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facts. >> for him to say she's wearing glasses because of a blood clot -- >> she doesn't seem to have any difficulty in making her public appearances. >> -- is not the case. >> democrats defending hillary clinton. >> karl rove engaging in cheap shots is not going to back off hillary clinton. >> she's in the prime of her political life. >> the only person that's going to stop hillary clinton from running for president is probably hillary clinton. if you are taking the temperature of the 2016 presidential contest, one number should stand out. 98. that is the number of times hillary clinton's name was mentioned on the sunday shows yesterday according to "the washington post." as republicans took their concern trolling over clinton's health to new levels. including, of course, dr. karl rove. >> i'm not questioning her health. what i'm questioning is is whether or not it's a done deal that she's running. and she would not be human if she did not take this into

consideration. >> he's not questioning her health. he doesn't have to. he's also diagnosed her with a traumatic brain injury and a serious case of old lady-itis. on "meet the press," rnc chair reince priebus weighed in. >> the issue of her health and her age is going to come up. >> do you think she suffered some sort of brain injury that raises legitimate questions about whether she's healthy to serve as commander in chief? >> i'm not a doctor. >> no, he is not a doctor. but a lack of a medical license is not stopping anyone in the conservative media from a thorough expectation of clinton's supposed symptoms as diagnosed using the rovian stethoscope. >> he said we have to worry. the con did cushion she had, did it cause brain damage? >> the presumption is she's healthy. but when you undergo a terrible concussion and have a clot near your brain, you have to account for that.

>> but why trust the experts at fox news. leave it to a guy that knows his way around a doctor's office. like someone who had his fourth heart attack shortly after becoming vice president. >> well, i think any presidential candidate or vice presidential candidate is going to have to answer questions about their health. i wouldn't want to pre-judge mrs. clinton's health. i don't know anything about it. certainly i felt responsible to be open about my health when i was vice president and a candidate. >> he did? strangely, george w. bush's vice presidential search committee was able to overlook concerns about dick cheney's health when they were vetting him to be veep. perhaps that had to do about the fact said committee was led by dick cheney. joining me now is political analyst former pennsylvania governor ed rendell. and reporter with "the new york times," amy choznik. governor rendell, please tell us from our -- in your expert opinion which may not be a medical opinion, but politically

speaking here, i feel like all this hillary talk reveals much more about the gop than it actually does the clintons. the desperation seems to be front and center stage. >> yeah. i want to join dr. rove and become dr. rendell. i am making an analysis here that republicans are suffering from faint heartedness. they are so afraid of hillary clinton being the democratic nominee. all of this stuff, this is just the tip of the iceberg. this is what's coming if you run. you'll have two years of hell and maybe eight years of hell after that. do you want to do it? i know hillary clinton. if they think they can scare hillary clinton out of the race, they're also in addition to faint heartedness, they're suffering from dementia. >> let me follow on that point.

which is, if this is what the republicans are offering which is basically vague threats to make it as miserable as possible for the democratic not knee, that's their plank for 2016, that's not a well-developed political strategy. this is all they can talk about. there's no concession to anything related to the american economy, to foreign policy. nothing. they're running on old scandals about monica lewinsky and hillary's fitness for frf. . >> sure. you are tell this is a strategy to try to keep her from running. health is a legitimate question for anyone running for office. no whaert that their age. and if if that's a legitimate question, you want to save that for september of 2016, late september when voters are listening and paying attention. that's why you can tell this is just a strategy trying to say hillary, don't run. this is what it's going to be like. it's going to be terrible for you. and it's not going to work. and honestly it makes them look

stupid. it makes them look venal. it makes them look ill advised. like a lot of their strategy, it's backfiring. they ought to be talking about issues but they're not because they're afraid. that's my diagnosis. i'm not going to charge anything for that. >> dr. rendell, no co-pay on that. >> no. >> what's amazing is after six years of the obama presidency, americans have come to think of this administration as the one where republicans -- there's a candy coating of conspiracy over almost everything that this president says or does. but truly, you know, the original sort of conspiracy theorist favorite is clinton. i thought this moment from lynne cheney this weekend doubling down on her lewinsky thought was amazing. >> i was paying the clintons a large compliment. i was saying how clever they are politically. and that it seemed to me if you

had something that might come up during the campaign that would be damaging, it was very smart to get it out of the way early. >> apparently that was a huge compliment from the you planted this lewinsky story. but it's amazing to me that monica lewinsky carries the weight she does in certain conservative circles as an arrow in the quiver to launch at the clintons. >> i think we have to remember that hillary clinton had some of her highest approval ratings. so i think the idea that this somehow sticks to her, her potential candidacy, doesn't just hold true. and the other thing is the clintons cannot escape this conspiracy theories. i think we've talked about this before. she was accused of having an affair with vince foster and being a lesbian. it's going to be very hard to scare her. she has seen it all. >> isn't there some sort of

conf conference of power there. >> absolutely. there's this sort of house of cards narrative that's attached to the clintons that everything they do is conspirat speespirac. that it's somehow a friendly outlat to the clintons also hasn't proven to be true. >> governor rendell, it's interesting what the hillary stuff is doing to the democratic field. i mean, i say that -- i will put democratic field in air quotes. because it's unclear who else would run if hillary actually decided to throw her hat in the ring. did you make of duvall patrick's comments this weekend about the inevitability thing? which had hurt hillary in 2008 and he sort of brought that back up. what is the strategy there? >> i think it's important, very

important if hillary does become a candidate that she's ready to work for it. and that means she works hard and doesn't take anything for granted. and see if anybody does file. my guess is nobody will because you know what it costs to run for president these days. and i think hillary clinton would absorb 98% of democratic fund raisers and givers around the country. i think she'd inherit almost all of the obama mantle. but for duvall patrick, if he's thinking of running, for vice president biden, anybody else, they've got to go through the motions right now in stage one. because if hillary doesn't run, they don't want to be caught unaware or off guard. they want to begin the process so they can get in the race if she decides not to run. and for all we know, there's still a chance she will decide not to run. sop people are preparing. but you think it's more an attitude. not a sense of inevitability, going to iowa, going to new

hampshire, going to south carolina, going early if she decides to run and becomes a candidate. she's got to do that and i think she's prepared to do that. the campaign last time was not a good campaign. but i think hillary won't repeat her mistakes again. >> amy, what changes would hillary make specifically on the issue of her being a woman? i feel like that was not -- you know, that wasn't a huge part of her strategy in 2008. the war on women and what the legislature has done vis-a-vis equal pay and reproduct uf rights, kathleen parker says today men and women have been told about how they are favored. and kathleen continues an impression of ub fairness has made a lasting effect on the

female human brain. from clintonland and hillary's perspective if we're to sort of look into the crystal ball, it feels like given her speeches lately, given all the talk around women that team hillary if there is a team hillary would be more -- i think would take the mantle up of her the nominee in a more forward wau than perhaps in twaugt. >> i think that's a good consumption to make. also you can't just run on becoming the first president. i mean, you see the events that hillary clinton has done since she left the state department. they are almost all focused on women and girls' issues. i think in 2008 there was a lot of wrestling of how do we position the female candidate? we should make her the strong commander in chief and shouldn't show a feminine side. we'll see how they handle it if

there's a 2016 campaign. >> governor, real quick before we go, at this point everyone says the uner circle hasn't decided. we have no idea. do you feel like the democrats have a bempbl if, in fa-- bempb hillary clinton doesn't get in. >> people who underestimate joe biden do it at their own peril. he'll be tough to beat. >> former governor ed rendell, dr. ed rendell. and amy cohzik, thank you for your time. just weeks a the horrifying botched lethal injection in oklahoma, another state faces a death row channel. we have breaking news on wednesday's planned execution in missouri. that is next on "now." [ female announcer ] there's a gap out there.

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from 2006 to 2012, the state of missouri carried out a total of two executions. six years, two executions. but this year in missouri, the death penalty appears to be making a comeback. just four months into 2014, missouri has already executed three inmates. this wednesday at 12:01 a.m. central time, the state is scheduled to execute its fourth. the man scheduled to be executed is russell bucklew. a man accused of raping and killing her ex-girlfriend and killing her partner. he also as a serious condition.

medical conditions that when he is given a lethal injection on wednesday put him at significant risk of dying a tortuous death. so his attorneys requested permission to record video of the execution in order to preserve evidence of a violation of the eighth amendment which bans cruel and unusual punishment. if missouri officials are confident enough to execute him, they should be confident enough to videotape it. his motion to videotape the execution was declared as moot. this will be the first since the botched execution took place in oklahoma on april 29th. joining me now is senior editor of "st. louis magazine" luke powell. thanks for joining me today. >> thanks for having me on. >> the numbers in term of the

lethal injections and the death penalty and state of missouri, why all of a sudden do you think there is this dramatic increase in the number of executions a at time when the process of execution is so contentious and so controversial? >> that's an interesting question. the state of missouri has been trying for years, really, to get their execution protokal in order. they did two between 2006 and 2012. that was partially because in 2006 it was revealed that their execution doctor had been incompetent. he lied in court about his malpractice suits. there was no written protokcol e was basically winging it. drug manufacturers didn't want their drugs used in these

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weren't intended to kill, they got another drug. the pattern is consistent. when a problem arises, fix it then shroud the process to fix future complaints. we know a group of five newspapers are suing the missouri department of corrections to force the state to reveal where it's acquiring its drugs for executions. do you think they're going to win? >> i'm not necessarily a legal expert, but it seems to me they have a strong case. the supplier of the drugs seems like the sort of thing that should be public knowledge and given that the newspapers have been submitting requests, it seems like they have a strong case to be given that information. and further than that in 2007 the missouri general assembly passed a law that forbids media outlets from identifying former

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>> being out here on a saturday morning, right? we're in the middle of north camden. this is the most dangerous neighborhood in the most dangerous city in america, right? but when you look around today, there's nothing that felt any different than what you might experience at a community outside of camden. >> reporter: three years ago, brian morton did not spend his saturday mornings like this. in 2011 his hometown of north camden, new jersey, was the poorest and most dangerous city in america with a murder rate 12 times the national average. camden's streets and parks were the province of dealers and j k junkies at a time when budget cuts had laid off half the city's police force. >> we locked ourselves into our homes. >> reporter: that year in 2011, morton decide stod start the north camden little league. journali isis isist kathy wrote

for the latest issue of "gq." >> how am i going to overcome? by playing baseball. and it worked. >> reporter: in the first year morton hoped to get 60 kids on the field. three years later, 500 kids from in and around north camden ages 5 to 19 are playing baseball. >> you understand that? >> reporter: julio ruiz coverages the north camden phillies. last year's championship team. >> if it wasn't for him, they wouldn't be here. >> reporter: he landed a 20 month jail sentence. he understands how baseball has changed the way of life for the children of this seascity. >> they're no longer looking up to the drug dealers on the corners. now they're looking up to their big brother running home runs. now they grab a glove because it's what they want to do. eventually they're going to run out of kids. all will be playing baseball. >> reporter: two brothers who play together on the phillies

remember what it was like before the league started. >> i was afraid to go outside. because everything was happening outside. >> reporter: these days things are different. >> i like to play baseball, because i like to stay off the streets. stay out of violence. and you want to be on the team. >> run all the way home! >> we're pushing out drugs and people coming to look for drugs. because we're moving again. we're not hiding. zblb baseball diamonds have become community centers and neighbors have slowly started to return to their sidewalks and corners. but morton doesn't take credit for all that. >> the biggest thing i've learned is how much potential for communal change lies within our children if given the possibility. because everything you see out here is because a child said to their parent i want to play. then they brought their parent to the field. >> reporter: drugs, violence,

and poverty were the facts of live in camden. america's favorite pastime may not be solving all of their problems, but a place nearly forgotten four years ago, it's been a plan for progress. last year the county secured $3 million to rehabilitate camden's largest park. it's ready for baseball this summer. >> we're reclaiming our community one field at a time, one game at a time. >> joining me now is depth editor of "gq" magazine, michael hain hainey. thanks for joining me. i feel like it's a "gq" production, we love sending our guys down there. it's really an important, positive story. >> absolutely. >> you want to know from your perspective as an editor. it's not just a story about one place. it's also a story about the decline of the american city and what happens when industry moves

out and in camden that industry was shipbuilding, campbells soup, rca. and when drug dealers move in, residents are forced to fend for themselves. >> it's an inspiring story. if you build it, they will come type of story. a community faced with tremendous adversity really standing. you saw brian and those guys standing for it saying no to the default future. i loved his line this is through the kids. the kids made this possible. because they pulled their parents in. it's a powerful story about a time when we all think we're powerless to effect change. it's really a stand for the change you want to be. that's why we were so attracted to this story. and bringing a community together, really going out to these baseball diamonds you didn't see before. he started to reclaim them on a

saturday and we'd walk in there and say you can't come in here for the next 48 hours. just the strength of him to say that, i'm going to make a difference right now, super powerful. >> yeah. i mean, that -- kathy the writer in the piece sums up the philosophy. pretend you live in a safe place and maybe it will become one. that is an incredibly powerful message not just in terms of individual -- not just over the community resilience. but individual action and how ta spurs collective action. there's a tremendous amount of sense of disenfranchisement. these guys without really any funding with a governor who said we're going to cut camden's budget because the taxpayers of new jersey are not going to be on the hook for camden's excesses. the budget for the police alone is $65 million. there's only $24 million in tax revenue. they've done this on their own.

and basically through the power in the belief of the system of sport and community to kind of push out the bad. >> there's another great line in the piece where he says i want to stop living in the problem and start living in the solution. >> yeah. >> i think that's a great -- you know, politics aside, i think these are people who were really cut loose by everyone. for him to then say we're going to do this. here they are three, four years into it. he's got backing from financial people. and, now they're looking at a place where they have $3 million invested. it's a tremendous inspiring story. can it work in every community? i don't know. but it's super wonderful he's able to affect that here. >> the other thing i was struck by in the story was these coaches some of whom have drug records. they're not like, you know, people who have seen tough times in camden.

>> right. >> fill almost a patriarchal role. and i'm struck by how much these coaches are almost father figure. >> i love that point. it struck me too. that so many people are either dead or in prison or junkies or abandon the family. there's one point where they say to the kids, as the coach, he said don't make me proud. make yourself proud and your buddies next to you proud. if you think about it, that's community building right at the core. and to sort of create that community and for these kids to hear a strong father figure, a strong male adult say too them,

like, play for yourself. play to win. make yourself proud. that -- many of the kids say they didn't get that message. they're now playing for their validation, for the coach's validation. you see the mothers and fathers showing up. it's a story about what man and woman can do in their community. >> it's almost a testament that baseball is the most awesome sport in america. right? say yes. >> yes. i'll agree with you. it's america's pastime. >> it is. favorite. it is an awesome, powerful piece. a magnum opus. it is incredibly well reported. >> kathy did a fantastic piece of writing for us. >> thank you so much for letting us follow you guys around. >> you've got your own sports injury. >> pitching a no hitter this weekend. you can read the article of the

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our economic troubles could be behind us. so why do we struggle? politics. concern about who gets the credit for good things or the blame for bad things. here's a thought. let's forget about politics for awhile. >> in 2012, republican pat mccrory learned you can't exactly forget about politics when you work in the field of politics. in his less than two years as governor, mccrory's colleagues in the north carolina legislature have passed the most extreme selection of right wing legislation in the country. but governor mccrory has been mostly powerless to stop it. with a super majority in the state house, north carolina has ended the state tax credit for the working poor. it has made deep cut to unemployment assistance and passed a right to carry concealed guns in bars and in parks. it doesn't end there. north carolina now has america's most restrictive voter suppression law in the country.

rolling back reproductive rights, something mccrory vowed not to do has become the hallmark under his watch. two years ago thousands of state residents began to attend weekly protests of the state's legislature. they began again today and they are called moral mondays. so how that is the north carolina legislature responded to the outcry? by crushing it. on thursday the state revived the north carolina legislative services commission. a group that hasn't met since the year 1999. and the commission has opted to restrict where protesters can gather in the general assembly and to ban singing, clapping, shouting, playing instruments, or using sound amplification equipment. the protesters plan to defy that order today as one of the protest leaders said, william barber, we're back because what was on paper on policy last year is causing pain and problems in the lives of real people.

joining me now is larry hall and nia-malika henderson. representative hall, let me start with you now. these new provisions from the north carolina legislative committee, what was your initial reaction? i can't imagine the tables being turned and those restrictions not being met with outrage and indignation if they were being placed on members of a conservative grassroots group. >> well, thanks for covering this, alex, and certainly everybody was outraged that now after such a long period of time it becomes necessary to shut down people's right to petition their government. that's what's happening here. they don't like to hear from the people, so they want to make it inconvenient and almost impossible for them to come to the capitol grounds and to come to the legislative building. >> do you think it will have any effect on moral mondays? and the movement to push back on some of what the legislature has

done? >> well, i would say this. the only reason they made the changes they made is because there are about 900 court cases still pending from last session where the court has stricken down repeatedly the arrests that they made. and so now they made changes to make it easier to make those arrests and try to prosecute people. but i don't think they're going to stay away. people have been hurt by these policies and they will come in to petition the government. they want to be heard. >> nia, it's sort of shocking that all that has transpired in north carolina is fairly shocking given sort of nationally how the state has been viewed in elections. president obama won this state in 2008. and really only narrowly lost it by two percentage points in 2012. what do you think accounts for the republican super majority and for the dramatic shift right in terms of legislation? >> well, i mean, they very much

are to the legislature on that republican wave. in 2010 and then with gerrymandering it only sort of entrenched that swing. but north carolina definitely a state that sort of has been more modern and seen itself as a moderate state as well. if you look into the 1890s, they were the architect of fusion politics where republicans were joining forces there in the 1890s. and so if you talk to reverend barber, he says that this new spirit of fusion politics is present again today. i think it'll be interesting to see what happens tonight, how many people show up. and also what happens at the polls. this is very much an attempt to galvanize folks for the midterms. and as much as they're protesting what's going on at the state legislature, it will have some sort of impact on the way that folks show up at the

polls in november. you see that kay hagan, though you won't expect her to be at any of these rallies, she very much is sort of riding on this message too. that thom tillis who is of course the republican nominee in the senate race, that he is the architect of this conservative swing. and it's not in north carolina's best interest to send him to the senate. >> representative hall, that's an important point that thom tillis does seem to be the architect of this. the governor doesn't seem to have any sort of agency within his own party. he said he wouldn't do certain things and members of the legislature have overridden him. one north carolina policy watcher says the governor is out there touring a factory or cutting a ribbon but can't get any significant policy through the general assembly. he can't stop the thing he opposes. is it a question of lack of respect? i mean, how did he -- how did he become so powerless as the republican governor of the state?

>> well, alex, he was always powerless. the republicans were able to get their majority before governor mccrory was elected. so they always told him that they were in charge. mr. tillis has repeatedly said he's a conservative. and he was going to push that conservative agenda. and he's done that. but at the same time they campaigned on the idea they would create jobs and improve education and living standards, et cetera. haven't done that. they reached right into the bedroom, right into the voting booth and said we'll take away rights, not add jobs. >> yeah. nia, you know, it's kind of like peeling back the layers of an onion here. theoretically governor mccrory is the leader here. but really truly if we're talking about the legislation itself, the leadership and sort of the center, the nucleus in all this is the legislative committee. which is drafting the new voter i.d. requirements, the

anti-union measures. these are taken almost to the letter and enacted and placed into law not just in north carolina but in states all over the country. >> that's right. and i think what we'll have to see is where republicans stand on this. the recent poll out of elan college shows that republicans among the legislature, only about 40% approval rating in north carolina overall. something like a 28% approval rating. so it'll be interesting to see if republicans themselves start to sort of find a more moderate vote or voice and feel like this state legislature has gone too far. >> do you think the pending senate race which is very tight between thom tillis and hagan, do you think that could at all temper tillis' behavior and have a sort of domino effect in terms of the rest of the republicans in the state house? >> well, i'm sure he's going to

try to do like governor mccrory did and put on this cloak. moderate. but again, he's often openly bragged he's such a great conservative and the policies you've already ticked off that they enacted certainly show those conservative tendencies. i don't think he's going to be able to escape his record now and try to act as if he's a moderate or bridge builder. >> something tells me, representative hal, you will be reminding north carolina voters of thom tillis' record. thank you so much for your time, state representative larry hall. and of course nia-malika henderson, thank you for your time. >> thank you. after the break, robot versus zombie, cowboy versus alien, cruz versus perry. that's next. ♪ ameriprise asked people a simple question: can you keep your lifestyle in retirement?

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texas sized ego begets texas sized showdown. on friday in austin, senator ted cruz took a shot at governor rick perry's unending promotion of his job creation record saying no politician should take claim for it. the economic growth has come from the private sector. it's come from entrepreneurs. nothing drives me crazier than politicians who run around talking about the jobs they've created. ted cruz can't stand it when politicians actinsincerely. the rivalry has been brewing since cruz beat dewhurst. politico down played the suggestion saying they aren't openly rivals. last year when asked to weigh in on cruz's shutdown antics, perry did not miss a beat telling an iowa audience, everyone gets to do their thing.

that's his thing. my thing is governing. governing and creating jobs. or maybe poaching them from other states using generous cash handouts. most recently toyota who decided to move their headquarters from california to texas thanks to perry's $40 million deal sweetener. the losers in that job creation measure? california and kentucky which will see 4,000 jobs leave their states. also losing, texas taxpayers. the $40 million or as "the wall street journal" notes $10,000 per job will be sucked directly out of the state treasury and handed over to toyota. because hey, nothing beats private sector dynamism. nolan breaks down the math. california, negative 3,000 jobs, plus kentucky negative 1,000 jobs bb plus texas 4,000 jobs equals zero net jobs. so a texas governor who charged the public $40 million for

basically nothing and a texas senator whose government shutdown cost the public $24 billion for basically nothing. if this is the best the lone star state has to offer as they say in texas, sure seems a lot like all hat, no cattle. that's all for now. i'll see you back here tomorrow at 4:00. "the ed show" is up next. good evening, americans. welcome to "the ed show" live from new york. i'm ready to go. let's get to work. ♪ >> the only thing that can stop this great energy is the government getting in the way. >> keystone would carry 800,000 barrels of dangerous tar oil every day. >> crews are cleaning up 10,000 gallons of crude oil. >> drill here, drill now. >> they have for the first time linked seismic activity to