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EXCLUSIVE: Chuck Todd sits down with U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice to discuss the war against ISIS.

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COMBATING ISIS: Two months into President Obama’s strategy to combat the terror group and reports on the ground indicate that it may not be working.  We’re joined by NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel from Urfa, near the Turkish-Syrian border.

PLUS: Two former Secretaries of State share some cold, hard advice on how to handle ISIS.  Tom Brokaw’s interview with Henry Kissinger and James Baker in Berlin.

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CULTURE WARS: Republicans seem to be retreating from the social issues that once dominated their politics.  Has the GOP lost the culture wars?  We’ll talk to Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker and the Christian Broadcast Network’s chief political correspondent, David Brody.

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EBOLA OUTBREAK:  With a growing number of incidents on airplanes over concerns of Ebola, do more precautions and screenings need to be done? The New York Times’ Helene Cooperwill describe her reporting from West Africa – and the experience of traveling back.

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POLITICAL PANEL: Are candidates playing with the politics of fear surrounding Ebola?  And will the rise of third party candidates turn out to be the 2014 October surprise?

Robert Gibbs
Fmr. White House Press Secretary & Founding Partner, The Incite Agency

Sara Fagen
Fmr. White House Political Director & Partner, DDC Public Affairs

Tom Brokaw
NBC News Special Correspondent

Helene Cooper
Pentagon Correspondent, The New York Times

 

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