claire mccaskill has more of a complicated relationship with the clintons.hey were trying to defend her. even if you are trying to defend her, you almost end up blurting out things that don't. those are people that are trying not to screw her. this is so tricky because almost anything you say, once you start talking long enough, something comes out of your mouth that is incriminating. mark: she had her thing at the u.n. and the feel of it was she was telling us everything she knew. her danger with democrats if something comes out different, or something that contradicts what she said, i think that will spook a lot of the democratic elites who say oh, no. on the current facts, those two gaps, she is on very solid ground with democrats. john: you hear it all the time -- there is still unease. they all feel what they always feel with the clintons which is somehow they don't know the full story and there could be another shoe that drops. it is not like we are already to go and everything is fine. that is not a feeling -- there are tremors. mark: she is ok for no

claire mccaskill: that would be terrific. as you know, we work closely with the inspector general in afghanistan, i think the body of work they have done is incredibly helpful to our nations the lee terry as we look at how we honestly confront sequestration. one of the ways as being better stewards of the resources that we have allocated to these efforts. general rodriguez, i understand that most of the service members deployed to africa as part of the ebola response operation have begun returning home. is there any effort to keep track of the number of contractors around this effort and how many of them have been pulled and how many remain in ebola as we continually try to stay on top of contractor costs? general rodriguez: there is a strict accounting that has been done. we were very cognizant of the challenges with contractor oversight and also paying too much money for contracts. we have a strict accounting. claire mccaskill: we would love it if you would share it with our office. also, general austin, if you could share

to talk about it we have curt schilling with us and senator claire mccaskill of missouri, joining us she participated in yesterday's selma anniversary. senator mccaskill, your home state of missouri, you were at the funeral for tom schweich, do you believe it was the politics of personal destruction that basically pushed schweich to this point of taking his own life? >> well, it was certainly a contributing factor. there was a stupid negative hurtful ad that had been run on radio the weekend before. and then combined with tom's belief that -- a political operative was -- was doing a whisper campaign about his faith. i think those contributed to obviously -- obviously he was imbalanced because suicide is a serious issue in our society but no question that the coarseness and the negativity of our political campaign takes a toll on people, and i think people need to remember that. >> you know, i got kathleen parker with me here on the panel. this is what she wrote on thursday in the washington post. politics is a blood sport a fact that some find worthy of boasting. as we consider ameri

you guys are weird people. >> i'm with you. >>> coming up we've got senator claire mccaskill is goingo be with us on the set and she's going to talk to us about the fight against isis and the tensions back in her home state. >>> plus where in the world is vladimir putin? >> i'm wondering. >> mika has some extraordinary background information that we cannot say on air. how about that for a tease? >> i'm working on confirmation. keir simmons joins us from london about the russian leader who has been mia for days. >>> jeb bush takes a shot at scott walker for flip-flopping. of course, kasie hunt is right in the middle of -- >> troublemaker. >> she just wants to know. >>> plus on tomorrow's show republican senator ted cruz of texas joins us onset. i'm telling mika mind yours ps and qs. >> oh, no. >> right now bill karins has a check on the forecast. >> we could hit 70 in washington, d.c. we're going to talk cherry blossoms in a couple of weeks here. the big story, boston. you had snow yesterday again. and now you're officially in the record books. there's no one alive in boston that has s

in this upcoming election year claire mccaskill will not be up for reelection. yet another reason why in 2016 she should totally run for president. i don't think she is going to but she should. but roy blunt it up were and they're going to run jason kandor. he already held state-wide office in 2016. it will be a presidential year electorate. so that reelection race for that u.s. senate seat in missouri that will be a hot one in 2016 as is the governor's race. jay nixon is term limited out. that seat will be open. the democrats seem to be coalescing around another young popular candidate that already held state office. it looks like they will pick chris costar. it is turning into a free for all with six candidates entering the ring already. it is six candidates that all have a reasonable shot. that free far all is fall fascinating enough within but it is starting to field like a huge level of tragedy in that state. the story look an unbelievable turn today. one of the first republican cap dates to declearare he was running this year was tom schweich. a month late

in this upcoming election year claire mccaskill will not be up for reelection. 2016 she should totally run for president. i don't think she is going to but she should. but roy blunt it up were and they're going to run jason kandor. he already held

and senator claire mccaskill spoke of that today. >> there are new people running for office we're going to have three new council people in ferguson and i hope the people of ferguson realize this is the moment where you exercise the muscle of democracy and you vote and participate. that is the other thing that has gone on in many communities, folks haven't stepped up to be part of the government just consent to criticize the government. >> reporter: now, i attended a city council candidate forum last night where many concerned residents were worried about the fate of the ferguson police department in light of the scathing police department last week. and this was an event for residents to meet the candidates and half of the questions raised last night were how could city officials move forward and meant race relations in light of what happened. at the same time down the street there was the prayer vigil that you mentioned and there were about 100 people gathering and singing and chanting and it was peaceful and it wrapped up on a high night africa protest leaders said it was a successfu

john: claire mccaskill says an independent person should have done it and james carville thinks she would'veeld the e-mails. there is also not great news about hillary clinton in a new cnn poll. 51% say her e-mail use was a somewhat serious problem. 48% said meh, not that serious at all. on the current facts of politics, can they keep the democrats in line? john: james carville will defend hillary to the debt. clairclaire mccaskill has more of a collocated -- complicated s relationship. even if you are trying to defend her, you almost end up blurting out things. those are people that are trying to screw her. this is so tricky because almost anything you say, once you start talking long enough, something comes out of your mouth that is incriminating. mark: she had this thing at the u.n. and the feel of it was she was telling us everything she knew. the danger with democrats if something comes out different or something that contradicts what you said, i think that will spook a lot of the democratic elites. on the current facts those two gaps, she is on very solid ground with democrats. john: y

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claire mccaskill: thank you mr. chairman. thank you for all being here. and thank you for your service to the country. as we were discussing, admiral before the hearing started, i had, as you all know, the great opportunity yesterday to embark the uss new hampshire submarine to go out for the day to dive with the submarine. it was really an experience of a lifetime and i very much appreciated that. it was especially -- i was especially impressed by the dedication and professionalism by the men serving on that submarine, as on all of our submarines. impressed by the teamwork that they all experienced as they pointed out to me that a submarine only runs if everybody works together. the cook knew as much about the ship and how is was laid out and the operations as the people in the operations room. it was very impressive. one of the things that became clear as we were discussing with folks about their experience on the new hampshire was that -- general dunford can appreciate this -- a lot of the discussion during the wars in afghanistan and iraq, has been th

former pitcher curt schilling and missouri senator claire mccaskill on how a toxic

but in terms of the broader idea of claire mccaskill saying voting matters particularly relevant withvoting rights act and march in selma, and generational gap. older folks remember the hard fought victories for the right to vote younger people say voting will replace undesirable elected officials but won't eradicate racism and violent encounters between police and black men which they say the protest is about. while many don't doubt that more people need to vote they say voting is one cog in the broader machine to change the system. >> and traditionally, folks in ferguson have a low voter turnout, right? >> reporter: that's right, especially in municipal elections. in april, three city council seats are up for grabs, including the ward where michael brown was killed. these rates have been abysmally low. folks are trying to register folks to vote. last summer they had a long voter registration drive that amounted to less than 200 new voters. activists and organizers are trying to redouble efforts to make sure folks show up show out, and make a good showing of it, try to get some sort

and speaking about yesterday's violence missouri senator claire mccaskill said people in ferguson really want to make a difference and see change here they should get out and vote. municipal elections here are next month. live in ferguson, missouri chris pollone. back to you. >> thanks chris. >> measure is mounting for the new director of the secret service. lawmakers demanding quick answers about why two agents were allowed to go home after crashing through a barricade in a bomb scare at the white house. >> tracie potts is live on capitol hill this morning with the latest on this investigation. >> it was all caught on video, and lawmakers want to see it. two senior secret service agents ran into a white house barricade during a bomb investigation last week. after what the washington post called a night of drinking nearby. >> does it really need to be said that you can't show up drunk at work? especially when you're in the secret service? >> the house oversight and government reform committee is asking director joe clancy for a briefing by wednesday. >> he better deal with it swiftly. it

joe mansion says he's for getting rid of what the president did, clair mccaskill, yet they won't votefor it. they have a group of republicans who want to make a point on this when there are better ways to make the point. let's pass a budget. >> are the republicans and democrats enjoying this? >> i don't think anyone is enjoying it, but there are ways this can happen. this debate within the party right now and fighting this out in public, it is the house minority -- i mean the minority within the gop majority that is causing this problem. and they can't -- >> the democrat moderates could be voting for the legislation. and even then the president is going to veto it. >> the gop is united for a clean bill. they've been able to hold their caucus tight. where the problem is and where the republicans do have the vote, they have the votes in the house to pass a clean bill, they're just not going to do it, and that's a division within the party, it's an argument within the party, and it's not doing the party any good, particularly with the problems we have right now in homeland security and t

former pitcher curt schilling and missouri senator claire mccaskill on how a toxic situation can turnstopped. i'm chuck todd. joining me to provide insight

senators claire mccaskill and roy blunt. the democratic governor of the state jane nixon n. e-election. yet another reason why in 2016 she should totally run for president. i don't think she d ever is going to but she should. i'm just saying. in 2016 roy blunt is up for re-election. he may get a run for his money in terms of trying to hold on to his seat. democrats will run the current secretary of state against roy blunt. his name is jason candor. he is young and aggressive, well known in the state. already holds state-wide office. in 2016 that's going to be a presidential year electorate which is way better for democrat s than nonpresidential years are in terms of who turns out to

for example, on this show, rachel's tried to make the case that moderate missouri senator claire mccaskill most electable democrat out there right now, but mccaskill has been adamant. she says she wants hillary to run. she says she'll support her if she does. so now for dianne feinstein, for a fellow democrat, for a powerful longtime member of the u.s. senate to come out and say hillary needs to step up and speak out about the e-mail situation, to say she'll be in trouble if she doesn't do that, well, that's a pretty big deal. it's not clinton's strategy or at least it hasn't been her strategy so far. it's been more than a week and still hasn't said anything in public about any of this. she did put out one tweet saying that she's asked the state department to release her e-mails, but in general this scandal is yet another remind of how long hillary clinton has been out of day-to-day campaign-style politics, and even though she remains a huge public figure, has been able to stay on the spotlight mostly on her terms for the last few years. the question is, can she afford to keep trying to do

claire mccaskill reiterated that sentiment on the "today" show this morning. >> the community has really come together on this. there is a reward that's been offered. many of the protest community have spoken out in very dramatic terms about how disappointed they are that some thug would come to a peaceful protest site and commit a violent criminal act like this against police officers who are doing their jobs. >> the two officers shot early thursday morning are recovering now at home. released from the hospital. police officials say while they have strong leads, they have no suspects. three people were taken in for questioning yesterday but released shortly after. the shootings drew strong condemnation from attorney general eric holder yesterday. >> i want to be very clear here. i unequivocally condemn the repugnant attacks. what happened last night was a pure ambush. this was not someone trying to bring healing to ferguson. this was a damn pump. >> and president obama also weighed in during appearance on jimmy kimmel live last night. >> i think that what had been happening in ferguson

former pitcher curt schilling and missouri senator claire mccaskill on how a toxic

feinstein and lindsey graham and john lewis, moving interview on the 50th anniversary of selma and claire mccaskillilling with a very interesting thing -- >> bullying online. >> cyber bullying and jack danforth former senator, his eulogy for the politician who took his life was all about cyber bullying and problem of politics. >> i was watching that eulogy he was actually officiating at the funeral and he's an extraordinary man from a u.n. ambassador and minister. thank you so much. we'll all be watching. how safe are our diplomats. christopher hill coming up next. ameriprise asked people a simple question: in retirement, will you have enough money to live life on your terms? i sure hope so. with healthcare costs, who knows. umm... everyone has retirement questions. so ameriprise created the exclusive confident retirement approach. now you and your ameripise advisor.... can get the real answers you need. start building your confident retirement today. alright, so this tylenol arthritis lasts 8 hours, but aleve can last 12 hours... and aleve is proven to work better on pain than tylenol arthritis. s

senators claire mccaskill and roy blunt. the democratic governor of the state jane nixon n. the year claire will not be up for re-election. yet another reason why in 2016 she should totally run for president. i don't think she d ever is going to but she should. i'm just saying. in 2016 roy blunt is up for re-election. he may get a run for his money in terms of trying to hold on to his seat. democrats will run the current secretary of state against roy blunt. his name is jason candor. he is young and aggressive, well known in the state. already holds state-wide office. in 2016 that's going to be a presidential year electorate which is way better for democrat s than nonpresidential years are in terms of who turns out to vote. so that roy blunt re-election race for that u.s. senate seat in missouri is going to be a hot one in 2016 as is the governor's race. jay nixon is term limited out. he cannot run again. the seat will be open. the democrat s seem to be coalescing around a popular candidate that holds statewide office. democrats look like they will in terms of who he will run

right now we're going back to selma, alabama, and melissa harris-perry who is joined live by claire mccaskill. >> senator mccaskill, thank you for joining us. i know you're part of a historic delegation here particularly for democrats who are here in selma today, why is it necessary to be here? >> first of all, it's important to celebrate a pivotal moment in our history, which bloody sunday was in terms of our country really standing for what our constitutional principles said. secondly, our voting rights are under attack again. in my state the missouri legislature has passed legislation to make it more difficult to vote. making sure that it is easy to express your opinion about the government in. the united states of america. you have to remain vigilant. and obviously, i'm very focused on the report that came out from the department of justice on ferguson this week because that represents another bat thal we have to fight for equal justice under the law. >> this moment is burned into our memory and history for two key reasons. one is about that struggle for the vote, but that has been a long

members of congress led by senator corey booker and co-sponsored by senators clair mccaskill, ed markey angus king introduced the community broadband act of 2015 which seeks to remove state barriers for constructing municipal broadband networks. it is unfortunate however that this issue has become a partisan one as of late, because it was not always that way. indeed, in 2005 an effort by senators john mccain lindsey graham, norm coleman, russ feingold and the late frank lautenberg sought to block states from restricting local governments' ability to provide internet service through the community broadband act of 2005. when the bill was reintroduced in 2007 senators late senator ted stevens olympia snow co-joined as co-sponsors. across the hall a house version of the bill. co-sponsored by representatives fred upton and rick bauscher. but what is striking is that the language in all of these bills is nearly identical. the only thing that has changed is the lack of bipartisan support. so i am hopeful that in this time in time we will once again unite across party lines to endorse measures

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claire mccaskill tweeting, quote, there's no place for criminal violence in the process of healing anilies. and local alderman tweeting this there are those that will exploit our city's division in order to perpetrate violence. the longer we're divided, the longer we're vulnerable. thomas, a lol of social media reaction we're keeping track of and we'll share more in the next hour. >>> as the search intensifies for the suspect in last night's shootings we'll take a closer look at the resignations and firings throughout the city of ferguson that followed that scathing department of justice report. when we come back, we'll speak to the reverend al sharpton about what's next for the fragile city of ferguson. in new york state, we're reinventing how we do business so businesses can reinvent the world. from pharmaceuticals to 3d prototyping, biotech to clean energy. whether your business is moving, expanding or just getting started... only new york offers you zero taxes for 10 years with startup ny business incubators that partner companies with universities, and venture capital funding for

we're going to talk about the selma anniversary and then curt schilling and claire mccaskill on sortf the coorsarsening of rhetoric and culture and what that means. both will be eloquent on that topic. >> chuck todd, pleasure. thanks for being with me. >> see you sunday. >>> don't forget catch chuck this sunday on "meet the press" on nbc. check local listings and don't forget to set the clocks an hour ahead before going to bed saturday night. >>> after the break, zoom through some of today's other top stories including a freight train carrying crude oil derailing in illinois and a dramatic rescue over the ski slopes of italy. cable cars stuck almost 100 feet in the air. dames ahead, right here on "the rundown." to severe rheumatoid arthritis like me and you're talking to your rheumatologist about a biologic... this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage. this is humira giving me new perspective. doctors have been prescribing humira for ten years. humira works for many adults. it targets and helps to block a specific source of in

claire mccaskill votes to continue to filibuster on one hand and then turns white background and votes -- turns right back around and votes for the one small portion of the bill that says don't fund the immigration policies of obama. obama -- it doesn't make any difference what the court rules, he ignores it anyway. why don't they pass the entire bill the way it is presented saying that is illegal enforcement -- illegal immigration policies can't be funded? why are the democrats are going to filibuster something that is illegal, and the courts of already ruled against it, but they said no, we can't let this go to the president so he can veto it. they are just jacking around in the senate. harry reid is continuing to be the worst minority -- or senior atity senator of all times. thank you. host: beverly is up next in washington, d.c. you are on "washington journal" as we talk to just republican viewers on how this dhs and immigration standoff should end. beverly, you with us? we will get back to beverly. mary lou is waiting in california. good morning. caller: i am not from big creek ca

. >> clair mccaskill taking a close eye on the situation. good to see you. assume you are being briefed into the shooting of the two officers. can you tell me about where the investigation stands and if they are closer to closing in on a suspect or suspects? >> they are working very hard and the community came tolg on this. there is a reward offer and many of the protests in the community have spoken out in dramatic terms about how disappointed they are that some thug would come to a peaceful protest site and commit a violent act like this against police officer who are doing their jobs. >> other jurisdictions commented they will manage security for any protests or demonstrations that happened there. are you concerned about a climate of danger about police wearing any uniform could be a target. >> this is a bigger issue than ferguson. we have a disconnect between communities and law enforcement. it only works if the people believe in it. we have to go back to the drawing board and get back to policing models. there is healing going on and there is reform goi

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