Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Isis is escalating its Relentless Assault challenging areas of Northern Iraq now, areas that had been thought secure near erbil. Casualties on both sides. In washington president obama will be speaking this afternoon about how to counteract domestic extremism here in the u. S. But first for all of the developments in iraq and overseas nbcs keir simmons joins me from london. Lot of action and fighting and its hard to sort out from the battlefield who is gaining ground frankly. Yes, it is andrea. I think really the big picture is that the map is fairly frozen, because of course the allies have air power, so its difficult for isis to move but at the same time without a real push on the ground its difficult to push isis away from the areas that its held since last year but what we saw overnight, as you say, was close quarters combat between isis and Kurdish Forces that continues for hours. Senior Iraqi Security official said tens of isis fighters were killed and injured and some of their vehicles were destroyed. Local sources told nbc news isis launched several waves of attacks before being repelled by reinforcements and crucial air strikes. It was close to the key city of erbil where isis tried to push towards that city in august last year. Its a place where there are u. S. Officials based and this fighting suggests that despite the Bombing Campaign isis still feels confident to launch these kinds of attacks. At this stage, what does iraq need, the iraqi forces is it only the Peshmerga Forces that are organized enough to withstand these kinds of close combat attacks or is the iraqi army being able to step up . How is the training proceeding . Well from what im hearing, there is training proceeding including crucially some of the sunni tribes in the anbar area of iraq, and they will be vital to try to push back in that particular area but i think that from what were hearing, it will be sometime yet before the various sides, baghdad, the kurds, perhaps some of those sunni areas, feel able to make a concerted push against isis across iraq and i think thats what you would need to see. By the way, andrea on another issue, the video, the propaganda video released by isis of that terrible killing of the coptic christians, the person in that video who is speaking english, and that analyst is telling us this afternoon that it does appear that person has an accent that is certainly u. S. Influenced, perhaps not native but very close to native. So it is suggesting that perhaps that person might have been able to might have gone to a u. S. School or been around u. S. A lot, so theres clearly going to be further inquiries who that person is and it clearly goes to illustrate how isis is spreading and sucking in recruits from all around the world. Andrea . Indeed and of course theres intensive efforts by american intelligence as well as British Intelligence to try to identify that person who is dressed differently and had not been this is the executioner who had spoken out on that horrible video. Thank you, keir simmons. All right. President obama in laying out his plan to fight terrorism in an oped today for the Los Angeles Times writing it say battle for hearts and minds and cannot be won by military force alone. Its a point the president is going to drive this afternoon when he speaks at the summit. Congressman adam schiff joins me, the top democrat on the intelligence committee. Theres been a lot of criticism and pushback against the administration for the way it is laying out the summit pointing out that its not focusing enough on what is really happening in the field on isis trying perhaps too hard to avoid identifying this as only islamic extremism, trying to look so broadly that it is missing the point. You know i hear this argument made over and over again, but i dont find it very compelling. What the president is trying to do is not frame this as a war on islam. If thats the way people perceive this i think it would have disastrous consequences. He needs to talk about and is talking about how someone would pervert the faith of islam but this isnt a fight between religions or western civilization and islam. Thats a point that he really has to underscore so i understand people are piling on the president about this but frankly, i dont think that argument is very weighty. Here he has the summit no heads of government coming, the participation has not been at a particularly high level. Well have foreign ministers, well be speaking to the egyptian foreign minister shortly who will be participating but there hasnt been a whole lot of support from europe or the middle east at a very high level for what the president is setting out here. It seems to be more of a dog and pony show. I think its important in terms of what were doing here at home and we coordinate our efforts with our european and other allies. We have been fortunate in not having many attacks in the United States. I think its in part because our muslim communities are better integrated. We have a better level of cooperation between our communitybased placing and the community and religious organizations. Thats something that i think europe can profit from those experiences, and i think we also need to work on our intelligence sharing with europe and our other allies. So i think its an important summit. I cant speak to why we didnt have other participation but i think its an important undertaking. What about the community, some of the Community Concerns that community involvement, Homeland Security involvement is really surveillance. We have to reassure them about their privacy and also that this is not just intelligence gathering, that this is a sincere effort to deal with their concerns. Thats absolutely right and that concern is prevalent from where i come from in los angeles. This is an invitation to a greater surveillance and theres a deficit of trust that has to be rebuilt. This has to be a partnership, not a lets get close so i can keep an eye on you but in many parts of the country, there are Good Relationships and i think that will be true in los angeles and thats developing in los angeles and its really going to be key to avoiding the kind of homegrown radicalism that were seeing around the world. Keir simmons referred to trying to identify who this horrible executioner is with an americanized accent speaking american accented or north american accent in english, possibly canadian. Any way that we have so far to identify who this person is . I cant speak to the effort in the gruesome video. His accent probably underscores the fact from the United States weve had a great many people join the fight from the european country, many thousands of foreign fighters. Were looking at one person in the video as gruesome as that person is probably the greater threat are those that have not been identified or cant be identified because they dont appear in a video and can come back with a greater anonymity. We have a lot on our plate to guard against. Should we be selling drones to some of these allies todays ally may not be tomorrows. Thats true. We have to be extremely cautious about it. Its one of the reasons why what example we set in terms of the efforts that we make to avoid civilian casualties that we have to set the bar very high because others may not, but also means that we have to be very careful about anyone we might sell that technology to. And finally on the war powers debate coming up there seems to be a lot of division between those in both camps, those who say that the president should be somewhat restrained should not have a blank check, and others who say that the president should not be giving up powers that hes the commander in chief. Where do you come down . Well i come down much more on the side of lets learn from the mistakes weve made. Weve had two broad authorizations that are continuing on and of course many many years after they were wrip to fight written to fight a foe that didnt exist at the time. Congress wants to have an aggressive role in the checks and balances that the Founding Fathers have in mind. We cant do if we write another blank check that doesnt allow limits on geographic, time limits so i come down on a narrowly tailored organization. Adam schiff the top democrat on house intelience. Stay here on msnbc, watch his speech live on msnbc, supposed to start at 4 15 eastern. Up next more on the fight against isis. Well talk to egypts foreign minister just out of crisis meetings at the u. N. Today. This is Andrea Mitchell reports only on msnbc. I dont miss the other stuff. Meta health bars help promote heart health. Experience the meta effect with our multihealth wellness line. Know your Financial Plan wont keep you up at night. Know you have insights from Top Investment strategists to help set your mind at ease. Know that planning for retirement can be the least of your worries. With the guidance of a pnc investments financial advisor, know you can get help staying on track for the future youve always wanted. 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What response are you getting from the u. N. . What can the u. N. Do besides talk . Is there any action that the u. N. Is willing to take dwens this isis threat . We believe its necessary at this stage to reinforce or support the government of libya to undertake its responsibility to fight the terrorist threat and also to gain the support of the International Community in that struggle. We dont find it at all logical that the government of libya should be restricted in this fashion by the Security Council at a time when it comes under severe attack from the terrorist organizations from the isils of libya who are associated to the rest of this organization but the spreading across the african continent and the middle east. On that horrible tape the executioner threatened other egyptians who remain in libya. There are thousands and thousands of egyptians, mostly workers who have gone there for jobs. Are you making any effort to evacuate people . What can you do for your citizens who are under threat . We are of course concerned about their safety and are trying through the government in toboruk and in terms of our relationships and contacts with various tribes and political entities in libya to provide them the necessary security indicated those who wanted to department can do through by the tunisian government and border. They provided the facilities to do so. We continue to monitor closely and in cooperation with the Libyan Government and tunisian government and nigerian one to hopefully extract themselves find themselves in the way of harm and continue to protect those who remain through the structures of the tribes of libya. Has your intelligence been able to identify who this leader is who appeared on this video . Weve been trying to figure out his accent seems to be somehow north american, perhaps canadian, perhaps american influenced by education here but do you have any idea who these people are . Personally, i dont. Of course there is a high degree of coordination and cooperation between our Intelligence Services in egypt and the United States and in the past weve always been able to achieve results by such a close cooperation with other allies as well. We are hopeful that more collaboration between us will lead us to be able to impact these organizations from within more effectively. What more do you need from the United States . There was a hold on some spare parts for f16s and others after your government replaced the elected government the Muslim Brotherhood government. Do you need more military aid . Do you need more other kinds of support as you try to hold off isis now, so close to you in neighboring libya . Well certainly, but let me say that it wasnt the government who deposed president morsi. It was the people of egypt, and understood. And in the strength of 25 million. We have been somewhat restrained and we find its been difficult for us to meet the challenges in the sinai and in addressing the threats at our western border. Without being able to have the spare parts and fly the apaches that are so crucial in the fight against the terrorist organizations in sinai. I think it is very important that egypt remains militarily strong. It has been an element of Regional Security and dependence by the United States on egyptian facilities and capabilities and we certainly feel that we are somehow restricted at this stage and will hope these restrictions were lifted. Is that something youre going to be talking to secretary kerry, when you come to the state department tomorrow . Well i usually talk with secretary kerry on all the aspects of our bilateral relations and this has been an issue constantly brought up in our various meetings over the last period. And what about the threat from isis and isis supporters now in the sinai. This is a new level of threat part of your country. Definitely. They have sworn allegiance to isis and are operating within the operational and cooperative structure of this organization, and they have shown a degree of sophistication and the ability to wage more vicious attacks on our Security Forces and its quite apparent theyre receiving more sophisticated weaponry and this goes to show the relationships that exist now from nigeria to iraq between an organization that is growing and that we need every resource and commitment to be able to fight and to eradicate. Is egypt going to request drones now that the administration has a policy where its going to be willing to sell drones to allies . We will always seek to enhance our capabilities to fight this threat to be able to impact them and degrade them eradicate them to the best of our abilities, and certainly drones are an important aspect in this fight, and if it is available to us we will certainly be very willing to utilize them. Minister shoukry, thank you for coming to our studios and we will see you tomorrow. Thank you. Now to another blast of arctic air that taken over the eastern third of the country, showing no signs of letting up. It is so cold that Niagara Falls has frozen. Its not trick photography, its the real thing, taken yesterday from the canadian side of the falls. In boston the big dig continues. More from the weather channels chris warren. Reporter andrea were in bostons long wharf area where the sun is shining. It looks nice. Frustrations are mounting and in part because of this. This number right here 11. 3. Thats how many more inches are needed for this season to become the snowiest season on record for boston. The snowiest season is 107. 6 inches. So far this season 96. 3. Did the math down here and that is 11. 3 inches away from tying the alltime snowiest season here in boston. So with that getting around is difficult. Public transportation running on modified schedules. If your stop is open. You might have to go to a different stop. In some cases, the commute, andrea is tacked on by an extra two hours before and after, and now it looks like even more snow and cold on the way for the northeast, and right here in boston. Im meteorologist chris warren. Back to you, andrea. Unbelievable chris warren. Still to come politics, jeb bush trying to put some distance between himself and his family family. Does that work . First searching for answers at the site of another fiery train accident. More from West Virginia coming up next. Hey, girl. Is it crazy that your soccer trophy is talking to you right now . It kinda is. Its as crazy as you not rolling over your old 401k. Cue the horns. Just harness the confidence it took you to win me and call td ameritrades rollover consultants. Theyll help with the hassle by guiding you through the whole process step by step. And theyll even call your old provider. Its easy. Even she could do it. Whatever, janet. 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What investigators are hoping is that this site will get cool enough, and trust me it is really cold here in West Virginia but investigators are hoping that the site will get cool enough so they can get in there to try to determine just what caused this train to go off the tracks monday afternoon. Among the questions theyre going to look at was it weather. It was snowing heavily in this area on monday afternoon. How fast was the train going, and then there are questions being raised about the tampger cars themselves. This was a 109car train. 107 of those cars were tankers carrying oil. Around 30,000 gallons apiece. Those are new tarnger cars tanker cars designed to do a better job of withstanding a crash. We can tell you that 19 of those cars burned in this derailment, so thats one of the things theyre going to be taking a look at. 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Her death and the executions of three american hostages will be on the docket for the summit. Karen, you did extraordinary reporting this weekend on the time line the hostage rescue efforts and the administrations pushback against criticism they waited too long. Can you go through that now . They first got some information specific information from a danish released hostage, and knew where they thought these prisoners were the americans, including kayla in racca and syria. What happened next . I think its first important to note that they really have had very little intelligence from inside syria, until very recently, there was no what they call overwatch, there were no surveillance planes traveling over syria and the hostage accounts from the released hostages were the only information they had. Group of europeans had been released in the spring. Some of them had been held with the americans, some of them had not, and theyve been moved to different places. So they thought they had an idea when this danish hostage was released in midjune, they interviewed him, in denmark, and finally felt like they had a firm idea of where the americans were being held. They had a preliminary plan in place, and they quickly finalized it sent it to the white house. The white house approved it and about a week later on the morning of the 3rd of july the mission was launched. In syria, of course sadly, when they got there, the hostages were no longer there. And in terms of the time line, they began to be you know getting some intelligence march and april as you pointed out in your reporting, finally in june interviewed that danish hostage. Did it take too long . This is a complicated and as you were reporting, white house officials were saying this was one of the riskiest missions but that the president interestingly approved it as soon as he was briefed on it. He did not hesitate. Right. I think that the white house obviously, a lot of people a lot of the families some of the counterterrorism people and investigators who worked on these cases felt like it had taken too long. I think that if you look at how it actually went through the white house as these things go it went quickly. It arrived there late on a thursday night. Friday morning there were meetings all day with the deputies, cabinet deputies and then with the cabinet principles on friday. It went to president obama on saturday. He had a meeting with secretary hagel, and other senior advisers and approved it right in that meeting. One of the problems it then took another four or five days before they actually landed in syria. This was a lot of people to move from the United States to the middle east, where the mission was launched. There was a lot of aircraft involved that had to be moved around. All together about 100 special operations, troops that were involved. So there were a lot of things that had to be done and i think as these things go it was probably done fairly quickly. Where there was delay to the extent there was delay, it was before the plan went to the white house, and i think the administration and the military would argue that that was largely because they just didnt have the intelligence. They didnt know exactly where they were. Chris, one two argue they should be forward based, that these kinds of teams should be in theater ready for some kind of action. I did interview john foley, james foleys father along with diane foley friday on the question of ransom. The europeans get out because clearly they pay. There have been private efforts. Some of the family are frustrated, the fbi warns them theyd be violating the law. This is what mr. Foley had to say on friday. Isis knows its going to come sooner or later, after the european hostages release, we mounted the mission and im very, very grateful to the military personnel who were involved, but they werent home. Isis is evil and vicious, but i dont think theyre stupid. They know were coming after they release hostages they know were debriefing the hostages. What do you think will come out of this review of the policy . The president made very career in his interview with buzzfeed hes not going to consider paying ransom. Right. Well i think they are conscious of the fact that the families of these victims quite unhappy, and part of it is you know i think it has to be said that through their grief, they obviously would like to blame someone. You know the question of ransom, the white house has been very firm on it. They have launched a review in order to figure out ways so that they can be more forthcoming to the families more cooperative with the families the families feel like theyre more a part of this whole process, and that they are getting all the information thats available, but again, from the president on down theres been no give at all. Theyre very definitive that they are not going to be promoting the payment of ransom. Karen deyoung, extraordinary reporting. Thank you for sharing with us today. Thank you andrea. Overseas greece is asking for more help from its European Partners on greeces terms, though. The government led by its new Prime Minister is seeking a loan extension, thats their spin on the bailout program, set to expire at the end of this month. It is not getting a lot of support from eurozone leaders who want greece to stick to austerity measures. A compromise isnt reached, what next and what could be the impact on our economy . Wall street already keeping an eye on all of this. Joining me is jillian tepp u. S. Managing editor at the financial times. What happens if the talks fall apart or if an accident takes place along the way . Were seeing a great drama, if not a greek tragedy here. The bailout plan is clear, theres a strong level of hostility inside germany and other northern eurozone countries towards what the greeks are suggestioning. The greeks think its time for Northern European countries and germany to cut slack and many argue get more realistic about the difficulties greece is facing in terms of repaying its debt. At the same time the germans are concerned about setting a precedent which could be copied by spain and portugal. And the crucial thing that people should be watching right now is not just the actual numbers about the debt burden and the difficulties of repaying it. Its also whats happening politically. Inside greece today, the governments enjoying an approval rate of 75 . Thats frarkly probably higher than anywhere else in the western world right now, because greek population are just fed up with the austerity measures. But inside germany, Angela Merkel is enjoying strong Popular Support because the germans are fed up with the greeks and that really is a big problem. If greek is this popular, the new Prime Minister is popular for pushing back against the eurozone hes not going to be motivated to compromise any further. 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Joining me now for our daily fix, managing editor of postpolitics. Com and molly ball Political Writer at the atlantic. The policy he laid out and the Foreign Policy advisers that he has identified what does that tell you about how he is going to challenge Hillary Clinton and also not be disloyal to his family name but try to identify his own Foreign Policy. Well i think hes going for a post Obama PresidencyForeign Policy. I think the excerpts weve seen are against the way in which obama has positioned us in the world, he made promises and hasnt kept them. That said look an Advisory Committee is just that. These are not promises these people will serve in the administration if jeb bush gets elected but paul wolfowitz, john negroponte, many high profile people his fathers and more importantly his brothers administration, many of which are quite controversial, i wrote a piece saying jeb bush cant have his cake and eat it too. You cant benefit from the last name being bush fundraising placed in the race part of republican royalty but also not have the issues hell have when you name an Advisory Group like this that includes many people from your father and your brothers administrations that a lot of the country may not agree with their vision for the countrys future. Does include james baker, who was notably absent from his brothers advisory informal Kitchen Cabinet on the decisions to go into iraq and that is a significant difference with the former secretary of state. One of the excerpts an important excerpt from the speech hes about to give reads i also have been lucky to have a father and a brother who both have shaped americas Foreign Policy from the oval office. I recognize that as a result my views will often be held up in comparison to theirs sometimes in contrast to theirs. I love my father and my brother. I admire their service to the nation and the difficult decisions they had to make but i am my own man and my views are shaped by my own thinking and my own experiences. Molly ball Chris Cillizza says he cant have it both ways. He says i am my own man. Hes got to lay something out. Jeb will come under pressure to start putting specifics behind the big symbolic statements hes making. So far weve had the, weve got to talk about what were for, not just what were against, speech, that didnt lay out much of what he was actually for. Weve had the weve got to talk about poverty in a way that broadens the appeal of the Republican Party speech that then didnt actually have a lot of specifics about how he would address it and in this speech based on the excerpts were seeing theres this claim that i am my own man without a lot to back it up without a lot that distinguishes him from the policies of his father or his brother and so you know hes going to have to back up the symbolic statements but i give jeb some credit for the assertive way that he is defining himself. We dont see hillary making these sorts of even symbolic statements saying this is who i am. This is what im about, and sort of giving people a framework through which to view her as she does the sort of precandidate dance. Speaking of precandidate dancing the new quinnipiac poll of swing states with headtohead matchups showing her comfortable ahead in both colorado and iowa, a tie in virginia, a tie for democrat in virginia even with democratic friend Terry Mcauliffe as the governor. This is treacherous territory for both parties. Chris without announcing and because she hasnt announced she has some advantages. Absolutely and i think part of the reason she hasnt announced is because she has these advantages and they the clinton world, see no advantage in her getting into the race. They figure the less political she is viewed the better she tends to do which is true and there will be plenty of time for her to run. I think its interesting, andrea, what we said in 2008 in 2012 was this expansion of the Democratic Coalition into North Carolina although obama lost it narrowly in 2012 into virginia into some of the other states. The question is can Hillary Clinton do the same thing . She might run a little bit stronger than barack obama in lets say ohio although he carried the state twice. Can she expand the map in the way that he did . Some of that depends on who republicans nominate certainly. Its a broader question. The Obama Coalition does not equal the Democratic Coalition and does not equal the hillary coalition. What does her Coalition Look Like . Molly makes the right point. We dont know all that much because she doesnt say all that much at the moment. We know from Maggie Habermans reporting she met with Elizabeth Warren the one democrat who could help her reach the left branch of the party, the more progressive branch of the party. Clearly not running but an influencer, an influencer on Hillary Clintons positions going forward. I want to take a moment before we go though to ask you about this president before we move on to 2016. Weve got the immigration battle and the fact that molly, the president , because of this federal court ruling s not going to be taking applications for deferrals so hes got to put his executive action on hold while they challenge it in court. Thats right. Although the administration has said that they plan to appeal the ruling and so they seem to be focusing theirerts there but the injunction is going to prevent time with the implementation schedule previously planned and also scrambling the equation over the fight over dhs funding in congress where some republicans are saying this lets us off the hook. We can fund dhs because they cant put this thing we object to into practice anyway. Its scrambled all of the sides of the immigration debate. That would be a huge relief for jeh johnson at the counterterrorism summit today, chris, was arguing again for his appropriation, which at the end of february creates huge problems within his agency. So i think republican leaders, i think, are looking for a way out at this point, an dree with with mcconnell and boehner at odds over who should go first and how it should happen. This could give them in a very weird way a way out of that funding fight to your point saying well, look its not going into effect so what different does it make . Lets give dhs the money. The problem is at some point the legal wrangling will get sorted out. If it goes forward in terms of president obamas executive order, then theyre right back at square one with conservative activists. It may be a temporary reprieve but its just temporary. Just temporary, including this segment. Thank you Chris Cillizza and molly ball as always. And today in texas in the american sniper murder trial, eddie ray ralphs defense team will have a first full day to present their defense, their argument ralph was criminally insane and therefore not guilty when he killed chris kyle and chad littlefield. Charles, what happened so far today . Reporter well today on the stand was ralphs brother, alora, at home that ralph came over driving chris kyles truck and she asked ralph where he got the truck and he said that he had traded his soul for a new truck. She said the man that came to her house that day was not her brother, that he was out of his mind, and not talking normally. He was saying such things as pigs are eating at my soul and is the world freezing over . Do you feel it . Saying bizarre things like that. She knew something was wrong, and she asked more about what happened to him that day and he said that he killed two men that he traded his soul for a pickup truck. She said you need to call the police. Eddie ralph said i need to leave and at that point, he left. But before he left she said i love you, and she said he turned and looked at her, and she recognized that that was the brother she knew but when she continued the sentence and said but i hate your demons he look instantly changed again and he left. She called 911 and even drove to the Police Station for fear that man would come back to her house that day. Andrea . Charles hadlock in texas, thank you very much. Before we leave, a quick look at jeb bush at the podium at the chicago Global Affairs council. Nuclear enrichment now it seeks merely to regulate it. Prevention of Nuclear Weapons in iran was once a unifying issue in american Foreign Policy. Leaders of both parties agreed to it. When he launched his negotiations, president obama said that that was the goal stop Irans Nuclear program. Now were told the goal has changed and the point of these negotiations is to solve the problem is to manage it. Irans intent is clear. Its leaders have openly expressed a call for the annihilation of the state of israel. This is an existential threat to israel and to the world including the United States. We can face largescale proliferation issues throughout the region if iran has the ability to launch a nuclear weapon. Irans neighbors will want their own Nuclear Capability because of this existential threat. No wonder some democrats in congress have lost confidence in this administrations efforts as it relates to iran. Congress should jeb bush and his Foreign Policy speech taking a hard line against the president s negotiations with iran, and siding with israel a sharp critic of course of those negotiations. Thank you for being with us. That does it for this edition of Andrea Mitchell reports and tomorrow, robert ford former u. S. Ambassador to syria. Follow us online on facebook and twitter mitchellreports. What the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. 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