even exists? if it's tuesday, it must be primary day. will the gop establishment prevail against the tea party in north carolina, indiana, and ohio? will voting rights derail democrats in big elections come november. will a former american idol win his first big test in the tar heel state? first, the white house and state department are weighing in on the growing outcry for international action to save more than 200 kidnapped nigerian school girls. this morning secretary kerry called nigeria's president to reiterate our offer of assistance. president jonathan welcomed secretary kerry's offer to send a team to nigeria to discuss how the united states can best support nigeria and its response. >> these girls were captured and kidnapped 22 days ago. time is of the essence before they tracked or killed.

right now it's unclear what the next steps in the search will be by the nigerian government or the international community. people around the world are clearly united in their call for accountability. rallies, again, taking place in washington d.c. today and in the nigerian city of abuja even as reports surface that the terrorist group has carried out another kidnapping. this time of eight additional nigerian girls. the _#bring back our girls is still trending across social media with celebrities now joining in. sean combs even asking for for shares on instagram and asking for retweets -- hillary clinton posting we must stand up to terrorism. today we're hearing from one of the girls who managed to escape capture that night three weeks ago when armed men in uniforms burst into her school. the 16-year-old told the associated press in a phone interview that the men said don't worry. we're soldiers. nothing is going to happen to you. then they started shouting alluhu akhbar, god is great, and

then she said we knew. the only girl in her family described her escape. we ran and ran so fast. that is how i saved myself. i had no time to be scared. i was just running. running to escape from this man, abu shakahr shs shakou. boko haram has been in place since the late 19980s. he has been in charge since the group's previous leader was killed in 2010. their focus has been to threaten and attack western influences in nigeria and abu shakar has declared boko haram to be in solidarity with al qaeda and even threatened the united states. it means western education is forbidden. boko is the word for book. they recall the taliban -- they want to impose shaara law and the targeting of young school girls who they believe should be married, not educated.

as the council on foreign relations points out, nigeria has been urged to counter these extremist groups through a combination of law enforcement, political and development efforts as well as military engagement. that's where the frustration of nigerians and now the world kicks in. according to a pentagon spokesman the u.s. department of defense has no request from the nigerian government for assistance in finding the abducted school girls. u.s. help is something they would have to ask for. so so far while nigerian president has said he would accept any international help, there's been no formal request, at least not yet. joining me now, nbc news security and terrorism expert robert windram, and -- i want to start with you, robert, just on this question of what really could be done. were the united states to get a formal request from the nigerian government, how would that help actually look on the ground?

the advantage is in electronic listening posts and perhaps imageing, and the imageing that would be best suited for this would be the use of reconnaissance drones. there are a couple of drone bases in west africa, a little farther away, but also in -- they could be able to be used to try to find. one of the problems is if the u.s. is asked to do something like this, there is some ramp-up time. we've already had three weeks since the girls have been kidnapped, and almost that long since the video, which was april 14th. sfwla i think that's the source of so much frustration. not just within the nigerian community, but not just within the people of the u.s. and in nigeria, but just the notion that it's taken this long to get to the point where we're even talking about the nigerian

government asking for help. >> there's a real flikt element here, which is why the nigerian government has such a lackluster response. you know, nigeria is a complicated country. there's a lot of different tribes. obviously we have the conflict between the muslims and the christians. there's a lot of, you know, kind of under cover reasons why the president has taken so long to actually do anything. one of the things is in notion that what boko haram has been able to do to exploit the conflict between muslims and christians in in the country and really to exploit the poverty and frustration of a lot of

people within the muslim community and direct a lot of that at the government of goodluck jonathan, which makes his whole response a little more complicated. >> right. that also complicates to a certain degree u.s. cooperation. there are human rights issues for the u.s. government. this is a country that has had a state of emergency. if you are not pushing and this is something that is shared within some parts of the nigerian community, if you are not pushing for help, if you are not pushing internally, then basically it gives you a rationale to continue the state of emergency. that worries some within the u.s. government.

>> india, china, pakistan, and nigeria coming in number four. was there a loud human cry, particularly in the ex-pat nigerian community about the nearly 30 million people in the world, but so many of them being nigerian, so many of them girls who are being enslaved? >> yes. absolutely. have you the educated south and the northerners, and obviously these extremist elements across nigeria. what you need to understand is because of the intertrooubal conflict in nigeria, the it's very much what's happening in the south and the north. yes, of course, there's been an outcry. >> you know, robert, just to go back just for a moment because that part of it is not obviously, you know, the bigger picture here is that we're

trying to help that country if they'll accept the help to solve this specific case. has there been an effort within the united states to address, number one, this terrorist group's operation within that country since they are really confined to nigeria, and, number two, the human trafficking element, but for this case, would we be paying attention from the united states? >> i think the indications are that we probably would not because until this video showed up yesterday there wasn't a lot of u.s. interest in this. the video, of course, changed things. within the u.s. dwellings e intelligence community, boko haram is not a first priority. it does horrible things. it has been active lately. there is really no international element. they have had some training from al qaeda, but they have not applied to be a al qaeda affiliate. they are not operating with al qaeda. they're not the high priority that al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is. as for human trafficking, i

don't think that that is a big issue within the u.s. there have been a number of reports issued on this. it is something that u.s. policy is against, but one of the problems is how do you actually thwart this, as the u.s. beyond diplomacy, and nobody is interested in any sort of military action. >> yeah. then just the question to you. just talk for a moment about the social media aspect of this. it really took off on its own. now you do have celebrities weighing in, but up until then it was just ordinary people taking to social media to really beg for attention for the story. >> yeah. absolutely. you know, in some ways, you know, this really shows the kind of power of the social media. you know, traditional media initially wasn't covering this story, and it was only really with the massive social media campaign, you know, high profile figures getting involved in the campaign that really the story has come to light, and in many ways it's actually kind of putting pressure on news editors and even to sort of channel their resources into this story.

>> my former colleague at that fine establishment, and nbc news investigative reporter robert windram. thank you to both of you. >> thanks. quick update on bridge gate. the new jersey ledge toor's investigation into the chris christie scandal continued today. this time it was formerated christina renna giving testimony. she said she had no knowledge of the closing of the george washington bridge last year. during her testimony she also criticized part of a recent report conducted by a law firm hired by the christie administration to investigate the bridge closing. we've contacted the law firm and are awaiting a response. remna kriktd creeked her testimony to them that there was a mandatory directive not to contact certain mayors.

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its findings include the sobering fact that 2012 was the hottest year on record. it's not just the heat. climate change is already bringing heavy frip precipitation, particularly in places like the northeast, midwest, and great plains. it's also causing more powerful hurricanes. if you have allergies, like many do this year, the report says climate change will lead to an increase in the number of heavy pollen days. okay. so here's where i say that being said. that being said, climate science isn't suffering from a lack of consensus. a separate climate report said that 97% of climate scientists, the 97%'ers believe that humans are causing climate change. it's the will to act on what we know that's missing. chris hayes is my msnbc colleague and host of "all in" right here on this very network. chris, what do you think was important about this? it is not new to say that climate change and bad. what's new about this? >> the term that's been made in the last two or three years, and it's -- and the white house with this report is it's not a future thing. it's here.

like, the front edge of it is here. we have warmed the planet about .8 degrees celsius, almost two degrees fahrenheit in what we've already done, and are you already seeing the effects. there's a lot more loaded in the chamber that's going to be fired off, but you are already seeing the effects. to me the key point of turning turning kind of abstract worry into concrete action is pointing to the fact that it's here. it's here in ways that you would expect, like the number of days above 90 degrees in the south are increasing, and then it's here in all kinds of cascading ways you wouldn't know. like the pine beetle in the great american west is now mating twice in a season rather than once. so it's just massacring acres and aircrafts of trees that it wasn't before, right? there are so many complex little things about how an ecological and climate system work. there are going to be more forest fires, and some realize -- sfla even when our producers and i were talking about this, that's why he even phobinged on the pollen thing.

it's almost like you need to get it down to the granule ar level. your allergies are also affected. >> you're talking about the most complex system that exists. the climate system, right? >> yeah. >> when you think about, well, what does that mean for me, i thought the allergies was a great example. there are just thousands ofless things like that. forest fairs is a dangerous part of this. sea level rise. there was basically an extra foot of sea level rise. that's about an extra 70,000 homes over the course, right? that's 70,000 homes that were just from that extra foot. forget about the high tide, the storm. the point about all this is little things make a big difference. it's the most counter intuitive part of our standing what the stakes are. >> you almost have to live it before people would really get alarmed about it. they have to see the flooded subway before they say, oh, wait a minute something bad. i would be remiss if i had you here and didn't talk about last night's all in epic report that

you did on the smart gun. i mean, it was riveting television. mostly because of one guy. i want to show a really quick clip of it and we'll talk about it. >> raymond owns engage arm meant. >> what do you make? >> what's commonly referred to as assault rifles. we do a lot of ar-15s, aka's. >> he told me smart guns are good for the gun industry. >> if this gets them into shooting, then i'm all about it. that's an awesome thing, and everybody who is pro-gun should be all about that because if that's get people into the range and shooting and loving guns, that's an awesome frikin thing for us. instead they're talking trash about it. >> what happened to him, chris, just by doing that promoting a gun, please explain. >> we went down to a gun range in maryland, shot this new smart gun, the pistol .22 caliber. he was going to be the first person in the u.s. to sell it after one gun seller had been intimidated by selling in l.a.

he stepped forward and said i support this on principle. he had death threats and really just horrible stuff on his face book page and people calling his phone number and -- snoo this is from pro-gun people. >> his allies. this guy calls himself on the right van forward of gun rights, all right? basically there is such fear and contempt around the smart gun. >> why? what is the fear about what the smartgun? >> there is a new jersey law that was signed in 2002 that says within three years of a smart gun going on sale anywhere in the u.s., it has to be -- it's mandated in new jersey. okay? there's this fear of a government mandate that is then kwermtd by the existence in new jersey law. more than that, though, there is just -- you know, i think paranoia about state tyranny is deeply embedded in the roots of gun culture, and this has become a talking point now that these guns are going to be the way that they take our guns away, which is that we're going to have to wear bracelets, and the government will identify us. there's going to be some remote kill switch where they can take all our guns away.

you have right now cars that are digital cars that are operating with -- you can get remote tune-ups. they can change the software remotely, and it's not like the government is, like, remotely disabling people's cars. >> what i find really strange about it and what was really jarring about it is there's a notion that the people on that said auto side of the argument, the go-to message of using -- literally threatening to kill these people and a demonstration -- i think this is an ar by's, where the employees were scared out of their minds because people's response to show how pro-gunther is to come into your establishment with an ar-15 strpd to their back, and intimidate you. to what end? >> i think you make a really good point that there's kind of normal politics where, like, you and i have an argument or we pick at each other or whoeld hold signs, and there is the politics of intimidation. we saw that in the cliven bundy ranch and the guy with the sniper scope at the rifle. that's a different thing than holding a sign saying i object to what you are doing. it's different when you call

people up and say i'm going to shoot you in the face if you do this and wins. that's what links together what happened to cliven bundy and the gun club in l.a. and this gentleman in -- the brutish, thuggish intimidation has that is victorious. we have to really see that as a threat to be condemned and rejenkted. >> especially since these are the same people arguing that what they are for is the good guy with the gun. >> yes. >> that is the height of irony. i really appreciate you taking time. chris hayes, host of owe all in with chris hayes" week nights at 8:00 p.m. eastern. thank you, sir. all right. coming up next, monica lewinsky breaks her silence and talks about her refwrets. you got the bargain kind? you need a bunch of those to clean this mess. then i'll use a bunch of them. then how is that a bargain? [ sighs ] no, that's too many -- it's not gonna fit! whoa! cascade kitchen and math counselor.

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>> it's tuesday, which meansist election day, and voters in north carolina, ohio, and indiana are headed to the polls right now. the race to watch is in north carolina where eight candidates are vying for the hands to take on democratic senator kay haagan in november, but it's the fight between the three front runners that's turning this race into the latest battle in the civil war between the tea party and the republican party establishment. stallworths are backing -- you can't get more establishment than that. tea party groups, meanwhile, are mriting their loyalty between two other candidates. there's greg branon who got a bit of a last minute campaign bump from senator rand paul yesterday. >> there are a lot of people working class, and i see people

of every group much more so than i do in the republican party. >> there's baptist minister mark harris who has the backing of former arkansas governor and former evangelical mike huckabee. stoed's election is the first for north carolina voters you should the state's new voting law, and although the controversial voter id provision of the law will not go into effect until 2016, voting laws could be on the minds of those voters today. meanwhile, ohio voters could soon have less time to cast their ballots after republican governor john kasich which -- when the governor signed the law in february, the cleveland day editorial board called it a breathtaking bid to suppress voting. joining me now ohio democratic state senator nina turner. she's running unopposed for the democratic nomination for ohio secretary of state in today's primary. she's also been an outspoken critic of ohio's voter id laws and laws restricting early voting. thank you so much for being here. >> thank you, joy. >> all right. senator turner, let's just start

with ohio's voting restrictions. these are the laws that -- things that have already been signed in by the current governor. will that impacted voting today in ohio? >> absolutely, joy. we've already started to see evidence of that. in 2010 in cuyahoga county, for example, about 230,000 voters voted pre-primary. 60% of those voters were absentee ballots. in the absentee ballot opportunities that we've had in 2014, less than that, less than half had come in by last saturday, which was the last day to early vote. we're definitely seeing the impacts of not only the cuts to golden week, but the cuts to mailing out unsolicited absentee ballots of which the jern assembly changed that at the behest of the current secretary of state. they are trying to suppress the vote every chance they get because they don't have better ideas, and it really is wrong for our democracy, joy, because

voters need to come out and vote and let their voices be heard, and nobody should stand in the way of that just because they don't believe that they have better ideas. it is wrong. >> obviously the real action takes place in november in terms of these particular laws, although they are in place now. last week the aclu actually filed a lawsuit in federal court to try to block the new restricks oerl voting, what you called golden week, meaning the week right before election, to -- that those laws will take affect. i want to read you what the spokesman for secretary of state john said about that lawsuit today. he said the fact is it's easy to vote in ohio, and the plaintiffs should be joining secretary hused in making sure all voters know their voting options rather than trying to scare them into believing it's hard. that's the real voter suppression." a, is it easy to vote in ohio, state senator turner, and, b, is it actually voter suppression to argue it's not easy to vote in ohio? >> i mean, joy, they never let the truth get in the way of a good story. they certainly have a good story. you know, the cuts to early voting through the legislature, all the bills that have passed, and then the directive that the

current secretary of state put out to take away evening hours to vote so hard-working men and women don't have access to the ballot box or to limit saturdays and then no sundays. no souls to the polls. what ohioans had enjoyed post-2004 now the gop, they're taking it away. they're trying to suppress the votes of poor voters and other voters of color, and elderly voters. again, this does not make any kind of sense because none of the laws they have passed nor trying to limit voting opportunities, there is no rationale for this other than to try to choke out the democracy. it is laughable the response of the secretary of state's office. >> so just -- you talked a little bit about, you know, sort of the evening hours being cut.

you've done presentations of the actual physical locations to vote. i want to show you what one of our reporters and our nbc affiliate in columbus, and they talked about sort of how the cuts to early voting can be a hardship to people who don't have cars. take a look. >> absolutely. zi put my feet to the pavement and walked 1.7 miles to the bus stop. after a little waiting, it's time to hop on my bus. i'm taking the number one all the way downtown. 55 stops later we're closing in on the board of elections. after a short walk we've reached our destination. one hour 26 minutes later, it's time to join other voters and cast a ballot. >> what is the official explanation as to why voters are being made to essentially take an hour and a half by bus to get to their polling place rather than locate them in people's communities? >> they don't have a good excuse, joy. none of the action that is have been taken by the gop in this state make any sense whatsoever.

>> to do that knowing that lots of folks in the state are transportation-dependent. the law isn't that you vote only if you have a car. the democracy should be open to all folks. they have no rationale other than if they can't beat them, they will cheat them. they're doing everything from the redrikting moves that they did to laws that are being passed, and auz may recall, in 2012 the president's campaign along with the ohio democratic party had to sue this current secretary of state just to get back the last three days of early voting. we have lawsuits pending right now, and it's unfortunate that voting rights advocates have to use litigation to try to secure access to the ballot box for all people. ohioans deserve better, and this nation deserves better in that space, and i believe there are some parallels between 2012 and 2014 as we continue to fight for democracy and access to the ballot box for all people. >> do you think people are outraged about this?

you have poll after poll showing democrats are less excited. republicans are more excited. republicans are poised to bahhedly take over state and federal offices across the country in november. are democrats getting exercised enough about voting access? >> people are starting to heat up, joy. people understand that one woman, one man, one vote, that voting is the great equalizer, and it may take them a little time, but they are paying great attention to this. i traveled all over the state of ohio from the north to the south, and people are fired up, and more than ready to go. you are going to see that in the general election. >> all right. ohio state senator nina turner, thank you so. for being here. >> thank you. >> all right. up next, how the supreme court's ruling on prayer actually impacts freedom of religion and in an increasingly secular country. [ male announcer ] this is jim. a man who doesn't stand still. but jim has afib, atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. that puts jim at a greater risk of stroke. for years, jim's medicine tied him to a monthly trip to the clinic to get his blood tested.

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>> to conduct business for the town have greece, new york. >> hours after the supreme court upheld prayer at government meetings, the town of greece, new york, began its town council meeting with a prayer. the court ruled 5-4 along idealogical and religious lines that government meetings can include an opening prayer without violating the constitution. as was noted after the decision came down, all non-christians on the supreme court disented. all but one of the christian to uphold prayer. sotomeyor. it unquestionably tilts the law to the right at a time when polls show the country is tilting further and further away from religion altogether. joining me now is eric seagull, professor of law at georgia state university, and hufrington post justice reporter ryan riley. i want to start and ask about that question of whether or not we are seeing the court tilt more in the direction of public

riligiocity, or is this an outliar? i'll start with you, eric. it allows explicit references to one religion over time. there are eight years of christian prayers in this town. two-thirds of those refer to jesus. before this case we really weren't sure what the court would do with such overtly sectarian prayers. now we know. the clergy in doing the praerz put some of the residents in the unenviable choice in either pretending to pray like the majority or declining to join its communal activity at the very moment of petition. the very moment they're petitioning their elected leaders. isn't -- is that really the danger here? that essentially by saying that it is okay to even do a

sectarian prayer, mentioning jesus overtly, that it's okay to put a nonbeliever in the position of either pretending to go along or feeling even if it's just subtly feeling somehow excluded? >> right. that was the sort of majority's contention, that this wasn't an issue of people being coreysed because they had the option to walk out of the room as they suggested, but that's i don't think practically how this would work. if you have business before the town council, you are not going to want to be seen storming out of the room and taking some offense to the proceedings that are happening in there because that might probably not help your case of the people you are petitioning. >> i'm struck by as much as they ruling did strike me as moving the bar, really a lot further to the right toward a preference or religion. one wonder if they would have ruled the same way if it had been muslim prayers. justice clarence thomas went even further than the decision. in a concurring opinion he said that only actual legal coercion counts. not the subtle coercive

pressures allegedly felt by respondents in this case, and essentially, thomas, implied that states should be able to establish official religions even if the federal government cannot do so. >> eight other judges didn't agree with that, and there's no way a majority of the court would hold to that pretty radical view. if i may, if we could take the constitutional law out of this question for a minute and just ask what is the right thing for the people and the town council at greece, new york, to do, and i think that answer is pretty obvious. a moment of silence. i'm not talking about constitutional law. i am talking about what is the right and christian thing to do. have a moment of silence, make it inclusive. jews, christians, catholics, muslims can pray or not pray. atheists and aing nostices can have a moment of silent reflection, and that would send

a message that in america before the government all religions are treated equally, and if i do a quick south-out to your competitors, i would think hannity and o'reilly would be all behind that. we're all americans. he we're not american jews or american catholics. a moment of silence would do everything that the prayer does. >> that's very charitable of you. we've had that for maybe years. that has been the protocol that we've gone to the moment of silence, whether it's at football games or schools. you still have people in the christian religious community pushing that boundary further saying the moment of silence is not enough, and in this case they were victorious. five members of the united states supreme court said can you go beyond that moechlt silence. hasn't that wall already been broken down? >> yeah. you sort of see the give-away to a little bit in that the issue here is whether the prayers are very secular.

they didn't open it up for everyone until this came bshgs and then only then did they go out and sort of search for a jewish rabbi and some other religious officials to sort of get in on the case. >> that is i think the worry here. as much as you are saying a moment of silence would solve it, now given this ruling, why should any town hold to a moment of silents. why wouldn't they have any town have prayer required in town meetings. people don't like it, too bad. >> i have an answer for that, and i know i'm a constitutional law professor. i'm not talking constitutional law here. it is the inclusive right thing to do for the government to welcome people of all faiths. a moment of silence captures everything that is good about silent prayer. it doesn't have any of the exclusiveness of eight years in a row of one religion's prayer. all i'm suggesting to people is forget the constitution. let's do the right thing and

include everybody nay moment of silence which has worked in high schools, has worked at football games, and i have been to some great sporting events where there's a moment of quiet reflection on behalf of a great tragedy or great celebration. either way. it's a wonderful civic moment. adding a particular faith's religion to that moment takes away from the moment. it doesn't add to the moment. >> do you get the sense in just covering this court that it is a court that is moving beyond precedent, that it is a court that seems demonstrably to move the culture further in line with the justices' own religious values? >> to a certain extent, yeah. i think that you see that. definitely in the religious breakdown. it's sort of interesting that you see people who belong tie majority of a religion all except for with the exception of justice sotomayor went one way, and the people who belong to a minority religion went the other way.

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