american express' timeless safety and security are now available on apple pay. the next evolution of membership is here. in the summer of 1999 the president of the united states and his family decided they would spend their summer vacation at the home of some people they had never met. and they spent the summer vacation in a town that is harder to pronounce and spell than almost any other town in the country. and certainly than any other town in the state in which they vacationed. this is the town name. how would you pronounce that? sound it out. if you guessed skaneateles, you are not alone, but you would be deeply deeply wrong. the way you say the name of this

town is skinny atlas. the local tv station in skaneateles was a super dorky local tv anchor but is now a network news anchor man david muir. this is what he looked like before he was david muir. >> live from the great new york state fair this is eyewitness news 5 at 5:00. >> and good evening, everyone. i'm david muir. >> and i'm maureen green live at the new york state fair. we have a lot to tell you about in this exciting busy day. >> a fair is busy no matter what day you choose. the first family of the united states came through the fairgrounds a short time ago, their motorcade passed by our channel 5 studios here at the state fair.

and we're going to be meeting some of those people they got a chance to greet as they tour the fairgrounds. >> besides all that this is senior citizens day, dairy day. and the weather is spectacular. >> senior citizens day and dairy day and the president of the united states and the first lady of the united states and their daughter came to the new york state fair. they were staying by for their summer vacation in skaneateles. they did not know anybody in that town. they didn't even know the people whose house they borrowed for the purpose of vacationing in it. >> the first family went to developer tom mcdonald. his wife cathy and their family. they have offered up their home for the week. >> the other central new yorkers are just as thrilled. >> we're really excited the clintons have chosen central new york as their vacation spot. it's an honor for all of us. whether we like the president or

not, it's an honor. >> whether we like the president or not, still nice. this was a year and a half before the end of the bill clinton presidency. hillary clinton obviously still the first lady of the united states at this point. they lived at the white house. but this sort of seemingly random vacation they took to central new york was not at all a random choice. by that point, first lady hillary clinton had started the process of doing something that had never been done before in american history. she started the earliest stages of preparing to be the first first lady of the united states to ever run for and win elected office. that summer in 1999, she launched what she called a listening tour in rural, upstate new york. she launched it at a farm owned by senator moynihan. whose seat she would be running for. at that kickoff event of her listening tour, there were protesters outside the event holding signs that send things

like "hillary go home" and a new yorker for new york. and those protesters had a point. she was planning to run for a u.s. senate seat for new york, despite the fact that she had never lived in the state of new york a day in her life. and it wasn't like oh, you know, typical mitt romney problem where he just had a vacation home or something and he tried to call it his house. when the clintons wanted to vacation in new york state, they had to use somebody else's house. she had never lived in new york, ever. that fact alone made it seem impossible she would have any shot at winning that senate seat. never lived in the state, no first lady has ever been elected to anything ever before. she was running as first lady in an administration where her husband, the president, had just been impeached. it seemed inconceivable she would even run. and it seemed impossible that she could win.

>> the best is what the clintons would see, even though many here thought the president should have been impeached. >> i think the office is the important thing. but i think they should treat him with respect while he's here. >> most will. doug clark won't. >> i don't want to talk politics, because i'm going to lose. but he's a liar and purgerer and i have no use for him. >> the orpb of owner of doug's frisch fry are telling anyone who will listen the clintons are not welcome at his restaurant. >> the hillary special. >> the owner of johnny angels' burger joint doesn't care for the politics of bill or hillary clinton, either. but he's taking a more light-hearted approach. he's renamed one of his sandwiches the hillary special. one that's full of baloney. >> that summer of 1999, it seemed incredible that the first lady of the united states was from the white house going to start a run for a u.s. senate seat in a brand new state she's never lived in. it was incredible to try it. it seemed like it might be

impossible to pull off, particularly when it emerged that her likely opponent was going to be none other than rudy giuliani, the nationally known republican mayor of new york city. even before 9/11 had a nationally reputation. he would have loved to run for another term of new york city mayor. barring that possibility, he also loved the idea of running for anything against hillary rod ham clinton. >> the first lady is already in new york virtually every week. she and local democrats are trying to dispel criticism that she's a carpet bagger. this summer, the first lady will go door to door in rural and suburban areas where she's far behind her most likely opponent,

new york's tough republican mayor rudy giuliani. >> my reaction to her, she should talk to political consultants. she can learn something about new york. >> in case anyone misses the point, he's dressing up like an arkansas razorback. andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. >> it was hillary clinton versus rudy jewel is any for that set. giuliani dressing up like a university of arkansas football player, to taunt hillary clinton about not being from new york. at one point, he flew down to arkansas to do a republican fund-raiser while he was running in new york against hillary clinton. he actually raised the arkansas state flag at one point over new york city hall, to taunt hillary clinton further about being from arkansas, not really being from new york. everybody in new york was furious about the arkansas flag flying over city hall, using city hall to make this political point. but he was like that, just

relentless. nevertheless, she did get into the race. and when she did formally get into the race against giuliani, she cleaned his clock honestly. you could see from day one the way she rattled him, despite all his bluster. on the day that she made her announcement, the day she made her meticulously planned, formal announcement she was running, giuliani's response that day was to accidently blurt out that he was running, too, without apparently even knowing he had said that and tried to take it back as soon as he did. >> becoming the first first lady ever to run for public office in this country. she made it official, announcing her candidacy for the u.s. senate seat in new york, a state where she's lived for about a month. >> will new yorkers buy the new hillary rodham clinton? her biggest challenge to sharpen

her differences with new york mayor rudy giuliani. both support gun control and abortion rights. he hasn't announced yet, but appeared on five sunday talk shows and said on "meet the press" -- >> i'm going to run for the senate and i'm going to serve there. >> you just said you're running for senate. >> i did? >> is that a correction? >> well, i don't think that's accurate. we'll see. >> i did? i said that? from day one, she rattled him enough that he didn't even know he had announced he was running on "meet the press". i did? he did ultimately announce that he was properly running and everybody thought he was going to win. he ended up dropping out of that senate race citing health reasons. he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer a few weeks earlier. but even before his announcement he was dropping out, he was already trailing hillary clinton by double digits in the polls. as a candidate, he was just flailing. famously, he hated to leave new york city for the statewide race

while campaigning. even though upstate new york was supposed to be republican territory, that is where hillary clinton pressed her advantage. in binghamton, new york, rudy giuliani spoke for 22 minutes and turned around and went home. less than a week later, he canceled four upstate events because he said he wanted to attend a yankees game. mrs. clinton's campaign pounced. overnight staffers arranged for her trip to the cities mr. giuliani snubbed and they worked the telephones with upstate telephones to stoke that story. yeah, she beat him. and after giuliani dropped out of the race, a republican congressman named rick lasio got into the race. at the same state fair where the clintons had taken their summer vacation the summer before, rick lasio in the summer of 2000, he knew enough to realize he should

also attend that fair, he should go upstate and go to that fair. while there, he refused to speak to any local media. that wasn't a nice thing to the upstate local media. and when somebody asked him about the signature fair food of the new york state fair, which is is sausage sandwich, he volunteered that he was so-so on the sausage sandwich, and he did not want to eat one. and so hillary clinton came back to the state fair, with bill, cue the triumphant, joyful eating of the sausage sandwich in front of as many reporters as they could find. take that, rick lasio. and yeah, hillary clinton cleaned his clock, too. >> hillary rodham clinton now has two titles. first lady of the united states and senator-elect from the state of new york. >> she split in rural areas.

traveling in 62 counties around new york. he carried the suburbs but she was head to head with him in the rural areas. that turned out to be very important. >> hillary clinton won that senate seat. and as the junior senator from new york, she served as a senator in much the same way she had won the seat in the first place. she spent a lot of time upstate, all of the state, state and county fairs, local parades. a hard core attention to constituent services. when it came time for her re-election efforts six years later, she didn't have the out of stater thing going against her anymore. but it was clear that she was going to be running for president in 2008. they couldn't use that against her for her re-election effort. that turned out to be no problem, though. this was the electoral map when she beat rick lasio.

this was the electoral map when she won re-election in 2006. by more than 30 points. hillary clinton is good at this. she's really good at this. yes, she did lose the 2008 presidential primary to barack obama, barely. but it is still a historically inexplicable the way she became the first woman elected to the united states senate in new york state, when she had never lived there a day in her life and running against the most famous new yorker in the country. but she did it and did it with small scale events and shoe leather and paying attention to local media and surprising everybody by showing up over and over and over again in places that other candidates wouldn't bother. and now this weekend, her campaign says that she will launch her second campaign for president of the united states. but this time she's going to go back to that successful strategy that she used in 2000 to win that most unlikely senate seat in new york. she's going to release a video online.

on sunday it will be the official announcement. it's already been taped. it's already in the can. apparently it's been taped, but once that video launches this weekend, once they hit send, it will be off to small scale events, rural areas, and small scale meetings with voters. no big rhetoric, no large rooms. just showing up, especially in small town places where people do not expect her to be outworking everybody else. will it work this time? nbc's chuck todd, the moderator of "meet the press," joins us next. . jump on a video chat with my friend. he's a real fan boy, so i can't wait to show this off. picture is perfect. i got mine at verizon. i... didn't. it's buffering right out of the box he was impressed. i couldn't be happier. couldn't see him but i could hear him making fun of me. vo: you waited this long for the s6 so why settle for anything less than verizon.

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hillary rodham clinton now has two titles, first lady of the united states and senator elect from the state of new york. >> she came out of the cities with a 3-1 edge and split in rural areas. traveling around 52 counties in new york really did pay off. >> then first lady hillary clinton won the senate seat from new york state. first first lady to ever win elected office. first woman ever elected to the senate in new york. despite the fact she had never lived in new york a day in her life. sunday, we are expecting a new announcement from hillary clinton that she's running for president for a second time. her soon-to-be campaign says she plans to redo that strategy that carried her to that win in 2000 when she spent all that time in all 62 counties in new york

state, including a lot of time in republican areas in small town, new york. she surprised everybody. joining us now is chuck todd, moderator of "meet the press." thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> is it fair to think that there could be a national parallel to the way she ran for that senate seat in 2000? >> absolutely. everybody i talked to close to the clinton campaign when they've been trying to describe what they're trying to do here, this is all coming from her rachel, is what i'm told. the big rallies, that isn't her strong suit. that's a strong suit of bill clinton, strong suit of president obama. she knows she was at her best, she believes she was at her best in doing what you described before, the very small, sort of county by county, town by town style of campaigning she did in new york. that's where she's most

comfortable. at the end of the day, if the candidate is not comfortable, then no matter whether you grow or not, and trust me, rachel, there's been a lot of debate how to do this. but secretary clinton wants to go small and slow. a lot of people said hey, make this a big -- make it about electing the first woman president. have a huge announcement and she vetoed that. >> there's a math problem that if you are only reaching people in very small groups, you're not reaching thousands of people or hundreds of people at a time. that might work if you spend enough time doing it in a single state where you're running a statewide campaign, even a big state like new york. but you can't reach enough people in enough swing states and caucus states to contact enough of them to make a difference, unless they're able to let the media in on all of those small events, which makes it harder to make them charming, right?

>> well, there is that. by the way, not just the media. she's got a very large footprint. she has secret service protection as a former first lady. so there's that foot print that comes when you try to do this living room style of campaigning. particularly iowa. but you just pointed out, there is no barack obama getting ready to run. so she's not pressured to outorganize somebody. we're going to be there, we'll have cameras. everybody is going to see what she's doing. >> is it also -- i mean, trying to do this in a national setting, it's one thing to show up in little lakeside towns and fairs in upstate new york. it's in the thing to do that in iowa and new hampshire where she may be the only big-name democrat who is doing it, but there's about 47 republican candidates trying to use essentially the same strategy in

all those places in iowa and new hampshire. is it going to look like a more typical iowa and new hampshire approach, rather than having the novelty that it had in new york? >> i think that's right. but this will be a novelty as far as the way hillary clinton is doing this. this is sort of -- the point they want to make is, hey, she learned her process faults, if you want to call them that, back in 2007 and 2008. she's not going to take anything for granted. but the other part that's hard about this is, in rewatching that trip down memory lane you gave us on new york there, i was reminded hillary clinton got to play the role of the underdog the entire time. even though she was the front-runner, there was so much skepticism. i remember closely covering that race. there was just constant skepticism. oh, she's a carpet bagger. sure, she was ahead in the polls, but she always had that underdog mentality about her. when she finally got good on the campaign trail against barack

obama, when she fell behind. >> that's right. after she lost in iowa. >> i do wonder -- she's not proven to be a good front-runner before, and i think that to me is one of her tests. how will she handle not being in that underdog role? because she's at her best when she is an underdog. >> it's hard for anybody to be a front-runner almost in any field. i think it will be interesting to see, watching the rnc launch its ready to go stop hillary campaign with their tv ads, multiple states everything today. >> by the way, rachel, there's going to be multiple presidential candidates on the republican side who are also going to do ad campaigns against her, too. so this is going to be a full frontal assault. >> that's right. she can be the underdog against the vast right wing conspiracy. maybe that's going to be the way she can do it. chuck todd, moderator of "meet the press," thank you so much. great to have you here. >> we love sunday news and she's

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>> it was, amtrak's president said, a conscious attempt to kill people. the train track sabotaged. then at 1:20 a.m., an amtrak train carrying 268 people derailed in the remote arizona desert. four cars plunging 30 feet off a wooden trestle into a dry stream bed. >> it started making a little noise, then there was -- we were all sleeping, there was a big jerk, and people started to scream. we went outside to look. >> amtrak said the wreck left one crew member dead, five injured, more than 70 others hurt. and given the rugged terrain, it was almost impossible to get hurt. this afternoon, the fbi took

over the investigation. the maricopa county sheriff say all signs point to domestic terrorism. >> all signs point to domestic terrorism. one crew member on that train was killed, more than 100 people ended up being injured ultimately. 12 people critically injured. nearby, they found four copies of a weird letter claiming credit, signed sons of the gustapo. it referred to waco and ruby ridge. so authorities set out to find out who was responsible for this deliberate act. >> by this morning, almost 100 agents were in place 60 miles southwest of phoenix. the number of agents here, second only to the oklahoma city bombing. >> using the public, very often between a little bit of skill and effort and luck, we're going to be there. >> we are going to pursue every bit of evidence and every lead very thoroughly.

>> we'll get to the bottom of this. we will punish those who are responsible. >> that was 1995. it's been almost 20 years since that train wreck, that deliberate train wreck. whoever did it, has never been found. but the case has never been closed. over the last 19 1/2 years, the fbi and deputies have conducted hundreds of interviews, followed thousands of leads. and then today, the local fbi office in phoenix, arizona, announced unexpectedly not only had agents recently reenergized their investigation into this derailment, they have upped the reward in the case. they're now offering a reward of more than $300,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction in this case. fbi special agent mark schweinor said somebody out there knows what happened and now more than 20 years on, it's time for that person to come forward. >> today, we want to send a message to those responsible to this senseless act of sabotage. that message is simple.

we're very close. we are watching. and we will bring you to justice. >> why did they just up the reward now? why now? can upping the reward from an effect, even this long after a crime like this? and of course, who did it, right? joining us now is jim cavanaugh, former fbi special agent. jim, looking at this, is this just the passage of time, is that enough of a reason for the fbi to do this now or do they have something new in this case? >> well, they could having something new, but they're trying to get that little slice of information to drill down to who is responsible. you laid it out pretty good. there was the note the sons of the gestapo. i remember hearing about it at the time. we never heard of the group, so that could be two or three people. it could be real and it could

have been inspired by the oklahoma city bombing just two weeks earlier. so this could be a real, you know, blatant act of domestic terrorism. >> is that a group that ever surfaced, did that name ever surface in conjunction with any other attacks or were there other attacks that seemed like the work from the same people? >> train wrecking is a separate federal statute but it doesn't happen much. it's not been frequent. little groups like that, splinter groups pop up with names to them. we found all kinds of groups from large to small. no one ever heard of this, but it's a major lead category and it could be two or three people, as you outlined. it's difficult to move that rail and also hook the switch so the engineers trip. so nobody was very determined and tried to kill 258 people.

just lucky they didn't kill 258 people, which would have been more people killed in oklahoma city. so it is a very significant case and i salute the fbi and the u.s. attorney and the maricopa county sheriff detectives who are trying to solve it. that need that one call. i heard something, somebody bragged to me. $310,000, that can change a lot of talk. >> jim cavanaugh, former atf special agent, thank you on this. >> thanks, rachel. >> in terms of thinking about how far -- how far down the road a reward can make a difference, it was more than a decade down the road that they upped the reward for whitey bulger and that sparked a tip which brought him in. sometimes this stuff works. we'll be right back. open the box and... (sniffing) new phone smell. jump on a video chat with my friend. he's a real fan boy, so i can't wait to show this off.

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>> a chestnut mountain resort in northern illinois is primarily a ski resort. on their website, they have a bunch of live camera feeds so you can see what's going on there. one of those feeds is the mountain top camera. it showsed ream scenic area around. last month on march 5, this is what the view looked like from that mountain top camera. look, a huge, black plume of smoke rising up from down by the river. the smoke that you could see from the resort's live cam that day was coming from this disaster, which was unfolding down below. the derailment and explosion of a 105-car oil train. it took days to put that fire out. that oil train disaster in illinois came just a few weeks after another huge derailment and explosion in west virginia. a 109-oil car train spun off the tracks, cause thing huge explosion, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of

people. this is sort of how it goes across america. as the oil trains come through, will your town be the next one like in illinois or west virginia or here in lynchburg, virginia? what we have been awaiting for close to a year now is a set of new rules from the obama administration on oil trains, to make the tank cars stronger and less likely to explode when they come off the tracks. we're told to expect those new rules next month. but they come with a caveat. one of the biggest issues around these oil train disasters is how the question of combustible the oil is that's being packed into these trains. these new rules coming out next month, the obama administration is not going to take on that issue at all. the transportation department wanted that to be in the new rules, but the white house decided instead that they would leave that whole issue up to the states. specifically, they would be leaving it up to the state of north dakota, which is where

most of this oil originates from. so that's neat for north dakota to be so trusted. it's sort of terrifying for the rest of us. north dakota, by their actions, have shown themselves to be uninterested in safety when it comes to these oil train bombs that keep blowing up everywhere. north dakota's oil industry has been trying to convince the rest of the country there's no problem when it comes to these oil trains. the state's top oil regulator has it written into his job description that he's supposed to be the state's top oil industry promoter. oh, because that's not a conflict of interest. and then there's the north dakota legislature. legislators this week have been going over the next state budget. one of the things the state government has asked the legislature for when it comes to oil trains is a state-run rail safety program.

they want about $900,000 to hire two rail safety inspectors and one manager to inspect the tracks in north dakota to guard against the kind of derailments and explosions which north dakota itself has experienced recently. there are currently only two federal rail inspectors in the region, responsible for all of north dakota, as well as south dakota and montana. two people total for three states. north dakota said let's hire two of our own people to inspect the tracks here. we know this is a problem. let's make things safer in the state where all the oil is coming from. that went before a house committee and republicans in the state legislature killed the funding for the rail inspector. they passed the budget for the state agency that has oversight for the oil industry but stripped the funding, saying i don't think having a couple of state inspectors running around is going to make a hill of beans of difference.

yeah, who needs inspectors. it's not like we have a problem here on the rails. what's the big deal? democrats say they're going to try to restore that funding and get that money in there for those inspectors. as of now, when asked whether they should have a couple people checking out the oil train tracks in their state, republicans said no, we're good. we're good. that's an amazing decision. ♪ ♪ i love my meta health bars. because when nutritious tastes this delicious i don't miss the other stuff. meta health bars help promote heart health. experience the meta effect with our multi-health wellness line. ♪ ♪

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26-year-old vion was once a schoolteacher. now she spends her days in this room watching and trying to find the enemy just across the street. >> richard engel is nbc's chief foreign correspondent. he is intrepid, multilingual. he's not just traveled but lived all over the world. his passport looks like a thumb book. richard gets a lot of credit for his war reporting. but one of the things that makes his war reporting different and often very powerful is his ability to get with people who are in the middle of conflict situations. it's more than just being in danger, for him, it's his willingness to spend significant time with people who are in the middle of those dangerous situations, to figure out what makes them tick and what they are experiencing in the middle of those conflicts. richard is very good at his job. in november, richard did a

special report in this hour here on msnbc about the fight against isis in syria. and for that report, on the turkish-syrian border, richard got into the syrian town of kobani where the kurds were fighting a relentless fight against isis, which was trying to take over their town. and some of the most amazing footage richard got in that town in the middle of that battle from the time he spent with women fighters, female kurdish fighters fighting isis for their hometown. we have an update on that story tonight. but just watch this from richard's report in november. >> reporter: 26-year-old vione was once a school teacher. now she spends her days in this room watching and trying to find the enemy, just across the street. born and raised in kobani, she says leaving was never an option. kobani is our home, she says. where else would we go? we will stay here and fight. it's especially important, she

says, for women to be strong in the middle east, where they are rarely seen or heard from. we stand here as symbols of strength, she adds, to all the women of the region. >> so you're fighting for kobani and for women's rights in the middle east? yes, she says. right now, i'm fighting for kobani. but i promised myself that wherever a minority is attacked, i will be there to fight for her rights. she sings a song of mourning for her fallen comrades. she knows kobani can only be remembered one of two ways, as the site of a victory over isis, or as the site of a horrific massacre. which is why everyone in kobani, the old and the young, women and men, carry a special bullet around. they call it the bullet of honor, and plan to use it to take their own life if the enemy manages to get through the lines. better that, they say, than falling into the hands of isis

alive. >> that fighter, vionne and her fellow fighters in kobani, did push isis out. but today, her military unit told nbc news that vionne was killed in battle as she and other kurdish fighters pushed out west of their town. these are images of her funeral procession. richard tells us today that at her funeral, the mourners played a song that she wrote about kobani's resistance, because he says that she's become an official anthem for the fighters there, and for their fight. life during wartime. we'll be right back. ♪ where do you get this kind of confidence?

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do you hear something? what's that coming down the road? friday night news dump time. happy friday, everybody. >> tonight we have someone from new york new york, a paralegal for the innocence project. he wants to go to law school but he also likes sewing and fashion. >> hayato, very nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. >> are you wearing a large hat >> i am wearing a large hat. this is my pilgrim's hat. i'm ready to go to plymouth rock and churn butter. >> all right. we're happy to have you here. you probably know how the game works, but you're going to get three questions about the news. if you get two of them right, i guarantee you, you will win this piece of junk.

julia? >> this is a little cocktail shaker. >> it will pose no risk to you. if you get all of the questions right and you need extra credit or if you need a consolation prize, we have something random for you that, up until tonight, has been cluttering our office. >> we've got two options. part of your birthday present, the attack owl beer. >> it's really good. it's not regifting. i don't know if you like beer. any way, it's delicious. >> or he can have this stamp we found. >> i want that one, definitely. >> all right. we also need to bring in the disembodied voice of steve. he determines whether or not you got the right answer. hello, steve. >> good evening to you both. >> ready for the first question? >> all right. i'm ready. >> on wednesday's show, we reported on the annual nra convention, which is being held

in nashville this week, which almost all the republican presidential hopefuls are attending. it's kind of a big deal this year, because nra members have been told this year that they are allowed to bring loaded weapons inside the ballroom where the candidates are speaking. which of the following presumptive republican candidates is not going to be speaking at the nra convention because he wasn't invited? was it marco rubio, ted cruz, c, jeb bush, or d, rand paul. >> i'm going to have to go with d, rand paul. >> steve, did he get that right? >> let's check the segment from wednesday's show. >> rand paul was also not invited. although the nra is not explaining that in terms of them having some beef with rand paul, they just say they didn't have time to invite everybody. >> the correct answer is d, rachel maddow. >> you have to have two right to win the prize.

this is from monday's show. on monday, we reported on an unusual occurrence at this year's white house easter egg roll. while president obama was reading a book to a group of kids, he was interrupted by the kits screaming bloody murder because a bee had flown by. and it was freaking the kids out. what book was the president reading when the bee freakout happened. was it a, are you there, god, it's me, margaret. b, where the wild things are. c, the lion, witch, and wardrobe. or d, the adventures of captain underpants. >> b, where the wild things are. >> steve? >> let's take a look at monday's segment. >> ahhhh! >> hold on, hold on. you guys are wild things. you're not supposed to be scared of bees. >> yes, the correct answer is where the wild things are. >> last one. ready for the last question? it's a good one and has a sound component to it. last night's show, we reported on the conservative outrage about a made-up story.

behold the fox news channel is in the morning. >> what is a communist flag flying next to an american flag over a state capital? it didn't take long for a few patriots to take it all down. a few patriots took it down. find out where it all happened. >> they raised a chinese flag as a nice gesture. because a chinese ambassador was visiting. no outraged patriots had to take that flag down. state employees took it down as normal once the ambassador left. but where did this source of fake fox news outrage take place? was it a, washington. b, california. c, idaho. and d, steve dooce-istan.

>> i'm going to go with a, washington state. >> steve? >> in a way the outrage happened in steve dooce's mind. but the better answer is a, the great state of washington. >> this has been a very impressive time. >> he wins the tiny cocktail shaker. >> and you would prefer the stamp that says, past due, to the beer? >> well, i'm gluten free, but i'm going to have to go with the beer. >> you don't have to drink it. >> i think it's illegal to ship it to you, so can you come to the office to pick it up? >> rachel, i'm not sure you can tell, but my face is going to be permanently frozen with a smile. this is the best day of my life. >> you have better days ahead, trust me. great to have you here. thank you. yeah, steve.

even if you're gluten free, you can get something from us. send an e-mail to us if you want to play. tell us who you are, where you're from, why you want to play the news dump. we can't wait to declutter our news office and send our junk to you. "weekends with alex witt" starts now. history in the making. a handshake between president obama and the leader of cuba. they are set to have another encounter today. we'll tell you what might be on the agenda. waiting game. expectations are high as hillary clinton gets set to announce a run for the president. as new poll numbers show who could be her toughest competition. new fallout. police officers are paying a price after a strange chase through the desert involving a man on horseback. hot seller. so many buyers for the new apple watch is now pushing the delivery date back. so how long will you have to wait?