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joining me now is ayman mohyeldin who covered the middle east extensively.m my perspective this is a very surprising. i have covered, obviously, a lot of u.s. military involvement in the middle east and there were differences that were apparent over that particular policy and that policy being u.s. military operations both inside iraq and syria about policies there. there have been differences that have been made public between the comments that have come out of the white house and the comments that have come out of secretary of defense chuck hagel. particularly on the issue of isis. it dwoes -- goes back to the summer when isis was sweeping through syria and iraq. there was a different between what the u.s. administration thought of isis' capability and what the secretary of defense thought at the time. more importantly now there's a military operation underway in the two country, there are some differences, or at least some apparent differences whether there is mission creep. it began with people rejecting the notion of ground troops, rejecting the notion

not necessarily incapacitated as suggested. >> thank you for being with me, ayman mohyeldin. ntinue to talk about this. be sure to check ayman's college, richard engel tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. you won't want to miss that. it's about an hour starting at noon eastern and richard will be answering your questions live on twitter using #msnbcchat. >>> coming up we'll head back to missouri to talk about the fate of ferguson as grand jury completes his work. we'll gasp at the images earlier this week. remember the pair of window washers damangling nearly 70 floors off the ground? they were rescued in dramatic fashion. they told their tale earlier this hour. >> i'm just, honestly, happy to have made it. got home to see my family another day. as far as that, that's the most important thing. >> thank you, everybody. thank you, fire department. it's not about how many miles you can get out of the c-max hybrid. it's about how much life you can fit into it. ♪ the ford c-max hybrid. with an epa-estimated range of 540 miles on a tank of gas. and all the room you need to enjoy t

and mark murray, and colonel jack jacobs, and ayman mohyeldin. chris, a loss of confidence. we saw the debacle that was hagel's conformation hearing but one would think over two years secretary hagel could, if he didn't have respect after the hearings be able to earn respect. >> he never really seemed to recover from what was a poor showing in that conformation process. in addition, there have been a number of what white house officials see as missteps including the way he characterized the threat posed by isis very different than what we heard from the president. recently he sent a letter to susan rice on another topic. there were some questions within the administration why he did that. if that should have been done. he was brought in, really, to look at winding down the wars in afghanistan and iraq. in fact, now there's a whole different set of circumstances on the ground there. new national security crises have come to the forefront. foremost of which is isis but ebola and others. they didn't feel like he was the person to do it. he never really got into the president's

joining us now in studio ayman mohyeldin. part of this statement we received from the president he says at this sensitive time or sensitive moment in jerusalem it is all the more important for israeli and palestinian leaders and ordinary citizens to work cooperatively together to lower tensions and seek a path forward toward peace. as mentioned in the breaking news, there have been a series of attacks leading up to this today. >> you're right. in fact, it's quite the opposite. what we're seeing in the early hours after attack is a blame game taking place. obviously, the israeli government putting the blame on the palestinian authority. saying the president and his leadership have been inciting violence in and around east jerusalem. but at the same time the palestinian leadership has been blamie ining israel for a serie measures that have lead to this type of tension. keep in mind, as you were saying it comes on the heels of weeks of violence. there were several accidents where palestinians attacked. but at the same time there

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meanwhile, nbc news foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin knew peter and had lunch with him weeks before he was captured in eastern syria. >> he was a great guy. very calm. a person who is driven by great sense of ideals after several years of questioning all that was happening around him in the middle east, he felt, finally, he had a purpose in trying to help the syrian refugee. >> more on the execution of kassig richard engel reports from turkey. >> unfortunately a graphic 16 minute video released by isis has been awe then candidated. we will not be showing it here. no need to spread the group's propaganda. peter was the fifth western hostage murdered and the third american. at the vigil in indianapolis, friends, supporters, and peter kassig's parents remembered the young man who decided to dedicate his life to helping others but paid for it with his own. president obama called the murder by isis an act of pure evil. the 26-year-old former army ranger who served in iraq travelled to syria last year to volunteer as a medic. isis militants stopped him and kidnapped him at the check point

with me now nbc foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin and mark ginsburg, a deputy senior adviser to presidentin vale and my organization. jerusalem is a city under siege. i'm not sure how much the rest of israel feels as much under siege as jerusalem. the escalation of terrorism and violence, which some people may preclude as a -- has to be arrested. the fact of the matter is that ever since the hamas israeli conflict the situation has been extremely, extremely dangerous throughout israel and throughout the west bank. and the fact of the matter is that extremist on both sides, their voices seem to be drowning out the voices of moderates and what this needs right now is a prime minister in israel and a president in palestinian who are going to stop the incitement and top calling each other names and stop blaming each other and try to arrest the cycle of violence. that's what it needs now is leadership from the top. >> ayman, the prime minister of israel called this a battle. is there a military component? >> not necessarily in the conventional sense. there's no doubt the israeli security force