twitter verse in full revolt first, it's here it's bernie mania, bernie sanders drawing his biggest crowd yet as another candidate enters the race this afternoon, we'll tell you who. it's thursday july 2nd and this is now. we're counting down the holiday weekend, while you might be excited about getting out of dodge. bernie sanders is in ft. dodge iowa, he's about to kick off a town hall meeting. sanders is seriously eating into hillary clinton's lead in iowa. a full third of iowa democrats now backing sanders in the new quinnipiac poll. that's up from 15% in may. crowds are feeling the burn last night, this was something else. he drew nearly 10,000 people out in madison, wisconsin, drawing huge cheers for his big campaign message. >> it is about putting together a grassroots movement of

millions and millions of people who stand together and make it clear that we need fundamental changes in the economics and politics of this country so the government works for all of us and not a handful of wealthy campaign contributors. >> he's pumped up no doubt about that is this a real campaign or some sort of message campaign? joining me to discuss, we have brit me cooper from salon. if you're keeping track at home looking for a moderate conservative we're going to bring abby huntsman on shortly. let's talk politics first, is this real? >> i think that he is -- personny sanders is tapping into the heart of where the democratic party is right now, certainly, i also think his events are very accessible for democrats, if he had this event in madison wisconsin, where

really it's at the center of the movement he's talking about. i think the question is how this translates into votes. does he have the infrastructure beyond the grassroots support ways to translate this momentum into support actual votes, actual -- in the caucuses and primaries in iowa and new hampshire. hillary clinton has that infrastructure. >> define that. you could really argue the opposite of what you just said. hillary clinton has the establishment, the money, 40 million plus. but doesn't necessarily have the grass roots enthusiasm in these states. the largest event she did was in her home state of new york. we're doing small events because that fits our mood. eventually you need to scale, you need to recruit precincts captains and volunteers. >> i think now that bernie sanders has this momentum that's certainly something the campaign is able and willing and wanting to do. it will really be interesting to watch when we get closer to the

caucuses. iowa is a place that hillary clinton has to not only win, but do well that's an important place for her. and he is gaining there, he's gaining in new hampshire, and his message is resonating i think it's sensing that they're acknowledging that they're concerned about. >> there's always a kwliken and egg thing with the media here. a lot of reporters like to pretend that we're not a part of the process, but we are. the amount of attention we bestow on candidates affects their standing. katrina was talking about this type of media bias in an interview here on msnbc just last night in conjunction with that big rally listen to her. >> the national media has ignored bernie sanders for many years, people are learning there is a voice in this country that deserves to be heard and they're looking beyond the labels. >> her argument that a lot of the national press, especially television for a long time pretended this socialist didn't exist, even as he made it into

the u.s. senate. >> he has to overcome some significant challenges of visibility. there are whole communities for whom he's not a visible candidate. i like bernie sanders, i no he the vast majority of african-american voters don't know him, don't have a sense of his politics there's a way he makes sense for liberal northern voters, that's not where the primary mass of african-american voters -- >> you're raising a point that's doubly important right now. african-american voters are a key part of nicole igs. number two, we've been living through a year or two of prolonged discussion about civil rights recently by the confederate flag and hate crimes. these aren't issues he's had to deal with a lot. and i don't mean this in a negative way, i just mean as a reality, when you represent a state like vermont. >> right that's right. i think that he has actually been really good in terms of calling the -- you know, these

recent attacks we've been dealing with racially problematic and being clear on his stance on those things. bernie sanders is pushing the conversation to the left but the thing i think he'll do most for this race i don't actually think he has a chance to win, i think he will force hillary to actually have some kind of significant move to the left and that's the thing we need. he will have to climb a significant mountain to have the level of visibility with voters of color that he's going to need to overcome. even if the enthusiasm is exciting. >> it's an interesting thought. you met bernie sanders. >> i debated against bernie sanders on bill mahre. i've never been so frightened in my entire life. when he announced he was running, i knew hillary clinton had something serious to worry about. this is something that is passionate about the things he cares about, he's been speaking out about these issues from day one. this is a guy that has conviction. a lot of what elizabeth warren has that people love about her.

i do he's been underestimated. it's unbelievable when you compare that to some of the events hillary clinton has had. i think with bernie sanders, people are excited about him. they all assume it's going to be a jeb bush/hillary clinton outcome. and frankly people are bored by that. another dynasty election bernie sanders brings something more to the race. it's going to bring an interesting debate. and pull hillary clinton to the left, when a lot of progressives in the party want to have happen. i think this could potentially be just the beginning. the republicans have a lot of folks there, the debate is going to be rebust and interesting to watch. the democrats need a good debate as well. >> the other big news this afternoon, at least to political junkies is jim webb the normer senator, former secretary of the navy announced he's running for

president. these guys and gals have their prep period and they make it official. i want to read from his e-mail, making it official. we need to shake ahold of the shadow elites we need a president who understands leadership, who has a proven record of actual accomplishmentings who can bring about bipartisan solutions and yet a lot of folks scratching their heads when you see that he announced without an event over an e-mail on a thursday going into a holiday weekend. it's almost like they're burying this news. it's almost like a news dump. >> it is really interesting. if you're looking for a contrast to everything we've seen from these other candidates, i guess this is it. but it is interesting, i do think it is good for the democratic party to have several people running to the point about bernie sanders, the events that the size of these events. it shows how animated this democratic base is. jim webb is playing to a different section of the base.

>> what section is he in? he also says some things about the confederate flag that have turned a lot of people off. you have to have a lane if you are going to be successful and you're going to become the nominee, you have to define what that lane is and who your voters are. i'm not sure what his pathway is. >> and what his message is necessarily. >> foreign policy, sure does he try to get to the right of hillary clinton on that? i'm not sure, he hasn't been out there that much he's had a couple events. so i'm really -- it is unclear. >> can you get to the right? foreign policy with hillary clinton. >> not in this environment, i don't think. unless he wants to do a lindsey grahamesque thing. i'm going to be more obsessed with isis. which is a liberal rallying cry. that goes to the point of the negative space in the painting if you will which is on paper, people will say webb has this military background as a moderate o'malley was this governor who on a lot of issues

was seen as a big progressive, and yet again, it is not them it is bernie that's lighting the fire. >> i think again, bernie's a charismatic candidate, he's clear about where hen stands. so i think that that's attractive and i think that it remains to be seen so i'm excited we're going to have a debate, but quite frankly, i think that if you're talking about issues that are going to matter to other candidates besides the traditional liberal base, i want to see these guys coming out swinging on what we're going to do about police brutality, those are issues that matter to millennial voters younger voters that's going to be the push they're going to need in order to dwush themselves from hillary clinton who is fairly traditional. >> given the crowd, given the excitement around him, this is someone who doesn't have a super pac. i mean, that is pretty unusual in today's environment to see an

outpouring of support for this guy. >> it's important to make super jokes. >> thanks for that. thank you all for joining. coming up the historic settle settlement for bp. this is five years after the disastrous oil spill. the british oil giant agreed to pay $19 billion in settlement. we'll have more on where that money's headed next. and a continuing backlash over the confederate flag we're just discussing that. nascar telling fans ahead of this weekend's daytona 500, keep your flag at home. that's next as well. [ male announcer ] take zzzquil and sleep like... the kids went to nana's house... for the whole weekend! [ snoring ] [ male announcer ] zzzquil, the non habit forming sleep aid that helps you sleep easily and wake refreshed. because sleep is a beautiful thing.

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now we turn to a truly big story. bp and five gulf states have announced now a settlement deal today worth nearly $19 billion to resolve claims from the oil spill in 2010. the settlement is a legal matter still has to be formerly approved by a federal court. u.s. attorney general loretta lynch explaining what this means in a statement, this settlement would be the largest settlement with a single entity in american history. it is that big, the breakdown. five and a half billion dollars, 7.3 billion, 5 billion or so for the state's economic claims and a billion to resolve about 400 local government claims. joining me now to break it down msnbc's tony de coppola. how are you? >> i'm great. >> people are cynical about how

this stuff goes down. bp and these companies seem to get away with it wherever you come down on this i don't think as a factual matter you can debate the fact that this is a huge amount of money. >> it is a huge amount of money. it was a huge disaster 11 people lost their lives, thousands of animals died erosion on the shore. it is a smaller settlement than it might have been. just three days earlier, the supreme court did not take a case case. >> that's kind of bothering a lot of people. >> you think bp's getting off easy? >> they're definitely getting off easy on the clean water act. now they're paying 5.5. you break down the figure yes, it's big yes, it's a record. they're both records, 5.5 is

smaller. >> i understand the numbers. >> as you put it the part of the process is, of course, there's always some back and forth in settlements, no one side gets the maximum, that's why it's a negotiation, a lot of folks are saying this was a complex matter the administration handled effectively, over two successive attorneys general. we're talking about this a while back when they were getting started. >> as we move forward, we will be guided by some relatively simple principles. we will ensure that every cent. every cent of taxpayer money will be repaid and that damages to the environment and wildlife will be reimbursed. we will make certain that those responsible clean up the mess that they have made and restore or replace the natural resources that were lost or injured in this tragedy. and we will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law anyone

who has violated the law. >> how do you grade him on those pledges? >> yeah i think people certainly -- it was a big win for bp to admit criminal responsibility. at the same time no amount of money is going to replace a lost business that a fisherman had over the last five years. the fish didn't come in the boat. you can pay him now for that loss but he's already faced the repercussions. he's missed payments, not had presents for his family at certain times. life has changed for him. and this money doesn't make it any better. >> do you think this resolution makes other companies think twice about the safety and risk management policies or not? >> new rules have come on line and drilling must be more secure. but it's not that encouraging when you realize there are more wells in the gulf of mexico today than there were before the disaster. >> i felt more upbeat when we started the segment than when we

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stepping up patrols in heavily armed hercules teams. and they spoke exclusively to savannah guthrie about the threat. >> is there something about this year where there's heightened concern? >> the last couple days the arrests that had taken place makes us more aware here. we're on guard 24 hours a day. low cost low tech high yield would be one of the tactics that ilil is looking to employ. >> there are officials warning that this weekend has extra potential nor an attack. >> i don't want to tell americans what to do or what not to do but -- i wouldn't be surprised if we're sitting here a week from today talking about an attack over the weekend. >> late today, two u.s. military officials confirming two u.s.

airmen's trip home has been cancelled. anthony, on the one hand this is real, and we've seen why, i just ran through it on the other, what do you want people to do i mean, right now, it's thursday afternoon going into the weekend. this could really happen what's actually actual actionable for civilians. >> they are well prepared to protect and develop intelligence relative to the large scale gatherings, what my concern is the low scale gatherings, the beaches, the malls, the movie theaters, i think that a lone wolf attack can be incredibly effective there.

always i am particularly concerned about the airports the terminals are still vulnerable, they're still a lack of security personnel there and vehicles are still allowed to pull up to the perimeters of the terminals. >> sneak to that as well as the idea of isis inspired attacks. something that could happen here. we mostly think of isis operationally isis linked plots against western targets, that rate has increased to element double here in 2015. square that with the fact that most prosecutions of these fighters are trying to get tickets and get to turkey and get into syria. >> 2015 may be seen as the rise of isis we've seen many more

cases at home. some of them are people who are intent on doing things here, i want to try to go to iraq if i can't get there, i'll try to do things here, we're talking about people who don't have the capabilities to really do spectacular attacks. but in a country where you can get a gun fairly easily, a lone offender attack can be devastate s s. >> that's why law enforcement fbi in particular is moving forward aggressively. we don't know exactly when someone may go operational. with isis asking for attacks and telling its people specifically to beat you don't have to come here, do things at home people are taking this seriously. >> when you look at that and you look at the type of people they're talking about again some of these numbers, the average age 26 a third male.

fordham law school's center, to your point that a lot of them are not going to be able to do anything big, is that the idea? >> the issue of converts is separate from the issue of capability. we're seeing a lot of people who have fallen off the path and are looking for answers to easy questions. in their view america's wrong, if you're here and things aren't going your way, maybe that explains things for you. >> when people think back to 911, they think, you know 15 saudis and a couple other people who were highly radicalized from basically a very long time which seems different from someone reading in their basement and having the process take six months. >> people are being radicalized on line, in their mama's basement as you said people who don't know a lot about the

religion that they're purportedly converting to. this has a lot more to do with social and psychological issues. unlike al qaeda, they're providing a deliverable. it's created this state, and as bizarre as that is to you and me, we see it as barbarism. to others they think, maybe this is why my life isn't working out so well. some of the plots that have been thwarted are not only notional they didn't have the capability to do the notional things they come up with on paper. >> would you say folks are getting this about right or overheated or not vigilant enough? >> i think we are vigilant enough. we're as vigilant as we can be. in order to protect onesself i think we can increase the awareness of the general public to be more aware of the surroundings and like this woman employee at the navy yard.

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emflag has made its way all the way to nascar today. 30 nascar racetracks have issued a joint statement requesting that fans refrain from wearing a confederate flag jacket. daytona international speedway also hosting an exchange for any fan who wants to turn in their confederate flag for an american flag. back with me abby huntsman and brittany cooper. welcome to you both. it's really interesting because first of all, i'm all for people trying out the olds american flag instead of the rebel flag. and brittany i think people can celebrate this progress however late and overdue it is and address the fact that at a certain point whatever your line

is, it may not be nascar or the flag being sold on amazon sooner or later, we're going to start hitting parts of our culture, literature movies music. where at a certain point private citizens have to be able to decide whether or not a reference is acceptable and not a national rule. do you think we're going to get up to that point on any legitimate issue? >> i value freedom of expression, but i am elated that people are coming out and saying, this is not acceptable so that what does it creates a culture of diagnose comfort for people who want to fly this flag. you can either love the american flag, or can you love the confederate flag you can't love both. the confederacy was an attempt to ruin our national union in order to keep people enslaved. we have to be clear about what folks are endorsing when they fly that flag. so -- and also the folks that fly the confederate flag are members of a losing team. so they have chosen to side with the losers and i'm actually not

concerned about larger culture of limiting their freedom of expression. i think people will continue to fly this flag as they see fit. but i think that i'm actually excited that we have a cultural shift in this moment where we're considering what it means, having to see people endorseing a flag that says we wish you were still slaves. >> i think that's powerfully put. the questions do get harder as you get away from waiving the thing, at particularly governments endorsing it for all the reasonables we've been discussing as a nation and get into what we might call culture or history. here's dukes of hazard john schneider who's a star of it. we have every right, it's not the government, they chose, i'm grossly offended by flag burning. is the gold's gym logo going to be considering a symbol of racism as well. wearing the gold's gym logo. i don't think that's a good analogy, but there's an analogy to be made aboutst v shows or

books that depict this part of our history. i'm not sure if there's anything progressive progressive, liberal or positive about yanking the entire work of art. >> it's a balance. you have younger kids watching this, trying to figure out what this means. i think it's the most powerful one we have seen yet on this debate. more powerful than any politician that has spoken out on this. if you've been down to the south, nascar is everything to them. it represents america more than any other sporting event that there is so for them to come out against the flag or the use of the flag i think is a huge deal, and for the most part what upsets people is being told no being told they can't do something they've been doing for so long. it's not that a lot of these folks are racist or look at the flag the way they used to but it's something they're comfortable with they're used to and it shows how far we've

come as a country. >> what about books that use the n word or historical books that deal with this or if you didn't know that toni morrison wrote some of those books and looked at some of those chapters you would think this deals with racially offensive themes opinion it certainly does it happens that the author gets around to a critique. if amazon is going to be pulling merchandise or literature, or we're going to be pulling tv shows, should we be worried about pulling books? >> a few years ago, there was a copy of one of mark twain's novels reissued with the n word taken out. that bothers me deeply. i'm not advocating we run away from dealing with our history. why don't we have a discussion this is a flag that to endorse is saying we accept the part of

the country that wantsed to be a part of our country. people are flying the flag so many americans lost their lives for on both sides of the issue. of course it's about freedom of expression, but it's about the right of people to move through the worlds with some level of not having to -- we think you're less than human and we should own you as property. that's our original sin and we have to have some aggressive measures to deal with it. >> where do you draw that line? you're saying in terms of our country's history, i used to watch "all in the family" all the time. he would never be on tv today if i had to guess. but that is a part of our history. >> that's the difficulty. >> i'm going to go on to something potentially more fun or less. you could almost fit this into a tweet. twitter quietly releasing its 2014 equal opportunity report on the racial make-up of its team

only 49 african-americans that adds up to about 1.7% of the tech company's staff, and this one is especially interesting, you guys there's a lot of talk about a digital divide in interprets of users, what platforms do you use. twitter has actually -- as you were mentioning on our show been a platform for black protests. 27% of black adults use twitter compared to 20% of white adults it's one of the only platforms that has a digital divide going in the other direction. there are reasons for that it's so accessible on mobile. what do you make of the fact and does it matter that their team looks so different than their user base? >> absolutely, so this is a thing we're going to have to grapple with how do we transform our culture when we are in some ways in league with a private entity that says we

are much more comfortable with you being consumers of our product. >> that's well put. this is obviously an issue for women at large. >> i was going to say, they don't represent women in tech either, it's a problem across the board when it comes to minority groups. i've been thinking about why this has been such a problem, i think part of it stems from the fact that you get the young guys out of college that go to ivy league schools and for the most part they're white, they get there, they hire their friends or a friend of a friend. that's how you get a lot of jobs today, through connections, through people that you know. and so ultimately you have this environment where everyone looks like you, sounds like you, cares about the things that you do and they're not representing the people that actually use their site site. >> i love that you make that point. it's not that someone says i'm only going to hire my male friends. it's why they have the term out

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airline ticket prices rose 13%. meanwhile, there are fewer big airlines competing for customers. through 2007 nine airlines have shrunk to just 4, controlling 80% of the market. airlines are earning record profits through higher ticket prices extra charges for luggage, leg room. that doesn't mean they're includedco lewding. >> to say they're playing nice with one another is unfair to some extent. >> still, many airline customers complain flying isn't what it used to be. >> i think it stinks. i mean airline prices have gone way up. >> charging you for every little thing for a bag to come on to seat space. >> the summer travel season is just now hitting its peak. >> consumer news editor paul brady. you go on the website, you

compare the prices they almost always seem like the same prices and now the allegation being investigated is that that is a fix. >> it's really a good question you know we look back at prices over the years, you see they have gone up maybe 13% over five years. that's not really that huge of a difference if you step back and think about the fact that over five years, 13%, it's pretty reasonable. more to the point of this investigation, is going to be weather or not the airlines included. whether they worked together illegally to set those prices. competition in the market that's a good thing. >> at a certain point when there are so many fewer airlines as they're reporting. you're only colluding with three or in our other people. >> with only four major players these days you know it is harder for people to shop around the good news for travelers, there are some smaller airlines

they are putting some pressure on the big guys to help keep prices low. and let's not forget these major carriers we don't know yet what the doj will reveal on their investigation. these guys do compete on certain things. >> the other big change anyone can relate to you want to change that ticket you're going to get hit with that hefty change fee. if you want to check a bag, you get hit with a bag fee, together that's over $6 billion a year. that seems to be a revenue stream in and of itself people remember the good old days when not everything was an extra fee. >> absolutely absolutely. they opened up a huge revenue stream with these ancillary fees. that's an important consideration. you talk about the fares going up 13%. you're getting hit with the $29

there. people end up spending much more on their travel. you see those fees taking the airline industry from the red, moving it into the black, and that's something that is definitely going on and consumers need to be aware of. not just the fare they're paying, but the overall cost of their trip. >> i want to ask you about where people should fly. what is a good cost effective target place to go in or near the united states for travel late summer slush fall. >> it's all about sort of digging when everyone else is zagging. going to those hotter places this summer can yield huge deals whether it's miami, new orleans, houston las vegas, all offer great deals this time of year. mexico is a huge and attractive value right now. there's a ton of places to go as long as you're going outside of the popular peak seasons.

>> a long flight to get to chile, but unbelievable adventures, whether it's hiking going out to easter island amazing capital city. real adventures. >> long flight and long country. >> great thing about it about the same time zone as here so no jet lag. >> paul brady, thanks for joining us. coming up why the girl scouts are saying thanks but no thanks to a $100,000 donation.

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stipulation. >> at the head quarters for the girl scouts there's a tradition when they get a big donation. >> we jump up and down and we go. >> that's what the office did in march after receiving a $100,000 gift. enough money to send 500 girls to camp. but a month later the scouts returned that money when the donor said it could not be used to help transgender girls. >> if a transgender girl wants to go to camp she's going to go to camp so the money went back to the donor. >> there was not a moment of hesitation for you? >> there was not a moment of hesitation for me. >> the move left a gaping hole in the budget. this week the chapter started an online fund-raising campaign which has already generated more than a quarter million dollars, every hour the total keeps rising. >> it's really heartwarming to see americans embrace transgender girls as the girls they are.

>> emily says it's a fund-raising effort that goes deeper than dollars and cents. >> including people is more important than money. and having any girl in girl scouts is more important than any money could buy. >> amy poehler is among the celebrities tweeting support. some disapprove of the decision the chapter has been flooded with messages like this. >> our daughter's transgender and we responded positively to what you did, and made a contribution to your offices as a consequence. >> we'll all start doing this. >> these days the applause is louder than ever. >> those clappers you use, have they been going off a lot lately? >> they have and it is music to my ears. >> joe fryer, nbc news seattle. that is our show for today. i'm ari melber in for alex

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