there. >> harry sheer, thank you very much. we invited a representative from the army corps of engineers to come tonight and they declined. that's all in for this evening. the rachel maddow shows tonight with melissa harris-perry. >> a few minutes ago in nor wood, massachusetts, a half hour south of boston, republican presidential candidate donald trump wrapped up a rowdy speech and press conference. during the conference he talked about gun violence, how many jobs he will create as president, his feelings about patriots quarterback tom brady and his fellow republican candidate for president. >> you have a problem of mental health in this country. we have to take care of people and find out who these people are. we also have an illegal immigrant problem. a lot of the gangs, it's true, a lot of the gangs if st. louis and ferguson and chicago and the

toughest and the meanest, the worst dudes in baltimore. you have seen it. they are illegal immigrants. i'll tell you one thing, if i get in they are going to be gone so fast out of this country. they are going to be gone so fast. look at what is happening. you have illegal immigrants and gangs that you wouldn't believe. they are going to be gone. >> jeb bush a frequent target of yours. >> jeb bush is a frequent target because when this started i thought he was going to be the primary competition but drifted to the middle of the pack and rapidly disappearing. we will have to start to look at somebody else. >> do you think that brady should settle. >> leave tom brady alone, right? we love tom brady. as you know he's a very good friend of mine. i know tom brady. tom brady is an honest guy, a great guy, great championship and win wither. leave him alone. you know, we have a tremendous

crowd at the airport. it was amazing. i hope they were able to come over here but we were greeted with hundreds of people at the airport. there's something happening. there's a movement going on. call it silent majority, whatever you want but there's a movement going on. thank you very much. >> fascinating. donald trump playing to the crowd and the cameras at an event billed as a private fund-raiser in norwood, massachusetts although donald trump said this is not a fund-raiser an he is doing fine without raising money for his campaign. >> you said you didn't need money to run for president. yet here we are at a fund-raiser. >> this is gnat fund-raiser. so you understand. we are -- i guess they are paying for some of the basics in terms -- we have food, 1500, 2,000 people but this is not a fund-raiser. we are not doing anything in terms of fund-raising. i think what they are doing some of the people -- many people are coming in they can pay whatever they want.

they are doing something to offset the tremendous cost of food for 2,000 people but this is not a fund-raiser. >> how's your money situation for the campaign? >> great. it's going great. i'm turning down millions of dollars for the campaign. millions. >> okay. it is clear that donald trump does not want minute to think he is raising money even though the signs to enter his event reminded folks to make checks payable to donald j. trump for president or have cash ready at the door. at tonight's may be a fund-raiser the host of the event, a local car deerl named ernie boch jr. said hundreds of people reached out to him including enemies to get a ticket to the event and "you have to admit trump has changed the game." there's something to the last point. donald trump insisted he is so wealthy he doesn't need anyone else's money to be competitive in the race. this is the corner stoempb of

his speech. he doesn't need to cater to lobbyist, special interests. he is really rich and therefore beholden to no one but himself. and that insistence is made more believable when he asks $100 to cover the price of food at a campaign stop. compared to other candidates who are headlining fund-raisers charging up to $100,000 a head. here's the surprising part. it is attracting voters who are anything but wealthy themselves. as pointed out in the new yorker magazine recently, billionaire donald trump reminds us from time to time how rich he really is. has in a way become the candidate of choice for working class voters. a "washington post" abc poll shows that trump holds a sizable lead among republican voters who do not have a college degree. what is the appeal of droump so many working class voters no

doubt his populous and nativist rhetoric play a role but they like he is posh trayed as someone who embodies the american dream, make your own fortune. that can be a draw for voters. donald trump has managed to win over a sizable portion of the republican primary electorate by being the ultra rich guy. something even mitt romney had a hard time doing four years ago. perhaps in an effort to further his appeal to that electorate, donald trump will appear as a guest of former arkansas governor sarah palin who has a hosting gig on a conservative cable network that is not fox news. donald trump has been able to frame himself as the man of the people. independent of contributors or donors or special interest. self made. the embodiment of the american dream. now we find ourselves in the unexpected position of asking, can donald trump really win the republican nomination by being the choice of working class

voters? joining us now is patrick murray, director of the monmouth university polling institute. thank you for being here. >> my pleasure, melissa. >> when you look at trump's polling what's the single most surprising finding that you have? >> the biggest finding that we had, if we go back a few months ago, as late as june, a majority of republicans said i do not like donald trump, i do not like him here or there. >> i don't like him on a train. >> and now the majority say i do like donald trump and someone want to look at as president. a quarter went from saying no way no how to donald trump to donald trump is my guy. >> so political science 101 tells me one of two possibilities are at work here. number one, that any kind of polling this early is a name recognition test. whose name do you know best?

and somehow donald trump who with i thought was at saturation point has managed to have more of a name and the other more surprising, people learned something about a political candidate and are the -- actual likes. >> usually they start off unknown and did something to become known. positively or negatively. donald trump when we talk the june numbers, everyone knew who he was. this was not an unknown commodity. what did he do in the meantime? the big thing he did is say he was announcing for president and said he would build the classiest wall. and that sparked people. i spent time in iowa interviewing individual voters to get a handle on this. there seem to be a dichotomy. the trump voter and the nontrump

voter. the trump vote arer tells me i think we need something who's tough, need someone who will go kick some butt. that's what really the appeal of it. has nothing to do with ideology or issues but him coming off as someone who dunn talk like a rich person and someone we never see in politics. >> are the republican party reaping the whirlwind of the government is awful narrative? donald trump is not playing by the typical rules or behaving in way we expect a politician or government official to. is in the natural -- >> this is the problem that's happened in washington. when we ask democrats and republicans what i think of the democratic and republican party in congress, democrats have a better opinion of their own

parties representative than congress than republicans have of their own party's representatives. that seems to be happening right now. we don't need a real republican. all the e-news about donald trump and his liberal policies and sending money to the clinton doesn't matter to them anymore. career politicians have been lying to us all along, why not go with this guy? >> how much of this is about in the discourse -- on one hand we need someone mean but he is neen a spisk way. discourse has been about immigration and bands of illegals. even dropping ferguson in that part of it. if the white, working class vote just an anti-people of color vote? i don't want to think it is but it feels that way. >> certain think a segment of that. he has latched on to and gotten people out. you have to remember that in most polls donald trump is

talking out at 30%. which means 70% of republicans prefer somebody else. looking at the polls right now, the one surging the most is ben carson. >> right? >> he is tapping in to that. it is because we're talking about a 17-candidate field, i think we are seeing more because it is coalescing an one candidate, whereas voters of other issues and concerns are dispersed among the rest of the field. >> ben carson shares with donald trump being not a politician, or having specific policies for the most part. >> this is what is interesting. when i went to iowa i'd say half of the iowa voters we talked to said they want somebody not in politics. they were split in two camps. the trump camp and carson fiorina camp. there is a difference. they feel carson and fiorina are

presidential in their bearing. donald trump is not. so i think what we will see, here's the key, is that what we saw in 2012 through the six-week trend where candidates like a rick perry or santorum or herman cain would rise six weeks and plateau. and then at the end of the six weeks we'd see them go down over a few weeks. donald trump just hit six weeks. >> let's start to look and pay close attention next week to see what will happen with the polls. >> if he ticks up you have to come back and explain. >> even further. >> thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> my pleasure. a lot more ahead, including ing hong kong ramping up her campaign with a page out of president obama's play book. plus, on the tenth an verse i have of hurricane katrina, there's one person visiting new orleans today that might make you say really? seriously? him? stay with us. ugh! heartburn! no one burns on my watch!

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back in early 2007, this was one of the most unlikely things happening on the political landscape. on a frigid morning senator barack obama fired up a crowd of thousands. >> i stand before you today to announce my candidacy for president of the united states of america. >> reporter: at the state house, where abraham lincoln called on a divide nation to unite, obama pledged to bridge a political divide, offering himself as part of a new generation that can build a more hopeful america. >> let's be the generation that makes future generations proud of what we did here. >> reporter: facing a field of political veterans, he played his newcomer status as an asset. early polls show him third,

trailing both senator hillary clinton and john edwards. >> yep on the day that senator obama entered the race, he was rated 16%. 16%. senator hillary clinton looked unstoppable, 61 straight polls show her as the inevitable democratic presidential nominee. 18 months later, the democratic nominee was not hillary clinton. the win and nomination belonged to senator obama. it's been more than a year since his campaign kicked off. it's reasonable that most people have forgotten how he secured the nomination. most of what we remember is soaring rhetoric, the social media, memorable speeches the cool, compelling campaign captured on glossy magazine covers. undoubtedly we think those are the things that won the thom nation that year. behind the flash and the facebook of obama '08 was a good

old fashioned war room professional. flash is great. what gets campaigns is rolling up the sleeves and slogging through. and for all of the virtue that's what the obama campaign excel at in twiet. they knew in order to win a nomination they needed to count delegates, not votes. obama '08 worked to get delegates because those people select the nominee and delegates come from everywhere. even small overlooked places like north dakota nthd, caucuses and primaries and the obama team was working on delegate math long before hillary ahead in 51 polls. here's what the clinton staffer had to say ahead of super tuesday, quote, hard to gain a big advantage in small states. well, as the "washington post" noted, the small states did

matter between idaho, nebraska, vermont, maine, mst mississippi, north dakota, hawaii, arc alaska. this was strategy. targeting delegate by delegate. senator obama's campaign manager said it this way, every delegate counts. every delegate counts. that strategy and focus led to this. >> senator barack obama is as of this hour the presumptive democratic nominee for president of the united states as the polls close in south dakota nbc news projecting obama has cleared the delegates needed to clinch. there's sentiment among many people that hillary clinton could lose her front runner status because she doesn't have the flash that president obama had in 2008.

despite her lead in the polls and her fund-raising she is vulnerable. because someone more compelling like, i don't know, maybe vice president biden they may be able to take her down. maybe, but despite the growing focus on a possible biden bid, one thing is crystal clear. hillary clinton seems to have learned the lessons of 2008. this time, she is taking a page from the obama play book. today, senior clinton campaign officials claim she has already secured one fv fifth of the delegates needed for the nomination. every delegate counts. >> this is really about how you put the numbers together to secure the nomination. some of you might recall in 2008 i got a lot of votes, but i didn't get enough delegates. so i think it is understandable that my focus is going to be on delegates, as well as votes this time. .. anyone have occasional constipation, diarrhea...

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today that isn't on the court but would consider for the court? >> i don't want to mention names. it is a so early. >> how about your sister? >> my sister is great. i have a sister on the court of appeals spl she would be a good supreme court justice. >> she would be phenomenal, one of the best. frankly, i think she's -- we'll have to rule that out. i have a sister who's very smart and very good person. >> that you donald trump praising his sister, mary anne trump-berry, senior judge on the third skirkt court of appeals. >> i best most people had no idea trump had a sister who is anl appellate judge. she was a labelled a pro-abortion extremist judge voters are entitled to keep the relatives records in mind. the jeb bush campaign agrees. bush's spokesman and campaign manager retweeted the national review piece and both made it

sound like mr. trump had said he would nominate his sister to the high court. look, even when you are battling donald trump, it's a little low to go after someone for praising his sister. when you are jeb bush, i'm thinking it is not best to talk about people's siblings because when you are jeb bush you have a sibling with baggage of his own and when you are jeb bush today this is what your brother is doing, dancing in new orleans on the tenth anniversary of a disaster that is synonymous with his administration's inepi, i want, callous of loss. and encouraging people to remember it as a time when good things happened. >> hurricane katrina is a story of loss beyond measure. it is also a story of commitment and compassion. i hope you remember what with i remember and that is 30,000 people were saved in the

immediate aftermath of the storm by u.s. military personnel, by louisiana law enforcement and by citizens who volunteered. i hope you remember what i remember is the thousands who came here on a volunteer basis to provide food for the hungry and provide shelter for those who had no home to live in. there are people all around our country who prayed for you. many of whom showed up. so they could say they helped a fellow citizen who was hurting. laura and i are in new orleans to remind our country about what strong leadership means. and we're here salute the leaders. >> all right. for some of us that was nearly impossible to watch. so let me just say what i hope we'll remember is a bit different. i hope you will remember that more than 1800 people died. i hope you remember what i remember, that it took three days before anyone was evacuated from the super dome or the convention center.

i hope you remember, what i remember in the aftermath of the storms survivors were given one-way tickets to evacuate so many could never find their way home. i hope you remember what i remember that as the waters of lake ponchartrain were pouring over the lee vee at the 17th street canal president bush was delivering a birthday cake to senator john mccain and as thousands found themselves trapped with no food, water or sanitation president bush remained on vacation for two days hanging out with a country music star among other things. just part of why it is so hard to hear and watch as president bush seems to be taking a victory lap ten years after his decisions undoubtly krirt contributed to the loss in new orleans. and president bush is not the only one taking a victory lap. new orleans mayor has a project called katrina 10 touting the city as america's best comeback story. plenty of people who see a more

cofferly indicated theirtive many the last decade and that's where katrina truth comes in. here's their website. it is designed as the mirror of katrina 10 with a couple of tweaks. joining us now is the executive director of families and friends of louisiana's incourse rated children and her organization are behind the initiative. thank you so much for being here tonight. >> my, melissa, thank you for having me. >> talk to me about why you felt and the advancement project and others felt it was necessary to offer alternative truth to a lot of what we have been hearing in recent days. >> yes, i think it could be summed up perfectly when one of our parents said that listening to what is going on and happening in the city this week is much like visiting some people are celebrating like a wedding and for some a funeral. i think that sums up why the

katrina truth.org website was so important to give a narrative to what was being said and making it feel that this situation was more like a wedding or celebration. where many black americans were really focusing and seeming like a funeral. >> one of the biggest claims that we have heard made from local leadership and national leadership is the school system of new orleans is fixed. that it is a model for the nation. you work with young people and families there in the city and have for many, many years. what's your experience? >> yeah. our experience is definitely like a tale of two cities. so even post prekatrina we knew some of our families, their children were attending failing schools. however, what is happening even after katrina is that many of those children now are having to travel across the city to attend

failing schools. so we parents -- many black families do not have a choice. none of us would choose to send our children to a failing school. >> you talked about the continuing racial divide that exists in the city. one of the big demographic shifts is about a loss of frin african-american population, sort of a 100,000 african thousand american americans lost in the city. and also loss of political power that has been part of that. how does that loss of power and population for african-americans figure in to this narrative about a better, strong er new orleans? >> i think it is really exacerbates the situation that we have been working for a long time. our black families have been left out of the narrative for decades, right? so black families whose children have been caught in a juvenile

justice system have not had the power necessary to change the laws that see their children as children and actually see the families as humans and people that have been looking for assistance. rather what we are continually seeing is that our families have been are being erased and easily forgotten. what the katrina truth.org website intends to do is resist that narrative and say black lives matter and their voices actually need to be heard. >> gina, talk to me about this challenge. obviously you live in new orleans. you actually have seen the resilience of people. that language used over and over again, resilience. people have come back under tough circumstances. they have made lives in that city and it does feel like a decade out we want to celebrate the work that ordinary people have done. on the other hand, three presidents in town in three

days, all sort of saying that everything is all good here. how do you balance that? >> well, for us, if you are black and if you are in new orleans, if you are in louisiana, in country, we actually have always had to struggle and we've made do and have come and tried to work through this situations that have been presented. so, for me, and for our families, it's really a time that we really want to say, again, that what our families -- what we are experiencing as black people need to continue to be part of the narrative. >> gina womack, executive director of family and friends of louisiana's incarcerated children. thank you for joining us for joining us this evening. take care of yourself at the moment of tenth anniversary. >> thank you, melissa. thank you for having me. there's much more to come tonight. new orleans native and "straight outta compton" star jason mitchell is joining us live in just a moment. we'll be right back. hey pal? you ready?

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programming notice about a big weekend here on msnbc. tomorrow morning on my show an interview with senior adviser to president obama valerie jarrett. she was with him every step of the way in new orleans and i had a chance to ask about the president's visit. that is tomorrow here on msnbc. and also lieutenant general hustle honore. remember his leadership earned him the respect of the nation. that's tomorrow 10:00 a.m. eastern and on sunday, i'm going to be a guest on "meet the press" with chuck todd. tune in to see my first appearance on the nation's longest-running news show and catch msnbc sundays show live from d.c. at 10:00 a.m. summer vacation is over. hope you join us for all of it. oh, yeah, there's more to come on this show, including jason

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in 2005 madeleine was a third grader in uptown new orleans. creative ensmart she was high achieving. madeleine particularly loved writing. that same year, 18-year-old jason mitchell, a recent graduate, spent his days washing dishes at the ritz carlton hotel on canal street and hustling in

his niebd get by. madeleine and jason were two young people living in new orleans. ten years ago. when the levee failed an the city flooded and their lives changed decisively as their homes and belongings were with destroyed anne and their families uprooted. fad madeleine and her family evacuated fist to nashville and then texas and venchry thund found their way back to new orleans. jason and his people landed in texas. but jason was back in new orleans within six weeks of the storm. like so many other new orleanians they came back and found the city and themselves transformed. they are making their own mark on the world. madeleine has become an accomplished poet and creative writer. next year she will begin her first year at princeton. she was among an elite group of young writers appointed a national student poet at the

white house and introduced by michelle obama. she had the honor of producing another former teen poet at the white house poetry workshop. >> i would like to thank mrs. obama who's been a thamp onfor the national student poets and all students. and now, introduce former teen poet and president of the united states president obama. [ applause ] >> thank you. thank you so much. thank you. have a seat. first of all, let me thank madeleine for the wonderful introduction. >> all right. and you may have already seen what jason mitchell is up to these days. after working with for a few odd jobs he enrolled in acting classes and has a talent that has taken him to hollywood and

right now he is giving a command performance in the number one movie in the country right now. "straight outta compton." >> they want mwa? let's give them mwa. this is only the tip of the iceberg, gentlemen. >> what is going on? what do you have in the bag? >> are you kidding me. you can't take that on the bus gentleman jason named one of the ten actors to watch in 2015. that is an honor seen by oscar winners. tonight, i have two new orleans natives joining me, jason mitchell who stars in the number one movie "straight outta compton" as rapper eze and madeleine, the national student poet. so nice to have you both. >> thank you. >> thank you for having us. >> thank you for having us. >> jason, let me start with you. wour your performance in "straight outta compton" is extremely pow erful.

>> oh, wow. thank you. >> it was incredible. do you draw on your experiences growing up in new orleans to perform that performance? >> absolutely. it's been a gift and a curse. i've lived so much life. as an actor it helps you. it helps me find certain things that i could put out. >> madeleine, speaking of gold, you are headed to princeton. congratulations. >> thank you. thank you. >> did you write about new orleans in your experiences in new orleans in your college essays? >> i actually didn't write about new orleans. i don't write about new orleans very often just because it has such an intimidating history of inspiring art, but i would say that in my writing there are always themes of displacement, loss and genuine concern for homes. it definitely permeates everything that i do.

>> that idea of displacement and loss and also the idea of home. jason, you and i met when you were in new york to do the mhp show. one of the things i asked is where you want to high school. in new orleans that's the first way you form where somebody is, where they are from, what's important to them. there's a funny thing about the high schools both of you went to. >> you went to lusher? they didn't tell me this in maybe you want to tell the rest of america what's going on there. >> the school i went to, it was infamous for being pretty much the worst school. after the storm, they didn't bring it back. they gave it to lusher. they were more of the nerd kind of people. yeah, they gave it to them and it's a beautiful school. it was more like lean on me when i went. there but it is a beautifulle

school now. it is immac rate to late /* -- immaculate. >> talk about what it mean to be at lusher and it did serve different students in a different space. >> well, i can say when i originally attended lusher elementary school, the majority of the students were with students of color and low income. since katrina, the demographic has definitely shifted. i can say that's it is not representative of the student body and school i grew up in. it is majority white and majority of students that live in a neighborhood that was with heavily gentrified following katrina. i'd say that ka fleen shaped the school they went to and i can't say it is for the better. i'm lucky i went to an amazing school but i've seen both sides of it and i prefer it before the

storm. >> i want to ask you both about being artists. madeleine, you are a poet and writer. jason, you are an actor. how is your art help you to navigate this world that is post katrina, new orleans? >> i think in art, everybody speaks from an honest place. in life, you don't always get to speak from an honest place. everybody has a job they work at that they can't talk over. there's a protocol in life. you know, manners that people have to follow. in art, it helps you express those things you have built up inside. for us, i think we are in a special position because even though we were together on something and we seen our city come together with katrina, it was unlike anything we had ever seen. it builds up something in you you don't really know how to release. in art, it helps you ground

sglichlt would probably say the way i approach art is just considering it as pure emotion. something that doesn't have to be explained. i was only 9 when katrina hit. that was really the first time that my world kind of became inexplicable. it is something i couldn't put back together. it was the first thing i really lost. so to lose your entire city is -- having that be the first thing you lose is an incredible lesson in life and you can't piece it together no matter how hard you try. so i approach art as seeing a place where i don't need to make sense. i can do whatever i want and i can kind of find beauty in the chaos that i create myself and it is chaos i control, which is something that i need after being a child of katrina. >> jason, what's your next

project? >> i just got the news that booked scar island. i will work with samuel l. jackson and hawkins again to do the new king kong movie and it will be great. it is great. i'm really excited. >> congratulations. madeleine, if you are at princeton, that means you are 45 minutes from 30 rock here. come and see us. we'd love to see you again during your time at princeton. jason mitchell and mad son thank you so much for everything thank you for being here tonight. coming up a special edition of debunkion junction where we ask who else is wearing this cap? who does that? stay with us

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. debunkion junction, what's my function? we have so many good ones tonight. rachel is letting me drive the train in her place. here we go. i'd like to introduce you to pennsylvania attorney general kathleen cane. she's a democrat, elected in 2012 and took office in 2013. she landed on the national radar when she refused to defend pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage. more recent headlines about her have been more of the is she going to prison variety? pennsylvania attorney general kathleen cane was just charged with illegally leaking secret documents from a grand jury in order to embarrass a rival. she was charged with lying to investors to cover it up. this has been the year of states attorney general indicted in pennsylvania, utah, texas attorneys general have been getting in trouble all over the

country. in the case of pennsylvania attorney general kathleen kane, this week she had to appear personally in court to find out if she would have to stand trial over the charges. it must be daunting if the top law enforcement officer in the state to have to stand trial and stand there as a potential defendant on the wrong side of the courtroom so true or false, this was pennsylvania attorney general kathleen kane reporting to the courthouse this weekend? pennsylvania? is that true or false? that's right. false. weirdly, this is not kathleen kane. let's roll the whole tape. okay. the woman walks by who looks a lot like kathleen kane and then another woman in red follows who also looks like kathleen kane. the first woman distracted the press and had a lot of pictures taken of her. that is not her.

that is her twin sister ellen. ellen goes out and gets a lot of pictures and then kathleen follows behind her in red and everyone is confused and dunn know what to do. genius, just like "parent trap" impbs stead of a zany plot to get your parents back together this is about a high-ranking official facing seven years in prison. the twin sister switch a radio did work to distract some of the media from pennsylvania's attorney general wo was ordered this week to stand trial. next court appearance is scheduled for october. note to rachel, send two cameras. next up, maine governor paul lepage recently crowned america's craziest governor by "politico".com. he is facing potential impeachment by the maine state legislature. he responded to that threat by saying publicly he doesn't need to be impeached. he will quit if enough maine residents write him letters

telling him they want him to go. he is one of the only politicians to endorse chris christie's long-shot presidential campaign. he made that endorsement after governor christie announced he was running. but then, this week, governor lepage stabbed chris christie in the back, maybe. at a conservative talk radio interview in boston, look at what happened, maine governor paul lepage wearing the trademark donald trump for president make america great again baseball cap and he got it in black, very slimming. that has to be a shocking photo for chris christie to see. is it true? did maine governor paul lepage switch his support from chris christie to donald trump? true or false. that is false. according to howie carr radio show, the governor is backing christie. it was just a little fun with a good hat. while the jury is still out on

whether this qualifies as a good hat, apparently chris christie can breathe easy. he still has the support of governor paul lepage but you have to wonder if it is a bit shaky. finally, gerrymandering gone wrong. the city council voted to create the business loop 70 community improvement district. a district drawn with no registered voters, which was supposed to give local business owners the power to impose a small sales tax. revenue from which would go to improving the district. how far, this week it was reported that the council, oops, accidentally left one registered voter inside the district lines. meaning the fate of the proposed tax rate is in the hands of one voter. one, deciding whether top raise taxes in this part of columbia, missouri. now is that actually true or

false? yeah, that one is true. allow me to intro/* introduce you to jen henderson a college student at the university. she left her home squarely inside the boundaries. luckily, once the group found out they made a mistake they brought the only voter in and present their ideas to her as fairly as possible. no, just kidding. they have tried to get her to give up her vote but hender don't said the more researched the tax didn't seem as good as they were telling her and culminated with them trying to get thoer unregistered her vote. she has not relinquished her vote. she is not sure what she will decide she is leaning away from the tax. and the city have learned that

every vote truly does matter. that does it for us tonight. rachel will be back on monday. i'm going to be back in the morning, a few hours on my own show melissa harris-perry. 10:00 a.m. now as rachel would say it is time to go to prison. due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. america's prisons, dangerous, often deadly. there are 2 million people doing time. every day is a battle to survive and to maintain order. >> down, on your feet! down! >> among the nation's toughest, california state prison corcoran, severely overcrowded and plagued by racial tension. we spent months inside, where officers try to maintain order in an institution with a notoriously violent past. this is "lockup: corcoran extended stay."