problem that goes from one place to another. >> this international point is actually really key. part of what we're seeing is governments, the greek government was an extreme example but the u.s. and european governments increasingly lack the power to tax the richest companies and richest citizens. it's just not possible. >> former prime minister of greece, george papandreou, sorry to cut you off. it was a pleasure to have you. >> nice being here. >> that is all in for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening. have i not been glued to the makeup chair with mascara wands in my eyes, i would have been tweeting about the discussion between you and the prime minister about what a great discussion that was. >> thank you. i cut off that toss from the prime minister to hit that toss on time. >> so i could blabber about it. thanks. good job. thanks for you staying with us this hour. there's a lot to get to this hour. we will start with the big political story of the day. i need to explain context before we get to our top story of the day.

the issue of context is an issue about autism. 20 years ago, the writer, temple grandin who herself has autism, she famously built what she calls a squeeze machine for her own use after she discovered the feeling of physical pressure helped her feel calm when nothing else did. she has autism herself. that idea of physical pressure has become part of what people consider when working with kids with autism or asperger's or any conditions related to it. you look around at a site like autism speaks, you will find products and tools for families with names like cozy calm weighted blankets. weighted blankets. this one, the big hug. a special hug vest. looks like an ordinary jean jacket vest but it weighs a couple of pounds on purpose. the idea is that that weight, the pressure of the hug vest or pressure of the weighted blanket with the extra weight in it can sometimes help a person with asperger's or autism to feel calm in a way that works for

them. obviously it does not work for everybody. who knows exactly how it works. for some people this does work. particularly for autistic kids for whom this technique works, physical pressure, hugs and physical pressure can be part of the protocol for professionals who work with them. it's more than just a hug for a hug's sake with any kid. in some cases, it is a therapeutic measure for kids with autism. although we cannot know for sure, it seems like that context, understanding that about being an autistic kid may be a relevant detail for understanding this today on capitol hill. >> we're glad to be here today with real heroes. with family members, who have, in the middle of their grief, come down to washington d.c. to argue for change.

a couple weeks ago, people were equally cynical about what connecticut could do. people said connecticut couldn't pass the strongest ban in the nation. it was the families of newtown who came to the state capitol and changed the calculus. i think the same thing happened here this week. there's nobody that can make the case better than these families. and they spend all week fanning out across the capitol and i think it's no coincidence that we will end this week in a much better position than many people thought we would a week ago or a month ago. i went to the floor yesterday to give my first speech. i talked an about one of these kids, dillon. he was a child with autism who died that day. but his mother, nicole, who was amongst the families who are here, took some tiny measure of

peace in the way that he died because though there was terror in that classroom that day, his beloved special education aid, in the moment of horror, wrapped her arms around him, hugging him tight, as the destruction reigned down on that class. that's how dillon and ann-marie were found, embracing each other. she said, i knew at that moment he felt love. >> stories like that story about dillon hockley, 6-year-old kid living with autism until he was killed at newtown, that story, stories like that, and the newtown families' willingness to let those personal stories be told publicly for the whole country, that is why what that nra lobbyist derisively called the connecticut effect, that's why the connecticut effect has not worn off four months later. connecticut senator chris murphy

brings pictures of the kids who died that day with him on the floor of the senate. he puts their pictures up there on easels and tells these personal stories, these personal detailed individual stories about what they were like before they were killed by a disturbed young man armed with a semi-automatic assault rifle on high capacity ammunition magazines, things that wouldn't have been legal to buy had the assault weapons ban not expired in 2004. when the family's grief could be immobilizing, you think it could be immobilizing for anybody, the newtown families have kept moving and refused to forget. no, we hold your focus on what happened here until something is done to stop this from happening to the next family. >> this is dillon. i think the picture kind of sums him up perfectly. he was always smiling and always laughing and he was very pure. possibly because of his age, he

was 6, and possibly because he was autistic. >> i'm jesse lewis's dad. jesse was 6 years old. he was my best friend and my buddy. he'd introduce himself as jesse and daddy. he was my whole life. >> the newtown families just will not let the country forget what was lost in newtown. when david and francine wheeler came to us, on this show, came to me and said they wanted to talk on this show about what happened, it was the same. they wanted to talk about their son with his picture right there

between us. >> my dad would always say, ben is going to do amazing things. and i always say, now, i just didn't know it was going to be at his death. i thought it was going to be in his life. so he's going to do amazing things now. >> it is emotional stuff. of course, it is private they're going through, right? but these families have been willing to make it public, to try to make a difference in their kids' names, to try to save somebody else's kids. yesterday, the newtown families met again with lawmakers on capitol hill. we showed some of this footage last night. you might notice some of the parents and siblings and spouses are crying in these pictures. you can also see big tough senator joe manchin of west virginia is looking quite moved himself. a reporter asked him how the families affected the debate over gun reform on capitol hill. i'm not sure he was sure he

could answer the question. >> i'm a parent. >> that was yesterday on what was a very busy day for that big tough democratic senator from west virginia. hours later, that senator stood with republican senator, pat toomey, both of them with their a ratings from the nra, saying we are gun owners, we belong to the nra. we support the nra. we invited the nra into our negotiations over this legislation. but we do not believe that nothing should be done to try to stop what happened in newtown from happening to someone else's kids. we do not believe that nothing can be done and nothing should be done.

and led by that measure from those two a rated nra conservative senators, today, the u.s. senate voted on gun reform. the common wisdom was that it could never happen and today it happened. look at this. tommie christopher went through the vote today and noticed it was 21 senators with a ratings or better from the nra, 21 senators rated top shelf by the nra who were among the majority, among those who voted to break the filibuster. it's actually 22 senators if you count everybody with an a plus rating like senator roger wicker of mississippi. his state suffered a horrific school shooting in the 1990s. roger wicker voted to break the filibuster even though he has an a plus rating and it goes on like senator tom coburn of

oklahoma and jeff flake of arizona. republican state lawmakers answered the mass shooting in tucson in his state by calling for loser gun laws. bob corker of tennessee says he will not vote for anything that compromises gun rights but neither will he stand in the way of debate. more than 20 a rated nra senators voted against this filibuster. the overall vote, 68-31. so, yeah, the nra is still beating its chest saying it will score the votes on the final bill. everybody's a ratings are going to be in danger as if that is the most important thing in the world and maybe some people think that is the most important thing in the world. it is not the only truth here not. not the only truth or consequence to a vote like this on an issue like this in a country changed like we have been with the decision-makers talking to the people most affected by it. the senate needed 60 votes to break the filibuster. they got 68 votes and broke the filibuster at a trot.

gun reform moved forward. this is only the beginning. the white house is calling for everybody who supports gun reform to get on the phone to their senators and post messages on twitter and keep the pressure on. the final vote looks like it might happen by this time next week. if the pressure stays on and if the senate passes gun reform, it still has to get through the republican controlled house. gun reform is by no means a done deal. the reason it has got this far thus far is because of the scrupulously nonpartisan families of newtown, connecticut, telling only their personal stories and what they have come to believe could keep this from happening again, walking the halls of congress and meeting those likely to see the world their way and senators

who did not. you never know how people are going to vote. today, when the senate voted to let gun reform have a vote, the newtown families were there watching from the senate gallery. afterward, president obama called the families and congratulated them on this vote. this is a picture of the president calling dillon hockley's mom. the president reportedly told the families that this moment would not have been possible without them. he has a point. yesterday, when it seems that the senate might filibuster gun reform, as if it might not work, the coalition to stop gun violence started staging a filibuster of their own. families from newtown were among those who stayed out all night 0 outside the u.s. capitol reading the names of the sandy hook victims, the names of the more than 3300 people killed by gun violence since the massacre at sandy hook. the families started at 1:00 in the afternoon and they read all night long overnight. they kept reading until just before noon today when the senate voted. right about then in d.c., another vigil began, this time,

it was the clergy of newtown working with clergy from across the country from all different faith traditions, setting out 3300 crosses along with stars of david and other regulation symbols, and then they started reading the names of all the victims. they say they will stay out there all night keeping a 24-hour vigil. that's happening right now. joining us now from the vigil on the mall is michael mcbride, he came from california to be part of this from peco's lifelines to healing campaign pastor of the way christian center in california. thank you so much. nice to have you here. >> very glad to be here with you, rachel. >> can you tell us the overall idea why you're out there and what you're doing and how long you guys will stay out there tonight? >> we are here all day long, been here since 11:00 a.m. joining with the newtown clergy from the peco national network sojourners all day with 3300 crosses and regulation symbols remembering all the many lives lost to gun violence since the newtown tragedy. we're here because the blood of the slain is crying out to us

from the ground demanding and asking us to lift up our voices with the moral imperative to call for the comprehensive action to reduce gun violence in our country through common sense law that the the overwhelming majority of our citizens all sport and believe. we've been reading the names of the fallen ever since 11:00 a.m. and the vigil will remain throughout the evening and throughout the night and into the morning. >> once the morning comes, presumably, it's time to rest and get warm and get some sleep after being up all night. what happens next? what is the overall trajectory of this campaign for you? >> as you stated earlier, we know this is just the beginning. we know we have a huge and significant charge that is left within our care to move our congress and our elected officials to enact the will of the american people, to make sure that they hear from us, to make sure that they know that we will not accept partial solutions to comprehensive problems. we are going to be urging all of

our loved ones, our family members, our congregations, people of faith and all good will, call your senators, participate in this process by letting them know that we want background checks, background checks for every single sale. we want to make sure these weapons do not continue to flood into our communities. we want to make sure we have legislation in place that makes the trafficking of weapons across state lines something of the distant past. we want to make sure that we have targeted solutions to urban gun violence. we know that these are issues and situations that can be resolved with common sense gun laws. so we're going to continue pushing and lifting up our moral voice and urging our elected leaders to enact what we all know can save lives. >> one of the reasons i specifically wanted to talk to you tonight is i know your work specifically as a minister and as an activist has really focused on gun violence in the

streets and urban communities. it's clear to me the kinds of reforms happening in the states and might happen federally are being made possible because of newtown. as somebody really focused on urban gun violence, do you feel like these reforms are also considering the needs of our cities, too? is it a separate agenda that needs to be pursued or is this a way to tackle the mass violence in newtown and also the day after day grinding violence we see in this cities? >> that's a great question. this is what we know. we know the gun violence perpetuates itself every day in our communities is a tragedy that tears at the fabric and moral compass of our country. what kind of country are we living in where children are dying every single day on the street corners of our country in the isolation of their bedrooms. what kind of morals are we purporting where we are not doing everything within our power to make sure the weapons that take lives are not so easily available to individuals

who have no business having them in their possession. part of what we know and understand is all of these situations are interconnected. dr. king says we all live in a network of interconnectedness, right? we believe the pain of newtown is similar to the pain of new orleans, pain of chicago, similar to the pain of aurora, pain of oak creek and oakland where i live. all the legislation that we are proposing we believe gets us closer to the day we do not have to bury children. so we want to keep pushing. we know targeted strategies in our community that help provided opportunities, help provide quality education, they help us

to deal with the root causes of violence in all their many forms. this is an opportunity for all of us to be united together. we believe the pain, the shared pain we have as a country can help move us forward. this is why we're here standing together from every part of our country, every race, every regulation background, we're all children of god created in his image and we will respond accordingly. >> pastor mike and michael mcbride, pastor of the way christian center in west berkeley, california, thank you for your time, sir. i'm glad it's not bad weather out there but still stay warm and stay safe. thank you. >> thank you, rachel. god bless you. >> thanks. there is a lot serious going on in the world. and also something important about a french zoo and something i have never seen about spilling oil. still to come ahead.

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buildings closing all the rest. other countries are not so choosy. particularly dictatorships. according to dictators who run dictatorships there are lots of reasons to stop and celebrate whatever it is the dictator is telling us to celebrate. the islamic public of iran will be celebrating 28 holidays this year. we get 10 and they get 28. they get a whole month's worth of holidays. you celebrate when you made your country into a dictatorship. in iran's case, february 10th and april 1st they call islamic dictator day. they like to celebrate 3 day their dictator was born. in iran's case they celebrate the day their dictator died, june 4th, the day in 1989, when the ayatollah khomeini departed this green earth. if you're a regulation dictatorship, there's tons of extra days worthy of holidays,

martydoms, not just of your dictator but other people the dictatorship wants you to celebrate. on the one hand you live in a dictator ship and other hand you get lots of days off work. doesn't work just that way in iran. in north korea they really celebrate their holidays. today, a large number of students did this synchronized dance routine in the middle of pyongyang. what was the occasion? to mark the one year anniversary of kim jong un taking charge of the country's ruling party. kind of a big holiday week overall. tuesday of this week, there was another big celebration in north korea, a holiday to mark the day the former dictator, kim jong il gave himself a promotion. they have a national holiday for that. none of these holidays come pair to the really big one in north korea, the birthday of kim il-sung, grants -- grandfather of the former dictator and father of the current one and it's the biggest holiday in the

country in a country with many holidays. his birthday on april 15th really is the big one. that becomes an important thing to know not just for dictator holiday trivia. in years past, it's been around things like the big kim un jong's birthday celebration and the launch that fell into the sea and the north koreans did decide to launch it around this time. we feel that timing was not an accident. in 2009, north koreans tried another rocket launch around this time. april 5th of that year. that was also a failure. this week, there have been weeks and weeks of speculation whether north korea might start a war with south korea and ratcheted up the threats in recent weeks and will engulf their enemies in a sea of fire. there have yet to be any seas of fire and north korea does have the chicken little problem of making these kinds of threats all the time and try to launch a rocket and falls apart before

the world and very embarrassing. this time, it seems like the world is taking these threats a little more seriously. that may be because the threat period seems more sustained and more historical than usual. it's because of the timing. american secretary of state john kerry is due to arrive in seoul, south korea in a few hours and visiting beijing and tokyo on this trip. his first stop in asia is seoul, south korea where it's pretty singularly focused how to deal with the new level of threats from the north. and the pentagon the first arm of the intelligence arm says it is moderately confident nhk has learned how to make a nuclear weapon small enough to be sent as a ballistic missile.

saying it would not be very reliable if it exists and maybe it doesn't exist and still unclear what north korea's end game is here. do they want a war or attention or all bluster? the kim il-sung holiday they like to mark with missile launches, that holiday is monday. john kerry's visit to south korea starts tonight. the bluster in north korea has turned up to stun right now but it often is. if you're wondering why people are worrying right now the bluster right now might be more than just the usual bluster, timing may be part of the answer. watch this space. how many hours exactly? [ friend #2 ] what kind of spices do you use in your rub? what part of secret recipe don't you understand? i've got to go turn off the smoker. your grandfather would be proud of you! he didn't make these. mm-mmm. ♪ ok. [ male announcer ] new oscar mayer carving board pulled pork,

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outlet after one of their drilling rigs crashed off an island in southern alaska earlier this year. the satire was really funny but parts of it looked funny enough to get quoted in a newspaper. it happens. believability is one way satire can really work well. there has to be something about it that rings super true. here is something about satire that works well in the oil industry. it's not so awesome because it seems so real. this is awesome because it is intrinsically awesome. watch. >> in the past, you have to drive to get gas. in communities like this one. exxon has revolutionized the way fuel gets to you. we'll pump that right down your driveway.

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oil and we're just living in it, sorry about that crude in your backyard, but the spoof seems to work because of the attitude of exxon in mayflower and the extent to which this ginormous multi-national corporation exxon is taking control of not just the spill, in a lot of ways, what is going on in this tiny arkansas town, pushing everybody aside. three days after the spill, 120 exxon workers descended on the town, a number eventually went to 600 across the country including company doctors, communications specialists and wildlife experts. company doctors. actual doctors sent to the town by exxon. quote, when eight students who were vomiting and complaining of headaches were sent home from mayflower elementary school the monday morning after the spill, an exxonmobil doctor arrived quickly on the scene. the doctor quelled concerns about the air quality around the school, which is just a block south of the spill site according to the school principal, candy watts and they were worried some students may have sensitivity but according to the doctor, there was no

cause for alarm, so says the doctor paid by exxon. don't worry about your child, some or just sensitive. but the other dynamic to watch unfold since this big spill in mayflower is the efforts of mayflower and the state to hold exxon accountable for this. the attorney general has been all over this regularly touring the spill site the last two weeks and in contact with attorney generals and surrounding states who have dealt with oil companies and oil spills in the past and already starting to get some results from exxon. last week, the attorney general gave the company a deadline to get its office internal company documents related to this like blueprints and inspections reports and exxon with holding documents has been a hallmark in recent years for spills but the

arkansas attorney general gave them until yesterday to provide these documents and exxon did finally turn them over with just a few minutes to spare before the deadline was up. >> today, we received 12,587 pages of documents. that includes five cds of data and more than 200 blueprint sized diagrams. we received these documents 45 minutes ago. lawyers and secrets from our office are reviewing them as we speak. >> joining us now is the attorney general of arkansas, dustin mcdaniels. his office provided this photo of some of the documents exxon turned over. mr. attorney general, thank you for being with us. i appreciate your time. >> glad to be back with you. >> i know your team has only had these documents only 24 hours or so so i understand you haven't had a ton of time to looking through them. what kinds of information are

you finding already or hoping to get from these documents? >> well, it's been a productive 24 hours. obviously, there's a lot of very technical information and things that we're looking for. but in the last 24 hours, i've retained james lee witt's company, witt o'brien who sent world class experts to arkansas and on the site today and will be there each day reporting directly to me about what's happening at the site. we've retained experts to do our own independent air quality testing referencing some of what you were talking about at the school just because certain carcinogens are not present in the air doesn't mean that the air is safe much less pleasant to breathe. we will be looking through the documents that have been given to us as well as working with our experts to come up with additional questions based on what we read.

>> that sounds thorough and also sounds expensive. is this going to come down on the taxpayers of the state of arkansas? are you hoping exxon will foot the bill for paying for these experts? >> i don't intend to see the taxpayers of arkansas fit the bill for this disaster. i expect exxon as the responsible party to pay the bills. i've already sent them a request that they advance $4 million to my office so that we can start paying the paychecks of these people who are doing this work, to look over the shoulders of those 600 people that you ref reynolds. >> one of the things you said at that press conference yesterday was that the spill, and in fact the size of the spill, meaning the amount of oil that has come out of the ground, but also the damage to the pipeline was larger than you had previously known. can you explain what you meant by that? >> i think when people found out that there was a rupture and

there was a 65-year-old pipeline, i think that almost everybody assumed that there was some small crack due to age. the rupture was 22 feet long. >> wow. >> 22 feet is not something one would think would happen gradually. so now we're starting to ask all new questions. what was the pressure rating within the pipeline? what indications would there have been within the inspections up until now to lead us to think there would be a 22 foot gash. the more questions i ask the more i get. >> we last talked,it was about how this was very very heavy oil. you can describe it as heavy crude and diluted mix of different types of petroleum products here and some stuff we don't know what's in it. in any case it doesn't look like the kind of lightweight sweet crude we're familiar with from the gulf of mexico so maybe that means the ways of cleaning up those spills aren't the best for cleaning up this heavy stuff. i thought of that particularly with knowing you guys had heavy weather last night. with the storm that went through

the affected area last night and kinds of affected techniques they're using to get this gunk out of the marshes and people's homes, does it seem to you like stuff is getting cleaned? >> well, you're right. the storm that came through last night was a very serious storm. we had a lot of damage. arkansas gets tornadoes this time of year. when you have containers filled with oil-soaked soil and oily water all set in a staging area, yesterday afternoon, i said, just god forbid what happens if we have a tornado in the staging area? what do we do about that? lots of water, a lot of runoff because of the storm. so we were very concerned about it. you're right. it's not just light sweet crude.

it is heavy tar sand crude. of course, we don't know what the solvents are. i still want to know and i don't know if they've included that in what they provided to me. it's 12,000 pages, so we haven't got it all digested within the last 24 hours. but there are obviously a lot of chemicals that are incorporated into the product. i need to know what those are as well. >> arkansas attorney general dustin mcdaniels. thank you for your time tonight. before you go, i feel like i need to tell our audience they appreciate you being here that i forced you to sneak away from your grandmother's birthday party tonight in order to be here. i just want to -- as a way of thanks, i want to say, we have a picture here of imogen mcdaniels, just turned 93 years old, here she is with president clinton. and i thank you with your family responsibilities and hope your grandmother had a happy birthday. >> i think she did. president obama asked me to

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there are only three people born in the u.s. the catholic church has canonized as saints. one was a mohawk indian woman who lived and died before the united states was founded as a country. the other two founded orders of nuns, one in the 1770s and 1850s and others canonized as saints because of what they did in the u.s. but as far as americanized saints go, that's it. a few years ago, an investigator from the vatican traveled to kansas to see if there might be another saint named sometime soon. another part of the formula is the issue of miracles. according to an eight part series of the wichita newspaper, the church's investigator in 2009 came to look into seemingly miraculous medical recoveries of two young kansans, one from an autoimmune disorder and one from catastrophic pole vaulting accident.

their families organized mass prayers, not just to god and jesus but someone in kansas thought of being a saint already even if it's not official yet. they prayed to a kansas farm boy who became a priest at age 24, called to serve as an army chaplain in the korean war. he never came home from the korean war, died in a north korean prison camp in 1951. but from the day that his surviving fellow prisoners of war were freed from north korea, some advocated for him to receive the highest military award that is offered by our country. today when a white house ceremony was convened more than 60 years after his death to award him that medal of honor, some of the men he served with who are now in their 80s talked with nbc news correspondent jim miklaszewski about why they fought to get him recognized. watch this. >> reporter: an army chaplain on the front lines, kapaun rode a bicycle straight into combat.

that's him on the right carrying a wounded soldier from battle. army veteran, bob wood, says the father was fearless under fire. >> we both dove into that ditch alongside the trail. and looked back, and they had shot the pipe right out of his mouth. all he had was the stem of the pipe still clenched in his teeth. >> reporter: mike and father kapaun were captured and thrown into a chinese prisoner of war camp where hundreds died from the cold, starvation and worse. >> there were a lot of people who were tortured and killed as prisoners. >> reporter: but kapaun remained defiant, risking his own life to feed and care for his fellow prisoners. >> he was a great thief. he would sneak off and steal food to feed the wounded with. and medicine. >> reporter: dow credits the father with saving hundreds of lives. through his own self sacrifice and undaunting spirit and faith. >> a good number of those that

survived really owe their lives to father kapaun. >> reporter: ultimately, with his health failing, the chinese guards ordered father kapaun to what the prisoners called the death house. >> he said, don't cry for me, i'm going where i've always wanted to go. >> i think he's the finest man i ever knew. and i get all choked up just thinking about him. >> even before being awarded the medal of honor today, the pastor had already been awarded the bronze star for walking through enemy fire to drag wounded soldiers to safety. 86-year-old herbert miller was there today at the white house for the medal of honor ceremony. he was a 23-year-old platoon leader in korea when he was hit by a hand grenade that shattered his ankle. he was unable to move and pulled a dead korean soldier over him to try to hide but the chinese soldier spotted him. and sergeant first class herbert miller was soon lying on the ground with a chinese soldier standing over him with a rifle pointed down right at him.

and at that moment, his chaplain, the unarmed chaplain, who never carried a gun, came out of nowhere, walked right up to the chinese soldier and just pushed the barrel of his rifle aside, picked up the wounded american soldier, put him over his back, and walked him to safety for miles. that act of heroism had a statue made to commemorate it at a church in kansas named for father emil kapaun. and this crucifix carved by another american prisoner in his honor. his acts of heroism not just on the battlefield but once captured in the p.o.w. camp stealing food, carrying the wounded, burying the dead, trading his watch for a blanket to cut into socks for the men freezing to death. those stories are well-known and well-told stories in kansas which led to kansans praying to him for other worldly assistance when they needed it. which has now led to the vatican

investigating him for sainthood. so, yes, that process is still in process. but it also led the kansas congressional delegation to lobby for the three-year time limit to be lifted in the case of emil kapaun and got it passed. president obama signed a measure in 2011 doing that. his name was then put forward for the medal of honor. the military investigated the allegations of his heroism, much as the vatican investigated the allegations of his miracles. and today his nephew accepted the medal of honor on his uncle's behalf in front of the octogenarian prisoners of war who served with him and still survive. >> father kapaun has been called a shepard in combat boots. his fellow soldiers called him a saint. a blessing from god. today we bestow another title on him. recipient of our nation's

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