the time of data they're handing over is new. >> the thing i kept thinking about, other things that are not ashley madison. we all have. we don't want to be public on the internet. i have no way of knowing whether it is protected. well, i hope the google engineers are good at their job. thank you both vex. that is "all in" for this evening. rachel maddow starts now. >> i admit i was one of those people, karma! now you've made me feel more sad and scared about it. >> it is what comes next is the question. >> and this too. well done. thanks. thank you at home for joining us this hour. behold the center of the political universe today. pizano's pizza. in southern new hampshire, not far from manchester. here's what's great about it when presidential politics are really hot.

in the same little koernl of southern new hampshire, if you wanted to physically get yourself between two apparently plausible front-runners, you would only need about five minutes and all you would have to do is leave scott walker here at this house on martha drive in derry, new hampshire. leave that house and walk to the end of the block. then you just turn right at the round about right after the pizza, then take a quick left at the dairy quick mart and subs to go. then halfway down the next block, look, donald trump. both of them. scott walker and donald trump, both there in that little town within a half mile of one another at the same time. and that is happening tonight simultaneously with chris christie appearing at molly's tavern. exactly. susan is here in the studio. exactly. i hear you gasping.

formerly molly starks' tavern. one of my favorite places. bits 20 or 25 miles away. that's chris christie right now. and he is about 18 mile away from jeb bush over in merry mack. all in this little corner of the tiny state. all bunched together like this on the map. you look at all the big presidential campaigns colliding in this one little spot on the map tonight. it is like another great new england summer tradition. it is like a political demolition derby. if you live in new england and your town or your county is about to have its annual fair, if you have a good annual fair in your town or county, you will have a demolition derby. that's sort of what is happening with all these campaigns. all at the same time all in basically the same place. to stretch the metaphor, tonight in new hampshire, it is as if that demolition derby is not just happening on its own.

it is being squashed by a monster truck. even as all these same candidates were flopping their same mouths in the same place at the same time, as they were doing all the events bunched together in the same place. they were all in the same place. the front-runner among them turned into the monster truck who grabbed all the attention and smashed the other cars. even as they were all starting their events, donald trump dthded to make a late announcement that he would be doing one of his now patented live press availabilities. you're not exactly sure just what will happen except for the fact that you can count on him to be very insulting. and very blunt terms to at least one of the people running in the race. >> 50 gotten under jeb bush's skin?

i don't know. i will tell you this. you mentioned the word skin. he said the other day one of the dumber things i've heard ever in politics when talking about iraq. that we the united states, em, we have to show them that we have skin in the game to go into iraq. for him to say that we have to show them that we have skin in the game is one of the really dumb statements. i would say his other dumb statement is an act of love that they come here for an act of love. and i would say between common core, his act of love on immigration, and skin in the game with iraq, that's the third one that we've now add. i don't see how he is electable. >> donald trump speaking tonight in new hampshire while jeb bush at that moment was doing a public event a few miles away. mr. trump unveiling his critique of jeb bush is unelectable

because he is a dummy. part of the reason they get so much attention and televised live is because he says things like that about other candidates in the race. he also says there are others among them he likes, at least for now. it is kind of the mixed bag. you never know exactly what you'll get and who is on his good side and who is on his bad side. >> i have great respect for ted cruz and he's been very supportive of some of my tough stances. he's done well. and guys like perry and our senator from south carolina, lindsey graham who has zero how many do you get zero? does that mean of thousands of people in the poll, you get none? he has nothing. the people that attacked me now, rand paul is going down the

tubes and he hit me all of a sudden. he hit me. he went down. one of the great honors is that everybody who attacks me seems to go down. ted cruz and carson who has been, you know, really terrific. they've been great. a few of the others have been great. meaning we all get along. we should get along. some of them attacked me fairly viciously and when they attack, you have to attack back. >> who? carly is moving up in the polls. >> she is a very nice woman. >> weird to say. this i feel like i have to put up a lightning rod before i say it. give me a pencil. as a factual matter though, in talking about the polling there, donald trump is sort of correct. he is sort of speaking the truthful the candidates who have made a big deal out of going after donald trump, trying to get traction that way, they have sunk. lindsey graham, rand paul, they've been aggressive on that front.

all of them were doing badly before going after donald trump. all of them are doing worse since then. and conversely, ted cruz, carly fiorina, ben carson, they've all gone out of their way to be nicer about drumpl and their numbers relatively speaking, are better. in ben carson's case, a lot better. and correlation is not causation. i'm not saying their decisions about how to handle donald trump has sealed their fate fwufl correlation that he describes is true. it pains me to say the. he is like trump the insult comic front-runner. it pains me to say what he's saying is true but it's true. and that i think shows more than anything that republican voters just really, really like him. and they like other candidates who say nice things about him and they punish saying nice things. in states across the country and nationwide he is the

front-runner. and it is unavoidable now. how do we make sense of that? i can't wait to read the novel. it doesn't make sense in fact, when you talk to republicans about what they value. when you ask who they want for president and you look at their behavior, it is donald trump love. that's all we can see. since he has leemd to the front of the pack, republican who's have tried to fight him have sunk. here is a complication though from outside that calculus. and it is an interesting one. there is another thing going on right now outside of new hampshire that appears to be a mildly bernie sanders like phenomenon but the republican side. these guys were all bumping into each other. in one corner of new hampshire. you have to add a few more people. kasich came and carly fiorina and bobby jindal were all in

that corner today. while those seven presidential candidates were in that same little area code today, all the way across the country, guess who just turned out 6,000 people to come see him talk in arizona? this is that event and this is not bernie sanders. you could be forgiven thinking this was bernie sanders. if that room looks familiar, it is the same phoenix convention center where bernie sanders turned out 11,000 people not that long ago. the same room where donald trump turned out large numbers. about 4,000 people not that long ago. but ben carson was in that same room and turned out 6,000 people in that room. maybe it is the room. maybe that room always has more than 3,000 people in it milling around. it is the seating area for a nearby food court or something. anybody who come by, look, you have 3,000 people to start. you guys, there is this magic room in phoenix.

for whatever reason, ben carson was there last night. and he did that really big event in phoenix. he made a big show out of doing a helicopter tour of the border region alongside this arizona sheriff you see on the right there. if that sheriff looks familiar to you as well, he is the arizona sheriff who did this political ad in 2010 with mccain. and he said he wants to complete the danged fence. the sheriff said, senator, you're one of us. that ended up being an awkward political moment for a couple reasons. first of all, it was awkward because he is not a county sheriff. he is from a border that doesn't even touch the border. he is not even in his jurisdiction when he talks about

one of us and one is not. >> the other thing is that when the right wing congressional presidency got undermined, an undocumented immigrant, he made comments threatening him about keeping it secret. then there were all these images. that messed up his own campaign. he is still a sheriff. and ben carson in arizona took that same sheriff on to his stunt helicopter ride to the border. then capped it off last night in which em, he would not just use drones for surveillance. he would use armed drones. he would use drone strikes, drones firing missiles to police the american border. what could possibly go wrong?

and ben carson turning out big numbers doesn't appear to be a fluke. he is not turning out bernie sanders size numbers. yesterday, ben carson was in durango, colorado. he was at that toxic spill. it was an old toxic gold mine site. ben carson flew there into the middle of that disaster and said he would fire all 17,000 people who work at the e.p.a. he later said he didn't mean it. he took that back but still, he made a splash. and 2,000 people turned out in durango, colorado, to come see him speak. so ben carson is still seen as sort of a cult figure by the beltway press. he is surging in the polls. he's gone up a lot since the official republican debate in which he didn't say all that

much of anything but republican voters did like what they saw there. he is particularly surging in iowa. he was planning on winning iowa but he is now trailing ben carson. third in iowa after ben carson and donald trump. if you're looking for somebody in the republican field who might have gas in the tang, it feels like that. for the time being, donald trump is still on top with all the candidates still trailing him including literally, trailing him tonight in new hampshire. right past paisano's beats and the subs to go. katy tur has been right there in this crowded corner of new

hampshire. thank you for joining us. good to have you. >> hey. thanks. i really liked your intro. i think it is like an all you can eat buffet out here. you go down the buffet line, there is clinton and vegetables and at the end, there is a big chocolate cake. you can't help yourself. you want to eat that chocolate cake and you want it over and over again. he draws the reporters away from the attention. >> donald trump as chocolate cake. such a disturbing idea. i'm imagining a cake with that hair cut. one of the things they said is that he would have name recognition. a place like new hampshire where they are not swayed by slebl rid when they want people to do the work. they're used to candidates who will show up and take questions. that's a place where he won't play.

how is he playing on the ground in new hampshire? >> he is playing pretty well here. i'm not entirely sure they're not swaeed by a celebrity. you talk to people and you ask why they're there. they do seem to be very star struck. there is a good portion of the crowd that wants to hear him talk about issues. they want to hear him lay out an immigration plan. and we got a question from the crowd today. a man asking when he will lay out more policy plags. and kind of amazingly, donald said that he doesn't think that people really want policy plans. he thinks it the press that wants policy plags. the voters i have spoken with say they would like to see more substance behind him. more substance, less fight. they're entertained in that he is not a normal politician but they do at some point want to hear him lay out what he will do. not just how great he will be. >> so you're hearing that from voters. from his perspective, he says

voters are happy to be entertained and only reporters care about policy. that's an amazing assertion. >> it is. it seems like that's the case. you have to be flexible about when he will release the policy papers. he said he will. he has released the immigration one and that was met with some support from the republican party. but a lot of anger from a lot of other people and the democrats, even some saying it was unrealistic. even jeb bush who was just a few mile away from here. it is amazing to think that he thinks at this point that he needs to get his name out here. get the headlines, stuk air out of the room. and that's what he is doing. it is more about, hear me, see me, get headlines. less about what i'm going to do. trust me, i'll get it done. >> and tonight it is here i am. let me get that headlines. let me get cameras turned toward me. denying any press conference because everybody wants to hear

from him. >> in derry, new hampshire, thank you so much. >> lots ahead clawing dissenting view from trump mania. and at the end of the show we have a best new thing in the world which has to do with the republican presidential politics but in some ways has absolutely nothing to do with it. it is one of the most fascinating things in a long time. you wouldn't do half of your daily routine. so why treat your mouth any differently. brushing alone does less than half the job, leaving behind millions of germs. complete the job with listerine®. kill up to 99 percent of germs. and prevent plaque, early gum disease and bad breath. complete the job with listerine®. power to your mouth™!

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there is one last small thing to report about this donald trump thing. very small, tiny. from the podium tonight, mr. trump was very vocally pleased with the size of the crowd at his event. especially compared to the size of the crowd at jeb bush's event nearby.

yes, the symbolism is that naked at this point. but in his bragging about his big crowd size tonight, mr. trump got very specific. very, very weirdly specific. >> right down the road we have jeb. very small crowd. we have 2,500. so this was a town hall. they call it a town hall. i never saw a town hall with 2,500 people sitting in a theater but we're going to call it a town hall, right? so bush had 140, 150 people. we have 2579 people. >> 2579 people. exactly. not exactly. our reporters and our producers in the field went about there the professional way and talk to the local fire marshal who makes it, you know, his or her fire

marshal business to know exactly how many people in the room. and according to the fire marshal, 890 people in the theater itself which is the maximum allowed by the fire code. plus an additional 300 people in the cafeteria overflow room which is nice. it makes not quite 1,200 people all together and those are sort of bragging rights if you want to. we don't know how many people might have been outside unable to get in. when donald trump says there were 2579 people in the theater, i think we can say he was wrong about that. as to the exact number, we don't know. and neither does he.

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to tell that you this was the day in american politics when the national debate over who ought to be the next president of the united states ended up also producing a lot of free publicity for one particular chain for expensive but still tacky hotels. this clip is a little over a minute long but it is really good. watch this. >> my name, i am from mexico. i work in the trump building. >> when mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. they're sending people that have lots of problems. they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists. >> i have boring at the trump silver for the past few years. i'm at the only restaurant in the hotel. this is not what i plan on doing with my whole life. i work really hard and i don't plan on doing this. i am not a criminal. not a drug dealer. definitely not a rapist.

i'm an you documented immigrant. i was about 14 when i crossed the border. i came here with my family, my stepfather, my mom and my sister. we have lived here the last nine, almost ten years. this is where i went to high school. this is where all my friends are. it is home to me. other republicans have criticized trump's comments to. me they all seem to have the same decision on immigration. he may have an accent but i'm not stupid. i know i could lose my job for talking about trump. it doesn't bother me to go to work every day under his name. i don't think the rest of america feels the same way that he does. >> that video showing a young new yorker, 24-year-old ricardo who is a mexican immigrant. it was put out by a lefty group that has made news for their

videos criticizing the tea party and other right wing causes. with what is essentially this profile at one of donald trump's hotels. they're jumping right into the republican presidential race and donald trump's ostentatiously presidential campaign. it turns out he is undocumented but he has a permit to work legally. specifically because of president obama's deferred action program. which is the program for undocumented immigrants who were brought here as kids. if donald trump were elected president, of course, that young man and maybe something like 11 million other people in this country, some of them working legally, some of them not, would of course be deported. in response to this video, he told the new york times today, he has a legal work permit. i've heard he does a good job. we thought he was an illegal immigrant at first. now quoting from "the new york times." for now, he said he would not

press his employer to punish him. he added, i want to check his file. that was not the only donald trump hotel punt in american presidential politics today. this is las vegas, the main strip of casinos and hotels in downtown las vegas. both the economic center and the population center of the great state of nevada. and nevada is really, really important in democratic presidential politics specifically because nevada, when it come the democrats picking the presidential nominee, nevada come in third. first the iowa caucuses. you're seeing bernie sanders holding another one of the big events at the university of nevada, reno. we talked about how people cued up for hours to see bernie. it turned out he got something like 4,500 people at that reno event. hillary clinton did an event that was not supposed to be a big mass turnout event.

for her it was really big. a town hall in north las vegas. it turned out ninth hundred people. that's big a event for her. she's not been trying to do big events. so 900 people for her is a big deal. in nevada right now, in nevada right now there is one golden crafted by the heavens political opportunity that has been bestowed from on high to the democratic party. and you know, if you go back to the democratic caucuses in 2008, that was hillary clinton versus barack obama. the most dramatic in a long time. one of the dramatic outcome was that everybody thought hillary clinton would win the nevada caucuses. she did in fact win the popular vote in nevada during the primary but barack obama won because of one strategic thing that he. did he got one huge prime mover in nevada politics on his side and they made the caucuses happen for him.

in terms of turning people out to caucus for him but also getting people going door to door. putting in the leg work, the door knocking work, all that stuff that needed to happen for obama to win the caucuses in 2008. and they were the factor that made all the difference for him in that important contest. when nobody thought it to go with way that it did. the factor for him was the culinary workers union. and the reason they are so important is because of that las vegas strip. because almost all the big casino hotels on the strip are union. the vast majority of them. a really important part of understanding how the las vegas economy works, how the nevada economy works, and how nevada politics works. almost every single one of those big landmark spots has union employees. but donald trump's las vegas strip hotel does not. this is the trump international. i've always thought the trump international looks like somebody had stabbed downtown las vegas and left the hilt of

the knife hanging out of the gut. the lovely trump international hotel which sticks up like an infected sore thumb. it is not union but the unions really want it to be. there is an active union organizing effort going on. the culinary workers are trying to get that hotel unionized. so think about the dynamics. there's never been a more golden opportunity for a democratic twlunlt the republican front-runner is donald trump. all the pieces are there. total had owned by the republican front-runner. a union right state in a place where unit rights are really important and really politically potent. and specifically, a union fight against the republican front-runner involving the most important stake holder in all of democratic nevada politics which is the culinary workers union. talk about a fight that is low fruit for any democratic candidate. this is your chance to get on the side. most important stake holder in a state in a fight that is present and ongoing for them right now.

it's not only perfect for you politically. perfect on the issues. even the timing is perfect. and do you know who the democratic candidate was who saw this low hanging fruit and smart enough to be the one to grab it? it was martin o'malley. yes. martin o'malley. this is him today in las vegas speaking in front of the trump international hotel in 100-degree heat. >> and donald trump as a presidential candidate, i want to say that all these workers here have a lot more guts than the candidates running for president of the republican nomination. because they had the courage to stand up to the hate, to the division, to the sort of rhetoric that actually makes it harder for to us make our economy grow and work well for all americans. >> play of the day in democratic politics today goes to martin o'malley o'martin. martin o'malley who cannot get a headline to save his life. this is an example of a democrat being smart, using donald

trump's front-runner stat to us make a smart political move that may help himself on the democratic side. is there a lesson there in what martin o'malley did today for how the other candidates hour, the republican candidates, can compete against donald trump too? none of them seem to have figured that out yet? is there anything visible on the ground in this important state of nevada, getting all this attention, is there something going to that can shed more light to what is going on on the national stage? hold that thought. sfx: dad's voice i love you baby girl. duracell quantum lasts longer in 99% of devices so you can always be there. ♪

martin o'malley is in las vegas talking to the employees at your hotel. do you have any response? >> i know nothing about him. i think he has less than 1% on the poll. and did i see my beautiful building on television. >> donald trump earlier tonight. speaking in new hampshire. having to field questions about his business dealings in a beautiful building he owns in yet another political state, the great state of nevada. for more on what's going on there and what it can tell us about the rest of the race, i want to bring in the best political reporter nevada has ever had. my friend, john, a columnist fo1 the reno journal. great to see you. >> nice seeing you too, rachel. >> so donald trump's beautiful building in las vegas is the back drop today for martin

o'malley criticizing him on union rights issue and his business practices there. what's the story of that hotel and the politics around that in. >> it is interesting. no one knew b much about any labor dispute at the trump international. it is not right on the strip. it is just off the strip. the culinary has been fighting with that hotel for a while now. there has been some complaints with the national labor relations board. you had two very smart things happen. first, the culinary announce at the beginning of the week that they would hold a march where they would get hundreds of activists. that would take place on friday. then martin o'malley did something very smart as you mentioned and decided to piggy back. there's about 500 workers there who want to organize. they say they've been stymied by the business practices at trump. so you had this confluence of interests come together with martin o'malley who needs attention. no one who knows he is. suddenly he is standing in front

of a building with the most prominent name in politics, right? donald trump. so it was a smart move for martin o'malley to express solidarity with those workers. as you know, that culinary union will be a huge player in the primary in the caucus, excuse me, here. >> looking at the way the candidates have been paying attention on nevada. obviously with the nevada caucuses being third for the democrats with a history of that incredible fight in 2008 between obama and clinton. the democrats are paying a lot of attention. republicans are paying a lot of attention on nevada in part because they're going there to raise money. in part because they're going will to lobby people who are major donors. what are you seeing in nevada, the way these guys are playing on the ground, compared to how they may be playing nationwideful are there lessons you're playing that should have us thinking about the race overall? >> i think so. i wrote a piece recently saying that nevada should be first in

the country in terms of the balloting. no one listens to me but the bottom line is, we're a very diverse state. we're much more reflective of the country than iowa and new hampshire. and you talk about the culinary union which is an emblematic melting pot for the country. 55, 52% or so of the 55,000 members are latino. it is the hispanic turnout organization in the state. so you saw three candidates, sanders, clinton and o'malley come and talk to the afl-cio and talk about issues they normally wonderful talk about, that the culinary which is playing its cards very close to the vest really want such as refeeling cadillac test on obamacare. you never would have heard them talk about that. so on the ground, the that hispanic vote here. it is very important in determining who wins the race. you mentioned the republicans. they have not just come here the

raise money. last weekend you had a forum sponsored by the very conservative attorney general. they understand the importance of nevada. that crazy race, some of them may need nevada as a backstop after iowa and new hampshire. so i think that you see the importance, both to the republicans and to the democrats, and of the hispanic vote. here's a great statistic for you. for a republican to win nevada, assuming the promingss are true, that republican will need to get 45% of the hispanic vote in nevada. based on all the stuff they've been saying, the birth right citizenship is a bad train, that could be problem attic. >> 45% is impossible to imagine. jon ralston, columnist for the reno gazette journal. i know it is election season when we get to talk on a

frequent basis. i'm forward to talking to you again soon. >> still ahead, a political but very amusing best new thing in the world. please stay with us.

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♪ fight, fight, fight >>. ♪ chicken for us to no eat >> that was march 2011. that was so new and so weird, they had to tell us what it was. it had to be captioned. gang fight. rebecca black as interpreted by a bad lip leyde reader. bad lip reading. it has become an important part of how we can all joyfully misunderstand what has just happened in our country and there is a really good one tonight. coming up as best new thing in the world. that's very funny. that's coming up. first we have more chicken to not eat.

they started digging today in the burned out rubble of the numb's offices in north dakota.

we told but the staff having to cover the fire that reduced their own newsroom to a pile of ashes. the new rockford transcript has been the paper there is inls the 1800s. and the offices burned to the ground on saturday. that was not enough to stop them. we reported last night that since the fire on saturday, the journalists have been working on their next edition. they've been working in a donated office down the street. when we talked to them yesterday, they had not been able to get into the rubble of their own offices to see whether their archives survived. whether the history of new rockford, north dakota, going back over 100 years had survived the fire and all the old editions in a vault in the office. did they survive? today they started digging to see wham to that record of that part of the state. they had to dig in to see if it

survived. they sent us the tape of what they found. watch. >> all right. the front door to the vault had a broken latch. so we were not able to access through the main door. so we actually took a sledgehammer and broke out in the concrete blocks of the vault, as you can see here. this is the vault. and as we come into the vault, take a look here. there's the door on the front side. and then to your left here, you can see that we have all of the bound files intact. and from what we can see, we have files back as far as 1899. so over 100 years of the bound files appear to be intact. i'm going to pull out an old one, please.

>> put these in there. >> nope. open up an older one here. this one is wet. this one is awfully wet. however, yep, just pull a couple pages up. >> this is the new rockford transcript from 1902. january 3, 1902. >> they made it! the newspaper survived. maybe not every single issue. maybe some of them a little soaked but the history of little new rockford, north dakota, survived that otherwise totally devastating fire inside that cinder block vault even as the rest of newspaper burned down around it. and the folks there are back to

putting out their paper with help from across town and north dakota. that is not just good news for rockford, it is good news for all of us. our country needs local newspapers. this is the story of the survival of this one spunky paper but it is also the universe reminding us that we all ought to support our own spunky local papers or you know, your own spunky local paper. for everybody who wrote who me to say you hate your local paper, you know what you would probably hate it more if there were no local paper, no reporters covering your town. even if your hate your local paper subscribe any way. if you really hate them offer to write for them. see complaining letters to them and see if they publish them. support to get behind the pay wall at the website. you will be sorry to see them go if they ever have to for any reason.

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update for you on the story about the first army ranger class that allowed women to compete alongside men. it started with 381 men, 94 of them made it through. the class also for the first time ever included women. it started with 19 women. two of those are about to graduate ranger school on friday. this is huge news for the u.s.

military. women wearing the rangers insignia for the first time in history. we can tell you the two women have been identified. they are captain kristen griest and first lieutenant shaye haver. reporters figured out who they are and now the women's families have confirmed it. despite how much the world in general and the media in particular wants to talk to them they say they are not doing any individual interviews. army ranger school graduation this friday will have dozens of media outlets from around the u.s. and around the world. every one of those wants to talk to these two remarkable women that are the first women to have passed one of the most intense combat training classes ever but they are not going to do it. they are doing no individual interviews. no hype, no hoopla. the army is making the whole

ranger class available to the media tomorrow but no individual attention for those pioneers at their own request. they just want to be army rangers, please and that seems right and also awesome.

one of my favorite things from the 2012 election with had nothing to do with what the candidates were saying about the campaign. . what brought me and the staff of the show more joy than any other sound byte or video in the campaign was the work of a group called bad lip reading. >> the hot tub is cool now. >> they poisoned it. >> sing me some harmonies. it's a small picture in a shop somewhere and i know who it is, it is mormon doody and cow

people. >> little pitchy, but -- >> horrible weather. i sneeze and lose the puppets thinking governor romney won't do that, okay? this has got me thinking i see a purple idiot that speaks -- with a puppy. >> this guy is made out of ice. >> what pretty eyes, what pretty eyes. >> now he is mayor of a bank. >> no. i will squish your little flipper. i'm so nice. >> who ordered the bacon crusted rolls? >> people behind bad lip reading are incredible. the best new thing in the world is they have returned to the politics beat for the 2016 campaign. and please, dear lord let this mean they are going to be on the trail for all of 2016. tonight i'm here to prove the first foray of the coverage of politics, the first debate of is genius.

some of it i cannot show on tv but some of it i can. >> governor christie, when you were younger, what was your favorite childhood snack? >> i just wanted regular potatoes but guess what so did other people. i want it the most. >> you froze the -- you touched a genital wart. you can't touch. >> all right. guys. >> senator cruz. >> you shouldn't say the "s" word. >> what? >> we could go out and collect a dead swan and i will drink a sorority's goldfish. >>. >> moving on, let's hear from dr. carson. >> this piece i think it goes like that and this one -- no this piece goes over here. it is part of the tree. >> carson. >> ahh!

>> what are you working on? >> a puzzle. i don't know how to do this actually. >> we can move on. you are not missing any play time. >> america. >> governor bush? >> what? >> how would you get a dead mouse on a crescent roll with some steak? >> with some steak, i'd fork it. however, if a pit bull is lose in your house you find me stiff on the bed because i always throw up. >> you will have 13 seconds to make a closing statement in the form of a short song. governor christie, you are first. ♪ >> well, think about the time ♪ >> i'm not going to play their slightly profane songs they invented. but if you are inclined and you probably are if you watched this you should read the rest of this at maddow blog.

let's hope this is the first of online presidential debates they will do this for. it is today's best new thing in the world by a mouse on a crescent roll. a massive sinkhole that swallowed a florida man ree opens. a panda may be expecting. "first look" starts right thousand. good morning everybody. thanks for joining us today. i'm betty nguyen. tragedy in the west as fire cr