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minute on an iran bill, and president obama now says he would sign it. chris christie just threw a bombshell into the 2016 republican presidential field. and anthony weiner is back and he is not happy with new york city mayor bill de blasio. but first, hillary clinton and her scooby convoy are now in iowa. this is "now." >> i'm having a great time. can't look forward to it any more than i am. thank you. >> will going small help hillary clinton win big in iowa? >> she wants to get more up close and personal with voters. >> i'm here in iowa to begin a conversation. >> florida senator marco rubio officially entering the presidential fight. >> yesterday is over. >> generational moment. that's a slap at both hillary clinton and his mentor jeb bush. >> i've come here to talk about the challenges we're facing as a
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country. >> new hampshire is a state where historically politicians of both countries have gotten second chances. chris christie shouldn't be counted out. >> the road trip is over. hours ago, this was the scene when hillary clinton parked the scooby doo van where team clinton held the first public event of its presidential campaign. we got a firsthand account of hillary clinton's rationale for running for president in 2016. >> americans have come back from some pretty tough economic times. and our economy and our country are much better off because american families have basically done whatever it took to make it work. but i think it's fair to say that as you look across the country, the deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top. >> her message today seemed to be aimed directly at clinton's
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critics on the left. >> there's something wrong with that. there's something wrong when ceos make 300 times more than the typical worker. and there's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers. we need to fix our dysfunctional political system and get unaccountable money out of it once and for all. even if that takes a constitutional amendment. >> joining me now is mira tindon, and author of "the fix, chris alisza. even repeyton rating corporate profits from overseas. is hillary clinton still a wall street democrat? >> i would argue she never was a wall street democrat. i would argue that throughout
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her career she is increasing economic inequality. i think this is part and parcel of where she's been. you see what she did in her 2008 campaign. you see what she talked about in her 2000 campaign. >> what did you make about clinton's decidedly left leaning posture a couple of hours ago and whether or not that has any effect on the donor class? >> i think she's right. she did talk about these sorts of issues. so while i have been one to say this is obviously the elizabeth warren effect and i do think that matters, hillary clinton does deserve some credit that there's been some consistency in terms of her argument. the focus may have been a little different. i think she's tailoring her
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message to where the democratic party is. income inequality the wage gap, the shrinking of the middle class. all of these things are much more present, and i think are leading to a broader anxiety within the electorate not just democratic voters, but the electorate more broadly. so i think it makes sense that she's speaking to that concern and worry more now, and with words that we associate more with the populist left. >> i want to bring in joy reid. i know you were just coming out of that town hall. what has been the reaction to the scooby van and those who were in the scooby van, specifically the candidate hillary clinton? >> the scooby van definitely has landed. the reaction was good. it was an interesting, very
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intimate event inside of kirkwood community college in monticello. she has spent time listening to students, to one high school principal, to the president of this college. they were talking about very bread and butter issues. what it's like to be a single mother going to college. hillary clinton very personable. interacting with the students. very funny. making jokes here and there. i think it was a good look for her in terms of being really intimate. and what the campaign was looking for in terms of this -- i guess you should call it soft launch of her campaign. i have a student who was in that event and part of the round table. would you guys like to hear from her? >> yes, please! a real student! >> okay this is ellen. so ellen was one of the students -- how did you wind up
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getting a chance to talk to the first lady? >> well, the kirkwood administration, i got a call from them on sunday night. and they asked me if i would want to be a part of this. and i didn't know today if i was going to be in the audience or at the table, but i ended up getting to sit at the table. it was really neat. >> what was your big takeaway? what impacted you? >> what i really took away is that she wants to go back to the basics. she wants everybody to be on the same page. and also that she wants education for everybody. no child left behind. disability or slower learning. just everybody equal opportunities. >> you said the kirkwood administration called you. how did you come to be at that table if you didn't volunteer?
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>> alex was asking were you a volunteer? were you involved and active in political issues before? how did you come to be contacted? >> i was never really like involved in this. it was just -- they said the kirkwood administration had asked me. otherwise it was just through that relationship that i was a part of kirkwood's program. >> i can tell you from speaking with the head of the program, that we were actually inside with that the administration looked at their own student body. they just looked at their student body and thought who would be good students who would be interested in this who would have a lot to bring to the table, and they sort of selected their students for them. they also included one high school student, as well as one high school principal, because they actually run a program here for high school kids who can get credits here. so it was all administration
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decisions. they just picked the best of the best and ellen was one of the lucky people who was part of it. >> msnbc's joy reid and student ellen. i didn't catch your last name. thank you for your time. mira, to the tour. to the bus tour. the scooby van. the road trip. the concept. the whole thing. has it worked, in your opinion? >> it seemed very successful to me i think. i worked on hillary's 2000 senate race in new york. she thrived when she was talking to people in their lives and learning about their challenges and also talking about where she wanted to go as senator. i think the same will hold true as president. there are so many myths about hillary out there. it's great for her to have the opportunity. >> i believe ahead of the iowa caucuses in 2008 she toured the state in a hillacopter.
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that was actually a choice by the candidate and her form of transportation. the bus tour or the van tour seems a decidedly different mode of transportation. this is a clear calculation to present her differently, is it not? >> i definitely think that the campaign is thinking about how she would like herself to talk to people directly. where she really hears from people about their concerns. that's where a setting today, where she's really hearing kitchen table concerns the cost of college, the middle class squeeze. when you want to be a champion for americans, you have to hear where they are, and i think these are things she excels in. she's very personable. people are surprised by that. but they shouldn't be and they'll see a lot more of it. >> along the way, there's been a media frenzy. you saw that with the reporters sprinting to get a glimpse of
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the candidate. there was also that totally weird surveillance shot of hillary clinton at chipotle ordering what we think is a burrito bowl. there's risk and reward in this strategy, right? there's the reward that she is positioned completely different if they come to know her in an intimate way. the risk is that you look phony. that this becomes fodder for "saturday night live." if you had to grade the tour thus far, where do you put it on the scale? >> let me tell you this first. i think it's a much better launch than 2008. i watched the 2007 video. she's just sitting at her house talking for like two minutes to a camera. so not terrific. i am skeptical. reintroducing herself in a different way to voters. i'm skeptical that hillary clinton, who is if not the most famous politician in the
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country, it's her, barack obama, or bill clinton, right? and jeb bush is probably fourth. i don't know that you can reinvent someone that well-known about whom every person whether they follow politics or not, has an opinion. reinvent them as just one of the gals. >> i don't think this is a reinvention. i think the issue here is that you're going to see hillary in the way that hillary is. >> you don't agree that it's not a reinvention, a repositioning of her? >> i think the idea is for people to see hillary as she is. she's going to be talking to folks who will ask her questions. people will see how she is. but idea the idea that this is broad reframing is wrong. she ran her 2000 campaign like this. and i would say that we've seen there are moments where people
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can change their views of hillary, and she has gone up and she's come down a little bit in the past. but she has an opportunity to talk about not just where she wants to take the country, but her values and the kind of asset she brings to this. and i think we'll see that in the coming weeks and months. >> mira and chris, thanks for your time. >> thank you so much. coming up a breakthrough on a senate iran bill. we will tell you about the new compromise that the white house is open to signing. plus why is anthony weiner so mad at bill de blasio? and later, this chimpanzee just went all king kong expressing how most of us feel about flying drones. that is all just ahead. there's some facts about seaworld we'd like you to know. we don't collect killer whales from the wild. and haven't for 35 years. with the hightest standard
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less than two weeks after the u.s. and five world powers announced the framework for a nuclear deal with iran the new american congress wants a say and is pushing hard for it. moments ago, members of the senate foreign relations committee passed legislation that would allow congress to review any nuclear agreement with iran. this comes after a marathon sales pitch from secretary of state john kerry, who held closed door meetings all morning today with members of congress. and at the white house yesterday, president obama met with jewish leaders to make his case for the deal with iran. the legislation passed by the committee today requires the president to submit any final nuclear agreement with iran to congress. it gives congress 30 days to review the deal and it requires the president to certify it to congress every 90 days that iran is complying with the terms of
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the agreement. now that the bill is passed the committee is likely to come to a full senate vote this month where it's expected to pass. the big question mark is whether president obama would veto the bill. right now, it is looking like the answer to that question is no. >> what we've made clear to democrats and republicans and the senate foreign relations committee is that the president would be willing to sign the proposed compromise that is working its way through the committee today. >> joining me now is ranking member congressman adam schiff. thanks for joining me. i know you said yesterday your support for this would be contingent on the white house position. the white house seems to be in support of it. are you? >> i'm going to take a look at the final text that's come out of the senate. but it would give me a lot more comfort if indeed the white house looks it over and decides that this is something they can live with. and not only that will disrupt
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the negotiations. i find a couple of things very puzzling about this. one is i'm not so sure why it's imperative that we weigh in during the course of the negotiations since we have every right to vote on this after the negotiations are over. and beyond that here we are eight months into the war against isil and i've been pushing for a vote on an authorization to use force, and that the congress doesn't seem all that interested in taking up. >> why is that do you think? i know chris murphy brought up the same point, that there seems to be a double standard in terms of oversight. all the oversight in the world. but when it comes to war powers it's like a game of hot potato. why do you think that is? >> well i suspect it's because some of the members think there's a political benefit, a domestic political benefit from voting on the negotiation, but don't see any benefit at all from voting on a war resolution. and while i can understand the political dynamic as someone who cares a lot about the institution of congress and our
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role as checks and balances and as a counterweight to the president's power to make more, i think this is a terrible advocation of our responsibility. so i hope that we will find some of the same eagerness about an aumf vote that so many in the senate are displaying over a vote during the negotiations. >> well some of those overeager or eager folks in the senate include democrats. and i wondered did it surprise you that there were many democrats in the upper chamber who came out in support of a more stringent version of this bill, one that would have doubled the review period to 60 days. a bill that the white house didn't like. the support for that bill, the bill that the white house didn't like, was coming from democrats. what is that about? >> well i'm not sure. i have to think again that it's the domestic political considerations that were drifing that.
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secretary kerry among others made a persuasive case that they ought to be given the chance to see if they can get a deal. after all, we don't have a deal yet. we may not get a deal. and if we were smart about this and congress is not often accused of that but if we were smart about this we would try to coordinate our efforts with the white house to put maximum pressure on iran in these final weeks of the negotiation to the degree that we are divided, i think it only helps iran. >> congressman adam schiff always good to see you. thanks for your time. >> thanks alex. >> with me now is washington bureau chief for buzz feed news john stanton. so, john what happened here? we know that the white house initially said oh, non-binding review, that's fine. which is basically telling people they're allowed to discuss whatever they want in a corner. now it sounds like the white house is supporting a bill that would give congress a little bit of fire power, or juice, if you will, in reviewing all of this. so what changed?
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>> i think they realized they were probably going to end up losing and that bob corker wanted to override the veto. so they wanted to give whatever concessions they could from republicans and democrats both that supported this idea of being able to review the deal. and get it as weak as they could from their perspective, so they try to push forward on this policy. >> do you think there's some larger lesson to be extrapolated about relations between hill democrats? i think it was remarkable that you almost had a veto-proof majority in the senate which has to include not a few but quite a few -- not just a few, democrats. the fact that the president is working the phones that secretary of state kerry is working the closing. what does that tell us about
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relations between these two ends of pennsylvania avenue? >> well they're very poor. the person has been problematic for a lot of democrats. there are those that think he's gone too far. congressman schiff is probably one of those. there are others that particularly on iran and israel think that he's given away too much. that issue is always one where folks are going to break away from a president that does that. attempting to build good bridges with members of the senate regardless of parties. >> what about the other proposals on the table? marco rubio may introduce an amendment making the deal dependent on iran's recognition
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of israel which seams like a pie in the sky scenario. i know johnny ericson is pushing for hostages from 1979. ron johnson wants to make a formal international treaty. these all seem like total non-starters. >> in the senate right now no. i think that senator cardin and senator corker have agreed to do everything they can to block it. in this version of it i don't think it's very likely. the problem is going to ultimately be in the house where republicans there are definitely going to pursue some of these things. this idea of requiring iran to recognize that israel has become very popular.
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>> you're telling me house republicans may pursue a political non-starter? >> i know, it's shocking. when harry reid said he thought this was a wonderful step forward, i assumed this version was going to be dead in the house, because they don't like anything he loves. >> right. just stay far away from the bill. john stanton, always good to see you. thanks for your time. >> thank you. coming up believe it or not, this thing may prove to be apple's most successful product yet. that is just ahead.
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and the ipad combined. gwyneth paltrow gets a heaping serving of hateration for taking the food stamp challenge, but not for wearing a dress with a giant rose on the shoulder. and a chimp expresses her righteous disapproval of pestering drones. but first, traitor was the headline on today's new york post with the accompanying story detailing how clinton aides are fuming after bill de blasio refused to endorse her this weekend on "meet the press." >> are you for her now unequivocally, or do you want to see if she takes your advice on moving to a more progressive agenda? >> i think like a lot of people in this country, i want to see a vision. i think that would be true of candidates on all levels. it's time to see a clear, bold vision. >> so you're not -- you're technically not yet endorsing her? >> not until i see -- and i would say this about any candidate. until i see an actual vision of where they want to go. >> entering the fray. on behalf of hillary clinton,
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anthony weiner, who offered this snippy defense in "the wall street journal" today. she was working on a progressive vision of health care when bill de blasio was still smoking pot at nyu or wherever he went. full stop. joining me now is host of "ask me another" blake zeff and jess mcintosh. blake, you are a creature of new york politics. >> creature. >> does hillary clinton need an assist from anthony weiner? is this good development or not? >> anthony weiner is a man of civilry. >> it sure did. "the new york post" is so ridiculous. >> fuel me is what they said right? you can't even walk around the street in new york city without democrats rioting.
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>> first he made de blasio sound cool by the way. >> probably a lesser school. >> went to pineapple express academy or wherever. but de blasio being late to endorse hillary, he's late for everything. >> but i would say late. this is sunday. she announced on monday. the whole sort of pieces of this campaign has been hillary clinton, i am here to earn your vote. so here is bill de blasio saying i would like you to earn my vote. >> i mean i'm a new yorker. i miss the post. it's really kind of fun, as long as you don't take it seriously as a news outlet or a source of actual information ever. it's great. but the bottom line is bill de blasio didn't endorse her before she entered the race. he knows what kind of economic agenda she favors. >> it's not just a post-it
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thing. anthony weiner who is the vice chair of hillary clinton's campaign, he should know what the strategy is. >> who knows where anthony weiner is getting his sources. >> we can leave it there, sister. we're going to move on. gwyneth paltrow is coming under fire from some critics after she posted this picture on twitter. it shows the groceries that paltrow bought as part of the $29 a week food stamp challenge. mup much of the intermet has concluded that this is the most gwyneth paltrow thing ever. is this a good thing, or a bad thing that gwyneth paltrow is doing? >> i want to know first of all how much she paid the art director for that beautiful shot of the way the vegetables are organized. i mean it's really compelling. i don't like these challenges. i think the whole idea of like hey, guys do you want to be poor for a day? that would be so fun!
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>> what about the fact that we're talking about the challenge? >> and the best way to talk about any campaign that needs awareness is to have a celebrity do something really stupid. so she is succeeding. now the word is in everyone's brain, because gwyneth paltrow was like i bought seven limes. so that means only one margarita. >> here's the thing that i think is distressing about this. people are really hitting her for what she bought. and saying that's not what poor people buy. it's like wait a second. limes and kale may not be a great strategic move ka lorically to last you through the week but there is no reason that lower income americans should not have vegetables and leafy greens. i think it's problematic that we see those things as classes. >> i think part of what you're seeing is gwyneth paltrow is a very easy target. >> she's like a doctor now. >> exactly. >> to get serious, and i think you're hitting on a serious point, this is a real issue in
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america. where poverty and hunger have never been at a higher rate than they are now. and yet we're cutting food stamps. the program was cut by both parties. obviously gwyneth paltrow is a little tone deaf. has the great art direction. maybe she chose bok choy when other people wouldn't have done that. >> where do you sit on the paltrow instagraming of food stamp challenge? >> i ultimately come down on anything that raises awareness on an issue that doesn't get enough is probably a good thing. i think aside from cutting snap there is a real poverty shaming going on in this country. we see all of these bills spreading up in state legislatures about how you shouldn't be able to buy steak with your food stamp cards. you shouldn't be able to buy certain kinds of healthy foods. if she wants to instagram $29 worth of healthy foods, and six limes is a lousy choice if
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you're trying to stretch food for a week. but the idea that poor people should -- the poor americans should only be able to buy the junk food that we consider okay via food stamps is awful. and the idea that they can't even find kale or avocados in the food deserts in which these food stamps are largely being spent is also awful. and zero people you know, talk about that on a daily basis. so if i were her publicist, i would not be pleased with this happening. but because i am an advocate for folks who need it, i'm all for it. let's do it. >> and the conversation that we're having is not typically the conversation one has when one talks of gwyneth paltrow's instagram feed. speaking of shaming, musical artist pink took on body shamers who made fun of her weight in this picture over the weekend. i am perfectly fine perfectly happy, and my healthy, voluptuous and crazy strong body is having some much-deserved time off. thanks for your concern. love cheesecake.
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so i am all about women reclaiming body image and pushing back on haters. but i kind of tend to agree with the person who says i wonder where it stops. truthfully i no longer hold out hope that it will. the body critics outweigh all efforts to effect change. body shaming is part of the price of admission if you don't conform to an impossibly high beauty standard. >> it's true. i love her reaction. i love the sarcasm. i know you guys are worried about me. turning it around. i personally would never go to twitter if i wanted to feel better about myself. so you know what you're getting when you're engaging. i think there is a low point, that she wore this dress to a cancer benefit and people are attacking. >> the inappropriateness of that. >> it's just so wrong. but i love what pink said. do i think that this is going to change the conversation? no. >> right. i think there is a broader -- there is a broader battle here. >> and you look at that photo
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and you're like -- >> that's exactly the reaction i had. show me the actual photo. that was the photo. >> i think giving girls an example of how they can respond to this stuff is really helpful, though. because it starts out when you're 9 10 11 and you don't know what to do. and seeing somebody in pop culture who is seen as sexy who has this really athletic body who is an incredible -- i mean she's just a great force, respond this way, it's like okay, well now i kind of know how i'm supposed to behave when this comes at me. i have something to emulate. so i think it actually could change the conversation, at least for younger girls. >> it's good that she didn't back down. it's huge. >> and it's awesome that she signed it love cheesecake. i'm just saying. then there's this blake. cynics ridiculed the apple watch -- cynics? who could we be talking about? when it was debuted by tim cook a month ago. but now with almost one million preorders in a single day in the
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u.s. alone, the apple watch may be the company's biggest product launch ever! i admit, i'm a cynic, and i also know that a year from now, i will be wearing one of these things. >> of course you will. >> but we have to get something straight here. this isn't a $10,000 watch. this is the $300 watch. >> we don't have a breakdown of the percentage but presumably yes. >> the thing that boggles my mind is i thought the point of cell phones was it made watches obsolete. i don't know anyone who has a watch anymore. >> the watches of the world, this is their big middle finger. >> they're getting their revenge. >> there's no cell phones. there are huge tablets. >> they work in tandem. it's not like you get everything off the watch. the watch is basically like you're sort of radioing into your phone because your phone is somewhere lost in your gigantic bag. i don't know. are you going to get one? >> i'm sort of like you like i
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don't want that stupid thing. but they're going to get us because they're going to lower the price, right? and it's going to seem like a bargain when it's like $175. like we'll all get it now. >> i think that the watch is probably a good happy medium between the phone, which you carry around everywhere, and the implant. i'm waiting on the implant. >> i am looking forward to people walking around with cracked screens. that's going to be fantastic. >> exactly. speaking of technology and fighting back against it, if you hate drones you are not alone. who hates drones? what critics? this chimp at a zoo in the netherlands did not take kindly to a drone spying on her. choosing to forcibly take it down with the help of a pointy stick. pointy sticks of the world unite. your feelings about drones would you do this with a pointy stick? >> the rise of the primates.
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rise of the apes. that's what i say. apes, bring those machines down. this makes me so happy. this is what i would do. >> i like that it was a chimpanzee with a pointy stick bringing down this fancy piece of 21st century equipment. >> the camera remains fully intact as the drone falls apart. i think in the war of pointy sticks versus unmanned helicopters, now we know. >> now we just need pointy sticks for our iwatches. >> those dutch chimps, they are very progressive. >> thank you guys all for your time. coming up is mars leaking water? you want to know the answer to that. nasa has made a curious discovery on the red planet. and still ahead, should
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73-year-old volunteer sheriff's deputy robert bates
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surrendered to authorities and posted bond today in tulsa, oklahoma, on charges of second-degree manslaughter involving culpable negligence. those charges stem from the videotaped shooting death of 44-year-old resident eric harris. video from another deputy's body camera shows the april 2nd incident in which deputies pursued the fleeing harris on foot. harris is knocked to the ground and officers tried to subdue him with calls of taser. the video captures the sound of a single gunshot. >> i shot him. i'm sorry. >> harris, who was unarmed, later died. tulsa sheriff stanley glands called the shooting an error, saying bates meant to reach for his stun gun. on monday, the sheriff was asked if he thought the shooting was justified. >> was it justified? i don't think -- i don't -- that's a hard word for me to answer. >> okay. >> it's unintentional. >> according to the "tulsa
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world," attorneys for the harris family say that corruption was involved. in addition to being an unpaid member of tulsa's reserve deputy program, bates was also a million nar insurance executive and the chairman of the sheriff's 2012 re-election campaign. in recent years, he had donated thousands of dollars worth of vehicles and equipment to the sheriff's office. joining me now is ryan keisel the executive director of the aclu of oklahoma. thanks for joining me. what are these volunteer deputy programs all about? >> well essentially what we're learning is that it's an ongoing practice. not only in tulsa county, but in oklahoma county and elsewhere around the state, and we assume around the country. where individuals are able to donate or buy their way on to a police department or a sheriff's department, and perform duties that i think there are probably some duties that are entirely legitimate and understandable like traffic control for special events, sitting out in a mall
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shopping parking lot during a high shopping season. but here we have this individual buy their way into the program and participate in a violent crimes task force. this is reckless. and obviously it ended in tragedy in this situation when it did not have to. >> so the national sheriff's association is pushing back on allegations of buy a badge programs, which is what we're outlining here and they call them political hyperbole at best and balance chasing at worst. there are the donations, which folks from the sheriff's department have pushed back and say lots of wealthy folks give money. tell me more about the genesis of this program as you guys at the aclu see it. >> it's something that we're digging into. we are preparing open records requests as i speak for the five largest counties in oklahoma and we're going to be correlating donation data with reserve police programs and coming up
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with those figures. we have strong evidence of individuals who in exchange for large donations and their ongoing friendship to these individuals in leadership positions at police departments and sheriff's departments are then given some sort of special access or priority. and essentially given a badge. and literally given a badge. >> is it your sense that these programs may have escalated, that they started out as you mentioned earlier in sort of benign traffic adjudication positions? there's always the opportunity for things to go wrong. but they didn't start out with, you know armed policing. they started out with community -- you know community -- making sure that the community was safe in a fairly benign fashion. >> we heard some evidence in these badges in the past that
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have used those privileges. i think in large part, reserve officers play an important role whether they're volunteer or not, in many law enforcement agencies around the country. however, it is reckless to put a volunteer instead of a paid professional in a position like the one that led to the death of eric harris. in no way, should an unpaid volunteer be in a situation where they're carrying a taserer a violent weapon. the people of oklahoma deserve a well-funded and paid professional law enforcement service. they don't need a bunch of volunteers doing that. if that's the only way they can afford that then these law enforcement leaders need to go to their elected leaders and tell them that they need the funding necessary to do the job in a professional and accountable way. >> it is certainly to be an area where a lot of folks are watching to see if reform is the next step. ryan keisel executive director of oklahoma's aclu thanks for your time. >> thanks for having me alex. coming up next david bowie
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