tossing out this idea it will be fun, go outside and had to work incredibly hard and tirelessly as of all these people, some behind the cameras, they do amazing work every day but they are doing particularly amazing work today. have a great fourth of july. usa, usa, usa. chris hayes, i have a favor to ask. >> yes. >> will you show me where you are? >> yes, it's secret. i didn't know it existed but when i come back next week i'll take you up here. totally amazing. >> the best kept secret in the building. only the favorites know where you are. i can't find it. amazing, well done. seriously, nobody invites me to things like this. i'm not told other people know how to get outdoors or on the roof. jackie do you know? i don't know. not like they are putting out bread crumbs they are keeping this to themselves. some day, i'll also get the key

to the special bathroom. thanks for being here. happy thursday. two pieces of really great tape from the news cycle today, both of which we'll play tonight and from the world of politics. one from president obama he went to wisconsin today and he met republican governor scott walker on the tarmac when he landed, which is nice. the white house for months now i think has been sort of sootubtly telegraphing they think scott walker will be the republican nominee and president obama talks about scott walker by name and the white house references scott walk rer more than any other candidate, i think. it's interesting today to see president obama go to wisconsin to meet with scott walker to shake his hand. but then after he met scott walker, he left to go elsewhere in wisconsin to go just give a barn burning speech in lacrosse one of these obama speeches where he's celebrating everything going right for administration right now.

and even in these moments when he's celebrating things that are going right, it's more common to hear this president talk about policy than politics. but this first piece of great tape that we've got today, two of them the first one we got today is president obama kind of fired up definitely enjoying himself and what he's talking about is republicans as a group. he's talking about specifically the republicans running for president this year this is kind of great. >> we got healthy competition in the democratic party but i lost count, republicans are running for this job. , they will have enough for an actual hunger games. [ laughter ] >> that is an interesting bunch. there are good people the ideas

are bad. i don't want to emphasize in our country, we're on one team. so we're all and we go there for thanksgiving thanksgiving. you still love them. you still remember your family right? but you got to correct them. you don't want to put them in charge of stuff. [ laughter ] that's all i'm saying. [ applause ] >> in related news some guy named uncle harry filed papers to run for the -- >> actually, that's not true. probably. somebody named harry piled today, but in addition scott

walker did file his papers today. we know scott walker wisconsin governor scott walker will make the formal out loud announcement he's running on july 13th but today he filed with the fec to say that he is going to join the race. so even less suspension than there was. tonight we can do updating on the chart of the historically unprecedented over large presidential field this year trademark. all of the people with the red background on our chart, they have all actually formally declared they are running. we have 14 declared major candidates for the republican nomination already. anybody with dolttted lines around them, we know when they are going to declare if they are going to declare. scott walker here where is scott walker? upper right-hand corner. he's got dotted lines because he's due to declare july 19th. we can finally for the first time take somebody off this list. it is time to poof somebody off

this list. peter king peter king the republican congressman from new york state had said he would decide by know whether or not he was going to run, peter king has just announced that he is not going to run for president and so peter king you become a small number of republicans who is announcing he's not running for president and therefore you get poofed off this list three, two, one, poof. good-bye peter king. we haven't been able to take anybody off the list in a long time but one further change we can make to the list tonight and this is an interesting one. it's my boyfriend, former governor of virginia jim gilmore. he seems nice. i want him to come on the show. governor jim gilmore has been a maybe. he ran for president in 2008. he was up there on the debate stage. he didn't win any states. he's been keeping cards close to the vest whether or not he would run again this year.

gym g his office said governor gilmore will make his decision if he's running on or about august 6th and if that date is in your hind for another run, that's because august 6th jim gilmore is waiting for the first day of the presidential debate. if that debate goes off the rails like everybody expects it to because of the format and what they are letting in and which excludeing, he may jump np andin and save the day. we got a dotted line around jim gilmore august 6th and walker is getting in and peter king is not running, very sad. still sufficient happening on the republican side of the field at this late date. on the democratic side of the field, there is also some action. we had a little heads up yesterday that this might

happen. here is how that went at our news meeting yesterday for this show. >> jim gilmore is going to decide in two days. [ laughter ] >> i got to go get on the air. [ laughter ] >> that was yesterday. jim webb saying he would announce in a few days whether or not he was going to run for president. but he didn't wait a few days. today he announced boom throw yourself into the closet. get on the air. that was not an earthquake. jim webb is now declared as of a blog post on his web page and so now we know the character of the democratic field? right? republican field still taking shape. we know the debate stage on the democratic side is going to be this group of these five friendly older white people who could all fit in a family sedan. jim webb is the fifth one to

declare, probably the last one to declare. if you're intrigued today and looking today to find out more information about him, this jim webb that will run for president, you may have run into trouble finding the information because the way information is organized on the internet machine. if you go to jim webb.com you will find a nicely organized, well-designed website for a man named jim webb, who is not the same jim webb running for president. he does website design and well. if you get more specific and put in jim webb 2016.com, that's not nothing, that's a go daddy web page. turns out jim webb for president president.com redirects to chinese bachelors.com.

my work computer wouldn't allow me to go. i had to go on my phone. now i'm afraid to use my phone to call my mother. that is not great for jim webb right? all the obvious things you would choose as your campaign website go either nowhere or to an unrelated business or chinese bachelors. bachelors.com. maybe not as jeb bush going to the a gay rights did cushion website, we had as a guest on this show. jeb bush for president.com. probably not as bad as ted cruz.com to this day reads support president obama immigration reform now. that's ted cruz.com. it's right up there.

jimwebb.com is right up there. the money situation, hillary clinton announcing yesterday she's raised $45 million for her presidential campaign in the second quarter of this year which just ended and that's a lot of money. the prohilary folks said today if you combine the $45 million in campaign money with the pack money she's raised, it's more like $70 million she's raised in the last quarter. interesting. everybody has the same deadlines in both partyies, right? everybody knows what their second quarter totals are. the candidates have been really really slow to announce how much any of them have raised. they know they just haven't said so publicly. the only republican candidate the on one so far who said what he raised in the second quarter is ben carson and it seems like maybe dr. carson is first out of the gate as a republican in explaining numbers because he's got a lot to be proud of. ben carson did raise over $8

million in the last quoter. his campaign was particularly proud of and it's important, what he was particularly proud of is how many different people sent ben carson money last quarter. his campaign spokesperson saying no other campaign will come even close to the number of donors that the ben carson campaign was able to tap for money. no other campaign will come even close, they say, because more than 150,000 people gave money to ben carson in the last quarter. that was a huge number. when i read that quote from the carson campaign, i thought they are definitely right. nobody will say they got 150,000 different people to donate to the candidate. i would never guess that anybody else in the race could match that let alone beat it. that's a huge number of donors. but once again, guess who is surprising everyone. hi bernie. vermont senator bernie sanders seen here addressing the crowd of roughly 10,000 people in

madison, wisconsin. today bernie sanders campaign announced its fundraising totals for the last quarter and not for the last quarter because he declared at the end of april. so he's not even declaring numbers for the whole quarter. he's declaring for two months instead of three but in that two-month period bernie sanders raised $15 million for his campaign. a number that the new york times today calls surprisingly large for a fundraising effort that has been primarily from small donors. but even more surprising than the amount of money bernie sanders has raised more surprising than the total number is the number of people who gave him that money. i mean ben carson is bragging rightfully so, bragging about the fact he had 150,000 people give him money last quarter. ben carson campaign said no other campaign will come close to the 150,000 donors. turns out bernie sanders had 250,000 donors.

so the 2016 campaign is fascinating. it's honestly as a person in this job, it really fun to cover. it's so freaking unpredictable on a day to day basis, but i think sort of this far into it, you're starting to see it's operating at a few different levels and day like today, today's news you could see fascinating to watch what is happening in this giant republican field and that gets most coverage. today another major company dropped the business association with donald trump. serta mattress dropped him because of the racist and demeaning things he said about mexicans and politico said donald trump is right what he says about mexicans. the republican party is grappling with the problem, quiet quietly for awhile and now they are figuring out whether they will embrace. maybe they have to get on board

with it. really interesting, right? there is news like that every day. today this incredibly counter intuitive news is coming out from the fundraising numbers. ben carson with huge numbers, right, and all the other republicans not saying -- there is this fascinating stuff every kay. day to day, who is in who is out? they are trying to get away with. it's just rollgreat. at a deeper level just below that though there is this legitimate manifest real enthusiasm which defies all beltway explanation. it defies all funded explanation, this huge enthusiasm for the rreally really liberal guy in the race. if you ask about that they do not get it at all but day after

day the bernie sanders campaign keeps proving it. they continue to turn out people by the thousands and continue to show up every other campaign and the beltway just is choosing not to believe it. you almost have to watch the local news in the places where bernie sanders is appearing to see it happening but it is really happening. so there is the fascinating stuff, sort of happening at the beltway press level, that conday in, day out stuff. the stuff happening with the bernie sanders campaign and is fascinating. but i said at the start, there are two great pieces of tape about the news for politics. president obama having such a great time talking about uncle harry and the republican field and enjoying himself in the politics moment and the face of the guy who the white house will be the notary public kneeminee. this is one of two pieces of tape today. the other piece of tape today, though, is from a totally

different level at which nobody is talking about politics at all. and it's from actually one of those republican candidates for president, who the president talked about today and it is the most non-partisan think you can possibly imagine in your life. one of the most human things i've seen a politician do certainly that i ever seen a politician allow himself to do while being filmed. this is happening at a level of political discourse we're very uncore uncomfortable with. republican candidate for president, i've never seen anything like it and that's next. and at red lobster's island escape, i can try new dishes like the island seafood feast with crab, lobster jumbo sweet and spicy and coconut shrimp. so hurry in, it'll be gone before you know it. leave early go roam sleep in sleep out star gaze dream big

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a reporter in the backseat of a moving car with a republican candidate. there are two amazing pieces of tape from today's news from today's politics news. one was president obama having an awesome time speaking today in wisconsin.

the president enjoying himself and how big the republican field is and how you shouldn't put your crazy uncle harry. it was vintage happy obama. it was great. the other piece of tape today that you really have to see, i have never really seen anything like this is this tape today from scott conroy at the "huffington post." him talking with lindsey gram. it's really emotional. and what they are talking about is vice president joe biden. vice president biden a democrat and lindsey gram a republican and republican candidate for president. but vice president biden and lindsey graham are friends. you hear about that happening in washington but rarely hear somebody talking, you very rarely hear somebody talk about it in terms this human and honestly this moving. i think this is just incredible.

>> if you can't admire joe biden as a person then probably you got a problem. [ laughter ] >> you need to do some self-evaluation because what is not to like? is what i can tell you. that life can change just like that. don't take it for granted. don't take relationships for granted. i called him after beau died and he basically said well beau was my soul. we talked for a long time. he came to my ceremony and said some of the most incredibly heart-felt things that anybody could ever say to me and he's the nicest person i think i've ever met in politics. >> is that right? >> he is as good a man as god ever created and we don't agree on much but i think he's been dealt a really gut blow. i think he focuses on what he's got to do not what he lost.

his heart has been ripped out, but he's going to make sure the other members of his family is well taken care of and he started talking about his grandkids, more worried about them than anything. we just talked about the future. >> yeah. >> he started talking about the future, the future of his family. >> remarkable taped interview with south carolina senator and presidential candidate lindsey gram. graham. joining us is all around good guy david corn david, it's great to see you, thanks for being here. >> good evening and happy fourth of july early. >> thank you. do you love lindsey graham now? i kind of do. >> it's kind of moving. the thing is those of us fortunate or unfortunate to spend most of our adult lives in washington realize a lot of people politics you may not agree with often are good folks and you kind of wish that they

could sort of take some of that positive character traits they have and apply it to the debates they wage when they disagree with you or somebody else. i can point out a number of times lindsey graham said stuff that wasn't a good way of having a debate in this town. he made jabs against susan rice or others they were unfair and i kind of wish that you know for all the decency he showed there, i don't want to just pick on lindsey graham that sort of decency would inform the debates we have. chris christie today is quoted in the washington post saying the problem with president obama is that he doesn't like being president and that he just doesn't like people. does chris christie, talk about liking people. let's put that aside. my question is does chris christie really actually believe that obama doesn't like people?

and that's something to say? i mean it's just silly name calling and from a guy who used to hug obama when they were working together on hurricane sandy relief efforts. so why does he say crap like that? i don't really get it. i don't know. it's not necessary. >> field being so big and predictable because of how flat it is and the size of the field, i feel like anything might break out at minute and so some of that is going to be nasty and some of it is going to be ugly and some will be fact challenge. i'm starting to wonder if decency or surprising rising of partisanship may be something to break out. maybe that's because i'm in a good mood. i am actually wondering if the field is so big that it might be weird enough that some good comes of it. >> you are being very optimistic. [ laughter ] >> my political analysis is that

the grass roots, the base the voting base of the republican party is still very much in a we want to vent mode. they hate obama. they believe he is a secret socialist who wants to destroy america, someone social conservatives do believe that the supreme court decision is a kin to 9/11 or pearl harbor and pulled the republican party far to the right. they are the tail that wags the dog and you see this across the board with candidates who are trying to figure out how to win votes if that's the audience, if that's the pool you swim in and that doesn't seem to allow for a lot of decency. we saw this with mitt romney last time around. i know people who work from it. they always said he was a descent fellow yet, he said lots of things he knew weren't true.

he said he kept trying to make the president seem like he didn't believe in america, wasn't exceptional. he kept playing with that sort of accepting it and why would a descent fellow that helped neighbors and colleagues so often play that game? because he thought it would get him votes and i still think that drives a lot of fellows, lindsey gram graham, at 1% in the poll may have more opportunity to be descent. >> the idea you can out flank somebody with surprising and heart-felt decency would make for the best beltway political headlines. david cornin, thank you. ahead, a news cliff hanger resolved with a psi la phone.

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on last night's show we reported alabama governor said he was going to make a major announcement today this afternoon and at the time we did not know what it was going to be about, but we reported it was happening, maybe how the state would handle the supreme court ruling on same-sex marriage or confederate flags, who knows. new today, we know. that major announcement actually had nothing to do with same-sex marriage nothing to do with the flag. instead, it had to do with the largest oil spill in the history of the united states. the deep water horizon explosion that killed 11 people and spilled almost 5 million barrels of crude oil into the gulf of mexico in 2010. today governor bently announced the federal government, they have all agreed to settle with bp over the legal claims stemming from that giant spill and it's the largest settlement any corporation ever paid for anything ever $18.7 billion and

undoubtedly, bp is probably relieved to at least know how much they are on the hook for, this is one step closer to closure for them when it comes to figuring out what their ultimate liability is for that massive and disgusting disaster. on the other hand this is the biggest fine any company paid for anything ever and if you add to it what bp already paid toward legal and cleanup cost, bp is on the hook for more profit than they made in the past four years combined. what they agreed to today, announced today, this is such a big fine some analysts say bp may not survive it in tact. there is some thinking this settlement makes bp ripe for being acquired by some other company entirely which means thanks to the deep water horizon spill, bp would basically seize to exist. so yesterday, we didn't know what that press conference was going to be, now you know more.

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chemical that's very toxic used in making plastics. it's toxic and flammable and when it burns, it releases a highly byproduct. it releases cyanide gas. exposure to cyanide gas can cause dizziness and headache and nausea and vomiting but enough exposure can kill you. and that's why nobody has wanted to come near that burning train all day today. they realized soon after the derailment they needed to evacuate a two-mile radius around the car. that meant evacuating 5,000 people in that part of tennessee in the dead of night. 5,000 people. but what that burning car is giving off, so toxic, so powetentpotent ten law enforcement officers themselves had to be hospitalized for chemical exposure. including those ten officers a total after 52 people have been sent to the hospital so far

because of exposure to the toxic fumes, half of them 25 people have been admitted to the hospital now for on going treatment. because of that risk of cyanide gas, local officials issued a region-wide request for these. they are kids for cyanide poisoning. a kid to act as an antidote to the cyanide. one county passed along four but officials in maryville are looking for more. there are on going concerns about the toxic fumes and drinking water in the vicinity of the spill and local officials have reportedly told the local e vok wee -- evacuees the 5,000 people

not to plan on going hole tonight. i know this is an incredibly difficult day. thank you for making time for us. >> thank you very having us. >> i understand, i'm told the train car did finally burn out and did stop burning tonight, is that true? >> that is correct. probably three or four hours ago it finally extinguished. >> there is a question as to how much of the 24,000 gallons burned in the tanker. do you have a handle on that yet? >> the fact that the product was burning was probably a really good thing. it's very flammable and it burns at a very high temperature so most of the product was probably burned up sent into the sky and vapor and very little of it probably got into the ground. no doubt there will be some residue, some tankers just went through now and other heavy equipment that's going to be digging up through the night

evaluating how deep how far that may have spread but the vast majority of the product will burn. >> in terms of what did burn obviously this worry about those fumes and we know a number of people are sick and gone to the hospital. are you satisfied that everybody in the surrounding area is out of danger in terms of inhalation of the fumes? >> yeah we think at this point it's pretty much just wrapping up. we've done air monitoring epa and other haves been with us from the beginning doing air monitoring and what we found that host of the fumes have gone upward. all of the monitoring around it has shown roughly background traces of the chemicals you would expect in this product as it burns. so we've been lucky in that regard. it rained much of the day and helped to knock that plume down and probably didn't go as far. fortune has it it burned all the product up and as we are now, it's just a matter of mopping

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world, the most important question now is is the japanese offense good enough to score against the americans amazing defense? on sunday night for the world title? now last night on the show it was breaking news it was mind bendingly exciting breaking news. when japan beat england in order to get into the final against the u.s. japan won that game last night, not by their own team, their own offense scoring a goal against england, no japan won that game last night because england accidently scored on themselves. the english player player in white here kicked the ball into her own team's goal accidently and that is how england lost and japan won and that's how we got this u.s. versus japan final that's going to be played this sunday night, 7:00. usa, usa. if that is not enough to make you interested in that game this will do it. because the organization that runs the world cup for the

world, all right, that organization is called fifa. fifa had worldwide executives arrested on corporation and bribery and charges, just terrible, the head of fifa hasn't been charged or not been charged yet, but he did have to announce his resignation from fifa after pretty much his whole inner circle got sent to the crowbar hotel in terms of women's game receive, what he would do to improve the game is make the women wear tighter shorts. so that's nice. well, one of the really really awesome things about the world cup final this sunday usa, usa is that not only is the american team awesome and going to the final of the world cup, but the head of fifa mr. tight shorts will not be going to the final. he technically still runs the world cup but will not be going to the world cup final on sunday.

he says it's for quote, personal reasons. but you know there is also this worry about the vast number of countries around the world in which sepp blatte could face arrest when he steps off a plane into a tarmac. three things why you are watching the world cup find on sunday night number one, amazing defense versus the luckiest offense on earth, number two, the biggest villain in international sports corruption and sexism. this is supposed to be his big moment, right? but he won't actually be able to go because he might get arrested if he shows up that's awesome, but number through, of usually, is just usa, usa, usa. that's the other reason. also, joe biden is going to be there. i know. world cup final sunday night. watch parties have been scheduled in places like lincoln park in chicago and civic center in san francisco. no matter where you are watching it from on sunday night, you

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regular people sometimes make history. if you are a regular person and you find yourself in the middle of something where you realize that what you do is really going to make -- when you realize that you personally are about to become an important part of the historical record how do you handle that? how do you comport yourself? how do you behave? when we think of the historical record, we not only think of famous people in history, we also think of the drama of how history is presented. like washington crossing the delaware. our first president when he was still just a heroic revolutionary general. george washington making that dramatic dangerous charge across the icy delaware river, crossing the delaware to the sleeping british forces.

morning after christmas. people make a point to see this painting in person at some point during their lifetimes, right? the vividness of the color in this picture is part of what is so striking for this. for us as a country this ises a close as we get to ancient history. this is the founding of the united states of america. when it comes to the historical record it's an interesting thing. the further you go back the more likely it is there is vivid color in the portrayals of what happened, a really, really long time ago. the history that we have before cameras, the history people had to paint in order to remember, that history comes to us in vivid color. whether it was a painting of a scene like washington crossing the delaware or portraits, where painters picked up a brush and the subject sitting for the portrait sat as still as he or she could and the great figures of our history presented

themselves for all time for us for whenever we might come along. we see the historical figures from way back in color. then we got the camera. at first, after a long time we only had black and white film or black and white photographic processes and it was tricky for a long time. you had to sit there for a long period of time while the exposure happened long enough that in big group portraits, sometimes people would start at one with end of the group and run to the other side of the group so they could be in the picture twice. mostly the style of the time was to sit somberly to sit, not just still but serious. so history might record you both unblurred and also as a person of heft serious person in serious times. in a long period between the invention of the camera and the invention and popularizing of color film, our history comes to

us in black and white as though the world itself had no color. it is funny, right? there's no black and white photos of george washington because there are no photos george washington. george washington got painted for history so he is a four-color president. but fdr in our memory he is in black and white. washington and fdr obviously both ate apples that are red and walked on grass that was green but we with see them the way they were recorded in color or black and white for history. well, today, painting is for art and photography is for art, too but for most of us it is free for nothing. today we take more pictures of ourselves than we could possibly catalog or even look at. pictures aren't just a dime a dozen. we take pictures we intend to exist for the milliseconds someone may view on them before they disappear on a phone. we take pictures of ourselves in

particular and they are the most transient thing imagine. photography is ubiquitous. it is a form of looking in the mirror. no longer posing for the sake of history except in those rare moments when we are. there's a woman named barbara dunn, the long-time clerk in hinds county mississippi where the capital of jackson is. for the past two years he's been in the position of saying no to people who wanted to get married. because of her job, she personally has been recorded for history over and over again as the face of the law in mississippi as the person who would not and could not give gay couples marriage licenses when they asked but in mississippi at that county clerk's office they kept asking over and over. >> i'd like to apply for a maip

r marriage license. >> if you have that bond with someone you know the feeling and what it is like to want that. >> i love you. >> statute states that we'll take your application, but we will not issue the license. >> we love each other so much. >> we know that life is short and we want to be protected. >> i understand. >> she says i understand there at the end. that video is from two summers ago from july 2013. it is from the campaign for equality. less than a week ago on friday the supreme court established marriage as a fundamental right in all 50 states. so this week history was able to record the marriages of people who have been waiting a very long time to get married. people who have been trying and trying and getting told no.

people had been told getting told no sometimes by clerk and local officials who were happy to say no all of these years but some local officials clearly broke their own hearts to say no to these folks because the law would not let them say yes. until now. now the law says and all of these county clerks offices, across the country and the deep south, they can say yes. when they started marrying couples in barbara dunn's office in hinds county mississippi, the newlyweds stopped by for a photo before they left. so did barbara dunn. look at this. look at this photo. look at her. she wore the brightest pink for the occasion. right? history in full color. you can see she smiled a little bit but not too much. future generations will want to know this moment mattered. all over the country, now all over the deep south, the last

federal courts still being used as an excuse to not follow the supreme court's rulings, those courts as of today ruled that louisiana, kentucky hinds county, mississippi, it's done. it's history. it is bright serious, very personal history. it's done. it's been a big week. that does it for us tonight. now it is time for the last word"the last word with lawrence o'donnell." today president obama showed he is still the campaigner in chief for the democratic party. >> hello, wisconsin! >> it is tough to see how it gets better for him than last week. >> there's nothing america cannot do. >> unemployment rate dipped to 5.3%, the lowest it's been in seven years. >> this is a special time of the year to be in america. >> great for president obama for a couple of weeks there. >> we have a record-breaking going on for