. >> joining me, bridget mccoy, former army specialist, survivor of military sexual assault.ponse to what the joint chiefs had to say today? >> well, my response is that they have already not been taking care of handling it in chain of command. so just the military and justice improvement act, set to remove it from chain of command, allowing them to not have the responsibility legally, so i think that, you know, the fact they don't want to relinquish that control is a problem, especially with a situation where they're not prosecuting appropriately anyway. >> you testified to the committee and you told them about your experience where you were raped more than once and one of them, their remorse was expressed by driving by you and rolling down the window of the car and saying "sorry." >> in that case it was sexual harassment. i never reported the rapes that happened. i only reported actual sexual harassment and inappropriate touching, so yes, in that case he did, that's what he did, he rolled down the window, said sorry. they didn't put me in a team to work with him after that,

>> bridget mccoy, thank you for your service to this country. i'm sorry about what happened to you in our military. thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you. thank you very much. >>> mud ball. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. i can't remember a time in american politics with anything that happens becomes a chance to throw mud at the president of the united states. whether it's an attack on a facility in benghazi, or a screwup at the irs centralized operation in cincinnati. it's not only the president's wrongdoing his critics say, it's his moral wrongdoing. more evidence he's a bad man and shouldn't be in the white house. this mud ball is personal. it's un-american. it's about one thing, the total hatred of a group of americans who cannot stand the fact that barack obama was elected leader of this country by solid majorities of his fellow citizens. it's mccarthyism with an ethnic twist. he's assembled an enemies list for the irs to use. he's responsible for the death

. >> bridget mccoy, thank you for your service country. i'm sorry about what happened to you in our military and thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you very much. >>> chris hayes is up next. >>> good evening. i'm chris hayes. and thank you for joining us. tonight, in case any liberals were starting to fall for the lovable, huggable chris christie routine, his latest move should be enough to convince you how cravenly self-serving he really is. >>> plus, the war on weed is proving very one-sided as in one side is getting way more screwed than the other. and we have the proof. and the latest assault on obama care is coming from an old playbook, one written by the slave power. i'm not making that up. we start today with a photo. this is a photo of some of the people in charge of grilling a collection of top-tier generals from the united states military today. if you've been a general, called to testify today before the senate armed services committee, this is what you'd be looking up at. this committee. you'll notice it's quite a bit d