welcome back to morning joe. john kerry has just landed in kiev. obviously, the secretary of state getting on the ground and trying do what he can along with the government to have a response. let s he is there to show the support for the new government and let s bring in right now from california, former u.s. ambassador to russia, mike mcfaul and white house nbc chief correspondent and host of the daily rundown, chuck todd. it s willie good night, ambassador. thank you for joining us so early this morning. sure. few people are familiar with the situation in russia from the american point of view as you are. if you could a thumbnail what exactly are we seeing here and how concerned should people watching in the united states be? i just listened to your previous segment and i think the way that you were describing or bill kristol was describing putin is the way i would
anything. couldn t find anything in the car. then investigators found a potential clue. at wesley person s autopsy, they found some material inside the plastic tarp next to his body. the medical examiner finds that in the small of the victim s back was a great deal of construction debris that came out of the fire unscathed. it consisted of small bits of painted drywall and some chunks of plaster. they were about the size of a thumbnail. now this plaster was not like normal plaster. what made it abnormal were these thread-like strands embedded in every piece. i was saying, hmm, i wonder what that is. is this something that s important or, you know, what is this? it was something i d never seen before, so it was my own curious nature that led me to pull it
happy al qaeda is back. they are now being restricted with the shah rei with the sharia law under the thumbnail of these organizations. what should we be doing? what can we do? in my view we should not be deploying large tphufpls american forces numbers of american forces, especially conventional ones. i think this is a fight the iraqis should take a lead in. the u.s. can provide assistance from the c.i.a. as well as special operation forces which can collect intelligence, pass it on to the iraqis to conduct operations. there are a whole range of things including limited targeting that the u.s. can and should do. the problem is if this gets bigger we ve got a problem in the homeland. no one is saying we should continue to fight the war. we left troops in germany, left them in korea, left them in kuwait. we are being irresponsible by picking up and leaving a year and a half ago, almost asking for this to happen
mr. hastings was very uptight that there were so many officers in the courtroom that had been involved, which didn t help his mood any. it all begins when judge john wulle, known to discuss his rulings with the defendants, starts with a question. did you finish high school? no. okay. let me give you a thumbnail sketch on government. buckley says hastings doesn t appreciate the history lesson and makes a face at the judge. next time, im going to have you gagged. you re going to have me gagged, huh? you re right, i am. have me gagged then. to me, it was totally alien to everything i knew that happens in a court of law. i have never seen that kind of conduct in a court of law. defense attorney buckley sees where this is going and tries to stop it. your honor, i would ask that mr. hastings is in contempt of court at this point, counselor, and i don t think anyone would disagree with me. suddenly the judge calls for
hide. the high-risk raids are a change from recent military strategy that relied more heavily on drone strikes. let me bring in msnbc military analyst, lieutenant colonel jack jacob, nbc s chief foreign correspondent, richard engel, is here as well. great to have you both here. let s start with who abu anas is. give us a thumbnail sketch. he s about 50 years old, one of the founding members of al qaeda. he reported directly to osama bin laden. he s been critical in the north africa operations, linked specifically to the kenya/tanzania bombings and he s now being held on a u.s. ship, being interrogated. he has not been read his miranda rights, so they are trying to get whatever specific intelligence they have, not just past information about the attacks in kenya and tanzania, which would be good for the historic record, but who he might know who s still in libya,