>> if you had ralph lauren in tuxedo bingo, you win. that's all for now. >> that is a game i so want to play. >> i asked glenn greenwald what he was wearing and i'm glad about that. >> if we set up pub quiz you have locked us in that game forever and we will give away glenn's tux. it will be great. thank you. thank you. appreciate it, man. thanks to you at home for staying with us the next half hour. happy monday. today the news is nuts. for example, what would you get if you combined the values of gm general motors and ge general electric, and mcdonald's, and wal-mart? what do you get if you combine the values of those four gigantic companies? you would get 1 apple. this is crazy. the second largest company in the country is exxon in terms of its mobile.

apple, as of today, based on its stock price today, apple is valued at more than double the value of exxon mobil. apple is gm plus ge plus mcdonald's, plus wal-mart together. this is a point of reference. if apple were a country apple would have somewhere between the 19th and 20th highest gdps in the world. apple would be a little smaller than saudi arabia a little bigger than switzerland. if you want to get to the valuation of apple as a company right now, add together the entire size of the economy of iceland, brewny nicaragua, jordan, lebanon, guatemala, new zealand, kuwait and ireland. add them up and you are not quite at the valuation of one american company. if apple decide to give the world an allowance every human being on the planet earth, each individual member of the human

species would get 100 bucks from apple. that's how big apple computer is with what its stock price hit today. that's the kind of news day that today is. it's just -- it's just weird. it seems like you are making it up. today was also this kind of news day that brought us this from idaho. i have to say, if you are a toppler watching this program, watch your mom or dad or whatever adult is nearby if it is okay for you to see the next part. like i said it is from idaho. brace yourself. this is idaho state respective. he represents daalen gardens in western idaho. today in a hearing about a bill that will propose new abortion regulations in his state he voted to impose those restrictions voted doctors should be prohibited from doing something they already do in idaho because one of those doctors let the legislatures decide instead.

the legislators know better than the doctors, particularly when it comes to lady parts. and the delicate matter of where those parts are. just watch this. this is from the idaho legislature legislature. they start to talk about colonoscopys and things go downhill from there. i swear we did not edit this. this really happened today. because that's what today is like in the news. >> you mentioned the risk of colonoscopy, can that be done by drugs? >> mr. chairman representative barbieri, it cannot be done by drugs. it can, however, be done remotely where you swallow a pill and the pill has a camera and makes its way through the intestines and the images are uploaded to a doctor who's often thousands of miles away who interprets that. >> can this same procedure be done in a pregnancy?

swallowing a camera and helping the doctor determine what the situation is with the -- >> mr. chairman and representative, it cannot be done in pregnancy simply because when you swallow a pill it would not end up in the vagina. >> fascinating. that certainly makes sense, doctor. >> sometimes there's nod nothing to add. sometimes the most straightforward headlines are all that you really need to tell a story like this. >> i should tell you this appeared on his wikipedia page shortly after the incident today. february 23rd 2015 representative barbieri learned if a woman swallows a pill it will not end up in her vagina. and then the relevant footnotes, which are a.m. accurate. according to the associated press today, the idaho bill to add these new restrictions on doctors which representative barbieri reported his bill pass

today. and representative barbieri is on the board of a crisis pregnancy center. to be fair when he went to the last anti-abortion crisis pregnancy board member meeting they were talking about how the baby comes out of the lady's tum tum. you could see where he could get confused. that guy's bill passed today, even within shin bone connected to the knee bone problem. that was basically the character of the news today. we are not even getting to the freakishly giant rats the size of cats turning up in england and totally immune to all standard rat poisons. we're not getting to that today which is also in today's news because for all the things that are hard to believe in today's news and today was a doozy, for my money the single hardest thing to believe in today's news is something that happened in washington, d.c. it happened just after 6:00 p.m. eastern tonight a little while ago. it happened when republicans in congress failed to move a bill

that was supposed to prevent the shutdown of the department of homeland security. department of homeland security. it is looking more likely than not the first major consequences of the republicans taking over congress is the department of homeland security will shut down this week because they cannot agree on a way to keep it open. by now, we have lived through the sequester which were arbitrary cuts including cuts to the military cuts specifically designed to be so bad and stupid that nobody would want them to take effect, but they took a effect any way. we lived through the government shutdown when happened when republicans held the federal government hostage in order to try to get president obama to decide he was against obamacare after all. we have seen the republican party do all of that from their position as controlling half of congress. maybe now they control the whole thing this may not seem as surprising as say british super rats the size of cats or a man

who thinks that babies come from ladies tummies or the stock market, and one company has the value of a country the size of saudi arabia. but in context this is almost impossible to wrap your head around. the part of the government that grew to become the department of homeland security was created by george w. bush nieb days after the suspect eck terrorist attacks in a serious and frankly moving address to a joint session of congress president bush announced this centerpiece policy of his post-9/11 government. what would ultimately become the biggest transformation of the federal government since the post world war ii era. >> my fellow citizens for the last nine days the entire world has seen for itself the state of our union and it is strong. [ applause ] today dozens of federal departments and agencies, as

well as state and local governments have responsibilities affecting homeland security. these efforts must be coordinated at the highest level. so tonight, i announce the creation of a cabinet-level position reporting directly to me the office of homeland security. >> pennsylvania governor tom ridge was with tasked with running the office of homeland security when it came time to make that office of homeland security actually a full cabinet-level department republicans in the house and senate were basically unanimous in their support for doing that. there were democratic defections especially in the house, democrats weren't all comfortable with creating the massive agency with the frankly creepy name but republicans were fully, even chest thumpingly on board. homeland security was their thing. in the senate republicans voted unanimously to create the homeland security department. of course they would. right? they are the law and order

party, right? that's historically been part of the heart and soul of the republican party, or at least how they want to be seen. right now that is getting more difficult to explain. the homeland security today encompasses 16 federal agencies customs and border protection, fema secret service, tsa, coast guard, domestic nuclear detection office, immigration and customs enforcement and lots more. this afternoon homeland security secretary jeh johnson stood with the heads of the agencies and employees from the department and warned congress they are putting the country at risk by shutting down his department. >> that continuing resolution expires in just four and a half days. the clock is ticking. as i stand here there's nothing from congress to fund us beyond that point. a shutdown of homeland security would have serious consequences

and amount to a serious disruption in our ability to protect the homeland. >> on the day of weird news on a day when a lot of strange things and a lot of hard to believe things happened in the news the republican failing to fund part of the government created by a republican president with mostly republican support that is supposed to keep the homeland secure that has that for its name. for my money that is the weirdest thing i have seen in a long time in plix or without. but as of this vote tonight as of 6:00 it looks like this is happening. john stanton for buzz feed news is joining us. thank you for your time tonight. are you surprised republicans are allowing this to happen? i guess the 6:00 vote tonight wasn't necessarily thought of as -- thought of as something that would be the solution. i have to admit it is weird to me it has gotten this late. >> that's adore able actually. given how much they have done to this point. it's not surprising to me at

all. what you have to understand is republicans, their desire to get in to a fight with obama over the issues of what they say is executive overreach is the biggest over-arching issue for them right now. particularly in the hupt where the members don't face the electoral pressures that republicans in the senate do or more importantly in a lot of ways 2016 republicans will. they see this as a winning issue for them. their base guys are telling them it's a good idea. they are willing to pick this fight. the fact they have done it several times, gone to the brink on this one and a shutdown and all sorts of brinksmanship it does not surprise me at all. >> are they going -- i guess i feel your judgment of my naivete. i recognize it in those eyebrows. i can feel it as your friend. i will make a case for my

surprise. this isn't shutdown the evil federal government the federal government doesn't do anything good any way. it is like shut down the one part of the government we will not say a bad word about. shut down the one part of the government that has a creepy name. the one part created by george w. bush with all but unanimous republican support that they have never had a word against. this is like the political equivalent of them banning apple pie. isn't there some homeland security specific push back even within their own party? >> there is. senate republicans certainly are looking at the house guys going, look, on the one hand we are saying with wing we need more money and border people to handle immigration issues and we are the party of law and order and tough on security and beating up on the president over his handling of foreign policy and you are doing this. this will make us look bad. there's this sort of general belief and feeling this is the

moment in which they have to try to fight the president on this issue that has become sort of the issue dujour for a lot of the base, which is a notion of executive overreach on immigration, health care and other things. once you start to bring in that anger towards obama, it almost it overrides everything else that is going on within the party and on the hill. there is not much room for compromise on the house side. >> do you think -- looking ahead at the next few days -- the funding expires on friday. that will be the shutdown of the department. do you think they will do something in terms of a short-term extension or something else. >>? do they want it to be over or where they want it to go as long as possible because they like the politics? >> i think it depends who you talk to. leadership, the last thing they want is a short-term situation where they are constantly having to refight this. they want to talk about their economic policies education policies, energy stuff. they don't want to talk about

president obama's immigration stuff and they don't want to have this constant brinksmanship that has become their hallmark over the last six years in the house. the senate side particular that is the last thing they want to do. they are not going to get a bill passed before friday that funds the dhs through september or the end of the fiscal year or calendar year. it is either going to be a shutdown over a couple of weeks, probably the best-case scenario for them or this rolling short-term crs which i think is what they want to avoid at this point. >> wow. i know we saw this coming. i can't believe this is the week and it is actually happening and i bask in your judgment of my naivete thank you, man. >> anytime. a lot more on the show including democrats sifting through the rubble of last year's elections. very good and bad news when it comes to energy and how much you are paying for it and we have a big story you are not going to see anywhere else on tv tonight a reporter who has blown open a

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when the police called him after 9/11 and asked him to come in and be questioned again, he said okay. and he came in voluntarily. initially, the u.s. and other intelligence agencies had suspicions this guy maybe an al qaeda operator at some level. they didn't really know. maybe a facilitator or recruiter. eventually they took him to to custody and sent him to guantanamo. they sent him to jordan. he didn't know where he was going to end up. where he ended up was guantanamo. once he was at guantanamo they decided that guy was not a low-level facileitateor but a huge deal a huge priority. the defense intelligence agency in 2003 designated him as a having special projects status. so they planned a special projects special interrogation for him. they wrote up their interrogation plan of what they wanted to do to him. that written plan for what they wanted to do to him e.j. ended

up in the torture report after the senate race in twooit 2008 election. a reporter describe ed the plan as such, quote, in january 2003 agency memorandum listed interrogation tools that included yelling, strip searching, shaving the head and beard, water poured on his head, ridiculed placed in mask made to wear signs like coward animal or dog. dogs could be brought in to agitate him. could be forced to act like a dog, could be treated as a woman or confronted with a female interrogator in close physical contact. the plan called for preventing him from praying or forcing him to worship a stag idol. he could be kept in a white room to reduce outside seem lie and present an us a steer environment or have light filtered through red plastic to

produce a stress areful environment, question him using a strobe light to stress him or hooded while questioned thus inducing feeling of futility. they wrote it up in a lot of detail what they wanted to do to him. the request for what they wanted to do to him went to general miller, who was running guantanamo at the time and he signed off on it. it went to the head of the southern command at the pentagon lieutenant hill and he signed off it on it and then to the top lawyer at the pentagoning william hanes and the deputy defense secretary william wolfowitz, paul wolfowitz was asked to sign off on this plan for the guy he signed off on it, too. the plan kept going and upstairs to rums felds, defense secretary at the time and rumsfeld signed off on it of what they wanted to do to this one identified guy.

as part of this out there plan for this guy, they wrote up -- they wrote up their plans, right, including specific stuff they wanted to do to him. they said they wanted to blindfold him and take him out on a boat and drive him around the island drive him around guantanamo in the boat making him think he was transported by sea to some other far away and worse prison. the prisoner later said the man later said they kept a bag over his head the whole time they kept him on the boat. they stuffed him in a straitjacket and from his neck to ankles, they packed all of the space under his clothes, all the space between his bare skin and those clothes with ice cubes. and then once he was packed like that, with ice, with a bag over his head on the boat they beat the hell out of him. at one point they showed him a fake letter of how they had arrested his mother and they were interrogating her too the way they were inter gating him

and were thinking of bringing her to guantanamo putting her as the only woman in the all-male prison. an elaborate plan they had gotten permission from the highest levels. when it came time to do it, to actually actually carry it out, who they turn to do it is a chicago cop can. that's where the story takes this dramatic weird geographical turn. this guy at guantanamo on his own terms his case is one of the stragest, most well documented cases at guantanamo. he's still there right now. the only person to have published a diary of his time at guantanamo while he is still in prison there. at one point he was ordered released bay federal judge in 2010 with. the judge who said the government had never proven any claims against him and he must be released. he was not released. prosecutors at the military tribunals at guantanamo decided

not to bring charges against this guy, even though he confessed to everything under the sun because he recanted those confessions and told his interrogators he would say anything to stop them from torturing him. if you want to buy i am selling. a high-profile case at guantanamo where his torture is exceedingly well documented. in part because it's written up and signed off all the way to the top. we know everything they asked to do to this guy. we saw the plan they wrote up for it. the guy himself wrote up what they did to him. nobody including the military believes his confessions because they tortured the confessions out of him and now apparently the plan is to never prosecute or release him specifically because of the way they tortured him and how much we know about that torture. that was all done while he had special projects status at guantanamo.

the guy who headed him up as a special project, the man who led that special project interrogation, that led to him confessing to anything and everything, just make it stop the guy who ran that interrogation is a chicago police detective, was, at least at the time. detective richard zele of the chicago police department. he was a navy reservist and headed up what is most notorious post 9/11 interrogation not conducted by the cia. after his stint running interrogations at guantanamo he went back to the chicago pd. he was there until 2007 when he left the police department for another job. now there's the question of his interrogations back home in chicago. his cases back home in the chicago pd. like the case of boyd was arrested in 1990 after two men

were arrested outside of a nightclub. boyd asked to be put in to a lineup after he was arrest ared. he said he didn't do it. nine witnesses looked at him in the lineup and none of them picked him. one of those eyewitnesses told the detectives that he was not the guy. that this guy definitely didn't do it. but somehow that information never made it in to the police reports. boyd was convicted and served 23 years in prison 23 years before the state looked at his case again and dismissed the charges and set him free after 23 years. that was richard's case. >> i was mounted to the wall and floor. i remained in that room two lineups and i remember i asked after that second lineup i

asked if anyone had picked me out of the lineup. and he said no. and i said see, i told you. you got the wrong guy. i haven't done anything. he smiled at me. and said we're charging you any way. it still doesn't seem real. that i was there and went through all of that. or that i'm here. it's -- i'm still trying to -- >> for weeks now, the guardian newspaper and specifically a great reporter i have known forever named spencer ackerman has been digging in to other cases that richard zele worked

on now that latherial boyd has been freed. an attorney who worked with him and claims to have more exoneration than any other private lawyer in the united states said she is working with on three other cases from chicago. three other convictions that involved that detective who went from chicago to guantanamo and back again. these hard potentially disturbing questions of how much overlap there was in his work between those two places. joining us now is spencer ackerman, the reporter from the guardian that's been doing so much digging. the chicago police department has given a statement in response to spencer's reporting and our questions about it. we have posted the whole thing at maddow blog.com. the kernel of it is this they say the allegations and in the guardian's reporting, quote are not supported by the facts and don't want one individual's actions from decades ago to

obscure the everyday hard work of the good work of the chicago pd. think full statement is on-line. thank you for being here. nice to see you. >> thank you for having me rachel. >> i want to ask about the statement from the chicago pd. they wouldn't give you a statement for the guardian. >> it has ban week now that we have sent them detailed questions about richard zuley. about chicago policing and related aspects of the story and have heard absolutely nothing. >> we have tried to get a statement from detective zuley or his lawyers. we have not received any response from them. did you ever get in touch with detective zuley or anyone representing him? >> repeated efforts went completely nowhere. through spokeswoman for his current job he declined to comment. we pursued further to try to give him every possible opportunity to respond to this story. absolutely nothing. >> spencer, the troubling and obvious implication here is

there is continuity between what ended up being well-documented techniques in guantanamo an interrogation team led by this chicago detective and potentially interrogations and confessions obtained back home in chicago. what can you say about the continuity in terms of techniques and how prisoners say they were treated? >> these techniques in chicago a history with a really disturbing and dark legacy of police torture, specifically against african-americans appear to act like something of a harbinger for what would happen against muslim detainers at g guantanamo bay. for example, richard zuley in chicago would coerce confessions by a woman still in prison telling her she wouldn't see her family again if he wouldn't sign a confession. that sounds reminiscent of richard zuley telling mohammad

if he didn't become a confess sant or witness against other guantanamo detainees and al qaeda, people he didn't actually know his mother would be taken to guantanamo or his family threatened. that's a subtle rape threat, by the way, by sending his mother to the all male environment at guantanamo bay. boyd had disconfirming evidence things like a piece of -- link things like the lineup you mentioned, the fact that other witnesses didn't see him, the car he drove was not the car seen at the crime and so forth. ignored by zuley and at trial, similarly, zuley ignores a host of disconfirming evidence about mohammad and brings together some false information against him. in the case of a guy who's still in jail in illinois named lee harris zuley used that guy as

an informant. slowly but surely over the course of a summer to solve a gruesome 1989 murder convinces harris to shade up his story. so it looks more like he was an eyewitness. that sounds reminiscent of trying to get him to confess to things he couldn't have been present at. >> do you think the effort to see if other people were wrongly convicted, who have connections to the chicago reporter the chicago detective, do you think that effort is likely to turn up things -- something about the chicago police department that is broader than just him, or is this specific to his techniques? are you saying the thing you are saying he did as a detective were his own innovations or was this common practice? >> what i have heard about chicago policing this is a systemic problem. particularly the reliance on confessions, instead of actual physical evidence connecting people to the crime. i would think that in zuley's case really a rather thorough

look through his old cases it seems to be in the germinating phases of happening, might in fact find what the state's attorney in cook county found in latherial boyd's case that people have been wrongly convicted. how far does it go that is a large question. we have seen over the pasting look at the early 2,000s when the governor of illinois threw out the death penalty cases because of how tainted the investigations were. it seems like there is something rotten about criminal justice in chicago. >> spencer ackerman reporter if for "the guardian" connecting the dots i never expected to be connected. thank you for your reporting and being here. >> thank you, rachel. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. e whitestrips made a huge difference. that's not fair! crest whitestrips work below the enamel surface to whiten 25 times better than the leading whitening toothpaste. crest whitestrips. the way to whiten [announcer] if your dog can dream it purina pro plan can help him achieve it. ♪ epic classical♪

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schools in the area to go in to shelter in place mode for hours. investigators are trying to determine what caused the pressure buildup that led to that explosion. look at the pictures though. look at the damage it caused. it's sort of remarkable it wasn't far worse in terms of injuries given how big the blast must have been. you can see from these images how this square-like metal structure, it housed an electrostatic precipitator. the unit was shredded in the explosion. metal is twisted and snarled. residents said the blast felt like a earthquake. that explosion on wednesday, that was a scary thing. it also halted the production of gasoline at that exxon mobil refinery. when it comes to our gasoline dependence as a country, when it comes to our gasoline depend department /* dependent refinery. they are a bottleneck and in addition to that one blowing up

last wednesday and therefore shutting down in torrance california, noigs that one being off line for that reason there are a bunch of other refineries across the u.s. right now where the workers are out on strike. oil refinery employees are out on strike at 12 different plants in ohio california texas, louisiana, the strike spread this weekend to the single largest refinery in the country, in port arthur texas. by reuters calculations this means one-fifth of the nation's production capacity in terms of refineries is on strike right now. one fifth of our capacity is down because of these strikes. now and indefinitely. these are the steelworkers who are out on strike. one of the major issues they are striking over is safety for the workers at these plants. pay and benefits as well but worker safety. talks are expected to pick up later this week. this is now the largest u.s. oil refinery strike in more than three decades.

i know we have all been enjoying the recent stretch of low gas prices in the country that. is in part due to the raw cost of oil going down because there's a lot of supply right now but another part of that equation is the refining capacity we have as a country. that is where one of our bottlenecks is. and right now one fifth of our refining capacity is affected by this strike. this is a big and still-developing deal. watch this space. right here. with a control pad that can read your handwriting, a wide-screen multimedia center, and a head-up display for enhanced driver focus. all inside a redesigned cabin of unrivaled style and comfort. the 2015 c-class. at the very touchpoint of performance and innovation. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial services.

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after the 2012 election the election where democrats kept control of the white house with, kept control of the senate, managed to pick up a few house seats even actual after the 2012 election where they not only held the white house, they did great on every other level, 2012 election was a disaster for the republican party. republicans decided to perform an autopsy on themselves to figure out what went wrong. their 100-page report was sort of refreshing in its honesty. quote, public perception at the party is record lows. young voters are increasingly rolling their eyes at what the republican party represents. many minorities wrongly think we do not like them or want them in the country. republican party autopsy after 2012, it was mostly a diagnosis of the party's messaging problems but did include one specific policy recommendation. it said this, quote, we must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform. how's that going? republicans in congress have not

only not done that they are now on the verge, this week, of shutting down the homeland security department because they are opposed to what the president has done on immigration problem. republicans mostly ignored their post 2012 democratic autopsy. now it is democrats term. so now, after this 2014 second consecutive midterm shellacking the democratic party produced its own autopsy which starts with devastating truth telling of their own. here's how it starts. quote, we have suffered devastating losses at all levels of government since 2008 including 69 seats in the house, 13 seats in the senate, 910 state legislative seats, 30 state legislative chambers 11 governorships. the first step toward fixing a

problem is admitting you have a problem, i guess. this is a big problem. democratic party describing those defeet as devastating. their solution is this -- and if you take off the back cover which says nothing and the front cover which says nothing it is a grand total of seven pages some nine pages if you count the covers, but this is it. is this is their autopsy. despite way of comparison the republican autopsy was 100 pages, but eh, you know, much of the democratic report is filled with nonsense platitudes that make no sense the closer you look at them. in order to consistently win on every level we have to reconnect with the reason we want to win and that reason is the people. chicken soup. so much of the report is that sort of like platitudeness nonsense. the it does not recommend changes for democrats and that makes sense them polls leading

up to the 2014 elections showed policies were popular but they didn't do a good job attaching themselves to those policies. there's no grand policy pronouncement in this from the democrats. there is one interesting thing. last week on the show we spoke to a former democratic congressman mark shower about a problem she heading up. an initiative to retake as many state legislatures as possible by the end of the 2020 election cycle so democrats will be in a position to participate in redrawing the electoral districts after that year's big national census. republicans had a huge year in 2010, their wins in 2010 allowed them to redraw the electoral districts to their advantage because of that year's census. democrats are trying to get theirs back with this 2020 plan. it was possible because of what republicans did for a state like michigan to give half of the

votes to democrats and send twice as many republican members of the house to washington. so that advantage, 2020 thing is about undoing what the republicans dmid 2010. about democrats trying to win state legislatures by the year 2020 to essentially correct what the republicans did five years ago and the democratic party's autopsy report seven pages long plus the controversy it identifies this strategy as an imperative it to allow democrats to control enough districts so they are drawing the maps not the republicans. democrats say they are coming out with a full-action play in may to build on these seven pages. we will keep an eye out on how they flush out that important idea. this is the long-term planning that republicans have turned in to a science. democrats maybe wising up it to getting in to the game themselves. fascinating to see them try. it will take more than seven

pages and two nice covers to get there, though. so i got this listing. 3 bedroom, 3 bath. i have a client that lives out of state. just knew it was for her. so i tried to get her on video chat. i'm on verizon. i... i'm not. so it's not a problem. my video chat isn't working so i try to send photos but even that doesn't work. she saw the granite counters and the fire pit she went nuts. so i'm trying really hard to describe it but words are not my thing. that was all it took. i mean what do you want, i'm a realtor, not a poet.

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get to do it on a big one and soon. the timing on this is weird. congress passed that bill as i said almost two weeks ago. after passing the bill which president obama vowed to vee ito, congress went on vacation for a week without ever actually sending the bill to the white house so the president could veto it. they are apparently going to send the bill to the white house tomorrow, which means the president's promised veto may happen tomorrow. i guess the republicans wanted to be there in town for veto day. this is a big deal. the democrats and republicans think that president obama vetoing this thing will be great for them. president obama has never vetoed any meaningful legislation in the six years he's been in office but now republicans are in control of congress and they are sending bills they know he will not sign we are in a new era of politics. welcome to the veto era. fine weather we are having.

very exciting. it is time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> never seen you so excited about a four-letter >> it's very exciting. we haven't had any. >> and it's a real constitutional power. let's see it work. >> yay, civics. thanks, lawrence. first up tonight, john boehner and mitch mcconnell. they are washington's current masters of painting themselves into a corner and they have done it once again. and later in the rewrite, the four-letter word that has more possible means than any other. >> we need a fully-funded department of homeland security. >> the coast guard, secret service workers. >> it shouldn't be controversial.