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nancy pelosi at a republican town meeting in oklahoma. we're going to have that in the "sideshow." but let me finish tonight by playing you that voice mail. that racist voice mail was left for u.s. congressman john lewis. and michele bachmann has been denying exists. we start with a death threat against senator patry murray of the state of washington. pete williams is nbc news justice correspondent. this is a crime. how serious is it, pete? >> it's very serious. a felony. threatening a member of congress in retaliation for what they do or threaten them to prevent them from doing so...

respects if the media had ignored it, too, you would have to wonder if it would have gotten as big as it is. i think there may be aspects of this that movement-like. the risk for the republicans is that nobody is really trying to harness or control that movement. there's no indication whether anybody actually can. >> the republican party -- >> some -- >> they don't draw the line at all saying, hey, come on, knock off the signs. it's about health care reform. this was dick army's thing. he was a former leader in the republican party. these are the people he's ginned up that come to wa...

Against cnn, he feels he's entitled to two scoops. that's kind of how he seems to be looking at things these days. it's rather sad, and he's only able to get away with this because republicans who claim to care about policy have enabled him and are not calling him out for ludicrous, absurd, and violent behavior. >> on that, david, i read "art of the deal," and he does delight in aspects of certain deal it is the topic interests him. he did make deals, and whether or not you like the way he gout out from under the bankruptcies, that showed you his ability to creatively come up with solutions, a...

Spoken up get drowned out by very shrill voices within the republican conference who don't want to do anything. >> i think it's a really interesting moment that we're looking at. speaker boehner and presumably kevin mccarthy, number two in the house, both seem to want some kind of reform and kevin mccarthy has a district that would seem to lend itself to reform, whether they actually do anything about it remains to be seen. always good to see you, thank you for your time. joining me now is nbc news capitol hill correspondent luke russert and washington bureau chief of mother jones, david cor...

Federal funding for medical research and the short answer is a lot. >> john is managing director of science policy and david cornyn washington bureau chief for mother jones. everybody loves research. it means people can live to 90, healthy. if we don't do that, we're just going to fall back. if you don't have verge keeping up with stress, we're going to fall back. >> the most important investment that our company can make and that's what's so discouraging right now. when you're talking about the sequestration, it's a $1.6 billion cut for health. it's not just sequestration. the past decade we'...