[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> michael: coming up, hearings in washington, heart make oklahoma. it's a day of different priorities in the beltway and the heartland. i'm michael shure. this is the war room. >> michael: before we get to politics, an update on tornado destruction in oklahoma. we have a better view of just how traumatic it was. whole neighborhoods are just rubble. crews are combing through debris

searching for survivors. 24 people are dead, including nine children. seven of them are were the plaza elementary school where the tornado took a direct hit. >> it looked like a war zone. it just looked like bombs had been ignited everywhere. there is a car part in my bedroom, you know, and everything is gone. >> i got a couple of scrapes and bruises but i feel blessed ton to be alive. a lot of people in our area is not as lucky. >> i was praying to god so many times. i honestly thought i was not going to see tomorrow. i didn't want to die today but there was nothing else to do. >> michael: the national weather serve said that the tornado reached speeds of 200 miles an hour while it was on the ground

for 40 minutes. president obama declared the area an emergency area to speed up the aid and chesapeake company pledged $1 million and kevin durant whose foundation pledged $1 million to the red cross are helping those who are hurt most. if you would like to text to the red cross to give $10 to the red cross right there. roll call reports that coburn wants any aid for his state to be offset by budget cuts elsewhere. you don't have to have a bleeding heart senator but how about having any heart at all. toledotom pole does cole does want aid.

not just the least among us but those who need emergency aid, thank you tom cole, for realizing this. now to politics. the cloud of scandal hangs over washington. taking a backseat to the irs fiasco and its getting murkier. lois lerner is planning to invoke the fifth amendment before congress tomorrow. darrell issa plans to call her as a witness. today the senate finances committee in another attempt to find out how they targeted tea party groups for scrutiny. this sounds like a lot like last week's hearing but today we heard from former irs head, douglas schulman. he led irs when the targeting began. and max bacchus had a very

simple question. >> bottom line, how did this happen. >> i can't say that i know that answer. i'm six months out. >> you have some sense of it, you were a commissioner for a number of years. >> i'm six months out of office. when i left the it was looking into this to gather all of the fact. i now have had the benefit of reading the report, and that's the full accounting of facts that i have at this point. i don't think i can answer that question. >> i'm disappointed because you've got time to think about this, and you certainly have more thought than that. >> michael: white house spokesman jay carney reiterated again neither hey carney nor president obama knew about the irs inspector's report. chef of staff mark childress was in charge of reporting the irs targeting. he told congress that the irs was not targeting non-profits. >> why didn't you let us know when we--that's what we were

inquiring about when we sent he's letters to you. >> what i knew was--what i knew sometime in the spring of 2012 was that there was a list that was being used. i knew that the word "tea party" was on the list. i didn't noah other words were on the list. i didn't know the scope and veerty of it. i didn't know groups that were pulled in were groups that would have been pulled in any way. >> michael: outgoing irs commissioner stephen miller testified that the whole ordeal was an incredibly bad idea. he's right. but oregon senator highlighted another bad idea. >> if political organizations do not want to be scrutinized by the government they shouldn't seek privileges like tax-free status and anonymity for their

donors. to argue otherwise is to advantage tax cheats to the detriment of law-abiding americans. >> michael: i love that point that he's making. if you're going to complain about t don't apply for it. if you don't want to be scrutinized don't seek tax exempt status. but it's not limited to right wing political front groups. one real scandal is our corporate tax structure letting profitable companies skip out on paying their share. apple tim cook found himself in the hot seat today. the tech giant appeared to defend his company from a scathing report issueed yesterday. it reports that it created off-shore ebbetties entities to avoid

paying tax dollars. >> we pay all the taxes we owe every single dollar. we not only comply with the laws but we comply with the spirit of the laws. we don't depend on tax gimmicks. we don't move intellectual property offshore and use it to sell it back to the united states to avoid taxes. we don't stash money on some caribbean island. >> michael: according to the report it includes three entities included in ireland. some entities didn't have any employees and in one case reported $30 billion in income but never filed a corporate tax return. arizona senator john mccain joined carl levin in grilling cook and two other top executives. the hearing became heated when republicans senator ran paul of kentucky insisted that the sub committee is apologize to apple

for unfairly questioning him. >> i'm offended by the tone and tenor of this hearing. i'm feignedded by the government bullying and badgering one of america's greatest success stories. tell me what' apple has done that is illegal. >> michael: they wrapped up with this pointed question from senator john mccain. >> what i really want to ask is why the hell i have to keep updating my apps on my iphone all the time and why you don't fix that. >> michael: what we really wanted to ask you is why we keep having cases of corporate tax avoidance. as long as the loopholes exist cooperations like apple will take advantage of them. you're a senator that fix that, sir. we have mike host of ring of fire. as always, welcome inside "the war room."

>> hi, how are you. >> michael: i'm well. there is so much to talk about. they keep giving us stuff in washington. i'm glad you're here to talk about it. shouldn't the senate be bemoaning the laws they wrote rather than ex-he scorating a company that lives inside those laws. >> rand paul should be example. ever since the mitt romney candidacy we had the media goes crazy about off-shore banks. everyone is concerned they feign concern, but there has been zero done by these windbags up in washington that are making such an issue out of this. we ought to figure out why 50 of the world's private largest private banks in the world has increased their offshore business holdings from 5 trillion-dollar since 2005 to almost 15 trillion-dollar in in 2011. it's a system that is rampant not with tax avoidance but with tax fraud.

when it really comes dawn to it. the apple situation yes they did comply with the law. if you ask tim cook, you know, how do you get your product delivered? do you use our roads, do you use our military to protect your interests? do you use our police officers? talk about the infrastructure that we pay in america and the congress won't talk about the fact that we lose $100 billion a year to offshore bank schemes like the one we're talking about. the truth is, this is such a big issue that you had ubs you may recall ubs found this list of people of all times, corporate types, hiding money offshore. they wouldn't disclose the list. they made u bs pay a huge fine but no one we know to jail. there was obviously criminal conduct involved but our house does nothing to change these laws. >> michael: who would have thought that congress would make a bank pay a huge fine but

nobody would go to jail. does rand paul win by applauding tim cook and apple here? what is his strategy there? >> he wins--certainly he wins the quick conversation because he's a great democraty demagogue. when you examine what tim cook has to say and you look at part of the process apple america has given you the opportunity to do what you've been able to do. to be so successful. and what i hear these corporations say gee whiz, we complied with the law, we did everything we were supposed to do, if you look at the effort that a tim cook type has done to make sure that the offshore banking rules don't change by putting huge amounts of money in lobby effort, you'll see he was one of the huge corporations just like exxon, goldman sachs and the wall streeters who don't want to pay their fair share.

>> michael: that is another grate point. look at what he has done to help create and keep those lawmakers in office to help create this type of atmosphere where he able to dodge all these taxes legally, but that's the problem. it is legal not that he broke the law. let's move, let's move from that part of the irs to the irs that's been knocking at the white house door. jay carney said he didn't know about the irs targeting conservative groups, and neither did the president. i actually don't believe that benghazi was a cover up with lois lern er taking the fifth tomorrow, might this be the cover up tomorrow? >> i don't see this is as bad of a cover up that we're going to see with the ap story. when it comes right down to t i think widen had it correct. that is we saw all these tea party types coming in and asking for special handling, special dispensation under 501051 c 3

at the same time they were saying they were not political organizations with a political agenda, which is a requirement for 501 c 3 and they're holding up signs of obama depicted as a monkey. so instead of aggressively saying you know, what we were doing our job. we were doing exactly what we're supposed to do, and that is to protect these thugs from coming in and stealing taxpayer money by calling themselves 501 c 3 that is entitled to special protection. >> michael: that goes without saying. their social welfare group, and there is nothing for the welfare of our society and what they were doing. so i think they have to look at that, and i think it was the c 4, they have to look at those c 4s again and look at it again. >> i meant c 4. >> michael: who can keep track of it any way.

but let's go to the ap story you're talking about. there have been a lot of calls for attorney general eric holder to resign, many of them coming from the left. is this a good idea or is it reaction near. >> he should step down immediately. this guy has a very bad history not just on this story. if you take a look at this man's history, this is a guy who infiltrated the occupy movement to find out if he could find anything on them rather than doing what he should have done, going after wall street. he infiltrated the environmental active movement because he was concerned they were complaining about things like global warming, for god's sake, or the excel pipeline. this guy has a terrible track record. at the same time that he was ignoring wall street he was also going after whistle blowers people who were trying to come forward saying there is some awful things our government is doing, and we need to do something about it. rather than listening to their stories he prosecuted them.

he prosecuted six people under the 1917 espionage act. more people than had been prosecuted in the entire history of the presidency. at the same time he was doing that he was covering up for his pals on wall street, not issuing any spokens not engaging in any kind of wiretap not doing any investigation that was meaningful because he was a product of covington beryling. covington beryling represented all these folks on wall street. nevertheless he could go after aaron schwartz, athletes who were doping, medical marijuana growers, this guy has been a disaster for this president. the real question in my mind is did the president intentionally want those types of policies? i can only conclude that's exact exactly what obama wanted, and that's why he's still there. >> michael: the evidence concludes that that's what he wanted although i wouldn't think

he wanted those things. if you ever want to know why eric holder should be done, give mike papantonio a call. and coming up on "the war room," college government side with texas' rick perry leading the way. that scares the hell out of me, too. here's is a better one don't mess with texas as in the university of. and coming in a couple of thousand votes to shoving michelle bachmann out of the house in 2012. we will explain how he'll finish the job in 2014. and in an area of the world that is synonymous with violence of every stripe, a new documentary talks about the impact of non-violence protest. we're just getting start started so stick around. that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us.

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>> only on current tv. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> michael: if elite public universities are like automobiles should they maintain their status like high performing cadillacs or become more affordable like chevrolets. in the clash over the future of higher education in the lonestar state the ut system has maintained an ivy league education with an affordable price tag for decades leading the way in research and becoming a high tech hub. but rick perry believes that there is too much of an emphasis on research. they want to transform the university into a business and hired a consultant to look at how much money teachers bring in and how much they teach. a business mess strict and austerity measures could tarnish

ut's first class reputation. for more on this higher education in texas we go to david slater who joins us from austin texas, welcome back in "the war room." >> great to be with you as always. >> michael: wayne, how did this higher ed movement in texas begin? >> it began several years ago when rick per yes the perry the governor, began talking to folks looking at higher education in a different way. i think the guy who put the bee in perry's on net was an oil executive, and he had a totally different view, a sort of more conservative view of what a higher education ought to be where you don't have a bunch of research, you don't have a bunch of academics and ivy tower

intellectuals talking about poetry and art on the renaissance. you try to have product placement. you have students who are product, and reward systems that place those students in jobs. you award the professor who teach lots of kids, who don't spend time with intellectual pursuits in terms of research. it's a different model for education, and when perry saw this was very appealing politically to the emerging tea party base, who is already suspicious of the ivy league, you know,-- >> michael: elitism. >> then this was very appealing. let's get rid of all those guys with the liberal pointy headed intellectuals and replace them with business-minded conservative profession. >> michael: how in the world would an oil executive gets rick perry's ear. >> i believe he was a big

campaign contributor. >> michael: really, you're kidding. but you know, let's talk about perry, though. what power does the governor of texas have over the agenda at the public university? >> a lot. the governor names the regents which oversees the public universities including the university of texas in this case. and what has happened those regents who are not supposed to take instruct from perry verbatim but still are there because of him and what we're seeing now is an effort in which the university regents here in texas are trying to get rid of or trying to push the current university of texas out. and the effort is going to be trying to get rid of him. >> er. >> michael: why would they want to get rid of him? if he seems to be coddling to them?

>> can you hear me? >> michael: yes, i can. can you hear me? >> it looked like we were off the air for a moment. bought line, perry appoints these people and they make the political decisions. but the balance has regents don't micromanage every aspect of what an university is in terms of the balance of teaching and research. they don't get into the pure politics of this. theythey allow the academics to take place on the university campus. but what perry has done is said he wants a different approach. the problem is in trying to push for changes he has invigorateed a very vigorous alumni association, faculty, student body groups who disagree with what vision of higher education ought to be about. >> michael: they want to get rid of powell, and perry is behind that, or powers, and perry is

behind that. does he have a ton of people backing him in that effort or is this one man against the entire board of regents? >> it's not one man. he has a number of business types, and very fluent actual right-wing think tank here in austin, which is involved in a lot of visit sort of grover norquist approaches to government. and they're behind perry they're with the governor. even this moment, even this morning, the legislature was dealing with some of the new appointees to the regents, and they were making it clear if they did not want these regents these perry-appointed regents to be mucking in the business of the university of texas in a micromanagement way. so this is a big big battle where you have titans really on

both sides. we don't know where this is going to lead. one other thing, this is modeled for the rest of the country. you see the governor of florida the republican governor of florida, wisconsin, north carolina, you saw some activity at the university of virginia where you have republican governors seeing can we turn our schools into more efficient glorified community colleges, trade schools, if you will, and down play research and the pointy headed intellectual that is my tea party supporters don't like any way. this is a national battle. >> michael: the most important people involved as i'm sure they did at the university of virginia i'm sure they'll let rick perry and the regents know how they feel. david slater thank you for bringing this story that is under the radar but very important.

getting poised to unseat michelle bachmann. this makes him a bit of a deity around the world people know who michelle bachmann is, and we want to make sure that she's gone. so jim graves will be my guest when we come back. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. you would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. >>absolutely. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar. >>and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? hershey's simple pleasures chocolate. 30% less fat, 100% delicious.

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emmy winner bill press opens current's morning news block. >>we'll do our best to carry the flag from 6 to 9 every morning. >> michael: congresswoman michelle bachmann, our favorite tea party no offense ted cruz, was last seen frothing at the mouth. >> again, the american people have not been told the truth. what we need to know is what did the white house know and when did they know it. >> michael: but she's got issues of her own. actually i wouldn't know where to begin with those but the federal election commission and the office of congressional ethics are investigating finance impropriety, including stealing and using e-mail lists and paying staffers under the table.

now the washington post reports the fbi is interested in they are campaign finance shenanigans. and she finds her job in danger. recently graves announced he wants a rematch in 2014 and new polls show that the two in a tight race with graves in the lead 47%-5%. this is within the margin of error but i just can't stop smiling. joining us now from washington, d.c. is jim graves the contender welcome inside "the war room"." >> michael, great to be with you tonight. >> michael: this survey was an internal poll paid for by your campaign but how are you optimistic are you about the numbers? >> we're extremely optimistic. we think it's a very comfortable poll that really didn't include any wireless lines. just landlines and we know for a fact that those with just the

cell phones are going to be much more inclined to come our direction so we think we have a comfortable lead going into this race. there is a few months between now and the election day but we're feeling good about it. >> michael: how are you going to use congress bachmann's campaign finance troubles in your game going forward. it doesn't start for a while but i'm curious she's a big figure in that part of the country. it's important to get the message out across the district. last time we ran out of time and resources. we got in the race late. but this time we're getting in early, and let people know what we stand for. as far as her problems down in iowa, there is a bipartisan process. the truth will set her free or otherwise, and we think whatever comes out of that is fine. but at the end of the day it's a distraction, and we're staying focused on the issues, the

issues that people of the district want to change. they want the truth they want somebody who can bring people together to get things done. she's a definition i would say of insanity according to einstein doing the same then over and over and expecting something different. >> michael: and it looks like bachmann is scared of jim graves. she's already running tv ads for the 2014 election. let's watch this one. >> great news, the house just passed my bill to repeal obama-care. obama-care promised lower costs and a better healthcare system but the truth is just the opposite unaffordable skyrocketing insurance costs and a system so complicated endemocrats are calling it a train recognize. passing my bill is just the first step in lower costs and improved healthcare. >> jim last time michelle

bachmann outspent you 12-1, and she barely actually won. how is the fundraising going and will this help level the playing field? >> it will help a lot. our www.grave.com is busing with contributions. we're doing very well. we'll have plenty of time to get the images out, raise enough funds to get the job done, and quite frankly she continues to go back and rotate. she said let's repeal obama-care, it's the 37th time she said that. everybody in the district snows full well that that's not going to happen. it's a waste of taxpayer's money and she's wasting congress' time and she's showing the true colors of michelle bachmann. she's good at creating headlines headlines. she doesn't create legislation. she doesn't get things done and people in the district know that. they're common sense hard working people. they want change. they want someone who understands people's needs, how to get the deal done and

understands the art of the deal. michelle bachmann does the opposite of that. >> michael: you've been on record saying that the republicans are breaking the social contract with america. we talk about it, obama-care there, what do you mean by that when you say they're breaking the social contract? >> you know paul ryan and michelle bachmann would like to get rid of social security as we know it. they want to privatize that and it puts our seniors at risk. itthe social net that they're entitled to, they earned it. they want to privatize it, and that is great for the rich folks but hurts people who need it most. and medicare, they want a souper for that, that is code for you're on your own and figure it out. people work hard. they get up in the morning and support themselves and raise a family. then at the end of their years they shouldn't have to worry build whether or not we're going to be there for them. that's what i call breaking the social contract.

>> michael: that makes all the sense in the world. minnesota the 12th state to legalize gay marriage. your district just by virtue of the fact that you're represented by michelle bachmann, i'm sorry to tell you, leans republican. how are you going to address this right-leaning people. >> they're smart they're hard-working people. if they're informed they'll make the right decision. as far as the gay marriage, they know the government should not be involved in our personal lives. everyone has a right to pursue happiness, and we don't care if churches want to do something different. that's what we call separation of church and state. but people are smart and hard working and they want someone who is smart and hard working for them. they don't want a show horse but a workhorse. that's what i'm going to congress for. they understand that. i'm not doing this to step up. this is not a job to make money. but it's a job to go back and thank the people of the district and the people of the country

for what i've gotten. i've been successful because of a great country that we live in. i want to give back now. >> michael: i've been hopeful three times there was a guy named elvin who ran before you. i thought he would gas to win. don't let me down this time, jim. >> michael, we're not going to let you down. go to www.jimgraves.com and help me along the way. >> michael: thank you for being here. >> thank you michael. >> michael: we'll shift gears entirely. we'll show you a side of the israeli-palestinian conflict that you're unlikely to have come across all together. a powerful new documentary we'll speak to the director next. stay with us. [ ♪ music ♪ ] been party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know that i'm going to be the first one to call them out. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look

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>> michael: secretary of state john kerry is making his fourth trip to the middle east this week. he'll visit jerusalem to try to revive palestinian-israeli negotiation. we're used to hearing violence between those two but we rarely hear about the non-violence there. yesterday, this documentary film won a peabody award all about the life of muhammad al-core whose family is forced to give up their home to jewish settlers. the film takes a surprising turn when palestinians are joined by israeli supporters. mohammed comes of age when the documentary was filmed, showing upheaval in the neighborhood.

here is the support of israelis who support their cause. [ protesting ] >> michael: joining us from new york is the director, the creative director of "just vision working to end the israeli occupation nonviolently. she also wrote control room, a look at al gentleman al jazira's look at the

war. >> i've been working for nine years with our team at just vision. we've been documenting the work of palestinians and israelis who are struggling, using non-violent resistence scenarios the west bank and in in jerusalem. journalists once they hear the film and hear about the stories their interests get sparked and that then they start wanting to cover what is happening underground. we have seen that audiences worldwide are shocked to know that there daily media is not providing them with such stories. those are the stories of people that are sacrificing everything in their life because they believe that non-violent resistence is the best strategy for ending occupation for ending conflict, and they're doing it in villages across the west bank and the villages, the

topic of our my neighborhood. it is talked talked about so people can support what is happening underground. >> michael: can you explain why israelis came out to support the palestinians in the film, how usual is that, or is it a trend that we'll see more of hopefully in the future? >> mm-hmm, so what is happening in jerusalem today is really critical and it's remarkable the vie silence of the international media of the ethic displacement. the villages are about ten minutes away and some of them when they heard that these families were being displaced for the benefit of israeli settlers had the full support of the israeli courts. that created outrage. there is a portion of israeli society that will take action. the majority of israeli society

actually would say that they are against settlement expansion but they would not active become activist like the people you would see in our documentary. the activists are still a minority, no question, but they are growing. we've witnessed this growth exponentially taking hold over the last eight years. a lot of this movement started in a village which was the theme of our prior film, and it had spread to other places and now we see that movement of israelis joining palestinians in their struggle and non-violent resistence to stop this from happening. there is a family today, they are neighbors of mohammed, the palestinian teenager we saw in the clip, and that family is right now under threat of imminent eviction. the israeli court is making a decision on the fate of that

family. depending on what they decide this could lead to a whole renewal of the trend of settlers taking over the homes of palestinian families in this neighborhood that had faced a halt since the film finished it's filming phase. we're going to have to see. it's urgent that journalists cover this story that they pay attention to this displacement because the consequences are geopolitical. they're not going to stay limited to israel and palestine. they're going to have consequences to the foreign policy of the united states, the arab world. >> michael: you talked about how they cover the palestinian conflict here is a clip of that. >> violent resistence and non-violent resistence share one very important thing in common: they are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their

cause. if violent actors are the only ones constantly getting front-page cover and attracting international attention to the palestinian issue, it becomes very hard for non-violent leaders to make the case to their communities that civil disobedience is a viable option in addressing their plight. >> michael: historically and especially in this country where we have been covering the anniversary of the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s on this show on a piece we call "the march goes on," but that was about non-violent protests that later led to more violent protests. here we see violence for so long and now non-violence. it's not covered as much, but the non-violence is what got covered here. when you saw protesters being beaten down, that's what woke the people, the government up. is that what you see in israel

and palestine as well? >> i think the potential is right there. the parallel you're make something a very correct one. we saw in movements worldwide that non-violent resist sense civil disobedience has the media attention. the importance of having cameras and journalists and the photographers taking those pictures that were put on the front page of magazines, and really woke up the united states to what was happening across the country. and we need to see something similar happening in the case of israel and palestine. there are leaders underground palestinian leaders who are leading strategic organizing, in the case of a village that palestinians built in an area an area between jerusalem and a huge settlement in the heart of the west bank. and israel wants to build another settlement united

jerusalem and this settlement inside the west bank which would essentially cut the west bank in half and make any viable palestine area possible. they decided to create this village, and a tremendously powerful the images that come from there. >> michael: everybody should watch "my neighborhood." julia bacha codirector of that film. thank you for being with us here in "the war room." we'll be back after the break and then we'll be with the best of the rest right after this. compelling true stories. >> jack, how old are you? >> nine. >> this is what 27 tons of marijuana looks like. (vo) with award winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines, way inside. (vo) from the underworld, to the world of privilege. >> everyone in michael jackson's life was out to use him. (vo) no one brings you more documentaries that are real, gripping, current.

you know who is coming on to me now? you know the kind of guys that do reverse mortgage commercials? those types are coming on to me all the time now. (vo) she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. you would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. >>absolutely. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar. >>and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> michael: ladies and gentlemen, you're never going to believe it. look who is back on the set of the "the young turks"." cenk uygur. >> what's up? >> michael: cut away from that. what's up, what do you have today. >> well, i have a controversial point to make about oklahoma, the tornado that hit. it was devastating, of course,

everybody acknowledges that, but i believe oklahoma should be denied federal disaster relief until their two senators apologize to the rest of the nation for denying emergency relief to anyone else who has asked for it. if they don't want to give relief they shouldn't get relief either. >> michael: tom cole from that district has voted for aid to sandy. >> have them apologize right now to new jersey, new york, every other state they voted against disaster relief for. that's point number one. point number two on the irs look, it was wrong to target the conservative groups. the reality is they all got

exactly what they wanted in the end. if this is a nixon's enemy list it's a very curious list where in the end they get everything they wanted. then at the end of the show there is a shocking number of sexual assaults in the military. literally, i had trouble briefing it. >> michael: cenk, we will be watching it, and we'll look for that shocking number. thank you so much. "the young turks" coming on right after this. we take you to the best of the rest of the stories i just don't want to you miss on this progressive tuesday. first we head to north carolina to update you on a story we've been following closely. part of the moral monday protest, organized by north carolina's naacp, the crowd of teachers, ministers, students and workers assembled to cheer on acts of civil disobedience on the capitol steps. it was all in the republican-control he legislation that restricted women's access to reproductive

healthcare. 600 north carolinaens were arrested but the nextel strayings is scheduled for june 3rd and is referred to the super moral money. super morality, or super majority, i like the idea of progressives harnessing their power for good. next we head to vermont. yesterday the state passed the bill giving doctors the ability to describe lethal medication to the terminally ill. given the immediate force of the law, hospitals have limited time to digest the new rules. >> there is a lot of work to be done between essentially the bill that we've got now and getting physicians to that point

point. >> michael: barbara coombs this historic achievement is a political break through that will boost support for death with dignity bills worldwide. this is the went of the war room. we will see you tomorrow. i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they know that i'm not bs'ing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know that i'm going to be the first one to call them out. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets

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