Until today, he was director of corporate security for comcast. The Parent Company of msnbc. Lets go live to nbc senior White House Correspondent Chris Jansing. What is the president s reaction . Reporter the official statement is that the president accepted julia piersons resignation, this is their wording. Recent and accumulating reports about the performance of the Agency Required new leadership. But once it was clear that in a series of cases, the president and members of his family were in danger, the situation had really become untenable. And the most recent example, press secretary josh earnest acknowledging that the white house was informed of a breach on september 16th. An armed man with a questionable history on the elevator with the president in atlanta when he went to the cdc. Only yesterday they found out about it just before published reports came out. Only yesterday is when the president reporter only yesterday. Wow. And i pressed him. What is the Standard Operating Proc
Police are staking out an area where they are hoping to have a man suspected of last weeks fatal ambush of a state trooper. 31yearold eric frein is considered armed and very dangerous. Sarah, what do we know about this search . Reporter good morning, alex. This is the eighth day of the search for eric frein, and the second very long night of neighborhood in this area on lockdown, and s. W. A. T. Teams going through neighbors, and neighbors on edge tonight and 20 people overnight unable to return to their homes as Law Enforcement went door to door combing the neighborhoods. From what we have been hearing, road blocks here on the ground and helicopters in the skies, and everybody nervous and ready for the ordeal to be done with. Information for the residents has been difficult to come by, and a lot of them relying on their cell phone and the connections are patchy up here, and its adding to this fear in the neighborhoods. Now, even before last night, frein was the topicic of conversation
According to estimates. Joining me now on the phone is msnbc military analyst colonel jack jacobs. Colonel, air strikes have targeted isis, financial and communication targets, and now these 12 oil refineries. What is the strategy as you see it . The best thing to hit. One of the ways to choke them off is to choke off their money. Weve been trying to get turkey to stop the shipment of isis oil that provides money to stop the banking lines that provide the money from the oil. And so far we havent been very effective in convincing turkey, our nato ally to get on board. This is the next best thing. Knock off the mobile oil refineries, knock off their communications and financing networks. And keep doing it. Theyll have to keep doing it. But i think that theyre on the secondary and third target lists as well. Please keep us posted. Turning to the push president obama is making at the united nations, late this afternoon he led a meeting of the u. N. Security council which unanimously passed
Starkly similar judgment in st. Louis. Political reaction was immediate. Heres kentucky senator rand paul speaking to me a bit over an hour ago. I think it is hard not to watch that video of him saying, i cant breathe, i cant breathe, and not be horrified by it. Were showing you the full exclusive interview with senator paul later, including his potential president ial candidates antiwar views that seem to bear a starting similarity. Certainly it sounds like me talking. Well have him later in the show. Tonight the reaction in the streets of new york to that grand jury decision in Staten Island. Lets to go Anne Thompson down will with the protesters in midtown manhattan. She joins us by phone. We have tramain lee where the incident occurred. To ann thompson, what is the mood of the crowd . Im here, it is peaceful. It is a very angry crowd. But peaceful. You can hear them screaming. Their First Amendment rights have been violated. The message is that black lives matter. That i have heard
You can see the officer with his arm wrapped around his neck. Garner died a short time later. The medical examiner ruled it a homicide. Caused in part by compression of the neck. This case has been a flash point. In a string of high profile incidents involving police and unarmed black men. Unlike the shooting of Michael Brown, the garner encounter was caught on tape. They will conduct an investigation of the death. Late today president obama reacted to the grand jury decision. Im not interested in talk. Im interested in action. And i am absolutely committed as president of the United States to making sure that we have a country in which everybody believes in the core principle that we are equal under the law. So this is an american problem and not just a black problem or a brown problem or a nativeamerican problem. This is an american problem. When anybody in this country is not being treated equally under the law, thats a problem. And it is my job as president to help solve it. Heres