on the brink, the deadly day yet in ukraine as the spectrum of war looms larger than it has since the crisis began. is russia preparing to mount a wide scale attack? primary colors and we will head to north carolina one of the three states with a primary tomorrow, and the critical race to see who is go g ing to run against the vulnerable democrat kay hagan and the proxy is rand paul and jeb bush. and the jokers wild from the race to republicans and hillary and biden and what the president's punchlines tell us about the political plotlines in 2014. good morning. i'm chris jansing. and armed with the best jobs report in more than five years, the democrats are renewing the push for the 2014 fair shot agenda. >> we are push iing this middle-class agenda, and to overcome obamacare as the biggest issue, and minimum wage and e quail pay and college. >> agreed. >> and yet, democrats are hardly

celebrating. they say that they should bury any word called recovery in the wake of votes who are still struggling. and in a "usa today"/pew poll, it is showing that there is a 10-point swing since october of those leaning republican now more than democrat. i want to bring in josh barro and robert costa. all right. josh, republicans, instead of seeing the jobs report instead of seeing trouble pointed out quickly that 800,000 people have left the workforce. so is this is a case where the democrats can't run on the economy? >> well, you can't run on one month's job report, and first of all if numbers are moved around and it is possible that the 800,000 drop is a statistical

blip. but when you talk about conmy, voters taub about how difficult it is for them to get a job, and what they see is that even though it is in a recovery, it is a slow and weak recovery going on for years and for the po politics tigss to come out to brag about the 280,000, it is not a boast. >> and so in states, robert, where democrats are defending in the state, the jobless rate is lower than the national average including alaska, north carolina, and louisiana, and so does the state by state breakdown help democrats in fight to keep the senate? >> well, the jobs numbers are a positive sign for the democrats to help them to tick up a little bit in the swing states, but historically, the problem for democrats is the turnout. when it come ts to the mid-term messaging, they are running on the populous message trying to get out the democratic base and the liberal voters and voters

more progressive in the views to get them to the polls, and a jobs report is not going to do that, but a vote on the minimum wage could get them excited. >> and let me bring in new york congressman steve israel who is helping the democrats shake the midterm message. thank you for coming in, congressman. >> thank you. >> and pollsters is say don't use the word recovery in fact. >> well, this is a referendum about and for the middle class, and about whose policies are better. last week, the republicans voted to the extend the corporate tax cuts $300 billion, but will not extend the unemployment payments for those out of work. and the ryan budget increases the taxes $2,000 for middle-class workers, and if you make over $1 million, you will get a tax cut. wrong priorities. we are going to run on the priorities, and on those, voters

overwhelming select the democra democrats. >> well, the priorities and talking about the thing like the minimum wage, and the question is will it be done by the time that the voters go to the polls, and the chances are, you would you agree? >> no, because they refuse to pass a minimum wage. >> difficulty or the certain line that your candidates have to walk in that there are a number of people struggling and the 800,000 people dropping out of the job market, and is the word like recovery a difficult one to yuse? sdwlel w it is not about who has your back, but it is which side you are on, and who has your back, and the reasons refused to pass the minimum wage, but they have passed $40 million for the subsidies for the biggest companies on earth. when you foe kis town prioricuss and who has your back, the democrats get the vote. that is what is critical issues. >> and looking at the "usa today"/pew poll, by a large

margin, the independent voters and we heard what robert said about the turnout, but they said that republican policies will do more to the economy than obama administration, and this is a message for a while. the president has been out there traveling the country, and talking about the income inequality, and fighting for the middle class, but when you look at polls like that, why is this not resonating more? >> well, chris, told me a poll, and i will show you a moment in time, and i will show you a poll that contradicts what you are e showing me. 65% support the minimum wage increase, and 70% of democrats vote for equal paying women as well as men. and then 40% are in favor of the passing immigration legislation. and as we get closer to the election, people will be focusing on those priorities, and supporting our fight for those. >> and another issue that the republicans think is going to work for them is benghazi, and they have speaker boehner

forming a select committee on benghazi, and a big area of talk over the weekend news shows. let me hear this tape from david plouffe and peter king. >> when you are talking about the cia, and the national security council, and everybody has an obligation to tell the truth, and they have not done it from this time sgrchlt and this is politicized like never before. and richard nixon talked about the silent majority here sh, an there is a large delusional minority driving the politics, and in control of the republican party, and no conspiracy at all. >> and your colleague, peter king acknowledged an overreach da danger here with the view that it is political, and to hillary clinton in 2014. but would there be any value in getting the disparate elements and getting to the solutions once and for all? >> we have been doing that, and

doing that, and the only jobs for republicans are to create more jobs for lawyers to issue subpoenas to the investigate congress. i will let the democrats dhuz -- >> should the democrats boycott this new benghazi investigation? >> well, more partisanship, and more investigations is what we don't need in washington, d.c. >> and if you look to hillary clinton in 2016, is this a topic of discussion in november for some of the states? >> that is what the motivation is for some of the republicans. they want to keep it a partisan issue, and focusing on it. and by the way, the republicans beset with scandal, grimm, and radel and so many others, it is a political stunt. >> but is it raising money for them? >> yes sgrchlt part of that, too. >> and steve israel, always good to have you here, congressman, and thank you for coming in. and josh and robert coming back

in now. and robert, the work of the house panel is to be extended into the fall, but they asked some good questions on the "morning joe" if the fair thing is to put a time limit on it, but could it have an impact on the midterms? >> yes, and the democrats have resisted this special committee, because they are trying to focus more on the economic agenda when it comes to the midterms, but when i cover the conservative politic politics, and talking to the base voters in the republican party, they are asking their own republican leaders, what about benghazi? they bring it up at every rally and event, and so they have had the pressure from the right for a long time, and looking for their own turnout as well, and benghazi is part of that process. >> and josh, politico says 13 hearings on benghazi, and 50 briefings, and 25,000 pages of documents released and the question becomes, are we likely to learn anything new? and this e-mail that is the

subject of of so much controversy, and is that something that needed not to happen, and i hate to say it when this picture is up, but fueled the flames of the controversy? >> well, we won't learn anything new that is going to substantially change the politics or the lessons for the future foreign policy operations, and what to do at the koconsulates abroad. the only way for this to possibly matter is for voter turnout initiative. this is an issue that swing voters don't care about at all, but it is an issue that the gut level feeling that the president was untrustworthy on the foreign policy, and they can latch on to this as an error of the administration, and so maybe talking about it incessantly, and hearings about it, helps the republicans to vote in the midterm elections, and there are other issues that activate the p party to help them be energized against the democrats in the administration, but nobody is going into the voting booth undecided saying i was going to vote democratic, but because of

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couple of big decisions from the supreme court. breaking news now, and i want to go to nbc news correspondent pete williams. >> well, the government meetings have been upheld with a prayer, and there is from two people fromochestrochester, and two of challenge starting the meetings with prayer, and one is jewish and one is atheist, and said that it made them feel unwelcomed and the government is an establishment of the christian faith, and the court reject rejected that today, and said a couple of things about prayer. they said that prayer at public meetings like this is ceremonial and long history and dates back to the founding of the republican, and second, it said that it is not for the government to be in the business of trying to define what acceptable prayer is. if you get a prayer that is acceptable to everybody including the nonbelievers, it

is impossible, and the first amendment they said does not require that. and the court contrasted this decision with the decision on the school prayer which the supreme court barred. in that case, the court said that children are in essence captives, and they have no choice but to sit there. at a public meeting, the justices said that people can get up and leave in the prayer, and come late after the prayer, and even if they sit there quietly listening, nobody is going to assume that they endorse the religious message and for all of those reasons, the supreme court said that there is that problem if the government meetings open with the prayer, and the prayer is predominantly of one religious faith, and in this case, in the town of greece with the references to jesus. >> and pete, they also decided not to take on the hotly debated gun case. and tell us about that. >> that is the main decision of the day on the prayer in the public meetings. in other action today, the supreme court declined to take up yet again another challenge

to the local law that requires very specific circumstances and set a strict limit only the carrying of a gun in public, and in this case, a new jersey lana is very strict of who can get a permit to carry a gun, and the challengers are a man who sir viss, and restocks atm, and he carries large amounts of cash and he wanted a gun. this is the third time that the supreme court has decided not the take the cases. this is a hot issue in the gun rights. in 2008, they said that there is an individual right to have a gun at home for self-defense, and now the lower courts are all over the map of what it mean s to carry the gun outside of the home, and it is looking like it will take longer to find out what that answer is. >> and pete williams, thank you for the update from the supreme court. and could ukraine be on the mid of a civil war? already, ukrainian troops fought back a pro russian militia.

and we have the latest from d e doneysk. >> well, not far from here, we are hearing that the pro russian militia are breaking into the police building, and they are breaking into building after building that represents ukrainian authority across the region. earlier the i da, we spent some time in effectively donyesk similar to city hall, and it is stunning that the men in armed military uniforms ran the corridors and running the city from we hind barricades. meanwhile, in southern ukraine in odessa, a conflict continues overnight. there was a march by the pro ukrainian protesters in the day yesterday, and a group of pro russian protesters broke into a police station and freed 60 of the comrades. it is increasingly lawless in parts of ukraine.

chris? >> nbc's keir simmons, and thank you. let me bring in the ambassador to the ukraine, mr. taylor. and as we see what is happening in odessa and in donyesk, is this continuing toward war? >> it is continuing the movement for war that the russians have been investigating for weeks ash wnd ve been seeing it in cry meeia, and alme -- in crimea and odessa. >> and obviously, this is a big topic of the sunday shows yesterday and i want to play for wow what republican senator ron johnson said. >> all of the sanctions and the threats of sanctions have had little effect. vladimir putin is only going to respond to action and strength and resolve, and that is what we hear when we go to ukraine.

>> so do you agree with the p impact of the sanctions, and what further can be done at this point, and does it include arms? >> well, what further can be done? we can install further and stronger sanctions, and they can be implemented now, and i would think they are being implemented now, and they are to punish the russians for invading crimea essentially with the special forces, and to deter further movements and deter the invasion. and in some way the sanctions may have had some effect. militarily, i would say, yes, some things that we can do with the ukrainian military to defend themselves. >> specifically? >> defensive weapons, and the secure communications gear, mobility equipment that is

vehicles, and fuel, and advice. the united states government and military provides advice to the ukrainian military for years and years and indeed expanded. >> ambassador taylor, always good to see you and thank you for your expertise. >> thank you, chris. the joke is on who? what the president's jokebook says about washington's political playbook next. [ male announcer ] whether it takes 200,000 parts,

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>> now, this morning the pundits have picked the best and the worst jokes from the white house correspondent dinner, but what did the targets of the jokes tell us about real life washington? as usual the dinner drew celebrities and politicians and journalists and the commander in chief turned into the comedian in chief. >> and i'm feeling sorry, believe it or not for the speaker of the house as well. these days, the house republicans actually give john b boehner a harder time than they give me. which means, orange really is the new black.

>> the best line of the night in my opinion. let me bring in joy reid, host of the "reid report" and krystal ball from "the cycle" here on msnbc. and so there is a shot, and then he gets a shot at nancy pelosi and says i won't spoil the twist on "house of cards" but notice that nancy pelosi's face almost changed expression. some of the jokes hit close to the bone, crystal? >> yes, and the president walked right up to the line, and joel mchale was way over here. and i felt like he did not get the spirit of the event. it is one thing to take shots at people, but it is another thing to make the fat jokes and be totally over the line. and chris christie's fat jokes is not creative and it is not funny or worth the risk. >> and we will jump ahead to question three so the control room knows, because the president did make fun of obviously the bridge scandal, and then mchale got in some tougher shots, i think. take a listen to that.

>> washington seems more dysfunctional than ever. gridlock has gotten so bad in this town, you have to wonder, what did we do to piss off chris christie so much? >> buckle up, chris christie, excuse me, extender buckle up. >> that is not the only -- >> poor taste. >> i wonder just to play devil's advocate here, and you have a combination of the laughter and the growning at some point in the dinner. >> yes. >> and is it a cheap shot or reflective of people's thinking? >> well, the thing is that the dinners are supposed to talk about the scythe geist zitgeist and i have to say it is immediately on your mind when you get stuck in traffic on the bridge, chris christie does get stuck in your mind and it is mean and taking the obvious shot, but at the end of the day at the "vanity fair" party, they made up, and christie seemed to get it that this is what is

going to happen, and when you are in the political roast, you are going to get it, and you better be ready for it, because that is what you will get. >> and the bridgegate stuff was funny, and joel mchale made a bad joke and then he said that he was going to appoint the commission to look into his own bad joke, and then that was clever, but the fat jokes, i don't see it. >> it is too easy and too cheap, however, nobody escaped, and you knew it would come up at some point the nevada rancher cliven bundy, and here is the president. >> as a general rule things don't end well if the sentence starts, "let me tell you something that i know about the negro." >> it is another one of those joke jokes that i'm not sure if the wit -- >> well, it is true. >> and i'm not sure, joy, if it is one of those, and i often in a situation like that, i'm looking for the reaction, and people were either laughing

heartily or holding on to grown. is that okay? >> well, it is of course, because it is true. it has the benefit of being true. there are certain things in the culture that people need to put in the not funny, the black face or the one thing i want the tell you about the negro. >> so all of the cablers took shots. >> yes. >> and msnbc, and cnbsn. >> and face it, fox, you will miss me when i'm gone, and it is going to be harder to convince the american people that hillary was born in kenya. >> and the other thing that is interesting about these dinners when it comes to the president is that it is kind of how much of it is funny, and how much of it is do they really want to put the knife in. >> yeah. >> that is sort of a subtle slam

in a way of joe biden with the assumption that hillary clinton would be the next candidate. >> a lot of people are interp t interpreting that, more about hillary and not biden. >> and he is the guy holding the shoe to throw it at hillary. >> and he said he does love that picture. >> and i do. >> and joel mchale went further with him taking shots, and joe biden was the biggest loser of the night in terms of the jokes. >> even though they did that whole video with him, which was funny. >> and very funny. >> and this is the one chance that the president of the united states has a chance to take a shot at the critics, but then you have to embody the office, and this is the shot to get at him, and you are finali inin ii what is in the mind of barack obama, and i say, why not, one day. >> and who is the most boring

msnbc host award, and what time did you leave the party. >> 2:00-ish. >> i was around 1:00. so boring. >> and you are the smart one. >> chris. >> i bore myself. >> but you were the life of the party right up to 1:00 a.m. >> and then it was downhill from there. and joy reid and krystal ball, and you can catch joy this afternoon at 2:00, and krystall and the rest of the team "the cycle" at 3:00 p.m. most of the time i try to make you have an opinion or laugh or be thought provoking, but today, prepare yourself to be heart broken and maybe be moved to sign the white house petition. you have to read the story up on the facebook page, and you have to tell us what you think. it is on facebook.com/jansingco. ?

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from attorney general eric holder for the first time since that botched execution in oklahoma led the president to lead a review to apply nationwide. it did not specifically mention capital punishment, but he did raise a critical part of the debate. >> and we must increase the effort efforts to identify and confront the disparities of the every stage of the criminal justice process, and with this goal in mind at my direction the team of more than a dozen attorneys known as the racial disparities working group is currently examining the sentencing disparities and developing recommendations on how to address them. >> the debate over and the review of the death penalty, both nationally and in oklahoma comes with the ticking clock. the next execution is skchedule in texas next tuesday. i want to bring in our strategist democratic pollster margie omero and joe watkins,

our republican strategist. and there is this quote, i know it may seem harsh, but as a former law man, i don't care fit is lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions. so 53% of americans favor the death penalty, and so does anybody who questions it or the application to the oklahoma governor do so at their ownk? >> well, public opinion is on the move on this issue. if you compare it to issues like gay marriage or legalization of marijuana with similar quick dramatic movements over the last 10, 15 years or so, we have not had the same kind of national debate about the death penalty as we have had for those issues, but the support for the death penalty has dropped 20 points, and that legislator's comments puts him in line with other countries that have a high death penalty rate like china, iran, iraq, somalia, and sudan and

that is where that legislator is. >> and look at this on the other side, churches, presbyterian and episcopalian all oppose it, but some of the conservative churches says that it does not only call for it, but mandates it against extreme evil. go ahead. >> yes, chris, it is a a complicated issue, and i like what attorney holder said about the racial disparity to fix it so that there is not the racial disparity that currently exist s in the process. but i think that even among the republicans you will find the varying viewpoints and regionally in places like texas, and mississippi and alabama where the death penalty exists, you will find the strong support for it, but in kentucky, you have the two republican state representatives, and conservatives by the way who co-sponsored a bill to abolish it in the state of kentucky. so it depends where you are, and

regionally where you are as well. there are conservative republicans now lining up against the death penalty, and a group that says that the death penalty is not cost effective and that they have moral questions, and issues with the death penalty, and so even among conservatives along with moderates and liberals, you will find a variety of thought. >> and texas has had the most since 1976 and in an interview of "meet the press" governor rick perry defended it. >> in texas, for substantially long period of time our citizens have decided that if you kill our children, if you kill our police officers, for those very heinous crimes that the appropriate punishment is the death penalty. >> and on the other side, five states have formally abolished the death penalty in the last five years, margie. should this be a state issue rather than a policy by the

federal government? >> well, it is something that we should discuss nationally, because it reflects who we are as a country, and what the national values are, and right now, you are seeing it happening and a lot of the states on the move, and moving along with the public opinion, and texas and oklahoma are behind the trend in terms of the public opinion. you will see states taking action, and you will continue to see a national debate about this, and the important thing about this case is that the it is a reminder in oklahoma that it is not a one-off, medical e one-off, but a sign that the world is moving gainsts using the death penalty, and that is what made this case so important, and why we need to keep talking about it. >> margie omera and joe watkins, thank you for continuing the conversation. >> thank you. >> thank you. and a pilot lost his life when his plane crashed at an air show in travis air force base, and he is 77-year-old eddie adriano and he had been flying since he was 16 years old. and this is shocking, a barnum and bailey circus act

came down crashing to the floor with a rig, and that accident was obviously caught on camera, and none of the injuries is life threatening, although some of them are serious, and the investigators are trying to determine the cause of that failure. 60 people were treated for the injuries when a stampede took place in a hallway outside of the mgm garden as the fans were leaving mayweather versus the maidana fight. it was a chaos that was caused by a sound that people mistook for a gun fire. and now, the target ceo is out, and he has been there for 35 years with target, but, you know what, it was not just the breach. we are talk about the massive data breach that impacted

millions of target customers last year, and we talked about ate a lot, chris, but there are strategic missteps and for example the online strategy is lacking, and they have faced challenges related to the expansion into canada and some are saying that it almost means that the first quarter might not have improved from the holiday quarter, so it is a num bber of things and not just the breach apparently, chris. and some are even saying that it might be a positive for the stock and the company, and maybe someone from outside of the target should come in and take the place. as for who is taking over in the meantime, the interim president and chief executive is going to be the chief financial officer john mulligan, and so in the meantime, we will see who is tapped as the top job going forward. >> and now that we are into may, we are thinking of what to do for memorial day, and the vacation, and what is going on with the gas prices? >> okay. well, the current arverage

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john frank and david catanese. what about this support for rand paul, and can this push a runof runoff? >> well, he is really helping with the name recognition. and aligning with the tea party, he is an obstetrician, and he traveled the state for a year or two before the campaign talking about nullification, and talking about obamacare and hitting on the tea party issues and now he is capitalizing on them. >> and as far er more, i don't know want to, but far more unusual issues than that, and he is against public schools is that right? for extending the second amendment to include nuclear weapons? >> yes, some of the comments have been pulled off of the archive archives by the previous activists days and some taken out of context and some not, but dr. greg brand has more views that are extreme right, and

definitely believes in the local control of the schools and talked about the needs of the states to have militias and in the vein of the constitutional conservatives who want a strict adherence to the document. >> and you wrote about this proxy war, and governor bush said this about tillis last week by bush, it is important for the republicans to have a majority, and i'm convinced that it runs through thom tillis, and this is pointing to the concern of a runoff? >> yes, and republicans are terrified of greg brannon not only to get into the runoff and prolong ago primary, but to win the nomination then if this thing goes two more months. look, gregg brannon has been sued, successfully sued by partners for potentially misleading them in a business inv investment, and you know, he has flirted with the conspiracy theer the ris about september

11th on the radio, and now his cam can pain, would say, look, these comments were taken out of con t context, but it is all going to be opposition used against him if he can win this nomination, and the republicans are fearing if he gets into the race against democrat kay hagan, it becomes another potential representative todd akin situation in missouri where he becomes too far outside of the mainstream for him to win the general election in north carolina, and that is really what is at issue here. you have had mitt romney come out in the last hour siding with thom tillis in another signal to say, hey, get on board and get behind the establishment candidate here, and they are nervous about greg brannon. >> and yes, republican chuck schumer also talked about kay hagan. >> she is ahead by two, but she has had $2 million unanswered commercials against her and they have fired the big shot against her, and she is ahead, and she

has not begun to put on the positives or opponent or whoever it is going to be negatives. >> and so, who is in a better position to attract the money and the support the take on kay hagan, and any doubt about it that it is tilllis? >> well, the washington establishment is behind tillis and he has two times more money than the other republican candidates, but like the senator said, kay hagan is already playing in the race, and democratic groups out of washington on her behalf have aired $3.5 million attack ads on thom tilli circumstancs and shet to hit him on issues from his cam feign days, and this is going to be heading to a lot more spending toward november. >> and what is in this for rand paul, because it seems to be tough to be a winning situation for him? >> well, it is. but he is an audacious guy, and

take taking a risk to put his name on the line, and coming in the day before the primary, but look, if greg brannon can squeak through here sh, and keep tillis under , that is a feather in rand paul's cap in saying, hey, i pulled this guy over the line, but here he is again going up against the establishment forces, jeb bush, mitt romney, haley barbour, and all of the big gop honchos on one side, and rand paul on the other, and if till or if brannon gets into a runoff, that is a win for rand paul. >> and fascinating race, and we e will be watching it. thank you both for being with us. let me send out the tweet of the day, because the president said that george w. bush insp inspired him to take up painting but then a slide did not come up, and alexander gave a punchline of what is supposed to be the joke that america missed. finally, the e collusive work of art showing off obama's work of

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i'm tamron hall, and we are following the extremist group boko haram who is claiming responsibility for kidnapping the girls in nigeria from a school. the leader of the boko haram y says he is going to sell the girls on the open market, and meantime, the parents continue to demand and demonstrate that the nigerian government do more to get those girls home. >> they are not doing anything up to now. they are promising us that these girls would be found, and up to this moment, i am talking, nothing has been done. >> and it is not with me at the moment, and my parents are helpless, and we are crying at home. >> and the nigerian president goodluck jonathan spoke about the kidnappings for the first time publicly sunday. >> we have been searching

everywhere, and we believe that we will get them out. >> and meantime, the international outcry is growing louder and demonstrations in washington, d.c., new york, london, and elsewhere, and joining me live is nigerian-born professor in columbia university is the founder of the burnbright international and at saturday's rally in new york. and -- >> i am not a professor, but a lecturer there. >> and nevertheless, the role is important and participating in the rallies here, and what made you get involved other than the obvious? >> well, for me, it is really a question of is integrity, and i am born in nigeria and raised here and quite often i go back home, and in the past couple of years i have seen the way in way the boko haram has created a