happy friday reiders, this is the reid report, i'm joy reid and we start today with the shoots at ft. hood which continues to raise questions about mental health and a subject nobody's talking about anymore. guns. we'll talk with the former chief of staff of congresswoman gabby giffords about whether anything, even a mass shooting can break our national silence on gun control. first the latest on the shooting that killed three and injured 16. moments ago, texas governor rick perry spoke about the shooting, calling it a senseless act and thanking the first responders. >> thank you and how much we appreciate the first responders, and the professional way that they took care of business. we had a number of our active duty military who were the first responders and their thanks to the texas rangers, to the fire

department, the police officers and how they almost seamlessly worked together. >> military officials are now examining reports that army specialist ivan lopez the suspect was involved in an argument before the shooting. >> there may have been a verbal altercation with another soldier or soldiers. and there's a strong possibility that that in fact immediately preceded the shooting. but we do not have that definitively at this point, but we do have strong indications of that. >> flags at ft. hood and around texas are flying at half staff. base commander lieutenant general mark miley says officials have, quote, strong evidence that lopez had a medical history that includes, quote, an unstable psychiatric or psychological condition. as for his victims, four of the injured in the attack remain in the hospital, one in good condition. the other three have been

upgraded to fair from critical condition. we're also learning more about the three people who died, including 37-year-old sergeant timothy owens, who was a 10-year army veteran who served in iraq and kuwait. just a short while ago ivan lopez's father released a statement, this situation has caused great pain, i ask for prayers for the affected families even more so when there is still an ongoing 1re6gs. my son must not have been in his right mind, he wasn't like that. we go to stephanie gosk in puerto rico. >> reporter: everyone we talked to here seems to know ivan lopez's family. his mother was a nurse at the local hospital, his father played the guitar in church. we also spoke to his band instructor. they all said he was a good kid,

they never saw any aggression from him. his mother died suddenly of a hart attack and he was frustrated that he was given such a limited amount of time to spend here, only 24 hours and he actually spent most of that time trying to prove that his mother had died, a death certificate. even with that frustration and his sadness, he did his best to make the best of a bad situation. no one we spoke to said they saw signs of the things that happened in ft. hood and there's an overwhelming feeling of disbelief here. >> we go to charles hadlock who's in ft. worth, texas. can you tell us any new developments that we're getting out of ft. hood today? >> reporter: texas senator rick perry and texas senator rick cruz just finished a news conference, they visited some of the wounded soldiers and their

families, they said they were very touched by that and said there were very brave men and women who defend this country. he said this is a resilient community and it will rebound. he talked about the policy of this base which allows guns to come on the post. he said now is not the time to talk about things like that, they will be addressed in the future. right now investigation is continuing into the background of sergeant lopez. right now it appears he had a stellar military career, 15 years, several years in the army reserve in puerto rico, and then four years in the u.s. army here in the states where he served overseas in iraq for four months. he received three good conduct medals in his four years in the army. so there's nothing wrong there. however, the army says he had some psychological problems

dealing with anxiety depression and sleep disturbances which may have been caused by -- they claim that perhaps it was got the time off back in november when he didn't get to see his family long enough in puerto rico or perhaps a future leave that he was asking for that was either denied or delayed. there will be another press conference at 4:00 eastern time. the shooting at ft. hood is another reminder that the weapons purchased for mass shootings are often obtained illegally. nearly 8 in fact the shooters in all five cases last year, including the washington navy yard got their guns legally. in the last two ft. hood

shootings, the gunmen made their purchases from the same killeen store. former chief of staff to congresswoman gabby giffords. i want to start, first of all, i want to thank you for being here, i appreciate it. i want to play some sound from attorney general eric holder, he was asked today about mental health and guns. take a look. >> i believe as a nation we should support the common sense proposals that the administration made after the sandy hook tragedy and come up with these ways in which we might support these common sense gun safety measures. >> and yet, peter, you don't see even really a push for common sense gun control, even after mass shooting after mass shooting, why do you suppose that is? >> you know, i don't know, joy, i think it has a lot to do with

the intractable politics of this issue, to be frank. you saw an nra rated democrat and an nra rated republican come together last year and propose a very common sense moderate solution to one portion of the gun violence problem. and unfortunately, there's no elegant solution that would deal with everything or stop every shooting from happening, but expanding back ground checks to make sure that criminals and those suffering from extreme mental illness can get their hands on guns, law enforcement supports it and it's too bad we can't get this done. >> when we talk about the latest shooting in ft. hood and the challenge there, people are talking about mental health, you are having a discussion about that, whether it's politicians or lay people, but you're not getting to that second piece, which is that if somebody with those issues is able to get their hands on a firearm legally, that that part of it is a problem. is this a failure of the

advocates to make that case properly or is it just a paralysis because to your point politicians are just afraid to tackle the issue of guns? >> i think it's a combination, behind every mass shooting and every suicide lies a matrix of -- among communities, mental health centers, society in general. something's gone wrong that's led to that event occurs. for sure it's a political discussion as well. we elect them to come to washington in this case and make laws that protect our country and also protect our privacy. there's plenty we can do, there's plenty that congress can do to address this issue. it's complicated but it's actually not that complicated in terms of the initial solutions that we can start to work on. >> when congresswoman giffords was shot, when the tragedy, the mass shooting at sandy hook, the

first ft. hood shooting, when we were promised a national discussion. is there something the gun control side hasn't done well enough that these pivot points don't lead to any real substantive policy change? >> you bring up a great point. i mean part of the reason that gabby and mark decided to start this organization, americans for probable solutions. they felt that average, everyday gun owners weren't being heard around the discussion of gun violence in america. you have folks on the right and folks on the left having a discussion, and lack of discussion from the middle. just the average, normal american in this country. often, i think on the left, you see people that demonize gun owners, people that, you know, on the left that don't own guns, that don't understand the culture of gun ownership and they turn people off in the middle of the country and in the

middle of our political spectrum, who agree with most of these changes, like background checks, they're pro second amendment like mark and gabby but kind of want to see something done. i think that's the progress we have seen in the last 30 years. and that's why we're in this game. we like to bring people together to further that conversation and hopefully turn the conversation into actual action on the hill. >> your mouth to god's ear. thank you very much for being here. all right, coming up, first the good news for health care, now the good news on jobs. all that's helping the white house now and it could give democrats an even bigger boost in november. assuming they can figure out how to use it. then, even though the country is getting more secular, women seeking health care are increasingly being restricted because of religion. we'll take a closer look coming up. which rewards her for responsibly managing her card balance. before receiving $25 toward her balance each quarter

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a quick weather update now, dangerous spring storms that struck the south and midwest yesterday and last night are now heading east. at least eight tornadoes touched down last night in missouri and texas causing damage and some injuries. powerful thunderstorms also caused flash flooding, they trapped drivers in their cars and baseball-sized hail also felt in some areas. right now, severe weather warnings are up from new orleans north to charleston, south carolina. and now, we turn to politics. aside from a busted ncaa bracket, it's been a pretty good week for president obama. today's job numbers healthy. 192,000 jobs created last month. we even hit an important milestone, the total number of jobs now sure passes the high back in 2008. there's the other big news this week, the affordable care act. we learn that 3 million have

enrolled by expanded medicaid, that comes on top of tuesday's big numbers, 7 million sign ups through the exchanges. together those numbers are turning into a success story for the white house. so that begs the question, will those numbers drive president obama's approval ratings up? and with them democrats for the prospects for the midterm. all right, karen finney, let's talk about it. great news for the affordable care act, really robust job numbers for today. buzz that help politically, or do they know how to use it politically? >> that's the more important question. because we knew we would at some point get to good numbers on the affordable care 5:00. in the givbeginning, they said we're going to see a crush at the end, that's happened. the question is are democrats

going to be able to leverage that out by going out and talking about -- we don't know, we got to fix it, time to cut that out. >> i want to go back a little bit. and let's play president obama doing exactly what you just said, talking about health care in the affirmative. if we have that sound, let's listen to president obama talking about health care. >> to give them credit, they do have one original idea which is to appeal obama care because they haven't tried that 50 times. >> okay, so that is one way of doing it. >> yes. >> now let me read you what nancy pelosi had to say today from the hill, she said elections are always about jobs, house minority leader nancy pelosi said, so i think that while we're proud of the affordable care act, we now pivot to job creation. >> i will just put on my

strategist hat for a second and say, for her, she is look at a tough landscape for a lot of members who have tough races for whom they need to talk about job creation, they may be in districts where they're not going to be solid where they're going to be on offensive on the affordable care act. my guess is she was kind of trying to cut the baby a little bit for those whom have different types of races and different challenges in those races. but the bottom line s the jobs numbers are solid. there's no reason to be shy about that, the health care numbers are solid. the medicare numbers are solid. there's some good numbers coming out. and despite the republicans moaning and growning and armageddon is coming, actually did it, like the president said, good things are happening. >> so the jobs numbers, they have been settling into a groove for a while. we started to see this uptick. people don't feel a jolt in the

economy, they feel sort of a general improvement. is that strong enough medicinei something more dramatic, which is the biggest expansion of health care in a generation. >> i think people with regard to jobs, there's still a disparity in income, that's the problem. people are starting to feel a sense of momentum in the job market, the housing market is starting to come back, so that's making people feel a little bit better. do people feel a sense of momentum? part of the reason u you're seeing health care turn around, 7.1 million people, maybe there is something to this affordable care act. going into the fall, can democrats stay on on the offense for those -- >> you made a good point, because you do, generally people come out with more passion to

run against something than they do with enthusiasm to run for something, at least in the midterm. so you have democrats pushing hard on both those things, unemployment insurance. the republicans does seem now that some house republicans are actually feeling the pressure and may sort of press to go ahead on unemployment extension. and you have seen this -- >> the challenge is make your republican opponent have to explain to the people in their district why they don't deserve unemployment insurance or they don't deserve an increase in the minimum wage. that's a different conversation than trying to defend why you're for something. that's the shift we need to see. >> and people who don't have the expanded medicare in states that don't have that. i suspect, or at least i will call it malpractice. >> i've been doing it myself. so we both will. >> thank you so much, karen finney, you're the best. you must watch "disrupt with

karen finney" right here on msnbc at 4:00 on saturday. we want to get you caught up on another important story, the death of an acclaimed photographer on the eve of -- she was killed in a brutal attack. kathy gannon was wounded. an afghan police officer opened fire on their car while in the eastern city of coast. they were traveling with a convoy of election workers delivering ballots for tomorrow's vote. i've always kept my eye on her... but with so much health care noise, i didn't always watch out for myself. with unitedhealthcare, i get personalized information and rewards for addressing my health risks. but she's still gonna give me a heart attack.

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of their son. over the top criticism on sports talk radio, courtesy of former nfl player boomer assiason and friends. >> i would say i need to be at opening day, this is what makes our money, this is what makes our life. this is going to give my child every opportunity to be a success in life. >> old-fashioned much? those act quieted beliefs didn't go over so well on social media. people whining about daniel murphy's paternity should shut up. putting family first, even before baseball is the right thing to do. and chris hayes said this last night on all in. >> take some time with your freakin' kid and take some time with the partner in your life that's bringing your child into the world. that's actually part of being a man.

>> my flipping comment wasn't meant in any way, shape or form, to insult anybody. but obviously it did and for that i am truly sorry. >> uh-huh. you're also thrilled at the latest success for the fashion icon. the 12 years a slave star was just named the new face of lancome. she can add to that her oscar for best actress. go girl. your tweets and facebook posts are full of cheers over her latest big win, and we at the reid report agree. now from hollywood to the middle east, where social media is helping refugees displayed by the civil war in syria. tensions between the four million lebanese and the refugees described as racial in tone have led activists to create a facebook page, called the campaign in support of syrians facing racism. there's also a campaign to use

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can better hear the pings. health care in this country has been a divisive issue. for an increasing number of women, getting the health care you need is becoming harder, depending on the prevailing religious beliefs where you work or where you live. and that's having very real consequences. incredibly, as laura bassett writes in the huffington post. thanks to newly upheld abortion -- women are crossing the border to mexico and haunting back alleys in search for medical care. but the battle is not just about abortions and not a battle just being waged by politicians. the aclu filed a lawsuit -- meanwhile, in oklahoma, doctors at the jane phillips medical center were reportedly told that

can no longer prescribe birth control unless it's for reasons other than contraception. that would lead just one obgyn who could prescribe birth control in a city with more than 18,000 women. a spokesperson for st. john's health system which owns jane phillips said while our physicians agree to abide by the directives, they also have the ability to prescribe in accordance with their medical professional judgment. so it's not just hobby lobby and republicans who want to restrict women's health care. as this "new york times" article points out, the biggest wave of mergers since the 1990s is creating giant hospital systems that could one day dominate american health care. ten out of 25 of the largest nonprofit health care systems in the nation are catholic.

and one in six american patients currently receive care in a catholic hospital. in 2011, the national women's law center filed a complaint claiming women's health and lives are at risk due to religious restrictions at hospitals. the question is, is there yet another front emerging in the battle for women's health care? and here with me now to discuss that issue is judy waxman. so explain just a little bit about this t complai, the compl you filed with hhs dealt with what? >> we did a study and we found that many catholic hospitals, what happens is a woman goes in, she's pregnant, but she knows there's a problem, maybe she's bleeding or in pain, whatever. and what happens is, because the hospital is not allowed to do anything when there is a heart beat still, even if there is an

imminent miscarriage, or an ectopic pregnancy that's causing her lots of pain, they do nothing, but they don't tell her what's going on. they put her in a room, they take her temperature, maybe they listen for the heart beat and then they send her home. >> you cannot intervene if the fetus could still be viable. >> i want to correct you. not if the fetus is viable because in the stories we heard the fetus was not viable. it's just that there was still a heart beat. >> are the women told, this is a religiously run hospital, we have religious directives for why you're in the hospital. >> we have a number of story where is the woman was just sent home, she comes back, she's in more pain, maybe she's getting a

fever. again, all they do is listen for a heart beat, send her home. we know of stories where women were sent home three times. that is putting her health in serious danger. if she develops an infection, she could be very ill or even die. >> now, one of the other issues that i know that when we discuss this issue, one of the reasons we wanted to have you here u is because in some parts of the country, mergers are meaning there is a possibility, because of course this is perfectly reasonable for a catholic hospital to run in accordance with his principles. i don't think you would argue that every hospital has to conform to secular views. but you're reporting that in some cases there is no other hospital. >> right. and there are 30 catholic hospitals around the country that are deemed by the federal government to be what we call sole community provider. meaning by definition, there's no other hospital. >> and are there mergers that

are actually taking religious hospitals and secular hospitals and combining them? >> yes, they are, and whenever that happens the catholic rules apply. so the number of catholic hospital beds is increasing dramatically. the other thing i would like to add is, even though you may say, as you did a hospital can operate the way it wants to, they need to tell people, the point is that women do not know when they go there they in fact may not get the health care that's the standard of care that they would get anywhere else. >> and i want to put it back up again if we could, because we're talking about these catholic facilities that account for more than 1/5. 20% of admissions in 22 states and the district of columbia. that means depending on where you live, you could be not in the visibility of a hospital that can help you, have a real emergency and not be given a reason why.

is there no liabilities attached if you don't explain to someone why they're not being treated? >> interestingly, there's been a few cases that are winding their way through the courts. women don't even know they're supposed to sue. they don't know that there was a problem. even if there's another hospital in the vicinity, they don't know they didn't get the standard of care, the treatment they would get somewhere else. how would they know there's even a problem to sue about. >> but doctors have got to have some frustration or some alarm that they're not being allowed to treat their patients. >> some yes, and some no. we know of a situation where in arizona, a catholic hospital was going to take over a secular hospital and the obs there said we are not going to practice here. we're going to drop out. and that raised the flag and it didn't happen then, the merger did not happen there. >> are you looking at cases that have been seriously injured or have there been any deaths as a result of nontreatment?

>> no deaths that i know of in this country, but i do know of a death in ireland, actually an indian woman who said i'm not irish, and i'm not catholic, but she's in a catholic hospital in a catholic country and she had a situation with a miscarriage, they did not treat her and she died. >> wow. and that is i think the scariest outcome here is that somebody could actually -- thanks so much, i really appreciate you bringing this story to us. judy waxman from the national women's law center. thank you so much. >> thank you. coming up next, dr. martin luther king jr. was killed 46 years ago today. today the fight for civil rights he started has shifted but it's far from finished. ♪

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. 46 years to the day after martin luther king jr. was

killed, the civil rights fight he gave his life fighting is far from over. in many ways, the battle is even more important now than it was then. even two years after his "i have a dream" speech, dr. king called his famous dream a nightmare. in a sermon to atlanta's ebenezer bap kis church, king preached in part, i'm concerned about white poverty as much as i'm concerned about negro poverty, so yes, the dream has been shattered and i have had my nightmarish experiences, but i tell you this morning once more that i haven't lost faith, i still have a dream. but that economic dream has still yet to be realized. income equality is growing. a new report says that there's a huge and growing education gap. math and reading proficiency,

finds african-americans at the bottom of the scale for all ethnic groups and once they graduate, black america's prospects on average don't look much better. yet another new study, this one by the national urban league shows african-americans are losing ground economically compared to hispanics and white americans. we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of the passage of the landmark civil rights act of 1964 were reminded day in and day out that the struggle continues. just a few hours from now, a candle light vigil marking the 46th anniversary of dr. king's -- here with me now is todd johnson, correspondent for the grio and acting director for the national act to work network. 46 years after the dr. king

assassination, we wanted to yes the conversation forward. you were at the renew memphis location of king's assassination and tell us what has been done there? what is new there? >> over the course of the last four years, 3 1/2 four years, the national civil rights museum has raised an incredible amount of funds, more than $3 million to -- so they have added new exhibits. they have enhanced existing exhibits. they have added technology, touch screen technology, they have tried to give the civil rights museum a facelift and bring it into 2014 and speak to the 2014 museum visits for who could be young and familiar with ipads and all the technology we enjoy. >> as we look back to the civil rightser remarks it does seem to be something vintage to a lot of people. but there are a lot of activity

struggles that are -- all of the voting laws that are being passed in several states that people see as sort of a resuscitation of restrictions, almost a 1960s era. how do you get young people like yourself to understand that the civil rights struggle is a current contemporary thing? >> i think it's about educating people about the issues they're dealing with. i think sometimes people just need to separate the sort of blatant separation, you cannot drink from this water fountain, you have to sit at the back of the bus. a lot of african-american and latino men are being stopped and almost targeted or shop and frisk, where you go into a store and you're being accused of stealing and you haven't zone anything wrong. so everything from education, like you mentioned, voting rights, i think putting the issues in perspective and framing the civil rights

movement and the civil rights fights from a different perspective, for now, i think is the important thing and it's all about education. >> and todd, talk about being in that space in memphis riling there at the spot at the lo lorraine motel, just being there, obviously for you, as a young black man yourself, those issues are froochb s ars are fr your life. but is there a connection that you were able to make standing there? >> memphis brings and dr. king's assassination might bring folks to memphis to see exactly where he was asass natu sasssassinata. there are issues today that we're still dealing with, whether it's shop and frisk, whether it's stop and frisk, it reminds you that all of the progress that we enjoyed one without struggle and if we don't keep the fight going, the progress that we have enjoyed

will be at a standstill. so i was kind of reminded and brought back to what young black men are facing in this country still in 2014. and how the civil rights movement relates to it. because as you said, the definition may be changing, it may be incorporating more folks under that umbrella, but the kind of core values and the struggles to achieve equality, i mean that hasn't changed, just the players have changed. >> indeed and what you guys are working on at n.a.n., it obviously does have a lot to do with voting, but what are some of the core issues that do resonate with people when you talk about the modern day struggle for civil rights? >> stand your ground, obviously that is something that everyone sort of snknosno knows now. this could affect me. i could be the next trayvon martin or the next jordan davis or the next marissa alexander for that matter. i think that's an issue that

seems to reassonate with a lot people. but also the shop and frisk or the stop and frisk. specifically with shop and frisk, when that happened, president obama had even admitted that's actually happened to me. >> being followed in a store? >> exactly. so those types of instances where people sort of, they know that they're not being treated fairly are instances where i think there's that opportunity. >> and it's important to remember the history, it's important even as you said to update it, give it that interactive vibe, so people can rel to it today. whabl proactive steps, do you see a lot in the museum when you went down there, went down to memphis. the sort of places that civil rights has expanded to, are those activists and those guys trying to move in that direction or are they really trying to give people more of a view of what happened 46 years ago? >> i think it's a little bit of both, i think the hope of the museum is to not only update

what we know about the rosa parks and the doctor kings, but to also shed light on those that don't get attention. the people kind of behind the scenes that didn't always get the lime light. i think that's a theme of the museum, wanting everyone to know that there were every day people who sat at lunch counters, who marched and they didn't get much publicity, and there's really a call to action for folks to kind of connect the issues of the fast to the issues of the present, whether it's voting, whether it's human trafficking or education. we are still grappling with these issues today. >> these are very young people, but at the time, we're talking about college students, very young people that were at the forefront of these struggles. >> absolutely. i mean i think that's one of the most important messageses, especially to young people, is that you don't have to wait for somebody to say, here's the issue that you need to be fighting for and luckily, in

n.a.n., we have a fabulous group of young people who are taking the initiative and saying we're not going to stand for this. we're also seeing in r it in groupslike -- it's time for us to step up and take that role that they had back in the 50s and 60s. >> all right, appreciate it. thank you. >> i'm late, but congrats are getting the show. >> thank you very much and join us next week as we mark the 50th anniversary of the civil rights act. that's all next week on the reid report. ♪

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late night tv has been likened to shakespearean drama. ever since 1960, when then senator john f. kennedy appeared

on the tonight show with jack parato talk about his presidential run. late night has been as much a stop for political candidates as for celebrities and cultural -- ronald reagan on the tonight show five years before he ran for president. and from bill clinton playing saxophone on the arsenio hall show in 1992. each delivering letterman's top ten list. president obama has appeared on late night tv more than any other president and democrats have far more than republicans. though both obama and mitt romney slow jammed the news with jimmy fallon in 2012. and even as the audience has fragmented with much of it migrating to cable, late night tv remains a cultural touch stone. so it is with a kolber style tip of the hat that we know that dave letterman will retire from late night next year. letterman made the announcement

on his show last night, starting the clock on the end of a tv era. who call the letterman the best there is and ever was. and from president obama, who included an homage for his appearance with dave at the ed sullivan theater. letterman is the last of an old guard, the final hair to the par and steve allen era, comics who ruled the late night tvr schedule. going to war with each other over the coveted legacy of the late night genre. two emmys later, he landed late night with david letterman on nbc, where his brand of self-dep indicating humor, satire and irony made a lot of viewers team

dave all the way. letterman is a great interviewer who can be surprisingly open, after a he never did achieve his dream of hosting the tonight show, which is now in the hands of one of the new guards, jimmy fallon, who along with seth meyers, jon stewart, stephen colbert who formed the new helm of late night breaking the white mostly male mold. and with hosts like john oliver waiting in the wings. but letterman is leaving on his own templerms. he's leaving as shakespeare and not mcbeth. >> we all love david letterman too we will miss him, and i can't wait to watch what he does the last year or so.

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