good night from new york. thank you at home for tuning in this hour. rachel will be in tomorrow. tax day is tomorrow. the 18th usually april 15th, but this year it fell on a saturday. thousands turned out in marches in cities including chicago, sacramento, atlanta, d.c., new york and west palm beach near the president's private mar-a-lago club. they were for the most part peaceful. violence did break out in berkeley, california, where 21 people were arrested as protesters clashed with hundreds of trump supporters. but on the whole they were peaceful. they were also well attended. maybe not the largest marches ever, but a clear demonstrations

that this movement has real staying power and the issue of his taxes is not going away. protesters were determined to make sure the tax issue remains part of the political conversation. saturday's showing did just that. what we saw over the weekend ensured the issue remains an issue in the nation's capital right now. an issue putting the white house press secretary on the defensive. >> is the president going to release his tax returns? >> i think people understand how successful the president has been. we're under the same audit that existed, so nothing has changed. >> will the president authorize the irs -- >> i think the president's view has been very clear and the american people understood it when they elected him in november. >> is it time to say the president is never going to release his tax returns? >> we'll have to get back to you on that. >> i mean, really? >> really.

>> so he may? >> i said i'd have to get back to you on that. he's still under audit and the statement still stands. >> in all likelihood he's never going to release them. but the political heat that the white house is facing over the issue also seems unlikely to dissipate either. the heat will keep coming as a direct result of activism on the ground. it's just the latest example of democratic grassroots enthusiasm that we've continued to see following the election. immediately after the inauguration we saw those enormous record setting crowds at women's marches all over the country. there were also the spontaneous crowds that broke out over the muslim ban. constituents have showed up demanding answers from members

of congress at town hall meetings. many members of congress have begun avoiding meeting constituents altogether face to face, while those who do, like tom cotton in arkansas and dean heller in nevada, are getting an earful. >> i'm wondering if you'll take the initiative to have him release those returns so that we can see what kind of connections he has with different countries around the world. [ cheers and applause ] and what tax proposals would personally benefit him and his family. [ cheers and applause ] >> as far as i'm aware the president says he's still under audit and he said he's going to release -- [ booing ] >> democratic enthusiasm on the ground is giving republican members of congress heart burn. option to the president is translating into real money. the president has essentially become rocket fuel for democratic fundraising with

small donors -- act blue has seen $111 million in contributions more than four times it saw in the same period last year. despite a daunting senate map, several senators up for reelection are also posting strong fundraising numbers in the first quarter. while democratic enthusiasm is manifested itself in many, many forms. it's largely pointed in one direction, donald trump. trump has had a hard time convincing people that he's been anything other than a failure. he's faced setback after setback. he's yet to achieve a single legislative win. a new poll finds that only 45% of americans think that he keeps his promises, down from 62% in february. a 17-point slide.

meanwhile the "times" reports many trump voters in pennsylvania and a swing district are wondering with the winning is going to start. just like any other president, one woman voted for donald trump, because she expected him to improve conditions for veterans and overhaul the health care system. but now political bluster, she said, wondering how bernie sanders might have fared on the job instead. in maine sanders and the new head of the committee are hoping the drum up support and unit. the tour will take them to kentucky, florida, texas, nebraska, utah, arizona, nevada, and montana. democrats clearly have the enthusiasm. they also seem to be in a better place emotionally since the

election. can they turn these gains into something tangible that can translate into winning and can they pick up new supporters along the way? last week in illinois democrats picked up a whole bunch of seats in small local races. in kansas last week, democrats fell short, but they were encouraged by a huge swing in that direction. there the democratic candidate only lost by seven points in a redder than red district that donald trump carried by 27 points. and yes, part of it is, midterm off-year elections are always hard on the party in the white house. no question momentum is on the democrats' side. one of the good signs for democrats if subcutaneous if they appear to be enticing new and infrequent voters to the polls. prior to the kansas race, two republican strategists told mcclatchy the main problem is

not the independents and moderate voters have swung en masse to democrats. the problem is the democratic second base so energize that voters who rarely pay attention to politics are suddenly engaged. one gop operative said the gop realized there may be a problem when polling found that even low propensity democratic voters were interested in the race. democrats will look to make gains in two special elections in the coming months, in south carolina and montana. the the biggest one is tomorrow in georgia's 6th congressional district. ossoff is hoping to get a seat previously held by tom price, and before that, newt gingrich. this in a district that has not been represented by a democrat in 37 years. thanks to huge support and national interest, ossoff appears likely to finish in one of the top two spots to take the runoff. whether he can secure enough votes for a majority and win the seat outright is in question. if he fails to win tomorrow and with republicans likely uniting

behind a single candidate a prediction looks like he's more like a 50/50 coin flip. so a lot is on the line tomorrow. the question is, can democrats win in georgia and what would it mean going forward in the dozens of districts that should be easier to flip from red to blue than georgia's 6th? how can they win an election? tom perez, chair of the democratic national committee he kicked off a tour with independent senator bernie sanders. thanks for joining me. >> great to be with you from portland, maine. >> absolutely. you are on a tour with bernie sanders which begs a couple of questions. the first one is the fact he's out on the road with you, does that portend a shift into formally into the democratic for senator sanders? have you talked to him about that? >> we're united.

you look everywhere we go, you see the unity in action, whether it was opposing the affordable care act repeal. you see action out in the field. about a month ago there was a special election in delaware that had been a jump ball. this time we won it by 16 points. you saw kansas where we should have lost by 30, we lost by 7. we've got the opportunity down in congressional 6th that you just talk about in georgia. that's been in republican hands for 37 years including newt gingrich. we've got a fighting chance so we're swinging a bat everywhere, joy. >> i get you're swinging the bat but it's with two people, you and senator sanders. whether or not you think it's important that he actually formally join the party in order to boost the party is because one of the important things joining the party would do is give you access to his valuable e-mail list. hillary clinton turned over her e-mail list to the dnc.

the party still does not have the crown jewel of the campaign, which is bernie sanders' list. will he turn over the list to you? do you think he'll do that? have you talked to him about it? >> that's a question for him. i didn't ask secretary clinton nor senator sanders about what they were going to be do with their lists because that's a decision for them to make. we do have the list from secretary clinton. what we're doing with senator sanders is we've been going around the country and today's our first visit together. we'll be in eight states in six days. i think what's most important for us to be doing right now is translating, joy, this incredible energy out there into action. i think the three things we have going for us are unity, our energy, this grassroots energy, and our values. we're talking about health care. it's a right, not a privilege.

talking about how if you work a full-time job, you shouldn't have to live in poverty. talking about the affordable higher education. in the state of maine the democrats improved a bill that mris the republican platform. when we are doing this, i know there were a lot of folks tonight who were strong supports and continue to be strong supporters of senator sanders. they are also realizing that our values are aligned on just about everything. >> the reason i'm sort of sticking on this is a party is supposed to build itself. are you and senator sanders registering democratic voters. isn't the point to create democrats or is the the point corral independents? >> sure. what we have to do is lead with our values. i don't think it's necessarily the best strategy right now, joy, to walk into a room with a

clipboard in hand and say, hi, i'm tom perez, and before i can talk to you, sign up to be a democrat. i think what we have found to be very effective, when we're out there, whether it was leading the opposition to the affordable care act, the muslim ban. i was in a number of airports across the country, there are so many issues, climate change. there's so many issues where our values and positions totally aligned. and i think that is a much more effective strategy because we're working together with folks in legacy organizations, in organizations that have only been around a year or less. when we work together and talk about what we're doing and coordinate activities, when folks see the democratic party is moving ball down the field, that's the best way to make sure we attract democrats for the long haul, earning that trust. >> are you guys going to win tomorrow? is ossoff going to win that race

and get 50%? >> well, i tell you, one thing i learned, joy, from 2016 is that the folks who think they the pundits who know everything and can predict everything have been proven to need a little bit of help. here's what i do know. we haven't controlled that seat in 37 years. and the republicans in georgia gerrymandered the heck out of it. what i do know is that wave tremendous amount of energy in not just among democrats, but among independents and republicans. i noticed donald trump sent a ro bo call out. he said if you elect john ossoff to the congress, it will result in the destruction of health care. i found that to be rather humorous and ironic to say the least.

i think we're the underdog in this. but we've got some real wind at our back. we're swinging the bat in the dnc and elsewhere and not just in federal races. but the omaha mayor's race. our job is not just to elect the president of the united states. it's to help electricity good democrats up and down the ticket. from the school board to the se. >> okay, well, good luck tomorrow. tom perez, chairman of the democratic national committee, thank you for being here. >> always a pleasure, joy. >> big show ahead, so stay with us. when you have allergies, it can seem like triggers pop up everywhere. luckily there's powerful, 24-hour, non-drowsy claritin. it provides relief of symptoms that can be triggered by over 200 different allergens.

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this morning when donald trump appear on the balcony at the white house easter egg roll flanked by his wife and son and the easter bunny, one of the highlights of the event was attorney general jeff sessions reading to children. jeff sessions book of choice was called "it's not easy being a bunny." after the presidendevered remarks from the balcony, he was able to finishhe story. it's the story of pj funny bunny who doesn't want to be a bunny anymore so he leaves home to be

something else, live somewhere else. he tries being a bear and a bird and all kinds of other animals. but he discovered he didn't like being anything other than a bunny. and you can guess the moral of the story. >> so pj said, i don't want to be a bear. you don't want to be a bird or beaver or a pig, or moose, or possum, or a skunk. all i really want to be is a bunny! so pj hurried home. the funny bunnies were very happy to see him. pj was very happy to come back home to bunny land. >> and you know what, it is a nice story. it's a story about home and family and being happy with who you are. but jeff sessions is just back from the mexican border where he was touting the trump administration's get-tough approach to immigration.

so when he reads a story about this bunny who deciduous he doesn't want to live somewhere with those that are not like him, that it's better to go back home to bunny land. but it takes on a darker feel when it's jefferson sessions reading it. here was attorney general sessions a few days ago describing the people who are leaving home to come here. >> international criminal organizations that turn cities and suburbs into war zones that rape and kill innocent civilians and who profit by smuggling poison and other human beings across our borders. depravity and violence are their calling cards including brutal machete attacks, even beheadings. they threaten the integrity of our nations and our hemisphere.

it is here on this sliver of land on this border where we first take our stand. >> sessions prepared remarks actually read as you know by now, quote, where we first take our stand against this filth. but he left that pungent description out of his delivery. "the washington post" reported this week that immigration arrests are up sharply in the first few weeks of the trump administration and arrests of undocumented immigrants with no criminal record. donald trump has said since the election they would not be targeted and even the homeland security secretary just said yesterday. >> just because you're in the united states illegal doesn't necessarily get you targeted. it's got to be something else. we're operating more or less at the other end of the spectrum, and that is criminals, multiple convictions. >> so only criminals will be targeted will multiple convictions. and yet somehow more than 5,400 undocumented immigrants with no criminal records were arrested from january through mid march.

today the supreme court did he lined to hear a case brought by detained undocumented central american mothers and children who were seeking court review of their asylum claims. that means the trump administration can move forward with expedited deportations proceedings. sessions said he's hiring more judges for the border, so the detainees can be deported even faster. however you feel about the apocalyptic warnings about who's coming over the border or whether the u.s. should be expediting deportation of mothers and children seeking asyl asylum, maribel trujillo has lived here for 14 years. she was arrested on the street two weeks ago and she's scheduled for deportation on wednesday. she has no criminal record.

maribel trujillo has a 3-year-old daughter with special needs. and her family and supporters have been trying to get her daughter to her in detention. so her daughter who needs her can be with her. because she crossed the border illegally before that, ice says she's an egregious violator. you would think these people would be at the bottom of the list, unless the trump administration's priorities are not what they seem. one of the features of all of these stories, deportations of people with no criminal record. is that they all happen to be from latin america, from central

america. even though we know not all undocumented immigrants in this country are brown people. why do you suppose that is? >> i think the reports you mentioned, joy, clearly show we in immigrant communities and families like mine have been experiencing. my parents are undocumented. my brother is a daka recipient. and 11 million people who are undocumented are fearful they're going to be targeted, why? the executive orders trump signed earlier this year, makes us all threats to national security. which means that all of us, all immigrants are a priority for deportation. the administration wants us to believe they're targeting so-called criminals. we can get caught up in that trap. the reality here is, they are criminalizing immigrant communities and kmoonts of color. generally by what sessions is doing, not only against

immigrants, but also black communities and other communities of color. it's showing you the strategy that thi administration has, which is turning the department of justice and other laws against communities of color. against immigrant communities. that is the fear we're seeing. no one is safe in our kmoonts. and we cannot fall in the trap that they're targeting criminals. the reality is, the executive orders criminalize all of us, and that makes us all vulnerable to deportation. >> a lot of people, it's sort of alarming when you hear about these stories, is that american born children are also getting caught up in it, is it the case that if a -- an undocumented migrant who was born in the united states, who is an american citizen is deported. does that mean the child also has to go to the country of origin? >> we have -- right now the way that immigration officers are operating, with no accountability, out of control. is that we're having millions of families being separated.

children are staying here. we're having to do sessions across the schools in the country to talk to parents and family members on how to prepare for when you're not going to be with your child. there was a story also of a father in california, who dropped off his daughters in school and then was detained. and his daughters have not seen him since then. that's over a month ago. those are the stories we're seeing, which is why at united we dream, we are mobilizing people that are watching your show, and immigrant communities to say we can't allow this to happen. in addition to that, you see that trump is asking for more money on his budget to build more camps, more detention camps to have more ice officers on the streets targeting our people. and this is the time for us to be clear with members of congress and our senators that we cannot allow this to happen. not a dime for the wall, not a dime for more detention camps

for more ice officers that are executing these mass deportation machine on behalf of the trump administration. >> and what, if people want to support you, what should people be doing? there's been talk. i've had friends that have said, should we be thinking about taking the idea of shelter even to the individual personal home level, to churches? what are people doing to help you? >> thank you for asking that question. very easy, you can text here to stay to 877877. that is sms or text message system that we're using to mobilize all communities so you can help us stop deportations of communities. help communities when they're facing officers at their doors or in schools. or even in raised that are happening all across the country. that is one way in which to get involved. there's another way to get involved, which is right now in all of the -- during the recess and talking to your members of congress. we have to follow the dots here, joy.

there is also money behind us, just last week it was reported that the geo group got a million -- hundred million contract to build the first detention camp under the trump administration in texas. just today i heard from american bridge it was geo group that donated half a million dollars to the trump campaign and to the transition committee. there are also people profiting from the incarceration and detention of immigrants and we can get engaged by joining our network to protect people from deportation, but also, holding your members of congress accountable. >> one of the things we learned in ferguson, human beings can become dollar signs when governments wish them too. thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. coming up, of course we want the president to get along with other world leaders. however, some relationships are more creepy than comforting, that's next. (phone ringing)

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it was the middle of the summer, most of the world's media was focussed on the u.s. election. a coup was underway in turkey. tanks had rolled into the capital city. they instituted a media blackout. and then in the midst of it all. in the midst of all of that haw, the president of turkey addressed the nation. he told the world that he did not plan on backing down, and within hours, just as quickly as

it began, turkish intelligence was reporting the coup was over. in the coming months, thousands would be arrested for alleged connections to those trying to unseat erdogan. since then, erdogan has called foand extend state of emergency inturkey. granting him expanded powers and marginalizing the parliament that is supposed to be the center of governmental power. critics say he's used those powers to crackdown on rivals and arrest political opponents, including members of the press. and even cartoonists who publish satirical pieces the public doesn't like. the crackdown has included the imprisonment of 120 journalists. today, turkey's national

security council voted to extend the state of emergency for yet another three months. this decision comes after the passing of a referendum that will give the president full control over turkey's government. the vote was close a far slimmer margin than many observers expected. opponents of the resolution are crying foul. pointing to instances of alleged voter fraud they say were caught on camera. like this one, we see a man casting multiple ballots. the new system of government transfers executive power to the president. allows the newly appointed president to issue decrees. limits the tenure of the president to only 10 years. only 10. who knows, after that, maybe there will be options to extend it. if you're wondering where the white house is coming down on all of this. about an hour ago, we got a readout of president trump's call to president erdogan.

he congratulated a president who has more than 100 journalists in prison and ignoring ballot stuffing on what appears to be the culmination of an authoritarian crackdown. excellent job, donald. it's a given that turkey and the u.s. have a complicated relationship. the u.s. has a military partnership with turkey, and they're both members of nato. and they're both important players in that vain. anything that happens in turkey affects the u.s. an we know the white house already has its share of conflicts in the region, including a tower in istanbul that bears the trump family name. business partnerships he name dropped to erdogan. and michael flynn, who was being paid by turkey during donald trump's campaign to stump for turkey's interests.

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pentagon concedes a chinese nuclear attack would leave 1 million americans dead. on the other hand, without cen continual, 15 million would die. >> that was the missile system the pentagon developed to protect the u.s. from a nuclear attack. note the old timy amazing drawings used in that package to illustrate how the defense system worked. over the years much has changed in how we do graphics on tv. when it comes to protecting the country, the system that we based our defense on for all these years, really hasn't changed all that much. america's interest in missile systems reached a peak with "star wars." that kind of fizz iled out when the berlin wall came down, as there seemed to be not much of a reason to build a star wars. there were other countries who built the nuclear arms race. the government of north korea

began to build its own nuclear deterrent. likely flush with memories of the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki in japan in 1945, and the threats by the government of president eisenhower to do the same thing to north korea and china, if they didn't stand down and stop fighting to annex south korea. we were not just worried about china or the then soviets, but now north korea too. in 2014, the obama administration, realized since the eisenhower era, the u.s. has spent more than $300 billion on anti-ballistic defense systems, and we continue to spend on systems that were compared to hitting a bullet with a bullet. but we had not really made great strides in protecting the u.s. from unstable and erratic north korea. the obama administration reportedly srted investing

resources in stepping up the pentagon's cyber capabilities to invest in sabotaging their tests. this weekend in the middle of north korea's birthday celebrations, they attempted to launch a ballistic missile. the launch failed within seconds. even though all signs pointed to north korea taking a sixth stab at a nuclear test this weekend. they didn't do it? and why? we don't exactly know. but since president obama reportedly ordered this shift in strategy to begin investing in cyber and electronic strikes one particular north korean intermediate range missile has had a failure rate of 88% this past year. did the u.s. have anything to do with this weekend's failed missile launch? did the american cyber electronics program have anything to do with north korea's decision not to try another nuclear test. does this new strategic shift ensure a safer united states or

does it carry its own risks? joining us now, national security correspondent for the new york times. thank you for being here. >> what can you tell us about the status of the u.s. attempt to use cyber technology to scuttle north korean missiles. is it enough to have sabotaged this test that we tried? >> it may have been used to sabotage the test. it's very hard to tell for any individual test. there's so many things that can go wrong with a test. you could have american sabotage. could you have bad welding, you could have bad manufacturing. you know, the north koreans don't exactly follow osha rules and they don't have the greatest quality control in the world. so for any individual test, it's very hard to know. but as we spent the eight months investigating that led up to that story that you showed up on the screen, which ran last month in the new york times, we did

find these highly increased failure rates after president obama ordered this increase in attacks. the statistics are hard to come by in part because the program itself is so classified, but there's an unclassified part of the effort, because the whole program is under a fairly public pentagon effort called left of launch. if you consider left of launch anything that happens running up to the launch and right of launch happening after. and those wonderful old pictures you showed and drawings. and boy those are classics. those were classical right of launch. in other words, after its launched, you try to go intercept it, we have spent $300 billion since the eisenhower era, and at least for the long range missiles, it just doesn't work very well. which is why the president ordered this effort for left of

launch trying to sabotage the missiles prior to their liftoff. >> the piece that we showed, that you wrote about this whole program. you cited it could be simple incompetence. the north koreans are just not that good at creating the technology they boast about. do they put too much stock in the potential for them to attack california and not enough focus on what they can do on the korean peninsula. specifically that they could attack seoul. >> they can attack seoul with nuclear and nonnuclear assets. this is the aren't problem hasn't been solved in the past 20 years. the distance between the northern end of the demilitarized zone where you saw mike pence visiting earlier today. and downtown seoul, one of the most prosperous cities in asia, is about the distance between baltimore and washington. so it wouldn't take much for the north koreans just with

conventional artillery to completely destroy seoul. and it's gotten worse, because seoul like every other major city you know, has had urban sprawl. and when you land in seoul these days, you notice there are suburban houses now being built right up near the north korean border, which has mad it easier for the north koreans get in to hit some of this. >> and how smart is it in your view? it seems the trump administration is outsourcing much of the solving of this problem to china. is that going to work? >> i suspect it probably won't. they're not the first administration that believes that the chinese are the key to it. it depends on whether the chinese are truly willing to cut off the two things that keep north korea alive. one is the financial transfers and the second and more important is an oil pipeline that runs from china into north korea that provides so much of their energy.

so the chinese interest here is in maintaining the status quo, it's not actually in solving the problem. because they don't want to collapse north korea, in which south korea and its forces alive with us, and maybe our forces go right up to the border. they are not interested in seeing the united states right up on the chinese border. and they're not interesting in seeing north korean refugees pour into the country. >> the unsolvable problem of north korea. thank you for your time tonight, sir. >> thank you. more to come tonight, stay with us. [woman] so beautiful. [man] beautiful just like you. [woman] oh, why thank you. [burke] and we covered it, november sixth, two-thousand-nine. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two.

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this is alaska, it's about 650 miles north of anchorage. right on the northern edge of the state. they have a pretty big oilfield up there. it's a big hub for oil and gas exploration. this is a government inbox in washington, d.c.. where you can find 160 public comments. those comments come from industries, oil and gas industries. chemical corporations and the like. and they're all writing the federal government to tell them about regulations they do not like. they're doing this at the invitation of the president of the united states. right at the start of his term, donald interrupt asked, tell us what you don't like about the federal government. specifically, what rules don't you like, maybe we'll change them? the president opened up that suggestion box and this weekend

the washington post cracked the lid open. what's sitting in that box right now is interesting and potentially really revealing about what the trump administration has planned. the washington post reports the administration got a flood of recognitions on what federal rules should be tossed into the shredder. everything from nixing paid sick leave for government contractors to getting rid of electronic injury and illness records. most of these friendly tips target epa regulations. the washington post flags one comment in particular from oil and gas giant bp. bp, of the infamous deep water horizon spill. they're asking for the government to make it easier for them to drill for oil in the gulf of mexico. >> that's the view from the

government suggestion box in washington. meanwhile, up in alaska, bp, the same company that wants government assistance to make it easier to drill for oil spent the weekend frantically trying to plug a leak that had been spewing crude oil and natural gas since friday. how's that for timing. it took them more than two days to plug up that leak. we still don't know how much spilled out or what caused the leak. nevertheless with one of their wells going haywire in alaska, here's bp asking the government to make it easier for them to drill baby drill. these industries, these foreprofit outside stakeholders have the president's ear, by way of these public comments. the question is, will the president give them what they want? find ping-pong. okay, let's go. find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote.

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i never used cussing in 22 years. listen you son of a [ bleep ]. what the [ bleep ] is your problem. you want to sit here and say i'm a [ bleep ] [ bleep ] russian. you get in my face with that i'll beat your [ bleep ] you son of a [ bleep ], you piece of [ bleep ]. listen, kid, you [ bleep ] crossed a line. get that through your head. >> so when alex jones unleashed that tirade directed at adam schiff last month, the first challenge was how to make it playable on basic cable. there was some talk at the time that he may have threatened members of congress with that rant. it can be a challenge too take him seriously. you almost kind of have to. he does have at least some access to the white house. the loud conspiracy theorist who has said the sandy hook massacre was staged with actors playing the victims.

the same right wing bomb thrower who pushed the phony pizza gate story that led to a real gunman. that alex jones scored a coveted interview with the president-elect in december. we have to take seriously that someone who is an internet troll has access to the white house. and now there's this. jury selection began today in travis county texas. she says, i'm concerned that he is engaged in felonious behavior, threatening a member of congress. he broadcasts from home, the children are there watching him broadcast. the defense put up by alex jones' attorney is the same one that jones himself has made on air. he's playing a character, he's a performance artist. and maybe it is just the political equivalent of prowrestling where they put on leotards and pretend to break each other's bones. is that really what americans

want from their president? really? the trial is expected to last a couple weeks in austin, texas. i wonder if the president will weigh- weigh-in? watch his twitter. that does it for tonight. rachel will be bk tomorrow. good evening, lawrence. >> hey, joy. speaking of performance artists, that is actually my excuse for everything that's gone wrong on this show. and there have been many moments over the last whatever it, six or seven years. i calk it up to performance art. performance art gone wrong. >> we love you just the way you ar