ron johnson and eliot engel. and hillary clinton sparks a political firestorm after criticizing president obama's foreign policy. our sunday panel weighs in on clinton's efforts to distance herself from the president. all right now on "fox news sunday." hello again >>> u.s. air strikes in iraq are ongoing. the current operation said to be a joint kurdish iraqi and u.s. campaign. aimed at freeing the mosul dam from isis control. we'll talk with two members of congress in just a moment, but first, fox news senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot from the city of erbil with the latest on the operation. greg? >> reporter: shannon, fox news has learned the u.s. jet fighters and unmanned drones continue to hit isis positions around that dam today. and what is clearly the opening up of a new front in the war against militants. kurdish fighters are on the move, advancing with iraqi forces on isis militants in an attempt to retake the strategic mosul dam held by isis, there are fears they could let it burst or bl

ron johnson and eliot engel. and hillary clinton sparks a political firestorm after criticizing president obama's foreign policy. our sunday panel weighs in on clinton's efforts to distance herself from the president. all right now on "fox news sunday." hello again from fox news in washington. >>> texas governor rick perry has made a number of headlines in recent weeks. first it was his center stage clash with president obama over the crisis on the border, then his campaign stops in iowa, and then late this week, news broke that the governor had been indicted on felony charges on alleged abuse of power. joining us now, governor rick perry. welcome, governor. >> good morning, shannon. >> we want to explain to folks what you are facing here. you have been indicted on two felony accounts, abuse of power. with the intent to harm another, you harmed another, or influenced rosemary lehmberg, a public servant. the head of the texas democratic party said governor rick perry has fought dishonor to his honor, his family, a

richard engel in tel aviv. jim miklaszewski before that at the pentagon. thanks to you both. >>> a solemn ceremony at dover air force base in delaware today as the body of u.s. army major general harold greene was returned to this country from afghanistan. general greene was shot to death in kabul on tuesday by an afghan soldier. 34-year army veteran was on a training mission. as a two-star, he is the highest-ranking u.s. military officer killed in combat since the war in vietnam. and secretary of state john kerry arrived in afghanistan today. his unannounced visit underscoring the tensions in that country as the u.s. combat role winds down. kerry hopes to help resolve an ongoing dispute over who won the presidential election there in june. >>> now to the big weather story we are tracking tonight. the state of hawaii is of course used to changeable weather, but nothing like this. a state of emergency is in effect tonight for an approaching hurricane, and then another one after that. they have only been hit by three hurricanes since 1950. this is the first

engel. dr. oz. >> thank you, members of the committee, for convening this session, this hearing and for allowing me to testify. consumer scams is and fraud related to weight loss products are plagued me and my work educating the public since i first started in media long before my talk show launched in 2009. it's a problem that i have spent immeasurable time, energy, broadcast resources and money trying to combat. i'm chagrined to say the problem has only increased, however, i'm encouraged that the u.s. senate has decided to prioritize this criminal enterprise and believe the attention and contributions of other witnesses can help because we can together with our collective brain power douse the flames of this uncontrolled wildfire in the interest of protecting the consumer. after i finished my training in 1993, about a decade of training, by the way, i began practicing at columbia university. as i performed thousands of surgeries on patients, i realized we needed to better educate people on how

i want to bring back richard engel. just -- you've been held in hands of horrible people you yourself. tell me what you see when you heard, you know, peter theo's comments. >> i thought he did pretty well. i thought he sounded composed. he looked relaxed. he look healthy. he didn't like he had atrophied much from two years in capivi captivity. he understand, look, i don't feel like doing interviews now. i want to spend time with my family. it was important for him to come out and make a statement and say thank you very much to the american people. thank you for the attention but give me a little bit of time. i thought he was remarkably composed. you could hear toward the end his voice was starting to quiver and crack a little bit. i'm sure he has a lot of issues that he's going to have to sort through. in general i thought he looked and sounded pretty good. >> what do you think, and information that he may have that authorities would want to get from him. the process after he's released. how does that go? has he been de

like congressman engel said, we can't bury our heads in the sand in this one.e may be war weary, but isis/isil is not war weary. they're highly organized. they are highly trained. they have been very patient setting up this caliphate, and their long term aim is to use that base of operation against the west. >> congressman, we have seen them break through the lebanon border. there has been great operation, we know, in syria. there are very big concerns about aleppo. what is your concern about that immediate situation in syria with regard to isis? >> well, the syrian opposition, the free syria army, whom we should have armed two years ago, is facing defeat, and they have called on us to bomb isis outside of aleppo. i think we should consider doing it because this is one war. it's building from syria into iraq. the border is obliterated. there's no border anymore, and we need to fight isis wherever they rear their ugly heads. you know, when we, years ago, when the russians were thrown out of afghanistan, and we just sort of looked the other way and didn't really

richard engel, nbc news, along the turkish/syrian border. >>> the hope tonight in ferguson, missouri,at three nights of peaceful protest will inspire calm into the weekend. businesses are re-opening. after several days, school is set to start on monday. today we learned more about the men and women trying to decide if officer darren wilson should be charged. three of the 12 grand jury members are black. closely matching the racial makeup of st. louis county. five of the 12 jurors are women. the group will meet again on wednesday to consider more evidence in the case. >> right now dozens of people from the washington area and beyond are on their way to ferguson. they organized a bus trip on social media. they are on their way to join weekend rallies in support of michael brown. chris lawrence has our report on that from union station. >> you're on the bus. >> reporter: a bus load of people on their way to ferguson brought together by a single tweet. >> i asked twitter if anybody else wanted to go. the response was overwhelming. >> reporter: laurel organized the trip and said the bus co

richard engel, thank you. >>> tonight, the pentagon calling on russia to immediately remove a convoy that's made its way into ukraine. russia claims it's a humanitarian mission. trucks with food and supplies to areas held by russian-backed rebels. ukraine says it's a direct invasion. nato also condemned the move. >>> in this country we're keeping an eye on a triple threat of severe weather threatening millions as we head into the weekend. torrential downpours swept through a good swath of the country today causing major flooding in the midwest. and in the south extreme heat and severe storms with damaging winds have several states on alert. nbc's kerry sanders is in burbank, illinois, for us tonight. kerry. >> reporter: good evening, lester. the rain here was not a surprise. but so much of it that it created a flood was unexpected. quick moving storms dumped nearly ten inches of heavy rain on parts of the midwest early this morning. stretches of highway under waist-deep water had to be closed as cars were nearly swept away. in illinois drivers scrambled for alternate routes. dozens w

richard engel, nbc news, gaza. >>> still ahead on this tuesday evening, a spectacular plunge. thrill seekers going to new extremes of one of the most majestic cases in the country. now the fight is on over whether or not this kind of thing should be allowed. >>> and later the new rules tonight for what foods can really be called gluten-free. >>> it's the summer of 2014 in the american west, and the conversation and debate in some of the most stunning places in our country, specifically eastern utah, is what some people are doing there that involves great danger and taking great risk. we get our report on this tonight from nbc's jacob rascon in moab, utah. >> reporter: they have always been the stunning centerpiece of utah's canyon country. but now moab's majestic arches are also a daredevil's dream. this youtube video posted two years ago, is credited with fueling this extreme rope swinging craze. it's had some 23 million views so far and has made this free fall, one of the country's most popular stunts. >> that first step, it really takes your breath away, you want to scream,

brian. >> richard engel just over the turkish border tonight. richard, thanks. >>> now in this country we turn to ferguson, missouri. u.s. attorney general eric holder is there by order of the president, meeting with members of that community and the family of michael brown. nbc's ron allen is there for us to begin our coverage yet again. ron, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. those demanding justice for michael brown are relieved that eric holder is here because they simply don't trust the local authorities. a relatively peaceful night with a hope that ferguson just may have hit a turning point. the nation's top cop has promised a fair and thorough look into officer darren wilson's fatal shooting of unarmed michael brown 11 days ago. >> questioning why are you here? my answer would be why would i be anywhere other than right here, right now. >> reporter: attorney general eric holder arrived as prosecution was demanded. both sides of the courthouse a county grand jury heard its first day of evidence. >> everybody calls for justice.

>> richard engel in gaza city tonight with those drones above audible in the background. richard, thanks. >>> also tonight, this imagery from gaza. it's digital photography. it was taken earlier in this conflict, but you don't often get to see this. it shows an incoming israeli air strike, a freeze-frame showing it in midair headed for its target right before impact. >>> just days before the release of a senate report on american interrogation techniques after the 9/11 attacks, president obama spoke at length on the issue today in what was perhaps his most candid comment on this, the president said among other things "we tortured some folks." we get more tonight from nbc's andrea mitchell. >> reporter: after receiving a still-secret senate report into the bush cia's post-9/11 interrogation, president obama said today the united states tortured prisoners. >> in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong. we did a whole lot of things that were right. but we tortured some folks. we did some things that were contrary to our values. >> reporter: the pr

brian. >> richard engel along the turkish border for us tonight. richard, thanks. >>> late today we learned from the vatican pope francis called the foley family at their home in new hampshire to offer, quote, comfort, consolation, and prayers. the vatican says the family was deeply moved and grateful for his call and kindness. by the way, the foley family will speak about their son tomorrow morning on "today." >>> in atlanta today something a lot of people never thought they'd see, an american doctor once near death from ebola. the man we all watched as he was flown back to this country. today he walked out of the hospital isolation unit and told his own story for the first time. our report tonight from nbc's gabe gutierrez in atlanta. >> today is a miraculous day. i am thrilled to be alive, to be well and to be reunited with my family. >> reporter: dr. kent brantly discharged today from emory university hospital nearly three weeks after walking into an isolation unit gravely ill with the ebola virus he contracted while treating patients in liberi

>> richard engel in gaza city, again for us tonight. richard, thanks. >>> former white house press secretary james brady died today at the age of 73. when he was 40, brady was shot and almost killed in the assassination attempts on ronald reagan. he not only survived, but over the past three decades, along with his wife sarah, he became one of this country's leading voices against gun violence. nbc's andrea mitchell has our look back tonight. >> reporter: only 69 days after ronald reagan took office. >> shots were fired at president reagan in washington. >> reporter: six shots were fired. the first, meant for the president, exploded in the head of the white house press secretary, james brady. brady had always been known as "the bear." irreverent, even at his boss' expense. when candidate reagan said trees caused pollution by producing carbon dioxide, brady joked about killer trees. above all, brady was trusted. >> i wouldn't tell you something if it wasn't the truth. >> reporter: after being shot, brady fought for his life, struggled to

. >>> more now from nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel on the isis threat beyond iraq and syria. >> reporter: security officials say isis has between 7,000 and 12,000 foreign fighters. hundreds from europe and one known american. >> we are coming for you. mark my words. >> reporter: he died carrying out a suicide bombing for a group considered more violent than al qaeda. >> even a group like al qaeda which has purpoerpetrated aroune world, they're far too brutal. >> reporter: it's so easy to get there. young men from all over the world come to turkey. they make their way to the border crossing and simply walk in. and turkish authorities are making no real effort to stop them. >> that was richard engel reporting from turkey for us. >>> just two hours ago, encouraging words from captain ron johnson in ferguson, missouri. 11 days after the death of michael brown. during his briefing he said while one officer was hit with a bottle last night, they responded to only a few incidents and made only six arrests. the quieter night perhaps because of stuff like this. the weather. lig

nbc's richard engel is in gaza for us tonight. richard? >> reporter: israel said from the beginning that the main mission in gaza was to destroy hamas' tunnels. now that's almost complete, israeli forces are pulling back. but it doesn't mean this war is over. this is what israel has been doing to hamas' tunnels. in three, two, one -- israel says they blew up most of the tunnels, a labyrinth of passage ways to hide, attack and escape, even on motor cycles. it was at a tunnel where an israeli soldier was killed. had is funeral today. as he was laid to rest, israel took a major step to make sure the rest of its soldiers are safer. pulling most of the forces out of the gaza strip, tend sending relief soldiers back to israel. the withdrawal means israeli troops gathered along gaza's border will be far less vulnerable to attack. for israel, the ground war could be ending. but here in gaza, it certainly doesn't feel like the war is winding down. all day there have been rockets launched from here towards israel. we watched them fly overhead. and t

nbc's richard engel has more from goza city. >> reporter: a cease-fire was supposed to go into effect today for 72 hours to try to end this conflict. instead, we're seeing an escalation. the israeli military announced that one oifts soldiers is missing in the gaza strip. feared abducted, kidnapped. his family has been notified. a source told nbc news that this happened around 9:30 in the morning, in the southern part of the gaza strip. israeli troops were conducting an anti-tunnel operation when suddenly they came under attack. two israeli soldiers were killed, the third was taken. an intense search is now underway. the israeli forces unleashing an enormous bombardment, all across the southern gaza strip, not far from the city of arafa. they are trying to find this soldier. now there is a lot of pressure on the israeli government, not to find a cease-fire, but to escalate this further, to try to recover the soldier. israel has informed all parties that as far as it's concerned, the cease-fire is over. richard engel, nbc news, gaza city. >>> well, still to come, new details in the case

richard engel, thank you so much.e appreciate it. >>> still ahead on "morning joe," michael bloomberg and secretary of state of commerce are going to be here ahead of today's inaugural business forum. what an east coast democrat learned from a west coast trip. elijah cummings and jason chaffetz will be here. maureen and bob mcdonnell took the stand. mike, is that unbelievable? what a mess! >>> up next, it was a tough day for 5-year-old bobby tufts who just lost his bid for a third conservative term as mayor of dorsett, minnesota. we will have coverage of those election results coming up next. when folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that'

turkish authorities are making no real effort to stop them. >> that was nbc's richard engel reporting from turkey. >>> just hours ago encouraging words from captain ron johnson in ferguson, missouri, 11 days after the shooting death of michael brown. during his late night briefing he said while one police officer was hit with a bottle last night, he they responded to only a few incidents and made only six arrests. he mentioned 47 arrests in the same briefing where heed. the quieter night perhaps because of weather. that's lightning you see near the st. louis gateway arch. nevertheless, wednesday was a big day. attorney general eric holder's visit began with a group of ledge students and then on to meeting community leaders, fbi officials, congressional lawmakers, and the parents of michael brown. the justice department confirmed brown's parents were able to see his body for the first time since his death. also, a grand jury met for the first time to hear evidence in the shooting. the office of prosecutor bob mccullough said it could take -- to present although information to grand jur

well, today we do have one of the world's leading scholars, je jeff engel who i will say a word about. jeff is presenting his manuscript very much in progress and the title is when the world seemed new, georgw h.w. bush and the cold war's peaceful end. he's an associate professor of history and the director of the center for presidential history at southern methodist university. he's the author of numerous books, two of the most recent include into the desert, reflections on the gulf war and the fall of the berlin wall. the revolutionary legacy of 1989. we're really fortunate to have jeff with us. you will say a few words about his manuscript and he put a few chapters up on line. he said you really should get a practitioner and somebody who knows a thing or how it works. we're fortunate to have the right person in this case. that is andrew h.carr the chief of staff of george w. bush from january 2001 to april of 2006. an scoredaextraordinary long ter a chief of staff. he also has skpeexperience withh one. he was his deputy chief of staff and secretary of transportation for president g

engel. we go now for a minute to miss ross lateen of florida, chairman of the middle east and north africa subcommittee. >> thank you so much, mr. chairman. today's hearing is on the terrorist march in iraq. this is not something new or something that caught us unawares. this will be the second time this committee has had mr. mcduring testim mcgurk testifying on the deteriorating situation since february. it's clear that the situation went from worse to just about as bad as it can get and i'm interested in hearing in how the administration has adjusted its policies since then because the three steps that he outlined for us last time, pressing the government to develop a holistic policy to isolate extremists, supporting iraqi security forces through accelerated military systems and information and intelligence sharing and mobilizing the sunni population against isis have all failed to stop isis and the near collapse of iraq. isis continues to advance its cause of islamic state that runs from

nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel joins us from near the turkey/syria border. is there any additional intelligence emerging about mr. sotloff's condition or where he's being held? >> not about sotloff in particular. we know that there are between 20 and 30 different foreign hostages. there are believed to be at least three americans and sotloff only is one of them. that they've been held for a long time. other european hostages have been sold off for ransoms, giving the group isis millions of dollars. u.s. -- the u.s. is a policy generally doesn't pay those ransoms. and that the militant group isis decided to kill foley after the united states began to launch air strikes in northern iraq against isis positions and against isis fighters. those air strikes are continuing, and if you believe the statement from isis, they will kill sotloff if the air strikes are not stopped. so it is certainly a very troubling situation for mr. sofloff, for his family and for the u.s. special operation forces that are still looking for them. we know there was a raid in early july t

our last speaker will be jeffrey engel.eff is founding director of the center for presidential history at southern methodist university. prior to accepting that appointment, he held a post-doctoral fellowship and taught at the university of wisconsin, yale, the university of pennsylvania, haverford and texas a&m. he was the 52 professor at the bush school and the director of programming for the skocroft institute for teaching and membership. while as texas a&m he received a silver star award for teaching and membership, distinguished teaching award from a&m's association of former students and a university system chancellor's teaching excellence award. among the numerous articles and books he has written or editted. he was schaefer's 2012 lecturer and recipient of norwegian nobel price fellowship. he's currently writing "when the world seemed new, george h.w. bush" and "the surprising end to the cold war." mary. >> thank you very much richard. thank to you the society for inviting me to speak. and also it's great that c-spa

nbc's richard engel with more from the turkey/syria border. >> reporter: pope francis, craig, calledthe parents of james foley to express his comfort and prayers. the vatican said they were deeply moved and deeply appreciative of the gesture. the execution of foley just exposes the brutality of isis and now u.s. defense officials are saying the current american strategy of attacking isis positions just inside of iraq isn't enough to stop the group. isis doesn't operate only in iraq. the group spans the border, operating in northern iraq and in syria. in fact syria is the group's base of operations. until now the u.s. has been very reluctant to extend its conflict into syria. in fact the u.s. initially wanted to topple the government of bashar al assad, wanted the rebel movement in syria to enact regime change. now it seems that the u.s., washington and bashar al assad are fighting on the same side. both of them carrying out attacks against isis. the big question is will the u.s. decide to expand its operations. will it go from just carrying out air strikes in iraq and go over the bor

all the conversations i have learned the most from talking with richard engel have begun with us standing somewhere near a map. richard is here tonight, back in new york, so we have a map ready, it's always a good idea when richard's around, here's the issue to ask him about. the u.s. air strikes right now in iraq, and with this red-hot debate right now about whether or not the u.s. should consider air strikes over the border inside syria, when the white house talks about the militant group, the sunni militia effect that they're bombing in iraq, and they may want to bomb in syria as well. when the white house talks about that group, they call them isil. >> let's be clear about isil. isil speaks for no religion, they have no ideology of any value to human beings. >> we will be relentless against isil. >> isil -- >> a lot of terms about isil's vision. >> isil. when the administration and the pentagon talk about who they're bombing in iraq right now, and who they may want to bomb inside syria as well, they call the group isil. everybody else calls the group isis. why are there these two diff

chief national correspondent jim engel has uncovered another with even bigger consequences for americansalready have health care. >> reporter: in yet another controversy for obamacare analysts predict it will mean the end of employer provide insurance with former adviser ezekiel eman ul wriuel they will disappear in ten years. the wall street research firm goes even further predicting 90% of such plans will disappear. >> the companies will really be hard pressed to justify why they would continue to have to spend the kind of money they spend by offering insurance through corporate plans when there's an alternative that is subsidized by the government. >> reporter: the reason analysts see this change is penalty for not offering insurance $2,000 per worker is muchlers than providing it. >> for a worker making only $15 an hour, typical employer coverage for a family costs $15,000 or $16,000. >> reporter: creating an incentive for employers to shift low-income workers to the exchanges. but in his first campaign well before the law passed mr. obama sharply criticized a republican proposal arg

our last speaker will be jeffrey engel.eff is founding director of the center for presidential history at southern methodist university. prior to accepting that appointment, he held a post-doctoral fellowship and taught at the university of wisconsin, yale, the university of pennsylvania, haverford and texas a&m. he was the 52 professor at the bush school and the director of programming for the skocroft institute for teaching and membership. while as texas a&m he received a silver star award for teaching and membership, distinguished teaching award from a&m's association of former students and a university system chancellor's teaching excellence award. among the numerous articles and books he has written or editted. he was schaefer's 2012 lecturer and recipient of norwegian nobel price fellowship. he's currently writing "when the world seemed new, george h.w. bush" and "the surprising end to the cold war." mary. >> thank you very much richard. thank to you the society for inviting me to speak. and also it's great that c-spa

we'll go to richard engel on the ground in gaza nor the latest in just a bit. but first, we want to start this hour with much-needed good economic news this week. on wednesday, the commerce department announced the u.s. economy grew at a 4% rate in the spring. that's a big turn-around from what had been a winter slump. on friday president obama touted the jobs numbers. >> we're now in a six-month streak with at least 200,000 new jobs each month. that's the first time that has happened since 1997. things are getting better. our engines are revving a little bit louder. >> of course, that's not the whole story for all americans. wages are barely bundling. workers aren't getting more hours and long-term unemployment repains high. what xlit co-called the meh economy. obama outlined the economic challenges the country still faces. >> i'm glad gdp has grown. i'm glad that corporate profits are high and the stock market is booming. but what really i want to see is a guy working a nine to five and then some over time, i want him making more than minimum wage. >> that av

richard engel reports from gaza. >> reporter:his is what israel has been doing to hamas' tunnels, in three, two, one. israel says it's blown up most of the tunnels, a labyrinth of passageways for hamas fighters to hide, attack, and escape. even on motorcycles. it was at a tunnel where an israeli soldier was feared taken captive, was killed. as he was laid to rest israel took a major step to make sure the rest of its soldiers are safer. pulling most of its forces out of the gaza strip, sending relief soldiers back to israel. the withdrawal means israeli troops who have been gathered along gaza's border for weeks will be far less vulnerable to attack. for israel, the ground will be ending p. here in xwaz sa it doesn't feel like the war is winding down. all day, rockets launched from here toward israel. we've watched them fly overhead. there have been more israeli air strikes. one of those strikes caused yet another tragedy. u.n. officials say israel fired on a suspected palestinian militant on a motorcycle just as he passed in front of a u.n. school full of 3,000 palestinians taking sh

i don't think engel is kissing up to hillary. >> there's also a deep concern across the board this will wind up on our doorstep. >> that's reality. that's what they said. >> i think now democrats are waking up and i'm also curious to see how this affects the democrats in the midterm elections, how it affects hillary clinton, how it affects the democrat base who typically doesn't want us involved but now you'll see democrats saying hold on a second. we need combat troops on the ground. will there be a lot of -- >> european union is also seeing the urgency and they're considering acting as well. >> yeah. >> so there's a little bit of a problem in that this isn't really about iraq anymore. isis should be looked at separately and there was a victory getting that dam back. >> then the question becomes, how did the democrats form their strategy heading into midterm elections if we're already seeing them oppose the president's strategy or lack of strategy as to your point? what is going to be the strategy? >> i think they'll never be on the same page, that party. that's for sure. but it is fas

engel and his colleagues are part of a small group of courageous journalists risking their lives to reporta. some of the most extraordinary images are being captured by manny, an independent french photographer and filmmaker. manny uses a fake name in order to protect his identity. >> before becoming a journalist, i used to teach kids in middle schools in paris. >> as a young man, manny also teaches in syria where he travels to study arabic. >> i started going to syria quite early in my life. >> when he decides to switch careers and become a journalist, the syrian conflict beckons. >> when these movements happened in the arab world, i thought, okay, this is something that is really important that is happening. i lived there and i know those people. >> using his teaching credentials as cover, manny sneaks into the country. >> i had to go through the border illegally. the biggest danger you're facing is to be discovered. >> in syria he begins reporting the human side of war, meeting and talking with ordinary citizens, including children. >> manny also gains the trust of fighters of the free

. >> nbc news chief richard engel joins us and kristen welker. >> richard, isis controls large part of syria and iraq and has an estimated 17,000 fighters. the question being put out in washington, d.c., what will it take to defeat isis? >> well, i think that 17,000 fighters is probably a very conservative estimate. no one really knows the exact strength. it has been predicted or estimate there had about 12,000 foreign fighters. those would be just a portion of their force. they would also have syrian fighters and iraqi fighters. so this is not a small terrorist organization that is operating in hiding. you have to think of it as dislodging a government. it's more like the taliban and al qaeda when they were in charge of afghanistan. and to dislodge them, it took a concerted u.s. air campaign and then a rebuilding effort of that country that lasted over a decade. this is not a small endeavor that is the world is confronting here. >> as you've been talking about and reporting on about the strength of the forces of isis, and how they included foreign fighters. at least 100 americans it's

thank you richard engel. thank you evan for your expertise. >>> coming up. wanting to put a boeing shirt on the back of everyone running in 2014. can mitch mcconnell and scott brown convince their opponent, male or female, are really the president in some costume. >>> plus, calling for a boycott of burger king after the fast-food giant announced it was buying a canadian company and relocating headquarters up north. critics say it is a gimmick to avoid paying american taxes, and it sure looks like it. >>> horror at the gun range. 9-year-old girl firing an uzi, that's an automatic rifle, accidentally killed her instructor after losing control of the rifle. wait until you see the pictures. why was this little girl allowed to use such a weapon? where is the nra right now? i wonder why. they must be embarrass in their awful silence. >>> the stinky hamburger deal, skipping out on money and the hamburger deal, while think avoid paying taxes. this is "hardball," a place for politics. you make a great team. it's been that way since the day you met. but your erectile

fox's laura engel tells us about the internet start up, quirky. >> reporter: inventor, story started like many others. >> i was at the point where i had idea, that was flushed out but i didn't know what to do with the next step. >> reporter: former department of energy worker came up with a smart window's air conditioning called aero which you can turn honorary metally with an app. >> i know i will be hot and i want it on high. i will put it on high, and then wow, that is fast. >> reporter: his new idea was good but he needed help. that is where quirky came in. the new york city based invention company, uses an on line community of nearly 1 million members, to give feedback on pitched inventions and then, takes a vote on which products to make. quirky's founder and ceo ben calfman started cot in 2009 with a plan to make invention accessible to everyone. >> it feels good to see that people's ideas come to life, have them be on retail shelves and necessity that would not be in the world had it not been for this global community and infrastructure and services that we provide as a compa

that was nbc's richard engel reporting. >>> it never happened until now.e're talking about the house of representatives voting last week to sue president obama. democrats are furious, claiming the lawsuit is a waste of taxpayer moinl. in only the's reality check, sam brock finds out if public money is really on the line here. >> so sue me. as long as they're doing nothing, i'm not going to apologize for trying to do something. >> reporter: president obama's taunt may not have been literal but house republican leadership didn't see that it way. in a congress characterized by its feeble ability to pass, well, anything, the house of representatives voted to sue president obama this week over a delay in obamacare's mandate. a move that made history. >> i think it is fairly agreed upon that you've never had either either the entire congress or a single house bring an action against the president. >> reporter: which leads to us an important question. who pays for this lawsuit? in the past when individual members sued the president, they used campaign funds to pa

. >> joining me on the phone from gaza, nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel. richard, last night you were reporting that you saw the troop movements. it looked like israel was preparing to halt its movements in gaza, start pulling back. that it maybe was sending a signal they're almost done with destroying these tunnels. what do you see today? >> reporter: well, i just got back from -- the reason i'm on the phone is we're still out reporting. i just got back from an area right on the edge of the gaza strip where israeli tanks had been and where israeli soldiers had been positioned in apartment buildings setting up sniper positions, watch positions, and those troops are now gone. they have pulled out of there. we could see the kbrien crete a -- broken concrete and the tank marks where the tanks had clearly been driving and the tanks had pulled back. generally they have pulled back from most places in the central and northern gaza strip. however, israeli troops are still inside southern gaza, still conducting close security missions in the southern parts of the

we have all angles of this covered with nbc's richard engel. tom sanderson is here to help us understand exactly who we are dealing with. richard, i want to start with you near turkey's border where many isis recruits are joining the fight. >> reporter: isis has gained an enormous amount of credibility and support over the last year and really over the last six months as the group has been making enormous advances in iraq. isis now calls itself the islamic state and it's starting to look like a state and act like a state of brutal medieval state but one that controls territory, one that operates across borders and one that is governori governing in its own fashion as they believe they are prisoners of war. it has been a very attractive group for extremists from europe, in particular, to join and also from around the islamic world, especially from iraq. many iraqis have been going to join up with isis once that border melted away between iraq and syria. it is believed that there are 3 to 4,000 europeans, many from the uk, hundreds at least. and

to our chief correspondent richard engel we go in tel aviv.u lived and worked in baghdad covering this war for the better part of ten years. it was a signal foreign policy promise of barack obama to get american involvement out of iraq and now the circumstances in iraq draw america, at least this air mission, back in. >> this is actually the second time we in recent months are getting drawn deeper into iraq. in june as this militant group isis started marching toward baghdad and it looked like it was going to take baghdad, remember the president came out and said we are sending military advisers and said that extra security forces would be sent to the u.s. embassy. it stopped the group's march on baghdad but what did the group do? it started marching toward the city of irbil and marched toward these minority populations driving tens of thousands of people up into the mountains where they are starving. so now a humanitarian relief mission and possible hair strikes to prevent the militanting from getting to irbil and prevent the militants from g

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thank you so much, richard engel. for more on the military options for taking on isis, i'm joined by michael leiter, nbc security analyst served as director of terror center. executive director at the center for new american security. and a former commander in chief from u.s. central command and special envoy for middle east. his new book is "before the first shots are fired, how america can win or lose off the battlefield." thank you so much. >>> what we've seen is dianne feinstein just saying the president was too cautious in this instance. agreed? >> i agree with senator feinstein. isis has committed atrocities, potential genocide. that's unacceptable. i think we shouldn't be so cautious. we should blunt them before their recruiting really grows, before they gain more territory. i would say one thing is key to this, a lesson we should have learned in afghanistan, even back to vietnam, you can't give sanctuary to a potential enemy. we will have to go to syria. if we honor that border, unfortunately they will be allo

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