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it's wednesday, april 23rd. this is the daily rundown. i'm luke russert in for chuck todd who will join us from tokyo live. however, president obama right now is at a closed dinner over there with the japanese prime minister. what may be the world's most famous sushi restaurant. the president arrived with a message of reassurance for allies worried about the rise of china and the strength of u.s. commitment to the region. in an interview with a japanese newspaper, the president said the u.s. and china can work together on issues of mutual interest like the global economy, climate change and north korea saying, quote, we welcome the continuing rise of a china that is stable, prosperous and peaceful, but he added, our engagement with china does that and will not come at the expense of japan or any other ally. japan is the president's first stop on a four nation trip aimed at restoring confidence in the

so-called pivot to asia. he of course announced that three years ago. he'll also visit south core radio a, macore re, a malaysia and the philippines. this is the first visit since 1996 and the clintons and at a time when china has stepped up territorial claims in both the south and east china seas ahead of the president's trip. state media accused the u.s. of want to ing to cage china. the president weighed in on the fierce fight over a group of islands saying, quote, policy of the united states is clear, the senkaku islands are administered by japan. it's pretty clear how china will respond at least rhetorically earlier this month, china's defense minister told chuck hagel, quote, we will make no compromise, no concession, the chinese military can assemble as soon as summoned, fight any

battle and win. in another effort to counter balance china, the president is expected to announce an agreement with the philippines that would give american ships and planes the most extensive access to the bases there in the last two decades. the philippines voted to evict the u.s. military from its bases in 1991 after a century long military presence and activists are already protesting the new security pact ahead of the president's visit to manila. other questions on the agenda, account u.s. and japan resolve trade differences and hammer out a deal on the broader 12 nation transpacific partnership agreement. account president calm angst between japan and south korea. accou accou can the u.s. use the north co m renorth korean threat. and will they attempt the fourth nuclear test during the president's visit. and what about the most high proceed pile u.s. ambassador to japan in decades.

caroline kennedy. a lot going on over in that part of the world. and chuck todd join us live from tokyo. chuck, this pivot to asia we lettered so much about three years ago kind of slowed down a little bit by domestic affairs and other things that happened. what does president obama hope to get out of this trip? >> in many way what is is going on, and i love all the questions you asked there at the end, it feels like almost the questions to the beginning of an episode of a soap opera. and in some ways some of the back and forth between china and japan and japan and south korea are about old wounds, will they date some back to world war ii, some even before. and some of it can seem petty when looking at it from the point of view of the united states. but the larger picture here, the dinner that the president is having right now with the japanese prime minister is basically emblematic of what the point of this entire trip is,

which is show some more love particularly to japan and south korea than they have been showing in the past. both japan and south korea feel as if every i'm ttime the unite states reaches out at summits, sends michelle obama on a good will tour to china a month ago, that japan and south korea take it personally, almost as a sign of disrespect to them even though the united states are trying to balance the working relationship with a rival. china is not necessarily an ally the way japan is an ally and south korea, but they want him to be a friendly rival and they want to have engagement and have him play a bigger role in the world stage. especially if russia will be such a problem for them. if russiament would won't be t he want to try to go to china.

so a part of this, though the united states still plays favorites and it's not china. the favorite friends are still japan and south korea. so that is basically what the first half of this trip is. the second half of this trip, malaysia and the philippines, these are a made good. two of the stops the president was going to make in october of last year and then of course we had the government shutdown which put an end to that trip. interestingly, there will be three state dinners that the president is being vetted at. when i'm talking asia time zones, today is tomorrow, tomorrow is yesterday, i'm never quite sure. but essentially talking in japanese time tonight 24 hours from now, the president will in the midst of a state dinner his honor. malaysia he's making the first visit there by a sitting u.s. president since lbj. they're giving him a state dinner. and in the fill mephilippines,

receive a state dinner. but you pointed correctly what is going on. this is the second major sort of military announcement that the president has made during this asia pivot. i remember being in australia where we announced troops at a base as part of a policy having more troops in the region that can move around when necessary, and that's what is going on with the philippines, as well. >> thank you very much, chuck todd live for us in japan where it is nighttime there, morning here. we'll be sure to talk to you begin tomorrow. enjoy your sushi. i heard it's the best in the world. >> i don't think i'm going to get in there. but we'll see. >> take it easy. turning now to another headline this morning. georgia's governor is set to sign one of the nation's most controversial gun regulations

into law. critics say the safe carry protection act allows licensed gun owners to bring their guns pretty much anywhere, like a bar, ups the bar owner objects. like a house of warship, like an airport, common areas but not past tsa check points. licensed gun opwners can bring guns into government buildings that don't have metal detectors. and local school boards will be able to allow teachers or other school staffers to carry guns on campus or even in the classroom. jason carter, grandson of jimmy carter and the democrat running to unseat georgia's governor voted for the gun bill. he told chuck on money that he supports allowing guns in schools. >> there is not an issue that i know of that is more geographically polarizing than guns. there are some communities that will feel safer if their school districts will make those decisions and other communities

where they won't. and 240es xlthose communities w to decide for themselves. >> gabe guttierez joins us from govern where the governor will sign the bill today. seems to be some support for this law. >> reporter: definitely seems to be support at least here in georgia. not so much nationwide. if you look at both sides, nra is calling it a historic victory for the second amendment while several groups including americans for responsible solutions are calling this the most extreme gun bill in america. as you mentioned, georgia's governor is set on sign the bill here right behind me. this is the home district of georgia's house speaker. and georgia legislators passed this bill on march 20th, last day of the legislative session. and they were able to bring both sides on board, including jason carter, but stripping away the controversial provision that would have allowed guns on college campuses. but there are many other

locations where georgians will be able to bring their guns according to georgia carry the group who lobbied for the bill, they say licensed georgians will bring their weapons into more places than at any point in the last century. so certainly getting a lot of attention both here and around the country. >> sure to spark another national debate. gabe guttierez, thanks so much. new to new developments in the search for that malaysian passenger jet that vanished, get this, 47 days ago. there were 239 people on board. australian officials say some kind of large piece of metal washed up on the western coastline just east of augusta. that is just south of the main search areas. australia police are testing the material. meanwhile the u.s. navy says its robotic sub has covered more than 80% of its assigned search area with no sign of the plane's black boxes. coming up, a very serious new cold war heats up as u.s. troops hit the ground in eastern europe. plus a major midterm

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back now with the latest from ukraine where the story is more guns, more troops, more tension and more chances that things could get worse before they get better. one big development, the u.s. is now adding a little military pressure alongside diplomatic efforts. this morning army paratroopers began arriving in eastern europe. part of a group of 600 soldiers

that will spend a month doing training exercises in poland, lithuania, latvia and as tone i can't. russia still has troops lined up on the eastern border. this morning russian's defense ministry announced snap military exercises for its navy. also today, ukraine's government in kiev says it will remove active anti-terrorist operations designed to retake government buildings in ten cities. the buildings have been held by pro russian separatists for more than two week. one other incident adding to the tension, there is one that an american journalist has been taken captive by pro russian gunmen. the state department says we call on russia to use its influence to secure the release.

on tuesday, joe biden was in kiev and warned the kremlin time is running out and it should fulfill its obligations it made to tamp downs crisis. last night u.s. officials say secretary of state john kerry spoke to lavrov and expressed, quote, gedeep concern over the lack of positive steps to dehe is a are a ka late the pry sis. lo lavrov fired back saying there is no reason pot to believe toe americans are running the show. a scholar on the issues joining us. thanks so much for being on the show. it seems that putin is continuing the strategy of operating in this gray area. so you have these pro russian separatists that take over these buildings, a lot of shall we say russian troops perhaps they don't have the insignia on their uniform, but they storm their

buildings. and from our conversations with the experts we've had on this show, he wants to pursue this strategy as long as possible before he has a formal military presence in eastern ukraine. >> i think it's less and less gray. it's sort of like what the united states might have done in the '60s or '70s. you send in troops undercover, theya agag agitate, create in-stability. one of the real tragedies of this is no matter what we're doing in the west, the likelihood is that over time, putin knows thatthe real trageds is no matter what we're doing in the west, the likelihood is that over time, putin knows that the legs of american commitment to ukraine won't last longer than whatever he does. so this is getting messier and messier. >> what do you make of the 600 troops that we're sending doing those training exercises right next to ukraine and russia? certainly trying to up our presence, but the point you just brought up, we cannot be there indefinitely especially with our other commitments around the

world. the miles per hoamerican public there. >> i think those troops are to assure allies. we have the other nato members that are we really members of nato, is an attack on one of us really an attack on all of us. so that is a bit different than what is going on inside ukraine. and the fact that i sort of see putin playing the role in russian eyes of being the ronald reagan in their country. reasserting our status. and what unfolded, it's about putin's legacy building, if you have. >> propaganda certainly a huge role. i want to ask you, the ukranian government will now continue these anti-terrorist operations. they have not worked at all. at some point some of the troops even go over to the russian side, end up losing equipment, an underfunded military.

are these anti-terrorist operations almost more troubling than they're worth, give russia an excuse to say we're just trying to protect these russian speakers in the eastern part of the country? >> ukrainian government in kiev has a very complicated tight rope to walk. and i think vice president by d biden's speech was important to read because he's trying to shore up their confidence without them going over the line. he says may 25th is an important election. but at the same time, when you look at the forces they're deploying, they're not succeeding their objectives, but also not going out in terms of slaughtering a lot of the pro russian folks either. so a balance they're trying to keep. and the fact that russia so dramatically responded to the three deaths that they had and trying to say that is provocation, we almost thought the russian military might go in, they seem to be prepared to call any incident a triggering incident for deeper russian incursion into ukraine. and so i think the kiev

government is trying to demonstrate that it can stabilize things, but also show restraint. and that is a complicated thing to do. it would be easy to escalate out of control if they just had a meltdown and essentially did a full on onslaught on those buildings which the pro russian separatists have taken. >> and it's clear you hear from some republicans in the u.s. perhaps we should be getting munitions and small arms to help the ukranian military. other ideas we should up the sanctions. but sanctions are difficult to do. and you have a lot of american companies that operate within russia. so where is an end point where both sides walk away and say you know what, we got something out of this. is this -- does putin get that part of ukraine and we stop here, once the language becomes ukrainian? >> i think we need to get beyond the election. number two, folks like senator mccain have been criticizing

obama's restraint. we need to read up on 1914. it could be important than the stakes represented in ukraine. it's easy to talk about sectorial sanctions which may be a next step in the way the west tries to punish russia, but we'll also be punishing others because we've succeeded in integrating russia's economic livelihood into us. so we will pay a price as well as the russians. >> a lot more intertwined than we realized. thank you so much for joining us. today's data bank, $2.65 million is how much of curt clawson's own money he loaned his congressional campaign. we call that a self funder. the former bills executive won the republican rhyme area for the 19th congressional district to replace trey radel who resigned in january after plead

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the supreme court's latest ruling on the issue of affirm sif acti difference action is splipterring apply answers. the court voted 6-2 to end affirmative action at the state's public universities. 58% of michigan proposals passed a vote in 2006 getting rid of affirmative action. michigan's attorney general made this argument hours after the decision came down. >> it's fundamentally wrong to treat people differently based on the color of your skin or your race or gender, ethnicity. and that was the concept enshrined in that ballot initiative and i and almost 60% of the people of michigan came to that conclusion, as well. >> seven other states have also banned of a piaffirmative starth california.

but it divided an already polarized court. the five right leaning justices wrote three different opinions and the two remaining liberal justices split, as well. justice kennedy wrote while a debate may be emotional it should not be ypd the reach of voters. justice sotomayor wrote while the constitution does not guarantee minority groups victory in the political process, if does guarantee them meaningful and equal access to that process. i'm joined by amy howell to explain what this all means. and amy, sort of the first question i'd like to ask you, does this mean we're essentially going to see a lot of referendums in the states pertaining to this issue and what does it mean for the admission process in colleges around the country? >> so yus tjustice kennedy in h decision made clear what this case was not about. it's not about whether or not universities can use affirmative action. it's about whether or not the voters can decide that the universities can't. and so what this does mean is i

do think we will see other ballot initiatives in some other states to prohibit the use of affirmative action not only at public universities, but in other areas where governments consider race like employment decisions and public contracting. >> there was a case brought against the university of texas in 2013, the supreme court did not recognize immediately and september sent it back to a lower court. can we expect a future ruling or would they prefer it play out in the lower courts? >> they sent the case back to the lower court and it is producing there now. i think that given how tense it was in the courtroom yesterday and how divided the court is on thooe the these issues i think they would like to take a break for a while. but it's not clear. it could be back in the next term or the term after. >> and justice who is usually

liberal joined with the conservati conservatives. >> it didn't make a difference because ont only justice sotomayor and justice ginsburg voted to strike down the ban. so he agreed with the five that it should be underhepheld. but to him it was important that this was a case in which michigan's affirmative action policy had been used not to remedy pastdiscrimination, but instead because michigan believed that the universities believed there was some benefit to having a diverse student body. and it was also important to him here that this actually moved the decision about the use of affirmative action from unelected a minute straight tors to the voters themselves. so he left open the possibility that other initiatives might not meet that test. >> and real quickly for people

who aren't constitutional law scholars like yourself who look upon this and see these dissenting opinions, three different p dissenting opinions, justices wanting to stake out their own interpretation publicly for the history books. >> i think that is exactly right. not just for the history books. at the all agreed on the result, but they would have gotten there in different ways. justice kennedy joined by the chief justice, and justice breyer would have agreed but for a different reason. chief justice primarily was responding to some of the comments made by justice sotomayor. and justice scalia and justice thomas wrote separately. they would have gone much further. and really gotten rid of a whole area of constitutional indoctrine called the political process doctrine that was at the heart of this case. they believe much like the

attorney general in the comments you played at the start of this piece that really everybody should be treated equally and that's all that laws like these do. >> amy howell, scotus blog, we thank you so much for skrojoini us. take care. now for the next mum in today's data bank. 15. that's the number of cities invited to submit official bids to host the 2016 democratic national convention. proposals are due by june 6. and dnc expected to announce its pick later this year or early next year. the rnc has already narrowed down its choices to six cities. cleveland and las vegas are finalists for both parties' conventions. i'll endorse cleveland for the democrats, columbus for the republicans. let's go all ohio, why not. we're down to the wire, folks. this is your last chance to vote in the final four of our tdr bracket. rfk is facing off against hillary clinton today. what a prime time match upthat

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the power of the incumbency is quite strong. >> it is. and i think that the case against being so strong mainly comes from 2010 when democratic house incumbents were almost uniformly defeated. but then just two years later in 012, democratic senators were relocated and significantly outperformed president obama in southern stretches of the states. bill nelson did 16 points better than the president. and the president lost arkansas and louisiana by 17 and 24 points. so if nelson who is not the world's strongest candidate can do 16 points better than the president in the florida panhandle, it's not hard for imagine how mary landrieu or mark pryor could do so well in arkansas and louisiana. >> and republicans will say, look, that's a presidential election. you had president obama on top of the ticket. he's outperforming democratic

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all of us remember president dole. and president mccain. and president romney. now, look, those are good men. they're decent men. but when you don't stand and

draw a clear distinction, when you don't stand for prip he wpr democrats celebrate. >> bob dole is firing back at comments ted cruz made, saying a number of the younger members, first termers like rand paul and the extreme right wing guy all running for president now? i don't think they have enough experience yet. dole's in the middle of barn storming kansas riding from town to town joking i'm trying to cover all 105 counties. i don't know whether i'll make it or not. but when you're 90, you don't order room service. his message compromise is not a bad word and the gop should be what he calls a party of inclusion. >> you get to know people, you can work with them. i'm a republican, but democrats are my friends. so we had a lot of stuff that

was bipartisan. and they don't have it today. it's the little things that people remember. it's how you treat people. and how you expect to be treated. and you have to have time for people. i used to go out in the hall of my office and when drag them into the office whether they want to come or not. >> dole joked yesterday if something happens to me before the 2016 election, i plan to vote absentee. but i plan to be around. we all hope for that. he said he's touring the state to say thank you. >> i wouldn't have had the opportunities i've had without your support. and i never forgot where i was from. they say you can at that time boy out of kansas, but you can't take kansas out of the boy.

>> let's bring in our hump day g gaggle. kim, i'll start with you. strat well. and kim, a long time congressman who is having a last push and the last service on behalf of the establishment which correlates of what we have seen in the last few weeks with the rise of jeb bush, and the other party elders, mitt romney coming back, and the establishment striking back against the upstarts. >> and bob dole clearly does not like ted cruz, and he made that clear. >> yes. >> and there is a weird thing going on in the party where the upstarts kind of screwed up the 2010 elections, and there has been a backlash from that from the establishment, and yet this year's crop of the upstarts are vastly different and they are more disciplined and speak more

clearly and less gaffe-prone, and it is going to be a harder thing to say, washington makes sense being an insider makes sense, and how do you fight that war if you are on the establishment side. so i think that the ideology fights are more important to the party than the establishment versus the tea party, because we c cannot look at them, and say, if you are part of the establishment, and look at the tea party, and say they are all cooks, because they are not. >> well, most of them are. >> well, they are the no. >> and you make your money that way. and the democrats did a good job in 2012 letting this play out, and you saw todd akin and that phenomenon, and is that the playbook going forward for the "d"s? >> well, it worked in 2012. and lee atwater who was a former, and he is deceased now, and he is a brilliant political strategist, and when the opponent is shooting themselves, don't get in the way. if they are drowning, throw them

an anvil. >> and so that is the thing that happened for republicans they nominated the nuts and lost seats that they should have won. and again in 2012, so they nominated nuts and hoped they would win, but democrats are hoping they do it again, because it is not going the work electorally. >> and so this fight for the soul of the party, and you saw firsthand in south carolina, lindsey graham in the primary of his life, and ted cruz not endorsing him, and rand paul is not vocale on his behalf, and this is playing out in local politics vividly. >> and that is right. you kr seeing the folks like lindsey graham going aggressively after the tea party and building the campaign machines early to fend off the challenges from the left. and lindsey graham has essentially maneuvered his way to prop up a lackluster field running against him and sort of kept the house republicans who are running against him out of the race. you have seen people do similar

things against the primary challengers and people like lamar alexander who should be vulnerable, but he will be all rig right. and mitch mcconnell is going to sur strive his primary, and the republican incumbents generally will survive, and looks like they are all going to survive except for maybe thad cochran in mississippi, but the question is open seats, and what happens in the democratic seats and the open seats in georgia, louisiana, and so, georgia, north carolina, and will the republicans nominate whom? >> and it is the fortify the flank. and we had nate combs on earlier to talk about the power of the incumbency on the power of the races and sort of going through the '90s and the 2000s and incumbent democrat has a better chance of winning than open seat republican in the south. and what do you do to get at people like mark pryor and mary landrieu? >> well, we have to sit back to

let them shoot themselves, because they have to defend barack obama and defend obamacare, and it is unk uncomfortable thing to do in a southern race. in addition, you only need look at the nr -- i mean the d triple c or whatever it is, the c thing, and the democrats, and they are yanking the funding from the challengers and pouring it into the incumbents because they realize it is a indefen indefensible place to be right now in the south. >> and is that why mark pryor and mary landrieu has a lead -- >> well, you, you have to believe that. i believe landrieu, but not pryor. >> and the polling is consistent, and mark pryor is running a great campaign, and something about the democrats in the red states. they have been successful before. and granted, it is a red state, and a state that mitt romney carried and people who have run in the red states their whole lives and they win, and the reason is because they reflect the values of the constituencies of the red states, and mark pryor and mary landrieu are no

exceptions, and the incumbents have a huge advantage, and one advantage in the south is that they understand the state they are running in, and they know how to do it. >> and legacies, and pryor and la landrieu, and the politics -- but the challenge for the democrats is the turnout. the intensity is on the republican side, and obamacare will drive them out, and they tend to do better, and how the democrats bring out the voters is going to be key. >> and from your perch in covering the senate, harry reid, and he is going to get a lot of the unemployment votes. >> yes, minimum wage, and things that can drive a wedge between the two sides. i don't see any effort to put mark pryor in a tough position, and mary landrieu in a tough position is going to be something to put the republicans on the fence. >> something to keep an eye on. and manu, steve, kim, thank you for joining us, and we appreciate it. that is it for this edition of

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toaster strudel! best morning ever! [ hans ] warm, flaky, gooey. toaster strudel! finding warren. it is a hearty embrace for her, but she says she is not running for president in 2016, but she may give the democrats the best fighting chance. and exercise, pushing troops to ukraine as violence threatens to overtake di ploplomacy, and will have a new show on the american strength. and minority rapport, and how rand paul and paul ryan are reaching out to a new bloc outside of the gop place, and is it policy or politics? we start with high noon in georgia where in a couple of hours the governor will sign a bill to make georgia one of the least restrictive states when it

comes to where you can carry a gun. the safe carry protection act or the guns everywhere bill as the critics calls it, greatly expands where licensed gun owners can carry guns including bars, churches and schools. and the group co-founded by former congresswoman gabby giffords calls it the most extreme gun bill in america. that bill comes after a report that shows gaping holes in the background checking system, and the headline is -- gun checks miss millions of fugitives." and so we have gabe there where the governor is going to be signing the bill in georgia, and what are the details there, gabe? >> well, the georgia lawmakers passed the bill on the last day of the legislative session, and as you can imagine, the critics are calling it the guns everywhere bill, but the official name is the safe carry a