about our religion, this is really about them trying to get us. we can't fall into that trap. >> all right. senator chris murphy, thank you for your time tonight. i really appreciate it. that is "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts now. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. there's a lot going on in the world right now so this is going to be a packed hour. there is news still breaking tonight about the manhunt for one of the missing attackers from the brussels terrorist bombing. there's also news tonight that one of the bombers who was killed in the brussels attack may have been a crucial participant in the paris terrorist attacks last november. we're going to have details on that ahead including talking with one of the best reporters in the country whose full-time beat is covering isis, the group that claimed responsibility for brussels and paris. there's news about the presidential candidates and president obama, himself, continuing to respond to what happened in brussels. there's news tonight as well

about this most recent round of election results and, frankly, some of the bullpucky being spewed in the beltway about what the results from last night mean. there's also really interesting and frustrating news about why voters in arizona last night ended up waiting in mile-long lines for five hours at a time after polls closed just to vote in an election that likely didn't even have record turnout in that state. so as i said, there's a lot going on, there's lots to come on this show this hour tonight. we're going to start tonight with none of these stories. we're going to start tonight with a story i did not expect to be covering tonight until this happened. >> during this trip, i made a statement to governor bentley, i'll repeat it to you, i told governor bentley that i loved him like a father. there was nothing i wouldn't do for him except lie to a grand jury. i made governor bentley aware of the recording that i heard, i told governor bentley there was

no need to try and explain it for anything other than it was. it was very obvious that it was sexual in nature. governor bentley simply hung his head and asked for advice in how to get out of it. at that point, i explained to governor bentley it would be a crime if he is to use state resources to facilitate a relationship or if he used campaign funds to facilitate the relationship. governor bentley assured me that he had done neither. at that point, governor bentley gave me his word that he would terminate the relationship immediately. governor bentley, uniformed troopers at that point, return home. at 6:30 the next morning, and phone records should be able to validate this, governor bentley called me on my cell phone and stated that he could not go through with it and end the relationship with miss mason.

>> it's happening again. at least it seems like it's happening again. it looks like the united states of america may be about to lose yet another governor. not because the governor has been primaried or voted out or recalled from office, but rather looks like we may be about to lose yet another one in a way that sort of this time feels like a cross between mark sanford not really hiking the appalachian trail but instead spending time with his argentinian girlfriend, a cross between that and john kitshob br ber resigning in oregon, the influence of his girlfriend over not only the governor, himself, but the state's whole government. this time, though, it's happening in the great state of alabama then this one is like one of those fireworks displays where the finale goes on for so long you're actually kind of begging for it to be over even if you like fireworks because you're not sure you can take one more part of this blowing up so spectacularly.

yes, i have to tell you as a little bit of a warning, this story tonight does end with a gubernatorial sex tape which we've got ahold of tonight and we will get there and i will give you another warning before we get there. that's where it ends. here's where it starts. university of south alabama, their sports teams are called the jaguars. i don't think this is true of most mascots. they've gone out of the way to have two versions of their mascot. they have a boy jaguar and a girl jaguar. why do they need two? are male and female jaguars really that different? i don't know. their male mascot is called south paw and their female mascot is called miss pawla. p-a-w-l-a. miss pawla is the girl jaguar. a strange sexy kitten going on with a skirt outfit and hair bow and eyelashes -- there you have it. anyway. these mascots get people fired

up at football games and sports event but also have to do sports event photo ops including photo t ops with the governor. every year the governor and his family invite all the mascots from alabama's schools. they invite all the people who wear the big headed furry costumes to come to the governor's mansion to promote alabama higher education and this one this past year's big mascot event. there's the governor of alabama, right bentley. there's his wife of 50 years, diane. this is them sandwiched between the two stuffed jaguars between the jaguar boy and jaguar girl. south paw and miss pawla. . he's with south paw. she's with miss pawla. one reason the governor nor his wife looked psyched to be there, 36 minutes before that photo was taken, 36 minutes before, diane bentley had filed for divorce. she filed these divorce papers

claiming an irretrievable brokedo breakdown in her marriage to the governor then after filing those papers, 36 minutes later she went through with the mascots photo on inclup including posin her husband next to miss pawla. after 50 years of marriage, the first hour of filing divorce papers, there's the soon-to-be ex couple spending quality time, forcing smiles for the camera with the jacksonville state university gamecock and the sad university of alabama elephant who has this droop fy unstuffed trunk. we don't need to dwell on this aspect of it but following that very eventful morning where they got divorce papers filed and had to pose with all the people in the mascot suits, after that, once the divorce papers were filed, the alabama press was filled with rumors that the cause of the sitting governor's

divorce was an affair. it was an affair between governor bentley and his senior political adviser, a woman who had been his campaign press secretary. the governor has not commented on those -- had not at the time commented on those allegations either to confirm them or deny them. you know, and obviously at root this is a sad story for anyone. the end of a 50-year marriage is always a sad story. if the marriage did end because the governor broke up his marriage by cheating, that sad story will have the additional dimension of the governor's hypocrisy as a politician because this isn't just a personal story, governor bentley ran for this office that he holds on the grounds that he was a family-values candidate, right, a god-fearing family man whose campaign ads featured him talking about the bible while posing with his wife and all of his grandkids. he ran as a man who so believes in the sanctity of traditional marriage that he'd fight same-sex marriage with every fiber of his being.

his administration filed a supreme court brief saying marriage between same-sex couples should not be thought of as marriages, they should be seen as social experiments. nobody's love life is a political matter unless you, as a politician, make your love life and your personal life a political matter. and robert bentley, the governor of alabama, has done that. he has been a crusading family-values politician who has campaigned on the superior morality of his own marriage, his own family, and his own family values and how he's going to save alabama from other people's terrible, immoral family choices because his values and his family are superior. and so now for alabama governor robert bentley, this is not just a personal story or sex scandal, it's a political hypocrisy story and unfortunately for him it has also turned out to be something much more serious than that which ultimately could result in him no longer being the governor of alabama even if he wants to continue to be and that's because what it has now turned

into is an abuse of the office scandal. and it's becoming potentially an issue in alabama state politics much wider than him. the woman who governor bentley was allegedly shtooping outside his marriage, she's also a semipublic figure. she's the senior political adviser to governor bentley. that is a paid job. one point of interest here is that even though that's a paid job, she's not on the state payroll. instead one of the things that's been tearing up the alabama press on this issue is the realization that although this person is being paid to advise the governor at the most senior level, nobody knows where the money is coming from that pays her. and if she is the governor's mistress or she has been the governor's mistress, figuring out who's been paying her all that time has now become a matter of some ethical urgency in the state of alabama and that brings us to today. in alabama, the secretary of alabama law enforcement is a cabinet-level position.

under governor robert bentley a man named spencer collier was promoted from alabama's secretary of homeland security to that cabinet-level position of being the state secretary of law enforcement. governor bentley yesterday fired spencer colliers. fired that cabinet official. and spencer collier responded by calling a press conference at his lawyer's office at which he let loose a fuselaud of bombshells about the governor. >> everything that i'm about to tell you i'm willing to say under oath. i am willing to say in front of a grand jury with my hand on a bible. and i challenge the others to be willing to do the same. my relationship with governor bentley was positive for the better part of almost 15 years. as i mentioned earlier, i considered him both a close personal friend and, in fact, at times i even looked at him as a father figure. i saw the first sign of change in governor robert bentley in august of 2014.

i became aware of a text message that was sent from miss rebecca mason to governor bentley. the text message was accidentally intercepted by governor bentley's body man, his personal security. that man was sergeant stan stabler. sergeant stabler accidentally picked up governor bentley's cell phone as he left it in the suburban and on the cell phone there was a text that was sexual in nature. on august 5th, chief lewis came into my office and played me parts of an audio recording in which governor bentley and rebecca mason were participating in an inappropriate sexual conversation. the tape was brought to my attention by chief lewis who received it from a bentley family member. a member of governor bentley's family was on the phone with chief lewis while the tape was being played in my presence. at that point, i explained to

governor bentley it would be a crime if he has used state resources to facilitate a relationship or if he used campaign funds to nfacilitate te relationship. from august of 2014 until the present, it's become apparent to me that rebecca mason has willed to the level of influence over both the governor and state government that i have never seen in all my years of public service. the people of this state deserve better. governor bentley was elected bu overwhelming majority by the people of this state but rebecca mason was not elected by anyone. and the level of influence that she is yielding makes her the de facto governor. i'll finish by saying this. i mentioned that miss mason is not elected. i don't even think we know who even pays m s miss mason. i don't think anyone knows where he pay comes from, but i do know this. governor robert bentley is not the same man i knew and served in the legislature with and considered one of the best friends that i ever had.

and for that, i am saddened. >> so that's the man who was just yesterday fired as the top law enforcement official in the state of alabama. the allegation that this all started with the governor's body man, the governor's, effectively his bodyguard accidentally seeing a sexually explicit text message to the governor on the governor's cell phone when the governor left his phone in his state car, that allegation was denied today by the man who was the governor's bodyguard at the time who i should mention has now incidentally been promoted to take the job that the guy making the allegation was just fired from. but that denial, that was just the first part of a mark sanford-esque press conference from the governor, himself, today. at which the governor apologized but anyone he would not say what he was apologizing for. except that if you were thinking he was apologizing for the thing that you're thinking, he says he definitely didn't do that.

>> today i want to apologize to the people of the state of alabama. and once again, i want to apologize to my family. i am truly sorry, and i accept full responsibility. i want everyone to know, though, that i have never had a physical affair with mrs. mason. i can assure the people of alabama that as their governor, i have never done anything illegal. >> you said you had no physical relationship with miss mason. describe your relationship with miss mason beyond the fact that she is your, clearly your closest aide and confidant. >> well, i think that's what she is. she is my closest aide or one of my aides that is part of my leadership team and she does an outstanding job. she has worked for me in various

capacities. in fact, she has been with me the entire time before i was elected governor. i have several members of my leadership team right now that have been with me that length of time. zach lee and wesley helton as well as, and will edwards has also to a certain extent. >> governor, you don't make sexually explicit comments to them, i take it, and you did with her. >> i made a mistake. two years ago, i made a mistake. i have rectified that. i have dealt with that and we have moved on. >> did you only make the mistake when people were recording you? >> no. >> governor, what specifically are you apologizing for if you did not have a physical relationship? what is -- >> i'm apologizing -- i'm apologizing for the things that i said. >> sir -- >> why would you make those statements if you were not involved in a physical

relationship? >> well, that does not lead to -- that is not a physical relationship, making those statements. >> governor -- >> a physical relationship, is it a romantic relationship? is that romantic relationship still on jng going? >> what do you mean a romantic relationship? >> do you love mrs. mason? >> i love many members of my staff. in fact, all the members of my staff. do i love more than i do others than i do -- you know, some more than others, absolutely. >> spencer collier said today you, quote, admitted to him you were madly in love. >> well, i don't think i've ever said that to mr. collier. >> sir, you've trusted collier for years since day one of your administration. why shouldn't people believe what he's saying now? who is there magically a different standard for him? >> well, what mr. collier is saying today is just not accurate and is just not true. >> governor, did the mistake that you say you made contribute to your divorce? >> i don't have any comment on that. >> has rebecca mason influenced

any decisions in your administration, sir? >> kim? >> governor, you said you apologized to your family and miss mason's family. i assume that was prior to today, that was in the past? >> i have apologized to my children and i'm apologizing again. >> why have you not until today voiced apology publicly until today? >> well, first, let me say, i have stated emphatically today that i have not had a physical relationship with mrs. mason, and at times in the past have i said things that i should not have said? absolutely. that's what i'm saying today. >> governor, these comments, were they an isolated incident or did they take place over a longer period of time? how long was this inappropriate communication lasting for? >> i really -- it was a period of time. i really can't say exactly the length of time, but it was over -- you know, i don't want

to say a period of months. i'm not going to say that because i'm just -- i'm just saying that it was a period of time in my life that i have made inappropriate comments and -- >> did she ask you to stop? did miss mason ask you to stop? >> no. >> governor, there's a portion of that recording in which you are heard saying "i'd like to walk up behind you and touch you and put my hand on your breast." how would you say that if you were not involved in a physical relationship? >> what i'm saying is there was no sexual activity. >> have you entertained the idea of stepping down? >> no, i have not. >> thank you, governor. >> governor robert bentley of alabama saying today he wouldn't step down. and that, forgive me, also saying he did not have sexual relationship relations with that woman, no matter what's on the tape. alabama reporters clearly didn't buy today, right? you could tell from their questions.

but that is why alabama reporters then made the decision to release the tape, the audiotape that they were describing there. governor bentley's sex tape. has now been released. hold on. the reporter who broke the story and who helped make the call to release that tape publicly tonight is here in just a moment. stay with us. e new glasses? they are. do i look smarter? yeah, a little. you're making money now, are you investing? well, i've been doing some research. let me introduce you to our broker. how much does he charge? i don't know. okay. uh, do you get your fees back if you're not happy? (dad laughs) wow, you're laughing. that's not the way the world works. well, the world's changing. are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is managed? wealth management, at charles schwab. aso when your symptoms start....

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do you subscribe to your local paper? you should subscribe to your local paper. you should give gift subscriptions to your local paper to people who live in your neighborhood whenever you need to give gifts. this is the time when it's good to send positive vibes to your local paper. the efforts of reporters and editors at the local level, they really often go unappreciated. even when their job is to shed light on what is going on in your neighborhood, in your town, in your state in a way that directly affects you. but sometimes what happens at local press level ends up being huge national news. and the case in point for us tonight is from alabama.

in breaking a huge story on their governor today, the birmingham news today in birmingham, alabama, got hold of and published tonight some of the most politically damning tape in recent memory. because of their efforts, we're able to play some of that tape for you next. it's the kind of thing you will not forget once you hear it. that's next. stay with us.

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is about to be played on this show. and the reason we don't take a decision like this lightly, we don't do this just for entertainment. the reason we are going to play this in just a second is because it is legitimately newsworthy. alabama governor robert bentley was one of the huge wave of republican governors that was elected in the bright red year of 2010. he is a family-values sanctity of marriage social conservative governor who has long faced rumors but who is now facing overt allegations of having an extramarital affair while he was in office with a top staffer. top staffer who has raised eyebrows in alabama politics, anyway, about her degree of influence over the governor and over state government, also over questions about how her salary as the government's top political adviser is being paid for. that's something nobody really seems to know. today in alabama governor bentley apologized to the people of that state to something related to the relationship with

the top staffer but wouldn't spell out what exactly he was apologizing for other than to say he had not had a physical affair with that woman. and it quickly became clear at today's press conference some alabama reporters who had been covering this scandal didn't seem to buy the governor's denial that he never had a physical affair or at least it seems like they thought they might have evidence to the contrary. and that has now led to a remarkable decision by "the birmingham news" and alabamalive.com to publish, post online tonight what they say is a portion of an audiotape in question in this case. it's an audiotape which reportedly captures governor bentley speaking in explicit terms with the staffer in question. so, now it's time to cover the kids' ears. okay? okay.

>> that tape was published tonight by "the birmingham news," alabamalive.com after governor robert bentley of alabama today spent the afternoon making statements like this. >> today i want to apologize to the people of the state of alabama and once again i want to apologize to my family. i am truly sorry. and i accept full responsibility. i want everyone to know, though, that i have never had a physical affair with mrs. mason. >> when "the birmingham news" made a decision to post the sex tape today, they were basically making an implicit journalistic judgment call for their readers, right? decide for yourself if you believe him, listen to this, and then decide for yourself if you believe him when he says he never had an affair. joining us now is the reporter who broke this part of the story, john archibald with "the

birmingham news." i imagine you're in the middle of quite a lot of this right now. thank you for taking the time. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> let me ask if i explained the basics here. there are twists and turns and intersections with other alabama scandals and stuff. did i get the basics right of what's happened here? >> you absolutely did. you got about as much as people can digest in one meal here. it's quite a bit. >> why did you decide, you and your editors decide today to post the audiotape of the governor basically having phone sex? what was your decision about the newsworthiness of that? >> well, there was a lot of discussion, frankly, and until the governor decided to have a press conference that he made specifically about that recording, i don't think it ever would have seen the light of day but basically he stood up and said, i'm going to apologize for everything i think you can prove but then i'm going to deny everything i think you can't prove. which came across as

disingenuous and having heard the tapes, we believed that it was in the public interest for people to know exactly what was going on and what he was telling them. and a lot of our view, he was not telling the whole truth. >> it's been reported elsewhere that the tape was made, and forgive me, you may have reported this in "the birmingham news" as well but i've seen it reported that the tape we just played was made by the governor's wife, his ex-wife. she made it with her own cell phone after she became suspicious he husband might have been carrying on an affair. i'm not going to ask you to disclose anything about your sources. i wouldn't do that. i do have to ask if you have absolute confidence in the authenticity of the recording, have absolute confidence that is the governor and that you know who the person is he's having phone sex with in that recording? >> i have absolute -- i have 100% belief that it is the accurate recording. the governor confirmed that

today. the fired head of alabama's law enforcement agency, spencer collier, had it investigated and confirmed it, and the governor did not argue that point today. in fact, he had the press conference for this specific purpose of addressing that tape. and so i think your understanding of the history is pretty close to right, whether it was the governor's wife or another family member, it was certainly produced while trying to determine if the governor was having an inappropriate relationship. >> do you think that the governor is going to resign? >> i think he is -- i don't think he's going to resign now but he cannot last. he is done. there is no way he can survive. if he's not indicted, if he's not forced to resign, then he will end his career as a really an incredible political joke. i mean, his term as a useful governor is over. >> is it a live issue -- you

mentioned indicted there, this prospect he may have used state funds or campaign funds to facilitate this affair or cover it up. when you talk about an indictment, is that what you mean? >> sure. there are all sorts of things that -- i mean, whether it could be state charges, federal charges, there are a lot of discussion about potential investigations. they're very early on so we don't fknow where they lead, bu i think there's a great deal of concern about that among people who are close to them. >> john archibald, columnist with "the birmingham news." today is national exhibit "a" why everybody should subscribe to their local paper and support local papers and editors. thank you. congratulations on this scoop. much more ahead tonight. very, very busy and strange news night. stay with us. incredible bladder protection from always discreet

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attacks in november. and whatever we know about various terrorist organizations, we're not used to the idea of that their master bomb makers might be used, themselves, as a suicide attacker. right? wouldn't someone with those kinds of skills be too valuable to the organization to risk their own individual life in a single suicide attack? one question. here's another. how is it that someone so integral to the paris attacks, someone known by name to authorities as the suspected paris master bomb maker, how is it that that person could stay at large in europe in belgium operationally working toward another plot, apparently, while presumably being one of the most-wanted members of isis in the entire world? joining us now is a foreign correspondent for "the new york times," her beat is covering islamist extremist.

>> it's so nice to be here, rachel. >> are those the right questions to be asking? let's start with this first question about the prospect that somebody who appears to be kind of a master bomb maker for isis may have been personally involved as an attacker here. >> you know, i disagree with the analysis that he's the only bomb maker. >> okay. >> the reason i disagree with that is i've been looking at court records from europe of people that we know with were isis and the very first attacker that is linked to isis who comes back to europe leaves syria in december of 2013 and is arrested, we're talking two years ago, arrested in france with three tatp bombs. as of three years ago a man who was not yet part of this network, yet was part of isis was able to pull off making his dangerous ploesive. it's clear they're training them to make this explosive. it's not that easy to make. i believe there are a number of people being trained in this particular skill set. just like you said, i don't

think it makes sense that somebody that has this knowledge would be -- that if he's the only one that he would be sacrificed in this operation. >> tatp has been around for a long time. we've seen a lot of successful bombing plots from different terrorist groups over the years with tatp. we've also seen a lot of unsuccessful plots with tatp. it's thought as being up of these things that is essentially over the counter. don't need specialist military equipment or something to make it. the downside of it is supposed to be that it's hard. >> right. >> are you suggesting at least what isis has done is work out the kinks and make it so that everybody can make tatp bombs? >> i think what we've seen is a revolution. for instance, when this guy is arrested in 2014, they found in the apartment three tatp bombs inside red bull soda cans and properly mixed the properties. it was mixed, it was ready to go. on his computer, they found he

was doing google searches for terms how to detonate, disnation at a distance. >> he got some of the distance there but needed a little help. >> he didn't quite know how to detonate them i think. we now see in paris they had suicide belts which we believe have around one pound, maybe a little bit more, of tatp. now suddenly at the airport, jimmy oxley, i believe is one of the leading academics studying this compound looked at the images of the damage and based on the preliminary damage, 30 to 100 pounds of tatp that were used. i went to her lab incidentally a couple weeks ago and took essentially a spoonful of tatp and put it inside a mailbox. we had to stand many of yards back and showed us what a teaspoon does. it's an unbelievable explosion. i almost hit the deck even though i knew, there was a countdown, i knew it was going to go off. the explosion from one teaspoon is so powerful you almost feel it knocking the win out of you. >> if they're creating bombs

with up to 100 pounds of tatp, is that an additional degree of difficulty or just scaling up -- >> yes, yes, because what happens the more of it you have, it's very volatile. as oxley puts it, it's very likely to be insulted. friction, heat, electricity can set it off. the more you have, the more explosive you have. in the west bank tatp has been used by palestinian groups and it earned the nickname the mother of satan because so many bombers lost their arms. you know -- >> oh, not for it being successfully used but for the people gets hurt trying to make it. >> for the bomb makers actually getting hurt. in paris they successfully set off tatp bombs in three locations. two inside the bataclan, one by abaaoud in the location where he died. seven different places they all went off. there wasn't a single case of the bombs not doing off, wasn't

a single case of not having the detonator, not having the parts. now in brussels we're seeing two devastating bombs at the airport. >> huge bombs. 30 to 100. then equally large, i mean, maybe not equally large, let me take that back, but still large inside the subway car. three. and so to me it shows that they figured out the supply chain, they figured out how to make it without killing themselves. unbelievably they've managed to do this -- this is a peroxide-based bomb so it does give off an odor. and so did neighbors not notice that there was essentially the smell of bleach, you know, coming from the next apartment? so to me it really shows what we're calling the external operations arm of isis, from a group that wanted to do this two years ago but didn't quite know how to do it to the devastation that we're seeing this week in brussels. >> and the nr we understand about their operational capabilities the more chilling it is to see how much they've been able to operate. >> we. >> even while being the most

wanted men in western europe. >> yes. >> callimachi, this is illuminating and absolutely terrifying. thank you for helping us understand it. >> thanks for having me. >> that's your work now. appreciate it. a "new york times" foreign correspondent who specializes in this. we'll be right back. stay with us. [engines revving] you can't have a hero, if you don't have a villain. the world needs villains [tires screeching] and villains need cars. ♪

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if you were in line at 7:00 you were not turned away. meaning there were still some arizonans voting right now, but not everyone got to exercise their right to vote. >> it's absolutely deplorable in the fact that you have to wait out on the street to get into the parking lot and then you walk in here and you take a look around and you've got maybe 500, 600 people standing out here in the sun. >> if you're the number of people, it's the fact that there are a limited number of places to vote. when you only have three or four choices, everybody has to go somewhere. i figure two hours from the time of getting in the line and getting out of here and then you have to get out of the parking lot. >> i'm supposed to shut this line down at 7:00. >> you're the last man, okay? >> that's legally the line back there. >> i think everybody should have

a vote. >> 7:00. >> the polls should stay open. >> we were in line. what about all these cars in line waiting to get in line to vote. >> go ahead and call them up, please. >> we will. >> we will. we will call. when we were covering the arizona primary last night we were getting reports of really long lines of people trying to vote. and you cover enough elections you get reports of long lines on election night. it happens every election night somewhere. what was weird in arizona last night was that we kept getting these reports of long lines for hours and hours and hours, hours after the polls supposedly closed and for hours after the races were called in both the democratic and republican. and now we know why. it's because of the supreme court of the united states.

the conservative majority of the supreme court gutted the voting rights act of 2013 and that means states that have a history of repressing the vote and additi discrimination no longer need to get permission from the justice department if they want to change the voting rules. states like arizona can do what they want now because of the supreme court and what arizona decided to do last night in this 40% minority count in the biggest population center in the state, they decided to cut the number of polling places in the county from more than 200 in 2012 to 60 last night. one polling place per 21,000 voters. they cut it by 75%. they thought it might save them some money. maybe it did. this is what it also did. donald trump won arizona by 22 points and hillary clinton won

arizona by 18 points and maybe those margins were so big didn't effect that overall outcome, but if the supreme court and justice scalia and the vaccensy on the court and the president being able to appoint a new justice, arizona made it very concrete last night. miles and miles and miles and hours and hours and hours of concrete. it's disgusting. that does it for us tonight. now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> you have to stop breaking these sex stories. you got to -- come on. >> there's something disturbing too about the constant pictures of the governor of alabama with the corresponding information. it's the -- yeah. >> let's just say you broke my concentration on my homework here.