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state's most famous new transplant. >> good morning. it's monday, april 14th, 2014. i'm luke russert in for the great chuck todd. we begin with the potential unraveling of the great nation of ukraine, something the u.s. seems powerless to stop. pro-russian separatists seized a city, the latest city seeing a spike in violence. they warned that they had until this morning to lay down their weapons and surrender. that deadline came and went with no surrender but throughout the weekend, tensions and violence continued to rise, raising the specter of an all-out civil war. clashes broke out between the largest cities as protesters took over the city council. dozens were reportedly injured.

on saturday, gun fire broke out at a police station as men in military fatigues armed with automatic weapons stormed the building and took over, describing themselves as the people's militia. pro-russian onlookers are either supporting or actively assisting the separatists. moscow called an early meeting to discuss the escalation. during the meeting the u.n. and russian ambassadors made accusations who is behind it. >> translator: it is the west that will determine the opportunity to avoid civil war in ukraine. >> the concern here is that the kremlin may use the latest bloodshed as an excuse to send

some of its 40,000 troops across the boarder. the obama administration responded by warning vladimir putin against an invasion and announced that vice president biden will travel to kiev a week from tomorrow to meet with the administration. but critics say that more needs to be done. >> we ought to at least give them some light weapons for them to defend themselves. this administration has not only done that but they won't even share some intelligence witness the ukrainian government and they feel abandoned by us and rightfully so. >> ayman, what is the concern the eastern part of the country may in fact be the next part of

country to fall to russia? >> there's no doubt about it, it is a tense situation unfolding in various cities across the earn part. not only because even on the day that the government had given an ultimatum to the separatists to put down their weapons, but on the same day the separatists continued to take buildings, police stations and other council buildings in various parts of the country. it puts the government in a bind. on the one hand yesterday the president coming out and vowing not to let the separatists take control of the government like they did in kiev. what is becoming more dangerous is the fact that the ukrainian state is slowly not collapsing

but perhaps disappearing from having any kind of presence on the ground. we've gone now to at least two different locations. in both of those you see very little evidence of the ukrainian state. the way they're looking at the men and the way so many of these buildings are being seized, they're happening with military precision, very well coordinated. that's lead people to draw conclusions. there have been some reports that there a buildup of ukrainian forces in the earn part of the we have yet to see or hear any reports that they are trying to seize control.

>> joining me now, "time" magazine's international editor. bobby, thanks so much for being on the show. so we hear reports of men moving through the local police stations, local units once housed by the ukrainian government. they're in unmarked uniforms but they seem to move with military precision, which is interesting if they're just random separatists in ukraine, is it not? >> it is. we've seen this before in crimea. let's be clear, as your report said at the top, although it's very likely the then so it is not as though they're imposing themselves in a populous where

they're not wanted. that's something that putin is taking advantage of. they are in a sense his advance $ guard and he can send people in without uniforms and operate there. >> and there are many images of local residents handing food over to these masked men and being very supportive, there would seem to be then no real military solution if the majority of the people on the ground are supportive of this and the ukrainian state is so fractured, what can be done militarily as senator john mccain was proposing? >> i have seen no reports suggests that the ukrainian military is running short of small arms. small arms are not going to stop the russian military if putin decides he wants to send his tanks in. the on tools that president obama has at his disposal are

harsh sanctions. the once announced two weeks ago are mild. the trouble is the europeans are not united behind the united states on sanctions. it may be in the president wants to go out on a limb and announce unilateral sanctions against russia that, might give putin a little bit of a pause but his calculation was union -- united in his feeling that he was a winner either way. >> but there's a sense of hospitality for his forces. >> that's correct. the administration in kiev, which is filled with people of

fairly dubious reputations themselves, have not done very much in terms of outreach to their own eastern provinces. we've not seen leaders from kiev taking risks and communicating to the population in the eastern providences that you're part of us, you're ukrainian. they've been talking over the heads of these people directly at putin and accusing russia. they've also been appealing to the west but have done very little with their leaders and have some advice to give. >> thank you. back at home, we're learning more about the kkk grand dragon accused of killing three on the eve of pass over. police say a man in his 70s opened fire in the parking lot

behind the community jewish center yesterday. the shots killed a grandfather and his high school grandson. he ran to a nearby retirement home killing an elderly woman. at this vigil, the woman who lost her father and her son in the shooting surprised the crowd when she got up to speak shortly after the tragedy. >> i'm the mother of the son i was killed. i want i tell you how much we appreciate you being here. i heard there was going to be a vigil. we all grieve in different ways. i wanted to tell you all thank you. >> nbc news correspondent ron allen joins us live from

overland park, kansas. what do we know this morning? >> we know the suspect is frazier glen cross, one of the names he's used throughout the years, a well-known anti-semite. he wanted to run such offensive ads that the broadcasters in this area fought to keep them off the air. he's been in federal prison on weapons charges, a former leader of the ku klux klan and when he was put in the police car, he yelled out "heil hitler," which is all you want know about him. he allegedly targeted two locations at the heart of the community here. there are three victims.

there's an elderly woman who was also killed. her family has not come forward as of yet. later today there lab court appearance where we expect the suspect to be charged with first degree premeditated murder and perhaps hate crimes. just a devastating event here in this community, small, quiet town. it's a fairly significant city but a quiet area just outside kansas city where people just can't imagine why this would happen here. >> much more ahead on "the daily rundown," a first in the hunt for missing flight malaysia 370. and we head up i-95 in connecticut for a two-fer,

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northwest of perth. it will create a grid of about 900 square miles wide, approximately the size of los angeles. >> now to developing news out of nigeria, where a bomb exploded in a bus station near the capital. the blast, which happened during the morning rush hour, is the deadliest attack ever on the capital. reports say at least 71 have been killed and hundreds more have been wounded. the attack raises the concern about the spread of an islamic insurgency in the region. >> up next, we focus on the first state to embrace the 10.10 minimum wage with connecticut governor dan malloy.

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original charter colonies and it's mostly a manufacturing state. it earned more than $13 billion in defense contracts in 2011. the economy and population growth has slowed to a crawl. one of the biggest issues is income disparity. there's a larger income near new york city. connecticut has the largest gap between the top 1% of earners and the other 99%. the top incomes average more than $2.1 million, four times the average income of the rest of the state. and there is a cultural divide as well. here's one way to sum it up -- connecticut has long been split almost down the middle when it

comes to yankees fans and red sox fans. the dividing line seems to be, not surprisingly, right around middletown, according to one recent study. the state has flip flopped between yankee republicans and democratic presidential candidates every 12 years through most of the 20th century but it went republican for 16 years before backing bill clinton in 1992. connecticut has continued to vote blue ever since. connecticut is also one of 14 states in which democrats control the governor's mansion and the entire state legislature. but as we mentioned, there is a period when republicans held sway. president george w. bush was born in connecticut and it was his grandfather, prescott bush, that started the family political legacy as a connecticut senator back in 1952. just last week jeb bush was in the state to accept an award in his grandfather's name. >> my gampy, as we called him,

was an extraordinary public servant who set the bar high for what it means to be a leader and statesman in america. >> prescott bush and lowell weiker, were the last major republicans figures. connecticut was home to two senators with national profiles, chris dodd and joe lieberman. while lieberman came a few hundred votes from making it to the white house for vice president, dodd served on the senate banking committee for four years. tragedy put the state's politics back in the headlines in december 2012. the shooting in newtown, connecticut, reignited the state for gun reform, and governor

dannel malloy pushed through regulation on high-ranking clips, measures which never made it throughout the rest of the country. governor, thank you for joining us. income inequality is a big issue in your state. how much was that a part of the reason for moving to the 10.10 minimum wage? >> no one in this country should work 40 hours a week and live in poverty. we certainly want to lift the base wage in the state of connecticut. we believe it's the right thing to do and it will bring about some prosperity or at least

additional prosperity in the community. so we want to lift families, we want to lift women out of poverty who are working 40 hours a week. >> your state has one of the highest tax burdens in the united states. a lot of your critics said it hasn't been alleviated enough to stop businesses from leaving the united states. can you raise the minimum wage, increase the social safety net and still be friendly to business interests that want to come in? >> sure. and what's we doing. >> how can you do that specifically? >> 52,000 jobs have been created since i became governor. we have attracted businesses and companies from out of state to move instate. we have a new relationship with united technologies, our largest employer, where they're going to continue to locate pratt & whitney engine in east hartford, build a new engineering center and be there for at least 15

years while they're producing some of the greatest engines ever made for the airline industry. we have disparity in income. a large part of our population is from fairfield county, where i'm from. a lot of those folks make a lot of money. it's not unusual to see where you have high income to have a high tax collection. but the reality is that we're cutting taxes this year. we're also giving taxpayers a refund. we've taken the state from $3.6 billion deficit, which is where it was when i was elected to a $5 million refund. on july 1st we'll have $550 million back in the rainy day fund. i want to lower taxes and we're beginning that process as we speak here in the state of connecticut. we've already lowered some taxes even last year. we're going to be aggressive about holding down taxes, making sure government is more efficient. one of the things i've been able to do while i was governor is to

lower the number of people working for government. we're very proud of that as well. >> when you say that, will you have things like tax-free zones, ala what governor cuomo has in new york state? >> we have tax reduced zones in some of our urban areas, up to 80% for five years. we have a very broad array of economic development tools to use to attract businesses and retain businesses and grow businesses in our state and we've been very good at that. in the nine years before i was governor, our state government invested in alongside and made loans to or grants to 119 companies. since i've been governor, we've interacted with 1,006 companies. it's one of the reasons we're seeing economic growth and job growth in the state of connecticut. we are particularly concentrating on small businesses, which actually grow the largest number of jobs in our economy. >> you took the lead after the tragedy in newtown and passed

some of the most sweeping gun reform legislation in the united states. have you seen tangible results in the number of guns registered and off the streets? there were reports of hundreds of thousands of assault weapons that have gone unreported in the state. >> i don't believe there are hundreds of thousands of weapons unreported. we have stopped 15 people who had domestic disputes, had restraining orders against them, we stopped them from buying weapons. we stopped 50-plus folks with mental illness backgrounds from acquiring weapons in the state of connecticut. we no longer allow for the sale of assault weapons in our state. we have universal backgrounds, which the vast, vast majority of americans and certainly people in connecticut agree with. we're very proud with what we've done in our state to make our state safer and in point of fact, crime is lower now in connecticut than at any time

since 1968 and our population is about 500,000 more people than it was in 196 8. we're doing a pretty good job of making people safer in connecticut. >> how much of a psychological impact does that still have on the state? and do you worry that's what the state has been known for, at least in the national media, over the last few years? is that one of the first things that people bring up to you? is that sort of the definition of connecticut right now? >> i think this was a tragedy played out on a national level. i became very close to many of the families that lost loves ones, went to 12 or 13 of the funerals and wakes. the strength of these parents is quite amazing, the dedication that they have to making connecticut safer, their community safer and recovering is quite amazing. but certainly it does come up. but i think we've taken that

tragedy and turned it into good law and we are supporting the families and supporting the community and independe'm proud severity that we've done with that support. >> governor dan malloy, a double boston eagle, thank you for joining us today. take care. >> thank you. >> let's turn today's data bank, zero. that is the number of emissions the world can effect to avoid the worst effect of data change, in a report highlighting the effects of global change. we have seen the largest increase in greenhouse gas emissions in the last decade. zero emissions by 2100? good luck.

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we cannot be the party of fat cats, rich people and wall street. >> the rich and powerful, those who walk the corridors of power, are getting fat and happy under the obama economic agenda. the top 1%, the millionaires and billionaires the president loves to demagogue, they earn a higher share of our national income than any year since 1928. but not to worry. nothing bad happened after 1928. >> that was senators ted cruz and rand paul trying to reshame t -- reshape the conservative image in new hampshire this weekend. the question is are they working together or getting in each other's way?

let's bring in monday's gaggle. dan, i'll start out with you. fascinating to see the lines they're taking there, rand paul and ted cruz, from this economic populism, trying to rebrand the gop as the party of the little guy. >> they need to do something to rebrand the party, let's start with that. all the republicans looking to run in 2016 understand something will have to be done to expand the coalition. i think what we saw over the weekend between those two is somewhat different. rand paul is trying to make the world safer for libertarianism and his brand of conservatism. ted cruz is playing the outsider and the conservative populist. this is not an entirely new strand within the republican party. we'll see what ted cruz is able to do with it but there's no question they all recognize the need to do something about the image of the party.

>> on that topic of image, i want to play a clip of rand paul, who talks about growing the part and we'll come back and get everybody's comments on it. >> we need to be more bold with our message but parts of our message has to reach out to people who we haven't been hitting, who haven't been listening. the door is not going to open up to the african-american community or hispanic community until we have something to offer. if you look at the war on drugs, three out of four people in prison are black and brown. your kids and grand kids aren't perfect either. the police don't come to your neighborhoods, you get a better lawyer. these are injustices. we have to be concerned about people who are may not be part of our group, who may not be here today if we want to grow or message, grow our moment. we are the party of justice. we shouldn't let the liberals say they care about people. we need to be the party of

justice. >> rand paul is somebody who is likely to go down this road. he's try to make overatures to communities who have been pretty solid votes for democrats. how does it play within a gop primary? >> you look at that and it's almost -- you sort of do a double take because those aren't the type of messages that republicans have brought before republican audiences. it's something like al sharpton, people who have been talking about this for years. they have talked about getting somewhere around 20% of the african-american vote, somewhere around what richard nixon got. unclear if they're going to be able to do that but an "a" for effort for trying to do do that. a lot of energy didn't actually translate to the ballot box and

people showing up to vote for ron paul. the question for rand paul is whether he'll be able to translate that energy for people voting for him, if he runs. >> on that point, it's fascinating what you say. what everyone said about rand paul, he's been able to take the energy that his father created and seems to have organized it better or have positioned himself. he's one of the top three contenders moving forward. nobody would give his father credit for that. can he continue to ride that organizational strength with that message? >> ron paul had a great message, all of us who ended up attending those rallies in 2011 saw people showing up, but ron paul came in third in the iowa caucuses. so rand paul will have to smooth some of those edges. but how that translates in new hampshire will be fascinating to

watch. >> they're both trying to grab the same type of voter. where does the daylight show up between cruz and paul? >> foreign policy. i think foreign policy is likely to be the greatest divide between rand paul and almost everybody else within the republican party. >> you brought up something this morning talking about the criticisms that some of the republican hopefuls had in the program started under the bush administration. tsa, mike huckabee saying too much infringement upon my rights, holding up a cell phone saying we're being traced right now. it's quite significant how they're moving away from what was originally champions of big republican programs. >> today's republican party couldn't be farther away from the bush years than we are right now. this was also on immigration

reform. donald trump ended up saying jeb bush's act of love comment when it came to illegal immigration. that got a big boo from the audience from folks there. the biggest applause line according to kasie hunt was when marcia blackburn railed against common core. if you're weighing do i get into the 2016 republican field, you have to see the party was very different when i was in the field. >> can jeb moderate the party or is that a tough sell right now? >> i think that's what his sort of calling card would be. he's looking at a field where chris christie is looking like a bit of a weaker candidate now. there has to be somebody in the establishment, the chamber of commerce lane. he has to figure out if he's the guy to do that. i think for jeb bush if you look at the way he talks about whether or not he wants to run, he talks about it in a personal way, right? he's got to talk to his family,

he's got to figure out if he with run with joy. that will be more of a concern than necessarily where the party is and where he can take it. >> i have a theory about jeb bush and i just wanted to get your opinion on it. his son is texas land commissioner. and if you talk about the problems of bush -- too many bushes in the white house, as barbara bush said, do you think there's any different that jeb bush said maybe my son down the line can be texas land commissioner, rise up through texas politics, if i run right now, possibly that could impede his growth down the line? do you think that runs in the bush family dialogue at all, dan? >> luke, i don't know specifically about that but i think you're on to something, which is this whole issue of bush's family and the comfort level of the entire family and not just his mother, who has been pretty clear for the most part but his wife, the rest of his kids. he's certainly sensitive to that. everything he's said about making the decision goes very much to that issue.

and when politicians are genuine about that, it can be a very tough call because we know that these campaigns put families through things they don't necessarily want to go through and they experience it, they accept, it they don't necessarily like it. i think it's a big factor for jeb bush. >> i would like everyone to weigh in on this. i think what we saw in 2012 was the gop conservative book club primaries. we had a lot of folks there running to sell books, santorum. you seem to have that with huckabee this time around. last time it dragged out, made mitt romney have to spend a lot of money. this time it seems they do have f formidable resources, rand paul, even rick perry. they seem to have mustered

political backing. would it have more of a seriousness? >> it does seem like it could have more of a seriousness, not just people who want to sell books and get on cnn. and they do seem to have different angles to running. ted cruz is very conservative socially that, would be a place he could carve out, rand paul more of the libertarian and then it will be a crowded field as well, which will be different from last time on the establishment wing, if you look at all these governors thinking about runs, scott walker, chris christie, jeb bush. it's going to be a crowded and a solid field. if you look what tat what the democrats put up. >> 2012 was a reelection campaign and sometimes you have republicans who are saying i'm not sure i want to go up against barack obama with the millions and billions of dollars he has

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new developments in that triple shooting at a kansas city area jewish community center. police investigators are planning to hold a news conference later today. the prime suspect is a former kkk member. he's due in court this afternoon. just moments ago president obama spoke about the shooting. he said, quote, no one should have to fear for their safety

when they gather to pray. and as americans, we have to stand united against this terrible violence. we'll let you know the time for that briefing when we get it later today. it's a story we'll keep an eye on throughout the day. let's turn back for more of today's data bank. 24, the number of house members retiring this year. the latest announcement is expected to come from tom petri this morning. he's the 14th house republican to call it quits. >> and draper has spent $2 million that would separate the state into six new states, he believes would help result in

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wh you have received the are refund or working on the tax forms to fill out by midnight, this might surprise you, every state of the union is relying on

your individual taxes and in fact, in the last three years, it has been very good for states. last year states collected more than $309 billion on individual income taxes, and that is 10% more than the states received the year before, and in this cash, it is crucial, because the income taxes make up more than one-third of total state revenues. i am joined by the washington post reed wilson who analyzed all of the census data, and reed, why are we seeing the increase recently? >> well, two reasons. first of all, coming out of the economic recession, and the recovery has been good for income incomes as the incomes have gotten stronger, so have the tax revenues, and the second has to do with the fiscal cliff from back in 2012/2013, and a lot of the wealthier individuals took their income out of the market, and took it out of the market before the fiscal cliff hit, because they thought they would have to pay more taxes after the cliff hit, so that the money taken out of the market ended up

bolstering the state budgets in fiscal 2013. this year's tax revenue may not be as strong, but we will see the growth because of the rebounding economy. >> and we saw a lot of growth in california with plus 15.63% which is directly tied to the state referendum to boost the taxes on those who make over $250,000, and it had a real impact there. >> yes, luke. the result is the action ofs of the legislature or the voters take. in california they passed prop 30 which raised the income taxes on those who made more than $250,000 the a year, and in washington, they privatized liquor stores and the state saw a 750% increase in the number of liquor sales taxes, and there you go, across the board, you are seeing the results of public policy decisions that happen in the state capitals. >> fascinating indeed.

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