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In washington in today for Andrea Mitchell. . Just a few moments, the Pentagon Press secretary is expected to build upon the uncensored comments on isis weve heard this week from the president , the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff prompting new questions across the country about how far this administration will go to deal with the growing threat. Colonel jack jacobs is an m nbc military analyst and richard edge is along the turkey syria border right now. Let me go to colonel jacobs and this question. How do we square this circumstance . Were basically using a...

Information worth noting on that county police report. It wasnt reviewed by a supervisor until tuesday. Ten days after Michael Brown was killed. We also learned today about the makeup of that grand jury that will ultimately decide whether to indict Darren Wilson. Its composed of three black people, two women, one man, and nine white people, three women, and six men. The county clerks county pointed out thats a higher pen sen taj of africanamericans than represented in the st. Louis county pop list. Now that the streets are calm, the National Guard has left town, focus here in ferguson now turn...

Equivalent of the iraq war. What this is, is similar to the kinds counterterrorism campaigns that weve been engaging in consistently over the last five, six, seven years. Were going talk about that a lot this hour. Erin mcpike first joins us from the white house. Erin, what do we know at this point about the president s plan to combat isis . And also, he did talk in the interview about going to congress, what does he want from congress . Reporter okay, poppy, first, we know the president wants to equip and train iraqi and Kurdish Forces so they can be the ones fighting on the ground there. He ...

American, james foley, who was beheaded by ien isis fighter with a british accent. You remember the video. The root cause of the Terror Threat according to David Cameron is islamic extremism which cameron calls a quote, unquote poisonous political ideology supported by a minority. It believes in using the most brutal forms of terrorism to force people to accept a warped world view and to live in an almost medieval state. A state in which its own citizens would suffer unimaginable brutality, including barbaric beheadings of those that refuse to convert to their warped version of islam, enslavem...

Has ever seen before. In the wake of a brutal murder of james foley and isis threats to kill more americans, hagel and the joint chiefs of staff are looking at every option, and that could include airstrikes within syria. Congressman ed royce is joining me. Also Douglas Olivant from washington was director for iraq at the National Security council during the bush and obama administrations. Chairman dempsey says isis will be defeated only when confronted in syria. Do you, sir, support airstrikes in syria . Yes. We have for some time made the observation that the use of armed drones on isis lead...