i hope -- i hope they dribble it in the right direction. >> brazen attack, a chicago doctor among three americans slain by an afghan security officer at the children's hospital in kabul. the latest in a wave of killings of westerners in afghanistan. we'll have the latest from richaric richard engel. >> please join us in praying for the families of the victims and those affected by the shooting as well as theç peace in afghanistan. teed up, president obama's state visit to the japan includes a tour and toasts and tough talks for russia. >> we've been preparing for the prospect that we'll have to engage in further sanctions. those are teed up. and time for a little kick around, mr. president meet the robot. >> it's a pleasure to meet you. >> nice meeting you too.

>> hey, good job! >> excellent. good day, we'll be bringing you the breaking news from israel in just a moment first it is already friday in japan. president obama completed a jam-packed thursday, including tough talk for russia on ukraine. a strong defense of japan against china and elaborate state dinner with the emperor and little exercise with the next wave of artificial intelligence. nbc chief white house correspondent chuck todv spoke with another famous american, ambassador caroline kennedy during chuck's travels with the president and filed this report from tokyo. >> reporter: good day to you, andrea. the business side of this trip to japan is basically over.

the president will have one more stop and then it's off to south korea. but for the most part the administration believes this visit was a success because they needed to make one thing clear, make the japanese feel reassured that the u.s. still viewed japan as their number one asian ally and tough words the president had for china and the fact that the u.s. believes any violation there, military confrontation at a china somehow could provoke that the united states stood with japan. those were what the japanese wanted to hear. they feel in that respect this was a success as far as the administration was concerned. and of course, what's been interesting about the visit to japan is that part of this success has to do with the celebrity status of ambassador caroline kennedy, prime minister abe and joint press conference, lavish praiseç on caroline

kennedy being named ambassador. having a sit-down interview seemed appropriate. i started off asking her why japan since she arguably could have picked any country in the world give her close relationship with the president. >> it is such an important country and such an important region and i couldn't think of a more interesting place to serve. for me it's just absolutely the greatest honor i can imagine to serve president obama and our country here in a place and region where i think history is going to be made in the 21st century. >> reporter: i also delved in a little politics, she indicated she probably won't ever seek political office again ever since that flirtation in 2009 and we talked about 2016 whether she'll be ready this time to support hillary clinton since she chose barack obama over hillary clinton in 2008. >> i would like to see her run,

if that's what she wants to do. she would be great. >> because last time you didn't support her, that's why i was just curious if this time you wanted her to do it -- >> i just said that, that will be great. >> one country down, three more to çgo. south korea is next and then of course we hill malaysia over the weekend and philippines and then back to the states. >> our thanks to chuck todd, the iron man traveling with the president. meanwhile in the middle east things are not going well for the obama foreign policy or israel's efforts and the palestinian efforts to negotiate peace. after seven years of feuding the west bank palestinians are uniting with hamas based in gaza to create a single palestinian organization but hamas is considered to be a terrorist group by both the united states and israel. that is spelling the end of john kerry's eight-month quest for peace. already last night israel canceled talks with the plinz and a few moments ago i spoke with israel's prime minister

benjamin netanyahu. >> thank you so much for joining us. you've just come from your security cabinet and there has been an announcement, you are canceling the talks, suspending the talks with the palestinians. please explain. >> well, i think that what has happened is a great reverse for peace because we had hoped that the palestinian authority president abaas would embrace the states, the palestinian one andç jewish one but instead he took a giant leap backward and embraced -- made a pact with hamas, a terror organization that calls for israel's destruction. he had a choice, peace with israel or pack with the terrorist hamas and he chose to make the pact with hamas. i hope he changes his mind. until he does so, it's very important that we have clarity as long as i'm prime minister of israel, i will never negotiate

with a palestinian government backed by terrorist organizations committed to our destruction. >> are there any conditions at all under which you would sit down with a palestinian organization that includes even after elections, elements from hamas? anything hamas could do that would change the situation? >> well, hamas could stop being hamas. hamas could tear up the covenants that calls for anileation of israel and stop rocketing israel cities and fired over 12,000 rockets at our cities and children and schools. they are doing that all the time. hamas could stop sending suicide bombers into our midst and they could do all that but that would be good. theyç continue to do all that d call for our anileation and now president abbas has embraced them. he can't have both. he has to choose, peace with

israel or pact with hamas. i hope he changes his choice because that's the only way we can advance towards a negotiated peace. >> if he says they are only going to be tech no krats that the palestinians and west bank palestinians will be the majority of this unity government, that would not make a difference? >> andrea, that's the oldest trick in the book. called the front office/back office gambit, there are certain shady organizations and they put forward the smooth talking front men, men in suits and in the back room, you've got these organizations and that doesn't make them legit. we will not sit and negotiate with a palestinian government that is backed by hamas in which hamas has effective share of power. neither would you. would you negotiate with a government that is backed by al qaeda, that calls for the

destruction ofç america and murdered americans? by the way, hamas has praised osama bin laden as a great holy warrior and condemned the united states for killing bin laden. this is the organization that we are now asked to sit with. that won't happen. >> in fact the state department already said that you cannot be expected to sit down with a terrorist organization and they consider the united states considers hamas a terrorist organization. no daylight there so far. you talkeded to john kerry since this decisionwise made -- >> not only, not only vis a vis the position, the eu considers hamas a terrorist organization, so do many arab countries, so does the entire world. anybody with eyes in their heads. these people are calling for the on lit race of the jewish state and engaged in terror campaigns for decades and are openly, openly calling for the killing of jews wherever you find them.

>> that's the official -- >> players -- yeah. >> sorry, i didn't mean to interrupt you, especially not on a satellite. it's hard. that is the official european union e.u. position butç theres a lot of waning support for israel in this regard. what more do you need to hear from john kerry and in fact from president obama to support you in this conflict? >> well, i think we have a clear understanding between the united states and israel that israel as i said will not negotiate with a palestinian government backed by hamas. i think what's important is to bring that clarity to the entire international system or at least to most of it, because this is a giant step away from peace that the palestinian president took. i mean, i had hoped -- it was sort of on this side of the rubicon, i hope he would cross, wade into the water and wade

into the other side and make peace with it. we got an early sign something was wrong because a few days ago he said i will not even consider, consider, negotiating about the recognition of a jewish state. but now he's not merely not gone one step forward but taken a giant leap backward and embraced the very people who call for the eradication of the jewish state. that's incompatible with peace. he can't think he can have both. he made a terribleç decision f peace and his own people, the palestinian people. because they too must choose where they want to go forward towards peace or backwards to hamas. unfortunately as of yesterday they chose going backwards. >> prime minister, in some regard though, do you think you made a bad decision? do you think that you pushed him by not releasing those palestinian prisoners part of the promise and deal that had been agreed to with the united states and palestinians, so when

those palestinian pritzeners were not released, did that put so much pressure on the palestinian leader abbas that he was pushed to do something more radical? >> well, we've been tracking the talk and the discussion about going to this direction and embracing hamas and islamic jihad and other hamas-like terror organizations in gaza for many months, well before that. we also saw documents in which they were talking not only about embracing hamas but also abandoning the peace process and going unilaterally to international organizations. i think this is perhaps part of sty they say, well, let's get prisoners and so on. these are not prisoners by the way but terrorists who murdered israelis and i made an agonizing decision in pursuit of advancing

peace to release them but i wasn't going to release the last batch when the president abbas was clearly thinking of throwing up -- throwing up the whole peace process and smashing it to the ground as unfortunately he has. he still has the opportunity to reverse the course, to go to the right direction, to abandon this pact with hamas. i hope he does it. if we encounter a palestinian leadership and palestinian government that is ready to pursue genuine peace negotiations, we're going to be there. i'm going to be there. i was there and made very, very tough decisions that were not made by any previous israeli governments and for that matter very few if any governments around the world. i will be there in the future if we have a partner that is committed to peace. right now we have a partner that is just joined another partner committed to our destruction. no go. >> and if he does not change his

mind, bottom line in aç word, e peace talks are over? >> i think the pact with hamas kills peace. if it moves forward, it means peace moves backwards and it's reelgly as the state department yesterday, the ball is in the palestinian court. i hope -- i hope they dribble it in the right direction. >> reporter: more than 700 divers are now trying to free their children, one body recover was that of the young frightened

boy the first to ring 911, minutes before the crew did. prosecutors now believe the ship was simply unsafe. steering faulty and cargo overloaded. they raided the office of the maritime safety agency today and for those 16 and 17-year-olds who didn't take the vacation and didn't take the ferry, it was back to school today. but so many empty classrooms and so many missing friends. three aa

children's hospital in kabul today. a brazen attack by the member of the security.

the shooter turned the gun on himself but survived and treated in the same victim as one of the victims. jerry umanos was a doctor working at the hospital for several years. it serves 37,000 patients a year. joining me now is nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel. you know the hospital and know the area. this situation is so dire. tell me what you think is going on. >> i think there's a general order now, not just among the taliban but all of the different militant groups to try sean kill foreigners, especially americans if they can. this was an attack of opportunity. there was a -- the militant was a police officer and he was stationed at the gate of this hotel. he was assigned to be a guard of the hospital and he saw the opportunity and opened fire. we have more details about what happened. i just spoke a short while ago with a witness, a doctor who was inside the hospital at the time. he said he heard gunshots and

ran out of his office and saw bodies lying in the parking lot in pools of blood. at 9:46 this morning, kabul time, dr. jerry umanos, went out of his office, inside the hospital grounds to receive five other american medical workers. they were visiting medical workers. he received them at the gate. they were walking in this parking lot area, heading back towards the hotel. they had just arrived and that's when the guard on the gate turned his weapon on the visiting delegation, killing dr. umanos and two other members of this medical team that had come to help. the hospital is well known. it's a children's hospital, primarily. it's run by a christian faith based charity called cure. serves as you said about 35,000 patients a year. mostly children but also mothers doing prenatal care and mothers with complicated pregnancies.

>> this is so heartbreaking. when we think that the united states has helped the afghans train these security forces and this is again an instance of a uniformed police officer, security guard, having made this terrible attack, i want to read you the statement from the white house, the national security council spokeswoman, know her from afghanistan as well, the united states condemns the attack that killed three americans working to provide health care to afghans. any such attack on civilians at a hospital is despicable and cowardly. we send our deepest condolences to the family of those injured and killed. working to build a prosperous and peaceful fut or four themselves. we remain proud of all of those working shoulder to shoulder with afghan partners toward a goal of a stable and secure and democratic afghanistan. this is such a setback, another

setback. >> it is troubling also. this was not a brand -new officr or member of the police department who just joined. we know his name, he was identified by the afghan government. he had been working as a police officer for the last three years. he was most recently in the host province and that should raise alarm bells, an area with a lot of presence of the haqani network. after serving in this troubled province, he was transferred three weeks ago to kabul, was assigned to protect this hospital, and then today turned his weapon on this delegation of medical personnel and then tried to sthoot himself, did not die and was treated in the same e.r. of the hospital that he had just attacked along with some of the

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now to nevada and the bundy backlash, republican politicians are running as fast as they can after shocking racial remarks reported by "the new york times" during one of bundy's daily press conferences. they had rallied around him after his tense armed standoff with ranger and became a hero of conservatives because his refusal for allowing cattle to graze on land. 15 minutes of fame are 15 minutes of infamy, his recollection of driving past a housing project in north vegas. i want to tell you one more thing i know about the negro, the door was usually open and always half a dozen people

sitting on the porch and didn't have nothing to do and because they were basically on government subsidy, abort their young children and put young men in jail because they never learned how to pick cotton and i've off ten wondered are they better off as slaves picking cotton and having a family life and doing things or under government subsidy. they didn't get no more freedom, they got less freedom. that's the end of the quote. joining me now for our daily fix, chris cillizza, msnbc contributor. what do you say? >> this is the danger of associates with someone like cli cliven bundy. some conservatives saw his long running fight with the bureau of land grazing rights as an

example of the overreach of the federal government and people asserting states rights and citing the government is growing too large. here's the problem, bundy is as he is just shown, not someone who you want to put up in any way, shape or form as representative of even a strain of thinking within your party. it's why you see people backing you and rand paul, kentucky senator, sort of the biggest face of the libertarian streak within the republican party, andrea. i don't want to say he was supportive of him. he said he understood frustrations with state's rights and that sort of thing and quickly distanced himself. this is cliven bundy revealing himself to be a racist at best, frankly. this is any politician, republican, democrat or otherwise would do well to get as far from him as quickly as possible. >> senator dean heller said the

senator completely disappearwise mr. bundy's appalling stalts and condemns them in the most strenuous way. >> this is the danger -- i feel like in some ways it's a function of our modern media world. these people pop up out of nowhere all over the country and they are hued on to by members of each party, see this as an example of exactly what we're talking about that fits our broader philosophy. they've done no back research on these people. so when someone like cliven bundy, if you go back and read the long running fight, it's not stunning he said something like this. >> over the lands which bureau of land management lands. >> you have to be careful who you embrace. it's tempting to say, see, this guy, he's a symbol of american

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with the new book confidence code and all of the talk about cheryl sandberg's lean in, the subject, the challenge for women to be more assertive. >> it's women themselves have to develop the confidence to pursue their ambitions. and that's still hard for a lot of women. a combination of self doubt and perfectionism can become major obstacles to advancement. how do we develop that confidence in our abilities? how do we develop the willingness to take risks even to fail? well, women have to dare to compete. >> i'm joined now by journalist katy kay and claire shipman because i'll do the shameless

plug and hold up the book. their new book "the confidence code", what women should know. amen. no pun intended or pun intended. >> just what she said all right. >> full disclosure, we're pals and friends and past, present and future but women need to be more assertive and have the code. >> we decided to dig into why there is this gap. we thought, is this just anecdotal and something we all talk about and worry about? there's real data. there are favorite piece of data is a study hewlett-packard did that shows women only put their hand up for a promotion when they feel they have 100% of the job qualifications and men do it as 60%. confidence is about taking action. that's our definition of confidence. our code involves how women act. >> a lot of it is actually what

mrs. clinton was just talking about. women do tend to carry criticism with them. we are endlessly dwelling on the tiny thing we do wrong and not the very things we've done right. a lot of the confidence code is about thinking a bit less and acting a bit more and being authentic to who we are. if we combine all of that, we can crack it. >> let's put it out there. we are three relatively successive women and katy anchor and correspondent and clair, anchor and correspondent, from a white house correspondent, i've done all of this stuff too. i think all three of us would agree that we lack in confidence and don't feel as competitive when it comes to advocating for ourselves. >> some of that is the playing field is not level. we so often, you and i and clair on television panels we're the only women or walk in with senior executives and it is nearly all men in the room. that's not the kind of

environment that will boost our confidence. the fact there aren't enough role models and still so few women out there. what we focused on is something we can change ourselves, how with can recognize we have the ability. women have so much talent and education. we know this now, we have to believe in that. >> we have to be ready to fail. that's the hardest thing for women. we have to be ready to fail. >> always have to be so perfect. hillary clinton had talked about that often back in her history, of the same generation as i am and grating from wel he isly. >> she said she was worried about running for senate at all because she couldn't cope with the notion of losing. it was a high school woman's basketball coach who told her, dare to compete, be willing to lose. and i think we all have to get comfortable with failure. >> let's talk about the science of this. you actually took dna tests --

sf >> that was clair's brilliant idea. >> i got into the science and digging -- >> if you look around and see some people you think they are naturally confident. guess what, they are probably because it is 20 and 50% genetic. we did not expect to find that. we thought there's a cocktail of genes that confident confidence that we know about right now and they are testing for them. we spit in a tube and sent our tests off and we don't have confident genes. >> clair and i are confident women today because of the choices we have made and risks we have taken and the failures we have had and way we've pushed ourselves but genetically we're basket cases. >> we felt badly about ourselves for a while because we didn't have good genes. >> you cracked me the other day when i heard you say that you put out there in the book, take your test and go on the website

and take your own test and for first time you had sympathy for what happened when the website crashed for obamacare. >> we did because we created a confidence assessment with the help of psychologists we're trying to create a database about women and confidence. one doesn't exist. we thought a couple hundred might take, we had 33,000 people take the test in one week and our poor web developer could barely keep up. >> here's our challenge to you, take the confidence assessment. >> oh, my gosh. >> the confidencecode.com. it's really interesting and we give you advice and you get a sense how you rate compared to other people. >> does it help you negotiate for yourself? >> one of things women have to get better at, you know this, negotiating for pay raises and giving ourselves up, putting ourselves up for promotions. >> and realizing that nobody thinks -- they are so afraid as being seen as rude or

aggressive. nobody thinks that. ask for what your worth. >> it's okay to be nervous. it's fine to be nervous in difficult circumstances and feel anxiety. what you must not do is let the nerves stop you from taking action. >> i'm trying to figure out how you guys raised children, our wonderful wives and great colleagues and anchor the news and report the news and write books all at the same time? >> sleep might be an issue. >> talk to our kids, they might be feeling short-changed this week. >> i have talked to your kids and they endorse it all. what about leaving the comfort zone? what is it that you wrote about leaving the comfort zone? >> this is about risking and failing. whether it's going to take reception by ourselves, walking across a room to meet a stranger, asking for pay pay raise, the things we find hard are actually when we try them are going to be the very things that grow our confidence. >> that's what's so interesting about this, andrea, you can increase your confidence even late in life but not mentally.

you just don't think it, think i'm going to tell myself i'm good. it's about experience. every time you step outside the comfort zone, it will remind you next time it's okay. >> like exercising a muscle. >> exactly. >> watch out world, here we come. katy kay and claire shipman, you are great. done it again, the confidence code, little birdie tells me it's going to be on the new york times best seller list. the army code causing controversy in the ranks up next. g good. ♪ velocity 1,200 feet per second. [ man #2 ] you're looking great to us, eagle. ♪ 2,000 feet. ♪ still looking very good. 1,400 feet. [ male announcer ] a funny thing happens when you shoot for the moon. ahh, that's affirmative. [ male announcer ] you get there.

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recriticism banning twists and dread locks and multiple braids. helene cooper joins me now. it's great to see you. >> hi, andrea. >> hi, it's great to see you. let's talk about this. tell me why this is clearly so aimed at african-american women? >> i think the biggest issue for black women on this is that the army regulations are using the hair of white women as a baseline for what is acceptable. and so i think that is sort of the crux of the matter. so when you're a black woman in the army and so many of the ones i talked to were so furious about this. at the end of the day they say that the army regulations don't seem to recognize the fact that black hair, most black hair is very, very deeply curly, some will even say kinky. if black hair is growing out of

your scalp that way as a deeply curly hair, a lot of black women who are in the army and they are dou deployed in afghanistan and iraq, are worried how they are going to conform to regulations, it pushes them in the direction of even saying -- the direction of chemically straightening their hair, which people don't want to do. the whole issue of black women and their hair has been one that has one that people have grappled with from may i can't ank lou and regulations that don't seem to at the end of the day get or understand that black women, unless they do something about that, chem iically straighten their hair or wear hair extensions or wigs will not be able to conform to regulations. >> let's get real here. you've lived in warm climates and i've been deployed to very warm climates, you do not have

the option of chemically processing your hair in that climate. >> you don't. >> a wig is hot, under a helmet. for safety and cleanliness, braids are the answer. >> it is the -- very much so, for so many people. it's also there's a movement right now in the black community to more natural hair, not straightening your hair and not just going with the hair that you were born with. and there's a whole lot of discussion among black people about whether black women have gone too far towards embracing hair that's not necessarily what they were born with, gone too far towards straightening hair. you have this backlash and women saying they are going to embrace their hair. the army regulations seem directed more against that and pushing a lot of women back in the other direction. i think that's where you're seeing so much of this. i don't think -- you know, nobody i talk to thinks this has been done deliberately but they do think there's a lack of

understanding within the army, within those that came up with the regulations about exactly what they are dealing with. >> it always relates to who's making regulations. i wanted to ask you about the new york times story about your colleague today, on cliven bundy and racist remarks. how do you feel with this and the fact that some politicians were willing to embrace him when they thought he was a western icon? >> it really is such an interesting story. the biggest blowback on the cliven bundy case will be all of the people from fox news -- he was on fox news and held up as a patriotic hero to rand paul, to the people in the republican party, who sort of embraced him and now have to look at either distancing themselves because of the incredibly racist remarks he came up with or themselves being tarred with that. for the republican party it becomes yet another one of these long series of problems that

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and safe and he is in the car with us on route to donetsk. chris cillizza is back with us. we're talking politics and oklahoma. >> ted cruz and sarah palin, i would say the two most high profile tea party figures in the country, still with sarah palin, going to do an event for tw shannon. african-american speaker of the statehouse, running for tom coburn, tom coburn leaving the senate and running for his seat in a republican primary. he has a real race, a guy names jaimsz langford has been set up as the establishment. from everything i know about shannon, does not seem to have the christine o'donnell, potential to lose the seat. it's oklahoma, if not the r reddire reddest state in the country. an interesting figure he would

join scott, second african-american republican senator. >> ted cruz and sarah palin, hot rhetoric at that? >> no doubt about it. >> great to see you in person. that does it for us. a busy edition of "andrea mitchell reports." tomorrow, education secretary arne duncan joining me. follow the show online and facebook and twitter at mitchell reports. "ronan farrow daily" is up next. in the nation, we reward safe driving.

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launched on to a tiraid. >> i often wondered are they better off as slaves. >> a lot of people in conservative media haraced to h defense, must be feeling very exposed this morning. >> or top story today, three americans, including a doctor, are dead, shot inside a children's hospital in afghanistan. their killer, a security guard tasked with protecting them. attack happened as the doctor was welcoming fellow americans to the hospital in kabul and other two victims were among those visitors, a father and son. this afternoon we know the doctorwise jerry umanos in kabul to treat children and help train doctors. >> dr. umanos saw a lot of patients and the kids loved him and