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david rhode, always good to see you. >> thank you. >> we'll be back with more of "consider this". to try oadapt but what we hope for is we get this research done so if there are regulations it's based on science. >> national guard troops began withdrawing from t city of ferguson. a day after touring the community attorney general eric holder called for patience into the inquiry and said the unrest in ferguson is emblematic of problems across the nation. >> the outcry we see speaks to mistrust and mutual suspicion that can take hold between law enforcement and certain communities. i wanted the people of ferguson to know that i personally understood that mistrust. i wanted them to know that while so much may be uncertain this attorney general and this department of justice stands with the people of ferguson. >> while holder said he wants the case to proceed through the grand jury as expeditiously and thoroughly as possible st. louis count prosecuting attorney said the grand jury investigation could go through mid-october. outside of mccal mccullough 's office, many called for his re

joining us here in new york is pulitzer prize winning david rhode, who was kidnapped in 2008. did america's policy on ransom contribute to james foley's killing. david, always good to have you with us. again the u.s. doesn't pay ransom, other countries however do and in this story including in your case the u.s. didn't pay a ransom. you're arguing that there should be a broader debate among western nations about what should be done in these circumstances? >> yeah, i just want to say up front i don't have a sort of simple answer. there are no easy answers in these cases but the problem here is there were french journalists and english journalists, that were ransomed, sotloff is facing death and james died in a terrible way. i'm calling on this to come out of the shadows. the european government denied making these payments, they're intermediaries. i don't think the current approach is working with very large ransoms from certain countries and u.s. and britain and canada saying no ransoms. >> we warrant our people back desperately but at the same time we don't want to pay ransoms

pelley: in the interest of full disclosure, deputy national is the brother of cbs news president david rhodes. today, the white house urged israel and hamas to end their war. clarissa ward is in gaza. >> reporter: israel responded with artillery and airstrikes. one hit near a mosque, killing a 10-year-old boy, and it withdrew its delegation from cairo, saying it would not negotiate while rockets were still flying. hamas warned last night that it would not stop unless key demands such as lifting the blockade that has been on gaza since 2007 were met. many palestinians, like umaima abu al kheir, who runs a kindergarten here supports the decision to keep fighting. >> as a human being who wants to survive, who loves life, who wants to live, with all the children in my life, of course, i wanted the cease-fire to extend. but at the same time, all this bloodshedded for nothing. it can't be. if i want the cease-fire to extend, i want it to extend to get a result. >> reporter: are you willing to risk your life for that? >> i am risking my life, dear, every single moment of the day. whether i want to o

eric matthews, patricia todd and david rhode.hank you for joining us tonight. >> the united states falls on 36 on the reporters without boarders freedom index. i think that al jazeera helps connect people in a way they haven't been connected before. it's a new approach to journalism. this is an opportunity for americans to learn something. we need to know what's going on around the world. we need to know what's going on in our back yard and i think al jazeera does just that. >> the plight of three aljazeera journalists sentenced to prison in egypt last june prompted worldwide protests and continued effort to see them free, but journalism isn't under assault only in other countries, but here as well with the birthplace of freedom of the press. last june, the u.s. represented the peal that risen could not appeal to testify because he was a journalist. he had refused to testify in the trial of cia eight, david sperling, who was indicted in 2010 for allegedly giving risen information for a book, but now he could face jail time. jim,

eric matthews, patricia todd and david rhode.hank you for joining us tonight. >> the united states falls on 36 on the reporters without boarders freedom index. >> the plight of three aljazeera journalists sentenced to prison in egypt last june prompted worldwide protests and continued effort to see them free, but journalism isn't under assault only in other countries, but here as well with the birthplace of freedom of the press. last june, the u.s. represented the peal that risen could not appeal to testify because he was a journalist. he had refused to testify in the trial of cia eight, david sperling, who was indicted in 2010 for allegedly giving risen information for a book, but now he could face jail time. jim, it's very good to have you with us, and thank you for joining us. you recently spoke at the secrets conference in march, and you had this to say about the obama administration. >> they are now perceived widely within the journalistic industry, as the greatest enemy of press freedom that we have encountered as an indust

joining me now is howard dean, former head of the democratic national convention, and david rhodes, authorthe book "a rope and a prayer" about his experience as a prisoner held by the taliban for seven months. howard dean, there we have bill crystal, one of the real supporters of the iraq war, confident about what to do now. >> yeah, it's not so easy. as you pointed out, actually i said when i was running for president 11 years ago that this is a likely outcome, that iraq would be split in three parts and one governed by al qaeda. this is not a regional problem, it's an international problem. we will be a target of them. if that means going into syria, that's fine. i don't think it's up to me or anyone else to decide what our military strategy would be. but if the president said we needed to bomb the islamic state in syria, a, it would make sense. because how can you take half a war to somebody? and b, i would support the president. >> david, we've -- this feels very familiar. we had al qaeda and we had to stamp them out and we went after that, or we seemed to go after that, then took the

also joining me david rhode from reuters who was kidnapped in 2008 and held in captivity for seven months we learned today isis has another american hostage sources tell nbc news they were taken hostage on a humanitarian mission for her own safety family members don't want her name released by us or anyone. let me visit steve clemons. i have known you a long time. you work in the dark along with your boss. tell us about getting release if you want to start with mr. curtis. that would be good. what was your success in getting mr. foley out the first time he was captured by the enemy? >> first, you know david bradley well. he's uncomfortable with this attention. he would say if he were on air hundreds of people were involved with the release of both men. i never negotiated with hostages. my role, as i think you know the effort to get james foley who we were involved with twice but james foley out of syria and away from his kidnappers, the issue was to -- david bradley who has a huge heart and a huge machine and a way to organize things knew he had to bring qatar into this. i helped open up

bob well from 40 years and one day ago we're back now to today's news and we're going to talk to david rhode's chief correspondent. two men who have a lot of experience on foreign news and covering wars. what do you make of of this. what was it that caused president obama who said, we're not going back to iraq and took great pride in saying we're not going back. now he's saying well it really wasn't his decision to leave iraq. and he says, but we have to send these war planes back in to the skies. what do you make of this? >> i think he would under tremendous domestic political pressure to act. it's unprecedented amount of territory that's been gained by this new group. i think he did it very reluctantly and i think he's not sure how this is going to play out we can talk about this more. it's not a clear strategy, this president or this presidency and maybe it's isolation is the last guest talked about isn't really selling his approach to reaction explaining his past decision making that clearly toe americans. >> schieffer: you know, the people i'm talking to say probably he had no choice. n

ambassador to iraq christopher hill and reuters investigative reporter david rhode. ambassador hill, what do you think is within the reasonable realm of the possible for the u.s. on this mission? >> well, certainly i think the humanitarian mission will certainly help. unclear how much it can help, but it will help those people that are currently trapped up there. secondly, i think they can, with this threat of air strikes, dissuade any isil formation from attacking kurdish lands in erbil. the kurds have a lightly armed but well-trained and well disciplined force known as the peshmerga. so air strikes could in fact deter isil from attacking kurdish lands. beyond that, hard to say. i think you always have to ask the question, and then what when you've used military force? because it appears that nobody is prepared to go into ninewa, into the center of ninewa and push the isil out of that province or out of anbar. so we have a serious regional problem, which goes well beyond the issue of governance in baghdad. to be sure, the u.s. has tried to make clear that we would l

. >> joining us now is reuters' investigative reporter david rhode. thanks for being here. i want to start out with that general. what do you make of the fact that security was breached? really not breached. this was somebody we trained. but it was the equivalent of our west point in afghanistan. >> it's a major setback. the taliban may have, you know, had nothing to do with this attack, but they will use it for propaganda purposes. to have killed the most senior american officer since the vietnam war is a big achievement for them. beyond this insider attack, there's a very alarming trend, a series of attacks by the taliban in kandahar province in the south and in sort of rural districts, they are sort of gaining ground as u.s. troops draw down. >> at the same time, insider attacks, these green-on-blue attacks have gone down dramatically, david. you saw 53 americans killed in 38 such attacks in 2012. as of this year, it's been three americans in total in two attacks. so it does seem at least the threat f you want to put it that way, from our own forces, the guys we train, i

ambassador to iraq christopher hill and reuters investigative reporter david rhode. ambassador hill, what do you think is within the reasonable realm of the possible for the u.s. on this mission? >> well, certainly i think the humanitarian mission will certainly help. unclear how much it can help, but it will help those people that are currently trapped up there. secondly, i think they can, with this threat of air strikes, dissuade any isil formation from attacking kurdish lands in erbil. the kurds are lightly armed but well trained and a well disciplined force known as the peshmerga. so air strikes in support of that force could in fact deter isil from attacking kurdish lands. beyond that, hard to say. i think you always have to ask the question, and then what when you've used military force? it appears nobody is prepared to go into ninawa and push the isil out of that province or out of anbar. so we have a serious regional problem, which goes well beyond the issue of governance in baghdad. to be sure, the u.s. has tried to make clear that we would like to hear abou

. >> i'm also told bob schieffer has ice bucket challenged our cbs news news president david rhodes andt brigade. george takei boldly went where a lot of people are going these days. this morning he's right here in studio 57 with the revealing new documentary. that's ahead right here on "cbs this morning." >> announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by mercedes-benz. engineering some of the most advanced vehicles on the road today. corrects for lane drifting and if necessary it will even brake all by itself. it is a luxury suv engineered to get you there and back safely. for tomorrow is another fight. the 2015 m-class. see your authorized dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial services. ♪ turn around! ♪ ♪ every now and then i get a little bit tempted ♪ ♪ by the chocolate all around ♪ ♪ turn around brian! ♪ ♪ this bar has protein oh yeah!♪ [ female announcer ] fiber one. ♪ ♪ ♪ hershey's spreads. bring the delicious taste of hershey's chocolate to anything - everything. with hershey's spreads, the possibilities are delicious. >>> women are starting bu

author of "enchanted objects, design, human desire and the internet of things," mit scientist david rhodesou. >> good morning. >> let's start with the umbrella that predicts the weather. i love this. by the way, david invented this. >> right. this is trying to take information that you would otherwise stay up late and watch the news for, check an app on your phone. the idea is that apps will leap off the phone into everyday objects. so this has a little transmitter that gets data from accuweather.com for your zip code and just makes a little sprinkling led pattern so you don't forget it on the way out. >> right down there. so if you had that in your umbrella stand and you looked at it as you headed out and it's going off, you know to take it with you. >> that's right. couldn't be simpler. >> this is another one you invented. >> yes. this is called a glow cap. this fits on ordinary medication packaging. it will pulse with light and play cute ring tones and text you so you don't forget to take your medication. so it's another example of sort of embedding sensors in everything. medication pac

let me bring in rhode island congressman david cissilini. you're on the foreign affairs committee. a lot going on with the president in terms of foreign affairs. give the president a letter grade on foreign affairs right now. >> well, look, what the president said was -- i think said inartfully. a clear message that we need to defeat them, that we need to protect americans from this terrorist organization. that it's an urgent responsibility. and that he has already begun to take steps to do that. both with air strikes, with the kurdish fighters, sending secretary kerry to the region, secretary hagel to the region. so i think the president's been very clear. this is a brutal, vicious terrorist organization. we have a responsibility to stop them and defeat them before they come to our homeland. >> congressman, i'm with you. i think everybody agrees that the president says this is what we want to do, but at the same time, did he not say and do you have no concern to understand the criticism when he says that's what we want to do, we just don't know how to do it? >> we're already doing

david. >> the comments fro from rhodes, that seems to be leaving open what chuck hagel the defense secretaryaid yet yesterday at the -- yesterday at the pentagon, that would seem to include al qaeda before 9/11. what's that all about? >> and it's absolutely right. there's certainly a gap and we've talked about this david between the receipt ruk and between the state -- rhetoric and between the stated u.s. policy. the erbil american consulate there, they attacked the islamic state forces, most of the air strikes have been against those positions around the mosul dam. on the strength of the logic that that wall of water would sweep down the winter and inundate the american embassy some 200 miles away. a lot of people raised their eyebrows over that. combat forces in part to protect those embassies and to assist in any evacuation within iraq, if the islamic state were to continue to make advances on baghdad. now we understand the administration is not going to choose that route, the military route, and you're seeing a stepping up of u.s. military air strikes with now open talk about the possibi

david. >> protecting u.s. home land, rhodes addressed the idea that islamic state could quickly pivot from iraq and syria to positions in u.s. home land, it sounds like the white house is not embracing the rhetoric from the pentagon but not dumping accommodate coldz water on it either. >> the fbi said there was no credible threat to the american home land the americans are far more concerned about that. there are some 12,000 foreign fighters fighting on the side of the islamic state group from some 50 countries, just a few of them americans in their estimation. but again the words the nuance is very interesting coming from ben rhodes today. previously american military action in the area have been largely a defensive posture to protect erbil, the consulate there, around the mosul dam, three more air strikes today, the ostensive reason because if that dam were undermined, it could sweep down the area into baghdad. anywhere it can to go against islamic state fighters who are quote unquote plotting against the united states. he sa

david weiss in providence, rhode island, brian kelly always here. again. interest rates at historic lows. the biggest economies in the world, some of them contracting. you are a professional economist. what do you make of this? >> europe has a big mess going on, we see second quarter decline and everyone else between problems in the middle east and in the ukraine, people are scared to do anything. stuart: are we in america going to suffer because of what is happening in germany and japan and all of europe? >> it hurts us because if they are not buying stuff they are not buying our stuff. particularly capital goods into europe and some in japan, the economy is going to translate weakness in those sectors in the u.s.. stuart: are we going to expand at a mere 2%. can we break out? >> we will do a little better, this is a half speed recovery, it will be at half speed recovery until europe fixes its problems, and they get more confidence in the united states. stuart: thanks very much for joining us. i kept it short. it is always a pleasure. i want to get

rhode island worried about charles lee and wanted to do something about it. he knew me would never be exchanged until the americans had a prisoner of the same rank, major general david this man's name was william barton. he was born in ordinary circumstances in rhode island. he had struggled to build a small business in providence. when war broke out, he joined the rhode island militia as a private. showeddership skills through and he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in one of rhode island's state regiments. barton met lee when he visited newport and thought him a great general. 1777, newport and the rest of the island was under the occupation of the british army. 1776, a powerful fleet of more than 71 ships carried them to the grandson -- narragansett bay. they quickly captured it. you can see the british soldiers in red coats being sent to the shoreline. british warships patrolled the bay not allowing any american ships. in or out of the bay. -- in or out of the bank. they were powerless to dislodge the british army. was the fifthport most important city in the united states. who can name the other four top cities at that time in the united states? go ahead and

. >>> on monday night, the team from rhode island was a little low after being eliminated. their manager, davidisle gave a speech they are sure to remember. >> everybody, heads up high. heads up high. let's talk for a moment. i have to see your eyes, guys. okay? there's no disappointment, okay, in your effort. okay? in the whole tournament, in the whole season. it's been an incredible journy., we have fought -- 8-7, 12-10 in hits. came to the last out, we didn't quit. that's us. boys, that's us. the only reason why, okay, i'll probably end up shedding a tear is this is the last time i'm going to end up coaching you guys. but i'm going to bring back with me, and the coaching staff, and you guys, something that no other team can provide but you guys, that's pride. okay? pride. >> coach, bill -- >> i want him to keep talking. >> since he's leave, maybe he can be our life coach. he's great. what a nice guy. so the wall street journal reports the nfl is asking artists to pay to perform in the super bowl halftime show. potential performers narrowed down to rihanna, cold play and katy perry. they aske

rhode island historical society. here is a picture of the sword. it was beautiful, made in france. only 15 were awarded to american officers during the war. david humphreys in 1786 brought 10 back from france. all 10 still exist today. this is one. the british were humiliated. a british officer wrote in his diary it is an extraordinary circumstance that a general commanding 4000 and on island surrounded by ships of war should be carried off in the night by a small party of the enemy without a shot fired. here is a map the gentleman wrote. barton landed here. the grass was dented down so they could tell the path barton and his men took. the condition of the land is still the way it was back then. british newspapers focused on two salacious points. prescott's shortage of clothing when he was spirited away and rumors of female companionship in the house. the august 19 edition of a london newspaper reported rebel troops took him naked out of his bed not allowing him to put his clothes on. they made a big deal charles lee could not wear his hat and coat. now prescott was being taken out out of my house, naked. it was reported he retired with a mile

. >>> on monday night the team from rhode island at the little league world series was a little low after being eliminated. the manager davidyeed team an inspirational speech they're sure to remember. >> everybody, heads up high. let's talk for a moment here. i got to see your eyes, guys. there's no disappointment in your effort in the whole tournament, the whole season. it's been an incredible journey. look at the score. 8-7. 12-10 in hits. came to the last out, we didn't quit. that's us. boys, that's us. the only reason why i'll probably end up shedding a tear is because this is the last time i'm going to end up coaching you guys. but i'm going to bring back with me and the coaching staff and you guys will bring back something that no other team can provide but you guys, that's pride, pride. >> i love the smile. pride, we got each other. what a great message. >> i'm going to cry. all right. that was beautiful. >>> the next hour of "morning joe" starts right now. >>> when i was a u.s. attorney privately to our staff, i hear a politician make some comments about a case they thought we were working on or whatever, i'd say i