Crisis for the entire league. Reporters who cover professional basketball already understood things about Donald Sterling. That thanks to this weeks audio dump the rest of the country is now being introduced to. Yeah, it bothers me a lot that you want to promo broadcast that youre associating with black people. Do you have to . Over the weekend, the world all got to know l. A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling a little better. Late friday night the gossip website, tmz sports, published audio of someone purported to be sterling talking to his then girlfriend. You can sleep with them, you can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little i ask you is not to promote it on that and not to bring them to my games. He told her not to bring black people to his games. Nbc news has not been able to confirm the authenticity of the recording. Deadspin released an extended version of the exchange. Do you know that you have a whole team thats black that plays for you . Do i know . I support t
Hes asking for the release of imprisoned boko haram militants, a demand hes made before without any traction. Theyve similarly had little luck cracking down on the strong holds where other countries are now sending assist aengs, including a small u. S. Group supporting this search. John brennan downplayed americas involvement. You have cia officers in the ground in nigeria right now snu. In many parts of the world so were able to bring to bear the capabilities we need and help our partners in nigeria with technology and expertise. So is the u. S. Doing enough . What would the cost be of more direct intervention and are there hidden consequences to bolstering nigeria and other forces against this threat . Im joined by dan o shae, a Hostage Negotiator in iraq and former navy s. E. A. L. Daniel, thank you for joining us. Why not a navy s. E. A. L. Operation like the one we used to take out bin laden in pack stn . I think the directive of the cia kind of alluded, theres already a footprint
But Big Questions still loom today as nba commissioner adam silver begins his plan to force l. A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling out of the league. Completely. Following yesterdays lifelong ban on sterlings interactions with the league and the 2. 5 million fine that was levied against him which will be donated to antidiscrimination causes, silver says he will now pressure the board of governors, thats the nbas Shadowy Group of team owners, to make sterling sell. It will take a super majority of the board, threequarters o f them, to terminate sterlings owner sh e ownership. So what are the odds . Theres no way that they can continue to own a team and, on the other hand, support what mr. Sterling espouses. Even if there are some owners, lets say a handful, that have some misgivings not because they have any sympathy for sterling, but because they think theres something about the process that disturbs them, they cant run the Public Relations risk of appearing to in any way either side wit
Still from the video which shows the murder of david haines. The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office says it believes the video is authentic. The 44yearold father of two was abducted in syria in 2013. He was working with a french Relief Agency, a refugee camp. Haines is the third western hostage to be beheaded by isis in recent weeks. The first two were american journalists. British Prime Minister David Cameron called the beheading, quote, an act of pure evil and described this morning how the u. K. Will respond. The murder of david haines at the hands of isil will not lead britain to shirk our responsibility with our allies to deal with the threat that this organization poses. It must strengthen our resolve. For more on this story now, we go to Nbcs Kristen Welker at the white house. Kristen, Prime Minister cameron mentioned working with allies to destroy isis. What is president obamas response to this latest horrible video . Reporter well, here is the official response from the w
Im chris hayes. This afternoon, president obama met with civil rights leaders, Law Enforcement and other officials to discuss how to repair the relationship between police and communities of color. Following the announcement by st. Louis county prosecutor Bob Mcculloch one week ago that a grand jury would not indict Police Officer Darren Ferguson in the killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown on august 9th setting off a wave of protests across the country. Ferguson lay bare, a problem that is not unique to st. Louis or that area and is not unique to our times. And that is a simmering distrust that exists between too Many Police Departments and too many communities of color. The sense that in a country where one of our basic principles, perhaps the most important principle is equality under the law that too many individuals, particularly young people of color, do not feel as if they are being treated fairly. The president is proposing to spend 260 million on resources and training for