it's what you make it. >> i liked ernest's honesty. he had a very kind demeanor about him.f-awareness about him. and he had figured out a way to truly survive and actually thrive in prison. >> this is what i do. this is what i do. this is how i stay out of trouble. this is how i do my time. washing, ironing. >> when we met easley, he was doing time for robbery in what is considered one of the nation's toughest prisons. california state prison, corcoran. but you'd never know it by talking to easley. >> i got it pretty good. it's all right. it's fine. this is something that i like doing, you know? it's kind of like a relaxation, you know? >> ernest had a legitimate job given to him by the administration in the kitchen, but he was smart in that he had figured out a way to have a little hustle on the side to make extra money. >> i usually charge, like a suit, a pair of pants is a suit, a shirt is a suit. i wash clothes. i don't wash boxers or socks. that's what i don't wash. you know, other than that i charge, you know, a dollar to wash, a dollar to iron their clothes. you'd be

i and others were pressing josh ernest, though. what happens, basically, if u.s. troops were along side iraqi troops get fired upon by isis militants? are they in combat or not? josh ernest, basically suggested they're not in combat, but they would have rules of engagement that would allow them to fire back at isis. certainly sounds like combat, chris. >> it depends on what the definition of combat is, ed. thank you. >>> geraldo rivera will join us moments away with more on the rivalry between isis and al qaeda by the growing competition and terrorist increasing chances of a new attack on america. meantime, top administration officials on capitol hill right now selling president obama's strategy against isis. secretary of state john kerry testifying before the house foreign affairs committee. congressman joe wilson of south carolina just asked mr. kerry whether america is actually at war. the secretary was not able to give a direct answer. meantime, defense secretary chuck hagel fielding questions from the house armed services committee ahead of a key vote in the

and i need to sober up in case ernest borgnine calls. she said she'd call.ilies. there's a lot of chilies here. we got these fresh red ones. we've got these green ones that are sliced and stir-fried in there. and we've got small green peppers. [ speaking foreign language ]. >> whoa! that's hot. whew! >> i breathed in, got hit with the chili. >> yeah. >> down the side of the throat. >> you know when you have been really hit by super hot and you feel like having a brain hemorrhage? it's like an ice cream headache but like a pepper headache. >> yeah. and your vision starts to tunnel out. >> you're halfway through and you're aware that your hair has just burst into flames. that perfect balance of pain and pleasure and more pain, brain flooding with endorphins and all is well with the world. until tomorrow morning. so i've had a couple cocktails. maybe we should like totally get a tattoo tomorrow, man. >> magic tattoos. ♪ >> time for bed. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> so i woke up in a state of confusion and deep concern after inadvertently making out with ernest borgnine last ni

and i need to sober up in case ernest borgnine calls. she said she'd call.e damn chilies. there's a lot of chilies here. we got these fresh red ones. we've got these green ones that are sliced and stir-fried in there. and we've got small green peppers. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> whoa! that's hot. whoo. >> i breathed in, got hit with the chili. >> yeah. >> down the side of the throat. >> you know when you have been really hit by super hot and you feel like you're having a brain hemorrhage. it's like an ice cream headache but like a pepper headache. >> yeah. and your vision starts to tunnel out. >> you're halfway through and you're aware that your hair has just burst into flames. that perfect balance of pain and pleasure and more pain, brain flooding with endorphins and all is well with the world. until tomorrow morning. so i've had a couple cocktails. maybe we should like totally get a tattoo tomorrow, man. >> magic tattoos. [ laughter ] ♪ >> time for bed. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> so i woke up in a state of confusion and deep concern after inadvertently making

patriot in the union and many who are were neither ernest nor patriotic were actively reproaching thehouse of representatives for its final failure at an parent crisis of the national existence to call out or organize any considerable part of the national energies. the people, however jealous of power, would have liked in imagination, though they would not bear it in practice to be represented by something nobler, wiser and purer than their own average honor, wisdom and purity. and as they required of their religion and infinitely wise and powerful deity, they revolted in their politics from whatever struck them as sordid or selfish. the house reflected their own weaknesses, rebelled against a petty appropriation of money. there is a lot going on in the proceeding passage, adams was reflecting on a central contradiction in the principle of american democracy, that still applies today. people of average intelligence and mediocre knowledge require people of stronger minds and greater decision-making prowess than their own. in 1814, the people's house, the house of representatives was ju

that was a tense exchange after brayly accused ernest of being in the pocket of the koch brothers. >> congressman, you're not running against these other people. you're running against me. i am a mother, i am a soldier, and i am an independent leader. you are being funded by tom stier who is a california billionaire extreme environmentalist. so remember, please, that you are running against me. not against any of these other groups. you're running against me. >> i realize that. and senator -- president obama's name is not on the ballot. and i'm not going to owe president obama anything on election day. you're going to owe the koch brothers everything. >> we turn attention to louisiana now. democratic senator mary landrieu's re-election race in a very crowd field, ahead of her leading challenger republican congressman bill cassidy, by 3 points, 43-40. within the poll's margin of error there. but in louisiana, candidates must reach 50% of the vote to win. if matched in a runoff likely voters choose cassidy over landrieu 50-47, again within that margin of error. one to watch. >>> north c

the question was posed to josh ernest.g quickly given this partisanship that's out there on both sides will be hard to get a good nominee. here's his answer. >> i have no concerns about that whatsoever. i'm confident that the individual that the president nominates will have all the skills and experience necessary to carry out the functions of the nation's top law enforcement officials. very effectively. >> of course, the big reason why the white house wants to move quickly on a replacement for holder is that thief changed the rules of the senate so it only takes 51 votes to get a replacement confirmed. they take until january, and republicans take over the senate in the midterms. they're planning a change of roles back to needing 60 votes to get a nominee like that. that's a big difference. >>> british parliament today voted on the air strikes. is it going to happen on the hill here in the u.s.? >> bottom line is they are still signalling and they are not going to -- it's kind of a brutal cover story, and the economiest p

well, tell that to white house spokesman josh ernest?sh ernest, okay, he looks to me to be befuddled. i mean, jay carney, you may not have liked him but it looked like he understood the process. mr. ernest doesn't look like he has a lot of credibility. is that the buzz in the press corps? >> i know you have got to work with him and i don't expect to you hammer him but he looks uncertain to me. >> now we asked jen psaki and marie harf to come on the factor tonight but they are afraid. i hope that's not a sexist comment because many men are afraid to come on this program. but, the main point here is that smearing people is unacceptable, especially by folks representing the u.s. government. i mean, ms. harf didn't just go out there and say that off the top of her head. secretary kerry had to sign off on it and it was a foolish thing to do. he should know better. this is what we are seeing right now in america, cheap shot alley coming from powerful politicians. listen to the head of the democratic national committee. >> scott walker has give

what's interesting is the white house with josh ernest, and one of the newest bits of information is he said that the pentagon has now given the president specific targets inside syria to launch air strikes, and as the president indicated last night, he is planning to do those air strikes and move forward with them, but they're just waiting for the appropriate time. they're certainly not going to signal exactly the enemy. here's ernest. >> the strategy has broadened and will include a more systematic set of air strikes. >> i can tell you that the president -- >> some new information there. we've learned from our own jennifer griffin at the pentagon that officials there are suggesting there's about a 30-day window. we should expecting oh the next few weeks this u.s. air strike will begin. >> ed, republicans seem to think that the president made a mistake for taking combat troops off the table. at least some republicans, right? >> oh, no doubt about it. speaker john boehner really came out swinging before the white house briefing saying he is supportive of some elements in the presiden

first and foremost i know you were listening to josh ernest as i was. he was really going around the questions a lot about the president's speech wednesday. he really didn't sell this he basically said we're probably not going to learn that much new. >> what was amazing about it, his revelation the president is still deciding whether he's going to decide and he's deciding whether or not congress is going to have a role or how much of a role congress is going to have and by the way, this is going to take many years. the president makes it clear, this is a very long process. you get an idea how long a process they think it will be when josh essentially says, first "w" we have to reshov-- fo resolve a 16-year-old conflict and the saudis and like saying i need to invented a hydrogen car first and then i can drive to the moon. come on. you get a sense of how off in the weeds they are on this thing even as they speak. >> everyone thought including many members of the media when the president said he had this big address on wednesday he would actually lay out

inadvertently making out with ernest borg nine, i'd like to say. it was very dramatic.atch a football game, mow the lawn and barbecue all at the same time. i'll mow somebody else's lawn. and i don't mean that in a figurative way. i can't talk. >> people are very concerned and interested in the state of my lower gastrointestinal system. they ask, are you sick all the time? do you ever get sick? how bad was it? another common area of interest, or, i guess an assumption is that i am somehow helicoptered from location to location, or carried aloft on a gilded litter by robot butlers or something. actually, the best parts of the show for me are the spaces between here and there. >> i feel it, like looking over a precipice, like that one, i feel it in my knees. cool. you know, like, if my knees could vomit with terror, they would be. they'd be vomiting with terror right now. they should have underwear stops on this road where you could, like, get a fresh pair. every couple of miles, it's like, that was scary. >> squeeze your cheeks tight and close your eyes. >> oh, the enchan

joining us here, white house press secretary josh ernest. khorasan who? is that the immediate threat to america? a new enemy? and why haven't we heard of them before? >>> and show of force, the pentagon counters the propaganda machine with its own display of military might. but is shock and awe behind the times? ahead, are we losing the social media war? >>> where president obama clearly stated his intentions to take the fight to isis without putting u.s. ground troops into the fight telling allies and adversaries that they are the key to constructive change. >> ultimately, the task of rejecting sectarianism and rejecting extremism is a generational task. and a task for the people of the middle east themselves. no external power can bring about a transformation of hearts and minds. but america will be a respectful and constructive partner. >> chuck todd is nbc news political director and the moderator of "meet the press." of course, chuck, this was so different from a year ago. >> it certainly was. dramatically so, a year ago it was right after he made th

. >> you know what your first question is next time you've got josh ernest on the air? how come you for weeks, the administration said that's sis is -- there's no credible threat to the homeland, isis or whatever, basically saying we have time, there's been no credible threat. putting off these actual air strikes until now, then they come out and say, it not of was credible, it was imminent, it was about to happen, it was planned. for six weeks they said there's no credible threat to the home land, we have time. are you trying to tell me that josh ernest and other administration officials haven't said there is, quote, no credible threat to the homeland? we have been reporting on that comment. >> isis does not pose a credible threat to the homeland. >> but bob, they just said they bombed khorason because of -- >> just something for god's skak. >> isis is credible and khorason, have you everybody heard of this group? no, neither has anybody else. >> i want you to just once say something positive. >> did you ever invite somebody to your dinner table and your family and the

patriot in the union and many who are were neither ernest nor patriotic were actively reproaching theuse of representatives for its final failure at an parent crisis of the national existence to call out or organize any considerable part of the national energies. the people, however jealous of power, would have liked in imagination, though they would not bear it in practice to be represented by something nobler, wiser and purer than their own average honor, wisdom and purity. and as they required of their religion and infinitely wise and powerful deity, they revolted in their politics from whatever struck them as sordid or selfish. the house reflected their own weaknesses, rebelled against a petty appropriation of money. there is a lot going on in the proceeding passage, adams was reflecting on a central contradiction in the principle of american democracy, that still applies today. people of average intelligence and mediocre knowledge require people of stronger minds and greater decision-making prowess than their own. in 1814, the people's house, the house of representatives was just

. >>> joran ernest josh ernest w today by reading a statement from james clapper. >> today he put outessage to the intelligence community. as the president pointed out and as i, director clapper, said recently despite all we know about the capabilities of isil, there is no tools that could have predicted their ability to defend off isil and the ease at what think captured forces. >> joining me now, brian catulous. >> i think part of it is a propensity by the white house to want to make so many public statements. i think that have a fairly sound strategy. they want to execute it. he had a good week last week. i would not have done that last interview with "60 minutes." but the bigger policy issues, we have a derth of issues. we did not anticipate, nobody anticipated that the iraqis would melt away in the way they did. people were warning for a year that it was a serious problem and it was rising, but we thought the iraqis would fight for themselves. >> if you go back to the hearings that were earlier this year on threats in the middle east. which is presumably one of these moments when

when prime minister modi comes here tonight of india, when ernest salberg comes here, they've all been invited by the tweets and e-mails and messages of literally hundreds of thousands of global citizens. >> they come here and what do you expect out of it? i know there's kind of an expectation that when world leaders come to the stage they're coming to announce something, some kind of commitment in the three core areas. >> exactly, we're focused on three major issue, water and sanitation across the indian subconnent. with the prime minister of india and nepal we're hoping a huge commitment on water and sanitation. we've been focusing on that at a grassroots level. secondly we're focused on the issue of girls education. we know that together with malala we've been calling on the canadian government who is one of the last to commit. and the foreign minister from canada is coming tonight. thirdly, we're focused on the issue of vaccines and immunizations trying to keep children alive beyond the age of 5 years old so they don't die from preventable diseases. we called on ernest salberg, the

, five famous faces singled out this evening including funny girl lilly tomlin making us laugh as ernest even. al green, sting, and two-time oscar winner tom hanks. >>> when we come back here on a thursday night you're about to hear joan rivers in her own words. she was talking about death and how she hopes to be remembered and it's really something. trademark humor as she declared she wanted to go out in style. >> when i die, and yes, melissa, the day will come and, yes, melissa, everything is still in your name, i want my funeral to be a huge showbiz affair with lights and cameras and action. i want craft services. i want paparazzi. i want publicists making a scene. i want it to be hollywood all the way. don't give me some rabbi rambling on. i want meryl streep crying in five different accents. i want to look gorgeous, better dead than i do alive. i want to be buried in a valentino gown. i want harry "wizard" to make me a toe tag. i want a wind machine so strong that even in the casket, my hair will be blowing more than beyonce's on stage. >> joan rivers making us smile right until the

josh ernest, the president's spokesperson, just asked that question. >> they are clearly destabilizing an already volatile region of the world. >> that's why they exercise influence. politically and diplomatly, and even militarily. the other concern that we have is right now isil is operating at a virtual safe haven in syria, and the united states is not aware of any active plotting that's yrnd way to attack the homeland. as we establish a safe haven in syria. >> i mean, i listen to that, and i think haven't we known about that for a couple of weeks, even months now? >> this is nothing new. this is where why we're doing this. it's to defend america, america's interests, the homeland, our people. we cannot tolerate heads being schopd off and then future threats. we are doing this not on some grand nation-building exercise. we're going to support democracy. we're doing this because our national security interests are threatened. >> another problem on the homefront. shocking reports in the washington examiner about the veterans affairs inspector general report on vets dying at v.a. hospit

even white house spokesman josh ernest said they may be on the front lines. you and i have both been embedded with troops and when you see combat you know regardless of what your role is even if you're not setting up a firing position, you're in combat. >> right. >> you're in combat and shots are being fired and you're facing risk and whether or not that's the president's promise, that's for other people to decide whether that violates the spirit, but that will be the administration's explanation. >> admiral, let me ask you, a point asked by senator flake is the united states backing down from its pledge. last year the red line to go after assad if he used chemical weapons against his own people that that has affected, hurt the united states government's ability to form alliances for this mission. you're somebody who used to depend for your job on such alliances as nato supreme allied commander. do you think that is accurate? >> no, i don't. my view would be the vast majority of nations that would be willing to be in a coalition with us applauded when we it d

. >> white house press secretary josh ernest said the u.s. government supports the protesters' objectives. >> we have been very consistent in voicing our support to the people's republic of china for universal suffrage and for the aspirations of the hong kong people and we're going to continue to do so. >> he indicated that the issue will be on the agenda at a u.s./china summit meeting in november. >>> syrian's foreign minister has suggested his government supports u.s.-led air raids against militants in syria. he says a military campaign is necessary to combat international terrorism. walid al moallem addressed members of the u.n. general assembly. >> translator: fighting terrorism is achievable through implementation of u.n. resolutions and certainly possible using military strikes. >> but moallem said the attacks must be carried out while respecting syrian sovereignty and international conventions. a u.s.-led coalition force is conducting air strikes against bases belonging to the militant state militant group. they began last monday witho

. >> white house press secretary josh ernest said the u.s. government supports the protesters' objectives. >> we have been very consistent in voicing our support to the people's republic of china for universal suffrage and for the aspirations of the hong kong people and we're going to continue to do so. >> he indicated that the issue will be on the agenda at a u.s./china summit meeting in november. >>> pro-russian separatists in eastern ukraine says they have found 400 bodies buried in mass graves. the separatists say the graves are in areas that were once controlled by ukrainian government forces. a separatist leader in the city of donetsk told russian media that about 350 of the bodies are those of civilians. he suggested they may have been killed by government troops. the pro-russians will ask the -- organization for security and cooperation in europe to investigate. osce monitors have visited locations where separatists last week reported finding a number of bodies, including civilians. the separatists said the bodies were outside donetsk

police arrested 52-year-old wayne burly of upper marlboro and 23-year-old ernest ward of southeast d.c. and they expect to make even more arrests in this case. >>> parents are upset after a cleaning agent jushed members of the spring -- injured members of the spring brook high school team. when coaches suspected a player had a staph infection, a trainer had the locker room sprayed with a cleaning agent meant only for floors and walls. the chemical was also used on football pads and helmets. the principal says 15 players reported getting burns or rashes during the september 16 practice. one student was even hospitalized when his burns became infected. >>> after days of fair weather, we have rain moving into the area later today. meteorologist erica grow is here with our first alert forecast. >> andrea, it's because of a coastal storm that we're expecting that heavy rain during the overnight and that is why the national weather service has issued a flood watch for the beltway and the counties surrounding it and that will go into effect tonight and be with us until 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morn

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>> ernest lepore. >> thank you for being here. >> tell people about your bakery if you do not know aboutrrara bakery, my great, great grandfather and antonio ferrara founded in 1892. it became a legitimate business in 1892. >> ok, so it goes legit and 1892. >> and then during the great depression, my grandfather married the co-owner's daughter. my uncle, my grandfather, and the daughter, my grandmother, and they would make the products. they would go to italy and see mussolini in power. and then my father, uncle anthony, and alfred ran the business, and then myself and others. >> you happen to have brought what looks like the world's largest cannoli. this is a prototype. >> this is for the festival. 40 pounds. 12 feet is the shell, and inside was 300 pounds of cream, so on saturday, we said 5270 samples to new york, holy cannoli. it was supposed to be 12 feet, and they built me two 5-footers. it was all the cannoli shell. >> i can see that it is all crumbling. what do something like this cost? >> it cost me at least $20,000. for a week, we shut down the factory. we shut down for a week t

>> everything that josh ernest just said was true, at least going back to january.you had former secretary of homeland security janet napolitano said we knew about this in 2013. we knew from catherine herridge, they had it since january. we have a huge freaking problem over here in syria, bleeding into iraq, could somebody help us? what i don't understand is why the press isn't pushing the administration more on why is this a crisis now? it didn't have to get to a crisis point. i find it very strange in a speech where you are laying out a strategy that you tell the enemy what your plan is. that could be an internal planning thing that three years is your plan. but you shouldn't tell the edge michigan that. >> but do you think obama, he says he doesn't like theatrics, but he's telling our enemy and all the audiences around the world, tune in on wednesday, because i'm really going to lay out this plan for you. what do you make of that? >> because as he said of the weekend, it's about the optics. which i hate that word, because it's such a political word. it's somethin

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we will go next to ernest, from jennings, iowa. >> good afternoon. >> you are on the air. go ahead. campaign, i the would say, as far as the person that can be both a democrat, republican, and independent, the closest one i can come to would be hillary clinton. >> why is that? >> she is strong. she is independent. she is willing to take the people's's message to the country and the world. and she is affiliated with a lot of good people. and her willingness to do hard work is just part of her nature. i would like to say i will cast my vote for her, because i know she will do good work. and i hope you understand what i just said. and cast my vote for her when the times comes -- the time comes. >> jenny is next, our line for democrats. good afternoon. where are you phoning from? >> the big island of hawaii. aloha. i am calling because i am kind of curious, with bernie sander'' insinuation he might be running, how c-span perceives that as competition against hillary clinton? hillary clinton, to me -- i am a strong liberal democrat. womansupport hillary as a . and she intrigues me. what

. >> ernest, serious. >> she is. >> well, get to the water, girl. >> for the love of -- >> a little knownabout that swimsuit it, wasn't design to make my jaw drop. >> no. >> the bay watch co-creator the red one piece swimsuit was designed to look exactly what real life california lifeguards wore at the time. >> they did. >> they were made of course to look good on women why the slow motion runs of the bay watch babes are so appealing. >> explain it to us, alex. >> the swimsuit also supposed to be practical and functional, the co-creator went to competition swimsuit company for that design. >> yes. >> it was by accident. >> i lived there,. >> exactly design. >> they look exactly like, that take my girl down to the beach, all dressed in the swimsuits. anyway, 25 years old, 25th anniversary of that suit. >> craze. >> i i guess covers more than a bick even. >> i oh, yes. >> and everything is moving, then get you little different. >> yes, okay, anyway, 9:19. speaking of clothing, remember people get together at the offers, and let's have a tupperware party. >> right. >> pamper cheffed, mary ka

here is spokesman john ernest. >> is the united states presently at war with isis? yes or no? >> no. >> according to a new poll, democrats are more afraid of global warming than the threat posed by isis. thankfully the right is focusing on what is important. >> there is no way i think any of us can excuse what the president did yesterday. you have the whole world watching and you have a week and two weeks of -- it is what the united states will do. i am not trying to be trivial here, but in a light tan suit. >> look at that. the horrible light tan suit. he is right of course. king was referring to what the president wore at this press conference on thursday. tucker you agree it is an impeachable offense? >> i agree he is not trying to be trivial. it is consistent with a lot of things. >> on a scale of 1 to 17 how concerned are you about isis unleashing a bubonic plague? >> from what i know, the good guy always comes in and saves the day. if you watch any serious things since 9/11 they prepared us this is going to happen by the methodology of us watching television. my problem

rain really starts with ernest with steady rain around 9:00 and will last to 11:00, not just talking rain, wind with that, too. in and around the d.c. metro area by 9:00. frederick, still dry. by 11:00, it's everywhere. what will we be seeing at rush hour? look at 2:00 in the morning, when the haven't rain is coming down moving out by the morning commute. still dealing with rain around rush hour. give yourself extra time tomorrow morning expecting rain during the day thursday. high temperatures with that northeasterly flow, only 69 degrees. 78 degrees on friday. friday looks great but the weekend looks even better. high temperatures in the low 80s saturday and sunday. plenty of sunshine. next chance of rain doesn't move until the middle of next week, tuesday and wednesday. i'll be here monitoring this next storm as it moves on in. >> reporter: if you drive in the district, you may have questions about speed cameras. tonight at 6:00, what the police chief has to >>> developing story about the enter row virus just into our newsroom. >> pam, let's bring you that update we just learned a

. >> reporter: but even ernest acknowledged that members of core al qaeda are not dead or december mailed, they have simpled relocated to a different battlefield. >> they had to relocate to a country to try to find another safe haven. >> and u.s. air strikes according to a british report are bringing former enemies together. the guardian newspaper says isis and the al qaeda -- khorasan is part are holding war planning meetings to put their differences aside. u.s. intelligence officials say isis are battling to lead the global jihadist movement. >> the administration had options on the table to target senior leadership of the khorasan group and isis in the 18 months leading up to the recent strikes in syria, but every option was denied. >>> the man who police say beheaded a fellow worker at a processing plan. in oklahoma was not charged today with murder. or anything else. correspondent garrett tinney is in moore, oklahoma tonight at the site of this bizarre saga. >> reporter: problematic pieces as police continue to look into alton nolen's past, this is an excon, a recent convert to islam

you saw josh ernest trying to defend what this speech is going to be all about. >> i used to love thebig presidential address to the nation. you certainly raise the bar when you ask the networks to preeveryone their programming to go live to the nation in prime time, that means that you are dramatically raising expectations and looking across the range of editorials and analysis this morning, i think it will be very difficult for expectation setting to actually meet these expectations because what the white house has told us so far is not to expect a lot of details, not to expect a lot of information. but basically they said yesterdays that the president would be defending himself on a lot of things and maybe the president does deserve more credit on things we don't know about. there's counter terrorism sfrootys that they will declassify and reveal tomorrow night. i do think having raised that bar, it's a question of are they attempting to clear that bar like in a high jump, or to walk under it as a limbo dance. because the media i don't think is holding them to account that they coul

we'll have josh ernest.e to see you in person. >> i know it's much harder to look at me in person. we'll fight through it. this is a big day. no way to mitigate that. what is the mission for the president when he goes to the u.n. today? what must happen? >> the president is going to give a speech to the united nations general assembly. it's an opportunity for the president to be clear about american leadership and american priorities around the globe. what he will be talking about is a forward-looking vision about how the united states is engaging on a variety -- against a variety of challenges, but lead i leading the world as we do so. the thing that's gotten most headlines is the military action against isil. that's a good place to start. the president is acting boldly to protect american interests. there are also strikes against an organization plotting against the united states. but we didn't do it alone. we worked with five arab partners. isil is fighting a war against the globe, include iing the mus wo

. >> josh ernest issued the most tepid endorsement of her sorry that reminded me of a classic story about the chemistry department at a major university who stricken and hospitalized and receives a message by a vote of 9 to 7 the faculty has voted to wish him well. that's exactly how the white has treated her. >> there is a report, nbc is reporting that feds are not -- they haven't found anything that connects chris christie to bridge gate so-called. he has come out and said well, we will see where this all goes. what about this report? and the potential impact for chris christie? >> look, i think it's very important because, if anybody is going to be relatively impartial in this inquiry, it's going to be the feds and i think it helps him in saying i didn't do it. and it will begin to fade into the past even more than it has. >> they publicly say they have reached no conclusions. go ahead. >> you know what in the donors are still afraid to give chris christie money. they think there is more suits to drop. it's good for him in terms of 2016 it is too late. >> i expect wall-to-wall coverage

with air strikes, but josh ernest signaled that may change next week when the president goes to new york attend the u.n. general assembly meetings, hoping to finally get those allies together next week. gretchen? >> ed henry live at the white house. thanks so much for the update. >>> so, a u.s. senate secret, it's out. never before seen details from a handbook of rules and regulations now available for the world to see. so, what can our elected leaders do and not do? we are gonna tell ya. >>> and minnesota vikings running back adrian peterson will play this weekend. his team reinstating him despite facing child abuse charges that got him benched yesterday. what does this mean for the nfl, facing the crew scrutiny over its handling of the ray rice scandal. >> i don't care what it is. take him off the dang gone field, as a man, that's the only thing we really respect. we don't respect no women. we don't respect no kids. the only thing roger and them do, take them off the field, 'cause they respect that. wouldn't it be great if hiring plumbers, carpenters shopping online is as easy as it ge

because josh ernest also said exclusively last week, no, we are not. >> i think they have philosophicalal problems doing that given the positions they take. during the libya war where we not only bombed the regime and toppled it, the u.s. would not admit it was a war, they said it was a kinetic military action. >> what is it, the president when he was running for office said i'm going to make clear we are not at war with islam, he seemed to acknowledge, we are at war with terrorists who kill us, but we're not at war with islam isn't isis a group of terrorists that kill us? why can't he say that -- >> i don't think he ever acknowledged we were at war with terrorists -- >> he did, i have it on tape. >> we are not at war with islam. america is at war with terrorists who killed people on our soil. >> it was 19 people who killed people on our soil. i don't mean to be flip about it, his whole administration has been about miniaturizing the problem. when in fact what we're at war with is not even isis, it's a much broader movement than isis or al qaeda. you have an intellectual backbone in the

to announce a rapid reaction force to be based in nato countries on the russian border, here josh ernest this will involve training exercises and discussions about what kinds of infrastructure will be required in the baltics and poland and romania and other states on the eastern frontier to deal with the world in which they face new concerns about russian intentions. >> a treaty banned nato from stationing large numbers of troops on the russian border, so this rapid reaction force will rotate groups of about 4,000 soldiers from different nato members. >> we all know europe is very much dependent on russian oil and other energy. here? >> it is. it's a longer term problem. russia supplies a substantial portion of europe's energy. a lot of it natural gas supplies are actually piped through ukraine. the russians say they don't trust ukraine not to siphon off energy and they continually raise the price, ukraine falls behind, and the russians this winter say they might actually demand payment up front and if the u.s. and european sanctions are biting they mightcast the natural gauze supplies b

he'd knocked off ernest mcfarland. as a young senator, he gets a lot of the dirty jobs that no one wants to do. he has to do the real action tour and go give speeches. his agenda was typically conservative. railed against labor unions and was very anti-commonest. he was not an environmentalist as would recommend it today. we will get there. i am going to switch years. i want to tell you about environmentalism. that is important. it need to know a little bit i often tell my students that environmentalism is a product of the 1960 of -- the 60's, the 1860's. you have people in new england protesting the effect of textile mills and asking governments to regulate. this is a very old movement. you see more environmental damage. what we have at the turn-of-the-century was the progressive era. conservation is the first organized environmental movement in america. theya conservationist was were a reformer and middle-class. there are a few principles. one is that the industrial was destroying natural resources. they were not opp

today who is press secretary john ernest was asked if it was a rough reception here on capitol hill. >> there are members of the congressional hispanic caucus who they have known publicly who don't agree with the strategy the president has wlad olaid ou to prevent the president from working with him. >> lamar smith says he's furious the administration is playing midterm election politics and planning to go around congress. >> gets really pretty cynical of the president to wait until after the elections when the american people could register their concerns about his executive orders and changing immigration laws and quite frankly the president waiting until after the election is an open admission that he knows what he's about to do is not approved by the american people. >> reporter: it's not just latino and gop frustration here on capitol hill, liberals say they are also unhappy. >> it was the single top issue i heard about during our extensive series of town halls back home. i think there's great frustration with the president for this action. he says he's going to take anation in

ernest doesn't look like he has a whole lot of credibility.just looks uncertain to me. >> we don't have the sound. they come out and say bill o'reilly is a sexist. i apologize to the viewers about that. what we have played is bill o'reilly clearly criticizing men and women. if you say a woman is in over her depth, does that make you a sexist? >> no. he calls everybody out. the fact is the state department should be dealing with the international community and not attacking fox news. they need to be dealing with all these international crises. >> thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >>> coming up, your responses. and "umm, i think that's enough." that's why walgreens offers new nexium 24 hour, protection strong enough for whatever your day dishes out. walgreens makes it easy to treat frequent heartburn. with new nexium 24 hour, now get nexium level protection without a prescription. at the corner of happy and healthy. [ babies crying ] surprise -- your house was built on an ancient burial ground. [ ghosts moaning ] surprise -- your car needs