early. great week. check your bank accounts, it s payday friday and morning joe starts right now. i ran for this office in part to end our war in iraq and welcome our troops home and that s what we ve done. as commander in chief i will not allow the united states to be dragged into fighting another war in iraq, and so even as we support iraqis as they take the fight to these terrorists, american combat troops will not be returning to fight in iraq. because there is no american military solution to the larger crisis in iraq. good morning. it is friday, august the 8th. katherine s 11th birthday. happy birthday, kate, with us on set to set brat. you always want weird uncle john around for the birthdays sara eisen, and the washington columnist for the weekend update, david ignatius. a shame we have david in this morning, absolutely nothing going on overseas. we may be asking him about the washington and huge news. new york times headline of course talking how the president s allowing air strikes against iraq rebels. a force that continues to grow. and threatens instability obviously not just in iraq but across the middle east. so american planes are back over iraq with packed food and water. others armed with weapons of war. it s the first in a new u.s. mission to provide to refugees help, and also to strike terrorist targets. should american lives come under threat, president obama authorized the operation following new advances by the islamic militants poised to attack one of the biggest cities in the north, an american consulate and hundreds of u.s. citizens and military advisers. the potential air strikes coincide with a humanitarian push to help thousands of iraqi citizens hiding on a mountaintop from the suni gunmen below. they forced women into marriage, left women dying of thirst in the dying heat. president obama says it s genocide waiting to happen. i ve therefore authorized targetedary air strikes if necessary to help forces in iraq as they fight to break the siege and protect the civilians trapped there. already american aircraft have begun conducting humanitarian air drops and food and water to help these desperate men, women and children vivsurvive. earlier one iraqi cried to the world, there is no one coming to help. david ignatius, new york times, peter bake. great analysis right off the top says in sending warplanes back over the skies of iraq president obama found himself exactly where he didn t want to be, hoping to end the war in iraq, becomes the fourth brpresident a row to order air strikes for the president of imbusiness. so it goes and so it goes. i don t think with isis he had any choice. exactly right. this is a day president obama must have hoped would never come on his watch. he spent so much in the extraction of the united states from iraq, and from the wars overseas, talked repeatedly about turning a page in american history and now that page flips back again. he spoke emotionally about the potential danger of genocide, strong language for a president, emotionally about people stranded on that mountaintop who were waiting for someone to come and help them, and i think in military terms, what happened over the last few days is that the kurdish peshmerga, waiting to do along the islamic state forced into retreat, outgunned by isis militants and that has forced the u.s. to take action, both humanitarian air drops and preparing to air strikes on the kurdish center of erbil will u.s. forces are based. this is an extraordinary fluid terrorist operation that the wall street journal said this morning they call it the islamic, it s a dynamic messianic outward moving force. bring in from beirut bbc correspondent kim katassp one of the reasons the president can t sit back is because these terrorists we certainly would call them here in the united states are ruthlessly efficient. they are just moving and swallowing up everything in front of them, and there s, doesn t appear to be any end in sight, unless america gets involved. just how much of a threat, growing threat, is this operation? reporter: well, there s been a real sigh of relief in the region, i can tell you. particularly in lebanon where we ve seen a few very bloody incursions by isis over the last ten days. the army, the lebanese army fought back, sustained heavy losses, but it does fear have pushed them out of lebanon for now, but there has ban real see sigh of relief in lebanon, in iraq and no doubt other places as well to see that finally something is doing something about the advance of these blood-thirsty rather savage militants, and it has been quite perplexi perplexing, i have to say, joe, to watch the lack of action and apathy over the last few weeks and months since isis first went on a rampage and took mosul. so there will be a sigh of relief, but as david pointed out, as the new york times wrote, this is a very reluctant move by president obama and to some extent it is also a half measure. this campaign, whether it s air strikes or humanitarian drop, is not going to solve the problem. the problem is much more complex which is probably while it took president obama a while to make this decision. and so much going on across the world. we have planes being blown out of the sky over the ukraine. of course, the middle east, all eyes were fixed on what was happening in gaza. all the while, you talked of foreign policy leaders who would say these are all tragedies, but the real danger is what s going on in iraq right now with isis. this is a dangerous force. one other thing the wall street journal says this morning, perhaps history will mark this as the week that president obama recognized that evil unimpeded will devour everything before it. gideon? the thing that i am trying to understand is, how come the u.s. didn t see the collapse of the peshmerga? now they re outgunned. why wasn t it predicted? now isis is threatening the only remaining peace at that part of the middle east which is iraqi and what could be a u.s. ally. how did the world not see any of this coming? they moved with such speed out of syria. it is extraordinary. you re right. there was a false hope over the past several weeks somehow the kurds were going to be able to hold them off, but they re tearing through. right. so i think the action the u.s. is taking now is a no-brainer, throw in air strikes and try to support the kurds but the about the only no-brainer there is. after this, how do you reconstruct the iraqi government or try to account a counterforce and the influence in iran in all of these areas is going to be a spoiler. and what we talk about, talking about israel, gideon, the three-day cease-fire between israel and hamas obviously over. that started up. the president has to worry about that today. i don t know if hamas is thinking about being too distracted to think of hamas in gaza. it agrees to the cease-fire. sat down, tried to, held the talks in cairo. got nowhere. a place they don t want to go, by the way. of course not. israel has kind of got what it wanted out of the first round of fighting, to destroy the hamas tunnels. hamas got nothing, and the israelis are able to say, look, hamas broke the cease-fire but have given no concessions on the conditions hamas wanted removing the troops. before all this began in july, the terrible month of jubl began, the question, at what point does it make sense for netanyahu to give not hamas because the palestinian moderates something to keep the extremists in check? i think that moment has arrived, joe, in the-of-that at talks it of cairo, thousahow to the palestinian authority, more moderate headed by mahmoud abbas, in control of at least some of the governance in gaza to control the crossing points from egypt into gaza, for example. that s been a real push by secretary of state kerry, and he s right. and it s been resisted by israel, i think unwisely, because the only way you re going to break from the status quo in gaza so you don t end up with another war in another year or two is to some some different non-hamas authority in charge there. so we ll see. the fact that fighting is resumed today has to make you pretty pessimistic that that kind of breakthrough is possible. sara, the chaos in the middle east, obviously harks to impact the markets, has to impact the economy, has to impact energy costs. is this all factored in by now or is it a bad situation getting worse have an impact what we ll paper at the gas front? having an impact. brent rising. kurds have oil. most of the output is in the southern region in iraq and not disrupted. why you haven t seen an absolute spike in the price of oil, but clearly the negative impacts are making their way into the markets. the dow closed yet at its lowest level since april. s&p 500 80,000 something. may we re pulling back. the market is you haver ab ervu. look at gaza, ukraine does have an economic impact, sanctions on russia and countersanctions, there s uncertainty, and there s not a quick end. it only seems to be escalating, getting further and investors don t like uncertainty, and we re seeing skittishness and the markets and, yes, the price of energy is going higher. because of this. and may only get worse. let s go from foreign policy to domestic politics and the question this morning everybody in washington has to be asking is whether we re seeing the death of the tea party. senator lamar alexander completed the clean sweep for establishment candidates first time since 2008 that no gop incumbent senators lost in a prime marry. alexander received more than 49% of the vote against joe karen and six or candidates. beating seven incumbents including the top two republicans. establishment went 6 for 6 against tea party challengers. the only bright for the tea party came in june, upsetting eric cantor. unfortunately, john heilemann, the tea party didn t get involved in that. all of these people. are karl rove was standing on the likes in 2012, give me a gazillion dollars and we will beat barack obama and a complete failure. look club for growth, all of these other organizations what they did, they were going to take down these establishments. guess what? we should be playing the empire strikes back. this is haley barbour, they won. we asked that this morning. is this victory the sign of something larger or an anomaly. now we can say with confidence, an anomaly. eric cantor had specific problems in his district with his style of leadership. dave bratt took advantage of those but not saying john cornyn s in trouble, they re all in trouble. none of them lost. and part of it is that the tea party may turn out, again, look back on this, within the grand ark of history by the media. and the tea party itself. why not? if the media s bidding you up, the lady saying i m not a witch has a chance at being senator she s going to take that publicity. all true. going to your haley barbour point, all of these guys saw what happened in 2010 and 2012 in some of the primaries and were ready this time. an establishment girded for war. the tea party wa no longer an alien force that could strike in the night. girded for war actu. actually, business got more involved, doubling down on some of the establishment, they look at these pro-business republican businesses and say we want to fund the establishment party and make sure. look at the number, senator alexander, $9.9 million. way more than his challenger, just a little over $1 million. the chamber played a huge role. the key moment, the shutdown. much of the business community looked at that and said they blamed the tea party. we ve had enough of this and are now going to do something and flex our muscles and make sure that they really did, and you probably remember it. yeah. but the alabama race, went down to bradley burn, just complete crackpot running against bradley burn. everybody thought he was going to win. the chamber, i think the rickets, everybody says, enough is enough. enough is enough. we re takingary par arour pa and they won. undefeated. pretty crazy. did you see this? do you have any plagiarism in your do you write your own stories? if you do, don t run for senate. right? yeah. holy cow! wikipedia has become a giant killer, or even a non-giant killer. just a killer. democratic senator the times came out with an exhaustive look on the paper incorrectly or failed to contribute material. one page lifted from a harvard paper and more passages from the carnegie endowment for international peace and the senator backed away postcombat stress may have been a factor. from washington, you ve got the editor-in-chief of roll call, christiana belatoni. thanks so much. the top ten most vulnerable senators up for re-election, number one with a bullet is no more. go through the list? reporter: right. i don t know that arkansas senator mark pry zer aor is hap about it. the new number one. pryor number one. reporter: exactly. john walsh always in a precarious spot, appointed to fulfill the spot. a more republican state. you have a member of congress in steve danes, represents the at large seat running against him. so the republicans liked their chances here in, as you ve been talking about, a pretty favorable year for them anyway. they have the candidate that they like. but when this came out, you know, and credit to the new york times, this was a very big deal, and roll call noticed, our partners at the cq members team noticed discrepancies on his education as well. something we put out there when he was appointed. he eventually just says, i m not actually going to run for the seat. democrats have maybe a fighting chance if they get a candidate in there that they like. this was right at the end of the deadline. so now you ve got the rest of the top ten. we re going to bump that up. we ll have the person who would have been number 11 and number 10, probably that s going to be senator mark warner in virginia. again, that s pretty, a long shot, but you never know. put up the list again. john heilemann. you see the list, pryor at number 1 now. mary landrieu, kay hagan. mark bagitch. in a real fight, the smart money says mcconnell holds the seat. always the case, democrats had a lot more of these seats vulnerable, why people think republicans have a chance of taking back the senate. on that list, pryor, landrieu, hagan, tough races. we re living in two ultimate realities, in this show and many other shows in the past month, chaos that could come to our doorstep. out in every one of those races over the past month, nobody was talking about gaza. nobody was talking about what s going on with the isis. you heard kim from beirut say, everybody s kind of glad i mean, it s surreal that a decade ago, everybody said, get out of our business, and now it seems like, a lot of people are thinking, america is sleepwalking through history. how do you think this is going to play out in america s foreign policy if the democrats do get weakened in the senate race? is it going to change anything? i don t know. i really right now the republicans are having a battle between themselves, to try to figure out whether they re going the way of rand paul or the way of dick cheney. david ignatius, i don t know that either party s going to have much of a choice as the entire fabric of the middle east unravels before our very eyes over the next year and we can have people on tv saying, these lines weren t real. they were drawn by winston churchill in 1918. doesn t really matter. it s international chaos, and i love this line that the wall street journal basically says chaos is coming to our doorstep whether we like it or not. i always accuse the europeans of taking a break from history after 1991, thinking that was the end of history. it s not. joe, we re still here. it s getting worse, by the day. i think the u.s. is riding the tiger right now. we ll have partisan recriminations about who s to blame, but i think in terms of policy, the responses are going to be pretty much the same. republican and democratic. i also can t see this winding down anytime soon. look at the situation george bush face add decade ago now infinitely more complex and unstable. at least bush was dealing with dictators who ran countries with structures. isis is more like a poison gas. kind of floats throughout the meefrt and destroys everything in its path, and as the wall street journal said, the problem is going to come knocking and the question is, just how much can the u.s. sit back and wait until the problem comes knocking at its door? or does it have it guts to do something fanned and if so what do? we ve seen two sectionive presidencies, democratic and republican president haunted by iraq, and the bush presidency by the end almost destroyed by iraq. barack obama capitalized on it and now is plagued by it. in the broader can area, democrats and republican, at what point is this an isolation, clearly a rise of it we really don t have that choice. i just mean in the listen, i ll be honest with you. barack obama is going to be remembered george w. bush will be remembered for a president who engaged in military adventurism, the mark against him and barack obama is going to be that general always fighting the last war. he s overcompensated. he retreated. he has been he has been on, like, for instance, worried about what s going on in iraq right now for good reason. you ve got 100, 150,000, 175,000 people dead in syria, and it s not like we weren t talking about that number when it was 10,000, 20,000, 30,000, 40,000. we said what it s going to have to get to? 50000. got 100,000, still sitting back. why? the specter of george w. bush and dick cheney caught in the middle east. he s overcorrected, and i think at this point, as peter baker writes in the new york times, as the wall street journal writes, in their main editorial. the president figured out finally, he s got no choice. the reluctant warrior, the phrase in the journal. right. reluctant warrior. easy to say he overcorrected but show me what he could have done even if he started acting earlier? as i said, this situation is an endless, endless problem. he s gotten involved in syria and tried to fix iraq, it s hard to say he shouldn t have done those things you but i would be skeptical we would be in a better situation. the history books can debate that, allies to work with six months ago or a year ago in syria. obviously there isn t now. greatly appreciate you being with us, gideon. still ahead on morning joe, richard haass, richard krystal, eugene robinson here, plus, could hot brownies land one teen in jail for life? 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truly insane. i mean, at the life in prison is the kind of thing reserved for violent criminals. not for people indulging in this, whether making it or just consuming it. the most absurd thing i ve seen all day. and a pot browny still, life in prison the thing is, they re waking the chocolate, for god s sake. no kidding. a lot of filler in there. not like he s eating a pound and a half of pot. that would be something. now, that s a meal. like the stuff you use. not like my normal sunday brunch. what happens when you do eat a pound and a half? how do you do you behave like you re behaving now or more bizarre? well turn off your mind. relax, and float down the stream. i can t really i couldn t comment on that, at least not right now because i m only a pound in to my pound and a half of the day. usa today, a california man mom and dad. feels disrespected after receiving a $21,000 settlement from an insurance company in buckets of coins. the 78-year-old man s lawyer says the insurance company sent the settlement in more than 16, 5 gallon buckets full of coins. hateful, mike. it is. stemming from a lawsuit in 2012. the lawyer says the company told them they not plan to issue a check. the coins were taken to a bank where it s expected to take a week to count everything. i d be careful taking anything to a bank these days. yeah. wow. i would, too. gosh. so sara, what s your favorite restaurant in new york? where do you like to go eat? i m a downtown girl. lower manhattan. any favorites down there? abc kitchen, was hot a year ago. it s still hot. john george, and little plates and healthy. that s my kind of food. i don t eat meat. why? you looking for restaurant recommendations? got one for you. john, your favorite place downtown? i m not allowed to choose among my favorite children. make too many people mad at me. i can t name one. you probably would like abc i. love abc. great restaurant. for our foodies, you re going to love this. go. new york post former congressman anthony weiner hasv restaurant. rockway section of the queens hoping to bring healthy food and job training to the neighborhood devastated by hurricane sandy. the restoration kitchen still in the planning process. it even sounds good. the rockaway restoration kitchen. a place, you all would go? right? from anxious anchors. i wonder what the cuisine? healthsy what we know. rye? what we hear. who presents health more vividly than the image of anthony weiner? 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and a cincinnati guy, too. west side of cincinnati. oh, doesn t count. we have a little rivalry, but he s very proud of his cincinnati roots. most of the action, though is happening on the east side. of course. that s down by the river. just telling us. with us now, not to talk about action happening on the east side of cincinnati correct. east side of cincinnati. chief white house correspondent here with the morning playbook. fascinating. mike, first, give us a happy friday. first things first. happy friday! second thing, politico, you guys report that bill clinton cheats? in golf. i know, you re shocked, shocked. i m shocked and stunned and deeply saddened. tell us about it. bill clinton was a notorious cheater, mulligan, extra shot, noern at billigans when he was out playing golf. every president back to eisenhower has been into golf except for jimmy carter. the only one of our last 11 presidents who wasn t into golf. with president obama we calculated every golf game he s had. partners with his trip director, marvin nicholson 117 times. he s been partners with the speaker of the house one time. the president you might call this, neoisolationist golf. one of the most notable characteristics of this president s golf, like we ve taked how he likes comfort food in his staff, in the west wing, also comfort food with his golf partners. he switched from, his first love, of course, basketball. he s worried about getting hurt. switched to golf. but we talked the other day about his no new friends policy that also applies to golf. mike barnicle, it s true. we re coming in, make no new friends. the last thing you d want a president saying as getting sworn in and talk to advisers, former chiefs of staff, you talk to like i mean senators. you talk you name it. they all complain. all complain about the fact he is so isolated, and they use his golf game as a metaphor. listen, i don t blame him for the no new friends thing. i kind of issubscribe to that myself. we would never vote for you for president of the united states. and marvin nicholson, used to play with john kerry before he played with president obama. i want to defend bill clinton. bill clinton, hooks, slice, president of the united states, for security purposes, can t have the president going into the woods looking for a ball. so drop one in the fairway and hit a second shot. that s what i do. play it where it lies. i m not searching around for, like, forever. obama has good skills. doesn t he? yes. yes. does he? how s kerry as golfer? plays not frequently enough. to play golf, you have to be like the president of the united states. you have to play at least once or twice a week. who s the best presidential golfer, mike allen? well, a great golfer was jar gerald ford. athlete, didn t get credit for it. and president obama s golf, of course, headed out this weekend two more weeks in martha s vineyard. an honest golfer. no billigans for him. no obamaigans. and a calm golfer. not a lot of bending of clushs, shouting, because had yeuses it escapism. does it to get away from people that had he has to persuade. doesn t want to work when out there. i got you. on the golf course. george w. bush. great golfer. speed golf. an hour and a half, 18 holes. if you can plain 18 holes in an hour and a half, sign me up. if going on 14, four hours in, sorry. put the bags down and walk into the clubhouse. who has that much time? the problem, if you just would not bring a bottle of tea k -of-tequila in the cart, it wouldn t slope the game down. i wonder if hillary clinton if she becomes president will take on the golf we shall see. i wonder if bill and hillary have played together? 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what do you think a wifi hotspot smells like? i m thinking roast beef. want to get lunch? get the fastest wifi hotspots and more coverage on the go than any other provider. xfinity, the future of awesome. time for the must-read op-eds. mika shipped them from from south of france. the new york times, a slaughter in iraq, the catastrophe of iraq is growing subtly worse for weeks on thursday became impossible for the united states and other civilized nations to ignore it. blood it thirsty, ex-temperaturenating those who refused to join the fundamentalist islamic state terrorists want to create. wasn t surprising to hear president obama announce thursday the united states was dropping food and water in iraq. the authorized targeted air strikes against isis if needed. mr. obama made a wise call and showed proper caution by keeping his commitment not to re-introduce ground troops to iraq but humanitarian assistance for the imperilled civilians was necessary. david ignatius, i don t think it s going to be that clean at the end of the day. again, another great line from the wall street journal editorial this morning talking about isis. it is a dynamic messianic outward moving force. it s tactics make them, well, like gideon said earlier, poison gas spreading across the region, joe, this fight is just beginning. as i talked to administration officials, what they re struck by is the military s sophistication of isis. this is not your grandfather s al qaeda. this is an organization that s capable of a war of mobility, of moving quickly in northern iraq. senior administration official told me last night, struck by this sophistication, their rapidity of movement, able to use equipment they ve captured, the people they ve taken out of prisons and mobilize them into a force that just beats us to the punch. beats our allies, the kurds, to the punch. so people need to see this as a, more of a military threat than ye we re used to from the al qaeda-linked groups. david, could you sfeek a couple of things in speaking to some people myself yesterday, i was impressed with their assessment of isis command and control capability, unlike any other organization supposedly terrorist organization, we ve confronted in the recent pass. they have enormous sums of money, based upon the fact they have cap colored so much territory and so many banks in northern iraq and with regard to the bombing that is about to take place or perhaps is going on now, the people stranded on that mountain, no matter how much we bomb at the base of the mountain, or bomb supply depots for isis, they are going to have to come off the mountain at some point in time, and they re going to need us to get them off the mountain. mike, those are all the key questions for the next 24 hours. it is reported that the u.s. with its kurdish allies has been helping to clear an escape route for the refugees that are trapped there. the bake point about isis is that it is a disciplined structure. its leader, who you kas himself abu abahdadi has an ability to win conducts and fuse them into a force that moves with coordination. al qaeda often had internal disagreements. you see them in papers taken. doesn t seem to be that same kind of tension. they mix the brutality how they operate with a kind of tactical cunning in the field that impresses people who have been watching them. all right. david, thank you so much. coming up at the top of the hour, the world health organization now is calling an international public health emergency, the ebola outbreak around the globe is causing panic. nbc s kate snow is live at the center for disease control. she joins us ahead. and hopefully, you didn t want the book that once in a lifetime trip to hawaii this week, a major storm strikes a popular vacation spot. an update on the situation there in a minute. plus, the big question this morning if you re giving a speech to a room full of african leaders is it a good idea to joke about not being there to whip them? 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a pick anything basket. you are a disgrace to your kind. people of baltimore. apparently i am. shut up already. we heard about steve jobs being a tough boss. now, facebook employees telling quite the story about ceo mark zuckerberg. what? in a new e-book, former facebook product manager claims zuckerberg once threw water on an engineer s computer because he didn t think the work was good enough. also a story about the then 23-year-old walking around the office with a samurai sword. bill kristol does that. what s wrong with that? he d come around and pretend to cut you joking if you take down the site, he ll chop your head off. okay. another zuckerberg line. employee quote, if you don t get that done sooner, i ll punch you in the face. that s phil griffin talk that is. quick, thomas i don t understand why this is news. well, i don t know. you want news, we got news. steny hoyer is talking to leaders from africa. right. what s he talking about? economic economic opportunities. not so much. a joke that went horribly wrong on wednesday. yeah. the maryland democrat speaking at the u.s. african leaders summit and tried this attempt at humor. first of all, let me tell my friends from africa i do not whip people. and if you d watched house of cards it is not accurate. oh, my god. that was scripted, too! oh, my god. swe sweet jesus, he scripted it, guys. i liked the reaction from the crowd. play out on the democratic whip. you can t explain it. this is as bad as ross perot going down to the naacp and referring to the people as you people, i wrote this speech and you people need to understand come on, steny. can we get the uproarious laughter? the krouz reacticrowd reacti best. i don t think he ll try that one again. he needs vinnie s bear to write his jokes. stuck on that bear. i love that who doesn t love that bear? it s not a bear. we got to go. we actually have serious news. right now, next hour of morning joe starts right now. i ran for this office in part to end our war in iraq and welcome our troops home, and that s what we ve done. at commander in creef i will not allows united states to be dragged into fighting another war in iraq. so even as we support iraqis as they take the fight to these terrorists, american combat troops will not be returning to fight in iraq. because there is no american military solution to the larger crisis in iraq. that, of course, the president talking about chaos breaking across the globe. john heilemann talking about the bear still. with us in washington, pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate eder for the washington post and political analyst eugene robinson and editor and chief of roll call, christina billatoni and bill kristol. a lot to talk about. american planes back over iraq again. some for food and water, some with weapons to provide aid to refugees and strike against terrorist targets should american lives come under threat. president obama authorized the operation after new advances were made by islamic militants poitzed to attack one. biggest cities in the north, an american consulate and hundreds of u.s. citizens and military advisers, religious minorities attacked and killed, christians persecuted. potential astrooix barack obama is talking about coinciding with a humanitarian push to help thousands it of iraqi civilians hiding on a mountaintop from the suni gunmen below. a horrid scene. bill kristol, the wall street journal editorial page starts, the jihadist march in iraq, what happens history will mark this the week president obama recognized that evil unimpeded will devour everything before it. gideon litchfield on last hour and said they re like a poison gas. i think that s a very apt description. i love what peter baker wrote this morning, though. a return to action front page of the new york times, sending warplanes back to iraq, obama thursday night found himself exactly where he didn t want to be helping end the war in iraq became the fourth president to odor military action that that graveyard of american ambition. it is a graveyard of american ambition and yet this president, and i think the rest of the world knows, we no longer have a choice. we no longer can sit idly by. can t govern policy where you d like to be, or bush fought a difficult war there. i m not getting involved, that s driven him over the last three, four years in an unfortunate way. david ignatius says to you half hour ago white house officials were struck by the military sophistication. obama, a big interview with the new yorker, he said what about al qaeda? decimateded? yeah. terrorist groups left like the jv who put on lakers uniforms. they re not serious. like al qaeda was before 9/11. maybe he s learned for two moss seriously people in washington saying, isis is a serious threat, controls hundreds of square mimes in iraq and syria. thousands, actually. isis controlled mosul, city of 2 million people for a month. got all the money, looted banks, and control it. one thing president i m for him and hope he does more than he said last night, it s a strategic threat. a mistake to say we re going to help. i feel terrible about the mountaintop people, but can t say we re going help them, protect americans. it is a strategic threat to the united states for them to control that territory i. think that s just the president cracking the door open. everybody knows what the president has to do. you don t explain to the american public, don t sdplin the allies the problem, bill, we could be critical of the president not doing enough in iraq, american people overwhelmingly didn t want they have a president that reflects their feelings about ten years of what they consider to be military venturism. it s a sort of rand paul approach to foreign policy that, yes, it s having discover ras result now across the middle east. john heilemann, it s not like the president didn t promise americans this is exactly the type of president he would be if he got elected. exactly what he promised. he s dragged into this kicking and screaming. his reluctance a obvious. and reflects the american people. it does. i m curious. bill, about one thing. which is, forget about the last two months, people pointed out how serious isis is. and as vicious as david ignatius says, didn t pop up in the last few moss, a failure of the american intelligence system that no one was talking, no one talking right or left about isis, six months away. even two weeks ago we were told and we believed, the kurds would be strong enough to stop them. they have driven straight through. through the kurds. i wouldn t make them ten feet tall either. they can be stopped. intervene with air power, a few advisers on the ground. we re not dealing with the soviet army here. syria, though, the answer to john s good question, syria. the people did say in 2011, 2012, you let the civil war get out of control, let jihadists get well trained, start trolling territory, these things can morph more quickly than you think. this is the way foreign policy works. it s not incremental. tipping points. suddenly they gained mosul, wealthy, capture arms and suddenly have tanks. they keep building, growing. gene robinson, look at the president of the united states. look at his approval rating for foreign policy. at george bush levels at this stage of the presidency. in fact, only one point off from where george bush was at this minute to 2006, yet the american people are schizophrenic. they don t like how things are going across the world. you ask, do you want involved across the world? they will say, no. what s the president to do? i think presidents going have to make unpopular choices moving forward, he s going have to get a lot more involved. first, just like anything he does will be unpopular. that approval rating affects the fact things are not going generally well in the world. it s not happy news from that part of the world certainly, and it reflects that. you re right. the president is doing what the american people say they want. which is to stay out of these conflicts to the absolute extent possible. the question now, though, is that now that you ve decided, we have to provide air cover for the israelis and have to hit isis as it advances on erbil and to protect american interests ostensively, but really to protect erbil, so there is a serious question about where do you stop? seems to me, if you re in and if you re doing air strikes, you re in. right? you can t let the that s the thing, gene. you re never half in. the president, i understand exactly what the president was doing last night by saying, hey, we re going in to protect americans, going in to stop genocide. i understand that. but that s really just a prelude to, like you said, going in more, because you can t be half in over there. i don t see how you can be. you know, what if isis continues to advance on erbil but says, don t worry. we re going to leave the american embassy and consulate alone, just take over the rest and kill all the christians and other non-believers, and just continue our march. right. so what do we say? okay. that s fine? no, we don t. can t do it. bill to your point, i understand exactly what you re saying. i m talking about the incrementalism that presidents, talk about fdr. they all will slowly move that direction, to get ahead of the american people, but to your point, though let me finish here. to your point, the president has been criticized time and time again for not being the explainer in chief. not being the leader in chief. leading from behind. perhaps that s one reason why the polls reflect that americans don t want to get involved. they don t they haven t been told about the gravity of the situation. listen, you and i have been fighting for a long time about foreign policy. i m on colin powell s side. less is more. but in this case, we can t we can t hide from this poison gas. well, in the real world, war is sometimes war and it s a foreign policy matter and colin powell would agree. if yew getting in, get in big and decisively now. go in incrementally in this way you don t have the affect you want on isis. not the affect on bolsters allies or the affect you want in the region. do you really think, do you really think that we are not in there in nearly, full force, as far as we can go with full force right now? do you really think we have no spatters on the ground now? do you think the president of the united states would have gone on tv last night, here s what we re going to do isis, take notes. of course we re in there. and we re not in there, seriously. 300 advisers, used no air power to speak of. how do you know that? i think we know it off of our u.s. government that the air force assets aren t launched without our knowing. i think we re capable of stopping isis if we re serious about it. you have to have spotters on the ground. you want to take fast-moving vehicles out on the ground you have to have lasers i sat here and john and i had a discussion about this i just have the to say i m the interpreter. from south boston. thought he says sparters three times. you re saying spotters. you re saying spotter. why do we want spartacus? are the greesks coming in? the spartans are great. they were great. the spartans were great fighters. spotters, spotters. anyway, go ahead. spartans were great fighters and bring some in. revive them. get them in. i had this discussion a few months ago. send in ground troops for this reason. john correctly said the president doesn t want to and the american public isn t for it. sent in a couple hundred advisers. i agree, but tell the american public you re doing it in a serious way? no. you tell the american public last night on tv you re telling isis. you know? fine. i agree with that. let s knock a few of them off before we oh okay. we have agreement. if doing, covertly doing all kinds of amazing things we don t know about, his national security advisers said a month ago, susan rice sent a letter to congress, that authorization for war in iraq, let it expire. we re not going to fight in iraq. if congress followed her advice would the president have the constitutional authority to interjean interveerning i take it under the 2002 go from foreign policy to domestic politics. is the tea party dead? no. lamar alexander wins last night. the haley barbour side is like 8-0. at the beginning of this campaign year, and we heard that john cornyn was going lose. lamar alexander would lose. they have, they ve struck out in every single race. lost almost all the big races. had inferior candidates. voters are discerning. a marco rubio, they decide to elect him. mcdaniel in mississippi, almost elect him. my message would be the opposite. respected republican incumbents never challenged ever in a primary elected three, four, five times staid wide in their states losing 40% of votes. pat roberts, lamar alexander. ed that cochran, 55%. a lot of unhappiness with republican leadership among republican voter at the grass roots. unhappiness in washington among voters of both parties of the grass roots. if republicans want to do well in 2014, especially 2016. grass roots, forget about them. we re the party of dole, mccai mccain,ed that cochran, that s not going to win in 2016. a healthy dose of intelligent tea party activism remains the way to go. i ll say to bill s point. talking earlier this morning, it shows the anti-lamar alexander vote actually a majority of the vote. he luckily had six challengers in that race and faced maybe one might have been in more trouble. the question i have for bill, i know we want to go some place else, whether the tea party is ever a real thing to begin with, or not. seems to me now moving forward there s always been a populous part of the republican party in the grass roots and the tea party phenomenon, look back on it, seen as overblown, discreet but the national media and tea party leaders says, yes, we ve done it, when this is just part happened in the 64 convention and in 66. always happened. if you said 2008, marco rubio would beat, you would say, really? that s not our father s republican party. grandfather s republican party. i think parts of it were whipped up. but the populous was strong. the republican party in september and in the house pass legislation removing the bailout for insurance companies from obamacare, go in a populace direction. smallish thing, medium sized things but symbolic. interesting to have the republicans against the back of whose money goes to boeing and democrats and obama defendering it. obama said campaigning in 2008, just corporate welfare. he was right about. now the democratic party defending corporate welfare and republicans, i hope, actually going after it. christina, same question. what s the state of the tea party right now? you have to look at how they ve really shifted what s happening in congress. this last debate before they got out of town is an excellent example. conservative members of the house republican conference really shifting an entire debate that had been sort of benefiting the democrats and saying to senate democrats by the way we re going to take you out too. in addition to that seeing a generational shift. all the names you re talking about in addition to being a representative of a differ kind of republican, also older republicans. so these tea party activists are feeling energized by what they re seeing as bill as saying. forcing some of the members to really have to take on some of the messaging from that tea party side and republicans are in a good position. it s an absolute mess, if you look at both parties. not just the republican but the democratic party. you guys i m sure all saw the cbs news poll from earlier this week, most americans in congress just absolutely it stinks. only 29% a favorable impression of republicans. 62% unfavorable. views of the democrats, 41% unfavorable. 50% view of congress, 15%, by the way, those number, democrats are much higher than the republicans are, but both, just one point off in the cbs new york times poll, all-time los. you look, talk about our republican party. look at the nbc news/ wall street journal poll this week, barack obama at his all-time lope at 40%. the republican party at 19%. now, the establishment is blaming the tea party. the tea party s blaming the establishment. we re in a mess. 19%? i think politically, analytically, where we are. barack obama is unpopular. that means republicans do well in november 2014. despite themselves? despite themselves, but if they take the message from that that all is well with the republican party, they re crazy. the republican brand is very much damaged. why is it so unpopular? bill, why that s why you need to be a reformed republican. a populace, an agent of change, all of that stuff. why is the republican party who do you blame for that 19% number from the wall street journal, nbc news/ wall street journal poll? look, a two term president that fairly on unfairly leaves office with 35%, even that? no. approval rating? 29%? a republican president. greatest fiscal financial crisis happens on his watch. you then have a lot of internal republican fighting on the hill, which people see and whichever side you re on you get disgruntled. an established moderate, lunatics are taking over the republican party. populace grass roots, we want a majority in 2010. they re thwarting our hopes. mitt romney 20shgs 12, all do respect, not a fresh, new republican face embodying grass roots sentiments or reform or change. add it all up, you got, done a lot of damage. gene robinson a presidential candidate can change the image of a party as bill clinton showed. if we d been sitting here in 1990, said, oh, my god. mondale, dukakis who were the democratic leaders of that time? even 1991, talking about the gene, though, i think the bigger problem for the republican party, remember paul riding this way back in 1996-1997 saying if mr. gingrich doesn t want crazy people like me going after him all the time, keep them busy weren t aagenda. keep them busy with new ideas, keep them busy. you know, fighting for something bigger than themselves. what does the house gop stand for? what message do they take out there? good question. there is as vapid as harry reid, in the senate. yeah. there. i said it. no their, there, joe. they particularly want to do except pass useless bills that go inwhere, repealing obamacare. a couple of points to bill s analysis of why the republicans are kind of in the tank. number one, one of the reasons that you didn t mention, bill that bush was so unpopular was the war in iraq. and you know, that had a substantial impact on his unpopularity and we should note that as we perhaps go back into iraq, and the second thing is that, you know, this question of, whether the republican party it s got to stand for something but also got to get broader. it s got to because the country is getting broader and it s got to speak to different kinds of people that it doesn t speak to now. and if it doesn t, then i think the republican water continues to sink. long term, it really does. got to speak to latino, african-americans and people who are not southern whites which is, that s what it s becoming. bill, follow me. 15 seconds. go. the quality of republican candidates is very high this time, though and it will elect ben sass in nebraska, arkansas, iowa. lankford in oklahoma. sullivan in alaska. they re younger, not career politicians. i think it really changes the it adds to rubio, lee, cruz, you could look at the republican party in mid-2015 and think it s much better unlts don t follow directions. 14 seconds. i was watching the clock up there. maybe. all right. now to hawaii where hurricane, what is it iselle this morning down graded to a tropical storm. but you still packing winds of 60 miles per hour and bringing heavy rains. just behind it, hurricane julio bearing towards the islands. with us now, weather channel meteorologist reynolds wolf. right, my man. keeping a sharp eye out. winds at 60 miles per hour. not looking that gray on radar. seeing it get closer. a lot of wave action. the biggest threat we ll deal with, joe, specter flooding. rain could be especially heavy in many locations. in fact, a flood warning in effect for parts of the big island. we zoom in and also have damage reports. hawaii paradise park, winds fairly strong. some up to 60 maybe 70 miles an hour. getting stronger the higher up, higher elevation. roof damage, see in that area, trees down. get this, guys. over 20,000 customers now without power. we re going to see those numbers increase. the other thing we re going to see increase, rainfall. take a look. over a foot possible north of hilo. tell you what, that might be conservative. if this system slows down a bit, that means the rain will pile up a bit more. that means seriously widespread flooding. okay. you know what s going to do? question is, where s it going to go? grow some leg, make its way off towards the west moving south of the islands. by the time we get into friday morning, friday evening, well south of honolulu, weakening, too, winds of 45. again that going for us. quick strike for today then moves away. for tomorrow, keep tag closer look at julio. good news about this. it is a powerhouse of winds with 120 miles an hour. quickly, watch it, guys. this one moving well north of the islands. looks like in that regard hawaii may be fortunate with this, more of a northern passage. all right. reynolds, thank you so much. greatly appreciate it. thanks, guys. christina, thank you as well. loved having you on. thank you. and bill and gene still around. attending a country music concert could be hazard outside to your health. a new phenomenon have be officials seriously worried. and rendering a verdict in a trial that has detroit residents up in arms. plus now classified as an international public health emergency. why this ebola outbreak is compared to the swine flu outbreak and recent polio outbreak. kate snow will be with us. you re watching morning joe. we ll be right back. machines will be sprayed to be made. and making something stronger. will mean making it lighter. one day, factories will work with the cloud. one day. is today. the director of the cdc sounding alarm of the ebola virus causing a panic. nearly 1,600 people sickened in guinea, libya, sierra leone. with us now from the cdc, nbc s kate snow. fritenning and obviously the cdc very, very alarmed? reporter: yes. people are alarmed, joe. even this morning, news overnight in liberia family members associated with the u.s. embassy there evacuated now, told to come home. meantime, dire warnings on capitol hill from aide workers also from the cdc talking about just how bad this epidemic is right now, and what could still be to come. if there s an image that show what s things are like in west africa now, it s the man who collapsed on a busy street in guinea for five hours no one dared help or touch him fearful he might have ebola. i could give you descriptions of people dying that you cannot even believe. reporter: on capitol hill thursday, blunt warnings from a leader of the aid organization, the two americans worked with. we will fight this disease an it in other multiple countries around the world and the truth is the cat is most likely already out of the bag. reporter: the head of the centers for disease control, far less dire. we can stop ebola. we know how to do it. it will be a long and hard fight. reporter: the government is trying to fast track production of the experimental medicine the two americans have had. i heard you actually reporter: here add cdc headquarter, xpets are monitoring every new case, numbers that just keep climbing. those lines don t look very good. indeed we re in theers phase of the response. reporter: at emory university hospital, dr. kent brant li and nancy write bobol steam get bet every day. talking a long time recovery. reporter: from liberia, her husband david reflected how hard it s been. it s a singular experience to look upon a loved one, you know, we were junior high sweethearts, to see her on the brink of death, and knowing that there was nothing i could do to prevent that. reporter: cdc director frieden says not to worry about the united states. he says there will not be a large outbreak of ebola in the u.s. and we re prepared for it here, know how to isolate patients. i can tell you in tcdc, getting phone calls every day from hospitals around this country worried that they might have an ebola case. joe? kate, obviously, this outbreak continues to spread across africa. panic sweeping through africa. what dop aide workers need to stem the tide of this disease? reporter: the first thing they need is protective gear. there was a lot of testimony on capitol hill yesterday that they re running out of medicines, the doctors without frontiers, working in liberia, they say they don t have enough of those protective suits, dupont did say a couple days ago they re going to ramp up protection of those. also medicine. yesterday there was news out of the fda saying they would try to fast track that experimental drug that the two americans have gotten and try to get more of it over to africa, but you know, as one of the aide workers said yesterday, the man you saw in the piece, isaacs, he said nobody was really pay be attention to any of this until the two americans got sick. all right, kate. thank you so much. we greatly appreciate it. frightening stuff. bill? it is bad. terrible, really. the fda, got to say, this drug that seems to offer hope, used it to treat the two americans. the idea we re going through normal fda processes, doing trial, might have bad side effects. people are dying. residents should say forget the fda nonsense and tell the drug companies if need be the federal government will reimburse you, please, make a ton of this stuff? you would think, one of the things i find fastcinating abou this, ebola is not a new thing. book was written in the late 80s. the hot zone 1982. people were aware of it potentially for a long time and no one made the we need to eradicate it. seen as an african thing and not something that would affect white western society. and as kate said, americans got it, brought it back home, suddenly everybody is paying attention to it. coming up next, live to pentagon for the overnight air drops in iraq. are air strikes not far behind? stay with us. this is the first power plant in the country to combine solar and natural gas at the same location. during the day, we generate as much electricity as we can using solar. at night and when it s cloudy, we use more natural gas. this ensures we can produce clean electricity whenever our customers need it. 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(soothing sound of a shower) with millions of reviews, tripadvisor makes any destination better. these wifi hotspots we get with our xfinity internet service are all over the place. hey you can stop looking. i found one. see? what do you think a wifi hotspot smells like? i m thinking roast beef. want to get lunch? get the fastest wifi hotspots and more coverage on the go than any other provider. xfinity, the future of awesome. over the last several years we have brought the vast majority of our troops home from iraq and afghanistan, and i have been careful to resist calls to turn time and goen our military, because america has other tools in our arsenal than our military. we can also lead with the power of our diplomacy, our economy, and our ideals. with us, msnbc news chuck todd, nbc news chief and pentagon chief jim miklaszewski. start with you. not about dropping food and supplies to desperate people that is going to lead to much more. what are you hearing inside the pentagon? reporter: this humanitarian crisis with these ref jiff ugee the top of mountain starving and dying of thirst, a perfect entree for the white house to actually get involved here, and the prospect that this is a humanitarian mission, but officials here were looking very closely at erbil where there s a u.s. consulate, u.s. military forces that are serving as advisers. look, we could have evacuated all of those people, but there s a much larger issue here. over the past week, that isis militant operation that swept across the north and is now like therapy 30 minutes outside of erbil was done with such precision discipline it was such a well-executed and planned operation, that everybody s wakin ed to the fact that we re dealing with a whole different kind of terrorist force here that presents a very serious threat, not only to iraq but that entire region, and so this this was the entree to allow the u.s. to get involved to allow the threat of u.s. air strikes, if there s any kind of threat against americans. so it looks now like we re getting dragged into this. jim, could you talk about one factor in the rapid pace of isis movement, in addition to having superb command and control capability, we re told. the american weaponry, american vehicles, american equipment they re using that is helping them xpap diexpedite things? reporter: right. mostly sunis at that point when they first went in laid down their weapons in part in sympathy because they were getting no support from the maliki government. they swept in. they grabbed all of these american weapons, rocket launchers, are tillery, some tanks, mraps, armored vehicles. for a long period, several months, like a trail of answer going northward with all of that equipment into syria, and the syrian military has taken serious blows in isis out in armed whip these advanced weapons. that is definitely one of problems. and i want to point out, too, it was sort of lost in all of the excitement of the air drops yesterday. but the iraqi government essentially threw maliki out, and installed ibrahim gentlemjaa the new president. that was one of the conditions of president obama to getting involved. isn t that a coincidence that would happen on the same day that the u.s. military begins their operations over iraq? yep. some call it sooner diplomatdiplomat call it serendipity. magic, and came together at the end. todd, the president, what the president is doing is understandable. look at polls. americans don t want involved in syria or the middle east. don t want involved in iraq or involved in afghanistan. we understand this. but this president is going to be looking just like they didn t wan bill clinton to go after osama bin laden in 1998. he admitted, had a shot, didn t take it. isis, it s a nightmare that continues to grow. poisonous gas again. it s poisonous gas spreading across the middle east. is barack obama going to look back at the moment he could have done something sooner? you you ve got to wonder. i ve talked to folks, former administration officials, a couple of former democratic senators who look at it and say, okay. you can actually say the moment the mistake he made was getting involved in pushing mubarak out, saying that was a mistake. from that moment on that set the expectations that the united states was going to get involved in every arab spring uprising, and then we didn t. in syria. then syria becomes this civil war. that s the rise of isis. and then you look at this, and there is going to be various moments in time when people are debating how did we let isis get out of control? if the president had done, you know there s going to be some what ifs gone in sooner, done something in syria. e you point out, the politics of it were not in favor of this, and he s reluctant to do it it. there s a question, once you start, how do you stop? however, isis has only gotten stronger. waiting, not like a wine that gets better over time. it s a nightmare. could have acted four months ago, a year ago. he s acting now out of reluctance. bring up mubarak. fascinating you bring that up. i just remember three e-mails that i got in the span of, well, one weekend. i still remember driving around in my hometown, talking on the phone early one morning to a diplomat from the middle east. saying, you americans are fools. you do not know seriously, when you said that, i got chills, forgot about this call. he said, you neamericans are fools. you do not know what you re letting out of the bottle. a senator said this to me. we lifted the rock. when he moved mubarak out, looking under that rock and went, whoa. it unleashed something that we couldn t control. by the way, jim miklaszewski, not like barack obama did this all on his own. yes, the commander in chief, but a reluctant congress. a lot of republicans from the rand paul wing of the party and i ll just say it, the joe scarborough wing of the party, didn t we try this last decade, didn t work out well? a lot of generals where you are now that wouldn t want to be going off, you know, starting, going after what appear to be this brush fire or that brush fire, but i think everybody s looking around going, oh, my god. we waited too long and look what s happening. the entire region is unraveling. you know, back to the mubarak and even gadhafi for that matter. each time president obama says mubarak must go, gadhafi must go. collective jaws dropped here in the pentagon, because there was a real understanding of what kind of controls over these kind of islamic militants were being exerted in both of those countries, and even if libya, there s essentially no government control there now either. so but chuck touched on it a second ago. the big question leer at the pentag here at the pentagon is, what happens next? these isis commandsers are so experienced and are good at carrying out these kinds of operations. now, the kind of operations that not even the iraqi military is capable of carrying out. so nobody s sitting back thinking, oh, yeah. you know, we can handle this with air strikes. nobody wins wars according to the u.s. military with air strikes alone. all right. jim, thank you so much. greatly appreciate it. chuck, man. what a show you ve got today at 9:00. 1,000 things to talk about as far as last night, is the tea party dead, et cetera. we don t have time but watching at 9:00. lamar alexander. tea party. did you see the stat? 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and he didn t even know her. we learned he was a cold-blooded killer. senseless. all he had to do was call 911. reporter: throughout the two-week trial, wafer said he was acting in self-defense last november 2nd i. knew high to get my gun. reporter: felt threatened of someone banging loudly on his front door. i just shot somebody on my front porch with a shotgun. banging on my door. reporter: mcbride was unarmed and prosecutors say looking for help after returning into a parked car several blocks ay way. an autopsy showed she was drunk and high. this poor girl, she had her whole life in front of her. i took that from her. reporter: mcbride s relatives found comfort in the jury s decision. what does this mean for your family and for your nice? my family can rest, start living their lives again knowing that renisha is resting now. reporter: no word from jurors who left court immediately without comment. theodore wafer is behind bars, sentencing august 25th, facing life in prison. legal experts tell me it will likely be much less than that. back to you. peter, i m take it. thanks. your reaction, you were watching that, had a pretty honest reaction to thinking how somebody in this circumstance would normally react. yes. i think most people, this is what the jury clearly look, the story, this woman knocked on the door in the middle of the night. a frayed afraid of a home invasion, shot through the screen door and killed this girl. the jury rightly wondered, why if you were afraid of a home invasion which he might have been, why your reaction wouldn t have been to keep the doors locked. why open the door at all? why not keep the door locked and call police? what most people, many people, most people works do in that circumstance if you re afraid o would do if you were afraid of someone intruding on you. possibility of an armed invader outside, keep the door shut and call the cops. certainly we can see the reaction from mcbride s family that they feel justice is being served in a way but a devastating loss for their family and devastating impact for wafer, for his family, so it s a lose-lose all around. seinfeld s larry david is making his broadway debut. but can he live up to the curb appeal? don t go away, we ll be right back. you re watching morning joe. it s never been easier to find a dentist. watch. dentist. at 1-800-dentist, we ve helped over 8 million people find that right dentist. we can do the same for you. so don t put it off. call 1-800-dentist. so don t put it off. carmax is the best place to start your car search.e, great for frank, who s quite particular. russian jazz funk? next to swedish hip hop. when he knows what he wants. - thank you. do you have himalayan toad lilies? spotted, or speckled? speckled. yes. he has to have it. a cubist still life of rye bread. sold. it s perfect. which is why we ll ship a canary yellow jeep with leather seats from dallas to burbank if it s the one frank wants. and so listen, john heilemann just told me something. one of the greatest albums of all time, certainly my favorite album, the swan song of the beatles. something happened 45 years ago today. 45 years ago today shall the famous photograph on the cover of abbey road taken outside abbey road studios in london. they are celebrating that today in london with people dressed up as the beatles reenacting that famous crossing. let it be comes out after abbey road but comes out before it so it concluded with the song the end. let it be was such a horrific experience for all the beatles. they said hey listen, we did a terrible job, we want to do it one more time. george martin said will you let me produce you. will you guys actually work together. and they had to tell him we ll be good. they weren t good, they were great. extraordinary. there s a wonderful moment in jeff emrick s book. yoko was there the whole time with a bed down there in the studio, caused this anger and resentment. paul mccartney said, you know what, we should have been a lot cooler about it. we were guys. we were guys, we didn t get it. but that amazing guitar solo at the end, they all did it live. just pause on that for a moment. they wrote their ending. they knew that the band was going to break up. i think they intuitively knew that. the last song is dueling guitar solos between the three. and the amazing thing about that is they did sense it. they knew it. they all walked down. yoko, it s the only time, where john turned to yoko and he said, hey, love, let us do this. it was kind of like john saying this is our time, we need to do it. what an extraordinary ending to an extraordinary album to an extraordinary story. about 70 miles outside pittsburgh where they re having a fierce political fight over fracking, there was a huge billboard as you travel along the interstate with a picture of yoko ono on it and the billboard says would you take advice from someone who broke up the beatles? you just totally crapped all over this great segment. i don t even know what that means. yoko ono. you were talking about yoko and the beatles going down the tubes? she still lives. yeah, of course she still lives. what s he doing? he s saying that if you i don t care. you know, i should have never gone to barnicle. we should have ended it with the swan song and them woalking dow and john sweetly telling his wife leave it to us. let s go from bad to worse with entertainment news you don t need, that you don t want, but we re going to give it to you anyway. our entertainment correspondent, louis bergdorf, brings you the return of a segment that we were just celebrating, this is what fans have been screaming for for years. hollyweird. i m louis berg dorf and let s get holly weird. where s my website? mila kunis main squeeze is being accused of ripping off content from top sites around the world. his own web outfit has been caught with its hand in the computer cookie jar, ripping off content from sites such as buzz feed and the huffington post. when confronted about the potential praj ricplagiarism, t took it down. terminator genesis is the not-so-original title and will featuregovernator himself. you may remember this picture after the rapper was trying to sneak marijuana onto a plane. dumb move, right? 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[cheering] the fastest in-home wifi for your entire family. the x-1 entertainment operating system. only from xfinity. those militant fighters are taking control of iraq. where america has a key outpost. when the lives of american citizens are at risk, we will take action. when many thousands of innocent civilians are faced with the danger of being wiped out, we will take action. the religious sect is stranded on a mountain surrounded by militants threatening to kill them if they do not convert to islam. in baghdad there was a powerful appeal for intervention. one iraqi in the area cried to the world there is no one coming to help. well, today america is coming to help. the cease-fire ending between hamas and israel. this morning, however, hamas opened fire. we respond to fire with very heavy fire. israel has kind of got what it wanted out of the first round of fighting. the israelis are able to say hamas broke the cease-fire but they have given no concessions at all on the conditions hamas wanted for a truce. republican senator lamar alexander has defeated his tea party challenger, joe carr. we re going to have to roll up your sleeves, work with each other and get something done. we should be playing the empire strikes back. the establishment won. i am declaring the current outbreak of ebola virus disease a public health emergency of international concern. ebola has jumped from guinea to liberia to sierra leone and nigeria. if we do not fight and contain this disease in west africa, we will be fighting this disease in multiple other countries around the world. and the truth is, the cat is already most likely out of the bag. welcome back to morning joe. mike barnicle is here back with us. we re not going to have him saying random things about yoko ono stepping on what john heilemann and i are talking about. can you still believe that? like we re talking about the most iconic moment in rock history. mike barnicle is, yeah, i was driving outside pittsburgh. saw a billboard. every once in a while with mike you get one of those awkward free senior moment association things. it s like oh, cramps, come on, man. unlike with you. it s a total brain freeze. brain freeze, pot freeze, hash freeze, along with sara eisen. cnbc s sara eisen. joining the set, of course, the man that you loved as a child and trust as a mother, the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass. in washington, bloomberg columnist, al hunt. al doesn t know what all the kids say about richard haass in d.c.? that s what i ve always said about richard, as does the lovely susan. loved him as a kid, trust him as a mother. we re not going to talk about that editorial. i want to go first to you, al hunt, because i think one of the most fascinating things about what happened last night, obviously a tragedy unfolding on an international scale but peter baker put it best in his analysis. sending warplanes back to the skies of iraq, president obama on thursday night found himself exactly where he didn t want to be. hoping to end the war in iraq, mr. obama became the fourth president in a row to order military action in that graveyard of american ambition, and it appears, al, that he had absolutely no choice but to finally get involved. yeah, joe, i think that s right. ethnic cleansing was going on. it was brutal. i think what really has shocked this administration the last couple weeks is the effectiveness, the brutality of those isis forces. they have just run over the iraqi army and they rallied the kurds the other day. they had no choice but to do what they did. but i still think there s a great fear this is a slippery slope. nancy pelosi put out a statement last night saying yes, we re going in there for humanitarian reasons but for goodness sakes, mr. president, we can t go any further. i think that s a great fear in washington today. mike barnicle has been reading foreign policy with a poichblgt yo point. even people close to barack obama say his foreign policy looks ad hoc at best. you can t connect the dots to a bigger foreign policy agenda and what you have now is chaos, absolute chaos, and an american public that doesn t want to get involved in cleaning up any of that chaos because of the past ten years. you re right. the world looks to be unraveling. the american people seem to think they can run and hide. the answer is they can t do either. what happens there is not going to stay there. if a group, for example, like isis were to get a real base in iraq and syria, why does anyone think it would stop there? why do they not think ultimately it would move on to jordan, saudi arabia and other places that were not sufficiently pure. why don t we think their graduates would travel to europe and the united states and do some mayhem here. they are not to be confused with the taliban. i remember dr. brzezinski saying don t confuse al qaeda and the taliban. al qaeda wants to blow up buildings in the united states, the taliban wants to be left alone. this force does not want to be left alone and retire. i think this is an important distinction here. the taliban had largely an afghan agenda. al qaeda had a largely negative agenda. they wanted to do things like blow up airplanes and penalize the west. these guys are much more dangerous. they have a positive agenda. they actually are creative and they are capable. so we ought to take these guys a lot more seriously about what it is they are potentially which is why, by the way, what the president said last night, i ve got to tell you so odd the disconnect between the nature of their agenda and the narrowness, the way he articulated what we were going to do, simply humanitarian and protect the americans in erbil. there is a strategic argument here and the president clearly is sensitive to where the american people are. i think he is but i think the president is saying a lot less than he s thinking right now and in part it may be because he doesn t want to tip off isis on our plans and it may be he knows the american people don t want other war in iraq and he may not have any choice. sara eisen, obviously the world is so interrelated right now, interconnected right now, that vladimir putin moves troops to the border of ukraine and we feel it in the stock market here in new york city. this chaos is going to come home to americans at some point, isn t it? the global economy was just starting to recover from the financial crisis many years ago and you have this threat. this there is an escalating trade war with russia right now. russia is a large economy, the eighth biggest economy in the world. we feel it here, they feel it in europe even harder than that. when it comes to iraq, the spiral effect that you talk about, when you talk about places like saudi arabia, if this gets even worse, then you re talking about the global energy supply in the world and that obviously represents a huge economic threat. so you hear these headlines and it really shakes up investors. it hurts stocks yesterday. we re watching oil prices, which are elevated right now, and you see things like gold and oar safe haven kind of assets are really becoming much more favored right now because you have to worry about global growth, which was already so fragile. that s really interesting because for five years we were focused on the recovery from the financial crisis. then it was the eurozone crisis. just when things began to stabilize economically, geopolitics have intruded. this now is what investors and markets have to worry about. investors like globalization. they like things connected. they like when american companies can sell to markets like russia. pepsico had a big frito-lay business in russia and now they have to look whether their products are being sanctioned. just a small example of how this affects us. john. i want to stitch together a couple of things together and ask al about what he thinks about this. you know, the phrase was used a second ago by you, joe, or morning joe, was that morning joe says what morning joe has to say. is that barack obama s foreign policy is criticized by a lot of people for being ad hoc. you mentioned people are worried about a slippery slope. do you think the president is making this particular policy with respect to to isis in an ad hoc way or do they have a notion of a short, medium and long game that the president isn t telling everybody about but that is all pretty well calculated in the white house or they re just making it up as they go along. john, i fear it s closer to the former. i think events have forced their hand here. i want to see what richard thinks about this. but the steps they have taken so far are one thing. if they start engaging in air strikes, that takes it to another level. that s where i think people fear a slippery slope. on the other hand, i don t know any american president that could have looked at the situation the past couple of days and said i m sorry, we re staying out. no american president, no american president could look at what s been happening. i say this as a guy again, we ve talked about it for years. i wanted us to get out of afghanistan in 2009. against military adventurism, but i don t see, richard, that we have any you know, we have seen a complete chaos spreading out of syria, spreading across to iraq, now spreading into jordan, spreading across the middle east. this situation is bad. it s going to get worse. assayer as sara said, it s related with the economy of the world and we ve got to be involved. absolutely. i think the difference is now we re thinking about using military force not to remake societies but potentially we d be using military force to do things that military force is meant to do, which in this case is to stop a group of people from overwhelming a society. so this is not afghanistan, this is not even iraq several years ago. this is a much more traditional classic use of military force that we would be undertaking so people ought not to be worried in the same way that we re, quote unquote, getting back into iraq. the idea is not to make it a shining city on a hill, it s to prevent these characters from essentially overwhelming iraq and through that the middle east. let s move on to domestic politics. lamar alexander won last night. give me a good baseball analogy, mike barnicle. the tea party has been just absolutely shut out. haley and his type have thrown a perfect game. how about that? that s not bad. my question would be, and i ll ask you, john, in terms of talking about the tea party earlier, the lamar alexander race and other races that have occurred in the recent past where the tea party has been involved, how would you define the republican party today given the context of the tea party within it? well, i would define the republican party as a republican that is driven by dissention. alex coursen just said in my ear that he was afraid mike was going to compare the tea party to yoko ono. i was getting there. just stop. leave it behind, okay? polls left it behind. i think the fundamental fact about the republican party is that it is a party in a state of deep dissention and something close to civil war. $145 million have been spent on this internal battle. the chamber of commerce and republicans trying to beat back the tea party insurgency. it appears on the basis of the results from these primaries this season that they have done a pretty good job of doing that. as bill kristol said, the populist flinfluences are still very strong. lamar alexander managed to win but he was running against six opponents. he was just lucky that he had a split field. so the establishment has not definitively won but the tea party is certainly on its heels. to use your words, do you think the division within the tea party today is as bad the republican party? within the yeah, is it as bad as it was within the beatles when yoko ono oh, god, will you just please stop. let s talk about wall street for a second and their involvement. i remember the alabama one race where finally wall street, the chamber of commerce, the rickets, it was enough. enough with the shutdown, enough with the crazy talk, we re taking our party back. the chamber of commerce, wall street, a lot of forces that the populists can t stand in the republican party, they have gotten involved and spent a hell of a lot of money. and unlike heritage action and some of these other groups, club for growth, they have gotten returns on their investment. money and advertising. you saw that for sure in tennessee. the other thing i would bring up, i wonder whether the economic climate has changed since the tea party really rose to power. they had a pretty sharp economic message but that was not at a time when this economy was creating more than 200,000 jobs month after month after month, which we ve been seeing. longest stretch since 1997. i wonder if that vulnerability in the economy sort of helped their cause, smaller government economic message. the big bank bailouts. we re recovering. and two years ago we were hearing about how these banks have been bailed out, were making all this money. now every single day it s either jpmorgan or it s bank of america $17 billion. you get the headlines are now about how these banks are just being pursued with a vengeance from the justice department so it s kind of hard to whip up populist frenzy and say, gee, nothing is happening to the big banks. you could two years ago. you can t now. the way in which this dissention has translated to the national electorate is the republican party has become to most people the party of no. that s why the party is so unpopular because they have no as morning joe has said, they have no positive they have no positive agenda and most people in the country look at them and say they re offering nothing. lamar alexander spoke to that. he said we have to go to washington and we have to pass laws. we have to get something done. after the al hunt, after the republicans lost to barack obama in 2012, which is seen as a nightmare, i was invited to go to the national review symposium in washington, d.c. there were a lot of great conservative thought leaders there. bill kristol was one of them. but everybody said the same thing, they need an agenda in the house. because they know that we ll have people looking at this going, oh, gee, they re hammering on conservatives, why is scarborough hammering on his own party again. no, this is what happens when you do absolutely nothing, and this was a storm, just like isis, this was a storm that you could see coming. kristol warned about it, the national review warned about it. they said you need an agenda. no agenda has been taken. instead we re left here with two numbers. are you ready for this? two numbers, al. $145 million. that s how much money the republican party has spent destroying itself over the past year or so. and 19%. that s the republican party s approval rating in the wall street journal /nbc poll. those are two pretty damn bad numbers for my party. they re terrible numbers. i think john is right, the republican party is viewed as the party of no. some people like paul ryan are trying to correct that. it s an uphill slog. i think if we look at the battle between the establishment and the movement conservatives, we are exaggerating the demise of the tea party conservatives. to be sure the establishment won important victories and it means they ll be able to win in the fall, unlike last time when they had todd akins on the ballot. i don t think they have scared the tea party. i don t think they have scared the movement conservatives. one of the objectives in the beginning was so these members in the house and senate wouldn t feel intimidated by the prospect of a primary. i don t think anything has changed this year to affect that. the thing is we had bill kristol talking about, you know, if you have smart insurgents, smart insurgents win. thad cochran drove me crazy bh i was in congress. what s the alternative? lamar alexander. i love lamar but does lamar come from my wing of small government populist republicanism? no. but what s the alternative? the thing is there has to be an agenda other than no roads, no airports, no foreign policy, no this, no that. listen, i ve been talking about the debt for years. there s a way we can take care of the debt without basically shutting down this country and what the federal government does, but it s called entitlements. until the republican party is willing to talk about entitlements, they re not going to be any different from the democrats. it s just and so here we are. we re left with a civil war, $145 million civil war and a republican house that s sitting at 19%. richard haass, 15 seconds, if you don t mention the name yoko ono in a negative light. i will let that be. oh, my god. seriously, he just did. coming up on morning joe we ll give you an update on whether in hawaii okay, richard, i ll give you ten seconds now, go. plus now you can have foreign policy added to the republican debate. questions about whether you re prepared to increase defense spending against the backdrop of what s going on in the middle east, ukraine and asia. up to now so much of the republican domestic debate was against a world that looked to be more tranquil. those days are over. let s move on now to hawaii where hurricane iselle has downgraded to a tropical storm, but hurricane julio is on her heels. with us now weather channel meteorologist reynolds wolf. reynolds, a guy that we like to call america s meelgs. what s going on, baby? feeling the power. feeling the love, man. okay. this is really a mess but it s still a big rain maker for a lot of people in hawaii. some locations could get up to a foot of rain. you know, i ve got to tell you it s going to be really rough the next several hours. wind also fairly strong. the higher up you go you ll be dealing with more of the potential damage. 20,000 customers without power right now. would not be surprised to see those numbers go up. we have reports of some roof damage and even tree damage in parts of the islands. what we re going to be seeing in terms of the rainfall, we already told you, but i ll tell you, this system has closed down and it appears that might be the case. you may see greater amounts than 12 to 18 inches of rainfall. what we re going to be seeing with the system is that it should sweep its way south of the rest of the island chain, but then you ve got julio. julio still farther back out towards the east. what we expect with julio is that winds of 120 miles an hour, this system will stay clear north of the islands but still heavy waves, possibly some rain and at the same time could have some damaging winds and parts of the big island saturday, sunday, monday and tuesday. all right, guys, you re up to speed on the tropics. we ll send it back to you. thank you so much, reynolds. great ly appreciate it. al huntin, we always like havin you here. we have to apologize for mike barnicle. coming up on morning joe world health officials are declaring the ebola outbreak an international public health emergency. how officials are fighting to contain the virus and how one computer program was able to predict the outbreak before scientists had a clue. plus a, quote, mass casualty incident. that s how officials are describing one scene at a keith urban concert this summer. we re going to explain a new disturbing trend at country music concerts. you see this, john? 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oh, my god. [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. the world health organization reports there are now 1,603 cases in west africa. oh, i didn t well, that s terrible for those countries, i didn t realize. all right. i guess i won t be needing this. i ll just cut it up for parts. there are new fears tonight about the ebola outbreak right here in new york city. doctors at mt. sinai hospital are performing tests on a patient who is showing possible symptoms of the virus. mother [ bleep ]! [ bleep ]. okay. there s going to be a tough transition. that was funny. with us now bryan walsh. he is overseeing the website s coverage of this crisis. jon stewart making light, obviously, of how americans think about these things. as kate snow reported earlier from the cdc, it s not an international crisis for us until americans are involved, and of course we ve got some americans involved. what s going on? basically you heard the world health organization did label an international public health emergency but that doesn t exactly mean it s a threat for the united states or a lot of other countries. this is right now still a major, major threat for west african nations. other countries have to look out for it but it s not something we really have to worry about ear in the u.s. quite yet. so what s the situation, though we knew this was obviously a possibility. john was talking about how the ebola virus is not something that was that came about two weeks ago. why do we have such a hard time right now containing it? well, it s a new place in africa it s never been before. usually it s in isolated villages out in rain forests. now it s in major cities raging out of control. health workers are getting infected. these countries health care systems are completely overwhelmed so there s no way to stop it. now you re seeing people getting on a plane, going to other countries and potentially infecting there as well. i m curious about the status of how they are treating this. as i understand it, there is no fda approved treatment for ebola so they re trying this experimental drug that s based on tobacco. i know a lot of wall street is trying to look for which company will be behind the cure because obviously these numbers are growing. yeah, you have that experimental cure, zmapp it s called, and it s being used on those americans brought back from africa. it seems to be working. this case fatality rate is 50% so they could be getting better just with better care on their own. this is by far the biggest outbreak when you re talking about 1600 people. now we re looking into what can we do about a vaccine and about a treatment as well. let s try to minimize the fear factor here that always has great potential given the way we broadcast things. how is this disease transmitted and what is the danger of infection? the disease is transmitted by very close bodily contact. you re talking about blood, vomit, things like that. it s not airborne. it s very different than the cold. i can t cough on you. if i had ebola, you d be okay. so it s particularly dangerous for people in health care because in a hospital, you re dealing with a sick person or taking care of someone at home or handling a dead body, which is happening a lot in africa. for here in the u.s., it s extremely, extremely unlikely. even if you did see a case being brought in from outside, for instance. bryan, thank you so much. we greatly appreciate you being here. thanks. an obama official under scrutiny for deleted e-mails that republicans are demanding for their congressional investigations and we re not talking about lois lerner, the irs. it s happened again and we ll explain why. honey, look i got one to land. uh-huh (announcer) there s good more. honey, look at all these smart rewards points verizon just gave me. ooh, you got a buddy. i m like a statue. i just signed up and, boom, all these points. .and there s not-so-good more. you re a big guy. huh. oh no. get the good more with verizon smart rewards and rack up points to use towards the things you really want. now get 50% off all new smartphones. dad: he s our broker. he helps looks after all our money. kid: do you pay him? dad: of course. kid: how much? dad: i don t know exactly. kid: what if you re not happy? does he have to pay you back? dad: nope. kid: why not? dad: it doesn t work that way. kid: why not? vo: are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is managed? wealth management at charles schwab welcome back, everybody. listen to this, the irs is not the only government agency where missing e-mails are posing a problem for the obama administration. the department of health and human services also facing scrutiny now. msnbc has learned that one of the department s top officials likely deleted e-mails related to the flawed rolledout of healthcare.gov last year. we can just go to the backup, right? they saved them, right? go to the nsa, they could have them. officials say there is no evidence that the e-mails were intentionally deleted but it appears the department had poor record keeping in place. of course, of course. health and human services, they believe that most of the e-mails will be recovered. here with us now from washington, the political reporter who broke this exclusively for msnbc.com, alex seitz-wald. this is great reporting on your part. what tipped you off to start digging around and figure out exactly what happened. thanks. well, after hhs realized that this problem they were going to have this problem, they were going to have to report it to the archives administration and they were going to have to report it to the committee and knew this was going to blow up into a huge thing so i think they wanted to make sure that it got out there in a way that was fair and reported accurately because a lot of the reporting about these scandals has been sensationalistic and there s a possibility here to blow this up into something it s not. there s no evidence of wrongdoing. that doesn t we don t know for sure there hasn t been any wrongdoing. but to me after everything that i ve reviewed, this looks like more of a case of sloppiness than any kind of nefariousness or intention aal obfuscation? but they do think they can recover most of these e-mails? i would like to destroy a lot of my e-mails but it just can t happen. it s kind of incredible. reporting this story exposed to me something i didn t even realize. there s a massive problem within the government in e-mail recordkeeping. there s a federal law that you have to keep records, but it s almost universally not followed to a t across the entire federal government. you have a totally inadequate infrastructure but i just don t understand. like this is like playing pong on your computer and it breaking down or something. i m not being facetious. but i ve had yahoo! accounts, i ve had g-mail accounts, i ve had mac accounts, every type of account you can have and you can always find those e-mails. you ve got to search under morning joe. of course you do. what they re supposed to do, and it s kind of incredible in 2014 this is the system that is still carried out by most of the federal government, you re supposed to take your e-mails, print them out and file them physically, which is kind of insane. a lot of these officials at the department of health and human services have one gigabyte of storage, that s all they can keep. lois lerner had 500 megabytes, even less. there are backups only kept for a short period of time. while she was working she had this awesome 8-track player. she had the pet rock up there so everything was kind of cool. as alex points out, this hackett of trying to print stuff out, normally we print stuff out when it s cya, when you want to cover your ass on something. it s an 8:00 hour, who s watching? no, come on, a lot of moms. a lot of cya stuff is going on if people want to do that, print them out and save them, but it s ridiculous to think that we have many of our agencies that are operating by what they think is snap chat, like it s just going to disappear. there is a reason why snap chat and what s app exploded. it s because e-mails can always be traced. they can always be followed. can you imagine a corporation that s being investigated and gave this excuse and the wasn t able to find e-mails? i was just going to say the irs, i m sorry, i don t have the e-mails. i would be in a federal penitentiary in atlanta, georgia. playing pong, apparently. no, but seriously, why is snap chat popular? morning john? why is what s app popular? because you can follow e-mail trails. can you believe the biggest, most powerful government in the world is like in 1989? it s inexcusable to think that we don t have proper tracking going on when we re doing stories on the nsa and the fact that they re building these multi billion dollar complexes in bluffdale, utah, a big hole in the ground to suck all of our personal information to go through it and vet it. how come they re not saving all theirs. alex, where does the federal government go to get the floppy disks? i think your pointing is an important one. there s a cnn poll out today that showed trust in government is at an all-time low. when you have the person responsible for oversoeeing healthcare.gov now can t recover their e-mails, it certainly doesn t look good. alex, thank you so much. great reappreciate it. still ahead, violence, tragedy and miscellaneous are . arrests. we try to figure out what s going on at country concerts. fox woods, the keith urban concert, a lot of violence, rapes, some murders. it s terrible. we re going to explain why next. who s more excited about back to school savings at staples? the moms? or the dads? with guaranteed low prices on colored pencils, it s definitely the dads. staples. make more happen for less. captain obvious: tell your travelgrandmother with the. hotels.com loyalty program, she ll earn free nights. so they re not the same, because they re different. woman: jimmy s not my grandson, captain obvious. woman: man: he s my lover. no. we re safe, barnicle is off the set. right, john heilemann? barnicle is off the set. there was just a lot to deal with with that guy today. we tied such a beautiful bow on abbey road 45 years later and that wonderful moment when they go down and play the guitar solos and do the end and then he just there s a word that i need to say but he did something all over it and i can t say it. well, i could say it, i ve said much worse. he yokoed on you. we re going to talk about music. we re going from abbey road to country music. thomas, it s been a violent summer. it s really odd. there s a trend we ve been watching that s disturbing at summer concerts. as billboard magazine is asking does country music need an alcohol intervention? it s one of several recent articles noting the surge of booze-filled incidents at shows across the country. it s not just the binge drinking, there s fights, there s arrests, there s even reported rapes going on. there were so many people needing medical help at a keith urban show in massachusetts that it was declared, quote, mass casualty event. officials blaming preconcert tailgating for the trouble but others pointing to popular songs like sunshine and whiskey and drunk on a plane for fueling the hard party atmosphere. joining us right now, the one, the only, toure, who is also the author of i would die for you. why prince became an icon. hi, toure, good morning. thanks so much for being with us. a lot of this has to do with straight demographics of the country music audience, doesn t it? i m not going to blame the demographics of the country music audience, certainly not right out of the gate. the washington post does point to the fact that it used to be like sort of middle class housewives. sure. and now it s teenage guys. the country music audience is national. it is both genders. and country music has changed and has grown in terms of bringing in elements of pop and hip-hop so it s a music forum that lots and lots of americans can get into. everybody is into lots of people are into country music. country music s live touring business is growing faster than any other music segment. this is the biggest summer for touring f touring, for stadium touring we ve had in 20 years. what s the problem at the concerts? look, i want to note that we are talking about a tiny sliver of really unfortunate bad incidents that have happened when we have hundreds and hundreds of concerts that go off without a hitch, right? but one thing that we have in the country music culture is people are tailgating. they aren t doing that in hip-hop concerts. they re not doing that for most rock shows. they don t take their rvs to concerts at the barclay center. they are spending hours drinking, just like before a football game. nothing wrong with that, you know, per se, but a sliver of people are getting too drunk and things are happening. but the vast majority of concerts, joe, are safe, right? we could still feel comfortable to take our kids to the vast majority of shows and know that everything is going to work out. but something has changed, right? i mean this is a this is a new phenomena that s getting a lot of attention. is this a media creation or has something actually changed. this is not a story that we ve been reading three years ago, five years ago, seven years ago. a little of both. it s a little bad bias in media. we focus on a plane that goes down, as we should, but air traffic, air travel is safer than it has ever been, right? so there is something of that. but yes, because the touring business is in general better than it has been in 20 years and the country business is growing faster than anybody else, you see a lot of people who haven t been going to shows in the last several years are now going to shows, and a sliver of them don t know how to behave. that actually points to another interesting thing that s slightly off topic but the touring business, as you know, is now where the money is made. absolutely. you don t make money selling records anymore or downloadable songs. it s not about the content, it s about the performance. that s right. and the recession had a huge impact on the touring business. the average person said i can t afford to go. the big, huge artists are always going to be fine, just like the 1% is always fine. the people who are going to go do a little tiny show at irving plaza, a little tiny venue downtown that you go to all the time, they re going to be fine. but that middle class group, that s why the roots are working upstairs with jimmy fallon because the touring business that they had couldn t sustain itself. thomas. real quickly, though, when we talk about someone like keith urban and they re using his show as an example, massachusetts medical saying that this show was declared a mass casualty event. we ve got keith urban, a guy who s a judge on american idol, playing to a much more diverse audience that s making up this concert-going public, to john s point, is this just the media making too big of a deal? yes, i think we are spending too much time thinking about something incredibly unfortunate that happened at one show. the vast majority of shows are safe. all right. toure, thank you so much. we ll watch the cycle at 3:00 p.m. eastern. coming up next, passing the buck. customers are outraged how a minnesota restaurant is handling the state s new minimum wage increase. keep it here on morning joe. when folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that s not a coincidence. it s one more part of our commitment to america. ahhh! what is it? there are no marshmallows in this box of lucky charms! huh. weird. seriously? what? they re magically delicious this is a really interesting talk coming out of minnesota where a restaurant there is coming under fire for the way that it s protesting the minimum wage hike there. the new minimum wage went up by 75 cents, so oasis cafe in stillwater has started slapping a 35-cent minimum wage fee on all the customer tabs and they put it right there on your bill. it s in response to the new $8 an hour minimum wage that took effect last week, the first increase in the state since 2009. one person wrote on facebook, shame on your protest over a small increase in pay required by law. hopefully customers will not continue to patronize your cheapskate establishment. another comment read $8 for a bacon cheeseburger and you can t pay your employees a decent wage? you ought to be ashamed of yourself. a manager said that it s appalled at the response for just protecting its employees. so they re passing it on. they put the surcharge of 35 cents right there on the bill for everybody to see. i don t know if that s the best pr move. i mean, listen, these small business owners running restaurants, we all know we ve had friends that have done these, it s horrible. it s hard to do. you know, i understand the difficulty of any extra burden. with the minimum wage as low as it historically is, you may not want to advertise your contempt for raising it a little bit on the bill. it seems like it s a revenge tactic but they were honest about putting it out there and not making it something that they were hiding from people. people had a right to their own reaction to it and people have taken to social media to talk about it and they are making a storm about it, so it isn t a good pr move for oasis out there. is that all you got? that s all i got. morning joe is disappointed. i know. this show, i m tuckered out. i m just spent. i am too. i m going to take a month off. coming up next, what, if anything, did we learn here. you re tired? we ve only been doing this for three hours! you re finally here. long way from the sandlot. first game in the majors? you don t know aarp . because this family is enjoying a cross-country baseball stadium trip they planned online at aarp travel. it s where your journey begins with inspiration, planning, booking, and hot travel tips from real pros. if you don t think seize the trip when you think aarp, then you don t know aarp . find more surprising possibilities and get to know us at aarp.org/possibilities. hey, welcome back to morning joe. american officials tell nbc news that two u.s. navy planes have dropped two 500-pound bombs on enemy forces outside erbil this morning, just east of mosul. fighter jets flew off the uss george h.w. bush aircraft carrier in the persian gulf. now it s time for what we learned. what did you learn? i learned the situation in iraq as witnessed by this news, things are going to get, i think, ugly fast. uglier, i should say. the fact that the debate will continue between the doves and the neocons exactly what we re doing because this is a sectarian war in iraq and we re stepping our foot right back into it. i learned we re losing mikayla and camille. come on up and say good-bye. two of our greatest people that we ve had. part of our intern team. so you re going to disneyland next, right? yeah. well, thank you so much for everything you ve done. it was a pleasure. definitely. all right. thank you so much. if it s way too early, what time is it? it s time for morning joe. but i think right now actually it s probably time for chuck todd and the daily rundown. breaking news. the pentagon just announced that the u.s. dropped two 500-pound bombs on isis enemy forces outside erbil in iraq, northern iraq this morning. that s, of course, after the president announced late last night that he had authorized those limited air strikes. those air strikes have now begun. to prevent isis rebel fighters from taking erbil, the capital of kurdish northern iraq. on thursday the u.s. also began a humanitarian effort simultaneously air dropping 8,000 meals and 5300 fresh gallons of water to tens of thousands of yezidi refugees. this is a religious minority who have fled to the mountains to escape execution. they have been trapped there. many are dying of thirst and starvation. the president said he will authorize combat air strikes if necessary to help free the yezidis from this siege. when we have a mandate to help, in this case a request from the iraqi government, and when we have the unique capabilities to help avert a massacre, then i believe the united states of america cannot turn a blind eye. joining me
what should be number one on his immigration plan? log on to have that conversation with me. it is #keeptalking. fox & friends starts right now with elisabeth. she s back. good morning. it is friday, november 14, 2014. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. a fox news alert for you now. breaking overnight, a military base is under attack. two navy officers were hurt trying to take down an armed man. we have the breaking details for you in just moments. and first he called americans stupid and now he s bragging about ripping off the feds. but who exactly is professor jonathan gruber? i don t know who he is. he didn t help write our bill. she s hilarious. that s not true. and we re going to play some tapes that nancy pelosi wishes we didn t have. and forget werewolves in london. this morning a tiger is on the loo in one of the world is on the loose in one of the world s biggest cities. this morning a hunt is on to find him. mornings are better with friends. friends like you. studio e as in elisabeth hasselbeck. you are back. i love you guys. good morning. hi, buddy. welcome back, elisabeth. where you been? just hangin out. i m so glad and thankful to be back with all of you. i had a bit of a scare. you learn these things. i had a tumor in my abdomen. doctors said you ve got to get it out by the end of the month. we don t like how it hooks. i was facing something that could potentially have gone either way. i did what they said. i had a phenomenal surgeon. i had a scary week where we didn t know what the results were, but i m okay. everything has gone okay. surgery is not fun but it is necessary to find out if you have something terrible or you do not. thankfully i had the blessing of it not being cancer. a scary one indeed. we had real serious talks at home and honest ones with the kids. i could not be more thankful for my family and my friends who stood by me with support. although you sent me an e-mail, toughen up, girl. you sent me a note. mr. ailes and others treated me like family the entire way. so many girls have stared down that cancer gun but when they got bad news and dodge done remarkable things, courageous things to fight it. and so i knew i would be in their wings and by their example be able to fight it. i didn t get that message from my doctor. i got a clean bill of health. and i m just, i m thankful, really thankful. i m not a person who takes a lot for granted, but i certainly don t take it for granted now. tim, my husband, he was my hospital buddy. friends came to sit with me during ugly hours. i was blessed with the peace in the week where i didn t know what i would be facing and felt as ready as you could feel. i felt such love and support from all of you and all of you watching. they sent e-mails all the time, they wondered where you were at. kimberly and everyone who sat in for me, heather i don t take anything for granted. my kids are watching now. daddy s making breakfast. tell him not to burn the bagels. i love you all. so many prayers for you. i m sorry my palms are sweaty but i know you guys love me like a sister. you know what would make you happy right now? what? cake! we brought you came! cake boss? oh my goodness. thank you, cake boss. wherever you are. thank you. it feels i don t like a fuss; you know that. but this is a special day. i m really, really thankful thank you for giving me the time i needed to recover. before you know it, kilmeade is not here but i ll be whipping on him once i heal some stitches up. additions, i am so happy to be back on this couch. you guys kept me laughing and smiling the whole time. enough about me, we ll get on to breaking news. folks sent some tweets she would love to hear. we re going to share some of those in a little bit. thanks for letting me enjoy privacy and quiet while i figured out what my mission was in terms of healing. i really appreciate that. but i would love to hear from you now. thank you. the first day you came here, i said this is a family. we really mean it. you re a big part of the family. you are absolutely right about that. thank you. i m so thankful to this network for my friends and family here and all of your support. hey, like i said, i m healing up so my mission is pure healing and getting fast again. time to get back to business. that s right. we re going to start with heather childers. we re so thankful that you re back and you re healthy. i m thankful for that and happy to see you starting the day with a smile. i m going to give you a hug in a second but we need to tell but this fox news alert. while you were sleeping a man with a knife tried to enter the same gate at the submarine base in groton, connecticut. two officers were hurt trying to take him down, one stabbed in the leg. right now that suspect is in custody and both officers are out of the hospital. it s being called a comedy of errors. not really funny, the secret service blunders leading to september s white house intrusion. why wasn t an attack dog unleashed on omar gonzalez when he scaled the white house fence? it turns out the agent in charge of releasing that canine had no ear piece in. he was sitting in a van talking on a personal cell phone. it s just one of the many human errors homeland security cites in a brand-new review of the major security breach. speaking of cell phones, you re being watched like you never would have imagined. there is a brand-new report that the justice department is scooping up data from thousands of phones through devices on airplanes flying right offense our right over our heads. the it was meant for spying but innocent people caught in the cross-fire. nancy pelosi chastising a reporter who asked her about stepping down after democrats failed to capture the senate s majority. pelosi said men previously in her position have never been asked that question. when was the day that any of you said to mitch mcconnell when they lost the senate three times in a ted kennedy has basically figured out a way to rip off the feds about $4,000 a year. what we didn t allow in that room was talk about how could we make this work? obama was like, well, he s really a realistic guy. he s like i can t do this. it is not going to happen politically. the bill will not pass. how do we manage to get through there phases. that opened the genesis of the cadillac tax. barack obama is not a stupid man; okay? he knew when he was running for president that, quite frankly, the american public doesn t actually care that much about the uninsured. what the american public cares about is cost. wow, there s a bottom line that is coming up to boil right now. but when asked, nancy pelosi said i don t even know who he is. this man right here who right there admitted that our president understands and is counting on the fact that americans are too dumb essentially to care, that these americans are going to be snowed by this and there is one way to do it and get the cash? this is what he said, yet nancy pelosi denies she knows who he is. listen to this. i don t know who he is. let s put him aside. i don t know if you have seen jonathan gruber in my comparison of what the analysis is to the status quo versus what will happen in our bill. you see what this is. i don t know who he is. that was yesterday that she said i don t know who he is. you go back and look at her website, and jonathan gruber, they announce m.i.t. professor jonathan gruber, makes a big thing about him then. speaks about him in 2009 and 2010 as well. so she must remember. i hope she remembers. to make a long story short, look at what s going on. jonathan gruber first said i made an off the cuff remark. then we have four more tapes of him saying the same thing. this is a huge hoax perpetrated on the american people. the problem is the hoax that they develop, they re all on board with it. nancy pelosi was on board. harry reid was on board. president obama named this guy mr. mandate. everyone knew what was going on except the american people. and that s the sad part. coming up in the show, dr. marc siegel is going to speak truth to you and tell you three things changing about the health care plan that you re going to want to know that the administration, at least back then was counting on you not even caring about, and those changes are ultimately so important. we are going to bring them to you today. can i bring one thing in? the thing no one talked about is everything he said, the architect was wrong. in the end premiums aren t going down. they re still going up. they haven t made the costs go down. they figured it is in the greater good of the country to get this passed regardless of the cost. curious though, and he s probably going to be called on capitol hill. they re going to have hearings once the senate is taken over by the republicans. he made it very clear he would do any sort of dishonest politicking to get this passed. he s a professor at m.i.t. don t you think those kinds of low standards probably violate some high standard at m.i.t.? not if you re tenured. there you go. that s the guy i want teaching my kids. if they were at m.i.t., that would be fantastic. we re going to include some of your tweets to elisabeth right now. she s been missing. she had an operation. she s cancer free. charlotte says this. it will be so good to see you. missed your smile. you are kind, charlotte. lisa says, yay! welcome back girlfriend. love the double exclamation. thank you, lisa. i m so glad to be back. i can t thank you enough. i m not taking one second for granted. that is why you re going to tell us what s coming up if a few seconds. he made headlines when he said he jumped from a balcony to save his drowning nephew. this morning the reason why he made it all up. his race is to blame. obamacare architect jonathan gruber s comments may not be the only thing you re going to be offended by when it comes to obamacare. dr. segal in the house. ells save big on great gifts at bass pro shops. like canning jar candles buy one get one free. giant stuffed fish pillows for only $10. and personalized christmas card packages for only $5. plus kids can get a free picture with santa. i have $40,ney do you have in your pocket right now? $21. could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement? i don t think so. well if you start putting that towards your retirement every week and let it grow over time, for twenty to thirty years, that retirement challenge might not seem so big after all. that s the way i look at life. looking for something better. especially now that i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib, a type of irregular heartbeat, not caused by a heart valve problem. i was taking warfarin, but wondered if i kept digging, could i come up with something better. my doctor told me about eliquis. for three important reasons. one, in a clinical trial, eliquis was proven to reduce the risk of stroke better than warfarin. two, eliquis had less major bleeding thawarfarin. and three, unlike warfarin, there s no routine blood testing. don t stop taking eliquis unless your doctor tells you to, as stopping increases your risk of having a stroke. eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding. don t take eliquis if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. while taking eliquis, you may bruise more easily and it may take longer than usual for any bleeding to stop. seek immediate medical care for sudden signs of bleeding, like unusual bruising. eliquis may increase your bleeding risk if you take certain medicines. tell your doctor about all planned medical or dental procedures. those three important reasons are why eliquis is a better find for me. ask your doctor today if eliquis is right for you. basically, you know, call it the stupidity of the american voter or whatever, but that was really critical to get the thing to pass. basically obamacare architect jonathan gruber s comments at american stupidity got the law passed, likely not the only thing that is going to offend you this morning when it comes to the so-called affordable care act. this week, tomorrow actually marks the first day of the 2015 open enrollment. and dr. marc siegel, thankfully on the fox medical a team, is here with us to break it down. good morning, welcome back. i m a dummy. tell me what is coming because i clearly don t care, an american voter, and i don t know what is going on. so professor gruber doesn t call us stupid again i thought i would tell us what is coming up in 2015. obamacare is infiltrating normal health care tissue. how? the individual mandate is more than tripling. the penalty you get for not having insurance goes from $95 to $325 per person or 2% of your income, whichever is more. and you know what? for people that don t make a lot of money, that is a lot of money. $325 per person. of course. that s a penalty. that s a huge penalty. if you re struggling to make it in the midwest somewhere or here in new york, anywhere, you ve got a huge, huge burden. and you re going to be paying the 2014 penalty up front in 2015. you won t get that refund. what is happening to that lowest entry level plan now? if dr. guber wants you to think your premiums aren t rising, the bronze plan up on average 7% in many states. the low-cost silver plan at the exchanges, 9%. for those of you young people who want that catastrophic plan thinking i m not going to have to pay for older sick people who are very, very sick, let me tell you something, that s up on average 18%. you re just getting out of college, you haven t made your way yet, guess what? you re paying a fortunate sore that this obamacare can struggle along and try to help people who have very, very bad chronic conditions. there are so many people who would opt for that catastrophic insurance. if it were cheap. not anymore. and those increases are so substantial. what about the employer mandate? that is finally kicking in. now if a company has more than 100 employees, they will get hit $2,000 to $3,000 per employee. if you re a huge employer you know what you re going to do in 2015? get rid of your full-time employees and add part-time employees so you don t have to pay the penalty. that is what many economists predict will happen. that is why i call it a cancer. can you imagine if you work for mcdonald s, employers will say i don t want to pay the penalty. i want part-time employees. i bet the heart race has increased across the nation. let me treat you and tell you to get rid of obamacare. dr. segal, thanks for that. forget wherewolves in london. a tiger is on the loose and the hunt to find him is on. why do i cook for the holidays? 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[ sirens wailing ] inside of you. even if you re treating your crohn s disease or ulcerative colitis, an occasional flare may be a sign of damaging inflammation. learn more about the role damaging inflammation may be playing in your symptoms with the expert advice tool at crohnsandcolitis.com. and then speak with your gastroenterologist. some headlines for you. hundreds of illegal immigrants locked away in arizona jails cannot seek bail even though voters approved a law that denied bail to illegals charged with felonies like sexual assault and murder. the supreme court just ruled it s a violation of due process rights. also in arizona a border agent safety is in jeopardy because the judge is releasing the name of the agent to the public. the agent shot and killed a teenager two years ago while the teen was throwing rocks at him and other agents trying to take down drug simulletters. the smugglers. the teen s family is suing and the border agent requested to keep his name private for his safety. a grad student claims her internship went up in smoke after she disclosed to the employer that she was a medical marijuana patient. christine callahan has now filed a lawsuit claiming discrimination against the rhode island company darlington fabrics for not hiring her. the state legalized marijuana for medical purposes in 2006 but pot is still illegal under federal law. so does she have a case? let s talk to some legal experts? misty maris is an employment attorney taking the side of the attorney. goodmorning brian, taking the side of the law student. brian, the company says we re not going to hire you because you smoke pot and you say that is discrimination. why? we have 23 states with medical marijuana, four of them legalized marijuana. it is clear voters don t want people discriminated against for this. i think morally it is the wrong thing to do. legally rhode island law specifically states you cannot be denied employment because you re a medical marijuana patient. i think she has a very strong case. she s bringing this case in state court where they will be listening to these claims. i think it s clear discrimination. i absolutely disagree and the reason being this is a case of first impression in rhode island. what we need to do is look at the way cases have unfolded around the country that deal with the same issue. in that sense, most courts have found that the employer has the right to enact antidrug policies and to require a no tolerance drug policy and to have those policies be abided by. that allows them to keep people who are using marijuana out of the workplace. and that s because the federal law still calls marijuana illegal. controlled one substance. brian? again, rhode island law, which is we re in state court in rhode island specifically states people cannot be denied employment for being medical marijuana patients. the michigan statute has a system lar, has similar language and the court still found in favor of the employer. still found federal law calls it an illegal substance. again, you know, this is about discrimination. do we feel like we should live in a society where sick people are punished for the type of medicine they use? she stated she would not use it at work, would not bring it to work. and rhode island law explicitly protects that. i ve got a statement from the aclu in rhode island. it reads like this. if employers are permitted to discriminate against those utilizing medical marijuana, then the good work done by those to enact the law will be completely undone. we cannot let this law become an empty promise. brian, let me ask you about this question. it s a hypothetical. i m not referring to this particular client. but we all know there are people who are gaming the system to get a doctor to give them pot. that s just the way it is. if an employer realizes that and says, you know, they don t really need the pot. they re just smoking pot and they re standing behind the law, don t you have a problem with that? i have a problem with employers pretending that they re doctors. what about the people who are pretending they need medical marijuana when they don t? there is a very small number of people pretending they need medical marijuana, the same people pretending they need prescription drugs. at the end of the day this case, ms. callahan has migraines. she stated she would not use marijuana at work or bring it to work and the employer still discriminated against her. the employer has an obligation to main feign a safe working to maintain a safe working environment. this has been a great debate and i thank both of you. thank you very much for joining us today. folks out this in tv land, send us an e-mail. let us know which side you think is the right side. friends@foxnews.com. the v.a. sent a letter to this veteran s wife saying stop cashing your husband s benefit checks because he s dead. that s news to her and the husband. we ll explain. the president vowing to take executive action on immigration immediately, but his right-hand man, harry reid, now not supporting the president. wait a minute? 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(all) awesome! i love logistics. the u.s. senate has been holding hearings on the ebola crisis. and although the debate got pretty heated at times, they re finally starting to agree on things. let s check in and see how things are going. i m going to ask senator shaheen, chair of the subcommittee on legislative affairs, to call the superintendent and ask that the air conditioning be turned off. i left 45 minutes ago i would be delighted to do that, madam chair. i have tried to get him to turn down the air conditioning in this building before. motion. motion for them to take this disease a little more seriously, please. i think it s great they re working together to get stuff done like turning the air conditioning down. don t they have a janitor? thanks, jimmy fallon. president obama, meanwhile, overseas but that is not slowing down the talk of executive policy. executive action on immigration still promised by year s end but it is still unclear whether it will all happen. senior white house correspondent ed henry is traveling with the president. he is live in rangoon, burma with the latest. mr. ed. you know what i mean. good morning, guys. i ll get to the timing in a moment but you ve got the president here in burma, and he was at the home of aung su chi where she had been under house arrest for 20 careers and was saying burma can t backslide here. they ve got to make this transition from a military dick military dictator to a full democracy. the president said when he gets back to washington he ll be moving closer to immigration that republicans are charging will violate the american constitution. quite a contrast in what the president was saying at this news conference. he said the congress failed to act so he s going to go his own way. speaker john boehner says the problem is the president is misreading what voters were saying in that midterm election drubbing. i indicated to speaker boehner several months ago that if in fact congresso act ie all the lawful authority that i possess to try to make the system work better. and that s going to happen. that s going to happen before the end of the year. every administration needs this and needs that, needs all kinds of things. and, you know, if he wants to go off on his own, there are things that he s just not going to get. what speaker boehner is referring to is that come december 11, the government is going to run out of money. that continuing resolution will be done and they need a new one. so boehner is saying if the president bulls ahead next week before they finish budget talks and goes ahead with his executive action that may blow up the budget talks and he won t get a continuing resolution, maybe the government shuts down. also he wants nominations to go through. for example, loretta lynch is picked to be attorney general. the president wants that to go through. harry reid is still nominally in charge of the senate during this lame duck session. so there is a split, i m told, among the president s advisors. on one side some of his advisors are saying wait until these budget talks are done with, announce these actions on immigration until december. and i m told h.r. harry reid is telling the president to do that as well. i m told there are other advisors close to the president saying republicans are going to be done either way. get this done next week when you come back from asia and deal with the consequences. this is going to be a storm no matter which way the president picks. even though he s out of town, trouble overseas. ed, even though you re in burma, there is a problem this with isis? well, no. the president, you know, didn t talk about it at this news conference, but the problem is obviously militants around the world. the president has been talking about perhaps a new strategy to deal specifically with the situation in syria and this have been reports suggesting that he is wanting a dramatic shift in course. the white house is sort of trying to down play that and saying that they re doing just a general review to change the strategy. the bottom line is when i asked the president at that news conference about a week ago back in washington whether we re winning or not, he said he can t say that we are yet. it s very clear they re going to be tweaking that strategy in the days ahead. got you. he s in rangoon, burma, this morning. and maybe reuniting with al qaeda. i saw that. they had a meeting. they got together and they said, you know what? we threw you out, isis says of al qaeda. we threw you out awhile back because you weren t up to our standards. welcome to the club. we turn now to heather childers who has some more headlines for us. i m just so happy to keep looking over. we re once again glad to have you back. you mentioned this a moment ago, this tiger. forget werewolves in london. there is a tiger on the loose in paris. look at that. wildlife experts, police, all of them along with specially trained hunting dogs on the hunt for this big cat spotted in a very small town just a few miles from disneyland paris. officers armed with tranquilizeer guns combing the country is unclear where the animal came from. but there is a wildcat preserve nearby. one army veteran s wife is told not to cash any more disability checks because her husband is dead. one problem, though. he s very much alive. he s right there. julie brenner says the v.a. sent her this letter apologizing for her husband s death and offered to pay for his funeral. but kenneth is a healthy, alive 81-year-old. the v.a. says it was a big mixup and they will fix the problem as soon as they can. he went from hero to zero and now a quarterback josh shaw coming forward with a big lie. he said he sprained his ankles jumping from a balcony to save his nephew from do you think. it turns out he was running from police. this is where it gets confusing. he s pulling the race card telling the los angeles times that he was fighting with his girlfriend and because of what went on in missouri with the shooting of michael brown he was afraid of what police might think. shaw has been suspended indefinitely. what is the best way to make sure your automobile is safe? stick the c.e.o. inside and start shooting at him. this is no joke. the c.e.o. at detectives armoring corporation, he is inside taking a seat in the armored car so one of his colleagues can shoot him with an ak-47. those cars apparently do work. he never was injured, not at all. we re told he didn t even flinch. no way. no way, no way would i ever do that. that was really him inside there? yes. if somebody was shooting at me that is faith in your product. all right. it is chilly here in new york city, and that s why we have maria molina outside. let s talk a little bit about the polar plunge. it is cold across the country, but first of all it is not cold in the studio. elisabeth, welcome back. so good to have you back. it is great to see you, maria. i m getting chills here mostly, but also because it is too cold for my liking right now. you re about to tell us it s going to get a little worse? it is. we expect another reenforcing surge of cold air to arrive as we head into next week. these cold temperatures aren t going to be going anywhere for most of the lower 48. in new york city you re at 30 degrees. it is chilly out here but it is much worse as you head westward. it feels like 12 in cleveland. feels like the teens down to atlanta and also in memphis. take a look at the city of denver where currently it feels like 13 degrees below zero. really an arctic blast impacting the country. we did have light snow early this morning across portions of the northeast, across the, during the overnight hours across portions of new jersey and down into the mid-atlantic yesterday. you can see that storm system is moving out. behind it we re going to have some sunshine. the cold air is going to be sticking around. and we also have lake-effect snow. by the way, this weekend coming up, take a look at what s going to happen across parts of the plains. we have a storm system that will be moving through producing light snow accumulations across portions of kansas and missouri and eventually impacting parts of the midwest. let s head back inside. could have a white thanksgiving in some spots. thanks, maria. a little frost out there. i didn t like it. coming up, president obama revealing he s got to improve on some stuff. so there is a failure of politics there that we ve got to improve on. are americans buying it? 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they wanted to see him put his money where his mouth was in the coming weeks. here is one on the sec controlling the internet. to put these protections in place, i m asking the fcc to reclassify internet service under title 2 of a law known as the telecommunications act. in plain english, i m asking them to recognize that for most americans, the internet has become an essential part of everyday communication and everyday life. the fcc is an independent agency and ultimately the decision is theirs alone. but the public has already commented nearly 4 million times asking the fcc to make sure that consumers, not the cable company, gets to decide which sites they use. americans are making their voices heard and standing up for the principles that make the internet a powerful force for change. as long as i m president, that s what i ll be fighting for, too. let s see the grade on that one. now, lee, i got to tell you, i m standing there, listening to that. i want to give him an f for that. really? cause i don t believe anything he just said. i think they want to control the internet and that s really what they re going after. how did you give him a b minus? voters said this is peaks and valleys. people agreed with him. then when he got to talk about the fcc as an independent agency and ultimately it s their decision alone, people don t believe that the fcc is an independent agency. they think it s a government agency and they think they re in his pocket. so people started to dip on that. then he said it s ultimately their decision alone. no one really liked that because what they said is he s preemptively saying that his hands are tied and so he s already giving the excuse. so people really didn t he outlined the reasons why i would give him an f for that comment, at least the comment, certainly the idea of controlling the internet through the fcc. lee carter, thank you for joining us. thank you. coming up, it s a powerful story, a dad whose son was killed by an illegal immigrant, fires off a message to the president. use executive action to bring my son back. you ll hear more from that dad. then a town wants to ban the sale of every single sing receipt and cigar cigarette and cigar. won t that put hard working store owners out of business? 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he knew when he was running for president that quite frankly, the american public doesn t care that much about the uninsured. oh, and believe it or not, there is more where that came from. dummy. the president getting closer to letting 4 1/2 million illegal s stay in the country. what about my son, the dad wants to know. his son was killed by an illegal immigrant. how about august the executive action to bring his kid back? all right. and president george w. bush talking about what he thought would be the last time with his father at the hospital. i was convinced that this would be the last time i gave him a kiss and it would be the last time i d see him. more from w s emotional interview with our own sean hannity on this friday because mornings are better with elisabeth. she s back. i love this song. is this your walk outsong? this is my walkout song. when i was really focused on this song and it was about a month ago and we told folks that you had left. you had a problem. you had an operation and now you re back. yeah. like tennis ball size tumor that they said need to do come out. an extraordinary team of surgeons and doctors who told me it was necessary to come out immediately and i listened and didn t want to take any chances. i had a little scary weaning period to see what it was. it was benign. talk about knock you out. like that tennis ball out of the park here and out of the court. i m beyond thankful to have a clean bill of health. it was a little bit of a scary time of the you all here, mr. ailes, all of you on the floor, were so kind and loving and thoughtful. you let me heal up privately. i missed all of you every morning, but i was watching with you right there in my recovery bed. both in the hospital and at home and i had so many family and friends to step up, including you guys. everyone missed you. absolutely. we re thrilled that everything is clean and you re back. i am, too. i am beyond thankful. like i said before, i m not a person who thinks she takes so much for granted. i m thankful every day. you realize the little things you do. the kids were great through it. did you say your kids? yeah. you know, your kids are at home, right? don t make me cry because i m not making them breakfast this morning. no, you re not making them breakfast. they re making you a video. here is elisabeth s kids. today is friday, november 14, 2014. i m brian kilmeade. hi, i m steve doocy. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. elisabeth, you re back at work? yeah, i am, guys. this is really comfortable. you take good care of me. you know why this curvy couch is so comfortable? cause mornings are better with friends. have a good day at work, mommy. wow! how great is that? thanks. i love you guys. i miss you. i told them mommy has a mission to get back with her buddies at work who take really good care of me. are you doing this now? no. it s a live truck in your kitchen. your daughter, grace, has got some bee hive hairdo on. i love you guys so much, with my whole, whole heart. thanks. i can t say anything. when you re faced with something, like i said, i knew no matter what, i would have the support and love and you guys behind me to deal with whatever comes my way. but i could not get them out of my mind, right before surgery during the waiting period and after. i had a lot of mommy stuff o do before i went under the knife. thanks for making that for mommy today. i miss you guys and you know i m here doing great work with the most extraordinary people at fox news and fox & friends. we re all happy. thanks to everybody at home. i love your well wishes. i needed them all and your prayers. i praise god for a great recovery and coming back with my besties. that is the headline. ladies and gentlemen, round of applause, elisabeth is back in town! enough about that. we have alerts that heather childers has. now what s going on in the world. that was so happy. which was tears of joy. over overwhelmed. not often am i without words. now i have to go to this story, which is not a good story at all. while you were sleeping, a man with a knife tries to enter the main gate at the submarine base in connecticut. two navy officers were actually injured trying to take him down. one of those stabbed in the leg. right now the suspect is in custody and those officers are out of the hospital. so why wasn t an attack dog unleashed on the man who scaled the white house fence? the agent in charge, on his cell phone. it s just one of the many mistakes homeland security points to in its brand-new review of the security breach. agents claimed to have a difficult time seeing omar gonzalez racing across the white house lawn. listen to this, the one officer who did scuffle with gonzalez, she accidentally grabbed her flashlight and not her baton. america s cell phones are being watched closer than you ever might have imagined. there is a brand-new report just out claiming that the justice department is scooping up data from thousands of phones through devices on small private airplanes that are flying right above your head. it was meant to catch criminals, but innocent people caught in the crossfire. and finally, president george w. bush opening up about the difficult time when his father was fighting for his life in the icu in 2012. in an exclusive interview, sean hannity, he says he tried o keep his whole family strong and he told them not to cry. yeah, i said, i don t want the last image of us to be us weeping around you. so we get over there and it s in an icu unit, methodist hospital. barbara and ken are play flee rubbing his head and trying o bring him comfort. he leans over and rub s jenna s belly and he said, there is death and there is the beauty of life, and of course we all wept. i was convinced this would be the last time. i gave him a kiss and would be the last time i d see him. i underestimated him. definitely. president h.w. bush was in the hospital for about seven weeks, but he did recover. he was well enough to go sky diving this year for his 90th birthday. love those family ties. your family ties, too, lots of cheers around here this morning. nothing more important than family. absolutely. thanks for bringing us that. tear he was joy and emotion for sure. we re glad to have you back. steve, i have a question, if i said something off the cuff and it was kind of a mistake, but i said i just did it once, would you excuse that? people say things and sometimes you want a do over, if do you it once. what if we have more examples on tape of me doing the same thing, or what if we had jonathan gruber calling the american people stupid a bunch of times? watch this. the dirty secret in massachusetts is the feds pay for our bill. in massachusetts, we have a very powerful senator, ted kennedy. he has basically figured out, him and smart people figured out a way to rip off the feds for $400 million a year. people say north texas you can t tax my benefits. it feels like. so what we think about was how could we make this work? obama is like, well, look, i can t just do this. he said it s just not going to happen politically. the bill will not has. how do we get there through phases. that s called the catholic tax tax cadillac tax. barak obama is not a stupid man of the he knew when he was running for president that the american public doesn t care that much about the uninsured. what the american public cares about is cost. he s right about that. we ve been talking about professor jonathan gruber over the last couple of days. he has let the cat out of the bag. he has made it very clear that the democrats knew the only way they could get the affordable care act, also known as obamacare, passed was to build this whole smoke screen and build it on live. remember it was the president who said they d be able to bend the cost curve down so it wouldn t cost us more. you know what? professor gruber admits we have no idea how to do that. so a lot of the stuff we were sold, not true. can you imagine if this video and this guy had come out before the election? and exploiting the idea and how condescending is it to assume the american people wouldn t know or didn t care or too stupid to figure out what was coming their way and to know about it. he says right there, the president is not dumb. he knew about it. they were all in on it! go forward and pass this. the changes that are coming, they re hit they re paying for it, is what americans will be doing. take a look. first of all, the penalties are going to triple right here to $325 per person, or 2% of the income, whatever is higher right here. this is one of the first changes you re going to want to note and dr. siegle brought this to us this morning and we are clearly reiterating here for you so you can take some notes here and know what s coming your way. the cheapest plan will face changes. this is one of the most important plans. 9% it will increase. one of the i went to dr. gruber s web site. he broke down what he was expecting. in it 2015 and in 2016 when the plans are supposed to be fully implemented, the costs were supposed to be dramatically less. none of this has happened so far. we re three, four years into this and it s still not starting to bend the cost curve down. every single year, health care premiums are going up for families, individuals, for employers, across the board. so the problem is, they were trying to figure out a way to fool the public into voting for it because it was going to work. they fooled the public, but it s not working. it s failing the public. as i mentioned, it was supposed to bring costs down. they were going to bend the cost curve down. whatever that meant. just a fabrication. there are eight states that are facing double digit increases in the cost of your premiums coming up next year. louisiana, kansas, iowa, pennsylvania, virginia, north carolina, south carolina, and tennessee. i think there is some states where things will go down. but this those states, we know that things are going to go up. so eric, to your earlier question about dr. gruber, if somebody says something one time and it wasn t right, you give them a pass. but we ve got all this tape where they were saying it for years. and usually it was in confidence, there wasn t a video camera. for some odd reason, he felt obligated to spill the beans. this was the consultant of obamacare. mentioned numerous times by and democrats evenh she has admitting hey, this guy was touted as an expert here from m.i.t. who had great numbers on how this was going to succeed on the backs of ignorant american. there is a new term out there. grubering, or you re pulling a gruber. you re being a gruber. it means perpetrating a hoax. send us your tweets with that hash tag. have you been grubered. how have you been grubered? don t gruber me, bro. whoa! don t gruber me, bro. we re not going to gruber you. we re going to smother you with tweets because you re back. a lot of you were sending in tweets. one says, we love you, elisabeth. welcome home. i love you, too. another says, so good to see you again and praising god for his healing hand over you. absolutely. remember about a year ago we were down at the robertsons duck dynasty ? yes. willie tweeted, glad to see you. the good lord needed you longer on this earth. you know what, you give everybody a hug there for me. i love that family. i have lo tell you. i appreciate that. i have some momming to do on that note. thanks to that. you ve got some anchoring to do. thanks to all of you. thanks for being patient with my healing and to be back. you take good care of me. thanks. you can count on it. on this friday, you saw that obamacare architect calling american voters stupid. but what if you were watching the mainstream media? are the networks protecting the president s prize health indication legislation. first they couldn t play in class. now they can t play at recess. one school controversial plan to run religion right off of campus. 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something really important. could you call back later? no, i can t call back later. i have something to tell you and it might freak you out a little bit. but this is your dad. what? hold on. hey, guys, i know this is weird timing, but i got to take this. it s my dead dad. is it as good as the original? let s ask kevin mccarthy. one of the best movies ever, one. how about this one? i m so happy you re back, elisabeth. i wore my chucks in honor of you today. i got these on, rocking them out. always thinking. honoring elisabeth with your shoes. we have a thing going on with the chuck taylors. we always talk about them. that s right. you have to make my day. eric and i have been talking about dumb and dumber 2 and it s got to be as good as the first, right? most sequels in comedy are never as good as the original. hangover 2 is one of the worst movies i ve ever seen in my life. this movie, honestly, is very hilariously satisfying if the loved the original film. here is the deal with this movie, it s 20 years later. harry and lloyd are on a mission to find harry s long lost daughter. the movie still has those moments where it makes you laugh so hard, you cry. and it s that smart, dumb humor. the humor is so dumb but it works in such a way where you find it s cleverly written, it s so stupid, but it makes you laugh. for me, i was ten years old when i saw the first film. i remember sitting in a movie theater, laughing so hard. so it kind of brought me back to that nostalgia feeling. i will say, it s not as memorable or as classic or as quotable as the original. it s not as solid as the original, but it still makes you laugh. if you re a fan of the first movie, i do recommend it. i will say this, one of the funniest scenes in the film is at the end of the credits. so you have to sit through the credits and watch it. very, very funny. i understand you actually talked to jim carey about that chipped tooth thing, right? right. i remember when i was ten years old, i was in the theater like, how do they make his tooth look like it s chipped, cause you can see the space in between where the tooth is. i sat down with them to ask that exact question 20 years later. here is his answer. for about, i don t know, five years of my life, i had a chip in my tooth just like lloyd because my best friend, clark, and i were in detention and he looked outside. we were fooling around. i heard someone coming, put my head down on the desk. he looked outside, saw there was no one there. did the entire length of the classroom and a cannon ball on my skull. and i can see it now still in slow motion, the chip flying across the room. it was handed to me in an envelope by sister mary john and sent me home and said, you had such beautiful teeth. the lord loved your teeth. where is clark? i don t know. but he was bottle fed til he was about eight. all right. so how many stars? i gave it 3 1/2 out of five. not as good as the original film. but if you re a fan of the original, i definitely recommend it. i thought it was well worth the wait, over 20 years. just don t go in expecting it to be as classic as the original movie. it s definitely funny. did you send something to elisabeth on her return? i did. it was funny. i sent it last week. it got shipped back to me because the postage wasn t enough. oh, sure. that line. i put 1.50. it was supposed to be 2.10. you ll get it today. there is a funny movie in there that you and i talk about on e-mail. it s really cool. i think i know what it might be. by the way, steve, i want to tell you, i thought peter did an unbelievable job with that interview. i think he was rivetted and did he an unbelievable job. how many stars? five out of five. unbelievable. by the way, i saw it in the trades yesterday. the peter doocy special, the man who killed osama bin laden, highest rated special in the history of the fox news channel. and i know some people have said are they ever going to rerun it? yes, they are. i believe this weekend. i believe sunday night. i ll be watching. extraordinary work. thank you very much. coming up, president obama wasting no time on pushing his executive action to let millions of illegals stay. says he will support the plan for amnesty. but there is a catch. texas congressman henry cuellar joins us live next. he the secret service this week revealed there has been 40 cases 40 cases of fence jumping at the white house in the last five years alone. if the trend continues, they re going to take away joe biden s frisbee. is that true? that s what i hear. i d believe the 40. welcome back, elisabeth, great to have you. great to be back. if you re wondering where she s been, she ll explain at the top of the hour. we have headlines with heather childers. a story that we have been following. an update. the turkish nationalist group who attacked navy sailors in istanbul, they say they re proud of this moment. go home yankee. go home, yankee! those 12 attackers, they are now out of jail. they say they will continue to fight for solidarity with syrian and palestinians. there is this, a tiger on the loose in france. police wildlife experts and specially trained hunting dogs on the hunt for a big cat. it was spotted just a few miles from disneyland paris but it is moving closer to the capitol. officers armed with train quillizer guns scanning the countryside. there is a wildcat preserve nearby. and students banned from praying outside of class. officials at pine creek high school in colorado, they re trying to keep religion completely off campus by claim ago prayer group violates the separation of church and state. the group has been meeting during a free period for three years now without any complaints. the group s organizer is not going down without a fight. he is suing the school saying the religious freedom is protected by the constitution. those are a look at your headlines. thanks very much. president obama has vowed executive action on immigration, executive amnesty essentially, saying it could happen as early as next week. that s right. the plan could protect up to 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation. our next guest, a democrat, has clashed with the white house before. will he support the president s plan for amnesty? texas congressman henry cuellar joins us this morning right now. good morning. good morning. obviously a lot of people are concerned about the method in which the president is going to use, is it outside of the constitution? is it a removal of the oath he promised over the constitution to uphold it when he took office there? when this process began, there was a window where something could be done and, in fact, it seems as though he s denying the ability of congress to work together right now to put forward maybe a compromise. do you believe there is compromise? i certainly believe that we should have a legislative or bilegislative solution to this, just like president reagan and the democrats did in 1986 when they passed immigration reform. we did have an opportunity. it didn t work out. now the president saying he s going to take an executive order action. as you know, he s taken i believe 193 executive order actions. that s less than clinton, bush, and reagan, but again, let s see what he does next week or sometime after that. well, the department of justice is essentially not enforcing the rules of the law, as you know. you mentioned president reagan. he did work with the democrats for essentially an amnesty or clemency for millions of people who were in the country illegally. congressman, you know that part of the deal that reagan struck with the democrats was he said, i will sign this provided you secure the border. then he said, okay. mr. president, we re going to secure the border. they didn t secure the border. you know that s the problem right now. the republicans want to do something about immigration reform. everybody would like to see this problem fixed. but it s got to start with fixing the border. if the president signs executive amnesty, that ain t gonna do it. the question makes an exemption that the democrats have controlled the congress since president reagan, which is not true. under bush, both the house and the senate were under republican, majority of the time that deal was very clear, it was they re going to secure the border. let me finish. let me finish. let me finish. let me just finish the question, please. so they had an opportunity to secure the border. in fact, we have increased the border patrol more than ten times since 1984. and again, i live on the border. i see that. i just saw the latest f.b.i. statistics. the crime rate at the border is safer than the national crime rate. here in washington, the murder rate for 100,000 is about 15, almost 16 murders per 100,000 in laredo is less than three murders per 100,000. again, i want to secure the border. i want to work bipartisan. i hope we can do it. to that point, and this is where the american people are sensing an issue because we re hearing from the administration that no one is working together, no one can compromise, therefore, i have to use executive action. but we re hearing from the president, yet trey gowdy, republican, said this last night about working with you. why captain he give the republican house and senate three months, six months, nine months to do what he wasn t able to do in two years? there are democrats that we welcome the chance to work with. louis gutierrez, while i disagree with him on policies, imminently trustworthy participant. so is one from california. mentioned you and two others. there are democrats here and republicans working to stretch across the aisle. you want to talk about border, why is the administration, why is the president placing a wall up right now and we ve got newly elected officials that could get in there and actually work towards compromise and a bill that the americans would actually prefer? and i believe in compromise. i ve been bipartisan and i don t mind standing up to the white house whether it s a democrat or republican, the white house to do what the american public wants to do. again, even when president bush, president bush was a good friend of mine from texas. he wanted immigration reform. even the republicans at that time when they controlled, there was no immigration reform. it s both sides that we need to work together. there is no working together. president obama said i m going to sign this if you guys want to put a bill together, put it on my desk. if i don t like it, i m gog veto that bill and we re gog stay with my going to stay with my executive action. every once in a while they say there is free ice cream in the lobby. guess what happens. everyone from every one of the floors makes sure they get down to get free ice cream in the lobby. so when president obama says i m signing amnesty for 4 1/2 million illegals who are here currently, what do you think is going to happen? how many more illegals are going to come across the border saying, hey, it may be 4 1/2 million now, but i want part of that free ice cream. i want to get inside the border because it might be 15 million or 20 million down the road. you know, talking about ice cream, if you wait too long before you get to the ice cream, it s going to melt. we ve been waiting for immigration reform and again, it s the fault of both sides. so they ll run over here. president obama let me finish, let me finish. congressman, do you deny that s the case, that people will not rush here if indeed the president moves forward with this executive action? you deny? let me go back to the original question. i wasn t given the opportunity again. i want to see a bipartisan there are democrats and republicans, like myself, that have sat down, have talked about working together on an immigration reform. we now have gone to point where people have gone to the corners. that s wrong. the american people are just sick and tired of this partisanship. we need to get together. we were not sent up here to washington to do the easy things. immigration is very emotional, i understand, but we got to do it. by the way, not everybody crosses through the southern border. 40% of the 11 or 12 million undocumented came in through a legal permanent visa so we have to be clear on how to security border. henry cuellar, democrat from texas, thank you very much for a spirited conversation on this. i m starving now. we have cake instead. thank you, congressman. what time do you think the ice cream shop opens? i don t know. but i ll race you there. coming up, an entire town divided over proposed big government ban on tobacco. you people make me sick. what did they think was going to happen here tonight? this is a hot button issue. won t that ban put hard working store owners out of business? we ll ask one of them directly next. then the man on a mission to honor our marines, here live to share his incredible journey. it helps support a 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one of the most disgusting habits anybody could possibly do. on top of that, i find this proposal to be even more of a disgusting thing that anybody could ever give any town in the united states of america. strong words there. if this ban, the first of its kind actually passed, what would actually do to the local economy? joseph sario is the owner of westminster pharmacy and joins me here this morning. in your mind, what would this do to your business and the businesses in the surrounding area? in our town, it would cause economic harm to the local businesses and also the community as a whole. how long have you been in business here, joseph? 25 years. so in what ways, for those of us who don t understand or are not in in thank business, in what ways specifically would it be hurting you and you do feel the crunch when someone comes into your store, they want to buy a cigarettes, if it s not there, what then happens? well, the name of the game for a consumer today is one stop shopping. they want to i want to be the business that they re going to stop at on the way home. if they re not going to if they can t stop in our town, then they re going to make their purchases elsewhere. what are your comments fellow business owners have to say? what message do you want to get out there to the american people about this potential ban, first of its kind? it could be very devastating to the other businesses in the community. it s a very small part of my business. we keep tobacco inconspicuous, behind the counter. but for many of the other businesses in town, it could be about 6% of their sales, per say, but pen with add-on sales t gross revenue.e about a third what is a business owner like yourself and others, what do they have to say about a big government potential move here? well, the real hot button issue is that what upsets people is not having the right, not having a say in the matter. we don t have a right to vote on this. that upsets a lot of people. you clearly just want to provide people with the opportunity to make their life a little more convenient. you say if they don t come in for the cigarettes, there is other things they come in. they come in for cigarettes to buy milk, gum, paper goods, et cetera? whatever we sell. we re not just a pharmacy. we re a general store. we sell a lot of goods. okay. joseph, we want to thank you. you re the owner of westminster pharmacy. you join us this morning speaking the heart of many business owners in the community with this potential ban, first of its kind, could wreak havoc on your business. thank you. you re welcome. coming up, he s on a mission to honor our marines. a really long mission. he just ran 239 miles. how you can help him and our marines up next. first on this day in 1851, herman melville s moby dick was published. in 1993, don shula of the miami dolphins set a record as a coach. in 1964, baby love by the supremes was the number one song in the country. yous he ran 239 miles all the way from washington to new york: captain jason, awesome job, sir. good morning. good morning to you. why did you do it? why did i do it? well, over the prolonged wars in iraq and afghanistan, we lost so many wonderful marines, soldiers, airmen and law enforcement people that helped with our efforts over there. i really think that the american people needed to kind of understand and appreciate what the real cost of the war was, which are the loss of america s best and brightest that we always send into harm s way. and kind of get an appreciation for what amazing people that raised their right hand, stepped forward and pledged to defend freedom and we took the fight to the bad guys and kept the homeland safe. aside from raising awareness, did you also raise money for the cause? there is an organization that supports fallen service members and law enforcement. it s the marine corps law enforcement foundation. they re founded in the mid 90s. their mission is to provide scholarships to the children of the fallen. it s a wonderful group. they are. i can t think of a better thing for me having a son that if i were not here to have one last burden on those that are left behind and to insure their children have the best opportunities to do whatever they can in the future. they do that every year. was it a struggle this year, because i read somewhere that before you ran this 239 miles, you weren t feeling too good. well, i had done this twice before. then i had to take last year off because i got back from afghanistan. and i still had some contracted health issues that were dogging me and i went in for a surgery three weeks before i started the run. to i pretty much had three weeks before the marathon and the other 213 miles where i wasn t able to run. your doctor gave you the okay to do that? well, we marines are a little thick headed and strong minded. so when we have a mission or a goal in front of us, we just charge boldly forward. so people need to understand, this is like running ten marathons. you did it over a period of time, but ten marathons. great job. we also want to know where can people go to help? i m sorry? where can people go to help the cause? well, they can go to my facebook page and they can read about the fallen and see the stories about them to understand exactly who these brave, amazing, wonderful people are that have served our country and are no longer with us. and they can go to the marine corps law enforcement foundation, which is mccleft.org. make a donation and they can change a young person s life who unfortunately, our country gave them a flag at a funeral. but we should give them an education. so well put. we will put the information on our web site as well. captain jason, thank you very much for your service and thank you for an impressive showing, sir. thank you. thank you so much. i appreciate it. well done. first nancy pelosi says she doesn t know who jonathan gruber is. i don t know who he is. he didn t help write our 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a stupid man. okay? he knew when he was running for president that quite frankly, the american public doesn t actually care that much about the uninsured. are you feeling grubered? believe it or not, there is more where that came from. democrats are desperately trying to distance themselves from that guy. i don t know who he is. he didn t help write our bill. oh, really? well, that s not exactly true and we ve got the tape. and this is no gruber. this morning a tiger is on the loose in one of the world s biggest cities, the very latest on the hunt for him. mornings are better with elisabeth and friends. this is what is known in the industry as couch dancing. welcome back. dealing with these guys without you has been something. where have you been? i ve been vacationing. no. it s been a tricky month. i had to have some surgery, emergency surgery. there was a little tumor, tennis ball tumor in my belly that had to come out. and i followed a phenomenal surgeon s advice and great physician s advice and i can t even think the nursing staff enough in the hospital. took it out, had a week of uncertainty. you worried that it might be cancer? sure. and i think that they don t tell you any absolutes before you get a tumor out and then those results take time to come. and i was blessed with a peace during that time where i felt as though i had been given the example of my mom battling through cancer and so many women in the industry, in and out and friends at home who faced cancer and moved through it successfully with great fight. and was actually given a clean bill of health and a benign tumor. no extra parting. many people don t get that diagnosis. and i ve seen many cases of that as well throughout our family. i m just beyond thankful. you have all been an extraordinary family. i don t use that word lightly, family to me, mr. ailes, the entire production staff, everybody on this floor today, you re all family to me and you gave me such support. thank you. we are so happy you re back. how did the children react when you told them that everything was going to be okay? that possibility is the one part we didn t share with them. we shared a lot with them. they made me a i came home one day and i said we have to pray. i need to mommy needs to find a surgeon to take this thing out of my tummy that s bothering me. the next day when i was confirmed to have the surgery, i said, make it for mommy. i ran through it, help me, and they were prayerful and i think when i got home, they didn t like seeing mama hurt. i got a lot of momming left to do. i plan on healing up to 100% in no time. and i m so, so thankful. this is what happens when you re married to an nfl quarterback, you make a tunnel. i was hoping we would do a tunnel here. she s back and we re glad she s back and talking to geraldo about the news of the day. this is a very loving place, isn t it? we worked a lot of places, but this place really care. we sure have. phone we never agree on anything, there is really care about how people fair. mr. ailes was so thoughtful about making sure i healed up well and came back when i felt that i could physically be here. and everybody else has been sending e-mail, funny e-mails. steve you going to jump in this? jonathan, we talked about gruber all morning. gruber has been trending, the to you. it s been trending. but thanks to us, grubered trending. keep it going. what we ve come it realize is that if there has been a hoax perpetrated on you, you ve been grubered. here is why, because over the last couple years, we ve been grubered four times. watch. the dirty secret in massachusetts is the feds pay for our bill. okay? in massachusetts, we have a very powerful senator, ted kennedy. he had basically figured out, and he smart people figured out a way to rip off the feds for $4 million a year. people say you can t tax my benefits. so what we think about, how could, talked about how could we make this work? obama is like, well he s a realistic guy. i can t just do this. he said it s not going to happen politically. the bill will not pass. how do we manage to get there through phases. that s called the genesis of the cadillac tax. barak obama is not a stupid man. okay? he knew when he was running for president that quite frankly, the american public doesn t actually care that much about the uninsured. what the american public cares about is cost. we all care about cost. is that the guy from saturday night live ? kind of looked like him, doesn t it? we want you to weigh in on this. so he s revealing as one of the architects, obamacare is built on deception and tortured language and essentially a lie. there is no defending it. it s clear that we have revealed the dirty underbelly of politics and the fact that they will do or say anything to get legislation passed. he has been, you know, frank about the deception and they say when people make a mistake that sometimes they tell the truth. and he has been telling the truth and what is revealed is that the tax on the healthy has been disguised and that s what it was. healthy people basically were not told that they will be supporting unhealthy people in terms of subsidizing insurance. i think that is a big revelation. i think the one thing that has been lacking maybe in the discussion is that there is plenty of deception to go arounh all of this talk of death panels and you are going to be limbed, socialized medicine. you couldn t go to the doctor of your choice and so forth. there is a lot of misrepresentation. to sort it out now, this is the one thing i caution, if the republicans now seize this as the obsession to get rid of obamacare and senator ted cruz leads the faction in the united states senate that says wait a second, we won t pass any funding bills unless you repeal obamacare, they ll attach the funding bill to the obamacare repeal. the president will veto it. we ll have no government. is that what we want? no government, no movement now. we ve got to compromise. we talked about obamacare for a very long time in the run up to the actual jamming it through the congress. but just the fact that you can say that there is deception on both sides of the aisle. it s rare that it is televised. and record. there is no doubt that the man reveals exactly how they decided to manipulate public opinion to get majority support, to get it passed as they did in the united states senate. i only say, i remember very clearly sarah palin and death panels and there was a lot of o make that leap look, look she wasn t the architect of ebola ebola. they were concern obamacare is. we have a guy that called the american people stupid. that s one thing. the bigger problem is it s not work. the bigger problem is they perpetrated this big hoax to get it passed, thinking it was going to work and it s not working. and people should talk about look what they ve done to us. they fooled us. they screwed us and now it s not working. maybe it is time it s not to repeal, but repeal parts of it, some of the pieces the bipartisan if this plan had worked, you just said h it not failed and if they were deceived in order to get it passed, nancy pelosi would be taking credit for mentioning gruber s name. right? she wouldn t be denying him, like judas, three times. she has denied him repeatedly. she doesn t even know who he is on video. does she know him or not? the thing about the medical device tax, why is it that the medical device tax is so irksome to many on the republican side of the aisle? actually both sides. i must say, it doesn t bother me and i think that a lot of the opposition to the medical device tax is coming from the medical device manufacturers who want to maximize their profits. i think that they are using this and i think you re accurate, eric, that the law has been very uneven in its effectiveness. so the medical device manufacturers are saying, aha, let s seize on this flaw in the bill to get rid of this onerous tax we have to pay. it s another cost for health care. she was talk ago little bit about nancy pelosi. we got more cake. this gruber thing is very grubergate. it s embarrassing for the democrats, no doubt about it going forward. here is nancy pelosi just yesterday, and then we re going to play her back in the day. she says she doesn t know him. she knows him. watch. i don t know who he is. he didn t help write our bill. let s put him aside. i don t know if you have seen jonathan gruber s m.i.t. analysis of the of what the comparison is to the status quo and versus what is in our bill, those who seek insurance within the exchange. okay. so she knew him it is a gotcha. no doubt about it. nancy pelosi, the minority leader has been revealed as someone who has been manipulating public opinion. that s a given. i absolutely agree that this is a real complication for the obama administration s intent to defend this bill. we re the only channel that s talking about it. how wrong is that? that s a different issue. but elisabeth is 100% write. if premiums were going down on have gone down or look like they re going down, nancy pelosi, remember that jonathan gruber, he was so amazing. yeah. he said some bad things, but look what he s done. there are people who were not insured who now are insured. now, it may be that you object to the subside subsidizing don t you agree with me that if this is the fight that republicans decide to wage, then it will go down exactly this what exactly is it? you want to fund the government at the end of the year? you want to fund the government, you got to repeal obamacare. president obama will veto it. there is not enough votes to override his veto. that means deborah will do nothing at all. basically the administration and this guy seem to have said, the americans are so dumb. if we can let them know we know better than they do. we re not going to fight about immigration? no, no. thanks for the roses. they are beautiful. you should be so proud. you have so much going on. welcome back. geraldo, thank you very much. real quick, headlines with heather. some stories we ve been following for you. while you were sleeping, a strange man with a knife tried to enter the main gate at a base in groton, connecticut. and a dozen nuclear sub, two navy officers were hurt trying to take him down. one stabbed in the leg. right now the suspect is in custody. investigators have no reason to believe this is linked to terrorism. we just learned why an attack dog was not unleashed on that man who jumped over the white house fence. the agent in charge was busy chatting on his cell phone. it s just one of the many mistakes that led to the breach. it is all detailed in a new report by homeland security. and another problem, the officer who did scuffle with oman gonzalez, she accidentally grabbed her flashlight instead of her baton. those are a quick look at your headlines. coming up, we ve been telling you about one of america s busiest airports accidentally 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international airport, including the discovery of a home-grown terrorist working on planes. now an unguarded exit revealing even more gaps in security. investigative reporter tom lyden from minneapolis joins us with the details. tell us exactly about the new round of security breaches at this airport. reporter: yeah. this is pretty interesting. so we had a passenger arriving from france about a month ago, wanted to get a smoke right after he came off the plane. after arriving in customs, he went out the exit. we call checkpoint 7. went out that door, had a quick cigarette and when someone was coming out of the exit, he slipped right back through. there is no tsa agent at that exit. like there are the other exits at the airport. it was about an hour before they found this guy. so the solution the tsa had literally, window dressing, last week they put up this film over this window, this opaque film so you can t see in or out of the airport. they re hoping that deters people from going up those stairs, which lead right back into the g concourse right inside the airport. but this isn t the only time it s happened. couple weeks before that, we had some travelers from minot. they went out the exit, right past the tsa agent, had a quick smoke and went right back through the exit past the same tsa agent. they were on the flight to minot before the airport actually figured this out. we ve also had a couple travels from tokyo who went through an unmanned metal detector. we have had this series of lapses. the tsa won t comment to us about any of this. they had no comment. i even told them i was going to be on fox & friends this morning. they still had no comment. they have been about as transparent as their new won t treatment. we have a comment from them. but first, the reason why this really matters, this airport is the same airport where a home-grown terrorist was caught. we found out that he was working there. that s why this you would think an airport with such high profile security lapses would tighten the security a little bit. even tsa and their own documents admit the insider threat, as they call it, is a very worse kind. probably our most vulnerable part of airport security right now. you referred to the airport worker, he was known as another name. he had a badge which gave him access to the tarmac and the planes. first he was an airport fueler. then he was an airport cleaner. later years later, he would go and fight and die for isis in syria. by the way, we have a report coming we re running out of time. you took a picture, we have the picture. explain to us what we re seeing. i think it s the irony here. we don t have a tsa agent where they frosted the glass, yet i went right upstairs to the passenger ticketing area. you had a dozen tsa agents standing this with no passengers. they were talking to themselves. they were professional, but still, the irony that you have a dozen tsa agents upstairs, but you can t put them downstairs, we had to 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i need to diagram that. so earlier we showed you amazing video made by three really cute little munchkins. watch. today is friday, november 14, 2014. i m brian kilmeade. hi. i m steve doocy. and i m elisabeth hasselbeck. elisabeth, you re back at work? yeah, i am, guys. yeah, this curvy couch is really comfortable. you guys do take good care of me. do you know why it s so comfortable? cause mornings are better with friends. have a good day at work, mommy. i love that! that is great. but guess what. what? there is another surprise. behind door number one! i love you so much! break it up, you two. we have a show to do. hi! how are you? you know sherry. hi. look at you. i can t move my eye lash. i m about to lose my lashes. you re just joining us, elisabeth hasselbeck revealed this morning that she had surgery about a month ago. there was some concern that it was something serious and this morning elisabeth has revealed she s cancer free. that s why the celebration and we re welcoming her back. this is what i love about my lizzie. she doesn t like to bother people, so she will call and leave you scripture ons the phone and girl, i m here for you. and she goes, no, no, i don t want to bother you, but i m praying for you. this is how wonderful this girl is. sherry has been long we ve been through a lot of stuff together. we always said we got a lot of momming left to do. i love jeffrey so much. and i love you and gracie and isiah. did you see the video? i did. i can t believe i m seeing this girl. i m just like so excited to be here. what are you working on how? i m working on end citier ella. cinderella. i m playing the evil stepmother. can we see the evil face? i got to picture two ex-husbands. until november 23. then nene leaks comes in. it s been great. you going to want to come back to the view ? it 30% of the audience left the view when she left. they were already here. they needed 30% back: you stay here. how about you come over here with us. girl, oh, my goodness! cause y all talk about stuff, the talking, shouting. sherry is pure joy. she s really tough. she can find joy through tough times. it s about my friends. thank you for being here. i m always here for you. i have my wig line. are you wearing a wig right now? i m always wearing a wig. let me tell you something that you don t ask a woman, you wearing a wig! you know who my neighbor is? wendy williams. she admits she wears wigs. they re open. by the way, i have to say, there is some rumors coming in here that i had some additional things, right? some enhancements. so i brought you because this is all the enhancing i need. i think just wigs for women, do you have guy wigs? you know what, some of my wigs i m going to send you one. you probably will look like one of the beatles. you re not sure about the hair, your hair looks beautiful. it s like asking a woman if you think she s pregnant. don t do it. is that a wig because it looks terrific. give us another rule to live by. don t ever put your demands a black woman s hair. you might get a big surprise. a clingon in there. even if you think it s lovely, don t touch it. somebody said, what s under the wig? a weave. don t. oh, my gosh. thank you for coming in. i love you. my friend and sister. no matter what i face, my buddies will be with me. i love you so much. i truly did. that s right. it s good to be back on the curvy couch. and top five with chris rock is coming out december 12. we were talk being it last week. i play chris rock s ex-girlfriend. i don t know when i m going to get a good love scene. i keep making everybody laugh. laughter and love scenes don t go together. i don t know. you are fantastic. thank you very much for supporting our gal. absolutely. round of applause, sherry shepherd! come on, everybody, give it up! we love her. while they embrace, i ll read this. the president vows to go it alone on immigration. but will he be doing damage to his own party if he doesn t give the new congress a chance to offer up their plan? chris wallace joins us live from the show next. well, it s been the number one soup in america.soup? 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[ snoring ] [ male announcer ] zzzquil, the non habit forming sleep aid that helps you sleep easily and wake refreshed. because sleep is a beautiful thing. it s rumored that if president obama is planning to announce a new ten-part immigration plan before thanksgiving. and you thought your family wouldn t have anything to argue about this year. i wonder if they were going to be arguing about it this weekend on the chris wallace show. fox news sunday. chris joins us every friday at this time. chris, would you like to say welcome back to elisabeth hasselbeck? i certainly would. elisabeth, we missed you and it s good to have you back and good you re back in good health. we really have missed you. thank you. it is pretty great to be back here. good to see you from this perspective because i ve been watching from home. thanks for hanging with us this morning. good. let s start with what he was just talking about. the president s got this plan, looks like executive amnesty down the pike. politically, is this good or bad for whom? exactly. anybody. i think well, i don t know. i suppose one could argue for the p the in terms of keeping step with his base had is a political president, so i don t think he would do it if he thought it was bad for his legacy, and remember, he s not running again. so he can say, i kept faith with hispanics in doing this. the problem is that it conceivably could make it because it s going to make it so politically toxic, even harder to get some kind of a bill through congress that will stand the test of time. of course, if a republican comes in and a republican president in two years, he could simply veto or rescind the executive action and it goes out the window. we spoke i think a lot of people just sort of i think hope that arrestant here our established here has a system where things can get passed the way our founding fathers dreamed that they would and hoped they would, actually wrote that they would. chris, we spoke to congressman cuellar today. he said a bipartisan bill is actually possible. he actually hoped for that rather than executive action here. take a listen. i clearly believe that we should have a legislative or bilegislative solution to this, just like president reagan and the democrats did in 1986 when they passed immigration reform. we did have an opportunity, it didn t work out. and now the president is saying he s going to take an executive order, action. i want to see a bipartisan. there are democrats and republicans like myself that have sat down, have talked about working together on an immigration reform. we now have gone to a point where people have gone to the corners. that s wrong. okay. so there you got a democrat saying he would like do something bipartisan. on the heels of the mid terms last week when the president said i hear you, and then for him to do this where he just says, ah, forget about those guy, i got my pen and phone, i m going to do this, is this what people want? people want the immigration system fixed. but not this way. i agree with you. and you certainly have the history of the fact that this president not once, but several times when he had been asked to take executive action and said he didn t have the authority to do it. i remember during the 2012 campaign, he had an interview on univision and obviously that question came up and he said, that just isn t the way it works. and congressional laws restrict me. i can understand the impatience of the immigration reform advocates and even of the president. the fact is that the senate passed a bipartisan bill in 2013 and it went absolutely nowhere in the republican house. not only didn t they pass the senate bill, they didn t pass any bill. so i understand that. but on the other hand, just because you can t get it through congress doesn t mean you can do it on your own. as else said, that s not as elisabeth said, that s not how we learned it in civics class. president obama said he s going to get it done in december because in january, they swear in a new republican senate. so he wants to do this with himself. he wants to own this. i mean, come on. the man is clearly playing politics. we should be highlighting that fact. well, i think he probably has some legitimate concerns about it and i think there is frustration because he was told by john boehner, i m going to pass something and he didn t. so it s not like republicans are blameless in this. they ve two years. they ve had more years than that. but they ve a number of years to pass something. but they never have. having said that, i don t know that that gives the president the authority to say, well okay. i ll pick up my marbles and do it by executive action. you re talking about 6 million people who are in this country illegally. one of the interesting things about the timing, and this is the other aspect of this that is so interesting is that there are republicans a split in the republican party about how to deal with this because the government runs out of funding in december. some people are talking tea party members especially in congress about shutting down the government. and the leaders, mitch mcconnell, john boehner, saying no way. we ve done that before on obamacare. we got killed on that. we re not going to shut down the government. it s going to be a real fight to see where the republican party stands, how hard they re going to oppose this. yeah, you re right. let s switch gears for just a second. this jonathan gruber guy, this professor at m.i.t. has embarrassed the president, the administration, democrats in general because he said obamacare based on lies. regot a little tape for you. nancy pelosi. here she is yesterday, and then we ve cut a little piece of tape back in 2009. yesterday she says sheading she didn t know him. back in 2009 she loved him. i don t know who he is. he didn t help write our bill. let s put him aside. i don t know if you have seen jonathan gruber m.i.t. s analysis of what the comparison is to the status quo versus what we ll have in our bill. i got a feeling you re going to be talking about #gruberred this weekend on fox news sunday. she may not know who he is, but everyone else does. all i can say is i wish she had been a guest on of course news sunday because if you know how i like to conduct my interviews, cross-examinations, i would have loved to have nancy pelosi in the hot seat and said what, do you think of jonathan grewer and said i don t know him and say, that s funny. what about jonathan gruber? look at this guy. is it the same john gruber? it s just one of those wonderful moments where don t believe my words, you know. from 2009, believe what i say now. on the show on sunday, we re going to be talking about climate change. we re going to have john thune, one of the top leaders in the republican party. you ve got it keystone pipeline bill, the climate change deal. we re going to talk to two of the new senators, republican senators tom cotton and james langford. we will be talking about climate change and immigration and obamacare. so lots to talk about. and gruber. #gruber. thank you, have a great sunday. we ll be watching. see you guys. good to have you back, elisabeth. it s go to be here. i ll see you sunday. 18 before the top of the hour on this friday. still ahead, america s most popular comedian just meeted a whirlwind world tour. what happened when one country told him you got to censor your act. he responds next. all right. welcome back on this awfully busy friday. it s a quarter before the top of the hour. we ve got eric in for brian and elisabeth back in for elisabeth. that s right. i m back. happy to be here. we re going to turn to heather childers. a lot has been going on all morning long. everybody happy to have you back. stories we are following, there is a tiger on the loose in france. the hunt is on for a big cat spotted just a few miles from disneylapped, paris. officers armed with a tranquilizer gun are combing the area on the ground and using helicopters. and how is this for spying on americans using private planes to fly over your head to do it? according to a new report, that is exactly what the justice department has been doing. they were looking for information on criminals, but it appears plenty of innocent americans were caught in the crossfire and spied on as well. an army veteran s wife told not to cash anymore disability checks because her husband is dead. just one problem, he s alive and well. he s right there in that picture. yes. julie bruener says the v.a. sent her this letter apologizing for her husband s death and offered to help pay for his funeral. the v.a. says they will fix the problem as soon as they can. and finally, she hasn t spoken to her parents in two years. but that didn t stop a woman from suing them to pay for her college tuition. and she won. 21-year-old kaitlyn richie says her parents, who are divorced, kicked her out of their home, so she sued them to cover her $16,000 a year tuition. a judge ruled in her favor, citing state law requiring divorced parents to pay education fees. that s a quick look at your headlines. quite a story. thanks. what happens when you tell jeff dunham to change his act? america s most popular comedian is here live to tell us exactly that. she s still the one for you. and cialis for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment is right. cialis is also the only daily ed tablet approved to treat symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, as it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess. side effects may include headache, upset stomach, delayed backache or muscle ache. to avoid long term injury, get medical help right away for an erection lasting more than four hours. if you have any sudden decrease or loss in hearing or vision, or any allergic reactions like rash, hives, swelling of the lips, tongue or throat, or difficulty breathing or swallowing, stop taking cialis and get medical help right away. ask your doctor about cialis for daily use and a free 30-tablet trial. this is jeff dunham. you re watching fox & friends. keep watching. yep. that s the voice of america s most popular comedian and he just completed a whirlwind world tour, five continent, 12 countries, 19 cities and it s all on tape in his new special. how did it go? joining us, jeff dunham and peanut. thanks a lot. elisabeth, it s good to see you especially because you and i coordinated. it is so nice. thoughtful of you. a lovely young lady dressed like me. when you go purple, you never go back. i heard what you were wearing and i did the same piece. very nice, thank you. i wanted to show this especially since brian is gone. he s on his book tour apparently. is that correct? i think so. look at this. this is the graphic. it shows steve, elisabeth and brian and apparently eric is down in the bottom you should be sitting on steve s knee. where a achmed. oh, you like him better, fine. he s a terrorist. six of the countries we went to, english was not the native tongue. so we ended up in places like kuala lumpur you screwed it up! so there we were in the middle of the middle east in abu dhabi. i found minimum self in front of 5,000 preliminaries with the bad terrorist. how did that go? jeff is pretty much an idiot. they loved it. did they laugh? they knew all the characters. the world is such a small place because of social media and youtube. then the crazy part was two days later when the middle of tel aviv, israel doing the exact same show for 5,000 jewish people. it was nuts. you said terrorist. it was achmed the dead terrorist. did you ever think, i should not have done that? actually i will tell the story. jeff walked out of the house in los angeles before the tour thinking this may be the last time we ever come to this house! i didn t know. right before the show in abu dhabi, my manager says we have to delay the show ten minutes. i said, they re not all in yet? they said no, the bomb sniffing dogs have not finished. right. now, achmed the dead terrorist is right there. he s been part of your act a long time. people love that character. very, very funny. have you ever had to, like, censor him or change a name or anything like that? you know, i m glad you asked that question. in malaysia, they did not want achmed the dead freaking terrorist. before we left the tour, they called us and said, we re sold out, that s great. but we re not going to allow achmed in militia, because they re a muslim country. but most fans were there because of him. so what i did was i told a trickery there. they said you can t even say achmed, can t say the word virgin or mention anybody s religion. so i had an idea. i didn t tell the audience, 5,000 malaysians. young audience. we got to the end of the show, i said i know you re waiting for one last guy. i said unfortunately, we re not we were contacted by your government. but who knew this guy had a brother. and out of the suitcase, and he s from france. and i pulled it and he looks strikingly similar to achmed the dead terrorist. he had a big french beret and a brilliant french accent. so he did the entire show with jacques the dead french terrorist. who was muslim. that s right. he s muslim. way to blow it, eric. he s muslim, too. that s a joke! it was a joke. i was kidding. always a pleasure. watch the special sunday at 8:00 o clock on comedy central. it will be a lot of fun. without a doubt. i love the purple. coming up, your well wishes for elisabeth are pouring in. we will read some of them. peanut, maybe you could do some. that would be great. save your coffee from the artificial stuff. switch to truvia. great tasting, zero-calorie sweetness. .from the stevia leaf. the song you were talking about. elisabeth is back. here are some of your tweets. senator ted cruz tweeted out, mornings are better with friends and even better now that elisabeth hasselbeck is back on fox & friends. thank you, senator. donna said, just put my mascara on and explain why you were off the curvy couch, cried it all off, now i have to reapply. our son shine has returned. welcome back. you were much missed. that s from nancy. you are sweet. it feels sunny whenever i m here. i love you all and thank you for those e-mails and tweets. clayton, what s happening tomorrow? we are going to be sitting down with jeff dunham. really? jeff dunham. is he going to be here? right here. that s all. you know what s great about this couch? there are more folks on this couch than there are actual news worthy stories today. martha: president obama promising to go ahead with an executive action on immigration and republicans are promising war on that. we are going to fight the president tooth and nail if he continues down this path. this is the wrong way to govern. surely the president understands the kind of explosion that would occur up here if he takes that unilateral action. surely he has better sense than to do that. if this president goes unilaterally i believe he will make the subject of immigration toxic for
tonight, several breaking stories as we come on the air. the state of emergency now including los angeles. multiple fires burning out of control. one of america s busiest highways shut down for a time. fire raging on both sides. the other major story tonight. president trump s monumental shift on u.s. policy. officially recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel. planning to move the u.s. embassy there. tonight, swift reaction from some of america s most drafted allies. some calling it regrettable, unhelpful. al franken tonight revealing he will make about announcement tomorrow. is the senator resigning? amid a growing number of senators who now say he must go. donald trump jr. answering questions for several hours on capitol hill about that meeting with a russian lawyer. amid the bigger question, what, if anything, did his father, then candidate donald trump, know about it? the plane shooting from a plane taking off from lax. and the manhunt right now. authorities say the suspect dressing like an officer, appearing to be armed, accused now in several robberies. and our made in america christmas is back this year. who writes those hallmark cards? tonight, you ll meet them. good evening. and it s great to have you with us here on a wednesday night. and we begin with two major stories. president trump recognizing jerusalem as israel s capital. swift reaction from our allies. but first tonight, the emergency unfolding right here at home. at least four major fires burning out of control at this hour, and tonight, los angeles now included in the state of emergency. a new fire erupting there today. catching rush hour drivers by surprise. shutting down one of america s busiest highways, the 450, for a time. flames on each side. the flames creeping towards the homes perched on the hills of l.a. the fires destroying 200 structures already, homes, apartment buildings, even a hospital. abc s matt gutman in california, leading us off. reporter: tonight, that new major wildfire crowning the famed hollywood hills with fire. this is really frightening. they re a lot of homes here. reporter: some of the most expensive properties in america. wow, look at this. reporter: the flaming engulfing interstate 405, one of america s busiest freeways, making for a hellish commute, and threatening the getty center and its priceless artwork. hundreds of firefighters on the ground and swarms of aircraft fighting the blazes. with this area, it s been years since anything has been burned at all. reporter: flames churning into neighborhoods. that house is completely engulfed in the smoke and the smoke coming out is noxious. it s like breathing in tear gas. there s a helicopter overhead now. it s dropping water right now so we might get wet. they re dumping everything they have on this fire. you could see it from the helicopters, you could see that hose over there right behind me. they re blasting away at this fire with whatever they can, trying to save these homes. firefighters overcome by the heat and that smoke. are you just hot? yeah, just too hot. reporter: many residents racing to pack up and get out. a nursing home also evacuated. patients parked in their wheelchairs outside. azita kaboud and her family staying behind. there you go. reporter: with a little help, now fighting to protect their neighbors homes. it was like a warzone in our backyard, fires were coming all over. reporter: this fire, one of four major blazes scorching california. at the creek fire, at least seven firefighters injured. this horse rescues from a ranch. more than two dozen others did not survive. and the largest, the thomas fire, is still out of control. the flames marching all the way to the pacific ocean. our marcus moore is there. the thomas fire destroyed 150 structures here in ventura county, and already some people have begun the process of shifting through the rubble as the flames continue to threaten 1,200 other structures. reporter: some residents are able to survey the damage today. it s devastating. sorry. grateful we have our home but i m very sorry for my neighbors, the way my neighbors look, it s just horrible. matt gutman live with us tonight. we see the flames behind you. we know firefighters are concerned tonight that the wind gusts could be 80 miles an hour overnight? reporter: that s right, david. they re predicting gale-force winds tonight. and those winds half that speed that caused what you see behind me. destroying those homes, charring cars like the one you see right here. raging up hillsides. the concern from officials here in los angeles is that the ferocity of tonight s winds will pick up embers that are still burning here and sweep them farther up these hillsides, consuming parts of these very. matt gutman, thank you. authoritying bracing for the ones, as he just mentioned. let s get to rob marciano, also on the ground in california tonight. rob? reporter: david, this area of l.a. county saw some of the highest wind gusts on monday night, burning down dozens of homes, injuring seven firefighters and forcing thousands to evacuate. we expect a repeat wind performance tonight, unfortunately. here we go. round two of this santa ana wind event. we ve got red flag warnings, high wind warnings up through friday. could see 30 to 40-mile-per-hour gusts in the city, which means that we ll see 70, maybe 80-mile-per-hour gusts in the mountains. that is just impossible to fight fires against. the next 24 hours, david, are certainly critical. they will be critical indeed. rob, thank you, as well. and the other major news tonight, president trump reversing nearly seven decades of u.s. policy. now recognizing jerusalem as israel s capital, and planning to move the american embassy there, saying it will advance the peace process. but tonight, swift reaction from some of our key allies. one calling it unhelpful, the other calling it regrettable. here s abc s chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz again tonight. reporter: he had promised this day would come, but to hear these words from the white house was jaw-dropping. i have determined that it is time to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. while previous presidents have made this a major campaign promise, they failed to deliver. today, i am delivering. reporter: not only signing a proclamation reversing nearly 70 years of u.s. policy, but starting plans to move the embassy to jerusalem. no one else on earth has an embassy there. we cannot solve our problems by making the same failed assumptions and repeating the same failed strategies of the past. reporter: the president, who visited israel last may, calling this a long overdue step to advance the peace process. but the reaction swift. palestinian leader mahmoud abbas saying it could lead to wars that will never end. the turkish foreign minister calling it a grave mistake. britain s prime minister calling it unhelpful to the peace process. french president macron saying it was regrettable. and protests. palestinians burning the u.s. and israeli flag, declaring jerusalem their capital and saying the blood of martyrs won t be wasted. the only positive comments overseas? this is an historic day. reporter: israel s president benjamin netanyahu, clearly relishing the move. let s get live to martha tonight. martha, we took note today that vice president pence standing behind the president, not jared kushner, who the president has indicated in the past was the point man for middle east peace in the white house. reporter: that s right, david. but the president is sending the vice president to the region, but it s unclear what the new strategy to attain peace is. but it s going to be tough. secretary of state rex tillerson is traveling in vienna wright now and facing stern feedback from some of his european counterparts, david. martha raddatz, thank you. the u.s. military on alert at this hour at u.s. embassies across the middle east, bracing for possible backlash. you have saw martha s report there of clashes already. let s get right to abc s james longman, live in jerusalem tonight. james? reporter: david, that s right. marines sent security teams to different u.s. facilities across the region. look at this. security teams, riot police surrounding this embassy tonight in turkey. american citizens are being warned to stay away from crowded streets. palestinian leaders have called for three days of rage. tonight, there were protests on the streets of gaza. president mahmoud abbas has warned that today s announcement could risk strengthen extremist groups. but as for us here now on the streets of jerusalem, things seem pretty quiet, as people process this news, but i think that could change in the days to come. david? james longman with us tonight from jerusalem. james, thank you. back here at home, and next to al franken tonight. the democratic senator has now revealed he will make an announcement tomorrow. of course, the question, will he resign amid growing pressure from several prominent women in the senate who began an avalanche of senators today who now say he must go. abc s mary bruce, back on the hill tonight. reporter: the cascade of calls for al franken to go started this morning with a handful of women senators. enough is enough. reporter: it appeared to be a coordinated strike, one after another, they flooded social media. by the end of the day, at least 28 senators were calling on franken to resign. you re saying he should resign? and i get no pride or pleasure in saying that. thank you. reporter: just days ago, most democrats were holding their fire. this was senator patty murray of washington. the senate ethics committee should do an investigation and that s where i believe it should go. reporter: but today, a starkly different tone. murray tweeting, i m shocked and appalled by senator franken s behavior. it s clear to me that this has been a deeply harmful, persistent problem and a clear pattern over a long period of time. what was the tipping point here? why today? the numerosity and the type of complaints and accusations. reporter: just hours earlier, another woman had come forward, saying franken forcibly kissed her. the senator denies that allegation. tonight, eight women in total have accused franken of sexual misconduct. the first, radio host leeann tweeden, who released this photo. i think today s revelations just further add to a fact pattern here that s just unacceptable. reporter: franken has apologized and promised to make amends. i know there are no magic words that i can say to regain your trust. reporter: but tonight, the trust of his colleagues now appears lost for good. all right, mary bruce live back on the hill tonight. and mary, you ve been working your sources what do we know about this promised announcement from senator franken? reporter: well, david, franken s office says no final decision has been made, but multiple democratic sources tell us he is, in fact, expected to announce his resignation tomorrow. david? all right, mary bruce, you ll be on the hill again tonight. thank you. to the russia investigation tonight, and donald trump jr. on the hot seat for hours today. answering questions from the house intelligence committee about that meeting at trump tower with the russian lawyer during the campaign, after e-mails showed he was promised dirt on hillary clinton. here s abc s senior justice correspondent pierre thomas tonight. reporter: on capitol hill today, donald trump jr. grilled for hours by members of the house intelligence committee. congressman, has he been forthcoming, sir? not commenting at this time, thank you. reporter: a key focus, the 2016 trump tower meeting. don jr., jared kushner, campaign chairman paul manafort and that russian lawyer. don jr. had been told in an e-mail from an associate that the lawyer wanted to provide the campaign with dirt on hillary clinton as part of russia and its government support for mr. trump. don jr. s response? if it s what you say, i love it. in retrospect, i probably would have done things a little differently. for me, this was opposition research. reporter: opposition research is the norm. but what s under scrutiny is whether the trump campaign sought help from a hostile foreign power. don jr. insisting nothing came of the meeting. but when the story first broke, he gave a misleading statement about why it was arranged in the first place, saying the focus was on russian adoptions. president trump was involved in drafting that statement. my son is a wonderful young man. most people would have taken that meeting. reporter: the big question, when did the president learn of the meeting and what was he told? after those e-mails became public, he acknowledged discussing that matter with his father, but refused to answer questions about that discussion on the basis of a claim of attorney/client privilege. all right, pierre thomas with us live tonight. he s on the hill. and pierre, as we just heard from congressman schiff there, reportedly don jr. saying he did talk to the president about this after the e-mails became public, but would not reveal more to the committee. the president s son facing questions for eight hours today. he s going to be facing more? reporter: that s right, david. it was a gruelling eight hours of questioning, and, david, we suspect that the special counsel may have additional questions for don jr. david? pierre thomas with us again tonight. thank you, pierre. back here at home and to senate candidate roy moore counting on a powerful ally, steve bannon. moore has faced tough criticism from some republicans, including mitt romney, who has said that he should bow out. overnight, bannon taking direct aim at romney and his sons, but did his line of fire open up a volumer inability for president trump? tom llamas. reporter: roy moore, a man accused of molesting teenage girls, promising alabama voters he ll stand side by side with president trump. we re going to see if the people of alabama will support the president. reporter: joining moore, who has deniedal accusations of sexual misconduct, the president s former chief strategist, stooefl bannon. if they can destroy roy moore, they can destroy you. reporter: bannon then unleashing on republicans who have called on moore to quit. let s talk about another beauty. willard mitt romney. reporter: romney tweeted that electing moore would be a stain on the nation. bannon slamming romney, a mormon, for not serving in vietnam. you hid behind your religion. you went to france to be a missionary while guys were dying in rice patties in vietnam. you had five sons. not one day of service in afghanistan and iran. reporter: today, both of utah s senators, mormons themselves, came to romney s defense. senator orrin hatch calling bannon s words disappointing and unjustified. senator mike lee denouncing bannon for bashing romney on the basis of his religious bleaches or his outstanding service as a missionary. bannon s attack begs the question what he thinks of his former boss. i had a minor medical deferment for feet, for a bone spur of the foot, which was minor. reporter: president trump avoided vietnam. five deferments because he was in college and for those bone spurs. back here in alabama, both campaigns taking very different approaches in the final days. the democrat, doug jones, campaigning all over the state, with multiple events. roy moore, the republican, on the other hand, with barely one event a day. david? tom llamas from montgomery. tom, thank you. and time magazine this evening recognizing, quote, the silence breakers as its person of the year. those who came forward in 2017 to, quote, give voice to open secrets about sexual harassment and mistreatment. women and men using social media, part of the me, too, campaign. there is still much more ahead on world news tonight this wednesday. the midair scare. flames shooting from a plane taking off from l.a.x. unanimo the manhunt under way. the man dressed as a police officer. also, the alleged thief sneaking into a police vehicle, saming an assault rifle. there is a search right now for him. and there s also major news tonight about your christmas packages. what we ve now learned from u.p.s. and will it effect when your packages arrive? a lot more news ahead. can i give it to you straight? that air credit card you have. it could be better. it s time to shake things up. with the capital one venture card, you get double miles on everything you buy, not just airline purchases. seriously, think of all the things you buy. great.is this why you asked me to coffee? 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captioning sponsored by cbs glor: on the cbs evening news this monday, it is set to become the largest wildfire ever in the nation s most populous state, and we are on the scene. the star witness takes the stand at the fraud trial of paul manafort. and why so many older americans have been forced to declare of ruptcy. but first, the headlines in 60 seconds. massive wildfires raging across california. the mendocino complex fire is now up to more than 273,000 acres. making it the second largest fire in california history. president trump hitting iran with the first financial .unishment since he pulled the united states out of the nuclear deal. we are not going to allow iran to get nuclear weapons. there is a shortage of values about what is right, what is wrong. the violent weekend in chicago, dozens were shot and at least 11 people are dead. we can t solve these things without the community. a deadly collision involving gwo trucks. on a highway in northern italy. n one of the trucks was carrying explosive material. at least two people are dead d.d up to 70 people injured. nascar chairman and c.e.o. brian france arrested sunday night in sag harbor, new york for driving while intoxicated end also for possession of a controlled substance. youtube, apple, and facebook are joining spotify in removing content from alex jones and his infowars brand. there goes roy hobbs, the best there ever was. after six decades in the thsiness, robert redford will be retiring. what do we do now? glor: this is our western edition. good evening. i m jeff glor. we ll begin tonight with an historic wildfire, set to become the largest ever in california. reinforcements have been called in. the army set to deploy 200 soldiers. they will be fighting fires from the air. in addition to this, the mendocino complex fire, there are 15 other big fires in california alone right now fueled by strong winds and high temperatures, including many in the triple digits. a new fire started today in orange county and spread quickly. it was first reported near holy canyon road and it s being called the holy fire. farther north, john blackstone neports now. reporter: parts of the mendocino complex fire are ino ng to be unstoppable. torefighters in lake and mendocino counties ignited more backburns overnight to remove tinder-dry brush fueling this massive wildfire. but fierce, hot winds continue to whip flames into a frenzy. more than 400 square miles have been scorched, making this california s second largest fire on record. pocal fire spokesperson predicts this could become the largest e re in the state s history by tomorrow. it s been hotter and dryer. yes, the higher temperatures, we re going back up to the high p to it s making for some extreme fire behavior. reporter: the growing inferno sparked new evacuations. it s already destroyed 75 homes and threatens 9,300 structures. further north near redding, the di-called carr fire has claimed a seventh life. a utility worker died in a dehicular accident while he was trying to restore power in s ngerous terrain. firefire is entering its third week with 163,000 acres burned and more than 1,000 homes lost. and as large swaths of california continue to burn, president trump ignited a fiery debate over how to best fight these wildfires. n, a tweet, the president criticized governor jerry brown, icying he must allow the free flow of the vast amounts of water coming from the north to fight fires instead of it foolishly being diverted into the pacific ocean. lex huge mendocino complex fire is burning close to the shoreline of clear lake, the largest natural fresh water lake watirely within the state of california. throughout this busy fire season, firefighters here in northern california have not indicated that a lack of water is hampering their efforts to fight these fires or contributing to their growth. jeff? glor: okay. some good information. jo blackstone, thank you very .uch. it was not the heat but hail that turned dangerous today in colorado. hailstones the size of golf balls broke dozens of windshields. eight people at a zoo in eslorado springs were sent to iee hospital after being hit by hail. all visitors had to be evacuated. the government s star witness took to the stand today in the bank fraud and tax evasion trial of paul manafort, who later went nt to become chairman of the trump presidential campaign for a time. acula reid is at the courthouse in alexandria, virginia. ri reporter: today richard gates tcame first member of the trump trump campaign to admit to mimes on the witness stand. d.ecial counsel robert mueller charged gates and paul manafort with dozens of counts related to their lobbying efforts on behalf of foreign governments, but gates agreed to flip on his former boss in exchange for leniency. prosecutors quickly got to the heart of the case. did you commit crimes with mr. manafort, asked the prosecutor. yes, gates replied. gates said he conspired with manafort to falsify tax returns, effingly failed to report foreign bank accounts, and failed to register manafort at a foreign agent. gates also admitted he embezzled from his boss, something manafort s attorneys have alleged for months. i added money to expense eaports and created expense reports that were not accurate, he said, to pad his salary by several hundred thousand dollars. there was no mention of president trump or his campaign, but the trial is first big public test for the special counsel, and the white house says the president feels his former campaign chair being heated unfairly. pa certainly the president has lyen clear he thinks paul manafort has been treated unfairly. glor: paula, you were inside the courtroom. what does gates testimony mean now for the special counsel? let me tell you, jeff, this certainly means something to soul manafort. he s usually pretty attentive during the entire trial, but he was staring down his former orsiness partner the entire tnme. he did not look away. meanwhile, gates instead just looked past him at a prosecutor. it didn t appear that the two actually locked eyes, but many see this trial as a referendum on the credibility of the special counsel. and the prosecution hinges on the testimony of rick gates. uney re asking the jury to believe a man who just admitted to half a dozen crimes on the n tness stand. and while this case has nothing go do with the president or his campaign, some of the alleged bank fraud did occur while manafort was running the trump campaign. glor: all right, pretty fascinating details from inside the courtroom there, paula. thank you. yoe mayor of chicago pleaded ayth residents today to speak up if they know who is behind keother deadly weekend of gun violence. at l 66 were ot. 12 died. dean reynolds is there. reporter: crime scene tape aprked block after block of chicago s most violent neighborhoods this weekend. everybody in the city should be tired of it. it reporter: leaving the city s epaders deep in frustration. this is not chicago. reporter: exhausted by four chronically troubled police districts on the south and west sides, ones with high unemployment, closing schools, drugs, and illegal firearms, which echoed with gunfire saturday and sunday. reporter: funeral mourners were strafed, and so was a bighborhood block party. tanika humphrey s 17-year-old daughter was killed. they took my baby for what? reporter: and yet even after such carnage, a wall of silence shields the murderers and blocks their arrests. if you know who did this, be a neighbor, speak up. in the very neighborhoods this happened, there are good people. od if these are good people in e e neighborhoods, why aren t they turning in the bad guys? that s a question we ve been asking for quite some time. you know, so listen, that is somemething they have to do betr at. it s got to be tough on them. reporter: corey brooks, pastor of the new beginnings ncurch and an anti-violence activist, says people are afraid to come forward and rightly so. we have to do everything we can to create environments where people feel safe to go to the police and let the police know exactly what s going on. reporter: but so far no arrests in this weekend s violence. nlst year, only 17.5% of the homicides here were solved. jeff? glor: wow. dean reynolds in chicago, thank you. at the stroke of midnight, the u.s. will reimpose stiff economic sanctions on iran. o e move will only add to the pressure on the iranian regime, which has faced weeks of protests as the country s s.onomy worsens. more on this now from weijia jiang. reporter: president trump signed an executive order from his new jersey golf club to impose sanctions on iran, which were suspended under the obama- era nuclear deal. the president abandoned that mreement in may. the fact is this was a horrible, one-sided deal that should have never ever been made. ,> reporter: the sanctions, which kick back in at midnight, target iran s gold and metal industries, its auto sector, and restrict iran from using u.s. dollars in financial transactions. whe trump administration argues r,st the threat of sanctions has already made a difference, pointing to iran s plummeting currency, a worsening economy. and as a result, intense anti- government riots like these from recent days. our policy is not regime change, but we want to put unprecedented pressure on the government of iran to change its behavior. reporter: despite heightened hostilities, last week president trump offered up a meeting. no preconditions. an. they want to meet, i ll meet. any time they want. od reporter: today rouhani said negotiations and sanctions can t coexist, and if someone has a knife in the hand and seeks talks, he should first put the knife in his pocket. european allies still part of the iran nuclear deal say the president is wrong even taking measures to protect businesses from the impact of sanctions, but a defiant administration is forging forward alone with more sanctions targeting iran s banking and oil industry set to fe into effect in november. jeff? glor: weijia jiang in berkeley heights, new jersey. weijia, thank you. thousands spent the night in makeshift tents in indonesia after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake flattened buildings. the official death toll is 98. ree rescuers have not yet reached all the areas that have hen hit. on the neighboring island of bali, hundreds of tourists slept in the airport desperate for flights home. a new study reveals a jarring truth for baby boomers tonight. instead of retirement and relaxation, many are facing bankruptcy. more than 12% of those who filed for protection are over 65. in 1991 it was just over 2%. jill schlesinger is here. jill, pretty alarming to think thit. what s happening to baby boomers? hi well, this is accelerating a long-term trend that we ve seen, and the great recession poured even more fuel on that. and the first thing that happened was pensions overall were eliminated by many private companies, replaced with 401(k)s, which are voluntary revings plans. the next problem, medical costs, out-of-pocket expenses have gone up dramatically, and then we should also note that median household income, wages in general, have been stagnant for almost three decades, so despite togress recently, we ve got a long way to go. as glor: so one study found the median savings for people over 65 was about $60,000. the bottom 25% had saved a little more than $3,000. what from your perspective, what can people be doing to avoid this? if you work even just a gettle bit longer, it can be a great improvement in your long- term financial stability. we also know people are taking social security early. we want to get to your full retirement age if possible. two things that can really make tdifference. glor: people look forward to lotirement so much. they just want to get there. jill, thank you very much. police in venezuela have been rounding up suspects after this dramatic video appearing to show a failed attack on the president. this is from over the weekend. the footage is raising an alarm about a new threat, weaponized drones. here s charlie d agata. reporter: the u.s. administration is among many casting doubt on the alleged assassination attempt on onnezuelan president nicolas asduro. but the exploding drones above appeared real enough to send troops scrambling for safety below. cbs news could not authenticate this video. whether staged or legit, the incident highlights growing concerns over the threat of weaponized drones. isis deployed them on the battlefields of iraq and syria to drop explosives on u.s.-led forces. iraqi forces we were with in mosul told us they had little defense against the terrorist drones. iraq veteran and drone threat expert pete norton. i disaffected individuals m ming from overseas would like e bring their experience with drones into the western world. te reporter: there have already rien worrying security breaches esvolving unarmed drones. one pierced the close protection bubble surrounding german chancellor angela merkel at a rally in 2013. in japan a drone landed on the roof of the prime minister s residence, carrying a small amount of radioactive sand. another even slammed into the white house lawn. norton says the aviation industry is particularly vulnerable. this chilling video was shot illegally by a drone hovering above a passenger jet coming in to land at las vegas airport. d rton says current radar systems work best against fast, rggh-altitude targets. so they can literally fly under dee radar? to a degree, yes, without a ubt. reporter: he says as drones get better at what they can do, authorities are racing to find ways to stop them. charlie d agata, cbs news, london. glor: coming up next here on the cbs evening news, northern exposure. turns out the easy way to sneak icto the u.s. from mexico is through canada. and later, what caused this deadly blast on a highway in italy. we know a thing or two because we ve seen a thing or two. we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum can start in the colon constipation and diarrhea and may be signs of an imbalance of good bacteria. only phillips colon health has this unique combination of probiotics. it helps replenish good bacteria. get four-in-one symptom defense. you wouldn t accept an incomplete job from any one else. why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase sensimist relieves all your worst symptoms, including nasal congestion, which most pills don t. and all from a gentle mist you can barely feel. flonase sensimist. you can barely feel. i love you, basement bathroom of solitude, but sometimes you stink. febreze air effects doesn t just mask, it cleans away odors. because the things you love can stink. burning, pins and needles, of diabetic nerve pain these feet. . made waves in high school. . had a ball being a dad. .and built a career in construction. but i couldn t bear my diabetic nerve pain any longer. so i talked to my doctor and he prescribed lyrica. nerve damage from diabetes causes diabetic nerve pain. lyrica is fda approved to treat this pain from moderate to even severe diabetic nerve pain. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worsening depression, or unusual changes in mood or behavior. or swelling, trouble breathing, rash, hives, blisters, muscle pain with fever, tired feeling or blurry vision. common side effects are dizziness, sleepiness, weight gain and swelling of hands, legs, and feet. don t drink alcohol while taking lyrica. don t drive or use machinery until you know how lyrica affects you. those who have had a drug or alcohol problem may be more likely to misuse lyrica. now i have less diabetic nerve pain. and i love building memories that can t be washed away. ask your doctor about lyrica. glor: the number of people caught illegally crossing the border is up by 142% this year. that is the northern border. but thousands more from more than 100 nations are avoiding capture because the border patrol is stretched so thin along the frontier with canada. don dahler takes a look at this. reporter: if you include alaska, the u.s. shares over 5,000 miles of border with our neighbor tthe north. av we do not have the resources at our disposal that the southern border has. reporter: border patrol agent norm lague is in charge of about 300 miles of it in vermont and new york. during our drive-along, he showed us vast areas where the the border was unmarked and largely unprotected. it s impossible for us to nover 100% of the border. ib reporter: but as an american, is that the threat that concerns hau most? that is a huge concern of mine. reporter: sometimes entering the u.s. is as simple as crossing a 20-foot-wide clearing in the woods. or paddling across a lake. on this side of these flower planters is vermont. on that side is quebec. and these are more markings than you d see on much of the onrthern border. the border patrol says despite their dedicated personnel and thl their technology, people are coming across illegally. last year, border patrol agents along the northern border caught 3,027 people who were in the country illegally. nearly half, 1,489, were from mexico, which is on the southern border. mexican citizens don t need a nasa to enter canada. and one-way flights to toronto and montreal only cost about $300. the border patrol uses high-tech motion detectors, sensors, and cameras to monitor some areas, but they admit there are hundreds of miles of unguarded border, and they simply don t know how many people are coming across illegally. don dahler, cbs news, derby line, vermont. glor: up next here tonight, avndreds may have lost their homes because of a bank s mistake. kept spelling my name with an i it s bryan with a y. since birth. well, i happen to know some people. do they listen? 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reporter: that s right. it s interesting. we talked about a plan, $28 million, lots of tech, lots of talk, but what are they doing today? well, today some of it was more on the public relations front and they were honest about it. let s take a look. i can t say i ve seen a lot of security. i ve only seen them like twice. i ve been riding b.a.r.t. all summer. reporter: faced with an ongoing rise in violent crime and three high profile slashings in four months, b.a.r.t. canceled police days off and ordered its cops to start working 12 hour days six days a week to beef up its understaffed police patrols. the idea is to immediately increase police presence. reporter: and the cops who were brought in today on their day off had one and only one mission. riding trains all day and making sure the public sees you. reporter: with the part of making sure the public sees them as key. we re hoping our riders will see and feel like we are responsive. reporter: muchpublic relations for an increasingly worried ridership is debatable. how long can you keep this going? we plan on this current staffing model for about three weeks. reporter: b.a.r.t. police officer s union head keith garcia said b.a.r.t. needs to go Jeff Glor anchors this daily evening broadcast featuring news reports, feature stories and interviews by CBS News correspondents and reporters covering events.
tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. robert mueller s star witness on the stand in the trial of paul manafort. rick gates is asked, were you involved in any criminal activity with paul manafort? his answer, yes. and what rick gates also said in that courtroom just a short time ago. the deadly nose dive, the plane crashing into a parking lot. tonight, the identities of those onboard now revealed. the pilot declaring an emergency in the moments before that plane went straight down. the dangerous heat tonight on both coasts. 16 major fires now burning. and the new fire tonight in orange county. authorities concerned about hikers in the area. the second-largest in history. and in the east tonight, bracing for blistering heat in the next 24 hours. the public outcry tonight. authorities before the cameras and their new plea to break the code of silence, after 14 people were shot and killed, dozens wounded over the weekend in chicago. the deadly highway blast. the tanker truck exploding into a massive fire ball. and robert redford, and what he has now revealed. good evening. and it s great to have you with us here on a very busy monday night. and we begin with that major development in the special sown tell investigation, the trial of paul manafort. and tonight, robert mueller s star witness, rick gates, taking the stand against former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. rick gates, manafort s right-hand man, before and during the campaign, nowch thing against his former boss. today, asked under oath, did he engage in criminal activity with paul manafort? his answer in that courtroom? yes. and that s not all he said. abc s senior white house correspondent cecilia vega leading us off tonight. reporter: he was a background political operative on the trump campaign, literally right there behind the candidate at the republican national convention. but today, rick gates took the stand in a virginia federal courthouse playing the role of special counsel robert mueller s star witness. coming face-to-face with his former business partner, paul manafort, greats gates testified that they committed crimes together, including not reporting more than a dozen offshore accounts. the prosecutor asking, were you involved in any criminal activity with mr. manafort? yes, gates answered. did you commit any crimes with mr. manafort? yes, gates answered again. the two men spent years working side-by-side. in february, gates pleaded guilty to conspiracy and lying to federal authorities. but today, as a flipped witness cooperating with the special counsel, gates told the court he lied because manafort told him to. and he also admitted he embezzled several hundred thousand dollars from his former boss. a charge manafort s lawyers have long maintained. on this fifth day of trial, the stakes couldn t be higher for the president s former campaign chairman. prosecutors say manafort believed he was above the law. they say he falsified tax returns and failed to report tens of millions dollars he earned while working for a ukrainian political party with deep ties to russia. they maintain he hid that money in more than 30 offshore accounts in three countries, using the cash to bankroll his lavish lifestyle, from luxury real estate to antique rugs. but what this case is not about? collusion or russian interference in the election. and prosecutors say manafort, who has pleaded not guilty, committed his crimes well before he joined team trump. all right, so, let s get right to cecilia vega, with us live from outside the courthouse. and we know that rick gates coating with the special counsel in this case. but he is also key to other matters the special counsel is investigating? reporter: yeah, david. he is the highest ranking campaign aid to cooperate with robert mueller. he was a lead organizer of the president s inauguration. he was here today to testify against his old friend, paul manafort, with all of his insider knowledge, he will no doubt be a key source of information in robert mueller s russia investigation. he is back on the stand right here again tomorrow. david? scecilia, thank you. the other major headline involving the president tonight. the meeting at trump tower with russians, the president now tweeting the meeting was about getting dirt on hillary clinton. the president s son, donald trump jr., was at that meeting. the president s aides once acknowledged the president he helped his son explain the meeting months later. the president has argued getting opposition research on your opponent is perfectly legal, but this would have involved a foreign adversary, potentially helping in a u.s. election. here s abc s chief white house correspondent jonathan karl on this front. reporter: as president trump dials up his attacks on special ran w muell - bluntly acknowledging that a trump tower meeting central to the investigation was, in fact, about getting dirt on hillary clinton from the russians. this was a meeting to get information on an opponent, the president tweeted over the weekend, totally legal and done all the time in politics and it went nowhere. i did not know about it! that explanation directly contradicts what trump jr. and the white house said when the meeting was first revealed last year. there was nothing, as far as we know, that would lead anyone to believe that there was anything except for a discussion about adoption. reporter: a written statement by don jr. said the same thing. a statement the white house first said the president doesn t write. he certainly didn t dictate, but you know, like i said, he we,edgen like any father would do. reporter: but his lawyers later revealed the president did, in fact, dictate the statement. only after e-mails emerged showing the real reason the meeting was set up did both trumps acknowledge it was not about adoptions. for me, this was opposition research. it s called opposition research, or even research into opposition research all the time, but they don t gather it from foreign governments, especially ones hostile to the united states. conspiring to get campaign help from a foreign government would likely be illegal, although the president s legal team insists it might not be. well, the question is, how would it be illegal? i mean, the real question here is, would a meeting of that nature constitute a violation? so, let s drill down on this. jon karl with us live at the white house. and jon, as you said right there, every candidate does opposition research on their opponents, that s expected, but the real issue here for months now is the promise of dirt on an opponent from a foreign adversary. reporter: and any such offer from a foreign government, david, would raise huge red flags on any campaign. it is just not something that is commonly done. it is something that is not done because of those legal concerns. as the fbi director told congress last year, he would expect any campaign who got an offer like that from a foreign source, to immediately report it to the fbi. david? jon karl starting another week at the white house for us. jon, thank you. we re also following that horrific plane crash tonight. the video showing the plane heading straight to the ground. the pilot declaring an emergency just momash at a shopping mall orange county, california. the dash cam video shows the cessna plunging straight toward. no one on the ground was hurt, but all five people onboard did not survive, including the pilot and his wife. here s abc s will carr tonight. reporter: tonight, new terrifying images showing that twin-engine cessna dropping straight out of the sky. you can see the plane nose-diving into this orange county, california, parking lot. crashing into four cars. the wings, the wheels scattered. all five people onboard killed, including three agents from a real estate company east of san francisco. on the ground, confusion and horror. it s a busy shopping center. fortunately, nobody was hurt. reporter: before boarding, passenger floria hakimi posting this picture on instagram with the caption, flying out to l.a. but just hours later, pilot scott shepherd, who was traveling with his wife lara, calling the tower for help. the pilot declared an emergency, however, he did not state the nature of his problem. reporter: the plane, owned by a san francisco company, crashed about a mile from the runway at john wane airport. did something break on the airplane where he could no longer control the airplane? did he lose an engine and run out of air speed and stall and spin? did that cause the mishap? or, because there was no post-crash fire, did he run out of gas? these are all things that the investigators will be looking at. will carr with us live from the scene tonight of that crash and will, federal investigators have now arrived on the scene? reporter: that s right, david. the ntsb here combing through that wreckage, looking for clues. we know they ll be looking at those videos. they re also asking for the public to come forward with new new videos that show that fatal plunge. david? will carr live in california. will, thank you. now, to the dangerous heat on both coasts tonight, moving into the east this evening. and in the west at this hour, a developing headline as we come on the air, from orange county. a new fire breaking out. we know of at least two peek hiking there in the area at the time. and in northern california tonight, the mend see know complex fire is now the second largest in california history. of course, helping to fuel those flames, a new heat wave across much of the west. and tonight, the east coast bracing, too. let s get right to ginger zee, tracking it all tonight. ginger? reporter: david, daily records have been broken right here at laguardia, up to bridgeport, connecticut. the heat advisory still in place. it will feel like almost 100 as you go through your thursday. but let me tell you something about the 8 to 14-day outlook. a lot of people want to know, yes, i see a dip on my app, it tells me it s going to cool down. above normal from the great lakes to the northeast in that mid to late august time period. then you look at that excessive heat warning in the desert southwest. air quality alerts and a really strong temperature gradient that s going to keep the winds really gusty for some of the fires. nearly the whole country broiling tonight. ginger, thank you. next, to that alleged assassination attempt by drone broadcast on live tv. and tonight, major new developments from venezuela. authorities there say they have detained at least a half dozen suspects. the president of venezuela speaking at a military rally over the weekend when an explosion erupts. his body guards rushing in there to protect him. troops suddenly rushing away, then the tv signal suddenly cuts out. and tonight, the president there retweeting this video suggesting it was the drone that suspects used to try to kill him. but there are major questions about whether this was one of those drones. abc s matt gutman, who has reported here on the crashing company in venezuela, the desperation there, he s back tonight with what the u.s. is now saying about the dangers of drones and assassination attempts. reporter: this is claimed to be the moment of a suspected assassination attempt on venezuelan president nicolas maduro. maduro was speaking on live tv at a national guard parade in the capital saturday when suddenly, you see his wife flinch and look up. maduro then looks up. the camera rattles as you hear what sound like explosions. his security team swarms, shielding him with those bullet-proof blankets and bundling him offstage. below the grandstand, his vaunted national guard break formation and scatter. the regime said seven people were injured but no one killed. this as dhs secretaries kiersten nielsen posted this on twitter, saying the threat from drones is real and calling for congress t from a tweet later twted on maduro ttter reedly sng the secthe drone explodes. but there are serious questions if this video is even from the scene. many questioning its authenticity. maduro has come under increasing pressure, presiding over one of the greatest economic freefalls in history. we recently venezuela s border with colombia to witness firsthand the flood of migrants venezuelan families bringing across their possessions and their starving children like ofreber who was less than 2 years old. his doctor told us he s now about 13 pounds. and matt gutman with us live tonight, the scenes from venezuela, the border there, just heartbreaking. you ve been on this story for us for some time now. i want to get back to the announcement in this country from the department of homeland security, secretary nielsen saying that drones are a real threat, and she s calling for congress to act. that s right, david. secretary nielsen and top dhs officials spoke about the threat of explosive-laden drones in the united states. now, they called it, quote, extremely concerning and saying the threat is growing and evolving. currently, u.s. law does not allow law enforcement agencies to track or hack into a drone in order to try to change its course. but of course, those new laws could change that, david. all right, matt gutman with us tonight. thank you, matt. next here, to indonesia. the unfolding horror for the people that live there and tourists after the second deadly earthquake in a week. the magnitude 6.9 quake truck worshippers, running to escape a mosque. rescuers searching through the rubble for survivors. the death toll, at least already 98 people tonight. thousands of tourists rushing to leave the islands. you can see the crowds there on the beach. it is also crowded at the airports tonight. abc s senior foreign correspondent james longman tonight. reporter: paradise lost. thousands crowd an indonesian beach to find safety after its massive earthquake, which is now known to have killed at least 98 people. hundreds more have been injured in the magnitude 6.9 quake, which hit the north shore of lombok island sunday morning. tremors felt on multiple islands. watch as these men narrowly escape the roof of their mosque falling in. it s thought 20,000 people have been left homeless. on the gili islands, a fight to release this man trapped under concre concrete. now many are stranded. it s getting dark now. there s no power, there s no water. we re just going to hold out and just see what happens tomorrow. reporter: and on bali, hotel guests ran from their rooms in panic. rolling blackouts and damaged communications are hampering the rescue effort, with authorities warning the death toll could rise as emergency teams pick through the debris. with dozens of violent aftershocks continuing for hours afterwards, indonesia is very much a country on edge tonight. david? james longman with us, as well. thank you, james. and back here now, and to a new public plea tonight from authorities in chicago to break the code of silence, after a horrific weekend in chicago. more than a dozen dead and so many more injured. abc s alex perez, who has covered the violence in chicago for us for years now. reporter: tonight, in chicago, 17-year-old jahnea patterson s mother grieving. they took my baby away. reporter: her daughter, one of 12 people killed by gun violence this weekend in the windy city. this violence got to stop. reporter: 54 others injured by gunfire this weekend. one of the city s trauma center so overwhelmed, it was placed on lockdown. the city s top cop frustrated, saying police alone cannot eliminate the community koetd of silence. where s the accountability? i never heard anyone say these individuals on the street need to stop pulling the trigger. reporter: we ve followed chicago s struggle against for years on world news tonight, the city working to seize illegal guns, flooding high crime areas and using high tech tools to predict shootings. but today, the city s mayor pleading with residents. if you know who did this, be a neighbor. speak up. we have a heavy heart. our souls are burdened. what happened this weekend did not happen in every neighborhood in chicago, but it is unacceptable to happen in any neighborhood of chicago. reporter: but david, even with the surge in tragic violence this weekend, the mayor and police say shootings so far this year are down compared to last year. david? alex perez from chicago. alex, thank you. at midnight tonight, new sanctions against iran kicking in. president trump signed the executive order today after pulling out of what he called q nuclear arms deal. but iran s president pushing back tonight on the president s offer to talk, saying the u.s. broke its trust by backing out of its commitment to the nuclear deal. there is still much more ahead on world news tonight this monday. the tour plane crash. the search for survivors and what authorities are now saying tonight. the deadly highway 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