she won't say it like that because she's not donald trump, and yet she can not seem like a total crazy person. >> josh barrow, lynn sweet, thank you both for joining us. this that is "all in" for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts now. welcome back. >> thank you very much. i had a good time. i missed you and yet i still wish i was on vacation. >> i missed you and i wish i was going back to vacation. >> this is the way of adult life. >> yes. >> thanks. appreciate it. and thanks to you at home for joining with us this hour. i will say it is nice to be back. but you come back and there is a sort of feeling of, like, oh, what happened? when i was gone? did i miss anything? i mean, i took a few days off right after -- right after the first republican presidential debate. and i now know that i was gone just long enough to get the results of that debate. it sort of took a few days off, but it was exactly the right days to take off because now i have just come back in time that

we've had enough time to take the polls and get the data and crunch the numbers. and declare, as of today, the definitive bottom-line result of the first republican presidential debate, and that is that this guy won. there have been two full national presidential polls that have been taken since the debate. big national polls that reflect the impact of that debate on the republican race for the presidential nomination. new york real estate developer donald trump stays on top nationally in the first of those polls. that was the one from fox news. donald trump stays number one in the fox poll. jeb bush incidentally drops like a stone in that poll. but one poll is just one poll. now we have the second one. the second national poll since the debate. it just came out today. this is from cnn. and not on in the cnn poll does donald trump stay on top in their poll as well, in the cnn poll, donald trump not only stays number one, he spikes.

support for him has gone way up. and at one level, this is getting to be a little bit of a dog bites man story. i mean, donald trump has been the clear republican front-runner in basically every national poll taken since the fourth of july now. but the beltway and the republican elites who are really freaked out by donald trump being their party's front-runner, they've all been pretty confident all along that donald trump wouldn't really be able to hold his own at the debate. he wouldn't really look presidential at the debate. he would not fit in in a bad way once he got up on that formal stage in a formal debate context with other real republican politici politicians. but the debate happened. 24 million freaking people watched that debate. and it turns out the clear result of that debate is that republicans like him even more than they did before. in this latest cnn poll, donald trum trump's lead is stronger than it was before. if you compare the last cnn poll done before the debate with this

new one came out today. so it's the same poll. you're comparing apples to apples. just the same debate before and after. you compare them. basically all of these candidates highlighted here, they all basically stayed the same. in terms of their pre-debate polling and post-debate polling. all of these candidates stay either exactly the same or their support only rises or falls by one point. before and after the debate. rick santorum, mike huckabee, chris christie, john kasich, lindsey graham, bobby jindal, jim pataki, marco rubio, rick perry, all of those guys are in a situation in which they are standing in the polls, whether good or bad, was basically unchanged by their performance in the debate. all of those candidates basically static. now, these are the candidates who do worse since the debate. these are guys who do worse comparing the cnn poll before the debate and the new pew poll out today, which was taken after the debate. jeb bush, scott walker and ted cruz all do worse.

their standings in that poll all fell after that debate. and then these are the three candidates who do very well. right? whose poll numbers at cnn went up after the debate. carly fiorina got a big jump. ben carson, he got a big jump. and good for them. but you know who got the biggest jump of all was the guy at the top, donald trump. not only is he still winning in that poll, he was the prohibitive front runner before, and he still is the prohibitive front-runner. but donald trump also gets the largest increase in support. he was already on top. and even so, his numbers go up more than anyone else's. and let this be a stake in the heart of beltway common wisdom about republican voters and what republican voters think about and what they like in a candidate. because we keep getting all these premature obituaries for donald trump's status as the republican party's presidential front-runner. i mean, when he made his disgusting comments about mexican immigrants all being

rapists, the beltway common wisdom was that he had gone way too far. republican voters would turn on him, that was it. turns out that was wrong. when he made his disgusting comments deriding john mccain's heroic vietnam war record, the beltway common wisdom, in particular all the republican elites who make up beltway

the beltway common wisdom about donald trump will be wrong again. the next time he says something spectacularly offensive, no matter what spectacular offensive or even disgusting thing he says next republican voters will like it. they will not mind. they will not punish him. republican voters said in this latest cnn poll that not only do they prefer donald trump as their party's presidential nominee by a huge margin, they also prefer him to all of the other republican presidential candidates when you ask specifically about policy issues, on every single specific policy issue that pollsters ask

them about, they like donald trump the best. every one. on the economy, republican voters trust donald trump the most. on illegal immigration, republican voters trust donald trump the most. on isis, republican voters trust donald trump the most. keep in mind, donald trump's plan to defeat isis is, in his own words, a secret. but that's okay. republican voters trust him and his secret plan more than they trust any other republican running for president on the issue of isis. and here is my favorite part of the new polling. which is that republican voters tell cnn in this new poll out today that donald trump is their first choice for the republican nomination for president. okay. but not all of them say that, right? if you ask all of those republican voters who don't want donald trump as their first choice, they want somebody else as their first choice, they want jeb bush or marco rubio or mike huckabee or jim gilmore or someone. you ask all of the republican

voters who don't want donald trump as their first choice. you ask all of those voters who they would want as their second choice, you know who they want as their second choice? they want donald trump. so he is the number one choice of republican voters. he is also the number two choice of republican voters. it's, like, what do you guys want for lunch today? ham sandwich. okay, everybody who doesn't, what do you guys want for lunch? okay, ham sandwich. it's amazing. if you can't have your first choice, who do you want? donald trump. this led to the exce headline a wonkette.com. republicans want trump. and if not him, then maybe trump would do. and because it's wonkette, they go on to explain in their inimitiable way. at this point, people are simply barking "trump! trump, trump, trump! at anything a pollster asks.

the new york real estate developer was also name d best flavor of ice. donald trump wins everything, which is amazing. i think it's because i've been away for a few days i'm sort of coming at this with fresh eyes. this is truly amazinamazing. people wonder why other people aren't getting a lot of press. it is amazing that donald trump is winning the republican presidential primary contest and by so much. it is actually an amazing thing. this should not exist in nature. but here we are. life's great. but it's early days yet. and, you though, who's ahead in national polling really shouldn't matter that much right now at all in the process. on the democratic side, for example, it really doesn't much matter what's going on in the national polls. hey, hillary clinton's ahead. it won't -- it won't matter for a long time yet. right? if ever. in terms of the national polls. we don't have a national primary. so national polling, the primary level, it just shouldn't matter. certainly not now. and definitely not for a long

time. the democratic party isn't even going to start its primary debates until october. but the republican party has already started its debates. fox news had the first one this month. cnn has the next one coming up quickly next month. and the republican party set up its debate process this year in this very early and screwed-up way that appears to now be culling candidates out of the huge republican field this summer, culling them right now. culling them now when republican voters are gripped in a fevered frenzy of love for donald trump which precludes them from seeing much of anything else about any of the other candidates. i mean, it's a strange strategy, right? i mean, when a reality tv show star who makes fun of war heroes and uses men struation as a political epithet, when republican voters are in a mood, that has them staying that's the guy they like right now, you might want to -- you might want to wait until that mood has passed before you ask those same people who they don't like,

right? if people on the republican side are picking donald trump as their front-running candidate right now, maybe they are not in a great frame of mind to be kicking people in and out of the race. you know what i'm saying? but the republican party hasn't set things up that way. and so while republican voters are in love with donald trump, the cull of the other cappndidas has already begun. rick perry appears ton the first candidate on his way out. his campaign letting it be known over the past few days that they stopped paying their staff, all of their staff. it's hard to know exactly what has apparently killed the presidential prospects of rick perry. it could have been the death nell for him when fox news would not allow him into the primetime republican candidates debate. maybe that was it. to be fair, though, rick perry is also the only major candidate in either party who's been trying to run for president while also being under indictment. that's his mug shot. so maybe that's part of it as well. when the currently serving texas attorney general was also indicted right before that first republican presidential debate, that was an unwelcome reminder

of rick perry's own legal troubles at home. it was referenced in basically every news article written about the texas a.g. getting indicted and getting his own mug shot taken. that couldn't have helped things for rick perry. and maybe governor perry has some plan to stick it out and run, you know, i guess it would be the first successful volunteer-based campaign for president while under indictment. maybe he'll be the guy who pulls that off. who knows? but it feels like rick perry may be toast. the polling results after that first hugely watched debate also suggest that the other person who may be toast is new jersey governor chris christie. governor christie has been at the ragged edge of irrelevance throughout this campaign all year long. latest results show him not only getting a bump out of his debate performance but, in fact, dropping even further than he already was in the polls. his numbers are now low enough that if a candidate like fiorina continues to do well, carly

fiorina may very well bump christie out of the top ten so he will only be in the kids' table debate next month when that debate is hosted by cnn. like rick perry, though, to be fair, it's not totally clear that you can blame the first debate for chris christie's woes, right? people thought he would be a good debater. he didn't make any splash at the debate at all. but in addition to that debate stuff, he also has a lot of home state baggage that you can't discount. i mean, the bridgegate scandal is still following chris christie around like cans tied onto his bumper. the criminal trials in the bridgegate scandal are due to start this fall. that can never be too far from his mind on the campaign trail. yet another ghost of christmas past popped up and made spooky noises in christie world today. governor christie attended a meeting today with new jersey's two democratic senators and the obama administration's transportation secretary to talk about supporting a new train tunnel between new jersey and new york city.

now, it sounds like just a typical policy matter that a governor might handle, but this is a ghost of christmas past kind of issue for chris christie because when he game governor in 2010, years of planning and $600 million worth of work that had already been completed all had to get thrown out the window when chris christie kiboshed another train tunnel that he had previously supported. this was something that was already in progress. it's this bottleneck in the northeast and the busiest corridor in the whole country after he became governor, after he had supported it, chris christie stopped that tunnel in his tracks, and then he took the money for that tunnel and put it in his own budget so he wouldn't have to answer for any tax rise when he ran for president. that sounds like a new jersey issue, and it is a new jersey issue, but it's very fresh in the minds of everybody in new jersey, in chris christie's home state. i mean, especially because transit, over the course of the summer, has basically collapsed between new jersey and new york

city, in large part because that infrastructure is terrible and everybody in new jersey blames christie for it because he did individually, single-handedly, stopped something that would have made it better. so this stuff from home tends to follow these guys around. he's trying to run a national campaign for the presidency, but he's dealing with editorials like this one in the largest paper in his home state today. look at this. this is from the largest paper, the "the newark star ledger." governor christie today is finally attending a high-level meeting to discuss the need for new rail tunnel. what woke him from his five-year slumber? maybe it was the agonized cries of stranded commuters during this hellish summer or the fresh warnings of economic carnage should the old tunnels give out before the new ones are built. or the shock therapy of the nation's highest transit official calling his neglect, quote, almost criminal. maybe he heard a whisper from some deep corner of his soul

telling him that he really must leave new hampshire once in a while to earn his salary in trenton. make no mistake, though, this is on christie. he killed the tunnel project in 2010, creating this vacuum and he grabbed the money and ran. if memory serves, christie has the skill set to find the common ground and get a deal done. he just hasn't exercised those muscles during his second term, which he has devoted to his hopeless quest for the presidency. hometown press. yeah. so at the bottom tiers of the republican presidential nominating process, guys like chris christie and rick perry look like they are on the verge of elimination. and, you know, maybe it's not just the process and this early culling that the republican party and the cable networks have forced on the republican field. maybe in the case of these two guys, they just had such terrible home state baggage, they were never going to be able to cram it into the overhead compartment in time for takeoff. but as donald trump continues to

completely dominate the republican race, there is not just trouble at the bottom of the heap. there is also trouble at the top of the heap. jeb bush is losing as much support in each new poll now as donald trump is gaining. scott walker's path to the presidency was supposed to be all about iowa. he led the polls in iowa strongly and clearly for about six months before the donald trump surge pushed mr. walker down to second place even in iowa. but as "the new york times" notes today, since that first republican debate, there have been three polls taken in iowa. and in those three polls taken in iowa since that first debate, not only is scott walker still losing to donald trump in iowa, he's also now losing to ben carson in iowa. he's been pushed down to third place. so whether you are a bottom-tier candidate about to get eliminated like governor perry or governor christie, whether you were thought to be a top-tier candidate like jeb bush or scott walker, whenever you are in the pile, the donald

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held tomorrow, who would you vote for? if the election were held tomorrow, everybody would be shocked because it's not going to be held tomorrow. >> governor chris christie boldly checking the calendar. talking about his standings in the polls where he is one of the several contenders on the republican side is essentially being squeezed out of contention now, maybe even squeezed off the debate stage in part by the persistent dominance of donald trump as a republican presidential front-runner. and mr. trump is not only dominating the republican field, he's also dominating the whole political conversation. those comments from hillary clinton that we just showed. that was her today speaking with telemundo after a campaign event in las vegas, saying she will absolutely draw a line there with what she called terrible accusations and outrageous and offensive plan by donald trump to deport 11 or 12 million hardworking people. joining us is robert costa of "the washington post." thanks very much for being here. nice to see you. >> my pleasure.

>> so the verdict seems to be in more or less on the results of the first presidential debate. donald trump cementing his role as the fairly distant front-runner. but as he shores up the top of the pile, who's at the bottom? is it fair to be looking at chris christie as one of the people who's really scrapping for his life at this point? >> i think you have to look at christie. this is someone who's the establishment favorite, in 2011 when he was looking at running was the establishment favorite even a few years ago before bridgegate. so i checked in with ray washburn a couple hours ago, christie's national finance guy. he's keeping all the donors in line. he told me christie had fund-raisers over the weekend in south mpton and put on a brave face and said christie's going to put a brave foot forward. the thing is he's got to be on that debate stage because his personality is at the center of his campaign. if he can't showcase it there, where is he going to showcase it? >> is money the answer, i mean, in terms of how these guys -- i'm not thinking about people in the middle tier. i'm not thinking about people like, i guess, marco rubio and scott walker right now.

i'm sort of thinking about more liminal characters like rick perry and chris christie. is money enough to keep them in contention? >> no, not at all. i mean, ted cruz strategy which is how this national fund-raising, national activist base out there with all these super pacs funding it. but if you're a bobby jindal, chris christie, you have to pick a state. it's not about money. so i talked to jindal people today. they say it's all about iowa. same with rick perry. for christie, it's new hampshire. try to have this town hall revival. but it's very tough there. bush is strong. kasich's getting even stronger. >> on the issue of iowa, part of the reason that scott walker has been seen as potentially nationally viable, even as he has very low national name recognition, you can compare the national media mentions to him to whether or not regular people know who he is, and it's quite a chasm, part of the reason the national press has been so convinced that he's viable is that people think he will win iowa.

he's now polling third place in iowa, not just behind donald trump, but also behind ben carson. is that a -- is iowa turning out to be harder to predict or at least harder to see from a national perspective than we thought it would be? >> very much so. i mean, because every strategist six months ago was telling me it's going to be just like it was. huckabee, santorum, an evangelical favorite will be in iowa and that put walker in a favorable position. now it looks like the outsider is the favorite. carson, trump, their numbers are strong in iowa, and that's a real threat to walker's entire candidacy. >> robert, as you talk with these republican fund-raisers and operatives and partisans of all stripes on the republican side, do you get the sense that there is any emerging consensus as to what they ought to do about their front-runner, about the best donald trump strategy? is it all just sort of keep your head down and wait and hope that he goes away? or does anybody have any sort of plan for how they might be able to capture some of what he's got? >> it's amazing.

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democratic presidential front-runner hillary clinton today made a big break with the obama administration and she did it on a topic that i'm not sure people were expecting her to break from president obama but she did it. and she did it dramatically and she did it on tape. her stance on this is already drawing criticism from her republican rivals in the presidential race which weirdly allies them with president obama. it's a little bit awkward. we will have that tape in a moment. but in order to explain that, i first have to do a little bit of a correction. i got something sort of wrong on the show recently. it turns out the way i got it wrong is awesome and fascinating, way better than the initial story or the mistake itself. so here's what it is. we've been talking for weeks on the show about shell oil's plans to start drilling the arctic for

oil. we have reported on the protests that shell has encountered this summer as they've tried to start drilling up there. we've reported part of the reason shell's drilling plans have come under such scrutiny is because nobody has ever really offshore drilled the arctic before. at least not in the way that shell is now planning to. but on that last point that nobody has ever offshore drilled in the arctic before, i was sort of wrong about that. and i love how i was wrong. check this out. this is a place called uguruk island. uguruk. look in the lower left-hand corner there. those three "os," not a typo. oooguruk island is located on the alaskan coast, a tiny, tiny little place loaded up with all sorts of oil drilling equipmentu

it is not a naturally occurring island. the oil industry built that island. it's a man made island they constructed in about five feet of water specifically for the purposes of oil drilling in that five feet of water. nobody knows how to drill for oil offshore in the arctic so when they wanted to do it, they built a new shore! they built new land, a new island and drilled from that. even though they were only in about five feet of water, they had to build an island to drill from because that's what it takes if you want to drill the arctic. you apparently need to build an island. in water you could stand up in. and then once you've done that you have to sort of hope that your manmade island doesn't get eaten up by the elements because these are the elements out there.

this is that same island. that manmade island essentially being devoured by sea ice one winter. so, yeah, you can build yourself new land but you can't get in the way of nature if nature wants to go somewhere. this is in five feet of water. drilling the arctic is foreboding and scary, not just because of the prospect of burning all these fossil fuels that are otherwise not going to get burned. it's scary because of the logistics to do it and how hard it is to do it safely. when shell was given the go ahead to try to start drilling in the arctic back in 2012, really offshore, not just on some fake island they built themselves in an arctic kiddie pool, right? when shell got the go ahead to start drilling offshore in 2012, shell executives went on the record, said out loud that they thought the task of drilling offshore was going to be "relatively easy." that was their quote. don't worry, it's going to be relatively easy.

what it turned out to be was a complete disaster. shell had a rig that ran aground, they had a rig that caught fire and was ultimately the subject of felony convictions. shell ended up pulling out of the arctic altogether because they had such a disastrous time there. now they're back. shell gearing up to try to drill the arctic once again. guess how they say it's going to go? i swear this is not the same article as 2012 but shell executives are saying drilling the arctic will be "relatively easy." saying that again. no big deal. no big deal just like in 2012 when it was actually a disaster and a failure and a crime and did i mention it was a failure? true to form, shell's adventures in the arctic this year have already gotten off to a rough start. one of their ice breakers had a three foot long hole ripped into its hull. when it was on its way to the drilling site last month. the ship had to go back to portland, oregon, for repairs and almost didn't make it out of portland when it was surrounded by a sea of protesters in kayaks and dangling over a bridge there.

but now that the ice breaker is back on site in alaska, the obama administration has just given shell the final authorization it needs to start offshore drilling for oil up there. that decision came down yesterday. and today the obama administration was publicly rebuked for doing that by democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton hillary clinton has not broke within the obama administration on many things during this presidential race, but today she came out and said she would not have given shell the ok to start drilling. then she sent out this tweet "the arctic is a unique treasure, given what we know it's not worth the risk of drilling." she sent out that tweet earlier this morning. then this is what she told reporters tonight. >> i think the very grave difficulties that shell encountered the last time they tried to do that should be a red flag for anybody. i have been been to the arctic, i have been to barrow, our

most northernmost outpost in the united states and i think we should not risk the potential catastrophes that could come about from accidents in looking for more oil in a pristine -- one of the few remaining pristine regions of the world. >> we should not risk the potential catastrophes that could come about from arctic drilling. hillary clinton, her speaking earlier tonight in las vegas. just a day after the obama administration gave shell the final permit they needed to start drilling offshore in the arctic. that's pretty much never been done before -- unless you count the oil companies having to build themselves an island to drill from because actually drilling offshore in the arctic doesn't seem like it would be an easy thing to do even if shell keeps saying that it is. joining us now is tony decopal. he's an environmental reporter for msnbc. tonefy, it's great to have you here. thanks. >> glad to be here. >> so shell has the go ahead to start drilling.

the season up there -- literally, the season up there is very short. do the people who oppose shell doing this have any sort of strategy? any sort of plan to stop this or is this done now? >> it's not done. remember when the russian oil company tried to drill in the russian part of the arctic in 2013 just ahead of the sochi olympics, greenpeace, which owns boats and has lots of money, got all the way out there and tried to scale the rig and the russian coast guard rounded them all up. greenpeace will not tell me for certain, they don't want to tip their hand that they'll do something like that but they have said "we have to run out the clock, we have to create another delay" like the one you previewed in the intro where they dangled from the bridge "to push this season back." it's only four weeks that shell has to go a mile into the seabed and start touching oil. >> once they get to the end of that four-week period, what happens? they stick a cork in it and come back next spring? >> they're going to put some kind of a cap on it. they want to get it started so they can work next spring. that's what they wanted to do in 2012 as well and it went horribly wrong.

relatively easy. can we come up with the things that can be harder than the arctic? >> the amazing thing -- so this guy in 2012 says it will be relatively easy. then it's a complete disaster for them. that guy gets fired and disappeared. they replace him with a new guy who comes back and says, yeah, we think it's going to be relatively easy. >> right. they have this special containment system so in case there's a blowout -- by the way, 57% chance they admit that if they continue -- 75% chance that there will be a blowout. so they tested their capping stack, that's what they had to bring up there if there's a blowout. in 2012, it came out looking like a crumpled can. they tested it again, refused to release the results. >> given complaints like that, was it a surprise that the obama administration said go ahead? they've been expressing concerns about climate change all along but they have -- it seems like they've been enthusiastic about this work going forward. >> somebody in the obama white house must have been very disappointed to see the way that the calendar was colliding here because obama earlier this month, big climate change

speech, strongest action any administration has ever taken and then somebody must have whispered in his ear and said "by the way, that arctic thing, you have to approve it," and it's one week before you go to alaska and make your pitch. so he looks -- i mean, hillary comes out and mostly looks bad for obama because the other two democratic contenders for the nomination have already said -- bernie sanders and martin o'malley, they both said we don't need to be drilling in the arctic. so it's mostly bad news for obama. >> tony, thank you. appreciate it. it is going to be fascinating. president obama is due to go to alaska within a week to talk about climate change when he's just approved this drilling in the arctic plan for shell. that is either the most ill-timed and awkward thing or some sort of magical 3d chess and we won't understand it until he does it. stay with us.

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rockford. it's the self-proclaimed steam engine capital of north dakota. new rockford hosts the annual central north dakota steam thresher's reunion. it features a threshing bee -- a threshing bee. this is one from 2012. it's an old steam engine and tractors up and running very loud and stinky and confusing and awesome, it will make you want to be an engineer. the north dakota steam thresher's reunion is coming up next month. new rockford, north dakota, is about 30 miles down the railroad tracks from the town of heimdal, north dakota. we talked about heimdal, north dakota, on the show in may because that town had to be evacuated when a train carrying crude oil derailed and several cars burst into flames. exploding oil trains are a fact of life in america these days, especially in the oil fields of north dakota. last month, some local volunteer firefighters in new rockford got some training how to respond in case the next time an oil train blows

up, it blows up not in heimdal or other towns that have had crashes, they have trained for how to respond to an oil fire in their town. we know about that training and we have great photos of that training, thanks to the local paper. which is called "the new rockford transcript." "the new rockford transcript" is the local newspaper and served the town since 1883. it's been there for more than 130 years. they cover the north dakota junior high rodeo state finals, they cover the construction of the new swimming pool, list the sales during the city wide garage sale weekend. and this weekend on saturday, "the new rockford transcript" had to cover a big fire in downtown new rockford, north dakota. this was not an oil train fire, but with high winds and temperatures near 100 degrees it took hours to get it out and this is a particularly difficult fire for the staff of "the transcript" to

cover because the fire was at "the transcript's" offices. it was in the newspaper's office. the building was a total loss. the staff salvaged one computer and a couple of hard drives. everything else used to create the newspaper was gone. that paper has been there more than 130 years. we can tell you within 48 hours of their building burning to the ground, the staff of "the new rockford transcript" was back at it working on the next edition of the paper, and that's because "the transcript" has friends. local real estate company gave them temporary office space. the transcript's publisher says ten other newspapers offered office equipment and anything else they needed. they started rolling out pages of the new edition yesterday. monday, after the fire completely destroyed their offices on saturday. "the transcript's" general manager, amy, sent us this video showing us the burnt-out office and taking the short walk to their new space where the staff is working on the next issue.

the next issue is due out this upcoming monday. clearly, it will take more than a devastating fire to stop "the new rockford transcript." that's a good thing for new rockford. it's a good thing for the rest of us. every town, every hamlet in this country is in some way part of our national story. one of the local journalistic resources we have near the north dakota oil patch covered the fire in their own building as their own building and all of their history turned to ash. inside that building they had a big walk-in safe. in that safe were the newspaper's archives. the history of new rockford all the way back to the beginning, all the way back to the 1800s. "the transcript's" publisher told us he does not know if the archives survived because his first priority is getting the next edition out. he has not had time to search the wreckage. we will let you know what he finds when he looks. we will be grateful for the good of us all. if you do not subscribe to your local paper, if you do not pay to get behind

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graduates from this current ranger school graduates this coming friday, they are expecting dozens of media outlets, not just from the united states but from all over the world to cover that graduation because something makes this class different. this class includes women. 19 women started on day one. two of them have just completed it and will graduate. 381 men started this class, 97 of them will finish. this is the first time women have been allowed to compete in ranger school and the first time that any will graduate. the obama administration said in 2013 the pentagon should open up all service branches to women in combat roles by 2016. this ranger school test is the first test of whether it would work for the rangers. these two who are about to graduate are first to prove it can. right now these two women will not be allowed to apply to the special forces command to the ranger regiment because they have their first qualified applicants,

but maybe that will change. tonight, late-breaking news. the top admiral in the navy just said the navy special warfare command will allow women to become navy s.e.a.l.s if they >> you make army ranger school sound more difficult than say hosting a primetime cable news show. >> i'm just being modest. yeah. >> my uncle was the commander of the army rangers. so i have heard about this stuff before. he would be so proud of this graduating class. >> it is amazing. we don't know who the two women are yet. they will reveal them to the world before the graduation on friday. i think there will be a lot of international interest. >> how about one 0 your show and one on my show. >> deal. >> we will be joined by our first republican presidential