begins now. >> i do the monkey picking stocks. i don't watch basketball. >> the monkey picking stocks always wins. >> i pick the mascots i think might win in fake fight between the mascots. >> i literally saw a bracket today, there's a team in the bracket named wolford. w-o-l-f-o-r-d. i never heard of that. >> all the way. they're going all the way. >> thanks to you at home as well for staying with us for the next hour. happy march madness. happy monday. today we learned about a thing that democrats and republicans agree on. this is the first time ever that both parties have agreed this much about this one thing. it's really interesting. it's a new gallup poll out today. in this gallup poll we learned democrats and republicans agree that they very much dislike both democrats and republicans. yay! look at this. neither major party cracks 40% favorability in latest poll.

this is the only time the first time since gallup started tracking the parties' images this way in 1992 that neither party has gotten to 40%. and you can see the way that it's changed for the two parties over time. this is favorable opinion for the democratic party in blue and the republican party in red. both parties have their ups and downs. 2005 was a particular low for the democrats. that was after john kerry failed to beat george w. bush in the presidential election in '04. only 46% of republicans viewed democrats favorably that year. it was an okay year for republicans. republicans were up at 56%. that was more than reversed in 2009 after president obama was re-elected. look republicans all the way down at 34%. but the democrats were way up at 55%. so there have been times in our history when one party dipped way down below 40%, but that usually meant people were just being drawn to the other party.

so one party goes down below 40%, the other goes way up. that's the way it's worked for a quarter of a century until now. now only 37% of americans have a favorable opinion of republicans. a whopping 39% have a favorable opinion of democrats. nobody gets above 40%. that has never happened before. congratulations modern american politicians. america dislikes you in historically epic terms. and those numbers come on the heels of another poll out late last week also from gallup that showed when you ask people what do you think is the most important problem facing this country today? look at the answers. the percentage of people who answered that race relations is our most important problem is 4%. the situation in iraq and with isis, also 4% of people think that's the most important problem facing america today. the state of our education system, the proportion of americans who think education is the most important problem in

the country. that's 6%. immigration, most important problem in the country, that's 7%. unemployment, 10% of the country thinks that's the most important problem facing this country today. but by far the highest percentage of respondents when you ask americans who is the most important problem facing america today? the highest percentage of respondents say that biggest problem in the country is the government. the biggest problem facing our country today is that our government is terrible. dissatisfaction with the government, problem numero uno by a mile. so like whatever the opposite is of this feeling. that is how americans feel about our major political parties and and our government as a whole. the opposite of how snow white is feeling right there. just terrible. terrible. but, you know, there is a cure for this. it exists.

i think there are probably, depending on who you are, many kinds. of cures for this depression and cynicism. here's the cure that is really important in today's news. this little girl. with the pigtails, pigtail braids there in the glasses. she grew up in the 1960s in durham, south carolina. little african-american girl growing up in south carolina in the 1960s. she went to a mostly white elementary school. as a little black girl at the mostly white elementary school she did so well on standardized testing that the school asked her to take the test again. they did not believe that she could do as well as she did on that test and so they asked her to tame it again. undaunted she took the test again and got an even better score than she did the first time. 19777 that same little girl went on to become the valedictorian of her high school class but her high school in durham south carolina, got nervous it they named a black student to be the valedictorian by herself it

might cause a social uproar, might upset people. even though she was the valedictorian her high school made her share being the valedictorian with two other kids so there would be less focus on her, less upsetting for everyone. but she was the valedictorian. she was number one. she went on to harvard as an under grad, she stayed at harvard for law school. she excelled. when she graduated from harvard law, this little girl had to prove to her elementary school that she really was as smart as she was. she got a super fancy high-paying job at a private law firm. she stayed at that private law firm for six years or so. before she quit. and she did quit that fancy private law firm job. she quit and took her harvard degrees and she decided that she wanted to use her education and her experience to instead go work for the government. to go work for this country. to do that she took a 75% pay cut from her fancy law firm job. a 75% voluntary pay cut to go work for the u.s. attorney's

office for the eastern district of new york. because that work that work as a public servant was more meaningful to her than the cash that she was raking in at this private law firm. at the u.s. attorney's office she has had just an incredible career. she prosecuted one of the most high profile police abuse cases in new york city history. she won terrorism cases one after the other including against a man who planned to blow up the federal reserve. she busted a big, scary story. it was a ring of convenience store owners. this criminal ring that was bringing immigrants into the country and then using them at convenience stores as slave labor. she exposed that and busted it up. she was also known, famously known, for prosecuting corrupt politicians. like pedro espada and william boylan jr., both new york state democrats. she prosecuted them both. she also prosecuted republican

congressman michael grim. this star prosecutor who could be making bank at some private law firm somewhere who previously had, she gave that up because she wanted to do meaningful work serving her country and has been good at everything she's done. she as a prosecutor excelled at prosecuting corrupt public officials, the kinds of public officials who make people hate public officials. her life's work has really embodied public service as a noble pursuit. she was and is the best our country has to offer. she's had an unimpeachable career as a government employee and public servant. but despite all that history, we apparently are not going to be allowed to have her as our next attorney general because congress won't vote on her. they won't hold a vote on her. it's not that they will vote no, they won't allow her to be voted on. she, of course is loretta lynch, currently the head of that eastern district of new york office where she started all those years ago. she's now the u.s. attorney for

the eastern district of new york. she was nominated to be attorney general by president obama four months ago. she would replace eric holder as our next attorney general. if the senate would ever allow a vote on her nomination. she was nominated for attorney general back before president obama nominated ash carter to be the next defense secretary. president obama nominated loretta lynch and then he nominated ash carter. the two of them both sailed through their confirmation hearings. there have been no substantive objections to either of them but you want to know the difference between them? the difference between them now is he has already been confirmed as defense secretary, and is working as our nation's defense secretary. she's still waiting for a vote. he's been confirmed long enough already that he's already started delaying the end of one of our wars. the war in afghanistan. ash carter is on the job and unending wars anywhere. loretta lynch, she's not even had a vote in the senate.

sme she is still waiting. and now senate republicans say they're not going to vote on her nomination until democrats give in on a totally unrelated piece of legislation that has nothing to do with her and that both parties are fighting about right now in congress. republicans are holding her nomination hostage on that unrelated matter. you know, when you read about this on its merits inexplicable treatment of loretta lynch by republicans though they admit they have nothing substantive against her, when you read these stories, there's always a mention of ed meese's name keeps popping up in these stories about what's happening with loretta lynch right now. she has waited the longest for a vote of any attorney general nominee ever in history except for ed meese. "the last to undergo such a lengthy confirmation process was ed meese." you keep seeing that reference everywhere. here's the thing about president reagan's nominee for attorney general edwin meese. a special court appointed independent counsel had to

investigate ed meese while awaiting a senate vote on his attorney general nomination because he failed to disclose some special interest-free loans he received on his financial disclosure forms. there were allegations he'd given jobs to people who had done financial favors for him and, and, and, and, and. that humiliating lengthy detailed investigation into his potential ethical misdeeds that was the reason ed meese had to wait so long for a vote as attorney general. and in the end this court-appointed independent counsel issued an almost 400 page report in which he found ed meese had no committed crimes but the report, "declined to evaluate his ethical qualifications for holding such a high office." can we agree we should not be comparing ed 400 page ethics report meese with loretta lynch about whom there's not an ethical peep? these are not the same. ed meese had to wait a long time for a vote. for a reason. for a real reason about him. there is no reason why loretta

lynch is still waiting and why we as a country are still waiting. loretta lynch is the embodiment of what it should mean to be a selfless public servant. the fact that she exists her life's work is the antidote to all that polling about how much americans dislike our government right now. but in this particular iteration of washington that we suffer through right now, how our government is functioning right now, none of that seems to be making any difference right now. just amazeing. joining us now, senator chuck schumer. third ranking democrat in the united states senator. senator schumer, thank you so much for being here. >> good evening. >> senator mcconnell says there will not be a vote to confirm loretta lynch as attorney general until an unrelated bill on human trafficking is resolved. do you take him at his word that there would even be a vote on her allowed at that point? >> who knows. we were totally befuddled when he withdrew his promise to vote on loretta lynch this week.

there's no good reason as you said. i sat through the hearings. they didn't lay a glove on her. she was perfect. one of the best witnesses i've seen. her record is exemplary. they've not found a single thing wrong with loretta lynch and keep coming up with excuses as to why they won't go for her and it just is disgraceful. there's a human trafficking bill on the floor. we need an attorney general to look at human trafficking. we have isis and terrorism and all these things. we need an attorney general to deal with this and they are holding her up. i'll tell you one thing, rachel mitch mcconnell came in bragging that he'd govern. they can't even pass a trafficking bill and now they can't even pass or put on the floor of the senate an exemplary nominee no one has a word of criticism about. and i know her. i recommended her to the president -- to president clinton back in '99. then she was so good i recommended she come back again in 2009. she's been one of the best u.s.

attorneys we've ever had, and, again, she has a long record and they can't find one thing of fault with her. one thing. >> senator schumer, one of the things that has sort of befuddled me about this is that the objections to her seem to not be about her. seem to not be about her record or her answers to the committee. they were raised objections about president obama's immigration policyies or about this unrelated bill about trafficking which also has nothing to do. why pick her as the nominee to hold up in protest of the unrelated things? why not stall ash carter or judicial nominees? why her? >> well, that's a great question. one thing you can be sure of, it's not due to her qualifications, who she is her views, how good an attorney general she'd be. none of them dispute that. you have to ask yourself why, and there are a lot of different explanations. >> senator schumer, do you have faith in your own strategy in the democrat strategy more broadly, the white house strategy, to try to pressure the republicans into allowing a vote

and trying to pressure them into making this happen? >> yes. absolutely. i believe she eventually will be confirmed, but this is just -- it shows how for all the claims that they know how to govern, they don't know they've had not one good week since we've come back. they let their hard right wing pull them in all kinds of different directions. on the trafficking bill. that should have been an easy bill to pass. it was bipartisan. they snuck in an expansion of the hyde amendment. here with loretta lynch who they promised to put on the floor, they can't even get their act together to do that. and my guess is that the hard right wing is pulling at mcconnell, pulling at boehner and making it impossible for them to govern because the hard right wing has no idea of how no governor do they even care. the good news, rachel? this builds the case the republicans shouldn't be in charge and helps us win the presidency in 2016 take back the senate and if they keep this

up, even the house. >> one last question for you on strategy on this. the delay on loretta lynch's nomination is starting to get traction as a political outrage story because there aren't any substantive objections to her. if there does start to be a large external source of pressure on this if activists groups and interest groups start pushing for this do you think that would make it more likely or less likely that a vote would eventually come through? right now she's been seen as not only a noncontroversial, but totally nonpartisan cause. if people start pushing for her, do you think that makes a stronger push back? >> you know, because they have nothing bad to say against her, they can't find a single thing, the think the pressure from these groups will actually help, not hurt. the more this issue was highlighted, the more it's shown that most americans, many americans just object to this kind of behavior of the republicans. the more it will help. i would encourage groups to push forward, write and call their senators.

again, because this nominee is so uncontroversial, is so excellent, is so outstanding, the more focus it gets the quicker her confirmation will be. >> senator chuck schumer, thank you for being with us tonight, sir. i appreciate it. >> thanks, rachel. >> i should tell you i said loretta lyn kprrksch went to durham high school in durham. she did go to durham high school in durham in durham north carolina not durham, south carolina. i attribute that to it being monday. ng... i felt so secure. i really enjoy the pep in its step... that's the ecoboost... the new image of ford now looks really refined. i drove the fusion... and i never went back. escape was just right. just announced, make the switch to ford and get $750 competitive owner cash on top of other offers at your local ford dealer. alright, so this tylenol arthritis lasts 8 hours, but aleve can last 12 hours...

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90210. which is you know the zip code that you want in beverly hills but you just didn't want suzy's neighborhood. >> that was a clip from the conclusion of the hbo documentary series "the jinx" which aired on hbo last night. there was a very dramatic development that took place yesterday just before that em soedaired involving the man in that clip. there are late developments tonight on this very strange story that's developing very rapidly right now and that's just ahead. stay with us.

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hooray, you have a healthy brain. inside that brain is the machinery that makes you you. you with your thoughts and your memories and impulse and habits. all of it right there. that's a normal brain. now look at this. this is a picture of what is not a normal brain. because as you can see in this picture, this brain has a giant hole in it. that big dark spot on the upper left side. the brain you see here is missing 20% of its frontal lobe. frontal lobe is the part of the brain that helps us make decisions about right and wrong and allows us to control our impulses. they say the frontal lobe is the home of executive function. by which you get to the boss of yourself, you get to control yourself, the frontal lobe. this brain is missing 20% of the frontal lobe. missing a little less than 8% of its overall mass. a big chunk of that brain is just gone. kind of scary to see, right? that's a living person. and that wrecked looking brain belongs to this living man. he's a prisoner on death row in

missouri. his name is ceasecil clayton. he lost a big chunk of his brain in a saw mill accident in 1972. he was running a saw and a chunk of wood broke free from the saw and smashed through his skull. surgeons did emergency brain surgery. they were able to save his life but they had to cut out a fifth of his frontal lobe in order to save him. after that accident, cecil clayton's i.q. plummeted to the level of being disabled. he apparently began hallucinating, hearing voices. he had trouble controlling his anger. at one point he asked to be hospitalized. years later, more than 20 years later in 1996 on the night before thanksgiving that year cecil clayton killed a police officer in southwest missouri. the officer was responding to a domestic violence call. mr. clayton shot the officer at close range while he was still in his patrol car. seems like it happened fast. the officer was still not only in his control car, he still had

his seat belt fastened and the car running and his gun was still in his holster. for that violent and terrible crime, cecil clasen was sentenced to death. he's been in prison ever since. the oldest man on death row in missouri at the age of 74. since he has been in prison he and his brain with the giant hole in it have been evaluated over and over by experts both from the state and for his own defense team. interestingly, he has never had a hearing, a formal hearing, to determine whether he is competent enough to undergo execution. to determine literally whether he legally has the brain to be able to understand what's happening to him and why. in missouri a person can't legally executed if as a result of a mental disease or defect he lacks capacity to understand the nature and purpose of the punishment about to be imposed upon him. cecil clayton's lawyers say yeah he's absolutely incompetent by that definition because of his terrible brain injury but he has never had an

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on january 31st, 1979 a student at hope college, janet chandler, was working the front desk at her hotel job when she was abducted raped and murdered. she was 22 years old. that brutal case remained unsolved for 25 years. the police had no suspects. nobody to arrest. 24 years after she was abducted in 2003 a group of journalism students at hope college in holland, michigan started to make a documentary about her case. about this cold case killing in an effort to re-explain just what happened to try to answer the case's unanswered questions, the students at hope college interviewed family members, interviewed local law enforcement about the investigation. and they did a documentary about it and their documentary aired on the local public tv station

25 years to the day after janet chandler's body had been discovered. and that documentary sparked renewed interest in the case. police re-opened their investigation. they assigned four detectives to work on the case who started traveling across the country. they conducted over 300 interviews. that documentary paired with renewed and amped up police effort ultimately led to six people being convicted in janet chandler's death. more than a quarter century after she had been killed. it was just an amazing thing. it was also a very rare thing. a more famous example of documentary investigation changing the course of a murder case is errol morris' "the thin blue line," a phenomenal piece of film making and one of the most influential documentaries ever made about a murder of a dallas police officer and the conviction of randall adams in that police officer's death. the interviews and evidence

errol morris collected in the course of making the film led to randall adams' conviction being thrown out and his release from jail after 12 years behind bars. you've heard of hbo's hit documentary series with the paradise lost" which began as a documentary as the west memphis three, three teenagers in west memphis, arkansas convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 1994 for the deaths of 3 kids who were murdered in west memphis. the three-part documentary kept that case in the public eye for 15 years. that public attention and the hard questions about the convictions in that case spurred people across the country to push for those convictions to be overturned ultimately after almost two decades behind bars. the prosecuteors in arkansas struck a deal with the west memphis three that secured their re release from jail in 2011. now today the only thing anybody has been talking about all day today is the three deaths two of which have never been solved

that have a connection between them a man named robert durst. robert durst has long been suspected but never charged in the disappearance of his wife kathy, in 1982. in 2000 his friends and de facto spokesperson susan berman was found dead in her los angeles department. 2003, robert durst was charged but acquitted in the gruesome death of his neighbor morris black, in galveston, texas. mr. durst admitted to dismembering morris black's body but was acquitted of murdering him. after arguing in court he only shot mr. black in self-defense. three years ago robert durst approached filmmakers andrew jarecki and asked if he could work with them to tell his story. agreed to participate in a documentary about him that they called "the jinx." his decision to participate in that hbo documentary led prosecutors in los angeles to re-open their case in the death of susan berman the woman who was shot to get in her los

angeles apartment in 2000. hours before the final episode in this documentary series was scheduled to hair last night on hbo, hours before robert durst was arrested in new orleans by fbi agents. in the final episode that aired last night with him in custody, the filmmakers explained handwriting evidence they found that they contend may link robert durst to susan berman's death. the filmmakers interviewed mr. durst about that handwriting evidence on camera. basically con fronting him with the evidence and challenging him to explain it. they also last night played this audio which i'll play here in just a moment. the audio was recorded after the interview while mr. durst was in the bathroom off camera, but still wearing his microphone. >> there it is. you're caught. what the hell did i do?

killed them all, of course. >> did he mean that literally? that tape played last night on hbo has been headlined as robert durst's confession to having killed the three people whose deaths that he has links to. it is absolutely unclear as to whether that actually was intended as a confession, and whether a court would view it that way, or whether a court would admit it as any kind of evidence. there's also a question of when that happened. the filmmaker said over two years passed between when robert durst made that statement and when they actually found the audio and realized what it was. after robert durst's arrest in new orleans this weekend, just tonight, law enforcement authorities in los angeles have announced that they are charging robert durst with first-degree murder in the death of susan berman. it does not happen often that a criminal case and documentary

effort get so intwined that it's hard to tell them apart. but that is what is happening here. joining us now for the interview, a man who knows some of these things documentary filmmaker, joe, his paradise lost trilogy helped lead to the release of the west memphis three. thanks for being here. >> my pleasure. >> i know every film is different, every filmmaker is different and works differently. i wanted to ask you about the specific question about handing over information to the police. recognizing that you're working on something that may affect either an ongoing investigation or an investigation that ought to be in law enforcement hands. when you're working on a real case, not just a story, but a real case, how do you make those decisions? >> it's very conflicting. sometimes as we know police and prosecutors get it wrong. with the west memphis three they got it wrong. with the 325 dna exonerations we've had, you know, since d narksna has been invented, 20 of which are death row, people have

gotten it wrong. there's a tension between doing your own investigation and not impeding upon an ongoing investigation. i don't know the facts surrounding andrew jarecki's work. i think it's a triumph of television. last night's finale was an amazing moment. but it does raise troubling issues that i think we as a documentary community, you know need to address. and i can only speak for when i'm confronted with the situation what we chose to do. for example, in "paradise lost" in the original film we were -- it was just -- we had been embedded in the community for about nine months prior to the start of the first trial. right before the first trial was about to begin we were given under bizarre circumstances a bloody knife. now, these children had been stopped repeatedly with a serrated knife that was consistent with the knife that we were given. we opened the knife up in our hotel room and saw blood embed embedded in the hinge. so we were confronted with this moral dilemma. i mean, the moral dilemma was

gee, if we report this to hbo, this might shut down the film. but what do we do as good citizens? of course, we decided pretty quickly we had to inform hbo and shelan evans, the head of documentaries called us back to new york. we had a meeting. i think very quick he we all realized that good citizenship trumps whatever the outcome of our film may be. we were concerned that you know so much about documentary making is about establishing trust and building a rapport and if we betrayed our subject by turning over a piece of evidence that they had given us we were concerned that that would have serious ramifications to the film but we decided we need to you know not interfere with an ongoing potential murder trial. you know, by withholding evidence. so we made the quick decision to turn it over and as it turns out, we navigated that and in fact, that incident is in the film. but we felt very much so that it could shut the film down. i would like to think in 2015

remember that was 1993 i would like to think in 2015 if that meeting were to happen between hbo and ourselves that we would all collectively come to the same decision. i think what's been missing from this dialogue is -- today -- is that i think there has been an ongoing erosion of the line between fiction and reality, between investigation and entertainment. and i get notes for the various networks that i work for all the time about making it more entertaining. so when we do -- so when we do things like selectively withhold information until the right dramatic moment or we do stylized recreations of incredibly painful events for those that you're recreating those events for, when you put yourself on camera as an on-camera investigator filmmaker, investigator, guilty as charged, these are things that i think erode the sanctity of the journalism.

that's where we've been heading, you know? i don't know what the answer is. i mean, again, "the jinx" is an amazing piece of cinema and amazing television moment and has had, you said your opening, it's rare documentarians can feel the direct impact of their work. so it's an amazing moment and yet i am concerned about, you know, where this blurring of the line between fiction and entertainment, between, you know -- there's a fine line between investigation and exploitation. there's a fine line between balanced journalism and trial by television. >> yeah. >> these are issues that i don't have the answer to but i think this case has brought into -- today events brought into focus. >> because of the way this has landed, the power of well-produced documentary film to present an un-rebutted case. >> yeah. >> you know? that is your view of the world and the facts as you understand them as a filmmaker is a very,

very powerful thing when you're dealing with live suspects and live cases, it's daunting. >> yeah. >> well it's great to have you here. joe, "paradise lost" trilogy. which was, of course seminal in its own right. even with that -- even without considering its effect on that real-life case. thanks for being here. >> thank you appreciate it. lots still to come tonight including a missing corpse that everybody is happy about. everybody is happy that it's missing. and also some defunction junction. stay with us. we went around the country talking to people who made the switch to ford. the brand more people buy. and buy again. all-wheel drive is amazing... i felt so secure. i really enjoy the pep in its step... that's the ecoboost... the new image of ford now looks really refined. i drove the fusion... and i never went back. escape was just right. just announced, make the switch to ford and get $750 competitive owner cash on top of other offers at your local ford dealer. i'm not sick. i'm not sick.

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information. he lost a security clearance. he's theoretically facing prison time though it looks like he'll get probation. but still, general petraeus to plead guilty. all that a surprise today when it was reported general petraeus, fresh off this planned guilty plea is apparently back in d.c. consulting with the white house on the fight against isis in iraq? that can't be true, can it? [ ding ] true. white house press secretary josh ernest confirmed that the today in his daily briefing. >> he is regarded as an expert in it comes to the security situation in iraq. so i think it's, it makes a lot of sense for senior administration officials to on occasion consult him for advice. >> and any particular security precautions that you take on this situation given his legal entanglements? >> not that i'm aware of. >> not that i'm aware. general petraeus has been stripped of his security clearance, agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor,

potentially has to pay a $40,000 fine and maybe even go to jail. in the meantime he's consulting with white house on what to do in iraq. are they letting him see classified information? that is a thing that is happening right now in real life. [ ding ] thank you. next up. true or false? a new york congressional candidate is campaigning for that seat in congress by promising that he will not post naked photos of himself online. is that a real-life campaign pledge? true or false? [ ding ] also true. yes. his name is daniel donovan. he's the new york republican congressional candidate campaigning on the pledge that he is too old to know how to put a naked photograph of himself on the internet. new york congressmen have recently been plagued by a string of embarrassing scandals. shirtless craigslist hunk chris lee, nonconsensual staff tickle monster, anthony weiner.

he wants to win the michael grimm seat. and he's campaigning on the promise that he's too old to be too gross. and i'm not paraphrasing the campaign pledge. >> we are just hours away from when the people of israel voice their vote on whether netanyahu should stay in office. >> a stunning, hollywood ending. >> tonight durst is behind bars in new orleans. >> what the hell did i do? >> already acquitted of one