How did they end up where they are, in control of so much territory . Was that a complete surprise to you . Well, i think our head of the intelligence community, jim clapper, has acknowledged that i think they underestimated what had been taking place in syria. He didnt say just say that, we underestimated isil. He said, we overestimated the ability and the will of our allies, the iraqi army, to fight. Thats true. Thats absolutely true. Well, now those same iraqi troops who dropped their weapons and ran from isis are being recruited back to their ranks. The New York Times reports as many as 6,000 iraqis have reenlisted thanks to a new military campaign to rebuild the army there. However, there are still those who doubt the president s strategy, specifically in syria. If the goal is to destroy isis, as the president says it is, i dont believe the strategy that he outlined will accomplish that. Why not . The end of the day i think its going to take more than air strikes to drive them out
Getting that song off the ground this morning. Its friday, its been a long week. Im going to hand jen these hats because were going to use these later coming up in sports. What a great game, the orioles winning 123. Well talk about that. Big news coming up this morning with the fifth american confirmed infected with ebola virus and for the nbc news family, this hits super close to home. A freelance journalist working with dr. Nancy snyderman and nbc has been diagnosed with this virus. Ashock ka mukpo is being flown back from liberia for treatment. His father says his son worked there three years and felt compelled to return to liberia to shed light on this crisis. Dr. Nancy and the rest of the crew are being monitored as well. Right now showing no symptoms of the virus. Theyre being flown back to the u. S. On a private charter, being put under quarantine for 21 days. Dr. Nancy says they present zero to minimal risk. And yesterday reported from where Thomas Eric Duncan was apparently in
july 2nd. morning joe contributor, mark halper halperin. director of city soccer, gary hopki hopkins. associate editor of the washington post and eugene robinson. in nashville, another pulitzer prize winner. belgium clearly was the better team. they were playing in the american zone the entire game. man, we had a chance at the end. it was one game too many for the u.s. this belgium team is a tough team. a very, very good team. i think probably the best team we have played so far. if you look at the game itself, without tim howard, it would be a two, three, four or five to nil game. 16 saves is a record in world cups. he s a tiger woods type performance. all day, it looked like he was never going to get beat. ultimately, you can t carry on doing that. tim was never going to do it on his own. he was on his own. you know, it s been a great run, a great performance. it s going to be a tough day. it s hard for anyone to do, especially you. how does, what is his name? how doe
it will last. plus, the midterm matchups that are mostly flying under the national radar right now. find out the top ten races that you should be paying closer attention to but you simply haven t, and i don t know why. good morning from washington. it s wednesday, july 2nd, 2014. this is the daily rundown. the day that john adams thought we d be celebrating as our independence day but, you know, some bureaucratic mess made it the 4th. let s get right to my first reads of the morning. immigrant rights groups are pushing the president to extend his executive order that he signed for dream act kids more broadly. that s the big executive action that many of these groups would like to see the president take this summer. two years ago, of course, he gave legal status to a small group of undocumented immigrants under the age of 30 who were brought to the united states before they turned 16 years old. with no prospect for comprehensive immigration reform this year, hispanic group
fine. let us stop here for now. i will begin. don t interrupt me. i forgot, it was an interesting fact. in russia, the word for conversation is the same word as the word for shut the [ bleep ] up. good morning, everyone. it s friday, march 7th. welcome to morning joe. with us here in the studio, we have jen. jen s back. jen s back. in her red sweater. yeah, looking rested and glamorous. well, i guess that s what happens when you are picked by the network to go to sochi. sorry. what s that? she was working the al michaels show. she s a superstar. i m surprised she s back. did she give her two weeks notice? she resolved the ukraine crisis. i got a present. did you get one, know? oh, just me? yeah, just you. sbhoo what s that right there? another present for you. oh, thank you, jen. that s so nice of you. we missed you. although that s nice. all right. with us now, national affairs editor for new york magazine and msnbc political analyst john