Iowa at the exact at the same time stuff starts to get sketchy. In some cases, it gets downright criminally corrupt. Iowa may be rural and landlocked but iowans are not ru iowans e pros. Be on your toe. We are seven days from iowa. Last time around in 2012 it was six days from iowa when we got a shocki ining change on the republican side. You might remember this. Michelle obama d Michele Bachmann did very well. Six days before the Iowa Caucuses in 2012 michelles statewide campaign cochair announced at a that late date he was changing his allegiance. He would no longer be michelles iowa state cochair. He was going to support ron paul. And the bachmann campaign went nuts. It was a ripple through the race. No one knew what was going on there. Now we do know what was going on there. Turns out Michele Bachmanns iowa cochair switched his allegiance six days before the caucuses because they paid him to. That Michele Bachmann iowa state cochair in 2012. An iowa state senator at the time. He pled guilty to federal charges. He admitted to taking money from the Ron Paul Campaign to switch his endorsement and helping cover up that bribe. He is facing up to 25 years in prison in this Iowa Republican caucuses bribery case. The reason he hasnt been sentenced yet, though, is because it turns out the case is still ongoing. Three ron paul aids were indicted last august in the scheme. One had the charges against him dropped. One convicted, and one was acquitted. The one acquitted is now being charged again. Prosecutors indicted him again this past november. And this is not ancient history. In happened the last time around in the republican caucuses in iowa. Last president ial cycle this bribery thing happened. And there are still pending charges and one guy is still awaiting sentencing. Theres ongoing drama and suspense around who was going to go to prison and for how long. And the bribery case from the Iowa Republican caucuses from 2012. That said the question as to whether or not there was bribery in the Iowa Republican caucuses, that is a settled matter. Theres no drama or suspense about that. The bribery definitely happened. Its only a question of who is going to get in trouble for it. Thats apparently how republicans in iowa not only did it in 2012. Its apparently how theyve been doing the caucuses for awhile now. Thats how it seems based on the indictments. Part of the reason we got the detail in the Ron Paul Campaign bribery indictments is because they have a long back and forth negotiation between the Ron Paul Campaign and the state senator about how much he wanted to get paid when he was going take the bribe for his support. The state senator, it turns out, he had elaborate kpebations how much his endorsement would be worth in the Iowa Republican caucuses because he knew there was a market for it. The reason he knew there was a market for it, in part, because the Michele Bachmann campaign was trying to bribe him too. He was trying to trade up. At one level the Iowa Caucuses are adorable. How quaint and sweetly small town america. On the other hand, the Iowa Caucuses are kind of gangster. [ laughter ] and not just about the process, also, about the results. Again, just looking at the last time the republicans held their caucuses in iowa. Do you remember who won the Iowa Caucuses in 2012 on the republican side . If you dont remember, dont beat yourself up. There are a lot of right answers to that question. Night of the Iowa Caucuses in 2012, this was the first thing that the republican state chairman announced about the caucuses. I can report with 1700 precincts reporting mitt romney received 30,015 votes, senator Rick Santorum received 30,007 vote t votes. Congratulations to mitt romney. So the state Republican Party chairman comes out in iowa the night of the caucuses and says mitt romney won. That was the night of the caucuses. Then two weeks later, it turns out mitt romney did not win the Iowa Caucuses. Republican party two weeks after the caucuses were held told the Des Moines Register, for their edition that came out january 19th. Quote, it is a split decision. Split decision. Its a tie. How can it be a tie . Its an election. Shouldnt there be a tie breaker if its a tie . Nope. And then by later that afternoon, the Republican Party of iowa had decided to change its mind again. They decided that they would decide who won the tie. In fact, they decided it wasnt mitt romney and it wasnt a tie after all. Actually, a different guy won it. Rick santorum won. Remember, just that same morning the party had said it was a split decision, but then in the afternoon the state Party Chairman said this it is indispuundisputable that certified caucus results had Rick Santorum winning by 34 votes. I feel i owe senator santorum and his supporters a apology. Declaring it a victory for Rick Santorum. Yeah. The certified vote results. The last time republicans held their Iowa Caucuses that night they declared romney won. Two weeks later they said that was tie. A split decision, then that afternoon it was a Rick Santorum. Who got the delegates from the state of iowa for 2012 . After they went through that make it up as we go along . Turns out it was neither of the candidates who won or tied, fending on which day you ask. Neither of them. And now 16 weeks after the voting happened, and mitt romney was declared the winner, and 14 weeks after santorum was declared the winner. It appears that ron paul is the winner in iowa. Mitt romney first, then a tie, then Rick Santorum, then ron paul got all the delegates. Or at least almost all the delegates. That, of course, was before three of his aids got indicted on federal criminal charges for the way they bribed wait to the victory. Can we call it a victory . Iowa gets treated by the Beltway Press by a cross between a norman rock well painting and a slice of apple pie with a puppy on top. But iowa, at least on the republican side of the caucuses, has been kind of a Banana Republic in recent years. I dont mean the clothing store. After the debacle in 2012 in the Iowa Republican caucuses, not only did ron paul get all the votes and the indictments that year, ron paul supporters also briefly took over the Iowa Republican party. That lasted for a few years before iowas long serving republican governor Terri Branstad decided to end that. He waded into iowa state internal republican politics and took back over the party through the ron paul lights out. This time around for 2016, Terri Branstad is still iowas republican governor. Hes the longest serving governor in u. S. History in any state. Hes serving his sixth fouryear ne term in iowa. Hes been through a lot of Iowa Caucuses. Hes basically said hell stay neutral through the iowa caucus process. So at positive to put his thumb on the scale for the otherwise pristine ethical contest. This year, already, the governor has stretched, if not broken that promise. He has not explicitly endorsed a republican candidate this year, but he did go out of his way to say he opposite of endorses ted cruz. Hes not telling Iowa Republicans who they should vote for, but he telling them dont you dare vote for ted cruz. Which is a way to put your thumb on the scale, if youre a long serving governor of that state. I believe that would be a big mistake for iowa to support him. I know hes ahead in the polls, but the only poll that counts is the one that they talk on caucus night. I think it could change. Iowas long serving governor speaking last week. And, you know, it may have had an effect. The polling that came out of iowa over the last few days does show ted cruz basically losing his lead in that state. Three polls have come out of iowa in the last two days. All three show donald trump now polling back ahead of ted cruz in iowa. That includes the latest poll out tonight from fox news in iowa. Which shows donald trump leading ted cruz in the state by 11 points. New polling in New Hampshire tonight has donald trump doing very well. Even better than he has been doing before. The fox news poll out tonight in New Hampshire has donald trump leading ted cruz in that state by 17 points. Is the cvs news poll has him leading big in New Hampshire by 18 points. The cnn poll over the weekend has donald trump leading in New Hampshire by 20 points. So it has looked before like ted cruz was going to win iowa. Donald trump is now ahead in the polls again in iowa. And hes really ahead in New Hampshire. Sort of feel the like donald trump had a scare there for awhile with ted cruz. Let me give you a wild card. Which is that guy. Follow the arrow. Yeah. That guy. Chris christie. Polling at roughly 6 or 7 these days in New Hampshire. Which on a good day has him tied for fifth place. Most days further behind than that. Governor christie is betting all his president ial prospects to New Hampshire. He hasnt basically moved to New Hampshire full time. He has moved to New Hampshire full time. Thats why it was news this weekend when he left New Hampshire for less than 48 hours to go home to new jersey where hes still the governor so he could oversee response to winter storm jonas. Jonas hit new jersey with a ton of snow and also with some pretty serious coastal flooding along the jersey shore. Governor christie said he wouldnt need to leave New Hampshire he relented on friday night and went back to new jersey and stayed on new jersey on saturday and saturday night and then by sunday afternoon he was back in New Hampshire. All day long today, governor christie faced criticism that he basically left his state in the lurch in terms of the response to the storm he shouldnt have rushed back to New Hampshire so soon. That the state, particularly the parts of the jersey shore that flood they need him and should be there taking care of business instead of running his distant campaign in New Hampshire for president. Tonight he appears to have lost his cool a little bit. Lost his ability to handle the question with any degree of civility. And this very, very, very nervous young woman dared to put the question to him tonight. He blew up. Hi, so i actually went to school in new jersey. I have a lot of friends bless you. Where . Pennington. Yes. So i actually had a quick question. With a lot of family and friend still living there, they had me ask you why are you here in New Hampshire campaigning instead of there helping, serving the damages done by the coastal flooding from the storm . Well, because its already done. Its already done. Okay. Tell me why you think it isnt. I have friends, family calling and sending me videos and pictures. Where . All over the state. Of flooding. All over the state . Really . Theres been one county that is flooded in the state. One county. Its the one county that flooded. I dont know from all over the state since we have 21 counties where it happened. Second, i dont see what you expect me to do. Do you want me to go down there with a mop . Want me to go down there with a mop . Governor christie yelling at a nervous girl tonight in New Hampshire. After that happened tonight the governor got some very, very good news for his campaign. The Boston Herald, it is, as the name implies, based in boston. 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I think there were two counties in new jersey that flooded. Not just the one. That sarcastic retort tonight to a nervous young woman right before governor christie got the news that the Boston Herald newspaper endorsed him in the primary for president. The Boston Herald based in massachusetts but widely read in New Hampshire. The endorsement is a big get for Chris Christie. That said, the other major boston paper, which is widely read in New Hampshire, particularly in southern New Hampshire, is the boston globe. Tonight they released their president ial endorsement. They picked john kasich. Both Chris Christie and john kasich hinged their campaigns for president on New Hampshire. Theyre both all in in New Hampshire. Theyre both looking for exactly this kind of establishment boost to their prospects. Its interesting to see if the endorsements have impacts for christie and kasich. In iowa the equivalent of the Boston Herald and globe rolled up into one and based in the state is the Des Moines Register. They endorsed in the democrat and republican primaries. They picked Hillary Clinton for the democratic endorsement. And for the republican endorsement they picked marco rubio. Marco rubio is running third in iowa behind ted cruz and donald trump. Rubio is third place. Cruz and donald trump are far out ahead in the polls in iowa. In what i think was a genius political move by each of them, both of these candidates, both donald trump and ted cruz decided that they would not even try for the Des Moines Register newspaper endorsement. Each of these candidates, in fact, refused to meet with the Editorial Board from the Des Moines Register. They werent in the running for the endorsement. It has two genius political consequences. It means that neither can be faulted for not winning the endorsement. They werent competing for it. And number two, it sort of devalues the endorsement that marco rubio did get because it makes him like hes the establishment guy who wanted the paper to like him and bothered competing for something that ted cruz and donald trump wouldnt have wanted even if they had gotten it. Ah the race is so weird this year. I love it. Joining us now is jason noble. Its great to see you. Thank you for being here. Hi, rachel. Thank you for having me. One week out from the caucuses. Is there something you can see from close up that we cant necessarily see from a National Level in terms of who is doing a good job organizing . No, i think you nailed it. This looks like its a twoman race, you know, you noted the polling here with donald trump. Hes opened up a little bit of a lead, but ted cruz and donald trump are way ahead of the rest of the pack here. Were look agent the fascinating dynamic between the two of them as being decisive going into week out from the caucuses. Youve got donald trump very sort of nontraditional candidate attracting a nontraditional following in iowa. The question is whether hes going to be able to turn those people out. Youve got ted cruz who is kind of very much a traditional iowa candidate. Has really drawn a lot of support from social conservatives, evangelicals, but faced some of the head winds you mentioned with the comments from our governor and the beating hes taking from donald trump. On the point about the governor. The governor is sort of a figure without parallel in other states. Not only is he the longest serving governor in history. Right, six different fouryear terms, but also, its iowa. He knows not only how the state works but he knows how the state functions in national politics. Do you think it is an influential thing . Do you it had an impact on the race to make the comment that iowans should vote for anybody not named ted cruz. We have to see. Hes thinking about the business and economic interests of the state, obviously, the ag industry and the bio fuels industry is very important here. Thats the interest he was representing. That is a big, you know, force within politics here within republican politics here. The county weight within the Republican Party, i think, would be the social conservatives and evangelicals that are ted cruzs base. Well see. It will be interesting to find out how much it takes the edge off cruzs support here given his base is with the evangelicals and social conservatives. Jason noble, thank you. Its nice to have you here. Thank you, rachel. One of the interesting things ill tell you about Iowa Caucuses this year. One week from tonight. Its going to be seeing whether or not they are as chaotic this year on the republican side as they were in 2012. People forget that 2012 was complete chaos on the republican side, and we still never found out who won. 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Can a business be. Alive . This is the most recent cover of Time Magazine. It shows a 2yearold kid from flint, michigan whose skin is covered in a rash. His family believes him to be as a result of bathing in the leadpoisoned water of the city. The woman that took the picture of the 2yearold kid is a photographer for the Detroit Free Press. Her name is regina. Getting a Time Magazine cover is a big deal for any photographer, but regina boone is very good and done amazing photos. And on this story to be a local paper photographer getting the cover shot. Its good. Really good. Another one of the Detroit Free Press excellent photographers who has done good work on the story is named ryan garza. Ryan did an amazing photo essay. These are the images from it. He did it at a free clinic held this weekend in downtown flint. It was sponsored by a detroit area lawyer who put on the event to help test local residents for high levels of lead. They were offering blood tests for lead levels. Oh, my god, did people turn out. Lines out the door and the building. Ryan garzas photos from the event are heart wrenching. This is of 3yearold kaden getting a blood test and screaming while the sample is being taken. The man holding him is his grandfather. And the next photograph in the series shows the grandfather wiping away his own tears after seeing what his little grandson went through. The doors to this clinic didnt open until 10 00 a. M. On saturday this weekend. But there was already a line of people waiting to get in an hour and a half before that. But 8 30 a. M. There was already a line for when the doors opened at 10 00. Two hours in after they opened the doors, volunteers had to start turning residents away because they had run out of testing kidtest ing kits. Thats how great the demand was to get tested. The ongoing story out of flint is producing, among other things, some visuals you cant believe. Including some unexpected visuals from these folks. If you were to stumble upon the Facebook Page for the volunteer ma list uslist militia. Here is another in case of tyranny break glass. Theres a lot of peopmemes. This says freedom fries. If you follow them on facebook, you might have noticed their photo stream has taken an unexpected turn. Starting last week it has been in flint handing out bottled water alongside the american red cross. On sunday the group gathered at Flint City Hall and it might have seemed like a militia Second Amendment rally with the armed people gathered wearing cam moe and folks waving flags, the militia was there to demand accountability over the ongoing lead poisoning water crisis in flint. After wards, the group handed out cases of water to Flint Residents from the back of their trucks. One of the bright spots, unusual moments in the crisis, it has brought together groups you might not expect would otherwise be allies. It happened in a small way this weekend with the militia. These are two brothers nate and lam ark lamont williams. They helped respond to the crisis. They gathered water donations on their own from people they knew and brought the donations to flint on their own. Theyre not affiliated with anybody. They came the two brothers. It turns out they ended up chatting with members of the militia while on a water run for the local walmart. So they, too, ended up speaking at the militia rally. I am overjoyed to see everybody out here supporting this city. Im from chicago, the south side of chicago. In is my little brother nate. We drove up here by ourselves. Were not a part of any organization. We dont represent anything other than humans need water. And people coming together in times of crisis. With that being said, we drove up here with a couple of donations from friends and family but mostly out of our own pockets. We made about four or five trips to walmart. We handed out over a hundred cases to families at the fire station on mlb avenue and crosby. Were trying to do our part. I know when i go back home and tell my story and nate telling his story to friends and family well be back and in will be more the next time. [ cheers and applause ] i want to say chicago is with you, and im just so happy to have met all the wonderful people of flint. Youve been nothing but kind since weve been here. We want to help out. Unity. There was some unexpected unity. Some new alliances outside Flint City Hall this weekend. But unity on how best to tackle the crisis. Unity in terms of purpose, unity of purpose in terms of how to get it done. How to fix the problem overall. That turns out to be severely lacking now. Youll never guess who the culprit is. Actually, youll guess who it is. That story is next. Stay with us. 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They have to hand over the information in excel or a similar format, which should be hilarious given that the last system was the drawer full of tens of thousands of handwritten index cards. Now the epa wants it in spread sheet form. This order went to the state of michigan on thursday. This is not a list of recommendations. This is the federal government saying to michigan you are here by ordered to perform the following tasks and ordered to complete them by specific deadlines set forth in this order. The state of michigan received the order from the epa last week and the sniyder administration, which created the disaster, they responded to the epa by saying, basically, got your letter. Thank you for writing. But we really dont think you are the right to tell us what to do. Governor rick snyders administration was legally obligated to respond to the epa within one day of receiving the order. They did. The response from his administration to this very specific, very detailed federal order reads in part, quote, we question whether the epa has the Legal Authority to order a state and its agencies to take the actions outlined in this order. So the Snyder Administration caused the disaster, they know they did. They admit they did. And now, as if the city of flint isnt dealing with enough, thanks to them, now the Snyder Administration is telling the federal government to back off and stop telling them what to do. Leave it to them to sort it out. That response from the state came on friday night. Can now report that the federal government has responded back. The feds have written back a onepage one paragraph letter telling them the epa has the authority but michigan better step on it. The state must, quote, immediately commence and continue work to meet the obligations as ordered. The epa said state officials must comply and they expect, quote, full implementation of the order. One page. One paragraph. Sent to michigan. Get moving joining us now is written mickel editor of the Flint Journal which has been advocating fiercely for their town throughout the crisis. Nice to have you with us. Thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. The Snyder Administration is responding to the federal government, in part, by pushing back against the epa and saying, you have no right to tell us what to do. Is that boilerplate . Should we have expected that . I dont think we should have expected it. I think, at this point, actions speak louder than words. Weve heard a lot of apologies, but we havent seen much in the form of action. And the idea theyre spending time arguing with the epa instead of developing a plan to replace the lead lines is mind boggling. You know, this is energy that would be better directed to solving the problem. Last week president obama said he was going to speed 80 million to michigan. Initial response is you have 5 million to help and while he was in detroit for the auto show and talking to the conference of mayors he said im going to get 80 million. The white house strongly suggesting the money should go toward the crisis in flint. Do we know if governor flint is going to commit to using it for flint . No. I was told out flat out on friday that they were evaluating all options. It seemed pretty clear to me that the intent of the president was for that money to go toward the flint crisis. I dont think it was any coincidence that he announced it in connection with flint. But i was told, no, were studying the issue. Again, you know, this is a governor that right now is hiring pr officials. Where are the engineering firms . Lets get the lead lines dug up and replaced. Theres no time to wait on this. Your newspaper, the Flint Journal called for governor snooider to release the emails. He posted the emails from two years of the crisis 2014 and 2015, excuse me, but he hasnt posted anything from this year and nothing from 2013 or before. Why did your paper call for those extra years . Those additional years to to be disclosed by the governor . To be honest, to see what else is going on as far as what communications there were prior. It was really surprising when we got the emails and there was only a handful that were actually written by the governor. You know, transparency saying it is great, but clearly theres more information out here. Maybe its in the form of text messages. Maybe its in form of emails from earlier. But more needs to be released here. I dont encourage the governor to reconsider his idea of keeping secret the communications by his staffers. By his appointees. This information needs to be come out. Bryn mickel, editor of the Flint Journal. Thank you for your papers work on this. Thank you for helping us understand what is going on tonight. I appreciate you being here. Thank you. For the record, we also asked governor snyders office again for his e mails about flint water from 2013 and 2016 this year. Now weve asked him for his emails from 2012. We want 2012, 2013, and 2016 to go along with the other two years they released. The Governors Office hasnt responded to our request, but Michigan Radio reports that subpoenas in a classaction lawsuit have gone out. The plaintiffs are suing over the flint water disaster and asking for those documents and more from rick snyders office and the Emergency Managers that the governor put in charge of flint. We dont know if theyll get the records, and the messages theyre seeking from the Snyder Administration, but theyre trying. Theyre taking it to the courts. Well be right back. The 88th southern parallel. We had traveled for over 850 miles. My men driven nearly mad from starvation and frostbite. Today we make history. 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These are guys with the name d. Money, smoothy, shifty, these guys that come from connecticut and new york. They come up here and sell their heroin, then they go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnant a young white girl before they leave. Maine Governor Paul Lepage explained he has nothing to apologize for. Because maine is very white. My brain didnt catch up to my mouth. Instead of saying maine women, i said white women. And im not going to apologize to the maine women for that. Because if you go to maine, youll see that were essentially 95 white. Were super white, you guys. Right. So no harm no fuoul. I mean, who is offended. The maine governor is an unusual kind of governor. Under his leadership, the state of maine makes unusual kinds of news. The d. Money impregnanting a white girl comments maine was on the eve whether or not hell be impeached on abusive power allegations. That took up a good chunk of the legislatures time a couple of weeks ago. It went nowhere. Democrats joined republicans to postpone the impeachment effort indefinitely. When the impeachment effort fell apart the governor called it foolishness but left an open question that is a significant consequence for his state. Because in the days before the impeachment debate, the governor had threatened that he would skip his annual state of the state address. He decided if the legislature wanted to impeach him, he wasnt going to do it this year. Why am i going to go up and face people and talk to them in an audience a week or two before they try to impeach me. Why dont we keep going to work. Ill keep working and ill send them a letter and call it a day. He doesnt want to give the state of the state this year. He raced the prospect he might skip the speech this year. Submit it in writing instead. Then the impeachment thing fell apart and now were left with the interesting open question. Since youre not being impeached, is the speech back on or are you going to mail it in the maine state of the state this year . We reached out to the Governors Office to ask and we do this kind of thing all day long. Getting basic information from Public Officials in is a normal thing. This it what we said. Hi. Wanted to see if the governor made a decision about whether or not hell give the state of the state address in person to lawmakers or send a letter. Do you have any information on the decision yet . Thanks. Simple question to the Governors Office. Right. This was the response we got from pauls office. Quote, why does Rachel Maddow have an unnatural obsession with governor lepage. That was the response from the Governors Office. That was the whole thing. It was very strange. So we try it again. Is this seriously your response . Should we take this to mean that the governor has not yet made up his mind . Response, quote, its a serious question. Does rachel have ties to maine. If not, what is her weird fascination with him. Thats a no . We tried again. Hi, wanted to try one more time on the question about governor lepages state of the state. Has he made a decision whether hell give it in person or san diego letter. We or send a letter. Thank you very much. Governors response, quote, of course i can answer it. But you, first, what is with maddows obsession with the governor. Admit it. At this point you start to feel a little obsessed as well. We went back once more. This is becoming a strange interaction. Were just trying to get some basic information about a statement the governor made. Were covering this like any other news maker or public official. Our obsessiveness is only about the news and governor lepage is making it hard to get basic information and thats starting to feel news worthy, too. Response from the Governors Office. [ laughter ] nothing. So seriously. 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Once it stops snowing, you add up the measures you took over the storm and thats your snowfall. Good system. It works. Simple, easy. Its foolproof until its not. Reagan National Airport is where the official snowfall tally is taken for washington, d. C. Thats where they use the official snow measuring board, and thats where they take the measurement that gets reported to the National Weather service, and that is the official spot from which we get a snow total for washington, d. C. This weekend in the middle of the ridiculous storm this weekend, the good folks at reagan National Airport who measure the snow lost the board. They lost it in the snow. Dropped it and then couldnt find it. Yeah the folks at Reagan National had to improvise their calculations by measuring in a budget of different areas and then averaging out the numbers and now those flawed numbers stand as d. C. s official snowfall measurement. Even though nearby official totals like dulles and bwi are nearly a foot higher. They lost the snowboard. D. C. Officially got 17. 8 inches of snow this past weekend. It sound like a lot but it means that the storm didnt officially crack the top three blizzards. But maybe it was way more snow because well never know. They lost the board who knew snowfall measurement was done with a board. Once washington manages to dig the board out at reagan airport, i would like to suggest they tie a leash to it. Handcuff it to the snowboard wrangler for the duration of the stop saying snowboard. Its confusing me. Its making me think of going down a hill. Snow hyphen board. Different thing. Yeah. I bravely rode out the storm in l. A. This weekend watching it on tv from time to time. But you know, here i am. I was in new england, where there was not a flake. But in the spirit of sort of solidarity with the midatlantic i did go ice fishing on sunday. So i was at least cold. Yeah, cold. 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