hello, everyone. i'm joy reid and we begin with breaking news. the justice department has just announced the conclusion in the trayvon martin case. this afternoon they found insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against george zimmerman for the fatal shooting of trayvon martin. you may recall zimmerman was found not guilty on all charges in connection with trayvon martin's death. the usa todayam itch al sindor covers this. you covered this as i did in sanford all of the many months and i know this just happened but give me what you might expect the reaction will be? >> i think people will not be surprised. and i lot of the people i talked to after the jury trial said they didn't think this would meet the bar of the federal hate

crime -- the federal hate crime bar. even eric holder said this is a high standard to meet and there wasn't enough evidence and i think people in sanford, florida won't be surprised by what eric holder is telling them and after the trial and the jury of six women found him not guilty it would be hard for the federal government to charge him. >> and to the statement you mentioned. i'll read a little bit of it. in the statement, he said it was a devastated tragedy and though a comprehensive investigation found the high standard for a federal hate crime prosecution cannot be met under the circumstances here the young man's premature death necessitied that we continue the dialogue and investigate the passing and we the nation should take steps so make sure this doesn't happen in the feature. and you know how much of a con

fligation that set off in the country and set off as a person acting a civilian would have shot this young man and not be arrested for it and then proceeding to a trial and many people felt the prosecution didn't do a good job. as a person who covered this trial, were you surprised that there was still this federal process going on so long afterward when people might have forgotten there was a federal process? >> i'm not surprised because i'm someone, as you did, cover the trial, i had a lot of conversations with lawyers who said if this goes to a federal level, it could take years before we figure out what the federal government does and what the federal government decides. so i'm not surprised it took this long. i think what a lot of people will be surprised, people didn't understand this is still going on, because we have the other federal -- we have the federal government looking at, from my understanding, the eric garner case and the case in ferguson, missouri. so i think people have turned their attention to other cases

involving unarmed black men and so i think because of that people are surprised around the country but as someone who has talked to attorneys, they say the federal government takes its time and it could take years for the other cases that i just mentioned to come to a conclusion on that. >> interesting since attorney general holder wanted to see resolution toward some of the high-profile cases like eric garner and michael brown before his tenure ends. this is the first one to get done. yamiche al sipdor who i got to know and did a great job covering this. thank you. dozens of people injured in a fiery train derailment 75 miles west of los angeles. eyewitness video shows a pickup truck engulfed after a metro link train slammed into it just after 7:00 this morning. >> he he was -- he was trying to beat the train.

yeds i seen one -- yesterday i seen one car coming down and you see the red car flashing and he went right through the middle. you hope nobody else is really hurt. it is just a big -- like it was a big bam-boom like that. >> ventura county fire officials say no deaths have been reported. 51 train passengers were injured and 23 of them were treated at the scene and 23 were transported and 24 people are fighting for their lives in critical reason. the driver of the vehicle who fled the scene is in commit custody. investigators say the conductor see the truck in advance and was able to slow down somewhat before hitting the truck. hallie jackson is live. what do we know about the condition of the passengers injured. >> of the four critical a lot of those hospitalized have head trauma and what you would see if

you get tossed around in a train that hits a truck at that rate of speed. you talk about the conducting being able to see the truck and slow down. the train was traveling 79 miles per hour and was able to slow down some but the collision had a great impact. so more of what we know at this point. the crash happened before 6:00 in the morning. this is now the investigative phase of the recovery and the response. the ntsb has a full team heading here to oxnard. the driver did run from the scene but police found him a couple of miles away. he is now in police custody. the amazing thing, when you look at the scene here, joy, as we look with investigators, a number of them and media here out today, is that it almost wasn't worse. remember, there was a terrible crash back in 2008 when a metro link train collided with a freight train in chatsworth. 25 people were killed and hundreds of others were hurt and after that metro link put in

safety measures with new cars and with crumble worth protection. and we express another press conference in minutes and we'll have more. >> thank you very much. hallie jackson we appreciate it? and an american missionary in nigeria has been kidnapped. the fbi is looking with authorities to find and rescue her. a group of five armed men, three wearing masks, jumped the walls and fired shotted into the air on monday morning. police believe she was the target because no one else was taken and no injuries. and the countdown to the shutdown is on. they have less than 24 hours to fund the department of homeland security before it shut downs at midnight. mitch mccome introduced a plan to prevent the shutdown.

it would split the immigration apart from the funding. it came after the democrats blocked the house passed bill for fourth time and that included language overturning the immigration action while also funding dhs. mcconnell praised the plan this morning and the democrats said it failed to address the problem. >> this sets up a simple political equation. either stand in defense of extreme over-reach or stand with constituents in support of shared democratic values. >> this is something i can't imagine why we have fiddled around here for four weeks and not a thing has happened in homeland security. and what senator mcconnell moved for the floor last night has nothing to do with funding homeland security. >> meanwhile president obama is making a push to avoid a shutdown and writing this in an op ed on the hill. it is time to end the era of manufactured crises and put

politic as side and focus on doing what's best for america. so while i will fight any attempt to turn back the progress we've made or break up families across our country, i welcome the opportunity to work with anyone who wants to build on the improvements we've put in place. and so political peril for republicans if the dhs shuts down, how does that work. >> the republicans are the party of national security. they want to be tough on national security and tough on terrorism. in light of those threats that the united states has received from the somali terrorist group al shabab about possibly attacking shopping malls, with operatives within republican circles if anything were to happen with the lapse of the funding and attacks on mall it

could stain national security for a long long time. so that is the thinking on the senate side. you see mitch mcconnell putting this forward and stepping up and allowing the republicans to step up against the president's immigration actions and a clean bill for dhs. some like manchin said they would support that if the clean funding of the department of homeland security went first sox they are having a lunch right now, the senate republican side and still unclear what the plan is going to be. whatever happens in the senate over the next few days the clock is ticking for what will happen in the house. john boehner once again has a decision to make. does he cater to the more conservative element of his conference, the 25 or 35 who want to fight this right now. they don't want to do anything else on immigration. anything on department of homeland security until immigration is figured out or put the bill that would cleanly fund the department of homeland security on the floor for a few weeks or a month and go with

democratic icic votes. i'm told a stop gap bill could pass the house, a tough vote with enough democrats and republicans. we'll see what the boehner does. always the boehner question. >> i thought it was ground haug day was over. mcdonnell will hold a news conference outside in v.a. mcdonnell was forced to apologize during a interview in which he claimed to have served in the special forces. >> you happen to be a veteran? >> yes. >> army or navy? >> yes. army. >> special forces. >> what years? ? i was in special forces. >> and now i know everybody

wants to be in special forces and they are cool but this is a strange thing to falsely remember. >> absolutely. given his service in the military, he did go to ranger school where special forces are born. but instead of becoming a ranger he went into the 82nd airborne. so -- and now his service with the v.a. it is very difficult to understand how he could make that kind of mistake. nevertheless, he's calling it a mistake and said he misspoke and apologized for it. so far the white house is willing to take his word at that and accept his apology. and really what is strange about this, there is no record of him embellishing his military service. and any time previously. so again we'll hear shortly from him out in front of the v.a. here in washington, d.c. to see exactly what his explanation is. what was he thinking? >> wow, indeed. jim miklaszewski, thank you very much. >> you bet. >> and stick with msnbc for the

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in spain today, a big question sur rounding the -- surrounding the group of isis. how can they recruit young people and even women from around the world. spanish authorities say the men

arrested today were located in three different part of the country and they were attempting to recruit women using online propaganda and meetings in their homes. after three teenage girls left their home and travelled to turkey possibly en route to syria. about 3400 westerners are among the 20,000 recruits who have left homes to join isis. and joining me a security analyst and the contemporary middle east studies at the london school of economics. thank you for being here. and i want to start with you faux was, because the notion that the videos presented to people particularly in social media that make isis look like a movie set are different from what is encountered in the field. here is what eli lake writes, suicide bombers and first-wave attackers deployed in islamic

state offenses are almost entirely made up of units of foreign fighters. and the new units fighting thein fidel s fidels. and fawaz, i wonder if isis needs to fill the ranks with western-based potential fighters because they are not willing to sacrifice their syrian and iraqi recruits? >> well yes and no. i think foreign recruits tend to be as you said a cannon theologically illiterate willing to be whatever they are asked of particularly suicide bombings and they commit vicious attacks against local communities and easy to brain wash and they want to belong and their identities are extremely torn. if you ask me what is the most important driver or drivers, behind the ability of isis to

recruit westerns i would say two major factors. the first one is isis military expansion. isis military victories. isis portrays itself as seen as a winning horse. it can deliver on the battlefield. actions speak louder than words and the second big idea is the whole idea of the callive at the centralized islamic view. many in london and paris and brussels and spain would like to be part of this utopia political project. they are desperate to have a sense of life. multiple factors really play in particular -- a particular role. and as you said joy. we estimate on the whole about 30,000 members and fighters within isis. out of the 30,000 fighters you have more than 2,000 foreigners. that is almost 80% of the rank and file of isis of foreign fighters. this tells you how important the

foreign fighter phenomenon is in isis and why so many suicide bombers have been able to be carried out by sirs. >> and it is interestingeffy, and as fawaz said you have theute openan feel and the battlefields and the fear put forward in the propaganda videos and for the families of young people both in the united states and europe and where people are coming from isn't it the case that the social media environment allows people to learn everything meaning they would also learn that the foreign fighters were mostly the cannon fodder. this is piece published in bloomberg and these are online. how is it that somebody can be closed off from so much information out there about how hellish it is once you join a group like isis? >> i think because they don't want to see it. i know there is a lot of kind of awe in how they are able to recruit such young people and getting our young folks and young women out there to join

but if you think of it as a demographic, young people are the easiest to brain wash and the most impulsive. if you look at criminality, the criminal behavior, it is young folks between the ages of 15-16 through 25 to commit the most crimes. so it makes sns how they are being targeted. and isis is clever in how it is having a psychological impact on the world. not only are we attacking you, but we will take your young and brain wash them and use them against you. and thick about the psychological level on what they can achieve. >> and fawaz, if you look at the west and the western europe you do see a secularization and even in the united states which is very rets and you have people -- religious and you see islam extremely religious and the opposite.

and i want to read you a piece of what hassan has written by michael wise and is said one of the fascinating insights we found is isis represents the mainstream islam practiced by muslims today is one invented over the past few decades to unravel the invented islam that isis deliberately digs deep into history to find archaic teaching and magnify it. what do you make of the idea of the archaic and old century interpretation of islam being made to people in secular countries? >> because these particular young men -- all of the studies that we have done, joy, tells us theer theologically illiterate. they don't know what islam is about. all of the books they read before joining is islam for dummies, it is islam 101 and so they have no idea what islam is.

point one. and point two, we are not talking about islam as a religion and we are talking about an ideology grievances against the west, griefances against -- griefances against authoritarian agencies in europe and they have torn identities partly in the west and out of the west. and isis tells them look the first sermon that al baghdadi gave he said come to us and join the winning horse, we are the callive at. this idea resonates among man and that is why we have thousands of men and women out of the -- joy, out of the 20,000 fighters who have joined isis there are -- 20% are women and this tells you how grave the particular crisis is. >> and that is particularly

alarming both fawaz and evy, it is fascinating and i wish we have more time. thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. and now three things to know on this tuesday. police are investigating a bizarre attempted bank robbery in connecticut. two people wearing machgs forced their -- masked forced their way into a bank managers home and tied his mother to a bed under which they placed a bank bomb. the intruders ordered the manager to drive to the bank and empty the vault. they are investigating whether the manager is a victim or a suspect. britain is the first country to allow the creation of what many have termed the three-parent baby. a in vitro would use the dna of three people to decrease the likelihood of -- of mitochondrial diseases. critics question the morality of the law saying it is one step

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offered a vote on a vote on a funding bill without immigration measures. >> i would be happy to have his cooperation to advance the consideration of a clean dhs bill that would carry us through september 30th. with democratic cooperation, on a position they have been advocating for the last two months months, we could have that vote very quickly. >> hogan gidley is a republican strategy and jonathan capehart and a nbc contributor. and hogan i'm asking you, because short of asking for a loan to keep the dhs open will your party accept the mitch mcconnell compromise and do the two-track thing where they allow the republicans to vote on what they wanted striped of the immigration funding and pass a clean dhs bill. will they let that fly? >> here is the best answer i've

got. i have no idea. the more people i talk to on the hill today, they have no idea what is going on either. and republicans have a problem here. constitutionally if mcconnell passes a funding bill for dhs from the senate we don't know if that is legal constitutionally because the bills are to other other -- originate in the house. and if it go does go back to the house, tea party republicans are going to say we got re-elected or elected for the first time on getting rid of the amnesty. if you take this out of the bill, we have no leverage to argue with the president on anything else. so right now it is a stalemate and i have no idea where this is going to go. mcconnell is known for being able to broker deals in the senate and i don't know if this is the same senate as it used to be. >> and i love hogan's honesty, jonathan, because it is a muddle. an it is an interesting muddle because it feels like the act same thing that republicans were going through when democrats ran

the senate and when the reasonable mcconnell would be involved in those compromises too and then dead stopped in the house. >> and here is the common denominators between the congress whether it is republicans or democrats in the majority in the senate mitch mcconnell. watching that clip i thought there is -- there it is again. mitch mcconnell saving speaker boehner from his caucus and from himself. but hogan raises the key issue, funding bills are supposed to come from the house. how is it possible for mcconnell to save boehner. but if boehner is smart and can grab ahold of his caucus a little bit, he will say to them let's pass theoid can a bill send it back to the senate and let's get this done with. >> indeed because hogan, you know this more than anybody else. you are talking about 30,000 employees at department of homeland security and created with the support and pushing of republicans, 195,000 employees

forced to work for free work without pay. we didn't even get into the fema employees who would be set aside, god forbid there is a natural disaster and we are doing about stories about threats to the mall of america. >> right. >> it doesn't seem the republicans have a position here specifically on dhs, even if you said aside immigration, how could you not pass this. >> 30 million americans don't feel safe and 60% of americans are fearful of another attack on american soil. that right now sits on the plate of the president. but should republicans bungle this dhs funding and not pass a bill by midnight and the shift will be blamed to us and when we got blamed when we only had the house and you can bet the

republicans will be blamed when they own the senate and the house. and i hate to be bleak, it will not get done. >> and you have to be bleak when it is bleak. it is hard to pass the law to suspend funding for the agency, and when the immigration has been put on hold and why not put that moot when it is and that is the irony, is the immigration action is on hold. explain to us this. >> my explanation is the house can't take yes for an answer. this is an off-ramp that senate republicans were say -- lindsey graham was on the sunday program saying, hey, let's take this. but clearly, there are people -- people in the senate who would love to do this. it is the people in the house. because as hogan said funding bills come from the house and must then go to the senate.

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attempts to fix the pension system. >> i'm pleased to announce the commission with my support has reached an unprecedented accord with the njea on a road map to reform to solve our long-term problems with the pepgs and health benefit systems. while this road map is with the njea only today, i hope other unions will consider it and follow suit soon. >> he unveiled plans to make a $1.3 billion pension payment in the state budget that begins on july 1st. this comes one day after a judge found the governor broke the law that he signed by cutting more than a $1.5 billion from a scheduled pension payment this year. kelly o'donnell has more from capitol hill. kelly, so what is the significance of the christie deal announced today. >> this is a burden on the new jersey budget and this issue of how can they try to reach an agreement that complies with the

law and makes the pension payments that are needed but deals with the reality that the state budget doesn't have enough funds. and so part of what he is outlining today is a agreement with the un toyota freeze the existing pension and to create a new one and more sharing of the costs by people who are benefiting. and it is part of that very complicated reality that many states and municipalities around the country have when there are defined benefit plans that are generous and were intended to be generous as part of bargaining agreements over time. but the budgets can't keep up. so christie who has had a testy relationship with teachers and had notable exchanges with teachers in public this is an olive branch that may reach dividends for his national reputation as well but mostly today he is talking about new jersey to the legislature in new jersey. and when you reference that judge, the judge is saying that the administration in new jersey must work with lawmakers there, the legislative branch to come up with some way to resolve

this. and so in the required budget address, christie lays that out today at a time when he's trying to show that while new jersey has had financial issues with not sufficient revenue and has had property tax issues and you all of the budget problems they are trying to confront a problem and not ignore it. that is the message he is trying to send out today. >> kelly o'donnell on capitol hill. thank you very much. and meanwhile in wisconsin the state's republican led legislature is taking up a right-to-work bill sparking a new round of protests in the state capital. they say it is about giving the workers the freedom to decide whether to join a union and opponents argue it is the governor's final blow to private sector organized labor. >> this bill -- this mess that they are bringing upon the state of wisconsin is nothing more than a way to legalize and divide and conquer us within our workplaces. >> we must stand together not in

anger or hatred or attack but in honesty and courage. >> right to work is bad for wisconsin. let's make them hear us. solidarity forever. >> ed schultz is host of the ed show on nbc. and we've watched the decline of unions which has matched to the decline in middle class income year over year and decade over decade and we are seeing them going after the last man standing, the public sector union. >> let's cut to the chase. they all have budget problems and they think at the end of the day they can take it out of the hide of the workers. in new jersey christie had a big plan to think he could go after the firefighters an the teachers and could affect the bottom line and he's got hung up in his own wash and now trying to rehabilitate himself as i see it to come up with a grand plan and the grand plan again is to make sure the teachers don't get

as much as they've been getting in the past and get to the bottom line n.. in wisconsin this is a more of a methodical approach by walker. this is a marathon not a sprint for walker and he deserves a lot of credit. i think he has street credibility with conservatives right now because he is focused after the unions and brought them to the foet, you see the folks in madison protesting that is all they can do right now. that is the state in wisconsin. they are going to go through. right to work will happench this is the 23rd state in the union will happen and it is part of the plan to knock down the democratic voting base and divide people in the workplace and weaken unions in the workplace under taft hartley which is legal from 1947 that there is a provision that said states can do this and republicans have decided this is the best way to get to the bottom line. >> and not just eviscerate the unions and hurt democrats in

elections because the unops are so important. you look at the national education association and american forward of teachers down by 50% and that is campaign money that help democrats win. >> it is social networking crucial for the progressive movement when it comes to elections and this is exactly what the mission has been by the conservative right. they have to get to the base so it is easier to win the next election. what some of the unions are doing is going back to social networking and going door-to-door and lowering dues to get people back into it. but of course this opens the door for companies to go in and basically cash whip some employees and give them more streng mg in the workplace -- strength in the workplace and give them solutions for more. it is a heavier whip for the unions and they are doing everything they can to get the folks back into the fold.

>> and when you look at the new york times, they talk about what workers need is a wage increase and you see the erosion of the decrease of the middle class wages but there is no backlash. but they dislike the union more than the collective power to raise their own income. >> where this is joy, is that there is this tremendous competition between governors to bring business to their states. and to bring business to your states you relax property taxes, you give incentives you do tax increment financing and give corporate deals. you give abatements. you can come up with all kinds of things to try to create jobs. walker hasn't been able to do that. but he's still attacked the works to balance the budget done that by going after the unions.

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of american citizen children. it could be about super-serving the part of the republican base that most actively voted at presidential primaries and who can't stand barack obama or the demographic changes connected to immigration. it could be, as unique -- eugene robinson said deranged by obama delirium or the risk of the gem election in 2016. now, see, republicans have been told over and over gep they can't win back -- again they can't win back the white house without increasing the share of minority voters particularly hispanics, articulated byron brownstein by a column called bad bet. but in that column he states that the key question facing the gop is whether obama's 2012 performance represents a structural democratic decline

among whites that could deepen even further in the years ahead or a floor from which the next democratic nominee is likely to improve. if the next democratic presidential candidate, think hillary clinton, who re-emerges in a speech in silicon valley later today, is likely to improve the white voters then the republicans need more minority votes. and while hispanic voters are concentrated in states like california and texas they are growing in numbers in swing states like colorado. and even if republicans buy nick cohen's article that hispanics are 12% of voter and 9-10% actual voters have not enough to deny the presidency, look at the charts posted by brown steen from the demographics and democracy projects showing the most important swing states in

the sun belt. florida, north carolina and virginia. you see the line at the top trending down. that is the share of the electorate that is nonminority. so the question is can the republicans atoward to be seep as willing -- afford to be seen as shutting down the america's homeland security and fema to deport more presumably nonwhite immigrants? calculated risk? in deed. i'll see you back here tomorrow at 2:00. and "the cycle" is up next with the news conference by mitch mcconnell. plus runny nose. [breath of relief] oh, what a relief it is. mommy! hey! ideas come into this world ugly and messy. they are the natural born enemy of the way things are. yes, ideas are scary and messy

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cycle and, boy, that is starting to sound old. while the northern half of the country are freezing parts of the south are starting to get a taste of the same medicine. we begin with that train derailment in california. more than two dozen people were sent to the hospital but thankfully everyone survived. now to v.a. secretary bob mcconnell speaking for the first time since being caught lying about his service. >> thank you for coming. i'm bob mcdonalds. as you know while i was in los angeles and engaging with a homeless man to determine his veteran status i asked the man where he served in the military. he responded that he had served in special forces and in an attempt to connect with that