the union more than they trust the mayor. >> that's going to be politically problematic. >> you don't have a clear vision and you just keep using sound bites what it is you want to do. people are starting to get tired of that. it is wearing thin. >> pedro, karen lewis, teachers union. thank you. that's all about tp t"the rache maddow show" starts seven second late. sorry, my friend. >> i'll get it back from you, chris! happy friday. it is map time. this is the u.s./canadian border, here in the northeast. you can see, green is land and blue is water. you have the u.s. mainland. canadian mainland. and then a few really dramatic bodies of water. obviously the giant hulking atlanta ocean off to the east on the right side of your screen. but then those really big bodies of water inland. great lakes.

what if you could get from the ocean into those inland lakes on a boat? that would be a miracle, right? if you think about it, if that was true, you could ship stuff across the sea but instead of having to drop stuff off at some east coast port you could drop it like all wait into ohio. you could just get to those great lakes from the sea. centuries, that was pipe dream. for the u.s. and canada and that what that means in international commerce. but our countries come up with a big thinking solution. and that is called the st. lawrence sea way. there is a series of canals, dams and locks and turned the st. louis river into an onramp to the great lakes. a giant highway that connect the atlantic ocean to the great lakes so you can traverse it by boat.

saint lawrence sea way revolutionized commerce. you can sail from newfoundland to toledo. that came about because in part by the amount two was president at time. dwight eisenhower. canada wanted to, but the u.s. was himming and you whatting. but then ike got it dawn. st. lawrence sea way opened in 1959. the sea way created tens of thousands of jobs and the incredible feat of connecting the great lakes to the ocean. you may not like the consequences, but he had consequences. before he was president, you might remember that he kind of won world war ii. at least the part of it in europe. he was the supreme commander of

the allied forces in europe. than he connected the atlanta ocean to the great lakes. ike also managed to add who two whole new states to our union. alaska and hawaii. both of those states became state under dwight eisenhower. but with the globe-changing accomplishments, there was one other achievement of the eisenhower presidency that ike saw just as important as other things we just describe ped. nbc news sat down with dwight eisenhower after his presidency. it was in color. an amazing thing. here is how the president answered an open question put to him about what he thought were his major accomplishment. watch it. >> you got a number of things done that had been on the agenda of both parties for a long time. st. lawrence sea way. and the admittance of alaska and hawaii to the union.

and another one, that i more than anyone else thought of, i guess, an interstate highway program. all of these things took a lost persuasion before you could get them on the books. >> alaska, hawaii, connected the atlantic ocean to the great lakes. and also the interstate highway program. the interstate highway program, we think of it as kind after gimme. eisenhower con injured up the idea then knew he had to sell the idea to the american public because it was a huge undertaking. but list why enlisten to this. this is eisenhower speaking in 1954. listen to him making the case. >> this is the greatest construction program in the entire history of the nation. we are pushing ahead with the great road program. a road program that will take

this nation out of its shackles of secondary road all over this country and give us places like -- give us the types of highways that we need for this great mass of automobiles. >> we look back on that national project and think, of course we needed the interstate highways. for commerce if nothing else. but dwight eisenhower had to go out and make that case. it was hard but finally in 195 of he signed in aid the federal highway law. that lead to interstate. it was sort after grand vision that eisenhower had in behind when he signed that bill. in order to create the grand vision to interlinked interstate highways it meant building big new road that didn't exist at all but also meant existing smaller roads. building them out and making them inner connected.

and that interconnecting of roads and bridges, is how this bridge in 1955 became part of eisenhower's grand plan. this became new a new interstate 5 marked in red along the west of your screen. it goes from the canadian border in the north and mexican border of the south. this bridge north of seattle is a steel truss bridge. in the 19 as when we were builting up our highway system, this was basic lay ubiquitous design. sturdy and dependable. cost competitive and highly versatile. they were everywhere. one of the distinguishing features of bridges built like this is the specific way in which they distribute their weight. the principle upon which all trusses rely is the triangle is the strongest and most rigid geometric figure. when you look at steel truss bridges like this one north of seattle, you can see that it is,

see all of the triangles, made of these different triangles. interconnected triangle forms a helps steel truss bridges carry a really heavy load. i always thought these were cool looking. also some bridges like this have a an important problem. the name for that problem will bother you and stick with you. these pij bridges are known to be what is called fracture critical. fracture critical bridges don't havery dundant supporting element. in this case redundancy is a good thing. not having redundant supporting elements means if part of it fails, it all goes. if one support system fails for any reason the entire bridge is in danger of collapsing. if fracture critical. this is not how we build bridges any more. there is lack of redendantsy in their design. they are like towers. one expert complained about fracture critical bridges today.

it doesn't imply anything wad bad about the bridge. it just means if a certain component fails it could lead to the collapse of the bridge. oh, is that all? nothing bad. the reason that expert was being interviewed about the seattle press is because of this. last night, around 7. okay p.m. local time, a major section of that 195 5 era steel truss bring just north of seattle collapsed into the skagit river. two cars going across the bridge at the time made a terrifying 25-foot plunge into the river below. amazingly no one was killed. the three occupant of the two cars, pulled out of the water alive with minor injuries. they are expected to be fine. what officials believe caused the collapse last night is this. we today put an arrow there, because otherwise you wouldn't know what we were talking about bp that little dent, this is the top of a tractor trailer truck. that dent is believed to be the result of that truck hitting

into one of the steel beams on the bridge. then jenga style, right? this is security camera video released within the last few years. you can see the truck on the left approach the bridge. then apparently it clips one of those steel trusses and you see the entire span of the bridge fall into the water. in an instant. this is a fracture critical bridge. one thing goes, the whole thing goes. and it was an oversized truck legally traversing the bridge. the truck had a permit for the load. but regardless of the permit, the oversized load hit the bridge in just the right way and collapsed the bridge to collapse into the water. bang. there are no real bad eyes here, at least that we can tell, yet. there does not appear to be a villain that caused the bridge collapse. but this is a problem that really needs to be fixed. this spt the only bridge like

this. are there good guys willing to do the job, even when bad guys vanquish. more than a third of the bridges in the state of past their design line of 50 years. in washington state alone there are three bridges, not the one that collapsed, that are considered to be structure little deficient. the one that did collapse is not rated structurally deficient. there is a structure issue where to you hit one part of it, the whole thing goes into the water. we inhertitied a great instra touk tour and the poem who have the forsite to use it. but we haven't exactly been using what they give us.

president obama through all five years of presidency has been calling for making investment in the infrastructure. most recently making that call in miami. the president calling for a deficit neutral infrastructure bank that would involve a public partner partnership. at the president's state of the union, he called out by name our nation's structurally defish end bridges. he said we should have a fix-it first program to vul after the fix these product. weigh, everybody applaud him, then nothing. a lot of applaud, virtually every year, but no investment. does the bridge, falling into the water north of seattle, change any of that political

calculation. also on the house transportation committee, congressman, thank you for being with us. thanks for your time. >> thank you. i'm here to talk about something that frankly a lot of folks don't talk about. >> i wonder, if you think this bridge in your district, falling into skagit river. everyone is grateful no one was killed. do you feel this is occasion for a new round of national talking about this issue? >> i certainly hope it is. i think it creates jobs and it invests in the future. there is nothing wrong with

doing it. >> we have invested as much as we can in this. it would be nice to do more. but right now, basically we don't have very much money in the short term. maybe we can plan this for the long-term but we have to hold out and hope the stuff stays together well enough in order to patch us through at times when we've got maybe an ability to patch into a rainy day fund or something. >> yeah. i think right now we are in the long-term period. and we are approaching the end of the long-term period. and heading off beyond that into nowhere. it is time to begin reinvesting in infrastructure. the president imposed a fix-it first fund of $50 billion. that is good as for as it gez. we clearly, this bridge we clearly do need to fix some part of our infrastructure. we also know we can make a long-term investment at roads, bridges, highways and creates

jobs for folks to do the work. we know to be competitive with other countries. they doing these things and investing in roads, bridges, highways, rail and they aren't doing it. >> i'm told congressman larson that members of your staff have been at that bridge scene since last night. i know you spoke with the transportation secretary. how do you think the response has been to the collapse? >> i was born and raised in my district. i spent many, many of my years going up and down i-5, across that bridge. the communities there hang together, stay together. i want to give a shout out to secretary ray lahood. i know he is leaving his job soon but he was on the job today. i spoke with him this morning. he assured me that dollars are available to help through emergency relief fund. they have released $1 million. the estimate is $15 million fix.

so we still have a little bit to go but they released early dollars to get started on the design for construction of a replacement and repair. >> congressman rick larsen of washington state. i'm sorry this happened in your district. i'm glad the injuries weren't worse and not in was killed. thanks for being with us. >> i appreciate being on tonight. thanks so much. >> all right. newt gingrich. before newt gingrich was known primarily as a salesman of many fine newt gingrich books, dvds and certificates of entrepreneurship, all 19.95, newt gingrich was famous before that for one really bold, really, really bad political move that he made almost 20 years ago now. how the united states government gingriched itself and made newt's mistake itself today. that's next. all business purchases.

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covering the event, they held their own brief moment of silence after putting wreaths at the memorial. just them. this year the commemoration became a freelance gig for those patriotic americans working on their own. the park service usually paid about thousand bucks, this year they could not do it. this year, the sequester, nearly agreed upon to be stupid self inflicted problem in washington, made it so the park service had to cut back and could not pay for the program this year. also today because of the same self inflicted washington policy that nobody thinks is a good idea but that we're doing anyway, also today the epa stopped working on criminal investigations and today the epa did no site inspections anywhere in the country. white house office budget did not do any managing of the budget. because of the stupid budget problem that no one want anybody

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more congressional hearings on the irs are expected at the beginning of june but the agency in the meantime is responding to a matter horn mountain size with congress. with staff in washington and the cincinnati field office. none of that work happened today because the irs had a furlough day today. wait they are going to fix it and make sure it never happens again is likely to be something having to do with increased training, right? increased training particularly for the kind of low level irs employees who we know carried out the policy that upset everyone in washington so much. especially hit area in the irs budget by the sequester is the irs training budget. so we're doing less of that now than ever. times like this in the news are sometimes overwhelming. almost like the new problems we are creating can barely keep up with the old ones we are not fixing. we just didn't know that our plants did, too.

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statewide candidate. this is ken cuccinelli from virginia. he has been attorney general defending sodomy laws, trying to defend gay people having sex. he also wants it hound a virginia professor, leading scientist on climate change. he has been moving heaven and earth in virginia to close down the state's abortion clinics. one of his first acts of attorney general was to advise state universities they should not feel constrained by anti-discrimination laws. he wrote to them to ensure them, just in case they wanted to, it would be okay if they wanted to fire a professor just for being gay. he wanted to let them know it was all right and wanted a lady on the common wealth seal it put some freakin' clothes on. can't she cover up? ken cuccinelli is running for

governor in virginia. he apparently decided this year that he could not secure the republican nomination for governor in his state in the usual way. virginia republicans usually pick their nominees by holding a primary where everybody across the state gets to vote. but what ken cuccinelli needed in order to get the republican nomination was just for a few people to vote. the right few people. the very, very, very far right few people. and so ken cuccinelli used his whiles and political muscle to change the rule. this year they pick the nominee for governor, not by statewide vote in primary but instead in convention because conventions are where the ideological hard cores go for a weekend of tri color hats and keep the government off your lawn. ken cuccinelli got that convention that he wanted. last weekend at the convention, he got the nomination for governor in virginia. because the middle is where you win a general election in a

purple state like virginia, ken cuccinelli has sort of reisn'tly tried to stop himself from talking so much about nonhet ro intercourse and things he build on. but fly in the ointment, which probably isn't legal in virginia any more either. ken cuccinelli is not the only statewide candidate who was picked at the convention last weekend. they also picked the rest of the state that cuccinelli will run with. >> democratic party created an unholy alliance between certain so-called civil right leaders and planned parenthood which is kill unborn black babies by tens of millions. planned parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the kkk ever was.

>> meet bishop e.w. jackson. the running mate of ken cuccinelli. it is as though virginia republicans thought ken cuccinelli would find sprint together political middle to easy so they attached bishop jackson to him to make it 550 times harder. >> the military has been decimated by this lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans gender policy that is now been implemented. their mind are perverted. they are -- they're frankly, very sick people, psychologically and mentally and emotionally and they see everything through the lens of homosexuality. when they talk about love, they are not talking about love. they are talking about homosexual sex. homosexuality is a horrible sin. it poisons culture, destroys families, detroys societies. brings the judgment of god unlike very few things.

>> that's just how bishop jackson feels about the gay, the man virginia republicans picked for the second highest statewide office. he said to e-mail him if you want to know the names two of the devout muslims who president obama hire ford homeland security and said obama and his comrades are totalitarianists, who would destroy the country if we let them. and president obama is the first homosexual president, based on his afin its. and in this one, the president proclaimed june as lesbian guy lesbian and trans gender month. that just makes me feel icky all over. yuck. yuck. as picked by virginia republicans. your guy for governor is very out there, but trying not to be. guy for lieutenant governor is out there and does not care. your guy for attorney general, that would be mark obenshame.

he is one noted for fleeing the senate, running away because he is a judge who is guy. he is also known for 2 it 009 bill that would have required women in virginia to report a miscarriage to the police within 2 4 hours. so they can investigate it? yes, virginia, republicans, you nominated that guy to be the top law enforcement official in the state. and he is supposed to be the one from the establishment. virginia's republican ticket is quite a spectacle. the republicans are saying, i'm talking to are saying, what the hell are they doing in virginia. ken cuccinelli was not the first choice of successor but governor

mcdonald has been stumping for him, campaigning for ken cuccinelli. meanwhile, cuccinelli las been doing this for governor mcdonald. he quiet lid ordered a special investigator to probe whether governor mcdonald broke virginia law about reporting gifts. the headline gift in question was a chicken dinner. a $15,000 chicken dinner served at the wedding of the gf are in's daughter. that was paid for bay campaign donor who makes a tobacco-based supplement of some kind and is himself under federal investigation. mr. cuccinelli it turns out also received gifts from that same donor and then did not report them and then, years later, finally did report them. fbi agent are looking into the governor's gifts for any sign after quid pro quo for the governor in this company. also, the governor's former chef is facing embezzlement charges. as part of his defense he is demanning to know in open court what the governor's grown children were doing carting off

flats of egg is and gatorade and protein powder from the governor's mansion kitchen. but do not worry, virginia, governor mcdonald says, that should be framed, says the washington post, mcdonnell says he is still able to govern. if you like wait he is governing, please vote for ken cuccinelli and the guy with the gay planned parenthood kkk thing. and the guy that want to you report your last period to the governor in 24 hours just in case. virginia republicans may look like a slow motion disaster but virginia republicans hand-picked all these guys. right? maybe they don't see these guys as a problem. joining us now is mark seagraves with be long time host of ask the governor program. now a reporter for nbc affiliate in washington, d.c. thank you very much for being with us. appreciate your time. >> thanks for having me back. >> how are mainstream virginia

republicans reacting to this ticket they got picked at their convention? papers make it seem like they are panicking. but what is your take on it? >> we will see. right now the polls have terry mcauliffe with slight lead over ken cuccinelli within but is within the margin of error. in the convention you had a few thousand die hard republican ajt vist who put cuccinelli in this slate together. thus avoiding a statewide election. we don't know how the full elector to the state would have voted on cuccinelli had he faced bill bowling in an open election who is the current lieutenant governor and who was going to run and was bob mcdonnell's pick to replacement. but in the past, i mean, we can look at 200 will when this happened before. this is when congressman tom davis wanted to run for senate and he was facing jim gilmore in what would have been a primary. conservative party went for a

convention in that instance. they didn't want tom davis. tom davis famously said his party gave him the middle finger and gill more lost to warner i think 65-35%. so that's what happened the last time we were in this situation in virginia. >> in terms of the choice of the lieutenant governor candidate, the guy who he calls president obama gay. says president obama is a muslim. said he is a totalitarian. he is very vehemently talking about gay issues. isn't that a conceivably viable. in virginia or any office. if it isn't, is that going to hurt cuccinelli. >> you've got two good questions there. the an to the first one is, yeah, he is a viable candidate. we will see who the democrats put up.

they have their primary in june and two candidate running there who don't have the statewide name recognition. say what you ant about good publicity, bad publicity, the fact is a lot of p.m. across the state are hearing about bishop jackson and hearing his name and seeing him out in public and what not. and getting this head start on the democrats. now there are people who think, that he is so far to the right that he will make ken cuccinelli look more moderate. cuccinelli said he is not going to spend this campaign defending his fellow slate members, the other candidates' reports. but the other day in fairfax, we asked him about this on sunday, and you know, he didn't back away from socially conservative statements that he has made in the past. what's that democrat will do, try to remind people about things cuccinelli said in the past that are very similar to what bishop jackson is saying right now. >> when i have talked to people on the democratic side about the

democratic approach about this election in virginia, they seem clear they want to run against ken cuccinelli the cree sading anti-super anti-abortion, super anti-gay culture war your guy, that wanted to cover up the statue on the virginia state seal as this throw back social conservative guy. seems like the slate would help them make the case more than anything else that happened. do you think they are right it see this as an opportunity or they are resting on their laurels here. >> oh, no, it is absolutely an opportunity. as you said in your lead up to this, you look back at president obama and now senator tim kaine who won in virginia, this is the same virginia that elected obama in the first time then bob mcdonnell. northern virginia will play a big role in this. the first north you go in virginia the more liberal and

moderate it gets. this is a huge factor. and democrat believe this is a good strategy. is the republicans and particularly cuccinelli, he want to talk about taxes and the ekeehn my and he will talk about dough voting his career no to public service the past ten years oor more. where as terry mcauliffe is a fund-raiser for president clinton but when he lost his last statewide race here, he lost in the primary, people hadn't seen much of him. he went back into priest at sector and now he is back on the scene. he worked back behind the scenes during transportation negotiation and budget in the general assembly. but the republicans won't want it define the election about economics. democrats want to define it about social issues. >> sound like both of these guys wanted to be about the other guy which is a good sign for covering it at least.

>> mark seagraves reporter in washington, d.c. mark, thank you so much for being with us. nice to see you again. >> thanks, rachel. >> all right. what would you pay to see tape that allegedly reportedly maybe shows the mayor of a huge and important north american city smoking crack? on tape. no seriously, what would you pay? you should think about it because you have the opportunity to actually pay some of that in order to see that tape. that story is coming up. this day calls you.

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if you're president, what are you looking for in a supreme court justice? as president you get to pick people for the court. obviously you want them to be qualified, to be a good judge. you want them to share some of your basic values, and how you think a judge should approach the law. you want them to be fairly young. as president, after all, you only get to serve for a term or two if you're lucky. but your supreme court picks are there for life. when you pick somebody you want to be sure they have plenty of life left. you also want it mike sure they can be confirmed. presidents choose supreme court nominees but it's the is notate who confirms them. though it is rare for the senate to outright reject a pick for the supreme court, it happened. it happened to robert bjork in 1987 and the threat to harriet meyers in 2005 made president

george w. bush withdraw her name for consideration. so political philosophy, age,ty versity of the court or other factors like that, but on your s to be can they be confirmed. and you can get that, but it is a mystery. you can never know if they'll be confirmed unless and until you try to confirm them. so as this president looks at the supreme court, looks at the justices and their ages, 77, 76, 74, the president has to be looking at the court, thinking man, if only i could grab someone that's qualified who could do the job, judicial philosophy i agree with, young, take somebody like that, test fire them in the senate. only if there was some way to know in advance if i picked this kid for the supreme court, the senate would confirm.

only if there was a way to test that. there is a way. say hello to this guy. a name that will get easier to pronounce when it ends up in the news more. he is a deputy solicitor general confirmed by the senate unanimously for a judgeship. got confirmed for d.c. circuit court. one level below supreme court is the appeals court system, divvied into 11 regions, and ds circuit court, and d.c. circuit court is a big deal. four of the justices on the supreme court come from the d.c. circuit court. it is kind of like the feeder court for supreme court justices. out of 11 seats on that d.c. court, there are four vacant seats now. president obama nominated three. and the senate confirmed him this week unanimously. that means he can be confirmed by the senate. he can be.

he just proved it. and that's really good to know, in case there's any other judgeships he might need to be confirmed for soon, hint hint. the big news here, we may have gone through essentially the first round of president obama's next nomination for the supreme court. if he picks him, he would be the first justice of south asian heritage, he is an indian american, only 46 years old. apparently does not have an enemy in the world, and the united states senate voted for him for a judge ship, 97-0, which bodes well for them voting for him again if nominated for the highest court in the land. watch this. all business purchases. so you can capture your receipts, and manage them online with jot,

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crack, maybe. the toronto star and gawker.com have published reports describing a cell phone video that stars robert ford, the mayor of toronto, and what looks to be a crack pipe. gawker's editor says he was contacted by a tipster in toronto who described the video, wanted them to buy it, having been told there is a video of the mayor of toronto smoking crack, they sent their editor to toronto to see for himself. there were a bunch of false starts, difficulties trying to meet the guy with the video, didn't work out for awhile. then finally the gawker editor says the video was shown to him on a touch-screen phone. he says, quote. here is what the video shows. rob ford, the mayor of toronto, is the only person visible in the frame. prior to the trip, i spent a lot of time looking at the photograph of rob ford. the man in the video is rob ford, it is well lit, clear, seated in a house, and has a glass pipe with two glass cylinders coming out of it. other hand, a lighter.

the slurred voice is ranting about canadian politics in what sounds like an attempt to goad ford. he then uses an anti-gay slur to describe a former canadian prime minister or his son, who in either case is one of his political rivals. then ford pipe in one hand, lighter in the other is laughing and mildly protesting at the sack ril edge. seems to keep trying to light the pipe, keeps stopping to laugh. finally finds this moment and lights up and inhaled. end of scene. gawker decided not to buy the 90 second video because the guy selling it wanted too much money. i have not seen the video, we cannot confirm gawker's reporting, but their description comports with the reporting from two reporters at the toronto star, also say they saw the video. >> the video which appears to be real shows mayor rob ford in a

room, his shirt open, lulling back in his chair and appears to be smoking a crack pipe. >> the man in the video we believe is mayor rob ford appears stumbling, seems incoherent, rambles. >> mayor ford ends this segment on camera, lasts only 90 seconds, startled when he hears a telephone ring, he looks directly into the camera, says that thing better not be recording. >> yeah, maybe it was recording. this story broke eight days ago. today, the mayor made his first public comments as a hastily called press conference. he seems flustered, out of sorts. read this from a prepared statement, then took no questions. >> i do not use crack cocaine nor am i an addict of crack cocaine. as for a video, i cannot comment on a video that i have never seen or does not exist. >> or does not exist. the mayor today denying he smoked crack, denying there's

video of him smoking crack. meanwhile, the crackstarter campaign is under way online. participate if you would like to. having reportedly seen the mayor smoking crack video in toronto, gawker.com didn't object to content of paying for the tape, that's something some publishing organizations don't do, they seem to have no problem with that in concept. gawker's only objection to buying the tape is that it was too expensive. they set up a fund raising drive, called crackstarter, to raise $200,000 for the video. as of tonight, they're pretty close. the deadline they set is monday. only have 30 something grand to go. the problem is that gawker freely admits the crack smoking tipsters offering the video didn't seem to be the most reliable guys on the planet. now apparently they've lost touch with them, the guys that reportedly have the video. who knows how it ends. maybe gawker gets the video and we get to judge for ourselves, maybe they raise the money,

can't get the video. maybe somebody else gets the video. maybe the mayor takes a question first time in a week. who knows. until the video surfaces, and you know it will, it is the maybe crack smoking mayor of toronto versus gawker, versus toronto star, versus crowd funding power of crackstarter eager to see that video and eventually something will have to give. and while we are waiting for that something to give, you have to go to prison right now. seriously. three, two, one. prison. go. due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. only slightly larger than the state of new jersey, israel is a country where the ancient world meets the modern. it is a nation of contrasts whose gleaming cities and resorts line one of the world's most volatile regions. where centuries old conflicts can explode into unthinkable