matters more from a standpoint -- >> yeah it's about what looks good. the "rachel maddow show" starts now. >> happy friday to you. this is the week when democrats started expressing public anxiety with her apparently having already locked up the nomination already. with a little political wobble that derived this week from the "new york times" revelations about her personal e-mail account as secretary of state with the media losing their mind about that story. what the clinton camp perceived today have responded slowly and

rag ragidly. with all of that going on this week, the democrats started to forget. maybe it should be amy klobauchar. how about elizabeth warren? how about mike bloomberg? there is jim webb, martin o'malley. so the conversation this week was not about those guys it was like somebody call michael ben net. how about mark warner, mike bebe he a democrat right? jean shaheen. none of those people are running for president, and there is no sign that any of them will run for president, but as the beltway press lost their minds on the clinton e-mail this week

this was the democratic freakout fallout from that media frenzy. it was novel and interesting. we have not seen that kind of freakout from the left. but when that public freakout finally happened this week, it was not the most coherent discussion. it was noise, interesting noise. while all of that was happening, there was all of that hubbub in the press. this week the republican field for president seems to have shrunk by one very high profile contender. there was this one politico story about the chris christie folks holding a closed door meeting in dc to try to reassure power players that he is still running. there was that one story.

their stated concern, what has been written up thus far in the beltway press for the christie would be campaign, which is money. chris christie's big advantage for running for president was supposed to be that he could lock up all the big wall street money. turns out that money is going to jeb bush instead of chris christie. so his whole big picture strategy had to be rethought. it is late already to be thinking about something like that for a run for the presidency. so the fact that jeb bush stole all of chris christie's donors it has to be seen as strike one. that much the press has figured out. strike two and three have already happened to chris christie. one of the two strikes is this guy. chris christie was never going

to win iowa or even do well in iowa. it is just too conservative there for guys like chris christie. he would have to make his big stand in new hampshire. so he hatched a brilliant plan. he has a young genius political staffer. this is matt mauers. he agreed to leave right after christie was reelected in 2013. they left team christie and moved to new hampshire. so ace in the hole right? christie sent his own guy to new hampshire to become the executive director of the new hampshire republican party. just in time to start wiring the state for chris kristy. and chris christie needs new hampshire. a genius move right? until the bridge thing screwed

it up. it turns out the boy genius that chris christie dispatched is also the genius he sent to ft. lee, new jersey. the town that was gridlocked on purpose for nearly a week. all right, remember time for some traffic problems in ft. lee and they shut town lanes of traffic on the george washington bridge. that matter of course is still the subject of a pending from investigation by the federal prosecutor in new jersey. that scandal is still looming. exactly what happened in that scandal, why it is still mostly unexplained -- the only working political theory for why they might have purposely shut down those bridge lanes is fear of

retaliation for ft. lee's mayor. they asked him to endorse governor christie for reelection. the governor said no. the person that made those overtures to ft. lee's mayor was this guy. it was the guy who chris christie then sent to new hampshire to take over the state republican party there and set him up to win the presidential nomination in 2016 starting with winning new hampshire. once he was tapped matt mauers was subpoenaed in new jersey. he was right in the center of that scandal. he played the role of asking for the endorsement. right now the working political theory is that endorsement, and the guy saying no to the request

for that endorsement is what kicked the whole thing off. because that scandal is unresolved, obviously that guy at the center of the scandal cannot be the face of chris christie. he can't be the face of the christie campaign in new hampshire. turns out he is. apparently there was no plan b. chris christie just hired the bridgegate subpoena guy. the guy at the center of the alleged bridgegate plot. he just hired that guy to return his new hampshire operation. apparently there was no plan b. there was no other idea. that might have been fine if bridgegate were case closed but the case is open at the attorney's office in new jersey and it looms over his political prospects. so yeah, there is the money

thing with jeb bush getting all of his donors, there is the bridge problem. it is now front and center for him in new hampshire, and there is strike three that looks like this. this is "the daily show with jon stewart" last night talking about him for the strange and unexplained exxon deal still being made public in new jersey. here is chris christie in new jersey on thursday. being drilled about this strange and unexplained exxon deal. here is governor christie in florida giving a keynote address, all the way down the coast in florida and what does he get asked about? he gets asked about the straing

exxon deal just made public in new jersey. here today, local residents today holding an event to make public complaints and ask public questions about the new and still unexplained and strange exxon deal that people are starting to lauren about in new jersey. it is the deal where the state of new jersey was suing exxon for $9 billion. billion with a b. they dumped and leaked tons and tons and tons of toxic chemicals into new jersey wetlands. it has become a nation nalal joke that when you drive from new

york city to new jersey you drive past it and it stinks. that is most people's welcome to new jersey. the refinery site is a toxic dump. exxon admitted it decades ago. they are lanecleaning it up. this lawsuit was not about the clean up, itself, it was about compensating the state for the challenges that exxon had done. the state asked for $9 billion. they were in the trial all last year. it's been in the courts for 11 years. the judge was due to rule the state for 11 years asked for $9 billion. at the last minute the christie administration asked the judge to please not rule because they were negotiating an out of court settlement. they twice asked the judge to

hold off on his expected ruling. and then the "new york times" published a report about this that landed like a bomb shell. the state was asking for $9 billion, and they settled for $250 million. at first the times report it'd would be $250 million. then it was reported that governor christie's counsel was directly involved in the settlement talks. the governor's office. then they announced the settlement amount publicly turns out it wasn't even it was $225 million. then the times did the senate on the attorneys fees on the case and they found that new jersey would not even get $225 million, it would be more like $180 million. around this time people in new jersey started saying hey, where

is my $9 billion from exxon? and chris christie has been getting asked about it. he says this is a great deal so far. people should be excited about it. there is unexplained questions about why didn't they let the judge rule. what should the state have expected to get if they had not settled for this unexpectedly small amount of money. why did their office intervene in what was being worked on by the attorney general's office. after 11 years they get the encroachment from the governor's office and then there is a settlement? what is up with that? there is simple easy to understand, open questions about this exxon deal and questions that go unanswered are questions that keep getting asked. particularly when someone is trying to run for president. and we now know what became clear this week what became clear today, specifically is this thing is not going away any

time soon. this will go on for awhile. >> the legal argument is that it is arbitrary and caprious. it will be a public comment period on april 9th. when the settlement is published in the new jersey record. and that will give us standing to appeal a decision that is ultimately made. i made two requests. the first one is due today. what are the chances of them giving me anything today? if i have to go -- i don't expect anything but we'll go to court to make sure we get all of those documents. >> so here we go public records

requests. why did you arrive at that settlement public comment period? what are you, the new jersey public, think about this settlement. people participate so they can get standing, so they can sue at the end of the public comment period when the judge decides whether or not this exxon deal is bogus. they have lawsuits against chris christie and this deal. what happened to new jersey's $9 billion. what did they do to get this 90% off deal when it comes to the stinking hell gate. bridgegate is still not over and chris christie just put it front and center in his effort as he is running for president and he needs to do well. the exxon thing is getting bigger, not smaller, it is

guaranteed to stretch on for months unless someone comes up with answers to these big, obvious questions that chris christie is being asked about in new jersey and around the country. and look at his numbers. this just came out this week. sort of a no pressure poll right? could you potentially see yourself supporting a particular candidate some time in the future. could you see yourself supporting this person? 57% of voters nationwide said at no time in the future could they imagine themselves ever supporting chris christie for president. 57%. all of these other potential candidates scored higher than

him. the only candidate they dislike more than chris christie is donald trump. seriously. that is the territory that chris christie is in. the beltway press is i think, sometimes slow to adjust on these things because of what their conversation is about. donors money, and -- even beyond that. those poll numbers are shockingly low still sometimes considered a tier one candidate. and yeah, things charge. caucuses are still months away but this week voters freaked out about hillary clinton and the republican field very quietly rid itself of chris christie has a national contender. everyone expects a little baggage, but he looks sunk.

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i'm embarrassed for them. for them to address a letter to who they claim is our mortal enemy, and their argument is don't deal with our president because you can't trust him to follow through on an agreement. that is close to unprecedented. >> president obama in an interview with vice news. he says he is embarrassed for

the senators that wrote a letter to iran this week. i don't know if the signers of that letter are embarrassed themselves, but they have expressed regret or come with up excuses now. john mccain says maybe that wasn't the best way to do that. and republican staffers say the whole thing was supposed today be a joke. the administration has no sense of humor. they meant it to be a light hearted thing. we thought it would be cheeky. two different republicans given reporters that word cheeky. then senator mccain said it happened because it was snowing. it was kind of a very rapid process, everybody was looking forward to getting out of town because of the snowstorm. no one could concentrate because

of the snow so he signed whatever it was and got out of town -- makes it hard to think. that is how 47 senators sent a letter to letter. and senator john says it was addressed wrong. that darn zip code. as they try to claw this thing back. the editorial pages -- >> this puts republican senators on the same side. they say gop senators dumb distractive letter. they say it is a shameful stunt. senator tom cotton's home state

of arkansas is the senator that wrote the letter. they say if this letter is an example of cotton's leadership he has a lot to learn. there are dozens and dozens of these at editor yals across the country ripping what the senators did. what happens next? what is the impact here of this debacle, this debacle of an egg they laid this week. what happens to them. what happens to american foreign policy politics that everybody believes these guys just screwed this stunt up so badly. meanwhile the other radical thing they did was invite israel's prim minister to come speak on the subject subject of iran. republicans thought that his speech to congress would be really helpful to their cause. it does not seem to have changed

the dynamic here, but his chances of reelection in israel seem to have dropped considerably since that address. their elections are on tuesday. the latest poll out today shows he may not be reelected. he is down by four points. joining me now is steve clemmons. this letter this week from 47 republican senators, we're still talking about it at the end of the week which means it doesn't feel like another dumb thing that happened in congress. it feels like a big deal. was this enough of a big deal to potentially reorient things in washington at all? >> even though many people are backtracking on the letter it is highly consequent shl because tom cannoten has demonstrated something we have seen ted cruz and other colleagues do to

diminish from shutting down the government, not funding dhs, whatever it may be and they brought it into the sacred area of national security where bipartisanship has -- bipartisanship has been the norm. the one senator can disrupt things. i feel like they have opened a pandora's box. >> how does the reaction to the letter affect that? it is not just in democratic circles, but mainstream circles. i mean on the republican side did they not see this as a disaster even as everybody else

does? >> some see it in the g.o.p. and they're going to run into kornd er -- corners. mitch mcconnell gave space for people to not think about this and just sign up. tom cotton did something provocative. john mccain regretted signing that letter. people like bob corcoran that looks like the richard lugar of the day, whof respected the white house in the process, you have different camps in the gop that will go to war against here other. this is going to open up problems in the republican party and probably do damage to the nation as a whole. >> steve, on the issue of benjamin netanyahu in the wake of his controversial visit here controversial in israel and here leading up to his

reelection effort his poll numbers -- do you think this visit here ended up harming him at home? and if he ends up losing as prime minister how does that change things for them and for us? >> i think that many of the things netanyahu did here and also in the charlie hebdo, after the attacks in paris, made him look desperate in what he brought to the campaign. the problem with the israeli elections is if he party comes in number two, another one comes in number one and cannot form a government, you may see netanyahu back in the game. you should not overthink this until you see the election results. if he loses and he is not in i think it chaseenns the republicans a bit and the white house

restores that they're the designing edge of what is going on in foreign policy and it knocks back some of this irresponsibility that we have seen from the house and senate recently. >> steve clemmons great to see you. >> thank you. >> still ahead tonight, a big development in a story we have been tracking on the show for a very long time. a serious story. it's most specific to texas, but it has national implications. enough. you have made my life special by being apart of it. (everyone) cheers! glad you made it buddy. thanks for inviting me. thanks again my friends. for everything for all your help. through all life's milestones our trusted advisors are with you every step of the way. congratulations! thanks for helping me plan for my retirement. you should come celebrate with us. i'd be honored. plan for your goals with advisors you know and trust. so you can celebrate today and feel confident about tomorrow. chase. so you can. anyone have occasional constipation diarrhea, gas, bloating? yes!

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more smoothly. they have been going as planned. but the texas death penalty system is still in trouble. they're running out of the drugs they use to kill their prisoners. they only have enough for one more guy and they have a lot of guys they're planning to kill soon. how will they do it if they don't have the drugs? it is happening now in texas, but it is also happening in a bunch of states right now. there is no drug manufactured for the purpose of being used in a lethal injection. the prisons take drugs manufactured for other purposes and purposely misuse those drugs in a way that is intended to cause a person's death. but those drugs are not made for that. they are made tested and proved for sale for totally different purposes. and now increasingly, the companies that make those drugs being used in lethal injections

are refusing to sell them to prisons. the drug companies are objecting and they're increasingly refusing to go along with this process and it is making things very complicated. texas has just one dose left of what they like to use to kill people. they have half a dozen executions scheduled with times, dates, and everything but only enough drugs to kill one more person. texas has this problem. south carolina has it worse. they don't have any they ran out. georgia has had trouble getting them. at one point arizona was buying their drugs from a black market supplier that was operating from a driving school in london. states that wanted to carry out executions had to find special

compounding pharmacies to make home made versions of these drugs that no one will legally sell them. even the work arounds are getting harder now. so states are now turning to the back up plans for their back up plans. meet yellow mama from the alabama state excuse chair. the alabama state house voted to bring back the disused electric chair. if the state finds they can no longer get the drugs to carry out their lethal injections any more. in tennessee, they call their chair old sparky. in utah this week they decided prisoners should be killed by firing squad. they say it worked okay. the last time they did it it worked find if you didn't mind a little moving around when you have your employees shoot him.

>> there is a strap across his forehead, but i could see him moving his eyes. >> it was cleaner than i expected and it was fast. but he moved. he moved a little bit. >> some of us i think weren't sure if he had passed away because we could see movement. he had his fist clenched his elbow and his fingers rubbing against each other. >> that was the last time utah used a firing squad to kill a prisoner. now they have decided to reinstate the firing squad option if they can't get the drugs they want. gary herber has not decided whether or not to sign the firing squad bill. he says he finds it a little bit

gruesome. in texas, the back up plan prison officials have come up with now that they're down to their last dose within, they say if they can't get the preferred drug, they may switch drugs. they got 40 viles last summer of a different drug. and they will not say if they plan to use it for executions. texas officials told us they're exploring all of their options, we guess with killing people midazalam. it was used in a batch of boxed excuses. one time it took nearly two hours for the prisoner to die. and if they really do want to switch they have a new problem to contend with too.

in january, a drug company called akorn, they told the newspaper in alabama that they too, were taking steps to stop prisons from using their drug to kill people. they announced this new policy "to prevent the use of our products in capital punishment akorn will not sell any product to nip prison or correctional institution and we will restrict the sale of lethal injection protocols to use their best efforts to keep them out of correctional institutions." that was surprisesing for us. we asked akorn last year and they didn't have a policy. no sales of our drugs for executions, period. and get this this is the news here. they are also now asking for

their drugs back. look at this we have obtained this letter that the company akorn sent out to every state in the country that still does executions executions. it tells all of those states to please current whatever supply they still have. please return our products for a full refund. this is a big shift for the company and potentially a problem for a state like texas where the office covered with execution drugs is still bare, but they still have that other drug. we don't know if their supply came from akorn, but if it is then hey, state of texas, right now you're looking at a request from the company that they want it back. and so is alabama.

they too, have stockpiled that same drug. over the past few days we have been asking every company that makes midazolam about their policies on this. six of them told us they will not sell it for executions or allow it to be sold for excuses. three others have not responded but we think they will. the drug in question is now the subject of a u.s. supreme court challenge because of the spate of recent gruesome executions. they're expected to hear that case in the next few weeks. there is that to watch out for as well. in the meantime the next execution is scheduled for wednesday. if that happens, that will use up the last dose of the drug they have been using in that state to kill their prisoners one by one. when that drug is gone on wednesday, if texas wants to switch, nobody knows what will happen. legally, arableably morally, and

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it's the friday night news dump. who's playing tonight? >> tonight, we have amy black from san diego, california. she was brought up on politics. she loves all outdoor activities and she has a 9-year-old son named rex. rachel this is amy. >> amy black, very nice to meet you. >> rachel i am so excited to meet you. you are so awesome. >> oh i'm not at all, but i'm glad you've been duped into thinking so. when you say you were brought up on politics, what does that mean? >> that means my father was very like mom, staunch democrat very into political shows. he brought me up on "meet the press" and wall street week in review and i can't even date a republican. he's just so into that type of stuff. >> if you never need a doctor's note to excuse a date with a republican, just give me a call.

i'm not that kind of doctor. i'm going to ask you three questions. fif you get two or more of them right -- >> you will win the rachel maddow drink mixer. >> it's a tiny cocktail shaker. we also have an extra credit prize/consolation prize, which is something random we found in our office. tonight, we're giving you a choice between two particularly worthless prizes both of which are a little gross. nick what are they? >> the first one is this weird fingerless glove. >> that's awesome. >> it's plastic. we think it is. >> i think it's like a plaether. the other one is these two money bags. there's no money in them. this money bag and this money bag, and it's from a segment that we did way back when you were talking about cleaning money, where you would put one in the box. >> money laundering. >> and we have a little video for it.

>> so that's how we used it. as seen on tv. so you get to choose between those. we also need to bring in the disembodied voice of steve benin, the man who determines the rightness and wrongness of all things. steve, meet amy. >> good evening to you both. >> hi steve. >> ready for the first question? >> i am. >> tuesday's show. on tuesday's show we talked about the letter to iran in which 47 republican u.s. senators try to school iran's leaders about the u.s. constitution. we also reported that the president of iran holds a ph.d. from a highly regarded western university. so this is your question. where did iranian president rouhani get his ph.d.? a, sweden b, canada c, scotland, or d, cambridge, mass, he's a harvard guy.

>> i'll go with d. >> cambridge mass he's a harvard guy. did she get it right? >> let's check it out. >> they both some well known staff. the current president of iran got his ph.d. there in 1999. >> the correct answer is c, scotland. >> you know what? there are more chances ahead. including right now. don't worry. you only need two right to win the good prize. >> i want the cocktail shaker. >> keep hope alive, amy. this is from wednesday's show. on wednesday, we talked about former secretary of state hillary clinton turning over roughly 30,000 e-mails to the state department. how did she hand over those 30,000 e-mails? >> in paper! >> did she a, put them on a thumb drive b, deliver the hard

copy printouts, c forward them -- did you say in >> it's been. >> those messages must be printed out and filed. they can't handle it if you forward them to them. when it comes to e-mail the state department archives paper that are printouts of e-mails. >> this is the first time we ever had anyone jump in with the answer before hearing the options. but she is correct. >> correct with an exclamation point. your last question from last night's show. we reported towards the end of last night's show that one poor state is now beleaguered by two mysterious and gross unsolved repeated neighborhood attacks. if one community in the state, a house has been egged hundreds of times and nobody can tell where the eggs are coming from or how

to stop them. and in a community nearby in the same state, they are defecating on unparked cars. which state is this? is it a, oregon. b, utah. c, oklahoma. or d, ohio. >> it's ohio. >> steve, do you have the answer for us? >> let's check last night's segment. >> in the cleveland, ohio suburb of euclid there's a house that's been pelted my hundreds of eggs. >> a man in akron wanted by police for defecating on cars. >> poor ohio. amy is correct. >> did amy win the prize? >> she did! >> ahhh! >> and because you were the first person to ever jump in without the benefit of multiple choice, you get the other thing. would you want the glove or the

props? >> i want the money bags. >> we're going to send you amy "money bags" black, we'll send you that stuff. thank you so much. >> thank you. it was awesome. >> see, she came right back. if you want to play send us an e-mail, who are you, where are you from where do you want to play. that's all you need to tell us. there's cheap stuff in our office with your name on it. now go to prison. ♪ all victims were believed to be randomly selected, stopped by the killers, who were driving around asking directions, then gunning down the victims. >> the city is shocked by a murderous shooting spree on a major religious holiday.