chool teaching program that they use at home. i doesn't allow for any scrutiny from your community. >> right, because it is fundamentally to outside worlds. because of the way it is constructed. thank you both for being here. >> that is all for this evening. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thanks for joining us this hour. in big-time politics, even when you're a big-time successful national politician, you have good days but you also inevitably sometimes have bad days. and today for a few really big-named politicians who want to become president, today for a hand full of those guys, it was a bad day. first of all, spare a thought for marco rubio, senator from florida. some genius in the marco rubio for president operation today signed him up to do a fundraising dinner in connecticut, and at one level, that's fine, i'm sure the connecticut republican party is delighted to have senator rubio

speak at their event. i'm sure senator rubio was delighted to be asked to appear at the big annual fundraising dinner for the connecticut state republican party, but if you are marco rubio and vying for the republican presidential nomination in 2016, it should not be beyond the capacity to recognize that it's probably not a good idea for you, marco rubio to be the keynote speaker at this particular event. this is the event. for 37 years, the republican party of connecticut held this annual fundraiser and for 37 years it's been held in honor of and named after jeb's grandpa. celebrate 37 years of the prescott bush awards dinner, keynote speaker marco rubio. prescott bush, jeb bush's grandpa. that must suck for him, in honor of jeb's grandpa.

before marco rubio got to that part of his schedule today, he also had a scheduled appearance on the fox news channel, which is obviously a very friendly environment for him, and he was on one of fox's daytime chat shows, that is the not hard edged environment, even for fox. they do a show that there is a whole bunch of women on the set and just one man. that's the whole idea of the show. poor guy. not a tough political environment for marco rubio today but then on that show, this is what happened. >> the nation expresses a desire to become a democratic nation particularly one that we invaded, i do believe we have a responsibility to help them move in that direction but the most immediate responsibility is to help them build a functional government that can meet the needs of the people and from that, you would hope it would spring -- >> that sounds like nation building. >> we're assisting them in

building their nation. >> it's the -- that screen shot will be preserved forever in the history of this presidential campaign. this is the moment, this is the place where marco rubio explained patiently this is not nation building, this is something totally different than nation building. >> it's not nation building, we're assisting them in building their nation. >> duh. marco rubio, i should just mention this, i always come back to this, marco rubio is actually giving up his seat in the united states senate in order to make this run for president and this is how he is running for president. it's not nation building, we are assisting them in building their nation. so marco rubio had a bad day. also today was not a great day for the serving governor of new jersey chris christie. part of the reason chris christie had a tough day is this letter from the u.s. attorney from the state of new jersey, federal prosecutor in that

state, in this letter the prosecutor basically clears the way for a new subpoena. members of his administration allegedly shutting down access lanes on the george washington bridge a couple of years ago. this new subpoena that's been green lit today by the u.s. attorney in new jersey it potentially opens up a whole new world of information that nobody has had access to before about what happened in the bridge shutdown. those criminal trials in the bridge gate thing were already going to be looming throughout most of the most important time that chris christie will be trying to run for president with this new development today. those trial wills have access to more insider stuff from the christie administration than we ever thought we would get to see. so that is not good news for chris christie today. it's the kind of good news that means he's going to have lots more not good news for months and months to come. on top of that, there is also,

there is also this, governor christie made a decision to play softball at yankee stadium last night, and that itself is not a bad thing. it was for a good cause. looks like he had fun at the event. but honestly, this is probably not the way he wanted people to think of him as he is gearing up to announce he's running for president of the united states. there is that rule that president obama jokes about which is that presidents and candidates should avoid putting things on their heads at photo ops. same thing goes probably for athletic outfits of various kinds, right? john kerry doesn't mind being seen in his crazy biking outfits because he's never running for anything ever again, he knows how badly it hurt him he was seen in his wind surfing get up when he was actually running for

president. mitt romney did his charity boxing match where he went shirtless against evander holyfield, but there was a reason mitt romney did that after making clear he would not be a candidate for office again. there was a reason he didn't do that while he was still running, while he was trying to convince everybody to pick him to be their presidential nominee. so, i don't know, governor christie, this was a choice. you did not have to do this. also, today was probably not a great day for john kasich who is unof those guys on paper who ought to be a high-flying, top tier potential candidate. he's a former very high profile, very conservative member of congress. after he got out of congress they gave him his own show on the fox news channel. they thought at fox he was such a good politician and so conservative and he should be a

five anchor. he's really well connected in the party and he's now the governor of ohio. but today was a bad day for him because of this. these were the results of the new fox noose national poll of the presidential candidates that came out today. and yes, at this point in the race in any reasonable year nobody should care about national polling, except for the fact that this year we have to. and the candidates really have to, because of the debates. because fox news is organizing the first republican primary debate and the way they're deaf siding who is going to be in that debate is they're only taking people who crack the top ten in an otherwise meaningless and totally nonpredictive national polls. that's what they decided to count on. in the new fox news national poll out today, john kasich governor of ohio former fox

news host doesn't crack the top ten. so he's therefore on track to not be included in the first republican presidential primary debate. even though that debate is going to be on fox news his former employer, and even though that debate is going to take place in his home state of ohio where he's currently the governor. but at this rate, he is not going to be invited to participate in that debate. he'll be watching from home, which awkwardly is the governor's mansion. this is very sad, right? john kasich hasn't technically declared today. heading into today, there were nine declared republican party candidates. the next candidates who have set a date for their announcement and earn themselves dotted lines on our chart, they are in order in terms of when they're going to announce next donald trump on june 16th. bobby jindal on june 24th. then congressman peter king and

from governor kasich, then your sister-in-law getting in then the three guys who drive trash trucks then a cheney or two, and a whole football team then my mom and mr. t. then that muppet janice the one with the nice eye shadow. eventually we'll be reporting on who's not running. the latest official entry into the race to declare that he's running is the guy who jumped in today, that's former texas governor rick perry. he made his announcement that he was getting in. it was kind of exciting. would you like to hear the official rick perry for president rap song? you would like to hear this. >> please welcome my husband, rick perry. ♪ ♪ ♪ republican voter, rick perry let's protect our boarder, to

anyone who believes in the usa, rick perry all the way ♪ >> rick perry, country rap song and all made his big announcement today and even with the song, it went pretty well. it was apparently really excruciating hot in the airplane hanger. wayne slater at the dallas morning news tweeted maybe not so smart to do perry announcement in airplane hangar in june at 100 degrees. "perry is sweating like an east texas rice farmer." so it was uncomfortably hot and he was sweaty and did have a crazy country song, rick perry supporter. honestly, as announcements go, a lot more to come. as announcements go, no big mistakes in the speech, he spoke in front of a c-130 which unusually for a big political announcement was not vaguely insulting like mitt romney and paul ryan using an aircraft

carrier as the backdrop of their big announcement even though neither of them had ever served in the military or the navy. in rick perry's case he did serve in the air force and he did fly c-130s in the air force. it made sense to have one behind him. finally, right? rick perry entering the 2012 presidential race when he got in four years ago, he ended with high expectations and tanked but because he tanked so badly in 2012, he actually enters the 2016 race with a lot of motivation to not tank again with low expectations, right? from everybody else because he did so badly the last time around. he's got nowhere to go but up. right? still, though, even on rick perry's big announcement day which he handled well, he did get stepped on from two different political directions. former florida governor jeb bush has received a ton of attention recently for refusing to admit that he's actually running for president, refusing to set a

date for his announcement. jeb bush chose today as rick perry was taking the stage to make his announcement about his own big announcement. so jeb bush chose today to announce that he will be formally entering the presidential race on june 15th. so that was stepping on rick perry a little by, right? and from the other direction, while rick perry was making his own texas announcement today, he got stepped on by hillary clinton who we've known ahead of this schedule add big campaign event in texas today on rick perry's big day but today, hillary clinton made things doubly hard for rick perry by doing something that nobody really ever does on the campaign trail at this point in the campaign. hillary clinton today doubly stepped on what rick perry was trying to do when she did something unheard of. she actually made big and surprising legitimate news with what she did in texas today while she was raining on rick perry's hot and sweaty rap country parade. nobody expected what hillary

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we knew yesterday with the topic of hillary clinton's big speech would be and she would be talking about voting rights today. we then had a further hint this morning about what the tone of the remarks would be when her campaign sent out a long, detailed dossier complete with snappy graphic hitting almost all of the republican candidates for things they have done in office to curtail voting rights, particularly minority voting rights but in her speech today in houston, texas, i'm not sure anybody expected hillary clinton to let rip on the subject like she did today. >> what is really going on in our country? because what is happening is a sweeping effort to disempower and disenfranchise people of color, poor people and young

people from one end of our country to the other. [ applause ] >> north carolina passed a bill that went after pretty much anything that makes voting more convenient or more accessible. early voting, same-day registration, the ability of county election officials to even extend voting hours to accommodate long lines. here in texas former governor rick perry signed a law a federal court said was actually written with the purpose of discriminating against minority voters. he applauded when the voting rights act was gutted. in wisconsin governor scott walker cut back early voting and signed legislation that would make it harder for college students to vote. in new jersey, governor chris christie vetoed legislation to extend early voting and in florida when jeb bush was

governor, state authorities conducted a deeply flawed purge of voters before the presidential election in 2000. today republicans are systematically and deliberately trying to stop millions of american citizens from voting. what part of democracy are they afraid of? i believe every citizen has the right to vote and i believe we should do everything we can to make it easier for every citizen to vote. >> we knew today that hillary clinton was going to be talking about voting rights. we did not know that she was going to let rip against the republicans she's running against for the presidency but republican-led states across the country for the way they've gone after voting rights. particularly over the last few years but after ripping her republican opponents she also

then made legitimately totally unexpected surprising news about not just what republicans have done wrong in her eyes but what she thinks ought to be done instead, we heard yesterday that she was going to propose every state in the country ought to have at least 20 days of early voting before election day so we knew to listen for that. we did not know she was also going to propose this. >> and i believe we should go even further to strengthen voting rights in america. so today i'm calling for universal automatic voter registration. every citizen in every state in the union -- [ cheers and applause ]

>> everyone, every young man or young woman should be automatically registered to vote when they turn 18, unless they actively choose to opt out. if you're an eligible voter and want to be registered, you should be a registered voter period. now oregon is already leading the way modernizing its system and the rest of the country should follow. >> hillary clinton speaking today at texas southern university in houston. you know what? the race to win the presidential nomination is going to be much more interesting on the republican side than the democratic side this year and it's just because of the two sides. it's hillary clinton and a hand full of other people running for the democratic nomination. on the republican side, it's every well-known republican in the country not under indictment and one that is, rick perry. it is more interesting on the republican side because

nobody has any idea what is going to happen on republican side and that will be amazing to watch and amazing to cover and an amazing display of just political connetic activity but one of things we do get from the democratic side in moments like this, which the bell way would otherwise never get to in a million years is taking policy ideas that are being innovated in the blue states, remember them? and thinking of them and talking about them and proposing them as models for the nation, when tim pawlenty was governor of minnesota, the democratic legislature passed a bill that would have automatically registered people to vote in minnesota. you would be automatically registered unless you opted out. tim pawlenty was a republican governor and vetoed it. that was when the democrats in the legislature sent him that. that was 2009. this year, it was blue state oregon, which had a democratic legislature and a democratic

governor who had just been kicked upstairs having been a democratic secretary of state that liked the idea of automatically registering everybody in the state to vote. kate brown enacted this first in the nation law to register everybody to vote. you have to try not to be registered. she signed it in march. they think it will add 300,000 people to the roles in oregon, people eligible to vote but weren't signed up, 300,000 people in one swoop and now former secretary of state hillary clinton is putting that forward as the model for the whole nation, the model the whole nation should follow. it's going to be amazing to hear all the republican candidates try to explain why that's a terrible idea, that everybody would be registered to vote. but she's also just given a huge shot in the arm to people who want that oregon model to be in place around the country. in particular she's given a shot in the arm to the next state, the most populous state

in the nation. oregon added 300,000 people to the roles when they did this year. if california does it if california does it, and they're trying to they would add millions of people to the roles if they can implement that same policy, which oregon has already done and hillary clinton said today should be done nationwide. joining us now is alex padilla, the secretary of state of california. appreciate your time tonight, thanks for being here. >> thank you for the invitation, rachel and great point, the exact number, by the way, is an estimated 6 million new californians on the voter rolls if we can adopt that oregon law here in california, which is frankly simply modernizing the current motor voter law a lot of us are familiar with. >> how hard would it be to do? the reason it's so important in california is not necessarily because of the partisan

outcomes. i'm sure we could extrapolate some partisan outcomes from this. the reason california seems so important is it's just so freaking many people. adding 6 million people, how hard would it be for the state to do? >> not difficult at all. in fact, what we're talking about is modernizing the motor voter laws that's been on the books for more than 20 years, when motor voter was first passed in washington, d.c. let's remember what the fundamental premise was. that government has a role to play in facilitating people being registered to vote because that's good for our democracy. in this day in age knowing that we have the information being gathered at the dmv when people are applying for a driver's license or renewing, let's share that information much like our online voting registration tools that exist in many states currently does and let's make voter registration an opt-out. we have a fundamental right if you're eligible to be registered to vote and cast a ballot, we don't have to go through the hoops to opt into or right to

free speech and we don't have to opt in to our right to be not be discriminated against, we shouldn't have to opt into be on the voter rolls, by creating opt out versus in, we facilitate participation and they don't have to miss any deadlines to be able to vote in the next election. >> what do you think the odds are to get this passed? what kind of a timeline? what kind of a task list do you have to get through to get this done in california? >> to implement the measure, it does require approval of the legislature and governor. the good news is the bill working its way through the legislature cleared the first house, state assembly and will be considered by the state senate in the next couple of months and hopefully on the desk of the governor come august or september. i feel confident not just because it's good for the democracy, but from an

administration's standpoint we want all the states in america to hear this. it's a more secure way of registering voters and more efficient way of registering voters and for government and others, imagine the time, energy, resources we invest in registering people to vote, we can now shift that into voter education and improving voter turnout. >> alex padilla, secretary of state of california, fascinating and will be hugely consequential if this happens. thanks for helping us understand. >> thank you. it is amazing how little attention in policy terms any of the blue states get, right? i mean, red states have been innovating in republican policy over the last few years in this incredibly aggressive way that's absolutely shaped the contours of what it means to be a republican politician, everything in terms of the radical anti abortion stuff to the anti voting right stuff to the anti union right stuff. that is playing out in the red states and become the agenda of the republican party. they don't do it in washington, they do it in the states. same thing, the mirror image has quietly been happening in the blue states.

they've been innovating, too. nobody talking about it as the national agenda of the democratic party. hillary clinton took a big step toward that changing today. it's kind of exciting stuff if you're a liberal, we'll be right back. stay with us. audible safety beeping audible safety beeping audible safety beeping

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republican statehouse republican state senate and they hoped the governor. but the candidate for governor wanted to assure people in that fairly purple state, if they gave the whole state government to the republican starty the state, you know wouldn't go off a cliff and become like "700 club" republican crazy. he wanted to be seen as a pragmatic guy, a businessman. he wanted everybody to know north carolina that he wasn't one of these fire breathing republicans on right wing social issues. he didn't care about that stuff. he said on abortion that he would refuse to sign anything as governor that would restrict abortion in that state. if he got elected, he would refuse to sign any abortion restrictions. >> if you're elected governor what further restrictions on abortion would you agree to sign?

>> none. >> all right. [ laughter ] >> can't really do a followup for that one. >> he didn't say nine, he said none. i would agree to sign no for the restrictions on abortion. next question. well, guess what happens next? he gets the governorship and signs a new bill restricting access to abortion in north carolina. tada. after signing that one, he did bring a plate of cookies to activist protesting outside his mansion at the time. that made it better. cookies always do. now again today, governor pat mccorry is set to sign another anti-abortion bill in north carolina imposing a mandatory 72-hour waiting period to get an abortion. there's no medical reason for that at all. it's one of the longest waiting

periods in the country, the new bill forces abortion providers to hand over to the state government detailed records of the abortions that they do including literally your ultrasounds. they have to be sent to pat mccorry now to the state government. your doctor has to hand over those records because what, there is somebody in north carolina state government reading these medical scans for some governmental purpose? but they go in the file. we're keeping them, small government. so pat mccrory, i will sign no new restrictions is about to sign a second round of new restrictions on abortion. that is happening tonight, also tonight, we're waiting on something too creepy, even for pat mccorry. republicans are trying to pass a bill over the governor's veto which would let government officials refuse to let public officials marry couples in that state on the

basis of their own personal religious objections. if they object to your marriage on religious grounds of any kind, too bad for you that magistrate doesn't have to give you a license, it's supposed to be an anti gay bill but broad enough in language that it would let local officials block marriages between people of different religions or divorced people or even interracial marriages. anything that was contrary to religious beliefs, they could use as a basis to say no for your request to a marriage license. so governor mccrory vetoed this and republicans in the house are apparently now waiting for some of their absent members to return to the state capital so they can take a vote and pass the law that would put north carolina in the business of letting local officials block interracial marriages. one of the republicans they've been waiting on for this vote is representative craig horn. he's been away in london specifically because he was attending a convention of winston churchill enthusiasts.

he's now come back from his churchill conference, and as he's talking to the local press this is how he's describing the stand on the north carolina marriage law that they have been waiting on him to vote for. he says this, quote, as i try to do all the time, i wait until the very last minute to make my final decision. winston churchill would be proud. and north carolina, your fate is in his hands. the house did not take up the veto today, even though they've had it on the docket. they've moved it to the calendar for monday. it sits there under the category of unfinished business. we'll keep you posted on this one. can you spot the difference? no? you can't see that? alright, let's take a look. the one on the right just used 1% less fuel than the one on the left. now, to an airline a 1% difference could save enough fuel to power hundreds of flights around the world. hey, look at that. pyramids. so you see, two things that are exactly the same have never been more different.

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>> i'm convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the united states. let's step back for a moment, let's just pause just for a minute and think through the implications of our actions today so that this does not spiral out of control. >> for the record since that vote, since that vote which authorized immediately the invasion of afghanistan, since that vote, we are now approaching year 15 of our war in afghanistan. we also have troops fighting in iraq, troops flying bombing raids over syria and u.s. forces operating in yemen and somalia and pakistan to name a few. barbara lee is used to standing alone, especially on matters of war. she's unafraid of standing alone on these matters, always has been, right now barbara lee is waging another fight about another war and finds herself in

a similarly lonely position. the war that the u.s. military has been waging for the last ten months against isis in iraq and syria without authorization from congress. congress is constitutionally obligated to declare a war, right? but in this case, congress is decided to pretend like it's not their job. president obama asked them to authorize this war in january. since then they've done precisely nothing. but this week barbara lee attempted to change that inside the house. on tuesday the appropriations committee was marking up the defense spending bill and barbara lee proposed adding language which simply said that we the congress have a duty to debate and authorize wars. it didn't say we must vote by such and such date and vote in any way and say congress should do anything. it simply said, basically as a reminder, hey, congress, we acre acknowledge it's our job to declare war and a reminder of what is in the constitution, an assertion of what congress' duty

is. that reminder was apparently a controversial enough idea that it generated a ton of republican opposition. interestingly, did not generate unanimous republican opposition, barbara lee is used to standing alone, but she got some backup, even from some republicans. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i rise in support of the amendment. we have a constitutional obligation here. we're handing over war-making authority to the executive branch to all future presidents with both hands. it's a gigantic mistake not to do our job. >> republican congressman tom cole of oklahoma saying, i'm with barbara lee on this. she's right. this is our responsibility. and when the barbara lee amendment came up for a vote, in the republican-led house, it passed. it passed in that committee by a vote of 29-22.

a handful of republicans supported it. barbara lee won. she got her colleagues to agree that yes, this is their job. the whole war thing is congress' job to make a decision on, she got them to agree it's their job. now there is the matter of making them do their job, right? not just an academic exercise, right? congress ought to be voting on whether or not american troops should be there in that military fight against isis and why they should be there and what the strategy is and getting congress to do that, to debate this that gauntlet has been thrown down by the governor of massachusetts. they have introduced a resolution that aims to force the house of representatives to finally debate the war. to force debate on whether the troops should be pulled out of the fight against isis in iraq and syria, since their mission has not been authorized by congress.

congressman jim mcgovern on the house floor today delivered a withering indictment of how congress has blown this issue so far. watch this. >> our servicemen and servicewoman men are brave and dedicated. congress, however, is the poster child for cowardess. they need to live up to responsibilities and authorize this war or by continuing neglect and indifference, our troops should be withdrawn and come home. it is that simple. all we witness is complaining and whining and blaming others and the complete and total sheshg sherking of responsibility over and over and over again. enough. enough. if this house doesn't have the stomach to carry out the constitutional duty to debate and authorize this latest war, then we should bring our troops home. if the cowardly congress can go home each night to their families and loved ones, then

our brave troops should receive that same privilege. >> joining us now is jim mcgovern of massachusetts. thank you very much for being with us thoonlts -- with us tonight. in the house, if you're not in the majority which democrats are not, it's perceived that you have no power, the republicans can do whatever they want. we have seen a little bit of bipartisan interest in these matters that you and barbara lee and walter jones and others are raising. do you think you can force a debate on the war against isis? >> i do. we tried to force a debate and the congress and house sided with us saying if we're engaged in sustained military operations, we ought to vote to authorize it. that never happened. we've been involved in the war for ten months but barbara lee and walter jones have a resolution that is part of a special procedure within the war powers resolution which allows

us to force a vote and a debate on whether or not we should withdraw our troops from hostilities when congress hasn't authorized them. and we're going to push this issue. congress, the leadership has a choice. they can actually deliberate and come out with their version or if not, they will be forced to debate and vote on what we have proposed but i think it is not on an abdication of our constitutional responsibility, i think it is our moral responsibility when it comes to issues of war to debate war and to vote on it and to take a stand. you know, war is a big deal. and we ought to treat it as a big deal and unfortunately in congress, war has become all too easy, and i regret that very much. >> you know, i've been watching some of the 2016 debate with interest about this matter because i wonder as inane as

some of our presidential politicking is there has been a lot of partisan fighting about the war against isis whether it's being well fought whether or not it was smart to do what we've done whether or not the sacrifices in these ten months thus far have been for naught or they've accomplished anything. does that afford you any leverage for republican support to get a debate? i know you have principled reasons for doing it but does that give you a way to make more people interested in make thing an issue in washington? >> i think there are some thoughtful republicans who believe that we have to live up to our constitutional responsibilities. it's ironic the republican leadership complain about president obama not consulting with them or using executive action. but when it comes to the issue of war, they're only too happy to do nothing.

i think for a lot of members of congress, unfortunately, it is convenient to do nothing. some members of congress don't want to take this tough vote and i can understand that. a lot of people mistakenly voted for the iraq war feel burned and would assume stand on the sidelines and be a critic and not have to take responsibility, but it's wrong. and we have, you know, brave dedicated men and women who we've put in harm's way and ought to debate this war and i understand that people are skeptical. i'm skeptical, i'm not thrilled with what the president has proposed. this is a time to have skeptics get up and debate the policy and question it so we don't make the same mistakes we made before. i think what we're doing, you know, in iraq and syria right now, i don't believe what we're doing is necessarily going to produce the results that we're being told. i think enlarging our military foot print is going to make things worse.

but we ought to have that debate. whether you agree with me we should think of a different approach or we should give the president unlimited powers, we should at least agree that this is important enough to debate and have a vote on. and again, i think it's cowardly and disgraceful that the united states congress, both the house and senate are not debating this issue and not vowing on it. >> if members of congress and the senate come to washington for anything, it's to make decisions on matters like this. congressman, thank you for trying to force it. appreciate you being here tonight. >> thank you. >> lots more ahead including an amazing tale of a heist that has has a happy ending. stay with us. heist. and get my number which matches my dr. scholl's custom fit orthotic inserts. now i get immediate relief from my foot pain. my lower back pain. find a machine at drscholls.com

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been misplaced, maybe they would turn up somewhere inside the library, given time, the right kind of search. but the pressure was really nuts on this and there was a lot of bad press on this and the president of the boston loiftston library came under heavy scrutiny. yesterday, she stepped down from her post leaving after eight years of service, after being really well regarded other than this stolen art thing. well today, not even a full day after her resignation, they found the art. and she was right. it wasn't stolen, it was misplaced in the library, misfiled. they found the etching and the engraving together, row 14 b, bay three, shelf two. approximately 80 feet from where they should have been filed, they found them. which is great and dpiting news they found this artwork, good for the city good for the art, good for the library. the president, today her resignation stands.

but she says she's happy she was able to clear her name. the library posted this great picture of her, the soon to be ex-president of the boston public library holding one of the now found pieces of artwork. senator lindsey graham is the new driver of the straight talk express in the republican presidential primaries and lincoln chafee is now the one democrat who plans to run right at hillary clinton. >> people are very interested in about what i would do, not just how much i think obama sucks. >> i am running for the presidency of the united states of america. >> it's rick perry's turn to join the gop presidential field. >> doesn't want to be remembered for the things that we remember him for. >> i can't, the third one, i can't.