clashes in st. louis, it is a weekend of resistance. it is friday, october 10th and this is "now." >> a peaceful prayer vigil turned violent. >> protests in st. louis turned hot ill. >> the officer were seen pepper spraying into the crowd. >> it stems from the deadly police shooting of an 18-year-old. >> leaders demanding an investigation by the justice department. >> the anger is starting to build up. >> tensions are high in the area. >> two months after the death of michael brown. >> several to protesters are expected to arrive today. >> to keep the movement going. >> it's very troubling to us black parents because we never know is it going to be our child today?

>> i'm ezra klein. the weekend of resistance in ferguson, missouri has begun. two months and no charges have been filed. this weekend, thousands of people from all over the country are expected to arrive in the st. louis area to demand justice for brown and protest what they say is police brutality. any minute now, protesters are expected to kick off the weekend with a justice now march to the office of bob mccullough. given the clashes that took place last night between police in riot gear and protesters

angered over wednesday's fatal shooting over a black teen, authorities are on edge. ferguson right now is a, quote, racial powder keg. joining me now from missouri is tremaine lee. good to see you. >> likewise. >> what is the feel on the ground right now? does it feel like a racial powder keg or are things calming? >> at the moment things appear to be calm. there is a steady wind and cold rain keeping many people at bay. but there is a sense of this underlying tension, anger and a clear racial line running straight through this. the killing of the man in st. louis wednesday night reignited and energized people whose passions are still on high. >> i want to ask you about the killing of that young man. police say it is a very different situation and the

young man shot first and another gun recovered from the scene. is it gets wrapped up in the same way as the michael brown shooting? what are people asking for around it? how is that kpachanging the protests? >> it is changing the protest because it reignited the passions. michael brown was clearly unarmed and in st. louis a gun was recovered and this young man fired on police. but people say this man was fired on some 17 times and struck a half dozen times and while police say he was armed with a gun other family members say he had little more than a sandwich. this speaks to the mistrust and distrust of the community with the police. you are dealing with 18-year-old dead young men under very, harsh circumstances. >> and do you point about the

broad mistrust between the police taken community, the protest here that is about getting the local prosecutor to resign that seems important to me, the fact there is not enough trust in the local justice system that the demand it is changed in and of itself for them there to be an investigation and prosecution people can be believe in. that seems like a profound systemic failure that will make it hard to resolve. >> systemic failure and a long narrative. and speaking of the distrust particularly between the prosecutor and the black community. there have been four cases that people point to where white officers fired on and killed unarmed black suspects. people have been saying there hasn't been justice, they can point no further to bob mcculloch and a failure to prosecute clear abuses by

police. >> msnbc's tremaine lee. thank you very much and stay safe out there. >> thank you. >> joining me now is a democratic state representative. according to the justice department, ferguson police have accelerated their efforts to put down peaceful protests in recent weeks do. you expect that to change over the weekend? >> i don't see that happening. they're trying to get a grip on things and get things under control. they are doing things that might seem more aggressive. if the protesters are there peace f peacefully they should be allowed to protest. i want to read you some data. 258 people arrested and 95% booked on unlawful assembly. these are not the ones that lead

to prosecutions. they're just trying to get people off the street. in the long run you have a very deep basic problem of very, very, very bad relationship between the community and the force that is supposed to protect it. and it doesn't seem to me that these kinds of tactics are going to do anything but make that long-run problem worse. >> definitely. they're definitely making things more tense and it's not causing anything positive to come out of it. we're going to have real changes that have to take place at the city level. if the city isn't willing to do that we're going to continue to have the problems. the attention of the world is on ferguson right now and we're not getting the changes quick enough. >> to your point about changes at the city level there was a report a number of weeks ago that more than 3,000 folks in ferguson had registered to vote since the original round of protests. that turned out the be untrue, only 128 people. it seems that if one of the

mechanisms of change you can imagine coming out of these horrible events is a lot more voter activation, a real decision and capability to set the political direction of the ferguson city government, why do you think that that hasn't manifested to the degree people thought it was or might. >> because a lot of the people in ferguson were already registered. from an outsider's point of view -- a lot of those individuals were registered. we will be pushing forward. one constituent isn't seeing enough change from the city council. so the recall efforts will start next week. but it's all about getting people to the polls. having people registered and not going to the polls wouldn't do anything. the fact that we have those

people registered it's managing the recall efforts. >> huh does it work? >> 15% of the registered voters from the last election. that's 750 people per ward. you is to turn in an application for the recall with five signatures of residents and they have 20 to 30 days to say whether or not you can do the recall and then at that point you is to gather the signatures over a period of 60 days. once that's turned in the city council has 30 days to set the election or to send the recall information back. >> and do you think that's needed? if there was a recall the threat of it or the fact of it could change policy among the existing city officials or among the new ones who would come in? >> absolutely. you know, so, voteferg.com is a placing you can do that. by using the recall petition it will start the change. if you don't start the change,

then we won't get any change. and the only way to do that is by pushing the recall button at this time. >> what do you think the legacy in a year of the movement in ferguson will be? do you think that it is clear to see how this will become semipermanent in the political life of the city very do you think this is something that months from now will have become a memory? >> you know, i think it's forever going to be the legacy of ferguson and what the city council chooses to do or doesn't choose to do and the resulting actions as a result of that, you know, all of that is going to be the legacy. but i hope for change, one in the sense of engaging the community and listening to them and making everybody a part of it. but outside of that, where the police relations to go from here that's a big part of the legacy. >> missouri state representative, courtney curtis thank you very much for being on the program. >> thank you. >> after the break i will speak

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the public is grappling with a disconnect between what it cease and what it hears about ebola. >> what they're hearing is it's not communicable. people are relatively safe. but they are seeing pictures of people coming out of buildings wearing space suits and people are telling me back home i don't have a space suit. how am i safe? >> joining me now is an ebola survivor from liberia who is at the centers for disease control to meet with members of the global health team. thank you for being here. >> you're welcome. >> i want to ask you, first, a simple, maybe dumb question, what does it feel like to have ebola? >> yeah, you will start having fever, a very high fever, vomiting and from there, having

diarrhea, heat cough, chest pain, stomach pain and the end result, you start having red eyes, and subsequently, bleeding from all parts of your body. basically, those are people who have ebola feel. >> there is a really terrible reality of the way ebola has been transmitted that so much of it is coming through care givers. it's people trying to help other people who have the disease and they are catching it. do you think that we are moving quickly, both in africa and in america to give care givers the training they need and equipment they need to care for ebola patients safely? >> yeah, we want to be thankful to cdc, president obama, and the

united states, the people of america, because -- for their greater support. as i speak to you, two months before, we look at the death rate, the death toll of ebola cases were so high. but since we have had the inception of cdc and other international agencies, you will find out that the death toll is decreasing dramatically. so i think we are making a way forward. if you look at these countries, our health care systems are not in good shape. and the public health services are nowhere in shambles. so with the inception and with the assistance of the united states government, i think we have hope. because hope in a sense that now, we have a good number of etus. we have had a good appreciable

amount of ppes, a lot of supplies are now on their way going to liberia. so that would be able to help workers to deal with the situation. i think we are make a headlong. >> you were today at the centers for disease control and prevention. what did you tell them? what were you doing with them today? >> yeah, well, i met with experts from different parts of -- from different departments of cdc and all of them were working towards plans how to be able to deal with the situation, the ebola situation in the west african countries of liberia, sierra leone and guinea. and i also had the opportunity to meet with dr. frieden. he is a nice man. i meet with other experts and all were singing the same song and speaking with the same tone that they have a hideous task to do.

together we're going to make it. we're going to ensure that liberia and other west african countries are free of ebola. and i'm with the conviction that together we can make it. >> in liberia in particular, the president said there's light at the end of the tunnel there in the outbreak. we actually have some sound from him here, i think. >> we've come around a little bit better. we're more equipped and we now see light at the end of the tunnel. we're happy about that. >> there are some important places in liberia that have had a tremendous number of cases -- do you think that corner has already been turned there? >> yeah, of course, as i tell people, before we had assistance from the united states government, it was like they -- the ebola was -- has claimed a

good number of people of liberians. but the hope that we have. we never had hope before -- when the united states government didn't help support the ebola outbreak in liberia. but now, now that we have the assistance from the united states government i think that it has a long way to help us to come and to contain this situation in liberia and other parts of west africa. >> doctor, thank you very much for being here today. >> you're welcome. >> coming up, john boehner is up in arms over a new report about what the white house is planning to do at guantanamo. we'll discuss that next. plus breaking news on wall street. u.s. stocks just had their worst week -- worst in over two years. we will have an update on that as well ahead. [♪]

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home of gwyneth paltrow. i'm one of your biggest fans if not the biggest and she praised his efforts on equal pay, an issue that is important to her before handing the microphone off to the president saying you're so handsome that i can't speak properly. eliciting cheers from the crowd of $250 donors including julia roberts. the president's ongoing fundraising swing through california has found several events in california and new york this week. the president obama is kryptonite for democrats on the campaign trail. he last attended a rally in november of 2013. he is still a big-money draw averaging one fundraiser every five days or so this year. of course, prodigious fundraising capabilities are not necessarily a point of pride for a president with a comp collated history on the issue of campaign finance reform.

>> i'm not sinless in this process. you know, if you're in politics, you'd had to raise money but it's i've consistently fought for and successfully achieve red forms in how we deal with money in politics. i've got a track record of passing legislation that curbs the influence of money in politics. >> in 2008 he broke a promise by becoming the first general election candidate to opt out of public financing. and once in the oval office he shelved campaign reform to look at more important issues. >> you don't know, it could be the oil industry. it could be the insurance industry. could even be foreign-owned corporation. you don't know. they don't have to disclose. the american people deserve to know who is trying to sway their elections. and you can't let special

interests drown out the voices of the american people. >> but the calls have dried up even as a problem itself has got worse. dark money groups have set a record in the 2014 mid-terms with $100 million already spent a total that is likely to double by election day. joining me now is the former chair of the national democratic committee, howard dean. it's good to have you here. >> thanks for having me on, ezra. >> this is an interesting thread of the eastbound legacy. he ran in 2008 as someone who would change washington. he has pushed for campaign finance reform and also made pragmatic accommodations with the need to raise money but it's something he did not do in office was put political capital and push for a major overhaul of campaign finance laws. and even -- it's been true in the last year or two when there has not been that much major legislation moving through congress. i'm curious why you think that

is, why he never put effort into changing the way laws are made in congress. >> the first problem is he doesn't have control over congress. even when there is a democratic majority, he does not have any say. you're talking about guy who has adapted to what you have to do when you're in politics. you can't unilaterally disarm. you may remember from our campaign, i was the first person to turn down public financing. i didn't want to be a it a disadvantage against george bush. there are so many more villains here, the supreme court number one, who has gutted every campaign finance reform since 1974, to lay this at obama's doorstep is hardly fair. >> i think that this is a harder question here. because you have a situation.

when i asked the white house this question they said the difficulty is if they can't get the law passed then to push it and be raising money makes him look hypocritical. but if you have a situation where the only way to change the system is for people in the system and have thus made accommodations with the system to make a move that is politically unlikely and attacked as hypocritical, the system will never change. that puts us in a grim spot at the end of this. that's not all one president or one congress's fault. but is it a pessimistic way of looking at it. >> my view is you can never rely on incumbent politics to reform the laws. the secret is you have to have a supreme court that cares about democracy. you have to have a supreme court that understands how bad these two decisions are for the country. they basically put our country

up for sale. our practices are not that different from ukraine now in that it is all legal. that's the real problem. you've got to get one or two more justices that will go back and undo this horrible right-wing obsession with getting as much money in the process as possible. until you do that you can't do anything. then i still don't think the solution is in washington until a scandal like watergate comes up. the solution is to put back the public financing campaign in arizona and maine. the vermont system of public financing. you can go back to public finance bug not with incumbent politicians. >> one thing that is interesting is the role of time in this question. so there is a problem with the financing system in which politicians are raising money and raising that money opens them up to be influenced by the people who they are getting the money from. but there is a question on the

amount of time they have to put into raising the money. if for president, the time is a scarce resource. the fact he has been having to give time to fundraisers one out of five days that is an indictment of the system. and i'm wondering how you think about fixing that? if there is a way to fix that? >> ultimately, and it's going the take a long time to get there you have to have public financing. you need mccain-fine gold at the minimum. but you should have a level playing field. i think the tea party would agree with this. why give incumbents preference? but right now, all this money, which is now of course dark money not just transparent money, goes to incumbents because the donors figure they're going to get re-elected and get what they want out of the congressman once they are re-elected. it's a terrible system. if you are in the senate or the

house you spend more than one out of five days fundraising, going off the hill and going to some office and dialing for dollars. i think it's outrageous. >> governor howard dean thanks for being on today. thank you for having me on. coming up, a 17-year-old was in chemistry class today when she found out she won the nobel peace prize. [ male announcer ] ours was the first modern airliner,

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and she said congratulations you have won the nobel peace prize. >> malala yousafzai was awarded the moe bell piece prize today. she is the youngest person ever to receive the award. indian child labor activist -- won it with her. gunman asked for malala's name and fire lead the shots. one of the bullets hit her head. but malala recovered. the following july on her 16th birthday she addressed the united nations. the u.n. named it malala day. >> their brothers and sisters. do remember one thing. malala day is not my day. today is the day of every woman,

every boy, and every girl who have raised their voice for their rights. >> joining me now is nicholas cristoff and cheryl wooden, co authors of the book "a path appears." it is great too have you both heres. >> great to be here. isn't it great about malala. >> it's amazing. you have written an enormous amount. are you surprised that theny bell committee elevated it this way? >> it's important that it is elevated for children. malala's win is a victory for children around the world, boys and girls and it is so important to reach the youth with education. >> that's where you get leverage and one of the things that

bothered me is that we are using the military tool box and under used the education tool box. >> tell me about that tool box. the new book is about some of the most effective charities and individuals working to better the world. so what is the most exciting thing you've seen in the area of educating young women? >> one of the things we found is that educating women is wonderful. but you have to start much earlier than before a girl becomes a woman. you have to start at age zero, one, two, three, the brain is forming and is very pliable at that stage. >> we also have evidence, establiezra in a way about what works and doesn't work, with domestic and international interventions. people would make a donation and volunteer on a whim and now we

have robust, careful evidence from randomized controlled trials about what works at what cost. >> and you mentioned earlier that we have been overusing the military tool box. malala has waged a campaign against the drone war in pakistan. this today there is a lot of elevation on her work on children's rights and education but it's when she came to the u.s. she asked president obama to end the drone war. do we sanitize her criticisms when we talk about her here? >> i mean, i think that -- we think that she probably doesn't know a lot about, you know the military tools to fight the taliban. on the other hand she knows a lot about pakistani public opinion and one of the tradeoff has been that drone strikes have, indeed, taken out lead over it have taliban but

inflamed pakistani public opinion against us and helped recruitment for the taliban. it is worth listening to her. >> and do you think, cheryl, that when we use the tools in the other tool box when they talk about soft power and foreign aid is that giving on a large scale can have a national security effect both in terms of encouraging stability and better economic outcomes in these countries but also in terms of improving america's image around the world, do you think that happens in practice? >> i think it does but soft power is complicated and multifaceted. it's not just sending books or building schools. we have to change the metrics by which we deliver aid and aid is not always the most effective way. we have to create sustainable practices and sustainable businesses as well. there's an operation in kenya that is creating mass education

using a mcdonald's approach to create a chain of schools for poor kids. so we need novel approaches that aren't just what we call, you know, aid. >> say another word on that, though, what does it mean to have a mcdonald's approach to creating school? >> for instance, they have finessed what it takes to build a school in kenya. you choose the land and after that, in four months they can have a functioning school with a lot of teachers. but to get the teachers, they don't need ph.d.s or people with masters. they need people who read english and can use an ipad. so everything is basically standardized. the lesson plans and a lot of the kids are reading at the equivalent of american grade levels. >> this is an issue of economic development. you can sometimes get the money and have the tools but it does

require a lot of very talented and often very selfless people to come together and put work into it. how are people managing to do that? how are people managing to get to the scale they need to make change on a large level? >> you know, scaling i think is a big problem both abroad and domestically. there are a lot of things that the governments should be doing and that's an argument for not helping, you know the government should be doing that. i guess i would push back at that. we try to offer ways in which individuals can both lobby governments and advocacy for improvements abroad and at home. but also in the meantime while we're waiting for government to do the right thing, one can help girls go to school in pakistan or help early childhood education right here. it's "n" one sense it's a drop in the bucket for those particular individuals it is

transformative. >> one of the messages we are trying to convey is there a role for government, for businesses, for the military as well and a role for individuals. basically individuals should really take more active role in the world around them. do we really all want to be free riders in the world? we want to contribute to make this a better place. >> the book is called "a path appears." thank you very much for being here. >> coming up we'll check in with the great alex wagner who is in california for tonight ealma awards and will be speaking with eva longoria and the cast of "orange is the new black." we'll take you there. next on "now." ok, if you're up there, i could use some help. smart sarah. seeking guidance. just like with your investments. that sets you apart. it does? it does. you're type e*. and seeking another perspective is what type e*s do.

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work out in los angeles preparing for tonight's alma awards at 11:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc and alex will sit down with eva longoria to the cast of "orange is the new black" and discuss the challenges facing the latino community today but it's joining me now is the rightful inhabitant of this chair, alex wagner. good to see you. >> good to see you. "now" with ez yeah klein has a charming ring to it. >> it turns out your job is very hard. >> say that more often. say that more often. >> tell us what you have lined up tonight. >> it's an awesome show. we talk a lot on our program i'll call it our program today about the negative outcomes of a broken immigration system and the alma awards what they offer is a positive argument for the

benefits for having an inclusive, diverse society with a functioning immigration system. they honor the latino contributions to the fields of art and music and culture. we'll talk about voter registration and immigration. and criminal justice issues, recidivism, reform. what it is like to play a latino woman in jail on tv. >> i want to talk about "orange is the new black" right now. that is a live issue right now, prison reform. you are seeing a fair amount of interest on the democratic side and the republican side. you have rand paul and mark lee have interesting bills. i'm curious how much you think it cultural representations of prison that have changed minds and have begun to thaw some of the frozen politics around crime

and imprisonment. >> i think that culture can be hugely transformative. we had jeffrey tambore on last week. and i think it is really influential in terms of breaking -- not only breaking down barriers but getting the conversation started. parts of our society are seen as taboo. the first part of policy is bringing the communities out of the shadows and certainly in terms of prison reform incarcerated men and women are -- it's a prison pipeline that leaves you at the bottom of the economic ladder. so there are incentives on the left and the right to do something about what is institutional failure and a systemic problem in terms of pushing the country forward economically and socially. >> and it seems a big part of this is the increasing diversity on the folks in the shows and

writing the shows and running the shows. you are seeing the beginnings of a real shift not just in hollywood because use have the cable and the pay cable channels you have places where it is okay to aim and try something new and aim for an audience that has not presented itself in one place before. that is a big deal in getting a diverse set of perspectives and issues. >> it has been disruptive, changing the way entertainment is distributed has done what you say. and we are living through golden age of american television across all platforms. the story lines are so sophisticated. these are not surface looks at a community of incarcerated women. this is a sensitive, emotional, indepth portrayal of their lives. >> you can catch the alma awards

at 10:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc and immediately following it, hosted by alex wagner. alex is back here on monday. "the ed show" is up next. good evening, americans and welcome to "the ed show" live from detroit lakes, minnesota. let's get to work. let's talk about the minimum wage. >> raising the minimum wage. >> we're creating a mind set we have a minimum wage economy. >> might be key. >> raising the minimum wage is not the answer. >> it's hard to believe that any american could survive on $7.25 an hour. >> you just spent in ten seconds what i will make in an hour. >> i'm not concerned about the very poor. >> folks, i'm sorry, i'm just a business guy. >> job creators in america. >> the job creators. >> when does the greed stop? >> calm down.