both rounds mcdaniel got more republican votes. even the cochran people can see that. roberts folks retweeted out a racist assault on milton wolf. they retracted it quickly but people had already seen it. this inside the beltway -- i would like to think inside the beltway because i would like to think that most of america don't think and act like this and want to make decisions and political campaigns like this. they tried to retract it in the roberts campaign but it was already out there. and it was one more stumble for them. you know, it would really be myself to be able to debate these policies and it would be nice -- >> they both -- both incumbents duck debate with his conservative challengers. >> and roberts said he would debate and then ducked the debate. >> right. >> and, you know, it's hard to have as fully informed an electorate as i think the electorate wants to be without having that head-to-head comparison. we're supposed to be accountable when we're elected officials for those vote. >> mr. mcdaniel, did he make a mista

mcdaniel claims thousands of ineligible voters cast ballots. he wants state party officials to declare him the winner. >>> big day tomorrow for army sergeant bowe bergdahl. he'll be questioned about his experience in afghanistan. many of bergdahl's fellow soldiers claimed he deserted his post before the taliban captured him in 2009. bergdahl you'll recall was freed in may for a prison swap for high-ranking taliban members. >>> the u.s. is digging into sub prime car lending beginning with

i had never met chris mcdaniel before. certain press reports have identified me as a mcdaniel supporter. i'm not a big fan of his. i'm not against him, but i'm not for him. i'm not even registered to vote because, frankly, like, i live in california, and it doesn't really matter, and it seems like a lot of work just to get up and vote. maybe that'll change, but i'm not even registered to vote. what really interests me is busting corruption. so i go to mississippi, and i start seeing all these fliers everywhere and hearing about these threiers in the black community. they start saying chris mcdaniel is a klansman, and he's going to take away your government benefits, shut down historically black colleges. you name the most absurd, racist things democrats have said about you, now the republican establishment is saying it about chris mcdaniel. so, naturally, i thought he was awesome. i felt like if they're really this targeted towards him, this must be something there that they're afraid of and what is it, right? because they

i had never met chris mcdaniel before. someone identified me as an mcdaniel supporter.i'm not a big fan of his. i'm not against them but i'm not for him either. i'm not registered to vote because frankly i live in california. it seems like a lot of work. maybe that will change but i'm not registered to vote. what really interests me is busting busting corruption so i go to mississippi and i start seeing all these flyers everywhere hearing about these flyers in the black community which essentially said chris mcdaniel is a klansman and he is going to calm and he is going to take away your government benefits. he's going to shut down historical black colleges and named the most absurd racist democrat things have said about you they are now saying about the republicans. i thought if there is targeted towards him there must be something there that they are afraid of and what is it? they are not talking about the issues. they tried to get a whole number of african-american voters and they ran a whole bunch of racist radio ads and robo-calls and you have probably seen those a

mcdaniel's legal team filed a formal challenge to the state's executive committee to prove that mcdaniel and not cochran was the rightful winner of that runoff six weeks ago and that he should be on the ballot as the republican party's nominee this november. mcdaniel's legal team argues the votes that put the six-term republican senator cochran over the edge in the june 24th runoff were illegal or questionable because they contend many of the predominantly black democratic voters that the cochran campaign turned out on june 4 24th had previously according to the mcdaniel team had previously voted in the june 3rd democratic primary. state law says that you cannot vote in one party's primary and then turn around and vote in the other party's runoff. mcdaniel's team is pushing that argument hard, although they have yet to prove that anywhere near enough illegal votes were cast to potentially effect the outcome of the runoff. but it is a reminder that this summer of strange primary elections still isn't over. the next one to keep an eye on is happening tomorrow in kansas, where pat roberts i

mcdaniels, 66. take it in. 2 west 40. chavez, 2 west 71. >> [ bleep ]. >> [ bleep ] they gave me 90 days. what's that [ bleep ]? 90 days? what's that [ bleep ]? [ bleep ]. >> i'm here 35. i'm reputable in them streets, you know? what's that? >> [ bleep ]. >> you ever been in here? >> not here, not in prison. >> this ain't nowhere to be, man. this ain't cool. you can't even stretch. you can't even stretch in this joint. >> you can't even work out in these cells. you can't run in place. we only come out twice a week. >> yeah, man, [ bleep ]. mentally insane, for real. this is what they give us. look at this [ bleep ]. that's all you going to get. that's all you [ bleep ] going to get. a little tiny ass bar of soap. going to be used in one day. it's over. this is how i'm living, man. >> you will find with a lot of these guys, they have been incarcerated before. so, unfortunate for some of them, they think this is a step up. and in the circles they travel in, unfortunately, it is. you know, i made it. i'm in the state prison

mcdaniels, 66. take it in. 2 west 40. chavez, 2 west 71. >> [ bleep ]. >> [ bleep ] they gave me 90 days. what's that [ bleep ]? 90 days? what's that [ bleep ]? [ bleep ]. >> i'm here 35. i'm reputable in them streets, you know? what's that? >> [ bleep ]. >> you ever been in here? >> not here, not in prison. >> this ain't nowhere to be, man. this ain't cool. you can't even stretch. you can't even stretch in this joint. >> you can't even work out in these cells. you can't run in place. we only come out twice a week. >> yeah, man, [ bleep ]. mentally insane, for real. this is what they give us. look at this [ bleep ]. that's all you going to get. that's all you [ bleep ] going to get. a little tiny ass bar of soap. going to be used in one day. it's over. this is how i'm living, man. >> you will find with a lot of these guys, they have been incarcerated before. so, unfortunate for some of them, they think this is a step up. and in the circles they travel in, unfortunately, it is. you know, i made it. i'm in the state prison

what i wrote is this is killing chris mcdaniels.each when an election has been outright stolen from you, you shouldn't contest it. it's just the haw of politics. -- the law of politics. that's installment one. installment two is coming next week, and i'll give you a little sneak preview. look, elections are dirty in a lot of ways. whatever they're complaining about that the cochran team did, you know, the mcdaniels team pulled that ugly nursing home incident. i'm not blaming mcdaniels for that, i'm not blaming cochran for what people said about him. i think it looks awful to have tea partiers out there changing, claim -- challenging, claiming any vote by a black person was ip so fact to fraudulent. -- ipso facto fraudulent. and by the way, cochran is part of the population i describe in my book "mugged," which is they were the republicans fighting against segregationist democrats -- all segregationists were democrats, so i'm repeating myself. he was, cochran won his first election from a district that was majority black, majority de

mcdaniel says, basically, i don't want to have another race. i just want you guys to give me the election because democrats shouldn't be able to vote. that's not the law. he didn't do that. this race is all but over and most of the people there in the state agree with me an think it is over, as well. from a larger standpoint, tea party folks aren't necessarily focused on wins and losses. one of the best -- they want to win, of course, but one of the best things to bring forth is changing the narrative, the conversation. everyone's talking about a lower taxes. everyone's talking about smaller government and established republicans and democrats completely dismissed that before and changed the conversation and could be the lasting legacy of the tea party. >> definitely introduced a new narrative. while you're here, i want your take on this afghanistan news. robert, do you think this murder of an american general is going to make america's withdrawal from afghanistan more of a talking point on the campaign trail? >> i think that's a good point. we

if you didn't see what i wrote this week was that this is killing chris mcdaniels. even when an election is outright stolen from it you should not contest it. installment two is coming next week but i will give you a preview. elections are dirty in a lot of way. whatever they complaining the cochran team did -- the mcdaniels pulled the ugly nursing home incident. i am not blaming either one. i think it looks awful to have tea partyers out there challenging and claiming any vote by a black person was fraudulent. and by the way, cochran is part of the republican generation i describe in "mug" and that is they were the republicans fighting against segregation democrats. he won this first election from a majority black democratic district. the fact he got federal money for a black college and a martin luther king memorial? as for the only issues that i think matter is not only did cochran vote against obamacare which all republicans did. he not only voted against marco rubio's amnesty and he didn't vote for cloture and then against it. the two votes were called closure

mcdaniel claimed cochran won based on ineligible voters but judge found mcdaniel waited too long to fileawsuit. if the ruling stands, cochran is xpakted to have an easy path to victory in the fall general election. >>> as gulf coast marks nine years since hurricane katrina, there are new signs of progress in new orleans but not all aspects of the recovery are creating equal. mitch landrieu joins me next. >> first, julia boorstin has the cnbc market wrap. >> going into the long weekend, markets up across the board. s&p rising 7 points and that's it from cnbc, first in business worldwide. (son) oh no... can you fix it, dad? yeah, i can fix that. (dad) i wanted a car that could handle anything. i fixed it! (dad) that's why i got a subaru legacy. (vo) symmetrical all-wheel drive plus 36 mpg. i gotta break more toys. (vo) introducing the all-new subaru legacy. it's not just a sedan. it's a subaru. this is bill. his doubleheader day at the park starts with back pain... and a choice. take 4 advil in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief. peanuts! peanuts! crowd cheers! for over 19 million pe

mcdaniel asked the party to declare him the nominee.he margin was due to democratic voter who is he said illegally cast run-off ballots. that fight is certainly not over. >>> happening now, the last day of a temporary cease-fire in gaza. this morning, negotiators trying to work out a long-term peace plan. can hamas and israel find common ground? we'll give you live team coverage, next. >>> happening now, findsing a permanent peace in gaza. this morning, negotiators working to find common ground between hamas and israel. time left in the three-day cease-fire runs out. live team coverage, straight ahead. the centers for disease control issuing the highest alert here in the united states. this, while the deadly virus rages across africa. travel ban as a spanish priest arrives in madrid, bringing the virus to europe for the first time. we are tracking the latest developments live. welcome back to "early start." i'm poppy harlow. >>> all is quiet between israel and hamas. delegations trying to hammer out a longer truce. this one expires just

if you didn't see my column this week, what i wrote was this is killing chris mcdaniels. even when an election has been outright stolen from you, you shouldn't contest it. it's just the law of politics. you end up looking like a sore loser. installment two is coming next week, and i'll give you a little sneak preview. look, elections are dirty in a lot of ways. whatever they're complaining about the conquering team did, you know, the mcdaniels team pulled the ugly nursing home incident. i don't blame him for that. i think it looks awful to have tea partiers out there challenging, claiming any vote by a black person was ipso facto fraudulent. and by the way, cochran is part of the republican generation i describe in my book "mugged" which is they were the republicans fighting against segregation, segregationist democrats -- all segregationists were democrats, so i'm repeating myself. he was, cochran won his first election from a district that was majority black, majority democrat. or -- i mean, the fact that he got money for a martin luther king memorial, you're complainin

mcdaniel claims thousands of ineligible voters cast ballots.ficials to declare him the winner. >>> big day tomorrow for army sergeant bowe bergdahl. he'll be questioned about his experience in afghanistan. many of bergdahl's fellow soldiers claimed he deserted his post before the taliban captured him in 2009. bergdahl you'll recall was freed in may for a prison swap for high-ranking taliban members. >>> the u.s. is digging into sub prime car lending beginning with general motors, the automaker disclosed it received a subpoena from the justice department, that subpoena is in connection with an investigation into possible violations of civil fraud. easy credit has helped fuel booming auto sales which are on pace for the best year since 2006. >>> emergency landing in florida after severe turbulence hit an allegiant air flight that was headed to north carolina. four people injured including a flight attendant who hit her head. the turbulence apparently started only 0 minutes into the trip, just as the in-flight refreshment service started. the flig

. >> reporter: chris mcdaniel announced a challenge to thad cochran's june victory. >> they asked uso put up or shut up. here we are. >> reporter: mcdaniel's lawyers said they found more than enough questionable votes to question trees but up to the state republican party to decide and they already declared cochran a winner. it could be a rallying cry for tea parties when lamar alexander face as tea party challenge from joe carr and tomorrow in kansas when three term u.s. senator pat roberts squares off dr. milton wolf a radioologyist opposed to obamacare. he's the president's second cousin once removed. he pounds roberts as a washed up d.c. insider. >> pat roberts has been in washington for 47 years and nobody should be in washington for 47 years. god expected moses to get things sorted out in 40. >> reporter: wolf and tea party aligned p.a.c. is hammering roberts most his time in d.c. >> every time i get an opponent -- i mean every time i get a chance i'm home. >> pat roberts liberal in washington rarely insas. >> reporter: roberts has been rattled by the charges. >> people elect i

the judge ruled state senator chris mcdaniel failed to start the alexandria challenge within 20 daysoting. mcdaniels is expected to appeal to the state supreme court. >>> closing arguments were given today in the corruption trial of former virginia governor bob mcdonnell and his wife. this afternoon lawyers for maureen mcdonnell said her actions with a businessman who showered her with gifts may have been tacky but not illegal. >>> we're awaiting president obama's decision initially promised before the end of summer on immigration policy. again, yesterday the president blamed congress for putting him in a position of having to do something on his own. tonight the problem of all those illegal immigrant children and where they will go to school. here's chief congressional correspond mike emmanuel. >> reporter: with schools opening for a new academic year, those in anna arundel, maryland are seeing a surge of new students unaccompanied minors that recently crossed our border. >> they may have only gone to second or third grade. have limited literacy in their first language. that creates

there's no stopping chris mcdaniel from trying to become a u.s. senator. it's been six weeks since he lost the election to thad cochran. now he's challenging the results of the election and demanding to be declared the winner. >>> republican senator rand paul was in iowa yesterday as part of a three-day swing through the state and wasted no time throwing jabs at hillary clinton on benghazi. >> i asked her did you read the cables from ambassador stephens? oh, i was kind of busy traveling and it was someone else who should have read these cables. you know what, by not reading the cables, by not providing security, i think you precluded yourself as ever being considered commander in chief. >> the former secretary of state is keeping mum about her intentions but here's one possible contender who is ready. check out martin o'malley's response when he was asked if he would back hillary clinton a second time in 2016. >> i am -- i am seriously considering running in 2016, but the most important politics of all is to govern well and to govern truthfully, and certai

but according to mcdaniel says there's invalid bat lots. they are believed to be from african-americans who turned out to vote for senator cochran in the run-off. >> they asked us to put up or shut up. here we are. here with the evidence. the integrity of the elections process of the state of mississippi matters. matters. but likewise the integrity of the republican party and its primary system and a party and a system that we love so much, it matters as well. >> senator cochran's campaign defends the results and in a statement said in part we're dedicated to the defense of the votes of those mississippins who voted on june 24 for thad cochran as their united states senator, an election which has been thorough reviewed and examined as any in modern mississippi history. >> washington and the rest of the nation remembering, former white house press secretary james brady on monday. he was left paralyzed after the assassination attempt on president reagan. only 69 days after ronald reagan took office. >> shots were fired at president reagan in

now senate candidate chris mcdaniel is turning to a judge.ississippi state senator filed a lawsuit alleging that thousands of votes cast for thad cochran were illegal. >>> secretary of state john kerry got a taste what it's like to travel by commercial plane these day. according to an anonymous source, he was forced to take a united airlines flight back to washington from hawaii because of an electrical problem with his air force jet. >>> who knew it could be seen as partisan. it seems lying everything is partisan. the new app lets you scan a bar code and learn how the company's board of directors, political action committees, and even employees spend on political parties. >>> it's a changing of the guard at nbc news. the network's political director and chief white house correspondent and host of the daily run down chuck todd has been named the new moderator of meet the press. he replaces david gregory who announced he's leaving yesterday. it's the morning dish of scrambled politics. i'm joined by the hill. good morning to you. >> happy frid

this tea party gy chris mcdaniel. why? because he wants to cut spending. what thad cochran promises to keep the welfare checks coming, keep the footsteps coming, keep the unplumbed checks coming and to keep all the bacon coming from washington, d.c. for every employer in the area. and the election was won by democratic votes in a republican primary. there's no hope for america at all if both parties act exact same way. at this moment it's pretty clear they do. the way you get elected is by promising people three things. free contraception, free obama phone, free everything, free health care. and you promise people free and some of them are just dumb enough and ignorant enough to vote for them. but there is no free lunch. >> my name is scott nelson. doled out favors once they get elected. the columnist george will has referred to the current campaign finance laws as an incumbent protection regime. so do you agree with a recent supreme court decision, and did you think that eliminating the individual campaign contribution limit would be a structural reform t

not just mcdaniels as a candidate, and the controversy where supporters of mcdaniels photographed cochran'sife in her nursing home, just bizarre incidents that happened. even when politics to be very dirty, that really takes the cake. but not excepting his loss has now dominated the headlines in mississippi over the last few weeks. once they clear that went into a runoff, that cochran was able to go back and spend more time in mississippi than he had probably spent leading up to the actual primary. he really put in the effort, and of course, the party put in the money to make sure that he stays put. i think the republican party would like to see mcdaniels go away. they would not like to see this drag out any further. ways, as, at least some testament to the fact that he party challengers have not fared as well this year. if you are going to compare it with 2010, certainly, we started to have some losses in 2012. that continued in 2014. host: all eyes will be watching to see if the tea party can get a win in kansas. he is facing a tea party backs challenger, martin wolf. looking like maybe t

i'm not blaming mcdaniels for that. i'm not blaming cochran for what people said. it looks awful to have tea partiers challenging, claiming in a vote by a black person was ipso facto fraudulent. and by the way cochran is part of the republican generation i described in my book which is they were the republicans fighting against segregation, segregationist democrats. all segregationists were democrats. cochran won his first election majority, black majority democrat. the fact that he got federal money for historically black college and for martin luther king memorial, you are complaining about that tea partiers? as for the only issues that i think really matter not only take cochran vote against obamacare, he not only voted against marco rubio's amnesty and despite some claims you may have read on line he did not vote for cloture and vote against it. you guys work on capitol hill so you probably know this but two boats are foreclosure. the boat to begin debate does not remain that. retrospect sort of wish they had that very few republicans voted against beginning de

if you didn't see what i wrote this week was that this is killing chris mcdaniels. even when an election is outright stolen from it you should not contest it. installment two is coming next week but i will give you a preview. elections are dirty in a lot of way. whatever they complaining the cochran team did -- the mcdaniels pulled the ugly nursing home incident. i am not blaming either one. i think it looks awful to have tea partyers out there challenging and claiming any vote by a black person was fraudulent. and by the way, cochran is part of the republican generation i describe in "mug" and that is they were the republicans fighting against segregation democrats. he won this first election from a majority black democratic district. the fact he got federal money for a black college and a martin luther king memorial? as for the only issues that i think matter is not only did cochran vote against obamacare which all republicans did. he not only voted against marco rubio's amnesty and he didn't vote for cloture and then against it. the two votes were called closure

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the reverend mcdaniel agreed with rabbi calisch. there was no need to tinker with ruffner's virginia system, they argued. the school board eventually sided with them. virginians debated this matter in church meetings, assembly sessions, and four conventions. each virginia convention drafted a new constitution, the church-state issues come dragging up again. "establishing religious freedom" traces that history. it explanes how virginia rejected the model in favor of the jefferson statute. how they and later generations use and ans proceed to abuse that statute in the ever-changing and shifting cultural context that determined those settlements. you know, history is wonderfully instructive. consider virginia's history as a dry run for what happened in america since the supreme court nationalized the first amendment took over the interpretation applying it to the states. as the last session of the court demonstrated, the struggle to find a balance between the claims of church and state and religion and politics, that struggle is likely

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the reverend mcdaniel agreed with rabbi calisch.here was no need to tinker with s for genius system, they are cute. and the school board eventually sided with them. matters ofdebated church and state and legislative petitions, courthouse arguments, in the newspapers, and assembly sessions, church meetings, and for conventions. , theyirginia convention drafted a new constitution. the church-state issues come dragging up again. establishing religious freedom -- this book traces that history. it explores how and why the revolutionary generation of virginians rejected the established model in favor of jefferson's statute. how they and the later generations of virginians are perceived to use and abuse that statute. the revolving understandings of church-state separation and the ever changing and shifting cultural context that determines the settlements. you know, history is wonderfully instructive. --sider virginia's history consider virginia's history as a dry run for what happens in america since the supreme court nationalize the first

. >>> chris mcdaniel is not going down without a fight. republican candidate for senate is planning to file an official challenge dood for his loss. >> a recall for 3,000 s.u.v.'s. affected are the range rover. >> a 99-year-old lady setting the world record for sprinting. while she didn't win the race during the 100 meter dash in ohio she did beat the record for her age group. the bad. clothing company lands end under fire for sending out this unsolicited g.q. magazine to customers who bought school uniforms. angry moms taking to facebook to complain about that racy cover. the company apologized. the ugly a want to be beauty queen busted for work men's comp for fraud. the company found a video of her competing napa jent wearing -- in a pageant wearing high heels while collecting disability for a foot injury. >> we told you about a fox news poll that showed voters would rather go on a presidential vacation with the bushes than the clintons -- or the clintons over a trip with the obamas. we asked you would you rather vacation -- who would yo

if you didn't see what i wrote this week was that this is killing chris mcdaniels. even when an election is outright stolen from it you should not contest it. installment two is coming next week but i will give you a preview. elections are dirty in a lot of way. whatever they complaining the cochran team did -- the mcdaniels pulled the ugly nursing home incident. i am not blaming either one. i think it looks awful to have tea partyers out there challenging and claiming any vote by a black person was fraudulent. and by the way, cochran is part of the republican generation i describe in "mug" and that is they were the republicans fighting against segregation democrats. he won this first election from a majority black democratic district. the fact he got federal money for a black college and a martin luther king memorial? as for the only issues that i think matter is not only did cochran vote against obamacare which all republicans did. he not only voted against marco rubio's amnesty and he didn't vote for cloture and then against it. the two votes were called closure

nearly two months after the mississippi primary, chris mcdaniel is formally challenging the results.>> plus, it's an election day in hawaii again. we'll keep an eye on that. >>> good morning from washington. it's friday, august 15th, 2014. this is "the daily rundown." i'm luke russert in for the great chuck todd. new developments in ferguson, missouri, where we're expecting any minute now for the police to release the name of the officer who shot and killed 18-year-old michael brown on saturday. you're looking live here at where that announcement will happen. and for the first time since the shooting, protests have come. governor nixon handed control of security in ferguson over to the missouri state highway patrol. the scene on the streets yesterday was nothing like what we saw two nights ago. crowds and protesters were out into early morning hours, but police say they didn't make one single arrest overnight. police have been withholding the name of the officer who shot and killed brown, but now they say they'll release that name. this morning, governor nixon told the "today" show t

wolf would have run had they had the same energy mcdaniel had. roberts warned republicans that they have to unite in order to win in the fall. >> unity must happen if we are to keep kansas red. republicans in kansas and nationally cannot afford the kind of intra party fraticide that we have seen recently. friends, we can't afford to waste scarce resources and energy tearing ourselves apart. >> roberts now will take on democrat chad taylor. he's a shawnee county prosecutor. he won a surprisingly close primary, 53% of the vote. an independent candidate is also expected to run but given wolf's loss the seat is not going to keep republicans up at night. democrats essentially recruited an emergency candidate the wolf won. >>> the governor's race, sam brownback only had 62% of the vote against a no-name challenger who spent no money and may have been best known for a past personal bankruptcy and the fact her son was charged for murder over a drug deal last year. yes, that candidate got 37% against brownback, folks. he's in big trouble. brownback moves

chris mcdaniel, remember him?ator thad cochran, now formal ly for questioning the results. good luck there. according to mcdaniel and his lawyers, there are more than 15,000 illegal or questionable ballots, votes from democrats who voted earlier that month in their own party's primary, which would not be allowed. many of the ballots in question also believed to be for african-americans who turned out to vote for senator cochran in the runoff. >> they asked us to put up or shut up. here we are. here we are with the evidence. now, we all witnessed what a segment of our party did in the weeks leading up to. we saw despicable allegations from those that are supposed to be leaders in our party. there is no place in the republican party for those that would -- the integrity of the elections process of the state of mississippi matters. the -- matters. but, likewise, the integrity of the republican party and its primary system, a party and a system we love so much, it matters as well. >> so his big concern was the african

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just three weeks ago i was in mississippi for a week campaigning for chris mcdaniel the tea party candidate to lead a 10-point lead over 36 year united state senator thad corcoran and thad corcoran's people got desperate. they realized they couldn't win in a republican primary so they decided the only way they could win was to cheat. what did they do? they went to the democratic community and they went to urban areas and they literally beg them to vote republican for the first time in their entire lives in the republican primary even though most of them that are devoted a month prior in the democratic primary and it's against the law to vote in both primaries in mississippi. they said don't worry, no one will know. no one is watching. you have got to vote for thad corcoran who has been in office for 60 years against this wayne root guy. why? because he wants to cut spending and one that promises is to keep the welfare checks coming, keep the food stamps coming in to keep the unemployment checks coming and all the big and coming from washington d.c. from every employer in the area and the el

. >>> he lost in a run off in mississippi's primary, but chris mcdaniel isn't giving up the fight. he filed a lawsuit asking a judge to declare him the winner of the race against thad cochran. cochran won the race by 7600 votes. there were enough votes illegally cast by democrats to change the outcome. >>> tony stewart announcing he won't race at the nascar event in michigan. it's the second race he's sitting out since he struck and killed kevin ward jr. in up state new york last saturday. ward's funeral was held thursday. police investigators questioned stewart twice. there's no evidence to support criminal charges. >>> calling the conviction unfair, lawyers frr whitey bulger had been promised immupty for his crimes decades ago. he was found guilty of participating in 11 murders. he's serving two consecutive life sentences in arizona. >>> a statement released thursday by the late actor's wife, susan says williams was diagnosed with parkinson's disease. it's known to cause depression and may have exasperated his condition. he was not ready to share that publicly. >>> happening now,

the republican party won't step into the fight between tea party candidate chris mcdaniel and thad cochran. thousands of questionable ballots being asked to be thrown out. the republican party says to take it to court. >> people in toledo, ohio can drink the water again. >> they are not out of the woods completely. scientists say the algae problem in lake erie could turn up again. >> at wade smith's toledo area home, no one takes clean running water for granted. his family of five was among nearly a half million people who couldn't use the tap water over the weekend, when toxins from an algae bloom contaminated the water supply. >> you couldn't drink the water, do laundry or dishes. >> the toxins no longer an immediate threat but design activities warn the source of the drinking water, lake erie, is still at risk. >> what is the potential long term impact? >> fish could die, the plants in the bottom of the lake could start dying, so we could potentially kill the lake. >> when it comes tier res future health, environmental engineer isabel escobar warns the problems could go deep. algae feed

mcdaniel wants to stay to overturn that election. 15,000 suspicious ballots were found. that is enough to tip the win in his favor. >> a daring rescue in las vegas, heavy rain caused flooding and two cars became stuck in the mud. airmen were helping meme escape their vehicles. you can see one moment an airman was swept away and pulled to safety. it happened just before another car floats dangerously close by. >> our second named storm in the atlantic season, bertha losing steam. >> meteorologist nicole mitchell has a look at the tropical forecast. >> this one barely made it to hurricane and then right back town to tropical storm. as we've said for days, not expecting too many problems out of this. it's splitting land between the united states and bermuda, not causing too many problems. it will continue to accelerate as it loses that strength and heads northward. the one thing we will watch for is right along the central eastern coast, small craft advisories are up in some areas. that's as close as it gets to a problem maker for us. we are watching a hurricane that is in

hattie mcdaniel who won her oscar for her role as mammy couldn't attend the film's georgia premiere. why not? segregation laws prevented her from being there. in fact part of the movie popularity came from a racist or racialized desire for a time when race relations were supposedly simpler. that was a time that never existed except perhaps in the minds of southern white elites. but that doesn't minimize the appeal and not just to whites in the south in the 1930s. the movie never addresses the real problems of slavery or racial reconstruction. it doesn't because because it is a movie that wholly takes on the perspective of the elite southern whites who lost their world and remembered it more fondly than it actually was. the movie is an homage to the perspective of the confederate apologists. a view of the south that never existed. honestly, if it wasn't so popular it wouldn't be a problem. it would occasionally run on turner movie classics or amc or so late at night that it was early on in the morning and we could just leave it as a relic of its time. but that's not the case. as long

i read that hattie mcdaniel, mammy, was a daughter of a slave. >> it has a particular resonance to herpart of why perhaps. you can imagine why she would be frustrated with the characterizations. mary? >> i believe the civiler war veterans were alive at the time. i believe some veterans were at the premiere of the film. >> very old, but there. >> it was still a living memory. >> okay. what about the second contention here or the third here was that african-american characters were smarter and more sensible than many of the whites. the second part is that that's on purpose. right? that's intentional. what do you think about that? sam? >> i bring up spike lee's point. the magical negro who comes in, tells the white characters how wise we are and never does anything with themselves. they are passive observers of the white characters who are all the agency and they get married and do anything else. the black characters are all static. they don't do anything with their lives. even if they are wiser in a way they don't have any kind of agency. >> mammy fits that role and you see that role in

also faced a great deal of pressure from roy wilkins of the naacp on the outside and from hattie mcdanielo played mammy and butterfly mcqueen who played prissy on the characterizations of black figures in the film. as jim cullen has noted, ultimately the movie that emerged is slightly less racist, slightly less classist, and slightly less feminist than the book mitchell wrote. while most reviewers loved the film when it came out but film skoler bruce chadwick noted that even then a few of the reviewers had concerns with its historical portrayal. one of the reviewers at the time went to far as so note "gone with the wind" needed to be focused on simply because it is an overinflated example of the usual false movie approach to history. sounds like my kind of guy. and the film does indeed have some issues as a secondary source about the civil war so let's begin there. let's start a discussion there with what the film gets wrong. all right? now, as a number of you commented on the wiki, the thing that stands out more than perhaps anything else is the portrayal of race relations in general and

really put in the effort and a party put in the -- theo make sure republican party would like to see mcdaniels go away. they would not like to see this drag down any further. there is in some ways a this year,o the fact if you're going to compared with 2010, we started to have some losses in 2012 and that kind of continues in 2014. >> all eyes will be watching to see if the tea party can get a win today in kansas. senator pat roberts has been in congress since 1980, facing a tea party back challenger, martin were -- wolf. maybe these incumbents learned the lessons of cochran and others. >> they have. the lesson has been to go home, spend time in your district, and take the challenge seriously. ericw what happened to cantor. that was depicted as a major win for the tea party, when it was of aeally a story challenger who was particularly strong. a lot of the tea party groups did not even spend money on david rat, who defeated eric cantor. but he did not take the challenge seriously. be --owed a narrative to he never defend himself. in fact, he only further intensified that image by staying away

mcdaniel in mississippi, almost elect him. my message would be the opposite.incumbents never challenged ever in a primary elected three, four, five times staid wide in their states losing 40% of votes. pat roberts, lamar alexander. ed that cochran, 55%. a lot of unhappiness with republican leadership among republican voter at the grass roots. unhappiness in washington among voters of both parties of the grass roots. if republicans want to do well in 2014, especially 2016. grass roots, forget about them. we're the party of dole, mccai mccain,ed that cochran, that's not going to win in 2016. a healthy dose of intelligent tea party activism remains the way to go. >> i'll say to bill's point. talking earlier this morning, it shows the anti-lamar alexander vote actually a majority of the vote. he luckily had six challengers in that race and faced maybe one might have been in more trouble. the question i have for bill, i know we want to go some place else, whether the tea party is ever a real thing to begin with, or not. seems to me now moving forward there's always