids and young men and women at risk but no alarm bells went off. >> not really his family was certainly aware something had changed. but he was very secretive about what is going on in his head. like most parents and certainly most somali immigrant parents, you know they were not exactly following his social media postings on facebook and on twitter and so on. so it really did come as a shock. i even talked to a young man who played basketball with him a couple of days before he took off for minneapolis and he said

he had no clue that this young man was about to do this. so it came up in a hurry and he basically got away before anyone could stop him. the opposite happened with his friend abdul yusef, another young man a year or two younger, actually planning to fly off just about the same time and follow the same path over to isis. but in this case when he applied for an expedited passport, the man at the passport office got suspicious because he asked him why did he need the passport. this young man was quite vague about why he needed it. he talked about going to turkey to meet some facebook friends. didn't seem convincing so the passport officer alerted the fbi and the fbi took a look at this young man and ended up being

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