thank you for joining us. in the great state of massachusetts, there are 40 seats in the senate. 40. right now the party division looks like this. do we have it? there it is. that is the party division. blue for democrat, red for republican. there are 34 democrats in the senate, six republicans. but don't feel bad. for the six republicans because there may only be six of them but every one of them is a winner. by which i mean every one is a leader. the great frank phillips of the bosston on the globe reports even though there are only six republicans in the senate every one of them is a leader of the republicans in the senate. they have given every republican in the senate a leadership title, which by the way means they all get an extra $15,000 in their salary. if you check under your seat right now, you get a leadership

job, you get a leadership job. everyone gets a leadership job. if everyone is a leader who follows the leaders, other leaders. this bebest is a tea party guy from worcester, mass. he title assistant minority -- and what he is supposed to do is he is supposed to assistant minority whip he is supposed to whip the votes of the republican senators in the state who are not in the leadership to make sure the other senator s do what the leadership tells them to do. the problem is all of the republican senators in the state are in the leadership. they called themselves all leaders. so this guy literally has no work to do for the 15 grand, which is nice work if you can get it. because it is at the legislative level, such a one-party state. massachusetts is one of those states that almost never makes

national political news. yes, occasionally something funny happens like when the last six republicans left in the senate decide in their leadership race they are all tied for first place, right? sometimes it is something funny like that. sometimes it's less funny what what than funny strange when one republican won ted kennedy's senate seat for a half term. that was strange. that's over now. massachusetts does not usually make national political waves. when it does it is almost always because of something quirky or funny. right now massachusetts is trying to throw a big rock in the still waters of national democratic politics. this is a column that just ran in the sunday boston globe urging senator elizabeth warren she should run for president. this is another column, that just ran in the sunday boston globe urging senator elizabeth warren to please run for president. this is another column that just

ran in the sunday boston globe urging elizabeth warren to run for president. and this is alongside the other columns on the same day, same page imploring senator elizabeth warren to please run for president. boston globe one of the best papers in the country, the dominant paper in the northeastern corridor of the country, boston globe did a special section of the paper devoted to try to pir suede elizabeth warren she should run for president this year even though she clearly doesn't want to. we asked the editor about the paper's decision to go huge with this editorial push. the globe told us they haven't done an official archival search but as far as they know this paper has never done anything like this before. they said they asked themselves what would be the most provocative, interesting way of getting the point across that they believe elizabeth warren

should run for president and decided on this full-blast approach with running all of these columns and this editorial all simultaneously. the editorial page editor told us the globe quote wants to urge the ideas that elizabeth warren represents on a national scale. we feel the best way to do that is for her to get to the primary and make the case. they make the case over and over again. it amounts to a special section of "the boston globe ." democrats would be making as mistake if they let hillary clinton coast to the nomination without real opposition and as a national leader elizabeth warren can make sure that doesn't happen. while warren vowed she won't run for president herself, she ought to reconsider. she should not shrink for from the chance to set the course for the democratic party or concede that task to hillary clinton without a fight. if senator warren put hers causes goals front and center as democrats gather for forces for the 2016 campaign, elizabeth

warren could enrich the democratic process for years to come. the column makes the case for a bunch of different angles. warren is the democrat best positioned to draw out hillary clinton in areas critical to the future of the democratic party. elizabeth warren would be a strong candidate. she could win this this moment was made for elizabeth warren. the globe told us today what they have just done with this -- again, sort of editorial onslaugt. they told us it should not be mistaken as an endorsement of elizabeth warren for president. this is not a presidential endorse but they are endorsing the primary process. they want democrats to have a primary. they think elizabeth warren would give her the best one. they are not saying they want elizabeth warren to run for the presidency because they necessarily want her to win the presidency.

they want her to run because her running would be good for the country and specifically good for the democratic party. basically they are saying that her being in the race would pull the democratic party to the least, or the issues of middle-class economics and the superfieing levels of incoming inequality we have that have been getting so much worse so fast even as the economy starts to get better. even if she couldn't win, at least her issues would be in the race. it has to be weird if you are elizabeth warren. you open the paper sunday morning, god god, there is a column, another column another column. the whole section of your hometown paper persuading you to run which you do not want to do. that has to be a weird breakfast read. it is an interesting argument that is happening in massachusetts, the argue business about elizabeth warren. this is an interesting argument of whether or not you can win, there might be great value in just in you runs. if you run well in the right

race at the right time, if you don't win you could change the direction and commitments of one of the two major political parties in the country a huge affect on national politics just by running which brings us to this guy. who today with great fanfare and a big speech at liberty university in virginia today texas senator ted cruz launched what i believe is his campaign for vice president of the united states. technically what ted cruz said today is he is running for president of the united states, but ahh, nobody was handicapping the presidential race at this point thinks there is any credible threat of that happening. honestly, i don't bet. i'm terrible at gambling. it makes me shaky. if i had to bet money on the presidential race i think elizabeth warren has a better chance of being elected in 2016 than ted cruz does and that

includes the fact she running and she is not. ted cruz could not be elected president of the united states of america. ted cruz could be elected president of texas. that may happen in our lifetimes, but there's no reason to believe that ted cruz could win a national general election race. him getting in to the race is potentially important for the future of the republican party and ted cruz. if the republican party picks a more establishment centrist candidate, hi jeb bush and it turns out the candidate needs a fire brand, super white wing tea party running mate, ted cruz may fit that bill. his best hope is he positions himself well as a vice presidential pick for a more moderate republican nominee. that does not seem out of the realm of possibility. you only have to persuade one person when picking a vice presidential nominee. stranger things have happened sarah palin.

even if ted cruz is not picked for vice president, though he fact he is in the race and at the events and debates, that will likely have the effect of pushing all of the other republican candidates for president and therefore republican politics as a whole toward something that is closer to his image. further to the right. ted cruz is a good debater. his political strategy at the national level has been to take stake out a position that is more conservative, uncompromising to the point of impractical and derive any republicans that don't go with him. at cpac this year other republican candidates gave speeches how terrible president obama is and how terrible hillary clinton is and the democrats are. ted cruz gave a speech about how terrible the republicans are at cpac. so he's in now. he made the announcement today in a long speech he delivered without notes and without using a tell prompter. the

the venue was liberty university founded by jerry falwell. kids at the university were required by the school today to go to this ted cruz event. any kid who did not show up at this event today would face a fine of $10 they have to pay to the school if they did not attend today's speech. that did ensure a very full room for senator cruz today but also led to funny visuals like these liberty university kids who clearly did not want to be fined $10 or think that anyone at the event indicated their support for ted cruz for president. their issues say "stand with rand." the whole announcement was a mix of very well planned and poorly planned. it is nice to have a big room filled with thousands of people. not nice when you can tell some people have been con cryptedscripted to be there against their will. it is nice that he had a tax reference number in his speech

where you can take out and text that number and sign up to support his campaign. that is nice to be prepared. not nice that anyone wanted to check out ted cruz.com or ted cruz for president.com or anything that you look for on the web about him were instead 0 greeted with these websites. okay. so if you go to ted cruz.com it's just a splash of pages, support president obama, immigration reform now. that is ted cruz.com. ted cruz for president.com right now is for sale. ted cruz for america.com, if you type that in it redirects you immediately to oh look health care.gov where you can sign up for obamacare. ted cruz 2016.com maybe this is just me messing something up or i have a weird browser but this is what it brings up a slide show of random stock photos of inexplicable scenery with no words or anywhere to click. ted cruz 2016.com.

he's the guy who's first in. it's this weird mix of well-prepared and well-choreographed on the one hand and this is ted cruz.com. seriously? a mix of really well prepared and also -- we're learning interesting details about the timing. some interesting questions about why now. specifically why now? . as recently as saturday afternoon liberty university was not admitting ted cruz was going to be speaking there let alone he was announcing his run for president. they had terry mcall live on the agenda. they said they got a call from ted cruz's people last week asking if he could come and make the announcement today. however long they may have been planning it for, the liberty university part of it they have not been planning that long at all. gillman at the dallas morning news had an interesting mini scoop about the timing and.

everybody else was wondering ted cruz had just jumped in and said i'm running. and he skilled the exploratory and jumped in. the dallas morning news reported quietly, almost secretly last week ted cruz did form an official exploratory committee for president. he just didn't tell anyone he was doing it. he didn't make an announcement. he had a title no one would associate for with ted cruz at all. he felt a need to set up a fund last week in order to do housekeeping and organizational work you need to do to set up a run for president maybe. he did set something up quietly last week. he kept it completely out of the news. so today, would feel like oh my god, the beyonce's record just showed up on itunes.

we didn't know she was making one. genius move. you are prepping all of this time you are prepping behind the scenes. now we know he was prepping behind the scenes. a genius move and we would not have known it if todd gillman had not reported it in dallas. joining me today is todd gillman. he has followed senator cruz's political career for years. thank you for being here. >> pleasure rachel. >> i have to ask you about this exploratory committee. before i saw you report on this i had not realized he might have had to do stuff behind the scenes before making the splashy announcement today. as far as you can tell, did he keep it quiet so today would land with a bigger splash? >> i think that's right. i don't think it is a major conspiracy. he was going for the element of surprise and the dramatic effect of going straight to a normal campaign. i think the technicality of an exploratory committee is

something they did, as i understand it, from in speaking to senior strat gist today and i have to confess i wasn't the only reporter the strategist told this to. they had to do it to sign contracts in the brief window between last week and this. >> we are seeing sort of a mix of granular detail about in some ways seeming prepared and on the ball and some ways dropping the ball entirely. the website thing is a nightmare. it would be one thing if it was ted cruz.com and somebody snaked you for a it a long time ago but the fact it is ted cruz.com ted cruz for president.com, ted cruz for president 2016.com. they don't seem to have done anything protective in that regard. >> 20 years ago we is used to ask questions like boxers or briefs. i guess we need to ask them if they are a dotcom or dot org kind of guy.

it is bad planning they didn't squat on the various names that might have been associated with senator cruz as somebody out in cyberspace obviously did to preempt him and kind of you know screw him up i guess. >> between that and liberty university finding out about this, what he wanted to do very late. if it was last week with forming the mini exploratory committee, do you have any sense about the decision and the timing and why senator cruz might have seemingly rushed to get out there today? why today? why now? he obviously wanted to be first, but why has it happened the way it has? >> i don't think it was rushed. jerry falwell jr. the current president and son of the founder of liberty university explained to his student body that he got a call from a cruz aide about ten days ago asking for this

form forum. it happened to be the time slot that terry mccaulauliffe occupied. he didn't want his message stepped on by this and he stepped aside to give it up for cruz. i think cruz decided to do it now as a strategy. he is lagging in the polls. down 4 or 5% in national polls probably better in iowa and zk south carolina where the evangelical vote is important. but strategically what he gets to do now is leapfrog in front of everybody else. can you imagine how much attention someone now gets for forming an exploratory committee. how exciting is that going to be? we have somebody who is actively running for president. cruz short circuited that. he changed the rules of the game a little bit and there's not that much time left. people are going to have to

declare president. they need to start to raise money. most waiting until april 1st or later so they don't have to worry about how much they raise in this filing period for the fec reports that will be due. cruz is setting himself an ambitious target of raising a million or more in the next weekend before the end of the quarter so he shows credibility in that regard. he's going to be lagging people like jeb bush and others in fund-raising, but being first out the gate gets you more attention than fifth out of the gate and now he has done it and done it in front of 8 or 10 thousand people it sets a bar higher for the next few people. >> that's right. everybody will have to have a trick or some story-telling device when they do it. >> todd gillman, helpful to have you here. appreciate it. one piece of the reaction to ted cruz declaring has been he's going to have a real problem. he is not a viable candidate

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early this morning at the start of the workweek a woman went to open her office in jackson, mississippi. she went to the back door as she usually does. when she got there she noticed one of the security cameras lying on the ground. it had been ripped off the usual spot on the roof. it was just laying on the pavement. the wires were dangling loose alongside the building and she saw a second security camera had been pulled off of its housing, as well. ate peered somebody had tried to cut the electrical wiring in to the building to wreck an expensive generator that state law requires that building to have on site. inside she could hear the alarm going off when she got there. the business that is reporting this attack on their premises today is the last remaining abortion clinic in the state of mississippi.

supporters and defenders of that clinic painted it bright paing few years ago, as a way of saying they were not budging, not ashamed of their work and wouldn't be chased away. their motto was "this clinic stays open." today with the discover oi of this physical attack the motto becomes a watch word for the last clinic in mississippi, this clinic stays open. the clinic says whoever attacked them last night got caught at least on video. the clinic's cameras just before the cameras with were knocked down. you see the figure in boots, maybe a hood maybe a mask you can see from the angle. they are carrying what might be a hatchet or some long-handled tool. the surveillance images were taken early this morning just after midnight last night basically at the last open abortion clinic in the state of mississippi. the images are somebody who's definitely lurking outside the

clinic. who seems to want to do damage to the clinic itself. we don't know. right after these images were taken, the cameras that took the images were destroyed. we have been following the story of this clinic in jackson for a few years now. republicans in mississippi have come up with a few ways think they could force the clinic to close. most recently they forced doctors to get admitting privileges from local hospitals which mississippi officials expected and hoped would be impossible for the doctors and would there by result in the clinic being shut down. >> we're going to try to end abortion in mississippi. this is an historic day to begin that process. >> our goal needs to be to end all abortions in mississippi. i believe the admitting privileges bill gives us the best chance to do that. >> we have literally stopped abortion in the state of mississippi. >> you can't stop a federally-protected right. mississippi has been very

determined to try. this new way of attacking clinics through state laws the new requirements about admitting privileges, they have turned out to be unpopular with federal courts. abortion is a federally protected right in this country and judges have blocked the mississippi-style laws in some states. on friday a federal judge blocked the same kind of law in wisconsin like in louisiana and alabama they announced they would fight to get the admitting privileges back in place to try to close the last remaining clinic in their state. that's how the fight is playing out on the courts. on the sidewalks this is a different fight. like clinics around the country, this clinic if mississippi has tried to shield patients and staff from local protesters who show up day after day. the jackson clinic has built up a day of defenders and escorts that try to keep the peace, try to keep the doors open. over the past few days a new a anti-abortion group arrived in

jackson. they they are harassing the clinic and people trying to use it. in a signal flare, they posted something on-line about the new arrivals that they describe as younger, more militant than usual hur rangers out front. they posted pictures of the destruction when they opened the clinic today with what looks to be an attempt to shut them down by pulling out wires and taking down the security cameras that monitor the clinic. we asked local police about the case. they did not get back to us. a local fbi office said they cannot comment for calls for help. people at the clinic said they reached out to police and federal. clinic's director told us the staff and volunteer defenders will keep watch around the clock, 24 hours a day, at least while new heightened protests

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when a state senator decided that the idea of a fosse le was too much for his little brain and he decided to stop the bill from passing by adding in whole sections from the bok of genesis in to the bill's language saying, sure south carolina may have a wooly mammoth fossil but the wooly mammoth was created on the sixth day with the beasts of the field and that must be in the law. olivia's bill got waylayed for a long time and she stuck with it and said she would stick with it forever, until she was 23 maybe or maybe even until she was 40 but she did not have to stick with it until she was 40. south carolina eventually came around in part because of her perseverance and olivia wants to be a scientist but i prefer her to be governor orlet least legislator to get things done. now more cynicism. the giant salamander cute.

it's from idaho. in 2012 an idaho fourth grader wrote to her state legislator to see about getting it designated as the state amphibian. that was 2012. 2013 she tried again. bill got printed. couldn't get a hearing. 2014 got a hearing couldn't get it passed. this is her fifth trip to the legislative session in the state trying to get this passed and when they brought it up in january, they voted it down. they voted no. conservative legislators raised an objection. they said if idaho professes love for the giant salamander maybe it will be declared endangered or something or communism, whatever. the argument made no sense. there was no connection between picking a state amphibian and endangered pe she's. it still held the day. the only other argument they articulated against the

salamander bill is that salamanders are gross and icky. literally. that was their argumentment look at this. memories of a childhood aversion to salamanders led representative anders to oppose legislation that would have made it this estate amphibian. when i grew up there as a young boy in our swimming hole there was salamanders. the girl who started the campaign in the fourth grade in idaho did not give up. she said she would not give up and she had not she is now 14. and today she started to win today. her bill got through the idaho house. even though the guy who said he couldn't vote for it because salamanders are ugly. he still voted no for that reason but she has stuck with it from 4th grade n. a couple of years she could have driven

herself but she is getting it done. the ernest perseverance is infectious, especially when it has to survive in the face of adult opposition that makes no sense or is incredibly immature. this doesn't happen just around naming official state things. this is the scene in frankfurt, kentucky, this morning. hundreds of students across the state along with parents, faculty and kentucky state politicians, holding signs, giving speeches. everyone rallying at the state capital of kentucky trying to save house bill 236, a bill drafted by high school students that will allow a student to be part of the search process for picking a superintendent of schools. kentucky law blocks that. it is not a particularly controversial or idealogically poll alreadizing thing. the students have a good case to make. they want to be involved in decisions that affect them as students. as such that bill quickly

picked up sponsors and sailed through the kentucky house of representatives. it passed by a vote of 88-5. while that was going on in what should have been completely unrelated news at the same time a republican state senator was working on something else. he was pushing a totally unrelated, controversial bill that would mandate the use of specific bathrooms by students who are transgender. also a republican sfait state senator he at the time was pushing a bill about religious objections to things and freedom of speech. in both of those bills they stalled out in the kentucky house, the democratically controlled kentucky house. neither of them have anything to do with the high schoolers' bill but the senators saw the hool high school kids' bill sailing through the house easily and they thought, hmm, they attached their own super controversial going nowhere bills to the high

schoolers' bill, essentially torpedoing it. one said he likes the bill but wanted to send a message to the democrats by killing the high school kids dreams with his idea he couldn't get passed any way. government is historically unpopular right now. gallup poll asked people what the biggest problem facing the country is right now and the number one problem they said is the government. the terrible government is the thing we feel worst and worry most about in the country in terms of our biggest problems. as the indelibly ernest fossil loving salamander promoting and good kids of america keep proving, that american cynicism of government that nihilism about our government is not universal. state legislators in the country are doing their best to make these kids lose their love of government and believing it can

work for a constructive purpose. they are up against perseverance and good cheer from kids that know we can do better and insist that we do. joining us are liza jane shafer a 16-year-old junior who has been one of the students from kentucky and her adviser. thank you for being with us this evening. nice to have you here. >> thank you. >> thank you for having us. >> i will start with you. as i understand it in kentucky the legislative session ends tomorrow, which means we are down to the wire. where do you understand your bills chances are at this point? do you have any hope? >> i would say it is 50/50. we are very hopeful. we are hoping maybe a compromise on the senate leadership has been looking in to it. like i said we are hopeful that we will be able to pass but

there's always a chance it's not going to happen. if that is the case we will be back next year. >> nice. >> let me ask about the big rally today. a lot of students. a lot of supporters. a die veers group out there. are you surprised by the support you are getting and the attention you are getting as you guys push for this? >> i am so blown away by the level of organization and the ability these students have had to mobilize not only other students but the adult community, as well. they have taken it upon themselves to do everything a high-level lobbying firm would do. they are just doing this between their classes and school and their extracurricular activities and everything else they are supposed to do as volunteers. it was incredible today. over 300 students turned out and many adult allies standing with us in support.

it was a show of force for the desire of kentucky youth to be civically engaged. that's all they want is to be civically engaged and the bill is a modest request to allow that to happen at the school level. superintendent screening committee. >> let me ask about the substance of that. why do you think this bill is so important? why do you -- how do you think this would make things better? what's it been like for you to see it get banged around the way it has in the legislative process? >> many my opinion, education is the single most important service that a government can provide for its people. so it is really important that we get it right. the education policy decisions are made by administrators, government officials, parents, teachers but surprisingly not students who are the people in the seasonal and living out the effects of the decisions every day. i think we have a really important perspective to offer. so that's why i think that it is important there be a student member on the screening

committees. we are 100% of the constituents but zero representation on the committee. it's been a wake up call to see what democracy really looks like in the real world. it is not exactly what i expected. there's been a bit of a learning curve. >> i have to say, forgive the phrase, but has it been a bummer? did you think you would be taken more seriously on the merits? were you bummed out to see it diverted in to all of the stuff that had nothing to do with your bill? >> i would say bummed out would be a good description of how i felt. >> now perseverance and we will find out whether kentucky will do right by you guys tomorrow. to hear you say you will be back no matter what it is an impressive fight you are waging and inspiration,al especially for those who are tempted to feel cynicism. you are the antidote to that. good luck to you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. pushing for a bill that makes

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