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jonathan capehart sam stein, kat person.udge report." they always have pictures 47 cats in an unsanitary house that was sam. >> julie pace mel hunt are here too. >> meow. >> it's crazy news. >> i don't know thousandhow to describe this. >> we have a documentary a few years back on report durst, like like he'd killed all these people but gotten away with it. his own brother fearing for his life in this really new york family and then boom. saw the breaking news yesterday across the iphone. >> and a lot of politics to get to in a minute. first we're going to try to lay this out for you. we begin with a documentary, proving real life may be stranger than fiction. less than 24 hours ago new york real estate heir robert durst was arrested and is now facing a charge of capital murder in the death of a friend in 2000. chocked up to new leads in evidence apparently examining his connections to two deaths and his wife's disappearance, but the final episode of the jinx delivered a final scene more shocking than most scripted series. a

joining me now is jonathan capehart "the washington post." for being here. >> thanks rev. >> jonathan we've been hearing about these kinds of issues from ferguson residents for months. but hearing it from the attorney general, what does it do? >> it gives it power. it gives it official power. people of ferguson have been protesting the killing of michael brown since within moments of his killing and it was then that we learn of all sorts of disparities there in ferguson from a majority african-american city that had a majority white police force. we then started learning about how these -- how ferguson was basically funding its budget on the backs of the poor through fines and fees. people who were being arrested and losing jobs and losing livelihood all over minor traffic offenses just as an example. and so what sounded probably to some like a bunch of whining from people in a community, to have the justice department jump in first to say we're going to investigate what is going on not only in the shooling of michael brown but also what is h

joining me now is the""the washington post"" jonathan capehart. >> it seems like a heartfelt statement sounds like someone who has learned an incredible lesson and has done so in a very public way. my hope is that he is young enough and that we will see action put behind those words. not necessarily later tonight or tomorrow or next week but he's a young man. he has an entire lifetime to make those words ring true. >> now i mentioned this earlier, reporters asked where he learned the chaptnt. here's what he said. >> i'm not here today to talk about where i learned the chant or how it was taught. i'm here to apologize for what i did because the truth is what was said in that chant is disgusting and it should never have -- and after meeting with these people and everybody else i've met with i've learned that these words should never be repeated, joked about or ever used in any form ever again. >> jonathan when we're hearing that this chant has been used years ago, similar chants that other frat houses have had similar allegations that are being checked into wouldn't it have been helpful

. >> let he get the never-ambitious jonathan capehart in here.s, so what's your reaction to the 13 words? >> you know i'm glad to hear everyone say that a lot of those words aren't sexist. there is one on there that, well, two, that made me cringe. and josh touched on one, ambitious, when applied to a woman, because it's always sheering. and then the other one, is will do anything to win, which to me reads conniving. and a few other words. again, which, you know. >> actually could mean something else jonathan, if you're going there. >> that's what i am alluding to. exactly. >> which would be wrong. >> the will do anything to win has applied to more men in politics and the world generally than anyone of these phrases. nixon broke into the other team's campaign headquarters. >> i think the point is that and this could be instructive to all of us who write about politics is that maybe we could try to stay away from clichÉs. i think mostly this 13 word thing is the nonsense. but this is our responsibility as journalists to write with more precision a

. >> joining me now is representative karen bass, a representative from california and jonathan capehart from "the washington post." thank you both for being here. >> thank you, rev. >> congresswoman, i have to ask you, how can republicans keep a straight face when they talk about this budget. >> it's interesting because there's new leadership on the house budget committee. and so what i think we're seeing is i think we're seeing tom price be actually more conservative than paul ryan was and i think paul ryan was actually critical and the defense appropriations. so it's really interesting. >> you know jonathan the president had trouble with the doom and gloom predictions while he ran for re-election. >> our policies would diminish on employment and diminish stock prices. stock market has doubled since i came into office. another prediction my re-election would spike prices to $6.60 a gallon. i don't know how they came up with that figure. 6.60. my opponent in that last election pledged that he could bring down the unemployment rate to 6% by 2016. next year. at the end of next year. it's

joining me now for our daily fix, jonathan capehart "washington post" editorial writer and sam stein, lot of talk about investigations on the hill beyond the benghazi investigation. as best we can tell from the speaker's office there is no other separate investigation except for what congressman chaffetz already launched into whether or not reports were properly maintained. there were two house committees now looking into benghazi looking into e-mails as it relates to libya and other committee looking into her e-mail process. >> yes, what this means is -- i'm sorry, andrea. >> what this means in terms of the time frame, looking towards 2016? >> right, what it means is the press conference that secretary clinton did last week and you were right there, we all saw you, didn't put to bed any -- didn't put to bed this controversy. in fact it raised more questions and what it means in terms of timing this is going to be an issue throughout the entire 2016 campaign unless and until secretary clinton and her impending campaign does something that calms the wolves and makes people take a step

joining me now are jonathan capehart from "the washington post" and jim cavanaugh, msnbc law enforcement analyst. thank you both for being here. >> thanks rev. >> thanks reverend al. >> jim, here's the arsenal police found on gonzalez in the very first traffic stop. rifles, shotguns handguns loaded magazines. the secret service was warned should we be confident he'd be stopped now if something like this happened again? >> well with the latest revelations from "the washington post," reverend al i think we've got to be a little concerned here. i have a lot of faith in the service, but they're not showing us a lot of good operational tactics here surrounding the white house. look, you're right to point out the gonzalez case. here's how that should have went. the virginia state police stop him, he has 11 guns. they call atf they find out he's got a sawed-off shotgun, they notify the service. the service should have asked the u.s. attorney of virginia a warrant on the complaint of a sawed-off shotgun. as condition of release of his bail he shouldn't be near the white house. then if he showed

msnbc contributor jonathan capehart joins me now.issues of police using too much force, the deaths of african-american young men, the report that came out of the justice department there's so much history and so much that isn't done and of course voting rights itself. >> right, we are at this moment where we're about to celebrate the 50th anniversary of selma that helped push through president johnson to be able to do the things he did on civil rights yet here we are days after a doj report talking about how the ferguson police the ferguson courts the ferguson municipal government worked hand in hand to finance their operations on the backs of the poor and backs of african-americans by trampling their constitutional rights. you read that report and you think this is 2015? this is happening today not back in the '60s or '50s? i think with the president going down to selma, with members of congress going to selma and attention of the country in the world on selma this weekend, i think you know the conversation that we have been having

joining me now, jonathan capehart.right. some people are calling you a race traitor. >> well you know jose it is one of the reasons i said this was probably the hardest piece i ever had to write. it was difficult and took me a week to write it first to read the report then to just get down precisely what i wanted to say, but when you write something like this as personal as this i was expecting this kind of reaction certainly from the left because it happened to be during a 2008 campaign when i said something remotely negative about then candidate barack obama, and i would get praise from the right for what they viewed as my doing or saying the right thing. the same thing is happening now. >> if you haven't read it i strongly suggest you do. what does it say? >> department of justice put out two reports, one on the ferguson police department filled with statistics how the government police, courts all basically callused to finance budgets on the poor in ferguson and overwhelmingly african-american city. what i found so

i'm jonathan capehart in for steve kornacki. we have breaking news on the deteriorating situation in yemen. the u.s. military ordered the evacuation of 100 troops and special forces and there is an emergency meeting of the security council this afternoon to discuss the situation. shiite rebels took hold of the country's third largest city and after 137 people were killed in two suicide

joe, jonathan capehart and liz winstead. than, these poll numbers, she's back to where she is was at the end of the only losing campaign in the national stage. this is having an effect. >> it is having an effect. don't those poll numbers reflect where the american people are on the clinton? either bill clinton or hillary clinton on fill in the blank -- fill in the blank issue? so i think the problem that the secretary has is that the 51% thinks that she's done something wrong, thinks she has questions to answer, and quite frankly she does. you know, speaker boehner calling on her to hand over the server to the benghazi house committee, doing the umpteenth investigation unnecessarily politicizes something. >> in your mind, what are the question she has to answer. >> one, why do you have a -- why do you have a private server? two, are we -- can you please assure everyone that all of the documents that are on it that pertain to your time as secretary of state are off that private server? i think what speaker boehner has done to

. >> i got to go to jonathan capehart and then ferguson. n the 1990s. they will not get away with now because of the internet because of everything that's online because of bloggers. news organizations don't get away today with what they got away with in the 1990s because you've got a million watchdogs out there watching everything you do. do you grow with what mike barnicle just said what worked in the 1990s for the clintons won't work for 2015? >> sure. we're knew living in a world of transparency. in the 1990s as journalists we had information that only we could get and that only we could have gauze we had access to the a.p. and the upi wires and then we put the news out for people to see. today our readers and viewers get the same information we get at the same time because of twitter and all the social media platforms that we have. the problem that hillary clinton could possibly have when she sbets gets into the race is that the world that she's going to be running in is completely different than the world her husband ran in when he ran

. >>> jonathan capehart and "new york times" reporter nick confessori.he line of attack was from david brock, then james carville, the ragin' cajun. don't look at the facts, don't look at the story, focus on where it came from. that was the first attack. then waiting about eight days, and she's come out today saying it was basic convenience. i'm not releasing the server, i only deleted private stuff dealing with my mother ace finial and my daughter's wedding. so i think it relies on this rorschach test. do you believe her or not. ? people in the middle will have to see. what's your view of thousand this will go over political? >> i think james carville would be happy if we used talking points that pro-clinton organizations send around and base stories on that. i think there's reasonable questionings that reasonable people have the e-mails and their provenance and the server. i think there are people who won't be satisfied, but there's a middle ground of people asking real questions, again, about security, government reports and her compliance with federa

." >>> i'm jonathan capehart in for chris matthews.in -- why? he threw yesterday a racially charged into the debate about loretta lynch's nominati

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joining us for our daily fix, washington bureau chief, susage page and mark murray and jonathan capehartntributor and "washington post" editorial writer. jonathan sorry you couldn't be with us for this gathering. mark, i want to start with you, this poll you were a part of. the good news -- there's good news and bad news for hillary clinton. we'll start with the good news she's in great shape with democrats as the numbers bear out. 86% saying they could see themselves supporting her. a majority of registered voters say hillary clinton presidency as more about past policies than new ideas and some some ways she benefits by jeb bush getting in the race. >> on the democratic front she's dweting almost universal support from democrats. you're pollster said this is an extraordinary position to start a presidential bid. 86% support, 13% no. when you talk about the change election and what was most striking, 60% of americans believe they prefer a candidate being a change candidate rather than being tested and experienced. when you think about test and experience that sounds like what hillary cl

." >>> i'm jonathan capehart in for chris matthews. let mess start with a question for dick durbin -- why? he threw yesterday a racially charged into the debate about loretta lynch's nomination. >> loretta lynch, the first african-american woman to be nominated to be attorney general, is asked to sit in the back of the bus when it comes to the senate calendar. that is unfair. it's unjust. it is beneath the decorum and dignity of the united states senate. >>> today the grenade went off. senator john mccain took to the senate floor today to demand a public apology from senator durbin. here's what he said as durbin stood just feet away. >> what is beneath the decorum and dignity of the united states senate, i would say to the senator from illinois is for him to come to this floor and use that imagery, and suggest that racist tactics are being employed to delay ms. lynch's confirmation vote. >> such inflammatory rhetoric serves no purpose. i think he owes this body ms. lynch, and all americans, an apology. >>> durbin didn't apologize, he d

. >>> joining me jonathan capehart and earl hutchinson author of the book "from king to obama." witness to a turbulent history. thanks for being with us this morning. earl start with you. saw subdued protests last night. how much do you think thursday's shooting marked the progress we have seen but yet mileage that still needs to be made as far as progress there? >> you know i think attorney general eric holder and president obama put it best. it is not going to stop change. change is going to come. it is going to take time. we heard everyone say it is a healing process, time time time trust, trust, trust. these are the watch words. but just having a senseless act of violence is not going to stop anything. i like what the president said. legitimate protests and they are legitimate, they marginalize that element. at the same time still keeping focus on several things. i think we have seen over and over again, justice department pointed it out, it is not just leadership at the top or change of leadership that's important. there are deep seeded structural problems not only in fergu

i look at jonathan capehart and say, good for you. one down, about 10,000 more to go, right?'t all those people, including the congressmen, who were out there perpetuating the myth, the nfl players, who were out there perpetuating the myth shouldn't they all be as vocal about officer wilson's vindication as they were in their rush to condemn him unfairly before the facts were in? >> yes. but don't hold your breath. the easiest thing to do when the facts overtake your position is to turn over to the next story, or pivot and talk about the justice department report about the racial discrimination of the police department. which is a legitimate part of the story. but to retrace your steps, dive into the report, say i was wrong, put it on video i think we'd have a much more honest dialogue in this country if both sides were to follow that example. >> i couldn't agree with you more. howie, good to see you. >>> a controversial new starbucks campaign touching off serious backlash. we'll show you why. >>> plus, naked neighbor, creating quite a stir in one southern community. can you

digital editor at ebony.com, jameil jameil lemiue josh barrow and "washington post" columnist jonathan capehartnts around this, do you think the local chapter has a case to be made? >> we have quite a strong case. the university of oklahoma is a public university and arms of the government including public universities can't punish people solely for their speech. now, i would say though that in order for that case to be won, it would have to be brought and if i'm the fraternity member of the fraternity i don't think i want a big public lawsuit over this. so i think it's actually i think it's very likely they will end up going away quietly. they hired a lawyer doesn't mean they'll file a lawsuit. they may try to get some settlement out of the university but the university from the public relations standpoint handled this welcoming out hard against the fraternity. i doubt that david boren and other university officials are eager to cut a settlement. they might welcome a lawsuit. >> well jonathan there's also this sort of you guys can do this should you do it to josh's point. >> uh-huh. >> the nat

i'm jonathan capehart in for chris matthews. monica lewinsky. it's been 17 years since she became the face of the biggest scandal in the world. today she's 41 and speaking out about what she calls a culture of abuse and humiliation online. in a ted talk yesterday, she described what happened to her as an early example of this new ki

i'm jonathan capehart in for chris matthews. let me start tonight with the return of monica lewinsky. it's been 17 years since she became the face of the biggest scandal in the world. today she's 41 and speaking out about what she calls a culture of abuse and humiliation online. in a ted talk yesterday, she described what happened to her as an early example of this new kind of abuse. quote, overnight, i went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one worldwide. i was patient zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously. i was branded as a tramp, tart slut, whore, bimbo and, of course, that woman. i was known by many but actually known by few. i get it. it was easy to forget that woman was dimensional and had a soul. a marketplace has emerged with public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry. how is the money made? clicks. the more shame, the more clicks. the more clicks the more dollar. we need to return to a long held value of compassion and empathy. she de

joining me now is social media expect elizabeth plank, and jonathan capehart.body. liz, let me start with the easy stuff, which is liz mair, a republican, whether you agree with what she said or not, she used the internet to say the iowa caucus shouldn't have so much power. there are a lot of people who say that. whether you agree or not, it wouldn't seem like a fireable offense. >> this social media is a new thing. it's been innovating in different ways and taking different directions. but ultimately we can't claim technology for people's bad behavior. it's up to everyone to know that everything they tweet is going to be on the record. >> was this bad behavior? >> it's up to the public to find that out. and look, you can be fired for many reasons. and if the representative doesn't want her representing him anymore, based on these tweets, he can do that. >> she went back to twitter, so she's not been pushed completely off the platform. but she wrote -- >> i read that as her digging her heels in to part of this which is, she doesn't feel she should be fired for

. >> joining the roundtable right now is the "washington post" opinion writer jonathan capehart. lauren victoria burke. and paul singer is the washington correspondent for "usa today." we haven't had you on before, lauren. i know it's cpac, but i sell another '64, another goldwater year, don't care about winning, want to show their gutsy attitude of anger against illegal immigrants, immigrants generally and anger against the republican establishment. they don't like people like bush or boehner. >> i think scott walker, he's the star, the it guy right now, the person who won the straw poll has been doing compromising with democrats which would be rand paul. that's the thing people forget in this. the straw poll does matter. i think it does matter rand paul is the only person who has reached out actually to democrats and, yeah, sure, scott walker is ahead now. he's the it guy now. he's kind of the jeremy lin of the moment, the guy that's the star now. >> the what? >> the jeremy lin of the moment. he's kind of the star right now. my thing is it will be somebody else next week. >> so

. >> reporter: washington post writer jonathan capehart says that hands up don't shoot is built on ad in fact a justice of department report contradicts the report that brown had the hands up. and now, as protesters are calling for justice, some are phrasing it differently, black lives matter. journalists do try to do their best and do their best in many cases, but this is a case for reason of reflection and, don there is a reason for soul searching, because of the reliability of the evidence by witnesses, and that is what you brought up in the last segment. >> thank you, brian. and now, we are bringing in our panel, that were introduced earlier, and kevin, you are the most outraged of all of the panel? can we say that? >> yes, i am. because the fact that it was built on a lie, and the fact that people continue to want to promulgate the lie, and the fact that they have embarrass eded the city of ferguson and the great people, there and the guy who wrote to article who started the lie, a ndnd he did the mea culpa with a but at the end, and the attitude is still that the bigger issue a

joining me tonight jonathan capehart and michael tumas. what do you think of this? the right question. is it too late? is it too soon? >> it feels like here we go again. it's like it feels like the campaign or not campaign has been going on and on and on and on and what we want from hillary clinton is why do you want to run for president? what's your message? and does she really need a listening tour to tell us what she plans on doing if she's elected? >> look. it worked for her when she ran for senate in new york. at the time i thought it was a great thing she did. she went to all the counties in new york. she sat, listened to people talk, listened to their questions. and then when she announced she was running, you learned what she learned. she not only listened to people she internalized what she heard. and so when she talked about the issues facing new york -- she came in for an editorial board meeting at the -- >> she wasn't from new york. so she -- >> of course. >> number two, she was going up state where they had reason to be skeptical of her of a big city li

. >> joining me now for our daily fix, chris cillizza and jonathan capehart.n a lot of criticism back and forth when these laws took effect. is there a political effect here as she prepares to roll out her campaign in april? >> so i'm 100% prepared to let people debate the legal implications here and was the flaw place, it was not was something violated. i believe the original story said it may have been a violation. that said, i'm not really prepared to debate people on the political implications, which seem to me it just reinforces a lot of things that people who might not be favorably inclined to the clintons, maybe they've come around in the last decade or so reminds them of things they don't like. the secrecy, the traditional rules that most people use aren't for them. she's the first person to exclusively use an e-mail -- a private e-mail server. the fact it was set up at their home, what are the security concerns that raises? disclosure and transparency there are just many questions here. i'm not saying that there's any fire where all that smoke is. i d

jonathan capehart did a piece. it's not playing out. it's an in the beltway discussion opposed to across the country. >>> d.c. police shortage. cathy lanier said the department can't keep up with the rate of retirements and officers quitting. she's looking to civilianize positions. bremante bremante last year 309 left the force. most of them were not retiring. a lot of them just left. talk about the challenge facing the department. and its efforts to keep police officers. >> that's the issue that the police department is going to have to deal with. why are they leaving? once you figure out why they are leaving before early retirement how can we stem the tie? do we increase the pay? do we have more benefits? do we change the shifts they are working? also remember this point, pat, this is important. back 25 years ago, they had a mass hiring of d.c. police. i think they hired 1500 all right? increased the d.c. police by 40%. what happens when it's time for retirement? boom you lose 40%. even though some aren't leaving because of retirement

i'm jonathan capehart in for steve kornacki. we have breaking news on the deteriorating situation in yemen. the u.s. military ordered the evacuation of 100 troops and special forces and there is an emergency meeting of the security council this afternoon to discuss the situation. shiite rebels took hold of the country's third largest city and after 137 people were killed in two suicide bombings there on friday. we will bring you updates throughout the show. >>> plus what does president obama have planned for the now 134-day-old confirmation battle over loretta lynch, the nominee for attorney general. and we will look at why there are new calls for al gore to run in 2016. and then there's this story breaking overnight. "the houston chronicle" reporting that testimonyd cruz senator of texas, will be the first republican to declare his candidacy. the announcement will take place tomorrow in virginia at liberty university. cruz will skip the exploratory committee phase and head straight into the campaign. >>> we begin with the lates

and he says this michael steele, chris jansing, jonathan capehart, he says this unequivocally. >> it'son a plane where they had to make an emergency landing. it's not a good situation to be in. i think that one of the things that they are absolutely going to have to try to tell the families very quickly is what did we know about this pilot? and the thing about youth is and at some point everybody has to start. right? >> right. >> but the longer that you are known, the longer that you are a known quantity the more people can recognize, presumably if something not quite right. >> exactly. >> if there's something that isn't normal for you. >> yeah. i don't want to jump the gun on the question of you know whether or not there's a terrorist connection here, but you cannot given his age, given the amount of time he's had, dismiss that. >> no. >> that takes on a whole different focus now, i think, in this conversation. >> that's why i asked about the computer. have they taken his computer looked to see? >> his background report. >> he says so clearly that this is not terror. >> anthony ronan,