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Providence hospitals in columbia, south carolina. hearing the southern accent made me want some barbecue, keep those videos coming. lets get right to my "first reads" of the morning. after months of internal deliberations the white house announced its first significant but small plan to intervene in the syrian civil war which has now left more than 90,000 dead. senior officials say the u.s. will provide direct lethal assistance to opposition forces and, of course, that means some military supp...

Hear what john dingle has to say abo about serving, leading, winning and losing. good morning from washington. its friday, june 7th, 2013. lets get right to my first reads of the morning. new jobs numbers are out for may. it shows steady hiring, but not enough to put a real dent in unemployment. 175,000 were added last month while the unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 7.6%. there were some revisions to the march figure. that was revise up from 138,000. net change over the last two months w...

And in the world of campaign politics, with just a couple weeks left until that massachusetts special election for john kerrys u.s. senate seat, toe to toe in a feisty debate touching on just about every issue you can think of. good morning from as usual a very busy washington. its thursday, june 6th, 2013. this is "the daily rundown." im chuck todd. let me get to my first reads of the morning. remember sweeping domestic s surveillance programs that became controversial during the bush administr...

Bender. good morning. >> thanks for having us. >> public reaction to rice, not surprisingly, has been fast and fierce. from "the daily beast, " rice is a terrible choice to lead the presidents national security staff. "politico" reads, senator rand paul says he cant imagine promoting susan rice. and heres congressman darrell issa. >> its unfortunate the president is rewarding somebody for reading talking points that werent true. >> obviously, the president anticipated that kind of reaction. what...

Diego. that, of course, is the military war memorial that has been the target of atheist groups for years. both woods and doherty from san diego were killed while workingg as security contractors at the u.s. consulate in benghazi. while the attack and the aftermath as we know are still under investigation, these two men were honored by a military flyover, the navy band, the navy seals. you see hundreds of people along with their families. listen. >> it is with a sad and heavy heart that i humbly...

Place sometimes. >> reporter: thats the detention group senior medical officer speaking for the first time since the medical profession condemned tube feeding. >> are you concerned that the american medical association has come out against this practice? >> again, there are lots of politics involved. im sure they have internal politics they need to answer to, as well. >> reporter: he has to remain anonymous for security reasonses but he stands by the methods used. >> its easy for folks outside o...

Marks its 100th day friday and shows no signs of stopping. cnn obtained handwritten letters from one of the detainees. one reads, be tortured and stay detained. another quotes a french writer about how your very existence becomes inactive rebellion. he sounds hopeless when he writes, the commissions are a joke. if you lose, you go to prison for a life. if you win, youre held inbe definitely for life. >> we dont have a goal to, quote, break the hunger strike. >> reporter: defense attorneys say sh...

They had about 12, maybe 14 minutes of lead time with a tornado sirens going off. most people got to their safety rooms or hopefully to their safe destinations or drove out of town as the storm was approach. thats why we only have six fatalities. the pictures of the devastation through the town you would expect more people to be dead. i think early warnings did help in this case. and then finally one mile wide tornado as it went through the cleburne area to the south of town. thats actually the ...

Just a few minutes ago. ron, thanks very much. all right. now lets get to my first reads of the morning here in washington. republicans appear to have moved on from president obama and are back to focusing on the woman they really used to love to hate. former secretary of state hillary clinton. the same hearing room that featured political wrangling over the years on witwater, house republicans held a charged congressional hearing on the mbenbenghazi attacks. 22 year career diplomat gregory hi...

Developing news right now on that story. a cleveland police chief tells nbc news that investigators are talking to the three suspects this morning and expect to file charges today. investigators have also interviewed two of the three victims in cleveland and were learning more about what think went through during those ten years in captivity. >> there have been reports that the women were physically bound. that there may have been chains inside that home. can you confirm that? >> we have confirm...