secret was in public records. it's important enough that when the network found out about it they yanked the show off the air. when advertisers found out about it, they abandoned the show. >> dave perel, thank you very much. that's all in for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts right now. thanks for joining us this hour. i have a frog in my threat -- throat today. i apologize. it should make it less suspenseful than usual. if my voice drops out, we will go to a series of unplanned commercials and try to get back. with a cough drop or something. we start in 2006, april 5th, 2006. this is central louisiana. this is dash cam video from a police car. it says on the dash cam, you see that it was 113 degrees that day. i don't think that's right. it was a hot day, but i don't think that's right. it was a hot day, but i don't

think that hot. what's happening is that the police officer there on the left has just been advised a couple of hours earlier that a nearby maximum security federal prison had had an escape. so this police officer in the video and every other police officer is looking for the escapee from the federal prison and they come across this guy in the white tank top there, jogging along a railroad track. he is carrying no id and matches vaguely at least the physical description of the man that just escaped from the federal prison nearby, and this encounter between the police officer and that man that was jogging by the railroad lasts about ten minutes. you might think it's stressful for the officer looking for the escapee and for this guy who he stopped. in this case though this interaction wasn't stressful at all. >> what is your address? >> i do not have an address. i'm at a hotel. we're working on housing and stuff like that like roofing.

>> roofing? >> yep. >> okay. >> for my brother. >> all right. what it is we have an escapee. >> oh. [ bleep ]. >> from where? >> prison. >> there's a prison here? >> does the suspect wear glasses? >> nothing about glasses. can you find out? i'm out with a white male on the tracks. >> i guarantee you, i'm not -- >> you know the bad thing about it, you're matching up to him. >> that sucks, doesn't it? >> yeah. that sucks. the guy that the police officer was speaking to was the escapee from the federal prison. the cop did stop him and talk to him for about ten minutes.

the guy did recognize the police officer -- the police officer did recognize that the guy matched the escape convicts -- convict's description, but they talked for about ten minutes and he let the guy go. that says something remarkable about the cop in that situation. unless you think that the cop was the only one to blame here it should be noted that the guy he was dealing with was really really good at escaping all sorts of law enforcement situations. that guy that was jogging along the railroad tracks that day, he had escaped from maximum security federal prison. but that was the third time that he had escaped from prison or jail. the first time was in north dakota in 1988. he had been arrested on suspicion of murder. he was in a room with three detectives, they had handcuffed him to a chair, but he had a tube of lip balm in his pocket. he somehow, with his hands handcuffed and the three detectives in the room with him but not playing close attention.

he reached into his pocket got the lip balm out, greased up his wrists and slips out of the handcuffs with the detectives in the room with him. three detectives chasing him, and got away. that was the first time. he ran five blocks. stole a car. drove until the car stalled out and hid in an apartment building. a long article in "the new yorker" said that it was a reporter from "the daily news" that saw him sneaking into the apartment building that day. the respiratory called the police and told them where it was. he climbed out of the window and landed in a tree. it was only because he could not hold on that he fell and they

took him back into custody. he had escaped from the county jail, his next stop and escaped from the north dakota state prison. that happened in 1992. in that case he somehow got himself into a ventilation duck -- duct and wiggled his way free to the outside. in that case they did not catch him right away. he was gone for ten months before finding him. they did find him, and then the next place he locked up from and then escaped was in louisiana the maximum federal security prison. having escaped from two other facilities already by the time that the feds had had. he must have been casing the joint immediately. he must have been casing it the whole time before he figured out how he was going to get into that. the way that he escaped was intrepid. he got a job which was repairing and sewing mail bags for the u.s. postal service. somehow in the course of doing that prison job, he figured out a way to mail himself out of the

prison. he sealed himself up in a mail bag and got himself mailed to freedom. got into a mail bag and mailed himself out of prison to a nearby warehouse, then busted out of the mail bag, got himself an energy drink somewhere and took off jogging down the railroad tracks on the way to his ten-minute-long hilarious encounter with officer barney fife. >> put yourself in my position. >> yeah, i know. >> i am not throwing you against -- >> >> do you think that i am a prison escapee? >> think about it. they have years and years. >> now, when i crossed the track i saw you running and i said well, how lucky can i be? >> no, nope. nope. i'm not no prison escapee. >> you would have done run by now. you know that yourself. you would have done run by now. >> no he didn't run. that would be too obvious.

instead, he stood there, speaking in an accent that was not at all his own, making small talk, friendly small talk with the cop for about ten minutes and the cop let him go told him to be careful, warned him he might get stopped again. that was in 2006. that guy who escaped from all the facilities and that federal prison that day, his name is richard lee mcnare. after he got away from north dakota in federal prison and then the cop, he did stay out for a while. he did live free for another year and a half after that dash cam video was caught. they caught up to him 18 months after he broke out of the prison in louisiana. they caught up with him 18 months later. he was in canada. have no idea how he got from louisiana to brunswick. that's where he caught him in 2007. they caught him because the homemade job that he did on the

windows of the vehicle that he had stolen the stint job was so bad that they thought that was reason enough to pull him over and check to see who this guy was in the hoopty paint job car. >> he has a long history as an accomplished escape artist. he made his way out of a prison last year by mailing himself to freedom. he has been on the run ever since until yesterday. police here spotted a suspicious van driving around the city, and what tipped them off was that all the windows on the van were painted black. they asked the driver to step out and it was richard lee mcnare. >> this guy was an amazing escape artist. terrible guy, convicted murderer but he escaped everywhere they locked him up. he got away 400 meters running from the canadian cops in the end. he would escape and get caught. escape and get caught.

escape and get caught. that's the thing here. no matter how good that you are at escaping and no matter how amazing the escape no matter how much skill or luck or audacity or violence goes into the escape these guys that escape, they always get caught. in 2009 it was a prison in michigan city and they got out and lasted a few days before all three of them were recaptured. in 2008 it was in new mexico. eight guys escaped all at once. in curry county. they went up pipes in the prison wall and popped out through the roof. eight guys all at once and all of them upon eventually recaptured. in 1999, it was a rare escape from death row, four prisoners escaped from the louisiana state pen. they smuggled blades of the -- and hacked through the bars of their doors and cells. they did not make it off the prison grounds before recaptured.

even the famous daring helicopter rescues -- the helicopter escapes, those guys get caught too. this one was a year ago today. remember this one in quebec? this one was a year ago today. it landed on the prison ground and picked them up and flew away. they got caught and within a couple of weeks they were back in the prison where they escaped. the last escape in new york state was in 2003 from a maximum security prison in el-myra, new york. two convicted murders in that prison and a complex plot. they got sledge hammers and other tools to bust holes in the ceilings of their cells. then made the amazing dummies. they propped the dummies in the bed and looked like they were sleeping when they came to check on them. they shimmied up and out of the prison through the ventilation

shaft in 2003. they still had to get over the walls of the prison. they used torn bed sheets that they fashioned into a rope. but because of the makeup of that facility and what they had to do to get out, the rope they made was 61 feet long. that was amazing. that must have taken them months or years to plan that escape in new york in 2003, but even with all of that planning and complexity, and the success that they got out, they were both back in custody in two days. they get caught. as much thought and effort comes into the average maximum security prison escape, it seems like it's not a long term victory. they get caught. right now we're in the time between when two maximum security prisoners were discovered missing from the cells and we're between that time and everybody expects is the news of the capture in up state new york or across the border in canada.

one of the two men that escaped is david sweat. he's 35 years old, serving life without parole for the 2002 killing of a deputy sheriff, a man who he shot 22 times and ran over reportedly while the deputy was still alive. other escapee is richard matt that's serving life for dismembering a man in buffalo, new york. after that murder and before he was arrested, richard fled to mexico and while in mexico killed another man there. he was arrested in mexico served nine years in a mexican prison for that killing before being extradited back to the u.s. to face trial for the earlier murder in buffalo. richard matt has a history too. not just an incredibly violent criminal history, he has a history of fleeing before he could be arrested in the murder trial. he also has a history of escaping custody. in 1986 the same guy was in jail

in new york on forgery charges. and he got out of the cell when a guard popped the electronic lock on his cell door he scaled a nine-foot-tall brick and metal wall topped with razor wire. he got cut up in the process, and got out. he spent five days at large before he was captured again. now he is out again. and now this massive manhunt is under way around the clinton correctional facility 25 miles south of the canadian border up in the adirondacks. the focus is on figuring out how the two murderers were able to escape from clinton and how they got power pools that they use to saw through the cell walls and allowed them to get into a steam pipe that led into a nearby neighborhood where they popped out in the middle of the street through a manhole cover. the focus is figuring out how they got out and the pressing question of whether or not they had help. there are some reports that a

female employee that worked inside might have been involved somehow in the escape efforts. seeing how they did it and stop it from happening again and if there's a huge security breach on staff at that maximum security prison, that's job one right? no, that's job two. because tonight these two convicted murderers are still on the loose. they were discovered missing saturday morning. they're still out there now. so job one is finding them. if past is prolog they will be found, it's just a question of when. joining me now, a reporter with the "new york times." thank you for your time tonight. >> of course thank you. >> what can you tell us about the status of the investigation and specifically the search and

how they're trying to find the guys and how it's going? >> well, i mean it's ongoing. there's been rumors flying all day that places they have been seen. there's a number of lawyer -- law enforcement agents that entered a house and a barn. they did not have seem to have found anything. it's one of the situations where apparently the police have received over 300 leads. they're trying to track these down. that's a pain-staking process and sorting them is taking a little while. at the same time, there's investigation ongoing inside of the prison behind me as to how the guys did this. >> there have been some reports today that there's at least the possibility that someone that worked inside of the prison helped them in some way. can you put any more meat on those bones in terms of whether or not that allegation seems credible? >> reporter: we were able to confirm that today and there's an investigation of a female

employee that may have had a relationship with one of the inmates, richard matt. beyond that there's not a lot of details. there's some talks that she may work in the laundry room of the facility. in a maximum security prison behind me, you're talking several thousand prisoners and a huge support staff. you have people that do the laundry and janitorial services and vocational training and all sorts of things that go into a prison of this size. there's a lot of interaction between the prisoners and civilians. in this case the investigators at least feel that perhaps one of these relationships went too far and that perhaps she may have facilitated the escape. >> in terms of the way that they got out, we have seen a lot of frankly up close pictures of the means by which they got out of the cells and the steam pipe. is it clear to authorities right now what kinds of tools they needed and what kinds of tools they used and how they would have been able to get access to those kinds of tools from that

cell block? >> if it's clear, they're not making it clear to us. in talking to people who know those cuts interestingly enough, if you look at the photograph, you can see the way the cuts go along the wall the cell block wall as well as with the pipes that they crawled through, i talked to a couple of guys who said it was probably some sort of grinder, metal grinder. this was not a sloppy job. they knew what they were doing when they made the cut. as to how they got the equipment, that's a major ongoing point of the investigation. it's a huge facility behind me and there was a lot of construction going on in that facility at the time. there was construction crews, independent construction crews coming and going. so there's some theory that perhaps one of these contractors was either in on it or kind of haphazardly left a piece of equipment behind that was then used to cut these holes.

>> justin mckinley, thanks for helping us understand that. thanks. >> absolutely, thank you. >> it's interesting. yes, they have been escapes before, but there's not that that there's a protocol. the down has a smaller population than the prison population at that very large, very old prison up there against the canadian border. to see the scale of the mobilization to find these guys is just it's an impressive response. until they find them it won't be impressive enough. but if past is any prolog on these things these guys will be found. we don't know how long they have been on the lam, but they will be found if history is any indication here. lots more tonight, stay with us. to master the perfect lunge. but only one attempt to master depositing checks at chase atms.

technology designed for you. so you can easily master the way you bank. out of 42 vehicles based on 6 different criteria, why did a panel of 11 automotive experts name the volkswagen golf motor trend's 2015 car of the year? we'll give you four good reasons. the volkswagen golf. starting at $19,295, there's an award-winning golf for everyone.

i. >> a cardinal rule of

presidential campaigning was violated this weekend. it was not putting funny stuff on top of your head when you're running for president. if we have noted this rule once, but it's a million times. do not put stuff on your head. do not do this. do not do this. don't do it. it's been a rule for a long time for a reason. it's important. that rule was violated this weekend very badly. details coming up. if you have a business idea, we have a personalized legal solution that's right for you. with easy step-by-step guidance, we're here to help you turn your dream into a reality. start your business today with legalzoom. leave early go roam sleep in sleep out star gaze dream big wander more care less beat sunrise chase sunset do it all. on us. get your first month's payment plus five years wear and tear coverage. make the most of summer... with volvo.

- by 2018, there will be more than 2 million jobs available in engineering, science, technology, arts, and math. so let's give our kids the skills for success. it all starts with education. the more you know. there's one candidate that held elected office as a democrat, republican, and an independent. there's one that's held office as all three of those things and the only candidate that's served the public as a mayor and as a governor and as a u.s. senator. same guy. he is lincoln chaffy, the first

ever american presidential candidate from the great state of rhode island. he's the governor he's running as a democrat for president and he is going to be my guest here tomorrow night. i'm looking forward to that conversation. looking forward to interviewing as many as i can. that means bernie sanders, check. link chaffy that's tomorrow. martin o'malley i have high hopes for getting him on the show sometime soon. as for hillary clinton, i once saw her in washington and said hello, literally that's all i said. but other than that i've never spoken to any clinton, bill hillary, or chelsea. or socks or buddy or any of the other pets but i live in hope. i think this could be the year, that we'll get all the democratic candidates oot show this year. you're all welcome. i'm notorious for not being

interrupti unless you really deserve it. on the republican side, it's going to be hard because there's so many of them. only so many shows in a year. the next formal announcement on the republican side of the race is set to be a week from today. jeb bush is going to make the presidential announcement on monday next week and then donald trump making his announcement tuesday next week followed lie bobby jindal making his announcement the following wednesday. we also got to add one new dotted line to the list of contenders and would-be contenders, as former wisconsin governor scott walker said he would be making his announcement early next month. he said it will come after the wisconsin state budget. we know to expect news from scott walker. this weekend i thought for a hot minute that maybe walker would not run for president because he flat out violated the i am

running for president rule. about not putting funny-looking things on your head. come on, scott walker. this is scott walker this weekend at an iowa event. he apparently has his own motorcycle, but this is a rented one. he could have also rented a different kind of helmet with a dark visor or something that didn't make him look like a cross between dukakis and a tank and charlie brown. but he didn't. he went with the snow globe look. maybe scott walker's okay here, maybe we're in a new era where candidates in funny get-ups rule is broken beyond repair and it doesn't apply anymore after chris christie wowed everyone in his get-up. but still, you guys you don't have to do this. somebody loves you, right? somebody in your lives, somebody in your family somebody on your campaign somebody should tell you do not give the world the opportunity to take pictures of you like this not when you are

running for president. one more on the democratic side and it concerns bernie sanders and hillary clinton. this was the scene in new hampshire where a crowd of a thousand people crammed into a tiny rek hall to hear bernie sanders speak. a local source said the crowd was loud and large and with every seat filled a thousand people turned out. this is not the first time that this thing has happened with bernie sanders. over the last couple of weeks he has attracted sold-out crowds when he announced and in new hampshire, iowa, minnesota and with all of the positive press the sold-out crowds are earning senator sanders, hillary clinton's campaign is now showcasing its own enthusiastic crowds. today the hillary clinton campaign sent out this e-mail blast with a whole big, long

series of photos from hillary clinton campaign events all over the country. fayetteville, arkansas phoenix, arizona, and springfield, missouri, and salt lake city, utah. hillary for president events happening across the country. they want it to be known they're running in all 50 states. they're organizing in those states. people are turning out to volunteer for her campaign in every state in the country. and yes, she's running basically all alone in the national polls. she's so far out ahead, she's the favorite to win the nomination on the democratic side. but what's going on with bernie sanders is also a real thing. there is bernie sanders at the pac event and telling the crowd, i have a secret. that secret is that we're going win new hampshire. he is saying that i am going to win the new hampshire primary. there's a headline out of this weekend and saying that clinton

ekes out a win. what? 252 votes. what does that mean? hillary clinton 49 and sanders 41 percent. in the straw poll this weekend. listen honestly in the national polls, sheeds ahead by dozens of points. i'm sure the clinton campaign still not at all worried about securing the democratic nomination for the presidency. but senator bernie sanders' role in the race is clearly going to be a lot more fun this year than if he were just some peanut gallery candidate confined to the margins. he's making the race on the democratic side more fun than we thought it would be and less predictable than anybody thought it would be. that's great for everyone in the process, but particularly liberals in the democratic party. and now we'll see what linc chaffy can do tomorrow. woo hoo, stay with us. using wellness to keep away illness... and believing that a single life can be made better

by millions of others. healthier takes somebody who can power modern health care... by connecting every single part of it. for as the world keeps on searching for healthier... we're here to make healthier happen. optum. healthier is here. ♪ ♪ when you're living with diabetes steady is exciting. only glucerna has carbsteady clinically proven to help minimize blood sugar spikes.

so you stay steady ahead. you've heard of a "win-win," right? what about a "win-win-win"? pick u gallery candidate confined to and now we'll see what linc p by motorola. water-repellent. up to 48-hour battery life and ballistic nylon back. that's your first "win." plus, it's only on verizon. the #1 network. there's your next "win." now for final "win." get $250 when you trade in any smartphone. and get 10 gigs of data for $80 a month and $15 per line. the win-win-win. a new way to save without settling. gallery candidate confined to and now we'll see what linc americans. we're living longer than ever. as we age, certain nutrients... ...become especially important. from the makers of one a day fifty-plus. new one a day proactive sixty-five plus. with high potency vitamin b12... ...and more vitamin d. ♪ we will rock you anthem ♪ ♪ ♪ gallery candidate confined to and now we'll see what linc

♪ ♪ call 1-800-royal caribbean or your travel agent today my name is jeff richardson the vice president of operations here at c.k. mondavi. to make this fine wine it takes a lot of energy. pg&e is the energy expert. we reached out to pg&e to become more efficient. my job is basically to help them achieve their goals around sustainability and really to keep their overhead low. solar and energy efficiency are all core values of pg&e. they've given us the tools that we need to become more efficient and bottom line save more money. together, we're building a better california.

the first ever cover of tv guide featured the child of desi arnaz and lucille ball. desi jr. doesn't it look like he's floating in a sea of 1950s margarine? three decades later, they sold the publication for 3$3 billion. today the heir to that tv guide fortune, does this. look. osprey cam. and hummingbird cam. and african watering hole cam.

and puffin cam. last month, explore.org added walrus cam, live from alaska. i will warn you, if you start watching the walrus cam, you may eventually require an intervention. i did today. alaska can be a strangely hypnotic place, but we have some truly, truly strange alaska coming up. a double dose of it. some good some terrifying. stay with us. it's really good. that's ahead.

do you want to know how hard it can be to breathe with copd? it can feel like this. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva is a once-daily inhaled copd maintenance treatment that helps open my airways for a full 24 hours. spiriva helps me breathe easier. spiriva respimat does not replace rescue inhalers for sudden symptoms. tell your doctor if you have kidney problems, glaucoma, trouble urinating, or an enlarged prostate. these may worsen with spiriva respimat. discuss all medicines you take even

eye drops. if your breathing suddenly worsens, your throat or tongue swells you get hives, vision changes or eye pain or problems passing urine stop taking spiriva respimat and call your doctor right away. side effects include sore throat cough, dry mouth and sinus infection. nothing can reverse copd. spiriva helps me breathe better. to learn about spiriva respimat slow-moving mist ask your doctor or visit spirivarespimat.com ♪ [announcer]when we make beyond natural dry dog and cat foods. we start with real meat as the first ingredient. we leave out corn,wheat and soy. and we own where our dry food is made-100 percent! can other brands say all that? for nutrition you can trust and your pet will enjoy... does your food go beyond? learn more at purinabeyond.com.

sometimes the states get kooky and we have 50 of them so it's not that surprising that some states sometimes go a little nuts. louisiana ledgealators voted to keep on the books the law against sodomy. it's illegal to ban sodomy in the country and has been for a long time. louisiana legislature likes the sodomy laws, so they decided to keep it regardless of the supreme court and the constitution and all that. another example is a big long segment on the show on why it is in bars in utah they used to

have to serve you in bottles you had to open yourself like you were on an airplane instead of letting somebody to pour the booze for you. they do not do that anymore, but have laws on who is allowed to touch liquor and who is allowed to see other people touching it. the states do weird things. the one we've been watching is in north carolina republicans in the state are trying to pass a law that would let local officials go back to denying marriage licenses to interracial couples if they wanted to like they used to. people that were denied a marriage license in north carolina because they were a black-white couple they're been screaming bloody murder about north carolina going back to that system where local officials got to decide who was allowed to get married or not, based on their own religious views. despite that history, the republicans seem dead set on

passing this law. the governor vetoed it. we have been watching it for the past few days, and it was in the docket and twice last week and again tonight. they did not take it up tonight before they gavelled the session closed, but it's back on the docket tomorrow. hard to believe that north carolina might take this plunge but they seem like they're about to do it. north carolina local officials will be able to say, no i won't mary you because you're awe jew and your would-be husband is not a jew. or you're black and he's white. that's my religious belief. that change in the law is still on deck. we will keep on watching it. even as we keep on watching that there's a new contend er that catches license and maybe surpasses it. he's best known for blowing up the state's finances creating a

huge seemingly uncloseable budget deficit of hundreds of millions of dollars. the state keeps getting their credit rating downgraded. this weekend, they faced furloughing the state employees. schools had to shut down early because they ran out of money and couldn't keep the public schools open through the end of the school year. in the midst of that crisis that sam brown created and it's not a crisis sam brown has still found time to be shocking and very ambitious in a whole new way. he just signed a law that tells the judges how he wants them to rule on a particular case. there's a case before the kansas courts, and this new bill he just signed said unless the courts rule the way he wants them to in that case he will abolish the kansas court system.

he will completely defund the whole kansas judiciary unless they rule the way he wants them to in this one case. now, we mentioned this a couple of weeks ago and i was so shocked to hear that it existed. i mentioned it, like do you believe that some ledgealator somewhere is considering something this outrageous. never in my wild dreams would i think it would pass. it passed and it is law. it's law. if you rule this way, i will defund the entire court system. enjoy your judicial independence. amazing. between that and the way that kansas republicans blew up their

own state's economy, the state that's in contention to be the most radical state in the country. wait, there's more. sam brown took it one step further today. no, hillary clinton last week made news when she said all states should follow oregon's lead. everybody should just be registered, or opt out if they don't want to be registered. she also wants early voting. automatic voter registration would be a much simpler system. it would put millions of people on the rolls. candidates are scott walker and rick perry and chris christie they have all since reacted to the news by saying it would be absurd to make voting that easy. chris christie told reporters, quote, she just wants an opportunity to commit greater acts of voter fraud around the

country. >> hillary clinton mentioned you and said you and other republicans are trying to make it harder for people to vote. what's your reaction to that? >> she doesn't know what she's talking about. in new jersey we have early voting available to people. i don't want to expand and increase the opportunities for fraud. maybe that's what she wants to do i don't know. but folks in new jersey have plenty opportunity too vote. maybe she took some questions and learned some things maybe she wouldn't make such ridiculous statements. >> she said it's fear mongering, this idea there's a lot of election fraud going on. >> she's never been to new jersey, i guess. >> it's true that chris christie's new jersey is known for having a ton of corruption among its politicians. new jersey is not actually known for widespread voter fraud. no state is. one of the leading voices on the right who has been trying if are years to create the impression that there is a ton of voter fraud is the secretary of state in sam brownback's kansas.

chris kobback has authored and promoted some of the strictest voting restrictions all on the premise that elections are being stolen all the time with huge amounts of voter fraud. his explanation of why our prisons are not full to bursting with voter impersonators and multiple voters his explanation is that local prosecutors won't prosecute people for voter fraud, even though there's a ton of it because they're all in on the conspiracy or something. kobach has championed voting restrictions because he said he knows that there's tons and tons of voter fraud, but he can't get prosecutors to arrest people and charge them and put them on trial for the things he knows people are doing. today, sam brownback fixed that problem for him. he signed a new law that will let the secretary of state in kansas bring those prosecutions himself. chris kobach has not been able

to persuade real prosecutors to bring these voter fraud cases which he said he knows all about. so sam brownback said he can bring them himself. he can be the prosecutor. he can end the run-around that whole part of the judicial process, which would be the most radical thing being done in a u.s. state, if it weren't for sam brownback threatening to eliminate his state's whole judicial system unless the judges rule the way he wants them to. joining us now, political reporter from the kansas star. thanks for being here. >> great to be here. >> i think that outsiders, or at least one outsider over here kind of marvels at the changes under governor brownback. both their ambition but also really just their radicalness. how does it feel in kansas how is this being received in kansas? >> well many many moderate

kansas republicans are aghast, rachel, at what's going on in this state. you're right, we may compete with north carolina or south carolina for the most conservative state in the country, maybe louisiana, but there's no question kansas has moved the farthest from the center right, where it was for decades, to this very, very far right, very conservative posture led by governor brownback and chris kobach and others. with the bills the governor signed with the courts that you talked about, the election law, all reflect a very conservative tilt by this legislature. kansas made national headlines for limiting welfare recipients to $25 a day at the atm machine. now they've changed that because they realize it might violate federal law. it's part of a pattern in this

state to be very conservative and today was just the latest example of that. >> the thing that is striking to me is that it's not just that it's conservative. for lack of a better phrase it's whacky. this idea of defunding the whole judiciary, the whole court system, unless the judges rule in a specific way on a specific case, i mean i don't -- maybe that's conservative because it's being done by conservative politicians. it does seem like just a very radical, even revolutionary take towards state government. >> but it's meant to send a signal. it's not just about this particular case. the legislature is trying to send the supreme court a signal that it should not rule against the legislature, when it comes to the funding for the state's schools. that's at the crux of the budget crisis in the state of kansas. the supreme court has been very, very aggressive in telling lawmakers, you have to spend more on schools in this state. the legislature doesn't want to do that. this bill is a signature to say,

if you want to -- this is not about voter fraud, as you suggest. it's about voter suppression, at least democrats believe that. it's about sending a signal to voters that if you think you might not be registered properly, you should stay away from the polls because you might get prosecuted by chris kobach the guess is that he'll pick a couple of cases, send that message to the voters and see how it affects turn-out. that's about what the republican party has become not only in kansas, but across the country. >> it's amazing. kansas has a very deep history of radicalism but in the 21st century and the 20th century, they were seen as a real pragmatic, if conservative place, now it's something entirely different. dave, great to have you here tonight. >> you bet. ahead, we have two visions of alaska. one is adorable. the other, i think, is

diabolical. please stay with us. not confident your company's data is secure the possibility of a breach can quickly become the only thing you think about. that's where at&t can help. we monitor network traffic worldwide, so we can see things others can't. mitigating risks across your business. leaving you free to focus on what matters most. i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heartburn. because it gives me... zero heartburn! prilosec otc. the number 1 doctor-recommended frequent heartburn medicine for 9 straight years. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. audible safety beeping audible safety beeping audible safety beeping

the nissan rogue with safety shield technologies. the only thing left to fear is you imagination. nissan. innovation that excites. you are looking at two airplane fuel gauges. 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. ge software. get connected. get insights. get optimized.

behold suburban alaska. okay. [ laughter ] a moose and her two calves and a lawn sprinkler which makes them all very happy. the lady who taped this video in her suburban anchorage, alaska front yard told the local affiliate that she saw the moose and the calves in the neighborhood. she thought they looked hot, so she turned on her sprinklers for them. and it looks like they really appreciated it. if you go to youtube and type in moose and sprinker you find it wasn't just that one lady. this happens a lot. here's a similar moose family enjoying a different sprinkler back in 2011. that's my favorite kind too. this moose from 2007 not cavorting, just enjoying the water with stillness.

moose using technology. it's like a moose bid day. but there's another side to wildlife and water in alaska which is a horror movie, in the same way that a horror movie is something that is terrible and you can't stop watching. it's amazing. we have pictures. that's coming up, stay with us. based on 6 different criteria, why did a panel of 11 automotive experts name the volkswagen golf motor trend's 2015 car of the year? we'll give you four good reasons. the volkswagen golf. starting at $19,295, there's an award-winning golf for everyone. [container door opening] ♪ what makes it an suv is what you can get into it.

♪ [container door closing] what makes it an nx is what you can get out of it. ♪ introducing the first-ever lexus nx turbo and hybrid. once you go beyond utility there's no going back. so this is just a quick update so that you know this happened today.

it's not getting a lot of attention because it's being done behind closed doors and nobody's allowed to cover it. but you should know this is going on. "the washington post" bureau chief was put before an iranian court again today. they arrested him last summer basically accused him of being a spy because he's a journalist. he's being held in a notorious iranian prison ever since being arrested last summer. now having some kind of trial, but the courtroom is closed to the public and to the press. his mother and his wife have gone to tehran to try to see him, to try to attend the proceedings, but they will not let them into the courtroom. his first day in court was a reading of the charges against him, that was a few weeks ago. today all we know is that he was back in court for three hours, apparently. one iranian news outlet reported that he quote, defended himself in english during the hearing and said that his remarks were translated for the judge, but that's all we know. that's all we're allowed to

know. again, jason rezian having a nightmare trial behind closed doors in that country. no date set for his next hearing. no actual defense being mounted for him. no allowed press coverage no information, no way to know whether it's safe to hope that they'll ever let him out of there. i wish i could tell you more about this case but all we know right now by design. keep him in your thoughts. watch this space. it's more than the cloud. it's security - and flexibility. it's where great ideas and vital data are stored. with centurylink you get advanced technology solutions from a trusted it partner. including cloud and hosting services - all backed by an industry leading broadband network and people committed to helping you grow your business. you get a company that's more than just the sum of it's parts. centurylink. your link to what's next.

the beast was as long as the boat. for seven hours, we did battle. until i said... you will not beat... meeeeee!!! greg. what should i do with your fish? gary. just put it in the cooler. if you're a fisherman, you tell tales. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance you switch to geico. it's what you do. put the fish in the cooler! you know our new rope has actually passed all the tests. we're ready to start with production. ok, are you doing test markets like last time? uh, no we're going to roll out globally. ok. we'll start working on some financing options right away. thanks, joe. oh, yeah. it's a game-changer for the rock-climbing industry. this is one strong rope! huh joe? oh, yeah it's incredible! how you doing team? jeff you good? [jeff] i think i dropped my keys. [announcer] you work hard to build your company. wells fargo will work right alongside you, bringing the expertise your company needs to move forward. wells fargo. together we'll go far.

i like my seafood like i like my vacations: tropical. and during red lobster's island escape, three new tropical dishes take me straight to the islands. so i'm diving fork-first into the lobster and shrimp in paradise, with panko-crusted lobster tail and jumbo shrimp in captain morgan barbecue glaze. or the ultimate island seafood feast, with tender crab wood-grilled lobster and two island-inspired flavors of jumbo shrimp. because a summer without tropical flavors might as well be winter. this escape is too good to miss so...don't.

so we gave you something lovely out of alaska just a few minutes ago in the show. a local moose family straight up frolicking in a sprinkler, dancing, cavorting, having a good happy, moose family time. baby moose playing in sprinklers. you're welcome. thus let us consider another thing happening in alaska right

now. this is the facebook page for the alaska department of fish and game. it's a great alaska outdoors resource, for example, if you did not feel ready for the opening of the dip net salmon fishery. if you're not sure what that is don't worry, alaska fish and game has you covered tw a four-part series on the subject. they also have psa's. make the right call do not touch orphaned wildlife. there's probably animal parents around that you don't see, you don't want to end up on the business end of a mom defending her babies. this is why this new information from them is so important. quote, this past week the alaska department of fish and game in fair bank received called about arctic lampre found in strange locations. do you have nightmares? i have nightmares about arctic lampre. it's like an eel, but not an eel. grows to about 15 inches born

in fresh water and make their way to the ocean before returning to fresh water to spawn. and now we have reports of these fish falling from the skies. it's raining lampres in alaska. there of course four different confirmed occurrences so far, go outside, find a lampre in your yard sounds funny, not that big a deal until you see their face. aaaah! until you see them up close. this is their face. this is what has been raining down from the skies in alaska. this is the face of death in alaska. i would rather a thousand sharks fall from the sky than one of these sucker heads splatting on your shirt collar from above while you're mowing the lawn. look at it. it's probably seagulls' fault. they pluck the lampres out of the water and fly away. and the lampre wriggles or maybe turns around and looks at them with that terrified face and the gull, reasonably, drops it on your lawn.

that's probably why arctic lampres have been turning up on people's lawns. with a face like that, probably is not going to get it done. pure nightmare fuel. don't look >> rachel, so much screaming. it was pretty great. against a 15-year-old girl. we have witnesses to that event joining us tonight, including another girl who got police officer pushed in that video.