And youre the real mvp. [ applause ] kevin durant mother, with a speech moving her and the rest of us all to tears. Never give up, to always put your children first, to always commit yourself to their dreams and their aspirations and goals, even when it gets hard. Good day, everyone, im an Andrea Mitchell in washington. Attacking a busy outdoor mall in the northern part of the country, killing as many as 300 people, this as the outrage is spreading around the world. Our prayers are with the missing girls and their family iz. Its time to bring back our girls. Joining me now from nigeria where he just met with government officials from various provinces there, raj, good to see you. This tragedy is overwhelming all. Tell us the perspective from there. Youre at the World Economic forum and you have worked so hard to try to bridge the economic divide in these different parts of nigeria. What are people saying . Thank you for having me. Its a tragic and shocking time in nigeria. Everyone weve expressed our sadness and our condolences our offers of support and help to do everything we can do bring back those girls and the fact that boko harams reign of terror displaced more than half a Million People and created a real humanitarian crisis in the north and very much a drag on an economy that otherwise just became africas largest economy, one of the worlds Fastest Growing economies and a place where american businesses and entrepreneurs are investing and helping to reduce poverty and earn real returns. It is a real challenge. Its one that is heart felt and were doing everything we can to help Nigerian Government lead a strong and effective and aggressive time sensitive response to try to find and bring back these girls that have been abducted in a shocking and inappropriate and terrorist act. Hillary clinton was speaking yesterday and she among others has spoken about the fact that niger nigerias government itself bears some responsibility. Lets watch. The seizure of these young women by this radical extremist group, boko haram is abomb inable and criminal and criminal and act of terrorism and it really merits the fullest response possible, first and foremost from the government of nigeria. The government of night year i cant has been in my view somewhat derelict in its responsibility toward protecting boys and girls in Northern Nigeria over the last years. And in fact, raj, im told on very Good Authority that our government and other governments have had difficulty responding even now where the president of nigeria says he welcomes the involvement of the west, that there are so many factions in nigeria disputing whether or not the west should be involved, that our Law Enforcement and military dont really know yet what it is that we can contribute because they havent disig natured wh e ed designt theyll accept. They need to be in the lead of a strong and quick response. It is true that the United States offered its assistance early in this process, immediately after it was known where these girls have been going. And it is also true that weve been working with the nigerians on Counter Terrorism and other intelligence partnerships in the north for some time. But the reality as secretary clintons note and comment referred to the fact that 40 of all kids in the north are not in school. More than 10 million kids almost all of whom are young girls, simply dont go to school in the north. And when the rate of literacy is 20 in the north, you cant have a stable Productive Society aspiring to give opportunity with that little investment in health and education and these girls. Right now while were doing everything we can to help recover these girls, we also in the Nigerian Government asked me to help them do everything they can to get girls in school, to build out safe schools, u. S. Aid has programs that reach almost 100,000 girls helping them go to schools and improving the safety of the girls therein. We reach a 1. 5 million with everything from immunizations to vitamin a and brought down the child death rate considerably in the last few years but we need to do more and we need the Nigerian Government at all levels to do more, to fight corruption and invest in their own people. When we make these investments in the worlds most vulnerable chirp, we make ourselves as a globe safer and more secure. Thats been a big part of the conversation as well. When you see the divide between the wealth and capital and investment america and companies and global firms but america is the single biggest investment in nigeria all usaid is doing, youre trying so hard to do something for girls literacy but they need security to try to fight these terror groups. Well, security is a precondition to development and to creating opportunity. And when president obama and secretary kerry have elevated development as part of our foreign policy, theyve asked us to work to make sure that were helping to create more secure stable societies, that were demanding much more of our ni t nigerian counterparts so they are making the investments in getting kids to school and providing them with health and education and investing in their agriculture. 80 of the employment is in the Agriculture Sector. Thats why weve worked for years to bring private companies and Research Institutions and student groups from land grant universities in the United States to nigeria to help partner and improve agriculture and health and education. The one thing i will say, this new model of partnership and engagement is in fact delivering results. We saw 1. 2 million nigerians including more than 1. 5 million children, in addition more than 1. 5 million more children no longer go hungry because of our feed the future programs and weve been able to attract private investment to the Agriculture Sector in this country and because nigerians themselves made bold reforms to fight corruption in the way they provide fertilizer subsidies for example. When we invest in the most vulnerable children, we are in fact expanding opportunity for all of us and preventing these types of tragic instances from taking place. Indeed, thank you so much from usaid. Thank you for being with us today. Malala, the pakistani teenager who became an International Symbol of courage after she was shot savagely by the taliban for promoting Girls Education in her country. We are all living on this globe together with diversity and there are girls that are uneducated and we should speak up for the girls in the whole world. This is our world and our home. Malala sat down with bill neeley yesterday. Shes such an extraordinary powerful voice and so inspirational to talk to her about this tragedy in nigeria must have been a very powerful experience for you. She is not just a remarkable 16yearold but remarkable human being. She came within millimeters of losing her life when she was shot in the head four campaigning for Girls Education in pakistan. And she saw so many parallels with what she experienced there in this case in nigeria. She felt she simply had to speak out and take a stand. The first thing that she is doing is combatting the silence. She felt there was silence from the nigerian side, from the Nigerian Government that they werent doing enough to either find these girls or even raise awareness. And so she joined her voice to this growing Global Campaign to find these girls. She is remarkable and the campaign is growing, but it will take an awful lot more than that. The United States, britain and france and even china offering military support now. President Goodluck Jonathan saying to you that he thinks this is the beginning of the end of terrorism in nigeria. I have to say thats extraordinarily optimistic from a man who so far has been completely unable, him and his army, which is funded to the tune of 3 billion a year, completely incapable of finding more than 300 school girls in his own country. And in fact, you point that out. Ive been told that our Law Enforcement officials and our military dont yet know how to respond. We say we are responding, that Goodluck Jonathan has finally quote, welcomed the aid after secretary kerry had to call and hammer him into accepting it, but they havent been specific because this so many divisions within their government in niger nigeria, so many factions, some opposing western aid. And that is slowing the mobilization. I wanted to play a little bit of malal malala when she talked about these girls. I consider nigerian girls as my sisters. It would be as if i should remain silent, if i remain silent and think for a second, ignore this issue, then the danger is that this will spread. They have now abducted more than 4 200 girls. Tomorrow they will do 400 and 500 and it will continue. So if you want to protect other girls as well, then we have to speak. So, bill, as you point out, that government is still almost paralyzed in the face of this tragedy and of this continuing terror. Yes, i mean, to be fair, for a moment, the area that boko haram control, its about the size of the u. S. State of ohio. So we are talking about something that it is difficult even if its 300 school girls, it would be difficult to find them within that. As you say, at least four countries have offered military assistance, britain has a very long military relationship and there are strong forces officers in abuj ja at the moment. The u. S. Is willing to Surveillance Drones but not large groups as you reported last night, no helicopters, the chinese have offered Surveillance Drones and intelligence. And the french have said they will have 3,000 troops in neighboring countries. Part of the area boko haram control is near the cameroon border. They have no idea how to find these girls in the first place. Thank you so much, bill neely, thanks for being with us today. Really appreciate it. And coming up next, chuck todd goes one on one with harry reid. Why the Senate Majority leader hopes for some healthy competition in the next democratic president ial primary. Really . Thats next on Andrea Mitchell reports only on msnbc. Sfx car unlock beep. Vo davids heart attack didnt come with a warning. Today his doctor has him on a bayer aspirin regimen to help reduce the risk of another one. If youve had a heart attack be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. 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Com and chuck todd, nbc news chief white house correspondent, political director, host of the daily rundown and expert on ink. More of that to come. To that interview, Sheldon Adelson is not in it to make money. Tell me about online betting and Online Gaming and where his interests lie and perhaps harry reid as well. He is spending a lot of money and hired a whole bunch of former elected officials left and right, democrats and republicans to fight the expansion of Online Gaming. Now the argument that hes making is that you dont want everybody to have a casino in your pocket and this will be bad for society. But you cant help but be reminded that he is a brick and mortar owner of a casino and doesnt want to see it diluted. Now, i have i remember interviewing three people he had hired to lobby on his behalf and they argue if he wanted to get into Online Gaming he could make just as much money doing that. That was their defense. This is the larger issue with both parties that have to deal with, which is, are you going to selectively decide, i like this billionaire because that billionaire agrees with my agen agenda, but dont like that billionaire, so billionaires are bad for politics. Well, you know, you cant have selective billionaire outrage. We have to ask ourselves about this idea of these billionaires get to decide whos in races and what issues are debated and is that healthy for democracy left or right. Thats a conversation that seems as if leaders of the party arent ready to have. Chris cillizza, when we talk about this, as chuck points out, you have billionaires here and there and tom on one side and issues of guns and climate change. And Sheldon Adelson on the either, you like money flooding into politics or not. I saw this clip earlier and rewatching it reminds me, it seems like a distinction without a real difference here. At the beginning of the clip harry reid says, well, these are the two richest people in the world. Sheldon adelson is like the seventh or eighth. Not as though hes a pauper. Extremely wealthy people here. If he lived in lets say, connecticut, harry reid might feel differently about him. He is someone Sheldon Adelson a huge donor, you have to figure out how to work with and get along with and where his interests are. If the Koch Brothers were based in nevada, im not sure he would be as negative about them as he is. He is also representing the other gaming interests in nevada besides adelson. Absolutely. I want to talk about the clintons also. Chuck, you asked harry reid whether he welcomes democratic primaries and you might is expected he would climb on the ready for hillary bandwagon but not quite. Everybody knows i love the clintons and i dont need to say more, including chelsea. Do you want her to be the nominee . Do you think there should be a healthy primary process . Im not where do i think primaries are healthy . Dont think they are good for democrats. For everybody. Why go to all the trouble, it would be nice to have people anointed im being facetious. I thought you were and i wasnt sure. You think it would be better for secretary clinton if she has a serious democratic rival . I believe that the primary was with obama and clinton was an extremely healthy process. I think it was wonderful. I mean, we do have to remember that it was harry reid who first went to the freshman senator, barack obama and suggested that he might even think right after being elected that he run for president. Reporter im detecting a pattern here we have the jim clyburn example, written about it in a book. I had a frankly a fascinating hesitating moment with Caroline Kennedy on this topic. The folks that picked obama over clinton when asked about clinton in 2016, you dont other than claire mccaskill, you dont sense that extra enthusiasm. Who knows what it is . Did they get jim clyburn phone calls . Is there real scar tissue there . You cant figure out what it is but you cant help but notice there seems to be a pattern that there is less enthusiasm at least among the power elites and with donors across the country. I wonder with the power elites there seems to be something that didnt go right when they made their decisions and how their relationship didnt fully heal. Speaking of fully healing, i wanted to play a little bit of your trip outside the white house grounds. Let me play a little bit of you from the today show. Before it was sort of like that guy served time or that guy was in the navy. Now its cops, priests and professors. 40 of americans live in a household where someone has a tattoo. Thats nearly double what it was 15 years ago to put it in perspective, more americans have tattoos than natural blonde hair. So chuck, what did you come back with . I dont know maybe im still healing, right, well see. We just started. I think it was sort of we do these cultural trends. I think the eye test for years for many of us was probably if you go to any college campus, see this as a generational change going on. The stigma is almost going away. Theres still a generational stigma, but tattoos have gone mainstream and we just finally had a data point to probably call attention to something that the rest