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Today the mother of journalist Steven Sotloff made an emotional plea on a saudirun news station broadcast throughout the arab world. Since stevens capture, ive learned a lot about islam. Ive learned that islam teaches that no individual should be held responsible for the sins of others. Steven has no control over the actions of the u. S. Government. Hes an innocent journalist. Meantime, the family of minnesotaborn isis fighter Douglas Mccain says theyre in disbelief after mccain was killed fighting for isis in syria. Attorney general eric holder says federal prosecutors are running about 100 i...

And there is a chilling new propaganda video out today from isis that blasts the u. S. Kurdish Alliance in iraq showing 15 captured peshmerga. Then the beheading of one of them. Well have much more an all of this coming up in just a few moments. To ukraine where earlier today, the ukrainian president declared a russian invasion was under way. In new york, the u. N. Security Council Called an emergency session to discuss the latest crisis. Ten ukrainian soldiers were killed after fighting with prorussian separatists. Thats in just the past 24 hours while russia continues to flatly deny that any...

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 indi...

We assess the threat from isil primarily to be in the region. Nonetheless, with the number of european and americans that have gone to fight in syria, the threat can manifest itself back in either in europe or the u. S. And as these threats continue to, you know, to appear, you know, the information sharing and the coordination gets stronger and stronger. You know, our systems integration, to make sure our databases are talking to each other. So when state Department Takes inaction against a visa or passport, it appears in our database so we can take action when that that traveler travels or b...

Calling for an allout travel ban of anyone coming from infected west africa. The call were hearing is to stop all human traffic, period. And Government Experts are saying, theyre open to any step that will protect americans. Joining me now is peter welsh of vermont who sits on the committee, and also msnbc political analyst. Todays hearing, lawmakers say their jittery constituents want to know about the feasibility of an allout travel ban to contain the spread of ebola. Congressman welsh tried to get an answer. Lets listen. Why, from a medical standpoint you have concluded that a total travel ...