and was looking into misbehavior by the harding administration, a republican administration.nd walsh continued to press on this until he finally got some breaks, and got some people to admit that what they had originally said was not true. one of whom was with the publisher of the" washington post," who, when the secretary of the interior was charged with suddenly having rebuilt his ranch in mexico -- a beautiful road, fixed up the exterior. just about the time these oil leases were being sold to private investors. ned mclaine said he lent the secretary that money. so the secretary did not have to go through illegal means. then finally, walsh got mclaine to come up and testify in this room, and said, did you lend him the money? "yes, i did, but he returned it right away." that pull the rug out. it became clear that he a taken abroad. he became the first member of a president's cabinet to go to jail as a result of this. the attorney general is also involved. the whole harding administration was coming apart at the seams. harding died unexpectedly in 1923. calvin coolidge came

the whole harding administration was coming apart at the seams. harding died unexpectedly in 1923.alvin coolidge came in as president, different purpose. there was a sense of trying to clean up the mess of teapot dome. only is thenot legislation but led to some major supreme court decisions. because people were not quite sure what the right of congress were. one of the issues was can the congress call a private citizen who is not a federal official -- the supreme court in the summer because of teapot dome said, yes, anybody can be called to testify before congress. one of the was a case of the brother of harry docketing -- said,daughtery, who a federal employee, so you should not call me. the spring court said you have to testify. this has nothing to do with legislation, but the supreme court said it does not have to do with legislation. it is nice if it does, the congress has a role in our system of being able to investigate. those were major decisions that supported subsequent investigations. the furniture that you see behind me is exactly the same furniture they would have seen

administration about the withdrawal of troops from iraq in 2009. and there's disagreement -- sorry, 2011. there's disagreement about how hardation pushed on that. i think the administration didn't help itself when frankly the president came out and said, well, we could never do it. and we couldn't arm the pharmacists and the farmers. well, now that's exactly what we're doing. and i think people were in the administration at the time look at those statements and say, hey, we weren't silence at the time, let's be truthful. it was a choice we made, it was a hard choice then, it remains a hard choice, it probably is a choice that didn't turn out as well as we would've liked today. >> can i take you to the other side of the world very briefly? what is going on with the missing north korean dictator? there's talk his sister's taking over because he's ill? >> well, for the intelligence community, the hardest of the targets is north korea. it is such a closed society and access to that is really difficult. so my take is, it's very hard for us to see beyond the facade. the second most powerful man in north korea a couple of weeks ag

in arkansas, democrat mark pryor has a hard time answering whether the administration's done enough to stop ebola. >> um, i would say that it is hard to know. >> reporter: republicans only need six seats to win the senate. >> a point or two here or there could be the difference between republicans taking control of the senate and democrats keeping it. >> i'm here to vote. >> reporter: we have a pretty good idea who the president is voting for, the question is what about the rest of america. >> that was tracie potts reporting. now to nbc meteorologist bill karins. good morning, bill. >> good morning, milissa. umbrellas are out as advertised in northwest. we have a consequence of storms and a lot of heavy rain. maybe a little bit of flooding in the days ahead. hopefully the ground will soak this up and maybe spread out long enough. green on the map, shows the rain again, looks like yesterday, all the way from portland northward. not pouring rain, not heavy, but there is a lot of wet weather. here comes our -- what we call our jet stream. and the train of rain along with it, just the brig

in arkansas democrat mark pryor has a hard time answering whether the administration has done enough to stop ebola. >> um, i would say it's hard to know. >> reporter: republicans only need six seats to win the senate. >> a point or two here or there could be the difference between republicans taking control of the senate and democrats keeping it. >> we have a pretty good idea who the president is voting for. this morning we have been looking at the numbers. when you average all the polls out for the ten tightest senate races what you find they are tied or leading in all but two of those top ten races. >> tracie potts, thank you. >>> #herewego. after 16 years of near silence, that was monica lewinsky's first tweet yesterday. more than that, she also spent the day talking to millennials about her new mission. andrew ya mitchell has the story. >> my name is monica lewinsky. though i have often been advised to change it. >> reporter: 16 years after the impeachment scandal as hillary clinton decides whether to run, monica lewinsky gave her first public speech explaining herself to an audie

hard. i'm not really an administrator and y got big. i was running a big thing. >> you would get your brain back. did you get your brain back? >> yeah. i had this afternoon, i had the best conversation with the founder that i ever had. stripe.nch with and that is like the best possible office hours. >> how are the hours? >> i'm involved. i'm doing the same thing i used to do. i miss working with paul, but i love working with sam altman. >> sam was one of the founders of one of your very first companies. when you stepped down, people said he is not you? >> i was not cut out to run this. he is better. >> i was good at giving advice. >> is sam going to be better? >> they are going to be different. sam brings a lot of things to the table that neither of us had which is an amazing amount of energy that is needed to broker deals with investors. y combinator is doing different things as a result. >> i want to talk about you where you came from. >> my family came here from england when i was 3 1/2. and we lived in pittsburgh. when you design a

what is it about that bad word terror that is so hard for this administration to utter?today the president's spokesperson called it a despicable terror attack. why the relukt yabtsance initially and in other cases? how can the president say he wants to degrade and ultimately destroy isis and then not call terror terror when it's obviously terror? it was convenient to talk about terror when osama bin laden was killed and when al qaeda was on the run. could it be this administration doesn't really want to utter the word now because al qaeda isn't on the run and isis could be far worse? the beheading in oklahoma recently not called terror. the fort hood shooting where nadal hasan screamed ala akbar while he gunned down our soldiers, still not classified as terror. the canadian minister for must be safety immediately says the mowing down of a soldier by a car this week was terror. >> i used to think that really bad words began with s and f. at least up until today, it began with t. coming up on the real story, people from all over canada remembering their fallen soldier nath

as you point out, the president and the administration working hard to keep the level of anxiety in aontrolled state in the united states with just one -- obviously with just one ebola-enfected -- infected patient in dallas. talking to state and local health officials to try to get them ramped up to be prepared. the airport, which was not something that the administration initially wanted to do but the concern was that in congress and elsewhere there was maybe a call for rolling the drawbridges up, right? to put a travel ban in place. so the administration has been very concerned about the preparedness and the anxiety. internationally what we've seen from the centers for disease control of prevention, at the world health organization, the u.n., some of the sound that you played is a level of anxiety ramping up the rhetoric about what's happening in the continent of africa. gwen: like the swine flu that never really in the end poseed that great a threat here but which was ravaging other places and at some point reaction always seems to be just do something. >> dr. frieden from the c.d.

. >> a lot of people really appreciate the hard work that the administration is doing at this point. tough issues but we are, you know, we solved a lot of problems before. like i said, i'm confident we can do the same with this issue. >> the commission was supposed to discuss her future, but that was behind closed doors. as for the no confidence vote by the unions, they will send the letter to the mayor to officially let him know the results. >>> it was something ... >> it was something as simple from sparks from a car that caused the deadly wild fire in yosemite. the sparks came from a trailer dragging safety chains or brake parts. once the fire started it quickly got out of hand. >>> 62-year-old jeffrey craig hunt of san jose was flying an air tanker trying to put it out. his plane crashed into a canyon wall and he was killed instantly. the pilot of a small plane in los angeles made a big mistake. laurie perez shows us he got a little too close to the president. >> it was just the most incredible nose i have ever heard. >> reporter: an f-15 under the command of norad was in the san

we don't know is of great concern and that's why the justice department and entire administration should be working hardo make those terrorist connections. because if there is a connection, we've got to stop it now. >> oh, absolutely. and we need to stop these attacks before they happen. the whole point is that they are members of al qaeda, members of isis who are trying to radicalize americans so they can come back to the united states and create this )r'd of harm. and we don't know if this is actually part of an organized effort or not but we need to try to put those dots together and i ex(ect that we will see more of them. >> sabrina brings up a great point. there are hundreds, maybe even thousands who have access to u.s. passports and green cards who are going to come back and try to disguise themselves in these community centers. so we've got to find out which ones are good and which ones are >> if someone does not believe that there are sleepers in this country, i think that they are absolutely naive. and it turns out that there are a lot of connections to these apparently unconnected murders. the

you know, it's sort of a rock in a hard place, the administration gets criticized when the president, they're saying why didn't they say things before. is he making a moupt ntain out a mole hill. in terms of your analysis, is this the right moment for the president to make statements to the public? >> it is, and i think this is the time to make the mountain rather than the mole hill. if all of the news industry is talking about this story and the president is off doing a fundraiser or political rally it is equal to the golf. whether it is fair or not he will get pummeled for that. at the beginning he said he didn't expect cases here in the united states, that set him back on his heels. the response by the cdc in texas hasn't looked terribly strong. he wants an aggressive response and get out in front of this. this is a strong time to reassure the nation. definitely the right call to avoid going to connecticut today. >> the danger of publicity of the ebola outbreak. it is happening. for this administration this is the fourth or fifth time they have had to come out in defense in the wa

in arkansas, democrat mark pryor has a hard time answering whether the administration has done enough to stop ebola. >> i would say that -- it's -- it's hard to know. >> republicans only need six seats to win the senate. >> a point or two here or there could be the difference between republicans taking control of the senate and democrats keeping it. >> i'm here to vote. >> we have a good idea who the president is voting for. the question is, what about the rest of america. tracie potts, nbc news, washington. >> if you're voting in d.c., the "washington post" released a new poll that says democrat bowser is leading the race. the report says she has 45% support from voters, 12 points ahead of the ind cant candidate. he has 33% according to the post. it also says independent candidate carol schwartz has 12% at this time. >>> the first look at kate's baby bump. she makes her first appearance since announcing her pregnancy. >>> plus, a new season for the washington ballet. danceri ins ready to bring you e ballets at one time. first, here's a look at what's hat on nbcwashington.com. he's be

in arkansas, a democrat has a hard time answering whether the administration has done enough to stop ebola. >> um -- i would say that -- it's hard to know -- >> reporter: republicans only need six seats to win the senate. >> a point or two could be the difference between republicans taking control of the senate and democrats keeping it. >> i'm here to vote. >> reporter: we have a good idea who the president is voting for. the question is, what about the rest of america? this morning we have been looking at the numbers. when you average the polls out there in the ten tightest senate races, republicans are tied or leading in all but two. tracy potts, nbc news, washington. >>> fighting in the syrian border town of kobani. they have been battling militants for weeks. u.s. and coalition air strikes have helped the kurds push isis back and retake much of the area. a syrian human rights group said isis suffered heavy casualties in the fighting. >>> at least 19 people have been killed in explosions in and around baghdad. one blast happened in the shopping district shop ing district. isis mili

on the margin, the hard-core sow supporters of the administration need to rally, they're dispirited fromthe economy and other things right now. >> sabrina? >> this has been part their ajeopardy da. climate change, part of the strategic planning division. it's interesting they're now trotting it out there in the weeks before the election. obviously, there's some kind of political motivation and i don't put it past democrats to know exactly who to target. >> last word from sabrina. thank you, gang. >>> gas prices are plunging abandoned saudis are helping by pumping out more of their oil, but is there real intonight kill off america's booming energy market? we report, you decide. "i wasn't going to invite people over and when i saw what their homes looked like." "my kids couldn't go outside and play. they couldn't go to the park." "i didn't know where i was gonna go, what i was gonna do." "my other concerns were the leaks in the wall, the mice running around." "it was brutal. it was a scary, scary place to be." "we're in darkness, but there is always a little bit of light, and if people hel

federal aviation administration and nasa will assist. >> our team worked very hard to prepare it. we conducted a lot of testing and analysis to get ready for this mission. however, something went wrong and we will find out what that is. we will determine the root cause and we will correct that and we will come back here and fly again hopefully in the very near future. but we will do all the things that are necessary to make sure that it's as safe as we can make it. and that we zo solve the immediate problem of this particular mission. >> and here's another view of that explosion from a pilot who was watching it from a small plane. look at that. the weather was perfect at the time. and you can see the flames and then that huge fireball. the launch had been delayed by one day because a boat was too close down range in the rocket's flight path. well, we have a "baltimore sun" reporter who witnessed the explosion from about three miles or five kilometers away and he snapped this photo which has been retweeted hundreds of time since the explosion. he joins me via skype from virginia. t

the question they get raises is why does the administration have a hard time and not market it?t is the definition of what work is especially in america and the modern times. we have this idea, and we all live this. we have this idea that sort of ideal vision of work is a career at a company. a career, lifetime employment. out of school, i go to work for a company, general motors or ibm and i worked there for 50 years. then i go fishing. that is like the idealized model. and by the way, it was great for the people who had it and was great living in that world. a couple of problems. a lot of people do not like the idea of working for a company for 50 years. second problem is, it was not available to most people. if you were female or black or gay or latino or disabled or from the wrong country or ethnicity or religion, it was exclusionary. it basically collapsed in the 1970's. it was a moment of time type of thing. the car companies started to do layoffs. huge anxiety about work because you cannot rely on this long-term career path. and at that world, you got your benefits from t

on the margin, the hard-core sow supporters of the administration need to rally, they're dispirited fromthe economy and other things right now. >> sabrina? >> this has been part their ajeopardy da. climate change, part of the strategic planning division. it's interesting they're now trotting it out there in the weeks before the election. obviously, there's some kind of political motivation and i don't put it past democrats to know exactly who to target. >> last word from sabrina. thank you, gang. >>> gas prices are plunging abandoned saudis are helping by pumping out more of their oil, but is there real intonight kill off america's booming energy market? we report, you decide. woman: everyone in the nicu -- all the nurses wanted to watch him when he was there 118 days. everything that you thought was important to you changes in light of having a child that needs you every moment. i wouldn't trade him for the world. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we're owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. if you're caring for a child with special needs, ou

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hard running y combinator. i'm not really an administrator. y.c. had gotten big. i was never suited to it. >> you would get your brain back. did you get your brain back? >> yeah. i had, this afternoon, the best conversation i've ever had. i had lunch with patrick collison. 100% was about ambitious plans. that is like the best possible office hours. >> how involved are you, jessica? >> i'm doing all of the same things i used to do. i miss working with paul but i also love working with sam. >> he was the founder of one of your companies. people said he is not cut out to be you. >> it is a good thing. i was not cut out to run something bigger than y combinator. >> is sam going to be better? >> they're going to be different. sam brings a lot of things to the table that neither of us had. this amazing amount of energy and patience that is needed to broker deals with investors. y combinator is doing a lot of things. >> i want to talk about each of you and where you came from. your parents. >> my family came here from england when i was 3 1/2. and we lived in pittsburgh.

after the story went live, last night, the obama administration pushed back hard. this is just the latest on an internal political battle that's been playing out in public on the front pages of the washington post. the secret service fumbling its response and being stopped by an off-duty agent who just happened to be there and an armed contractor with a criminal record getting onto a elevator with a president and his gun. and now, one of those leaks appears to be directed towards the washington post. what is your reaction to this? >> you're right. it's a little strange to see the secret service doing this kind of thing. we normally think about them as this group of highly-trained professionals who are all, you know, upstanding and upright. it's a little jarring to see the secret service do that. they're going to strike back. that's one of the most time-honored ways to strike back wa. to tell the press some things they might not want to know. former and current secret service agents say they're angry that none of its team members were not involved. and, at one level

i push the administration very hard to create a homeownership program that would work well. they didn't take many of my ideas but they kept -- but i kept pushing. >> you have taken heat over allegations that your health care position was plagiarized from other sources. what you tell us how your positions on health care reform differ from your opponent? >> my campaign already addressed this issue but i have been involved in health policy for over 30 years, involved with the texas medical association, the oregon medical association, the washington committee. i have been a trustee for the american medical association. i have been working to try to provide quality and affordable health care for 40 years and specifically for five years with obamacare. in 2009 talking about problems with obamacare trying to change these before they came through. i worked back when it was on the board. the idea that all of us that work in health policy know will work. all of us that work together know what works. because they don't meet the essential benefit packages to find a $300 million down the

administrators work really hard to make the best of what they have. >> classrooms take over the back lawn, assemblies have to be so that the students can fit in one room. >> the needs of the system and the growth we are experiencing are extreme. >> the district is adding $221 million to its school construction budget, bringing the plan to $1.75 billion. money is needed from the state and joshua starr says that it would put 36 expansion projects back on track after last year when the state could not help. >> we will not be able to give the children the instructional spaces that they deserve. >> enrollment has increased by are than 16,000 and 2007, enough students to build 22 elementary schools. >> according to the district increasing birthrates is one reason there are more students. to getd parents hope involved again this year. >> whatever it takes to get us into permanent buildings. >> they said the next governor would play a big role in the effort, the effort to make the school district feel not so big. 5:00, we up tonight at are working on a pair of exclusive stories for you. firs

can tell you that i don't know of any state in the nation that is not taking a very hard look at their administrative segregation policies. you have really brought it to the forefront. we all understand that as professionals that the movement is to -- this isn't the right way we should be treating people and we get that. what we do ask for is help in finding some solutions because there are some that are too dangerous that they can't be let out, but i also have to stress that's a small number. >> thank you, mr. raemisch. in your written testimony you stated that while the goal of many of your reforms is to decrease the number of offenders housed in administrative segregation there will always need to be a prison within a prison. some will need to be secured to provide a secure environment for staff and offenders. it strikes me that a great many people would think that solitary confinement, particularly for an extended period of time, is not an appropriate punishment for relatively minor infractions but could well be a necessary tool for the most violent inmates who may pose a real threat to the safet

the thing is, coal was in bad trouble before the obama administration. these are hardealities to face. >> its hurts. >> yet eastern kentucky, ever proud and defiant still celebrates coal as a way of life. >> libby casey joins us. is coal the main thing in the mid term elections? >> the economy and what i.t. means for jobs john. coal makes up 1% of the industry's workforce, but a strong lobbying 72nd print. in kentucky to be a candidate you got to be pro-coal if you want to be pro-jobs. even though people talk about the economy as their number one concern, they didn't just tell us that, they told polls that for months, what they kept coming back to is their feelings. do they relate to the candidates do they feel comfortable with their values, ultimately john those feelings may trump their own economic interest. healthcare may be one of the best examples of that. people just don't like it because it's called obamacare. >> libby casey, thank you. as we saw people in kentucky's coal industry are hurting. the decline in mining in that part of the country is dramatic. randal

described first an administrative pass for access ramps and elevators and additional parking spaces those accommodations are important for people to assess their homes and does not provide an hard of hearing on the building the guidelines are proposed for the administrator question for example, parking can only be approved with no obstruction and elevators are the elevators structure are not visible but set back 10 feet from the property line and the policy implementations and approving the modifications to understand how much parking should be loud and how people that don't have a disable in requesting the modifications they'll continue to be misdemeanor described in section thirty 5 of the planning code any plans that don't meet the plans will be considered through the surveillance process and it proposes a hard of hearing fee waiver for residential uses if misinforming for some reason the applicant can't pay the fees under this ordinance a fee waiver maybe grant on a case by case base it meets the needs of disabled to access their homes to adapt a initiative and schedule an adaptation hearing the staff is available for questions. >> thank you any public comment on that item?

i'm not sure the administration negotiated hard enough or looked at all the options.nd stepping back before that, it's a not very effective government that's been in place. so those who put that in place carry some part of the burden. history is full of these kind of challenges. what's important is where do we go now? >> it's always a pleasure to get your insights. you know this kind of situation better than most. >> thanks, ronan. >>> we turn now to our top breaking news story. again, we are carrying updates as they come in from the cdc. they are doing a briefing right now on the u.s. response to ebola. and president obama actually cancelling a trip today to focus on this ebola situation. right after this break, we're going to be live from the white house with the latest on that. >>> and a quick update. this is all having an impact on the dow now down 400 points. we're also going to go live to our colleagues at cnbc for the latest. don't go away. c. no. in the basement. why can't we just get in the running car? are you crazy? let's hide behind the chainsaws. smart. y

hard. i am not really an administrator. it had gotten kind of big.y i was running a big thing. >> you said you would get your brain back. did you get your brain back? had the bestnoon i conversation with a founder i ever had. i had lunch with the founder of stripe. ambitions.out that is the best possible. >> how involved are you? >> i am very much involved. i'm doing the same thing i used to do. i miss working with paul, but i love working with sam altman. >> sam was one of the founders of one of your very first companies. when you stepped down, people said he is not you? >> i was not cut out to run this. he is better. >> i was good at giving advice. >> is sam going to be better? >> they are going to be different. sam brings a lot of things to the table that neither of us had which is an amazing amount of energy that is needed to broker deals with investors. y combinator is doing different things as a result. >> i want to talk about you where you came from. >> my family came here from england when i was 3 1/2. and we lived in pittsburgh. because my f

. >> famous in the nixon administration for a guy that tells the hard truth. >> straight shooter. the political question. he was not an original clinton person but became very much a clinton person. how much is he carrying political water for hillary clinton giving her the things she would like to say but can't? >> there are a lot of democrats who look at the clinton years with some nostalgia if they find some aspects of president obama's leadership wanting. he's going to be outspoken. i don't think he will back off from the white house. better hope there is a lot of news to mask what is a damning critique. >> think it is possible we will see this in republican ads. bill clinton today back in arkansas. thus all is right with the political world. is there to give hope to mark prior and other democrats on the ballot. today's the last day of voter registration in marcus stroman --arkansas. he served up a clinton classic. more in sadness than anger, he said republicans were trying to pull a fast one on the voters. >> they wanted to make this a protest vote. all three races they are sa

state, after get all statements made in classified briefings, we have an administrative -- administration that is hard to fight a war with. i am willing to give the president what he wants. >> are you willing to go further in iraq if it is needed? >> yes. how do we win a war with the president? that is the biggest question. >> he wants to invade iraq. >> that's not what i said. >> this cannot be seen as the united states versus isis. we have a broad international coalition. we have the saudis and other sunni countries leading the offensive. that is the right approach. this is the counterterrorism mission that requires a counterterrorism approach. the military forces are at the lowest levels in decades, and because of the sequestration they are expected to go lower if more money is not put into the pentagon. believe that the american military can operate and protect the country at those levels? what would you do? cut'swere facing budget when i was at the pentagon. they have taken a significant toll, especially as we come out of iraq and afghanistan. we need to shift towards future complex. with the seq