Offense. We will shrink the territory that they control and ultimately, we will defeat them. But on an interview on meet the press, he insisted they will not return to iraq. This is not the equivalent of the iraq war. Reporter that tough new approach on isis came with airstrikes, targeting the group in western iraq. That air power the president hopes will tip the balance to iraqi and Kurdish Forces as well as potentially pod baccarat Syrian Rebels battling isis on the ground. We are going to be helping to put together a plan for them so that they can start retaking territory that isill had taken over. Reporter the isis reset were welcomed by democrats who worried the president was being too cautious. I want to congratulate the president. She now on the offense. Reporter gop critics are far from comp vinced. The pentagon was going through what if scenarios, the president wasnt. I dont know if you cant see reality from a fairway. Reporter that golfing residence is not lost on to president. Mr. Obama said he sent the wrong message when he recognized foleys execution only to head to the golf course minutes later. I should have an tis is cognizant of people what might want to impress isis. There isnt a huge concern that isis could launch an attack on u. S. Posts around the world just yet, still isis is viewed very much as a regional threat, preventing it from becoming a global one is high on kerrys ace gen da this week to shore up and combat isis. Thanks so much. Chris. All right, lets discuss how they get it done, kate, lets bring in our political commentators, kevin madden, executive Vice President of jda front line and democratic strategist senior provider for usa action. Gentleman, thank you for joining us on this monday. Kevin, ill start with you. The question is this, everybody is congress is saying need the hear what the president has to say, have to know what the plan is. How much new information can there really be . Everybody knows what were dealing withful what is Congress Looking for on your side of the aisle . I think they are looking for new affection about how the president plans to go about this as far as a more comprehensive plan and strategy that will bring in some of the International Part first and change conditions on the ground. I think the most important thing that congress is looking for is a sense of clarity, a sense of urgency from the president. Because i think that is what many of their constituents want. You have to think about congress the thing they care about most is their standing back home. There is a lot of anxiety and a lot of questions about there president s longterm strategy for dealing with the isis threat is. They want the sense that their commander in chief understands it is an urgent problem and she moving to take action. Do you think fair criticism of both sides of the aisle, certainly yours is they were criticizing the president for, leading from behind, longterm declaration of war, certainly congresss responsibility. Why dont they just meet and take ahold of the reigns themselves . Well, you know, i have said this before that, we dont elect a congress in chief. We elect a commander in chief. Congress i think has done as much as they can in their role here as part of the advice and consent. But theyre looking for the president , president ial leadership to step up. Make the case to the American People. Make the case to his political allies and make the case to our International Allies around the country that he has an actual plan and that what hes going to do to take action. Paul, how much of this is your fault . Because you specifically, which is why i wanted you here in person, how much of this is about the message that even though it does seem a little like semantics. There is not new whats going on with isis. Its just a few name. How much of this as a whole did you create . I think the president needed, past tense, to put this together in a coherent message. Wednesday night he will speak to the country. Hes got ten people on board. He is already acting if iraq. Right. We were reporting now. Hes our military, our bombing fear the dam. The next part of this now, so he is doing his part. The next part of this does shift to congress. There is one really important policy question. Do we bomb isis inside of syria as well as iraq . Right now the president s plan is contain the military action. I Love National security nerds call it connection. Should we be bombing if syria . Many of his critics, senator john mccain, some in my party is saying yes. Are you right. They need congress and the country behind this, Mission Creep is what the white house is worried about. Mission creeps on the military side. My fear here is the military is the easing part. Bombing, whos on the ground. Thats the easy component. The reason that isis exists is because you didnt do the right thing in iraq with malachi. When bremer went in there, not to get into in the weeds. The sunnis were disenfranchised. Thats the problem. That you their military commanders who are in that army are now leading isis. So why arent we talking about a . The military part is easy. The people on your side of the aisle that want righteous committee, why arent they saying we have to do the longterm part . There are. There are a lot of folks coupleing their criticism with the president s lack of a plan narl with a lack of progress on the political side t. President has been very good about the rhetoric of saying we need to have we need to bring a government thats much more stable together in iraq so they can deal with this on their own and they need to bring if other forces on the ground like the kurds and to support them militarily that america cant do this alone. But the big calgary that the president has had politically and convincing a lot of the critics hes on the right path is that this is not new. These have been emerging problems for over a year and the president only now. Over a year . We have been doing the since the 90s in this part of the world. Exactly. My main point is isis in the eyes of the American Public. The president is talking about building an International Coalition. This is a problem he had been dealing with an International Coalition should be built. We should have these strategies being implemented. Not the president saying over a week ago he doesnt have a strategy yet. Yesterday saying he finally does. Thats been the big problem. Kevin says icrisis. It rhymes, thats always a problem for the other side if politics. How do you deal with that . This is a tactic put together now to deal with the immediate military problem. This exists because Prime Minister pal kye was put in place by us, in our Bush Administration folks. He turned iraq into a shiite militia. He made it a sectarian force t. Soviet union nice were disenfranchisedch we dealt with this. General petraeus led the sunni awakening. Sunni rejected isis a decade ago. The Obama Administration believes they will do it again. He weighed in, maliki didnt want to leave office. They have a new iraqi Prime Minister. He has i think to this week to put together a pllsectarian government. This is the answer that within i talked to my friends in the white house, they say we will use our kinetic power. We will bond. That is not to be taken lightly. But the solution has to come from the region, from the iraqis, especially from the soviet union nice, thats what theyre looking for the few iraqi Prime Minister. Thats why everybody wants to find out about this coalition, if this is a per version of islam, not true islam. Why is it up to us . Let me ask you something else, lets switch to another topic of the day. Very important as people start their new day. Immigration. Its 3rd down, the president decides to punt. How is this not a gross failure of leadership he says im not going to do anything for ten weeks until the election is over . We havent had fundamental Immigration Reform since 1936, i think we can wait several days. He was candid on meet the press yesterday saying, the politics has changed. Im quite sure the house wanted to act as soon as they got the legalitys right. Then we had this crisis on the border, where all these unaccompanied children came. It changed the politics. The Immigration Reformers, savvy ones are saying, its okay to put it off. If the democrats have a bad night on Election Night we dont want Immigration Reform blamed. Why not deal with the after the election . Maybe in a lame duck session. This is me seeing a dreamer. Get republicans on board and pass a real law. Of course, you know, the only thing on the other side, kevin, that the republicans are upset. Oh, hes putting it off ten weeks. Come on, lets be honest. There is no chance the republicans will agree with the president let alone Immigration Reform when the whole platform is, we tried to stop him, right . No, look. I think everybody up on capitol hill wants Immigration Reform. They want the Current System broken. Where we have differences is on the details. Republicans, of course, believe that we should take a series of bills approach, a sequential approach to securing the border ten dealing with so many of those here illegally before having one big, one size fits all becomprehensive approach. I think the biggest problem that we have now to really having comprehensive Immigration Reform, or dealing with this problem is the level of the lack of trust that now exists between this president and the congress overall. The president is basically saying what he wants to do is take action after the voters have already paid tear voice heard on an issue like this. That is something they have done before. It does feed the cynicism of so many folks up on capitol hill who have a hard time working with the president. The cynicism goes to they do nothing but obstruct. We have to leave it there for this morning. Thank you for the insight. We appreciate it from you. A lot of headlines this morning, lets get over the mick. Here are your headlines, the ceasefire in ukraine, less than two days after a ceasefire was declared. The heaviest fighting has been near the airport donyetsk. They say the ceasefire has held for the most part. President obama says the u. S. Military will help combat the deadly ebola virus if africa with equipment and support for health workers. President obama says if the International Community doesnt step in to help the virus could mutate and spread to other countries, including the u. S. And pose a serious danger. So far ebola has killed 2,000 people in five african areas. Instead of telling grand jury members what charges they believe officer wrilson should face that,ry leaving it open ended and encouraging the grand jury to investigate. As you recall he brown gunned down Michael Brown setting off weeks of protests if ferguson. How about that Serena Williams . Selling her place in tennis history. She overwhelmed care lean wozniacki in straight sets to win her sixth open womens title. That gives her a total of 18 career grand slam titles tying with her fellow tennis greats. Who happened to be on hand to give her the award. The men will duke it out for the big prize later today. Hard to boat that. Thats quite moment. She is really, really good. I think thats the understatement of the year. The most dominant figure in tennis. If tennis history. The sixth u. S. Open. Thats not even the grand slams. A lot of adversitys, shes older, at one point it seemed like there was no motivation to play, no one comes near her. She got hurt in the doubles. There is other news. There is other really good news. We rarely give you breaking good fuse, lets do it and enjoy, everyone. The duke and duchess of cambridge are expecting their sec child. The latest on the happy announcement from london. So what do we know, erin . Reporter thats right, kate, Buckingham Palace making a happy announcement just a short while ago its not clear how far along the duchess of cambridge is. Its a three month mark, but we understand she is suffering from acute morning sick ness, suspect she experienced during her first pregnancy and had to can sell an engagement if oxford. The congratulations are already rolling in. Prime minister dave cameron taking to twitter just a short while ago, tweeting many congratulations for the duke and duchess of cam bridge. I am delighted by the happy news theyre expecting another baby. It was just over a year ago that we were celebrating the birth of Prince George. This child will be fourth in line to the throne. Pushing prince harry to fifth in line. Im sure he will not mind at all. Thank you so much. Anyone be it the woman or the husband or the pan going through it. Anyone who has had a up the of morning sick ness can just imagine how horrible it is to have the condition she suffers. She suffered that with george early on. Another little one that needs your attention and wants mommy and you are feeling poorly. I am feeling for you sister is all i will say. Boy or girl . Ly go owe. Are we playing the game . Boy or girl . Girl. Im going with girl, too. I thought this was a boy. Its not . What am i going to all that blue stu. What am i going to do with that christopher name. Strong male genes. All right. Another story for to you look at t. Owner of the Atlanta Hawks is stepping down. We have his explosive racially charged email that cost him his team. Plus you will hear exclusively from the teams ceo. Parents, you want to listen up for this run u one. There is a mysterious respiratory illness, experts say it will get a whole lot worse. Kids are ending up in the e. R. , even icu. We will tell you what you need to foe coming up. Bile plan. And minus our expenses. Perfect timing. Were offering our bestever pricing on mobile plans for business. Welcome back. Now the story of rage after sending a racially charged email back in when the itself 12. In a cnn exclusive. Our Martin Savage talked about this whole situation with the hawks new ceo. Mario is joining us from atlanta. What more did you hear from the ceo . There is a lot. They know they have a lot to do as a result of the digging out on this. The ceo has been on the job for only months. Bruce levinson admits he wrote in twenl 12. He used inappropriate and offensive language. Yesterday when he wrote another letter of apology and announcing he will be putting up his portion of the team for sale, he said this, he said, you know, if you were angry at what i wrote, you should be angry. Im angry at myself, too. It was inflammatory nonsense. A lot are saying it was racially insensitive. Reporter its the email that cost the team. Majority owner Bruce Levinson fired off these insights why they werent attracting people. Looking around our arena during game, its 70 black. My theory the black crowds skaers away the whites. My theory is i think southern whites simply were not comfortable being in an arena or at a bar being the minority. He says i have even bitched the kiss cam is too black. For the nba, its an embarrassment that is they are overcoming the racially laced dia . Tribe with Donald Sterling. Levinson was one of his strongest critics, sunday levinson issued an apology and announced he is selling the emtoo much dumping the pr nightmare into the lap of the hawks brand few ceo steve kunin. In an exclusive interview, he told me he was dumb founded when he read the email. He describes it as being racially insensitive. Its far more than that. Its a racist email. Its a business bigoted email. It is breath takingly stupid as far as a business communication. What were your thoughts when you read it . I couldnt believe it. I think you said breath takingly stupid. I think i had an audible gasp. There are no words to describe. There is nothing but mortified and angry. Reporter it came to light after the general manager daniel barry played what was considered by some front managers as a racially insensitive remark. An internal investigation was launched and levinsons bomb shell email was found. Zero tolerance i think has become a bit of a buzz word. We wanted to live by that. Bruce was confronted from this email from 2012 and he decided that instead of fighting it or doing some of the things have you seen in the past he thought it was best to, for the city, for the team. For his family to walk away. He realized first he had to apologize to the fans and second peace the team. Have you spoken to any of the team . I spoke to the players tonight. There was a meeting. I addressed them. What was that like . It was like walking into a funeral. Hes a youthese are our young m who wear our citys fame and wear the logo on their chest. They are supposed to be supported by their ownership and ownership failed in supporting them. C in n tried to speak to levinson. He has yet to be seen public since the sale announcement. When was the last time you spoke to Bruce Levinson . I think its best few walk away. What did he say . You are right. Steve kufi ni has a tremendous job of pecking up the fan base forward after all of this. Its going to be an incredible challenge for a man who just started his job. Mick kay lo. Two months into the job. My goodness, we want to bring in andy schultz with more in our Bleacher Report this morning. Thats an important thing to talk about t. Distinction between some outlets are saying he self reported. Not so much. Heed a mied to what he did. That was an immediate red flag. Who would self report they are a racist . It was an internal investigation because ofing the manager had said and the players report that alarmed one of the owners. They had an internal investigation that led to an nba investigation. Levinson decided this is eventually coming out. Im going to get in front of it. Apologize it. Especially look he