that was jonathan martin reporting.he nixon library has released the final installment of the former president's secretly recorded oval office phone calls and meetings. on one of the tapes ronald reagan said of watergate, this, too, shall pass. of course it didn't. we all know that nixon resigned in 1974. >>> the national security agency is under fire. according i to new information e nsa collected 56,000 e-mails of americans with no connection to terrorism. it was revealed that they classified three secret court continues and they found ways to limit the information it collects and how long it keeps it. that will do it for this edition of al jazeera news. i'm stephanie sy. we're back at 4:00 a.m. eastern with another news update. thanks so much for watching, and you, of course, can get news all day any time at www.america.aljazeera.com. the water -- it requires this new warning.

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been brought up in the past, but they have the clearance of the lawmakers and legislature. >> jonathan martinthank you. it is the death sentence for the army major who went on a shooting rampage at fort hood, texas. >> that's the message that we heard over and over from these families. they want hassan to be forgotten. he'll soon be on his way to fort leavenworth, kansas. there he'll join death row where five other u.s. soldiers are waiting. i should also note, john, no u.s. soldier has been executed since 1961. >> that's heidi zhou castro reporting from texas. >>> for nearly two weeks now fire crews have been working non-stop fighting the fire at the yosemite national park. in all there are 4,000 firefighters trying to get a handle on this stubborn fire. katherine, these firefighters sounds like they're completely exhausted. >> you know, they actually said, they said, you know, it's just another day at the office. this is what we do. we like what we do, and so they're in it to win it, and they really are holding up pretty well. that said there are tired folks at the end of the 15- to 18-hour

jonathan martin is the national political correspondent for "the new york times." than, let me start with you. how in the world is jesse benton staying on as campaign manager? he said he's holding his nose. >> right. i think this episode illustrates two important elements in modern america politics. the first one is, the rise of a super staffer in the case of benton who as peter mentioned is is married to the granddaughter of ron paul. he's got leverage here because the fact is, mitch mcconnell, veteran u.s. senator, the senate minority leader, needs this staffer badly. because he's a bridge to rand paul and the paul universe. mitch mcconnell already has a primary opponent on the right. he cannot afford to alienate the paul world by dumping the staffer overboard he would do just that. it's a remarkable illustration of the role of a super staffer now in american politics. the other big point it illustrates, john, is this. the tea party's rise and near dominance now in the republican party. the fact that a powerful senator like mitch mcconnell, well funded, 10 million

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jonathan martin, al jazeera, shelbyville, tennessee. >> when we come back rebecca stevenson has our nationalcast, so keep it here. >> meteorologist: i'm meteorologist rebecca stevenson, and today we've been watching wildfires burn raging hot and moving fast. but the problem is we're still getting thunderstorms rolling up from the southwest causing the risk of more fire starts. let's go to the map and show you where we have the flash flood warning in place. from storms rolling up from the south. we have a tropical storm farther south that is pushing these storms into the baja peninsula all the way up into nevada and then makes its way into utah. we've had a lot of problems forh these particular storms. it's dumping moisture and then the storms get drier. that's where we have our fire concerns in oregon and idaho. so what we can expect to see over the course of the next 24 hours is more of the showers and thunderstorms rolling in through the southwest. you can see some of this is very locally, heavy rainfall especially for southern california. then you get into the northwest and you see less i

joining me for the daily fix, chris cillizza co-host of "in play" and jonathan martin, just back from iowa stumping, if you will. thanks to both of you. i want to put up the sound we heard for those who missed the event. as we said this morning, if you build it, he will come. if you put up a summit, they will come. here is what folks missed over the weekend. >> don't agree with the establishment republicans that we have to change our policies to be more like democrats but we need to change our tactics to be more like they are. >> pressure, let me tell you, this administration has both their hands in your pocket. they want to take everything you have and the money you have in your wallet is worth less and less and less every day. >> we have been saying over and over again the people rising up and saying look, career politicians in both parties have let us down. we need to get back to the constitution and the principles that made this country strong. >> chris, let's start where we left off. your impression of ted cruz and his dad rafael. the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in terms

hat tip to our friend jonathan martin at the "new york times" for that factoid.y's winner jamie. trivia suggestion to "the daily rundown"@msnbc.com. we'll be right back. announcer ] made just a little sweeter... because all these whole grains aren't healthy unless you actually eat them ♪ multigrain cheerios. also available in delicious peanut butter. healthy never tasted so sweet. >>> we're back now with more of the daily rundown. you heard it from mike and brad the fight over health care will be driving a lot of the conversation as soon as congress gets back to work. we learned today the obama administration is delaying another portion of the president's signature health care reform act a piece of the law that limits out of pocket costs meaning how much of their own money individuals could be forced to spend on health care another grace period before that part of the obama care would go into effect. joining us is our gaggle. karen and ann and kristen is with us. ann, ask you first. the delay comes after the administration had delayed the employer mandate of cour

jonathan martin is in charlotte. >> this rally in charlotte was were you ever 13 held across the tateoday. the aclu and naacp speaking out against evil new voting laws here in the state. some people say they will be greatly impacted. >> this new law, the voting laws in north carolina have been highly can't recovers yell. this this goes into effect, how will you be impacted? >> i have a 94-year-old grandmother born in 1919 in south carolina to a mid wife. she has eight children and 11 grandchildren. she has never driven. that will definitely be a challenge for my grandmother. it's not fair. she's voted every time since being legally able to vote and now being challenged by our new governor and his party. this is immoral. >> i have all of the i.d. that i need personally, but it would be incumbent upon me to help those who do not have it. >> to me, the republican party is trying to hide kind of the way, they're not gerrymandering the districts anymore, but preventing people from voting. if they can do that, then it's going to help them a lot. >> the governor has said that everyone will h

"new york times" jonathan martin has a look at new jersey governor's effort as he heads for election.to build a political donor base. 50-state support network. that would be necessary for a presidential bid. facing a weak opponent, christie's strategy modeled on what george w. bush did in texas in 1998, running up the score. had huge numbers among hispanics and did well among african-american voters. it was a way bush tried to use to demonstrate a wide appear. martin reports christie met with the rnc chief fund-raiser in boston last week. there's harold simmons, the billionaire backer of karl rove's superpac. there's bush's finance chair in 2000, big guy in cincinnati. conservatives who think they've compromised on an establishment candidate for four elections in a row are not exactly eager to get on team christie. a fact the former white house adviser noted with enthusiasm this weekend. >> governor christie, this is probably the kiss of death, he would potentially be a strong presidential candidate. in the current party that's going to show up, someone like he can't win in my opinion

let's bring back lois and jonathan and martin. jonathan, you are from virginia.ect to this story yesterday washings wow, the mcdonnell's have separate attorneys. it is clear they are no longer on the same page on what these allegations are about. >> when you thought remain couldn't be more remarkable development in the story -- by the way, we should credit "the washington post." >> we have been on this from the beginning. >> for the last six months reporting on this. it just keeps on going. the best mcdonnell has going for him he is a lame duck. it's now almost september. he is going to be gone in january. it seems like because of that, you don't see a big push to get him to resign. no impeachment being talked about. the real question now is legal jeopardy. is he going to see an indictment before he leaves? >> it's lear, lois, he wants to salvage a little bit of political dignity and doesn't want to get charged with some sort of crime and fighting that aspect of it but it seems at the potential expense of his wife. >> i think he is finished politically. >> everyb

let's get started with jonathan hoenig and martin and portfolio mallet -- manager. we need to shorten your title. [laughter] people at home come to me we see you on tv but i am not in the market. are you kidding me? he has under armor shirt, nike, you are in the market and you are feeling it but then you buy a paris sneakers at $200 that will be obsolete and don't thank you should be the owner of the company? you are the spokesperson and the consumer. i was thrust into the market because of financial situations. i was the oldest kid that needed to make money so i got into the stock market to make many so what happened initially? >> i needed a job. [laughter] 1979. just getting out of college and a whole generation of investors were wiped out by the bear market. charles: you were too broke to be afraid? >> i figured cycles come and go and the bear market started in 1965 did not end until 1982 so i got in at a good time. the guys in my office in washington d.c. were some of the few people that survived the bear markets of the '70s i could learn from them how they coul

there's a book i just ordered on james byrnes who was a legendary soft carolina politics actually jonathan martin f. politico said you are going to love this book. it is the guy that very nearly was vice president instead of truman and 44 and completely played an extraordinary role in politics and became one of the architects of nixon's success in 78 and 72 and interestingly enough popped up working with henry hopkins on the 1940 book reading on the 1940 nomination of fdr which is pretty neat political work. so i like to read about the process and i like to study history. and i read more policy and less history but i just need to learn a veteran history. >> brookings institution fellow michael o'hanlon talked about how sequestration in next year's budget will affect the military. here's part of his comments and you can watch the full evin at c-span.org >>> if you look at the 2014 budget, the cuts the would be required by sequestration are so harsh for that year and there is no way to face them realistically. it's even worse debacle when the ten year horizon. the payment that occurs force even low

,, >>> football -- pro football hall of fame class, the people chris carter, jonathan ogden, bill parcells, and george martin. congratulations on tonight. >>> on to baseball for you, give it a minute. joe buck, tim mccarver pairing up for the first regular season game in oakland. oweyounis sispy tease. the a's are in charge. grant balfour shut the door. don't mess with him. yeah. so far, went down went down hard. a's win it. >>> battle of the former cy young winners. tim lincecum and david price, we're if tampa tied at 1 in extra i; will myers ball game. a bases loaded walkoff hit. they lose 2-1. >>> tiger woods -- shot of the day. good fit goes. if it goes. yeah that's beautiful. leads by seven strokes going into the final round at firestone. >>> soccer, chris wondolowski -- san jose beats chivas usa 2- 0. >> wow. wow. that's huge. >> we'll see you at 11:00 on kpix 5. good night. ,,,,,,,, ,, could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. mmmhmmm...everybody knows that. well, did you know that old macdonald was a really bad speller? your word is...cow. cow. cow. c...o...w... ...e...i...e...i...o. [

jonathan capehart. you're not joe biden. thank you. and martinhonor to have you on. >>> up next, one of the people who performed in 1963, he's coming up now. he'll be on in just a minute and play for us some of the stuff he did back then. and this is "hardball," the place for politics. ♪ >>> one of the people most impressed with dr. king's speech back in 1963 was a man who knew a thing or two himself about giving a speech. president john f. kennedy. taylor branch who was with us earlier writes president kennedy watched king's speech on tv. he was impressed with how effortlessly he broke into his "i have a dream" refrain. branch says kennedy turned to his aides and remarked he's damn good. certainly was. we'll be right back. ♪ i got a hammer ♪ and i got a bell ♪ i got a song to sing all over this land ♪ ♪ ♪ >> that rhythm, it was rousing back then. we're back right now, it was the great folk group, peter paul and marry, "if i had a hammer" performing 50 years ago today. he performed today five decades after the famous march. he's not the musician,

jonathan capehart. you're not joe biden. thank you. and martin. >>> up next, one of the people who performed in 1963, he's coming up now. he'll be on in just a minute and play for us some of the stuff he did back then. and this is "hardball," the place for politics. ♪ when we made our commitment to the gulf, bp had two big goals: help the gulf recover and learn from what happened so we could be a better, safer energy company. i can tell you - safety is at the heart of everything we do. we've added cutting-edge technology, like a new deepwater well cap and a state-of-the-art monitoring center, where experts watch over all drilling activity twenty-four-seven. and we're sharing what we've learned, so we can all produce energy more safely. our commitment has never been stronger. a talking car. but i'll tell you what impresses me. a talking train. this ge locomotive can tell you exactly where it is, what it's carrying, while using less fuel. delivering whatever the world needs, when it needs it. ♪ after all, what's the point of talking if you don't ha

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jonathan capehart, thank you for joining us. >>> coming up, what the fbi thought of the march on washington 50 years ago. and the phrase they used to describe martinjr. after hearing his speech. >>> and the man who may be the next mayor of new york city joins me just ahead. [ female announcer ] it's simple physics... a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve daily physical function so moving is easier. celebrex can be taken with or without food. and it's not a narcotic. you and your doctor should balance the benefits with the risks. all prescription nsaids, like celebrex, ibuprofen, naproxen and meloxicam have the same cardiovascular warning. they all may increase the chance of heart attack or stroke, which can lead to death. this chance in

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