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right now on "andrea mitchell reports" she thought it was love. that's how joyce mitchell is explained her relationship with one of the escaped convicts according to sources familiar with the investigation. as the manhunt intensifies her ex-husband reacts to the possibility mitchell may have played a role in the jail break. >> in the country she's from small town and echk she could be just a country girl who got sweet talked by some city guy. >> american isis american teenager pleading guilty to helping a classmate join isis in syria. >> this is the latest in a series of arrests by the fbi and the joint terrorism traffic forces around the country of individuals supporting isil. and clinton cash. the former president and would be first spouse says he would stop speaking for money if his
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wife is elected president. >> i don't think so. i don't think that because once you get to be president, then you're just making a daily story. i will still give speeches though on the subjects -- good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. as officials in upstate new york close in on another lead we're learning that joyce mitchell is expected to be charged in connection with the prison break of two convicted killers still on the loose. nbc's stephanie goes has the latest from new york. >> andrea, joyce mitchell is a 51-year-old grandmother and seamstress. she had been working at the prison tailor shop for the last eight years. sources close to the investigation tell us that that is where she not even befriended these two convicts but fell in love with one of them richard
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matt. she was supposed to play a critical role in their escape. she was the getaway driver for saturday morning. she was up to to pick them up when they surfaced at out of that manhole. instead she got cold feet and checked herself into the hospital with a panic attack. for perspective on her and her life we had a chance to speak to a man who was previously married to her. they divorced years ago. this is what he had to say. >> we have a nice son. he had a nice house and everything. looked like he had a nice job. looks like life is being taken care of and screwed it up. >> reporter: there will be charges in this case. they continue to question mitchell. they're just not sure at this point what those chargeser are going to be. andrea? >> stephanie gosk thanks to you. and nbc's john yang joins me now from morrisville, new york with the latest on the investigation and manhunt now in its sixth day. john? >> andrea this is the edge of the perimeter they've set up for the search that's going on now. we're about eight miles away
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from dannemora. six-mile stretch from the highway that's closed off to most traffic. since about 9:00 last night there have been hundreds of state and federal searchers going through the woods off this highway. there are about 500 searches in the woods now. there are dogs search dogs in there. there are u.s. and state helicopters over the area. they believe that they are here based on a tip. they seem to think, this is going on body language and all sorts of other things that this is the strongest lead that they've had so far. people who live in this area we're told to lock their doors and stay inside. last night they were told to keep their lights on. their exterior lights on to illuminate the area. today our plattsburgh affiliate wptz has stonepoken to some people who live in this area. they've been told to
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particularly stay inside because if they do find these guys, the searchers s searchers' is to push them, to force them to a certain area where they can be captured. this search has been going on since about 9:00 last night. went through a rainstorm, through nighttime, and now daylight. and so far we're still waiting to see what, if anything, they're going to turn up here. andrea? >> thanks to john yank. thanks to you and joining me now by phone is josh parker one of the residents. he lives in katieville, a mile and a half from the prison where authorities are searching for the two prisoners. josh parker thank you very much. tell us what happened overnight. you've got three kids. they're home. schools are closed. you've been told to stay indoors. what happened? i gather that you saw some law enforcement folks outside your house. >> yeah, i woke this morning around 5:00 a.m. to phone call from the school letting us know that school was canceled. then one of my -- my wife
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noticed outside there was corrections officer out on the road. and we started looking around and the house was basically surrounded by corrections officers and what i believe to be fbi vehicles as well as state police and the forest rangers. so i spoke to the gentleman who is out in front of my home. he stateth stated that he was there since midnight this morning and these guys were pushing through the woods in this direction from route 374. >> now, i gather you went outside to talk to him. did he tell you to go back inside? what was his level of alert? >> he was very alert in the fact that i had left my home and he -- i went out, asked him few questions. went back in the home. went out a few more moments later and asked him if we could leave. he told me to get back inside they were doing a push. i came back in around 9:30 that's when i noticed five men in camouflage, military garb if
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you will coming out of the woods in my yard carrying machine guns and they had a german shepherd with them as well. that was quite startling to see. >> you have three daughter i think. >> yes. >> 16 13 10. >> yeah. >> tell me what whauft you've told and the kids. >> they've reacted very well so everything so far. everybody is trying not to get on everyone's else's nerves. being kind of cooped up in the house and really not wanting to leave for the fact that we don't want anyone to gain access to the house but also where do you go to feel safe? we talked about hotel rooms and things. you just don't know where anything is going to happen or take place. i personally feel more comfortable being in my home and knowing that not just the corrections department is doing such a wonderful job with everything and being so present and so visible but the state police, all the law enforcement. we've decided to stay here in our home as well as our neighbors have who i also know
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they all have guns armed. everybody is ready for whatever may happen. >> do you have guns in your home? >> i do. >> and -- >> i do. >> and presumably you're concerned obviously about the safety of your family. >> oh, yes. >> stay inside until the police tell you there's an all clear or something else happens? >> right, exactly. exactly. no i've had to show my daughters as well as my wife how to load the gun, how to use it how the safety works, everything. things that you never really want to have to talk to your children about in an event like this or in any event for that matter, but they're all aware of how it operates and if something were to happen we're had the discussion on where to go whose room to be in and what to do to be able to escape the house and get to a neighbor's home. we've really had to talk about and plan out in the event that something does happen what do we
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do? >> well, it's remarkable just the way residents there have been responding the way you are, and your family and we just all hope that this crisis comes to a safe end very quickly. thank you so much josh parker. good luck to you and your family. authorities in nearby vermont aross the border are increasing police presence telling residents to remain alert as the dragnet continues. governor peter shumlin is joining me by phone. >> what are they telling you about the leads for this intense push search in the woods just where mr. parker and his family live? >> andrea governor cuomo is on his side of the lake and we on our side of the lake are pursuing any legitimate leads that law enforcement feels might lead us to getting these two dangerous guys locked up and behind bars where they belong. so we're throwing out of our resources at it both in new york and vermont. and hoping that we get these guys quickly before they harm
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anybody. >> is there any indication that they could have had access to a boat or gotten across the lake? >> well, there's no indication of that. we have no evidence of that. what we do know is that the only intention that they expressed based upon good sources is that they thought if they headed to vermont it would be cooler that new york was going to be hot with police presence and it would be a better place to hide out until things cooled off. so obviously we're taking that seriously. we enhanced our marine presence on lake champlain. we're doing surveillance in low areas in vermont camps, cabins. we're doing everything we can to find these guys. >> above governor, they had a good head start given they were cited according to a couple of reports around midnight. they weren't discovered missing until bed check at 5:30 saturday morning. with that kind of head start, even if they were on foot couldn't they be in canada by
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now? >> canada would be tough for them. canadian border is very well covered with surveillance equipment cameras and other infrared systems that probably -- these two are not only dangerous, they're smart. and you can see the breakout that they managed to conspire together. obviously they're manipulative and incredibly bright and if they head for the canadian border i think we would have them by now. >> and, again, this kind of intensive search presumably they shared their plot with others others either joyce mitchell or other inmates? >> i can't comment on our sources. obviously we don't want to do anything to compromise hunting these two down and apprehending them. what i can tell you is that there's a reason for both governor cuomo to be taking all the actions he's taking and i spent a fair amount of time with him yesterday. he's obviously totally focused on this. i'm obviously totally focused on
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it. as governors our biggest responsibility is to keep our citizens safe. this is kind of a nightmare for all of us. you just heard from a nice rest debt up in new york state, what it means to him and his family. there are a lot of people helping us out. my own view is that so often in these situations it is an alert citizen that sees something unusual, that sees a canoe that somehow shouldn't be at that part of the -- stranded on that part of the lake or that part of the beach or something going up on in a cabin up in the woods that. often leads to the apprehension of criminals like this. these guys are scary, killers, they have no moral core. we don't want to panic. we want to use good common sense, but we've got to find them. >> what we're all fascinated by is how they could have particularly one of them given their records. how a prison worker could have, according to law enforcement officials or other sources, i should say, close to the investigation, have talked to nbc news how they could have
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co-oped a prison worker. how unusual is that if that is in fact, what happened to help them with their plot? >> well, you know obviously it's an extraordinarily unusual story. and, you know the kind of stuff movies are made of. what governor cuomo and i are focused on is putting all of our resources on catching these guys and getting them back behind bars before they hurt anybody. we will have plenty of time after this is all over. i know new york state folks will be rying to figure out what went wrok and how do you avoid this kind of breakout in the future, obviously. this is not a nice team of guys you want on the run. >> and the fact that there was no -- we're told no magnetometer packages could go in and out of that prison and no outside surveillance cameras. >> you know, all i can tell you is i don't -- as you know i'm a neighboring state. my focus is to get it right in vermont. we are going to try to do
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everything we can to cover our end of this to make sure if they're here, we find them. >> governor shumlin, thank you very much for calling us from vermont. >> thank you so much. up next teen isis supporter and warning to american parents from the fbi. >> you got stay involved. you've got to stay engaged with your kids activity online, sites they're looking at, people they're interacting with. >> and these are new pictures out of dannemora, new york as the manhunt continues for a sixth day. we'll keep you posted on all of the latest developments.
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holly was a promising young person living here in the community. he's intelligent, articulate. he was very involved with his family, very involved with his local mosque supportive of his sibling siblings, but ali was brought into this seductive, destructive ideology by the material he consumed online. >> that was the deputy fbi director for the region on the breaking news an american teenager was convicted. he pleaded guilty in federal court to conspireing to provide material, support, and resources to isis using social media as his tool. at 17 years old he's the youngest person to be convicted of aiding isis in u.s. joining me now, pete williams from outside the courthouse and alexandria virginia and richard angle in new york. pete unusual case. how did they find him?
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>> unprecedented case andrea. the fbi got a tip that he was on social media. he was pretty active. he had 4,000 twitter followers. he was sending 7,000 tweets. and what the fbi says is that he may have started out as his defense lawyer says upset about the regime but ultimately started supporting isis and he's pleaded guilty to this trying to use money using bitcoin and trying to recruit people to go to syria to join isis. prosecutors say he did manage to find the contacts just sitting in his house, find the contextact for 18-year-old friend who did manage to get to turkey and get to syria and they say that he actually drove him this young man, to the airport outside washington in january to facilitate his trip. it's an object lesson a, about the seductive nature of isis but, b, about what a determined young person can do.
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>> very bright, educated young man from a very good family. richard angle, this is what you've been reporting on, exactly the impact here in the united states, social media outreach. >> isis is doing well on the battlefield and that encourages people. it has a success story of sorts that it is selling. it is establishing islamic law, winning, conquering new territory territory, that it's not only fighting against iran or an iranian-backed forces in iraq it is fighting against the assad regime and if you're sitting at home and you're bored or frustrated or angry with a variety of things that is a seductive message and a seductive message that has appealed to about 20 to 30,000 foreign fighters. it's not a small number. a small number from the united states just about 180, according to u.s. intelligence officials,
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but 20 to 30,000 people from outside of syria and iraq have been lured in by this same message. >> we've seen a lot from europe but this is unusual from the europe. as pete has just been pointing out. pete, there was no implication here of a plot here. he was not plotting against america. >> no. >> he was recruiting helping to recruit foreign fighters. >> right. it is unusual because the government has never prosecuted a jooufal for this offense so it says a lot about his capabilities and the government's determined effort here to prosecute anybody, no matter how old they are, who actually manages and succeeds in doing this. >> and thanks so richard angle, this young man was prosecuted as an adult, as i understand it. but he's the youngest person ever prosecuted on this. thanks very much richard angle. good to see you. congratulations on your peabody. >> thank you very much. >> award week for richard angle. a lot of congratulations are due
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you. >> appreciate that. thank you. >> and pete williams as always. . maryland senator ben cardin is the ranking member on the foreign relations committee and joins me now. this is a real warning, if we weren't already alert, to american parents, to teachers to religious leaders, the clergy because this was a young man active in his community at every level, without showing signs of radicalization. >> you're right. it also shows that the threat is here to the united states because when you have foreign fighters who in syria fighting with isis they have u.s. passports or european passports. they come back into our community and could very well be part of a plot against our own homeland security. this shows how close we are to the risk factors of what's happening with this terrorist organization isis. >> and there's a "new york times" story based on a briefing that general dempsey gave to the reporters traveling with him,
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cooper on that trip. reporting that they are now talking about more basis, what they're calling lily pads training bases along that route in anbar province to try to spread the trainers out and potentially send more than the 3500 already there and the 450 that have just been authorized. >> i had a chance to talk today with one of the sunni leaders in iraq as to the need for additional training particularly in the anbar province. what we need to do and the reason why we are expanding our operations here is that the iraqis need to handle their own security. so from the sunni tribal areas, you need the sunnis capable of defending against isis. and today they don't have that capacity. so we need to help train and equip the iraqis to take care of their own security and we need a government that's sensitive to all of the communities in iraq. not just the shiite majority but also the sunni tribals and the kurdish areas.
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>> isn't this potentially a slippery slope? >> absolutely. that's why we have to make sure that it's iraqis taking care of iraqis. it can't be american ground troops trying to preserve the security of the people of iraq. you need an inclusive government that takes care of all the people of iraq and has the confidence of all the people and you need the capacity of the iraqis to defend themselves. obviously we'll help them but it's got to be the iraqis on the ground. >> now there's a big house vote scheduled for tomorrow on trade. i know it's already gone through the senate. this was the aflcio leader right here explaining why he is so much against it. >> it's worked for corporate america. what our trade policy hasn't done andrea is to work for working people. we worked with for five years with this administration trying to get this tpp to work for working people and they haven't gotten it there yet. >> what do you as a democrat say to labor leaders like rich and
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to some of your colleagues who oppose this so strongly? >> we agree. we want to make sure that trade is balanced that it not only helps corporate america but it helps working families. that's why it's not just one bill being considered on the floor of the house of representatives but are considering a series of bills that include trade enforcement, that include rights of workers, that includes workers rights and environmental rights. we must make sure that trade agreements with the united states carries out our principles that can help working families. and it is a work in progress. we're not there yet. but i think the obama administration is very sensitive to these issues. >> senator ben cardin thank you very much. good to see you. and up next what bill clinton says about what his life might be like the his wife wins the nomination and the election. you're watching msnbc.
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bill clinton told bloomberg television if he becomes the first spouse he would stop taking money for speeches. he would also give up his role as head of the family foundation. that was the question asked. joining me now for our daily fix, msnbc contributor and founder of "the washington post" fix blog and "usa today" washington bureau chief susan page. well susan page, we're talking about bill clinton and he's been out there talking to bloomberg, he talked to cnn, doing a lot of interviews. the candidate herself has not. but he says that it would be a difficult decision about giving up the foundation work which he clearly loves. but he would give up the paid speeches. >> yeah. you know we're in unchartered territoryier toy here. not only the first man in role for spouse the first former president in the role of being married to the current president and so there are going to be a million things that they're going to have to sort out. i think this is the thing on
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paid speech cess the acknowledgement that on reality paid speeches is a big issue for her, a problem for her presidential campaign she's going to have to be addressing and even bigger issue if she were president and he was still out there given the very expensive speeches to foreign businesses foreign interests that has lots of things to do with the united states. >> he did tell cnn he saw no conflict of interest that none of the donor, foreign governments had ever asked for anything and as far as he knows hillary clinton had never looked at a list of contributors when she was secretary of state. chris and susan, this is clinton on bloomberg talking about the role that he would take as first spouse. >> that will be not an easy decision should she be elected president. and she'll have to decide what's my highest and best use, including being around a bucker er her up every morning, you know. >> that would be in answer to the question would you give up
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the foundation? he said that would not be easy. he clearly loves his role as head of the foundation. >> right. you know what's hard here andrea, is the defense ultimately bill clinton is offering on the foundation is look, take my word for it we're above board. they do comply to some transparency and disclosure requirement, et cetera, et cetera, but at the end of the day that is what the argument boils down to. i would -- susan, first of all is right, we're in hugely unchartered territory. not only with just the foundation a foundation run and founded we a former president, former sectory of state who is also the strong front-runner to be the democrat president nominee. i would find it hard i think, given the questions that have been raised already about the foundation for him if he was living again, in the white house, for him to maintain that same role at the foundation during her time in office. >> now, you've got a republican presidential candidate, marco
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rubio rubio, who is getting a lot of scrutiny in the "new york times" about his finances and he found an unlikely ally last night in jon stuart on the "daily show" morking "the new york times" for front page treatment of marco rubio's finances. >> it wasn't wrong before the rubios were splurging on a house, inground pool handsome brick driveway shrubs and oversized windows. oversized windows. what's the matter senator? the normal amount of light isn't good enough for you? i'm marco rubio, i like to roll around in giant patches of sunlight. like i'm a big old kitty cat, meow. how is this front page news? >> so that's the question. how is it front page news? there is susan, there are issues about his backer and his debts, but the way this
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treatment did certainly look like an opposition dump. >> and on some issues that i think a lot of americans would identify with, using money from his book advance to pay off his student loan for instance, you know the boat he bought. i think this does not seem unfamiliar to people in florida that they want a fishing boat which cost i think, $80,000, which is significant amount of money but on the other hand it's not a super million dollar -- >> and they leased a car, an suv. >> in a way you never want to be the subject of a negative story on the front pang of a newspaper but on the other hand this is the kind of criticism or skeptical look that i think makes a lot of voters say, hey, i can see myself. this is not a rich guy who has inherited a lot of money from a famous family. this is a guy who is living the life of a lot of americans. >> chris alisa, he has been raising money on this. one of the details was four speeding tickets in 17 years.
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i think a lot of us could relate to that. >> one thing i'll say is i think the "times," he and his wife speeding and parking tickets and more detailed dive in his finances. the first story is harder to defend. i would argue the counter and say i think the second story is relevant and in a vacuum without the first story might not have been as criticized simply because this is someone we don't know that much about. this is someone who has risen very rapidly. looking into the back story of how that happened is not a bad thing. >> chris, to be continued. thank you. thanks to susan. and more u.s. military advisers to iraq training iraqi soldiers we're told would be enough to beat back isis. white house deputy national security ood vizer ben rhodes is joining us next after the break. out of 42 vehicles based on 6 different criteria,
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the u.s. military fought for about a decade with hundreds of thousands of ground troops a limitless budget, 24-hour air cover to battle an insurgency that is far less dug in than isis is now. so it's hard to see how a few hundred noncombat troops are going to make much of a difference. >> nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel on president obama's plan to send 450 military advisers to iraq. is it going to have an impact on the battle against isis? i'm joined now by ben rhodes deputy national security adviser for the white house. thank you very much, ben, for being with us today. what is your answer to richard engel's question? >> well, i think the main answer andrea is first of all, i would suggest that the insurgency was very dug in during years of the iraq war. but part of the challenge that we've seen in the last several months is the need for there to be buy-in from all of iraq's different communities to push out isil and anbar province is
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going to depend upon the sunni tribes rising up and pushing isil out of their lens. that's what made a difference back in 2008 and improving the security situation. what this new deployment will allow us to do is to have more capability to advise and assist the sunni tribes in eastern anbar province so they can go on the offensive against isil. >> this reporting from "the new york times" based on general dempsey's briefing on the plane to reporters is that now we are considering lily pads lily pods smaller bases along the line in anbar with more deployments than even the 450, is that what we're looking at here? >> well, we've already done that andrea in the sense that we have four other bases like this where we're able to do training advising assisting, equipping of iraqi forces. where we've seen a particular need because isil is there or iraqi unit who need additional capability, we've been able to move forces to these bases.
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it's possible going forward we will need to make additional decisions about doing that in other parts of iraq. it's also possible that we won't need some of the current facilities we're using. so we may have the ability to be mobile and providing this type of advice and assistance. the key principle is the iraqis are on the front lines. our servicemen and women are not in a combat role. they're there to assist the iraqi forces. >> what general dempsey is indicating is that you're not ruling out that more might be needed spread along that area in these smaller bases. >> no that's right. we're not ruling that out. if we see a need, we have the ability, again to provide forces, to train, advise and assist iraqis. again, as i said we have four of these. it may be the case that we won't have a need for all of those facilities in the future but will have a need for additional facilities. the president is constantly be reviewing this. if he gets a recommendation he will take a hard look at it.
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>> i want to ask you about the hacking which has been attributed by many official sources to us and to these as coming from china, whether it's state sponsored or not. attribution takes a longer time. hacking into the office of personal management that the targets were people who might have been chinese nationals helping ordealing with the american embassy, that there may have been a real targeting of people who could then be recruited. what is the damage assessment so far? >> well, we're still going through the damage assessment. clearly there was a significant breach. i think it's not a surprise to anybody that you have foreign governments, particularly governments like china, that have been adversarial in the cyberspace who may try to collect information on u.s. personnel, u.s. government officials, who may be willing and seeking to conductes spi an es
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espionage. i think we come to work with the assumption that on any given day at any given time there are foreign governments, hackers trying to get into our systems. and that's why we have to constantly be upgrading our own cyber defenses and importantly working with the private sector so our nation is more secure against cyber attacks. that's something we would like congress to take action on through legislation. >> can you assure us that none of our intelligence assets identities were stolen or were pierced? >> i don't think that's the particular focus of this intrusion. we're obviously taking a hard look at that. but at the same time this looked like a much broader collection of information rather than a type of targeted effort on very specific small number of individuals. the ultimate solution to this of course, is to have more secure network, both here in government and across the country, that's what we're focused on above all, andrea. >> ben rhodes, thanks for being
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with us today. and now to the on going manhunt for two convicted killers on the loose. sources familiar with the investigation tell nbc news that joyce mitchell was going to be the getaway driver for richard matt and david sweat until she got cold feet. charges are expected to be filed against mitchell who was charmed by richard matt we are told and thought it was love. meanwhile, near dannemora, authorities intense fid search in area not far from the prison including searching cars at roadblocks. moments ago we spoke with cadyville resident josh parker ordered to stay inside his home as armed police stand outside. >> i noticed five men in camouflage, military garb coming out of the woods in my backyard and my neighbor'd woods, all carrying machine guns and they had a german shepherd with them as well. that was quite startling to see. had to show my daughters as well as my wife how to load the gun, how to use it how the safety
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43 people were murdered in baltimore city in may making it the city's deadliest month in nearly 40 years. crime rates are soaring. tensions between community and police at their worse people say since the disturbances following the death of freddie gray. that has not deterred an education leader in baltimore county from encouraging young people through education, through mentoring and opportunity. he has been the president of the university of maryland baltimore county, for more than 20 years and recently lyly named to chair the advisory commission. in his new book "holding fast to dreams" empowering youth from
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the civil rights crusade to achievement, draws hysterectomy poen experiences as a child to an acclaimed university leader now. thank you very much. it's great to see you again. >> thank you so much andrea. >> congratulations on the book. >> appreciate it. >> what have you learned from your role as an educator there in the county and all these young people with whom you've been bringing up to be engaged, to be invested in terms of mentoring and the youth of baltimore city? >> many lessons. number one, that we've come a long way over the past 50 years since i marched as a child with dr. king. we have far more educated people now. most people don't realize that baltimore has one of the largest concentrations of well-educated african-americans in the country only behind washington, d.c. the new brooklyn study just showed that. and so at the same time that we have some many challenges in our
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city we have large numbers of well prepared people that education does make the difference. the big challenge is this. that baltimore reflects many cities in our country. many people are trying to make this a baltimore issue. this is an american challenge that we face. we need to find ways of looking at public policies that will make sure that we're not leaving children and families behind. we can empower families and children through the public policies that we establish at the federal, state, and local levels. >> you write in your book and you share with us a picture of you at the age of 12 inspired by dr. king. you're one of the young children and you were 12 years old in that march. you ended up spending five nights in jail in birmingham back in 1963. >> yeah. that's exactly right. i'm on the picture that you see there. what the experience taught me was that as an american citizen i had the right to say to this
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country that we could be better than we had been that we owed children a good education and we owed children the opportunity to become full fledged citizens, who had the right to vote, the right to get a good education, the right to a job. that's what children in baltimore are saying right now, that they want a good education, that they want to learn to read well. and that families deserve to get good jobs and to have the skills that they need and that we all have more than we can do to make sure that our children get what they need to succeed. >> since you've written about it in your book we went back to the archives and found the nbc news coverage of that children's march in 1963. let's watch. >> with the steps of city hall objective birmingham's negros began a parade of 25 school children carried signs, one reading "god is love." le as soon as they reached the corner of city hall police arrested them and herred them
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into the basement to be loaded into paddy wagons. >> how frightened were you back then? >> i was very afraid very afraid. i was just a nerdy little kid who loved math but i wanted a better education, my parents, two very hardworking people good christian people allowed me to go so that i could say to this country that we could do more for our children. the same thing that we're saying right now. we can do more for the children of america. we can make sure that all children and families have the chance to make sure those kids are well educated. this is what our mayor is saying. this is what people want. they want to know that children will have the opportunities so that they can get good jobs. when you look at where we are today in our country compared to 50 years ago, many more people of all races have been able to get that education. when people get an education they don't want to be violent, they don't want to tear things up, they want to go to work,
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they want to get a good job to take care of their families. that's the message from the '60s, if we can educate people we can have a better country. >> i saw it firsthand when i was speaking at your commencement umbc this year and the book is "holding fast to dreams" and you've written it, you've lived it, thank you very much for being with us today. >> thank you andrea. come back and visit umbc very soon. >> i will. >> please. >> thank you. and coming up next trade wars, a big vote on capitol hill the next 24 hours. that's next. the challenges of keeping everyone working together can quickly become the only thing you think about. that's where at&t can help. with the tools and the network you need to make working as one easier than ever. virtually anywhere. leaving you free to focus on what matters most.
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which political story will make headlines? whoubt house democrats holding the cards ahead of crucial votes on trade. >> empowered us to try to get a better taa and get a better funding for it but i have, you know, tried to weigh in equities
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on both sides of this as we go forward. >> nbc's capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell joins me now. which way is nancy pelosi coming down on this? i've heard all kinds of reports off the hill. >> well, in talking with some people who have been in conversations with her she is keeping it so close to the vest because there's a package of trade deals going on here and she's in many ways the chief negotiator for progressives but her own history tends to be a little bit more tentative about trade. and so what she's been able to do is to try to extract some concessions out of boehner on dealing with how you would pay for some of these measures. what's really interesting about this, andrea is the president wants this done. so democrats could, in fact scuttle what the white house wants to accomplish. the president and senate and top chiefs to be negotiating here on the ground and nancy pelosi is trying to keep ultimate leverage for as long as she can, series of votes tomorrow trying to get as much for retraining workering and those sorts of things that would help progressives while at
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the same time pro-trade democrats want to see this done. >> kelly o'donnell, thank you. that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." join us tomorrow chief strategist and pollster for hillary clinton's campaign will be with us. follow the show online on facebook and twitter twitter @mitchellreports. coming up next she thought she was in love. brand new information about the prison worker at the center of the multistate hunt for two escaped killers. this is nbc learns a new blood hound picked up the scent of one or both of the escapees yesterday. so where is the dragnet closing in? we'll take you there. breaking news out of virginia where a teen pleads guilty to helping a classmate to get to syria and join isis. and north carolina state house passing the most aggressive religious freedom bill overriding a veto by the republican governor.
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today on msnbc live manhunt for two escaped killers, in intensifying the search. do they have the lead they're looking for? new revelation about the prison worker questioned in their escape? sources telling nbc she thought it was love. also ahead, aiding isis an american teen pleads guilty to helping the terror group. plus this. >> spring dale 911, what's the address emergency? >> address is dug garr family home. >> "in touch" uncovers new audio while the 911 call made from the duggar family home. we want to start with the breaking news about those two escaped new york prisoners. law enforcement focusing their search on a wooded area east of where they broke out. nbc news learned that late