week. it has a history and a context. >> mayor emanuel is standing in the way of that bill. for the victims of john burge's torture. no one is contesting that. spencer ackerman, thank you, the article is incredible, we linked it on our facebook page. "the rachel maddow show" is now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. >> we'll have updates on the election in chicago tonight. >> very close. interesting stuff. >> very close. and whether's i avoids run-off. and we'll have those as it comes in. thanks. so, it is fight night apparently right now. in terms of big fight nights, this is sort of like the biggest one of recent 50 years memory, right? muhammad ali and joe frazier. they fought at madison square garden, new york city, march 1971. they billed that thing as the fight of the century. there was a lot of other big

boxes matches, so maybe it is hyperbole, but the hype for ali-frazier, it was like nothing that had come before it. the fighters themselves benefits from the hype and the hoopla. their payday was the two of them personally split $5 million in prize money in 1971 dollars. and whatever else you think about boxing, the sport of boxes is very good about turning big marquee fights, once in a decade match-ups into really big money including for the boxers themselves. probably the biggest after that was mike tyson and evander holyfield. that is the one when mike tyson tried to bite the dude's ear off. and got disqualified.

they still split prize money of $65 million between the two of them for that one fight. ten years later, the next huge one was floyd mayweather versus oscar de la hoya. that was 2007. they split nearly $80 million. big fights like this, everybody makes a lot of money. but the fighters can make a really big payday on these big fights. even with that history there is nothing like what is about to happen on may 2nd. it will be floyd maywhether again but this time he will be fighting manny pacquiao. whether you care one wit, this thing as a cultural spectacle, as an economic milestone. this boxing match, is almost impossible to overstate in terms of the hype. they have been trying to get

these two to fight since 2009. can you imagine paying $95 to watch one tv show once? the pay per view cost for this fight is $95 per tv set. and millions of americans will pay to see this fight. usually huge fights like this are either on hbo or showtime. this one is so big it will be on both. it will be at the mgm grand in las vegas. the mgm will make $19 million in tickets for people to sit in the room. just in terms of the live audience and the ticket price. that estimate of $19 million in ticket sales and that is based on the tickets going between $1,000 and $4,000 a seat. right now online, tickets for the fight are being bid out at $22,000 per seat.

every room in that huge hotel sold out within minutes of them announcing the date of the fight. now the hotel is sold out on the date of this fight as well. this is one boxing match. this is one boxing match that will probably last up to an hour, maybe. depending on what happens in the fight. but that one single event. that one hour or less, will earn hundreds of millions of dollars. and all of the money raised and spent around that fight that will happen on may 2nd. of all of that money, $200 million of it will go to the two guys fighting the fight. between them, floyd mayweather and manny pacquiao will split a fifth of a billion dollars. between the two of them for this one fight. it's on. people have been waiting for this particular fight for years. it has become an article of faith that this dream fight could never happen. it is happening.

and it is a whole new era in fighting. kind of like this. barack obama has been president since january 2009. in all of the time he has been president, he has never fought like this before. he has never, before today, done there for a significant piece of legislation. but today he did it. veto. boom. i am returning herewith without pli approval senate bill 1. the keystone xl hype line approval act. the presidential power to veto legislation is one i take seriously but i also take seriously my responsibility to the american people. because this act of congress conflicts with established executive branch procedures and cut short thorough consideration of issues that could bear on our national interest including security safety and environment, this bill the

president says, has earned my veto. love barak obama. president obama vetoing major legislation for the first time in his presidency. substantively it does not mean the keystone pipeline will ever get built. it means president obama has stopped congress from super seeding him in terms of making this decision. he has stopped congress from overriding his ability as president so say yes or no based on what he thinks is in the national interest. he might yet say yes to keystone, but this veto today means it is his decision, hence the proverbial boom in washington today. in terms of what happens next, the republicans say they will schedule votes right away to try to override president obama's veto. there is no chance they can override president obama's veto. this was the vote in the house on this bill and the vote in the senate.

this is the number of votes they need in each of those chambers to override his veto, but they have decided to schedule these trying for a override vote that's will definitely fail, they decided to schedule them right away and they will happen before this time next week. so president obama just defeated the republicans in congress on this. at the white house, with this veto. now they say they want to rush right away into president obama defeating them on this in the house as well, and then into president obama defeating them on the senate after that. they want to make sure they rub their own faces in it a lot, all week long, i guess. that is what will happen next here, i guess. welcome to the veto era of the barack obama presidency. we've never been here before. we didn't know before, we didn't know before today what it would be like. now we know and it is kind of exciting. the new feeling in washington was heightened by this visual. the top democratic in the

senate, harry reid, still looks, honestly, absolutely terrible. no offense. after his bizarre home exercise equipment injury, which happened on new year's day. he has had two rounds of eye surgery to try to restore the vision in his eye. after appearing in the last few weeks in a variety of bandages and eye patches and medical instruments on his face. today he switched to this gangstery sunglasses look. then he gave a spectacularly hostile pregnant pause and clipped response when one brave reporter was frisky enough to actually ask him about the shades. watch this. it starts off like it might be a funny moment, and very quickly it is clear this is not going to be a funny moment, it will be kind of scarey or at least definitely hostile. >> speaker boehner says that's

what he will did. i take his word for it. >> your bandage being off now, is this a sign you're getting better. >> we're working on my beauty here. i have these on, tomorrow we're going to try some other things. i can see out of my right eye, just not very well. it has not been healed. i have been patient. i appreciate your interest, but it's the best i can do. >> senator harry reid today killing a reporter with the length of that pause before answering about his eye injury sun shades. what that press conference was about on day one of the veto era of the presidency, on day one of this fighting in washington that we have never seen before in this presidency, what senator

reid was there to talk about other than his eye injury was the next big fight in fighty fighty washington right now. about whether the homeland security department will be shut down this week. republicans in the house and senate are in a hair pulling fight amongst themselves right now. about whether or not they will shut down the homeland security department. and it is kind of fighty fun to watch. in it's own right, but it is an absolutely open question right now to how expensive that fight will be. and what it will cost all of us and what it will cost the government, right? it is an absolutely questionable whether or not we're heading to another partial government shut down this week courtesy of the republicans own fights among themselves within this congress. joining us now is senator amy klobuchar. from the great state of minnesota.

>> i thought we were coming in on boxing with the lead-in. but harry was once a boxer. >> he was. >> he looked pretty tough in that photo. >> when he fist did his home video explaining i know i look like i have been run over, he gave a litany saying i wasn't fighting a boxer, i was not riding a bull. i slapped myself in the face with exercise equipment. it feels like we're in a new fighting era in washington where we don't know what the contours are. president obama vetoing this legislation and a partial shut down may be coming. i feel like i don't know what to expect. >> first let's look at what we're fighting for on homeland security. people in minnesota woke up sunday morning to see a video. a terrorist group, the ones that killed 60 people basically saying we want to go after mall of america, and calling on people to do it, calling on them to go after jewish owned shopping centers.

this happened. we're glad the fbi and homeland security secretary said you should feel free to keep going to the mall. our people stood tall. i talked that night to 500 hospitality workers that worked near or at the mall. they went to work that day. they were people working at front desk of the hotel. people working at the malls. delivery pizza workers. they did their jobs. and the leaks that we can see out of the republican side is to fund homeland security when we have cyber threats out of north korea. people shot in paris. we're going to say to these terrorists well you know what? we're having fights over extraneous amendments about immigration reform put on by republicans in the house, so we're going to fund down our security. that is not the message we want to send to that guy that did the video. i was really glad my colleagues

stood together today. i'm hopeful that senators are saying this thing is in the texas courts. let's get this done and vote on a purely funded homeland security bill. >> do you expect that will happen? we're getting to point where i know this has been threatened for a long time. everybody thought this was a brinksmanship game. ung walgds are everybody wants to fight with their base. but we're getting really, really close to the deadline now and it seems to me like what mitch mcconnell put forward is his way to avoid this thing, i can't see it happening. saying that is a terrible vote and nobody should cast that vote. >> i'm hopeful talking to some of my republican colleagues that some common sense will prevail here. the key is the house. they have to get their act together and figure out how they will maneuver this. we can have debates about immigration reform. and the courts can battle it out. it is very important to me. i was a big supporter of the comprehensive bill, but right

now is about funding homeland security. not just about terrorism at the mall of america. it's about our firefighters, the coast guard, and thousands of employees that will be furloughed. or go to work without pay. not people being burned in cages and young people watching this on tv. this is not the message we want to send to the rest of the world. >> do you think things will change now that we have a new dynamic that we never had before under this president where he is vetoing stuff. i see no way the republicans can override the veto. we will have votes on that over the week. the president sent his veto message today that was stern and without fanfare, do you think it changing the dynamic in washington at all? >> i think right now we have a lot of energy coming out of the president's state of the union where we finally talked about

things like income inequality and how we have to move forward for the middle class, and you heard republicans talk about funding infrastructure, moving forward on education issues. i think at some point since they are now in charge of both houses, we'll have to get to some governing. for me the real first test is what happens with this bill this week. will they be able to shut down some extraneous amendments and fund this simple homeland security bill that was negotiated between democrats and republicans so i can go home to minnesota and say to those workers that go to the mall every day and do their jobs, you know what? the united states of america is behind you. that is what we should be doing in washington. >> senator, it is great to see you, thank you for being here. remember when it looks like president obama's pick for attorney general would sail through confirmation, that was so january. we'll have latest details on that.

coming up later, we have an installment of debunction junction. including news about sledding down the capitol hill. and my colleague, bill o'reilly. he loves it when i talk about him. as most people know i fought for a couple years. after any of those fights i never looked like i do now. however, i didn't get this black eye by sparring with manny. by challenging floyd mayweather. i was not bull riding or riding a motorcycle. i was exercising in my new home. the doctors told me to take it easy. you're a mouthbreather. well, put on a breathe right strip and instantly open your nose up to 38% more than cold medicines alone so you can breathe and sleep shut your mouth and sleep right. breathe right. ♪ okay, you ready to go? i gotta go dad!

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apparently as some sort of gesture of good faith, i dploent, tle decided to wait they decided to roll her nomination over into the new year and to allow republicans to handle the loretta lynch attorney general confirmation process. once they took over control of the senate. now at the time that decision seemed at least to me to be a little bit ominous. i mean true at the time there were no substantive objections to loretta lynch, republicans really did want to see eric holder gone as attorney general. but the longer the democrats let this thing roll on the longer republicans had to try to cook something up about this nomination. so it seemed to me like a worrying sign for the loretta lynch confirmation when democrats decided to give republicans control over the confirmation process. well last month the new republican led senate did hold her hearings. she went through unscathed. nobody laid a glove on her. but when it came time for the senate judiciary committee street and move the process

forward without explanation, they decided to delay their vote. they still haven't voted on her. now this week more than four dozen republican members of the house have sent a letter to the senate judiciary committee pleading with committee members to vote no on loretta lynch nomination. we contend that at the very least you should reject miss lynch's nomination for your disapproval with this persistent lawless conduct. we ask that you refuse to vote loretta lynch out of committee. now we have this sizeable group in the house. lobbying the republicans on the judiciary committee in the senate that they should vote against loretta lynch. we have gotten junior texas senator ted cruz lobbying his fellow republicans in the conservative media that they should block her nomination by any means in. the republican leadership should just refuse to put her nom nation on the floor for a full senate vote. so that's what happens when you delay it and let them control

the process. now there really is no clear sign that republicans are going to confirm her as attorney general. even as they have raised zero substantive objections to her record. nothing. not a single substantive objection to anything she has ever done. there is no sign right now as to whether she has enough votes in the commit tooe with stand this pressure from the right and no sign as to whether she would have nouf republican votes to survive the floor vote if it is even allowed go to the floor. amazing. the committee vote is scheduled for the diafter tomorrow scheduled for thursday. through no fault of loretta lynch's own this confirmation may not happen. the current attorney generalering holder says he will not step down until his replacement is confirmed. so republicans hate him but since they can't bring in loretta lynch, they have to hold him in indefinitely. eric holder appears to be trying to wrap things up. last week he said he expect before he leaves office he will

get the findings of federal investigations of the police shooting of michael brown in ferguson, missouri last year. today the justice department announce told not bring federal charges in a very high profile, 2012 shooting of trayvon martin in florida. no federal charges in that case. eric holder appears to be sort of cleaning off his desk in terms of controversial matters, at least. as though loretta lynch will get confirmed and he will goat leave. but the same republicans who hate him so much now appear ready to do whatever it takes, whatever they can to keep him attorney general indefinitely. it doesn't make sense. but that doesn't mean you couldn't see it coming. and that committee vote for loretta lynch's nomination is thursday. diafter tomorrow. nobody has any idea what's going to happen, watch this space.

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it is these three seconds of tape that landed one of the president's members of the cabinet in hot water today. >> special forces. >> what years? >> i was in special forces. that is the veterans affairs secretary robert mcdonald in a squib of tape that ran about veterans and homelessness. in a cbs series. he pledged to reduce homelessness, he participated in the count of homeless people in l.a., and the v.a. invited a cbs

news crew invited him to come along showing him doing that count. >> special forces, what years? i was in special forces. >> the reason the secretary is now in trouble for those comments is secretary mcdonald was not in the special forces. he served in the military, the 82nd airborne. in the 1970s. but special forces, no. maybe he made it up on the fly, right, in an empathetic attempt to connect with a veteran, but it doesn't really matter. people noticed he lied and it is an embarrassing deal. he apologized very forthrightly. he said it was a misstatement and he had no excuse. there is basically a mixed response to his apology so far for veterans groups.

just like the groups, they say he just made a mistake. they accept his apology. president obama also had to come out and say he accepted the apology from secretary mcdonald. when anyone in public life gets caught lying, it is particularly upsetting to lie about your military record, or experiences of war that other people really have gone through and you have not. and whether you are a presidential candidate saying you took sniper fire, or you got a naval honor, or a member who made it seem like he served in vietnam when he didn't. or a trusted news anchor who said his chopper took fire when it didn't. or a guy on cable news who said he was reporting from an active war zone reporting from an active combat zone when in fact he was covering a piece about the war, not the war itself. not telling the truth and whole truth specifically about your time in the war or lack thereof,

there is a reason that that sort of thing upsets people more than just regular lying. and that rule applies to everyone, everyone except our next guest weirdly. congressman seth molten is a new member of congress from massachusetts. united states marine that volunteered to be sent to iraq even though he disagreed with the war. he served four combat tours in iraq. when he came home from the war and ran for congress, even though people knew he was a marine and about his four combat tours in iraq, he left out one very salient detail. he didn't overtly lie about it, but he left it out. he never talked about it. to the point where his hometown paper, the boston globe, turn oentd investigative unit to expose seth molten's real military record and what he was not talking about in his campaign.

he was, quote, a former marine who saw fierce combat for months and months in iraq. but he chose not to publicly disclose he was twice decorated for heroism. until he was pressed on the subject by the boston globe. he did not even tell his parents about him winning the bronze star for heroism in combat. he never told a soul until the local paper had to dig it up like an expose of his humility. in a world full of people making it up, here is the guy that is not only the opposite of that, he is starting to feel like the anecdote to that. and he is here tonight. please stay with us.

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but last week istanbul got more than a foot of snow. but the snow broke records and shut down huge parts of the city. including airports. it brought one brief cause for hope that an international manhunt in turkey might be solved. one week ago today, last tuesday morning, these three girls vanished in britain during a half term break from school. they walked out of their london homes and essentially disappeared into the world. instead of going to study together, they went to the airport just outside of london, and they boarded a flight to istanbul. two of the girls are 15. one of them is 16. and the fear was that they were traveling to istanbul to plan to cross the border into syria and join up with the terror group isis. since those three british girls disappeared last week, there has been a frantic search to find them and before they got to syria. british police officials went to turkey to try to find the girls there.

that totally out of the ordinary snowstorm gave officials hope earlier this week that maybe just because of the weather they might not have been able to get transport arranged out of turkey and into syria. but no joy. over this past week, they have not been able to find them. yesterday it opened up a minor diplomatic rift. between turkey and the uk. turkey's prime minister said it took the british three days to tell them the girls were in their country. it would be great if we can find them, but it is not us who will be responsible, it is the british that will be responsible. that finger-pointing and searching for them in turkey apparently ended today. british police announced that they believe the three girls in fact made the crossing into syria. the bbc saying the crossing may have happened four or five days ago. so they believe that despite their best efforts, these three

girls flew into istanbul, made their way to the other end of turkey and crossed into syria. within the last few days couple of hundred miles east of that border near a town tauld tal tamr we now know that isis carried out their latest propaganda atrocity. in predawn raids, isis kidnapped dozens of christians in syria. some reports put the captives at 150. 3,000 people fled the assault into nearby cities. no one knows where the kidnapped christians are. or what has become of them. isis had made a habit of executing captives for the sake of propaganda. maybe they are holding them in order to try to exchange them

with isis fighters that are prisoners. these stories pile up by the day about isis. because there is so much fighting in washington right now i think any real american bebait about what we want do about ice sis pushed back a little bit. it has been two weeks since president obama asked congress for use of military force. two weeks since he set parameters for a military campaign going on for months already. when they get around to debating a request for a war authorization, no one knows what congress will do. reaction has not fallen along neat partisan lines so far. it is sort of all over the place. republicans say they will support president obama's authorization request, but they want to give him more power than he is asking for. there are democrats supporting him and opposing this. the debate about this doesn't break along the usual partisan lines or usual liberal conservative lines.

that unpredictability can be seen specifically in someone like democratic congressman seth moulton of massachusetts. he served four tours of duty with the marines in iraq. he won his house seat just last year. he defeated an incumbent democratic congressman to win that seat. on the president's war authorization request, congressman moulton, an iraq war veteran, he says he is a no right now as the president's request is currently written. he is just back from a trip to iraq and afghanistan among other countries. it was his first visit since serving as a marine. joining us now is congressman seth moulton. thanks for being here. >> thanks, rachel. >> let me just ask you. before we talk politics or anything, let me ask you about this trip that you just took. i mean obviously having spent a lot of time in iraq as a marine, now having visited as a congressman, what was it like for you? >> it is strange to go back. i spent almost three years of my life there, and i still have

iraqi friends. in a sense it was good to go see similar territory. at the same time it is frustrating to see how much of our effort has gone to waste. those of us that fought there for years, especially during the surge, are looking at a country ripe with terrorists, a government that people don't trust, and we're looking at having to go back again. >> the foreign policy discussion in thinktankville, is that the military campaign being waged against isis is effectively waged in iraq if not so effectively waged in syria. iraq with a combination of iraqi security forces and what the united states is doing in terms of air strikes and support, it has been effective. sort of containing and pushing back isis. do you think that is true? do you see that while you were

there? >> i would agree with that. my concern is that there is no long-term political strategy to insure that whatever military we have today won't be in vain. what i want to make sure is even if we defeat isis militarily, we don't have to go back there just to do it again against isis or another group that might crop up in the political vacuum left by a dysfunctional iraqi state. >> do you think there should be military force right now? against isis targets in iraq and syria? the authorization that the president is asking for is to authorize something already under way. do you think the military campaign should stop and it should be potentially restarted in the future if it makes sense as part of a larger strategy? or that what is happening right now should continue. >> i think that what is happening right now as unfortunate as it is to be in this situation is important. i believe that isis is a national security threat.

they brutally killed americans abroad. they made clear their intention to kill americans here at home. some action is necessary. we have to realize this could be a very slippery slope. right now we put military advisors in iraq. i was a military adviser ten years ago. when the iraqi unit that we were advising started to get overrun by the militia, we went to their assistance and that started some of the most brutal fighting of the iraq war until that time. so a military advisory mission can quickly become a combat mission. the vietnam war started as a military advisory mission. >> congressman seth moulton of massachusetts. i don't know when this debate will start in earnest in congress in terms of settling this request for the authorization of the use of military force. but i'm glad you're part of the debate. thanks for your time tonight, sir. nice to see you. >> thank you, rachel. still ahead, debunction junction. a special appearance bay fox

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involving an anchor at the fox news channel who who is named bill o'reilly. you may have heard he's been under fire over allegations he embellished his time as a cbs correspondent in the '80s. he described himself as reporting from an active war zone in argentina, saying he survived a combat situation during the faulklands war, when it appears that he did not. these allegations were raised by david corn last week. mr. o'reilly has responded to that reporting by going ballistic against not only david corn and mother jones, but also his own former colleagues at cbs news, who have raised similar questions about the timing question. as well as other journalists who have even dared to try to report on this story last week and this week. that leads us to the latest twist, bill o'reilly threatens reporter from "the new york times."

surely that's got to be hyperbole. he is bombastic, but this is about debunking bunk. so is it true or false that bill o'reilly threatened a "new york times" reporter trying to report on this story? is that true or false? true. it is literally true, and not just a matter of interpretation or allegation. from "the new york times" this morning -- during a foep conversation mr. owe riley told a reporter from the times there would be repercussions if he felt any of the coverage would be inappropriate. quote, i'm coming after you with everything i have. mr. owe riley said. that's the quote from bill o'reilly to the "new york times" reporter who contacted him about this story. if any of your coverage is inappropriate i'm coming after you with everything i have. just in case he didn't make his point absolutely clear he followed up with this. quote, you can take it as a threat. now, "the new york times" reporter in question is emily steel.

she fold the article in the times today by tweegt the direct quote from bill o'reilly. i am coming after you with everything i have. you can take it as a threat. after david corn first broke this story last week, mr. o'reilly responded to him by saying once the truth of this story came out, david corn would be "in the kill zone where he deserves to be." mother jones asked for an apology for that, but bill o'reilly said it was just a figure of speech and wouldn't apologize. lest there be any confusion whether he is threatening reporter, he really is. in his own words, you can take it as a threat to this "new york times" reporter just covering the story. fox news has a bunch of folks like mr. o'reilly on their shows. it's part of why i call them republican tv. they have a lot of folks like

mr. owe rye bill mr. bill o'reilly. but they also have a lot of real reporters on staff who do real reporting all day long. they have white house reporters, congressional reporters, even media reporters. i'm sure they don't take kindly when their own reporters get threatened for trying to do their job. but it is hard to imagine what this is going to do at the work environment for fox news channels real reporters. and they do have them. but this did happen on the record. and apparently without apology. next up, is it true or false that this happened in real life. look, look, oh! just walking along and then, poof. are you kidding me? did that happen for real? did that happen for real? that is real. those floor tiles ate those people. this is the people gobbling end of a sinkhole in seoul, south korea. two people turned to walk up the sidewalk and dropped ten feet down a hole. they were rescued by firefighters, treated by only

minor injuries, which is a good thing. but now we know that the earth can swallow us at any given moment. no fuss no muss. that is true. and finally, this is freaking unbelievable. when snow falls in washington, d.c., it's a local tradition for local families to head to capitol hill to do some sledding. but it is resebtly sent /* sent recently reported that after this snow the capital police have been dropping the fun hammer telling kids sledding is not permitted any more on capitol hill. those are very ba humbug reports. there has to be a kernel of truth. is it true or false that it's illegal to sled down capitol hill? is that true or false? true. seriously, it's true. there's a reason for the confusion over this issue, because people have been sledding on capitol hill for as long as anybody can remember, but it is illegal. the sledding ban was put in place after september 11, there in the regulations of the

architect of the capitol. no person shall coast or slide a sled within capitol grounds. that was apparently some sort of national imperative after 9/11, even though they don't always enforce it. national imperative after 9/11, even though they don't always enforce it. but for whatever reason they are enforcing it right now in d.c. snow. and d.c.'s delegate to congress is now trying to overturn what she calls this scrooge-like ban. when people have flouted the sledding on capitol hill ban, al qaeda has not been able to take advantage of that to harm us and our national security. so for the record, i'm with ellenor holmes-norton, free the sleds. we'll see you again tomorrow. now time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> you should have seen me on my sled on capitol hill when i worked in washington on those