not why i m here. our forgiveness was complete as the last of our sons is organs were donated to save lives. but changes have to be made. you can t look at it and say my son was killed from an illegal hit, a helmet to helmet hit from a player that he probably never saw coming. not one flag was thrown on that play. we can t allow that to happen. we can t allow these children to think that that is okay. pund nea underneath that helmet is another human being. i think if we don t change that, there s really no point to play. but i think we have hope. i just don t believe in lip service. i think actions speak louder than words. i am in contact with the football authorities in my county and my adjoining county and they support my efforts, and i ll be addressing every athletic director in the state of new york in march and i hope that changes that we ve
story. on the other hand, carson may get some campaign contributions out of this. he s benefiting being at least in the short term receipt now. he remains one of the co-front-runners with donald trump. in the course of the last week, a jaw dropping figure that his cam pan received $.5 million in campaign contributions. again, that was in just one week s time. that s the kind of money his opponents would envy taking in at this point in the campaign cycle. beyond that he then went on twitter writing thank you biased media, making it clear that his conservative supporters believe he s getting a raw deal right now. on the other side of the race be the three remaining democrats are all trying hard to stand out. rachel maddow hosted a forum friday. the candidates attempted to connect with voters on gun violence, justice reform and other important issues.
privately talked about, they re going to assist me with. you know you re wearing your son s name on your shirt. tell me a little bit about tom. tom was a special, special human being. he cared about his country, his friends, his family, his community. he was the son that looked after his siblings. loved his parents, his grandparents. was smart. wanteded to go to west point. was heading in that direction. i couldn t tell you the leadership qualities or i have not met anyone who was more of a leader than him. i commend the congressmen for proposing legislation. we need leaders like that and my son was that kind of leader. thank you both for being with me this morning. i so appreciate it. much more ahead right here on msnbc. i m going to go back to our own
israel. but i think the question on iran is we clearly see in the iranian leadership a kind of commitment that they want to be more constructive in big problems like yemen. they want to discuss security with the saudis and they possibly want to be potentially more constructive in syria. there is another part of the regime that is about as nasty and dark as you can get that is trying to undermine them, that has arrested more iranian-american citizens and is holding them in the darkest most horrible prisons. and to the point where rowhani and zarif have both attacked them publicly. while iran s role in the region is an incredible instability and fraltty in tehran over the course that it is going to take. there are some winners and losers from this iran deal and it is not clear yet whether iran s forward and more constructive posture is anything the united states can depend on. steve clemmons, thank you
british and americans have been saying picking up on chatter and the fact that isis claim that they did it and all indicators look like it was a bomb at this point. what is the role of the fbi? it been called in now. the fbi has a vast amount of experience in analyzing or doing pos one of the great assets the fbi can bring to bear is the terrorist explosive detection center. the fbi has been analyzing them, cataloguing this many and in many cases can tell the type of device that was used, where it was manufactured and in some devices, is there a concern