no details too small. american express open forum. this is what membership is. this is what membership does. rachel has the night off. and some big news on the west coast in the state of oregon. something we've been watching for and something the oregon press has been waiting for. john hits baber announcing just hours ago we will resign from office effective next wednesday. kitzhaber didn't make this announcement on camera. in fact, he made no public appearances at all today. his office instead putting out a written statement as well as audiophile of the governor reading that statement aloud.

>> i apologize to all of those people who gave of their faith, time energy and resources to elect me to a fourth term last year and who has supported me the last four decade. it is deeply troubling to realize a person can be charged, tried, convicted and sentenced by the media with no due process and no independent verification of the allegations involved. nonetheless i understand i have become a liability to the very institutions and policy toss which i have dedicated my career and indeed my entire adult life. he goes on to say he is confident that he has not broken any laws or done anything dishonest. but reading from his statement here, the escalating media frenzy has clearly reached the point of no return. kitzhaber says he will step down officially next wednesday morning 10:00 a.m. local time. 10:00 a.m. in oregon. john kitzhaber is 67 years old.

he spent what feels like a lifetime in politics in oregon. he was on his way to becoming the second largest serving governor in the history of the united states if he had finished out his current term. that would have been 16 years in office. he's a democratic. he was elected for the fourth time in oregon. eufr ever he is best known for his work on health reform. for the past several months kitzhaber has been beset by troubles, with his girlfriend in pay to play allegations about her, about her relationship with him, and her relationship with the state of oregon at an official level. specifically, whether she was played by interest groups to advocate in kitzhaber's administration while she was serving in unofficial capacity as the state's first lady. that situation led to an ethics

investigation and the state criminal investigation, a demand from the state's largest newspaper that kitzhaber resign his job immediately. until this afternoon, he had been fiercely resisting that demand. this is what he had to say on wednesday night. >> have you been considering resigning? >> no, i have not. >> has not crossed your mind at all? >> no. >> that was just 48 hours ago when he said that in public. behind the scenes for these last 48 hours, for the past few weeks, in fact, a very different story has been playing out. kitzhaber joins the likes of other recent governors who have resigned amid recent scandal. eliot spitzer, jim mcgreevey. and governors who managed to ride out high-profile scandals and remain in office.

sanford was caught cheating on his wife. he now serves in congress. bob mcdonnell a apologized for accepting loans and gives while in office. when his term ended he was indicted and he has been convicted and sentences. rick perry was also indicted last summer on two controversial felony abuse of power charges. there are democrats who say that perry should not have been charged with any crime. which probably explains why he had no trouble finishing out his third and final term of texas. now oregon's constitution does not allow for the impeachment of a governor, so kitzhaber could have stuck around to try and ride this storm out. the political realities for him have only been gets more dire. the first big domino was last week with more allegations coming about his girlfriend's role in his administration. the state's largest newspaper responding to those revelations

by calling on the governor to step down. yesterday, perhaps the fatal blow. his most loyal democratic supporters joining the resignation calls turning on their long-term ally. the state speaker met with him and said it was over and time to go. they left that meeting convinced that he was ready to resign. but then suddenly as soon as that meeting was over it seemed like kitzhaber was making one final play to hang on. >> he met with me in this office on tuesday and led me to believe he was going to resign. he wanted a transition period with the secretary of state. i supported that. he wanted me to come early in the week. i was prepared. i had a statement prepared. it would take care of itself. he swore me to secrecy. i told my wife late that night.

the next thing i know a bomb shell, what's going on, the secretary of state is coming back, and then i'm not going to resign. i just said i can't fix this. i can't make it better. i can't save anybody. >> now that was yesterday. kitzhaber telling state leaders he was quitting his job and then backtracking from that. kitzhaber, if he had any chance of surviving, this probably ended it. a newspaper reporting that the governor's office, just last week, tried to have all of his personal e-mails deleted from government servers. that was so shocking to the techs that had to carry out the request, they refused to do it. oregon was gripped all day thursday and this morning until the news breaking that he is ready to resign, this time for real. when a governor resigns from office, the next in line is the

secretary of state. the secretary of state right now in oregon is a democrat named kate brown. just a few days ago brown was in washington, d.c. heading up a conference for the national association of secretaries of state. she says while she was at that conference, the governor called her back to oregon telling her it was an emergency. she got on a plane on wednesday. when she got back to oregon and sat down with kitzhaber in his office she says he asked me why i came back early from washington dc. which i found strange. i asked him what he wanted to talk about. the governor told me he was not resigning after which he began a discussion about tran sessions. continuing from her statement, this is a bizarre and unprecedented situation. i informed the governor that i am ready and my staff will be ready should he resign. that was kate brown, the secretary of state of oregon. next in line to be governor. that was her yesterday. yesterday when confusion and chaos reigned in oregon state capital.

now in less than a week, kate brown will become the 38th governor in the history of oregon. kitzhaber is still hanging in the air. he is now reportedly the subject of an ongoing fbi probe as well as a probe by the state attorney general. in the past hour or so, we're getting reports of federal criminal subpoenas delivered after the governor resigned today. meanwhile, the governor to be, kate brown, is getting ready for her new job. she is an interesting figure in her own right. she served six years as the top election official and she served in the oregon legislature for almost two decades. also according to her official bio, her main goals as secretary of state have been to remove barriers to voter registration. promote growth for

entrepreneurs. she also liked yoga. it remains to be seen what kind of a governor she will be. today she made this brief statement to reporters. >> this is truly a sad day for the state of oregon, but i have confidence that legislatures will come together to move oregon forward. i know you all have a lot of questions, and i would like to answer those questions as soon as possible. as you can imagine, between now and wednesday, we have a lot of work to be done and that is what i will go back and do, thank you. >> so now, oregon is going to get a new governor. the old one is stepping down. the new one is takes his place. the state is also becomes a national test case. we have seen plenty of scandals take down plenty of governors before. have we ever seen one like this. now we have dr. jim moore. director of the tom mccall center for policy and innovation at pacific university in oregon. dr. moore, thanks for joining

us. let me just start with this. we played that audio file from the governor, the soon to be exgovernor that was released today, and he said that he has been charged, tried, convicted and sentenced by the media. this all happened very fast. people are still trying to figure this out. does the governor have a point there? is there a chance that we doesn't fully understand what he is being accused of? >> yeah there is absolutely that chance. but it is partly his fault. the media for the past four months, the newspapers have done a strong job uncovering things. they found things that don't look right, but they have not looked to see if there is an alternative story that makes sense underneath. the governor in that entire time, in his campaign and when he became governor again, he has refused to give a fair active that makes sense out of any of that.

there has been a rush to judgment. it's a media thing. but the thing is he didn't act on the other side. he didn't say no, this is what's going on, so we were left with a silence from his side. >> and it's so interesting because kitzhaber, in his fourth term, he has been around the block when you're talking about politics, can you tell us about his girlfriend? she is 20 years younger than him obviously in the middle of this. they're rip and history together. there was controversy in the campaign that she was in a green card for cash scheme. about 20 years ago. when did she come into his life? >> she came into his life in 2002. she was a candidate for a state legislative position. that is the year he left the governorship. he was working with candidates and they met. they have been an item now for ten years. during that time, she runs her

own business. she is basically an energy and environmental consultant, and she had clients and things like that. but as the governor looked like he would run for a third term, after two terms of someone else, she started getting different contracts and when she became the first lady, as he called her, the payment for her contracts went up. so that is what raised red flags. what has she done for him? his first two terms, he was known as a really reclusive guy. he did not go out and campaign for democrats running for the legislature. third term, eight years later with silvia hayes at his size. he wanted to talk to people. he wanted to work with the media on things. he had big ideas, and he was a whole different person. turns out that person is why he has to resign today. >> when did this -- and it happened so quickly. in england there was something unusual going on last fall, when was the big break in this thing? at what point in the last few weeks and months did you say

this guy is in trouble here? >> the reason the oregonian ran the story was there was a story that came out showing that silvia hayes got a job because lobbyists that worked with the governor on things got her that job. those lobbyists were then hired to be on staff. the job she was doing is stuff she was advising the governor on what he ought to do. she was being paid to lobby and also being paid and being the first lady to try to decide what the policies were. she was working both sides of the door. the oregonian said that was a step too far. that's when they called for his resignation. there could have been excuses for that, but deafening silence from the governor's side. so we are left for this to take

the place as it did the last few days. >> and we have word of the subpoena, the possibility of this leading to jail time for the governor, is that what people are talking about? >> they are, but when i looked at it -- i looked at the law very closely. i learned about this set of laws in the last ten days. it's just amazing. it is hard to see what he has done. oregon like other states when you get into ethics things, the laws are left with gray areas. the legislature passes them, and they can't anticipate what will come up as they're looking at things down the road. there is lots of grey area. the governor could be liable for things, but it looks more like silvia hayes could be more in trouble. it looks like she did not claim all of her income on her income taxes. i don't know about the fbi, but the irs is particularly interested in that. >> dr. jim moore, appreciate your time tonight. >> you're welcome.

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capital and worked at halls pushing for a hate crimes investigation. the fbi hasn't gone that far now. they have opened a preliminary inquiry which attorney general eric holder will determine if any hate crime laws were broken. we learned more about the man charged with these murders. craig stephen hicks. police seized a dozen guns from his apartment. six rifles, including a military style r-15. they also found cases of ammunition. he had an additional pistol with him when he turned himself in about an hour after the shootings monday. local authorities have so far said that evidence points to a long-running parking dispute between hicks and the victims. other neighbors him describe him as angry and abusive towards everyone.

hick's wife describes them at mental health problems. a recording emerged of one of the victims on tuesday. she spoke to the radio oral history project story core in durham last summer. here she is with her former elementary school teacher. growing up in america has been such a blessing. and although in some ways i do stand out, such as the hijab i wear on my head, the head covering there are still so many ways that i feel so embedded in the fabric that is you know, our culture. and that's the beautiful thing here is that it doesn't matter where you come from. there's so many different people from so many different places of different backgrounds and religion. >> absolutely. >> but here we're all one. joining us now is a guest from public radio and it was she that posted that interview. thanks for joining us don't. let me start with this. we have parallel investigations going on. the local authorities, the fbi

is looking into this. it is unusual, i think in any case to have both of them looking into it at the same time, is there a sense here of any time table for when one of these will produce an answer as to whether this was a hate crime? >> i thank you, first of all, for having me. i haven't heard of a timetable yet. the chapel hill police have been looking into this since it occurred on tuesday night and we heard from the family saying more needs to be done and that the fbi is looking into this more. when the chapel hill police first loaded into it they say it was over a parking dispute, which the family came out and immediately said this is insulting, outrageous and insensitive for you to say it is over a parking dispute. and now, again, with the fbi stepping in. but we do not have any really

signal on when that will end or how long that will last. >> i'm curious about that. the family made very strong statements on this. i think people look at it on face value and are very suspicious of what led to this and the idea of a parking dispute strikes people as suspicious. there are facebook postings from this man where he seems to bash all religion completely. are there other specific and concrete reasons? >> i talked with one of the friends of yusor abu salha. she was going to become a dental student and join her husband. she was a newlywed. i talked with one of her friends that said, you know, i have no doubt in my mind this is a hate crime. i remember when she texted me after she had some friends over, and her neighbor came by and said your friends are being disruptive and disrespectful. and he held his hand over his

pocket where there was a gun. and i heard from other people that yusor said that she felt like craig hicks hated her. if my friend said that he hated us, then i believe that. we heard this morning on "morning joe," susan said that it was outrageous for them to call it to say this was over a parking dispute, and she said that her brother had made a map of the different parking spots and had highlighted which ones his friends could not park in because the neighbor had approached him and his wife in the past saying that he was upset over this. >> do you have a sense, can you tell us, in the community there how people are thinking about this? the idea of the parking dispute

versus the idea of this being something of a lot more value. do you have a sense in the community of how people are thinking about that? >> yeah, so i went to a vigil wednesday night, the day after they had been murdered. they were all taking time to remember them. and they were saying that, i think from the muslim community, at least, and from different communities, it is a time for them to reflect on how this impacts them. i know i talked with some muslims who i think really validated how some of their fears they feel about being muslim, and how people perceive them, and how they're trying to reflect on that right now. i know at one point one of the friends of yusor abu salha said that black lives matter, muslim lives matter, all lives matter. echoing the hashtag of black

lives matter after the shootings of eric garner and michael brown. so there is definitely a conversation happening right now about that. lots of people in the community are just outraged and confused, i think. >> thank you for taking the time tonight. >> thank you for having me. all right, still ahead tonight when the vice president of the united states travels the country, it is not necessarily national news, but when this vice president travels the country and goes to iowa, it raises alarm bells about 2016. more on that coming up.

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all right, we have a traffic advisory for you tonight. it's this, if you find yourself in des moines, iowa tomorrow, under this pedestrian bridge under 235, don't be concerned if see a group of enthusiastic people waving at you and trying to honk your horn. if you find yourself in that situation, you're driving past a honk and wave rally being organized by a group called run warren run. they want elizabeth warren to through her hat in the ring to run for the democratic nomination in 2016. it was created by the group moveon.org. they have opened to offices in iowa. warren has said publicly she is

not running and she won't run. she would hardly be the first politician to go back on a promise like that. tomorrow they will be out on that bridge pleading their case to anyone that happens to drive by. the high temperature in des moines tomorrow, 18 degrees. the low, 3. speaking of iowa, joe biden just left that state. he was there all day yesterday in a trip that looked very campaignish. giving a speech and answering questions from the audience. he also add a photo op at a local restaurant. his advice, don't distance yourself from president obama, run on his record. stand for what we have done. that is what joe biden was telling the crowd in iowa. on the republican side, the presidential race has been alive and well in iowa for months now. south carolina senator lindsey graham says he may wage a very

long shot campaign for the g.o.p. nomination is heading to iowa next week. the candidates officially in the race for months, governor chris christie was also in iowa this month. he said his bluntness will translate to those in iowa and across the country. the views from the locals haven't exactly been dazzling. the political director of the iowa republican party said christie seemed a little flat during his trip. many future contestants have been in and out of iowa. can with the notable exception of jeb bush, who will be there next month. also in iowa, in the last week, a seemingly mundane moment that would have huge consequences unfolded on television in the interview with one of those republican candidates. rand paul is pretty openly running for president, and during the interview, there was one very telling exchange. watch it.

you have, i would think, a unique perspective going into these caucuses because you got to watch your dad go through them. >> i got to speak in them and my kids got to speak at a couple of training. >> it is like free training, right? >> we're trying to copy you. in kentucky we may have a presidential caucus this year. i don't know if we will copy iowa, but we're looking to see which one works best. >> rand paul is saying that kentucky may end up having a presidential caucus as opposed today a primary in 2016. why is that a big deal? it could potentially save rand paul from having to make a wrenching choice for him between keeping his senate seat or getting to run for president next year. all because current kentucky state law bars a candidate from appears twice on the same ballot in an election. you can't run for two offices at the same time. you have to pick one of them.

here's the problem for rand paul. his senate seat is up in 2016. the deadline to file as a candidate is in january. at the same time it is just getting under way. he can't put his name on the ballot for senate if it is also on the ballot for president. he would have to choose one office to run for. paul had been hoping to get that law changed, but the democrats that control the kentucky state house of representatives made it clear they're not doing that. in caucuses, there are no balloting. they're public meetings, not secret ballot elections. the law in kentucky says you can't have your name on the ballot for two different offices. if kentucky's republican party decided to stop holding a primary and instead to hold caucuses, then paul's dilemma

would be solved. he can still put his name on ballot for senate. this week, the lexington herald leader says rand paul kentucky gop asked for help. so that explains why rand paul was excitedly telling that interviewer they might have state caucuses of their own. it is a technical issue, but it is also a huge moment and a huge decision for rand paul's presidential hopes. also a reminder that even though the election is still a long way away, big things are happening right now that will determine who is still standing and who isn't a year from now. joining us now is robert costa,

a national political reporter for the washington post. thank you for taking a few minutes tonight. let's start with this rand paul issue here in kentucky. is there a sense of looking inside kentucky that he is going to get his way on this? that the republicans will cooperate. give him the caucuses, and free him from that decision? >> i have spoken with several rand paul allies, and this is a majority state that mitch mcconnell won last year, they have trended toward rand paul politically. you have thomas massey. i think there is an appetite among his base to get this done, and they also know that the paul family traditionally have done well in these caucus formats and they were a test of organizational strength. >> what happens if he doesn't get his way? if the current law stays in place, and he has to make that decision. i think the filing deadline for the senate in kentucky next year is the end of january. only a few states will have voted.

so if rand paul is at all viable at that point that is a brutal decision for him to have to make. >> very difficult. i think at this point i was just with rand paul for two-and-a-half days in iowa. you get the sense that he wants to run for president. that is his priority. his father built a base for decades because he had that perch in the house. so he sees the value in his seat and he doesn't want to just give it up. >> things happening right now that have huge consequences later, here is a perfect example about jeb bush and this massive behind the scenes fundraising push that he is trying to orchestrate. reporting that he could be leaving his opponents in the dust for the money that they are bringing in. could you shed light on the effect if that could have. >> a major battle for the republican nomination that could kick off. was a an internal battle for the

center right space between christie, bush, marco rubio, and bush knows because he has not been on a ballot in a decade, he needs to make moves financially. he had 100,000 ticket fundraiser in new york. he wants to raise close to $100 million and make rivals wonder if they're going to run. >> i wonder about the public end of it. i think back to when george w. was raining. when his brother was running for president, he raids ridiculous money that shocked everybody. the other thing that george w. had was he brought out a lot of major endorsements. big state governors, he lined up a lot of public support. i'm looking at today's republican party, jeb bush, all of the suspicion among the base and saying are there big named republicans that will come out in the near future and say jeb bush is my guy? >> no, the field is too big.

i was on capitol hill all day. you get the sense that a lot of republicans in office and the offices, they don't want to come out endorse bush. those who have is a deep family relationship with the bushes the donors that were ambassadors, they're with jeb right now. but there is not a mass bush wave like there was in 1999 when everyone was signing up for george w. >> we said in the inro that chris christie has been to iowa a few times now. he spoke at that steve king event. he is back there in the past week. the reviews have not been that encouraging so far. how is he being received? >> i was five feet away from him. fascinating to watch. this is a guy who made his name in early 2010 yelling at public school teachers and the videos going viral. the christie that i saw on monday night quiet, somber, going against his usual persona. he was trying to be iowa nice to a lot of people who showed up

and paid $25. he was pretty flat. not a lot of applause lines. people came in part to be entertained and they weren't. >> that reminds me of rudy giuliani when he ran for president. everybody arched him was so scared of mean angry, rudy giuliani having an outburst. they took the permit out of the guy and he was a boring candidate. >> it's the same people running the campaign. the same chief strategist, and maria, the spokesman for chris christie was also for rudy giuliani. it's the same circle. christie feels like he's in a better position. he has more financial context. still when it comes to his personality because of the bridge episode, he is playing himself down. 50eu78 i'm just not sure how it will play out. >> robert costa, really appreciate the time tonight.

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fall of 1975 that nbc debuted the not ready for primetime players. ever since, snl has been at the forefront of music, culture and especially politics. they've been on the air long enough to humanize and spoof seven different presidents. starting with gerald ford, played by chevy chase. this is back in the fall of 1975. the first 46 ever chevy chase impersonation of ford. >> if i don't win, i will continue to run in the primaries, even if there are none. and now for my second announcement -- [ laughter ] live from new york, it's saturday night! >> gerald ford had a maybe unfortunate reputation as a

clumsy president. chevy chase immortalized bit by falling down in every skit. after that, the next president was jimmy carter. but on "saturday night live," the next president was dan ackroyd. a little more of a resemblance than you saw. jimmy carter president for four years, followed by ronald reagan. snl had a lot of different people who took a shot at reagan. joe piscopo. phil heartman. robin williams. to me at least the most memorable reagan was the late great phil hartman. and here's my favorite phil hartman ronald reagan sketch that portrayed reagan in a very different light. >> the red countries are the countries we sell arms to. the green countries are the country where we wash our money. the blue countries -- >> excuse me, mr. president, sir, it's your 11:30 photo opportunity with the little girl who sold the most girl scout cookies. >> damn! let's get it over with.

everybody out. come on. move, move! this is the part of the job i hate! hello, little girl, what's your name? >> lisa. >> if you're that good of a sales lady, maybe i could use you on capitol hill. well, it was nice meeting you. bye-bye. >> bye. >> back to work! >> that was truly reagan as people had never seen him before. one of the most famous snl impersonations dana carvy as george bush,, sr. always a at war with the english language. then bill clinton. there were two actors who played clinton. but phil hartman was bill clinton for the first two years.

this was hartman as bill clinton. then dan ackroyd comes back as bob dole in this sketch. >> all right, hillary, one more word out of you, you're going to be a stain on that back wall. do you want to go? >> hey, come on, you two. >> you stay out of this, bill. i'm doing something you could have done a long time ago. >> to complete our tour, will farrell as george w. bush and now jay farow has taken over for obama. obama has been tougher for comedian toss character. they still have two years to figure it out. up next is week ends with alex witt bracing for more. another storm slamming the northeast this weekend. but this time it's not just bringing unprecedented snow. details in the forecast. after years in office a stunning fall from one u.s. governor. his story and the role his

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