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fluids of the patient. that is what is bearing a high viral load and in the prosays of taking it off, that's when exposure risk is highest. >> that's correct. we are also concerned at the new york state nurses association as at the aflcio that this are no mandatory gadlinuidelines for t type of training and we is you will port that very much. >> thank you very much. >> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we've got a big show ahead. this's lots of news including lots of late breaking news tonight. we've also got a shaky new experiment that i have very little confidence that is going to work, but we're going to try it anyway. we begin tonight in south america. can we put up a map of south america? on the continue innocent of south america, there is a country called guyana.
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it's color to another part of south america, french guyana. what neither of those countries has anything to do with is africa. africa. whole different continent. africa, western africa, is where the nation of guinea is. guinea is one of the countries where ebola is now an epidemic. so to be clear, guinea is in africa. guyana is in south america. armed with that knowledge, go, congress, go. >> beginning in march, 2014, in the west african nation of guyana, the world first learned about, yet, another new outbreak of the ebola virus. >> republican congressman daryl isa telling the world today that ebola started in a nation called
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guyana, which is a nation in south america which has nothing to -- but, at least in that sentence, he did get the word ebola right. >> yesterday's news was a doctor in new york city tested positive for eboli, and this is particular hi distressing. cdc declared that a nurse who became infected with eboli must have contact -- contracted it. >> the news of that medical doctor returning from -- the news that a medical doctor returning from guyana now has tested positive to foster the development of eboli treatments. president obama's treatment, a wrong claim, to serve as the eboli czar. sadly, in my opinion. gh oh, yes, give us more of your opinion, your well informed -- >> on the one hand, who cares
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that a member of congress thinks that e. coli and ebola may be ma maybe the same thing. who cares if some guy who rums a car alarm company has absolutely no idea what he is talking about when it comes to a disease diagnosed in two cities, kpept, that same person also runs the congress and now decides that it ought to be doing oversight hearings on eboli, ecola, coca-cola, shinola, whatever. and important to our nation's understands of the ricolla, the canoli, the e-mail, whatever you call it. >> okay. so when the head of the cdc says you can't get it with somebody
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own the bus next to you, that's just not true. >> no, actually you can't get ebola on the bus, daryl isa. or on the sub way. this's new york city mayor riding the subway in new york city to show everybody that it's safe to ride the subway. there's new york governor doing the same thing. these are not guys you usually see on the subway. but they're doing these subway rides today to show that it's safe. they're doing this to counter any worry about any news that the doctor spiked a fever yesterday morning was diagnose nosed with ebola last night. the message is that, yes, new york city has its first patient, but it's okay. it's okay to take the subway. it is okay to take the bus. that doctor went bole e bowling on wednesday night before he got sick. it's okay to go bowling at that bowling alley. it's okay to go bowling even at other bowling al heels.
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even ones in other cities or states. even in south america, do they bowl in south america? it's okay to drink coffee from places that dr. craig spencer got coffee before he got sick. it's okay to eat at the places where the doctor ate before he got sick. these are pictures of our staff dinner tonight, which we ordered from the meat ball shop, which is a delicious new york city joint that dr. spencer before he got sick. it's not the first time we ordered from that meat ball shop, but it was delicious. and it's okay. it's all going to be okay. dr. craig spencer is in isolation at bellevue hopt in new york where he's being treated for his illness.
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>> we've got two very different tracks. two opposite responses to ebola as a nation. whenl we think back on this time as a country, days hence, right? when we look back only this time, when books are written about this, and they will be. about this as a challenge and a health crisis and a moment that called for leadership in this nation. it's almost impossible to believe. but that historical record is going to have to show that there has been a huge partisan divide in the response. a sharply divergent distant. this real hi is turning out to be the republican response. >> you can get ebola sitting next to someone on a bus. >> no, you can't. >> daryl isa today u right? who can't tell guinea from guyana.
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or eboli than ebola. but he knows better than any doctor. don't take the bus, america. daryl guyana leading the charge in congress. it peter king telling the long island talk radio, it's time for the doctors to realize that they were wrong. he, peter king, has determined that ebola has mule tatatez as virus to become an airborne disease. it's airborne. you probably have it if you've been out in the air, people. wake up. it's one thing you have people in positions of power who have no idea what they're talking about, nevertheless using their positions of power trying to let everybody that they know and the authorities don't to try to freak people out as much as possible and
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deliberately undermine people's confidence in health authorities. encouraging as much panic as possible with made up disnfrgs. so that's one model for how to lead in response to a crisis. that really is what they're doing. that's rand paul saying hey, trust me. you're going to get this thing at a cocktail party. don't go to cocktail parties. that's peter kane saying the doctors are wrong. the doctors are wrong. and he, peter king, is right because he looked up the word mutat trk mutated this morning. and against that, against whatever storm surge of panic can be general rated by that tide of nonsense against that, there's the brooklyn burro
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president. this's the mayor of new york city and the governor of the state riding the subway saying it's okay. at the nih today, nurse nin nina fomm was declared cured, free of the disease. and i think, in part, they're doing that because they do real hi seem to like her. but they're also doing it on purpose. to show that she is safe. it's okay. [ applause ] . >> good afternoon. i feel fortunate and bheszed to be standing here today. although i no honger ha erno lo, it may be a while before i have my strength be.
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so i ask for my privacy and my family's privacy to be respected as i return to texas and try to get back to a normal life and reunited with my dog, benthy. thank you, everyone. >> thank you all very much. we appreciate you being here. >> how much are you going to miss nina? >> i'm going to miss nina a lot. i gave her my cell phone number just in case i get lonely. >> after nina fomm was release from care, she then went to the white house, to the oval office and met one-on-one with president obama. and president obama likes her as much as to beny faucci does. buzz it was dhib rat. it's to show that it was okay. not only is she cured from ebola, by virtue of having recovered from it, she's immune from it.
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to increase the current screening procedures from infected countries from the current cdc procedures. we believe it is in the state of new york and state of new jersey's legal right to control access to their bordersment we will establish an interview of an individual's risk level by considering a geographic air kwa of origin and a level of ex exposure to the sigh rus. gh that's new york governor earlier tonight. he and new jersey governor joinlyjoin jointly announced mandatory quarantines for any health worker returning from west africa who had contact with ebola patients while abroad. that's a new policy announced this evening. this was earlier tonight at university hospital in newark, nmg nj. the person in the balancambulan we're told, is a doctors without
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borders staff person who arrived at newark today. she had been involved with treatment of patients in west africa. this staff worker had no symptoms when she flew in, but the new jersey department of health put her under a 21 day quarantine. this evening, we're today, that worker did develop a fever and is now in isolation. it is not yet clear if the new york and new jersey region has its second patient in two days. that may be the case. if it is the case, both of these people will have been in sharyl circumstances once they game home. joining us now is the director of the national center for disaster preparedness. thanks for being with us. >> the 21-day quarantine announcement today.
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this is nk new jersey and new y specific. it goes beyond what they're doing in other states and beyond cdc recommendations at this point. is it a smart move? does it make sense to you? gh i certainly understand the public pressure to do this. this is an evolving process. the policies are changing, as we speak. and the reason is that as we learn more, as we're trying to appreciate what the actual risks are, the policy is evolving. we have to be care 68, though, if we go too far in making people alarmed, then we're increasing the amount of screening and the amournt of quarantine. this is a downside to this is e in which it can discourage people from wanting to go and volunteer at the most important thing that we can do which is to treat the ebola at its e its source in west africa. >> you're saying by making it essentially so inkreent upon return from home for american health workers to go participate in that, you may discourage people? gh yeah, these are extraordinary
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procedures by doctors and nurses saying they're going to go and help out with this pretty dangerous disease in africa. they're trying to make this decision that the person says i'm going to go for four weeks or algts weeks, but now i'm finding out that i have to be quarantined. when i get back, it could tilt the decision to go in the first place in the wrong direction of providing services in those thee countries in africa. there's a downside to all of those policies. but on the other hand, what i'm hoping for is that we keep focused on the science and not go above and beyond what makes sense from a rational public health point of view and scientific point of view. we're in a spectrum here. so on the onened e end, we're dealing with policies and protocols derived from the science. and on the other hand, it's an abundance of caution where we're sort of bowing to public pressure. and we have to find that balance. this is what i think the
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policymakers are are struggling with. where is the right balance between the science only and giving, you know, some credence to the fact that people are nervous about it. if we go too far, as i said, it becomes a discouragementedme tot people need to do. gh is there a response consequence to having political leaders say things like don't take the bus, you're going to get it at a cocktail party. don't believe what the cdc tells you. the doctors don't know anything. don't believe the authorities. >> it's a little horrifying when politicians are saying things that are actual hi literally contrary to the scientific information. >> yeah. >> and that does no good what so ever, except cause a lot of chaos. we understand it's the midterm election season. we understand all of that. we understand people may not understand anything about this. but if you're a political leader, it really better to stick to things that the scientists say are true.
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and one of the things that's actually been impressive about the process of new york has been an extraordinary amount of focus on the science and having developed policy and protocols from that science. so this is what we're sort of babbling here. people are nervous and anxious. we shouldn't make statements that will make them more anxious, especially when they're not true. >> doctor, who's been an advisor to the mayor on this. thank you. >> all right. busy friday night in the news. lots ahead, including, as i mentioned earlier, something i'm sure is doomed technical failure. as far as i can see, we're never the less going to try to pull off live here on the show. lots ahead. stay with us.
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this is a place called cafe racer. it's an espresso bar where this's hosts and live music. on may 12th, at around 11:00 a.m., a 40-year-old walked into cafe racer and started shooting. he was armed with two pistols. he shot one victim near the door in the back of the head and then moved into the bar area shooting another group of patrons. two of those died at the scene, two more were pronounced dead at a local hospital. two more ned the scene and about a half an hour later, shot and killed a 52-year-old woman in a parking lot while attempting to carjack her suv.
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local schools were put on lockdown. eventually, after police closed in on the suspected, he shot and killed himself. it was may 2012 in seattle, six people dead, including the shooter. two years later, in june of this year, the 26-year-old man walked on to the campus of seattle, a small christian school, he entered a science and engineering building and managed to shoot three people. he killed one of them before he was tackled while he was trying to reload. they held the shooter down until police could arrive at the scene and later said that he was held bent on killing a lot of people. those mass shootings in the seattle area followed other shootings in recent years. an '08 shooting left six people dead, four police officers were shot and killed in 2009.
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then, today, it happened again. this time, the scene was a high school. in a suburb north of seattle at around 10:30 this morning, a freshman armed with what's been described as a pistol, started shooting inside the school's cafeteria. students who were with him remained calm the whole time. the students who were shot were sitting with the gunman at the time. >> he was just quite. he was sitting there. everyone was talking. all of the sudden, i see him stand up, pull something out of his pocket. at first, i thought it was someone making a really loud noise, with, like a big, loud pop until i heard four more after that. and then i saw thee kids just fall from the table like they were falling to the ground dead. i jumped under the table as fast as i could. when it stopped, i looked back up. i saw he was trying to reload his gun and i just ran in the
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opposite direction and got out of this as fast as i could. >> they say tonight that a total of six people were shot at this washington state high school today including the gunman who died at the scene of a self-inflected wound. so he killed himself at e and shot five others. one female student has been pronounced dead. four other students were rushed to local students. it's a sign of just how common shootings like this have come. not just across the country but in the seattle area specifically. >> we are ready to handle these cases. we are a level two trauma center. we've had a very good response from our medical staff. about 25 doctors showed up. we had two neurosurgeons on the scene. we had a heart surgeon, a chest
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surgeon as well as multiple trauma surgeons. >> can you talk a little bit about any kind of planning or drills you had at this school that shed some light to how you prepare for a horrible day like this. >> >> yeah, we have done training at the school. it's with our s.w.a.t. team. i cannot say exactly when that took place or when the last time that took place. >> the police had done training for this at that school. the local hospital had been conducting drills for a shooting just like this. tonight, marysville had just that happen. hopt officials say tonight that of the four students rushed to the hospital after today's shooding, three of the four are in critical condition. one is in serious condition. we'll let you know as we learn more.
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thanksgiving dinner with your extended family and half dread it all yearlong because he's going to be there. in that world of a grieved, conservative, all capital letters, paranoia, this is the biggest deal in the world right now. this is official camera footage sought inside the board of elections in maracopa county, arizona. you can clearly see people entering the facility, coming through the doors. am they're coming in there to drop off their ballots for the election. this county has a collection box set up. you see person after person coming through the doors and dropping off their ball hots, but, then, in this video, there's this guy. and your fox-news watching uncle is very upset by this guy right now. as you can see, the guy is wearing shorts and flip-flops and a t-shirt. the t-shirt is from a group called citizens for a better arizona. citizens for a better arizona is a group that says they're trying
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to increase latino voter participation in that state. and, in fact, the guy in this footage works for that glup. but what you see in this footage that has your ujle so upset is that the dude is not just dropping off a ballot. he's not just there to cast a vote in the election. that guy is there to drop off a whole bunch of votes for the election. you can see him, clearly, in this footage. he doesn't just drop one ballot and leave like everybody else. he stays longer because he's putting in ballot after ballot after ballot, oh, my god. liberal act vis caught on camera. oh, you know it's good. left wing act vis caught in ballot box in arizona. does this video show a hispanic activist committing vote fraud? hispanic. emphasis on panic. glen beck adds the damning video to the still from the footage.
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surveillance video, aparentally catches guy doing something at the ballot box that leaves republican monitors stunned. the frenzy started spread from there at all the national right wing blogs. and now i garn tee you your aforementioned kwon servetive upgle with this damming surve surveillance camera footage, as we speak. did i mention that the guy in the video is clearly hispanic? a few things to know about this. first, the timing. i know it's nice, the weather is always nice in arizona. but this footage of a guy in nip flops and a t-shirt was shot in august. this whole thing happened in august, but it's just being rolled out now by the con essentialtive media a week and a halve before our big, national election in order to create a scary feeling for gullible con essentialtive people all over the country. yeah, sure, down at your low k58 presixth, you might be plain e
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planning to vote your one little vote. but latinos, like this guy, they're stuffing the ballot box with hundreds of ballots. blatantly stealing the e lektss. be afraid. that's one thing to know about it. the timing it happened. months ago. but they're making it a story now. and it has turned into a huge story on the right. the other thing to know about this story is that the guy is not actually stealing the election. it is perfectly legal and a long standing praing tis in arizona that it's okay to drop off other people's absentee ballots at the board of e herkss. you can even drop off multiple people's ballots at once. it's okay. and that fact of arizona law has led to some hilarious journalistic update. they've still got the headline about the surveillance video catching the guy doing something at the ball lot box.
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you can still read through ten pretty breathless paragraphs about how a man was seen stuffing hundreds of ballots into the ball los box. the entire incident caught on surveillance video. they give you the exact time for the crime. it was between 12:54 and 1:04. america used to be a nation of laws where one person had one vote. i'm sad to say, not anymore. >> you get through ten paragraphs of this terrible, breathless, damning reporting about this horrible ballot stuffing that has happened. and then, oh, look, you skip to the bottom. editor's note. this post has been up dated. ivan reid. oh, go back. turns out ivan reid is spokeswoman for the county elections department. she eventually get es a call after they've posted their damming story and unfortunately, tells them, quote people can bring in someone else's bat e ballot. there's no law against it.
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surveillance camera catches guy doing sng. red arrow. the crime of legally participating in the normal voting process why appearing to be hispanic has blown up on the right this week like a dirty bomb. and your uncle is not going to pass you the marshmallow yams at thanksgiving this year until he gets a straigt answer from you about what happened in maracopa county because he saw the tape. so from the right wipg universe, you should know that that is part one of what they rolled out this week. your paranoid con receivabletive uncle's inbox does need filling at this time. the fox news channel is also doipg its part, as well. the fox news chap this week decided to invent their own blood curdling tale of people legally voting, except their blood curdling team is set not
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in arizona, but in colorado. >> breaking tonight with two weeks to the mid firms, we are getting warnings that a new law has opened the door to possible voter fraud in a critical senate race that could decide the balance of power in congress. it was roughly 16 months ago when the democratic governor of colorado signed a first-of-its kind new election law. a set of rules that allows rez depts to print ballots from their home computers and then encounselors them to turn ballots over to collectors in what appears to be an effort to do away with traditional polling places. what could go wrong? it sounds terrible. that's because they made it up. so it would so you believed e sound terrible. local news stations in colorado have been correcting the fox news channel ever since they started making up this story this week. here's kusa in colorado trying to calm down their viewers. tuesday's episode of fox news host megan kel hi's program
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incorrectly told viewers that colorado voters are not anyone to print ballots using their home come pulters and vote by turning them in. the claim that colorado law allows for home-printed ballots is simply false. most colorado voters cannot print a ballot and use it to vote. there's only one category of colorado voter who is can, those serving in the military. that system has nothing to do with colorado's new election law. it was in place beforehand. so yoe kroe has a vote by mail system this year, which other states have two. fox has now decided that in the state of colorado, that easter filling. even if it doesn't terrify them anywhere else in the country. and the long standing way that colorado military voters have always voted, that's also on fox news. now a democratic lot to steal the election. and it's something brand new, everyone though it's only for military voters and it's not new at all.
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but the e lekts is a week and a half away and your uncle needs reading material. conservative media needs the republican base to get really alarmed that this might be volting going on out there. some of it by people who appeared to be latino fraud. and some of it in places that have started to frequently vote for democrats. fraud. sd so in is what the next week and a half is going to be like. a frenzy of made-up stuff that people are hoping will think things illegal about potential democrats voting in the upcoming election. now, to be fair, the republican party proper is not responsible for the stuff that they make up on the fox news channel and your uncle and his where's the birth t-shirt.
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so fake their great hope, new jersey republican governor chris christie, in charge of electing republican governors setting the stage for his own widely anticipated run for president. here's how important this election is if republicans have any hope of winning back the white house in 2016. >> if all you're concerned about is 2016, let me suggest this to you. if you have any chance of electing a republican president, there's a bunch of things we need to do. but the first is to have a good bench of republican candidates. and i am convinced that the next president of the united states is going to be a governor. and it need to be. >> guess who's a governor. chris christi building himself up as a potential 2016 candidate. he says that electing repub hi can governors this year will
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help the party put up a good of e slate of candidates to run. in order to win the white house, the first thing the republicans need is a good bench. that's the first thing they need to get a republican in the white house. and now here's the second thing they need. >> secondly, wad e what would you rather have if you were a republican candidate and the nominee? would you rather have rick scott in florida orr seeing the voting mechanism? or charlie cryst? scott walker or mary burke? who would you rather have in ohio? john kasik or ed fitzgerald. fact is, if you're just a pragmatist, you're going to care about who's running those states in november, 2016. what kind of political apparatus they set up and what kind of governmental apparatus they set up. >> wow. you know, in theory, who's in control, which party is in
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control of a governmental apparatus of a state shouldn't be a factor in who's likely to win an election in that state. gaining partisan control of the voting mechanism isn't what you're supposed to admit is your plan for elections. when the chris christie remarks this week were first reported in nnk nmg, the usually mild-man r mild-mannered links to christie's remark and says how can we cheat on vote counts if we don't control the goef nor ships. after breaking the news about the common e kmebts this week.
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>> he then gave a charification. >> i would much rather have republicans counting those votes than i would democrats. listen, i'm a republican. i want republicans counting the votes when i'm running. usually, it's the conservative media that's willing to say sufficient that radical. that's willing to talk about taking over the vote counting so republicans will win. that's the crazy stuff coming iii the conservative media. this year, though, you can take those goal posts and run down field with them. this year, even the mainstream gop is saying they need republicans to win kbov nor ship to ensure republican presidential candidate wins the
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count. in order to find any space at all to the right of that, we've got to have conservative media pointing and screaming at people who commit the crime while latino. or, in the case of fox news, making up scandalous voting laws that don't exist and telling prime time viewers that what they just made up is how they're fixing the election. if the democrats end up doing well on this election, imagine what they're going to make up then? this is nuts this year. tell your uncle i said so. i'm letting you go. i knew that. you see, this is my amerivest managed... balances. no. portfolio. and if doesn't perform well for two consecutive gold. quarters. quarters...yup. then amerivest gives me back their advisory... stocks. fees. fees. fees for those quarters. yeah. so, i'm confident i'm in good hands. for all the confidence you need. td ameritrade. you got this.
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hast week, we tried a new thing on friday night. it was really hard to pull off, but we worked really hard at it, and it worked. by the skin of its teeth, it worked. so, tonight, we decided to change it to make it way harder. i'm absolutely sure that this is going to be a disaster. maybe, next. blapg blank
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>> admit it. admit it. it has been an unusually tough
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week. so let's now do something completely different. now is the time where one of this show's faithful viewers will have the opportunity to prove right here on the show that they have been maying attention to the news all week long. it's our "friday night news dump." whoo! our producer is here to help with the logistics tonight. hello, julia. on whom shall i be dumping news tonight? >> tonight you'll be did you everen on christina jackson. she owns a design animation studio, she also plays the mandolin and she has no pugs named gracie and maddy and a cat named emma. >> nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you, too, rachel. >> i have been given an additional note saying if you win our game tonight this will be the first time you won a prize of any kind since you were
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5 years old. >> that's correct. >> what did you win when you were 5? >> an eggplant. >> were you at an eggplant competition? or did you really lose? >> we did a field trip to a grocery store and the grocery store held up the eggplant and said whoever can guess this will win it. and i guessed that it was an eggplant. >> and that taught you to never compete again. >> exactly. >> at least until now. i'm going to ask you three questi questions. if you get two or more of them right, you will win an awesome piece of swag. >> it's this awesome minicocktail shaker. >> teeny tiny, nobody will get hurt. we need to bring in the d disembodied voice of steve bennan. he's going to tell us when you get a question right or wrong. steve, are you there? >> yes, good evening, christina, good evening, rachel. >> hi. >> yay. are you ready to go? >> i am. >> you know, we've only done
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this once before and my experience with things that you do for the first time is that you follow the recipe really close the first time it works. and then the second time you get cavalier and completely fails. so let's see what we can do. ready? >> i'm ready. >> twice this week, we told you about the democratic candidates for statewide office who had decided they would not participate in previously scheduled debates with their republican opponents. so one of those democrats eventually did decide to debate this week, but one of them did not. and that decision resulted in that candidate's opponent getting an hour of free unopposed tv air time, opposite an empty chair. who was that democrat. i need the name and the state. >> oh, i nomar that cokely changed her mind. she decided to go in. and, you know, i'm really afraid i don't remember the person who -- >> i will give you a hint. >> okay. >> the person who got to sit on stage for an hour debating an
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empty chair insfed of this democratic candidate is a person named tom tillis. does that help? >> it doesn't actually. so i really am going to have to win the second and third to get that prize. >> you are going to have to win the second and the third. steve, can you walk us through it? >> let's turn to the debate's moderator. >> you're watching "capital tonight." we're a debate with thom tillis. kay hagan refused to appear. >> unfortunately, christina did not get that one. >> but you've got two more chances. are you going to be all right? >> i think so. >> let's go to question two. this one is multiple choice. >> on wednesday this week, as part of our reporting on the attacks in ottawa, we discussed another attempt to attack the
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canadian parliament that happened in 1966. in that incident, a would-be bomber brought an explosive device to the canadian parliament. but in a last minute, the miscalculation by the bomber saved the day and nobody got hurt. what did the bomber screw up back in 1966? was it a, the bomber forgot to bring a match or a lighter to light the fuse on the bomb. b, the bomber took a wrong turn inside parliament and got stuck behind a locked door. c, the bomber cut the wrong wire and actually defused the bomb, or d, the bomber thought the fuse would take longer to burn than it did and it ended up blowing up too soon. what's the right answer. >> this is one of the few i didn't study. >> let's say accidentally defused the bomb. >> steve, what's the wrong answer? >> the correct answer is d, the
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bomb thought the fuse would take longer to burn and it blew up too soon killing only him. >> at this point, you're playing for honor. but i also have to tell you we're notorious cheaters. although we said you have to get two or three right in order to get the swag. you could probably persuade me if you get the last one. are you ready for the last one? >> i'll do my best. >> don't be -- it's going to be fine. all right. veteran "boston globe" reporter walter robinson, this week he nailed another massachusetts politician for being less than forthright about his military record while runs for public office. in the past, walter robinson has exposed other politicians for lying serving in vietnam when they didn't. for receiving battlefield promotions or saying they did when they actually hadn't. this week, that reporter, walter robinson nailed another politician. a massachusetts congressional candidate for not telling the voters about an important part of his military record.
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who did walter robinson expose in the "boston globe" this week and do you remember what it was for? >> seth molton for winning a bronze star and the marine army medal. >> marine army medal? bronze star? steve? steve? >> it is seth molton running for the 6th congressional massachusetts. let's turn to monday's sellingment for the rest of the answer. >> in this case, it is a lie only by omission because the guy didn't want to tell people about the awards he received for combat heroism and for bravery. >> yes. so that means, the answer is seth molton who was braggin bus not bragging about two medals of honor. >> do you want to know how we're going to manage the cheating we're about to do on the air. that was, give me the name of the guy and then extra credit,
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what did he lie about? and you got sort of the extra credit. so even though we're totally cheating i'm going to call that two right answers. and if it was two right answers does that mean that christina won? >> yes, she wins the kwok tail shaker. thank you for playing. thank you for letting me cheat on your behalf and thank you for watching the show this week and knowing even more about the seth molton thing than i did. >> good to see you. goodbye. >> we will send you your tiny shaker. if any of you out there think you have what it takes aft s to survive the "friday news dump." all you need to do is go to maddow blog.com. we have all the details about how you can apply. you can do that really fast, but very, very shortly you are due in prison.