Its friday, september 12th, 2014. This is the daily rundown. Well have the very latest on the nfls ray rice assault investigation. Plus, an unprecedented and historic vote coming up in scotland. A fascinating story there. First, we begin with the fight against isis. The Associated Press is reporting this morning that the administration has tapped retired marine general john allen who recently served as the top american commander in afghanistan, to coordinate the campaign against isis. This, as a new cia estimate raises the number of isis fighters in iraq and syria from 10,000 to somewhere between 20,000 to somewhere other 31,000. The pentagon says the 475 additional u. S. Troops that obama ordered to iraq will arrive over the next week. As the administration Lobbies Congress at home, secretary of state john kerry is pressing middle east allies for support. Nbcs Richard Engel has more from erbil, iraq. Take a look. Kristen, secretary kerry traveled to turkey today as he is trying to exp
2016 trail, Hillary Clinton finally comments on what happened in ferguson. Rick perry hits New Hampshire and South Carolina. And with ohio set to host the gop convention, could a Buckeye State senator be getting some attention . Finally, after joe and mika just said it, after nearly five years, its the end of my era here on tdr. Five years is almost a lifetime two lifetimes in cable tv. Weve done quite a lot here in that lifetime. Pretty proud of it. Good morning from washington. Its friday, august 29th, 2014, and this is your prelabor day edition of tdr. A few more surprises in store today and of course because its my last day on this show, ive got a lot of people i want to single out toward the end. But i want to get right to my first reads of the morning. After days and weeks of comments on and off the record from officials all over washington, including in the president s administration, the drumbeat toward military action in syria appears to be hitting a wall, and that wall is the
Heights by moving his running mate surge to of all places, here in indiana where i am doing this program tonight from indianapolis which has become the center of the universe for trump veep stakes. In the State Capitol today at the governors residence, trump and his oldest children had breakfast at the home of one of his top contenders, mike penalty, who was at a rally north of here last night. Wasnt just about pence today. As trumps decision loom with the friday announcement, they came to the Hoosier State for their own lastminute huddles with the candidate at the hotel. The candidate also called Chris Christie today said to be a finalist as well. If youre at all confused about where trump stands on this, dont worry. The candidate cleared it up today. The level ive had here is incredible. And the governor has been amazing. So well see what happens. Newt gingrich is coming in today to see me here. Basically down on two. No. Chris christie is somebody ive liked a long time. He is a tota
Through, but is it worth the 1 trillionplus debt price tag . I will ask the father of the supply side economics. And the undocumented homeless immigrant who been deported five times, found not guilty in the death of healey steinle . And activists already waiting outside the Supreme Court of the United States for tuesdays historic argument about the case of the evangelical baker who said he is a First Amendment right not to sell a wedding cake to a samesex couple. But first, with regard to Michael Flynn, i, too, intend to read the tea leaves, we want to know where this is headed. But first the facts. The former Trump National security adviser pled guilty friday to lying to the fbi about conversations with russias ambassador. And disclosed that hes cooperating with the special councils office. In a moment ill welcome someone who both prosecuted and defended individuals in similar circumstanc circumstances. But lets start with what we know. We know that Michael Flynn pled guilty we know h