Community. Plus saving tara from a poll wood back lot to a warehouse in georgia the strange journey of an iconic set from gone with the wind. Tonight we again with the effort to stop the socalled Islamic State group. The fighters released a video today allegedly showing the beheading of an american journalist stephen sotloff. Two weeks ago they threatened to murder him if u. S. Air strikes didnt stop. Air strikes have continued and have pushed the fighters back in several parts of iraq. The write house said secretary of state john kerry and secretary of defense chuck hagel are planning trips to iraq. Goal is to build an International Coalition to fight the Islamic State group. David rode was working in afghanistan for the New York Times when he was kidnapped by the taliban in 2008. He escaped after being held for more than seven months and david joins us now. What is the its lamb i can state tryinIslamic State trying . Build its credential in this bizarre jihad i world. It might help w
Understand most of the time. Maybe thats true. Most of the time theres someone on the legislators staff who understands it. Thats not necessarily the case with intelligence bill. On the senate side you have one dedicated staffer who is clear, who can talk to their boss about these things. On the house side they are pretty dependent on the committee staff. For example sessen brenner who wrote freedom acts bill is completely cut out of the negotiations with the administration over what to include in the final version of the reform bill. This is nothing i reported, in cq. He didnt have sufficient security clearance. You have a situation where you have some legislators for one reason or another may not be the best prepared to grasp these particular issues, who dont have the necessary staff to help them grasp it. Theres another aspect to this, too. I think its a little harder for the public and for the media to grasp it as well. Its not like health insurance. Health care policies are very c
Good morning, everyone. Were wrapping up july. Its friday, july 31st, and im alex witt. Were going to begin with the backlash over the president tweeting. Speaking to reporters yesterday, the president appeared to walk back the idea of the election, but continued his attack on mailin voting and tried to sow doubt about the validity of novembers results. You know, for so many years ive been watching elections, and they say the projected winner of the election, i dont want to see that take place a week after november 3rd or a month, or, fwrankly, with litigation or anything else that can happen years, years, or you never even know who won the election. I want to have the result of the election. I dont want to be waiting around for weeks and months and literally potentially if you really did it right years because youll never know. These ballots are missing. I dont want a delay. I want to have the election. I also dont want to wait three months and find out that the boll lots are all miss
Hes going to nominate one of those justices. Im going to vote for their confirmation. But democrats insist the senate should wait. Voters should pick the president and the president should pick the justice. President trump hopes this will upend a race hes losing, but is there any evidence it will . Ill talk to former democratic president ial nominee Hillary Clinton. Democratic senator Amy Klobuchar of the judiciary committee. And the third ranking republican in the senate, John Barrasso. Plus an administration at war with itself. Covid deaths hit 200,000, and President Trump fighting his own experts on vaccines and on face masks. This face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against covid than when i take a covid vaccine. Its not more effective by any means than a vaccine, and i called him about that. Ill talk to health and Human Services secretary alex azar. Also, how the coronavirus is impacting President Trumps reelection chances. Our brandnew nbc news wall street journal poll on
Plans have been announced for the justice to rely in repose at the Supreme Court on wednesday. Meanwhile, of course, politics doesnt stop. The senate faces an epic clash over whatever comes best. And tonight, something weve been working on. Well get an inside look at the plans, whats going to happen. We have a top democratic senator who joins us tonight. So well hopefully get some insights tonight. We begin with President Trump going ahead on his plan to replace ginsburg, pledging to name a nominee this week, paving the way for a potential vote for november 3rd. That violates the republican partys position from 2016. And it also would appear to impact something that is a part of this, because its life and death. Justice ginsburgs dying wish her replacement be chosen by the next president. Also, teeing off a high stakes battle on the senate floor. Were going to hear some crazy things from the other side. The senate has more than sufficient time to process a nomination. The senate has ev