so, her father, bill mitchell, heads the kristen mitchell foundation, he will be speaking in the morningla rose will also be speaking, she is the director and founder of an organization by the name of pave. and then we have our panel, which is also in the morning and that will have community members and community agencies represented. >> okay. something a lot of people should take advantage of. more information on the symposium go to nbc10.com or check out our mobile app, all flight for you. we posted a link on our website there. thank you for joining us. >> thank you so much. >> all right. >>> getting closer to the noontime hour, still enjoying lots of sunshine, that is going to be the case for the rest of the day today. skies clear right on into this evening, it's tomorrow, tracking light showers in the area, nothing heavy about them and they will be on the move. so, gone come wednesday. and the autumn chill will be back. today, we are into the 70s this afternoon, warmer than normal this tame of year, right on the verge of it northeast philadelphia. bright sunshine for allentown and at

kristen welker. good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington where huma abedin, close confidant to hillary clinton for decades since huma was back in college as an intern has been testifying today before members and staff of the benghazi select committee, a committee reeling from a string of political gaffes by house republicans themselves. maryland congressman elijah cummings is the top democrat on the committee and joins me now. congressman, thank you very much. i know you just spoke as you came out. tell me how do you characterize the questioning today? tell us what was going on inside. >> i'm not going to get too much into what happened there because i don't want to be accused of what i have accused the republicans of doing, leaking information from these interviews. i thought so far that the questioning was overall fair. the thing is, andrea, unlike a lot of other witnesses, miss aberdin was treated differently. the press was told the exact time and location of this interview. only those witnesses who are closely related to h

kristen welker. good day. i'm andrea mitchellfidant to hillary clinton for decades since huma was back in college as an intern has been testifying today before members and staff of the benghazi select committee, a committee reeling from a string of political gaffes by house republicans themselves. maryland congressman elijah cummings is the top democrat on the committee and joins me now. congressman, thank you very much. i know you just spoke as you came out. tell me how do you characterize the questioning today? tell us what was going on inside. >> i'm not going to get too much

kristen welker. thank you very much. andrea mitchell, important then this 1:00 p.m.y is expected to have. >> yeah. i think it will be around 1:15. i should caution it's tend of their meetings. you know how the diplomatic meetings can go. but this is the big meeting now in the recent days, in fact, last night the president was on the phone with the mayor of qatar. he was on the phone with the uae. he's been talking to the saudis. so this is also necessitate bid the fact that iran is at the table. this is the largest meeting to talk about what to do politically with assad. for years and years, kerry is pushing for a meeting in geneva. without all the players present and the u.s. agreeing that iran can be present, there is no purpose to. this russia and iran are engaged. there are a lot of indications coming out of this meeting so far today that they have not reached any kind of a game plan. there just beginning organizing. they have to go around the table. so i think it will be quite a long time before anything comes out of this diplomaticly. and what the u.s. is doing

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campaign manager, was on with andrea mitchell and said if vice president biden wants to enter and compete for the presidency, then it's time to make the decision. kristenker reporting a source has told her that right now the vice president, e.j., is in the final stages of making a decision. would that seem obvious at this point? whatever the decision is? >> yeah, i mean, first of all, if he did campaign, he's facing some early deadlines for getting into the race. and on this one, i think the conventional wisdom is right, that if he actually did want to get in, he should have gotten in for this debate because the whole contour of that debate would have been different if he had been there. one of the central reasons why a lot of democrats were looking at joe biden other than the fact that there's enormous affection for him in the party is that they were worried about whether hillary clinton would be strong enough to win this race. and i think in that debate, she showed she was pretty strong. i think she reassured, if nothing else, and this was important to her, all of her own supporters that she had fight in her. so the longer it goes, i the lo likely it

mitchell in washington. the center of the political universe for sure for the next 48 hours after two sources close to the vice president tells nbc's kristent 48 hours. this as hillary clinton goes off the campaign trail to begin intensive preparations for that all-important benghazi testimony this week. and house republicans are returning to find out whether paul ryan is, in fact, all in to run for speaker. joining me now for our daily fix, chris cillizza, msnbc contributor and

mitchell in washington. the center of the political universe for sure for the next 48 hours after two sources close to the vice president tells nbc's kristen welker that his decision could roll out in the next 48 hours. this as hillary clinton goes off the campaign trail to begin intensive preparations for that all-important benghazi testimony this week. and house republicans are returning to find out whether paul ryan is, in fact, all in to run for speaker. joining me now for our daily fix, chris cillizza, msnbc contributor and founder of the "washington post" fix blog. "usa today" washington bureau chief susan page. and nbc white correspondent kristen welker. welcome, all. kristen, first to you. tell us what your sources are telling you with the usual caveats. >> reporter: right. well, my sources are telling me that the vice president could make his final decision within the next 48 hours. a third source cautioning, though, that only the vice president knows when he will decide. the important caveats that you mentioned are of course that the vice president has blown past several other deadlines. you will recall he said he was going to de