topic of the visit to be about income inequality across the globe. >> two firefighters were killed after a massive fire engulfed a drens shal building in boston's back bay neighborhood. >> todays attacks on obama care aren't about extending the deadline. >> what is this, a joke? >> ukraine said it's finished withdrawing the last of the troops from crimea, the split is final, they are calling it a conscious uncouple. >> welcome to "rfd", we start with possibly a little good news for chris christie. what is important is the perspective, today the law firm hired by the governor to investigate the case of the george washington bridge lane closures last september found no evidence that the new jersey governor was involved at all and

instead puts blame squarely on the governor's aides. >> we found that governor christie had no knowledge before hand of this george washington bridge realignment idea and that he played no role whatsoever in that decision or the implementation of it. we further found based on our investigation, that david wild stein is the person who originated this idea and orchestrated that, that david wildstein went to bridget kelly for approval in the governor's office, and that they had an alterior motive to some way target mayor sokolich. >> they released their 345-page report and i want to demonstrate

for you what kind of light reading this is. it is thick, obviously we have read all of it in detail already -- we have not but we have been combing through it. they say they reviewed more than 250,000 documents and interviewed more than 70 witnesses. so this is by all accounts a thorough job and disclosed four people people were left out of the review. several key witnesses have refused to cooperate with our investigation or asserted their rate against self-incrimination and some questioned the impartiality of the report since it was by a law firm chosen by chris christie himself and the maestro behind the report is randy mastro raising a lot of questions as well. this isn't the last word on the subject. there's already an investigation underway by the new jersey

legislature and federal investigation that is ongoing. so what is this all mean for chris christie and new jersey? let's go to steve kornacki, who has been on this story for the very beginning. pleasure to have you. always appreciate your insight on this. >> sure. >> first the big picture on this, do you find this report to be at all significant in the chris christie story? >> it's significant but i think there's sort of two ways of looking at it. one if you looked at the press conference and trappings of like this is the independent investigation and they are going to release findings, i don't think -- it's not fair to understand it that way this is a law firm that is simultaneously as it is conducting this internal investigation, it is simultaneously representing the governor's office and helping governor's office to prepare material for an investigation being leld by the u.s. attorney and also for an investigation being led by the state legislative committee. this is a law firm that has dual and conflicting mandates as it's

pursuing this investigation. it's the law firm christie chose and paid for by taxpayers. i read this as this is the defense. this is the attempt by the christie administration to defend itself against the questions and suspicions raised by how high up the knowledge of shutdown and potentially any attempts to cover it up went. this is their attempt. everything may be true but this is not report that gets to say that definitively. >> a case from the defense can be true. how do you weight the actual procedures they used? were they making a show of impartiality or thorough in the review of the evidence, aside from those who wouldn't cooperate with them -- >> if you want to talk -- you want to do a report on what happened -- why did the george washington bridge lanes close down, what was the motive behind them? you want to talk to bridget

kelly, they didn't talk to bridget kelly -- >> she was a hard get. >> not a hard get when he fired her. >> but don't you think at that point he was already be advised that would be a complicating conversation -- >> that's what he was saying. he's fired other staff members before and talked to them before hand. but it's -- the report itself there's a couple of interesting things in here. one that i just spotted a minute ago, this is something not been publicly reported before now. there's an insinuation they say that events in kelly's personal life may have had some bearing on her subjective motivations and state of mind and go on to say, that she been having a personal relationship with bill stepien, and that her first known communication to wildstein about the lane realignment

occurred around the time her personal relationship with stepien cooled and stepien and kelly had largely stopped speaking. there's an insinuation this is a woman scorned coming up with some kind of scheme to -- >> has that shown up on your reporting -- >> the idea of their being a personal relationship between kelly and stepien, treated as common knowledge in tron ton, you have conversations with people privately and off the record, sure, there's a relationship there. >> why would this be so significant to the case? >> they are suggesting a motive here that is very -- that this report implicates and goes hard on wildstein and kelly. this version of it is not making stepien look that bad. they are basically laying the

blame here on kelly and saying, it's suggesting it is possible that the end of her relationship with stepien was the impetus for her to do this. >> it's interesting because this report on all sides delves into the personal and almost has a t tabloidie feel and the governor doesn't recall and even if he made comments it wouldn't register with the governor there were traffic issue. at one point he was welling up with tears at an event, and conducted himself as every turn as someone who has nothing to hide. there's a lot of subjective and quite colorful characterization of the individuals and interesting that that extends to these personal revelations sfwl the constant theme is the benefit of the doubt to christie and people exonerated by this report. the big mystery was when wildstein's lawyer wrote and

said the governor had knowledge of the lane closures as they were happening, that knowledge exists. i think we see the governor's response to that in here because they are claiming that wildstein talked to christie on september 11th anniversary and wildstein had mentioned something about the traffic to him then. they are saying in this report they are claiming, that didn't mean anything to christie at the time because it sounded like a local traffic issue. that seems to be their response to that. >> the report is quite scathing about a number of other political figures and goes after hoboken mayor dawn zimmer who in the past accused christie of holding hurricane sandy relief money. what do you think of the fact this also pulls back and takes punches at the broader new jersey political scene? >> dawn zimmer, if you want to get the bottom of her allegations and this is the something the u.s. attorney is slo looking into, you'll want to talk to dawn zimmer. they were not able to talk to her or people around her.

i think they probably anywhere in their position would make the same decision, this is chris christie's lawyer, i'm not talking to him, i'm talking to the u.s. attorney. that calls into question again, like when ip say this is not the definitive word on this. the u.s. attorney hasn't had any problem talking to dawn zimmer or anybody else. i read this entire as something -- this is a report that they want the u.s. attorney to read and anything in there they want -- any document they found they want to share with the u.s. attorney. i read it as a defense. in terms of the zimmer thing the one thing jumped out though. they go out of their way to say if there was -- if there was any withholding of sandy money for hoboken for political reasons, it would have been a conspiracy and to pull off the conspiracy they detail what looks like an incredibly elaborate series of events and therefore it's i am plausible that there could be any motivations. however, since dawn zimmer made

allegations we had a report that $6 million of sandy money was directed to bellville, new jersey, a town barely hit by san did and chris christie personally directed the money himself. we've seen sandy money directed for nonsandy related things. it's not hard to do as they make it sound. >> this does seem to be the perennial problem with this scandal, it does not pertain to bridge closures but exploiting out into different issues. again, in this report an exxon race and some claim to have connections to him and personal content in there and steve kornacki reporting there are new revolutions about bridget kelly personal relationships and those may have been at the heart of her allegations.

we'll leave you to curl up with this very long report, steve. >> getting there. >> thank you so much. >> just ahead on "rf daily", a different kind of subject, president obama and pope francis met for first time and tackled issues from birth control to immigration reform. we'll talk about that historic meeting with a high profile wearer of the cloth right after the break. stay with us. i dunno, i just ah woke up today and i said i need something sportier. annnd done. ok maxwell, just need to ah contact your insurance company with the vin number. oh, i just did it. with my geico app. vin # is up to the loaded. ok well then jerry here will take you through all of the features then. why don't weeeeeeeeeeee go out to the car. ok, i'll just be outside... ok, yeah. his dad is my boss. yeah. vin scanning to add a car. just a tap away on the geico app.

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inclusion, i was grateful to have the opportunity to talk about the poor, the excluded. >> that was president obama talking about his first historic meeting with pope francis today. take a listen. >> wonderful to meet you. thank you so much. thank you. >> the president stopped by the vatican as part of his week long overseas tour. in his conversation with the pope was distinctive in one respect, time, it was 52 minutes long. president's meeting with francis's predecessor pope benedict barely lasted a half hour. they are two men who you would think have more common ground than disagreements, both global leaders and swept into office on the promise of change and both rail regularly against inequality and both graced the cover of "rolling stone",

looking good gentlemen, but idealogical divisions that simmer underneath the surface of this relationship and they are not small divisions. the obama administration and the vatican aren't on the same page when talking about abortion, same-sex marriage and directly at odds with some of america's economic practices. to make common sense of both of this, i'm going to turn to someone of the cloth and regular vatican watcher, first is helen prejaen a member of congregation of st. joseph and basis for susan sarandon's character in "dead man walking" and the world over network, and best selling author. thank you both for joining us. >> thank you. >> i'll start with you, raymond. what does president obama get

out of this meeting and what do you think pope francis gets out of it? his popularity is at an all-time high. >> the president came to the pope primarily because these are two heads of states coming together. let's face it, the president is at a 44% approval rating and pope francis, 88% approval rating. he's trying to get out of this -- the president that is, what russell crow and philomena hope to get out of it, a little of francis pixie dust. at this moment with all that's going on in the east and with ukraine and russia, pope -- president obama, rather is not one of the most influential men. i think there's a little bit of political jujitsu, this photo is worth its weight in gold. what the pope gets out of this, a moment with the most -- leader of the world super power, a moment to bend his ear on issues

of import, not only to the church but to those who are voiceless and have no voice at all. >> and as we talk the about, there are some areas of common ground particularly on economic policy, certainly at least with respect to broad aspirations where the hope is they can align and people can connect with the shared equality agenda. pope francis recently wrote a powerful critique of income inequality and said, quote, just as the commandment thou shall not kill sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we have to say thou shall not to an economy of exclusion and inquality. such an economy kills. isn't this at odds with america's capitalist free market? >> no, pope francis comes from argentina and watched what happened when his country went into recession and had to

default on their debt because they were being told to cut out social programs. pope francis has been very strong about economy as inclusion. i'm very happy about pope francis and that emphasis on the poor. we have 47 million people who are poor in this country. we have 48 million who don't have health care. i as a catholic sister, the nuns of this country have been working hard to -- on the economy inequality. one percent controlling so much of the world's wealth then being able to control the politics and lobbyists and to be able to get their laws and policies in. pope francis comes at it from the point of view and you can see he knows his stuff because he's come from the ground up, living among poor people and seeing the struggle of poor people. i see poverty as very related to. i work with the death penalty to educate the american people to

end this thing. whose on death row? poor people. who doesn't have health care? poor people. so that exclusion gives you some of the worst misery statistics and just like you can't get health care, you also can't get decent defense when you're on trial for your life. so where are the poor in this country, 2.3 million are incarcerated. >> you're right to point out it's at the heart of a number of social justice issues and really interesting to note how political some of these social justice causes that the pope raises are, including a lot of economic ones and he has in some sense put his money where his mouth is. he has opened up the vatican banks for the first time. >> right. >> i'll turn to you, sir, what do you think is the significance of that move? >> opening up the vatican bank? >> that's right and his economic reform agenda. >> look, this has been a long process of the benedict xvi initiated this.

this new commission overseen by cardinal george pell, an amazing figure from australia. he will no doubt bring transparency to this. with the lay involvement, i think you'll see a more efficient and stream lined vatican bank. francis wants it to serve the people as sister helen was saying, i'm a new orleanian so i -- >> to extend mercy to those who have been convicted to eradicate the death penalty. pope francis raised his voice for the other people who have no voices, the unborn, for those who are about to be deported. it's an entire consistent ethic of life that does not fit comfortably with either the democratic or republican agenda. it is -- he is a man of great moral leadership and tender man. i loved his approach when he sat

down with president obama. the first thing he said was, i want you to feel very much at home here. that's awfully hard to i think turn away from. you can see the president was moved -- >> one thing you pointed out, so much of the popularity off the back with respect to his image and humility he conveys in every public appearance. sister prejean, one of the most contentious issues is what the president referred to, told us in the summary, quote, they talked about the rights of religious freedom and life and con shent shus objection. given the birth control mandate, how closely do you think the pope is watching that debate, specifically in the united states? do you think that's something that maybe at the specific level could have come up, this hobby lobby case and can businesses have religious rights? >> sure and the supreme court

will deal with that. if you followed anything of the oral arguments, they'll find a way to deal with that that private businesses have a right to make certain moral demands on the people that work for them. notice what the pope has his eye on. it's going to be a worldwide senate for catholics to look at these very issues of contraception and catholics to look at children of same-sex marriages. his approach is always that of the gospel, always to treat persons with dignity. so we're going to have ongoing discussion at a worldwide level on these issues we haven't had in a long, long time. >> that is a huge flock both united states and abroad. this outreach is certainly something with a lot of political significance. thank you, really appreciate you both weighing in on this. sister prejean, you'll be sticking around. coming up next, we'll look at something that came up repeatedly in the conversation, mississippi is doing something

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it was having trouble obtaining the drugs it needed to perform the executions. the stepmother of one of those men awaiting death is terrified of how this proceed will play out. we don't have a sound of her right now, but in that state, there is a debate emerging about whether these executions are painful and there are family members saying, even if we know our loved one has to die, we want them to die humanely. someone who knows a lot about this debate, about what is inhumane and what is not, is sister helen prejean, back with me now, social justice advocate opposes the death penalty and the film was based on her book, now in its 20th anniversary edition. sister, thank you so much for staying with us. >> thank you. >> first, i wanted to talk about this issue of how humane or inhumane the procedure can be.

those of the catholic faith, i was raised catholic, believe it can never be truly u main but there are degrees in the eyes of the law. the european union banned components needed for injections and that left states to come up with creative cocktails and in ohio they did just that and the latest execution went disastrously they had a individual gasping in apparently in pain. what do you see this debate heading towards? do you think people will give up and we'll see more botched executions? >> what's amazing is in our step supposedly for a more humane way to kill people in this country we move from hanging to the electric chair to lethal injection, a more medicinal approach. since we can't get the drugs now from europe, we have no transparency in this process so the states are going to these compounding pharmaceutical

companies to get the drugs and you mentioned ohio, dennis maguire, they even admitted, we'll experimentally try this combination of these three drugs and the man that called it oxygen hunghunger, two daughter watched him struggling for two minutes to die. people say they are supposed to feel pain. don't have sympathy for them. where else do we have anything with the government involved where we don't have transparency. when build federal highways, we don't know what cement is used. veterinarians, there's more transparency for euthanizing than in the united states. there's a big legal issues about it. there's a judge in oklahoma who's declared it unconstitutional because they said we don't know what they are doing to kill people and what drugs are being used. >> sister helen, let's talk

about that issue of transparency. in tennessee make the state is refusing to disclose what drugs are being used for executions and even where they got from them. >> right. >> in other news a state judge in texas moments ago, i have a wire here brought in, ordered the texas prison agencies to disclose their execution drugs so they came out on the other side of this debate. how important is it in your experience working with men and women on death row for them to know how they are going to meet their end? >> there's no way you set up a human process for human beings to die, the two red telephones and execution chamber, i've accompanied six people to their deaths from the state, three by electric chair and three by lethal injection. one of the red telephones goes to the governor and ear to the court. if you get a call at the last minute, you don't die that night. that happened with doby williams three times before he was killed, a man i was with.

we not only don't know about the process because it's humanly set up with legal maneuvers to the end but we don't know what physically happens inside. with the dree drug formula, the first was to parl lies the person completely or cry out if they were in pain. they said it was for their dignity that they paralies them. not only is it not transparent about what drugs we're using and what the process might be at the last minute to get a stay, but it's a secret ritual behind prison walls. one of the reasons i wrote dead man walking and one of the reasons i go out to the american public is to bring this process close to people to show that we got to choose an alternative and not imitate the worst behavior saying we have to kill our criminals in order to be safe. >> all right, an impassioned case you make there and your

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the march 31st open enrollment deadline was set in stone. now, less so. all consumers have begun to comply for coverage on healthcare.gov and don't finish by monday, will have until mid-april to ask for an extension. the administration defended the charge to our nbc news reporters saying quote, we are experiencing a surge in demand and making sure we'll be ready to help consumers. remember in our call to action this week, we've been bringing you the many different angles of the cost of health care in america. and today we look at one of the most controversial. we look at proposals that didn't make it in. and we especially look at the famous and much divisive single payer option, that is of course a system that the government pays for all of your health care costs and you don't get any bills but taxes. this would ensure coverage for

all and opponents say the free market is the most effective way to keep cost down. one of the most vocal advocate ises bernie sanders he recently chaired a meeting where richard burr pressed a canadian doctor on that issue. >> dr. martin, in your testimony, you note that canadian doctors exiting the public system for the private sector has had the effect of increasing waiting list for patients seeking public health care. why are doctors exiting the public system in canada? >> thank you for your question, senator. if i didn't express myself to make myself understood, i apologize. there are no doctors exiting the public system in canada. in fact we see a net influx of physicians in to the system over the last number of years. >> so essentially, thanks we're

fine in canada. bernie sanders joins me now. appreciate you coming here. always a pleasure to have your insight. >> my pleasure. >> we heard the comparison to canada in the hearing. where else has a single payer system worked? >> i think the better question is how does it happen that the united states is the only country in the industrialized world that does not have in one form or another a national health care program guaranteeing health care to all people? we end up being the only major country on earth with millions of people who have no insurance, many more who are under insured with high co-payments and high deductibles and end up spending almost twice as much per capita as many other countries with a national health care program and health care outcomes in many respects are worse. what we are doing is spending more, getting less value because we have a system in which

private insurance companies make huge profits. it is a complicated bureaucratic system where we spend a heck of a lot of money on administration rather than on health care. >> we heard all week from people about the human cost of those complications but i want to push back on the international comparison. i have lived in, for instance, the united kingdom where they have a national health care system free for all, but where you see the ravages of this, i can tell you firsthand, there are longer waits and doctors who aren't you have to snuff, that isn't the most dramatic example. what do you say to those that transitioning to single payer system is to the detriment of health care? >> it depends on what sector of the population you're talking about. right now you probably get the best health care, cutting edge technology of any country on earth. if you're working class person in this country, it is very

likely you have no health insurance at all. and what a harvard study said a couple of years ago is something like 45,000 americans die each year because they don't get to the doctor when they should. we have people flooding emergency rooms, at huge expenses to get episodic care rather than going to a medical home because we don't have enough primary care facilities in this country. i'm not suggesting that other countries have perfect health care systems. none do. but we end up spending much more and get less value than any other major country on earth. i think we have to get the profit motive out of health care and guarantee it as a right and need to do it in a cost effective way. my own guess is in the united states, that final decision will not be made in washington. it will be done at the statewide level and personally i hope that my small state of vermont will lead the nation in showing what a single payer system can do.

>> essentially, everyone having access to some health care is important and even if the quality is not perfect, that's a goal worth pursuing -- >> it's not a question of having access to some health care, it's having access to all of the health care that you need as a right. and i do not accept nor do i think many international experts accept for the average person in the u.k. and canada, the average person in australia, that their health care system provides lower quality health care than americans get. i don't think that's the general consens consensus? >> other than the singer payer option, there are a lot of important merits as you layout. what do you feel is left by the wayside in the vicious debate over obamacare? there were a lot of proposals that were pruned out. >> i think in terms of obamacare, what we should be mindful of is this was a modest concept developed from republican ideas, free market

ideas, which at the end of the day, if you get beyond what our republican colleagues are harping on. the rollout was terrible. there is no debate. if you get beyond the rollout to what's important, what you're going to end up with is many, many more people going to have insurance. we have done away with the total -- you talk about quality of health care, until obamacare, we've had this disgrace if you had a disease or cancer or diabetes, you could not get health insurance. that is insane. we heard a story today, a colleague of mine told me a story that a woman with a 10-year-old kid who had diabetes was rejected for insurance for that kid by 40 different insurance companies. so that is not quality health care. we've overcome that. >> we've heard so many moving stories about the agony of preexisting conditions, not having been able to get coverage. as many stories as we do hear with concerns about obamacare, we're hearing about people

saving costs and getting more health care. >> thank you for your em passioned take on this. >> don't forget to join our call to action as senator sanders has this week. we need your reporting on the cost of health care in this country. send ugs a photo with a sign telling us how much your total medical care costs are every month. you can tweet your responses or let us know on facebook as many of you have. winnie told us, for instance, the aca has lowered her health insurance to $174 a month. melissa told her monthly medical costs are rising at $507.50. j.e. tweeted, that as a 33-year-old with epilepsy and heart disease, his medications were costing $1700 a month before. now less than 50. yay, aca he added. we'll crunch some of your

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welcome back, everybody. it is time now for today's heroes and zeros. yesterday, just a few blocks from last year's boston marathon bombing, a nine-alarm fire engulfed a row house nearby. winds caused a back draft that trapped two firefighters. both of the men died. the boston fire department identified the men. firefighter kennedy was single and lived in hyde park. he was a veteran of the marines. lieutenant walsh, son of a

firefighter as well, was married with three children, all of them under 10. listen, our society is full of people who run from fires, real and figurative. but there are also those who run toward the fire for all of our sakes, and they are the best of us. now for something a little less inspiring. the men and women of the secret service who, of course, protect the united states president, also are brave and also are admirable. usually. this week, three agents traveling with the president in the netherlands went on what appeared to be an all-night bender. one was found drunk and passed out in a hotel hallway. look, we've all been there, right? this is the latest of several incidents of secret service classiness. back in 2012 in colombia, a dozen agents and officers got into a hairy situation with a combination of alcohol and prostitutes, so on the paid sex worker front, the incident this week is progress, right?

i've been fortunate enough to spend some time with secret service agents and have a great deal of respect for them, and there is a lot to be said for this kind of penchant for a good time. i have stories. but come on, guys. tighten it up, you're on the job. three agents in this case were put on administrative leave, and we are going to add to their problems this week by zeroing them out today. all right, that wraps things up for this edition of "rf daily." thank you for joining me. now it is a time i look forward to each and every day, it's "the reid report" with my colleague joy reid. these foolish games are tearing me apart. what do you have coming up? >> great show, thank you. coming up next on "the reid report," all the 2016 republican wannabesfullying out to see uncle sheldon in las vegas. visiting the billion donor to cozy up to the high roller who's going to pony up big. steve kornacki joins me on the just released report on the christie bridge scandal and why he says it's really just politics as usual all on the

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happy thursday, reiders. welcome to the reid report for thursday, march 27th. we're getting our first look at the report. governor chris christie's office says clears him in the george washington bridge scandal. >> no evidence that anyone in the governor's office besides bridget kelly knew of this idea in advance or played any role in the decision or the implementation of it. so, yes, our mindings today are a vindication of governor christie, and what he said all along that he had no knowledge of this lane realignment beforehand and no involvement in that decision.

>> you know what's awesome? when you find yourself in the middle of a swirling controversy. and everyone's asking questions like what did you know and when did you know it? so you promise a full and thorough investigation, because that's what the people of your state deserve. and then you hire your hand-picked law firm to do it. and you send the million-dollar legal bill to the taxpayers. the internal review begins, your office makes good on its pledge for full cooperation. everyone who still works for you is asked to sit down for an interview. when the report comes out, you're magically cleared of all wro wrongdoing. governor chris christie, explain. >> bill stepien, bridget kelly, were they interviewed for this investigation? >> no. bridget kelly, bill stepien, bill baroni, david wildstein, dawn zimmer, the mayor all refused to be interviewed. >> so bridget kelly, bill stepien, bill baroni, david wildstein, that's mos