week after he sustained a severe spinal cord injury, allegedly while in police custody. the justice department is looking into the case while local officials continue their own investigation. late today police said five of the six suspended officers have given statements to police investigators. no word given on why the sixth officer has not provided a statement. baltimore police commissioner anthony batts says he understands the community's frustration. >> they're sharing their thoughts. they're sharing their concerns. and i hear them. and i understand. and if i was a parent and that was my child that i lost i would be concerned. i would want to know and react. but our job is also to have balance and not to rush to a conclusion. and that's what the direction is right now is the get the evidence and make sure it's right. because we're only going to have one chance at this.

>> what exactly could that evidence show? "the new york times" reports one witness said she saw officers quote, sitting on his back and having his legs twisted. we're hearing similar reports from local news stations. one elderly neighbor who is blind describes what he heard the morning of gray's arrest. >> i heard this boy hollering and screaming, "get off of me, get off of me, you're hurting my neck, you're hurting my neck, get your knee out of my back." he said "i got asthma" or something like that. and kept screaming and hollering. >> history has shown that it will be important to be cautious when we're hearing from witnesses at this early stage. but it's clear these claims need to be investigated. we're covering all angles of this story tonight from local officials to legal and police analysts.

but we start live in baltimore with maryland state senator lisa gladden and city council member nick mosesby. thank you both for being here tonight. >> thank you very much for having us on. >> council mosesman mosesby, are you confident the police investigation will evaluate these new claims we're hearing from alleged witnesses? >> i'm confident in the independent investigation. you know not only the baltimore police department is doing one but also the department of justice has issued an investigation into civil rights and the state's attorney who happens to be my wife is also doing their own independent investigation. so i'm confident with the parties that are in place. >> senator gladden, what are you hoping to see from the justice department looking into this case? >> i'm first off, i'm looking for justice. i just want to make sure that

mr. gray was not killed in vain. and i'm not sure that's going happen, because we have a lot of questions that still need to be answered. and we have a lot of people that i believe have information that they should share with all of us about what happened to mr. gray. if we don't get those answers, we cannot have justice. >> well, what questions do you have senator? >> the first question first off, in real life, i'm public defender in baltimore city. so i ask questions all the time. but i think the first question i have is how did this -- this man, how did mr. gray suffer such incredible injuries when there was such a short time frame, and it seemed that he was in the truck or -- or that there would have been a witness. and it seems to me that somebody should have intervened and said

hold it hold it. we should not have done things like this. because this guy, it was incredibly injured and in such a short period of time. so my first question is how in the world did he get injured so severely so quickly. >> councilman mosby, you represent the area where this arrest happened. what is the mood of the community right now? >> a complete sense of frustration and anger. they feel detached from what is going on. immediately, you know, mr. gray is their friend, their family member, their community member. and you know for someone they think, a 25-year-old to be seemingly healthy you know, who is in a chase with a police officer, who gets detained and ultimately arrested and then within a very short period of time like the senator said have such a severe injury to his spinal cord, you know they're just really confused. i think that the police tried to put out some additional information last friday but information like why was he being chased why was he

arrested, what was his charge were the type of specific information that is pretty generic and pretty basic, that they want it right away. and they had to wait several days to get that. >> senator gladden, would you like to see the full autopsy results released to the public? >> absolutely. and with the agreement of mr. gray's family because while i understand that an autopsy is a very, very sad and serious report, i want to just make sure that the family understands what they would be exposing to the public. it's going happen, i'm sure. but the family needs to have the first say in terms of the autopsy report as it relates to their family member. so, yeah, i want to see it. i definitely want to see it. because i want to see what did you do to this guy so that 20 minutes before he was walking.

and then 20 minutes later, he was in a truck and within seven day, he was dead. what happened? and how did that happen? >> all right. stay with me because i want to bring in mark claxton, the director of the black law enforcement alliance and veteran prosecutor and legal analyst paul henderson. paul, this news that only five of the six officers have given statements to police, is there any significance to this? >> there is a significance to that. because we don't know what that sixth person is going to tell us. and let me just say contextually, that it's an outrage any time you have an individual that has an encounter with law enforcement that leads to an unexplained death. and so we still have some areas that are unexplained here. and i just got to tell you, you know it's going to focus on three separate areas.

one, the probable cause that caused this incident. because we know that there may have been a knife involved. but when did they know he had a knife, and how did they know that he had it? did they follow the standard procedures when making this arrest? and this is an arrest not a detention. but this is how we get into the volume of people that are being interviewed. so it's the officers that initially detained him. it's the officers that arrested him. it's the agents that treated him. all of that is going to be examined. and then the third part, and this is also still unexplained, the focus on the injury that caused the trauma. when exactly did that take place? and until we have those interviews and that information released, we don't have any of these answer. and that's what the real tragedy is. and that's why the community is so upset and why so many people are focused on this incident and upset about what has happened in this case. >> mark, how do they answer these questions that paul and

eastbound elected officials in baltimore are raising? >> well, first off, they have to be committed to really looking to have these answers and obtain these answers, and they have to be willing for those answers to be transparent. listen i think people are under the misimpression that if certain information is released during the course of a quote/unquote investigation, that it somehow jeopardizes the integrity of a possible criminal case. not necessarily. and i think what's happened here is that the lack of information, the basic chronology the basic information what happened, as paul mentioned about the probable cause being very important and vital to people understanding about the circumstances surrounding this death, it's vitally important for city government to be responsible, and not to allow this quote/unquote, and i use that -- i am specifically using quote/unquote investigation to drag on forever with no

significant or substantive basic chronology. it is unacceptable from public servants. it's unacceptable on every level. and it further exacerbates the frustrations of the community. so you'll see momentum building on protests, momentum building with demanding questions. meanwhile, city government is hiding behind. we don't want to do anything that will jeopardize any potential investigation. this is too long. i've done investigations for 20-something years. and at this point, there should be some basic information forthcoming. and it leads me to believe that someone is hiding something. >> now, councilman mosby late today police said the second person in the police van with gray is being treated as a witness in a criminal investigation. here's what officials said about his contact with freddie gray earlier this week. >> it wasn't until the very end that another suspect was placed in the van who we have

interviewed. but that suspect was on the other side of the metal barrier with no contact with mr. gray. he could hear mr. gray but could not see him. >> councilman mosby, how important will the statements by this other witness who was in the van how important will his statement be? >> reverend sharpton, i have no idea because i don't know what the statements are nor do i know the credibility of the individual. i know nothing about it. but back to mr. claxton's point regarding that basic level of information around why did they chase him, why did they actually arrest him, it's that simple information that could have been provided to the community. >> and should have been. >> allowed the community to be a part of the entire process. and i think once you start that relationship and you have that time lapse it further grows the skepticism and it further grows the distrust of the police and the process. i think that's where the baltimore city police failed in trying to act swiftly and efficiently in communicating with the public. >> paul, i see you shaking your

head. put on your prosecutor's half. what are the possible -- what is the possible importance of this other person in the van's possible statements? >> well, it's information that either supports or pulls away from what the officers would say. typically, when someone is taken into custody like, that even when they're in custody you about 48 hours to bring charges and file a police report. and it's been 48 hours. and we've never seen that police report. we've never been provided with that information. and so we have a process that is going on here that is outside the typical course that happens when someone has been arrested, and the arrest and those facts have already taken place. they have already occurred. and yet that information is not being shared in the manner that it typically would have been if this person were just typically arrested or typically brought into the criminal justice system. and that's what is raising so many questions.

why is this trace being treated so differently and the presumption is that there is a liability somewhere or something happened, but we don't have not only those answer but we don't even have the basic answers telling us what could have happened in the first place that led to this incident taking place initially. >> mark, i'm out of time. but you raise the issue, paul has raised it. and i know civil rights activists larry young and others tomorrow are raising there is a law there saying that they have ten days police have ten days before they have to give statements or that they have to answer questions. and they are trying to change that state law. we've seen other time gaps that are awarded police around the country. this also some of what needs to be addressed here? >> definitely definitely. i think there also needs to be an understanding that you may have a state law which allows police officers a certain amount of time before they are

obligated to provide some documentation or interviews et cetera. these are police officer public servants. they work for that city. there also are administrative things that could be done and should have been done earlier than they were done that would directly address this particular issue. and just really quickly, i don't want people to be massaged by the fact by the thought that the feds are closed by or part of the investigation or even the state attorney general because everyone outside of the prosecutor and their police department right now are observers at this point. it's those entities that are actively engaged hands-on in this investigation. >> all right. state senator lisa gladden, councilman nick mosby mark claxton, paul henderson, thank you all of you for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> thanks for having us, reverend. straight ahead, the house benghazi report is pushed back and won't come until 2016. gee, i wonder why.

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republicans swear they're not trying to drag out their latest benghazi investigation against hillary clinton. it's just sort of working out that way. bloomberg reports the benghazi committee will likely delay the release of its report until well into 2016. and speaker boehner is blaming both the white house and clinton for the delay. >> they could clean this up a whole lot quicker if the administration and former secretary clinton were in a position to actually cooperate with the committee and turn over the kind of information that we've been seeking for some time. but the administration has made it virtually impossible to get to the facts surrounding benghazi. and so when we have the fact, we'll have a report. >> get the facts? we have the facts we've had them

for years. there have been at least seven different benghazi investigations. many of them led by republicans, and none found any wrongdoing by mrs. clinton or the administration. so this latest delay is inexcusable. today congressman elijah cummings, top democrat said, quote, the republicans' obsessive focus on hillary clinton and their now stated intention to drag out this political charade until just months before the 2016 election the select committee no longer bears any resemblance to its original purpose. joining me now is jonathan capehart of "the washington post." thank you for being here. >> thanks, rev. >> jonathan what a coincidence. 2016. >> yeah how coincidental is that? and a pollster up in new york

asked the question, 2016 maybe in october? it would be the ultimate october surprise if committee comes back with the smoking gun or some sort of silver bullet that they think would end hillary clinton's candidacy or her chances of winning the white house. as you said in your opening, there have been seven inquiries into what happened in benghazi. and each of those inquiries has found nothing. in fact, the last inquiry from the -- i think it was the house intelligence committee headed by congressman rogers before he left, they unanimously approved their report that showed that all of the conspiracy theories that the folks on the right have been throwing out there about benghazi and secretary clinton's involvement and even the president's involvement were absolutely not true. >> well, the chairman of the benghazi committee congressman trey gowdy was on this exact issue about a month ago on "meet

the press." listen to his answer. >> are you going to be done with this by the end of this calendar year rather than get into '16 and become a player in the presidential race? >> lord i hope so. i would like to be through as quickly as possible. >> now, that interview was after the clinton e-mail story broke. so what has changed, jonathan? >> well, i guess hope springs eternal. look, i'm not sure what has changed. and as you said that interview came after the e-mail story broke. and i think, you know, for the republicans, they view benghazi and the clinton e-mail issue as something that would allow them to keep the benghazi issue out there as a way of hobbling hillary clinton during the campaign trail and then hobble her some more if indeed she does get the democratic nomination and in the general election. >> well, let's look at how long

other federal investigations have taken from the date of the event to the final report. the warren commission finished 307 days after the jfk assassination. the watergate committee 740 days. the 9/11 commission, 1,045 days. if the house select committee on benghazi finishes on the first day of 2016, not deep into it but the first day of 2016, it will have been 1,207 days. bottom line, why is it taking so long, jonathan capehart? >> it's taking so long because they want to use it as an issue to hammer away and to hobble hillary clinton. look, seven inquiries have gone into this already. all of them coming to basically the same conclusion there is no there there. it was a tragic incident that happened in libya on september 11th.

but all of the conspiracy theorists that are out there just don't hold up. and one other thing to point out, rev, the republicans have been using the benghazi issue to go after hillary clinton since before she left the state department. because they recognized right then despite inquiry after inquiry after inquiry, that just raising the issue riles up the republican party base fuels the conspiracy theories that they have held about this administration from the very beginning, and they see how effective it is in at least with the base chipping away at whatever credibility she might have with the voting public. and if they can put it out there in the national news through the 2016 campaign they think that it will help their republican presidential nominee. >> jonathan capehart, thank you for your time tonight. >> thanks, rev. still ahead who is winning the koch primary? the billionaire brothers have a

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we can solve it if we've got some political will. >> they should take action, and republicans know it but i'm going to switch it up today. i won't give them a science lesson. i'll give them a history lesson. let's go back in time to 1970. yeah, now we're feeling groovy. turn on that tv and catch up with the brady bunch. boogie right along with the partridge family. and cry your eyes out watching "love story" on the big screen. but what else happened in 1970? we started celebrating earth day. >> millions of americans observed earth day today, a crusade against solution which with everybody agreed including some of the industries which have been the worst polluters. >> millions of people demonstrated, and everybody agreed there was a problem. including the republican

president who said this earlier that year -- >> the great question of the '70s is shall we surrender to our surroundings or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water? [ applause ] >> just a couple of months later, nixon created the epa. so what happened? today just 27% of conserve republicans believe increases in the earth's temperature are due to human activities. and 40% of them say global warming will never happen. compare to today's gop, richard nixon sounds like a flower child. >> well, listen i'm not going to -- i'm not qualified to debate the science over climate change. >> the science is not settled on this. >> many of the alarmists on

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tonight. >> thanks for having us, rev. >> we start with big news in washington. after 165 day loretta lynch will get a vote for confirmation as attorney general. five republicans say they will vote for lynch which means she'll likely be confirmed 51-49. back in 2010, she was unanimously confirmed by the senate as a u.s. attorney in new york. crystal, why is this vote so close this time around? what happened? >> well it has nothing to do with her or her credentials, which are quite clear and i think anyone on both sides of the aisle could support it. it has everything to do with this president. since he wants her, that makes anything he wants controversial. and also, there are a lot of big issues that she'll be tackling. the role of attorney general has been central and high profile under eric holder.

that's what it's about. i think most average americans would look at the delay and say this is ridiculous. they would look at the fact that the vote is dow jones to finally a requirement on an abortion provision, a compromise there and say what does that have to do with anything. so of course they're going to stumble across the finish line. i'm glad they're finally getting there. but it happens in the most bizarre way. >> jeremy? >> everything she just said is absolutely right. >> thank you. >> there is a deeper element which is the following. this is republican fearing republicans. and if these republicans -- the five that you just put up two of them are moderates, one of them is from a swing state. and the bottom line is each of those people are for the most part republicans in states where except for lindsey graham. i will give him his due here for. interest most, susan collins, et cetera, et cetera, they are from states where they have to be seen as bipartisan. every other center in the

republican caucus is utterly terrified that if they vote for anything that barack obama wants, specifically a nominee specifically a black woman to be the first black attorney general of the united states as a woman, they are terrified of being primaried by the far right, by extremist groups. that's what this is all about. and that's why you're going to see so many of them vote against someone who is preeminently qualified. >> i think one of the big differences is obviously between the senate now and 2010 is who controls it. harry reid was still majority leader in 2010. he ran the game. now it's mitch mcconnell as majority leader. he has used the loretta lynch nomination fight to get some of the things he wants out of the party. >> i always thought fairness was part of the game. but there will be a first in the election cycle. let's go to that. first in the election cycle it

will be billionaire koch brothers influence. in a rare interview in usa today, billionaire charles koch says he and his brother david like five gop candidates in the primaries. it would be the first time they got involved in the primary and they plan to give money to several contenders not just one. the five they think have a, quote good chance of getting elected. scott walker general bush ted cruz, rand paul, and marco rubio. at stake, nearly $300 million. >> wow. >> jimmy, how influential are the kochs going to be in 2016? >> they've always been influential. they will continue to be influential because of the fact of the rise of the superpac. for an average american that. >> may not know what that is. but that is basically is a shadow campaign, a shadow money campaign for virtually every single elected office in the

country, from county commissioner all the way up to the presidency. the koch brothers have enough money. they have more money than god, i think, at this point. since that's the case, they are throwing that money far and wide. the fact that they're saying five of them are the ones that they're looking at, that fascinates me. i don't think that's the biggest game here, though. i think the bigger game is for their play in the states and what they're trying to do when it comes to legislatures governors, et cetera, it set. it's those states where they can have the most influence. those five men right there have in my opinion virtually no chance of becoming president, but they do have the ability to take care of business in the states. >> wow were you saying wow to the influence or to the $350 million? >> $300 million. and the thing that is really bizarre is when you look at how much money will be spent in this election cycle $300 million is not even going to be that massive of an amount. it certainly makes a difference. but sort of to jimmy's point here, i'm very upset for our democracy that we have these

superpacs, that we have these shadow campaigns that candidates don't even have control over. but you know who should really be upset about this koch influence is republican primary voters. these brothers go in and say these are our five choices. sorry if you like someone someone outside of the box. these are the five people that we'll make sure one of them gets in. they still left open the possibility that they could throw all their dollars behind one candidate. and that could have a massive impact in the primary, more so than the general election where both sides will have tons of money. i'm going to take a break. everyone stay with me. krystal and i are going to teach everybody about who has more money than god. a preacher at that. when we come back, the smoocher of the house, speaker boehner's latest kiss goes viral. but first your feel-good moment of the day. the first lady took questions from kids at the white house for take your daughters and sons to work day.

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we're back with our panel, krystal, jimmy and shira. before speaker boehner was attacking the obama administration over the benghazi investigation, he was in a loving mood at a bipartisan event at the white house yesterday, he did this. today luke russert asked about the peck. >> the kiss -- >> but this kissing thing is a trend for the speaker. shira, forget the crying, he is in a loving mood, i guess. >> i think deep down on the inside, john boehner is a really sensitive guy. i mean, a lot of things have been written about john boehner.

a lot of them have not been nice. but no one has ever said he is a really mean dude. i think he is on the whole probably a pretty good leader -- let's see a liked leader among his caucus. that's why he was reelected several times as speaker. >> he has just been terribly misunderstood, is that it, krystal? >> well actions speak louder than pecks on the cheek i guess. i would believe the good thing if he would actually act in a bipartisan manner and say bring immigration to the floor and do something good for the country. >> well, jimmy i'm sure you're just bubbling over with his sensitivity. >> well, as a very sensitive person, i most certainly am. john boehner is misunderstood by a large swath of people. he is actually not a terrible guy. in fact, he and pelosi just literally negotiated the stg fix which is why he was at the white house signing that bill. they did that that's a big deal.

>> got to go. krystal, jimmy and shira, thank you for your time tonight. be sure to catch krystal on "the cycle" weekdays at 3:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. coming up, as we said, it's earth day, and it's also a big night here on msnbc. we're airing a new documentary called "just eat it." exploring the shocking statistic that 40% of all food in the u.s. gets wasted. for six months, the filmmakers lived on food that would have been thrown out. msnbc.com asks viewers to take the no food wasted challenge. our food correspondent took it. >> i think we take it all together, we make a soup. so i'm looking at a soup, kind of a cauliflower carrot sweet poet tate total. we use yogurt instead of cream and salt this with portobello mushrooms to garnish it.

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tonight msnbc is airing a new documentary called "just eat it." that highlights a major problem in this country, food waste. it follows two filmmakers as they give up traditional grocery shopping and try to survive exclusively on food that would have otherwise been thrown out. >> there was a study in new york. they looked at all the food waste in one county. and the most waste came from households. more than from restaurants, more than from supermarkets, more than from farms. >> in our households, we're wasting somewhere between 15 and 25% of the food that we're buying. you know that's expensive. imagine walking out of a grocery store with four bags of groceries, dropping one in the parking lot and just not bothering to pick it up. that's essentially what we're doing in our homes today. >> and that waste is adding up. 40% of all food in the u.s. ends up in the trash.

that's $165 billion a year in wasted food. and all that while nearly 50 million americans are struggling to feed themselves. reducing food waste can have a major impact in everything from energy use and pollution to health and to hunger. and is something everyone can do. joining me now is jonathan bloom. he was prominently featured in the "just eat it" documentary. and he is the author of "american wasteland." how america throws away nearly half of its food, and what we can do about it. he is also the creator of wastedfood.com. jonathan, thanks for being here. >> happy earth day reverend. thanks for having me. >> let me ask you thanks, jonathan. why should we care about food waste? >> yeah great question. well, food waste is a problem that we need to tackle because

it has grave ethical environmental, and economic consequences. so from the ethics standpoint, to be wasting 40% of our food while 15% of american households don't have enough to eat, that juxtaposition is something that we must remedy and do it sooner rather than later. >> part of the problem seems to be how we decide whether food is edible in the first place. let's watch this clip from the documentary. >> we have ladies grading the fruit. they're graders. they sort out the fruit that is not going to go into a box. you know they're looking for scars like this that you and coy cut that off right there and eat it. but unfortunately that. >> don't want it in a box. a lot of it is about appearance. this is edible. but it's not edible to the supermarkets. >> we donate a lot of food to the northern california food bank, but they don't have the capacity or the structure to manage the amount of fruit we

could possibly give them. >> as a grower, that's heartbreaking. when you grow the fruit and there is nothing wrong with it and you can't sell it. that bothers me. >> jonathan why are we even wasting so much food in the first place? >> well, as you saw in the clip there, we've come to expect our food to look perfect. so that notion that appearance trumps taste, that leads to a whole lot of fruits and vegetables in particular being wasted. but we're also wasting food because we have so much of it, this abundance that we're producing. we create about two times the amount of calories that we need per person per year. and as a result, we're constantly inundated with food everywhere we go. it's stacked high at the supermarket, and we experience it not only in food stores, but in all kinds of retail environments now. so as a result, we're not particularly careful with our food. >> there is also the environmental impact of food waste. watch this. >> people think the

environmental problems are about smokestacks, about roads, about factories, about cities and concrete. and for sure those are significant. but if you look at the earth from the sky, what do you see is fields. and it is there that we have had the biggest impact. wasting a third of the land and all that energy that we currently use by wasting the food that we have produced is one of the most gratuitous aspects of human culture as it stands today. >> people don't seem to think of fruits and vegetables as harmful to the environment. but there is a real cost right? >> there is a tremendous amount of natural resources, as you saw, that go into producing our food. and in particular water and energy. and especially these days, with water being so scarce, it's vital that we pay attention to not wasting food, to minimize that squandered water. and there are rough estimates that about a quarter of the

fresh water that we are using is going to produce food that is ultimately not eaten. and what that actually looks like is about the same size as the great salt lake in utah. >> quickly, tell people at home watching how they can have an impact. >> yeah, well, we all have a role to play here. so if we are not using about a quarter of the food that we bring into our homes it's really important that we become smarter shoppers and not fill our refrigerators to the point that we couldn't possibly use all of that fresh food before it goes bad. so pay attention to how you buy food. be a bit smarter in the portion sizes that you serve. and then it's really key to save leftovers. and here is the key, al, not just save them, but actually eat them. because we're really good at taking food home from restaurants, but we're less experienced at actually eating those leftovers. >> jonathan you're right. jonathan bloom, thank you for

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africa. and on your feelings about watching those refugees 950 people drowning, just trying to find a life. and kenya, a country we all care about, a very moderate country, pro western getting terrorized, those college kids who are the hope of their families getting killed because they're christians. are you still going to go to kenya? >> i am still going to go to kenya. look, it's a hacker situation there is a lot of tumult and chaos around the world right now. and part of our goal as the world's leading superpower is to work with partner countries to try to resolve conflicts, to be ruthless in going after terrorism. but we're not going to do that by ourselves and we're not going to do it just by deploying more marines in every country that has these problems. we've got to build up their capacity in these areas so that they're not recruiting centers and safe havens for terrorist activity. >> over 900 people capsized in

libya. over 200 girls missing a year later in nigeria from boko haram. almost 150 people killed in kenya. all lives matter. africa should not be marginalized. where is the outcry? where is the media? thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. obama drama. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews up in new york. the debate is on. democrats for expanding u.s. trade with the world and perhaps creating new jobs, or are they out to protect existing u.s. jobs? last night we broadcast president obama's challenge to the man soon to be the senate's top democrat. new york's charles schumer. why are some people