governor o'malley: sure. we have all been reading in the newspaper and watching events with the russian expansion in ukraine. at the same time, in the iran nuclear negotiations, russia was one of those states that was part of that effort. they were involved pretty deeply over a year ago in events in syria. no doubt there remain so. what i was underscoring is in some of these things and china as well, we confront china and and other places as partnering to scale of solutions in this world. collaboration with china could be the salvation of the planet. where russia is concerned, i'm also very aware of their capacity were cyber is concerned. a little known fact, maryland actually has had a national guard mission to estonia for some 20 years or more for nato membership. estonia met with their head of state and also two of the nato -- and also toward the nato center for excellence. it is one of the few countries that has suffered a full-scale cyber attack and they shut down. that didn't stop them from using techno

[applause] mayor o'malley: true story. goldman seahawks -- goldman sachs, they are the biggest repeat banks in america. recently the c.e.o. of goldman sachs let his employees know that he'd be just fine with either bush or clinton. i bet he would. well i've got news for the bullies of wall street, the presidency is not a crown to be passed back and forth by you, between two royal families. it is a sacred trust to be earned from the american people and exercised on behalf of the people of these united states. [applause] mayor o'malley: the only way we are going to rebuild the american dream is if we retake control of our own american government. the poet laureate of the american dream bruce springsteen, once asked is the dream a lie if it don't come true or is it something worse? whether the american dream becomes a lie or becomes an ongoing truth that our children can enjoy, that our children can live that our children can build upon is really up to you and to me, it's up to all of us. it's not about wall street. it's not

o'malley: sure. we have all been reading in the newspaper and watching events of russian expansion and the events in ukraine. at the same time, in the iran nuclear negotiations, russia was one of those states that was part of that effort. they were involved pretty deeply over a year ago in events in syria. no doubt remain so. what i was underscoring is that in some of these things, and in china as well we confront china , and other places as in partnering to scale up renewable energy solutions in this world. collaboration with china could well be the salvation of the planet. so where russia is concerned i'm also very aware of their capacity where cyber is concerned. a little known fact, maryland actually has had a national guard mission to estonia for some 20 years or more and was responsible for training up estonia for nato membership. i met with their head of state and also to word -- toured the nato center for excellence in cyber security. estonia is one of the few countries that has suffered a fu

o'malley at 2%. these are early numbers.ds -- the latest crowds of sanders tells me that he doubled his numbers for a reason. >> we've got to watch him as he goes back. watch these numbers over the next month or two. because this is when it gets done. this is when people say listen hillary may even seem inevitable to them but they may still as iowans want to make a statement and say, you know what? you think this is a coronation run for you? but we have other things to say here and we may want to pull you back in the other direction. >> harry smith, thanks for your time. appreciate you coming in tonight. thank you so much. >>> joining me tonight, our rapid response panel, craig varega. also the founder and president of the patriot majority act and former chief strategist for governor o'malley's last campaign. and republican strategist mercedes schlapp is with us tonight. craig, your thoughts? how does o'malley get into this race? obviously he's in it, but how does he start gathering steam? >> well i think the really interest

so for now, o'malley is just trying to get his name out there. shake lots of hands and hold lots of babies. >> running against hillary clinton gets you a lot of attention and that could help o'malley rise in the polls. early state voters want politicians to earn their support. bret? >> peter, thank you. >>> well vermont senator and self-described socialist bernie sanders is trying to offset hillary clinton. tonight, ed henry, covering the clinton campaign looks at whether sanders is a threat. >> reporter: hillary clinton revealed today her official announcement will come on june 13th in new york city. her early strategy of small, carefully orchestrated events may have created a vacuum being filled by supporter of an unlikely victor democratic socialist senator bernie sanders. >> i wrote hillary off a long time ago. she's just like her husband. >> reporter: sanders through people to a town hall in minneapolis and then at a brewery in the key state of iowa a crowd was piled up outside trying to see sanders. >> what people are saying is enough is en

can martin o'malley, in iowa and nationally, become the clinton alternative, or is it sanders now? john: i hope you were going to ask, is there anything that can stop bernie sanders from being the next president of the united states. martin o'malley is more conventionally attractive younger, fantastic looking, more mainstream instead of a far left liberal. he could have his moment in iowa. bernie mania could burnout, and you could see how the flowering of o'malley fever before we get to january. mark: there are other democrats who may run, but you can imagine a scenario where sanders weakens clinton rhetorically and in the caucuses, and o'malley steps in, and democrats panic if there is a clinton controversy. i think because o'malley is a more conventional candidate, he could benefit from sanders' streangths. in the short time, he better move up in the polls. john: he has to have an economic message as distinctive as barney and has to start going after the clintons in a more pointed way. now for the republican side of our new iowa poll. few 2016 contenders have spent less time camp

so for now, o'malley is just trying to get his name out there. shake lots of hands and hold lots of babies. >> running against hillary clinton gets you a lot of attention and that could help o'malley rise in the polls. early state voters want politicians to earn their support. bret? >> peter, thank you. >>> well vermont senator and self-described socialist bernie sanders is trying to offset hillary clinton. tonight, ed henry, covering the clinton campaign looks at whether sanders is a threat. >> reporter: hillary clinton revealed today her official announcement will come on june 13th in new york city. her early strategy of small, carefully orchestrated events may have created a vacuum being filled by supporter of an unlikely victor democratic socialist senator bernie sanders. >> i wrote hillary off a long time ago. she's just like her husband. >> reporter: sanders through people to a town hall in minneapolis and then at a brewery in the key state of iowa a crowd was piled up outside trying to see sanders. >> what people are saying is enough is en

this could allow o'malley and sanders or someone else to come in. john: she is perfectly happy co-opting the domestic issues on her left. the standard voters, the o'malley voters. foreign policy is a bigger problem. she wants to maintain her position for the general election. the financial chairman of the democratic committee is organizing a fundraising event for hillary clinton. if you told that to your average american, that would sound line. she is not the party's nominee, but that might be a violation of the rules. i question is whether the democratic party is playing fair and how they are conducting their nominee fight. mark: most of the democratic apparatus, and the labor unions, like most of the democratic party, they are staffed by people who think that hillary clinton will be the nominee and want her to be the nominee. one fundraiser is not a big deal. they made the rule that not only limited to six debates, but said that you cannot be at other events if you want to be in these democratic official debates. that is to her advantage. o'malley

governor o'malley: sure. we have all been reading in the newspaper and watching events with the russian expansion in ukraine. at the same time in that you run -- iran nuclear negotiations, russia was one of those states that was part of that effort. they were involved pretty deeply over a year ago in events in syria. no doubt there remain so. what i was underscoring is in some of these things and china as well, we confront china and other places as in partying -- partnering to scale of solutions in this world. collaboration with china could be the salvation of the planet. where russia is concerned, i'm also very aware of their capacity were cyber is concerned. a little known fact, maryland has had a national guard mission to estonia for some 20 years or more for nato membership. estonia met with their head of state and also two of the nato center events for cyber security. it is one of the few countries that has suffered a full-scale cyber attack and they shut down. that didn't stop them from using to knowled

o'malley: thank you very much.to the prospects of being part of the truman national security project and center for national policy. i did so because i thought then and convinced now this organization and its members throughout the country are dedicated to one thing -- making a difference. your political members are dedicated to making things happen while governing. your policy members are dedicated to strong, smart and principled approach to a national security p olicies. the returning veterans are applying your leadership values into the community. it is not often that all of those qualities can be embodied in one leader and that is why it gives me particular pleasure to introduce the keynote speaker. martin o'malley comes not from a background of financial wealth. he is a descendent of a veteran of the war of 1812. he is the son of an army air force pilot and veteran of world war ii. the washington post called his mother barbara who has served as a gatekeeper for 27 years perhaps the most well-known auction in p

with o'malley and sanders, you've seen both of them gently nudge her. you saw o'malley there. sanders has been pushing her to take a position on trade. i'm interested on what hillary clinton does in relation to sanders and o'malley. so far she's generally ignored them. if they get more aggressive going after her, did she respond? i think that puts her in a tricky position. >> another troubling story in politics this week the indictment of house speaker former house speaker denny hastert for allegedly paying hush money to a student that he had some involvement with back before his political career in the '70s and '80s back in illinois. and he aeldly was paying him hush money not to reveal the fact that hastert had sexually abused this young man back in those days. george, your thoughts about hastert and this case? >> what's interest is not the behavior long ago that made him subject to blackmail but what made him worth blackmailing. he was a high school wrestling coach and then a member of congress and became very wealthy. first as speaker of the house, he presided over an aval

o'malley is talking about baltimore, the backdrop for his big announcement. you see it there.t together and made suffer as mayor. as for the visions on other policies or other current events stay tuned. so far, o'malley has been accommodating to reporters following him around answering lots of questions at every stop. voters we have seen seem curious but receptive when we were with o'malley in new hampshire yesterday, many perspective primary voters seemed glad that now they have more than one choice. >> when you are at 2% no place to go but up, right? >> that's right. >> thank you. >>> official are warning residents to be on guard after shootings that left one person dead. now they are searching for a suspect who is targeting random victims. we will tell you about this. beach goers watched in horror as an stunt goes terribly wrong. you know the importance of heart health. you watch your diet, excercise... and may take an omega-3 supplement, such as fish oil. but when it comes to omega-3s, it's the epa and dha that really matter for heart health. not all omega-3 supplements ar

. >>> former maryland governor martin o'malley is planning to fight tough in new hampshire.tate is home for the first presidential primary and a strong hold for hillary clinton. >> o'malley announced his run for president saturday in baltimore. but as craig boswell reports, some protesters who blame o'malley for baltimore's trouble tried to disrupt his speech. >> i am a candidate for president of the united states. >> reporter: former maryland governor matter tip o'malley made it official, announcing he will seek the democratic nomination. >> reporter: o'malley supporters said rallies were sparked following the death of freddie gray's death. >> what took place here was not only about race, not of policing in america, it is about everything it is supposed to mean to be an american. >> reporter: a small group of demonstrators who blame the former baltimore mayor for the city's problem briefly disrupted the speech. the protesters say o'malley's zero tolerance policing strategy while he was mayor in baltimore contributed to the tension that led to the riots. the protesters, incl

o'malley is against tpp.e been against every trade agreement and i am leading the effort, helping to lead the effort. al: you mentioned big money several times. you have said you are going to get outspent in this race. no super pac's for bernie sanders. but what you're doing online with small donors, give us an estimate. bernie: this is a huge issue. you are asking why people are coming out to meetings in large numbers. there is profound disgust. citizens united, 5-4 decision, which says to the koch brothers and other billionaires that they can essentially by elections. and a lot of people i know including conservatives, think that this is what american democracy is about. we have to be honest about it and the media has to be honest about it. needless to say, i am not going to get a lot of support from billionaires. i want their support. i don't need your support. i don't have a super pac. but to answer your question, since we have been in this race for all of five weeks, i think we have gotten close -- certa

o'malley was a really good governor and got a lot of good stuff done.think this can be interesting. i think hillary has to watch out. if she takes this for granted, she's not going to win it. she's gotten off to a good start. >> i want to quickly show the newest republican in the race. we try to keep track here. lindsey graham talking about radical islam running while. that's part of what he wants to run on. let's take a look. >> simply put, radical islam is running wild. they have more safe havens, more money, more capability and more weapons to strike our homeland than any time since 9/11. they are large, they are rich, they're entrenched. as president, i will make them small, poor, and on the run. >> is this a strong argument for republicans to make against whoever the democratic nominee is going to be? >> no, this is a base argument. i think the american people have gotten a lot more sophisticated about foreign policy in the last 15 or 20 years. i think they get that you don't just go bomb the hell out of isis. they also had a president that did tha

o'malley: sure. we have all been reading in the newspaper and watching events of the russian expansion in ukraine. at the same time in the iran nuclear negotiations, russia was one of those states that was part of that effort. they were involved pretty deeply over a year ago in events in syria. no doubt there remain so. what i was underscoring is in some of these things and china as well, we confront china and other places as in partying -- partnering to scale of solutions in this world. collaboration with china could be the salvation of the planet. where russia is concerned, i'm also very aware of their capacities where cyber is concerned. a little known fact, maryland has had a national guard mission to estonia for some 20 years or more for nato membership. i visited estonia. met with their head of state and also two of the nato center events for cyber security. estonia is one of the few countries that has actually suffered a full-scale cyber attack and a shutdown. that did not stop the estonians f

and martin o'malley says i'm so grateful for the people of maryland for leading this case. mike huckabee a republican contender for the white house in 2016 called this decision by the nine, an out of control act of unconstitutional judicial tyranny. john lewis who is the civil rights leader he says that races don't fall in love genders don't fall in love but people fall in love. >> john thank you. i want to go back to mike viqueira live outside of the supreme court who has more from the dissenting opinion of justice scalia. how scathing was the dissent? >> scathing as usual. when we last spoke, i said that justice scalia true to form had a very [ inaudible ] dissenting opinion. we mentioned that justice scalia says this is a case where democracy has been abridged where this country is no longer ruled by a legislative or executive branch but by nine unelected people. he goes on what reallies anding sounded is the hubris reflected in today's bush. the five are entirely comfortable concluding that every state violated the constitution for all of the 135 years between the 14th

what's the difference between bernie sanders and martin o'malley. >> i met martin o'malley once in my life, he hosted the democratic senate, seemed to be a very nice guy. all i know is that, for the last 30 years and more, i have taken on every element of the establishment, okay. when i was mayor of the city of burlington, we transformed that city into one of the most livable cities of america. i invite everybody to come to vermont, burlington. we'll take them all on. we'll take on wall street and am holding for the breakup of the major financial -- >> hunt: and that's different than martin o'malley. >> people will judge. i'm not here to criticize mr. o'malley. >> rose: but she an alternative. >> he'll present himself. >> rose: you differentiate yourself from secretary clinton. >> i know what i have done, i have been a liter in take on bigs money. i was the first american in congress to take americans over the canadian border to find cheaper prescription drugs. i have led the defending social security caucus to protect people from cuts in social security and believe in expanding socia

now has, well the appearance of competition, but the media aren't taking bernie sanders and martin o'malley all that seriously, except on msnbc. >> do they belong? bernie sanders. the beltway media has been treating bernie sanders almost like a gadfly. but bernie sanders has been bucking that. >> the republican field grows larger with rick santorum and george pataki jumping in but are even the conservative media dismissing them as also rand? >> so it's not going to be a good run for someone like rick santorum who's been around for a very long time who's come in nearly last. >> well today, rick santorum announced the launch of another losing santorum for president campaign. >> maybe news outlets are just trying to winnow this crowded field. >>> "vogue," marie claire "cosmopolitan," and others swooning over the first potential female president. and one editor donating to the hillary clinton campaign. are they in the tank for her? >>> and a look at the denny hastert investigation. >>> iran begins an outrageous secret trial of a "washington post" reporter accused of trumped up spying charges. t

one thing sanders and o'malley might be looking is what the republican is seeing.n you look at her against the republican in a hypethetical polling she is only four our five points ahead most of them but she is below 50 percent still. what does that say about your likeability? that is a weakness. >> the sun glasses are pretty cool. >> they are. >> better than bernie sanders. >> this is a woman who has been talking and saying i am a grandmother who has been dying her hair for decades. >> whose son in law is a manager gobbling up millions from countries getting arms deals. i am from chicago. she is dirty. she is a dirty politician. >> and that is why they are keeping her off the stage. she can not come out and reinvent her self. >> remember drinking the beer and doing the running man in congo. >> she didn't do the running man in congo. >> o'malley, if you like him, he is not in baltimore -- >>> the cia director warns defeating the terror groups requires more than the military needs. is this a sign the administration's middle east strategy is falling short? this as we

for president of the united states. >> reporter: this meet and growth in iowa city is o'malley's third of the day. >> the candidate has to be willing to have hundreds and hundreds of the meetings like the ones here and more that will follow in the days ahead. >> reporter: so far four democrats senator sanders -- >> where billionaires are literally i able to buy elections. let's not kid ourselves. >> three have them have been pressing the flesh and first in the nation caucus state overshadowed by the presumed party front runner hillary clinton who has spent little time here so far. outside a heavily scripted listening tour after she announced her candidacy doesn't seem to have hurt clinton. less than 57% of des moines ftc caucussers said she would be their candidate. >> it's important for somebody like an o'malley or sanders even though they seem like a long shot, should get hillary clinton a serious competition so she can get in shape for the general election. >> what we have got to do is to create an economy that works for all of us. >> so far serious competition is coming from senato

three years later, a stranger named john o'malley proved her right. so i say to the class of 2015, don't let anyone ever tell you you can't dream, that you can't hope, that you can't change the world. don't take it from me, take it

we begin with o'malley, he's in.artin o'malley is in the race for the democratic presidential nomination. some question whether baltimore where o'malley was once mayor and where he made the announcement could be a challenge for him but the biggest question is whether o'malley can upset the conventional wisdom that hillary clinton is the inevitable democratic nominee. joe madison, was that the best back drop for this announcement? >> i don't know where else he could have done it. i mean, he's identified of course with baltimore. that's where he really started his political career. and the reality is that's going to be the least of his problems. people, you know, several months from now won't remember where he announced his campaign, but can he raise enough money to challenge hillary clinton? >> bremante the riots are fresh in the minds of many and protesters said you're the reason, it was your policies that led to the riots following freddie gray's death. >> yeah, martin o'malley sort of talked right through the prote

>> i don't know martin o'malley. if you stake out a position against hillary clinton, where she vulnerable? there's no doubt buoyed playing fine, but the big bankers have a very negative connotation among the american public. neil: i am wondering if he drives the part. >> we should point out the clinton people in wall street people are telling us this is mark o'malley being a hypocrite. he didn't get the money so he went after them. we also hear he is looking for money and contributions from reform minded wall street people and people to his campaign that from places like goldman sach j. he does have a statement. we should put up the full screen. neil: everything charlie says is old. >> that his denial, denial, denial. they can make as many meaningless tidbits as they want. governor o'malley has shown he will stand up for his own party for a real structural accountability reform on wall street. neil: they are following it very closely. >> i am telling you, i think the wall street connection to hillary clinton and jeb

governor o'malley: i've got to news for the bullies of wall street.he presidency is not a crown to be passed back and worth by you between the royal families. it is a sacred trust to be earned from the american people and exercised on behalf of the people of these united states. betty: o'malley faces a battle against hillary clinton. bernie sanders as well. likely democratic caucus goer say clinton would be their first choice for president. sanders is that 16%. margaret. now is in fact, yes, the leader, and she does not look vulnerable get. she doesn't. we were looking to see if these controversies, the benghazi, whether these would have an impact on her. it shows they have not. not with likely democratic caucus-goers. the opposite, really. she is up one point in terms of being fifth -- first choice. on the other measure, she picked up two points. she is very favorable. pimm: what about elizabeth born were bernie sanders? -- warren or bernie sanders? margaret: she has not decided -- she has decided not to go into the ring. you can call it the anti-hil

martin o'malley's big campaign kickoff was on saturday. it was in addition to that little snafu was hot as in temperature hot. a lot of his supporters showed up late due to the heat and then they had the snafu. former governor, you know, ended up making his announcement, though, despite all of that. he flew from his hot snafu in maryland to iowa. former republican lincoln chafee is expected to announce his candidacy. he's due to announce the day after tomorrow. he'll be announcing on wednesday at a speech at george mason university. but the big winner this week on the can democratic side or on any side has inarguably got to be bernie sanders. just days after he had his big campaign rally kickoff in burlington, vermont, bernie sanders ended up speaking to a packed house in davenport, iowa. they had to open a wall to make room for the crowd. "the new york times" is describing that crowd in davenport as the largest crowd attracted by any candidate from either party all year. bernie sanders. then on saturday folks at a local brewery in ames, i

dagen: can you tax mother nature governor martin o'malley came close to doing that.and was hit with 40 tax hikes during a rally at eight years, $8 billion in revenue but real cost to the state and the people there. these are not tax hikes on wealthy folks. there were those two, millionaires' tax which set to expire the corporate income-tax rate was height but almost all of martin o'malley's other tax increases hit higher and lower income people. she raised sales taxes raise cigarette taxes that got people with lower income on a percentage of their income much harder. here are more hikes handgun licenses a fishing licenses vehicle title alcoholic beverage sales tax birth and death certificates, and rain tax and flush tax for storm water management just repealed by the new republican governor by the way and o'malley doubled the tax on what was essentially fleshing your toilet to help clean up the chesapeake bay. what happened? people and left, 31,000 residents left maryland between 2007-2010 and from 2011 to 2013 maryland has the third slowest economic growth among sta

o'malley is speaking at the truman national security projects conference. right now the nbc news/"wall street journal" has o'malley at just about 2%. clinton is at 75%. >>> 6:04 your time right now. over the next week or so, you can catch the men and women who keep you safe competing in the 2015 world police and fire games. the games include 61 sports with nearly 10,000 athletes representing many countries. i'll be there tonight to help emcee the event and molette green is live from the stadium with more on what's happening today. molette? >> reporter: aaron, yeah. in just hours this area is going to fill up with first responders, world class athletes from around the globe competing in these games for the first time coming to the u.s. aaron, you had a chance recently to profile a local firefighter, tracy daly who is getting ready to bring it for the next week or so. fan fest coming up this afternoon at 3:00 for everybody to come on down. eat a little food get some entertainment and look at the classic and more modern public safety vehicles thatb will on dis

alexis: lincoln chafee from rhode island announced this week and martin o'malley announced last saturday and i covered both gentlemen and none of us in the room were expecting lincoln chafee from rhode island, former governor, former senator. he used to be a republican, turned independent turned democrat to take a t a stand on metrics but there he was and it was an eye-opening moment. the way they're coming at secretary clinton is very interesting. in the sense that in lincoln chafee's case, he is unabashadly, assertively muscular about it and he's normally soft spoken and geeky but he's taking it to her on the questions of the state department, her reputation, emails, money and o'malley is taking her on in terms of experience youth and he is trying to argue also on domestic policy that he can outdo her with voters. gwen: domestic policy might include his record as mayor of baltimore which has its issues lately. they all have baggage. that's what we live for. thank you, everybr.y. we have to go tonight. leaving you a little bit early so you can support stations that support us. we want t

o'malley, who backed clinton in 2008 has been hesitant to attack her directly. secretary of state john kerry is remaining in a swiss hospital overnight for object ser stlairks after breaking his leg in a bicycle crash on sunday. kerry has canceled the rest of a four-nation trip that included an international conference on combat in the islamic states group. he broke his leg after he struck a curb while biking. he has been on the phone including a chat with the president. aids say he will fly to been on monday for further treatment on that broken leg. >>> and the president and first lady today paid a visit to vice president joe biden to express condolences. beau biden died of brain cancer at age 46. vice president biden said in a statement last night the entire biden family is saddened beyond words. beau biden's entire family was at his bedside at the end. funeral arrangements haven't been announced yet but he is entitled to military funeral honors. >>> coming up tonight on wusa 9, why the marines and local celebrities are teaming up to celebrate a deserving grou

good to see you. >> good morning, jose. >> you spoke to o'malley yesterday.ive up to your expectations? >> first of all, credit where credit is due. this was his first public engagement after his announcement on saturday. we talked about a variety of issues from the economy to jobs to government regulation to race relations and, of course immigration. is he lived up to the expectation. >> javier, one of the things i appreciate about your line of questioning to him was, well would you give us a guarantee if you were elected president you would have immigration reform within your first hundred day. that question is a question a lot of politicians don't like to answer because president obama when he was a candidate said yes he would and that keeps coming back at him. how did he answer that specifically? >> there were three things that stood out in regards to his response. one, he would deal with it within the first 100 days in office. secondly he promised to look at it beyond the social and civil rights aspects of this he promised to look at it from an economic

o'malley is polling below one percent, someone with absolutely no maim recognition. what happens over the course of the week. >> bill clinton thought he could be president. >> that's true and he was a great president and could get elected today. >> that's my point. >> the charisma level of bill clinton versus o'malley is not comparable. >> what if the caries in that hillary clinton is called into into question and they realize good from afar -- >> i think she would really need item blowed for that to happen and -- to implode and i don't think that's happening. >> you don't fear she drives so far left to apiece -- appease these groups. >> i don't think she will go so far left that someone will try to push her out. >> this is -- good professor right now weather this move to the left is something that hillary clinton has to watch. historian says would not be the first time that's happened. explain. is that a worry right now for hillary clinton? >> well, i think it should be. now, in the 1972 primaries george mcgovern challenged senator muskie of maine and that challenge

please welcome martin o'malley. [applause] fmr. gov. o'malley: thank you. thank you very much. thank you. doug wilson, thank you very much for your kindness, friendship and your counsel through these years. it is a great honor to be with all of you, so many people who have done so very much for the country that we love. for more than a decade, the truman national security project has been at the forefront of nurturing a new generation of leaders in for policy and national security. from military bases in san diego to federal agencies in washington, you are not only advocating for a strong, smart approach to a national affair, you are taking action and you are doing it every day through operation free. you are mobilizing a coalition of veterans, activists who know our reliance on fossil fuels threatens the security of our country. through no exceptions, you are working to make sure our military recruits the most talented americans regardless of gender and through the front lines civilians initiative, you are supporting the diplomats journalists, the development professionals who

o'malley 1%. if it seems they are gunning for the front runer it's not just from the left. south carolina republican lindsey graham entered the fray today. threw out this barb. >> i have more experience with our national security than any other candidate in this race. that includes you hillary. scott: he is now as mentioned the ninth republican in this race. some believe the number could double. in fact there is already a lot of debate going on arguing how to decide who gets to be on the stage come time for the debate. a lot to sort out. live on capitol hill. scott thuman abc7 news. leon: that's good. it will keep you busy for a while, scott. we like that. all right. coming up on "abc7 news at 4:00" -- >> right now my goal is just to heal and be better. leon: comedian tracy morgan taking part in the first public interview since he was seriously injured in a crash. what he is saying about his recovery and returning to comedy. alison: how dangerous weather conditions are moving to the eastern u.s.. leon: reminder to sign up for the text alert about the weather, traffic and br

former maryland governor martin o'malley made it official. he is stepping up the fight for the democratic nomination this weekend. >> i declare that i am a candidate for president of the united states! and i, am running for you. [applause] bill: o'malley announcing his campaign in baltimore. that is where his political career began that way in that city. he is in. bernie sanders making some waves. bernie sanders drawing a crowd. martha: he did well over the weekend. bill: we'll talk about that a bit later. martha: martin o'malley talking about wall street. all that is coming up. meantime, this for you today four americans are now caught in the cross-hairs of the bloody civil war that is playing out in the streets and cities of yemen. a senior defense official says that they have been captured bit iran-backed shia rebels shiite rebels there. that group, of course has toppled government in yemen and has fought on the backs of the houthi rebels there. the identities of these four individuals have not been released. "washington posts" reports tha

martin o'malley is only at a percent or two. he's hoping after this announcement he can fulfill the role and say "look, guys i'm the electable progressive, not bernie sanders, and i'll be an alternative to hillary clinton for those not happy with her policies. requests ". >> busy in the 2015 election. thanks carrie dann. we'll look at our weather now. chuck? >>> here's the satellite and radar combined. the heavy rain we had is long gone off the jersey coastline. we've broken out into an enormous amount of around here. temperatures have zoomed into the low and mid-80s already. this will only add fuel to the fire for range chances today. there's a ripple in the atmosphere across the ohio valley plus that plume of moisture coming our way. the combination of those factors will put the squeeze play on us. as a result we should ring out quite a bit in the way of rainfall amounts late tonight into the pre-dawn hours of tomorrow morning. for now all is quiet around there. team team storm team 4 radar scanning the shiez. i'll . >>> paris

he is much less apologetic than martin o'malley is.e is just kind of out there to be there. >> and gene robinson, he again, here is a candidate with no reluctance to answer any of the questions. the other democrats you ask them something, it's not about hillary clinton, and they go into their policy talking points. >> right. yeah, well, i mean let's be clear though. as of now, as things look now, he is also with no chance of getting the nomination, right, he doesn't really have a lot of support. the question is can he hurt hillary clinton with this? and one way of looking at it is that republicans are going to be bashing her every day anyhow. so that's going to be in the atmosphere. i actually think if you really want to try to get the nomination, you have a better chance doing what sanders and o'malley are doing, which is taking the sort of populist route of attacking her from the left rather than harping on the iraq war vote and on her ethics. i'm not sure that's going to hurt her with democrats frankly. >> david corn, given gene's f

in maryland one of the enduring symbols of o'malley is his guitar.plays in a rock band and his campaign website posed him strumming this. ♪ >> reporter: while democrat o'malley and republican lindsay graham may both dream of playing hail to the chief played some day in their honor, the fact is they are presidential long shots, and yet they each have the kind of experience that could conceivably help them break through. >>> the secretary of state john kerry returned to boston today after breaking his leg in a bike accident in france. he will be treated at massachusetts general hospital. the state department said the injury will not change negotiates with iraq on a nuclear deal. >>> cracking down on cigarettes in china. they launch their toughest-ever bans. ♪ >>> the senate could vote as seen as tomorrow to approve a bill to change the national security agency's phone checkrecords check program. it would anow the nsa to search regards held by phone companies. >> i think the key distinction that has been at the heart of the snowden debate between the be