onesty suddenly her numbers plummet. and that's a concerning for her. >> it is going to be fascinating to see the way this plays out. the folks behind the scene the gay hoteliers become front and center. i hope so. that is all for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts now. with steve. >> good evening chris, i can hear you right across the room too. thanks for that. i'll wave to you. and thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. as you know we are in washington d.c. tonight getting ready for the white house correspondents dinner. that is going to be tomorrow night here in washington and people tend to think of that as the funny event in that it usually is. and we're going to have a lot more on that later in the show. but it was also four years ago on this same weekend in april

2011 at the white house correspondents dinner that president obama delivered an unforgettable monologue. and the target of that monologue was donald trump. we're going the play a bit of the that later on in the show. what was even more amazing about that night, about the shots she took at donald trump is that saturday when the president stood up to deliver his lines he demonstrated he had the world's best poker face because what he knew and basically no one else in the world knew was that as he was standing up to deliver his jokes he was also in the final stages of authorizing the raid on osama bin land. and when the comic seth meyers made mention of bin laden in his act and how we'd still not found him. watch what happened. >> people think bin laden is hiding in the hindu curb but did you know that every day from 4:00 to 5:00 he hosts a show on

c-span. halftime lafayette. >> the president just laughing right along with that when seth meyers delivered that line that night. >> just laughed like any other ordinary joke. one in fact the routine from seth mooirszeyers. and one of the reasons we were able to snag bin laden after the dinner is something called the office of director intelligence. that office was created ten years ago as a result of the 9/11 commission. the idea was to streamline intelligence and improve information sharing between various intelligence agencies. that office helped to identify the intelligence that led to the raid and the killing of bin laden. and today on the 10 year anniversary of the creation of that agency, on this day the president took the time to thank the intelligence community for all of their work for their help in finding and locating bib laden. >> part of what makes our job

even more challenging is is that despite the extraordinary work that's done here and the lives saved on an ongoing basis, a lot of our work still requires that we maintain some umm -- some things as classified. and we can't always talk about all the challenges. i don't want you or folks across the intelligence community to ever forget the difference that you make every day. because of you we've had the intelligence to take out al qaeda leaders, including osama bin laden. >> the other thing the president addressed today with visible emotion is the news that we learned yesterday of the killing of an american and also an italian hostage by an american drone strike along paxtonkistan's

border with afghanistan this year. and in the compound. and they had no idea those two hostages were hidden inside the compound. and one of the big things around the story is why it has taken the administration months to report on these two innocent deaths. the head of the cia knew had something had gone terribly wrong when they saw six bode bodies and four were pulled from the post drone rubble. in the week feeding back from bombing had shown just four men going in and out of the compound. after the strike they expected to see four bodies and when they saw six, that is when they knew they had made a mistake. there are also new reports circulating that the captors of the american hostage, weinstein was his name has privately received $250,000 dollars in

ransom for his release. that is a payment that did not actually secure his release. today the weinstein family released a new statement thanking the italian prime minister in relating their condolences to the italian aid worker who was also killed in that same strike. and today while thanking the intelligence community for all of their work, the president revealed something about how the news of the killing of this american hostage was weighing on him. >> i was asked by somebody, you know how do you absorb news like that that we received the other day? and i told the truth. it's hard. but the one thing i wanted everybody to know -- because i know you. because i work with you. because i know the quality of this team. is that we all bleed when --

when we lose an american life. we all grieve when any innocent life is taken. we don't take this work lightly. this self reflection, you know, this willingness to examine ourselves, to make corrections, to do better. that is part of what makes us americans. that is part of what sets us apart from other nations. it is part of what keeps us not only safe but also strong and free. >> one of the interesting things about what the president said today and about his acknowledgment of this error in the need to make and make -- examine and make corrections is that actually when he was the junior senator from illinois back when he was running for president in 2007 and 2008 one of the things that he ran on back then one of the things that essentially made barack obama a viable candidate, among the slew of powerful democrats

who also ran with him back then including then senator hillary clinton and one of the things that made him stand out was that he was against the iraq war from the get go. the campaign in 2008 ended up being a referendum on how we do war and how we wanted our country to do war in the future. >> i am proud that i opposed this war from the start. because i thought that it would lead to the disastrous conditions that we've seen on the ground in iraq. >> i think it is much easier for us to have the argument when we have a nominee who says "i always thought this was a bad idea. this was a bad strategy." i believe i showed the judgment of a commander in chief. and i think senator clinton was wrong in her judgments on that. >> i opposed going to war in iraq. senator mccain was one of washington's biggest supporters for the water. >> this is an area where senator

mc cane and i have have a fundamental difference because i think the first question is whether we should have gone into the war in the first place. >> part of what won him the nomination against hillary clinton is that he was against the war and se had been for it. and part of what made him president of the united states was that he had been against the war and mccain had been for it. and in office he called for the winding down of the wars. and that was sort of happening. in the process at least. but he had a new way of warring, a war that didn't include boots on the ground. drone war was moved out and now run by the cia. and it was less transparent. we started using drones where we weren't officially at war. places like yemen and pakistan

and as a result of the decision to do that over the last seven years there's been emerging criticism from republicans most notably rand paul of kentucky. he staged a nearly 13 hour filibuster on the field of drones. he stood there until 12:39 a.m. just raling against drones and then -- well then he had to stop. >> and i would go for another 12 hours to try to break thurman's record. but i've discovered there are some limits to filibusters. and i'm going to have to take care of one of those in a few minutes here. >> he would have kwoen on but he had to go to the bathroom. so when the news broke yesterday that an american hostage had been killed the politician you might expect would be most

upset, most outraged, most force nfl ful in stepping forward to condemn the program you might think it would be rand paul. but that is not what happened. paul's campaign sent over a statement which said it is a tragedy. my thoughts and prayers with their their families. general response from rand paul was this strike was not the kind of think he had been protesting before. other side the presumptive democratic nominee has not come out and addressed this head on. she is also not participating in the debate while she campaigns over the nomination for presidency. and the entire field will have to deal with this question because the elections are about

foreign policy about counterterrorism. they are about how we choose to do war. and obama's first and second were referendums on the bush wars. and this election in a way will be a referendum on what president obama has done how he has conducted war. in some cases convertly that might not put boots on the ground but they can never be error free. where accidents will happen as we found out this week. if all goes as planned there are only terrorists and no civilians in the vehicle or object being targeted but war never goes entirely as planned, not even war conducted by repeat control. gene, thanks for being with us. let's talk about this. there is a balancing act i still can't quite figure out when i think about this. one way of looking at this is saying that over the last two years because of the drone program we've had we've taken

out an awful lot of bad guys out there. we have put a real dent in al qaeda because of this and have done it while paying a much lower cost in terms of casualties than normally the case. >> absolutely. that is why this is a hard issue. and it is not really a democrat versus republican issue. it actually hasn't and it really shouldn't be. i think that we can't escape what i see as moral questions. as legal questions. this is war by assassination. and i think we ought to figure out what we think about that. we have a law against assassinating foreign leaders. this isn't quite the same thing but i'm not sure the principle is all that different. maybe we'll decide that this is -- you know, that that is not a moral problem. but i think we ought to talk about it. we're doing this in countries

with which we're not at war. international law, there are questions about that. and the president says he has the authorization under the authorization to use military force against al qaeda. but i think that should be debated. >> what do you think though when you poll this question right now, it comes back very popular. >> yeah. sure. >> for the criticism that's been out there for the filibuster from rand paul a couple of years ago. this polls well right now. >> it does and why not. because as you said we are not risking american lives. we did not risk american lives to take out that al qaeda compound. and that is an important thing. i'm happy that we didn't risk american lives. and i'm happy if they got rid of a bad al qaeda people who were plotting to attack the united states. but we need to talk through these questions. one other question we need to ask is whether drone strikes eliminate more terrorists than

they create or vice versa. there are civilian casualties. the administration downplay this is aspect. human rights organizations have a much higher estimate. there certainly have been hundreds of such casualties in the drone wars. and if you extrapolate from that -- those sort of mushy figures, certainly we have em bittered and angered some substantial number of people who probably have been gone on to join this group or join that group or otherwise impede what we're trying to do over there. so, you know you don't make friends that way. you don't make friends by -- >> the kind of discussion and debate you are talking about, do you think that is going to result from this? my unscientific view that is the conclusion has not been this is an indictment of the drone

program. it's been this is al qaeda. this is what happened when you are at war with al qaeda. >> yeah i'm not tremendously optimistic there is going to be a broad and deep discussion of these issues. but we'll see. president obama looked really grim yesterday and has talked about how effecting these decisions or executing these decisions are. and i take him at his word. i think he is far sighted enough to look misdemeanor to a world in which drone warfare proliferates. you know we have the best technology now. we and perhaps the israelis are the only ones who have weaponize weaponized drones to this extend. but other countries can figure how to do it. there are scores of countries now flying drones and to put a missile on it and fire it as a target is not an easy thing to do but there are lots of

countries who can figure it out. so fast forward 10 20 years to a world where russia is flying weaponized drones and china and iran and north korea and who knows who else. imagine -- and it is not hard to imagine -- that the technology becomes more sophisticated that that's drones become smaller, smarter, deadlier. that is the way technology works. think about that word world. and i think at least we ought to consider before we rush down this route i think we ought to consider whether this technology should be thought of the way we thought of chemical warfare for example after the first world war. and it was just decided that, you know, gee we are two countries, we don't like each other but as much as i might hate you and you hate me we're not going to do wit chemical weapons. >> there is a line we're not going to cross. >> right. i wonder if we imagine the possibilities, 20 30 years out

and where we are headed if it isn't time to say wait a minute. let's talk about this and see if that's really where we want to go. >> jujeugene. really appreciate your time. lots more including our chat with senator ted cruz in a very unexpected place. and the presidential joke no cover, no minimum. lots ahead. so please stay is with us. cats like to eat. up today, new friskies 7. we're trying seven cat-favorite flavors all in one dish. now for the moment of truth. yep, looks like it's time to share what our cats love with your cats. new friskies 7. for cats. by cats.

next in case 13534, north carolina board of federal examiners versus the federal trade commission. >> that was real audio from a u.s. supreme court hearing last year. the north carolina board for regulating dentists sued the federal government. the case had do with teeth whitening and whether the dentist members of that state

board could block people without dental licenses to offer to whiten other people's teeth on the cheap. and they lost the case. and maybe it was for the betterment of the human race. i have no idea. i didn't follow it that closely. whether i do know is the telegraph of the case all represented by dogs and a chicken and all of that is world changing. we are now reaching the peak of our first full supreme court season since john oliver gave the world b. roll of the high court in supreme court fornlm. and now is supreme court dogs have become their own mini genre on youtube, which may be the way you get to see two huge cases on their way to the supreme court right now. huge implications for the country.

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spawned a era of terrible pun head lines. next week though the court is finally getting to a pair of big, grand historically important case. these are big cases. both of them. but if there is a sleeper issue it is the one about the way we execute prison arererprisoners. death row inmates are challenging lethal injection. this as states across are having trouble securing the drugs used for lethal injections. this as more and more are refusing to sell their products if those products are used for the purpose of execution. just last week oklahoma approved a new method nitrogen gas. it is completely untested. and oklahoma and other states are making plans for alternate meth methods of execution in case the court rules against. some are throwbacks like the electric chair. and some never used before.

the really big case before the supreme court being watched and fought over already in state houses and the campaign trail is the one the justices are going to hear on tuesday. that is day the court will hear arguments whether to declare same-sex marriage legal nationwide. they have two questions before them. number one, does the constitution require states to license a marriage between two people of the same sex? and number two, does the constitution require a state to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out of that state. the justices have addressed the oirve issue before. most notably two years ago in the be windsor case and ruled the federal government must recognize lawfully licensed same sex marriages. but next week's case is the big one. it could make same-sex marriage legal across the united states.

invalidating all of the remaining state bands. or it could say that the state bans are okay. and if it did that it would create legal chaos as thousands of same sex couples would find themselves in the kind of matrimonial limbo. would the marriages count or not? that is one of the reasons main legal observers think the court is unlikely to uphold the state bans. a big week ahead at the court. a momentous week. and joining us is the kenji, auto over -- author of speak now americans on trial. to the sense this stuff matters the consensus is the court is going to allow gay marriage across the country. it's reached that threshold. let me ask you this though legally speaking what is the best argument that can be made

in front of the court right now for that not to happen? >> yeah so you are really putting me on the spot there because i have just written a book about how no such argument exists. i suppose the strongest argument would be that the argument that they keep proffering which is the channelling function of marriage is to prevent heterosexual couples from reckless brokereck less procreation. so it is rather trying to guide couples into the right unions. the problems i have are manifold manifold. this is a kind of gays are too good for marriage thing. that they are so responsible in the way they procreate that they are so too good to need or

rickety with this institution of marriage. >> let me take another shot and ask you a different one here. it is about the margin. nine votes on this. and i think back to brown versus board of education. and it was so important to early warren on the court that the ruling basically be unanimous. how important is the margin on this? the difference between this say being say a 5-4 vote or like a 7-2, 8-1, 9-0 vote. how important is that? >> i don't think it's important to get a 9-0 vote. and you are right warren did all of these things where he went into the hospital room and emerged mysterious with his agreement not to write a concerns and then sat down with stanley reed and said you are all alone and you have to think about what's best for the country. we all know the story of how he really tries tried to use his skills to get a unanimous court.

i don't think that is as important here and here is why. in the case of brown resistance could take the form that it ultimately really did take which is massive food dragging on the part of the south to integrate schools. and it is a very hard and complicated thing to do if people don't want to do it. so in the gay marriage context it is much simpler. once you have five votes the implementation is very easy. all that needs to be done is marriage licenses have to be issued and then recognized across state lines. so the kind of operationalization, to use a terribly 20 word is a lot simpler in this instance than in the desegregation because we're obviously still dealing with the integration today. >> kenji, thanks a lot.

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by the way congratulations on your first hundred days. i think it's a fine first hundred days. no one should be judged on a hundred anything. these are writers. if they were judged on the first hundred words they go nothing happened. it's the set up. i believe in that. i feel guilty because i was at your inaugural and i met someone there who happens to live near me. and i just feel so guilty because i had just a much better first hundred days than you did. [ laughter ] of course i had a lot more cooperation in the house, you know. >> you know proud to be able to say that. you know the first black president. well that is unless you screw up. and then it is going to be what's up with the half white

guy, huh? and who's idea was it to give the queen an ipod? what an awful give? what is she going to do download lady gaga? what are you going to give the pope a bluetooth? [ laughter ] you should have given the queen something, you know, like a memt memento of our country. something that says america. give her texas. >> the highlight reel from comedians there, each hosting the white house correspondents different. sikes back in 2009. is and together these three women with paula pound,stone these are are the only women to

ever serve as the host for the dinner. there have been 88 annual dinners in the time attended by each of the last 15 presidents that gets you all the way back to calvin coolage in the roaring '20s. and in all of that time all of those decades, all of those generation, a woman had been picked to play the role of the host three times. women weren't even actually allowed to attend until 196 when john f. kennedy at the behest of the helen thomas whom you may remember refused to attend until the dinner was made open to women. in 24 and a half hours the is going to jump from three to four, that is when cecily strong takes the stage in washington tomorrow night. she's played characters on "the awesomes," the upcoming "

""ghostbusters" remake. and most known for "saturday night life". >> we need bipartisanships. >> like ships that are bipartisan. >> you need to grow upset. because there are some people in south africa right now that are like no. and also i'm sorry. why can't secret santa just be openly gay. tonight is prom night in most parts of the country. so if you are watching this live sorry buddy. >> the dinner has its share of detractors but like or not it's become a major event on the calendar. tomorrow night we'll see what kind of note cecily brings with her. and there is also of course the real star of the night, the president of the united states trying to play comedian. you are really going to get a kick out of it and we're going to have that for you next.

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if you are going to be the president of the united states you have to be born in this country. and there is a doubt as to whether or not he was born -- >> come on. do you really -- that was donald trump back in 2011 suggesting that president obama may not have been born in the united states. trump kept it a for months and months until finally the president decided he'd had enough and then he went ahead and released his birth certificate putting the mindless speculation to rest once and for all. and then it was time for the annual white house correspondents dinner. and the donald trump was a guest that year. but president obama had the microphone. >> no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the donald and that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter.

like, did we fake the moon landing? what really happened in roswell? and where are biggy and 2 pac. >> president obama tomorrow night will be giving remarks at the dinner for the seventh time in his presidency. every president since calvin coolage has dropped by at least once during their time in office but that doesn't mean they always like it. nixon after one dinner the reports were more bad manners than usual. but it is so ingrained in our politics right now, this dinner that no dinner can skip it. the one night a year when the president of the united states is forced to play the role of stand up comedian. >> i know it's getting rate dear

but it's not often we have people who have written about us and broadcast about us and all together like this in one nice room. and i thought you might like to say a few nice words to them. how about a word or two? something friendly. even one kind word? >> i'm thinking. >> i always forward to these dinners. it is just a bunch of media types, hollywood liberals democrats like joe biden. how come i can't have dinner with the 36% of the people who like me? >> in the next 100 by as our bipartisan outreach will be so successful that even john boehner will consider becoming a democrat. after all we have a lot in common. he is a person of color. although not a color that appears in the natural world

[ laughter ] >> they have only got seven more months to investigate me. so little time so many unanswered questions. [ laughter ] for example, over the last few months i've lost 10 pounds. where did they go? this is a strange time in the life of any administration. but i think this short film will show that i have come to terms with it. >> well with the vice president and the first lady out on the campaign trail things aren't as exciting as they used to be around here. in fact it is really starting to wind down. >> joe? [ knocking ] anybody home? hello, white house. hold please. hello white house. >> i wish i could be here more. but i really think bill has everything under control.

>> honey, wait wait. wait. you forgot your lunch. and joining us now is the michael besrlash the white house historian, and someone who's attended several times. thanks for joining us. it is that time when the president has to play stand up comedian. who was really good at this among the presidents? >> well they began with a pretty low bar. as you mentioned the first to do this was calvin coolidge and probably the person who changed it was ronald reagan in the 1980s. because if you think about it about 14 years before he became president he gave a lot of funny

speeches at dinners and so he was very much in his element. and so it greats expectations after that. >> how does obama, say this is his seventh one. how does he stack up against the predecessors. >> the laugh-o-meter. >> i think the one thing that he has in common is most don't like to come to these dinners. the large dinner when they have to make a speech and they are expected to be very funny because most of them are not naturally comedians and in recent years because these things are so publicized. not only on c-span but msnbc tomorrow night and all over the place, they feel they have to perform almost to the level of the comedians that are there. and it takes a lot of time. and barack obama has gotten very good at it. but this did not necessarily come naturally to him. >> and you had given an example of nixon in the beginning there.

>> the gift that keeps on giving to historians. >> and i look at the comments just the absolute contempt for the press. but was he just articulating there what they all feel but only nixon is the one who will say it? >> nixon took it to another level. he tells henry kissinger the press is the enemy, the press is the enemy. so to have to go to these dinners and sit there for three hours. and what's also complaining about in another memo to his aide that he has to sit there while the drunken audience is the derisively jeering him. it drives him crazy. >> and i imagine that probably does drive a president obama, president clinton, president reagan -- whoever. these are reporters scrutinizing the administration and they have to go there and pal around with them. >> and almost every single one

of these presidents, a as we'll probably see a funny speech and at the end he'll get serious and they almost always say it is a great thing we're living in a democracy where there is a free press and of course they believe it intellectually but not always viscerally. >> and there is so much pressure on the president but when the president comes through and you are the professional comedian and you have been sort of overshadowed in your own game it's got to be o blow for the comedian too. >> and the other thing is how far you go in criticizing the president. stephen colbert was criticized in 2006 for maybe crossing a line. lindon johnson gave a speech in 1968, wasn't very funny. i don't remember who the comedian was or the entertainment. but i think in those days one would have been terrified to gave speech when the president was there with anything remotely approaching that kind of criticism. >> don imus changed all that a

if you can remember. >> yeah. >> thanks so much for your time tonight. appreciate that. and as michael mentioned msnbc is going to have live coverage of the white house correspondents dinner tomorrow night at msnbc is going to have live coverage of the white house correspondent dinner tomorrow night beginning at 9:00 eastern time. ahead, a change at the top of the justice department and the legacy of asparagus. stay with us.

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ran into senator ted cruz. ran into him at one of the few places that didn't close, at least right away when cruz led the effort to shut down the government in 2013 in a failed effort to defund obama care. >> i started coming to the house barber shop when the government was shut down because the house barber shop is private. and so they were still open. the senate barber shop was closed down as part of the federal government. so i crossed over here to get a haircut during the shutdown and shelton does such a good job that i kept coming here afterwards. >> the house shop eventually did close down as part of the shutdown but it didn't close down until after cruz got his haircut. yesterday i was happy to spend the afternoon at that barber shop. and from the 78-year-old italian immigrant has been running it for the last 45 years. he calls it his american dream.

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avenue can american woman to serve in that ogz. but today was eric holder's last official day on the job. he gave an emotional speech on his way out the door. but if you follow the story of eric holder these past six years, you know his interactions weren't always so warm and fuzzy. namely, the parts where he had to sit through hearings with members of congress. he has been reviled by many on the right. the republican house charged him with contempt at one point and republican leaders have routinely demanded that he resign. actually republicans had a chance to replace eric holder months ago, but they waited until yesterday to actually do it. it became a running joke at the justice department these last few months. people there, including holder himself wearing these free eric holder bracelets. but today was finally his last

day. and in honor of that the rachel maddow show would like to play tribute to a tape with eric holder. this was eric holder at one of those republican hearings where republicans would take time grilling and castigating him. louis goemer worked himself into a furry as he confronted holder over the boston mayor thaun bombings. watch. >> you don't have access to the fbi files. you don't know what the fbi did. you don't know what the fbi's interaction was with the russians. i know what the fbi did. you cannot know what i know. that's all. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and that is simply the reason -- i did not assert what they did or did not do. i asserted what the -- my point -- >> i cannot have a -- >> regular order. >> challenge my character and my -- >> the gentleman will respond to

that. >> when you attack somebody's integrity, and say they made statements that were not true then, of course that is -- raises a point of personal privilege. but the attorney general failed to answer my question -- >> if the gentleman wants to stand -- regular order, mr. chairman. >> exposure from my asparagus. >> that last part there, what was that again? >> the gentleman will suspend -- >> and regular order, mr. chairman. >> aspersions on my asparagus. >> for the record the attorney general never forgot that and a year later when he was in another completely unrelated congressional hearing with louis goemer he made sure to bring it up. >> let me ask you -- >> the time of the gentleman has expired, unfortunate. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman -- >> good luck with your asparagus. >> good buy attorney general

eric holder good-bye aspersions with your asparagus tape and for loretta lynch, talk about a tough act to follow. >> now i want to do something here. we've been these bands that i've been wearing for the last whatever number of whatevers. i think i can officially take this off now. i think we can officially say now that eric holder is free. >> eric holder may now be free but you are not so lucky. now, as rachel would say, it's time four to go to prison. due to mature subject matter, viewer direction is advised.