strange. there is something a bit unusual about a republican primary that is decided by liberal democra s this is not the party of reagan! [ shouts ] >> we're not done fighting! >> cochran eked out by a win around two points. it came down to turnout. african-american turnout. up as much as 40% since the primary. cochran was courting the african-american community after the june 3rd primary. joining me now is nicholas, political reporter for the new york times. and senior editor from msnbc.com, beth. it's great to see you. nick, starting with you. the african-american vote could cochran have won without it? >> probably not. and, you know, it was funny. it's not the party of reagan. well, reagan won by partly by bringing lots and lots of

democrats into the republican party. here we have -- you could argue that the cochran win is the republican party's most successful outreach to votes of color. it had a huge impact. they were sophisticated about it? >> surprise you? >> yeah. you know, but they ran, you know, these two separate campaigns in a way, you know, they were appealing to white voters and they would say, vote against obamacare. when you're appealing against the black voters support the mlk holiday. >> not easy to do splitting the difference. >> i want to read something from the new york times. quote, roblger smith, a black democrat said he was being paid to organize for mr. cochran said i don't know too much about mcdaniel other than what he's saying tea party, against obamacare, he don't like black people, end quote. pretty tough stuff there. >> yeah. maybe the fellow will vote for the democrat in the fall. but they recognized, let's face

it, there was an open primary. there's no registration. anybody who didn't vote in the democratic primary could vote. the cochran campaign played the game by the rules. mr. mcdaniel sounded like a soar lose -- sore loser. they brought more people into the process which is a way you win elections. in terms was african-american gent gentleman maybe he'll vote for the democrat in the fall. >> it seem what we're saying toward cochran. also cochran ads targeting mcdaniel's stance against anything government including funding for disasters like hurricane katrina. take a listen. >> chris mcdaniel asked if he would have supported mississippi disaster relief after katrina. his first response. i don't know. that's the same mcdaniel who is promising mississippi voters that i'm not going to do anything for you.

>> all right. it seemed to work. you were saying it earlier. a lot of money put in on both sides for ads like this. >> the one thing you can say about the election is that money talks. and the establishment candidate won with a lot of help from his friends. mlts and millions of dollars poured into the race from the outside. you could say there's an irony that, you know, the record that cochran could not win the first round with, the tea party voters, bringing home the bacon, you know, being a long-serving senator. that's a pretty appealing message to cross over voters who were democrats. and he was able to get them over with the same message that wouldn't work in the first primary. >> speaking of which, let's listen to one of the voters right now. >> i think he stepped up during the hurricane katrina time in 2005. the state really needed a boost economically to assist with the recovery efforts. i think he did a great job. >> split the difference, got the

message out. had the money to do it. beth, now is the time to do something. the rubber hits the road. what does he have to give to the black democrats, the democrats that helped him win? >> well, i mean, it will be nice if he starts thinking that way as a senator. let's face it, he's been somebody that brought home lots of bacon to mississippi. he's going to be that. it's going to help the citizens of the state. that's how he ran. he made a compelling message in this part of the primary. not the primary but the runoff. he's going to don't do what he's done. which irritated tea party folks but other people? the state appreciated it. >> if you look at the message with the voter. maybe part of the lesson is that a hard stance against disaster aid is not a great winner in a gulf coast state ravaged by hurricanes. >> one might operate on that. i agree with you there in terms of where -- nick, also, when we look at the kcaulk ran strategy which may be replayed as the

primary moves forward. what does it say democrats can take away as a positive? >> that's a great question. there are not that many situations where you have an open primary, especially on the republican side. >> they're there. >> and the democrats try to influence the colorado primary. republicans didn't succeed. i'm not sure there's grand strategic lessons. what is fascinating is the opposite a little bit. which is that, you know, the establishment, so to speak. the business wing of the gop is winning a lot of races. they aren't winning the fight in congress. it's not producing a congress on the republican side but delivering the chamber of commerce what they. >> the they're spending the money but may not getting the results. >> that's right. the tea party is -- and, you know, the whole gop and the house is about to possibly kill the import/export. which is a huge priority for the chamber of commerce and the business groups. >> another race we're watching

in new york city. beth i got your reaction. that's charlie rangel. a nail biter. too close to call. it 23-term congressman rangel leading the challenge. i think it's 22 term. espaillat run against him. he's telling his supporters tuesday night. this was your victory. espaillat has not conceded. 100% precincts in. with absentee it's too close. we're seeing on the democratic side, old versus new. >> charlie rangel is a survivor a legend in harlem. the district has changed. it's more hispanic than it has been. >> does it come down to latino-american versus african-american? >> no. in this case charlie rangel is a legend. when he leaves there will probably be a hispanic representative to take his place. it's rangel. people don't ignore what he's done for harlem. he's a controversial figure. a figure of another era.

he's going leave shortly and the district will change and the representation will change. >> which candidate is better for the democratic party? >> it doesn't matter. either one is going to win. what it says is even if he wins the round, he's gone eventually. rising hispanic power will produce another dominican or hispanic candidate. when you look at new york city, the locust of black political power left harlem a long time ago. it's central brooklyn. that's where most of the, you know, political worlds rising star is for african-americans are coming from. that's the base of political power for african-americans in new york. it's not harlem anymore. harlem is not the place it was when rangel was elected to the seat a long time ago. >> nick, thank you very much. beth, i appreciate it as well. taking oklahoma. that's another race we're following. another loss for the tea party. a special election for the republican senate nomination to replace tom coburn.

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manner that violates federal law. it's a company that pulls tv network tv broadcasts off the air waives and extreme it is to online users. they charge the users for a monthly fee. the issue at question is whether a company publicly performs a copy righted program when it retransmits a broadcast to the thousands of paid subscribers. areo operating in a manner that violates federal law. this just in to msnbc. our justice correspondent pete williams will be here shortly as he was in the courtroom listening to this. he'll be getting to a camera very soon. i want to note for the areo case msnbc parent case is among the becau broadcasting cable companies on copy wright claims before the

supreme court. we'll have more on msnbc. still trying to hold on to the largest oil refinery. a small victory yesterday as iraqi troops retook one village in eastern iraq. a new poll shows 71% believe fighting the iraq war was not worth it. ayman, we've got the situation at the oil refinery. the jordanian government sent troops to reinforce the border with iraq. and now we've also got the issue of air support from syria that is making attacks within the border of iraq. what effect are these actions having on isis at the moment? >> well, first of all, it's giving you a sense how volatile the region is and how transnational the problem of isis has become. a lot of people have been warning about it. spilling over from syria. now we're seeing how it's sucking everybody in to this

conflict across three different countries. now jordan, syria, and here in iraq. there's no doubt about it that the iraqi government is going to welcome the news that the syrian regime has now launched air strikes on isis targets along the border. the jordanian government is reinforcing the border to make sure the crossings that fell in syria don't fall along the jor dane began side. it gives you a sense there's a attempt to contain isis between the three countries and perhaps with the arrival of u.s. military advisers helping the iraqi army, there could be a counter offense toif reclaim the territory that isis managed to take over over the past two weeks. >> ayman, as you're alluding to, there's 90 additional troop rooifsed in baghdad. meaning half the nearly troops that will advise the troops in place. we have u.s. aircraft flying 30 to 35 manned and un-manned daily surveillance flights over iraq. has the tide turned?

what is the sense on the ground there? >> well, there's definitely a change in momentum in the sense that in the first couple of days that isis was advancing, they were sweeping through cities. i mean, they were running them over literally. sometimes without any bullets being fired. that has to do the fact they had a tremendous amount of local support. and the fact that isis itself was moving and instead of becoming lead by the militant group it became a sunni insurgency with tribes and other members of former regime officials. now the army has been able to contain them and they're starting to regroup moving some troops to the front lines and carrying out air strikes hopefully even more with the help of u.s. air force and intelligence in the coming weeks. >> 5:00 in the afternoon there in iraq. thank you very much. nbc ayman with us for the report. i want to bring in the chairman of the house democratic caucus. javier becerrbecerra. i know, you're concerned that iraq could turn into another vietnam. you said that much. the latest nbc poll on iraq

showing 50% do not think the u.s. has a responsibility to assist the iraq government. if your president comes to you and says, congressman, i need your support, will you go against what the polling says? >> well, it depends on what the president says he needs support for. what the american people are clearly -- is the sense we've been there and done that. wheped iraq. we put it in a position to have a stable government. to move forward as one people. and unfortunately it looks like the iraqi government failed. prime minister maliki failed to deliver. the u.s. forces, our soldiers, did everything they were asked to do when it came to stabilizing the country and giving iraqis a chance to show us they want a democracy. if they're not willing to protect the sunni or kurd they have problems. those aren't problems.

clearly we don't want to see the dissent into chaos but iraq is a country. they have to prove it. >> congressman, you laid out three things that democrats want to hear if action is taken. first of all, you say what guarantees are that iraqis will stand up and fight? second, what is the end game for if americans deploy. and third, how does further security and national interest. can you give us more detail about answering any questions for us? >> sure. those are my thoughts. maybe other democrats don't share them. those are my thoughts. and i know that other democrats would share those but i'm not saying i speak for every democrat. >> sure. >> what i would want to see is essentially what the president is trying to do, which is demonstrate that what we're going to do is help the iraqis stabilize their cub country. if they want to stand up as a people they have our armed forces. we're helping by providing military advisers. not boots on the ground. we're trying to shore up the

confidence, great. we have to be careful that it doesn't become the first step in an escalation of a movie we have seen before. it was a b-movie ten years ago. we don't want to replay it again. we want to make sure we're giving the american people the confidence to know we're standing up for the opportunities for democracy. we're not standing up for someone that is not willing to stand up for themselves. >> congressman, while we have you here. i want to turn to the texas border crisis with hundreds of undocumented children. homeland security secretary jay johnson, visiting nogales, arizona today. we have not heard a clear solution as of et. you hail from a border state yourself. what do you want him to do and say? >> first, i want them to deal with the fact we have a humanitarian crisis. by the way, it's not just the u.s., mexico, costa rica, knia.,

it's across the hemisphere we're seeing it occurring. we have to deal with the fact these are humanitarian crisis. most of these are kids you have to treat them differently. you center to deal with the fact we have broken immigration laws that lead to a broken immigration system and the implementation which leads to chaos. that's why we have the situation at the border. the best thing we can do is fix the laws and fix the system so you don't have the chaos at the border where you have thousands of kids coming to the united states. >> you have jay johnson and the president speaking out about the issues and the other countries you alluded to. there's republican senator jeff flake with usa today on the issue. he said this. take a listen. >> it would be helpful, i believe, if the president himself were to stand and say if you come here, you will not be afforded any legal status. you will likely be deported. that would carry a lot more weight than a directive from the secretary of homeland security

on or the vice president. >> should he speak directly to the countries like el salvador -- should he do more on messaging? the president? >> i believe the president has been doing that. the fact you are have the vice president in the region, in honduras saying that. that's no not a message the vice president came up with on his own. we're making it clear to the countries and the governments of these countries they're imperilling the lives of their own children in not trying to do more to help the families believe they are safer and better off keeping their kids in place. that's a dangerous trek. whether just to mexico or to panama or all the way to the u.s. and so something is going on to the point where that trafficking, the gang violence is leading some parents to think that their kids are better off outside their own country. by the way, and a letter or a statement is not a solution. blaming someone is not a solution to the problem. all of us, whether republican or democrat, should talk about a

solution not blame. >> javier becerra thank you. a fatal blow to the service a aereo. >> they ruled that police generally do need a search warrant before they can search the cell phones of people they arrest. now on these two decisions. first, aereo was an internet start-up company that allowed its subscribers to get over the air television delivered on the mobile devices, ipads, smartphone, any mobile device. the broadcasters including nbc sued saying that aereo was basically taking their copy righted programs and selling subscriptions to them for their service and it was illegal. aereo said no it was doing the same thing a person could do at home. connecting an antenna to a record and the specific way that

aereo was set up allowed it to get around the law. but the court didn't buy that. it was a 6-3 opinion. and while technically leaves aereo free to redesign the program, in essence this is a death nail for aereo. the company itself said if it didn't prevail on the legal theory it probably would fold. this probably kills aereo, basically, in the crib. now on the second case. the supreme court in a pair of cases said that the ruled against the obama administration and said that when the police stop someone and arrest them, they have to get a search warrant, first, before they rummage through the contents of a person's cell phone. the usual law is that when the police arrest somebody, they can search anything on the person's pockets, in the person's briefcase, purse, whatever. but the opponents of that approach said that smartphones are so much different because they hold massive amounts of what could poeshly be highly personal data, medical records,

intimate pictures and so forth. it's a surprisingly strong opinion. 8-1, and an important case going forward in what undoubtedly will be an issue that the supreme court will be dealing with for years to come. privacy in the digital age. what the supreme court's opinion said written by chief justice roberts is that's the general rule but there may be exceptions in what he calls education gent circumstances. the police can possibly get a search warrant. the general rule when someone is arrested, the police have to get a search warrant before they can look through your cell phone. those are the big decisions for today. three decisions also a technical decision involving the world of finance. we'll get more cases and possibly monday. >> busy times. thank you very much pete williams with the two major decisions. thank you very much. after the break, we will talk

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controversy surrounding his wife hillary clinton after a recent comments about not being truly well off. in an nbc exclusive interview he spoke to david gregory about their wealth. >> it is true that we were several million dollars in debt. everybody now assumes that what happened in the intervening years was automatic. i'm shocked that it happened. the real issue is if you have been fortunate enough to be successful, are you now out of touch and insensitive to the agonizing struggles other people are facing? >> let's bring in angela ryan political strategies. and chris wilson former executive director of the texas republican party. good wednesday, both. bill clinton the wealthiest living expresident. they have an estimated net worth of $55 million and the book advance of some $14 million. when you look at this, does bill

clinton's defense, the answer work for him and hillary clinton? >> i think the facts are really what work for them, richard. just for case in point, i used to lobby for an organization called nafio. it's an organization that presents historically black and predominantly black office. hillary clinton's office was one of the first to sign on to ensure that students could have pell grants to don't stay in school. so the fact of the matter is, it matters what policies they support. there are members of congress on the lower end of the totem pole in terms of wealth and they support policies that fly in the face of their constituents and interests. i would agree with the president it matters what policies they continued to support throughout the duration of their career. >> chris, potential 2016 republican candidates face similar comparison of wealth. paul ryan's net worth over $5 million. governor christie about $4 million.

senator ted cruz $3 million. and mitt romney in 2012. does this challenge republicans more because of the stereo type of wealth that democrats often leavy at republicans? >> well, i think it's like romney now. the comments the clintons are making are similar to him saying he likes nascar because he knows a lot of nascar owners. they have lived in the upper 1% they forget the rest of the average plight. we go around our town. they live in one of the most elitest money towns in america. usa all of this us, yeah, it changes the game. they're desperate to get back in power. they try to find ways to connect with average americans. >> does it hurt republicans more because the argument that has been made? >> i don't think it's hurting republicans more. i think it's putting her in a difficult position to be the leader of the democratic party. she's advocating policies.

to angela's point, she doesn't anymore. >> i didn't say that. >> it just is not -- it doesn't -- it flies in the face of convention. >> that's not what i said. what i said was she traditionally and consistently supported policies that benefit all of america. i did not say that she is now out of touch with the policies she supports. that's highly contradictory and not at all like mitt romney who talked about a 47% of americans being irrelevant. that's not the same type of comment. even though she said that, you know, they were not well off and dead broke. that's a perception. you can't count people's points because you don't know what their debt is. the reality of the situation, mitt romney and hillary clinton are apples and oranges at this point. >> i agree. the difference was romney acknowledged his wealth and said i've been successful. hillary clinton, one, doesn't acknowledge the wealth. two lies about it. three -- >> i think she did acknowledge her wealth.

she also ak nobled the lack of wealth when they were leaving the white house. the point is, the policies that romney has traditionally supported and the rest of the folks gop fly in the face of what benefits most of america. that is why it's not called the big 10 party. that's why the democrats are -- >> just to be clear. she didn't lie about the very issue. we'll have to leave it there. thank you very much for your time today. >> thank you. >> thank you. the full conversation between david gregory and president clinton will air sunday. thad cochran is celebrating a squeaker of a win in mississippi. the 76-year-old senator won the gop nomination with 58% of the vote. cochran relied on the black democrats to put him over the top. it could be a key factor when he takes on travis childress in november. he spoke to nbc chuck todd in the last hour.

let's go straight now to hunt who has been following it on the ground there. before we get there, i want to play a little bit of what childress said earlier, as i was alluding to. >> i don't think there's any question that many democrat votes yesterday for senator cochran. frankly, he asked for their vote. i'll be asking for their vote in november just as i did in my primary when mississippi democrats gave me 74% of the total vote. i'll be back asking for them, again. >> all right. as you've been watching this, very interesting. at least from the outside. and probably more interesting from where you're at. the cochran campaign energizing black democrats for the open primary. did it basically doom the democrat childers in november? >> democrats will privately say that this made the road for travis childers a lot harder. he was convinced to get into the race basically by the prospect

of mcdaniel potentially winning the republican nomination. and democrats had high degree of confidence they could turn chris mcdaniel into another todd akin, another christine o'donnell, into another one of these candidates who was prone to making mistakes and saying things they could capitalize on and turn what should have been a safe red seat into a democratic seat. now that's going much more difficult against cochran. while democrats say they're going support childers at the stage. i would be skeptical if they're going pull money away from the vulnerable democratic incumbents pryor in arkansas and hagan. >> it will come down money is what you're saying. what an interesting twist to the race there in mississippi. thank you very much for your reporting. >> thanks, richard. coming up the director and actors from the new offbroadway

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[ male announcer ] see if your business qualifies. the issue of money may not be music to clinton's ears right now. but this might be. a new musical about the clinton white house is coming to new york. "clinton the musical" is what it is called. it follows the two bill clintons. one might be a conscious william clinton and billy clinton. let's bring in the actors and director from "clinton the music musical." we'll start on my left here arian. why two characters to portray the 42nd president? >> takes on the issue there may have been two distint sides of bill clinton. the brilliant high-minded economics professor-type person

who was able to speak on any issue and then there's showman bill clinton. who plays in the sax and makes everybody feel like the most important person and the dichotomy made him brilliant leader and president and what got him in trouble. >> you're saying the existence is what makes the entire musical the most interesting? >> exactly. >> let's get to the characters. karl, you play the serious or the good bill clinton. >> i would prefer to say the idealistic one. who is this bill clinton? >> having lived through the '90s i remember i read an article when clinton was leaving office and they talked about what a smart guy he was. and i think that aspect of his personality it's the part that made him brilliant strategies. a brilliant politician, a brilliant policy makers. he was the guy who wanted to be kennedy.

he wanted to have that shining city on the hill. he wanted to help people's lives. >> all right. duke, to you. you play billy clinton. the not-so-good clinton? >>ee haw! >> who is the not so good or the bad clinton? what is that character? >> he loves people. and he loves a good time. he loves to let his hair down. it gets in trouble. >> is that? you're going leave it like that? >> yeah! this is a very loving roast of the clinton white house. it's not all about bill clinton. it's about the whole time of innocence before we got into the mess of 9/11, the completely divided politics. it's a look back at the more innocent time, i think, in our policy. >> i want to put up a picture of the 42nd president. folks are looking at the two of you. you look different. how -- adam, as we talk about this. adam, how do you compare looks

here? is that at all important? >> first of all, this is bill clinton now, right? we're talking about 20 years ago. >> right. >> so, you know, we talked about -- there you go. >> there it is! >> he has the -- >> tell me, was that a consideration. >> there was a little bit of consideration in terms of getting, you know, if a general type of someone you can imagine being bill clinton. because we're putting it in two separate halves there's no major pressure on either them to nail bill clinton by themselves. it's an interpretation. >> let's try it. karl, give me a line in character of the good bill clinton. >> all right. i want to say one thing to the american people [ laughter ] >> i can't wait to hear it! >> i'm here to make your lives better. >> all right. as far as i'm going to go.

>> one day of rehearsal so far. very well done. please give me a line in the not-so-good bill clinton. [ in bill clinton voice ] >> i feel your pain. >> you got the wink there. >> adam, this is the u.s. debut, right? >> right. >> you're going to be doing very soon. it's run internationally. how is it different? why did it run internationally before domestically? >> right. one of the interesting things it was written by an australian called paul hodge and his brother michael. they had the idea years ago after seeing some other musical, i forget what about a politician and what a great musical it would make. bill clinton's trials and tribulations. it ran in the eden burg festival and coming to new york this summer. the differences are not -- we haven't made big adjustments for an american audience versus vail

ya. >> does it have to do with 2016 hillary clinton potentially running. we have headlines, her new book, the issue of wealth. is that part of it? and tell me, how is she portrayed in this? >> there is, there's -- like, duke said. it's a loving roast. >> how do you roaster her? >> her wanting to be in charge. to step up and another president. you see also, she's the glue that holds the two bills together, and, yeah, it ends with a bit of an alley-oop to hillary clinton as she decides to -- it's clear she's going to run for president in her mind by by the end of the show. >> we have one director, one actor playing hillary clinton. and two bill clintons on our set today. who could have asked for more. >> that's right. up next two key supreme court decisions out today. we'll run down the cases left on

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the supreme court just two official decisions days left in the term. with that two major decisions left to decide. one a possible check on the president's power to grant recess appointments when the senate is not in session. and the big, one hobby lobby's first amendment challenge to the president's health care law. joining us now co-host of the cycle and the lawyer himself. love to talk about the stuff? >> i love it. >> both on obama administration. two different ways. what do you expect? >> it's hard to know what to expect. the recess appointment decision was hotter before the senate changed the rules a little bit to stop the obstruction. it's something presidents s is both parties has done. it upsets the senate. the supreme court don't like doing tie breakers between the branchs. you may see a split decision.

the senate can't play games and have a fake recess to stop all business. >> let's move on to hobby lobby. if the supreme court does decide in their favor, how fast and what might we see in terms of required changes? >> the kind of changes you would see if the supreme court goes against the aca, and basically says there's a greater corporate right for corporations to have basically sway over what their individual employees would get in terms of contraception coverage or other religious issues. it could effect any of the employees. the truth is, most companies don't even want the so-called freedom. you know, most fortune 100 companies aren't interested in making scripture a part of the policy. it would be a symbolic blow to the aca. rehave heard the supreme court say they'll strike down parts of the aca. even the decision after the individual mandate.

it would be another chance for the court to nod toward attack on obamacare. >> something you talked about on the show you've done. presidential recess appointment. what might this mean for broader executive powers and of course, we've got the speaker threatening to sue the president on top of that. that is outside of the supreme court >>well, look, one of the funny things about this. we see the supreme court do is come in and pick at the margins of executive power. this is a way they can look like they're pushing back on the president or any president because the recess appointments have been expanded over the years. having said that, they haven't gotten in the game on the art of the drone killing policy, right. the president's power to kill including kill americans. they haven't gotten in the game on the secrecy and spying issues on the merits. not the procedure, not the process, but hey what are the limits on spying? what are the limits on killing? what are the limits on war powers as we debate, whether the

president, for example, needs reauthorization to do more in iraq. i think it's interesting in the sense on some of the biggest powers they don't cases necessarily. they will come in against this president and any president and find some ways to curb some areas. >> recess appointments in this case. >> let's be honest. interesting to us political junkies. not the biggest issue in american's lives. >> great con tect yule explanation. and check out every day at 33:00 with his fellow cyclists. >> cyclists. we're on today at 3:00. >> thank you very much. we leave you today with a few political notes. ♪ you would not expect to see this. >> it's beautiful. >> it's beautiful. the congressional leadership coming together tuesday. they commemorating the important thing the 50th anniversary of

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one involving aereo. internet service that streams local broadcast tv channels. we should note msnbc's parent company among the broadcasting cable companies opposing aereo and the copy right claims before the high court. the other decision whether police need search warrants to look at suspects' cell phones. pete williams standing by for us at the high court. pete, let's start with that aereo decision. >> and craig, good day to you from the supreme court. can you hear horns honking in the background. in is not somebody getting married. this is some kind of demonstration by the city's cab drivers. just going on in the street between me and the u.s. capitol. but back to the business at hand. the supreme court ruled that aereo, the internet streaming service that allowed people to watch broadcast tv on a mobile device like an ipad or cell phone violates federal law by retransmitting copy righted programs without paying a copy