it's a giant hot mess. >> it is the closest thing we have this year to a super tuesday. it appears the establishment has the upper hand on the tea party and nowhere is that more apparent than in kentucky. >> same sex couples are now getting married in oregon. oregon is the 18th state to legalize same-sex marriage. >> a memorial service is under way right now to mark one year since a massive f-5 tornado tore through the town of moore, oklahoma. more than 1,000 homes and buildings were blown to bits. new york city mayor by him de blasio is defending his wife following a magazine profile where she discussed her struggles as a new mom. >> i think "the post" and daily news owe her an apology. a lot of women are afended. >> makes me mad as hell. >> your mad as hell face looks like we're out of orange juice

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desperate late in the game pushes going on statewide right now. in pennsylvania, simple message from the philadelphia inquirer, it's time to decide. first, join us for a deep dive into these races with jim galloway on the ground and bird's eye view from chuck todd in d.c. first up, kentucky, ground zero in the battle between republican establishment candidates and the tea party. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is fending off a challenge from matt bevin. mcconnell has more at stake than just kentucky. if republicans gain six seats on election day he becomes senate majority leader and let's just say he's not not into that. >> there's only one thing we do about it in 2014. in 2014, you which change the united states senate and make me the offensive coordinator instead of the defensive coordinator. >> take that, harry reid, bevin

may be down in the double digits but don't count him out yet. >> the only poll that truly matters, really, is the one being taken right now. it started at 6:00 this morning and it will end at 6:00 this evening. in the voters of kentucky will decide who they want. he is not a conservative, he just pretends to be one every six years to trick his way back into the u.s. senate. the voters of kentucky are becoming weary of this. >> there it is, the he's not conservative enough argument getting thrown around in a lot of races but will it prevail in kentucky. joining me now is james carroll, thanks for joining us. >> thanks, ronan. >> up next would be a democrat allison grimes, he would be up against her. she has a very minor disadvantage in the polls right now. if bevin doesn't throw his support to mcconnell, there's some word that might happen,

what kind of impact do you think that will have? >> you now, mcconnell is a name brand here and running for his sixth term. i guess you'll have to see what kind of vote we get from the bevin forces to see what effect it's having in the republican party. the polls seem to show it's going to be a minor effect. we thought there would be a primary battle here at one time. but bevin never caught fire. if he doesn't endorse mcconnell, it will be a symbolic split. historically a lot of republicans when rand paul ran for the senate here, there were republicans who said they were not going to vote for a tea party guy and ultimately did. that may happen again. but whether it will have an impact overall in the race, the race will come down to whether mcconnell can define allison grimes as barack obama's best friend and whether grimes can

define mcconnell as mr. establishment and mr. gridlock in washington. >> the question is whether voters maybe including even female voters who would have gone with bevin will go over to grimes. she's been aggressively targeting the female vote. take take listen to her last night in lou louisville. >> i am the kentucky woman who my republican colleagues who have generally referred to as an empty dress. [ booing ] >> that seeks to retire mitch mcconnell. >> james, kentucky has never had a woman in the u.s. senate before. she's really aggressively pushing this angle. do you think it will work? >> hard to say but right now, you would expect perhaps a larger gender gap than there is. our blue grass poll last weekend shows that grims only has about a 4% gap over mcconnell among female voters and he has a slight advantage among male

voters, there's not much of a gender gap yet that's developed in the race that we can see, but again, it all depends on what issues come to the floor between now and all the way to november. >> thank you so much. we'll keep an eye on that race. james carroll in kentucky and now over to georgia, home to a 7-way republican contest fighting for the seat being vacanted by sax by chambliss. there's going to be a july 22nd runoff if nobody reaches 50%. the big question, who will be the two republicans duking it out over the next two months? democratic opponent michelle nunn, and also the daughter of popular former senator sam nunn, seems pretty happy to sit back and wait it all out. joining me now is jim galloway at the atlanta journal constitution. could these competitors for the gop primary tonight infighting to the extent they have, it's been quite vicious out there, actually play into dems hands, are they canceling each other

out? >> it's been vicious and it's going to get more vicious. runoff is guaranteed here. i don't think we've had any candidate among the seven polling over 25% and of course in georgia you have to get 50% plus one in order to avoid the runoff. the question is who. >> and by the same token, do you think the viciousness of these attacks could back fire on the candidates launching them, when david perdue referred to karen handel as the high school graduate of the race and big incident there and seemed to rach et up sympathy for her. >> right and what you've seen in the last few days, you've seen the seven kind of windle down to a big three. with karen handel, the high school graduate, making a big deal out of that, picking up a good part of the tea party ferver. we're writing two leads to the

story tonight, one is that david perdue, businessman and jack kingston are in the runoff in which case you have a fairly atra traditional race and the tea party is shut out because kingston supported the chamber of commerce and david perdue running as an outsider but more a centrist insider. the own scenario. >> that is striking because it seems all are branding themself as outsiders saying we hate washington, we're going to clean things up and handel is a real fire brand in terms of her stances on issues. what do you think georgia's appetite for outsiders is beyond the rhetoric? >> the outsider does appeal to tea party contingents on the right and more independent centrists toward the middle. your gop establishment is pret darn worried that they are going

to see their -- this thing that they built over the last ten years since republicans took over in 2002, they are starting to see it crumble. that they don't like that. >> we'll see if that's a bell weather for the rest of the country. what does this mean for rest of the country? chuck todd joins me now. always a pleasure to have you on. the big lead seems to be the gop establishment in all likelihood trouncing of these tea party candidates, in a must be of states it seems they've done that byco opting themes like perdue and kingston in georgia. do you think the candidates risk maybe becoming too fringed for mainstream elect tore rat? >> as we point to three different bullet points and georgia is the best example of the co-opting of the tea party. if you look in kentucky what mcconnell did, he instead said do you know who matt bevin and

he's not qualified to be a united states senator. he went the disqualifying route and georgia it's theco-opting route and in idaho, the defensive route. this is the mike simpson who cast every vote, needed to pass legislation and simpson was the legislative conservative and businessman's republican. but in all three cases you see the different formulas of stopping the tea party, either defining the opponent early and d disqualifying them and then there's sort of a third wild card we haven't talked about as to why the tea party seems to be sort of faultering a little bit. the issue of the deficit isn't the issue it was. we have a budget deal and went through the shutdown and seems to be people not wanting to go through that again.

>> the recent job numbers were good. >> the an mating force of the tea party, government spending, just isn't got that same passion and fire that was there two years ago or four years ago. >> we've seen some of them move more to the center, the opposite of the trend we are discussing for candidates, ben sas in nebraska won off the back of that kind of tea party in name only brand. do you think that's the model going forward? >> it seems to me, especially if you have a elect tore rat willing to do it and rand paul saying yes, i ran in on the tea party wave and here's where i'm different from them. you see that trend, tea party stalwarts in washington, face of the tea party in 2010 saying i'm not -- don't stereo type me as just tea party. >> chuck, it seems like in so many races there's huge field s

gop -- what does that say about the state of the two parties? >> well, a little bit this is let's think about the states we're talking about here. in the red states, democrats are afraid of primaries and don't want their candidates being too far to the left or center right. look at pennsylvania, we say there's no action today and most of it is on the republican side thauz because five of the six states are really -- four of the six are republican type states, you have kentucky and idaho and i'll bring up my map, arkansas and georgia. looking at pennsylvania, which is still a blue state or slightly swing, and guess what, there are very active democratic primaries for congress and statewide office. i think it's just the nature of the states that we have that are up today. >> a lot being decided today, thank you chuks. you can watch chuck all week on "the daily rundown" right here at 9:00 a.m. our call to action is about this very issue. we want you to register to vote. we built a special tool to make it easy. go to our website on the u.s.

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first place? i think this is only one of a few such requests that i'm aware of and the reason is that he has an unusual medical condition. that means that missouri knows there's a very good chance it will go horribly wrong and he will be subjected to terrible pain and really torture as part of this execution. >> and what do you say to someone who argues this man is a killer and rapist, the description of his crime is brutal, i encourage for anyone passionate to look that up. a painful series of events he caused. who cares if his death is painful. what do you say to that? >> there's no question he's being punished, the question whether we as a society will have executions that are obviously torturous, that whether it's acceptable for us to when we know there's an incredible risk that what we're about to do is going to subject

someone to long tortured pain, whether that's okay or not. that's really the issue here. >> here's another thing in the interest of not subjecting anyone to that type of pain, missouri, uses just one drug not a three drug cocktail, the exact method advocated for by groups like the constitution project. why state fights like missouri pursuing what they see as a more humane approach? >> well, the problem is that what missouri is using is compounded bash toll and using it with the secrecy and compounded drug work together to create a real risk and this is why. when you have compounded barbitol, most of the compounding pharmacies are using ab unusual process subject to contamination. we know from botched executions using this very same drug in the past it might go wrong. then combined with the fact that it's secret. we don't know where they are getting it and don't know

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globalized a global response and today we know that these investments have led to real results, 12.5 million children are no longer hungry because we've helped support 7 million farmers, not by giving out food but helping them stand on their own two feet and connect to american universities and businesses and improve the technology they use, sell and grow more food and sell it in markets and feed their children more effectively. that's the vir virt uous cycle. in many ways the reforms you were tasked with was moving towards smart aid, more sustainable, not just handouts. it has received some criticism, a report was put out saying a wide swath of stake holders that should be included aren't. they use tanzania as an example. >> we took a different approach, said we were going to be country led and inclusive and future on

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piece in particular referred to a lot of activity between 2001 and 2008 -- >> this was between 2008 and 2012. >> actually the actual statistics they were referring to were a little bit earlier than that. here's the bottom line. when we took office we tripled our staffing in afghanistan and broke down large awards into small awards. for 2% of the cost of the war in afghanistan, we've helped send 7.5 million kids to school, including 3 million girls. we've seen the fastest predukss in maternal and child mortality anywhere in the world in afghanistan and built almost 200,000 clokilometers of road. as we talk about the election that just happened and the second round that will soon happen, 75 prosecuti% of voters women, a lot of that is because of investments in schools and -- >> i passionately believe in that. >> you do and we should be

better at overseeing programs that's why we issued accountable assistance for afghanistan which won a lot of bipartisan praise. we've had 24 times as many contract enforcement actions under my tenure than in the prior four years. >> you talk about the legacy on the ground and it is important we're putting people in schools and feeding people as a country. but at the same time, a lot of these proposed reforms and this push for more oversight in washington is really needed. another area they talk about is this revolving door culture where employees from usaid go to contractors and make much more money. do you think there should be stricter limits on that? >> i do. we put in place really stricter limits. this is governed by governmentwide policies and resumes about cooling off periods and other things. the bottom line is during my tep you're we've taken a focus on what we call local systems, investing in local institutions

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too far? >> they totally did. why do we hate women so much. >> i don't, our fabulous lady panel is here. >> thank you. she was speaking honestly. there was a whole generation, i was part of the generation that grew up where parents allowed us to let ourselves into the house. we were latch key kids and didn't have parents hovering over us all the time. it should be a free forum for people not to feel they are under some mccarthyist regime of motherhood. >> this is characteristic of her style of honesty. she's talked about her sexuality and parenting and always does it it in a nuanced sound bity way. i want more of this. i love her in this article, speaking fg her daughter, i have thousands of photos of her, every 1 month birthday and 2 month birthday, but i've been working since i was 14 and that part is me. it took a long time to get into taking care of kids and what

that means. >> aren't the doubts normal for motherhood? >> absolutely. one of the things that "the post" said, i'm sure many mothers will be shocked at what she said. no, moms are not shocked by this. actually i found it really nourishing to hear another woman who had struggled with the balance of my career is important to me but obviously my kids are important to me. it speaks to the fact that motor what a woman does, a working mom in particular, there's all sorts of guilt associated with any decision that she makes. if the decision is to be with her kids full-time, there's guilt about what she's not doing in the workplace, if the decision is to be at work and be focused on that. there's all sorts of guilt about what you're doing not doing at home. it's really an impossible balance. and i think that's what we see with this quote. i really applaud her for having the courage to be so honest about her mixed emotions. >> it does seem there's a stigma, almost a culture of mom shaming, that's the term of national organization for women used. there's so much nor scrutiny for

women's decisions on this. why is that? >> we have message boards now. if you go to any of the parenting message boards, they are all about people trying to feel superior about -- >> is this what you're doing with your free time, heidi? >> i'm not but i have seen those and they are terrifying. a lot of people are doing that. the thing is you have a really successful women who have become parents and channelling all of that ambition into being the quote/unquote perfect parents. we're in an environment right now where parent shaming is a really kind of big thing. it's written large as a kind of career ambition now. >> heaven forbid a woman not want kids and pursue her career. here's what was said about the controversy. take a listen. >> it's too bad that things have to devolve into mommy wars and

people judge people for the way they are parents. >> krystal, does that resonate? >> when i was running for congress, i had one child and my daughter was 2 years old when i was running. people would flat outcome up to me, i think you should be at home with your daughter right now. someone came up to me, a democrat, i support all of your positions but there's no way i'll vote for you because you should be home with your kids. you shouldn't be running for anything other than after my daughter. that wasn't the majority view i think. >> this was coming from women. >> sometimes, yeah. i was shocked that people felt in this day and age that they could actually say that to am. i figured there would be people thinking it in the back of their minds. but that view is very much still out there. >> let's look at news about gender responses to political candidates, monica wehby. she was accused apparently in

2007 of harassing her ex-husband. on friday it was also reported that a former boyfriend accused her of quote, stalking him. how much of this is gender woman shaming and how much of this is a real concern that should be part of the discourse? >> another piece is the boyfriend that one of the allegations came from was running a super pac attacking her -- >> political motives. >> and other weird things. >> the ex-husband said i regret calling the cops on her, i support her candidacy. >> the test of whether or not something is sexist if the shoe was on the other foot, if it was a man would it be an issue? i would argue if you had a man with questions about domestic violence in multiple situations it would also be an issue being raszed on campaign. >> heidi, are women more susceptible to this type of criticism. >> the way we interpret their actions are differently, and we know that from the workplace. if a woman calls twice, she's a

stalker. if she doesn't -- >> she makes a strong business decision, she's definitely pushy. >> if she's a working mom, she's painted as careless or wrereckl. none of it is fair or true. we're misinterpreting women on purpose but i don't feel women are saying enough about it. i don't feel they are fighting back. we always seem to be caught on our back foot and never correct people as much as we could or else we're seen as pushy. >> stick around, we want more strong coffee talk style opinions. you'll do it better up ahead. we've got juicy topics for our panel. why 26 italian women are asking pope francis to help them find a different kind of love. don't go is a way. passenger: road trip buddy. let's put some music on. woman: welcome to learning spanish in the car. passenger: you've got to be kidding me. driver: this is good. woman: vamanos. driver & passenger: vamanos.

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we're back. neither of whom are dating priests, i think. some ladies are and they are in the news today. call them the real housewives of the vatican. group of 26 women all in love with priests have have now writ letter to pope francis. they ask, they want him to roll back the celibacy requirement. letter was first published in the vatican insider. women even included their numbers. in case he wants to dial up their digits. vatican hasn't formally commented on the letter except they won't reveal details of the pope's personal kcorrespondence. priests, so much game. with me is barbie nadal who wrote about this issue. how did these women find each other? >> well, they found each other on an open facebook page in which women, they say they represent a small sample of a huge number of women who are in

love with priests or who have been in relationships with priests or want to be in relationships with priests. they met these priests in church situations. these are presumably devout women who don't want the men to leave the priesthood. they want the pope to live the celibacy rule so they can live as couples. so these aren't just women off the street who want a marry a street. these are women part of the church already. >> with a sincere desire this could maybe improve the church's community. according to las stampas translation, we want to humbly lay at your feet our suffering so that something can change not only for us but for the good of the whole church. what do they want him to do procedurally? just get rid of the celibacy requirement all at once? >> well, celibacy is a

discipline. it's not a doctrine. and that makes it possible for the pope or any pope to actually lift the celibacy rule. it's been in place since around 1100. at which time priests were allowed to be married. at churchs in latin-american countries they can marry. lots of lutherans and protestant priests convert to become catholic priests. they don't have to get rid of their wives when they do that. they maintain their marriages as long as the wife consents. it is possible. this pope could say tomorrow enough with this. priests can get married and go on and enjoy yourselves. but it's likely he'll do that. >> if he's not going that far, he is talking on it for an interview for a back. quote, for now i am in favor of maintaining celibacy with all the pros and cons that comes with. in ten centuries there have been more positive experiences than

errors. he went on to say it's a question of discipline similar to what you were describing. not one of faith. so that's a no, but it's also -- it's not as resounding a no as we've gotten from past popes. >> that's right. it's also a little bit complicated, i think, logistically for priests if they were to have wives. right now priests and nuns are married to the church. all their worldly possessions go to the church when they pass. if you involve marriage, if you involve women and families and things like that, the vatican and churches would have to pay a better salary to these priests. you'd have to maintain kids for purposes of school. you'd have to support families in this. that makes it very complicated app also then if a priest has some property that -- well it would be. there's a lot more complicated than saying you can sleep with your priest boyfriend. it's a lot more complicated than that even though it would be

simple for the pope to make that change. >> thank you for that story. and i'm back with krystal and heidi. this is an interesting sign of change. for me as a catholic it seems it's at a time that it's just needed. according to vatican statistics, the number of catholics worldwide includesed by 64% between 1975 and 2008. how significant a difference could it make to lift the celibacy vow? >> i think it would be an important reform in opening up the priesthood and making it appealing to more people. because most people want to be able to have love in their life and have marriage and be able to have a family. i also think this issue is not a new one. my mom was actually a nun back in the '60s -- >> your mom sounds so cool. >> she is pretty cool. she's told me stories how -- >> my mom wanted to be a nun in the '60s. >> really? they should get together.

my mom would go in the confessional and the priest would say rosie is that you, are you the last one, let's go get a drink. so the idea of priests crossing the line is not an entirely new one. >> heidi, could this trigger a backlash from the church? what do you think? >> the pope has told the story of having been in love with a young girl very passionately and he was rejected by her. that's why he went into priesthood. could it change the church? obviously i think probably for the better. after however many centuries we've done this, why not try another way. and i can tell you having grown up in new york, there is a short supply of good men. >> regardless, the pope is another person who is talking about this in a nuanced way. krystal ball and heidi moore, thanks. that wraps things up for today's rfd. now it's time for the reid record with joy reid. i hope you have primary coverage

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