two adjectives to describe collegiate bill bradley. sen. y: had about what you were like during that time. sen. bradley: that i actually wore betthey thought i was not well dressed. mark: where did you get your clothing? sen. bradley: a place in st. louis, missouri. mark: is it still there? sen. bradley: no. mark: moving down memory lane the new york knicks era. this is from the 1970's when you played for the knicks. two adjectives. sen. bradley: unselfish, hard-working. mark: were you more unselfish as a pro than college? sen. bradley: i played every game because i was a role player as opposed as the main man. mark: you were also pretty cerebral during that time. was that a problem? sen. bradley: no. as a matter of fact, a lot of my teammates kind of like that. ed that. mark: a misconception. what do people think wrongly about you as a pro? sen. bradley: that i failed terribly in the early years. mark: failed terribly? which is not true? sen. bradley: on second thought, it probably is true. mark: what is your best worry about those days? se

hearing from former senators bob packwood and bill bradley.whom were part of the 1986 tax deal under president reagan. senator orrin hatch of utah chairs the committee.mevñf+t>ó' >> today's hearing is about the need for tax reform and what lessons we can learn from the tax reform act of 18986. the last successful overhaul of the united states tax code. we have before us today two former senators who were key to that effort. i don't know why they call you former senators. i think you're always going to be senators to me. i look forward to hearing their thoughts and advice, and i think we all do, during today's 8>(l hearing.07ytñ before we engage meaningfully in tax reform, we need a clear vision of what we want success to look like. a vision is not a specific system of rates, of deductions or credits. instead, a vision is how we want to change the opportunities for american families and the rewards that americans receive from their labor. entrepreneurship, and investment. a successfully reformed tax rç$ system will help make america the best pl

senator bill bradley was the intellectual godfather of the reform plan that broadened the base, closed loopholes, and kept progressivity in the code. senator bradley lit the fire that got the reagan administration invested in reform. and i don't think anyone would question my judgment that senator bradley had by a wide margin the best jump shot in the senate tall guy caucus. now if there's one obvious similarity between 1986 and today it's that people are quick to say that tax reform is absolutely impossible. americans say congress can't organize a two-car parade. there's no way they could come to the on major economic legislation. so what happened three decades ago needs to happen again. turning the impossible into the possible. the congress and president reagan came to the to pass the 1986 tax reform act based on what i call principled bipartisanship. one side wanted to flatten the tax code. the other side wanted to close loopholes and guarantee that the tax code treated everyone fairly. both sides said we're going to set aside the partisan attack. look for common ground, and each si

senator bill bradley was the intellectual godfather of the reform plan that broadened the base, closed loopholes, and kept progressivity in the code. senator bradley lit the fire that got the reagan administration invested in reform. and i don't think anyone would question my judgment that senator bradley had by a wide margin the best jump shot in the senate tall guy caucus. now if there's one obvious similarity between 1986 and today it's that people are quick to say that tax reform is absolutely impossible. americans say congress can't organize a two-car parade. there's no way they could come to the on major economic legislation. so what happened three decades ago needs to happen again. turning the impossible into the possible. the congress and president reagan came to the to pass the 1986 tax reform act based on what i call principled bipartisanship. one side wanted to flatten the tax code. the other side wanted to close loopholes and guarantee that the tax code treated everyone fairly. both sides said we're going to set aside the partisan attack. look for common ground, and each si

bill bradley was in that group, and christine todd whitman, and jim leach -- >> they were interns, as i recall. >> yeah, interns. it was just a fun group of people. >> art laffer, dick cheney, and i would have dinner from time to time, or lunch from time to time, or just have meetings in the white house from time to time. >> in 1974, we came to the hotel washington to the two continents restaurant. that's where we sat down and talked about tax policy. and art drew the laffer curve. >> i invited jude wanniski, who was a writer for "the wall street journal" at the time. he passed on. but he kept all the records of this stuff. and in an article much later, it was called "taxes, revenues, and the 'laffer curve'." he recounted this dinner. so it was the four of us. that is the dinner we are talking about today. >> during that time, what we were trying to do was manage the transition from the nixon administration to the ford administration. there had never been anything like it. >> and the country was faced with some serious economic problems. and what was coming up through the system was n

the professional amateur sports protection act, turned into law end of '92, it was proposed by bill bradley who was then a senator from new jersey. >> reporter: and former nba great. >> former nba great. and the idea was he wanted to make sports gambling illegal from a federal perspective. >> reporter: and what was he trying to protect? what was the argument made? >> the argument was - the argument for anybody who's against sports betting is always protecting the integrity of the game. they don't want match fixing. they don't want game fixing to be a part of the conversation whether it's at the professional level or at the college level. >> reporter: game fixing is trying to change the outcome of a game through illegal means. someone who's got money riding on a certain outcome persuades a player or a referee, often by bribing them, to fix a game or shave off a few points. and it's not some phantom issue, it happens. it happens in college sports, it happens in professional sports. >> reporter: when new jersey made its attempt at legalizing betting at the state level, all the major sports lea

with all due respect" to hillary clinton, when you're choosing between baskets and containers, bill bradleyll you always go with the baskets. john: right. ♪ mark: on the show tonight, the tablet, the barrel and the dollar bill. first, governor mike pence of indiana is struggling to make his religious freedom law not to look like an anti-gay law. he has gotten hot tamale criticism from ceos and others. it is enough to make someone go through reflection leading up to a news conference earlier today. gov. p

and that loses the bill. >> senator bradley? >> the reality is that tax reform was failing until the packwood counteroffensive. and it wasn't like this just sprung forth from the head of zeus, right? we had had 30 hearings. the substance had been thoroughly chewed over by the committee. so it was familiar territory. it was just put together in a different way. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. senator -- no wait a minute. let me just see here. i'm sorry. senator menendez first. >> all right mr. chairman. thank you. thank you both for your testimony which i read at length. i think we all agree we need to simplify the tax code and make it more economically efficient, but i always think before we go about the task of comprehensive tax reform, we need to agree what is the end-goals we are trying to achieve so we can direct our focus. and i know some of my friends here argue that we should focus solely on corporate tax reform and profits and snoorkt gains and i think i've heard you both say you that really need to do it all a

chris ban bill, bradley cooper, they are. >> why are they not entitled to equal pay?ves for minor and major film studios 100% white? 94% male. these guys are the ones in charge of financing, green lighting all these films. they're controlling the narrative. you're telling me that, you know women aren't entitled to equal pay? john: well, i don't think anybody's entitled to equal pay. everybody should be paid whatever the market would bear. but some e-mails got leaked that revealed executives saying the women didn't ask for it they didn't push as hard. >> yeah. she said i'm not going to give them something they didn't ask for. if they -- you know i'm not going to give them more money, basically, in a nutshell. but there have been more and more stars fighting back at that, demanding i'm going to be paid just as much as my male counterpart, and it's been happening more and more. john: and reese witherspoon started a production company for only women. >> yes, she did. john: that's a much better way to change things than to ask government to do i. >> absolutely. she even sa

. >> but when bill -- was it one of the -- bill frist made a promise to bill bradley. remember that promise i made, it's going to come due. this guy is making promises to democrats, that would hurt him. but is that is the grease of politics. >> it's true. someone has to come up with a temporary form of e-mail that just disappeared. >> snapchat. >> oh, that's great. that will reform our bad impulses. >> right. that is "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts now. >>> thanks for joining us at this hour. there is a lot of competition for the top news in this country right now. we'll have more about what has happened in ferguson, missouri, over the past 24 hours where two police officers were released from the hospital today after being shot late last night outside ferguson police headquarters while protests against the ferguson pd was just winding down. that story has gone off like a shock wave in the already incredibly anxious racial environment around ferguson, missouri, and the policing of that community. there are further developments in that story s

and bill bradley. and all of whom believe a major point of an institution was not to serve itself but to serve the ideas within it. that it to say that there was not enough to go by the building that have you to salute what it meant. i got here because bill friday. we had worked together on the night intercollegiate athletics that was ran and financed. and i said. i don't know what i will do when i retire into he said come to chapel hill. into i said you got the it. it came. it was wonderful to be in the place that is was admired for so long. one day he said to me as we were worried about the meaning of hiring a big-time coach who immediately had discovered to his surprise of course that what had to him before was happening to him here which was some of his outlying an add junction assist and the were doing funny things with the players and access to money he said. you know. i was talking to a young woman who is here in the university who seems to know some things that are very disturbing if true. and

even in the 2000 campaign when al gore was the sitting vice president, bill bradley stepped forward tollenge him. speaking of gore his name is resurfacing. at least among democrats craving a competition. he's heading to iowa in may to fire up activists about global warming. there's a lot of chatter recently in some democratic circles about a gore return but i'm told by a person close to the former vice president he has no plans of running 16 years after he fell short. it's a sign that at least part of the democratic party is still interested in a few more options for 2016. >> stay right there. let's bring in cnn chief political analyst gloria borger. >> al gore? al gore? >> you heard jeff mention 30% of democrats are out there saying they want an alternative. is that opening? are their voices loud enough for one of these guys to toss his hat into the ring to take on hillary clinton? >> maybe, you know you saw jeff's piece talking about martin o'malley who really seems to be tip-toeing into this. there's another number in our poll that all these democrats are paying attention to and tha

bill bradley did that. he went all over the country as senator from new jersey generating support for tax reform in 1986. and it was a fairly good piece of legislation, which ronald reagan endorsed. but he hit the hustings. >> well, didn't president obama do that with health care? wasn't he out there beating the drums and...? >> but the wrong kind. >> what do you mean? >> he wouldn't further what he said he believes in-- single payer, full medicare for all--because he said, "it's not practical." which is another way of saying, "i can't take on the supremely popular health insurance companies and drug companies," right? he wasn't worried. as a result, his system will not restrain the enormous costs that are increasing. it'll leave 30 million people still uninsured after it's fully implemented. and it's so complex that it opened itself up to attacks and parity by the republicans. you know, the canadians got full health care for everybody. they do it on half the cost--$4,500 per capita a year. we spend $8,500

no bradley bill tonight and it did cost them.he wizards free fall continuing right in front of us. another loss tonight. this one coming in milwaukee against a bucks team currently right on their heels in the eastern conference standings. nine consecutive road losses now for randy whitman's team. fans not thrilled about the road losing streak. pick it up in the third quarter. paul pierce's pass goes to no one. williams grabs it slams it home. bucks take a 15-point lead. fourth quarter, the wizards, they did battle back. they're down one here. john wall with a quick move. gets that to drop and one. he did miss the free-throw. later, tied at 84. middleton. misses the three. the wizards can't get a rebound throw. middleton does not miss twice. had a game high 30 points. wizards lose third straight on the road. >>> college basketball special day for senior day at georgetown. adams haven't played since the freshman year because of a heart condition. in the starting lineup today. they got a waiver to suit him up. ten second into the ga

bill. and bradley myles to you first, we know it says in so many words that government money could not be usedy for an abortion for victims unless they were the victim of a rape in a coerced circumstances. without weighing in on the merits of abortion or not what difference could that make, do you believe for the young people we're talking about the young women who say we're pregnant? >> so for us we're a direct service provider for victims of trafficking. and we know when someone comes out of one of these situations they describe being in a situation of total control. they have been raped. they've been sexually assaulted. they've had so much of their life controlled. and so when we're providing services we want to create a spectrum that is as wide as possible and as empowering as possible and let them chart the course of their own services and not put limits on what is possible. and so sometimes there's a debate about would this cover this or would this cover that. and could you always define it as rape or not. and we didn't even want to get into that debate. we didn't want that to enter this

. >> you'll remember in the 2000 campaign when al gore was the sitting vice president, bill bradley steppedhat -- >> al gore. >> possible that al gore might think about running against hillary clinton. >> i don't think al gore has done anything to encourage us to believe that he is eager to leave his life right now and get back into politics. democrats generally like the shiny new thing. they don't like going back a generation. hillary clinton is the exception because there's a sense in the party, because she's a woman that she can unite the various factions of the party and she becomes the new thing by vir shoe chew of her gender. will the democrats want to go back to a gore or john kerry? i don't think so. >> he's doing stuff he hasn't done over the past several years. >> he is. he's sienggning up activists at a conference to support him on his global warming effort. a friend said he's enjoying the speculation giving interviews but i'm with gloria i don't think we'll get a gore. >> you also mentioned john kerry's name. >> he hasn't ruled it out. >> he hasn't ruled it out. if hillary clint

bill bradley's here, you know how valuable he was for us on this, and i wonder if you could say a few words to him. the things that irritate me. he makes national television from appearing on the local affiliate in portland and i don't get covered nationwide. >> the morell vant point is, it was because of my respect for bob pacwood that i decided to join him in the middle of my campaign. i think that's probably not happened a lot. >> oh, that was well done. >> i have a lot of respect for both of you, you've been both great senators, and you've both done a lot for this country. and we're very proud -- senator widen has -- >> i'm going to be brief, and thank you both for that simplicity. discussion. i thought for a long time that this insanely complicated tax code plays right into the hands of the special interests and the lobbyists. and it's going to be even more challenging today than it was in '86. we would be talking about guchy gulch, there were these wonderful descriptions about the lobbyists who would wait in line outside the weighs and means room for a phone booth. well, today a

bill karins. >>> still ahead, "american sniper" star bradley cooper set to make his directorial debut.mera. we'll tell you, the pop diva he reportedly wants to star alongside him. we'll be right back. how do crest 3d white whitestrips compare to a whitening toothpaste? let's see. the paste didn't seem to do much for me. the whitestrips made a huge difference. that's not fair! crest whitestrips work below the enamel surface to whiten 25 times better than the leading whitening toothpaste. crest whitestrips. the way to whiten hey, you forgot the milk! that's lactaid®. right. 100% real milk just without the lactose. so you can drink all you want... ...with no discomfort? exactly. here, try some... mmm, it is real milk. see? delicious. hoof bump! oh. right here girl, boom! lactaid®. 100% real milk. no discomfort. and for a tasty snack that's 100% real dairy try lactaid® cottage cheese. ♪ ♪ >>> i'm being told we're going to check on the other headlines with lewis. lewis? >> thanks mika. "mad man" start jon hamm recently completed rehab for alcohol abuse. he reportedly checked himself into a

bill. >> authorities have found an underground bunker near seattle that's believed to have been used by a bank robber investigators say the bunker belongs to bradley robinet who spent five years on the run before he was arrested last summer. inside the bunker authorities found a could the cot blast i can bags, shells with bottles. they believe he may have built other bunkers while he was on the run. >>> coming up: nick foles is out, the new guy didn't even play last season, we'll break down the birds' big trade move. boy, there have been so many this week alone. big daddy graham is up next. at subway, we begin with freshly-baked-bread; then combine tender turkey-breast, with robust, spicy, melty italian favorites; adding a splash of our new subway vinaigrette. the magnificent new turkey italiano melt. only at subway. >> sue serio tracking radar. >> playing six's music because we do expect it to get to 60, maybe even more, by the end of the day today. now, if you look out to the west of us, see, there is more rain on the way so we may have couple of more hours to deal with this, this morning. a little bit of rain to our south. little bit to our nor

bradley will tell you always go with the baskets. john: right. ♪ mark: the tablet and the barrel and the dollar bill. governor mike pence of

it goes back to mayor bradley of los angeles discussing report on higher education with police right after a woman named eula love was killed by police. she hadn't paid her gas bill. when the gas man came to turn her gas off, she told him to leave and he wouldn't. she took a shovel and whacked him on the arm. when the police pulled up she and in the front door of her house with a knife. the police pulled out their guns and pointed them at her and said drop the knife. she didn't so they shot her and killed her. there's more details to it. but essentially it's an example of an argument that can be made that there was a threat to life but it was an unnecessary confrontation because the police could have used other tactics to deescalate the situation. number one it was disproportionate to the underlying offense which was a simple assault, misdemeanor assault and certainly not worthy of in fact, a pretrial death penalty. more importantly perhaps because there are situations where offenders kill people. the police in london encountered somebody who had just beheaded an 80-year-old woman with a machete last year. and they managed to take that man into custody alive. i p

to mayor bradley in los angeles discussing the report on higher education for police in 1979 right after a woman named yula love was killed by the police because she had not paid her gas bill and when the gas man came to turn the gas off she took a shovel and told him to leave. he wouldn't and she whacked him on the arm with a shovel and when he called the police and they pulled up and she appeared with a knife, they pointed guns at her saying drop the knife she didn't so they shot and killed her. that is an example of an argument that can be made that it was a threat to life but it was unnecessary because the police could have used other tactics to de-escalate the situation. it was disproportionate to the underlying offense which was misdemeanor assault and certainly not worthy of a pre-trial death penalty. more importantly perhaps because there are situations where offenders kill people and the police in london encountered someone who had just beheaded an 80-year-old woman with a machete and they managed to take that man into custody alive. it would be difficult for the police in the united states to do that. but the police were under this infrastructure i am talking abo