creating these problems. suggestions that there could be weapons stockpiled. a massive bomb under a military base. more fallout from the firing of jill abramson. >> i can't think of a senior male executive that's been fired on character grounds. >> a lot more people are watching idaho's race for the republican nomination for governor after this televise ued debate. >> i don't like political correctness. can i say this? it sucks. >> what would you do if they came out to take your kid. i'd shoot them. >> i'm as politically correct as your in a punch bowl. >> it is may madness, less than

100 hours away from the biggest primary day. candidates are getting mad. the grand old tug of war over the grand old party. on tuesday six states from coast to coast will vote in the primaries. gop is looking good overall for later this year, but what kind of gop candidates lead the party into that potential success is the question getting all that madness going. on the heels of a tea party and flagging numbers for tea partiers in states like kentucky, some major conservatives got their crisis mode op yesterday and gathered in virginia to share anxieties about the moderates. the front page of "the washington post," as conservative leaders mingled thursday over coffee and deli sandwiches, they sounded kpas per rated about the way the party is siding with the cautious leadership than making an aggressive conservative pitch. joining me now is robert costa, national political reporter at "the washington post" who wrote that piece and amanda turkill.

in this article, you said ted cruz said that the tea party is the party's most influential bloc. >> this is the central tension right now within the gop. the ted cruz wing that believes the shutdown of last year animated activists ahead of the midterm elections. on the other side i have a cautious republican leadership who believes the senate majority is in reach. they want to play a safer game ahead of november. >> there was a messaging panel. this was one of my favorite highlights from jim demint. trying to figure out how to get the extreme positions to generate. is that possible, do you think? >> it was fascinating for me to be at the ritz carlton hotel in virginia. they had a messaging panel and there was a lot of frustration that the conservative values of this group represents and tries to promote are not resinating

with the voters they are trying to connect with. not resinating with young people. they are grappling with how to move forward not only with divided government, but this changing country. >> amanda, this is a big money season. one of the things that interested me is the fact that so little of the republican money right now is going to specific tea party candidates. you see the stat there out of $37.5 million raised this year, less than $7 million has been devoted to helping specific candidates. do you think that shows a lack of faith in that wing of the party's own candidates? >> the tea party groups have gotten some criticism for that. why aren't you spending more to help our candidates when you guys seem to be enriching yourselves, giving yourselves big salaries. i think the tea party has gotten a little bit smarter than they were in 2010 when they did have a lot of wins, but they also backed some candidates who

really hurt the republican party in picking up more seats. so i think the republican party, the tea party has got an little smarter, but so has the establishment. they know that tea party is coming in the primaries to challenge them and they are getting a lot of money. they are attacking early, which mitch mcconnell has done in kentucky. >> let's talk about that race. that's a great example. when he entered that race. at the lead.ally chipping away in the latest numbers, he's 30 points behind. do you think the money would have helped? >> sure. >> let's go to you on that one, a amanda. >> mitch mcconnell had a sophisticated operation. not a lot of people knew matt bevin. his campaign went in early, defined him, a lot of negative cahe's been able to raise a lot more money. it was always going to be an uphill battle, which even the tea party groups acknowledged. more money he might have been able to hit back at some of the attacks. >> sounds like you have thoughts

on that race, robert. if his opponent do becomes the candidates? is that a winnable seat for dems? it seems like it might be. they are showing mitch mcconnell only up one point. >> i think it's within play for democrats. the reason is mcconnell has been in office since 1984 and he's hard negative numbers within the state. numbers that are not going to move much between now and the election. he's battling against that. she's a youthful candidate. she's won statewide. mcconnell believes he has the machine on the ground in kentucky. he has rand paul as his campaign manager to make sure lishtarians turn up. democrats are going to target this. they want this seat. >> seems like some potential there. we'll see. amanda, rick santorum is getting into some of the races. he threw his backing in oregon, georgia. do you think he can make a dent in either of those races? >> i think this is the social

conservatives trying to have a voice. you have the establishment. and the social conservatives, there's a much more libertarian strain to the conservative movement than there was a few years ago. more people, for example, are in the republican party are supporting same-sex marriage, criminal justice reform. people like rick santorum are beating back on some of that. >> before you go, one of my favorite beats in the race right now in idaho for the top job there. butch otter, a little worried about his governorship, exhibit a in the debate where he insisted that perennial candidates and the spectacularly bearded walt bays joined in resulting in a circus. st gone viral. take a look. >> you have your choice, folks. a cowboy, a biker or a normal guy. take your pick. >> i don't know. i kind of want all of them.

to win. >> i spoke to the governor and we talked about how mitt romney was coming into his state and he's close with romney personally. in idaho the mitt romney model of politics, that's going to play as much fun as these guys are, i u don't think they have much of a chance. >> are you team biker? >> i have to give the governor a lot of credit. he said all the candidates should be in and it made for a great show. >> the races as a whole are great shows. thank you so much. up ahead, the 2008 financial crash caused the economy millions of jobs, trillions of 401(k) retirement accounts, and how much prosecutions? the answer may surprise you as we tackle your number one underreported story, next. you, my friend are a master of diversification.

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>> on the general subject of how you restore accountability to big corporations, you can't just throw them in jail. i want you to compare two cri s crimes. getting caught at a stop and frisk with half a joint in your pocket and laundering $800 million for murderous mexican drug cartel. which do you think should get the harsher sentence? the government thought it best to give 40 days locked up on reichers island for the homeless man locked up for the joint and no jail time for the bank. you select an underreported story you think the media is dropping the ball on. this week 61% of you voted for the staggering lack of accountability for banks in this country. institutions sometimes deemed too big to jail. this week attorney general eric holder offered tough talk on. this very subject. >> there is no such thing as too big to jail. some have used that phrase to

describe the theory that certain financial institutions, even if they engage in criminal misconduct, should be considered immune from prosecution due to their shear size and their influence on the economy. that view is mistaken. >>st not that there's no activity backing up those words. holder's justice department is days away from announcing a guilty plea from a bank accused of helping americans evade taxes. it would pay $2.5 billion in potential fines and it would be the first guilty plea from a major global bank from the u.s. in decades. here's the thing. that's just 8.8% of the annual profits in 201 and that's the problem. . the current system allows banks to hurt individuals, but it doesn't allow them to be hurt like individuals in a way that would stop them from breaking the law. joining me is a senior reporter covering wall street and finance. thank you for joining us.

thank you for your reporting on this. it's really a tough issue because it's so dense technically. you have done a good job. let's do that for our audience. one of the objectives in the prosecutions and one of the reasons they yield so few individual penalties is they want to avoid hurting the economy. they want the institutions to survive. it's clear that prosecutors are twisting themselves into awkward yoga poses to minimize the damage inflicted on the economy. is that a valid reason not to punish these firms too badly? >> it's part of the calculous. but it's gone way too far. and really we want the prosecutors and federal regulatory authorities to think about regulation, think about crimes being committed and then we can think about the government taking care of the economy. i think they have gone way too far in thinking about the

collateral damage and the damage may not be that bad. >> as we learned from the financial crisis, eventually that can lead to much worse damage. >> that's the main point is that the problem with letting crimes go unpunished is that the criminal activity ends up being much worse. so the lesson that you give to people when you allow them to get off or find them in modest numbers is that they can get away with it. that's the chief lesson that's been learned. >> let's look at at specific ways they do get away with it. one is a deferred prosecutions where the banks agree in exchange for not being prosecuted to do whatever the government is asking them to do in terms of reforms. why doesn't that work? >> it's an okay idea. the idea is, okay, if you promise not to do anything. bad again, we'll keep an eye on you. we're going to fine you. we can come back and charge you again. there are several problems with

these dfred prosecutions, which become more popular the last decade. one, they don't monitor them at all. they don't monitor them effectively, even when they appoint monitors, there's not much that's happened. the other thing is the fines don't really have meaningful deterrent effects. the final thing is we aren't charging individuals. in fact, i believe that the deferred prosecution has eroded the capacity of the doj to actually conduct investigations into executives, to deter corporate crime you need to send top officials to prison and we don't do that. >> one of the troubling things that you have reported, the bigger the investigation, the less likely that individuals will be prosecuted. >> that's the irony here. i think what's happened is there's been a kind of learned helplessness, learned incompetence on the part of the department of justice. if you focus onset lment, what

you haven't done is focus on individual investigations chrks are more difficult. they take more time. and you approach them differently. if you haven't started going after the low level guys to flip on the higher level guys working up like you would in a mob prosecution f you don't do that and focus on a settlement, you're never going to get the individuals. >> the clear message is for long-term accountability, you have to pierce the corporate veil, get to the individuals. that's the real way of building koconsequences consequences. >> they don't use the deferred prosecutions as levers to go to the individual prosecutions. what they should do, in fact, what happens is they say we're going to corporate with these in order to get this deferred prosecution. we'll give you some individuals, but they don't actually do that. >> what is eric holder's legacy on this and the obama administration's legacy? >> it's a scandalous legacy. eric holder has overseen an department that's really dropped the ball on this. the at the moment when we had a need for accountability at the

highest levels of corporate america, we didn't get it. >> you don't think the new prosecutions will help? >> i don't think they are much at all because they are bending over backwards to treat convicted companies as if they are not convicts. so we're charging them without any consequences of charges. >> and that is something troubling to a whole lot of americans. we'll see if we demand more from our politicians on this. thank you. appreciate it. just ahead, it's been one month since 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped in nigeria. is the spotlight fading b we'll have a live report, just ahead. ameriprise asked people a simple question: in retirement, will you outlive your money? uhhh. no, that can't happen. that's the thing, you don't know how long it has to last.

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york jeer na. today nigeria's president called off a visit to the area. the president was scheduled to top on his way to paris for an international conference on the kidnappings. he's been under increasing pressure regarding his government's inability to find the schoolgirls both from their families and in the last 24 hours from the u.s. government too. chief global correspondent bill neely is live with the latest. do we know the reason the president scrapped that trip? >> reporter: good afternoon. we were told he cancelled due to security concerns. now that has not gone down well here. he's been heavily criticized on social media and won't go down well in the towns he was supposed to visit where people have been living with security concerns for the past three years. some of them so terrified they can't even sleep at night,

preferring to sleep in the bush. so it really wasn't handled well from the beginning. he announced it on friday morning he would be flying deep into territory controlled by the islamist group boko haram, thereby giving them plenty of time to attack his helicopter. so this president who took three weeks to make any public comment about the kidnapping has now decided not only not to go to the village from where the girls were kidnapped, but not even to set foot in the state from where most of them lived. so here was an opportunity for him to show his caring, compassionate side, a chance pr him to show that he felt the pain of the parents of those girls. instead he comes across really as a rather uncaring, almost callous individual. he's decided instead to fly directly to paris to a security summit involving the u.s., the european union, nigeria and its

neighbors to try o come together to form some kind of action plan to secure the borders, to stop boko haram's ability to bring weapons across borders and to share intelligence. that's all well and good, but i think he will be leaving back home, a search that is going nowhere. the nigerian army has just sacked its main command er in te north. the army says that it is searching for these girls, but really there's no proof, not only that that search is going ahead, but that it's having any success. as you said in the introduction, new yoigeria has been criticize the u.s. saying yesterday that nigeria can be an extremely difficult partner to deal with. so the search goes on, but at the minute, it's providing no clues as to where these girls are. as you say, nigeria's president heavily criticized both here and abroad. >> seems like he's going to

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store and buy the food we need with the money we have earned. >> she and her fellow protesters are demanding $15 an hour, but opponents of raising the minimum wage say that would hurt businesses. then especially small businesses. one small business arguing otherwise. moo cluck moo, you can get a burger for $3.25, a chicken sandwich and the owners pay employees $15 an hour. how is that affected the bottom line? let's ask the ceo of moo cluck moo. thank you for joining us. why did your company make the decision to pay workers double the minimum wage? it's a big step. >> because it's the right thing to do, ronan. and secondly, we felt right from the beginning there was something wrong with the picture that employees making minimum wage have to seek public assistance that comes out of our tax money just to make ends meet.

and then last but not least, better pay is good for business. it doesn't take a rogue scholar to figure out if you pay your employees better and show you a lot more loyalty and don't have the turnover that you're just going to be better off for it. we're going to have better quality in our food. our food is all sustainable. and better ingredients. we just think fast food has to change. >> you make a great point. this comes out of taxpayer pockets if the individuals like jessica have to go on public assistance. but how has your business made profits while paying that much to your workers? >> well, because we can manage the business that way. our people work no harder than anybody in a fast food restaurant, but they really care about the outcome. they are not so concerned about just making sure the shift is over and they can get out over here and go to their second job. >> have you had to raise u the price of food items?

>> no, actually inversely we have been able to keep our food prices low and competitive with the people across the street rs the name brands that literally are across our street. in that regard, we're serving wagu beef for $3.25. it's single source from a farm in indiana that delivers it right to our door. we can sustain this model across the country and we think we should have a moo cluck moo all over america. we're looking for people that want to help us. >> what's the reaction been from system of the other competitors across the way? >> they don't talk to us directly. i notice that in some cases they are starting to increase the ingredient quality. i can't say it's directly because of us because we're just a little two-store operation. we spent a year perfecting the model. but we're making money and we'd

like to share this with a lot more. we'd like to create jobs all over america at $15 an hour. >> the president today stopped by a shake shack and gave a quote. great burgers and it pays its employees more than $10 an hour. is the president doing if you have in? he's been pretty front and center, but what more should he be doing? >> i think there needs to be some strong political leadership on this. and quite frankly, the state of michigan just yesterday in the michigan senate passed some bill that raises the minimum wage to $9.20 an hour but not until 2017. that's three years away. the people that are making minimum wage now, they need action now. they don't need it three or four years from now. >> that's the clear message we have gotten pr this week. this example is a powerful one. appreciate your work on this.

our call to action has been on this subject. we asked you to show your support for the low wage workers coming out in force this week demanding $15 an hour. you tweeted and almost 50,000 of you joined that call. including nicole thomas who writes, raise the minimum wage. it's the right thing to do. great piece about ithaca's commit me commitment to being a living wage employer and the gap tweeted us. thanks for sharing your support for increasing the minimum hourly rates. #let'sdomore. i agree. thank you to all of you for your support. we'll stay with this issue. up next, the middle east spirals out of control. president obama has a controversial response. find out why it's making some nervous with our panel, next. when it comes to good nutrition...i'm no expert.

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india has won. the country's most retweeted ever. pro business nationalist won in a landslide victory. he and his party are headed for the most resounding election victory they have seen in three decades. the 63-year-old promises job creation and that prompted half a billion people to brave the heat and vote in the world's biggest election. e he will be replacing prime minister sing who is stepping down after two terms. in the middle east an uncertain future looms between israel and palestine after another brutal cycle of failed talks. president obama has decided to take a broeter from the peace process. chuck hagel met this morning wi. >> the effort to democracy and freedom and rights for people. >> so no direct mention of peace

talks from hagel, but it was a different story when john kerry on wednesday in london. the door remains open for peace, but it's up to israel and palestine to determine whether they are ready to take the steps through it. "the new york times" reports president obama is distancing himself from the entire process to let the failure of the talks sink in for both parties and see if that causes them to reconsider. that according to a senior administration official. so what's next? joining me to talk about this is senior national security correspondent for the daily beast eli lay. pleasure of you on the show. eli, this is obviously a big blow to the obama administration. second failed attempt to broker peace. shame on who at this point? >> the early spin from the u.s. side was that it was settlement announcements that had subtled

the talks. both sides really are to blame here. keep in mind, the conditions under which the palestinians agreed to even negotiate were the release of some pretty br brutal murders and other criminals who were then celebrated as national mar tars and heroes when they returned. that had a negative effect on the israeli public opinion as the settlement announces had the negative opinion. >> let's talk about the charges against israel. it seems like president obama is laying the blame more on that side. the late lest article in the "new york times," the president believes that more than any other factor israel's drum beat of settlement announcements poisoned the atmosphere and doomed any chance of a breakthrough with the palestinians. how much is this going to harm the u.s. relationship with israel? >> i don't think it will harm it at all. president obama asked the israelis more than one time to back off the settlements, to

freeze the settlements and to help him negotiate a peace deal and to help him eventually sign a peace deal and they are not willing because think think they have time and enough power to keep the status quo as it is. the problem here, i think, once these peace talks fail and the gap pr the two solution is closing, they will find themselves with one question. what would the country look like in ten years? the arabs would be majority. what would you do with that? >> this is the problem and john kerry got in a lot of hot water for plotting out what that solution would look like. >> unfortunately it would look in those terms. >> it's not head ed in the righ direction. eli, is there a next step the obama administration can take to salvage some kind of legacy on peace talks? >> i think that kerry certainly wants to salvage his legacy, but

i do think if you look at the overall obama foreign policy right now it's one of disentanglement. he's not intervening in syria. he's not doing much in ukraine. he's trying to not get the united states embroiled in things. i think he just is kind of tired of the united states being the power broker in the region in general. i don't think it's as much a priority. >> let's talk about one of those points. you mentioned syria. a lot of syria news. the u.n. special envoy just stepped down. he will exit the job on may 31st. the u.n. is blaming a complete international dead lock over what to do on this. eli, do u yo think this spells doom for peaceful negotiation in syria? >> i think that the kind of crucible moment was when the redline on chemical weapons was crossed. it appeared the united states

was going to enter more into the conflict. they backed away when the russians decided to offer disarmament deal. >> which was a fig leaf. people knew the circumstances that caused that redline to be crossed were still there and president obama took a big political hit in backing down. >> i think he also avoided a big political hit many committing the united states to the civil war, which would have been unpopular. i don't know he would have won the vote in congress. so in that respect, i mean, there were political per ills on both sides. to have enough pressure on the assad regime, which has steadfast allies at this point, it's no longer there. the syrian opposition met with obama, but they feel many ways abandoned. so obama doesn't have a lot of leverage with the actors on the ground. it's hard to see the u.s. affecting a change or for there to be solution. >> there's no positive change in the picture. as all this place out on the

ground, things are getting worse than ever from the humanitarian perspective. new video showing the bombing of a military base. it's dramatic stuff. this is with civilians caught in the cross fire. france is saying they are confirming charges that chlorine gas was used. this is brutal stuff. what can the world do at this point? >> i don't think the world doesn't want to do anything. obama looked at the landscape when he saw the vote. the redline that eli is talking about. when that was crossed, obama looked at the international community and told the uk and the prime minister and the parliament, and the parliament said we don't want to step into another middle eastern war. he looked at american public opinion and most americans want to withdraw from iraq and afghanistan. they don't want to be engaged anymore in the wars. look at the landscape in syria itself. that video that you showed, the writing on top of it is islamic.

who are the free syrian arms? do we trust these people? what syria would look like? the answer is people wouldn't be respected. so you have one -- >> this is the peril when people are saying we need more arms. >> we got involved in another country. we got involve d in iraq and afghanistan and we gave the shiites a majority and they won the election. the prime minister in iraq is ruling over sectarian way u and excludeing aun all the sunnis. this is the same. i'm not defending assad. he's a butcher and a war criminal, but the truth, they are both issues. >> it's just not clear that the american public can sustain support for going in in a bigger way. all of that contribute os people not being moved by a lot of international stories. one of the big ones on an

individual level we're all wrenched by is the story in sudan about a woman sentenced to hanging yesterday. she was given three days to renounce her christianity and she's 8 months pregnant. now she's been sentenced to death by hanging. is there anything the world can do about that? >> yes, i think the world should recognize that certainly not all of islam, but a trend within islam known as political islam sometimes, is an ideology battle that has to be fought by everybody that cares. >> for sure. this is not an instance that is just about islam. this is about the regime, extremist elements in the country. >> i think it's not about the religion of islam. it's about political islam. >> we need to shame these prime ministers, these ambassador everywhere and tell them, listen, not every extremist is a

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in homosexuality. they are either forced or they are sedated or they are deceived. homosexuality is bad, it's dangerous, and i don't want it because of what it causes. prolapses, bowel damages, encouldn't unanimous. oral gonorrhea. there are many complications. ♪ >> are you happy today? >> yes, we are very happy.

very, very happy. >> thank you to matt goldman for that risk where i reporting job. we're back with elan and rula. gin that only four members of the use gaupda parliament oppose this law. do the people have any chance of fighting back against this? >> i think if we help them. we have -- gay lyghts rights are human rights, and we should be clear about this. gay rights, women rights are human rights. imf, united nations, our ambassador and diplomats around the world need to talk to ugandan president and tell him, listen, we will never accept that you treat your minorities like this. you know, jail them, imprison them, kill them, torture them. what kind of behavior is that in the 21st century era? >> eli, is this something the international community can help with, or does change need to come from within uganda? >> i think in some ways it appears at least -- what an extraordinary piece of journalism that was -- that you are seeing a reaction to the

great strides that have been made in countries like ours on the issue of gay rights. it's really -- you think about it -- extraordinary that in the course of 20 or 30 years this country has completely transformed. now you have countries i think reacting to that, and they look around in the west, and they say they don't want to be that way. in some ways i think, you know, we're going to have to continue with our progress, but it's extraordinary to see that. i was -- i'm still blown away by that footage and that report. >> it's wrenching stuff. we're going to stay with this story and have you both back. that wraps things up for today's edition of rfd. catch my shows week day as the 1:00 p.m. here on msnbc. now it is time for the fwlorus reid report with my colleague joy reid. good human rights record over there on the reid report set. scloo happy friday. i hope you have a really great weekend. all right, man. appreciate it. coming up next on "the reid report" and donald sterling is telling you he is not going. the embattled clippers owner has

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(woman) just pop the trunk. (man vo) i may not know where the road will lead, but... i'm sure my subaru will get me there. (announcer) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. tgif. i'm joy reid. today new reports that donald sterling is fighting to keep the clippers and doing exactly the opposite of what he said earlier this week. >> people want me to hire a wall of lawyers. i don't think that's the answer. >> the ultimate battle has to play out in the courtroom. >> we've gone through a lot of stuff. >> nobody will be fully happy until the guy sells the team. >> can't buy his way out of this one. >> sterling's reportedly hiring lawyers, refusing to pay his

$2.5 million fine and threatening to sue the nba. in short, donald sterling is not going away, no matter how badly the nba wants him to. plus, the fcc unveiled a controversial new proposal that could create a fast lane and a slow lane for the internet. if you err use the internet, you need to understand what's going on. also, florida and its stand your ground law are back in the news again as a florida mom jailed for firing a gun into a cleelg has a new day in court. we start with the fight that's brewing between donald sterling and the nba over control of the l.a. clippers. shortly before the clippers were bounced from the playoffs last night, two news organizations "sports illustrated" and "usa today" published reports suggesting that donald sterling may fight both the forced sale of his team and the $2.5 million fine imposed on him after the release of his