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afghan military. according to u.s. military officials and dod officials, that's what happened here today. at camp carga in kabul. military training facility that was established by the british. now, there was some kind of event or two that are ongoing that involved u.s. military officials when suddenly a lone gunman opened fire, shooting and wounding at least a dozen, mostly americans. we heard some german soldiers may also have been wounded. we're told as many as three have been killed. don't know if they were americans or germans. in fact, dod officials have asked nbc news not to identify at least one of the victims because next of kin has not been notified. according to a senior dod official here, this one is really bad, chuck. >> and this being kabul, this is supposed to be -- there's

nothing that's incredibly safe in afghanistan but kabul is supposed to be among the most secure. >> well, you know, kabul is one of the best fortified cities in afghanistan actually. even the taliban, when they launch their attacks, they make a big splash in the headlines, but have little lasting effect on any operations there in the k a. bul vicinity. but in this case, there's just no telling when one of those who you assume to be an ally is suddenly going to open fire on american forces. and that's what happened here today. an investigation under way. and, by the way, the wounds in this shooting are considered so serious that the death toll of three approximate now is only sxeblted to rise, chuck. >> we're getting information. it's coming in fast. as we have more, we're coming back to you. thank you very much. let's turn to my first reads of the morning. and we begin. it's tuesday. it's a primary day.

2014's most unlikely battleground state. that's where voting is taking place today. it's kansas. and outside of lyndon johnson, kansans haven't voted for a democratic president. why is the governor's race a toss-up and why do they even have a chance in one of the reddest states in the country? in other words, what's the matter with kansas? polls are open in the sunflower state where governor sam brownback is in for the political fight of his life. he is not worried about a republican challenger today who has a minimal campaign and shoestring budget. he is much more worried about the fall. his race against democratic state house minority leader pal davis is now a pure toss-up. what's happening is a reminder that no matter how red or blue states become do have some form

of a backlash moment at least once a decade. brownback pushed through the largest income tax cut in state history, cut thousands of government jobs. kansas revenue plunged. moody's downgraded the state's ra rating. and then he targeted more moderate republican lawmakers in primaries who weren't supportive of his agenda. the fbi has investigated the fund-raising and lobby activities of some of his closest advisers. all that have has divided the republican party in this state. last month more than 100 republicans publicly backed brownback's democratic opponent, paul davis. >> this is an unprecedented, the state has clearly gone in the wrong direction under governor brownback and i have to quote

your record of being able to bring people together. >> brownback told me last month he does not want a do-over when it comes to his big tax cut bill. >> any regrets on your plan, the size of it, the scope? any regrets at all? >> i don't have any regrets. it's really stimulated investment. it's stimulated people coming into the state. we've got a record number of new businesses. we've got a record number of people working in the state of kansas. >> one thing brownback does regret is when he referred to his plans as a, quote, real-live experiment on "morning joe" a few years ago. he does say he wish he could take that back saying, quote, i don't consider this being an experiment. so many people on the left really want this to fail. this is a long-term strategy to mac us more competitive. by the way, mr. davis, likely democratic nominee, will be on the show tomorrow. kansas is a conservative state. it's not as conservative as some of its conservative leaders want to make it these days. that may be milton wolf's

problem as well. looking like the tea party's last real chance if they want to knock off a senate incumbent this cycle. mitch mcconnell, lindsey graham, thad cochran and they have failed. whether pat roberts deserves a third term, rung against milton wolf, the president's third cousin. if republicans pick wolf, they'll lose the seat in the fal fall. >> quite frankly, i think my opponent cannot be elected in the general election and so a vote for wolf basically would be a vote for to send democrat to congress in the senate and back harry reid and back obama. >> he wasn't really living in the home he owns in dodge city but was renting a

$300-a-month-room to maintain the state. i have full access to the recliner. unsurprisi unsurprisingly, that recliner has shown up in wolf ads. >> he moved to washington 47 years ago. here in kansas he rents a lazyboy recliner at a donor's house on a golf course. roberts only visits -- >> every time i get an opponent. >> that last sound bite is from roberts, who slipped up in a radio interview saying this, every time i get an opponent -- every time i get a chance, i come home. >> he addressed the residency issue again yesterday calling the whole thing ridiculous. >> i am a resident. i am a homeowner. i pay tacks in kansas. and have spent my life serving the people of kansas. so to be accused of spending too much time in washington by the very people that want to take my place is the height of absurdity. you can't fight for kansas values on the national stage from behind a microphone. you've got to go where the fight

is. >> roberts' residency problem might have been a campaign-ending issue for him. just ask former indiana senator luger. the roberts campaign jumped on the fact that wolf failed to pay income taxes, and was issued a warning before finally paying off the bill the following year. he was working for his uncle's medical products company in texas and it didn't withhold taxes after whof mowolf moved t kansas. gunshot victims and other patients on his facebook page. >> wolf claims he cares about patients but he was caught posting gruesome private x-rays on facebook and making creepy statements about patients. he says he wants to stop barack obama but he actually praised obama. >> i want nothing more than to see barack succeed and i know he

will. >> he went on that interview to criticize the president's health care plan as dangerous for the country, by the way. you feel the desperation of the candidate who knows he may not have the name i.d. he confronted roberts at a campaign stop, trying to challenge him at a debate. a challenge he made again at his closing rally last night. >> if pat roberts could tell you his achievements after 47 years in washington, i think he would debate me. i think if pat roberts could name a single policy that he think ice have wrong, he would debate me. >> roberts responded to the confrontation on that radio show. >> marines are never surprised by any kind of ambush or attack. we just take the hill. i just told him it wasn't the kansas way. that was not the time or place. it was a chamber event and it's just a political stunt by a very

desperate campaign. >> whichever republican wins today is likely to take on democrat chad taylor. taylor hasn't raised that much money. but there's no doubt checks would start flowing in if somehow wolf won tonight because then there would be a competitive race. republican mike pompeo and former congressman todd tiahrt. looking more broadly, the problem for milton wolf. still the home of bob dole republicans, still the center of that state. nobody would mistake him for a moderate. i sat down with dole, who shared his reflections about how he

sees the politics of his home state these days, and has been traveling his home state all year long. >> you've been going through kansas, doing this tour. >> yeah. >> what's the response been? have you enjoyed it? >> i've had a lot of cookies. >> is that right? >> homemade oatmeal cookies and brownies and lemon bars. because i put in my release, my first release that i like oatmeal cookies and brownies. >> so, everybody's -- >> every place i go, they've got cookies and brownies. >> what have you learned about kansas today versus the kansas -- let's see the last time you ran for the senate -- >> '92. >> '92, yeah. what's different and what's the same is this. >> when you're out of politics, your numbers go up. >> there you go. >> people forget. oh, he's not a bad guy after all. >> is that something president obama ought to feel good about? eventually his numbers will go

up when he leaves office? >> i don't know. he's probably not too popular in kansas but he's a good person but just something missing there. i think it's leadership. but my trip around kansas, we have 105 counties. i've been in 63. >> i want to show the color-coded map. it's like you're on a campaign. you're going to hit them all, aren't you? >> going to hit them all. it will be october. i want to finish before the election so i don't get involved in all of that. >> what do you make of kansas politics these days? it's been a little more rambunctious than some of us thought it would be. >> yeah. i think we've got the governor's race, i think, governor brownback will win, but there's a lot of emphasis on that race. >> is there a lesson there for the national republicans, what's going on in kansas? do you think there is? >> we've got to be an inclusive party and we can't say, well, we don't need that group. we don't need that group.

pretty soon, there are no groups left. or very few left. not enough to be elected. >> basically infighting is how kathleen sebelius became governor. >> right. >> that could happen again if they're not careful. >> i try to stay out of the interparty fights. >> of course, you are. >> i'm too old for that and don't want to do it anyway. i'm honorary chairman for pat roberts and sam brownback and i think roberts will win with a pretty good margin. that's my guess. >> we'll be watching that one. >> you learn a lot traveling around the state. >> you felt like you could sense that he is -- this is more driven by bloggers and internet people here in washington, not what's going on in kansas? >> not seeing any ground swell because of his age or any other factor.

i think right now with the world in crisis and the country is sort of in turmoil, you kind of need a guy like pat roberts whose leadership has been tested. >> right. >> and he pretty well fits what kansas, i think, wants in a senator and so i think he's going to be -- >> who is funnier? people for pat roberts -- you're a funny guy. he's a funny guy. you both have these dry witts. >> he's much funnier. >> you think he's funnier than you? >> yeah. i don't try to compete with him. >> lighter note there. more on the kansas politics and mississippi runoff hasn't ended. ken cuccinelli will talk to us about both of those whanchts looks like a breakthrough cease fire this time and has israeli ground troops actually leaving the gaza strip. today's politics planner.

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many of the national populous groups know kansas could very well be their shot in unseating a republican senator. another of the group's candidates, chris mcdaniel, is now formally challenging the results, demanding that the state gop central committee declare him the winner.

is he not asking for a new election. mcdaniel alleges 15,000 ballots were by ineligible voters. mr. cuccinelli, good morning to you, sir. >> good morning, chuck. >> let's start with kansas today. it's been tough. you guys have tried to challenge incumbents and so far you've not had success. why do you think that is? >> in the senate, ralph hall in the house lost to john radcliff, one of our candidates but, you know, these are one race at a time. in previous years, we have had more success by this point in time with people like deb fisher, ted cruz, marco rubio, rand paul. however, this is a long haul. this isn't about one race or even one year.

the senate is never all up at once. we have to be in this for the long term. and we are. and all of our candidates are conservative underdogs. we accept that getting in. that's almost by definition who we're supporting. and so the thing about the senate is when one of them win they can individually make a tremendous difference. much bigger than the house. we're going to keep pushing and we're going to keep supporting candidates like ben sass and joni ernst this year, who will have a dog fight all the way to november as well as the number of house candidates. so, we always want to win more. but we are about the principles. >> you said this. it seems like you were ticking off a target list for 2016 and 2018. what makes roy blunt

anti-conservative? what does that mean? >> chuck, that statement comes from identifying seven incumbent senates who -- and about the fact that the same super pac they funded after chris mcdaniel actually supported thad cochran for praising health care. these folks haven't background off of that. it's interesting. in kentucky, i think you saw some democrats undertake a really shameful assault on mitch mcconnell and his wife, elaine c chow, for being asian. >> what's the race baiting part?

the mcdaniel campaign hasn't done well with the race issue themselves, draft a press release that called out black democrats as the culprit. it idea almost that the mcdaniel campaign was essentially profiling voters. that because they were african-american, they must be democrats in mississippi, making that assumption that that's why this election ought to be called off. that's -- boy, that's a tough thing to prove, mr. cuccinelli. >> chuck, you asked about the ads. look at the ads that these seven republicans funded and it flowed through to this -- basically democrat super pac that was putting out fliers that said things like electing mcdaniel will set race relations back. the tea party doesn't want you to vote and then distributed them in the black community. repeatedly -- >> let me stop there. >> well documented. >> campaigns are tough business. what's wrong with thad cochran

trying to get african-american voters? >> that would be great if he was doing it with the notion of attracting them to a republican platform. but what he did was litterly go out and say -- run what amounts to a left-wing democrat race bait assault. that kind of phrasing to want you to not be able to vote, which is baloney. and then praised cochran for growing the food stamp program, for expanding welfare, doing those kinds of things that democrats are proud of doing. this is a republican campaign. if they were being attracted -- if these voters were being attracted on republican principles, that would be an entirely different ball game. >> you're narrowing the definition of republican to some people. you saw that interview. >> oh, no, no, no, no. come on, chuck. >> i understand that's a conservative platform. there are some republicans -- look at mississippi. it's a very poor state these

days and republicans -- governor haley barbour has been supportive of things like that. does that make him less of a republican? you can't be republican and support welfare? >> you're making quite -- well, you can't be a republican and support growing it to one-sixth of the country, which is what has happened under senate pat roberts, under senator thad cochran. and they seem to be proud of this. by the way, since kansas is today, right after the mcdaniel/cochran second round -- >> right. >> -- in both rounds mcdaniel got more republican votes. even the cochran people can see that. roberts folks retweeted out a racist assault on milton wolf. they retracted it quickly but people had already seen it. this inside the beltway -- i would like to think inside the beltway because i would like to think that most of america don't

think and act like this and want to make decisions and political campaigns like this. they tried to retract it in the roberts campaign but it was already out there. and it was one more stumble for them. you know, it would really be myself to be able to debate these policies and it would be nice -- >> they both -- both incumbents duck debate with his conservative challengers. >> and roberts said he would debate and then ducked the debate. >> right. >> and, you know, it's hard to have as fully informed an electorate as i think the electorate wants to be without having that head-to-head comparison. we're supposed to be accountable when we're elected officials for those vote. >> mr. mcdaniel, did he make a mistake? 40% of the state is african-american. it seems to me that the cochran campaign campaigned for african-american votes and mcdaniel didn't. and that's why he lost. >> every candidate should be

campaigning for african-american votes, hispanic votes. to bob dole's point we want to fwroe the party but on bases like school choice, strong republican focus issue that would help black americans more than any other group of americans and yet we don't see thad cochran doing that. we don't see pat roberts doing that. and you see more of it at the state level. but there are ways to appeal to voter that is aren't thought of as traditionally republican. it needs to be done on a principle basis. just talking to them about how conservative principles can make their life better. >> okay. we'll leave it there. >> that should be our focus. president of the conservative funds these days, ken cuccinelli. thank you for coming on, sir. good to talk with you. >> you, too. today, bill clinton, former president, of course, is moderating a panel right now. today's events focus on

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economy of america? free enterprise capitalism. that's a stumper. >> after the speech king was having lunch with paul when he was approach bid two self identified dreamers. >> we're looking for a great crowd. >> i have a quick question. i'm actually a dreamer myself. and i'm originally from mexico. i've been raised here. i graduated from arizona state university. and i know you want to get rid of -- >> you caught that, right? what happened there? the staffer, grabbing rand paul? anyway, this is paul's fourth trip to iowa since back in june. to serve as an adviser to his pact and as staff work goes, i imagine senator paul would find

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unilateral or bilateral declared truces that have been broken since the fighting began almost a month ago. that's an average of two per week and none of them have lasted longer than a day. national security adviser susan rice told the "today" show this morning, this cease fire has to be different. >> this is an unprecedented announcement. 105 republicans stand up and say they support a democrat for governor. i think that is indicative of not only the fact -- >> all right. little video mishap there. my apologies there. let's go to chief foreign correspondent richard engel. we'll bring you that susan rice clip in a bit. richard, what do you see? >> chuck, over the course of this month-long conflict we've seen a lot of cease fires come and go. this time here in gaza, it does feel different. people are out. shops are open. fishermen are out, casting their nets. and there is a sense that this cease fire might hold. it almost didn't happen today. just five minutes before the cease fire took effect. hamas fired a final barrage of

rockets into israel. it was hamas' way to show that it has not been defeated by this conflict but gaza has paid a very heavy toll, according to medical officials. 1,900 almost palestinians were killed here, 64 israeli troops killed, three civilians as well. both sides now are saying that they won't break the cease fire, they won't be the ones to fire the first shot. israel has pulled all of its forces out of gaza. that is a good sign, encouraging sign for the people here, that there won't be renewed fighting. israeli troops keeping a close eye, right around the edges of gaza city and the israeli government saying that if hamas tries to fire more rockets, if there are hamas attacks, then israel will not hesitate to launch attacks and to fire back. but today, for the first time, i can say -- we've been covering

this since the beginning. there is a sense that this could be ending. chuck? >> thank you, richard. i hesitate to talk about this in the past tense but maybe we will try this, bring in bobby goshen. nine hours is a record at this point. >> it is a crucial thing that you mentioned there. israeli troops are out of gaza. >> we're seeing, right, there's more to this one. >> yes. >> you hate to say the word -- i don't want to politically, it seems both israelis and hamas need this cease fire. neither one of them wants the fighting to start. they both have their pr issues. >> they certainly do. what we see now, as we've seen all too often in the past, is when the shooting stops, the shouting starts. >> yes. >> a lot of recrimination, suing the international criminal court. none of those are particularly conducive to diplomatic

negotiations. it's time to get the shouting to end and the talking to begin. >> let me play that susan rice bite from the "today" show. >> it's important that both sides remain committed to it and more importantly that they use this opportunity of the 72-hour cease fire to begin the negotiatings that we have been working so energetically through secretary kerry, president obama and others to get off the ground so that the underlying causes of the conflict in fwagaza can be addressed at the negotiating table. >> the biggest fallout of this, from an american perspective, is the divide we all knew was between the obama administration and netanyahu government that they tried to paper over it's open now. >> and the secretary of state has been smacked around in israeli media by proxy of the israeli government. that's not what you want to see at all. everybody has come out of this looking bad. >> not since baker has a secretary of state been battered

by israeli folk. >> in such a blunt fashion. and for what? for trying his best to help. everybody comes off this looking bad. israel has suffered an enormous pr disaster. >> around the world. >> around the world. >> not internally. that's what has made this -- hamas, the arab world was silent essentially saying you guys shouldn't be doing this. we're not going to be supportive. our silence is sending a message. >> that is true and the traditional arab bodies that had any kind of control over hamas, egypt most notably, didn't have any control over -- hamas comes out of this looking very bad. obviously, the palestinians are sort of a -- particularly the residents of gaza now have traumas that they'll have to deal with for generations to come. >> the smart thing to do, you would say, is this is -- the moment in time for netanyahu and mahmoud abbas, that this is the

time to strike the deal, to drive the wedge between hamas. this is a moment, in an odd way, that you could do it and quickly separate hamas from the palestinian people. that's never how this works out, does it? >> never has. they've never been able to give them enough political room in which to operate. they don't trust him enough to give him that kind of room. >> his actions actually during this should actually give them some hope. >> yes. from their point of view, he has been very calm. >> he is trying to work with them on these things. >> yes. >> i wonder if real trust has maybe finally been built between abbas and netanyahu. >> one can hope. one should hope. but history suggests probably not. >> bobby ghosh, thank you very much. >> of course. we have to take a moment to remember james brady, the white house press secretary who did something no press secretary ever thinks they have to do. he took a bullet meant for president reagan and survived,

became an advocate for gun control. five-day waiting period beforehand gun sales and he was at the white house in 1983 for that bill signing. >> until that time, i hadn't thought much about gun control or the need for gun control. maybe if i had, i wouldn't be stuck with these damn wheels. >> the organization founded by braidi and his wife, sarah, estimates the law has blocked 2 million gun sales in the past 21 years. president clinton awarded brady the medal of freedom in 1986 and presided over the new james s. brady room in 2000. this is what that plaque reads that i see almost every day. may his courage and dedication continue to inspire all those who work in this room and beyond. white house press secretary said monday brady, quote, revolutionized the job.

>> that this press secretary and all future press secretary also aspire to live up to. >> essentially every living white house press secretary, democrat and republican alike release aid joint statement that said we lost a friend and mentor and the country lost a selfless public servant. he had a true affection and respect for the press, relished a good sparring with the front row and was an unfailing defender of the president and the value of a free press. nancy reagan said jim brought sharp instincts, integrity and energy to one of the most demanding jobs in washington. he and sarah never gave up and never stopped caring about the causes in which they believe. jerry parr in charge of president reagan's detail on the day he was shot said this, quote, very sad to learn of the death of my friend, jim brady. god bless you, jim. james brady was 73. you owned your car for four years. you named it brad.

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gop, which now dominates the state's politics. jackson, of course, founded the democratic party and yellow dog democrats from al gore senior have a long tradition in the state, following his father to the senate in 1984. downturn for the democrats sped up in the 90s when remainder of gore's -- bill frist was elected that same year. clinton/gore ticket barely carried the state in '96 even though gore made 16 state appearances there. gore lost tennessee to george w. bush. he won his state he would have won the presidency. tennessee was just one of four states where john mccain got a higher percentage of the vote in 2008 than george w. bush did in 2004 and one of two where the republican percentage of the vote has risen in five consecutive presidential elections. business-minded democrats elected sometimes, in 2010 it was republican bill haslem

elected with 65% of the vote. republicans now control 26 of the 33 seats, nearly 80% in the state senate. all of that brings us to today's big fight in tennessee, battle between legislating consensus mind minded howard baker and a new tea party wing drawing voters the rise of the tea party hasn't been really pass add way in june. governor haslem started in bob corker also is in the baker hold pragmatic legislative republican. he believes voters, quote, exec their leaders to solve problems. all three come from east tennessee, by the way. which is historically home to

the state's main stream business minded brand of republicanism. the three regions of the state are so culturally politically, and economically diverse they call them the grand divisions. tennessee second district home to knoxville is one of the oldest republican districts in the country. it hasn't elected a democrat to the congress since the 1850. the current tea party movement is based in the colored counties around nashville, the center of middle tennessee. those counties are the base for lamar alexander's tea party challenger. so can the tea party movement launch a statewide candidate into office? it hasn't happened yet in tennessee. we're going to be watching on thursday if there's any sign it is could. trivia time jackson is the only senator from tennessee to serve on the u.s. supreme court. congratulations to today's winner allen henry. a man with two first names. tip of the day comes from blue in memphis. they're serving up lobster

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time for today's take away. on tract to be the least productive congress in history. they left washington last week with 12 bill passed into law. americans agree as we showed you the numbers. three out of four voters believe that congress hasn't done much this year incoming 50% who say they have been unprotective. american's frustration with washington isn't new. it looks like john boehner is trying to repair his image. they sent out around e-mail called do something congress. it shows the speaker signing bills. meeting with a veteran and his family on the balcony of the u.s. capitol. it showed pausing to honor a u.s. capitol police officer who lost his life protecting the

capitol 17 years ago, and showed him meeting with the daughter was house members. it was a defensive e-mail from the speak's office. if you think about the polling had had been around and the sunday show talking about unproductive congress. it shows you they're aware of how bad the polls are. if president obama's approval ratings are bad and a sign of bad things for democrats, one thing that is the saving grace are the public seems to be more sour on congressional republicans. so which is going to matter more in november? we have a lot more on that on special edition of our daily run down tomorrow. i'll see you then. that's it for "the daily run down." jose will have the latest on the deadly shooting that involved american soldier. and an interview with the american doctor that is working on the vaccine for ebola for all humans.

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in the air, a second flight carrying an american diagnosed with an ebola on route right now to atlanta. i'll interview the doctor developing an ebola vaccine that could be ready for human years this year. mission accomplished. what was the mission? and at what cost? a spokesman for the israeli foreign ministry joining me live. senator rand paul in iowa in his party shirt, but our question this is more about his party. we'll frame the debate as republicans balance immigration and elections this tuesday, 5th of august. good morning, i'm jose kdia balart. a deadly insider attack on u.s. forces and others in afghanistan. the military base west of the capi