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good morning, i'm melissa lee harris-perry. we're going to begin with breaking news. u.s. special operation forces entered syria to capture an isis leader. that senior leader known as abu sayyaf was killed. no u.s. forces were killed or injured during the operation. joining me now from washington, d.c. nbc white house correspondent correspondent kristen welker. do we know about the target? >> reporter: a lot of fast-moving developments. according to a report, president obama approved this operation at the recommendation at national security team. the mission aimed to capture the isis...

times" saw it, a major racial barrier had fallen with the election of president barack obama had been elected to the united states. seemed the presidency had fallen and the election of barack obama was a win for the whole country. he shook up the old assumptions about both black america and black men because he was seen as different. he had parents who were both black and white. he's highly educated and accomplished. but in no way did president obama's win sweep away the last racial barrier in american politics with ease. as the "times" put it not so much it had fallen but an energiz...

0 dream. out of this war, how come things like headstart, food stamps, medicare, medicaid and even if they haven't solved inequality permanently, these programs crafted the crucial social safety net that lifted millions from poverty. and then came 1971, the year that forever changed the way in which we use the term war. in june of 1971, president richard nixon declared the war on drugs. this was a brand new front in a brand new kind of war. no foreign en membership, no deep injustice. it's a war on the very people it should have helped. which led to a whole arsenal of new war tactics. which to...

Bubba's wife, lawyer, political organizer, professor, first l y lady, senator and secretary of state. it's natural to think adding president to the list of accomplishments would be icing on the cake, right? wrong. people, please, stop acting as though her legacy is only complete if she becomes president. if we are so worried about the possibility of an end of the era for hillary, broaden it to the overall representation of women in elected office. more worrisome is the closing of the white house project, a group founded in 1998 to promote women in politics and possibly the presidency. the reas...

An achievement of identity in the modern world. that was an important period for him, and first the shift from not an international, but an american, and number one. and then not w, table, msnbc political analyst karen finny who is the former director of communications for the dnc, and kai wright, editorial director of colorlines, and kathleen hall jamison head of the annen berg center for polic. okay. i confess -- i confess, i loved this story, because i felt like one of the things that excited a lot of us in the world of nerds when president obama was elected is a sense that a genuine intell...