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more bullet proof vest, more police items a camera, a hard drive and a computer, as well telephone s telephones and documents with the words isis and al qaeda written on them. demanding answers. hundreds of protesters taking to the streets in baltimore as the justice department investigates how a young black man died in police custody. >> we had a loss of life. i think if you can imagine what the family's going through at this point in time, they want answers, they deserve answers. strange bedfellows. president obama's trade deal has him teaming up with unlikely allies and taking on liberals in

his own party. >> i want elizabeth -- we're allies on a host of issues, but she's wrong on this. good day, i'm peter alexander in on this gorgeous day in washington for my friend andrea mitchell. paris is on a heighten state of alert for at least the next 48 hours after the arrest of a 24-year-oldal algerian national who that's right there say was planning an attack on parisian churches this sunday when his plot was foiled. nbc's kelly cobiella from london. you followed the news conference that wrapped up a short time ago. what's the latest? >> reporter: we're learning a little more about this. the man is a 24-year-old i.t. student from syria and, but live -- from algeria but living in

france the past several years. prosecutors say he planned to attack two churches last sunday morning. they say they got a call at 8:50 in the morning, a 911 call last sunday from someone who said he'd been hurt in an armed robbery. when they responded, they found the suspect outside his apartment bleeding from the leg. they also say they found a stockpile of weapons in his car including automatic weapons, handgun, ammunition, bullet proof vests, and they say detailed plans to attack two churches. they say the attacks were imminent. the man is under arrest at the hospital. french authority say there was no armed robbery. in fact, the suspect mistakenly shot himself. they also say they recovered phone from his home. they believe he was talking to someone who could have been in syria. but there's no direct evidence that he had ties to organized

groups. >> french natives and foreigners being surveiled in the country now. kelly watching for us from london. thank you very much. back here, we're continuing to monitor the latest developments off the coast of yemen where u.s. warships are tracking the movements of an iranian convoy that may be carrying heavy weapons intended for houthi rebels in that war-torn country. there are new reports of more saudi-led bombings targeting rebels after saudi officials announced yesterday they were ending their month-long full-scale bombing campaign, and the fighting inside that nation is ongoing. on tuesday, "hardball's" chris matthews spoke with president obama about iran's role in this tense situation. >> what we've said to them is that if there are weapons delivered to factions within yemen that could threaten navigation, that's a problem. and we're not sending them obscure messages we send them

direct messages about it. my hope is generally that we can settle down the situation in yemen. >> chris matthews joins us now in new york today. nice to see you. this is sort of politically problematic for this white house because i guess in simple terms, why should the u.s. trust iran on a nuclear deal if iran is thumbing its nose at the u.s. in the arabian sea? how's the president doing trying to balance the issues? >> well, the countries have different interests. even with a deal on nuclear we still have different geopolitical interests. we did this with the soviet union and all the deals on the nuclear disarmament during the time we were fighting in vietnam. and that proxy war there. so what we thought was a proxy war. so it's normal. you just -- we're not going to be best buddies. it's a question of whether we can, you know, moderate their behavior a bit. obviously the president in the interview with me yesterday was talking about being pretty strong and stating we don't want them arming people down there. we don't want the iranians arming the rebels down there. but we'll see. he didn't seem that disturbed

from what i could tell. i think he was more focused on the trade fight at home. >> let me talk to you about trade more specifically. that was the focus of most of your conversation. here part of your exchange with the president yesterday. >> they're throwing the kitchen sink at this trade agreement which will involve 11 inflations and ourselves on the pacific rim. -- 11 nations and ourselves on the pacific rim. why are they saying these things? >> they don't want it to happen. i love elizabeth, we're allies on a host of issue, but she's wrong on this. everything i do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal. now, i would not be doing this trade dell if i did not think it was good for the middle class. >> chris, i want to play what paul ryan said this morning about this trade promotion authority legislation moving through the senate. here are his remarks. >> he's going to have to bring democrats -- this must absolutely be bipartisan for it to be successful. by having trade promotion authority, we are addressing the legitimate concerns that people

have had with past trade agreements. we think that will get us more democrat support. >> you've got this unique bipartisan mix here. do you think it will get through the house and senate? and how, as a followup how does it complicate things for hillary clinton who in some ways is walking a fine line? >> first of all, bill clinton was for trade with nafta. i've heard him address the issue. he's for this deal. i thought hillary clinton was for this deal when she was in state. we'll have to see how she develops her position as a candidate. she's been a free trader, a supporter of trade. most people have got good education support trade. it's something you're taught early on. it makes good policy. clearly the labor unions in this country, and they only represent a small fraction of the manufacturing base of the country, are against it. and that is a political situation for people who represent labor states like pennsylvania and ohio and certainly states where you have old industry. but the thing is -- i don't want to simplify it too much because it is complicated, but labor

represents union worker who have jobs and want to keep them. and labor unions don't represent jobs that don't exist yet. in terms of yesterday in virginia, a high-tech area, california massachusetts where there's new industries being developed, there's no labor union there. so labor has a particular responsibility which is to look out for people in their union roles who pay uses and their families. you've got a lot of this depending -- as tip o'neill would say, all lipsticks local. i mean clearly you'll get a different view from the senator from virginia than you get from the senator from pennsylvania. i think you're right, i think paul ryan's probably got a case. there's going to have to be a good number of democrats who step forward. more than, say the 20 or so we hear in the house. but it doesn't make sense for trading states like new york and washington state and california and states where there's a lot of financing of trade where people are trading all the time, where industry depends on international trade to be against this thing. does make sense for the rust

belt areas. i think a lot of people are under union discipline now, they don't want to make enemies of organized labor, they're opposing it because of pressure. i think that's how -- >> hillary clinton, does she have to pick a side, be more clear about a position? >> this morning, al hunt made the point from bloomberg that she ought to do a sister soldier moment and say she's for straight. intellectually i think she probably is for the trade deal. but the pressure on her from all the democratic interest groups now, and this goes to the issue of iran, everything you think about right now, all the usual interest groups, the pro-israeli hardliners, people like that, all saying which side are you on. the democratic party is not unified now. it's coming apart. you see it. it's devolving. and so everybody -- it's every man for himself every politician for themselves now. and that's what's going on. every issue that comes up now they're not looking at the leadership of the white house. they're thinking how do they save their butts politically. and hillary's thinking about does she want to make enemies with organized labor. probably no.

>> every man these days, every man and woman for themselves. we'll wait and see. we're listening to her now -- >> a comment, thomas. the democratic party, if you care about the party, does well when it's more than the sum of its parts. under the clintons, the kennedy administration, it was always for something bigger than just a bunch of interest groups. and the minute it becomes just interest groups, it gets about 44%. it loses the next general election. has to be for something. commanding something national, something unifying something, okay inspiring. it can't just be protect your rear end. and unfortunately, that's what it's beginning to look like lately as the president fades you know the president's fading into his later part of his second term. and they're just doing everything for themselves. it makes sense politically. it's not nice to look at though. >> chris matthews for us today from new york. appreciate you telling us more about your interview yesterday. thank you very much. heated protest in baltimore as the justice department investigates the case of freddie gray the man who died this week due to injuries sustained while in police custody. we'll get the latest from there

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you're watching "andrea mitchell reports." the department of justice is opening an investigation to the death of freddie gray, the 25-year-old man who died in police custody of a fatal spinal injury. more than 1,000 demonstrators marched from the west baltimore spot where the arrest occurred to the city police headquarters. baltimore's police commissioner says he understands the public's concern. >> i think they're sharing thoughts, concerns. i hear them. and i understand. and if i was a parent and that was my child that i lost i want to know and react. but our job is also to have

balance. and not to rush to a conclusion. that's what the direction is right now is get the evidence and make sure it's right. we're only going to have like one chance at this. >> joining us is baltimore city councilman and community leader brandon scott. i appreciate you being here. baltimore, as you know has a black mayor and a black police commissioner. you told "the new york times" that unlike other places where incidents like this have happened federal ferguson north charleston, south carolina, they understand what it means to be black in america. we don't yet know lou freddie gray -- don't yet know how freddie gray died. how does this still happen in that community? >> it happens because we know in america we still have -- in baltimore, no matter where are you in this country we have a big image problem when it comes to young black males. it's a $1 billion industry that creates negative stereotypes of young black males. we have not started to address that. we have not addressed the issues of black men and police. we have not started to address

the issues of black men with their families -- >> should it be different in baltimore because there's a black mayor and black police chief? and the hope would be we don't know the specific race breakdown of the six individuals who have been basically taken off, suspended, the six officers. but should it be different in baltimore? what is failing to happen there? >> no. we have the same issues. not everyone in government is black, not all the police officers are black. even though we have a mayor and police commissioner and delegates who went to change some things in the police officers bill of rights that didn't happen because it's not just encompassing baltimore. we need the state of maryland's representation to vote on that. it's not just a baltimore thing. this is another incident that shows the need for folks to come together and push. we're all going to have to sit at the table and give up things. police will have to give up things. we'll have to give up some thing so we can continue not to have this conversation. >> what do you want the police specifically to give up that would make you more satisfied? one of the concerns despite conversations for years is there are not yet body cams on all

officers even though there have been discussions about testing a pilot program. >> there will be. the rfp is out -- i was on the task force for body cameras when we roll something out that big, it has to be done the right way. yesterday i asked the police in front of city hall about putting on body cameras. this is something every elected official supports. we'll have them very soon. we also have to look at other things. we also have to look at policy changes and policy changes are not a city thing. that's a state thing. we also have to look at culture changes. and that's another things we have to discuss moving forward. >> are you satisfied with the mayor and police commissioner so far? >> yeah. i'm satisfied with their handling of this thus far. we know that the more eyes on it, the better. i welcome the justice department coming in. we all have a lot of work to do. i'm a young black man in baltimore. i know. i know that in my lifetime it's gotten better, yes. baltimore is not the city that it was in 1993 when i was a kid. and violence was out of control

and very much worse. but yes, we still have issues to address and have to work together. i want this for freddie gray's family. i want answers for a young 14-year-old's family who recently lost his life in the city. >> finally briefly, you lead these 300-men marches pushing for people to start taking responsibility for what happens in their communities. how damaging is this for the mission you're trying to accomplish? >> it's not damaging. we're the 300 men march against violence. we don't say what kind of violence, we're not particular about police violence or community violence. we want everybody to know the community has a role in this as well. freddie gray's death is tragic, very. we have to get answers for his family. we have a shot in broad daylight last year mckenzie elliot. and no one has been helping us. we had a 14-year-old shots april 8th. we haven't gotten answers for his family. >> unfortunately the list -- yeah. you're exactly right. the list is too long in the community. we appreciate you taking time with us of course, baltimore

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>> reporter: 5-year-old jacob lemay is fierce. he loves karate and dogs and spaceships and playing with his sisters. so two sisters and you're the brother, right? >> yeah. >> reporter: were you always the brother? >> i'm not always. >> reporter: what were you before? >> i'm a sister. >> reporter: how come it changed? >> because i wanted to be a boy. >> reporter: in the beginning the lemays were raising three girls. but when mia was around 2, she started saying, "i'm a boy." did you think it was a phase? >> i hoped it was a phase. >> reporter: mia learned to write her name but would immediately scribble it out jacob still remembers. >> i didn't like to write that name. i wanted to write j-a-c-o-b. >> reporter: jacob. j-a-c-o-b, you picked it out, right? >> you look beautiful -- >> reporter: even something as simple as a haircut wasn't.

>> what do you think mia? >> i want -- i want someone to cut my hair, and i want it to be like that. >> reporter: they didn't know what to think. >> i found him kind of poking at himself saying things like, why did god make me this way. why did god make me wrong. i was confused and concerned and i hoped this obsession with being a boy would go away. tripoli only grew stronger -- >> reporter: but it only grew stronger. they went searching for answers. >> her need to playboy roles and need to be seen or spoken to as a boy at home became very persistent and very consistent. those are the hall marks of a possibly transgender child. skins, persistence, and insistence. she was meeting those markers. >> kate we commend you on what was an incredibly powerful story last night. >> reporter: thank you. >> i watched this with my mom. as a new father a question we

were asking ourselves -- and i think a question people are reacting to is the idea that jacob is just 5 years old, 4 years old when this began. what is the reaction that you're hearing from viewers? >> reporter: yeah. 4 years old when he transitioned, 2 when he started saying "i want to be a boy." we're getting a ton of reaction, as you might imagine on, social media, our website. people reaching out. a lot of positive. a lot of people saying, good for this family for sharing a very honest story about what life is really like and what the parenting questions are really like. i will say, though, there's probably anecdotally 1/3 of the comments negative. people saying the parents should be the parents and shouldn't be listening to their child on this issue. there definitely are part of the country where i thinking about -- i thinking about transgender is not accepted. they have had a lot of acceptance where they live. >> what does the medical community say? you spoke about this last night and the family said they're a

long way away from getting involved with medical treatment. but what does the medical community say? >> reporter: right. the transition has just been calling him jacob, using he and him as pronounce, having him cut his hair short and dress the way he wants to dress as a boy. when it becomes later, when puberty draws closer they would have to make decisions about whether to put him on hormone blockers and eventually much later he could make decision business surgery. with the medical community saying -- people who specialize in transgender kids, it's new territory. they generally say starting early, starting young, if you really think your child is transgender and shows all those hallmarks that mimi talked about, insistence, persistence, and consistency, then you should act young because you're preventing a lot of mental health issues where if you didn't act when they're young they might have years of feeling conflicted and real damage in terms of depression and anxiety. >> and again tonight you have another story in your series taking a look at a story that's gone viral inside the beltway.

this affects -- involves the family of representative, former representative mike honda of california. what's unique to the story of his grandson or granddaughter? >> reporter: yeah, congressman mike honda from northern california serving in the congress. back in february, he sent a tweet out about his granddaughter saying how proud he is as a proud grandpa of a transgender grandchild i hope she can feel safe at school without fear of being bullied. that was the first time congressman honda said publicly he has someone transgender in his family. melissa is 8 years old. she decided last summer, she and her family decided to make the transition, that she would live as melissa as a girl. she's an active little girl. loves to do cartwheels and gymnastics. but it's really -- it has caused a lot of buzz. this is a prominent politician saying i've got this in my family, too. that's part of why they wanted to tell their story. they know people are listening, in part because he's a congressman. >> yeah. congressman honda wrapping up a

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we're back on "andrea mitchell reports." i'm peter alexander. trade deals and trade legislation have top democrats split on one side. president clinton and former president bill clinton. on the other, harry reid and elizabeth warren. stuck in the middle, of course, hillary clinton. >> do you have concerns about the trade deals and whether that will hurt? >> any trade deal has to produce jobs and raise wage and increase

prosperity and protect our security. and we have to do our part in making sure we have the capabilities and the skills to be competitive. >> part of andrea mitchell's recent exchange with hillary clinton. joining us for our daily fix, "the new york times'" amy chozick and msnbc's alex seizewald. i want to get a sense of whether clinton has to choose a side. i want to pull up what elizabeth warren said moments ago, "the administration says i'm wrong," referring to trade "that there's nothing to worry about. they say the deal is nearly done and are making promises about how it will affect workers, human rights. promises but people like you can't see the actual deal." what does -- where does hillary clinton deal withdrawal this? >> -- deal with this? >> i think this is fascinating. on one hand she is trying to show her populist credentials and trying to present herself as very much for working class people. people who are struggling. at the same time of course, her

husband was the architect of nafta and some controversial trade deals. i think that she's, as you see in her statement to andrea, being careful. she's not saying yes or no on this. she'll continue to be pushed especially from the warren wing of the party. i think where she comes out will be fascinating. can she break with the policies of the clinton years on trade? and also, would also be a criticism of the obama administration. >> careful's a good way to describe the exchange we witnessed. alex is here with us. you covered an interesting meeting that hillary clinton held yesterday behind closed doors with state democrats in new hampshire where among other things she said she would remake the supreme court in order to overturn citizens united. she also suggested that she might go even further than president obama on climate change. she is hammering home on popular messages for liberals, isn't she? >> yeah. absolutely. you know, this is all part of her effort to reach out to that progressive base that is unhappy about the trade deals. she's talking about bankers and hedge fund managers getting

taxed at lower rates than truck drivers and people, working class people. she's talking about climate change, she said the government needs to do whatever it takes to combat climate change. and she's made campaign finance reform one of the four pillars of her agenda. this is all part of an effort to win over that progressive base that went against her in 2008 rallied behind president obama. so i have to imagine that this timing is really unfortunate for her. you know the democratic party is more united than it's been possibly forever. and this trade is one of the two issues that really split democrats. comes just at the time that she's trying to win over the progressive base. >> she says she's focused on winning over the base and focusing on the economy and issues closer to home. republicans have a lot of issues they still want to litigate over her foreign policy as the former secretary of state. just this morning, john boehner confirm to our colleague luke russert that the house committee investigating benghazi isn't going to release its major report on that incident till 2016. surprise. we saw this coming. that means this thing's going to go in the middle of the campaign's high season.

>> absolutely. i think her campaign and democrats are somewhat comfortable with talking about benghazi. they feel they've confined it to the kind of conservative right wing side of the political spectrum. it hasn't broken through independents or democrats. what the nourishes are coming up, they want to put those in the same place, funding to the clinton foundation. they want to keep it as a conservative issue only. >> amy we saw clinton's compare chairman podesta meeting jed with senate democrats. take us behind the scenes on those conversations. >> right. clearly there's outreach going. on there's a lot of asking what they want from the campaign. i think that there's -- there was a sense that they don't want to her to look entitled obviously. there's talk to progressive democrats, as well, about what issues she needs to address. it's interesting while the candidate is going on this "listening tour" in iowa, new hampshire, talking to voters, listening, i think her aides are doing a similar thing with party luminary who's they'll need on

their -- luminaries who they'll need on their side. >> a juggernaut that's how they want it to appear. amy, thanks, alex, nice to see you in person. thank you very much. to mark earth day today, msnbc is airing a new documentary taking a look at food wasted. some of these numbers are staggering. the average american family, hear this, throws away as much as $2,300 worth of food each year. to illustrated the problem two filmmakers sets out on a six-month project to eat food that had been discarded and look at how much viable food we throw away. >> there was a study in new york. they looked at all the food waste in one county. the most waste came from households. more than from restaurants more than from supermarkets more than from farm. >> in our household, we're wasting somewhere between 15% and 25% of the food we're buying. that's expensive. i mean imagine walking out a grocery store with four bags of groceries, dropping one in the parking lot, and not bothering to pick it up.

that's essentially what we're doing in our homes today. >> powerful image there. and joining us now is award-winning chef restauranteur, and msnbc food correspondent, tom colicchio. more than half of produce grown goes to waste chef. and 40% of food produced in the u.s. is thrown out. these are staggering statistics. what makes this film so important? >> the filmmakers, they're tackling a subject we don't often talk about. you know, often we talk about food -- use hear about farmers markets and chefs get a lot of play and stuff. and clearly there's a lot of talk about hunger in this country. but this idea of waste isn't something we really talk about and focus on. so it's -- this is such an amazing project. you know filmmakers decide to go six months without purchasing food. and they manage in that time to spend only $200 on food while they recovered about 20,000. >> what's the takeaway? i want to talk about the film more. what is the simple take, did --

takeaway that people watching cannot be part of the problem but part of the solution that ultimately you say will affect the price of food across the country to affect everybody? >> you know, it should affect the price. if we save more food and supermarkets are throwing us on less food the price of food should come down. but the simple thing to do is try to use up everything. you know, when you're going out shopping, don't make the impulse purchase. you know, make sure you're buying something you know you'll use. what i try to do now is every friday, i open up the refrigerator and clean it out. make sure i'm using everything. the other thing you can do is start to use the freezer. learn how to use the freezer. freeze leftovers. repurpose leftovers. don't just serve the same dish the next day. try to repurpose those leftovers. so there's a lot of ways and different things that people can coo doo to cut out food waste. >> how close do you -- how do you demystify this? the film look at produce and how it needs to look and feel a certain way. help me understand that. >> if you go to the supermarket everything on the shelf has to look great. so if there's a blemish, if

bananas brown, they take them and go to waste. they throw them out. they'd rather throw it out than have it on the shelves. also you find when you get to the one or two bits left, if it's a head of lettuce, no one wants to buy the last head. goes in the trash. and this is perfectly good food. nothing wrong it. and there's a lot of organizations doing amazing things like city harvest here in new york d.c. central kitchen in washington, where they're actually recovering some of this waste. and before it's wasted. and managing to process it and get it into soup kitchens and things like that. what's staggering is as we're wasting 40% of the food that we produce in this country we still have around 47 million people who struggle to feed themselves. >> no that's so staggering, as you sit and saw the majerlier. part of the -- that majerlier. part of the clip, they're carrying the grocery bags and drops one on the ground. you think about how every family dropping a bag would be able to serve. how does food waste turn into an environmental concern more

bradley? >> sure. so food waste, especially things we're throwing away, vegetables or scraps, they end up in a landfill. if they go into the landfill, they get buried. they're in an january rexic -- an anorexic environment and turn to methane. worse than co2 felt we have to get food out of the landfill. today in new york mayor de blasio announced by 2020 that they want to go through a composting program where food waste is separated from regular garbage and doesn't end up in a landfill, ends up in a compost bin. >> simple takeaway make tonight a leftovers night. that's what our family does. good advice. good to see you. by the way, we know you'll be hosting a twitter chat at 1:00 p.m. join in by tweeting your questions to @tomcolicchio. c-o-l-i-c-l-h-i-o. and "just eat it" on msnbc. actor ben affleck

apologizing after asking producers of a pbs documentary to edit a discovery that one of his distant relatives owned slaves. nbc's miguel almaguer reports. we pieced together the lost family histories -- >> reporter: the pps show "finding your roots" traced ben affleck's family back generations. >> i'm sure that there's so much of people's history that gets lost over time. >> reporter: the segment featuring the actor/director aired in october. it's what didn't make the show that's now making headlines. >> this is a big surprise -- >> reporter: after the show discovered one of his distant relatives was a slave owner affleck asked host and distinguished professor henry louis gates to censor his family history because he was embarrassed. affleck spoke out about the controversy for the first time tuesday night, posting on facebook. "i lobbied hip the same way i lobby lobby directors," he said, "i

regret asking the issue not being included." what aired was dubbed a whitewash. >> we wanted to find out what we could find about ben's more distant relatives. >> reporter: no mention of affleck's family history. the omission only going public after internal emails inside sony were hacked then widely reported on. after he's lobbied by affleck gates writes sony's ceo michael linton, "we've never had anyone try censor or edit what we found. he's a mega-star. what do we do?" linton responds, "i would take it out if no one knows. but if it gets out that you're editing material based on this sensitiviti, it gets tricky." affleck says he regrets the decision. pbs is conducting an internal review. >> impressive roots. >> i find this very powerful. >> reporter: the show is over, but the controversy is not. nbc news, los angeles.

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there are close to 3.5 million high ability, low-income students in grades k to 12 alone across this country. that is according to the jack kent cooke foundation. its goal is to help exceptional students from middle school all the way through grad school to advance despite economic disadvantages. since its inception in 2000, the foundation has awarded a whopping $130 million in scholarships to 1,900 students in financial need and more than $80 million in grants. joining us now is the executive director of the jack kent cooke foundation, harold levy. nice to see you in person. i appreciate you coming to be with us today. >> thank you. >> i want to talk about this excellence gap as you describe it. what is that, and how do we overcome that? >> so the low-income kids when they start off in school are able to achieve at a certain level, and many of them turn out

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and three -- and p.s., if you allow them to skip grades, it's actually cheaper for the school system. >> even the kids who to participate face challenges? >> absolutely. the kids in the jack kent cooke program that we run get the largest scholarships in america. $40,000 last dollar scholarship. and potentially get it in seventh grade and continue all the way through grad school. you can do the math. it's 10 or 12 years. those kids need intensive counseling. and we can do that because we were left a legacy of incredibly great wealth. so we have 23 students per counselor. you can't do that in america across the board because in fact counselors today have a caseload close to 500. >> just to celebrate your successes, some students are oxford scholarship recipients. these scholarships are provided to seventh graders, to 12th graders, if i have it right, to students transferring from community colleges to four-year colleges as well. >> exactly right.

and the opportunity is life changing. these kids who are basically rhodes scholar quality have the intellectual capacity, and happen to come from worst or at least moderate means. that's an extraordinary gift that we are able to further. as part of that, we want to address all those other kids who have similar needs. it turns out that high performing, low-income kids are fragile. and fragile in ways no one anticipates. if you take the kids who are in the top quartile on reading scores and at the same time the bottom quartile in wealth or income fully 22% of them never even apply to college. that's extraordinary. an embarrassment. >> we appreciative for the generosity of your organization. the opportunityies it's providing so many. thank you very much. >> you're kind. thank you. pope francis will visit cuba before coming to the u.s. in september.

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which political story will make headlines in the next 24 hours? next's luke russert joining us in capitol hill. luke, give us a sense of what's happening there. loretta lynch, the vote scheduled likely for tomorrow. is that still the case? >> reporter: that is still the case, peter. and that is i would say to some degree dependent on how they regard a human trafficking bill today. the holdup was abortion language within the human trafficking bill. harry reid has warned republicans not to attach any poison pill amendment that he says would kill the deal and in effect stop the process of moving lynch forward tomorrow. all that being said, though, it looks like mcconnell and reid

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news, beginning in paris and the planned terror attack foiled in the nick of time. french authorities say the 24-year-old in custody was only caught because he accidentally shot himself in the leg. also the man who shot president reagan and three others could be permanently released from a mental hospital. but is john hinckley jr. no longer a threat? meanwhile, people in baltimore are not giving up their demand for answers to the question of what happened to 25-year-old freddie gray inside a police van. the just department is now also trying to find out. and the controversial and courageous story that we previewed on this very show yesterday about a transgender 5-year-old. >> reporter: were you always a brother? >> not always. >> reporter: what were you before? >> a sister. >> reporter: how come it changed? >> because i wanted to be a boy. >> jacob's story leads us to our bing pulse question of the day. do you think a preschooler can understand gender identity?

head to pulse.msnbc.com to let us know what you think. we start with developing news in paris. prosecutors say the heightened state of watch has been extended for 48 hours now. it came as official said they were able to stop a potential terrorist attack in its tracks. the suspect is now in custody. officials say a 24-year-old computer science student was planning an attack on one or perhaps even two churches but was prevented from going through with the attack after he accidently shot himself in the leg. >> we know that this man possessed multiple weapons so he was thinking of getting rid of them by throwing them in the river, in the seine. he hurt himself, we think, and wasn't able to. he actually shot a gun, a