expected to be a crowded field. texas senator ted cruz officially launched his bid becoming first last monday. we re told that kentucky senator rand paul will kick off his official campaign next week. i want to bring in nbc senior political editor mark murray. so, mark, what kinds of themes are we going to expect? let s start with marco rubio. his campaign. the message? well, one of the big messages of course, it s not 100% locked down, thomas, bullet like but likely april 13th on the presidential bid and likely in miami. one of the things he s going to have one of the things that catapulted him to national prominence in 2010 is talk about being a cuban-american, a son of immigrants and a better tomorrow, to almost have the new generation of republicans. of course, you know you just kind of mentioned, april is going to be our very big announcement month. right. not only marco rubio and rand paul it s possible hillary clinton at least puts together a presidential campaign committe
some history here, they re modeled after a federal law, religious freedom restoration act. president bill clinton signed that into law in 1993. here s what he had to say at the time. what this law basically says is that the government should be held to a very high level of proof before it interferes with someone s free exercise of religion. all right. here are the 20 states now in total who have the religious freedom restoration act. now let s look at what nondiscrimination laws they have. here in the states in green. they have laws that protect gays lesbians and bisexuals. the states you see in yellow, they have cities or towns that have protection ordinances. to be clear, the entire state is not under those specific protections. now, the states that you see in red, those are states with religious freedom laws but with no apparent nondiscrimination laws. and one of the reasons there s been so much backlash against indiana has a lot to do with timing, what we ve been talking about,
wars that take place with iran s influence. you re absolutely right, thomas. i think the key thing here is the rapid formulation of an 11-country coalition last week by the sunni countries against the shia houthis which are allegedly backed by iran. that s the reason why these sunni nations are so nervous. it s the iranian influence across the nation. three countries where the tentacles run deep. first one is lebanon, syria, and then iraq. so, let s have a look at the first one here which is lebanon. in the south here hezbollah came about in 1982 and came about as a resistance force against the israelis that were occupying south lebanon. when the israelis left in 2000, hezbollah then gained some sort of political dependence and they actually gained ten seats in 2009 in the lebanese parliament. fast forward to 2013 hezbollah get involved in qysayr
afternoon for you, the deadly shooting at ft. meade. the nsa released new details on the shootings outside its headquarters there. msnbc s kasie hunt is at ft. meade. what is the nsa saying in its statement in. reporter: good afternoon, thomas. the nsa is confirming details nbc news reported throughout the day. they re saying shortly before 9:00 the driver approached a secure entrance to the nsa headquarters facility 20 miles north of washington, d.c. the driver failed retune instructions and when they failed to leave the campus, they put up barriers because the vehicle failed to stop. the vehicle then accelerated at that gate at which point the officers opened fire on the vehicle. we know once the incident was over, there was one person dead and two people injured. there was a police officer who was injured as well as the other occupant of the car. the cause of death for the first occupant of the car who died in this shooting incident has not yet been determined. we don t know if th
industry and they re analyzing some tweets and one in particular from 2012. this is april 2012. the day of the 2012 boston marathon. that is one year before the marathon bombing. and so they re analyzing, the defense trying to poke some holes into some of the prosecution s theories about dzhokhar tsarnaev being a jihad jihadist, considering himself a jihadist and what the defense has said all along in some of the cross-examinations in this case is his brother, tamerlan,s of the mastermind of the plot and his brother was essentially influenced to participate because of his brother s influence on his life at the time. so the defense hasn t essentially said that he did not do it. obviously from day one, they said that was him? the video that these jurors were going to see, surveillance videos, but that their strategy is now to try to save his life presuming that of course this jury finds him guilty as a lot of people presume they will. thomas? we ll continue to follow. ron mott in bosto