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And worrying numbers for democrats in wisconsin as millions watch the top candidates fight it out. This is not just a question of the mayors character. This is also a question about electability. All in starts now. Good evening and welcome from las vegas. Im joy reid in for chris hayes. If youre the president of the United States and you learned that a foreign adversary was trying to manipulate the elections in your country, essentially to rig them toward the outcome they wanted, what would you ...

Cases in america. States that rushed to reopen are getting hit hardest. Florida, georgia, arizona and texas set a record for hospitalizations for the 16th straight day. The president s allies, republicans, spent the weekend pleading with americans to do one simple thing. Wear a mask. These are really important. This is not as complicated as a ventilator. Part of our guidance, guidelines to open up america, again, encouraged people to wear facial coverings where social distancing was not possible...

Tensions were evident everywhere today from an american officer in kabul yelling at troops who had mistakenly shot to death two civilians to wardeck province where the afghans had ordered all special u. S. Forces to leave by yesterday. There an afghan policeman gunned down two american soldiers and two other Police Officers before being killed himself. All of this, as newly confirmed secretary of defense chuck hagel concluded his first trip to afghanistan. The visit was difficult from the start,...

Tensions were evident everywhere today from an american officer in kabul yelling at troops who had mistakenly shot to death two civilians to wardeck province where the afghans had ordered all special u. S. Forces to leave by yesterday. There an afghan policeman gunned down two american soldiers and two other Police Officers before being killed himself. All of this, as newly confirmed secretary of defense chuck hagel concluded his first trip to afghanistan. The visit was difficult from the start,...

With ravi kumra. Katrina fitz claims kumra gave her a sexually transmitted disease. She also says kumra told her he was running out of money and would not be able to afford having a family with her. Investigators told nbc bay area they believe kumra impregnated fritz but she did not keep the baby. She is facing robbery and murder charges. The five suspects in the killing include fritzs brother and another suspected prostitute dixon. He is asking his constituents for forgiveness and blaming a gam...

And new guidelines on Cyber Security. Well get to jack lews confirmation in a moment. First the cbo director Douglas Elmendorf testimony. He warned of the sequester could cost 750,000 jobs. Could you tell me in terms of the negative Economic Impact of the sequester, the. 6 , what does that translate in point of lost jobs . Our estimate is that the sequester alone would reduce gdp growth this year by zero point six percentage points. It would lower that gdp at the end of the year. We think that w...

Administration on taking quick action. You have this meeting this afternoon to discuss next steps on isis but you have the president going to nato next week, perhaps some reluctance to announce major decisions before he goes there. He Needs International cooperation. The same can be said on the reaction to ukraine. The trouble is events on the ground are moving quickly, and frankly, others are getting ahead of the administration, for instance, you have ukraine itself calling russian action there...

Helping assad. There is a lot of individuals fighting with isis who are not syrian or, rack i. We know that there are definitely americans in the ranks of isis. There is clearly movement on the issue of how to deal with isis. The cart and the horse are both about three years overdue in syria. It does come down to who you ask at the end of the day. Imis ra klein in for alex wagner. We have breaking news in this hour. In just a few moments, president obama is expected to make a statement from the ...

Marshfield inspecting damage after the storm surge punched out a 50foot hole in the sea wall of several towns at the mercy of the tides. Trashed. Demolished. What happened . The ocean just tore down my roof caved in. The roof collapsed the side wall. This is the worst storm ive seen. This place is like a war zone right now. Just north of marshfield Governor Charlie Baker assesses damage in the town of scituate where a sea wall there was breached as well flooding local homes and streets. And afte...

The fireworks ended in the frances bastille celebration. The driver was a tunisian man who lived near by. Plowed through the crowd before a shootout with police. Prosecutors say the truck was represented earlier in the week suggesting that the attack was premeditated and they are looking for accomplices and forensic teams process the area a mile on the french promenade. Heres more from where the injured were taken, greg . Reporter it is a horrible, horrible scene. Up to the hospital a mile from ...