be her agenda. >> jess mcintosh and rebecca tracer in washington at an emily's list event. and hillary clinton is giving a speech. thank you, guys. that is "all in" for this evening. hang tight because hillary clinton will be speaking a little later. "the rachel mad dough show" starts right now. we have an eye on that. we think it's probably going to be within the next few minutes. definitely within this hour but we'll have it. appreciate it. thanks to you at home for the next hour. as i was explaining to chris there, what we're keeping an eye on is this emily's list 30th anniversary gala. for those who are supporters of emily's list, that is enough that you would want it covered live on cable news. the reason this event will be partially covered live is hillary clinton is expected to speak this hour at that event. and that, at this point, is a rare occasion. this is a rare public speech for

hillary clinton at all at this point. she's not giving very many public speeches even though everybody expects her to be candidate for president very soon. it will only be her second public speech of the year. also, as chris was just mentioning last hour this will be hillary clinton's first speech since these very pointed questions were raised last night by "the new york times" about her use of a private e-mail account while she was secretary of state. we do not know if secretary clinton will be specifically addressing that story, about the e-mails tonight, but we are going to keep an eye on her speech and this event, depending on when it gets started. we will try to bring it to you live, so definitely stay tuned for that. we begin tonight in the middle of the country. we begin tonight in kansas city. kansas city spans two states, right? there's can city kansas, and kansas city, missouri. the state line between those two states runs right through k.c. and in a suburb of the kansas side of kansas city in a suburb

called overland park last april, this guy, this neo-nazi antisem might, founder of branches of the klu klux klan and white patriot party, this older man who thought he was dying of emphysema and decided before he left god's green earth it would be his patriotic duty to go kill some jews. this older guy in the kansas city area went to the jewish community center in this kansas city suburb and he open fire. there he is. he killed two people at the jewish community center and one person at a nearby jewish retirement home. yesterday in a preliminary hearing, you can see that same guy there, his name is frazier glencross. as he was being wheeled in for his capital murder case he tried his best to give the hitler nazi salute. police officers that responded

to those shootings last april testified yesterday in this case yesterday that cross screamed hil hitler as they were taking him into custody after those shootings. the officers said in court yesterday, he asked them in the process of apprehending him, he asked how many jews he had succeeded in killing. one officer says he tried to recruit him right then and there on the scene of those murders. tried to recruit him to the white power antisemitic cause. he asked the cop who was there to arrest him if by any chance the cop was german, because he wanted to make a nazi case to him, to recruit him. frazier glencross is an ex-con. he's a known neo-nazi. he's been active in the neo-nazi and white power movement for decades. he is charged now with capital murder, he is facing the death penalty if he is convicted. he also ran for office in the

great state of missouri. in 2006 and in 2010 he ran for congress and then he ran for u.s. senate on a platform of white power and hating the jews. and, i'm happy to say, nobody voted for him. he got less than 50 votes in both elections combined. he was just this perennial candidate, anti-semitic crank protest candidate. but then within four years of his last crank u.s. senate run, he had killed all those people in can city. how many jews did i kill? when missouri republican candidate for governor tom schweich killed himself, it was shock enough to learn that he had died. he had just announced a few weeks ago that he was running for governor in missouri in 2016. he was just re-elected in november with more than 70% of the vote.

a missouri state auditor is a pretty high profile job in that state. it was shocking enough to learn last week that tom schweich had killed himself. strange enough. a candidate for governor, just re-elected. it was strange enough to learn that he died in suicide. but then the shock of that was compounded when two reporters who tom schweich called just minutes before he took his own life those two reporters both went public about what he had been talking to them about. about what was on his mind. what he told them was troubling him. what he asked to speak to them about on the day he died, before he took his own life. on the left side of the screen here is the other top tier republican for candidate in missouri, who is running in the primary against tom schweich, katherine han oe way. on the right side is the newly elected chairman, his name is john hancock. believe it or not. and john hancock was working as a political consultant for katherine hanoway.

before he became chair of the party. that's what tom schweich was up again. chair of the party. you still work for his chief rival for the nomination? it's going to be appear uphill climb, right? what he called to talk to those reporters about last week minutes before he killed himself was the fact that john hancock, the chairman of the republican party of missouri had been telling republican donors and republican party activists in missouri that tom schweich was a jew. tom schweich was not a jew. one of his grandfathers was jewish. he believed that the republican party of missouri institutionally and in support of his campaign for governor, he believed that the chair of the party was spreading this false rumor that he was jewish as a way of trying to hurt tom schweich's chances of becoming governor. or becoming the republican

party's nominee for governor in missouri. and as those incredible headlines started to bloom in the wake of tom schweich's death, these headlines that it was about an anti-semitic whisper campaign, the chairman e-mailed out a statement to members of the party saying yeah he might sl told people schweich was jewish. he said i would like to set the record straight. until now i believed he was jewish. it was simply what i believed to be a part of his biography. it is possible i mentioned tom's faith, which was not his faith, in passing during one of the many conversations i have each day. there was absolutely nothing malicious about my intent. the chairman later told reporters that if he told people in missouri republican politics that tom schweich was a jew, he didn't mean it in a bad way. he just meant it as quote, a description.

as similar to saying, i'm presbyterian and somebody else is catholic. when tom schweich killed himself and it emerged the back story of his suicide was his upset over this false rumor being spread in missouri republican politics when he was jewish when he was not and his belief that that might affect his ability to win the republican nomination for governor, when that emerged, the reporter who received that last phone message from tom schweich he got a phone message about seven minutes before he killed himself that day, that reporter wrote at "st. louis post-dispatch," he said he didn't know why he killed himself but that he was about to go public with his accusation about the whisper campaign about him being secretly jewish. when he told that story he evoked in his first article the recent history of frazier glenn cross. the raging racist who last year killed three people at a jewish community center in kansas city.

he was saying, listen it's not completely nuts to think that anti-semitism could have a politically salient effect here. so this was already just a stunning and super intense story out of missouri. and its republican politics. it was already stunning and super intense before today's funeral for tom schweich which attracted over 1,000 people in missouri, and at which the man who's widely viewed as elder statesman of missouri politics, who schweich worked for, jack danforth, who also an episcopal priest he delivered the eulogy for tom schweich today and it scorched the political earth of that state. watch this. >> and i spoke with tom this past tuesday afternoon, and he was indignant.

he told me he was upset about two things. a radio commercial and a whispering campaign he said, were being run against him. he said the commercial made fun of his physical appearance and wondered if he should respond with his own ad. but while the commercial hurt his feelings, his great complaint was about a whispering campaign that he was jewish. and that subject took up 90% of a long phone call. this was more than an expression of personal hurt from the radio ad. this was righteous indignation against what he saw as a terrible wrong. and what he saw was wrong was anti-semtism. tom called this anti-semitism,

and of course it was. the only reason for going around saying that someone is jewish is to make political profit from religious bigotry. someone said there is no difference than saying someone is presbyterian. when is the last time someone cycled up to you and whispered into your ear that such and such a person is a presbyterian? the message for the rest of us reflects my own emotion after learning of tom's death, which has been overwhelming anger that politics has gone so hideously wrong. and that the death of tom

schweich is the natural consequence of what politics has become. since thursday some good people have said, well, that's just politics. and tom should have been less sensitive. he should have been tougher. he should have been able to take it. well, that is accepting politics in its present state. and that we cannot do. it amounts to blaming the victim and it creates a new normal where politics is only for the tough and the crude and the calloused. >> former missouri senator jack danforth today speaking in front of the governor of the state and both of the state's u.s. senators and the rest of the political great and good in the state of missouri. but he was not speaking in front of the chairman of the state's republican party who senator

danforth basically called out as an anti-semitic bigot in this scorching eulogy and condemnation of missouri politics and missouri republican politics, specifically. john han corks the guy dan forty called out in the eulogy he didn't show up for the funeral. just remarkable days in the state after the suicide of this gub that toeshl candidate, tom schweich, remarkable days in the state and seems there will be more news to come because after a day like this, the fallout cannot be over yet. next. ♪♪ expected wait time: 55 minutes. your call is important to us. thank you for your patience. waiter! vo: in the nation, we know how it feels when you aren't treated like a priority. we do things differently. we'll take care of it. vo: we put members first...

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what secretary clinton has not been doing a lot of this year, even as she has continued a pretty robust schedule of paid speeches to make money, what she has not been doing a lot of this year is campaigning for president. and this is one of the really big differences between the republicans and the democrats right now, at the top tier of national politics. all of the republican 2016 hopefuls they have been de facto campaigning at events like cpac where they all gave speeches or did q&a with conservative media celebrities. have they have been appearing at events like steve king's anti-immigration palooza in iowa, they've been speaking at koch brothers, they are speaking to all of the richest public donors. making unfortunate foreign policy flubs. they have been everywhere, right? the republican candidates for president, there are a lot of them right now and they are frequently, every day, multiple

times a day, fighting it out in public amongst themselves. they are campaigning for president. out loud in a way we can all see. on the democratic side, not so much. on the democratic side it's not the same kind of thing at all. that's mostly because it's really not the same kind of field. right now the democratic field in terms of presidential candidates for 2016, there is this guy campaigning from inside of handsome shoe box somewhere in a spare room in the gym webb house in virginia. and bernie sanders of vermont is being all that is bernie sanders in his own righteous wing of the democratic party. it's also martin o'malley the former governor of maryland, who says he will not run for barbara mikulski's senate seat when she retires. he'll state stai in the democratic race opposite hillary clinton even show she is polling in the 40% to 50% and he is ranging at 40 to 50 points legs

than that. on the republican side, it's like the brady bunch squared, right? lots of candidates, lots of candidates fighting it out every day. lots of politicking in public. on the democratic side, it is hillary clinton. who is very capable of getting into a political fight when she wants to. right now there is no one for her to punch. we haven't really seen anything like this before in modern politics so nobody really knows what's going to happen. nobody really knows how do you this, when you have the whole field to yourself, when you don't really have primary opponents, how do you campaign for the presidential nomination? well, turns out we're learning the answer to that question is mostly you just don't bother. other than the speeches she's been giving to earn a living these paid speeches that by and large, are not open to the public or the press, hillary clinton has done a grand total of two public speeches in the entire year of 2015 so far.

the first was a week ago at a women and tech event in silicon valley. the second one is tonight. which is why we're paying so much attention. which is why this is a live feed of what's going on at that event right there. you see gabrielle giffords and her husband mark kelly there. the fact hillary clinton is there is notable and newsworthy by sheer fact that secretary clinton has not been doing political speeches. she has not been doing political events. her giving a speech tonight effectively is the democratic equivalent to all of the public campaigning happening among those candidates on the republican side. right now if hillary clinton is speaking at a public political event in the united states, that is the democratic presidential primary. that is the way democrats are campaigning for the presidency in 2016. that's it. it's very different from what's

going on on the republican side. the other reason this expected speech tonight is a big deal is because in the absence of any formidable primary opponents, the way hillary clinton is being tested as a candidate right now, the way her record and her statements and her past are being probed for potential political fodder is not by primary rivals for the nomination but by the press. both the conservative press and the mainstream press. and last night on the eve of what you saw there, getting ready for a rare political speech in washington for emily's list, last night on the eve of this public appearance last night "the new york times" broke this potentially difficult story for secretary clinton and her campaign. it has been previously reported that hillary clinton used a personal e-mail account as secretary of state. a nongovernment account. to conduct at least some of the business she conducted as secretary of state during the obama administration's first term when she held that office. that has previously been reported. what was not reported before

last night is secretary clinton never had a government e-mail address at all while she served as secretary of state. she exclusively only used this personal address. why we care is that decision effectively puts her in control of what is retained and archived and researchable for her time in office instead of that being the purview of the people who are in charge of public records. she's got the choice of what gets released rather than the folks in charge of public records having those e-mails and being in charge of what gets released from them and who gets to make those decisions. and honestly, getting real here, there is two real things here besides all of the spin and clinton media hysteria. there's two real things. the first real thing to know here is that say it with me now, everybody does it. everybody does it. lots of public officials including governors and other cabinet officials, previous secretaries of state, democratic

and republican everybody does it. lots of other public officials in similar situations have used their personal e-mail accounts to do official business. it happens. everybody does it. so when you see somebody like jeb bush jumping into the story with self-righteous concern trolling about how hillary clinton must release all of her e-mails, this is what jeb bush tweeted today about this story. transparency matters. unclassified hillary clinton e-mails should be released. can you see mine here link. honestly just being real, that is freaking ridiculous. everybody does it, right? everybody does what she has done including jeb bush. jeb bush bragged when he was florida governor that he received 2.5 million e-mails on his government address. he also said he received another half million e-mails on his private personal jeb bush address while he was governor. so that's 3 million e-mails from when he was governor. what he's bragging about here in

terms of his transparency of that 3 million e-mails when he was governor he hand-picked 250,000 of them to release. so, okay. he's now demanding that she release all this stuff that he never released himself. so at one level, the real politic here is stupid. it's like hypocritical if hypocritical couldn't even be spelled right because we couldn't think that way to that many vows. stupid. the one level at which this is not stupid is the question of the rules and the law. the question of what the rules were, what the law was, at the time that this decision was made about secretary clinton's e-mail addresses and how she would do her business as secretary of state. the question of whether as secretary of state e-mails to her personal account, which she used in the conducting of the business of that office, whether those e-mails should have been preserved officially in some way that they were not. i mean there are biting allegations about that today

from "the new york times." there are vehement denials of that of any wrongdoing from the clinton side of things. as a matter of the law and what rules applied to her and when and what exactly it takes to comply with those rules in terms of servers and who gets to make the decision ask and what gets hand over and who gets the call at this point, i've spent most of the day today trying to figure out a clear way to explain it. the clearest thing i can explain to you is it is not at all clear and does need more attention. that's why this speech tonight is such an important thing. hillary clinton giving a public speech tonight, second time this year. this is effectively hillary clinton's campaign for the presidency. she's doing it at her own pace. not pressured by anything going on and anything looking like a democratic presidential primary. these rare political speeches she's giving only the second one this year this one tonight comes the day after "the new york times" land a blow to the chin on the personal e-mail story. does she address the controversy? does she take a swipe at the

reporting? does she mounted a defense? does she make fun of jeb wush the way i did in i don't know. can't wait. joining us is ann geren who is covering hillary clinton. it's great to see you. thanks for joining us. >> happy to be here. >> you're at a loud and happy event that is celebrating 30 years of emily's list. obviously, the prospect of a hillary clinton presidential nomination, sort of a holy grail for this group. i have to believe that means that the room there is hostile if anything about this story about hillary clinton's e-mails at the state department. >> yeah i mean this whole event has the feeling of a hillary clinton for president pep rally. it's kind of the kickoff political event of what everyone expects will very soon be her political campaign. around the edges of it is there are people here talking about a little bit of consternation about this e-mail story and what it says and means about the future of hillary clinton as a

candidate. no one really thinks that this story has really long legs and will hang around for a long time. but a lot will depend on how hillary handles it. she hasn't directly addressed it yet. she may do so in sort of a joking way tonight, and if she is able to kind of tackle it head on and talk about what she was really obligated to do and maybe even turn over some of the e-mails, the expectation of democrats here tonight is that the whole thing goes away fairly soon. >> one thing that is remarkable here is the contrast between what is happening on the republican side in terms of their primaries -- their primary, the way their candidates are already fighting it out in public, and hillary clinton out is there alone with no real credible contenders for the nomination angling against her. she essentially gets to set her own pace. she's doing very few public engagements. where we could see here in terms of gearing up for this campaign. have you seen her speak publicly enough or do you know enough of

about her strategy that we should have an expectation of the kind of stump speech she gives or the way she makes her case publicly? >> yeah, i mean, this kind of event tonight, she's very good at. and i fully anticipate that she'll give a good speech. she's surrounded by people who want to hear her talk. that's a pretty good venue. what she is really encountering now is exactly what you identify. the lack of a primary. the lack of any kind of a -- sort of, you know contest that forces her to really think ahead and to kind of have to compare herself to any other democrat, anyone else on her side of the fence. it allows her to call all of the shots which if you're a candidate might be where you want to be. it might not necessarily make you a better candidate. and i'm hearing some of that from democrats. they're concerned about, did you see the republicans squaring off

against one another and positioning themselves against one another and figuring out how to best present themselves. no one is doing that with and for hillary clinton. she has to do it herself. she gets hit upside the head by a mini scandals like the one vofling the e-mails. really, there's no other recourse except for her to figure out herself how to answer it. she's going to get criticized almost no matter what she does. >> right. ann geren, national correspondent at washington post. we're expecting hillary clinton's remarks shortly. and to ann geren's last point there, if you think about hillary clinton's political trajectory, she has had to invent a new future a new way of moving through the political ooeter. every step of the way, right? nobody else has gone from being first lady. to the united states senate.

from first lady to senate, and then senate to top tier presidential candidate. going from a top tier presidential candidate to the secretary of state in the administration of the guy who beat you, that is also unique. political future that she built for herself. and now she is the effectively, inevitable democratic nominee for president. the first ever likely female major party nominee for president in either party, right? she's had to invent a future that nobody else has ever tried, let alone achieve, over and over and over again over the course of her political career. yeah i think it's a disadvantage on paper that you try to get a nomination without ever having a primary. without ever having other contenders plausible contenders for the throne challenging for you. but if anybody can make up a history where you get the nomination and go strong into a general even though you never had a primary to test you, she's probably the one who could invent it if only because she's invented every other thing about her political life. stay with us. d take some time. and her sensitive stomach didn't make things easier.

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she could see what was in the black books he had been keeping all that time. he initially said no saying they contained highly classified information, but then he gave them to her. quoting from the federal court filing, on or about august 27, 2011, defendant david howell petraeus sent an e-mail to his buy grapher in which he agreed to provide the black books to his biographer. the next day david petraeus delivered the black books to a private residence in washington, d.c. where his biographer was staying. again, they contained really classified information, including the name of covert agents and code words. he let her keep them for four days, from august 28th to september 1st. what david petraeus has agreed to plead guilty to is unauthorized removal and retention of classified material. it will carry a sentence of up to a year in prison.

prosecutors will recommend two years probation for him and $40,000 fine and no time in prison. the judge does not have to follow that recommendation but that's what the prosecutors are asking for in this plea deal. "the new york times" calls this the completion of, quote, a spectacular fall for mr. petraeus. general petraeus was once thought of as a poshl presidential candidate from either party. he's now as of this news tonight facing the prospect of federal prison time. joining us now is michael schmidt who has been covering this story for months. thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> is it possible that paula broadwell, the biographer the woman to whom he delivered this information, is she in potential legal jeopardy for having received this information improperly? that's a good question. was she acting as a journalist in this fashion? would they prosecute a

journalist? i don't think eric holder would want to go out on that note. but i think she was cooperating and they said look we're not going to prosecute but we need you to cooperate. >> in terms of what general petraeus did, is this the sort of thing that frankly other cia directors and other top national security officers have been caught for in the past which is the sense they mishandled classified information that was potentially volunteer dangerous and had to be punished but there wasn't a real risk of serious home in the moment? or is this is something where they think that this information was potentially danger yousz even just going as far as he let it get? >> well is this sandy berger and the documents in his socks that no one else saw besides him or is this something where, you know, stuff we deal with in the media, where we get information about a classified program and we write about it and the government says we really jeopardized national security? i think it's probably more sandy

berger than that, but at the same time the things described in these documents today are very sensitive. and there are some critics out there who say, man, this justice department has really cracked down on a lot of leakers and a lot of people for mishandling similar information and a lot of those people are a lot lower level than mr. petraeus but they are facing far more time than prison. so it a double standard? that's the question. >> you reported back in january that the fbi and justice department were pushing for felony charges against general petraeus. this is for a misdemeanor, not a felony. do you have any insight on how they arrived at this agreement? >> well, what we do know is mr. petraeus was represented by we yamz & conley the top law firm in washington. and what was going to happen is that if this thing went to trial, it was going to be really ugly. there was going to be a lot of motions filed against the government. it was going to be a really tough fight for them. it was going to play out in public. there probably be some people sympathetic to mr. petraeus in

this because he was a general, because he was a war hero. and i think what happened is the justice department kind of looked at this and said well we can get a conviction here and we can say that we enforced the law and we, more or less, didn't have a double standard. we held this person to account and we don't have to go through with a trial. we can get a guaranteed plea here. so, i think that's why we ended up where we did on this. >> michael submitted, reporter for the "new york times," very busy man. thank you for your time. we have much more ahead. stay with us. keeping an eye on the expected live speech from hillary clinton from washington. only her second public speech this year as she mounts an anticipated run for the presidency. al franken is at the podium. stay with us. tirement. a 401(k) is the most sound way to go. let's talk asset allocation. sure. you seem knowledgeable professional. would you trust me as your financial advisor? i would. i would indeed. well, let's be clear here. i'm actually a dj. [ dance music plays ]

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capabilities as soon as he can. i believe that even free and unfettered inspections will not uncover these portable manufacturing sites of mass death. >> your statement, which is very eloquent, boils down to one thing, and that is do we react to another attack on america after hundreds of thousands or millions of lives have been lost, or do we preempt that kind of action from happening in the first place? >> spoiler alert. we preempt it. we invaded iraq. and none of the nonsense you just heard that about saddam hussein turned out to be true. in 2002, when house republicans invited israel's benjamin netanyahu to testify as an expert about iraq, he was a former israeli prime minister at the time. he was just there speaking as a private citizen. they just asked him there to give his expert opinion on why the u.s. had to start a

preemptive war against iraq or saddam hussein or as he explained it would be the end of the world. that was 2002. today, house republicans asked him back to make the case again about the end of the world. this time, though, he sees it coming from iran. >> that deal will not iran from developing nuclear weapons, it would all but guarantee that iran gets those weapons, lots of them. iran could have the means to deliver that nuclear arsenal to the far reach corners of the earth, including to every part of the united states. the middle east would soon be crisscrossed by nuclear trip wires. a region where small skirmishes contribute to big wars would turn into a nuclear tender box. we'll face a much more dangerous iran. a middle east littered with nuclear bombs. and a countdown to a potential nuclear nightmare. >> so this time, he's in the united states as a serving

israeli prime minister. so this time he got to speak at the podium alone instead of at the witness table. because prime minister netanyahu is running for reelection in two weeks, president obama did not meet with him in this trip to washington. there's a long-standing white house policy not to meet with political leaders. but the republicans inviting him to speak at the u.s. capitol for the express purpose of undermining the president's ability to carry out his foreign policy, the sheer spectacle of this unprecedented pledge of allegiance to a foreign head of state as a means of insulting and undermining our own president, that has really never happened before. so that made today a very big day in terms of washington news. that also made today a great day in washington to bury other news about congress. news that on any other day would be screaming from its own headlines. but today, look at the tiny ap

story is that crossed the wires just shortly before the netanyahu speech. gop says house to vote tuesday on yearlong bill to fund homeland security additions. oh, that hand. house republic republicans threw a month of my long tantrum saying they would force president obama to bend to their will by holding hostage homeland security department. they would never agree to fund homeland security. president obama would be forced to capitulate. that's been going on for months. that collapsed today. once again they had to turn to the democrats to bail them out. republicans are in chaos. republicans are now running attack ads in each other's districts over this. they're threatening to unseat speaker boehner over this. but their own strategy collapsed. and democrats had to commerce skew john boehner once again. and the homeland security department, it turns out, is going to be fine because the republicans in congress really did collapse on this thing they've been raging about for months.

but it happened on our once every 13 years what we need it or not netanyahu end of the world speech day. so the headlines ran for 30 seconds and then they got swallowed by this much bigger news cycle. john boehner is having terrible trouble with his own republicans in congress. today was a terrible failure for him in congress. but his failure, at least, had great timing. and that can never be underestimated in politics.

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