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tdr 50 look at arizona and new mexico and how both states have tried to tackle the issue. we'll talk to former new mexico governor bill richardson. and after plenty of jokes at her expense, hillary clinton's book tour takes her to "the daily show." we heard a few laughs, not many hard choices. but did she bobble a version of a why you question. good morning from washington. it's wednesday, july 16th, 2014. this is "the daily rundown." let me get right to the first reads of the morning. this is your 2014 election headquarters and where else will you get looks at key races in the country. today we bring you new numbers from iowa and new hampshire. these are two interesting states and races. six months ago both of these senate races didn't look like they'd be on the competitive board. in iowa republicans spent a year searching for a candidate and never found one to rally around. instead state republicans decide to let the primary play out the

process. well, republican state senator joni ernst rose from obscurity thanks to provocative tv ads which won her plenty of free publicity and early endorsements. she easily won the primary with 56% of the vote and became somebody that not just state republicans but national republicans were comfortable to quickly consolidate around. now the senate race is all tied up, literally. ernst and bruce braley each have 43% of the vote in our poll. 14% of those voters are undecided. republicans have spent the last few months aggressively trying to define braley as less iowan after he was caught by a tracker referring to chuck grassley as, quote, a farmer from iowa who never went to law school. the braley was hit back a bit with attacks on ernst and how iowa is turning to a race to the

bottom. >> bruce braley supports obamacare and caught putting down chuck grassley to an out of state crowd. >> a farmer from iowa who never went to law school. >> we've all heard the one about pigs squealing, but when jo joni ernst had the chance to do something in iowa, we didn't hear a peep. in the state senate, she never sponsored a bill to cut pork. >> this is just a taste of what i think is coming in this one. the ugliness of the race is already being reflected in our polling. 36% of voters view braley favorably but 32% unfavorable rating. one thing to keep in mind in iowa, democrats have an organizational advantage, a better early voting program, a better ground game. it all started frankly back in 1998 when tom vilsack won the governor's mansion. democrats pulled ahead then and haven't really looked back. can republicans make up that ground there? turning to new hampshire, another state with -- that is a

late-developing campaign. the democratic senator there, jeanne shaheen, has a comfortable lead against former massachusetts senator scott brown. she's ahead 50-42, just 6% undecided. not everyone in the republican party was convinced a year ago that a scott brown senate bid was a good idea, especially giving brown's carpet bagger problem. state shopping isn't usually successful though brown does have the advantage of being a familiar figure in new hampshire but brown had to launch his campaign defensively from the start, defending the carpet bagger charge from day one. you see it in our polling. while 52% of voters say they have a favorable impression of shaheen, 39% have a negative rating, brown is less well liked. basically a 1-1 ratio, 40-39. he's on the air with a new ad called respect, focused on veterans and touting his own military service. by the way, this race also has a

giant gender gap. in fact it's bigger than the ones in other races that favored democrats. shaheen has a 25-point lead among women. brown has a 9-point lead among men. that's not a recipe for victory for brown in new hampshire. in iowa, the gender gap is much narrower. braley leads by eight points among women, ernst is up by eight among men. i don't think there's a democrat in the country that will win a senate race if they don't have a double-digit advantage in women voters. new hampshire is a state where democrats do better in competitive races in presidential years and republicans hold the advantage in midterm years. that's what scott brown is counting on, hoping that he can ride that whiplash wave we've seen over the last decade. first he has to get through his primary. in our poll, it looks like he's easily going to do that. a bit of a surprise, frankly, considering scott brown's moderate voting record. he's got 61% of the vote. but for moderates in new

hampshire, primaries usually don't come this easy. just ask senator kelly ayotte. right now bob smith is the closest competition with a paltry 16%. he'll join us live in a moment. digging deeper into our own polling, maggie hassen also up for re-election this year. she has a 54% approval rating. nearly six in ten voters say they approve of iowa governor terry branstad's performance. he as a commanding lead over jack hatch. 53% to 38%. hatch will also join us in a few moments. the president may have won iowa and new hampshire in 2012 by six points but his approval rating in both states is not just under water, it's under 40. it's deep under water. 37% in iowa, 39% in new hampshire. just rough in those two swing

states. congressional republicans, though, they're even more unpopular. a 21% job rating in iowa and a 19% job rating in new hampshire. as for the president's health care law, it is struggling for support in both iowa and new hampshire, just like we saw yesterday in colorado and michigan. half of voters in both states call the law a bad idea. more popular is a proposal to cut greenhouse gas emissions even if it means higher costs for consumers. and when it comes to immigration, voters in both states are divided on a proposal that would allow undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship. that debate over immigration is playing out this week in iowa, where governor terry branstad said he does not want iowa to host any of the thousands of children from central america who are now in the country. >> i would have empathy for these kids, and i want -- but i also don't want to send a signal that send your kids to america illegally. that's not the right message. >> branstad is not just the

longest serving governor in u.s. history, he wins the distinction by a mile. when he completes his fifth term on january 9th, he will have served 7,303 days in office. that's 24.5% longer than any governor in u.s. history. this year he's not only double digits ahead of his rival, jack hatch, he's raised more than $700,000 in the second quarter and has more than $4 million cash on hand. his campaign also beat hatch to the punch on his own domain name and creating a fake campaign site that blasts the democrat on a regular basis. iowa state senator, jack hatch, the democratic nominee for governor, joins me now from iowa. good morning, sir. >> hello, chuck. thank you for asking me to be on. >> well, it was trying to beat a five-term incumbent governor, not easy. a lot of democrats decided to pass on this challenge.

why do you think you're going to be able to pull what many would view as one of the greatest upsets in iowa history? >> i think we have to remember that in iowa we have a lot of independent voters and we make our minds up toward the end of the election cycle. i can only remind you in 1998 when tom sivilsack was down by points in september and came back to win by 5 points in that election. that also shows iowans are willing to listen to new and fresh ideas. the governor has been here for 20 years. he's not a fresh face. he's not providing the leadership that we expect and iowa deserves. iowa is coasting and people think maybe he's been there too long. i think we have an opportunity to show the difference between what a fresh face and new ideas can bring to iowa and get iowa kind of rolling again. we deserve better than to be coasting. >> why do you think iowans keep turning back to him? they have elected him after an unprecedented fifth term after taking a decade off from office.

do you think he was a good governor the first four terms? >> well, i think -- i think people like governor branstad, but i think people are tired of him. he doesn't have a legacy. he keeps us going slowly forward, but iowans know this is a global economy and we're losing jobs to other states. we're not positioning our companies well, our cities and towns are losing opportunities. and i think we have to be more competitive. and i think we have to show a stronger willingness to bring more people in. governor branstad has been dramatically different than his first four terms. he's more partisan, he's more narrow in his focus and he's not leading us in a way in which iowans deserve. >> and i apologize for asking you a lot of process questions, but i've been surprised at the lack of national support that has gotten on your campaign. iowa is a swing state. i haven't seen many presidential

campaigns out there trying to help you out. why do you think you've had a hard time convincing the democratic establishment? this is iowa, folks, get on board. >> that's correct. and i think that people feel that he's just been kind of an old shoe and he's a comfortable old shoe. the problem is he has a scandal in the administration. he and chris christie are campaigning together. he has chris christie style politics in iowa. we have a senate investigation looking over multiple scandals in his administration, paying settlement money to keep fired employees quiet. a major scandal in the veterans home. we have the largest veterans home in the country. contracts being terminated, new contracts being initiated, replacing fired employees with political friends at a higher salary with fewer qualifications. there's a class action suit against the governor because of a no hire list, a black list, if

you will, of people that he won't allow back in the state government. he's been admonished twice by the courts for acting unconstitutionally. this is a governor that is different than he was before. >> all right. jack hatch, the democratic state senator who is the democratic nominee for the governor in iowa. it's a swing state we'll be watching. i have no doubt things will narrow, they always do in iowa. stay safe on the trail. scott brown is acting like a general election candidate, raising money with former florida governor jeb bush, getting a boost from mitt romney, whose vacation home is conveniently in new hampshire. but brown does have a september primary to get through. and former senator bob smith is determined to make sure that that doesn't happen. smith, who's running to get his old job back, has had a hard time making the carpet bagger charge since he himself state shopped, trying to rebuild his political career in florida after losing his 2002 primary. smith has returned to new

hampshire. in a recent debate he accused the republican party of working behind the scenes with brown's campaign in drafting a unity letter. party chair jennifer horn responded telling the new hampshire journal she is not clugd with anyone and it is incredibly disappointing that smith is even raising the question. former republican senator bob smith joins me now from manchester, new hampshire. senator smith, good morning to you, sir. >> good morning, chuck. thanks for having me. >> you got it. i have to say i'm not -- i don't quite get this charge you're leveling at the new hampshire republican primary about col colluding on a unity letter. isn't that what a party is supposed to do, get their party united after a primary? >> well, that's true, chuck, but the collusion, you're not supposed to collude with

specific candidates. my sources were accurate that there was collusion on the letter. the unity is the unity on the party platform. i'm a 100% supporter of the republican party platform. i voted 98% of the time with the republican party because it was the right vote, not because it was the republican party, whereas you've got a guy, scott brown, that you've been touting for quite some time here in the introduction who didn't even vote with the party 50% of the time, who's not pro-life, not pro-gun, and voted for dodd-frank, a huge regulatory nightmare. so the issue is are we going to unite around what the party stands for or around people that don't support the party. >> senator, you left the party, you left the state, you endorsed john kerry over george w. bush. as you admitted it was a bit out of spite in 2004. i hear the charges you're making on ideology, it doesn't seem that scott brown doesn't fit the conservative mold we've seen in new hampshire primaries in the past, but are you the most

credible person to make that charge? >> well, chuck, first of all, the thing with the kerry letter, i've answered a hundred times. it was a dumb thing to do. i was angry because president bush had promised to support me, he didn't do it, he didn't fulfill the promise. so i got angry and did a dumb thing and wrote a letter to kerry. i did not vote for kerry, i did not support kerry, i just wrote the letter. i accept that as a terrible mistake and if you people can't get past it, i respect it. number two, i've never given up my home in new hampshire. i've had a home there since 1970. all of my children were born there, it's our family compound. yes, after the election in 2003 i spent some time in florida -- >> do you have a homestead exemption in florida? >> could i just -- pardon me? >> do you have a homestead exemption in florida? >> no. i'm not a resident of florida, i'm a resident of new hampshire. >> and you wanted to finish. you also left the party.

>> well, the party -- the party left me. the platform of the republican party i support. so let's look at it this way. you can vote for scott brown, who as i said before doesn't vote for life, doesn't vote for guns, votes for dodd-frank which is a regulatory nightmare and votes with the democrats at least in the last year of his term 62% of the time. that means he voted with the republicans 38% of the time. or you can vote for bob smith, who left the party for four months saying, look, if the party doesn't particular to the principles, then we don't win. quote ronald reagan. ronald reagan, no pale pass tells, bold colors. let the other side know where we stand and where they stabbend. that's where we're going to win. we're not going to win with democrat light. that's what this election is about, the heart and soul of our party but more importantly it's about the heart and soul of our country. who are we? how are we going to change this

country? keep kicking the can down the road with these candidates and we're not winning. the debt is getting bigger, we're losing more and more freedoms every day. >> senator bob smith, the conservative challenger to scott brown. i imagine it will be a lot closer than our poll has shown. senator, thanks for coming on. stay safe on the campaign trail. coming up a look at how our border states have handled immigration. first a look at today's politics planner. house democrats will unveil their new economic ajendsa this hour. you're watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. woooo.

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arizona has gone in the opposite direction, trying to block licenses to immigrants. >> i'm once again asking this legislature to repeal the dangerous law that gives driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. i've put forward a strong compromise to repeal this law and still allow driving privileges for dreamers. it's time to act. >> at the same time new mexico has gone out of its way to help undocumented students, becoming one of just a few states to offer them financial aid. arizona doesn't offer financial aid and won't offer in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants either, although some local colleges do. that's not to say arizona is totally anti-immigrant. a poll last year found 65% of arizona residents support a path to zit zenshcitizenship, but thr

and sheriff joe arpaio come down on the conservative side of the argument. the state made headlines for a law that allowed police to check status during stops. >> my signature today represents my steadfast support for enforcing the law, both against illegal immigration and against racial profiling. >> now, the governor of new mexico at the time, bill richardson, pushed back hard against the measure. he's long been an advocate of immigration reform and delivered this notable line when he announced his 2008 run for the presidency. >> no fence ever built has stopped history. and a border fence won't either. if you build a ten-foot fence, someone will use an 11-foot ladder. >> border security is at the heart of the current crisis as well. house republicans are now working on a bill that would

give the obama republican $1.2 billion to add security and other measures. by the way, that's about a third of what the administration wants. in addition, republicans want to change the 2008 trafficking law to speed up the deportation process. democrats, though, are resistant to the change. the white house knows it has to do something quickly. recent polls show a majority of americans disapprove of both the way the president is handling this issue and congressional republicans. but new mexico in particular, the president's handling of this issue not playing well at all. joining me now is former new mexico governor bill richardson is former u.s. energy secretary. governor, nice to see you, sir. >> nice to be with you, chuck. >> looking fit and trim these days. >> like you. i wanted to be like you. >> i'm going to ask you the 2016 question the way you're all worked out. but let's go to this issue right there at the border. it seems there's always been two different ways arizonans and

new mexicans have handled this. it's not just hispanic, but also a lot of native americans? >> well, it's just different political leadership, as you mentioned. i try to integrate the immigrants into new mexico's society by pushing for the dream act, let them get education, their kids if they qualify like anybody else, the licenses for undocumented workers. it reduced traffic problems. it increased insurance. it increased safety. and right now what i think needs to happen, chuck, more than anywhere is a bipartisan immigration deal. i know it's unlikely right now, but i think the president on this current immigration crisis, humanitarian crisis with the central american kids, you have to make a deal.

give the president -- give the president what he wants, which is detention centers, more judges, more laws to punish the traffickers in exchange for some flexibility in the law. >> i want to go back to this, because this question is like what do you do with the folks that are here that are undocumented, because if you do the things that you've done, that you did as governor, giving the driver's licenses, doing the dream act different ways, some argue that incentivizes the, quote unquote, illegal behavior. why wouldn't a parent of a child in honduras say, you know what, the united states at the end of the day, they're compassionate people, they never reject a kid. >> that's why i joined this alliance because i think we turn away half of the skilled workers through h1b visa caps trying to come into the united states, we don't give them green cards. these are highly skilled

immigrants that can reduce the deficit $500 billion in 20 years the deficits goes down, creates jobs. so what i think we need to do, chuck, is increase border security, stability a path to citizenship for the 11 million. what are you going to do, deport them? that doesn't make sense. they're already here, they contribute. and then lastly, find a way to reunite families. but this crisis at the border right now is something we need to deal with immediately. >> why -- well, there's no question there and i think everybody thinks it needs to be done immediately, but i guess how do you stop the incentives? do you think that maybe -- in hindsight i look at the driver license thing. we looked at some statistics. the goal you were hoping that it would bring down insurance -- the rate of uninsured. it didn't do that. new mexico still has a higher rate of uninsured drivers than it did when you put in the law. i understand the point of the

law. but at what point do you sit there and say is there too much incentivizing? >> on that, chuck, we did reduce traffic fatalities. we also found out -- knew where they were going to be, some of these individuals. we integrated them into our economic society. look, i think what we need to do is find a way to see the immigration issue as an economic issue, as a way to create jobs, to improve the american economy and to bring more highly skilled workers, immigrant workers. that's the way i think you emphasize a solution that is positive. >> i guess the problem with the immigration debate is it gets so -- it seems it's become a cultural debate, that it's not an economic debate. how do you get through the cultural gap? i grew up in florida but i say it's very much like a border state where we went through the integration process in the '70s. all the horrible things being said in the midwest and some of these places in the south, i saw

then, and then florida got over it. is this just going to be a case where we have to age out of this? >> i think you emphasize the economic benefits of immigration reform, and i mentioned these h1b visas. this would affect our economy, this would affect competitiveness. this would affect more jobs. >> how do you tell the blue collar worker in the middle of america who sees their manufacturing jobs disappear, what do you say to them? >> what you say to them is more jobs will be created, we're going to reduce the deficit, this is good for the american worker. the reality, chuck, is a lot of these undocumented workers are not doing the jobs that americans are doing. so again, it's a failure of the lack of any kind of bipartisan -- when i was here, when you were just a kid as a congressman, we got things done. we fought, we yelled at each

other but in the end we got things done. >> it's a different climate now. i'm going to quickly ask you about 2016. do you think hillary clinton should get a serious primary challenge? >> i think she will get a primary challenge. >> are you done? are you done with presidential politics? >> i'm done. you get one shot. >> hillary wants two. >> well, there are others that have had more than one. look, i'm not in her camp, but i can't deny the fact that she's a formidable candidate. she may get a primary challenge, but i don't think that primary challenge right now -- >> should she? >> well -- >> good for the party or not? >> i don't see why not. i don't see why there shouldn't be competitiveness. i mean there were eight of us when we ran. i ended up fourth. >> it was a pretty good race. >> well, after a few primaries. >> fair enough. governor bill richardson, good to see you. thanks for coming in. always good to get your views, appreciate it. we'll have more on the crisis in

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cease-fire talks are strained and the fighting has also intensified between israel and hamas militants. egypt tried to broker a deal yesterday but hamas rejected it, saying it wasn't included in the negotiations. just before the truce deadline, hamas fired two rockets into an israeli resort, wounding four people. in response the israeli army tells nbc news it's launched 26 rockets and carried out 75 attacks in the gaza strip since midnight. as many as 100,000 people living in several gaza city neighborhoods have been told by the israeli army to evacuate. the gaza health ministry says the death toll now stands at 205 and more than 1500 have been wounded in the israeli attacks. last night the first israeli civilian was killed as a result of a hamas rocket attack. now, the israeli army released video today that it says shows instances in which the air force aborted air strikes in gaza to

avoid hitting palestinian civilians. today hamas vowed to keep fighting. just moments ago nbc's ayman mohyeldin witnessed an air strike at the port next to his hotel. in fact let me go to foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin who joins me now on the phone. ayman, what happened? what can you describe for us? >> reporter: well, chuck, about 40 minutes ago or so just on the western side of gaza city at the gaza harbor, which actually has been for the past few days since this conflict began relatively quiet, there was a strike. now, we're not quite sure if it was an air strike or some type of artillery strike, but it definitely landed in the harbor, setting on fire one of the small things used by people in the area. we saw at least four children that were badly injured as a result of that artillery shell. they have now been evacuated to the hospital. in fact they were actually brought up from the beach front

through our hotel lobby and into the back of the ambulance before they were driven off to the hospital. we don't know exactly why this particular area was targeted at this particular point but at this stage right now it seems that as a result of the shell there has been some casualties. >> when we hear that the israeli army has been trying to warn residents in gaza, civilians that attacks are coming, do you see evidence that those warnings are actually being heard and that appropriate evacuations are happening? >> reporter: by the vast majority of the people we've been speaking to, they don't take those warnings seriously, not because they don't think israel is serious on striking the areas, but because of twofold. one, it is not clear where they are supposed to evacuate. to one of the issues that the palestinian human rights organization repeatedly says the entire gaza strip has been struck. meaning like we just saw, we are in gaza city. we've seen in the past 12 hours,

cities all over have been hit. if you ask people to leave one neighborhood, which neighborhood are you expecting them to go to where they can feel safety. that's one issue. the second component to that is they have the local government here predominantly run by hamas saying to them not to leave their homes, that this is an element of psychological warfare, and that also heightens the anxiety and fear of the residents in the neighborhoods and they're not sure what they're supposed to do, caught up in this psychological struggle which one side telling them to leave their home or risk being struck and the other saying don't leave your homes, this is just a warning. >> interesting, an important aspect to that issue, the fact that hamas is telling people not to evacuate. ayman mohyeldin in gaza city with that breaking news. thanks very much. let me move over to tel aviv where martin fletcher is holding court there. martin, i want to ask, i feel like there is a missing name and

a missing person over the last week and that is mr. abbas, president abbas of the palestinian authority. where's his voice been in all this talk about a truce? there was that high-profile decision by abbas and hamas to sort of combine their political forces and negotiate as one, try to govern as one. where's abbas been over the last three or four days? >> reporter: well, that's what palestinians have been asking in gaza. he kept very quiet for the first two or three days, but then he spoke up. and when he did speak up, he said something palestinians in gaza did not want to hear. he said he was against fighting, against hamas' rocketing of israel. he called hamas, this is the palestinian president of all the palestinian people, he called hamas and called israel in the same phrase, he called them both traitors in war. by which he meant the fighting must stop. that's not what hamas wanted to hear.

they wanted to hear more support from their president but he is a man who famously is against violence. he wants nonviolence. but now he's more involved. he's on his way to cairo and may well be in cairo already. he's going to be meeting with british former prime minister tony blair and the egyptian leader about cease-fire talks, about getting involved in the truce talks, chuck. >> well, it does -- but will hamas abide by anything abbas agrees to? it's my understanding one of the reasons hamas did not agree to the initial truce offering by egypt is that unlike other truce offerings that egypt has presented in the past, although with different leadership, this is the first for this new round of leaders in egypt, is that hamas got a little something in return, perhaps it was open supply lines, perhaps it was free border crossings, things like that. they didn't get anything in return this time and that's why the militants said no. >> reporter: well, that's what

we're hearing, right. the 2012 agreement did give hamas those things, the things you mentioned, movement of goods, the borders. this time hamas is very suspicious. motives of mahmoud abbas. they feel and it does seem to be the case that this agreement which gives hamas no real achievement after all this terrible loss of life and damage in the last eight days, that this agreement is being cooked up not only by egypt but by mahmoud abbas and israel altogether because essentially the goal of it is to, according to hamas, is to bring hamas to its knees to show they have got no great achievement. we also need to see the ma mhmo abbas/hamas relationship. >> martin fletcher, you are exposing what may be the bigger secondary news story of the day and that is political perhaps unrest between abbas and hamas.

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