people like democrat, republicans, small and growing. there is an available politics there for courageous politicians snez and particularly as actual coalition politics, if you can build a general one multiracial coalition. that's why that speech in some ways was a frustrating moment for me. ta-nehisi koets, melissa, thank you. >> this week of news is ending in way that basically no one could have predicted when this week in news began. "60 minutes" aired an emotional and i think riveting two part interview on something we knew would be the all consuming news in washington this week. 60 minutes broke the story into two pieces, two segments. this is the way they divided them. this is how part one ended.

>> i would like every parent in this country, dlts 150 million people, i would like them to look in the mir popper that's an figure of speech, scott. literally find a mirror in your house and look at it and look in your eyes and say this will never happen to me. this will never happen in my school. this will never happen in any community. and see if you actually believe that. and if there is a shadow, the slightest shadow of doubt about what you've said, think about what can you do to change that. in your house, in your community, in your school, in your country. because we have an obligation to do this for our children. it is going to happen again. it is going to happen again. and every time, it is somebody else's school. it is somebody else's town. it is somebody else's community. until one day, you wake up and it's not. >> that's david wheeler, the father of ben wheeler who was

killed at sandy hook elementary school in newtown. david wheeler speaking there on "60 minutes" sunday night. tomorrow night david wheeler will stand with fran seen, ben's mother, as she delivered president obama's weekly address. every week president obama carries the weekly address. it is on tv, radio, on-line. this week, tomorrow for the first time ever in the presidency the president will hand off his address to a citizen. he will hand off his address to francine and david to talk about them losing ben. what gives a person the strength to do this? when in the process do you realize that you have the strength to not just grief the loss of your child but also to speak. to take what happened to you and turn it into a way of trying to stop it from happening to someone else's child. do you know from the beginning that you will act to try to protect other people's children now that this has happened to you? or do you find yourself doing it

and marvel that you are capable of it? marvel that it is happening? one week after her son, dillon, kass killed along side ben and 18 other kids, dillon's mother, nicole, spoke at dillon's memorial service. dillon was 6 years old when he died. he had autism. they held the memorial one week after he died and they held it as a celebration of his life. watch this. this is remarkable. >> like many people on the spectrum, dillon demonstrated several aspects of repetitive movement. some autistic individuals rock their bodies. roll their heads or flap their hands. dillon was a flapper. whenever he got excited or happy, he jumped up and down and flapped as hard as he could. one day i asked dillon, why do you flab? flap? in all honesty because dillon had underdeveloped language skills, i wasn't expecting him to answer, but he did.

he said "because i'm a beautiful butterfly." it has been said that something as small as a bitter fly flapping its wings can cause a hurricane half way around the world. a small change or single occurrence in one place can can result in large differences elsewhere. it redefines the future. dillon is our butterfly. all of the children and adults who lost their lives last week are our butterflies. and if one butterfly can cause a hurricane, then 26 butterflies can change the world. i refuse to accept this as a senseless tragedy. i believe dillon and the others that died with him, are catalysts and while i selfishly wish my child was still with me and while i fear the empty space in my heart may never be filled, i'm also at peace to take comfort in the knowledge that his death will have meaning. there will be a positive change from this and we will be part of

it. newtown will be part of it. >> dillon's mom, nicole, speaking a week after he was killed at his memorial service, the celebration of his life. one month after killings at sooend hook, i was at the event in newtown connecticut that launched sandy hook promise and saw nicole speak again thereabout dillon and about how losing him must be a catalyst for change. the newtown families went to the state capitol in connecticut to press there to negotiate own vote for that state's landmark bipartisan package of gun reforms. faces of those family members were the last thing the legislators saw before they walked into the chambers to vote. the photos of their kids and their family members who were killed that day at sandy hook were the last things put in those legislators' hands before they walked into the chambers to vote. that vote passed with bipartisan

saw s support and the gun laws are sign need law. nicole hokly interintroduced the president when he spoke in connecticut. 11 family members traveled back with him to washington, d.c. on air force 1 and when they got to washington, d.c., they sfart started the process of meeting with senators. again, summoning the strength, meeting these senators directly, explaining, talking about who it was that they lost and what it means to them and how this senator's vote, you, senator, look at me eye to eye, could help stop this from happening to somebody else's child. and at the end of those meetings, 22 senators who have a ratings from the nra voted with the majority to move the debate forward. to defeat the filibuster. to at least let it come for a vote. 22 senators with a ratings from the nra were on the let it go forward side of that vote. tonight and tomorrow, there are dozens of pro reform events planned all over the country. in arizona tonight, starting tomorrow in california and colorado and florida, georgia,

indiana, maine, nevada, north carolina be ohio, pennsylvania, texas, virginia, wisconsin, all over the country tonight and tomorrow. mayors against illegal guns will start running new ads in seven states. they are asking senators to vote in favor of the bipartisan background checks proposal that's moving forward in the senate thanks to this week's vote. the husband of congresswoman gabby giffords recorded robo calls going out today to west virginia and pennsylvania. west virginia and pennsylvania specifically because the robo calls are thanking the bipartisan nra, a-rated pair of senators, brave enough to put the background checks bill forward. they are from pennsylvania and west virginia. there's a lot going on. the vote in the senate is still a week away. but the core, the center, reent this is happening, politically, is that the surviving family members of these people who have been killed in our country found the strength to try to stop what happened to them from happening to somebody else's family.

the eeves family in arizona from trying to get their senator, jeff flake, to commit to supporting background checks or any other gun-related reforms. their son, alex, was 24 years old when he was killed at the movie theater massacre in aurora, colorado. the family asked their ten senator, senator jeff flake to come eat dinner at their house, to sit at alex's seat at the dinner table so they can talk with him. asked by kpnx in phoenix if it is fair to use that emotional appeal it reach the senator, mrs. teeves said in response, you know what, the guns are not shooting targets, they are shooting people. people have emotions. it sim possible to take emotion out of the equation. unless it has happened to you, none of us can imagine w45 it is to lose a child, lose a family member, to senseless gun violence. but now, as a country,er with

being propel had toward change by the very people who not only have experienced that loss directly but have also from somewhere summoned the strength to lead us to try to stop it from ever happening again. joining us for the interview tonight is any ni coal hokly. nicole's son was killed at sandy hook elementary. nicole, thank you very much for being here tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> i know that you have just come from d.c. as of this afternoon. i have heard you say in talking to other people you've never done anything like this before, the meeting with senators that you have done. what was it like this week? >> it was certainly a very interesting experience. never, to be honest, this is the first time i've been in d.c. i learned a great deal, had no idea what to expect and went in is with very few expectations. just wanting to meet with senators and talk to them person to person along with all of the other families first to tell our

stories and see what could be done. do you feel you are being listened to? people have a lot of emotion about what happened and meeting you is an emotional experience for a lot of people. members of the families, members i talked to talk about how hard it is that people burst into tears when they meet you and that puts you in the position to comfort people. do you feel like you're able to bridge through the emotion to make an argument that people can hear? >> i think so. i mean, people definitely are taking the time. senators have taken the time to listen to us. and that's the whole point we're reaching to the -- we're reaching out to them as people. they are parents and grand parent. they are parent just like us. there is nothing wrong with talking person to person. it t is not about politics. there is nothing wrong with being emotional. there are numbers, statistics and logic to look at but you have to consider the love element as well. you have to consider the human element when making these

important decisions. >> let me ask you the question that i posed a moment ago, which is about your decision to speak out. obviously nobody would hold it against you if you chose to remain an entirely private person and never speak to anybody about this. when in this process did you realize that you had the strength to take what happened to your family and to act to try to keep this from happening to somebody else's children? did you know right away that you would or how did that happen? >> i still find it very strainingstrange when anyone thinks that i'm strong. i know several other family members feel the same way. i don't feel strong at any point of the day, at any single moment. this is just something i feel i have to do for dillon and for my living son and for all of the other children and adult who might face this sort of violence in their lives and try to prevent that. if i could stop one other pen from dying or one other mother

from feeling this way, so they don't have to find way to find their strength, then it will never be worthwhile because it is too high of a price to have paid. but at least i will feel that something good will have come from this. >> i thought of you when -- i heard a comment from oklahoma senator james inhofe this week, he has said so far he is opposed to any reforms, though who knows how he will vote when it comes time to vote. he said he felt that the newtown families, being used some something that would not have prevented their horrible loss. what do you think. >> first of all, no one is using me. these are active choices i make everyday. the things i say come out of my mouth. i'm an pupa tier in any way. fortunately i share a lot of thoughts and opiniones with other families as well.

we have a combined voice. in terms of whether these reforms would have prevent newtown, some of them, no, they wouldn't have. does that mean we shouldn't make changes to prevent other tragedies? why wouldn't you do that if it could save other lives and if it helps, then you have an obligation to do these things. some things we're talking about could have made a difference in newtown as well. not all of them, but some of them. and that's important to remember. >> what do you think happens in terms of the timeframe here? obviously the big hurdle of even getting to a vote in the senate this week is something that honestly at the beginning of the week most people were not predicting. people think the filibuster would be sustained. it was beaten and beaten handily, i think because of the work that you and the other families did in washington. but the vote itself is going to be next week. and then it moves on to the house. what's your plan in terms of staying involved or otherwise? >> my plan is absolutely to stay involved and this isn't just about gun responsibility at the

end of the day. there is a lot of other issues and families will be involved in those going forward as well. and for myself, i will just continue doing exactly what i've been doing so far, talking to people, listening to them, and hoping that they have the courage to continue to listen to what we have to say and then to act in terms of what's right for their constituents but also what's right as a person. >> do you -- my analysis, i should ask you this rather than just saying it. my analysis is that you guys made things possible that didn't seem possible. i heard your u.s. senator murphy saying that what passed in connecticut no one believed would happen until the intervention from the families so that it changed it and made it bipartisan and made it the big vote that it was. i see that happening with this big vote this weekend in washington as well. do you share that assessment. do you think you are making things happen that wouldn't otherwise happen? >> i've been told, as you just

said, we are making a difference. to me this is just common sense. when we started off kbog to connecticut and we're told, this is what is going to happen and we think it is pretty much stopping here, we wanted it to go a little further. it didn't go quite as far as we hoped but then provisions were strengthened and that was a really good result for a bipartisan committee to come together like that and deliver the strongest gun legislation in the country. and in the senate, yeah. going in this past weekend, i will admit i didn't even know what a filibuster was. when i understood what it was, i thought what a ridiculous concept that government won't even debate this. and to have moved that from, you know, stopping the filibuster and having the debate and now this is going to go forward, it doesn't necessarily mean that we don't know what's going to happen next but this is an important first step and it is the first of a long, long journey that each step we're just going to get closer to our goals.

>> when my observation before i was in media and before ways doing this kind of media, i was student of political science. i did a doctorate of political science and how activists bring about change. the one thing that i learned and saw in action and was never able to prove academically but i believe it with all my heart is that thing that makes you most likely to win, is winning. and that when you are unexpectedly able to achieve something. you're not only attracting attention, you attract hope and hope is momentum and i think you're on the hope tipping point at this point. >> good. >> again, i can't thank you enough for being willing to talk about this here. especially after the long day and long week you've had talking about this with all sort of people. nicole hockley, thank you so much. >> thank you. ♪

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this is a little important context in terms of understanding what's about to happen next in congress and why the common wisdom might be wrong. when the congress decided back in january that they were not going to throw us off the so-called fiscal cliff, remember that, they didn't just get to make that decision. they actually had to pass legislation to do that. and as legislation, it doesn't have to just go through the democratic controlled senate it had to go through the house of representative accide representatives. the house is controlled bit republican party. how long can we count on republicans in the house to pass legislation like that. compromise legislation particularly on a spending matter. how can we count on republicans to do that?

we can't. so the democrats did it. mostly. the republicans did let the thing come up for a vote back in january. but it passed with almost all the democrats voting for it and just enough of the republicans voting for it to get it over the hump. it was majority democratic vote that passed that thing out of house, even though the republicans are in control. that was in january. then two weeks later, it happened again. after months and months had passed since hurricane sandy devastated the eastern seaboard the house got it together to send money to hurricane 157by victims. the house passed the hurricane sandy relief bill and when i say the house passed it, i mean the democrats in the house passed it. every democrat in the house except for one voted for the sandy relief bill. combine that with a couple dozen republicans you need to get it over the hump and that is how they got that bill passed. then they did it again the next month. violence against woman act. the house finally passed the violence against women act after stalling for more than a year.

they had every single democrat voting for it. every single one down to the last drop. but that's not just majority. again was they got a few house republicans to cross over and get it to pass so it could get a majority and get passed. this week another example, slightly more obscure one. the house needed to vote to suspend the rules in order to pass a bill maintaining commemorated american battlefield sites. in toward do that procedurally, you usually need the party in power to vote tore it. if you can't count on the party in power to do that, and this something you need done, you got to find another way. again on battlefield sites you put together a way to get this thing done by lining up the minority party. lining up almost every democrat in the house and you just need enough republicans to get it over the hump. voila, rule suspended. this is not normally how people expect the congress to work. this is a weird thing, right, to have the minority party do most

of voting for stuff while the majority splits itself. so it can offer just enough support to pass what needs to be passed. but in the house of representatives that does not like to vote for even the basic stuff, this is the new keep it quiet kind of way that some stuff has been getting passed this year. john boehner, house speaker, as house speaker, has almost deck thatter toal of for lack of a better word, letting congress pass things the way they have passed the last four months. they call it breaking the 4569er rule because denny haster reportedly never liked things to pass this way. but you know what? who cares about process for processes sake in the important thing here is what this might mean for the country in terms of policy. if you have been wondering how something like better background checks for kbuns purchases might

conceivably pass the house, if it gets through senate this next week, gun reform hopefuls are floating the idea that this odd procedural route that they sometimes let happen, that route is the way it would get through if it gets through. that is the way gun reform potentially passes law. greg has been trying to map this path for how gun reform will pass the house. he notes when republican senate responser pat toomey talked about what he was able to come up with for the senate he said at the time that there are a b substantial number of republicans in the house for the general reproach for the gun's issue. if pat toomey is right, if that is true, if there are some republicans that could go along with this and demjanjocrats sic together, this could happen. continued pressure on house republicans to allow a vote for the sake of the newtown families

who will be actively lobbying in day ahead, that pressure could get very, very intense. i think that is exactly about what is about bo t.about to hap. i think the pressure will be almost unbelievable and as it becomes clearer that it may pass senate the focus on the house right now to at least let this come for vote in the house, you got 9 30ers support among the american public. you can count on every democrat in the house pretty much to support it. all you need is enough republicans to be allowed to peel off to put it over the top. the pressure on this is going to be unbelievably intense and that is going to make for a very unpredictable few news days on this subject. stay up late. l of healthy habit. so daphene, do you eat activia. i do it's always in my fridge. and you know activia isn't just for minor digestive issues. exactly, it's also important for my overall well being because it helps regulate my digestive system. and when you feel good on the inside, it shows on the outside!

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president obama presented the naval football team with the commander-in-chief's trophy. every season the teams from the service academies play against each other and just about every year since 1984 the sitting president of the united states then bestows the commander-in-chief's trophy to the best of the teams. today, the mid shipman pr annapolis decided this would he give president obama a gift of their own in return. >> all right, that's the official navy helmet, fitted for me. pretty sharp. all right.

here is the general rule. you don't put stuff on your head, if you're president. that's politics 101. you never look good wearing something on your head. >> put it on, put it on. >> no. >> the president has learned the politicians don't put stuff on your head rule. it did take him a while to learn it. there was the momentary cowboy hat. but since he has been president, he's been good about the no headgear rule. not even a baseball hat. that type of learning curve is important to all politicians but right now it is running in reverse for the republican party since the last election. did you hear what republican party did today on the issue of race? at their big national republican party meeting in california? did you hear what they did. that's coming up. we've all had those moments.

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republican parties in the great stays of michigan is a committee member of the national republican party. a couple of weeks ago you might remember we told you the story of mr. agema posting on his facebook page about how the home homosexual agenda is to get them to fulfill their lifestyle and how homosexuals a equate for half the murders in large sities. since then young republicans have been calling him to resign from party. we can tell you tonight that dave agema hasn't resigned. he is at the spring meeting in california right now where he has mounted a pretty good defense for himself by pointing out he feels very comfortable rejecting all that criticism. especially the part aboutunderer

mining the party platform. since the anti-guy thing that he's very much in favor of actually is in the republican party platform. and he's right. this is the republican party platform from the last convention. republicans ran on the anti-guy in 2012 elections. today after 13 something socials demanded it, at this meet in california, they voted on that part of their platform. they voted on whether or not they want it reaffirm the anti-guy stuff in the platform as of november. republicans voted on this resolution introduced by dave agema himself. that exact guy, mr. homosexuals are filthy killers who eat stray pair keets, introduced this to the whole rnc, asking the republican party as a whole to reaffirm that republicans really do believe in one man, one woman marriage only no matter who you love on account of the future of america.

dave agema introduced this anti-guy marriage resolution himself personally to the whole republican national committee. and it passed. it passed unanimously. the social conservatives won. social conservatives win in the republican party, pretty much always. they win inside the republican party itself when it comes to setting policy for the party and they win outside the party. they win in the states wherever republicans hold power. since then passed election, when republicans lost the white house and lost ground in the white house and lost ground in the senate, they have used the power that they've still got in the states to push the most aggressive social conservative policy agenda in a generation. republicans in the states have put plat out unconstitutional bands into law. bands on abortion into law in and in north dakota. north dakota legislatujs laegis sent the governor another

abortion bill today for good measure. we are waiting for governor brownbeck to sign it at this point. new laws to force abortion clinics out of business have spread from mississippi to now also north da yoeta and yal and as of today the great state of virginia. the state board of health gave final approval for regulations that are designed to shut down virginia's clinics that provide abortions. the vote followed threats and direct intervention by the republican state attorney general to force the board of health to reverse their earlier ruling on this issue to close the clinics so they end up where they ended up today. the state health commissioner recan ziened in protest of the pressure. resigned in protest of the new requirements that are designed to be difficult if not impossible to comply with. saying she could no lonker fulfi fulfill role as state health kmirgser in good faith.

ken kuch nelly got what he wanted in virginia. the board of health in that state passed the rules to shut down virginia's clinics. after the vote protesters shouted "shame, shame". you see they are holding up cardboard faces there. those are faces that are supposed to make them look like ken kuch nelly. little images of ken kuch nelly's head. as if to remind their fellow virginians of this act. the next clip you are about to see is on the losing site of today's vote. this is the board of health members who voted to keep the clinics open. >> my concern from the beginning has been access. i don't want to see any of those closed. >> the new rules designed to close virginia's clinic that provide abortions are slated to take effect this summer. mississippi's done it. alabama's doing it. north dakota is doing it. this is republican governance in 2013. joining us now is shar kneel hearing a member of the virginia

house of dell gatsd. chair of the democratic party of virginia and former chair of the pro choice caucus. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> obviously today's vote in the board of health is if not a surprise, at least a big deal for supporters of the virginia clinics. what do you think happens next? is this over? >> no. the fight's not over. it is more than likely that governor is going to go ahead and sign these regulations. but it remind virginia voters what's at stake this coming november in the elections. it is possibility that the new governor whorve it may be, may go ahead and suspend those regulations. but it is important that voters realize what is happening is that ken kuch nelly used his heavy hand of government basically hijacked the regulatory process. wrote his own regulations. bullied the board of health into

voting for those regulations and this is what we have. it is sad day for virginia and for virginia's women because we are talking about closing clinics that provide diagnostic procedures for women, such as mammograms, pelvic exams. >> one of the things that we've been watching at the national level is that at the national level republicans don't really want to talk about their aggressive social conservative agenda. they don't want to be known as the crusading anti-abortion activist party. near the chair, the democratic party in virginia, are democrats going to put issues of social conservative em, against abortion rights in your state and other matters? is that going to be front and center in the gubernatorial campaign? >> it already is, rachel. it already is. i can tell you people have their eye on ken kuch nelly and what he is doing and already, voters

are in tune. it'll continue to be an issue because what we're talking about and what's at stake is women's freedom to access healthcare. er with talking about equality for every virginian. people realize this translates into our economy and how free we are going to be as a people of the common wealth. in fact, ken kuch nelly's extremism has gone into the business community. they are concerned about what he is doing, where his focus has been. >> virginia has voted twice now for president obama a place obviously where democrats can win. why do you think that republicans and socially conservative republicans in particular have been able to set so much policy for the state in you look at virginia and if you squint it sort of looks like alabama in the way republicans prioritized issues. you look at what he's done and there is a reason people call him ultra sound. why do they keep calling the policy fights.

>> when they campaign, they talk about, i want to talk about business and jobs. when they get into office, they talk these extreme votes and measures and i'll tell you why. it's the tea party. if a republican even has a whiff of moderation, says let's look at science, medical evidence and determine what we need for the clinics pb they face a primary by the tea party. so we have an extreme element coming in. but it is up to voters to realize what is go for the common wealth. it is not extremism but moderation. >> it opens up space in the sent are for the democratic party. if you guys tore going to fill that vacuum, chair of the democratic party of virginia, thank you very much for your time tonight. i would love to stay in touch with you on these matters as they continue in virginia. >> thank you. >> "the rachel maddow show," jeopardy tease time. the answer is, helping the

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petitions at the white house, you get 5,000 people to sign a petition and the white house says it will respond to the issue that you brought up. they must respond if you give them 5,000 signatures? awesome idea. heart in the right place kind of stuff. but eventually that meant that seat of power in the most powerful country on earth wbt white house, was coming within a thousand signatures of having to answer the question of having to quote nationalize the twinkie industry. when that happens, maybe it is time to raise the bar in terms of things they must respond to. even they though started with 5,000 signature plan the white house upped the threshold to 25,000 signatures. that still wasn't high enough to filter out stuff like this. invite neal boortz to spend an hour talking to the president about tax reform. come on, the president is busy. so 2 t was 5,000, then the 25,000. now you have to get a hundred thousand signatures on your

petition for the white house to respond to it. but it was back in the old days of only 5,000 signatures that white house did have to respond to this question. quote, we the undersigned strongly urge the president of the united states to formally acknowledge an extra terrestrial presence, engaging the human race. immediately release all files from agencies and military services relevant to this phenomenon. that position got more than 12,000 signatures and this is the white house response from the office ef science and technology policy. it is obviously very considerate. look at this ppt the u.s. government has no evidence that any life exists outside or planet or that extra terrestrial presence has contacted anyone of the human race. in addition, there is no

credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public's eye many scientists and matt mathematicians have looked with a statistical mind-set at the question. many have also noted however that the odds of us making contact with any of them especially any intel yent ones are extremely small given the distances involved. but that's all statistics and speak lakes the fact is we have no credible evidence that extra terrestrial press sense on earth. asked and answered, right? no. the group behind that petition is now turning to another branch of government to uncover the real evidence. sort of. they are sort of approaching congress but well, they've decided to hold a fake congressional hearing. a five-day marathon hearing involving testimony from dozens of witnesses, witnesses questioned by former members of can congress in a room at the

national press club that has been configured to resemble a senate hearing room. there will be press sections and audience area and witness and committee tables just like the real thing except it's fake. they are calling it a citizen hearing on disclosure. and they've created like a movi trailer for it. look. >> i think it is time to open the books on questions that have remained in the dark, question of government investigations of ufos. >> stop the music, governor. did you say the united states government is covering up a history of a ufo sighting in your state? >> it is now time to put away this embargo of truth about alien presence. >> they don't produce documents, chris, they should get it all out. >> we ought to do it because the american people quite frankly can can handle the truth and it is about the law. >> it is not about lights on the sky, it is about lies on the

ground. >> release the x files! embargo of truth about the alien presence. you're going down. so that's the fake hearing, over five days of testimony, dozens of witnesses will talk about strange things they say they witnessed. they will give that testimony to a panel of members of congress, wait, former members of congress, including one former senator, mike gravel of alaska, once read the pentagon papers and other interesting stuff in washington. but who is best remembered for long zen, inexplicable campaign ads when he ran for president. they are doing this fake hearing thing because they believe in aliens. they told roll call i don't care what ex-members think about extraterrestrial issues. the organizer said he only cares, quote, that they served

in congress, that they know how it is done, that they are willing to run these hearings like an actual hearing in order to create a rather amazing and i think important event. also i should say fake committee members are paid $20,000 a pop to do it. so there's that. roll call and "the washington post" report the fake hearing adventure is expected to cost over $600,000, including the $20,000 fee paid to each of the former members of congress who are going to preside over that fake hearing. nobody knows who the anonymous donor is. it is someone rich enough to pay for a fake congressional hearing about ufos, and someone of the mindset a fake congressional hearing about ufos is what america needs to see the light about ufos. the eery, oddly compelling light. watch this space. hello!

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on wednesday night, two nights ago, we reported on a story when i first saw it, i swear i thought it couldn't possibly be true, i thought i was being punked. on the ten year anniversary of the saddam statue being pulled down, house republicans celebrated this week inviting former vice president dick cheney to a closed door meeting for him to share with him his dick cheney wisdom on foreign policy. to be clear, dick cheney didn't show up uninvited and they felt bad and had to let him in, they invited him to talk to them, he is their chosen expert still. since we reported that story wednesday, i have been waiting for some sort of correction, waiting to feel stupid, right? waiting to hear it was some lefty satire that fooled us, no way did house republicans seek out dick cheney for advice on

foreign policy in 2013. can't be. but there's been no correction, that happened. and it gets better or worse, better/worse. vice president cheney's next stop after meeting to advise them on foreign policy was another speaking gig at the republican national committee spring meeting in los angeles, the official national republican party meeting. this year is aimed specifically at the challenge of, quote, broadening the republican party's appeal with voters. so congressional republicans called in dick cheney for advice on foreign policy matters, and the national republican party turned to dick cheney for advice on broadening the party's appeal. because when you think broad appeal to the electorate, do you think dick cheney? now to be fair, the rnc didn't just turn to dick cheney on this matter.

they decided to bring in other experts as well. again, the stated aim of the republican party's national meeting right now in los angeles is to reach out to new voters, specifically asian americans, blacks, hispanics, and young people. so to do that, to make that outreach, the party decided to bring in the aforementioned dick cheney, and decided to bring in one of the people that runs breitbart website, the conservative website that fixated on attacking acorn and van jones and eric holder and shirley sherrod where she's a racist against white people and they totally made up the tape that made it seem like that, to broaden the appeal to asian americans, blacks, hispanics, and young people, republicans at the national meeting tapped the breitbart guy, dick cheney, and this guy. >> i'm still trying to find two tickets to the ohio state usc game, since it's probably the

last football game we will get to see before the united states gets blown up by the islamists under obama. >> and there's this guy, another expert being appealing the party is topping for the national meeting. if the name david horowitz is unfamiliar, perhaps his books may ring a bell. black skin privilege and the american dream. or this one. hating whitey and other progressive causes, another popular one for modernizing, broadening the republican party appeal, the race card, white guilt, black resentment, the assault on truth and justice. if it only weren't for all of the black resentment, truth and justice would be alive and well. i like watching and studying on republican politics more than anything. i am sass on republican politics, but honestly, there's something weirdoi