d justice is for all americans. whether you wear a suit a uniform or overalls and whether you are white or black, rich or poor we need to go boldly forth under the banner of liberty that clutches the constitution in one hand and the bill of rights in the other. we also need a foreign policy that protects american interests and encourages stability and not chaos. the enemy is radical islam and you can't get around it. and not only will i name the ebb emmy, i -- enemy, i will do whatever it takes to defend america from the haters of mankind. >> i'm krystal ball. and now americans have the second official candidate, dr. rand paul. his slogan defeat the washington machine. and his launch tour the first four primary and caucus states. he is no stranger to the presidential campaign trail. he's been there three times with

his father and now dad's legacy could prove problematic. his lack of a hawkish foreign policy and national security chance and the neo-cons are already on the attack. >> rand paul supports president obama's negotiation with iran and doesn't understand the threat. >> you know it is ridiculous to think that there are -- they are a threat to our national security. >> rand paul is wrong and dangerous. tell him to stop siding with obama. >> that million dollar ad is coming soon to a market near you. sponsored by a strategist who ran the ads against john kerry. but the ad groups say they see paul's candidacy as a serious threat and they want to see their candidate as a different kind of republican. and what is promising to be a crowded debate stage. he has courted young black voters and worked with senate

demes on criminal justice and raised the alarm of over use of nsa surveillance and held a 13-hour filibusters that highlighted the expanding u.s. drone program. kasie hunt with in louisville kentucky for the announcement and launching set the tone for the campaign so how was rand paul's? >> reporter: hi, krystal. this was a tone of one of in collusion. the introducers one after the other, he was the first white man to take the stage and speak here at this event and he also featured videos showing blue-collar workers out of a job and he talked as you heard, for rich or for poorer. and i think the question he'll have to answer is whether that inclusion is enough to broaderen his appeal if he were to get as far as a general election but particularly with the republican base. take a listen to how he tried to negotiate that line as he talked

about iran. >> the difference between president obama and myself he seems to think you can negotiate from a position of weakness. yet everyone needs to realize that negotiations are not inherently bad. that trust but verify is required in any negotiation but that our goal always should be and always is peace, not war. >> reporter: so that is a little less strident than we've heard the anti-war rand paul in the past but at the same time it is a notably different tone than his potential republican rivals have taken on issues like the negotiations that the president has been engaged with over iran. they've taken them and seized them and used them as a battering ram against the president and that is distinctly different than what we heard today and you showed the attack ad already out there. the question for paul is whether

for every dollar he raises is there another one on the air trying to take him down over issues like this one. >> kasie hunt thank you for that. and now we bring in brian dollar a senior communications director. good day to you. >> good day to you. >> great day for rand paul fans. and you've worked closely with him. and explain the dual message the campaign is launching. on the one hand a full-throated argument on that speech as he quoted himself from the first campaign, he is every pit the same libertarian, principal oriented conservative and we're seeing from allies about elect ability that he is a mainstream candidate and someone with a path to the nomination in the white house. >> what he's saying is he's an anti-establishment candidate who can win. and the polling reflects that. if you look at a recent quinnipiac poll he was beating hillary clinton by one point in

pennsylvania. i think it shows that hillary clinton's support -- i mean she's really blowing away the democratic field but lately we've seen the numbers come backwards and i think what his case is two-fold. one is that i can win this race. if i win the nomination i can go in and beat hillary clinton. he's taking it to hillary clinton being very tough in his language. but he's also an anti-establishment candidate. not part of -- not part of the republican party as we know it in the sense he's more libertarian and talked about the bill of rights and filibuster against drones. he sued the president over the nsa spying program and has a different view on criminal justice reform and a very different view of foreign policy in the sense that he's trying to have the balance between being somebody who supports the use of force but on the other hand he wants to be more restrained and not engage in nation building. >> want you to speak more to that. but agree, i thought his speech today was pretty flawless.

and you say, announcement days are incredibly important and sets the tone for the campaign and i think he had the right tone and the campaign and he focused on liberty and balancing the budget smaller government and he even mentioned term limits for congress. something i'm very much in favor of. what makes rand paul different from everybody else is as you were talking about, is his auj authenticity and going against the party on things like foreign policy. he said when it comes to terrorism, not only will i name the enemy, i will do whatever it takes to defend america from the haters of mankind. a different tone from what we've heard before. how much of a problem is this going to be because maybe he is too much away from the isolationist and he loses his base of the people that love him the most but if he doesn't, he could be in trouble as well. >> i don't think it is inconsistent. it is consistent in fighting for

liberty domestically and doesn't favor the ideology that are hostile to liberty. radical islam is hostile to liberty. he wants to see isis defeated but he recognizes that if you look back to the obama administration, to the bush administration, nation building not working. it is something that the american people don't want they are war weary and they want to balance foreign policy and realist foreign policy but not one that overextended americans and don't think americans are excited about fighting another war with ground troops. i don't think americans are ready for that. if you look at the polling data we still live in a country where we want to restrain foreign policy as rand paul says peace through strength but peace is very important. >> but one thing that distinguished rand but that people haven't noticed is his conscious effort to reach out to the black community and reaching out to howard community and

support for criminal justice reform and even though saying taking country back and i know black and brown people saying take it back from but how can rand win over a significant sliver of that vote? >> well i think first of all, he wants to take it back from the establishment controlling washington in both parties. but i think he's done a lot on restoration of voting rights reaching across the aisle to work with reid and cory booker for reform in the country and looking at mandatory minimums and a solution to that problem. if you look at his ideas and his own legislation, he has put forth more ideas in legislation even looking back to hillary clinton when she was a senator. and if you care about civil rights, he's doing a great job in putting out ideas that i think most progressives should look at and take a second look

at rand paul and understand what he's trying to do and maybe come around to supporting him. >> when we started this segment talking about elect ability and you pointed out you think he has a good shot against hillary clinton. let me talk to you about the fringe associations from his past and alex jones, radio host conspiracy theorist who rand paul said he couldn't have won his senate seat without jones' support and do you think his support from the fringe elements from the past will be difficult for him to overcome in terms of being seen as electable and taking seriously as a top tier candidate? >> i don't think so as all. i think he will stand on his own. he's his own man. he gave a great speech today explaining what he is standing for. many on the left will attack him and many on the right, neo-conservatives already running ads against him and people need to look at him, and see who he is as a man and what

he stands for and what he's done as a senator and judge him on that and not try to look at his past associations of somebody he may have been on a program for once. i think that is guilt by association and i don't think it is fair. >> well in fairness he was on alex jones' program more than one time. but thank you for your perspective today. >> thank you. >> and now to a developing story in d.c. and parts of downtown washington are in the dark after a massive outage there. and luke russert is in our downtown bureau that thankfully did not lose power. what is happening there. >> a wild story out of d.c. apparently in charles county, maryland, equipment had a malfunction that created a power surge that made a lot of important buildings in d.c. lose power such as the state department, the white house and the capitol.

all of these buildings lost power temporarily and many went back up on emergency generators quite quickly but there are pictures of marie harf conducting a press conference with her iphone flashlight. and some 17,000 customers were without power and that noub is down to the 2,000s chblt and when this happens people get jittery. and dhs said this is not terror related and the equipment malfunction is backing that up and the fbi believes there is no malicious activity and the biggest activity is there is still outage at metro and the commute might take longer to get home and some stoplights are reported to be out so approach it like a stop sign guys so

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welcome back. and there is more troubling news in yemen today that could have major u.s. foreign policy implications. saudi arabia has officially asked pakistan to join them in the military campaign against the rebel group the houthis. and they are iranian backed rebels that ousted the president. they launched an anti-rupgs and anti-american movement. our next guest was granted access to the rebels for a special report and this was an assignment that put her own life at risk. >> but the houthi gunman didn't want us to film. >> we tried to interview the caretaker outside of the mosque instead.

we were detained by the houthis for four hours. they erased some of our footage. >> incredible footage and the fight airs tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern time. and here with us is the filmmaker salfa. and it is far more complicating. you spent a good amount of time in yemen. break it down for us when it comes to the houthis and the yemeni government how deep are the roots. >> can i clarify something from the introduction. the president wasn't ousted by the houthis, he stayed and in the capital for months after they took over the capital from september until february until he was put under house arrest

did he flee and went to aden. and the relationship between the president and the houthis is complicate and they signed an agreement together. it is not as clear-cut as houthis and the president fled. it is much more than that. >> in the introwe talked about you -- intro we talked you being detained for four hours and that sounds frielgtenning and -- frightening and tell us how that ended. >> after other journalists being beaten up at protests i got away quite easy. we were filming in a mosque where the houthis had changed the emam of the mosque and we went to interview the owner, that you can see in the footage here, and the houthi gunman were not happy at all about it. and this relationship the

precarious relationship between the houthis and the media is quite an interesting one because they complain that the media is not giving them a fair shake and they are not telling the storey properly but they don't deal quite well with media and especially with cameras. and so -- they want it both ways. they want people to cover them but to say exactly what the houthis want them to say. >> and adding to the complicated mix in yemen, you have a strong al qaeda affiliate and they are also fighting the houthis. you have remarkable footage. let's take a look a look. >> they are ferociously opposed to the houthis and they consider the houthis heretics.

al qaeda claimed responsibility for the bombing. the houthi leadership quickly arranged a large state funeral for the victims and an even bigger rally in the following days. >> and that was after an alleged al qaeda bombing and obviously houthis, mostly shia al qaeda sunni militants. should we see this as a shia-sunni dispute or is it more complicated than that? >> no. calling them shia millionisha is really not informative. they are originally zadi muslims which is an off shoot which is different from the shiite for example in iran. so it is shorthand for people to write shia militia and that doesn't tell you the depth of the complexity of who the houthis are because it is political as well as it is for al qaeda in yemen. they use sectarian language to

gal anize people around them and to simplify the conflict in that way but really the situation is much more complex than that. for me the relationship between the houthis and iran is more of a political one, it is not a sectarian relationship at all. >> the situation in yellen has been -- yemen has drawn international intervention and from your time on the ground what is the view there of all of the different foreign attempts at intervention? >> well there is different camps, obviously, when it comes to the air-strikes. but i think the imagine ort of the people -- the majority of the people on the receiving end of the air-strikes are obviously very much against it. regardless of they are pro-houthi or not. those two positions are very different. you can be anti-houthi and

anti-saudi-led strikes but there are people in the south who are pro for the strikes because they see this to stop the only way the houthis from advancing but that hasn't stopped the houthis from advancing but they are in a aden right now because that is why they've started the attacks to stop them from advancing into aden. >> thank you for being with us and your perspective. and we'll take a quick break and talk about why the white house has suffered the harshest blow and this one coming from a top democrat. we operate just like a city and that takes a lot of energy. we use natural gas throughout the airport - for heating the entire terminal generating electricity on-site and fueling hundreds of vehicles. we're very focused on reducing our environmental impact. and natural gas is a big part of that commitment.

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and back now to the cycle's top story. kentucky senator rand paul becoming the second republican to throw his hat in the ring for 2016. >> government should be restrained and freedom should be

maximized. [ applause ] >> with the help of liberty lovers everywhere that i'm putting myself forward as a candidate for president of the united states of america. >> his only company for now is texas senator ted cruz who announced last week and on monday the gop field is likely to grow again when marco rubio makes a big speech. i wonder what that will be about. we're still waiting with baited breath on jeb bush. so -- but what about hillary? alex seitz-wald has more on what happens after she finally announced. alex, what have you got. >> the clock is ticking for hillic. she has ten days to declare her candidacy. but afterwards she wants to focus on doing small scale events, intimate events to get

one-on-one with the voters to contrast from 2008 where he sheriff above the fray. but she is one of the -- the most famous woman in the world and she will have a challenge with her, she'll have secret service with her. and bill clbt gave an interview today to town and country magazine that he sees him a behind the scenes adviser and see not out on the campaign too much. and to our man for all things politics washington post columnist, dana mill bank. and i'm sorry, there is something funny on the prompter that is not columnist. so first of all, reaction to small scale events. >> i'm not a communist. >> and i think people are waiting to see specificity in

her small scale plans. >> i don't question the reporting but the notion of bill clinton trying to keep up a back stage roll. maybe for 24 hours if they trap him down. i think he'll be out there. look, i think some of this announcement stuff can be overdone. i think we with break the news right now and say yeah, lilghillary is running for president. will things change no. it is more of a legal change. but she needs to define herself. for somebody so well-known for a huge majority of the public she is ill-defined and she does need to deliver a message. probably more of a populous message. >> and dana let's talk about the iran framework which seemed to get more complicated in terms of how is the president going to move through through congress. now we have senator schumer

wanting to make sure that there is oversight but it appears the president will have to fight with democrats to get this framework approved. where are democrats emerging as a hurdle on this. >> toure, this is where it is coming back to bite president obama that he doesn't have good relationships with anybody on capitol hill pretty much even the democrats. and when you say chuck schumer, the old but certain next democratic senate leader siding with the bob corker menendez bill on sanctions, i think it sent a signal they are very close to having enough votes to overcome a presidential veto and that is a very serious message to the white house that says you have to work with this -- this congress. it is not just about mitch mcconnell and john boehner sticking thur thumbs in your eye. democrats were willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and

held off until they got the preliminary agreement and now there is a change. >> dana i think that is exactly right. per usual, we went around congress on this one and did what he wanted to do and now that he needs congress he wants the democrats to be on board. what could he have done differently. when it comes to important negotiations, with iran you have to do things secretly and not send congress members but have conversations with folks in congress, people on your side saying i need you to work with me down the road i want you involved and want your vicadvice, what could he have done differently so that folks like chuck schumer want to work with the president. >> well i'm not sure the administration mishandled it. 90% of the international agreements reached since world war ii have not gone to the congress and not gone to the senate. so why would he expect this one to be. so i think they handled this one properly. but the problem is the history this president has had with the congress of taking his own

democrats for granted and surely not having much faith in the republicans. so i think it is that history of having no short of liason with the congress. in is no -- there is no good will there and where he really needs the congress is where that is coming back to haunt him, as they say in washington i have the utmost respect for my colleague abby huntsman but what planet are you living on when you look at a situation where the republicans wrote a group pen pal letter to the ayatollah and the president reached a diplomatic break through that has alluded his predecessors for decades to have meaningful caps on the growth if they reach the deal and the question is what could he have done differently -- >> but i'm not talking about republicans. especially ones that signed the letter. if you don't have democrats,

like chuck schumer, on your side. >> and sending it back to dana like schumer, potentially the democratic leader, who wants to give congress some kind of say, but in the end he won't be the ringleader to try to scuttle the final deal with the veto-proof majority. >> i think that is likely, because basically the legislation right now is not to scuttle the deal just to give congress a say. so i think they are speaking up for their toougsal prerogative which has been overridden by this president and previous presidents. so it looks like the white house is getting the message and talking about making some changes to give congress something of a say so that they'll feel they are doing something but it doesn't actually have the potential to set the agreement off track. so clearly shuck schumer has the attention of the -- chuck schumer has the attention of the white house and the president will have to do something.

>> washington post columnist dana. >> i wonder what that word was? >> and before break, we have to admit that duke was the champion. >> with okafor on the bench, it looked like duke was dead but it was owe two freshman guards to the rescue first allen and then jones as duke ran down the badgers and won 68-63. for coach k. it is title number five. >> i love them and i trust them and they trust one another. it has been my best group as far as being together that i've coached in 40 years. >> so congrats to duke and of course our sports maven jordan schultz who had them from the start. and now notre dame trying to

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another story developing right now, the jury in the boston marathon bombing trial is in the sixth hour of deliberations. they are considering 30 charges against dzokhar tsarnaev 17 could lead to the death penalty. and adam riese is reporting from just outside of the courthouse in boston. adam what is the timeline for any potential verdict and what do we know as of this moment? >> reporter: hi ari. it is tough to predict when a verdict will come down but most believe it will come down quickly. all you need is one holdout. and here is the count. 30 counts seven women, five men debating his fate. whether or not he will go to the penalty phase and face the death penalty or life in prison. back to you ari. >> and i know you will keep us

posted as soon as we have news. and we'll turn to caleb mason. welcome back. >> hi, how are you guys? >> we're doing all right. everyone is interested in the out come of this case. it captivates the nation when you look at what a terrible crime was perpetuated there and as we pointed out the crime is not in dispute with regard to the evidence for the defendant. so walk us through exactly what is going on with the jury deliberation when so much of the underlying facts are not disputed in this case. >> that is right. so as your viewers probably know, one of the attorneys on the defense team judy clark, is probably the nation's fore-most defense attorney when it comes to capital trials. shooz had a great -- she's had a great track record in helping defendants avoid the death penalty. given that there is no dispute he was involved in these crimes you might ask why bother going

through a guilt phase trial at all. the answer is first, he has a right to do that. he has the choice to do that. and that is his right. and his attorneys will do that. and that allows the defense to put on more evidence to put on than they would have just in the penalty phase. and they didn't offer much. and there was an offer for a guilty plea and there was a conscious decision not to do that and the government was going to pursue the death penalty. and at the very least she is hoping the jurors will have the deliberations ss tuned to the level of dzokhar's involvement and that is important for the guilt phase as well. >> and that is the next question. what is will the penalty be.

you have the whole country against this guy at this point. does he have anything in his favor. >> the arguments against death penalty in a case where there are multiple participants would be the role in the offense of this defendant. typically, if a defendant has more of a minor role in the offense than other coperpetrators that is a mitigating factor. i think that one is unlikely to persuade many jurors given especially the note that he wrote in the boat while he was hiding. it seems as though he was on board as to the -- the purpose of the crimes as he laid them out in the note and he was a very conscious participant. he said he was jealous of his brother for having become a martyr and he laid out motive and premeditation. the second argument i suspect to see at the penalty phase and i'm assuming we are going to get to the penalty phase is his youth. as viewers may know it is

unconstitutional to execute anyone for a crime committed before 18. if he was a couple of years younger, he was only 19 when he committed this offense, he would have been ineligible for the death penalty and that rule is based on psychological research about the way the human brains develop, the parts of our brains that process impulse control and our higher level decision-making abilities are not fully mature until the mid-20s. most scientists believe that was the basis for the supreme court decision in the 2005 case. and judy clark could call psychological scientists that dzokhar was not fully mature in this respect. i don't expect that was a plausible argument but one you would have to try. >> and they argued that tamerlan, dzokhar's brother made him do it, did they present that effectively? >> i don't think it is possible to present that case effectively

given that evidence. they presented it as well as they could. but to truly mitigate dzokhar's involvement here either as to the guilt phase or as to the penalty phase, i think you need to show more than that tamerlan was the instigator here. dzokhar seems to have bought into it completely. without the note in the boat, perhaps there would be more of an argument here. but even after the crime was completed and he had fled and was hiding. he had time to sit down and think and he wrote in his own words to give some perspective on the purposes behind the actions and to state he was proud of what he had done. that is not the statement of a purpose who was dragged unwillingly into the crime by a domineering older brother. >> we're watching this closely. caleb mason, thank you for being with us.

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tylenol was ok, but it was 6 pills a day. but aleve is just 2 pills all day. and now, i'm back! aleve. people ship all kinds of things. but what if that thing is a few hundred thousand doses of flu vaccine. that need to be kept at 41 degrees. while being shipped to a country where it's 90 degrees. in the shade. sound hard? yeah. does that mean people in laos shouldn't get their vaccine? we didn't think so. from figuring it out to getting it done, we're here to help. there seems to be an inordinate number of exclamation points. >> well i felt that the writing lacked a certain emotion and

intensity. >> it was a damp and chilly afternoon so i decided to put on my sweatshirt. you put an exclamation point after sweatshirt. >> that is correct. i felt that the character doesn't like to be chilly. >> i see. i pulled the lever on the machine but the clark bar didn't come out. again exclamation point. >> and it can be frustrating how you put quarters and quarters into a machine. >> get rid of the exclamation points, i hate exclamation points. >> grammar, and too often the copy editors considered the nat of the publishing and they help the writers become the best they can be and there is no copy editors than those at the new yorker and mary norris that has

been with the new yorker for a decade and caught a mistake in a book beginning to excerpt and this is unusual because the book had been through the editing and a note came back and said who is this woman and will she come live with me. and mary says i'm still available. and it is a joy to welcome mary norris author of a book about language and life at the new yorker entitled between you and me confessions of a comma queen. welcome, mary. >> thank you. it is so nice to be here. >> and so a lot of times, writers dislike the process that happens with the copy editors. tell the writers out there, why they should embrace that process? >> well we are only trying to make you look your best. >> i prefer to think of us as gad flies, not gnats.

there is a border between the copy editor and the writer and that is us and you take the blame if there is any reaction to. >> and i don't know if you are on twitter and if you make a small grammatical error, suddenly the world will come for you. >> they think you are a horrible human being, that you are stupid and everything you've done is worthless. do you judge people who use bad grammar? >> not in speech. in writing, i would say they should have somebody look at that before they had it published. >> so tweets are okay. >> well tweets are interesting because you have to do so much in a little space so of course you use as many abbreviations as you have to to get the point across and you can do without punctuation if you need that space to allow for more words, you you're good-- for words.

>> you're good at punctuation in twitter. >> if you use punctuation in text you show puncuation on twitter. >> i see a little mistake there. >> oh! >> i get it. oh i get it. >> you'd make it a colon. >> oh, the colon too. sorry. semico semicolons are worthless. >> thank you. >> what do we use them for? >> john updike called the semicolon the valet of literature. it is very good if you can afford it.

>> it is outside your grammar budget. you use semicoll lonons all the time. >> between the texting and the tweeting and social media, there's so much more stringing together of sentences. does that make copy editing all the more important because a well placed position piece of prose stands out all the well now? >> i think that's perfectly true, yes. technology has given people the opportunity to write more than they ever did. children learn to type now and they don't learn to write longhand. the worldds have been well thought out. >> your biggest pet peeve? >> the use of "i" when you use

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krystal and i were talking about this. you either love duke you're obsessed with duke or you cannot stand with duke. >> that's all i care about. i care about them losing. >> you see how lovely hater people are moved to hate when talking about duke. >> yeah i hate duke.

>> duke won it all. last night they won for the fifth time in abby's life. why have the basketball gods down this to us and why do we hate duke? why are the most hated sports team in all of america. sports is like theater for men. why is it year after year duke occupies the villain slot? they don't recruit bad apples. they play fundamental basketball, but college hoops creates teams that have a discernible character because the teams are picked and formed in the image of the coach. some emerge as scrappy, like brad stephen's butler. others emerge as bully tough like a gang in shorts. remember john thompson's georgetown. men are drawn to sports teams

that evoke who they are or who they aspire to be. the scrappy team proves the american dream that if you try hard you can beat even goliath. duke is like that rich kid who gets its come uppance at the end. >> are you just going to leave? >> he isn't going to do-- i'm not going to do anything that he hadn't already done to himself. >> i wish i could live with that. >> listen to jalen rose. >> for me duke was personal.

i hated duke and i hated everything i felt duke stood for. schools like duke didn't recruit players like me. >> it is a private university in a world of state schools. the school's nickname comes from a french military battalion. its stars seem like the kind of guy that you just wouldn't, couldn't possibly like. there's just something about that guy. >> i hate duke. >> yet, we wouldn't hate duke if they didn't win all the time so it is a reverse tribute to duke and its decades of success that so many of us hate duke. begrudgingly i say, congrats on another championship. next year we'll hate you everyone more. all right. have a great day, unless you are a duke fan. thanks for watching "the cycle".

78-year-old john mccain says his senate career is just getting started, and twitter breaks its 140 character rule. first, there are new officially two republican candidates running for president. it's tuesday, april 7th and this is "now." >> we have come to take our country back. >> rand paul off to the races. the kentucky senator announces he's running for president. >> the washington machine must be stopped. >> senator paul calls himself a different kind of republican. >> washington is horribly broken. >> before he wins over a broad part of the country, he'll have to convince his own party first. >> the republican party says it wants to change it needs to change. do they want to change in the way and as much as rand paul is saying?