we are legally married in the state of arkansas. >> lawful unions held up for years after arkansas voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. a judge ruled that amendment and a parallel law from the 1990s unconstitutional, opening the way for same-sex rush. >> marriage in arkansas would be the union of one man and one woman. >> jeremy cox is present. >> this judge took it upon himself to decide what a memory will be. that's not how we ought to do things in united states of america. >> federal judges in 18 states ruled against bans on same-sex marriage. arkansas may push forward at the supreme court level. a handful of counties issued licences after this ruling. in little rock, overshadowed by a dark chapter in civil rights. the judge reminded the same-sex opponents of the burden of its history saying: . >> 57 years ago african american children were barred from entering white schools in arkansas. the fight to decentral item the schools in the state left arkansas with a black eye on civil rights, taking decades and more than a billion dollars in settlements t

that's not the only big surprise in arkansas. another arkansas democrat, governor mike bebe is defying the common wisdom about what's supposed to happen to democratic politicians in the state. he engineered a way to expand obamacare to cover thousands more people. got the republican controlled legislature to pass itful when tea party republicans threatened to take away health care from people who had just gotten it governor beebe shamed and browbeat them for months until they gave him what he wanted. the it was a vicious political fight and governor beebe won. look at his approval ratings. what? arkansas adults approve 74%. governor beebe is a popular governor in a southern state. governor beebe is among the most popular governors in america. nobody has an i approval rate aring over 70%. but he does. this year governor beebe is term limited out in arkansas. the democrat who wants to replace him is trailingment democrats have an interesting challenge. mark pryor had more than $5 million in ads spent against him already at this poi

thompson is the surgeon general of the state of arkansas and director of the arkansas center for health improvement. his list of achievements but that the national and state levels is both long and impressive. highlighted by a she used to combat child of obesity and the health threat of tobacco use. back in arkansas he has worked with a democratic governor and republican legislator and was a leader in developing this creative alternative to medicaid expansion that sarah was alluding to under the affordable care act. that is now being carried out. dr. thompson is it tell us how it's going. >> thank you. thank you for being here today. if you're wondering who used the surgeon general is, you probably don't have one. there are three states that nebulize that aspect. hon republican governor mike huckabee and democratic governor mike beebe messed me to surpass the saatchi ticket visor. i don't run the health department, the medicare program. i call it like and see it, and we end up where we are. i look forward to sharing what has been an interesting past few years as we have dealt with some

it was important in arkansas. think it is important in a lot of states that are sort of in the middle and the fact that you know the private insurance option was viewed asn preferential from philosophical standpoint but what we ended up talking about was, what is the total cost to government, whether it is's federal or state? we were able to make the case effectively enough in michigan that we were below the private market. in fact more effective than the private market and thereforee that the government would spend less if we did indeed have medicaid and healthy michigan going up to 138% of poverty. and so we're going to be held to that in terms of looking to what is thek total cost and how might that have played against what the exchange prices are in fact we've already done a preliminary analysis that shows we're below the where the exchange is. we essentially did what we didd becausei the assumption because it is cheaper to government to run it through the medicaid system.u >> yes, sir? >> hi, my name is seth

and tyson foods is another one of our great arkansas companies. they have a program they call meals that matter, and they do three meals a day. and i saw their trucks there at the mayflower school where they were set up. i saw this big tyson truck just sitting there, and i knew everybody was scurrying around and the other trucks. i said what is that one? that one is just full of ice. they have learned through these tragedies and other things where they go that ice is in very, very short supply. so to try to keep things cold and to give people something cool to drink, it's very important. but anyway, we could talk about this for a long time because seeing those people and seeing what they have gone through. i was there the next morning with the governor and a number of other people, the attorney general and a number of others. madam president, it was very emotional. you talk to some folks and they are grieving for the loss of their loved one or next door neighbor in one case. i talked to a man who lost his mother. but then again at the same time th

thompson is the surgeon general of the state of arkansas and director for the arkansas center of health improvement. his achievements at the state and national level is long and impressive. back in arkansas, he has worked with a autocratic governor and republican legislature and was a leader in developing this alternative to the medicaid expansion susan was alluding to under the affordable care act. he's here to show us how it is going. your you are wondering who state surgeon general is coming you probably don't have one. there are only three states that have used that aspect. --h for former rep republican governor mike huckabee and democratic owner mike beebe has asked me to serve as the strategic advisor. i don't run health department, don't run the medicaid program, i just call it like i see it and we end up where we are. i want to share with you what has been an interesting past few years as we dealt with some of the opportunities or challenges that have come from washington. let me do a little environmental assessment. arkansas is in the more reddish tear along with these other as

mark pryor, arkansas miracle. there's no reason why this is an arkansas specific thing.ember of the house who is running for senate this year voted for some version of these policies that are now sinking tom cotton in arkansas, every one, they all did it. hey bill cassidy in louisiana you voted to raise the medicare age to 70. same deal in colorado. republican congressman corrie gardener voted to get rid of medicare, turn it into a voucher instead, raise the medicare age to 70. in oklahoma, maybe oklahoma is really tough but james linkford on the ballot voted to voucherize medicare and raise the age to 70. hello 69-year-old oklahoma voters. james lankford voted that someone in your shoes shouldn't get medicare and you shouldn't have had it the last four years either. in west virginia shelly moore voted to raise the age to 67 like steve danes did in montana. he voted to raise the medicare age budget. in georgia three of the five republican hopefuls are house members and voted right along with tom cotton. give grandma a voucher and raise the age to 70. medicare is over. th

voters in arkansas say poll workers went beyond the law and wound up blocking the vote. we start with the saga of donald sterling and what for now are his l.a. clippers. sources are now telling nbc news that donald sterling has given control of the team to his wife shelly and that she has agreed to voluntarily sell the team. those same unnamed sources also tell nbc news that there's no truth to the rumor that shelly sterling's camp is suing the nba. the news comes less than two weeks before the league's owners are set to vote on whether to force a sale of the team, following sterling's outrageous comments to a young "friend" that were caught on tape. the nba just issued this statement. "we continue to follow the process set forth in the nba constitution regarding termination of the current ownership interests in the los angeles clippers and are proceeding toward a hearing on the matter on june 3rd. joining me now is executive editor of the sports law blog. he is also a professor of sports law at boston college. dave ziren, at "the nation." in your viewing of it and your

mayflower, arkansas. >> the weather may have been a factor in the deadly problem at a gym. two inmates were killed and three others missing. they were all hurt when the building collapsed. a natural gas line that erupted around the jail has been inundated. and it's too soon to know whether the flooding led to that explosion. >>> the nba is moving to cut its ties with disgraced clipper owner, donald sterling, two days after he got the lifetime ban from the league. and now they're forcing him to give up his team. john henry smith has more. >> i am banning mr. sterling. sterling for life. >> donald sterling may be banned for life, but for now, the billionaire still owns the clippers. now some heavy hitters may be interested in a piece of the franchise should the remaining clubs force him to sell. a trio comprised with oprah, david getten, and larry ellison confirmed their interest in buying the organization. he said he and ellison would buy the team, something that winfrey has no interest in doing, but she has expressed one motivation for her involvement. she thinks it would b

tornadoes struck the state earlier this week, killing 15 in arkansas alone. at least 34 others died in those storms that barrelled through mississippi, alabama, oklahoma, and iowa. this will be president obama's first trip to arkansas while in office. >>> a big endorsement today for a candidate who's not even running for office just yet. hillary clinton. this morning, virginia senator tim kain announced his support for a possible clinton run for the white house in 2016. kain telling the south carolina women's democratic council that clinton is, quote, the right person for the job. we will dig into the significance of that announcement with the brain trust. coming up. >>> the fastest two minutes in all of sports gets underway in just a few hours. of course, we're talking about the 140th kentucky derby. this year's favorite to win, there he is, california chrome. and the weather in kentucky could not be nicer. here's dylan dreyer with what we can expect. >> this year, the weather is going to be ideal. if it's too hot, you can run into the situation where it's j

in kentucky, it's alison lundergran grimes and in arkansas, mark pryor.ning me, two people who have been in the firing line. i was just talking to you guys off camera. you both have been through competitive primaries and competitive generals, highs and lows so i think you have the thick skin to prove it. >> yes. >> primaries as a challenger when you won your primary in the house gave you a ton of momentum. as an incumbent when you won your primary, it was tough on the general. so talk about that as far as mitch mcconnell's thinking this morning. is he more vulnerable or less? >> i think in the house and senate i had a four-way primary and then a runoff. when you had multiple election, it's all about obviously raising money and everything that's being thrown at you. i think that really does create some challenges for you. i mean, you got to be able to beat the other guy in your own house, your own party. and i think mitch has had a tough time at it. they're going to obviously have to throw some money in there. but he still is, you know, he's an incumbent,

kristin and jennifer kissed outside the courthouse in fort smith, arkansas. becoming the first gay couple married less than a day after a judge tossed out arkansas' voter approved ban on gay marriage. kim robinson and her partner felicity are one of 11 couples who sued to get a 2004 voter approved constitutional amendment overturned. >> going into this, we had the expectation of arkansas being one of the least likely states for this to have been approved in. it's just one more reason for us to be proud of our state. >> but the arkansas attorney general says he will appeal the judge's ruling which allowed marriages to begin immediately. >>> what makes your blood boil? the factors we live with that make two bay area cities among the most stressed out in the country. >> well, it may not make your blood boil but it sure will be hot. another heat wave due in this week. we have got the forecast as look live at san jose after a break. ,, to prepare our kids to compete main today's economy?way woman: a well-rounded education that focuses on science, math, and career

arkansas. mr. pryor: thank you. i want to thank my colleague from wyoming who allowed me to jump in front of him in line. i am sorry for my voice today. i sound a little bit like daffy duck. i've got a cold and am working through right now. i want to talk for a few minutes about something that here in this country we take for grants, and that's electricity. you know, every since the rural electioelectrification act passn the 1930's -- for the most part, not every single person, every person has had access to electricity. basically, that program has basicked extremely well and continues to work. and as we all know, madam president, you can you come from a rural state, sometimes you have investor-owned utilities. sometimes you have these cooperative-type utilities and sometimes you have municipalities. i rise today to really focus on something that the arkansas electric cooperatives have been involved in, and that is i want to thank 25 power linemen and the 12 electric co-ops in arkansas who rece

and those are just the people in arkansas.get when you come here. >> mm-hmm. >> well, i want to congratulate you on the work you're doing and say larry crane, thanks for joining us. you got tonight's "last word." >> thank you. >> thanks. next. >>> lame bram. let's play "hardball." >> good evening pi'm chris math washington. let me start tonight with this stepped up attack on hillary clinton. karl rove who was known as bush's brain is talking about hillary's brain, for real. >> she's in the hospital for 30 days and when she eemerges she is wearing glasses only for people with traumatic brain injury. we need to know what's up with that. this is a top republican campaign strategist, karl rove,

you are from arkansas, right? am. >> so this is a big day for you and your team, but you decided not to take it off, but to help the people of arkansas. tell us why. >> well, team rubicon, we're a veteran lead, largely vedran-based volunteer organization, and as veterans, we figure the best way to honor the legacy of service members who gave their lives is to serve on their behalf. what does a day like this mean to you as you help the people in arkansas? >> me personally it's an honor and privilege to serve along my brothers and sisters. these are folks that gave up days or weeks with their own familiar list and came from all over the country to support and assist the disaster relief here. so more than anything it is a blessing to get to stand shoulder to shoulder with them, but get to do it in service to something bigger than ourselves, deeply meaningful to uls as veterans. >> and you do it worldwide. can you explain what team rubicon is, and why you believe it's important? >> absolutely. team rubicon was founded

he gets 32 of voters who disapprove of president obama in arkansas. pryor's favorable rating, a very respectable 50/35. but look at cotton, we have him underwater, 38/39. that tells you the particularly negative campaign the democrats have been running against cotton is making hold more so than the cam pan the republicans have been running against pryor. pryor is leading by 7 points among independents. the republican there, asa hutch hutchisson leads by 7. if if you're cotton, you can't say the hutchinson numbers are skewed the wrong way. don't be surprised if former president bill clinton make appearances, they view him favorably. tomorrow we do have two primaries on the calendar, nebraska and west virginia go on the polls. we'll bring you more tomorrow on what to watch in those contests in that sleepy sleeper where a knockdown, drag-out fight give sid dinsdale a chance. by the way, there's a weather issue in nebraska. folks are recovering from damaging storms and as many as two tornadoes around omaha, nebraska. most have lot power. police say a majo

. >>> arkansas has become the latest state to allow same-sex marriages. at a time judge struck down the ban saying that it violated the rights of gay couples. arkansas began issue being same-sex marriage licenses this morning. >> that's despite the attorney general's vow to appeal that ruling. closing ceremony at the world trade center this morning where the unidentified remains from the 9-11 attacks were returned for the very first time in 13 years, but not everyone was happy about it. al jazeera john terret has more >> reporter: early saturday morning, ground zero bracing itself for an emotional return, under police escort, some of the unidentified remains from september 11th, 2001, are brought back to the world trade center site for the first time in 13 years. >>> this is one of the three caskets transported to the new 9-11 memorial museum which is due to be formally opened next week. but these family members are not happy about it. black arm bands cover their mouths to signify they were given no voice and no choice in where the unidentified remains, w

and those are just the people in arkansas. get when you come here. >> mm-hmm. >> well, i want to congratulate you on the work you're doing and say larry crane, thanks for joining us. you got tonight's "last word." >> thank you. >> thanks. i am ari melber in for lawrence o'donnell. "all in with chris hayes" is up next. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. at this hour the first execution in this country since the botched execution in oklahoma has been stayed. stayed by the fifth u.s. circuit court of appeals. a dramatic last-minute reprieve from a normally very, very conservative court that gives lawyers for a texas death row inmate a fair opportunity to prove the inmate's iq is too low for him to be eligible for the death penalty. robert james campbell had, through his lawyers, challenged his execution on additional possibly more far-reaching grounds that the drug execution policy is unconstitutional in

we saw that in abundance there in arkansas. to be able to sit there in your hot yard with no worldly possessions -- it looks like your pickup truck has been beaten with 20 men with hammers just beating on it. if you were to just sit there, you houses in rwanda nothing left and you were to look at me and say -- well, it's just us. it takes a strong person to do that. well, it isone -- just stuff. dotakes a strong person to that. these amazing people ever present, you know why i am very proud to be the senator. i am also proud of the senate because it wasn't too long ago that we voted for disaster relief in this body. we now have money sufficient to cover the us and other disasters. i wish i could say this is going to be the last one for the year, but everyone here knows as well as i do, it will not be the last month of the year. let me close where i started. let me just close with that psalm. shepherd, i shall not want. he makes me lie down in green pastures. there are green pastures as part of this. and our people, they have fo

aljazeera, mayflower, arkansas. >> let's get the weather now with everton. you've got the latest on those tornadoes. >> i am pleads to say they are slowly moving away. the tornado threat has diminished, finally. i know you're starting to believe me on this, aren't you? they are moving further east wards. we are seeing terrific amounts of rainfall, report breaking, actually, some over half a meter of rain in over 24 hours. wednesday, pensacola, florida saw 35 millimeters of rain. the clouds are thinning and break, very heavy rain in the northeast, new york, 135 millimeters of rain coming down during the same period of time. laguardia airport seeing huge amounts of rainfall. we are looking at dry skies now coming in behind. we've got this area of high pressure just offshore, diminishing the clouds that we do ever in place. it also has the effect of blocking off this very disturbed weather. another massive cloud around the panhandle towards the southeastern corner of the u.s., that all continues to bring a few showers in here through the remainder of thursday.

karins and watching the heavy rain moving out of texas today, a it is going to drench areas from arkansas to louisiana, but the best chance of any flooding today is in east texas. we will see the storms early today from the areas of chicago right through the great lakes. and later this evening, we could see a few of the storms trying to dive down to washington, d.c. and the west coast, a heat wave develops for you. and when alan gets all powered up, ya know what happens? i think the numbers speak for themselves. i'm sold! he's a selling machine!

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the long- time incumbent in arkansas and considered one of the funnerable incumbents and arkansas lost that 24 percentage points to mitt romney and he's facing challenger thomas cotton. and many polls show him up by comfortable double-digit leads and higher approval rating than president obama and feels so good he appeared with him to tour the hurricane damage. there are surprising numbers for democrats and it doesn't mean they are not facing tremendous head winds. >> byron, last time the republicans thought they had hopes of taking the senate they shot themselves in the foot with candidates that don't mesh up. the discussion seems to be that democrats that were on life support seem to be finding new life? >> yeah, i think everybody groe agrees that recruiting is better for republicans this time around. there is no christine odonald ored to akin types. they have to win six senate seats. >> republicans do. >> republicans, do. they have to assume they will do so in montana and south dakota and west virginia. they are assuming. that last time they assumed to win in north dakota and didn't

. >> let's go to arkansas now. can we, wolf? >> yeah. a fascinating race in arkansas. incumbent dayer pryer, or i should say mark pryer. cotton, from arkansas, will be the republican challenger for the senate seat in oregon. tom cotton, an iraq war veteran. harvard grad. someone who made a name for himself in washington. he has only made himself in a little while. mark pryor will have his hand full in arkansas. even though, don, polls show prior ahead, at least some of the polls in arkansas but still a long time to go between now and november. expect this to be a very close race. but maybe gloria has a different analysis. >> no. >> before that, i want to get to georgia first. i want the analysis. if you can take us to georgia, then more on that. >> the georgia race will be significant. michelle nun, daughter of sam nunn, former senator from georgia, long time senator, long time chairman of senator service et committee. someone always popular from georgia. michelle will be democratic seat. and she will face a republican, but we don't know who that republican will be. th

arkansas's attorney general plans to appeal the ruling. campaign for less beian and gay quality is gaining ground in mississippi on the heels of a law that goes into effect on july 1st called "religious freedom restoration ac." supporters say it's meant to protect religion. the gay community says it's a way to discriminate against them. >> hey. josling arrested carla are married in mississippi? >> federally, i am married. statewise, i am single. >> they have two biological daughters and while the women got married in maine, mississippi doesn't recognize them as a couple? >> i have been told i am going to hell. i have been told all kinds of things. >> they are worried that they will have even fewer rights after july 1st when the mississippi religious restoration act goes into effect. the law protec -- critics say is the door to discriminating against gays. >> i think we are being governed by people who don't represent us any more. >> we reached out to numerous lawmakers who support the new law. no one responded to our request for comment on

twisters tore through central arkansas killing 15 and injuring hundreds. the storms triggered more than topics all the way from oklahoma to alabama and dumped record rainfall on parts of the gulf coast. the president declared arkansas's faulkner county the hardest hit area making it eligible for federal assistance. >> coming up on al jazeera america, get your swords and spears ready. it's a battle of the ages as the immediate evil combat world championship kicks off next. true business-grade internet comes with secure wifi for your business. it also comes with public wifi for your customers. not so with internet from the phone company. i would email the phone company to inquire as to why they have shortchanged these customers. but that would require wifi. switch to comcast business internet and get two wifi networks included. comcast business built for business. >>> good afternoon to you. welcome back to al jazeera america live from new york city. i am morgan radford. here are today's top stories. sinn fein leader gerry adams will be released from northern

arkansas, tennessee and west virginia seniors scored the worst. massachusetts and connecticut ranked best in both. we thought we would give you the questions that touched the kids the most. 60% got this wrong. what is 16 to the half one-half hour cute. >> it's 64. >> you just did that right now. >> because if you do 16 to the half hour, that's four. 16 times four. >> did you get an "a" in math? the answer is 64. i'm so impressed. >> or she's really good at google. >> oh, that's not fair. >> that is not fair. >> roxana. thank you. >> thank you, guys. >> well, the first openly gay professional football player when the nfl draft kicks off in new york. the defensive end made headlines when he announced that he's gay, and he hopes the decision will i am entire other athletes. >> because i came out and i was the first one to do it, i think that could be a beacon for other athletes who may be gay or may be not. i think i can be a beacon for those people. >> sam is the defensive player of the scc and he was offered the arthur ashe award. >> and a close lo

in arkansas, this is the way they patter out amphetamine. this is the last step of the shake and bake method. >> in this demonstration the police department shows how shake and bake is made, and reveals how dangerous it can be. >> 40%. time someone will be injured. it looks benign, it's a small bottle. it has household chemicals. they are dangerous,like a bong. the ex-motion of this pick-up -- explosion of this pick-up truck shows awe volatile it -- how volatile it can be. thousand are seriously burned. because it's cooked in the home, children are at risk. shaken? >> and exploding. >> and exploding. >> yes. >> you seep that. >> i saw that. shaking it up. >> this 6-year-old boy describes a shake and bake meth cook gone fire. >> remember when uncle cody blew it up and you got burnt. >> these are the burn marks. >> i saw the explosion. >> you saw a big explosion. >> yes. i saw the house explode. >> why are people in your home making these -- >> shake up bottles. >> yes, why are they doing it? >> because they think it's good fun. >> they think

. >> so, just to -- the question on the benefit package, in the -- both the arkansas plan and also in michigan, and in arkansas, what dental benefits are included in the private option plan, and someone else asked about rap-around benefits. maybe you can explain the differences in the private option benefit package and compare it to traditional medicaid. >> somebody might explain what a wrap-around benefit is. >> starting with a definition, since we don't have medicaid managed care i'll probably get wrong. essentially medicaid has guaranteedded benefits that if a plan doesn't offer the state is still obligated to provide an access point for in our private option those wrap-around benefits really include three major areas: nonemergency -- let me back up. we're buying the essential health benefit on the marketplace which our state used the second largest small group market, which did not include vision or dental as a covered benefit. the wrap-around benefit we have to make sure people have are nonemergency medical transportation, largely long-term care services, and epst benefits until

. >> arkansas doesn't surprise me all that much.ean, democrats have a long history of outperforming the president's party in the south. 77% of democratic incumbents have been re-elected in southern states since 2000 despite all of the lows that the pear has faced there. you know, mark pryor is a candidate that was so strong that a republican didn't even run against him in 2008. this is a guy that has a long political heritage in the state. his father was a senator. if you look at the history of democrats out performing the president in the south, his personal strength there i'm not blown away that he has a better hold in it than, you know, say someone like kay hagen, who is new to town and has a real turnout problem with young and non-white voters. >> i feel like that is very interesting to me that you say that candidates in the south out perform the president because that flips on its head. some of the narrative we've heard in this election about north carolina, about louisiana, about arkansas and georgia, places where democrats ar

federal express was actually small business started in little rock, arkansas where i lived. they didn't have an international airport so he they moved to memphis, tennessee. that's why the memphis [speaker not understood] federal express is there. so, i think this is a good idea that we give them some southern hospitality here so that it will give us a chance to. more people to deal with, the old south in the past. ~ to have federal express i'm altos happy to see them because i know it's a arkansas-tennessee connection. when there was no international airport to memphis tennessee coming to san francisco, sfo. thank you. >> thank you. anybody else wish to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> colleagues -- >> [speaker not understood]. >> motion move forward with recommendation, we can take without objection. [gavel] >> madam clerk do we have any other business in froth of us? >> no, mr. chair. >> thanks. we'll have a 15-minute break until 2 o'clock. we are adjourned. [adjourned] >> so what brought you out here for the bike ride today? >> i grew up in san

a hard race for any republican to win. >> arkansas, kentucky, georgia.results from georgia in the next hour. thank you both. that is "all in" for now. we will be back at 11:00 p.m., a special live edition, primary night continues with "the rachel maddow show." >> yay, thank you, chris. very exciting. thank you. see you later on. we'll be live later on, too. indeed. thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour and for the rest of the night. nobody is going to bed tonight. a the lot of polls close really late and we'll be here forever. pop your popcorn, we'll be here. get the blanket, sit on the couch. we'll be fine. all right. ralph nader ran for president four times. the first time he ran was in 1996. ralph nader ran on the green party ticket. he made the ballot in 22 states that year. he ended up getting .7% of the vote. bi bill clinton cleaned up that year in 1996. bob dole was way behind bill clinton. the

the arkansas attorney general has appealed, but the arkansas supreme court put off ruling on whether to halt the marriages until today. texas is set to carry out the first u.s. execution since last month's botched killing of a death row prisoner in oklahoma. robert james campbell, a convicted rapist and murderer, is scheduled for death tuesday evening. as in the oklahoma case, texas officials have refused to reveal the source of the sedative that will be used in the lethal injection. campbell's attorneys have asked for a stay in the lifting of the secrecy surrounding the execution drug. they've also accused state officials of hiding evidence that campbell has an intellectual disability, known more commonly as mental retardation. campbell has an iq of 69. the obama administration has offered the senate expanded access to secret memos authorizing the killings of americans overseas in a bid to defuse opposition to a judicial nominee that helped author them. a number of senators have voiced opposition to the nomination of david aaron to the u.s. court of appeals for the first circuit. wh

tyson foods is another one of our great arkansas companies. and have a program they called meals that matter. they do three meals a day. i saw the tracks there at the mayflower school where they were set up. this big charges sitting there. everyone was carrying around. was the one? that one right there is just full of ice. they have led to these tragedies of the things that ice is in short supply so to try to keep things called and give people something cool to drink is very important. anyway, we could talk about this or a long time because seeing those people and see what they have gone through, was there the next morning with the governor and a number of other people, the attorney general. madam president, it was very emotional. a man in a lost his mother. then again at the same time others are rejoicing to be safe and to have the lines. and and that one and i talked to who i never even got his name, his station and barack air force base, he said he looked out his front door and saw the storm bearing down on the house with no way to avoid it

arkansas might be the single most important cog in 2014. is it? >> you know what's fascinating about it, chuck, is that i think when i first started covering politics, you look 8 and say how are there still so many democrats in that delegation or in the senate. and now you look at it and it's the exact opposite. >> democrats are so competitive. >> but they're still competitive. which is absolutely -- which is absolutely fascinating. because i would say i think that i fell down this hole too quickly. that mark pryor was blanche lincoln. he clearly has more resilience. it's still a really tough race but yeah, you would not say -- at a presidential level i don't think we'll say it all comes down to arkansas. >> no. >> but in this kind of midterm election with that turnout with the candidates they have nominated too, mike ross and the governor's race, former member of congress. >> blue dog. >> the kind of democrat that can win there. >> but if they can't win there -- >> who can win there. >> do we say if we can't get pryor and ross and james lee witt

north carolina is off and running, arkansas, kentucky and georgia are about to put their primaries in the past. but which current colleagues are causing the most concern for the majority leader? we have more from my harry reid interview. and as the outcry over the v.a. hospital horror stories continue and the alleged coverups grow louder on capitol hill, an unusual move to acquire e-mails from a cabinet secretary before he testifies. >> plus, ahead of mother's day, we have a fun new poll question for you. about the feelings on the self-proclaimed mom in chiefs and her immediate predecessors. it might surprise you who the country most admires and where in the country lives depends on who you admire. happy friday. it's may 9th, 2014. the president devoted his entire day raising money from the country as largest atm machine, the state of california. he's been at events in los angeles and silicon valley. he warned democrats shouldn't be sitting out the mid terms. >> democrats have a congenital defect when it comes to our politics and that is we like voting during presidential years and du

look at senator pryor in arkansas. is the second respected public poll that shows him 11 points up over tom cotton. that is a real lead. that's not like a lead of one or two points that you really count as a tie. and mitch mcconnell despite the long history in that state, he continues to be head to head in a race for the candidate. >> do you think he's reached his sell-by date? he's not a family connection. he's just mitch mcconnell, politician who's got a lot of clever moves. has he ran out of moves? >> i think that's what we're going to see. i think it's due to people in kentucky not really approving, not really liking mitch mcconnell. he has to overcome his unfavorable ratings. >> mitch mcconnell only has a few tricks to call on people. i've seen this guy make so many moves. i've had it with him. your thoughts? >> look, at this point, it's essentially unknown. she's run very few adds. people may know her last anytime. her father is an active politician. she's basically an unknown. the vote she's getting is the i don

, and as a child and the police, and sergeant in arkansas, and there was a sheriff, and west and in arkansas there was doors that lead or to the sheriff. and then, as i went to chicago, my uncle officer william love, and i look at my life born in 61, and i seen the movies scared straight, it did something for me but now i find myself in the world where you cannot be the criminal but you can be have the side effects of the criminal and why sometimes for the people that does not take the criminal and not robbed and killed and shoot. those things are instilled in me and i find out in the city and i just found out from the nwc, p, and wal-mart is now taking over bad people coming out of jail and giving them jobs in the south and so the commander and even this city. >> you need to stay on track with the general order. >> and i want to know, and i am still a child. i still believe that your child you are a child and you are a child of god and so what i am looking at today is where those people really never been a criminal or you have been a victim but you are treated like that is one thing that ch

>> we caught up with his town in arkansas where he was looking at the oil spill. here is some just off the top of the water. it's sticky. it's extremely sticky. it smells awful. >> in march, 2013, a shallow underground pipeline owned by exxon runs down the residential street as you see in this video. >> the smell is unbelievable. look, there is oil. >> the oil flowed down the street through a drainage ditch. the crews had come from alberta, canada, thousands of miles away. >> what are they for? >> they are to soak in the oil. they are supposed to. they are supposed to soak in water. >> steyer had come to mayflower together ammunition for what may be the biggest fight of his life, trying to stop the pipeline from being built. he worries more leaks like this one could happen. the proposed by blind would stretch from the canadian border across the u.s. to the existing pipeline that carries oil to the refinery. >> it is not going to the united states. it is going to be more oil not from the middle east. that is true, but it just means there is more oil not from the mi