paul: yeah.mily: you are still doing office hours. paul: i had, this afternoon, i had the best conversation with a founder that i've ever had. i had lunch with patrick collison. founder of stripe. 100% of the conversation was about giant, take-over-the-world ambitious plans. and that is like the best possible office hours. emily: how involved are you, jessica? jessica: i'm still very much involved. i'm doing all of the same things that i used to do. if not engaged in different things. i miss working with paul, but i also love working with sam altman. emily: now sam was actually the founder of one of your very first companies. paul: yeah. emily: loopt. when you stepped down, there were certainly people out there who said he is not cut out to be you. paul: it is a good thing he's not cut out to be me, because i was not cut out to run something as big as y combinator is now. he is better than me at this. emily: come on, jessica. paul: i was good to giving advice to founders. emily: is sam going to b

chris paul again! 30 points for chris paul! >> just not fair. handling the basketball and getting to his spot and making big shots. >> patty mills pulls back a three pointer and griffin again, another rebound. >> as a coach, you don't need anything fancy. put it in your best player's hand and let him do what he does best. >> j.j. redick from downtown. it's a 14-point lead. largest of the game. >> it is the chris paul show right now. >> duncan finds diaw. quick shot. misses. diaw gets it back as davis couldn't handle it. belinelli. griffin again hauls one in. fouled by duncan. 17th rebound for blake griffin. 20 points and 6 assists. >> you look at chris paul getting into the seams, making plays. help comes. redick knocks down the shot and time to dance. the look away shake move. mama there goes that man. >> that man also you saw him getting out his teammates were throwing in some off words not afraid to get after them as griffin will go to the line. duncan picked up his fifth foul. paul was playing with five fouls down the stretch. >> what a crit

rand paul versus rand paul. >> and it's interesting, you know this, david, he obviously welcomed hiser congressman ron paul there who ran for the presidency on several occasions, pretty popular with that libertarian base of the republican party but didn't do well in getting that republican nomination. it's a delicate line he has to

chris paul again! 30 points for chris paul! >> just not fair. handling the basketball and getting to his spot and making big shots. >> patty mills pulls back a three pointer and griffin again, another rebound. >> as a coach, you don't need anything fancy. put it in your best player's hand and let him do what he does best. >> j.j. redick from downtown. it's a 14-point lead. largest of the game. >> it is the chris paul show right now. >> duncan finds diaw. quick shot. misses. diaw gets it back as davis couldn't handle it. belinelli. griffin again hauls one in. fouled by duncan. 17th rebound for blake griffin. 20 points and 6 assists. >> you look at chris paul getting into the seams, making plays. help comes. redick knocks down the shot and time to dance. the look away shake move. mama there goes that man. >> that man also you saw him getting out his teammates were throwing in some off words not afraid to get after them as griffin will go to the line. duncan picked up his fifth foul. paul was playing with five fouls down the stretch. >> what a crit

stuart: so your guy is ron paul? rand paul. i'm sorry. rand paul is your guy in this field.t: lou, would you tell us who your guy is? >> i don't have one yet. i have to hear a lot more demagoguing before i settle. stuart: let me tell you. >> this is demagogue central. stuart: lou dobbs on the fence, ladies and gentlemen. >> not likely. not likely. >> i think i go back to the midwest governors. case i can case -- kasich. it was not long ago, february of 2008 2007, when barack obama announced. another words it only has been recently back in first election with barack obama he all of sudden showed up on the scene and was rung. he was a no maim name. here we are in early april a no name i think is a dark horse has a shot. stuart: none of leaders in polls their party's nomination, have succeeded with the nomination if they were in first place at this stage. campaign. it is probably important so with hold a bit of enthusiasm for any one or two of these candidates. >> will hillary clinton break that mold. 50 so 60% of democrats. >> i think democrats will come together. they may sup

after the break, the constitution signed by rand paul and rand paul emporium. ♪ john: rand paul has a of awesomeness on his website. we did some online windowshopping. this is all very real. >> the rand paul store takes it to another level. we have the blocker/ . mark: a practical product. >> this is a work of art. mark: i might just go online and buy a $20 pocket constitution and go to an event with rand paul and get it signed. >> and entrepreneur, that is what rand is fighting for. mark: that is a big blanket. >> curled up next to the fireplace. mark: this strikes me as a safety net. >> this is the market telling me how to say happy birthday to your favorite libertarian. it is the same picture as the blanket. it comes with a giant envelope. >> this is the best deal so far in the rand paul store. it seems like a giant kickstarter campaign. . do want a shirt, and iphone case, a giant blanket? john: the guy in minnesota wants that blanket. breaking news from the white house when we come back. ♪ john: seen and reported that russia hacked the white house. the national security advisor sa

kelly paul. she is a relation.elly: first line of attack was telling me you know everyone says i have a less than 10% chance at winning. [laughter] i heard him speak that night in town square park, and i knew. with this uncertainty in clarity that sometimes you have in life, i just knew. i looked him in the eye and said if you do this, you're going to win, i know it. mark: after that impressive performance by kelly paul, i caught up with them in a chaotic scrum after the event, and i asked him how he rated his wife's performance. how you think she did? paul: she did great. mark: did she practice a lot? rand: i do not know. mark: were you able to watch her speech? rand: i was able to listen. market? what do you expect her to do to help you win? he is expecting more of the same, including she is wanting a book tour in the coming days. she has a very high profile over some of the other spouses. my question to you is, is kelly paul a secret weapon or the secret weapon going forward? john: she is not secret anymore. i t

up to the bleachers on stage, where rand paul's very famous father, ron paul was sitting.t a few rows back though, was this gentleman who we're pointing to with the arrow there. his name is jesse benton. that turns the out to be an awkward thing, because jesse benton is also currently playing a leading role in a federal investigation into the ron paul for president campaign. specifically the question of whether or not under his watch the ron paul for president campaign bribed people for ron paul endorsements. the specific concern is whether the ron paul campaign under benton in 2012 bribed this bald guy, a former iowa state senator named kent sorenson in the lead up to the 2012 iowa caucuses kent sorenson had been the state co-chair for the michele bachmann presidential campaign, but then really dramatically, just a few days before the iowa caucuses that year he switched teams. he publicly ditched michele bachmann and said i'm endorsing ron paul. we now know that kent sorenson did that because the ron paul campaign was paying him off. kent sorenson pled guilty last year to

he changed from senator rand paul to dr. rand paul. popular libertarian ron paul was elected in 2010 riding the so-called tea party wave. he spent the last two years courting young and minority voters despite his controversial remarks in 2013 where he appeared to take issue with the civil rights act of 1964. he has often been at odds with many in his own party, particularly for his foreign policy stances. already this morning, senator paul is the target of a new million dollar ad campaign run by the foundation for a secure and prosperous america, painting rand paul as quote, dangerous, accusing him of being week on iran. >> rand paul supports obama's negotiations with iran and doesn't understand the threat. >> you know it is ridiculous to think that they're a threat to our national security. >> rand paul is wrong and dangerous. tell him to stop siding with obama because even one iranian bomb would be a disaster. >> msnbc political correspondent kasie hunt joins us from louisville where the senator will kick things off. let's start with

it was changed from senate rand paul to dr. rand paul. then there is the pseudo eye chart campaign poster that paul ran today. it reads dr. rand paul for president, defeat the washington machine, unleash the american dream. senator paul may be running as a small town doctor but it is his views on foreign policy that are ruffling party feathers. today on the same day paul annoyancea announced his bid, he is running this ad in early primary states. >> rand paul supports obama's negotiations with iran and he doesn't understand the threat. rand paul is wrong and dangerous. tell him to stop siding with obama because even one iranian bomb would be a disaster. >> joining me now is president and ceo of freedom works matt kivy eugene robinson and robert costa. robert, let me start with you first given your deep tentacles in the republican party as a reporter. how stiff are the head winds that dr. paul faces at this moment? >> very stiff head winds. he did not want to run a foreign policy campaign but now the republican party is seeing a resurgence

rand paul now at the microphone. >> president paul! president paul! >> thank you. i have a message!t is loud and clear and does not mince words. we've come to take our country back. [ applause ] we've come to take our country back from the special interest that use washington as their personal piggy back the special interests more concerned with their personal welfare than the general welfare, the washington machine that gobbles up our freedoms and invades every nook and cranny of pour lives, must be stopped. [ applause ] less than five years ago i stood just down the road in my hometown in bowling green and said those same words. i wasn't supposed to win. no one thought i would. >> we did! >> some people asked me then why are you running? the answer is the same now as it was then i have a vision for america. i want to be part of a return to prosperity, a true economic boom that lifts all americans, a return to a government restrained by the constitution. [ applause ] >> a return to privacy, opportunity, liberty. too often when republicans have won, we've squandered our victory by b

just normal paul.'t there for the pictures. >> just normal paul pursuing two of his great passions, helping others and showing off fast cars, including this rare porsche worth nearly half a million dollars. >> they only brought about 600 of them into the u.s. back around 2004 to 2006. >> there is nothing ordinary about it. a top speed of more than 200 miles per hour. the engine in the middle of the car. and oil changes iing $900. >> it's a real high-in tune, super high-performance super car. driving one really reminds me a lot driving a race car. it has that kind of quick razor-sharp reflexes. >> but having razor sharp reflexes leaves a razor-thin margin for error on the road. >> i love the power. you feel it right in the chest pushing you back when you push down the gas. but a car like this needs to be driven with great respect because has so much power and capability. >> reporter: this photo is possibly the last ever taken of walker. and there is the porsche. a temptation that would lure him and a cl

times" saying that ron paul, rand paul's father is a bomb waiting off.tends to take extreme libertarian positions, particularly on foreign policy matters, that rand paul does not want to have to explain or justify or argue with because it's his dad. so the tack that they tend to take when it comes to ron is no comment. ron is still a public figure, he still talks a lot, and rand is bound to be haunted on the campaign trail trying to justify things his father said. his dad's foreign policy views are very pacifistic we don't have any business getting involved militarily in the middle east. >> let's listen to an example of what you're talking about. this is ron paul in the 2011 debate. >> congressman paul would you cut aid to israel? >> i would cut all foreign aid. and on aid to israel helps them, i think it teaches them to be dependent. >> let's listen to what rand paul said today about foreign aid and how he would cut it. >> it angers me to see mobs burning our flag and chanting "death to america" in countries that receive millions of dollars in our forei

rand paul -- senator ron paul's past presidential bids., calling from morgan field kentucky. what do you think of your senator and his evidential ambitions -- presidential ambitions? caller: i would vote for rand paul. i'm all for a young face instead of the same old same old. host: what do you think of what he's done? caller: he has not done much but it is still a fresh face. instead of bush hillary, you know. host: full said that about then senator barack obama, and now some say a little too fresh of a safe and not a lot of experience, and now they are looking for somebody with more experience. caller: welcome i guess a lot of people didn't buy into barack obama. -- well, i guess a lot of people did buy into barack obama. i didn't. still, i want fresh face in office. i'm tired of the bushes hillary. host: what about ted cruz or marco rubio? caller: i like ted cruz and rubio, because they are both young, fresh faces. ted cruz just scares the heck out of me. and i guess i'm a tea party are like he is, but he seems really radical. host: giv

>> and rand paul's father ron paul is not speaking.ming large. >> right. in recent months we have seen rand paul somewhat try to distance himself from his father. ron paul will be there today, but he is going to be playing a silent role which is different from what we have seen in the past with the two of them campaigning on behalf of each other. senator paul has his father to thank for paving his senate campaign tapping into his father's grass root network to win over supporters that care about limited government and noninterventionist foreign policy. but in trying to win the gop nomination and eventually the general election you see rand paul take more of a moderate stance. two big examples of that is russia's invasion into crimea. he called on u.s. sanctions, where ron paul says we have no business there. nsa, rand paul says he wants to reform the nsa while ron paul wants to abolish it and get away with it entirely. as this campaign begins to roll out, we're going to expect to see rand paul try to distance himself from his father as

paul had to say.s an important philosophical discussion all of our rights to do anything we choose to do as individuals stem from an individual right to life. >> and same-sex marriage he is sharply opposed and believes in what he calls traditional marriage between a man and woman. just last month he told fox news that same-sex marriage offends him and over time it appears he is moving further to the right in his stance on gay marriage. listen. >> there is a role for us trying to figure out things like marriage. there's also a moral crisis that allows people to think there would be some sort of other marriage. >> and number three, marijuana, senator paul preenltly introduced a bipartisan medical marijuana bill in congress to prevent the feds from prosecuting users in states where he is legal. but he has said he opposes the legalization of recreational pot and jailing the nonviolence drug users. take a listen to that. >> i think even marijuana is a bad thing to do. it takes your incentive to work and sh

here is rand paul's speech.my vision for america any law disproportionately incarcerates peopling of color is repealed. >> ray ray is coming home. >> we have to stop limiting kids to failing schools ♪ ♪ >> larry: i don't know what to think mike. >> martin luther king spoke two americas. he described them. ♪ described them. >> as two different americas side by side. >> dr. paul loves dr. king. larry: i think i like it and see your point. >> it works for anything layery. you want to go to the knicks game? >> larry: i'm a lakers fan ♪ come on and get your knicks fix, come on. >> larry: i want to go. it's amazing. mike and the night lights, everybody. we will be right back. >> amazing. it works. >> larry: mmmm, they made french toast out of banana bread, then topped it with candied pecans and bananas? it's like a match made in heaven. like bacon & eggs... ...oh look, bacon & eggs. the new banana bread french toast slam. denny's. welcome to america's diner. ♪ ♪ the further you go the more interesting it gets. this is

here is rand paul's speech.my vision for america any law disproportionately incarcerates peopling of color is repealed. >> ray ray is coming home. >> we have to stop limiting kids to failing schools ♪ ♪ >> larry: i don't know what to think mike. >> martin luther king spoke two americas. he described them. ♪ described them. >> as two different americas side by side. >> dr. paul loves dr. king. larry: i think i like it and see your point. >> it works for anything layery. you want to go to the knicks game? >> larry: i'm a lakers fan ♪ come on and get your knicks fix, come on. >> larry: i want to go. it's amazing. mike and the night lights, everybody. we will be right back. >> amazing. it works. >> larry: ♪ pepsi is giving away 100 days of awesome music prizes. follow us on twitter and hashtag out of the blue with a picture of pepsi. ♪ europe has big buildings like ours. only famous. and older. and gorgeous. and not like ours at all. the switch to t-mobile is on. even verizon customers are seeing the light. t-mobile

olivia: rand paul is son of former texas congressman ron paul.olls indicate it is likely to be four more years of mayor rahm emanuel. he was forced into a runoff with county commissioner jesus -- but whoever wins will have a tough job. chicago's finances are a mess and the city's credit rating is a hair above junk. emmanuel pointed out what he accomplished. mayor emanuel: we cut the structural deficit in half, and now chicago is number one in corporate relocations, number one job creation, number one for the city with families living in, and also the number one little league city in america. olivia: garcia says rahm emanuel does not deserve a second term. he says the city is in a financial freefall. and the jury is celebrating in the trial of accused boston marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev. tsarnaev's lawyer said they agree he took part in the bombing, but he says the attack was land by his older brother who was killed in a shootout with police. prosecutors have asked for the death penalty. brendan: the formula for trouble with viacom, the paren

paul. do you want to see patients with or without insurance, and do you have a habit in your practice back in the day of seeing patients without insurance? i'm just curious. i'm just asking the question. paul can't have it both ways. without obamacare and the social safety net, the income gap in this country would only skyrocket. rand paul is a libertarian. his positions on things like vaccines turned heads in both parties. >> i've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who have wound out with profound mental disorders of vaccines. i'm not arguing that vaccines are a bad idea. i think they are a good thing, but i think parents should have some input. states don't own your children. parents own their children. >> his view on international intervention this is a dandy. it puts him at odds with other republicans. it is not every day you hear a republican talk like this. >> everyone needs to realize that negotiations are not inherently bad. trust but verify is required i

senator rand paul is running for president. the freshman senator says he'll ride a wave of liberty lovers everywhere into the white house. but a key to our republican establishment thinks president paul is a bad idea. >>> the national lead. the state department and the white house left in the dark today. what caused the power outage in washington, d.c.? and what does it say about how vulnerable our grid is to cyber terrorism? >>> and the pop culture lead. he's been a mass genius a glab yaiter, a biblical hero. now he's playing director for the first time. russell crow joins me here on "the lead" to talk about his new film and its message. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we'll begin today with our politics lead. just hours ago a major anoungsment kentucky senator rand paul declaring washington, d.c. broken. he wants to be mr. fix it. the chance of president paul, the senator announced he's running for the oval office and coming to take our country back and crush the washington machine. both demo

i think rand paul will be graded this.hen the establishment has things like television and television consultants locked up . you have to get your message out. you have to use alternative methods. you will see rand paul do that effectively and already has. making sure we see him on his own terms, not filtered through the press. the other side is how efficient your operation is and how much money you are leaving on the table. someone who can not fund raise from big checks like jim bush as rand paul will struggle with has to make sure his operation is seamless in terms of harvesting money from small donors. when the enthusiasm strikes, and it could be quick, how many more days to see have, on those big days he has to have an efficient team making sure everything happens. we have seen today there are holes in his plan. katty: american elections are bigger, longer, and more colorful than other elections around the world. to think campaigns are at the forefront of the tech revolution? arun chaudhary: i think we are because we h

paul: i understand. tony: the issue of should we have same-sex marriage or religious freedom are two separate issues, although there is some overlap. that was my point. paul: i understand. then back to the question the outcome in indiana has been towards essentially establishing some sort of legislation. tony: it is not done yet. we are monitoring this in real time. i have had conversations with many folks on the ground and they understand what's happening. i'm not yet prepared to say what will come out of indiana. paul: do you have a concern about a broader backlash that this inspires more legislative efforts to establish protected classes, or establish more legislation that favors gaze gays or gay marriage? tony: no. in the wake of indiana, you saw arkansas moving forward. what does look like it will come out arkansas is -- the only tweak there is that they went back and adopted the federal language from rfra, which has very narrow issues of difference between what arkansas originally introduced and wh

rand paul will do the same task.advantage is you can ask people for another $25 and then another $25 throughout the campaign cycle. he has the challenge he will not be able to raise the big dollars the age of bush or marco rubio will be able to do from big donors. we know rand paul is looking at silicon valley, but it is not clear if there will be a lot of financial muscle behind that it. matt: peter thiel gave his father $2.5 million. will he come out for rand as well? doug: it is possible he will do that. super pac's, that changes the game. it has been impressive when we saw jeb bush announced early start raising significant funds. with rand paul, he will be able to do some of that as well in the financial community in silicon valley or the deep pocket public and donor community that is very organized is not probably going to rally behind rand paul. leo: i think doug will tell you perhaps even better thatn i that these 12 people are credible. they are not all capable of being president ball mark when rand's father

his budgets, if you compare them to the rated paul ryan hated by democrats rand paul is more committedosing the size and scope of government. john: privatizing the tsa. >> housing and urban development he would like to get rid of that. republicans used to talk about this stuff. george w. bush came around and he doubled it. 18 trillion dollars in debt is untenable especially when we had the entitlements that crash around us. he is trying to do things about that including going after military spending as well, in ways that other candidates just are not. and republicans haven't been for mitt romney and going backwards. >> recently proposed increasing military spending. >> by 190 million dollars over two years he's a fake libertarian. this is a grand act of trolling to marco rubio his colleague in the senate in the senate foreign relations committee and candidate for president. marco rubio believes that we are desperately cut to the bone on military. so marco rubio introduced an amendment saying we have to increase military spending by 190 billion dollars in two years. rand paul said okay

rand paul is a new republican. he's going to do something that no other republican right now has shown they're capable of doing and be a very attractive candidate to a lot of young people. he's a magnet for young people. you're going to see rand paul talk about reform of the criminal justice system talk about the constitution. we haven't had republican candidates for president that talks about reform of the criminal justice system constitution, other issues that appeal to a wide range of americans, particularly young people. >> all right. great to have you for the discussion tonight. i appreciate you being here. remember to answer tonight's question there at pulse.msnbc.com/ed. we'll have the results right after the break. share your thoughts with us on twitter, like us on facebook and you can get my video podcast at wegoted.com. >>> big money helps mayor 1% win re-election in chicago. >>> a new video in south carolina. stay with us. we're right back. push your enterprise and you can move the world. but to get from

rand paul doesn't fit that mold. somehow he is going to have to address his foreign policy weaknesses. i'm curious to see what he is going to do on domestic. >> fascinating to watch. because the republican field, at least what we anticipate is huge. they are going to have to rent rent out a coliseum just for the debates. that's not for the people watching but people participating. >> a lot of jobs will be created building that stage. i think it's going to hold 23 people there are about 23 for the first debate. i don't know how the party is going to decide who is a serious candidate and who is not. probably there is some 12 to 15 actual serious candidates who are emerging. look, it's a wide open field. most open in my lifetime. republicans are very hierarchial. we always nominate the guy who lost the last time. that's been our history since nixon lost and got the nomination in 68. we always do that not this time. this time totally wide open. there is no frontrunner. there is a tier of cop candidates. but, stay tuned,

cruz, rand paul, anybody else? >> cruz, rand paul, huckabee.as an outsider, i mean outside chance, chris christie. i think of those four you are likely to get one who's catapulted into the top tier. the way huckabee with the way he performed in the debates in '08 ended up in the top tier. so i think there could be one more entry to the top tier likely coming out of that pool. >> not ben carson? because he polls pretty well. >> i'm afraid he's a good man, he's a great doctor, he's a great patriot. but it is impossible to go from citizen to president overnight unless you won the second world war likeizene eisenhower. >> it's a pretty high barr sglerks and it hasn't been matched. i know he's a popular guy. >> we'll be right back. let me talk to you about retirement. a 401(k) is the most sound way to go. let's talk asset allocation. sure. you seem knowledgeable professional. would you trust me as your financial advisor? i would. i would indeed. well, let's be clear here. i'm actually a dj. [ dance music plays ] [laughs] no way! i have no financial

rand paul makes it official. the second big name to jump in the race for president. >>> and secrets to living longer from the places where a lot of people live to be 100. now the american city trying to copy what they do. "nbc nightly news" begins right now. >>> good evening to our viewers in the west. we begin here tonight with breaking news tonight out of south carolina where a police officer has been charged with murder in the death of a man after a traffic stop. it comes in the wake of several deadly police encounters that sparked protests across the country. this incident happened over the weekend in north charleston. in the video, which we want to warn you is disturbing, you can see the man appear to run away from the officer who then points his weapon and fires several times killing him. nbc's hallie jackson has our report. >> reporter: in this new video posted online late today, a police officer pulls his gun as walter scott appears to run away. his back to the officer, who fires eight times. killing scot

cruz, rand paul, anybody else? >> cruz, rand paul, huckabee.an outside chance, chris christie. i think of those four you are likely to get one who's catapulted into the top tier. the way huckabee with the way he performed in the debates in '08 ended up in the top tier. so i think there could be one more entry to the top tier likely coming out of that pool. >> not ben carson? because he polls pretty well. >> i'm afraid he's a good man, he's a great doctor, he's a great patriot. but it is impossible to go from citizen to president overnight unless you won the second world war likeizene eisenhower. >> it's a pretty high barr sglerks and it hasn't been matched. i know he's a popular guy. >> we'll be right back. the real question that needs to be asked is "what is it that we can do that is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we can analyze 100 per day. whatever i can do to help compute a cure for cancer, that's what i'd lik

how libertarian is rand paul.w, "all in" with chris hayes starts now. >> tonight on "all in." police officer charged with murder after a video shows him shooting a fleeing man in the back. we'll have the latest on this still breaking story. then -- >>> we have come to take our country back. >> then there were two, rand paul declares for president. >> is there where we light up the phones? >> tonight sis campaign against the washington machine i

and it obviously sets paul apart. but will it send them far enough apart to make a difference in the campaign? >> well, i do. i think first of all there's a fatigue with military and with war, even in the republican party. poll after poll show that republicans are wary of this, and tired of this really, and there's that appeal that he's going to have. that libertarian sector. ted cruz complimenting him today. but ted cruz is going hard after social conservatives and rand paul is going to find a different group of people that he's going to appeal to. very well organized and inherited it from his father. you talk about jeb bush and hillary clinton and don't forget rand paul's organization they inherited a lot which is going to help young voters in the republican party. >> something that senator ted cruz might envy. thank you as always. >>> in yemen where a u.s.-friendly government has been chased out by houthi rebels, the u.s. military is offering more help to a saudi arabia coalition. bombing houthi positions and the u

senator paul says he opposes new sanctions. further, iran has a supreme leader who recently said death to america yet senator rand paul recently said that he recently said that he supports president obama's negotiations with iran. so i think those are serious concerns and these are all things that senator rand paul said himself in the past. >> i agree with your point we've seen ted cruz part ways ideologically, at the same time, i think the ad i know that rand paul said he would love to come back and see a change, but there's got to be a middle ground. no president is going to come in the first day and completely wipe out an agreement that was with several nations, not just our own? >> cheryl i think it's also a concern about a misguided viewpoint on the threat that iran faces to this country and to our allies like israel. look, iran has been a state sponsor of terrorism for 30 years now. they're the most active state response offer terrorism. but despite this rand paul has said previously he does not view iran as a threat to o

these. >> they're from rand paul.or rand paul, give us all your money, because barack obama wants to take away your guns. they make up quotes from the president that he never said, they accuse him of signing the u.n. small arms treaty, which again is going to take all of our arms, which it is not, it has not even been signed, they make up lies and raise money around these very scary lives. it's a big grift, it's a big paranoid grift. >> this also raises the fact that we talk a lot about bush/clinton, bush/clinton, dynastic politics, but rand paul is a dynastic candidate in a direct sense. he worked on his father's campaigns. a lot of people around him are his dad's people, this firm being a perfect example, and he's going to have to answer for them and deal with that world. >> you know, yesterday, one of the great things in the interview with savannah that nobody talked about was that he actually said -- he made one of the statements about iran, when he was working for another candidate, he didn't say my candidate, di

feel free. >> watching paul in the work release center was a little sad.seemed like a fish out of water, and i could tell at that point he started to get nervous. you know, he had lived for 26 years in prison. he knew what to do there, and suddenly he looked like he was at a loss. >> am i anxious? yeah. is there knots in my stomach? yeah. i'm ready, though. i have done everything i can possibly do over the last 26 years to be ready and now it's time for me to make the next step. >> the next time we checked in with paul, he'd been on work release for just over a month and had been allowed to leave the facility for limited periods of time. >> sergeant fitzpatrick on the evening had to make a few stops, and he kind of drove me around town. we stopped at a circuit city, so i got to check out a lot of the technological innovations over the past quarter century plus that i had no idea of, and i gravitated toward the huge tv with the surround sound, the real plush leather seats, and i'm like, yeah, i can get used to this. >> but he would find challenges in even t

paul. >> you can't like all of them. >> today begins the journey to take america back. >> well he launched it mica how great is that? >> quite a launch. >> i have a rand button very exciting. >> i don't mind rand paul. >> you like rand paul. you know what she don't mind. >> what? >> connecticut basketball. you know you did it again, incredible. >> i covered him as a local reporter like 20 years ago? yoevenlt i don't want to count. he is a fantastic coach. so happy for him. >> we talked about coach k. now he has ten national title, ties him with john wooden. what is more remarkable. he is ten10 and 0 he never loses. >> me and the local news in connecticut made a cut of history out of covering the yucon husky women which were just back in the days of rebeckco lobo how bad does that date me? >> that's lying. i think i was in my 40s. >> all right. so from happy news to sad and tragic news you just wonder. >> more than that. >> what goes through. well a guy's mind. >> i want to know more about t

[applause] seantor paul: thank you. it really is an honor to be here with the constitution project and share this with senator leahy, or to get an award the same night as senator leahy. thank you for making this happen. martin luther king wrote in the letter from birmingham jail about what an unjust law was. it is a code the numerical majority passes on a minority but does not make binding on themselves. for too long in this country the law was overtly unjust based on the color of your skin. this time has fortunately passed and, for the most part, we have abandoned injustice du jour, but i believe we still suffer injustice the fact though. there's injustice in the criminal justice system, intentional or unintentional, it still exists. i don't think is a conscious effort. we've had some discussion -- the fbi director talked about how he had to be careful of racial insensitive or racially profiling people. i think that is important, but when we see the disparities, i don't think the disparities are coming from an overt ra

rand paul to prove he's not ron paul, to prove he's a nominee. do conservatives see him as pure, as one of theirs, or does he have issues? >> his father's supporters, ron paul libertarians, they're skeptical about rand paul. is he running as a movement or confining a new centrist conservative, moderate conservative. people aren't sure where he's going. if he doesn't have that hard base of 20% that his father had in iowa and new hampshire, it will be a struggle in a crowded field. >> you'll see him on "state of the union" after this. please stay. dana bash hosting the program. she asked rand paul the question, more of these testy confrontations came with female reporters so she asked him, do you have a problem? >> perception is reality sometimes in politics. if you are the republican nominee and you're on the stage with hillary clinton, female opponent, you have to pull the punches given the perception of you now? >> women have come a long way. women are in positions not because they're women but because they're intelligent. they should be equal t

when he look at rand paul? joining me now is robert gibbs, former white house press secretary for president obama, and casey hunt msnbc political correspond live in louisville where senator paul kicked off his compare. thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> nice to see you, rev. >> casey, what can you tell you about the tone of the launch today? >> rely reverend i think the tone he was going for today was inclusion. he was the first white man to step onto that stage. preceding him were minority in one case a pastor from west louisville who cave a pretty passionate defense the rand paul. so i think that's a lot of what you also saw him reaching out to young people. i think you saw him strike a note on foreign policy thafb may softer than some of hess past positions, but i think at the same time he struck a different tone on that than other republicans. >> robert you're a political veteran. i want you to watch this and tell me how you think he did today. >> yet everyone needs to realize that negotiations

rand paul instead of senator rand paul. sort of the focus on getting out of washington.d from senator rand paul to the shortened rand paul. okay. >> so the polls don't look great, mika. >> no. >> also a bigger problem has to do with a million dollars being dumped out there, i guess, you know by the swift vote guys. >> yeah. yeah. attacking him right on foreign policy, on being open to supporting president obama on the iran deal. he's obviously seen as out of step with the national security most of the national securityupreme court establishment in his party. >> foundation for secure and prosperous america put out some stuff. take a look. >> rand paul supports obama's negotiations with iran. and he doesn't understand the threat. >> you know it's ridiculous to think that they're a threat to our national security. >> reporter: rand paul is wrong and dangerous. tell him to top sidestop siding with obama because even one iranian bomb would be a disaster. >> that's a dark one. happy birthday. >> wow. >> i like the daisy in there. >> picks that last one. >> welcome to the campa

a youtube spokesperson says paul's camp can dispute the claim. and his official website store has the things you would expect from signs to iphone cases and hats but there are some unexpected items as well. for $15, you can get an nsa spy cam blocker to cover the camera on your laptop or for $100 you can play a game of rand paul beanbag toss. and for $1,000 you can even have a bound copy of the u.s. constitution signed by none other than rand paul. >>> on a sad note though seven people died yesterday morning when a small plane crashed on to an illinois field. they were returning from the ncaa men's basketball championship in indianapolis. among those killed two were from the illinois state university. deputy director of athletics aaron leech and men's basketball associate head coach torrey ward. authorities believe the heavy fog and light rain may have been partly to blame. >> what we can do from radar data is we can determine what's called ground speed. that's part of our investigation. it will be part of our follow-up activities. >> as you can

. >>> off and running, rand paul makes it official. the second big name to jump in the race for president. >>> and secrets to living longer from the places where a lot of people live to be 100. now the american cities trying to copy what they do. "nbc nightly news" be. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. >>> good evening. the halls of power in washington, d.c. were without power for a time today, as the lights blinked out from the white house to the capitol. and well beyond. given the times we live in a lot of people briefly wondering if there was some kind of attack. for some it lasted moments, others were without power for quite some time. there were parts of the government left to carry on in the dark while elsewhere, forcing evacuations at some of the city's famous museums. all of it raising a lot of questions about how prepared the government really is for a bigger emergency. chris jan sing is on e story for us tonight. >> reporter: the lights went