thad cochran defeated mcdaniel, who won the initial primary but not by enough to avoid a run-off. so how did cochran beat him? >> cochran relied on black democrats to put him over the top. >> jon: that's right. thad cochran won the mississippi republican primary because of the support of black democrats. before you jump to the conclusion that black democrats think very highly of thad cochran, rent -- let me give you just a taste of his opponent, mcdaniel. >> chris mcdaniel apparently said there's no place for federal funding of schools here in mississippi. >> if they pass reparations and my taxes go up, i ain't paying taxes. >> mcdaniel has already keynoted a neo-confederate event. he's retweeted white supremacists. >> jon: well, now, in mcdaniel's defense, the white supremacist's twitter account had some extremely cute cat videos. ah. hey, everybody, look. everybody, it's kitler. you know, you'll always be meow fuhrer. clearly mcdaniel's candidacy caused a great deal of concern in mississippi's african american community. is there any way mcdaniel could begin his concession speech

doesn't thad cochran know there's no "i" in mississippi. and this was no accident, folks.e a deal with the devilcrats, who teamed with the mississippi conservative pac to do get out the vote work and rally african american voters. those democrats, bishop ronnie crudup, sr., and james scooby-doo warren. rut roh! and, folks, i'm telling you, and mcdaniels would have won this race,, too if it wasn't for you meddling kids. [laughter] i guess what i'm trying say is, when did black people start voting? when we return, i'll sit down with one of the people responsible for black people voting in mississippi, representative eleanor holmes norton. we'll be right back. [cheering and applause] i'm living the life of dreams. i'm living the life of dreams, with good people all around me. i'm living the life of dreams. no! i'm living the life of dreams. i'm feeling hopefully. feeling quite hopefully, it's right up here, turn right, turn right. with good people all around me. right, right, right, right, right! with good people all around me. ok look you guys, she's up here somewhere. with

it was about creating big tent politics or a desire to win african-american leaders are telling thad cochran members of the congressional black caucus told politico they expect something in return from senator cochran whether it's food stamp funding and programs that help poor blacks in mississippi or the voting rights act. congressman fudge said, absolutely, we have expectations. representative hank johnson said the votes were delivered. i hope he'll be responsive to voters that pushed him over the top. emmanuel cleaver said i hope he comes to the realization that african-americans are the reason are i have this final six year ares so i will try to be more responsible than i have been. another african-american leader looking for more support from senator cochran is naacp president derek johnson. alex burns is a senior reporter for politico. two questions i want to establish for people. last week in the run-off in mississippi, did you vote? did you support either of the republican candidates? >> no. i did not vote. i voted in the democratic primary election so i could not vote in the run are

two republicans going at it against each other. >> thad cochran could not have won this election without democrats. >> that's not what i asked. what does it mean bigger picture. >> republican gop candidates are in trouble. thad would have lost if this was a traditional race. he had to go to this low level to win it. >> tells you in states with open primaries like mississippi has you have to have a general election approach. you cannot be sort of a candidate that wants to divide and separate different groups of people. and in a state like this with 36% of mississippi is black you have to make some kind of an appeal to them or try to ignore them but trying to ignore them under open primary rules as mcdaniel is finding out doesn't work. >> we have to go. wish we had a lot more time. appreciate it both. this is not the end of it. see if it does end up in a court battle. happy fourth. >> good to see you. >> still to come in the "newsroom" budgetfalls have kept skies dark for years, but thanks to creative fund-raising and generous of folks and kindness of strangers the fireworks are back with

vote thad cochran. >> the owner of this radio station is saying this came directly from one republican group against another republican? >> at the end of each of those add adds it has to be connected to a group. that group is haley barbour. >> he's got some answering to do on that. >> we did reach out to both camps. they're saying these are baseless and false. >> cochran, i don't believe that for a minute that's my editorial. >> let me read the statement, not including the votes which were allegedly bought by the cochran camp, our grassroots volunteers have already found around 2500 ineligible votes, that is votes cast in the republican runoff on june 24th, by voters who voted in the democratic primary on june 3rd, we are examining all the data that we can gain access to in order to launch a legal challenge, and our preliminary findings indicate that further investigation is certainly warranted after we've examined all the data, we will make a determination about possible legal recourse. >> great reporting, ainsley earhart, we'll be watching tomorrow morning. as the fallout continues f

if the runoff result holds, thad cochran goes on, does this say anything about the tea party's strengthorward, that another tea party candidate lost? >> yeah, first i want to be clear, ben's anecdotes don't make data. although people called his radio station doesn't mean the 30,000 people he's pointing to do this. there's a good chance most of them knew the rules, followed the rules, did it appropriately -- >> most people didn't. >> those facts will play out. >> this speaks to the way people often mobilize insurgency the tea party. the tea party's far from dead. we've seen tea party candidates winning, seen their message continuing to drive -- >> we saw a tea party candidate take out eric cantor. >> exactly my point. it would be foolish to say the tea party is dead. tea party continues to drift republican party further to the right. there's something to be said particularly in places like mississippi where democrat and i can black voters say, we're not going to win this election, we're not going to get a democratic senator this state. what we can do is jump in the republican election an

tea party favorite refusing to concede defeat in the battle to unseat senator thad cochran in mississippi. mr. mcdaniel will be joining us here live tonight. alleged voting irregularities have his camp calling the election illegal and demanding a new election. we now turn to the obama administration insisting it is not putting boots on the ground. for more on the situation, i am joined by former pentagon official and fox news national security analyst. good to have you with this. this is a strange moment because the government is back -- in baghdad is saying unless the united states gets serious it will turn to the russian for all of the equipment and material they say they desperately need. >> we spent $60 billion training and equipping the 65,000 man army. they were confronted by 2,000 tons. what do they do? they throw down their weapons, take off their uniforms, run away night. if they're now saying we need more help a lot more support from all we can do this alone, too bad. you had your chance. for the presidents of some house say let's have a more inclusive government, everyone invol

tea party favorite chris mcdaniel refusing to concede defeat in the battle to unseat senator thad cochran in mississippi. mr. mcdaniel will be joining us here live tonight to explain why alleged voting irregularities his camp calling the election illegal and demanding a new election. but we now turn to iraq, where the obama administration continues to insist it is not putting boots on the ground. as another 200 of our troops move into iraq. he denies the move is even mission creep. for more now on the situation in iraq israel, ukraine and mexico i'm joined by former pentagon official and fox news national security analyst, kt mcfarland. kt, good to have you with us. >> great to be with you. lou: iraq, this is, this is a strange moment because the government in baghdad is saying that unless the united states gets serious about providing military they will turn to the russians, to iran, for all of the equipment and materiel that they say they desperately need. >> okay. we spent $60 billion training and equiping the 65,000-manner rackky army. they were confronted by 2,000 al qaeda isis thugs

thad cochran's campaign offering one of the latest volleys.up or shut up. if they've got hard evidence, bring it forward, but quit talking about exaggerated numbers, that they know are not true. >> mississippi state senator chris mcdaniel, candidate for the u.s. senate, mr. mcdaniel, thank you so much for coming in. happy fourth of july. >> thank you very much, happy fourth to you as well. >> thanks very much. there's no -- you really can't say it any other way, this race has gotten really, really ugly. you say that you are not going to give up. you are now planning to mount a legal challenge against the thad cochran campaign. when are you going to file that challenge? >> well, any day now. the integrity of the process matters. we believe that night on june the 24th there were thousands of irregularities and we already found thousands of irregularities in the proest is. likewise we have the integrity of the election along with the integrity of the republican party so we believe the people of the state want to see the truth. they want to unders

thad cochran is as conservative as they come. ideologically it's a tea party. the question is are there people who believe in government. are there people trying to burn the entire thing down. that's what you are seeing from mcdonnell. this scorched earth politics throwing race into the equation, putting out this sort of bounty. he's not going to win the challenge. he's going to sully thad cochran and his party. >> now, tara, you know, speaker boehner is suing the president, for example. it was supposed to appease the tea party. now he's getting are criticized by other conservatives. one writer who is called for impeachment wrote, the lawsuit simply reinforces the president's assessment that his opposition is unserious. now, boehner did this for the tea party. now he's getting hammered for it. doesn't it show the disarray in the gop, tara? >> oh, absolutely. s clearly he's gone way over the line. you know he's gone over the line when his own party is criticizing him for it. he thoughts he was going to try to make up for the fact because they want to impeach the

after the results had been finalized incumbent senator thad cochran expanded his lead from 6800 voteswhy isn't chris mcdaniel surrendering? >> what happened in mississippi was appalling, primaries are always rough and tumble, bumt the conduct of the washington, d.c. machine and mississippi runoff was incredibly disappointing. the d.c. machine spent hundreds and thousands of dollars urging some 30 to 40,000 partisan democrats to vote in the runoff. >> the irony that this is coming from ted cruz, a u.s. not who works in washington, the irony is so thick you might very well choke on it. that d.c. machine to which cruz is referring is ted cruz. ted cruz is vice chairman of the national republican senatorial committee, the campaign arm of senate republicans and an organization which knocked on 50,000 doors on behalf of a guy named thad cochran. ted cruz also by the way vowed last year to stay out of primaries involving incumbents but whatever, some people can never resist the fight or at least the appearance of one. joining me now is washington bureau chief of mother jones, david corn. the

thad cochran is a staunch conservative but has at times been willing to work with democrats to do the business of government. thad cochran's campaign shows really the only answer to the politics, greater participation, more people, a lot more people voting is the only thing that can triumph over the money and politics, gerrymandering and hijacking of our political system by motivated extremists. the party isn't there's a tea party, but that politicians know they will show up and they will vote. they are not so sure about the more moderate minded voters. it's the absent middle that's really killing us. if you've watched the show in the past, you know i believe a solution as radical as mandatory voting of the sort they have in australia is actually called for. but i'm well aware of how improbable that policy is. instead we should make expanding the electorate in any way we can our number one priority. getting as many people to vote as possible is the only answer to the problems of our current system that didn't involve a revolution or catastrophic crisis. when few people vote, extremist

so it is highly likely that most of the democrats who did cross in to vote for thad cochran did not voteirst time around, so those are legal votes. but really underlying this is a mcdaniel theory that if he won only the republican vote, he should have won the primary. and he's just never wanted to come to terms with the fact that it was an open primary. and obviously it doesn't do great things for the image of the republican party that what they are objecting to for the most part are african-americans who crossed in to the republican primary. >> and sam, what are the democrats in mississippi making of this situation? what opportunities have they found in it, if any? >> well, ricky cull, who's the state party chair, is encouraging mcdaniel, as you can imagine -- >> i imagine, yes. >> to push forward with this challenge. he's even accused people of maybe voting irregularities. he's the first one to threw out the walking around money and all like that. so they've been very supportive of mcdaniel as you can imagine. >> e.j., it's a long shot for mississippi. but this is one of the only ways

chris mcdaniel lost the race in mississippi, thad cochran won.icial announcement soon. 6:00 eastern. chris mcdaniel wants to challenge this. >> that's right. they haven't formally decided to take legal action. what they are announcing is they gathered thousands of what they call irregularities in the votes. what they insist are invalid crossover votes. people who voted in the democratic primary on june 3rd and in the republican run-off, which is illegal. they have to go through more steps to formally legally challenge, but they are building the case. on thad cochran side, i talked with people in his campaign and insist they are fine. what happened today, the votes were formally taken in and certified today in mississippi. they had monitors at all 82 points. they counted all those, but the mcdaniel campaign said their irregularities had nothing to do with that. mcdaniel is saying this is not something he is going to give up. i talked to a lot -- i reported on your show, african-american voters went out and said they voted for the very first time f

it's been three weeks now since chris mcdaniel lost to thad cochran in mississippi. mcdaniel and his supporters vow to continue fighting. in other words it looks like an angry tea party. mississippi is getting angrier. what began as a challenge to a six-term incumbent made national headlines after four mcdaniel supporters were arrested for breaking into the nursing home of senator cochran's ailing wife and photographing her for an anti-cochran video. one was mark mayfield whose bail was posted at $250,000. while he was allegedly involved in the planning of the break-in, the arrest clearly took a toll on him and his well-being. he didn't go into the hospital, just planned it. a profile in the "new york times" details how he reacted to being implicated in a criminal conspiracy. he stayed away from facebook, stopped writing letterses to the editor. he went to the law office but had little to do since his major clients had all but cut him off. then another shock. mcdaniel narrowly lost in june 24 run off after some of the african-american community turned out to support

let me suggest that thad cochran is going, should the republicans take the united states senate, thad cochran is going to be chief appropriator. he's going to be the head of appropriations. now, if you're the chief lobbyist who owns a state, the most corrupt state in the country, it helps to have the head appropriator in your corner. .. how likely is what craig voter fraud. well, there are an awful lot of old love, with allegations that are sensitive, who have a lot of documentation supporting the statements, there's a lot more that will come out. we've seen a lot of what was going on in counter after county is although the counties are controlled at a barber machine. in each one of these counties, they were it dorinda lauzon some cases the verizon people would vote as a democrat to vote in the runoff, which they're not supposed to do. they were simply in the pages which is like a big felony. they were running around with absentee ballot form and they were lying to people in registering as many people as possible. so right now, and set duration is 5900 votes. excuse me, 6900 does. tha

he lost to thad cochran. what are the chances of getting a whole new election? >> you know, i understand every time i lose something i want a recount. >> don't we all. >> i get where he's coming from. >> that's expensive, too. >> it's 6700 votes cook corcoran wasn't that close. he can scream but we haven't seen a lot of evidence of voter fraud yet. maybe that will be a place to start. unless there's full-scale proof of all huge fraud, i don't think so. >> ask for what you want but probably won't get it. >> i like recounts. >>> first buzz is up next. we're talking about the slow death of an american staple. you have heard of dumpster diving. how about dumpster living? you know that dream... on my count. ...the one where you step up and save the day? make it happen. (crowd) oh no... with verizon xlte. hey guys, i got it right here! we've doubled our 4g lte bandwidth in cities coast to coast. so take on more. with xlte. on the largest, most reliable 4g lte network. ♪ ♪ i'm so fancy you already know i'm in the fast lane l.a. to tokyo ♪ ♪ that's going to be stuck in

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republican chris mcdaniel is pushing ahead with his efforts to contest his loss to senator thad cochran in the mississippi senate runoff. mcdaniel sent out a fundraising e-mail to ask for help. he says senator cochran, quote, stole the election and claims the results are, quote, a champlain and simple. mcdaniel says there are numerous voting irregularities by senator cochran who will cast ballots in the state's democratic primary which will be illegal. his push for african-american support was the campaign conference call which quickly turned chaotic. >> black people were harvesting cotton, why do you think it's okay to harvest their votes? they're not animals. why are you treating black people like they're animals. >> sir, i don't know where you're calling from but i'm happy to address any question, no matter the lunacy of it. >> well, why do you use black people to try to get cochran elected when they're not even republicans and you're treating them as if they're just idiots that they'll vote for cochran just because they're black. it's ridiculous. why do you harvest the black votes?

at your local chevy dealer. >>> it was one of the nastiest races this primary season, and then thad cochran edged out chris mcdaniel in the mississippi republican senate standoff he crossed party lines allowed by state law but it has mcdaniel and some in his camp crying foul and when cochran's campaign held a conference call with reporters yesterday it took a strange turn in what has already been a bizarre story. listen to this. >> black people are harvesting cotton, why do you think it's okay to harvest their votes? they're not animals. why do you treat black people like they're just there to vote. >> sir, i don't know, you know, where you're calling from, but i'm happy to address any question no matter the lunacy of it. >> why do you use black people to try to get cochran elected when they're not even republicans and you're treating them as if they're just idiots that they'll vote for cochran just because they're black. that's ridiculous. did you harvest those votes? >> so here's what we'll do. we'll try keep going through this call. if individuals have decided they want to hijack this ca

i intend to go after corrupt republican as they have with thad cochran. i'm not interested in being a part of a political tribe. i krishan these are such that you shall know the truth and i shall set you free, but i'm not interested -- i believe it is a close over parties and other people. i think registering to vote in being a part of the republican machine in my wallet is fun for a lot of people and i understand people get rewards for it and it's important, my value added, like i don't even leave the house to get food. i am working all the time 6:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. my wife has to literally pull me away to go on a date. my attitude is this is the cause of my life. i'm happy to work as long as necessary and i don't want to sully the kind of aggressive go after the truth message that i am bringing by being a part of any campaign. that might change. if certain people were to run for president, i would certainly consider getting involved with their campaign. i might even do research for their super pac. that might be interesting. i've been involved in p

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commentator ann coulter is criticizing chris mcdaniel for not backing down in his race against senator thad cochran. in an op ed piece in "the clarion ledger," coulter wrote, "even in cases of actual voter fraud, history shows that the contesting politicians get branded as sore losers and destroy their political careers." and that's your morning dish of "scrambled politics." >>> all right, in washington, i am joined by syndicated columnist bob franken. hope you're feeling better today. good morning, bob. >> i certainly couldn't feel worse than last week. >> well, that's an improvement. >> that poll, by the way, ask how many people were tired of hearing from ann coulter? >> i knew you were going to go there. let's go here. critics say president obama should have gone to the border to see the immigration crisis firsthand, some even comparing it to, as we saw there, george w. bush not traveling to louisiana after hurricane katrina. so, what's your reaction to that? >> well, first of all, it's political season right now, so just about anything that the president is going to do, he's going to get critic

. >>> the mississippi republican party said senator thad cochran is the bona fide winner of the state's primary. now an attorney for tea party challenger chris mcdaniel says voter fraud is as widespread, they have alleged the state may have to hold a do-over. >> as we have gob through this process, we are surprised at the amount of evidence that continues to come forward, that shows us that there has, indeed, been election fraud in this case. it's very easy to see the mississippi law holds that if there is the difference between the cochran camp and our camp, that difference, if there are that many ineligible voters then it's automatically a new election. >> mcdaniel's camp claims thousands of african-american voters who cast ballots in the democratic primary also voted in the republican runoff which is not allowed in the state. according to the state party cochran won by nearly 8,000 votes and last week, a spokesman for his campaign called for direct proof from mcdaniel. >> i just think it's sort of the time has come now for the mcdaniel campaign to put up or shut up. if there is somet

thad cochran was able to win by going after democrats and asking for their vote.'m not sure we're going to see that across the map and 2014. some republicans like cochran and others are trying to broaden the electorate on the republican side. maybe that is reaching out to black democrats, to young voters. >> you can't forget haley barbour. one of the greats who work for me in the white house. a great reaganite. did a lot to help that election. >> everybody agrees that when you expand the party, how you expand the party may be irrelevant to mississippi. i don't know if i would use the phrase tension. there is a healthy debate going on. it is only liberals on college campus tour against the bay. there's a real debate going on between what i would call conservatives who believe in free enterprise system and, the chamber of commerce, a lobbying group for big business. they have a right to do that. it raises itself and the fight that is going on right now. there is no ideological way you can defend boeing, greatest example of cronyism. this is are you willing to take o

the big picture mississippi headline, republicans long-time incumbent senator thad cochran fended offa party challenge to hold on to his senate seat. that offered perhaps the best chance anywhere in the country for the tea party to turf out an incumbent senator, but it didn't happen. but then came the amazing stuff. chris mcdaniel had been a featured speaker for neoconfederates who want the south to break off from the union again for all the same reasons they did the last time, as well. in may, four supporters were arrested in connection with an alleged scheme to take photos of senator cochran's wife in a nursing home to use against him in a political video. one of those suspects who was arrested in that case co-hosted chris mcdaniel's conservative radio talk show. another of those suspects committed suicide. june 3rd, two supporters slipped into the heinz county courthouse after hours on election night. got themselves locked inside with the completed balloted. they had to call for help to get out of the courthouse that night. after all of that, they ended up in a runoff. senator coch

what tea party challenger chris mcdaniel calls his recent loss to mississippi republican senator thad cochranontinues to dream of reversing the results of that republican primary election, claiming they found what they call thousands of voting irregularities. today, a real irregularity was revealed that senator cochran's fec report shows $53,000 in cash going to one staffer on the cochran campaign. the cochran campaign tried to shrug off the revelation today with their campaign adviser saying our treasurer screwed up. people screw up fec reports all the time. that's true. people do screw up fec reports all the time, and it's also true that people illegally use campaign funds all the time. and the fec has never been, and will never be given the resources by congress to adequately investigate the possible illegal use of money in congressional campaigns. this is just the latest turn in a campaign that turned off some republican voters. for evan alvarez, the chairman of the mississippi federation of college republicans, it was the last straw. last week, chairman alvarez submitted his resignation.

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thad cochran might have stolen the election. >> what happened in mississippi was appalling. mean, primaries are always rough and tumble, but the conduct of the washington, d.c. machine in the mississippi runoff was incredibly disappointing. >> it was one thing when that mississippi senate race goes a distant annoyance for the republican party, but now conservative case makers like senator cruz saying the republican party robbed him, it looks like somebody ripped the band-aid off this thing. so, again, i don't know if this is going to become anything more than it is right now, but watch this space on this mississippi story. it's going to be interesting to see if all the other ambitious republicans and media figures out there line up with ted cruz on this, because they usually do when he gives them the opportunity. we'll see you again tomorrow night. when he gives them the opportunity to do so. "first look" is up next. >>> good thursday morning. right now on "first look," a tense standoff at the scene of a mass shooting in texas. details ahead. >>> president obama focuses on f

. >> maybe black democrats or black voters came out for thad cochran in mississippi, moderate establishment republicans can secretly work to end the gerrymandering process. >> there are somewhere. >> maybe it is -- florida has a lot of them. >> if it happened in florida, it can happen anywhere. joan walsh, joy reid, thank you for your time. you can always catch the reid report, must see television, 2:00 p.m. weekdays, here on a little channel called msnbc. >>> coming up, a deadly confrontation just got deadlier. i will tell you where next. a complete multivitamin with 7 antioxidants to support cell health. age? who cares. i've never seen swanything so soft!tness... charmin! take a closer look at charmin ultra soft and you'll love what you see. not only can you use less, but you can actually see the softness in our comfort cushions. plus charmin ultra soft is so much more absorbent you can use up to four times less. what are you boys looking at? my main squeeze. rotorooter approved. charmin is clog-free or it's free. having a perfectly nice day, when out of nowhere a pick-up truck slams into

think about chris mcdaniel, the tea party guy who lost to thad cochran down there in mississippi. the race is going on and running. there's a certain palin wing that has untethered from the rally the rest of us dealing with. trying to talk reason to them is not a winning strategy. >> oh, dana, it's a topic we'll be coming back to. >> i'm afraid so. >> it is fodder for many columns, my friend. >> "washington post" dana milbank, thanks for your time. >>> we have breaking news to report, governor rick perry will be on the tarmac to greet president obama when he lands in texas in the next hour, according to white house press secretary jorn earnest, governor perry will fly to a round table meeting on the humanitarian crisis at the border and the president will make an on-camera statement about the border situation following his meeting. we'll bring that all to you live. [ male announcer ] this is the age of knowing what you're made of. why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about viagra. ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you t

these black people voting for thad cochran is ipso facto voter fraud. clamp down more.is causing the opposite reaction rather than saying gee we finally found a way to get african-americans to vote for a republican namely have a republican that's preferable to the other guy. the response has been the opposite. so this is the fundamental problem and it shows you the impetus for doing these kind of voter suppression efforts. there is a certain kind of person that is undesirable at the polls in part of the country. >> reverend barber, what do you hope for out of this trial? >> we hope the judge will in fact agree and enjoin these laws and say they cannot be in effect in the fall. we are pushing forward. we don't know what the courts will do. we understand the fight when it comes to voting rights. you have to have litigation, voter activation, and participation. we are in the fight for the very soul of this democracy. you saw that trial, jonathan and you walked in, on their side you have five white men. on our side you had latino, african-american, you had women, you had me

it reached out to democrats and, particularly, black democrats and said join with us thad cochran is a better choice. and they succeeded. now there is a lesson in there, expand your base. get out of your comfort zone. actually talk and listen to people you don't agree with. and build back that sense of trust, which is the glue of any democracy so that we can start making the hard choices that will give us the american dream for this generation and all generati generations to come. >> looking good, walter. former secretary of state seems to be taking the view that cochran's efforts were more about politics than simply done out of desire to keep his seat, offering a hit of how she wants to portray herself. meanwhile, mcdaniel campaign still hasn't succeeded, by the way, is aggressively pushing around accusations that they say is vote buying by the cochran campaign, complained by many of preconceived stereotypes of what some of their supporters believe is done with the african-american vote. there's accusations of vote buying and things like that. nothing has been substantiated yet. tha

mississippi republican party submitted their certified vote total in the runoff race between senator thad cochrannd mcdaniel, showing cochran had a lead of over 7,600 votes. mcdaniel and his campaign show no sign of stopping their legal pursuit to challenge the vote. campaign canvassers started searching through courthouse records looking for documentation of ineligible voters who may have voted in the runoff. the campaign claims they've found 5,000 irregularities but have not shown this evidence publicly. senator ted cruz, technically a vice chair of the nsrc, officially supporting cochran, commented on the runoff in an interview with mark levin. >> what happened in mississippi was appalling. i mean, primaries are always rough and tumble, but -- but the conduct of the washington, d.c., machine in the mississippi runoff was incredibly disappointing. >> we'll see what happens there, but you shall know mcdaniel's campaign, the reason we know about these incremental developments, they always come in a fund-raising e-mail. >>> surprise mechlt a culpa of sorts from senator pat roberts, expressing regr

mississippi tea partier chris mcdaniel who today is still refusing to concede his loss to thad cochran a conference hosted by neoconfederate group that promotes secession and last year, we saw confederate flags at the gates of the white house during a protest that included senator ted cruz. since president obama was first elected, we have seen a growing trend of antigovernment hate and heard frets of secession. some in the right-wing media helped push it. >> i'm not for secession, but i understand why people might be. >> in the end, if you're going to jam all this stuff down our throats, yeah, i guess maybe it would be about secession. for some people, they would probably say, yeah, it's time to get out of this. >> this was a reasonable woman. she's talking about secession. civil war. she's not alone, folks. this is not the rantings of extre extreme kookism anymore. >> 37% of mississippi republican voters would go back to the confederate side. maybe that's what makes compromise so hard these days. 37 is a big number. but so is 63. the 63% of those voters who don't agree with going back

thad cochran did reverse his downward spin in this contest by coaxing voters who usually support democrats by supporting him. he drew african-american democrats into voting for limb in the runoff. cochran's margin of victory over chris mcdaniel came from the heavily democratic precincts. these are places where president obama got 90% of the vote in 2012. if it's true that cochran run by turning out african-american voters, what about the democrat in the senate race. he hasn't gotten much attention so far, there is a democrat who's going to be on this november's ballot. his name is travis childers. he served in congress as a very conservative democrat, he lost his seat in the 2010 gop wave. it was pretty clear what his strategy was when he entered the senate race. he was hoping republicaning would nominate mcdonnial but not cochran. against cochran who as of right now is going to be the republican candidate this fall, against cochran, childers is losing by 16 points. look at this, if mcdaniel somehow becomes the republican candidate, childers has a real chance at this thing, he leads by one

heating up as chris mcdaniel continues to protest the result of the runoff he lost to senator thad cochran last month. yesterday a conservative group called true the vote filed papers asking for a temporary restraining order to prevent further redaction or destruction of records. >>> up next, billionaires behind some of the big bucks in politics. they're not new york or d.c. chuck todd has a look at the heavyweights of the heartland with some very different approaches to influencing u.s. politics. but first our tdr 50 soup of the day. at the drover in omaha, nebraska, they're serving up beer cheese soup. that is a first i think, folks. we'll be right back. stay with us. peoi go to angie's listt for all kinds of reasons. to gauge whether or not the projects will be done in a timely fashion and within budget. angie's list members can tell you which provider is the best in town. you'll find reviews on everything from home repair to healthcare. now that we're expecting, i like the fact i can go onto angie's list and look for pediatricians. the service providers that i've found on angie's list