hope that parents would understand that if we had not linked through policy the evaluation of teachers to the testing i think more kids would be showing up for testing actually i would say to our parents that our kids have got caught in a labor dispute between the governor and the teachers union and our kids are paying the price if that may be true here but there's a lot of places where that isn't true diane and merryl. that is all. "the rachel maddow show" starts now. evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. awesome debate. thanks at home for joining us. very happy to have you with us. so there is good news and there is bad news about the international terrorist group that the u.s. government thinking posing the highest rick of launching an international terrorist attack against us here in the united states. there's good news and bad news today about al qaeda in the

arabian peninsula. bad news first. on april 2nd you will remember that terrible attack on that university in kenya. 143 college students killed in that attack that went on for more than 12 hours. at garissa university in northern kenya. that attack was mounted by al shabaab, which is a terrorist group based in somalia and carry out attacks in neighboring countries as well including in kenya and al shabaab has pledged allegiance to al qaeda, specifically to al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. so one of the really hard things to fathom about that attack was how long it went on for. how long it took for local authorities to get in there and stop it. those al qaeda attackers shot their way into that college something like 5:30 in the morning, not until 5:00 that night that police commandos were finally able to storm into the school and kill the al qaeda guys and rescue the students this is after an entire day when those al qaeda terrorists terrorized the students as their

hostages separated the students by religion killed the christians first, made students call their parents. i mean the whole -- it went on for an entire day before the police got there. we now now why it took so long for the kenyan police to get there and respond to that attack. the police chief in charge of police aircraft in that country which is how the police commandos were going to respond to that attack this college was in such a remote part of the country they would basically have to fly their s.w.a.t. team up there to that school to try to save the students once the attack started. that police chief in charge of police aircraft admitted to the daily nation newspaper in kenya dawes that the plane that was supposed to be available to fly police complan doughs up to the site of the attack. that plane instead was in the coastal resort town of mombasa picking up his family. the police chief's family who had been on vacation there and they used the police plane as their ride home.

and that's where the plane was. the guardian newspaper posted these make turns which reportedly though the police's daughter-in-law and for family member posing with the kenyan police airplane while it was picking them up from their vacation instead of rescuing those kids who were being massacred over a period of 12 hours in northern kenya. now, the police chief does not seem to be embarrassed by this and he still seems to have his job. he told local reporters today when explaining where the plane was that the plane was picking up his family from vacation he said, quote, there is nothing to hide. i take full responsibility. so that is the terrible answer to one of the previously unanswered questions about that tragedy. a question of how on earth it went on for so long before local authorities could respond. now we have the terrible answer to that question. but in today's news we also got an answer to another really important question about al qaeda and the arabian peninsula. which is a question that was actually posed by the u.s.

justice department late last year. and that question was, where is this guy, do you though this man? it's a slightly weird thing about a department of justice sort of a quaint archaic seeming thing about what they do but one of the things the justice department does when they want to solve a crime or find someone is that they offer loot. they offer to pay you if you will help them out in solving that crime or finding that person. they did it for example in 2008 on the 79th birthday of boston gangster whitey bulger. he had already been on the run for 14 years but as a birthday present to him the justice department put out a press release reminded people he was missing on the run and shouted from the rooftops anybody who helped find him could earn $2 million as a reward as unlikely as it seemed after whitey was missing so long the justice department announcing $2 million reward really did, in fact turn up a sighting of whitey bulger

which resulted in him being captured after all those years. it worked. just last week the fbi announced reward to help them solve this crime. not long after the oklahoma city bombing nearly 20 years ago now in 1995. somebody wrote an oklahoma bomber-style anti-u.s. government screed and left it as a claim of responsibility alongside this purposely derailed amtrak passenger plane in the arizona deevacuate desert. one person killed more than 100 combrered a lot sent to the hospital with very serious injuries, whoever caused that derailment did it on purpose. they pulled out more than two dozen railride spikes and removed a whole section of the rail line there specific to dump that train at speed off a highway bridge. it's a miracle that more were not killed in that terrorist attack but that was nearly 20 years ago. nobody has ever been arrested in conjunction that and last week the fbi doubled down on the reward in that 20-year-old case in the hopes of goosing public

interest. in solving it. all these years down the road. and at the highest levels of the justice department they do this all the time. they really believe that rewards work. late last year the state department's rewards for justice program announced a $5 million bounty, a $5 million reward for anybody who could help locate this guy, a man originally from saudi arabia he was found in afghanistan during the u.s. war in afghanistan in its early days turned over to u.s. forces and sent to guantanamo where he served years in prison at guantanamo. the bush administration decided release him in 2006. they released him to saudi arabia where he went through an anti-terrorism rehabilitation program that was supposed to cure him of his al qaeda affiliation and al qaeda sympathies. a few months into that program, however, he escaped from saudi arabia, he ultimately made his way to yemen where he game the top spiritual adviser, spiritual

leader of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and as such earned himself that $5 million bounty. and now it appears that somebody might be about to collect that $5 million. since al qaeda in the arraignabian peninsula dispatched the underwear bomber in 2009 to employee up an airplane over the united states and sent the even more sophisticated printer cartridge bombs the following year since the connections were exposed between al qaeda and the arabian peninsula and ft. hood shooter hassan the united states government focused on al qaeda in the arabian peninsula as the international terrorist group most determined and potentially most capable of striking the united states with another 9/11-style it not 9/11-scale attack. one of the ways the u.s. has tried to keep that al qaeda chapter in check is by stationing a pretty large number of u.s. special operations forces secretly inside yemen to

keep tabs on the group. to continuously develop intelligence on them. to train local forces in fighting that group. honestly they've been waging a low-profile low-grade secret u.s. war against al qaeda in the arabian peninsula mostly using drone strikes that the u.s. government never publicly admits to. that was part of why it was a big deal when the u.s. decided that they would extract all american personnel from yemen last month. in the face of the rapidly escalating civil war in that country, the toppling of yemen's government, a fast expanding proxy war between iran-backed rebels that overthrew the government and saudi arabia-backed forces trying to overthrow the iranian groups and saudi arabia's military getting directly involved in yemen with air strikes in that country in the face of that escalating and expanding chaos and international conflict the u.s. closed that special forces base in yemen that they had been using to fight al qaeda there. they pulled out all the special

forces troops that had been operating in yemen for so many years to fight against al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. and it has been this interesting and open question as to what would happen to the u.s. war against al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. al qaeda in yemen once those u.s. troops that had been based there for so long had to leave. what would happen to that war. and because of that unanswered question, it was kind of a big deal and kind of strange and definitely intriguing when reuters reported this little squib yesterday. that for the first time since this big war started in yemen and all the american personnel were pulled out of that country for the first time since all that happened there was somehow for some reason what appeared to be a u.s. drone strike in yemen yesterday. i thought we weren't doing that anymore. this intriguing report yesterday from reuters, nobody really knew what it meant. and then today the other shoe dropped. "can i afford it?" in the arabian peninsula put out a distraught press statement today expressing their outrage that what they called a crusader

drone strike had killed their spiritual leader had killed this guy who the bush administration had released from guantanamo in 2006 who the obama administration had just assigned a $5 million bounty to and who was apparently the target of that drone strike yesterday. does that mean that the u.s. is going to be able to keep up some level of warfare against al qaeda in the arabian peninsula even without any personnel on the ground there in yemen? leaving that base not matter for that war? is the u.s. military or the cia are they still going to be able to target al qaeda in the arabian peninsula effectively even with no one on the ground in that country? i don't know. but it appears at least that they got this guy who they were willing to spend $5 million for information leading to his location. the u.s. government is not confirming that he's definitely dead but al qaeda is. for whatever reason we are rat a moment in american politics right now where we don't really

debate foreign policy as part of our politics. we don't make decisions about foreign policy through our elected leaders. if we did, there would be a lot for them to chew on right now. meaning the just with yemen since yemen starting disintegrating and fall nothing this full-blown not just civil war but an international conflict and yemen, even just in and around that country, it has been very hard to figure out what role the u.s. is playing. and even thousand we're just protecting our basic interests there. the u.s. free years has said that americans citizens shouldn't travel to yemen. it's too dangerous a country to even visit. but people ignore those warnings. there are lots of americans and duel yemeni-american citizens who travel through there. one of the things that has been strange since this conflict really blew up in yemen has been seeing other countries like india or russia or china mounting international rescue efforts to go into yemen and extract all of their citizens from the middle of that war zone

in yemen. since the war started all those other countries have been going into yemen and getting their citizens out, evacuating them. the united states has not. which the state department so far has had a hard time explaining. >> i'd like to ask last week you talked about that there are no plans to evacuate americans from yemen. >> that is true. >> over the weekend, you know the indians have been able to evacuate people. other countries have been able to evacuate people. with the u.s. with having so many military assets in the area why can't you? >> when you said that you alerted them to opportunities to leave the country, what are those opportunities then swim? well, come on. i mine the airports are closed how are they -- >> the one that we sent out -- >> jump in the water. i mean -- what -- >> the one we sent out on april 5th was a specific boat that was crossing from ada to gentleman dut -- djibouti.

these are mainly maritime opportunity. >> so maritime. so -- >> because the airports closed. >> understood so but you have ship there is too, right? >> at this point there are no plans for u.s. assets to be used to do this. >> i mean people are there. some of them may not have had a choice in going there. and now they're looking for help from their government. >> right. and -- >> you're basicing them telling them to well -- >> continue finish your sentence. >> fill in the blank. >> well no i would -- >> no? okay, what are you doing for them. >> i think i've just -- >> nothing. >> discuss -- >> so this has turned into an awkward subject at state department press briefings. also turned into a real problem for americans who are left in yemen and don't have a way out. one advocacy group set up this website, stuckinyemen.com. they can input their personal information national hopes that some advocacy group can help

them try to get out because the u.s. government cannot moving them out. more than 40 americans who are stuck there or have family members stuck there have filed a lawsuit against the u.s. government saying the u.s. government has a duty to evacuate waite its citizens the same way other countries have evacuated their citizens but the u.s. has not. this weekend more than 100 americans who had been trapped in yemen they were finally able to escape into the neighboring country of djibouti and greeted by u.s. embassy staff from djibouti. remember there's no u.s. embassy in yemen anymore. no diplomatic personnel or military personnel in yemen anymore at all this. is the closest u.s. embassy in the neighboring nation of djibouti and those embassy personnel did happily greet the american citizens who were able to escape on their own by boat. the u.s. ambassador to djibouti tweeted these pictures of americans being so happy onto have managed to escape on their own and get somewhere safe where they could get help from american ovals in a different country. it is a little weird to see the

u.s. ambassador tweeting usa, thanks india. yeah, because it wasn't american boat that got these americans out, india sent a boat to help get people out of yemen. the united states did not. thanks, india. also thanks russia. the americans were also able apparently some of them to get on a russian ship as well because the russians are sending ships, not the americans. it's not that there aren't u.s. ships in the region u.s. navy vessels are participating in the war. they're there participating in a blockcade with saudi arabia to keep iran from sending weapons into yemen. this weekend "the wall street journal" reported that the u.s. sailors on an american destroyer had stopped and boarded a freighter that they suspected of delivering iranian weapons into yemen. those u.s. sailor as apparently didn't find the weapons, they thought would be on the ship but imagine if they had. that's u.s. sailors on an american destroyer, what seizing iranian weapons on the open ocean?

what if that turred into a firefight? what if some other country's ship decided to intervene with the u.s. navy trying to seize those weapons off the coast of yemen. our sailors are there right now. boards other country's ships. and we are all on one side in that war and not from a distance. we're in the middle of it. there are hard questions, hard strategic questions that are worth asking about this. complicated and tinder boxy and rapidly expanding war that we really are right in the middle of already. and it's not the only one we're right in the middle. today president obama hosted the prime minister of another country where we are directly right in the middle of another complex war, the iraqi prime minister making his first trip to washington since he was elected prime minister in iraq and cyst the u.s. restarted our war effort in con strungs with iraqi forces fighting against isis. the defense department put/achart claiming since they started air strikes against isis

isis gave up 0% of the materiality that they would in in that country. including them losing control of that compete after a fierce week's long fight in that city. isis still does hold iraq's second largest city after baghdad. they still hold the city of mosul expected that the next big battle against isis in iraq will be a ground war for the city of mosul. u.s. air strikes against isis in both iraq and syria are now in theirate the month and lots of american troops on the ground training forces involved in this fight. back into the old bases where u.s. troops used to be based in our war there when we called it a war. the u.s. congress has not felt the need to weigh in on that war or make any decisions about it whatsoever since it started back in august. the air strikes started in august. in december president obama asked for congressional authorization of that military campaign congress ignored him. in january he asked again as part of his state of the union acress, congress ignored him the

white house sent over dlaft language for congress to consider so they could take a vote on authorizing this military force in iraq and syria against isis. congress never brought it up. yesterday the house majority leader kevin mccarthy told reporters there's just never going to be a vote on that war. there will never be a vote on authorizing the use of military force against isis in iraq and syria even as those air strikes continue every day and even as thousands of u.s. military personnel are involved. yesterday kevin mccarthy told reporters he would not even allow the language to authorize that military force to go to the floor. nor does he have plans to introduce any competing language that he might be more comfortable putting up for a vote. they're just never going to be debate it or weigh in on it ever. they really don't care. the war effort that president obama has ordered the u.s. military to fight against isis in iraq and syria, the thousands of u.s. military personnel are involved in that war apparently

is just his it's his own. congress is not interested. when president obama several weeks ago announced he would team 10,000 american troops in afghanistan through the end of the year which is a huge change in u.s. policy and affects thousands of military family's lives in this country there was literally zero response from congress on that. not a peep. zero response, zero commentary nothing. a vote, are you kidding? now it's not just u.s. interests but literally u.s. forces are right in the middle of a rapidly expanding deeply complex shooting war in yemen. congress also just not that bothered. it's the president's thing. let him do it. congress ignoreing and want to do nothing with all these hot wars we are are in feels remarkable when the congress got up on hit hind legs about their prerogative to get involved not in our myriad existing wars but

diplomatic effort with iran. they voted unanimously to insert themselves into the diplomatic conversations the u.s. has been involved with over the last several months with iran over iran's nuclear program. president obama had previously threatened to veto and such effort to interfere by congress but now looks like congress has a vetoproof majority in both houses so the white house veto threat has been withdrawn and on the one hand if you care about the executive brarn having too much power in our country, congress abrogating its responsibilities when it comes to national security and foreign policy on the one hand it is kind of exciting just in structural terms to see congress decide to care. but why this and only this? constitution constitutionally the administration sets foreign policy of the united states and negotiates on behalf of our country. constitution constitutionally it is congress that makes decision on matters of war and peace. and at this fraught time in the

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so this was embarrassing. i was not there, i was humiliated by proxy. hillary clinton was in iowa today. she was on the first leg of her presidential campaign, right on the ground meeting people one-on-one. at about 2 p.m. eastern today in iowa she set off by car to go to an event in monticello iowa. and if you happen to be watching cable news at the time this is what you would have seen. >> here it is. there she goes and secret service following behind her. okay they're going around to the back so we're not -- you can see the media running behind me here to chase the scooby van. >> wow. >> she's going around to the back. >> wow they're -- >> we'll see her, we're going to see her soon. >> the guy in the orange pants is quick. alex i'm looking at these people. wow, orange pants is really outnumbered now by all of the people racing around the back.

>> oh, what do you think you're going to get from the van? it's now chasing cars season. this is very embarrassing. we should have known it is coming. we are now officially in media frenzy mode when it comes to the presidential race then can be silly and sometimes even stupid. but there is method to this scrum. there is method to this madness. the fact there are this many reporters chase the candidates around now means it is un unavoidable 9 candidates actually will get asked no you about things they don't necessarily have great answers to. marco rubio with just about every other presidential hopeful rushed to support indiana governor mike pence last month when governor pence and indiana republicans went head long into their religious freedom bill debacle which made indiana nationally famous for the state wanting businesses to refuse

service to people on the issue of religious. mike pence signed it and after haul he double hock ski sticks broke loose they tried to backtrack the disas they are caused and left all the republican presidential hopefuls that lined up against mike pence confused what to do so now marco rubio now that you are officially running for president where do you stand on the old mike pence law? are you with the old un unreinstructed mike pence or are you with mike pence with an asterisk after he sort backtracked the thing and do you think it should be okay we don't serve gay people sign up in your business and npr steve asked marco rooubl about this yesterday. the clip is a little long but listen to the hoops marco rubio is trying to jump through as he tries to defend his position on this. >> you defended the law and

spoke about the hypothetical example of a florist who was asked to participate in a gay marriage and wanted to refuse. you said that person should have the right to follow their religious beliefs. india, though has since changed the law. do you still support that concept. >> to be fair i haven't read the change in detail to give you an opinion on it specifically but where i stand i do not believe you can discriminate against people so i don't plea it's right for a florist to say you are i'm not going to provide you flowers because you're gay. >> this is knew. marco rubio now against the mike pence law and says it shounts be legal for a business to refuse to provide services to say, a gay couple shopping for catering or flowers or whatever for their wedding. good to know. except then he clarified so now you have to uno it. >> the difference here is we're not talking about discriminating against a person because of who they are we're talking about someone who's saying what i'm talking about anyway is someone who is's saying i don't want to participate as a ven tore for an

event, a specific event that violates the ten neptss of pie faith. >> what if two gay people get married and then they go that night to a hotel. can the showtell keeper refuse service to them. >> that's not part of an event. >> see the wedding night is definitely not part of the event. so basically in marco rubio's world, it is totally wrong and unamerican that ought to be illegal to discriminate when serving someone at your business unless the reason you won't serve them at your business is because the thing they're asking for might be used in a ceremony of some kind in which case discriminating is totally cool and american and ought to be legal. capisce? i think what he wants us to do is maybe tie a little bell around the flowers that rings if the flowers get near a wedding. if so then the florist can run into the church see who is getting married maybe the seize the flowers back. perhaps it could be a die pack in the daisies that glows up if it senses the presence of too many homosexuals.

nationally the country is very getting over its prejudice and fear of gay rights by and large though that's not true of the republican base. that tends to vote disproportionately in presidential primaries so one happy by-product, one benefit of the frenzy around the candidates right now is getting to see them invent new lines for themselves to tiptoe down as they try on the spot to present reasonably sounding anti-gay positions that doesn't turn offer the vast majority by not seeming like a home phobe but anti-gay enough to be elected inside the anti-gay base bubble. take it away rand paul. >> what you do in your home is your own business. i'm a leave me alone kind of guy. >> but not when it comes to marriage. >> well, no, i mean states will end up making the decisions on these things. i think that there is a

religious connotation to marriage. i believe in the traditional religious connotation to that but also believe people ought to be treated fairly under the law and see no reason why if the marriage contract conveys certain things that if you -- if you want to marry another woman, that you can do that enahave a contract but the thing is the religious connotation of marriage that is being going on for thousands of years i still want to preserve that and probably could have both. cow have both traditional marriage which i believe in and then you could also have the neutrality of the law that allows people to have contracts with another. >> gay people should be allowed to enter into legally binding contracts. like humans. wow, thanks rand paul. i think should be allowed to enter legally binding contracts too. tell your wife i said hi or your boyer or whoever. this is a time where presidential candidates are being hounded by the press to

the point where the press is literally chasing their cars around iowa like a bunch of 6-year-olds playing soccer. but one benefit of all that outsized attention is that it is still early enough in the process that these candidates are going to get asked questions when they have not worked out coherent answers to them. they are going to be working this stuff out out loud talking about issues they would rather not be asked about. and that turns out to be a lot of fun. joining us now is robert gibbs former white house press secretary to president obama. thanks for being here. >> thanks to for having me. >> how does the cultural war play in this election or how is it playing thus far? >> well i mean look i think you pointed it out in your segment there are going to be a lot of issues, some local, some national that candidates are going to want to jump on until they don't want to jump on it and don't want to answer it. so, look i think there are -- and i've said this before for presidential candidates there are probably a dozen trap doors every day that you've got to

navigate around and figure out whether or not you're going to entertain questions on this and what you're going to say about them and does that exceed what you want to talk about on any given day and do you want to get into these issues so it's going to be interesting and fascinating to watch. >> are there similar trap doors for democratic candidate hillary clinton or any other democrats that she's running against, i mean on the social issuers right now it seems like the republicans have a real mind field to navigate between in terps of the difference between national opinion on these issues and what the republican base feels. i don't feel like there's that same dance that needs to happen on the democratic side. am i just missing something. >> i don't think there's probably as pronounced on social issues on the democratic side. i have though doubt a series of -- my guess if you're a reporter trying to make news with hillary clinton you might ask her a series of things that the president supports does she support them. you know there are again i just

think there's so many trap doors every day. on cultural issues i don't think there's any doubt that republicans have a greater tightrope to walk. you saw the indiana law i think probably as good an comparable as any because it got walked back so quickly and had such an outcry from businesses and business leaders across this country, many of whom are in indiana, that wanted to do something a lot differently than what the governor ever in parts of the legislature wanted to do. >> at the same time seeing bobby quinn dal a presumptive candidate rushing full speed ahead in louisiana to do an un unreconstructed sort of mega mega-indiana mega-indiana-style bill all candidates on the side say they have no problem with what mike pence did in the first place. he only shouldn't have walked it back. i mean that sets the republican party at odds with the business community that they try to speak for most of the time. >> well i think for some of these candidates maybe like

governor jindal you're trying to gain the notoriety quite frankly that the campaign or the exposure that the campaign has yet to bring you. to try to get on people's radar screens, i don't think it's necessarily a strategy that's either going to result in you getting the nomination or being in a place in which you can appeal to a broad number of people or enough people to be elected president. but i have no doubt that there are everyday going to be some of these issues that they want to talk about and some they don't in order to try to get into the american consciousness and get on people's television screens and inside their newspapers. >> robert gibbs, former press secretary for president obama. msnbc contributor nice to see you, robert. thanks for being here. >> thanks. >> still ahead, an extraordinary new visual perspective on one of the great shocks in american history. one that has not been displayed publicly anywhere you would have seen it. but that is coming up here. stay with us. here at friskies, cats are in charge of approving every new recipe. because it's cats who know best what

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this is an incredible story. depending on how you figure it oklahoma city is 500 miles from anything that might count as ocean. if you want to spend a day at the beach and you're starting in oklahoma city you will want to allow eight hours or so for a drive to the nearest ocean at the gulf of mexico. oklahoma has many charms but views of the ocean are not among them. and yet right there in oklahoma city you will find a gigantic anchor. this anchor weighs ten tons. it is huge. truly huge. and the reason that anchor is there in the middle of land locked oklahoma is that that anchor used to among to a u.s. navy ship named after the sooner state, the battle ship uss oklahoma was built for use in

world war i in the atlantic. the navy later modernized the oklahoma and brought it to the pacific and on the morning of december 7th, 1941 the uss oklahoma was one of eight u.s. battleships stationed at pearl harbor in hawaii. and we all know what happened there. >> they were coming in from our starboard side. we were watching them. >> torpedoes. you're seeing what he did as at the found theiring its. he remembers how it felt. >> just like one of my aunts used to shake me it does it shakes it. it would move that 29,000 ton ship. i ant wean worried about the oklahoma. i was worried about me so i just started running. want to know the truth. this ship was 90 degrees over and i could see it was going farther. >> goodyear jumped from the ship. within ten minutes the uss oklahoma had rolled over trapping 429 men in her watery tomb. >> i have prayed that most of

the kids down there were killed by the torpedoes and didn't suffocate and drown. i think that's the thing that haunts most oklahoma men. >> 429 men or as he said many of them not more than kids died on board that ship only 40 or so have ever been identified. most of the others the other 380 plus men who died are buried here at the national memorial cemetery of the pacific in honolulu. they are memorialized buried with honor as men who went down with the uss oklahoma. but they are not buried as individuals. they're buried as a group. and that might be about to change. today the pentagon announced that they will exhume the remains of those lost service members from the uss oklahoma so they can do the analysis that could identify them individually and get those sailors home to their families for a final resting place all these years late ever. pentagon officials now believe they have the it will and the know-how to get this down

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150 years ago on a friday night, a german artist named

carl bersch was sitting on his balcony in washington, d.c. catching the scene of the confederate army, the victory of the unions ending the civil war. a little after 10:00 that night, the scene that he was sketching changed rapidly and speak started shouting that everybody needed to clear the streets because the president had just been shot. and when that scene in the street changed, carl berscht began stretching this which is what he ended up seeing that night. the title of this painting is lincoln born by loving hands. carl recorded what he saw that night using the tools that he had. that night in 1865 a hundred years ago, carl bersch created the only eyewitness documentation we have of the assassination of president abraham lincoln and the effort to keep him alive after he had been shot. michael ruwen of "the washington post" errored, a sencentury nat

down the road nobody wants to display that. after 60 years, it was lent out to the ford theater. then it was willed to the white house which did not display it. then it was transferred to the park service. now, timely it has found a home in the resource center of the national park service's museum. they say it does get lent out from time to time, but mostly it lives in storage. it has been a century and a half since president lincoln's assassination. apparently we can still scarcely bare to look. this is the only eyewitness account. we spoke to the national park museum's resource person who said she doesn't know why it's not a permanent fixture, but it's not. the one eyewitness account we have of that assassination and the effort to save lincoln, it really is stuck in a storage facility in maryland. at some point as a nation maybe we will be ready to see the real painteding and not just pictures of the painting.

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so if you ever find yourself in a robust debate in the minnesota senate you had better observe senate rule 36-8 which reads all remarks during debate shall be addressed to the president. the idea is by not addressing each other, the minnesota senate will somehow remain more civil. it means whenever you are talking in the minnesota senate you have to talk to the senate president. it doesn't matter if you're answering a question from another member of the senate or arguing with somebody or even

talking about a friend of yourself or making a point about them. the only person you are allowed to look at is the senate president. you have to maintain eye contact with that specific person. sandy pappis you got something to say? you are only allowed to say it to sandy pappis. no matter what it is you have to say, stare at sandy pappis while you say it. yesterday senate members tried to amend the rule so they could look at somebody else anybody else, please. >> i find the -- this particular rule of the senate dare i say, antiquated. >> antiquated? how dare you. say that to my face! oh that's right. you can't unless i'm sandy pappis. i'm sorry. carry on. >> you know if i wanted to have a historical reference to something, i certainly would turn to my good friend and

colleague senator cohen. so if i wanted to talk to something that was going on in the judiciary committee, i'd want to turn and visit with senator laff. >> what if i wanted to talk to my friend over there, i think, about that person sandy? the senate voted down the amendment, 44-15. the eye contact amendment, they decided not to change it. so that means you must continue to stare directly into the eyes of sandy papis whenever you are doing the business of the minnesota state senate. 44-15. that is one thing to keep in mind if you are thinking about running for the minnesota senate. no direct eye contact. yesterday, members of that same senate tried to change a rule that bars beverages of any kind on the senate floor. they wanted to change that rule to allow senators to drink water if they need to. that bill was voted down. no water. hydrate on your own time bucko. you can't do that at work.

the minnesota senate is a weirder place than i imaged it might be. but if you have an issue with that, tell it only to sandy pappis. direct your grievances right into the steely gaze of sanity pappis minnesota senate president. that is your only option. that does it for us tonight. we'll see you again tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." ? >> good evening. we have an interview coming up with the attorney representing robert bates, the man who accidentally shot that suspect that the police had in custody. >> excellent. thanks, mark. >> thanks, rachel. police in tucson arizona, stopped a man who was walking through a residential neighborhood firing a gun. they stopped them by running him over with a police car. here is some of the shockingly graphic dash cam video of that event. >> okay.