forget all what you think you know about sharon engel. she's back. folksy this time, drinking coffee. the mushroom canisters were her comeback and rebranding bid in which she tried to get back into politics and run for a congressional seat just a couple of months after she lost the race for a u.s. senate seat in nevada in 2010. in that race sharon engel took on the top democrat in the u.s. senate. she ran against majority leader harry reid. you remember that the last midterms, 2010, this was a wave year for republicans. taking out the top democrat in the senate would have been a cherry on top for them. they really thought they had a chance of taking out harry reid. harry reid had pretty bad numbers in nevada. republican groups, particularly the karl rove groups threw tons and ton of money against him in nevada, but their problem in the end was that their candidate was sharon engel. it wasn't so much that harry reid won that senate race in 2010, it was that sharon engel lost that race because sharon engel talked like this. >> you know, if this congres

he's watched candidates screw him over, out of being majority leader and christine o'donnell and sharon engelll, imagine the sort of tragic shakespearean irony, if mitch mcconnell loses and doesn't actually get to be majority leader. >> we always say, he's never -- he never wins big in kentucky. always -- >> just gets by. >> but the thing he always says is, i've never lost. >> just like the bar exam, you've got to pass. thank you very much. you can catch steve's show weekends on msnbc. the "rachel maddow" show starts now. >> that is the political equivalent of an action movie. watching steve do that and seeing you guys going through all of those races. it's phenomenal. so exciting. thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. all day long, you've been seeing this remarkable footage shot inside one of canada's main parliament buildings in ottawa. just truly shocking first person close-up video of that horrendous fire fight with dozens of shots fired inside the parliament building. the reporter who shot that video today is going to be live joining us in just a moment. we've go

it killed sharon engel in nevada. >> joni ernst has been a far stronger candidate.as this profile of, she'd be the first female elected senator from iowa. she's a combat veteran. she's a mom, she's got all these things that she really has. a year ago we were talking about republicans have nobody to run in iowa. now we're saying, okay, they have someone with a legitimate image and profile that slehe's created in a state that serves her well. >> what do you do if you're a voter? may be okay in certain parts of eastern idaho. what do you do if you see the woman? she's attractive, you like the way she speaks. then you read the articles about what she's said in the past? do you project the nice parts that you see in the ads? or do you say if she's talking like that when nobody's watching, she may vote like that when whshe gets to the senate. >> people want to go and vote for somebody that reminds them of themselves, that makes them feel comfortable. and braley, i honestly, you're right, he's not as radical, dramatic. he's also not particularly inspiring. he doesn't make

i know it's a little gun, but her principle is the same as sharon engel's was a couple years ago.ore you start, let's watch this back in 2010, a candidate in nevada talked about her second amendment remedies to take out her then opponent, or anybody in the government that gets in the way. let's watch. >> you know, our founding fathers they put that second amendment in there for a good reason, and that was for the people, to protect themselves against a tyrannical government, and said, you know, thomas jefferson said it's good for our country to have a revolution every 20 years. i hope that's not where we're going, but if this congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those second amendment remedies and saying, my goodness, what can we do to turn this country around? i'll tell you, the first thing we need to do is take harry reid out. >> looking towards the second amendment remedies to deal with this congress. i don't think there's any translation required here. >> you got to ask, how did this happen? how does joni ernst in a competitive senate race make

sharon won her fourth olympic medal. the united states scores a stunning upset on the women's platform diving. here is ingrid kraemer engel of germany the heavy favorite. however, she is not good enough against leslie bush of the u.s. who noses out the champion by over a foot and a half. in third place behind the american and german is celina alexa and the soviet flag is raised beside the other two. then the action moves to the stadium for the track events. first action is the men's hundred meter and in the stands is the immortal sprinter jesse owen. heavy favorite in the dash is bob hayes in the far lane. the wind was too brisk in the semifinal and a world record hayes set was disallowed. hayes has a race in his pocket the minute he left the starting block. as slow motion reveals the stride of the 190-pound sprinter he has more power than grace but as anyone can see it rings home the gold medal. no wind in this heat. hayes does a 110 second and once more the stars and stripes ail another u.s. gold medal. an olympic mark was set in the semifinals of the hundred-meter dash and now in the final she runs her rivals into the