Its always fun to see the owners prancing their dogs around. Whats better is they prance them around on a green carpet which makes it very easy for us to use Green Screen Technology to remove the dog. This is what the Westminster Dog Show would look like without the dogs. Makes just as much sense that way though if you think about it. Thats pretty good. Top of the hour. Welcome to morning joe. Mike barnicle and indicatekatie kay are with us. The story on the front page of the New York Times. Theres a big debate on whether its a jobs program, people are diseffected in the middle east and they dont have money, broke, no hope no chances. Thats why they get into isis. New york times shows that again, weve talked about it. Its just not the case in many cases. From a Cairo Private School killing fields this is a great mystery why guys from middle class to even upper middle class families from 9 11 until now with isis like this young man that they profiled decide to go from the middle to uppe
With a prepaid card. Spends like cash. Feels like membership. Good morning, im chris hayes. The country will see more extreme weather. In the east, highs in the 50s. On the west coast, temperatures near freezing and severe storms are threatening the mississippi and ohio River Valleys with flooding. And in egypt, a court has ordered a retrial for former president hosni mubarak. Im joined by msnbc contributor, joy reed, and tara mcinnis, executive director for american for progress action fun and professor of linguistics and contributing editor at the new republic and columnist at the New York Daily News and amy goodman, author and, of course, host of democracy now. This week president obama anoupsed three cabinet nominations all white men. The five departures which as of wednesday include hilda solace to our males. The appointments have called into question the president s commitment to diversity in his second term, concerns by a mick kmur in the New York Times on tuesday, showing presi
Correspondent Mike Emmanuel is here with the rapidly evolving story. Pressure is building on house lawmakers to get something done on immigration. Theyre about to go on a fiveweek recess, but their leadership says, not so fast. You know, its our job to get it done. You cant run and hide. Reporter some chaos on capitol hill after house leaders pole pulled a 659 million border bill. I want to advise all members that additional votes are possible today. Reporter House Appropriations chair was already at the airport when he got the call to come back, and said there were a variety of reasons why gop members backed away from the bill. Some didnt want to spend any money, others thought it was too little, others thought it was too much. Reporter john boehner said the house measure would be acting in a responsible way. In my view, doing something is better than doing nothing. The crisis on the border is going to continue until the president acts, but hes clearly not going to act, that means the
Harsh interrogation techniques on terror detainees after the 9 11 attacks. That amounted to torture. I think in the midst of a national trauma, and uncertainty as to whether the attacks were going to repeat themselves, whats clear is that the c. I. A. Set up something very fast, without a lot of forethought to what the ramifications might be. The president was responding to Senate Intelligence Committee Chair, Dianne Feinsteins damning report on c. I. A. Interrogations. That said detainees were waterboarded, kept in dungeon conditions while others were naked, hooded and dragged, slapped and punched. The report said the agency misled the Bush Administration about the program and no c. I. A. Officer up to and including c. I. A. Directors briefed the president on the tactics before april 2006. In response to the report, c. I. A. Director john brennan saided brutal tactics did produce intelligence, that helped thwart attack plans. Feinstein told cnn thats wrong. An examination of the recor
Terror attacks and even find and kill Osama Bin Laden himself. Former Vice President dick cheney calls the report a bunch of hooey. He said that before it was released or had a chance to read it. The reaction not purely partisan. Some democrats say the report is biased. Some republicans, you heard john mccain on the floor yesterday, defending the report. Lets check jim acosta at the white house in the Briefing Room where that briefing is set to take place. What are you hearing, jim. What are we expecting to hear here today . Good morning, john and michaela. The White House Press secretary josh ernest, they scheduled an unusually early briefing this morning. But theyre saying that purely for logistical reasons but we are going to hear josh ernest take these questions head on about this torture report that was released by the Senate Intelligence Committee Chair yesterday dianne feinstein. We shall point out ernest took questions about this on air force one during a press gaggle with repo