eye more than seven thousand two long manuscripts acquired by psychologist paul kelly o exhibited here. most of the manuscripts are books about ancient too long and are tremendous cultural value and. this one looks particularly unusual. this entry was written on one side and strange symbols on the other. the symbols look similar to japanese characters. but nobody knew what they meant until a photo of it was sent to japan the japanese musician get so high she immediately recognized symbols of thousand year old p which are leading from the tone the moon. how odd to ohio to continue teaching pennsylvania and then. until we sell. isaac. and you will pursue the sheet or the oldest peeved at the butcher manuscript in existence. it consists of twenty five tunes for the people. judging by the style. experts believe they were transcribed by three musicians dvds with a new script is four meters in length with the words the year nineteen thirty three a d appearing in the manuscripts preface. this is only about twenty years after the fall of the tang dynasty. tuesday from the tang dynasty. i might

kelly and bill stepien are doing. joining me now is nbc news national investigative correspondent michael isikoff. he was at today's hearing. and former prosecutor paulou both for being here. >> great to be here. >> good to be with you. >> michael, bridget kelly and bill stepien are really fighting tooth and nail to withhold these documents, aren't they? >> they are. and we had three hours of argument during this court hearing today, which actually turned into quite an intense and at times fascinating discussion about the contours of the fifth amendment. this was not by any means a slam-dunk for the committee. in fact, the judge made it clear at the end that she -- that the issues raised here are very serious constitutional ones, and she is going to take her time to make a ruling. and, look, the basics are, though, that reid schar, the counsel for the special committee said that bridget kelly is essential to this investigation, finding out what was behind that e-mail is -- the committee cannot do its job without getting her e-mails, text messages documents that might explain that. on the other hand, her defense lawyers argued -- her lawyer and stepie

paul. >> ken arts division. >> harland kelly regional finance. >> leslie. >> lee row housing authority commission. or not advisory council. >> bond oversight. (inaudible). faye >> be (inaudible). rubin santana advisors >> joan i didn't advisory committee and a rebecca ryan's sense oversight bond. >> entertainment commission. >> bayview citizens advisory committee. >> (inaudible). theodore miller >> james mccray junior building inspection commission. >> all right. >> do solemnly swear. that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california against all enemies foreign and domestic that i will bear true faith and alliance to the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california that i take this obligation freely without any mental restoration or purpose of evaluation and i will well, and faithfully discharge the duties about which i'm about to enter and during the time as i hold the office of for the city and county of san francisco. congratulations and thank you very much >> happy new year everyone. thank

kelly's lawyer. and what you see is a pretty aggressive investigation by paul fishman, the u.s. attorney in newark. he is not taking this lightly. so i think you can infer from this that this is going to be going on for a while, and there is going to be a lot of people who are going to be questioned, a lot of people who ultimately may be brought before the grand jury. >> michael isikoff and brian wice, thank you both for your time tonight. one quick note. the bergen record just reported that federal prosecutors in manhattan vu withdrawn subpoena seeking records about david samson. repeat, prosecutors have withdrawn that subpoena. lots of developments here. we'll see what happens in court tomorrow. >>> coming up, believe it or not, they are still vowing to repeal obama care, even as more good news rolls in. >>> and surprise, surprise. dick cheney wants more war, and he is attacking the president during an international crisis. >>> plus, governor bobby jindal talking about whether the president is smart. i know one thing. that's not a smart strategy for him. >>> and we're in florida, where the shoot

paul fishman's investigation. that is going to be where lives are changed, careers are made and people ultimately go up interstate 84 to danbury. at this point, bridget kellynderstands, as does her lawyer, that she is not going to be bargaining with the committee that ultimately can't give her a walk no matter how much she has to say. >> so there was a back and forth today also about this public/private distinction i thought was fascinating. was basically this. the lawyer for the committee basically saying, we saw evidence of moments in which there was a beginning of an exchange on official e-mails that then went to private channels and we want those, too. what is the precedent there? because that seems like something increasingly common among actors in this sort of technological atmosphere. >> yeah, and you're right, chris. it's increasingly common, but it doesn't mean that those communications are going to be beyond the reach of either this committee or paul fishman later on down the road. it doesn't make any difference what form of communication it is. if it's relevant to an investigation, that subpoena, the prosecutor's best friend, is ultimately going

"miss kelly's evidence could be critical to verifying either of the two competing events." >> joining me now zerlina max well and paul butler. i found the statement her lawyers put out very interesting. they were definitely trying to make it clear, hey, we might have something here, too, don't discount us. yet chris christie says he's not concerned. i want to play a little sound for you. he was back to his old cocky self. >> briget ann kelly will back up your story when she's under. ♪ >> -- oath? >> i have no idea. if she's telling the truth she is, because we never had no conversation about this ever. >> there's not going to be any phone calls, any e-mails, establishing that you know about this? >> no, because i didn't. >> it makes the strategy of undermining her credibility all the more. >> this is really par for the course. they went with the obvious sexism route to undermine her credibility so that anything she says in the future is discounted, coming from this fairy tale of hysterical women, who apparently nobody noticed she was not qualified to get the very important job she held in the government, two spots be

paul ryan to donald trump, republican party stalwarts are here. they'll hold a presidential straw poll vote with a supersized list of choices, 26 names, including sarah palin, who will close out the convention saturday. kelly o'donnell, nbc news, national harbor, maryland. >>> we turn now to the weather in the news yet again tonight. as we come to the end of an extreme winter, we learn there is something we'll have to keep a close eye on this summer. government forecasters issued a watch for el nino, the warming pattern that shows up every few years or so and can affect weather patterns from one end of our country to the other, and all around the world. and yes, we just said warming trend. our report from our chief environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson. >> reporter: this is why the words "el nino" strike fear, houses collapsing as the ground gives way in california, weakened by the intense storms of 1997 and 1998, the last major el nino. southern california's rainfall total morse than double. farmers now praying for rain in some parts of the west took a big hit 16 years ago. the losses from that el nino cost u.s. agriculture as much as $1.7 billion according to a study by texas a&m. so just wha

kelly and michael." today star of the movie "need for speed," aaron paul.tinue our unstoppable moms week all next on "live." [captioning made possible by disney-abc domestic television] captioned by the national captioning institute -- www.ncicap.org -- >> now, here are kelly ripa and michael strahan. [applause] ♪

kelly ayotte in new hampshire. ted cruz she backed him in 2012. she wants to play that roll roll -- role again in 2016. sway them towards rand paul or ted cruze. the speech was dripping with is that correct and sarcasm. it doesn't seem like she herself has any political ambitions of her own. >> what do you think is the state of the republican party? >> well, if you are talking republican party in terms of the 2014 midterm elections, i think they are looking pretty good. certainly going to keep the house. have a lot of senate seats where they look like they may take them back from democrats. 2016 is still an unknown for the republican party. look at sarah palin, she can fire up a crowd like nobody else, probably on either side of the aisle. does that translate into a presidential campaign? probably not. so who feels that void? who on the republican party can rally the what party and compete against somebody is like hillary clinton who if she ones will suck up a lot of oxygen. >> this is a party that can be in a lot of big trouble. surfaced at cpac this is the realization this is a party that has lost the popular vote in. lost in 2012 with econo

paul is trying to expand the party, the street fighter cruz wants to torch it. >>> plus, tomorrow, two of chris christie's former top aides are due in court. bridget kelly who famously e-mailed "time for some traffic problems in fort lee" and bill stepien are both being called to explain why they're refusing to turn over potential evidence to the state committee investigating the lane closures at the george washington bridge. >>> and the mystery of the missing malaysian jetliner. how does a plane with 239 passengers aboard simply disappear? well, tonight there are more questions than answers. >>> and let me finish tonight with the people, what they'd like to know, what they want to know about what happened in new jersey in that scandal. and those people who don't want us to know this. is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> well, rand paul ran away with the conservative cpac straw poll this week, and the hard right loves a dove. paul finished with 31% of the vote, 20 points ahead of ted cruz. cruz only finished three points ahead of what cpacers call the rhino, chris christie. we'll be right back after this.  >>> welcome back to "hardball." well, th

can met when you can get kelly in one place she's a great aunt about sharon's a grandmother she's a mom and dad was funny but they don't oh yeah i mean they will do anything for paul she's got to run a finger the other morning i was out of town and my wife was staying at my parents' house and she woke up and she goes papa please it was the first thing she wanted to go see my dad. they got along very well and zazi a great guy growing up my dad was you know there were some amazing qualities about my dad and there was some of see beyond the obvious you know not so great qualities but i you know i'm not one of these people that. thought anything my dad was did was horribly bad you know my dad is my dad and he's a great grandpa is an amazing grandfather. jack talks about overcoming addiction of the show the latest family thing with. america is joining me. for that in parker and financial reporting commentary contributes and much much. only on bombast and on. cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. i'm. a. big corporation trying to. write all that. money and other than that for politics right. here just two. days. to bed with jackdaws mor

can met when you can get kelly in one place she's a great aunt but sharon's a grandmother she's a mom and dad was funny but they don't oh yeah i mean they will do anything for paul she's got a brat run a finger the other morning i was out of town and my wife was staying at my parents' house and she woke up and she goes papa please it was the first thing she wanted to go see my dad. they got along very well and zazi a great guy growing up my dad was you know there were some amazing qualities about my dad and it was some of the c b s you know not so great qualities but i you know i'm not one of these people that. thought anything my dad was did was horribly bad you know my dad is my dad and he's a great grandfather is an amazing grandfather. jack talks about overcoming the show the latest family think. they are very hard. on. that fact that her there. are are there. i think. everybody thought if you if you did you know the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy correct albus. wrong. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the quote for the takeover