Start to the Labor Day Travel weekend. Aaa expects it to be the busiest since the Great Recession. Plus, theres going to be a three day birthday tribute to Michael Jackson. Thats going to Michael Jackson will get under way in his boyhood home of gary, indiana. Family members including his mother katherine and his children are expected to attend that celebration. That is going to do it of thursdays edition of way too early. Morning joe starts right now. Haes good morning. Mike has been ordered around going back to parochial school. Trying to get him ready for school is like getting a village ready. Maggie is ready. You guys. A princess. I dont know where to start today. So much to talk about. When youre looking at the threat that isis proposes and
its hard for americans who poses a threat and who doesnt, lets face it, they have been lied to a lot over the past decade but the wall street journal has this great article talking about the industry that isis is, an industry of extortion. The
Be true that a second american died in the same incident as Douglas Macarthur mccain. If that is true, it could be part of a troubling trend that puts the u. S. At risk for a possible attack. Were trying to find out a lot more, clearly. We know dozens and dozens of americans are potentially becoming radicalized and going over and fighting with groups like isil and thats worrysome enough. But when we talk about the potential immediacy of the threat of isil, thats one of the factors that were talking about, this idea that foreign fighters could go over there, get radicalized, get equipped, get trained and come back to their home lands whether its the United States or any other western nation. Meanwhile, the mother of another u. S. Journalist being held hostage is speaking out. Shirley sotloff made a passionate plea that held james foley and threatened to murder her son stephen as well. Since stephens capture, ive learned a lot about islam. Ive learned that islam teaches that no individua
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