tv The Rachel Maddow Show MSNBC August 21, 2015 1:00am-2:01am PDT
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infidelity, but they're less likely to survive it under the kind of pressures that the clintons faced when that was revealed. >> focus on the log in your own rather than your neighbor's, as the bible says. that is "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. this is the declaration of independence. we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and all the rest of it, right? the founding document of our country. when you look at it, though, just as a physical object, type graphically, it's a little strange, right? it's a hand-written document, obviously, it's an 18th century document. the lines all slope a little bit throughout the long body of the declaration. the calligraphy is very obviously handwritten. up top, you have very big letters, in congress, july 4th, 1776, and also in very big letters, the unanimous declaration of the 13 united, states of america.
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i'm not sure why they made "of the 13 united" very, very small. it's a sort of weird thing about top line of the top line of the declaration of independence. and down at the bottom where you get all the sirens, right? i think it's 56 founding fathers who signed the declaration of independence. down at the bottom, there's only really one of them that you can read from a distance, at least. and that's just because he signed his name so much bigger than everybody else. and that is john hancock, right? that's how we get john hancock as a synonym for signature. put your john hancock on there, because john hancock's name is like this big when everybody else's is -- so when they say, you know, we need your john hancock here at the bottom -- when i was a little kid, i thought that was a
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dirty joke for a long time. until i realized it was actually just a reference to his name. i mean, signing your name really big, right, on a public document, that is one sort of narrowly focused, narrowly targeted way to make sure you have your name remembered, right? to make sure you're the one who sticks out. well, former president george w. bush has apparently taken that lesson to heart. i mean, if he's not going to be remembered for anything else, maybe it will be for the fact that this is apparently how he signs his letters now. we didn't blow up the signature on this. and it's not like the leatherhead doesn't have his name in big enough letters a to the top, right? but look at that. george bush has turned to graffiti in his post-presidency years. george w. bush now signing thing with a can of spray paint. this letter signed with great enthusiasm by former president george w. bush. george w. bush! it went out today as a fund-raising appeal for the presidential campaign of his
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brother, jeb. and that, in itself, is not an embarrassing thing. unless, of course, you're the brother who launched your presidential campaign by telling everybody that they should think of you as a stand-alone candidate, unrelated to your family. yeah, sure, maybe you had a father and a brother who were also presidents, quite recently, but that's totally irrelevant to your own run for the presidency, because you are your own man. >> as you might know, i've also been fortunate to have a father and a brother who helped shape america's foreign policy from the oval office. i recognize that as a result, my views will often be held up in comparison to theirs. i admire their service to the nation and the difficult decisions that they had to make. but i'm my own man. and my views are shaped by my own thinking, in my own experiences. >> that was how jeb bush basically told us he was going to run his campaign for the presidency. right before he had his dad start fund-raising and doing events for him and then he had his mom start fund-raising and
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doing events for him. then he had his brother start fund-raisering and doing events for him. right before all of that, he did the, "i am my own man" speech. and now today, jeb bush, i am my own man, his campaign for president announced that in october, the whole bush family will be hosting a $50,000-a-person donors' conference for the jeb bush for president campaign, hosted by his dad and his brother and his mom. this one's going to be held in texas, where his brother lives. unlike the last one of these they did, which was held literally at his mom and dad's house. but remember, i am my own man. i mean, all of these things about how he is running a bush family campaign for the presidency, it sort of would be fine, right? it would be exactly how everybody expected jeb bush to make a run for the presidency. it would be fine, except for the fact that he went out of his way to get all those headlines. saying, i'm not going to run that way, i'm my own way. i'm not running as the third bush for president. pay no attention to my father
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and my brother. i'm running on my own terms. none of the way he is running for president would look bad in terms of the way he's using his family, had he not started everything off by saying, i'm not going to use my own family. had me not started everything off with the "i'm my own man" joke. just a bad, unforced political error. right? and that was even before he formally got into the race. that was his signal that he was getting in. i'm getting in and getting in as my own man. it was a foreign policy speech that he said that. he was saying in context, my foreign policy will have nothing to do with my father's foreign policy or my brother's foreign policy. and then he immediately, that day, followed that up with the press release, announcing that he was bringing onboard 21 foreign policy advisers to his campaign, 19 of those 21, had worked for either his brother or his dad or both. so, it's just this really
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unforced political error that jeb bush made right off the bat. and then, the first big political stunt he launched was his effort to be seen as a tech-savvy, wired, silicon valley kind of e-candidate. first he hired the cofounder of hipster.com to be his chief technology officer. then he had to fire the kid one day later when it emerged that nobody on the jeb bush campaign had apparently read that kid's twitter field, which was all about his ranking of the different kinds of sluts in the world. then, jeb bush released hundreds of thousands of e-mails from his time as florida governor. he made a big splash out of this. i'm releasing all of these e-mail. i'm being super transparent. i'm letting you know how tech savvy i am. apparently nobody read those e-mails either before the jeb bush for president campaign pulled that particular trigger. and that document dump, which, again, nobody asked the campaign for. they did this on purpose, on their own terms, it was their own bright idea. that document dumpeneded up
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posting online thousands of people's personal information. that these people had clearly never ended to become public. with that first campaign stunt that he did, jeb bush posted online totally unredacted information, including people's real e-mail addresses, real full names, real contact information, real physical addresses. in some cases, real and sensitive medical information. people's real social security numbers. jeb bush just uploaded all of it! put it all out there! did i mention i'm the tech-savvy guy? and it was around that time that we noticed that if you typed into your web browser, jebbushforpresident.com what popped up was this really quite adorable website of a super cute gay couple from oregon. they call themselves tech bears. they're both engineers. and they own jebbushforpresident.com. because tech-savvy silicon valley wise jeb bush never bothered to buy jebbushforpresident.com, c.j. and charlie have bought it instead and urn the entitle a really friendly discussion page about gay rights.
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i mean, jeb bush must have known he was going to maybe run for president since, when? high school. junior high. did they tell him in the womb? i mean -- but it never occurred to him to maybe grab that website. and that sort of thing, that sort of oversight, that sort of screwup. that sort of failure to cover even the basics started off becoming evident very, very early in the jeb bush for president campaign. it even started before the campaign properly started. but now it is becoming a really salient issue in american national politics. it started to bubble up in political discussions about the presidential campaign a few weeks ago. but now i really do think it's becoming an urgent matter of concern. the way it came up a few weeks ago is when jeb bush volunteered -- again, this was totally unforced -- he just volunteered as an aside, when he was asked about planned parenthood, he just volunteered
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something that will follow him all the way to the end of his political career, no matter where that political career ends. he just brought this up, apropos of nothing, when no one was asking. >> the argument against is this is, well, women's health issues are going to be -- you're attacking -- it's a war on women and you're attacking women's health issues. you could take dollar for dollar, although i'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues. >> i'm not sure -- that was a couple of weeks ago. jeb bush volunteering, as an aside, apropos of annoying. ech, why do we need all this money for women's health? yuck. whether or not you agree with him on that, that's the sort of thing that's obviously going to rub a lot of people the wrong way. like, maybe, 53% or so of american voters who are women, all of whom have health of some kind. why do we need all this money for the women's health? more to the point, though, just as a matter of political practice, jeb bush didn't have to bring that up. nobody was asking him about
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that. that was just another unforced political error. at "the weekly standard," a conservative writer named john mccormack responded to that mistake by saying, quote, isn't one benefit of an establishment candidate supposed to be that he's not going to make gaffes like this? jeb bush, after he made that gaffe, did put out a written statement, trying to take it back. taking back what he said about women's health. he said he misspoke about that. in response to that, craig robinson, a longtime republican operative in iowa, told politico.com, quote, every time jeb bush has stuck his foot in his mouth, it's been a cleanup on aisle 3 moment. i think it shows a real lack of message discipline with bush. we've seen more errors out of jeb bush this campaign than most of the other candidates. which is true. we used to do something on this show called the john boehner is bad at his job hypothesis. it was when the republicans took over control of congress in 2010, but it felt like they just couldn't even get the basic
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stuff done to run congress, because their leadership couldn't figure out basic stuff, like how to stop their own side from fighting in public or how to just keep the lights on, keep the government running, when they weren't trying to shut it down. and we called that the john boehner is bad at his job hypothesis. the republican presidential campaign has now, unexpectedly, but i think, unavoidably, given birth to the jeb bush is bad at his job hypothesis. and nobody would have expected this, from a guy who's the third presidential candidate from the same nuclear family that includes two other presidents. but jeb bush really is, unexpectedly, bad at running for president. and i say that with no malice. i say that as an observer of his political skills. and i think it's becoming increasingly important, for an increasingly wide circle of people. today, his latest bowl of confusion happened on the issue of immigration. republicans following donald trump's lead this year, they have decided that people born in the united states should not be citizens anymore. which is really quite a radical
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position. but donald trump put that out there this year as his immigration position. and a great majority of all the other republican candidates have fallen right in line behind him on that. jeb bush has tried to maintain a little bit of distance from that radical position, but he is also, while sort of inexpertly and bumbling way, in a bumbling way, stumbled through the policy part of it, he's stumbled into using some super offensive language borrowed from donald trump to talk about this issue, and then he purported to not understanding that that was the language he was using, then he defended using the language, then rejected the using the language, and then asked the reporters to give him some better language to use, and then he actually didn't have any idea what to say next. >> there ought to be greater enforcement. that's -- that's legitimate side of this. better enforcement so that you don't have these, you know, anchor babies, as they're described, coming into the country. >> governor -- >> yes? >> do you think the term "anchor baby" is offensive?
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>> no. no. if there's another term that i can come up, i'm happy to hear it. >> governor, do you regret using the term "anchor baby" yesterday on the radio? >> no, i didn't. >> i don't, i don't! >> do you have a better term? >> i'm not -- i'm asking you. >> you give me a better term, and i'll use it. >> governor, governor -- >> don't yell at me behind my ear, though. >> sorry about that. >> geez. >> the language "anchor baby," is that not bombastic? >> no, give me another word. >> undocumented immigrants in the u.s.. >> that's not another word. that's like a seven -- here's the deal, what i said was, it's commonly referred to that. that's what i said. i didn't use it as my own language. >> "didn't use it as my own language." he does not have his own language to use to describe what he was talking about. he would maybe like to borrow some from a reporter, and he does not like what the reporter had suggested, so he's not using the reporter's language, or that other language that he used, but that he does not use, because it's not his own language, because he did not use it. does anybody have any words i
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can borrow? he's jeb bush and he's running for president. and he's his own man. jeb bush said, before he decided to run, that one of the factors he would consider in deciding whether or not he would run for president is whether he could do it joyfully. he said if he could not run joyfully, he would not do it. he does not seem to be running joyfully. he does not seem to be having a good time. part of the reason, i think, it hasn't seemed fun for him is because he has had a really hard time. he could not answer the world's most expected questions about whether or not he would have also invaded iraq like his brother did. he said he would have, then he said he misheard the question, then he said it was an offense i have thing for him to answer that question, then he said he wouldn't answer the question, then he said, no, he wouldn't have invaded iraq. it took him four days to unwind that one. at one point after that, he say he would phase out medicare, get rid of medicare. then he said he misspoke about that. took that back. he went on "face the nation" one morning and got the retirement age wrong.
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he said, in order to make his retirement plan work, quote, americans will have to work longer hours, which i think is what he meant, he never quite took it back, but boy did that sound out come wrong. jeb bush, whether you lake him as a potential president or not, he has not turned out very good at the art of running for president. to the extent that really the only fun and unexpectedly awesome thing from the campaign trail from him running is that he makes funny noises a lot. i mean, that's turned out to be -- i thought it was going to be an amusing side bar about him. turns out, that is his strong suit. >> that'll light up the twitter -- the twitter universe. there's some heads exploding right now. it's -- i can feel it. like. rather than, you know, urg, you know, just angry all the full-time. you know, urg. i'm a candidate for president of the united states of america.
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[ cheers and applause ] whoo! whoo. urg. urg. >> other than making awesome noises at unexpected intervals, i hereby propose the hypothesis that jeb bush is bad at his job, if his job is now running for president. part of it, to be fair, no one is doing that great a job at running for president, except for donald trump, who is very clearly winning and winning by a lot. one of the people donald trump is happiest to talk smack about while he's winning is jeb bush. what's wrong with jeb bush is like donald trump's favorite topic. >> i'm not a big fan of jeb bush. the last thing we need is another bush. believe me. the last thing we need is another bush. if you people go with bush, you're going to lose.
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jeb bush is a low-energy person. for him, to get things done is hard. he's very low energy. and the poll just came out. and i'm tied with jeb bush. and i said, oh, that's too bad. how could i be tied with this guy? he's terrible. he's terrible. i don't see him as a factor, and i know it's the bush name, which got us into lots of -- you know, in all fairness, not the greatest. but jeb bush, i don't get it. so when they said, mr. trump, you're in first place. oh, that's good. you're tied with jeb bush. i said, that's not good. how could i be tied with this guy? you know, right down the road -- thank you. right down the road, we have jeb. very small crowd. you know what's happening to jeb's crowd, as you know, right down the street? they're sleeping! they're sleeping now. >> donald trump likes insulting a lot of the other candidates. he appears to like insulting jeb bush the most.
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he's also just dogging jeb bush in a way that appears to be driving jeb bush a little nuts. the jeb bush campaign had already announced this big event they wanted to do in merrimack, new hampshire, last night. they had already announced that merrimack event when donald trump apparently looked at that and decided that he, too, would be in new hampshire for his first town hall on that same night, at that same time, less than 20 miles away from the jeb bush event. jeb bush ended up turning out around 150 people at his little sleepover. mr. trump, simultaneously, less than 20 miles away, filled a room with more than 800 capacity, plus hundreds of people in the overflow. then he got up at the podium and spent the whole time talking about what a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible person jeb bush is. there's no reason to think that jeb bush is a terrible person. there is reason to believe that jeb bush is a terrible candidate for president. and that is important, because even though donald trump is clearly winning right now in the race for the republican nomination for president, everybody in the establishment, everybody in the beltway still
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thinks that jeb bush is the most likely guy to ultimately win the nomination. and that's partly because of bush family name recognition. it's partly because he has locked up so much establishment support already. mostly it's because of his fund-raising, fully half of which comes from legacy donors, who had previously supported his dad or his brother or both. hiss fund-raising still outpacing everybody on the republican side by a mile. except for donald trump. who doesn't fundraise, because he says he doesn't need to. realizing that jeb bush is bad at campaigning, he's bad -- really bad at campaigning for president, realizing that, it's like realizing that you just -- you got pretty good grades, pretty good s.a.t.s. maybe you're like, you know, you were j.v. a couple of years in a couple of sports, but varsity a couple of years.
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it's like realizing you're so far on the bubble in terms of top-tier schools and you just applied to all the ivy league schools. and then one safe school. and now you've realized that you're not going to get into your safe school. is that hypothesis about jeb bush fair? and is there another safe school on this republican list? in the unlikely event that they don't actually nominate donald trump to be their presidential nominee. stay with us.
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contrast narrative, they're going to find that i'm going to be the guy that they're going to vote for. and it's a long haul, man. whoa, whoa, whoa! >> whoa! whoa! you people are so close. inappropriately loud. some of you are behind me. jeb bush gearing up for the long haul against front-runner donald trump. if he can make it through without throttling any of these terrible reporters who are very close to him. in an uncomfortable way. i did not expect him to be like this. joining us now is the great steve kornacki, host of "up" on msnbc, on the weekends. i hereby author the hypothesis that jeb bush is bad at his job and his job right now is running for president. do you think that is fair? >> i think i would qualify it a little bit. i think i would say, what i wonder about is, is jeb bush a bad candidate for this moment in politics, and this moment in the republican party? because i think if you look at,
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there are past elections where jeb bush himself, or a candidate like jeb bush, would be doing sort of -- would have the same approach to the campaign, and we would be saying, wow, they've got it mastered, what a well-oiled machine. but i think we're in a moment new where the republican party, in the past they've been angry at the democrats and the democratic president. it is just as angry now at its own leaders, at its own establishment. at all the sort of brand name players in the republican party. so when i'm seeing donald trump surge to the top of the polls, that's obviously a huge story. but look below trump in the polls. who's number two right now? it's ben carson, a neurosurgeon who's never done anything in politics until about two years ago. it's carly fiorina, who five years ago couldn't even come close to winning a senate race in california. before that, hewlett-packard, no other political experience. she's surging in the polls right now. so i think there's something broader going on in the republican party, where there's this anger. there's in frustration. there's this absolute aversion to anything that reeks of the establishment, and jeb bush, that's what he reeks of. >> well, yes, i think that's true. if we're going to describe his
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reek, i would say that's what it is. but i can't imagine a year in which anybody would be seen as a good candidate when they, oops, accidentally say "anchor babies" and then say they don't know what it meant and it wasn't their real language. and they accidentally say, oops, we shouldn't have funding for women's health, and then say, oh, i misstake. and they shouldn't have their mom and dad and brother do all their fund-raising for them after they did a big campaign launch saying, pay no attention to my family. i feel like there's a lot of unforced stuff about jeb bush, which makes him not just sort of a story of what's going on with the field, what's going on with the republican voters' mind, i just feel like he's terrible. >> here's why i say, a different year, it would be a different story. think about the examples you just gave. a lot of those examples are the product of the climate of 2015 and 2016. this anchor baby thing is this challenge he finds himself facing. donald trump has completely hijacked the terms of the debate.
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on immigration, an issue where jeb bush wanted to position himself more in the center, he is now awkwardly trying to occupy some of the ground that donald trump is on -- >> including using that language. >> but look what happens. when he moves in that direction, everybody immediately says, oh, my god, you said that, and he acts like a politician in that situation, tries to qualify it and parse his language. meanwhile, a guy like donald trump will say it and will own it. and to the republican base, it becomes a test of authenticity. donald trump says it and means it. jeb bush says it and it's mealymouthed. and then trump lays it on thick. when trump says those things about jeb bush, i can see those republican heads nods. it is a diagnosis that resonates with the base. and i think back to 2000 when george w. bush ran. what it came down to for me is 1994. jeb bush and george bush both running at the same time. in a month before that election, jeb was supposed to win and george w. was supposed to lose. and if it hadn't been for the
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upset, jeb's the guy who goes in 2000. and the climate in 2000 was jeb's climate. instead george w. got it. now he's got to answer for george. with w.'s presidency. that's what i mean about the year he's running in is making a lot of these -- >> i think the year in which he's running, i think you're right, that changes the stakes of the way he fails. i am just surprised to see him -- i think he'd be failing in any year, because i think he's a bad candidate. maybe he was a good candidate when he ran -- last ran for office a dozen years ago in florida. maybe he's just rusty. maybe he'll shake it off. and maybe by the time people stop pay attention to donald trump, he'll be great at it. >> one quick thing i would say, about weaknesses in candidates, i look at george w. bush as a communicator, compare him to jeb, and my estimation of george w. as a communicator has gone up a little bit. >> yes, absolutely. i agree. there, a nice thing said about george w. bush on "the rachel maddow show" steve kornacki, host of "up" weekend mornings here on msnbc, great to see you.
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on in politics right now, although nobody sees it as genius. now, um, i think we have persuaded "the tonight show" to allow us to play a clip, so we can show that to you in just a moment. i think we got permission to show the clip. in which case, it is coming right up and it's really good. so hopefully that's coming up in just a second. stay with us.
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there are a lot of different types of machine guns. this is one machine gun that gets used now in active duty in the u.s. military. it's called a s.a.w., stands for squad automatic weapon. one thing to know about the squaw automatic weapon is that it's really freaking heavy. the reason i know it's heavy is because i have fired one. i know that seems very unlikely, but it's true. i was terrible at it. >> what is this larger weapon? >> this is the m-249 s.a.w.. >> m-249. >> s.a.w. stands for squad automatic weapon. does the job very well. real heavy, a lot of support. it will -- fairly easy to shoot. >> this is something that infantrymen are using now? >> yes, it's part of every fire
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team. >> okay. and what caliber bullets does it shoot? >> the 556 rounds linked together, just like this. >> okay, so it's automatic. >> yes, ma'am. can we see how badly i did on this one? can we pull that target in? >> yes. >> see, on this one, i wasn't aiming there. i was actually aiming right there. >> the s.a.w. machine gun is something i fired after somebody was kind enough to lift it up and put it into place for me and i hunched over it like a hobbit and squeezed the trigger. that is not the kind of gun i would just be able to carry it around. i would certainly not with able to carry it around for a 12-mile march. but u.s. soldiers do. soldiers carry that saw, they carry that 20-pound gun plus all that heavy ammo on top of all their other gear and equipment. and that specific detail about
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the s.a.w. machine gun, the weight of that thing may be helpful context for understanding this. >> i carry the s.a.w. for about three days. and i was like, okay, i need somebody to take this for me. i and went to every single person just in the line, no order, and they're like, no, i'm really tired, too, i'm broken, and as soon as i went to ranger grass, she wanted it from me. she basically took it away from me. so nine guys were like, i'm too broken, i'm too tired. she just as broken and tired took it from me, like, almost excitement. i thought she was crazy for that. maybe she was just motivated. that's how she is. >> that's how she is. second lieutenant zachary hagner, talking about his fellow u.s. army ranger, captain kristen grist, the one soldier in his unit who volunteered to carry that machine gun when everyone else was too broken or too tired to do so. she with first lieutenant shane heavier have become the first
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women to make it through the ranger school. they'll receive their ranger tabs at a ceremony tomorrow morning, alongside the 94 men who completed this course with them. these are the first two women ever, this is the first year they even let women try for it, and these two are graduating. >> what was going through my mind, at least, you know, you're way too tired and way too hungry to really honestly care, but i know, i mean, it's in the back of our minds, obviously, we're aware what's going on, but at the end of the day, everyone was a ranger. it didn't matter. you know, everyone was a ranger. it's the same throughout, as long as the team pulled through
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i was skeptical whether they could handle it physically. we got to mountains, and there was one night we were doing a long walk. i had a lot of weight on me and i was struggling. i stopped and i asked halfway point, hey, can anyone help take some of this weight. i got a lot of deer in the headlights look, a lot of people
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were like, i can't take anymore way. shea was the only one to volunteer to take that weight. she took the weight off of me and carried it the last half of me. literally saved me. i probably wouldn't be sitting here right now if it weren't for shea. so from that point, no more skepticism skepticism. i knew she was going to make it right through. >> joining us now, colonel jack jacobs. thank you for being here. >> good to be here. >> i was with you today when we saw that press conference started. and i was interested in the army's decision to put those two pioneering women rangers o s s out will alongside all the other men they're graduating with to let both them and the men tell the story about how they're graduating. what do you think about the army's strategy about how they have made this decision and rolled this out? >> i think it's kind of interesting. the original assumption would be, if they wanted to test women out to see if they could be in combat units, they would stick them in combat units in the states. where they're in garrison. if they're out in the woods, they have rucksacks on and firing blanks and doing war games and small unit tactics the and so on. then maybe, much later on, they would decide whether or not they were going to send women to the toughest school in the united states army had. they didn't do that.
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they did it exalt ctly the opposite way. they sent women to the toughest school first. and the result of that is, of course, it's difficult to engender any kind of support for people who say, women can't take it. >> just because -- anybody saying women can't take it, statistically speaking, none of those people are going to be people who could do what these women just did. >> it's true. stick them in a regular unit, but don't send them to ranger school, people would say, okay, they're in a unit, but they can't go to ranger school. but if they go to ranger school and complete it, and 40 to 60% of the men don't complete it, then you're way down the road to putting women in combat units and i think that's the objective. >> in terms of the applicability here, i mean, obviously, the army has not yet made a decision that the ranger regiment, special forces ranger regiment would be open to these women. at least one of the women said she would be interested if it
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were available to them. there is now talk from the navy that they're thinking about allowing women to go through bud school and be navy s.e.a.l.s. do you think we know what's going to happen? do you think there's any suspense here? >> i think there's no suspense about what ultimately the bottom line will be. i think the path may be a little bit different, but i think the end result is going to be pretty much the same. there will be women in combat units. and i think the root to them, and the marines, in the army, and in -- among the s.e.a.l.s, is going to be different -- there'll be different lengths, but i think the end result is going to be pretty much the same. and i'll tell you something else. if you take a look at the way combat has been in the last war, when we decided that we did not want to put women in combat units, because we didn't want women to be in combat units and get killed and wounded, and instead put them in trucks and drove trucks down unsecured roads, where they got killed and wounded, you see exactly where the military establishment is
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going. i think women are going to eventually be in combat units. it's just a question of changing the culture. >> colonel jack jacobs, msnbc military analyst, really appreciate your time. >> my pleasure. ahead, i share some quality sofa time with an old friend on the tv machine. lots more still to come. stay with us. esurance was born
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congratulations. we have achieved a new record. collectively, we humans have done something brand-new we've never done before. all right. so, we humans, as a species, we have been keeping detailed temperature records since 1880. you've probably heard that nine of the ten hottest months ever recorded on earth were all recorded within the last ten years. the single hottest year on record is last year. this year is already on track to beat last year and set a new record, because january to july, this year, was hotter than any other january to july that has ever been recorded on earth.
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and hoar ere is where the big congratulations come in. because this past month, july 2015, july itself, turns out to be the single hottest month ever recorded on planet earth. tada. in the history of keeping records of earth's average temperatures, no month has ever been hotter than this past month. we did it. but, remember, global warming is a hoax, easily disproven by the fact that it still sometimes snows in the winter. so pay no attention to the armageddon lurking in the data.
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programming note, i will be a guest on "the tonight show" with jimmy fallon. i'm excited for you to see it and we persuaded them to give us a clip from the interview in which i think i convinced jimmy something genius concerning politics. i'm not sure but i least tried very hard. >> if -- he is threatening to run as an independent, right. >> when he saw the debate and he's like that is a tricky question. he is like would anyone think of running on a different party and he is like, eh. that was gutsy. that's why people like, you don't know what he is going to do. it is honesty. >> it is genius.
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i don't think he's a dumb giechl i don't think he playing a dumb game. what he is doing is genius. if he was going to say i will only run as a republican he loses leverage and then one of the republicans when he says you be nice or i j lump in an as independent guaranteeing hillary clinton will be the next president. nice. so right now he will never have more power than right now. either way this goes, as he runs as an independent or doesn't half of the political infrastructure will owe him the rest of their lives. the art of the deal. >> the art of the deal. >> it's perfect. >> that was fun. i'm on "the tonight show" with jimmy fallon tonight 11:35 eastern on msnbc. i will be wearing these shoes but not these pants. stay with us.
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cape elizabeth is a nice town in southern maine outside of portland. it leans blue. they voted against republican paula page for governor in 2010. won any way. voted against governor la page last year. paul la page has never been a key governor not when he was trying to roll back child labor laws or when he said the irs was a gus top poe or the naacp to kiss his butt or any other stuff he did. >> if you take plastic ball and put it in the microwave and heat it up it gives off a chemical similar to estrogen. worse with case is some women may have a beard and we don't want that. >> we are about to put on the screen what the governor said. some viewers may find it distasteful may want to hit the
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mute button and turn away. the governor said that senator jackson claims to be for the people but the first to give it to in the people without providing vaseline. he was asked if he realized some may find it offensive. he said good because i have been taking it for two years. governor paul lepage of maine, nice guy. last month he sat down and wrote a letter to a retired librarian in cape elizabeth, maine. we know he sent her a letter because her son posted it on facebook. she wrote to the governor to ask him to step down, to save the state time and money and himself time and embarrassment because he's facing potential impeachment proceedings in may. we also know that governor lepage wrote back to that librarian personally. here's his response. louise, i bet you would like to see me resign.
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you live in the south. louise, retired librarian lives in maine, not alabama or something, but that is enough of a sin to get a mad letter written to you from maine's governor. i bet you would like to see me resign. ps, not going to happen, exclamation point. this has been a tough summer for governor lepage. the legislature has started to talk about impeaching him after he threatened to cut off funding for a school that hired one of his political enemies. the maine legislature is considering whether he abused the authority of his office and in so do ing, one result is he could be impeef peached. given that, a friendly local radio station asked the governor whether he is concerned about his legal troubles, and this is where it gets amazing because listen to his response. >> governor, i know the answer to this question before i ask it but i have to. you worried about an impeachment proceeding?
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>> you know, if the people of maine want me, i'll do the job. if they don't want me, just ask me to leave. you don't have to impeach me. >> you don't have to impeach me. just ask me to leave. tell me more, governor. >> if the people of maine want me, i'll do the job. if they don't want me, just ask me to leave. you don't have to impeach me. >> well, there was a woman that wrote you a note and asked you to resign. >> there's 1.3 million people. so far four people wrote me and want me to resign. >> maine governor paul lepage is saying if enough people ask him to resign he will resign. he said they don't need to impeach. he will quit if enough people ask him tochlt the retired librarian started the ball rolling. the governor said three others have asked in writing to but said only if he gets enough but l he step down. apparently maine is starting to take him up on it. this is in the bangor daily
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news. it is going national. paul schlein of maichb ne has written to ask lepage to resign for the good of the state and the editor of a dozen newspapers encouraging people to send governor lepage a note asking him to please leave office. after all the governor says that's all you would take. yesterday he says he got his first answer from the governor's office. he got this response. our office preeshls hearing from you and will take your suggestions under advisement. have a nice day. maybe governor paul lepage's office is taking the suggestion to leave under advisement right now. for the record, the governor has never explained whether he was serious to resign if he got enough letters asking him to. and he hasn't said how many would have to resign in order for them to do it. hae hasn't said how many mainers have taken him up on his office
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now that he said it is what it would take. we asked his office about those things today. when we hear back, we will let you know but i suggest you don't wait up. let you know. i suggest you don't wait up. "first look" is up next. it's friday, august 21st. right now on "first look," taking aim. danny strengthens into the hurricane season. trump and jeb bush caught up. a term a lot find offensive. jimmy carter speaking out about his cancer diagnosis. >> hope for the best and take what comes. i think i've been as blessed as any human being in the world. more hacked data from ashley madison is posted online. incredible lightning strike caught on camera in
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