democrats, that would hurt him. but is that is the grease of politics. >> it's true. someone has to come up with a temporary form of e-mail that just disappeared. >> snapchat. >> oh, that's great. that will reform our bad impulses. >> right. that is "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts now. thanks for joining us at this hour. there is a lot of competition for the top news in this country right now. we'll have more about what has happened in ferguson, missouri, over the past 24 hours where two police officers were released from the hospital today after being shot late last night outside ferguson police headquarters while protests against the ferguson pd was just winding down. that story has gone off like a shock wave in the already incredibly anxious racial environment around ferguson, missouri, and the policing of that community. there are further developments in that story still breaking tonight including a vigil we're keeping an eye on that has been called for right now in ferguson.

that vigil had initially been planned to take place outside the same ferguson police station where those officers were shot last night. at the last minute the planned vigil was moved to a different site in ferguson this evening. so we're going to be keeping an eye on that tonight. we'll have more on those developments including my interview with an eyewitness to the shooting of those police officers last night. that interview and our report on that subject coming up in just a moment. so do please stay with us for that. but alongside that story today, we also got further disturbing and honestly increasingly inexplicable news about law enforcement at a very different level in our country. carol lenning at "the washington post" today broke what i think was unbelievable news about the secret service. what we knew this time last night was that two senior secret service officers had been put under investigation for an alleged incident that took last

week. wednesday night march 4th in which the agents allegedly drove their secret service vehicle onto the white house grounds in a way that suggested to officers on the scene that he men were drunk. the secret service agents reportedly drove through police tape that had been set up at the site and hit their secret service vehicle into barricades that had been set up at the site again on the white house grounds. this is what we knew last night. now we know more. specifically now we know more about what was going on at the white house at the time these guys apparently rolled up. "washington post" today cites a police report to explain what was going on the grounds of the white house last wednesday night and what these senior secret service officers allegedly crashed their vehicle into. this is from "the post." quote, at about 10:25 that's

the woman threw a package wrapped in a green shirt at the secret service security post. she yelled at an officer, it's a bomb. so this is from the police report about it's a bomb incident. after the woman threw the package on the white house grounds, security at the white house reacted the way you would expect them to. the woman apparently fled after flinging this thing and yelling it's a bomb. they did get her license plate number. they were eventually able to track her down. around the package that she had thrown onto the white house grounds, they accomplished a perimeter. they marked off the entire area with police tape and they called the bomb squad. this woman had reportedly yelled it's a bomb. they called the bomb squad to check and to see if, in fact, it was an explosive device. so that whole thing started at 10:25 last wednesday night. roughly 30 minutes into that whole process, according to "the washington post" shortly before 11:00 p.m., these two high ranking secret service agents

arrived on the scene in a secret service vehicle with its lights on. they had reportedly been at a party about a mile away from the white house at this bar in chinatown in washington. it was a going away party, apparently, for a secret service spokesman who was retiring. the agents reportedly left that party in a secret service vehicle. they drove about a mile away to the white house. the white house is in the midst of dealing with the suspicious package and the crime scene around the suspicious package is being cordoned off and they called in the bomb squad to check to see if this thing is safe. they're in the middle of dealing with that and these two high ranking secret service agents roll up to the white house and, quote, drive their government car through the crime scene. according to people familiar with the incident, they drove through police tape and then hit a temporary barricade. so the allegation here is that they did not just drive through police tape and hit a white house barricade. the allegation here is that they did so physically in the midst of an active investigation into

what might have been a bomb on the white house grounds. and then we learned two further important details about this reported incident. number one, it's all apparently on video. as you might expect, there is surveillance video of everything that happens on the white house grounds and this incident was apparently caught on surveillance video and investigators have now started reviewing that video to see what happened. that's detail number one. detail number two, investigators who are reviewing that surveillance tape to see what happened in this incident, those investigators tell "the washington post" that these guys who drove through the police tape and hit the barricade around the suspicious package, they apparently came pretty close to driving over that suspected bomb. investigators who reviewed the tape of the incident tell "the washington post" the two agents drove up through the crime scene next to the item wrapped in the shirt.

they drove so close to the item, it was difficult for investigators to tell for awhile based on the video whether the agents might have even run it over. secret service agents on duty considered the agents' behavior to be erratic enough that they suspected the two agents were drunk. the uniformed secret service officers on the scene who suspected that the senior agents were drunk when they did this and they drove up into the crime scene, those uniformed officers wanted to arrest the agents. but a more senior supervisor at the white house complex told the officers to let the agents go without arresting them and without giving them a sobriety test. so okay. this alleged incident is terrible. right? this is terrible. i mean, no other agency has a name like the secret service, right? these guys are supposed to be the unnobly hyper-elite. no matter who occupies the white

house, these are the guys who keep the president safe, who keep the white house safe. these are the defenders of the american presidency. even if we did not right now have a president who faces a heightened threat level, a failure at the secret service is not an option. drunken failure at the secret service just seems inconceivable. and you can sort of talk yourself down about this. right? sure, it's the secret service and that sounds high end, but it's a big agency. not everybody who works there is going to be one of these super elite, above reproach. one of these guys in the suit with the curly ear piece. you know, you can try to talk yourself down from the worry here by imagining that these kind of failures are happening in a lower level of the agency we don't necessarily see. where people don't have these very big responsibilities of being an arm's length away from the president.

we can try to talk ourselves down about maybe this is a bigger agency and parts of it are less important than we think. except in this case one of the two guys in the car for this alleged incident really is one of those super elite, supposedly above reproach guys in a suit with a curly ear piece standing next to the president. i mean, that's him. here is that agent. the number two person in charge of president obama's personal security detail. he was one of the two cars this night, allegedly. here he is with president obama again. here he is with president obama and michelle obama. here he is with president obama again. see him on the left there? this is not some low level guy. this is not some bureaucrat. the problems at the secret service are not low level problems. and that is starting to be the most anxiety provoking thing about the ongoing problems at the secret service.

in 2011 when somebody took shots at the white house with a high powered rifle, it was a secret service supervisor who told secret service officers to stand down and not do anything about it. even though officers on the grounds of the white house were convinced that they'd heard gunfire and wanted to respond. it was a supervisor who told them stand down, it's probably nothing. eventually four days later it was a housekeeper who had to point out to the secret service that, in fact, the white house residence where the first family lives had been hit by the high powered rifle ammunition. when the housekeeper showed the secret service the broken chunks of glass and concrete from the impact. the supervisor said stand down. that same year "the washington post" had first said go patrol the home of the secret service's assistant because she was having issued with her neighbors. secret service at the highest

left made this division don't protect the white house teams, instead protect the assistant from her neighbors. that following year the director left the secret service after a prostitution scandal in which a number of secret service agents hired prostitutes while they were on an advanced team visit for a presidential trip to colombia. they got in trouble at their hotel because of a dispute over whether or not they were going to pay said prostitutes. a year after that, the supervisor who the secret service had put in charge of investigating what happened in colombia with the prostitutes, that supervisor investigating the colombia incident himself got busted at a washington, d.c. hotel when he got caught trying to force his way back into a woman's hotel room at the hay adams after he apparently left a bullet in her room. a subsequent investigation turned out he sent sexuallily suggestive e-mails to a female subordinate employee at the secret service. and now it's not just a senior

supervisor at the d.c. field office. and a senior supervisor in the president's personal security detail who are alleged to have drunkenly driven their car onto white house grounds through police tape and into a barricade nearly running over a suspected bomb that was actively being investigated on the white house grounds. now the allegation is that a supervisor even more senior, apparently, than the two of them told the uniformed officer who is wanted to arrest or at least drunk test these guys that they should instead just let these guys go home. i should also mention that the new head of the secret service, the head of the whole agency was also the supervisor in charge of white house security back in 2009 when during the first state dinner of the obama presidency the secret service inexplicably let this soon to be reality show based tv couple into a -- into the white house and in to meet the president even though they were not on the guest list for

the dinner and were not cleared to enter. joseph clancy was head when the salahi thing happened at the start of the obama presidency. this now kicked off the years' long cascade of humiliating and scary failures at the secret service. he was in charge at the white house when that very first, very shocking failure at the secret service happened. the price he eventually paid for that was this year being named director of the secret service overall. and even as we have had incident after incident after incident after incident, where a guy with a gun is led onto an elevator with obama even though the secret service doesn't know who he is and doesn't know he has a gun. or a guy with a knife runs over the white house fence and gets way into the white house before anyone takes him down. or a mentally ill guy being allowed on stage right next to

obama as if he is a sign language interpreter but no one knows who he guy is or how he got there. or drunk secret service agents passed out in brothels in thailand and hotels in the netherlands and on street corners in miami. as all of these things continually have happened, more than a dozen incidents now over the course of the obama presidency, the scariest part of all of it including this latest incident with the allegedly drunk senior agents busting into the active crime scene on the grounds of the white house, the scariest part of all of it is that it does not seem to be a problem of low ranking junior officers who were just screwing up here. right? screwing up here and there but at least at the adults are still in charge. the scariest thing of all of it is it seems like the adult who is are supposed to be in charge of what is supposed to be the most elite security in the nation, the people in charge of protecting the american presidency appear to be the ones who keep screwing up. and apparently it's not getting any better.

even now. joining us now is congressman elijah cummings of maryland. he along with the chairman of his committee today, jason chaffetz, wrote a letter about this incident. congressman cummings, it's a pleasure to have you here. >> good to be with you, rachel. >> what can you tell us about the investigation into this incident so far and what you and your staff have been told and how it's being looked into? >> well, first of all let me say this, rachel. this whole incident is extremely upsetting to me and to mr. chaffetz and our entire committee both republicans and democrats. a lot has been done with regard to the secret service over the last several months. director clancy came in and he relieved half of all the top administrators in the secret service of their duties.

and brought about some staffing changes and did a number of other things to make the agency better that i can't even talk about because they're classified. but clearly, rachel, when you look at what happened here, it is extremely alarming and shocking to the conscience that two senior supervisory types in the secret service could come and crash a barrier, basically tamper with a crime scene because they may have ran over the very thing that they thought was a bomb. and to put other people in danger because they appeared to have been impaired by alcohol. and so it -- when we look at the

series of events, one by one all the things you just named, it makes you wonder number one, whether there is a cultural problem here and whether the agency has moved into a culture of complacency and how deep this problem goes. but again, we've got clearly a lot of work to do. i think this was a major wakeup call. the good thing, rachel, is that the homeland security inspector general is doing this investigation. that's a good thing. because they'll do a very thorough investigation. they'll do a deep dive. but they'll do something else. and that is that they will come up with recommendations as to what needs to be done to straighten out the situation. >> congressman cummings, one of the things i found disturbing when i was working with producers today laying out this segment and we made a chronological list of the incidents that happened during the obama presidency. and i didn't expect to see the

pattern, but once we made the list, it did appear there is a pattern of a surprisingly high number of incidents involving surprisingly high ranking people inside the secret service. supervisors being involved in some of the worst incidents. do you know if the current investigation into this latest incident is just focused on those two agents that may have been in the vehicle or if they're also looking into this report that the supervisor may have told those uniformed officers to not give these guys a breathalyzer, not do a sobriety test and let them go home? >> i can be certain about this. it does include that the allegation that the supervising officer there told these guys they could go home. and we do know for a fact that they -- the rank and file officers, the uniformed officers really did believe that these secret service agents were impaired. and so that concerns me greatly

too. because here we have officers trying to do the right thing. and rachel, let me be clear. there are a lot -- i'd say 99% of our officers in the secret service are great men and women doing a great job. but i'm telling you, when you have a situation where your supervisor tells you to look the other way and allow somebody who appears to be impaired to just go home and sleep it off as if nothing happened, it has a phenomenal effect on morale. it also brings confusion to the officers and a level of disrespect. in other words, they have to -- they end up disrespecting their superiors. then we go right back to something that was happening months ago where secret service agents will come to us in the congress before they will go to their higher ups to report things. because they just don't feel

comfortable. we are better than that. and i look at this thing very seriously because as you said, you're talking about the president of the united states of america. the most powerful person in the world. and i tell you as i look at what's going on here, it makes me so upset. and i will not rest and i know chairman chaffetz feels the same way until we get this resolved. >> congressman cummings, thank you for joining us tonight. i share your concern about this. i find this anxiety provoking. but to hear your aggression on this and your unity with chairman chaffetz on this, the lack of partisanship around this is heartening. >> we're together on this one. no doubt about it. >> thank you. still ahead tonight, we've got a lot more news including the latest from ferguson, missouri. we've got an interview coming up with an eyewitness to the shooting of those two police

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you're looking at a live shot right now from ferguson, missouri, where a candlelight vigil is taking place just down the street from the ferguson police station. it was less than 24 hours ago when shots were fired at officers in front of that station. one officer hit below his right eye, the other on his shoulder. both were taken to the hospital last night. both were released today. neither injury is said to be life threatening. there is a manhunt still underway at this hour for the shooter. federal government pledging full support for the effort to find and prosecute the shooter in this case. in ferguson tonight, missouri state highway patrol have assumed command of policing in the streets of ferguson. this is a candlelight vigil taking place down the road from the ferguson police department. stay with us. we'll have more on this live in just a moment. stay with us.

what happened last night was a pure ambush. this was not someone trying to bring healing to ferguson. this was a damn punk. a punk who was trying to sow discord in an area that's trying to get its act together and trying to bring together a community that's been fractured for too long. >> a punk, a damn punk. that was attorney general eric holder today speak about the two police officers who were shot just after midnight last night in ferguson, missouri. one of the officers was shot just below his right eye. the bullet reportedly lodged just below the officer's right ear. that officer is 32 years old. he's been on the force for five years. the other officer was shot in his right shoulder. the bullet exited from the right side of his back. he's 41 years old. he's been in law enforcement for 14 years. st. louis county police department says both officers were treated and released from the hospital today.

based on the injuries they sustained, based on the sound of the bullets last night, police say they believe that the shots came from a handgun and not from a rifle. you can actually hear the shots. on this amateur video that was captured last night. police say based on the sound of those shots and muzzle flashes in the distance, they believe the shots came from a hundred yards away. one was a st. louis county police officer, the other was from a nearby town. as the search got underway for the shooter, earlier today we saw police s.w.a.t. units descend on one house that was a few blocks away from the police station where the officers were shot. that involved them going in through the building's roof. at that raid, police reportedly took a few people in for questioning, but as of tonight nobody is in police custody in conjunction with the shooting. no one has been arrested. crime stoppers is now offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the

shooting of the officers. also interestingly, two democratic congressmen from missouri, lacey clay and emanuel cleaver put out a joint statement offered a $3,000 reward personally. these two are offering it personally for information leading to an arrest in this. as of tonight, whoever shot those two officer is still at large. i'm going to interview an eyewitness to the shooting next. stay with us. heroes charge! ♪ (explosion) ♪ (explosion) ♪ (explosion) ♪ lead your heroes in the hit mobile game! download heroes charge now!

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so we're keeping an eye on ferguson, missouri, tonight where a candlelight vigil is underway near the police station where two officers were shot and wounded last night. both of those officers have since been released from the hospital. neither of them thought to have life threatening injuries but there's a manhunt for the shooter. joining us now is mr. bradley rayford. he was covering last night's protest. he was a witness to the shooting. mr. rayford, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> we see you out there on the streets tonight in ferguson. before i ask you specifically about what you saw last night, can you just tell us what the mood is like tonight and what it's been like today in ferguson? >> right now it's pretty much just media in front of the police department. there are about 40 people that walked past us towards where the candlelight vigil was scheduled

to be held just down toward the ferguson brew house if you're familiar with the ferguson area. it's an area where there's a large area for people to gather for the vigil tonight. >> okay. last night when you were at the police station and you saw the shooting happen, can you just tell us what happened? it's my understanding when i looked at the footage it seemed like it was sort of a protest/rally. it seemed to be sort of winding down when the shots rang out. what happened? >> you could almost say that the protest did wind down when the shots rang out. it was around 12:00 midnight last night. most of the police were already sent home by the commander officers. most protesters left to go home. and you heard out of nowhere what sounded like a fire cracker or firework go off at the top of the hill. once we looked to the top of the hill we saw what looked to be muzzle flashes from gunfire firing towards -- from my

standpoint, towards my direction as well as the officers. i was adjacent to the officers in front of the ferguson police department. >> was it scary? i can tell from some of the video shot last night that people reacted in a pretty panicked way and that people hit the ground, a lot of people ran. what happened after the shots rang out? >> it was definitely a scary moment because you did not know where the gun shots were coming from, if there were going to be more gun shots and who were the target of those gun shots. it was a scary moment for all of us out there. because the gunshots could have hit anyone. the protesters, the police officers, the media. anyone could have been a target of those gunshots last night. so it was definitely a scary moment. >> bradley, before the gunshots rang out last night in terms of what the character of the protest and rally had been like, had anyone been threatening violence? had there been anyone who tried to provoke people into more dramatic action? did it seem like the sort of thing where it might turn into a violent situation? what was the vibe like?

>> certainly no. when gunshots rang out, it was a calm moment. and naturally when you have a large group of people gathered together anyway, you have some people who have disagreements. but overall the protests are often peaceful aside from police officers arresting people in the street. but overall it was a pretty peaceful night. like i said, the -- it was almost -- i won't call it -- it was basically dead. everyone was going home. it was the end of the night. gunshots came out of nowhere so it was a surprise to us all. >> bradley rayford, thanks for helping us understand what it was like. >> thank you for having me on. >> thanks. we've got a couple of great things still to come tonight on the show. number one, a triumph in local news coverage. a triumph. and two, the interview tonight which tonight is a very rare species for this show. and it comes from texas. and i'm really looking forward to this. please stay with us.

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so my parents were here this week. we had a family thing going on. and while they were here they raised what we call in my house the question. capital "t," capital "q," the

question. the question between me as an adult and my parents is why can't you get more republicans to be guests on your tv show. excellent question. tonight i made progress. this one's for you, dad! the interview's coming up.

the texas state legislature meets every other year on odd numbered years. this is 2015. and so meet. texas lawmakers are in session, they're making laws, giving speeches, having meetings, doing all of it. they are in session. this week texas legislators got a visit from the anti-abortion lobby which handed out these signs that identified them as a current lawmaker and a former fetus. hey. mazel tov. one proudly placed it up by his door. that ran afoul of the people who

enforce the rules about what you can and can't put up on the walls at the state capitol. they took it down saying, quote, we don't decorate the halls. that made the former fetus angry. he said, quote, i think the kumbaya is about to be over. the texas state legislature famously is not a land of kumbaya. it's not a land of subtlety either. but even by texas' slash and burn political standards, the republican fight against women's health care in texas and planned parenthood in particular stands out over the last few years. in 2011 republicans slashed state funding for family planning by two-thirds. so that means birth control, cancer screenings, preventive care, all that. a two-thirds cut. people who provide that kind of care to texas women warned at the time cutting all that money would force a lot of womens clinics to close and among other

things it would lead to more unintended pregnancies in the state. and, yes, that law caused dozens of texas clinics to close. it also caused thousands more to have unwanted pregnancies because of that law. the texas evaluation project estimates to that law that closed down texas clinics. that not being enough, texas republicans then moved on to blocking planned parenthood. 44% of women served by that program got their annual checkups and their cancer screenings at a planned parenthood clinic. but texas republicans told them they had to find somewhere else. then after that the texas legislature passed the strictest rules in the country. banned a large number of doctors from being allowed to perform abortions in the state.

that law closed yet more clinics in the state. clinics that not just did abortion services but all kinds of women's health. and now in the current session, texas republicans have decided to make another run at the places where texas women get their health care. this time they're going specifically after women's cancer screenings. that's the target now. a program that pays for cancer screenings for women in texas for women who can't otherwise afford it, that program is primarily funded by the federal government, about 75% federally funded. that program is used by tens of thousands of women every year. but now in what appears to be another effort to try to shut down the remaining planned parenthood clinics in the state maybe, republicans in the texas legislature have come up with a proposal to totally restructure this program for cancer screenings in such a way that it's expected to shut down dozens of the remaining beleaguered women health care centers that are standing in texas. not just planned parenthood

clinics. lots of clinics. so that's the new word from texas republicans. and republicans have unilateral control over texas government. they can pass any law they want. they have a lock. texas is republican world. and texas republicans have been making it really hard on planned parenthood in particular but women's health in general. that part is not surprising anymore. but this is. not all texas republicans are going along with it. meet sarah davis. you're thinking wendy davis. no. totally different davis. no relation, different party. sarah davis is a three-term texas lawmaker. she's a breast cancer survivor. she's an attorney. she is a republican. she is a texas republican. in the summer of 2013 during the wendy davis filibuster of the anti-abortion vote that shut down dozens of clinics across the state, sarah davis made a name for herself as the only house republican to vote against those new restrictions.

sarah davis explained her position at the time, quote, a traditional republican perspective is personal freedom, individual responsibility, and limited government. that is to me what being a republican is. so just as much as i'm opposed to over-regulation of industry, i'm opposed to the legislature practicing medicine. i'm opposed to the legislature practicing medicine. that was sarah davis. texas republican lawmaker speaking in 2013. and now because it's an odd numbered year, now with this new plan by texas republicans to shut down some of the last remaining women's health care clinics in the state using cancer issues to do it, now representative sarah davis is back at it. warning of the consequences if her own party's plan becomes law. and this time, super interesting, she might be getting somewhere maybe. republican state rep sarah davis told the house this week they should reject this new plan. the one that targets the cancer

screenings. she said if we don't have the provider network, women cannot be served and they will die. at least for now her proposal to undo what the republican state senate is trying to do that would shut down the clinics at least for now, this lone republican voice of sarah davis appears to have persuaded her fellow former fetuses on the house side to advance her bill to try to undo what has been proposed in the senate, to advance her bill that would effectively keep the clinics open. joining us now for the interview is sarah davis. representative davis, thank you for being here. i really appreciate you being here. >> well, thank you for having me. it's a pleasure. >> so i knew about your stance when you were the lone house republican to vote against the bill that was filibustered by the democrats and got all that attention. i knew you had this stance -- that you had articulated around it.

i was surprised to read you convinced the house budget committee to advance your idea on this, to maybe stand up to other republicans on this clinic thing. were you surprised? >> it's very early in the budget process. but i'm 38 years old. i was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 32. i spent the full year of my life in surgeries and chemotherapy and radiation. and so obviously when we're talking about programs that are screening women for breast cancer and cervical cancer, i feel very passionately about it. and i do think that my colleagues will -- have paid me some deference because of that personal experience. and to me, i am the face of

cancer. cancer does not discriminate based on age or race. and it certainly doesn't care what primary you vote in. and so that's the message that i've been trying to get across. and being a cancer survivor that's negative for the gene and has no family history of breast cancer, i know first hand that early detection is key. so i think a lot of my colleagues tend to have respect for the position because of the experience that i've had. i do not believe that women's health is a partisan issue. i do my best from an advocate standpoint to try to make it as non-partisan as possible. but we are still fairly early on in the process. and the fight's definitely not over yet. >> i wonder -- the way you have articulated your perspective on this not just in terms of that powerful personal story you just

told here but also just in terms of your ideology and how you believe in limited government and that this isn't the realm for government to be imposing itself between women and health care providers. i wonder if your colleagues in private are more sympathetic to that position than they might appear to be in public. i know that the politics around this issue in texas are really strict. i'm sure you've paid somewhat of a political price from taking this stand. do you feel away from the glare of political necessity that your fellow republicans are susceptible to these kind of arguments that you've been making? >> you know, i just -- i can't speak on behalf of my colleagues. obviously we have conversations in private. and i do think that there is definitely support for funding programs like the breast and cervical screening program. i think that republicans can certainly acknowledge that

losing a 75% match is not the fiscally responsible thing to do. but at the end of the day, we are all elected by a constituency. and so my colleagues are making votes and making policy decisions based on the people that elect them. and i make policy decisions and take the votes that i take based on the folks that elect me. so, i mean, there are discussions, but at the end of the day, we answer to -- we answer to people who come out and vote and we answer to our constituents. >> do you ever envision a time at which women's health issues as you describe them might end up going back to a being a less partisan issue? other than you, it has been very partisan. are you optimistic about that changing? >> i am very optimistic. i don't feel alone on this issue.

i may be the only republican that votes against certain unconstitutional abortion restrictions, but i have got the support of thousands of men and women that come out to the polls and elect me. i'm in my third term. i've won three republican primaries, two of which were contested. i've won three general elections, all three of which were contested. i receive e-mails and calls of support from men and women, not only in my district and throughout the state, but throughout the country. in fact, the majority of those correspondence are from self-proclaimed republicans saying thank you for expressing what we believe to be is the true republican core philosophy. personal freedom, individual responsibility and limited government. i do my very best to try to remember that philosophy, and be consistent in how i vote.

not everyone is perfect. i'm sure anyone could find a place where it may not have been 100% consistent. but i do my best, but i certainly don't feel alone. i feel very optimistic. >> sarah davis from texas, i've so enjoyed talking to you tonight. please tell your fellow texas republicans i would love to talk a lot of them. that there was no biting, it was a pleasant conversation. >> that's right. i will give you great reviews, and i'm sure you'll get lots of texas republicans. >> i'll hold you to it. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> all right. that was great. ahead, two mysterious crime sprees. one involving eggs, the other involving something much more disgusting than eggs. please stay with us. in just this one moment, your baby is getting even more than clean. the scent, the lather, even the tiny bubbles of a johnson's® bath are helping to enhance the experience. the touch of your hands is stimulating her senses.

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these next two stories, oh, my god. in the cleveland, ohio suburb of euklid, there's a house that's been pelted by hundreds of eggs, hundreds of times. this poor gentlemen is 85-year-old albert clemens. his house has been egged on a regular basis, and it's been egged from blocks away with astounding accuracy. the eggs usually hit the front door, sometimes they hit mr. clemens or his family. one time a police officer got hit with an egg while standing in front of the house taking a report about the house being egged. somebody knows who is doing it

or where they're launching the eggs from, hundreds of times. and the local news is taking this very seriously. >> reporter: the family contacted us in january about the attacks on their home, and we set up a surveillance camera on the property. but the vandal has not struck since the weather turned cold. they fear the weather bomber will return when the weather breaks. >> they set up night vision cameras and everything. now, the same part of the country has another ongoing repeated super weird act of vandalism going on. it has provided me with the best evidence i've seen in a long time for the fact that local tv reporters really are american heroes. this is amazing. please stay with us. it's next. please. you won't regret it.

i swear this is not made up, and i should warp you, viewer discretion is advised. >> now to a story many of you

may find disturbing and disgusting. i know we did here at channel 3. a man in akron wanted by police for defecating on cars. >> this is something that has been going on for a while. it has a neighborhood frightened and concerned. >> did you say defecating on cars? please go on. >> reporter: in the castle homes neighborhood, there was a game going on. a game rob brunson never knew he was part of. >> they play the blame game. now we realize no one knows who this person is. >> reporter: who was defecating on car hoods and mirrors, and in his case, his kid's toys. >> my mother-in-law came out and it was on there. so we had to sanitize it. >> reporter: most would not file police reports. >> oh we go back to about may of 2012, we find 19 reported incidents. >> reporter: a huge number of

incidents, including rob's, went unreported. how many times would you guess at a minimum you've done this? >> at least 100. >> reporter: this resident, who asked not to be identified, counts plenty of incidents on his walk alone. >> he asked not to be identified. and then there's a break in the case. >> reporter: you said, i'm going to catch this guy. and overnight last night you got him. >> i took 2,000 photos last night. >> bent over, pants down and he's going to defecate. >> what is your message? >> we've got a sick puppy out there. >> reporter: make no mistake, there are jokes at every turn on this story. we heard them from police to the victims to people asking us what we're doing down here tonight. >> there are jokes at every turn, but they will not be distracted by them.

they are heroes. and their viewers are lucky to have them on such a stinky story. good luck, ohio. good luck ohio. "first look" is up next. good friday morning everybody. right now on first look the man hunt for the ferguson shooter heats up as the attorney general lets loose on the gunman. >> this was a punk who was trying to sell discord an an area that is trying to get its act together. in. >> a massive cyclone is posing a deadly dilemma plus death defying testimony and video revealed in the boston marathon trial. in a caught on tape moment as a woman is thrust through a plate glass window and president obama faces the critics with mean