specific message, drive them out. he didn t do anything there to indicate that he did not want to have a relationship with our allies in the middle east and we do have allies. i think this iftar dinner is the right thing because we all believe in religious liberty, and muslims should be able to worship. so long as they don t that religion, or the practice of their faith doesn t infringe on our constitution or the rights of others. i think he is doing very well here. shannon: he s tried to make the distinction. at times, you saw the clips from the campaign trail, people have been very offended by the way that he has talked about his concerns and may be was not very articulate with that. one activist tweeted, he s hosting this iftar as a defense, but when we call him out for is lame phobia, he can clip back, i love the muslims, i had them for dinner. his pundits will get that echo that. proof that he is not an islamophobia.
not bliss. it s deadly. totally deadly. this year, the president s ramadan message had a much different tone, noting the richness muslims add to the religious tapestry of americans life. that was not enough for many muslim organizations, though, who paul for the president s plan to host a dinner for ramadan this year, and said they would not attend even if they were invited. groups even organized a protest across the street from 1600 pennsylvania avenue tonight, saying, and their event description, president trump has attacked muslims since the beginning of his campaign and codified his obama phobia with the muslim man. now he wants to make nice and host a iftar dinner after skipping it last year. one of the nation s oldest muslim organization disagrees with the strategy. a spokesman told fox news, muslim americans should rise above bitterness against trump exercises opportunity to communicate clearly what our vision is for a better
us. chris christie may not be on the short list, but he s about to be part of a long-awaited announcements from romney. at least his folks expect that. the president s schedule, will host an iftar dinner, something that president bush started and president obama has continued. then he makes his way to the mid-atlantic to start his bus tour tomorrow. you re watching the daily rundown only on msnbc. [ male announcer ] 6 years old. then 7. going on 11. in the blink of an eye, they re all grown up. marie callender s homemade tastes are another great reason to sit down and savor every last moment. because time flies. right before your eyes.
good morning to you. it is thursday, august 11 now. this is american morning. lot going on today. let s get right to it, folks. good morning, good morning. so much for comeback. haven t seen these kind of wild swings on wall street since the darkest days of the financial meltdown. the dow diving 520 points yesterday. this time fueled by fears or at least triggered by fears. that france is on a verge of a credit downgrade. every day it seems to be something new trying terg sell-off or the buying. that s because this is a global economy. your investments feel it here. wild swings. take a look at the week. monday the dow dropped 635 points. tuesday, it rebounded. picking up 430 points. yesterday the dow took it all back and then some with a drop of 520 points. drop of the s&p 500 has a percentage was greater. well, far from over, too. because this morning u.s. futures are weighing up and that had asian losses at a minimum. nikkei and shanghai closed down. markets in german
endorse extremists. so, if this guy is representative of moderate islam as the left claims he is, i think it begs the question, okay are these radical muslims extremists really a miniscule portion excluded from the community or all cozy and buddied up with the moderates as we see this case? you can t have it both i was. liz: as you watch the president go back and forth on this and the news stories ram emanuel opposed the rahm emanuel opposed the know tornado of the speech in favor of the mosque at the iftar dinner. do you think they are urging the president to be quiet? i have insights. i know they fought long and hard internally about the speech. the advocates won. the remarks were disseminated a couple of hours before the dinner. by the next morning, david axelrod was calling in the press and saying everybody had