Theres no question with have the legal basis for action founded on the request of the Iraqi Government. Let me just briefly address the fact that me briefly address th that well be acting in the support of local partners. This has been a major concern of people across house to. We have a substantial International Coalition in place including arab nations committed to confronting and defeating isil. 60 countries are acting in some way to confront isil. Ten are arab states. Favor have taken part in air strikes. As i said our differences with iran remain. Iran support for terrorist organizations, its nuclear program, treatment of its people i believe all of that has to change and well not back down on these things. If irans political leaders are to help a more secure, more stable, more inclusive iraq and syria we should welcome their
engagement. Theres a legal principle clearly given the consent from the Iraqi Government. Theres the important principle, responsibility to protect from genocide which is on the table of capable of wide application. Fascinating, mika. Youre watching british Prime MinisterDavid Cameron asking parliament to approve air strikes. Why dont we do that here. Ive been fascinated watching this in the past hour. He gets asked questions. He gets thrown punches and hes punching back and he says why this needs to be done. You get more of a response from a british Prime Minister, willie, in five minutes than you get from an american president in a year. We bubble wrap our leaders. And whether its george w. Bush or barack obama, this goes way back where you got press people begging and just one question. May have a question. We get none. Where he goes here, theyve asked David Cameron over the past hour more tough questions and he has answers. We bubble wrap our leaders. Why . Why cant we get answer from our leaders. Why do they have layer after layer after layer of defense so we can have a real conversation. We get statements and speeches or a press conference and then no questions. That was a real conversation. I wish everybody, i hope you woke up early enough to see some of that. They were talking about merits of going back to war. The Prime Minister explaining why he thinks this is different than 2003. He was challenged openly. That could have been tony blair standing up there 11 years ago. Not a lot of b. S. I would vote for a president ial candidate that would promise to go to congress once a week and actually answer questions. Lets talk about what happened here in new york city last
night. Willie geist, dude, what a way to end. No, were not talking about groundhog day. Its always a cover up. Lets see what happened last night at Yankee Stadium. Derek jeters last at bat. Base hit to right field. Here comes richardson. Heres the throw. Richardson is safe derek jeter ends his final game with a walkoff single. Derek jeter, where fantasy becomes reality. Did you have any doubt . What was going through your mind as you stepped into that batters box one last time. Dont cry. I dont know how i played this game. I went up my first at bat. I forgot my elbow guard. Throwing balls away. Everybody is saying thank you derek and im thinking to myself for what . You know, im just trying to do my job. So thank you guys. Willie, im a red sox fan. I hated the yankees now no iv years. I got chills. Thats amazing. Good guys, good guys dont finish last if your name is derek jeter. A perfect way to end. Incredible we got there. They were up 52 at the top of the ninth inning and looked like we would end the game. The orioles come back in the top of the ninth. Tie the game at 5 00. Jeter is up at the bottom of the 11th. Here comes derek jeter with a winning run on second base, takes the first pitch and almost was better than him hitting a home run. I know it sounds weird. He goes to other way. Slaps one. Sees a hole in the defense. The run comes around to score and thats the last image we have derek jeter wearing yankee stripes in new york. He said hell play again. He said ill play because i owe to it the boston fans. What a guy. I hope he does because they are actually im giving my red sox tickets away friday and saturday to new england fans who asked me in april for be the tickets because they are huge jeter fans. Hes got fans all over the place. You think of the worst images of derek was during the playoffs when he hurt the ankle and some people thought that have it. For this to be the image, it was powerful. Only he could pull this off. Its a movie. For a guy that has shown no emotion whatsoever, picture of cool ever in 20 years he talked after the game last night having
to go back down into the clubhouse a couple of times because he was crying. He went into the bathroom he didnt want people to see it. In the top of the ninth inning for the first time in my career my gosh i hope they dont hit the ball to me because im a mess. Ill move on because theres so much more. This is wonderful. Well go to the football story. When did the nfl see the video of ray rice punching his fiancee inside the elevator. The nfl has denied seeing the violent video until tmz released it. However, a new report broke last night refuting their claims. The Associated Press says the video was sent to nfl headquarters to the attention of the chief of League Security jeffrey miller. This is the first time weve had a name. Although its unknown if the package was ever opened thats five months before tmz posted the video online. Miller denies ever receiving the video. The nfl is currently
investigating their handling of the ray rice case led by former fbi director mueller. That was an interesting. Development. We have Chris Christie in the news as well. What have you got his Approval Rating is hurting a little bit in new jersey. He recently lashed out at the democratic new Jersey Legislature for pressing on with the investigation into the George Washington bridge scandal. Investigators admitted they have no evidence that christie knew about the bridge closing. Six in ten want the legislature to stop the investigation. Only 34 say they want to continue it. Of course, willie, these numbers, look at those poll numbers. One of the reasons that these results are skewed is because they did not actually ask any New York Times reporters
whether they wanted the investigation to conclude. There are a lot of people in the press not willing to let got it. If youre a Democratic State legislator, i mean its what i was saying last week ugot something on him ugot something on him. This is not a complex financial transaction. You have all the characters. All of the evidence there. I mean, either charge him or drop it. Yeah. Simple question did he know about it or did he not know about it. If he didnt know about it and still dont like how it reflects on i had management style thats fine. But in terms of indicting this guy and Everything Else one simple question and they dont have it. Big news out of washington erick holder resigning. Big story. Big emotional news conference. Big surprise. A lot of people think hes doing it at this time so the success will be easier in the lame duck session. This announcement was difficult for the president. Weric holder announced hell resign as attorney general leaving behind a mixed legacy and a white house scrambling to find his replacement. Rumored for months president obama made it official yesterday with an emotional holder standing by his side. As younger men erick and i both studied law. I chose him to serve as attorney general because he believes as i do that justice is not an abstract theory. Its a living and breathing principle. Thats why i made him americas lawyer. The peoples lawyer. I want to thank you, mr. President , for the opportunity that you gave me to serve and for giving me the greatest honor of my professional life. We have been great colleagues. But the bonds between us are much deeper than that. In good times and in bad, in things personal and in things professional, you have been there for me. Im proud to call you my friend. I have loved the department of justice ever since as a young boy. I watched Robert Kennedy prove during the Civil Rights Movement how the department can and must always be a force for that which is right. I hope that i have done honor to the faith that you have placed in me, mr. President , and to the legacy of all those who have served before me. Lets bring in roland. Controversial attorney general. Somebody close to the president. Somebody lauded by many on the left, many civil rights leader. Some say he was the civil rights leader that the president never could be. When you look at where the attorney general was when it came to dealing with fairness in our Justice System he was right on the mark. Look you got all these yahoos out here saying he was a black
panther attorney. People like Grover Norquist, minimum sentencing and sentencing disparity and Newt Gingrich and others and republican governors talking about how this country is going bankrupt because were throwing people in jail. To have the nations top lawyer and saying we must have fairness and equity how we send folks to prison thats his Lasting Legacy and a tremendous one and we are thankful that he was in this position because it is an issue in this country with the millions sitting in prisons, a lot of folks who should not be there. A lot of these nonviolent crimes. Sam stein, controversial attorney general. Darrell issa saying he was the first to be found in contempt. I mean listen. Mika and i know, erick and we like him as a guy. Wall street journal said he was the most partisan. Saying John Mitchell and Bobby Kennedy went before him, yeah its a split legacy. Hes divisive in more than partisan ways. In the things he did there were supporters and detractors. In liberal circles things he did on voting reits and mandatory minimums, gay rights earn incredible apraus. He had his critics in the liberal circles because they thought he was too lenient when it came to prosecuting people who were responsible for the financial collapse in 2007 and 2008. Hell have a Lasting Legacy not just on criminal Justice Reforms but shepherding an era of gay
rights. Hell be a historic a. G. Historic a. G. Harold . First of all, every attorney general has his or her critics. If you look at the body of work, i agree with roland his body of work has been good. There may have been things i would differ with and some decisions he made. In terms of his legacy he has a tall powerful legacy. He has nothing to be ashamed of with conservatives or liberals. Decisions he and the president made lowering time for nonviolent drug offenders. It rehabilitates people. Going after states that want to limit voting reits. What hes done for gay americans in terms of marriage equality. Its legacy well look back hell have people saying thing about him what he said about kennedy the towering civil rights progress he made. Theres a down side too. Like kennedy hell be known as
someone who used state resources to infringe on civil liberties. The nsa stuff, for instance. Going after journalists for leaks. Those things were real and it happened under his watch and hell have that on his record. You got the nsa. You got what happened with reporters. You got the irs scandal. You got a lot. It is a mixed legacy and obviously thats even if you share erics politics. Lets the end block. We saw at the top of the hour live british Prime MinisterDavid Cameron making the case for air strikes. Allied force continue to take the fight to extremists in syria and iraq strike being key oil targets held by isis. Theres new reports of threats against the homeland. Iraqi Officials Say they have credible information that the
new york subway system will be a target of the terror group. U. S. Officials say they cant confirm any specific threat. Thats not the case overseas. Where a female human rights lawyer, a mother of three children has been killed by isis after writing a Facebook Post critical of the terror group. She was reportedly kidnapped from her home in front of her family and tortured for days before being publicly executed by a firing squad. So when you hear barack obama, willie, call these people evil, a mother with three children write as Facebook Post. Shes dragged out of her home with her husband and three children watching, taken out, tortured for several days and then publicly executed. These people are the face of evil. Prime minister cameron just called them a group of psychopaths. And now the question is, these are very emotional moments, the beheadings were emotional. Thats why you saw the poll
numbers so high. The question is how do you go about attacking them in a smart way. We all feel emotional about it. We want these guys bought to justice or wiped out. How do you do it . Thats the question. Roland, this is obviously a question that splits conservatives and liberals. We have been having debates over the past several days and sometimes its hard to tell the conservative from the liberals because theres skeptics on both sides but theres people supporting action on both sides. David cameron sounds far more clear minded on this than most americans. This is where it requires Political Leadership to have the ability to be transparent, open and honest with the american people. You open up talking about sort of this kind of engagement between the Prime Minister and parliament there. Wouldnt that be nice to have that in the United States. Of course. Where you have a president , republican or democrat, we bubble wrap our president s. They are hermetically sealed and
reporters begging can i have a crumb of information. Its pathetic. The brits put their Prime Minister out there and hes pounded and he has to answer. Joe, its interesting, remember the Health Care Discussion when president barack obama was there with congressional leaders. I remember being on the air at the time and all these media folks are sitting oh, my god this is boring. I said wait a minute, we cant keep saying can you all be in the room together and lets see the conversation go back and forth and then we go oh, my god this is boring. Can we talk about Kim Kardashians butt. Seriously. Thats the problem. We have to allow the conversation to happen and not complain about it when it does. Still ahead on morning joe were going to talk to the ap reporter who broke the
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investigating officers meant no disrespect to the brown family, to the Africanamerican Community or the people of canfield. They were simply trying to do their jobs. It would have been nice a month ago. I wonder if he tried meet with the parents in person. The video message seemed cold. Maybe he did reach out to them. The usa today, u. S. Stock market took a big hit. Dow down 260 points, nearly 1. 5 . Experts say the drop is due to unease over overseas conflict. It plunged below 17,000. Oh, my god. They are hurting on wall street. Oh, yeah. Apple fell 4 . The company has lost 23 billion in market value since the launch of the iphone 6. Why is that . Plagued by some Faulty Software, the upgrade and rumors that the new phones bend although apple says it was like
ten that bend. When i got iphones they told me i can get mine in like 2018. I signed up. I signed up like a week before and verizon is yeah, you know what not due for a new one. Youll get it by the midterms. I guess thats not too. Apple and the tech companies. From the Washington Post the top cop in the nation fbi director is blasting apple and google for making their phones into devices too hard to crack. Yesterday he said new encryption make them nearly impossible to break into. They cant read our