President vows to take the fight to the terror group. Also right now a nebraska hospital is treating a third american for ebola. But will all supplies of the experimental drug, theyre gone. What are his options now. A georgia dad accused of leaving his little boy in a hot car to die has now been charged. Well break down the case against him. And a big discovery this week. Scientists have foundry mains of the biggest dinosaur ever discovered. Big guy. Bigger than a boeing 737. We have a very big idea today. And hello to you all. Im t. J. Holmes. Thank you so much for spending some time with us. We begin with this developing story. President obama has abandoned hope of taking action on Immigration Reform before the end of the summer. That was the promise. White house officials today saying the president will delay any action until after novembers congressional elections. Nbcs luke russert at the white house for us with details. This is all about politics irks it is, t. J. Its very surpri
The big question, will the past few days blunt his apparent momentum . The next 53 days will shape the next 50 years. The future of our children and grandchildren hangs in the balance. Hillary clinton meanwhile fighting back on the campaign trail after a week that saw some tough new polls. New details ahead. And in a new interview with nbcs chuck todd, Ohio Governor john kasich hints at whether hell be voting for the gop nominee in that critical battleground state. All here on msnbc, the place for politics. Just moments ago senator Bernie Sanders wrapped up a rally in the battleground state of ohio. He was speaking at a rally for Hillary Clinton in akron. Heres his reaction to trump walking back his birtherism claims during a News Conference yesterday. If you want to disagree with obama, disagree with obama. But do not go around putting a lot of money into trying to tell the American People that because we have an africanamerican who happens to be president today that he is not a legit
country. just yesterday, hundreds of students at ithaca college staged a walkout, calling for the resignation of their president. earlier this week at yale, students held a march of resilience demanding more inclusion. today alone, rallies and marches are planned at three more schools. we are covering every angle of this story. nbc s sarah dalloff is following the story at the university of missouri. erica hill is at ithaca college and craig melvin is here with me at 30 rock following reaction from the presidential trail about this. sarah, i want to start with you. there are reports the board of curators may select the former deputy chancellor of the university as interim president. what are you hearing? reporter: that s correct. michael middleton is his name. he has a lengthy resume. he obtained his undergrad and law degree from this school and actually returned to teach, this following a career as a trial attorney in the civil rights division of the department of justice. as you me
at the university of missouri. too often we go time and time again without having professors, mental health staff, different staff members who look like us sitting on our campus. i think that makes a huge difference. one thing we saw an issue with how this was being covered by student protesters against student reporters. i just want to play a clip of what happened on campus. take a look. these are people, too. back off. there s no you know what? [ inaudible ] back off. can i talk to you? no. you need to get out. you need to get out. no, i don t. you need to get out. i actually don t. who wants to help me get this reporter out of here? i need some muscle over here. we are getting word from sarah dalloff that students are now apologizing, handing out flyers to people calling this a teachable moment about what it means to have journalists there.
now, there has been ramped-up expectations about what would happen and whether or not he would succumb to the pressures. this all started when a graduate student of that campus, jonathan butler, started a hunger strike and wanted to draw attention to issues about racism on campus and underlying issues that weren t being addressed in a timely fashion and with what many people on that campus thought was with serious concern from the head of the school, tim wolfe. well, he has succumbed to those pressures, mainly because not only did graduate student jonathan butler galvanize support, but the football team of this school which is very popular, very profitable, all gathered in almost unanimous voice to say the same thing. so sarah dalloff is on campus. please forgive me for interrupting you as you were in the middle of take report. hopefully i have hit all the high points and you can drill down on the reaction on campus again.