Ahead. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie heads to wisconsin to campaign for Governor Scott walker. On a court note, jury selection begins in the penalty phase retrial of jod jf jody arias. I think everybody applauds the efforts that you made and the size of the coalition that has been assembled. Most of them are contributing money or training or policing the borders. Not getting particularly close to the contact. It looks like once again we are leading, leading the operation, we are carrying most thats always the case. Thats always the case. America leads. We are the indispensable nation. We have capacity no one else has. Our military is the best in the history of the world. And when trouble comes up anywhere in the world, they dont call beijing, they dont call moscow, they call us. Thats the deal. It looks like were doing 90 of it. Steve, theres not when theres a typhoon in the philippines, take a look at who is helping the philippines. Deal with that situation. When theres an earthquake in haiti, take a look who is
leading the charge make being sure haiti can rebuild. Thats how we roll. And thats what makes us america. Good morning. It is monday, september 29th. That was president barack obama on 60 minutes last night. What do you think . I liked it. I thought that he made some really clear points. He also threw him under the bus. You remember what harry truman put on the desk, the buck stops with the clapper. He did well. Very well. A tough interview. He could have gained more points if he said i screwed up, i made a mistake. George w. Bush doesnt hide behind the intel people. You never heard him say that in an interview it wasnt my fault. Lets not get down in the weed. I think for the most part it was
a strong delivery and it certainly he did not sound like a president of two years ago who believed that he led from behind. A big change. I think that hes responding to circumstances with mindfulness and trying to get a different approach to it in terms of getting other countries on board. Yep. And he seems completely with it every step of the way on it. I dont know. I thouk he did pretght he di. Theres a lot happening internationally but we have to take a look by whats happening here at home. On friday, such tragic news coming out of moore, oklahoma. A 54yearold wife, her husband waited outside for her every day, a 54yearold wife and mother and grandmother, colleen haford was attacked and beheaded by a former coworker who spent
the last few weeks to convert the other fellow employees to islam. Local news out lets said he was shouting muslim phrases during the attack. Their response according to the Washington Post. That there was no indication, quote, no indication that he was copying the beheadings of journalists in syria by the Islamic State. Adding that they were treating this as quote workplace violence. Workplace violence. Really . Despite the fact the attackers Facebook Page had pictures of Osama Bin Laden, the taliban, gruesome beheadings by isis, pictures celebrating the destruction of the twin towers and his promise that america would go up in flames and his declaration, quote, islamic terrorists behead their victims because the president was bestowed by their prophet. Can you believe this . The fbi says there was no
indication that he was copying isis. Im not saying like isis has infiltrated us and this is going to happen. Seriously . Fbi how stupid does the fbi really think we are . Who exactly are they afraid of offending . Isis . Moderate muslims . Because moderate muslims are just as scared as moderate methodists. And as Political Correctness so pervasive through our government that the fbi cant tell the truth of the beheading of a mother in Middle America for fear of offending muslims. Muslims are offended by these actions. If the fbi is resorting to Political Correctness after the beheading on u. S. Soil can they confront the evil that america faces and the threat of copycat killers . I mean, come on. No evidence, really . Willie, mike . Its insulting. What happened to this community and to this woman. It is what is it. How does someone within a community have a Facebook Page of Osama Bin Laden, go around boasting that the United States is done. Well go up in flames and nobody says anything. Nobody says hey you might want to Pay Attention to this guy at work . Thats allegedly part of the reason he was fired because he was saying things around the office that were alarming some people so he goes to human resources, gets himself fired and then goes next door to the main distribution building and did what you just described. He would have beheaded another woman if the ceo of the company didnt step in with a gun and took this guy out. We look at these incidents like wildly separate. Like the white house jumper. Are we going to look at things as separate incidents an completely incidents or tie it to where were at today. Europe, unfortunately, for a long time has been trying to ignore muslim extremism and now its at their door steps. They cant ignore it. They cant ignore it in Great Britain or in france. Again the Political Correctness. There were people that wrote books warning about the rise of muslim extremism that were actually arrested for hate crimes. Again, moderate muslims are just as concerned. Thats whats so insulting about this. Lets learn more about this. We have with us a lecturer at the city of new york a professor. Give us a sense of what were talking about here, what joe
just said. How much of a link do you make between these isolated incidents across the country as we see them happen, and what we would define as the spread of extremism. Yes. First of all, good morning. I want to say that i completely agree with joe in condemning this act of violence. This is, you know, such a grotesque brutal act that is completely deplorable and has no place in any society, has no place in any nation, it has no place in any religion and i think its very clear that muslims, you know, around the world in fact, last week over 120 muslim clerics issued an open letter to isis declaring their how illegitimate isis was on the basis of islamic theology. Muslims are outraged and just as fearful by the spread of this
kind of ideology. I agree with you, mika, because we do need to look at this as kind of a, you know, this is that, this particular suspect posted these Facebook Messages or made these statements is not the complete story of his life, right. He a very troubled background. Had several run ins with the law. Served time in prison. And so we have to look at this particular individual in terms of his own troubles, just like we have to look at the individual who, you know, stormed the white house and his own troubles. I think we have to be very careful not to draw over generalized conclusions based on these acts and so i think thats really important for us to keep in mind. All right. Last night president obama spoke to 60 minutes about how the Islamic State became so powerful. How did they end up where they are in control of so much
territory. Was that a complete surprise to you . Well, i think our head of the Intelligence Community jim clapper has acknowledged that i think they under estimated what had been taking place in syria. He didnt say that just say that we under estimated isil. He said we overestimated the ability and the will of our allies, the iraqi army to fight. Thats true. Thats absolutely true. And now those same iraqi troops who dropped their weapons and ran from isis are being recruited back to their ranks. As many as 6,000 iraqis have reenlisted thanks to a new military campaign to rebuild the army there. However, there are those who doubt the president s strategy, specifically in syria. If the goal is to destroy isis as the president says it is, i dont believe the strategy that he outlined will accomplish
that. Why not . The other day i think its going to take more than air strikes to drive them out of there. At some point somebodys boots have to be on the ground. Maybe we can get enough of these forces trained, get them on the battlefield but somebodys boots have to be there. If no one else steps up you recommend putting american boots on the ground . We have no choice. These are barbarians. They intend to kill us. If they dont destroy us first were going to pay the price. A new poll finds 72 of americans believe u. S. Will eventually send Ground Troops to region to fight isis. Another part of this nbc news poll talks about how a plurality of americans believe in sending troops. Which is remarkable, given the lessons of the last decade and a half, its incredible now a majority of the plurality are willing to go in with troops. 72 say they believe thats going to happen because of the rhetoric they heard. We heard john boehner say it yesterday but, again, ral dempsey, i know what the president said but i see scenarios where i have to recommend Ground Troops. People are smart in this country. A couple of other quick things. White house story, see the Washington Post white house story that broke over the weekend, theres a horrible the white house was actually shot at and struck and the secret service and this guy shoots at the house, hits it and then the head of the security says stand down. Seven times. Stand down. It was a backfire. Whats wrong with these people . Im serious. They have one job. This is a really tough story on the secret service. It took four days. There was something in the reporting of Michele Obama was upset when she got back. Ill tell you what, remember
would have been fired. If i had been there, if my youngest son had been in there and been shot seven times and somebody told him to stand down. They would have all been, you know i could quota line from top gun. But they would not be around the white house or my children. This is just deplorable. I dont know whats happened to the secret service. According to the Washington Post it was only discovered by a staffer who saw broken glass on the ground and a little concrete and thought that was strange and alerted the secret service and looked in and say oh, gun shots. There are so many professionals in the secret service. I dont think this is a crisis of the secret service. Its a crisis of leadership. Theres some people running the secret service that have to be cleaned out. Let me get to midterm politics. We got a full poll numbers in some senate races. First up iowa, to fill a seat
left by senator harkin. Republican joniernst leading bruce braley 44 to 38 . Last night iowans got a chance to hear the candidates in their first televised debate. If two clashed on a number of issues including abortion, Climate Change, and the government shutdown. And there was a Tense Exchange after braley accused ernst of being in the pocket of the Koch Brothers. Youre not running against these other people, youre running against me. Im a mother, im a soldier, and i am an independent leader. Youre being funded by tom pryor who is a california billionaire extreme environmentist. So remember please youre running against me, not against any of these other groups,
youre running against me. I realize that and president obamas name is not on the ballot and im not going to owe president obama anything on election day, youre going to owe the Koch Brothers everything. Thats ridiculous. Willie, come on. This Koch Brothers thing. Its ridiculous. Especially when they are getting tons of money from their own side. As was pointed out. Weve been talking about this for six months. When harry reid goes on the senatorry day and talks about the Koch Brothers. And it becomes a national strategy. It doesnt even work in manhattan where people thank god for david koch. They do. You go to the hospital for special surgery because youre mortally injured. If you have cancer you think david koch. If you love the arts, you will thank david koch. I mean you will thank the koch
brothers. This yes you can hate them if you want to hate them and people like to do it because it drives things to their website. They are spending a lot of money. Democratic billionaires have been doing this for years. How stupid do these people think they are. Were obviously not from iowa. State after state i dont know what exact it has to introduce their names. They just arent that like you know the weirdest thing is that ideologically if you read the New York Times article about david koch or if you know anything about charles koch, they dont you know, they are more a grand pal on gay marriage and wars. They are total libertarians. They are not like these rightwing nuts. Its stupid. By the way, Amazing Things happening in the polls. I know. Theres no tidal wave. In iowa the republican is moving ahead. She looks like shes in good shape. In louisiana you got mary ahead. Shes ahead by 6. 5 votes. In North Carolina you got kay hagan moving ahead. And mitch is moving ahead. In the northeast you got republican governors in michigan and wisconsin in big trouble. And then you get a the Washington Post article this weekend saying that the republicans could have the biggest spread in the house than theyve had in a generation. There is no way, mika, this is right now i always have to do this. Were still in september. September 29th this is one of the most fascinating midterm elections because nobody knows what will happen. We have a lot ahead. Chelsea had her baby. So cute. Charlotte clinton. I was hoping they would use scarborough as a middle name. Very cute. Some of the coverage not so cute. Whatever. Actress, Felicity Hoffman joins us in the 8 00 hour. Shes from desperate housewives. And then columnist mike lupica. I hope he smiles like in that picture. Is that a hostage picture. Well have an interesting conversation about the economics of not getting married. But first marriage has been pretty good to you. It has. Come on. Youre on the other side of
that. Massive protests in hong kong as demonstrators demand free elections. Thats next on morning joe. Hey, i notice your cars not in the driveway. Yeah. Its in the shop. Its going to cost me an arm and a leg. Thats hilarious. Im sorry. You shoulda taken it to midas. Get some of that midas touch. Theyll tell you what stuff needs fixing, and what stuff can wait. All right. Next time im going to midas. Highfive arg did not see that coming. [ male announcer ] get the midas touch maintenance package including an oil change for only 24. 99. And heres a deal, use your midas credit card and get a rebate of 25. Oil. Tires. Brakes. Everything. Trust the midas touch. [ male announcer ] united is rolling out global, satellitefed wifi to connect you even 35,000 feet over the ocean. Thats. Wifi friendly. Really, really mean. Why would a wife do that, willie . I dont understand. Pretty funny. It is funny. Jelter gets a selfie. The guy comes out before mike who was the pitcher. Joe kelly. Takes a selfie with jeter before the game. His wife tweets when i was 12 i thought i would marry jeter. Instead i married the guy took a selfie with jeter. It was incredible yesterday. Theres so many yankee fans in fenway park. It was horrible. Was it fun. No. Because there were so many yankee fans. Mike said there were 34,000. Jeter fans. I think i was the only guy in the park, i was a little ticked off. They start the game already this guy is a yankee. Jeter and yankee fan the red sox did an awesome job trotting out all the old captains. About an hour and a half of it. Ive seen enough. Serious. I sat down after an hour and a half of it. Were in fenway. You know. Okay. Anyway. Thats jeters last moment in baseball. Newfoundland hit. Gets an rbi. Something that mika is very excited about, George Clooney got married. Im not excited about that. I know youre not. Thats why i said it. All right lets take a look at the morning papers from the wall street journal, pro democracy protesters are expanding their rallies throughout hong kong despite calls to disperse. Officers are trying to negotiate with protesters one day after firing tear gas. The mass protests are the strongest challenge yet to beijings decisions to reject open nominations for candidates in hong kong. A massive protest. Huge crowds out there. The next times for once talked about a clinton has nothing to do with politics. Chelsea clinton and her husband welcomed in their new daughter. President clinton remarked charlottes life is off to a good start. Cute. How exciting. Albany times unioni, andrew
cuomo is taking part in a surprise trip to afghanistan. Why . The new york democrat said hes being briefed on counter terrorism. Okay. Yeah. Information that could help protect the country. Oh, okay. Cuomo who also im sure they are breathing a sigh of relief. Cuomo also visited israel and considered a possible contender for possible in 2016 he went with a group of governors it should be pointed out. The Washington Post, for all the talk in baseball was about derek jeter, the Washington Nationals had their own fairy tale ending to the season. This was incredible. Jordan zimmerman takes a nohitter to the last out. Watch what happens. The ball driven to left center. Souza, its a nohitter for
jordan zimmerman. The last out of the 162nd game of the year. Willie talk about story books. I want to see it again. Souza with a diving catch. Preserving the nohitter. First nohitter in franchise history. Washington already in the playoffs. Thats storybook. What a way to go into the playoffs. The wild card picture is set in the american league. The royals and the as. The afternoons one of the hottest teams just in a death spiral. They sneak into the playoffs. They go to kansas city. The winner of that game plays the angels. On wednesday the pirates and then the winner of that game gets washington. Saturday night live topped off its 40th season. Two new cast members m