supporting a path to citizenship. not one. when they talk about legal status that is code for second class status. >> still standing. a high-profile admission and rock star appeal on aids. >> this congress indeed has the power to end aids. i'm here today to ask you to use that power. to seize this window of opportunity, to change the course of history . good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. a stunning development in the investigation of the pilot who slammed the germanwings plane into the alps in march killing all 150 on board. co-pilot andreas lubitz may have practiced a control descent on his outbound flight that day, potentially rehearsing for the crash that would take place hours later. tom costello with details. this is extraordinary. >> reporter: it is. it's a preliminary report that comes out from the french investigative agency. it describes the flight from dusseldorf into barcelona. the flight immediately prior to the fatal crash back to dusseldorf. it crashed into a mountain, of course. we have a graph that shows the information from the flight data recorder which has the co-pilot programming erratic altitudes into the flight computers while the captain was out of the cockpit, presumably at the lavatory. moves the plane from 100 feet in altitude -- down to 100, i should say, to 49,000 feet. the red sideline the actual altitude. what we believe is happening is the co-pilot was literally dialing in different altitudes. 100 feet up to 49,000 feet. down to 100 again. flying, by the way with air traffic control at i have-- and putting the plane down to 30,000 feet. we don't know he actually hit "engage." that's may be why there's the steady line to descent over barcelona. the changes probably never noticed by anybody because the plane -- in fact the settings were so fleeting that nobody ever noticed. then it descended normally into barcelona. it was the next flight back to dusseldorf when the co-pilot deliberately flew the plane into a mountain killing all 150 people on board. the report makes it clear that he dialed in on that second flight an altitude 1600 feet. and in fact it was on auto pilot all the way to when it hit that plane. hate mountain. now, investigators also say they're looking at the systemic failings that may have led to the accident or similar events in the past and why it is that somebody who had the history of psychiatric issues, specifically, you know depression and suicidal tendencies. why was he ever allowed back in the cockpit. why did doctors give him the green light to go back into the cockpit. that's part of the investigation. it will clearly be part of whether they find that luft lufthanza or germanwings is liable. did it fail to notice signs it should have noticed in this co-pilot, in his behavior. this is troubling because it suggests it wasn't a spur-of-the-moment activity in which he decided on the flight to dusseldorf crash the plane. he may have been contemplating it on the way to barcelona to begin with. andrea? >> extraordier thatnary. scary. the white house is calling sunday's shooting in garland, texas, an attempted terror attack. there's still no floor isis is behind it des-- no proof isis is behind it despite the claims. investigators are digging into the pasts of elton simpson and nadir soofi. i'm joined by our reporter in phoenix and pete williams with me in washington. miguel, first to you. let's talk about their background, who these men were. how they became radicalized. were they inspired by al bag gaddy, isis or other -- al baghdadi isis or other acolytes in the u.s.? >> reporter: good afternoon. folks who live here say they appeared normal, the suspects in sunday's shooting appeared normal. they lived inside this apartment behind me together for several months if not years together. they also were trying to run a dry cleaning or carpet cleaning business from inside their home. they were seen at the local mosque several times over a span of about ten years. there was no indication that they had been radicalized and that neighbors and friends say they seemed to appear normal. folks that went to high school with mr. simpson said that he showed no signs of being radicalized until they lost touch over the last several years. from all indications from folks including family members, they appeared to be quite normal until the end. >> in fact was it the grandmother of one of these suspects who talked about him? let's play a little bit of that. >> whoever he was with talked him into it. >> reporter: that's how you feel it? >> yep. there's no other way it would have happened. i never thought it would happen to us, all the stuff you hear on tv about all those organizations that do all these horrible things. i didn't -- never entered my mind that anybody i knew would even do something like that. much less somebody in the family. >> nadir soofi's grandmother, it shows there were no signs, not to the leader of the mosque or any of the neighbors. >> reporter: yeah mr. simpson's family released a statement saying pretty much the same thing, that there was no clear indications to them that he would be involved with any radical group. that they were shocked and saddened by the events. both families saying they were surprised by the events that took place on sunday. >> thank you very much. pete williams, this is a case the initial question was were they inspired was it aspirational or operational. all indications are that this was not operational. this is not the first example we have of isis actually sending terrorist in the united states. >> no sign that it was an isis cell or people trained and sent back. all indications are so far that this was isis inspired. the continual message i get from the federal officials looking into this is that this shows how far they've come. what's isis? it's become a sort of holding tank for lots of like-minded people. it's not just a central thing like al qaeda. lots of people fly the banner even though they may know nothing about the group itself. they like this idea of the caliphate. we've moved away from reading "inspire" magazine or looking at propaganda videos to one-on-one direct exhortations, why don't you do something. there was lots of online chatterchatter on twitter, what a bad idea this was in texas that would insult the prophet muhammad. how somebody ought to take action. and simpson at least, officials say, is someone who had immersed himself in the world and was getting bombarded by these messages all the time. >> what about fbi surveillance and tracking? >> reporter: >> this not related to the garland, texas thing had reinterested the fbi and the joint terrorism task force in phoenix. they were looking at him, but they didn't see he was considering a specific attack. it was a lot of hot air it looked like. he didn't rise to the level he thought it should undergo intensive surveillance. they were keeping an eye on his online activities, but he was not under surveillance to the point that they would follow eliminate he left town. >> is there any question of that second-guessing even within the fbi as to whether they should have been more intensively fracking -- tracking this guy? >> i think they are. the hard question is what should the indicators be? frankly, one official told me that there are thousands of people in the u.s. who are basically doing just what he did before this attack. on line, posting sort of sympathetic messages with the broad outlines of isis. but of course that's all protected speech. so how do you know which one is the next ticking time bomb, which should have intensive surveillance. it's an impossibility. >> pete williams, thank you very much. >> you bet. and baltimore's mayor is asking the justice department to investigate the city's police for a pattern and practice of civil rights violations and promises body cameras by the end of the year. >> we have to get it right. failure is not an option. to achieve the significant sustainable reform that we want to see that i want to see, that the citizens want to see in baltimore, i am requesting the department of justice conduct a federal pattern or practice investigation into the baltimore city police department. >> joining me is maryland congressman elijah cummings who met with attorney general loretta lynch yesterday and has been in the neighborhood on the streets from the beginning of this crisis. thank you, congressman. thanks for being with us. is this a good step to bring in the federal government if loretta lynch agrees? and the mayor said that she expects a prompt response to do a much broader investigation? >> yes, no doubt. i wholeheartedly support the mayor in this effort. as a matter of fact last week during a conference call with our federal delegation senator mikulski, cardin, and others i specifically asked our attorney general to do a pattern or practice type of investigation. the reason why i say that is these things have been going on a long time, excessive force cases. keep in mind over the last years we've paid out $6 million in cases of sexexcessive force. the mayor is asking to look at data with regard to stops arrests, and searches to determine whether they are violations or pattern and practice -- practice of violations with regard to the fourth amendment. for baltimore to heal, we have to look at ourselves and our police department, determine what problems we may have and then do everything we can to make it happen. this is a transformative moment. in order to transform, you have to have information. and this will give us complete information that we need to do what needs to be don restore trust. >> she is talking about restoring trust. but there are such deep divisions within the department and community presumably you've got a report today that one of the officers, officer edward niro is, challenging the prosecutor's statement that the knife on freddie gray was not a weapon, that it was closed it was not a threat and there was not probable cause. >> well, keep in mind that i practiced criminal law for many years. and in any kind of prosecution, you'll always have the defense counsel challenging every single syllable of a charging document that's what defense counsel are stopped do. i want that situation to play out in the courts and it will. i look forward to watching that process go forward. the thing it will be in the open, people will have an opportunity to see what happened, the officers will have an opportunity to defend themselves. there's something bigger than all of that. i want our police force here in n baltimore to be the elite of the elite. i want them to be a model police department. i know that's what the mayor wants also. the police should want to have an, heat force. i've had -- to have an elite force. i've had officers say when they found i was asking for a pattern or practice type of investigation to say thank you for doing. they whispered it in my ear. they know that that's probably the best way to get them to where we want to go. that is the elite of the elite. and the model for the nation. >> by all accounts, congressman, you stood out among all of your colleagues among any politicians, being out there night after night, putting yourself at risk arguably urging people to observe the curfew. pretty extraordinary show of leadership. have you decided to definitely yes or no on the u.s. senate race to succeed barbara mikulski, two of your colleagues have declared donna edwards and chris van hold. has this experience changed your view as to whether you should decide to run for the senate? >> andrea, i can honestly say i haven't really thought about it a lot recently. what i want to do is i want to be wherever i am wherever i can be to be most effective and efficient in representing the people of the state of maryland. i love what i. do i love people. i love my district, and i love maryland. maryland's been good to me. i'm the son of two former sharecroppers in baltimore. provided me a public education, i became a lawyer. now a member of the congress of the united states of america. only in america, only in maryland. so i want to pay back, give back. whatever position i determine is best for me to be able to do, that that's what i'm going to do. >> we will stay tuned. congressman, thank you very much. elijah cummings. >> thank you. and coming up, hillary goes big on immigration. what are reform advocates saying? well, a mortgage shouldn't be a problem your credit is in pretty good shape. >>pretty good? i know i have a 798 fico score thanks to the tools and help on experian.com. kaboom... well, i just have a few other questions. >>chuck, the only other question you need to ask is, "what else can you do for me?" i'll just take a water... get your credit swagger on. become a member of experian credit tracker and find out your fico score powered by experian. fico scores are used in 90% of credit decisions. i love making sunday dinners. but when my back hurt, cooking all day... forget about it. tylenol was ok, but it was 6 pills a day. but aleve is just 2 pills all day. and now, i'm back! aleve. how much protein does your dog food have? 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>> thank you very much for having me. i think at this point it was definitely a great step by hillary clinton to have the world vision. for me i'm still fighting for my 70-year-old mother who's still undocumented. for dreamers like myself it's not to be a cheerleader for a politician. our job it to continue to push them in the right direction and making sure we see from hillary clinton, not just words and i think it's a great step but to see an actual plan how does this plan out timeline how do the specifics play out? how the president has said he was limited. i think we need to see more. but it was definitely a great step for hillary clinton to demonstrate that she's willing to listen to the community willing to listen to what's going on in in the reality in politics, not trying to flash out flashy rhetoric. >> i was in the school library to watch all of it and her interactions with the young people, dreamers among them. what about the legal authority to protect the parents of dreamers? do you think that she and president obama, frankly, have that authorityi, and shouldn't -- authority, and shouldn't he have done center. >> yes, experts have asked the question there was really -- it was supported by the department of justice, but this is something supported by the supreme court. this is like legal -- president was both parties have taken bold executive action. what the president did was more of a political limit than a legal limit. and i think they do recognize we actually just issued a policy memo demonstrating that the president, future president can do way more than what the president did. so i think we're confident that legal experts will find that the -- president hillary clinton or any president will have power to do way more. >> she said with the republicans, those who have declared and those who are talked about as candidates are only talking about legal status which she said is code for second-class status. this is jeb bush in his cinco de mayo video to supporters yesterday. [ speaking spanish ] >> you've got jeb bush, marco rubio, republicans with deep hispanic roots marco rubio, certainly ted cruz. isn't hillary clinton by taking these steps putting them on notice that they're going to have to really go a lot farther than they have been willing to go? go? >> without a doubt. you have to do more than putting a video in spanish. we will to make sure that republicans realize for us we have a limit. for us it's about protecting the families comprehensive immigration reform may not happen for maybe another five years, seven years, ten years. the president cannot rely congress to do something that the precedents can do. the most important point is to make sure -- for me, i do want to see hillary clinton succeed but i want her to succeed with the right policies. i want every president to succeed with the right policies, not just flashy rhetoric. >> caesar vargas, thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you very much for having me. >> you bet. coming up next up in the air. could drone deliveries soon become a reality? 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>> reporter: good afternoon. the sfamptfaa administrator announced the faa was teaming one three companies to gain more information about different aspects of the drone industry. everything from news gathering to inspecting infrastructure. and as you mentioned, the big question on people's mind here at the convention is when drones might be able to deliver packages to your home. now, the big question with that is now the faa says it will study the impact that line of sight restrictions and how it might change over the coming years. but the faa administrator has not given any exact timetable for when that might happen. you may recall that the faa proposed new rules for small drones. the public comment period just ended. the faa administrator said they hope to install some of those rules by the end of the year. many people here say it's ambitious. they think it won't happen to at least 2016 and there are critics at the conference, people within the industry that say that the faa dragged its feet. however, the faa says it wants to be deliberate. i spoke with the administrator who says he wants to take privacy, security concerns into account and does not want to move forward too quickly. however, a significant step today, a move forward, the faa studying light of sight restrictions, and some say that could lead to package deliveries by drones within a few years. remains to be seen. >> complicated issue. you've got the security concerns, piloting concerns, they've got to we'll all the equities equities. we have to say how they balance that. gabe gutierrez, thank you very much. coming up next we head to battle groind iowa. mike huckabee hoping to recapture the magic of 2008. how much protein does your dog food have? 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[ male announcer ] geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more. mike huckabee who declared he is running for president is back in iowa today meeting with some of the voters who delivered his biggest victory back in 2008 when he took the caucuses. a repeat performance at the 2016 caucus may not be as easy. msnbc political correspondent casey hunt is on the hunt live at smoky row coffee shop in iowa. where else would you be? it's a crowded field, again. good roots there with the evangelical community. so how he doing today? >> reporter: that's circumstantial true. the voters here -- that's certainly true. the voters here recognize him wrefr wherever he goes. some of that from his fox tv show he gave up to enter the race. one of the voters he spoke to asked, said that we weren't sure you were serious. were you just doing this to sell books. huckabee said, you know, it's clear i've given up a lot to do this. i'm going to try it again. his challenge -- i'll let you see him talking to voters. the challenge this time is going to be to stand up from the crowd. you saw this even on the front page of "the des moines register." activists saying instead of being the new face, the downhome charm, the underdog he is somebody who comes in on top and comes in competing with a series ofnations includes people like senator -- of faces that includes people like ted cruz. i asked the governor about senator cruz whether or not he thought cruz should resign his post in the senate because, of course, as he said in his announcement speech that people taking taxpayer salaries should be giving those up if they want to take another office. huckabee would not go there. he said he's going to let everyone run their own campaigns for now. i imagine we'll see that attack ramp up as this campaign gets going. andrea? >> we've got a little bit of your interview with governor huckabee. let's play that. >> she said she would expand what kind of immigrants could stay here. i'm wondering your reaction to that. >> what i think we've been saying and what has to happen is you've got to have a secure border before you talk about what you're going to do. >> reporter: do you think hillary clinton is wrong? >> on a lot of things, absolutely. >> reporter: i want to ask, why is senator ted cruz wrong for the q1? >> i'm not going get into senator cruz -- >> reporter: you think he should resign? >> i'm going to let every person running for president make their own case. >> reporter: thank you, sir. not wanting to interrupt -- >> reporter: i'm sorry, go ahead. >> he doesn't want to criticize other republicans overtly. but you've shown that there is disagreement between him and some of his fellow conservative republicans. >> reporter: you know, i've been to a series of these announcements. in many ways governor huckabee's speech went after republicans even more than many of the other candidates have been willing to. he also took a job at jeb bush about being blue blooded. he of course didn't name bush specifically. many of the other candidates have been reluctant to go there at this stage. i think if he's going to get the attention he needs to make a mark here, he's going to have to generate headlines in that way. and it's a signal that it's going to be a nasty fight in iowa. >> can't wait for the debates. thank you very much. and hillary clinton starting a california fundraising drive today. beginning in silicon valley working down the coast. this after her pitch to hispanics in nevada yesterday with an appeal for immigration reform bound to put republicans on notice. joining me for our daily fix, chris eless afounder of "washington post" fix blog and "washington post" editorial columnist ruth marcus. chris, chris, on immigration, she is taking a much more aggressive stance than barack obama and certainly any of the republicans. it was resonating already. of course, members of the -- activists and dreamer community want to see more they want to see how she's going do it. but she's the only one out there outlining a policy that would include parents and would address some of the other issues that they view as inequities, the three in ten rules, where people have to go back to their countries for ten years to line up to come back. rules that are now breaking up families. >> i think she's going further than barack obama in many ways because she can. there is a luxury in not being the sitting president of the united states. she can sort of support things that my guess, would be if barack obama was a candidate for president now, he also would support. i think it's very smart of her. there's virtually no downside. this helps with hispanic who she did quite well with in 2008. it makes it difficult for republicans -- remember, democrats do not have the immigration problem within their interparty that republicans do. you have jeb bush marco rubio, though he's walked back from it saying, look we need to solve the problem of 1 million people here illegally. they're not just all going to go back. how do we do that. you have people, ted cruz and others saying this is amnesty by any name. she is putting the pressure on the jeb bush world by coming out forcefully that frankly in her party has absolutely no downside. >> in fact she was deliberately putting the pressure on marco rubio and jeb bush saying publicly that by implication that they would consign people to second-class status. it would not be full legalization. ruth you have an op-ed, your comment on the bill clinton factor, bill clinton's defense to cynthia mcfadden in that exclusive interview. >> that's a word -- >> and the interview of chelsea clinton in morocco. what you wrote in part is that some important perspective here none of this is remotely criminal, the cash issues from the book "clinton cash," but not remotely criminal is vastly different from being smart politically. hillary clinton needs a better defense and candidly a better defender. bill clinton is a terrific explainer and chief, just not when it comes to explaining his own behavior. truth? >> that's all i have to say about that. i thought it was -- an exclusive interview. good for nbc. it was also i thought from bill clinton and hillary clinton's point of view an ill-advised interview. one again we see this absolute really toxic combination of tone deafness from the clintons and not being in touch with the concerns of ordinary americans. when president clinton says he's asked are you going to keep on giving speeches for 500,000 a pop. he says, well of course yeah. we have -- i got to pay the bills. the rest of us with a few $500,000 speeches could manage to pay bills for quite a while. i hope my husband's not watching. >> then bill de blasio favored by the clintons, campaign manager in 2000 when she ran for the senate. here's bill de blasio mayor of new york on, "morning joe," discussing hillary clinton. >> is hillary one of those democrats afraid to preach what progressives wanted her to practice? >> i'm optimist big where she's going. i think she's beginning to fashion a progressive agenda. i think a lot of us understandably want to hear the core ideas around fighting income inequality because that's what people are struggling with. >> he's giving her a report card, a b or c grade. not ready to endorse. what the what's going on there? >> well, i would say this is more about bill de blasio than about bill. what bill de blasio wants his future to look like which is not just the mayor of new york city but a voice for progressives around the country. i think he viewed his election in many ways that he embraced a very progressive agenda in a democratic primary and one extremely convincingly. i think he wants to be sort of an elizabeth warren-like figure. sort of holding hillary clinton accountable for the left. being a spokesman and representative for the left. who knows what he would like to parlay that into beyond being the mayor of new york city. clearly, he has other intentions. >> thank you, chris, ruth. one of the most powerful men of his time texas congressman jim wright he was the majority leader, then the speaker of the house from 1987 to 1989 when he was forced to resign because of an ethics scandal. a move he later said may have been a gross misjudgment. >> the nation has important business. can't afford these distraction ss. that's why i offer to resign. >> there were people in tears earlier going into the house, charles wilson of texas. also senator lloyd bensen came out of a text gathering luncheon. normally a senator wouldn't come to the gathering. he was in tears also as he left tlflt . there is a sense of history and sadness. >> after leaving congress former speaker jim wright went on to become a college professor. he died wednesday at the age of 92. let's take a look at your credit. >>i know i have a 786 fico score, thanks to all the tools and help on experian.com. so how are we going to sweeten this deal? 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>> it's unbelievable, right? you're ten times as likely to die it f you're a kid in the poor sections of d.c., but we see this all over the country. d.c. is number 25 of capitals in the developed world, so we're last. washington, d.c., is last as far as maternal and child health is concerned. if t's a huge issue as people are moving into the cities. more than 50% of the people in the world live in cities. this is a trend that's going forward. save the children wanted to look at this issue. when we dug in we saw unbelievable data like we see in washington, d.c., where kids and moms living in poverty are very much at risk. >> what's astounding as someone who lives here and cares about the city is that incomes levels-- income levels are going up, gentrification is apparent everywrch the citywhere -- everywhere. we spend more on children's education although not with great result. the school superintendent is trying very hard. >> yes. >> so how does this happen that we have such disparity? >> well, i think if you look around, the real issue is health care for moms. before pregnant -- before they get pregnant, while they're having the baby and post baby, maternal health is a huge issue. you look across the country and the world, statistics are shocking. 17,000 kids dying every day before the age of 5. 800 moms dying every day all across the world. mostly from preventable diseases in both the kids and the mother situation. what we haven't done as a country made the commitment to help kids in this country and across the world. less than 1% of the federal budget. less than 1% of the federal budget going to help children and moms across the world. >> if these are poor citizens shouldn't they have prenatal and post natal health? the delivery system isn't working. >> it's not great. in d.c. there's been progress. in the last 15 years membersnumber have been cut in half. we're the lowest out of 25 capitals across the world. there's been progress made. with a new mayor, i think there's going to be even more progress. there's still a lot of work to be done. you see this not only in the united states but really across the world. this is a cries you is. 18,000 kids, if 18,000 kids died today or school got -- 18,000 kids died in a school, it would be on national news people would be talking about that forever. 800 moms. we need to ask our political leadership in washington whether they're going to invest more resources, less than one as i said, less than 1% of the federal budget goes to aid. it's outrageous. people can help through savethechildren.org or work with senator coons and senator graham who introduced a bill last year to talk about the issue and try to put resources into the area. they need to reintroduce. they're great leaders, and we're hoping they will. >> it strikes me like after things turned sfllt baltimoreviolent in baltimore, people were shocked there's poverty miles from here. not only is that not shocking to anyone who knows about the larger community, it's here in washington, d.c., in the shadow of the capitol. >> a couple of miles from us now. it's amazing. i worked in baltimore for six years. my work at save the children for the last 12 years i've been into homes in rwanda, guatemala, seen the great work through community health workers, volunteers going in and talking to moms about pre-and post-dmartd. progress has been made -- post natal care. prague hess has been made but so much has to happen. when you look at d.c. and that when our kids are born and we live in a wealthy part of the area, they are -- kids living in poverty are ten times more likely to die. it's outrageous. >> going to say, it's savethechildren.org the website. we'll link on this it from our website. thank you very much. >> thank you, appreciate it. we need help out of the folks watching in washington, d.c. political leadership needs to step up. it's an outrage really. >> thank you for everything you're doing. >> thanks for having me. and elton john in congress today. he told congress "you have the power to end aids." he appeared before a senate appropriations hearing. he told congress any cut for the president's emergency plan for aids relief could massively disrupt the global fight against hiv. he got personal when sharing a story about his friend ryan white, who died of aids in 1990. >> it was ryan white who pointed out to me that my life was completely disorder -- i was a drug addict. i was self-obsessed [ bleep ]. excuse me. 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