mary carillo joins us. we'll be right back. >>> rough week for rubio.lorida senator marco rubio was cashing in on his watered down state of the union response less than a day after the incident. rubio's super pac reclaim america started selling this water bottle. until tuesday night rubio inspired republicans when he was even known as the republican savior. but now he's become a savior to late-night talk show hosts. comedians were staying hydrated last night. >> nothing has frustrated me more than false choices like the one the president laid out tonight. >> don't worry, senator rubio. nobody noticed that you gave a speech. >> be honest. how many never heard of marco rubio until last night? yeah. how many thought marco rubio was a game you played in the pool with the kids? >> why was the water so far away? it would have been less awkward if he reached down the front of his pants to get it. >> and he actually reached over and took a sip from a tiny bottle of water thats -- by the end i was waiting for him to -- >> always maintaining eye contact with the

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. >>> mary carillo is also at the courthouse this morning, a correspondent for "rock center with brianilliams" and covered oscar pistorius for nbc sports at the london liolympics. mary, good morning. good to see you. >> good to see you, david. the nation is so divided on so many levels. this man was a hero, an idol to so many people. i was one of those people who put a halo over his head like so many others. now he's doing a perp walk. it's so hard to reconcile. >> what is the mood like? it's got to be all anyone is talking about. >> reporter: it is all over this entire country. obviously, you know, reeva steenkamp, her memorial service was today in port elizabeth. here in johannesburg, since early morning demonstrators from the asc women's league holding placards saying things like oscar pistorius should rot in hell. these are people who embraced this man in so many ways and now they want to see him -- basically they want to see him go away, go to prison. again, it's still surreal for someone like me. i spent about a week with him here last summer for "rock center." he was heralded a

he was fitted with prosthetics and started running on the beach right away as he told nbc's mary carillo. >> i remember saying something to my parents along the lines of my footprints are different. and they said no, they're just better. >> he was terrific. so soft-spoken. it was the thing i noticed about him, even before i noticed that he could do so many things without legs. very modest, very self effacing. >> reporter: nbc's rohit kachroo is in pretoria. >> reporter: south africa has one of the highest violent crime rates anywhere in the world. and it's not unusual for wealthy people to live in homes like these, gated communities with high walls and electric fences. and oscar pistorius' neighborhood is one of the most secure in pretoria. >> still, pistorius is a gun owner. police report previous incidents of a domestic nature at the home. tonight, billboards once celebrating the revered athlete are being pulled down. police have not formally named pistorius as the suspect. under south african law, they may not do so until the accused appears in court. oscar pistorius is scheduled to g

. >>> mary carillo is also at the courthouse this morning, a correspondent for "rock center with brian williams" and covered oscar pistorius for nbc sports at the london liolympics. mary, good morning. good to see you. >> good to see you, david. the nation is so divided on so many levels. this man was a hero, an idol to so many people. i was one of those people who put a halo over his head like so many others. now he's doing a perp walk. it's so hard to reconcile. >> what is the mood like? it's got to be all anyone is talking about. >> reporter: it is all over this entire country. obviously, you know, reeva steenkamp, her memorial service was today in port elizabeth. here in johannesburg, since early morning demonstrators from the asc women's league holding placards saying things like oscar pistorius should rot in hell. these are people who embraced this man in so many ways and now they want to see him -- basically they want to see him go away, go to prison. again, it's still surreal for someone like me. i spent about a week with him here last summer for "rock center." he was heralded

. >> as mary carillo said yesterday, we were caught up in this story.i helped put the halo on his head. i think we all did. spotlighted him. bichlt o. medical story. human story. we all helped to anoint him. the question will be were those steroids, was he injecting? if you've never seen someone get jittery and lose their temper and edge on steroids, it is a frightening thing. >> one of the facts we'll be watching to see how that develops in the courtroom. >> absolutely. >>> mindy mccready took her own life. she had a long struggle with drugs and at one point in her life had been on this show "celebrity rehab" with dr. drew. in the past 18 months four of the show's 43 participants have died. this is the fifth one. >> wow! >> you raise the question -- certainly it's not the show's fault. >> no. >> the larger question is, do these kind of shows help or hurt? >> droou pinsky is a friend of mine. he is really great at what he does. but this underscores addiction is tough. it is not a quick fix. we watch the show because they're train wrecks, not because we

. >> mary carillo, nbc sports contributor, thanks for joining us on "the ed show" tonight. >> sure. >> and that is "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. the "rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >>> on a day that made history. today something happened in american politics that has never before happened in the history of our republic. in all of the trials and tribulations we have been through as a nation, through the wars, through the great depression, through the time senators used to beat one another with canes inside the capitol. in everything we have ever been through as a nation, what happened today has never happened before. not ever. not one of the 44 presidents our country has had has ever been blocked by a minority in the senate from choosing someone for his cabinet. but that happened today to president barack obama. republicans in the senate decided to do something unprecedented to him. and to thereby set an entirely new precedent for how the presidency itself is treated in our country. when they said today that even though they could not muster a majority of

. >> as mary carillo said yesterday, we were caught up in this story.otlighted him. bichlt o. medical story. human story. we all helped to anoint him. the question will be were those steroids, was he injecting? if you've never seen someone get jittery and lose their temper and edge on steroids, it is a frightening thing. >> one of the facts we'll be watching to see how that develops in the courtroom. >> absolutely. >>> mindy mccready took her own life. she had a long struggle with drugs and at one point in her life had been on this show "celebrity rehab" with dr. drew. in the past 18 months four of the show's 43 participants have died. this is the fifth one. >> wow! >> you raise the question -- certainly it's not the show's fault. >> no. >> the larger question is, do these kind of shows help or hurt? >> droou pinsky is a friend of mine. he is really great at what he does. but this underscores addiction is tough. it is not a quick fix. we watch the show because they're train wrecks, not because we expect people to die, but because we expect -- we get som