take the smear campaign against conservative republican hopeful chris mcdaniel. media's inflammatory headline about mcdaniel. leave it to the left-wing lame stream media to tell you half the story. turns out he missed the august neo confederate conference, but he gave the keynote speech to the neo confederate conference in june. somehow they left that out. he is, too, a neo confederate sesseinist. he is, too. try this smear on for size, mississippi tea party challenger voted as a democrat in 2003. voted as a democrat? voted as a democrat? it's one thing to say a man missed a speech at the neo confederates. but voting as a democrat? that's just low. you could say a lot of things about chris mcdaniel but don't you ever say he voted democrat. liberals and rhinos, you just crossed line. >> coming soon to a tv machine near you, mississippi. coming soon. near you, mississippi. >>> first look is up next. >>> good friday morning. right now on "first look" a florida pilot tells the faa a passenger fell out of his plane and into the ocean. the search continues. >>> toronto

take the smear campaign against conservative republican hopeful chris mcdaniel. media's inflammatory headline about mcdaniel. leave it to the left-wing lame stream media to tell you half the story. turns out he missed the august neo confederate conference, but he gave the keynote speech to the neo confederate conference in june. somehow they left that out. he is, too, a neo confederate sesseinist. he is, too. try this smear on for size, mississippi tea party challenger voted as a democrat in 2003. voted as a democrat? voted as a democrat? it's one thing to say a man missed a speech at the neo confederates. but voting as a democrat? that's just low.

take the smear campaign against conservative republican hopeful chris mcdaniel. mmatory headline about mcdaniel. leave it to the

and chris mcdaniel was the source of a little bit of political embarrassment earlier this month when the news magazine, mother jones, wrote about his history with neoconfederate groups in his state. mr. mcdaniel has been keynoting events hosted by this group, which is a local chapter of the sons of confederate veterans. one of the events that chris mcdaniel did for them featured all of the attendees dressing up in confederate uniforms. and these are not just guys who celebrate the history of the confederacy. these are guys who think there ought to be a confederacy now. they fly the confederate flag and wear confederate battle uniforms. not just because they like that the south seceded once, but because they want the south to secede again, and for pretty much the same reasons that they did the first time. this was a political embarrassment when the neoconfederate, neosecessionist leanings of this guy were reported nationally, but it should be noted that it was not an embarrassment for him. he is not denying that this is who he is, he is not denying that these are the groups that he ass

and chris mcdaniel was the source of a little bit of political embarrassment earlier this month when azine, mother jones, wrote about his history with neoconfederate groups in his state. mr. mcdaniel has been keynoting events hosted by this group, which is a local chapter of the sons of confederate veterans. one of the events that chr

you could say a lot of things about chris mcdaniel but don't you ever say he voted democrat. liberals and rhinos, you just crossed line. >> coming soon to a tv machine near you, mississippi. coming soon. near you, mississippi. >>> first look is up next. >>> good friday morning. right now on "first look" a florida pilot tells the faa a passenger fell out of his plane and into the ocean. the search continues. >>> toronto mayor rob ford's mouth and behavior continued to shock the masses. >>> health care whiplash. the president's latest plan to help the system. >>> and more aid to the philippines. >>> and florida's sink hole problem increasing by the day. >>> and check the tunnel height. >>> a bizarre incident in miami, florida. a man is lost at sea after reportedly plunging 2,000 feet from a private plane. the search is under way from a man who fell from an open door with no parachute. the pilot's may day call reveals the tense moment. >> mayday, mayday, mayday. i have a door ajar. i have a door ajar and a passenger just fell down. >> you said you had a passenger that fell out o

this is chris mcdaniel, he is a mississippi state senator of the tea party persuasion.t a tea party hard right-wing primary challenge against mississippi's long-serving republican u.s. senator, thad cochran. and chris mcdaniel was the source of a little bit of political embarrassment earlier this month when the news magazine, mother jones, wrote about his history with neoconfederate groups in

veteran has been coy about his future plans but he's already got a would be tea party challenger in chris mcdanielounce ed that he's going to run against cochran if he decides to seek re-election. >>> next up, 15, the number of states that will have legalized same-sex marriage. hawaii's state senate approved a bill to the cheers of the crowd in the gallery. the governor plans to sign the bill during a televised ceremony at 3:00 eastern time today. once he signs the bill, hawaii will have leap frogged illinois. illinois's legislature has passed a same-sex marriage bill but governor quinn hasn't signed it into law yet. that's why it's not technically 16 and why it's still at 15. >>> finally we end with an incredibly view and a large number. 404,880. that's the number of miles captured in one single panoramic view of saturn. nasa just released this incredible photo. yes, it's a photo. they collected 141 wide angle images to make it possible. this image is the first to show all of saturn's rings at once while including the earth, the moon, mars and venus. come on, don't you want to just stare at that

chris mcdaniel says he only attended one as opposed to two of the noeo-confederate events.ngs better? >> no. so you attended one. but it might have been a freudian slip on your part to say neo-nazi. could you imagine if he had attended, let's say, a neo-nazi event, what the impact would have been? can you imagine if that 7-year-old had dressed up as a nazi storm trooper. what the legitimate response would have been. i think that's exactly how we as common sense people are going to have to look at this. but that 7-year-old will probably as bill press said, grow up to be that state legislator or that elected official and carry on this awful tradition. you asked the question early on, al. who's going to tell these people that they're 150 years behind. we are. that's what we've got to do. >> you know, bill, the right wing conspiracy block is now arguing that, quote, hitler would be pleased with president obama. i mean, why is this scary? because members of congress read this website. congressman steve stockman is even handing out the copies of the website's obama impeachment bo

you could say a lot of things about chris mcdaniel but don't you ever say he voted democrat. liberals and rhinos, you just crossed line. >> coming soon to a tv machine near you, mississippi. coming soon. >>> now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. have a great night. >>> today, the president tried to stop the panic among some congressional democrats over the affordable care act. >> there is no doubt that people are frustrated and we should have done a better job. >> the president is going to announce some kind of fix. >> some sort of fix. >> administrative fix to the affordable care act. >> i understand why folks are frustrated. >> if you like your plan, you really can keep the plan. at least for a while. >> today we're going to extend that principle. >> trying to keep his original promise. >> insurers can keep their plan into 2014. >> that's on me. we should have done a better job. >> president obama gets an earful from fellow democrats. >> we believe this needs to be fixed. >> i think we can get it fixed. >> they are worried now about the mid-term elections