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police pull this minivan over because of what's in the container on top of the roof. what they found. the responses are heartbreaking. i'll tuck to the teacher who asked her students to tell her what she wished they knew about their lives. hey there, everyone. it's past high noon in the east welcome to "weekends with alex witt". one of the largest gathering of potential gop contenders ever the first in the nation republican leadership summit. it's in new hampshire. that's where senator kelly ayotte is addressing the crowd right now. and any minute now former hewlett-packard ceo carley fiorina will be taking the stage, one of the 21 declared and potential candidates at the inaugural event. earlier republican candidate rand rand paul spoke to the crowd and had this to say about the gop. >> i actually got tired of

looking up and seeing people in my party get in charge and not doing what they promised to do. some in our party say, well let's just dilute the message, become democrat light and we'll get more votes. i couldn't disagree more. i think what we need to do is be boldly for what we are for. the other republicans will criticize a president and hillary clinton for their foreign policy but they would have just done the same thing just ten times over. >> joining me now is casey hunt msnbc political correspondent, and casey, with a big welcome to you, what kind of reception did senator paul get from the crowd this morning? >> good afternoon, alex. well the crowd was very excited to hear from rand paul today and he was a little bit unplugged here. he talked at some length about many of the issues that are personal to him but also that might resonate here in new hampshire, privacy, cell phones things like that.

he also pull nod punches when it came to hillary clinton. >> i think that her derry lickion of duty not doing her job, not providing security for our forces for our diplomatic missions should forever preclude her from holding higher office. i'm starting to worry that when hillary clinton travels, there's going to be need to be two planes one for her and her entourage and one for her baggage. >> reporter: one for all of that baggage. i will say, alex that paul has been more aggressive in his head-on criticism of clinton than some of the other candidates here, obviously, it's an overarching theme but otherwise we've heard more about generational comparison. marco rubio running on this idea that he's of a new generation, that hillary clinton is somebody that we've heard from already. so i do think that paul's willingness to take that head-on is something that resonated with the crowd here. >> yeah. listen you've been out there. i'm curious about your overall assessment in terms of who is making the biggest splash in new

hampshire? >> couple things alex. one of the things that this summit meant is that all of these candidates are here and most spending -- doing more than just one event or spending more than just one day here. we've gotten a taste of who's going to be doing the kind of traditional retail politicking that new hampshire typically demands. jeb bush has been taking lots of questions from reporters, from voters, so i think he made -- he got high marks for that a although i wouldn't say he was one of the best received here at the summit. i think that chris christie is starting to play with his brand of tell it like it is town hall type of politics. he's done two town halls in new hampshire and the new hampshire union leader influential newspaper here in republican circles, argues he a's the kind of candidate that could fit with this state if he puts in sort of the leg work like john mccain did when he, obviously, spent a lot of time here really worked it. was written off but ultimately won the primary in 2000.

i also think that marco rubio impressed the crowd quite a bit last night with his speech. he talks very personally about his family's story of rising up the american dream, how his parents both worked at, you know, in low-income jobs to provide opportunity for him and he's now a u.s. senator. i think that he hits emotionally resonate chords in a way many other people in the field don't. i think the ultimate takeaway there's nobody really leading here yet despite the fact that scott walker may be up in polls. we're going to see one of the most wide open new hampshire races we've seen in a long time. alex? >> we've got a lot of time to watch that race unfold. okay. thanks. we'll do it with your help casey hunt. thank you. the white house and civil rights leaders are calling on the senate to move ahead quickly with the stalled nomination of attorney general nominee loretta lynch. the president yesterday lamb basted the senate for its delay on confirming the nominee. >> there are times where the

dysfunction in the senate just goes too far. this is an example of it. it's gone too far. enough. enough. call loretta lynch for a vote get her confirmed, put her in place, let her do her job. things is embarrassing. a process like this. >> nbc's kristen welker at the white house for us. with a good day to you, we can clearly how frustrated the president is here. he's also called this what did he say a crazy situation. how about republicans? what are they saying about holding up the confirmation vote? >> look, i think that republicans are starting to feel the political pressure to some extent. president obama, you're absolutely right making some of the strongest comments that we have heard yet from him on loretta lynch and pointing to the fact that her confirmation vote has been held up longer than the past seven attorney general nominees combined and he

raises the point look there's no one really raising any serious opposition to confirming her. important to point out, though, alex a lot of lawmakers are opposed to the fact that she supporting president obama's action on immigration. having said that the reason why you're seeing her confirmation vote get held up in the senate is because republicans and democrats are having a fight over an unrelated piece of legislation that deals with human trafficking. democrats are opposed to it because of some controversial language related to abortion. republicans say they're not going to vote on lynch until the human trafficking bill moves forward. that's why you're seeing the current state of gridlock. president obama and civil rights groups, by the way are ramping up the pressure to at least give loretta lynch a vote. she is a veteran federal prosecutor who has been at the head of a number of major anti-terror, anti-corruption cases. that is their argument for why this should absolutely move forward. you have harry reid saying he's going to force a vote so far his

efforts to do that haven't gone anywhere. also important to note alex that majority leader mitch mcconnell's spokesperson has said that she's going to get a vote. that could happen in the next week or in the next few weeks. so we'll have to wait and see if that actually does come to fruition. but the political pressure is building because now you have these civil rights groups getting engaged in this debate. alex? >> i'm looking at the "new york times" and it says that mr. mcconnell has told his senate colleagues he would get to her next week just as he had always planned. we will see if that happens. kristen welker, thank you so much. >> thanks, alex. other news, an incredible fireball lit up the sky in fresno, california, friday when a natural gas line exploded at the county sheriff's gun range. the flames injured 13 people three critically and shut down the highway in both directions. one person described the scene as a crater. the cause of the explosion is under investigation. an unsettling sight on an ohio highway. a cage full of puppies on the roof of a van.

several drivers called 911 to report the scene. when police caught up with the van they found a mennonite family of six on a road trip to pennsylvania and asked the driver why the dogs weren't in the vehicle? >> he said he had far more important things to put in the car, meaning his children. so there wasn't room. i didn't see injuries. i did notice they would not leave each other. they were huddled together. they were scared. they had our nated all over the inside of the cage. when i tried to get them out they were trying to crawl back in. they did have a tarp that covered three sides of the cage but they're still experiencing a lot of wind a lot of noise. they have to be inside a vehicle and not on top of a vehicle or in the trunk or anywhere else and he understood that. he said had he known he would have never agreed to transport them. >> well, the four pups were taken to a local animal hospital checked out and declared safe and sound and being taken to a shelter. the driver was not charged. he was informed it is illegal to transport the animals outside of

a vehicle. any day now, kate middleton duchess of cambridge is due to give birth to her and prince william's second child. and the preparations in london are already well underway. around the hospital, media pens and no parking zones set up attempting to avoid the frenzy like prince gorge's 2013 birth. business owners gearing up for a spike in births. royal baby collectibles as much as $100 million. to weather the spring storms that hit houston hard. flash floods drenched much of the city overnight up to 3 1/2 inches of rain in some laceplaces. here is chris wairn with a look ahead. hi, chris. >> good day to you, alex. it is going to be a stormy day again in many spots that have already seen a lot of rain a lot of lightning and he even tornadoes. isolated tornadoes, damaging winds and large hail a possibility for all of the areas here in red. anywhere in orange there's a chance for some thunderstorms included in that. the red areas.

be ready for some severe weather and some dangerous storms today and tomorrow. sunday bringing another threat of damaging winds. farther to the east chance for storms all wait to north carolina into virginia and west virginia. great day in the northeast today. a fair amount of sunshine if not completely sunny in d.c. with lower 80s. that changes tomorrow with daytime highs back into the 60s. so dropping back from the lower 80s into the 60s. 63 in philadelphia tomorrow. and 50s for the northeast. staying dry in boston for the weekend, but that's going to change. look for some rain to move in time. possibly at least for the end potentially of the boston marathon. alex? >> okay. . chris warren thank you for that. performances are under way at the national mall. more than a quarter of a million people are expected to take part in the earth day rally to bring attention to issues ranging from maternal health to climate change. msnbc's proud partner of the global citizen festival and

thomas roberts is right near the main stage with the speakers there, so thomas looking very cool out there like you're enjoying things. what's on the agenda this afternoon? >> hey alex. it is a fantastic day here in washington, d.c. on the national mall. this is the global citizen earth day event. right now they're showing people what they're here for. showing a video package on earth and also talking about religion. we had a dedication ceremony after will.i.am and soledad o'brien came out to great everybody. they're introducing the prime minister of australia to be a part of this as well. a big project that's with the global poverty ceo project hugh evans. we have a beautiful day. it is 75 degrees and sunny. i think, alex we will get up to 80 degrees today. the acts that you're going to see op statement include my morning jacket fallout boy, mary j. blige, usher, i was told i have to say usher, and no doubt coming up. but also there's a very special

performance by train and i think you're going to get to talk with them in a few minutes. i'll send it back to you. >> i know. believe me not that i want to let go of you because you totally need sunscreen. looks like a perfectly gorgeous day out there. anybody in the neighborhood ought to head out there. thank you, thomas roberts. big setup because we are going to go to row nan back stage with some of today's performing artists. heard about train, i was playing like "drops of jupiter" and "mary me" between the show today. rocking at the desk. >> so much concern for thomas' complexion complexion. where's my concern? sweet gig back stage as well. as thomas mentioned a concert for a good cause. the event geared towards ending global poverty with a focus on sustainability since this is the 45th anniversary of earth day. i'm here with path monahan from train. >> yep. >> thank you for taking the time to talk to us. what draws you as an artist to a concert like this about more than just the music? >> you know i think that when

you learn more about it and you realize that it's not about politics and it's not about just us, it's about everybody, and you can't really sit this one out so being asked to be a part of it is a real easy yes, and then when you talk to hugh and you listen to chris martin and people who have been doing this for years, it's very easy to get why they're so involved and then you want to become involved. >> what do you want to see people and fans watching at home and listening actually do after this? >> well first of all i think the change has to become part of politics have to be noticing we have to start putting resources here. you have to get your hands dirty. they can't just try to say fun stuff so they get votes. they have to start make something changes and then we get more involved and then, you know, you have to follow the leader on this stuff. there are some great leaders already, but we need more. we need everybody to chip in. >> right. with power comes responsibility. i think that's the message we're hearing from the acts today. look, alex a lot of skepticism about events like this but last

year's event, the world bank put in $65 million toward anti-poverty program. important ears in the audience and hopefully important headway we'll make today. thank you to the members of train. >> thank you. >> thank the members of train for not cursing. we were going to do a tape delay. >> change our vibe and style. >> all right. alex, back to you. >> all right. i'll take it. reluctantly. that was a great interview. can't wait to hear the performances as well. people can do that live streaming. thank you very much. your complexion is perfect. don't worry about it. it's all so good finally, finally, you fulfill my needy needs here alex. >> for heaven sakes. okay. see you later. >> coming up heartbreaking confessions from students to their teacher. what they wish she knew about their lives. and later, look at a handful of cities that will pay you to move there. that's ahead. rcourse that's painful due to menopausal changes it's not likely to go away on its own. so let's do something about it. premarin vaginal cream can help

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an elementary schoolteacher in colorado wanted to find a way to better understand her studentsstudent s and what she got opened her eyes and tupd her heart. she teaches third grade and many students come from underprivileged homes. she asked to finish the sentence "i wish my teacher knew blank." i wish my teacher knew i want to go to college. others were heartbreaking like this one. i wish my teacher knew how much i miss my dad because he got deported to mexico when i was 3 years old and i haven't seen him in six years. joining me is elementary schoolteacher kyle schwartz. with a well to you, you have shared many of your students' letters on twitter. how did you come up with this idea? >> you know, it started as a way for me to better understand my students and in a dialog with other teachers about, you know feeling like there was something that we weren't understanding. there was something missing.

we wanted a way to give our students a voice and let them tell us what we needed to know. >> some of the letters you've received are quite emotional. there's one student who writes this, i wish my teacher knew sometimes my reading log is not signed because my mom is not around a lot. there's another child that says i wish my teacher knew i don't have a friend to play with me. so that's got to tug at your heartstrings when you get letters like this. what do you do with them? >> absolutely. you know i have just really been touched by the honesty that my students have shared and the vulnerability they shared in this, but what we've done with it in my classroom is really use it as a way to build empathy with my students, both building empathy for me to them, but also with each other. you know the students have really supported each other with the note that said i don't have a friend to play with that was shared with the class and the whole class rallied around her and the next day at recess there

was a bunch of girls playing with her. and i think it really speaks to the fact that students can support each other. >> that is wonderful. i know that in the original intent was to have this be anonymous, but you're seeing that these kids even at this young age in third grade they can be very empathetic. >> absolutely. you know i think especially in school, teachers know that we teach the student, not the subject. and so we really look for those social/emotional skills and point that out and want to model that for our students. >> i'm curious how you responded to this one, a funny one. i wish my teacher knew she gives too much extra homework with math. >> yeah. you know sometimes people read these and they think like oh, do you cut the students a break or you know, because you know that they've got these challenges and that's sloutsly not lyabsolutely not the case. our students are held to high expectations like deep,

critical, rigorous thinking every day. you will get math homework but you are going to learn those multiplication facts by the end of third grade. >> so says the teacher right there. i love this idea and i want to hear about something else you're doing. you're launching a book harvest. what's that about? >> absolutely. so many people have just been overwhelming me with questions, how can i support this. i see there's a need for students, what can i do. and so we're just starting a simple hash tag book harvest and it is a simple as box up your old books, box up the books your kids are done with and bring them to a school in need. those schools will get the books to the students and this will be a great way to move from feeling this empathy for the students and then just taking it into a call to action. i encourage everyone to start a book harvest in their community and getting kids the books they need. >> i'm thinking about this scene you described about the kid who didn't have someone to play with and everyone starts playing on

the playground. has that sustained itself? do you see a definite change among these kids? >> you know i do see a change. i feel like this whole story is about community and the power of community in a classroom, so my students have really developed a trust with each other. they've developed an empathy with each other. that's come from sharing their vulnerability, sharing the truths, the realities they face and then seeing that when they do that their classmates, their teachers, rise up and support them. it has seen a change and i've heard from teacherses the world over that it's making a difference in their class too. >> you know i'm wondering if you put yourself in the shoes of your students and think back when you were in third grade, do you have any idea how you might have answered that question, rather? >> well i told my students the truth is in third grade, i was a handful, so i am getting all of the karma back with kids, you

know, being naughty. i would probably say i wish my teacher knew that, you know i try not to talk all the time but sometimes it's hard. >> boy, you sound a lot like me. anyway, it's all good. you ended up all right. i did okay. it's all good. thank you so much. kyle schwartz best of luck to you. i think your students are very lucky to have you as their teacher. >> thank you. >> well done. new reaction from the towing company where an espn reporter's rant was individualvideotaped. does the worker want her fired? i can have it all. choose 3 of 9 dishes for just $15.99. like the creamy baked lobster alfredo. and the sizzling brown butter shrimp scampi. and fresh soy-ginger salmon topped with sweet pineapple salsa. i could go on. but there are three things on one plate waiting for me and i'd rather just go wouldn't you? but hurry it can't last forever.

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berating a towing company employee. the towing company is responding, but not the way why you might be thinking. nbc's jacob rascone has the story. >> just announced justin verlander will start the season. >> reporter: britt mchenry is used to being on camera a sideline reporter for espn. >> i'm in the news sweet heart. i will [ bleep ] sue this place. >> reporter: inside a cramped towing company office in arlington, virginia. >> i'm on television and you're in [ bleep ] trailer. >> reporter: mchenry is caught berating the clerk. >> so i could be a college dropout and do the same thing. >> reporter: again. >> maybe if i was miss something teeth they would hire me. >> reporter: and again. >> lose some weight. >> reporter: espn has suspended mchenry for a week. not long enough many have tweeted. even after the reporter apologized. the #firebritt trending a change.org petition to fire her has thousands of signatures. but among those who forgive the reporter is the towing company

that released the edited video saying in a statement, neither our lot clerk nor our company have any interest in seeing britt mchenry suspended or terminated. she is human and errors in judgment can be made in the heat of the moment. the company doesn't have the best reputation an "f" rating with the better business bureaund a according to our nbc station in washington, a arlington police get far more complaints about advanced towing than all other towing companies in the city combined. regarding mchenry the company says parking enforcement is contentious by nature. irrelevant for many something pointing out espn handed down harsher punishments to other on air personalities for milder outbursts against each other. >> with no education, no skill set. just wanted to chair ed toed to clarify that. >> reporter: mchenry may have said it best herself on facebook days before the incident quote, take the high road and be nice

to people. jacob rascone, nbc news. to politics now and presidential contender hillary clinton. setting her sights on new hampshire and the coming days after rolling out her campaign this past week in iowa she dropped by a coffee shop, met with students at a community college, held a small business round table discussion all along offering a populace economic message. >> there's something wrong when ceos make 300 times more than the typical worker. there's something wrong when students and their families have to go deeply into debt to get the education and skills they need in order to make the best of their own lives. we've got to figure out in our country how to get back on the right track and i'm running for president because i think that americans and their families need a champion and i want to be that champion. i want to stand up and fight for people so that they can not just

get by but they can get ahead. >> joining me now, former ohio governor ted strickland who's announced he will challenge republican senator rob portman for his seat in 2016. i should note former president bill clinton has endorsed your candidacy, with a welcome to you, i want to get your honest assessment of things how did hillary clinton do on the first 2016 effort. do you think it felt a little too orchestrated for you? >> not for me. i love the message, populace economic message presenting herself as someone who's a fighter for the people. i think that's going to play really well here in ohio and i think across the country. >> okay. how difficult is it for any politician to try to project authenticity when a campaign necessarily must be stage managed? is it incumbent on the candidate to try to cast off some of the rigidness? >> i think all candidates should be judged by the same yardstick and so i think she did very well. i look forward to her being here

in ohio and campaigning with her and i think she is a fighter for the people and i want to be a fighter for the people and be able to be in washington to help her as she begins her presidency. i hope to be in the senate to support this kind of progressive economic message that says to working people and ordinary folks that we're on your side and we're going to do everything we can to stand up and fight for you. i think she's going to be that kind of candidate and that kind of president. >> given that you'll be running as well i'm sure we'll be speaking about that. i'm curious if you think is it important for hillary clinton to get a tough primary challenge? would that perhaps steal her for a general election and would you like to see martin o'malley a fellow former democratic governor, run? >> i like martin o'malley. he's a friend and a talented guy, but i think primaries are not particularly helpful especially when you have a candidate like hillary clinton who is well tested she doesn't need to learn how to run a presidential campaign she went through one as we all know when

she ran against the current president and so she is well tested and i think she's ready to take on the republican challenger whoever that may be. >> well, back to governor o'malley, though. he is essentially openly criticized hillary clinton. here's what he said this week on her new stance on marriage equality and the issue of driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants. >> i'm glad secretary clinton has come around to the right positions on these issues. i believe that we are best as a party when we lead according to our principles and not according to the polls. and every election is about the future and leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before sometimes it becomes entirely popular. >> do you think hillary clinton has left herself at all open to criticism from the left? >> from my point of view she hasn't. listen this person is as well qualified to enter the presidency as perhaps anyone in

the last 50 years who sought the presidency and i think she is a leader. she's been a leader on family issues, she's been a leader for women, she believes in, you know, equal pay for equal work she believes in paid leave, sick leave. she's a fighter for the american family and she obviously stands up for equality across the board. i have no questions at all about her ability to provide the kind of really progressive lippss seadership leaderships i and governor o'malley and democrats across this country are looking for. i repeat i know governor o'malley a talented guy, i like him personally very, very much but in this case i think hillary clinton is the person who is most tested and most ready to lead this country forward into the future. >> i don't know if you've heard the criticism and i would like to know if you think it's fair

that hillary clinton is keeping an eye too much on polls and not necessarily following her heart when it comes to policy. >> listen i just think that's a bogus accusation. i know hillary clinton very well and she in her heart is a fighter for the people for the little guy and shes has demonstrated that from the time she first entered public life and i see her as someone who's a real fighter for the people and i believe the american people are going to embrace her and she's going to be able to lead us as a democratic party and then as a nation into a future that is stable and secure because she's going to make good and wise decisions and i'm excited about her presidency and i think the american people are. >> all right. one more item here. take a look at some fresh polls that were taken before her announcement which it shows

she's upside down on honesty among voters in colorado, iowa and virginia. why do you think that is? >> well listen i think she has. the target of a barrage of pseudo scandals, you know we've heard benghazi benghazi some of these right wingers are even conjuring up whitewater. give me a break. this woman has been the subject of accusations, false accusations, throughout her career and she has stood strong and solid and she has endured the attacks and the american people have come to believe that she is the strong leader that we need. listen, anyone who's running for president is going to be the subject of criticism and attacks. and i believe the polls reflect ta given hillary clinton against any potential republican

opponent at this point, she is the clear preference of the american people and i think will continue to be so and will win the 2016 election and will be a great president for our country. >> all right. well former ohio governor and current democratic candidate for u.s. senate in that state, thank you very much ted strickland. speak with you again. >> thank you alex. police involved violence has dominated headlines in recent months. just ahead i will talk to someone who knows personal experience the damage it can bring to a family.

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charges dropped against a third officer and the incident sparked a national debate on the treatment by police of the homeless and mentally ill. joining me ron thomas kelly's it father, also a former orange county sheriff's deputy. ron, with a welcome to you on this broadcast and discussion, i know we've seen the video in recent weeks of several police involved shootings and beatings some with deadly results, why do you think we're seeing so much of this? >> i think now we're seeing so much of it only because people are filming more of it. i believe it's existed all along, certainly starting with rodney king but then what a horrific video with audio that came out and be was about my son, so now people everywhere are filming the police. i think that's the reason that we see so much of it now. >> so you talk about the video being part of this, but you're from a law enforcement family. did incidents like this occur when you were on the job?

>> i had seen things primarily in the jail abuse of inmates, these types of things, it still exists through orange county and l.a. county primarily l.a. county, los angeles. it's out there. i have seen it. >> your father and grandfather i know they were also in law enforcement. did they report incidents like this ever? >> my dad talked about it with me. he was from orange county sheriff's department also. my grandfather retired from the lapd. he was a tough guy, my grandfather, and i wouldn't be surprised at all if he was one of the abusers, quite honestly. >> interesting. how about body camera? what's your thought on those and will they change all this? >> body cameras are a fantastic idea. i know fullerton police department has now gone to every officer having a body camera. it will protect the police officers. it will substancetiate their claims but also help protect the citizens on our claims. i think they're fantastic.

>> do you think it will ultimately change the way police act? will they be aware of these body cameras and consequences of going overboard? >> well the cameras, like any other policy or procedure, to include the audio recorders are only as good as the officer that turns them on. i can see coming up there's going to be instances where well the camera didn't work i don't know what happened. these types of officers really need to be scrutinized and investigated by their superiors. they can't be lax on this. else wise it's all for not. >> there's a new article in "the atlantic" called the myth of police reform and whether we're asking police to solve problems they should not be handling in the first place. here's what the author writes. police officers fight crime, police officers are neither case workers nor teachers nor mental health professionals or drug counselors. one of the great hallmarks of the past 40 years of american domestic policy is a broad disinterest in that difference. do you agree with this?

>> i don't agree with it at all. times have changed. the mental illness is more aware now than ever before so officers need to change the training needs to change. it's not a matter of the officers need to go through more training but again, the training needs to be changed to reflect what's happening today. officers do need to be counselors, they do need to understand how to approach and work with the mentally ill and homeless like they always have with say sexual assault victims. there's special training on that. they need compassion, understanding, they need to learn to dees kaes late instead of just go and hands on. >> can i ask you about a specific incident that isn't too far from you there and this was the san bernadino sheriffs the beating of the guy making a getaway on a horse. >> yeah. >> what did you think when you saw that? >> it's au pauling. you know the officers are running after this guy. they knew him. he is a criminal. they've had so many dealings with this guy. he steals a car, abandons it

steals a horse, off of it. the bottom line is yeah, he should have went to jail and had a fair trial, of course. the bottom line is when the officers got to him, he's laying on his stomach, he put his hands behind himself waiting for the officers. feet spread. wasn't a threat to anybody. first deputy kicks him in the head like trying to kick a field goal. second kicks him in the groin and continue to pummel this guy. the sheriff's statement was well you have to understand the adrenaline and this or that. what i understand is a citizen, former law enforcement they need to control their actions. we need professional police officers out there who can handle themselves and can handle their emotions. else wise they need to find something else to do. >> can you understand why the twos officers that were charged in your son's death after nine minutes and 40 seconds of the officers pummeling your son to the ground and the things that they said see this fists

they're getting ready to blank you, can you understand why they were acquitted? >> the reason they were acquitted is they're protected by the peace officer bill of rights that allowed -- well, it did not allow damming evidence against them to be admitted. you know why are they no longer police officers? because they were terminated. we can all figure that out. but we as citizens can't know that. only four states in our nation has a amended or abolished the peace officer bill of rights. we need do the same thing in california because we all have the absolute right to know when an officer has been disciplined, reprimanded, terminated we have that right to know that. but under the peace officer bill of rights it's against the law for us to know these kind of things. >> ron, as a fellow parent i want to ask you, when you think about your son kelly, what comes to mind? >> i'm horrified. it tears me apart. i just have the flashbacks of all our memories of doing things

together taking him out on the boat, we did just a lot together. he worked for me when i was an electrical contractor. all our times together. they weren't all good. he was schizophrenic, he would go out on the road but i went out and found him. we did things got him back in recovery and he was a really good solid person on his medications. all of that, you know i literally miss all of that even having to go find him. you know they took my son from me, they took my son no i'm sorry for your loss but i appreciate you talking so candidly with us. best of luck to you. >> thank you so much. >> we will pay you to live here. how a number of small cities are pulling out all the stops to get millennials to relocate. that's next. rs. the up all-nighters. and the ones who turn ideas into action. we've made our passions our life's work. we strive for the moments where we can say, "i did it!" ♪ ♪

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a new strategy for millennials dealing with the cost of living in big cities. a push is under way to get them to move to smaller urban areas. columbus, detroit and philadelphia have launched

campaigns aimed at young professionals in their 20s and 30s to get them to settle down in their cities and some are answering the call. joining me is teresaing senior staff writer at pugh. wrote about this topic this month. with a welcome to you, we're seeing a number of smaller cities across the country targeting the millennials, have colorful billboards and catchy tag lines and promise of a better life. how successful have these efforts been some. >> you know there's really no data tracking them right now. this is a firmly new phenomenon. cities have always tried to move people with some form of housing subsidy or whatever, but this is a fairly new effort and there really isn't any new data. philadelphia has had some success with campus philly where they try to match college students with internship and volunteer opportunities and try to sell the city while kids are still in school so when it comes down to time to find a job and pick a city they'll think of philadelphia because they've already got the strong bond to it.

>> yeah. >> so i mean but it makes sense. basically young people move more than anyone. 1 million millennials move every year and they are the largest living generation they've outpaced baby boomers, believe it or not, so they're a very interesting and attractive target for these cities that are looking to increase their populations. >> something that's interesting are the billboards and where they're being placed in cities like chicago and d.c. they're trying to poaches the residents from there. are big city officials at all pushing back do you know? >> no. i mean let's face it cities like new york los angeles, san francisco, chicago d.c. are always going to have, you know people are always -- bright eyed bushy tailed starry eyed coming out of college always going to be a draw for these kinds of -- for young people young professionals. i don't think they've got a problem with that at all. but after a while, living in these cities gets to be expensive and as you know millennials are starting to hit their 30s, the older millennials

thinking about settling down buying a house, having a family and it's getting to be more difficult to do that even in d.c. where i live where it's become really expensive. >> something that's interesting, you have the tactic of flashing cold hard cash? you write that niagara falls is offering up to $7,000 in reimbursement for student loans for the young adults willing to move there. detroit and chattanooga offer financial assistance in exchange for residency. can that sweeten the deal? do you think it will be effective? >> absolutely. i mean we know that student loan debt has become exorbitant. for young people that are fresh out of college that are working jobs where they're spending the vast majority of their income on housing and student loan debt it gets to become untenable after a while. trying to think of your quality of life and the idea of getting some reimbursement, having your student loans reimbursed will be attractive. >> interesting story and i'm sure a lot of people are paying

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thousands gathering at the national mall for a star-studded event to tackle a global problem. good day to all of you. welcome to "weekends with alex witt" a live picture of the republican leadership summit in new hampshire. that's where former hewlett-packard ceo carley fiorina is right now speaking with the crowd saying emphatically that hillary clinton must not be president. she is one of 21 potential republican candidates at the event. meanwhile this morning, senator rand paul took to the stage and went after his own party. >> i actually got tired of looking up and seeing people in my party get in charge and then not really doing what they promised to do. some in our party say, let's just dilute the message, let's become democrat light and then we'll get more votes. i couldn't disagree more. i think what we need to do is be

boldly for what we are for. the other republicans will criticize a president and hillary clinton for their foreign policy but they would have just done the same thing just ten times over. >> joining me now is our msnbc.com political reporter. benji, welcome back to you. what kind of reception did senator paul get from the crowd this morning? >> the audience members i talked to really enjoyed his speech quite a bit, even those not necessarily a fan of rand paul as a presidential candidate. what struck me is that he spoke after a long long slate of speakers who are much, much hawkish. a lot of red meat on national security, on foreign policy and here was paul focusing his speech pretty significantly on arguing the u.s. needs to be less involved in military affairs abroad and arguing that we need to think about things like rights for suspected terrorists they should have a proper lawyer and miranda rights. one of the reasons he was able to keep people together with

this unorthodox message is he's pretty good at attacking hillary clinton. here's what he had to say in his speech. >> i think that her dereliction of duty her not doing her job, her not providing security for our forces for to our diplomatic missions should forever preclude her from holding higher office. i'm starting to worry that when hillary clinton travels, there's going to need to be two planes one for her and her entourage and one for her baggage. >> so as you can see there, rand paul is willing to go pretty hard at hillary clinton and this is something a lot of the candidates have used and what's a pretty divided gop primary to try to paper over their differences sometimes. you know all republicans can agree they don't want hillary clinton as president. it's an easy target. so i think that came off pretty well for him. >> i think that's a sentiment that as we said earlier, carley fiorina is firing up the crowd with that. are you able to hear it where you are right there? >> i've been able to get a little of it. carley fiorinas has delivered a

similar speech at a lot of events like this and represents something unique in that she's the only female candidate or prospective candidate in the republican field, which enables her to perhaps attack hillary clinton even a little harder than the rest. her speeches tending to much more focused on clinton compared to other candidates who are comfortable attacking obama. she likes to joke that hillary clinton's accomplishment is flying all over the world, not doing anything a line she repeated today. hillary clinton will get a chance to rebut carley fee rineny and rand paul and the all the rest because she's coming to new hampshire for a series of meetings she's billing with everyday new hampshire voters similar to her tour in iowa so we will see plenty of headlines related to clinton's trip soon. >> thus starts the back and forth. thank you so much for that. performances are under way at the national mall. more than a quarter of a million people are expected to take part in today's global citizens earth day rally. the goal of the rally and

performances is to bring attention to issues ranging from maternal health to climate change. msnbc is a partner of the global citizen festival and my colleague thomas roberts is right there near the main stage. let's see, do you still have your shades on? oh, my gosh. and the headphones because it's so loud? yeah. >> it was loud a moment ago and because i'm so deaf and old i figured it would be better for you and vi to have a conversation because right now my morning jacket is playing, an indy rock band from kentucky and they were booming so loud on the last song i figured i would play it safe and put on headphones because the crowd was going crazy. over 250,000 plus people expected on the national mall today for the global citizen 2015 earth day event. it is a gorgeous day. 79 degrees, almost to the 80 degree mark. for those of us living on the east coast through this winter we deserve a beautiful saturday like this. so if you're looking through instagram, check out the hash

tag for global citizen earth day and forget the coachella friends because this is where it's happening on the east coast today. urbsher coming up later today, fallout boy mary j. blige and no doubt the closer later this afternoon. crowds continue to flood in while we speak. but my morning jacket who's playing behind us this is their third song they're awesome. it's been an incredible day to be part of. i wish you were here with me. >> me too. i have to talk to nick and wonder why he didn't pitch this so we could do the show live from there and just take it live. >> it's always nick's fault. always blame the executive producer. >> i know. i'm going to speak with him after the show if not during a commercial break. thank you for that. appreciate it. enjoy as you clearly are. >> bye alex. >> we're going to speak with ronan behind the scenes there and has guests that we'll speak to in a little bit. meantime we head now just a short distance away to the white house putting new pressure on congress to get the stalled

nomination of attorney general nominee loretta lynch moving. yesterday the president said enough is enough. >> there are times where the disfunkion in the senate goes too far. this is an example of it. it's gone too far. enough. enough. call loretta lynch for a vote get her confirmed, put her in place, let her do her job. this is embarrassing a process like this. >> nbc's kristen welker at the white house for us. we're hearing again just how frustrated the president is over this issue. we've talked about the fact that mitch mcconnell says he intends to bring it up next week in front of the senate. do you think because of all of this back and forth and the president being so emphatic about this that this stalemate is nearly over? any indication that's true? >> it is possible alex.

what i can tell you the political pressure is certainly mounting. will it actually happen next week? that remains to be seen as you know deadlines are a very slippery thing here in washington, so the fact that mitch mcconnell is saying that's his plan a lot of things could derail that plan. it could get pushed back over a number of weeks. here's what the politics of this situation are. you have republicans saying that they're not going to call for confirmation vote until there is movement on this human trafficking bill. democrats and republicans are having a standoff over this human trafficking bill. democrats are opposed because of some of the kupt verl language in the bill that relates to abortion. republicans are saying once we move forward with the human trafficking bill then we will get to loretta lynch. they also, though, point to the fact that loretta lynch supports president obama's immigration policy so you have some republicans voicing their opposition to her getting confirmed. still the white house saying look, she deserves a vote. and they also say by and large,

republicans have not come up with any significant problem in her record. she is someone who's a veteran federal prosecutor overseen some major anti-terror, anti-corruption cases in new york and she would becomes the first female african-american attorney general. so on friday you heard president obama make the point that her confirmation vote has been held up longer than the past several attorney general nominees combined. so a lot of pressure building not only from the white house, also civil rights groups and interestingly, alex potential presidential candidate jeb bush of the republican party, of course, said on friday that he thinks she deserves a vote. so they're getting a little bit of pressure from members of their own party as well. will this actually happen next week? we know that harry reid has said he's going to force a vote. that effort so far hasn't really gone anywhere. buts the pressure is building up on republicans to do something on this and you can bet that the white house is going to continue its outreach this weekend and in

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kansas governor sam brownback signed into law a welfare bill critics are calling the most restrictive in the country. the wide ranging law limits atm withdraws to $25 a day and goes so far as banning recipients from using their welfare cards at places like the movies swimming pools, concerts and even to buy lingerie. he is defending the law against those calling it mean spirited. >> the primary focus of the bill is to get people back to work.

because that's where the real benefit is. it's getting people off of public assistance and back into the marketplace and gaining the dignity and far more income there than the pit tance that the government gives them. >> joining me now is a reporter for "the washington post" following this story and with a welcome to you kansas is now number one of at least 23 states that restrict the welfare cards and their use and it's not just republican led states we should note. why do you think there was so much outrage over kansas' bill when the house and senate passed it earliers this month? >> well as you mentioned, there's a whole laundry list of items that benefit recipients are barred from using their dollars on and they get very specific, nail salons, cruise ships, that sort of thing, and a lot of people feel like this law is mean spirited. additionally, as you mentioned, the $25 atm limit a day, makes

some advocates feel like lawmakers are saying the poor can't be trusted to manage their own money. >> how much of a problem is this? recipients using government money on skinconcerts and cruises? >> it's unclear. kansas says that between july and february they recovered about $200,000 in benefits fraud but a lot had to do with ineligibility claims. there was a report last year a federal report looking at eight states and found about 1% were used on casinos and strip clubs and that sort of thing. the short answer it's kind of unclear but other states that shows that they're not -- people aren't using their benefits that often on these things. >> you're talking 1% of people going to casinos and the like. is there a sense that this law, it's just too much? they've gone too far? >> i mean that's definitely what critics are saying and it's

gaind national attention. jon stewart lampooned it. but one thing to note in kansas people can use their benefits in gun stores unlike many other states. the other thing, it's kind of unclear how this will even be enforced. even state officials are saying that's -- it's going to be difficult, if not impossible to keep people from using their money at these places because they pull the money out of the atm and they can just use it just like regular money. >> yeah. i mean things like not being able to go to the movies i mean movies are a -- by comparison relatively inexpensive way to, you know, get out from the burdens of perhaps living on welfare if you're having challenges and take your kids out for something to be deemed pretty special? >> well, yeah. i guess people who are really pushing for this law and had a lot of republican support in kansas feel like taxpayers should not have to foot the bill for things like that in that dollars are really intended to help kind of get people through paying their bills, child care

that sort of thing. and, you know, even if people end up spending their money on these items it won't constitute benefit fraud, it will be a policy violation, and it's not clear what the penalty for that would be. >> we saw how the anti-poverty measures, income inequality become political issues. do you think new laws like this could become the focus for 2016? >> perhaps. you have other states who have laws like this kansas has gaerned a lot of attention but kansas is a deeply red state. democrats were kind of backing an independent candidate there and hope excited that perhaps even a democrat could beat the republican governor and this last election cycle but it wasn't the case. i mean both candidates the republican senator incumbent and governor, won resoundingly. i don't know if that's going to really play all that strongly in kansas but perhaps nationwide. >> all right. from "the washington post," thank you so much. >> thank you. waste not want not.

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the natural resources defense council found more than 40% of the food produced in tis country goes to waste. "just eat it" examines the problem and how much good food goes unused the filmmakers decide to see if they would survive on thrown out food for six months. let's bring in grant baldwin and generousmeyer the director and producer of the field. i will say anecdotally you look great, there was decent food you could survive. >> i actually gained ten pounds? >> really? i like to feel like i've lost it now. >> i know you were talking about summertime was hard because the produce wasn't so good things will get thrown out in the elements, ha was something hard for you? >> right. but we kind of founds the schedule when things were getting thrown out so we knew where to go. >> yeah. so what made you decide to make the film? >> well we heard 40% of the food was being thrown away it's a stat. you don't get to see what that looks like and the goal was to go out there, survive off it and get the imagery of what that

looks like. >> yeah. i mean it's almost incomprehensible to me i'm thinking about the statistic, how is it possible we as a country throw away almost 40%? it's almost half of what we produce. how does that happen? >> i know. that statistic seemed unbelievable. that's why we wanted to investigate it and point the blame at industry originally but it turns out that 50% of the food wasted is wasted in our own homes. >> and also i will say, restaurants, something i notice even in my own, i tend if things haven't been finished if it's decent, pack it up eat it later for leftovers, stuff like that. >> portion sizes are out of control. just can't finish your plate anymore and the stigma of bringing the food home is too much for people to get a doggy bag so a lot of food goes waste. >> one expert who uses bananas to put this problem in perspective. watch a clip from that. >> supermarkets tell you what diameter, length curvature, all

those parameters have to be exactly right. >> that picture right there is so powerful. how do we turn things around if the mentality that you don't have to have the perfect banana or it's cool to walk out of the restaurant with your doggy bag? >> right. like the banana has to be perfect. there seems to be a movement where grocery stores are starting to sell and market food as being ugly and becoming a new trend to buy ugly, which i think is a great thing for farmers. >> six months you guys live on discarded food. i mean jen, what did you do? did you dumpster dive? >> yeah. in the end we were dumpster diving a lot. we would try to buy the food that grocery stores were pulling off the shelves. they're conservative with the dates so they would pull a bagged salad off three days in advance of that date. then those dates don't really don't mean what they think we mean. it's not about safety. just about freshness. we were able to eat things past.

>> these grocery stores i mean you, because you're making the film you could go there or anyone could go there and say, can i buy this food? >> it depends who you speak to. you go to the youngest stock boy they might run in the back and get you anything you ask but ask the manager and they'll say no. we ended up getting most of the food from wholesale dumpsters like walking into costco seeing a dumpster knocked over or shelf into a dumpster what it looked like. >> it wasn't necessarily behind a grocery store an average mom and pop. you went to huge places. >> yeah. we found something like $14,000 worth of organic chocolate thrown away because it had the wrong labeling on it. >> that was actually a good day, right? >> yeah. >> a great day. >> chocolate. >> things like that in the beginning she really didn't want to do this project. she was scared. we went cold turkey. stopped grocery shopping and when that day came things changed. >> why would a company throw out $14,000 worth of chocolate? >> it's shocking. i mean, whether it's too close

to the date or the labeling is too much to repackage and unbox, it comes down to who's going to pay for that time. and it's really a shame because a lot of places would take that food as donation but no one's making that delivery or pick-up. >> the thing about a documentary like this we all are sitting there saying, what? i can't believe this. they're watching it. you want something to come of this. like what? what do you hope happens and how do you think people can go about doing fit. >> right. we want people to talk about food waste to begin with. right now it's really not on the agenda. and then we want people to kind of value food again, whether it's as simple as finishing your plate or if you want to start petitioning your local grocery store or wholesaler as well. >> you want people to change their habits the way -- you mentioned portion control. talking about the restaurants. is it types of food or what do you hope people as individuals can do? >> like jen said value food again. just even talking about this issue is really a good start. people talk about organic food

or local food or gmos but no one is talking about we're throwing half away. starting talking about it in conversations, those behaviors start changing. >> jen do you have a particular meal, a breakfast lunch or dinner, you thought, wow this is so good considering i've been doing this six months? >> yeah. >> what was it? >> everything we ate was a amazing. we ended up eating a lot of smoothies because that's a great way to use up fruits and vegetables. we had a lot of smoothies. >> seriously, you gained 10 pounds? >> i did. we were finding things like alaskan cod, cases frozen and things like that. >> it think the chocolate was his downfall. >> i can understand that. it's really a phenomenal topic and i'm glad you brought it to the forefront and we're proud to have it here on msnbc and preview here part of what we'll see on wednesday. thank you very much, grant and jen. good luck to you guys. it's called "just eat it." going to have its u.s. television premier on msnbc on wednesday, earth day, april 22 nd at 10:00 p.m. eastern. tune in for that.

what will you do to waste less food? we're asking viewers to share their videos on social media with #nofoodwasted or on msnbc.com/nofoodwaste. watch the premier, "just eat it" a food waste story wednesday at 10:00 p.m. we teased it well. it's worth it. a great documentary. thanks, guys. hillary clinton heads for the state that revived her campaign in 2008 but what message will they deliver this time?

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a deep disquiet. people fear we are losing something. what they fear we are losing is the sense of limitless possibility that has always defined this nation. >> joining me now from new hampshire is msnbc political correspondent casey hunt and here in studio political reporter for "the new york times" nicolas confit sorry. hi ladies first to you, because you're right there at the summit is there any one candidate in your mind making a real splash? >> good afternoon, alex. i have to say there have been a number of people here that have brought the crowd to their feet. almost everyone that's been on stage has engaged with the crowd and not been any moments where anybody has made a significant misstep. i do think that senator marco rubio stood out last night for his speech. he got a sustained standing ovation. he was loose with the crowd, much honestly less nervous than he was in the announcement speech.

i covered that earlier this week i think he's somebody with a lot of room to grow here in new hampshire and i think he used this stage to make a real impression. >> okay. nick, if you look at it you have 20 potential presidential candidates in new hampshire right now. how are they going to sort themselves out? do you think there are any clear frontrunners or potential surprises in this pack? >> i think plenty of surprises, alex. the whole reason it's important this year, it's always important in new hampshire but in this cycle it's not really anybody's state. it's not a place that has a favorite right now. and it's the only state really where if you're a candidate who does not have a natural base with social conservatives or natural evangelicals in north carolina or iowa this is a state you have to win early if you're going to win at all. it's even more important in this cycle with this field. >> what's your sense on the ground, you have marco rubio having made a splash on the summit but on the ground in the state? >> look it's very, very early,

obviously. you can be leading in polls here a week before the primary itself and it can come out differently. president obama learned that the hard way in 2008. but i think that the fact that this is so wide open is really what's going to define this 2016 presidential primary and i think as nick was saying it is a place for somebody like a chris christie, for example, or a jeb bush or marco rubio potentially, he's not -- if he doesn't come out of the pack in iowa and i think that you're going to see and you've already started to see them doing the kinds of retail events day in and day out. we talk about how scott walker is a frontrunner. he's at 14% approximately in new hampshire polls. that's -- it's honestly meaningless at this point and the voters here are so unpredictable change so fast, break late. i think it's going to be a very exciting race here on the ground. >> absolutely. >> on the other side of the aisle, nick we have hillary clinton, of course, having launched her campaign six days ago. take a listen to what she said in iowa this week.

>> i want to fix our political system. i want to get things done. i'm willing to work with people who have good ideas, who are on any side of the political divide, but we have to start breaking down the divisions that have paralyzed our politics. >> nick clinton heads to new hampshire monday but what's the conventional wisdom on her iowa play? >> i mean, i think the wisdom here is that she's trying to avoid mistakes of the past trying to come out slow there are no grand policy speeches only some rhetoric hints of where she might go. there's no rallies. it's all very small. the fund-raising is small scale, the events are small scale. she's been burned in this state before in iowa she's been saved before in new hampshire, but i think it's such a long road for hillary clinton that without a big primary, if she starts being a big candidate this early,

she's going to have to be a big candidate for two years. it's going to be a long time. take it easy for now. >> some observers, nick have said that it was a bit stage managed in iowa that it lacked some authenticity. any cred to that? >> you know what this is all stage managed. so if you're coming to campaign rollouts looks for authenticity and moments of sponty nayty you're in the wrong place at the wrong time in the wrong business. it's not any less concocted than straight talk express busses through the heartland or taking a river boat down to missouri river to meet people. it's all campaigns. what do you do and say at these events how well do you connect? >> it's expected recommendens at the summit will be critical of hillary clinton but any particular republican going after her, the kind of message that could carry over in a

general election if. >> alex i think there are two that have stood out of their criticisms of hillary clinton, the first rand paul who said she would need a second campaign plane to carry her baggage and he has shown a willingness to throw darts her way in a way many in the other -- in the rest of the field have not necessarily been willing to go. but i also think that the person who's levelled probably the most personal and critical attacks at hillary clinton is carley fee fiorina fiorina, former ceo of hewlett-packard. i talked to her about how she feels about being, you know, the woman that's criticizing hillary clinton in this field. she says she's never been a male politician, doesn't know and she views her own struggles as more related to her own name i.d. things that would potentially be a problem for a male candidate. the reality, she has a wider -- more leeway to criticize hillary clinton as a fellow woman candidate than many of the other men running in the field do and

it's clear she started to play that role here in the early stages of this primary. >> yeah. nick, i'm curious, that role that kaci is describing for carley fiorina on the gender issue do you think that is supported by the gop leadership she's been encouraged to do that been that much in contact with them not having announced anything and saying she will do so by the first week of may? >> i'm not sure it's coordinated in that sense. she's been ambitious in desiring to run for office a long time. she saw her moment. if you're the only woman in a field it actually matters. it can set you apart if a positive way for your campaign. i think it's kind of a fringe benefit, a bonus if you will that she does get to mount certain kinds of criticisms of hillary clinton with a bit less of a certain kind of risk than a male politician would. it's not fair necessarily but that's kind of the way it works. >> okay. it's worked very well having both of you on. casey, nick thank you so much. we'll see you again. >> how music can help mobilize a

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it's an issue many women face and now a unique campaign is trying to get people to stop cat calling. the message is being posted on what looks like regular street signs but they come with a very different meaning. nbc's stephanie gosk has the details. >> reporter: spring is here and as temperatures rise people are hitting the streets wearing their warm weather best. but strutting your stuff shouldn't be an invitation to be harassed. >> i'm constantly thinking oh, maybe i shouldn't wear this because there will be unwanted attention. >> reporter: this week the group feminist apparel posted signs around new york city marking unofficial no cat call zones. >> i don't think this is going to end street harassment but still it's bringing awareness to it. >> reporter: a study finds 85%

of women reported experiencing street harassment before the age of 17. >> when someone is asking us to smile it's with an expectation we owe them something. respond if you want to don't respond if you don't want to do whatever you need to do to stay safe. >> reporter: the non-profit group holler back released this video last year that raised eyebrows. a woman walking the streets of new york, a clip viewed more than 40 million times. here's another video. this time a guy. >> what's up? >> reporter: but are all comments on the street unwanted? these guys seem to like it. >> if someone cat calls me i would marry them instantly. >> reporter: what do the construction workers think ate all this. >> you have one line to say. you cannot chase a person you cannot harass a person but you can compliment the person. >> do you think it's difficult to find that line between a compliment and a cat call? >> yes. >> reporter: so some believe there is a line that shouldn't be crossed.

>> do you ever have guys say something and you think to yourself oh, that was not good. >> yeah. >> do you say anything about it? >> well in this type of work you have to keep to yourself. >> reporter: maybe the city could use a few more signs. >> and that was nbc's stephanie gosk reporting there. she says it's important to note that 77% of women under 40 in the study she mentioned said they were followed by a man or group of man in way that made them feel unsafe in just this last year. shock, the former illinois congressman who resigned in disgrace is facing new financial and perhaps legal challenges. shock has been accused of improperly using taxpayer money and the justice department has launched a criminal probe. he resigned on march 17th an his illinois county wants him to pay for the special election to replace him. bring in paul marshal county attorney and gary the chairman of the marshal county board. gary gary, you sent a letter to the

former congressman saying we are requesting that you reimburse the county for the cost of the special election because of your resignation from congress. if you choose to send the $76,000 requested, we will accept it on behalf of the citizens of marshal county. so why does the board feel the former congressman should pay for this? >> well i think it was mainly the short term that he was in office and his abrupt resignation. the board felt that it was maybe ask him for the money first and then they decided sending him a bill. so i think that's the gist of it. >> okay. paul do you expect him to pay? is he under any sort of legal man date that he should? >> alex there

obligation but, you know, i've supported him over the years, known him to be a stand-up individual. do i expect him to pay? not necessarily. do i hope he will stand up for what's right and pay, yes, i do. >> okay. i want to point out that we have reached out to congressman shock for a comment on all this and we have not heard anything back here. but gary how about you? have you heard anything from shock? >> no. i haven't. and the letter that -- and bill we sent him, we sent it sertsert certified and someone in the office did sign for it this week. so he has received the letter. >> okay. . so paul you hope that he as you say, been a stand-up guy in the past and known him and hope he does the right thing. if you don't get the response you want what kind of action are you prepared to take? >> well that would entirely be up to the county board and i'm not sure we've reached that point yet. it could be possible that there

could be a common law action but highly unlikely. he's been elected to a position. hi timing was poor. he left at a time when it was going to cost these counties in his district to pay for a special election. he has money available to him and we hope that he does come forward and do the right thing. >> yeah. you know gary you guys aren't the only county. you've used plural there. do you expect other counties represented by mr. schock to take similar action? >> well i hope they do. it would be better for, as a group, i'm sure it would get more attention. i know that -- i'm pretty sure they won't all do it but i think some will and it's going to cost the -- his district close to a half million dollars for the primary and the general election, and so we're just a small amount of that.

i would think that if he has an opportunity to make things right for his district he'll step up and pay for this election. >> you know paul based on the description you gave me about aaron schock when you first heard about the financial malfeasance that he's alleged to have conducted there, what did you think? >> well i don't know if he's actually done anything wrong at this point and at some point i hope we do find out whether he has or hasn't. i was, quite frankly, shocked. i didn't think that aaron would do something like that. i don't know that he has. and i hope that he hasn't. but just leaving, knowing at a time if he didn't know he should have known that it would cost extra money to the people that elected him. with power comes responsibility. you can't just duck that responsibility because things get tough. >> all right. paul power and gary crushp

thank you very much. best of luck. after a short break we're taking you back there to washington, d.c., we're going to have -- no not taking a will eye quarter of a million people to expected to take part in the rally. let's go to roenan. >> i'll take a break. why would you do that with fall-out boy? what's wrong with me? >> how could you do that to us? this is the most exciting part of the day. we've got fall out boy here and pete and patrick. this is a big event because people are, of course playing the big acts. i saw the gear up there. it's going to be good music, but, it's about more than that. this is the 45th anniversary of earth day. why don't i ask you what's drawn to an event that is about more than the music? >> to me this event specifically and global citizen, the idea that some problems are fixable within our generation, the idea

that we can end global poverty by 2030. i think that's awesome. i think if we realize we're part of something bigger than just us. >> just a modest goal like ending global poverty. what is a global citizen to you? >> it's all in the word. the reality is whatever you do wherever you live in the world, it affects the rest of the world, and, i mean it doesn't always feel like that but it's very, very true and i think, you know, we get to travel and we get to see the world, and it's so real. it's so palpable how much you know, what you do and what you say and how you are affects the world. >> i love that outlook. you have great opportunities. what about you, pete? when you look out and you see fans saying we're global citizens, what does that mean? snoo i hope that means you care about people around the globe no matter what the longitude or latitude they were born in. i think it's important to realize that we're one humanity, and it's really the only way that we're going to solve any of these problems. >> we were just talking where. they've been doing such

interesting stuff. century beg hit. what's next for you guys musically? >> next we just put out a video for our song "uma thurmon" and then we go on tour with whiz khalifa. >> thanks for being here. alex, back to you. >> oh, i don't know if i want to take it. i would rather have you hang out there with fall out boy. >> just keep it going. you should be here, alex, as you have been hearing ought day. >> i wish i were serm. can you just ask the guys what is the most thrilling part about being at something like this? i mean, they performed all over the world. >> we want to know what's the most exciting part about being on the stage where it's about the issues or is that daunting to you? >> there's going to be speakers that are super performed, and we're the guys in the rock band and our job is to entertain the crowd. it's daunting to be on the

national mall where mlk spoke. you know it's like crazy. >> it's cool stuff. what do you say to cynics out there who say, look, a rock band talking about political issues poverty issues economics there's no place for that. what's your reaction? >> any time you have a spotlight, you are -- what you need it do your spopt is to cast that spotlight on people who wouldn't be in the spotlight otherwise. for whatever the reason is if it makes you feel better as long as the spotlight is on those people and those issues it's important. >> i respect that a lot. that's the theme we've been hearing all day. perform whoerz want to do more than just perform wrush think, look this is an obligation that comes with this new connected world we're in. >> it's fantastic. thank you very much, roenin, and thank you to fall out boy. thank you for your time. >> you can keep an eye on things going to msnbc.com and watch live stream telling global citizen earth day event. we'll be right back. audible safety beeping

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