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years and we're still at the bottom. on the other hand, an ole miss senior railed against the brash outsider candidacy saying, we need someone with experience, not someone who may not get along with his colleagues. will voters agree? joining me from the front lines in hattiesburg, mississippi, nbc's kasie hunt. thank you for being here. we saw the stunning gop primary in mississippi two west which e thwarted. do you think chris mcdaniel is the next dave bratt? >> reporter: well, everybody saw chris mcdaniel coming and it is different in that regard. this is a nasty, really hard-fought primary for months before we even got to this point and when i was here three weeks ago the sense on the ground was that, frankly, the run-off maybe better than team cochran privately expected. they probably thought he was more likely to lose and instead we've seen this sort of

three-week extension and the race stayed pretty nasty. i'll say there's something of a marked shift on the ground here. you know, cochran's team has very clearly stepped up the grassroots organizing. they're saying at the moment the turnout is strong. that would seem to bode well for them. absentee ballots are way up and indicate they organized successfully and something while they might have energy in the tea party, they don't have the practice with that political machinery if that makes sense. >> you mentioned how ugly the race has gotten and there's an incident of supporters arrested for photographing cochran's wife in a nursing home and just yesterday there was a big news beat and the mcdaniel campaign used lines out of context somewhat from cochran's facebook page and looked like she had turned on her dad and meanwhile, look at the types of ads that cochran is running in return. >> meet chris mcdaniel. >> so interesting to see this

woman, basically using her [ bleep ], using her breasts to run for office. >> that's chris mcdaniel. >> hot mama, you are a fine looking young thing. >> that's chris mcdaniel. >> maybe they give you a discount. >> that's chris mcdaniel. >> i mean, i'm a mississippi voter and think he's a monster. will people fatigue of just how negative the campaigns have gotten? >> reporter: i think people are tired of it and i think that the campaigns recognize that which is part of why that ad is not on tv. the ads they're up with on tv focus more on cochran's record, bringing federal money back to mississippi and something they think can appeal to a broader swath and paints mcdaniel in a negative light in a way to get the voters to the polls. that particular video you played is also something that they were able to use to kind of gin up interest in helping cochran from sort of an establishment in washington. a lot of quotes are quotes cited

by democrats as reasons why if mcdaniel were to win the democrat in the race, former congressman travis childress might have a shot of winning in the deep red state. >> an unexpected thread in the race is a clash on foreign policy issues. cochran is playing up how hawkish he is and mcdaniel on the other hand portrayed in the process as too much of a peace nick, a term thrown around and endorsed by rand paul, an isolationist, how do you think the recent turmoil in the middle east and the crisis in iraq specifically is going to weigh on vote earls in light of that? >> reporter: well, senator john mccain was down here yesterday and that was the exact argument he made. he made in a time of national kri sis or international kri sis, even, we needed a strong hand at the tiller and wasn't the time to put somebody who's untested into the senate. i think mccain in particular has had confrontations with senator cruz, senator paul over the

years. i mean, they're sort of diametrically opposed on all issues that way. they have slightly different foreign policy views and mcdaniel wouldn't get specific with me about the position in the world should be. he said he's between paul and cruz and wouldn't go further than that. >> another attack against cochran is how long he's been in office. 42 years is a long time to be in any position of power. he's been dogged by critiques the age factor to affect the ability to governor. you have watched him in action on the hill. that's an accurate critique? >> reporter: well, senator cochran has at times struggled to answer questions about the news of the day. that said, he's been out on the campaign trail shaking hands with voters, much more engaged last three weeks than in campaigning. he's on bus tours. he gave a brief introduction to senator mccain yesterday but

that said he didn't give a speech. he didn't make an argument why he should be in the senate for another six years at that event. so i think that, you know, there have been some mixed signals about how strong cochran will be going forward over the course of, you know, senate term being six years long. >> contentious issue with that long in office. one of the few individuals on the hill eclipsed is, of course, charlie rangel of new york who's also in a dead heat here. >> reporter: yes. >> how's that race looking? >> reporter: one of the great, great characters of the united states congress, charlie rangel. >> that's for sure. >> reporter: that's an example of, you know, he's really coalesced a lot of organized support around him. many, many unions, governor, former president bill clinton around rangel and his opponent is dominican born, the first dominican born member of congress he would be and has an aggressive get out the vote operation and separated by a

thousand votes this time and have the data on a spreadsheet. there at friday at the campaign office, moving the numbers to show block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood, where they needed to turn their voters out. if they can succeed in doing that, it will be a pretty seismic shift. the root is demographic changes in that district and expanded in 2010 past the sort of political center of black america and harlem out up to washington heights, the bronx and sort of incorporated a number of more communities, the demographic shifts and espaillat tried to win. rangel narrowly pulled it out. >> do you think the races as a referendum on experienced candidates versus new upstarts will have some echos in 2016 as visitors go out to contemplate candidates of a certain ripeness? >> caller: we are clearly seeing

some really intense voter anger towards incumbents necessarily. not one party or the other and seeing a lot of that in this sort of populous strains, both on the right with the tea party and some of the candidates aggressively appealed there and also on the left if you think about elizabeth warren and the contrast with hillary clinton. a lot of excitement right now is with pop liulists to see changef how we govern and a theme over the next few years. >> i get where that comes from and viewers do, too. appreciate it. >> reporter: thanks, ronan. great to see you. up next on today's program, tens of thousands of children with no place to go. and you're not going to believe where the federal government is looking for solutions. find out everything ahead. we're moving our company to new york state. the numbers are impressive. over 400,000 new private sector jobs... making new york state number two in the nation in new private sector job creation... with 10 regional development strategies

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this is a humanitarian issue as much as it is a matter of border security. we're talking about large numbers of children without their parents who have arrived at our border hungry, thirsty, exhausted, scared and vulnerable. how we treat the children in particular is a reflection of our laws and our values. >> homeland security secretary jay johnson this morning speaking to lawmakers about the 52,000 undocumented, unaccompanied minors entering the country since october. federal government at this point is looking for somewhere, anywhere to house them. but communities around the country are pushing back. in virginia, the opposition of the people of lawrenceville was actually so fierce that plans had to be scrapped to house the children at a defukt college. in new york.

agents turned to what they thought was an abandoned resort but found it was up and running. joining me is congressman hakim rogers and robert costa. congressman jeffries, your bill helps them providing them with more access to lawyers moving through the systems. why is that such an urgent need? >> well, as the secretary of homeland security indicated, this is a humanitarian crisis, serious situation that requires a serious, multi-pronged response. you have unaccompanied minors and many will not be able to remain and some of whom will. yet it's virtually impossible for an unaccompanied child to be able to articulate a valid basis under immigration law in the absence of counsel. in the comprehensive immigration reform bill passed by the senate last year, 52 democrats, 2 independents, 14 republicans all

voted for a provision to provide unaccompanied minors to access with counsel and an appropriate step to take given the nature of the crisis we confront right now. >> congressman, who bares the cost for the extra counsel to so many young people now? >> well, the cost borne by the government, however, we believe it's a net positive in terms of ultimate expenditure. if you provide these unaccompanied minors with counsel, that will ultimately conserve judicial resources. it will speed up unnecessary detentions. and it will also expedite removals when no valid basis to remain exists. now, it's important to point out that under current u.s. immigration law, asylum or the opportunity for special immigrant juvenile status designation or whether that's youth visas available to certain minors who have been victims of highly violent crime, suffered

mental or emotional, physical trauma, and are cooperating with law enforcement, under these current laws, some of these individuals, these unaccompanied minors will have access to the opportunity to remain and most instances temporarily. but it's impossible, it is a fantasy to believe that these young children can adequately represent themselves absent legal representation. >> congressman, one of the few good things i did in my law school is working to get people visas and this system is so hard, so complicated to navigate even for adults let alone the young people and i absolutely see the moral imperative you're talking about here but this is stalled on the hill before. last year's immigration bill through the senate had a similar provision with more access to counsel. what makes you think this time around is different? that one flat lined in the

house. >> the house republicans and the current judiciary committee chairman have taken a piecemeal approach. they have passed four bills none of which i supported have decided to tackle things on an issue by issue basis. we have a humanitarian crisis growing exponentially worse by the day. we have to step in. one in fact ways in which to deal with the situation is to provide these young people with access to counsel so they can better navigate the laws in a manner consistent with the democracy and if there ever was an issue for the committee to take up in isolation, we believe this is it. >> thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >> robert, a lot of folks on the hill, particularly conservatives are voicing an argument that the surge we're seeing in the undocumented minors is due to

the united states having too slack immigration policies. do you think that's the case and immigration policies need to be harsher to stave off the flood of young people? >> well, as a reporter, i certainly think you're on to something there. ron ronan, talking to senators, think think that the president's lack of focus on enforcement has led to this crisis in the southwest. this surge of undocumented workers. >> and on the flip side of the question of on the hill of whether the white house and our immigration policies in general are culpable, do you think going forward this latest crisis ramps up pressure on the white house to deport more often and more harshly? >> i think so. you will see a lot of pressure from the right ahead of the m midte midterms. republicans think that the surge, especially children, is a way to make a critique against the white house. i think it cripples the efforts on capitol hill.

republicans now with especially with the detail of eric cantor, plus this current situation, you have a climb in immigration reform is likely not to happen and the rhetoric, the political attacks from the right will increase, i predict, ahead of the midterms because republicans think this is a way to capture the entire scene. >> we were listening to jay johnson earlier on the hill obviously tangling with lawmakers on the issue. he over the weekend wrote an open letter carried in spangish language newspapers trying not to address the constituents but the parents of the kids in central america sending them on the dangerous, lonely journey. do you think that tactic can work? are the parents sending the kids across the intellectual elite scouring the op-ed pages? >> i think there is a question of information. when you speak to those who are in power in washington, those especially who are lawmakers, they believe that there is a track of information perhaps

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and occupied saddam hussein's old chemical weapons compound. all of this free flow of weapons has a human cost. according to the u.n. a thousand people have been killed this month alone. and many who survive are fleeing for their lives. more than 300,000 new refugees just this month. well, let's start out with a look of the human costs from the ground. joining me is the executive director of the u.n. world food program. thank you so much for joining. >> thanks. >> the hundreds of thousands fleeing violence in iraq, what are they fleeing and what conditions are they living in? >> many headed up to where we are and that's why i'm up here today and spend time in the refugee camp visiting with those who left mosul and to find some peace for themselves and for their children. many of them are still stuck down in the area south of the

kurdish region which means that the humanitarians are having significant challenges in reaching them but those here we're working to provide them with food, water and shelter required because these people came here with absolutely nothing. >> and one of the thing this is's fascinated me most is while many of these hundreds of thousands are internally displaced iraqis, some actually have fled the neighboring conflict in syria. how widespread of a phenomenal is that, things so bad in syria to even flee into the conflict zone in iraq? >> well, the reality is that just two groups inside erbil right now. you have those who are refugees from syria that members of the u.n. community as well as the ngo community working to support for last two -- over -- almost three years. and now you have those who are what we call internally

displaced, this means they're iraqis who have left their homes. and have come up to this area seeking refuge. so you have refugee camps that some of the camps are housing syrians and some housing iraqi citizens. all looking for the same thing. and that's peace. >> we have been looking at the uncontrolled flow of weapons into and out of iraq. how much of a baring does the proliferation of small arms everywhere have on the refugee crisis? >> significant baring because what it means is that humanitarians have no access to many of the people who are outside of the -- who are south of the kurdish region. that area between the kurdish region and baghdad is -- is pretty much a no go zone for humanitarians from the international community. we are completely dependent upon local ngos to help us get the support that's necessary to those who are -- many of them are in hiding still outside

their homes in these areas, and you cannot -- they have -- those who have all these weapons have absolutely no respect for humanitarian law and means they're not providing access required for the u.n. community to meet the needs of those who have nothing. >> thank you so much for that update and stay safe out there. everyone at home, urge you to check out their website to contribute to the humanitarian crisis around the world. we heard ertharin on this crisis, munitions flowing across the border. one side of the border today, we have a glimmer of good news. syria handed over the final portion of the 1,300-ton stockpile of chemical weapons and now on a ship bound for destruction. so what's next? will this actually help staunch that flow of weapons into iraq? and in the bigger picture, can anything control the free for all of arms trafficking that so

often deepens crises like this one? joining sme two guests. both reporting on this. eli, from a policy standpoint, how do you begin to staunch the flow of weapons into a conflict like this? >> i think it's extremely difficult but you have to establish the monopoly of force from actual government entities and that is what we saw earlier this month when an isis-led offensive in mosul to defeat the group. there's still a very significant foreign military sales effort from the u.s. to iraq's military. and when the iraqi military cannot hold their positions or when the free syrian army loses control of its depots where there's american equipment and not the lethal weapons given to the iraqi military, insurgents and groups like isis gets control of it and what you need

to do is don't give weak states or weak organizations weapons or make sure those states and organization that is you do give weapons to can repel attacks from terrorist groups. >> and that mandate of don't give weak actors weapons is something i think lost in the conversation about arming the supposed moderate elements in syria, for instance. richa richard, you reported something interesting to me, as long as five months back u.s. and british intelligence agencies warned by kurdish sources about the scope of the coming attack of insurgents. why didn't they do more to act then? >> you would have to ask them but the obvious answer is they didn't know what to do. both britain and america have totally, you know, lost the ball on iraq as we know they have lost interest. they hoped that with their withdrawal in 2011 that would be the end of a nightmare that both countries, not just the governments, but countries didn't want, you know, look back on anymore. they wanted to try to forget it,

such a mess. they had governments in place that didn't feel responsible for that mess. and so, they just -- i think they just tried to pretend it wasn't happening. >> i think everyone wanted anything but being drawn back into the conflict. that, of course, includes syria, too, where it was hoped that the mandate to destroy the stockpile stops the violence. it hasn't really, has it? do you think the latest step of finishing the destruction process on the chemical weapons side abates the havoc of assad with traditional weapons, rich afterward? >> it will do nothing for the war in syria. i don't think anyone that knew anything about syria thought it would. it's a single positive consequences. the weapons cannot fall into the hands of very, very nasty jihadist and other groups to use them. that's the one plus out of this whole mess. but no. i mean, it makes that whole issue, that whole month made the war more intense, more bitter.

and more violent with the weapons that were already available to them, to both sides. >> eli, do you see the latest news out of the region changing the debate of arming moderate elements in syria? is there more understanding they risk falling into the hands of isis forces? >> it is a double-edged sword because on the one hand, you know, if you want to advantage more moderate forces that are not extremists, then one way to do that out of many is to provide them with superior intelligence and superior fire power. on the other hand, if you don't think that these groups have much of a chance going into it, so that you have entered the conflict too late, they don't have enough support, their positions are too vulnerable, then you run the risk of sending -- of basically, you know, transferring your superior weaponry into the hands of your worst adversaries but it is i think a difficult decision that depending on what time period you're looking at it, you get a

different answer. there was a sense in 2011 that the iraqi military was prepared to have an advanced kind of normal relationship with the u.s. military and even f-16s were sold. the iraqi air force. which is pretty advanced stuff for that region. today, what we saw in the interim period is malaki so corrupt that he purged those competent generals and military officers and instead appointed people extremely corrupt. essentially cronies to be in charge of important military divisions and the end of the day iraqis wouldn't fight for them. >> talking about the dynamic of selling arms to an unstable, new government, we're seeing that in the taunting photographs of isis forces taking control of u.s. vehicles in iraq. talking about the adversaries, who are we looking at? another interesting piece of reporting on the ground there is about isis leader al baghdadi

said is a worse threat than osama bin laden in 2011. tell us about him. >> he just much more determined and ruthless, and bin laden was, you know, extraordinary man in many ways and something of a dreamer as everyone who met him talked about. although he has a fathersome reputation, he wasn't terribly practical and an idea for an international jihad and skilled lieutenants managed to put into place with destructive consequence that is we saw, particularly in 9/11, of course. this man, he is a much more cunning, much more strategic thinker. he can really sort of expand this network of al qaeda offshoot groups across the region. and he's a very charismatic figure for many young, tough, hardened men from across the region who don't see much hope and that don't have the same

sort of religious and ideological vision of a bin laden. but see him as someone who can, you know, who can motivate them and he's a bit like your sort of tough guy football captain. the guy to get you going and make you work as a team even if you don't have sort of much of a skill. and that's his great power. that's a very dangerous power, i think. >> we have to hope events don't play out with a way making him a household name in the way that bin laden did. stay safe out there in iraq. eli lake, we'll take a deep dive into another u.s. hot spot and interests of our country threatened by the flow of weapons. i'll give you a hint before we get to that. the house gop is obsessed with this place for all the wrong reasons. don't go ahead.

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libyans are heading to the polls tomorrow. it's anyone's guess how safe the polls will be. they're in the worst grip of violence in years and just like in iraq and syria, libya is deluged by weapons. militia groups are in control of most of the weapons in the country and in turn every day citizens are trying to protect themselves by taking up arms of their own. we take you now inside lib why's arms market through the collaboration with the data mining start-up, vocativ. ♪ >> translator: my name is hint. and i'm a single mom. we never thought we would see the day where libyan women would

need guns. we used to live in peace. >> in libya right now, the situation is unstable so everyone has to be armed. like we don't trust the militias, the government, we don't trust anyone. it's really easy to obtain weapons in libya. ak-47 is a necessity in every household. most households have more than one. they have a few ak-47s or they have an ak-47, a few pistols, guns. some of them are rpgs. some of them have heavy weaponry. >> we have been monitoring the activity in libya since the beginning of the year. and we noticed that some of the

guns from the old regime are actually ending up on facebook. we noticed a spike in the weapons for sale from dealers claiming to live in tripoli. right there on facebook virtual arms markets. complete with prices and users haggling in the comment section. >> who are you selling these weapons to? >> translator: people who want to protect themselves and their families. >> to protect their homes, why do people need rpgs and hand grenades? >> there are militias and armed gangsters. this is a ka lish kof. it's the most popular weapon in russia.

>> that was not a single. >> it cost $1,200. this is a .9 millimeter gun. it's good quality. it's used very often in street fight. the price is $4,000 or $5,000. this is an armor-piercing tank missile. it should be in a safer place than this. it cost $1,600. that is prb-43 missile shield rocket. its damage range is up to 800 feet. it only cost $800. >> translator: people in libya used to care about each other.

how things have changed. >> everyone in libya's armed. everyone has a weapon. >> it's really turning into a free for all there and doesn't bode well for the elections coming up. we're back with eli lake, of course, from "the daily beast." we saw the u.n. report referenced and weapons spilling across the borders to the middle east and syria. do you think by extension libyan arms could impact the situation in iraq? >> i think that iraq has plenty of arms on its own and isis has had no problems getting arms that were intended for the iraqi military. so even if they did get there, it would be sort of adding gasoline to a towering inferno. >> coals to new castle at this point. to what extent do you think this chaos in libya is u.s.

intervention or lack thereof? >> certainly you don't want to be too nostalgic for the tyranny of moammar gadhafi and had repression and horrors on the libyan people and same time united states supported regime change, the phrase leading from behind without the reconstruction afterwards and when you lift off the tyranny of a gadhafi and you're not there in significant numbers to help rebuild the country in that vulnerable moment, then things like these weapons caches getting everywhere is a problem and by the way one of the missions of the cia teams in benghazi the night that they were attacked in september 11,2011. >> as the president advocates for the interventions, we have to know that it can lead to uncontrolled chaos afterwards. appreciate it. >> thank you. up next, four countries in the world don't have mandatory paid parental leave.

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there's only one developed country in the world that does not offer paid maternity leave. and that is us. and that is not the list you want to be on. >> good old american exceptionalism. you want to see that list he's talking about? here it is. yep, there it is. the countries that do not require paid parental leave. the family and medical leave act does actually guarantee time off for family and medical reasons, but only unpaid and it doesn't even apply to 40% of the work force. only california, new jersey, and rhode island offer paid leave.

isn't it time the rest of the country catch up? let's ask ellen bravo, executive director of family values at work, and she spoke right after the president yesterday at the white house summit on working families. thank you for being here. president obama highlighted best practices in this area, talking about companies ahead of the curve on this issue. take a listen. >> in 2007, google realized that women were leafing the company at twice the rate that men left. and one of the reasons was that the maternity leave policy wasn't competitive enough. so they increased paid leave for new parents. moms and dads to five months. that helped to cut the rate of women leaving the company in half. >> so we've all heard this argument a lot, that keeping women in the workplace with good benefit is good for the bottom line. do the numbers actually back that up? because one has to expect that if they did, we'd see more of those best practices. >> well, we do see more of them. good news is that we now have three states that also have these programs, and there's a

growing body of evidence that shows it's good for families, it's good for business, and it's good for the economy. because really, what does it mean? it means people have money in their pockets so they can spend it at small businesses. that's what the business owners tell us they need. but i'll tell you what else. it's good for kids, and it's also good for seniors because you can use those programs to care for your ageing parents as well. >> and in your advocacy, are you seeing companies buy into that, or are they still skeptical? >> there are a lot of employers that are doing this because it's the smart as well as right thing to do. but what we've learned over many, many years is that we have to -- we don't make laws for the best employers. we make them for the ones who aren't going to do it anyway. to create programs which after we put them in place, those very same employers say, hey, this is a good idea. it's not hurting me, and i can see that it's actually having positive effects in cutting down on turnover and increasing productivity. >> and we've been using the term

parental leave throughout this segment because it really is both sides of the gender divide. a new study actually says that 89% of men say it's important for their employers to provide paternity leave. do you think that that may tip the debate on this, that now it's everyone in the country demanding this? >> you know, it's a really important thing. part of our -- every one of our coalition, and we're in 21 states, includes a lot of men who want to be good fathers and husbands and sons, and yet they get punished at work when they do. we have a video on our website, for example, of a new jersey dad who was able to take leave when his twins were born premature and the doctor said they're too fragile, can't go to day care until they're six months old. because in new jersey's paid family leave program, he and his wife could share the time. he talked about what it meant in terms of bonding with those kids, not just as infants, but for the rest of their lives. a lot more men want to do that. we ask them to do that. then we punish them for it. we have to have a better way. >> ellen, who are the biggest

obstacles to pushing this issue forward on the hill? who should people at home who now care about this issue reach out to and try to convince? >> unfortunately, first of all, there are lobbyists for megacorporations who have kind of a knee-jerk reaction. don't tell businesses what to do. that's what brought us oil spills and mine disasters and housing bubble crash in wall street. so of course we have to have certain rules. we're in a 21st century economy. we need a 21st century work force. so we need to stop those lobbyists. and the second thing is, unfortunately, there's an ideological divide. this should be a bipartisan bill. certainly politically, republicans support it in the majority. so do independents. obviously, so do democrats. so we need to say to republican legislators, let your own experience -- you have people in your family with autism or alzheimer's. you know what it means to have a baby. let men and women be the parents

and children they want to be. >> ellen bravo, really appreciate it. actually, we're asking people to do exactly that. whatever side of the aisle you're on, weigh in. go to our website and tell us what workplace policies are most important to you and your family. and tweet us at #rfdworkingfamilies with your choice and a photo of your folks. we'll be exploring your top choice with key voices in this debate as the week goes on. stay tuned for that. that wraps things up for today's edition of "rfd." you can catch the show week days at 1:00 p.m. here on msnbc. up next is "the reid report" with a fabulous working mom, joy reid. don't miss it. this is interesting.

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