did. if phillip is emblematic of that. we have nothing to worry about in terms of the legacy of malcolm x. >> you thank you for joining us. that is all for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts now. the clips are amazing. thank you for joining us. we have a big show tonight. we have lots ahead in this coming hour, one of those shows with the ten-pound show fit into a five-pound bag. but if you know anybody who works in the beltway media, tonight might be the night to ask them to go out for after work drinks, and that is because your friend in the beltway media today is likely to be in a good mood. people in a good mood are likely to pick up the tab and more fun to be around. the press corps is over the moon! because hillary clinton spoke to

them. when secretary of state hillary clinton -- former secretary of state hillary clinton announced she was starting her campaign for president she said she would take sort of less traveled path to trying to win the nomination. yes, she would start in iowa and new hampshire like they all do but she would do small scale events, meeting with small groups of voters in informal settings. they described the way she was going to run her campaign at least initially as a listening tour. and that strategy does seem to have paid dividends in terms of issues and policies and what the candidates want to talk about. hillary clinton said what she has found surprising was how often people brought up the issue of drug abuse and people needing access to good drug treatment and worries about drug overdoses and the rising tide of

heroin and opioids. because she heard so much concern about that from regular people who she wasn't expecting to talk to her about that because she kept coming across that in lots and lots of conversations, she has decided to start talking about those issues as matters of policy on the campaign trail. she brought it up last month in new hampshire. she brought it up as part of a speech during the riots in baltimore. now had this week she has brought it up in iowa. they scheduled an event at the home of one of the first gay couples to get married in iowa. on paper you would think that whole event would be about civil rights and gay civil rights and contrasts between her position and all the republicans' position on the issue of marriage equality. maybe they'd be talking about the supreme court at a stretch. but based on the logistics of that event you'd think you'd know what she would be talking about. she also ended up talking about drug use and access to drug treatment and mental health and other related issues that have

come up to her on her listening tour. she said when i started running, thinking about this campaign, i didn't believe i would be standing in your living room talking about the drug abuse problem, the suicide problem, but i'm now convinced i have to talk about it. i have to do everything i can in this campaign to raise it to end the stigma against talking about it. if they are running it as a listening tour, the beltway doesn't necessarily talk about or care about but that really does matter to regular people at these small events where sometimes the press are allowed to show that the event is happening. every once in a while the press get treated to remarks but mostly the press is boxed out. the press is left running around after her and not getting any comment.

the reason they're all so happy is hillary clinton today spoke with reporters on purpose in a deliberate question and answer kind of way. >> hey, are you all ready? tell me something i don't know. nick, bring some order. bring some order. >> why don't we start with nancy. >> she started with nancy. i don't know who nancy is. she started with nancy. secretary clinton today taking questions on a lot of different topics, questions on whether the donations made to the clinton foundation while she was secretary of state represent a conflict of interest. she took questions about her e-mails when she was secretary of state. she said she would like those to be released but it's in the state department's hands now. she took a question about being a rich person and whether that meant that she as a rich person could credibly campaign on middle class issues.

secretary clinton took a reporter's question on the issue of the iraq war. >> secretary clinton, given the situation in iraq, do you think we're better off without saddam hussein in power? >> look, i know that there have been a lot of questions about iraq posed to candidates over the last weeks. i've made it clear i made a mistake plain and simple. i've written about it in my book. i've talked about it in the past. what we now see is a very different and very dangerous situation. the united states is doing what it can but ultimately this has to be a struggle that the iraqi government and the iraqi people are determined to win for themselves. and we can provide support but they're going to have to do it. >> secretary clinton on the record with reporters today about her vote to authorize the iraq war and what she thinks about the iraq situation now. i mean, all the republicans candidates are now having to talk about the iraq war whenever they have to take questions from reporters.

we'll have more on that later on the show tonight and also on tomorrow night's show. but the clinton campaign and the candidate herself going on the record with reporters honestly about anything right now is it self newsworthy in terms of the way she is campaigning for the presidency, mostly doing small group events with no reporters involved to ask questions. and hillary clinton today also made one other interesting announce ment. so far she has been focused on the two first states, iowa and new hampshire. the campaign announced that she is also about to take a swing to the important swing state of florida. that all makes sense. thinking ahead about locking up the nomination, ha-ha-ha, and also to compete in the fall. iowa, new hampshire, florida sort of makes sense as an itinerary. right after she goes iowa, new hampshire, florida, the next place she's going is --

texas. what? it's weird, right? it's a strange choice. the hillary clinton campaign announcing today that she's going to take this texas trip. they said her texas trip will be june 3-4, and that means that hillary clinton is planning her somewhat inexplicable presidential trip to texas on the same day that rick perry is going to be announcing in texas that he is running for president. he is announcing his run during hillary clinton's texas visit. i hope they don't end up wearing the same thing. if rick perry does what he is expected to do on june 4, if he announces that he's running for president, he will make history as the first person to ever pursue a major party nomination for president while also being under criminal indictment. and that sets him apart from the very, very, very large field of candidates and likely candidates who are vying for the republican nomination this year.

we have create this had initial sort of billboard, this initial tableau of the 22 main stream republican candidates for the nomination. so far we've only been able to drop two people off this list. so find rick snyder on this page. look closely at rick snyder. in three, two, one -- poof. there goes rick snyder. now see if you can find john bolton. hint, mustache. three, two, one, poof. that's it. those are the only two we've been able to get rid of before today. today we are able to go out on a limb to remove one head off this assemblage of candidates and likely candidates. today we get to poof indiana governor mike pence. the chair of the indiana state republican said that mike pence next month is going to announce at an indiana state fund-raiser that instead of running for president in 201 he's going to

run for re-election as indiana governor. so i do reserve the right to unpoof him and put him back if it turns out the chairman is lying or has been misled in some way. if that state party chairman is right and pence will be running for re-election as governor that means he is no longer running for president. let's say good-bye to indiana governor mike pence. three, two, one -- poof. i love how long the cloud lingers. that's my favorite thing. i can still smell him. mike pence getting out of the race and saying he's going to run for governor instead of president actually makes him maybe even more interesting as a political figure because there's a real question whether he will be able to get re-elected in indiana.

he has been a republican party darling forever. once he announced that he wanted to be governor of indiana he didn't even have to campaign for it. he just got it. indiana is a deep, deep, deep red state. and mike pence has always been a very popular politician. but right now prospects of his re-election look iffy in his home state. his reputation is -- "the indianapolis star newspaper" greeted the news that pence will run for re-election with a brutal opinion column. the big personnel news involving hoosiers is david letterman is retiring and governor mike pence wants another four years on the job. who wouldn't want that sentence reversed? citing homemade dump mike pence signs that have apparently been popping up. matthew tully continues, the

problem with governor pence running for a second term is that it is still unclear why he ran for a first term. if he thought it was a stepping stone to higher office, well, he certainly stepped in something. what "the star" is referring to mostly is this. governor mike pence making himself and the state of indiana famous and not in a good way when he signed into law a bill that would make it effectively illegal to discriminate against and refuse to serve people because they are gay. the prospect of indiana becoming the we don't serve gays here state led to a national uproar and boycott threats from across the country and in some cases across the world and businesses large and small threatening to yank themselves out of the state and refuse to do business or allow travel there and that backlash shook indiana and shook mike pence so visibly it seemed he might just seize up and fall over.

governor pence signed into law revisions that somehow softened the law but really the damage was done. poll numbers fell off a cliff. one indiana pollster saying the drop in mike pence's approval ratings was, quote, historic in the 20 years that this pollster said his firm has been publishing poll data, quote, an indiana governor has never experienced this kind of survey decline in this short a time frame. he is not only not running for president but for re-election as someone who is way more vulnerable than anybody thought a guy like mike pence ever could be in his home state. and it turns out that a politician like bobby jindal looks at that wave crashing over mike pence and his political career and decides that he, bobby jindal, would like to be the guy who figures out how to surf that wave. when mike pence was crumbling in public and indiana was

hemorrhaging, convention bookings and business of all kinds, as that state was earmarking an emergency $2 million appropriation to pay an out-of-state pr firm to try to rescue indiana's newly terrible reputation from what mike pence had done to it with the discrimination bill, in the middle of that political disaster bobby jindal surveyed the situation in indiana and said, i'll have what he's having and let's make it a double. in the middle of all that bobby jindal wrote this op-ed, supporting what mike pence had done in the first place and condemning him for having weakened the bill under pressure. bobby jindal has put together this campaign ad which shows him standing in the church nodding his head yes. how important it is for businesses to be able to discriminate against people on the basis of sexual orientation. well, today in the louisiana

legislature, their louisiana state version of the mike pence bill actually failed -- failed in committee. and there have been a lot of opposition from some of the biggest business interests including big companies like dow chemical. maybe that was part of the reason the discrimination bill failed today in the louisiana legislature. for whatever reason louisiana's version of the it's okay to discriminate against gay people bill died today in their legislature. and then within two hours of that bill dying in the legislature, heroic anti-gay governor bobby jindal swooped in like superman and said that he would enact that policy for the state anyway by means of an executive order. this afternoon out of the blue. when they economically blew up their own state and made themselves into a national and

international pariah, at least he got to share blame with the legislature. today he has done it alone by bobby jindal executive order. he did something half what bobby jindal did. his numbers are down in mike pence territory. the proportion of louisiana voters who think governor bobby jindal is doing an excellent job as governor stands at 4.6%. his overall approval rating is so bad in his home state that governor jindal actually has a lower approval rating among louisiana voters than president obama does. now whatever you think about bobby jindal or president obama just for context here, president obama lost louisiana by 17 points in the last election but louisiana voters like him a lot

more than they like their own governor right now, and now their own governor bobby jindal has done something that has been in the approval rating torpedo for politicians even more skilled than himself. we will see how this surprise action affects him with his home state voters. who knows? if you are not running for re-election, bobby jindal will not run again in louisiana. if you're not doing that, if you are going to give up on your home state and instead run for president rather than trying to get your home state to elect you again, does it really matter if your home state hates you? if your case to your party nationwide and your case to your whole country is that so far you have been a governor and on the basis of that experience as a governor you think you are ready to be president, does it affect your viability as a presidential candidate if the people you served as governor now hate your guts and think you've been doing a terrible job?

politically it is kind of an open question. mitt romney ran for president after being governor of massachusetts. he ran for president in part by telling the rest of the country and in particular republicans around the country how much he freaking hated massachusetts. and, therefore, he was able to wear his own home state voters hatred of him as kind of a badge of honor. he ran massachusetts and then while he was still governor pivoted to telling the country how terrible it was to have to live and work in massachusetts because massachusetts was such a terrible state. vote for me, iowa. the last group of people who voted for me hate my guts now and i hate them back. those jerks. but it seems weird but romney won the nomination with that argument. it kind of worked for him. so maybe it doesn't matter. if you're not running for re-election at home, you instead want to run for president, maybe it doesn't matter. deeply, deeply, deeply unpopular home state governors like bobby jindal and chris christie are about to test that political hypothesis in a big way this year.

i mean, a lot is happening in politics right now. even just today, a lot is happening on the campaign trail, the 2016 campaign trail, but even with everything that's going on, i have to say, what we are about to show you is by far the greatest thing that has happened at least in the last 24 hours on the campaign trail, maybe in a week. ben carson did have his front teeth fall out. still, this is like a hall of fame politician moment. the context here is new jersey. last month the quinnipiac firm polled on chris christie's approval rating in new jersey. quinnipiac doesn't poll every are where. they poll in nine states, florida, connecticut, colorado, iowa, ohio, new york, pennsylvania, virginia, new jersey. but they did this poll on chris christie's approval rating among new jersey voters and what they found is chris christie, out of all the states they poll, chris christie is definitely the governor who was more hated by his own constituents than any other governor. nobody has poll numbers as bad as he does within his home state. and so you would think that is

awkward if you want to run for president on the basis of what a great job you've done as governor in your home state. it's awkward if your home state thinks you've done a terrible job unless you have a secret decoder ring that explains how your seemingly terrible numbers are actually excellent numbers if you only look at them the right way. >> the polls in new jersey right now say by a 65% to 29% margin the new jersey voters say you would not make a good president. now they know you the best. why shouldn't we trust them? >> they want me to stay. a lot of those people in the 65% want me to stay, and i've heard that from lots of people at town hall meetings. don't leave to run for president because we want you to stay. >> they say you would not make a good president. >> i think people hear the question they want to hear. >> no, no, no, we know exactly what question people heard. it's not a hypothetical. there's a specific question they were asked. do you think chris christie would make a good president? the answer from an overwhelming number is, no, chris christie would not make a good president

in chris christie's mind is that somehow secretly a good number because people only think he would be a bad president because they love him as governor so much? no. there's no way something like that could explain these terrible numbers. new jersey voters were asked is your governor, chris christie, trustworthy and honest? a majority of voters say, no. has your governor, chris christie, done a good job handling the state budget? the majority say, no. they were asked, has your governor, chris christie, done a good job handling the state's economy? the majority of voters say, no. this is a particularly nice one. does your governor, chris christie, care about the needs of new jersey voters? a majority of new jersey voters say this guy, seriously, forget about it. chris christie is despised in his home state, hated by his own constituents as governor, believed by them to not only be disinterested in them as people but unsuited for the job of president of the united states.

so governor chris christie and governor bobby jindal and a few others will give us a good test this year as to whether or not being hated by the people who know you best is as insurmountable of a political hurdle as it would seem. as we await the results of that test, though, in the meantime we do have now forever for prosperity the thing people will use forever as a device for calibrating the machine that measures how much fantastical self-regard it takes to run for president. this will be the end of the number line in terms of how much these guys have to like this themselves in the face of undeniable data that unequivocally shows them why they shouldn't. >> the polls in new jersey right now say by a 65% to 29% margin the new jersey voters say you would not make a good president. now they know you the best. why shouldn't we trust them? >> they want me to stay. a lot of those people in the 65% want me to stay. ly as it used to?

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it turns out there has been a big oil spill on the coast near santa barbara, california, tonight. we have the latest on that including some very worrying pictures from the scene that we're just getting in. we've got that news ahead, again, an oil spill apparently, an oil pipeline spill in california tonight on the coast.

there are lots of ways to tow a car. there's the hook and chain tow truck, the trucks that use a t-bar to lift up two of your wheels. they have the added benefit when they are not towing cars of

reminding you to go to church because when they are at rest and not towing something they look like trucks hauling a cross. when it comes to towing not a car but a motorcycle it turns out the trick is you can tow a lot of them at once if you do it carefully, even it if a lot of them are big and freaking expensive giant american bikes. these are scenes from the parking lot of that waco, texas, restaurant this week that had a massive biker gang shoot-out on sunday leaving nine people dead and 18 more injured. over 100 motorcycles were left in the parking lot after that mass killing and the mass arrests that followed. and so now in the wake of that biker gang blood bath one of the things local law enforcement is having to deal with is towing away 135 high-end motorcycles. they've had to put s.w.a.t.

teams as escorts with the tow trucks and protecting them while they're towing away these expensive harleys. investigators at the crime scene have been protected by police snipers who have been stationed on the roof of the restaurant overwatching the crime scene. they've also had snipers and s.w.a.t. teams stationed at highway overpasses nearby. they were still there today. this crime in waco itself is a big enough deal for law enforcement to handle, right? they are dealing with the logistics of having 170 biker gang members taken into custody all at once. everyone was arrested on sunday. they originally were brought to the waco convention center and the jail. they were still arraigning people, as many as 50 people arraigned after a justice of the peace went to the jail to do the arraignments rather than trying to arrange getting all of those people into court one by one. they decided that what they should do is set a blanket bail

for all of the suspects rather than going through each case one by one. they set it at $1 million each. that has the effect of simplifying things for local authorities because there's not a single bail bondsman in waco who will do a million dollar bond. so unless you happen to have a million dollars cash on you and you're also an outlaw biker, you can't really get help. there's no real way that you can get out of jail on a million dollars bond. so that leaves all of the suspects there in jail. before that policy was set, they let three out on lesser bonds, less than $1 million, bail amounts they were able to post. today after they set the million dollar blanket one for everyone, those bonds for these three guys were revoked. they put out an arrest warrant for these three who had been released. they have been rearrested today and tonight. in terms of those killed in the blood bath, police identified all of the nine people who were killed. preliminary autopsy results were

released for all of the nine victims. they died of gunshot wounds. 18 people were also wounded in had this fight on sunday, people wounded badly enough to be hospitalized. gunshot wounds and stab wounds. in thames of thinking about this police challenge, think about it this, one of the things they have to think about now is about those 11 people who were shot or stabbed and hurt badly enough to have to go to the hospital but have since been released from the hospital. now one of the things the police have to think about whether those 11 people should be arrested now, too, along with the other 170 people that they have in jail. now that those people are well enough to be out of the hospital. there's also the matter of funeral plans for the nine who died. police will be keeping an eye on the funerals in the days ahead in case the funerals themselves end up being an occasion for more revenge killing or attacks by rival gangs. cancel the overtime, right? a lot of the national coverage of waco has focused a lot on why

this happened, what might have set it off, what the territorial disputes might be between the rival gangs and that will be interesting to find out. there is a more proximate and are more pressing question as a news story and their daily work. as they investigate what happened and try to cope with having all these folks in custody, they will also have to worry now as to whether or not this thing is actually even over. >> i will tell you that in the gang world and in the biker world that violence usually condones more violence. is this over? most likely not. there has been enough tragedy and there's been enough bloodshed in waco, texas. we would appreciate there not being any more. are we asking for cooperation from known criminal bike gangs? absolutely we are. we are asking them to stand down. >> sergeant patrick swanton speaking earlier today in waco. his police department is both

coping with the aftermath of this massacre and also worried that they mate still be in the middle of an ongoing very dangerous thing. joining us now is sergeant patrick swanton. i know you're very busy. i appreciate you taking the time to be here tonight. >> yes, ma'am. thank you for having us. >> those three people who were released earlier today and then had their bond revoked, am i right to say that they've all three been rearrested, all been brought back into custody now? >> yes, ma'am, that's correct. the last one, the third, mr. king, was taken into custody about an hour ago. it's my understanding he turned himself in to an austin area jail. >> i realize that you as law enforcement have a strategic interest in not glorifying these gangs, not hyping them. i know there's been an effort to not talk about these gangs by name. one of the things i find fascinating is there were so many shots fired, this was such a big fight, with but it seems like no bystanders were hurt.

it seems almost remarkable no police officers were hurt or even killed in this melee. can you say that all of those who were killed were gang members who were involved in this conflict? >> yes, we can tell you the nine individuals that are confirmed deceased were all wearing colors, which is their insignia showing they are in a biker gang. >> were they from a number of different gangs or just one or two? >> yes, ma'am, that's correct, they were from at least five known gangs -- five different, separate -- different, separate gangs. we know that there were two majorities, if you will, of gang members and then there were branch-offs or small factions. >> in terms of the suspects you've got in custody, this remarkably large number of people in custody on potentially very serious charges, you said

today at one of your press briefings the suspects in custody aren't cooperating with investigators or they're lying about who they are, making this as difficult as possible. can you explain what you meant by that, how that's going? >> typically people commit murder and are involved in gang activity are not always honest and especially with police officers. so obviously we have to do some very serious investigation to determine if what they tell us are truths, half-truths, or no truth whatsoever. >> are there people you have in custody with no identification? >> no. it's my understanding every one of the individuals we have processed and booked have all been identified. obviously the jail has a huge resource available to them as far as staff and being able to process those individuals. we do what we call two-finger lookups. we can check through fingerprints.

we have the full capabilities of state and federal agencies that have assisted us in identifying individuals as well. >> can you tell, sir, if this is going to lead to another round of bloodshed among gangs? do you have intelligence, access to information, are you getting intelligence from the suspects in custody that tell you if this was a flare-up of the kind we're not going to see again or if this is the kind we'll see again? >> the unfortunate side of this, had history often repeats itself. and what we know in the past is typically when biker gangs or criminal gangs have a turf war or a blood war or a fight, it usually is preceded by another event somewhere. that's why we said earlier -- we were asking, we're appealing to them to stand down. we're asking them not to have any additional further violence. will they ever get along? no. but we've seen enough bloodshed here. we're asking for no more and

hopefully we'll get their cooperation with that. >> sergeant patrick swanton with the waco police department. i know how hard you're working there. thank you for taking the time to talk with us tonight. good luck. >> yes, ma'am. thank you. >> we have lots more ahead tonight including that breaking news i was just talking about from this california oil spill. we have images from that spill just coming in and we have that next. boy: once upon a time, there was a nice house that lived with a family. one day, it started to rain and rain. water got inside and ruined everybody's everythings. the house thought she let the family down. but the family just didn't think a flood could ever happen. the reality is floods do happen. protect what matters. call the number on your screen or visit the website to learn more.

so here is breaking news out of california tonight and it is ugly.

this is refugio beach. that splotch you see is oil. the u.s. coast guard saying an oil pipeline has ruptured there this afternoon creating this spill that stretched four miles of the california coast. refugio beach is about 20 miles southwest of california, up the coast from los angeles. i think you can see here this is where the oil pipeline apparently burst. it didn't burst in the water, it burst on the land but it appears the spill, the oil, traveled down under a highway and ultimately into the water, into the ocean. authorities say the pipeline leaked today for about three hours. it was reportedly stopped by about 3:00 local time, 6:00 eastern time. this is the pipeline operated by plains all america pipeline. there's no word yet on how much oil spilled or, more importantly, what type of oil has spilled into the ocean here.

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it's going to make major national news when it happens. we have a live report from there next.

somewhere in the world right now in the fervent wishes of the governor of nebraska a batch of drugs is about to make its way from indiana to lincoln, nebraska, because nebraska is out of lethal injection drugs for killing prisoners and you really just can't buy lethal injection drugs in our country anymore. nebraska governor dialed up a pharmaceutical company he found in india and placed an order, a $54,000 -- $54,400 order. it was $51,000 for the drugs themselves and $3,400 for shipping and handling and that's, of course, because the drugs are coming all the way from indiana. the governor's office told us tonight they are hoping to get that first shipment of drugs from india in mid-june. if this works, if it turns out

that states can order execution drugs in from india they can't otherwise get in this country, nebraska will have figured out how to get around the nationwide shortage that is putting execution by lethal injection out of reach for death penalty states across the country and even the federal government. the fda has also told us this week they are looking into what nebraska is trying to do bringing in these drugs from india, but while nebraska's governor is waiting for his shipment from india and the fda is checking it out, wondering if it's legal, nebraska lawmakers seem poised to take things in a wildly different direction. this is a remarkable thing that is about to happen. the nebraska legislature is a very conservative state and it's a very heavily republican group in nebraska for whatever reason, though, by huge margins in this session in nebraska those legislators have voted to abolish the death penalty in that state. the republican governor wants to

keep the death penalty. after all, he's working himself to get new death penalty drugs even if he has to get them by means that may be found illegally down the road. the conservative legislature is voting so strongly to abolish the death penalty that it looks like they will have enough votes to override his veto of the repeal if it comes to that. they've taken two of the three votes they need to do this are already. we have just learned that the third and final vote is scheduled for tomorrow. but that means that the lethal injection drugs and the bill abolishing the need for the lethal injection drugs are both on their way to governor ricket's desk and the bill might get there first. in nebraska. amazing, right? joining us now to help us understand is paul hammel, lincoln bureau chief. thanks for being with us tonight. thanks for your time. >> yeah, thank you for having me.

it's an interesting time in nebraska. >> do you think this repeal bill is going to pass? >> i think it's got the best chance it's ever had to pass. there's still a lot that could happen and the governor has been putting kind of a last-minute full-court press on the issue. he said he would veto the bill, but so far the bill has passed with 30 votes. we have 49 senators in our one-house legislature and it takes 30 votes to override a veto. so far they have enough votes to override a governor's veto. now he's trying to bick off a vote or two here. as you mentioned in a dramatic and well-timed move last week the governor announced, wait a second, i have some drugs coming to restore the with ability to carry out a lethal injection. that happened last week.

that happened right before second-round debate. i think there was one senator wavering. so we'll see. i mean, funny things can happen, you know, we have to advance it to the governor and if he vetoes it like they promise they'll override the veto. they have two more votes yet to go. >> is this gettinging a ton of attention in the state and is it clear what public opinion is on this matter or is this this happening in legislative space and nobody knows what people will think about it until it's done? >> we have a senator here, senator chambers, who has made repealing the death penalty his goal over 40 years in the legislature for years he was the only african-american senator here. so he sees it as a penalty that's handed out unequally. so i mean, he's been pushing it every year since he's been here. two years ago, there were enough votes to advance the bill, but

not enough to defeat the veto. this year, it's been kind of a surprise. it's a brand new legislature. supposedly a more conservative legislature. and it came out 8-0 from a committee. that's the first time it ever happened. lo and behold, when they got to the vote, 30 votes. i think it may have caught the governor, our attorney general, who is pro death penalty, by surprise. so it's really some interesting dynamics going on right now. >> fascinating. and watching -- i mean, we expect this vote will happen tomorrow. we'll watch to see what happens tomorrow. paul hammel, for the "omaha world herald," thanks for joining us and thanks for your reporting. still ahead, why you just got a big public apology. oh. stay with us.

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hey, look! you just got a full page apology from the power company. duke energy put these full page apology ads in north carolina's biggest newspapers yesterday and in "usa today" and in the "wall street journal." what duke is apologizing for is having spilled nearly 40,000 tons of toxic coal ash into north carolina's dan river last year. >> can you get out a sample? i can try. he just asked us to move. do you have a -- go ahead. all right. let's go.

>> we got this new video a couple days ago of duke energy's disastrous coal ash spill last year. the people you see taking samples from the spill are water keepers. they turned over to federal prosecutors this video that they took and also the results of their sampling in that river during the spill. well, last week, the federal case about the spill wrapped up and so now we can see that evidence, too. we could see what federal investigators got to see. in that federal case, duke energy pled guilty nine times. the company agreed to pay $102 million fine, which is the largest criminal fine in north carolina history. so duke's coal ash spill was a crime. duke pled guilty. but ever since that spill, one central question has been whether the state government of north carolina itself was in some way criminally involved. north carolina's governor, pat mcquarry spent 0 years working at duke energy before he went into politics.

as the new governor of north carolina, he and his state government stepped in three times to stop, effectively, to big foot lawsuits against duke. the moukory administration stepped in over and over again to basically block those lawsuits in north carolina. now, income door in south carolina, the coal ash problem there did not play out the same way. next door, they didn't have a former duke energy executive as governor. and in south carolina, the state didn't intervene when environmentalists brought their lawsuits. so now in south carolina, literally this past week, you can see duke energy trucking away coal ash as part of a voluntary out of court settlement. in south carolina, they got a duke cleanup that started last week. in north carolina, though, the state intervened to stop the lawsuits. what they got in north carolina was a disaster and then it was the feds who stepped in and now that disaster has duke energy apologizing in the papers and

paying the biggest criminal fine in north carolina history. what does that mean for the state government? and when that case got settled, it appeared maybe duke's admission of guilty would be tend of it. but check this out. the lawyer for duke energy now says federal prosecutors are still investigating and they're investigating the state government's role in all this. duke's lawyer said the federal criminal probe is ongoing and duke is helping the prosecutors as part of their plea deal. so maybe governor mccrory and his state government are not off the hook at all. tonight, the question of whether north carolina regulators broke the law appears to be very much alive. prosecutors wouldn't talk about that part of the investigation last week in the local press in north carolina. they wouldn't respond to us about it. but duke energy officials confirmed to us that they are helping federal prosecutors. north carolina regulators told us that they are continue to go cooperate. and for the record, i cannot wait to learn more about what is happening in this story.

the duke energy coal ash thing in north carolina remains very, very, very interesting and alive as an investigation. >> it's wednesday, may 20th. one out of four american vehicles is at risk. 34 million cars are being recalled. is yours one of them? a leaking pipeline and tens of thousands of oil now covering one of america's most beautiful beaches. a disturbing scene, a teacher using a belt to discipline students. plus, hillary clinton answers questions from the media for the first time in four weeks. the pitchman is back. can you name the man playing carl sanders neighborhood, plus the 2015 winner of "the voice." good morning, everybody, thanks, for j