mr. abbott laura bean said the letter "regarding a dispute in texas is in no way related to a dispute in nevada, of course." governor rick perry said bundy is a side issue. and nothing yet from huckabee. which brings us to hannity, who responded today on his radio show. >> his comments are beyond repugnant to me. they are beyond despicable to me. they are beyond ignorant to me. and my level of anger is about -- you know, go back and listen to democrats, every election year they want to say republicans what? or conservatives what? that conservatives are racist. so people that for the right reasons saw this case as government overreach now are like branded because of the ignorant racist repugnant despicable comments of cliven bundy. >> join meg now is my msnbc colleague, the host of "disrupt," karen finney. former director of communications for the democratic national committee and also a font of adjectives herself when necessary to distant herself as strenuously as possible. just from -- this is kind of like a nerdy like d.c. thing, but from a comes person. you're the coms person for cruz

mr. abbott meets today with chinese president xi jinping. >>> kathleen sebelius is stepping down from herealth and human services secretary after five years on the job. she publicly apologized last year for the glitch-filled rollout of the obama administration's health care website. >>> the dow suffered its third biggest point loss of the year. tokyo led losses in the region, the nikkei ended down over 2%. a stronger yen was to blame here. it's been weighing on blue chip export stocks which are index heavyweights in japan. >>> we are minutes away from the start of court in the oscar pistorius murder trial. >> he will be back on the witness stand for a fifth day now. >> yeah. pistorius arrived at the pretoria courthouse a short time ago. these are pictures from a little earlier. he's expected to face another grueling day of cross-examination from prosecutor gerry nel. we've seen that over the past two days. it has been relentless. he's been accused of being a liar, accused of being over emotional and pretending to not be able to remember questions he's been asked. has been relentless, the

to collective self defense but that the constitution doesn't allow them to exercise that right by mr abbott wants to change that interpretation twenty one percent said the angry with his plan thirty percent said they disagree forty four percent said neither. he was like i made a mess and an asa said the poll outcome. you knew the prime minister has long believed japan should be able to exercise the right to click of self defense high he says the country should be able to meet a pro active contribution to peace members of his administration have become more concerned about north korea's nuclear and missile development and china's growing military activities in east asia. ivy also wants to spend in the japan us alliance. and he seemed to have the means to vacation reflected in the bilateral defence cooperation guidelines. officials in total in washington planned to revise the crankiness leader this year for the first time in nearly two decades. leaders in the u s support his plan. but those in neighboring china and south korea have expressed deep concern and eve said the prime minister is try

mr abbott to let the previously served as an investor to three countries and the european union. but the us has denied him entry over his alleged role in the nineteen seventy nine takeover of the us embassy in tehran since last year the us in iraq have taken bt steps towards improving relations obama and his iranian counterpart hassan her money spoken over the phone and countries are working aggressively toward striking a deal on iraq's nuclear program which subsequently lift international sanctions imposed on iraq the current lack of trust and cute actions taken by washington some experts believe tehran may be less likely to make concessions and compromise with the country that acting more like an enemy and a potential partner. bring to your breed apart not an artsy despite international pressure the un nuclear watchdog the iata says iran is already acted to cut its most sensitive nuclear stockpile by almost two with maya was three quarters but the socialist activists caleb often thinks washington is playing political games that are adding to the desk. iran has opened the hand o

mr. abbott says it's highly unlikely any debris will be found on the ocean surface. >>> western nations areoised to put more sanctions on russia over its role in the ongoing crisis in ukraine. this after pro-russian separatists detained eight european military monitors in eastern ukraine. seven of the observers appeared at a news conference sunday. an eighth monitor, a swede, was later freed for medical reasons. >>> 32 tornadoes have been reported in the southern and central u.s. on sunday. pedram javaheri has been tracking this. he has the details. the bad weather's not over yet. >> it's not. john, in the last 15 minutes the cnn national service radar indicating a tornado on the ground now. at this hour. this has been across dunkling county in the boot hooel of missouri in the extreme southeast corner of missouri. this tornado about six miles north of berkline, in eastern arkansas moving this direction. very dangerous storm system. this is the time to get to the lowest point of your home, to the basement perhaps if you have one or interior hallway away from the windows. if you've got blank

mr. abbott said he was confident that search crews had heard signals from the jet which disappeared five weeks ago? >> given that the signal from the black box is rapidly fading, what we are now doing is trying to get as many detections as we can so that we can locate -- so that we can narrow the search area down to as small an area as possible. once that's been done and i don't want to speculate on when that might be. it's our intention to employ the submercible which will conduct a sonar search of the sea bed and, based upon the search, attempt to get a visual. >> people in the australian say that queensland are set in the damage course of cyclone ita. it is categorized as a category 4 storm. no reports of injuries or death yet. no major structural damage. cook town, hundreds of residents there spending the night in an evacuation center. >> there is property damage. there are roads on one of the pubs and houses that have suffered that sort of damage, a lot of fences down, power lines down, trees down, down at the waterfront, pontoons that have been smashed up pretty badly. >> as we joi

you're absolutely right and all across america it's rampant there's thousands and thousands that mr abbott go on it's an organised way a lot of who are not eligible voters and who are going in and out franken how does example of how others think and i was asked how he goes cutting saturday or sunday voting change you can still drop their ballots i know are going to. or so i already said explain that i'm not going to have to repeat myself if you go and drop your palace off i'm sorry the it's not stopping them they still can do that for that's not ok i got tagged i'm going to stop voter i already explained that so do you want me to repeat myself because i did i do because if you're going to be driving polls if you're dropping your ballots off on places where they're not able to manage the ballots they're trying to watch voter fraud you can drop by john lennon or have any addresses are eligible for the at the mailbox take you and they have no belief or if you want to drop it off in the mailbox has postmarked on time it's an absentee ballot you're talking about ballots and actually voting what

mr. abbott who are willing to stand behind us for our property. >> now, a classic pretext for federal controll they deem endangered and prohibit the use of private property. are you concerned about that? >> i am, actually. you know, with the federal government saying there's 90,000 acres there, think of the doorway this would create if there was 90,000 acres that they could find a species on of some kind that would actually from there open up all the other surrounding land around it because it's the same ecosystem. this could simply be a doorway that would just lead to opening up the entire red river bottom. >> to be completely clear, i want our viewers to make no mistake about this. we're talking about private property for which you pay taxes. you pay your taxes and paid in full, correct? >> that is correct, sir. >> and, yet, you still fear the federal government could come in and take it away from you? >> well, the way this sounds, and where the major argument is, there is a clear, defined boundary between the state of texas and the state of oklahoma. the federal government at the moment is

joining me now, greg abbott and, mr.ttorney general, thank you very much for taking the time to be on the show. look, it's the second mass shooting at ft. hood in the past few years. ft. hood, a name that people hear and they think now of these shootings. how could something like this have happened again? >> well, first of all, erin, of course, our hearts go out to the families affected by this tragedy, but, for us, ft. hood is more than a military base. these are our friends and this is our family and this is our community. deeply connected there and this is something as a state we rally behind our troops, but also ft. hood. what we're doing as a state is a couple of things to help out these folks. one is, of course, from the law enforcement side, the state of texas is working side-by-side with the u.s. military and federal government as well as the local officials. erin, we have something else here in the state of texas that works with these people on the ground. we have a service in my office, the crime victim service

mr. bundy, they embraced him. once they do that, and they did it with ted nugent, greg abbott, the attorney general in texas, had nugentallies, introduced him. once you embrace these nuts, you're going to have to take what comes with it. just as a strategist, people you talk to, the national party did the right thing. you could smell this guy's craziness a mile away. there's a lot of things that you can see coming and this thing you saw coming it it's going to happen again though, you watch. we'll have another right wing folk hero and the hannities of the world so blinded by hatred for the president or the federal government or whatever it is they hate, are going to step in it again, you watch. >> it's hard to understand all the sympathy. the fact is, he was violating federal law, didn't pay the g z grazing fees all the other ranchers in nevada were paying those fees. in fact, he was being subsidized for his work by the federal government and a lot of folks said that's inappropriate. if he's complaining about subsidies going to poor african-american kids in america, why was he taking those grants in effect from the fed

mr. ambassador, your australian government is leading the search and has paid for more than half of the $44 million that this investigation has already cost. prime minister tony abbott has said, quote, at some point there might need to be a reckoning, there might need to be some kind of tallying but nevertheless, we are happy to be as helpful as we can to all of the countries that have a stake in this. as you probably know, the air france search reportedly cost $160 million over two years. at some point, is australia going to have to say to malaysia, china, other countries, look, you need to either help kick in or we're going to have to stop? we don't have unlimited funds? >> you know, i think we are generous and so is most australians. there is an expectation that each country in the search pays for its own assets and for keeping those assets functioning. there are all sorts of other costs that are going to be associated with this and that will become obvious as folk who are amongst the grieving families are moved to australia sometime later on. so i'm surprised that the cost has been estimated at 44 million. i would think that it would be more than that and it's g