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with chris matthews in washington, msnbc's primetime anchors in washington and new york, msnbc's special coverage of president obama's primetime address to the nation begins right now. ♪ >> good evening. thank you for being with us tonight for this special coverage here on msnbc. there are more than 500 tons of mustard gas and sarin and vx right now in kentucky. in madison county, kentucky. a place called the blue grass chemical agent destruction pilot plant. that plant in kentucky and another one like it in pueblo, colorado, the last two facilities in the united states still working on destroying what is left of our massive arsenal of chemical weapons. that we manufactured mostly in the 1960s. russia made about 40,000 tons of chemical weapons at that time. we made about 30,000 tons of chemical weapons at that time. and they today, now are almost all gone. almost. that's why we are still working on it. the destruction of chemical weapons is a job. it is something we know how to do. something for which there is an international agency in charge of doing it right. that plant in blue gras

. >>> and in case you missed it, alec baldwin is officially joining the team here at msnbc. you can catch his show friday nights at 10:00 p.m. eastern. that's your morning's dish of scrambled politics. >>> in oklahoma a dry spring and a wet summer have created a cricket swarm of biblical proportions. the larger than usual mating season has filled the air of putrid odor. experts urge residents to be patient as they expect the invasion to last for several more weeks. bill karins is here with the national forecast. >> you don't want them crawling on you. but they don't bite us like mosquitoes. >> that many, i can't take. >> pretty soon your girl will be out catching them and bringing them home. if you're in new england, you're not worried about cricket this is morning. you're worried about finding the coats and hat. temperatures continue to be very cool. we have frost and freeze warnings in northern new england. it's now 42 degrees in vermont. temperatures are in the 40s as far south as scranton. when you're in the 40s, that's more than sweater weather. that's jacket weather. m

here on msnbc, chris matthews. thanks for your time. >> thank you. >> after the break, as the old saying goes, keep your friends close and keep vladimir putin even closer. we'll discuss russian reliability and the diplomatic option when andrea mitchell joins me next on "now." ♪ for a strong bag that grips the can... get glad forceflex. small change, big difference. how can i be a more fun mom? hmmm. can you dance? ♪ bum ba bum ba bum ♪ bum ba bum ba bum no. no? can you make campbell's chicken noodle soup? yes! [ wisest kid ] every can has 32 feet of slurpable noodles. now that's fun. mom, you're awesome. oh yeah! ♪ bum ba bum ba bum [ gong ] [ wisest kid ] m'm! m'm! good! ♪ bum ba bum ba bum if you've got it, you know how hard it can be to breathe and man, you know how that feels. copd includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. spiriva is a once-daily inhaled copd maintenance treatment that helps open my obstructed airways for a full 24 hours. you know, spiriva helps me breathe easier. spiriva handihaler

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msnbc's alex witt is in lower manhattan. john yang is at a post office in north riverside, illinois, and krig m craig melvin is at ft. dix. just how will the shutdown affect those heading to a national park any time soon? >> reporter: well, it will impact them in a big ole way because there are 368 of them across the country, beginning with perhaps one of the most majestic ones over my shoulder here, lady liberty, which will stand essentially all alone tomorrow over new york harbor. watching today the people streaming in to get on those ferries and get over to take those circular cruises around lady liberty, it is packed perhaps trying to get this ride in in fear of not being able to do it tomorrow. what i will also tell you is that essential personnel will remain on liberty island. that means for security or firefighting purposes, those guys will stay there. also any of you animal lovers who worry about the animals perhaps in the national zoo, caretakers will stay there and make sure that the animals are fed and cared for b

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right here on msnbc. goldie, the american people seamless than excited to intervene in syria. there's really no mystery as to why, is there? it's very clear. >> well, i think there are a number of reasons for it. the first of which is we are quite aways away from september 11th and then we entered the war in iraq with where there were no weapons of mass destruction. there are people are concerned about the cal lamties unfolding within our own country and our own cities today. there are a number of reasons why the applicant get behind, it seems, you know, an intervention in syria. that being said, you know, we denied to be isolationist when we're having problems was unemployment and poverty and homelessness and other things in our own country when unemployment rate i think today was good news at.3% burks it hasn't been this low in five years. people are very concerned about what's happening doe mostically. they simply can't get their arms around at very horrific things happening in syria and what it means

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you're watching msnbc. today new revelations about the deadly chemical weapons attack in syria. >> hair samples and blood samples have tested positive for signatures of sarin. so this case is building and this case will build. >> will the white house build a strong enough case to swing congress in favor of military action in syria? the voices on capitol hill are mixed. >> this is a national security issue. this isn't about barack obama versus the congress. >> there's weakness on the part of the president. >> this is a clear failure of leadership. >> it's a mistake to get involved in the syrian civil war. >> i would pull out my voting card and vote no. >> i would vote yes because the whole world is watching and so is iran. >> it's not enough to call a press conference at the rose garden and run off to a golf match and dump in the lap of congress. >> we talk to one congressman who got a classified briefing on capitol hill. the reaction from the syrian government is -- >> allegations made by obama and his fore

this is "first look" right here on msnbc. hope have you a happy day. "way too early" starts right now. >>> today's secretary of state kerry state the strikes would be unbelievably small. what does that mean? i mean, are we talking a pinprick, a knockout blow, a punch in the gut? >> the u.s. does not pinpricks. our military is the greatest the world has ever known, and when we take even limited strike, it has an impact on a country like syria that does not have a tremendous military capability. they have a tremendous military capability relative to civilians. they have a significant military capability relative to children who are being gassed. but they don't have a military that matches up with ours in any kind of way. >> as the president goes on every major tv network to make the case for military action in syria, we're also dealing with a possible out for the white house and it involves the russians. yikes. we'll break down the possibilities in two minutes. >>> i always joked how could we put a man on the moon but can't develop a scanner that would a

this is msnbc. ert on softball. and tea parties. i'll have more awkward conversations than i'm equipped for, because i'm raising two girls on my own. i'll worry about the economy more than a few times before they're grown. but it's for them, so i've found a way. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we're owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. ready to plan for your future? we'll help you get there. >>> msnbc news has acquired some 13 videos now, according to the white house, videos that, once again, show a chemical attack on august 21st in syria. this is aftermath of that attack. we've also gotten some new information from the intel assessment, the intelligence assessment, that is being shared with members of congress in these closed-doors sessions. quote, we have identified 100 videos attributed to the attack, many of which show large numbers of bodies exhibiting physical signs consistent with but not unique to nerve agent exposure. we should note here that nbc news has not been able to ind

we will carry it here live on msnbc. has that -- do your sources tell you if that speech has now changed based on what happened today? >> i wouldn't be surprised if president obama referenced the developments of today. i think they are still working through that, but certainly, his tone, i think, tomorrow will be to stress what we have heard from the white house in this full court press, which is that the use of chemical weapons are a threat to the united states' national security. he will likely bring up concerns over what iran might do and, again, he'll probably reiterate that point that you heard him make there in the interview with savannah guthrie, which is that these latest developments came because the united states was threatening a military strike, and that that has been a part of moving the needle. in terms of the extent to which he will discuss these latest developments, i think that all of that is still being sorted through, because these developments are sort of evolving rapidly around all of us, including t

do you ever watch the prison shows here on msnbc? they come on friday nights, after our show, usually, and they're always playing on the weekends? the prison shows on msnbc are really good, and they get really good ratings. so i know that you say, oh, no, i'm not watching them. statistically speaking, at least some of you are. actually, a lot of you are. actually, more of you that are watching me are watching the prison shows. but if you have ever watched one of msnbc's really excellent prison shows, you have probably seen it start with a warning that the subject matter may be for mature audiences only. you've seen that, right? well, this here, tonight, is not an msnbc prison show, this is, in fact, our lead story tonight about what is happening in washington right now, and whether or not we're going to have a government shutdown. but in order to do that story, i actually have to air that same warning now, before i show you what happened today in washington. >> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >> okay. now

and i commemorate msnbc for what they've done tonight. it's a great thing. [ applause ] but we have to do that. i know that. i own a radio station. >> yeah, you do. >> we talk about your films. i've seen a few of them, too. but we keep it real. we keep it honest. you know, one is not enough. just a couple or a few is not enough. and i think if i may say one other thing, we really have tos other thing, we really have to confront the educational system. everyone -- everyone -- every single american must feel and know they were a part of this united states. so i think that books have to be rewritten, the whole notion of changing what happened, during slavery times -- saying it is a fantasy, is unacceptable. i just think we have to really, really keep it real. and i love you all in texas. i really do. so don't feel offended. but i just think that we can't act like something that truly happened didn't happen. it is real. confront it. deal with it. and make the difference by changing it. >> as i look 50 years from now, sitting here today, busin

we will carry it here live on msnbc. has that -- do your sources tell you if that speech has now changed based on what happened today? >> i wouldn't be surprised if president obama referenced the developments of today. i think they are still working through that. but certainly, his tone, i think, tomorrow will be to stress what we have heard from the white house in this full court press, which is that the use of chemical weapons are a threat to the united states' national security. he will likely bring up concerns over what iran might do. and again, he'll probably reiterate that point that you heard him make there in the interview with savannah guthrie, which is that these latest developments came because the united states was threatening a military strike, and that has been a part of moving the needle. in terms of the extent to which he will discuss these latest developments, i think that all of that is still being sorted through, because these developments are sort of evolving rapidly around all of us, including the fo

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in the capitol, columnist eugene robinson and msnbc analyst. and in philadelphia msnbc contributor professor james peterson. james, let me start with you. the headline of your latest peplum column nearly identical to an op-ed by rand paul. world upside down, dogs and cats living together? what's going on here? >> you know, i'm getting worried about this, jonathan, because he and i were on the same side in the question of drones and any possible domestic use of drones and so i guess worried when i'm agreeing with rand paul too often. but actually, on the substance of syria policy, i think he and i are comfortably on different sides of the fence. what we agreed on today was the -- was a concept of exceptionalism. i'm not sure we mean exactly the same thing when we talk about american exceptionalism. but we both believe it exists. >> so you agree that we can't take putin's election at yours seriously. i want to read more of the op d op-ed. quote, america should not act militarily because it should not join the same side as al qaeda. russian should

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joining me is now msnbc contributor professor james peterson. professor, the video release the by the fbi shows aaron alexis in the actual process of perpetrating an horrific crime. it's something we rarely get to see and also it's pertinent, is it not that's walking around with a shotgun and, of course, we now know what he did and the effect that shotgun had on the lives of so many. what is your reaction to seeing those images? >> these are some harrowing images, martin, the video and the still images. you can see them and imagine the fear of some of the people in this video. you know, the fbi suggests to us they had to release this video and these images for a number of reasons, but chief amongst them that they wanted to prove that there was only one shooter and to just get the evidence out to the public about exactly what happened at this sort of awful moment and, again, in our nation's history i feel for the families that had to -- that are watching these, the families that are watching these, as well. tough to see the footage but i think it

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and joiningroun zero is msnbc's craigmein. craig, you today have spoken with the police commissioner, ray kelly, as well as many others gathered at ground zero for this memorial. what have they shared with you, looking back on the day? >> you know, ray kelly said two things that really struck me, martin. i think we -- i think they lost us. >> no, they didn't lose us. i can hear you, craig. >> oh, sorry, guys. i thought you lost us for a second. >> okay. go ahead. >> two things that really struck me today. commissioner kelly first of all saying -- i asked him point-blank, are we safer in new york city than we were 12 years ago. he said absolutely, there's no question about that. he also admitted something that i found quite striking. martin, you pick up any major newspaper in this country today, 9/11, whether it's a commemoration, whether it's how it's affected foreign policy or domestic policy, not on the front page of any major newspaper in this country, including major newspapers in new york city, he insists we have not nece

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david corn, washington bureau chief and msnbc political analyst. and robert costa, editor for national review. welcome to you both. david, the president is giving a speech before the nation in something like five hours. so does he attempt to persuade the nation that air strikes are essential, because assad has crossed a red line, or does he hail the mediation of the foreign -- russian foreign minister and say let's go to the u.n.? >> i think he does both. it sounds like a copout. >> it does sound a bit like one. >> but i think what he'll argue is that the tough line he's taken and has tried to nudge congress towards and the american public as well, has brought about this possibility of a deal. and so keeping the pressure on while continuing to talk and trying to work this out through the u.n. is the best way to go. and i think that, you know, he has a logical case there. and the public -- a lot of people in congress clearly don't want to go to war. but if his tough stance is starting to get results, it may give him momentum. but also may lead to th

do you ever watch the prison shows here on msnbc? they come on friday nights, after our show, usually, and they're always playing on the weekends? the prison shows on msnbc are really good, and they get really good ratings. so i know that you say, oh, no, i'm not watching them. statistically speaking, at least some of you are. actually, a lot of you are. actually, more of you that are watching me are watching the prison shows. but if you have ever watched one of msnbc's really excellent prison shows, you have probably seen it start with a warning that the subject matter may be for mature audiences only. you've seen that, right? well, this here, tonight, is not an msnbc prison show, this is, in fact, our lead story tonight about what is happening in washington right now, and whether or not we're going to have a government shutdown. but in order to do that story, i actually have to air that same warning now, before i show you what happened today in washington.

and i commemorate msnbc for what they've done tonight. it's a great thing. [ applause ] but we have to do that. i know that. i own a radio station. >> yeah, you do. >> we talk about your films. i've seen a few of them, too. but we keep it real. we keep it honest. you know, one is not enough. just a couple or a few is not enough. and i think if i may say one other thing, we really have to confront the educational system. [ applause ] everyone everyone every single american must feel and know they were a part of this united states. so i think that books have to be rewritten. the whole notion of changing what happened during slavery time to saying it's a fantasy, texas, is unacceptable. i just think we have to really, really keep it real. and i love you all in texas. i really do. i mean so don't feel offended. but i think we can't -- we can't act like something that truly happened didn't happen. it's real. confront it. deal with it, and make the difference by changing it. [ applause ] >> as i look to 50 years from now, sitting here today, bu

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now, celebrating its fifth anniversary on msnbc. congratulations. you changed everything. everything came on news, everything on news, it is amazing. you've plowed in ground that's has all these wonderful seeds in it proud sprouting. >> thank you, man. turning 5 in tv is kind of like turning 100 in people years, so -- >> 500, are you kidding? >> yeah, thank you. i really appreciate it. which is a nice way of sort of saying that i feel old. but anyway, here we go. thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. this is our five-year anniversary, and we are pretty happy to be here, got to say. all right, these are the countries in the world that have nuclear weapons. when united states and russia set off the first atomic tests in the 1940s, a lot of people thought over subsequent decades, every country in the world would get nuclear weapons, but the international community took steps to try to make it hard to become a nuclear weapons country, to try to limit the spread of nuclear weapons. and so, now, 70-something years i

two very big gets for our msnbc lineup happened today. the really big one is that secretary of state john kerry made the case for intervention in syria to our own chris hayes today. it was just an epic interview and really important. another one was that we got an opposing argument from one of secretary kerry's toughest critics who has something to say about this because he knows from what he speaks. he was the chief u.n. weapons inspector leading up to the iraq war. hans blix. we've go that exclusively, next. how much protein does your dog food have? 18 percent? 20? new purina one true instinct has 30. active dogs crave nutrient-dense food. so we made purina one true instinct. learn more at purinaone.com nascar is ab.out excitement [ male announcer] surprise -- you're having triple but tracking all the action and hearing everything from our marketing partners, the media and millions of fans on social media can be a challenge. that's why we partnered with hp to build the new nascar fan and media engagement center. hp's technology helps us

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do you ever watch the prison shows here on msnbc? they come on friday nights, after our show, usually, and they're always playing on the weekends? the prison shows on msnbc are really good, and they get really good ratings. so i know that you say, oh, no, i'm not watching them. statistically speaking, at least some of you are. actually, a lot of you are. actually, more of you that are watching me are watching the prison shows. but if you have ever watched one of msnbc's really excellent prison shows, you have probably seen it start with a warning that the subject matter may be for mature audiences only. you've seen that, right? well, this here, tonight, is not an msnbc prison show, this is, in fact, our lead story tonight about what is happening in washington right now, and whether or not we're going to have a government shutdown. but in order to do that story, i actually have to air that same

eastern on msnbc. coming up while syria is creating an international and internal conflict for democrats, it is also the subject of the latest chapter of the gop's existential crisis. we will discuss wacko birds moss covered hawks and plain old isolationists with one of the party's leading voices against intervention, former congressman ron paul. that's just ahead. [ male announcer ] running out of steam? ♪ now you can give yourself a kick in the rear! v8 v-fusion plus energy. natural energy from green tea plus fruits and veggies. need a little kick? ooh! could've had a v8. in the juice aisle. constipated? yeah. mm. some laxatives like dulcolax can cause cramps. but phillips' caplets don't. they have magnesium. for effective relief of occasional constipation. thanks. [ phillips' lady ] live the regular life. phillips'. female narrator: sleep train challenged its manufacturers sleep train challenged its manufacturers to offer even lower prices. but the mattress price wars ends sunday. now it's posture