have to act now. earlier this week i issued -- we issued a report that was years in the making called the national climate assessment, hundreds of scientists and businesses and experts, not for profits all contributed and they found unequivocally it is not a far off problem in the future. it's happening now and causing hardship now. it's effecting every sector of our economy and our society, more severe floods and violent wildfires. it's already costing states and cities money. here in california you know what's happen and more and more americans do, including many republicans outside of washington. inside washington we still have climate deniers who shout loud

but they are wasting everybody's time. climate change is a fact. the shift to clean energy won't happen overnight we have to make tough choices along the way. if we do, it will create jobs over the long term and that what walmart realizes and they are pretty good at counting their pennies. that's why this fight is so important, the sooner we work together to adapt the economy to this reality of climate change, more likely it is that we do right by our kids. ultimately that's what motivates a whole lot of us. as americans we don't look backwards, we look forward. we don't fear the future, we seize it and shape it and when it comes to energy, we have a chance to shape that sector that

is probably going to have more to do with how well our economy succeeds than just about any other. we are blessed when it comes to energy but much more blessed when it comes to the innovation and the creativity of our economy. if we do our part right now to rebuild an economy and transition to clean energy future, we'll create new jobs and reduce our dependence on foreign oil and leave our children with a better america and better future. thank you very much everybody. thanks to the companies doing the great work. we appreciate your leadership. happy mother's day, moms. >> white house officials say a significant commitment by walmart to double the number of on site solar energy projects

and that is a lot of real estate and a lot of energy savings. solar power, renewable energy were topics and led off by saying congress is not acting on the issue so he's acting via executive actions and listed some including a wide range of private/public partnerships which will be the equivalent of taking many cars off the road. joining me now is robert costa, giving us a sense of what spurred this. thank you so much for joining. what do you think of that comment of congressional inaction and got in a dig, inside washington we have a lot of climate deniers and they shout loudly but there's no credence to what they are saying. this is a renewed offensive that we'll see more of? >> it is. as the president grapples with the difficult reality, he's trying to move forward in some small way and that's the executive actions and the way he's focusing is to go to a key

mid-term issue and i think it's an important move before the elections because it gets the democratic base excited. >> do you think the difference made by the new solar projects will be substantial enough to satisfy the energy lobby? >> not so much, the energy lobby on the left side of things are looking for more progressive bent from the president and what he pursues on capitol hill. the president keeps pushing back against that argument saying there are a lot of climate change deniers within the republican conference in the house and can't get anything done so he's going to stick with this and do in the oval office what he can. we'll have you back later to talk about troubling and interesting developments on the hill. in the meantime we've got developing news. the white house is reacting to vladimir putin's victory lap because today marked victory day in russia, a commemoration of nazis defeat, the day putin chose to make his first visit to crimea, victory day. white house press secretary jay carney reacted to putin's visit

last hour on "andrea mitchell reports." take a listen to that. >> president putin's presence in crimea is notinternational comms not recognize the illegal annexation of crimea. >> from the white house, not helpful. this is the same putin who days ago suggested eastern ukraine postpone the own vote and released a commemorative coin to mark the annexation. it's the same putin also who insisted he ordered his troops to leave the border but they just didn't listen. today he presided over a soviet style military parade in red square. pretty impressive. chief foreign correspondent richard engel is in ukraine, in donetsk. >> reporter: russia marked what it calls victory day, victory in

europe, russia calls it victory day, the victory over nazi germany in world war ii. there was a huge military parade and prime minister med vef tweeted a photo of a ballistic missile, more than tweeting a selfie. the big news was the surprise visit of putin to crimea. it took many people here when putin actually arrived, arriving in style as he likes to do by boat in is he vast poll, he said the 2013 will go down as the time and year when the people of crimea decided to rejoin with russia. and crimea and all of ukraine used to be part of russia during the soviet union. putin also said that the people of the world must respect it and other nations must respect russia's national interest and

right to self-determination and what he said russia's right to correct historic injustice. president putin believes the collapse of the soviet union was a historic injustice. >> that was richard engel in eastern ukraine. now let's head back to d.c., to boycott or not boycott. that's the dilemma house democrats are committed with today. the latest, greatest most plitized investigation of the attack in benghazi is gaining steam. their decision? seems like it's to punt. nancy pelosi said she still hasn't decided if democrats will sit on the committee because she's waiting for further talks with house speaker john boehner. >> where we are on that, speaker called me the other day, i'm very serious about this and want this to be no circus, all of that. and said we should sit down and come to terms on it. fine, i can be there in a minute. when we sit down we'll see what

that is. and then we'll make a decision as to how we proceed with that. >> and just moments ago the white house weighed in on msnbc. >> should democrats cooperate with the select committee? >> we leave it to leader pelosi and other democrats in the house to make decisions about how they will participate or not participate but i think the nature of this and political nature of this investigation has been pretty clear just hearing republicans talk about it in the last several days. >> republicans meanwhile are raring to go and just announced who will be representing them, these were quite the coveted seats, you see the names there. this was the hottest competition in washington this week. on the benghazi kangaroo court to inflate a tragedy into a scandal. for what it works, republicans do continue to insist it is not

a witch hunt, well, sort of. >> this administration has gone out of their way. they've lawyered up to make sure that they could i think mislead congress. and then they would try and explain themself in such a way that they would blame our insistence upon getting the truth as a political witch hunt. well, mr. speaker, that must mean there's a witch somewhere. >> really? >> i'm pretty sure the witch hunt means literally the opposite of what you think it means and the pesky issue whether or not it's appropriate to raise money, what do you think mitt romney? >> do you think it's wrong to be fund raidsing off that issue? >> i think what the republicans have every right to say and as appropriate to say is that if republicans were not in the congress, if republicans did not have a majority in the congress there would not be an investigation. so to say look, elect

republicans so we can have these type of investigations is appropriate. >> to be fair, everyone krasly fund raising off everything isn't either a new or uniquely republican phenomenon. joining me now howard fineman and robert costa back with us, national political reporter at the "washington post." robert, the house is on recess next week. do you think the dems are trying to drag this out until after they return? >> i think pelosi is trying to wring some sort of concession out of boehner. they think there's already a flurry of investigations on capitol hill. i think ultimately some democrats will sit on the panel mostly for the reason that they know hillary clinton is likely to be called. now she looks towards 2016, they want to be there for her in that room to defend her. >> and howard, do you think the names we've seen coming out of the republican side tell us in about the tener of the dialogue going forward? >> absolutely, starting with trey gowdy.

i wrote a piece for huff post about him. he comes out of upstate south carolina, he comes out of the tradition of suspicion of federal government that goes all the the way back to two centuries to john ka houn and lee atwater and jim demint. he's a tea party guy. he's got inside moves but he was elected in 2010 after challenging a sitting republican incumbent. he's tea party and aggressive. and he's an experienced prosecutor and this is a trial in his mind. they are going to put this together with the continuing investigation of lois lerner of the irs and almost political co-cooping. it's partly strategy but policy for them. in a low turnout midterm election, i think the democrats need not to automatically assume

it won't work because it's going to gin up the republican conservative base big time. >> it's funny you mentioned his background as prosecutor. he was on "morning joe earl quer in the week and when asked he used the term trial instead of hearing. what concessions do you think the democrats are trying to get from republicans? nancy pelosi is waiting for a call back from boehner. what is she hoping to achieve here? >> they would like to have some type of participation in the subpoena process in terms of who -- managing that process and having a say. that's unlikely. republicans have a majority in the house and want control over that. pel loelgscy is looking to see who wants to sit on it and trying to buy time. >> we heard just moments ago of course, about the reaction of mitt romney to the latest news out of the benghazi hearing and alleged fund raising out of

this. what do you think of his significance in this fight, robert? is he still a big player? he was the first to link the administration and alleged yong doing by the administration to the benghazi attacks. >> i think romney reflects the position of the republican establishment and you've seen boehner and others who are in romney's circle politically, they've been a little weary of this nrcc fundraiser but they know within the current state of play on capitol hill, where you have the president doing executive orders and republicans into looking into oversight and health care on the other, benghazi is a key issue for them in the mid terms and if they raise money off of it. they are focusing on it and that's what they are going to tie to their political efforts as well. >> howard, he made big news about domestic issues when i he talked about minimum wage earlier. >> i for instance, as you know, part company with many of the con sirve tifs on the issue of

the minimum wage. i think we ought to raise it. our party is all about more jobs and better pay. and i think communicating that is important to us. >> that took a lot of people aback. do you think that could spur a trend? do you think more republicans will get behind it? >> he's saying it knowing for a certainty it's not going to happen. and the way the republicans are pushing their strategy right now undercuts what mitt romney said. on the minimum wage, his sort of blessing the benghazi irs strategy, the sort of strategy of investigation, the politics of subpoena, that's what they are going to talk about to the extent they can, it's going to be a huge theme. in midterms getting out the base is what it's all about and that's what trey gowdy from the sort of home state of the modern republican party is aiming to do. and people like karl rove -- believe me, romney and rove and whole rest of the establishment are in on this strategy big

time. >> right and you say tray gowdy getting out the base there was a fund raising e-mail and it was of course targeted at fund raising for gowdy and others and wasn't from his camp specifically. >> gowdy -- ronan, gowdy has to say, he's the chairman, he's got to say, oh, no, this isn't about politics at all. he's the chairman of this special committee. he can't say that. but everybody else around him is going to say it. >> he made that it's not a circus comment. it's what we would expect and but everyone hopes it comes to some truth. thank you for joining. what's motivating that group that kidnapped the nigerian school girls and how does it play into this global war we are seeing on girls education. stay with us to find out.

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the house will observe a moment of silence for these young women, the members will rise. john boehner moments ago leading a moment of silence on the house floor for those 276 missing nigerian school girls. and right now a new team of seven u.s. military on the ground in nigeria. more expected as early as tomorrow. all of their goal, to help nigerian government track down those girls kidnapped by the terror group boko haram. >> go into my house and burn my house and break everything inside night house, give me my daughter. that would be better for me, even to take my life at that moment, i'm more satisfied than them taking my daughter away.

>> secretary of state john kerry told ann curry it is too early to conclude if any of the girls can be found. remember, boko haram means western education is a sin. and the attack on education around the world is a growing problem in 2012 there were 3,643 reported attacks against education across 17 different countries. that's more than twice the year before. and also, 287 children and teachers and education and staff are killed in the same time frame. joining me now are -- founder of the burn bright international founder and founder of room to read. i'll start with you. if you take a look at the map of countries around the world that experienced attacks on education, nigeria is one of them and just look at that visual, it's so many different countries. why this fear of education? >> well, what you have in

nigeria, you have a very diverse community as relates to education. in the north, about 67% of the women are married before they are 15 and enrollment only at 22%. you have a situation where education is seen as a departure from the cultural way in which they operate. >> something in which education or literacy could change the game on that. seeking employment and leaving those communities. john wood, you work on literacy issues and a lot of communities around the world where there is an almost fundamentally commitment to keeping girls out of school. >> the key thing is to keep communities in involved. that mother is emblem attic to the millions around the world who one and one thing only, a better life. room to read worked in over 17,000 communities across ten countries in the developing world to get literal and have

equal access to girls. >> does that help break this cycle of early marriage and look of opportunity? >> absolutely. girls delay marriage and have fewer children and more economic empowerment. when they make more money, they spend that money on things like education, clothing, shelter, medicine, women put money into things that help their family. that's why this is such an important issue the world cannot ignore. >> they are kidnapped and taken out of their communities entirely, you lose hope of that. >> what do you think the biggest fear is right now? >> the biggest fear is that the daughters will not return and they'll never see them and continued attacks. we know nigeria is not the only country that has these issues as it relates to violence against women and girls and this sits at the intersection of what many are going through which is so important we pay attention and do everything we can, particularly by supporting organizations on the ground level that are really trying to

educate girls. >> let's talk about the impact if we were able to about face this trend of girls not being in school. ban ki-moon said that an estimated 189,000 women every year could be saved if girls were in primary school more. he said if you extended that to secondary education, they had found crunching the numbers that you could save 3 million lives. what's the first step do you think? >> well, the u.n. secretary general's initiative, education first, right, is really about making sure that every single child has the opportunity to be educated and i think the first step especially in a country like nigeria is enrolling the parents in the importance of it. there is a cultural resistance in the north to the importance and value of that especially as it relates to go against their cultural norms. >> john, going back to your work confronting this kind of animosity towards girls education around the world. one of the places it works is afghanistan and pakistan, there

is such resistance, i was in pakistan and remember our envoy hammering on this point, it's all about girls education and looking at room to read's work as a model of how can we crack this, the big story out of pakistan has been malala and the attack on her and her spurring a movement. >> it's changing it much more. we see so many youth getting involved in room to read. we don't want to hear words. we want action. we have kids now who are like girls saying for bar mits va, they don't want gifts, only costs $230 per girl per year. it's not an expensive model of change. >> to bring literacy training. >> yes and this whole notion that education is this western notion is ridiculous. right? education is a fundamental human right that every boy and girl

should go to school every day and get literate. we cannot stop and lose to these people. we have to outorganize them and flange them and scale up to get every kid in school. >> it's going to take the work of organizations like both of yours. we're going to stay with this fight and come back to you on it. appreciate their work on this and up next, a new gag order is slapped on the intelligence community. we're going to explain. but carefully because they are probably listening. when folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that's not a coincidence. it's one more part of our commitment to america.

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information, makes sense. the new ones aim to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of information, not just classified but any unauthorized information, a term that can mean anything the government wants it to mean. look what happened to the guidelines for informal settings like chatting about this at your dinner table or realistically on a panel at an event but informal settings and all rules left it to the individual to remain within the guidelines. now quote, personnel expected to engage in unstructured or free form discussions of that type must prepare an outline of topics to be discussed and provide the information to the information management division. does that sound a little orwellyan to you. i know classifying documents it's essential to have some secrecy to protect america. but trillions of new documents are classified every single year. a committee established by congress, public interest declassification board warned

that there are just too many secrets and that quote, those secrets are impeding informed government decisions and informed public and worse enabling corruption and malfeasance. i found that same panel found that one the government agency was classifying a peta bite of new raw data, it's also left the american people disillusioned, almost 60% of young people felt the n smt a leaks served the public interest. they want less secrets but it is a run away train and these guidelines are a step in exactly the wrong direction. that's the story in the papers today and making headlines. as we do every week we've asked you to tell a story isn't making the headlines, it's underreported and here are these results from your votes this week. take a look. in third place with 18% of the vote, lack of funding for pediatric cancer research.

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make this issue a priority? let's ask laura vazquez on immigration policy at the national council. thank you for joining. your group is making an economic argument on the issue. how do you think it can improve the economy? >> it's not just an economic argument but that is one of the emphasis that we're placing because we know that this is the issue that the house continues to address. the majority leader put in his memo to his colleagues this month that the house goal is to improve the economy and to create new jobs. and yet he failed to put immigration reform on the agenda when it's clear that that is a way to increase the gdp and create new yobz and reduce the deficit. why isn't immigration reform on the agenda? >> we're certainly, all of us trying to make voices across the country heard loud and clear to congress. at the same time, the white house has come under fire from

your group. there is that famous comment calling president obama the deporter in chief, do you think the perception has changed in the wake of that comment he seems to have taken more executive actions on this. >> there have been some steps in the last few days that the administration has taken. we know there's so many more that the president needs to do as we continue to see 1100 people being deported from this country every day. the majority of them being people who have strong ties to this country and they've been here for a long time and raising u.s. citizen and children. there's so much more that can be done and it's within the president's authority to do. certainly congressional inaction is one reason why we need to see president obama take action. it actually demands him to take action until we see the house pass legislation as we so desperately need to provide a permanent solution that we're all pushing for.

>> it seems for the white house and the house on this issue, the most integral thing is making sure people get this on ballots and minds of politicians. we had that letter to house speaker boehner, you're actually moving ahead and taking out that baton and doing your spring into action. what specifically would you like to see the hill do on this? >> well, it's imperative that the house republican leadership put an immigration reform bill on the floor within the very soon. we know that the votes exist. we know that there are democrats that support the bill and republicans that are on record supporting immigration reform legislation that includes a path to citizenship. >> we saw jeb bush's comments. this is a growing bipartisan support for this issue. >> of course, it's always been a bipartisan issue. and now what we need is the political will of the house republican leadership to allow that vote to happen that's going

to demonstrate that this continues to be a bipartisan issue because there are interests both economic, moral and it's just in the best interest of the country to have a modern 21st century immigration system. >> we'll see if the voices are heard. thank you. we're going to keep our call to action open over the weekend to gather more signatures pressing speaker boehner to comprehensive immigration reform. it is climbing rapidly, stay with us on that and we'll send your signatures to them next week. next up, ready, aim, misfire, what the nra might be doing to celebrate mother's day. really... so our business can be on at&t's network for $175 dollars a month? yup. all five of you for $175. our clients need a lot of attention. there's unlimited talk and text. we're working deals all day. you get 10 gigabytes of data to share. what about expansion potential? add a line anytime for 15 bucks a month. low dues... great terms... let's close.

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>> i learned how not to point it at people and just to keep it up and not down and point it at your feet, like if it's on and if you're not shooting, don't aim it and don't put your finger on the trigger. >> got a couple tourists smith and wessons, aks, .22, .12 gauge. >> any you would try to convince dad to get in the. >> another ak-47. >> you've used it before? >> yeah. >> it's quite heavy, isn't it? >> not really. >> it's americana, it's home and apple pie and women run the family and that brings the gun culture into the family.

>> there are several prizes they are giving away for kids today too if they go around the show to visit different booths and get a stamp, then they can take that filled card back and be entered into drawings for several different prizes today also. i understand actually some real firearms are going to be given away as well. >> youth day is over there, where all of the children are gathered at the nra convention. >> keep moving, keep moving. >> can't we just walk in the hall. >> keep moving. >> we filmed kids before here for two days why -- what's different? >> because keeping the media away from the kids. >> not because we have a camera --

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what difference does it make? then if the girl tapes it and releases it, my god, it's awful. >> see guys, he was just being a lady's man, big charm offensive. offensive, anyway. the other lovely lady in his life, shelly sterling will fight to the death to keep the clippers. how do the clippers feel about that? here's the reaction of doc rivers. i think it would be a very hard situation, i'll say that much. joining me now are drew imagery for dead spin and eton thomas, the author of "fatherhood rising to the ultimate challenge." what do you think of those new recordings? >> they don't surprise me. we knew donald sterling was going to fight this to the death. he spent half of his life in the court. he's going to fight this. he's trying to muddy the waters with things that don't concern this and violating his freedom of speech and he's the victim

now. but the article nba constitution says adam silver can do what he did if it falls under the category of >> you saw how many sponsors pulled out, but also just from a moral standpoint. the image of the league. he can definitely do what he did, but it's just interesting that he is trying to play a victim right now. >> also interesting, defending the racist remarks saying they were part of a romantic overture. thoughts? >> smoking hot, right? >> that would work on you, right? >> nothing turns a woman on like whispering in her inner ear all -- >> just racism. >> i'll go to you, actually. serious question of these advances by shelly sterling on the team. do you think there's any scenario in which she could assume ownership? >> well, sure, because donald sterling, you know, when he wanted move the team from san diego, the league didn't want him to move the team, and he sued, and then he sort of moved the team. he was able to successfully keep

it in los angeles. you know, these sports teams do not enjoy being a -- donald sterling is a lawyer who is more than happy to stay in court for decades at a time. just as a general rule. yeah, i could see a situation where mrs. sterling drags it out and manages to keep it in the fold thanks to a court that's sympathetic to their cause. sure. >> that would be an interesting outcome in terms of nbap.r. >> and fun. >> right. so much fun for all of us commenting. itan, let's look at the nfl draft that's happening in new york city making a lot of news. >> the league's first openly gay player, do you think he will be draft snd. >> i'm want sure what will happen. i heard reports of his workout that they weren't too good, but one thing that really bothers me about the whole process is the process of the nfl combine. as i was watching it, i was looking and saying why did they

have to have them parade around and nothing but a loin cloth around them and pick and prod them approximate poke at them and check their teeth and feet and check their hind parts. it's really similar to a very ugly point of our american culture, which we don't want to really have anything connected to it. these are white players as well. >> it's an intense parallel. >> i'm not saying the nfl players are slaves. i'm saying that the process of the way that they have the nfl combine is very similar to the process of auction blocks. i think it's disgusting. >> you think it's exploit ative. >> donald sterling likes to go to the combine and look at the beautiful bodies. >> i am so turned on from all the racism right now. god. etan, as we talked about jason collins went through this process. >> does it appear as a problem? if they attribute it to a specific reason of why he didn't get drafted, but what they're

saying as far as his -- everything that i have heard so far is that his workouts really weren't that great, so, you everyone, we'll have to see what happens and how the fall-out of that happens after that. >> and what do you think? for whatever reason, if he doesn't make the cut, is that something that's going to get blowback? >> you know, i think the nfl scouts don't really care. i think that they can concoct as many reasons as they want to not draft sam because it's the second openly gay player. you know, you hear them saying things like, well, he is too small. he is a tweenor, he might be a distraction. if they want to concoct a way to not have to have the courage to draft him, they can figure it out. then, you know, the blowback might be for a few days, but they'll just go on because it's a collective guilt on their part if he doesn't get drafted. it's disbursed among 32 feels. >> usually that's one thing that usually insulates sports from real reform. as we've seen from the clippers scandal, sometimes it can reach a tipple point.

etan, before we go, in your book you talk about kevin durant, among others, and we've been moved around here by those comments he made. obviously it's mother's day coming up, and he made those very beautiful remarks about his mother. i wanted to play those again and talk about those as we bump out and look forward to getting all the moms the right gifts. take a listen. >> we weren't supposed to be here. you made us believe. he kept us off the street. you put clothes on auerbaour ba food on the table. you sacrificed for us. you are the real mvp. [ applause ] >> etan, are moms the unk sung heroes of the nba? >> oh, definitely. you know, kevin durant beautifully talked about it in my book. along with a lot of other people. that's why i really wanted him to express that. it's motivation for a lot of young people who are growing nup a situation like that. single parent households. that's why it really hit a key spot. you know, because he is telling them that no matter what the

statistics, no matter what negativity you come from a broken home or whatever the chips are stacked against you, you can still be successful. not just in basketball, but in life in general. it's motivational. it was really a beautiful thing to see kevin durant really express that, and the humility that he had. you know, you're listening to him talk about his mother, and you try -- just a really beautiful -- >> that's all. >> you guys are welcome back any time. it's an important issue. i love the subject of your book and i loved his comments on that, and i loved both your comments today. drew, etan, appreciate it. >> that wraps things up for rfd. thank you for joining me. you can catch my show week days 1:00 p.m. right here on msnbc. now it is time for the reid report with mi colleague joy reid. joy, happy day before the day before mother's day. >> thank you, ronan. >> my mother's day gift is my kids. no, actually, i want a present. >> the best of all gifts. the most annoying of all gifts.

>> a little bit of both. next on "the reid report" john boehner is going ahead with his select committee on benghazi, but is there any up side for democrats to join in? i'll ask one of them. then president obama just announced more plans to deal with climate change. that's got the climate deniers hot under the collar and trying to avoid the subject. the hash tag that's mobilizing the world. i'll speak to the man credited with being the first to use the bring back our girls hash tag for the school kids kidnapped in nigeria. the reid report starts just minutes from now.

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>> there's no scandal there. it's a tragedy. >> so far with respect to the benghazi hearings, the republicans have shown no bipartisanship so far. the credibility of the hearing is suspect, i think. >> will democrats boycott the new probe of the u.s. consulate in benghazi? we'll talk to one democrat who says his party needs to be involved. plugs, the fbi is investigating whether armed supporters of cliven bundy pointed guns at federal agents in that april 12th confrontation with the bureau of land management. by the way, those militias, still hanging around the ranch. new street protests in nigeria pushing the government to do more to find 276 kidnapped girls. we'll talk to the man credited with starting the social media campaign, bring back our girls. first, the big question facing ho