a.b.?the fear all day, washington, d.c., new york city, other cities besides boston and transportation locations and senators have been on high alert since yesterday and obviously the fear is we don't have an answer. we are going to remain in high alert. if there is any other tainted mail going to any other senator and it's not a one off, it's going to be obviously a different story. i mean, everything yesterday was coordinated and many bombs were not detonated that recovered afterwards because of rapid response. situation in several cities with several things going on, something like tainted mail hard to trace because a real ongoing heightened threat unlike we have been in since anthrax following 9/11. >> jason? >> not just here in the u.s. these -- cities around the world are on edge. paris, rome london where they have a marathon coming up in a few days. it's not just effecting us ear in the united states. it has a very post 9/11 feel. everything happening proximity. is there a connection

a.b.? it's clear from the spokesman's remarks today refer back adequate of what happened. they don't want to establish a process for legal protections for lower level employees who want to talk to congressional investigators. the state department is really digging in and really ensuring that this lasts much longer not only than it has to but than is good for the administration or the state department or john kerry who is involved in other crises. it's really clear that the congress is not going to give up. and the state department has tried to sort of foot drag and find a way. not only with refusal to share documents. share meaning you can have it overnight and take it to hearing instead of you can see for few minutes and take some notes. now with the whistleblower protections it's another step. it's really a political liability for them to make this last longer than it should. >> bret: they turned over 25,000 pages of documents and had the accountability review board the arb which essentia

am i right on that a.b.?tor schumer i love his opiumism it comes out every week on the sunday shows or shortly thereafter and says the bill is coming this week. other people in the gang of eight not marco rubio who is definitely trying to slow it down but others who say no we need definitely a few more weeks because there is still more stuff that needs ironed out. this is actually not a done deal. it's far from over. a new push from conservatives, the heritage foundation and other groups to really target their resources and their grass roots to target those red state democrats and really push them hard. those ones up for re-election, in states where romney beat president obama handily and put pressure on them. they are telling their conservative republican base this is going to be too costly. we can't take our own. we have this broken entitlement system. there is no way we can bring in all these people to -- these foreigners who steal our american jobs and give them a social safety net. there is renewed press

a.b.?l day, washington, d.c., new york city, other cities besides boston and transportation locations and senators have been on high alert since yesterday and obviously the fear is we don't have an answer. we are going to remain in high alert. if there is any other tainted mail going to any other senator and it's not a one off, it's going to be obviously a different story. i mean, everything yesterday was coordinated and many bombs were not detonated that recovered afterwards because of rapid response. situation in several cities with several things going on, something like tainted mail hard to trace because a real ongoing heightened threat unlike we have been in since anthrax following 9/11. >> jason? >> not just here in the u.s. these -- cities around the world are on edge. paris, rome london where they have a marathon coming up in a few days. it's not just effecting us ear in the united states. it has a very post 9/11 feel. everything happening proximity. is there a connection? we don't

a.b.ard associate editor of the hill and charles krauthammer. >> i thought it was odd easter message and also seem to be given with all deliberation because you have a rare visit to saint john's, you have the white house press corps there because they have the pool report. so, to me it was a calculated decision and i wonder who the real pastor is is he the one that we heard at the benediction and on chris wallace's show or the one we heard on sunday. it's confusing me to me on the gay marriage piece you can maybe kind of understand where he is coming from on that. i don't agree with it but kind of understand. but on racial equality and women, in particular, when it comes to conservatives, living proof of it that i think that we have made a lot of progress there on both fronts. to me, i think people want their spirituality and the religious services separate from politics, but he made a calculated decision to put this message out there. i think it is a lot more divisive than what i agree wh

president, i think, to be going there rather than to any generic group. >> charles, to your point, a.bur tweet to the panel from joseph asks this, when are abortion clinics going to be tightly regulated? and, yes, inspected more? charles? >> i think when the public demands it, but when you hear the testimony we just heard of that woman from planned parenthood saying that you have a child born alive and whether you are going to treat it as a human is up to the woman -- the doctor and the family, that is absurd. that is shocking. and that is, in fact, what happened in the gosnell clinic where it was decided by the people in that clinic to let the child die or to kill it. and that is fantasized. one point, be obama when he was in the illinois -- when he was a member of the statehouse in illinois, he voted three times against making it a crime to kill or allow to die a child born after an abortion. so this is not something that he is not in some way approving of, and i think it's a damming thing for him and for the whole administration. >> steve. >> i think charles' point is key -- the las

rick: a.b. stoddard from "the hill." thank you very much. >> thank you. jenna: more action on capitol hill on another hot button issue. that is immigration reform. doug mckelway is on that story for us today. doug, what is the current state of immigration reform in either house? >> reporter: they're moving ahead steadily in both houses especially own on the senate side, the bipartisan group so-called, "gang of 8" have put it together for weeks and will continue to, so-called comprehensive immigration plan. we're told by highly placed sources close to the negotiations this bill is already hundreds of pages long. it would, after a number of years and a number of thresholds are met would result in as many as 10 million illegal aliens in the united states being granted green cards and ultimately full u.s. citizenship. the concern among many republicans before they vote for comprehensive immigration reform they want better border security. the bill the "gang of 8" is crafting provides that. using combination of better fencing along the border along with drone

a.b. stod gard and syndicated columnist charles cac.ve, this was an interesting day about. >> this was bad day about back and forth about his travel. lindsey graham very clear. the associate director of the fbi told him that the fbi had no idea when tamerlan tsarnaev left the country or returned. now you have the head of homeland security, janet napolitano testifying before congress saying that, in fact, dhs did know when he left the country. because there was a ping in the system, whatever that means. what we don't know is why fbi didn't know what dhs knows. if that's in fact what happened. are these stove. is this the kind of problem we were facing before 9/11 where you have certain parts of our intelligence in law enforcement apparatus that know what's happening with an individual and other parts that don't know? that would seem very odd, given that the fbi was the agency that conducted the investigation into tamerlan tsarnaev. what's clear is is we don't know a lot about what happened. we do know there was confusion in our law enfor

let's bring in robert costa, for the national review, associate editor for the hill number, a.b.or the dccc, doug fornell. they have to make this decision of playing in a race that they can win in a special and probably not hold in a general election. how does the conversation like that take place inside? >> we had it in 2007 and '08 in louisiana and mississippi, ruby red districts and looked at after the republican was determined, we pulled -- >> it was close. you had an opportunity. >> right. they were short sprints like this. and we made the assumption it was worth it to create in this district, win the seat, that even if we have to defend it and it is a tough race in november that still spreads resources from republicans in november, and, of course, it is easier to win as an incumbent, but i think if you're a republican right now, this is a district that romney won by 18 points and right now colbert bush is ahead of either of these two and that has to be disappointing for them. >> and robert, is the better candidate -- who is the better candidate here? is sanford have a ceili

if you're not willing to do that, a.b.ummary else will, and maybe your constituents ought to know that the things you say all the campaign trail about how we have to get out budget balanced and all these things and then you go to washington and don't support these policies -- your constituents ought to know and ought to have the choice to send someone else if they think you're not doing the job. host: according to the sunlight foundation, here is the 2014 spending -- i know it is early -- four look -- for the club for growth action fund. ya?mark pryor why so much on his seat? guest: we think he is very vulnerable. the problem with mark pryor, which is a lot of members of congress, is they tell one story at home and tell a different story -- about a different story in washington. we are trying to ensure that the folks in arkansas no mark pryor's actual voting record. we have run some ads showing his actual voting record and ultimately the voters of arkansas will decide. host: how much money do you think you might spend on t

which on january 31, a day after haas' murder, posted a lengthy piece by mark potoc bringing up the a.b. link. toke also showed up on msnbc on april 1, paraphernalia thetically, april fool's day, the day after the mcclellan murders to point the finger at the aryan brotherhood. other press followed up, flowing from that january 31 article posted by these southern poverty law center. but if williams is the killer, then it looks like the splc got the whole story wrong. meanwhile, on the ground in kauffman county, suspicious was already falling on williams much earlier -- suspicions were already falling on williams much earlier. the pieces might have fallen into place earlier this says, mark haas' murder might have been solved and williams arrested before mcclellan was killed if law enforcement hadn't wasted time chasing the white supremacist wild goose when the d.a. himself tried to tell them who murdered mark haas. county judge bruce woods said sunday that mcclellan repeatedly told him that mcclellan beeved williams was behind haa slaying. the first time was in the emergency room in the h