i'm running because i believe it is necessary for a new generation of leaders to step up to the plate. i'm running because i know as a mother and a patriot we can no longer afford to go along to get along. right now on "andrea mitchell reports", the next generation of cheneys jumps into the political ring in the cowboy state, but liz cheney's primary challenge to a veteran senator and long-time family friend is already causing a party rift. >> i think that liz has -- she's terrific and i think she has a future that is very, very bright, i just think this is the wrong race at the wrong time. >> slamming stand your ground in the wake of the george zimmerman verdict, attorney general eric holder's takedown of the florida law shines a new spotlight on the self-defense statutes on the

books in 30 states. >> we must stand our ground to ensure -- to ensure that our laws reduce violence and take a hard look at laws that contribute to more violence than they prevent. >> this as more high profile national leaders from hillary clinton to former president jimmy carter are speaking out about the verdict. >> i think the jury made the right decision based on the evidence presented. it's not a moral question, it was a legal question, and the american law requires that a juror listen to the evidence presented. ready for departure? nsa leaker edward snowden has been stuck at a moscow airport for weeks. is russia ready to grant him asylum? great britain reaches new heights. the great-grandmother shares her reasons for hoping the baby comes soon.

>> i'd like it to arrive so i can get on holiday. >> and even stephen colbert can't contain himself about the royal baby on the way. >> kate the great is three days late. i just can't wait for her to dilate. when? when? when? what will pippa wear? will the obstetrician wear a giant hat? i mean -- and good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. it is a primary power play. liz cheney declaring she is running for the wyoming senate nomination. the only problem, that job's already taken, by three-term republican and fellow conservative mike enzi who says he wants a fourth term. awkward, you bet, since enzi is a decades long friend of the family. liz cheney does trace her family's roots in the state back to 1852. joining me now for our daily

fix, managing editor of post politics, nbc capitol hill correspondent, kelly martin and john o'donnell. jonathan, first to you. you were among the first to break this story if not the first. what is the significance of liz cheney taking on mike enzi in a republican primary fight in wyoming? >> well, i think first the national significance is it captures this trend in the gop where you've got younger, more conservative ambitious figures who don't want to wait in line to run for a seat. we've seen this, andrea, in the last couple of cycles in 2010, 2012. what was different there, the incumbent senator like dick luger, was much more vulnerable. they had lost touch with home. they had asked for, if you will, a primary. it's a little bit different in this case with enzi because he is much more of a down the line conservative. in the state real fast, the impact is it's a civil war.

this is the fight that they were trying to avoid in wyoming. people have known the enzis and cheneys for decades, 35 and 45 years. dick cheney and enzi go back. people are very close and didn't want to make this choice. alan simpson told me that it would tear the party apart. he's known both of these families for a long time himself so it's going to be a hard fought primary where the electorate will be 80 or 90,000 people. some people have probably met mike enzi or a member of the cheney family. >> it is like a congressional race. let's talk about this, kelly o'donnell. what is mike enzi's reputation on the hill? he's been a conservative voice. he hasn't taken any nonconservative votes that would be easy for her to attack? >> it doesn't appear to be an

ideological path to take. he's a gentleman in the truest sense. i spoke to him off the senate floor where there aren't cameras. he said he thought she was his friend. i got a sense of almost a personal deflation being hurt that she would get into the race. i asked if she contacted him before her announcement. he said, no. in fact, he said when they last spoke she assured him if he chose to run she would not get in the race. the former vice president he expects will support his daughter but he has been a long-time friend. he would not say anything critical about her. i picked up a deft zinger. voters there don't want long primary campaigns. this is something where you don't file until next may. he said somebody who's from wyoming should know that. one of the issues with liz cheney is she spent so much of her professional life in washington, d.c., area.

>> and this is part of the audio from that conversation that you had with senator enzi. let's listen. >> she said if i ran she wasn't going to run but obviously that wasn't correct. >> what's your relationship with her? >> i thought we were friends. >> that was pretty pointed. i thought we were friends. >> it's so awkward. this is the first thing that jumps to mind is it's so awkward. honestly, andrea, i think he was taken aback by it. we knew and jonathan wrote a great story about this. we've known since liz cheney bought a home in jackson hole, wyoming, last year that she wanted to run for office. she's been out there. she's gone to sort of all the local county dinners and gatherings so she was looking for a time to run. enzi talked about retiring in the past, talked about retiring this election cycle. he didn't decide tow retire.

jonathan's point is well taken. look, what is driving this challenge more than anything else, more than generational change, certainly more than ideological differentiation is ambition. liz cheney wants to be in elected office. their only current chance there is to challenge a sitting republican incumbent. she'd prefer not to, but that's the path that she's going to take. and she's ambitious enough to give it a shot. she has the name and the fundraising power to make it a real threat. >> there's only one house seat because the population is such that they have just one member of the house. so there are so few federal offices from wyoming to jump in. >> that's right. >> the timing is at issue. another six or seven years considering that the election is a ways out for her to wait is something that she obviously eye value waited and said -- >> to that point, let's listen to congresswoman cynthia lummis who was very pointed in trying to suggest that liz cheney has a carpet bag issue.

let's watch. >> when somebody's never gotten a paycheck in wyoming and has lived their whole adult life in virginia, i think they should run from virginia. that's her home state. >> yeah. >> i mean, you can imagine, jonathan, that the congresswoman had her own ambitions perhaps some day to replace the senior senator who is running for the fourth term. i mean, let's face it, there is a real resume here because liz cheney was a high ranking official in the state department on middle east policy, she's an attorney. she's been in politics forever. >> yeah. >> she co-authored her father's book. >> right. >> jonathan, she brings a whole lot of name recognition in wyoming and potentially a whole lot of money. >> no, she's a formidable figure and this is going to be enzi's challenge. he admitted to the press, he's not a very good fund-raiser. when i interviewed him earlier,

i said, senator, how much did you raise this past quarter because it was july 1st when i was talking to him, the very first day of the quarter. he shrugged and said, i don't know. most senators up for re-election the next year would know down to the penny how much they raised. that's his weakness. she will have her connections and her family's connections around the country. she's formidable. she's not just a legacy, this is somebody that worked the high levels of the state department. she is a formidable person in her own right. i have to mention one more thing. there's only three seats available in wyoming. two senate seats obviously and one house seat. when her father went back to wyoming from washington, d.c., himself in 1977, 36 years ago this summer, two of the three seats came open. so he had much better luck, andrea, than his daughter. >> and he had been, of course, the chief of staff of the white house for gerald ford then. >> president ford, right. >> and was going back to run for

congress. >> yeah. >> one other comment on this on "morning joe." this came from kirsten gillibrand. this is a young woman, young mother, young woman potentially running for the senate. let's watch. >> what these women candidates are bringing forward is this whole image of change and that i'm going to work to get things done and i'm going to be, you know, the honest broker. and so i think when we have these young candidates coming in oftentimes as really the change agents, it can be very dynamic. >> and she was basically saying, chris, this is a good thing potentially because we have women republicans and democratic women who all work together in a way that frankly the men net senate don't work. >> headline, gillibrand endorses cheney. >> that's not what she wants but she's saying something here about gender. >> it is fascinating. i mean, look, you know, kirsten gillibrand, this is a separate story, andrea, i do think from

getting ted cruz and rand paul to sign on the sexual assault in the military effort she's leading, she's kind of forming a very interesting profile in the senate going forward. i was surprised for her enthusiasm for liz cheney. >> indeed. thank you so much, chris, kelly o'donnell, jonathan martin. thanks for joining us today to help us kick it all off. here is a special moment in our highlight reel from last night's all-star game. both teams stayed on the sidelines be of this moment to give mariana rivera his moment alone in the spotlight as he came out to the mound. the game's greatest closer received a standing o from the 43,000 fangs at citi field and also untold numbers of us watching at home. rivera who is retiring at the end of the season went on to pitch, naturally, a perfect inning. the biggest play of the night belongs to prince fielder's line

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welcome back. will nsa leaker edward snow dde be able to leave the airport? he has applied for temporary asylum in russia. now congress is investigating a scandalous failure to do proper background checks on people like snowden who are granted security

clearances. senator has been co-charing hearings on this. let's talk about uses. this subcontractor who does most of the clearances. we should point out most of the clearances for the government are subcontracted and most of those are done by uses, a company that was a leveraged buyout company. what you all have been finding in your hearings and you're trying to address it in some preliminary legislation that you proposed is that in 50 mers percent of the cases they did not do the follow-up that they were supposed to do and claim they did. >> yeah. we have serious problems. we have a problem in termly, too m too. i think the edward snowden incident brought up the issue.

we need some serious oversight. we have 5 million people out there that have security clearance, 1.5 million have top security. why do we need that many? nobody knows. this bill that we're working on that you referred to will set up some criteria for who gets security clearance and their necessity and then there is a $2 billion revolving fund that pays for background checks. that revolving fund has never been audited. we'll allow funds to be used for that from that fund. why is that important? because that's going to allow us to take a look at companies like uses, the fees they charge, the kind of work they do. it will allow the i.g. to do that, the inspector general, and ultimately will end up with a lot better process in the end and then last but not least you

have a contractor not doing the job. they're going to be fired. they're going to be out. that's the bottom line. >> senator, do you have any evidence -- we know that uses did the background check in 2011. the top security clearance for edward snowden. do you have any evidence that there was any failure in their review of his record? >> no, we don't have any evidence yet. we haven't got to that point yet, but what i'll also say is there's very, very little oversight on this stuff and we need to ramp it up. look, our national security's very, very important. if we've got leaks from the inside getting out, we need to make sure we minimize and eliminate that possibility. >> i've been told that even when snowden first got his clearance to the cia that there were some internal questions about his personality profile. now i've also been told, you know, that he's not just some high school dropout, this guy, i'm told, was a computer genius by the age of 9 was setting off, you know, lights and bells and

whistles, that people knew he was being tracked. so it's not surprising that he got into the cia but that some people, even at that early stage, said, whoa, there's something in this guy's personality that makes him a potential risk. >> we have looked at it -- we have looked at this issue of background security not just edward snowden, from 30,000 feet so to speak. look, i think if we're able to do a good job on our background checks, if we're able to make sure that the folks doing the investigations do a proper job, it's -- regardless how smart people are, it's going to stop the potential of people getting access to very secure information and then leaking it out to the other countries or the general public, either way. i just think that if we're going to really take care of the people who really want to do us harm in this country and make sure we have good security, making sure that our internal

affairs are in order is very, very important and that's what our committee work has been focused on for the last month. >> senator, i wanted to show our viewers the snowden asylum letter because he has officially applied for asylum. we have a copy of it which we're showing on the screen which he says i here by kwu temporarily offering me asylum in the russian federation. it was signed july 15th, 2013. it's from the timy -- it's pretty informal. what else can you expect? he's hold up in the moscow airport. this is not a good situation between the u.s. and moscow. there have been suggestions by lindsey graham that if vladimir putin does grant him asylum that we cancel the sochi olympics. cancel our participation in the sochi olympics.

>> i think if mr. snowden thought what he did was right, he ought to come back and make his case in front of america's courts. if he can make his case, the court will teach him but the fact that he's asking for asylum indicates he knew what he was doing was wrong and it was improper. the best scenario is that he comes back to the united states, the country that he is a citizen of, and face the music. >> senator jon tester, thank you so much. thanks, sir, for being with us today. >> thanks, andrea. "rolling stone" magazine known for their provocative covers, the latest with dzhokhar tsarnaev is facing controversy. how a popular student fell into radical islam and turned into a

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the verdict in the george zimmerman trial is sparking national discussion. russell moore is president of the ethics and religious liberty commission of the southern baptist convention. welcome, both. jonathan, first to you. we've heard a lot of conversation in the last couple of days. one of your colleagues, i should say as a fellow editorial or columnist, richard cohn had a very provocative article

yesterday saying that he identified with george zimmerman in the fact that he thought that wearing a hoodie somehow made trayvon martin threatening and i'm not -- i really don't understand what richard cohn was -- means by that. do you understand that? help me out. >> you know, i wish i could answer a question. you know, i know richard. i like richard, but i found his column very, very offensive because in it he basically said that i deserve to be stopped, i deserve to be suspected, i deserve all of the suspicion that society puts on me simply because i'm african-american and simply because, as he puts in his column, that a lot of crimes are committed by black men. it's offensive and it's actually rather hurtful to the majority of black men who have nothing to do with crime and so, you know,

i'm not just hearing this from richard, i'm hearing it from other commentators in print and on television and i wonder if any of these people who are by and large nice people understand the damage that they're doing to their friends and colleagues by espousing this kind of argument. >> and, russ moore, you were talking earlier when we were talking off camera about how there does seem to be a completely different lens on this verdict from many people in the white community and many people in the african-american community in terms of how they view race relations. this really has been an awakening to us. >> i think so. i think not only in terms of how they view race relations but how they view this case. they're viewing the specifics of this case, looking microscopically at the jury. did the jury make the right decision in this case. many black americans are looking macroscopically. they're looking at the big

picture of an american history of medgah till and that white americans can't empathize with or understand unless they've hyon going conversations and relationships. >> in fact, eric holder made that point, the attorney general, at the end of an naacp convention. >> trayvon's desk kautsed me to sit down and have a conversation with my own 15-year-old son like my dad did with me. this was a father/son tradition i hoped would not need to be handed down, but as a father who loves his son and who is more knowing in the ways of the world, i had to do this to protect my boy. i am his father and it is my responsibility not to burden him with the baggage of eras long gone but to make him aware of the world he must still confront. >> and jonathan capeheart, as russell more was just saying,

that is something that a lot of people in white america don't understand. >> yeah, they don't. you know, when the trayvon martin shooting happened and i wrote a piece about the don'ts that my mother had to sit down with me in the same way that attorney general holder had to do with his son, a lot of white colleagues were moved by what i had to say and were surprised by what i had to say and a lot of them -- many of them said to me, it wouldn't even occur to them to have a sitdown with their teenage son or even teenage daughter and tell them things they ka and cannot do in this country or in america. it's not just emmitt till and medgar he have verse, we have patrick doorsman, james door, shawn bell, these are people who have been pictures within the last 10 to 15 years. recent folks who we have to keep

in mind. i love what he had to say about the macro versus the micro. i'm looking at this from a microscopic perspective because as i've written before, trayvon martin could be and could still be me. >> and in fact, russell moore, you've been nodding as jonathan was speaking. you have five sons. there's a message for them as well about the larger teaching message. you teach from the pulpit. you teach at the seminary. >> that's right. the larger teaching message is that racial justice has not been achieved. we live in a fallen world. i think there are ways that we could -- i saw a church sign this morning. it says we live in america with three ks and not a c. i don't think that's the case. we need to work together in a moral fashion to love one another and work together.

as a christian the place to start most ideally is within local congregations, white people and black people and latino people loving one another and listening to one another together. very good to have you here. jonathan, it's always good to have you here as well. thanks for joining the conversation. >> thank you. earlier today the senate confirmation process began for president obama's nominee for u.n. ambassador. samantha power is pulitzer prize winner and scholar. she has bipartisan support. in a lighter moment today, powers four-year-old son declan sitting behind her in the hearing stole the show. >> if i am confirmed i will continue this dialogue directly and personally and if the prospect of visiting the u.n. doesn't immediately entice you, my son declan has resolved to become a tour guide like no other. >> thank you very much for your statement. we'll start a round of questioning. i would just say following declan at the u.n., i would not

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georgia congressman john lewis is testifying before the senate judiciary committee calling on lawmakers to pass new voting rights protections in the wake of that supreme court ruling that eviscerated the 1965 voting rights act. we have the leading democratic voting rights person in the senate. >> thank you for having me. >> what fixes do you think can be done realistically given the leadership in the house?

what could get through and get to the president's desk? >> andrea, i think that we can fashion a bipartisan response to that supreme court decision. i think that john lewis and jim simpson brenner have worked together in a bipartisan way on this kind of legislation before. they're very close friends. hopefully they will take a look at the decision and the work that they did just a few years ago and maybe update it. the supreme court seems to be saying that there is still discrimination taking place. however, they think that the basis for reauthorizing the act was a little bit old and outdated. i would like to see them update the data because i think the data will still show that there

are pockets in this country where people are resisting equity and fairness in the political process and let's fashion a bipartisan bill and get it passed. >> let me also talk to you about immigration because there's a lot of mixed signals coming out from the hill today. senator schumer says something can get out of the house, not before the recess, but something that democrats would support could get out of the house if they could go district by district. this is senator schumer speaking on "morning joe" today. if they can go district to district who wouldn't support a path to citizenship but would at least support letting a bill get to the floor, then it could pass with democratic votes. do you think the speaker would allow something like that to happen? >> i don't think so. i listened to you all this

morning and watched you and i think that on the house side it is going to be very, very difficult for john boehner, our speaker who i have a great deal of admiration and respect for, i just don't think he's going to be able to get that kind of legislation out of the house. what i think we ought to do is if the house refused to do a path for citizenship and they want to find a way to some kind of legalization, let's go ahead and pass what we can pass. let's get it to a conference and then maybe it's a chance that we can get what senator schumer is talking about out of a conference. i don't think you're going to get it coming to the house floor. it will have to take a conference, i believe. >> and what is the latest as far

as you're concerned on the health care mandate up for vote? >> well, i think that the health care, the affordable health care, or obama care is in a very, very good place. our job now is to get it messaged correctly. look at the headline coming out of new york today where they're saying that across the board 50% reduction can be seen by those people who are purchasing insurance coverage in new york. in fact, they laid out an example of a person whose monthly payment is around $1,000 a month. some of that will see them reduced to around $300 a month. that is fantastic and i think that the president is going to have an event i think at 11:00 tomorrow where he will be discussing the amount of rebates that are now going to families

because one of the parts of the affordable care act that nobody talks about is 80% is being put-back into benefits for people or reimburse them for their premiums. so a lot of people are getting rebates that they would not have gotten otherwise. when i say a lot, i'm talking about millions of people are experiencing these rebates. so when you looked at the affordable care act, the more people, they experience it, the more they love it. what we've got to do is get people to understand exactly why you got that check from your insurance company because most people that i've talked to didn't know it was coming to them because of obama care. so let's let them know why they're getting it. let's let them know why that child with diabetes can now go on your insurance policy. let's let them know that college student that's still looking for a job can stay on your policy until they're 26 years old. we've got to let them know that all of that are the benefits of

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ceo for seed global help and steven humphrey and heather wopat. volunteers. thank you all so much for being here. this is very exciting for me. i love the peace corps, vanessa, dr. kerry, good to see you. this is your brainchild and you're partnering with the peace corps. what is the advantage of working with the peace corps on this initiative? >> there's actually been a lot of people working to help make this idea come to fruition. we're extremely pleased to be working with the peace corps because they have a 50-year history of putting extraordinary americans into the field in an integrated and very culturally sensitive way. it seems like a very natural partnership for us, global health, to work with them to be able to send doctors and nurses abroad as medical educators and nursing educators to build capacity and a pipeline for future causes. >> dr. humphrey, your mission is to do clinical work but also to create a whole new generation of

medical professionals in country. >> that's exactly right. some years ago i had the opportunity to work with medical students in the niger republic. as a professor, you could never find a more appealing group of young people, but they were working at a tremendous disadvantage. their training was suboptimal. what we realized was that thefrp basically training themselves. the professors were excellent but not enough to go around. so emphasis is, training more physicians, getting them out there, helping enlarge the team of professors available. >> heather, what about as a nurse, what about equipment, medicines, supplies as you help train other nurses and work with doctors in the field? what about those supplies that you need to do your job? >> well, we -- we expect that we will have a shortage of resources to do our job.

one of the things that i've been thinking about a lot are things that i can substitute, ways i can put things together to get the job done that may not be necessarily how we do it here in the united states. it's basically being resourceful. thinking about different ways to do things. >> you had an experience in the peace corps yourself? >> that's correct. >> this is a logical fit for you. what about your career? are you interrupting what would normally be your career advancement here as a nurse? >> i am. i am very lucky because my workplace, which is the wyle kornell medical center in new york is very supportive of what i'm doing. they're really excited about all the things that i'm going to learn that i can bring back when i do return next year. >> vanessa, how long are these medical professionals going to be in the field? >> so these 31 doctors and nurses are going to be spending a year as peace corps volunteers, global health services volunteers and they're

going to be spending the next year of their life working closely with their in culture counterparts to cultivate another generation to do it. steven and heather will teach ten doctors, ten nurses who will go on and train ten more and so on so that we'll really see a lasting effect from what they're doing this year. >> dr. huff fins, you're interrupting your teaching. are you from kornell, new york? >> i'm not. i'm more recently frf my cardiology practice in 2006. >> what is the benefit you get? i suspect that this brings great satisfaction to you as well. >> well, it does. i'm at the point in my career that i really feel that my skills and what i have to offer

as a physician are more needed here than where i had my career. it's a good feeling. >> vanessa, we've been talking about this as you were launching. i'd be remiss if i didn't give you a chance to share with us, vanessa kerry, you were active in the campaign in 2004, but your foreis in jordan today and working for middle east peace. tell us how your stepmother is doing. >> oh, thank you for asking. she's doing much, ch better. it was an extremely scary time, especially in the very beginning. i'm really pleased that she is really i think turned an extraordinary corner. we're incredibly grateful for all of the support, all of the outpouring of messages and for all of the hope. i think that's what's helped her get better. we're grateful as well and our good witches to the family. great success. come back with pictures, video,

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and reverend al sharpton has a new interview with rachel jeantel, trayvon martin's friend who was on the phone with trayvon martin just before his encounter with george zimmerman. >> i'm a teenager. don had a jury think of african-american teenager, they're supposed to be cussing. i did not even curse don. i didn't show him a lot of respect because like a child. he was asking ridiculous

questions back and forth, back and forth. but i kept my ground. i stand strong. i never cursed. i know the first day was, oh, my god. i couldn't deal with him no more. but i still held on to him. you not going to break me. >> and for more on that interview, tune into "politics nation" tonight at 6:00 here on msnbc. and what political story will be makie ining news in the next 24 hours? chris is back with us. >> a remarkable achievement tomorrow is nelson mandela's 95th birthday. obviously, the president of the united states was in south africa earlier this month. many of us thought nelson mandela was in his last days. this is someone who i think is sort of regarded widely and rightly as a worldwide icon who's going to reach his 95th

birthday. we all should be so lucky. >> and he's, of course, been ailing. all good wishes to mandela, to nelson mandela, to the family, and to the entire nation. this is a huge celebration, not only around the world, but primarily in south africa where he is beloved. chris, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." marah schiavocampo has a look at what's next on "news nation. >> protesters descend on the florida governors office demanding the repeal of the state's controversial stand your ground law in the wake of george zimmerman's acquittal. plus, new statements from juror b-37 on how that law factored into her decision. we'll also get a rare glimpse into the mind of a high-profile juror, one of the women who helped convict scott peterson joins us to talk about the pressures she faced during deliberations and life after the verdict. it's all coming up next on "news

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i'm mara schiavocampo in for tamron hall. the juror who gave the first interview this week is out with a new statement about florida's controversial stand your ground law. she told cnn, quote, my prayers are with all those who have the influence and power to modify the laws that left me with no verdict option other than not guilty in order to remain within the instructions. meanwhile, demonstrators are vowing to continue their sit-in outside the office of florida governor rick scott. the protesters are demanding the governor repeal stand your ground. and just yesterday, u.s. attorney general eric holder addressed the law during a speech at the naacp's annual convention in orlando. >> it's time to request laws that senselessly expand the

concept of self-defense and so dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. we must stand our ground to ensure that our laws reduce violence and take a hard look at laws that contribute to more violence than they prevent. >> former secretary of state hillary clinton also addressing the verdict while speaking to the country's largest african-american women's group. >> my prayers are with the martin family and with every family who loves someone who is lost to violence. no mother, no father should ever have to fear for their child walking down a street in the united states of america. >> nbc's kerry sanders is live in sanford, florida. kerry, good afternoon. let's start with these calls to overturn stand your ground.