people don't really know john walsh and they don't know steve dains. hn bolinger and dirk adams are in the primary. if the primary were held today, it would be too close to call. and i suspect walsh might pull this out. if a general election were held today, i think dains gets to about 50% and probably walsh gets to about 40%. but a lot can change between now and election. they are still introducing themselves. john walsh is a good guy. i appointed him agitant general in iraq. i think people won't forget that about john walsh. >> you're a democrat saying you think the republican right now has the best chance of winning this senate race. what is your message to john walsh? what does his message need to be in montana to win this election and help democrats hold on to the senate? if they lose this race, they could lose the senate. >> he has to continue to be the outsider. because i got to tell you that congress is about as popular as a docockroach right now in montana. steve dains has been a member of congress, he's voted with paul ryan and in a recent mea

senator john walsh and tom taranti tarantino. this is state of the union. >>> good morning from washington, i'm candy crowley, the scene is unbearable to watch and the numbers are staggering. rescuers in south korea are bringing bodies to shore as distraught relatives hold out hope that anyone could still be alive from a sunken ferry filled mostly with high school students. officials released transcripts of ship to shore radio communications during the ferry's final moments. let's bring in paula hancocks in jindo, south korea. what do these communications tell us about the final moments? >> reporter: well, candy, these conversations between an unidentified person aboard the sea wall ferry and two radio towers, the destination radio tower and the tower closest to where this ferry sank. and the most interesting part that we can see from it at this point is how quickly this ship appeared to list and then sink. this is based just on the transcripts available to us. but it appears as though the distress signal, the first distress sign

john walsh, thank you, michael steele. s on the right, you just heard after secretary of state john kerry for his comment actually was a word about israel. we're going to get to that word and what it means if anything in this context going down the road. this is "hardball." i procrastinated on... buying a car because i knew... it would be a scary process. truecar made it very easy... for me to negotiate, because i didn't really need to do any negotiating at all. save time, save money, and never overpay. visit truecar.com by the end of next year, the goelt is to have no children born with hiv. believe it or not, scientists say it can be done. if you want to help this very important mission, you can find more information on our website hardball.msnbc.com. by the way, use that website all the time. hardball.msnbc.com. >> we're back. the war hawks on the right wing will do anything to politicize israel and the peace process, we know that. and their recent attacks on john kerry is their way of opposing his efforts at peace betwe

and congressman steve danes is with the gop, and jon tester, and now john walsh who was appointed tous' term after he became the am bbassador the china. and while bachus helped to keep the column, the race is even worse today than three months ago with the jobs. of the three open seat races, south dakota, virginia and montana, and are they more vulnerable than any others? there was an ad that barely mentioned that he is now a sitting senator. >> while too many politicians in washington have forgotten their oath and put their own interests at work, john is working to do what is right, cutting government waste and protecting veteran veterans and seniors. john waller, montana courage. >> like it or not, he is the incumbent, and faces a tough challenge from danes. if he wins, he is if first republican to win in 67 years arngd the first to hold that particular seat in more than a century. >>> trivia time, it was ulysses s. grant who was president in 1876 when the turf law was passed to keep the capital from being used as a playground. well, we can use the south lawn. and tomorrow we will

the only iraq combat veteran in the united states senate, senator john walsh of montana, just this weeka bill to up suicide prevention efforts for veterans. we need that. what we don't need is to use what just happened at ft. hood, the latest in a long line of mass shootings in america, what we don't need is to use what just happened at ft. hood as an excuse to stereotype veterans as broken because of their time as war. if we think of every other mass shooting in america as somehow particular to the circumstances of that shooting, but this one is explained away as, oh, he was an iraq vet. what you see in the headlines about this story all over the country today, not only does that not help us understand what happened here, it is an offense against every other veteran who right now is getting that stigma shoveled on to them by a lazy civilian world and a lazy civilian media who find this dangerous veteran stereotype to be an easier thing to point to than the fact that america has a mass shooting problem. we have a bad mass shooting problem. and the only single thing that all of our ameri

trying to use this as a wedge to make it a little bit more difficult for mary landrieu and maybe john walshessful at it. those democrats who come from places where we develop oil and gas, they recognize that it's safer to have oil in a pipeline than it is on trains. they'd like to support it. what they've got wrong is the senate and congress can't approve of this. pipelines are approved state by state and while i was governor of montana, i demanded that transcanada post millions of dollars as a bond as a condition of giving them a permit and demanded they allow montana and north dakota oil to be put on this keystone pipeline so we could get it to market and no longer use the rail road to get to the oil to market. but you see, president obama really can't act on this until nebraska acts because the only reason that we're asking the state department and president obama to move is because it crosses an international boundary. if seestone didn't cross an international boundary there is no role for washington, d.c. now we're asking the state department and president obama to act on permitting th

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provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable john walsh, a senator from the state of montana, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: mr. president, every time that i see the presiding officer lead the senate in prayer and certainly introducing the prayer, but directing the attention to us all to follow the presiding officer in reciting the pledge of allegiance brings back to me a lot of memories. when i first came to the senate, we had lots of members of congress who had been to war. now that's not the case. we all look at john mccain with such idealism of what he did in the vietnam war. and there are others, but there aren't many. and to have now the presiding officer having not only been to war but being a general and leading hundreds of people from montana to war, when that pledge of allegiance, i'm sure is said by the presiding officer, your feeling is a little different than everyone else's, because during those

john. >> our nick paton walsh this morning. it might seem like a small situation, but exactly the situation that u.s. officials fear could be some type of pretense for russian troops to get involved. >>> breaking news, new signals detected. new signals in the search for missing malaysia airlines flight 370. live team coverage on that next. bulldog: bulldog: [yawn] i just had a dream i was at mattress discounters with tempur-pedic and the largest selection of memory foam mattresses under one roof! icomfort, by serta... optimum, by posturepedic... ahh! comforpedic, by beautyrest... ooh! 48 months interest-free financing, free delivery, and queen-size memory foam mattress sets as low as $697! that's more mattresses than you can shake a bone at. ♪ mattress discounters >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> and the breaking news this morning, new clues in the search for the missing malaysian jetliner. two new signals detected under water from what

more than the incumbent, john walsh. he was just appointed earlier this year.se challenges raise more than the incumbent. mcconnell about mitch and the term burn rate in campaign finance lingo. guest: how much money you take vis how much money is going out. they raised a lot of money in the first quarter, about $2.4 million. and thatmore than that has a lot of people wondering or making a judgment that he knows he has a competitive race on his hands. he has a primary against a businessman from louisville. he is probably the favorite in both races and is taking it pretty seriously. .e has been able to raise money he still has $10 million on hand, one of the larger sums of any candidate up for reelection. he has a formidable war chest. host: focus on the none. georgia.democrat in the seat is held by a republican. democratsurned out -- are excited when she announced her candidacy. i don't think anybody expected this level of fundraising. it is a massive haul. she is raising a great deal money than any republican in the race. republicans have five viable candidates

john walsh says they're easy targets. >> i think every college kid thinks they're bulletproof and immortal think your teenager couldn't be lured in? we set up a test at hofstra university on long island. i'm posing as a reality show casting director, an easy ploy for a predator. >> hi, we're casting a reality show about college students, are you interested? >> i have a home video cam to film the auditions. right away, this student walks up. >> i'm anthony. i got to hofstra, obviously. >> i get him to walk back to my van to fill out paiperwork. >> this girl wouldn't either. >> my mother taught me well. >> but watch this next student. >> i'm nicole. i go to hofstra. >> can you fill out this form? >> it's right there. have a seat. >> remember, i could be an attacker. she just met me, but she's in my van without a care in the world. >> why would you want to be on a reality show? >> i think it's cool. just kind of have fun. >> nicole fills out our fake form giving us all her personal information. name, address phone number, then i ask for something else. >> now, she'd be trapped with no way to

john? >> not going anywhere. nick paton walsh, thank you very much. >>> to iraq now, where nearly 50 people have been killed in a series of attacks on polling stations across iraq, two days ahead of parliamentary elections. soldiers and security forces were voting at the time in advance of their countrymen, and many of the country's 22 million registered voters are expected to turn out for the first nationwide elections since the withdrawal of u.s. troops in 2011. no one has yet claimed responsibility for those attacks. >>> breaking overnight, north korea beginning exercises in the yellow sea, firing live ammunition, this very close to the south korean border. north korea did notify the south of its plans, but seoul is warning it will take action if any artillery shells fall on its side of the border. >>> the obama administration will no longer have to reveal just how many people have been killed or injured in drone strikes. the senate has stripped a provision from an intelligence bill requiring those details be made public. the

>> thank you, nick paton walsh in eastern ukraine, very tense situation. those developments have secretary of state johntougher sanctions against russia. let's bring in our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. is there a solid military reason right now for the u.s. to be this concerned about what's going on along that border between ukraine and russia. >> you know, wolf, if you talk to officials, there absolutely is. u.s. spy satellites have been watching that border for days now. the buildup of 40,000 heavily armed russian troops, but right now they are staying on that side of the border. it's this new unrest that nick was just talking about that has the u.s. so concerned. secretary of state john kerry today using the most blunt words, saying the unrest in these ukraine cities now is at the behest of russian agent and provocate provocateurs, his words. i want you to listen to a little bit more of what he had to say. >> these efforts are as ham handed as they are transparent, frankly, and quite simply, what we see from russia is an illegal and illegitimate effort to destabilize a sovereign state and c

john bolden, former u.n. ambassador e-mailed rubin, quote, senator paul should repudiate his remarks and apologize to vice president cheney. joan walsh, i have to tell you, i love this. i love the fact that the republican party is finally coming to some kwiend of reckoning over the dpi sast rouse course that took us into iraq. in its own midst, it's fighting about it. >> well, and they are going to bludgeon rand paul. i don't know who wins. i'm slightly surprised that he hasn't tried to walk back these comments at all. it's very hard to know who to root for here. there's no evidence. you were very clear about this last night. he did not provide ed of this halliburton connection, but he's absolutely right that dick cheney is the man in charge who is fighting for his wealthy friends and who fought this war under vastly false pretext. so he's going at him and it seems like everybody is standing around waiting to see who does what next. linking him to raw which he will maddow, that would be high praise if somebody said it about me, but it's dirty for liz cheney. it's a classic cheney dig that rand paul better get used to. i9 will be sbes

john. >> no sign of the violence waning any time soon, an election scheduled weeks from now. nick paton walshk you. >>> live fire exercises now under way by north korea in the yellow sea, very close to the south korean border. north korea did notify the south of its plans, but seoul is warning, it will take action if any artillery shells fall on its side of the border. let's take a look at what's coming up on "new day." kate bolduan joins us this tuesday morning. hi, kate. >>> good morning, guys. we're following the deadly tornadoes that you guys are as well, ravaging the midwest and southern united states today. 75 million people still under severe weather threat and face the possibility of more tornadoes. it's moving slowly, it's moving through these states, and the threat isn't over yet. we have everything you need to know, including where the storm is expected to hit next. >>> plus, we're going to bring you never-before-released audio of flight 370's final communications with the control tower. we're going to break down what it means for the investigation. >>> and we also have the latest

walsh, thank you. >>> let's go over to john berman now in for michaela. >>> oscar pistorius being cross-examined this morning in his murder trial. prosecutors showed a graphic image of reeva steencamp's head wound. he broke down and then court adjourned. earlier pistorius described the moments after the shooting including the futile effort to save steencamp. >>> more breaking news. toyota recalling nearly 6.4 million vehicles worldwide. 27 models are effected including the rav 4 suv. that's crossover suv. the automaker says there are a range of problems involving models from 2004 to 2010, potentially faulty steering, airbags, seats, starters, and windshield wiper motors. we'll have more on this coming up. >>> a marine is in custody this morning after shooting a fellow guard to death in a north carolina base. military officials say it happened at the main gate last night. they have not released the names of the shooter or victim. this happened nearly a week after a soldier killed three people and then himself at ft. hood in texas. >>> later today, president obama and first lady head to texas for memor

>> upstairs, inspector walsh finds more massage room with women and men in various states of undress. >> hello. hi, how are you? >> fine, how are you? >> some of johns were upset that we were there. one of them, a guy asked me what the hell i was doing there. >> excuse me, sir. >> yeah. >> may i ask why -- >> we're with the health department. inspection. they were putting their pants on when i walked in. >> what do you think is going on? >> sexual activity, obviously. >> wait, wait. >> these men want nothing to do with inspector walsh or our cameras. one by one they clear out. >> here's another one. >> this man may be camera shy but he is not about to leave without a refund. the house returns his $60 cash entry fee. >> the most girls i've ever seen here. this is like 12:00 in the afternoon. >> can everybody get their i.d.'s out please? >> one by one, the women are identified and cited for improper attire. fining massage parlors for scantily clad women is one of the numerous code violations the city came one to deter illegal activity. >> where's the manager? who is the manager? >> as is often the case in these places, the manager is nowhere to be fou

calling each other fascist, remarkable that john kerry chooses to focus on this, of which there's not too much of in reality on the ground. >> nick paton walshtinue the conversation. the u.s. ambassador to the organization for security and cooperation in europe, daniel bear is joining us now. do you want to give us your perspective on those anti-semitic leaflets? we heard john kerry say they were disgusting and chilling. what do you know about this, ambassador? >> well, i think as nick said, you know, the question remains on the ground whether where they came from, who they came from, et cetera. no matter where they came from, they're offensive and disgusting, and i think it underscores the fact that there's a lot of unknowns right now, and that tensions are very high, and anything like this can and should be seen as a provocation and rejected for the disgusting hate it represents. >> are you confident, upbeat, worried? give me an analysis of this deal that seems to be emerging in geneva right now. how confident are you that it will really de-escalate all those tensions? >> well, i think i'm, you know, i'm confident that the recipe there is

walsh. from "private practice" and ""grey's anatomy"." now she is on "fargo." and olivia newton johnmorning, everyone. 8:56. i'm scott mcgrew. you still have a chance if you want to work at the 49ers' new stadium. tonight, levie stadium officials will hold another job fair at the santa clara convention center. they're looking to fill about 900 positions. if you are interested, you have to register online before you show up, so give that one a google. >>> let's check in with christina this morning. >> and i'm giving google plenty of time every day, looking up everything, including the potential for some showers now over the weekend. we know we're coming in with some showers tomorrow morning, but we also have another round expected now saturday into sunday. and much cooler weather as well. so enjoy the 70s for today. 70 degrees, straight up along the peninsula. cool and cloudy, with showers tomorrow. hope you have a great day. >>> welcome to today on a thursday morning april 24th, 2014. nice crowd on the plaza. i'm willie geist with natalie and tamron. al had to leave a little early to