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home i will actually clean out the refrigerator. it's an easy way to make sure my family is using up food that may otherwise get passed by, and helpful in making a sensible shopping list. share your photos with us at msnbc.com, thank you for joining us and good night. this is going to be a great show the interview is with senator elizabeth warren, and the president said he loves elizabeth warren and thinks of her as a great ally, but on one issue before the democratic party right now and before the country the president said he completely disagrees with her. senator elizabeth warren is here tonight to respond. and to explain her point of view on this issue. i'm very much looking forward to
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that again. senator elizabeth warren here tonight for the interview. it's always good to have her on the show. she honestly doesn't do that many interview, especially in proportion to what she was asked to do so i do feel really lucky to get her tonight while she is in the middle of that big political controversy. and this dialogue with the president that she is now having in public. but it's lucky to get her in the middle of that. and also while there is so much other interesting political news going on right now. today, former secretary of state hillary clinton released this video from her presidential campaign asking people to sign up and volunteer for that campaign. but also declaring that she is going to run for president in 2016 using a howard dean style 50s state strategy. they're trying to use organized committees, organizing committees in all 50 states and in all u.s. territories. that is what they're trying to
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get volunteers for right now in every state of the country. now, a 50-state strategy has enormous visceral appeal how you might ought to campaign for the office of the presidency. 50-state campaigning though does tend to run into problems down the road though, like whether or not it really makes sense to have a full-scale hillary clinton presidential operation in a state like you know, alabama. when there is an opportunity cost to that. when you might reasonably send those alabama volunteers to you know georgia say or somewhere elsewhere they might get more traction. but that campaign announcement today from the hillary clinton folks is really strategically interesting in terms of how she will run and it could be competitively important in terms of the race. also news today from this person, do you know who this person is? this is a person called carly
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fiorina, the ceo of the company hp for six years before she left on not great terms. she returned then full-time to politics running for the senate against barbara boxer in 2010 but even though it was a very republican year she lost by ten points to barbara boxer in california by ten points. today, she said though that on may 4th she carly fiorina is running for the republican nomination for the president of the united states. which is exciting. there will be at least one woman running for the nomination on the republican side. however, what is immediately awkward about this news about carly fiorina is that another republican candidate is picking may 4th as the day he will announce. retired surgeon ben carson said he would run on may 4th but now
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carly fiorina is announcing her run on may 4th and then the day after that, mike huckabee is going to announce. if the point of announcing is to steal the spotlight for a moment, and to get people to pay attention to you in a crowded field, that monday and tuesday at the beginning of may 4th and 5th will kind of be a waste of energy for these three candidates, wasting because they're can't really afford to, like turning your porch light on, on a bright sunny day yes, you're illuminateing something, but not for long. and the republican candidates in their trips to new hampshire reported over the weekend that by their count there is something like that maybe 19 maybe 21 different republican candidates who are all campaigning on and off in new hampshire right now. there is a ton of them. and particularly if you're a candidate who people you know,
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innately don't take seriously and maybe doesn't have an actual human being job right now that keeps ss you you in the limelight, or whatever you are, if you're anybody who doesn't have a regular high profile job that keeps you in the limelight, your presidential announcement day might be your best, it may even be your only chance to get attention to the prospects of your presidential candidacy. and those guys are all going to announce apparently within 24 hours. now, if you do have a day job in politics you have a slight advantage over guys like that. you do, if you have a day job that is a high profile job in politics you have options to make people pay attention to you. so if you're looking at that kind of third tier, not very well known candidates or candidates the people are not
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necessarily immediately taking seriously, people like carly fiorina or mike huckabee, or ben carson, one of the people at that level is louisiana governor bobby jindal. but for him, at least as the governor of louisiana, bobby jindal has the option of running for president in part on the basis of the way he runs louisiana. he can use his governorship as part of his presidential campaign. and louisiana, right now in part because of bobby jindal's presidential hopes is about to run into a little bit of a political buzz saw. at least that is what it seems like is about to happen. this is indiana's republican governor mike pence, before a few weeks ago he was one talked about as a possible presidential candidate at the level of a bob bobby jindal or a mike huckabee, or a carly fiorina, he had a long career in washington with lots and lots of friends among the heavyweights in the
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republican party. mike huckabee has been on the edge of a possible run, this year he has been stoking interest in his possibility in a run for 2016. people were actively considering him as a dark horse contender in the nomination until that all stopped when indiana had its big oops a few weeks ago. right? you will remember how this went. it started with a signing ceremony attended by mostly nuns and friars governor pence deeming this as a religious matter signed a discrimination bill in indiana which briefly but intensely put indiana in the middle of a fire storm, particularly against the business world. the backlash on his bill in indiana was not only national news it visibly shook him in a way that i think sort of instantly shook him out of consideration as a potential
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national leader. he was thrown for such a loop by what he did in indiana hade seemed so shocked and unable to handle the pressure once it came. he initially tried to take it all back going from praising the bill saying oh, at least it shouldn't be changed to then it should be changed to then changing it. it was a mess. a group called alliance for freedom were pushing the bill and after what mike pence in indiana went through, when they passed it a lot of other states who were poised to pass the same thing were able to bail out and change their mike pence style bill or ban it altogether. the alliance defending freedom group, incidentally, this is a special for you regular watchers of the rachel maddow show, you remember that group was one that
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wanted to rip out the pages of biology textbooks. remember that same group? that didn't work either. but while their efforts to pass these discrimination bills around the country basically got waylaid by the mike pence disaster in indiana and among all the states considering it pulled back and changed their bills because of what happened with mike pence in indiana, in louisiana, bobby jindal and others are pushing for it. the state legislature has sponsored the bill in that state. the reason that the louisiana bill has not died there the way it has died everywhere after mike pence's experience, is because bobby jindal running for president wants to sign it. he wants the bill for louisiana, even huge businesses in the state like ibm and companies that bobby jindal wooed and new facilities that they rejected and said louisiana shouldn't do
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it. it will hurt their businesses in louisiana, bobby jindal says he wants to do it still. he wants to do this discrimination bill. and yes bobby jindal appears to want to run for president. and it's hard not to imagine that this is part of his strategy. and even though the beltway never talks about it this way, social conservatism and super social issues like that remain still at the heart of republican policy around the country. and right at the heart of republican politics at the national level. this really is what is important to them. and it's going to be the dynamic at hand. as they all start competing for the nomination. all of the several dozens of them. and that is fascinating for those of us watching from anywhere in the country right now because social issues even as the beltway says they're not important they are manifest in republican politics constantly and increasingly, and social issues right now is key on how the republicans are going to
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pick their nominee social issues are fast moving in terms of public opinion and totally unpredictable. just nextel week the supreme court will hear the same-sex marriage argument in all 50 states. the fox news channel host bill o'reilly is already gearing up for the oral arguments by crusading against the supreme court justice ruth ginsburg and kagan, saying they should push themselves to recuse themselves from the marriage, because they have officiated at same-sex marriage weddings so therefore they're too biassed in the case. all the republican contenders or at least all of them i can name off my head they're all against gay couples being allowed to marry, even as the
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rest of the couple upholds it. and because of the difference of public opinion and their issues, they're having a hard time talking about gay marriage already. if the supreme court hands down a ruling that has nationwide impact, well, those conversations about gay rights and the competition between republican candidates on the gay rights issue is going to get a lot more difficult than it is now and a lot weirder than it is right now and that will happen very very fast. and then the day right after the marriage case is heard next week, the very next day it will be the lethal injection case at the supreme court. and we have been focusing on this issue in the last couple of days because there is something factually really strange going on about that case. and it feels to me like it's about to become a giant neon question mark. as you know the case the supreme court is going hear out of oklahoma, oklahoma is one state out of many that had trouble with its lethal
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injection cases in the last few years. this past friday, oklahoma's governor mary fallon signed a bill into law that sets oklahoma up with a backup plan, a backup means of execution in case their use of lethal injection is blocked by the supreme court in next week's case. oklahoma is a deep red state. oklahoma is a very very pro-death penalty state. but oklahoma has now invented and put into state law very quickly a new form of execution that has never been done before. not only here in the united states but anywhere in the world. and they have done it at a time when the death penalty and the politics around it are chaos. and it is no longer as simple as liberals not liking the death penalty and conservatives liking the dependath penalty. i mean, there is still a little bit of that but it's getting more woolly. the republican montana state
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legislature advanced the bill to repeal the death penalty in montana. the bill ultimately failed down the line but the fact that it got as far as it did was a shock wave in montana politics. nobody knew there was as much opposition to the death penalty even among conservative republicans. but that bill uncovered a whole current of the death penalty that nobody had ever found before. nebraska is a non-partisan republican legislature but overwhelmingly dominated by conservative legislators. nevertheless, they passed a bill to repeal the death penalty in that state by a big margin. it's not a done deal and has a couple of more votes for it to go through there is talk of a filibuster, talk of the governor possibly vetoing it but in nebraska they have a veto-proof majority to repeal the death penalty. in deep red republican nebraska.
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so there is this weird dynamic going on that is making it all really fascinating and unpredictable. you have the lethal injection case, to is chaotic, there are almost no states in the country that have the way to get the drugs that are used for lethal injection anymore. that is happening at the nuts and bolts level. it is becoming just impossible to do it. then in politics the broader vote on the right to have republicans change tack on criminal justice issues including sentencing reform and drug policy and all of this other kind of broad criminal justice stuff but that apparently extends to changing conservative views on the death penalty. it's conservative groups and republican addvocacy groups, on
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the eve of this supreme court case there is oklahoma oklahoma the inventors of lethal injection in the first place now introducing the newest form of execution, which they say doesn't have the participation or even the input of doctors or scientists of any kind. >> people have made fun of us because oh you know, you have for medical background how dare you go out and try to do this. well that is what it has come to because no doctors can be involved. it is left to people who don't know. so we do the best that we can. >> that is an oklahoma legal studies professor named christina pappas who was involved in the research team that recommended to oklahoma that the state legislature invent this capital punishment which would use nitrogen gas to execute the guilty. in terms of the state for
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inventing the new measures because she is against the death penalty, she researches efforts to find the most humane way possible. we ended up sending kate osborne to talk to the professor and others who came up with this new method of execution in part because we had a very difficult time determining where it came from. there is interesting talk of where the electric chair came from and lethal injection came from but where did this nitrogen injection come from? it has been done nowhere in the world. and on the basis of how oklahoma decided to adopt this new method. this is the merck manual very very common medical reference book, the best selling medical textbook in the world and has been forever. in the draft report to the oklahoma legislature, recommending they start to use nitrogen to kill people, the
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merck reference is called the merrick manuel. when you take a look at the first reporting research that was filed with the oklahoma legislature to back up the recommendation, to back up the case to oklahoma ought to start to use nitrogen to kill people, the first two pieces of evidence that they gave to the legislature were this article from slate magazine last may, which was just written by an author. the second piece was this article, an opinion piece from the conservative magazine the national review which was written in 1995 by this guy. and he does say that he believes that nitrogen asphyxiation in his word is "the perfect execution." the source of his expertise on this? no offense he describes helps ss himself
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on line as an amateur screen writer. he wrote a movie called zombie joe's, which the author wrote was right across the street from the kfc. this guy genuinely seems like a good guy, he is a good writer 20 years ago he wrote why he thought nitrogen would be a good way to kill people it's a very well written article but he really is just an amateur screen writer. his website today lists him as available for hire, delivers creativity on demand and on deadline. he wrote to us this week when we contacted him this week in his role about what oklahoma has done, he wrote that he is pleased by what he called "my invention." he is pleased that his idea is taken up 20 years after he wrote
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the article. it does seem like he is the guy who invented this and now it is the law in one u.s. state. if oklahoma gets its legal injection statute struck down by the supreme court next week, this is really what they're turning to, this nitrogen idea which is what this screen writer wrote about in a conservative magazine 20 years ago. oklahoma state lawmakers said they had inquiries about it saying they may want to do it as well. in this case next week lethal injection may go away all across the country. and in the 32 death penalty states we have in this country mostly red states all across the country they are then going to have to decide what they're going to do about capital punishment. are they going to go like the conservatives in the nebraska legislature want to go and maybe get rid of capital punishment? there are definitely strong winds, including some winds from the political right. or will they find a backup plan
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finding a lead from oklahoma, that is how we got lethal injection in the first place when states followed oklahoma when oklahoma invented lethal injection as a way to kill people in the late '70s. that national decision nebraska or oklahoma is about to be thrust upon us in the middle of the presidential campaign that looks like it will be dominated by the social conservative activism that the beltway really doesn't get and that makes really no factual sense. introducing the citi® double cash card. it's a cash back win-win. with 1% when you buy and 1% as you pay.
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god bless these men watch what happens here, this is the u.s. senate today. they're voting on the bill that the republicans say they want to vote on before they vote on loretta lynch for attorney general, they're voting on the issue sent it by sherrod brown of ohio. and there is the traditional milling around time which is
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what you see on the floor. so you can see senator dianne feinstein there you can see senator franken and ayotte. you remember harry reid has to wear sunglasses because of the eye injury he had. he is in the senate today. harry reid is there as he wears the sunglasses as he has to do everywhere. he is wearing the sunglasses on the senate floor. and then look what happens rand paul coming swaggering and pops on his shade and sticks his hand out to harry reid. he leaves him standing there for a second, but boom bipartisan fist bump, sticks on the shade. and harry reid looks at him like, oh fist bump. the way we know it was a bit of a tense moment is because of senator elizabeth warren, that
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is her in the blue suit there. look how she reacts, she is talking and sees rand paul coming in, and moves like hey, do i need to get in there? are you guys seeing this? i love the body language, i love c-span every single day. and senator elizabeth warren is here for the interview tonight to talk about not the rand paul fist bump but if she wants to i wouldn't stop her. that is still ahead, stay with us. sunday dinners at my house... it's a full day for me, and i love it. but when i started having back pain my sister had to come help. i don't like asking for help.
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obviously, loretta lynch, who has been nominated to be attorney general, we are waiting to hear from the senate. and despite promises, so far, this is the longest period any attorney general candidate has ever waited at this stage in their nomination. well, once again now we have been promised by mitch mcconnell that there is about to be a vote on loretta lynch, which is supposed to happen at about 930 a.m. as i said before, but believe it when you see it. don't count your chickens. also shepherd story keep an eye on this washington post story today. the post reports exclusively today there is about to be a big upsurge of prisoners transferred from guantanamo, maybe 50 by the end of the year.
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okay, maybe we'll believe it when we see it especially since nobody has been transferred out of guantanamo for months now. but then there is this. dropped in casually in the second to last paragraph, like it's no biggie. quote, white house officials are also exploring options for the unilateral closure of the prison at guantanamo. really? the white house is working on a way for president obama to unilaterally finally close guantanamo with or without congress. really? tell me how that is possible. if that does happen welcome to the big national security security of 2015 or maybe 2016 and longer after that. as of this, the washington post reports, this is the second to last of an unrelated story but if that bears out obviously that will be a very, very huge deal. as always, watch this space. i could choose you... or i could choose her if i like her
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here is what it sounds like when harry reid says it. >> the answer is not only no, but hell no. okay? >> how do you really feel? >> even when he is mad, even when he is using mild swears and using the tough guy glasses, harry reid is still a soft spoken dude but that is how he sounds when he says it here is how it sounds when massachusetts senator elizabeth warren says it. >> are you ready to fight?
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no more secret deals are you ready to fight? no more deals for multi-national corporations. are you ready to fight the deals that say let's help the rich get richer and leave everybody is behind. are you ready to fight that? >> senator elizabeth warren at an event with steel workers, not just opposing this thing but making sure there is a national fight against it. and that has led to headlines like this and like this, and like this. because what she is fighting and what other progressive democrats are fighting is something the obama administration is negotiating as an international deal. something that congress is now deciding what to do about and something that president obama just took issue with this way to msnbc's own chris matthew. >> i love elizabeth we're allies on a whole host of issues. but she is wrong on this. now, understandably, folks in
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labor and some progressives are suspicious generally because of the experiences they saw in the past. but my point is, don't fight the last war, wait and see what we actually have in this deal before you make those judgments. i would not be doing this trade deal if i did not think it was good for the middle class. and when you hear folks make a lot of suggestions about how bad this trade deal is when you dig into the facts they are wrong. i am happy to debate this and i'm sure jerry and others are based on the actual facts. this is the most progressive framework for trade we have ever had. >> president obama and senator elizabeth warren have been allies on issues large and small since her first days in politics and even before that. but when the president singled her out yesterday she was not shy about firing back.
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she sent out this tweet. the obama administration says i'm wrong, we should not worry about the trade deal. but why can't the american people read the deal? and that link to this blog post, you can't read this? saying congress shouldn't give the administration the authority to negotiate the deal without obama's input. the administration says i'm wrong but people like you can't see the actual deal. the government doesn't want you to read this massive trade agreement that is top secret. why? here is the answer people have given me we can't make this deal public because if the american people saw what was in it they would be opposed to it. so we reached out to the obama administration today and the administration official told us that the complete text of the trade deal is available to be read by members of congress upon request. members of congress can, if they ask, go look at the deal in a secure office. the official called that standard practice for any international deal that is still being negotiated. the fast-track legislation being
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considered now would make the trade agreement available to the public on line before congress votes on it. the administration also says there would be a public comment period 60 days before the president signs it. but what senator warren says is true right now. the public cannot now see the deal. and the senate finance committee was supposed to vote on the fast track authority earlier today until senator bernie sanders forced the delay, the bill is still ultimately expected to pass. the democrat's progressive populous wing has not managed to derail this thing, but clearly they're not done. and how do you respond when the president tells the country with a smile that he loves you but you're wrong. senator elizabeth warren joins us next. ♪ ♪ the beautiful sound of customers
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♪♪ but mindy was actually not invisible. ooh, what are you doing? can you see me? she had just always been treated that way. yeah. you don't have to look at me like that. there are worst things than an attractive woman touching your body. i'll go. join the nation that sees you as a priority. ♪ nationwide is on your side ♪ when i hear critics of the possibility of us instituting the most progressive trade deal in our history, their answer i guess, is the status quo. the status quo is not working for us. i got to say, chris, that some of the information that has been getting thrown out there plays
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into legitimate formers that democratic voters have, and progressives have. but it's simply not true. it's simply not the facts. i love elizabeth, we're allies on a whole host of issues, but she is wrong on this. >> elizabeth is known to most people as massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. and that was president obama taking on senator warren on the issue of trade. she is wrong he said there in case you missed it. senator warren has been a vocal opponent alongside bernie sanders and some other senate democrats. the white house is negotiating now with the asia-pacific region also including canada and mexico. president obama says this is the most progressive deal in history, but the progressives in his party, perhaps most notably senator warren, do oppose this deal publicly and loudly. and joining us is senator warren to talk about it.
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senator, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, it's good to be here. >> so you have said that part of the problem is that the public can't lead this deal, therefore congress shouldn't grease the wheels to it being okayed. before the public can find out what is in it. have you been able to read the deal? >> yeah, so senators can go and read it. people in the house of representatives can go and read it. but we're not allowed to talk about it. so now it's the case that the president says that he wants the american people to judge this deal based on the facts. but to do that he has got to make the deal public. otherwise, the american people can't judge it on the facts. he wouldn't put the facts out there. the press should be able to see this. people should be able to dig into it. if it's a great deal for families, like the president says or a great deal for workers then put it out there and let him see it before we have to grease the skids to get the deal done. >> on the issue of who has
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information about what is in the deal, the administration told us today that there will be a public comment period before the trade agreement is signed by the president that the public will be able to see it on line for a certain amount of time before any decision is made. does that dissuade any of your fears about this? >> look they're asking us to vote now on greasing the skids so that we give up now any chance to be able to amend it. any chance to be able to block it. any chance to be able to slow it down. give all that up and then you will get to see the deal on the other side. i just don't think that is reasonable. and let me tell you partly why. we can talk about the facts that the american people can't see. but there is one fact that the american people can see. and that is how the negotiation process works. so you know these negotiations have been going on for a long time and there are 28 different working groups for it.
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85% of the people in those working groups are senior executives in various industries that are going to be affected. or they are lobbyists for those industries. they're the ones who have helped shape the deal. they're the ones who have helped determine what the deal is going to look like on the other side. and my view is when the process is rigged then the outcome is likely to be rigged. >> so you're saying the corporate interest directly involved in this and who most want the deal, even though most labor experts say they're not interested in the deal you're saying they do have the access to seeing what is in it and in fact shaping what is in it. >> they have been in there now for months and months and months during the negotiations, the back and forth, helping shape this deal. and i just think it's time to say no. what we want to do here is we want to say put the deal out there so the american people can
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see it and let's have a debate on the facts. and i'll tell you this. i started a petition now after i listened to the president. i said you know, let's just hear from the american people. it is at elizabethwarren.com right there on the front page. for the american people to say no, we want to see this deal before you grease the skids, not afterwards. >> in terms of your dialogue with president obama about this, obviously it has to turn your head a little bit when the president calls you out by name and says he loves you but you're wrong. you obviously have had a constructive relationship with the president on issues in the past. is it a surprise that you see yourself at odds with him on this issue, and is there a possible path where you two may agree on this, be on the same page? are you inextricably at odds on this? >> you know, i've always been
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available to talk to the president and be constructive as much as possible. but let me remind you on the skids deal this is a deal the greasing lasts at least until 2018. and most likely from the way it's constructed until 2021. which means it's partly about the deal negotiated by this president. but look, i hope we have great people that i love in the white house. i hope we have great people running the senate and the house. i want to see democrats in charge everywhere but do understand once the skids are greased with this trade promotion authority, it lasts into the next president and potentially even the president after that. they will have the same capacity to run these deals through and to run them through with very little input from anyone other than the industries that are
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involved. and with very little oversight from the public and virtually no ability to stop it from the senator the house and that really has me worried. >> it looks like the fast tracks already may go ahead. obviously, you may have slowed it down and changes the trajectory without it being discussed. you and bernie sanders and other leaders on the front if the fast track is approved is there other ways you believe you can get your point across on this? >> i think part of this is making sure people are heard from. you know from me this is basic democracy 101 i want people to be able to see the first deal that is lined up before they say yeah, it's okay. let's put congress on a fast track to make that sort of thing work. i want them to be able to see it and debate it. and i want to say we're not going to agree, write a blank
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check for whatever some subsequent president may negotiate on down the line in the second deal, a third deal or whatever. for me, it's just kind of a fundamental principle about how democracy is supposed to work. american workers have really been slammed by past trade deals. they have not been good for us here in america. it's not been good for american manufacturing. if this is a better deal then hang it out there in public and let us take a look at it. let us have a public conversation based on the facts. >> senator elizabeth warren, thank you so much for your time tonight. it's always great to see you. >> thank you. >> thank you all right coming up next. saving the planet one squirt gun at a time. stay with us. ve pm.
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life that lived in the channel, the largest spill ever to affect waters up until that point. and the was the sad attempts to pick up the barrels of oil with pitiful means, that inspired one u.s. senator to a new idea. he looked at that effort and thought hey, maybe there is some way to get the country to focus for a day, just a day, as to the many ways that we as americans are ruining the environment. his staff raised money to do vietnam-style impeachment issues, they wanted college students on board so they picked a day they thought would be easy for younger people maybe a wednesday, spring break and finals. but that is the story of how today, april 22nd became earth day. this was the front page of "the new york times" 45 years ago,
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millions join earth day. in new york, the city's earth day is calls a regeneration by celebrating the exuberant rites of spring, there was a similar event, on college campuses student protesters also filled squirt guns with real oil and shot it at each other to make a point. these protesters pointing oil at that guy, were at tulane. and amid the incident in santa barbara, a company called the container corporation of america tried to do their part, holding a nationwide student contest to create a new symbol for recycled paper. the winner of the contest with this guy named gary anderson he won $2,000 for his winning
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submission, which was this. and to date, this was this three-folded arrows chasing each other, to this day that symbol proves the practical purpose that it is okay to recycle your plastic bottle or cardboard box, its around the world means reduce, reused recycle. at 10 eastern after this show msnbc will air a brand-new documentary that has gotten a lot of attention so far because it's really good. and it focuses on the first of the three r's, focusing on reducing waste and not in the way you might have expected. the documentary is called "just eat it." you probably heard about it in recent days getting a lot of buzz. it will air on msnbc in just moments and followed by the correspondent, the great tom calliccio, you don't want to miss it. stay with us. i... didn't.
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today, it's very simple very easy, it's a handful of baby crocodiles. that is the best new thing in the world today. we're just going to cut to the chase. a handful of extremely endangered baby crocodiles, and if you want to know who you can thank for that image the answer is of course, fidel castro. those crocodiles were given to a soviet cosmonaut 40 years ago, kind of we're communists, they're communists, crocodiles they were moved to the moscow city zoo. and then the crocodiles were sent to a zoo in sweden which wanted them very badly. the cuba to russia crocodiles have been living at that zoo since 19 of 1. once they got settled in they started to breed in 1984. the breeding pair were named
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castro and hillary, as in hillary clinton with two l's and everything. it was the '90s. meanwhile, as the two were happily mating the cuban crocodiles used to be found across the caribbean now found in only two swamps, and turns out the american crocodiles have inbred and now there are estimated to be less than 4,000 cuban crocodiles on the whole planet. last year they asked the swedish zoo if they could have some of castro's and hillary's babies. those babies arrived back in havana. they're going to be kept quarantined for a month on a crocodile farm somewhere because they're still very young and vulnerable. but when they are of age, they will be released into the wild, hoping that adding them to the
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pool will help to keep the species alive. you can do it you guys. and that effort to get these highly endangered crocodiles back to cuba is how we got this amazing 40% of all edible food in the united states are wasted. that costs $165 billion every year. the amount of waste is staggering. hi. i'm tom colicchio. up next, the premier of a stunning documentary that highlights the experiment of an average couple convinced they can go six months on discarded food alone. after the film, i hope you'll join me for a chat with the group of people hoping to turn things around. "just eat it," up next.
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