jim. >> axelrod: jeff, thank you. the president arrived in martha's vineyard, massachusetts, late this afternoon, where he's beginning his summer vacation. white house correspondent major garrett joins us from martha's vineyard now. major, what's your read on the president's call for reforms? >> reporter: well, they're significant. and we're not clear that congress is going to embrace all of them, jim, but the president is, for the first time in the history of the u.s. presidency, asking for a greater degree of transparency and adversarial role within the process of approving government surveillance, either electronic or through computers, of americans who might be ensnared in some sort of counter-terrorism effort, meaning to stop it before it starts. the president is putting forth a commission to report back to him to put specific reforms to congress, among them, putting an adversary in the foreign intelligence surveillance court which almost always approves government requests for surveillance. for the first time a

i'm jim axelrod. we begin tonight in california where firefighters are battling a massive wildfire in and around yosemite national park. it's threatening the power and water supply some 150 miles to the west in san francisco. governor jerry brown has declared a state of emergency as 2600 firefighters battled the nearly 200 square mile fire. right now, just 5% of the fire is under control. as teresa garcia reports, the flames are moving toward a reservoir that supplies most of san francisco's water and has already shut down two of the city's hydroelect power plants. >> reporter: the fastest growing wildfire in the nation is now raging i raging in partsf yosemite national park. at nearly 200 square miles, the massive fire is swallowing everything in its path, threatening more than 4500 homes, buildings, and campsites and burning more than 125,000 acres. >> it's scary. you just don't want to see your house go up. we have so many memories until last year. >> the fire is moving to the north. >> reporter: t

>> axelrod: holly, thank you. the obama administration is considering, quote, all options in the wake of syria's suspected chemical attack. but with the international community divided over what to do, and with americans weary after years of war, the president's options may be few. more now from jeff pegues. >> reporter: a senior administration official now acknowledges that there is very little doubt that a chemical weapon was used by the syrian regime against civilians, signaling that al-assad government has crossed a red- line set by president obama last year. the administration is weighing military action, but any plan is unlikely to include boots on the ground. cbs news reported friday the pentagon is considering launching cruise missiles, and is moving naval forces into place. potential targets include command bunkers and launchers used to fire chemical weapons. president obama told cnn the u.s. has to be mindful of the reaction. >> jumping into stuff, that does not turn out well. gets us mired in very diffi

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you're an expert on politics, david axelrod. why has cruz openly suggested the president would croak his historic accomplishment which every democrat and some republican presidents going stall way through the 20th century saying they were going to do health care. he did it. why would he ever kill it? >> well, look, i can't crawl into ted cruz's head. >> please do. >> and explain all of the -- that's a place i don't want to go, brother. but i will tell you this. you know, he is trying to make the case that the president is somehow moving away because he has extended some deadlines in order to smooth the transition. >> yeah, i know. >> to obama care. but here is -- but chris, sheer what is phenomenal. here is a guy who comes from a state where a quarter of the people don't have health insurance. it's the worst record in the country, and he is smarmily sit there's and somehow makes a case that we somehow shouldn't move forward on this. i have to believe there are an awful lot of people who are feeling they have been ill served by t

director at the university of chicago institute of politics and an msnbc political analyst david axelrod and in nashville executive editor at random house. chris ma the hurricanes my colleague and friend someone i look to, someone who knows this city well. we're talking about the march on washington and yet in today's world washington has become synonymous with a place of dysfunction, of anger, of partisanship, of rancor. i guess to what degree can we rekindle that possibility. how can this society recode what washington means sway place of failure. >> well i don't want to suggest it's a symetrick problem. there was a decision 4 1/2 years ago to prevents this presidency of president obama from taking effect. they want to remoist from the history books as much as they could even though he had been elected legitimately with a larger majority than ronald reagan had back in 1980. they wanted to somehow deny him his presidency. that began with the meetings that were held the very night of the inaugural and carried through with the ridiculousness and thericiso donald trump on the birther argum

jim axelrod, cbs news, martha's vineyard, massachusetts. >> and that's the news. bob schieffer, cbs news in new york. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> a -- this is kpix 5 news. >> the level of violence on our streets is intoll herrable. >>> oakland police get extra muscle to talk it will city's crime crisis. i am allen martin. >> i am elizabeth cook. new at 6:00 tonight, the street violent in oakland has reached disturbing new levels. adonis people were shot just this past weekend. even oakland policed a mitt they are outgunned and overwhelmed. today, kpix 5's linda yee learned the copes are getting a big boost from the feds. >> a wild shootout in plane sight. street violence that some in east oakland says happens everyday. >> it ise it is normal. >> just this month, an 8-year- old girl shot and killed during a sleep over. a pay by and its young father killed while sleeping. a 66-year-old woman gunned down while driving near her home. >> 21 children have been killed here in the last 18 months, and a dozen peop

david axelrod. david, i heard your line over the weekend. it does seem to be like in sports terms going back to 42 in that great movie about jackie robinson, which was really a good movie, a great movie. >> yeah. >> this idea of trying to put an asterisk next to president obama's name like roger maris 162 games that year, it didn't really count or barry bonds and drugs. anything to get the guy off the record books. this obsession with getting rid of the affordable health care act, this obsession with letting birtherism fly. we're going to talk more about it in the show. these republican bigwigs like boehner let it fly all around him and refuse to shoot it down. they still like the idea of birtherism, he is really from some other country, whether it's from donald trump or somebody in texas. >> i think a lot of this emanates from the nature of the republican base. and a lot of these guys are throwing red meat to the base. how much red meat they need, you know, is a big question. i think they would be -- their cholesterol would be about 400 by

axelrod on the deal. james brown of the n.f.l. today on who won. syria is accused of using wednesday not once but 14 times. liz palmer is in damascus, a city bracing for an american air strike. mark phillips has the new intelligence report. america's top-secret spy budget was exposed today revealing what we never knew about the c.i.a. john miller has the story. and a cinderella named victoria. the 17-year-old who toppled a champion at the u.s. open. elaine quijano has the interview. >> reporter: you've had a tough road off the court to get to this point. how much do you think about that? captioning sponsored by cbs captioning s this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. y. >> pelley: good evening, the n.f.l. settlement in just a moment but first we have breaking news. unexpectedly this evening the british have just announced they will not join the united states in a military strike against syria. that is reversal after british prime minister david cameron's support for military action was rejected by his parliament. president obama has been

axelrod said today he expects the president will take action. a surgical strike says axelrod, maybe setting up a no-fly zone and maybe setting up a possible cruise missel strike and the president himself suggested that now, u.s. national security is at stake. he says if chemical weapons were used, the u.s. forces in the region, not clear exactly which forces he's talking about might be in danger and the president cited a worry about proliferation, spreading chemical weapons. presumably that could happen and by the rebels seizing chemical weapons and turning them over to al qaeda. here's what he said on cnn. >> there is no doubt that when you start seeing chemical weapons used on a large scale and again, we're still gathering information about this particular event and it is very troublesome. >> still, the president is reluctant to act. again, citing the lessons of iraq and afghanistan. >> folks will call for immediate action, jumping in to stuff that does not turn out well. >> so, larry, the commander in chief met yesterday with his national sec

i had a question for david axelrod.s the president listening to these days? >> well, look, he's got a good group of people there. dennis mcdonough, the chief of staff, is one of the finalist public servants i've worked with. he's smart. he's well organized. every, he's very, very committed. i think one of the reasons there have been ongoing discussions with members of congress and the white house staff, he's been the point person on that. so, you know, dennis is there. and the president has a great cabinet. he's got -- you know, i'm not worried about him not getting the advice he needs. and he does reach out and speaks to peek outside of the white house, including old advisers, from time to time. so i don't think the problem is he's too insulated and he's not getting advice. i do agree with what joe said. i was getting at that before. you do have a structural problem. it's one that we're going to have to address i think as a country, which is if you have districts that are so hodge mojness that you only have to worry ab

david axelrod told him not to say that.d down and rye perepead it. >> it's very interesting. chris, we'll send a message to him. we care about the $8 trillion in new obama debt and millions of americans on food stamps and 11 million more americans on disability, care about an economy that's not growing, a recovery has not happened. we care about a foreign policy that's not working as well. it's substance. but i guess that's too much for his -- >> something else, sean hannity. you care about a sense of civility and he doesn't. >> brent bozell, brother -- i like the glasses. they look pretty good. >> thanks for being with us. >> i'm not blind. >>> coming up here on "hannity." >> you got obama -- >> everybody in cleveland, got obama phone. keep obama in president, you know. >> remember her from the 2012 presidential election. what we're about to tell you will make your blood boil. contributor from the national review wanted to see how easy it was to get her hand on a so-called obama phones and she got not one, not two, but thr

>> well, the thing is i might disgrande with david axelrod. i think looking back historically what people would say is there wasn't enough skepticism on iraq. the sect thing is with the british and the french saying they want to see this u.n. report, the u.n. report may answer the question of whether chemical weapons were used, but it is probably not going to answer the question of who used them. so this -- the evidence from the u.n. inspectors is also probably not likely to definitively give the answer to the really crucial questions that people are asking. >> perry, you know, the president was elected in part to end the wars in iraq and afghanistan. it's clear it's something that he's cognizant of. listen to what he said. >> we can take limited tailored approaches, not getting drawn into a long conflict, not a repetition of, you know, iraq, which i know a lot of people are worried about. but if we are saying in a clear and decisive but very limited way we send a shot acrow the bow saying, stop doing this, that can have a positive impact on o

joining me now is david axelrod, former senior adviser to president obama and director of the universityor politics and an msnbc senior political analyst. this must be like deja vu all over again. the frustration. i think the white house has to feel. carolyn maloney was here earlier and saying my constituents with talking to me about the crush debt of college loans but already we are seeing support for it split along party lines. how do you get this done? >> first of all, this is one of the striking things that i learned in the white house which is that the conversation in washington is often completely different than the conversation people are having around their kitchen tables. out in the country, issues like this, how do we afford college for our kids is front and center. >> aren't the republicans hearing that in their districts too, david? >> i think they are, but understand that because of the nature of our redistricting system, many rpeds come from districts where the only challenge they will ever face is from the right. and so the most strident voices in that party are the ones t

. >>> joining me is david axelrod, the former senior adviser to president obama and msnbc political analyst. great to have you on. we had an opportunity to be on "morning joe" earlier today and where chuck todd had to say this about the fact that most likely this will not be the triumphant end to summer news conference that the president would hope for but what are you expecting the toughest question to be? do you think it's going to be domestic or about foreign relations with russia? >> there's plenty to choose from, obviously. these are challenging times. but the focus has been this week on foreign policy, on russia. a great deal of interest in those things. and then there will be some trying to project forward in terms of what might happen when congress returns in the fall as to the budget and immigration. so there's plenty for the president to rest with. i was laughing when i heard kelly saying it's interesting maybe we can shake something loose. you know they are sitting in the white house saying, you know, the very thing that reporters are hoping for are the things you don't hope for

also david axelrod will be here and dr. brzezinski. also going to be talking about the crisis in egypt and later "the washington post's" eugene robinson joins the conversation and willie's conversation with cuba gooding jr. and lenny kravitz about their roles in the new civil rights drama "the butler." and coming up next -- that opens today, right? >> yeah. >> i've heard nothing but great things about it. coming up we've got the top stories in the politico playbook. here's bill karins. he has a check on the forecast. bill? >> hey, joe. you mentioned top of the show gorgeous stretch of weather that northern half of the country has been going through. it continues into the weekend. then it looks like the summer heat returns a little bit for next week. but look at this morning. just another gorgeous day from chicago all the way through the ohio valley. the northeast looks really nice toop. the only problem as we go throughout the weekend will be the southeast. watch this. new york city, gorgeous. beautiful conditions out there. but the so

coming up on "morning joe," david axelrod will be here, moderator of "meet the press" david gregory and the reverend al sharpton and martin luther king iii. they're teaming up 50 years after dr. king's march on washington. they join us straight ahead. up next, the top stories in the politico playbook. but first mr. bill karins who does not know his '80s movies good enough this morning. >> i don't know what i was doing in the '80s. wild cats you mentioned. what was it "16 candles". >> yeah. >> even meacham brought up "six teen candles". >> i've never seen sixteen candles". >> don't tell me you've never seen "star wars." >> no. i've done that more than i care to admit. denver, colorado, areas around littleton, this was incredible the hail that fell from the sky. some areas had almost a foot of hail accumulate. one of the vehicles got stuck here. a snowplow had to be called in in in the middle of august. also more than just there. this backyard photo looks like something i would show you in the winter time with accumulating snow, hail and ice accumulation. as far as the tropics go, i can't

because the chemical attack of the twenty first of all goes to was announced when the axelrod's had it slightly if the swedish specialist sellstrom arrived in damascus and had already coordinate their work and the modalities of their peroration there was no and that very many serious analysts. wonder. is there any sense for the syrian government to have used the chemical weapons under those conditions i have just cited and the information and knowledge about the good. chemical attack happened at the very moment when russian american experts were preparing for another meeting to prepare to convene as an eva and usually have a conference and this. will definitely wark against this new group meeting this is dark less probably this might be one of the aims of the pursuit by the. a possible source of this news piece of news the opposition wants no talks this is obvious and they say that it would. only agree to unconditional capitalization of the regime of their last said regime and these approaches will be further backed by the information campaign that has now been unfolded in favor of the

captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com axelrod on the deal.ames brown of the n.f.l. today on who won. syria is accused of using wednesday not once but 14 times. liz palmer is in damascus, a city bracing for an american air strike. mark phillips has the new intelligence report. america's top-secret spy budget was exposed today revealing what we never knew about the c.i.a. john miller has the story. and a cinderella named victoria. the 17-year-old who toppled a champion at the u.s. open. elaine quijano has the interview. >> reporter: you've had a tough road off the court to get to this point. how much do you think about that?

difficult to verify the facts i suppose that are coming straight out of a war zone but even then axelrod on the director of the code watcher joining us live from berlin thank you for joining us here on r.t. thank you thank you. for joining us here on r.t. r russia's interior ministry has said there will be no discrimination against gay people coming to want to shore participate in the sochi winter olympics the latest response to pressure now being put on the country by the western l g b t community which is calling for a boycott of the games they're protesting at a new law or against nontraditional sexual relations propaganda to minors earlier here on out so we invited a panel of guests for an in-depth discussion of this or rather heated issue. still community bonded by the homophobia that affects all of us and what we have to do is take a stand against the fact that the government is actually preventing education rather than propaganda that is desperately needed feel people who are growing up lesbian and gay growing up with prejudice this causes death it causes distress anti gay bullyin

can we listen, this is axelrod saying, describing the difference between syria and iraq. >> this is no different than iraq because there is visual evidence that everyone has paid a broad consensus here. i don't think you are facing the same kind of skepticism that there was nor iraq where the weapons of mass destruction were used as a justification for an attack. clearly, something happened here, something dramatic. and the president feels he has to act. >> skepticism. what skepticism? we had our allies with us. we had the u.n. with us. we had their former secretary of state hillary clinton who voted for the war in iraq t. proof is there. we are not going to debate iraq right now. but if we get involved in this, it will be iraq on steroids, a proxy war with iran, a proxy war with russia. by the way, did anyone see what happened in the british parliament last night? the memberings told david camm ron, no way. he calls the white house and says, sorry, you have to go out on a loan if you want to. i hate to say it, but president obama is a huge nars cyst, this is all about him, all about h

listen to axelrod describing the difference between syria and iraq. >> this is no different than iraq because there's visual evidence that everyone has seen, there's a broad consensus here. and i don't think you're facing the same kind of skepticism that there was for iraq where the weapons of mass destruction were used as a justification for an attack. there, clearly something happened here, something dramatic, and the president feels he has to act. >> skepticism? what skepticism? we had our allies with us. we had the u.n. with us. we had had their former secretary of state hillary clinton who voted for iraq. the proof was there. we're not going to debate iraq on this. if we get involved in this, it will be iraq on stare oids. it will be a proxy war. did anybody see what happened in the british parliament? cameron pecks up the white house and says sorry, you have to go at it alone if you want to. i hate to say it, but president obama is a huge narcissist and this is all about him. this is all about his red line. and it's a pr stunt. it is just a very small prick, this missile thing,

race, tugh, in every way, staying in despite calls to step down from democratic strategist david axelrodsaid he's just taking up space. republican congressman peter ng also asking him, demanding that he step down, andhe clintons. even they have had abelly full. president bill clinn officiated weiner's 2010 wedding. weiner's wife, huma, has bn working for hillary clinton since 1996, for crying out loud. now, when -- folks, i'll call him folks like this forget who your friends are, that makes you not just a weiner but a full-on weenie. we just want to make it very clear that he's doing -- that he's getting everything that he deserves. not quite. but now to our final dunce cap. we debated this for aong time today. with the show staff, we figured out we just cast votes and why? spitzer's campaign is suggesting weiner is a bad husband for forcing his wife huma to defend him on the campaign trail. wh a man who repeatedly cheated on his wife with high priced hookers says he has the moral standing over a creepy guy like weiner, you deserve to be crowned head dunce. so we're going to let him be t

t the white house gets the red carpet with all of their guestsd on msnbc, whether it is gibbs, e axelrodearning that the white house puts out the red carpet for nbc when you hear that rachel maddow has visited the oval office as many times at the king of jordan, there really is a revolving door. w >> do you remember father pfleger, friend of obama, frien of reverend wright. jo you might remember this.is this made a lot of news. >> when hillary was crying, people said that was put on.is e i really don't believe it was put on. i really believe that she just always thought, this is mine. i'm bill's wife. i'm white, and this is mine. i've just got to get up and step into the place and then out of nowhere came, hey, i'm barack obama. ste she said, oh, dammit, where did you come from?ame, i'm white.e i'm entitled. there is a black man stealing my show. >> remember that? now, let's go to abc and a softball profile of that a radical. watch this. >> still ahead on world news, a priest bringing new hope to one of chicago's most dangerous neighborhoods. encouraging gang members to facr off on a bas

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director at the university of chicago institute of politics and an msnbc political analyst david axelrodeague and friend someone i look to, someone who knows this city well. we're talking about the march on washington and yet in today's world washington has become synonymous with a place of dysfunction, of anger, of partisanship, of rancor. i guess to what degree can we rekindle that possibility. how can this society recode what washington means sway place of

david axelrod is and steve schmidt. david, first your view. i believe it's terrorism.his is the first time i've seen a political party or even a fraction of it saying their number one goal is "a," to shut down the american government. and it is the american government. kill a bill already passed by congress and refuse to pay bills already run up by the congress in an attempt to basically risk default. this is an attempt to destroy all we know of as the republican form of government in this country with the purpose i don't know the purpose. what is it? >> beats the hell out of me. but i think that the probably the best explanation is that these guys are catering to the most strident voices in their party. i think cruz is a very ambitious guy. he's been in iowa, got a great reception there with this kind of rhetoric. and you know, i think that he sees a niche and that group sees a niche for themselves in this kind of you know, apocalyptic approach to government. you can look at your own polling and see that the american people are not with him. it's that kind of rhetoric

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former adviser to president obama and msnbc contributor david axelrod.ington and host of "the daily run down" chuck todd. and john meacham is still with us from nashville. looking at the beautiful shot at the mall in washington. >> absolutely gorgeous. carl bernstein was there as a reporter covering the speech. as you look at the gloria of the sunrise and think back to the moment 50 years ago. was carl bernsteen wearing that vest 50 years ago. i don't understand the vest. but, two -- >> me neither at this point. i don't know what else to tell you. >> how i would have loved to be in your shoes 50 years ago. can you do your best and try to take us to that moment what it was like to be a part of a crowd and a moment that might have been the greatest speech in american political history. >> i think it was the greatest moment i have experienced as an american citizen. i was covering it. i was 19 years old, for the washington star. when he said those words there was a chill. nobody i think actually quite understood the gravity of what he was saying but the gra

>> at least in chicago this is the paper that endorsed him twice, 2008-2012, david axelrod, the president'sto work with the tribune, very instrumental in clearing a path for barack obama to win in 2004, taking on jack ryan with an expose on divorce records. for the ticket to return to him a signature achievement is big news but not being reported on the big broadcast networks for cbs, abc or nbc. stuart: do you think it might be a turning point? i think it is going to be chaos as obamacare is on rolled to the nation and i'm wondering do you think the establishment media will pick holes in it at the chicago tribune? >> the evidence is out there. chicago tribune has seen it and written about it. you have the employer mandate being pulled back for a year, you have this cap being jettisoned for aayear, congress getting it done exemption past. these things have been incidental to know coverage on the big three broadcast networks which means a casual news observers are left in the dark about this. the media can report these things that are happening, draw attention to them and make them a big nat

david axelrod sent out a tweet an hour ago which said that, congress is now the dog that caught the cara lot of members of congress had been calling for a vote on syria. they're getting it now. the question is, which way do you think this vote goes? any signs? >> well put and, no, it is still a question mark. sources i'm talking to thus far are feeling much more confident in authorization passing in the democratic-led senate. not so much because it's led by the president's own party, because just -- because somebody's a democrat does not mean they support military action. in some cases it's just the opposite. more because of the makeup of the senate it has more moderates. fewer people on either extreme, rm republican or democratic extreme on the house, meaning those people tend to be more libertarian, more anti-war in general. having said that, i think what is also interesting, and maybe important context to add to jim's reporting about the dramatic turn around that the president had, i was told by a republican senator who participated in a briefing with gop and democratic senators on t

. >>> let's turn to nbc news senior political analyst, david axelrod, former white house senior adviser. good morning to you. >> good morning, savannah. >> we know that congress will be briefed this morning on how the president justifies this action, the intelligence case for it. do you think he needs to make that case in some public forum to explain to the american people why these actions are justified? especially in light of the faulty intelligence that led this country into iraq? >> well, without a doubt. if he makes a decision to go -- and i don't think they'd be having high-level meetings with congress today if some decision hasn't been reached -- he'll have to speak to the american people. i'm sure that he will speak to the american people. this is, though, different from iraq because there's visual evidence that everyone has seen. there's a brad con -- a broad consensus here. i don't think we're facing the same skepticism where there was for iraq where the weapons of mass destruction were used as a justification for an attack. there clearly, something happened here, something dr

they were about a mile outside of andover, an axelrod broke on the train and it slipped on an embankment. as i understand it, benny was a child, he was moving about, this was within five minutes of the trade ride beginning, and when the train rolled down he was hit in the back of his head. very severely. and benny did not survive the crash. the services for benny took place at mary akin's house. they went to concord to bury benny but jane did not attend. she was very grief-stricken and could not make it to the final procession of the funeral. jane was very sick most of her life. she's been referred to as tubercular. >> extenuating circumstance, you describe her beloved only surviving child dying right in front of her eyes. anyone can appreciate how devastating that would be. >> yes, indeed. >> so, how did she take this grief to the white house? how did she approach her responsibilities there? >> she cast aside her responsibilities really. but fortunately franklin had a good secretary and she also had a mentor that was her aunt, abigail kent, who took over her duties. >> the white house w

. >> robert, i want to play david axelrod's response to coburn's comments.ake a listen. >> what we've seen is a serial attempt to disqualify, by both sides, but i think more so by the republicans, disqualify whoever is the president of the united states, not just debate them or disagree with them, but render them ij legitimate. that's dank raus for th-- dange this company. >> is this indicative of a larger problem? >> absolutely. let's go back to the impeachment talk. it's a bunch of silly talk. the president has done wrong or illegal. we candice agree with the president on policy debate, whether it's immigration, abortion, going down the list. the talk about impeachment is a bunch of silly talk.congressmen to take a look at the constitution. you don't write a bill to impeach the president. let's have a serious conversation. because there are legitimate policy differences between my party and the president when it comes to help care and implementation of health care, when it comes to egypt, when it comes to some of these legitimate questions that the america

david axelrod long time advisor said if the president moves forward with military action we will hear from him and explain the rationale for such military action, jon. jon: critical days from the building behind you at the white house. ed henry there. >> if the president decides to take military action against syria the initial blows would likely be delivered by u.s. navy destroyers. four of those are in the mediterranean right now and we just received word that a fifth destroyer, the uss stout, is moving into position as we speak. each warship is capable of carrying up to 90 tomahawk missiles that could be used in a strike. there are a number of other ship and aircraft in the region and nearby that could be used to carry out limited strikes. our jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. so, jennifer, what do we know about the preparation for any military action? >> reporter: well, alisyn a senior u.s. defense official explains the uss stout was on a routine mission in the eastern mediterranean and has now joined the four other u.s. navy destroyers. she will stay in position for a few

. >> well, look, it seems like they have hired david axelrod, robert gibbs, they've got all kinds ofle who worked for obama. inner circle. >> bill: then you have joe scarborough and rick -- i'm sorry, i meant to say newt gingrich, no longer there but there at one time. and rick santorum and karl rove. >> i hear ya. i understand that they -- fox is sort of -- here's what i guess i would say. fox has cornered the market on failed republican presidential candidates. i think that they bring a certain circus -- >> bill: and sarah palin. >> it doesn't necessarily make them serious commentators but msnbc have real influential, serious democrats that they hire. and i think that that, in terms of how they program and how they put people on the show, it is no different. i mean it is a matter of ideology in the evening anyway. >> bill: here's the difference that i see. this is a longer conversation we'll have another time because we want to talk to david jackson down at the white house. but i think -- if you listen to msnbc, let's take ed schultz, are you -- you'll hear ed be critical like i am

tomorrow, david axelrod will be here on set and we'll talk to reverend al sharpton and martin lutherh on washington. ahead this morning, the official director of the consumer financial protection bureau. it's official, richard cordray in his first television interview since his confirmation. the incredible 911 call from that school shooting outside of atlanta. how a level headed school employee may have single-handedly prevented tragedy. when we come back. the secret is out. hydration is in. [ female announcer ] only aveeno daily moisturizing lotion has an active naturals oat formula that creates a moisture reserve so skin can replenish itself. aveeno® naturally beautiful results. >>> good morning, everybody. 8:00 a.m. on the east coast. brian schachtman here with the lovely nicolle wallace. tragedy was averted in georgia, the school shooting, after a gunman snuck into the school. new release 911 calls from the school's bookkeeper show why she's being called a hero. >> let me talk to them and let's see if we can work it out so you don't have to go away with them for a long time. no,