spencer ackerman, thank you, the article is incredible, we linked it on our facebook page. "the rachel maddow show" is now. >> we'll have updates on the election in chicago tonight. 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 billed that thing as the fight of the century. there is was a lot of other big boxes matches, so maybe it is hyperbole, but the hype for ali-frazier, it was like nothing.

the fighters themselves benefits from the hype and the hoopla. their payday was the two of them personally split $5 million in prison 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 holy field. that is the one when mike tyson tried to bite the dude's ear off. 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. 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 may 2nd. it will be floyd maywhether again but this time he will be fightingmany 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 to 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. 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 in minutes.

this is one boxing match. this is one boxing match that will probably last up to an hour, maybe. 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 many pacquiao will split a fifth of a billion dollars. 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 this for a sight bees of legislation. but today he did it. veto. boom. i am returning herewith without my approval s. 1. the key tone xl hype line approval act. blank love barack obama. president obama vetoing major legislation for the first time

in his presidency. substantively it does not mean it will not, 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. the republicans say they will schedule votes right away to try to override president obama's veto. there is no case they can override his 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. 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 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 ask. 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 on his face, today he switched to this gangstery sunglasses look. then he gave a spectacularly hostile pause and clipped response when one brave reporter was frisky enough to 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'll do do --

>> 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 defendant will be shut down this week. republicans in the house and senate are in a hair pulling fight amongst themselves right now. 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 kloba -- klobuchar. >> when he fist did his home video explaining i know i look

like i have been run over, he gave a litany saying i want 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. i feel like i don't know what to expect. >> first let's look at what we're fighting for on homeland security. people on 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 and america, and calling on people to do it, calling on them to go after jewish owned shopping centers. we're glad the fbi and homeland security secretary said you

should be free to the mall. i talked that night to 500 hospitality workers that worked near or at the mall. they went to work that day. 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 today 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. but we're getting realally 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. and that 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. question 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. it's about our firefighters, the

coast guard, and thousands of employees that will be furloughed. 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. 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.

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it has been just over three months since loretta lynn was nominated. the democrats could have starting the confirmation hearings right thing and there but they decided to wait. think decided to roll her nomination over to the new year and let the republicans to take over. that seemed to me to be ominous. republicans really did want to see eric holder gone as attorney

general, but the longer they let this thing roll on, the longer republicans had to cook something up about this nomination. so it seeding like a worrying sign. but they did hold her confirmation hearings. she sailed right through. when it came time for the senate judiciary committee, they decided to delay their vote. they still have not 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 to vote no on the loretta lynch nomination saying you should reject her nomination to register your disapproval with this administrations lawlessness.

so now we have a sizable group in the house. we also know have ted cruz lobbying his fellow republicans in the media that they should block her nomination by any means necessary. saying even if she does pass the committee, the republican leadership should we frus to put her nomination on the floor for debate. now there is no clear sign that republicans are going to confirm her even though they have raised zero objections to her. zero objections to what she has done. there is no sign whether or not she has enough votes in the committee to survive. if the nomination is even allowed to go to the floor. amazing.

the committee vote is scheduled for the day after tomorrow through no fault of loretta lynch's own. the current attorney general says he will not step down until his replacement is confirmed. republicans really hate him, but they get to keep him in office. and apparently he will be wrapping things up he says that the findings of the shootings of michael brown in ferguson, missouri last year. they announced they will not bring federal charges in another high profile case, the shooting of trayvon martin in florida. eric holder accused to be cleaning off his desk. a controversial matter, loretta lynch, but the republicans that

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president's members of the cabinet in hot water today. that is the veterans affairs secretary robert mcdonald in a squib of tape that ran about veterans and homelessness. he pledged to reduce homelessness, he participated in the count of homeless people in l.a., and they invited a news crew 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. 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. 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 he was not. or a reporter saying he was in an active combat zone when he was really in a protest zone. not telling the truth, and whole truth about your time in the war or lack there of, there is a reason that upsets people more than regular lying. and that rule applies to everyone, everyone except our next guest weirdly. congressman seth molten is a united states marine that volunteered to be sent to iraq even though he disagreed with the war. 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. his hometown paper turned on the investigative unit to expose seth moulton service. he was, can 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. 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 feeling like the antedote to that. and he is here tonight. please stay with us. when you ache and haven't slept... you're not you. tylenol® pm relieves pain and helps you fall fast asleep and stay asleep. we give you a better night. you're a better you all day. tylenol®.

this has been a weird winter for us here in the united states. also in the northeast and the south which has been pounded by snow and ice for a few weeks now. and not just here in the u.s. this is turkey. this is istanbul in turkey. it does not usually snow a whole lot. but the snow broke records and shut down huge parts of the city. 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. they said it took the british three days to tell them the if i

recall -- the girls were in his 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. the police now believe these three girls have, in fact, made the crossing into syria. the bbc saying the crossing may have happened four or fei 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. near a town called tal tamr, we now know that isis carried out their latest propaganda atrocity. in predawn raids, isis kidnapped dozens of christians in syria.

no one knows where the kidnapped christians are. isis had made a habit of executing captives. maybe they are holding them in order to try to exchange them with kurdish fighters that are holding isis fighters. these stories pile up by the day about isis. and i think any real american mill debate about what we want to do about isis has been 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. it doesn't break along the usual partisan lines or the usual liberal and conservative lines. that unpredictability can be seen in someone like 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, thank 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 policy is being waged successfully in iraq as opposed to syria. they have been effective at containing and pushing back isis. do you think that is true? >> 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? 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 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. when the iraqi unit that we were advising, we went to their assistant, and it started some of the most brutal fighting until that time.

so a military advisory mission can quickly become a combat 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. >> thank you, rachel. >> still ahead, debunction junction.

okay, this is my favorite initial news story of the day. if you're washing the dishes right now and hearing me, come to the tv, this is visual. today we have news out of cleveland, ohio. the cleveland browns football team got a new logo.

for a long time the thing to know about the cleveland browns didn't have a log organization. the helmet is their logo. for awhile they had this guy, browny elf until a new owner bought the team in 1961 and they got rid of the embarrassing elf. since then, their look has been this. nothing. right? no logo, orange helmet with a brown and white stripe. that is it. in 2013, the cleveland browns decided it is time to update our style. so for the past two years, they've been working on a revamp, trying out different looks. and today, they were finally ready to unveil the new and improved browns' logo. before i show it to you, remember, here is what it was up until today. you got it?

and now, as of today, here's the new one. ta-dah! see that? amazing. maybe you don't see the difference. look at them side by side. see? the orange. come on, it has a different feel. it's so much oranger-ish. as the browns announced today that the orange "matches the passion of our fans and city," we were all left to absorb this is the change they are mounting. as for the browns that makes the browns quote the browns -- the brown is unchanged. the orange is more orange. everything else is -- change is good. stay with us. in just this one moment, your baby is getting even more than clean. the scent, the lather, even the tiny bubbles

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programming note. tomorrow here on msnbc, the great jose, host of "the rundown" on msnbc, he's going to be hosting a town hall tomorrow night on msnbc, with president obama. the town hall is at florida international university in miami. unless republicans in congress find a way to pass a bill to fund homeland security, a potential shutdown that would happen as a protest against president obama's executive actions on immigration. that town hall with president

obama is about immigration. and more. and it's going to air at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc tomorrow night. we'll be right back. flo: hey, big guy. i heard you lost a close one today. look, jamie, maybe we weren't the lowest rate this time. but when you show people their progressive direct rate and our competitors' rates you can't win them all. the important part is, you helped them save. thanks, flo. okay, let's go get you an ice cream cone, champ. with sprinkles? sprinkles are for winners. i understand.

debuncton junction, what's my function? we start with a controversy involving an an core at the fox news channel 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 reporter. 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 -- >> that's the quote from bill

o'reilly to this "new york times" reporter who contacted him about this story. if any of your coverage is inappropriate, i am coming after you with everything i have. just in case he did not make his point clear, he then followed up with this -- you can take it as a threat. now, "the new york times" reporter in question is emily steel. she tweeted that direct quote from bill o'reilly, just everybody is clear what happened. 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 him. 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. but this did happen on the record. 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? 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, but now we all know that the earth can swallow us at any given moment. so there's that. 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 capitol police have been dropping the fun hammer, telling kids sledding is not permitted anymore 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. that was apparently some sort of 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. breaking news right now on "first look." guilty. the jury returned a swift decision in the "american sniper" trial. details and reaction straight ahead. a mysterious underground tunnel has national security officials searching for clues at the pan-am games in toronto. and earth-shaking gas explosion sends concussions a mile wide, while injuring 15. plus the clock is ticking on our department of homeland security. one step closer to designer babies. and here's one way to take on old man winter. we'll explain. good morning everybody. thanks so much for joining us today. i'm betty nguyen. all right, we have breaking news that happened overnight. a verdict in the "american schneider" murder trial. >> we the jury find the defendant, eddie ray routh,