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MSNBCW Up WSteve Kornacki September 20, 2014

Four dozen hostages released by isis, all of them turkish, no ransom was paid and no conditions were accepted in return for their release. Were going to talk about that. Plus, the president s plan to arm and train moderate islamic rebels in syria. Passed the big test in congress this week in a vote that scrambled party lines and created bipartisan alliances like you have never seen before. We begin this morning with nfl commissioner Roger Goodell breaking his silence with the First Press Conference Surveillance Video punching his wife in an elevator surfaced last week. Adrian peterson was indicted after beating his son with a switch and goodells first appearance, these were the very first public words since all of these controversies erupted. I said this before, back in august 28th and say it again now, i got it wrong in the handle of the ray rice matter. Im sorry for that. I got it wrong on a number of levels, from the process that i led, to the decision that i reached. But now, i will get it right. I will do whatever is necessary to accomplish that. And Roger Goodell didnt say much beyond the fact that the nfl is conducting a former investigation and also addressed the other initiative the league plans to take. John covered the press conference and joins us now. The reviews in real time on twitter this thing yesterday, if you look at any newspaper this morning, not too positive for the press conference. He said hes not right now no plans to resign. Has this Mueller Investigation to fully cooperate with that and announced a series of reforms. We can talk about how serious those are or not. Did anybody expect that roger good ell was going to anything more than this . No, whatever he said yesterday was going to be too little too late. And that is part and parcel with the fact this is a controversy that he has a hand in creating. He has been too lenient on Domestic Violence during his tenure and admitted to that, that he was a shortcoming and apologized for and now cry trying to correct. In terms of reform, working with the Players Union and apparently this is a big step for commissioner, to develop a new code of conduct. Are these real reforms he announced yesterday . He was very vague. Short on specifics, the only specific thing the commissioner offered us yesterday, no, hes not going to resign. He thinks he has the confidence of all 32 nfl owners. As far as working to be more strict with player conduct, he has a record of being strict just ask new Orleans Saints fans and players and coach sean payton during the bountygate scandal. For whatever reason he has been lenient with regards to Domestic Violence, whether he needs to be more educated, Going Forward they are going to try to do that. My question and wasnt one that was well answered by the commissioner yesterday, ray rice was not the first case of Domestic Violence that the league has seen. Why just now do you feel the need to be educated on this . It was during the saints investigation that he talked about how ignorance is not an excuse and one of the stories is telling that he didnt know about this video, ignorant of it. Thanks for joining us this morning. Appreciate that. In the second part of this story yesterday, a big news for Roger Goodell. Espns Investigative Unit released an exhaustive 7,000 word account of what it says was the nfls handling of the ray rice situation. Nbc news has not verified the allegations contained in the report but the report does paint a picture of a coordinated coverup by the Baltimore Ravens beginning within hours of first learning of rices attack on his wife then girlfriend. Hours after ray rices attack, the Baltimore Ravens director of security darren sanders, reached an Atlantic City Police Officer by phone while watching Surveillance Video shot from inside the video where rices punch knocked his fiancee unconscious. He told him happened to be a ravens fan and described in detail what he was saying. The ravens head of security relaid that information to team executives, including the owner and the general manager of the team. In another point, quoting the espn report further, ravens also consulted frequently with rices philadelphia defense attorney michael j. Diamondstooin who in early april obtained a copy of the video and said its expletive horrible. He did not request a copy, urging rices legal team to get him accepted in a Pretrial Intervention Program after being told the benefits, among them keep the elevator video from becoming public. The report indicates that the team not only knew about the tape and contents from the beginning but also conscious of an effort to cover it up. Baltimore ravens responded last night on espn. Com outside the lines article contains numerous areas, inaccuracies and false assumptions and misunderstandings, ravens will address all of these next week in baltimore after a trip to cleveland for sundays game against the browns. Now here to discuss all of this developments this week and big stories, we have amy holmes, the hot list and White House Correspondent for buzz feed and david corn, for mother jones magazine. Its not every day you see this kind of sort of drive the news media in new york. This is the cover on the Goodell Press Conference and you can see, thats it, thats the cover. The rival tab lloyd, new york post, thats it. Exact same headline and picture. These papers hire the best and brightest most Creative Minds to come up with these and come up with the exact same thing. What else is there to say . I think it was pretty obvious, that was everybodys reaction, someone clearly gave him a crisis manager who said go out there and say you were wrong and say nothing else, promise better results in the future and stuck toe that script and said it again and again. This guy got paid 44 million in 2012. Ill take 10 million for the job and say more at the next press conference. Maybe is it his job not to say it looks like its to make the nba look good. The key phrase here, too little too late. Anything short of the resignation was not going to be satisfactory. This is big business, this is all about money. Ray rice, hes still going to get his paycheck, which is something close to 700,000 per game. Per game, people. So is it any surprise that there is a coverup of this players obvious sli monsterous behavior. It reminds me of the old studio system where actors were getting into all sort of scrapes and studios would cover it up and do the marketing spin. The only surprise here is the nfl, which is generally a genius at marketing what is basically an entakenment product got it so badly in this instance. That is the press conference they give when they think they can weather it, they are not weathering it. He cant keep Going Forward with this kind of message. Are you saying he pulled a christie . I think hey, now. Well talk about that, tomorrows show the nfl thing goes beyond ray rice and Domestic Violence. The idea they have to learn about things like home phobia when it comes to michael sam and controversy about the washington nfl team name and now Domestic Violence, this is a picture of an organization that has no clue about the modern world. It is like an active scene and nothing he said will solve these problems. I dont think its having no clue, its having an investment in money that the nfl makes. Now the former fbi director, robert mueller, he is a really straight shooter. Im not sure its good news for Roger Goodell, to put this on another plate for a while. But if he digs in, that espn story, you quoted all of the right portions so people dont have to read the 7,000 words but it paints a picture of them not wanting to know. They dont want to see the video because then the espn story does two things, an shall yu with the Ravens Organization and among other things, a couple of things that jumped out to me, john harbaugh, the coach, apparently early on in this thing wanted ray rice released. It was the higher ups in the organization, including the general manager who were saying no and looking back and saying ravens, ray lewis, the linebacker had been charged with homicide about ten years ago, we got through this, were going to have no problem this is the most extraordinary thing. We have this apparently, this is an espn article, the owner of ravens, sent ray rice two text messages, first text message, ray, just want to let you know we loved you as a player it was great having you here. Hopefully all of these things will die down. I wish the best for you and janay. When youre done with football i would like you to know you have a job helping young guys getting acclimated to the league. Why is there a 7,000 word investigation . There should be two words, youre fired. Most of us would be fired for this kind of thing. These are very highly paid entertainers, i dont know if they have a morality clause in the contracts but we dont need former fbi directors, roll tape, get the guy out of there. I think that for all of the sort of slickness from the outside and how strong it looks and powerful it looks as an organization and business, its really rick ety and very archaic and needs a lot of advantage. If he thinks he can do it maybe he can do it. The poll came out this week, 90 of people dont care about these scandals when they think about watching the nfl. Its about them, its about getting the game on sunday. Well talk about this after the game on sunday because the game on sunday is when we make our money. So unless theres really a pinch in the pocketbook. All of the players and marketing around the uniforms. I think youre right. A lot of people have looked at the sort of the way this investigation is structured with mueller taking over. You have a couple of owners overseeing it but i think he is somebody who values his reputation. This is a legit investigation. This could go down other paths as well. When you put Bobby Mueller on the trail, he may find more than you want him to. That press conference, may not satisfy people but that does not mean it is the end of this. But also, other questions this morning including about how the guy got into the white house overnight. Well be talking about that as soon as we come back. 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I was one of em. So please go talk to your doctor or pharmacist. Losing your chex mix too easily . Deploy the boring potato chip decoy bag. With a variety of tastes and textures, only chex mix has twenty bags of interesting. Pick your mix. As we mentioned at the top of the show, the news breaking overnight, that a man who jumped over the fence at the white house, this is not exactly an uncommon occurrence but made it all the way inside the front door before he was apprehended. He have scaled the fence shortly after 7 00 p. M. And sprinted across the north lawn and tackled inside the north portico entrance to the white house. This happened minutes after president obama and his daughters departed the white house on the south lawn for camp david. It triggered an evacuation of the west wing and prompted fesh criticism of the secret service. Jason chaffetz, asking, was the door open, seriously . The secret service said the man is unarmed and the incident is under investigation. Keeping the white house successful means there will be fence jumpers from time to time but location of jumpers arrest is not acceptable. Well go live to White House Correspondent Kristen Welker live on the white house north lawn. Kristen, good morning. The question everybody is asking, maybe somebody gets over the fence. How does the guy get into the white house . Reporter thats the big question this morning. Youre absolutely right. It all happened behind me. This is the north lawn. That fence jumper who secret Service Officials identified as 42yearold Omar Gonzalez of texas jumped over the north lawn fence and ran up the north lawn and got right into the portico doors, that is the residence, he was apprehended in there. He didnt make it far once he was inside. It is incredibly disconcerting. So secret Service Officials trying to get to the root of it. They say the location of his arrest is absolutely unacceptable and trying to get to the bottom of how it possibly could have happened. One of the things they tell me he wasnt carrying a back pack, he didnt seem to be armed. They believe he may have been mentally disturbed and wasnt taken to the hospital for mental evaluation after being apprehended. The first family wasnt here. They had just left for camp david. No one was injured and no shots fired. To put this into context, i worked at the white house for three plus years, never experienced anything like this. There are fence jumpers but they usually only make it a few feet on the north lawn before they are apprehended. We usually go into lockdown. This was entirely different because the entire press corps had to leave along with white house staffers. I spoke with veteran White House Correspondents who also say theyve never experienced anything like that before. So this is really unusual. Something that the see kretd service is going to have to get to bottom of. Kristen welker, appreciate that update. Well turn back now to the panel. I mean, as kristen says, i havent covered the white house but assume if theres one most secure place in the world anywhere its the white house. Why would we assume that after Michelle Saleh hi. This is the party crasher. He was tweeting about it this week, if you dont think isis can get into the white house, ask the moron real housewives, took photos of herself shaking the hands of president and Vice President , had a grand old time. This is disgraceful. What if he had a suicide belt . It sounds like you have a personal story. I spent a lot of time in the white house covering it. I was stunned by this, a couple of years ago i had a radio logical medical test, wasnt a deal but walked the entrance near he jumped. Alarms went off and special s. W. A. T. Team dealing with radiological issues, descended upon me. And it really was a matter of seconds. I dont even know where they came from. It was like they came out of the ground. I had to call my doctor and everything was fine. It was very impressive how fast they acted on something that was even unfamiliar to the general guards. It was not a usual thats the reaction that everybody assumes. Weve all been there, like kristen says, when they have been jumpers and get 6 or 7 feet because they have people watching the front and they can see somebody come up to the fence and they start climbing and actually sometimes meet the person. But youre right, a suicide vest can do tremendous damage. He got through the front door. The front doors at the white house are open usually no one gets there unless they are invited. The evolution of security at the white house, 20 years ago, you go back to Harry Trumans day and find a guy with a gun walking up to the white house, no fence, no secret service swarming around him. Weve come a long way from there but maybe not far enough. We have to turn to the release this morning of by isis of four dozen turkish hostages. They were greeted by the Prime Minister and captured from the turkish consulate in june. Turkish staterun News Agency Reports no ransom was paid and no conditions were accepted in return for their release. Comes after a week in which both chambers of congress voted to approve president obamas plan to arm and train moderate rebels and attempt to put weapons in the hands of those good insurgents and out of the hands of extreme insurgent. The vote this week clears the house and senate. This is the funding forearming and training of Syrian Rebels, a lot of people both sides were saying there should be a much more robust debate. But no debate and no vote beyond this after the election. This is the war that nobody wants, everybody thinks we should have and nobody knows how to do. This is just continually happening this way. You have the weve heard stories reporting the general is not happy with how obama is trying to operate the war. Congress wants to have more vote but dont know what they exactly want either. The situation is very strange in that you have a president who promised he would sort of do these kind of congressional authorizations not doing it to rely on more bush style war. And then on the other hand you have Congress Sort of saying very clearly, like, we really rather not get too involved with this and let you do this. They want to be able to criticize him and he wants to go ahead and do what he wants. The weird thing to me, sort of this weird bipartisan co

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