ahhh! what is it? there are no marshmallows in this box of lucky charms! huh... weird... seriously? what? they're magically delicious this week offers an unusual three-day primary combo. kansas on tuesday, tennessee thursday, hawaii saturday. three senate races that still make some folks nervous. a sitting governor could go down, multiple house guys. it's a busy week. then there's the kentucky clash, mitch mcconnell and alison grimes faced off to kick off a ton of august action on the campaign trail. much more on what a little church picnic has turned into in kentucky.

plus, an inability to agree on helping people in disability. former senate leader bob dole on the dysfunction that's driving that debate nowhere on capitol hill. that's part one of my exclusive sitdown with the long-time republican leader. good morning from washington. it's monday, august 4th, 2014. this is" the daily rundown." also coming up, the latest in the middle east and how africa's ebola outbreak is impacting a summit here in d.c. this week. let me get right to my first reads of the morning. we are the 2014 campaign headquarters so we'll start there. the sprint to november used to start the day after labor day. that's not true anymore. august is the new september for a number of reasons. one, a history of both parties underestimating the importance of august to set general election narratives whether this presidential years or midterms, but a second bigger reason. the amount of money available to spend. there's still only 24 hours in a day and as tv ad time is bought up in september and october, there's more money available so why not back up the spending

even more. welcome to the new normal and the backdrop to the start of this new august is ugly. members of congress have shifted their focus from washington back to the campaign trail where the next five weeks will solidify the political terrain they'll competing on this fall. candidates still have to survive a series of primaries and august is now jam packed. this week's contests are some of the most competitive yet. they feature an unusual tuesday, thursday, saturday primary combo. it's like when the nfl decided playing games on sunday wasn't enough so they added more days of the week and it's quite a week where we could see a slew of income bebumbents struggle. a sitting governor could lose a primary and even a handful of house members on the brink. so far republican incumbents have emerged from senate primaries pretty much unscathed. this week two final senators get tea party tests. tomorrow it's kansas republicans. they'll decide whether senator pat roberts deserves a fourth

term. he's running against radiologist, milton wolf, who also happens to be president obama's second cousin. underdog milton wolf is so eager to debate roberts he confronted him on the street last week at a campaign stop. >> tell cans anz you've given your word you'd give a debate. you tell us that you're tough and tested and trusted. i want you to keep your word. i want you to debate. >> milton, milton, milton, milton, this is not the time. we have a regular scheduled event, tour event. >> when would be the time? >> this is not the appropriate time or place. >> when would be the appropriate time? i'll go anywhere you'd like. you've given your word to debate. let's just debate. >> those uncomfortable confrontation moments. any way, missouri, michigan and washington also have primaries. michigan has a couple of incumbents that could go down. on thursday it looks like lamar alexander is poised to feet his

foe, joe carr. his campaign released a poll that showed him ahead of carr. ask eric cantor how he feels about internal polling. turnout is up. more than 560,000 votes have already been cast in early voting in tennessee. that's a state record for this august primary. the two candidates talked to the tennesseean about who they voted for. >> alexander has been a few that's perhaps not as a volunteer but a resident of d.c. and kind of a ruling elite. >> i'm not a big joe carr fan. i think the sign down there in that window is one of the most disgusting things i've ever seen because lamar alexander has done great things for this state. i don't think you go after him like that. >> the other good news for alexander, there are eight republicans taking him on. they're likely to divide this anti-alexander vote and, guess

what, he probably ends up winning by double digits simply because of that. then of course there's an even more unusual primary contest on saturday in hawaii. they may be running under the radar, but two statewide primaries are the best democratic matchups of the cycle. shatz was picked to fill the seat. hawaii is notoriously difficult to poll but a recent survey had schatz up high single digits. democratic outside groups are divided. president obama, he's a schatz guys too, in part because of the controversy over his senate pick, governthe governor faces e

himself. in alaska four republicans led by former attorney general dan sullivan compete to take on the democratic senator there. the following week what was once a sleepy arizona primary to replace jan brewer is now red-hot thanks to the immigration issue. florida was supposed to be holding its primary on the 26th but last week a florida judge asked the state legislature to redraw its state congressional map after tossing out that map two weeks ago, arguing that the republican-controlled legislature in 2012 had made a mockery of the redistricting process and it singled out district 5, held by corin brown and district 10 represented by dan webster. could florida's house elections be postponed until after november 4th it's a big possibility. primaries may not be over but the general election is well under way. though americans agree congress hasn't done much this year, according to a new nbc news/marist poll 74% of voters

call this congress unproductive. voters are divided on how to fix the problem. they give republicans a slight edge on who they want to see control the house and control the senate. now over the weekend, it was a tiny town in western kentucky who got to play host to the campaign kickoff and it may be the biggest campaign in the country as republican senator mitch mcconnell and his democratic foe, alison grimes, faced off at the fancy farm, a church picnic but it's not rev rent these days. rand paul launches a ten-stop tour of iowa today. he did spend time in his home state over the weekend and he was there to be a mcconnell attack dog, mocking grimes in verse. >> liberals she whispers "coal makes you sick." in kentucky, she claims coal makes us tick. to the liberals she sells her soul, the same ones who hate kentucky coal. >> mcconnell and grimes had plenty of red meat for the crowd

as well. mcconnell tried to nationalize this race, focusing on the president's war on coal and attacking grimes' inexperience. grimes did her best to make 8 referendum on mcconnell and washington. >> what a huge crowd for senator mcconnell's retirement party. the barbecue smells so good, even jesse benton stopped holding his nose. >> for obama and his liberal buddies in the media, coming to kentucky is like foreign travel. these guys can't tell the difference between a coal miner and a european male model. >> if mitch mcconnell were a tv show, he'd be "mad men," treating women unfairly, stuck in 1968 and ending this season. >> so much turmoil around the world, we can't afford a leader who thinks the west bank is a hollywood fund-raiser. >> there were a lot of those

groan type jokes there. that's what fancy farm is these days. wednesday, former president bill clinton will campaign for grimes in eastern kentucky. joining me now for this kickoff week of the general election, msnbc contributor chris cizzilla, susan page and perry bacon, who spent the weekend in his home state of kentucky at fancy farm. so quickly, perry, let's talk about fancy farm. it is, let's see, sam youngman called it heehaw meets the gong show. i thought that was a great line. heehaw was one of my favorite shows. there's a little bit of your mama joke stand off that comes across. this is not high-minded debate. >> this is not at all high-minded. you had this tiny town, 5,000 people from all over the state come to this event. no one goes to this town otherwise. fancy farm is a small town in kentucky. and yet you had this moment where there's lots of insults. everybody has only five minutes to speak essentially.

it has to be an insult pretty much. the goal was mcconnell and grimes attacking each other. i thought paul's poem was the more deliver to describe grimes. that was one part people were listening and not booing because they were curious where this was going. >> you know, the real face-off that i'm waiting for, susan, if it happens is when these two debate. you feel as if it actually is going to matter in this race. he, mcconnell, is desperate to debate her. thinks he can make this an experience argument stick, make her do what she did last week when she sort of con flated iron dome and destroying tunnels which doesn't make military sense in israel. they're looking for that moment. >> iron dome probably not the issue that will determine the kentucky race. >> no. but you do feel like a gaffe will. >> but look how good she looked. she looked tough.

if she performs like that in a debate, i'm not sure the experience argument sticks. he looked kind of uncomfortable. i mean he's a masterful washington insider. what deals has he made in town. but he is not a great performer on stage. >> and this is not his event. >> this is his worst. i think he'd be -- first of all, i think he's 72 versus 35 shows a little bit. she had more energy. second of all, he has to hope that in a more formal debate setting, because mitch mcconnell -- it's not like this is a revelation. mitch mcconnell, if you check off the things that make a really great candidate, charisma, he's just not there. he's a really good fund-raiser, as susan pointed out he makes great deals. he's basically a campaign manager who became a senator. she is more of a natural sort of candidate. the question is in a formal debate setting could he point out that age gap to his benefit. >> let's move to the week here a little bit. we've got a busy primary week to

set the stage. kansas, where, perry, i'm almost thinking are we going to wish we spent more time in kansas? do we think something is popping here? i know that there is this nervousness in the republican super pac world that if one of these goes bad left, it's this one. >> i do think that's right. if you look at mississippi, we covered a lot. kentucky was close. this feels that roberts, the fact that he doesn't live in the state, that's the one risk that i think he's not done a great job of campaigning. being challenged on camera -- >> he was ready for his moment. >> there was a moment people saw it. i think that could make a difference. ultimately we can't tell because the polls have been so bad all season. i can't tell if he's going to lose, you just can't tell, but it's going to be a close race. >> and of course the kansas republican party is so divided right now. the governor has divided that party. does that have an impact, does that end up oddly helping

roberts? you know, there's all sorts of variables in this state that's a little bit different even from all the other primary challenges. >> i think it does help roberts because i think there are republicans that are pretty conservative. there are not a lot of liberal republicans in kansas but who have been put off by brownback. but if roberts wins this despite the campaign he's running -- you know what, he should debate. why should you be in a competitive senate race and refuse to debate. that's hard to defend. >> we talked about mcconnell's campaign skills being questionable. pat roberts, one of the underrated debaters, used to be a staple on sunday shows. >> why not debate? >> he's quick on his feet. when we talk about a guy who's run a bad race. a guy that's run a good race, lamar. he's taking advantage of a crowded field. >> i remember probably 18 months ago now but i was on with you and we were talking about lindsey graham and lamar.

that on paper, right -- >> they should be the most vulnerable. >> they seem more on trouble on their record as roberts. as susan pointed out, a moderate republican in kansas is not like a moderate republican in connecticut. their records -- >> the cardinal sin. >> their records in the senate, and lamar by nature is not a tea party republican. he has done really good job. i think he's benefited -- you mentioned in the open, eight other people running against him. lindsey benefited from the same thing, very fractured, not a coalesce ens around one guy. i think lamar deserves credit. we ran him as the guy who ran unsuccessfully for president twice. i remember going down to kentucky when he was first running for the senate. he's a legendary figure in the state and a talented politician. >> howard baker started the republican renaissance. lamar grew it. very quickly, august being the new september.

mostly because of money. i mean it really is, because of the saturation of money and both parties being very defensive. i guess the one issue you wonder how it's going to play in the month is immigration. >> in kentucky it didn't play out very much. so i think we're in a place the issue will be congress isn't doing anything. grimes is trying to push hard on the mcconnell is in charge of the congress that's dysfunctional. >> susan, what are you looking for in august? august is this where you lose campaigns, not where you win it. >> it's true. we're still looking to see if there's a wave that develops. you know, it's going to be a good republican year. is it going to be a great republican year? so far it doesn't look like it, in part because republicans are failing to deliver on some of the things that might give themselves some momentum. >> obama's numbers. it's a thing we know. presidential approval influences the party. if they go lower, it's going to

be real trouble. >> thank you much. up next, the clock is ticking. here we go again, another cease-fire that seems to have expired already. we'll see. we'll have more in a few minutes, whether or not it was enforced is still up for debate. another u.n. school in gaza comes under fire. we'll have new details ahead. first a look at the politics planner. a summit with african leaders starts in washington this morning. the president will spend more time on it tomorrow but there's also been this fear about an ebola outbreak and whether that's somehow tied as people are coming over from some parts of africa where this ebola outbreak has taken place. later this hour, i'll speak with the top dog on diseases at the national institute of health and find out if we're overhyping things a bit. you're watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc.

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well, we're approach get end of a limited humanitarian cease-fire in the middle east. israel declared the seven-hour cease-fire late yesterday. it's set to expire in about 40 minutes, but it hasn't exactly been quiet in the region. this morning in jerusalem someone driving a construction vehicle rammed an israeli bus. the bus was empty, but police are calling it a terror attack. meanwhile israel is still exploding suspected hamas tunnels. israel says it will continue to act until it restores security to its citizens. israel is under growing pressure internationally, including now from washington after ten people were killed when israel shelled near a u.n. school that was housing 3,000 palestinians that were seeking shelter. the state department condemned that attack saying this, quote. the united states is appalled by the disgraceful shelling. strong language these days from

the u.s., but that's a far different message than the president delivered friday. >> on the one hand, israel has a right to defend itself and it's got to be able to get at those rockets and those tunnel networks. >> joining me on the phone from gaza, nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel. richard, last night you were reporting that you saw the troop movements. it looked like israel was preparing to halt its movements in gaza, start pulling back. that it maybe was sending a signal they're almost done with destroying these tunnels. what do you see today? >> reporter: well, i just got back from -- the reason i'm on the phone is we're still out reporting. i just got back from an area right on the edge of the gaza strip where israeli tanks had been and where israeli soldiers had been positioned in apartment buildings setting up sniper positions, watch positions, and those troops are now gone. they have pulled out of there.

we could see the kbrien crete a -- broken concrete and the tank marks where the tanks had clearly been driving and the tanks had pulled back. generally they have pulled back from most places in the central and northern gaza strip. however, israeli troops are still inside southern gaza, still conducting close security missions in the southern parts of the gaza strip. and this cease-fire that was supposed to be happening for seven hours, this humanitarian cease-fire, was i think you could say very mixed success. there was still some fighting, still rockets falling, still some strikes coming in. not a full-on war but i think we were probably at a 60% level. the question now is what will happen next. if israel pulls back and pulls its troops away from the gaza strip, israel says it will continue its drone campaign and

artillery campaign from a distance against hamas militants, hamas weapons and hamas says it's going to keep firing. so this could go on for a long time, even if you don't have israeli tanks parked inside gaza -- the gaza strip. >> all right, richard engel reporting right from the scene right now in the midst of it all. richard, thank you very much. joining me now from jerusalem is christopher gunness, spokesperson for the united nations relief and works agency. he joins me now. i want to start with, can you walk me through exactly how you inform the israeli defense ministry of the various u.n. schools that are being used as shelters right now. what are the procedures that you go through, how often do you let them know areas that you're asking them to stay away from? >> well, if i may, we have notified the israeli authorities before this conflict of the

exact gps coordinants of every single one of our installations. not just the schools, but our health clinics, our microfinance offices, everything, because we do a full range of humanitarian activities. so that is a given. they knew the exact coordinants before the fighting. once the fighting started and where we are able to notify them which is in most cases because we have staff working these schools, we literally pick up the phone. we pick up the phone and we say we have 3,000 people in this compound. it's a school. it's clearly marked with a blue u.n. flag. and the fighting is getting closer. we politely request that you get the fighting away from here because civilian life is endangered. that's literally how the conversation goes. and in the case of rafah at 10:45, this shell, missile, whatever it was hit just outside the main gate. the last conversation was precisely one hour before that

shell landed, which is why we say we'd like an investigation, please, and we'd like it to be a fair investigation and we'd like it to establish the truth. >> and who should conduct that investigation? as you know, the distrust frankly that everybody has with each other these days, who should be conducting that investigation? >> well, todd, the distrust you refer to is something which others can make their own assessment of. israel, i'm pleased to say is a member of the international club and the way it works is that when something like this has happened, the state party in the initial instance will make the investigation, which is why we say let us see that investigation. the state department last night threw its weight also in the latter part of that statement which you began to read, threw its weight behind an

investigation. let's not prejudge what israel is going to do. let us assume that israel is going to act in good faith. israel, i'm sure, wants to clear its name. it's in the interests of all, including israel, to have the facts out there. we have said that there should be accountability and a sense of responsibility and i'm sure those are feelings which are shared by the state of israel. but let's also, if we may for a moment, focus on the victims. because if you've ever, and i'm sure you have, todd, interviewed victims of these sorts of incidents, the road to recovery is a very long one and the first baby step on that long road to recovery is knowing the truth. you know, if one of your relatives is killed in this way, all you want to know in the first instance as part of your profound grief and indig nation will be what on earth happened and we owe it to the victims. let's put the victims at the center of it. we owe it to the common humanity on both sides of the confrontation line here, whether it's civilians or whether it's inside gaza, the truth is always

the starting point. >> let me ask you, tell me how you -- what do you do to try to limit hamas from using these schools, from using these refugee facilities as shields? >> well, let me tell you that when we discovered on three occasions during the course of this conflict that militant groups had hidden weapons in our schools, now, to be clear these were schools that had been moth balled and shut up for the summer, they weren't schools that were in use. as soon as we found them in the course of our own regular inspections, we notified all the relevant parties immediately and we issued a statement strongly condemning this group or groups who left them there as a flagrant violation of our neutrality. so point number one, publicity, advocacy. we hope that we will shame these groups that are endangering civilian life and compromising the neutrality of the united

nations. but, todd, let's be clear about this. we are an unarmed humanitarian organization. so anyone who sort of expected us to have a firefight with a militant organization, we weren't even there, by the way, or anyone on the other side who expected us to pick up these rockets, chuck them in the back of a pickup, drive across the battlefield over the confrontation line and hand them over to the israeli army, clearly that is not to understand the position a neutral humanitarian organization is in. we have our neutrality. it's the family silver. that's why we guard it so jealously. >> mr. gunness, christopher gunness there who is heading up the effort of the united nations relief fund there, thanks for joining me. let me bring in former ambassador to israel, martin indick who just resigned. he's now vice president of foreign policy at brookings. ambassador, let me start with -- it seems as if -- let's go to the politics of the diplomacy

here. the netanyahu government almost appears to be looking for distance from john kerry and the u.s. government here, almost not wanting the u.s. to play its traditional role of mediator when these conflicts rise up. >> well, i think after the last cease-fire broke down, there was a decision by the israeli cabinet not to negotiate but to act unilaterally. so there's no cease-fire negotiation going on with israel. the egyptians are talking to the various palestinian factions and maybe they can come up with something, lay the groundwork for a new cease-fire, and maybe not at the moment. prime minister netanyahu wants to basically just establish a kind of de facto calm for calm situation. i doubt that that will work, and i think both sides will have to find a cease-fire. but at the moment that's not

what's at play. >> it appears he has two goals. you tell me. militarily, it's being able to say the hamas tunnels are destroyed, period. end point. and that that is a potential way for him to start retreating. but the second, he seems to think he can split abbas from hamas. i'm speaking of mahmoud abbas, president of the palestinian authority there in the west bank. do you think that's possible? >> i wouldn't put it that way. what i think is possible and necessary is for abbas as you call him, the leader of the palestinian authority and head of the plo, to take responsibility in gaza. and it's important to bear in mind that before this war broke out, hamas and abbas' party joined in a reconciliation pact that led to the establishment of a palestinian authority

government that was supposed to take responsibility in gaza. the hamas ministers in gaza resigned for that purpose. so within palestinian politics, legitimacy exists for him to take control in gaza. that's a very necessary thing to get behind, to have the humanitarian assistance and reconstruction go through the palestinian authority, do have the palestinian authority take control of the passages and hopefully over time to be able to establish its control there. >> all right. martin indyk, now at brookings, i appreciate your perspective. thank you very much. before the break, today's quick tdr 50 trivia question. we're going to be in tennessee this week so all of our trivia questions will be tennessee focused. former presidents have called tennessee their home state, how many of them? there are three. name the three. the first person to tweet the correct answer will get the on-air shoutout. the answer and more is coming up on tdr. (male announcer) it's happening.

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today nigerian authorities confirm the country's second case of ebola. the news comes as it is overshadowing a washington summit here in washington today. 50 leaders began arriving in the capital. noticeably missing is the presidents of liberia and sierra leone. both are staying home to deal with the ebola epidemic in their nations. before the leaders arrive, president obama said the u.s. government is taking extra measures to screen people coming into our country from potential areas of concern. that includes more than 300 peace corps volunteers who were just evacuated from the affected nations this weekend. meanwhile there are encouraging signs of improvement for dr. kent brantly, one of the two americans who contracted the disease while in liberia. he received an experimental serum before he was flown to the u.s. for treatment. according to the a.i.d. organization he works with, it may be working.

brantly the first known case to be treated in the united states, is in a special isolation unit at emory university hospital in atlanta. nbc news confirms nancy writebol, another infected aid worker, will arrive there for treatment tomorrow morning. less encouraging are the latest numbers from the world health organization which now shows there are 1440 cases and 826 deaths in the worst ebola outbreak in history. as for now, the fatality rate of the current outbreak is said to be 57%. but in the three decades since ebola first appeared, the fatality rate has actually been up to 90%. joining me now is dr. anthony focci, director of allergy and infectious diseases. doctor, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> i want to ask you specifically about -- you sort of -- you already see a low level panic among some americans, maybe it's on social media, maybe it's in other places. can you explain in a very sort of easy to understand, how hard

it is to contract ebola here in the united states? >> it is difficult to contract. if you have the proper isolation capabilities and the people who take care of these individuals have the proper personal protective equipment, the virus does not spread. what the problem is, is that people see reports in the news on tv of the catastrophic situation that's going on in the countries in west africa, and that's because of a very, very dysfunctional in fact health care system. a lot of panic, not the proper capabilities and equipment. so that kind of spread just does not happen in a society in which you have a health care infrastructure where you can actually handle them. that's the reason why the people at emory feel very comfortable that taking care of dr. brantly down there is not a risk. >> we heard the president on friday saying extra screening measures are being put into place. we know peace corps volunteers -- what is that screening measure? can you demystify that for us?

>> sure, it's very, very simple. first of all, this disease, when it does occur, usually starts with a fever and people feel achy and headache and then they go into the more catastrophic expression of the disease. so if a person is going to get on a plane to come over here, someone who, for example, a peace corps volunteer or someone of a similar type of a person, then you would screen them to see, a, do they have a fever, do they have any symptoms, do they feel well. when they get here, perhaps on the plane they may start to feel a problem before they can get off the plane and go into general society you want to screen them and ask them the same thing. are they ill, do they have a fever, do they feel nauseated? those are the kind of very simple screening things that you do when you're dealing with a situation like this. >> and if you're riding on a plane with somebody who's feeling these symptoms, explain again, it's almost impossible to contract the disease if that person is carrying it, correct? >> indeed. you are absolutely correct,

chuck. you have to have direct contact with bodily fluids. when i say bodily fluids, i mean blood, vomit, vomit, kdiarrhea, fee ses. being on the plane with somebody, being in a physical space with someone does not put you at risk. >> do you take any comfort in the fact that the fatality rate of the outbreak is less than out%. it's down to 57%. what does it tell you? does it tell you that the treatments, the identification process going on is better overall in the world community? >> first of all, the strand of ebola is the most serious that we're dealing with in west africa right now. one of the things that markedly impacts the fatality rate when you get somebody in and replace fluids. a lot of them lose fluid with diarrhea and veterans hospital

i -- vomiting. treat them for any secondary infections. get their fever down and take care of any organ systems you can dramatically decrease the mortality, which is going on with the people being treated there now. as desperate as the situation, getting someone into care and intervenous fluids is important. >> these two american aid workers being brought to emery, they pose zero risk to the u.s. population, correct? >> certainly. no one likes to use zero but it's small. >> i understand. i wanted to get it out there. i know, the coverage makes it seem as if it's coming like it's a bad horror movie. that is not the case, correct? >> it is not the case, chuck. you are absolutely correct. thank you for coming on this morning. and clearing that up. we appreciate it. trivia time. president andrew jackson andrew

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look at browne's strict. look how many district it is touches. when you change two you change more than two. there's a lot of neighboring district juice to touch. there's a ton of districts that will be impacted. if the state legislature is unable to draw the map by an august 15th map, it's likely the primary will get delayed and the general elections in november, those could be punted past november 4 th. they are asking the changes be postponed. democrats could pick up seats in the state that's a more likely possibility. republicans currently have a seven seat advantage. florida could end up joini inin last and georgia where run off elections are slated for december 6, and january 6. leaving us with the december to remember. florida, georgia, louisiana.

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