a full democratic boycott. you can be on the playing field or you can be on the sidelines. i believe we need some one in that room. good evening. i m ari melber in for lawrence o donnell. the big news and surprise is the membership of the select committee on benghazi will be bipartisan. the house split down party lines this month on whether to form the committee. all but seven democrats said no. but today, speaker, former speaker pelosi said if there is going to be a committee, democrats will participate. eight reviews have been conducted in the house and senate. 25,000 documents released. millions of taxpayer dollars spent. it was not necessary to put the families or our country through this partisan exercise once again. what is the purpose of this investigation? what is the timetable? what are the milestones? what are they hoping to achieve? i could have argued this either way. why give any validity to this effort? but i do think it is important for the american p
breaking news from capitol hill. house minority leader nancy pelosi announced. democrats will participate in a house select committee on benghazi. after more than two weeks of considering a potential boycott. who will the democrats be? heavy hitters. elijah cummings. he has a lot of experience in checking republicans. adam smith. some one knows the issue of ben gaz z ben gaz z this is a bdeal for nancy pelosi. a full democratic boycott. you can be on the playing field or you can be on the sidelines. i believe we need some one in that room. [ indiscernible ] good evening. i m ari melber in for lawrence o donnell. the big news and surprise is the membership of the select committee on benghazi will be bipartisan. the house split down party lines this month on whether to form the committee. all but seven democrats said no. but today, speaker, former speaker pelosi said if there is going to be a committee, democrats will participate. eight reviews hav
but he has now become the party s leader on campaign issues and helped him get the campaign chairmanship, which led to his leadership position. mitch mcconnell, can you imagine him losing a race in the state of kentucky. yes. when he ran against bruce lunsford in 2008 after lunsford won the primary, he had a brief lead in the polls. and you believed it. it was a real lead. i think so. because lunsford had a primary bump and there is no great reservoir of love in kentucky for mitch mcconnell. respect and fear, but not love. there is about 25 or 30% of the republican party base that doesn t like mitch mcconnell. never been their cup of tea. they have never had an opportunity to vote against a credible candidate in a primary. so that s his biggest worry. there s going to be who knows how many people vote for matt bevin. but some of those people will not bring themselves to go to the polls and vote for the guy with an r by his name like they have done the last four or five times.
a lot more to do about mcconnell himself. we re going to go deep into mcconnell s political history. good morning from washington. it s monday, april 7th, 2014. this is the daily rundown . busy morning. we re going to kick off with an election. this one a long way away. it may be too soon to declare saturday s elections in afghanistan a complete success. but folks, things went about as smoothly as officials could have hoped for. despite weeks of threats from the taliban, turnout hit record levels, as people decided to go to the polls to pick hamid karzai s successor. not as many protests as folks predicted. and and i want to set the course for the future of u.s.-afghan relations. early estimates put the number at 7 million, nearly 60%, pretty healthy turnout in any democracy. compared to just 4.5 million, for instance, who voted in the last presidential election in 2009. turnout was so high that officials were forced to extend voting for an extra hour. send more ballots to
scotland, not just the narrow view. why did the government suggest for the biggest decision in 10 years? during first day statement, mr. macaskill said eight times he was responsible for the decision, but at least eight times he passed the blame to others. and also a higher power. why did mr. macaskill visit mr. megrahi, and why make that visit when there was not one but two appeals in progress. what advice did he take from the crown office on that matter? we know now that mr. macaskill need not visit mr. megrahi in prison. how many prisoners can have a justice visit them in their cell. and doesn t this conduct mean that no prisoner no matter the crime, will have a request turned down again? this has caused the split of scotland and next week colonel can breed this discussion. and the fine redeeming four-year term of government will be ruined by many for years to come. from this parliament and by the providing officer. and i say to you mr. scott, it s my decision and mine a