Fact. Wheres the restitution . Whats happening to the environment . People have lost businesses and they are wondering what is their futch jer its the untold story. Well have a threepart series next week here on the ed show starting on tuesday, wednesday and thursday. The real story of the gulf. Thats the ed show. Politics nation with reverend al sharpton starts now. Good evening. Good evening, ed and thanks to you for tuning in. We start with breaking news. An isis claiming an american hostage was killed in syria. Theyre saying she died in a Jordanian Air strike buried underneath the rubble of a building. But the u. S. Has not been able to confirm any of this information. There is zero proof. A jordanian official calling it illogical and highly skeptical. Earlier today the hostages family released her name and these photos of her. Kayla mueller is a 26yearold aid worker from arizona. She dedicates her life to others. Isis kidnapped her in 2013 while she worked at a Doctors Without Borders hospital in syria. One Senior Defense official telling nbc news the entire Intelligence Community is working to gather the facts. U. N. Ambassador susan rice says the u. S. Is obviously concerned. We do not at the present have any evidence to corroborate isils claims but obviously will keep reviewing the information at hand. Joining me now is michael sheehan, and joining me now is keyir simmons. Lets go now to nbc news foreign
correspondent keir simmons in amman, jordan. Keir, a jordanian official called this a p. R. Stunt. And another called it illogical. We know they are masters of propaganda. What are you hearing . Reporter thats right. Al, in fact, they call it criminal propaganda and they are saying, the basic thing they are saying, they dont know whether this isis claim is true or not. After all, we are talking about about iraqa. What the jordanians are saying why would you trust a group that beheads incident people on camera that execute a jordanian pilot by setting him on fire alive . Why would you trust them when to claim that she had been killed seems very convenient for them to be able to claim that with no
one able to say whether its true or not. Now, this comes after a jordanian pilot was burned to death by isis as you mentioned. Reporter right. The jordanian sing said they will fight until they run out of fuel and bullets. How does that play into this situation . Reporter thats absolutely right. King abdullah saying they will go after isis wherever they are, and it is an incredible turn of events. Before the news tonight. Because what we saw today before that was thousands of jordanians on the streets supporting this offensive against isis, and that was just a few days since the father of that pilot had questioned why jordan was involved in this fight, saying it isnt this countrys fight to have. So what happened with the pilot appears to have swung Public Opinion here in jordan at least for the time being, and in a
really important way and changed the dynamics. Again, though isis with this announcement appears to be trying to shift Public Opinion once again, both in this region and perhaps even in the u. S. Well great reporting. Thank you so much keir simmons. Thank you for your reporting this evening. Reporter you bet. Joining me now are michael sheehan, former head of special operations at the pentagon and harden lane an isis expert from the center of american progress. Thank you both for being here. Good to be here. My pleasure. Michael, theres no proof either way here. How do we verify this . I mean what can they do . Well its going to be difficult for us to verify it but the history of isis normally when they verify someones dead theyll show the body or the killing, and i think this im very skeptical in this case that theyve actually that this bombing run killed this woman. She may be already dead as was the case with the jordanian pilot. Negotiating when he was already dead or perhaps Still Holding her. Im very very skeptical, this convenient claim this jordanian bombing raid killed this very innocent young aid work. Why so skeptical . Why . Because its convenient. Theyre trying to blame the jordanians for this young woman they had kidnapped over a year and a half an innocent aid worker trying to shift the blame to this jordanian bombing and its not working. That type of prop gand sda not working and even if they did kill her by the bombing raid theyre still responsible for holding her hostage, an innocent aid worker. Im just got not buying it. What intelligence did she have about the hostage, harden . Thin so far in terms of what kind of information is out there in the open source. The type of intelligence weve got about the hostage. So i think at this stage its probably better not to speculate
on what intel we did or did not have, only to note that the u. S. And jordan would have been sharing whatever they did have up to the minute before during after the bombing raid. So i dont think thats the issue there. But i would like to underscore what mike just said. To me this feels very much like a mail harry on the part ihail mary by the isis to create tension between jordan and isis after burning the jordanian pilot alive and the credibility thats on the streets of jordan. Theyre stumbling. Would other nations become defiant like abdullah has in your opinion . What theyve done in jordan will no doubt reverberate beyond the borders of jordan. This pushes back against the narrative isis puts out there, theyre fighting on the behalf of sunni, and burning a jordanian sunni arab pilot to death isnt playing well anywhere in the region. What do you think, michael . Will other nations become defiant like king about buelldullah has . Were seen a few back away fearing they may get some of their pilots captured. The u. S. Air force will continue bombing, and 3w078bombing the crap out of isis. They cannot win with an air campaign. Isis will suffer. They communicate, well hear them and bomb them. No we cant defeat them with arn air campaign but we can really damage them and make them pay. Let me ask you this harden. How badly are these bombings hurting isis . Well weve seen a pretty big impact on the iraqi side of the border. Michaels right again here what this bomb hag maximum impact. When its paired with patter ins
on the partners on the ground. Weve seen a rollback on the iraqi side working with the kurdish per mergekurd ish peshmerga. The combination of air land in iraq has made a big difference. On the syrian side of the border, air power alone really its disruptive and keeps them off balance but not changing the strategic or tactic tactical momentum. You mentioned the aid worker reportedly killed by isis. She started working for the border of turkey and syria in 2012. In august of 2013 taken captive in syria, leaving a Doctors Without Borders hospital and may 2014 was the first time her family was contacted to prove kayla was alive. What kind of intelligence did we have about her before today . Well at one point it seems
now were hearing reporting we did think we knew where he location was reverend al and a special Operations Forces launched an attack to try to rescue her but it appears we arrived a little late and shed been moved to another location. Its very difficult to find someone like this. Theyre probably moving her from place to place, and right now were not even sure shes alive. Although at the time we launched that attack a while back we did have evidence she was alive. Hopefully she still is alive and well be able to bring her to safety but its going to be very difficult. Harden, the information that is unfolding, we have u. N. Ambassador susan rice discuss the u. S. Plan ton handling isis today. Listen . To degrade and ultimately defeat isil weve assembled a broad, from training iraqi securitys fors and supporting moderate opposition to encourage political reforms in iraq that
foster greater inclusion. With the world united in condemnation of its horrific executions isil should know their bar shberism fortified the worlds collective resolve. Where is this fight going harden . I mean, are we getting closer to troops on the ground . I hope were not. I think the sense is here and i think it pretty much cuts against the dna of this administration to look at putting troops into a combat role here. Obviously that doesnt apply to special operators. We wont hear a lot about what theyre doing or not doing, but the census here in iraq were beginning to make some progress. I think the National Security adviser made a really good point about needing to keep pace having the politics keep pace with what were doing on the ground militarily. The sunni outreach in iraq needs to continue besides a new secretary of defense whos
sunni. Michael sheehan and harden lane, thank you both for your time this evening. Thank you. Thank you. Straight ahead, president obama on the road touting a big day for jobs and the economy. Plus jurors in the Aaron Hernandez murder trial tour his home and hear a bizarre joke in court today. Please, stay with us. If youre running a business legalzoom has your back. Over the last 10 years weve helped
one million Business Owners get started. Visit legalzoom today for the legal help you need to start and run your business. Legalzoom. Legal help is here. Republicans say president obama is a job kill. But the facts say hes overseen the best run of job growth in american history. Who do the American People trust on this . Thats next. Ood for me. Hey and bad for the barkley twins. Your brain can send information to the rest of your body at 268 mph. Three times the speed of a fastball. Take care of your most important parts with centrum. Multivitamins expertly designed with nutrients people dont get enough of from food alone. Centrum. For the most important parts of you. By 1914 the Dodge Brothers quit the Ford Motor Company and set out on their own. They believed in more, than the assembly line. They believed driving was a holy endeavor. A hundred years later, the Dodge Brothers spirit lives on. Now to developing Economic News, and the immense pressure on republicans to finally abandon some tired talking points. Today a strong new jobs report extending the historic record of success under president obama. Weve now had 59 straight months of private sector job growth. The longest streak on record. 2014 was the best year for job growth in 15 years. The last three months have been the best run in 17 years, and the country has alded over 200,000 jobs in each of the last 12 months. The best run in 20 years. Its great news for american families, and bad news for
republicans stuck on false talking points. About how the president s policies are supposedly destroying jobs. And all of these jobkilling regulations that have become prolific in this administration. The doddfrank bill is the jobs and housing destruction act. The stimulus has only made our economy worse. Why would you want to increase the cost energy and kill more american jobs . Jobkilling and expensive rules through the Environmental Protection agency. Obamacare which has become such a job killer in our economy. Theyve been repeating these claims for year and its time to retire them once and for all. Today president obama was in indiana where he talked about the countrys recovery from the devastating bush recession, and the need to move forward. The reason weve gotten out of this recession over the last six years, is in part im going
to brag a little bit. We made some good decisions. We played the decision to save the auto industry. We made the decision to stabilize the financial system. We made a bunch of decisions to do infrastructure spending. America is poised for another good year. Indianapolis is poised for another good year, as long as washington works to keep this progress going. Joining me now are Jared Burnstein and jonathan capehart. Thank you both for being heenchts thank you, that rev. Jared, on this specific idea the president is pushing right now that can continue and expand this economic progress. Right. I was listening to your introduction, i was reminded of that old movie, someone said paraphrasing, that word job killer i dont think it means what you think it means. Right . The president is recognizing that in part because of policies that he has his fingerprints all
over the Federal Reserve has been helpful, of course that weve achieved a steady gdp growth and that economic recovery has reliably and clearly reached the job market. Over the past three moss over 300,000, not only creating jobs doing so at a faster pace. Look at the recent policy agenda the president is talking about in his budget infrastructure help with child care expanding the earned Income Credit these are ideas designed to help more of that growth reach normore people. Thats a critical piece of this whoa like to work on. Important as he suggested that congress not screw up the momentum we have, but i also would like to see them aspire to do more on this reconnection front. Well, and its been done basically create jobs in the private sector not the public sector. The congress would pass public
sector legislation in terms of infrastructure or something, we would see even more jobs and in areas that still have doubledigit unemployment, like africanamericans and the like . Yes. Certainly. And i think thats again, youre thinking about it the same way the president is and i am, which is we definitely have a recovery thats reaching the job market. I think thats unquestionable at this point. Now we have to look at outstanding problems. Things that still need work. The inequality story. The fact certain groups still face high unemployment rates. Wages arent growing quickly. Those kind of things. Jonathan whats harder for the gop . Concede the president was right on the economy or keep straight face while attack the economic record he has . Its harder for them to concede. Look, no matter how good the news is there are certain folks in the Republican Caucus who are so irrational that they cant
conceivably give the president any kind of credit for what hes been able to accomplish and the good jobs numbers that came out today. You know i recall when president bush was president , every time there was a good jobs report, every time there was a good piece of Economic News it was proof that president s policies were working. Well if thats the case under president george w. Bush it certainly should be the case under president obama, especially since when we came into office the economic hell he inherited and had to stave off to save the national economy, but the Global Economy at the same also. And now here we are six years later having the best economic recovery weve had in a very long time great jobs numbers. Gas prices are still theyre inching back up but still low. Unemployment ticked back up. Jared can correct me, more people are getting into the job
markets looking for jobs and theyll find them. In addition to that jared, one of the headlines from todays jobs report that i struck struck my eye was the average hourly wages are up a half a cent. A half a percent, rather. Its the biggest monthly gain for hourly wages in six years. How do we keep wages going that way . Well i think the answer that that question is that we stay on this accelerated track in terms of improved job growth. People coming sbook theback into the labor market and finding more work. Look year over year the way i measure the weight trends. Wages are up 2. 2 . Kind of around where theyve been. Jonathan mentioned, inflation now because of this energy price spike, inflation has been growing at less than 1 . We now have achieved real hourly wage growth. In order for this recovery to reach some of the folks we talking about before who had
really it really hasnt reached enough yet, we have to remain steady at the helm. Congress get into debt default deals, Highway Trust Fund screwups. Weve got to keep tightening the job market because were not at full employment yet but moving in that direction. . That part of the story, jonathan . With all the obstruction, the president has been able to deliver every month over and over and over again to where now hes set a record and hes done this facing a head wind not a back wind . That is pushing it along . Right. It speaks to the president s skill. I remember for the last six years weve been talking about, or at least here in the washington bubble all of this talk how the president is hapless. How the president cant seem to work with congress. How the president isnt getting anything done. How the president is being thwarted in every direction to do anything about the economy. Why wont he focus on jobs . Why wont he focus on the
financial health of the American People . Well, were now seeing that once again we have a pleepd is is a longball player and doesnt get distracted by the cacophony of the everyday news cycle. It focused on achieving the goal, and the goal is being achieved. Jared bernstein and jonathan capehart, thank you for your time. Have a good weekend. Thanks, rev. You, too. Still ahead a bizarre joke in the Aaron Hernandez murder trial. The judge was not amused. Also our special interview with the president s former body man. Reggie love. But first what do rand Paul Pete Carroll and left shaw have in common . Coming up in rev als report card, next. Good job still running in the morning . Yeah. Getting your vegetables every day . When i can. [ bop ] [ male
announcer ] couldve had a v8. Two full servings of vegetables for only 50 delicious calories. Toenail fungus . Dont hide it. Tackle it with new fdaapproved Jublia Jublia is a prescription medicine proven
to treat toenail fungus. Use jublia as instructed by your doctor. Once applied jublia gets to the site of infection by going under, around and through the nail. Most common side effects include ingrown toenail, applicationsite redness itching, swelling, burning or stinging, blisters, and pain. Tackle it ask your doctor now if new jublia is right for you. [ female announcer ] we help make secure financial tomorrows a reality for over 19 million people. [ susan ] my promotion allowed me to start investing for my retirement. Transamerica made it easy. [ female annou