right, public education is going up a lot and a lot of that is driven by the cuts a the state level. state austerity has taken a hammer to these institutions and raising tuition. great reporting. thank you so much. >> thank you, chris. >> that is all in for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> thank you very much. thank you to you at home for stag with us the next hour. today minnesota took a step to becoming the 12th state in the country to recognize marriage equality for same-sex couples. the bill passed the minnesota house by 16 votes and now heads to the senate. two states down the mississippi river, though. today was a very different day. republican-controlled house in missouri all at once, all in a rush, passed a whole slew of bills last night banning sharia law, outlawing the helicopter conspiracy, agenda 21. they passed a bill that will ban

all federal gun laws in missouri. you can't really do that but they passed a law that would do it and passed a law that if you are a teacher in missouri schools and you are told to bring a gun with you to school you can be fired if you the teacher do not show up with that gun. so, wow, it has been a big 24 hours. a new heist exposed by federal prosecutors today. a heist in which bankers figured out how to hack in to networks and made off with a million dollars worth of cash. they emptied dozens of atms all on the same day, hit two dozen countries at once. $45 million stolen in cash. today president obama went to next texas gave two speeches on the economy. we will have more on that in a second. today the republican u.s. senate candidate in massachusetts denied he was part of the swift voting group that attacked president obama over

the killing of osama bin laden. gabriel gomez is the candidate and he told reporters today i was never associated with the group. i was not part of the group. he was, in fact, the national spokesman for the group. in public and on tv and everything. but now he is trying to convince the reporters in massachusetts that isn't true. don't believe your lying eyes. mistaken identity or something. i don't know. the massachusetts senate race is getting weird. the latest poll s out today show the democrat in the race, ed marky is out way ahead. so a lot going on in the news. we have to start tonight in montana. at the headquarters of an organization that likes to think of itself as america's think tank for the white nationalist movement. they don't like to say white supremacist. they like to say white nationalist. they think it sounds bemplt you can judge for yourself. >> who stands for us?

have you ever wondered, why isn't there an organization that works for us? from african-americans to illegal immigrants, from lesbians to left handers, every ethnic and interest group has its own lobby or cultural foundation. the exception, of course, is white americans. our country's historic majority and founding population. the people that bears the unique heritage of europe, christianity, cultural enexcellence in the scientific awakening. there are also our peculiar folk ways, holidays, traditions and customs that make us uniquely european and uniquely american. only we are who we are. so again, why isn't there an organization that has our interests at heart? >> our -- this is the white supremacist -- sorry, the white nationalist think tank group. they call themselves the national policy institute.

their logan, you can see at the top, for our people, our culture, our future. when they say "our" they are being specific about who they mean. >> as long as whites continue to avoid and deny their own racial identity at a time when almost every other racial ethic category is rediscovering and asserting its own whites will have no chance to resist their dispossession. this is our challenge. this is our calling. won't you join us? >> if you poke around on the website of the white supremacist -- white nationalist think tank you can see how they are trying to update the whole racist image. yeah, some of them are still skin head looking guys but they wear suits and some of them have hair. this is an old-school kind of thing. this is no inner breeding, protect the santty of whiteness from the inferior races and it

is exactly what you think it is with somewhat improved hair cuts. if you dig in the fine print, you will find they are not just an on-line group. they hold physical conferences and events and things and maintain a p.o. box in white fish, montana. it turns out that is the same address, the same p.o. box for this on-line racist forum. i saw a bunch of links to this today. and i thought it was down but it is still there. it is called the alternative right and it is an on-line racist forum that describes itself as being founded by the won't you join us white power guy who you just saw in the think tank video. it says it is dedicated to her rhett ret call perspectives. particularly nose with a nationalist outlook and this is their post on toll kaus remembrance day this past january. they call it holocaust amnesia day. enunder a picture of a pile of dead bodies from the holocaust it says i can't believe it has

script up on me again. today i discovered that today is holocaust memorial day and i'm fresh out of onions. the author goes on to talk about his feelings on a the event. this is the real deal, right? this is alternative right which lives in the same whitefish p.o. box as the white supremacist. he wrote there last november and set people's minds at ease about a condoleezza rice presidency, that didn't happen but wrote about pinatas, burritos and forget the alamo meaning every penny spent on the party called hispandering.

this rank corner of the internet is front and center of mainstream politics. this arian nations supremist of the nations crock is directly linked to the legislation that finally started getting its big mark-up in the united states senate after months of build-up, the legislation if it passes will be as big a deal as health reform actually probably bigger. starting immediately after the presidential election there was all this talk the republican party were finally going to help see into law reform of our nation's royally screwed up immigration system. the writing was on the law after losing the presidency again and losing seats in the house and losing seats in the senate, the writing was on the wall, the republican party had to get right with latinos at least. the way it was going to do it was by supporting immigration reform finally. the day after the election conservative hosts on the fox news channel and conservative

radio began announcing their conversion. fine, we'll support immigration after years of saying it, now they're all on board. as of today, that legislation has now finally been introduced and started its progress through the senate. democrats support it. the only question whether or not republicans will let it pass. even though the beltway narrative is republicans see the light and support this it is not clear enough republicans do support it will pass. jeffrey sessions from alabama introduced 79 amendments to the bill today not because he's trying to help it along. and senator chuck grassley introduced 77 amendments to the bill, not because he likes it because a lot of republicans are doing everything they can to stop immigration from happening. they have a lot of cover and

no republican senators who were against immigration reform are vocally coming out saying they are for it. no commitments. nop real effort institutionally to consolidate the party despite the beltway rhetoric and the most powerful conservative think tank is really against it. the her tan foundation. this is where the white supremacist problem comes in. yesterday it was dylan matthews at the "washington post" who looked up the credentials of the people who wrote the anti-immigration reform study for heritage. they found one of the co-authors did his doctoral dissertation on american immigration policy and how we should shape our policy to account for the fact that latinos are so dumb as a race. i'm only barely paraphrasing. the dissertation describes them as generally having an iq that is substantially lower than that

of the white native population. immigrants living in the u.s. today do not have the same cognitive ability as natives. no one knows whether hispanics will ever reach iq parity with whites but they will have low iq children and grandchildren is difficult to argue against. not only are latinos intellectually inferior to whites but of course they breed. disgusting, right? after that was reported yesterday, the heritage foundation run by former senator jim demint. they tried to distance themselves from this guy. saying they were focused on his dissertation saying it was not a work product of the heritage foundation and its products do not reflect the opinions of the heritage foundation or the conclusion of our study.

they said he did not shape the methodology or the policy recommendations in the heritage paper. he provided quantitative support for the lead author. basically the guy was a temp. he was good with the calculator. that's all we hired him for. >> one of the authors han fwound to written some rather explosive anti-hispanic statements. in your statement you basically just said he provided the numbers, is that right? >> he's the number cruncher. >> so sorry. let me finish fi could. that's fine. you are telling me you are using the numbers from a man who's written that hispanics have a low iq and will have a low iq for generations. so ma what makes you think, unless you agrow with that premise, that makes agree that

his numbers are sufficiently good in order to be included in your study. >> will i be able to answer. >> go for it. >> he did his dissertation at harvard before he got here. >> that was not my question. if his premise is that hispanics have a low iq, what makes you confident that his numbers in the study that you cited are good numbers. >> what he studied at harvard, his dissertation has nothing to do. >> are you standing by his premise that is hispanics have a low iq. >> that is not our position. >> why is he an author in your study. >> he did the number crunching. >> you have someone who is a racist obviously right who is part of your study. you are accepting his work. therefore you are accepting his intellectual framework. >> we do not accept the work he did before arriving here.

>> are you going to fire him or are you standing by him? >> i don't want to comment on that. >> why not? >> to be clear, this guy with a thesis that white people are naturally smarter he isn't a temp that the heritage foundation bumped in to and turns out he's an embarrassing past. he is the senior policy analyst for the foundation. as they try to disavow his dissertation, as it is in his student past. today we learned that this guy's whole record of public output is the same stuff. another article from him from march 2010. model minority? kind of a retorial question. hispanics are more likely than whites to commit serious crimes. these findings are not due to age differences or immigration violations or statistical artifacts the reality should be

something we consider when setting immigration policy. that's not from some dissertation that somebody had to dig out of the harvard library. that's on the on-line machine at alternative right.com where they are cutting up onions to make themselves fake cry over the holocaust. where the heritage foundation's author of the immigration study is expounding on the criminality of brown people who we ought to consider keeping out of this country. when the heritage foundation, the leader conservative think tank was considering hiring him, his most recent public output. the thing he was doing on-line the before heritage hired him is writing about the inferiority of latinos as a group and this is the world where the heritage foundation went to to find an author of their study of immigration reform and turns out

their study concludes it is a terrible idea to reform immigration because these immigrants and you know who we mane, these immigrants and their children and grandchildren and everybody in their blood line they are low achieving parasites who will feed on the native born population and that will be expensive. not at all fiscally responsible. we learned all of this today about the character of the opposition to immigration reform in this country. we learned about who's leading the republican charge against immigration reform on the day that immigration reform finally is introduced in the senate. what do those revelations tell us about what happens next on this very, very, very important issue? joining us is a pulitzer prize winning journalist, immigration activist and lived in the united states since he was 12 year old. he didn't know he was here without domination until he tried to get a driver's license. after winning a pulitzer prize he came out about his immigration status.

and he he testified in front of the jew dish kwlar committee in february. great to have you here. >> sorry to unload the creep. >> i'm trying to look at this as an opportunity. i'm trying to look at it as an opportunity where every conservative and republican in this country will say we do not agree with that. we do not stand by that report. we want an actual fair common sense solution to a problem. i hope the heritage foundation keeps him. i hope they keep him and i hope every republican and conservative person says that does not represent me. >> do you think the heritage foundation has been playing a leading role in opposition to immigration reform. >> they have been trying to. numbers hide as much as they reveal. i'm all for people having their opinion. this is america. that's wonderful, but you are not entitled to your own facts. i read that $6.3 trillion.

it said people like me paid $11.2 billion in state and local taxes in 2010. >> their math does not include the idea there is any economic contribution from immigrants at all. they don't put that part of the ledger in to the equation. >> this is a time for an honest, constructive conversation on this issue. not for distractions, not for hateful, racist distractions. this is what this is. >> one reason i wanted to talk to you about this, jose, is because you have been traveling around the country. you are a very eloquent writer. >> oh, thank you. >> one thing you written about is coming up against the counterargument and coming up against a lot of racist arguments in the counterer managerment against racism. this strain has always run through the other side of this

issue? >> it has. and it feeds to the idea that immigration is the most fundamentally misunderstood issue in america. i have been to alabama three times in the past year and a half where jeff sessions is from. the first time i was there -- actually i was on your show in october of 2011. it was interesting to have people tell me oh, so you are not mexican. because people -- >> but you are an immigrant how can you not -- >> i'm from the philippines. >> but you speak english so good. >> i would like to think that as a product of the public education system of this country i thank my teachers for teaching me english and speaking it well. there's a narrative that not only are we low iq people, that we taking and taking and taking. not bringing in to mind not only the billions of dollars that we provide economically to this country, right? but also the cultural contributions that we bring to this country. again, i think what we have here

is a side show distraction that has gone main stream and it is time for every conservative and republican in this count say we do not stand with that. >> do you think it can be clarifying? you are saying you are seeing it apz an opportunity. maybe that could happen. the heritage foundation, analysis we are not going that direction now that we see the tree from which this person's fruit has fallen. i know you hope for that to happen. do you think that will happen? >> i don't think so. all i know is i have been to the heritage foundation. i spoke there in 2008 when i was a "washington post" reporter. i would love to go back to the heritage foundation. i think the heritage foundation owes undocumented people like me a platt platform. i think we should go to the heritage foundation and talk to them about immigration. >> i'd cover it if it happens. >> please, please. jim demint, i'd love to come. >> he never returns my calls but if he is watching right now i'd love for him to call. much more ahead including

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kids were home alone when they found a handgun. they are treating it as accidental but the investigation is continuing. last week a 5-year-old boy in southern kentucky playing with a..22 caliber rifle that was his that he had been given as a gift. he was 5 years old. his gun was loaded and he shot and killed his sister. the nra headline is that guns don't kill people, people kill people. that guns aren't the problem but bad people are the problem. it's hard to see how that applies when the shooter is 5 years old in texas or kentucky. when the shooter is 3 years old in florida. the answer to this cannot be that this is a bad person with a gun who needs to be stopped by a good person with a gun. the slogans do not help us here. it is hard to tell if the last few days, this headlines over the last few days represent a lot of gun violence involving

american kids relatively speaking. is this an unusually large number of incidents like this? it is hard to trace the numbers and figure it out f. this rash of headlines is normal. it is possible it is normal and all the reason the headlines seem like a lot is we are paying more attention. and if it is that we are paying more attention we are paying that because of newtown. newtown elementary school shooting was in december. part of the reason means we are paying more attention to gun crimes and the relationships between kids and gun crimes is because the families of newtown are not letting us stop. francine wheeler who lost her 6-year-old son ben in newton delivered the president's weekly address, grieving for the senate to pass reforms. mark barden who lost his 7-year-old son in newton, introduced president obama the day the senate rejected background checks. the first federal political battle was lost last month to a

republican philly buster but the people who led that battle are still leading and making it so clear that this really was the first battle and this is not done. joining us for the interview is mark barden. his son was one of the 20 kids and six adults lost there on december 14th . mr. barden is a member of the sandy hook promise. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me, rachel. >> i know that you were involved in lobbying the connecticut legislature to pass the reforms that they did. we saw you pledging not to give up at the federal level. you were in delaware yesterday, i have been told. where else have you been working? what has it been like to talk to legislators about such a personal loss? >> it's interesting to find these are just people like us. they are just regular folks, moms, dads, grandparents. they understand this.

they know what happened here. so i find it -- i scratch my head where they can say no to these common-sense solutions and when i say common sense this is just about firearm safety. it is not infringing on anyone's second amendment rights and if you think it does you haven't read the bill. >> you said with such eloquence and drama actually after the senate made that first -- after the background checks fell to the fill buster that this was not over, that this is just the beginning. that you are not going anywhere. how does that manny fest? what happens next? >> if we have to go state by state we will. we were in delaware, new jersey, connecticut and go on our free will. we go because we think we can make a difference. we can put a face on the tragedy and if i were support and encouragement can help to get

some responsible legislation across the finish line that is what we will do and we are not giving up at the federal level either. >> you say we go on our own free lchl some politicians criticized newtown families for doing this work calling you pawns or puppets, or being used by the president. what is your reaction to that? >> do you not think i have my own reasons for this doing this? here. let me show you. is that not reason enough? senator jim inhofe said we have no business engaging in debate and i called his office and asked to speak with him and he was too busy to speak with me. and i said here's my cell phone. call me. i'm still waiting for him to call me. rand paul has the name notion and if he wants to ask what my know motivation is for advocating a safer culture he can call me too.

>> do you think you could change his sgliend i'd like to ask what are you thinking? why wouldn't i want to do this? >> in term of the background check at the federal level, the way joe manchin has talked about it -- he will be on the last word and i talked to him a couple of weeks ago and he was wearing the sandy hook pin and i said how do you see this. and he said we had majority support and only needed to move a few senators to convince them to say yes. what kind of argument could move senators who filibustered not to do it again. what's convincing? >> i'm trying to find what it is. i don't understand why they need to be convinced unless there is some other force at play. maybe someone else -- maybe they haven't read the bill. maybe they just don't know. i hear this wouldn't stop

newtown. we're not trying to stop newtown. we can't stop newtown. if we can help other families, if we can help reduce gun violence in this nation by all of these minutes, it's not just that, it is not just this, it's everything. safer gun legislation, it is mental health, it's family values, it's community, kektstivety, school safety. it's just all of that. >> can i ask how you and your family are doing these many weeks and months out and how you are coping is changing over time? >> you know, rachel, my wife jackie and i still we cry together every day and we still try to come to terms with is this really possible that this actually happened to us and this community of newtown and man, if that is not evidence that it can happen here it can happen

anywhere. it can happen anywhere, any day. >> mark barden, sandy hook promise. i know -- actually i want to mention that sandy hook promise, the mother's day on-line card that's at the website right now. can you engs plain what that is. >> sandy hook promise, grassroots advocacy group came together from community members of sandy hook. they are posting on the sandy hook promise website a mother's day card to honor the mothers who have lost a child whose children won't be able to wish their mommies a happy mother's day this year and we are asking people to go to the sandy hook promise site and sign the card. >> mark barden, this is very difficult. thank you so much. we'll be right back. come here, boy.

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nuclear warheads. they are stored in bunkers in the high plains of north dakota an the job of the command to essentially baby-sit 150 giant intercontinental ballistic missiles and hundreds of smaller warheads. they guard and maintain our nuclear missiles 24/7 and they are in charge of launching them in some cases if we ever decide to do that. on august 29th, 2007 with, a day like any other at minot one of the weapons handling teams was tasked with transporting soon to be decommissioned cruise missiles. they were supposed to fly them to barksdale air force base, louisiana. they were supposed to fly them to louisiana and they were not supposed to be live nuclear missiles. they were to replace them with dummy weights for balance and send them away. however, instead of retrieving them with dummy weights on them, the crew at minot loaded on the

plane six cruise missiles that had live nuclear warheads on them. they loaded actual nuclear weapons on a b-52 bomber and sent it to louisiana. the pilots had no idea. six nukes with the capacity to cause hiroshima times ten were mistakenly sent on a cross country flight. the bomber was named doom 99. i'm not kidding. it departed on schedule and for the first in 40 years it nuclear bomber crossed air space without clearance. luckily they made their way to louisiana without incident and upon landing they sat unguarded for nine hours until the ground crew there finally realized with a resounding omg they had accidentally acquired six live nuclear weapons they weren't expecting and left them unguarded for nine hours. after that debacle at minot, defense secretary bob gates gave

the boot to the secretary of the air force and the chief of staff and put in place a new system to prevent nuclear weapons from going missing again. whether you think it makes sense to have 5,000 nuclear weapons that we have. whether you can imagine 5,000 targets for things that we may want to one day nuke, as long as we have 5,000 nuclear weapons laying around one response sblt not to lose or drop them or whatever. one measure the air force instituted to prevent another debacle was to implement no warning inspections at air force bases that house nuclear warheads. in march of this year, one inspection took place at minot. thus giving the minot missileeers a chance to redeem themselves after embarrassment. here's some photos. they posted them on their official website afterwards. everything seems fine. everything is smiling and competent looking in the

pictures. they declared the inspection was a success. no more problems at minot, no more nuclear oopsies. what we learned is the inspection in march was not a big success. not only did the base earn a "d" letter grade when it came to their missile launch operations, look at the ap headline here. air force sidelined 17 nuke officers. after that inspection in march, the air force kwooily removed 17 officers at minot from the sensitive duty of standing 24 hour watch over the air force's most powerful nuclear missiles. despite asserting the mission was a success, the ap obtained an e-mail from a deputy commander who wrote after the inspection we are in a crisis right now. the cause of the crisis was described as rot in the crew force.

a problem of motivation, he explained. 17 officers will be assigned for a couple of months. in addition possible disciplinary action, this is amazing, is possible against one officer at minot who investigators found had purposely broken a missile safety rule in an unspecified act that could have compromised the secret codes that enable the launching of the missiles. oh, how desperately i wanted to know what the unspecified act was. the air force initially tried to deal with it quietly by shuffling them off the sidelines for a couple of months and declaring victory in their inspection but the ap's reporting has broken it open. so much so the defense secretary is demanding answers from the air force about what is going on in our nation's nuclear mission. should be noted that chuck hagel's previous life, his life before becoming defense secretary included his membership in a global zero a nuclear policy organization that

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