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in egypt, a mosque under siege. almost 200 killed during a day of rage and now they're calling for a week of daily nationwide protests. republican officials move forward with its nbc, cnn debate boycott. why mining for gold in ghana is turning into tv gold for the discovery channel. the first of its kind 75-year study on life happiness. what is it that makes us happy? it may surprise you. hello, welcome. it's high noon in the east. 9:00 a.m. out west. let's go to the developing news out of egypt.
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gunfire erupted outside a cairo mosque where hundreds of protesters were in a tense stand off. the government now says it's considering disbanded the muslim brotherhood. government forces have arrested the brother and al qaeda leader and the muslim brotherhood announced the son of its leader was killed in yesterday's clashes. joining me is iman. let's get to the situation inside this mosque. what's going on there? >> reporter: that's correct. that mosque, that stand off now has ended after police managed to get into the mosque and get everyone out of there. it was a tense few hours. it began late yesterday evening when hundreds of protesters that were participating ended up at that mosque that had been converted into a makeshift field hospital. police and military and
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supporters surrounded the mosque. that forced the people to barricade themselves in. they were too afraid to come out. early this morning the police that had surrounded the square and ultimately the mosque attempted to negotiate with the people to come out. they refused to and that led to a few very tense hours. at one point police could be seen firing at the mosque. they fired tear gas. they did so in self-defense because at one point they came under attack from those inside the mosque. that situation has been resolved right now. there were people inside that were wounded. there were fatalities. many of the bodies have been removed since then. we're getting a scope of how bad the situation inside. there were some horrific scenes that were described from eyewitnesss inside that mosque all night long alex. >> i want to ask you about these other developments.
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proposal to disband the muslim brotherhood. this seems like throwing a torch in the powder keg. >> reporter: right now the government says it's fighting war on terrorism. they are putting the responsibility of the violence scarily on the shoulders of the muslim brotherhood and their leaders. the security service here have been unrelentless in pursuing the lead eership of that organization. many of them have been arrested. the son of the one of the leaders has been killed. it's a very dire situation for the organization. some are arguing that time has come for the country and the government to disband the muslim brotherhood and declare it a terrorist organization. it was one of the questions posed to the presidential spokesperson today in a press conference. he said the cabinet is considering all of its legal options within the frame work of
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a society on what to do with the muslim brotherbrotherhood. you cannot have kaun tri without the muslim brotherhood because they're a part of the sociopolitical fabric of the society. what they do next will be a real challenge for them under the stress they're facing. there's no progress going forward without the muslim brotherhood and other islamists on the political table. coming up at the bottom of the hour dennis ross will weigh in. president obama is calling on for congressional republicans for letting the government shut down. >> they're having debate between hurting americans who will no longer be denied affordable health care and harming the economy and millions of americans in the process. many republicans are more concerned with how badly this
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debate will hurt them politically then how badly it will hurt the country. >> kristen welker, good day to you. what is the president saying about the upcoming implementation of obama care. >> reporter: the president is acknowledging there may be bumps in the road but arguing it will be better for the american people once it is implemented. alex, he's really on defense here. republicans have seize second-degree on the fact there's been some challenges to implementation including the recent announcement that the employer mandate would be delayed by a year. by delaying that employer man at a time it could drive up costs for small businesses. what you are seeing more broadly is a preview to the fall budget
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battles. president obama saying it's ludicrous that the republicans are talking about shutting down the government over defunding his health care law. some republicans saying that's what they intend to do. some republicans like ted cruz and mike lee. i've been speaking to some republican leadership who say there's really not an appetite for shutting down the government over this, alex. however, that doesn't mean that solving the budget issue is going to be a simple one. president obama really trying to frame the argument this weekend. he's going to hit the road again next week when he gets back. a two-day bus tour which will take him to buffalo, syracuse and scranton where he will be joined by vice president joe biden. he's a big favorite there among
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voters. that should get a lot of attention. the president really trying to frame the debate. he'll be talk about college affordability. some of the other issues he talked on involved winding down fannie mae and freddie mac. really trying to map out his larger fiscal goals. all of this is to tee up the fights we'll see unfold in the fall which is the budget and also the debt ceiling which has been a big point of contention in the past. >> i know we have both said how we're looking forward to talking about that. >> reporter: oh, yes. let's get to some more front page politics. a pennsylvania judge has ruled the state cannot enforce its voter i.d. law during the upcoming election. it also barred from having local election officials from telling voters that photo i.d.s will be required in future elections.
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naacp and other civics groups are challenging the law. he released statement sawing the law would serve only to coop fuse law-abiding gun owners with the threat of imprisonment for lawful recreation. it's a wrap. the republican national committee finishes up in boston today. evacuations are in effect for 1500 homes in sun valley. they belong to like arnold schwarzenegger and tom hanks. these pictures were taken last night of the 100-square mile beaver creek fire. it's destroyed one home and an additional thousand firefighters are expected to join the 600 on
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the line. the temperatures dipped into the 60s here in the northeast last night. down south, the city of atlanta saw a record low. >> yesterday in georgia it was 68 degrees. that's the record low high temperature and beating the record low high temperature by about seven degrees. this is extremely cool weather for the southeast and it is going to continue today because the cloud cover and because of the fact there will be a lot of rain there too. normally 88 degrees. today will only be around 71. we will see improvements. tomorrow we should be up to 77 but tuesday much closer to average. it's been one of the coolest, wettest summers on record in the southeast and warm moisture is streaming in off the gulf of mexico producing heavy rain through new orleans and the panhandle of florida. some of those areas have picked up about six inches of rainfall
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creting flooding concerns and that concern is still in effect today as well. another three to five inches of rain is possibly in the southeast over the next 48 hours. flooding and flash flooding will be a concern later on this afternoon. 71 again today in atlanta. the country looks nice. most of the cooler weather is in the southeast but the hot weather is out in denver. 93 for a high today. 93 in billings, montana and it will stay hot as well. 78 on sunday in boston. there's the chance especially in new york city and in washington, d.c. late tomorrow. we could see an isolated shower but most of that should stay over the atlantic. alex. thank very much for that. the nsa admits to some privacy violations so what will the president and congress do. . i had my reality check when i'd be sitting there with my friends who had their verizon phones and i'd be sitting there like
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new today, a top official is pushing back against a report the nsa frequently violated privacy rules. the response comes after the washington post had documents released by edward snowden. thousands of times each year since congress granted broad thu powers in 2008. the number of mistakes by the agency was extremely low when compared to its overall activities. now congressional lawmakers are vowing more oversight. with a welcome to the both of you on this saturday. rebeck kcca here is the quote.
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nsa's foreign intelligence election activities are continuely audited. the agency reports the issue internally and to federal overseers and gets to the bottom of it. nancy pelosi is calling this extremely disturbing. what's the reaction you're hearing from lawmakers? >> the interesting thing from the push back from the white house is what we've seen is they have treated the controversy surrounding the nsa as a crisis of messaging. the focus has been on making sure that the president's approach where most of the plan focused on ways in which it looked like the white house would be increasing transparency. the problem whep you hear reactions like you saw it from nancy pelosi yesterday is you have this great middle of democratic lawmakers.
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you have ycritics on the right and left and then you have strong defenders. you have a lot of democratic lawmakers who want to support this president when he says he's bush era programs. even though the white house is stressing the fact there was an aggressive move that represents an aggressive move to report errors, these violations weren't reported to the intel committee that is yjust learning of its existence. >> let's listen to what the president said about a week ago. >> i'm comfortable that the program is not being abused. i'm comfortable that the american people examined exactly what was taking place, how it was being used, what the safeguards were that they would say these folks are following
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the law and doing what they say they're doing. >> you know, david, the white house, rather the washington post discussing the errors that were made by the nsa. some of them have to do with misspelling somebody's name like human error and eavesdropping or overseeing some sort of intelligence. regards to what the president said, what is the likelihood he didn't know about these errors? >> that's an interesting question. the way the white house and nsa responded as you mentioned that they do 20 million queries in their data bases and you have a thousand potential problems or less than that is sort of the message that the president has been wanting to send from the start. regardless of whether it's human error, the fact that they are made and the fact the nsa is looking at so much data, that's where the public and other lawmakers have their concern. i think the president does look
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a little bit either unaware or he was not completely telling everybody everything that was known about the program when he spoke the other day and that's a problem. we at the washington post have a poll out that says 70% of democrats and republicans have concerns about this. that's much higher than the bush years. that's a problem for the white house. whether that will be enough if these revelations keep coming out is still unknown. >> lets get to another topic. both networks plan to air programs about hillary clinton. here is what rnc chairman said. >> the network that spends millions of dollars to spotlight hillary clinton is a network
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with an obvious bias and that's a network that won't be hosting a single republican primary debate. >> before i get your reaction, i want to give nbc news the statement that we released. nbc news is completely independent of nbc entertainment and have no involvement in this project. rebecca since the rnc has never approved or funded any debate, what's the prakctical effect? >> they think the number of debates that took place last time around were bad for the party, cost mitt romney at the polls. there's a good case to be made they're right. the issue is you have really strong base in the party that wants to see these primary debates. they think it allows underfunded candidates, candidates that don't have the financial backing
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that front runners would have to make their case and speak out. one way that the rnc thinks it can impose discipline is to limits the number of debates and also pushing to more friendly moderators. moderators that are less likely to push. the core issue really is limiting the damage that can be done. there's no reason to have, they think, primary season debates that allow these candidates to make statements they may have to answer for in the fall. >> overall, david, does this vote mean anything? it never approved or sponsored a network debate. >> that's exactly right. it depends on who the candidates will be and what they want to do. the question now is for the republicans is there's eight debates in 1990s. there were 13 in 2021.
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probably got to the point where it is too much rand and diminis returns. these kind of threats are the republicans want to lay the ground work to have fewer. i think whether nbc goes forward with the mini series or not, they say let's see what happens and what these things are all about and how critical they are. >> i know for nbc's part it's very preliminary stages. thank you very much to both of you. where's the best place to live in the u.s.? money magazine with some new winners on its annual list, next. [ male announcer ] frequent heartburn? the choice is yours. chalky... not chalky. temporary... 24 hour. lots of tablets... one pill. you decide.
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survivors because on the sink ferry in the philippines. so far about 30 people are confirmed dead. hundreds have been rescued. in pakistan more than 200 villages are under heavy water after rains from the monsoon and flash flooding and close to 100 people have been killed. let's go to the developing situation in cairo where the death tolls continue to rise. the muslim brotherhood is calling for a full week of protests. joining me now is ambassador dennis ross. always good to see you. thanks for joining me. give me your reaction to what you've seen over the last few days in escalation of violence and how you think it can be stopped. >> we have a completely polarized situation and what makes it so difficult is that it
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is seen in terms by both sides. they are out to destroy the state and turn it into an islamic run state and the military have made a judgment they're not prepared to accept it and they're beginning to suppress it. the muslim brotherhood feels it can carry on this struggle and sooner or later it will turn public opinion in egypt more to its side. ironically at this point, one of the things that remain clear is that a majority of the public continues to support the political tear and sees muslim brotherhood as being more of a problem than the military. you have a divide now and it's hard to build a bridge between the two. >> i'm curious about what you think the united states role should be. you want the united states to continue its aid to egypt.
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this would be in $1.3 billion to the same military that's opened fire on those that were the supporters of the former president. this violence this week, does that change any of that for you? >> obviously, it makes it much more complicated. it makes it much more difficult. i would hoping we could use the aid as a lever to influence the situation with egypt. it's clear that our assistance has minimal effect right now on the military. the problem is if you cut it off then you have no possibility of influence and if we cut it off one of the consequences will be almost everybody else outside the region meaning the europeans will cut it off and that's going to give false hope to the muslim brotherhood if they keep the struggle, sooner or later the international community will support them. i guess my instinct would be to try to go to these have the influence. that is saudi arabia.
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you heard them making support of the egyptian government and what the egyptian military is doing. one of the things i would suggest is we go to the saudis and say if we don't see the military adopt more of a containment approach, more of an effort to say we really will make an effort to foster a transition we're going to have to cut off our assistance. i think through the sau dirks s we have some potential to influence the military before i would may any judgment, i would take that step. i don't want us to take a step that means we become not only irrelevant but we trigger a backlash in egypt. >> you talk about saudi arabia having so much influence, i want to show a graphic is that shows our plon temonetary contributio.
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you see that money is talking here. you say they have more influence closely aligned culture influence. if we go talk to saudi arabia, what's in it for them to listen to us and basically, do our bidding, if you will? >> they don't want the egyptian government to lose all semblance of legitamacy on the outside. they do want the symbol of american acceptance to help. they do have stake in us maintaining a relationship. it's not as if we have no leverage for that. they have an interest and are
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maintaining the ties and having others in the international community be prepared to support the egyptians. >> all of our interests in keeping egypt calm and profitable, does it all boil down to our desires to keep israel safe? >> i think it's a combination of things. preserving peace is one thing. having the egyptian military do more where there's a jihadi presence and the muslim brotherhood was doing nothing to deal with that, that's another element. our dependence as overflight to parts of the rest of the region and we get priority over anybody else. our cooperation with them in term, these are interests the united states has.
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we do have interests trying to strike the balance between interest and value s not a simple thing to do. >> thank you for your time, sir. >> my pleasure. new reaction and new poll numbers that part of new york's stop and frisk boil are unconstitutional. on friday officials took the first step in appealing the ruling. in an interview tomorrow, nypd commissioner says the policy is saving lives. >> nobody wants to be stopped at the very least giving up your time. we need some balance here. the stark reality is violence is happening disproportionately in minority communities. that's in big cities throughout america. we have record low numbers of murders in new york city t record low numbers of shootings.
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we're doing something right to save lives. >> you can watch the full interview tomorrow morning. a new poll released today says the tactic remains as polarizing as every. 4 50% approve of it. a 75-yearlong harvard study claims to have found thechievin. joining me now huffington post editor. it's fascinating. i loved it. you're looking at all these five steps. talk about what you found. 75 years. >> it's pretty incredible. it's one of the most come prehence i studies ever
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conducted. they examined 268 male undergraduates from the classes of 1938, 1939 and 1940. they are all well into their 90s. they collected data at various intervals through their lives and found just really fascinating insights about what it means to live a fulfilling life. what are the predictors of happiness and how we change as we get older. >> it's harvard from way back when so no women at all in the study? >> no, just men. >> let's talk about what they found. love is really all that matters. you expect that from men? >> it's such a cliche to say that but this data proves that. you can have all the trappings of a successful life, money, power, good physical health but if you don't have strong relationships, it's almost impossible to be happy. those people who did have strong relationships and a lot of
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social support were the most satisfied with their live, the most fulfilled and from childhood to the end of life we're happiest. >> you make the point it is about more than money and power in this study. part three is inspiring because it tells people no matter where you start you can achieve happiness. this was pretty amazing because a lot of theories thought by the age of 30, your character was set. that was the end of your growth. this study found up until you 90s you change dramatically and there was one participant that anticipated suicide. he ended up being one of the happiest people because he insisted on searching for love and that led him to great amount of satisfaction and fulfillment. >> back to point number one. also talked about making connections.
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>> i think connection across the board was the number one thing that predicted happiness. feeling connected to your work. feeling connected to your family and friends and the community that you live in is the biggest thing from childhood until the very end of life determined happiness. >> also we all face challenges in our lives and yet they can help you put things in perspective and achieve happiness. >> absolutely. the study's director says there's two pillars of happiness. one is love and the other is finding way to cope with life's collag challenges. a lot of great artist s have usd their challenges to relate to people and it was through the things that caused them difficulty in life they were able to achieve that. >> i was thinking about beethovan writing ode to joy and he was so unhappy. it's a must read article. i think it's inspiring for
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episode two of the much awaited second season of jungle gold tomorrow. two guys who lost it all when the real estate market crashed are risking everything minie ii for gold in ghana. in that's gold. that's a lot of gold. >> we're on it. freaking awesome, man. >> this is exactly what we wanted to see. this is huge, huge. >> joining me now jungle gold stars.
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with a big hello to the both of you. my first question out of gate, how did two guys from utah with white collar jobs end up mining for gold deep in west africa? how did that happen? >> we wonder that ourselves sometimes. we were real estate guys. the economy started to tank. the real estate market fell out and we were looking for anything. going to ghana to mine gold wasn't the first option. we did whatever it took working in call centers, working for my father-in-law, doing whatever it took. a door opened. we didn't wake up and say what's the most difficult, insane thing we can do to take care of our wives and kids, it just happened. it's a long story but we're happy for the opportunity. >> when you were first stepping foot in ghana and seeing where you're located. it's the jungle. it's the middle of nowhere. this isn't exactly the safest place in the world either because you are trying to mine
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gold so thievery and not to mention anything else that may be going on there. how did you get ready for this? >> i wish we knew how to prepare. i don't think you can prepare for something like going out to africa and being in the jungles. it's such a remote location. you're so far away. if anything were to happen you're looking at at least a six-our drive that's almost as dangerous as anything else out there just to get to a hospital or something safe. there's really no way to prepare for what we do out there. we were naive in thinking we could be prepared for it. >> people wonder about shows like this, how much is scripted versus letting it play out for the cameras. can you answer that? >> we get that a lot. some of the things that happen on screen are real but it seems unreal. people aren't used to seeing that type of thing.
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the more dramatic things happen off camera. we were doing this two years before camera showed up. everything is real and people have a hard time with that. people are cynical because of other reality shows out there. everything that happens is real. george and i always joke and say we should take the guy on twitter and bring him out for five days. >> he'd last two. >> it's all real. >> let's take a look at a clip from the show. here it is. >> i need you to be careful. we need to stay on this side. if we get too far over here. >> guys, guys. >> stay back. stay [ bleep ] back. >> george. george. >> okay. dop y do you need to be doing that at night? danger like that but also you're working on creating a mine there
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that's really close to another one. you've got to think there are people that are keeping an eye on how much gold is being mined and may want to rob you or compete with you because you're taking maybe part of what they believe should be coming from their mine but you're now excavating there. you're facing a lot of issues. >> we have to take into consideration all of those elements. making sure that we're keeping up the schedule we need on mining side and in that instance we were doing some drilling. we had to go through the night in order to keep up with the drill rig or it would have charged us more. also the socio economic issues. people know they have equipment and they are mining and helping that village but nearby vil alas wish we would have mined in their area. we're not military guys.
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we don't know how to do all that as well as i wish we did but awe things being considered, it's not always about trying to find the gold. it's about trying to get the gold out. >> have you hit the gold mine yet in. >> we are a work in progress. stay tuned. there's stuff you'll see that you never seen on tv. tune in sunday nights. >> you took the words right out of my mouth. thank you so much. we appreciate it. it was a dream of dr. martin luther king jr. 50 years ago but what does it mean today? we'll talk with his son, next. yn i'd be sitting there with my friends who had their verizon phones and i'd be sitting there like "mine's still loading!" i couldn't get email. i couldn't stream movies. i couldn't upload any of our music. that's when i decided to switch. now that i'm on verizon, everything moves fast. with verizon, i have that reliability. i'm completely happy with verizon. verizon's 4g lte is the most reliable and in more places than any other 4g network. period. that's powerful. verizon.
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50 years ago this month martin luther king jr. had the march on washington and declared he had a dream. half a century later the nation is celebrating that day and its impacts with new marches on washington.
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joining me now is martin luther king iii. such a pleasure. thank you for joining me. >> thank you. >> before we get to the details of what is planned, i want to ask about martin luther king memorial. will they be done by the 24th when people are converging on washington or the actual anniversary on the 28th? >> i believe so. i'm not 100% sure but i can't imagine it would not be done in a fashion so that it is appropriate. talk about the meaning of this anniversary. >> it has monumental meaning. 50 years since dad delivered his i have a dream speech before the nation. what is interesting about it to me and as i reflect is 50 years
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ago our nation had 23 million people living in poverty and today we have 60 million. it does not mean we have not made strides. we have, but it seems we have to rededicate ourselves to figuring out to how rerealize the dream that martin luther king envisioned, justice and equality for all human kind. >> one week from today you're leading this march on washington. the family's of emmett till and mar hatrayvon martin. talk to me about the message you want to send that day. >> in 1963 the march focused on jobs and freedom. the irony of it is in 2013, it still really is jobs, freedom and justice.
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justice is added. over the last two months we have seen the voting rights gutted. we seen a verdict in the trayvon martin case that many feel was not necessarily a just verdict. i think there are a number of issues that have to be addressed. question got to find way to get congress to work together to create a new voting rights act to ensure that no one is ever disallowed to vote. we got do find way to stimulate our economy. we got to address the issue of immigration reform. unless the people speak out, we don't get any action from our congress. >> this march is one week from today. on the 28th, the actual anniversary of your father's i have a dream speech, the president is going to take to the steps of the lincoln memorial and he's going to deliver a speech. what do you want to hear from
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him? >> you know, most of all the president has to figure out how we bring america together. we seem to be divided. i think the president is tried diligently to do that. we as a nation are not having success. i think the president, i don't know that the president's job is to articulate what the dream and vision is but maybe to articulate what the dream and vision must become in the 21st century and beyond. americans have to participate. none of this can happen. it's not on the shoulders of the president or just congress. americans must participate in an active way to say what we want for our children and generations yet unborn to make america better for all americans. >> i'm curious about the optics and the tremendous meaning of seeing the first african-american president standing on those steps 50 years later. did your father, do you believe, envisioned that happening?
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>> my father certainly envisioned and you may or may not know predicted there would be an african-american president. yes, he definitely envisioned this would happen. as it related to commemoration of an anniversary, that's difficult to say. certainly he predicted there would be an african-american president and knew that would happen someday. that's going to be an incredible experience. most moving to many around the nation and the world. >> absolutely. >> martin luther king iii, thank you for your time. we'll be all over this. you can tune into msnbc. we'll have full coverage of that march. what came from hannah anderson and found in the house of her alleged kidnapper may be raising more questions about what happened. that's next.
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chaos in cairo, no let up. we have a live report straight ahead. new revelations. hapd written letters from hannah anderson discovered in the home of her kidnapper. what's in a name? why won't a judge let a mom name her child messiah? good day to all of you. it's 1:00 here on the east. 10:00 a.m. out west. we head to the developing news in egypt. the tense and violent stand off between government forces and hundreds of protests in a cairo mosque. the situation remains critical. the government said it will consider disbanded the muslim brotherho
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brotherhood. joining me now is amon. another good day to you and evening your time. this stand off and the gunfire at the mosque today, what was this all about and do you expect we will see the same kind of violence that we've seen all this week continue? >> reporter: the question about whether it will continue, the indications are that the muslim brotherhood are not deterred by the crackdown that's happened. the arrest of their leaders and the actual personal casualties they have suffered. they are calling for a week long protest. it began yesterday as thousands of supporters of the ousted president converged on to the square. it was there many of them took ref refuge in this mosque. they were inside there all night long into the early hours of morning when police and military and according to several people
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plain clothes men surrounded the mosque and prevented them from coming out. they were afraid to come out because they felt they would come out and be arrested or killed. there was a effort to negotiate a peaceful resolution. those inside the mosque were not innocent civilians but armed people, the kind of people they have been fighting all week long in what they are calling a war on terrorism. video from flinside the mosque showed there were women and wounded people. we're now entering into the curfew. it's 7:00 local time. the military is back out on the streets setting up check points. you get a sense the anxiety and the tensions have not gone down over the course of the last 24
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hours. today was a less violent day than the last four or five days. >> this mosque there, that has been the epicenter of a lot of this. what about what's happening outside of cairo? are you seeing the same tension? >> reporter: there have been clashes. the death toll stands at 173 officially. 95 of those killed were at the square here in cairo. that means the remaining 80 or so people were killed in other protests across the country in other cities. we we've seen similar demonstrations. in the smaller cities there's been the same amount of tension the government is describing this as war on terrorism.
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the muslim brotherhood disagrees with that. they are trying to prevent the country from turning to a milita military dictatorship. >> okay. many thanks for that. let's get a bit more on egypt as well as the united states's role there. always a pleasure. thanks for joins me. >> thanks. >> i know you took an interesting stance on egypt. you say this is a coup which would be enough to stop giving aid but you want to keep sending them this money. does this violence this week and the shocking death toll change your position on that? >> it does. as i mentioned, u.s. law
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requires a cut off of aid when there's a military coup and plainly there's been a military coup. we ought to change the law or enforce it but we can't ignore it. it's not likely to affect the situation on the ground at this point. the military resources we're providing will be more than compensated by what the saudis and emirates were doing. they're providing more money that we are providing. >> i think we're donating about $1.5 billion in military aid support as well as humanitarian aid. i want to read to you a quote
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from the washington post editorial board. they write because of the decision to not label it a coup and support the military, the obama administration is comply sit in the new and horrifyingly bloody crackdown wednesday. as you well know, sir, the president came out during his vacation on thursday and addressed the issue. what is your response to the washington post? >> i think it was a coup. i think it should have been called a coup. in the language of our statute you don't have to call it a coup. i can understand the administration wanting to try to maintain relationship with the political tear. there were reasons to do that but fwheed to stand by the letter of our own law. i think we took a hit to our
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credibility when we weren't willing to call something what it clearly was. in the fump we need to send a message that when we say we're going to turn off assistance that we really mean it. >> let eegs talk about other news that came out. this that the nsa has broken privacy rules thousands of times a year. to be fair, many of these cases were mistakes, human error. you may get one digit off or misspelling a name. what's your take? >> there's been a lot of mistakes. none of them are acceptable.
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these are very sophisticated systems that allow us to do these kind of searches. you make a small mistake and you get a digit off and you collect a lot of records you're not supposed to collect. we have to have a zero tolerance policy for any intentional errors. i can't say i've seen being peopling cocongress and trying to deceiver us. there's been cases where they haven't provided the full information. it's very difficult for us. we're mismatched in terms of our resources. if the agencies don't tell us about problems, it's hard for us to find out about them. we get trorts of these
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violations and naxs. i'd like to compare the two that we are getting the full picture from the nsa and other agencies. >> map i also ask you about those terror threats that shut down 19 embassies for a week beginning two weeks ago tomorrow. the associated press is reporting that they are part of a chat room which the head of al qaeda in yemen asked for permission to carry out attacks. does that version match what you received? >> i really don't thip i can go into the specifics too much. we have multisourcing on this threat. it was fairly high level. >> they deferred their plans. that serve a valuable purpose.
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it gave us more time to analyze the threat. we have to maintain a high state of alert. >> good to see you. many thanks. it's a new beginning for a restaurant that was at the epicenter of the boston marathon running. the restaurant was the closest to the second bomb of those two bombs that killed three people and injured more than 260 others. it's the last business in the area to be opened and the restaurant has been changed in hopes the place will not bring back memories of that dark day. this morning 16-year-old hannah anderson is with her family one week after being rescued in the id wilderness. we're learning more about the events leading up to her disappearance. >> reporter: we're learning more
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about the investigation into her disappearance and the murders of her mother and brother. swarnts reveal ammunition and letters from hannah were found. it's not clear what was said in the letters. earlier this week court documents reveal that dimaggio and hannah made about 13 phone calls to each other before both of their phones were turned off. the sheriff is also revealing new details about what likely happened when fbi agents con fronted the suspect in idaho. >> he had a rifle and fired up with round. lowered the rifle to shoulder height and was immediately shot by members of the rescue team. >> reporter: the story brings back painful memories for danielle. in 1988 she says that dimaggio's father threatened to kill her.
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she was 16. >> she seems to have good support. i think she will make it through. it's going to be a tough road. >> reporter: the spotlight can be harsh but her family is thrilled to have her back. >> anything you like to say? a south carolina woman is chairing her incredible story of fighting off an alligator and living to tell about it. she said she tried to get away but fell and twisted an ankle before it chomped down on her right foot. >> i thought i'm about to die. i'm going to die. then the second thing i thought is i'm going to lose a limb. this is not turning out good especially when i hit the ground. that's when i realized i've got to do something to block her from my head and neck. >> she said she began kicking the gator in that head which made it retreat back.
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gender bias in the workplace. how pervasive is it? 15% of women polled said they have been denied promotion because they are female. 85% said it's not happened to them. 13% of the women say they have been denied a raise because of their gender. the rest say otherwise. to front page politics. president obama says republicans are confusing the american people about his new health care law. >> a lot of republicans seem to believe if they can gum up the works and make this law fail
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they will be sticking it to me but they'd just be sticking it to you. some say if you call their office about the law they will refuse to help. call me old fashion but that's lousy constituent service and it's not what you deserve. >> republicans are calling on the president to support legislation that would delay the individual mandate. >> the need for the bipartisan house delay of the individual plan date couldn't be plainer. even though the president has already signed seven bills that repeal or defund parts of this law, he's threatened to veto this one. >> welcome. thanks for joining me. >> hi. >> in the weekly address the president is going after republican opponents for threatening to eliminate funding
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for obama care or shut down the government. how far are republicans going to take this? >> it doesn't seem rational for them to shut down the government. it would not rebound in their favor but there's a real division within the party and what they have done is create this expectation among the base that they can defund obama care but they would have to shut down the government to do it. you have a portion of the republican party clamoring for that and then you have a party establishment saying this is not a good way to go. i think the odds are it won't happen but it's creating divisions within the party that i don't see anybody figuring out away to overcome. >> the president is supporting the health care act. next week he goes on a bus tour to talk about the college education situation. this is a series of middle class speeches the president is giving
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to deliver the kind of change he's hoping to affect with all of this. what does he want to achieve and will it work? >> this has been a central goal of his presidency and one of the main things he campaigned on last year for re-election. it got obscured by other events. central to that is reducing the cost of health care and extending coverage to people who don't have it. that was the goal of obama care. he's facing this very important deadline. on october 1st people will be able to sign up for these exchanges that will allow them to get health care if they don't have it already. he's got to convince enough people, especially young healthy people to sign up so the pool is large enough and the costs are low. republicans are working against this and that's why he brought that up today. >> the republican national
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committee held it summer meeting in boston the theme was unity. take a listen. >> what does it mean to be a republican? om a conservative. i'm a liberal. i'm not, i'm not. here's the problem. the word under your name on the ballot says republican. it's about time we as party start fighting for what the meaning of that word is. we're going to do it. >> how does the gop go about doing this? we all see these public rifts between rand paul and chris christie. different positions within the republican fabric. >> i think the chairman has no control over this, no power over this. remember earlier this year he
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ordered up what went wrong and admitted various failures. none of his prescriptions have been followed. the tea party exists as almost a third party within the republican party. they're just as interested into torpedoing the republican party as they are democrats. some words at a republican gathering, i don't think change the dynamic. the only thing they can change is if the tea party really imploeds and cost the republican party nor senate seats. maybe then the party will come together and marginalize the tea party. >> it's interesting about that. the new article in politico says it's almost impossible the find an establishment republican in town who is not downright morose about the 2013 that's been and about to be be. they see this year as a disaster
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in the making even if they don't know it or admit it. do they suggest the split is even deeper than what it appears to be? >> you saw that in congress last month over the past few months. the house disagreements between conservatives and more establishment figures led them to sort of scuttle a farm bill and drop a big spending bill. you see, i think he has taken some steps to try to impose mechanical unity on the party. there's 20 televised debates. that's one reason why they sent this warning shot to nbc and cnn saying if you show these hillary
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welcome back. one new jersey town that took on the worth of hurricane sandy's flooding has the right idea, and why not raise the whole time. joining me now is chair of the highland commission and a vizzing lecturer at rutgers university. you're not saying raze, the plan. what all is involved here? is it really possible? >> absolutely. we have actually a project that was completed almost a hundred years ago. in that circumstance they lifted
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the structures, over 2,000 of them and lifted the land up below the structures once they were all lifted. that was a much larger project. it's absolutely doable. it's a very expensive project. it's the permanent solution. >> you talk about permanent solution. as you well know, 2009, brought hurricane ike and galveston took quite the hit from that. when you say a permanent solution, a hundred years plus is a long time, that said, can you do something to guarantee that mother nature could never take down highlands. sg i don't think we can never say never. the motte in new jersey is we're stronger than the storm.
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we need be stronger than next storm and the storm after that. they did weather it in galveston. if it weren't for the work that was done those hundreds of years ago, i don't believe they would have. we need to restore highlands in a manner it can be resilient. it could be sustainable in light of sea level ride and the rest. >> when you talk about restoration, that's going to cost a pretty penny. how are folks in town reacting because they're going to have to contribute? >> i agree. money will need to come from a whole host of sources, federal, state and private. we have some property owners that are in town currently that have rather large parcels that are willing to contribute the cost of raising structures and
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filling in land below those. >> help me to understand how you literally take a town and raise it by 11 feet. do you build up the ground upon which it stands? is that what you're doing? >> the first step is independent of this project completely. it's dictated by fema requirements. 1200 have been damaged as a result of sandy. as a result they're required to lift those homes up out of the floodplain. >> are we talking stilts like concrete pilings or something? >> initially the thought was that would be the case but fema has backed off the velocity zone and most of highlands is in the ae zone. they can use traditional foundations and literally lift
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the house up and build a masonry foundation below the house, set the house back down on it. the fill project would include filling in all around that area. >> is this a solution that could be used anywhere else or does it only work with certain types of geography. >> we have great diversity in elevation. the downtown area is five, six, seven feet above sea level. we're the southern part of town is nearly 300 feet. by having that backstop it can fill in. we have a back boundary that ends the project area and the lateral areas of town die into
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that hillside. it's well suited to this approach. >> it's fascinating. we're going to keep a close eye on this. thank you for your time. >> thank you. is messiah a name or a title reserved for only one person? that's the debate in tennessee where a judge ordered an infants name changed and the parents were in court arguing over the child's last name when his first name came into question. we have the report from tennessee. >> reporter: at seven months old her son is teething. >> he has two at the bottom. >> reporter: he's ready to crawl but his name is still up for debate. >> i was shocked. >> reporter: his birth certificate reads me sigh ya martin but they couldn't decide on a last night. >> i thought out into the future. >> reporter: child support judge ordered his name be martin
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mccullough. it includes both last names. >> the word messiah is a title and it's a title that has only been earned by one person and that one person is jesus christ. >> never intended on that naming my son messiah because it means god. i didn't think a judge could make me change my baby's name because of her religious believes. >> reporter: it's the first time shes ordered a name change. she says the decision is best for the child growing up in a county with a large christian population. >> it could put him at odds with a lot of people. at this point he's had no choice in what his name is. >> everybody believes what they want. i think i should be able to name my child what i want to name him. >> reporter: her two older children are name ed micah and
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mason. >> what are you thought for children with the name jesus or jesus? >> i thought about that as well. that's not relevant to this case. >> reporter: the parents will have to change the name on the birts scertificate. regardless. >> will you still continue to call him messiah? >> i will. >> reporter: what's in name. >> now martin says the appeal will go before a chancellor or september 17th. here is the question. the mom says i didn't realize the judge could impose her religious believes or interpretation of the bible on to the name of her child. can she? >> mom is a winner.
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it's almost a certainty. we're seldom in the prediction business when we talk about legal cases but it's a near certainty this will be overturned. >> let's talk about this whole thing happened. they were coming because the family could not decide on the last name. >> that's right. >> how did it swing from that to the first name? >> it looks like the judge took it upon herself to weigh in with her own religion based upon about what was going on. last name fights are very common amongst parents. should they use the father's name, father name. often paternity is involved. first name is much less kplon where we unbelievably wide berth to name our kid just about everything if it doesn't have a number or too many characters in the state of massachusetts. that's another reason this case has gotten so much attention. we live in land where people are free to express their individuality. >> here is a statement that explains her thinking. the word messiah is a title and
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it's only been earned by one person and that person is jesus christ. is this as much about choosing a name but have we seen a clash of religious believes? >> it's a combination platter. the mom has a justification of her choice. who would know baby name could rise to the name of constitutional law. first amendments rights about the judge not imposing her religion and a general sense that supreme court have found we as parents have a lot of authority to make choices when it comes to our kids. >> the judge is saying change the name on the birth certificate. let's say the judge wins. is there anything legally speaking to sprent the family pr saying we don't care if you changed his name from joe, we'll call him messiah. >> it's funny. these names come up with celebrity names. >> like northwest. >> there's so many more.
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in new zealand. a family wants to name their kids fish and chips. that was overturned by a judge. there are countries much more conservative. america not so much. >> i was about to use the question if you want to name your child king or queen. what about president. that's a monoker reserved for one person. >> it can be the president of your pta board or condo. people get into more thoughtful anl ses or names truly difficult for kids to carry. there's a case of a new jersey family that named their child adolf hitler. you can see how well meaning judges might want to say that's not fair but then they have a collision with parental rights. >> how do you see this playing out? >> very well for mom and baby e
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messiah. as a mom that's one cute baby. >> very cute. thank you so much. new jersey governor chris christie will help children get medical marijuana. what does the republican base think about that? the big three is next. [ male announcer ] a doctor running late for a medical convention loses his computer, exposing thousands of patient records to identity theft. data breaches can happen that easily. we don't believe you should be a victim of someone else's mistake. we're lifelock. we constantly monitor the web so if any of your personal information is misused, we're on it. ♪ ow. [ male announcer ] call 1-800-lifelock or go to lifelock.com today.
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staples has it. staples. that was easy. it's time for the big three. medical marijuana debate and best week, worst week. i guess morris decided to make an appearance. he's usually like in paris or something. we're going to go to you first, morris. the rnc approving that resolution to ban msnbc and cnn
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because both networks plan to air the shows about hillary clinton. >> the network that spends millions of dollars to spotlight hillary clinton is a network with an obvious bias and that's a network that won't be hosting a single republican primary debate. >> nbc news says they inspect of nbc entertain m and have no involvement in this project. what's your reaction? >> they are scared of hillary clinton aren't that. it might be bad and hurt hillary. they may want to run it. this is much to do about nothing. i think the chairman is trying to pump up the party. they've got to find a candidate that's worthy of taking on hillary clinton if she decides to run. it's not clear if she will run. this is inside baseball.
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at tend of the day nbc and the rest of these networks will be participating. >> let's ask our esteemed republican here what she thinks the rnc is hoping to accomplish. >> i think morris is right. there is about pumping up the base. they're not going to be able to control it that much. one of the worst times of the republican debate's last go around was on fox news when a military soldier was booed by the republican audience. that was on fox. we need to broaden our base. by limiting where we're going to do our debates and dictating who is capable of hosting them, that's wrong. i'm glad we're having this fight now so it gets out of the way in the future. they don't want to see 20 debates like last cycle. they probably want to see closer to 10 or 12. >> the rnc has never approved or funded any primary debates
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before. practically speaking, what the effect of this vote? >> the candidates could choose to have their own debates. i think the practical effect here is they're trying to exert some sort of control over the process. i was entertained by the statement that conservative media should be conducting to the debates. some of the most damming comments were made while republicans were talking amongst themselves. their problem is not the networks. >> let's move to the next issue which is medical marijuana for kids. susan, i'll start with you. republican governor of new jersey chris christie said he will sign a bill for kids to get edible marijuana. the parents must provide letters of support from a pediatrician as well as a psychiatrist and a prescription from a physician. what do you think? he's seen as a possibly presidential contender. there will decision play out any
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one way with the republican base? >> i don't think so. this is for medical purposes. it happens in very few cases. it's a very rare disease that be one child mention has. this is the only option they have. he said he wants it to be a decision by the parents and that it should be something they go through with their doctor. that's kind of a conservative point of view in letting parents make the final decision. >> here is what's coming from the christian science monitor and it writes marijuana recreational or medical can be tricky for the party factions. what kind of balance does he need to strike? >> some of the elements in the party he's been battling are the ones bringing to the mainstream the skepticism of the drug war
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which was started under ronald reagan. this is a very conservative framing. these are also a lot of hoops to jump through and a of regulator including the psychiatrist which the family of the little girl pushed back at. so he is trying to find a middle ground here but it does show you that even somebody not enthusiastic about this who may yet hear, reefer madness for children from the right social conservative flank even they have to concede there is a lot of hysteria around drugs and we're really just talking about medical accessibility here. >> for chronically ill kids. morris, from a political perspective do you think governor christie's decision could win him over a group of constituents who aren't necessarily in his base? do you think it is a way to appeal for people who otherwise wouldn't vote for him. >> absolutely. it shows he is a smart, consensus building straight down the line person. what he did was enable parents to make a decision. and that is what government
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should do. i think this was a smart decision. ultimately this will come back to help and not hurt him. the republican base is the republican base. it is a small part of the overall electorate. i think this is going to expand issues, that he is a broad thinker, and compassionate most importantly. >> okay. let's sit tight because coming up next lady justice and the big three's winners and losers of the week. no losers there. you guys are all winners. ka selr fruit chews. they work fast on heartburn and taste awesome. these are good. told ya! i'm feeling better already. [ male announcer ] new alka seltzer fruits chews. enjoy the relief!
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so let's get back to the big three for their best and worst of the week. morris, we'll go to you first since you are in the studio. >> i love all this attention. >> i know, right? what do you got? >> best of the week. it's a slow week. corey booker. i thought he did a good job. a lot of expect ags on him. the worst to me was arab spring. it is one thing and another thing to govern. democracy is not for everyone. it is difficult to move from
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being an opposition party to running government. >> absolutely. susan, how about yours? >> for best week i agree with morris which i think is a first. i also gave corey booker the best week. in spite of having some kind of scandal around him, the lautenberg matter, still able to pull through and it looks like with very little republican opposition he'll be the next new jersey senator. >> although i should say we have his republican opponent on the show tomorrow who will probably do his best to refute what you're saying. he won by what, 40 points above his next challenger? you're right. >> and i love to see it, you know, the republican do well but the fact is that people just think corey booker is just going to run away with it and is not getting the support he needs to run a strong, viable campaign at this point especially with a special election in october. >> you think he is not -- corey booker? steve monegan says he is getting a lot of republican support is what he thinks. i heard him in some interviews. >> see if he can raise the money and start bringing up his numbers there. perhaps he'll change it around
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which would be great. >> and what is your worst? >> the worst week i gave to president obama not so much directly his fault but what's going on with egypt is playing havoc with our national security. it's becoming a very dangerous situation for us whether governing the suez canal or just our overall interest there and that makes him have the worst week i think. plus he's had a horrible vacation with the complications. >> thursday he had to address everybody. erin, how about yours? >> best week criminal justice reform. early in the week there was a major decision on stop and frisk finding it unconstitutional and on the same day eric holder gave a speech trying to mitigate the impact of mass incarceration for drug crimes. worst week the nsa though crowded out by other news today. "the washington post" this week "the washington post" reported that the nsa has actually over stepped its authority and committed that. >> that was big headline news
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yesterday. thanks you guys. good to see you all. that is a wrap of weekends with alex witt. see you back here tomorrow at noon eastern. up next craig melvin in the house getting set to go. right? >> yeah. siness. can i get the smith contract, please? thank you. that's three new paper shredders. [ boris ] put 'em on my spark card. [ garth ] boris' small business earns 2% cash back on every purchase every day. great businesses deserve unlimited rewards. read back the chicken's testimony, please. "buk, buk, bukka!" [ male announcer ] get the spark business card from capital one and earn unlimited rewards. choose 2% cash back or double miles on every purchase every day. told you i'd get half. what's in your wallet? all your important legal matters in just minutes. protect your family... and launch your dreams. at legalzoom.com we put the law on your side.
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