and this job corruption agency is a corrupt mess. people have had it and they're ready to say good-bye. >> so we can get hillary's e-mails but can't get the loan papers from government walker. great to have both of you with us tonight. that's "the ed show." "politics nation" with reverend al sharpton begins right now. good evening, rev. >> good evening, ed. and thanks to you for tuning in. we start the breaking news indictments in the freddie gray case. the announcement comes almost three weeks to the day, at a time's attorney marilyn mosby first announced charges against six baltimore police officers. within the last hour she had another announcement. a grand jury has returned indictments on most of the charges. >> east pass two weeks, my team has been presenting evidence to a grand jury that just today returned indictments against all six officers. these officers who are presumed

innocent until proven guilty are now scheduled to be arraigned on july 2nd. >> each of the officers faces multiple counts. their union has criticized the investigation, saying it was rushed but today, the grand jury found sufficient evidence to indict on the most serious charges. including second-degree depraved heart murder involuntary manslaughter second-degree intentional assault, and misconduct in office for an illegal arrest. changes include the dropping of false imprisonment charges for all three officers who face them the dropping of some assault and misconduct charges, and the addition of reckless endangerment charges for all six officers. freddie gray's death set off waves of unrest and protests in baltimore and the eyes of the

city and the country are watching how this case unfolds. joining me on the phone is baltimore city councilman brandon scott. i'm also joined by a former federal prosecutor paul butler and msnbc national correspondent, joy reid. thank you all for being here. >> thanks, rev. >> thank you. >> councilman scott, let me go to you first. what's your reaction to these indictments? >> well my reaction is well we think for me it just shows that we can, in america, get an indictment on a lot of these cases. but my reaction also as a leader in my city is to help people understand in the city of baltimore that this again, is just a part of the legal process and this is nowhere near the end and has nothing to do with actual justice. the facts will bear themselves out in court, and those who are very excited about the indictments, i'm telling them that they should try to remain in the middle. those who are upset, i'm telling

them the same thing. because what we have to realize is that in the beginning of this process, and as a leader in my town and city i love it's my duty to make sure the folks understand totally what's going on, outside of you know, just dealing with the raw emotion. so we think that this shows that this can be done in america. but we have to also understand that this is nowhere near the end of this process. >> paul what's your reaction? >> this is a major step forward by a tenacious prosecutor. you know, she heard the concerns from the defense attorneys and the police union, that she was overcharging the case. and we know that sometimes prosecutors use grand juries to provide political cover to make unpopular decisions. we saw that in ferguson and staten island. but you know what she said she's going forward. she got 23 residents of baltimore in the grand jury to say that it's likely that these six cops committed major crimes including murder. this is a big deal.

>> joy, a grand jury indicted on most of the original charges. what does that suggest about her case? >> yeah, and i think that was the core complaint by critics of prosecutor mosby, that she was overcharging or couldn't prove it. because, remember prosecutors are not supposed to bring charges they don't have a good faith belief they can actually prove in court. and in this case the really only substantial change to what she put forward on may 1st was the dropping of those false imprisonment charges against the three bike patrol officers. which means that the only sort of subtle difference that the grand jury saw in what they originally charged and she indicted on is whether or not false imprisonment was at play. but as you and see as you said reckless endangerment was added across the board. the fundamental accusation by this prosecutor stands which is that these officers detained freddie gray for no legal reason, and that refutes the people who said well the knife really might have been illegal. that's refuted by this indictment, at least. and then the idea that she was

overcharging on the notion that this is a manslaughter, that this was the taking of a life in a criminal manner. but what she originally said is there was an indifference to the life of freddie gray the way he was handled, put into that van, and the way he was essentially not responded on these various stops along the way. >> and basically refutes the criticism of those that question her charges, because, basically, the grand jury said what the charges said in somewhat different ways up towards the bottom charges, but basically the same charge. >> and remember in the state of maryland, it is common for grand juries, because you have charges and you have a period in which the grand jury looks at those charges and returns an indictment. and as prosecutor mosby said it's not uncommon for those charges to be subtly changed, when they become indictments. these changes, i think, are so subtle and so small, that it really substantiates the breadth and depth of original charge. >> and paul that happens around the country. i know in new york and even across south carolina you can

have arresting charges and wait on indictment. so this is not unusual in a process. >> not at all, reverend. i've been in front of grand juries many times. they do this all the time. but you do use a grand jury to both investigate your case to develop more evidence. you don't show everything to the grand jury. you want to save some stuff for trial. i think the decision to drop the charges regarding false imprisonment is a big strategic move. look, the defense attorneys were making a big deal about whether this was a switchblade or a spring knife. that's not what this case is about. this case is about freddie gray who when the police encountered him was healthy, ten days later, had a severed spine and a crushed voicebox. so she's saying this case isn't about false imprisonment this case is about murder. >> but, councilman it's also about, there is no -- there was no grounds for an arrest on approach, in the first place, because what i've heard, in my trips to baltimore, and i'm sure you've heard it as a leader

right there, that's there every day, the real basis was, of a lot of the protests was they had no reason to arrest him or approach him in the first place. >> yeah you know that's what most of the citizens were upset about in the first place. and to me, that's one of the things i'm going to be paying close attention to when the trial actually gets to court, to see what's said about that. because, as you know you were here. you know that is what people were really upset about. that was something -- they were just as upset about that as the tending. because people feel withgood, bad, or indifferent, they feel they had no right to chase them or arrest them in the first place, or the other stuff that happens. and that's what i'm going to be paying particular close attention to when we get to the trial, to see how that portion is managed. >> now, paul the state's attorney of maryland marlin mosby, says that her investigation has uncovered

additional information. listen. >> on may 1st our investigation revealed that we had sufficient probable cause to bring charges against six police officers. as our investigation has continued, additional information has been discovered and as is often the case during an ongoing investigation, charges can and should be revised based upon the evidence. >> what kind of evidence might she have uncovered, paul? >> so reverend the hardest charge to prove is of course the second-degree murder charge. so she's going to have to prove that this van driver intentionally deprived mr. gray of care knowing that that would kill him. so that's a hard thing to prove. presumably she's got one of the other five officers cooperating, so essentially telling on this van driver or she's got some circumstantial evidence, like she knew how bad -- like he knew how badly off mr. gray was, and just refused to get him any medical care until it was too late. we do know that normally the

drive from where he was arrested to the police station, less than five minutes. he took 40 minutes, made four stops. again, that's pretty damning evidence that he wished mr. gray hill. >> joy what are we hearing about a tape? >> well see, this is one of the things that we definitely know has emerged since this case started. there are these video cameras that are posted around the city of baltimore that attempt to catch criminal activity. there are about four or five of these surveillance videos that show the van at various points along that five-minute route that was just described. at one point, one of those tapes was not posted to the youtube account of the baltimore city police department, which they normally are routinely posted but that video was subsequently obtained, i believe by "the baltimore sun," and they posted that video, along with a cell phone video, that was made by a person who encountered the van at either the fourth or the fifth stop. and that video shows freddie gray being placed gnat leg

shackles. now, we do know that in the original police reports, they said he was placed in leg shackles, because he was belligerent, which would indicate that he was talking, he was moving. but in the video that emerged from a cell phone of a person a bystander, you can see that freddie gray is completely immobile. that he is not making any sound. the person who shot the video with another woman's phone, you can hear her yelling, are you okay, in the direction of freddie gray and he does not respond. >> big story, huge story, and we're going to watch it as justice takes its course. councilman brandon scott, joy reid, and paul butler, thank you for your time tonight. >> thanks rev. >> great to be here. still ahead, breaking news on that manhunt for a suspect in those gruesome d.c. murders. he's now thought to be here in new york. we'll have a live report. also president obama responds to republican critics of his

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we're back with developing news. nbc news reporting iraqi forces are planning a counteroffensive to retake the city of ramadi. the u.s. is sending the iraqis a thousand short-range rockets, to help reclaim the city. those gains have led many to question if the u.s. should reassess its isis strategy. but in a new interview, president obama insisted we're not losing this fight, but republicans don't understand the realities we face in iraq saying, quote, one lesson that i think is important to draw from what happened is that if the iraqis themselves are not willing or capable to arrive at

the political accommodations necessary to govern if they are not willing to fight for security of their country, we cannot do that for them. we need to have a real debate about what we're willing to do to fight isis and right now, that's not what we're seeing from republicans. take jeb bush he's more than happy to blame the president. but what's his plan to fight isis? does he want to send in more troops? >> i would take the best advice that you could get from the military, make the decisions based on that, conditions on the ground, not for some political purpose. >> for a man who wants to be commander in chief, that answer is short on specifics. and he's not the only one. >> here's what we need to do. we need to ramp up if these folks want to bring back a seventh century version of islam, then my recommendations

is let's load our bombers up and bomb them back to the seventh century. >> the u.s. has already launched more than 4,000 air strikes against isis. that's not enough? and the biggest hawks, they're calling to send thousands more troops overseas. >> how many thousands of troops -- >> about ten thousands. >> ten thousand. but we'll take thousands of american soldiers over there to protect millions of us back here at home. >> i doubt most americans will like that plan but at least he's being honest. because if republicans want to invade iraq again, the least they could do is admit it. joining me now is brian katulis, senior fellow at the center for american progress. he testified this morning at a senate hearing on iraq in syria. and ryan grim washington bureau chief for the "huffington post."

thank you both for being here. >> great to be with you. >> brian, today you said the obama administration has made some important steps in the fight against isis but could do more. short of invading iraq again, what could they be doing? >> well this is the problem with their debate and the panel we had this morning on the senate, everybody defines doing more as military steps, and what i've talked about is getting the countries in the region and our partners in iraq to do more for themselves. president obama said something in that interview with "the atlantic," that in essence, we could actually do more to help channel the resources, the money, and the weapons that countries in the region have been offering. and i've talked to diplomats from countries from the gulf region who say we want to deliver weapons to the sunni tribes and to the kurdish forces and i think we could actually do more to help facilitate that but that

doesn't mean putting u.s. boots on the ground, which is how i think, unfortunately, many republicans still define that due more question. >> ryan most republicans are very critical of the president, but why don't they want to offer any specifics of their own plans? >> well for the simple reason that there is no good solution and there's also no solution that could even remotely be politically popular, even if it was a good slugz. you know, take sending even 10,000 troops to the middle east. there's just no appetite for that whatsoever and it's not even obvious that that would do anything, other than continue to inflame the crisis. it's not like what the middle east is lacking are weapons and people squeezing triggers. but after ten years plus of this, the american people certainly don't want to hear somebody say, sure what we need to do is go back into iraq.

and that's why jeb bush gave that mealymouthed answer of i would listen to the best advice of the generals and do whatever they said. and actually i don't think the generals would say, you know, that we should send a lot of troops back into iraq. >> you know following that up the polls kind of indicate that ryan because the american people seem to have mixed feelings about what to do about isis. on the one hand a recent poll found 68% think isis is a serious threat. but they're very split on whether the u.s. should use ground troops to fight them. 47% said yes, while 50% said no. ryan, do the american people have the appetite for another huge war in iraq? >> they don't. and kind of a proxy for that question would be last fall when the president asked congress for authority to strike syria. you know that's not iraq but it's next-door, and it wasn't boots on the ground but it was

an increased military intervention, and members of congress are closer to their constituents than members of the house, at least, you know than other elements of the federal government. and they heard from people. and they realized that people did not have any an hit for it and it didn't even come up for a vote. and i think that's extremely telling from a political perspective, of where this would go, if the debate were over iraq. >> brian, you talked about doing other things not necessarily in a military way. on today's "morning joe," former white house counterterrorism r richie clark was asked about alternatives to booting boots on the ground. i want to play you this. >> is there any alternative to boots on the ground -- >> yeah. >> -- if we want to have a substantial impact? >> yeah there is. depending on how you define boots on the ground if you

define it as combat units we don't need to do that. special forces units, yes. we could arm the kurds. we haven't been doing that. we could arm sunni militia. we haven't been doing that because the baghdad government doesn't want us to. we could provide air support for the iranian-backed shia militia. >> brian, do these options make sense to you? >> only some of them but those are largely focused on weapons and kinetics. what i think we also need to talk about is how do we actually cut off the financing of these groups, and i think we've taken some measures if you saw the special operations raid, which was quite daring this past weekend, from iraqi territory into syrian territory, we got one of the top officials in isis, who was responsible for some of the funding. in addition to this all of their propaganda we need to turn against them because my experience in the middle east and when i go to the region pretty regularly, this is not a popular phenomenon in most of the countries. these are fringe elements that have exploited sectarian civil

war, both in iraq and syria, to expand their power. so all of these other tools, and then i would add to it, the tough diplomacy to actually get countries in the region thames themselves to do the sorts of things richard clarke talked about there, arming kurds and other things. why should it be about u.s. troops or u.s. taxpayer dollars or what we're doing, when you've got a region of the world that actually has accumulated a massive amount of wealth because of the oil wealth and they're now using it already, so let's channel it. let's use our leadership to achieve constructive ends as opposed to destructive. >> brian katulis and ryan grim thank you both for your time tonight. >> thank you. still ahead, the manhunt for the d.c. murder. the murder suspect moves here to new york. why does his girlfriend say he might turn himself in? also jeb bush makes a big

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breaking news in the search for the quadruple murder suspect in that chilling d.c. home invasion. police in at least two states are looking for 34-year-old daron dylon wint. officials believe wint may have fled to brooke lynn new york. he's facing a first-degree murder warrant and he is looked at in connection with last week's killing of a wealthy washington executive and his wife. as well as their 10-year-old son, and their housekeeper. police say they linked wint to the crime scene after finding his dna on a pizza, delivered to the house during the invasion. police also say the executive's

assistant dropped off $40,000 in cash, the morning of the murders. hours later, the victims were dead. and the house was on fire. joining me now is nbc rehaima ellis, who's live at nypd 69th precinct in brooklyn. rahema, what's the latest there? >> what we can tell you, this precinct house we understand that a girlfriend of the suspect is being questioned by authorities. there was a report of a sighting of that suspect in this area. there are also sources saying that he may have spent the night with his girlfriend and where he is at this point authorities are not saying as to whether or not they know anything about that. for forgive the fact that there is a signal going off ton side of the road here a little bit disturbing. but, again, they're here because of the connection with the girlfriend. they got the information about the suspect, as you pointed out, they got a hit on the dna from a

pizza crust, as a result of it being delivered to the house, and this person is known to authorities. he has a criminal record for assault, carrying a concealed weapon and theft. so his information was included in criminal records, so they were able to track him down. and they found out that he was known to the people who were murdered. he was a welder at the company where the business executive worked and in fact owned that company. so this, authorities are saying does not appear to be a random act of brutal violence but, instead, that this family was targeted. we don't know exactly why they were targeted in any matter but, certainly, that is why police are trying to track this suspect down so they can get some answers to this. >> rahema what is the mood there democrat does thf there? does this have the feeling of a huge manhunt? >> you don't get that feeling, but there is extreme curiosity

and concern on these streets that someone who is suspected of committing the brutal and terrifying crime that occurred in that washington, d.c. suburb that that person could be here. it is frightening to people. one person who walked past and saw it said that she was going home and locking her door right now, because she was afraid. >> rahema ellis, thank you for your reporting. now let's bring in former fbi profiler and msnbc contributor, collin van zandt and msnbc law enforcement analyst, and former atf special agent, jim cavanaugh. thank you both for being here. >> thanks rev. >> jim, what are police doing right now to try to find him? >> well, since he was seen or, you know, they believe he was near the girlfriend's house in brooke lynn reverend al they're looking real heavy around brooklyn. as far as the subway will carry you, from coney island to manhattan, are places he will likely travel easily.

apparently he's not traveling on a vehicle, must have been on mass transit, maybe a bus from washington. so he's got cash so he could be in a hotel from coney island to manhattan or he could be trying to walk the streets around brooklyn. you know, i know brooklyn and you know brooklyn. >> i know that precinct. i grew up in that area. >> and you can stay on the street there, if you have cash, you can eat in a restaurant, you can walk around. there's a lot of people going about their daily lives and business there. so you can kind of meld in with the street. but as the night gets later, you're going to have to have a place to go. and if you don't have a friend to keep you or a girlfriend, you'll have to rent a room or he's going to have to leave new york. but right now, i think they may think he's in that greater brooklyn area. >> clint, wint's girlfriend reportedly told police today, he was thinking about surrendering. do you think he'll give up easily? >> well, this is the same guy, al, who when he had a problem with a girlfriend in the past he was on the phone and he's threatening her. now, a police officer is

listening in on the phone. and this is a guy that says i'm going to get a knife, i'm going to dill you, i'm going to kill your kid and i'm not afraid of the cops. this is also a guy who's been seen walking around the streets in washington, d.c., carrying a machete and some type of pistol at times. so he knows, right now, al he is probably one of if not the most wanted fugitives in the united states. he's got a $25,000 reward on his head. and there's a lot of people in new york city, number one, they're looking because they don't want to run into this guy and have problems with him. but number two, they know he's woth $25,000. and i've run into people before that will sell a relative for 25 grant, much less somebody who's suspected in a quadruple homicide. >> you know jim, police made it clear that there was a connection between wint and the family he killed. listen to this. >> we do believe that there is a

connection between this suspect in this case through the business. so right now, it does not appear that that was just a random crime, but there is a connection through the business of the suspect and the savopoulos family business. >> jim are investigators running through contacts who might have known both the suspect and the victims? >> absolutely they're going back and looking at the history of the family, the history of everything at the iron works, and the history of wint's employment there and when he was there. and there was one media report that wint was supposed to be in court on the morning of the murders. so there might have been some pressure on him, reverend al. you know like clint's talking about, he's alone, you know, this guy's alone. who's with him now? not his girlfriend not his family. nobody wants to be around him. he's toxic. i mean he might be sitting there in a hotel somewhere, even watching your show. or he could be on the street. you know is he likely to turn himself in?

well, no. i don't think he is. because his past doesn't indicate that. but, you know, you almost have a chance to change something, and he could. he could not hurt anyone. you know the message to him would be don't hurt anyone. you know you can do the right thing now. you can stop now. the past is gone. and you can try to do the right thing from here on in. and don't hurt anyone. you can make a phone call. there's still a future. there's still a way to proceed. but you have to change. but every officer is going to be looking for him. the citizens of brooklyn are looking for him and he may make his way out of there, but if he does it may be in a violent way, you know, with a carjacking or something, because he doesn't have you know, a car. he's not going to be able to buy a car unless he just pays cash to somebody on the street and takes their car or forcibly takes their car. he can't walk poointo a gun shop and buy a gun. he's not going to be able to get through an airport. his options are shrinking by the hour and something's going to happen. so basically, if he sees a news

report, maybe he will think, with you know maybe it's time. i don't hurt anybody and maybe i'm going to make a phone call. do i think that's likely given his history? no, reverend al. but everybody's a human being, and like clint said everybody has a chance. so you know, there's always a slight chance that he could do it. >> now clint, another housekeeper who worked for the family said there were clues that something was wrong. the night before the four victims were found, she said she received text messages and a flustered voice mail from the executive, saying it seemed like he was kind of building stories. the next morning, she got a text from the executive's wife who said i am making sure you do not come today. clint, does this guy, does -- well let me ask you this on the text messages does that give you any clues about what's going on behind those doors? >> it gives us a terrible

picture, al worse than any horror movie on television because what it looks like is that one or more subjects realize, and the d.c. chief of police says there could easily be two or more subjects involved in this they somehow get into the house. it could be as much as knock, knock, i used to work for your company, i would like to talk to you. however it is, al they get into that house and they're able to take control of a man, his wife their housekeeper, and this precious little 9 or 10-year-old boy. and then apparently what goes on from maybe 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon until almost noon the next day is some terrible type of torture. al they weren't just stabbed, they were slashed, they were cut. the little boy was tortured. it looks like al what the subject or subjects were doing were torturing the family members, trying to make the father come up with a certain amount of money. and as you suggest, there were

clues. there was evidence that the family might have been held under duress but evidently, nobody thought of that. you know, after the fact we're thinking of it. but, again, al this was one more reason why we need a national dna database. atf and the d.c. police were able to identify this guy, based upon a burnt piece of pizza that he left laying there. that's a real csi in real life. >> no doubt about it. clint van zandt and jim cavanaugh, thank you both for your time. >> thanks reverend al. still ahead, jeb bush today finally explains where he differs from his brother. is it enough to escape his family's legacy? and the holiday weekend's right around the corner but are some politicians already taking a vacation from the facts? stay with us. ♪ [ girl ] my mom, she makes underwater fans that are powered by the moon.

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>> were there differences? yeah. i mean sure i think that in washington, during my brother's time republicans spent too much money. i think that he could have used the veto power. he didn't have line item veto power, but he could have brought budget discipline to washington, d.c.. >> but this critique comes as his last name is proving to be a major handicap for bush among voters. in a new focus group, bloomberg politics asked iowa republicans how they felt about the potential 2016 contender? >> why is there nobody in the room who's either more enthusiastic or more curious about him? >> i think it goes right back to his name. we talk about somebody who's electable, and he could be the best candidate, but i just don't know, with the daily connotation, if he is electable or not. >> i think our country is a country and it should be run by -- like a business and i don't think it should be run like a family business. >> i don't know if he can beat

hillary. >> why? >> it goes back to a bush versus clinton. >> i think that's exactly -- >> what's going to happen? that scares me. i don't have a problem with him. we're learning about him, but i am really worried. >> she's worried? so is the bush campaign. joining me now is jess mcintosh and dana milbank. thank you both for being here. >> good to be here. >> jess, jeb tried to create some space between himself and his brother. is it enough? >> no i don't think he's ever going to be able to create the kind of space that one would need to create between yourself and the recent history's most unpopular president, who happens to be your brother. that's just not a possibility for him. so i think the more that he attempts to, the more it draws attention to all the ways that they're exactly alike. and the idea that like somehow w. wasn't conservative enough is just such a republican base answer. when he just twisted in the wind

for a week or more over whether or not the biggest mistake of his brother's presidency was, in fact, a mistake. i think this just highlights that jeb bush as a really long difficult, twisty road ahead of him to make the case that he's his own man. >> dana did jeb bush need to find some way palatable to criticize his brother's record? >> well criticize him without really criticizing him, reverend. jess is right. short of changing his name there's not a whole lot jeb bush can do to differentiate himself from his brother. but, yes, this was a little bit too convenient suggesting that george w. bush should have been vetoing more. well, he was right there with the congress spending all this money, and is jeb bush saying he wouldn't want prescription drugs under medicare? is jeb suggesting that he wants much deeper cuts to social security and medicare and all the other programs americans

rely on? so it's not -- and he's certainly not taking issue with his brother's tax cuts which were the main problem in terms of budget busting. so yeah it is an answer that's designed to make him look right with the conservative base. it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense. >> jess you know we learned yesterday that the first couple of republican presidential debates are going to have to limit the field. >> which is so sad. >> yes, it is. >> the first debate will feature the top ten candidates in national polls. the second debate will be split into two parts. part one will have the top 10 candidates, part two will feature the rest of the field, as long as they get 1% in the polls. now, here's what governor bobby jindal said today about the size of the field. >> a lot of republican leaders like to complain or moan about how many candidates we have running. i think that's a great thing.

i think the more the better. i know that there are some that want to clear the field or think that this is too messy. democracy is messy. >> now, clearly, he's one of those that may not make the main stage, so is he in denial jess? >> i think that honestly the republican candidates who are most hurt by the idea that they won't be able to be on this stage are the ones that aren't really running for president, they're running for vice president, and i would put bob ji jindal at the top of that list. being able to perform well, be interesting, be substantiative, be a little funny is a great way for one of those second-tier candidates to get noticed. do you remember joe biden's amazing, yes i can be brief enough moment in the debate that really got everybody sort of talking about what kind of a vp he would make. so by not letting people like bobby jindal on the stage, you're really denying him one of his only shots to get that number two spot. i do kind of feel for the guy. and i think it would be a lot more fun if we just threw up all

18 of them. >> you know dana here's what the "iowa republican" said about the size of the gop field in that bloomberg focus group. watch this. >> i'm a little overwhelmed. it's like whoo there's lots of people. >> hopefully, you know somebody strong will rise to the top. and i think that's scary right now, with that big wide-open field, i don't see a really good strong candidate. >> you know, i've got to say, when your own voters are not impressed when you put out almost 20 candidates is the party in trouble, dana? seriously? >> it is a problem in terms of how do you differentiate yourself? if you've got 15 20 candidates on the stage and an hour even a 90-minute debate you may have the best candidate in the world there, but he's not going to get or she's not going to get more than a couple of minutes to speak. so the republicans do have a problem in terms of how does anybody break away from the pack. it doesn't necessarily mean the

candidates are awful. some of them are, some of them are good. but it's hard to understand how you get around that if you're going to put some of them at a kiddie table based on polls, and then you're going to have donald trump based on the polls playing with the big guys and serious people like john kasich in ohio at the kiddie table. so it doesn't -- >> well jess there it is. that's one that would break away from the bunch. donald trump. he makes the top polling. >> he differentiate himself really well. i mean i think it's hilarious and indicative of the sort of substantively bereft nature of the republican party today that donald trump would crack the ceiling, whereas leaders who have actually held office say, couldn't make it. i'm thrilled to have donald trump on the stage. i think he's sort of the aid of the republican appeared. let's hear what's going on in the subconscious. >> jess mcintosh and dana milbank, thank you both for your time tonight. >> thank you, reverend. >> still ahead, surf's up!

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you wroek it you bought it. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews out in san francisco, to give this weekend's commencement at st. mary's college. even from this beautiful city it's hard not to see the ugliness in the partisan effort to put the hell of isis entirely on the shoulders of president obama. it's as if the u.s. invasion of iraq, which broke that country apart, had nothing to do with today's iraqi turmoil. an invasion bush and cheney sold with the now provenly bogus claim that saddam hussein had nuclear weapons and a connection to 9/11. watching the republicans contort themselves in this effort is to watch them prance in front of funhouse mirror. one group