custody of baltimore police is about to get under way and thousands are expected to attend after a week of protests after his death. much more on that in a minute. first, after waiting longer than the last seven attorneys general combined loretta lynch is about to be sworn in as the 83rd attorney general of the united states. lynch was confirmed last week by the senate after a contentious five-month delay. she is the first african-american woman attorney general. president obama nominated lynch a federal prosecutor from new york back in november to succeed eric holder. republicans held up that vote objecting to lynch's support of the president's use of executive action on immigration. nbc justice correspondent pete williams joins me now. you have not far away in baltimore this funeral for mr. grey, and one of the things loretta lynch would like to implement immediately is meeting with the heads of the police departments across the country. >> that's right. i think she feels that it's time

for a reset on this debate between majority communities and the police. she feels that it's best for minority communities when they have a good relationship with the police, if the police can protect them that it's a good thing for them. you're looking at the attorney general's conference room, the office is right through that door where the man is standing and the other door goes into the hallway. that's robert f. kennedy's picture in that room and she'll be sworn in there in just a few minutes, and she feels that the interest of police need to be preserved in these meetings as well. that she certainly agrees with her predecessor's views that minorities are sometimes ignored in these situations if the police are a little too quick to use aggressive techniques. but she also feels that sometimes in the debate in the last several months the interest of police and the necessity to have good policing has been ignored, as well. so i think she wants to hit the reset button on it. >> just looking again at her background, especially here in

this area in the eastern district of new york one of the busiest justice department offices in this country, for people who don't know her background, she oversaw terror cases, cyber criminal cases, as well. >> very much a prosecutor, of course eric holder had been a prosecutor. he was the u.s. attorney here in washington, as well but she's been one just coming right out of that job into the justice department position, so that's a bit unusual here for a recent attorneys general, so she very much brings a prosecutor and a prosecutor's mentality and someone who works with investigators and law enforcement all the time. >> all right thank you very much, pete greatly appreciate it. we'll keep our eye on that developing story. also developing now, we have live pictures inside the church where funeral services are just getting under way in baltimore for freddie gray. thousands are expected to attend including at least three white house officials for several hours yesterday. a steady stream of mourners lined up to pay their respects

as city officials and the gray family appealed for calm following a tense night. protests had been mostly peaceful saturday with about 1,200 people rallying at city hall, but a group of demonstrators splintered off, inciting violent clashes with police. some businesses were loot and cars vandalized. 34 people were arrested and six officers injured with minor injuries. brian mooar joins me now from baltimore. brian, of course, now seeing a pause in these protests as the funeral begins but are we expecting another night or another week of protests there? >> well that's the big question now, isn't it tamron? this is an oasis of calm in a city on edge right now and the mayor of this city was not too proud to stand with faith leaders last night and literally begged for peace. and that is a message being echoed by freddie gray's family today, fredricka gray freddie gray's twin sister said he would not have wanted this violence and the family largely

seems to be standing with city officials, with the police department giving them the benefit of the doubt, at least as they say they continue this investigation into freddie gray's death. he, of course died of a spinal injury after being arrested by police. six officers on leave, and as this investigation goes forward, the question is how exactly did freddie gray get those injuries and was it a criminal act. tamron? >> and as we mentioned, we are waiting loretta lynch to be sworn in and we do know that the white house has sent a delegation including cabinet secretary broderick johnson, he's the chair of the president's brother's keeper task force. do we know anymore details about the others being sent by the white house to come there? >> we don't, but broderick johnson really is the headliner here, the head of the my brother's keeper task force. this is a group dedicated to keeping young men safe on the urban streets around this country, and this is a clear

message from the white house that it is closely watching this case and that it is reassuring the community as city leaders are here that justice will be done. >> all right brian, thank you very much for that live report for us from baltimore. another developing story we're following, the desperate rescue for survivors two days after a earthquake rocked nepal. tens of thousands of survivors are huddled outdoors for a third straight night for fear their homes will collapse as strong aftershocks continue to jolt the area. more than 3,800 people were killed, and that number we're told is expected to climb. the u.s. is among the countries now sending much needed supplies and search and rescue teams. saturday's quake spread horror through a wide area from nepal's capital of kathmandu to the slopes of mt. everest, the world's highest mountain. there an avalanche captured on

camera as you see here buried part of the base camp packed with foreign climbers killing at least 18 people including, we're told three americans. they've been identified as from new jersey who served as a doctor at a base camp david friedenburg, a google engineer based in california was on a three-week expedition to everest, also tom taplin from california died on the mountain while filming a documentary. ian williams joins us now from kathmandu. ian, what can you tell us you saw today regarding this rescue attempt that continues there? >> hi tamron. well, the attention now is beginning to turn to what's happened outside kathmandu, and today i went out of the capital here to take a look at a town on the rim of the kathmandu valley. and what we found there was devastating. the town has been very very hard hit, particularly the old

part of the town where narrow alley ways and streets have collapsed. perhaps a quarter of the buildings completely. few of the buildings have been untouched. there were rescue workers there still going through the debris by hand. down below the village, a large area has been turned into a cremation site littered with funeral pyres, as they burned the dead. a small hospital there was overcrowded, overwhelmed, they said, they've had hundreds of injured coming through, trying to send the more serious ones down to kathmandu. shores water with only intermittent electricity because of a faulty generator. the picture we found there is the sort of thing which aid agencies expect they will find more and more as they go further towards the epicenter, further away from kathmandu, and still in those areas, the information is very patchy and still aid is being very slow to get there. now, it's coming in to kathmandu

here, the airport today was congested, certainly, a lot coming in but it's getting to those places where the infrastructure is very poor at the best of times and where there's been a lot of destruction and where officials fear the death toll is very high and will certainly push up those headline figures we're seeing tamron. >> ian, thank you. among those who were at everest base camp is american nick chinsky who sent us this video of the scene there yesterday. he's a leader of a team called six summits challenge, an international team from six countries and nick joins us live now by phone. nick, thank you for joining us. can you tell me what happened and how close you were to that avalanche? >> thanks for having me tamron. we were in the avalanche. it was unbelievably scary. you know it was probably the

most scary thing, before it actually happened we heard this huge thunderous boom then this cloud of snow appeared over the ridge line just exploded over top of us. and all we could do is run for cover. and it was -- it was the most terrifying experience i've ever had to live with and i'm sure my wife included who was with me in the tent when we sort of got hit by this thing. >> nick were all the people who traveled with you and those who were around you, have they been accounted for? >> yes, our team was sort of on the edge we were protected by -- so our camp was not badly damaged. it wasn't really until we sort of survived the high winds and the insane amounts of snow being pushed in and around us that we crawled out of our tents and

started to realize just what had happened, and we started to walk around the camp looking for survivors, and that was -- that was incredibly difficult work. >> i can't even imagine. i mean here you are, you merge and you're walking around. we are looking at the images of just people you know equipment, their clothing just all littering there at the base camp. is the best way if possible how would you describe what you saw? almost immediately after emerging? >> you know it was scary because we didn't really know what we were walking into but then as we got close to sort of the epicenter of where the worst hit part of the base camp was, we quickly started to realize this thing was going to be bad. weren't going to be people with

sprained ankles and broken fingers. there were going to be fatalities here. just the force and the destruction, you know we found pieces of tents and gear strewn hundreds of meters from where they started. and in some cases, we found bodies in pieces that were strewn that far, as well and it was incredibly grisly work. the silver lining was that it was a cloudy day, and helicopters couldn't fly that day, and there was nothing that we could have done with the victims, putting them in helicopters, so we actually treated them in the field, kept them warm overnight, and then in the morning the sunshine and right at 6:00 a.m. the first helicopter started to land and that was a huge blessing we

could actually get these critically injured people out. >> well we really appreciate you joining us and to you and your incredible team who remain there to help others and try to provide as much assistance as possible as more lives expected to be lost as a result of that avalanche and, of course the earthquake there. nick, thank you so much and we certainly appreciate you providing that video and more importantly, describing what happened there and what you've done to help others in the midst of this story that is still unfolding. thank you so much for your time nick. >> you're very welcome. thanks for having us. coming up the author of the clinton cash book admits evidence on hillary clinton is circumstantial and now even some republicans are warning others in the gop not to overreach on this one. >> need to be careful not to overstate the case. clintons are complicated, and they tend to make mistakes.

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developing today, we are awaiting the start of the trial in the aurora movie thaeter shooting in just a few hours attorneys for james holmes admits he carried out the mass shooting during a screening of the movie "the dark knight" but say holmes was in the throes of a psychotic episode and they are mounting an insanity defense. 12 people died in the 2012 attack. if holmes is found guilty he could be sentenced to death. and it's week two in the sentencing phase for convicted marathon bomber dzhokhar czar tsarnaev tsarnaev, and this morning jurors heard opening statements from the defense. tsarnaev seemed more animated according to reporters this morning, leaning back in his chair and engaging his attorneys before court. his defense team argued tsarnaev's older brother, tamerlan convinced him to do the crime and they want some leniency in sentencing.

lawyers today asking for life in prison instead of the death penalty. may be another two weeks before the case is handed over to that jury. new questions today for hillary clinton as the powerful lens of the public microscope remains focused on her finances. the clinton foundation is admitting it made some mistakes about how it disclosed donors. the acting ceo saying in part yes, we made mistakes, as many organizations of our size do but we are acting quickly to remedy them and have taken steps to ensure they don't happen in the future. this comes as the conservative author of a new book called "clinton cash" says the donations and decisions made while hillary clinton was secretary of state warrant an investigation. >> what we have is a pattern of behavior. this pattern consistently shows that donors give large sums of money to the foundation or pay bill clinton a lot for a speech there's a policy action that's taken to the benefit of that donor. in some of those instances

hillary clinton is reversing course. >> and republicans were quick to pounce, but there's mix reaction among the gop. many are advising the party not to press too far with this controversy. >> my point is, they took money from foreign governments while she was secretary of state. that is clearly illegal. this is not about politics. it's illegal. and it's dangerous to america to have foreign governments get in the habit of bribing people who has been to be the husband of the secretary of state or next president of the united states. >> republicans need to be careful not to overstate the case but it reminds us that clintons are complicated and they tend to make mistakes. >> we want to take you right now to the swearing in of the 83rd attorney general to the united states loretta lynch, the first african-american female to hold this spot. she's there with vice president joe biden. let's listen in. >> he has been right. [ applause ]

now, the reason eric's been always so nice to me as valerie can tell you, he was on the two-person committee to decide who to choose as vice president. so he owed me for what he did. no, i'm joking. that is a joke. press, that is a joke. it's been a great honor of my life. for the past six and a half years, madam attorney general eric and i sat next to each other in cabinet meetings there's a protocol where each seat is and you will sit on my left during those cabinet meetings, and eric sat there and we i don't know how many meetings we've had in the situation room, like with the fbi director and others that are herings the oval office issue after issue, national security and counterterrorism, civil rights and voting rights

marriage equality and immigration, violence against women and the criminal justice reform, and funding the cops programs and so much more. he served the department with distinction and our country's honor and i thank him, but most of all, i thank sharon, his wife, and his family. he has a beautiful family of brilliant young kids. [ applause ] i have absolute confidence loretta lynch will exceed the high standard set for her, because she's cut from the exact same cloth. both she and eric embody the mantra of one of their predecessors, the man after whom this building is named who said "the purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better." . the purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better. five generations, your brother is also a baptist minister

baptist preachers will teach you how to make things better so as i read your dad always taught you to stand up for what's right, speak out for what's just, get up when you get knocked down and move on. if there's anything you should know about loretta lynch following her father's example, she excelled in everything everything she has done from the time she was a child. she never had been limited by the lower expectations of others, but has always exceeded the expectation she set for herself. top of her class in high school got into a lot of universities, but decided she wanted to go to harvard. harvard undergraduate law school, did well as an aspiring young lawyer. and for 30 years she's been a first-rate, fair-minded, independent lawyer and prosecutor as the u.s. attorney

and in private practice. she's shown the resolve to prosecute and jail terrorists, mobsters, and gang members. she's shown fidelity to the law and rooted out public corruption. she has shown determination to bring down financial fraudsters and child abusers. and she's shown a dogged pursuit to bust the brutal human trafficking rings that she is encountered. she's shown an unyielding commitment to the rule of law and basic human rights. she forged from battling violent crime in the mean streets of new york to striving for accountability in the crucible of genocide in rwanda and as a top federal prosecutor she's worked with and learned from law enforcement officers and agents. you're going to have a great officer in this one. in her own words, she said she's

a better prosecutor because of them so she has unimpeachable credibility to strengthen relations between law enforcement and communities that serve and protect. folks often say that i trust those people patrick's heard me say this many times, who arrive at the right decision not through an intellectual examination of the argument, but arrive at the right decision when it starts from their gut, goes to their heart, and is articulated by a fine mind. that's who this woman is. that's how loretta gets it right. and the president and i can't wait to start working with her. her priority remains using every tool available to disrupt a tax against our homeland and to bring terrorists to justice. she'll enhance the department's capacity to combat cyber attacks and cyber crimes. she'll continue to pursue and

prosecute those who prey on the most in need of our protection. and she'll continue to lead with her humble yet fierce determination to stand up for what is right, do what is just, and not yield to anyone. i will close with this. i imagine being the daughter of an english teacher and librarian, daughter of north carolina maya angelou's words have never been too far away from loretta and her thinking maya angelou once said in her straight forward manner she said, "if someone shows you who they are believe them. if someone shows you who they are, believe them." a very simplistic phrase but better profound. she has shown us her entire life who she is. so believe her.

i believe her, the president believes her and all the people in this department will believe her. loretta, you've shown who you are in everything you've done and you've upheld the very values of the oath you're about to take. and we believe you. to the staff of the united states department of justice, you're the best of the best and loretta, you again have the best of the best as your leader. all of the qualities she brings to the job of attorney general are because of what she's learned as a federal prosecutor. she's one of you. she is one of you. to the american people we're blessed with another remarkable public servant to lead this department, and with that loretta, i'm now going to swear you in as the attorney general of the united states of america. with your husband, who will come

forward, dad, the whole family come on up here. and the way we're going to do this. you want me on the left on this side? all right. okay. all right. what i'm going to ask you to do come on. i want you to put your left hand on the bible and raise your right hand. i, state your name. >> i loretta lynch. >> do solemnly swear. >> do solemnly swear. >> that i will support and defend. the constitution of the united states. >> the constitution of the united states. >> against all enemies. >> against all enemies. >> foreign and domestic. >> foreign and domestic. >> that i will bear true faith. >> that i will bear true faith. >> and allegiance to the same. >> that i take this obligation freely. >> without any mental

reservations. >> without any mental reservations. >> or purpose of evasion. >> or purpose of evasion. >> that i will well and faithfully discharge. >> that i will well and faithfully discharge. >> your duties to the office. >> the duties to the office. >> of which i'm about to enter. >> of which i'm about to enter. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations. [ cheers and applause ] >> well, here we are. i have to say, as i look out on

all of you gathered here today, it seems like such an understatement to say that my heart is full. but it is. it is full of the most deep and profound gratitude that i have felt in quite some time. and i must of course thank so many people who made it possible for me to stand here before you today. first and foremost i have to thank the president for his faith in me in asking me to lead the department i love to even greater heights, and mr. vice president, thank you for your presence, for your comments here today, but also for your steadfast support and your wise counsel through this process. and it's been quite a process. but i also have to thank senator schumer and someone who's here today, as well senator leahy. thank you so much for being here but also for your support, not just today, but over the years. and for doing, frankly, what i thought was impossible making the floor of the united states

senate a welcoming place for me and for my family. thank you, sir, thank you so much. and, of course thanks to my wonderful family. as you can see all around you, we are quite the force multiplier. many of you have come to know my father throughout this process. he has been at every hearing and every vote but he didn't just start now. i remember looking up as a young ausa preparing to do my very first trial and seeing him in the gallery, and he was there for every one thereafter. he has encouraged me in all things, even when my choices were not the ones that he would have made for me and in that he has been the best of fathers, and i thank him. [ applause ] and i hope that you all know that without him, i would not be

standing here before you today, having just been sworn in as the 83rd attorney general of the united states of america, just one week after his 83rd birthday. [ applause ] and, of course, my mother who could not be here today, but who is never far from my thoughts or from my heart. my mother grew up in a world where she was always told what she could not do or whom she could not be but she always knew that she could soar. and she did what would have seemed impossible in that small north carolina town of her youth. she raised a daughter whom she always told whatever the dream, to be a lawyer a prosecutor or the attorney general, of course you can. i thank her, as well. and i have to thank my wonderful husband, who has supported all my choices and all my dreams.

i would not trade his love and support for all the riches in the world, because to me they are all the riches in the world. [ applause ] tremendous thanks also to my colleagues and friends here in the department of justice, in the eastern district of new york and beyond but even more than that tremendous thanks go to some people who could not be here today, the literally thousands of people many of whom i'd never met personally who have expressed their support throughout this process. from the sisterhood of my sorority and all the greeks that came together, to the churches and schools who wrote letters and made calls, to people on the street who stopped me and sometimes said just a word or two, please know that sometimes those words made all the difference to me as i traveled this road, and i thank you.

i thank you all as i prepare to join once again with the outstanding people of this department of justice. it has been the honor of my life and the privilege of my profession to have stood shoulder to shoulder with you twice before from the eastern district of new york because you are the ones who make real the promise of justice and redress for all americans. i am honored beyond words to step into this larger role today as your attorney general, as we continue the core work of our mission, the protection of the american people. now, all of us here at the department are here because at some point, and maybe we were just a little girl or a little boy, we said i want to be a lawyer. i want to be a law enforcement officer. i want to be a federal agent. i want to be someone's hero. at the heart of that for me certainly and for all of us whether attorney or agent, staff or principal, is the desire to

leave this world a better place for us having been a part of it. and the challenge in that for you, for me for all of us that love this department and love the law, is to use the law to that end. to not just represent the law and to enforce the law, but to use it to make real the promise of america, the promise of fairness the promise of equality of liberty, and justice for all. i've been reminded recently that we're all just here for a time whether in this building or even on this earth, but the values that we hold dear will live on long after we've left the stage. it's our responsibility, it's our mission while we are here to breathe life into them, to em embue them with the strength of our efforts, i know this can be done, because i'm here to tell you, if a little girl from north carolina that used to tell her

grandfather in the fields to lift her up on the back of his mule so she could see way up high, grand daddy, can grow up to become the chief law enforcement officer of the united states of america, we can do anything. [ cheers and applause ] [ applause ] we can imbue our criminal justice system with both strength and fairness for the protection of both the needs of victims and the rights of all. we can restore trust and faith, both in our laws and in those of us who enforce them. we can protect the most vulnerable among us from the

scourge of modern day slavery, so app thetical to the values forged in blood in this country. we can protect the growing cyber world, and we can give those in our care both protection from terrorism and the security of their civil liberties. my friends, we will do this as we have accomplished all things both great and small, working together moving forward, and using justice as our compass. and i'm here to tell you, i cannot wait to begin that journey with all of you. i want to thank you all for being here today, not just here in this room but in my life over the years. thank you all so much. and i look forward to working with you as we make real the manifest promise of this our department of justice. thank you so much. [ applause ] >> gracious and powerful speech from the new attorney general for the united states, loretta

lynch, the 83rd attorney general, the first african-american woman. ms. lynch noting that her father's 83rd birthday was just last week. also expressing her excitement to begin her new job after five months of waiting to be confirmed as our nation's attorney general. so we'll continue to follow the reaction to this historic moment after she was approved by a 56-43 vote and the confirmation delayed, as mentioned, some five months. we'll keep an eye on all the developments there, but quite a speech from our new attorney general loretta lynch. we'll be right back. but now you can give them even more when you save with sentry® fiproguard® plus. with sentry® fiproguard® plus, your pet is just as protected against fleas and ticks as with frontline® plus. because sentry® fiproguard® plus has the same active ingredients but costs less than vet prices. and saving money helps you buy... (laughs happily) more tennis balls. sentry® fiproguard® plus - available at these retailers.

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ingredients from its food. this makes it the first major restaurant chain to completely remove gmos from its menu. now to the bruce jenner interview and how he revealed he's transitioned to life as a woman. his eye opening discussion about his transition has given insight to a community that's become increasingly more visible. >> for all intents and purposes i am a woman. people look at me differently, they see you as this macho male but my heart and my soul and everything that i do in life it is part of me that female side is part of me. that's who i am. >> well this morning we're also learning more about how his family is supporting him in an interview on the "today" show his step daughter kim kardashian west sat down with matt lauer and discussed bruce's announcement to the family. >> and i know it's not something you and i could really fully

understand but i don't even think we have to. i think as long as he is happy, we all really support him. is it a hard adjustment? yes. is there things that we have learned more recently and it's an adjustment on how to deal with it and it's a daily process. >> and joining me now, parker malloy a transgender rights advocate and worthy.com trends writer, thank you so much for joining me. >> thanks for having me. >> a major part of that interview with bruce jenner was the education and learning about gender identification versus sexuality. what he plans to do with his life. let's, if we can, even though obviously, he's the famous face the famous person 17 million people watched that interview, today after the conversation he had with diane sawyer do you believe that many people were able to absorb the information, the science, and not the

celebrity? >> sure. i feel like there was a great mix of substance there, you know, you mix the celebrity with the substance, and it's going to start to stick. i mean any time you put facts like that in front of 17 million people, they are going to start to absorb it and i think that program did a really great job of giving some background and explaining that not all trans experiences are the same. mine is different than bruce jenner's and, you know bruce jenner's is different than say, a trans woman of color who has extremely different circumstances. so, yeah i think it was a great job. >> the most frequently cited transgender population is about 700,000 people in the united states. you have some believe it's less more, i think one of the things from the bruce jenner interview that i noted is that here he'd been married to three women, they all knew and i quickly

wondered how many other families exist like that where on the outside you have you know the father going about his daily business, if that's how he identified, of course to his children and spouse but inside the home it's a very different situation. >> sure. i feel like that's somewhat common, really a stigma surrounding being transgender. we're still in a society that allows people to discriminate on the basis of gender identity and in the majority of states we don't have federal legislation that bans that and transgender people especially transgender women and transgender women of color specifically face extremely high levels of violence, so there's stigma that goes along with it so it makes sense some families might try to internalize that or try to hide it away you know and it's great to see more people coming forward, being open about who they are because that might encourage others and start to chip away at that stigma. >> you talk about the stigma we

talk about potential legislative changes in the future but also science going back to that in that piece there was a doctor that said your gender according to you know the study, identified in your brain early on after conception. what do you believe is the next scientific frontier in getting people to understand? >> you know i really feel like it's less a scientific thing and more a social change. i mean we don't need to you know, gay rights for example, have improved greatly just as society has started to come around. we haven't had any major breakthroughs when it comes to learning more about the basis of sexual orientation, and it's similar in the sense that with gender identity and just gender as a whole, i don't know that we necessarily need more scientific breakthroughs, but we need more

social and cultural breakthroughs just to get people to start accepting trans people. >> thank you so much parker for joining us. we greatly appreciate it. as you have noted, this is a situation far beyond bruce jenner asks hundreds of thousands of people. thank you so much, parker for your time. >> thanks for having me. up next, i'm going to talk live with a group going through what many people say is a similar of acceptance their journey is emotional, it is highly controversial, and their story is playing out in this docuseries that has a lot of people chiming in about it. up next the entire cast will be here with me life.

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welcome back. my next guests are on a mission to live as their true civils while trying to shatter gender norms and discrimination against

the community. it is not coming easy. meet the prancing elite. they make up a team based in mobile alabama. they went viral two years ago when shaquille o'neal tweeted out one of their videos. they they decide to dance along side the band any way while being cruelly heckled and shouted at. >> they're men. they shouldn't be dressed like women out in public. i don't like for kids to see it. >> i think it's immoral and inappropriate. >> what's wrong? >> they shouldn't have done that to you. >> don't cry. it's going to be okay. >> the team is with me now.

tim, adrian clemine. thank you for joining us. last night, full disclosure. the little girl's name is bella that you revealed. she could not be more opposite than you, a little white girl. what did it feel like to have her hug you and have compassion? >> it hurt. people say we're bad representation on kids and they don't want their children to grow up looking like us. when she came to us, it was a relief. >> when you go to these parades like in this case. you were not invited. you were going to make a statement. >> some say you're going looking for trouble. what do you say to that? >> i don't think we go anywhere looking for trouble. we just like to dance.

we feel what we do is normal. why not show the world our talent? there's a lot of other teams that do the same thing we do. you know we like to do it on the upfront. we want everybody to see our talent. we don't go looking trouble. >> you're going saying i'm living my life. i'm going to say there were moments i was afraid. there's one episode coming up where a man says it's an abomination against god. is it scary? >> it's very scary and emotional at the same time. i'm always the one worrying about us and what people would say or do. it's always a fear. are they going to throw something, try to jump on us or shoot, you know? that fear is always with us. >> so how do you face those

fears? are your families supporting you? show me happens of who's families support you. the majority has family there for you. what was it like when family and friends saw the videos? >> i think after the first episode they all of a sudden see what a we really go through versus we're just doing this to do it. they see it's not as easy as. everybody was like this is fun. why you doing that any way? this is a battle we're fighting. >> you're about to start crying. don't cry. not just from quote unquote southerners. we're all from the south. there's a blog that pointed out there's a long list of black hollywood actors asked to wear dresses on screen. there aren't near as many white

men asked to do the similar thing. the popularized image of black men is makeup heels, bag. what do you say to those people? >> we're not living our life for an entire race or entire culture. we're just speaking and telling our story because it's our story. this is how we portray ourselves. we're not trying to speak for everybody. i'm kind of annoyed with people keep saying you know you guys are a bad representation of the black community or lbgt community. we can't speak for an entire race religion. we can't do that. it's nerve racking. it allows us to sit back. >> the episodes are coming up. i often go to humor when there's tension. can i get makeup tips?

i won't be able to do this j setting type of dance. you've got the moves, the makeup. you have a lot of support online and everywhere else. congratulations on documenting your journey. we'll keep watching it. i'm serious about the makeup trips. that does it for this edition of "news nation." up next kristin welker is hosting "andrea mitchell reports." i'll see you tomorrow. building aircraft, the likes of which the world has never seen. this is what we do. ♪ that's the value of performance. northrop grumman.

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right now on "andrea mitchell reports." disaster in nepal. the frantic search and rescue efforts continue after saturday's 7.2 earthquake killed thousands and levelled the area. >> they don't expect to find survivors, just bodies. >> chilling video shows an avalanche on mount everest triggered by the earthquake. a wall of snow and ice buried

the base camp. we'll monitor the efforts at nepal and efforts here at home to aid the victims. a call for peace. the white house is sending three people to join the thousands expected to remember the man who died in police custody. all this after a week of protests turned violent over the weekend with looting, smashed windows and damaged police cars. freddie gray's sister makes a powerful plea. >> can y'all please please stop the violence. freddie gray would not like this. a book that claims hillary clinton was influenced by large donations to the clinton foundation. does he have is a smoking gun? >> have you proven quid pro quo? >> i don't think quid pro quo needs to be the