officials made too many mistakes. >> gentlemen, appreciate the conversation. big rhoden and ben leber, thank you so much. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts now. >> reporter: good evening, ed. and thanks to you for tuning. in we start with developing on the latest largest release of osama bin laden's personal documents, ever. u.s. intelligence declassifying dozens of books, texts, and documents, including letters to and from other terrorists written during bin laden's six years in hiding. they show he was obsessed with attacking the u.s. right up until his dying days. he told associates to quote, work on breaking the power of our main enemy by attacking the american embassies and mainly to attack the american oil companies.

the documents are part of a larger trove seized by navy s.e.a.l.s during the 2011 raid on bin laden's compound in pakistan. back then president obama talked about what the s.e.a.l.s found. >> they have the presence of mind to still gather up a whole bunch of bin laden's material which will be a treasure trove of information. we anticipate that it can give us leads to other terrorists that we've been looking for a long time, other high value targets. but also can give us a better sense of existing plots that might have been there. >> the documents also contain an apparent al qaeda job applications with questions like any hobbies or pastimes? do you wish to execute a suicide operation? and who should we contact in case you became a martyr?

also made public bin laden's digital library of english language texts, including the oxford history of modern war and another book "obama's wars" by bob woodward. a fascinating look into the mind of the world's most wanted terrorist in his final years. joining me now is jack rice. he is a former cia officer and was embedded in iraq and afghanistan. and matthew rosenberg, national security reporter for "the new york times." thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> matthew, let me go to you first there is so much in these documents. what did you make of this al qaeda job application? >> i mean the application is the weirdest kind of finding it. but it's also in its way a distillation of al qaeda's vision of itself as a serious network of people being vetted and trained to go off and do

things relative to their skill level and education level. and how that kind of resulted in this mixing of the mundanely bureaucratic with the truly frightenly absurd. you mention the questions do you want to be a suicide bomber and that final question about next of kin, which actually includes names for lines and addresses. it really is a bizarre look into the network. that says a lot about it. >> it really does. you know jack, in an open letter bin laden advised fellow terrorists to, quote, avoid insisting on the formation of an islamic state at the time being. now this is before the rise of isis, jack. does it show bin laden couldn't control splinter groups of al qaeda? >> no, he couldn't. he tried the best that he could. his efforts regularly were to try to convince people to focus in on the west and not just the west, but at the united states, to make them the enemy. they weren't able to do with aqap. they weren't able to do it with

splinter groups in iraq. they weren't even able to do it with splinter groups in afghanistan. and so it shows that while they were a worldwide organization that command and control structure that they wanted to have was something that was frequently lacking. >> why do you think this came out now, jack? >> well i think part of the reason it came out now is because the intelligence community wants to put it out. the white house wants to put it out. they want to show what it is they were doing. it also is trying to minimize to make al qaeda more incompetent or as incompetent in some ways as they really were. and in some ways it's not just the credible but the laughable, the strange, the paranoid. and that's coming out too, part of the psychological operation, which continues to this day. >> talking about paranoid and bizarre, matthew, bin laden's digital library is filled with conspiracy books, bloodlines of the illuminati secrets of the

federal reserve. even a 9/11 conspiracy book. what do you make of his fixation with conspiracies? >> you know he also had a copy of the 9/11 commission report there too. not saying that's conspiracy. i mean he seemed to intellectually have been inhabiting that spot where far left and far-right thinking blend into this world view of shadowy puppet masters have to be fought back against. it's not unique to bin laden. in some ways it puts him within that mainstream of violent extremists. and then there is a ton of ordinary stuff there. he seemed obsessed with news coverage of al qaeda. he had -- he was an avid reader of foreign policy, apparently. he had copies of the magazine there including an special issue on al qaeda. he had dozen of documents from the federal government. he had 19 different books and essays about france. he really had this odd

collection of material they found there. >> jack let me go back to the point of paranoia. that common among terrorist leaders? >> oh i think it is. this concept of a world view, this weird sort of approach. at the same time, if we think about conspiracy it's only paranoia if they're not all out to get you. and they were in this case. the entire world either because the u.s. and the west wanted to kill him, or the tens of millions of dollars that were dangled at everybody else to try to kill him instead was really the case. now, you contemplate driving somebody towards that paranoia. it's not particularly shocking if they start to see an assassin behind every bush there was one. >> no. the reason i raise that matthew is because he was obsessed with his security to the point he wrote his wife, who had been in iran. he wrote her about visiting him. and he said quote, i was informed that you visited an official dentist in iran. you need to go to the doctor and complain about the filling in

your molar and ask to have the filling replaced. he was apparently worried she had had a tracking device in her tooth. what do you make of this? >> he was also worried about encryption. he advised one of his deputies to be careful of encryption saying quite prescient that this was american and western technology and they may have a back door which i think is an issue that has certainly come up in the last year or two. he was rightfully frightened for his own security as was pointed out. paranoia is only paranoia if it's unreasonable. in this case he had very good reason to be afraid. >> matthew, what is the most surprising thing that has come out of the -- these releases that you've seen? >> it's got to be the application. this idea that back in bin laden's day, a perspective recruit would have to undertake this incredibly risky journey to

get to northwestern pakistan which was then like the haven of global central of islamic militancy. and once they're there have to fill out an application is bizarre and surprising. >> what about you, zblak what is the most surprising thing to you that has come out? >> i think the most important thing to this that is really highlighted is just how much the command and control structure really was decimated and shattered in many ways over years and years. the inability to control various splinter groups. the inability of the inner circle of al qaeda to reach out and say go run this op. they couldn't do that. they couldn't control their people. they couldn't control others who were under the al qaeda umbrella. and i mean that really says something about ongoing efforts and billions and billions of dollars spent targeting this very organization. isis target and seized some of his documents. quote, according to u.s. military officials, his

communications equipment, and belongings are a valuable source of intelligence in learning how isil finances operations and senior leaders communicate. does the bin laden material give some insights into how valuable this could turn out to be jack? >> it might. the real question is whether or not isil/isis was really trying to emulate what al qaeda was doing. i think one of the differences is that al qaeda was trying to fashion themselves internationally. isis/isil early on was focusing local, but they have started to branch out nationally, internationally. because of that, we can really look back and see are they using the same source. we have to look at where isis/isil came from. if we do that we may be able to benefit, meaning the u.s. meaning the west. >> jack rice and matthew rosenberg, thank you both for your time this evening. >> thank you. >> thank you. straight ahead, how long

will he go? for nearly five hours, rand paul has been speaking on the floor, protesting the renewal of the patriot act. also tonight, hillary clinton makes a major statement with her new latino outreach director. plus end of a tv era. david letterman is taping his final show now. his former producer and a guest join me on his legacy. and a video that has everyone talking and smiling today. it's all ahead. please stay with us. the network that monitors her health. the secure cloud services that store her genetic data the servers and software on a mission to find

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the demand for higher national minimum wage stretches from behind cash registers across america all the way to the white house. and just hours ago, we saw how loud that demand can be. protesters swarmed mcdonald's headquarters in illinois asking the company to pay employees $15 an hour. scenes like this are playing out from coast-to-coast as huge crowds call for higher pay and a living wage. but the tide might be turning. "the new york times" says last night we saw, quote, perhaps the most significant victory so far in a national push to raise the minimum wage. los angeles voted to become the biggest city so far to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour by

2020. just listen to the reaction after the vote. >> that passes i want to thank everybody for all of the work that you've put in on this item. >> joining me now is los angeles city councilman paul kerkorian who was instrumental in getting this plan passed. thank you for being here. >> it's a pleasure reverend sharpton. good to be with you. >> why is this issue so important to you? >> you know, i grew up in a household where i was raised by a single mom who waited tables to put food on the table. so i understand how difficult this is for working families who are at the bottom. and it's gotten worse. over the course of the past few decades, the middle class in the country has been decimated by wage disparity and by increasing unaffordability. that's a special problem in los angeles where our housing costs and our transportation costs are so great that it's becoming

increasingly difficult for anybody to get by on a minimum wage or low-paying job. >> now, let's look at the fax. in 2014 the minimum wage went up in 14 states. and the center for economic and policy research says in those states, in those particular states, quote, employment growth was higher. outside of the people with bigger paychecks, what benefits do you hope to see in your city? >> well los angeles has 18% of its workforce living in poverty. this increase is going to result in a pay increase for nearly 800,000 people. more than the entire population of boston. so this is a huge step forward in terms of raising the standard of living for so many people. but it's also putting $6 billion in disposable income into our local economy.

so this is going to stimulate jobs. it's going to stimulate new business. people who live on minimum wage don't invest in the stock market. they don't take vacations to bermuda. they don't sock their money away in a swiss bank account. they spend it in local businesses. and so this is an investment in our economy. but it's also an investment in our social fabric. this increase will give people hope who right now are hopeless. and you can't expect to have a society that functions when this significant portion of your population are living in hopelessness. >> absolutely. well, i know a lot about that, growing up as i did with a single parent. and in many ways, if you don't have these kinds of things as the basement no one is going to make it where it is livable for people that have been marginalized. for example, the vote in los angeles that you helped to champion, it couldn't have come at a better time. we did some research.

under current minimum wage in l.a., someone would have to work 94 hours a week to pay for a simple one-bedroom apartment. 94 hours a week. what are you hearing from families you represent about how this raise will help them? >> this increase is going to lift hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty. that's a monumentally important step. so, yes, it's going to be very important to create a better standard of living for those folks. but it's also i think an investment in the future. it's an investment in the strength of families in our community. it's an investment in the children in those families to give them a better opportunity, to become a part of the middle class and have the american dream that we want everyone in our country to be able to enjoy. >> you know year after year councilman, president obama has asked congress to raise the national minimum wage. listen to this. >> let's declare that in the

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she hired activists and former dreamer student lorella praeli. praeli came to the u.s. from peru when she was ten years old. she got her greencard a few years ago, but her mother is still undocumented. i spoke to her in 2012 after president obama's decision to stop deporting young people brought here as a child. >> it also means that we do not -- we no longer have to live with this kind of cloud of deportation. that any moment individuals like ourselves could get picked up. and that i think brings some peace to our lives. >> having lorella pralli on her team is a big symbol that clinton is committed to fixing our broken immigration system. it's the right thing to do morally, and it's certainly the

right thing to do politically. in 2012 more than 11 million latinos voted in the presidential election. but that was out of more than 23 million elledgeableigible to vote. among voters who did turn out, over the last decade they've been less and less likely to vote for republicans. and hillary clinton is reminding everybody why. >> make no mistakes today not a single republican candidate announced or potential is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship. not one. when they talk about legal status, that is code for second class status. >> joining me now is clarissa martinez decastro deputy vice president of the national

council of loraza and erica amdiola, activist and dreamer. thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> thank you for having us. >> first, clarissa your reaction to the clinton campaign on bringing in lorella praeli. >> well, i think this is a big get for the clinton campaign. frankly, because lorella is an inspirational and courageous leader in the latino community. if the clinton campaign manages to absorb the community, energy and passion that lorella brings i think they'll do quite well. >> eric car you're a dreamer, and you got a temporary protection from deportation under obama's executive action. >> that's right. >> what kind of statement is the clinton campaign making with this hire? >> i think for me you know i am really -- i'm really excited to see someone like lorella, i

actually have worked very close with her in the past. she is an amazing woman. she is definitely capable of doing so much. i really hope like clarissa said that the campaign understand that she has so much to bring, that they're not just using her. they're not just using the name of her being a dreamer in the past. and they really understand that there is so much more that can be done right now. not necessarily just as campaign promise, but things that the president, actually president obama and the democratic party actually can do now to relieve some of the deportations some of the tension, some of the things that happen in detention centers right now. and so many things that our community needs. even before she can be president of the united states. >> you know, clarissa "the new york times" had a story this week that most americans already have an opinion about mrs. clinton. but it said, quote, young people and the latinos are two

demographic groups whose opinions mrs. clinton still be able to shape, democratic pollsters say. how could she shape latino opinions? >> well, i think latinos frankly, like the rest of their fellow american voter, want to hear how candidates propose to solve problems. what is their formula to solve problems. from clinton, it was important that when talking about immigration reform for example, she didn't just talk about supporting immigration reform but how she would actually use the powers of the executive if congress continues to not be able to move forward on the issue of immigration. i think voters across the nation are really interested and frustrated with the state that things are. and therefore interested in how people are going to get things done. >> and the vote in the latino community is vital and is exploding. the demographic there is growing in leaps and bounds. >> that's absolutely right.

so as you said almost 12 million latinos voted in 2012. that's still punching below our weight. but even with that, we were a determining factor in shaping the political landscape at the national level. and that is going to happen again. i think that is why for republicans, if they want to continue spouting the politics of mass deportation like romney did in the previous election they can expect to receive the same level of support, which translates into not being able to get the keys to the white house. >> let me push you on that a little bit, erika. talking about a punch, you made a lot of news when you confronted congressman steve king last summer over some anti-immigrant rhetoric. i want to play part of that. >> for you to be fighting this much against dreamers saying we have -- >> no, no. that's drug smuggling. please. stop a minute.

you're very good at english you know what i'm saying. >> i was raised in the united states. >> i spoke of drug smugglers. you're not going to tell me you're one of them are you? >> do i look like a drug smuggler to you? >> now congressman king has an extreme record. very extreme on this. but in january, a lot of presidential hopefuls on the republican side attended an event he held. what does it say to you that they would go to that hosted by him? >> you know, to me it just reminds me of 2012. just like clarissa was reminding everyone about mitt romney right? one of the huge mistakes that he made is he didn't recognize that there was something wrong with the rhetoric he was using on deportation. i think for us it's important that they understand the latino community is not only going to fall for rhetoric, but the fact is the majority of the actions having taken by the republican party specifically leading, being led by steve king has been

trying to get rid of doing all these things that going to clear message to the community that they need to do more. and hoping someone like jeb bush has been talking a lot about immigration that he understands they need to get away from people like steve king and actually start doing something positive now that they have the power right now in both congress. and so that's definitely something that we're looking forward to action and not just rhetoric from both parties. >> claire clarissa, it just doesn't make sense. on the gop side marco rubio is cuban-american and jeb bush is bilingual. and his wife is from mexico. the l.a. times recently asks can rubio or bush help republicans finally win latino vote in 2016? are their personal stories enough, or it is about policy? >> it's all of the above. latinos in that respect are not different than the rest of

american voters. well want politicians and candidates who are going to speak about the issues that we care about who are meaningfully going to reach out to our community, and who are going to put solutions on the table. frankly, i think that any republican candidate who decided that they want to stand on the side of common sense, on immigration and on other issues could make inroads with latinos, that people are trying to divide our nation by putting us in boxes. but the reality is that the vast majority of americans just like their fellow americans of latino origin, we support immigration reform, and we want a solution to this issue. so we're going to be waiting anxiously to see which of the republican candidates are willing to stand on the side of common sense and the side of the american people. >> well hillary clinton made a big statement today, and we're going to be watching this issue all the way through this.

clarissa martinez de castro and erika andiola, thank you both for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> thank you. have a wonderful day. breaking breaking breaking news. nbc news confirms the first republican presidential debate will be limited to candidates who finish in the top ten of an average of national polls. so if you use the last five polls recognized by nbc news, that debate stage would look like this. from jeb bush and scott walker at the top to rick perry and donald trump at the bottom. so donald trump is in. and out would be carly fiorina, bobby jindal lindsey graham and rick santorum. amazing. so far no response from any of the candidates. that debate will take place in august. coming up the must-see

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>> well he acts so stupid on late night television, and they're making a big deal out of it. and i think it's great. you know, we're just act. we act. we look a lot alike, you and i. people have been telling me this for a long time. >> is that why people call me jay all the time? >> they must since we lost weight. >> i was trying to figure it out. >> i think he is fantastic. but i do believe all the things he did that we saw, the young guys are doing now. and that's not who dave wants to be. and i don't think it's a sad thing. i think he is moving on. i think if he wants to do something else in broadcasting a more serious -- maybe he wants to interview political people or be more serious. >> is he a more serious guy? >> absolutely he is. the man is not funny off the air. he doesn't go to dinner with anybody or drink or laugh or do anything that i can tell. and i've been there a long time. maybe you can tell us more with daniel backstage.

>> you worked eight years with dave. what can you tell us about working with him? >> i thought he was every bit as funny as he was on screen. he is pretty consistent throughout the day you know. he was always funny i thought in the office. but, yeah, i thought he was pretty consistent. >> oh. >> see, he was never funny. i don't think he liked me that much. >> he loved you, jay. >> he loved me? okay. >> and not only that i got to produce jay a couple of times, but mary connelly mostly produced jay. but it was like having the day off when you had jayton show. you didn't have to do much. you wind him up and he would go. he is great. >> you kind of get that feeling interviewing him. our camera crew went outside the ed sullivan theater today asking the fans, what will they miss the most. watch this. >> dave is just dave. who there is no one else like him. who does all the pet tricks? >> it's all the practical humor

when you're a kid you think is hilarious. when he put on the velcro suit. >> he has made a lot of people happy and brought a lot of fun. >> i liked when he did his segment where he threw stuff off the roof. that was pretty funny. you get a sense who have he is. the audience feels like we know him. >> daniel, what will you miss the most? >> i'll miss dave. i hope he does find another outlet and finds another place to be on tv. he was such an important part of my life when i was a college kid. i wanted to be somehow associated with him. and that was my goal was to work there. and just to even be clearer, i only wrote about this experience for this farewell. that was my -- i wrote for something for grantland. but no i hope that he finds -- i think it would be great for

him to have something like the tomorrow show which tom seder had. >> yeah, i remember that show. >> a free form conversation where he can speak about what he wants and have longer form conversations. i would love to see that. >> and this kind of show. >> the 880 bucks i got every christmas. when i told that story. >> it was a little bit mysterious. we weren't able to sort of say what was going happen. we didn't know what was going to happen. we didn't know how it would play out. and it was -- it was really --

that was exciting. i think madonna was really fun to produce as well. >> david letterman show was vital for politicians to stop by. here are some of the highlights, jay and daniel. >> number seven. make sure the white house library has lots of books with big print and pictures. >> let me give you one that i

think works out of my collection. how can you tell al gore from a roomful of secret service agents? he's the stiff one. >> you look sharp! >> you haven't seen me naked. >> we're going keep it that way. >> number nine. >> what's up, gangsters? it's the m-i-double tizzle. >> i noticed over the years that you have had a few things to say about my pant suits. how about the time you said you can tell it's summer. today hillary clinton hit the beach in a one-piece pant suit. >> now he could laugh around with them. but he could ask some tough questions too, didn't he? >> he has the ability to be serious too, which is a rare trait, i think, these days. and i think that he could -- he had a lot of range in that regard. >> tonight's the last show. what do you expect tonight, jay? >> i expect jay leno. that's what i've been saying. i mean in fact it should be that. i hope it is. i mean, they were great friends, and then there was that rift. >> they had a long-time rift.

>> they did. and jay is not a bad guy at all. >> no. >> and neither is dave. i hope they're together tonight. i know there is other people that they've said have gone. i think chris rock is there tonight. people have seen him going in. but, yeah, i hope jay leno is there. i don't know. >> what do you think, daniel? what do you hope to see tonight? >> i'm not a big jay leno fan. but i hope to see chris rock and everybody else there. >> you don't think dave would want jay leno? >> i know that he does. i can't forget or forgive what happened back in the day. >> really? wow. >> just because i care about dave. and i thought that what jay did was wrong. >> less forgiving and forgetting than the people that are actually in the riff. >> i have a very disloyal staff. so i've never known that type of loyalty. >> daniel kellison and jay

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