Spilling into suburban st. Louis streets overnight after an unarmed teen is shot and killed by a police officer. You arent god. You dont decide when youre going to take somebody from her. That was mine. That belonged to me. A grieving mother. Today the family demands answers as the Community Rallies in the streets. Open communication. They are venting and expressing their anger and frustration. They dont have the information they want. They dont like whats going on with all the violence and rioting and looting. They are looking for answers. Were trying to give them answers. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchel in washington. Were monitoring military and Political Developments across iraq today. U. S. Forces continue their Bombing Campaign against isis as the sunni militants engage with kurdish troops in towns throughout the northern part of the country. Farther south, the threat of a political coup by the iraqi leader. U. S. Officials are blaming him for the toxic political environment in baghdad. Another cause for international concern. Nbcs duncan golistani is live in erbil. Tell us what the latest is . Hey, andrea, well, its been a calm day here in erbil where things are getting back to normal. None of the panic that we saw a few days ago when people here were occurred that isis fighters were going to advance on to the capital of the kurdish region. That reason for calm and optimism is because of air strikes over the weekend which allowed the peshmerga, the Kurdish Forces to push on to two strategic towns. Strategic in the sense that they are only 30 minutes away, giving you a sense of just how close isis were getting. So under u. S. Fire, peshmerga were able to move back into those towns. And the question now is really, can they hold those towns . Bring some of the yazidi people, the religious minority who have been hiding in the mountains. Some of the yazidi people have been able to come out. Ironically coming out via syria and back into Northern Iraq to be helped by the kurds. But it is still feared there are still perhaps tens of thousands of yazidis up in the mountains. So those are some of the positives but we are still seeing isis fighters pop up elsewhere in the country. About an hour away from baghdad, isis fighters overran the kurds there. So a bit mixed day, although the feeling here is more no doubt because of that news that arms will be coming direct now from the United States. Andrea . Duncan golestani, thank you so much. Reporting from erbil. Rhode island senator jack reed serves on the Armed Services committee and is a retired army ranger. Senator, thank you for being with us. Theres a lot to unpack here. First, the u. S. Is now initially through the cia, eventually we believe through the pentagon going to be arming the peshmerga forces. This is a limited part of the problem. Do we at this point have to worry about taking on more of the isis challenge . And that means going to syria. Well, i think the first issue is to stabilize the situation in iraq. The peshmerga are confident fighters. With our air cover and also more sophisticated equipment which they are receiving. I believe theyll be able to go and push back isis, secure their border and then the real issue is the one that youve talked about previously, which is the political issue in baghdad. Getting iraqi leadership thats both competent, efficient and effective and using that leadership and their military forces to begin to roll back isis in iraq. Senator, i know that u. S. Officials were really disturbed by both the tenor and the specifics in malikis speech yesterday, last night. When he said the army was going to defend the constitution. Hes basically deploying armed forces that we help train and equipment around baghdad. And that looks like the makings of a potential coup. Well, he, unfortunately, is staying true to form, which hes militarized the politics there. He is now using his forces that appear to be loyal to him and not necessarily to the iraqi constitution for his own benefit. Thats been the problem for months if not years. But the issue, i think, has to be an International Message for not just the United States but from every concerned party that hes not helping the government of iraq stabilize the country and not helping his own people, the shia, to be able to form together with the sunni and kurds and other minorities a unified country. I sense hes got to go, but he is trying his utmost to resist not only his fellow parliamentarians but also the will of the International Community. The Deputy Speaker has been chosen by the Shiite Coalition with the bless ing of the ayatollah sistani. So whats to stop him from taking power . Maliki and his weapons . Thats the first obstacle, which is to physically just sort of getting maliki to withdraw from at least a presumption of holding the office. I think thats best accomplished by the pressure that, again, sistani, ayatollah sistani can bring, others can bring. But its interesting that this is the shia sort of themselves who are asking for his removal now. And thats a significant step forward. And he has to, i think, listen to that call and then the pressure, political pressure has been brought to bear both within iraq and internationally to get them to step aside peacefully. Militarily, one of the critical points last week was that the maliki government, the Iraqi Air Force had finally done its own air strikes in support of the kurds. We finally had them working together. How can that happen with maliki now staging this political, you know, run about. How do we fight isis effectively if the Iraqi Armed Forces are loyal to maliki . Well, thats a fundamental issue here. If the armed forces of iraq are not committed to the nation, but they are committed to individual politician, then any help we give will be short term and not decisive. So the key here is whats going on in baghdad in terms of and the parliament and the parliamentarians and the shia politicians seem to recognize that. They want him out. He is holding on. If he goes, and i hope he does, then i think you have the ability to start organizing and directing the International NationalSecurity Apparatus of iraq against isis. And thats the first step forward to ultimately being able to prevail. Without that first step, this is a chaotic situation and isis will be pushed back but it will be very difficult to ultimately defeat. And finally, are we just applying bandaids here, even with the kurdish situation in the north . Until you shut that border or go after their command and control in syria, how do you really get at isis . These fighters are crossing the border. You are absolutely right. First you have to have the political stability to give positive direction support to iraqi forces. You have to stabilize the situation along the fronts. But very shortly you have to cut the lines of communication from isis back into syria. Once you cut those lines of communication you can bring pressure to bear individually. One of the military aspects of this is as isis has been move with the captured equipment, which we can easily identify from the air and as they move out of sunni communities, then their advantages dissipate. As they get driven back further into the communities, as they abandon the equipment and go back to the pickup truck, its a harder target. Your point is well taken. If we can cut the lines of communications, significantly stop the flow of men and material across the board that will give the Security Forces the kind of will machine the plal field and allow them to take the fight to isis. Senator, thank you very much. Thanks for being with us. Thanks, andrea. Taking a deeper dive into what maliki is up to, ambassador chris hill. Thank you for joining us. Do you think maliki will take this as far as he might and actually stage a coup . I think anything can happen right now. I dont see him getting too far on the coup idea. This is a man who is very thin skinned who believes hes the best thing that ever happened to iraq. And so i think its going to take him a couple of days at least to absorb the fact that his own party, his own coalition state of law has come up with a new candidate. He probably knows al abadi very well. Al abadi is not an imposing looking leader. He studied in the west which is, i think, good from our standpoint. He knows a lot of economics and finance which is also not a bad thing. I dont think hes been in the position of leading troop formations. So probably maliki is being decisive about his punitive successor. I think it will be very important as senator reed suggested that the endorsements start coming in from ayatollah sistani. I think thats critical. But id also like to hear the sunnis for once. For all the talk about how they hated maliki, i havent heard them get behind anyone else in the shia community, and i think thats a longstanding problem for iraq. Iran seems to be taking for now a back seat, letting the ayatollah sis staunny take the lead on whom to endorse. They seem to be saying theyre not going to interfere and theyll certain lie not back up maliki. Iran has a real interest in keeping shia, the shia in charge of iraq. And so they dont want to do any thoorm that proposition. By the way, they were never enthused about maliki. Frankly, no one is or no one has been. He was about their fourth choice back in 2010. They dont think any more highly of him now. So i think they will try not to exacerbate the situation with the understanding that we need to get a new prime minister. Prime minister can somehow rally those iraqi forces and see if isis can be a pushback as they appear to be getting pushback in the northern areas. And who is the army going to be loyal to . Well, again, i think its going to take a little time. But i dont think maliki is going to be able to pull off a coup. Obviously, they are loyal to him now. He held on to the army and or to the defense and interior portfolios through 2011 for the real purpose of developing this loyalty. But i think in the fullness of time, the army people will understand that they need to support a new government. So i think all in all, its a good day but, obviously, its got some real warning signs where we have to play this very carefully in the coming hours. Thank you, ambassador chris hill. Nascar champion tony stewart remaining out of sight today. Investigators are examining what caused the death of a young driver, kevin ward jr. Only 20 years old mean was hit seconds after ward stepped out of his car and on to the track on a dirt course saturday night. Because of the graphic images were only going to show you the video from before this incident took place. Heres nbcs Kristen Dahlgren with the details. Territory was a packed house saturday night. The home of sprint cars racing around the track. Then video posted on youtube shows two cars colliding. One spins out while the other driven by nascar legend tony stewart keeps going. The driver of the sidelined car gets out and in the dark appears to point at stewart, then walks on to the track toward stewarts car. Tony stewart just hit that guy. 20yearold kevin ward jr. Is hit by stewarts back wheel mean was later pronounced dead at the hospital. Authorities are examining video of the crash but say it appears it may just be a tragic accident. Stewart pulled out of sundays nascar race saying, quote, there arent words to describe the sadness. 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What was so fascinating, lets start with syria and iraq by extension, isis. Hillary clinton seeing the big picture and saying, you know, woulda, coulda if we had done what i had suggested in syria, let me read the quote, which ive got somewhere here. Hillary clinton on syria. The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against assad in syria, there were islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middle. The fakure to do that left a big vacuum which the jihadists have now filled. That is Hillary Clinton to the atlantic in your interview. And that is strikingly different from barack obam to tom freedman who said, lets play a little bit of that clip. With respect to syria, its always been a fantasy that they were going to be able to battle not only a well armed state, but also a well armed state backed by russia, backed by iran, battle hardened hezbollah. That was never in the cards. He calls that a fantasy. Right. This is probably their single sharpest point of disagreement. In my interview with her, i think she went a little further than she usually goes in noting this. I think maybe because over the last couple of weeks she probably feels, people around her feel somewhat vindicated in her position. She basically says if wed gone in there early we could have shaped the opposition, kept out the jihadists. And he says with a more fatalistic attitude, no way that was going to happen. Contradicted by the early assertions by the Obama Administration. There was only a matter of time before assad fell. So, i mean, it doesnt exactly assad has to go. Not only assad has to go bow seems to be going. Theres a little contradiction there. Hillary hedged in this interview. Shes not attacking the president , but i think she felt like, you know what . I thought this and i think events are bearing out the truth of what i advocated for. And then very sharply against what the president had called his single organizing principle, which is dont do stupid, quote unquote, redacted stuff. So she said to you, great nations need organizing principles and dont do stupid stuff is not an organizing principle. Right. She then again, she does this very careful sophisticated thing. Look, you know, he was just trying to signal maybe that he was telling the American People hes not going to do anything crazy. Shes very specific. She knows every word she says is going to be interpreted a certain way. When she says thats not an organizing principle and people understand that to be one of his organizing principles, it seems like a bit of a shot. What shes saying is my organizing principle is we defeated communism and well defeat jihadism. Barack obama is allergic to that kind of sweeping language. By the way, obama also said to tom freedman, a lesson he now applies to every situation is should we intervene militarily . Do we have an answer for the day after . That because of whats happened and now he acknowledges in libya. They didnt have an answer to the day after. That gets back to, if you break it, you are stuck with the pottery barn. Socalled pottery barn rule. Lets talk about israel. I see a distuninction there between what hillary told you. Israel needs to defend itself. They both say that. Hillary clnton said israel did what it had to do to respond to the rockets. Israel has a right to defend itself. The steps hamas has taken to embed rockets and xhantd and control facilities and tunnels makes a response by israel difficult. Shes categorically behind netanyahu where he is much, much more nuanced . Nuanced. Lets play it. I think the question really is how does israel survive . And, you know, how can you create a state of israel that maintains its democratic and civic traditions. How can you preserve a jewish state that is also reflective of the best values of those who founded israel. Hes raising the question of, does israel need to think bigger when it goes into a war like this with gaza . By the way, hillary doesnt think that differently. I think shes running for president and hes not. And she knows that israel is a popular cause and remains, according to polls, a popular cause in america. She also is trying this is another place shes disassociating herself from obama policy. Shes saying, im not just a continuation of this guy. This guy had a tough relationship with israel. Im going to have a smoother relationship with israel. But, yes, she did not show what you might call nuance in her discussion of the recent gaza war and of israels problems and the way he was showing some nuance. Fascinating. Jeff goldberg. We always sit down with you exactly when theyre going to make news. King abdullah a year ago. Hillary clinton now. Let it continue. I hope. Thank you. Coming up next, an update on the developi