it had paul davis beating sam brownback by two points. kansas is so red that attila the hunn ought to be able to win an election in kansas if he only had an "r" listed after his name on the ballot. sam brownback is apparently no attila the hunn, because kansas is against him. az approval rating as governor is hovering around 33%. you think in a state that red, president obama would have a terrible approval rating, you're right, he does, but sam brownback's approval rating is lower than president obama's is. and some of kansas's bad feelings about their governor may be about all the recent reporting on a big fbi investigation into more brownback's inner circle in state politics, including his longtime chief strategist. the fbi is reportedly looking into whether there's pay-to-play corruption, whether lobbying dollars and campaign contributions have been leveraged or even coerced in an illegal way as governor brownback has pushed through his legislative priorities. so that may be part of it. those fbi stories. there have been no indictments

paul davies of independent television news filed this report. >> reporter: it was their most promisingls thought to come from the missing plane's black box recorder. specialist equipment on unmanned submarines could trace the source, they hoped. the u.s. navy has had to accept that mh370 does not lie here. the underwater search was carried out by a vessel dragging a towed pinger locator. four separate acoustic pings have been heard, at first believed to be from the plane's black box recorder. but analysis now suggests they didn't come from the plane's wreckage at all. some experts believe the source of the pings could in fact be the search vessel itself or its underwater equipment. something that should have been checked earlier, this expert says. >> huge admission. huge admission for them to have done that. it's very hard to believe they hadn't and so we'll wait and see as this story continues what the final say is from the company but you would have certainly expected them to do that before they put it in the water in the indian ocean. >> reporter: it is the latest disastrous news fo

enacted policies viewed as so extreme by even a conservative electorate that we have got a candidate, paul daviswho we think is in really great straight. -- great shape. we do not limit ourselves to any geographic area. make sure we have a great candidate and we go to battle. we are talk --host: we are talking with colm o'comartun. we will continue to look to do that down the road and bring the rj on -- rga on in the future. a lot of the efforts you're talking about will take money. how much money do you think is needed to raise the cycle for what you are trying to do in 2014? year, we have been traditionally outraised by the rga, but we won eight out of the last nine races we have gone head-to-head with them on. we tend to invest our money very effectively and pick the races where we know we have got the voters on our side and have got great candidates. it does not don't us at all that they will raise the state. we tend to have support from a lot of the famous republican right wing backers, koch brothers, etc., donald trump and folks like that. we will have all the resources we need to be compe

. >> paul gets is a plant geneticist at uc davis and receives no funding from monsanta for research.er facultyies do. he thinks monsanta is right to be concerned about the public is acceptance of genetically engineered fruits and vegetables. >> you have direct consumption. resistance, whether it's rite for not may be more important for those crops. >> they like to call the marker technology as one that turns a light on in a laboratory of plant breeding, so we can see what is going on in the plant and select for the properties we need. >> "techknow" knot a look at monsanta's dna marker lad in woodland california. here, hundreds of markers have been discovered for traits in fruits and vegetables. the first step in the process - pulverizing tissue samples so d.n.a. can be extracted by the robot. how do you extract d.n.a.? how does that happen? >> thankfully biology made dna water soluble. all we need to do is add water. >> once that has happened it is deposited into a center final, removing plant debris. >> at 3,000 revolutions per minute, it's hard to get rid of the cellular debris fro

the second, engineer plain o'neil has a right knee injury when he made contact with davis and would not return. chris paul was dealing with a hand issue and was in foul trouble all night which meant it was stephen curry's time to shine. he races by everyone for the layup in the 4th quarter and a six point golden state lead. when david lee fouled out andre iguodala had big shots down the stretch. he buries a tough shot and then the three ball from the corner plus the foul on blake griffin, a 7-point golden state lead with under three minutes to go. closing seconds, matt barnes with the wild three from the wing to cut the golden state lead to one. not enough time. curry misses the free throw on purposes and time expires. the warriors force a game 7 in los angeles saturday night. they win 100-99. let's hit the locker room. >> the way this team conducts itself in spite of everything we've gone through, all the lie, all the adversity, all the sources, i could not be prouder. what we are doing collectively speaks against it. >> what do you think about your availability for saturday night? >> anything short of g

paul allen, bloomberg. the implications of all this, i am joined by andrew davis. how tense are things today?t report, pro-government forces have been taking to the streets, defying the military which said it wouldn't permit gatherings of more than five people. we saw hundreds, maybe more than a thousand in bangkok. in the rural areas, people are taking to the streets. anything could set off a conversation -- a confrontation. >> we are just hearing now that yingluck has been released by the military. yingluck shinawatra, former prime minister has been released by the military. >> they are saying that she is free to move around but she is also under guard. that freedom is somewhat limited. another thing we are hearing is lawyer isrother's talking about setting up a government in exile him a which intensify the situation. setting up a government in as escalaten exile would the situation. >> as you said, she will be released but without -- with armed guard. ministernterim prime could be named today. that could not be the case. >> people in bangkok seemed to think it may not happen today. it is s

davis beat out "full house" actress candace cameron bure and amy purdy. >>> ex-beatle paul mccartneyan tour. he caught an unspecified illness. he is scheduled to play next week in south korea, but as of now, the future is up in the air. >>> kim kardashian taking her daughter, north west, on a stroll yesterday. while shopping at high-end boutiques ahead of her wedding with kanye west. it's this start in florence, italy, right? well, it's a place that evidently has a little bit of a special meaning. >> in a new interview, kanye west revealed daughter north was conceived in florence. or as north calls that, a pretty good name for a girl. >> yeah. there you go. >> hard to get over that north west name. >> it is. >> so if you've ever dreamed of being neil patrick harris, readers will play nph and get the chance to make their own decisio decisions. how is that going to work? >> i don't know. i loved those books as a kid. you choose this direction, go to page this or page that. >> so it's going to be a digital po book of some sort. neil patrick harris, always a creative guy. i'm richard lui

paul overperformed winning jefferson by 25 points and fayette by 32. in most of the largest republican-leaning counties, he did equally as well. for instance, let's look at boone. davis, hardin and kenton counties along the indiana border and up to ohio. rand paul racked up big wins in all of them. 26, 29, 24. just across the border from cincinnati in warren county, rand paul won by 50 points. but it wasn't good news everywhere for senator paul. he had the most trouble in a pocket of republican counties further south that were closer to the virginia and tennessee borders. keep in mind we're only looking at the counties where there's at least 5,000 votes cast in the county. grayson didn't win any of the counties like that but did manage to hold down paul's margins in the southeastern corner of the state so that's going to be another place to keep an eye on bevin and mcconnell. paul's best performance in that region was pulaski county. he won clay and whitney by 12, laurel by 11 and knox by just a single pointi. so what did fuel rand paul's victory? was it the taer party effect? was it a backlash against trey grayson and his chief supporter at the time, mitch mcconnell

whether one looks at the case in california, naacp versus alabama or davis versus fcc disclosure has limitations. as justice john paul stevens said quote this is a shield from the tyranny of the majority and shows the purpose of the bill official right and the first amendment particularly. john paul stevens said this extends among the realm and advocate may believe her to be more persuasive with they are not aware of her identity. it will make it as a way that readers don't prejudge the message because they don't like the component. so where the identity of the speaker is important the most effective advocates opted for n anonymi anonymity. what was struck was the so called bi-annual limit that only allowed people to give to a handful of candidates. hopefully contributions will not longer be the province of a select few. the up start campaign al lie, the political party will not have to compete any more. but this change doesn't fix what ills our finance. it must be revisit. thank you for the opportunity to present these views. >> thank you. >> thanks so much. it is a pleasure to be here to talk about this issue. i wa

according to a new report from uc davis, my next guest calls these estimates conservative, joining me now, president of california farm bureau, and third generation farmer, paul, you are caught in something that could not have been anticipateed. the drought. all sorts of livestock diseases, i mean, what are you going do here? >> we've been through droughts before. we've seen years '76, '77 was a more severe drought. when you think about this you have two below normal rainfall years, and a drought year, we have a water structure in california to sustain 18 million people. today we have 38 million people in the state. you know agriculture has done a great job, we have been told to become merefficient, we have doubled or agricultural production on the same amount of water we had for last 40 years, there is not a lot more we can do. we have to look to the environment, we're using 18 century, technology, to think that fish have to survive by putting more water down the river without due discourse and scientific research to why these fish are disappearing. lou: also, agriculture also has not been quick to eliminate manuel labor by replacing with with auto may be, a

marc davis was born and raised in the belgian congo. he said had paul not stepped in when he did, the only bongos alive today might be those in zoos. >> the world is in a mess. the planet is broken. the planet is sick. we are living in times that are indeed times like we have never seen before in terms of the urgency that things have got to begin to turn around. >> reporter: saving the bongo. it is working but biologists say it is way too early to celebrate. kerry saunders, nbc news, palm beach, county, florida. >>> still to come, how would you feel if a restaurant sat you with a table full of strangers? but, first, this is "today" on nbc. >>> millions of you are probably planning your barbecue menus. if you you are planning on eating out, you may want to be prepared to find new friends. >> a growing trend in the restaurant world to break bread together. jenna is explaining. >> they are called commune nal tables, strangers sitting among strangers. it is all the rage in restaurant design. restaurants want to fill everything up. they seat you like on an a

paul this week. they'll look at how the tea party fairs in this vote. any pass to a g.o.p. majority would likely include north carolina. susan roberts is an associate professor of political science at davisollege and said democratic incumbent who supported the affordable care act is extremely valuerible vul. >> once considered a true swing state in recent years north carolina has shift to the right. electing pat macquarie it's first republican governor in 20 years. they now control the legislature which passed voting rights, same-sex marriage and abortion. it today they show president obama's approval rating at 44%. >> everything in north carolina politics is aimed towards defeating--well, he can't be defeated because he's not running. >> reporter: a recent "new york times" kaiser family foundation poll shows many don't approve the way the president is handling healthcare. six months before the general election healthcare has become the focus of attack ads on both sides. >> hagin thinks obamacare's time has come. tell her obamacare is not the answer. >> tillis supports a plan that would end medicare as we know it, and force seniors to spend $1,700 more for precipitations. >> reporter: bu

davis, burke, amy purdy and big time rush star james maslow. >> handled it graciously. >> good luck to the rest of them. the widow of a driver killed with "fast and furious" paulon six months after the fiery crash. kristin rodas -- the suit claims porsche carrera they were riding in veered out of control because of the suspension. >> she contradicted police findings the car was going up to 93 miles an hour and said they were driving significantly slower 55 miles. >>> another legal story. this one involving radio legend casey kasem. he is suffering from advanced parkinsons disease and can no longer speak. >> his children have been complaining they have been unable to see their father because he's been moved around medical facilities by his wife. a judge ordered an investigation where kasem is being treated. >> a complaint accuses his wife of elder abuse. an attorney for one of the daughters says the family believes he's been taken to an indian reservation in washington state. >>> as you know, tv news pioneer, barbara walters retiring this week. to honor her, the building we are in right now, abc news headquarters is named in her honor. >> disney chairman and ce

paul, may he be the nominee. i hope he is the nominee and we'll win by a 50-state landslide. because he is nasty and nasty doesn't sell in american politics. >> lenny davis, appreciate your being here. >> thank you. >> and joining me somebody here who is familiar with the lewinsky scandal, and also what it takes to make a full recovery from the scandal. so in this week after the "vanity fair" came out, we want to reach out donnie know rice, who was sitting on the lap of hungagary hart, who was in his d run for the white house. but this week, donna rice hughes is devoted to make the internet safer for kids, with enough is enough. thank you for joining us. >> hi, bill, good to be with you. >> what did you think when you saw the piece regarding monica and vanity fair, trying to take back her narrative. >> i applaud her for trying, i thought she was very articulate. my heart went out to her, bill, i think she has had a rough time for a lot of reasons. and it is very hard for anybody to really empathize with this sort of perfect storm scenario and not be able to get on with your life. fortunately i made some choics s that moved me along. there was not anyone