american express' timeless safety and security are now available on apple pay. the next evolution of membership is here. >> we're going to start off in a really happy place. because i not only want you to have a good friday night, i want you to have a good weekend. and i think this is so good it's goodness will carry you right through tonight. and tomorrow and the next day. if you are a dog person and you are a person who uses the internet machine there is a pretty good chance that you some time in the last couple years have had great joy thanks to dog shaming.com. this one on your screen now, i practiced, i tried it. i will be unable to read it out loud. this is basically the epitome of

dog shaming. the next one i can read though. this is from last week. i still toys from babies. this is a hungry angry bulldog my mom put me on a diet so i ate the blinds. this one, what he's confessing to, i peeed into the bedroom fan. it's the look on the face that is why dog shaming.com is so so great. so dog lovers had the advantage for years now when it comes to great joy from the combination of our companion animals and the internet. dog lovers had the advantage for years from dog shaming.com. until now. until now. because now, there is instagram/trump your cat. instagram.com trump your cat. trump your cat. trump your cat comes with

instructions. step one, brush your cat. step 2 form the hair that you just brushed off your cat into a toupee. step 3, place toupee on cat. 4, share. post it online. trumpyourcat. you see all of these cats are wearing donald trump style cat toupees made out of their own hair. so yes, i still love me some dogshaming.com but with trumpyourcat the bar is look the bar is raised. that's its own hair. whatever you think about -- it's real, it's not fake it's my own hair. whatever you think about donald trump running for president, i got to say trumpyourcat not the only thing. donald trump has increased the amount of general hilarity in the world along with all of the other things he increased. but the hilarity part in itself in absolute terms is a good

thing. >> can you hold a sign. >> you know it. >> want 50 bucks. do you care who the next president is? >> no. >> come with me. >> paid. paid. paid. >> i'm right behind him. >> not supposed to stare at it directly but i can't help it. if i touch it will it heal my baldness? >> and then homer goes on a magical journey inside donald trump's hair where he learns many things and says the word boobie. donald trump is proving to be both deeply weird and sort of inspiring. to a lot of people for a lot of reasons positive and negative. honestly makes for unexpected news in covering the presidential campaign. for example the news that the

federal aviation administration the faa is going to change the names of some of their navigation coordinates, they are essentially i might get this wrong, as i understand they are gps sign posts for pilots. they are renaming some of the beacons around the palm beach airport in florida because nobody noticed a few years ago one air traffic controller who was a fan of donald trump named some of the coordinates near one of mr. trump's golf course he named them after donald trump and some things in his life. so here's a map that shows the coordinates. sort of handy overlay showing you which ones relate to him. the palm beach international airport, the one they called donald, there's the one called trump which is next to it. and then the next one is called ivanka, that's his daughter i'm told. this one is ufird, stands for you're fired. there is also another over by

you're fired look at this. what it is is brthr. which i mean it could be brother, but it's brthr, to me that looks like birther. that one isn't described as one of the donald trump ones. maybe that's not being renamed. maybe they are not going to change birther. if they are going to change donald and trump and you're fired i might consider changing the one which is brthr. if it's that close to donald trump it probably is birth earthquake not brother. anyway. covering the republican presidential primary this year is weirder than it would be if donald trump were not one of the leading contenders. but it's not a joke he really is. tomorrow donald trump is doing an event in phoenix, arizona they moved to a larger venue. they got more rsvp's. that's not just for bernie sanders anymore.

donald trump expected to address more than 4,000 people tomorrow. and that's causing consternation in phoenix and in arizona. the phoenix mayor, greg stanton, felt compelled to put out a statement about donald trump's visit tomorrow. he says quote donald trump's ignorant deplorable and racist rhetoric does not represent our values. i could not disagree with him more. but mr. trump has a right to make absurd embarrassing statements. the city of phoenix will not attempt to sensor political speech the convention center is a public facility and open to everyone willing to pay for it including mr. trump. >> arizona also of course has two republican u.s. senators jeff flake and john mccain. on the occasion of donald trump visiting phoenix tomorrow jeff flake told reporters, quote, donald trump's viewssh coarse ill informed and not representative of the republican party.

john mccain criticized trump as well. >> i guarantee you that the overwhelming majority do not agree with his attitude toward that he has displayed toward our hispanic citizens. we love them. >> so donald trump's expected visit to arizona tomorrow it will spark protests tomorrow. it's sparking a lot of consternation among republicans in arizona. on the other hand it's the maricopa county republican party who invited him. he is appearing along side the sheriff who is famous for his anti-immigrant views and policies. also the immediate former governor of arizona, jan brewer says she's got no problem with what donald trump has been stay are saying. >> i believe that mr. trump is kind of telling it like it really truly is. >> so for all of the high profile spillkiss he is causing in the republican party all of these headlines how much the republican party the worried

about donald trump as if he is not a republican, how much they want to distance themselves. a lot of republicans like donald trump. a lot of them do. and the latest national poll for the republican nomination more republicans like donald trump for candidate than any other candidate. donald trump has come in first in a national poll of likely republican voters for the first time. and usually in a normal year this far out from the election national poll results mean nothing. we don't have a national election until the general, right. i mean if national poll results meant anything. especially at this point in the process, we would all be talking about the legacy of president herman cain or president rudy giuliani. this year this far out from the election six months before the iowa caucuses turns out national polling is going to be determinative. national polling will determine who gets to compete for the republican presidential

nomination. who gets to get into the debates. and according to the debate criteria established by the fox news channel though there will probably be 17 major republican candidates declared by the time of the first debate they are only going to let 10 of the 17 compete based purely on national polling. well, the latest national poll has donald trump in first place. fox apparently says they are going to average the most five national polls to decide and who is not allowed. by our calculations here is where that average of the last five polls stands right now. averaging at the last five by our calculation there are basically seven podiums on fox news's stage for the debate. seven of the ten podiums that are pretty safe. unless something happens to change the next couple weeks these seven guys and all guys will make the stage. jeb bush scott walk e ben car soon rand paul mike huckabee.

seven slots, a total of 10 are available. these other ten candidates are all fighting it out for the oth ter three spots. ted cruz chris christie rick perry, rick sanitorium jim gilmore, my friend. of the 10 there are three slots for them. the idea that the fox news channel is declaring only three of the 10 candidates on the bottom of the screen only three of them will be allowed to compete for the nomination because fox news said so that is astonishing. look at the numbers under their heads. look at the statisticalle differences between them. the margin of error on these last five polls that we're averaging to come up with this ranking, the mar begin of error ranges between roughly 3 points and 6 points. everyone of these candidates is within the margin of error in national polling let alone the difference between the individual candidates.

and let alone the difference between them and the guys who definitely will make the stage. and there's nothing that those 10 candidates can do to try to get on the stage other than try to get their national poll numbers up. nothing else matters. nothing. so every minute they spend shaking hands and candidates do every minute is a minute wasted. everything they are not doing to make national news is a waste of time. and a nail in the coffin of their presidential campaign which fox news will kill in the crib six months before any iowa voter ever gets to go to a caucus. you can understand why these guys are mad about it. iowa and new hampshire and south carolina, republicans in all of those states are mad because they are taken out of the process. and the candidates themselves are mad. >> i think this is a dumb way to weed out the field. i don't mind weeding out the field over time but a national

poll test celebrity, big states have an advantage versus small states, people run before have an advantage over those who haven't. it's july for god's sake. so national poll is a lousy way in my view to determine who should be on the stage and i frankly resent it. >> you want to name some names there? >> yeah. the rnc. >> any others? >> fox news. >> how would you resolve this senator? >> i would find a way for everybody who has filed and got a viable campaign to be on the stage. after a couple of debates you could start weeding people out. it's not about me it's about destroying the early primary process of iowa new hampshire and south carolina. under this construct, nobody really cares about with coming to iowa new hampshire and south carolina any more. it's all about money and what you're going to reward is the people with the most money and you're destroying the early

primary process. i think that's bad for the republican party. >> lindsey graham also explaining in that interview the on fox news he doesn't have any interest in being in some alternate forum put together as a kid's table for the candidates who are cut off by fox news and not allowed to be in the real debate. george pataki expressed the same sentiment today. it was going to be one thing if this was all of these republican candidates and the republican organizations and all of the early voting states going to war with msnbc or even going to war with cnn. but this is all of these republicans going to war now with the official tv channel of the republican party right. with fox news. fox's decision how to run the debate. it might have made sense if there were eight or nine or ten major republican candidates running. when the number hit 17 their idea for how to do this stopped making sense for the republican party and it started being a

hugely disruptive intrusion into the nominating process. honestly it feels like it can't stand. this is going to break some time before that first debate is due to happen. and you know what they are not even done cramming candidates into the race yet. the next is due to announce on monday and it's a big kahuna. wisconsin governor scott walker is getting ready to sign a new abortion ban in wisconsin and a huge huge cut in funding to higher education in wisconsin, on his way to announcing monday that he would like to do the same to the country. here's one interesting detail about that though. back the beginning of last month you remember when rick perry made his announcement he was running. one of the interesting things about rick perry's announcement is that it was a little overshadowed by what else was going on in texas on the same day as his announcement. because while rick perry was in texas, announcing he was running for president, at the same time

hillary clinton was also in texas that same day doing a big high profile event that got a ton of press at texas southern university in houston. and then it happened again. with jeb bush. we knew for a long time in advance that jeb bush would be announcing his run for the presidency, mid afternoon on a monday last month. remember, he announced in miami, on a monday. and you know yes, jeb bush got a lot of press and attention but it was again a little stepped on balls the same time he was due to make his big long-awaited presidential announcement hillary clinton decided to do an impromptu on camera press briefing. her first live press conference since she announced she was running. sorry, jeb, did i step on your tail there? now scott walker is getting in on monday making his announcement in wisconsin and wait a second. what's this in the in box? something from the -- hillary clinton will make the biggest policy address of her campaign.

hillary clinton laying out her economic agenda in a major speech on monday, july 13. the day on which some guy in wisconsin is doing something too. did did you hear about the hillary speech. she's going to make real news. it maybe it's a coincidence. maybe there are so many republicans running for president you can't help but do something on a day when another one is announcing even if you are trying not to. maybe there are so many you can't avoid stepping on them. or maybe this is quiet even gleeful political aggression from the clinton campaign which foretells a long long fun election season to come. stay with us.

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there has been a i guess rick perry would call it an oops. scott walker to make his announcement on monday. due to announce monday he is running for president but he

just scooped himself, apparently by accident. his official twitter account just tweeted out this image, scott walker is running for president, all caps. sent that out today and then deleted it. shortly thereafter. but we noticed. song: rachel platten "fight song" ♪ two million, four hundred thirty-four thousand three hundred eleven people in this city. and only one me. ♪ i'll take those odds. ♪ be unstoppable. the all-new 2015 ford

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particularly across red states. remarks at texas southern university that day in june were impassioned, she made news she went further in her proposals than almost any democrat has gone on the issue of voting rights. and that speech happened to happen in texas on the same day that texas governor rick perry was announcing his run for the presidency. hillary clinton's next big policy speech will happen on monday, it's going to be on the subject of the economy, we're told to expect again, that there will be news in that speech. again that will be on monday. which happens to be the exact same day that another presidential hopeful named scott walker republican governor scott walker of wisconsin plans to be announcing that he will be running for president. i'm sure it's just a coincidence. there are so manyp republicans running for president it's hard to find a day to do something when another one isn't declaring, right. joining us is stra stijic adviser for the clinton

campaign. great to see you. >> you too. >> i'm terrible conspiracy theorist. that's not based in fact. >> just so happens. but you know let's say this. if it does give people the opportunity to draw a contrast between what scott walker has been doing in wisconsin, what's happening there with his hostility to labor or the economy there, versus the things that hillary clinton will be talking about on monday, you know, that's fine with us. we had many -- same thing in texas. we drew a contrast. here is where she is on voting rights, let them say where they are. >> in which case you put that the way it seems the real surprise on monday is that secretary clinton is not giving her economy speech in madison. >> well you know. trying to be respectful. >> i understand. >> on monday i think what you're going to hear is she is going to -- we're going to take several weeks to talk about the economy because we think it's important and complex. and so on monday what you're going to hear is she's going to lay out her theory of the case

where we are, obviously president obama got us to this point, and how do we make sure we put in place policies that move us forward. so she's going to talk about you know, again, what are the things that we need to do to make sure we have sustained growth and not just sort of growth for growth sake but how do we grow this economy, and i think again, you may hear a contrast some people suggest that it's just about working harder. well you know she takes a different vision. i think she acknowledges people have been working hard and have made sacrifices to get to this point. i think a lot of people would say they feel they made it through, but now it's time to -- people need to feel a sense of security about the economy and they want to be able to you know, save for retirement send their kids to college. those are the kinds of things people want to be able to do again. and so -- >> one of the things interesting to me strategically that's part

of your role it's i know that secretary clinton and almost every other candidate they talk about the economy every time they talk. not only just when they are giving prepared remarks but that's what every voter wants to talk to them about. so in this case should we expect news like has secretary clinton held back policy proposals that we won't have heard before or is this summing up other proposals that she made? >> no, this is again, this is the beginning so i think that's an important point so it's not all going to come monday but it's going to be here's the framework and then the idea being again sort of taking piece by piece and rolling out ideas specific to each of these pieces. so i think monday is the beginning, and you're right i mean there is a lot of conversation about the economy, i think it is a key issue on voters' minds. also voters equate a lot of different issues with their own personal economy and what's happening in their own economic security. >> we got to live our lives.

>> how we talk about those issues and sort of understand that i think is important and i think that's part of what you're going to hear from hillary, again starting on monday. i just -- i want you to be prepared. it's going to be noosy, wonderful but the beginning of a conversation. >> again obviously you have a primary to get through and we don't need to talk about the ins and outs of that right now. do you guys view -- thinking about this issue about positioning yourself opposite scott walker's announcement, whether there was a strategic announcement, do you view the republicans as all having the same idea, all the same proposals on the economy, or do you differentiate between them and say well if we're running against scott walk are we need to talk about these issues running against rick perry these issues, jeb's got other ideas. are they on a wlob for you? >> for the most part yes. every time any one of them talks they seem to reinforce the case what they keep talking about are the policies of the past we know

do not work. talking about trickle down economics, they are talking about making sure that we would say that the deck is stacked in favor of the people at the top. they are not talking how do we make sure we have shared prosperity and sustained prosperity prosperity. what does that mean for the middle class. what we're hearing is trust us it's going to trickle down. we know that doesn't work. part of her theory of the case is we have to look forward and come with new ideas and we certainly there is i think there is a serious contrast between trickle down and where we need to get to to sustain growth. >> what we'll get on monday is a serious contrast between hillary clinton and scott walker on these issues. karen finney for the clinton campaign, will you do me a favor, tell secretary clinton i would like to do an interview with her. >> i will. >> thank you. got to try. appreciate it. we'll be right back. terry, stop!

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when it comes to 25-foot tall statues of clans men was this going to be terrifying or is this statue more terrifying than it was even meant to be because the artist who made this nightmare of fiberglass tried to make eyes by sticking blew marbles into eye sockets and make it smile out of grinning chompers that look like a circular saw. is that on purpose? whether it's this terrifying on purpose or on accident we have talked about this 25-foot statue before. it sits on the side of interstate 65 outside nashville, tennessee. it's a statue of nathan bedford forest. he was sometimes credited being

the founder of the clan. the man who sculpted this statue honest to god i kid you not was named jack kershaw who was the defense lawyer for the man who assassinated dr. martin luther king jr. i think it's fair to say when he created this he meant it exactly the way you think he meant it. the statue is on private land put up in 1998. it's surrounded by more than a dozen confederate flags, very subtle. when we last checked in on nashville and the clan statue which welcomes you to their fair city it was in the wake of the massacre at the mother emmanuel church in charleston south carolina and in the wake of that there were proposals by local officials in nashville to do something about that huge scary monument on the city's outskirts. if this thing is on private land what can be done? when we last covered this a democratic candidate for mayor

of nashville a woman who sits on the city council proposed that maybe on the public land that abuts that memorial the public land along side it maybe they could grow some trees, anything tall and green that could block the view of that and all of the flags from passers by on the interstate. that proposal is how we left it six days after charleston. now that council has voted unanimously to go ahead with that plan. to put up trees or greenery of some kind to try to block the view of the giant clan statue. the plan is waiting for final approval but if they go ahead with it some day depending on what they plant and how unertl the soil is some day the toothy clansman on the house will no longer be the welcome to nashville or travelers on interstate 65. we'll see. today, though if you took i-65 south out of nashville, and then turned left when you got to birmingham alabama on i-20 you

would eventually find yourself in columbia south carolina and today roughly 10,000 people turned out into the streets to see history made after the legislature there voted this week and governor nikki haley signed legislation yesterday afternoon to take down the confederate battle flag on the grounds of the state capitol there. we have known this was coming for a couple days now but seeing it is different. history today. >> this is an nbc news special report. here's matt lauer. >> and good morning everyone. i'm matt lauer along with hoda kotb. history about to be made. the confederate flag on the grounds of the state house in columbia, a symbol of hate for many heritage for others is about to be taken down and moved to a museum.

ron allen, can you hear me? >> yes. >> give me a sense of what you're seeing and hearing. >> i hear a lot of emotion. i see a lot of teary eyes. i see a lot of people straining to take in every second of this moment. >> last night we talked about how that confederate flag on the grounds of that state capitol, it only went up in 1961 not 1861 in 1961 as a note of defy defiance and rejection aimed at the civil rights movement at that time. it was put up just a few months after civil rights activists were jailed for their sit-in to try to i want great an all white lunch counter in rock hill south carolina. for 54 years those activists from that lunch counter had criminal charges on their record from that sit-in. until this past january, january

of this year when this south carolina judge finally moved to clear their names, more than a half century after their arrest and prosecution for that those sentences for those activists were vacated this year. and when they decided to do that instead of destroying the record of their convictions which is normally the case when a sentence is vacated in this case instead of expunging the record physically throwing it out, in this case they decided to keep the arrest record to keep the record of the sentences on file so no one would forget and nobody would be able to deny what they went through. >> no expungement will be entered, this will remain part of our history as corrected. >> no expungement will be entered. this will remain part of our history as corrected. that was january of this year. today in south carolina when they took that confederate flag down they did not take it away and hide it away somewhere. they did not pretend it had never been there.

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the director of our nation's federal bureau of investigation is named james comey. the first thing most know is that he is very tall. he is 6 foot 8. he is so tall that sometimes when he is photographed they cannot fit all of him in the photo. that's him in the middle. james has been in various law enforcement roles over 30 years, not known as a partisan he served in high ranking levels of the george bush administration

before president obama in 2013. james comey is also known, not to put it too lightly, but also known for being as serious as a heart attack. i have never seen him laugh. i'm not sure i have seen him smile. today james comey did did something if the not unprecedented it was striking. he summoned reporters, a bunch of reporters to fbi headquarters to meet with him personally. because he wanted to tell those reporters that he wanted to take full responsibility for something that had gone wrong. he wanted to take responsibility for a breakdown in the system that led to a very terrible thing. he said this to reporters. quote. this case rips all of our hearts out but the thought that an error on our part is connected to a gun this person used to slaughter these people is very painful to us. when james comey says error on our part here what he's talking about is about the charleston south carolina church massacre. the young man on trial for those nine murders now, the four months before the murder he was

arrested for illegal drug possession. he had something on him, it's a schedule 3 controlled narcotic. he did not have a prescription. -he was charge forward possessing it. nobody who is an unlawful user of a controlled substance is supposed to be able to buy a gun. now there's lots of ways around that but going to a licensed firearms dealer isn't supposed to be away around it. despite, two months after this young man's drug arrest the alleged massacre shooter was able to go to this store in west columbia south carolina and somehow he was able to buy a gun though the store did run a background check. now the fbi director james comey says that error was on the fbi. that was on -- it was on the feds, a mistake, it never should have happened. what did happen what went wrong, why did got so wrong? and does this point up something that is wrong with the system

broadly or a one-time unbelievably tragic failure? joining us is kerry johnson for npr, one of the reporters summoned today. it's nice to have you. thanks for your time. >> thank you. it's a pleasure to be here. >> what was the error that jim comey gave this for? what went wrong at what level? >> somebody goes to a federally licensed firearms dealer they fill out background information and within three business days the gun dealer is supposed to be able to know whether it's okay to sell the weapon to that person. what happened here according to the fbi director was a series of errors among the federal government and some on the state or local government. first of all dylann roof's arrest record from late february or early march of this year did not contain at least initially, the proper or accurate arresting agency. so when the fbi background check examiner in west virginia got

the paperwork, the first monday after roof went to the gun dealer on saturday to purchase the weapon the wrong arresting agency was listed. she called the agency that was listed on the form they said not us. she made a series of other calls and faxes, didn't hear back from prosecutors in south carolina about whether the charge had been adjudicated and eventually called other folks, we're told was told this was not our agency that did the arrest. jim comey says that if she had found the proper authorities and called the authorities in columbia south carolina's police department she would have learned that dylann roof had acknowledged and admitted at the time of the arrest that he possessed that controlled substance, which would have been an automatic no. and the gun dealer would have found out in three business days that he should not have sold the weapon to roof except that did not go down that way. jim comey says the woman never

accessed the information indicating roof had admitted to possessing the substance so after three days, the matter was listed as pending in the fbi back log, dylann roof went back and he was sold the weapon that he ultimately used to allegedly kill nine people in that church. >> as the director was explaining this sort of chain of failures or initial failure that led to the three days expiring before this could be cleared up and therefore by default he was sold the weapon because he had not been told no as he was explaining was part of this kind of this -- sort of a mea culpa, taking responsibility a proposal to for how to fix this so this doesn't happen more? >> fbi director comey said he didn't have any specific ideas on the table at this point but he has directed an internal investigation within the fbi to examine all policies and procedures with regard to how the bureau handles background checks. he's not putting anything on the table, he's not leaving anything

off the table. it's worth noting too, that the justice department inspector general had already been auditing the fbi and the atf for the way they use background checks so that process is also under way. we're going to see an investigation there, too. >> carrie johnson for npr, very clarifying. thank you for helping us. the three-day thing is amazing. if you haven't heard no by the end of three days they take it as a yes. doesn't seem like the most fool proof system. as like half the price! and we'll have to use like double! maybe more! i'm going back to the store? yes you are. dish issues? get cascade complete. one pac cleans tough food better than 6 pacs of the bargain brand combined. cascade. now that's clean. bring us your aching and sleep deprived. bring us those who want to feel well rested. aleve pm. the only one to combine a sleep aid... plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. be a morning person again, with aleve pm.

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ken jones is tonight's lucky player. >> tonight's player is jacob isaac lowry, an engineer who founded a wearable camera company, his wife is a marine biologist who works with sea turtles. and he is originally from kentucky rachel meet jacob. >> nice to meet you. >> hey, nice to meet you too. how you doing? >> spectacular. everything about you is more interesting than the last thing i learned about you. you are from kentucky, the other thing i heard about you today is that you are from a political family in kentucky? >> uh-huh. yeah. my mom was mayor of my hometown in lexington when i was in college. >> nice. did that make you have to be extra careful about not getting in trouble in a way that might embarrass your mom? >> always. all the time. that and a lot of other reasons. >> always a good idea to not embarrass your mom. it's great to have you here. you probably know how this game works. you get three questions, you get at least two right you win some

junk that we're a little embarrassed about but we like. kent what is the junk? >> first of all the classic, the cocktail shaker. >> then a bonus pritz which is something cluttering the office. >> the banana slicer. >> you can always find a use for it. >> is you know in case you don't have a butter knife we've got a banana slicer. it came from my veterinarian but it's a long story. i promise you. >> that sounds unique. >> all right. that's what you're playing for. we're going to bring in the voice of steve who will determine whether you get the right answer. hello, steve. >> good evening to both of you. >> all right. i can work with that. >> all right. you ready for your first question? >> let's do it. >> all right. on tuesday's show we were i believe first to report on a new campaign strategy from republican presidential candidate lindsey graham, in trying to raise his national

profile high enough to make the 10-person sutoff for the fox news presidential debates senator graham started invoking the name of a handsome celebrity to try to get himself some attention. which handsome celebrity is it a, george clooney, b, pierce brosnan, c, brad pitt or d, fred thompson. >> be awesome if it was d but i'll embarrass my mom and go with brad pitt. she will be happy that's the answer too. >> steve, is jacob right? >> let's check from tuesday's show. >> if we don't act now brad pitt with his celebrity status would have a better chance of getting on a debate stage than blah, blah, blah. did i mention brad pitt? brad pitt brad pitt. >> apparently the answer is brad pitt. >> well done.

for you and your mom. you got to get two to win the prize. i have great faith in you. here's the trick. you have two choices for your second question. you have a choice of politics or not politics. >> i'll go with politics. >> all right. the not politics one about the hole in the ice breaker that is up in alaska. let's see about this. this is -- this is from tuls's show. that day we got word that yet another republican presidential hopeful will be running for the nomination, when this guy formally announces we believe he is in line to be the 17th major republican to jump into the race. which of the following guys is in line to be lucky number 17? is it a, john kasich bobby jindal, scott walker or jim gilmore? >> jim was your friend. i can't remember if he was in.

kasich was talking about having to try and get on the debate stage. i don't remember if the he announced. i'll try d. >> i checked. >> jim gilmore former governor of virginia he's in he told the richmond times dispatch he is running. he will be i think the 17th major candidate to announce when he announces. >> your friend and mine jim gilmore. >> that was such a guess. very exciting. all right. last question. this is for all of the marbles. on last night's show after frenzied speculation whether pope francis would drink a particular beverage we were able to confirm that the pope did did imbibe. what controversial beverage did the pope drink in south america? was it coconut milk cokea,

cocoa, or for cocoa loco. >> it's b, him and jp the second both. >> right. steevg, can you prove it to us? >> let's check last night's segment. >> well now we know. the supreme pontiff we can now report drank some coca leaf tea. >> jacob is right. >> you make this happen did he win? >> look out bananas. you get everything jacob. it's all yours. >> jacob, because we recognize banana slicer is lame i think -- we have a hat? we found a hat. >> we don't even make those or sell them. we found one in the closet. >> that will work. >> thank you sand say hello to your wife and the sea turtles. >> sounds great. keep up the good work. >> great to meet you. that was awesome. i love the jim gilmore cliffhanger there.

jim gilmore, call me. if you want to play send us e-mail rachel@msnbc.com, who you are, where you are from why you want to play the news dump. we would like to send some junk to you. weekends with alex witt starts now. very, very sad thing what's happening with our country. and nobody wants to talk about it. >> donald trump doubles down new comments on immigration from the presidential candidate. who he gathered to support him. >> the latest on the heartbreaking story of baby doe. efforts to try to identify this girl. is it connected to a past case? struck down a bolt of lightning knocks a local tv station off air. see how it improvised to keep the news going. bang for your buck. a study out that determines what a dollar is worth in your town that's in big money headlines.