american express' timeless safety and security are now available on apple pay. the next evolution of membership is here. happy friday to you. i don't own a car that can park itself but there are a lot of cars that can park themselves. take your hands off the wheel, your feet off the pedals. in some cases you take your hands off the wheel but leave your feet on the pedals. you somehow indicate to the car there is a parking spot you would like your car to get itself into. and shazam the car parks itself. the first technology was in 2003. toyota had a compact car that did this only in japan. but lexus was first in the u.s. now lots of cars can do it.

bmw has cars that do it. audi mercedes toyota ford lincoln. a lot of them have this self-parking ghost feature. cars have been able to drive without putting your foot on the gas pedal. a amc sold the first big american cars with cruise control start anything 1965. cruise control was widely available on a lot of different cars in the 1970s. i find it a little spooky to be behind the wheel of a car that you are not actively propelling forward. it just goes on its own. we are pretty much used to cruise control as a concept now. over the last few years, the concept of cruise control has pretty seamlessly evolved into what they call adaptive cruise control. yeah, you still just set the speed you want the car to go and it goes at that speed without touching the gas pedal.

but your car can also sense when there is a car in front of you in the lane and your car will sense that car ahead of you and then slow itself down to maintain a safe distance from the slow poke who just pulled in front of you in the lane. and now that cars have the capability of electronically sensing what cars are around them different car companies have been introducing various little features that basically let the car take over more and more parts of the more and more difficult parts of driving. there are car options available now where if you drift out of a lane, the steering wheel will shake itself to wake you up and get you back on the road. in some cars if the car has a feeling that you might want to be changing lanes sometime soon it will let you know by lights or other indicators if there is a car in your blind spot.

there should never be a blind spot directly in front of you. that works when you're reversing and work when you're moving forward. you don't see something but the car does, and the car makes the brakes come on. and cars can park themselves. which will always be creepy. now with all of those little evolutionary technology bench marks, it should probably not be surprising to see what it has come to, but it is still surprising to see this. >> we're on auto pilot mode now like cruise control. my hands are off of the wheel, my foot is off the act sell later and off the brake. the camera will read that 30 miles per hour sign, it will read the sign and navigate through the lane course. again, i'm not touching anything.

if will read 25 miles per hour sign, press the blinker to initiate a lane change. and it will sense the car up ahead, start slowing down, and once again i'm not touching anything. >> that is amazing. truly amazing. butt your foot on the brake, and back to driving yourself. >> i know, right? that is video from theverge.com. that is a reporter being given a preview of what they at tesla are calling the auto pilot feature in tesla model ss. we're used to cars that park themselves or cruise at a consistent highway speed, speed up, slow down, recognize traffic, go around curves, drive themselves? the idea of there being auto pilot for a car where you don't

have to drive and it takes you where you want to go. we're used to thinking that is like moon colonies. cars where you hit a button that says auto pilot and it drives you home without you driving. you always have a sense that they're working on bits and pieces of that, but it is apparently here, done, and ready to go. but this is the part that is kind of blowing my mind. cars that already exist today, cars that lots of people already own, will suddenly develop the auto pilot feature in the next few weeks. people whoa have the tesla model s are going to get a software update for their exists cars sometime this summer.

and that software update will include a little green button marked autopilot wherein if you hit it the car will drive itself. it's here. it's ready to go. sometime in the next few weeks. and yes, there are definitely questions about the law, a few states made it legal for cars to travel on their roads without drivers, but that is mostly for testing. so companies can do research and development in those states. but this software update this summer autopiloted cars will be owned and operable by regular, irish joe schmo tesla owners. the technology i'm thinking about is drones. technically nobody is allowed to fly drones in this country if is illegal in the united states, but they are very widely available to people from a couple hundred bucks on up and

people fly them for fun as part of their businesses, and for all sorts of good and stupid purposes. yes, it is illegal. cars driving themselves on auto pilot, that seems like it may fall into that same sort of hole in the wall that drones are in. the fact that it is illegal but ubiquitous anyway. and that is going to happen very soon. there are also questions about how widely people who have this technology will be able to use it. tesla says for right now, this feature will only be useful on major roads like highways and freeways. he said he is not sure the technology is safe enough for small suburban streets that have different signage, more variables of traffic.

but for your car being able to safely auto pilot your kids to school and back that is an incrementally technological matter of upgrades, right? that will happen pretty fast when people are knitting and doing their filing in the seat while their car drives themselves to work. this is about to happen. we don't know if this will become in our cars technology that is more normal than not like cruise control is now. or maybe it will be required like air bags and seat belts. in case it turns out robot driving is safer than human driving. there is always a possibility this will be a bust and people won't like it, and auto pilot will be the feature that you can make your can do, but not many people have it because not many people see a need for it, but

still, neat. this is one of those technologies, right? people can do this, cars can do this. neat. can do. not a lot of people use it. but cars that will drive you around without doing anything and this might be a we're tech flash in the pan, but it might change the ways that we get around and organize our physical space in this country. technological change of this source is almost always incremental. until all of a sudden cars don't have steering wheels any more. we're also seeing that kind of technological slippery slope

happen right now now all of a sudden in media and journalism. campaigning for office is supposed to be a retail business, right? politicians like to meet people, shake hands, kiss babies. they are skills that politicians have to have. they have to be able to glad hand and back slap. it means making physical appearances with your public. for political office, a big portion of people voting for or against you will never meet you in purpose. the candidates campaigns for office, everything they do trying to persuade people to vote for them is delivered through some sort of media filter. mainly the main stream news media. that means camera is, news feeds. professional correspondents chasing people through parking lots.

being asked to ride along on the bus or campaign plane. that is the traditional means by which most voters get access to politicians. that's how they form their impressions of candidates which lead to people to decide who they will vote for. candidates have always done what they can to have more control over what people see about them. for decades they have allowed approved documentary filmmakers to see -- make and see behind the scenes footage of their politics. they have shot their own footage. things supposed to seem kind of candid. in the last few news cycles, it's always become politics 101.

sending video trackers to events. maybe you want to repurpose is for an ad, put it on you tube, feed it out to the local media as a press release. you make sure you send a staffer to record the guy you're running against. in the hopes he might say something stupid on camera. >> this fellow over here with the yellow shirt, whatever his name is, he's with my opponent. he is following us around everywhere. let's give a welcome to him here. welcome to america and the real world of virginia. >> and then george allen was not in the senate. it was a tracker he was calling out with a racist epithet. and that was it for him. so running for office, campaigns for office, he or she knows that someone who wants to make them look bad could be filming them at the event. if they're smart they have someone from their side filming them too. if they're really interesting,

if they are running for a really big office, they know the news media will be there covering them to see if they look newsworthy. we also saw the dramatic impact of citizen cell phone video where not professional trackers, campaign staffers, but just average joes with the incredible photographic power of a cell phone who were able to capture moments on the campaign trail as they happened. and even though whoever shot the video didn't work for anybody, they didn't have skin in the game or an editor breathing down their neck, that individual who shot the footage recognized they caught something newsworthy and fed it to a news organization or uploaded it online and waited for the fire storm to hit.

mitt romney's 47% remarks from the 2012 election shot by bartender. someone might have a cell phone running. if they believe, if that person believes that something that the candidate said is inflammatory, dangerous, or news worthy, that person will take that tape they recorded on their phone, upload it to the internet, link to it online. tell everybody what they think. candidates know that now. but now, now we have had an additional incremental technological development that doesn't feel like a leap, it has been pointing in this direction for a long time, but what is happening is something that people in politics feel like it

is the equivalent of the self driving car. the car without a steering wheel. we had cruise control all of these years, but there is something i different between setting your speed on the freeway and just hitting auto pilot and your car takes you home. anyone with a cell phone can now, for free, broadcast live video of what they are seeing at the impact moment they are seeing it. so what used to take a satellite truck and an up link in terms of broadcasting a live political event looks like this. and specifically looks like this. there have been more complicated versions of this technology in the past. there is a thing called ustream. youtube had a variety of this. there is stringwire that we have used at nbc. but what happened now that everybody with an iphone can really super easily broadcast live video.

at least pretty easily. it is an app called meerkat. if you follow me on twitter right now, you should be able to see what my cell phone is streaming right now. with this technology, you can show everybody in the world, far free, everything you seeing right now. >> hello, folks, you in the dark. here, look, i'm wearing jeans and sneakers, can't see that on tv. can see that on meerkat. when you're done streaming whatever you're looking at, you, on your phone, can keep a record of it on your phone, but everybody else watching it saw it live and then poof, it just exists and it goes away, but whatever you recorded on your phone you can keep. so from here on out, once this app, meerkat or whatever else, once it spreads across the country and everybody has this on their phone, everybody -- end stream, yes, every time a

politician from here on out does this, every time they're outside of their bathroom they're basically on live tv. anyone with a cell phone, that politician could be broadcast live in that second to potentially an infinite number of people. literally any time you're anywhere other than the bathroom. and maybe even in the bathroom if you have your own cell phone in there, god help us. casey hunt has gone through a lot of shoe leather chasing politicians around. she occasionally has to corner people in elevators, waiting through their rallies hoping they will say something interesting. that she can then upload and put on the news. today she conducted live broadcast interviews from her phone with new jersey secretary

corey booker and josh earnest as this meerkat app blew up this week. it basically became a satellite truck. she joins us next, stay with us.

so have you done this before? >> this is my official first meerkat interview. and i guess the first meerkat interview any press secretary has done. little early morning history. >> a little early morning history. >> and you have not joined the service yet? >> i haven't, but we'll see how this goes and maybe we'll consider joining. >> kaci hunt conducting the first ever meerkat interview. she also interviewed cory booker of new jersey using the same technology. this technology is the newest

way to live stream video from your cell phone to the world if is sort of frighteningly easy, fast, and free to the user and it has freaked out most of the political establishment. by how big it has gotten so quickly. joining us now is kaci hunt, great to see you. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> how do you get josh ernst to be interviewed like that with completely live, no take backs. it is live immediately. how did you get him to do it? >> part of me is not exactly sure, rachel. no, it was pretty casual. i was at the white house briefing on monday. i meerkated a little of it. people felt like i was providing a public service. i said do you want to do an interview on this new thing called meerkat and he said i think we're interested.

and the white house was willing to play ball. my pitch was, hey, let's try something new. let's get outside the box a little bit, talk about what the white house has done with social media and other implications around it. my thanks to josh for being game for something new, and we weren't sure how it would pan out. we had to make sure we could get a recording of it. it all worked out in the end. we had about 360 plus viewers at the peak. >> which is not earth shattering, but i feel like the thing that is -- that is hard for me to explain that for people who don't see the inside way of the tv news service works, but we know what it takes in terms of money, organization, organizational power, persuasive power and sometimes luck. to broadcast a live event in the field.

it costs a lot of money, it takes a lot of work, and a lot of people being involved in it. it makes it possible for live events around the world to be broadcast to an audience of millions of people. i feel like it will change what is accessible to the average viewer. >> i think it's really going to change the political system. in many way what you were outlining before, it is true but it is the confluence of all of these things, a cellar network to handle it, it's a cell phone in everybody's pocket, that we're all networked already. twitter, facebook and connecting with those people is really easy. and it will really change how the politicians operate. i think that 2016 will be defined as an easy live streaming video and the reality is that it is not just reporters. as you were pointing out, this will be regular people as well. the obama administration had, in

fact, started taking away cell phones from some of their attendees at fundraisers. they argue it is a security risk and there was a extent where the president when he was a candidate making a comment about guns god and religion that came aback to haunt him. and that was theoretically closed to the press. when you think about all of the people in the vicinity of these candidates over an 18-month campaign, we're looking at a lot of live streams and potential pitfalls. >> nothing will be closed to the press unless you can remove people's cell phones to them. which most people feel are gravitied to their bodies anyway. >> they are. >> i think it will change our jobs a lot, and it will. >> i think it may not necessarily be 100% positive, either. just because we have this

ability to broadcast in this contract way doesn't necessarily we're goes to get more transparency from these candidates. if anything twitter drove mitt romney to be further away from reporters, and many reporters that saw that recognized that person and were unable to communicate that to the broader public in part because they were so afraid all of the time that the tweets would go out and push them off message and they were so focused on that. i think this will prevention people from getting that sense of authenticity because people will be so concerned about this technology. >> it will make them put up their guards, but it will mean there is no place where they can be assured they're not on live tv, a huge deal, thank you very much, congratulations today. >> thank you. >> more ahead tonight, including one of the most powerful advocacy videos i have seen, and a presidential candidate that forgot something really, really important.

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last week in one of the most painfully hip neighborhoods, someone redesigned a store. they offered pistols, rifles and other guns for sale. new york has had tough laws on guns. they had strict limits on toy guns for 60 years since the 1950s. last week, up popped this new gun store for pistols, shotguns, and rifles.

for sale in new york city. people came in to see what's in stock, handle the guns, talk about what they might want to buy. but the conversations got weird fast. the whole thing got weird fast. and they were taping while it all happened and here is some of what they got. watch this. >> hey, how are you doing? >> hey, how are you doing? >> hey. >> hi. >> you're interested in a gun, right? >> yes. >> something for like target practice or -- >> protection. >> more for protection. >> safety. >> i'm pro second amendment, it's hard to find that in new york city. >> the first gun i showed her was this revolver, it's the easiest gun we use. it's our most popular. a .22 caliber. six-inch revolver. it is also a gun a 5-year-old

found in his parents's home went down and shot his 9-month-old baby brother. >> this is a gun that the guy -- >> this is the one. this is the one that the kid used? holy [ bleep ]? >> collectors love this one, adam lanza's mom had this in her collection too until they took this and several others and then went down to sandy hook and killed little kids. 20 little kids gone like that. he walked into a mcdonald's, killed 21. injured 19. one of the deadliest mass shootings in american history. a .09 compact. >> 12 gauge pump action shotgun. >> why don't you have a closer look. >> i was pretty blind sided by just the entire history of every

gun in the store. >> it made me think twice, and i would not buy one. ♪ >> every gun has a history, let not repeat it. just a remarkable stunt they pulled off in new york city. and the guns rights groups are freaking out about this. they're calling for a criminal investigation saying the guns in that store looked illegal to them. they say they want people arrested. people did not have gun licenses and they were handling guns and that is a felony. people were breaking the law. but the group that pulled this off knew what i that were doing. they're called states united to present gun violence. they said the guns were not real guns. they were realistic fakes. they say they followed all of the laws. they had someone from the nypd watching all of the time.

they set it up as an experience to make a point. so they would not run afoul of taping people without their consent, they didn't let people randomly walk in off of the street. they recruited people who were interested in buying a gun. they did want to buy a gun. they were part of a marketing experience. those are these folks's real reactions. >> maybe i should not buy that gun. >> it made me think twice and i would not buy one. >> state's united to prevent gun violence posted this three days ago. nearly two million people have watched it onthe line already. now the nra is freaking out, calling for an investigation, wanting people arrested who appeared in this video. the reason they're freaking out is not because their horrified by people handling guns in new york city. they're freaked out by the new approach they have to contend with politically in this video. we're used to seeing messages about gun safety that put us in the position of victim. this ad puts you in the position of the shooter.

if you're thinking about buying a guy so you will be safer, they want you to imagine your hand on the same trigger that the newton killer pulled, or a kid killed his sister by an accident or a toddler killed his mom in walmart. this is super aggressive. changing laws about guns has been really hard to do, recently it has been impossible. recently it aims to change not laws but minds and the wisdom behind buying guns. maybe they can. the nra seems pretty worried that they might.

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okay. mexican wrestlers still to come. . but first one more thing. this is the time of year when republicans introduce their budgets. bobby jindal wants to run for president, but one of the problems in his time as

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producer julian nutter who is playing? >> we have sue hahn from caramel, indiana. he immigrated from south korea at age 10. he grew up in amish country in pennsylvania, and he's a high school orchestra teacher. >> very nice to meet you. thank you for being here. >> hello. i'm freaking out. this is awesome, and a dream come true. so nice to see you. >> i have to ask you what the orchestra teacher part, how many of the instruments in the orchestra can you personally play in order to have the kids be competent. >> i have to play enough to teach them. but they're amazing and i have to do very little. >> i was in orchestra in junior high and it was really fun, until all the kids in the band picked up our orchestra teacher's car and put it on the

tennis court. and he couldn't get it out. it was very sad. >> i love you even more now that i know you were in orchestra. what did you play? >> i played everything poorly. any way, you know how this works. three questions, if you get two right, you will win, julia? >> this mini cocktail shaker. >> and if you get all of the questions right, or if you don't really get very many right at all but you need extra credit or a consolation prize, we do have something that we found in our office, but tonight it's a little weird. >> he has two options. he can take these action figures that you used to have on your desk at air america. >> they're mexican wrestlers. >> this one has a little cape. it's cool. otherwise, he can have these posters that we made as props during the government shutdown in 2013. >> i will tell you, even though the props aren't awesome, one of

them does have a nice t-square attached to the back of it that you would also get to keep. >> great. >> we also need to brick in the disembodied voice of steve bennett. steve determines if you get the right answer. >> good evening. >> good even. love your article, steve. >> thank you. >> first question, here we go. monday, we described a gallup poll which asked people what they think is the most important problem facing the country today. in that gallup poll, what did the highest number of respondents identify as the most important problem. >> government. >> a, terrorism, b, income inequality, c, the government, or d, the zombie apocalypse. >> i wish it was d, but it's not. it's c, the government. >> steve, did he get it right? >> let's check the tape from monday's show. >> the highest percentage of respondents say the biggest problem in the country is the

government. >> the correct answer is c. su is one for one. >> well done. you're 100% so far. question two, we have had an eye on the u.s. nuclear negotiations with iran all week. i should say happy iranian new year. on last night's shaoe show we did report that as the iranian nuclear talks are getting down to the nitty-gritty another u.s. official has been sent at the the talks taking a leading role alongside secretary of state john kerry. who is that other u.s. official who suddenly is very visible in those talks? is it attorney general eric holder, b, earnest moniz, vice president joe biden, or vice president emeritus dick cheney. >> i was traveling yesterday and that was the only show i missed. i'm just going to pick my favorite person on that list and say c, vice president joe biden. >> steve, what's the right answer?

>> let's check out the tape from last night. >> all of a sudden we're not just seeing john kerry leading things for the u.s., now who is that guy on the left? now we're seeing the only man in u.s. government with hair better than john kerry's hair. also involved at the talk level. our energy secretary, who is himself a nuclear physicist. ernest moniz. >> i'm afraid mr. cheney and mr. biden are not involved. the correct answer is b. >> soo, you had a good reason for missing that one. one last chance. this one is a visual one. so we've never done this before. hope it works. tuesday's show we reported on republican aaron schock and his somewhat shocking resignation from congress in the face of lots of questions about his finances related to his travel. one of the things reporters have used to track his travel spending is his rather legendary instagram account, which he seems to have deleted.

but we were able to capture some of it. which of these images was not an image from his instagram account? was it a, this one, which makes him look like an extra for "magic mike." b, this one, which shows him surfing in hawaii. was it c, this one, shows him, i don't know, maybe ice climbing or something. or d, this one which shows him being shaved by another dude? which one of those was not from his instagram account? >> oh, my gosh. this is tough. i'm going to say a, because i think that a was a shoot from a magazine, that cover he did. >> steve, do you have the answer for us? >> let's check the tape from tuesday. >> also a famous star turn, yes, that's him, on the cover of "men's health." congressman, really?

>> so a was the magazine cover photo and he's correct. >> you got exactly the trick of it right. that was spectacular. julia, did soo win? >> yes, he wins the cocktail shaker? >> yes. >> and do you want either of the cruddy items we found in our office? >> i would love both. i used to listen to you on air america when you first came on. >> thank you. >> but just so that i can hang it up for the entire world to see, i'm going to choose the sign. rachel, can i please ask you to sign it before i get it? >> oh, yeah, i will sign your sign big time. and we'll even throw in a few more of these signs if you wish. thank you for playing. great to meet you. if you want to talk about the viola clef, i'm available any time. that was great. if you want to play the most awesome game in basic cable news, or rather the only one, send us an e-mail.

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