face of terrible, terrible reprisal and violence over there. it's tough over there as tariq said. that is "ul in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> remarkable, remarkable interview. that was amazing. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. in october of 1995, president of russia, the first president of russia following the dissolving of the soviet union, was, of course, forest yeltzen. soviet union fell apart at the tail end of 1991. russia became its own independent country and borris yeltzen became the first president of post-soviet russia. a few years into that presidency, president yeltsin paid a landmark historic visit to the united states to meet with then-u.s. president bill clinton. and this is how that went. >> and this is all due to you because coming from my statement

yesterday in the united nations, and if you looked at the press reports, one could see that what you were writing was that today's meeting with president bill clinton was going to be a disaster. >> well now for first time i can tell you that you're a disaster. >> be sure you get the right thing there. >> i can tell you that you're a disaster. and you know what, years later we found out that that wasn't even -- look at the look on his face. that wasn't even the most boris yeltsiny thing that happened on that trip. years after this trip, years after russia president boris

yeltsin made the president of the united states laugh/cry in front of the international media and giggle like a prepubescent child, it came out that during that same trip, boris yeltsin snuck out of his room late one night and tried to hail a cab in washington, d.c., while wearing only his underwear. he told the secret service agents who found him that he wanted a pizza. and that is why most youtube tributes to boris yeltsin have titles like borisyeltsin's finest moments or find him stumbling or randomly conducting an orchestra that wasn't expecting him to. this is how the world remembers good old boris yeltsin. bumbling boris yeltsin was the president of russia a at a critical time when russia was vying to be taken seriously as no longer the leader of an unwilling empire but as a

responsible nation in the community of nations. and as part of that really big effort, as part of the effort to bring russia into the international community to try to normalize russian relations with the rest of the world, boris yeltsin decided to make one specific dramatic gesture, decided to do something the rest of the world had been waiting for for almost a decade but honestly most people thought it would never happen. before the soviet union fell apart back in 1983, september 1st, 1983, a korean passenger jet carrying 269 people had strayed into soviet territory and the soviets, of course, shot that plane down. it was korean airlines flight 007. it was only seconds away from international airspace. when a soviet fighter jet hit that passenger plane with two missiles, killed everybody onboard. president reagan was on vacation when the shoot-down happened. he officially wanted to stay on vacation, and the white house officially said he would stay on vacation, but four days after it

happened, president reagan was back in washington and delivering this sternly worded address to the nation. he said what the soviets had done was monstrous. but honestly, looking back at that time, i have to tell you that sternly worded address was basically it in terms of the u.s. response. the presidential response to that tragedy. korean airlines flight 007 had departed from the united states. it had departed from new york city. it had stopped to refuel in anchorage. it was carrying dozens of americans including a serving u.s. congressman named larry mcdonald. president reagan addressed the nation after that flight crashed and did use very strong language, but then he warned his advisers against any overreaction to what happened. he told a national security meeting, we've got to protect against overreaction. vengeance is not the name of the game. so it was a speech, but that was sort of it. this was the middle of the cold war. and in truth, there was not much president reagan or anybody else could do to make the soviets

take responsibility for what they had done. to the point where nearly a decade after the shoot-down, when boris yeltsin was the first post-soviet president of russia, the reaction to that shoot-down of that korean airliner was such that nearly a decade after it happened, the russians still had custody of the black boxes from that crash. they had never given into international president, president reagan's pressure, or anybody else's pressure to turn the black boxes over so they could be part of an investigation into what happened. the russians kept those voice recorders and those data recorders from korean airlines flight 007. they kept them away from the world for nine years. until boris yeltsin decided in 1992 that one of the first things he was going to do as president of the new russia would be to try to right that wrong, to return those black boxes. so in november 1992, russian president boris yeltsin traveled

to seoul, south korea in what he called a show of friendship and policy and held a ceremony to return the black boxes. that was totally news to the south koreans when he did it. they knew he was coming to visit but had no idea when he was there he was going to do the whole thing with the whole show of returning the black boxes. the president of south korea at the time said this incredible surprise gesture showed that sincerity was building up between their two countries. sincerity. basically saying, you know, listen, he surprised us with this incredibly sincere gesture. this is a very meaningful thing to us as a nation. something we thought would never happen. we are building trust and sincere regard between our two nations. or maybe not. it quickly emerged that boris yeltsin's big show in south korea about handing over the black boxes was just a show. he did hand over the containers.

the black boxes. he turned them over at the big spectacular press veevent, but they were empty. nothing on the recorders. handed over the boxes but not the tapes, actual data. oops. it was very embarrassing for everybody involved. russia ultimately had to admit they knew the tapes had been removed from the black boxes when boris yeltsin held the s-- at least some russian officials, though, did know. did know. and they admitted it. and, of course, it was hugely embarrassing. it opened up all these old wounds, right, when boris yeltsin was trying to change the way russia looked to the world, trying to convince people they were different but it's all fake, exactly what you don't want to happen. it's exactly the opposite of what yeltsin was trying to accomplish. shortly after that whole botched incident, the russians actually

did turn over the data. they turned over the tapes. and they didn't -- interesting, they didn't turn them over to the south koreans. they instead turned over the real data, real tapes to the international civil aviation organization. that's the u.n.'s investigative group, best practices group for civil aviation. and that agency reviewed the tapes from the shoot-down of that airliner nine years earlier and then what they ended up doing was publishing the harrowing transcript of what happened inside the plane as it was rapidly descending after it had been shot by a soviet fighter jet fired missile. and that investigation, what they published, right, it corroborated much of what we already knew about flight 007. the plane's auto pilot had failed. as a result of that auto pilot failure, that's why the plane drifted into soviet territory. it also corroborated, of course, that russian missiles had brought that passenger plane down. as a result of the cockpit recorders being handed over to the international body, the

world also learned that soviet fighter pilots had made no attempt to contact the airliner over the radio before they shot it down. and this is the detail that feels like a punch in the gut even all these years later. because of that data, the world also learned that the passengers on that flight may have been alive for a full 12 minutes before that plane crashed. 12 minutes after it was hit by the missiles. but before it plunged into the sea. details like that are important not just because they tell a drastically different story, right, from the one we knew, we knew it had been shot down out of the sky, right? details like that, though, are important because they fill in the gaps. they establish a true record of what happened. they give us the facts. the incontrovertible facts. the terrible detail about the 12 minutes of pain and suffering that those 269 people may have experienced onboard that jet after it was hit. that detail, for example, played a prominent role in a lawsuit against korean airlines by the

families of those passengers. those known facts gleaned from those black box recordings. they're also proof. right? they're proof that what was basically reported to have happened really did happen. for years leading up to and after the handoff of those empty black boxes, the soviets had insisted that flight they shot down wasn't a passenger plane at all. they said it was a spy plane, why they shot it out of the sky. that plane wases filled with spies, not with innocent men, women, and children. that had been the soviet line about it, right? it is the nature of conspiracy theories that they're often difficult to dispel with fact, but it is still helpful to actually finally get your hands on some facts. to have that official incontrovertib incontrovertible record of what really happened and what really experienced. i'm sure there are still post-soviet russians out there who believe it really was a spy plane, but it wasn't and we know it wasn't and we can show you how we know. since malaysia arables flight 17

crashed in ukraine last thursday, we have seen headline after headline about who has control of the black boxes from that plane. the day after the crash, both the ukrainian government and pro-russian separatists who have taken control of the region in ukraine where the plane crashed, they both claimed that they had the black boxes. then we learned, no, actually the black boxes were maybe in russia, maybe moscow has them. actually, no, the ukrainian emergency services, they said they were supposed to have the black boxes, not the russians. there was one day when a separatist leader told the "ap" they had found no black boxes, nobody had any of them. that said, one of his own staffers also told the "ap" earlier that day they had found the black boxes. not only that, they found 8 of the 12 of them which left the "ap" reporter puzzled to say the least because planes don't have 12 recorders. they have two. so what did you find eight of? today, though, lots of news organizations have reported that

the actual black boxes have, in fact, been both found and handed over to a delegation from malaysia. this is the video that reported exchange. it remains to be seen what, if anything, is going to be gleaned from these black boxes. if these are the real black boxes from this crashed plane. and if they are in a condition in which they will be useful. they're expected to be transported out of a war zone, that is eastern ukraine. although it's unclear exactly what happened to them from there. now that they're in malaysian hands. the malaysian primedeclined to country plans to with the recorders. the u.s. embassy in kiev has been, quote, knocking down reports, conspiracy theories running on television. russian state tv has been running accusations it was the ukrainian military that shot down the malaysian jet. russian tv is reporting a ukrainian fighter jet was in the area when malaysian airlines flight 17 went down. the russian defense ministry made that claim today implying

if not outright saying that ukraine shot down the airliner and everybody aught to leave russia alone. when president obama spoke about the plane today from the south lawn of the white house, he said that russia and specifically russian president vladimir putin have a direct responsibility to make this investigation happen basically. to compel the pro-russia separatists in ukraine to cooperate with the investigation of the crash site and to allow full and unfettered access to the investigators. russia this afternoon did vote with the rest of the united nations security council in favor of a resolution to give investigators full access to the crash site. that said, sohortly after that u.n. security council vote, a representative from malaysia airlines complained before the security council they were still being denied access to the site. despite the conspiracy theories still airing on russian tv, the russian government as of this afternoon says that it wants what the world wants, too. a full and independent investigation into what happened to that downed flight and to

those 298 poor people. russia says they are with the world in wanting the most detailed account possible of what happened and a reckoning for those who are responsible. russia says they are on board. is there any way to know if that's true? if that's true, can russia make that happen basically? how much control does russia have on those pro-russian separatists in eastern ukraine? if vladimir putin tells them or asks them to do something, is it as good as done? if russia does not exert their influence, they choose not to, what can and will the international community do to try to get russia to move? joining us, kimberly martin, professor of political science, columbia university. professor martin, thanks very much for being here. >> russia, my pleasure. >> thank you for laughing when i showed the boris yeltsin video of him making bill clinton laugh. russia is saying it will support a full international investigation of the crash. we're still trying to figure out

what that means. if vladimir putin told the separatists, do x, is x as good as done? does he have control? >> he doesn't have complete control but can put a lot of pressure on them. he can close the border to censure no additional mercenaries two over the border from russia to help the fight. he can assure no additional weapons get to them. he can cut off their financing. he can change his rhetoric to indicate he's not in favor of what they're doing. those things won't cause a jump to happen right away if they don't want a jump. it's a significant amount of pressure he could exert on them. >> one of the reason i wanted to talk about the 1983 shootdown is not just because boris yeltsin is amazing, but it took before boris yeltsin, apology, and taking part in the international community's investigation of what happened. right now with vladimir putin's politics, the domestic situation around this in russia, can you

imagine a bath toward russia acknowledging any role in this having happened? >> yes. what it would take would be a real change in the direction that the putin administration has gone up until this point. but the reason that it might happen is that, you know, putin is not really just a single dictator who causes russia to follow along behind whatever it is that he wants. he has to deal with his domestic politics, too, and the sanctions that have been put on, especially the ones starting last week, look like they're really having an effect on economic interests in russia. and so putin has to be concerned about what the people who are engaged in a lot of international trade and a lot of international investment think about what he's doing. it's always possible they'd put pressure on him if they had significant pressure coming from the western community that would cause a change in policy. at that point, putin could offer plausible deniability. he could say, oh, well, you know, we didn't really want the rebels to do that.

we were not in control of what they were doing,permission. they were not under our roll and have to face the consequence of what they've done. >> but it was a terrible accident and russian-made weapon. >> the biggest difference between now and 1983 is in 1983, of course, it did go up a chain of hierarchical command inside the military and this was not a russian military as a hierarchical organization. the russians have been involved on the ground. we think they're probably people recently retired from the russian military going over as contractors, probably paid by russia but not going over as a hierarchical representative of the russian military. >> to have the defense ministry saying it was a ukrainian fighter jet. >> that's been the message all along. >> does that imply, though, that even if president putin does want to make that kind of a shift, that domestically he's going to be constrained by a russian military that's never going to admit this. >> he's going to be constrained by a lot of factors including a

strong sense of russian nationalism. the clip of yeltsin made it clear what putin is offering to russia, offering them a leader who is respected because he's strong. he is somebody who has control over himself. he's not a drunk l foen fool. in that sense, he has to maintain the image of being the one who's in control. if he looks like he's slipping, if he looks like he cannot keep control of the situation, there are so many people who are eager to be the ones who would be the new boris, the new putin, the person who would take over from him. that he has to be very concerned about his legacy and about what happens next. he's really got a very complicated situation at home. >> kimberly marten, professor of political science specializing in russian studies at barnard. thank you very much for being here. >> thank you, rachel. my pleasure. to that point of how important sanctions have been here and important in terms of predicting what happens next, tomorrow in brussels there's a major meeting of european

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and when you're not. you can obviously hear your interviewer once the show is up and running and you're doing your thing and there's a guest, but when you're waiting for the show to start or you're waiting for your part of the show to start, it's kind of a little weird. you feel like you're sitting in a dark box all alone, but usually there's a control room full of people on the other end somewhere who you can't see, but who can see you. you're just waiting around for things to start, but the cameras are rolling. and your mike is on. and it's an in between kind of place. i've been in that situation many times and it's kind of weird. and this weekend, on fox' sunday morning news show, the fox control room was apparently watching while secretary of state john kerry was in that weird in between not yet on tv place. he was sitting in the studio, waiting to start his interview with show's host. and at fox, they taped him having an off-camera conversation on a blackberry speakerphone with one of his staffers. and then when they came out of commercial, or whatever, and started their interview with

him, the show's host, chris wallace, told secretary of state john kerry that hthey just tape him having that off-camera conversation. and then during their interview, they played the tape of what they had just caught him saying. >> you're doing a series of interviews with all of the networks and while you were on camera and while you were on microphone, you just spoke to one of your top aides in between the interviews about the situation in israel and the fact that 14 israelis have either been shot or killed in an operation. we want to play a clip of that conversation because it's an extraordinary moment of diplomacy. take a look at this. >> it's a hell of a pinpoint operation. it's a hell of a pinpoint operation. >> right. it's escalating really significantly, just underscores the need for cease-fire. >> we've got to get over there. >> thank you, john. i think, john, we aught to go tonight. it's crazy to be sitting around.

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e jiegypt might have the best chance of brokering a cease-fire to stop the war happening. if you hear that and feels like deja vu, i've heard all of this before, you right because this really does keep happening over and over and over again. but that doesn't mean that it has to happen forever. and it also means that there is a really useful set of information to us available from the recent past about how this kind of fighting stops. how this fighting, these bombardments, these exchanges of rockets, these kidnappings, these wars. how they stop. ban ki-moon and john kerry and the egyptians are at the tip of the diplomatic sphere in terms of trying to secure a cease-fire, and neither side, neither hamas nor israel right now says they're particularly interested in a cease-fire right now, but that is how this will end. the only question is when. and how many people have to die in the meantime. and we know that because of the cease-fire that stopped the terrible fighting in gaza in 2006. in november 2006. and then after the fighting started again, we know that in

the summer of 2008, it was egypt who brokered a six-month cease-fire in 2008. and then when the fighting started again in december 2008, january 2009, a truly full-scale war, that war ended in a cease-fire declared three days before barack obama was sworn in as president for the first time in january 2009. yeah, the cease-fires don't last forever, so, yeah, the fighting started again after that, but it was a cease-fire again negotiated in egypt that stopped the fighting once more when it stopped the next time in november 2012. now, yes, the fighting is happening again. today is the second straight day of more than 100 people killed on the palestinian side. more than 500 palestinian men, women, and children have been killed so far over these past two weeks. the number of israeli casualties is more than two dozen now. and the fighting, and the cause of the fighting feel terribly familiar because this is basically a recurring war. the only way out of it is diplomacy. that is the only way to make it

stop even if it won't stop it forever. war after war after war in the same place between the same people shows that no military solution provides a lasting solution either. in 2006, that war lasted five months. in 2008, the first one was only four days. the end of that year and into 2009, that other war lasted 22 days in 2012 before the last cease-fire. that fighting took about a week. this time, so far, we are 14 days into it in gaza. and the u.s. and the u.n. plan right now, secretary of state john kerry got caught on tape saying he wanted to go back to start negotiating that last night. right? but this morning, he was on his way. his firstest of a cease-fire a few days ago didn't take. now they try again. and if this next effort of a cease-fire doesn't work, then they try again, again. and then they try again, again, again. because there's only one way out of this. you just keep trying.

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in 1897, the "cincinnati inquirer" had to use teeny, teeny, teeny, tiny font. possibly 6-point font maybe. to try to get all the news on to the page. the type is so small you practically need a magnifying glass in order to read the "cincinnati enquirer." the newspaper at the time covered everything, from a shooting at a local church, to sick kittens feared to be spreading disease. to the type of rope to be used in an upcoming double hanging. "the ropes have been completed and delivered over to sheriff plummer. each rope is 23 feet in length. they were made by frank vonderheide, main street cordage dealer, and most of the work was done by mr. vonderheide himself. made of silver finished sewing

twine and four strands of 110 threads each, the two ropes were specifically ordered to individual specifications and marked one with a red thread and other with a black thread to the sheriff could tell them apart for the double hanging on execution day. each rope was put on display for public inspection in the week before the execution. something that was not uncommon when death by hanging was the predominant method that states used to kill prisoners. often, the ropes were even handed over to the public after the execution. in the 20-plus years that the state of arizona executed people by hanging them, 28 people were put to death that way and all 28 of those ropes, all 28 of the actual nooses can be found on display in a local museum in florence, arizona, including the rope used to execute a woman named eva dugan, the last hanging done in the state of arizona because of how awful it was. because twhen, in her case, the rope snapped, her head was severed from her body. five of the witnesses present for that hanging fainted at the

sight. it was that terrible excuse in 1930, the one where the woman's head came off, that made arizona switch over to using the gas chamber to kill people instead of hanging. and while the execution method changed, policy of keeping the public informed about the process did not change. it was a matter of publish record that arizona purchased its gas chamber from something called the eaton metal products company, the holder of the patent on the death machine. the method states have used to kill people have long been a matter of public record. down to the very, very granular detail. until recently. the last couple of years, the states have had a harder and harder time getting their hands on the drugs they want to use in lethal injection procedures. lots of state legislatures have passed laws to make secret the sources of the drugs they're getting to kill people. making it secret, though, chafes against this long historical precedent of openness around the methods of state executions. that long precedent and that

long public history. we've always done it in a way that people were allowed to know what was happening, what means were being used. now states have tried to stop that. and that has just led to a really big deal federal court ruling. in terms of the federal court system, there's the supreme court at the top, obviously, right? one level below that are the federal appeals courts. and their numbered circuits. this weekend at the 9th circuit court, that court one level below the supreme court, day blocked an execution due to take place the day after tomorrow in arizona. they said if the state of arizona won't disclose the manufacturers of the drugs it's planning to use in this lethal injection and if it won't disclose the med al training of the people they're going it use for the execution team, the 9th circuit says that execution cannot go forward. it's an interesting dilemma for arizona right now on a very short-term basis because they've got an execution warrant for this guy for wednesday. and the state now has a choice to make.

if the state of arizona decides to disclose that information about the drugs and about the execution team, they will be allowed to kill this prisoner on wednesday. what the court gave them is just a temporary injunction and the court says, this temporary injunction blocking the execution, it will expire if the state discloses that information. if the state discloses that info, the execution can go ahead as planned, but if the state does not disclose that information, the state will not be allowed to kill this prisoner on wednesday. state of arizona appealed back to the 9th circuit today. the 9th circuit said no. now the matter heads to the supreme court of the united states. big picture here? relatively speaking, there has not been all that much debate about it. but the system of our death penalty in this country, not the rightness or wrongness of capital punishment and deterrent value and all the ideological values, but literally the logistical system of the death penalty in our country is fall

apart. the process of lethal injection as a means of killing prisoners is becoming untenable, practical and legally. it's a mess. this is all happening right now all of a sudden on a very short timeframe. joini uing us, senior reporter the "arizona republic." thank you very much for being here. am i right in saying the state of arizona, the ball's in their court in two ways. they have the option to appeal to the supreme court, but they also could go ahead with this execution if they disclose this information? >> yes. but the issue of secrecy has been ongoing here. since about 2010 when the drugs that they were using started to run out. from 1977 when lethal injection was invented, until 2010, they always used the same drug and it was available. but it was an antiquated drug and it ran out. what they did at that time was bypass dea and fda regulations and were purchasing the drug in

england. when that was reported, it stopped that flow of the drugs and it started raising these issues of where are they coming from? they switched to drugs. the drug companies, manufacturers have refused to sell to departments of corrections and that's where we are today. now, the issue here is also has to do with this drug, bedazolam, which was involved in two recent executions that were quite flawed. one in ohio, where the person being executed showed signs of respiratory distress. and the other in oklahoma. and so both of these come play here. the -- arizona is planning on using the same protocol basically as ohio used. okay? so that's where they're trying to find out where the drugs come from. the oklahoma situation, or the

qualifications for the medical personnel kind of comes out of the oklahoma situation because they used the procedure by which they do a central line. that is they insert a catheter in the femoral artery, and in oklahoma, they went right through the vein, so the drugs weren't delivered actually into the bloodstream. well, that's a method that's frequently used here in arizona. so if it's not done correctly. so those are the two issues. so the state's argument is that if we tell you everything, then these trdrugs will increasingly become unavailable and we won't be able to carry out executions. and the defense's argument is we have a right to know what they are, where they're coming from, you shouldn't be experimenting with people being executed. >> mr. kiefer, i know you and the "arizona republic" reported on arizona effectively illegally importing its lethal injection drugs from england, as you

mentioned in the past. is there any reported known truth in arizona as to where arizona got these drugs? i mean, if they've illegally brought them from abroad in the past, is there a suspicion that these drugs may be from a similar source? is there anybody in the state who's willing to talk about even not for attribution, anybody talking about where the drugs are from? is there a reason to be suspicious? >> i'm not sure there is really. i think that problem has stopped, but it goes more to the question of if every manufacturer is questioned, more and more manufacturers and distributors will be hesitant to provide these drugs. the other issue is are they being made, are they being come pou pounded? made from two orders. a doctor writes a prescription to execute someone, but then there are questions as to what's the quality control on that? >> michael kiefer, senior reporter for the "arizona

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who honestly probably has a better chance of actually being president some day than rick perry ever does. governor deval patrick of massachusetts has taken rather the opposite approach to opposite approach when it comes to dealing with the practicalties of this matter. waving his national guard wand and nobody really knows why. but tens of thousands of those kids and young families are already here in this country in federal custody. and the federal government does have to figure out how and where to hold those folks while they are being processed before the vast majority of them will get sent home. and on friday, governor duvall patrick decided that massachusetts, his state, would volunteer to find sites in the state where as many as 1,000 kids might find shelter. and that is a notable policy decision for duvall patrick and that is a newsworthy contrast with governor magic wand in texas. but i raise the issue of this also because of this tape. because of the way that duvall patrick made his announcement. it was intense, it was an

emotional thing. watch this. >> i believe that we will one day have to answer for our actions. . . and our inactions. my faith teaches that if a stranger dwells with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him, but rather love him as yourself for you were strangers in the land of egypt. we are admonished to take in the stranger for inas much as you did it to one of the least of these, christ tells us, you did it to me. every major faith tradition on the planet charges its followers to treat others as we ourselves wish to be treated. i don't know what good there is in faith if we can't and won't turn to it in moments of human need. >> there are going to be a lot

of critics, obviously, of your decision here. how do you respond to the criticism that while you are running for reelection. you're not running for the election, so therefore you're a different position? >> this isn't a political decision. [ cheers and applause ] maybe -- maybe -- maybe it's best to leave it at that. thank you, everybody. >> governor deval patrick of massachusetts announcing that his state will help, will find safe shelter for kids who are

here without their parents. and americans who hold the opposite view to that, who think it is a travesty to shelter those kids, those folks had a plan to make themselves heard in a massive way this weekend. and if you didn't hear them making themselves heard in a massive way this weekend, it's not your fault, it's their fault, it turns out. and that weird story is straight ahead. please stay with us. vo: this is the summer.

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>> there's a bus, hopefully it's just -- >> this is ymca. >> they're going to freak these kids out. >> those arizona protesters did not intend to freak out american kids on their way to ymca summer camp last week. what they were there to do was to scare undocumented unaccompanied central american kids who were on their way to safe shelter. these kind of protests is not the face america likes to show to the world or to each other. it's not give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, learning to breathe free, but not those kids without their parents. but there have been a rash of these screw you, you immigrant children protests all around the country. and this past friday and saturday, the antiimmigrant groups decided they were going to go large, they said it was going to be their national days of protest. they called it make them listen.

in more than 300 locations around the country. so friday and saturday were the days to make them listen. it just happened. how did it go? the friday protests were cozy, maybe is the word. quite a few of the scheduled demonstrations occurred but mostly could have been held in a compact sedan or possibly a minivan. in many cases, demonstrators uploaded pictures standing in intersections and overpasses on the sides of highways with signs, and just like the website suggested should happen and even in the places they didn't happen even though they said they would. they said if you do not see anyone, please start the protest on your own. be the protest you wish to see. friday was a bit of a bust. didn't really happen the way they said it was going to. they put the word out, if you show up and nobody's there, start the protest yourself. that was friday. how did saturday's protests go?

well, hey, that's not bad, actually. oh, no, sorry. that's not a make them listen anti-immigrant protest, that's the gathering in the former president of the supermarket chain outside of boston. this is what a supermarket protest looks like. this is what the make them listen/keep the immigrant kids out protest looked like on saturday. very small. sad trombone, music for when you do not win on the "price is right." do we still have it? ♪ despite the grossly underwelming energy of the make them listen protest effort, there did emerge a sort of interesting pattern out there in the more than 300 planned protest sites around the country on friday and saturday. at many of the locations, counterprotests broke out. these were not national days of action for immigration reform advocates. but in lots of locations where they plan to have big anti-immigrant rallies, not many anti-immigrant folks showed up.

and what they did get were pro demonstrators showing up in numbers equal to or greater than the antis that called the protest in the first place. lots of antiprotest locations, just not necessarily lots of anti-immigrant protesters. our country did not rise up and make them listen, whoever it is they wanted to listen to their anti-immigrant message. that said, tomorrow's another day. and the group called the make them listen protests that fizzled on friday and saturday say they're setting up a string of another set of protests two weeks from now. maybe they'll get better crowds. maybe not. now, it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> the month of the beard on tv has come to an end. here's the thing, i'm in washington for a couple of days. and you know, i always -- in washington, i always feel more comfortable looking like a senator. or --