i was able to see that final song. >> the moment she came out was absolute pandemonium. incredible. >> hugh evans, global poverty project. the "rachel maddow show" starts now. >> is normal life kind of a letdown? where's my 65,000 peeps? does something weerd to your hair. >> doing a snand signal and have 60,000 people do it back to you is really incredible. this is what it's like for jay-z all the time. >> amazing and also very dangerous toi your soul. you did amazing work. well done. >> thanks to you at home for joining us. we have a correction to make. a week ago tonight at exactly this time one week ago, i led this show with something that i now no to be wrong. here is me being wrong. vaulted over the white house fence. he ran all the way across the white house lawn. got all the way to the north

portico doors of the white house. then opened the doors and went inside the building and was not apprehended until he was already inside the white house. if you really want to parse it, technically you could say what i said there was accurate, but honestly, what i just described there is not at all what really happened in that incident in the news. late this afternoon, early this evening, there was just a stunning development in what was already a pretty shocking story. i know the word shocking is overused in the news business. there is something shocking about this. particularly what we learned about it today. it's one thing when you see the president of the united states out working a line or doing an event in front of a large crowd. the president may be taking a little risk in terms of his safety to be out among the people. it's another thing to realize when the president is at home in what is supposedly the most secure building in the country, he's not actually being well protected.

nors should family. the story is almost impossible to believe. it was hard to believe before today. tonight, it is almost impossible. and the news that we got today, it starts with an incident this summer. july 19th in virginia. a 42-year-old man in an suv led police an a chase. when police did finally catch the guy, he had 11 guns in his suv. five handguns, two shotguns. at least one of which was sawed off, which is illegal and also four rifles, some of which were fitted with high powered scopes and two legs of a tripod. a sniper setup. the man in the suv had some advanced weapons training. served multiple combat tours in iraq manning a 50 caliber machine gun. retired from the army. dealing with mental health challenges since returning home. some may have been caused by or aggravated by posttraumatic

stress for which he'd been diagnosed. virginia state police arrested the man. in july charged him for the high-speed chase and also for having the sawed off shotgun because that's an illegal weapon. they took all of his 11 guns in that vehicle into custody for safe keeping and they did eventually release him an bond. but when they did, they contacted the secret service up in washington, d.c. because in addition to the snipe ir style sniper rigged rifle, including the illegal shotgun and five handguns, they also found a map of washington, d.c., with the location of the white house marked on that map in pen. obviously possessing a map like that is not itself a crime. when you have a map like that and 11 guns and you aren't all that far from the white house, and you are being released on bond, it does seem like if you are in law enforcement that might be worth a call to the secret service.

the virginia state police called. virginia state police have confirmed they notified the secret service about this arrest of a 42-year-old omar gonzalez and their arrest of him with all those weapons in july. virginia state police told them, apparently the secret service did not much care. we don't have any telepathic insight into the mind-set in order to say that, but you can tell by what they did. five weeks later, on august 25th, this same guy they'd been warned about by the virginia state police. the one with all the guns and the map of the white house, he turned up armed at the white house. the virginia state police had taken all of his guns in his earlier arrest. when he showed up august 25th, head an ax, a hatchet stuffed into the waistband of his trousers. it was noticeable enough that the secret service stopped him outside of the white house and questioned him. they interacted with him long enough to question him about the weapon. he was plainly carrying at the white house. they also went with him to his vehicle, which was parked nearby

and secured his permission to search through his vehicle. so it wasn't just like a, hey, buddy, get out of here kind of interaction. they had a significant exchange with him. nothing popped for the secret service about this guy they'd been warned about. so then the guy came back again two weeks later. and this time he had 800 rounds of ammunition in his vehicle. he had not one hatchet like before but two hatchets. also a machete all in his vehicle, plus a knife in his pocket. and this time he did not just walk back and forth in front of the white house fence. this time he jumped over the white house fence. turns out a lot of people jump over the white house fence. it's weird and seems very dangerous but it happens more often than you might think. seems like every couple of weeks somebody is jumping over the white house fence these days. with 42-year-old omar gonzalez it was different. he not only got over the white house fence. when he landed on the south

lawn, nobody tackled him. you could see him here in this spot shadow. nobody tackled him. nobody used a weapon an hum or let a dog go to chase after him. he hit the ground running on the south lawn. he made it all the way to the north portico of the white house and then what we reported a week ago tonight was that he made it just inside the doors of the north portico in the white house before he was tackled by the secret service. before today, that's what had been reported, right? as alarming as it was this guy got inside the white house he only just got inside the white house. tackled as soon as he went inside those north portico doors. that's what we knew before tonight. now it turns out, "the washington post" is first to report the man was not tackled as soon as he entered the north portico doors of the white house. he made it quite a bit farther than that. now if you aren't an architect or used to looking at plans or if you aren't visually minded like me it can be a little hard

to visualize the interior of somebody's house when it's a big oversized historic fancy house. this san architectural cutaway of the first floor of the white house. this from the white house historical association. if you want to look at it an this map, these cut-off pillars represent the north portico where the guy entered. in the initial version of the story, when omar gonzalez was tackled just inside the doors of the north portico that would have meant he ran inside that door there and was tackled just inside that door just inside the white house. roughly right around where that circle is. today we learn that is not at all where omar gonzalez was tackled. instead, he overpowered a secret service agent who was standing there when he got there. the secret service agent was not able to take him don. he kept running to his left down a short hallway. he entered this large room here called the east room which runs

the full width of the white house. and then sprinting down the east room and sprintsing toward and by some accounts trying to get into the next room in the mansion which is called the green room. when he was finally taken down it was somewhere in the vicinity of that circle there. that's one way to see what happened there using this architecturally accurate cutout of the white house. it's easier to see if you use this map that was mocked up by an unofficial white house fan site. this is just easier to see. we've linked to this tonight. it shows you exactly what happened. so in this case, get oriented. the north portico at the top. this shows the whole first floor in a handy color coated chart. the initial story is he made it just inside the doors before being take in down by the secre

service. that did not happen. instead he overpoured a secret service agent and ran into the giant east room which is the whole one side of thes who. he ran the length of the building through the east room and finally was tackled somewhere in the vicinity of being about to enter the green room. now what's very helpful about this view is this. remember that short little hallway he ran through? look at that. in order to get there from that front entrance door into the east room, what is that he's running through? it's marked with a couple of different colors. they are trying to give the impression that you are looking at two different floors because what he was running through was the landing for the staircase that goes up to the second floor of the white house. he did not choose to run upstairs. he kept going. he could have chosen to run upstairs to the second floor of

the white house instead of continue through to the east room. had he run upstairs, this is where he would have been. this is the second floor of that same building. see the labels? it says bedroom, bedroom, bedroom. those are the bedrooms and private quarters of president obama and his family. i have been to the white house for christmas parties and stuff and occasionally meetings with white house officials. you get to see all the stuff on the first floor, the east room, the green room, the blue room, all that other stuff. nobody gets to see the upstairs part of it. because this is private. this is where the president and his family live and omar gonzalez was right there on the landing of their stairs. as far as we know, he chose not to run upstairs. but the way information has been trickling out with the armed man who made it that far into the white house, who knows what we'll find out in another few days. carol lenning is "the washington

post" reporter who first broke this news today about exactly how terrible the security breach was when omar gonzalez and his knife were able to get that far into the white house. this weekend, carol lenning at "the washington post" had another scoop about the secret service and white house which was more difficult to belief. which is worse. being able to run all the way inside the white house almost the entire way to the president's private residence with a knife on you? or firing seven bullets into the walls and windows of the obama family's private residence and the secret service not noticing that you did it for days. because the same secret service had that problem, too. november 11th, 2011, a friday night around 8:50 p.m. we just saw some interior views of the white house. here's the white house on a map. for reference, the place where the fence jumper jumped over the fence and ran at the white house, omar gonzalez who made it

inside. he came from the pennsylvania avenue side. that's where the decorative fence is that so many have jumped over. the incident in 2011 happened from the other side of the white house, and from much further away. you see pennsylvania avenue here. below the white house there is e street. then something called the ellipse. on the far side of that is a big heavily trafficked road in washington, d.c., called constitution avenue. about 8:50 p.m. on november 11th, 2011, a young man pulled his car over on constitution avenue. from this distance he was about six football fields away. about 700 yards from the white house. he pulled over in a black honda sedan and pulled out his romanian made ak-47 knockoff and fired that gun multiple times at the white house. after shooting into the white house, he sped off down constitution avenue. he did not make it very far

before he crashed his car. he left the gun and 180 rounds of ammunition and all the spent shell casings in the vehicle, the door open and headlights an and took off running, and they did not catch him for six days. the secret service took four days to realize the dude had actually shot the white house. there were two secret service agents an the roof as the building was being shot at and they reacted as if shots had been fired at the white house. there were two more secret service agents in a vehicle right near institution avenue near the ellipse. those officers not only heard the shots and thought they were hearing gunfire but they smelled the gunpowder in the air. they were that nearby. and yet another secret service officer was stationed right next to the white house right under the truman balcony. she not only reacted to hearing gunfire but heard the shots hit the building and saw debris fall from the building where it had been hit.

but somehow, despite all of that from their own people, the secret service's initial conclusion from some still as yet unidentified supervisor was that snow shots were fired. those must have been backfiring from a nearby construction vehicle. the secret service advised that and said gunshots have been fired but it had nothing to do with the white house. must have been two people in random cars shooting at each other somewhere in the neighborhood. perhaps rival gangs? this happened an a friday night in november 2011. friday. it was not until the following tuesday when a housekeeper at the white house found a chunk of concrete and some broken glass inside the first family's residence on the second floor of the white house. and other white house staff started to find the bullet holes. it was not until then that the secret service finally could be persuaded that maybe it's worth looking around here. yeah, somebody had not only shot

at the white house but somebody had hit the white house with high powered rifle fire seven times. and so that is when the secret service began their investigation, including for the first time four days after, included interviewing their own officers who had been on duty that night who had thought and reported that it was gunfire. it was only then that they decided that maybe it would be a good idea to put out an apb for the man who abandoned that suv with the shell casings the night all those secret service officers heard and smelled the gunfire. they finally put out an apb for him in the middle of the following week and it took thim a day to pick him up. they charged him with trying to assassinate president obama. in april, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison. without the housekeeper finding and reporting the damage, the dude may still be out there

presumably making another plan to try again. in both of these incidents, neither of the guys appears to have been a real genius. neither of them appears to have been working with a larger group of people or as part of some more complicated plot. but one of them got away with for almost a week and the other one got away with all the way through to the end of the east room as he was trying to get into the green room. what they got away with in both cases, neither of these things seem that hard to pull off or that complicated to arrange. being automobible to do that mu damage and get that close is not supposed to happen. what's the matter with the secret service? was something always wrong with the secret service and we're just hearing about it now from reporters like carol lenning able to find out about this stuff? was this stuff always happening before and we never knew about it? or is something wrong with the secret service now that was never wrong with them before? is this as bad as it seems because it seems ter belierible.

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he was not tackled by the secret service just inside the white house doors. he ran all the way through the white house including crossing over the landing of the stairs to the second floor of the white house where the president lives with his family which is marked an that map with an oval. the president and his daughters had justi left the white house less than five minutes before that intrusion. joining us is the reporter that broke that story. also the story about the secret service not noticing for several days when the white house had been shot at. carol leonnig is here. i've obviously been absorbing your reporting. did i screw anything up in my summary or description about what you reported? >> no, i was quite impressed by your comparing and contrasting. you are a good reader. i thought it was pretty genius to talk about the issue of the fact that neither of these guys

had a very sophisticated plan to pierce the secret service's, you know, security perimeter, but they did. >> on that point, i feel -- talking about this. in part i feel the myth that the secret service is omnipotent and omniscient and they're definitely going to stop you and there's no hope for anybody trying to take a shot at the president, i feel like, okay, maybe we're learning that's a myth, but the myth itself is part of the protection because it deters people from even trying? >> you know, i agree about the icky part of this. we're not trying to remind enemies of our country and of our president that there's some vulnerability. i think what motivates a lot of the sources that have talked to us at "the washington post" is the idea that they know how great the service has been in their lifetime. and they know what a sacred duty it is to protect the president.

and just as importantly the office. not just the person, but the office. and they are really worried about the state of the secret service and the leadership at this time. it's not personal necessarily, one director versus another, but they really feel strongly that morale is low, staffing is -- is severely short. budgeting is kind of crazy. and training is questionable. and the service has basically gotten really complacent and reactive instead of 21st century, you know, beating back the terrorists before they get close to the border. >> in terms of that change, that sounds like with that multivariant complaint, it sounds like that's an allegation of a service essentially gone soft or not staying ahead of typical bureaucratic conditions that can hamper performance in an agency that can't afford to have its performance hampered. is it one thing? is it the shift from treasury to dhs? is it any other change that's

happened that gets more blame than anything else or a lot of things all at once? >> i think it's a couple different things or several things. you mentioned an important one. the idea of the agency becoming headed by a political appointee rather than somebody who is confirmed by congress rather than somebody who is just appointed. that has made the directorship more politically vulnerable. and you'll notice in a lot of the criticism of former agents who talked to us, they say that this is a service that wants to make the white house happy. so if you remember the salahi scandal where the white house was trying to process a lot of people into an event very quickly. the social secretary want really there. n these two people who were pretenders got through. mostly because, according to the secret service sources, because the white house didn't want people standing out in the rain and they wanted them through

faster. so that example is held out to me all the time as an indicator of a service that just wants to make their political client happy. instead of the bad a blank blank that says i'm sorry that's not safe, sir. we're not going to do that. that is a big difference. >> i have to ask you as we've had this unfolding of details in the last few days, do you feel like we fully know what happened in the ortega case or in the case of the guy who got in with the knife? we learned today the details about him getting much further into the white house than we knew. leaves me wondering if there's another shoe to drop. >> i'm pretty convinced we don't know everything. i mean, when we reported a week ago this breach of five different layers of security on the outside of the white house, i thought that was a pretty

worrisome series of details. the dog wasn't released. the countersurveillance guys didn't see him jumping to give early warning. the uniform division officers didn't collar him. the guy who is supposed to be on the door is not on the door. the door isn't locked, even though it's protocol to lock the door when an intruder is on the ground. now we learn what happened behind the door. that's two or three more layers that were pierced. who knows what we will discover as the days go by. >> carol leonnig, "washington post," national reporter with a couple of very scary and important scoops an this. >> glad to be here with good questions from you. >> thank you very much. tomorrow there's going to be good questions but definitely going to be hard questions and a lot of them for the director of the secret service who is the sole witness at a congressional hearing that's happening at a weird time. congress is out of session, right? congress didn't come back for a new war starting, but they are coming back tomorrow for an

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man who is the newly elected democratic leader of 17.5% of the world's population. narendra modi is india's new prime machine stinister. this was him speaking before adoring indian american fans in a rock star speech and rally he did at madison square garden in new york city. and then the head of state having a long visit to the u.s. and a big rock star-style gathering at madison garden followed by a private dinner with president obama at the white house. that kind of thing is always a big deal. when your country has 1.2 billion people in it, when you govern the second largest nation an earth, that's something at a different level. yes, we may be the oldest democracy, but india is bigger. way bigger. they are the world's largest democracy by a mile. the only country larger than them at all is not a democracy

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when presidents sign bills they are really excited about, one way you can tell they are really excited, they gather a lot of folks around n use a lot of pens which they thn give away as souvenirs. president obama used 22 pens wln

he put his signature on health reform. that's a pair of pens for each letter of his name. when president obama was done signing that bill it looked like he'd signed his name with an etch-a-sketch. at the state level, governors do the same thing. they also use lots of pens when they want to soon a bill they are proud of. john kasich signed new cuts for family planning and sweeping new restrictions on abortion rights. he signed them an women's health care while surrounded by a whole big group of men in his office. that budget was a big deal for governor kasich. he invited all his buds to be there and used 24 different pens to put his name to it. >> each of these pens is a special pen, okay, and so i have to -- i've got to use every one

of these pens. so i have to make another n and then another one. >> 24 pens in ohio last year. a big deal for the ohio governor. in 2012 they sent out, i think, ten separate pens for sam bronback when he signed a bill that blew up the tax code in kansas. they described those cuts as massive. and once sam brownback signed them he made the national rounds in the media to brag about what he had done. >> on taxes you need your overall rates down and you need your social manipulation out of it. in my estimation to create growth. and we'll see how it works. we'll have a real live experiment. >> we'll have a real live experiment in kansas under the sam brownback real live experiment, kansas has gone from a budget surplus to a projected shortfall of $250,000. the state made massive cuts to

all sorts of services. they had their credit rating dongraded. the results of the sam bronback experiment so far is that kansas is broke. number two that sam brownback is losing his re-election bid to a centrist democrat who warned kansas couldn't afford those cuts. and the sam brownback campaign for re-election does not want to talk about the brownback experiment anymore. the great jeff greenfield just found that out on a reporting trip to kansas for the newshour on pbs. he got an interview with sam brownback. find out what he tells him here. >> i don't think they don't like change. i don't think they trust change. i came in and said we haven't been growing. we have to get our tax rate down. >> and about that experiment word. >> yeah, i shouldn't have used that word. but the good news is, it's working well. we're growing. we've got record employment again. >> then after a brief discussion with an aide.

>> the things we're doing are not anything new. going to -- we have nine states without an income tax. that's not new. so nothing we're doing is new. now it's new that we're doing it, but nothing that we're doing is different than what's been done before. >> nothing we're doing is new. now it's new that we're doing it. nothing new here. it's not new. it's new -- we're not doing anything new. what we're doing is new. it's new that we're doing it. did i say new? did i say we're doing an experiment? i meant would you like some spearmint. beyond the brownback race for governor, they heard a court case about the u.s. senate race in which republicans are trying to force a democratic nominee on to the ballot even though the democratic dropped out. with no democrat, the well-funded independent has a

pretty good chance of winning that u.s. senate seat held by pat roberts. if there are three candidates it's more likely that pat roberts will survive. it's been fascinating to watch this unfold in kansas. the latest eventuality is the father of a sam brownback campaign staffer seems to have been drafted to file a citizen lawsuit against the kansas democratic party to try to force them to put a democratic candidate, a third candidate, on the ballot. i say it appears he was drafted for that task because he doesn't seem all that into his own lat. the man did not bother to show up at the court hearing today for what is supposedly his own lawsuit. republicans never expected they'd need to fight so hard in deep red kansas. not for the governors seat they already hold. not also for the senate seat that's been republican since the great depression. but this is no ordinary year in kansas. that comes with implications for the rest of the cannountry and

who is in control. mr. helling, you have been having so much fun covering this election, we can't stop booking you. >> who knew, right? >> let me ask you about the cort case. how did the judges react today when the guy who was supposedly suing over the senate race didn't bother showing up for his own lawsuit? >> three-judge panel and they were not happy. none of the judges thought the plaintiff in this case could probably skip the court case without making his argument. the people who want to keep the democratic line open an the ballot wanted to examine david aurell, the plaintiff in the case. he wasn't there. there's some thought the judges could throw out this lawsuit on that basis, that the plaintiff didn't show up. we expect a ruling tomorrow on wednesday on that part of it. they also said they didn't want the secretary of state to be a part of the lawsuit. so the general feeling is that this story is almost over, that

there will be no democrat on the ballot when those ballots are printed later this week. >> if the court decides in a way that, as you say, would not be expected, if there's a surprise ruling, are the terms of this lawsuit such that they could, in fact, order the democratic party to pick somebody right away and get somebody on there and that name could be on the ballot by the time people turned up to vote on election day? is that technically feasible? >> as each hour passes, it's less and less feasible. courts can order anything. courts can theoretically order a delay in the election if they wanted to. the democrats have been saying, we can't put somebody together. a committee to pick a new nominee in the next 48 hours. the clock really is running out. he told the court last week he had to start printing on wednesday. it could slip to thursday. but the ballots if you talk to election officials out here, they say, look.

enough is enough. we need to know what the ballot is going to be. we need to start sending out ballots for early voters, for people who want to vote absentee. we do expect this thing one way or another to be settled in the next 72 hours. >> dave, i need to ask you about governor brownback. i sort of followed him from a distance. i thought he was fascinating as a presidential candidate and senator. i've always thought of him as a smooth guy. he's been a politician for a long time. what he told pbs news hour is nothing we're doing is new but it's new that we're doing it. is this sam brownback rattled and i've just never seen it? >> may have been a combination. sam brownback has never really been pushed in an election since 1996. he ran in the primary against the hand-picked successor to bob dole. won that primary. he's won very easily in every election since. he's not really used to jeff greenfield coming out to talk to

him about the closeness of his race in kansas. most republicans are astonished that either of these races is very close. so you can forgive him a little for being a little rusty on that part of his game. they have and continue to have and pat roberts has this problem, a messaging problem. they have to figure out what they are selling to the voters of kansas. they are still stuck in the high 30s, low 40s. five weeks to go. they need to pick up the pace. you saw some of that nervous innocence the jeff greenfield story. >> dave helling, political reporter for the "kansas city star" working overtime. thank you. nice to see you. there's some really big news that is due to break tomorrow. actually with the time difference it's probably going to break late tonight. for some reason, even though it's a huge story it's not getting big headlines yet. a heads-up on that big story next. >> so nothing we're doing is new. now it's new that we're doing

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last year at the capital of sichuan province in china, last year in may there were calls for a pro democracy protest. they called it for may 4th.

may 4th last year was a saturday. the chinese government really does not want there to be pro-democracy protests in china at any time or anywhere. but they really don't want them in chengdu. they've had big problems with protests there before. five years before that date exactly on may 4th, five years before, they had a huge environmental protest that very much embarrassed the local government. so what's an authoritarian government to do when people are going to commemorate their may 4th demonstration with another may 4th demonstration that's due to happen an a forthcoming weekend? in this case what china did is they moved the weekend. they moved the weekend so that saturday, may 4th, was now a workday and a schoolday and the weekend happened instead on monday and tuesday that week. tah-dah. protest effectively discombobulated by the orwellian move of changing when the weekend is.

when it comes to stopping peaceful protests, china is not messing around. it turns out neither are its people. part of the deal when britain returned hong kong to china was that hong kong and china would be one country but two systems. hong kong for the most part is autonomous. people in china mainland do not have freedom of speech or freedom to assemble but people in hong kong do. part of that deal in 1997 was that eventually citizens of hong kong would also get to vote for their own local officials. last month the chinese government in beijing reneged an that and said, yes, you can have elections in 2017 but we'll choose the candidates for you. we'll choose the candidates from which you will be allowed to pick. and now behold what that decision hath wrought. this is drone video taken along one of hong kong's major highways. tens of thousands of people, pro-democracy protesters to protest this anti-democracy

decision by the chinese government. and this is not a lark. these protesters have put themselves at real risk by doing this. last night in hong kong, riot police armed with batons and pepper spray and tear gas charged at the protesters. they tried to protect themselves with goggles and rain jackets and umbrellas. dozens of arrests yesterday. the city of hong kong pleaded with protesters to go home but they're refusing. some were spotted this weekend making the hands up don't shoot gesture like they did in ferguson, missouri, last month. today the riot police took a back seat. they pulled back after the violence yesterday. but the government in china, unsurprisingly, is doing everything they possibly can to prevent anybody else in the mainland from finding out what's going on. they've been shutting don social media sites, including instagram. they've ordered chinese media and websites to delete any words

or phrases that might describe or relate to these protests and riots in hong kong. massive censorship. both the uk and u.s. governments came out today in support of these protesters' right to protest, much to the chagrin of the people's republic of china. but they don't show any sign of stopping. it's important to note they were expected to be over today. over after the weekend. not only weren't over today, they got bigger instead of smaller. watch this space. i can't stop playing. that's not how it works. i mean it's so simple. it's like my car insurance. i saved 15% in fifteen minutes. well esurance could have saved you money in half that time. three in a row! sweet! 15 minutes for a quote isn't so sweet. level 2! start with a quote from esurance and you could save money on car insurance in half the time. welcome to the modern world. esurance, backed by allstate. click or call.

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by the iraqi government and on november 27th, so after our elections but before a new president, on november 27th, the iraqi parliament ratified this deal. 24 pages long. the bottom line was very, very clear. article 24, sub section one. all united states forces shall withdraw from all iraqi territory notice later than december 31st, 2011, period, full stop. at the very understand of the bash administration in the lame-duck period they negotiated with deal with iraq that was a binding resolution for all troops to be gone from iraq. and they did all leave by the end of 2011. they were all gone by december 18th, 13 days early. and that is how the american part of the war that we started in iraq came to a hard end. 8 1/2 years after we started it. just because we started that war didn't mean we could end it, though. after u.s. troops were gone,

unsurgencies kept roiling inside ooh rack. in the same year u.s. troops left,u rack's western neighbor syria started to dissolve into a multifront gruesome civil war. and now, of course, u.s. troops are back in iraq. over 1300 u.s. troops back in iraq as of right now at the request of the iraqi government and on orders from president obama. the u.s. congress hasn't authorized the return of american troops to iraq but they're there anyway. meanwhile, still the matter of our other war already in progress. america's longest ever war in afghanistan now entering its 14th year. over 24,000 u.s. troops serving in afghanistan tonight. the u.s. war in afghanistan is scheduled to come to an end at the end of this year but in news that seems like it should have received bigger headlines, we've learned the obama administration is not ending the war in afghanistan the same way the bush administration plann ened end of the war in iraq. this is footage from

afghanistan. today was mod rn afghanistan's first ever peaceful transition of power as their new president was sworn in. ashraf ghani was sworn in. they'll sign an agreement to keep u.s. troops in afghanistan for another decade. 10,000 american troops in afghanistan for a decade after the supposed end of our war. apparently that's the plan. in afghanistan their government has been debating and negotiating over this for months. ours, not a peep so far from the u.s. congress on this matter. this agreement is due to be signed tomorrow. with the time difference, it's due to be signed late tonight. so the war in afghanistan is not ending after all. not for 10,000 american service members. service members are going to keep deploying there for ten years. the next ten years. 10,000 of them at a time. we're also told to expect that the u.s. military effort in syria and iraq will also last for years basically

indefinitely. so that force they couldn't negotiate for at the end of the iraq war, now they have that permanent force there. and we've got at least ten more years of 10,000 troops in afghanistan now as well. it's remarkable. this is treated in the news as if this is something to notice. something worked out behind the scenes you might want to be aware. not even treated as something we as a cannot get to make a decision about. are we as a country making decisions about this or just read about it in the paper as a done deal? does congress just read about it in the papers as a done deal? this is a multi-year commitment to two, maybe three incredibly volatile war zones in the middle east for ten years minimum. and neither of these decisions is being treated about something that we have any american political decision making to do at all. under its original schedule for the year, congress was supposed to be at work today. one of their rare workweeks before they called it off and decided they were going to extend their vacation instead.

before congress sent itself home for a 54-day long break we've been maintaining an online whip count for members who thought congress should at least vote an whether or not to authorize the return of u.s. troops to iraq and the use of military force in iraq and syria. despite over 100 members of congress saying they favored a vote, they nevertheless left town without voting. now that they've left town and aren't planning on coming back until after the election, we started a new whip count of members of congress who say they're embarrassed by what congress has done and should come back and vote an the war in syria and iraq. it is bipartisan but most of all it's small. you have to start somewhere. but it is both members of the congress and us the public who have to decide if we make overt decisions as a country about what wars to wage and where our troops should serve and whether these decisions are just going to happen outside the political system and no one answering for them whot debate, without hard wisdom about what we're doing going unanswered and in most

cases unasked. amazing. tonight's breaking news, breaking precisely nowhere is 10,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan for a decade. they are signing that deal > remember when the john boehner house of representatives began with dramatic reading of the constitution on the house floor? >> yes. >> right in there it says that they alone have the power to declare war, but who was listening that day? >> it's very small print. it's awkward. >> thanks, rachel. >> thanks. well, it turns out, the secret service's biggest secret is that they have been shockingly lazy about protecting the white house. >> the secret service is facing even more heat. >> that white house fence jumper. >> now he got into the building. >> into the 80-foot long east room. >> was only steps awayro