the transcript, too. he said he did believe the witness felt pressured but perhaps he thought he was being drawn out by republicans to say something more than that. >> that's a bright way of saying he changed his story. he kept talking about sworn testimony. >> sworn testimony. we'll look into that. >> thank you so much. way too early, "morning joe," but in a freaky reversal we now go to chuck todd in new york. i don't get it. >> it is freaky friday. >> welcome to a freaky friday edition. healthy reminder over guns, immigration and the budget, president obama delivers a mother's day message about health care. as tries to urge more young people to sign up for coverage. their response could make or break obamacare. meanwhile, as hillary clinton feels increased heat over benghazi, there's a whole bunch of other 2016 possibilities making their own headlines in key states on big issues and in grand fashion. it's our friday roundup of the

presidential posturing, coming up on the show. community concerns. local officials hear from people in the neighborhood with a shocking decade long abductions took place. the open forum comes as prosecutors say they may seek the death penalty for ariel castro. we'll have all the latest from cleveland this hour. good morning from islam bad, pakistan. it's the day before election day, friday, may 10th, 2013. this "the daily rundown" and here's chuck todd. >> you know, if it's saturday somebody's voting somewhere. right? thanks for sending that greeting all the way from islamabad. as you know, there are some elections going on there. let's get to my first reads of the morning. in 2013, big story lines dominating washington as far as issue agendas will be a combination of three things. first, never to be able to begin budget talks. in the 30 plus days since

they've passed their budgets, the negotiation process has gone approximately nowhere. next week, republicans will hold a special conference meeting to decide what their negotiations are on the debt ceiling. number two, hammering out of an immigration reform bill. it was a 7 1/2 hour markup as the senate judiciary committee debated 32 proposed changes to the gang of eight's bill, rejecting seven and accepting eight proponents. and new gun safety legislation. hitting the pause button on that, on the issue of guns, until immigration is done. for president obama there's a lot riding on whether congress can at least get one of those three items accomplished but no more make or break issue for the president's legacy than the successful implementation of health care. as democrats do their best to sell the imagery of chaos.

in an event pegged to mother's day, president obama will tout the benefits of health care reform to women, their families and pocketbooks. surrounded by women. make no mistake about who the intended audience is. the white house calls mothers the validator for the young and uninsured. the name of the game for the white house through april 1st of next year if health care is going to be successful is to sell enough healthy people under the age of 35 on the benefits of signing up. and the white house believes that they listen to their mothers. that's why this focus on mothers. as right for them in 2013 as it was for them in 2010. >> 72 members with the opportunity to vote on the president's health care law. they've been asking for an opportunity to vote on it and we're going to give it to them.

>> shortly after the 2012 election, boehner called the affordable care act the law of the land. next week will bring the 38th vote in the house to repeal the law. and yesterday the speaker made his opinion on the issue clear. >> going to repeal the law of the land. is that clear? i don't think there's a way to fix this and make it acceptable to the american people. >> mitch mcconnell's office circumstan circulated what's become basically a weekly memo saying the president should rethink the purpose of his event today. quote, i hope he will use it instead as a platform to prepare women for the actual consequences many of them will soon face under obamacare. the president needs to get out of in front of this, quote, train wreck, quoting max baucus, before americans, men and women alike, are completely blindsided by it. first ad pegged to, guess what,

health care. >> obamacare's coming. it's already causing layoffs, higher premiums are next. mitch mcconnell saw it coming, leading the fight against obamacare. >> this bill is a legislative train wreck. >> he was right then and now it's architect is admitting it. >> i can see a huge train wreck coming down. >> you're going to hear those words a lot, particularly with republicans who are worried about republican primaries like mitch mcconnell. the battle over what happened in benghazi has become a full-on partisan fight. democrats see a political fishing expedition, republicans see a scandal. a chance to say there you go again on each side of this in the last 24 hours. yesterday, house speaker john boehner called for the release of an e-mail from the state department, all the e-mails the day after the attack that he says will prove the administration suspected islamic

extremists from the start. >> understand the reason this is still under way is because the white house has done everything possible to block access to the information that would outline the truth. and the question you have to ask is why. >> congressional investigators believe if they make the e-mails public, if these e-mails go public, thist will connect the dot dots on to who was pushing the rewrites. bottom line, it points the finger at the state department. state was doing the talking point scrubbing. not only dick cheney was on the hill to talk to house republicans, who saw lawmakers should subpoena the former secretary of state, but lynnd lynndie -- lindsey graham. >> we have four dead americans

here. i don't expect the president to be impeached. i don't expect that. i do expect the truth to come out. how did it become a death trap? why were we so blind in washington to the real security concerns on the ground? >> remember when we said yesterday it wouldn't take a political genius to use clinton's 3:00 am at ad against her? rnc put an ad together last cycle which the romney campaign vetoed. >> it's 3:00 am. your children are safe asleep. there's a phone in the white house and it's ringing. something is happening in the world. [ phone ringing ] >> today it's karl rove's group,

american crossroads also out with a video asking, quote, why did clinton blame a video? was she part of a cover-up? americans deserve the truth. in an op-ed, florida's marco rubio writes, new questions about secretary of state clinton's role in the story of a spontaneous demonstration. overplaying their political hand? one of the questions out there now are enough to make everybody ask more questions of the state department. though they may be able to put chinks in hillary clinton's armor in an odd way if clinton can cry politics, it will end up not hurting her as much. this is the fallout on the political front. there are a lot of questions about what was state's role in all of this, in the aftermath. that brings us to our friday daily rundown roundup of all things 2016. there's still almost 1,000 votes until the first votes in the 2016 contest.

tonight, kentucky senator rand paul kicks off his scouting at the annual spring fund-raising event called the lincoln day dinner in secedar rapids. issuing a public invitation and to any and all 2016 candidates. quote, i've always had out the welcome mat. we certainly want all who have an interest. iowa's kind of a grassroots state. chris christie had lap band surgery. christie said he will be viable if he chooses to run in 2016. >> if you ran as a republican for president of the united states, what republican party do you see that would support your candidacy out there right now? how would you survive a primary process? >> i could very well. i'll worry about the presidency if and when i ever decide to run for it. if you're saying to me how do i feel as a republican? i'm a damn good republican. >> another guy he's talking about as presidential prospects,

vice president biden, joking at the national fire institute about the 2016 speculation. >> i know the press often points out that i try to get elected president twice and never made it. but i want you to know in 2004, i made it. i'm a president emeritus of the delaware volunteer fire association. so i have made it to the presidency. >> biden spoke to a story. and article in "rolling stone" don't miss the unmistakable message i just had lunch with the president. i spend four to five hours a day with him. when i speak, no one doubts that i speak for the president. literally, every meeting he he has, i'm in. he may have spoken out of school a bit in south carolina last week. check out this blog from a sierra club volunteer. quote, vice president joe biden

made my year by telling me that he does not support the keystone pipeline, looked at the sierra club hat on my head and said, yes, i do. i share your views, but i am in the minority, and he smiled. interesting. hillary clinton may be landing in the gop crosshairs after a four-year hiatus. still leading all contenders people like mcdonnell and chris christie. andrew cuomo went on the air with a clean up albany campaign that sounds and looks like a message one could hear from a presidential candidate. maryland governor martin o he'malley released one more attention-grabbing photo, rubbing noses with the tibetan spirlt leader, the dalai lama. he has that going for him, which is nice. major milestone for the market this week. stock surge is the broader economic picture getting any brighter? steve liseman joins us next, who

just had a meeting with jack lew. prince harry's u.s. tour takes a more somber term. today he is expected to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns in arlington national cemetery later this hour. we'll bring that to you live when that happens. politics planner for the day. told you a lot about it. the big stuff. political junkies. rand paul begins the 2016 campaign. you're watching "the daily rundown." we'll be right back. switch your car insurance to geico and we could help you save on boat and motorcycle insurance too. other insurance companies are green with envy. oh, no, no, no...i'm sorry, but this is all wrong? i would never say that. writer: well what would you say? gecko: well i'd probably emphasize the savings. ya know...lose that green with envy bit. rubbish. it's just a reference about my complexion. writer: but the focus groups thought that the... gecko: focus groups. geico doesn't use focus groups. uhh...excuse me. no one told me we were using focus groups. vo: geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance.

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a lot of big stories this we week. as washington debates a lot of them, gun control, immigration, benghazi, the most important issue for americans is still the economy. one of the more undercovered stories of the week was the dow, off to its biggest yearly start in more than a decade, reaching another impressive milestone tuesday, closing above the 15,000 mark for the first time in history. washington's push against it with the failed talks over the sequester. maybe because hitting all-time highs isn't that unique for the index. reaching that 1,060. it now beats its own record oncy month. joining me now is an old friend of "the daily rundown," steve liseman, who just sat down with for an interview with treasury secretary jack lew. is the economy -- we know what the dow is doing. we know what the market is

doing. is the economy recovering? you watch these numbers on all other parts of the metrics. is it recovering? >> chuck, first, i want to applaud your instinct on this story. it is easily the most socially or culturally unremarked millennimill enial milestone. if the dow hits a milestone and no one is around to hear it, does it matter? maybe around 1 1/2 to two in the second quarter as the sequester hits. the market may be looking through this, sees that job growth has held up. i don't think the economy is as exuberant as the market is making it out to be. you could definitely justify some of these numbers we've seen in the dow with some of the numbers we've had in the economy, chuck. >> i want toply a clip of what jack lew said to you with the

sequester and the economic impact he believes it's having. here it is. >> i look at sequestration, which was a policy that was designed never to take effect, one of the things that has to be understood about it, it takes half or more percent out of our gdp, which translates into 17,500. to create 750,000 jobs, you would be a hero. >> so, obviously, we know this. the administration has said this. and even some republicans admit that sequester is putting a brick, if you will, on the economy. 500 to 750,000 jobs. the problem is that you're getting the growth that's out there about 2, 2.5%, the job growth in the economy. the urgency, chuck, to deal with

the sequester issues has really gone away. while in europe they're talking about more growth and less austerity, in the united states the urgency to really attack the sequester debate. what was interesting is the debt ceiling now, because the government budget numbers have been better, that's been pushed ahead now to labor day before we're going to have to deal with that again. and one of the things lew said to me was i hope congress doesn't use this rebrief to really dally on the issue. he wants congress to attack the debt ceiling during the summer. >> watching the dow and watching investors trying to make their own predictions about the economy, how much of this is a point that maybe we're at a jobless recovery, that basically corporate america -- the global corporate world figured out how to do more with less and, by the way, they're getting really good at doing more with less so there's no incentive on their part to, quote, create jobs. >> i think that's something that everybody is thinking deeply

about and nobody has good answers, chuck. there are those republicans, obviously, who say that it's a matter of the regulatory wedge. in ord in other words, making it harder to hire employees. globalization, a lot of things working against the average worker today. one of the things that we see is that even among those getting jobs, wage growth has been very substandard for a recovery. while we did do 165,000 jobs, chuck, it would not be surprising to anybody if this economy were to do 300,000, 350,000 jobs a month given the pool of available labor, millions of people who have been long term unemploy ed. those who were underemployed, working part time for economic reasons, it would be perfectly within the bounds of normal recoveries to do 300,000 and we've just never gotten there in this recovery, check. >> you're watching jack lew on

the world stage a little bit. tim gieith nechlt r was always trying to get them to do other things, steer away from the austerity crisis. is jack lew trying to be that kind of guy or strike out on his own? >> definite continuation of u.s. policy. tim geithner got slapped around a little bit for coming over here, urging more growth, less austerity. jack lew is continuing the same thing but there's something that's uniquely different. the data, chuck, has shown that growth is better than austerity in the wake of these financial crisis. number of academic papers on the side of jack lew now. more importantly are the results. europe, their unemployment rate is still rising. economies are still shrinking. in the u.s. we've talked about

the data here. it is certainly much better. and what jack lew said he believes there's more receptivity here in the u.s. i don't think he will suffer the consequences that tim geithner suff suffered. >> always traveling with the u.s. treasury secretary. good to have you on. it's been too long. >> thank you, chuck. worry live in cleveland with more on the case against ariel castro. plus, proof that chemical weapons have been used in syria. queen elizabeth ii only met with one u.s. president while she was a princess. who was it? and the math should dictate that, right? first person to tweet the correct answer to @chucktodd or @dailyrundown will get a shout out. to setting the bar high by going low. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 like offering schwab etfs tdd# 1-800-345-2550 with the lowest operating expenses tdd# 1-800-345-2550 in their respective lipper categories -- tdd# 1-800-345-2550

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we just learned that the cleveland police have the paternity test results on amanda berry's daughter. this, as prosecutors say they are considering the death penalty for ariel castro. >> each and every act of sexual violence, all his attempted murders and each act of aggravated murder he committed by terminating pregnancies. >> we're learning more about what castro told investigators during his initial interrogation. nbc achlt affiliate wkyc that castro described himself as cold blooded and addicted to sex. last night cleveland police held a community meeting a block way from where the women were rescued. some residents expressed gratitude to the police for rescuing the girls, others voiced the frustration with the ov overall safety of their neighborhood. >> what are you doing to protect our children? >> i have a sister that's

missing. and it seems like second district doesn't care. >> on a regular basis our officers are sent out to search for missing persons. we don't give up on your loved ones. >> when you have a missing person, be you need to be diligent and you need to get on us if we're not doing what you think we should be doing, okay? one thing about the dejesus and berry family, they were on us and at all times. >> craig melvin is live in cleveland. he attended that meeting last night. i can't help but wonder the larger societal fallout from cleveland is this issue, how many cities in america where you know this is the conversation that goes on in poorer neighborhoods. the police and community leaders only do what they have to do in our neighborhood. they're not truly there. they don't put the effort in that the neighborhood gets neglected not just by the rest of the city but by the leaders and law enforcement.

>> reporter: surprisingly, that meeting was a calm exchange between law enforcement and city leaders and folks who live in the neighborhood. for the most part. they did spend a fair amount of time talking about steps to take moving forward. among them, a better, more robust community watch group. talked about put iting up more lights in this neighborhood. they also talked about becoming nosey neighbors. we spent a fair amount of time over the past few days talking to folks who live here, chuck. they will tell you -- they will tell you that this is one of those neighborhoods where sometimes you might see things but you don't always pick up the phone and call the police. >> right. >> reporter: because if you did, you would be calling the police very, very frequently. so, it's that kind of neighborhood. you mentioned the dna test results and the paternity test results. >> right. >> reporter: we know the police have. we're hearing that the police have those results. at this point we do not know whether they will be releasing those results today.

we should also point out here, they're not saying that there's some sort of definitive link between ariel castro and other missing persons, that this is something that they routinely do when they get someone like this. they take the dna and compare that dna to other missing persons cases. >> and the idea of going for the death penalty, in trying to get a murder charge for the miscarriages, that's a tough -- that's actually usually tough to prove in a court of law. >> reporter: it is, yes. it's very difficult to prove. some of the folks we've talked to, chuck, have indicated they would be perhaps a little surprised if it got that far. to this point, ariel castro has been cooperating with investigators. he cooperated initially. there's some talk that this thing might not even get to trial. >> craig melvin on the scene for us in cleveland.

prime minister told nbc's ann curry he has proof that al assad's regime has used chemical weapons. >> it is clear that the regime has used chemical weapons and missiles. they used about 200 missiles, according to our intelligence. and it's even more but not less. how can you remain silent? a strong country like the united states, country like russia, they should not remain silent. >> prime minister did not provide nbc news with the hard evidence he claims he has of the chemical attack but said he will share it with president obama during his trip to washington next week. nearly 400 hours buried in the rubble of a garment factory collapse in bangladesh, a woman

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information had been shared. running for his 18th term in 2014, representative hall, calling it his mission to see that a republican is elected to the white house in 2016. the houston chronicle saying he wa wants to take on president obama. symbolic structural height of 1,776. one world trade center is now the largest -- tallest building in the western hemisphere and third tallest building in the world. up next, caught in the worldwide web. imagine giving up the internet for a full year. try a day or a week. we'll talk to a tech writer who did just that and he survived to tell the tale. taking a deep dive into what happened when he unplugged for a

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it's friday. i imagine you're feeling like wouldn't it be great to unplug, get off the grid? on the internet we joked it's a series of tubes but most of us rely heavily on those tubes to get through the day. what would happen if the option to surf the web wasn't there for a year. we take a look into one man's deep dive disconnect. what would you miss if you were offline for the past 365 days? billions and billions of tweets, few big names that have joined the twitter verse. pope benedict joined the twitter feed. now it's used by pope francis. and the flotus account. former president bill clinton came on the twitter scene with coaxing from comedian stephen

colbert. let's not forget all the means, olympic gymnast not impressed, so viral that president obama got in on the deal. hit the internet by storm talking to an empty chair. think of the countless number of activities we do online. banking, e-mail, shopping. have we become so overwhelmed with technology it's making us less creative, out of touch with reality, maybe even stupid? one man thought so and he quit the internet a year ago. senior ed for for the verge.com. paul miller. your motivation to do this, it seemed, was you thought am i living -- am i too connected? am i no longer learning? do i no longer have the ability to read anything beyond 140

characters? what did you learn? >> i got some more attention span. i didn't know all those things i missed. >> wow! >> that's a lot of things. >> that's cool. >> that's a lot of stuff. >> was your life really affected if you didn't know those things? >> no. >> exactly. >> that was a lot of what i learned was, you know, stepping away from the internet, i thought what i would miss was those things and -- but i was doing it in exchange for being free from all the distraction of those things. >> the argument you were making. all of these distractions, sitting there, always checking e-mail, your text, twitter. did it make it so that you couldn't get through a 10,000-word magazine essay? >> yeah, a little bit. if you have the willpower, you can make it through 10,000 words. i've read 10,000 words before. after i left the internet, my mind calmed down a little bit. there's a lot of noise that the internet introduces into your mind. it was a huge relief when i left the internet. i felt so free and at peace.

now when i came back on the internet for the first few days, i was like -- the first night i almost had a panic attack. it was so scary to me. >> too overwhelming? >> so overwhelming, having a few browser tabs open there was a lot of anxiety there. removing myself from that noise did introduce a lot of peace and a lot of -- to read for a longer period of time, write more clearly. but there was also some downsides. >> i was just going to say, about halfway through, six months into it, you thought what's the big deal? >> yeah. >> maybe the internet wasn't to blame for your attention span or whatever it was you were focusing on. >> turned out to be the same person. and, you know, yes, my mind was clear enough that i could read a book. but maybe i didn't want to read a book. so maybe i played a video game, with a very clear mind really concentrated on that video game. it was still totally possible to waste time. i thought the part of the internet i would miss would be the hilarious videos and

twitter. i did miss twitter but what i really missed was people. i was out of sync with people. >> that's the part that's the community now? >> yeah. the loose ties of twitter. the stronger ties of facebook, really strong ties of skype and face time. people are on the internet and i really missed out on that. >> paul miller, i will leave it there. verge.com. you chronicled this for a year. very interesting. maybe you'll inspire others to do this. live pictures here of prince harry about to lay a wreath -- just laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns earlier this morning. he visited what's known as section 60, the portion of arlington national cemetery reserved for veterans killed in iraq and afghanistan since 2001. he will meet with wounded warriors that are undergoing

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called markups on washington speaks. beat back an effort from republicans to make substantial changes. it wasn't easy politics. >> no one can dispute that this bill is legalization first, enforcement later. >> i've introduced amendments to remove the pathway to citizenship for those who are here illegally and make them ineligible for means tested government benefits. >> don't make an effort to kill a bill that is the best hope for immigration reform, i believe, that we've had in this country. >> bring in our friday gaggle. senior fellow. welcome. >> thank you. >> maggie, i want to start with you. immigration effort, the other voices we were missing were jeff sessions and chuck grassley complaining that this gang of eight stuck together and killed

all these amendments that they were trying to do. >> yes. >> that's what sthe said they were going to do. rubio and schumer are as one in this. >> they are and i think they're benefiting at least from the noise outside the senate committee about the heritage foundation. it is much easier for someone like rubio, who has been very much under fire -- there was a big question of how hard he would stick to maintain the course i think you will see them hold together right now. schumer is getting other crosswind pressure but for now they will hold. >> one amendment that didn't get brought up, bob, is the issue of same-sex couples in this idea of getting -- bringing over citizenship. >> right. >> and the thought was that was going to go. that's not one that the gang of eight will be able to stick together on. >> no. and, you know, the truth is that they really don't want to touch that. i mean, even the ones who are supporters would like, you know, some magical way for this to go away. >> if it's going to recognize the whole bill, they would prefer not to deal with it. >> so i don't think it will not

get dealt with. it will not be part of the package coming out of the senate. the thing that strikes me, with all the talk of immigration, you still have the house to deal with out there. what's going to happen? >> there's always the house. clearly, this is an effort, you know, one of the things schumer's office put out immediately, the entire gang of eig eight, we accepted eight republican proposals to improve enforcement because they do -- they are trying -- bob brought up the house. this is about getting 70 senators to support, finding 15 to 20 republicans to get on board. >> and showing finally a little bipartisanship in congress and doing that theater, which is, you know, from a layperson's point of view at least -- >> it looks theatrical. >> pretty constructive. it was nice. it would be nice if they worked so hard on the budget. >> you brought up bipartisanship. there were two other stories so proformer lately, maggie. that they say we're just going to stand in the way of a couple of cabinet nominees. used to be big news when this

happened. >> correct. >> gina mccarthy, both of them got held up and stuck this week. i've had an administration official admit to me they don't expect to get them both through. >> no. >> they know they are going to lose one. they just don't know which one. >> correct. in the case of mccarthy especially. politics are interesting because it involves -- but you're absolutely right. this seems like it's a small potato thing in comparison of the fight we saw over hagel, brennan. this has become the new norm. it used to be that the presidential prerog was taking very serious. >> it was continued with bush nominees. this is not healthy. rhadika just brought up being a layperson saying, hey, immigration is constructive. this is not constructive. >> it seems to be becoming the norm. the government won't work. our government is not set up. it's not constructed to work

under those kinds of circumstances. the party in power -- we accept the election when there's a presidential election. and the administration has these prerogatives and they're generally acknowledged except in certain circumstances. now it's not acknowledged and obstructionism, at least from the standpoint of the gop, is becoming the norm. government breaks down when that becomes the norm. >> and does have an impact on real people. >> you want to have people in these jobs. they are very important jobs. for them to sit vacant and for them to be the subject of debate about things that are fairly ar arc archean seems wasteful. >> the other big news of the week has been benghazi and hillary clinton. queen elizabeth ii met with only one u.s. president while she was princess. she was very young at the time. who was it? harry truman. then she and prince philip came

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let's bring back the gaggle. maggie, hillary clinton, benghazi, it's the political war seems to have been started, but there is actual evidence now that raises more questions that the state department needs to answer and the white house seems to be somewhat complicit somewhere along the road. did they do it because they just wanted to get state off their back, what the motivation was is unclear. but clearly state was worried in those initial few days about their reputation. >> there have been a lot more reports in the last couple of

days about the editing of the talking points, the concerns from the state department, the person in question, she is not a partisan hack. she is someone who has worked there for a long time. that doesn't change the basic question which is as you say there are real issues to look at. that however then becomes the leap to this is watergate is where -- >> the problem is this is where hillary clinton is going to benefit it seems a little bit in this one respect is if her opponents try to hard. >> this is where the republicans just so frequently seem to be tone deaf. if they want to just come down on hillary, clobber, clobber, clobber, looking at 2016, it will backfire. and it will go to the benefit of hillary clinton. >> but -- >> the question, if they address it as serious lens ladge late t

trying to get to the answers of a serious issue, that's one thing. but i think that they find it irresistible to just pound, pound, pound. and i think that will back fire. >> do they go after the unwinding of state diplomatic security. >> i think even state in the aftermath agreed that things -- that there could have been things done differently. i feel like after the hearings this week, there was still no major smoking gun, and it still seems that even if you believe there was intentional cover up or you don't or where you fall on those sides -- >> but there is a gray area which is there was lapses at state and by the way the pickering report is pretty rough on state and now that is going to be i think something that hillary has to live with for a while. anyway, shameless plugs. maggie. >> i have a piece on this very topic on the politico right now on the hillary/benghazi and how

the layoff of her on the right is officially over. >> and you'll watch her numbers will change because she had always gotten a soft artificial bump from republicans. bob. >> the great bruno mars will be performing at the posse foundation gala on may 22nd. that's my wife's organization. >> and now that song will be in my head over and over. >> the cover of "time" this week, millennials. they're lazy, narcicisstic, but they will save us all. >> as long as we're blaming the baby boomers. >> we can shoulder it. >> that's it for the daily rundown. have a great weekend. coming up next, chris jansing. a couple areas of severe weather we'll keep an eye on can today especially great lakes moving in to ohio and

pennsylvania this afternoon. and also earlier today, down through louisiana, moving in to mississippi, we could see large hail and gusty winds out of both of those rounds of storms. boston today, 76. new york city should hit 80 with thunderstorms.

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accused of kidnapping three women. five pregnancies ended after she wasedly punched in the stomach. >> i fully intend to seek charges for each rape, each day of kidnapping, every felonious assault, all his attempted murders and each act of aggravated murder he committed by terminating pregnancies that the offender perpetuated against the hostages during this decade-long ordeal. >> msnbc's craig melvin is live in cleveland. craig, how many charges might we be talking about here all together? >> reporter: well, we could be talking about dozens if not hundreds of charges based on that news conference yesterday. but i've been talking to a source close to the investigation who indicated that he would be