i had never met chris mcdaniel before. certain press reports have identified me as a mcdaniel supporter. i'm not a big fan of his. i'm not against him, but i'm not for him. i'm not even registered to vote because, frankly, like, i live in california, and it doesn't really matter, and it seems like a lot of work just to get up and vote. maybe that'll change, but i'm not even registered to vote. what really interests me is busting corruption. so i go to mississippi, and i start seeing all these fliers everywhere and hearing about these threiers in the black community. they start saying chris mcdaniel is a klansman, and he's going to take away your government benefits, shut down historically black colleges. you name the most absurd, racist things democrats have said about you, now the republican establishment is saying it about chris mcdaniel. so, naturally, i thought he was awesome. i felt like if they're really this targeted towards him, this must be something there that they're afraid of and what is it, right? because they'

i had never met chris mcdaniel before. someone identified me as an mcdaniel supporter.i'm not a big fan of his. i'm not against them but i'm not for him either. i'm not registered to vote because frankly i live in california. it seems like a lot of work. maybe that will change but i'm not registered to vote. what really interests me is busting busting corruption so i go to mississippi and i start seeing all these flyers everywhere hearing about these flyers in the black community which essentially said chris mcdaniel is a klansman and he is going to calm and he is going to take away your government benefits. he's going to shut down historical black colleges and named the most absurd racist democrat things have said about you they are now saying about the republicans. i thought if there is targeted towards him there must be something there that they are afraid of and what is it? they are not talking about the issues. they tried to get a whole number of african-american voters and they ran a whole bunch of racist radio ads and robo-calls and you have probably seen those a

meanwhile in mississippi, chris mcdaniel challenged the results of his gop runoff loss to thad cochran. mcdaniel claims thousands of ineligible voters cast ballots. he wants state party officials to declare him the winner. >>> big day tomorrow for army sergeant bowe bergdahl. he'll be questioned about his experience in afghanistan. many of bergdahl's fellow soldiers claimed he deserted his post before the taliban captured him in 2009. bergdahl you'll recall was freed in may for a prison swap for high-ranking taliban members. >>> the u.s. is digging into sub prime car lending beginning with

there's no stopping chris mcdaniel from trying to become a u.s. senator. it's been six weeks since he lost the election to thad cochran. now he's challenging the results of the election and demanding to be declared the winner. >>> republican senator rand paul was in iowa yesterday as part of a three-day swing through the state and wasted no time throwing jabs at hillary clinton on benghazi. >> i asked her did you read the cables from ambassador stephens? oh, i was kind of busy traveling and it was someone else who should have read these cables. you know what, by not reading the cables, by not providing security, i think you precluded yourself as ever being considered commander in chief. >> the former secretary of state is keeping mum about her intentions but here's one possible contender who is ready. check out martin o'malley's response when he was asked if he would back hillary clinton a second time in 2016. >> i am -- i am seriously considering running in 2016, but the most important politics of all is to govern well and to govern truthfully, and certai

another of the group's candidates, chris mcdaniel, is now formally challenging the results, demanding that the state gop central committee declare him the winner. is he not asking for a new election. mcdaniel alleges 15,000 ballots were by ineligible voters. mr. cuccinelli, good morning to you, sir. >> good morning, chuck. >> let's start with kansas today. it's been tough. you guys have tried to challenge incumbents and so far you've not had success. why do you think that is? >> in the senate, ralph hall in the house lost to john radcliff, one of our candidates but, you know, these are one race at a time. in previous years, we have had more success by this point in time with people like deb fisher, ted cruz, marco rubio, rand paul. however, this is a long haul. this isn't about one race or even one year. the senate is never all up at once. we have to be in this for the long term. and we are. and all of our candidates are conservative underdogs. we accept that getting in. that's almost by definition who we're supporting. and so the thing about the senate is when one of them win they ca

, today chris mcdaniel announced he plans to prolong the contest even further. mcdaniel's legal team filed a formal challenge to the state's executive committee to prove that mcdaniel and not cochran was the rightful winner of that runoff six weeks ago and that he should be on the ballot as the republican party's nominee this november. mcdaniel's legal team argues the votes that put the six-term republican senator cochran over the edge in the june 24th runoff were illegal or questionable because they contend many of the predominantly black democratic voters that the cochran campaign turned out on june 4 24th had previously according to the mcdaniel team had previously voted in the june 3rd democratic primary. state law says that you cannot vote in one party's primary and then turn around and vote in the other party's runoff. mcdaniel's team is pushing that argument hard, although they have yet to prove that anywhere near enough illegal votes were cast to potentially effect the outcome of the runoff. but it is a reminder that this summer of strange primary electio

>> it's very difficult right now for chris mcdaniel. so far after the primary. to really see any kind of path to victory. he is continuing the legal challenge but i think senator cochran feels pretty safe and mcdaniel for a future in mississippi politics will have to make a decision soon. >> hogan, the other significant thing about this particular moment in politics is this is one of the last moments where tea party challengers upset sitting republican senators in the cycle. that could happen in kansas today, tennessee on thursday. hogan, why haven't tea party candidates gained more momentum this psych snl. >> that's a good question. there's races out there that tea party candidates won. specifically mississippi an i went to ole miss and talk to people in that state all the time. mcdaniel says, basically, i don't want to have another race. i just want you guys to give me the election because democrats shouldn't be able to vote. that's not the law. he didn't do that. this race is all but over and most of the people there in the state agree with me an think it is o

now senate candidate chris mcdaniel is turning to a judge.ississippi state senator filed a lawsuit alleging that thousands of votes cast for thad cochran were illegal. >>> secretary of state john kerry got a taste what it's like to travel by commercial plane these day. according to an anonymous source, he was forced to take a united airlines flight back to washington from hawaii because of an electrical problem with his air force jet. >>> who knew it could be seen as partisan. it seems lying everything is partisan. the new app lets you scan a bar code and learn how the company's board of directors, political action committees, and even employees spend on political parties. >>> it's a changing of the guard at nbc news. the network's political director and chief white house correspondent and host of the daily run down chuck todd has been named the new moderator of meet the press. he replaces david gregory who announced he's leaving yesterday. it's the morning dish of scrambled politics. i'm joined by the hill. good morning to you. >> happy frid

this tea party gy chris mcdaniel. why? because he wants to cut spending. what thad cochran promises to keep the welfare checks coming, keep the footsteps coming, keep the unplumbed checks coming and to keep all the bacon coming from washington, d.c. for every employer in the area. and the election was won by democratic votes in a republican primary. there's no hope for america at all if both parties act exact same way. at this moment it's pretty clear they do. the way you get elected is by promising people three things. free contraception, free obama phone, free everything, free health care. and you promise people free and some of them are just dumb enough and ignorant enough to vote for them. but there is no free lunch. >> my name is scott nelson. doled out favors once they get elected. the columnist george will has referred to the current campaign finance laws as an incumbent protection regime. so do you agree with a recent supreme court decision, and did you think that eliminating the individual campaign contribution limit would be a structural reform t

if you didn't see what i wrote this week was that this is killing chris mcdaniels. even when an election is outright stolen from it you should not contest it. installment two is coming next week but i will give you a preview. elections are dirty in a lot of way. whatever they complaining the cochran team did -- the mcdaniels pulled the ugly nursing home incident. i am not blaming either one. i think it looks awful to have tea partyers out there challenging and claiming any vote by a black person was fraudulent. and by the way, cochran is part of the republican generation i describe in "mug" and that is they were the republicans fighting against segregation democrats. he won this first election from a majority black democratic district. the fact he got federal money for a black college and a martin luther king memorial? as for the only issues that i think matter is not only did cochran vote against obamacare which all republicans did. he not only voted against marco rubio's amnesty and he didn't vote for cloture and then against it. the two votes were called closure

sarah palin. >>> rejected a request to overturn senator thad cobb rain's run-off victory over chris mcdanielis has been quite the fight. party officials suggested he would do better taking the challenge to court. mcdaniel asked the party to declare him the nominee claiming that cochran's 7,000 vote margin is due to democratic voter who illegally cast ballots. >>> the u.s. court of appeals in cincinnati hearing back-to-back arguments on four cases wednesday. the cases challenge same-sex marriage bans in kentucky, michigan, ohio and tennessee. earlier this summer, two district courts struck down the bans in utah, oklahoma and virginia. >>> time for a look at the forecast. indra petersons with here with me this morning. i was saying i'm all alone. where is berman and christine? you are here with me. >> we got it. >> we can do it. it's so close to the weekend, too. more importantly. we want to know where is it going to get nicer? better news, at least for me, northeast. me and poppy. we are talking about the high pressure moving in. showers toward new england today. generally, the rockies to the

what i wrote is this is killing chris mcdaniels.each when an election has been outright stolen from you, you shouldn't contest it. it's just the haw of politics. -- the law of politics. that's installment one. installment two is coming next week, and i'll give you a little sneak preview. look, elections are dirty in a lot of ways. whatever they're complaining about that the cochran team did, you know, the mcdaniels team pulled that ugly nursing home incident. i'm not blaming mcdaniels for that, i'm not blaming cochran for what people said about him. i think it looks awful to have tea partiers out there changing, claim -- challenging, claiming any vote by a black person was ip so fact to fraudulent. -- ipso facto fraudulent. and by the way, cochran is part of the population i describe in my book "mugged," which is they were the republicans fighting against segregationist democrats -- all segregationists were democrats, so i'm repeating myself. he was, cochran won his first election from a district that was majority black, majority de

if you didn't see my column this week, what i wrote was this is killing chris mcdaniels. even when an election has been outright stolen from you, you shouldn't contest it. it's just the law of politics. you end up looking like a sore loser. installment two is coming next week, and i'll give you a little sneak preview. look, elections are dirty in a lot of ways. whatever they're complaining about the conquering team did, you know, the mcdaniels team pulled the ugly nursing home incident. i don't blame him for that. i think it looks awful to have tea partiers out there challenging, claiming any vote by a black person was ipso facto fraudulent. and by the way, cochran is part of the republican generation i describe in my book "mugged" which is they were the republicans fighting against segregation, segregationist democrats -- all segregationists were democrats, so i'm repeating myself. he was, cochran won his first election from a district that was majority black, majority democrat. or -- i mean, the fact that he got money for a martin luther king memorial, you're complainin

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in mississippi state senator chris mcdaniel has officially challenged the results of the controversialsenate runoff losing to republican thad cochran but mcdaniel claims thousands of ineligible voters cast ballots and cochran voters bought votes. >>> he cried monday about shooting are a nearbya mcbri-- renearbya mcbride on his door. he said he did not want to become a victim in his own home and he said he pulled the tryinger in a reflex action to defend himself. >>> gamers, the scrabble dictionary is expanding. 5,000 new records will be included in the fifth edition of the dictionary. won't be officially sanctioned until december 1st. some include hashtag which will get you 9 points and selfie. the first time scrabble's dictionary has grown in three years. found some words for the three of us. mixedtape and beat box. >> that's one word? >> and for you, homey, bromance. >> ridonculous and sharknado. >> and my word is mojito. >> mojito with a "j." >> we'll have them waiting for you. that's good, that's fun. i think you would win a scrabble game. i think you'd kill him. >> that's the baby

the judge ruled state senator chris mcdaniel failed to start the alexandria challenge within 20 daysoting. mcdaniels is expected to appeal to the state supreme court. >>> closing arguments were given today in the corruption trial of former virginia governor bob mcdonnell and his wife. this afternoon lawyers for maureen mcdonnell said her actions with a businessman who showered her with gifts may have been tacky but not illegal. >>> we're awaiting president obama's decision initially promised before the end of summer on immigration policy. again, yesterday the president blamed congress for putting him in a position of having to do something on his own. tonight the problem of all those illegal immigrant children and where they will go to school. here's chief congressional correspond mike emmanuel. >> reporter: with schools opening for a new academic year, those in anna arundel, maryland are seeing a surge of new students unaccompanied minors that recently crossed our border. >> they may have only gone to second or third grade. have limited literacy in their first language. that creates

. >> reporter: chris mcdaniel announced a challenge to thad cochran's june victory. >> they asked uso put up or shut up. here we are. >> reporter: mcdaniel's lawyers said they found more than enough questionable votes to question trees but up to the state republican party to decide and they already declared cochran a winner. it could be a rallying cry for tea parties when lamar alexander face as tea party challenge from joe carr and tomorrow in kansas when three term u.s. senator pat roberts squares off dr. milton wolf a radioologyist opposed to obamacare. he's the president's second cousin once removed. he pounds roberts as a washed up d.c. insider. >> pat roberts has been in washington for 47 years and nobody should be in washington for 47 years. god expected moses to get things sorted out in 40. >> reporter: wolf and tea party aligned p.a.c. is hammering roberts most his time in d.c. >> every time i get an opponent -- i mean every time i get a chance i'm home. >> pat roberts liberal in washington rarely insas. >> reporter: roberts has been rattled by the charges. >> people elect i

nearly two months after the mississippi primary, chris mcdaniel is formally challenging the results.>> plus, it's an election day in hawaii again. we'll keep an eye on that. >>> good morning from washington. it's friday, august 15th, 2014. this is "the daily rundown." i'm luke russert in for the great chuck todd. new developments in ferguson, missouri, where we're expecting any minute now for the police to release the name of the officer who shot and killed 18-year-old michael brown on saturday. you're looking live here at where that announcement will happen. and for the first time since the shooting, protests have come. governor nixon handed control of security in ferguson over to the missouri state highway patrol. the scene on the streets yesterday was nothing like what we saw two nights ago. crowds and protesters were out into early morning hours, but police say they didn't make one single arrest overnight. police have been withholding the name of the officer who shot and killed brown, but now they say they'll release that name. this morning, governor nixon told the "today" show t

if you didn't see my column this week what i wrote us this is killing chris mcdaniels even win an election has been outright stolen. he shouldn't contest it. he shouldn't contested. it says the law of politics. you end up looking like a sore loser. installment two is coming next week and i will give you a sneak preview. elections are dirty in a lot of ways. whatever they are complaining about the coffman team did daniels team pulled that nursing home incident. i'm not blaming mcdaniels for that. i'm not blaming cochran for what people said. it looks awful to have tea partiers challenging, claiming in a vote by a black person was ipso facto fraudulent. and by the way cochran is part of the republican generation i described in my book which is they were the republicans fighting against segregation, segregationist democrats. all segregationists were democrats. cochran won his first election majority, black majority democrat. the fact that he got federal money for historically black college and for martin luther king memorial, you are complaining about that tea partiers? as for the only issues

if you didn't see what i wrote this week was that this is killing chris mcdaniels. even when an election is outright stolen from it you should not contest it. installment two is coming next week but i will give you a preview. elections are dirty in a lot of way. whatever they complaining the cochran team did -- the mcdaniels pulled the ugly nursing home incident. i am not blaming either one. i think it looks awful to have tea partyers out there challenging and claiming any vote by a black person was fraudulent. and by the way, cochran is part of the republican generation i describe in "mug" and that is they were the republicans fighting against segregation democrats. he won this first election from a majority black democratic district. the fact he got federal money for a black college and a martin luther king memorial? as for the only issues that i think matter is not only did cochran vote against obamacare which all republicans did. he not only voted against marco rubio's amnesty and he didn't vote for cloture and then against it. the two votes were called closure

just three weeks ago i was in mississippi for a week campaigning for chris mcdaniel the tea party candidate to lead a 10-point lead over 36 year united state senator thad corcoran and thad corcoran's people got desperate. they realized they couldn't win in a republican primary so they decided the only way they could win was to cheat. what did they do? they went to the democratic community and they went to urban areas and they literally beg them to vote republican for the first time in their entire lives in the republican primary even though most of them that are devoted a month prior in the democratic primary and it's against the law to vote in both primaries in mississippi. they said don't worry, no one will know. no one is watching. you have got to vote for thad corcoran who has been in office for 60 years against this wayne root guy. why? because he wants to cut spending and one that promises is to keep the welfare checks coming, keep the food stamps coming in to keep the unemployment checks coming and all the big and coming from washington d.c. from every employer in the area and the el

. >>> he lost in a run off in mississippi's primary, but chris mcdaniel isn't giving up the fight. he filed a lawsuit asking a judge to declare him the winner of the race against thad cochran. cochran won the race by 7600 votes. there were enough votes illegally cast by democrats to change the outcome. >>> tony stewart announcing he won't race at the nascar event in michigan. it's the second race he's sitting out since he struck and killed kevin ward jr. in up state new york last saturday. ward's funeral was held thursday. police investigators questioned stewart twice. there's no evidence to support criminal charges. >>> calling the conviction unfair, lawyers frr whitey bulger had been promised immupty for his crimes decades ago. he was found guilty of participating in 11 murders. he's serving two consecutive life sentences in arizona. >>> a statement released thursday by the late actor's wife, susan says williams was diagnosed with parkinson's disease. it's known to cause depression and may have exasperated his condition. he was not ready to share that publicly. >>> happening now,

if you didn't see what i wrote this week was that this is killing chris mcdaniels. even when an election is outright stolen from it you should not contest it. installment two is coming next week but i will give you a preview. elections are dirty in a lot of way. whatever they complaining the cochran team did -- the mcdaniels pulled the ugly nursing home incident. i am not blaming either one. i think it looks awful to have tea partyers out there challenging and claiming any vote by a black person was fraudulent. and by the way, cochran is part of the republican generation i describe in "mug" and that is they were the republicans fighting against segregation democrats. he won this first election from a majority black democratic district. the fact he got federal money for a black college and a martin luther king memorial? as for the only issues that i think matter is not only did cochran vote against obamacare which all republicans did. he not only voted against marco rubio's amnesty and he didn't vote for cloture and then against it. the two votes were called closure

the republican party won't step into the fight between tea party candidate chris mcdaniel and thad cochran. thousands of questionable ballots being asked to be thrown out. the republican party says to take it to court. >> people in toledo, ohio can drink the water again. >> they are not out of the woods completely. scientists say the algae problem in lake erie could turn up again. >> at wade smith's toledo area home, no one takes clean running water for granted. his family of five was among nearly a half million people who couldn't use the tap water over the weekend, when toxins from an algae bloom contaminated the water supply. >> you couldn't drink the water, do laundry or dishes. >> the toxins no longer an immediate threat but design activities warn the source of the drinking water, lake erie, is still at risk. >> what is the potential long term impact? >> fish could die, the plants in the bottom of the lake could start dying, so we could potentially kill the lake. >> when it comes tier res future health, environmental engineer isabel escobar warns the problems could go deep. algae feed

chris mcdaniel, remember him?ator thad cochran, now formal ly for questioning the results. good luck there. according to mcdaniel and his lawyers, there are more than 15,000 illegal or questionable ballots, votes from democrats who voted earlier that month in their own party's primary, which would not be allowed. many of the ballots in question also believed to be for african-americans who turned out to vote for senator cochran in the runoff. >> they asked us to put up or shut up. here we are. here we are with the evidence. now, we all witnessed what a segment of our party did in the weeks leading up to. we saw despicable allegations from those that are supposed to be leaders in our party. there is no place in the republican party for those that would -- the integrity of the elections process of the state of mississippi matters. the -- matters. but, likewise, the integrity of the republican party and its primary system, a party and a system we love so much, it matters as well. >> so his big concern was the african