we're going to leave it there. will.i.am, to the round table, everybody, thank you so much. we'll leave it there this morning. thank you for joining us. if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." it's a long time between now and 2016. anything can happen. you may have heard the other day hillary had to dodge a flying shoe at a press conference. [ laughter ] >> 2016, front and center as washington takes a little time-out to make fun of itself. that was a real picture. that was the shoe. hey, everyone. i'm t.j. hall in today for craig melvin. you are watching msnbc. as the world waits to see if she'll run, has hill ary left room to be productive?

>> working to build a recruitment program for minority candidates. the report underscores the need for greater recruitment. >> recruit they have. but it's with where the gop has found minority candidates that may surprise you. ♪ bring back our girls for the first time today anyway jeer knigeri nigeria's president meets with the families of the schoolgirls kidnapped nearly three weeks ago. and a staggering number of kids bring weapons to school after they have been bullied. and you are not going to believe what one pennsylvania neighborhood found in their driveways. what is this doing in the year 2014? we need to begin with a breaking story. video that's just incredible to

see. quite disturbing to see we got out of a ringling brothers, barnum & bailey circus. a performance ends with gasps of disbelief as nine performers hanging 25 feet above the floor on a rig came crashing down. this is a bit disturbing, but watch and listen to the crowd response. ♪ >> suspended -- >> you did hear the crowd reaction theres as well. let me be clear. the weight performers on the rig, a ninth person on the floor was injured as well. with we are told tonight's 3:00 and 7:00 p.m. shows have been cancelled. there were serious injuries, as you can imagine. we are told this was part of the hair hang. they were hanging from their hair from are the rig. this was a performance we have all seen before at least the in

some way, form or fashion. it ends that way. i want to bring in aletha wood who shot the video we were showing you. she's on the line with me now. thank you for taking time-out. i understand you were there with your family and your kids when this happened. did it take you a moment to realize this is not part of the act? >> good afternoon, t.j. thank you for speaking with me. yes, we were not aware of the fact that it wasn't part of the circus act initially. there were gasp s but there are gasps throughout the circus when surprising things happen. the audience didn't seem to realize it was an emergency until seconds after the fact when the first responders ran to the center ring where all of the problem happened. >> you have said there were gasp s and it's a circus. these are acrobats. things are amazing. you ooh and ahh. after people realized something was wrong what was the tone, the mood and the reaction of your

own children who were there watching? >> i was there with my two children. i have a 3 and a 4-year-old. i was there with my father as well. none of us realized it was an emergency for a few seconds. however, when we did, i think everyone's first reaction was stunned silence followed by collective whispers. i heard concern coming from everyone around me because the performers had been hanging from a very heavy metal disk and the disk kept falling through the air and landed on top of the performers from what looks like 20, 25 feet or so. my family and i did have a very good view of what was happening. we were only a few rows away, directly in front of this. i do want to make note of the fact that the first responders were amazing. the circus was very professional

as well. they were really good about calming the audience, dealing with it professionally, giving the performers prosecute privacy. they pulled the screens down to make sure we didn't see what was happening with the cleanup. >> okay. we preach are yat you taking a few minutes out dramatic time there and more for the performerers than anybody. we are told there were serious injuries. thank you for taking the time. >> have a great day. all right. new efforts now to stop the violence in ukraine. russian president vladimir putin and german chancellor angela merkel spoke by phone to stress the need for international action to reduce tensions. pro russian protesters stormed a police station in odessa demanding the release of more than a hundred people detained since friday. deadly clashes friday left more

than 40 people dead and more than a hundred injured. kier simmons joins me now on the line from donetsk. some of the people detained have been freed. what can you tell us? >> reporter: that's right. whatever world leaders attempt to do the reality on the ground in ukraine is it's a downward spiral into retribution p continues. tonight we are hearing there are pro government protesters on the streets. what happened earlier as lawlessness breaks down here was a group of pro russians opposed to the pro government protesters that stormed the police station, broke in the door and opened the door to 30 people who were being held there. they have been held there since friday when, as you say, more than 40 of the other protesters died in a blaze in a union build

buildi building. appalling scene there is. people on the street were said to be taunting those inside even as they were dying in the blaze. that's southern ukraine. this is eastern ukraine. there are parts under the control of militia. there is a nearby town the surrounded by ukrainian military. inside we have seen pictures of the militia driving through the streets in tanks. remember, this is a country that's proposing to have are an election this month. it's hard to understand how that could even be possible given what's happening on the ground here. >> kier in other parts of the country, how are things going with the ukrainian security forces trying to take back parts of region? how are their efforts going? >> that's near here.

the town is under the control of the militia. as i said, it is surrounded by the ukrainian military. you remember before the weekend two of the military's helicopters were shot down. as much as the government in kiev tries to say that they have not completely lost control of this country, they appear to be pretty impotent. it appearses to get increasingly difficult every day to describe this as one country. >> nbc's kier simmons in ukraine. thank you so much. we turn back to washington with. washington in the after glow of the white house correspondents' dinner. you're already laughing at the line. it's where the stars of ood and washington get together, rub elbows. everybody who is anybody is in attendance last night. a key absence though was noted in a comment by the president.

>> i'm just kidding. let's face it, fox. you'll miss me when i'm gone. it will be harder to convince the american people that hillary was born in kenya. >> that was a good line. let's bring in the brain trust. raul raiz, alex siteswald and look who we have here, alice stuart, a dear friend of mine from arkansas, former press secretary for the santorum for president campaign. raul, i will have another piece of video not from the dinner but from illinois of all places. hillary clinton yesterday accepted an award. let's see what she had to say about the thing on everybody's mind. >> to have the chance to come and be with so many of the people who made this state an

exceptional place in memory of the greatest president who ever served our country is very special indeed for me. >> so what she said about the thing on everybody's mind is absolutely nothing. so are we viewing these as political events every time she shows up or nonpolitical events. >> the clinton family business is politics. hillary is in the family business. what she's doing here is part of the strategy. at this event she didn't take questions about her ambition. she didn't take press questions. she talked about things like playing mush ball, going to the beach, childhood memories. what she's trying to do is remind people. she's bye-bye a political figure so long humanizing herself, trying to appear a states woman, receiving this prestigious award and in a sense trying to keep on track with the family business. even being nonpolitical is

political. >> of course. >> alex you wrote the positioning for jobs on a campaign that doesn't exist has already quietly begun and has the potential to get uglugly. is everyone out there, political operatives out there, it's a foregone conclusion that she's running and they are jockeying for position. >> yeah. i had probably a half dozen conversations last night about which job people want on the campaign. they are already thinking about it. how can you not? if this is your career. if you want to work for the hottest game in town you want to work for hillary clinton. everybody wants to do that. what's unique about her is she's been in washington for over 30 years with her husband. she's had many jobs. she accumulated a ton of people wo want high profile jobs. that could lead to a lot of bruise ared egos. she'll are have to deal with that delicately in terms of who runs the campaign and senior

positions. >> one of the problems a lot of spectators are saying is benghazi. the house speaker john boehner said friday there will be a new congressional probe. today on "meet the press," utah congressman jason chaffetz said there are unanswered questions. >> when you have the lead security say the taliban was inside the state department are we supposed to sit back? >> sometimes it sounds like a benghazi probe and sometimes it seems like a hillary clinton probe. do they feel they have something? how big of an issue are will it be and will republicans make it if she decides to run? >> it's a huge issue. alex pointed out this week in a post someone tweets about benghazi every 12 seconds.

there is still a high level of interest in the issue. now that we have the e-mail tr from the obama administration saying let's make sure to focus on the video so we can protect the president's image two months before the election and not focus on the failure of the foreign policy, that's why the select committee is so important. hillary clinton ak knowledged that event. benghazi is one of the biggest representatives of the state. this will be a big factor in 2016. >> i don't know if we can call it love but chris christie got a lot of it at the the correspondents' dinner. the newark stark ledger saying new jersey's economic problems could be a bigger problem for the governor. fiscally conservative republicans would have plenty of fodder to tear into his record as would hillary clinton or another democrat in the general

election. how viable, raul, is he? does he need to work to get some of that back? >> he needs to do a lot of work. i'm not convinced he's still viable. the big question at this point is what exactly does chris christie have to recommend himself for the presidency? especially republican candidates. they traditionally run as business managers, strong business background. the economic aspect. his state has not been doing well at all. new jersey underperforms the nation by several economic metrics. they are 28th in private sector job creation -- excuse me, 48, tied with mississippi. their state debt was downgraded again for the fifth time. he has all of this piling on despite the stuff with bridgegate. it is harder for him to make a case how he'll be viable nationally. >> is he still a darling?

>> there are a lot of darlings in the gop. we have a deep bench. >> hmm. >> certainly chris christie is amongst them. the polls shows the a good split between governor mike huckabee, ted cruz, rand paul, mike santorum are. it's a deep bench as opposed to everyone behind one candidate like hillary clinton who has a lot of baggage. the economy is critical but it has a candidate that people understand what i'm going through. what it is like to put food on the table and make a paycheck. that's a good thing. the gop candidates connect with middle class america. >> one with thing i would like for you to hit on is whether or not people will be making calls to jeb bush here. >> definitely. the establishment in the republican party needs a candidate. mitt romney was that candidate last time around. that candidate tends to win the

competition. christie was their guy. they are reach aring out to jeb bush. another potential establishment candidate scott walker faces a similar problem. he promised to create 250,000 jobs. he's halfway there and the term is almost up. they are searching for someone to run against the rand paul, ted cruz wing of the party. >> chris christie's approval ratings are low. i believe it's 38, 36% approval. that's a tremendous warning sign at this stage. >> all kinds of time though. raul, alex and -- alice, give me a call some time. a dear old friend of mine. >> i will do that. >> appreciate you on this sunday. enjoy the rest of the weekend. 16 minutes past the hour. you heard some of the routine. coming up, more of president obama's stand-up at last night's white house correspondents' dinner. >> these days the house of republicans actually gives john

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lawmakers debated whether or not sanctions against russia are are working on cnn's state of the union. elliot engel says they are because vladimir putin has not further invaded ukraine while ron johnson says they are not working and the u.s. needs to provide lethal aid to ukraine. mike christian is standing firm on his views of the death penalty saying i alelize this may sound harsh but as a father and former law man i really don't care if it's by le tall injection, electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions. things are heating up down south and summer's coming. in alabama, there are a record 11 african-americans on the june primary ballot running for various offices for state legislature to board of education. what makes it historic is all 11

are running as republicans. gop says it is evidence that their recruiting efforts with minority candidates are working. pamela blackmore-jenkins is running for a seat in the state legislature. she joins me from birmingham. thank you so much for being here. tell us what drew you to the gop given the numberses we have seen over the past several years, even in 2012, that 2% of african-americans identify themselves as republicans. what is it about the party that drew you in? >> well, first of all, i recently graduated from law school. i wanted the the opportunity to the implement as well as revise some new laws. i think i would bring a fresh perspective to the legislature, the legislation. i have been doing a lot of work with the republican party. i definitely wanted to get involved. i truly believe in -- go ahead.

>> what was it? i did see some of your record that you have. this isn't something you decided this year to be a republican. this is work you have been doing over the years. what was your draw when so many african-americans don't feel the same way, at least it appears at this point. >> i wouldn't say they don't feel the same way. a lot of people just don't come out and say they want to be involved as much as i am. when i ask minorities for their beliefs, their beliefs definitely line up with the republican party. one of my perspectives is the christian perspective. i believe in my faith. my faith drives me. i believe in family. i believe in a strong nuclear family. i definitely believe in our future and that we should have less government. some of the things i believe in are some of the same things other minorities believe in. they just don't come out and say. >> were you specifically recruited by the gop? i know they went to find

candidates. were you one that they came after? >> oh no. i came to the party. there have been times that i can vote bipartisan. that's something you find with minorities in all races. i came to the party because this is where i wanted to be. there's a lot of different -- a lot of conservative ways i believe in. i don't believe in everything that the republican party believes in. that's why i vote bipartisan. but i do a great percentage of what i believe in has to do with the republican party. they did not recruit me. >> how do you set yourself apart? it's obvious you set yourself apart from the republican party in ways. in particular you are running against three white guys. beside it is fact that you are an african-american woman how do you set yourself apart? how do you say, i'm different in the way think, the way i lead, the way i legislate. >> well, like i said earlier, i

bring a fresh perspective. diversity is significant. because i am a minority and because i am a woman there are things i think we should address in the state legislature. i'm sure you will agree with me that a man can't get pregnant, carry a child for nine months, give birth or an abortion. that's something that setses me apart are from the gentleman i'm running with. as far as being a minority, i think it is significant that the lifestyle that i have lived and the things i have been through does set me aside. i have had to be on both sides. i call myself a tier-three politician. i have had to work hard. i have been on low class, middle class, high class. because of the life embassy appearances, i can bring what minorities that are struggling are facing and some of the issues they are trying to get across as well as, you know, some of the thing that is the middle class and high class can

bring across. it's like the american dream. we all want the american dream. some of us are trying to get the american dream. >> you have that. the primary is in june, i believe. we'll keep an eye. >> yes, sir. >> a lot happen ing there. we'll watch you and the other ten canada datas down there. thank you for taking a few uh minutes out. good luck. >> thank you. you have a blessed day. >> we are close to the bottom of the hour. the department of education elised a list of 55 colleges and universities that may have illegally handled sexual assault complaints on campus. our partners at now this news dug into the story. take a look. it was a blistery rash.

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i'm feeling sorry, believe it or not, for the speaker of the house as well. these days the house of republicans actually gives john boehner a harder time than they give me. which means orange really is the new black. >> comedian in chief last night, president obama not holding back a lot at the white house correspondents' dinner. everybody was in his cross hairs. he poked fun at himself, of course. he took great shots at the the media including msnbc actually. went after the usually targets. house republicans. >> while you focus on the horse race, i'll do what i do. i will be focused on every day americans. just yesterday i read a

heartbreaking letter. you know i get letters are from folks around the country every day. i get ten that i read. a virginia man has been stuck in the same part-time job for years. no respect from his boss. no chance to get ahead. i really wish eric cantor would stop writing mement . >> before the president delivered arks the vice president got in on the act. he spent the time with his fictional counterpart, "veep"'s vice president selena meyer. ♪ >> bring it on. >> oh, yeah. bring it on. >> biden was great last night by the way. we'll see more about what happened last night if you haven't already. stick with us here at msnbc. we'll have an update shortly. we are at the bottom of the hour. at the top of the hour we sowed you disturbing acid owe from the

accident at the circus in rhode island today. nearly a dozen people injured. at least one seriously. the investigation under way to find out how this happened. plus, calls for action in nigeria where 270 young girls are missing nearly three weeks after being kidnapped. later a pennsylvania town wants to know why the kkk is setting up what they call a neighborhood watch. don't you feel safer? when you only have one hand,

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this gives y s you an idea of w people at the circus did see. on that rig. a ninth person on the floor injured as well. earlier in the show we spoke to alet, had been a wood. she shot the video for us. she was attending the show with her family including two young kids. >> what i heard around me was concern coming from everyone because the performers had been hanging from a very heavy metal disk. that had fallen through the air and landed on top of the performers from 20, 25 feet or so. >> we are told today's 3:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. shows have been cancelled. now we turn to a story spreading global outrage. the abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls in nigeria. there were protests around the world including here in the u.s.

activists denouncing what they describe as a poor response by the nigerian government. police say more than 250 girls still missing. at least 53 have escaped on their own. the raid happened nearly three weeks ago in the predawn hours at a school in the country's northeast. an al qaeda-linked terror group claimed responsibility. their name translates to western education is sinful. meanwhile secretary of state john kerry is in africa. he arrived today to address the kidnappings saturday in ethiopia. >> the kidnapping of hundreds of children is an unconscionable crime. we'll do everything possible to support the nigerian government to return them home and hold the perpetrators to justice. michelle fall, the chief africa soes kwat for the associated

press. give us en an update on the investigation. are they anywhere close to finding and possibly rescuing the girls? >> it doesn't sound like it the president seems spurred into action by national outrage at the military's failure to find them and the huge central media activist campaign going on. you can see it under the hashtag # bring back our girls. he met last night with all the stake holderses involved in this for the first time. including the principal at the school from which the girls were abduct d. all of his security chiefs and he issued a new are directive for them to bring back the girls. in addition, he has set up a new committee that was denounced yesterday that is to go with a

specific mission to talk to the community and get the community to help them in working out a strategy to rescue the girls. >> you said spurred into action. it sounds like a lot of people were complaining not enough was being done. now there is a movement. that caused him to act. i know we have the reaction around the world oh. what is the reaction there? in nigeria to what the president has and has not done and the government's response in general. >> well, the scene is not enough is being done. president jonathan saying we are doing the best we can is not enough for people. one protester said we want our girls alive sh not in body bags. >> michelle maul, we'll leave it there. we are having a technical issue. thank you for the idea are of what's happening on the ground. again this story caused

international outrage. if you want to get involved the hashtag, # bring back our girls has been trending for several days, even weeks now since the 250 plus girls are missing in nigeria. international outrage. a story we need to keep a close eye on. some news out of l.a. now. the embattled l.a. clippers won their game which means they have won their first sound series. beat golden state. game seven last night. this was an emotional release for a lot of fans and players. it may be just what they needed. the team being over shadowed by racially comment made by owner donald sterling. as they head into the western conference semifinals a new person will be in charge of the clippers. the nba will appoint a new ceo. the question of whether sterling can be forced out as owner is up in the air.

>> the owners will put the clippers in a position where this owner, mr. sterling, is going to have to sell the team. whether it happen this is week or next it has to run that process >> sterling's estranged wife shelly was at the game last night. she said she approved of the plan to find a new ceo. the nba is expected to vote this week on what could be the first step in stripping sterling of ownership rights which requires a three-quarters vote of all the league owners. still to come, flyers on the front lawn of several pennsylvania homes have many wondering what's going on. first a natural form of pou from an unlikely source. the it is today's big idea. visit msnbc.

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why? because it's may the 4th. may the fourth be with you. wow. people running in a "star wars"-themed marathon. the 7th movie to be released next year. could cows be the key to combatting global warming? the concept being explored. they put plastic backpacks on cows with tubes inserted into their biggest digestive trablgt to extract methane gas. it produces about 300 liters of gas day, enough to run a car or refrigerator for 24 hours. the communications coordinator for argentina's national institute of agricultural technology is where the are research will be conducted. how did you come up with the idea to explore it? >> well, this idea started around 1996 when a group of scientists were searching for

the objective of finding ways to reduce contaminant emissions. the to do so they first had to manage a way the to collect the emissions so as to be able to measure them. after years of research in 2006 they first were able to collect the gases from the cows in realtime. basically the way to do it was insert a very small tube, about three millimeters wide. that tube was inserted in the cow's rhumen where the gases are produced. then a plastic backpack with a 350-liter capacity where the gases are collected. >> i want to ask, are we still in concept stage rugt now? what are your biggest challenges left before we can actually put

it out there in the world to be used? >> well, this was approved basically. the objective is not to produce it on a large scale but to prove that it's possible and people can obtain an alternative source of clean energy and nubl energy right from their farms if they have cows, of course. these can be performed on other animals that the yield you get when you do it on a cow is much larger than, say, on sheep. >> the yield you get. i think i heard you right. you are not necessarily trying to do this for mass production necessarily. the this is to be sustainable if just for farming in particular. am i hearing that right? >> absolutely. the main objective was to find a way to reduce the emissions. otherwise those gases will be released into the atmosphere.

daily an individual cow produces up to 1,000, more than 1,000 liters of pure methane, one of the most important gases in the greenhouse effect. >> that's our big idea today. i was fascinated by the story. we are going to post it so people can learn about it and read up. we reach yat you giving us a few minutes on oh msnbc. that's today's big idea. that's exactly the stuff we want to hear. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> you folks out there have a big idea, let us know. find us on twitter # whats the big idea or e-mail us at big idea.msnbc@nbc uni.com. it's been two years this the making. tonight we are will finally see homer, marge, bart and theest are of the simpsons game in lego

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olympian oscar pistorius will be back from a south african courtroom tomorrow. it is the first time we will see him after a two-week break the court took. the athlete known worldwide as blade runner is charged with murdering his model girlfriend reeva steenkamp. pistorius admits he shot and killed her last february but says he thought she was an intruder. a verdict is expected early next month. a story that got a lot of people talking last weekend. social media lit up when word spread the ku klux klan was starting a neighborhood watch in fairfield township, pennsylvania south of harrisburg. the organization sent out this leaflet to residents and now there is an effort to run the klan and their views out of town. joining me, pennsylvania state

senator vincent hughes. you wrote a letter to the state human relations commission urging them to take action. what exactly would you like for them to do? >> well, thanks for having me. we wanted to alert the human relations commission which is the arm of the state of pen he pen to really deal with these kinds of issues of a lack of tolerance and get them fully engaged in dealing with this issue of the klan. what folks don't know, t.j., is that the incident in fairview township is just 1 of 3 that have occurred in the last 2 1/2 to three weeks. there is another incident in camp hill, pennsylvania, right outside of harrisburg and just in the past couple of days there is an incident that occurred in canonsburg, pennsylvania in washington county right outside the city of pittsburgh where flyers were dropped talking about, if i can quote this correctly, take a stand and join the klan. what we know is, after having pretty much run the klan out of

pennsylvania offense the last two decades, that you always have to step to these organizations when they try to spew this kind of hatred in any fashion. you cannot allow it to go unaddressed. you've got it address it immediately and forcibly. >> but what have they i guess done -- lord knows, no one is trying to defend them but they have a right in this country, as beautiful as it is, people that have these views and whatever hatred there may be, they have a right to say them. and outside of these letters, have they done anything else? you call them incidents. but outside of dropping these letters off and -- that's why i ask. what can you necessarily do to them if they are recruiting i guess or trying to put together a neighborhood watch? i guess what steps can you take if they haven't done necessarily anything but promote? >> the history in the klan deck ta deck cates what their future activities will be. this organization is steeped in

lynching, in violence, in trying to destroy the opportunities that all of us want to have in this country. all of us deserve to have in this country. when they talk about having a neighborhood watch, what is the klan watching for. in these three communities the incidents of crime have gone down, not gone up. so what is the need for the clan to take on the idea of having a neighborhood watch. >> you certainly talk about that history. so many of us are certainly familiar with it and you have some people out there watching who say they live through some of it even. but they have these flyers that are out. they say they are a different klan. at least one of the representatives saying we're not that thing that you're thinking about. >> you go -- t.j., you go to the websites and the klan websites and you see they're not different. they're the same old hate-filled organization that has to be addressed. thankfully in each one of these

communities -- just so happen to be out in canonsburg on friday evening speak being to the naacp out there, the annual dinner, i spoke to the mayor. great response in each one of these communities. we don't want any of this stuff, we're not interested in any of this stuff so we thank these folks for being the pennsylvanians that we know that we are. but we also understand that any time that the klan raises its flag, puts its flag down, wants to take a stand in a particular community, racism is not too far away. it may have transformed itself in many respects over the last couple of decades, last 50, 60 years but it is still very present. sterling, the comments that people right online and -- in the anonymity of the internet really reveal the attitudes about how a lot of people think. >> you are right. you are right, mr. hughes. a lot of people are surprised that, yes, this is 2014 and

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