i'm ed schultz. catch my radio show on sirius xm radio channel 127 monday through friday noon to 3:00 p.m. follow me on twitter @edshow and we got ed. rachel, i think you'll enjoy the barbecue. it's the sauce. i guarantee you're going to enjoy it. >> i already made it through half the barbecue, ed. i hate to break it to you. i was going to take it home and be a civil vised person. i sat at my desk like a cave man shoveling it in. >> they would not let me leave unless i had a batch of the stuff. said, you are to give this to rachel. >> it's in good hands. thanks, ed, i appreciate it. >> you bet. thanks to you at home for staying with us. it's not barbecue from ed day at the rachel maddow show, it's not just halloween. it's a day packed with political news. there's a ton to talk about with what happened to republican front-runner herman cain today. we'll be getting to that in just a moment. there was actually something to talk about even with newt gingrich's campaign today and it's not just about newt

gingrich trying to get his hands on your money this time. oh, wait, actually the newt story is just about him trying to get his hands on your money again. there is new newt news about that today. today was a big, a big political news day. what is the most important presidential politics news of the day in the sense i think is the most devastating to a specific campaign is specific campaign is this footage, footage that came in over the weekend of texas governor rick perry. an appearance that rick perry made in new hampshire on friday. now, this is sort of a sensitive issue to talk about. because there is not an empirical means by which i can explain why this footage may be the end of rick perry's campaign this year. there isn't something quantitative i can point out here. this does not count as a gaffe or something that he misspoke about and will have to clarify. looking at this footage, i would argue that rick perry can really no longer be considered a serious contender for president after this.

this is one of these things where there's not really a way to explain it, but once you see this tape, you'll never look at this guy the same way again. the tape just sort of speaks for itself. anything that i can tell you, anything that i can say about how this changes rick perry's chances will not help to explain this. you just have to see it for yourself. so here it is. this was rick perry on friday night in new hampshire. >> this is such a cool state. i mean, come on, live free or die? i mean, you know, you got to love that, right? i come from a state, you know, where they had this little place called the alamo and declared victory or death. you know, we're kind of into those slogans, man. it's like, live free or die, victory or death. bring it. gold is good. if you've got any in the backyard, because, you know, if they print anymore money over there in washington, the gold's going to be good. this week i announced a tax plan. we were up in -- or down in, i should say, south carolina, and

we laid out a tax plan. you can stay in the old system that's out there and the ones that want to stay in the old system pay the lawyers, pay the accountants, all that money that's gone, or that. 20% flat tax, put it on there, take your deductions off, send it in. the good news is, that little plan that i just shared with you doesn't force the granite state to expand your tax footprint. if you know what i mean. like 9% expansion. i love herman. is he the best? i mean -- i have fun with him. he is a great, interesting guy. and thank you, herman, for helping pay for the event tonight. i grew up on a farm. i grew up -- i grew up on a farm. i tell people, so far out in the

country that everybody had their own tom cat. some of you are not going to get that. but that is a long way away from any neighbors. i know a lawyer, wizoric. always have fun with your name, brother. we must make president obama a one-term president. we must. nothing i will -- i look forward to the day when i can salute to the south to mr. chaves and say, no thank you, we to not need any of your oil, we are doing it ourselves in america with domestic energy. the coolest thing happened. i roll in here and i get to meet a real life angel. in the form of christopher duffley.

and then i get to meet a real life hero in catherine adair. today has been awesome, girl. this has really been a great day. >> that was the speech that rick perry gave on friday night in manchester, new hampshire. to conservative group called cornerstone. obviously the governor was delighted to be there. i mean, exuberantly over the top delighted to be there. but he became even more delighted to be there, his expression of excitement and delight for being there only increased once the speech was over. it is hard to believe, but it's true. here's one more moment that happened right after the speech. keep an eye on mr. perry on the right here. >> we're going to actually get you out of here right at 9:00, so last thing, first of all, governor perry, you can't believe new hampshire without getting a couple of things, essentials from new hampshire. first thing is, we call this --

in new hampshire we call it liquid gold, but you'll put it on your pancakes and waffles and whatever other southern food you eat down in texas. this is pure maple syrup from the state of new hampshire. >> sorry, that was -- i'm sorry. i will not do that again. that was unnecessary and unprofessional. i will not do that. i'll put that they way. sorry. sorry. it is hard to talk about what just happened to rick perry's campaign at this speech in new hampshire. i think his campaign's hope here is other candidates' scandals that broke in the last couple days might overshadow this speech, stuff like the herman stuff we'll be talking about later on this hour. there's really no way to explain this away. it's possible that rick perry was having a medical issue of some kind. maybe he was having, like, a bad drug reaction. sometimes in cases like this, a

campaign might say that the candidate was overtired or something. maybe they will have some sort of physical explanation for him behaving this way, but if they do try to give some physical explanation for governor perry's performance, that, of course, will raise fitness issues in terms of whether or not he's actually cut out to handle the riggers of the presidency. mostly they want this to go away, that they want people to not see this speech. something that lets people know this guy is not the politician character he has been playing on television, that is an esoteric and nonquantitative thing, but it can be devastating. there's no perfect analogy for a performance like this, but it's sort of like the dean scream moment that derailed howard dean's presidential campaign after the iowa caucuses in 2004. >> not only are we going to new hampshire, tom harkin, we're going to south carolina and oklahoma and arizona and north dakota and new mexico. we're going to california and

texas and new york and we're going to south dakota and oregon and washington and michigan. and then we're going to washington, d.c., to take back the white house. yeah! >> yeah! again, that is an imperfect analogy to what happened to rick perry in new hampshire. because in the case of the dean scream, the scream thing was one second. one second or less. it seemed to mostly have been the product of a weirdly placed microphone and a very loud crowd, but it was a moment that was then sort of inappropriately deacon textualized in a way to make howard dean seem crazy in some larger way or make him seem funny, to make him an object of ridicule in the campaign. in the case of rick perry, this was not one out of context second. this was 25 minutes. i mean, take your pick. of any of these moments. any one of these moments is a dean scream. and there were 25 straight minutes of it. and what is truly interesting

about this truly fascinating rick perry appearance is that he seems like he thinks he nailed it. you know, you don't get the sense that he realizes he's a little over the top here, that he's a lit out of control or that he is breaking character with the way he's been presenting himself as a candidate. or that this is something that's going to be rocketing around the internet under headlines questioning whether or not he was drunk. i mean, rick perry is on top of the world. look at him. here. he is elated. he thinks he is a great orator and he's just nailed it. he has just nailed this perfect speech. in the 1968 presidential election, the republican party picked richard nixon to be their nominee but richard nixon was not the republican front-runner from the outset in the campaign. the early front-runner from the nomination in the lead-up to the campaign was actually mitt romney's dad. george romney, former governor of michigan. look, same hair as mitt. same chin as mitt. actually it's a little uncanny. he just looks like the same

person. george romney was leading in the polls early on in the republican race in '68, but he was not necessarily known as a great campaigner. and in the middle of 1967, george romney said something weird. he said something weird about being brainwashed. george romney wanted to campaign against the vietnam war, but father like son, he had changed his mind on that important issue. he had earlier been a supporter of the war, now he was against it. when he explained his change in positions, mitt's dad, george romney said, that he had only supported the war before because he had been brainwashed. brainwashed was the word he used. brainwashed by american military officers and american officials when he had visited the war zone. brainwashed? remember, this was 1967, summer of love. jimi hendrix releases "are you experienced," jefferson airplan surrealistic pillow. this is sergeant peppers lonely hearts club band beat ls and on the way to yellow submarine.

he said he went to vietnam and got brainwashed by the man and that's sort of the end of george romney for president. that impression sinks in. richard nixon gets nominated by the republican party and george romney goes down in history as that brainwashed guy, mitt romney's dad. so, yes, herman cain has a campaign funding scandal right now and sexual harassment scandal and still doesn't understand abortion scandal. newt gingrich is trying to mount a comeback in his own inexplicable and inadvertently hilarious way and there's other stuff going on in the republican presidential campaign. we're going to be talking about all that tonight. this i think is the most important thing in the race right now. because rick perry of all the non-romney candidates, rick perry is the one, or at least was the one who had the best chance of being the republican nominee. rick perry is the one who had

the best chance of beating mitt romney. but as of this weekend, what we have been used to seeing, the pose that the campaign has drawn for us, rick perry posing for mt. rushmore has now instead become rick perry cuddling with syrup. sorry. it is now an intangible but inescapable truth that rick perry will never be looked at the same way again. and this race will never be the same again either.

this is such a cool state. i mean, come on, live free or die. i mean, you know, you got to love that, right? i come from a state, you know, where they had this little place called the alamo and they declared victory or death. you know, we're kind of into

those slogans, man. it's like live free or die, victory or death. bring it. >> bring it. joining us now is lou bose. he's the former editor of the "texas observer" and covered governor perry since the 1980s. >> it's good to see you, rachel. i'm doing my best to hold it together. >> i'm having a hard time explaining what is important about this rick perry performance. i mean, this is a man who was showing a very different face to the world than the one he has cultivated for his political image. is that the right way to put this? >> absolutely. i mean, this ain't rick perry. you know, i've only seen something similar to this one time and that was at cpac, the conserve political action conference this february, when he did a bizarrely manneristic speech and no one paid much attention. it was a 20-minute speech. he was supposedly on for 12 and did 20 and did many of the same

things. but this is disturbing, both disturbing and amusing to watch and it is utterly unpresidential. >> well, is it gubernatorial, though? have you -- does he do this in texas? i mean, he's been governor for ten years. he's been in politics for longer than that. he's just showing this side of himself now? >> that's what's kind of creepy about it. no, it's ungubernatorial. even by texas standards. i mean, this is not -- this is not being intentionally theatrical. this seems to be a man who has found another self within and, you know, i've seen -- i've followed him since he was a democratic legislator in texas in 1985. never seen anything quite like this. and it's, you know, again, painful and amusing to watch and it goes on for half an hour. >> do you think, i mean, i do not want to cast dispersions where they are not deserved, but the way that this became political news this weekend was

people asking if he seemed intoxicated. if there might be something going on here that was physical. i mean, he's had back surgery recently. that, i mean, i don't know that comes with any sort of medication. certainly the campaign is denying there's anything like that going on. but because it is so out of character, does it raise those issues for you, or do you think that's -- do you think there's no reason to go there? >> i think that's fair enough. i mean, when it is so utterly out of character with the man, as you said earlier, the man who looks like he's, you know, ready to be rushmore, is suddenly a cartoon. you know, the blogosphere is all about the drunk moment. i wondered what -- i wondered at cpac in february what he was about. i went back and made a point of following up and seeing his -- and going to see his state of the state speech a month later. and he was old rick perry. real rick perry. you know, he was kind of pompous and boring in texas grandiose.

but it was rick perry. this is inexplicable. and i think, you know, you think if his campaign could end by shedding a few tears in manchester, new hampshire, you know, you wonder what this does to rick perry's candidacy. it was not the way for him to go. >> is it possible that he is getting campaign adviser direction to -- i can't -- i shouldn't even ask you. i cannot imagine somebody saying, go ahead and do this. is there anything for which we can extrapolate from his texas experience? has he ever run as a candidate who's getting 6% in the polls? could this be sort of a product of desperation? >> well, that's a good question. rick perry has never run behind except the one time, his first statewide race when he challenged jim hightower for ag minister and played the race card with the jesse jackson ad because jim hightower endorsed jesse jackson. he's always run ahead. i can see -- you can see, perhaps, desperation and maybe too much advice from his campaign staff, but can you

imagine anyone advising him to do what he did today? it's really inexplicable. >> lou dubose, editor of the "washington spectator." lou, i have not seen you in too long. it's good to see you. i hope you'll come back soon. >> i hope so, too, rachel. for everybody else it may be halloween, but for mitt romney, frankly, today is christmas. if the syrup kettle heard around the world was not enough of a political present for mitt romney today, then there was herman cain's day, including the singing. what a weird freaking day in the news today. more ahead.

the reverend al sharpton did something so awesome on his msnbc today show it stopped me in my tracks. he did this to make a point about the diametrically opposed positions mitt romney has taken on every major political issue he's ever taken stands on. the reverend al show figured out how to have reverend al arguing with reverend al on screen. the two of them, it's not an impersonator. it's him. arguing about what mitt romney believes. it was brilliant. i have no idea how they did it and it was a totally clarifying useful way to explain a subject that often otherwise gets all muddled. reverend al, your staff, that was freaking amazing. the thing is, doing something like that on tv takes ambition. you have to dream it up, figure out how to do it then you have

to have the stones to go for it. and once you go for it, it's either going to be amazing, like reverend al was today, or it's going to flop. like, yeah, never mind. ambition is a form ore bravery. and bravery means there is risk. risk of something happening like that ridiculous horse racing skit. from 2009 that still keeps me up at night. one of the worst/best ambitious things we've ever done on this show was how we tried to cover the anna chapman russian spy act a while back. it led us to desperate measures on television. to illustrate spy craft of which the spies like us are accused, we enlisted two notorious rachel maddow show players. remember, these are dramatizations of real events beginning with the secret sign language of signs and countersigns. here are our actors re-enacting word for word what the government claims the russians said to each other to identify themselves as spies.

>> excuse me, haven't we met last summer in california? >> no. i think it was the hamptons. >> that's all we could do when the story broke because we only had the written criminal complaints to go by, but now on halloween, we have got the rest of the story. courtesy of the fbi. and it turns out it is amazing. that is the best new thing in the world today which is coming up at the end of the show. [ female announcer ] removing facial hair can be irritating. challenge that. new olay smooth finish facial hair removal duo. first a gentle balm. then the removal cream. effective together with less irritation and as gentle as a feather. new olay hair removal duo.

yeah, so it looks like it's going to be romney. it's not going to be michele bachmann. that really didn't last long. it's not going to be jon huntsman, though the huntsman campaign did put out the best yet mitt romney is a flip-flopper ad today. despite that it's not going to be jon huntsman. it's not going to be the man on dog senator from pennsylvania, it is not going to be ron paul, again. although you sort of get the sense maybe that's okay with ron paul. it's not going to be gary johnson, not going to be buddy roemer but has the most substantive and interesting platform of any of these guys. it's not going to be rick perry. i really think it's not, yeah,

after the speech in new hampshire over the weekend. that just appears to be over. he can become the anita bryant of syrup, but he's not going to be the republican presidential nominee. it's not going to be newt gingrich, though the gingrich campaign is psyched for the gingrich boomlet stories they're seeding throughout the beltway media these days. the problem is even though they turning out to be good at spinning stuff, they haven't been able to figure out how to capitalize on their own spin. newt gingrich after the newt boomlet stories all weekend, his big campaign event today was in norway, where he gave a video address. obviously not going for a lot of votes in norway, but he's still probably trying to raise money there. actually i don't know. today the other thing we got from newt gingrich's campaign was a notice that people who did want to donate to the campaign, they should be patient because the gingrich campaign has been unable to accept visa cards. even when they are trying, they are not connecting. that, of course, though, leaves herman cain. apparently, no, it's not going

to be herman cain either. although mr. cain has had high and relatively sustained poll numbers. the suspicion that his candidacy would wilt under the spotlight brought on by front-runner status is getting its real test now. this weekend, politico.com published anonymous source allegations that during his time at the national restaurant association, the association paid settlements in the five-figure range to two different women who complained about inappropriate sexual suggestions from mr. cain. even the most experienced and professional political campaign can have a hard time keeping the lid on a revelation like that. but with the herman cain campaign, it's like they not only couldn't keep the lid on, but what was in the pot was popcorn and they just took the lid off and it's just blowing up all over the kitchen all day long. it never stops. >> have you ever been accused -- >> i'm trying to -- >> have you? have you, sir? >> that was the last question. thanks. >> answer yes or no. >> have you ever been accused of

sexual harassment? >> herman cain has never sexually harassed anybody, period, end of story. >> i have never sexually harassed anyone. >> was there or was there not a cash settlement to two female employees of the national restaurant association? >> all i can tell you is that this is a typical attack on a conservative that's doing well. >> while at the restaurant association, i was accused of sexual harassment, falsely accused, i might add. i was falsely accused of sexual harassment. >> are you denying that there was a cash settlement to two female employees of the national restaurant association, yes or no? >> i would say you'd have to get that from the national restaurant association. ♪ amazing grace will always be my song of praise ♪ as far as a settlement, i am unaware of any sort of settlement.

i know there was an agreement, whether it was a settlement, agreement, or whether it was termination, i don't remember what it was called. i know that the restaurant association had an agreement with this lady. >> lost in the sexual harassment allegations and the campaign making it worse by appearing to contradict themselves, lost in that is another herman cain allegation today where there's not anonymous sourcing or ambiguity about the facts. the "milwaukee journal sentinel" reporting, the way the herman cain campaign was funded is some anonymous donor or donors just gave money to herman cain's campaign manager and they used that money to run the campaign. not as a pac or super pac or a campaign committee or any other legal way by which you can fund a campaign. it was, it appears, just anonymous money directly setting up and running cain for president. you can do almost anything with money and politics right now,

but you really can't do that. everybody's asking herman cain about the sexual harassment allegations today and the campaign has had as many different responses as there have been questions. we came across one reporter this afternoon who asked mr. cain about the whole other scandal. the your whole campaign might be illegal scandal. it was a daytime anchor at the fox news channel named jenna lee. kudos to her asking the question. that said, there wasn't much of a follow-up since herman cain's response after she described the allegations in detail was, i'm not aware of this report he said that's the first time he heard of it. it's one of the days if you're mitt romney, you're looking around thinking, whatever else is going on may life, this i've got. joining me, steve schmidt, ran the palin and mccain campaign in 2008. when i heard the response from herman cain on the substantive allegation on his campaign, him saying i don't know anything about that, i wanted to ask you

how much time you have in a campaign to come up with an answer to a scandal you didn't see coming. >> you don't have a lot of time, but you never have the candidate go out on television and be caught cold with those facts like that. i mean, there's just no excuse for that. and that is the far more serious story out of the two, because those are felony federal campaign finance violations, if, in fact, the substance of that story is true, and that's a big problem for him. >> in terms of the sexual harassment discussion today, it was really a discussion because everybody kept asking about it. the story snowballed from the initial politico report into an evolving cascade of denials then contradictions of the earlier denials i'm assuming this is simple. you need one story, stick to the truth. >> the response has not been good. it's a serious allegation. i don't need to make light of it all. the response seems like a

"saturday night live" skit more than anything else. the answers are all over the place. they've contradicted themselves seven or eight times. i do think -- i think the one thing that all these republican campaigns agree about is the fact that herman cain's campaign is going to unravel, going to unravel pretty quickly. even tonight he's at the top of the polls but i think everybody expects him to drop and drop rather precipitously. >> why will republican voters turn against him? everybody thought herman cain's poll numbers were going to sink before they have sunk. they've been more resilient than we've expected. is there a possibility his sort of cavalier i don't know what you're talking about, i don't need to make sense response to this stuff does have some appeal? otherwise i don't see how he got to the top of the polls. >> i think it is tried and true on the republican side. when there is a bad story out there, you go after the media and there's huge resonance, you know, with republican primary voters, you know, across the

country with that. i think the problem, though, for herman cain, though, is this. he's demonstrated with the national security answers, with his answers on the question of life. his answers on any one of a number of things is he's not shown preparedness or readiness. i think at the end of the day, republicans want somebody who can defeat the president in november. any fair reading of his campaign, this is someone who's making it up as he goes along every day, someone who's not particularly prepared to be president. and someone importantly for the context of a campaign is not play prepared to run a winning race. >> why has he had such high poll numbers so far? he's been demonstrating that lack of preparedness for a long time now and because he is an entertaining guy, both to talk about and to cover, his gaffes have gotten a lot of attention. it's not like he's been hiding his light under a bushel. >> this is a very long process. in fact, it lasts for years. i think he's demonstrated if you're a really talented mote voegs l speaker with a good

singing voice, a couple of carefully marketed ideas, you can go pretty far, at least in the early stages of the primary contest. as we move into the stage now where people are going to start to vote, you look at new hampshire, which i think is going to set the tone for the remainder of the race, he has a very difficult time maintaining momentum that he has and i think that should he somehow implausibly and probably become the republican nominee, you know, the person who would be really happy about that is the president. almost as happy as mitt romney is tonight. >> i think mitt romney is super psyched as rick perry might put it. i didn't any rick perry would put it as super psyched until i saw the speech on friday in new hampshire. i don't exactly know how to explain, how to put into words what that speech did to his chances as a nominee. you've seen enough of the speech, i imagine you've at least seen clips of the speech. what's your reaction to it? >> the speech does not make him look prepared to be president. i don't think that any fair viewing of that speech leaves a person saying, all right, you know, i'm comfortable with him being commander in chief of the

nation's armed forces when we are engaged in two wars and military actions in other countries. it was bizarre at times. i don't know how many other performances there have been like that. i don't know how many more there are going to be in the future, but he didn't comport himself like a president is supposed to comport himself. and that matters in a state like new hampshire which has seen a lot of presidents come up there and campaign. people who have successfully been elected president ultimately, incumbent presidents returning to campaign. i think that the viewers in that audience just had to sit back and say, hey, what's going on here? it was just, you know, it was out there. >> am i right that, as you say, comportment issues like that, just your impression of what this person is like as a person, that that can actually be less reversible than any damage caused by a gaffe? >> absolutely. i think that these are very demanding, these campaigns. mistakes are made. they're made all the time.

you know, but his comportment there, his bearing, his command presence, it didn't add up. i mean, it's remarkable to consider that not long ago when he was going into that first debate, he was the republican front-runner, everybody was sitting on the shows talking about the fact that he was totally in control of his own destiny, if he came out, he had good performances. he was likely to be the republican nominee. he's fallen to michele bachmann territory. solely on the function of his performances out there. by his own hand. and certainly, you know, his speech up in new hampshire i don't think helps him in new hampshire. doesn't help him nationally. and i think that these debates ahead are going to continue to be a tough road for him because the expectations are now so out of whack for him. everybody is just looking for him to do poorly in it and i think it's tough to overcome that. >> i think you are right and i think that's what's interest is to see it is the politics of personal destruction, but it's being waged against themselves. steve schmidt, former senior campaign strategist for mccain/palin campaign and former deputy assistant for president

george w. bush. i'm always happy to talk to you about this stuff. minnesota governor amy klobuchar will join us next for the interview.

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the good news is, there's a drug that may be able to help you. it's called cyterobine which sells for about 12 bucks per vial. the bad news about your drug, there's a shortage of your drug. cytarabine is supposed to retail for 12 bucks a vial, it's being sold now for this price, $990 a vial. if you're doing the math at home, yes, that's more than an 8,000% markup. the drug distributors were justifying the markup because there was a shortage of this cancer drug. the market for any number of reasons was just not producing enough of that drug for the people with cancer who needed it. i know it's upsetting to hear sometimes the free market doesn't work like a charm. all season long, everybody who hates the yankees was treated this year to the beautiful sight of the empty seats behind the yankees' home plate during games. sometimes the market doesn't work. at least by the time you need it to. even if you believe the market will eventually sort it out, some year people with life threatening illnesses who need

drugs that are in shortage can't wait for your freshman microeconomics textbook to come true. according to the food and drug administration, there were nearly 200 drugs for serious illnesses, breast cancer, childhood leukemia, infections, 200 drugs for which there were shortages. "the new york times" reporting they're stopping shortages or stopping testing of some experimental new drugs because you need to test new drugs against the old ones, against the establish the drugs to see if they're better. nobody can get the established drugs because there are shortages. elijah cummings has taken a particular interest in the subject. he exposed the $990 vial of $12 stuff scandal. this is one of the issues for which there's been some pretty -- there's been some level, at least, of bipartisan agreement. since february, legislation's been pending in congress to help the fda eliminate drug shortages. it has bipartisan support and

naturally in this congress, having bipartisan support means it can't be acted on. even though everybody pretty much agrees on at least the first steps of what ought to be done. so today, president obama went ahead and acted on his own. he signed the 96th executive order of his presidency. >> congress has been trying since february to do something about this. it has not yet been able to get it done. we can't wait for action on the hill. we've got to go ahead and move forward. we'll still be calling on congress to pass a bipartisan bill that will provide additional tools to the fda and others that can make a difference, but until they act, we will go ahead and move. >> at the white house statement today online explaining the president's actions to stop drug shortages. the white house also notes the president has been acting without congress, around

congress if you will, on a whole list of items. on student loans, employment for iraq and afghanistan veterans, on getting people lower interest rates on their home mortgages. that's a statement of the administration's priorities, of course, but also rather an indictment of congress. what can get through this congress in terms of policy? what is possible? one democratic senator put herself forward today to say that fixing roads and bridges ought to get through this congress. senator amy klobuchar of minnesota today introducing jobs legislation for $50 billion worth of infrastructure building and repair. as her hometown paper noted this weekend, we ought to see a bill by senator klobuchar almost by definition as a passable bill. more than three quarters of the bills she has co-sponsored this year have had republicans onboard with them as well. does that mean this could actually pass? joining us tonight for the interview is senator amy klobuchar of the great state of minnesota. >> thank you so much, rachel,

and thank you for bringing up the drug shortage issue. it hasn't gotten enough coverage. i'm actually carrying that bill in the senate which has bipartisan support as noted. that drug you mentioned, that was a drug that was denied for a little 4-year-old boy. he could not get that drug. he had leukemia. balding. biggest smile in the world. it was finally located at the last minute. his parents were planning to go to canada to get him the treatment, not just the drug. that's what we're dealing with here. i'm very glad the president did this today, but the legislation is necessary because it's actually going to require the manufacturers to let the fta know when they see shortages because this shouldn't be on the backs of patients and pharmacists to spend hours calling around for the medication. so i'm glad you brought that up. it's another example of something we should be able to get done. it has bipartisan support. the other, of course, is infrastructure. >> well, the -- let me stop you there on that issue. because the president making the action that he made today, doing this by executive order, also encouraging the movement of your bill in congress. it's a little bit of an indictment of the congress, something that has as much bipartisan -- can't get through. do you feel the complicit

indictment that congress is holding stuff that ought to not be held, is it a fair indictment? >> since august, since the people spoke out. everyone heard it at home. the reform bill passed. another of things got through that we had to get done with with the extension of the faa but some of these things that could save lives and move the economy forward are sitting out. there certainly infrastructure is one of them. this bill contains the infrastructure bank. something that has garnered broad bipartisan support, leveraging public and private money so we can build the infrastructure we need. whether it is a waste water treatment planter, a pork processing plant for a town or highways and bridges, which is the bulk of the money that would be with going to those as well

as rail across the country. i think i have seen you next to the hoover dam in some adds on your network and i think you get that this is about bold projects that you can't do it alone in the private sector. there are some reasons you get government involved and look at what made the country great whether it is the cross continental railroad or the highway system under eisenhower. if we are going to move forward and export to the world we need an air traffic control system that works and the roads and bridges and no one knows that better than our state when you think of the bridge collapsing in the middle of the mississippi river and as i said that day that shouldn't have happened in america. but it happened six blocks from my house. dozens of people killed and cars submerged in water. when you see something like that it hits you at your core and you realize we cannot continue like this. we cannot pretend it is not happening. we have to move forward and get

it done. >> thinking of the feasibility of getting this done -- obviously the president has been stumping on the issue of infrastructure. in the past it was not particularly partisan issue. i wonder if in minnesota in part because of the tragedy in 2007 with, i wonder in if minnesota has a more old-school approach to the issue politically if because of that tragedy. maybe in minnesota you are talking about it in a less partisan way in a way that might be a model for congress. >> the wake of the tragedy we did put more money aside, the legislature did at that time. there was more put aside for infrastructure and we are moving forward on projects but if you look at the national numbers, 25% of the nation's 600,000 bridges are found to be obsolete or structurally deficient. the american academy of civil engineers has given our nation a near failing grade when it comes

to infrastructure. we know we have to move forward. construction workers have one of the highest rates of unemployment in the country and then you have people waiting in traffic 4.8 billion hours a year. that's no way to run a railroad. that's why you do find bipartisan support for these kinds of bills. we may not be able to pass it this week, but i'm hopeful by the end of the year, as part of a larger package, we can move forward on infrastructure. >> amy klobuchar from the great state of minnesota. >> happy halloween, rachel. >> happy halloween. >> do we keep running in to each other on halloween? >> we have a reprisal and you know there are a lot of ghost and goblins, but not a witch on a broom. that was the last election. >> thank you. great to see you. rick perry flirtation with birtherism as if rick perry didn't have enough to explain today.

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boo! happy halloween. best new thing in the world today ghost stories from the fbi. today in response to a freedom of information act request, the fbi released photos, document and video from a ten year investigation of a russian spy ring. yes, the operation was actually code named "ghost stories" and yes, they released the "ghost stories" stuff on halloween. this was 11 russian spies, ten spies plus their handler expected to infiltrate policy and make friends in policy making circles. they were caught a year ago and shipped back to russia. the details that came out about their time in america were amazing like anna chapman, now a d-list russian celebrity back home. as a spy in new york city, she was the genius who listed her address on a cell phone contract

as 99 fake street. also brush passes where by the spies handed off contraband to those. dead drops where money was uncovered. and these these depictions without pictures to guide us we took a stab at what it may look like. here's our version of a brush pass as described in the complaint. russian government official number three was holding a shopping bag. as russian government official number three descended from the train platform, richard murphy, the defendant, walked up the same stairs. as russian government official number three and murphy passed one another on the stairs, murphy held out his backpack and russian number three placed the shopping bag he had been holding in murphy's backpack. murphy continued up the stairs and russian government official number three continued down the stairs and walked away. that is how we acted it out.

today, best new thing in the world, thanks to the fbi is we have the real thing, the real video of the real spies. there's russian official number three. going down the stairs and there's spy richard murphy in the gilligan hat coming up and there's the money in the backpack. not very subtle. kind of like our version. we reenacted a scene where the fbi dug up a package they buried they dug it up a, reburied it to see what would happen and two years ago one of the spies dug it up. here's our version. today the fbi released pictures of the hiding spot as well as video of the real spy digging up the package. that is really it happening. i like our version better. and you know our over the top on purpose russian spy acting was not that far off. these guys were pretty obvious. getting video confirmation from the fbi on halloween from an operation called "ghost stories" best new thing in the world