Intervention. Just the fact that murders of these 21 hostages took place in north africa not the middle east is raising new questions about the strength and reach of the Islamic State. Nbcs Foreign Correspondent is with us this morning. First of all, talk about the significance over what has happened over just the last 48 hours. Reporter yeah. A group of egyptian christians who are among the thousands who work in libya. They had been missing, kids knapped, feared kidnapped for the past several weeks. Yesterday Late Afternoon local time here in the u. S. A video emerged online belonging to isis so shooing the brutes execution of several of those men. Within hows the egyptian president addressed the nation vowed this response. You can see on the screen egyptian fighter jets taking often from egypt, bombing targets in the eastern part of the country. Now, according to the Egyptian Military they say they targeted training sites, weapon deep oes belonging to some of these militants in retal
Across the border a major assault in the key city of mosul. At many as 20,000 iraqi troops could be involved in the assault along with u. S. Air power and possibly u. S. Ground troops as well but its also several months away. So why Start Talking about it now . Richard engel is nbcs chief Foreign Correspondent in istanbul, turkey this morning. Richard, good morning. Reporter good morning. Its good to talk to you. First about that deal that has finally been put to paper between the United States and turkey to train a relatively small number of syrian rebels. They would get some training get some money. Radios. They would get some vehicles. Potentially pickup trucks with machine guns mounted on the back but a lot of analysts here in turkey say it is too little, too late and i think you hit on the key question in your introduction there. What are they really supposed to be doing . The United States wants them to be fighting against isis. Turkey wants them to be fighting against isis and b
example of their inadequacies, their misconduct. avery is currently serving life in prison without the possibility of parole. joining me now with more is nicki novak, entertainment correspondent with young hollywood. always a pleasure to talk to you. good to see you. obviously, a lot of folks binge watching this one, myself included. oh, good. absolutely. why is this ten-part series so compelling? sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. i think if you had a hollywood writer write this story, nobody would believe it. here you have a man, like you said, that was in prison for 18 years, exonerated. i want to point out he had a $36 million civil suit pending when he was arrested for the murder of this woman. i think the fact this woman was murdered in such a horrific way also makes it all the more compelling and the evidence that came forward in this series about police misconduct has just riveted the nation. i have to be honest with you. i was really addicted to the show f
purpose in doing this documentary, which took them over ten years to do, was to sort of raise awareness and shed light and not necessarily to point fingers or to say whether or not he was guilty. all right. nicki novak, we ll have to leave it but that wraps up this sunday he had i guess of q weekends wih alex witt. stay with us for breaking news. wow!
playing. i ll be the moderator. you answer the first question, and we ll see how it goes. governor bush, what s your reaction on the iran nuclear deal? i think president obama is being naive to trust the ayatollahs and this deal will ultimately create an even more unstable middle east and it troubles me. we ve written up here an answer that s just a little bit trumpier. just read it right there. this could be dangerous. governor, what is your reaction to the iran deal? i will build a wall between the united states and iran and make mexico pay for it. nicki novak, an entertainment correspondent for young hollywood. nicki, so the governor and presidential candidate reads the prompter like i do, clearly. read it well, give yourself credit. not what these folks would say. but when we look at the reaction from the entertainment that you