happened at the belmont this weekend. i think the owner is the biggest loser. the cycle conducts its own gallop poll -- someone was paid to write that. >> i'm abby huntsman. this guy has 23 year and three presidents under his belt. let's hope that prepared him for his turn into "the cycle." can you feel the excitement? can you taste the anticipation? not literally. but for once we're not talking about the election music, i'm talking about hillary clinton's new book and what it may or may not mean about her white house hopes. the full 635-page door stopper goes on sale tomorrow. a million copies have already been shipped.

"hard choices" will almost certainly be a best seller. as some point out, there's not much news and others point out it does highlight some key elements where she and the president weren't figuratively on the same page, arming and training syria rebels, the russian reset which the white house has made her part of and the american prisoner swap that freed p.o.w. bowe bergdahl. her challenge is her relationship with the president. clintons are touting the clinton presidency as a possible third obama term maybe. 67% say hillary is a strong leader and more than half say she understands the problems of people like you and me.

but when it comes to how she handled that attack in benghazi that killed a u.s. ambassador and three other americans, her approval rating sinks to 37%. whether you love her or hate her, whether you think she should run or not, krystal, i'm talking to you, this book is sending 2016 signals up everyone's spines, it all depends on how you interpret them. we go to mark murray and our brand new political reporter, perry bacon, you love him as perry bacon. when they put, sr., makes you feel old. >> mark, part of what they're doing, what the hillary world is doing is doing lot of data mapping with the web site and other things, helping to figure out who is waiting in line for this book, who is dying to get this book, how do you cultivate them in this sort of data mapping rich world.

tease a really interesting part of a not yet presidential campaign. >> well, that's right. i think that's why everyone kind of sees this rollout as something more than just selling books. if you're going to get people's e-mail addresses, get people to be a potential donor list, that is something that could potentially be used in 2016. as we pointed out and you just referenced, the biggest news in this book is that she makes really no news at all. this is someone who is leaving the door open for a future political run. she's not settling scores, not airing any kind of dirty laundry to make additional money for a book that more people will end up buying. this is somebody who takes a very ginger approach to president obama, who doesn't make a whole lot of controversial statements. and i think you take that all together and this is someone who still wants to keep her political options open as we head to 2016. >> perry bacon, luke russert here in washington. i wanted to ask you this

question, what does this book actually really accomplish? hillary clinton is so well known by the public. it seems everybody has an opinion of her. this is not senator barack obama releasing the audacity of home that was a campaign fanfemanife that introduced himself to america. i would argue the most significant thing of this book is that she was on people's magazine cover and got to define herself to a positive way to working class and suburban women if she were to run in 2016. what does this book actually accomplish? >> two things, luke. she can now reference this book, when she's on the campaign trail next year, which i think she will be, when someone asks her about benghazi, she can say on page 136, i said, this i dealt with this issue now. so to put aside the issues from her state department tenure and lay that aside and say i'm moving forward now, look at my

book to see how i answered that. second thing and i think this is important like mark said, there is really to meet start of a presidential campaign. i think she's laying out and if you listen to the way she's interviewing, she's talking about her health is fine, she's ready to go. it tells you if you're another democrat, if you're joe biden, martin o'malley, hillary clinton is 90% of the way there and maybe you should stand down. that's a useful signal to send as well. >> the other thing i think about here, as luke was saying, everybody knows hillary clinton, everybody knows who she is. but i think there a lot of question marks about exactly how she would position herself in what is likely to be the central issue in 2016, which is the economy and issues of economic inequality and economic fairness. do we have any indications from this book and from elsewhere of how she's going to position herself on thosie issues? >> not really.

that's a domestic political issue and this book, the central focus, has to do with what she did as secretary of state and the after math of the 2008 democratic race of the presidential nomination. one of the things that's benefiting her right now is she was not a political actor for five years. being secretary of state is not really a political partisan job. that's explains why her numbers were pretty good, higher than most other political figures who have to kind of get into the normal kind of give and take and back and forth of american politics. but when she has to start wading in on things, making controversial statements and decisions, those numbers will potentially start to come back down for her and come back down to earth. but she has a lot to answer and i think she'll be given questions on that regardless of who ends up running against her or if anyone does in a democratic nomination, if she decides to run. but to your central point, there is a way in which hillary clinton can maybe have it a little bit of both ways when it comes to economic fairness and

the populism versus wall street debate. wall street is a very big fan of the clintons, as you know. the people who staffed bill clinton's presidency, those folks went on to wall street. so in some ways hillary clinton does have some cover given that wall street is going to be beside her, give her donations. for her to take the rhetoric that president obama has used in this debate and not get the blowback when president obama was getting when he was making his reelection bid in 2012. >> let's talk about hillary clinton's relationship with president obama. many people are writing about this right now. this could go on to be one of her greatest challenges. it's a really delicate balance. you doesn't wan't want to be dio your boss but at the same time you have to show places that you're different. so far she's been rather loyal. "new republic" makes an interesting point. they say "in not for the way

hilla hillary's proto-campaign has frozen the field, there would already be half a dozen democratic governors and senators trooping through iowa complaining that she hasn't closed guantanamo bay, arrested any wall street bankers. at some point she's going to have to touch on this stuff. >> i would say right now the point is to be loyal. the next election would be the democratic primary. who votes in democratic primaries? african-americans one, liberals, too. hillary clinton is very popular among these people. if hillary said she thought obama should not have done obamacare, that would be a real disaster for her. right now it's to her advantage to be close to the president. he has blocks of voters she

need. down the line in the general election, you'll see signs of disagreement. you saw a little in the book but i would argue when to arm the syrian rebels is an important issue but not one most americans are deeply engaged in. october 2016, i think it will be a lot different when the president is leaving office, she probably has the democratic party behind her and she has to look for swing voters, can you imagine the coverage of the book right now if she had attacked obama on some really important issue a lot of us knew about? it would take over the book rollout, and she doesn't want to do that. >> that's what we would be talking about. >> that's exactly right, the point that nbc news's new senior political reporter just made. it's valuable to be seen that her no political persona has been more rewarding for her than

being seen as a team player. she still does want to be associate d with obama to a certain extent. >> it's been a mutually beneficial relationship to them. president obama was a able to elevate her to a secretary of state role where her numbers were allowed to go higher than they'd ever been in the past. and her being a loyal secretary of state really didn't even have a lot of the drama that many people were expecting when that, quote unquote, team of rivals started in 2009. so that kind of potentially benefits them. and one important model to look at is the reagan/george h.w. bush model, folks are hoping that you get a third term. reagan had his term and h.w. bush were able to get another one for the republican party. reagan and bush were very different people. they represented different states and different people in

the republican party. in a lot of ways i think a lot of people are hoping that hillary clinton is barack obama's h.w. bush. republicans are hoping this is going to be your two years and then the other party gets control of the white house come 2016/2017. >> interesting point. mark murray, you've always got gravitas. up next, president obama uses his pen to send millions of struggling young americans a message. but first, these messages as "the cycle" rolls on for monday, june 9th. ♪

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i ran for this office to help more young people go to college, graduate and pay off their debt. we've made some really good progress, in spite of efforts by some in congress to block that progress. think of how much more we could do if they were not standing in the way. this week they have a chance to help young people. i hope they do. in the meantime i'm going to take this action here for those who believe this is still a place you can make it if you try. >> president obama using his pen to help sign down crushing student loan debt. now an estimated 5 million additional students can cash in on this opportunity. tomorrow he will have a conversation with tumbler to

discuss this college loan crisis. the cost of college is setting us up to fail right out of the gate. student let debt hit $1 trillion last year. default rates are rising at a double-digit rate. how are you supposed to pay all that money back when unemployment among 25 to 34-year-olds is the highest of any age group in america? it is the perfect storm. matt segal has thrown himself right in the middle of that, fighting the good fight, long with congressman peterwe welch, congressman of vermont. congressman, how much of a difference will these actions by the president make? >> it will make a huge difference for the 5 million kids at that will be affected. it means for them the maximum they'll have to pay on a monthly

basis is 10% of their annual income. that's terrific for the 5 million kids. for everybody not included, we still have a long mountain to climb. >> matt it, just seems immoral for the government to charge students a higher interest rate than it charges the banks to borrow money. senator elizabeth warren has been banging this gong quite hard for quite a while. talking about the immorality of this and talking about how this is painful and hurtful to our future. tell us how bad this is, matt. >> it's awful. it's absolutely awful. but in spite of the machinations over student loan interest rate, trying to change whether it's 3%, 4%, 7% you pay back, this makes a small positive difference. but what we should be asking ourselves is why has college gone up 1,000% since the year 1978? why are more and more states

cutting higher education funding? who is getting rich off this higher tuition and why aren't we investing in common sense alternatives like free community college like a republican governor in tennessee just embraced. or 3% enrollment and you'll pay back 3% in your tax burden to thank the state for investing in you on the front end. we should be shifting the paradigm toward this as opposed to these yearly debates over whether we're going to pay 3%, 6% and allow people to have a cam on their interest rates, et cetera. >> congressman, we should be doing things to help students pay off the debt but the biggest issue seems to be the skyrocketing cost of college education. if we can't begin solving that problem, debt is going to forever be a problem. how do we tackle that? >> first of all, i absolutely agree to that.

we have to have a cost-side approach. trey gowdy answered have a bill that would do two things. one, it would let the colleges make some recommendations on regulations where we can give them some relief to lower cost. secondly give them flexibility to try to accelerate graduation, let high school kids take courses, give competency based credits so kids can get out in less than four years rather than more than five years. third, i'd like to see us help with energy retro fits in our college campuses. that's an area where the federal government is making progress to save money on our federal buildings, let's help the colleges. and let's encourage college to end the arms race. it's great to live in a fancy dorm, great to have a tremendous athletic facility, but it's not so great to have the debt that goes along with paying for that for 30 years after you've graduated. we've got to focus on the cost. >> matt, one thing i find interesting is when i went to school, i'm only about six years out, i had a lot of colleagues

that would talk about the crushing student debt they were very worried about facing as they moved on in life but they also talked about the fact they received half scholarships at other schools. some of them would end up getting a liberal arts degree that did not have a high earning value after college education. should the government do more and groups do more to try and steer students coming out of high school to making wiser financial decision when is it comes to student loans? maybe take the half scholarship and not go to the school which is going to saddle you with all that debt, maybe pursue that computer network degree instead of doing something like art history right off the bat? >> at the end of the day i think it's a conversation people need to have with their families. way in advance of going to college. what kind of track do you want to be on? if you want to be a doctor or lawyer, you need liberal arts training and background. if you want to be a professor, if you want to in any way go into a field that requires critical thinking, liberal arts is great.

but if you know you want to be a computer scientist or an engineer, there are two and three-year and one-year vocational colleges that are relevant and appropriate opportunity for you that will not amass as much personal debt. so i think it comes back to long-term planning. i don't think the federal government should be in the business of telling students how to think, but i do think that we should have a p.r. campaign collectively to say how are we going to prep long-term to ameliorate debt and shift the paradigm away from deficit funding of college are more towards grant and free college, because we want a more educated society, not a less educated society and that will pay or over and over again. >> matt, that speaks to something else you've been talking about, which is increased transparency so students understand the ramifications of the decisions they make.

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switch to comcast business internet and get two wifi networks included. comcast business built for business. the new cycle starts now. it's transparency day at the v.a. they issued a report with patient wait times and lack of medical appointments. 57,000 patient, our veterans, are still waiting for initial medical appointments at v.a. hospitals nationwide. 21 senators representing both sides of the aisle are calling on the justice department to launch a criminal investigation into wrong doing at v.a. facilities. kelly, we know how this is playing out on the hill. any reaction yet from the administration? >> reporter: well, part of the

reaction is going to be the search for a new permanent secretary to run the department. that is under way. and they are also talking about some of the steps that the v.a. is trying to take. when you reference transparency day, in talking with aides there, they say they recognize there is a huge scope of problems they're dealing with. they're trying to own that now, get the information out. we of course have seen the resignation of eric shinseki, a new temporary head of the department is in and they're trying to make some changes. some of the numbers are startling of veterans waiting for care and problems throughout the system. if you dig down, there are some v.a. hospitals where the appointment times are really pretty reasonable, but there are still so many where there are flaws that are systemic, where you have employees who talked about being told by their supervisors or maybe even people a bit higher up at their hospital to manipulate some of the scheduling data. that's been part of the problem. you've got a lot of veterans who

are signed up who have not had any appointment at all. and they're trying to take some steps to change this. so one of the things they're getting rid of is this notion of the 14-day rule, which is part of what got some of this stuff going, where they had a goal to see a new patient in 14 days. in many hospitals, that's not possible due to resources. they're trying to triage in from some of the worst hospitals. and now the v.a. is checking on the v.a., going to more than 200 facilities around the country and they're finding a lot of problems are widespread. that is different thanes inspector general that will be looking at it and there are many lawmakers in both parties that will say there needs to be a criminal eye take a look from the department of justice. the white house says d.o.j. has to make its own decision on that. the v.a. is trying to clean up and show what it's doing to try

to resolve this problem. >> kelly o'donnell, thank you so much for that report. the walmart truck driver who triggered the deadly crash that critically injured tracy morgan will face a judge this week. cops say he did not sleep for a full day before the accident in which he slammed into the back of the mercedes limo bus saturday night. tracy has been more responsive and it's considered a very positive step toward his recovery. >> and actress sandra bullock's home was broken into saturday. the intruder was arrested after an emergency call was placed from the home. he's currently being held on $50,000 bail. >> and in other news, the drought continues. california chrome, the latest horse to come up short in a bid to bes first horse since 1978 to win racing's prestigious triple crown, tied for fourth, tonal

won the race followed by the commissioner. california chrome's co-owner steve coburn was, shall we say, less than gracious in defeat. >> it's not fair to these horses that have been in the game since day one. i look at it this way, if you can't make enough points to get in the kentucky derby, you can't run in the other two races. if you've got a horse that earns points to run in the kentucky derby, those 20 horses starting kentucky are the only 20 eligible to run in all three races. this is the coward's way out. >> steve, fresh shooters at the belmont have always been around. in the last 20 years, it's almost been a given one of them will win. joining us is the "cycle's" sports resident and nbc sports radio host. jordan, when i saw this many coming down the stretch and california chrome did have a

lane and victor espinoza was whipping him really hard and he didn't move at all and i'm like he doesn't have anything left in the tank, he does not have the ener energy. steve coburn, this is all what it's about. it's about nadal winning when the body is tired, lebron winning last night when the body is tired. that's what california chrome has to do and this is why winning the triple crown is one of the hardest things to do in all of sports. >> absolutely. gray. i was upset with his comments but i do sympathize. people wanted the own to be more graceful in defeat. since 1978, to his point, we have not seen a triple crown winner. we've seen 12 horses win the first two legs and go on to lose the third. nine times in the belmont, the horse had only run the belmont. so it was a fresh horse. so you begin to understand why

he's frustrated. but you can't go on and change it because it's now devaluing what's happened before. this is why it is so hard to win. nothing's changed since then. affirm won it in '78. it's been 36 years for a reason. >> jordan, luke russert here in d.c. i personally believe the jockey lost that race. i want to read a comment from andrew buyer, a wonderful horse writing columnist. "such new challengers make the triple series more interesting and add to its difficulty, everybody in the sport understands this is part of the game except coburn." coburn had no idea what he was talking about. this is what makes the triple crown difficult. he hijacked that moment on national tv to push forward his thinking, which has been suggested many times over the last few decades and in actuality will never go into action. >> there's other things to consider. he says why don't we expand the

actual dates in between england's done that in their triple crown. they haven't seen a winner since 1970. part of the kentucky derby is having 20 horse. when you look at the preakness and the belmont, it's spaced in between quite well. if you do want to change it, you're ultimately dealing with a belmont field that's going to be smaller and less challenging and that devalues the crown. >> luke says the jockey lost this race. do you agree with that? >> i do to a degree. i'm not a super horse racing buff but he waited a little bit. he had an opportunity to go out in the lead early, which is not chrome's style but it was there. he didn't take it. what happened earlier in his career and in his first and second races, dirt kicked up in his face, he didn't really like it. that's what liked it and that's what happened in this race and he didn't like it and didn't respond. he had won six in a row. he's only 2 years old, this was

a tired horse. >> and the belmont is longer. >> a mile and a half. >> difficult to win from wire to wire. everybody knows luke knows everything. jordan schultz, we would never bet against you. coming up, protecting the president, a side of the white house few of us have ever seen.

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imagine a job where every day you thought to yourself this could be the day i take a bullet for my boss. most of us could never imagine doing that, but for members of the president's secret service detail, that is the harsh reality. the secret service, quiet men and women in the background, always just a step away from the president, scanning the crowd, always looking for a threat. less than 1% of those who apply to become agents ever make it. to put that into context, harvard accepts more of its applicants than the secret service does. dan emmitt was an agent for 21 years serving under presidents

bushes and present and now dan takes us inside the service with his new book "within arm's length, a secret service agent's definitive inside account of protecting the president." a firsthand look of what it's like to protect an american president out tomorrow. dan, thanks so much for coming on the program. the first thing i want to ask you is i've heard very opinions from different agents i've spoken to and people in security. what would be -- cause you more anxiety, a preplanned event that the president would appear or something spontaneous, like when president obama walked around the washington monument a few weeks ago and improv experience he had at starbucks today. >> either really. any time you take him out of the confines of the white house and into the public is dangerous.

bad guys don't know you're going to be there, and a planned event they know well ahead of time when the president is going to arrive, essentially what his sequence of events are going to be. so in many cases the off-the-record movement really is the friend of the secret service. >> and up made the decision that at any moment of any day could you lose your life taking the bullet for someone, for the president. that's got to take such an emotional and physical toll, not just on you but on your family? were there any moments that your family said you can't do it anymore? >> no, actually my wife was also an agent. she was the first agent to have a child wild on presidential detail. as far as my home life was concerned, there was no that much friction or concern. however, in other families, there definitely could be. taking the bullet for the president is not something you

dwell on 24/7. it's just something in the back of your mind and you know any given day you go to work, that's what might be asked of you. >> the last time there was a major break was ronald reagan. how did the secret service change after that? >> it changed in several ways. john hinckley was standing clearly montain the middle of t press pen. from that point on, the secret service has always placed an agent with the media, to ensure the integrity of the press pool. >> you said that idea of i could take a bullet for the president is always in the back of your mind somewhere, even though it's not what you fixate on every day. but having that in the back of your mind, that idea of your own mortality, does that change the way that you look at life, the way you live your life? >> well, i think that secret service agents tend to enjoy life a great deal. and much for that reason, that when you're on the presidential detail, your life really centers around the white house, the office of the presidency and it really ceases to become your

own. you're free to have a wife, a husband, a family, but really the white house is your home, the secret service becomes your family for that amount of time. so it's a very tight group of people. as i say, you don't dwell on it a great deal. during my 21-year career, i don't think that we ever spoke of it. i don't recall anyone ever bringing it up. it is just something that is part of your work mantra that you're going to do hopefully when the time comes because of the outstanding training that you've received through the years. >> lastly, i just wanted to ask you, there have obviously been a lot of recent scandals that have tarnished the name of the secret service. as a former agent, do you feel this is just the secret service coming into a social media age where everything that was once private is a lot more public now? or is this an indication of a systemic problem at the secret service? >> well, it's not so much the media and the 24/7 media. during my time we didn't really have the internet or the coverage they have today.

but we had media with us all the time. you really couldn't go to a restaurant, go to a bar, go anywhere you didn't run into members of the traveling press corps. so they were always there and they would not have been the least bit reluctant to report something like cartagena. it's not so much a systemic issue within the secret service as much as a breakdown at leadership within certain levels. the working agents today in my view are some of the best if ever been. but if not properly led, you're going to have incidences like this occurring. >> dan emmitt, thanks so much for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> when we come back, matters of life and death. i made this belt with traditional, bold, and peanut butter chocolate chex mix. you guys are cute! i've got trail mix, peanut lovers, chipotle cheddar, dark chocolate, hot n' spicy...

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wasn't anything really to prepare me for what had come. and, frankly, part of why i made this film was to give people that sort of opportunity, you know, to give a voice to people that are going through these sorts of things. my dad was given six months to live. he lived for ten years and at the end of his life was ready to go. he had done what he needed to do, he wanted to say good-bye, and he felt that if he could end it on his terms at that point, he could have everything that he had wanted to have and he could kind of go out on top, if you will, and reclaim the things that his illness had taken from him. >> it's a story that a lot of families go through. my mother before i was around watched her father die for a decade and that really had an impact on her. a lot of people know the situation. but how does a family stay up through that whole sort of thing? >> sure. well, i think for us and hopefully what comes through in the film is that there is an opportunity with how you deal

with the end of your life. this film richard jenkins plays robert, the father, the patriarch of the family. he makes the choice to take control and use it as a teaching opportunity and a way to kind of push everyone in the right direction and help the grieving process and put them in a place where he knows that they're all going to have a good life and they're all going to be together in their life and they're going to reconnect and really what you see in this film is in some ways the best way can you die. you have a father, it's tough, it's gory in some ways, but you ultimately have a father who is surrounded by his family, they love him here, he can feel that success and he can see they're okay going forward. i think there's something to learn from that. in our culture we do everything we can to not talk about death. we don't make it a part of life. >> let take a look at a little more of the film, a look at robert and his sort of decision making process.

>> tomorrow, 8:00 a.m. >> i need you to say it. >> i want to be unhooked from these machines at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow. this is my wish and i am of sound mind. >> so he wants to be unhooked at 8 a.m. tomorrow. i mean, you witness this firsthand with your father. i just can't imagine looking at death straight in the eyes and saying i'm ready. how did your dad and how does robert get to that place? >> sure. well, i think that -- it's amazing actually to watch that clip again, to see what richard

jenkins does in this film and how honest his tore traportraya it's really remarkable. i take no credit for that, by the way. >> and you know what? i think what it is, how you approach these issues, right? and richard's character, robert, he approaches his death without fear. he approaches his death as part of life, as the next chapter of life. something that really is an opportunity. it's a continuation. as opposed to this scary thing that's out there that we don't know anything about and we're not going to talk about it or deal with it. in that period with his family they talk about it. they talk about what's coming or what could be out there and what it is. by making it something that's not so taboo, a lot of the fear sort of dissipates. >> one thing that really struck me watching the trailer was the line that says -- the only gifts that last are memories. and i lost my father and i couldn't agree with you more on

that line specifically, i feel we live in a society that's so serialistic and so driven by consumerism a lot of people forget that. expound on that a little bit for our audience. the only gifts that lasts are memories and how important those memories are if you're a father or a son. >> sure. at the end of the day, when everything else is stripped away and this, by the way, is the reason in the film there's a young girl who's dealing with these issues herself. she's 16 or 17 years old trying to figure it out and she comes across as this, like, sage-wise girl who kind of has an understanding of what life's about and it's exactly that. it's that all you have are these memories and moments. it's an amazing thing to watch a parent kind of -- not worry about dollars and cents and not worry about other people's opinions. not worry about anything, politics and all this stuff we worry about, and just sit there and think about how they've

lived their life and what they're thinking about is like those beautiful pictures we saw of your family. they're thinking about going to baseball games and they're thinking about those hugs and giving their kids a bath and at the end of the day that's what makes you rich and here's a character who gives away every dollar he earned to help his family and to teach them to give them responsibility and sort of make up for mistakes he's made along the way, but in sort of sitting there at the end, he feels like the richest guy he's ever been. >> the one take-away that i took from it was, one thing h your life can change it forever and for jonathan, he's the main character and i recommend ever go see this film because it really makes you think about life and jonathan is the one estranged from his family. it teaches him when his dad is dying how to love and forgive and look at life differently. beautiful writing and beautiful film. thank you very much for being with us. >> thanks for having me, thank you. >> it's out tomorrow. so check it out.

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scheming in a slick ice scaper like "ocean's 11". >> and that was a long time ago. we're married with kids so our sunday mornings are sweet but chaotic and we don't read mo's column out loud. did you read about the adventure in weed sfland. >> i knelt a scary shutter go through my body and brain and i barely made it from the desk to the bed where i lay curled up in a hallucination state for the next eight hours and i strain to remember where i was or what i was wearing touching my green cord roy jeans and staring at the exposed brick wall as my paranoia deepened and i became convinced that i had died and no one was telling me. >> green jeans? really? but i digress. i hope her column does not do to the national we'd league conversation what the candy bar did to her. that is, paralyze it because of an overdose. she put too much thc in the body

and now she's putting too much fear in the body politic. a rising crime in colorado which many dispute and linked marijuana to a husband shooting his wife to saying he also took prescription pain meds and the whole access to a handgun thing. but indeed, they ignored the advice she was given by her weed tour guide and ate too much and had a bad trip and, thus, the weed industry is the one that needs to reform, is a sort of thought process that leads to warning labels on anything, eliminating the need for common sense. >> here's the thing. when it comes to something like alcohol, people have been around it their whole life so they know which is ski is 80 proof. they understand that's for potent than a glass of beer or wine and they adjust accordingly. when it comes to manner, particularly edible plukts a lot of people aren't quite aware of how much they want to use. >> now, a bad trip is not necessarily an entirely bad thing. i suspect mo found herself

wrestling with sensory overload and perceived it as a traumatic life experience but as the projects arm reduction man manual says -- >> they can be frightening but they are among potentially the most valuable experience someone can have. by working with the experience the psycsee is can tellic user make a chance tore growth. >> they say a true psychedellic is good. but they curled on their bed for hours and then moving on with their lives, over what we have now. which is millions of nonviolent marijuana users going to jail and having their lives wrecked. that is not an opportunity for personal growth. and if mo wants to try again, she should call dave chappelle. he's down. >> from now on, i smoke weed exclusively with white people.

calm down, mother -- you win by default. you get good weed conversation. all white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high. >> all right. that does it for "the cycle." "now" with alex wagner is next. antigovernment fear mongering on the fringe comes at a heavy price. it's monday, june 9th, and this is "now." >> all of nevada mourns the loss of our neighbors and friends. >> a married couple reportedly with a vendetta against the u.s. government. >> authorities say they shot and killed two police officers who were having lunch. >> what was the motivation behind walking in with no warning and executing our officers? >> we in congress, it's our duty to put in place, legislation that helps to prevent these deranged evil people who carry out these savidge acts of violence. >> no doubt the suspects have