another chance for republican voters to choose a republican versus the tea party. >> ugly. >> twisted. >> the mississippi mud was expected to fly today. >> in a runoff. >> less than 1,000 votes separated the candidates. >> it has been a grueling thee weeks of campaigning since then. >> it's been nasty and hard fought. >> the most nasty, negative campaign i've ever seen. >> six-term republican thad cochran. >> they want new people. >> he has less experience. >> both are fighting for their political lives. >> senator cochran is going to court. >> criticism for chris mcdannial for reaching out to democrats. >> tea party activists are countering with a voter integrity project. >> that's something unsettling about this. >> it's about keeping black voters potentially from voting senator cochran. >> the national party has a lot riding on how well he does. >> the tea party feels a surge. >> cruz, lee, paul, and maybe mcdaniel. >> we are going live now to chris mcdaniel's headquarters in hattiesburg, mississippi. casey hunt joins us. what is the latest there? >> reporter: hey, lawrence. the mood here is excited, but at turns nervous. they're watching the spread sheet with these returns coming in, county by county. this is just as tight as it was thee weeks ago, although at this point, it's looking like senator cochran is keeping something of a lead there. and that is something that a lot of people here didn't expect. the cochran campaign has very much shifted its tone over the course of the last three weeks from when i was here back when they had the original primary. at that point, they probably expected senator cochran to lose. over the last three weeks, they've poured million suppose the ground game here. they've made an effort to appeal to democratic voters, but also to bring out those republican voters who didn't show up last time. and republican sources have been telling me that they think there are a lot of republicans who are out there who didn't think it was possible for senator cochran to lose, and those voters may have showed up here. so voters here have been watching in particular jones county, which was a stronghold for mcdaniel. it was identified as a problem area for cochran supporters. so the supporters here have been holding out for those results to come in, which is part of why you haven't seen anybody lose complete hope yet, lawrence. >> casey, does cochran have some strongholds out there for him that have not yet reported? >> reporter: at this point, there's been sort of even reporting across many of cochran's strongholds. so that's no one specific place that we're waiting on necessarily. he's been improving where his returns were in the delta area. that was something he needed. he also needed some of the counties around the city of jackson. so on the whole, cochran supporters at this point are pretty optimistic. the national republican sources i've been talking to are definitely optimistic he's going to pull this out. it is just a marked shift in level of confidence from three weeks ago when everyone was pretty convinced that mcdaniel was going to beat a favorite in this runoff. >> casey, i heard one mississippi political analyst saying today the attempt by republicans to try to reach over and pick up the black vote from democrats has never worked before. is there any indication as we sit here at this hour that this has worked for cochran today? >> well, we've had anecdotal reports of counties where there are large numbers of african-americans showing turnout levels higher from what happened on june 3rd. at this point what we have are basically anecdotes. that said, there are a lot of hurdles to pulling voters from the other party over to your side. voters who voted in the democratic primary thee weeks ago were not eligible to vote in the republican runoff. democrats who didn't vote in that original primary could have been eligible and might have shown up today. but convincing them to ditch their party in favor of an elected official is usually pretty tricky. that said, senator cochran has been in office 40 years and is well liked here. this is not a case where you have an incumbent who is disliked, who is very unpopular. which is what we've seen in a lot of other cases where senators have gone down. that's not the case here. a lot of voters are excited about state senator chris mcdaniel who want to see new blood, but most say we like senator cochran a lot. we respect him, we just think maybe we need somebody new. that's a much different approach than in a lot of these other places. >> casey hunt, thanks for joining us tonight. also with us is jonathan capart and david corn of mother jones. jonathan, we may see some political history made tonight in mississippi if thad cochran is able to do something, and that is attract a black vote. >> right. senator cochran, it speaks to sort of the senator's desperation here that he's going to probably the most reliable voters within the democratic basis to sort of save his bacon from the fire. but we always talk about politicians being in the fight of their political lives. i think hs for the life of the republican party. senator cochran is no closet progressive. he's a very conservative guy. but the idea that senator chris mcdaniel has forced him into a runoff by portraying him as someone not conservative enough, for mississippi republican primary voters, and for republican national voters at large, is what's really frightening. and i'm speaking for myself on this point. so if african-american voters heed senator cochran's call to come save him, yes, that is going to be very historic indeed, for a party, a republican party that put out an autopsy saying it needed to reach out to african-american voters, in addition to latinos and gays and lesbians. but the moment they said they should do those things, it did everything to turn their backs in those communities. >> david, for democrats watching this in mississippi, hoping for a restoration of the democratic control of the senate seats there, what would the strategic may be today? >> well, you know, you can game this out two different ways. it's better for the democrats to go up against an extremist like chris mcdaniel who comes from the world of right wing radio and has said things that are either silly, stupid, or just excessive. he's hobnobbed with a neoconfederate group that believes the wrong side won the civil side. he's gone on radio shoes with the most anti-gay crusaders. so he might in some ways be an easier pickoff if the democrats wanted to make a may in mississippi, which is very hard to to to begin with. you can also say that thad cochran doesn't look like he could survive a strong general election. he may be popular, but he could also be vulnerable. either way, we don't know yet whether it's the democratic constituency, the african-american vote that's making the difference. but the wonderful thing is we've had so many narratives this year, the tea party was dead. no, the tea party is alive. now the tea party is dead. i was talking to political reporter who said i think it's chris mcdaniel by six points. you don't know until you know. that's the wonderful thing about election night. by the way, it's good to be back with you. >> indeed, agreed. >> thank you. jonathan, the pressure on this race, national pressure, but the pressure on the republican establishment with haley barbour coming in, they're doing everything they can to basically revive the cochran campaign, which got in much more trouble than it should have for an incumbent senator with the experience you're supposed to have with running these re-elections. but cochran just kept amazingly, i'm now catching up with some of the things he has said, just, you know, of his own at the microphone, including this amazing thing that rachel played last night he said about his relationship with animals when he was young. i just -- it's hard to believe that the guy who said, you can do a list of these things, the guy who said these things is leading a senate race in america. >> yes, it is a rather interesting race there, isn't it, between these two candidates that i would have to say senator cochran saying interesting things about what he did with farm animals growing up is a far cry from, you know, some of the things that chris mcdaniel has said throughout his career. and just the way he has campaigned. i mean, rob costa, my colleague at "the washington post," caught up with mcdaniel at an event in mississippi where they're recruiting at this event, where -- like openly. these are the kinds of voters that chris mcdaniel was appealing to in mississippi. the new york times quoted someone who folks in mississippi easily recognize as somebody who is a lawyer for the klan. these are the kinds of voters who chris mcdaniel is reaching out to. of course, haley barbour and the republican establishment swooped down to try to save senator cochran. it's not just saving an incumbent senator who is a part of the establishment, primarily because -- not because he's conservative, but he's a statesman swooping down because it has larger implications for the party. we're just two weeks out from when house majority leader eric cantor went down in shocking defeat at the hands oh of tea party candidate. if senator cochran goes down, a republican, long-time conservative goes down in defeat to another person who is not only a tea party darling but has no problem seeking votes from members of militias and members of the klan, then the republican party establishment is in serious, serious trouble. and, you know, we talk a lot about whether the tea party is up or down, the establishment is back, look, the tea party has taken over the republican party. it's just a matter of how the establishment is going to sort of get that tea party to learn how to govern. that's the only thing the establishment can do right now. >> let's take another look at the latest numbers out of mississippi. we just had them up on the board. we saw a little tightening there. it's now 50.9. there's another race with another incumbent in his 80s, that's in new york city. the latest numbers we have there, it's early reporting. we have about 6% in. charlie rangel is trailing in the numbers that we have right now, 52 to 40. so this could be the end of an era in that congressional district tonight. it's too early to tell yet, but go ahead, david. >> those numbers obviously mean much, but we have seen a tendency for voters to get tired of politicians of all stripes. congress has never been held in lower regard than it is now. charlie rangel had a run-in with several ethics matters and he's managed being survived sort of being tossed out of congress, and also the thing that's interesting is, he was, for years, has been the congressman from harlan. the demographics of harlan have been changing and there are less african-american voters, more hispanic voters, and that's going to play a big factor in today's race. >> i was going to say that, yes, the demographics have changed, buts are because of redirecting. the congressman's district used to be predominantly african-american. now it's predominantly latino. so the question is what staying power of congressman rangel, who has been in congress for 22 terms, that's 44 years, what he's going to payable to get those latino voters to send him back for a 23rd term, we'll find out hater tonight. >> thank you both for joining me tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. welcome back. >> casey, thank you very much for joining us also. thank you all. christie has ever made and it's not what you think it is. and in the rewrite tonight, the new genius of hollywood. actually, there are two of them. and you don't have to care about show business at all to really love what they're doing. that's coming up. ugh. heartburn. did someone say burn? try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and taste better than tums smoothies 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esquire magazine that said paul fishman, the u.s. attorney for new jersey, empanelled a second garage to look into bridgedate and indictments are imminent according to this report. also, the most significant figure there being the former david tasampson, and the possibility that he would cough up information. number two, the legislative committee had a bunch of hearings this spring. the most interesting thing that happened is at one of the hearings featuring chris christie's chief of staff, in attendance in the room, unannounced was bill stepien, who showed up with his lawyer and just sat there delivering a message. number three, the mayor of hoboken who accused the chris christie administration of holding up hurricane sandy aid. she wanted flood relief money and she's gotten that now from the federal government. her city won a contest with hud for money for big money, a big check for the federal government for flood mitigation. number four is that moody's bond rating for new jersey, they downgraded new jersey's credit rating because of revenues not coming in where chris christie and his administration projected them. the third time this year that the credit rating was town graded. and number five, chris christie going back on the national campaign trail, trying to put this behind him, last week speaking to the faith and free tom foundation, calling for shifting the focus of drug laws to treatment instead of prosecution. so he's trying to make some noise on that front to get away from all this. >> steve, thank you very much. i'm now caught up on the 2 1/2 months of chris christie that i missed while i've been on the disabled list. my favorite thing was bill stepien showing up just to listen. i love that. >> they got up for the break and all the reporters asked why are you here? no answer. >> steve, stay with us. the next thing i want to talk about when we come back is the biggest mistake chris christie ever made, and i knew what that was even before this year. that's coming up. thanks, steve. it will cost no less than $11 billion and could exceed $14 billion. in light of that information, the executive committee has made a recommendation to me that the project be terminated, and that the staff begin an expeditious and orderly windown of the project. and today i have accepted that recommendation. >> and that was the single worst decision chris christie ever made as governor of new jersey. he used new jersey's veto power to kill a federally funded project to build a new tunnel between new york and new jersey under the hudson river. new york and new jersey commuters today enjoy the foresight of the politicians who built the holland tunnel 90 years ago. it took seven years to build. those same commuters are enjoying the foresight of the political leaders who got the lincoln tunnel built under the hudson during the great depression when funding was much more scarce than it is now. to understand the value of a tunnel like that, you have to be able 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this way. >> yes. it's really kind of arcain here. we were talking with the update i gave about the u.s. attorney for new jersey looking into bridgegate and other things. >> bringgate -- the george washington bridge is a much simpler thing to grasp right off the bat than this is. >> this gets into specifically a new york state law called the martin act, which gives prosecutors, new york state prosecutors, incredible discretion and latitude in pursuing cases. the past several attorneys general for new york have used this to go after wall street. it's how eliot spitzer made his name. to you the district attorney for manhattan is hooking into thilo. now they're saying that the port authority basically gave incorrect information in saying that this money was going to go to improve access to the lincoln tunnel. if you know where the skyway is and you know where the lincoln tunnel is, they're nowhere near each other. there's a very, very arcain legal reason they couldn't say this money was going to improve access. so this law gives prosecutors the ability to go after the port authority for this. the question becomes, is the port authority doing this at the behest of somebody or more than one person in the administration. and that's the exposure right here, potentially, for the chris christie administration. >> according to "the new york times" report, people in the administration were going back and forth with the port authority for a long period of time over this. the port authority had $3 billion or so of their money that was going to go into this tunnel. the new jersey share would have been something like $3 billion. chris christie said it was going to be much larger, but leave that aside for a moment. it was the port authority money that the administration was trying to get to and they got a lot of resistance from their own people in the port authority saying things in their memos like, we can find no authority whatsoever to give you this money. >> right. at some point it just sort of reverses and the correspondence is here, it just sort of reverses that says no, we're going to go ahead and do it. the question here to mel, if this sort of progresses, and if this is a some sort of case that emerges from this, and we don't know if there is anybody in mar in the administration who would be linked to this. if it does go in that direction, there's a question here of how this would be received by the public. i don't know, because i presume that the case and the argument that chris christie would make and the people around him would make is they're trying to hang us on a technicality here. we've got this giant bridge that's crumbling apart. we're just trying to find a way to fix this prejudibridge and d without raising your taxes. this is just one branch of about five or six different things maying out right now. >> steve, this one is going to be much harder for chris christie to say i knew nothing about it because he was out there saying this was going to happen before the port authority went along with it. at the time the port authority was saying it can't happen, chris christie was saying i'm going to do it. >> we've known all along that was the -- christie himself raising the gas tax was out of the question. he was hooking for creative ways to to things. this is what they apparently came up with. >> steve, thanks for the update. here's the latest on the primary in mississippi with 92% of the vote counted in mississippi. senator cochran is maintaining a small lead over chris mcdaniel. we'll be right back. wethey were a littlehorizons to mbit skeptical.ss, what they do actually is rocket science. but at ge capital we also bring expertise from across ge, like lean process engineers we asked who does what, when, where, and why that step first? ideas for improvement started pouring out. with a little help from us, they actually doubled their output speed. if you just need a loan, just call a bank. at ge capital, we're builders. 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they've got to have meetings on every day? it seems a very difficult exercise. >> there's no question that it's a challenge. the three dimensional chess game you're playing here, i know that's a trivial way to holook a situation where people are dying, but your domestic agenda is extremely frustrating. and here's a situation where the biggest issue of all for the president, which has always come down to nuclear proliferation, is also at the heart of these problems, because he's to the to teal with russia when it comes to iran's nuclear program. these are interlocking puzzles that were all split apart by the bush years and by the arab spring that followed from there. so there's a lot of cleanup there. it's a huge challenge. can you build a coalition and find a solution? i bet as draining as this is to hook at so many different fronts in such a complex part of the world we barely understand, this president finds it a satisfying challenge because it's intellectually rigorous. >> thank you 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[ train whistle blows ] ♪ my mom works at ge. ♪ times are changing, and we know longer believe in a flat earth. now we know that homosexuality is no longer a choice. so why don't we change our position on that, as well? we have to. >> that was reverend frank schaefer speaking here last december. at the time he had been defrocked from the united methodist church. but after months after working on an appeal and a three-hour hearing last tuesday, he stood before reporters today and announced this. >> i am reinstated as an ordained minister of the united methodist church. >> the committee on appeals restored his credentials after conchuding his initial punishment was too extreme. the committee changed it. so what is his new penalty? he's been suspended for 30 days. 30 days that the committee determined he has already served. welcoming back to the program, reverend frank schaefer and his son, tim schaefer. reverend, so you have been re-frocked. how does it feel? >> it feels wonderful, lawrence. i said it in my press conference, i felt like dancing, if i only knew how to dance. and somebody challenged me and i actually danced at that press conference and it was totally embarrassing. but i feel like dancing, you know? it's a wonderful day. >> tim, i know this was difficult for you because it was your wedding that got your father in such trouble. now that he seems to be back where he wants to be, this has to complete what is the joy of the wedding. >> oh, of course. i'm ecstatic that he's reinstated and really proud that all this time he has not just talked the talk, but walked the walk. so i'm very proud of dad. >> reverend schaefer, what does this mean within the methodist ministry? >> i think this is a huge step in the right direction. i mean, look, i actually said in front of my trial court, in front of the church, in front of the whole world really, that i would not refuse ministry to anybody based on their sexual orientation, and i went on record to say i would perform another gay marriage. i was defrocked based on that statement, but the church reconsidered, and re-frocked me today. i think that is a wonderful message to our lbgt community within the church and beyond. the church is changing, and that is beautiful. >> and tim, this seems to be one of those situations as we look at this institution from the outside that they are moving more inside than they are letting on. they do want to maintain that there is a penalty for what you father did, but they're making the penalty so light that it seems like this is the period in which they're reconsidering whether there should be a penalty. >> and i think that you're seeing with a lot of the church leaders as well that privately they express their support for the lbgt community, but publicly they're afraid to speak out and stand up. and, you know, hopefully there will be a safe environment for them in the future to come out. there's strength in numbers. >> reverend schaefer, the people who reinstated you know that this is something you might do again. >> oh, absolutely. i was very clear on that. i never made it a secret. i said i will perform another gay marriage if i'm asked to. so really this is incredible. 8 out of 9 members spoke in favor of reinstating me. >> did anyone speak beyond just the case and talk about the issue involved and indicate that the church should change the policy? >> yeah, i don't think it was time at the forum for that question to be answered. but i think the ruling itself is a statement. >> reverend frank schaefer and tim schaefer, thank you both for joining me tonight and congratulations to you both. >> thank you so much. >> chris hays is up next live with the latest on the results in mississippi. good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. voters head to the polls today to vote in the runoff to the republican primary between two men, kris-mack daniel and the tea party challenger, six-term incumbent, thad cochran. cochrane is holding on to the lead by about 4,000 votes. thad cochrane, 51%. mcdaniel -- if things hold, it would be an improbable return of fortune