that comment. >> thank you. that is all in for this evening. rachel maddow starts right now. >> good evening, chris. thank you my friend, appreciate it. thanks to you at home joining us this hourment when the republican party chose its presidency nominee last year, the contest was not all that close. donald trump not only won the republican primary, he won it by a lot. the last guy standing against him were ted cruz and john kasich, both ted cruz and kasich dropped out of the race by the first week in may. ted cruz was out i think on may 3rd. kasich on may 4th. at that point there were still a lot of primaries and caucuses left. everything from indiana and nebraska and west virginia to new jersey and california, oregon, washington. when a primary campaign ends early like that, when somebody basically runs away with it, it's an interesting strategic question how the prufrpt noichl

treats those remaining contests. once you vanquished all your rivals, do you keep running in those remaining states? do you make a show of competing for those contests when you really are the only one left? i think oftentimes the answer to that depends on whether the candidate thinks that he or she has a chance at winning those states in the general election too, so even once the primary is settled if there are competitive states, swing states left on the primary cal, that's a great reason for them to get additional candidate visits, get additional political attention. on the other hand states that are never going to be in contention, states that are firmly red or firmly blue for the general election, they won't get as much attention. a state like washington state would not have expected too much in terms of political attention or a hard fought contest on the republican side of the race. john kasich quit the race may

4th. washington state held its primary 20 days later on may 24th. so trump was essentially standing alone in the washington presidential primary. he obviously won the primary by a mile but that was no surprise because he was the only candidate left in the race. in the general leeks, washington is a really blue state. in the general election he lost there by something like 15 points, as expected. so washington state, lovely place. always interesting. but it was basically totally off the board in terms of presidential political rest of us on the republican side in 2016. that said, for the trump campaign chairman in washington state, everything worked out awesome for him. "huffington post" retrieved filings from the campaign. and for that totally besides the point basically extranslatous political effort on the republican side in washington

state. the washington state trump campaign chairman billed the national campaign over $130,000 for his time. and for his son's time, and for his wife's time, and for the services of a local washington state company he hired on the campaign's behalf that happens to be a company owned and operated by him. in jaifrs months time, he took home over $135,000. and then when trump 2001 presidency, he naturally wanted to reward his loyalists, reward the people who had worked on his campaign, reward even the far flung local staffers and campaign chairman from corners of the country where there was no competition, teen ones who appear to have built the campaign for tons of money. he wanted to reward all of them and bring them to washington and give them big federal government

jobs. so he brought his washington state campaign chairman to washington, d.c.. he brought him into the administration. and the first job he gave him was a high ranking job at the e.p.a. and the local press at home in washington state absolutely could not believe that this guy from washington state has been brought to d.c. to work at the e.p.a. this was the headline in the seattle "times." quote, trump's e.p.a. pick bumbles from washington state onto national stage. calling its, quote, an incredible tale of failing up. in an incredible tale of failing up, this former washington state senator is now off to help president trump oversee the nation's 15,000 employee environmental agency. what could possibly go wrong? calling the appointment a, quote, text bookcase of party patriot naj cronyism. what's shocking at this isn't done benton's anti-green views,

given that he's going to work at the e.p.a. what's shocking is done benton has a perfect track record of flurry and interpersonal conflict resulting in legal or disciplinary action at every public position he has ever he would had. quote, as state republican party chairman bennett lasted only eighth months. his first action was the changing locks at party headquarters to bar the staff he just hired. he got into juvenile beling rant scraps. turnover course of his conflict with her, he called her, quote, a trashy, trampy mouthed little girl. one time he fold her around on the senate floor as she was trying to get away from him saying, quote, you are weird. and weird, weird, weird. just so weird. ing now he's in a position of influence over a federal agency with 15,000 employees.

what could go wrong? that was "the seattle times" when the washington state campaign chairman got brought from washington state to washington, d.c. turns out that e.p.a. job didn't work out great. he was installed as one of these political minders the white house placed atmosphere every agency. "the washington post" reported that done benton was so annoying at the e.p.a. at policy meetings he offered so much unsolicited advice so often that the senior staff of the e.p.a. just stopped allowing him to come to any meetings. because they are not exactly swimming in top tier talent because they are not drowning in capable cornereds for poses they decided they couldn't spare him, despite the way he washed out at the e.p.a. they couldn't simply send him home after he proved dramatically unsuited for that

no work job at the e.p.a. so instead when they decided was to fail him up once again. they decided to put him in charge of his own agency. they named don benton chairman of the selective service. he's now the man who runs the military draft for the i'm not sure. he's the first director in the history of the selective service who has never himself served in the military. he has no rest of it subject matter expertise whatsoever. he's never running larger than the trump campaign while billing for his wife and son's time in addition to his own time. now he's in charge of 120 employees and many $25 million budget and the nation's military draft. at home in the washington state press, this time in the news

tribune of tacoma, they absolutely cannot believe it. quote, the every green state is nothing if not generation. look at the gift we just gave to the other washington. nonother than former state senator don benton, our best and brightsest. his political career read like the story of scuffy the tug boat, the heroic misunderstood evil twin. so happy monday. nobody really thinks they're going to bring back the draft, at least not anytime soon. but if they do bring back the draft, the effort will be led and coordinated by scuffy the tug boat's misunderstood evil twin. and that may end up being an important microcosm for what's going on in american politics right now with this new white house, with this new administration. that's just one personnel story. turns out to be kind of the personnel story of what they're doing. on friday night with just

thundershowers spare, congress agreed on a bill to fund the government for one week, thus avoiding a potential shutdown of the federal government friday night a minute past midnight. the last time the foefrldscht down was in 2013. more than a million people had to work without knowing if or when they would get paid. it lasted for 16 days in the fall of 2013. it was really dumb. it was a huge hit@u.s. economy. it had no political consequences, no politically purpose whatsoever. nothing changed in terms of policy because of it. although nothing was irrelevant rev cably lost, it did just meaninglessly throw sand in the machine, throw grit and everything, grit everything up. it made normal ongoing functions have to pointlessly stop and start up again or made them harder to get done without the federal government playing its eeveryday role.

there was one story that happened in the states when the federal government shutdown happened. one of the weirder things that happened in the country. in one state out of 50, which makes no sense at all, in one state during the federal government shutdown that, one state stopped what's called the women infants and children nutrition program. this is wic program, at its not one of the things that was stopped by the federal government shutdown. you can tell because in 49 of 50 states, the federal government shutdown did not result in the wic program getting stopped n. 49 of 50 states it kep kept going. but in north carolina, inexplicably they just stopped that program. they were not supposed to. there was nothing about the federal shutdown that made them have to do that. but at the state level in

north carolina they got confused and the consequences was they shut down this necessary thing for no reason. now, at the time the agency in north carolina that oversaw that program, the health and human as far as agency was overseen by a wealthy republican campaign adorn named al done in a voss. under her ten chure, north carolina was the only state in the country that stopped wic benefits with no explanation as to why they did that. voss was object extends "i"ly put in place in north carolina to oversee major health and human services cuts in that state. even as they were trying to do major cuts in that state, she nevertheless found space in the budget for stuff that later proved hard to explain and that led to federal investigations. while governor pat mccrorery was telling agencies then what

happened o freeze the salaries of all their workers, al done in a voss gave 24-year-old kid who had worked on the mcrori campaign a $23,000 raise. she gave another $25,000 raise to another kid who also worked on the campaign. somehow he made over $87,000 a year working in her agency as a, quote, senior policy planner in health and human services as noted by wral at the time, making nearly $90,000 a year. he had, quote, no educational background or experience in health policy whatsoever. but they not only wanted him for that 90 grand a year job, they gave him a $2,000 a year raise once he took it. that wasn't even the best part. she hired another guy to do strategic planning for her department. she hired him in late january.

he worked through december. and for that 11-month period, she had the state of north carolina pay him north of $300,000. wow. the man turns out to have been an employee of her husband's company. and after an 11-month hiatus from the company. then he went back to working for voss's husband in december of that year. wril later reported there was, quote, little documentary evidence left behind after he was done as to what he actually did for any of that money. again, got paid more than $30,000 for less than a year's work. nobody quite knows what he did. by the summer of 2015, grand jury subpoena were issued at the north carolina department of health and human services. grand jury subpoenas went out in

audiocassette. he resigned where she and the governor cried. the governor gave her an reward even as she was leaving and they were crying together. and then the following month, the grand jury subpoenas were made public. she apparently got to keep the award. ultimately by late last year the fbi decided to close that federal investigation. and now she's coming to washington to work for all of us. where she will be helping to run the white house fellowship program which is a priss contingency and important thing. do you know anybody who works for her husband? where do they find these folks? at the hundred day mark, there's a lot of attention warranted i think in terms of the trump administration's difficulty in finding people, finding anyone to name to senior positions. this this is administration is lacking behind any other modern

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. there is reporting coming out tonight that republicans in washington are trying yet again for a third time to pass an obamacare repeal bill. this is important most of all because health care is very, very important. this is important to the trump administration, specifically because they just past the hundred days in office point without passing any legislation at all. they would like to do that, particularly since republicans control the white house, the house, and the senate, as far as political possibility is concerned for passing legislation, for them, no time like the present if they can't pass something now, when can they pass something. all day today and into tonight, people have been calling their legislators to save obamacare. the way people have been doing right from the beginning of this administration. on the republican side, republican congressional

leadership is desperately whipping votes to try to save this obamacare repeal bill from failing for a third time in a row just with members of their own party. so that's what's been happening on the congressional side of the on the administration side of this though, the efforts to repeal obamacare have thought been helped by the fact that the administration seems confused about what they're trying to do. the president himself doesn't seem to understand the concept of what is -- what the republicans are trying to do with obamacare repeal in congress. over the week, the president talked about the plan to repeal obamacare will cover preexisting conditions. it does not cover preexisting conditions. it will increase premiums. the administration right up to and including the white house and president himself just don't seem to understand the basics of even the big stuff they're

working on when it comes to legislation. it may matter toward getting to that point. it may matter toward getting to that realization they don't understand what's being worked on. that governmentschtdown that would have happened on midnight friday night, that was averted by a one-week funding bill passed on friday with hours to spare. over the weekend, news emerged they've also agreed in congress on a five-month spending bill that will put off the threat of another government shutdown until december. where does the administration come in on this? do they understand this? well, the administration said they would force democrats to pay for trump's border wall on the spending bill. they would rask government shutdown or threaten health insurance subsidies to pay for the wall. the health insurance subsidies are still in the bill, there won't a shutdown and there's no funding for the wall. the president himself said they were going to defund sanctuary

cities. they did not. they said they were going to kill all federal funding for planned parenthood. and they did not. they said they were going to kill the national endowment for the arts and humanities, they did not kill either of those things. they were going to knock 30% off the e.p.a. bchlgt they knocked 1% off the e.p.a. bchlgt they said they were going to the cut a blonds off the national institutes of health. the bill actually adds $2 billion. that's exciting news if you like things like the national institutes of health. this political question for why the administration can't do anything, why they can't accomplish anything they want to do, even with republican unified control of government. it is an underappreciated thing, particularly in the beltway press which likes to focus on the personality as a substitute for other forms of

effectiveness. the federal government has a bunch of people in it. it's big, it's complex. it's filled with lots of important skshl jobs where it matters who's in those jobs. and under the trump administration, we've got some weird people in relatively big positions. we have weird weird weird don benton running the selective service. whether or not you think we are likely to bring back the draft, or you think it's important we maintain that, why is that guy running the agency. people who have flunked out of mid level positions, and it matters when you put people in charge of things they don't believe in, for example, the administration is now announced they've hired as the new deputy assistant secretary for population affairs at health and human services, this is the part of health and human services that oversees federal family planning efforts. they've hired somebody for that

job for what is steshl one contraception job in the entire federal government. they have hired for that job a person who does not believe in contraception. >> of course, contraception doesn't work. its efficacy is very low. >> that's tracy manning. her name was tracy wagner at the time. she's now at the adopt department of health and human services. she believes contraception, of course, doesn't work. that's fine. believe what you want, but that means the one job you are inherently not qualified far is overseeing contraception programs. i don't believe in zombie business, which is fine, unless there was a federal job in charge of fighting zombies, in which case, me not believing in zombies would make me unqualified for the zombie job.

you know what i'm saying? of course contraception doesn't work, that's who neptd charge in the federal government. she claims the link between abortion and breast cancer is undisputed. in real life there's no link between abortion and breast cancer. that same contention has also been made for an even bigger j public affairs at the department of health and human services, this appointment made a little more noise because charmaine yost, the nominee is a relatively well-known hard line anti-abortion activist. it's weird to think that she is now going to be somebody who adamantly insist that is abortion causes breast cancer when abortion doesn't cause breast cancer. let it in "b" noted she's going to be the top communications person for health and human services in the u.s. government. since she has been named to that position, charmaine yost is

apparently been busy scrubbing as fast as she can her own public profile and past statements off the internet machine. she runs the ta a website that's called charmaine yost.com. the electronic from now on year they were first to notice that posts from her website were disappearing at an alarming clip. rus kick who we've talked about on this show, it's the brilliant online orc vicinity, rus kick then started saving the stuff that charmaine yost has been yanking down off her website, and it's hall of fame stuff for the person who's about to be the top public affairs person at health and human services. half of rape allegations are facilities buying mcdonald's

hamburger froemts homosexual lifestyle. how about this one. homosexual couples break up families. she accuses walmart of homosexualist activation. that's not a word i was previously aware of but i fully embrace it. writing about marriage between two women, she jokes, quote, i was wrong to suggest that large farm animals were a part of the festivities. charmaine yost will be the top spokesperson and assistant secretary of at the the healthy and human services. she's trying to any and all off her website but she's not thanks to rus kick. part of what's going on with this new administration cannot be divined from reading donald trump's tweets about the civil

war or, you know, reading his musings or listening to his interviews where he talks about himself and what he things about his electoral college win this week. a lot of what's going on is about the government as an entity, as not just one person. it's about the fact this is somewhere below the "b" team that the strufrpgs bringing to washington and everybody says personnel is policy. that is true. you can see the policy thinking behind some of these appointments. but personnel is also basic competence, and that's where we're heading into trouble. more ahead tonight. stay with us. ♪ fun in art class.

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i will warn you even these ones we can show you they themselves are still graphic. daniel ber hewell lack took home the images that ran in the "new york times." he documented the killing of people, thousands of people in the philippines, peopling who are suspected of being part of the drug trade there in what amounts to an extra judicial government-led crackdown. people in the philippines have been killed on the street in enormous numbers without trial, just sum may recall executed. the title of the series was what he was told when he was shooting the series, saying they are slaughtering us like animals. that kaling campaign began last year in the philippines with the election of the president there, rodrigo duterte. he ran on a promise to not only be tough on crime, he ran on a promise to eradicate kriechlt low promised to kill 100,000

criminals if he was elected. since he took office, human rights groups say he's ultimately responsible for the deaths of thousands of drug suspects, thousands of people in the philippines. he himself has bragged about personally killing criminals himself. in his time before being president. and this weekend, the white house says that our president, donald trump, had a quote, very friendly discussion with rodrigo duterte, the president of the philippines before they hung up the phone, president trump told duterte that he should come by the white house next time nice d.c. so they can discuss the importance of the u.s./philippines alliance which now heading in a now positive direction. he called president obama a son of a who are last year right before they were supposed to meet. and it seems as though obama might ask about the kwassy official killing, the obama administration swiftly canceled

that meeting. but in this new administration, relations already very friendly and the white house my door wide open. the state department and the national security council reportedly no idea this invitation was coming from the white house. backlash outside the administration has been a little more overt. human rights organizations saying this invitation puts blood on donald trump's hands, makes him morally complicit in future killings in the philippines. democratic senator chris smauv on the foreign relations committee said we are watching in realtime as the american human rights bully pulpit disintegrates into ash. joining is senator chris murphy. senator murphy it's nice to have you back with us tonight. thank you for being here? >> sure thanks for having me. >> how valuable is the american bully pulpit on human rights issues. if you're saying it's been squandered now, how much was it worth before we squandered it?

>> if the united states isn't speaking out against people who are imprisoned for trying to ghaej political action, if we aren't speaking out against leaders who are brutalizing their own civilian populations f cuir not speaking out against presidents and prooirmsz who engage in the repression of the free press, then who will? the united states historically has led the world in trying to stand up relatively new and unstable democracies. we have a checkered history on this matter. we support some brutal dictators. but this walkback from our historically comments about president duterte who reports say has potentially endorsed the killing of 9,000 civilians without trial. two his support for the president of egypt who has

jailed maybe 40,000 political opponents, all of this makes us sort of shrink as a nation from a position of moral leadership. it ultimately endetain engineers us. the folks that are organizing against us, they use this to try to recruit and that puts us ultimately at risk. >> in terms of the influence of the united states on other countries, particularly on autocratic military hundred at a tile leaders, part of what i struggle with on this subject, you don't have any issue in terms of how odious it is we have the american president basically endorsing and being friendly with and excuse the behavior of these guys. what i wonder is if they were constrained at all by the united states having a different stance toward them. the criticism that the american

government that the american president will have blood on his hands with future killings in the philippines, it's hard for me to see from this perspective whether these guys adjust their course depending on the kind of support they feel like they have or don't have from the u.s. >> i think that's a good point. i've been a critic. washington likes to come up with american-led solutions to virtually every problem in the world. so no, weber we shouldn't expect that the united states can pull strings and be able to turn a bad guy into a good guy. but it clearly is true that when we endorse explicitly the brutal of these dictators, that it ultimately leads to the situation getting worse, not better. this isn't just a case of looking the other way on duterte or putin. this is about an american president showing specific appreciation for their

brutality. trump talked about how he likes the way that putin went after his political opponents. he has drawn parallels between himself and the way in which duterte has rule. in that way we are making the situation worse, not better. we can't solve all these problems but we are certainly in these situations making it worse and we're giving lins to other officials who want to get on this slippery slope to autocracy. you're not going to have to be the united states speaking out against you if you do so. >> the president's admiration for those type of actions gives us a disturbing window into the directions he'd like to head himself if he's able to. senator chris murphy of connecticut. thank you, sir. much more ahead tonight. stay with us.

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science. one more. this one's very blunt. yeah, got polio? me theater. thanks, science. those are all from the march for science last week. 10,000 people took part in d.c. alone. there were other marchs in cities around the world. the tax day marches, big climate marches that happened this weekend. part of the first hundred days of the new administration was that there have been a lot of big demonstrations of civic engagement since he was sworn in as president. i like the signs from the science march as opposed to all the other signs because the signs march has roots. it has passed because of this which happened in 1969.

1969 there was a horrible oil spill on the coast in santa barbara, california, one of the biggest spills in history. at the time, we had never seen anything like this as a country. certainly not in that pristine sensitive beach front in santa barbara, california. this oil spill, 1969, a true national disaster, blown out well they couldn't shut down for ten days. huge spill, national attention, huge reaction particularly in california. and that santa barbara disaster helped give rise to the environmental movement in this country. in the short term it led the following year to something they called earth day in 1970. all of our days are earth days a jupiter day last ten hours a venus day last 116 earth days. but all of our days are earth

days, and earth day has happened every year since 1970 after the santa barbara oil spill. this year the weekend roughly of earth day was the science march. fitting. who's a good dog? the trump administration decided to celebrate earth day and the science march this year by firing one of the most visible faces in our government by firing the nation's surgeon general. less than 24 hours before the science march, dr. murphy was told he needed to resign. he recessed to resign. he made them fire him which apparently they were happy to do. happy earth day. surgeon general served for four year terms. he was only two years into his form-year term but they canned him anyway. and then the science march happened the next day. how many years do you think we have until there's no ice in the arctic ocean in the summer? what century does that happen in do you think? according to the arctic council

which cha class group of eight arctic interested countries, if you have a kid next year, the arctic ocean will be ice-free in the summer when your kid is in college, by 2040, within our lifetime. just days after that announcement came out from the arctic council, we got another executive from president trump, the order he signed opens up drilling in protected parts of the arctic. also drilling on the atlantic coast of the united states and also opens up california. california is not named specifically in this executive order that trump signed on friday, but the executive order order says parts of the pacific ocean could be open to drilling. california lawmakers, the california coast, the california lawmakers are already vowing to challenge this because obviously this is going to be part of the country where this whole idea would go over great, right? so consult your actuarial table on today's news. maybe we won't be killed by

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this hot sweaty weekend in d.c. as the trump administration hit the 100-day mark, hundreds of people marched up

pennsylvania avenue in what they call the people's climate march, sending a message to the white house. climate change is happening. what are you going to do about it? part of the answer came late friday night from the administration. late friday night, the epa started taking down its climate data from the agency's website. key pages and information about climate change have been move order marginalize order just gone. for example, this is the old climate change page on the epa's website. and that is the new page. this page is being updated. i bet. can't wait for the substantive updates. joining us now is the obama administration's epa chief gina mccarthy. ms. mccarthy, thank you very much for being here. really appreciate your time tonight. >> it's good to be with you, rachel, thanks. >> a lot of people saw this coming and tried to preserve what they could in terms of public facing data on climate and other epa data, worried that the administration might do this. what is your reaction to them dropping this data off their public facing website? >> i have to say that it's pretty disturbing, rachel,

because it really isn't just about updating some policy perspective. this is a wholesale wiping out of historical record of what this agency has been doing with public dollars for decades, not just the past eight years. this is unprecedented in terms of the scope of information that's been taken down. information that's public information. people have a right to be able to access it. and no president has ever done this before. you know, it is simply denying that the agency has been working on climate for decades. the science that we have develop and the actions we have taken and why we took them. you can disagree with many of those actions. but what you can't do is simply deny history and make that information unavailable to the public who paid for it and deserve to have ready access to it. so it's disturbing not just in its content and the breadth of

what they did but also in its timing. you know, it clearly was designed to become part of the narrative around our ability to be able to speak as americans and march in the streets about what this administration is doing to actually -- to dismantle the very fabric of environmental protections that we have relied on to keep our kids safe. that's what saturday was about. standing up talking, not just about climate, but about clean air and clean water. and healthy land. that's what they tried to undermine by taking the information off the table for people to be able to access that day. but the one thing they have to realize is that we're not going forget about it. we know what the science says. we know what we need to do to protect ourselves and our kids. and clean air and clean water in this country is a core value. and just because it's not reflected on epa's website doesn't mean that that core values are going to change. we just have to get more diligent about making sure that

we're speaking up and we're doing everything we can to protect our kids. >> we've been following what to me feels like kind of a strange slightly incoherent process. at least it's hard to follow from the outside. in which it looks like the administration, the epa, the new epa in this administration, rather than holding individual public comment periods, like individual regulations or individual things they want to change, they appear to be starting as of tomorrow. a public process to consider scrapping or modifying all regulations, all environmental regulations, all at once. with the very limited public comment period that most people can't get in on. do they have any insight into what they're doing there or what their aims are? >> i certainly know what they're intending to do is to take broad public comment in a lottery process with just a few people to see whether or not there are specific regulations that people would like to reconsider. but those are very different

processes than are required under law to actually change rules. so while this is an attempt for them to say they're opening up to public comment, we all know that industries have already been to the white house to make their wishes known. but the good thing is that the law requires really broad public process, real hearings, real comment processes to be opened up before any rule can be changed. and it requires that rule to be proposed. it requires the public comment process. and it requires a finalization that is done in a transparent way. so while they may be opening up ideas for what do you want to see changed, i'm hoping that what they're going to hear from many people is what we don't want changed. and that is the fundamental protections that we have relied on. now why they think this is a healthy public process, i don't know. but it would be really nice if they realize live sat down and thoughtfully looked at what rules could be updated.

what rules are essential. and whether or not just the costs but the benefits they provide to all of us. that seems to be a word they don't often use when they talk about regulation. they say let's get rid of the rules because they're expensive. and let's forget about who they benefit, which is you and i. normal human beings. . >> gina mccarthy, former epa administrator in the obama administration, really appreciate your time tonight, ma'am. thank you. >> thanks, rachel. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. i realize that ah, that $100k is not exactly a fortune.

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