carolina. >> you all excited? >> taking on senator kay hagan in november whichould decide who controls the united states senate. ukrainian forces killed five pro-russian separatists. it's called the greatest crisis to european security since the cold war. do you actually have evidence of a cover-up? >> i know folks like to use the word cover-up. >> it's not going to be a side show. >> i prefer to use the word evidence. >> there's not going to be a circus. >> what is your guilty pleasure? >> let's see. >> are there that many? >> i'm just trying to think of the "b" rated ones. right now, an elite u.s. team is traveling to nigeria to

rep rescue the 276 kidnapped school girls, taken simply for pursuing their education. here's what they're sending over the next few days, military assistance with satellite imaging and electronic eavesdropping. secretary of state john kerry argued why it is that americans should care. >> every american needs to understand that this is related to security at home. related to the capacity for job growth in the future. related to stability that the absence of may demand at some point in time the deployment of some of their sons and daughters to some far-off place in the world. >> that global outrage prompted president obama to speak out publicly on this matter for the very first time with our own al roker. >> we're going to do everything we can to provide assistance to them. in the short term, our goal obviously is to help the international community and the

nigerian government as a team to do everything we can to recover these young ladies. but we're also going to have to deal with the broader problem of organizations like this that, you know, can cause such havoc in people's day-to-day lives. >> and new today, as the world economic forum meets in nigeria, the nigerian government is offering a $300,000 reward for any information leading to the girls. this is our first glimpse of one of them. her face is obscured to hide her identity but she spoke to an independent filmmaker. >> translator: we were sleeping at night, and soldiers came in and asked us to get ready because we were going to be raided by boko haram that night. >> those girls were anything but safe. soldiers who took them were the ones they thought they were fleeing. boko haram. bring back our girls is now a rallying cry, and igniting a

sornl media movement. how the response began slowly and then exploded around the globe. already reaching 1 million tweets. joining us now is the woman who started the "bring back our girls" hash tag. thank you for joining us. you're not a social media expert. in fact, you didn't even know what a hash tag was when you first started, correct? >> that's true. i'm a director and i have two children. up until recently i thought hash tag was what my daughter was using to sass back at me when she would say hash tag sarcasm. >> fair assessment. what inspired you to start this? >> i heard the story on april 23rd. and my heart was broken. i just could not imagine that this could be taking place in 2014, that these girls could be kidnapped. and that it had happened four or five days before. and i went home and i immediately told my husband that i was going to go to chibak and help search for the girls because no one else was. that was my first plan was to go

and try to help. >> then you found these other tools could be useful. it is amazing how somebody who's not well versed in social media can ignite something that maybe makes a difference. let's look at whether it is going to make a difference. it's inspired a groundswell of support from hillary clinton, jessica beal, all of them tweeting about it. angelina jolie talking to a french publication about it. >> that they're taken as objects and going to be so violated. if the world does nothing, they get away with this, and we set this horrible precedence. it's extremely important that something's done immediately to try to find these girls, to try to bring them home, and god forbid we can't. we have to still bring these men to justice. >> is this just celebrity pr or can the celebrities coming onboard provide something more substantive in terms of action? >> absolutely. every one of us, it's our duty to speak out about this. this is not just a situation

that's happening over in nigeria. we're all connected. even though we are not sharing borders with them, but if we allow these school girls to be kidnapped, if we do not stand up for them, if we do not rescue them, if we do not say to the world this is unacceptable, then we allow terrorism to spread. this is really global world terrorism. and it will spread, and it will cross the borders and into the united states eventually, across the ocean. that really is my greatest fear. i'm doing this for the girls and for the families, but i'm also doing this for my own children. >> people use the term of idle engagement of tweets. your cry of the heart there speaks to how real it is, but how do you take that and turn it into a movement with real action on the ground? >> liking a page, or tweeting something is not action. in order to do action, you actually have to write your

congressmen, your senators, write the president, the world leaders and tell them what you feel. people need to use their voices to cause change. the news was not covering this. the administration was not speaking about it. and i just merely picked up the cry that the women were making in nigeria, which is bring back our girls. i shouted it to the u.s. i shouted it to europe. and that is what we're doing. we're now shouting it to our world leaders and say it's unacceptable. >> thank you, ramaa mossley. >> thank you. social media to capitol hill, the common thread is condemnation. earlier today members of the congressional black caucus spoke out about this on capitol hill saying it's time to bring boko haram to justice. >> we are anguished as mothers, grabbed mothers and lovers of children, that this is what the children, the girls in nigeria are worth. >> there is a special place in

hell for somebody like him. those who would prey on our children. >> and women in the senate sent a letter to president obama writing in part, quote, while we applaud the initial u.s. condemnation, we believe there is much more the united states government should do to make clear that such an attack won't be tolerated. joining me now is senator barbara mccull ski from maryland. what do you want the president to do? >> the women in the senate are outraged and we want to lend our voice and our clout to do all we can to get the international community to search for these girls, bring them home safely to their parents. and end this terrorist organization. i join with senator sue collins and all 20 women of the senate, reached out to the president, asking that we go to the u.n., placing boko haram on the international community going to

the u.n., placing them on the international u.n. terrorist list. this would freeze their assets, freeze their travel, and also begin for them to feel the pinch and the punch of economic sanctions, as well as calling upon the president to use all means at our disposal to work with the nigerian government to find these girls. >> senator, what about the technical support being sent over by the white house and other agencies? is that sufficient? >> we believe that what the president is sending right this minute will enable the nigerian government to find these girls. these are intelligence and fbi asse assets, as well as special units of the military. we need to find them in order to do the kind of rescue we need. these girls right now have been held captive for 23 days.

shekau is already bragging that he's going to sell them as brides. the nigerian government has to make sure the international resources can come in. >> there's a lot of talk about what the white house can do and what the united nations can do and some of the sanctions. what can congress do? >> well, right now, the women of the senate will be meeting with john kerry in a few days to see exactly what congress needs to do to be able to support our president and our international initiatives with both action and financial resources. we're looking at a range of things from additional support from our government, to what could interpol do. if we could look at trading art across the borders, we is certainly look to make sure we stop the trading of, you know, children. this is an international crime. we need to treat this as a terrorist organization, actually

committing international crime. and i support the grass roots groups, go in front of the nigerian embassy, make your voice heard to show that this is not celebrity chic or congress women writing a letter. we are dretermined to help thes girls. we want the same effort to find them as we used to find the lost malaysian airline. >> with the recent violent attacks by the boko haram and other terrorist groups, does this deserve more review from congress? >> the african terrorists need review. there is a pattern and practice to these organizations. but they always start with attacking the girls, and using arguments based on what they consider their theology, to be able to go after the girls. and i can tell you, if they go

after the girls, and say they can't learn to read, they will go after other terrorist targets, and it could reach the united states of america. >> all right. senator barbara mikulski, really appreciate your joining us here, and appreciate your stand on this. the verdict is out. with one reason the execution was botched and more on the agenda, is it time to retire the so-called drug cocktail? stay with us. dip! you got our attention. we did? of course. you're type e* well, i have been researching retirement strategies. well that's what type e*s do. welcome home. taking control of your retirement? e*trade gives you the tools and resources to get it right. are you type e*? when you didn't dread when youbedtime becausenner with anticipaof heartburn.itation. when damage to your esophagus caused by acid reflux disease wasn't always on your mind.

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we're back. this, right here, is the report released today by a bipartisan group of experts with the constitution project. in these 200-plus pages is an argument to end the use of drug mixtures in executions. this report was commissioned before a new drug cocktail was used last week in oklahoma to kill clayton lockette. lockette groaned, thrashed and tried to speak. he died 43 minutes later of a

heart attack. a drug cocktail was used in january. his death took 24 minutes. i spoke with a priest who was in the room and witnessed that. >> you could hear gagging in the background. i thought it was one of the other witnesses, until i discovered that it was dennis actually gagging audibly and loudly choking. >> in 2007, the supreme court found execution by those three dug cocktails was constitutional. but that was before a shortage of lethal drugs prompted states to turn to new experimental mixtures. drugs they've often been reluctant to identify the source of. today the constitution project is calling for a single drug method of execution, the same one used by doctors in assisted suicides. whether or not you believe killers deserve to die for their crimes can be an intense and deeply personal call. but that's not what this debate is about. this debate is about how we kill people and whether our current means are so inhumane, that they

rise to the cruel and unusual. joining me is vicky, represented death row inmates in oklahoma and in ohio. she's formerly chief of oklahoma's capital post conviction division. she's currently representing arthur tyler, an inmate who was just granted clemency by ohio's governor. he was set to die this very month. thank you so much for joining us. this report also calls on states to only use drugs obtained in compliance with all the laws, and approved by the fda for use in humans. these individuals committed barbaric crimes. does that justify barbaric executions? >> well, you know, there's always that debate about whether or not the person who's committed the crime should suffer enough. and that is a vigilante revenge response to a criminal act. and our justice system is supposed to be set up to where

we don't respond back into the same manner that that person did, but we respond in a more civilized manner. and most of my clients who are guilty should be locked up for the rest of their lives, because they've committed horrible crimes. but it doesn't mean they should be executed. >> this has prompted a flurry of legal action across the country. just this week attorneys in texas petitioned for robert campbell, one of their inmate clients, to have his execution delayed. he was supposed to be executed on may 13th. do you think we'll see more and more cases of this kind and do you think this will rise to the supreme court again? >> eventually the supreme court will have to address it. because each of the states are using different methods, and methodologies, and different ways of doing it. and some states, like oklahoma, are keeping it secret. and the supreme court should address it. >> we mentioned your client, arthur tyler. you just visited with him this morning. >> yes. >> he has now been granted a

stay on his death penalty, which may have been by one of these cocktails. with all of these problems in ohio, do you think we could finally see that state step away from lethal injection? >> well, not just lethal injection. i would hope that some day we would step away from the whole death penalty. it's far more expensive than having someone sentenced to life imprisonment, even evif they ar incarcerated for 40, 50 years, it's still cheaper than sending someone to death for a whole variety of reasons. and i would hope that the conversation continues. in arthur tyler's case, it's a good example of a case that had injustices from the beginning. and this parole board had recommended that arthur be actually eligible for parole, that his sentence be commuted to life with parole, and the

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i guess he could be the clay aiken of this race. the winner will face off against rene elmers, who's under fire from her own party. the republican senate primary, state house speaker tom tillis knocked out his two opponents who had been favored by the tea party and evangelicals respectively. he'll be battling kay hagan for the seat in november. tillis wasted no time in going after hagan, when talking to chuck todd here on msnbc this morning. >> take a look over what we've done over the last three years. much of what i've been doing is cleaning up kay hagan's mess in north carolina when she was sitting in the state senate. i think it's a contrast between her adding taxes, adding regulations, while we're cutting taxes and reducing regulations. very clear contrast for the voters in november. >> in north carolina race, considered one of the purest tests of the two-party strength come this fall.

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would make about 100,000 immigrants eligible for work visas. high-skilled workers and their spouses. but do these efforts go far enough for activists calling on president obama to make policies more humane. where is our congress on all of this? congressman luis gutierrez joins us right now of the thank you, sir, for joining us. what is the reaction to these proposals? >> i'm happy they did it. there's 100,000 spouses, and in this case mostly women, the visitors are mostly men. that means now that their wives don't get stuck at home. they can go out and use their energy and their talents in our economy and work. and make for a better prosperous family, when a husband and wife, in many households, it takes two in this economy to make it work. so i'm really happy -- now, look, that's just an announcement, right? isn't it interesting that grassley immediately said it was a bad idea? you know what the message is? it doesn't matter, even when you

do good things to promote our economy, and to keep families strong, there's some republicans who just don't want any immigration at all. >> it does seem that argument is to our benefits to get these people into the economy. >> why leave in the majority of the cases an able, talented, in the majority, the women at home? when she can go out there and make the family stronger. and the other thing, ronnan, just so we're clear, other countries compete for this same talent. when they compete for this same talent, they say, bring your wife, bring your kids. >> there is also the human cost of this. this issue really tears families apart. take a look at this number. between july 2010 and mid-october 2012, people with u.s. children were deported more than 200,000 times. that's actually double the rate of a previous ten-year period. why the increase? >> look, the increase is very clear. because the obama administration

has attempted, i believe, to demonstrate to the world that they're going to enforce the law. i believe it is also -- it feeds upon itself. because there is a voracious bureaucracy out there that all it knows is to hurt and to damn families, especially families of undocumented. because there is no real way to legalize your status, right? because all of the old opportunities that used to exist for people to come to this country, to legalize their status, have been shut down by the republican majority. and now we're trying to reopen that. >> let's talk about the obstacles that you mentioned from the republican majority. iowa congressman steve king is opposed to all of this. he actually just spoke out on granting legal status to undocumented immigrants who served in the military. he said as soon as they raise their hand and take the oath, they say, we'll take your deposition and we have a bus for

you to tijuana. how do you negotiate with that kind of an extreme sentiment? >> here's how you negotiate. you negotiate with a peter king from new york, who said he's for comprehensive immigration reform. four republicans in my state stood up yesterday. look, you want to know, i haven't been -- you probably share the sentiment, ronan, with me, i haven't been as happy to see a republican win a renomination to the republican party in south carolina as i saw yesterday when elmers won the nomination of the republican party. that doesn't mean i'm going to be for her in the gem election, but i'm so excited that she won. the message is very, very clear. she stood up for comprehensive immigration reform. she said there should be a pathway, and the right wing of her party attacked her viciously and she prevailed. i think the message is very clear. the republicans keep saying, they tell us, we just don't trust the president. you know who they tonight trust? they don't trust republican

primaries. >> it also speaks to the partisanship on this issue. i want to talk about the actions people can take at home on this. you've actually just done something yourself. you joined our call to action and signed a letter asking speaker boehner to pass comprehensive immigration reform this year. we are doing that because we think it's a meaningful statement whether it happens or not. but is there a realistic chance for comprehensive reform this year? >> yes. it's so realistic. and i think it is so important, that i've been given floor speech after floor speech. i was excited about joining you, ronan. come and check my facebook. i have 170 followers. we'll put it on facebook this afternoon. we'll ask our followers to talk that their other facebook friends. we're going to make sure that thousands and thousands of people, not just -- because this isn't about you've reached me. it's now my responsibility to reach others. so that we work together in expanding and demonstrating the will of the american people. i'm happy to do it. we'll get you thousands of

others to do it, because my facebook followers are just the greatest when it comes to immigration reform. >> i love hearing that, congressman. >> and i have to say, look, i met with the president last month, right? we sat down in the oval office. and here's something -- and you started with this, ronan, and i think it's important. the president kept saying, i'm not a dictator. i can't unilaterally do this, congress has to act. i can only act -- you know what he said? he didn't say that when we met with him three, four weeks ago. he said, luis, i'm instructing secretary johnson, the same secretary johnson that was the legal architect of eliminating going after the "don't ask, don't tell" in the pentagon, that was his last job, to look at how it is people are deported and to make the deportation much more humane. i think we'll have small significant changes in how it is that how we're going to allow our committee to combat deportation. if the republicans do not act, and they don't act by the end of this summer, i think you're going to see the president of

the united states take broader, bolder actions to save millions of people from deportation. >> thank you so much, congressman. appreciate your work on this issue. >> good to be with you. >> you can join this effort, too. sign that letter to speaker john boehner calling for him to pass comprehensive immigration reform this year. it's on our website. just enter your name and e-mail address and let us know why you're signing. up next, a blast from the past for hillary clinton. but how will that affect her future? our panel weighs in. don't go away. (meow mix jingle) right on cue. (laughs)

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control in america. wishing for tighter restrictions and comparing gun violence here to countries she's visited with, quote, with no rule of law. >> at the rate we're going, we're going to have so many people with guns everywhere, fully licensed, fully validated, in settings where they can be in a movie theater and they don't like somebody chewing gum loudly or talking on their cell phone, and decide they have a perfect right to defend themselves against the gum chewer and cell phone user, by shooting the person. i mean, that -- that's what happens in the countries i visited where there's no rule of law and there's no self-control. and that is something that we cannot just let go without paying attention. >> and she went to bat for obamacare, and saying she's not alone in that sentiment. >> a small majority of americans don't think they like the

affordable care act. but a large majority of americans don't want to do away with the protections that are in the affordable care act. a small majority wants to repeal it. but that is slowly receding a a rising majority said, no, fix it. that's in the tradition of good old-fashioned american pragmatism. >> and the former secretary of state let loose a little when asked about her guilty pleasures. >> let's see. >> are there that many? >> i'm just trying to think of, you know, the "g" rated ones. chocolate. i hate to be so predictable. chocolate of any sort. >> oh, hillary clinton. what do you guys think of that? i like a little bit of cheekiness in there. >> i was shall laughing at the

"g" rated. >> it's strategic, showing more of a human side, a little off-color. >> exactly. this is a side of hillary we didn't always see before. that's what's so great about her right now saying she's maybe thinking of running. but not actually running. not holding a seat in government. she has a lot of freedom to do these kinds of things. this is really good when we're thinking about 2016 for her. >> but she is certainly cultivating the appearance of not being cautious, which is a big win for her in terms of the strategy. there's serious substance that she worked in there. defending obamacare, as we mentioned. she has also spoken out against gun violence before. what makes this a little bit of a next step do you think, michael? >> you know, first of all, it's surprising she's talking about domestic issues. i wonder why show's doing that, rolling out the campaign. >> that's not a risk-free proposition. >> and it's not a risk-free proposition to say i think the

obamacare is a risk-free prop kogs. coming out on guns is a risky proposition. there's not a lot of movement in american culture, in american opinion on guns. it's depressing in some ways. and sort of kind of bogs down in others. the other thing that surprised me is she came out so hard and said that in nations that have no rule of law, you can actively get away with shooting someone for chewing gum. you can't actually do that, by the way. it's happened, but it's not legal. but saying if you're comparing the state of americans or the culture to say, some places that have no rule of law, she's coming out very hard. >> the critique she got in the last election cycle, she was involved, and there was a little bit of a safeness of her comments. this is something that cuts against that. there's also news out there that she may or may not be a little less happy with monica lewinsky speaking out for the first time in years and years. the reaction to that, that's

actually why i wanted to get this particular panel with two young folks like yourself, there's a generational divide on this. "the daily beast," an entire generation has passed since the lewinsky scandal. t there will be voters still in utter ro during the scandal. that proportion will grow. in other words, a big portion of the young and crucial voters here have no historical attachment to this issue. do you think, liz, that's a good thing or a bad thing for hillary clinton? >> i think that's a good thing. i think if we look at the polls, young people remember the clinton years generally, much more positively than older generations. and even when you think about the scandal itself, and the people who were old enough to know what was going on, it actually helped hillary. if you look at the polls, at her popularity, it actually made her

much more popular among the american people. >> humanizing her. >> exactly. >> so many families have gone through, if not that, something, their own version of that. >> exactly. in a lot of ways i think the lewinsky interview that just came out actually just killed the only argument that the dpop really had, which is that bill clinton was the sexual predator. >> she said this was consensual, and said the worst trauma was the fight for clinton on the hill for her. and reading of the tea leaves and how hillary would react to this news. lynn cheney actually said that the clintons wanted this to happen. take a listen to that. >> i really wonder if this isn't an effort on the clintons' part to get that story out of the way. would "vanity fair" publish anything about monica lewinsky that hillary clinton didn't want in "vanity fair"? >> wow. okay. i find that implication hill lar use. like they rigged this, they sent her out.

sure. but ruth marcus wrote in the "washington post," a more reasonable version of this saying the story does do hillary clinton some favors, similar to the point you were making, liz. she said, quote, if and when a clinton presidential announcement comes, the lewinsky news will be old news. >> look, the way the conservatives thought of the clintons, destroying the planet and sort of destroying the american economy, and how they thought of the clintons during the early obama years, this is intervention of the government. ending welfare as we know it, free trade, et cetera. this shift in what people believe about the clintons has been enormous. the shift in the young is a very important point, too, not only do people not remember it, you know, i'm a little older than some people. older than you might think. >> you look like a million bucks. >> i know, i'm in my late 30s. >> late 30s -- >> don't say it on tv.

so basically, why i think the difference is you have a cultural shift amongst young people, too. they don't really care about this stuff as much as people might have done 20, 30 years ago. it doesn't seem like a big deal. monica lewinsky is saying, it was consensual. is it right? was it moral? that's a different question. but it was consensual. he's not a sexual predator as rand paul shows him. when we come back, just ahead, a most valuable player and a least valuable person. that is our hero and zero selection of the day. stay with us for them. of complete darkness. i am totally blind. i've been blind since birth. i lost my sight to eye disease. i lost my sight in afghanistan. and it doesn't hold me back.

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we're back with mike and liz, and they're going to weigh in on today's heroes and zeros. first up, the sultan of brunei. a resolution passed yesterday calling on the sultan to sell a famous hollywood hotel in

protest of brunei's new laws threatening people in same-sex or adulterous relation shms with amputations and death by stoning. celebrities actually helped mobilize that mobilize that move. -- our pal jay leno couldn't resist either. >> what year is this? what is this 1814? come on. people, it's 2014. >> i'm sure a lot might not even be aware what was going on. you just make people aware. >> what year is this? oh, my god, my jay leno is terrible. the sultan of brunei and his new laws are zeros today. i won't put you on the spot now. what do you think? does this prove the power of hollywood to do something, michael? >> can i be nakedly id logical about it? the idea -- >> the same thing with the clippers owner is if you do

things like this, if you're involved in such knuckle-dragging behavior in pushing laws. 14th century seems a bit modern for the sultan of brunei. leno is right. i wasn't aware of this. now they're mobilizing and will lose lots of money. i don't think you're going to have to make him sell it. >> i'd have to agree on all points. the feminist majority foundation that lodged this boycott, they started the boycott because they realized they were having a global women's health conference at this hotel. >> the irony is rich. >> exactly. >> jay leno's wife is a huge donor for this organization. it happened perfectly. >> how do you separate out good hollywood activism that mobilizes results and pr move,

michael? >> this is so obviously a good thing for everyone to get involved in. i can't imagine that they would use for pr purposes in opposition to stoning gay men and women and adulterers. hollywood is a very tin cal place, i don't think it's that cynical. maybe i'm going out on a limb here. how do you separate this thing? if people get behind these causes, i'm fine with it. if they want to draw attention to issues that need to be pointed out and they're doing this for cynical purposes, i really don't care. >> results speak for themselves. >> something else that speaks for itself, a hero that i don't think anyone is going to dispute today. oklahoma city thunder forward kevin durant, he just won mvp, most valuable player. he talked during his acceptance about being raised by his mother wanda pratt and their days of moving from apartment to apartment, at one point without any furniture at all. those remarks with mother's day

around the corner, our hero today. >> i love basketball so much. i love playing it. i just never thought that i could make it to college, nba or stand up here today in front of you guys and be an nba mvp. it's just a surreal feeling. i failed so many times and got back up. i've been through the toughest times with my family, but i'm still standing. [ applause ] >> and last, my mom. i don't think you know what you did. you made us believe. you kept us off the street, put clothes on our backs, food on the table. when you didn't eat, you made sure we ate. you went to sleep hungry.

you sacrificed for us. you're the real mvp. >> with mother's day around the corner, moving stuff, right? what do you think? that must be a rallying call to kids everywhere facing those kinds of adversities. liz, how powerful is the role is that playing inspiring people? >> i think it's huge. i don't think we as adults and children turn on their television and see a grown man, a 6'9" grown man crying on national television and thanking his male teammates, thanking his mother, a mother who grew up in poverty, a single mother. she was 21 when she had him. we're not used to seeing those kinds of images depicted. >> guys have feelings, too. michael, any comments for your mother? >> if he's watching now, i'll be giving a similar moving speech by myself in my apartment. i'll tell her about it later,

uncontrollably weeping. >> does that set the bar high for mothers? >> it sets the bar high. if anyone should watch the whole thing, you can't even do it justice -- >> we had trouble with that. we didn't want to break it up. >> it's really beautiful. it's especially fantastic when you're as cynical as i am about celebrity sports types, so much flash and kind of bling. >> in a time when sports is getting a lot of press for some of the dark sides of it, it's good to have a role model like this. >> really sinister stuff, especially the nba and the rat bag that own it is clippers, you see something lovely like this. >> all right. get your mothers presents. liz and michael, thank you for being here. that wraps up things for this edition of rfd. you can catch my show weekdays at 1:00 p.m. now it's time for "reid report"

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good afternoon everyone, i'm joy reid. this is "the reid report." on this wednesday there's renewed global pressure to rescue nearly 300 girls kidnapped in nigeria. >> it's finally time that we make something happen to make it stop. >> these are crimes committed against humanity. these crimes against humanity must stop. >> we have a group of despicable and devilish human beings who have no value for human life. >> we should be clear, this is not just a nye jeerns issue, it is a global issue. >> it is on the world platform. let us as a world deal with this along with nigeria. >> as the u.s. sends in people to help, we'll explain what they're up against.

plus, here we go again. another benghazi investigation on the way. >> there's not going to be a sidesh sideshow, not going to be a circus. this is a serious investigation. >> okay. but what if you threw a bipartisan benghazi hearing and the democrats didn't show up? we'll hear from someone who calls the republican fishing expedition a colossal waste of time. race and politics, two democrats engage in frank tank about the role race has played facing the gridlock in the country. first, there are reports of renewed violence in nigeria, even as the international push intensifies to bring home hundreds of girls kidnapped by terrorists. several reports saying civilians were gunned down in a brutal massacre that killed as many as 300 people on the nigerian border with cameroon. that is being blamed on boka haram, blamed for the mass kidnapping on