that's "all in" for this evening. we'll be back on monday night in wisconsin. come by and see us. maybe we can take a selfie in good evening, rachel. >> that sounds like an excellent idea. >> i think it will be great. >> maybe i'll see if i can get there. have a great weekend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy friday. in the spring of 2010, on april 27th, in 2010, a really bad thing happened. a very sad thing happened during the morning rush hour on the new york sub way. it was on a g train. the train started in queens that morning and was heading south. it was at the heart of the rush hour. train was full of people. it was traveling at speed and the man who was driving that subway train, that g train, he died. he died at the controls. this is not like train with a

whole crew. it's not like an airplane where there's a co-pilot that can take over if something happens. this was one driver, one motor man driving the train. he had a heart attack and died at the controls with all of those rush hour commuters on board the train he was driving at speed. you know what happened to all those people on that nothing. it's very sad that the motor man died, but the people on board the train were completely safe when that happened even though it was middle of rush hour. the reason they were all okay is because of one specific thing. if you're a motor man or motor woman conducting a new york city subway train, you have to hold this handle down the way this person is holding it down in this picture. tilting it back toward himself. if the person driving the train lets go of that handle on board the train, stops holding it down

like that, that handle springs back up right and that brings the train to a stop. it's called a dead man's switch. if there's nobody there to hold that handle down, that stops the train when the handle springs back. it's literally designed to detect if the guy driving this thing has turned into a dead man. they call it a dead man switch. devices like this have existed for a long time on trains and subways. some airplanes have something similar where it lowers the altitude of the airplane automatically in the event the cockpit becomes unresponsive. in none of the crew members give any response to any similtimuli. the fear is that means the cockpit has lost its oxygen supply. the autopilot kicks in and

brings the airplane to a lower attitu altitude as a safety measure. there's a lot of different kinds of used in a lot of different circumstances. it kicks in if you don't do something. if you don't check in or register your presence overtly, that itself is the trigger. it can be the trigger to shut something down like a speeding g train this queens on a tuesday morning or can be a trigger to set something off like, for example, a hand held detonator where you have to keep some switch depressed. if you let that switch go, if you release it, then that's what sets off the explosion. that's a common spookie plot twist in lots of thrillers and spy movies. it's also a real thing. it's an effective form of

insurance. if you hurt me, i'll let go of this switch. do not hurt me. the reason i raise this point is because a sort of dead man's switch has been installed on this strange threat that's now becoming a truly strange subplot in the presidential race right now. we reported at the start of this week on the resurfacing of the d.c. madam case in washington. it was about an escort service that operated as a thriving business in washington, d.c. for something like 13 years. it was shut down in 2006 when the government brought criminal charges against the woman who ran the escort agency. the woman who ran the agency, she and her lawyer decided that they would fight back against the charges in part by releasing records from the escort service. releasing the phone records. by them releasing the phone records in 2006, 2007, we learned about high profile of

this high end hooker service in washington. george w. bush administration aid czar and sitting u.s. republican senator, family values senator, several other names got outed in that case about the escort service. it's interesting. they didn't get outed as part of the legal proceedings in court that happened in that case. they got outed as part of a media and pr strategy that were run by the woman who ran the escort agency and her lawyer. the woman has since died. she killed herself not long after she was convicted in 2008 after she found out she was facing a long prison sentence. the lawyer with whom she leased the early phone records from her agent is still around. he's now back in the news because he's long maintained when the case was brought, the phone records that was released, he's long maintained that those

weren't the only phone records they had. he said there's hundreds of other names and addresses from the escort services client's list. he said there's thousands of other phone numbers. these are all records he says he had access to but he can't legally release them because there's a restraining order placed on him in 2007 by a federal court in washington. again, that court case was brought in 2006. even as that case has started to fade in memory, there's always been reminders of it here and there. the d.c. madam case came up when david vitter tried to run in louisiana. what other names and phone numbers were in those records that nobody has seen yet. because of that restraining order from the court, nobody

thought the names would see the light of day. as we reported earlier this week, something seems to have changed on that front this year. in january of this year, the lawyer from the d.c. madam case, he said he has the recorders, he says he came to the realization, came to a decision at the beginning of this year that he had a new reason to want to release those records. he says he now wants to release the records because they are a matter of nationalimportance. he says what's in the records is relevant to the 2016 presidential race, and no he won't say what he means by that. over the last few weeks he's by trying to get released from that restraining order. he's been trying to get permission from the courts to release the remaining records. he's made an application to the u.s. issue -- he's made an application to the u.s. district court, which initially put in the restraining order. he's made representation to the u.s. circuit court of appeals in

d.c. he made a representation to the united states supreme court saying, quote, time is of the essence. he said the supreme court must consider this case. they must give him permission to release the records. they must do it soon. he says it's a matter of national importance. he says it has to be now because it may affect who the people of the united states want to effect as their next president of the united states. that's where we left it on tuesday of this week after he had delivered that application to the united states supreme court saying, please, let me release the records. as of now, we've got news because two more things have happened. first, the lawyer in this case has claimed he's installed a dead man's switch on these records. he says now that when he realized or he came to the decision that these records, these unreleased escort agency records were relevant to this year's presidential race, he took out what amounts to an

insurance policy to protect himself so no one would be threatened to harm him physically as way of preventing the records being released. montgomery blare sibley says he's hidden online in four different locations on four different servers, pdf versions of these escort agency records that he says includes the names and addresses of 815 alleged clients of the d.c. madam. he said he set up a doomsday switch, a dead man's switch that's designed to automatically reveal the locations of the records online if he does nothing the for a period of 72 hours. remember, a deadman's switch is not activated by you doing something. it's activated by you unexpectedly doing nothing. the way he described it to us today is as a 72-hour clock. he told us, quote, the 72-hour

clock releases the records if i disappear for 72 hours. i reset the clock daily. stranger things have happened. i'm taking no chances. he further elaborated to u.s. world news saying the 72-hour clock is rigged so what it does if it counts all the way down, all 72 hours without him acting to reset it, quote, dozens of reporters will receive a website link directing them where to find the documents online. quote, if i die, disappear, whatever, they will be out. that's the first thing that's happened today. there's a dead man's switch on the d.c. madam unreleased records, at least the lawyer says there is. so, i don't know, if you're say you're presidential candidate whose name is on the d.c. madam phone list, better home nothing happens to him that prevents him from resetting his 72-hour

countdown clock for if that happens, all the results come out, all the records. who knows. this could absolutely by an empty threat. he's shown no proof that he's done this. of course, without access to the documents ourselves, we can't verify his claim one aor anotor. this is what he's claiming on how he's acted to protect the information and how he's acted to protect himself as the possessor of the information. the second thing that's happened today is his application to the united states supreme court, which says they should release him from this restraining order and let him release the escort agency records, that application to the supreme court got put on the docket at the supreme court today. that's the supreme court website. yes, it is april fool's day. it says it was docketed on april 1st, 2016. the supreme court does not make

april fool's jokes. this is real. it really did get put on the docket. that doesn't mean the supreme court will hear the case. it does mean that chief justice john roberts will take a first crack at deciding whether or not the supreme court should take it up. honestly, i'm not lawyer. just layman's observation, it seems unlikely that the supreme court could take up this case, but it is on the docket. they will now consider taking it up. it's a possibility. now here is what you need know about what this may or may not he mean for the u.s. presidential race. if what the lawyer is saying true, if there's something in these unreleased phone records that's relevant enough to the presidential race that it could affect the way people are going to vote or may affect something about the case. if that's true, then speed matters. the records getting published

now will have a different effect. if they really are something significant, the timing matters. you got to go fast. and, so, the d.c. madam lawyer is going through the channels now. he's applying to these different courts and asking for permission to be released from the restraining orders. he's also explicitly threatening that if it's the only way to get them out, he'll release them illegally if he has to. the lawyer gave us this statement today. quote, trusting that the chief justice will promptly make his rulings and allow me to file my request to modify the restraining order, which prevents my release of the d.c. madam's reports, i will be taking no action with the records until he rules. that said, quote, if i am deanid the right to file and sevreceiv motion, i will release the records of the d.c. madam relevant to this presidential election. what he's saying is, maybe the supreme court will take this up.

maybe the supreme court will say, yes, and take this up. he will wait until they rule and not release the records. if they say no, if they're not going take up this case and not going to clear him to release the records, he says he'll release them any way. so, that's one way they might get released. the other way is if something happens to him that prevents him from clicking his 72-hour countdown clock which he says they will be released automatically by virtue of the fact he's not shown up to click reset, at least so he says. maybe this is all a cock and bull story. maybe there's nothing in the records. he's the d.c. madam lawyer that released the other records. there was a lot in there. he says not only do they exist, not only does he have access but he says they are relevant to this election. if he's right, we're all about to find that out soon because one way or another, these things are about to come out.

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contained, et cetera, et cetera, facts, memo. it's all there, black and white, clear as crystal. you stole the drinks. it has to be wash eed and sterilized. you get nothing. you lose. good day, sir. >> one presidential candidate broke the rules this year in the same way. memobis. he broke the rules. he was a presidential candidate, but he broke the rules, whatever those were. he might get nothing because of it. it's an amazing story. that's next. good day, sir.

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so i feel like i'm ready to take on anything. just because there's a day we call april fool's day doesn't mean you're immune from any other cruel jokes. take the university of south carolina men's basketball team. the gamecocks. great name. they have appeared eight times since 1971. the last time was over a decade ago. a couple of weeks ago they got word that they were about to make their big comeback. their back in the ncaa tournament after 12 years. the coach and the athletic

dire director got a message saying you're in. this was a huge deal for about ten minutes. ten minutes afterthey got the text, they got a phone call saying text was wrong. you're not in. pretend you never got it. it got a bunch of attention this week. so much so the ncaa has issued a public apology for the screw up. university of south carolina still mad about it and rightly so. a super disheartening thing to have happened even if they only perceived for a moment that something was being taken away from them. even if they never had a spot in the tournament to begin with. if they actually had earn aed a spot and had it taken away after the fact, that would really be something to complain about. that would be what's happening in south carolina in the presidential race right now. on february 20th, south carolina held their republican primary.

it was pretty much a blow out. not only did donald trump win by double digits but he ended up getting every single delegate in the state. he's gone onto be the national front-runner. it doesn't look like he's got the race completely locked up this terms of delegates for the republican convention this summer. enter obscure rule of the republican party. south carolina republicans decided they will have a rule that says in order to get on the primary ballot in south carolina as a republican, you have to pledge your loyalty to the republican party. well, donald trump did pledge his loyalty to the republican party early in the campaign. here he is holding up the actual pledge. this past week, he reneged on that pledge. he says he doesn't believe that anymore. he will no longer pledge to support the republican matter's

no, ma' -- party's nominee because he said he's not been treated fairly. if donald trump, is no longer royal to the republican party, does that mean he's retro actively ineligible to have competed as a republican in the south carolina primary? this is not just some esoteric argument. the chairman told time magazine, breaking south carolina's presidential primary ballot pledge raises some questions. a court on contests could resolve them. it could put delegates in jeopardy. really? donald trump is out right saying he no longer stands by that republican party loyalty pledge he took. legally, within the republican party rules, those 50 delegates he earned in that primary, are they really going to say those aren't his anymore? are they going to take them away

because he no longer believes his pledge? really. joining us is republican strategist. joel, it's really nice to see you. thanks for being with us. >> thank you for having me tonight. >> is this the sort of thing that happens all the time in south carolina politics, and we're just noticing it for the first time because of this red hot presidential race, or is this weird in south carolina too? >> this is weird even for south carolina, i think you meant to say. if you look at the way south carolina conducts down ballot races. if you know anything outside the presidential race, we have sore loser laws in south carolina. they're not unique to south carolina. they're in other places too. if you lose the primary, you cannot run for another party, for another petition candidate. you cannot take any other pro-active action to get your name put back on the ballot. it's a law in place for sore losers if they happen not win

the nomination. that was always the fear with donald trump. if he ran, he was a popular candidate. if he ran and did not get to that magic number of 1237, does he run as an independent. that's why there was this big push to have him sign the pledge. >> the pledge seems unenforceab unenforceable. he didn't rip it up or saying he no longer considers himself bound by it. is that the sort of thing that would be seen as determinative in terms of his eligibility in the state? >> it's hard to say. donald trump, this this cycle, he's the pick up your marbles and go home candidate. when he doesn't like the way the rules are playing out, he makes a threat. the threat was maybe i'll run as an independent after all which is a threat he's been making throughout this process.

party conventions and party nominating contests are not what when he learned about in tenth grade civics. it's not whoever gets the most votes wins. it's this willy wonka type contest. if i were donald trump and saw reince preibus coming out in a purple suit, i would worry. >> if you had to bet on this, what kind of slate do you think south carolina will send to the convention? >> it would be tough for me to envision a scenario where they were not bound to donald trump on the first ballot, which is where they are now. they have to be bound on the first ballot. unless somebody sues or create a court controversy out of this, i have a tough time it wouldn't play out that way. the real worry for donald trump will be what happens afterthat

fir first ballot. if it goes to a second ballot and third ballot, he better sure up or make some effort that his folks will go on there. if it does go do a contested convention. >> former executive director of the south carolina republican primary. thanks for being here. i feel like you're our south carolina interpreter. nice to have you here. >> any time. >> when you talk to people about what's going to happen in this race, what joel said about how i expect this will happen unless something crazy happens like court action or somebody sues. that is becoming less and less crazy all the over the country right now. there's already court proceedings over who the delegate will be in the virgin islands now. you can bet it will be happening in more states other than that. boy, is this going to be fun. we've got more and more coming up next. stay with us. memobisiq.

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in all of god's great state of nevada, there are about 2.9 million souls, almost all of them live in this little corner of the state. two million of the 2.9 people of the state live if clark county, which is vegas and its suburbs. nearly half of everybody else lives up there, upper left corner in reno. tomorrow that gets to be the unlikely center of the american political universe. tomorrow the republican party is holding its little county convention to elect delegates to the state convention, which will then elect delegates to go -- yeah. it's usually as boring as it sounds. this year that event it might get a little crazy. the local paper is predicting turmoil at this event. they say they are seeing, quote,

serious chaos and friction between the ted cruz faction and the donald trump faction in the county as they scrap for every last possible delegate who could potentially end up at a contested national convention. happy saturday. we'll be keeping an eye out for you. north dakota kicked off their convention swhich is usually boring. they're not holding a convention or caucus. state delegates in fargo will be choosing among themselves which 28 of themselves, which 28 lucky folks are going to get to go to cleveland to represent north dakota. the delegates have the extra joy of being unbound, which means they can vote for whoever they want even on the first ballot.

chris hayes, your mom, anyone. they makes them extremely valuable and makes the prospect of being a north dakota delegate, extremely fun. ted cruz will make the trip to court these folks this person. donald trump will send ben carson to do the romancing on his behalf. whether you fall in love with ted cruz or ben carson representirepresent ing donald trump, they need the delegates to fall in love. they have not got a delegate to spare. they lost delegates when marco rubio came back from the dead for handful of delegates that he probably, seemingly, maybe left behind. senator rubio suspended his campaign. after he did that the republican party decided they could give away the five delegates they won. they reapportioned them to do s donald trump and ted cruz.

they said why not. t no big deal. wrong. marco rubio sent this letter demanding his delegates back saying his decision to suspend his campaign for president of the untied states, he says that decision was not intended to release any national convention delegates. this is intriguing, right? he will never be president of the untied states. he's determined to hold onto his delegates any way. he's done this in alaska and 20 other states. he sent the same letter with the same untied states to all 21 states in which he won delegates demanding his delegates back even though he's out of race. interesting, right? asked about the senator's

motivation, a spokesperson said he wants to give voters a chance to stop trump. by holding to his delegates, he makes it harder for donald trump to win the nomination. if it becomes a jump ball, why not pick a guy who ran and pickpick ed up a bunch of delegates. he appears unlikely to endorse anybody else any time soon. he does still have some way in this thing. marco rubio is nowhere near the leaders but 172 delegates is not nothing. he still has 29 more delegates than john kasich who is technically still running. marco rubio in for the long haul, for the jump ball, for whatever he thinks he can do

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super poligrip is part of my life now. eric cantor was promoted by his party to the number two job in congress when republicans took over congress in 2010. it was a great hon thorouorhono. it was also a surprise for a got that got not much done during his time in congress. he got six bills done in 13 years. one of them renamed a post office. another bill cleared the way for the u.s. design for the nickel. he got stuff like that done. he had sort of a bigger job than his list of accomplishments might suggest when he was in congress before he got turfed out by a primary thanks to a tea party challenger in his home district. shortly before he got turfed out

did have one big success. congress was voting to fund health research for kids with the federal money that used to pay for democratic and republican presidential conventions. eric cantor didn't sponsor that bill. he was congratulated add its champion in the house. he was very proud of that bipartisan success. he had steered federal money to health care for kids. he had done it without raising taxes or anything. he had done it by taking the money from public funding of party conventions. who needs the people? who needs public money to pay for the party conventions? corporations can pay for the party conventions, right? of course they will. that was majority leader eric cantor's biggest legislative success. 2014, weeks before he lost to his primary challenger and resigned before his term was over. his republican colleagues made him a lovely farewell video about his time in congress. when he went off to a new job as an investment banker. corporations would pay for

presidential conventions. no more public funding for the conventions. the corporations will pay. his work was done. until now. now the one thing that eric cantor really managed to do while in office besides give us a new look for that nickel, the one accomplishment is coming back to haunt his republican friends. when the republican mainstream is faced with a front-runner they can't abide or stop, no to have corporations fund the conventions, it's coming back to haunt republicans. corporations would not like to be the sponsor of a convention where the front-runner is donald trump and where whether trump has said there could be riots. they would not like to sponsor the crazy on the riot conventions. some of the corporations are grappling with role they should play at the republican national convention given the likely nomination of mr. trump who's

candi candidacy alienated, women, blacks and hispanics. walmart has not sent a single penny or nickel. this will be first set of presidential conventions that won't receive any federal funding. where the burden will fall on the shoulders of corporations or the party thanks to eric cantor's pet projects. it happens to be the same election where mr. cantor's party has a nominee who is scaring off corporate sponsors in droves. republicans really do need to pay for this convention. maybe they can persuade mr. cantor's investment bank to kick in a couple of mill. might be the least he can do with the legacy he left them. bt to get the nutrition that i'm missing. boost complete nutritional drink has 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d to support strong bones and 10 grams of protein to help maintain muscle. all with a great taste.

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it's great to have you here. i know you know how this works. we'll cut right to the chase. you're going to get three questions that are of this week's news. if you get two of them right, you'll win this piece of junk. >> this piece of junk, the amazing really cool rachel maddow show shaker. >> not at all guaranteed to work. you get extra credit. what is our random office swag? >> it's these cool, grand, large, paratroopers. you throw them and they fly down. really cool. >> these are my responsibility. there's things that have non-working parachutes that you can throw and hurt a small child if you're not careful. they're definite choking hazard but tons of fun. >> i'm not going to bring these to my fourth graders. >> don't use them around cat, i would say. let's also bring in the voice of steve from maddow blog. he will determine if you got the right answer. >> good evening to you both.

>> hi. >> question one, although hillary clinton leads overall in the democratic presidential contest, on one aspect of the campaign in which senator bernie sanders is totally cleaning hillary clinton's clock. what is that? is it, a, his super pac is ten times the size of her super pac. b, he has won ten in a row among states that hold caucuses. c he has won ten in a row in a states that hold primaries? or d, he is way ahead in the polls in the next ten states that are scheduled to vote? >> well, i know he's been having trouble with the primaries, but he's doing really well with the caucuses, so i'm going to go with "b." >> steve, did lucy get that right? >> let's check monday's show. >> he lost the first two caucuses by barely in iowa and a by a little bit in nevada, but since then, of all the caucus states, he has won ten straight! >> yep, the correct answer is

"b," lucy is one for one. >> who hoo! question two. this week we paid uncomfortably close attention to the scandal involving alabama's family values conservative republican governor, bob bentley. before a phone sex tape of the governor and his alleged mistress was released publicly, the governor apologized for what he called inappropriate comments. but even after the phone sex tape surfaced, what has the governor insistently denied? has he denied, a, that he was governor when the affair happened? has he denied, b, that his wife had any issue at all with the affair, because they're in an open relationship? has he denied that the affair had any physical component? or, d, has he denied that he enjoyed the affair? he said it was, quote, strictly business. >> well, i know that from the multiple playings of those tapes, he seemed to enjoy it

quite a lot and that the wife obviously minded, because she went and left him. so i'm going to go with "c." >> denied that the affair had a physical component. mr. benin, what is the right answer here? >> let's roll the tape. >> he insisted, emphatically, that he never had an affair. he said he never had a physical relationship with this staffer, never had a physical affair with his senior adviser. >> yes, the creepy, creepy correct answer is "c" and lucy is right again. >> what is "physical," really? okay, last question, jess -- lucy, jess, you know how it goes. tuesday's show, we reported that an old lurid washington scandal that we thought was dead and gone has come back all of a sudden to potentially affect the presidential race this year. which scandal is back from the dead in washington? is it, a, abscam, the fake

bribery scandal. b, the d.c. madame escort scandal. c, the iran contra scandal. or is it, d, that time where george w. bush's domestic policy adviser got caught shoplifting from target? >> i didn't -- i have no never heard of anybody getting caught shoplifting from target. >> i'll send you a link. >> and i know it's not the iran contra affair. unfortunately, as much as i had to remember it, it has to be "b." >> d.c. madam affair. >> steve, got the answer for us? >> let's check tuesday's show. >> in court filings, which we obtained today, the lawyer from the old dc madam case, whose name is montgomery blair sibling, he claims that at the start of this year, january 2016, he, quote, came to believe that information contained in the sealed from the public records from the d.c. madam

case, quote, contain information relevant to the upcoming presidential election. >> yep, correct answer is d.c. madam scandal and lucy is right once again. >> lucy, you are an absolute winner! you are spectacular! wendy, did lucy win absolutely everything! >> yes, lucy, you are the new owner of some really cool new swag! >> yay! >> congratulations. lucy, thank you very, very much. if you do bring the parachutists from your fourth graders, we will want pictorial proof of that, please. >> i will. and at some point, you need to come up to boston and come to my former workplace. this little museum called the isabella stewart gardner museum. >> oh, my god, the best heist of all time. >> every time you mention it on the show, i internally groan, because it meant that i'd have at least five visitors the next day ask about, is this the place where the theft happened? and i have to spend a very long time explaining it. >> i am a sucker for a good heist. lucy, great to meet you.

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so when terrorists groups commit atrocities the of some kind, and the way we know it, is because they have filmed it, and they want that film to be circulated, we as a matter of course don't do that. we try to never do them any favors. we will report what we know and what we can confirm. we may take stills or very short clips from terrorist propaganda if we need to, but take only what we can responsibly use without doing their work for them of actually terrorizing and intimidating people. and as a general rule, i think that makes a ton of sense. as news organizations, we need to report what happened, but we need to do it on our own terms. and in the case of terrorism, that means we do not recirculate terrorist propaganda. but now we're at this interesting point where the independent circulation of their own propaganda by the terrorist group isis, that is the news story about them that is probably the most important one of all.

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