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african-americans, people with disabilities. >> candid candidate in a revealing interview, anthony weiner talked to buzzfeed. how he really feels about "new york times," and in a telling exchange may have actually spilled the beans on the question a lot of folks are asking, will hillary run for president in 2016? >> is huma still working on the campaign. >> she's helping out every day. >> do you know what her role in the 2016 campaign will be? >> i do. >> what will it be? >> i'm not telling you. >> in the garden state, the focus is on newark mayor cory booker, as voters go to the polls in the special primary eleeks. but today senator rand paul may be offering an olive branch to a different new jersey politician. have they finally called a truce in the republican family feud? >> i think the republican party is big enough for both of us,

for all of us. did tuesday, i'm peter alexander, in today for andrea mitchell. a strict photo i.d. law signed by the governor there set to take effect before the next presidential election. already trying to mount a major legal challenge. pete williams joins us now. what should we expect in terms of the court ballotses between now and then? >> well, lawsuits are starting to mount up. two have been filed already. it is probably one of the strictest now voter i.d. laws in the nation. the governor who signed a bill

late yesterday said it's necessary to review voter fraud. he said you have to use a voter i.d. or i.d. card to get on an airplane or buy sudafed at the drugstore. why shouldn't it be used as well for preserves the important of -- but there's more to this law. it also cuts a week off the ary voting period in north carolina, from 17 days down to ten days. it sends same-day voters register. it ends a program in which underage voters could preregister and be ready to vote by the time they turned 18. so among the lawsuits is one that says this all tends to discriminate against african-americans. for example, it notes that 70% of after kaj americans voted early, compared to 52% of whites.

it says that african-americans are much more likely to use same-day registration, because they tend to move more than whites. it notes in november 2.5 so if you cut down on it will result in longer lines on election day. i want i to way in, and the merging of two major airlines. a lawsuit filed by the justice department that we expected to go through between american airlines and us airways. this is the justice department, also the city of washington, d.c. and six attorneys general, all voting to say a federal

court should block this merger. basically their point is it's going to vastly reduce competition. it would basically mean four companies would control the squort of routes in the u.s. it would result in the largest airline in the world, they say, and will end competition, head to head, airline to airline competition. it says that not only will airfares go up, but when there's less competition, airlines tend to add on more of what they call ancillary fees, fees to check your bags get pour legroom, and you'll see more of that if there's less competition. washington, d.c. is in on it, because the jut department and city here say it would, it says that roughly 70% of the flights there would be controlled by just this one big airline. >> flying has changed

dramatically. pete williams in the newsroom, thank you. we appreciate it. >> you bet. during a wide-ranging speech, hillary clinton slammed north carolina's new law. >> legislators in north carolina pushed through a bill that reads like the greatest hits of voter suppression. restricted early voting, no more same-day registration or extending voting hours to accommodate long lines. stricter photo i.d. requirements that disqualified those issued by colleges. joining us is new york democratic congressman gregory meeks in new york for us. representative meeks, i appreciate your time. i want your initial reaction to this new north carolina law and your sense of how widespread you expect similar actions to be. >> my immediate reaction is what country are we talking about? we cannot possibly be talking about the united states of america, who have come there history where we've deprived

african-americans and others from voting across the globe for preventing folks, yes it seems to me what we're trying to do is take away the right to vote or make it difficult for people to vote. clearly it seems that north carolina is starting it, because north carolina now is in play, as evidenced by the last few president atelection. individuals are trying to systematically eliminate individuals from having the ability to vote. we should be talking about more freedom to vote, having more voter participation, as opposed to less. perhaps more specifically, recently instruct down that central element of the voting rights act, which means it's up to you guys, up to congress to update this law. is any progress being made? are you optimistic that it will be made? >> i know there's problem being

made i think what the supreme court did is it just said we have to look at a new try tieria that were affected by the votinging rights act, now you it look at the new math. apparently from what we've seen action it really has expanded, so we've got to make sure that the conversation is take place, that those expanded areas where people are trying to take away individuals -- making it difficult for the right to vote, that they need to be included if they were precluded before, but i am confident that i've seen conversation on both sides of the aisle chairman sensenbrenner is working very hard, and john conyers, the ranking member, that dialogue is taking place. i am hopeful. this is the united states of america, we do have a strong democracy, and that's based upon everything having the ability to vote. >> we will watch and wait.

i want to get to another couple hot topics from your backyard. the issue of stop and frisk. you represent a big section of queens. help me understand what tactics are acceptable in mostly poor communities where police insist crime is concentrated. what should they do there? >> look, i'm a former prosecutor. you just can't stop individuals because they are black or latino and happen to be in a poor neighborhood. there needs to be a reason, you need to have some cause us for stopping and searching individuals. if you see a group of family hanging on the streets, clearly you can tell them to move on. you don't have to search them. if they look like they're casing something or doing something, that that may be of a criminal nature. that gives you a reasonable cause to make a stop and maybe

to make a search. you have to do it in context. you can't do it simply because an individual happens to be of a certain ethnic group, happens to be black, happens to be latino, happens to live in a poor community, that means they must be guilty of something. that is wrong. >> we've got a lightning round. one last question. hillary clinton making some of her most political remarks since leave as secretary of state. you're a big supporter of hers in 2008. is this the clearest sign yet that clinton is in? >> i like it. i tell you what, i think she'll be a great president. if she runs, i know i'm ready to get out there and work hard for her. i think she stands for the principle that can bring this nation together and continue moving forward. she will be a great president, and if she runs, i'll be out there with her, for sure. >> representative meeks, thank

you for speaking with us. anthony weiner says his wife huma abe din has locked up her next job. >> do you know what her role in hillary's 2016 campaign will be? >> i do. >> what will it be? >> i'm not telling you. >> do you feel like you've damaged her place in that world? >> i feel that what i've done has hurt her, yeah. it's hurt her professionally, it's hurt her personally. joining muss for our daily fix, chris cillizza, and "the washington post" editorialal columnist ruth marcus. anthony weiner said he's not -- did he actually spill the beans? is this sort of now the ray affirmation is in. >> if we needed one. i think hillary is in when clinton is in, and i don't think i'm relying on anthony weiner as

my source for that. in fact i wouldn't even call him a second source. i believe hillary is running, i think it will be an interesting campaign. >> surely the clinton folks are saying to themselves this is the last person we want weighing in. >> and endearing himself further to clinton-land, both mr. and mrs. >> she also decided to fill us in on her upcoming speaking schedule. here's what she said itches over the coming months, i will deliver a series of speeches focused on questions like these. today the assault on voting rights. next month at the national constitution center in philadelphia, i will talk about the balance and transparency necessary in our national

security policies. later in the fall, i'll address the implications of these issues for america's global leadership. >> just recently you touched on hillary clinton's absence from the early primary states. we know joe biden is making a states out, but she is teasing her next stop, so what is the strategy here? >> well, look, you know, peter, as i was listening to her say those words, all that kept running through my mind is this would be exactly what you would do if you were hillary clinton and you want to run for president. which i do think it is hard for her as an unannounced candidate to go to one of these early states respect because it would be an absolute zoo. anytime she gets near one of those states, we write about it. if she goes to one of the -- she doesn't need more headlines. i think what she's doing is smart. she's giving meaty policy addresses, voters suppression, voter i.d., critical important

issue to the democratic base. particularly among african-americans and hispanics. she's doing what you do if you're hillary clinton and you want to run for president. >> i want to ask you, ruth, if we can, a change of topic. the republicans, it looks like a peace treaty, between rand paul and chris christie. here was rand paul's comments this morning. >> you heard him really denouncing the libertarian wing of the party. >> i think that was a being mistake. i think the republican party is big enough for all of us. people who want to attack the libertarian conservatives, they need to realize our party is not big enough to win right now. we need more people, not less people. >> the fight for the soul of the republican party, is it good that they're in the middle of this debate? >> good for them to figure out who they want to be action and i think the senator makes an important point about the size of the party, and they do need more. i'm not sure the way they're going about it, and particularly

on the immigration front is going to help them get more, but i do think that tamping down some of the juvenile rhetoric about king of bacon and things like that is a better sign than keeping that going, and nobody made a joe about the party being big enough for both of us. >> it's like that commercial with the bacon, bacon, bacon. chris, what does his support system look like? is it enough? >> he is right and ruth makes a point. he is right that the republican sort of national electoral is simply not big enough to win a national election in 2016. i think he's also right, peter, that he does grow the party into places that it is not currently. the issue, and rand paul will not talk about this, but the issue is, does he in growing it talk about same-sex marriage and allowing it, talking about pot, making it legal, different views from the republican

establishment on foreign policy. in appealing to people with those different views, does he lose a critical people, so it's a zero-sum game? >> chris cillizza -- >> c.c. i understand. >> c squared, i understand. ruth, thank you. it's a wash here in the northeast, creating a domino effect of major travel headaches. the current average delay out of laguardia airport now, nearly an hour and a half. 45-minute delays for departures out of philadelphia. heavy rains and flooding also complicating local commutes in major cities across the eastern seaboard. if you're flying today, check before you head to the airport. right now, 7 years of music is being streamed. a quarter million tweeters are tweeting. and 900 million dollars are changing hands online. that's why hp built a new kind of server. one that's 80% smaller. uses 89% less energy.

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i they when you get information on someone's record you should gelt a warrant. i think it's wrong we write one order from a secret cord and everybody's phone records. i think that's a real mistake. >> a prominent vote james clapper. will it lead to subs tan tiff reform? adam schiff joins me now, congressman schiff, we appreciate your time today. the president as we've noted just last week announced what would be an independent group of outside experts. as we understand now at the be the dni head james clapper forming that group. is this the right approach. he was criticized for his comments to congress in the

past. >> well, i think it's too early to tell. one thing that's defined is what will the mission for the board going to be? four boards have jurisdiction here. privacy and civil liberties oversight board, the president's oversight advisory board, the president's other advisory board, the nsa's advisory board, so the question is what will be the mission? i assume it will be a board comprised of tech-heavy participants. they may provide useful input, one of the things i've been urging for some times, they may tain their own data. having some tech people on the board to say that's technological -- we can do that, we should move in that direction. that could be useful if that's their mission, but i think these boards will be tripping over each other if they're not

defined in what their scope will be. >> is more congressional oversight needed? >> certainly congress will have to be heavily involved to make sure this board is populated with the right people, it actually does sxern an important function, but the things -- seven's the creation of an adver sear process. that's probably the most significant of all the presidential proposals, so the fisa court has that benefit. in these key cases, noted garden variety of individual warrants, but when they are interpretations of section 215, like that interpretation that led to the metadata program. that's where it's worth while for the court to hear another voice. i maybe statute tore changes may be needed. right now the chief justice picks all those people. i think it ought to be senate confirmed. >> we know that john kerry has

been pressed on that during some travel it is in south america. are you concerned that these programs present a long-term problem for our international interests? >> they certainly do provide a lot of complications in terms of our international relations. some of it is played out well below the surface, because some of this is partners in europe have their own programs they don't want to talk about and fee freel to talk -- and not talk about what their own intelligence agencies do. some of the countries are the biggest beneficiaries of the intelligence work we do when we're able to share with them. if there's a threat in madrid or london or berlin, so they often benefit from the intelligence work we do, but yes, in other countries, it is certainly complicating our relations, now, did you similarly problem in south america, central america and elsewhere.

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neuromare yor cory booker is leading the polls there by double digits. the big favorite in today's election as well as the object 16th general election. what kind of senator would booker be in casey hunt sat down with mayor booker last night. >> i don't want to become part of the system, but i want to change it, and really brings people together. i think we have the capacity to do extraordinary things. >> casey joining me from elizabeth, new jersey, though we expect a low turnout. casey, i want a sense from the conversation you had on the booker campaign bus yesterday of exactly what kiffin of u.s. senator he would be. what really strucking from that conversation? >> well, i don't think cory

booker is the kind of person who is focused on fitting in necessarily, at least not in an institution that so values seniority and tradition. he told me he doesn't plant to be a firebrand, he wants to try to build common ground, but at the same time he seems perfectly willing to offend people along the way. you have to remember that in the senate, progress is sort of measured in very incremental ways, and that's not how booker has worked as mayor of newark, and he's not been content to sort of sit back and let people who, just because they've been there longer than he has, take the lead. that's -- he in fact said that rand paul or ted cruz might be models he could use as a freshman senator. he was touring around with eve ra longoria yesterday, oprah winfrey is a big supporters.

what did she say about the accusations he's at lord more focused on celebrity than hi day job inch hi opponents have said the way he's focused on famous celebrities is something that's not good for new jersey or for the city of newark. booker says that, you know, it's not just about his personal brand. he told me the brand of newark as a city has changed since he took over. he line is he'll sit down and have lunch with anyone, famous or not, if they have good ideas your honor and dismissed the financial disclosure issue as well? >> reporter: between the 1 and 5 million dollar question is how these disclosures might affect booker. he's amended it to show his stake in the video company is worth between 1 million and 5 million. he ran and developed a reputation as someone who is for cleaning house, fixing up government, changing the way

things are done. while on the one hand he hands participated in the corruption that's historically plagued newark, he's also sort of building this new model where he's working with technology companies, so wee see how that affects him. >> casey hunt in new jersey today, we will find out the results, though it seems a forgone conclusion. casey, thank you. >> thanks, peter. other headlines prove that politics, well, they're just like us. in arizona senator john mccain spent part of his august recess reporting to jury duty. he tweeted throughout the process. in the end he was not picked to serve, but got word i'm done with hashtag jury duty. i appreciate ought dedicated work and all the arizonans who serve on our jury. in norway, the prime minister took a turn as a taxi driver. he's just like us. he donned the full uniform,

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continues today, leading up to this winter's olympic games. there is confusion about how the ioc will actually respond. this comes as athletes, including figure skater johnny weir are starting to weigh in about competing this winter. >> it's heartbreaking that i could be suppressed in a country that i love so much and that this olympics, this thing that we train every single day for, blood, sweat and tears, it could end in disaster for people like they that could be arrested for simply wearing the wrong costume. >> joining mess is michelle kosinski in moscow and jonathan capehart. michelle, we'll begin with you. help us understand the confusion in terms of how the law may be

enforced and the olympic international olympic committee's view right now. where does this stand? >> reporter: everyone has been weighing in on this, top leaders in government, arts and sports, but it's a tough thing to figure out for people both inside and outside russia. what we're talking about is a new law, actually a set of laws, but the one that's drawn a lot of attention was passed unanimously in june and bans the distribution of propaganda of nontraditional relations to children. that's accessible to children. it's ambiguous, and by the way, it includes the internet. so it begs the question, if somebody went out and was waving a rainbow flag, or wearing a pro-gay rights t-shirt, peacefully demonstrating or talking to young people about their life, could they be arrested for that? well, the answer apparently is

yes. we talked to a top gay activist in moscow, who by the way, website was denied internet presence by providers here, and he had to find a european domain president he described the situation as frightening. there have already been arrested, and some dutch -- about the gave community, that's what many around the world are so concerned about, some celebrities even calling for a boycott. the international olympic committee says, look, the games need to be free of discrimination for you have been. they shay russia has assured them the law won't affect athletes or attendees, but the russian sports mints terr says, yeah, everybody will have to obey russian laws, obviously, so now the ioc has asked russia for more clarification. we're sure to hear more about this in the coming days, peter. >> thanks, michelle. jonathan, the president was asked about the idea about of an

olympic boycott. >> one of the things i'm looking forward to is maybe some gale and lesbian athletes which i think would go a long way in rejecting the attitudes that we're seeing there the and if russia doesn't have gale or lesbian athletes, then probably it will make their team weaker. >> is the white house the administration's position on this satisfies? >> look, the president is trying to threat the needle here. clearly he wants american athletes to compete, as he said, to bring home the gold. if they hat to be gale or lesbian, bisexual, even better to show up the russians, and their really sort of crazy law here. i think the idea of a boy coit,

an official united states boycott of the olympics is a nonstarter. as johnny weir told thomas roberts earlier today, you know, this is something that athletes train for every day of their lives, to get to that moment to compete in the olympics. so it will shortchange olympic athletes to then suddenly say no, we're not going. the president, as you know, has talked about what's happening with these laws in russia many, many times. he's not been shy about criticizing what president putin has done. >> jonathan, how complicating is this issue? >> no, this isn't helpful. you've got they very vague laws. we've got what's going on with edward snowden, and all the other complicating issues, vis-a-vis with regard to syria and things happening in the middle east. this is just one more irritant, if you will, in the u.s./russia

relationship. >> michelle, have we heard anything new in vladimir putin? any real russian response to this new controversy? >> reporter: nothing yet. at times it's even been ambiguous. russia is saying nobody has anything to worse about, but saying, yeah we're going to enforce our new law. they're in a bad position. but realistically the olympics come, we're, if gay athletes are going to be outspoken, are they going to be arrested? will we see athletes from other countries arrested on the streets for being outspoken? i doubt it. if that happens, that would be a huge international incident. i think what's interesting is, both here and outside of russia, the immediate reaction to this, the immediate result has been people being more outspoken. here in russia, activists have been more pro-gay rights, and

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we're back on "andrea mitchell reports." attorneys for whitie bulger saying he will appeal the conviction. the 83-year-old gangster was found guilty yesterday of 31 counts. among them conspiracy, racketeering, as well as hi involvement in 11 murders. the former fbi informant is expected to spend the rest of his life behind bars in prison. kevin cullen is co-author of whitey bulger, and the manhunt that brought him to justice. kevin, thanks so much. i know you have covered this man for so long. you wrote this morning for the last two months he saturday in the courtroom, as you described it, looking like a guy waiting for a bus, but on monday, it looked like that bus ran him

over. as a bostonian, explain the significance, what the conclusion of this case means to your city. >> well, obviously whitey bulger is the most infamous vial gangster the city has ever known, what kicks him up into the pantheon of criminals, he but that he had the nation's premier law enforcement agency, the fbi, in his pocket. he was their informant. in a lot of ways he tricked them, about you he was protected by a guy, his fbi handler grew up in the same neighborhood, so it's sort of a cynical deal in the beginning, but as the evidence at the trial showed, whitey bulger killed with the connivance of the fbi. the fbi helped him identify potential witnesses against him, and he in turn murdered these people. and so most of the murders that

they was it is the city that needed the closure. the families really needed the closures, and unfortunately some of them did not get that, because there were eight murders he was charged with in which seven of them the jury said that the government had not proved the case the they didn't say he was not guilty. in the case of debby davis, one of the two women he was charged with -- they could not reach a finding at all. >> you talk about the donohue family, michael donohue's murder proved, as you say that he didn't just kill other gangsters. for their own sake i want yeah, i do not like establishing a hierarchy of victims. as far as i'm concerned, whitey bulger didn't have the right to kill anybody, but the donohues stand out for a number of

reasons. michael donohue was an innocent man. >> he was a truck driver. >> yeah, he gave a ride home to a guy -- and the fbi told whitey, so whitey went to kill this guy. frankly he didn't care who he killed at the time. and those three little boys are now three grown men, michael jr., shawn and tommy. they were there yesterday hugging their mother, pat, a lady of extraordinary integrity and class. she raised those kids without her husband. they got some justice yesterday. they want more justice. unfortunately their case was actually thrown out. they sued the government and they won initially and actually were awarded $6 million. an appeals court decided they needed to read the newspaper more closely and said they should have filed the claim one year earlier. >> kevin, i need to keep you brief before we move on. but i just want to ask you before we let you go. you describe it as almost become

like a tick from the court clerk with all the guilties. what do you think was going through the mind of mighty bulger during that moment yesterday? >> hard to say, because he showed his poker face. he made no reaction whatsoever. i'm sure that was purposeful on his part. whitey never wants you to think you're getting to him. so we'll hear from him in his sentencing. he'll be allowed to speak. i have no doubt he will give a speech from the dark, as they say. >> kevin, we appreciate your time. thanks for sharing those insights today. >> thanks, peter. it was the scene of the notorious pie in the face moment last week where things got a little bit messy during the taping of savannah guthrie's interview with late night host jimmy fallon. in the first part of the interview that aired on the "today" show this morning, fallon opened up about being a new dad. >> little girls especially unlock something in a dad's heart where it just makes you more -- you're like, oh, my gosh. your voice gets higher. i couldn't come to work because

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which political story will make headlines in the next 24 hours? chris, we know the john mccain hosting a town hall in arizona this afternoon. his town halls in the past have provided some good fireworks. these days they're fewer and far between. a lot of representatives, senators don't even really publicize where these things are taking place. >> peter, i think whether it was 2009 and the sort of town hall reaction there to president obama's health care bill or whether what we've seen in the

intervening years, i think there's less publicity drawn to them. john mccain, though, to his credit, he, no question, gets confronted. there was a big exchange back and forth last year about immigration. what i'm fascinated by, though, is the fact that we haven't heard as much about immigration, which i thought would sort of be the hot topic in these town halls. it hasn't bubbled up to the national level in terms of people talking about it. maybe it's to your point there just haven't been as many town halls to talk about it. >> the republicans insist it's more obama care, just another year but same topic. we'll see what happens and what they hear when they come back in september, i trust. chris, thank you. that does it r for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." remember to follow the show online as well as on twitter @mitchellreports. thomas roberts has a look at what is next on "news nation." >> good to see you. the naacp one of the groups suing north carolina over its controversial new voting law. will this pressure congress to finally take the voting rights act up?

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hall. we begin with a legal battle brewing in north carolina over that state's new voter i.d. law, considered to be one of the strictest in the country. the naacp, the aclu, and at least two other groups are pressing ahead with lawsuits challenging the sweeping new restrictions. without any formal ceremony or cameras president, north carolina's republican governor silently signed that measure yesterday afternoon. it limits early voting in the state and requires voters to show photo i.d. at the polls. pete williams joins me now live about this. certainly there's been a lot of backlash about what this north carolina law means and also how the governor is reacting to it. >> well, the governor did put out a ewe tube video. he said voter i.d.s are what most states now require, that you have to have an i.d. to board an airplane or even to buy antihistamines at the drugstore, so why not do it to make sure the election process is safe and fair and eliminates fraud, or at least reduces the chances for fraud. what this does -- i think one