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

level of fear from the local level all of the way up. and so for me to get engaged from the cyber activism, and social media perspective, to make sure they got out into the public sphere and took action. >> we have mentioned three weeks now, and i want to get more information for you from the per spec specktive of the boko haram and the fear tactics within nigeria, and most have not heard of the terrorist organization, although there was another attempted kidnapping at the end of the year and the beginning of the year and now a national headline, but they have crippleded parts of nigeria with fear. >> yes nashgs have been engaging in the tactics since 2009, and what has been happening is that it is a progressive action in terms of being able to the erode at the actual consciousness of nigeria, and you had even in areas where people would not go out to the gardens to partaken on saturdays and sundays, but to entrench and stay home, and feel like a sense of hopelessness and

malaise permeating throughout nigeria as a result of the girls being taken. >> and they were taken, because they were being educated and the leader of the boko haram sees education, western education sinful, and then the goal is to sell them into marriage at $12 per individual. how do they explain the actions, because i know they hate the west, and it is an extremist group, but taking it out on the girls there. >> and the people don't realize that in the same way i talk about the dreams and the goals and the aspirations, and boko haram has their own dreams, and their force and their decision to pursue their goals in a way that is detrimental to the world is what you are seeing. you are seeing them have a certain stance and position in their own minds, and they are taking action, a nd they see al of the tactics and the activities that they are engaging in is furthering the overall objective and cause

which is that western education is sinful, and they want to return to shariah law. >> and this is a mishandling and not taking advantage of opportunities early on, and now the fear is that if there is a confrontation between the military and the boku haram, they will kill the girls that remain there, and what criticism do you have regard ing ting the that this is handled and what you are hearing from the peoplet ta rallies and your family in nigeria? >> well, there are multiple areas where the cheollectivetiv have failed. the nigerian government has failed to not ak xhactually eng 24 hours and a search party there, and i have heard that there are regional governors who did not go to the region until five or six days after, and without taking action within the fir first 24 hours, we greyly denied o -- gravely denied our ability to be successful there.

and to go into the mombasa forest, and not to engage as fully, and people said, because there were no images, we can't get a handle on the story, and we know that we have inframatics and different ways to ae tell the story ar and fact that engagement was not happening is failure, and the real true hero of the day is the hashtag. without the hashtag of bring back our goiirl s girls, it wou have encircled the globe and i'm so thankful for the continuing movement. >> and we hope with all of the hard work of the people in the social media, the rallies will continue, and something will be done. thank you for joining us today. >> thank you for having me. also in the last half hour, the supreme court issued an important ruling that opening up a town council meeting with a prayer is not violation of the

constitution, even if it stresses kons christianity. what do we know, pete? >> well, since 1999, it has opened its town meetings with a town prayer given by people in the community in greece, new york, and people sued saying that it suggested an endorsement of the christian faith, and references to jesus, and the resurrection and the savior, and they sued and the supreme court to today said that there is nothing wrong with what the town of greece did. the court starts the analysis with the founding fathers, and the same found iing fathers the court said today who wrote the first amendment giving the religious freedom, and also hired the first chaplain to lead prayers in the congress, so there can't be in the framer's mind anything incompatible with opening up a legislative meeting with prayer, and they said, well, that is congress, and one thing, that in the town of

greece, you are a prtase pant, and if you don't join in the prayers you could be at a disadvantage, and the supreme court rejected that argument, and justice kennedy said that the as long as the prayer does not kroz the line, and if it begins to denigrate religious minority, and threaten damnation or preach conversion, then that would cross a line, but that is not what this case does. so the supreme court said no problem of opening up a community or government meeting with a prayer, even if the prayer is predominantly sectarian of one faith and a 5-4 ruling. >> and thank you, pete. america's former ambassador the russia, michael mcfaul is warning that the crisis in ukraine is approaching an all-out civil war that could trigger a large-scale military invasion by moscow. mcfaul who served as the ambassador to moscow until february and now an nbc analyst appeared on the "daily rundown." i. >> i don't think that putin has

decided what ultimately wants to do, but he is keeping the options open, and certainly, one of those, he needs a pretext to go in. >> and this comes amid new deadly violence as the ukrainian troops are battling pro-russian militants who are obccupying another city, and this is following a deadly weekend following rioting in another key city. we are joined by keir simmons who is reporting more violence there today as well. >> yes, that is right. heavy gunfire in the nearby town where we are hearing confirmed by the ukrainian defense ministry that another ukrainian held ko helicopter has been shot down we assume by the pro russian militia, and shot down over slov yansk, and at least part of it has landed on water and part of them have survive and no one has been killed, but it comes after

two of the helicopters have been shot down in an area half a mile from here over the weekend and the escalating violence in odessa which is much, much south of here where we saw a large mob descend on the police station, and break down the door and pull 60 comrades if you'd like from the police station, and seeing them freed. we also saw despite prime minister here saying that that the police bore some of the responsibility with what is going on in odes sashgs asodess police officers throw down the rye yat shields and walk away. and the ukrainian government says they have control in parts, but in watching, this is difficult to believe. in eastern ukraine, tamron, in what is a city hall, it is barricaded and flying the russian flag, and they have declared it the people's republic of donetsk.

and it is obvious that it is run by pro russian -- militia, and also what is going to happen in the capital of kiev, and try to substantially move on ukraine here, and potentially start the civil war or not do that and effectively end up with the eastern ukraine in some way breaking away and getting some independence. >> all right. keir simmons live for us there, and we will continue the update the audience throughout the show if necessary. and investigators have just released new details of why a group of circus performers plummeted to the ground in front of a horrified audience and we are live on the scene with the shocking developments there. and right now, more than 1,000 people in oklahoma are out of their homes as the crews are battling a deadly wildfire. one of the stories that we are

following around "newsnation." and former secretary of state condoleezza rice backed out of delivering the commencement speech at rutgers after protests from the faculty over her war record. we will talk to her about the effort to have her continue to speak even though she backed out. you can find out more and my team by following "newsnation." ...and a choice take 6 tylenol in a day which is 2 aleve for... ...all day relief. hmm. [bell ring] "roll sound!" "action!"

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welcome back. we are learning more about what caused a horrifying circus act over the weekend. we should warn you that the video of the accident is disturbing. eight performers were attempting a stunt yesterday known as the human chandelier hanging from the apparatus by their hair high

above the stadium floor. it is unbelievable video, and nbc news is being told that a broken clamp hold iing the apparatus is the cause of the accident, and the eight performers plus a dancer were injured and we don't have to show it anymore and you get the point of what happened here, and it all happened before a crowd filled with children, and it all happened in the arena, and it went dark to shield the public of what happened and this morning on the "today" show, the spokesman for the parent company of the circus said they are working hard to get to the bottom of exactly what happened. >> we have never had any problems with this particular rigging in the past, and again, a all of the safety procedures that we have in place are to make sure that the performers are safe, and not just the performer performers, but the true crew and the patrons and it is too early to tell, because we are less than 24 hours into the investigation, but we wanted to find out what happened yesterday to ensure to take steps that it never happens again. >> and now we go to ron mott who is in providence and they were

planning to the resume some form of the show today? >> that is right, tamron. the morning show was cancelled last night, and then an hour or so ago, they are cancelled tonight's performance as the investigation continues, and as you mentioned, tamron, they are honing in on the clamp, and the rig was design bade husband and wife team, and the wife was one of the eight women up on the rigging when it collapsed yesterday, and she was injured along with a man on the ground, one of the pr formerers on the ground, and fortunately nobody was killed here, and nobody was paralyzed by this horrible, horrible accident. it was a fall of about 30 feet. if we show it again, and again, just to warn people that the video is very graphic, and shot by a mother of two small children 3 and 4 years old and sitting mid-row in the first level when this all went down, and a lot of the folks in the arena, tamron thought it was part of the show, and then they realized it is a horrible

accident, and they rushed into the center ring to try to get the rigging off of the performers that were trapped on the ground. as we mentioned the shows today were canceled, and this show then goes on the hartford, connecticut, later in the week, and no word on how that show will go on if it does go on, and they were planning on suspending some of the aerial acts, but the show, again, has been cancelled. nbc news spoke last night with the fa ter hoff one of the wo n women -- with the father of one of the women who was hurt on the rig, and she has a badly broken arm, and she is looking forward to heeling and getting back to performing for the kir kucircus because it is part of her dna. and it is very, very dangerous as we saw, tamron. yes. and a man is waiting to get a look at the state t-of-the-art

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printers and asked for help. then they said that the students were working on it. soon after that, kiley was being fitted for the plastic prosthetic to allow her to grip things and ride a bike. and joining me from chicago, kiley and her mom and dad, sharon and jeremy and thank you all for joining us. >> thank you for having us. >> and sharon, let me start with you, and how you found out about this printer, this imageer. take me through this process of how you discovered it. >> we actually just started looking online for other option s that other people were doing for their children as well as with the kiley's condition, and i came across the video of a father and son who made the robo hand with the 3d printer. >> and jeremy, when you saw this and it was a possibility for the child, you are a, elated and hopeful and then there has to be a moment of, are you kidding?

is this real? can it happen? and when did you come to the conclusion, that this is a reality and we have to pursue it. >> we saw the video, and saw our daughter watch it, and her eyes light up, and how important it was to her, and we reached out to boyland and knew to get something done. >> and in the case of the other family, it cost $50,000, and in the end, kiley's new prosthetic, i understand is $10,000, is that right? >> she didn't have a prosthetic. i mean, they start around $10,000 and go up. but, this robo hand with the 3d print ser coer is costing $10. >> $10! >> yes. >> and i understand that you are still being fitted and you don't have the completed product yet, but you have had it on and how do you feel, kiley? >> i was very excited when i saw

it at first, and it was really cool when i saw it. >> it was really cool when you saw it? >> yes. and how did it feel? did it feel okay? >> yeah, it was a little uncomfortable. >> they ended up losing some space with all of the padding that they put in it, so they have to move a couple of the things around and make it a little wider, but they are going to get it. >> and kiley, the most important thing and we know we want it to fit right and be comfortable and when will you get on the bike? >> same day you get it. >> yes. >> and do you have a pike in mind? >> you have got one at home. >> i have one at home. >> it sounds like an upgrade, jeremy. she has a bike at home, but it sounds like she wants the upgrade. >> yep. >> and sharon with this high school jumping in to help and ended up costing less than $10,000, and you had a chance to have a life-changing experience for the girl that is most

important to you, but is there a larger message for the parents out there who are maybe facing a similar situation? >> absolutely. it is with all that is going on, we have found out, you know, quite a few in the area who have the same condition as kiley, and now they are able to reach out and get the same, you know, hand as kiley. there is -- it is jeremy, what is it on? >> it is on ivan owen who created the first robo hand and everybody who needs one can go online and download the instructions for free, and it is anybody who can get one. they are going to have the 3d printers in public libraries soon, and so you can go to the library and print a hand if you'd like. >> well, that is amazing, kiley, and we can't wait to get to see your hand since it is complete, and since i used to live in chicago, i can come there and i will have a chance to ride the bike with you, but i am bad, and i might fall down a couple of

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error, and the judge said that the court does not excuse what he did, but he believes she a good man and turned his life around. he was sentenced to time for robbing a fast food restaurant, but never served the time. and since he started his own business and became a husband and father of four, and he pointed to the fact that the life he lived after the conviction in 2000 was the case of why he should not be returned to prison due to the clerical error, and the judge has made a decision with that story we have been following. and now president obama took aim at the republicans and he dished out plenty of jokes bu jokes, b some of the jokes telling about the midterms? >> it is clear that washington is obsessed with the midterms, and folks are saying that with my sagging poll numbers my fellow democrats don't really want me campaigning with them. i don't think that is true,

although, i did notice the other day that sasha needed a speaker at career day, and she invited bill clinton. >> and joining me now is senior political editor mark murray, a and what is your take? >> oh, tamron, those kinds of jokes reflect the conventional wisdom and the now-moment, and there were funny lines about the 2015 environment, and 2016 and several references to hillary clinton and other jokes that made fun of chris christie, but then things do change, and the people that we are talking about now, and the conventional wisdom right now could be radically different three months from now, and a year from now, and what makes them funny is that they are reflecting the conventional wisdom, and everybody thinks that hillary clinton is going to run for the presidency, and so there are a lot of jokes about her and bill clinton, and then by the time somebody decides they won't joke, the butt of the jokes and the punchlines are a different subject. >> and to your point of hillary

clinton, we will play what the president said in his joke-a-on this, and take a listen. >> and it is a long time between now and 2016, and anything can happen. you may have heard the other day that hillary had to dodge a flying shoe at a press conference. >> that is a pretty good one, mark. >> it is. and you know, tamron in a lot of times when president obama is making jokes about hillary clinton and talking about 2016, the immediate follow up is what about joe biden and, you know, what about him in 2016, and i think that, again, going back to the point of the conventional wisdom, and everybody assumes that hillary clinton if she decides to run will be on paper, and the democrat's strongest candidate with parts of the obama coalition built-in. and if you are president barack obama and you want to be a transformational president, sometimes to do that, you might require to get a third term, and he did with george h.w. bush

being able to win after eight years of reagan's presidency, and the people in the white house, and president obama, i am sure they would love to have a third or fourth term. that is in what in some reasons that people in the obama orbit are happy about a potential hillary candidacy, because it does provide a best opportunity for the third barack obama term or third bill clinton term however you want to put it. >> thank you, mark. >> thank you, tamron. and now, condoleezza rice is backing out to give the commencement speech at rutger's university, and several members of the students and faculty said it is inappropriate because of her involvement in the iraq war, and she has decided not to work. and she said that as a professor for 30 years at stanford university and provost and chief academic office ser, i embrace and understand the purpose of the commencement ceremony, and i

am not willing to detract from it in any way. >> and now, rudy bell who helped to protest rice's speech, and we talked to you in the beginning when a lot of the folks were signing the petition the, and being vocal about this decision, and the request to have her speak at the commencement, and now she is saying no, and is that the right thing in your opinion? >> i think that she made a wise and appropriate decision, and she points to the professorial role to state that it is a mismatch in the beginning. >> would you like to see her come to the university to speak to the students in not a commencement forum, but in the other forums? >> that would be great, and she would be welcomed. we are having a teach-in, and short notice, but she is welcome. >> and with the commencement, tell me what went on behind the

scenes, and was it a big debate between the faculty and the students? >> well, the faculty were focused on the teaching we are doing tomorrow, and it is going to happen, because it is about the larger issues, and we spect, and thank dr. rice for withdrawing withdrawing, but the larger issue is still there, and students became much more active beginning a week agoed and they occupied the president's building that he is in for a few hours, and last friday, they had an energetic set of questions at the university senate at which he reaffirmed no way that he would consider withdrawing the invitation, but i believe she understood reports of that meeting and was persuaded that this is the best thing. >> and as part of the your complaint for lack of a better description is because of the war record and you felt that the commencement was not the best place for her? >> well, giving her an honorary

degree was most significant force, and as well as the speaking of the commencement, no questions and answers and no debate or academic dialogue in that sense. but we saw it as a victory not against condoleezza rice, but in favor of civic engagement which ever side people have been in, and this is in the rutgers tradition. >> has a replacement been named? >> not to my knowledge, but i would not expect to be consulted. >> and you would expect it to be bruce springsteen. >> i said that jokingly, but it was picked up. so i agree. >> and now, the kidnapping of nearly 300 nigerian girls some three weeks ago, we are told that this is a national tragedy, and the president has been in contact with the nigerian government about what we might

do to help support the efforts to find and free these young women. well, today, the islamic militant group boko haram claimed responsibility, and now the girl's parents are claiming that the government is not doing enough to rescue their daughters. and now, something that has officials across the country on alert. the cdc is holding a conference on the first middle east respiratory syndrome or mers. recently a man coming home from saudi arabia is at home, and getting better everyday. it is a virus that sickens millions every year, and killed more than 200 in the last two years. it spreads in close contact the and kills one-third of the people it infects. we will hon monitor the news conference and bring you any updates. and a new film will bring you the shocking trial of the

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director of the film adam egoan. and you have seen the documentary on the memphis th e three, and you got this script and opportunity, and was it something that you could not walk away from? >> yes, it is the most compelling story, and the most gruesome and mysterious murder mystery. three boys found bound with shoelaces, and murdered with no footprints or branches, and leaves not touched, and so supernatural and for this to be happening in a town that was very religious, and so it was very upsetting and so they had to find the demons who did this, and so they created them. >> and what are the challenges in that the documentary was so well known, and set off a firestorm and you had celebrities getting involve and demanding what they saw to be justice in this, and when you are turning into a film version of that, how do you do that?

what are the challenges? >> well, first of all, you concentrate on the human beings, and the people involved and in this case, we are focusing on the mother of one of the boys killed, reese witherspoon and her transition of believing it is everybody in the town that it is one of them, but something that is amiss in the courtroom, and something is not happening, and justice has not been served, but it is about presenting a lot of the material that has not been seen in the documentaries and a whole bunch of different sus way that the process could have gone, but once they focused on these three young men, they didn't focus on anybody else, and it is totally on the circumstantial evidence, and it should not be used unless all of the avenues have been exhausted, and that is not the case. >> is you talk about what happened outside and inside of the courtroom, but you can still be able to go into the rooms, and into the homes of these families, and shed a light on

what they were going through. >> and that is what drama does. it allows us through the amazing actors and we have an incredible cast, and able to really focus on what the emotional cost of not knowing and living with the situation of where you can see a whole town creating this witch hunt, but feeling that there is something that is not satisfied and feeling at the end of it that justice is not served and having to continue the search, and to this day, pam hobbs played by reese witherspoon, we had an opening and she was there at the screening and she said at the end, this search still continues, and we are still looking. so it is about the toll, but it is also set in the murder mystery, and in some ways like the ultimate murder mystery, because there are so many things that the viewer has to tell in an e encyclopedic way. >> and the film is amazing, and what i have seen, this is maybe the role of a lifetime for reese witherspoon. >> yes, she is heartbreak iing.

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we have more on the breaking news out of the white house. the white house just reacted of the kidnapping of nearly 300 nigerian girls happening three weeks ago. and peter alexander is live at the white house. what are we hearing from the administration? >> well, the administration says that the president has been briefed several times and the national security team is updating him on the latest of what is taking place of the missing young girls in nigerian. and before i came out to talk to you, i hung up from the phone of one of the senior officials who

said that one of the top senior officials will travel to the region to help in the search for the young women, and the u.s. is presently going to be providing help in terms of the intelligence to try to get new information to try to find their whereabouts, but that is effectively where effectively where the aid ends and nigerian officials made it clear that's all the help they want at this time. we can hear another protest taking place where they are yelling shame on obama. that was a separate topic at hand. specifically what's important to notoriety now is that the u.s. is providing, they insist, all of the help that the nigerian officials requested and they will continue to have more conversations about what future requests may exist. it was 2013 where boko haram was declared a terrorist organization and that's where things stand at this moment. >> peter, thank you very much

for new details. there's a lot going on this morning. here are some things we thought you should know. target's chairman is stepping down. his abrupt resignation comes amid the fallout of the massive data breach last year. they posted a statement saying in part, the board and greg steinhafel has decided now is the right time for new leadership at target. he'll still serve as an adviser in some capacity. this comes nearly five months after target announced hackers stole credit card and debit information from tens and millions of customers. it was one of the most iconic moments in baseball history, one of the most celebrated in new york mets history and tragic in boston red sox history. the bottom of the tenth in game six of the 1986 world series and wilson of the new york mets hits a ground ball and should be an easy out and gets by bill

buckner and allows ray knight to score and they stage an i am probable come back to win game six and win game seven the world sear rseries, mookie wilson, obviously a true mets fan wrote that to you. >> good to be here. >> what made you decide to write the book? >> i was just -- i thought it was time for people to understand mookie wilson as a person. you know they remember the play. everybody knows the play but there's a guy behind the play. i felt it was time for people to know who the guy was. >> in the beginning it was really tough to write this book and it got fun toward the end. why was it so tough in the beginning? >> i've seen so many baseball books and always wanted to do a baseball book but didn't want it to be a traditional baseball book pitch by pitch, no

hitting, .400 in high school. i thought that was boring and i didn't think my life was interesting enough to write a book until i got started then it started to get fun. >> you didn't think your life was interesting enough to write a book, why? >> i guess because you think baseball all the time and i didn't want my book to be about baseball. so what parts of my life was more interesting, the baseball or my growing up. without baseball, i didn't think it was interesting. >> the book definitely peels back the layers of your life. what was i guess the hardest thing to reveal about you since you say you wanted people to know mookie and not the baseball player. what was the part that truly made you vulnerable? >> i think that the part that people see me as all smiles, never having any issues or problems, i've had adversary to go through and people don't appreciate the fact that i

survived when everything in life says i shouldn't have. i overcame a lot of limitations and you know, hurdles to get where i am. and i'm still struggling with some things, adversity, disappointme disappointments. >> how is that when you talk about you had adversity in life and disappointments but then your praise, we have a producer every day, mookie is coming on? when is he coming? you don't even keep your memorabilia and your fans have enough to keep you happy with the accolades and you don't keep those things. >> i'm a baseball player, i'm never been a baseball fan. i couldn't tell you -- i couldn't have before i started playing football, con name ten major ballplayers and my joy was in playing. i seldom watch baseball on television. >> everyone is gasping right now. >> if i'm in a ballpark, i can

sit in the seats and watch four games, i love what baseball has to offer, being there. >> what is your relationship with the mets? you felt like a hood ornment, what did that mean? >> night relationship is maybe some people say it's kind of complicated but it isn't. when i use the term hood ornament, it was a way of describing my involve lment wit the mets, hood ornament on the car identifies the car but has nothing to do with the operation of the car. i'm still employed so you know, i knew it would raise eyebrows but just because i'm disappointed with the position, i actually love the city and mets organization and as long as they want me around i'm going to be here. >> the mets fans love you and this texas ranger now is a fan as well. >> okay. >> it's a great book. we appreciate you joining us.

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