ncer ] call an allstate agent and get a quote now. under fire. hillary clinton's record of secretary of state gets a failing grade by a couple of republicans and are they getting the ammunition ready before she is declared for 2016? and the brand new poll, the maris poll is showing that democrats are holding their own in e three key states and could they hold on to the senate after all? and the washington moment reopening after an earthquake cracked the structure and it has been nearly three years since visitors have been inside. i'm chris jansing, and we start with dozens of video which shows the hundreds of nigerian girls since they were kidnapped on may 14th. and we have learned that the first time that the girls have looked at the video and it is

authent authentic, and it is obtained by the french agency, and they are in muslim head dresses, and they are converted to islam, and the leader says he would release them for the release of militant prisoners and this is the first clue since they were taken nearly a month ago. they gave the tape to the french media. i want to bring in don borelli, a security analyst. we don't don't show that the girls are saying they are muslim, a muslim, and we don't do that in hostage situations now. and what do you believe? >> well, there is proof of life. and you look tat the girls do they look healthy and appear to be well cared for, and then aside from that, investigators

will be looking for the clues in the background, possibly some little snippet of information that might lead to a location or at least a geographic proximity e. other things that they may be looking at in the intelligence community are clues that might he help narrow the location where the girls may be held. >> and we know that 276 are remaining missing in this video according to officials, and 100, and so fewer than half, and any expectation of what might have happened to the rest? did they split them up? >> i expect they split them up, but i expect that they are healthy, you know, but it is if you were to try to put together some type of a rescue effort, it would be hard enough given the situation if the girls were in one place, and you really compound that exponentially if there are multiple locations, so tactically, it is smart for them to split the girls up. >> and what the terrorists say is that they want to give the girls back in exchange for some prisoners, and do they really

believe that is going to happen? what might be the motivation behind putting this tape out now? >> well, one of the significant things is that the tape was in arabic, and so you have to believe that the abutbaker is in now in arabic and instead of saying that the girls are converted to slavery now that they have converted to islam and the message has been toned around, and he is trying to gain support from other al qaeda-like groups and showing that he is prominent on the world stage as legitimate al qaeda operative. >> and you said how difficult a rescue would be, and england and canada, and the u.s. already have been offering support. how do you look at these terrorism events knowing that the president of nigeria

goodluck jonathan did not make a statement until three weeks in? >> well, you need the support of the government and no matter how many resources you bring in, unless you have the cooperation of the host country, it is a waste of time. >> and so the first people who is able to raise the alarm is the local governor, so at least in the small area, there is a concerted effort from the beginning, but they had no resourc resources. >> right. and the world is ready to bring the resources burk what you want to do is to set up a joint command center where all of the various countries involved can figure out who can do best, but again, you are operating on somebody else's home turf, and so no matter what, you have to get the support of the local government. but these things, we did it in uganda when they had the bombings in 2010 and many countries that came and wanted to help so we put together a joint team, and ultimately successful at catching the people involved and this is the

same type of situation here, and it also has to be a long-term strategy, and goes beyond the girls. you have to look at what is the country doing to stem the flow of these people joining boca ha ra -- boko haram, and it as much economic situation as religious situation. >> thank you so much, don borelli. i want to bring in the co-chair of the senate caucus to end human trafficking, senator richard blumenthal. i want to start with your reaction of the video, does it give you any hope that the girls can be rescued? >> the video confirms that very probably the intelligence is right that the girls have been divided making any sort of rescue operation even more difficult in some of the densest and most difficult terrain on the continent, but it offers the good news that they seem to be in reasonably good health.

and the united states ought to be pushing on the nigerian government to take stronger and ste sterner measures, and this government has been lax and laggard in fighting the terrorists, and so, the rescue operation may be contemplated through some type of joint command, but longer term, we need to encourage education of girls around the world, and support the efforts wherever they are occurring and not just nigeria, and africa, but throughout the world. that is the challenge as nicolas christoph wrote eloquently yesterday in "the new york times" that confronts all of us much more important than many of the other harder military efforts that engage us right now. >> and there is another major crisis unfolding overseas in a vote that the state department calls illegal, residents in two cities in western ukraine voted for independence, and in a statement this morning, vladimir putin urged the ukrainian government to talk with the governments of those two, and seen as a signal that the russia

has no immediate intention of annexing of the provinces, but what is your read of the situation following the vote, senat senator? >> these elections were a farce. they would be laughing if the effects were not so consequential, and there were deaths connected to the elections and conducted through the transparent ballot boxes. the elections are meaningless in the legal sense, but the united states should pursue stronger sanctions against rush sharks and including the exports of the russian agency which has been selling held koicopters to the afghans bought with american taxpayer dollars, and so economic sanctions, stronger against russian-borne exports and the banks and other financial institutions, and at the same time absolute support

for the elections scheduled for may 25th. >> yes, we were showing pictures that vladimir putin was watching ice hockey while the voting was go ing on, and tell me, do you believe that the statements after the vote make you feel any better about the chances for not having this devolve into the full-scale civil war? >> i pay attention to what putin does not what he says. they have withdrawn some of the forces on the border, but at the same time, they are solidifying the presence there in ukraine. what he says ought to be taken with a huge grain of salt. >> and finally, back here at home, i want to hold it up and show folks this college sexual assault bill of rights and this is proposed for students to reduce the sexual assaults on campus, and this came after the obama administration reported that 55 colleges and universities are under review for their handling of the sexual abuse claims.

and tell us about the bill and why it is needed? >> the obama administration to the great credit have taken a leadership role as have many of my colleagues, claire mccaskill of missouri and kirsten gillibrand of new york. and the reason it is so urgent is 1 of 5 women are sexual lily assaulted and only 12% report. i am proposing a bill of rights that will encourage better disciplinary measures and prosecutions, but also not merely punishing, but preventing sexual assault and the right to vigorous and prompt investigation with confidentiality, and these bill of rights will encourage trust and more reporting, taand the resounding cry in connecticut through the seven round tables that i have conducted across the state is that there are better rights and more e robust programs and including more fund ing for the coordinators who can

change the culture, and so we stop blaming the survivor for what she was wearing, whether she was drinking, and whether she went and who she was with, and changing the culture means stronger measures legislatively, but we are pushing a petition campaign that will encourage the voluntary e meas measures from colleges as well as new legislation from the congress to make campuses more safe and secure in the face of the spreading surge. >> and senator blumenthal, people can find this report online unlike many of the others that are dense and hard to follow, this is en lightening read. thank you for coming on the program as well always, senator. >> thank you. and coming up, the dueling spouses of the sterilings. he apologized for what he said on an audio tape, and then he took a shot at nba great magic johnson.

>> what am i going to say? has he done everything that he can do to help minorities? i don't think so, but i will say it. i will say it, you know, he is great. but, i just don't think that he is a good example for the children of los angeles. >> meantime, shelly sterling did her own interview with barbara walters. >> i don't know -- it was horrible when i heard it. i mean, it was just degrading and made me sick to hear it, but as far as a racist, i don't really think that he is a racist. >> do you think that your husband should apologize? >> absolutely. >> and shelly sterling says she is going to fight to keep her half of the team, and while that battle is under way, the clippers are in the playoffs after beating the thunder yesterday in the real nail biter, 101-99. reaction is still coming in two

days after michael sam became the only gay player to be drafrted in the nfl. fans are showing up port, and the jersey is selling like crazy and even the white house issued a statement. the white house congratulates michael sam and the nfl for taking an important step forward in the journey. and the nfl is showing that it won't allow intolerance in the league. and the miami dolphins' player is going to be fined for his comments about the pick and will have to undergo sensitivity training. and tornadoes touched down yesterday and more today. more proof of the power of the storms. look at these photos from a plane as it left omaha last night. and has wint e returned? denver getting snow, but in higher elevations, as much of a foot fell, but by the end of the week, it is going to be 70

degrees here. this is all part of the same system that is threatening people from texas to the great lakes today, and chances of damaging wind and hail and tornadoes, though it is not expected to be as bad as yesterday. 10:00 eastern time, and right now, the washington monument is back open for business for the first time in three years. 150 cracks in the white marble have been repaired and many of them at the top of the 155-foot tall monument which is once the tallest in the world. 19,000 stones had to be individually inspected. there is also a brand new elevator to get you to the top in 70 seconds. a 5.8 magnitude earthquake in august of 2011 sent the tourists from running, and sent the obelisk that was finished in 1884 into restoration. the monument getting about 100,000 visitors every year. and coming up, a look at a hillary clinton's new book, and showing the personal side, but

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this morning what is looking more and more like a concerted republican strategy to attack hillary clinton's record before she makes a decision about 2016, and that is coinciding with the excerpts from the upcoming memoir highlighting a more so softer and personal side including her relationship with her mother. >> having her so close became a source of great comfort to me, and especially in the difficult period after the end of the 2008 campaign. i knew if she was still with us, she would be urging us to do the same, never rest on your laurels, and never quit, and never stop working the make the world a better place, and that is our unfinished business. >> and now listen to the

republicans on the sunday talk shows stepping up the attacks on clinton's record. >> i don't think that she has a passing grade, and in fact -- >> she is an f? >> yes, because if you look at the diplomacy that was pursued in the time of the state department, it has failed ev everywhere in the world. this is what i would say, if she is going to run on the record of secretary of state, she also has to answer for the massive failures. >> i can't throw a dart board at a world map now and hit within 100 miles that is not a war or ally that does not trust us so it is a much bigger issue if hillary decides to run. >> and let's bring in jonathan alter, and msnbc editor beth fewwfe fouhy. and rand paul and others have said things that are sounding like similar things coming from the republicans, a what is going on here? >> they are auditioning to be the anti-hillary, and they are confident with good reason that if she decides to run, she will

be the republican nominee -- democratic nominee, and so they want to convince those in their own party that they have the right credentials to take her open, and the most important of the credentials is to take her to the hoop. can actually get into there and score and make the charges against her stick. that is what is republican primary voters and funders are looking for. that is why you will see rand paul going after her hammer and tongue and, chris, all i can say is that it is going to be a long campaign, because it is 2 1/2 years of this. >> and both of you were on the 2008 campaign at different points, and so you would have insight into this. and "the new york times" suggests today that that hillary clinton's real problem may be obama fatigue, and a pugh/"usa today" poll out that said that 30% want the next president to

pursue policies similar to president obama, and how much of a problem is not just maybe the details of what she is when she was secretary of the state, but the administration would be? >> well, hillary clinton more than anybody else in politics has staked out her own identity and singular identity, and associated with her husband and now with the current president, but she has a strong identity of her own, so it is not a huge problem, and just to jonathan's point, the republicans are doing a great job to scrutinize her record which they have a right the do and the record is absolutely fair game as secretary of state, but they better nail it exactly right, and better not look like they are going off on the fishing expeditions, and they have a problem with women, and if they are bullying her, and yes, she is the front-runner for the nomination, but they won't equip themselves well with women voters if it looks like a nasty fishing e expetition to bring

her down. >> and jonathan, i have not seen anything with the memoirs, but i don't know what type of interviews she is going to be doing, but there is a big petition to get the first interview opportunity which is a golden opportunity for the questions to come up that the republicans are asking, and what is the strategy on the clinton camp with the release of the memoir? >> well, she can handle whatever interviews they decide to do to promote the book. this is not the first book. she has done this drill before. she has the leisure of doing this on her timing, at her pace. not to dance to whatever the republican time may be. and she will take her own sweet time nik a decisito make a deci that is fine. all of the people who wanted to force this to get under way before the 2014 midterms are wasting their time in some ways, because she is not going the engage in any real way until

late winter at the earliest. >> but i mean to engage, and she has to answer some of the questions clearly if she goes out on the tour. >> what questions? >> well, there are going to be questions about benghazi, and questions now that they are trying to tie her to whether or not she should have had more against the terrorists in boko haram, and these are the questions to be asked, because the focus of this book, is it not, beth, the foreign policy credits and the experience over the last several years. >> yes, hard choices, and the worst name of the memoir book ever "hard choices" but it invites the questions, why did you do that and why did you decide not to name them a t terrorist organization which is a line of attack that the republicans are advancing right now, but i agree with john that she has been asked every question under the sun, and been asked about benghazi, and so this is a book to tell her about the story on her terms, and she

is not going to get a lot of questions that she has not answered before. >> personally, what i would like to see her do in some of the interviews is to essentially respond in ways that she did not have the liberty to do when she was secretary of state. for quick example, benghazi and something they kept waiting for her to say, but it was time polite in the job is hey, guys, republicans, you are beating up on me in security of benghazi, and how about the votes on x-date in 2009, x-date in 2010 and x-date in 2011 when all of you voted against beefing up embassy security when i went to capitol hill to argue for a bigger state department budget which included more money the beef up security, and you guys all voted no. so i hope that she will start to push back a little bit. >> and she can do more now that

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"fair." >> we have participated in all of the other seven investigations, and if it is a fair, open and balanced process, absolutely, but we don't want to see the reckless and irresponsible handling of an affair that took the lives of four americans. >> well, chris, you are welcome to draw con clugclusion s of th, but i want it fair and exhaustive and we know more than when we started. >> joining us is congressman john mika, a member of the house oversight and government reform, and good morning. >> good morning. >> you know the numbers, 8 government brief inings, and th thousands of documents, and you know that the latest round is politically motivated. >> well, this round is purely motivated by the obvious cover-up, the delay and the

stonewalling when last week we received the rhodes' memo which showed really an orchestrated attempt to cover-up what was going on. even the speaker who has been patient and tried to go through the regular order decided to appoint a select committee. so, i didn't favor that in the beginning. in fact, i thought that we should do it through the regular order, but it is in the scandals, it is usually the people who, you know, deny, lie and then try to cover it up. and that is what gets the folks in trouble. and so now we have got an even deeper probe than we have had. >> there was as you know an exhaustive independent investigation in 2012 and the findings were tough citing

leadership failures that led to grossly inadequate security, but it also concluded that no individual ignored or violated their duties. so what more do you want this committee to find? >> well, first of all that's, i don't agree with that. and secondly, they, too, were kept from information which has been rekrecently uncovered not a congressional panel or the investigative panel, but by a third party with the foia. and those who have participate ed and trying to keep the information at bay, stonewall, are responsible now for the creation of this select committee, and it does have an important responsibility for americans who were killed. rarely have we ever had an american ambassador killed in a terrorist act like this. and no one has been held accountable. i defy you the name anyone who

has been held accountable. >> well, look, every loss of life is horrific, obviously. and decisions are made everyday that involve the safety and the security of diplomatic personnel around the world as you well know, and in 2009, darrell issa, paul ryan and others voted for the amendment to cut $1.2 billion of state-operated, from state operations funding for 300 additional security officers, and how did you vote on, that congressman? >> i may have voted for it, and that was 2009, but we have also made certain that we have had adequate resources. my dad used to say it is not how much you spend, but how you spend it. and that is the case here, because we specifically questioned personnel of the state department and said, were there adequate funds and resources available to protect the american personnel at

benghazi? >> and incidentally, there were 14 posts out of scores of posts and diplomatic posts around the world that were listed at risk? there were resources available, and that is a lame point to make at this juncture. there were resources that no one got the resources to protect and keep the ambassador, and the others were kill and no one made a decision, and it wasn't 3:00 in the morning. it did make a difference. no one made a decision to deploy the troops and save some of those who could have been saved. sot ta at the beginning they fa and nobody held accountable, and at the end -- >> well, in the point of fairness brigadier general robert lovell was asked if he agreed with the chairman of the armed services committee e

report that there was not more done in benghazi. >> i totally disagree with thatment. i totally disagree with that and i have been to three posts in the mediterranean where we have that capability, and i interviewed and mr. issa interviewed in benghazi some of the individuals in the military, and they were never given the order. we did have the capability, and i was assured at the briefing at one of those posts, pre-benghazi, that we had the ca capability to go in and rescue not only in north africa, but deeper into the continent, and so to me, that is baloney. >> and congress mman john mica, thank you for coming into the program. and now let me bring in keith boykin and joe, and what the congressman said contradicts

what the brigadier general said. what do you think? >> well, the republicans are grasping at the straws, and john mica should be concerned about the issues of the unmoment imt in florida or the climate change or the wage increases or the things that the american people care about rather than drudging up the benghazi again and again, and in is a loser issue, and the polls show that the american people are not concerned about this as much as other issues like economic issues and it reeks of hypocrisy that spent eight years to defend george bush nine years for the 9/11 failures and the iraq war failure failures and than the four americans who were killed when thousands of americans were dying in the bush administration and so i find this incredibly suspicious is at best. >> and yet, they have give n

leader boehner the leeway to investigate the benghazi issue, and so is this the e tea party wing pushing this or the establishment behind it? what are you making of this as a strategy? >> well, i like certain ly what congressman gowdy says, it doesn't need to be political and won't b and at the end of of the day, it day, it is a just the facts kind of investigation where we find out what happened, where the members of congress on both sides of the aisle have a chance to ask questions and to investigate to make sewer that we have come to some reasonable and fair con clugts aboclusion happened to the four americans who lost their lives in benghazi and what to do better, and if indeed a cover-up, and if therer with people who were trying to kocover up what happened, that needs to be done well, but it has to be done in a way that is dispassionate and not apolitical and not politically charged and not looking to make a scapegoat out of anybody, but bears the facts and gets the truth out of there, and certainly, if you are one of the families of the four

americans who lost their lives you would want to know, and that is what the congressman gowdy wants to accomplish as a former prosecutor. >> we have a new information on the election right ahead of us, and we had heard for a while that the republicans have a very good chance of taking control of the senate, but the new nbc news maris poll is showing that the democrats are come ppetitive in closely watched states. senator mark pryor is leading his challenger tom cotton by 11 points. and in kentucky, senator mcconnell is neck and neck with alison lundercan grimes. and so, it does make you wonder, keith, if the reports of the demise are premature, but nevertheless, how tough of a fight is this going to be? >> well, it is a great question, and if the republicans plan to talk about benghazi and the irs from now until november, that is

a losing strategiy for november and you can't investigate into re-election and you have to offer people some proposals to the existing structure, and they are not talking about the jobs or the health care or the education or the climate change or the things that the american people care about, and you have to do that if you want to win elections. if you remember back in 1988 when they tried to impeach, and did impeach in the house of representatives bill clinton, it was a losing election for them for the first time in 60 years they didn't gain seats in the mid elections, so the republicans are teetering on the grounds of falling in the wrong direction of what is a winnable election for them, but they are obsessed with the benghazi and the irs issues and not obsessed with taking care of the concerns of the american people, and the middle-class incomes. >> and joe, a lot of the strategy was obamacare, and that seems to have fallen by the wayside, but moving away from the economy, is that a strategy mistake, joe? >> well, every race faces its

own thing separately, and the poll that matters the most is the one that takes place on that first tuesday, second tuesday in november. >> that is what people say when they are down in the polls, and you know that. >> well, keith makes a very, very good point, and the republicans in the senate races have to pay attention to the matters that matter to the constituent, and whether it is the excel pipeline and the affordable health care exchange and whether it is working or not, and it will have everything to do with how well the republicans do in the election and the senate, and there is a good chance. i think it is a very, very competitive year, and i don't think that we veen the end of it yet. >> and joe watkins, and keith boykin, gentlemen, thank you. >> great to be with you. >> thank you. and checking the newsfeed, oscar paistorius could be headig to the state mental hospital for a psychological evaluation. today, the state called a psychologist with the anxiety

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and robert james campbell exis scheduled to die, and after lock kett's execution went wrong, charles warner's execution was granted a stay. i want to bring in the attorney and counsel for clayton lockett, susanna gattoni. do you believe this is an opportunity to save your client's life? >> well, his conviction has been upheld in various appeals, and the role is that when and if he is executed it is not done in violation of the 8th amendment which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, and that the secrecy in texas and other states is changed so that we understand how it is that we are

executing people. >> and a big part of that is pharmacies and not knowing where the drugs are coming from, and we have talked about this extensively before on this program. a lot of the pharmaceutical companies that are either based or have the operations in europe where the eu does not allow capital punishment, and i think that you know what some of the pushback is on the other side when you talk to the heads of some of the departments of corrections in texas for example, he says, look, people like these pharmaceutical companies have been threatened and threatened with physical harm, and this secrecy is necessary, and what do you say? >> well, i will say in our case, that is exactly what the state of oklahoma contended, but when we had a hearing relating to the secrecy, and their position that people were threatened, the state of oklahoma was unable to produce any credible evidence that is the real reason, and in fact, what came out in our case were letters that were sent to the department of corrections by a pharmaceutical company that said, please quit using our

drugs to execute people, and then a follow-up letter was, please stop using our drug in a way that is not allowed in the fda and meaning that you are using it in a way that is misbranded and they could have liability for it, and my response to that is that they have yet to produce any credible evidence of the threats, and secondly, the threats or the potential for the threats they claim do not outweigh my client's rights to have the 8th amendment violated. >> and the support of the death penalty has dropped for the last two decades and 23% in fact from 1996, but in the most recent poll, 55% still favor it. obviously, charles warner was charge and convikted of raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl, and it is e difficult to drum up sympathy for somebody

who has committed such a heinous crime. and what is the sense of our country in terms of the death penalty and where you would like to see it go? >> well, the death penalty is still the law, and the supreme court of the united states has upheld it, but what as a country we need to look at is what is the government doing in our name? they are keeping this information secret, and they are keeping secret how they are carrying out the most severe form of punishment that exists, and if they are going to do that, we should expect and demand of our government that they do it in a manner that we all know what they are doing, a nd tand that we are given the information so that my clients along with everyone else understands what is happening with respect to carrying out this most severe form of punishment which is the death penalty. >> thank you so much for being on the program, susanna. >> thank you. and now the politics graduation edition, and the first lady is the first among

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to politics now and the graduation season. michelle obama delivering the commencement address at dillard and starting a new tradition, the class president snapped a selfie with the first lady. and she tweeted it out saying that it is mo obama's first selfie. and she compared herself with hillary clinton in a mother's day showdown with michelle obama telling hillary, good luck next time. >> it did not happen in 2008, but maybe in 2016. >> the point is -- [ laughter ] >> hillary and i know how hard it is to be working mothers. >> absolutely. and you know, i just know a little bit more. i mean, for years, i was flying all over the world dealing with some of the worst humanitarian crises, but i suppose it is also tough to make a chubby kid eat

an apple. >> and obesity is killing the children. >> and yes, no so much in syria, because there it is much more biological weapons, but, hey, kids, watch out for the cake! >> "saturday night live," man. that is going to wrap up this hour of jansing & company. i'm chris jansing, and "newsnation" is up next. we will see you back here tomorrow. craig melvin is going to be standing in for tamron hall. in the nation, it's not always pretty. but add brand new belongings from nationwide insurance... ...and we'll replace destroyed or stolen items with brand-new versions. we take care of the heat, so you don't get burned. just another way we put members first, because we don't have shareholders.

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that footage, because it is appearing to be obtained in a hostage situation. and released by the leader, he said that he would release the girls in exchange for the boko haram prisoners held by the nigerian government. we will bring in our executive director of the american-nigerian leadership council, and first of all, sir, your reaction to the video, and the leader of the boko haram saying that he would trade them for the prisoners held by the nigerian government. >> thank you, craig. it is good to be here. well, first, that video is obviously a product of a cohesive indoctrination of the girl girls on a short term basis. the girls are forced to make that confession, and that is part of boko haram's m.o. in reaction to the situations of this type.