With senator reid. The fbi steps in to investigate how 18yearold Michael Brown was killed. Legacy of laughter. Academy award winner Robin Williams dead at the age of 63 after an apparent suicide. Good morning from washington. Its tuesday, august 12th, 2014. This is the daily rundown. Im Chris Cillizza in for chuck todd. We begin this morning, though, in iraq, country dealing with military humanitarian and political crises all at the same time. Together they paint a picture of a nation that may be unraveling before our eyes. U. S. Officials are saying theyre doing what they can and are ready to do more but not until the country is beginning to show some signs of stability. Without any question, we are prepared to consider additional political, economic and security options as iraq starts to build a new government and very much calculated to try to help stabilize the security situation, to expand Economic Development and to strengthen the democratic institutions. Secretary of state kerry
45 voted for independence. Cameron said he was delighted. Alex salmon, of the Scottish Nationalist Party conceded defeat. But said this is over for a generation. But lots and lots and lots of change coming to americas strongest and most trustworthy ally. This whole political situation is going to change, with power deinvolved not just to scotland, but to wales and to Northern Ireland and even around england itself. Nobody quite knows whats next, chris . Thank you very much. And obviously something we have to follow going forward. Because the strength of that United Country very important to the u. S. In so many Different Levels and obviously important to itself. Christiane amanpour, thank you very much for being with us this morning. Kate . The fight against isis, the president s plan to degrade and destroy the terror group is moving forward now that the senate has approved a measure to train and arm Syrian Rebels to fight back against the terror organization. The house signed off on t
Intervention. Just the fact that murders of these 21 hostages took place in north africa not the middle east is raising new questions about the strength and reach of the Islamic State. Nbcs Foreign Correspondent is with us this morning. First of all, talk about the significance over what has happened over just the last 48 hours. Reporter yeah. A group of egyptian christians who are among the thousands who work in libya. They had been missing, kids knapped, feared kidnapped for the past several weeks. Yesterday Late Afternoon local time here in the u. S. A video emerged online belonging to isis so shooing the brutes execution of several of those men. Within hows the egyptian president addressed the nation vowed this response. You can see on the screen egyptian fighter jets taking often from egypt, bombing targets in the eastern part of the country. Now, according to the Egyptian Military they say they targeted training sites, weapon deep oes belonging to some of these militants in retal
Trying to protect an black market oil supply from isis terrorists, an accusation erdogan vehemently denies. The white house still saying theres no agreement on an agreement to go after isis. This talk about isis here at this Climate Summit has overshadowed much of the work that these World Leaders have had to tackle when it comes to controlling Global Warming. Chris . No question about it. Just the beginning of the dialogues. Yes, jim, i said avila because we worked together at abc news and he is a dear friend. Jim acosta. Well want to hear what president obama thinks the process was here and against the war in isis as well. Russias moving surfacetoair missiles to a base near the turkish border. U. S. Officials say this move could put american combat aircraft at risk. Putin reportedly ordering the missiles to syria after turkey shot down one of its airplanes. Barbara starr alive from tis li pentagon. Reporter this Missile System now active, up and running according to u. S. Defense off
Their air strikes in syria took him out. They are using qualified language. So are we. We should tell you, we had many reports in the past about al bagdadis death that have not turned out to be true. We are approaching this with caution. His whereabouts have not been known for some time. If this is true, it is a major blow to the terror group. Lets start with clarissa ward. She is live for us in london. She has reported extensively from the war zone in syria. What are your thoughts with this news, clarissa . Reporter gewe are getting me information from the Russian Defense ministry as to what they think happened. They say on may 28th they carried out an air strike targeting in raqqah. They say during the course of the air strike, some 330 isis personnel were killed. Among them 30 mid level or what they describe as mid level field commanders. Already, alisyn, that raises a red flag. Isis is savvy now. They have been dealing with air strikes and drone strikes for years. They understand i