joining us, michael crowley for "time." david, considering the u.s.$10 million on this guy's head, that this was apparently a prearranged appearance in a very public place, does the fact there were no repercussions, that we couldn't get him then speak to how deep the void of intelligence is in this area? >> absolutely. and this is a real power play by him. a pr power play. he's trying to show other jihadist young men come fight with me. come join isis. look how powerful i am. i can stand in public, deliver this long sermon and there apparently was no american intelligence, any sense at all that he was there. >> michael, this guy has been dubbed the next bin laden. bin laden never went this far in terms of making public appearances that were announced like that. what should that tell us about al baghdadi and his strength right now? >> well, you know, part of it is just a reflection of a core goal of isis that bin laden didn't share or didn't emphasize as a short-term goal which is acquiring territory and creating essentially a state. so if you have a s

as president michael crowley stunned tonight after a vote he didn't see coming. >> motion passes. >>eporter: the city council approved a ten year lease with a catch. a series of tweaks. she called it cleanup language and said it simply clarifies the deal. the as ownership wasn't having it. >> we would like the document to go ahead as it is. >> reporter: the fans had different ideas. many trashed the plan saying what they have been saying for a month. that it offers no guarantees that the as would have a future in oakland. and it makes no room for a new raiders stadium. >> when i read that lease, i saw no good use for it except when i run out of toilet paper because it is a bunch of crap. >> what guarantees they will stay in oakland? nothing. zero. i want my beloved as here as do you, as do you, as do you. but as political leaders, what are you guaranteeing us? >> reporter: tonight quan claimed again she wanted the deal approved despite a series of flip-flops over the passel weeks. >> do you want the lease signed or more negotiation? ingly want directions to move forward with the leas

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. >>> reporter: a's president michael crowley stunned after a vote that he didn't see coming. >> motion passes. >> reporter: the city council approved a 10-year lease with a catch, a series of tweaks proposed by councilmember pat kernighan. she says it clarifies the deal. the a's ownership wasn't having it. >> we would like the document to go ahead as, uhm, as it is. >> reporter: the fans had different ideas. many trashed the plan saying what they have been saying for a month, that it offers no guarantees that the a's would have a future in oakland and makes no room for a new raiders stadium. >> i read that lease, i saw no good use for it except when i run out of toilet paper because that's all it was, was a bunch of crap! >> where in this deal guarantees them they are going to stay here in oakland?! nothing! zorro! zero. i want my beloved a's here. as do you, you, you. but as political leaders what are you guaranteeing us? >> reporter: quan said she wanted the deal approved despite flip-flops over the past several weeks. document more negotiation or do you want the lease signed? >> i w

. >> reporter: michael crowley stunned the vote he didn't see coming. the city council approved a 10 year lease with a catch, a series of tweaks proposed by member callahan and called it clean-up language and said it simply clarifies if deal. the a's ownership wasn't having. >> we'd like the document to go ahead as it is. >> reporter: many trashed the plan saying what they've been saying for a month. that it offers no guarantees that the a's would have a future in oakland and no room for a new raiders stadium. >> i saw no good use for it, when i run out of toilet paper. that's all it was. a bunch of crap. >> where in this deal guarantees they'll stay here in oakland? nothing. zero. i want my beloved a's here as do you and do you. >> this is the subject of the san francisco chronicle. some gangsman ship on both sides. the oakland council gave up the economic demands. they want more rent, more money from and more guarantees from the a's. they gave that up, but they wanted to put some language in there, i think just to say we're still here. the a's reacted

. >> let's get the latest from nbc news correspondent richard engel and michael crowley. that was the question raised by john kerry's comment saying that's a hell of a pinpoint operation. we have news of the hospital in the attack there. the news is how pinpoint is this? can we give a definitive answer on that? >> well, it certainly doesn't seem pinpoint from where i am in gaza right now. just a short while ago, for example, a building, an apartment building, a large building was attacked by israeli fire in gaza. several people were killed including children whose bodies were thrown from the windows. we captured video ourselves. ambulance workers, volunteer workers arrived at the scene, picked up the bodies, put thim in ambulances. more aid workers rushed into the building. as they were inside, the building collapsed. more than 20 people were killed. we are hearing about 28. it's hard to know considering how many people were inside the building and now it is on top of them. overnight in southern gaza strip an entire family of nearly 30 people was killed when a hamas milit

joining me now, chief correspondent michael crowley and colonel jack jacobs.itchell shortly. colonel, let's talk about what happened. we had samantha powers speaking at the emergency session of the u.n. council indicating that all evidence now points to separatists in eastern ukraine being responsible for this. not definitive yet. your reaction? >> i think we already know. i think our government knows exactly who did it. >> how do they know that? >> because we have at satellites covering that area for quite some time. all continuously. and so we have actual optical views of the play and infrared views of the place. it's easy to see on which side of the border the thing was shot from. i think the government, our government already knows who did it. >> michael, talk about the fact we're taking some time, i mean, you obviously want to be unequivocally certain of what you're going to say. if you're going to accuse someone of this. talk about the hesitation in doing something. there's a lot at stake here diplomatically speaking. >> there is absolutely a lot at stak

michael crowley is the chief foreign affairs correspondent. the president has been saddens.e's talked of the tragedy. none of the judgmental way in terms of the guilty, it seems. your view? >> i think that's right, chris. the administration, the president being extremely cautious in their language. they don't want to get ahead of the investigation. of course vice president biden sort of made the strongest remarks in regards to what happened today saying it appeared the plane had been blown out of the sky. but the president, taking a much more measured response to what happened. saying that the investigation is what's important now. he spoke with the with president of ukraine poroshenko. offered u.s. assistance in the investigation. one interesting thing about the phone call is president obama stressed the need to keep the investigation scene intact, to make sure that it is not hampered, changed in any way so they can get to the bottom of exactly what happened. as you pointed out, this comes against the backdrop of yesterday. president obama announcing the stiffest sanctions

michael crowley is time magazine chief foreign affairs correspondent. richard, we saw that report.ng report for any american to watch a. can you tell us, the average american watching this right now and seeing that report, how worried should they be about the are prospect of an attack on the homeland? >> well, i don't want to be alarmist or suggest that i have intelligence of any particular attack that could be under way. but i have spoken to officials, other governments and i know the group isis. i have been following it for a couple of yearses in syria and the last year or so in iraq. it is very dangerous. it has thousands of members, hundreds at least with european passports. it is extremely ambitious. it is not simply interested in carving out a little mini state. it's now calling it a caliphate straddling iraq and syria. it has global ambitions. today, the leader of the group who is now the caliph gave a national address issuing a statement calling on muslims from all over the world to come here and fight. this is not just a regional problem. this is a global problem. the unit

. >> i'm michael crowley. there are reports that mortars landed very near the shrine please can you talk about the situation, the threat, how well defended it is, how close isis may be in your concerns about it? >> well, have control over a place. toward the border. more mobile capabilities through the premise as some people were killed. that is the situation. as far as they human rights concern, yes. our immediate concern is with the situation, users can attest, violence of any type will be the first. yes. the government's, we have tried to bring the kurdish government to help secure some of the minorities to protect because we know that the current balance would be the first victim. unfortunately that is the case elsewhere as well. that is why we have been trying to say we need to control that and we need to focus on the minority. the areas or minorities were. protection. there have been reports that there have been prisoners executed. were looking into that situation . i think this situation is much more co

>> michael crowley with time. there were reports that mortars landed very near the shrine in samarra. can you talk about the situation there, the threat to the shrine, how close that is, how well defended it may be, and your concerns about it? >> the question of samarra was that they had control of the place. it wasn't. we cleansed all of samarra and have moved to tikrit. the used mortar. they used mortar. some people were killed. that is the situation. outside of the human rights .ecord is concerned, yes we are immediately concerned terrorist situation. minorities of any type will be the first victims. we have brought out the kurdish government to help secure some of their minorities, whether they are talking about shia or others, to protect them. in the current violence in iraq, the minorities would be the first victims. unfortunately that is the case elsewhere as well. that is why we have been trying to say, we need to control that and we need to focus on the minorities. most of the heavy fights were in areas w

crowley and michael weiss join me. p.j., start with you. no one now seems to suspect that vladimir putin said let's take out a commercial jetliner. certainly as we said the suspicion here is strong about, you know, a russian weapon, pro russian are area of ukraine where it happened. potentially, as susan power suggested, training are from russians for this to happen. let's say that's what is proven. say the united states investigators are able to prove that. what happens then? >> it's still an open question. there is no question that russia's policy is to destabilize eastern ukraine to gain leverage over the new ukraine government. how close russian fingerprints get to to the shoot-down will be important in terms of how significant the reaction is, particularly how significant in euro europe. there is a disadvantage to the relationship. ukraine is more important to russia than to the united states. to the extent that the challenge is to impose costs on russia for the foreign policy, for actions to work with the separatists and destabilize u

crowley. thank you for your insight this evening. >> thanks, michael. >> michael: in ukraine president poroshenko has vowed to hunt down straightists believe to have killed ukraine troops. the government offered a peace fire, but the separatists refused. >>> in cuba russian president vladimir putin is on tour. putin said he's hopeful that russian and cuban oil companies will begin to explore cuba's offshore oil soon. it will forgive cuba's $35 million. the rest of the 10% will go to officials. >>> 10% of i a immigrants to italy are children. to help house the immigrants officials have turned to private companies. >> reporter: they come from across the african continent and elsewhere. >> i travel to senegal. senegal to mali. and then from there cross the sahara. >> reporter: the local council provides food and drink and fresh clothes, and medicine where possible. but it costs money. to get here most of the children have had to find around $1,400 for the boat journey to sicily. around 6,000 unaccompanied minors have been rescued by the italian navy this year. the operation is costing the government