the white house is billing the event as the largest gathering of african leaders ever in washington. a second american missionary affected with ebola is setbrants week are the only ebola patients ever treated in the u.s. ramping up for a potential presidential run, senator rand paul will continue his brief through iowa today. that does it for way too early. morning joe starts right now. stick around. join us in an effort to restore confidence, dignity and decorum to this institution. former white house press secretary james brady died today at the age of 73. only 69 days after ronald reagan took office. one bullet striking reagan in the chest. another penetrating brady s skull. the tragedy turned brady s wife sarah and eventually brady
himself into advocates for gun control. what may be an emerging genocide. shiite men are herded together and executed in mass graves. news about the experimental drug used to treat that american doctor infected now back here in
not be a group hug starts in just seconds. check it out. log on. we would love to hear from you. ask this is a fox news alert. a senior white house official confirming president obama is considering sending ground troops to iraq. deputy national security advisor ben rhodes saying president obama could decide in just days whether to send in ground troops to rescue thousands of religious refugees who are trapped on a mountaintop. and fox news also confirming a team of american special ops landing on mount and spending 24 hours there to assess the best way to evacuated refugees. landed in mount sinjar iraq time. greg with the very latest. greg? greta, yeah, a lot of action in this part of the world. those extra troops that have
come here to northern iraq are based in this city not too far from where we are and we believe those special force operators that spent that time, you were talking with on mount sinjar to the left of this location this space as well. a lot of action over
carnage at, yet another u.n. schoolhousing refugees in gaza. the third time they have bombed the u.n.-run school. the state department was appalled by the disgraceful shelling outside the school. there can be no question of the state identity? no, absolutely, no. there was encouraging news about an american doctor infected with ebola. i can t think of a better place in the world, other than emory university hospital, to care for this patient. the plane has picked up the second ebola patient to go to georgia. congress has left the building. leading the president promising to go solo on the humanitarian crisis at the border. so that s not disagreement between me and the house of republicans. that is a green light between the republicans and the house of republicans. what are you going to do about it? i think congress has to sit down and have a serious look at this constitutional and that includes that i word we don t want to say. i think it would be fooli
[announcer] healthful. flavorful. beneful. from purina. when you re up on the stage so unbelievable oh, unforgettable i don t think we are going to solve this problem in weeks if that is what you mean. i think this is going to take some time. the iraqi security forces, in order to mount an offensive and be able to operate effectively
with the support of populations in sunni areas are going to have to revamp, get resupplied, have a clear strategy. but this is going to be a long-term project. good morning. welcome to morning joe. take a live look at times square. boy, does it need another reminder six years into into the presidency, barack obama is learning again this weekend and getting a view of just how lonely it is at the top. especially when you re running the military of the last remaining benevolent super power in the world. with europe still seemingingly to be sleep, barack obama just became the fourng straight u.s. president to launch a war in iraq. america ha
world news is diane sawyer is next. welcome to world news. tonight on fire inside the neighborhood set ablaze after the military jet crash. the families describing the horror after several homes go up in flames. the manhunt underway at this hour. families barricading themselves inside as they take pictures of the gunman firing outside their window. authorities say he s heavily armed. our correspondent on the scene. no apologies. what president obama said today about that soldier saved from the taliban and that tape, what the pictures reveal from the tapping of his arm to what he s wearing and what it says about the soldier and his captors. come on down. remember the price is right contestant getting workers comp even though she could spin the wheel? tonight who did authorities find
behind that hamster out on disability and collecting your money? good evening on this thursday night. diane on assignment. we begin with the terror playing out in two separate neighborhoods
this is the fox report. i am molly line, in for harris faulkner. the crisis in the middle east reaches the three week mark with no sign of end to the violence. hopes for a long time ceasefire in gaza dashed. israel and hamas resuming full scale attacks that reportedly left more than 1,000 dead. ban ki-moon is urging the rivals to accept a 24 hour truce. it appears both sides are holding out. hamas has broken five ceasefires.
they rejected all of them, violate all of them, including two humanitarian ceasefires in the last 24 hours. the ceasefire is something we wanted, we have a government of national accord. we asked for ceasefires. we need a ceasefire that will bring out also end to the conditions that are creating and generating all this violence. meantime, president obama and prime minister netanyahu spoke by phone today. the president once again condemned attacks by hamas and reiterated israel s right to defend itself. he also expressed growing concern about loss of life o
fox news sunday is a presentation of fox news. this is the fox report. hello, everyone, day 27 of the crisis in the middle east, the long east conflict in their history. new word is that israel is redeploying most military forces with thousands of troops outside gaza and israel is confirming they have successfully destroyed most of the tunnels that hamas used to enter israel but they will continue targeting the rocket sites and there is no under to the heavy fighting in the gaza strip. an israeli airstrike on a u.n. school converted to a shelter killed ten palestinians. the united states state department is condemning the strike saying the united states is appalled by the disgraceful
shelling. how is israel s redeployment changing the fighting in gaza? the fighting here by no means is over, but just changing in terms of how the fight in gaza is conducted the last fur weeks. what we know is the bulk of israeli trips are being redeployed from inside gaza to across the border i
to use the military, but we must always be fast if we even think genocide is a possibility. we should be fast with prudence. thanks for watching tonight. i m al sharpton. hardball starts right now. genocide. this is hardball. good evening. i m chris matthews in washington. genocide. if there is one word in the language that should cut off partisan dribble this should be it. once you see a religious or other group of human beings is in the process of being exterminated we need the to stop it. is there another view of this, a
moral opposition, a case for not acting when you hear an or pi of ze lots is marching in and crucifyinger or beheading people because they don t like their religion? let me hear it loud and clear that you are willing to let people be exterminated for being who they are. this is how i m looking at the decision to strike at the isis militants marauding through iraq, killing all in their way. what disappoints me now is the incapability of the speaker of the ho
all right, that s going to do it for this edition of way too early. morning joe starts right now. good morning! look at that, willie. that is a beautiful view. beautiful day. it s a beautiful day. last couple , not so beautiful. it s thursday, august the 14th. great to have you here with us. along with you, we have got washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay and nick consori and then with bloomberg news, al hunt. yesterday, willie, really bad storms out there. did you see some of the pictures? even out here on long island. cars on the highways up to their roofs. looked like a river. it was.
yeah, parts of the mid-atlantic and northeast cleaning up and drying out after heavy rains sparked flooding across several states. the hardest appeared to be long island. islip 13.27 inches in under 24 hours and more than a foot in less than a day. more than the region receives in an entire summer. the rainfall shattered previous records and a lot of cars aba
you know what? i have been known to wear a tan suit myself. don t forget, a politics nation baseball cap is always in style. thanks for watching. i m al sharpton. hardball starts right now. a dove named paul? a hawk named hillary? let s play hardball. good evening. i m chris matthews in washington. let me start with the president s decision today to hold off on air strikes in syria. i don t want to put the cart before the horse. we don t have a strategy yet. i think what i have seen in some of the yous reports suggests folks are getting further ahead
of where we re at than we currently are. that s not just my assessment but the assessment of the military as well. we need clear plans that we are developing them. i will consult with congress. and make sure their voices are heard. there is no point asking until we know what it will take to get the job done. that was a surprise. the big debate is do we go the direction of george bush again back to pursuing grand goals of ide