This is not about our divisions. Ebola is not going to check republicans or democrats, western africans or eastern europeans. We all must rise above our differences and our divisions and unite to contain this problem. Thanks for watching. Im al sharpton. Hardball starts right now. Ebola steals the election. Its not only topic a, its topic a to z. Lets play hardball. Good evening, im Chris Matthews in washington, which is now ground zero for the ebola fear. Its now official, ebola is now the number one focus in the nations capital, as well as the rest of the country where now its the most watched news
event, believe this or not, since the entire Obama Presidency began. The most watched news event ebola. Politicians are at their battle stations, with many on the right calling for an allout travel ban of anyone coming from infected west africa. The call were hearing is to stop all human traffic, period. And Government Experts are saying, theyre open to any step that will protect americans
Cenk well looks look were out of time. If you want more young turks, utubd. Com tyt, all the young turks you can handle. Viewpoint is next. John cpac 2013 is underway. And the speaker told us how barack obama is an evil socialist mastermind, and at least theyre on message. The budget stayed up in d. C. With the president offering cuts to medicare now. This is turning into a new reality show. New deal or no knew deal. Well be joined by congressman peter welch. And its pi day. Today is the birthday of the late Albert Einstein and tom coburn and Michael Caine is 80 years old. And Julius Caesar was an emperor, now hes a salad. Heres viewpoint. [ theme music ] john good evening, im john fugelsang, and this is viewpoint. Day three of president obamas socalled Charm Offensive saw him meeting with Senate Republicans and House Democrats following the meeting yesterday with house republicans. Next stop, tomorrow hell be speaking at cpac. Obama did offer an explanation for his recent outreach in
The dual military and humanitarian missions all laid out by the president last night. Today i authorized two operations in iraq. Targeted air strikes to trek our american personnel and a humanitarian effort to help save thousands of iraqi civilians who are trapped it on a mountain without food and water. And we have a mandate to help, in this case a request from iraqi government. When we have the you niunique capabilities to help avert a massacre, then i believe the United States of america cannot turn a blind eye. We can act. Carefully and responsibly to prevent a potential act of genocide. I will not allow the United States to be dragged into fighting another war in iraq. So even as we support iraqis as they take the fight to these terrorists, american combat troops will not be returning to fight in iraq. On this special edition of the cycle, we have the story covered from all angles. The military mission with iraq war veteran john sultz and tony schafer. The diplomatic effort and re
Today the mother of journalist Steven Sotloff made an emotional plea on a saudirun news station broadcast throughout the arab world. Since stevens capture, ive learned a lot about islam. Ive learned that islam teaches that no individual should be held responsible for the sins of others. Steven has no control over the actions of the u. S. Government. Hes an innocent journalist. Meantime, the family of minnesotaborn isis fighter Douglas Mccain says theyre in disbelief after mccain was killed fighting for isis in syria. Attorney general eric holder says federal prosecutors are running about 100 investigations into u. S. Citizens who may be following mccains lead. The pentagon spoke about that earlier today on Andrea Mitchell reports. When we talk about the potential immediacy of the threat, thats this idea of foreign fighters going over there, getting radicalized, get equipped, get trained, and go back to their home state. Quite a busy day. So many moving pieces. Here to help sort them ou
And there is a chilling new propaganda video out today from isis that blasts the u. S. Kurdish Alliance in iraq showing 15 captured peshmerga. Then the beheading of one of them. Well have much more an all of this coming up in just a few moments. To ukraine where earlier today, the ukrainian president declared a russian invasion was under way. In new york, the u. N. Security Council Called an emergency session to discuss the latest crisis. Ten ukrainian soldiers were killed after fighting with prorussian separatists. Thats in just the past 24 hours while russia continues to flatly deny that any of its troops are in Eastern Ukraine. Yesterday, nato released what it says are Satellite Photos of Russian Artillery inside ukraine just last week. President obama has promised more russian sanctions, but has ruled out military intervention. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin said today that he hopes russia wont lose the right to hold the 2018 world cup. Here at home, closing arguments are under way righ