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No probable cause exist to file any charge against officer wilson and return a no true bill on each of the five indictments. As soon as mr. Mcculloch announced the victim the officer started to take rocks and batteries. I heard 150 shots fired. [ gunshot ] we are a nation built on the rule of law. We need to accept that this decision was the grand jurys to make. There are americans who agree with it and americans who are deeply disappointed even angry. I join michaels parents in asking anyone who protests this decision to do so peacefully. [ gunshot ] our community has got to take some responsibility for what happened tonight. We talk about peaceful protests and that did not happen tonight. Welcome to morning joe. Tuesday november 25th, a lot to cover today with us on set. Mike barnacle. Information Communications Director for president george w. Bush nicole wallace. And associate professor at Columbia University school of international and Public Affairs Dorian Warren and associate editor of the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. The headlines today very clear. No charges on the front page of usa today. The New York Post streets of rage. From the daily news, americale holds its breath. From the New York Times, grand jury chooses not to indict officer. And wall street journal officer not charged in killing. Theres so much to talk about. Unfortunately, i think the first thing that we would, i would at least want to know is why the hell, why the hell did they release this information the way they did. Why did they have this build up, this slow crescendo, this slow crescendo to say well be announcing at 9 00. Most people knew how this was going to come down. Just given sort of what local authorities have been suggesting before and all the calls for calm. And then to announce i want at 9 00 at night. The time lapse was mystifying. Mindboggling a community and state that so mishandled this case from the very beginning continued to mishandle it at the very end. And the results, gene robinson, very predictable. They were horrible results. The Washington Post talking about at least two police cars and half a dozen buildings were set aflame. People looted liquor and convenience stores. The missouri authorities, president obama and browns family had requested, while the president was making his request on a split screen while the riots were going on. People are responsible for their own actions and it was horrific the actions that were engaged in but i cant believe that the officials in missouri couldnt have done a better job after botching this case and lets face it, botching the way Fergusons Police Department was run for so many years. Yeah. This was totally foreseeable. And, you know, look i hate conspiracy theories. I spent a lot of time telling people how dumb their conspiracy theories are. But if you wanted to, you know, if you knew you were going to announce it and you wanted to shift attention to the reaction away from the decision itself, well i guess this would be a way to do it. This would certainly be a, you know, an awful way to do it. But why in the world do you announce this thing at 9 00 at night . I just dont ill never understand that. Especially when the decision apparently was ready at 2 00 p. M. Or Something Like that. 2 00 in the afternoon. You have been doing the Police Officers a favor, the black owned Small Businesses that were torched last night. You would have done the family a favor. People who went out to protest peacefully and you would be doing them a favor. If you were going to go out and protest peacefully you would do it at 3 00 in the afternoon. You would not do it given thirst of hats been going on since august at 9 00 at night. Willie geist why dont we get everybody caught up in case they are just waking up right now to exactly what happened last night not just in ferguson but across america. This continued deep into the night. Lets get right to it. Unrest broke out moments after the county prosecutor announced grand jury verdict did not indict officer Darren Wilson. Thats the Police Officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager in august. This is one of the results of the protests, at least a dozen businesses in ferguson going up in flames including a drugstore and a pizza restaurant. Protesters also set fire to numerous vehicles including at least two police cars. Other Police Vehicles damaged after being vandalized. Some demonstrators smashed windows. There was some gunfire as you heard earlier and looting was reported at several stores in the area. President obama addressed the country last night urging demonstrators to show restrain but as joe just said it was a remarkable split screen. His speech came just as the violence began to unfold creating some pretty surreal images on tv. Lets look at this. Do you think somebody at the white house might have figured this out. Ill ask nicole, do you think somebody at the white house might have figured this out that maybe the speech should have been before the announcement so you dont have that split screen right now going last night . The speech couldnt before the announcement because he had to react to the announcement and theres nothing the white house can do how the Cable Networks will handle it. They all used the split screen. It was horrendously since people knew seemed to know what was coming down. Seemed like everybody was tipping their hand at 2 00 in the afternoon. Im curious if you wouldnt have a peremptory speech, nicole wallace. I thought he should have gone there. I think the most brilliant speech of his presidency was his speech on race. I think that the words he used last night were perfectly crafted. They were not written and handed to him by some speech writer. I think they came from his heart. I think that the white house staring at a bunch of bad options. Im impressed they went ahead. They didnt cut him short. They were watching that too. They were watching this. They knew what was happening. It was important enough for them. I actually think the fact that he stood in the briefing room, he gave his remarks, he took questions because i had a moment where i thought, you know, hes going to rush out of there. He didnt. I actually think as the days go on it will endure as a powerful message that he delivered and i hope he keeps it up. I hope he does visit ferguson in the coming days. It was one of his better moments and he spoke clearly for the last ten minutes. That was the best part of the speech. It gets back to your original question that you pose, though. Why they wait seven, eight hours for a crowd to gather on the streets, give the crowd eight hours to gather and to get ready when they had so many options. They could have delayed this announcement until tomorrow afternoon, the eve of thanksgiving at about 4 00 in the afternoon. They could have done anything. The thing is they tipped their hat i had no where over the weekend. I still thought over the weekend the Police Officer would be indicted. When they started when officials started coming out early urging calm, urging calm, urging calm, you knew how this movie would end. We all knew. What also infuriated people watching the press conference from mcculloch. The 25 minutes of explanation as to why no indictment. He looked like a defense attorney in that moment and not a prosecutor. If theres that much to explain then why not take it to trial, right . So i think it was the long press conference that really infuriated people of the explanation, the detail, you know, talking about contradictory witness testimony all of that stuff infuriated people even more so. Gene robinson you brought up a good point in way too early. You look at the evidence and the evidence looks like theres not a jury, theres not a jury in missouri that probably would convict this Police Officer if you look at all the evidence. That said, you usually take care of that in trials where you are in grand juries you are actually youre the prosecutor. You are doing Michael Browns bidding. Not doing justices bidding as far as with a blindfold. Youre not the defense attorney and the prosecutor. Youre looking if theres probable cause to possibly convict this Police Officer, that didnt happen from the very beginning. For whatever reason. Youre there to represent the victim and society. Youre the prosecutor. Youre not there to represent the defendant. And the standard is, as you said, is probable cause. Its not reasonable doubt. Low, low standard. Very low standard. And do you not have probable cause when you have, you know, an unarmed young man who is shot multiple times by a Police Officer, you saw the photos of officer wilson and despite those early reports about a broken eye subjective. He had a contusion. I read the medical report to go home and take aleve. That was the extent of his treatment that night. So, all that leads to probable cause. To believe a crime was committed. Again, what i said at first looking at all this evidence, youre not going i just dont think youre going to find evidence to convict this officer. But thats not the stage were at. Were at a much different stage and, willie, that obviously will cause some concerns i think with legal scholars moving forward. Dont you know as an attorney an indictment hearing you just give a loose sketch of the evidence that you have to get probable cause. Its unclear to me how it took months and months. Clearly the prosecutor laid out every detail of the case. 25 hours of testimony. They heard 60 witnesses. But what im curious about now there are two federal investigations, one into the case, and one into whether or not there was a pattern of civil rights abuses by the ferguson Police Department. But i feel like the signal is coming out of the doj and the stories read obviously from sources are that they dont look likely to find him culpable either. They are not going to. Why . Because the standard is so much higher. At this level again, were talking about the standard, mike, and hell, you know this. All the years you were a reporter. This standard is so low when youre looking at a grand jury situation. This is the lowest bar. This was the lowest bar. You start going to the federal, where a doj is bringing a federal case the bar is so much higher. Without this those cases last week look at it independently. The standard is so much higher. Bluntly if you look at the evidence, the evidence does seem to support the officer. That said im talking about at the end of the day. That said though, mike thats not what these type of hearings are about. Thats not hat grand juries are about. We think this is a bad guy. Look at the evidence we have against this guy. Look what he did to shareholders. I want to take him to trial. The grand jury goes okay thats basically it. Last week i spoke to a prosecutor a friend of mine who has done hundreds of grand juries and we should point out that the grand jury is 12 jurors seated at a picnic table not a jury box. These are ferguson residents, people of ferguson. You got 12 jurors selected. They have been sitting there for four, five months. This was a case referred to them. You got the prosecutor in the room and you got witnesses who come in and testify. The prosecutor does the questioning. The five counts that perhaps could have been leveled for an indictment against, against the Police Officer here, at a minimum, at a minimum the prosecutor that i spoke to said i would bet you a lot of money that they will end up with Involuntary Manslaughter. At least one. Based on what they have. Based on the evidence. A lot of people say why would do you that as im saying the evidence we look at shows a jury will not be able to convict him because any lawyer will tell you you never know what happens when you walk through that door. There have been a lot of cases that ive seen great lawyers handle that started, they said this looks like a losing case and then you take a deposition, you get some evidence, you start pulling on a string and suddenly the entire new truth is revealed. Maybe that wouldnt happen here. Maybe it would. Were not going to find out. The range of options as mike said, first degree murder. Required some premeditation. Involuntary manslaughter some people thought would have come up. Lets talk about this grand jury. Seven men, fire women, three africanamericans, nine whites on that grand jury. County prosecutor Robert Mcculloch said the vote will remain anonymous. He said reliable eyewitnesses testified that Michael Brown charged at officer wilson before he was shot. Mcculloch says there were multiple witnesses who either changed their stories or gave conflicting accounts. He also said three autopsies contradicted witnesses who claimed they saw brown shot in the back. Im ever mindful this decision will not be accepted by some and may cause disappointment for others. But all decisions in the criminal Justice System must be determined by the physical and Scientific Evidence and the credible testimony corroborated by that evidence. Not in response to public outcry or for political expediency. Mcculloch didnt mention in his statement that brown was unarmed when he was shot however he did single out the media saying they contributed to unrest after the shooting initially. These are photos of officer wilson after his altercation with brown. Wilson testified brown first hit him when he approached the teen about a robbery. The officer said he warned brown he would shoot if brown did not get back at which time brown grabbed at wilsons gun and twisted it around. Wilson says brown looked like a demon during their altercation. This is all from the testimony to the grand jury and that he drew his gun out of fear, another punch would knock him out. Officer wilson added when he grabbed the teenager who is 64 he said quote i felt like a 5yearold holding on to hulk hogan. After the grand Jury Announcement wilsons attorneys released a statement which read in part Law Enforcement personnel must frankly make split second and difficult dess. Officer wilson followed his training and followed the law. Michael browns mother cried and screamed when she learned officer wilson would not be indicted. In a statement the brown family said in part were profoundly disappointed that the killer of our child will not face the consequences of his actions. Join with us in our campaign to ensure that every Police Officer working the streets in this country wear as body camera. We respectfully ask that you please keep your protests peaceful. Answering violence with violence is not the appropriate reaction. The brown family conducting itself with incredible grease and their request was not met in ferguson last night. What sounds to me like a perfectly reasonable request. And position to take. Body cameras would have told us a lot more about what happened. We wouldnt have to have this duelling, conflicting testimony. We would have a record of this encounter. And, you know, i guess some officers at least in ferguson are now wearing cameras. I wish that were much more widespread. No doubt about it. Thats hopefully that is one thing that can come out of this tragedy. I dont really understand why, mike, there wouldnt be body cameras on cops. I want helps the cops. It helps the good cops. It helps citizens as ive said repeatedly only people that dont want that are bad cops. They do bad things. Use their position of authority to push people around. At times to hurt them and at times to kill them. And we need every cop in america to have a camera on them. Commissioner bratton said that when he was here after the protest, nypd is the largest Police Department in the country that they are looking at it and its a cost issue for a lot of Police Departments but youre absolutely right the only people who can oppose it are the ones who dont want everyone to see. Every profession, gene, has bad actors. I think for the most part Law Enforcement officers do a great job and i commend them forgoing out and putting their lives on the line every night. I think its in their best interest that the two, three, four, five percent of people in uniforms that act like punks from time to time have cameras. If they do that 5 will become 0 really quickly. Its in the interest of all good cops and not in the interest of the bad cops. So there ought to be cameras. One thing we ought to mention is that there were protests last night, peaceful protests in cities around the country. Including here in washington, in los angeles, in new york. There was a big protest. So, you know, this became a National Issue and nationally there was, there was a big response, and for the most part in its vast majority and appropriate response to what frankly most people see as a miscarriage of justice and, you know, well have to go forward from here. Its a bad place to start from but we have to go forward from here and see what good can come out of this awful and i think unnecessary tragedy. All right. There you see pictures of a march in front of the white house. There were marches, of course, throughout new york city including right outside our newsroom on sixth avenue, in oakland, seattle, los angeles and chicago, across america. Well have much more of this ahead on morning joe. Events coming out of ferguson, missouri also ahead. Who says the Obama Administration cant create jobs. The story behind defense secretary position thats now open in his administration and the parallels between george w. Bush and barack obama frightening. Frightening. Both of them firing the secretary of defense after a second term thumping. Plus some nice moments from yesterdays medal of freedom ceremony including the president getting star struck. Lebron james speaks out for the first time about the Cleveland Cavs very slow start this season. Willie, i dont get it. They will pull it together. They will be in the finals. You know they will. Well be back. [ male announcer ] are you so stuffed up, you feel like youre underwater . Try zyrtecd® to powerfully clear your blocked nose and relieve your other allergy symptoms. So you can breathe easier all day. Zyrtecd®. Find it at the pharmacy counter. Motor trends 2015 thcar of the year. F was just named so was the 100 electric egolf, and the 45 highway mpg tdi clean diesel. And last but not least, the High Performance gti. Looks like were gonna need a bigger podium. The Volkswagen Golf family. Motor trends 2015 cars of the year. Time to take a look at the morning papers. Willie why dont we start in des moines. Des moines register. The iowa man arrested outside of the white house last week with a rival, ammunition and a knife in his car has pleaded guilty to misdeamnor charges. He faces up to two years of prison when sentenced in january. He was ordered to be held without bond. Democratic National Committee announced three cities still in the running to host the partys 2016 convention. They are new york. Good spot. Philadelphia. Really . One of the best conventions ive ever been. Everybody groaned in 2000. It was a blast. Incredible city. And columbus, i got relatives there. Thats good too. Three for three. Pennsylvania and ohio could be critical swing states in the next president ial election. Republicans think that pennsylvania would be a critical swing state but it never is. Its fools gold as ive been saying for a couple of decades now. They will spend a lot of money in august, september and by midoctober they will slouch out there and do the walk of shame. Dnc may move its Convention Week up from august to midjuly. Thank you for trying to ruin my july. I wont let you do it. He wont thereabout. New york post, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo said weather forecasters are to blame as criticism mounts. Governor cuomo said they were unaware it would snow that hard in a short amount of time. The governor seemed to take a page from mayor bill de blasios book who blamed the city on failing to shut the school. Every meteorologist will tell you this was predicted. Bill karins. Ignore bill karins. Al roker, anybody will tell you they saw this coming. Yeah, bill. Only said five feet. He said we only said five feet not seven. Well let nicole i get to do one. Leaving miami. I need that. We want you to read this. I can do it . Is it snaen usa today before monday nights game against the Orlando Magic lebron james delivered a blunt assessment of his play so far this season. I stink he said. Im not doing my volleyball. I love him even more. The cavs were on a four game losing streak heading in to last nights week but james bounced back scoring 29 points and leading cleveland to their sixth win of the season. We all know they are going to end up like in the finals. Yeah. Theres 70 games left. Turn on your tv memorial day and youll get a good sense on whether the cavs well be talking about moving the Republican Convention up. The new york daily news, meryl streep, Stevie Wonder and tom brokaw were among the recipients of the medal of honor. Its the highest civilian honor for those who give service to arts, science and politics. Thle kennedy was also among the honores. The president professed his love for meryl streep. I love meryl streep. I love her. Her husband knows i love her. Michele knows i love her. Theres nothing either can do about it. Who doesnt love meryl streep. I love that. The president s love these ceremonies. Their own heroes and idols. Tell us about george w. Bush. Mohamed ali. He talked about it for days and weeks. One of the high lights of his presidency. Tom brokaw. Incredible honor. Fantastic. All right. Coming up what todays editorial writer pages are saying about what happened in ferguson last night. Our must read opinion pages straight ahead. 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Time now for the most read op ed. This from the Washington Post, chuck hagels departure, president obama is turning into george w. Bush, something george w. Bush nor barack obama would appreciate. President obama is morphing under into the president whose Foreign Policy he campaigned to overturn. As with bush the ouster comes as the war in the middle east is going badly. Rumsfield outer led to the surge in iraq. Hagels departure marks an expanded role in iraq and syria. Obama will lead a successor in ongoing war in the mid east quite possibly the sort of ground war that obama vowed to undo. You never really do, do you, nicole, whats going to happen when you go into the white house is this i think whats clear from all the coverage of the hagel resignation or firing, what ever were calling it this morning is that Foreign Policy is run out of the west wing of the white house. That hagel was never in the loop. That was not thats where the parallel ends. That have not the case, rumsfield was very powerful. And that he never really had the you would never guess. For better and for worse. Believe me. But he was never very well liked. I remember being on a show when they were appointing him and he a disastrous confirmation party. I think gates was so good. Gates was the sort of the antirumsfield. Really a technocrat to have command and control of the military and have the president s ear and make alliances within the cabinet. Hagel was the polar opposite. Mike, this got ugly pretty quickly with the white house leaking immediately that hagel wasnt up to the job and hagels people leaking immediately that the white house was micromanaging too much. Having nothing to do with clearly the fact that chuck hagel was never on message or in sync with the west wing of the white house. Its fascinating. Neither he nor joint staff of chiefs are in sync. You have this public squabble which is bizarre. A public squabble to my smind horrific indictment of how truly sick washington, d. C. Is and how truly filled with a lot of cowards this administration is with all of these unnamed sources, criticizing chuck hagel no matter what you think of his job performance who served in vietnam, who served in the United States senate. Who took this job that he really wasnt looking for. Now they are sniping at him without names a Senior Administration source who didnt want to be named because of whatever, just outrageous. It is a dysfunctional, dysfunctional Foreign Policy team in the white house when you have, again, you have the chairman of the joint chiefs, the secretary of defense, others going out making statements that the president then shoots down in press conferences. And i remember talking to reporters saying no, no that press conference that wasnt aimed at the American People that was aimed at members of his own administration. Bizarre. Lets go to gene robinson. He writes this in the the Washington Post. Chuck hagels replacement must be cautious. Surprise to see president obama fire somebody. But i have to worry that defense secretary chuck hagels forced departure may signal further expansion of u. S. Military involvement in iraq and syria. Hagels public statements may have been all over the map, but he has a demonstrated aversion to deploying u. S. Combat troops without a clear mission. Its hard to see how the United States avoid becoming mired not in iraqs seccian struggles but in syrias apocalyptic civil war. Gene, in most cases if you have somebody working for you who believe war is hell, hire somebody who has fought in a war. Theres one or two exceptions. But in most cases, thats what chuck hagel brought to the job a skepticism you should shoot first and ask questions later. In his public statements he was all over the map on isis. At times he went beyond where president obama was willing to go. Other times you saw that sort of inate caution come through, that caution born of his service in vietnam and his realization that sending u. S. Troops into combat is not something to be done lightly. And so my question just looking at the resignation and coming switch what does this mean for our policy in iraq and syria for this new intervention that seems to be proceeding full steam ahead towards what, i dont quite understand. I dont quite know how this, how this develops and how this possibly ends when you get in the middle of syrias civil war. You approach this with all due caution because you dont see a lot of light at the end of this tunnel that were going into. Its pretty remarkable when you think two years ago when hagel came in the president was thinking of unwinding two wars. Now were sending 3,000 troops back in iraq. New york times reports over the weekend more troops going to afghanistan. These wars are ramping up, may not be the right term but were not leaving. Its definitely radical departure from the stance that the president came into office with in terms of disengaging from wars and from conflicts. This is the opposite, right . As you put it were ramping up. In fact the firing of hagel will not change that. Its not going signal a huge shift in Foreign Policy. The administration is still confused at best in trying to figure out what its next policy agenda is in terms of the rest of the world. They are going to have to get a lot more engaged. They just are. Whether the president wants to or not. Thats not coming from what i personally want to do. They have to get a lot more engaged. They are halfway in a battle with an organization thats fully, fully in, all in. One of the big stories, largely uncovered because its tough to cover in a certain sense is the lack of communication between the pentagon and the white house. Yeah. Remarkable. If you want if you want to find people who are truly cautious, truly conservative about any approach to the middle east go the pentagon. Go the pentagon. No doubt. You would love to see the president actually get somebody in there thats strong. I mean maybe it sounds a lot of warning bells but a guy like David Petraeus who has actually done this before and took the fight to the training and Counter Insurgency strategy. He wrote it. Anwar province and actually made a difference. Gene, well let you quickly respond with something more than your al gore like sigh. Im talking about somebody who is Strong Enough to come to the white house mr. President if you want to win this is how you win. If you dont want to win then lets get them all out of here. This middle ground is going to do nothing but get some americans killed and further tarnish our reputation. Im in favor of getting out of the middle ground. I wont argue against that. Yeah. In fact if somebody has a bright idea if somebody has got an idea of how you turn the iraqi army into a fighting machine that can defeat isis and how you find these elusive moderate rebels in syria who are going to defeat Islamic State but cant be found, you know, if somebody can do that then great. Lets hear a plan that makes some sense and then go do it. But do you see this working the way its going now . No. I think this is an absolute disaster but its because the president is inching his way in. Hes leading from behind. There needs somebody there to go in and say if this is feasible and im hearing more and more Foreign Policy people telling me my idea is not crazy, arm the kurds to the teeth. Do whatever it takes. Figure out a strategy for the kurds to take over the northern part of iraq. That short area. You protect it. You nail it down. You got it. Turkey is not helping us. Syria is a nightmare. Isis is running through the middle. So go ahead kurds take care of that and then have us go back to anbar province. Hes done it once. Have him do it again. If you do those two things alone, gene, you cut isis off at the neck. If you do those two things then they can still fight, let them fight assad in syria. They wont be able to move in iraq if you do those two things. But that takes a lot of courage. That takes staring down the turks, that takes staring down a lot of other people. We have richard haas coming up. Joe, just recall when David Petraeus worked his magic the last time he had 100,000 or so u. S. Troops backing him up. So its quite a bit different there. You know what else he had too . He was able we cant have troops in. You know what else he . He could go to people in anwar province and say were going to give you money. Were going to give you weapons bp more importantly you dont have to worry about crazy shia from baghdad coming out and killing you. They do have to bother that now. They do. Youre exactly right. Thats what they are going to have to figure out. If we have to partition iraq well have to partition. Not us. But the iraqies international community. This is not work. Coming up next well bring in richard haas to talk about this more and tell us all why im so wrong straight ahead. Its more than the driver. Its more than the car. For lotus f1 team, the Competitive Edge is the cloud. Powered by microsoft dynamics, azure, and office 365, the team can gain Real Time Insights and instantly share information around the globe. When every millisecond counts, staying competitive begins with the cloud. This is the microsoft cloud. How couin jellyfish, protein impact Life Expectancy in the u. S. , real estate in hong kong, and the optics industry in germany . At t. Rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex, global economy. Its just one reason over 70 of our mutual funds beat their 10year lipper average. T. Rowe price. Invest with confidence. Request a prospectus or summary prospectus with investment information, risks, fees and expenses to read and consider carefully before investing. Ring ring . Progresso its ok that your soup tastes like my homemade. Its our slow simmered vegetables and tender white meat chicken. Apology accepted. Im watching you soup people. Make it progresso or make it yourself iraqi. Yirky. Ira when i nominated you for this position you said you would always give me your honest advice and informed counsel. You have. When its mattered most behind closed doors in the oval office youve always given to it me straight and for that im grateful. With us now we have richard haas and nbc news chief pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski. Good days between the pentagon and the white house. Just how irrelevant just how irrelevant, im serious, how irrelevant to leaders at the pentagon feel lately under this administration . Reporter well, you know, it was interesting that quite frankly, look, chuck hagel is a greet guy but from the very ginger never seemed to be the right fit but hes exactly what the white house wanted at the time. Somebody who could oversee the final withdrawal of american troops from iraq and take care of the nuts and bolts budget, the nitty gritty domestic stuff that the pentagon often has to deal with. But nobody anticipated the chemical weapons standoff with syria, isis of course and even the white house is going to give the american troops left in iraq more leeway to actually continue the battle against the taliban. Its been the damnest thing. You got the chairman of the joint chiefs going on the hill constantly saying things a couple of steps ahead of where the president wants to be. I remember chuck hagel talking about isis being the greatest threat since 2001 and i was thinking i dont think the president wants that being said. It seems everybody at the pentagon, a couple of steps ahead of the white house. Is that because they feel the white house needs to get engaged in a more forceful way. Im not sure they need to get engaged in a horse forceful way but more realistic way to confront the challenges that many here in the military have seen for some time and richard haas will tell you that the military is all about planning well in advance so they are thinking in advance too. And i know im taking a real risk here but i have to challenge Mike Barnacle on the idea that theres no communication between the pentagon and the white house. There is. But its all one way. Its white house to the pentagon. And seriously when you get strong secretaries of defense like robert gates and leon panetta just over a week ago to both lambaste the micromanage they impose on the pentagon something is amiss. I was wondering if you think hagel will join this chorus of panetta and gates and frankly from former president jimmy carter who have been harshly critical of this house. Reporter i would be surprised. You know one of the things about hey fwel that people talk about here is what a gentleman he is. As a matter of fact, after one News Conference, that News Conference here at the pentagon where hagel, in fact, said look this is like nothing weve ever seen before. It was in response to my aggressive questioning to him and somebody came to me later and said, you know, jim, the secretary thinks you were a little rude. Wow. Reporter so he was sort of an en impenigma. Richard haas what does this decision by the white house tell you about the posture they are taking now. If chuck hagel wasnt the right guy for the moment what kind of guy is and what does that mean . Where are we going. It tells nothing. They will get somebody who they are comfortable with. Thats the most important criteria. They will get a known entity. They dont want to get somebody who will go out afterwards and write a difficult book. Thats so troubling. When rumsfield left, found ga t gates. Theres some talented people out there. Theres ash carter and others. The real challenge at the pentagon goes beyond what were talking about. You have the sequester in place. A growing gap of Resources Available and the challenges. Not just the middle east. You have a mini war going on in europe, in russia and ukraine. You have to strengthen nato. A pivot to asia. We have to increase air and naval presence out there. You got massive retirement, Massive Health care costs after two wars and its not adding up. You got this growing crisis and sequester kicks in, new set of cuts next october. Thats what the joint chiefs is about. Thats what the next secretary of defense is to be all about. Stay with us. We want to ask you about our three step plan to blow iraq completely apart. Jim thank you for being with us. 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Surrounding surrounding surrounds surrounds surrounds surrounded surrounded surroun no probable cause exist to file any charge against officer wilson and return a no true bill on each of the five indictments. As soon as more mcculloch announced the verdict the officers started to take rocks and batteries. I personally heard 150 shots fired. [ gunshot ] we are a nation built on the rule of law. We need to accept that this decision was the grand jurys to make. There are americans who agree with it. There are mens who are deeply disappointed and even angry. I join michaels parents in joining anyone who protests this decision does it peacefully. Our community has to take responsibility for what happened tonight. We talked about peaceful protests and that didnt happen tonight. Welcome back to morning joe. Eugene robinson is still here. With us to join the conversation cohost of msnbc the cycle. Lets go to the news and then talk about what exactly happened inside that grand jury room and also whats been happening across the country overnight. Lets talk about whats happening in ferguson right now. Violence did erupt in parts of ferguson last night. The unrest breaking out moments after the county prosecutor announced a grand jury did not indict Darren Wilson. The white Police Officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen back in august. This is one of the results of the protests at least a dozen businesses going up in flames including a drugstore and a pizza place. Protesters also set fire to numerous vehicles including at least two police cars. Other Police Vehicles were damaged after being vandalized. Some demonstrators smashed windows. There was gunfire and looting was reported at several stores in the area. President obama addressed the nation late last night urging demonstrators to show restraint. But as you can see there in that split screen his speech came as the violence began to unfold creating some pretty surreal images across tv last night. Police officers used smoke and tear gas to break up some of the protests. Officials say at least 29 protesters were arrested while no lives were lost police say the unrest will have a long term impact on the city of ferguson. Our community has got to take some responsibility for what happened tonight. For what happened tonight as far as tearing our community apart. This cannot happen. We talk about peaceful protests and that did not happen tonight. We definitely have done something here that is going to impact our community for a long time and impact our region. That is not how we create change. Change is created through our voice and not through destruction of our community. Yeah. Gene robinson, obviously a lot of concern about what happened last night. The Washington Post talking about the looting of locally owned liquor stores, convenience stores, a lot of black businesses actually burned to the ground. But at the same time we were talking an hour ago about officials and just the decisions that they made on when to release this information. Really curious. You said youre not a conspiracy theorist but if you were if i was you can put together a pretty good conspiracy theory. Right. You could say that the prosecutor knew there would be no indictment because he wanted this to be no indictment and wanted to shift attention from the fact that there would be no charges to the reaction to the decision. And, therefore, you announce it at 9 00 at night after a day long build up in which you essentially invite people to be anxious and to get worked up. And thats what happened. Mike barnacle, you can almost say it was like a crescendo. I said over the weekend i still thought the Police Officer without knowing any of the evidence, because im not in the grand jury room, but i just assumed that he would be charged. Yeah. But starting, mike, on yesterday morning when Police Officers started urging calm, one after another after another after another and close to the decision you could just see it was almost like a crescendo building up and at 9 00 at night boom they drop it. And it seemed like the officials had messed this up so often even at the end. Certainly mystifying they arrived, the grand jury has concluded their verdict. 1 00 in the afternoon we find out, 2 00 in the afternoon the grand jury has rendered a verdict and then basically six or seven hours inviting a crowd to have gathered, grow, assemble. Six or seven years. Mystifying why that decision was made last night and announced at 9 00 at night. Lets talk more about the grand jurys decision not to indict Darren Wilson. The grand jury was made up of seven men five women, three africanamericans and nine whites. This is a grand jury picked back in may before this incident took place, a sitting grand jury. The county prosecutor Robert Mcculloch said the vote will remain anonymous. He said reliable eyewitnesses testified brown charged at wilson before he was shot. Multiple witnesses changed their stories or gave conflicting accounts. Mcculloch said three autopsies contradicted witnesses who claim they saw brown shot in the back. Im ever mindful that this decision will not be accepted by some and may cause disappointment for others but all decisions in the criminal Justice System must be determined by the physical and Scientific Evidence and the credible testimony corroborated by that evidence. Not in response to public outcry or for political expediency. Mcculloch did not mention in his statement that Michael Brown was unarmed when he was shot. Mcculloch did single out the media, those saying it contributed to the unrest after the shooting in august. Now these are some of the photos released last night of officer wilson after his altercation with brown. Wilson testified that brown hit him when he first approached the teen about a robbery. Officer wilson says he warned brown he would shoot if he did not get back at which time brown grabbed at wilsons gun and twisted it around according to wilsons testimony. Wilson said brown looked like a demon during their altercation and he drew his gun out of fear that another punch could knock him out. Officer wilson added when he grabbed the 64 brown he said quote i felt like a 5yearold holding on to hulk hogan. Lets go to ari. Based on what you know from the evidence thats been released, did the grand jury come to the right decision . I dont know im in a position to answer that question at this time. Weve definitely not had time review all the evidence thats been released, which is unusual. Ill tell you a couple of things, joe. Number one its not necessarily unusual to see the wide latitude under state law applied for Police Officers to make decisions about using deadly force. And so to some degree theres a question here about whether those laws strike the right balance and thats an important defwit be had. Whats also unusual, though, as your guests and you have pointed out here is the timing of this decision. I will tell you both as a lawyer and now as a reporter who covers the law, i am hard pressed to think of any other grand Jury Announcement, indictment or no true bill or nonindictment that would be released in this way in the evening. Lets take a step back. Government business typically conducted during the day. These kind of announcements typically made fairly close to the vote itself because thats considered proper. Delaying too long is a heads up to family and local Law Enforcement, delaying too long is not seen as the normal proper course. Delaying into that late at night as your guests said is highly unusual and we at msnbc in our coverage have talked to several former u. S. Attorneys, several former prosecutors, were talking here about people who like this prosecutor work hand in goff with the ply and prosecute a lot of cases. Lot of folks tell us this is unusual in a suspicious way. I want to emphasize briefly thats a different point, those than whether these jurors ultimately reached the right decision. But thats a big question here looming today. Lets go to the ground now. Msnbcs craig melvin has been covering this case since august and hes now in ferguson for us. Also with us from atlanta, dr. Alexander who served as the Public Safety director in dekalb county, georgia. Craig, lets start with you. Whats happening there in ferguson this morning. What does it took like on the ground . Reporter on the ground right now, willie, relatively calm compared to what we saw last night. 29 people arrested so far. At least 12 businesses were set on fire. Parts of ferguson are still smoldering as i speak to you. In fact right behind me sams meat market, is one of the many businesses in the stipulate that was looted then set on fire. Dozens of businesses were looted. Heres the thing. A lot of the businesses that were looted in ferguson, Small Businesses, mom and pop shops and that of course despite pleas from Business Owners in the days leading up to what we saw. At the worst of the violence last night the faa actually issued a travel ban or travel restrictions over the area, flights could not fly over ferguson. Also planes were not being allowed to fly into st. Louis international airport. Those planes were being diverted. I was in front of the ferguson Police Department last night. Twla we saw tear gas, 20, 25 bottles hurled at officers who were in riot gear. We saw a number of police cars set on fire. Cars toppled and set on fire, in fact. Later this morning the parents of Michael Brown are expecting to hold a News Conference at 11 00 a. M. Where they will of course be responding to the decision from the grand jury yesterday but they are also expected to once again call for peace and calm in the city of ferguson. All right. Craig melvin on the ground in ferguson for us. Craig thanks so much. Lets go to dr. Alexander. I know youre not there watching this firsthand. Whats your impression of the way things went down last night. The ferguson Police Department, the community took great pains to work with the community to set up these protest sos that hopefully they could avoid what they saw last night. Well last night was just absolutely unfortunate in the turn of events that appear to have started off as peaceful protests but as you saw in a very short period of time just really turned into a real chaotic and very unfortunate scene. You know, i think were all sensitive to the fact that people in that community are angry, they are frustrated, theres a sense of disappointment, and there has been long standing separation between the police and local community. Chief alexander, let me ask you as a professional Law Enforcement person what was your feeling about the huge time involved in between when we knew the grand jury had acted at 2 00 in the afternoon and the idea that the announcement was not made until 9 00 that night. As a Law Enforcement professional, how does that affect you . What did you think about that . Well, i mean as youve heard so many, even you all this morning and other commentators have stated theres something very unusual about the way that they delivered that decision. And when you look at it in its entire context the fact that that is a community where people dont trust the d. A. soffice or they dont have much fate in the criminal justice. So when you have this announcement to be made the way that it was it continues to fuel that type of suspicion that something was awry. Thank you. Some other big news this morning, president obama will have to fine a new secretary of defense as chuck hagel announced his resignation. He announced the resignation while being pushed off a cliff. The reporter from New York Times said the president and hagel mutually agreed it was time to make a change. Both men spoke to reporters yesterday. Ive known him, admired him and trusted him for nearly a decade since i was a green behind the ears freshman senator and we were both on the Senate Foreign relations committee. Theres one thing i know about chuck is that he does not make this or any decision lightly. Its been the greatest privilege of my life. Greatest privilege of my life to lead and most important to serve, to serve with the men and women of the Defense Department and support their families. I am immensely proud of what weve accomplished during this time. While president obama and hagel are close on a personal level there are a number of reports that indicate a strained relationship between the former nebraska senator and the white house. New york times quotes a Senior Administration official who said wut the next couple of years will demand a different type of focus. However a Senior Defense official was more blunt. Nbc news saying hagel was forced to resign after the white house lost confidence in hagel. The official said hagel quote wasnt up to the job. Other reports say hagel was fed up with micromanagement from the white house. Hagel will remain in his current position until the president s new appointee can be confirmed. It happened sometime in early 2017. Mike barnacle more with weasel back biting, sniping at a vietnam vet and a guy who was pursued by the white house. Implying hes not up to the job. We get that. We get the lack of communication between chuck hagel and White House National security staff. Put your name on it. If youre going Say Something about the guy, put your name on it. He had a powerful defender in the Vice President and his sort of pack of allies in the senate. John mccain, lindsey graham, john kerry. The fact he had those powerful friends and still did him no good in the white house is interesting. Richard haas theres such a disconnect in the Foreign Policy apparatus between the white house and the pentagon as Jim Miklaszewski said theres communication between the white house and the preng, its all one way. Its not just the white house and the pentagon. Its the white house and the state department and the white house. I think the National Security process isnt working. Why not . Its meant to coordinate. Its not meant to do the daytoday carrying out of american Foreign Policy. This nsc is several times too big and too busy doing the jobs of other people around the u. S. Government rather than doing its own job. Its interesting the most successful nscs in american history, they are about one tenth, one ninth the size of this job. They were not taking the places of the pentagon or Defense Department. There was a news story to that point. The president have the hagel dismissal left to go address the National Security office, the members of the staff and the new story said he met with 400 people, 400 members of the National Security. Is that number accurate, do you think . If you include everybody, yes. Probably between 300 and 400. Includes Homeland Security types taking on other functions but it does represent a morphing of its role far from where it began. I think the next president ought to rethink this dramatically. Weve already figured out iraq how well handle isis. Well let the kurds take care of the north. Petraeus put lots of people. Lets talk about iran quickly. Deadline passed, obviously israel extremely concerned. What do we expect to see in the coming days and weeks. Restarting of talks. Like football analogies. Second overtime. Extra time here. Sec football. Okay. Seven months now. The goal is by march to come up with a general framework. Is that going to happen . Its quite possible, joe, that come next june well be in a place very similar to this one. Were still having fundamental disagreements how much can iran have in the way of capability, what kind of inspeckses, when do you have sanctions. Let me ask you, we had people from the administration saying that weve really got the iranians to back off and were in a safe Holding Pattern right now because the talks are going on. Do you buy that or not . Theres some progress on putting a ceiling on what they are doing. Highly enriched uranium is gone. How do we know that . Theres a greater amount of inspections. The question is can this hold . Im not so sure. You got the israelis extremely worried. You got congress thinking about introducing new sanctions. Should israel be extremely worried. Sure. But this is on a long list of thing. Should congress put in place tougher sanctions. I dont think at the moment it would be wise. These things break down. We want it by irans doing. Why do the iranians want to cooperate with us and why do we want to cooperate with the iranians. The iranians are feeling economic heat. With oil at 75, 80 a barrel this is not what they need. How bad is it for their economy . They estimate saudis are doing that. Namely america. We increased production by 4 Million Barrels a day over the last couple of years has had a tremendous impact plus world demand giving the slowing of the world economy. Its way down. A lot of democrats and republicans are privately saying to anyone who will listen are afraid obama will giveaway the farm and do a bad deal because he needs a Foreign Policy accomplishment desperately. How legitimate is that concern its out there as a possibility. You could have a bad deal. Do you think hes more likely to do a bad deal. The question is any deal you can negotiate how does that compare to no deal. Youll have an imperfect deal. You won get an iran with zero nuclear capability. You wont get 100 capability. You have to accept in any deal. You have to compare it against life without and do you want to go war against these guys or do you want to simply have a situation where without a deal they are free to do things, sanctions begin to break down. Well ultimately have to swallow hard and think about is the only deal we can negotiate better than no deal . Thats a grown up decision. In a sense it wasnt made now come next june thats back on the table. Richard thank you so much. Richard haas. Ari as well. 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But i join michaels parents in asking anyone who protests this decision to do so peacefully. President obama last night on grand jurys decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of Michael Brown. Gregory meeks is here and on capitol hill former special assistant to president obama joshua dubois. Congressman let me start with you. Good to see you again. Leapt me ask you, im sure youve thought about it an awful lot, new york, obviously, had a terrible incident that happened out on staten island. There were protests but peaceful protests. Very charged but very peaceful. Thats not happening in ferguson. Whats the difference . Whats the difference with ferguson right now and where new york and other communities are across the country . Number one theres a lot of vent up frustration in ferguson. Though no one, the president and thats particularly as mr. Brown has indicated, no one wants violence. Violence should not occur. A number of individuals that were out there last night, in fact, a number of protests that were nonviolent in ferguson. And across the country also. Thats correct. But i think that people are upset. This is a decision that folks do not understand. And theres questions in regards to this particular prosecutor. Im a former prosecutor do you have questions about the process . Yeah. I have questions in whether or not this prosecutor really wanted an indictment. I think thats year. Why do you say that . Generally when you take a case to the grand jury at the conclusion of the case the prosecutor asks for an indictment. From everything that ive gotten thus far from the transcripts this prosecutor never asked for an indictment. Youre only talking about generally when you take a case to the grand jury, giving the grand jury the issues so that you can show theres probably cause to believe theres a crime committed. So it seems as if the prosecutor went into the grand jury wanting an outcome and that outcome being a no true bill. Joshua weve been talking about the range of options that the grand jury had as they made their decisions, as it came out yesterday from first degree murder which is a tough one but even to Involuntary Manslaughter and again for the grand jury all they had to find was probably cause for Something Like that. Are you surprised then by the outcome . I am surprised and just deeply not only disappointed but really disconcerting feeling waking up in a country and a lot of black folks are waking up this morning feeling like maybe your life does not matter as much as someone elses. And whether you believe that thats the case or not thats something that should affect all of us as americans. The prosecutors tone last night was all wrong. It felt like Michael Brown was the suspect there and Darren Wilson was his defense client rather than the other way around. You also have a case where it was finally confirmed that browns body was 130 feet away from Darren Wilson. A lot of black folks are thinking this morning even if he was turning towards him, the fact is he was unarmed. Isnt there another way to handle that situation other than shooting this young man dead . So it really it feels like weve given license that when a person is intimidated by a black person in this country you can pull out your gun and shoot them and thats very disconcerting. Gene robinson, off of what was just said, you have children, grown children now. Talk about the inherent difficulty that white people in this country will just never get no matter how much we talk about it, about black parents raising children and having to tell them at a certain age to be aware of traffic stops, things like that. How many times have we talked about this, mike. You have to talk with your children, with your sons especially. You tell them, you know, be polite and keep your hands in sight and dont talk in an aggressive tone to Police Officers because it could be a matter of life and death and its just frustrating to have to bring this up again and again because these things keep happening, and as joshua said, you know, if youre a white person in this country and feel intimidated by a black person it seems that our system is saying, you know, shoot first and worry about consequences later. Let me jump in here, though, and im loathe to jump in here as a guy from the south who went to a Southern State school, but i do have to jump in here and say that the evidence before the grand jury did have Michael Brown going into the police car and swinging and hitting, et cetera, et cetera. I wasnt in the grand jury room, im not here defending not anything thats happened, im just putting that out there that this wasnt Trayvon Martin where hes walking along a residential neighborhood with skittles in his post and some guy because hes black hes going to confront him and Trayvon Martin ends up dead. Youre right this is different from that. If at the same time conflicting testimony about what actually happened and there was conflicting testimony about what actually happened, if that is prima facia evidence there shouldnt be even charges, then and let a jury decide then well have to let a whole lot of people out of jail being right . Its conflicting testimony. If i could add. I said in the 6 00 hour along with gene there are a lot of questions to be asked about how this entire grand jury was set up. It didnt go the way a lot of grand juries go. If i can jump in for a second. The other factor to consider now we have the pictures of officer Darren Wilson and weve gone from a situation where folks thought he was brutally assaulted to photos that show someone who looked like they came from a mild paint ballgame. This man, obviously, maybe he was in some sort of a tussle but the question is should that tussle have resulted in him pulling out a gun at 130 feet and dumping 12 bullets into someone. A lot of folks is wondering about that. Thats a question in most grand juries, if you didnt have the prosecutor playing defense attorney and prosecutor, congressman, thats something that would be heard in the court of law but were not going there because, again, this grand jury wasnt set up like most grand juries which is to indict. Thats why you have people upset all across this country because transparency didnt happen and it looks as though justice would not happen. And in what mr. Dubois was talking about earlier, the recent case here in new york because its happening all across the country where you have a young man shot in the stairwell and then you have the Police Commissioner say that was by accident when it was a kill shot that tells folks that if you are young and you happen to be africanamerican and male then your life is valueless. You were a prosecutor. Yes. Have you ever seen a grand jury go down like this where you actually had a prosecutor go in and play it as down the middle as he played it instead of doing what prosecutors do. We all know prosecutors they are aggressive they want to indict and then they want to convict and if they cant convict they want to get the best sentence they can get. Joe, i have never, ever, and what i did before coming on last night, figuring maybe i hadnt prosecuted a case in a long time i called a few of my friend who are prosecutors today and they said they have never ever seen a situation like this. No. All right. Thank you so much. We appreciate it, congressman. Always great to see you. Josh, thank you so much. We really appreciate you being here. Still ahead if republicans think they have a mandate after the sweeping midterm victory they want to see a new poll that just came out. Its ugly for both sides. Well be right back. Just take a closer look. It works how you want to work. With a Fidelity Investment professional. Or managing your investments on your own. Helping you find new ways to plan for retirement. And save on taxes where you can. So you can invest in the life that you want today. Tap into the full power of your fidelity greenline. Call or come in today for a free oneonone review. Its time to get to work are finally over, fixing our longterm National Debt to help build a stronger economy. With a solid fiscal foundation, we can create more jobs, invest more in innovation and infrastructure, and make america more competitive, giving our kids a better future. 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In fact, a new Bloomberg Politics anselm poll in the Granite State cautions republicans against overreach. 44 among general election voters say the gop shouldnt use its majority to carry out a new agenda come january. New hampshire voters are split on how president obama should respond. 46 want the president to give ground to republicans. 44 want him to stop them from going too far. Now overall 44 are more optimistic about the future while 28 are less optimistic. Nicole, what do republicans need to do over the next two years. Not to repeat the same mistakes in 194 and 2010. I was disheartened their response on the president s response to immigration. They dont care how you get things done they want you to find a way. I think republicans have to stop talking process, stop talk about shutdowns and executive orders and talk about governing, talk about the economy, talk about jobs, talk about immigration. They could call this president s bluff on immigration by taking up in the house the senate bill. If they pass comprehensive Immigration Reform out of the senate and house, you know then game on. That would be really exciting. But i dont see enough signs that they are going to, to embrace the policy challenges. The Senate Passed a bill bipartisan bill. Why doesnt the house pass their version of the bill. Paul ryan suggested doing it piecemeal. The problem not doing it, they said republicans are against comprehensive Immigration Reform. They are not. They havent figured out how to do it. Process is a huge loser for the party. They have to talk about policy. They have to offer suing begs and have to govern. They need to pass something through the house. Yes. If it doesnt have the majority of republican votes it doesnt have the majority of republican votes and everybody can go back to their districts and bitch and moan and say they ran over me, doggone it it will help them. Then president ial candidates that dont lose the hispanic vote. Im not talking about amnesty or citizenship not the way thats faster than somebody getting here from india. Comprehensive immigration bill. Unless republicans are going to come out and say we are going to import 11. 3 illegal immigrants. Probably closer to 17 million if you add people on overextended visa. Its a lie. Its a lie to suggest were going to be tough and you can only deport 400,000 illegal immigrant as year when theres like you said maybe even closer to 17 million. They have to do something. Its a critical juncture for the republican party. The long term significance of their decision to complain and not pass any Immigration Reform legislation it could lock in latino voters for the opposition party. A shut down is a loser. Just pass a bill. A flurry of lawsuits. The Supreme Court will the Supreme Court will take this up. 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We have 28 Small Businesses around the country. And they really create the local culture in a community. This is where you can get your Favorite Local craft beer. This is where you can get your favorite gift in a super boutique thats really unusual versus going in the mall. Malls are nice. This is where you get unique gifts for your family. We have something coming up on friday, the day after thanksgiving. Im not going to say it. Black friday. But you want to follow it. You guys have been doing this for a while. You want to follow it up on saturday with people going and supporting local small Business Owners. Thats exactly right. Small businesses are creating two out of three net new jobs in america. And they employ half of the private workforce. This is the Group Driving our economy, and there are 28 Small Businesses and they create local jobs. They treat their employees like family. They are turning the dollar more in a local community. Why not shop small and dine small on november 29th . Agree completely. Lets go to what you said a little bit. They say Small Business is the yob creator of america. Thats not true. New business is the job creator. By definition new businesses tend to start small. Most Small Businesses dont grow in size. How do we get more people to start their own business . Thank you for that question. That was my leading question. That was a terrible question. Zblf the sba has three programs that we do to help businesses start and grow. Every business tells us they need counseling. They want to know how to grow their plan, make sure their marketing plan is targeting the right tarkt. And you know what, theyre. Then we have contracting opportunities. The u. S. Government is the largest procurer in the world. The spa directs 23 of that spent to Small Business and finally they want access to capital. And so what they say is how do we get access to capital . The spa provides a government guarantee at their local bank to help them get to u. S. So whats the degree of difficulty in the last aspect of it . Given the restrictions, its become increasingly difficult for people, Small Businesses to get loans. Whats the story there . So what the sba does is provides us a guarantee. Some people have a rich uncle and we have uncle sam who stands as a guarantor. And we zeroed out fees on loans under 150,000. Some of it is costs. And then the other things the bank say is its hard to navigate through the paperwork that the sba requires us to do. So were now putting in smart system to deploy the al gmath so what do you recommend for Small Businesses caught in the cross fire . Obviously, northwest florida. I saw that come in for a lot of people who lost their homes in hurricanes. What about in cases like this . Yeah, so i mentioned the three cs. The counseling, the capital and the contracting opportunities. We also have a d, which is when we see theres a community adversely affected, we come in and make direct Economic Injury loans to Small Businesses. So the sba is watching. As soon as we get a call from the governor, we can act. We can deploy to help Small Businesses there. I think youre going to get a call today. Thank you so much. We really appreciate you being here. Im going to go out shopping saturday afternoon. And dine small saturday night. Take my family. Were going to have about 20 people in town. We may have to slit up, a couple restaurants. But were going to do it. Thank you very much. Follow me on twitter. Ill do that. I cannot guarantee that im going to eat small. I never do. Brian, stay with us, if you will. Coming up next. New details for the deadly shooting of 18yearold Michael Brown as the grand jury documents a release to the public, and a violent and tragic reaction from those outraged by the grand jurys decision. Not up to the job. 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We talk about peaceful protests and that did not happen tonight. Welcome to morning joe. Tuesday, november 25th. A lot to cover with this set. Mike barnacle. Cohost of the view, nicole wallace. And also msnbc contributor and associate professor after Columbia University school of international and Public Affairs, Dorian Warren. And associate professor of the post, eugene robinson. No charges on the front page of the usa today. The New York Post, treats of rage. From the daily news, america holds its breath. From the New York Times, grand jury chooses not to diet officer, and wall street journal officer not charged in many killing. There is so much to talk about. Unfortunately, i think the first thing that i would at least want to know is why the hell. Why the hell did they release this information the way they did . Why did they have this buildup this slow crescendo to say were going to be announcing it at 9 00. And i think most people knew. How this was going to come down, just given what local authorities have been suggesting before, and then to announce that 9 00 at night. The time lapse was mystifying. Its mind boggling that a community and a state that had so mishandled this case from the very beginning continue to mishandle it at the very end. Yeah. And the results, gene robinson, very predictable. They were horrible results. Half a dozen buildings were set aflame. People looteded liquor and convenience stores. The missouri authorities, president obama and browns family have requested, well, the president was making his request on a split screen while the riots were going on. Its you know, people are responsible for their own a,s, and it was horrific, the actions that were engaged in. But i cant believe that the officials in missourian dont have a done a better job. Bching the way Fergusons Police Department was run for so many years. This was totally foreseeable. And look, i hate conspiracy theorys. Ive spent a lot of time telling people how dumb their conspiracies are. If you knew you were going to announce there was no indictment, and you wanted to shift attention to the reaction, away from the decision itself, well, i guess this would be a way to do it. And this would certainly be a, you know, an awful way to do it. But why in the world do you announce this thing at 9 00 at night . I dont ill never understand that. Especially when the decision was ready at 2 00 p. M. When you would have been doing the Police Officers a player. You would have been doing the blackowned Small Businesses that was torched last night a favor. You would be doing the families a favor. And the people who went out to protest peacefully and, you know, you would be doing them a favor. If you were going to go out and protest peacefully, you would do it at 3 00 in the afternoon. You would not do it given the history of whats been going on since august at 9 00 at night. Willie geist, why dont we get everybody caught up to what happened last night. Not just in ferguson, but across america. Yeah, this continued deep into the night. Lets go it to it here. The the unrest broke out moments after the county prosecutor announced a grand jury verdict did not indict officer Darren Wilson. Thats the Police Officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager in august. This is one of the results of the protest. At least a dozen businesses in ferguson going up in flames, including a drugstore and a pizza restaurant. Protesters set fire to numerous vehicles, including two police cars. Other Police Vehicles damaged after being vandalized. Some demonstrators smashed windows. There was gunfire. And looting was reported at several stores in the area. President obama addressed the country last night, urging demonstrators to show restraint, but as joe just said, it was a remarkable split screen. His speech come just as the violence began to unfold, creating some pretty surreal images on tv. Yeah, lets look at this, Mike Barnacle. You think somebody in the white house might have figured this out . That maybe the speech should have been before the announcement so you dont have the split screen . Well, the speech couldnt have been before the today nounsment, because he had to react to the announcement. Theres nothing the white house can do about how the Cable Networks are going to and l it. They all used the split screen. It seemed like everybody was tipping their hand at 2 00 in the afternoon. Im just curious if you wouldnt have the speech . I thought he should have gone there. I think the most brilliant speech as a president was the speech he gave on race. And i think that the words that he used last night were perfectly crafted they were not written and handed to him by a speech writer. I think they came from his heart. I think the white house was staring at bad options. Ch they had to speak. They knew what would happen. Im very impressed they went ahead. They were watching that, too. The press office in the briefing room. They knew what was happening. It was important enough to them. And i think the fakts that he stood in the the briefing room. He gave his remarks. He took questions. I had a moment where i thought he was going to rush out of there. He didnt. I think as the days go on it will endure as a powerful message that he delivered. And i hope he keeps it up. I hope he does visit ferguson in the coming days. It was one of his better moments. It gets back to the original question that you pose, though. They give them eight hours to ge ready when they have so many options. They could have delayed this until tomorrow afternoon. About 4 00 in the afternoon. And the thing is, they tip their hand. I had no idea over the weekend. I thought the Police Officer was going to be indicted. When officials started coming out early urging calm, urging calm, you knew how this movie was going to end. I think we all knew. What also infuriated people was watching the press conference from mccullough. The 25minute explanation as to why no indictment. He looked like the defense attorney in that moment, not a prosecutor. And if theres that much to explain, why not take it to trial . I think it was the long press conference that really infuriated people. The explanation. The detail. All of that stuff. Gene robinson, you brought up a good point in way too early. You look at the evidence. The evidence looks like theres not a jury. Theres not a jury in missouri that would convict this Police Officer if you look at the evidence. And that said, you usually take care of that in trials. Exactly. When you are in grand juries, you are actually youre the the prosecutor. You are doing Michael Browns bidding. Youre not doing justices bidding as far as with a blindfold. Youre not the the defense attorney and the prosecutor. Youre looking at if theres probable cause to possibly convict this Police Officer. That didnt happen from the very beginning. For whatever reasons. Youre there to represent the victim and society. Youre the the prosecutor. Youre not there to represent the defendant. And the standard, as you said, is probable cause. Its not that is a low, low standard. Right. Its a very low standard. And do you you not have probable cause when you have, you know, an unarmed young man who is shot multiple times but a Police Officer. You saw the photos of officer wilson and despite the the early erroneous reports about a broken eye socket or whatever. In fact, he had a contusion. He had a bruise and was told at the the the hospital i read the medical report, to go home and take some aleve. That was the extent of his treatment that night. All that leads to probable cause. And we need to make sure everybody understands what were saying here. What i said at first is looking at all this evidence, youre not going to i just dont think youre going top find efd to convict this officer. But thats not the stage were at. Exactly. Were at a much different stage. And that will affable cause concerns with legal scholars moving forward. Dont you know this as an attorney. At an indictment hearing, you give basically a loose sketch of the evidence you have to get probable cause. Its unclear to me how it took months and months and months. Clearly the prosecutor laid out every detail of the case. Yeah, 25 hours of testimony. 60 witnesses. But what im curious about now, there are two federal investigations. One into the case. One into whether or not there was a pattern of civil rights abuses by the ferguson Police Department. But i feel like in all the stories i read from obviously sources are that they dont look likely to find him culpable either. Theyre not going to. Why . Because the standard is so much higher at this level. And again, were talking about the standard, mike. And hell, you know this. All the years you were a reporter. This standard is so low when youre looking at a grand jury situation. So this is the lowest bar. And then you go to federal, where theyre bringing a federal case. The bar is so much higher. Without this, those cases are is that im not a lawyer. Theyll look at it independently. The standard is so much higher. And if you look at the evidence, the evidence seems to support the officer. That said. Im talking about the end of the day. That said though, mike, thats not what these types of hearings are about. We think this is a bad guy. Look at the evidence we have against this guy. Look what he did to shareholder ls. We want to take him to trial. The grand jury goes, okay, thats basically it. Last week i spoke to a prosecutor, a friend of mine who has done hundreds of grand juries. The grand jury is 12 grand jurors seated like at a picnic table. Its not the jury box. And theyre just sitting for a jury. These are ferguson residents. You have 12 jurors selected. Theyve been sitting for four or fife months. You have the prosecutor in the room. And you have witnesses who come in and testify. The prosecutor does the questioning. The five counts that perhaps could have been levelled for an indictment against the Police Officer here. And the minimum at a minimum, the prosecutor that i spoke to said, i would bet you a lot of money that they will end up with Involuntary Manslaughter. At least one. At least one. Based on what they have. Based on the evidence. A lot of people might say why would you do that, as im saying the evidence that we look at shows that a jury is not going to be able to convict him. Because any lawyer will tell you you never know what happens when you walk through that door. There have been a lot of cases that i have seen great lawyers handle that started. They said this looks like a losing case. And then you take a deposition. You get evidence. You start pulling on a string, and suddenly the entirely new truth is real. Maybe that would not happen here. Maybe it would. Were not going to find out. And the range of options, as mike said. Firstdegree murder. That would have requireded premeditation. But Involuntary Manslaughter, some people thought would have come up. Lets talk about the the grand jury. Seven men, five women. Three africanamericans. Nine whites on that grand jury. County prosecutor Robert Mccullough said the result will remain anonymous. They testified he charged at officer wilson before he was shot. Multiple witnesses either changed their stories or gave conflicting accounts. He also said three autopsies contradicted witnesses who claim they saw brown shot in the back. Im ever mindful that this decision will not be accepted by some and may cause disappointment for others. All decisions in the criminal Justice System must be determined by the physical and Scientific Evidence and the credible testimony corroborated by that evidence, not in response to public outcry or for political expediency. He did not mention that brown was unarmed when he shot. He did single out the media, saying they contributed to unrest officially. These are photos of officer wilson after his altercation with brown. Wilson testified that brown hit him when he first approached the teen about a robbery. The officer said he warned brown he would shoot if he did not get back. At which time he grabbed at wilsons gun and twisted it around. Wilson said brown looked like a demon during the altercation. This is all from the testimony of the grand jury. Then he drew his gun out of fear another punch would knock him out. He testified when te grabbed the teenager, who was 64, he said, quote, i felt like a 5yearold holding onto hulk hogan. After the grand jurys announcement, wilsons attorney released a statement that said Law Enforcement personnel must make split second decisions. Officer wilson followed his training and followed the law. Michael browns mother cried and screamed when she heard officer wilson would not be indicted. They said were profoundly disappointed the killer of our child will not face the consequences of his actions. Join with us in our campaign to ensure every Police Officer working the streets of this country wears a body camera. We respectfully ask that you please keep your protest peaceful. Answering violence with violence is not the appropriate action. Jean gene robinson, the brown family conducting itself with incredible grace, and unfortunately their request was not met in ferguson last night. Right, and what sounds to me like a perfectly reasonable request and pgs to take. Body cameras would have told us a lot more about what happened. We wouldnt need this dueling, conflicting testimony. We would have a world of this encounter. And i guess, some officers the at least in ferguson are now wearing cameras. I wish that were much more widespread. No doubt about it. Hopefully that is one thing that can come out of this tragedy. I dont really understand why, mike, there wouldnt be body cameras. It helps the cops. It helps the good cops. It helps scitizens. As ive said repeatedly, the only people who dont want that are the bad cops who push their authority around and we need every cop in america to have a camera on them. Commissioner bratton said that when he feels here after the protests. He said the nypd is the largest Police Department in the country that theyre looking at it. And its a cost issue for a lot of Police Departments. But youre absolutely right. The only people who could oppose it are the ones who didnt want everyone to see. Every profession, gene, has bad actors. I think for the most part, Law Enforcement officers do a great job, and i commend them for going out and putting their lives on the line every night. I think its in their best interest that the 2, 3, 4 , 5 of the the people in uniforms that act like punks from time to time have cameras on there. If they do, the 5 will become 0 really quickly. Yeah, its in the interest of all good cops and not in the interest of the bad cops. And so there ought to be cameras. One thing we ought to mention is there were protests last night, peaceful protests in cities around the country, including here in washington, in los angeles, in new york. There was a big protest. So you know, this became a National Issue and nationally there was a big response, and for the most part in the vast majority, an appropriate response to what frankly most people see as a miscarriage of justice. And well have to go forward from here. Its a bad place to start from. But well have to go forward from here and see what good can come out of this awful and i think unnecessary tragedy. Still ahead on morning joe. James paterson is hoping to take his fight to save bookstores all the way to the president. Why that involves burning books. Okay. I had a sunday schoolteacher like that. Plus, watch out bill karins. Governor cuomo is taking aim at the meteorologists for lack of preparation for the big snow. Well see if we cant get him to personally blame you. But first, bill, go ahead. Give your prebuttal and also the rest of the forecast. Should Mike Barnacle leave now. How could he go blaming meteorologists . First thing, were very thin skinned and were all tech peek. We have all our records. This was the most well forecasteded lakeeffect ever. On monday, three days before the event, i said forget the ruler. And the next day, i said up to five feet possible, historic but highly localized event just south of the buffalo area. So the Buffalo Weather Service did a fantastic job, too. I dont know. Maybe he has reasons. Maybe he doesnt like weather. Lets talk about the upcoming storm coming your way. Its amazing we have winter storm watches for the region. And its in the 50s. Heres how the snow is going to come down. This is the snow totals by about 3 00 to 4 00 a. M. Thursday. Notice that we dont have a lot of heavy snow on i95. Mostly rain wednesday morning. If youre driving, you can go out wednesday morning, and youre just fine. New york city southward. The colder air works in. Rain changes to snow. Well pick up a couple of inches. New york city at most, maybe three or four big slushy inches. Heavy, wet snow. Interior sections will get nailed. All those areas with a chance of six plus. Portland at 48. Boston doesnt get quite as much. So the timing of that, again. Is going to be starting wednesday afternoon. Really intense wednesday night. Be off the the roads in new england wednesday night. 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We have some memories the there, dont we . The des moines register. Iowa man arrested outside the white house has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor kmacharges. He was ordered to remain held without bond. And the Washington Democratic National Committee has announced three cities still in the running to post the partys 2016 convention. They are new york. Good spot. Good spot. Philadelphia. Really . One of the best conventions ive ever been. Everybody kind of ground in 2000. And columbus. I got relatives there. Thats good, too. 3 for 3. And pennsylvania and ohio could be critical swing states, of course. The next president ial election, of course. Republicans think that pennsylvania will be a critical swing state. But it never is. Its fools gold, as ive been saying for a couple l of decades now. They will slouch out there and do the walk of shame. The dnc may move its convention week up from august to july. Thank you for trying to ruin my july. I wont let you do it. He wont be there. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says weather forecasters are to blame as criticism mounts over the states response to the winter storm that pummeled the buffalo area. Governor cuomo said state officials were unaware it was going to snow that hard in such a short amount of time. A spokesman said the forecast was, quote, timely and accurate. The governor seemed to take a page from mayor bill de blasios book who blamed the failure on shutting down schools on bad weather reports. Every meteorologist will tell you this was predicted. The National Weather service. Whether its bill karins. Ignore bill karins. Al roker, anybody will tell you they saw this coming and talked about it. Yeah, bill we only said five. They didnt say seven. Were going to let nicole. Oh, thats my guy. Leaving miami. Yeah, i need that. I need that. We want you to read about it. I can do it. Is it mean . Usa today. Before monday nights game, lebron james delivered a blunt announcement. I stink, he said. 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What were the causes based on your reporting . Well, i think it was a little bit at first glance, you would think this was surprising because in so many ways chuck hagel was exactly who president obama initially wanted. He wanted to take the temperature down at the pentagon after four years in which he was constantly at friction with his military, and he wanted somebody to carry out his orders quietly. Who would bring troops home from afghanistan and see to the budget cuts. In all those ways chuck hagel did exactly that. But the interesting thing is he durned tout to be a victim of that prescription in his own success. Because he turned out to be almost too passive for president obama. He didnt speak up. You hear white house people saying he didnt talk as much, speak up, he was very quiet in meetings. He didnt present his views forcefully. And at the end of the day, after the midterms and you saw criticisms of the president s National Security team and the white house decided they needed a shakeup, particularly in view of the bumbling strategy towards the Islamic State in iraq and syria, they went for the low hanging fruit and chuck hagel was there. There was an expanded involvement coming with the United States role in afghanistan, based upon the the new afghan president being in place. There is going to be increased involvement. Which takes precedent in the mind of the president , do you think, according to your reporting and observation. The National Security council, the joint chiefs of staff or the secretary of defense . Which of those would take precedent. That is so easy. The National Security council. Hes such an insiders guy. He trusts the people who are around him. And his National Security council is very much filled can dam pain loyalists and people with him in 2006 and 2007. You look at dennis mcdonough, the white house chief of staff. And these are the people he goes to when he needs any sort of real advice. His cabinet on the other hand is much more removed from the process. Even secretary of state john kerry is not viewed by the bhous as somebody they can really turn to and trust at all times. So you have this almost sort of insider inner circle l and cabinet officials on the outside who have trouble penetrating that. So what do you think would be the reaction among the people who you know in the secretary of Defense Office or in the joint chiefs who you know and you report on regularly when they hear the phrase that you just used Campaign Workers who are close to the president. Rather than joint chiefs or the secretary of defense . You know, i think everybody i think the people on the joint chiefs and the people at the pentagon have played the washington game for a long time and know what to accept. They know what to expect. At the same time, i think theres definitely been some alienation, particularly at the pentagon of this obama white house. And this goes back to the first term. When you had the military commanders constantly pushing president obama on more troops in afghanistan. On slowing the exit from iraq. So theres been some tension between the building and we call it the building. Aye been a total pentagon reporter. Between the pentagon and the white house. And it almost feels as if were going back to whats normal there. What a pentagon insider you have become. My congratulations on a complete scoop. What was your reaction to not just the decision but the d. A. s handling during the investigation and last night. Zblf the the decision was not a surprise at all. This is what i expected to happen at all. Its rare for Police Officers to be indicted, let alone tried and convicted of killing people. I was reading about horrible instants out of seattle. Where its just hard to indict a cop. And even when the facts are egregio egregious. You go back to 1979. Arthur mcduffy not long before christmas, beaten to death by a group of Police Officers who cracked his skull open. No conviction there. You can go through. Patrick shot dead by a Police Officer who insisted he was a drug dealer, even though he was just a Security Guard killed in front of other people. And still no indictment there, and in fact, his jufl record thrown out to the public. The mayor at the time said hes no choir boy if the Security Guard deserved to die. You go through the cases. Rodney king is beaten with cameras rolling. And it took the feds to come in. Go all the way through the litany of cases. Particularly of young black men. I never heard of a Police Officer going to jail, particularly at the state level for doing that. I in no way expected that to happen. And then on top of that, Bob Mccullough and every lawyer i talked to on the show said he has telegraphed openly throughout this entire process, that the result we saw last night was exactly the result he was looking for. Prosecutors get what they want when they go for it. He made it very clear. How did he do that . First of all, he didnt just make the decision. He had the power within his officer to indict or not indict. Ft he didnt need the grand jury. He chose to go to the grand jury. Then he did a document dump in front of them. Gave them no narrative. Walked them through nothing. He did state last night that he didnt do the questioning himself. And then just talking back and forth with lisa bloom, the wonderful legal analyst here as shes going through the way he was questioned. That was a friendly conversation. There was not a tough questioning of the officer. So everything from the lack of a narrative to this prosecutor not talking to the family. I repeatedly have asked lawyers for Michael Browns family, have hay that had any contact with the prosecutor . Theyve had zero. Hes done nothing to reach out to the family. Typically they are advocates for the victims in the case. They try to talk to the family. They try to represent the the family. This guy did none of that. Hes always signaled to the police. Everything about him signals that to the police. So what i suz surprised about, though, was that the Public Policy action of waiting until 9 00 at night, eastern time for something you knew you were going to do. Im sure he knew at 9 00 that morning. Im sure he knew a month ago there would be no indictment. To wait and roll this out with a crowd of people weeping in the street at 9 00 at night, when only the people who are the most angry are going to remain in the street and not go home. Ch i think it was a recipe for exactly what you saw. Completely predictable. And teringly managed. We agree all around the table. 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So ive been through this forever, that kind of thing. And i just did a documentary in florida which is another tough town. And people feel hopeless. And its really about getting kids competent. I would like to make readers for life. If theyre competent readers, they can get through high school. If theyre not, they cant get through high school. And talk about saving books. You know. We had these massive chains. Now they have been killed by amazo amazon. Partly by amazon. Partly by themselves. When we go to our bookstores, theyre packed. I i independents have an opportunity now to correct some things. One of the things with independe independe independent, and you know, we give out a lot of money. But theres an opportunity with kids. Kids have not made the switch to ebooks. You mentioned amazon. They are this giant of the industry. You know. You order online. How can amazon be helpful in growing . I think i would love it if the government protected books a little, and they dont. But amazon is the next great hope. Amazon could help with reading in the country. I think they probably are. How is that . They could be promoting it all over on their site. They could get families more into ebooks. Which families dont know how to do it. How many readers there are. They could do a lot. They have good reads. Mr. Patterson, you said independent bookstores have an opportunity now. How do they survive in the world of amazon, who is just a dominant player in the industry . Well, i think there are a lot of things. One, a lot of independents bring in a lot of authors to speak. Thats really its a pain in the the neck i think the pricing thing, sometimes they have to be morale about. Just because it says 27. 95, you know, got to question that. I mean, you have to be a little real. I can buy it for a lot less. You can still make money on it. And then kids. What we do, you must have a a kids section. And a couple of stores have taken the kids session and put it out front. Magnetized to it. Four kids. We love alex cross. Lets talk about the kids book zbr yeah, i know at this stage in my life, i dont need to make much. But im just turned on by the notion of getting kids reading and how important it is. One is for kids that are already competent, broaden the base. I mean, stop with this kneejerk thing. You know its happening out in the st. Louis area thats very complicated. And the more you read, the smarter you get. Immigration is really complicated. So thats been bright. Just read more, learn more. And the thing about reading, look, as individuals we cant do things about the Health Care Crisis or whatever you think of global warming. But as individuals, we cant get the kids in our house reading. We can do that. Its incredible. James patterson. Thank you so much for being with us. Go to jamespattersojamespatters. And stick around. Request t the rundown is up next. We have a lot of news well be following throughout the day. Thank you for being with us. 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