mcconnell. the two senators from his state of kentucky. sanjay, thanks very much. we learn something from you reporting every single time you re here. thank you. tomorrow, by the way, sanjay will head to baltimore, maryland, and go inside an affordable care act call center and hear the questions americans are asking about insurance coverage and cost. tomorrow here in the newsroom. deciding which agencies are essential, republicans offer an alternative, proposing to fund one agency at a time. but is that really the best plan of attack. i ll ask the florida republican congressman mario diaz-balart about that and the president invitation on this, come over to the white house. let s talk. pepcid® presents: the burns family bbq. guys, you took tums® a couple hours ago. why keep taking it if you know your heartburn keeps coming back? that s how it works. you take some tums®. if heartburn comes back, you take some more. that doesn t make any sense. it makes plenty of sense if you do
and has addressed the other concerns. samsung hot on apple s heels. at least trying to be. announcing a new version of the galaxy which come in gold/brown or gold/pink. not rabl in the u.s. but there you see it. this comes after the iphone was introduced and sold out. there will be a curved display. people are really hot and bothered about this. we were not able to ascertain what it means. does that mean it is bendable or what? they tell us even if the feet sursuccessful, it will add to but not transform samsung s fortune. and in our sixth story, a plan of attack. we are learning more and it is becoming very clear that a lot of planning was done ahead of the terror attack at the westgate mall in nairobi, ken i can t. this was not a sudden decision. not even a few days planned. it was much more significant than that. and based on intelligence it does not appear the attackers
robert gates said this about the president s plan of attack. my bottom line is i believe to blow up a bunch of stuff over a couple of days to underscore or validate a point or a principle is not a strategy. also, leon panetta, another former defense secretary and cia director, he said this. when the president of the united states draws a red line, the credibility of this country is dependent on him backing up his word. joining us now from cambridge, massachusetts, cnn senior political analyst david gergen who hosted the event with secretary gates and leon panetta. they both said the president shouldn t have gone to congress for authorization to begin with. pretty candid, pretty blunt for two members of his former administration. set the scene. how did this go down? both men refrained from speaking in the sensitive moments when the president was making decisions, but once his course was set, they felt they could come to southern methodist university last night and open up. and boy, di
what s her strategy and what s the gop plan of attack for 2016? i ll get insights and analysis from our special roundtable. i m david gregory. all that ahead on meet the press this sunday morning, august 18th. announcer: from nbc news in washington, the world s longest-running television program, this is meet the press. straight to the breaking news. a heavy security presence in cairo, egypt, this morning as military rulers are trying to strengthen their control over a country descending into chaos. so, how much worse will it get in egypt? hundreds are dead, nearly 40 christian churches have been torched and looted, and supporters of the ousted president morsi, the muslim brotherhood, are vowing to fight back. we ll have a live report coming up from cairo in just a moment, but back here in washington, the critical question is, are u.s. taxpayers, in effect, footing the bill for the continuing violence? joining me now, two members of the senate armed services committee, democrat
the water mains into the area. they must now hold the line. they release water and flame retardants to stop the fire in its tracks. the helicopter started dropping in our neighborhood and due to the time of day, being we still had daylight, we still had a couple of hours of daylight left, we were able to get air support and that was just tremendous amount of help initially until we got our hose lines and supply lines hooked up to our engines to stop the fire. as i turned and looked over my shoulder, here was the cavalry coming to help out. reporter: the air support allows firefighters to change their plan of attack. our concern wasn t so much the initial ground zero area where the source of the fire was coming from. at this point, it s just stopping the progression of the fire so that was our strategy and tactic at that point. reporter: 7:40 p.m., the search of natural gas continues