of them came from john edwards who is now a completely disgraced figure and was not preg, but that doesn't matter, those policies were out there, and they had an effect on how everyone else ran that race? >> yeah. we're already having an effect, we see more and more people coming out every day. the rachel maddow show starts right now with steve corn ago can i. >> thanks for staying with us for the next hour. rachel has the night off. we start with this man, this is adam quasman. he's a 31-year-old tea party candidate, who's currently running for congress in arizona. he's a republican, a member of the state legislature. right now he's trying to win the republican nomination for a seat in congress. if he does win that nomination, he'll get to face off against ann kirkpatrick in the general election. first things first, here, in order to win in november, adam quasman needs to win his primary. in order to win his primary, he

needs to rally his party's base. daze conservative tea party base, to get them excited about him. yesterday he got a huge political gift. the perfect opportunity to prove to the base what a true believer he really is. well, at least that's what adam quasman thought he had been handed near tucson, arizona. those protesters were there to blockade a busful of immigrant children reportedly coming to town. he saw a huge political opportunity here. after all, what issue riles up the tea bartender base more than fighting immigration. it was a chance for him to be a hero to tea party activists everywhere. raise money to get out front of immigration. and so he did, sort of. >> adam was making a speech. >> the reason why lady justice holds a blindfold over her face -- >> the republican congressional

candidate stopped, he got word a bus was heading down the road and took off for it. >> thank you. >> it's what he and the oracle protesters were waiting for, a confrontation with a bus full of migrant children. he tweeted from the scene, bus coming in, this is not compassion, this is the abragation of the rule of law. >> i was able to see some of the children in the buses and the fear on their faces. this is not compassion. >> that fear on the faces of migrant children he saw. there's just one problem, those weren't migrant children on the yellow school bus, they were ymca campers. >> did you know that was a bus of ymca kids? >> they were sad too. >> i swa polgized, i didn't know. i was leaving when i saw them. >> he later deleted his original

tweet. we found it on a site that captures politicians deleted tweets. he did back flips trying to take back the story. >> i said i saw children. >> those weren't migrant children. >> those were not migrant children, that's fine. >> now he's getting national attention, although it's probably not the kind of national attention he was looking for. this was an embarrassing thing for him. no doubt about that. no matter what you think about what he was trying to do or what he thinks about immigration at all. if you just look at the raw political calculation behind his mistake, can you understand why he was out there doing what he did. he's trying to get ahead on the right. he's trying to win a republican primary. he's trying to do something those voters would like. it didn't work, he didn't think it through. that was his political motive. if you start to look at things that way, you can see a lot of different political motives that

are at work right now, as our country's leaders grapple with the flood of undocumented children that made their way across the border. >> your city's pretty compassionate toward immigrants. would you take those kids here? >> we already talked to hhs who reached out to us. many of their parents are here. before you tell me where you are on immigration these are children. as a father, who are we as americans if we don't step forward and say, these kids who are isolated, alone, maybe they're doing the right thing, maybe they've made mistakes, forget that first. let's get them some place safe and secure. >> that's the democratic mayor of los angeles. he was announcing yesterday that yes, the city of l.a. is going to be taking in some of the undocumented immigrant kids. he wants them to come. the thing is, when you think about what might motivate eric garcetti politically, it makes sense what he said. it's a place that is directly affected by all of this.

more than a lot of other places across the country. he's making a noble and humanitarian decision with what he said right there. but it also happens to be a smart decision for him politically. and now contrast that, contrast what he said there to what's going on 3,000 miles away. 3,000 miles to the east of los angeles in the state of connecticut. that's where the democratic governor, his name is dan malloy has denied a request from federal authorities to temporarily house up to 3,000 migrant children at a school in his state. he is a liberal democrat, but he's also running for re-election in what is a heavily white, heavily suburban state. he already isn't that popular in connectic connecticut. polls have him running neck and neck with his republican challenger. it's not hard to see that dan malloy has decided welcoming those children to connecticut would be risky to him politically. to save himself this fall, to keep his political career going, he needs to say no right now to washington. he needs to say no to those

children. and now think about another democrat, martin o'malley, he's also a governor. governor of maryland, he's also a liberal democrat, but unlike dan malloy, he is not running for re-election this year. he is very interested in running for president, for the democratic nomination for president in 2016. and so right now, to put himself in position to maybe possibly have a chance of being the democratic candidate for president in 2016, martin o'malley really needs to go after the hearts and minds of the democratic base. that democratic base really seems to want to find a place for those kids. >> i believe that we should be guided by the greatest powers that we have as a people. and that is the power of our principles. through all of the great world religions. we are told that hospitality to

strangers is an essential human dignity. it is a belief that unites all of us. any concerns you might have or feelings you may have toward these refugee kids, think about the country we want to leave to our children. we are not a country that should turn children away and send them back to certain death. >> that's martin o'malley saying he's about helping the kids. on some political level, that also makes sense, because he's preparing to run for the democratic nomination for president. he's targeting the national democratic base. he's lusting after the presidency, so he's concludeded the democratic base is all about keeping the kids here. there's also this, martin o'malley is the governor of maryland. within the state of maryland, acting as the governor of maryland and not as a prospective presidential candidate. he seems to have some reservations before those kids. maybe it seems like he's trying to have it both ways. we learned last night details of

a private conversation between martin o'malley and the obama administration, they were leaked out. details showed that the governor basically said, no, i don't want these immigrant kids in my state. please take the sight you're looking at in maryland off the list of options. if that seems somewhat odd because the governor seemed to be for housing the kids and everything we displayed at least he did last week. governor o'malley defended himself in a phone interview today, that would not be the most inviting sight in maryland. there are hundreds of kids located throughout maryland. whatever the motivation was of the people who leaked it to you, i'll leave that to you to determine. this is a complicated issue. and the administration is putting fears out there to every state, every city. there are a lot of kids who need places to stay right now, they're asking everyone. it's unclear why this is happening with o'malley, but we are at an interesting here. we're at a moment where a genuine humanitarian crisis is

butting up against the motives and calculations of politicians. why does it matter what political incentives might be motivating different politicians to say and do all these different things in the face of this crisis? it matters, for better or worse, they're the ones that have to solve it, or at least they're our best chance for getting it solved. for improving the situation any time in the near future. right now, there's a new bipartisan border bill introduced on capitol hill. by john cornyn for texas. henry cuellar. their bill would rewrite the current 2008 george w. bush law so minors from central america could be treated like those from mexico, so they could be deported more quickly. it appears the administration isn't totally against this bill. they haven't officially come out and endorsed it, they set some pretty strong signals that they're open to it, you have a president that wants the house

right now to approve the $3.7 billion he's asked for, he knows he has to get republicans on board with that request. it's a republican house, he can't get the money unless republicans sign off on it. you also have nancy pelosi, the minority leader who wants the same thing, she wants the money to pass as well. she knows they need to get republicans to go along with that as well. both of them think that the cuellar or cornen bill is the way to get republicans on board. here is pelosi last week signaling her openness to changing the 2008 bush law, it got the president's appropriations request passed. >> you can have a different view about the value of a provision of the law, and as i said, it's not something that would be a deal breaker as we go forward. if that's the face saver for them, let them have the face saver. >> that was nancy pelosi saying

changing the law is not a deal breaker for her. but the thing is, the democratic base, that same democratic base that martin o'malley from maryland is trying to appeal to, that base -- now we find out hates the idea of changing the 2008 law, they've been pretty out front about it last week, very publicly opposing that idea. and apparently pelosi heard that base, she decided to reverse course. she came out saying she would not back changes to the 2008 law, she would oppose them. in an interview with the new york times, she spoke with cuellar, i think the bill that was introduced is exactly the wrong way to go. the only immigration bill we're going to have, is one that hurts children. the top democrat in the house is now against the cornyn/cuellar proposal. the president met with the hispanic caucus. they're united against it because one of their members

happens to be henry cuellar. we are quickly learning where most everyone in the democratic party stands on this new proposal other than the white house, though. we have heard from unnamed sources in the white house, we have not officially heard from them whether or not they will back this plan. would the president support it if it means getting republicans to vote for the money that he badly needs to fix this crisis? if he does do that, will there be a democratic revolt? what is the white house's thinking in all this? what we're seeing right now is the merger of a humanitarian crisis and raw politics. it's not pretty. if we're going to get answers on this, they're going to come through the political process. these are the realities we're all looking at right now. joining us right now is david knack camora. i appreciate you taking a few moments tonight. i want to play you a sound byte that came in in the last few

hour hours. juan vargas said he got a distinct impression that the president is against the cornyn/cuellar bill. >> when i left, he didn't say this, but he all but said, you know, i think we can do it under existing law, there's some leeway there. i don't think he's going to be pushing for a change. he better not. he's going to get great resistance from the hispanic caucus. this law is important, we shouldn't change it. >> can you shed light on what's going on here? the white house wanted this to get republicans on board. we the spanish caucus is against it. the president basically told me he's against it. is that where things stand? is he against it? do you know. >> the white house has signaled to congress they would like more flexibility for the homeland security secretary to move more quickly deport these kids. this is a crisis we have to stop. make it clear to the central american countries you can't

send your kids on these dangerous journeys here. the white house has not sent over specific language. that's because liberal democrats and others -- i don't think the white house wants to take the lead. again today, josh ernest said, yes, we would still like that flexibility, again, he was not clear an did not come out as you mentioned and give support to this bill which they're still going through. i think what's going on is getting the gauge of how many democrats might support it, you have ron barber of arizona saying he will support the bill, not a lot of democrats are coming forward to support this, the problem for the white house, they reallien watt that $3.7 billion, and republicans are saying, we're not going to get it to you unless we get these changes to the law. that's probably the problem for the white house and why they're not completely ruling it out. >> these things have sort of become linked here, this cornyn/cuellar proposal or something like it, to make the deportation of these kids across

the border much easier. that idea has been linked to the 3.7 billion. from the standpoint on the republican side are we giving the republicans too much credit here, if you link these things they'll go along with it, even if you link them, that republican base, we know how far to the right they are. even then they reject it. >> the fear among the democrats is that you're going to get this, after all this talk of the president's mandate of the 2012 election among latino and asian communities and all the effort they put into it that never made it through the house of representatives. if you go forward with this bill, and you don't get a lot of the money that you might need to take care of the kids, you would have this ultimately enforcement first provision after all this talk about democrats having the advantage on immigration politically and going for sort of more humanitarian humane approach to undocumented immigrants that were here, and in the end you would have a

losing hand like this. there is concern that republicans would not go along with the money even if they got tougher provisions in the law to allow immigrants to be sent home more quickly. that's why you're seeing more and more democrats peeling off, the catholic bishops and the immigration advocacy groups have all come out now and said they're against going-forward with this bill without greater leeway on the money and other protections for the kids. >> getting tougher and tougher if the president had some kind of desire to cut the deal there. those political realities budding up here. david nakamora, thanks for joining us tonight. lots more lead tonight, including the republican primary that had a runoff and will have another runoff if the tea party has its way. plus, scott brown of that variety, and maybe just maybe some very welcome news from chris christie. stay tuned. you'll find the works! it's a complete checkup of the services your vehicle needs.

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parents started to arrive, unsure what happened but expecting the worst. a mother asked, where is my son. where is my love. then her worst fears came true. pray for your son. pray for your son a relative told her, he's now a martyr. >> nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel reporting on the latest casualties between israel and hamas. they're investigating the deaths of the four dead boys between the ages of 9 and 11 years old. several journalists who witnessed the attack delivered aid and helped carry them out to waiting ambulances. more than 200 palestinians have been killed. including more than three dozen children. last night the first casualty on the israeli side was reported as well. a man killed by mortar fire as

he was handed out food to soldiers. the israeli military dropped leaflets across northern gaza warning some 100,000 people to evacuate the area. ayman mohyeldin reports, the vast majority of the people here do not take the warnings seriously, because it's not clear where they're supposed to evacuate too. thousands of rockets and ammunitions broke out on both sides. the rockets coming from gaza have been blocked by the iron dome missile defense system. their objective is to target hamas. israeli officials say the military has gone to great pains to avoid civilian casualties. they're showing officials had on several occasions held off on bombing areas where civilians had been identified. the israeli government issued a call for an additional 8,000

reservis reservists, the country where mandatory service is mandatory. that brings the total number of troops to 51,000. something the government has yet to rule out. president obama addressed the escalating conflict late this afternoon. >> we continue to support diplomatic efforts to end the violence between israel and hamas. as i said repeatedly, israel has a right to defend itself from rocket attacks that terrorize the israeli people. there's no country on earth that can be expected to live under a daily barrage of rockets. and i'm proud that the iron dome system that americans helped israel develop and fund has saved many israeli lives. but over the past two weeks, we've all been heart broken by the violence. especially the death and injury of so many innocent civilians in

gaza. men, women and children who are caught in the crossfire, that's why we've been working with our partners in the region to pursue a cease-fire, to protect civilians on both sides. >> israel agreed to the united nations brokered humanitarian cease-fire for five hours tomorrow. that will allow aid to reach the nearly 1 million people in gaza who are currently without water, the cease peer is not a permanent agreement, the region often mired in conflict. what can the united states do to temper the violence? and how much longer and how much wider is this conflict going to go. joining us now is ann guerin, diplomatic correspondent for the washington post. maybe you can help me make sense of two conflicting things i'm seeing today. five hour cease-fire has been arranged for tomorrow, at the same time, calling up 8,000 new troops are we looking at what's the calm before the ground invasion here? >> potentially yes.

israel is answering the starting to be rising international call for some calm and a step back here from nine days of bombardment. although that international call has not been loud or really anywhere near what israel has come -- the kind of criticism that israel has come under in previous conflicts, you are starting to hear it. the humanitarian five hour cease-fire which hamas has apparently also agreed to tonight is in no way -- would in no way preclude israel from then continuing the bombardment, escalating it later tomorrow, or potentially moving toward the ground offensive that netanyahu and others have been threatening. >> you talk about that mounting incher national pressure here, in the event that that moves toward a ground invasion. is there a sense of what the

united states government thinks of that, and if the united states government would have any leverage there in saying, yeah, go ahead and do that? or no, don't do that? >> the united states does not want israel to mount a ground offensive, and has said so, the state department spokeswoman said it the other day, others have as well, but it isn't the united states' decision to make, and all that president obama or secretary kerry or anyone else really can do is to try to advise from the sidelines and apply the significant pressure that the united states does have, the leverage that the united states does have over israel. and you're starting to see that happen. for the last several days, the united states has been notably silent in not criticizing israel in previous conflicts, notably in 2012, that criticism from washington really started much earlier and was much louder.

now what you're starting to hear, and i think what president obama was referring to in his remarks tonight is a much more public, much larger and concerted diplomatic effort which would probably include secretary kerry making the rounds of those other countries that might potentially be able to help here. you saw the offer from egypt the other day, which quickly fell apart, the united states considers that still a live ball. and it would be possible to try to revive that and garner some additional public support in the arab world and elsewhere, to make that a going concern. >> thank you for being here tonight, appreciate it. scott brown was the former senator from the commonwealth of massachusetts, massachusetts apparently that warrants repeating, why? that's just ahead. but first, we have one more thing about president obama's incredibly full plate right now. during that previously

unscheduled appearance in the white house briefing room this afternoon. the president urged an end to the fighting in israel and hamas. he urged a brand new round of sanctions against russia. president obama announced he's imposing sanctions against two major energy companies, a pair of russian banks as well as russian arms companies. today those new sanctions. >> given it's continued provocations in ukraine, today i have approved a new set of sanctions on some of russia's largest companies and financial institutions. we are taking these actions in close consultation with our european allies who are meeting in brussels to agree on their next steps. >> right around the same time that president obama spoke, leaders from the european union announced that europe is planning to ratchet up the sanctions against russia. vladimir putin who is traveling

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someone went rogue on my watch. now, listen, i'm accountable for that, and if you haven't watched what's been going on the last six months, i think there's been a decent amount of accountability thrown my way and that i've accepted. when something like this happens, first thing is, they want to put you in cuffs and send you away. he had to have known, he knew. he knew, now when i turn over every e-mail, every text message, everyone gets to look at it, and it's become clear now in six months, he didn't know. then they go, okay, well, geez, if we stick to that equation, then we lose, so let's shift it to well, all right he didn't know, but he created an atmosphere where this type of thing was permissible. bull, i didn't. >> that was governor chris christie of new jersey today doing what chris christie has become very good at lately.

saying he accepts responsibility for the george washington bridge scandal and denying involvement. >> as we let you go, you're running? [ laughter ] >> it's such a great question. >> let me give you a different answer. because you know, you were obnoxious enough to aask again, i might as well give you something. the fact is, that you should beware of people who are overanxious to make that decision before they need to, and by the way, it's pretty nice to be asked, you know? if you really stink, they don't ask if you're really awful, no one's asking. i've had some of my predecessors that were never asked, i can guarantee you, man.

never asked. >> so maybe christie knew something about his presidential prospects that the national news media didn't, as of today, we have some permanent information that may explain why he's feeling so chipper. an nbc news poll shows a third of republicans in iowa view christie negatively, half of them view him positively? really, most people here have never heard of the george washington bridge story and they don't care much about it. those who have heard of the bridge gate scandal have moved on, meanwhile, in new hampshire, that other first in the nation presidential testing ground shows that over half of republicans in that state view christie positively, another poll shows him leading all 2016 contenders in new hampshire. there's good reason for

christie's confidence. the mess that he so badly wants to leave behind it's still there and still broiling. late last month, the state legislative committee that's looking into bridge gate plan to call 13 more christie administration officials to testify under oath. now the u.s. attorney for new jersey is conducting his own separate investigation into the lane closures. but the legislative committee's lawyer has made sure to not call witnesses until they get the all clear from the u.s. attorney's office, and today, heather haddon reports that the u.s. attorney has asked the committee to hold off on calling nine of those potential witnesses it wanted to call, including gov dmer christie's top political strategist and the mayor of ft. lee new jersey. now, paul fishman the u.s.

attorney his office does not release any information about its ongoing investigations at all. we don't know why the u.s. attorney would ask the legislature to not nine people testify. but in any case, that report indicates that he is interested in talking to them. and it does present a new clue as to the direction of the u.s. attorney's investigation. and tomorrow, we might learn a little bit more too. because the next staff member to testify before that legislative committee is governor christie's incoming chief of staff, regena agia. he was the head of the authorities unit when the bridgegate scandal was playing out. what's still to come from the ongoing investigations in new jersey remains a complete mystery, both for the subjects of the investigation and for the investigation's impact on the political life of chris christie. regena egea is scheduled to testify tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. watch this space. ♪

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scott brown is in the news today for some very scott brownish reasons. if that name sounds a little familiar to you, but you can't quite place it, scott brown was elected to the u.s. senate in massachusetts back in 2010 and it was a genuine political shocker. a very impressive victory by brown, that pretty much made him an overnight national political celebrity. but the thing is, when you become an overnight star in politics, or in any other field, for that matter, when you aren't necessarily deal with the spotlight, or the scrutiny that comes with national renowned. it's easy to forget or not to realize the public figure you become, which didn't take scott brown that long to do. >> i relay on gale's love and support, and that of our two lovely daughters. so i want to thank ailya and arianna for their support as well. and just in case anybody who's watching throughout the country,

yes, they're both available. oh, no, no, no. no. only kidding. only kidding. only kidding, only kidding! arianna is definitely not available, but ailer is! >> that was his victory speech back in 2010. that was how, the scott brown era of national oratory started. that era lasted for the next two years until he was unseated by elizabeth warren in 2012. it was an era that included some other moments when brown pretty awkwardly stepped in it. there was the time he seemed to say he was involved in secret meetings with kings or queens, or he suggested he was being called constantly by president obama and hillary clinton for help with legislation. and after he lost to warren, he became a legend on social media with his now immortal, buck whatever.

now, here's the thing. when that campaign ended in 2012, when brown lost to warren, he was actually still very popular personally in massachusetts. and polls show that he'd be the clear favorite if he decided to run for governor there in 2014, to run for governor this year. so it was sitting there for him, was his for the taking. it was the logical thing to do. but it's not what scott brown did. instead, he decided to leave massachusetts. he decided to move north to new hampshire, to run for the senate there, against democrat jeanne shahe shaheen. at least, i think he moved to new hampshire, because it didn't take long for the scott brown moments to start up again. >> that's the big difference between senator shaheen and me and many other people in the massachusetts delegation, and senator shaheen in particular, the president. i'm not for amnesty and never have been. >> so it's always best to remember which state senate seat you're running for. new polling today suggests that voters in new hampshire might appreciate that, because that polling shows that senator shaheen is now leading scott brown by eight points in the race. former senator brown's campaign

awkwardness goes beyond his geographic malapropry. most recently, it involves inclusion in a club, the do anything to avoid a question set. among the most notable members, we have nevada republican senate candidate, sharron angle, whose tactic back in 2010 was just to say polite words in a parking lot. >> thank you so much. >> can we talk about your anger? what do you mean when you say second amendment remedies? >> so, thank you. >> second amendment remedies, anything? >> we kept asking into the parking lot, but received no answer. >> why won't you answer what second amendment remedies means? nothing at all? it's a simple question. >> and there was also the excuse me, senators only, move that was computed by former kentucky senator, jim bunning, in the capitol hill elevators. >> we just wanted to ask you -- >> excuse me, sympathies a senator only elevator. >> can i come on the elevator? >> no, i may not. >> can you tell us why you're

blocking the vote? >> i already did explain it. >> well, ways the issue? >> excuse me! >> aren't you concerned about people who are unemployed. >> i've got to go to the floor. >> can you explain why you're holding this up? >> excuse me! >> are you concerned about those who will lose their benefits. >> there was the sprinter view featuring dana barb and michele bachmann. >> what i want to ask you about is the fact that you talked about the excesses that he's engaged in, the fact that he has a dog walker, which is not true. >> the, the big point of my speech was about benghazi. this was an absolute disaster. >> do you want to focus on -- >> do you want to talk about dog handlers, and there's four americans killed! >> but congresswoman, you're the one who brought it up. >> are americans -- >> you're the one who brought it up. >> new hampshire senator scott brown may have topped them all, going somewhere where he figured he could not be cornered. a reporter for the guardian newspaper writes, after trying in vain to get ahold of brown's

public schedule, he tracked the candidate down at a restaurant. he said he wanted to ask him about his stance on the recent hobby lobby ruling. that seems like a reasonable thing you'd want to know about a candidate. but, alas, brown, according to the article, stood up, walked to the back of the diner, and then took shelter in the bathroom. repeating here, former senator scott brown, wanting to avoid a reasonable question on the campaign trail, decided to take shelter in the bathroom. one of his staffers apparently joined him in there, then shuttled the former senator away from the restaurant, thereby avoiding answering the question. as they say, any port in a storm. that does it for us tonight. rachel's going to be back here tomorrow night. you can catch me on my show this weekend, "up," saturdays 8:00 a.m. eastern time. and now time for "the last word." ari melber is sitting in for lawrence. >> i don't know about you, but to say scott brown is a carpet bagger, i feel like that sometimes too sitting in for

other people's shows. >> i feel like an imposter too. >> in this country, you can sue anybody for anything. it doesn't mean you will win, and somebody might want to tell john boehner that. >> the grand opening of the john boehner lawsuit against president obama. >> genuine concerns about executive power. >> this isn't about me suing the president. >> or another way to placate the base. >> this thing smells. >> you're going to sue me for doing my job. >> so sue me. no, don't sue me. >> house republicans will waste time and taxpayer dollars. >> you'll never guess what boehner is suing obama over, unless you guessed obamacare. >> he spent four years trying to kill it. >> the president, in my opinion, has gone too far. >> and now they are suing the president to implement it faster. >> if i were president obama, i would countersue the house leadership for its gross incompetence. >> their big idea has been to sue me. >> i urge you to change