amount of resources and you'll have to find out how to spend that money on the ground in an effective way. that's "all in" for this evening. the "rachel maddow show" starts right now. thank to you for joining us. charlie savage at "the new york times," he got the results of a freedom of information act request he filed a long time before. it was a freedom of information act request he filed with the fbi. fbi agents are sort of megacops, right? they work for the federal government, not for any local jurisdiction. they investigate violations of federal law. they track down people who are suspected of breaking federal law. they investigate. they do intelligence work. they do counterintelligence work which means they try to catch other countries' spies who are operating in the united states. a big part of what they do is to go after public corruption. they try to bust crooked politicians. fbi agents do a lot of different things.

but a lot of what they do is a variant of policing. and as such, they are legally authorized to use force in carrying out their duties. fbi agents are issued guns by the fbi. but when in the course of their duties an fbi agent uses his or her gun to kill someone, there's this interesting question about who investigates that kind of shooting? theoretically, any time someone gets shot and killed somewhere in america, the local prosecutor, wherever that happened, can and should investigate that killing. but when it is a federal law enforcement officer who did the killing, local prosecutors don't go there. there's, you know, rare once in a blue moon exception to that. if you get rid of that rounding error, basically, the answer is no. local authorities don't investigate when an agent from the fbi kills someone in the line of duty. instead, the fbi, this federal agency, investigates itself on

one of its own agents uses deadly force. the freedom of information act request that charlie savage finally got fulfilled last summer was about the results of those investigations of themselves that the fbi did when one of its agents killed someone. turns out between 1993 and 2011 there were 80 incidents in which fbi agents shot and wounded someone. over the same time period, 70 incidents when fbi agents shot and killed someone. so from 1993 to 2011, a period of 18 years, there were 150 incidents in which fbi agents shot and killed or shot and wounded someone. and the fbi investigated every single one of those shootings and those killings through its own internal rigorous, self-review process. and through that internal rigorous self-review process, they determined that every single one of those 150 shootings was a good shoot.

every single one of them was justified. so that's the feds. that's the fbi. there's a lot of concern around the country that local prosecutors let local police officers get away with killing people way too frequently and way too easily. and when there's upset and worry about local policing going wrong, local policing being unaccountable, are the political instinct that kicks in is to bring in a higher authority, right? to try to supersede whatever patterns and prejudices and baggage might exist at the local level and instead ask the federal government to try to come in and fix whatever is wrong at the hole level. in the case of law enforcement officers killing people with impunity that is uncanny if it isn't systematic. well if that's the problem, the feds maybe aren't the solution. the feds don't offer a reassuring example of how to do that better twlen comes to their

own federal law enforcement experience. this summer as the fbi declared itself faultless in yet another high-profile shooting, this summer, a year after charlie savage first published that devastating data about the fbi clearing itself in 100% of cases that it reviewed, this past summer we also reported on another agency that's also a federal agency which has 50% more armed agents than the fbi does. it's an agency that has doubled in size in the past decade. it's the border patrol. a huge fast-growing agency with lots of armed officers. who are entitled to use force as part of their duties. border patrol takes it a step further than fbi. border patrol not only investigates themselves, when one of their officers kills someone or shoots someone.

they also just don't tell anybody when it happens. they don't report it publicly when their officers shoot and kill someone. there's no public data about that. so you can try to piece it together from complaints you might be able to find or mab there's a news report every once in a while about a border patrol officer shoot shooting somebody or killing somebody but there's no systematic public information about those officers killing anyone. the agency just doesn't release that data. those are the feds. if they are supposed to be the gold standard that local police should look up to in terms of accountability for hurting people and killing people. if they are the gold standard, then we need a new gold standard. protests continued throughout this past weekend about police killing people, particularly police killing african-americans with impunity. protests are continuing also tonight. protesters in new york city tonight, quite a lot of them staged a rather big die-in and

protest outside the barclays center in brooklyn tonight. inside the barclays center tonight, prince william and duchess kate middleton were in attendance to watch the brooklyn nets play the cleveland cavaliers. the cavaliers star player, the king of the nba, lebron james brought the outside protesters message on to the court tonight. he wore an "i can't breathe" t-shirt during warm-ups. several other players also wore similar shirts tonight. this past weekend derek rose also wore an "i can't breathe" t-shirt as did detroit lions running back reggie bush. his sort of home made. it's written there with a marker on the front of his blue shirt. protests are under way in washington, d.c. they staged another die-in tonight. other protesters marched through the streets yelling we're young, we're strong, we're marching all night long. blocking traffic in downtown

d.c. tonight. protests under way in berkeley and in oakland in northern california. in berkeley and oakland this weekend, protests did turn violent. not just rowdy protests but violence and looting both among protesters and between protesters and police both saturday and sunday night in the bay area. in the midst of these continuing protests, today the new york daily news published this. the "new york daily news" published their own report, their own statistics about police killing people in new york city specifically. starting 15 years ago with the killing of amadou diallo. innocent and unarmed but police shot at him 41 times and killed him while looking for someone else. since that high-profile police killing 15 years ago in 1999, according to the "new york daily news" today by their tabulation, new york city police officers have killed at least 179 people over 15 years.

this is only people killed by on-duty police officers. and certainly a lot of these killings are unimpeachable circumstances from the point of view of the cops. in october when this crazed man wielding a hatchet launched an unprovoked attack on four rookie police officers just standing on a street corner in new york. that assailant with the ax was killed by those police officers who he attacked but not before he grievously wounded a couple of them. that man is among the 179 deaths contributed to police. so some of these circumstances are very different than others. but in more than a quarter of the killings by police in america's largest city, in more than a quarter of them, the assailant was unarmed, like amadou diallo. like an army veteran named shem walker who told a man to get off his grandma's stoop in the tough neighborhood he lived in. the man he told to get off the stoop said no.

they argued. it turned into a fist fight and the man who had been sitting on the stoop pulled out a gun and shot shem walker three times and killed him. the guy who wouldn't get off the stoop was an undercover police officer. shem walker is dead. nobody was ever prosecuted in that case. what this "daily news" investigation found is no one is ever prosecuted in these cases. almost never. over 15 years, 179 people killed by police officers in just one city, out of 179 people killed, a grand total of three of those killings resulted in an indictment by local prosecutors. and precisely one case was there a conviction of a police officer for killing somebody in the line of duty. in that one case where there was a conviction, the officer served no jail time. the conviction was for negligent homicide in that case. the sentence was probation and a few hundred hours of community service. so in 15 years, 179 killings,

one successful prosecution by local prosecutors, zero jail time. so, yeah, people are upset. of those 179 people killed by police in the cases where the race of the person killed is known, 86% were reportedly black or hispanic. 86%. one conviction over 179 deaths. zero jail time. today in cleveland, the mother of 12-year-old tamir rice who was killed by police while he played with an air soft pellet gun at a local rec center, the whole interaction between the boy and the police who shot him was less than three seconds. less than three seconds between when the police pulled up and when that boy was dead. today in cleveland, his mother spoke publicly for the first time since her son was killed on november 22nd. for context in terms of understanding what she says, the family, mother who is speaking here, lived just across the street from the park where her

son was killed. he had been at the park along with his 14-year-old sister. the boy who was killed was 12 years old. he'd been at the park with his 14-year-old sister. his mother ran to the park as soon as she heard what happened. listen to her explain. >> my name is samaria rice, and on november 22nd, about 3:30 p.m., reminding you that i stay right across the street from the recreation center, two little boys came and knocked on my door and said the police just shot your son twice in the stomach. as i was trying to get through to my son, the police told me to calm down or they will put me in the back of the police car. i noticed the police are just standing around and they wasn't doing anything. and again, i arrived the same

time the ambulance did. so again, i just noticed them. they wasn't doing anything. my daughter was screaming for me and my son, i really couldn't get to him because he was a little bit across the walkway. so after i couldn't get to him and they told me to calm down, they gave me an ultimatum of whether i stay with the 14-year-old or do i go with the 12-year-old. this is what they told me. so, of course, i went with the 12-year-old and they made me sit in the front of the ambulance truck like i was a passenger. >> what would you consider a just outcome of the case on behalf of your son? >> to answer your question, i'm looking for a conviction. >> i'm actually looking for a conviction she says. that would be a very rare occurrence in this country if it happens. i would love to tell you exactly how rare it is, but as a

country, we don't count killings by police in any systematic way. some police departments do keep those numbers themselves. some keep them and report them to the fbi. some do neither. when the "new york daily news" compiled their data about police killings over the last 15 years. they had to couch all their reporting in terms of being at least that many killed and as best as they can tell in terms of what happened. even the biggest police department in the country, the nypd will not release its internal statistics. and they don't report it to the feds either. the police killing people in this country is not really defined as a problem. so we don't bother to collect or release any data that shows whether it's a problem or worse of a problem in other parts of the country than others. when 12-year-old tamir rice was killed in cleveland, the justice department announced soon after an agree to partially take over

that local police department to install federal monitors in cleveland for a police department so broken that they once sent 62 police vehicles to chase one speeding car and then fired 179 bullets into that car to kill the two unarmed people who were inside it. speeding in cleveland. this is the same police department that hired the officer who killed 12-year-old tamir rice within three seconds of first encountering him despite the fact he was fired from his previous job at a suburban police department for being unsuited to police work and according to his previous supervisors, unable to control himself, specifically around firearms. cleveland hired a guy whose personnel record said that because they had no policy of reading previous personnel files for anyone they were considering hiring to be a cleveland cop. they didn't have a policy of looking at that kind of stuff. and so, yes, the federal government will step in and intervene in the administration

of cleveland's police force. they'll do it for the second time in a decade. maybe that will help. but there's no reason to think that federal intervention is magic. ask anybody who has ever been shot by an fbi agent. today the attorney general of new york state proposed something that would be a significant change. it would be at least a systemic kund of change. attorney general eric schneiderman proposed when police officers kill an unarmed civilian in new york, such a case should not be handled by local prosecutors. incidents like that should be treated as special circumstances for prosecution. they should be handed up as a matter of course to the state to investigate and prosecute. cases like that should go to his office to the office of the state attorney general. >> i think this would do -- go a long way towards restoring public confidence which right now is shot. the public and this crosses racial lines, ideological lines, public confidence in our system

of investigating and prosecuting police misconduct, particularly when unarmed civilians are killed by the police. must be addressed. it's not that i don't believe my colleagues, the district attorneys are completely committed to integrity of the process. this is something to restore public confidence because the appearance of justice has to be restored. a sense of equal justice under the law and disinterested prosecutor. i would be very disappointed with all of the energy of the protests we come away with nothing in way of reforming. >> new york attorney general eric schneiderman talking to ronan farrow today explaining this request he's made to new york state's governor. request for an executive order that would put his office, his attorney general's office in charge at the state level whenever an unarmed civilian is killed by police in the state of new york. is that the right reform? wisconsin has just started trying something kind of like this as a landmark new state law. no state has done exactly this.

would it work? would be it a real change? is this smart? stay with us.

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for yet another night prorks tests continue around the country against the police killing of citizens, in part with immunity. earlier this evening in brookin, new york, they staged a die-in outside the barclays center where prince william and kate middle ton were watching the game. we've seen oakland, klg, even anchorage, alaska. this is an aerial shot of what appears to be a large-scale protests in the streets of

berkeley, california, where there was some violence in terms of looting and between protesters and between protesters and police this weekend. joining us is eric adams. he retired after serving 22 years on the force. co-founder of 100 blacks in law enforcement who care. he's the borough president in brooklyn. looking at those protesters in the streets of brooklyn tonight outside the barclays center and what appears to be a real sustained effort to keep this fight going on in the streets and in the discussion, do you feel like it's leading toward anything constructive? >> i'm extremely excited. my entire career in the police department, i pushed for this. i was demonized for talking about we need systemic changes. this is my life labor ooum seeing materialize and the diversity. these are the grandchildren of the civil rights movement. black, white, different ethnicities that are saying they want change. they aren't fighting against the

police department. they are fighting against the past. they want the future to be a brighter future. >> can you talk about what you wrote about in a national op ed. you wrote about your decision to become a police officer despite, or maybe because of circumstances that you happened to you when you were a teen arge. you were arrested and treated for badly by police, abused by police and that was part of your decision. >> it's about reconciliation. you reconcile with people but also have to reconcile with yourself and people saw that, why did i seem like a man possessed around, you know, abuse in law enforcement. because the demon was within me and i had to deal with that demon of how i was treated as a 15-year-old child. you look at law enforcement to be this symbol of strength in america and then to be brutalized in such a manner. you have to be part of the change. >> we heard the announcement today or the request from new york state attorney general eric

schneiderman. he's written to governor cuomo and says at least as a temporary measure until the law can be changed he'd like an executive order that would let the state attorney general's office become the investigating agency, instead of local prosecutors whenever police kill an unarmed civilian. do you support that? >> excellent idea because elected officials will always tell you what they're going to do because we're hoping to kick the can down the road. eric schneiderman is saying before we talk about what we're going to do, let's utilize the powers we have now. the governor can do this instantly. that's been done before. this is a great opportunity to say to the local district attorneys, listen, this is not an indictment an you. it's not an indictment an the people who serve on the grand jury but there's a problem on when it's time to look after a beat cop that went rogue. we know you can do it with the average citizen who robs a store but you're having a problem where across the country. >> do you think new york is

likely to go that direction? do you feel the desire for change is being stressed constructively enough? >> this is unbelievable. particularly for those of white house were always tempted to move this issue forward. when you have men on the basketball court doing this, you are going to have judges on the supreme court finally looking at, we can do better. we're better at a country than what we're seeing now, and i'm optimisting. we have been living in this drunkenness of police abuse. now is the time to take the steps toward sobriety. one step at a time. >> brooklyn borough president, former nypd captain, eric adams. lots more ahead, including a milestone in american politics that seemed laugh out loud impossible about 50 years ago. stay with us. i make a lot of purchases for my business. and i get a lot in return with ink plus from chase. like 50,000 bonus points

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the spectacle of the president's granting pardons to torterers still makes the stomach turn but doing so may be the only way to make sure they never torture again. pardons would make clear that crimes were committed. >> they are calling for george w. bush to be pardoned by president obama over the issue of torture. that's provocative. more an that story ahead. stay with us. they challenge us. they take us to worlds full of heroes and titans. for respawn, building the best interactive entertainment begins with the cloud. this is "titanfall," the first multi-player game built

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because the headline didn't at all match the fine print. even though the u.s. combat mission technically ended today and this ceremony was proof of that, the current u.s. plan is for more than 10,000 american troops to stay in afghanistan for the foreseeable future for another decade or even long eer according to the security agreement. there were going to be 9800 left. now they say it will be more than 10,000. the troops were going to have no further combat missions but now they still may engage in combat missions and there's no date for them to come home. so, yes. basically, they are changing the naum from "operation enduring freedom" to "operation resolute support." but there's a reason why even though the u.s. marked the formal end of that long war it didn't warrant a passing mention an the white house website. the presidency of barack obama was clearly the one that had to take the baton from the previous

presidency of george w. bash. america's longest war in afghanistan started in year one of the george w. bush administration. yes, today it got a new name but it's still going strong. there was also this headline today about the slow progress of finding countries to accept prisoners who were taken by the last administration with no real plan for what to do with them. they were never charged. just stuffed into warehousing in cuba. six prisoners just got sent to uruguay. they'd all been at guantanamo since 2002. none had ever been charged. they were recommended for release by the u.s. government in 2009. it's taken another five years to jump through all the bureaucratic hoops to actually move them out. it's gone under the radar but the obama administration in the last few weeks has quietly picked up the pace in terms of transferring guys out of guantanamo. one prisoner was transferred to kuwait. a few weeks later, four yemenis and a tuniecian were transferred

to georgia and slovakia. another to saudi arabia. and now today the six prisoners who have been sent to uruguay. and this, of course, is a scandal to the extent that people are paying attention even though the bash administratiush transferred hundreds out of guantanamo. this is something the president has been working on since the first day. he signed the executive order that called for the closure of guantanamo. it is still open. it's slowly emptying out, but it's dragging on forever. and if you need one more piece of today's news, continuing to be the cleanup of the more poorly thought out aspects of the george w. baush administration, there's also this. >> good evening. u.s. embassies and facilities around the world are preparing for possible violence within the next 24 hours. because of the intentional release of a report detailing the torture of terrorism suspects by the cia under the

banner of the war on terror and in the wake of the war anteror and in the wake of 9/11. this is not a leak. it's a prepared document. 600 pages in length. released by the democrats who still control the senate intelligence committee. who believe that once this evidence is out for the world to see, the u.s. will never afrks gain use torture as a means of interrogation. >> torture authorized as policy in washington, executed in the field by cia officers and contractors. the sant intelligence committee spent years investigating this and they put together a 6,000-page report that we are told will lay out a disturbing detail what sort of techniques were used an american-held prisoners. also reportly conclude these methods were not effective at gaining usable intelligence.

we'll also reportedly conclude that some intelligence officials lied to or misled the white house and congress for years about what the ages did. there's been some question as to whether the obama administration would let this report be released. president obama himself earlier this year sort of cut to the chase. endorsed releasing the report and explained why he thinks the report needs to come out. >> in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong. we did a whole lot of things that were right, but we tortured some folks. we did some things that were contrary to our values. when we engaged in some of these ens hanced interrogation techniques. techniques that i believe and i think any fair-minded person would believe were torture. we crossed a line. and that needs to be -- that needs to be understood and

accepted. and we have to, as a country, take responsibility for that so that hopefully we don't do it again in the future. >> we tortured some folks. again, we're told to expect a 600-page summary of this multithousand page report to be released tomorrow afternoon. this is a big deal. the u.s. military has put thousands of u.s. marines on alert throughout the middle east to prepare for possible repercussions. joining us is jonathan land, a national security correspondent for mcclatchey newspapers. so this -- the release of this report has been debated for not months. years. lots of arguments around redactions about whether or not the report should exist and what should be made public. what new information are we likely to learn tomorrow when this 600-page summary is released? >> we know what the main conclusions are. you yourself have cited them. what is going to come out in

this executive summary that we're going to hopefully see tomorrow are some of the more gritty, disturbing details of the procedures that were used on scores of detainees at secret black sites overseas. >> will there be names of individuals who did these things, names of policymakers who signed off on them? >> no. in fact, some of the fight over the redactions were about redacting pseudonyms of pseudonyms. in other words, there were fake names of -- used to cover up fake names of people, but according to the administration and the intelligence community, if you took one of these fake names and you used the information surronding it throughout the report, you could or somebody could detect the real identity of cia covert officers who were involved in the program. of course, the other part of the

battle over in redactions was the administration and the intelligence community's contentions there was information in this report that would anger and jeopardize foreign governments who were also -- who cooperated in the program. >> in terms of the expected fallout here, i have to say, i don't know if this is an answerable question, but it seems it is not a secret, at least it's not a secret to the president of the united states speaking publicly that some of what the united states did after 9/11 was torture. that's a known fact. it's been described. wife h we've had a lot of pretty hairy details described by various means over the years. that isn't a secret. if there isn't any identifying information about who done it let alone some legal strategy to bring people to justice for having done this illegal thing, arguably illegal thing, why is there an expectation or why is the fear being raised that this

report is going to land like such a shot heard around the world? >> we're going to have to wait and see. it's speculation, obviously. there are some people who believe that the concerns that are being voiced about possible violent repercussions are overreacting and, of course, you have former president bush, former vice president cheney and current and former cia officials and others who are contending that the committee got it wrong. that the most important key conclusions of the report that the use of these procedures did not produce significant intelligence, did not win the cooperation of those who were subjected to these procedures, that the cia misled various parts of the government, including the white house and congress, is all wrong. that in fact, these procedures produced intelligence that was significant and led to the

thwarting of plots against the united states, terrorist plots against the united states, and led the cia to the arrest of some pretty significant players and al qaeda. >> jonathan land dld ay from mcclatchy news. the argument over this, this has been going on for years in terms of people arguing about whether this could come out. this is not about trying anybody for torture. this is not about bringing -- naming and shaming people. this is not about exposing people who did this so that the world can take their revenge or something. everybody involved in this study, everybody involved in this policy, everybody who was exposed in this report will continue to be anonymous as they are now. but the right is telling us to freak out about this report that comes out tomorrow. we'll see when it comes out. should be about 600 pages. we'll keep you posted. stay with us. icy here, add a car, ah speak to customer service,

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check this ot. 1930. the political map of darn near everything in the american south. blue, blue, blue. not liberal. but with complete democratic

control. the governors, the u.s. senators, statehouses. the american south in 1930. give me 1940. right. blur. still blue. completely blue. the entire thing from texas to north carolina. 1950, please. thank you very much. the whole thing again. every governorship, statehouse. democrats had a lock on the south. here we have 1960. blue. you can have any color you want as long as it's blue. democrats controlled the south. the solid south. solidly. then 1964 when president johnson signed the civil rights act even though he knew at the time it would cost his democratic party their hold on the old confederacy. he predicted that in 1964 and he was correct. nate cohen at "the new york times" charted this the other day. the flat line at 100% shows democratic control in the south. the governorships, u.s. senate

seats and statehouses. democrats had them all until the 1960s. then in the mid-1960s, democrats started losing ground. little at first then a little more and a lot more. somewhere right around here. this november, last month, kay hagan lost her senate seat. mark prior lost his in arkansas. and that left one southern democrat. one democratic holder of a big statewide office anywhere in the u.s. south. that one last southern democrat was mary landrieu. the year mary landrieu got that seat in the first place, southern democrats could still win elections. bill clinton won his second term that year. he came up as a democratic governor. his vice president al gore followed his dad into government from the state of tennessee. mary landrieu got elected in those years and then held on through eight years of george w.

bash. the south voted against obama twice. the south still picked mary landrieu. even as barack obama lost her state by 19 points that year. if you look back at exit polling from her various races you can see that mary landrieu would get most of the african-american vote and about one-third of the white vote. that's how she won. that's how she managed to stay ahead of this really bad trend line for democrats in the south. get most of the black vote and one-third of the white vote. louisiana does a lot of things differently from the rest of the country. they have parishes instead of counties. drive-through daiquiri shops. louisiana does things differently. one of the quirks of louisiana politics is they have an all-in, everybody against everybody election in the first round instead of party primaries. they call it a jungle primary.

in the jungle primary this november that gave us an x-ray into how she was doing before this weekend's run-off. her support among white voters disappeared. she was used to getting one-third of the white vote. in november that was down to 18%. she had become just another democrat who couldn't win in the south. and we can debate why this is. should she have run more an the obama record? did she waste herself on the keystone pipeline. was there no good way for her to run this year? did national democrats let her down? has the democratic ground game in the south turned to dust? what could mary landrieu do? and whatever that would cost democrats in terms of principle or treasure to try to keep her as the one last blue dot in the south, would it have been worth

it? whatever the answers are, the results on saturday, the result this weekend is mary landrieu got skunked. she lost her senate seat by 12 points. the state picked a republican this time instead. bill cassidy will become the first republican to hold that senate seat in 132 years. the old solid south, the democratic version is gone. the new solid south is totally, solidly republican. in louisiana this weekend it was all over but the shouts of victory and the briefest pause for the reflection on defeat. >> if you want to spend your life in a worthy cause, choose something that takes longer than your life to achieve, and then you know it's worth fighting for. >> but god bless you. god bless louisiana. god bless the united states of america. thank you once more. boom. turn the trips you have to take,

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you are interested in getting in touch with your member of congress, there are a few straightforward ways to choose from. a phone call, send an e-mail. a fax. sometimes they're responsive to a tweet. they are used to hearing by way of online petition. you could show up in person as part of a protest or sit-in. one surefire way of getting noticed without having to leave home. sending purposely awkward items in large numbers. a few years ago they sent tea bags to congress. the influx of tea bags was a strange enough phenomenon to cause some upset and logistical situations. a couple years ago, some

activists decided to send certain conservative congressman crocheted uterus. this is the last week before this congress packs up for the holidays and the year and for good. if they don't pass a spending bill before they go, the u.s. government will shut don. the republican leadership says they don't want a shutdown but the conservative base really wants one. >> the democrats have been shellacked in two recent elections and the republicans are running around like a pole saying the american people are not going to like them if they shut down the government is absurd. barack obama's approval is in the 30s. this is about two elections in which the people of this country are begging the republican people to stop this man. >> the point is -- you won in spite of the shutdown, not because of the shutdon. >> what does it matter?

they won. the point is this is a trick. the shutdown is a trick. the republicans want what obama wants on immigration and they are using the government shutdon as an excuse to not stop him because the truth of the matter is they agree with it. romney agrees with it. jeb baush agrees with it. the republican establishment doesn't want to stop obama on comprehensive immigration -- oh, we can't act because they'll blame us. they'll be mad at us for shutting down the government. i think it's absurd. >> the base of the republican party wants a government shutdon and they think the establishment leadership, they are obama lovers. if they don't have the stones to go ahead and shut it down like the people demand. now talk radio and specifically conservative blocks are asking angry conservatives to please mail to john boehner's office some balls. maybe racket balls. balls in a can. these are the specific balls the

red state blog has linked to for people to click through and arrange their balls delivery to speaker boehner's office. the most recent says i just sent a spare and a pair. bob's review is next to one that doesn't sound promising. the next one says my dog eats the fur off the yellow tennis balls but these are so much better. in terms of whether or not angry conservatives sending balls through the mail to john boehner, whether they'll succeed at stopping republicans from funding the government, we don't yet know. we did reach out to john boehner's office to find out. we've yet to hear back. we'll let you know whether speaker boehner has received the balls and, if so, how many. tick tock in terms of keeping the lights on. house republicans still haven't figured out what they want to vote an. their earliest plan to vote is wednesday. government funding runs out on

thursday. if the senate is up against the wall we know one senator who won't stop talking can gum up the whole works and shut down the government so tick tock, it's racquetball o'clock. and the republicans have to figure out how to shut up their own conservative base again. good evening, lawrence. >> rachel, i think that was your bluest material yet, as the old catskills comedians used to call it, working blue with rachel maddow. >> i don't make this stuff up. i have to go apologize to my mom now. well, u.s. marines have been put on alert in anticipation of the release tomorrow morning of a senate report on the cia's use of torture. >> the imminent release of the so-called senate torture report. >> it may incite violence abroad.