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she has to provide answers. >> you think the silence is hurting her? >> i think at this point, from this point on the server -- the silence is going to hurt her. another police-involved shooting. more protests in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in wisconsin by a white police officer in madison sparks an all-too-familiar scene. >> when do we want it? >> now! >> we demand justice! and oklahoma uproar. the viral video of fraternity members using a racial slur has stirred outrage. >> i have a message for those who have -- who have misused their free speech in this way. my message to them is you're disgraceful. >> that's the president of the university of oklahoma. we'll hear more from him in just a few moments.
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good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in new york where hillary clinton is making her third public appearance in the last seven days. but still has not said anything about two controversies trailing her likely presidential campaign rollout. foreign contributions to the clinton foundation that raise ethical concerns and her use of a private nongovernment e-mail system while she was secretary of state. president obama did address the e-mail question in an interview with cbs as the white house keeps its distance from clinton. >> i'm glad that hillary is instructed that those e-mails that had to do with official business need to be disclosed. >> well you say that you have the most transparent administration ever. you've said it again just a couple of weeks ago. >> it's true. >> how does this square with that? >> well i think that the fact that she's going to be putting them forward will allow us to make sure that people have the
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information they need. >> bill clinton this weekend defended their foundation taking foreign contributions from countries in the middle east criticized for their human rights records. >> my theory about all this is disclose everything. and then let people make their judgments, but i think there are more than 300,000 people who in some form or fashion who have contributed money to the work that we've done over the years. and i believe we've done a lot more good than harm. and i believe this is a good thing. >> james carville is a longtime political adviser to both bill and hillary clinton and joins me thousand. james, good to see you. >> good morning. >> good morning. first of all, isn't it time for hillary clinton to speak out? if you were advising her, should she address these issues? >> i wouldn't -- i don't know -- i don't know exactly -- it was legal. it wasn't against regulations. colin powell and jeb bush did the same thing, but oh my god, do you remember whitewater?
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do you remember foulgate? do you remember travelgate? do you remember pardongate? do you remember benghazi? all of this is just the same cook make cockamamie stuff that we go through. they've got to walk the story back. the chin scratchers go oh my god. the story's not right, but it says something larger about the clintons. this is never going to end. we've lived with this for 20 years. we'll live with it for the rest of the campaign. it's all about nothing. that's my view of the whole thing. >> james, to take this back -- >> okay. >> " -- the times" did say they could have put more detail in. >> of course. >> the public editor this weekend. >> right. >> said that the story was essentially correct. >> right. >> that said -- >> it was not illegal -- just so you know "the times" took right-wing talking points wrote a story about mobile weapons lab they got from dick cheney -- >> whoa, whoa, whoa, james, let's keep it -- >> i'm just making a larger point. they need to check out the
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stories before they take points. >> the fact is that dianne feinstein is not some republican talking point. dianne feinstein said that she has to speak to this. that she has to address it. others have in fact made that point off camera. democrats are saying to you know, every political reporter in town -- >> right. >> -- that this should at least be addressed. why -- >> this is the same thing -- andrea, i've lived through this. what happened to foulgate? what happened to travelgate? what happened to pardongate? what happened to benghazi? you can go find a democrat that says anything. my point is this was legal in accordance with regulations. colin powell and jeb bush did the same thing. so i just don't see -- i'm not going to -- i don't see the deal here. but next week there will be a different story. it's a story about the foundation taking money from middle east governments. why doesn't somebody come down and see how much new orleans universities after katrina took from middle east governments. we're not going to do that
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because there's one set of rules for the clintons and there's one for everybody else. >> james, james -- >> and i'm not playing along with the game. >> when hillary clinton was confirmed, she accepted a certain set of rules that there would not be foreign contributions while she was secretary of state. and as it turns out, as they've now acknowledged, she didn't go along with the ethics waiver that she had accepted, number one. number two -- i mean let's take that. what about the foreign contributions? >> you know what? people have to decide. i think it was the government of algeria that gave money to the clinton/bush initiative for earthquake aid in haiti. take it and run with it as far as you want. oh, my god, let's all get out of breath here. let's go to a dinner party and scratch our chins and say oh it's not really that bad, but it says something larger about the clintons. and let's say that a certain standard applies to colin powell and jeb bush. another standard applies to the clintons. >> james, colin powell was -- colin powell was clearly secretary of state long before
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any of these rules took place. >> so was hillary clinton. >> no, there was a rule -- no there was an advisory that started in 2009. and no one's saying it's -- i'm not saying it's a law. i'm basing this on my reporting on the information from covering the state department. >> right. >> there was an advisory. the state department did request that everything be held and then turned over contemporaneously, not after several years. >> right, you agreed that it was totally legal. >> i absolutely agree. >> there was no illegality involved here. >> absolutely. >> the e-mails were turned over colin powell same thing. jeb bush the same thing. the state department advisory when it took place, let's look and see. i'm sure this will all be done. the point here there's just not a lot here. just like there was nothing to all these previous scandals. and i am going to point this out continuously that the press, you know, which took right-wing talking points to start a war
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continues to take these talking points, and they continue to have to clarify, and that's just what we're going to live with between 9 november of 2016. >> it's interesting to hear you defending dick cheney from the right-wing press -- >> i'm not defending him. i'm saying he took "the times times" -- he leaked the information to "the times." >> sorry, i lost the thread of the argument there because it did seem to have nothing to do with hillary clinton. >> of course it does. where do you think the e-mail story came from? it came from republican staffers. that's where it came from. >> i don't know the source of "the new york times." that's not the issue. the issue is whether or not at this stage, as a political strategist, as a former adviser to the clintons if not a current one, why not address it rather than let this dominate the rollout of her campaign? >> i think in effect she'll probably address it but my own personal view they'll just say well, you didn't address it enough. or here's another thing.
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it will end up the same way that whitewater ended up that i lived through, the same thing that all these fake made-up quote scandals were. and they'll just say well there's more. then they'll go to some democrat and they'll say this. well, you've got to do this. and it's never going to be whatever. so maybe should not archive legal e-mail thing needs to be addressed. i'm sure at some point she'll say something about it. the next day there will be something else, and the next day there will be something else. it will never change. i understand that. my own point is if i were a member of the press and i realized that a right-wing talking points helped get us into a war, i would probably rethink the way i get my information. >> james -- >> okay? that's what i'm saying. >> -- isn't this a distraction that she does not need and that the democrats are very concerned about? >> right. first of all, there's always going to be a distraction in clintonland. there never is a time when there's not. i've lived through this for 20 years. don't you think that next week
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there will be some other thing that they'll crop up? and then they'll take it and they'll run with it. it's not going to ever change. that's my point i'm trying to make andrea. we'll be on next week we'll be talking about, quote, the new distraction. and, of course it will all be as we find out, there's going to be much less there than meets the eye. and we'll go out, we'll find another democrat that will say something, and we'll come in and we'll do something else. >> but james, many people thought -- many observers thought that the benghazi select committee was floundering. >> it is floundering. >> and does this give new ammunition? >> well, of course it does not. they've had seven -- how many times are we going to go through this, seven congressional hearings have all found the same thing. so what are they going to do? what do you think, there's an e-mail in there that after all of these people have investigated this but we've all got to be out of breath and we've got to treat this like it's something different. >> why should she or her circle decide which e-mails to turn over? isn't that the problem with the private e-mail system that isn't government archived?
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>> ask anybody that she has to turn over whatever it is. are you saying she's a crook? because if she does not turn over relevant stuff, that's against the law. i don't think we really want to say that. and i think that if we've investigated something for seven times, seven different congressional committees all of the out of breath all of the coverage, all of the worried democrats, all of the other stuff that you hear and every one of these things it is always the same andrea. my point to you, it's never going to change. we go through the same thing 20 times. and this doesn't give any life to anything. we know what happened at benghazi. this is not going to change anything. it just gives -- it just gives people a reason to get out of breath about a lot of cockamamie, goofy stuff. >> thank you very much james carville. >> thank you. all right. >> always good to see you. >> you bet. and more protests are expected today in madison, wisconsin, as the community there searches for answers after a police officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager on friday. 19-year-old tony robinson a recent high school grad, headed
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to technical school was shot and killed by veteran police officer matt kenny who says he was attacked while responding to a call friday night. >> shots fired. shots fired. >> 12-47, copy. shots fired. >> madison's police chief has expressed condolences to the robinson family, saying his officers are trained to use the minimum amount of force necessary. the investigation is in the hands of the wisconsin department of justice. nbc's ron allen has the latest from madison. >> reporter: andrea things have been peaceful and somber. there's concern about the rawness of the emotions here. people are very angry, very concerned that a young man lost his life here on friday night in this relatively peaceful neighborhood that's not far from the state capitol. it happened in that home back there, the gray building where you can still see police outside. we've seen state investigators going in and out of the building and others here along the street. it is the state that is in charge of this investigation, not the local police under wisconsin law so that there's more legitimacy, more
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transparency to the investigation. we know that the young man, 19-year-old tony robinson, was involved in some kind of a disturbance, some kind of situation here at this gas station, went across the street into that home. a police officer followed him in, then the facts get a bit murky. the police say -- the officer says that he was assaulted, and he opened fire because the suspect, robinson apparently assaulted him. that's what the officer is saying. the police here have had a pretty good relationship with the community over the years here in madison. now it's going to be tested of course. the police chief himself has said that he's concerned. he's empathetic to the community. he's made efforts to try and talk to the family. the family that has been calling for any protests that happen to be peaceful as are many other community leaders here. now as the investigation goes forward, the hope is that this community and the police can get through this without any unrest any confrontation of violence as we've seen elsewhere in the country. now andrea, back to you. >> our thanks to ron allen in madison, wisconsin. moments from now the
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president of the university of oklahoma former senator david boren, former governor will address a new viral video allegedly showing fraternity members chanting a racist word. their national fraternity has been suspended. the university chapter. and university president boren is kicking them off campus telling students they have until midnight tomorrow to move out of the fraternity house. we'll bring you developments as they happen. republican hopefuls are plowing the fields of iowa. plus new polling numbers. who's up who's down? and meanwhile, iran's militias are bailing out iraqi forces leading the fight to retake tikrit from isis. >> general dempsey's concern here is that if this does not go well it could be lights out for iraq. and now back to oklahoma norman, oklahoma where the university president, david boren, is addressing that viral video, the racist video from that fraternity. >> that is wherever we are,
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whether it's in casual conversation or in other activities, any time there are racist remarks made, we must speak up as americans if we're going to put an end to this kind of nonsense all across the country. and by taking a zero-tolerance policy here at the university and by making it clear we won't tolerate this these people, as i said this morning, don't deserve to be called sinners. they're misusing our name. sinners are not racist and bigots. sooners are people that believe in respecting each other and helping each other and caring for each other. we're a real community. and i think one of the things that breaks my heart about this is that we have so many students. and you saw many of them this morning. some were there last night in a prayer circle. who condemned this kind of activity? these values are not our values. we're different kinds of people. and it really -- it's very
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hurtful to think that our community, which is so strong and so positive, in so many ways is being held up by a few people. and i will just say, it will not be tolerated. that is why that house is immediately closed. that is why those young men will have to have their belongings out of that house by midnight tomorrow. and as they pack their bags i hope they think long and hard about what they've done. i think -- i hope they think long and hard about how words can injure and hurt other people. this is not our way. these are not our values. this is not who we are, and we won't tolerate it. not for one minute from anybody. so those students will be -- will be out of that house by midnight tomorrow night. the house will be closed.
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and as far as i'm concerned, it won't be back. at least not while i'm president of the university. >> david boren, a former senator, former governor the longtime president of the university of oklahoma saying that that chapter of the fraternity is closed as of midnight tomorrow, the students have to move out. and he will not tolerate -- he has a zero tolerance for racist speech. meanwhile overseas, two of the world's most extreme organizations appear to be uniting as one. over the weekend, boko haram pledged its allegiance to isis. it grabbed the world's attention after ab ducting more than 200 schoolgirls last year. this has spread into neighboring countries. this comes as iraqi forces and iranian-sponsored militias are making advances against isis in tikrit. joining me now is adam schiff a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, thank you very much for being with us. let's talk first about boko haram. is this really a publicity stunt
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by them? is it a publicity stunt to help isis? is this propaganda? because are they not -- they're not really going to be operationally engaged, are they? >> well i think in certain -- in part absolutely, it's propaganda boost i think for both of them assuming this video is accurate and i have to reason that it won't. boko haram is under a lot of pressure. there are african nations joining from niger, cameroon and chad. so it's facing a lot of external pressure. isis similarly, in syria and iraq particularly now in iraq facing a lot of pressure in tikrit by the kurds, by forces in syria as well. so both are under extreme pressure from within and from without. so this holds a propaganda boost for both. i'm not sure we'll see great command and control of boko haram by isis but we will see, i think, additional recruiting by boko haram as a result of this. and maybe see additional financing as well.
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so there's certainly something to be had for both organizations, but i also think it shows both organizations are under increasing pressure. >> now, we see iran and iran-sponsored militias will be coming to the support of the iraqi armed forces in tikrit. isn't this sort of a mixed blessing? there's real concern that iran is gaining influence in iraq. >> well it is and hard to even say a mixed blessing because to the degree that it means increasing iranian influence over iraq, that's a bad thing. to the degree it means that this may become even greater sectarian conflict if for example, those shia militias go into tikrit they ethically cleanse areas or bring about reprisal killings of sunnis, rear never going to peel these sunni communities away from isis. so all of that is bad. it would be far better if these militias or their members were incorporated into iraqi forces and didn't fight as militias. but we don't have that much control over this. we need to use what leverage we
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have in terms of the provision of our military support because if this becomes a sectarian bloodbath in tikrit or mosul, it will tremendously set back the cause of defeating isis. >> congressman, i want to also ask you about iran because in the senate 47 senators have now written a letter a letter to iran saying that they will not consider any agreement on the nuclear program that john kerry and the president negotiate with the allies as binding on them. this is an unprecedented gesture, it seems to me maybe more than a gesture, at undercutting an executive function, which is the negotiating of these agreements. >> andrea i can't tell you how appalled i am at this letter. i think it's deeply irresponsible to have these gop senators write to a foreign government in a way that's at odds with the president's policy is beyond disturbing. we are so far beyond politics
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ending at the water's edge. and on an issue of this seminal importance while sense of negotiations are going forward for these senators to interfere in this way, it's really unthinkable. and it just shows how the political process has degenerated that these senators would take such a step. >> at the same time, we have a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll that we're releasing just now which says that 71% of those questioned do not think such an agreement would make a difference at controlling iran from producing a nuclear weapon. only 24% said it would stop iran from getting a weapon. does that lack of public support for an agreement as it's been described so far concern you? >> well first of all, we don't have an agreement yet. so i think we all ought to keep our powder dry to see whether we get one and what that agreement might look like. but i've seen andrea a variety of polls that are all over the map depending on how you ask the question. if you ask americans whether they would prefer a negotiated outcome, they'll say yes. if you ask them whether they have confidence this will
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prevent iran from gaining the bomb one day, many may say no. the answer is that there are no great options here. there are a lot of problems that have been identified potentially with this negotiation, and i understand the concerns very well. at the same time, if this falls apart, it may not be very realistic to think that additional sanctions are going to bring iran back to the table and willing to give up their entire nuclear program. that doesn't seem very plausible either. so we're going to face some tough choices ahead, but i think all of us democrats and republicans, house members and senators, ought to keep our powder dry until we see whether there's an agreement, and then there will be plenty of time for us to weigh in. >> you're a democratic member of that house select committee on benghazi. this is what the chairman of that committee, congressman gowdy, had to say to bob schieffer this weekend in what he claims are real gaps in e-mails that have been turned over. >> are there any gaps in the
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e-mails you have received so far from her? >> yes, sir. there are gaps of months and months and months. and if you think to that iconic picture of her on a c-17 flying to libya, she has sunglasses on and she has her hand-held device in her hand. we have no e-mails from that day. in fact, we have no e-mails from that trip. >> what about those supposed gaps? >> -- want to leak information about the investigation. he's doing a pretty good job leaking it on national tv. i think the best way, andrea for the public to get a sense of what's in those e-mails is to release them. and if the chairman is as confident as that he should release them. but the chairman has reviewed them, as i have, and the committee members have. there's nothing indicating any support for the theories that a lot of the gop members have been advancing about, stand-down orders, about interference in security, about the secretary's alleged personal role in the security in benghazi. so let's release the e-mails.
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let the public look at them. but the chairman isn't willing to do that. instead he's willing to make selective comments on national tv. and i'm afraid that this committee is really becoming a surrogate of the republican national committee, and that's not something that a taxpayer-funded investigative committee has any business doing. >> but congressman, should as dianne feinstein has said hillary clinton at least addressed this and explained why she set up a private e-mail system in the first place? >> you know i'm sure at an appropriate time, the secretary will address this. and i think jeb bush will have to address why he set up a private server. but this is presidential politics. and my role frankly, as a member of the select committee, is to keep the committee out of that process. and until this week i think we had done a reasonable job. but now with this article in "the new york times," some of the committee members, the gop members, have decided it's time to politicize this because andrea, the chairman the republican members, we all knew the secretary had personal e-mail accounts set up and was
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using this back last summer. so why now? and the answer is because i think the pressure simply got too great on the gop members to resist issuing subpoenas and grandstanding about this. but it's a real dark turn of events for our committee. >> adam schiff congressman, thank you very much for being with us. >> thanks andrea. in south korea, the president herself the subject of an attempted assassination in 2006. visited u.s. ambassador mark lippert in the hospital as the ambassador recovers from last week's vicious knife attack. his face was cut. he suffered nerve damage to his wrist. the hospital said today that they removed half of the stitches this morning and will remove the rest tomorrow. the man who attacked the u.s. ambassador an alleged korean nationalist, says heed alone. he could face attempted murder and assaulting a foreign envoy. it's more than the cloud. it's security - and flexibility. it's where great ideas and vital data are stored.
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my hope is that we will -- i will run a campaign if i get there that will be hopeful and optimistic, that i'm not going to tear down my fellow republicans. that doesn't help. in order to get to 50 you've got to be uniting the party rather than dividing the party. that we keep an eye on the broader mission of winning the presidency with an uplifting message. >> jeb bush in iowa making his pitch for votes. although many of the voters there have serious questions about his views on immigration and education. democrats are worrying that their front-runner at the same time could have feet of clay. so with all this happening, msnbc analyst and former republican chair michael steele joins me now. michael, thanks very much for being with us. talk about the republicans first. >> sure. >> jeb and the others and what you were watching from a distance watching iowa this weekend. how do you think it's shaping up at this very early stage? >> i think at this early stage, this is really jeb's, you know effort to bungle or lose or however you want to put it.
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i think he has laid down the predicate for a candidacy. he's going out and he's doing the one thing that i think a lot of people didn't expect him to do or expect him to do well and that is having the conversation with those very conservatives who are skeptical of his position on immigration, his position on common core and education, and also exposing to them, for the first time his record, his eight-year record as governor. he was a very good governor of the state of florida. he knows what creating jobs and prosperity's about. he knows what a downturn in an economy can also do as he was governor as the economy began to turn in florida. so i think he's laying down a very good argument. for you, how it's being received, so far, so good. yeah there will be more bumps down the road. and once he officially launches andrea, as you know all bets are off at that point. but i think so far jeb is doing what he has to do to secure the process of the nomination for him. >> and look at some of the numbers in our nbc news/"wall
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street journal" poll of course taken before this weekend's trip to iowa. 49% of those said that they could see themselves supporting him. versus 42% who felt that they could not. and when you look at some of the others, obviously, scott walker from neighboring -- neighboring wisconsin had a much better track record as well as marco rubio, scott walker was 56% could support him. 26% could not. scott -- excuse me that was marco rubio. scott walker was -- >> right. yeah, i think -- >> 53% and 17%. sorry. and then you've got huckabee and rand paul coming fairly close behind. >> yeah. i think, though at the end of the day, you know a lot of that's name identification. a lot of that has to do with how people initially feel about these candidates. you know bush has the weight of the family name. and two bushes before him. his father and his brother.
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but also i think there's still the skepticism within the rank and file of conservative republicans as to what kind of bush is he? is he more like his dad? is he more like his brother? how does he shape himself? so i took to heart his words that i'm my own man. how i will lead and how i would govern will be very different than my brother. he's got to make that argument. so i think these polls kind of reflect that tension that people are still trying to work through, that 49 -- you know 49% who say yes, i'd vote for him, and 42% who say they wouldn't. there's still that tension that i think he's got to work out over the next few months. >> the other famous name a very famous name, of course on the democratic side in this potential race is hillary clinton. and in her polling at least showed that 86% versus 13% still could see themselves supporting her. and this was taken after the e-mail controversy broke. >> yeah. >> i don't know if you were able to watch my interview with our friend james carville but -- >> i did. >> -- this was a little bit of it. let me play a little of what
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james had to say. >> my point to you, it's never going to change. we go through the same thing 20 times. and this doesn't give me life to anything. we know what happened at benghazi. this is not going to change anything. it just gives -- it just gives people a reason to get out of breath about a lot of cockamamie, goofy stuff. >> cockamamie goofy stuff. >> goofy stuff, yes. >> he did say this kind of thing is going to trail her forever throughout the campaign. >> of course it will. >> is that going to cause a little second-guessing among some democrats despite her prohibitive front-runner stat sinus. >> it could. it could. and you know there are going to be those who don't have the feel for clinton. they don't want to revisit the clinton years and all of that. look, a lot of this right now, though, i have to say is of her own doing. there's so much about this quote, controversy that she could have forestalled or avoided, you know if she had the right political thinkers around her to sort of anticipate all of the things that she's now going through a little bit better for her.
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if she'd get closer to making her announcement, that's got to be the case because they cannot do, you know 16 months of this. otherwise the democrats are going to be screaming and pulling their hair out by the time they get to next summer. going into the fall campaign. and that's just not a position they want to be in. so i suspect hillary will turn it around. i think james is right, andrea that this is a lot of noise, that she should be used to by now. but she'd better get better at dealing with it up front as opposed to letting it get traction and pull ago way her effort to win the presidency. >> michael steele as always, thank you very much. >> thank you. and this weekend was extraordinary, marking a major milestone in the push for civil rights in america. it was 50 years since the day known as bloody sunday when peaceful protesters were beaten back by police officers in selma, alabama. thousands retraced those steps across the edmund pettis bridge in selma yesterday. the day before president obama doing some of the original marchers from bloody sunday including congressman john lewis
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business of the 21st century. so let's start. >> hillary clinton with melinda gates and daughter, chelsea moments ago at the women's equality event here in new york. while the politics at home get tougher for the front-runner, should she choose to run, i don't think there's much doubt about that. joining me now for our daily fix, chris cilissa. ruth, it's 20 years since the beijing women's conference where she gave her landmark speech. i was there. i'm not sure if that was one of your trips as well but you were covering her as first lady when she went up against the foreign policy establishment and the white house and did that speech to great criticism and applause from around the world. 20 years later, she's trying to make the case of women's equality, but it is potentially being overshadowed by this
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e-mail controversy. >> at least for right now it's being overshadowed by the e-mail controversy. i read a quote from somebody in the paper this morning suggesting that it wasn't what she said about women's rights being human rights and vice versa, about it not being a big deal. that is wrong, as you know as well as anybody. it was a very big deal at the time. a really controversial within the administration and within the state department and it was very important that she said it. it's very unfortunate that we are in the situation where that message on the 20th anniversary is being overshadowed by what feels to me like a very self-inflicted wound on the part of hillary clinton and a wound that instead of the clinton operation stitching up they just seem to be letting it kind of bleed a little bit more every day. >> and one of the things that this report the no ceilings report, points out is that the number of countries with a woman as head of state or government has risen from 12 back in 1995
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when she appeared in beijing to 18 today. the obvious implication among her supporters and people at that conference is we want to see at least one more in the united states. >> one ceiling more. >> one ceiling more. and chris, this is what bill int cl clinton said when asked in miami at a clinton gloeshl initiative event on the college campus there about whether his wife has been treated fairly. let's watch. >> do you think your wife's been treated fairly with the e-mails? >> i'm not the one to judge that. i have an opinion but i have a bias. >> tell us your opinion. >> president clinton, what's your opinion? >> thanks folks. >> that i shouldn't be making news on this. >> i guess the opinion that people want to hear from is dianne feinstein made clear is hillary clinton's, why she set up this system in the first place. >> yeah, i think you have no idea how difficult it was for bill clinton to probably not comment there because i think he has a very clear view on the
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press and how it handles the clintons. that said, the dianne feinstein quote to chuck yesterday on "meet the press" i think is important. this is not a republican senator, a republican house member or even rank-and-file democrat. this is the senior senator in the united states and a former chair of the senate intelligence committee from a big democratic state in california saying look her silence is going to hurt her. i want to and i think we should hear from people, from her, about why this was set up why this server was set up the way it was. you know the hard thing for democrats is that literally every egg that they have is in the hillary clinton basket. they've put so much into it the expectation overwhelmingly she's not just going to run but she's going to sort of walk to the nom thags nomination. everything going to what people don't like about them, near not taking advice they're not being open and transparent. i think you're going to hear --
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my guess is some more people like feinstein come out in the next couple days and say yeah she's right, we do need an explanation here. you're going to be our nominee. we need to know why this was the case. >> and speaking of e-mails, guess who doesn't e-mail? this is the possible republican candidate for president, lindsey graham, talking to chuck on "meet the press." >> do you have a private e-mail address? >> i don't -- i don't e-mail -- no. you can have every e-mail i've ever sent. i've never sent one. i don't know what that makes me. >> well, we just have to leave it there. ruth marcus and chris cilizza, thank you so much. >> i wish i had that problem. >> right. and up next a year after the search for malaysia airlines flight 370, what we know about the mystery and what we will never know. this is msnbc.
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a new report one year after the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370 is offering more clues into the investigation into the missing plane. the battery on one of the underwater pingers may not have been working. making finding the plane in the first few weeks of the search nearly impossible. this is the search for any signs of the missing plane continues. mh370 was on its way to kuala lumpur, you'll recall when it vanished. joining me from denver is former ntsb investigator greg fife. first, the battery of one of the pingers who was supposed to be powered up for 30 days expired back in december 2012. that's more than a year before the plane disappeared. how important is that? >> well it's important from the standpoint that apparently there was a paperwork issue. the malaysians are saying that the battery did, in fact get changed, but there is no formal record of that. so it's been basically asserted
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that the battery on one of the black boxes or the pinger if you will, was not operable. but in the grand scheme of things, you still had the second black box you could have identified if we knew where the wreckage was you could have found those boxes because they're probably within close proximity to each other in the wreckage. >> and what about the fact that they spent so much time in those early days going the wrong direction, thinking that the plane in doubled back and expanding a search area which turned out to be false? >> i think, andrea that's probably one of the largest issues. the fact that the malaysians delayed so long in getting any kind of search effort going. had they gotten the search effort going a lot sooner because of the poor communication between all of the various atc groups they may have been able to track the airplane. but then when they put the airplane in a particular area and started putting assets down there trying to find these
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pingers, only to find out that one of the pingers may not have been operable it's interesting that a year later we're finding this out. why didn't this information come out before? because that may have altered the course of where they searched and how they searched. >> a year later, have they corrected the gaps in communication between those atc groups? >> that's a hard question to answer andrea only because we don't know what they're doing. we know what they said they've done. we know that they are coordinating and that they're trying to -- they're trying to tighten up those notifications. but if they are actually in practice or not, that's yet to be determined. hopefully we will never find out again. >> and the search area now is the size of west virginia. they've searched about 40% of it. do you expect that they will ever find this wreckage? >> andrea i'm not real confident of it. that's a vast ocean out there. they spent a lot of time and assets in what they believed was
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and in just a few moments, apple is going to unveil its much anticipated smart watch. this is the tech giant's first big launch of a brand-new device without the legendary steve jobs. nbc's joe fryer is inside the auditorium for the big announcement in san francisco and joins me on the phone. joe, what do we know about the apple watch, and what can it do? >> reporter: andrea, you know
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often when we have these big reveals from apple, we know very little going in. this time it's a little bit different. we have a pretty good idea. we've seen the watch. there's been promotional material put out about it. we know there's going to be three different collections. there's going to be a flagship model made of stainless steel, a sports model and then a luxury model called the addition. it's actually going to be made out of 18-karat gold. we don't know much about the prices at this point. all we know the minimum price is going to be $349 and the price tag goes up from there. a lot of people are wondering what the price is going to be of this 18-karat gold watch. it could be thousands of dollars. we expect to see a lot of apps and features of the phone to be released here this morning. and the big point is going to be trying to show why people would want to buy this watch in the first place. andrea? >> and that is the question. why would you want to have everything on one device first of heavy is going to be, how difficult to use?
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>> reporter: what's the challenge. this is not the first company to come out with a smart watch. others have done it already. so far there's not been a huge dramatic success. apple really has to prove and get over that this is something people need. and i think one of the main things you're going to see emphasized here is that it's efficient, it helps you save time, and that's really what it's probably going to take to convince people to do this. i think they're also going to really focus on some of the health features. there's a heart rate monitor on this. and if it can help people lead a healthier lifestyle, that could appeal to some. andrea? >> at the same time, you though, they have to build a demand for this. is this one of those instances where people are already lining up to buy something that they don't even know will work and how it's going to work? >> reporter: exactly. and that's the big point is is there a demand for this? and a lot of people don't know if you go out on the street and ask people, there's a lot of people who say i don't know if i want to buy this watch because i don't know if i need it. and this event today really is a reason for apple to try and prove why you would need this watch, why it's something you need to have in your life like
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your iphone, like your ipad. keep in mind when the ipad first came out, a lot of people said i don't get this. i don't see why people would need this. but apple made it big. and now, of course, the ipad is huge. >> and are you going to get to try it, joe? >> reporter: yeah, we expect -- we don't know for sure but we usually expect with these apple events that we get a little bit of time just to see the product and demo it. so we're hoping that will be the case after tim cook and apple's presentation here in the next few minutes. >> let us know. joe fryer, thanks very much. and that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." remember, follow us online on facebook and on twitter @mitchellreports and my colleague, thomas roberts coming up. up next the university of oklahoma streakpeaks out. demonstrations in wisconsin. plus what's being called an extraordinary move. how senate republicans are trying to circumvent president obama over iran. and then the very latest on
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i'm pushing. i'm pushing it real good! it is monday on msnbc live. and lots to get to today including the university of oklahoma speaking out in the wake of a stunning video of fraternity members who appear to be engaged in a racist chant. ♪ there will never be -- at s.a.e. ♪ plus more demonstrations planned in madison, wisconsin, as the community mourns and protests the deadly police shooting of an unarmed black teen. >> young, black and gifted! and then maybe a head scratcher here. senator lindsey graham revealing he's never sent a single e-mail. seriously, that happened. we begin with norman oklahoma, where sigma alpha epsilon is now shut down after a
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disturbing video allegedly shows fraternity brothers singing a song filled with racial slurs. ♪ there will never be a -- at s.a.e. ♪ ♪ >> we now have a new statement from university of oklahoma president david boren saying effective immediately, all ties and affiliations between this university and the local sae chapter are hereby severed. the president is giving the fraternity until midnight tomorrow to remove their belongings from the frat house before shutting it entirely down. overnight, the sae campus building was vandalized coming as the frat's national chapter acknowledged the video and issued the following statement. saying we apologize for the unacceptable and racist behavior of the individuals in the video, and we are disgusted that any member would act in such a way. the president of the university spoke just a short time ago, echoing those same terms. >> i think the best way for us to send not only a message to this campus but a
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