Welcome to this hour of msnbc, and im Jonathan Capehart. We have breaking news, the National Democratic committee is electing the chair as we speak. And moments ago indiana mayor pete butte geeg as well as howard dean have announced they are dropping out of the spot. And whoever wins the spot is going to have a difficult job uniting the party, and getting more democrats elected to the office nationwide. With me, is jayne who is the pt president of the Democratic Party who voted today, and janelle smith, National Correspondent for msnbc news, and my colleague at the Washington Post Catherine Rampel and republican strategist rich galen and thank you all for being here. Let me start with you, jayne. Have you cast your vote yet . Yes. We just cast our votes all four for indiana for congressman ellison and waiting for the paper ballots to be counted. Can you tell us why Keith Ellison from the 5th Congressional District . Well, we are excited about him because he understands grass roots orga
well, in the original cyrilic. and at the same time, you want to make sure that the people don t have any suspicion that the process is rigged. with all of the mistrust built up from the general and the primary is and before that, you want to make sure that the people, and the bernie sanders wing, if you want to characterize it like that, they are accommodated in that regard. also, people need to get over the feelings a little bit, and are regardless of the result, understand it is about winning elections. we are not electing a civil rights leaders, and democrats are trying to elect somebody good at winning election, and whether it is mr. ellison or mr. perez. and it is interesting that you say that the folks have to get over themselves, and what is interesting about jane klebb brought up in the response is why she is supporting congress
heartland. not only is that terrifying it s not a responsible way in order to get energy to america. you mentioned the word culture, jane. one of the things you ve zone so brilliantly is you ve organized a conservative and in some ways, nonpartisan environmental movement. when we talk about energy and energy reform and the future of this planet, so often that conversation splits along political divide. tell us about how you ve gotten by and from all sides in terms of bold nebraska s work? we really just won t to old fashioned organizing style, to be honest. we went to folk s kitchen tables, k3450u7b9 centers and churches and did a slide show presentation on what tar sand looked like and the concerns about keystone one. and on transcanada s first pipeline and we had a when farmers have a chance to counter with what they re misleading
this is why, perhaps, activists are raising concerns not just about problems relating to continued and increased reliance on dirty fuels but also, test t effect of the pipeline to the communities on its route. the safest ever built. sometimes it can be tragic to overpromise. joining now is the executive director of bold nebraska. thanks for joining me, jane. the statistics relating to the southern half of the keystone pipeline. do they make you worry? it s more than worried. i m terrified. i know families that own along that route and they re worried. they saw transcanada digging up the pipeline and raised a clear red flag with state officials swelds federal officials and everybody ignored them at first. it took land owners sending pictures and video cameraing transcanada digging up the trenches themselves in order to get action. so we re happy that they are taking action now but transcanada is a company that
dakota as well because of all the delays. in nebraska we constitutionally challenge the governor s way he cited that pipeline. the judge ruled in favor of the land owners and the governor is trying to overturn it in the supreme court but we feel confident we ll continue to win. i don t think this pipeline is going to be permitted. if it was able to be permitted it would have been permitted by now. it s an irresponsible way to get energy to the country and certainly nebraska farmers and ranchers as well as tribes won t let this pipeline come through our land. jane klebb, doing some amazing work. thanks so much for your time. thanks, alex. big fan. 56 the break, the supreme court makes a key ruling that could have a major impact on the future of capital punishment. and who states can actually execute. details next.