when john chafee died, lincoln chafee became the u.s. senator appointed by the governor of the time. guess who came in and campaign against him in favor of bill sheldon? that is a little plot twisting their. chafee has never forgiven them for that. i think that chafee could have won, but for their efforts. chafee surprised everyone by saying that he was going to run for president. he got elected in a multi-person race after he lost the senator's job. he chose not to run for reelection because his poll numbers were in the 20's. now he wants to be president of the united states. unbelievable. i do not know if he has any supporters in rhode island. that is probably why he is not announcing their. john: let me ask you about hillary clinton. what is compelling about her at this moment in time? buddy: she has seen it all, run it all, and bought the t-shirt. i met her several times. she came here when we started the city. i gave her a jar of my marinara sauce. she will carry rhode island without any question. she has a fundraiser coming up. she

and that's why i think it's going to be harder for lynn khan chafee -- lincoln chafee from the said of stage to put much drag on that. i think a lot of liberals are going to be perfectly fine with hillary, despite the iraq vote which, you know, was a big cause of concern years ago. >> so gene robinson it's sounding like for hillary clinton's campaign strategically the best response to everything lincoln chafee is saying from the iraq vote -- you can take the call david, it's no problem. >> lincoln chafee calling. >> we'll just keeping the conversation going here. >> i just noticed that. >> it seems like the best response is simply policy positions. it's just just banging out those policy positions that will appeal to that largest voting constituency that she can assemble. >> banging out her policy positions, trying to trying to hold as much of the obama coalition as she possibly can, and when she, she, inevitably gets asked the iraq question, say hey, you know i said it was a mistake, i made a mistake, i was wrong. and now here's what we need to do looking, looking ahead. >> and i'm no

>> lincoln chafee says he wants to take on hillary clinton. >> jon: lincoln chafee! why not! first name reminds you of our president, the last name reminds you of the red burning in your groin when you wear polyester! (laughter) really, truliy, very pleasant person. republican turned independent democrat announces his run for presidency in apparently the room your high school uses for a small assembly. the girls will go to auditorium a to watch a video about fallopian tubes and the boys will go to auditorium b to hear lincoln chafee announce his run for presidency. sorry, boys. all right chafe, hit us for your vision of america. >> here's the bold embrace of internationalism. let's join the rest of the world and go metric. (laughter) (applause) >> jon: the time has come america to switch to centimeters. (laughter) and why use cars when we can relax and exercise by traveling only by recumbent bicycles? wait, where is everyone going, i haven't passed around my home maid seitan blondeys yet. why would you launch your campaign by invoking one of jimmy carter's most notable non-ho

let's talk about lincoln chafee. and his big dreams, leah gabriel is joining us tonight, and mollie heming way, senior publicist, and michael moynihan. and thank you all very much. a delight to have so many new shiny optimistic faces. >> i am trying to figure out what a meter is, but i am going to have to because he is going to win. >> you are right. >> this is amazing farrah go of stupidity. i would expect for people running for highest office, chafee also wants to reestablish relations with bolivia, did you see that, it is really killing us they don't like us, because they are communist, we should be nice to them, i would say i would vote for him as a joke, but i don't think it will get that far. >> he said berma and liberia only two other countries in our system why not myanmar. >> he was naming all of the country. >> mollie, what is worse, chafee's metric plan or his plan to defeat isis? >> my favorite thing is high thought those two things works tlgdtogether. i love that everyone is talking about how huge republ

let's talk about lincoln chafee. his big dreams, leah gabriel is joining us tonight and mollie heming way senior publicist, and michael moynihan. and thank you all very much. a delight to have so many new shiny optimistic faces. >> i am trying to figure out what a meter is, but i am going to have to because he is going to win. >> you are right. >> this is amazing farrah go of stupidity. i would expect for people running for highest office, chafee also wants to reestablish relations with bolivia did you see that, it is really killing us they don't like us, because they are communist we should be nice to them, i would say i would vote for him as a joke, but i don't think it will get that far. >> he said berma and liberia only two other countries in our system why not myanmar. >> he was naming all of the country. >> mollie, what is worse chafee's metric plan or his plan to defeat isis? >> my favorite thing is high thought those two things works tlgdtogether. i love that everyone is talking about how huge republican fiel

gwen: that's lincoln chafee. pete: how are the democrats running against hillary clinton? alexis: lincoln chafee from rhode island announced this week and martin o'malley announced last saturday and i covered both gentlemen and none of us in the room were expecting lincoln chafee from rhode island, former governor, former senator. he used to be a republican, turned independent turned democrat to take a a stand on metrics but there he was and it was an eye-opening moment. the way they're coming at secretary clinton is very interesting. in the sense that in lincoln chafee's case, he is unabashadly, assertively muscular about it and he's normally soft spoken and geeky but he's taking it to her on the questions of the state department, her reputation, emails, money and o'malley is taking her on in terms of experience youth and he is trying to argue also on domestic policy that he can outdo her with voters. gwen: domestic policy might include his record as mayor of baltimore which has its issues lately. they all have baggage. that's what we live for. thank you, everybody. we ha

what better way to get to the core of the matter than over some soul food. >> and there was lincoln chafee thanks for joining me. >> senator, governor. >> governor is my most recent lechive office. >> good enough. go ahead and dig in. we've got some good pulled pork. i think it's good to have politicians to talk over food that might possibly give them diabetes. >> we've got that here today. >> i feel like they're more honest. this is the good stuff right here. so you have been a republican. >> yes, i have. >> larry: why did you become a democrat? >> the party changed. it used to be that my kind of republican socially liberal, in favor of gay marr%+e, immigrant rights but also fiscally conservative. those kind of republicans-- . >> larry: there were republicans that were pro gay marriage,. >> yeah yeah pro-choice it used to be welcome in the party. >> larry: you are a democrat now. ain't no party like the democratic part because the democratic party don't -- >> democratic party is the party of the middle class. the democratic party should be the party of peace and a stable and secure world.

lincoln chafee is this eccentric, but very principled person. have high support in rhode island. the thing he's most known for is trying to change christmas tree to holiday tree in the state capitol. but this opens up something interesting for hillary clinton, because if he's not popular and he's polling at 1% it means that he can go after her in a way that the other candidates cannot. so he is the wild card in the democratic side on the primary. >> matt he's already gone after hillary clinton. he said that anybody who voted for the war should not be president of the united states. he's going to be possibly a republican favorite the way he's going to go after clinton. what do you make of it? >> i don't know ed. republicans are still kind of mad at him for leaving us. he's run in every conceivable form you can run. it seems like he does a political calculation on the right party to be a member of when he runs. right now he's going to run as the anti-war guy. i do think for democrats as a republican looking at that primary process, hillary's clear

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y ahora pasamos con otro precandidato presidencial demÓcrata, lincoln chafee.oamericanos. ¿hizo lo correcto? >> bueno, ¿quiÉn mejor para encarar este tema que el presidente obama? orador, talentoso, inteligente, y por supuesto, puede hablar de su experiencia personal. este es un momento importante para el paÍs, tener al presidente obama encarando estos temas de la manera mÁs honesta posible. yo no lo culparÍa por utilizar la palabra que usÓ en estas circunstancias. >> ¿cree usted que la bandera confederada estÁ vinculada al racismo? >> por supuesto, por supuesto. el simbolismo de la guerra civil, la lucha en torno a la esclavitud, los estados confederados tratando de mantener la esclavitud es un sÍmbolo. >> dÉjeme preguntarle sobre hillary clinton. hillary clinton votÓ a favor de la guerra contra irak en el 2012. ¿cree usted que eso la descalifica para ser presidenta? >> sÍ, sí lo creo. es un momento decisivo en la historia de estados unidos cuando la premisa de la guerra era que sadam hussein constituÍa una amenaza y tenÍa armas de destrucciÓn masiva. esa era

>> that's a great question. >> chafee with the metric system and a socialist how about joe biden? >> i was going to tell you -- joe biden is second in the fox poll that's out today. >> i like joe biden. >> joe biden is ahead of bernie sanders, bernie sanders is there and then you come way down -- chafee is not registers. i think it's a little bit of a joke. the metric thing i was like -- >> would you support biden over hillary? >> over hillary? no. >> would you support the metric system change? >> i don't know. i have to speak to my teacher. >> i think it could spark a war. >> i will say this in the polling it's interesting now who is out on the republican side for the top ten. no fiorina, no graham who i saw last night here in manhattan, no case sick no pat take no santorum no jindal. >> the fox debate is not based on the fox news poll -- >> i was just giving you -- i was just giving you -- >> based on the metric system. >> go lincoln, go lincoln. >> are we good to go? >> totally. >> make sure you catch hannity's exclusive hour long interview with rick perry tonight. um next part

john: another of big day in politics tomorrow -- lincoln chafee announces his candidacy and then rickry is expected to announce he will be the republican nominee. two more entrance -- two more entrants. john: they just keep coming -- lincoln chafee, a former owner and senator them anything cap no chance of being any competition to hillary, but may the sharpest thorn in her side. he is a formidable candidate if he is on his game, but we didn't see much of his best game last time around. mark: a scouting report of lincoln chafee will be on bloomberg tomorrow and we will have live coverage right after "all due respect" tomorrow. and then on thursday, rick perry's announcement. john: we are only on the television 30 minutes a day. until tomorrow sayonara, folks. ♪ alix: we are moments away from the closing bell. this is bloomberg market day. ♪ choppy session, the stocks finishing lower today, closing lower for the third time in four sessions. but the dow did end up off session lows, up at one point. a did climb their way back by about 30.

chafee has a fascinating political story, wasn't always a democrat. in fact he's never held office as a democrat. i talked to him on sirius xmt m radio how he abandoned the republican party because he felt the republican party abandoned him. >> kind of conservative on fiscal issues but liberal on social issues is the general cliche about rockefeller republicans. as the party changed as you know room for us became less and less accommodating. >> on the republican side rick perry announces his bid tomorrow. donald trump has a special announcement set for june 16th and louisiana governor bobby jindal is calling his announcement major, wonder what to could be, that's expected three weeks from today. lts to get to with jimmy williams. always good to see, executive editor of blue nation review. good to see you, bud. >> hey, guys. >> another day, another presidential announcement. there's a lot to get to. let's start with lincoln chafee who makes it official today, running as a democrat but as you heard in my interview with him still fiscally conservative bu

. >> lincoln chafee from my home state of rode i'll is going to be here but it looks like two steves. have double vision. look at that. >> if he wants to pick a running mate. i think you have to be first.

we have to find a way to wage peace. >> chafee also said he wants the u.s. to go to the metric system. we'll see how that works. make sure to catch more presidential can candidates on "morning joe" this week. south carolina senator lindsey graham is coming up later this morning and rick perry will join joe and mika tomorrow. and get a load of this. george w. bush's poll numbers are back. in expresident receives a favorable rating. 42% see him in an unfavorable light. that puts him in a better position than president obama right now whose numbers are even at 49st. the predecessors both received positive feelings at 64%. get away from the tv camera and people start to love you. the anthrax scare we first told you about last week is twice as bad as the pentagon initially claimed. officials say an army testing facility in utah sent live samples to up to 51 labs in 17 different states plus the nation's capitol, washington d.c. shipments were also sent to our friends australia, canada and south korea. at least 31 people are being treated for possible exposure. mos

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so far, lincoln chafee is the only person to say edward snowden should be allowed to come home. he hasn't elaborated on whether or not he is a traitor or not, but i still feel like it's political kryptonite. i interviewed all the guys on hill who are working in the wake of edward snowden to reform our surveillance state. no one will say he has done a good thing for the country. >> right. and part of that is because even though a victory was scored this week for, you know for snowden and those who agree with him that it's unconstitutional, that all these overreaches have taken place, the fact is that even after the bulk collection of phone records was ruled unconstitutional, the vast

when republican voters attack her, but will democrats listen to lincoln chafee?don't think he is somebody that has a large constituency or in the state of rhode island where he was unpopular by the time he left office. he is a marginal voice -- although he did get the metric system diehards excited. i don't think he is a serious threat. when you talk about the liberal policy positions hillary is staking out, she is not running like she has any opponent but running like she is in the primary. she is focussed on winning over the base. she didn't have a very strong challenge, and i think they have been gladdened but would like to know more about her economics. >> i think we saw republicans for months have been using her to kind of boost themselves. we saw it for the first time this week that she is going to try and use republicans to boost her candidacy as well, and republicans want to see people going after jeb bush and the recall. >> if you look at the poll you guys put out this week, this is the lowest poll she has reached in cnn polling at least, since march 200

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chafee says his campaign will stress high ethical standards. he wants the united states to adopt the metric system. some people have joked he will take on politics one centimeter as a time. >>> and ted cruz is apologizing for a joke over joe biden. speaking at a dinner in michigan cruz poked fun at biden for his verbal gaffes. he made this joke while the vice president is grieving over the death of his son beau. he joked, you know the nice thing, you don't need a punch line. honestly it works. the next part of your act, just say biden and close your mouth. they will crack up laughing. cruz posted an apology on facebook and twitter saying it was a mistake to joke about biden during his grief. our prayers are with the vice president and his family. >>> jurors in the trial of accused colorado theater murderer james holmes. holmes said dropping out of graduate school did not matter because he was already planning his mission. he expected to be locked up or killed when the mission was complete. he killed 12 people. wounded 70 others in the shooting

but today, lincoln chafee announced that he is running for president.ln chafee's campaign goes way, way, way better than expect, that would not only make him the first president ever from the state of rhode island. he already, today, became rhode island's first ever presidential candidate. ever. the politics school at the university of minnesota looked at this today. kind of amazing. in the 225 years that rhode island has been a state, they have sent 74 representatives to congress. 48 u.s. senators. there have been 70 different rhode island governors, three of them in link chafee's family. but none of those, none of those people in rhode island has ever made a bid for the white house before lincoln chafee threw his hat in the ring today. he's the first person from rhode island to ever run for president. rhode island congratulations. whether or not lincoln chafee wins the nomination or wins the nomination, he has made presidential history for rhode island just by announcing. and that's it. that's all i got. the world is filled with air. but for people wi

chafee announced his and cannes yesterday calling for an overhaul of u.s. foreign policy. >> without a doubt we have prodigious work to do in italy and north africa. we have to change our thinking. we have to find a way to wage peace. >>> chafee started his political career as a republican and then became an independent before declaring himself a democrat two years ago. and chafee joins three other democrats who already declared their candidacy. hillary clinton of course bernie sanders and martin o'malley. >>> on the republican side there are nine declared candidates senators ted cuss rand paul marco rubio lindsey graham. and also former pennsylvania senator rick santorum. dr. ben carson former ceo carly fiorina and mike huckabee and george pataki. >>> governor christie is slamming the sweeping changes made to surveillance laws that would eliminate the national security agency bulk phone records collection program. he said the changes will make our country less safe. the changes approved by congress tuesday overhauled the records. the nsa will continue to s

>> if it's true that lincoln chafee is living in canada it's a remote part. but the liberal red meat that he will put out is going to excite some people and that could rough her up a little bit. >> her favorables unfavorables among independents 39 to 55 in the cnn poll. she's paying a price for having gone left and for these scandals. i understand why charles said this is over. i hope we don't have to play that videotape back. i would say let's reserve our judgments for now. >> are you planning -- >> i'm just saying stranger things have happened. >> you have to go like lincoln chafee and be bold. >> go metric. >>> next up did the u.s. inadvertently arm isis? we'll talk about it, next. right now, the unthinkable is happening. faithful christians are being kidnapped, tourtured, beheaded and crucified simply because they are christians. this is genocide and it won't stop unless we do something about it. at the aclj, we are the frontlines in washington at the un, and in the region advocating for those who cannot defend themselves. but we cannot do it alone, we ne

not through any part of chafee's. the politics was such that we drifted further and further apart.the time when clinton offered me an appointment to the supreme court, i thought i could pass a bill. it didn't work out but that's life. i made a decision based on the facts at the time. charlie: but you regret it? george: yes, but i wouldn't have gone to ireland, the middle east, who knows? charlie: are you more judicial than political in mindset, in frame of reference? george: i think legal training has been good for me. i think serving as a united states attorney and as a federal judge was good for me. it allowed me to open up my mind to hear contrary arguments. it allowed me to establish the ability to have a fair procedure for debating issues where everybody gets their say and there has to be some qualification of evidence so i think it's been enormously helpful to me and i still do think in that context. charlie: why did you leave the senate? george: i decided after my first election in 1982 that i did not want to make this a lifetime job. many men and women do and i don't mean a

>> if it's true that lincoln chafee is living in canada it's a remote part. the liberal red meat that he will put out is going to excite some people and that could rough her up a little bit. >> her favorables unfavorables among independents 39 to 55 in the cnn poll. she's paying a price for having gone left and for these scandals. i understand why charles said this is over. i hope we don't have to play that videotape back. i would say let's reserve our judgments for now. >> are you planning -- >> i'm just saying stranger things have happened. >> you have to go like lincoln chafee and be bold. >> go metric. >>> next up did the u.s. inadvertently arm isis? we'll talk about it, next. hey pal? you ready? can you pick me up at 6:30? ah... (boy) i'm here! i'm here! (cop) too late. i was gone for five minutes! ugh! move it. you're killing me. you know what, dad? i'm good. (dad) it may be quite a while before he's ready, but our subaru legacy will be waiting for him. (vo) the longest-lasting midsize sedan in its class. the twenty-fifteen subaru legacy. it's not just

as quote honest and trust worthy and ian one of her democratic presidential challengers, lincoln chafeeten. >> i think it's a long record just going back over decades of questionable ethical practices, and people bring up all these things the rose lawmaker records, it just seems like it never stops. and so now we're into the ten-year secretary of state and the e-mails and of course the clinton foundation donations at the same time the state department is making critical decisions that combined with some of those donations by the clinton foundation. it's just too close and too many ethical questions. >> all right. so what do you say about that? >> like i said i think we're going to have a spirited and robust debate but as we go through our primary nominating contest, that debate should focus on the differences between democratic candidates and republican candidates and the main issues that are important to the american people. and that should be the focus. i think it will be the focus. we'll talk about making sure that we can stand up for the middle class and working families and contras

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lincoln chafee was then a republican senator from rhode island. only republican actually in the senate who voted against that resolution clearly a big issue for him, why he voted, he believes the right way she voted the wrong way. we'll be hearing a lot more from the newly declared democratic presidential candidate, lincoln chafee. in a little bit, he's going to be taking our questions live here during our next hour of "the situation room." we'll hear him make his case. >>> there's other breaking news we're following. at the pentagon right now where the defense department finally is talking about the mistaken shipments that may have contained live anthrax, the number of affected labs in states keep on growing. let's go to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr who has more. what are you learning? >> reporter: you're absolutely right. it's been more than a week since this problem came to light. for the first time today, the pentagon coming out public talking about it. where are we? there are now 400 lots of anthrax. this is the large-scale invent

i mean lincoln chafee got in yesterday.s to boost the economy i'm not making this up. he said is for the u.s. to convert to the metric system. he said we're one of the last countries to not do that and he thinks it will help our economy. maybe it will but that doesn't seem to be front and center in the american political debate and doesn't seem something that hillary clinton would be worried about. martin o'malley. >> let's just stay with chafee for a moment. i think he wants to do that to confuse isis. on the signs it says buffalo 143 miles. if we change it to kilo meters isis guys might not know and they will wind up in albany but maybe that's not true. martin o'malley, number two you say? >> i was there in baltimore when he launched last weekend. he used to be the mayor of that city governor of the state. he had less than 1,000 people in federal hill, historic place in baltimore. okay crowd. but if you are the former mayor, you would think you would have some huge turnout. 2% in the polls in iowa and new hampshire. he do

. >>> now to decision 2016 a fourth democrat is now running for president, he's lincoln chafee. he announced his candidacy calling for an overhaul of policy. >> without a doubt, we have prodigious work to do in africa. >> chafee was a republican and then an independent before declaring himself a democrat two years ago. he joins the other three democrats, hillary clinton, bernie sanders and martin o'malley. on the republican side there are nine in the race. ted cruz rand paul marco rubio, lindsey graham former pennsylvania senator rick santorum ben carson carly fiorina, and george pataki. >>> and governor christie blasts the overhaul of the nsa bulk collection program. the changes tuesday to overhaul the program by keeping records in phone company's hands, not the government. the nsa will continue to seek our text messages and e-mailing after the september 11 attacks. >>> the number of labs across the country that may have received live anthrax is growing. yesterday, the pentagon announced mistakenly sent live spores to at least 51 locations and 17 states and three foreign countr

chafee.writes i commit to the repair needed and our credibility will be restored when we respect our world partners and truly listen when they speak. in a world of nuclear world the united states must make decisions with brains and not biceps. he will make protecting liberties a focus. and he was at brown and followed by montana state university horse shoeing school and black smith in north america and presidential horse race. cha fee is starting in the back of the pack. in the average of polls, he is tied with martin o'malley. 1.4 to 1.4. >> a real horse race there. >> thank you very much. >> and lincoln chafee jones a small pool of democrat candidates and a lot of observers wonder if a third party candidate will run. gerald si writes similar popullist refraps are coming with cast of characters with role followings sanders and elizabeth warren on the left and rick sanatorium and mike huckabee and rand paul on the right. and you can hear a potential third party platform emerging. the guy who

senator, chafee was the only republican to vote against the iraq war., he turned independent and then became a democrat. chafee made his formal announcement today in arlington, virginia. >> if we as leaders show good judgment and make good decisions, we can fix much of what is ailing us. we must deliberately and carefully extricate ourselves from expensive wars. just think of how better this money could be spent. >> woodruff: chafee is the fourth democratic candidate in a field dominated, so far, by frontrunner hillary clinton. >> ifill: in economic news, the u.s. trade deficit fell sharply in april, by 19%. the march deficit had been the worst since 2008, after a labor dispute ended at west coast ports and a backlog of chinese goods flooded in. and on wall street today, the dow jones industrial average gained 64 points to close near 18080. the nasdaq rose more than 20 points, and the s&p 500 added four. still to come on the newshour: a spike in the number of labs that mistakenly received live anthrax. out of pocket costs for health care on the rise. wh

it turns out the names lincoln chafee and sepp blatter are actual people, and not horses running in the stakes. [ laughter ] >> steve: really? [ applause ] >> jimmy: i was gonna bet on sepp blatter. >> steve: did you really? >> jimmy: not real. actually, lincoln chafee is the former governor of rhode island, and he announced that he's running for president this week. and get this, after his announcement he got 27,000 comments on facebook. compared to hillary clinton's announcement, which got 10 million. [ laughter ] of course most of chafee's comments were just hillary posting "lol!" which isn't -- [ laughter ] that's rude. that's being real -- [ applause ] rubbing it in a little bit. >> steve: yeah. >> jimmy: and this made me laugh. before lincoln chafee announced that he's running, his wife went on facebook and asked his staff if they remembered his password. [ laughter ] because if a facebook password is too hard to remember, the launch codes for the nukes should be a piece of cake! that should be real -- [ laughter ] [ applause ] don't worry about it. >> steve: was it the dog's name

a democrat run for president now, he's lincoln chafee. he called for an overhaul of u.s. foreign policies. >> without a doubt, we have prodigious work to be done in africa. we have to change our thinking and find a way to wage peace. >> chafee joins three other democrats who declared their candidacy, hillary clinton, bernie sanders and martin o'malley. on the republican side there are nine declared candidates senators ted cruz rand paul marco rubio and lindsey graham. rick santorum dr. ben carson and carly fiorina, mike huckabee and george pataki. >>> the number of labs that may have received live anthrax is growing. yesterday, the pentagon announced that it mistakenly sent live anthrax to twice what they announced last week. the labs in delaware received and authorities say there is no risk to the general public. >>> chester heights, delaware county, city council approved the wawa. the expansion includes a 98,000 square foot building a multilevel parking garage. and delaware drivers could soon pay more in vehicle fees. a bill to raise those fees is headed to the senate f

neil: lincoln chafee and metric system.ot work at caroline's. >> bernie is good, joke around and talk about 90% tax rate. that is a joke. neil: laugh it off. joseph, thank you very much. great show. great guy. one of the hallmark heroes on "saturday night live." certainly the best sinatra. more after this. neil: want to let you know, ted cruz did send a congrat a laboratory message to his fellow texan, rick perry joining the race. on "your world" 4:00 p.m. eastern time. trish regan as she always does, keeps up with the big ol' newsmakers, lincoln chafee, former rhode island governor. he will spell out what he wants to do with metric system. you heard from, sense of humor. trish: means in kilograms, neil? could weigh less. that is good. neil: that could be very good. trish: could be very good for all of us. thanks, so much, neil. another republican candidate is throwing his hat in the ring. former governor rick perry throwing his hat in the ring moments ago. i will talk to his competition on the other side of the aisle. >> w

lincoln chafee plans to become number four today. >>> it's 5:45. we have developments this morning in two secret surveillance programs by federal agencies programs that are not so secret anymore. nbc's vai sikahema has more in the digital operations center. vai, we're talking about planes and phones here right? >> reporter: yeah, chris. we're learning more about the fbi's sky spies program. it uses ordinary planes for surveillance surveillance. can lock in on your cell phone. the associated press had an investigation when they found the fbi controls a fleet of possible bloi more than 100 planes with video cameras. they have cell phone towers on the planes that can force the phones to respond back. they use fake companies on the planes. that's to protect pilots and the secrecy of their operations. the bureau says the surveillance is done legally. mean while, the new freedom act is expected to take effect in a couple of days with a few days to go here. the president put his signature on the bill late last night. it's a replacement for the patriot act