in six states in races that could ultimately shape the balance of power in washington. mitch mcconnell could win his race tonight and still lose big. >> it's a super blunder over at general motors which is putting the brakes on its pr nightmare. but still finds itself accelerating toward disaster. millions of new recalls announced today. and super scary. two jumbo jets, one landing, one taking off, miss each other by less than a length of a football field. how could this happen? >> and super secret. an exclusive inside look to silicon valley's relationship with the nsa. >> it sounds like a super show. >> indeed. >> it starts right now. cue that election music. the battle to the midterms is back. it's the biggest primary day of 2014 and the future of

washington rests in the hands of just a small few. sounds too ominous for the music, but it's true. only 40% of eligible voters usually come out in november if it's a midterm race. and the numbers for midterm primaries are even lower. meaning one vote matters a heck of a lot more. this is from atlanta. but there is a ton of cash targeting today's key races in six states. in kentucky, mitch mcconnell spent about $10 million in his primary against matt bevin. turnout there is expected to be near 30%. so about 360,000 votes. combined, the gop hopefuls in georgia have spent more than $14 million on their primaries. the state's election director expects about 25% turnout, but the campaigns themselves are prepared for much lower than that. they expect only 600,000 ballots at best. so $14 million on a primary for about half a million votes.

not to mention that georgia will likely end up with a runoff in july. these are both states along with arkansas that could determine if the senate ends up going red. so business owners are trying to change that low turnout number. they're motivating employees to get out to the polls in all six of the states today. these states are also holding key congressional and gubernatorial primaries as well. just a handful of voters could make all the difference. let's get started with senior congressional reporter at politico. manu, i want to start by looking at this georgia race. it looks likely to head to a runoff. david perdue is sort of the front runner at this moment, but i'm wondering if they go to a runoff, does that sort of change the complexion of the race? it seems to me if a tea party candidate could make it into that runoff, they could potentially consolidate the tea party wing of the party and maybe give perdue a run for his money. >> the runoff is going to be huge. this is actually the longest

runoff in the history of georgia. typically they have been three weeks long. georgia had to extend it to nine weeks. that's basically forcing these campaigns to run a whole new brand campaign. these guys are going to be fighting for every vote, for a small number of votes that's going to be dominated by conservative activist voters. it is a real risk for these candidates who are running. it could be jack kingston, david perdue, or karen handel. each of them are going to be courting that tea party base, the voters, the base of conservative base voters. they are going to dominate that runoff. and all the while, michelle nunn, the democratic candidate does not really have much opposition. she's probably going to escape a runoff and be sitting pretty come july when the republican

candidates could be battered badly. >> let's talk about that and stay right there in the peach state. michelle nunn basically allowed all this time to define herself. she's put these commercials where she doesn't even call herself a democrat. just this pragmatic person who wants to get things done. talks about her service for george h.w. bush. from your sources at the nrsc, how are they sweating nunn's candidacy and this could be a worry for them if this primary turns into a blood bath. >> the interesting thing is michelle nunn has only been subjected to $300,000 worth of attack ads from conservative groups and republican candidates while they've spent millions and millions for attacking each other. the republicans will tell you once the general election engages, once they get past the runoff, today start to unite the party and these attacks are going michelle nunn's direction. it'll be hard for her to come

back. after all, it is a red state. after all, the midterm electorate is going to probably favor republicans. it's going to be hard for her to show independence from her party while getting democratic voters out to the polls. still, it's going to be a close race all the way to the end. and the runoff is very unpredictable factor here. >> you know, manu, all this talk about michelle nunn reminds me of when i was in college and her father was a senator and her brother was there with me in college at the same time. it make i don't say u think how multi-generational political names are helped. folk who is have parents, mostly fathers sometimes brothers who have been big names in the area. run down some of the reasons why brand names are helping these demes in red states even though americans tend not to like political dynasties. >> it's true. i mean, typically name i.d. is

important come november. especially in an open seat like georgia when none of those candidates have been general election candidates before. i was in georgia last week interviewing many. the issue for nunn is her father left in 1997. georgia has changed a lot since then. there were a lot of voters who did not know who her father is. she will have to define herself and show how she is or isn't like her father come november. because voters say, yeah, i like sam nunn, but who is she? or i don't know who sam nunn is. it does cut both ways. but it does help in this regard, raising money. michelle nunn has tapped into sam nunn's powerful network. >> doesn't always help to be tied to a political name. but there's been so much talk

about a tea party and how the primaries will be further indication if they do well that the tea party isn't nearly as strong as it once was. one of the reasons this might be happening, that the deficit has been decreasing. which obviously takes a lot of power away from what's arguably the tea party's biggest rallying cry. the u.s. debt is obviously still growing, but the perception for many people now is that annual spending has finally gotten under control. so if this is the case, looking bigger picture here, how much trouble is the tea party in in terms of staying legitimate longer term. >> the issue for a lot of voters in these states is they want to find a candidate who can win. a lot of them are just tired of nominating candidates who can't win. falling short of taking back the majority for the republicans. you're seeing more and more in these states of voters and candidates and groups looking for candidates who can actually win come november. and as a result, that's dividing

groups on the right, some groups who may want to get behind a candidate who may be the most conservative in a primary but not in a general election. you're seeing that happen throughout the states. some of the big spending groups are not spending a lot of money like in georgia where the club for growth and conservatives fund, two big groups sat ou of the primary. so that's the dynamic that's happening all around. i think there's a hunger among a lot of base voters that they want to win this time instead of leaving key seats on the table. >> turning to kentucky, mitch mcconnell is on the ballot today as a tea party challenger. mcconnell easily seen to best bevin today. but turning to the general election, he seems to have a real challenge in alison lundergan grimes. polls have shown them in a statistical dead heat. does she have a real chance at winning this thing? >> yeah. in kentucky still a majority of voters are democrats there.

even though it's a conservative state, even though the president lost kentucky in 2012. it is still a majority democratic voter registration state. mcconnell is unpopular. that said, the reason why the polls are close is that mcconnell has been going through a very expensive primary fight. there are a number of bevin supporters that said they won't vote for mcconnell come the fall. he needs the base voters to come back to imhad. to get those bevin voters to not vote for grimes or not sit out this election. that's going to be his challenge. and that will determine whether or not he's re-elected come november. >> absolutely. thanks as always. up next, one reason why november's elections matter so much to our country. will we take a step forward in closing the income gap or return to the robert baron days? "the cycle" rolls on for tuesday, may 20th.

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our current level of income inequality is greater than in any society in the world at any time in history. so what are we going to do about it? inequality does not flow from the invisible hand of the market. it flows from our political choices. around taxation, regulation, unions, campaign finance, and other dynamics. so what should we do about it? one man who's been focused on ideas and mobilizing people to combat inequality is robert reich who advised presidents clinton and carter and wrote many great books such as "beyond

outrage" and "aftershock." there's also a talk about him and his documentary. it is a must see. welcome mr. reich. it is an honor to have you. your new piece for the nation provides ten steps for shrinking the gap. let's talk about one of those ideas i believe in. reforming campaign finance. as you talk about, when we have a level of concentration of wealth as we have right now, having unbridled money in politics poses a clear and present danger to our democracy. so what would you have us do there? >> toure, when people ask me as you just did, what's the first thing we need to do to reverse income inequality, i say get big money out of politics. how do we do that? first thing is reverse citizens united. how do we do that? it's going to require if nothing

else a constitutional amendment. we'll also need new supreme court justices. therefore that not only does obama have the opportunity to appoint a supreme court justice, but that the next president whoever she is have the opportunity to appoint that supreme court justice. >> mr. reich, i have a question regarding where do you attribute this to politically? because democrats used to be the party of the little man, the party of the working class. and yet it seems that they've been beholden to those of corporate interest. i remember in 2008 a lot of the reason why president obama was able to compete with hillary clinton was the money he got from wall street back then. is it not a problem that the party that used to be using corporate control is now essentially controlled by corporations? >> it's a huge problem. there are really two democratic parties. there's what paul wellstone used to call the democratic wing of the democratic party. and then there's the

establishment wing of the democratic party. wall street and big business. undoubtedly some sort of campaign finance reform or at least a public provision of money for campaigns. we are going to have what we've had. that is a democratic party that is increasingly drinking out of the same trough as the republican party. there's a difference between republicans and democrats, certainly. the difference is not as great as it should be given widening inequality. given the huge problems facing the american middle class and the poor. >> yeah. a lot of interesting ideas. i have to point out, the democrats could have passed raising the minimum wage when they held majority. they didn't do that. now these ideas are pretty much dead on arrival with the conservatives. how do you go about making any of this happen especially when you have a president who has made it clear he's done working

with congress. >> first of all, at the state level and even at the city level, there are campaigns very actively mobilizing and energizing people to raise the minimum wage. let's at least do it at the state and still level. secondly there are many things that ought to be done in preparation for mobilizing and organizing that is in preparation for the 2016 campaign. you know, i've been in washington. i know that regardless of how good the people are in washington, unless the public is informed and activated and mobilized and rg oed, it's hard to get things done in washington because the moneyed interests are just simply too powerful. >> that's exactly right. it's people who really have to take this onto themselves and push their so-called leaders to actually take action. one of the other things you advocate for is giving workers more power with a reinvigorated labor movement. to me it's no accident that as

union membership rates decline, we saw this break up with wages staying flat. if we could get some more energy the the labor movement, they wouldn't be so dependent on the government to raise the minimum wage. >> that's exactly right. in fact, a lot of people suffer from collective amnesia in this country. they don't remember in the 1950s, 1960s organized labor constituted about -- well, 30% to 50% of all workers in the private sector. that means that workers in the private sector had enough bargaining power to get a fair share of the economic gains of society. what we've seen since the -- well, just the recovery since 2009 is that 95% of the economic gains have gone to the top 1%. without any organization, without anybody speaking for and acting on behalf of the vast majority of american workers, they're going to get a bad deal.

so the question is how do you revive the labor unit movement. i think really you start with low wage workers at walmart, at the fast food big conglomerates. these are the people who need to be organized. they also need not incidentally a rise in the minimum wage. >> you talk about that there's two democratic parties. that the demes are choosing between. which one do you think your friend hillary clinton is in? >> well, that's going to be an interesting question over the next year, almost year and a half. i think she is going to have to choose between the wall street big business democratic party and the paul wellstone old democratic party that represented average working people. it's not clear right now. right now we have senator elizabeth warren who seems to be choosing that old democratic party. i say old not in a negative way. i think old in the terms of

representing the people who are not represented, who don't have the power or privilege. warren hasn't said she's going to run. if hillary clinton does run, i think hillary clinton can do far better and mobilize the base of the party and really make historic changes in what is happening in america if she embraces that tradition of democrats representing the middle class, lower middle class, working class, and the poor rather than the new tradition of democrats representing unfortunately wall street and big business. >> that is the battle for the spirit of the democratic party in a nutshell. i should i could go to california and take your class, sir. thank you for being on the show. up next, one year after a powerful ef-5 tornado ripped apart the town of moore, oklahoma, we are there live to see how far that community has come. there's much more "cycle" still ahead. your home and auto insurance together. i'll just press this, and you'll save on both. ding! ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,

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and in washington where just last month the new ceo of general motors was apologizing to congress for their handling of fatally flawed vehicles. she may find herself back on capitol hill due to new recalls today. 2.4 million. this time for issues ranging from seat belts to air bags to gear shifts. ten makes and models are affected. you can check out our websites for the details. this brings the total number of gm recalls this year to 13.6 millions. how about crashing into another plane? the ntsb is investigating a near miss between two planes last month. came within 400 feet of a regional jet that was cleared for takeoff. this is believed to be an issue with the tower and not the result of a mistake by either pilot. now to bridgegate.

the panel investigating the george washington bridge lane closures heard from a former christie aid this morning. he's now with the new hampshire republican party. he denied having anything to do with the political payback plan that only ended up hurting residents trying to get to work or school. >> today i sit here dumbfounded and disappointed that the actions seemingly taken by a few rogue individuals has tainted the good work that so many people have done on behalf of the state of new jersey. >> governor christie has repeatedly denied any knowledge about the planning or execution. and breaking news right now. a federal judge in pennsylvania has just struck down that state's nearly two-decades' old ban on gay marriage. the aclu will hold rallies in a number of cities throughout the state later this afternoon. they argued that the ban

violated the state constitution by excluding same-sex couples from the same legal benefits and protections that are afforded to heterosexual couples. now 44% of the nation's population lives in a state that permits gay and lesbian couples to marry. >> wow. good afternoon, everyone. over 25 million people under a slight risk for severe thunderstorms later on this afternoon including the city of chicago into ohio as well. the main threat will be wind damage. it's quiet right now, but the threat for isolated tornadoes will be possible later on this evening and into the overnight hours for the windy city. and that beautiful weather that we've seen in the northeast over the past few days, that comes to an end tomorrow as well. wednesday showers and storms in the ohio valley. new york city with temperatures in the 70s and 80s. memorial day forecast, it looks like there may be some rain in the northeast for the beginning, but hopefully drying out by

memorial day monday. back to you guys at the table. >> sounds good. thanks so much. and the weather today is a far cry from what we were talking about just one year ago. the town of moore, oklahoma leveled by one of the worst tornadoes to ever touch down in the united states. 24 people were killed, 400 others were hurt. really no one escaped totally unscathed. but one year later, residents are rebuilding. on the left is moore on may 21st of 2013. on the right, moore last thursday. it's a tretty incredible recovery. today community members came together to remember the trials and triplations they've experienced. and a brighter future ahead for this tight knit group of family and friends. >> there have been a lot of people that asked can this city and people recover? but we already know the answer to that question. and the answer to that question is yes. we will recover. yes, we will rebuild.

and yes, we're going to grow even stronger. >> nbc's gabe gutierrez is in moore for us this afternoon. it's one thing to be standing there in the aftermath of a tornado and another thing to be there one year later. >> reporter: yeah. exactly right. it's quite remarkable to see the neighborhood we're standing in right now was reduced to rubble last year. and right now most of it has already been rebuilt. plaza towers elementary which i'm standing in front of, it is well on its way to being rebuilt. school officials expect to open it in the fall when the school gets back to class. now, that is where seven children died. nearby briarwood elementary is being repaired. both of the schools will have storm shelters. but the big debate raging right now is how to get storm shelters in 1100 other schools here in the state. the cost of that is astronomical. it's close to a billion dollars by some estimates. but moore, oklahoma, has become the first city in the country to

change residential building codes. they're now hoping the stronger building codes catch on in other parts of tornado alley. but might be able to minimize the damage if for example an ef-1 and ef-2 tornado. we're at a memorial service earlier today and also a ceremonial ground breaking for the moore medical center. another one of the buildings that was destroyed. a very somber anniversary here. we've seen flags throughout the city that say moore strong. and indeed, it has been over this past year. back to you. >> gabe, luke russert here. i was on assignment in moore about a month ago right where you're at. i was struck by the resiliency not just in the adults but the kids seemingly able to persevere on and understanding what

occurred was obviously a terrible loss and a terrible moment. but really about pushing forward and moving forward. talk about that for the general public that might not ever go to moore, oklahoma. this town is really rebuilding and they really are persevering. >> reporter: that's exactly right. this town really prides itself on being resilient. moore has suffered through three major tornadoes in the last 15 years. we have been coming back here every few months. i was here last year on the night of that tornado and we've been coming back every few months doing reports. it's been quite remarkable not just to see the physical rebuilding but also the emotional rebuilding. we were at the premiere of a tornado documentary that premiered last week. and really this community has come together and has begun to really share their story all along. as you mentioned the kids are eager to come back to these schools. it's remarkable to these these schools plaza towers and

briarwood a year after the tornado to look back and see the progress that's been maeed. it's truly been quite remarkable. >> incredible stuff. thank you so much. and up next, examining the secret relationship between silicon valley and the nsa. is it the end of privacy as we know it? just think about all the info in your g-mail, instagram feed, and your tweets. [ female announcer ] there's a gap out there. that's keeping you from the healthcare you deserve. at humana, we believe if healthcare changes, if it becomes simpler...

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this is worth talking about. what you like on facebook, what you tweet, what you share on instagram, it's all out there for your friends to follow. but it's not just your friends, is it? companies have also been using this information to target you as a consumer. but how much has the government been invading your personal life? and who knows more? last week we previewed part one of pbs frontlines documentary focused on the nsa post 9/11.

and looking at the relationship between nsa and silicon valley. airs tonight on pbs at 9:00 p.m. and producer martin smith joins us now. the question i keep asking is what information about our personal lives does the government have that companies like google and facebook and others don't already have? aren't they just as invasive? so how can we force the nsa to stop hacking into our lives if we allow others to do the very same thing. >> that's the right question. as long as you allow companies, internet companies to collect all this information, it can fall into the hands of the government. there's something called third party doctrine where when you give up your information and give it to yahoo! or microsoft to deliver, it's like you sent a postcard. the law allows the government to look in on this just as it allows these companies to surveil you. >> you have a fascinating moment in this piece where california state legislator is recalling a conversation she had with the

founders of google about privacy. let's take a look. >> senator, how would you feel if a robot went into your home and read your diary and read your financial records, read your love letters, read everything. but before leaving the house, it imploded. he said that's not violating privacy. i immediately said of course it is. yes, it is. >> you know, people when they first found out that google was scanning their e-mails, they were very upset and concerned about it. but i feel like over time they became akos tccustomed to it. >> i don't know. because at that time the robot did implode. in other words, they looked at your e-mail and immediately in realtime placed an ad and then got rid of that information. that changed over time. once facebook came along and competitors came along, they

realized to win in the advertising game you had to have more and more data. the data wars. and so they now keep that information. so the information that they glean from your e-mail is kept, combined with your browsing history and texts to build a more complete picture. advertising is about surveillance. it's knowing your customer. >> that sounds so frightening. it is another fascinating documentary from you guys. i was gripped. and we were all sort of unnerved, perhaps not surprised, but unnerved to discover that the nsa was taking our information from google and facebook and all these companies willingly. but i was surprised to find out the nsa just takes it through the technological back door. let's watch that. >> google was shocked. they had leased what they thought were secure data lines. >> the idea that one of our own government agencies would go out

and sshlly break into google's own data streams to go beyond what google thought had been a skeptical and resistant but nevertheless cooperative relationship, i find that quite shocking. that is sort of a betrayal of the relationship that i think google felt like it had with the government. >> that's a program called muscular. >> they were with another program kauld prism. there's more programs that the nsa has than we could list in the time we have here today. but they were cooperating with prism. that was a front door operation. i come to you with a request and you put it in a drop box and i retrieve it. muscular they go over where they don't apply in the same way they do here and just snatch it. >> martin, i was not really shocked when these allegations about the nsa came out simply

because i was probably more shocked a number of years ago when i read a g-mail and there was a reference to are you going swimming this weekend and there were 14 pool products i could buy on the right of my e-mail. i found that odd a number of years ago. at that point i chocked it up to anything i did there would probably be known by outside forces. are we now living in what is the beginning of the beginning of the end of privacy mainly because people willfully put themselves out there so much with what they post and consume and read. there's a whole generation that has basically given themselves to the technological machine. >> yeah. i don't think they've thought hard about what the potential consequences of that are. but we're in the early stages of the internet. what's interesting was telecongruentelecohe congruence of events. you had this massive amalgamation of data on us

through google and facebook and the others. at the same time the government's appetite and incentive was to go and get it. it was irresistible to them. and as i said, we're in the early days of all this and we don't know. we know of two nsa employees who were reading the e-mail of their girlfriends and were fired. there's other things we don't know about. and there's all sorts of potential for abuse. what we're having now is a national conversation we should have had some time earlier about just where we're going here. >> yeah. it's certainly an important conversation that we need to be having. we've all acknowledged here that, you know, we get the fact that the nsa and these companies they have more information than we would probably like about our personal lives. taking a step back from this documentary, what was most shocking to you about the invasion of privacy? what was most alarming that we should be concerned about? >> well, there were a lot of little things. the fact nsa was piggybacking on

tracking cookies. even if you're not on a facebook site, 23 there was one of those facebook like buttons with that's a tracking mechanism. it's reporting back to you. we have an example, somebody showed us, some somebody reading an article on "huffington post" about depression. and because there's a facebook like button there, they don't have to interact with it, but the information is sent back to facebook to tell them that this person is reading this. and whe you go on the internet, there's scores of little advertising companies tracking companies that are looking in on you. so the extent to which that tracking is going on was surprising to me. >> yeah. that is very surprising. really fascinating stuff, martin smith. thank you so much for being with us. again, the special airs tonight at 10:00 p.m. and up next, are you deluding yourself every day? you might be surprised. stick with us. he's agreed to gi. that's today? [ male announcer ] we'll be with him all day as he goes back to taking tylenol.

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day. most of us are no different. we all have little things we do to justify an outcome. not shaving until your team wins the world series, dressing up for a big date, or even convincing yourself that the health thing isn't really a big deal. no need to go to the doctor. that's not me. some might call it delusional, but how we perceive the world has a very real impact on actual outcomes. for better and worse. that's the idea behind the new book "kidding ourselves" by author and pulitzer prize winning author joseph thallinan. thank you for joining us. i think self-deception is a wonderful thing. you have to find a reason to believe to get through the day to day because if you don't, you turn into a friend of mine who i used to call her the dark philosopher because all she would do was talk about the meaning of life. then you end up six feet under and what have you got? is self-deception something to

be used to our advantage? >> i think it is. self-deception, i think at least in small doses, very helpful. it works a bit like the body's immune system. pretty much automatically and without any awareness on our part that it's actually functioning. but instead of fighting off infections, it works to make us positive, confident, fill us with persistence and other qualities key to our success in the world. so we don't go six feet under. >> that's one of the things i found, joseph, is some of the most successful, most confident people are that way because they have deluded themselves about all sorts of things. so in a way, i would like to strive to be more self-delusional. >> it's important because a lot of people who are very successful aren't necessarily realists. there's a time when it pays to be realistic and a time when it pays to be optimistic. they're not often the same times. >> well, talk to us about how

this affects genders differently. because it seems like men has an easier time being self-delusional. you have a chapter in your book about how men can convince themselves of things compared to women. men will think they can get a girl that's way out of their league compared to women who feel like they probably can't get the guy because he is out of their league. >> they do. men and women both deceive themselves but obviously in different ways. as you alluded to, men do deceive themselves. they think women find them more sexually attractive than they actually do. no shock there to anybody. and the reverse for women. studies show they underreport the perception of men have of them. >> i find a lot good about your work here, joseph. i am completely self-delusional. it works for me. >> it does. >> makes me feel good about

myself every day. >> he's not kidding. >> what are you lying to yourself about, sir? >> what am i lying to myself -- oh, my kids -- yeah. ooh. my kids ask me that all the time. i think i suffer from the same delusions everybody does. you get up and think maybe you have special skills and abilities. you like to believe that. but luck plays a big part in what you do. luke mentioned wearing lucky socks or having superstitions. and i'm superstitious as the next guy. >> joseph, how do you know if you are deceiving yourself? >> you know, i don't think you ever 100% know if you're deceiving yourself. and if it works, you may not ever know. maybe the little lucky coins you carry around in the purse have always done you well. and if you kid yourself about their power of luck, so much the better. so i don't think you ever ultimately know on the positive side. >> we all go around say our

mothers tell us honesty is the best policy. but talking to ourselves, it's not. we need these self-delusions to get through the day a lot of the time. >> you know, you do. studies th look at people -- one study tracked a life insurance agent and it broke down the agent into two categories. those that used a positive explanation for the bad things that happened to them and those that used a negative explanation such as, i'm no good at this and i never have. and they found something interesting. they found those that used a negative explanation not only sold fewer insurance policies but they had a much greater propensity to quit. >> even if the explanations didn't hold water it was more successful than the other people. and that's what it's all about. >> who perseveres and who has successful. >> one thing i found fats natding in reading through your book was this direct connection between being delusional and the

control that gives that individual. talk about that relationship and how being delusional makes us better and more successful people. >> one of the key qualities to the human psyche is the need to feel in control. one of the things that makes people, for instance, so afraid of flying or going to the dentist. not if pain or being 30,000 feet in the air, it's the lack of control they feel. >> they'd rather be driving their own car, even though it's far more dangerous because they're in control. so anything you can do to give people a sense of control. maybe they don't have actual control but the sense of control is going to make thm much better at what they do. >> someone who is terrified of flying i could not agree with you anymore. joseph, thank you very much for coming on the program. we brooesh update it. a bit of breaking sports news. this afternoon, minneapolis has been awarded the 2018 superbowl by the nfl. football weather is one thing but if average low temperature

in minneapolis in february is 8 degrees. it won't be an outdoor superbowl. this is a reward for the new stadium the state is helping them build there and hopefully it's a nice, economic shot in the arm. a very underrated place. i like that. >> i think i'll be watching that one on tv. >> it's a dome. it will be inside. >> all right. speaking of our last segment on delusional. no feeling my daughter, ella in the newest installment. she interviewed a stanford grad turned toymaker, ceo, about getter girls interesting in construction. >> how do you make the girl toys also a bow toy? >> that's a very good question. so i think that all toys are toys and that girls and boys can play with any toys, do you agree? >> yeah. >> with the toys i made with goldie locks was i wanted to

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back in october, independent truckers of america organized what was supposed to be a giant proprotest in d.c. with potentially hundreds of thousands of truckers and millions of citizens and shutting down the hway and demanding enemies like barack obama comply with their demappeds. we'll run this place and take our country back, led the press release. an estimated 30 truck trucks participated in the protest and obama did not comply with their demands and on friday, conservative organizers planned another massive rally. 30 million would come. obama, read, pelosi and all would be forced to step down but here's what it actually looked like. tens of people descend on the capitol drive the obama administration out of office. we talked about how conservatives have a strange reality with -- they insist the administration was cooking the

books on obama care enrollments or faking an entire economic philosophy. trickle down, really? in some ways, however, all this reality distortion is based on central fallacy, a belief that allows all the others to flow as freely as toxic sludge into a west virginia river and that's the belief that america is actually on their side. nixon coined the term "silent majority" conservatives still cling to a belief that most of america quietly has their back and is too afraid to the liberals to voice their disgust for gay people and the deep desire to dismantle the safety net and burning passion for tax cuts for the rich and this belief can be found in the constant tea party use of "we the people." their faith that every bundy a is a spark for if revolution. to face the facts of the demographic demise of the republic party. how dick morris and karl rove who is supposedly smart, can

cling like a motivational kitten on a branch to the idea that ohio really will go for romney and a necessary part of this delusion is the belief that youpg people, city dwelers and minorities aren't part of real america and they don't count or they shouldn't count which is where disenchanting franchise laws come in. our votes count the sail. i'll grant you tea party and the may the red of obama, you've managed to take over one of the two major parties in america. that speaks more to their moral and intellectual bankruptcy and the crumbles 06 the democratic process than it does to your strength. time to tell you the hard truth. we the people are not on your side and your constant prediction 06 revolution sounding like the doomsday predictions. always on the horizonen and nv arriving and crazy. >> we, the people. >> we the people. >> we, the people. >> we, the people, respectfully request you stop invoking us in

your nonsense. that us did it for "the cycle." "now with alex wagner" starts now. the d.c. insider is king in the bluegrass state. it's tuesday, may 20th and this is "now." the marquee battle is in kentucky. >> mitch mcconnell and mabeavan. >> this has been a big mid term matchup. the most critical day of this season. >> mitch mcconnell has never had a positive agenda about anything. it's always block whatever he can. >> nothing is for sure in politics but it looks like mitch mcconnell will win. >> criminal of the u.s. senate is what's on the line in 2014. >> where did bva