msnbc host in the middle of it all accused of fueling anti-police hatred, some big money barks. when to believe the hype. north korea issuing a new threat against the u.s. as president obama weighs actions over the sony hack. might as well strap the packages to a reindeer if you want them to make it in time. pressure is on for shippers as a nasty storm threatens to repeat the chaos of last year. would you like furs with that? drive-through surprise that will surely warm your heart. even whether they say it's not, it is always about money. melissa: a wall of blue. nypd officers turning their backs on new york mayor bill de blasio. tensions mounting fall being the ambush killings of two new york city police officers. behavior prompting action from the police commissioner and former mayor rudy giuliani. listen to this. >> don't support that particular activity. i don't think it was appropriate particularly in that setting but reflective of the anger some of em. >> i don't think they should have turned their back. the mayor deserves respect no matter who he is, the office does but i

remember, msnbc is owned by nbc. i don't think it's a coincidence then that garner's widow and sharpton were both on nbc's "today" show the next morning. so are sharpton's critics right? are they right to resent this? right to call it inappropriate? i have just the right group of people to talk about this beginning with mark moral, the president of the national urban league who worked alongside the reverend and minister jonathan gentry, who has been critical of sharpton's roles. thank you both for being here. >> thank you for having us. >> good to be with you. >> jonathan, we heard glenn beck in that sound bite calling reverend al sharpton a dangerous extremist cleric. do you think that's accurate? do you think that's fair to call him that? >> i mean, you could call him a lot of different things. i just think when it comes to what's happening in this country today, i think he's picking and choosing, and i think not just myself but millions of other people could just see he wants to pick and choose issues that can kee

i show on msnbc's shift.com. great show. a little bit about jeb bush and the reality of him possibly running for president and looks like he is going to do it. i wanted to get your take. thing that jumps out at me. he hasn't had a contested race since 2002. you are having a 14-year gap for jeb bush in nitty-gritty politics. has the party passed him by or do you think bush is plugged in enough to parachute in and fight with the best of them? >> i think he definitely remains plugged in with the people who matter to the expense of a presidential campaign. it's not just the years that passed since he was last an active candidate, but the way that the election and the technology and the personal outreach has changed. it changed more than the years would suggest. that's going to be a problem for him, but if you have got money, you can buy what can help him. even though much of the republican party has almost disowned his brother. i think he always had better standing with the republican establishment than his brother did when he j

former atf agent and msnbc analyst. jim, i can't imagine what that was like for police commissioner and mayor de blasio to share their condolences after their loss. >> that had to be heartbreaking for the families, commissioner and the mayor as well. all the ranking officials of the nypd. it's a heartbreaking event because it's a senseless event. officers can understand going into a robbery and getting shot or even domestic violence situation or any kind of a violent crime. that's part of pinning on the badge. i may get involved in the shooting incidents, high crime incidents, car chases. but just to be ambushed and killed in the radio car, you know, is so beyond the comprehension of most officers to think about that there's a risk for this. it smacks you in the face of the senseless brutality. not only the families coping with the unbelievable loss but with the unbelievable senselessness of this thing. it's just making the pain that much deeper. >> the commissioner said quite simply they were assassinated, targeted for

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we'll speak to you throughout the morning here on msnbc. we appreciate your expertise and insight into what's happening. we'll take a short break and be back with much more on this situation. disappearance of airasia flight. we'll bring you what we know as soon as we get it after this short break. creeping up on you... fight back with relief so smooth... ...it's fast. tums smoothies starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue ...and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ♪ tum, tum tum tum... smoothies! only from tums. losing your chex mix too easily? deploy the boring potato chip decoy bag. with a variety of tastes and textures, only chex mix has twenty bags of interesting. pick your mix. >>> at 16 past the hour, i'm alex witt. we continue to follow breaking news story. airasia plan with 162 people onboard is missing. flight 8501 lost contact with ground control shortly after taking off from indonesia. it was on its way to singapore. both countries have launched a joint search and rescue operation but there is no word yet on th

this is msnbc. >>> we are back. an interim report by lawmakers obtained by nbc news shows no conclusive evidence. the investigations could bridge gate be a political positive for governor christie in a primary? the host of up, weekend mornings here on msnbc. and chris christie here with bridge gate was able to take on the liberal media that was out to get him. basically washing himself of that photo op with president obama after sandy to some degree. could this help him at the end of the day with the conservative fans in iowa and new hampshire some. >> any time you are a republican you are running against the media. i think the story on this right now is it's to be continued. let's be clear what we have right here. we have a report from the legislative committee looking into the bridge lane closures. they can't find anything christie knew ahead of time and he that knew during it. the question is really more of willful ignorance. it had been happening there and once it game clear, there were fingers and signs pointin

let's bring in msnbc national reporter susie kim. good to see you this morning. >> hi. >> in addition to the strong numbers we're seeing gas prices here at a five-year low. the national average is more than $1 cheaper than a year ago. $1.75 in oklahoma. how does it factor into the economic forecast for 2015? >> well, there's broad consensus from economists that this momentum, the momentum from the economy will continue next year. and perhaps more importantly that ordinary consumers will finally start to feel the economy is working for them. if unemployment continues to drop, there is going to be more upward pressure and wages and that could make ordinary households start to feel a little bit better about things. we saw a new report from gallop today that consumer confidence is actually at the highest level since 2008. so this is perhaps the sign of change and sentiment from ordinary americans. that said you mentioned gas prices. lower gas prices are on the whole a net benefit for ordinary households in the u.s. it's also causing some

quite frankly -- i know i'm on msnbc. the less that al sharpton has to say about running the police department interfering with the police department, the better off everyone would be. the decent people in both communities, nypd african-american minority communities want to find a way to work together. federal leadership is needed. certainly al sharpton should not be involved. >> of course al sharpton does have a show on msnbc. >> right. >> i will stay out of that discussion. >> yes. >> let me ask you about a controversy brewing the third ranking republican in the house, congressman steve scalise has apologized after revelations he spoke to a white supremacist group in 2002. he said he wasn't aware that the group was a white supremacist group but was headed by former kkk leader david duke. should he hold on to his leadership position, congressman, or is this something that he should say, maybe i should step down? >> based on what we know so far, he should stay on. the congressman of louisiana has stepped forward to defend

i is not to make a statement that makes rhyme time people on msnbc fowl better about america. >> that was the wrong side bite. here is joe scarborough saying a police officer has a tough job and when he talks about the prime time pundit he is talking about sharpton. >> that was probable responding to energy sob, before the garner case which is entirely different. i think scarborough has a valuable role to play at msnbc and this is a time when his network was almost universally taking sides in this case going to the respective corners. honestly, when you look at ferguson i recommend the "washington post" story. it is not clear at all what happened and if --. >> with one exception there is in dispute that michael brown went into the police car and attacked officer wilson and there was a struggle for a gun. we know that. >> right and we have evidence that shows. look, what joe scarborough was saying is standing up to his own network and saying, look, police officers have a very difficult job. they go out every day and put their live online. i have been critical the police in the case of

we have msnbc's kacie hunt and trymaine lee with us. trymaine, describe the scene there. >> reporter: there are already thousands of people gathered here in freedom plaza preparing to march about 12 blocks southeast towards the capitol. there are people with signs, some of what we've seen in ferguson that black lives matter. others have posted pictures of loved ones who have been killed by police. that's an energy that's already kind of building, not so much anger but this kind of -- this swell of energy is pretty surprising. just moments ago, we had the parents of tamir rice, the 12-year-old shot and killed by police in cleveland recently. she spoke and said that police, please don't shoot, our children want to grow up. esau garner, the widow of eric garner, killed by a chokehold by a police officer in new york, she says she's marching not only for her husband but all the sons and husbands. there are thousands here gather gathered. >> trymaine, you've been in ferguson and in different places, the eric garner case, staten island, report

again, no con for make here at msnbc if that is the plane that landed. we were showing you real time flight tracker what appeared to be circling fore inging formation. a u.s.-bound airplane headed to las vegas. of course with the news now of airasia flight going down. it comes to mind. a lot of people are watching this. in an abundance of caution -- i want to bring in john cox to tell us again, we want to point out and we can't stress enough it's not confirmed as far as whether it's the flight. we have the emergency vehicles around there. what is the standard procedure. we lost the shot. what is the standard procedure when it comes to the kinds of landings and how they go about dealing with it >>well it's absolutely -- >> hang on a second. we got conformation. the plane landed safely. it is on the ground. that landed safely. what happens at this point? >> well, this also by the way, says that the protocols and processes they they used worked as intended. this abnormal landing turned out quite well as intended. so the processes and procedures worked here.

msnbc's adam reiss joins me live from brooklyn, new york. adam, how else has the city been honoring these fallen officers? >> francis, i just want to show you for a minute the memorial here and the thousands of people that have come here over the last couple days. hundreds of police officers from all over this city, all the precinc precincts, firemen, sanitation workers. you heard the mayor say moments ago, they will do everything in their power to continue to support the families as their fathers have done. the silver star foundation is raising money to support the families. we learned bodin college in maine where one of the sons of officer ramos attends school, they announced on monday they would pay for the rest of his education. i can just tell you that the hundred people that are here right now, they didn't know it was at 2:47, but at that moment, silence fell over the crowd here. and somehow they knew that it was 2:47. >> very moment when those two officers were killed. the mayor asking to take a break and focus on the family, focus on

this is msnbc. ♪ vicks nyquil severe. helps relieve your ugliest nastiest roughest toughest cold symptoms. vicks nyquil severe. with maximum symptom fighting ingredients. ♪ >> we think of thunderstorms that are not as severe in that part of the world. >> that's true. i had weather over the state of texas and the united states that gets pretty close to that. close enough so that you have the same rules to work with. it's not totally out of the realm of possibility. >> jim thanks so much. we hope to talk to you over the next couple of days. we appreciate your expertise. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." we will talk to roberta jacobson about what it may hold for the u.s. and cuba. she will be a key negotiator for the secretary of state. follow us online and facebook and twitter. ronan farrow daily. ogresso! it's ok that your soup tastes like my homemade. it's our slow simmered vegetables and tender white meat chicken. apology accepted. i'm watching you soup people. make it progresso or make it yo

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t not to make a statement that makes prime time people on msnbc feel better about america. >> no -- >> that was the wrong sound. that's dzhokhar bjoe scar besib the police officer's job. >> i think that was probably before the garner case. i think that was responsive to ferguson. i think joe scarboro has a important role to play at msnbc when his network wag goes to their respective corners. when you look at ferguson, i recommend that washington post story. it is not clear at all what happened. >> with the one exception that there is no dispute that michael brown went into that police car, attacked darren wilson, it was a struggle for the gun. >> we do know that and with for ensive evidence. i think what joe scar borrow was saying, standing up to his network and saying, look, police officers do have a difficult job. they go out every day and put their lives on the line. i've been very critical on the police in the case of the garner incident, but let's not bash the police universally. >> i respect the rule of law. i think there's an argument to be had that you can't look at the fergus

i want to bring in msnbc jimmy williams. executive editor of blue nation review joined by her mercedes shlepp. does webb have the stickiness? or an old headline come 2016? >> alex's piece is a must read. i will say this i think it's more about ego and hummous than anything else. alex pointed out a lot of issues. webb is to the right of hillary clinton. if he's to the right of hillary clinton and progressives have a problem with hillary clinton being too much to the right, how would they like webb? it doesn't make sense. so i don't see him as a candidate. no campaign officers where is his hiring of the staff. i don't see it happening. but, you know, people said that about barack obama and he's president. who knows. >> two times over. mercedes mercedes, let's go to the republican side. larry saying this. he said there's no first tier republicans. he puts bush, paul walker, and christie in the second tier. he identified second tier but no first tier. >> it's a wide open field. it's going to be very telling from january to about

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msnbc is live for us in staten island. we know at this point the grand jury reconvened this morning. at this point, any word about when we might expect to hear some sort of decision from the grand jury? >> good to be here with you, craig. we're getting word that it could happen as early as 2:00. but the county prosecutor has been very tight-lipped. the office hasn't given us as much information at all. it could happen tomorrow or the following day. we're not sure if the grand jury will have a decision or when it'll be, but it's imminent. >> meanwhile, the grand jury is apparently only hearing evidence and testimony as it relates to officer panteleo. what's he been saying? >> what's the question? >> what defense have they offered so far? >> i don't have much insight into the defense. i haven't talked personally to his defense attorney. the police department said was a choke hold. it's been a banned maneuver since 1993. as of right now, hinges on that. i've talked to a number of people linking this not just to the case in st

if msnbc is as left as you can get. if they do a great job of painting the radical, and then rachel or the 18 hours of joe scarborough say that we need to invade these other countries, smart people who don't have time to watch democracy now like we do will watch it and be like this is as left as we can get and even they are saying we have to invade iraq again. or even they are saying whatever. then people believe it. so, what we try to do it would have been really easy and on a ton of news shows with hash tag fox news fails. but that's not fair. even when they talk about same-sex marriage it's like talking up the rights, talk about equal pay. when they talk about climate change, turn the lights off that but they will never talk about factory farms. so, we try to cover the stories and they really aren't getting any play at all. >> to say fox news is extremist, we all know that. i get it. they've done really good work in other areas but it's sort of a challenge. like you are liberals and you can do better. where should we

. >> msnbc adam reese joins us from brooklyn, new york. adam, you were listening to what the mayor was saying just moments ago. of course, there's that simmering in the background, which i just mentioned. how did he do? >> reporter: we'll have to see how the reaction is both from the community and from police. i should show you the memorial next to me, richard, is growing by the minutes. dozens and dozens of police officers coming from all over the city to express their grief and console each other. a lot of tears. a lot of emotion. want to talk to you about the hours leading up to the shooting. he was arrested 19 times in georgia and ohio. he served two years in jail on weapons charges. his mother has told police that he had tried to commit suicide this year. we can also tell you we've learned just minutes before this shooting, when he arrived on the scene, brinsley was speaking with two men who told police he said three things. he asked them to follow him on instagram. he asked them what gang they were associated with. then he said, look

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representative patrick murphy an msnbc contributor. i want to start off by asking you in his christmas speech president obama called the drawdown a, quote, responsible end. do you agree? >> i do agree. and it's about time the afghan people stood up for their own country. everyone knows, as you said before, we need a political solution. we need to let them lead their own country. we are leaving a residual force in the first part of twi2015. this is important because they're coming off probably the most violent year. this past year, over 34,000 of an over 4,000 afghan police and soldiers have been killed. it is time to bring our troops home. we have hot spots around the world. several thousand troops in afghanistan. i'm sorry, in iraq and also in africa fighting ebola. so when hot spots come up, it's always the american military that's asked to respond but now it's time to bring our troops home from afghanistan. >> patrick, what's your take on the latest revision of this drawdown? they're going to leave an additional 1,000 soldiers, more

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my guest tonight is the host of msnbc's new show "the last word." spoiler alert: it's zyzzyva. please welcome lawrence o'donnell. [cheers and applause] lawrence, nice to see you. thank you so much for coming on. >> good to be here. >> stephen: you got the new show coming out september 27th. >> at 10:00 p.m. eastern. >> stephen: so we're not in competition. >> only for half hour? >> stephen: i'm at 11:30. >> i wouldn't know, that but in the age of tivo, i have no idea what the time slots are. i watch you on 4 a.m. on tivo when i can't sleep. [laughter] >> stephen: what i love about you guys on msnbc is you're on the left, but you also use fear as a tool with your audience. >> when we have ever done that. >> you try to get us to think the fox guys are fascist and cheney is a monster and the republicans are going to sell us off to corporations. that's your own little fear game and i respect that. >> i don't use those words. >> stephen: you don't? >> no. >> you never use fear. you never say, i'm afraid, what worries me, none of that? >> i can't think of a single instance in which i

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it sounds old. >> when did you leave msnbc?pv@ >> i left msnbc in '99 maybe. >> you got out just in time. >> oh, stop. >> just in time >> you're doing great. >> i covered cuba for msnbc. >> in '98. >> then monica lewinsky showed up and everybody left. >> you covered cuba back when we used to cover news at msnbc. >> oh. >> all right. we'll get to cuba in just a second but we'll begin with sony which has cancelled plans to release "the interview" the movie on christmas day after a massive terror threat. the company confirmed there's no plans to release the movie on video or dvd. the movie is nowhere to be found. the announcement came after the nation's five largest movie chains decided not to show "the interview" after alleged hackers threatened 9/11 like attacks on theaters playing film. while u.s. officials said there was no credible evidence of a terror plot reuters is reporting fbi warned theaters of showing the movie of possible cyber atexas. meanwhile senior u.s. official tells nbc news that u.s. concluded north korea is b

with the cnr fox news or msnbc or traditional media. and u.n. can foreign opinion how they feel about occupy one street or even the two-party -- teapartier. [laughter] so my question is what can we do as citizens to change our relationship with media is something that we all own? how do we change the relationship. >> they give for the question. that relationship will not change any time soon. media at all our corporatized. is in the low-wage workers who had the serious straight -- strike it is difficult to organize the there trying. that is nothing like the coverage. for those who marched in the climate change but that's rights -- but just look at the politicians with the changes that we need you have to knowledge the mainstream media don't give that type of coverage you there. therefore you have to keep doing your thing until you get noticed. so then the relationship with fox news or msnbc or cbs so what the heck is is going on down the block with police misconduct? what can we do to make it easier for people to find jobs? or if there is discri

joining us al sharpton host here on msnbc. thanks for being here. i know it's a busy time for you. >> thank you, rachel. >> i know you've been with eric garner's family tonight. how are they doing and what's their reaction to this news today? >> well, they are absolutely outraged, but not surprised. we had said from the beginning when this happened in july that we wanted federal intervention. there was no confidence in a local state grand jury in staten island. and around the country there is an intrinsic conflict with local prosecutors dealing with local police because they work together hand in glove in terms of cases. a prosecutor depends on the local police for all of their cases, all of their evidence, which is why you need someone outside of that arrangement, outside of that politics because local prosecutors run for office, police unions are involved in either supporting or not supporting. a lot of different conflicting things that really makes people much more comfortable and the results more fair when you have outside people involved. that'

but first, msnbc is standing on the staten island sidewalk where gardner was killed. run us through the details of the response we just got from the d.a.'s request. >> reporter: so just moments ago, i spoke with ben garner, eric garner's father. and i was the first to let him know that a decision had been made. some of the information contained in the grand jury will be released. i told them about the 50 witnesses, the 22 of whom were civilians, there were 60 exhibits. and he said, quite frankly, not one of them stepped up to save my son, so none of it matters. that was his feeling. i spoke with a friend of eric garner's about the grand jury proceedings and here's what he had to say. >> got 23 people who actually seen clippings of this guy getting murdered. then you see the cop say what he has to say. doesn't take away the fact that what happened, what happened. there was an action, and in that action, someone died. there has to be some type -- someone has to be accountable. >> reporter: and so there we have it. there's a little bit of information come out from the gr

. >> msnbc takes you behind the walls of america's most notorious prisons to has world into a world of chaos and danger. now the scenes you've never seen. "lockup, raw." >>> most of the violent inmates that fill up our prisons across america have had a difficult childhood. they've either been born on the wrong side of the tracks, or they've had abusive uncaring families. but we found an inmate inside the penitentiary of new mexico who grew up with all of life's advantages and yet still became a violent predator. >> i come from a nice family. a good family compared to a lot of the families i hear about in here. my dad's a retired naval officer. he retired from the navy, then joined the national guard, retired from the national guard and then started going to the county for the job. he retired as the county jail administrator. my mom, she's a secretary. she's very educated, very knowledgeable about things. she quit her job to stay home with me so that i would have someone there for when i got home from school. do my homework, make sure i do what i had to do. >> but that didn't keep him o

i don't think they're telling untruths on either side, neither fox news, nor msnbc. by and large, almost everything they say is true. what the bias comes from is what they don't report. it's crimes of omission. that often happens when thinking is the story interesting or not. for instance, a media research center just reported, they looked at two stories, this recent benghazi memo that came -- where the white house basically admitted they were put in the talking points for susan rice that it was this youtube video, and so this was bombshell news. at the same time, we have this los angeles clippers' owner, sterling i think his name was. and both are equally true stories. sterling was a racist, the white house looks like they were playing poll the ticks, trying to -- politics, trying to make themselves look good for the election. both are true, but if you're a conservative, you'll say, oh, that white house memo story was much more important. that's the one we should be reporting more. and i think if you're a liberal you'll say, no, no, no, the sterling story, that's on

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. >> tonight msnbc travels with the cooke county human trafficking task force. >> how much dope do you do a day? >> quite a bit. >> and meet the women and girls who pay the harsh price for what some call a victimless crime. >>> on a warm chicago afternoon the streets are crowded with tourists, browsing the merchandise along the magnificent mile. but just a few blocks away this motel plays host to a different kind of commodity. sex for sale. >> what do you want? >> chicago police have arrested this woman for soliciting prostitution. it's her third such arrest in as many months. >> just take me to jail. what the [ bleep ]. >> you can scream all you want -- >> i'm going to do whatever i've got to do. i don't care. i don't care! >> keep screaming -- >> i don't care. >> we will learn much more about her case in a moment, for stories like hers are all too common in the underground sex trade. >> public safety is our main concern. and this is not something that we want as a society. >> domestic sex trafficking is a crisis that occurs right here in our very own community. >> cook county state's

msnbc's trymaine lee is at the d.a.'s office, outside. what can you tell us? >> reporter: so, the word is just starting to spread now there will not be an indictment in the case of eric garner -- chokehold case of eric garner. before the decision, many were gathering outside the courthouse and many said they were there to demand justice. not just the ruling elite, one man told me. talking with demonstrators and activists and organizers in the days leading up to this moment, they were hopefully optimistic there would be an indictment. that justice would prevail. many said that it seemed so clear to them. videotaped homicide

since chicago, msnbc tracked dunaway posting ads in a new city every week. she earned another arrest in louisiana along the wachlt still she insists she's an independent operator. >> are you still with him? >> look at her neck. >> is she tattooed? >> she is inked all over. yeah. >> visible tattooed or being branded is an indication to law enforcement that the girl is owned or controlled by a pimp. >> she does not look well. she's so tiny. >> i have been so tiny my whole life. >> you are looking skinnier than the last time we saw you. >> you don't remember. >> we remember all too well with. when dunaway was taken in to custody, another woman, sasha, arrested in the same sting offered useful advice. >> doesn't matter. they are going to keep arresting you. it doesn't matter. they are going to call you again tomorrow and they are going to go to jail and they will go back to work. >> at the time dynasty found it amusing. >> funny when you watch it from the outside but you ladies don't want to end up there. >> you guys are laughing because the girl came in crazy.

msnbc reporter benjigiebengiesarlin. >> maybe not the most trustworthy accounts. one of the organizers kenny knight, david duke associate, now says scalise never spoke at the event, a civic association event earlier in the day. this comes by the fact that scalise himself as admitted speaking to at this event. people are trying to figure out exactly what happened. mr. knight coming to scalise's defense, what's your association with this guy, with someone who is a known david duke associate? a lot of questions for scalise to answer here. >> not a good way to start the new year for the republicans. is congressman richmonds coming out and supporting likely to quell the critics in the ranks against congressman scalise? >> it's not bad to have a democrat on your side and especially an african-american democrat in the state. most calls have fallen short of saying -- calls to resign. you have to answer questions. have you to address this maybe they'll get political pot shots in. everyone is waiting for more facts to emerge. >> msnbc's bengy sarlin thank you so much for th

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