rrent views you want. but as far as cooking in a patina of the religious freedom, well that's just pure apple sauce. >> greece is now an hour away from defaulting on its debt. and spilling details about the prison break. and president obama might have had one of his best weeks ever. chris christie joining the presidential race. >> i am proud to announce my candidacy for the republican nomination. chris christie became the 14th republican to announce a run for president in 2016. >> his blunt personality is his biggest selling point, or his worst liability. >> i mean what i say and i say what i mean. >> he has a kmastcapacity to come across in moments where he's being a bit unguarded as he's

being a bit of a bully. >> you are going to get what i said whether you like or not or. >> thank you all very much and i'm sorry for the idiot over there. >> his personality means he's definitely going to stand out. >> so listen, you want to have the conversation later i'm happy to have it buddy. but until that time sit down and shut up. we are having that conversation right now. the republican presidential field jumped officially to 14 because today new jersey governor chris christie joined the field and did it his way. emphasizing a speech from the heart without any teleprompter. >> america is tired of hand wringing and indecisiveness and weakness in the oval office. we need to have strength and decision making and authority back in the oval office. and that is why today i am proud to announce my candidacy for the republican nomination for president of the yietunited states

of america. >> while christie has high name recollection and potential crossover apeopleappeal as the blue state republican. at home did he miss his moment? his state approval has dropped to an all time low. and the in a new poll the second lowest of any candidate, christie thinks he can turn those numbers around. just this afternoon he spoke with matt lauer in an exclusive interview that is going air tonight. >> it is very crowded. is that an advantage or disadvantage for you. >> hard to tell. but i'll say this much. i think the biggest problem with so many people is getting attention. and i've never had any problem getting attention so i think i'll do okay. >> joining me now is nbc's kasey hunt who was at the announcement today.

and matt katz who has covered christie for new jersey public radio where he writes the christie tracker news blog. all of you guy, matt what did the governor achieve today? >> he came out with intensity and energy. nobody could stand in that room and think this guy does not want to be president. he wants to run and win. he has supreme confidence in his political abilities and that was empty exemplified by the showing he put on. the enthusiasm of the crowd, while people were into it this was not a crowd wild with christie fervor. this is some enthusiasm gap and i think it is reflected in early primary states he needs to win. hopefully for him he can transfer the energy he brought today to new hampshire which is really the state he must win if he is going to be a contender. >> cristy, do you agree with that? >> i think matt's point about

new hampshire is correct and also illustrates the big problem christie has now that he's fallen from grace. people were begging him to run in 2012. and bridgegate and all that. but think about the number of republican candidate whose path goes through new hampshire if they want to do this. jeb bush is one of them. casey is one of them. and christie's fall has probably put him in the bottom of that. how does he become the favorite of the establishment? there are a lot of domino's that have to fall first. >> and that sense that he was once the guy and has fallen. you say begging. ann colter was saying a fate akplee that he was the only one that could win back in the day and not romney. let's praet thatlay that anne coulter

sound. >> i don't have often fact check but it is true they ran mitt romney and lost. the rest is hypothetical. you thoughts on how chris christie has clearly fallen in the eyes of new jersey voters and seemingly among republicans as well. >> i remember when he won reelection, i was one of his biggest cheerleaders saying he was a shoe in as the top nominee. and he blew it. i think the timing was terrible for him. he got in to late. i think bridge gate killed him. that speech today was magnificent. full of passion. laid out a good agenda for a center right candidate and showed he could be a real leader. but it is really late to the party. and i think for him with his approval ratings in new jersey being so low that is a real big mark against him. if you can't take care of new jersey, how can you take care of the rest of the country? >> that said it was a great speech from a guy without a

teleprompter. a little long but i think he hit the right points. >> this teleo prompter thing. i don't know why every one is so bonkers without the teleprompters. most throughout the world have been functioning out teleprompters. maybe -- but john to your point, saying you found it magnificent. some conservatives did lakeike what they heard. in fairness i want to play a little more of the economic argument and then get your thoughts. budgets and what he's done in new jersey. >> when i became governor six years ago we had a state that was in economic calamity and we want to work and we balanced six budgets in a row. we've refused to raise taxes on the people of the state for six years. >> jess, if there is a substantive national argument it is just that. whatever his popularity chris christie says he dealt with economic problems and isn't

raising taxes to get where he needs to go. something the tea party in his side of the ledger really wants. >> i think that was one of the strongest moments of the speech. unfortunately his record in new jersey is so dismal that it is what has disqualified him before he everyone announced. what i was surprised by listening to this is that this is the guy whose campaign slogan is tell it like it is. he is the hard truths guy. and we didn't hear any hard truths in the speech. after last week when we had, you know historic transcendental conversations about race and sexuality in this countries and republicans were clearly left with very safe ground. this could have been a moment that he says look we need to bridge the gap and not be as stuck in the pasts some of o these guys. he should have gone after walker and bush and some of the rest. >> i had that vague mood.

and matt as a christie expert weigh in. this wasn't a time where he rolls up his sleeves and i'm going to tell it like it is. and he said years ago i'm going to tell it like it is. this is crazy. we don't do religious tests, back off. and was very explicit. today he rolled up his sleeves and i'm going tell it like it is and didn't tell anything. he certainly didn't speak to the national moments. >> if you aric looing for a campaign where he speaks the hard truths to the hard right that is not the campaign he appears to be running. maybe if he was still the dominant force and still up by 20 points in the polls. but the night before the announcement today, last night, he issued an executive order to create a commission to look at loosening new jersey's gun laws to see if new jersey's gun laws

violate the constitution. and that is an indication of what kind of campaign he's going to run. he is going to try to appease conservatives. he is going to try to use in some cases like he did yesterday his position in new jersey to demonstrate he's a real conservative. he is not going to be standing up to the right here. that doesn't appear to be what he's going to be doing. other thing is veto 7.5 million dollars of clinics for planned parenthood and i think that was very interesting and reflective of the campaign he's going to run. >> john do you agree? and do you think it will work? >> he is not going to be a john huntsman and spend the majority of his time bashing the republican party. hi think he's going to talk about how both parties need to come together and how he's a real leader and bring everybody tegt together. and talk gt about how stupid the

republican base is that is not going work for him. and he has a big coalition of people on the right. >> i agree he is not going to be the john huntsman. but also if you go out on the trail with him, he is not afraid to take swipes at his opponents. and you heard him say i'm a guy who knows how to get attention. and the way to get attention right now in this field is to go after the other republicans. and the other thing is his fundraising. i used to be this huge strength for him and suddenly is not. i've been to almost all of the republican presidential announcements thus far. the staging on this was much more muted and many more answerlated issueanswer late an suelated issues.

he may have to do it by going after his fellow runl kabs. >> i think that is a good point. and appreciate it. people forget with the campaigns about timing. it is expensive to run. sometimes you interlater to save money out of the gate. >> he -- >> ken langone one of his key backers came out and said i'm not going to spend 10 million on -- >> disqualified. with 30% in jersey and bridge gate hanging over his head he can still be compelling politically but he is never going the win the nomination and i think the people with the purse strings know that. >> the only place to go is up. john we're out of time. real quick. >> if he bashes anyone i hope he bashes donald trump, because he the biggest problem we face on the republican side. >> thanks everyone more joining us. the other big story we are going to get to is the president's

bounce. one reporter asked at the press conference this afternoon if he's having his, quote, best week ever. and alex interviews lindsey graham in a gonna dole la. and why he likens senator john mccain to the uncle you put in the basement. >> i'm single. a lot of people are. there is nothing about being single that keeps you from being a good leader. to all the single people out there i want you to know that you too can grow up to be president. weed have awe'd have a fun white house. >> you have to see it to believe it. and you will if you keep watching. that is ahead on "now." yoplait greek 100. the protein-packed need something filling, taste bud loving,

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new polling out today showing the president's professional at the two year high topping 50%. that may have something to do with the recent leadership and the victories, the obamacare decision of the supreme court. agreement on free trade. and the national breakthroughes on the equality and the confederate flag. and on a white house news conference today a cnn reporter put it this way. >> i wanted to ask you about what some people are calling your best week ever. >> the president said of course that his marriage and the birth of his children were actually his personal best weeks. but he did affirm the gratification of a lot of hard work saying there is more yet to do. >> in many ways last week was

simply a culmination of a lot of work that we've been doing since i came into office. how am i going to spend whatever political capital i've built up? we are going to squeeze every last ounce of -- of progress that we can make when i have the privilege of -- as long as i have the privilege of holding this office. >> to keep this great week going, we are joined by "new york times" josh bar roe, columbia professor, dorian warren and jess is back with us. dorian, does he have his swagger back. >> he definitely has his swagger back. you could argue that was one of the best weeks of his presidency of the two terms. and for all those who kept saying he was a lame duck president i think that was proven wrong last week. especially after the eulogy in charleston. people are saying he's the console ner chief. that was reverend obama. i think he placed the nation

perhaps on a path of racial healing. this is one thing i want to say: i know the haters on twitter are going to come after me about. at the pride service at the white house there was a amazing -- who interrupted the president. and it was unfortunate not only how she was treated not only by her but all the people in the room. and you could also count that as a success. because ice released new guidelines around how to treat undocumented trans folks in detention centers. >> what would you have wanted him to do? >> acknowledge her, acknowledge the issue. he could have said hey we're working on it and we're going to release some guidelines really soon which evidently the ice did yesterday. >> to be fair i was in the room when that happened and from at least where i was in the room it was unintelligible what she was saying. i don't know whether the president was better able to hear her. it's entirely possible he didn't

even know what she was complaining about at the time. obviously after the fact we all know what happened there and why. but i think one of the things remarkable about this week the president's best week ever has been driven heavily by things he didn't do. these were supreme court decisions that helped to cement his legacy. but really it is the supreme court's week and one was upholding a portion of a law he pushed through years ago that was as risk of being taken down on a typo. so yeah it was a good week for the president. i think partly it looks so good because his presidency has been so defined by congress. and even if the trade deal itself is not necessarily that popular it is at least an example of them working together to get something done. but 50% isn't necessarily all that much to crow about in terms of approval. >> and partly what theory of leadership are you grading him on.

you don't have to do everything as aggressively as the way they have. it is certainly true some of the the supreme court rulings are out of his domain. not hissole power. but he put a thumb on the scale of gay marriage and the confederate flag while the republican candidates couldn't answer the question he said it belongs in a museum and that is ultimately where everyone joined him on. >> i think we elected this president. i voted for this president in 2008 because we wanted a transformational leader. and where he dropped down in approval rating was when he got bogged down in the bickering of washington and the cutting around the margins and the tinkering with things. when he gets to lead and be big, he is everything that we ever wanted, he's everything that we hoped for. we had the hope and then we had seven years. and now we have the change. and that week was exactly why we all got excited about president obama and voted for president

obama and have stuck with him through all of this. really man he has been fought tooth and nail every inch and now healthcare and marriage equality. and he ended by singing amazing grace in this idea that we needed to come together racially. >> to that point there could be no more conservative insight that be the than the fact that the president is not only defined by the -- but the way he leads. and dorian suggesting that far from an expectation that we be quote/unquote color blind, he took positions and led in a way i think moucht the nation responded to. >> led and that is precisely the word. remember he did that radio interview where he talked very explicitly about race in a way frankly i don't think he's done

since the philadelphia race speech during the 2007 primary campaign where he had to really explicitly address racial inequality in this country. he did that in this little-noticed radio interview last week before the charleston eulogy. >> and it was one of the the most downloaded of marc maron's pod casts. let's play a little of that. this is him just talking about the learning curve. >> it's all happened. i've been through this. i've screwed up. i've been in the barrel tumbling down niagara falls. and i.e. merged emerged and i lived. and that is such a liberating feeling. >> liberated feeling. i think we are seeing that at this moment and he's saying there is still much work to be done around criminal justice, policing in the country. and department of labor

announced rules on overtime pay to lift wages for around 5 million people in this country. and. >> this was a transformational presidency. when he leaves office we are a country in a different place fundamentally than we were when he took office. and that is going to be the legacy. and that's got to be an amazing feeling to know that. >> and the overtime rules are interesting in that they are yet another example of using executive power to pursue things that cannot be done through the legislature at this point. the president is going to be left with one enormous legislative accomplishment that is enduring. the affordable care act. the stimulus act was --. and the rest of it is i think going to be either the intangible leadership stuff or stuff done solely with the executive power. but i think he's scraping the bottom of the barrel to find more things he can do with just that. >> and if you are grading on period of activity this is a period where now what has the

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the prison break may be over but the consequences are now starting to arrive. today 12 employees from the new york corrections department put on leave. they worked at the prison from which david matt and richard sweat escaped. and nbc news now confirming that the two inmates conducted a dry run the night before their infamous escape in which they popped a manhole and got a look outside. this information coming apparently from david sweat whose been telling authorities about his plans, which are to kill again and live on the run. >> the plan was to head to mexico, which would have been aided by joyce mitchell's vehicle. they will kill mitchell's husband and then get in the car and drive to mexico. >> according to governor cuomo, sweat told authorities he and matt split up five days prior to capture because he felt his older partner was slowing him

down. and sweat has implicated prison employee joyce mitchell but not gene palm who had also provided them with painting supplies and tools. >> he told investigator palmer had no involvement in the escape. it was just mitchell, he and matt. >> and a lot of people are asking now, why would this cop kill killer, already serving a life sentence cooperate at all? joining us now, why does he talk? >> well he's kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. the prisons aren't going to be friendly because he's going to lose all his privilege and the guards are not going to be dealing with him either. so he's going to have to figure what works best for him.

if it was me i'd side with the guards at this point. >> walk us through how it works. do you immediately start asking the big questions? or you warm him up? and how does his medical condition effect it. >> they have to worry about how many drugs he was on beforehand. but getting back to your first question just like a reporter you have to build the rapport and make them feel comfortable and you want them to share this information. treating them nicely always works. because who would share information like this with someone who doesn't treat him nice. >> this idea of a dry run or practice run, have you heard of anything like that? and wouldn't that expose them to extra risk if they are already going close to the line and escaping and worried if someone could catch them on the cry run. >> apparently they didn't fear anybody doing their jobs in that prison searching for them. if they had to do a dry run and then do it again the following night is unbelievable.

>> and the whole plot the whole idea of apparently going to kill the husband now confirmed by mr. sweat, what do you make of that and why would you want -- even from an amoral standpoint. say they have no compunction about taking another human life, strategically why would they do that on their way out of time. >> the only way i can think is if it was part of the plan for joyce to help them out. but i don't see any benefit. but really i don't think joyce would have made it out of this whole thing alive either before it was all said and done. >> and from law enforcement, at least these guys are off the streets. just ahead, lindsey graham's interview with alex wagner aboard the gond la. and what he thinks the biggest obstacle to republicans winning the white house is. that's next.

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more than just car insurance. welcome back. as part of msnbc's video series on facebook alex wagner enjoyed a picturesque gondola ride with lindsey graham. and his bro-mance? >> i don't know. does he use e-mail. >> at the end of the day you just admire john. like the uncle you put in the basement. i'd put him in the basement of the white house and call on him if i needed him. i try to say okay what now do i need to tell the republican party so we can win in 2016.

i don't think a constitutional amendment defining marriage between one man and one woman is going to pass. the biggest thing to us winning is ourselves. i'm conservative but it makes sense to me that greenhouse gas emissions are creating an effect. >> what you do make of lindsey graham's role he's carving out here? >> i hope it is not just the high altitude speaking in aspen there. it sounds -- it is a breath of fresh air. i feel like he's -- i mean this guy is going, hey, co2 emissions cause climate change. we have to start looking at that. i think we have to stick with the same-sex marriage vote. this is stuff i think is appealing to what people want from the republican party now. i think it is exciting. pigs are flying. >> i want to read also something he said on the immigration issue. he says look. self deportations in the rear

view mirror. there are people running for president on the republican side who said some very mean things that are continuing a narrative that is killing us. >> do you remember lindsey graham's announcement speech? it was like the biggest doom and gloom. isis is going to destroy us all. i don't know what happened between that guy and this guy. but i really like this guy. i might want to vote for him. i don't know if that works for the republican primary electorate if i'm saying that dude makes some sense. but he seems like somebody i would certainly like to hang out with more than anybody else in the field. >> they are the same guy. and i don't literally. there is a specific part of the republican donor base all of this together speaks to. a lot of people who give money to the b republican party on the east coast. people who are fairly socially liberal or just don't care about them and think they have been undermining the party. people who are conservative but

county want disruptive policy likes government shut downs. and yet are quite eager about foreign policy adventures and wars. so i think this mash up of fairly extreme positions on foreign policy with much more moderate ones on social policy and establishment conservative views. speaks to the republican establishment or donor base. part of the problem for graham is that also is very much the part of the party jeb bush is using as a part of his base. so why lindsey graham rather than jeb bush who seems much more likely to win. >> and the old saying in politics is happy warrior. seems like his big impacts have been on detention policy -- >> [ inaudible ]. which he is the face of and continues to put -- >> i want to hit on the foreign policy more from the interview

with alex. where again he doesn't ever back off that even when he's in his jovial mood. hi isis being a world war ii level threat which as terrible as they are is not how everyone necessarily views them in the foreign policy community. let me play that. >> to expect these countries to repair themselves without some help is really naive. they are religious nazis and somebody has to go over there to beat them. and if i thought i could defend the country without sending soldiers back i would. it's hard to go back. hard to go back and fight for ground you previously had. >> does that also give you that fresh air feeling. >> i will say it still ends up in the same realm of reasonable. anyone using the word religious nazis sorts of makes me go well do we want to throw that out there. but i think there are a lot of people who would agree this is not getting better and we have to do something about it.

i and think people would like him over jeb bush because they want something different than a bush perhaps. >> he does have the advantage of not having the last name bush. but i don't think there is a lot of enthusiasm for a new war in iraq and ground troops. and politicians on both sides of the aisle have been pointing to the problems of iraq and syria as the problem without specifically saying what they would do about it. i think americans don't want the ground war in iraq. i don't care that is going to win the primary. >> and but just more constructive. people get mad about bernie sanders and he's a senator and serious. clearly not running as a front runner. he identify with that and in doing so allows the type of

conversation less buttoned up and probably better for the debate. >> i think when you are unburdened by the possibility of actually being successful you can have a lot more fun and you can be a lot more honest. >> what you are saying is sometimes your best outfits are the outfits that you wear when you are not going to a big fancy event. >> sweat pants. >> i think my entire career could be considered unburdened by the problems of success. but if you are in a position like well this is not ours to win let's try saying different things and see how it is reflected back to us. and i feel like it is positive. >> i mean the things people have been saying about lindsey graham before getting into the race is he wasn't getting in it to win. he was getting in to act as the counterweight to rand paul and be a voice for maximalist interventionist foreign policy and push candidates like rubio and bush to adopt more hawkish

positions than otherwise. and we'll see. the first debate is in august. we'll see if that is the role he ends up playing there. i think to actually put yourself in the position of running a presidential campaign which is exhausting you have to delude yours into believing you can win it even if it looks obvious. >> you have to admit. a front runner style serious national campaign is extremely exhausting. when i worked on one for a nominee it is incredible what that person and their family has to go through. a media centric set of extra interviews and extra time talking to people without having to do some of the hard fundraising and the crushing schedule is a little different. now time will tell what he gets behind him and what he runs. but there is that aspect he could do the bill mauer version of the campaign. thank you guys. and don't forget to catch josh's show not as well named as the earlier one, but it's called

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. the deadline now here. greece is supposed to pay up by 5:00 p.m. just minutes from now. or it will face effective default. today greek officials say they can't make this payment. so how did we get here? we want to show you in four simple charts. as a nation greece has some of the highest unemployment in europe making it hard to rebound. as a government greece has more debt than it can pay even after it's been cutting pensions and

benefits to the bone. as a nation greece has lost the essential ingredient of trust. those are bank deposits plummeting because people don't believe money that goes into greek banks will necessarily come back out. this week the government limited people to withdrawing no more than 70 bucks at atms which confirms those fears. and finally as the defaulting country whose left holding the bag? mostly european nations and international groups like the imf. that is the biggest part of the chart holding the debts. not the united states. joining us now in this developing story from athens is sophia papiano. and from washington neil irwin. sophia, what is the scene there right now? >> well of course we are a few

minutes before officially out of the bail out program. and in an hour from now we are officially defaulting because we are not going to pay the loan to the imf. so the feeling here is a feeling of uncertainty is a feeling of people who are very confused and divided i'm afraid to say. it is as if the sands are shifting underneath our feet. >> what happens if you miss an imf payment like this? what are the tangible steps going forward? >> nothing good happens. there is not some immediate consequence. the imf can't foreclose on a house the way a mortgage lender would for example. but we're really in uncharnted territories. it hasn't happened with a debt this large to the imf. and the question is there some last ditch deal with the european lenders that enables

everybody to save face and get out of this? it is not looking likely. there is that sense on both sides there is no deal to be done here and greece may just have to default and move on. >> which scary for the people who live there. the notion that you would go to an atm and take out your money. it is your money. you are just holding it somewhere. and you can't do it. and you can't get it. that would really send tremors through the american economy in sense of trust. i want to play for you the president today saying we here at home in the u.s. need not worry that much. >> in layman's terms for the american people, this is not something that we believe will have a major shock to the system. so it is something we take seriously. but it is not something that i think should prompt overreactions. >> neil can any government

really guarantee what the ultimate shock impact will be? >> no. and the president might be right about the near term. for example the u.s. stock market was only down 2% on monday. up a little bit today. so the markets aren't exactly overreacting. but over the medium term and the long-term that could change. it diminishes europe. it could limit the ability of the european union to be a viable ally in geopolitics. and for the european economy this spells nothing good. so there are some medium term consequences that are pretty severe even if the near term consequences aren't that great. >> when you are in athens do people feel they essentially have no choice that they have tried everything? what is the outlook for the vote this weekend? >> no, they definitely don't think they have no choice. they are mainly confused because we have this referendum on sunday and we have to vote

either for no or yes. but we are confused on what exactly are we voting for because the government has framed that this referendum is about accepting a deal and having a negotiating tool. the europeans have framed it as a yes or no vote to euro and going back to the drag ma. and the ballot they have set exactly what we're going to vote for and it is a very bureaucratic and very technical question. so everybody is confused here because people in greece don't really know what they are voting for on sunday. >> sophia thank you for joining us from greece and neil irwin in washington appreciate it. big story and we'll stay on it. coming up you may have heard of leap years. meet the leap second and what it is after the break.

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choicehotels.com the addition of a leap second is supposed to allow the earth's gradually slowing rotation to catch up with atomic clocks. the tinkering could actually effect some systems. last time this happened in 2012 and some websites all crashed. and more than 400 flights were grounded in australia. and perhaps more nerve wracking this is the first leap second added since markets went completely electronic. markets ending trading early actually just in case. for those outside the u.s. trading and tech worlds you can set your clocks for 11:59:60 and

be sure you make your extra second count. just so you know. now the "ed show" is up next. good evening americans. welcome to the "ed show" from detroit lakes, minnesota. let's get to work. tonight, born to run. >> i am proud to announce my candidacy after seven years of a weak and feckless foreign policy run by barack obama, we better not turn it over to his second mait mate hillary clinton. >> plus gop round up. >> jeb bush is planning today to release 33 years of his personal tax returns. >> i have to tell the truth. >> i like donald trump. i think he's terrific. >> swing in kah ching. >> is phil mickelson connected to an illegal