Welcome back, everybody. Lets get a check on the day ahead before the day ahead. Secretary of defense and chairman of joint chiefs will appear before the Armed Services committee to discuss the plan to defeat isis. Trump plaza hotel and casino in Atlantic City officially closes its doors today. Another casino shuttering there. That will do it for way too early. Morning joe starts right now. You know, mika, we dont know a lot about the Shooting Range instructor in arizona who was tragically struck down last month, by a 9yearold girl. That horrifying incident obviously brought to light the insane practice of some shooting
ranges that actually let very young kids shoot very powerful weapons. But this morning were getting very glimpse of the very least what kind of a father he was. His own children fought through the grief of losing their dad to reach out to the little girl. We wrote this letter. We dont know your name but were connected by this tragedy. In the news we were just called the family. The 9yearold girl. The instructor. But we do have a name. Our names are ashley, elizabeth, tyler and christopher. Youre only 9 years old. We think about you. Were worried about you. We pray for you. And we wish you peace. Our dad would want the same thing. Our dad would want you to
know you should move forward with your life. You should not let this define you. You should love yourself and love your family. Some day we hope we can meet you, hug you and tell you that its okay. That is so beautiful. Mika, some of those one of those children, 11, as young as 11 and, you know, its our hope as a mom or as a dad that maybe we pass something on to our children after were gone. This man did. These kids have remarkable character. Yeah. We spent a lot of the time covering the story talking about the gun issue and the ridiculousness that a gun like that was in that little girls hands. But this family is an example about how the conversation should move forward. Its a great lesson in character, those kids and, you know, Mark Halperin loves this
quote bill clinton if you see a turtle up on the fence post it didnt get there by accident. If you see children with that much character, that didnt happen by accident. Definitely. Thats great parenting and thats a great lesson and what a stark contrast it is to so much what beautiful kids. What beautiful kids praying for this young girl and we certainly will be praying for them. And, you know, in stark contrast with all the bad news we see every day and in stark contrast, unfortunately of some parenting decisions, bad parenting decisions by very rich, powerful men who have now brought shame to a multibillion dollar league. Yet, again. We have wes more in baltimore and john hamm monday at the table. In the nfl Adrian Peterson is back with the Minnesota Vikings this morning after being
reinstated. Peterson who did not play on sunday after being indicted for abusing his son will face a judge tomorrow. Team said after careful deliberation they decided to let the case proceed through the legal system. Based on the information we have right now and what we know about adrian not only as a person, but what hes also done for this community, we believe he deserves to play while the Legal Process plays o s out. We feel strongly as an organization this is discipline of a child and whether he went too far in disciplining we feel very strongly that that is the courts decision to make. But we also understand the seriousness of abusing children as well. What do you think about that . About that last line . About the vikings. Letting him come back and play. Well, theres more. Im not sure at this point they can afford to make any mistakes. And i wouldnt say they know it looks what they are doing. Peterson wrote, i am not a perfect son, i am not a per text husband. I am not a perfect parent but i am without a doubt not a child abuser. I am someone that disciplined his child and did not intend to cause him any injury. No one can understand the hurt that i feel for my son. Theres another report from two years ago that was never substantiated. The Radisson Hotel chain, mika, suspending a limited sponsorship deal with the vikings. Look at that. A sponsor being responsible and sending a message. Radisson said it has a long standing with children and they
take it seriously. I wonder if gatorade, covergirl and all these Different Companies that sponsor football teams have the same feelings about Domestic Violence, if they feel women are valued and important. About children, about women. Right. Because im not seeing that. This is what i dont understand, john. I dont understand why the nfl thinks that they live by different standards than the rest of america. You know, a lot of rich and powerful people think that the rules apply to everybody else, dont apply to them. Thats why you have people yelling when the police are pulling them over. Dont you know who i am. This, that or the other. But here we have the nfl who thinks the rules of the rest of society dont apply to them. If somebody at this network or your network, or in a bank, or in an Accounting Office or in a
factory was arrested for child abuse and get the mugshot and Everything Else or was arrested for beating up his pregnant fiancee, they wouldnt be allowed to go to work on monday. No they would not. But the nfl plays by its own rules. They will say well wait until this plays out in the court system. Thats not how Polite Society works. Thats not how Decent Society works. Thats not how any businesses in america i know work other than this horrible, horrible institution and thats what they are acting like lately. Were, around this table, a lot of sports fans that come in here every day and the country, obviously, loves football and its become kind of a secular religion. I think i saw something on tv yesterday or someone who pays attention to this said there have been 700 arrests in the nfl
over the course of the last 10 or 15 years. We havent heard very much about those. Some are minor, some are very serious. The nfl has operate by different rules and the circumstances that have happened since the ray rice incident bring with it the vividness of that video to the fore and casts a much harsher light. If it happened in a more stagger way over a few years we wouldnt be focusing on this. This case with the vikings the only thing you need to know is 307 which was the patriots vikings score. As soon as you saw the vikings offense get shut down i immediately thought they are going to bring Adrian Peterson back. They will make an excuse. They will have him on the field for next sunday. So covergirl has released a statement. As a brand thats always supported women and stood for female empowerment covergirl believes Domestic Violence is completely unacceptable. We developed our nfl program to celebrate 80 million fans. Weve encouraged the nfl to take swift action on their path forward to address the issue of Domestic Violence. They are not doing anything. Way to go covergirl. Lets go to wes moore. Wes, so at the end of the day i mean i understand the vikings, you know. Their outfit stinks. They will figure out how to get a guy who has been arrested twice for child abuse and arrested once to get back on the field as quickly as possible. My question is this, will fans support teams that dont have sexual abusers or child abusers
on their teams . Is there not enough good players out there to replace these guys . Reporter the simple answer is no. Theres a reason these guys are nfl players. They are special athletes. They are elite athletes. It highlights a bigger problem. They are told they are special ever since he were adolescents. When these people were 12 and 13 were better than everybody else. Then they went to college and they were better than everybody else. Let he in underline that fact. Bill rowen was on this show. He says he has a program uptown. Said he had to kick 9yearold kids out of the program because when they figure out they are better than everybody else, people start treating them differently and they start abusing other kids. It does start very early, done it . Absolutely it starts early. So we have to be able to focus,
when were watching kids, training kids. No one is saying theres a problem aspiring to being a professional athlete. Thats fine. As much as you want to train your body you have to train your mind. You have to train your skill and character. This is the problem that happens for a lot of people as they are coming up. Where you fall, youre under the national spotlight, international spotlight now. The actions that you thought were tolerable before are not tolerable. And so thats why youre watching a lot of people who fall into certain situations and this is something where the nfl, you know, paths tremendous amount of focus on marketing, focus on ratings, focus on contiguous and endorsements. Same type of focus has to be what type of product do you want to put not just on the field but in the community . In the different environments these guys have to exist in. No doubt. Talking about how these athletes are treated differently, i am a big alabama fan. As a big alabama fan you have to take notre dame. Because they keep they always took National Championships away from us. I say to notre dame, one day i was on a flight, i was flying with this guy who went to notre dame. We talked. He was in class with tim brown about to win a heisman trophy. Whats that like . What do you mean whats that like . How do people treat him . Like a student. I kept going. The notre dame culture, just demanded that tim brown be im sure everybody will have a story about how he was like shooting guns off. I have no evidence of that. But i was so taken by a culture where everybody there said you are no better than anybody else because you can carry a ball over a goal line. And thats taught in so few institutions. So, we have a second incident
with Adrian Peterson which well get to. We will put together a timeline because weve talked so much about the nfl. We havent talked enough about sponsors but we will and well listen. But also the Prosecutors Office in new jersey, we put together a timeline that really shows exactly what happened with the ray rice incident. Its stunning, actually. Some of the data shows he did get special, special care. In the Prosecutors Office. Unbelievable. Really bad confluence of events where the nfl, Prosecutors Office and sponsors and fans are not stepping up. The Prosecutors Office charged the woman who was brutally assaulted and knocked out for the same thing he got charged with. He got put in an Anger Management Program that nonviolent offenders go and people who havent hit people go into. Well lay it out four. Its fascinating. Did you see the scott brown up in New Hampshire . Yeah. Were going to have that coming up. We have news coming out of New Hampshire. Scott brown was basically over. It was finished about a month ago. Carpet bagger. Finished a month ago. Hes done. Hes dumb. Hes this. Hes that. All the insults. This morning a new cnn poll that shows its a dead heat up in New Hampshire. Barnacle whispered to me the day after obama went golfing after tim foleys murder, he said that internal polls were showing this race was slipping and a couple of days after that he said internal polls showed she lost eight points. We go oh, its just optics it doesnt matter, why do you guys bug the president so much. Just back off. She lost eight points in new
hampshire after that happened. Specifically because of that. And he was New Hampshire guy obviously too. Thats a shock, isnt it . It is except we saw polls about a week, ten days ago that saw this race and a lot of people included whether those polls were outliers. The Democratic Committee is looking at this race and realizing its tightening up. You think where the last dollars will go on both sides people are predicting its a race where a little bit of money can make a lot of difference. Republicans are ready to pour money into this race. This race could be much more contested than we thought it would be a few weeks ago. If democrats are spending money in New Hampshire trying to hold jean shaheen seat its tougher to hold louisiana, arkansas, kentucky. You look at the movement that Mitch Mcconnell showing, look at the move that tom cotton is
showing in arkansas. You are seeing Real Movement going towards some of these republican candidates. Still too early. Were still in midseptember. A long way to go. Certainly big Movement Towards republicans over the past week or two. Mitch, thats not how you hold a gun. We have that coming up. A category 3 hurricane with wind gusts as high as 100 Miles Per Hour hit the baja, california peninsula, leaving extensive damage behind. Bill karins has more. Major hurricane category 3 one of the strongest hit okay biosan lucas. We have the pictures how devastating the blow was to the resort area. Rural sections are trying to recover this morning. Thousands of american tourists are trapped in cabo san lucas. The airport had a lot of significant damage. They are hoping the military will get in there and have the airport opened by thursday. People for three days without a lot of food, water or electricity waiting to get back to the United States and anxious parents waiting for their children to get home also. You can see the devastation of 125 mileperhour winds. So this storm will move to the north. A threat with it in arizona and new mexico with flash flooding. The storm is only a tropical storm. But it will bring heavy rain to the desert areas. Not often we show a hurricane track into Southern Arizona but especially around tucson, phoenix and over into areas of el paso, albuquerque, areas at risk. Theres a town called weed, california they had a firebreak out late yesterday. 100 homes were destroyed about a quarter of the town, a little town in northern california, the fire wasnt big without right through the downtown area and theres a lot of destruction there. Well get you those pictures. Literally it likes if a tornado went through it took out a
quarter of the town. Thats the equivalent of what they are dealing with. Still ahead, actress carrie washington will be with us. Senator angus king on what he wants to hear from defense secretary hagel. Plus a surprising guest, one homeowner found beating the heat in his backyard pool. Look at that bear in the pool. I love him. Thats a cute bear. I want one of those. Well be right back. [ female announcer ] we help make secure financial tomorrows a reality
for over 19 million people. [ alex ] transamerica helped provide a lifetime of retirement income. So i can focus on what matters most. [ female announcer ] everyone has a moment when tomorrow becomes real. Transamerica. Before the names theodore, eleanor, and franklin were indelibly etched into the american consciousness. And the course of Human History was forever changed by their individual endeavors. A prominent family made a point of teaching the value of altruism, the power of perseverance, and the virtue of helping out ones fellow man. When la quinta. Com sends sales rep Steve Hatfield the ready for you alert, the second his room is ready. You know what he brings . Any questions . Can i get an a, steve . Yes three as he brings his agame the ready for you alert, only at laquinta. Com all right. Lets take a look did you see this l. A. Story this django actress arrested. Because she was sitting on her white boyfriends lap . Is this selma, alabama, 1966 . Unbelievable. More happening. Well just check. Lets go to the Washington Post. Front of the new york post, shred of evidence, hillarys team sanitize benghazi file says an aide and then the daily news leading with a story about Adrian Peterson in yet a second son who apparently required stitches after he was beaten in a car. Still looking into that with some Text Messages that back that up. The Washington Post, president obama awarded the medal of honor to two vietnam era soldiers during a ceremony at the white house on monday. Obama presented the medal postuhomously to the veteran who covered a bomb with his body. The 79th living recipient of the medal of honor. So coming from the daily mail. Air france has cancelled more
than half of its flights across the globe as its pilots began a week long strike. So pilots have been unhappy with the airlines saying that the company is shifting jobs and operations to a low cost carrier to compete with rivals. Air france says the new deal will save 1 billion over the next few days. A complaint the baguettes were very sale. Usa today clothing retailer oh, my gosh i cant believe this story. Urban outfitters is in hot water after selling an offensive sweat shirt on its website. The item was marketed as a vintage who does that. Vintage kent state sweat shirt but stood out from what appears to be blood stains. A lot of people felt the shirt was in poor taste and direct dmoex the 1970 shootings at kent state in which four students were killed by the ohio national
guard, an incident that really ripped apart this country in the early 1970s. Urban outfitters has apologized saying the connection to the shootings was unintentional. Thats a lie. They removed the shares from the website. The careers of the people who actually were responsible for putting that up on the website should also be destroyed making the life of four students being gunned down in protest. Unspeakable. Thats unspeakable. Yes, its too soon. One thing you love to