andrea? >> and to colonel jack, the president's going to be explaining this to the military itself at the commencement at west point tomorrow in an important foreign policy speech. first of all, is 9,800 troops the right number to go counterterrorism with the very aggressive taliban pushback that we've seen right in the heart of kabul, in fact, in recent months? secondly, i was watching last night the brilliant document from the korengal valley. what is the message to the troops, to the veterans who have served in afghanistan? now that we're withdrawing. are we giving up, are we letting the bad guys take over? what are they, as you medal of honor winner would know better than anyone, what do they take away from this whole lesson of the longest war? >> with respect to the contingent of most military people, especially in an unconventional environment like it is in afghanistan, will say that 10,000 is not enough. it is interesting, it is 9,800. it is a bit like saying $98.99. it is still $100.

i'm andrea mitchell in washington. we'll have more on edward snowden, afghanistan and a lot of other issues. >>> but first, the world lost a powerful voice for freedom today. maya angelou died at her home. she was 86. a look at this truly phenomenal woman. >> ladies and gentlemen, maya angelou. >> best selling author, prolific poet -- >> i wrote this piece for every human being on earth. >> reporter: -- and so much more. maya angelou was an activist, actor, nominated for a pulitzer, and tony for her role in the mini series "roots." but angelou's place on the world stage didn't come easy. her life struggles fueled her work. >> you can stumble and fall and fail and somehow miraculously rise and go on. >> reporter: born in st. louis, missouri, in 1928, her childhood was marked by sexual abuse. traumatized, she refused to speak for six years. a story she told in "i know why the caged bird sings." her first big break came as a singer in the 1950s. she was committed to bridging differences, working alongside both malcolm x a

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>> i disagree with my friend andreas. don't believe vladimir putin is interested in taking hold a country which has one quarter the g.d.p. of russia that has its own economic issues to deal with. what happened in maydan was a coup. it was the we were region said disbanding their local elected bodies, they refused to pay taxes, and essentially ses seeded from kiev at that point in time. elections in may are, at left, partial. you end up with a run off in the president shall election. >> where does that leave the people in terms of representation. and then the question of parliamentary elections. the presidential elections are the beginning. there's a refusal to contemplate elections which should be part and parcel. >> what about that, andreas, that this will not satisfy the people of eastern ukraine, the may 25th elections? >> well this is, indeed, a problem that there is no popular ressie phone pol turn that could make it through the second round of the elections. the scrrn is such that in the first round of the elections

it would keep andrea safe, too. >> reporter: as andrea recovered, the medallion was a talisman of hopethat i had this medallion that he personally gave to me. >> reporter: andrea would achieve her dreams, graduating from college, becoming a physical therapist, getting married, but winning the indy 500 was tony's dream and he fell short. >> tony kanaan lost -- >> there was always some bad luck that would happen. >> reporter: two days before indy 2013, andrea wrote him this letter. >> she says nine years ago -- >> you gave me your good luck charm. obviously it has done more than help me have a recovery from my brain hem rage. >> i would like you to have it back and i can't wait to watch you dominate this race. >> reporter: on may 26th, 2013, andrea and her family gathered to watch the 500, where tony kanaan's decade of bad luck ended at last. >> after years of frustration -- >> the winner of the indianapolis 500! great job, tony! >> one of the first things he did was pull out that medallion. >> that was for her to show her that i knew she was watching. >> reporter: at the speedway this y

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andrea? >> and it's also dense forest. it's really very difficult for, i guess, this unmanned drone that is now searching, the global hawk, is scouring the forest, but the question is, what are the chances that they are a month later going to find these girls? we did see the pictures, of course, of as many as 100 in one group. >> reporter: well, andrea, this tool, the global hawk, is unmanned, long-range, high-altitude drone, could be very useful in this. early on u.s. officials said the nigerian government had not asked for drones. one official told nbc news it was -- he was very concerned that they had. it's really one of the best tools they had. so the global hawk can be up in the air for 28 hours. it is nearly undetectable when it is up at the highest altitudes. it uses tools like infrared. if they're talking about this forest, which you'll hear a lot of people suggest is where the girls might be, it's a reserve, a dense forest reserve, that infrared could come in very handy. and this global hawk, like i said, 28 hours

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>> andrea, it's a good question. a question a lot of democrats on capitol hill have been asking, where has the president been? why did it take so long? why desend out jay carney this week and on the sunday shows last week? it was his chief of staff. so, remember, president obama says he was going to change washington and has admitted that he hasn't changed washington, but he didn't change this part of washington. the v.a. been a problem under president bush? of course, there have been decades of government audit showing problems at the v.a. the president hasn't fixed the problem. i'm very surprised that shinseki is still here especially because this is going to be asked at every congressional debate that we have in these races. house and senate. these democrats can be put on the spot. do you think that shinseki should go? and that's why i think over the next couple of weeks he is not going to last. he runs interference for the president, doesn't he? >> to some extent, yes. he has the military brass in his corner sayi

andrea, i will go to you first on this.now reporters and journalists in general are notoriously liberal just like our university system but there is a point in the survey where they say, a lot of people are actually leaving both parties because they feel like both parties don't represent them. also we've seen a lot of conservative journalism pop up and a lost conservatives don't necessarily consider themselves republicans but they are journalist and reporters. >> i think you're right about the conservative media. it definitely has grown. however if the reporters are becoming more independent like they say they're not going to mainstream news organizations and reporting in a independent fashion i think. probably just coverage of benghazi and is scandals are recent example how they dropped the ball. i don't like to use my words. i like to quote those in the mainstream media like mark hall present talked about it at journalistic conferences and look the newsrooms lean left. it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out

andrea? >> ann, you covered the pentagon and know the culture before you covered the state department and now wider beats as the white house as well. you've seen it from all angles in washington. was the pentagon reluctant to also make this change or was it just the white house and personal loyalty that obama felt to shinseki? >> you heard the president's respect and true appreciation for the decades of service of general shinseki, the pentagon is a separate chain of command from the va and it's a constant source of frustration at the pentagon, the people who serve then -- then leave the service have trouble once they get to the va and all gets lumped together as it's the military's fault although the pentagon is constantly saying it isn't our fault. >> susan page, politically, this is the biggest political problem that the president has faced. this is far more serious than a lot of so-called scandals that have popped up from time to time in the last couple of months. >> i agree with you, thi

so if you believe this, i will give it to you. >> we kept it pinned to andrea's hospital robe.ought good luck. it kept him safe and would bring her luck, too. >> as she recovered it was hope around her neck. >> i felt extremely special that i had this medallion that he personally gave to me. >> reporter: andrea would achieve her dream, graduating college, becoming a physical therapist, getting married, but winning the 500 was tony's dream and he kept falling short. >> tony kanaan. >> always some kind of bad luck would happen. >> two days before indy 2013, andrea wrote him this letter. she says nine years ago -- >> you gave me your good luck charm and obviously it has done more than help me have a remarkable recovery from my brain hemorrhage. >> i'd like for you to have it back and i can't wait to watch you dominate this race. >> on may 26th, 2013, andrea and her family gathered to watch the 500. where tony kanaan's decade of bad luck ended at last. >> after years of frustration. >> now winner of the indianapolis 500. great job, tony. >> one of the first things he did is pull ou

>> andrea mitchell starting us off from washington tonight. andrea, thanks. >>> after last night's hour-long special, we kept the conversation going on the web and with our correspondents and experts here in the studio, we conducted an hour-long deconstruction on our website on nbcnews.com, including comments by snowden that did not air originally in the prime time broadcast. while both hours will now remain on our website, tonight we want to air another portion of the conversation for the first time. it's about the gathering of so much so-called meta data and why all this intelligence gathering, with all this intelligence gathering did our nation miss the last domestic terrorism attack. snowden says it started when the u.s. government exploded the meaning of 9/11. >> i take the threat of terrorism seriously, and i think we all do. and i think it's really disenginous for the government to invoke and sort of scandalize our memories to sort of exploit the national trama that we all suffered together and worked so hard to come through to justify

. >>> good day, everyone, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. we're following the biggest contests across the nation in the most critical day of this primary season. voters in six states from pennsylvania all the way to oregon are at the polls right now weeding out candidates and senate and house and governors races as both political parties seek momentum for the race to november. joining me now on this critical primary day, chuck todd, political director and host of "the daily rundown" and jonathan martin and chris cillizza managing editor of postpolitics.com. chuck, let's rundown the key decisions in key states. >> you know what the beauty of today is, we get to say coast to coast. atlantic ocean to pacific ocean, we have it covered here. the big story of today is a big fizzle with the tea party, they could go 0 for 3 in big republican primaries, kentucky, you already previewed the show as a general election match-up looking forward to allison grimes and mitch mcconnell, six months ago we thought matt bevin it could be neck and neck. you can s

. >>> good day, everyone, i'm an andrea mitchell in washington. attacking a busy outdoor mall in the northern part of the country, killing as many as 300 people, this as the outrage is spreading around the world. our prayers are with the missing girls and their family iz. it's time to bring back our girls. joining me now from nigeria where he just met with government officials from various provinces there, raj, good to see you. this tragedy is overwhelming all. tell us the perspective from there. you're at the world economic forum and you have worked so hard to try to bridge the economic divide in these different parts of nigeria. what are people saying? . >> thank you for having me. it's a tragic and shocking time in nigeria. everyone -- we've expressed our sadness and our condolences our offers of support and help to do everything we can do bring back those girls and the fact that boko haram's reign of terror displaced more than half a million people and created a real humanitarian crisis in the north and very much a drag on an economy that othe

andrea's feet were severely cut by the rocky coral.e captain, schettino, for causing the wreck. they say they focus on moving on at what they call their second chance in life. >> the davises blame not only the ship's captain who denies wrong doing, but also the cruise line, they have joined a class action lawsuit. they quote, they have been working closely with the passengers, crew and community since this tragic situation occurred. there is often litigation that results from incidents like this but our top priority has been the welfare of all of those involved. now, susan hendricks with a bulletin. >> wolf, deadly clashes ahead of ukraine's presidential election. more than 30 people were killed in the fighting between the ukrainian military and pro-russian militants. also ballot boxes have been destroy destroyed and polling places shut down. russian president putin is warning of a civil war and claims they ousted the president earlier this year. >>> and the coast guard says a missing british yacht seen here in better times has been da

but we've got to move much faster, andrea. there are veterans are that dying in this country and we owe to it them based on what they've given to us and this nation, we owe it to them to proip the best possible care we can give them. we owe it to them to provide adequate access to the system and you know, the old saying that a nation that honors them and system that cares for them. we've got to do a better job. we have to move. >> one of the things we should be pointing out here just for context is that there are thousands and thousands of nurses and other health care workers at these veterans hospitals who are doing wonderful care. and the veterans love the care they are getting. many of them do not want to give up the va hospitals. one criticism has been that they are hard to get to and there are logistical problems and cost involved in transportation. but the nurses and other health care providers are doing such terrific work and should not be dragged into this. it's the administration -- administrators who allegedly were c

andrea says maybe privatize the whole thing. >> i didn't say that. i said maybe give these veterans that we've heard from, maybe get these select veteran vouchers to go to private hospitals. >> the problem is there could be millions of them that have been pushed back or delayed. >> there could be, and let's start giving them vouchers asap. >> take one va local va and privatize that and see how that works. >> as a test case. >> put all brand new employees, brand new hospital administrators or whatnot. see if that works. if it doesn't, then maybe we need to go back and fix the things with the va. >> i do like the idea. when president obama says he was going to transform the va into a 21st century apparatus, he threw all this money in order to target these voters and get out the vote and it was the most complex and amazing thing anybody has ever seen but he didn't do anything to the va. if they could take that band width and throw that at the va, hire more doctors and administrators at the local level -- >> that's not a fair thing to say. the waiting li

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>> sure, andrea.l try to get the senate to put it in the defense authorization bill, and hopefully it will come over to the house. but then also, these bills will be filed as stand-alone bills. jeff donourh had an amendment, and i had a bill for students to get to military academies. last year, they made -- they were going to allow a vote on it. he withdrew the amendment because the republican leadership pledged to work with him to make it happen. they broke that promise to him. quite frankly, if they're not willing to entertain even this smallest issue on immigration, i really don't think they're going to do anything on immigration. >> and miriam, what was your experience? this is your first time lobbying for something. you went up to the hill. and you've been rebuffed on the sort of initial ask. but what are your hopes? why do you want to go into the military? >> first, know that i'm not the only one in this country that is undocumented that wants to serve our nation. there was a group of individual

andrea, do you have to run for ? i think you would serve the people justly. >> no, i think i would probably end up strangling somebody if i ran for office. i don't know if i would pass the vetting process either. >> you certainly would not. >> you don't know. >> i know one thing, you wouldn't pass it again. >> yeah, right, if i wanted to. >> kimberly. peggy asks what was kim's first job? >> okay, it might have been the job -- i'm trying to think -- it was when i was manager of the dell i ka test san because of my love of salami, i told mr. kim that i would be perfect for it. and i actually got to pick some salami and he also paid me. >> to kimberly, teresa asks, kimberly, we always watch you dancing to the music where before the commercials. what's your favorite type of music? >> okay, well, i like what do you call it, pop music, i like music like that. dance music, anything that i can move to but that kind of cuts across the board. i like to practice my dancing so i can be recession proof. there i am. that's my exer

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in 2012 she and andrea found each other through the u.n.c.community and talked about the issue of rape at the university of north carolina and made a decision to make a stand. >> the framework was that it was not a u.n.c. problem, we said it's not a bad place, it's a representation of a larger cultural problem. >> the women began researching title 9, interviewing other victims of rape, utilizing social media and in jan 2013, along with former u.n.c. administrator they failed a federal complaint against the university of north carolina at the department of education. >> this is a microcosm of what is happening. these crimes are committed. universities are sweeping them under the rug, no one is held accountable and students are the ones that say this is not okay. when you have 18 or 19-year-old men or women holding the government accountable for rape - it boggles my mind. >> the department of education has made an effort. >> yes, but they have never really done anything. there's no real teeth behind it that we have seen. >> has any university h

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we get this story from andrea mitchell. >> reporter: anger and frustration more than two weeks of the kidnapping of more than 200 girls. a nightmare for the parents and extended family. some of the girls taken from this school may have already been sold into so-called marriages for a few dollars. >> i personally believe that not enough is being done to rescue our daughters. >> reporter: nigeria, africa's wealthiest country is a magnet for global investment but northeast nigeria is a lawless, dangerous frontier, home to bands of islamic terrorists and destroying western education, especially for girls. parents are terrified say local reporters. >> they don't know where their daughters are and don't feel like enough is being done to rescue their daughters. >> reporter: jennifer is a college senior is organizing other nigerians here to demand action. >> we're asking questions and demanding answers, why isn't anything being done? we need action. we need processes. basically, we need to see something happens. >> reporter: the u.s. spends $20 million a year helping nigeria fight terrorism.

kg, kick it off. >> andrea, thank you.nt to take a moment to honor a real american hero. you've been hearing about this, he's the one of the people who rescued prisoner of war jessica lynch in 2003. this man was shot in afghanistan. sergeant major martin ra mir he's. what you might not know is he served 22 years faithfully in this country as a army ranger. he was shot in afghanistan and went back to texas and died. 49 years of age. >> how sad. bob. >> tomorrow marks the 60th anniversary of brown versus board of education, the landmark decision on the kansas school system that finally did away with segregation in the classroom. it was a major victory. the ncaap had an awful lot to do with that and i think it was something that really blazed the trial for the civil rights moment. yesterday, i got some heat for using the word brawds. i'm going to try not to use it. i'm going to say chick s or how about babes. >> show tomorrow at 11:30, cashin' in. it's going to be a good one tomorrow. we're talking about that the illegal immi

>> andrea mitchell in our washington newsroom tonight, andrea, thanks. >>> we turn now to the crisis in ukraine. a new claim by vladimir putin he has now moved tens of thousands of his russian troops away from the border with ukraine, but it's not at all clear if that has actually happened. our chief foreign correspondent richard engel following it all from donetsk in the eastern part of the country. richard, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. if it were true, it would be a major development to de-escalate the crisis here. the problem is, according to nato officials, u.s. military officials and u.s. intelligence officials, it isn't true. they are looking at the satellite and not seeing any significant change in russian troop movement. so why make the claim? vladimir putin today made many surprising statements. he called on russian separatists here in eastern ukraine to postpone a referendum on independence that they've been planning to hold. he says he wants an end to this crisis. it seems that putin is trying to present himself as a peacemaker, not an aggressor. it coul

and andrea, so it begins. this was the most basic predicate prior to getting in our conversation with him that lasted several hours. >> reporter: indeed. no matter what people think of edward snowden he had an enormous impact on u.s. intelligence. his influence far greater than his official resume. who is edward snowden? here's how the administration and congressional critics described him when he first exposed the secret surveillance program. >> no, i'm not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker. >> reporter: and this from the leaders of the house intelligence committee. >> i think he was lying. >> he's a legend in his own mind. >> he clearly overinflated his position. he overinflated his access. he's even overinflated what the actual technology of the programs would allow one to do. >> reporter: what do the records show? from our reporting the defense intelligence agency said snowden was a guest speaker at three of their conferences on cyber security including one in japan focusing on the ch

andrea, you are laughing?greg is making a funny face. >>> prince had some pretty awful lyrics. >>> it's a little late in the game. he wrote music. i love him. it's a little disenginious now that's he's made all his money for his songs. >> richard pryor, he used to curse, and then he said he was going to stop. look how richard pryor became famous for using profane language. >> my 15-year-old son, every other word in hip-hop music is a curse word. even if you took the n word out, you know, you download these songs with explicit contents or clean contents and you look at how many down loads, the explicit is 80 times what the clean ones are. >> suburban kids, this is my opportunity to rebell. it's damaging. >> i was remembering how my previous dog, henry, he hated any curse words. you couldn't curse in front of him. he would get so upset. i tried to watch it. only if he was really in trouble. >> what happens if i curse in front you? will you be mad? >> november. >> no. i've got a pretty strong stomach for that. >>

. >>> andrea, this kind of -- it takes a serious issue and it turns it into a joke. i find that offensive and i want it banned. i'm kiting i don't care. >> you can ban it. let's just imagine that this was a white organization put outing a pamphlet that when it talks about white people and i don't know if you have this full screen, greg, but they stereotype them saying they ask stupid questions, they're on the backs of people. could you imagine if it were the reverse? the department of justice instead of going after this type of thing, they eencourage it. eric holder has proven to be the most divisive racial demagogue in the administration. he's used phrases like "my people." which again if he was white and said "my people", he would have been gone within 24 hours. he has refused to prosecute the black pan panther case. there's a laundry list of incidents when the racial divide and the racial discrimination is going the other way, against whites. he is completely mia. >> bob, about andrea's moint that if you did this in reverse and it was about blacks, the argument wo

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>> andrea mitchell in our d.c. newsroom tonight. andrea, thank you. >>> a high-profile billionaire making a play for the l.a. clippers tonight. steve ballmer who ran microsoft will buy the team for an astounding $2 billion. a move that may finally lift the cloud over the team since owner donald sterling was heard making racist comments. we get our report tonight from nbc's miguel almaguer. >> reporter: it's the record-setting deal that has everyone talking. >> the one thing diminishing the brand is out, and that's donald sterling. >> reporter: a $2 billion agreement to sell the franchise to this man, former ceo steve ballmer, seen here in his microsoft days. the blockbuster deal that needs nba approval was reached overnight. i intend to do everything in my power to ensure the clippers continue to win and win big in los angeles. michael thompson played in the nba. >> it's great for the clippers. they have a fresh new start under a guy who has deep pockets, who can treat his employees and his players in a first-class fashion. >> repor

i'm sandra smith and here today, harris, katie, andrea and today's hashtag one lucky guy, steve doocy. did you do anything interesting for mother's day weekend? >> we were down at the nation's capital where my wife went to visit one of her two children who was in this particular time zone. >> we wouldn't know him. >> i hate to say that network correspondent's mom came to visit him but she did. >> that's lovely. >> you have these children together, right? >> yes, we did. >> you said your wife's children. don't you mean your children? >> do they call this show outnumbered or dismembered because i think by the end, i'll be one or the other. >> the ball remains in the democrats' court on benghazi. still offering no definitive word whether they'll join the select committee investigating the attack that killed four americans. with the chair of the democrats caucus telling chris wallace he's concerned democrats won't be represented fairly and adding he sees no new questions that have not already been answered. >> we've done these investigations, some seven times. five of the investigations c

hello, i'm andrea in tonight for sean. and for the latest on the two resignations announced today, let's turn to ed henry standing by at the white house, i'm convinced broke jay carney yesterday with your rapid fire line of questioning, ed? >> andrea, good to see you. what an intense day here. jay carney has been fielding tough questions about eric shinseki for weeks. they are both gone. let's start with the less surprising departure perhaps. shinseki. it turns out the president decided not to fire him instead he said he reeleluctantl lly ac his resignation. he said he had no plans to step down and this morning in washington gave a speech to a homeless veterans group and laid out a plan of action and sounded like he thought he would be sticking around. democrats close to the white house tell me they basically think since administration officials put out the word over the last 24 hours the president lost confidence, they were sending a signal to resign, spare the president the difficult task of firing a war hero. somebody w

andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. >>> california's department of motor vehicles is working out theetails that will eventually let illegal immigrants apply for a driver's license. the dmv is designing licenses so they can't be confused with other states and trail identification cards. the new licenses will only give illegal immigrants driving privileges. they won't be able to vote, won't be able to get into federal buildings or board airplanes. they also want illegal immigrant to know that applying for the i.d.s won't result in them getting sent back to their country. >> concerns out there on their immigration status. and day want to make sure if i go into a dmv office, is something going to happen to me, sent back to the country i'm from? that's not going to happen. >> officials say they're expecting more than a million applications once the immigrant licensing program kicks off next year. >>> and coming up next, at 5:00, a new snapshot on the state of diabetes. the latest report shows about young patients and the health risks they face. >>> plus, why bay area researchers say it's

all pure vegetables in juicer. >> nice. >> andrea, facebook, libby says andrea, what's something youy day that you can't live without? >> i can answer that for her. >> why does your mind immediately go into the gutter? >> because it lives there. >> talking to bob, right? >> the gym. >> okay. >> what's your favorite exercise at the gym? >> the treadmill. >> andrea, do you have any ambitions to run for public office? i think you would serve the people justy. >> no. i think i would end up strangling somebody. i think i'm better right here. i don't know if i would past the vetting process either. >> you certainly would not. >> you don't know. >> what do you mean i don't know? i know one thing you wouldn't pass it again. >> yeah, right. if i wanted to. >> peggy asks what was kim's first job? >> okay. it might have been the job -- i'm trying to think -- it was when i was manager of the delicatessen because of my love of salami and i told mr. kim at the village deli that i would be perfect for it and i used to make a lot of sandwiches. i did and i actually got to take home a bunch of free s