Contributor, robert gibbs, senior Political Editor and White House Correspondent for the Huffington Post, sam stein. And Senior National correspondent for Bloomberg Business week, josh green. Well get right to the news. Does anyone want to crystallize whats been going down on the past 24 hours . Not exactly crystallizable. Its confusing. I think its now republicans selfdestruct. I dont know what the word chaos is the industry here. Thats what weve been seeing all the time. This is different. Special chaos. Seasonal chaos. For breakfast every morning. Its not special word, its chaos part 7. Well let the story speak for itself. There are just three days before the threat of the federal government shutting down becomes a reality. Later today, the senate will begin voting on a bill to fund the government. Majority leader, harry reid will then look to amend the bill, stripping of it any language to defund obama care. After todays vote, the bill goes back to the house, where lawmakers will h
it did surprise a lot of people. but coming from that place of understanding, you know their environment, that my captors were from, not saying they re innocent in any way, it s not such a stretch to get there. i have to tell you, mike, i met amanda two years ago, in 2011, we were both in kenya. there was a famine going on in the horn of africa and i had gone to cover it for nbc. amanda happened to be there, this was two years after she was released from captivity, the 15 months of hell. two years later she s going back into somalia for the first time. we ended up going on that trip with her. back into the country where she had been held. where people had treated her so badly. to see her and to understand that this is what she wanted to do with the rest of her people. is there this enriched part of you that is your dna.
nairobi represents the worst face. but what we have to make sure is that those threats remain regionally focused and not towards the west and the united states. al-shabaab has claimed that some americans participated in the mall attack. but there s been no evidence of that so far. we don t have any ver final information that would indicate one way or another whether americans were involved. kenya s grief continues. as people here found comfort in stories of survival and powerful images of heroic rescues and lives saved. the attack on the kenyan mall has raised questions about the role extreme militants will play in the region in the future in 2008, journalist amanda linhout travelled to somalia to report on the country s civil war and famine. on the her fourth day in the country, she and a photo journalist she was traveling with were abducted.