this morning, a new terror threat has led to the evacuation of the u.s. embassy in pakistan. different than the threat that already shut down other diplomatic posts in 19 places. expect terror and foreign policy to be hot topics this afternoon as president obama holds his first news conference in more than three months. besides the consulate shut down, the state department is warning americans against nonessential travel to pakistan all as the u.s. steps up its terror drone strikes in yemen. al qaeda terrorists were killed in three drone strikes yesterday. less than two weeks 34 members of al qaeda have been taken out by drones. we should hear more before bthat from the president this afternoon as well. a chance for him to answer critics like former secretary of state condy rice. >> when you say al qaeda is on the run, al qaeda is -- they are not. al qaeda has morphed into something different. we have to have the staying

power both psychologically and in actuality to continue to be vigilant so that we don't experience another major attack. >> for more on what is facing the president when he meets the president today let's bring in susan page and jonathan allen. good morning. >> good morning. >> jonathan, help me out here. you wrote six questions that politico would like to ask the president. what do you think the focus is today? what is the toughest question he faces? >> certainly with the evacuation of the consulate in pakistan overnight. i think people want to know how do you square saying that al qaeda is on the run, that it's decimated with the closure of embassies in 19 countries this week? and then, of course, this evacuation last night which government officials are saying is an unrelated threat, is al qaeda on the run? is it decimated? or is it still dangerous? that that will be the big question. >> the president was asked about the u.s. relationship with

russia yesterday at that photo op. he said hold that question for tomorrow basically. i want to play what former u.n. by the way, bill richardson said on "the daily rundown." he is talking about what he thinks obama needs to do. >> the guy is very good one-on-one. he gets a bad wrap on that. i just think that a lot of it is chemistry. i think it's become personal with putin. he has to rebuild that personal relationship. maybe they should go off to a deserted island and try to narrow these differences, because the relationship is so important. >> a lot of foreign policy out there broiling. should we expect anything new from the president today, susan? >> i don't know what he is going to say about russia that would be new. that relationship is -- i think people on the hill are going to be looking for some signals what is going to happen on the budget. one of the big things we face next month is the need to finance the government by october 1st. it's just a muddle now on

whether there would be a bill deal or small deal or continuing resolution. what happens with the sequestration bust cuts. i think another big topic to look for this afternoon. >> she makes a good point. the president is heading to vacation after this news conference and spend a week on martha's vineyard and comes back to confront a certifies of tough fights with his republican rivals on capitol hill. he better rest up because it looks like it's going to be tough out there, doesn't it? >> not just that but within his own democratic party he is going to face a lot of pressure if there is no immigration deal to try to implement some of the immigration legislation by executive order. i think, you know, also, again, with republicans who got these budget fights is the government going to continue to operate or get shut down or are we going to lift the debt ceiling at some point this fall or could there be a default? is there a lot brewing as you suggest. on top of all that the implementation of obama care beginning october 1st right as the government set to shut down. people are allowed to start

enrolling then. i think you've really got to sort potentially clammist version of events here for the president and he should get rest on the vacation because it's going to be a wild ride this fall. >> susan, let me bring you back to this afternoon. it seems the president and it's true of most news conference with presidents, they are put on the defense. is there any where he can go on offense? i know he is, for example, is signing the student loan bill into law this afternoon. is there sort of an overall positive message that the white house is going to want to use this press conference to get out? >> well, i think the president has been trying to focus on his economic agenda for the middle class on proposals he has made that may may not get knacked th -- enacted. i think he will be trying say, look, the economy is getting better and i want to do hors to help the middle class but, man, a tough climate in washington to get things done these days. >> i want you both to hold on.

i want to bring in a democrat from south carolina. james clyburn. good to see you. good morning. >> thank you for having me. good morning. >> i know you've been listening to the conversation susan page talking about how tough the climate is the president going to face when he gets back from martha's vineyard. how tough it is? >> it is pretty tough. we are -- seem to have a disconnect between the house and the senate. there seems to be a disconnect between the congress and the american people. and there seems to be some skisisms within the republican party itself. speaker boehner is having tremendous difficult to try to coalesce around any kind of legislation that will satisfy the majority of the people within this caucus. so that makes it very, very hard to get anything done. before we can think about all of the things that we have to do

going forward, the budget and what the president is proposing, the national security issues, we left hanging the farm bill. still trying to work through appropriation stuff. >> can i ask you about the report in politico that house majority leader eric cantor is pursuing what they call welfare reform 2.0 for food stamps. the progressive center for budget and priority budget says 4 million could lose their food stamps. what do you think about this proposal? >> well, you may recall that the senate passed a bill that cut snap programs that includes food stamps by $4 billion. there was agreement among democrats in the house to go along with that. but the problem was when the house decided to take it up, they started out by increasing the $4 billion to $20 billion.

decimating the support that we have not just for people who may be unemployed, but food stamps support a lot of our men and women in uniform. it's tied to income. and so to just decimate that program that is supplemental for a lot of people, many of them what we call the working poor, just didn't make a whole lot of sense for us and, therefore, they lost the democratic support. now, they are there talking about coming in with another program that cuts it even more. you're not going to get democrats to agree to that. i do believe when you're dealing with programs like this, we ought to find some bipartisan resolution to it and see what we can do about taking something to conference. the center has already passed their bill. let's pass a bill in the house and let's take it to conference. but to keep refusing to conference on anything doesn't

make a whole lot of sense for me and that is making it very difficult for us to find common ground. >> let me with ask you about that. you may be at odds with eric cantor on welfare reform he has been an unlikely ally when it comes to restoring the voting act. what is the plan and what is the likeliho likelihood? >> what we are doing now is talking and congressman john lewis and leader cantor have opened up a dialogue on this subject and i think that they are making significant progress. we have the same thing taking place in the committee. our staffs are working to the. we are just trying to see where that common ground that can be forged.

we do not want to do anything that will be insulting to either side but we all know that the supreme court said itself there are still problems with voting in many pockets in the united states of america and maybe we do need to update the formula and no one has anything or gets that. but to throw out the baby with the bath water doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, especially when you are admitting that there are still problems to be dealt with. >> congressman james clyburn of south carolina, always good to have out the program. thank you. >> thank you so much for having me. bringing back susan page and jonathan allen. i don't know if you guys saw this poll, but it found that 82% of americans say congress hasn't worked hard enough to deserve a long recess. it's not a surprise to me. congress never, at least in recent memory, has not polled very well. but, jonathan, what can get done when they come back? can anything get done? >> chris, they may have oversampled members of congress

in doing that poll to only get 82% that thought they were working hard enough to do their job. >> who are the 18%? >> it's not a matter of working hard. i think it's a matter of working effectively and cooperatively and a matter of finding mutual or common interests. these are two parties that are so divided but i think part of that is the public are divided. until a big public shift in one direction or the other i don't think you'll see congress end its ways of gridlock. >> a lot of buzz inside the beltway, susan, you well know, among the top negotiators on the republican side particularly. these are folks behind the scenes who work out the details with democrats who are leaving capitol hill. does this further complicate what hard been an ineffective congress? >> it does. the problems with stalemate in congress has affected staffers and people trying to recruit people to run for congress and a discouraging place to be. but, you know, i actually think

what happens during this recess could be a big impact on what gets done when they come back. we are the town hall forums that had an impact a couple of years ago when that was being dend. when you see that, that could set the stage for what could be a period of action or inaction when these guys get back to town. >> do you think that is right, jonathan? we have seen activity in the congressional districts, will that help move the needle? >> we have seen the forces that are against movement on legislation in the past have been much more powerful than the forces that are in favor of particular legislation. so i think going home to their districts is only likely to solidify because none of these people represent districts that are or few of them are competitive. they go home and hear from their base and not from people who had views on other side of things and they come back more locked in than ever usually. >> before we go, susan, i have to show the headline from "usa

today" about the president and complaints on the other side. critics bashing obama's plan for vacation. can any of us remember when the other side didn't bash a president's plans for vacation? >> yeah. >> right? >> this is one in which there is not a lot of ideological consistency over time. whether you are in the party of the president or in the opposition. >> susan page and jonathan allen good to see you. >> next time, i'm on martha's vineyard! >> stay with us. we will have live coverage of president obama's news conference at 3:00 p.m. eastern. it is a dangerous situation still in the midwest and south today. flash flooding has taken the lives of a woman and a 4-year-old in missouri. rescue crews are still looking for that boy's mother. in the nashville area 200 rescued in boats and some from roofs and cars and homes. some areas have gotten 15 inches of rain in two days. it's not over yet. flood watches are posted from oklahoma to southern missouri.

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florida's stand your ground law. here's is what happened. 17-year-old tyrone pierson was paug with friends when they apparently encountered jacobs who threatened the group with a large stick. pierson's friends walked away but he stayed and he fired a gun and fatally striking jacobs in the head. they say he could have left with his friends but he didn't have all because of stand your ground so they are not charging him with murder. this is giving new impetus to the movement after george zimmerman's verdict to get the law changed. joining me now is phillip agnew

and "usa today" reporter you d meshall. thank you for being here. phillip, let me get your reaction to not charge pierson with murder. >> a lot of this case is very new to me. you know? i think that the stand your ground law continues to be an area of contention and while we have been here for 25 days at the capital, we have been pushing for the much needed debate about the law so that cases like this and other cases that come up are able to reach some sort of resolution without this law confusing the issues and from the little that i've heard about this case, looking forward to hearing more, it does seem like there's some clear questions about whether stand your ground or whether self-defense was at hand. >> this is where the confusion is, that he talks about, isn't it? george zimmerman didn't use,

kraev contrary to many people's believe it wasn't a stand your ground defense but two of the six jurors said that is part of the reason they came to the conclusion that they did. >> it's really hard for people to understand the case at the beginning the reason we started talking about stand your ground laws was because at the beginning, george zimmerman was talking about stand your ground law and before mark o'mara got on his case and then they changed their case saying he -- he never had a duty to retreat because he didn't have a case. his store he was below trayvon martin and never could have retreated. i was there for like 17 pages of jury instructions. you have to still give the strand your ground instruction. that tells people even though it's not formally part of his defense, it's still in the back of jurors' minds. you stated jurors are now referencing this when you ask them about the verdict. i think this is something that will continue to go on and people will continue to question stand your ground because it's still in the jury instruction,

despite whether or not you actually say i'm going to have a stand your ground hearing. >> although the florida house has agreed to hold a hearing on stand your ground, there is one republican state representative, for example, matt gates, who is going to chair the hearing and says he doesn't think one comma should be changed. so how confident are you that lawmakers are going to give a fair hearing to your concerns? >> i know that we will be prepared for that debate when the time comes. he has made a number of statements supporting the law and as a proponent of the law, but everybody's mind can change. we might not be able to count on his vote, but there's a committee of lawmakers are that are going to hear a compelling case against the law and i think common sense will prevail. we have been here 25 days discussing that and racial profiling and the school of prison pipeline and we are just looking forward to having young people or people of color at the table to debate these issues, no matter what he says about the

commas. i said before maybe we will change some semi colons and other grammatical errors and hopefully get this law off the books. >> one of the things that the george zimmerman case did was it started a larger conversation about race in america and there is a new poll that i found stunning. reuters. 40% of white americans say they don't have a nonwhite friend and as you've talked with people around florida particularly but it's part of a larger conversation because i think there are more than 30 states with some version of stand your ground. what about support for the law? does it fall along racial lines? >> it's hard to say because it's almost like can you poll every single person of race and see kind of how they go? i think the people that do support stand your ground laws, they are very adamant about them. when i interviewed one of those house sponsors for the bill and he brought up the fact this law came about because a man was attacked in his rv following hurricane ivan and he had to defend himself and it took

months for him to find out if he was going to be charged. so i think, at the same time, this case, this george zimmerman's case really did fall between racial lines. so i think if we do see people having any type of stand your ground law supports at all go toward racial lines i think it might have to do with this case and whether or not people in this case think the verdict is right as much as stand your ground law. >> phillip, your protest has been gaining national attention. we have already seen next month's "ebony" magazine magazine relieving a series of covers in support of essentially change in the wake of the george zimmerman case. what is next for all of you after three weeks of this sit-in? >> we plan on being here until our lawmakers have allowed a real discussion around our other issue, school of prison pipeline and racial profiling and provided them with a proposal and list of bills we want discussed and we are looking forward to that discussion.

post this. it's time for us to, when the time is appropriate, leave the capitol and go into our districts, we have committee hearings coming up and we have got elections next year so we are going on a huge voter registration drive to register those folks that are usually left over or forgotten in the state of florida and bring them to the polls so their voices are heard, not only while laying on the floor here in the capitol but in the ballot box as well. >> phillip agnew and meshall, thank you. we will be right back. [ male announcer ] running out of steam? ♪ now you can give yourself a kick in the rear!

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>> i actually think you're serious. no. it has to be want be to go the mayor of new york. >> would anything stop you? >> i just have a feeling i've just stepped into a monty python movie. no noorks is going to stop me. i'm going to win this election. date night for the president and first lady who were seen dying at a restaurant, enjoying a belated birthday dinner. stephanie banister has one interview and calling islam a country for starters. >> i don't oppose islam as a country. but i do feel that their laws should not be welcome here. >> okay. banister wants the food banned

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no, that is not it. nothing smells worse than obama care. it's right there. #nose gate. the post of damage control in the wake of a reorganized relieved yesterday of a phone conversation between benton and a conservative activist in january. here is what benton said then about working for mcconnell. >> between you and me i'm sort of holding my nose for two years of just -- what is a big -- so that is my long vision. >> benton was behind rand paul's successful 2010 senate campaign and moved to mcconnell's re-election campaign last fall. let me bring in amy holmes and matt bennett. good to see both of you. >> great to be here. >> i'm sure you saw this. benton relieved a statement after the phone call audio relieved saying it is sick that someone would record a private phone conversation i had out of kindness and use it to try to hurt me. i believe in senator mcconnell

and 100% committed to his re-election being selected to lead his campaign is one of the great honors of my life and i look forward to victory in november of 2014. now, hiring benton last year was seen as a signal that mcconnell wanted to reach out to tea party republicans and maybe avoid a primary challenge but he is being challenged. what do you make of all this? >> what in the blazes with friends like these? who needs primary opponents? in reading this, i wonder was the campaign manager trying to sort of pander to this conservative activist? how sincere was the first statement? hard to know and say. what we do know is ritual mcconnell's campaign has been rather bedeviled by all of these secret recordings. you remember a democratic activist in kentucky who recorded a conversation and that manager was fired from his ju l

journalism job. the tea party is rather split on mcconnell. the tea party network has endorsed mcconnell and rand pall who is a tea party favorite he has endorsed mitch mcconnell but seeing a tea party challenger jumping in. >> mcconnell's manager has led to these from the new republican. even mcconnell's campaign manager, can't stand him. from "the new york times" top mcconnell aide holding my nose to help rand paul. the democrat running in the race, of course, is kentucky secretary of state grimes. where does she stand in all of this? does it help her? >> oh, without a doubt. she is delighted by this. nothing better for her than some inviting and questioning about mccom from his own campaign manager. michael kinsly said a gaffe when a politician tells the truth and

this is what happened to benton here. he toll the truth what he really thinks about mitch mcconnell. the weirdest thing for this for democrats at least this is the truth. that people like benton and the paul true believers think that mitch mcconnell is too liberal for them. >> it does sort of shine the light on this difference that there is between these two candidates. i just want to play what nbc political analyst the former pennsylvania governor ed rendell said about this on "morning joe." >> the only winner here is the democratic candidate who is a very impressive woman. can she win in kentucky? it really depends on how tough the republican primary is. if it's tough and bitter, she really gets a leg up for the fall. >> is this so bitter that it could change potentially, amy, the outcome of this election or is it a cautionary tale that don't say or write or do anything that you don't assume

is public? >> i'm sure public operatives all across the country are being quite entertained by this kerfuffle within the campaign. what it highlights is a long simmering conflict between the tea party candidates and activists and what they consider to be the establishment gop and push them in another direction. we have seen the fight breaking out and hurt feelings between tea party candidates that lost out in 2012 when they had a chance to take over the senate. we will see if they sort of simmer down and patch up their differences, but as i said, mitchell mcconnell has a primary challenger. his tea party credentials are under question but makes for an interesting race. >> matt, give me your honest,

independent analysis. at this point, do you think this democrat, a woman, could unseat the longest standing u.s. senator in kentucky history? >> yes, i absolutely do. and as amy points out, chris, the infighting between the republicans could really help her. but there is another more short-term problem for democrats as josh marshall points out today, which is that this could make mitchell mcconnell tougher to deal with in the short term with the budget tights ifights a -- fights and he could be moving more for the right. >> thank you both. in the meantime, organizers in iowa today say they are coming together to talk about breaking through that final highest glass sealing. democrats are descending on des moines to push for a woman in the white house. of course, hillary clinton is at the top of the list. but democratic senators amy klobuchar and kristen gillibrand could make the list of possible

candidates. casey hunt is in des moines for us today. her list got started a half an hour ago. casey, good morning. i know you know that stephanie shrok was on this program yesterday. saying their polling shows iowa voters are ready to elect a female president. what are you hearing from the people there today? >> the women primarily who are gathered here today are very interested in seeing exactly that happen. you'll remember in 2008, this is the state where hillary's campaign first faltered and people haven't forgotten that. iowa is only one of two states never elected a woman to a federal office or to the governorship. the other is mississippi. the women that i've talked to here this morning, are eager to see that change. >> i asked stephanie yesterday if this forum is not so much about a woman president but about hillary clinton. here is ma what she said about that. >> we do hope that hillary clinton will make a decision here and we would like to see

her run, but the truth is we also have an incredible list of women on the bench to step up in 2016 if she chooses not to. >> is that really likely? i mean, is this about any woman or is it about really hillary clinton? >> hillary clinton was the first name that came up here. the question that was asked was is this hillary's first campaign event in iowa? there was much laughter in the room. i think the sent many here is that clearly if hillary decides that she is going to run she is the woman that everyone here is going to get behind. that said, they are really focused on building a bench and we have also heard names like senator amy klobuchar and senator kristen gill ibrand and you heard wendy davis name here, she took a stand on abortion down in texas. while, on the one hand, it is about hillary, it's about building a bench of women who can take the national stage

later on. >> kasi hunt, thank you for being with us. breaking news out of paris. officials have evacuated an closed the eiffel tower over what a spokesperson says was security reasons. just a note of caution here. t tower threats but only have evacuations a few times a year. we will keep you posted as we get most information. the tower is closed says the spokesperson and don't know when it will be open at the present time. kidd rock's decision to slash prices to his concert is paying off. the entire music industry is taking notice. mandy drury is here with what is moving your money. concert tickets can get ridiculous for big acts but kidd rock is seeing big dividends by offering 20 dollars. >> every seat for his show is $20! he is declaring himself a music business revolution. not only is the ticket $20,

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never been so obvious. new study confirmed what a lot of us already suspected. twitter can drive people to their tv sets and can drive viewership through the roof. nielsen tracked the loose. more tweets about a show equals more people tuning in. joining me here in the studio is eric and cofounder of 11 media cocai media.com. >> thanks for having me. >> these numbers, unbelievable. okay. so the volume of tweetses significantly changes tv viewership. relate tv competition the biggest boost. 44% of those episodes went up because of tweets. what does this mean for television? >> this is what it means. i only give so much credence to the nielsen study. open case about them and ever

since i read that, i got to take a skeptical look at their data. what they found was shocking and not a surprise. we all have a second screen open when we are watching television now whether it's our cell phone or our ipad, laptop. we talk to each other. instead of waiting until the next day when you go to school or when you go to work and you talk about a show? you talk about it in real-time while it's on the air so it does impact viewership. >> i think crazy thing was the sharknato thing. this movie was kind of crazy. yet, it will 1.4 million viewers, first tv airing on july 11th and it was growing because of all these tweets. 5,000 tweets a minute during that airing. a week later, 1.9 million and the third airing 2.1 million viewers. if you can make sharknado a hit the sky is the limit it seems to me. there were incredibly famous people tweeting about this. the red cross tweeted about this. >> look. if you can in real-time talk to

other people that have the same exact interests that you have it really will. you'll see a significant increase in the numbers and you'll see the networks trying to work with anybody who has an application that is a second screen. twitter right now has the market. they are dominating it but there's a lot of players in that market coming up behind them. >> i think it is true when you talk about not waiting until the next day, i always thought one of the sad things about dvr and i don't watch almost anything live any more is we have lost that who shot jr moment where it seemed like the whole country was talking about one thing. now we are doing it through social media. >> that is the flaw actually in this particular study. it's great for publicity. the growing number of people dvr'ing are not watching commercials and don't take that into account in this study. >> what sdajt medoes that mean? >> it means our tv viewing habits are changing. to measure them in the old way does not make sense any more.

>> are we going to see a real difference in the way now shows promote themselves? are we already? >> oh, yeah, we are already. there is hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of apps out there that readily acknowledge people will do two things at the same time. they will watch television and be social at the same time. >> i find myself doing this yesterday. i have to rewind the show because i've started doing something else on my ipad and i forget i'm watching a show. >> besides spongebob, i'm not intent on television. >> shameless plug. if tv works twitter magic follow me on twitter at jansingco and you? >> eric@aberbomb. >> good to see you, eric. >> you too. >> today's tweet of the day from cali. this is amazing.

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reaffirm phelps greatness. six medals here and bringing his total to an astonishing 22 olympic medals including 18 gold. another great day for the americans. if the u.s. women were a country they would be third in the olympic standings. what a olympics for missy franklin. a breakout star in and out of the water. i can't buy it, you can't teach it but the whole family is that way and frankly at this olympics, brian, they have a lot to smile about. >> when i was growing up, i always wanted to inspire people, inspire like a nation. it was definitely on my bucket list. >> reporter: we talked about this as the year of the woman. team usa has 39 golds and 26 of them two-thirds won by women. tonight, that epic soccer battle for the americans lived up to the hype. >> more than anything, this is just a complete team win.

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