hospital and he cries. whoo. the duke and duchess of cambridge had a baby boy. weighed eight pounts six ounces. it arrived with his royal life at 4:24 this afternoon in london. mazel tov of course to the happy parents. to the happy royal family member day, people who go for that sort of thing, and to everybody who freaking enjoyed it. come on, don't begrudge people their happiness with this. it is legit good news. may he be happy and glorious. that does it for us tonight. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. have a great night! the right wing had to wait until today to hear what they should think about the president's speech from their fearless leader, rush limbaugh. >> another way of saying that is trayvon martin could have been me. >> okay. so that happened on friday afternoon when i was in a sauna. >> and now reaction to president obama's speech about race in america. >> there was no white racism involved here. >> unbelievable reaction to the president's speech. >> reaction to the president.

somewhat mixed. >> i came close to losing it. >> trayvon martin could have been me. >> it didn't happen to obama. >> it's individuals speaking about a subject they know nothing about. >> white guilt is one of the dominating factors in american politics. >> it's individuals speaking about a subject they know nothing about. >> where does the country go from here? >> it's not just the trayvon martin verdict. >> the leadership of this republican supermajority, as if. >> today marks the 12th straight week of moral monday protests. >> in north carolina it's moral monday. >> outside north carolina's state capitol in raleigh -- >> this photo i.d. is very harsh. >> the focus will be a harsh new voter i.d. bill. >> it's one of the harshest photo i.d. bill we've seen. >> the moral monday movement is actually more popular. >> we can't solve this problem in a day or a week. >> we're going to find them every day we can. >> it's going to take a very, very long time. >> first we want to go to london. >> we continue to follow the breaking news out of london. >> the eyes of the world are fixed -- >> as anticipation mounts for the arrival of the royal baby.

>> see the baby. again with the baby. >> these are live pictures. >> who knew that a closed door could be so captivating? >> duchess catherine gave birth to a baby boy. >> parents of a healthy baby boy, who is now the third in line to the british throne. >> fasten your seat belts. we're going to see the baby. i'm ari melber in for lawrence o'donnell. the republican congressional leadership has been strategically silent about president obama's friday speech on trayvon martin and criminal justice. but today we did hear from one of the anti-establishment conservative leaders. >> a little history lesson for you. if any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it's caucasians. the white race has probably had fewer slaves and for a briefer

period of time than any other in the history of the world. no other race has ever fought a war for the purpose of ending slavery. which we did. nearly 600,000 people killed in the civil war. it's preposterous that caucasians are blamed for slavery when they've done more to end it than any other race. and within the bounds of the constitution to boot. >> oh, boy. rush limbaugh says he first learned about the president's speech on friday evening. he was at a country club party. naturally. and a woman in his social circle suggested the president might be on to something. >> the woman said, yeah, and you know, he had a point. it could have been obama 34 years ago. and i -- folks, i came close to losing it. i realized i was a guest, and i dialed it back.

somewhat. and i said, yeah, but it didn't. what is all of this could have, would have, might have? it didn't happen to him. what happened to trayvon martin did not happen to him. probably because he never did what trayvon martin did! it didn't happen to obama! >> making a point to go to the white house press room. pointing out it could have been him 35 years ago. i don't know. that's the kind of -- i just think that's utterly irresponsible. it is certainly not healing. it's not even emotionally honest. but it is exactly who i've always thought obama is.

>> joining me now, dorian warren, associate professor of political science and public affairs at columbia university. cory lazar-white, executive director and co-founder of the brotherhood sisterhood soul. and msnbc contributor goldie taylor. gold goldie, i want to come right to you and get your emotionally honest response to rush. >> my emotionally honest response? he's a carnival barker. you know, rush limbaugh is not the first in history to take advantage of waves of populism. this happens to be a more extended wave, something i think brought on by the election of an african-american president. but the real answer here, rish limbaugh is pimping his audience. he is taking advantage, fanning the flames of fear for his own personal gain. and that's really the story here. he really does need a history lesson. the civil war was not fought over the question of slavery. it was follow the over nullification and states' rights. lincoln said famously, "if i could keep the union together and not free a single slave, i

would do it." so i think rush limbaugh not only needs a history lesson, he needs a gut check. at the end of the day i think some people find him comical. other people find him sort of, you know, innocuous. i think he's dangerous. because he fans the flames of division in this country at a time when we need it the least. >> all right. dorian. you were nodding your head at that snifrt. >> he wrote the confederacy totally out of his analysis of the civil war. when he represents the confederacy. right? he would have been on that side that went to war around the question of slavery. so the notion that somehow we came to some agreement through the constitutional process around the most fundamental divide in our country historically is absolutely wrong. and in terms of fanning racial flames, i will never forget the first two years of the obama administration when we were debating health care reform, he kept calling obama care reparations for black people. so he's the one that's racializing when there's no race there. he sees race in this peculiar

way, even though he accuses us and civil rights leaders of progressives of seeing race everywhere. >> you make an important point on that language because it's not only rush limbaugh, though goldie makes an important point about the limits of the substance of his remarks, but you know, justice scalia talking about voting as some sort of racial benefit. this language is moving around a lot, kari. now, how do you contrast what we heard from rush limbaugh to what i think is a rather remarkable silence from congressional republicans who for those of us who cover the hill, you get a statement on naming a post office, you get a press release on their response to a response to obama care and a rerepeal. nothing from most of them so far. >> i mean, there's a vacuum of commentary that's productive from the extreme right of the republican party and even from some moderate republicans. i think we look at the speech president obama gave last week. what we see is a speech that at least is touching on foundational issues that are important to this country. so when rush limbaugh talks about the civil war, you know,

this historic reality of race and war that created this country, today we have other structural issues we're looking at. the criminal justice system. disconnected young people. educational opportunity. jobs. these are foundational issues. and what we need to people who are adding to the future of america, who are talking about a positive way for this country to develop. so when you hear those kind of comments, that's the comment of someone who is not a part of that conversation. not somebody who's contributing to a vision of how we build a strong america that lives up to its true creed. that's not the language of somebody who's contributing. that's the language of somebody who's seeking to destroy. >> and that's the challenge for policy makers, whether that's from the president, who referred to a few broad ideas, or wherever the conversation goes in congress. i want to put something up from shelby steele, who's a conservative that is not altogether popular in these conversations, but i want to bring in one of the arguments raised here that says basically "the purpose of today's civil rights establishment is not to seek justice but to seek power for blacks in american life

based on the presumption that they are still in 1,000 subtle ways victimized by white racism." dorian, i offer that if not as an endorsement of the underlying critique, a problem for the president and the people doing civil rights organizing. right? if even in this moment anytime we talk about, well, maybe we should look at profiling or maybe we should do patrolling of local police what you hear back is, well, you're just concerned about, quote, white race 78z, you don't want to do anything. >> well, the numbers don't lie. gallup poll released today, 1 in 4 black men ages 18 to 34 i believe experience some interaction with the criminal justice system last month. right? this is a pattern. there are facts. there is evidence here. whatever shelby steele says, he would have been the main protagonist against dr. king in the '60s. there are always opponents to racial justice and social justice in this country. so i don't take what he has to say seriously. it is, however, you're right. the context is it's a challenge for the president to have to deal with those kind of

arguments that are not based in fact or evidence of people's experiences. and that's what -- that was the brilliance of the president's speech. he was saying, look, this is an experience that shapes people's world views. this is why blacks and whites see the world differently. and i've had that experience too, and i'm telling you and hoping that you have compassion and empathy for that true experience. >> right. >> i also think it's a very dangerous line that you often hear from the conservative side, that shelby steele is propagating, which is that somehow those of us who are involved in talking about this issue are not also seeking to deal with issues within the black community of violence. i run an organization that for 18 years has dealt with trying to reduce violence, has dealt with conflict resolution, reducing gang activity, redefining manhood in a way that will not result in the levels of inkars vaigs we'carceration we . we're doing that every day. we're also going to comment when we see a case that brings about the issues of gun control and race. we can have both thoughts in our mind at the same time. we can comment on both issues. for what they're looking at

there are many of us who work in both spaces. >> i want to bring goldie in here. it is strange because on the one hand we've just had a large gun debate where a lot of liberals and blark americans have tried to talk about access to guns. it's an issue in chicago. it's an issue in this violence. and on the other hand, what i took the president to be saying is black america doesn't need a lecture on black on black violence, thank you very much, we're talking about -- >> thank you. >> -- a different piece here. goldie-i want to give you the last word on what you just heard. >> at the end of the day we don't need a lecture on black on black crime. at the end of the day people kill one another who know one another. so white on white crime, black on black crime, we tend to kill people who are familiar to us. but in terms of rush limbaugh and this entire sort of trope around blaming african-americans wholesale for their plight in this country i think is absolutely ludicrous. i think there is a politics of personal responsibility that ought to be put forth. i practice that in my own community, my own neighborhood. you know i'm from east st. louis. so that is a huge thing for us. but there are also social policies that sort of created this mess that we're now in and

perpetrate it. so to make those people responsible for all that is happening to them i think is a ludicrous notion. >> well, i'm glass you mentioned that. we're going to get to some of that tonight. goldie taylor, dorian warren, and khary lazarre-white. grassroots activism. we're going to talk about the protests known as moral monday in north carolina where people are fighting to preserve voting and reproductive rights. one of the organizers is going to join us live from the site of those protests. and yes, across the pond you know we had to do it. millions of pounds were bet on the question of boy or girl and the date of the arrival. and if you picked boy on july 22n't i have news for you in case you haven't heard. well done. nbc's martin bashir joins us to talk about the excitement over that royal baby. and also, you may have heard the criticism that president obama's friday address was just words. we are going to look at the record which demolishes that argument. please stay with us.

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including requirements for i.d. or even, yes, ordering a birth certificate to prove your identity. in north carolina with just a few days left in the legislative session republicans are trying to pass a bill that would require photo i.d. it would also end early voting, sunday voting and same-day registration. republicans have passed a voter i.d. bill there in 2011, but it was veto by the state's democratic governor. now north carolina has a republican governor and this was

the scene at the state legislative building today. >> voting rights! >> voting rights! >> protesters gathered outside the north carolina state legislative building. that was in downtown raleigh. for the 12th moral monday rally against these republican legislative majority efforts. this whole agenda. there were more than 800 people to date who have been arrested since those protests began, and today's rally was actually one of the biggest. so i'm excited to say joining us now from the north carolina state general assembly is reverend dr. william barber, president of the north carolina chapter of the naacp and one of the main organizers of the moral monday protests where we see many people out there behind you. thanks for joining us. >> thank you, ari. i'm glad to be with you and your audience tonight. >> excellent. i want to ask you right out of the gate what are you trying to achieve with moral mondays? what is your message not only within north carolina but to the rest of the country that may be learning about these protests?

>> well, moral monday is a brand new fusion movement. it is the third reconstruction being birthed right in front of our faces. it's black and white and brown and labor and people of faith and gay and straight coming together around an agenda that believes that we ought to ha have -- deal with poverty, we ought to have education equality, health care for all, deal with disparities in the criminal justice system and protect voting rights. it's the old white southern strategy that divides us by race. it's cutting cross the limited moral critique of the christian evangelicals that limits moral issues to certain things. we're saying moral issues are budgets, how you do health care, what you do for education, protecting voting rights, and we're going and challenging the extremism and the immoral activities and the crimes against democracy that we're seeing carried out by this legislature. >> reverend barber, let's talk about how that has played in contrast to some of the

republican agenda, which i'm just going to put up on the screen. the republicans of north carolina just here in 2013 to your point have tried to push abortion restrictions, refuse a medicaid expansion. of course that's funding for health care for some of the poorest individuals in north carolina. fingerprints for welfare recipients. >> right. >> tax cut agenda. and an unemployment benefits cut that has been more like a cancellation than a cut when you look at the way it's calculated. tell us how that fits in the moral argument you're making. >> what they've done is they've done what is constitutionally inconsistent, morally indefensible, and economically insane. they denied 500,000 people medicaid. that's immoral and extreme. they cut 170,000 people's unemployment. they've thrown 30,000 poor children off preschool. they've attacked teachers. they've decided that no longer will you have tenure of teachers. they fired teaching assistants. they've pushed fracking. they've gone after the lgbt

community. in every way they have fundamentally gone against our deepest moral principle, which is love of your neighbor and doing justice and our deepest constitutional principles, which is the common good, doing what is good for the whole and establishing justice. what we have done is raised that critique. and since we have over 12 weeks, now moral monday is more popular than the legislature. less than 1 out of 5 north carolinians agree with the legislature. the governor's numbers have dropped. we have exposed what they're doing. and north carolinians in the south are saying we don't want -- and it is a phenomenon for the naacp to be in the middle of this. and yet you see working-class white people. we've had millionaires arrested right beside unemployed workers. we've had doctors arrested right beside people who have no health care because we want to go forward together and not one step back and we're resisting this extremism. >> reverend, one final question. you mentioned constitutional principles there. and of course this movement's been going on long before i think the political class in washington was focused on the zimmerman case. >> oh, yeah. >> but now we're having a

conversation about what the civil rights agenda looks like. 40 of north carolina's roughly 100 counties have been covered by the voting rights act. now that's been undone. what do you think the president should do in leadership on that? it's obviously a national issue that affects your state. >> exactly. well, we believe that number one, it was bad what they've done. it's tried to gut the voting rights act that one of our legislators described it as a headache. we said he was racially and historically insensitive because the voting rights act was won because people like medger evers was shot in the heart and people died for that right. we believe the president should lead. we believe that the congresspeople should reset up section 4 and make sure places are covered. and it gives us an opportunity to cover places that have never been covered. but what we also have to do is if you're going to change the country you have to change the south, you're going to change the south you've got to change the state capitol because what we're seeing in the state capitol, we're seeing them go all out. now that they've done all these extreme things, now they want to do the ultimate crime against

democracy. they've written race-based redistricting plans. they want to roll back same-day registration, early voting, and sunday voting. they want to add voter i.d. that we don't need. and then they want to even block the formerly incarcerated from the ability to vote. and one bill, senate bill 666, even wants to charge $2,500 to parents if their students vote when they're in college as opposed to at home. this is wrong. it's a crime against democracy. we're going to fight them legally. we're going to fight them organizationally. and we're going to fight them at the ballot box. and we're going to fight them together. this is a new southern movement. this is the third reconstruction being birthed right in front of our eyes. and we will win. the voting rights is a battle we must fight and we will win. >> reverend dr. william barber, thank you for that. it's great to see some of your energy. there's been a lot of talk about action. i see you guys are acting and not only you but the community behind you and even beyond that what we can't see. thanks for spending time with us. coming up, the u.s. and great britain as we know share a pretty special relationship and a serious obsession with that

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like so many americans the president and first lady and the entire first family, you know, wait with anticipation for the

birth of the duke and duchess's child. and wish the family and all of great britain well on this pending momentous occasion. >> in the spotlight tonight america's guilty pleasure, the royal baby watch. after weeks of worldwide anticipation and just two hours after white house press secretary jay carney gave that zamt kensington palace announced the duchess of cambridge kate middleton had finally given birth to a baby boy. still no word tonight on what the future king's name will be. nbc's chris jansing has more outside st. mary's hospital in london where the new family of -- the new family is said to be resting comfortably. chris? >> reporter: good evening, ari. in what was a very modern decision by the royal family's standards at least, prince william is spending the night tonight with kate and their new baby. it is a big boy, almost 8 1/2 pounds. he is the new prince of cambridge, the first in almost

200 years. and i think the royal couple really reflected the feelings of a lot of people when they issued a brief statement tonight saying "we could not be happier." the cheers echoed across the grounds of buckingham palace. >> it's a boy! >> reporter: a boy born at 4:24 p.m., eight pounds six ounces. the official word came from st. mary's hospital, carried by car to buckingham palace, where it was posted on an easel that once announced prince william's birth. >> oye, oye! >> reporter: from town cryers to towers, unique celebrations because what had been dubbed the great kate wait was finally over. >> congratulations. >> whoo! >> proud to be british. absolutely. it's amazing. >> reporter: queen elizabeth came home to buckingham palace from her cast until windsor and said in a statement tonight she was delighted, as were other british leaders. >> it is an important moment in the life of our nation. but i suppose above all it's a wonderful moment for a warm and loving couple who got a brand

new baby boy. >> reporter: new grandfather prince charles said he was overjoyed. after a day in york, 200 miles north of london, where he got today's and a present. >> it's for the baby. >> right. well, i'll see what i can do. >> reporter: brits woke up this morning to find out that kate had gone to the hospital. >> if you're just waking up, really, really exciting news. william and kate arrived so stealthily, none of the scores of photographers who camped out for days got them going in the back entrance. >> no one wants to be photographed mid contraction. so i think they did it very, very cleverly there. she switched cars. >> reporter: the crowd of international media grew quickly. joined by curious brits. dieba was so excite the she baked a cake and traveled five hours to be here. >> i got a taxi. i got a coach. i got a train. i got a tube. >> it really gives the whole country a bit of a boost. >> reporter: when william was born in 1982 the obstetrician reported he cried lustily.

this time no additional details from the doctors after more than ten hours of labor. of course it's called labor for a reason. but the lindo wing definitely makes the best of it. georgie mcgrath delivered molly and ollie there. >> you have a special menu. you can choose from what you would like. you know, lobster to whatever. champagne. >> reporter: and what will the new prince be named? >> george. the regal george very, very popular. several large, three, even a four-figure bet on that. >> reporter: it's a very good bet that tonight many a brit is raising a pint to the future king. and tomorrow we could get our first look at the new king. you might remember that in 1982 when prince william was first introduced to the world from charles and diana on those very same steps behind me it all happened just 21 hours after the birth. ari? >> chris jansing, thank you so much. and joining us now, our resident royal expert, msnbc's martin bash bashir. nice to have you here. >> it's a great pleasure, ari. how are you?

>> i'm doing great. let me ask you out the gate, how is this child's life going to be different from prince william's? >> well, it's interesting. prince william was present for the birth of his son. when prince charles was born, his father, prince philip, was playing squash and was informed after four games that he had in fact become a father. so there's a distinction. i think the fact that this announcement was delayed, there was no announcement for over four hours even though the child had been born, is indicative of the kind of control that the royal family has retaken over their media operation. prince william does not like the media. and that's obvious. his wife has been extremely observant of all of the royal protocols in relation to privacy, has not spoken to journalists, is not minded to leak stories -- >> martin, i was going to say, i'm surprised someone would dislike the british media. i mean, that strikes me as unreasonable. >> really? there's no need for you to be facetious. and i know it's late. the fact is that combination

means that this child is actually unlikely to be exposed to the public glare as much as william himself was. >> okay. >> and remember this. it was actually prince william's phone that provoked the original phone hacking inquiry in 2005 because it was a text message about a knee injury that prince william had suffered that was subsequently intercepted by the royal correspondent of the "news of the world." so i think for those three reasons people should enjoy what they see tomorrow if indeed they do see this baby because they're not going to see as much of this child as william was exposed to the press previously. >> that's an interesting contrast. you've also spoken about the unfinished legacy of princess diana and how that is a contrast from what some across the pond here in the u.s. sometimes think of as something sort of superficial or only pomp. what is the substance side of this? >> i think america fell in love with princess diana in part because she was open about her vulnerabilities.

but also she was open about new passions. she cradled children, babies who were suffering with aids. she went to lesotho, where children had been maimed permanently by land mines. and i think this went beyond the simple role of royalty in terms of pageantry and status within the british system. and much more linked her to acts of charity, compassion, concern, all things that in this country are very highly regarded as well. and so i think when she died there was a huge amount of affection that had been built up in relation to her. and the american public feel that william is to some extent the inheritor of that. and that's true. because william himself has sided with, for example, a charity in lesotho with his brother, which assists children who have been physically maimed by war. he's also aligned himself with homeless people in london. and indeed has slept out

overnight, sleeping rough under the arches by railway stations. so i think there is a sense in which william is the incarnation of what his mother started. >> and is that above politics but ultimately carries some political goal when you talk about a spending priority for the homeless or whatever your -- >> well of course, it's interesting, isn't it? because we in britain have a monarchy and yet it's distinctly separate from the functions of parliament. but obviously, the royal family brings a huge amount of attention to these issues. so for example, when diana cradled these babies that are suffering with aids, it suddenly raised such attention that those charities actually were able to start really raising serious sums of money. so i don't think this is, as it were, a superficial exercise by any means. >> all right. martin bashir, i suspect you may talk about this issue again in the coming days. >> i'm not so sure. but thank you for your facetiousness tonight. >> i love you, man. you know that. >> do you? >> yeah. i do. >> sometimes it's hard to tell.

your fiancee told me it's difficult. >> you know what? we're going to leave it. as they say on some channels, we're going to leave it there. >> thank you. >> the next thing i want to talk to you about is something you may have heard. the complaint that president obama's friday address was just words when we need action. in fact, i've heard that line from not only conservatives but some of the non-partisan analysis out of washington as well. next i want to tell you why the record shows that argument is lazy, inaccurate, and pretty counterproductive. and moving from policy to some politics, there are signs that it's not just the democrats in kentucky that make mitch mcconnell nervous. wait till you hear who's coming for him next. you make a great team.

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they're dividing by age. that is going on throughout the country. the president understood this when he ran in 2008. i thought the president -- i thought he spoke very well about it. he hasn't done very much about it to bridge those divides. he gives a great speech. he hasn't done well. >> that is a simplistic and inaccurate view. it may appeal to krit whoixz want to duck the hard issues while claiming to back some undefined action. let's look at the president's action for a moment, at his policy agenda, because that was the context for friday. and it's a record of leading on civil rights and economic opportunity, precisely the areas where many critics have been m.i..a. the trayvon martin case set off a firestorm because he was another black human being killed at the intersection of profiling and unjust police tactics. there are many names on that list. danroy henry, sean bell, jordan davis, adam yue diallo. and long before today state senator barack obama was taking action to make racial profiling

illegal. as kirk dillard, obama's key republican ally in the illinois legislature, recalled, then state senator obama pushed a bill to ban racial profiling by police. "barack and i had many, many early morning, 7:00 a.m. meetings with hundreds from law enforcement, helping us understand the difficult profiling issues. senator obama made this difficult subject workable." illinois passed that bill into law. and when he came to washington, obama continued taking action, co-sponsoring legislation to ban racial profiling nationwide. that bill has proven harder to pass. the end racial profiling act currently has 15 co-sponsor. or take equal opportunity programs. the president ordered his lawyers to fight the attack on affirmative action in the supreme court this year. he acted to defend it by arguing that our government and our police are better when they're open to diversity. and that's a contrast, by the way, from mitt romney, who refused to even state a position

on the issue last year. and then there are the values embedded in spending. something we've been talking about tonight and that came up on friday. >> and this is a long-term project. we need to spend some time in thinking about how do we bolster and reinforce our african-american boys? is there more that we can do to give them a sense that their country cares about them? and values them. and is willing to invest in them. >> the president's budget prioritizes that kind of investment on cities, education, health care, and police. he's also pursued those priorities through the tax code, investing more in the lowest fifth of earners than any president in 30 years. as the "washington post" reported. and right now more black americans are indeed in that

bottom fifth than any other bracket. this is a classic example of what judges call disparate or unequal racial impact. the sequester may not are been designed to hurt black defendants, but that is what it does. cutting 8% out of public defenders this year alone. and i could go on. i could talk about restoring voting rights to ex-felons. then senator obama co-sponsored the revote act. and he continues to back action on that policy while john mccain and mitt romney have o'poised it. or the voting rights act. the president has been pressing congress to act and renew it. but the point here is the president's new and deeply thoughtful words on racial justice on friday were offered in the context of all of this action and leadership throughout his career. i think that's pretty obvious to anyone who's followed these issues or studied civil rights law. there's still a legitimate policy debate, of course, about how to push and prioritize all these goals. but few fair observers can doubt that we have a president who diligently pursues respect and precision when engaging race.

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so it's a boy for will and kate and a tea partier for mitch mcconnell. the republican leader of the u.s. senate will face a primary challenge in 2014. 46-year-old kentucky businessman matt bevin will announce his candidacy wednesday at the kentucky state capitol. that's according to a press release issued by the louisville tea party. advisers have started talking a bit although anonymously and one told politico matt has been speaking with grassroots activists throughout kentucky and has received a great amount of encouragement and support. this will be a real campaign and we are ready for the inevitable smear tactics that mitch mcconnell's campaign machine is famous for. in the words of kirsten dunst, bring it on." so if bevin's kristen dunst, i guess mitch mcconnell gets to be gabrielle union? >> you want to make it right?

then when you go to nationals bring it. don't slack off because you feel sorry for us. that way when we beat you we'll know it's because we're better. >> i'll bring it. don't worry. >> i never do. >> don't worry. joining me now, nia malika henderson, political reporter for the "washington post," and joe regirth, a political reporter for the "courier journal" who's covered kentucky for 25 years. starting with you, joe, should mitch mcconnell be worried? >> well, it's hard to tell at this point. what we've got now is we've got an untested candidate who's obviously coming out on wednesday to challenge mcconnell. we don't know if he's going to be able to raise money. we don't know exactly how good of a campaigner he's going to be. i've been to some tea party events. i've seen -- i've not seen him speak at any of them. so he's kind of a blank slate. that said, mcconnell always has

to worry. he's not all that popular in kentucky, even though he's won elections for 30 years for the u.s. senate here. and he's got a very high disapproval rating. we did some polling back in january that found that only 34% of kentucky republicans said that they would vote for mitch mcconnell for re-election no matter what. >> and that's weird. i want to put up something from political almanac that talks about what mitch mcconnell's been doing to make kentucky even more red. they basically say much of the republican trend has been because of the work of senator mitch mcconnell. he helped line up candidates who carried three formerly democratic congressional districts in '94 and '96. he provided key support for senator jim bunning's narrow win in '98 and then helped orchestrate bunning's exit when he looked to be a weak re-election prospect in 2010. and it goes on from there. nia, what is the deal? is nothing enough? >> well, you know, that whole strategy didn't quite work for him last go-round with rand paul

winning. and now i think you're going to have rand paul really running interference for mitch mcconnell in sort of a switch there. he's going to go out and talk him up to tea party folks. you've already seen that from mitch mcconnell. him reaching out to tea party folks as well. mitch mcconnell is like the tasmanian devil of politics. he's going to run a real slash and burn candidacy there. i think he's got about $10 million in the bank. you've already heard from his people talking about this new primary challenger, calling him an east coast con man. their i think approach is going to be essentially that bevin isn't from around here, he's not one of them. >> well, you know, nia, we were going with gabrielle union, not the tasmanian devil as the analogy tonight. but you can mix it up. joe, what do you say to that? and tell us a little about the entire strategy because he did get beat in his back yard by the tea partiers and a man named

jesse benton and now he's hired them. tell us about that. >> yes. jesse benton is actually rand paul's nephew in-law. he ran rand paul's election campaign. he did not run the primary campaign. that was run by a different campaign manager. jesse only came in after rand paul had beaten mitch mcconnell in that race, trey grayson. but mcconnell's got a problem in that he likes to go hard after his opponents. and the risk that he runs here if he goes too hard after matt bevins, if he attacks too much, then he's going to turn off all these tea partier -- all these tea party candidates that he is going to need to come back and vote for him in november if he escapes bevins in the primary. >> joe, a lot of people think of this as a red state. we've been calling it that tonight. but in fact the registration numbers tell a slightly different story, even if they

may be antiquated. unpack that for us, that you have 1.6 million registered democrats and only a million registered republicans. as they say on "saturday night live," what's up with that? >> well, the thing you've got to know about kentucky is it's a very conservative state, and so our democrats here are very conservative. while kentucky is a red state in federal elections, we've traditionally been a blue state in statewide elections. right now among our statewide office holders there is only one republican in the bunch, but then almost our entire congressional delegation is republican. >> mm-hmm. nia, last question to you. has washington and specifically the washington republican caucus noticed this challenge yet? >> you know, i think they have. and i think we'll have a similar situation that we've seen in wyoming with all of the sort of establishment republicans closing ranks around mitch mcconnell. i mean, he is obviously a very

high-ranking republican. and they worry that you would have a similar situation where candidates have been knocked off and then a tea party challenger will come in there and be not as strong in the general. >> mm-hmm. that's an interesting point because part of what you have in washington is this feeling that there's always the fear of these tea party challenges. some have argued that's overblown. there seems to be little doubt, though, that if you're looking at a powerful republican in the senate and he's facing this and we're hearing here from kentucky that it could be real, maybe they're not so fearful after all. maybe they have something to really be worried about. i want to thank nia-malika henderson and joe gerth for joining us tonight. >> thank you, ari. >> thank you. >> that is "the last word." i am ari melber, as you may have heard from tonight. we have lawrence o'donnell back in the chair tomorrow. so make sure to come back and see him. and if you want to catch more of me, if that's something you're interested in, watch "the cycle" weekdays at 3:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc or follow me on twitter @arimelber on the

twitter machine. chris hayes is up next. thank you. ♪ good evening, from new york. i'm chris hayes. tonight on "all in," there are a few places in this world where when a baby is born that child's life path is all but predetermined. one of those places was behind this door in london and another is in any of the dark areas of this map. we're going to talk about both of those places tonight. also coming up, if i gave you 435 guesses i wonder if you could make the congress person being called the most effective u.s. representative. that representative will be my guest tonight. plus breaking news about the 2011 national league most valuable player who has been suspended tonight without pay for the rest of the year. but most surprising is what he had to say about the suspension.