if we show a little backbone if we show a little gumption that we can rebuild america's once invincible middle class, and i believe this is the fight worth having. >> the progressive agenda comes down to a very simple concept. we need to reward work again. >> yes. >> we need to reward work not wealth. >> the agenda announced today includes raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour passing comprehensive immigration reform national paid sick leave and making pre-k after-school programs and child care universal. plus nine other goals. it's a concrete specific plan and it sets a standard for presidential candidates including hillary clinton who is under pressure from leading progressives, and it's a sharp contrast to the right wing contenders exposing their trickle-down policies. the fight for fairness is too central to american politics. it's right now american politics, and today at a separate event president obama talked about the heightened focus. >> i think that we are at a moment, in part because of what's happened in baltimore and ferguson and other places but in part because a growing awareness of inequality in our society where it may be possible not only to refocus attention on issue of poverty but also maybe to bridge some of the gaps. >> now, of course progress i was don't-- progressives don't agree on everything. in fact senate democrats blocked a vote on the president's trade bill. you can agree with that opposition and still find common ground on goals we share and right now president obama meeting at the white house with senate democrats talking about how to move forward on trade. it's about fairness opportunity, equality. you can disagree on how to get there, but the goal is the same. joining me now is congresswoman barbara lee, democrat from california. she was at the unveiling of the progressive agenda today and signed it and e.j. dion of "the washington post." he moderated president obama's discussion on poverty today. thank you for being here. >> glad to be with you, reverend al. >> good to be with you. >> congresswoman, don't progressives have a broad united view on a lot of goals despite the kind of disagreement we saw today on trade? >> progressives have had for many, many years a very clear agenda that really i must say is mainstream american agenda. when we fight for a living wage when we see people who are living below the poverty line, who are working and living below the poverty line that's just downright wrong. progressives want not only an increase in the minimum wage but a living wage. also, when you look at education and when you look at making education affordable for everyone, from pre-school all the way through community college or college, we have so many gaps there and inequities that we need to begin to be able to close these gaps. progressives have always stood for that. we have a very unfair tax system, reverend alsch and it's about time that we insist that corporations and ceos pay their fair share, and i have to say i come from a great area oakland and berkeley california, where the progressive agenda has always been an agenda that democrats have embraced and i'm very pleased to see the national movement now led by a great bold mayor, mayor de blasio kick this off in washington, d.c. with many, many progressive organizations. >> now, i think that what was impress sieve all of us may not agree on how to get there. i think i said in my statement we may not agree on the play but we all agree on the goal line and touchdown, and i think that's how you really begin turning around this whole question of economic and income inequality. >> absolutely. and we have to remember also we've got to include racial justice in this. >> absolutely. >> when you look at poverty rates in the african-american community, 27%, in the latino community 23%, and you have the national average that's about 9%, and so we don't want to leave anyone behind. we want people who are living below the poverty line to really be able to find pathways out of poverty so that they can, too, get into the middle class, and i have to say, al i was very proud of the president today because i was a member of the drafting committee for the platform of the democratic party, and for the first time we wrote in there that it is a priority of the democratic party to eliminate poverty, and so we're beginning to see more democrats talking about not only preserving and fighting for the middle class but also those who are really working hard just to get into the middle class. >> now, e.j. at your event today the president, when i think has been probably the most progressive in my lifetime he talked about how toll villify the conservative media. >> if you watch fox news on a constant basis, like they will find folks that make me mad. i don't know where they find them. they are all like -- i don't want to work. i just want a free obama phone or whatever. >> how do these false depictions of the poor undercut serious discussions we need to have e.j.? >> i think what they do is they harden and solidify opinion on a particular side of the debate but i think there is a lot of room to fight for programs that would lift up the poor. one of the striking things about this event that the president spoke at today is that it's a -- it was organized by a group of catholics and a group of evangelicals, white evangelicals mostly, with a whole lot of other participants, and, you know the whole point was if you take the gospel seriously, you cannot ignore the fact that the poor -- jesus talks about the poor all over gospels. >> right. >> and that what the president put on the table today were very practical things ranging from you know building infrastructure to universal pre-k to child care to some of the very things in the program you signed today. one of the things that strikes me is there's a kind of intellectual ever ves yulual effervescence right now among progressives since the battering of the economic mess back in 2009. there's this proposed set of proposals out of roosevelt institute. i was involved in a similar set of proposals that came out of the center for american progress a few months ago. we're all moving to say, you know, we can't just talk about poverty or inequality. we need to put some specific things on the table and over the long run let the voters decide is this a better program than something that looks a lot like laissez faire. >> all the big-name 2016 republicans are opposed to raising federal minimum wage. that may work in a gop primary, but how will it affect working class voters in the general election? >> well, it may or may not work in a primary. we saw several states with heavy republican population in the last election pass ballot measures to raise the minimum wage, and so i think when we raise the minimum wage and move towards a living wage the majority of the american people want to know why their candidates are not standing for that. republicans, independents they need a raise. they need a living wage and not only democrats who need this but also reverend al going back to pathways out of poverty i introduced legislation to cut poverty in half in ten years, support from the faith community. we know exactly how to do this. we've seen it work and we have all of the tools and the measures in place that we need to vote on but, of course we can't get the republican speaker to bring this bill to the floor. we have a lot of work to do, but i tell you i'm so proud of young people that's really beginning to put the street heat that i call it on to make sure elected officials are accountable to an american agenda that raises people out of poverty and ensure that we begin to close the racial and economic gap in terms of what we see taking place in our country. >> absolutely. you know e.j. politico reported on ongoing pressure progressives are putting on hillary clinton, calling today's event, quote, the latest step in the democrats' primary within the primary. liberals efforts to figure out how to push hillary clinton to the left. i mean how much concern is there on the left and was hillary clinton listening today? >> well you know hillary clinton's positions right now are quite progressive on a whole series of issues. people have noted, for example what, she said on immigration, and i think for now the pressure should be for example on the minimum wage not only as congresswoman suggested have those republican states voted for it but a very large number of rank and file republicans want to raise the minimum wage. i was struck by what mayor de blasio said about rewarding work. a lot of the republicans who want to talk about poor people and demonize them as if they don't want to work in fact they do want to work but they want work to pay for them and i think that's one of the reasons why this is a unifying issue. it trumps all these issues to demonize the poor because what they want is jobs that they can raise their families on. >> well i think it has been a highlight day from your session with the president to the progressive agenda to what senator warren did to the president sitting down right now with democratic leaders of the senate. again, a common agenda for working people to have livable wages. we can debate specifics on how we get there, but i think we've established the goal line for america today. congresswoman lee and e.j. dionne, thank you both. >> thank you. >> breaking news. no charges for the officer who shot and killed an unarmed teen. moments ago the victim's family spoke out and they have questions. also tonight tom brady fighting back. he's getting ready to appeal his suspension, and it looks like this fight is getting nasty. we'll go live to foxborough. plus, jeb bush tries to explain his odd statement about invading iraq, and the obamas make it official with big news today about chicago. stay with us. so, what brings you to jersey? 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>> i'm surprised that it's taking this long. usually when police officers or the sheriff's office in this case investigate these kinds of shootings, my guess is that this isn't their first investigation. my guess is that the people who are doing the investigation are skilled. they have experience. they have the know-how and they have contacts in place in order to get things done. i think the attorney for the family said it best. justice requires diligence and justice delayed is justice denied. i can't understand why it's taking this long particularly since it's not a complex case. it doesn't involve a lot of people. there were two officers on the scene. tamir rice was the only other person carrying this alleged weapon so i can't quite understand why it's taking this long. >> mark claxton, in a statement the sheriff talked about the work his investigators had done. let me play that. >> my investigators have pored over thousands of pages of documents and conducted numerous search warrants with witnesses. we also reviewed any and all surveillance from the surrounding area and conducted a 3-d measurement scan at the reck center, so as you can see we have been tirelessly working on this investigation. >> but is there enough mark for a decision on charges? i mean as you just heard midwin say, how long do you need with a videotape there? is this unusual to you to take this long? >> it's highly unusual, and what's disturbing is what the sheriff just described. i figure it should take maybe two or three weeks top. unless you're investigating and have to interview half of cleveland, there's no excuse for this investigation to drag on this long without any decision or decisive action taken on the part of the investigators unless there's no real will to conclude this investigation, unless you're looking for an out as opposed to try to establish whatever probable cause exists. i mean this isn't a whodunit. this is not an investigation of who is the second shooter at the grassy knoll. this is a homicide investigator that any skilled investigative team with the will and desire to conclude would have concluded within a six-month period. it is absolutely reprehensible and inexcusable >> now, midwin it started with cleveland police. then it went to the sheriff. i mean you can't help but compare what's happened in cleveland to what happened in baltimore. in baltimore it was just 12 days between the death of freddie gray and the prosecutor's announcement to bring charges. it's been 170 days that tamir rice this 12-year-old died and about a week after tamir rice's death the justice department released a very critical report on the cleveland police department. it found some officers fired at suspects without justifiable cause, beat suspects in hand cups and then tried to cover things up failing to write accurate police reports. how do they start to fix this department? >> with a lot of work and with a lot of desire to get it fixed? i think that the report was horrible? the report said of laid out what's happening in cleveland, and it does not bode well for what happened to tamir rice especially when you consider the fact that the officer who shot and killed tamir rice had already resigned under very unusual circumstances from another police department because he had exhibited behavior that indicated that he was someone who couldn't handle being -- using a gun. so it's very very troubling, and i think that the cleveland police have a long road ahead of them in fixing this problem for sure. >> you know mark you would think that with the justice department report that it would have made this department try to move at least more expeditiously and really not even expeditiously but in a more timely manner given most cases in the tamir rice case. it seems like this report has not caught the attention in terms of really regarding how the community feels about the process. >> yeah, and really what it points to is just how insidious that this systemic abuse, if you will exists how entrenched it is in law enforcement in general and policing more specifically how deeply entrenched many aspects what have people are calling for reform against is in these departments because even facing, you know a scathing report from the department of justice, troubling report that sounds like it happens in some third world country, et cetera i mean they still have no real reason or motivation to expedite matters, to pursue justice in a rapid fashion or even to be honest and open. i mean to say it's going to take us a little while because we still have evidence to collect, that's just you know i'm telling you that's just, you know dishonest on so many different levels and it's a shame pause this family has suffered and this community demands and deserves justice. >> midwin charles and mark claxton, thank you both for your time tonight. >> thank you. and as we talk about these issues of policing and criminal justice, it's important to remember that the danger is faced every day by officers. this weekend the tragic shooting of two police officers in hattiesburg, mississippi. officers benjamin deen and tate were killed after pulling over a speeding vehicle. four people have been charged in the shootings, and yesterday a memorial was held to honor the lives of the slain officers. as we debate policing in america, we must remember that these brave men and women risk their lives for our community. our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the fallen. ♪ ♪ ♪ (under loud music) this is the place. ♪ ♪ ♪ their beard salve is made from ♪ ♪ ♪ sustainable tea tree oil and kale... you, my friend, recognize when a trend has reached critical mass. yes, when others focus on one thing you see what's coming next. you see opportunity. that's what a type e* does. and so it begins. with e*trade's investing insights center, you can spot trends before they become trendy. e*trade. opportunity is everywhere. i've smoked a lot and quit a lot but ended up nowhere. now i use this. the nicoderm cq patch, with unique extended release technology helps prevent the urge to smoke all day. i want this time to be my last time. that's why i choose nicoderm cq. >>who... is this?! >>hi, i am heinz new mustard. hi na na na na >>she's just jealous because you have better taste. whatever. >>hey. keep your chin up. for years, heinz ketchup has been with the wrong mustard. well, not anymore. introducing heinz new better tasting yellow mustard. mmm! bring us your aching... and sleep deprived. bring us those who want to feel well rested and ready to enjoy the morning ahead. aleve pm. the first to combine a sleep aid... plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. for pain relief that can last until the am. so you... you... and you, can be a morning person again. aleve pm, for a better am. there is an ancient rhythm... 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[ laughs ] now to tom brady fighting back. the superstar was given a four-game suspension without pay for his role in so-called deflategate. the superstar has until thursday at 5:00 to file his appeal and his agent says it's coming. quote, the discipline is ridiculous and has no legitimate basis. he also said the deflategate report was not independent and in a conference call today the attorney behind the report is firing back at brady's agent saying he crossed the line. >> this is the first time that after i've issued my report that i find somebody is questioning my independence and the in some way suggesting that i was influenced by the league office and i think that is wrong. i think those attacks are out of bounds and unfair and just plain wrong. >> joining me now from outside the patriots home stadium is msnbc's steve karnacky former new york giant head coach jim fassel and joe sullivan sports editor of the "boston globe." thank you all for being here. >> good. >> sir. >> steve, you were on that ted wells call. what struck you as you were listening to ted wells? >> well ted welts basically laid out the story how he got from launching this investigation to coming to the conclusions that he came to last week that set this whole penalty phase in motion. the timing no coincidence because when the punishment came down last night the owner of the patriots bob kraft, the agent for tom brady, don yee, both indignant about what was done in terms of punishment and he said in response to this and basically what ted well said in this call is the league, when this first began and received a complaint from the indianapolis colts about potentially deflated balls, the league didn't take it that seriously, didn't expect to find anything. didn't launch his investigation. this was not a sting as the patriots alleged. he said tom brady is iconic did not go into this to muddy tom brady's reputation but he said two things two things in the course of this investigation jumped out at him. number one he said is when he discovered the text messages involving jim mcnally who had access to the balls, the patriots employee who had access to the balls before the game, when he discovered the text messages in which mcnally referred to himself as the deflator wells then asked for a follow-up interview with mcnally and at that point essentially the patriots stonewalled, wouldn't make him available. he said that's very suspicious it's not circumstantial evidence, those text messages but direct evidence and the second thing he said that got his alarm bells going is tom brady. tom brady was totally cooperative with the investigation except when it came to the question of turning over material turning over digital records, texts basically from his cell phone and he says he made this offer to tom brady's camp. he said you don't have to turn over your phone to me. i'm not going to go snooping through your phone. you give me documents that are responsive to my questions and i will take your word and he said even faced with that offer of just turn over what you think is relevant, i won't look at the phone, even in the face of that offer brady's people refused and the patriots refused and that leads to this conclusion that the nfl has come to saying the patriots were not cooperative with the investigation which plays into the punishment. >> steve, i want to ask you about the mood up there but joe based on what steve just said there is a 221-page report without a smoking gun. today wells addressed the critics who say there's not enough evidence. listen to this. >> if i were sitting on a jury and the judge had charged the jury that it should apply the preponderance of the evidence standard i would have checked the box that said prove it. >> now, do you think, joe, that that will do anything to quiet the critics. he said the preponderance of evidence. >> you know i think this is really grow graphically divided n.new england and up here it won't change many mind. across the country i think it's just going to confirm what they are already thinking. i think battle lines have been drawn in this, and i don't think they are going to change even though ted wells was really convincing and vehement today. >> now steve what is the mood on the ground? what are people saying up in that area? you're there at the stadium, the home stadium of the patriots. >> yeah. no, i mean joe says look opinion is sort of hardened here in new england. would i say it divides into two camps. there's a small camp of patriot fans who just don't believe any of this. they think this is the logue essentially framing the patriots, that there's jealousy involved here things like that. i think most patriots fans though when they look at this they are willing to tell you, yeah, we think something is going on here maybe it was just the equipment guys, maybe brady is in on it too, we think there's something to this but where they object to this they say it's very disproportionate and look at the initial punishment for ray rice for beating up his fiancee at two games and a four-game suspension for tom brady and they think goodell the commissioner is buckling to public pressure. all the fans across the country who think the patriots are cheaters and want to see them down and think he's buckling to the 31 other owners in the sense among so many other owners that bob kraft, the patriots owner, is too cozy with roger goodell, the commissioner, that they protect each other so a lot of patriots fans saying this is basically goodell answering to the 31 owners yeah see, you know what i can go hard on the patriots too. >> let me ask you, jim, do you think there is grounds for an appeal, his agent, the agent, of course of tom brady say they will appeal. do you think there's grounds for an appeal? >> well i do because, you know we all have heard all the stuff. nothing's come out concrete and i think that roger goodell, i've known roger for a lot of years. i think he lowered the hammer on him and everybody talks about his friendship with bob kraft, but he didn't hesitate there, but it always comes back to sit down let's talk about this and i think there will be an appeal process, and i think they will probably change some i don't know how much, but you know al when i was on your show before. i mean this is crazy. i played quarterback. i coached quarterbacks. half a pound or a pound here or there doesn't change how the guy is going to play although you can't break the rules. >> yeah but the -- the process in the nfl can be up predictable. i mean look at the assault case jim, of ray rice. at first the league suspended him for two games and then they increased the suspension to indefinitely and then he appealed. he was reinstated to the league. i mean if it's this crazy why do they do it? >> well in the ray rice situation, according to the league they didn't see that videotape. they just heard about what went on and once the videotape came out, well then they changed their punishment and came back and change it had again. now, that's because they got new evidence. if they got new evidence on brady and they got completely off the texts everyone would say he should be penalized but to me it goes back to the fact that if they have no evidence that he did that i mean that's pretty harsh punishment right there. >> let me ask you this let me go back to you, joe. bob costas weighed in on suspension saying we have to consider the context of the decision. listen to this. >> it's been a bad couple of years for the nfl with bountygate, with the bullying scandal, with domestic violence and with child abuse and the way the nhl has ruled in some of these cases was sometimes perceived as random and sometimes even perceived as incompetent and roger goodell wanted to make sure he got this right? >> do you think he got this right? >> i think it's excessive, al. i think that one game would have been plenty. as jim pointed out the weight of the football doesn't affect how a quarterback plays, and i don't think this affected the outcome of any game, i don't think scores would have been different if the footballs were -- had a higher psi, so i do think it's excessive, and i think we probably will see a reduction when -- when the appeal goes on. >> all right. steve karnacky jim fassel and joe sullivan thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. straight ahead, it's official. the obamas pick chicago south side for the presidential library. what will the future hold? and later my commentary on the ugly and unfair right wing attacks on michelle obama's commencement address. you owned your car for four years. you named it brad. you loved brad. and then you totaled him. you two had been through everything together. two boyfriends. three jobs. you're like "nothing can replace brad!" then liberty mutual calls. and you break into your happy dance. if you sign up for better car replacement, we'll pay for a car that's a model year newer with 15,000 fewer miles than your old one. see car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance. 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>> oh, it's incredibly special. to think of this community that has shared -- you know had so much violence so many things happen with the children not getting the proper education, with so many deaths with so much violence to have this kind of resource now, you know right -- at their foot to be able to go and learn about the president, to have him show his importance and show how much he cares about this city by bringing such a major resource to that area is incredible. i think the city will do well and i think that community is really going to improve with this huge resource at their reach. >> the president talked in more detail about why he picked chicago to host the presidential library. listen to this. >> all the strands of my life came together, and i really became a man when i moved to chicago. that's where i was able to apply that early idealism to try to work in communities in public service, that's where i met my wife that's where my children were born and the people there, the community, the lessons that i learned, they are all based right in this few square miles where we'll be able to now give something back and bring the world back home after this incredible journey. >> i mean he clearly, allison, loves chicago. do you think that's where the obamas will be headed in 2017? >> well the great part is they are going to stay in washington until sasha graduates from high school which is credible given that it's such a pivotal age for her and i'm really happy that they decided it's important for her to be there until after high school. after that i see them going between new york and chicago, going back and forth. they are going to be like rock stars. they are going to be so popular once his administration is over once they are out of office that they will probably be -- i don't know if they will have a permanent home. they will be moving and traveling so much, but, again, what i love is that they understand that sasha's last year of high school is the most important thing be and they want her to feel you know confident as she begins to sort of empty the nest and go on to college. >> recently the president had talked more openly about his plans for life after the presidency. >> i'll be done being president in a couple years, and i'll still be a pretty young man so i'll go back to doing the kinds of work that i was doing before just trying to find ways to help theme bush help young people get education and help people get jobs and try to you know bring businesses into neighborhoods that don't have enough businesses and you know that's the kind of work that i really love to do. >> do you see the president doing this kind of work? >> i see him going right back to where he began with community service. i think he's going to be very much like president jimmy carter was and still is very involved in improving conditions for the people who don't have. poverty, education, i think that is something that's going to show how obama's a compassionate brilliant man, that president carter was as well but you didn't really get a lot of that until after he got out of office with president carter. with barack obama we've seen it an i think we'll see even more of that once he leaves office that you'll really see the kind of man that he is. >> allison samuels, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> still ahead, the first lady gets personal and some on the right get ugly. stay with us. the citi double cash card. it earns you cash back now and cash back later. with 1% when you buy and 1% as you pay. with two ways to earn on purchases, it makes a lot of other cards seem one-sided. this is "american idol," gop 2016 edition. you've probably heard the news about how the iconic show will finally be going off the air. so we tried to imagine what it would be like if all the "idol" judgments, past and present, got together for one last competition, the gop presidential primary. through the miracle of tape here it is. >> we don't believe the constitution is a cafeteria plan, where you kind of get to pick and choose the rights that you like. >> i wonder if you took chances, but i kind of liked it. it was a little pitchy in spot but i kind of liked it. >> america, true freedom and prosperity do not come from the mighty hand of the government. >> um um -- >> oh, nicki. >> what, what are you list inge to? >> commander in chief is not an entry level position. >> yes! that was so good. >> we will look for you. we will find you and we will kill you. >> my my my. is it hot in here or is it unfortunate just me? >> we need to repeal every word of obamacare! >> there are only so many words i can drag out of my vocabulary to say how awful that was. >> hush but check out the critics on a real reality star donald trump. >> i have the biggest crowds and the biggest standing ovations not because they like me. i think i'm actually a nice person. >> i say no for hollywood. you're not ready yet. >> paula? >> unfortunately, you're not ready yet. >> unfortunately, you'll never be ready. >> ouch. the judges were harsh. we'll see what the voters say. good. very good. you see something moving off the shelves and your first thought is to investigate the company. you are type e*. yes, investment opportunities can be anywhere... or not. but you know the difference. e*trade's bar code scanner. shorten the distance between intuition and action. e*trade opportunity is everywhere. ♪ if you're looking for a car that drives you... ...and takes the wheel right from your very hands... ...this isn't that car. the first and only car with direct adaptive steering. ♪ the 328 horsepower q50 from infiniti. the network that monitors her health. the secure cloud services that store her genetic data the servers and software on a mission to find the perfect match. and the mom who gets to hear her daughter's heart beat once again. we're helping organizations transform the way they work so they can transform the lives of the people they serve. we were below the 88th southern parallel. we had traveled for over 850 miles. my men driven nearly mad from starvation and frostbite. today we make history. >>bienvenidos! welcome to the south pole! if you're dora the explorer, you explore. it's what you do. >>what took you so long? 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"hardball" starts right now. warren in a knockout let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. elizabeth warren has sent a signedwinder missile into the white house, attacking for weeks in broad daylight the massachusetts senator actually hit president obama where he's been weakest, championing the cause of international trade. warren scored a huge victory today leaving the crushed president with just a single u.s. senator on his