i was their love child, so -- >> my name is really john schmidt. i'm not a -- >> well, i know who you are. all right. i'll be back. >> in the system for like 11 years now, and basically kept me in here because i found out a lot of dirty secrets about cleveland. osama bin laden is still alive. he never left the country. we could never find him because he was in cleveland. he never left. >> osama bin laden is in cleveland? >> yes. he was at the horseshoe casino. and he's small, lost weight. nothing like the pictures. >> if outrageous claims were his only issue, he would probably spend less time in segregation, the housing unit where problematic inmates are confined their cells for 23 hours a day and enjoy few if any privileges. >> inmate schmidt does not care about being locked up. it's obvious it does not matter to him how long he's in his cell. so he's a harder inmate to deal with because lockup doesn't work. >> he is currently back in segregation for taking his cleaning duties in another housing unit to an unacceptable level. >> schmidt was sweepi

steve schmidt, an msnbc political analyst and former bush-cheney strategist in 2004. and john holm, msnbc political analyst and national affairs editor of "new york" magazine. steve schmidt, we go to you. do the republicans have a new billionaire front-runner as of tonight? >> well, look, i don't think it's any secret that the donor class of the republican party, particularly the amount of money that you can raise in the tri-state area here, that there's deep skepticism, deep worry about governor christie, whether he can possibly come back from this. so in a field where rand paul is ascendant, in a feel field that appears to be as unstructured as it's ever been, with no clear front-runner, people are looking at one of the most formidable political leaders in the republican party, one of the most scuffle governors and someone who could compete very well with the latino vote and that of course is jeb bush. and should he get in the race, of course i think it deflates any chance of a christie comeback and also knocks marco rubio out of the running as well. >> david axelrod, i want

john kerry faced difficult questions about russia's actions in the country in front of a senate schmidt. libby casey has more >> reporter: secretary kerry addressed directly concerns accusations that russia is playing an active role in trying to destabilize eastern ukraine. >> that's clear and unmistakable involvement in destabilizing and engaging in sep rat test activities in the east of ukraine is more than deeply disturbing. no one should be fooled -- and believe me, no one is fooled -- by what could potentially be a con tried pretext for military intervention as we saw in crimea. equally as clear must be the reality that the united states and our allies will not hesitate to use 21st sent re tools to hold russia accountable for 19th century behavior. >> a secretary of state said there will be a meeting in next week between russians, ukrainians and the u.s. four-party talks, which are significant in the secretary's eyes because it does mean that the ukrainians and the russians can sit at the say -- sit at the same table. the way secretary kerry scribes the u.s. relationship with russi