plus, an inability to agree on helping people in disability. former senate leader bob dole on the dysfunction that s driving that debate nowhere on capitol hill. that s part one of my exclusive sitdown with the long-time republican leader. good morning from washington. it s monday, august 4th, 2014. this is the daily rundown. also coming up, the latest in the middle east and how africa s ebola outbreak is impacting a summit here in d.c. this week. let me get right to my first reads of the morning. we are the 2014 campaign headquarters so we ll start there. the sprint to november used to start the day after labor day. that s not true anymore. august is the new september for a number of reasons. one, a history of both parties underestimating the importance of august to set general election narratives whether this presidential years or midterms, but a second bigger reason. the amount of money available to spend. there s still only 24 hours in a day and as tv ad time is bought up in september and october, there s more money available so why not back up the spending even more. welcome to the new normal and the backdrop to the start of this new august is ugly. members of congress have shifted their focus from washington back to the campaign trail where the next five weeks will solidify the political terrain they ll competing on this fall. candidates still have to survive a series of primaries and august is now jam packed. this week s contests are some of the most competitive yet. they feature an unusual tuesday, thursday, saturday primary combo. it s like when the nfl decided playing games on sunday wasn t enough so they added more days of the week and it s quite a week where we could see a slew of income bebumbents struggle. a sitting governor could lose a primary and even a handful of house members on the brink. so far republican incumbents have emerged from senate primaries pretty much unscathed. this week two final senators get tea party tests. tomorrow it s kansas republicans. they ll decide whether senator pat roberts deserves a fourth term. he s running against radiologist, milton wolf, who also happens to be president obama s second cousin. underdog milton wolf is so eager to debate roberts he confronted him on the street last week at a campaign stop. tell cans anz you ve given your word you d give a debate. you tell us that you re tough and tested and trusted. i want you to keep your word. i want you to debate. milton, milton, milton, milton, this is not the time. we have a regular scheduled event, tour event. when would be the time? this is not the appropriate time or place. when would be the appropriate time? i ll go anywhere you d like. you ve given your word to debate. let s just debate. those uncomfortable confrontation moments. any way, missouri, michigan and washington also have primaries. michigan has a couple of incumbents that could go down. on thursday it looks like lamar alexander is poised to feet his foe, joe carr. his campaign released a poll that showed him ahead of carr. ask eric cantor how he feels about internal polling. turnout is up. more than 560,000 votes have already been cast in early voting in tennessee. that s a state record for this august primary. the two candidates talked to the tennesseean about who they voted for. alexander has been a few that s perhaps not as a volunteer but a resident of d.c. and kind of a ruling elite. i m not a big joe carr fan. i think the sign down there in that window is one of the most disgusting things i ve ever seen because lamar alexander has done great things for this state. i don t think you go after him like that. the other good news for alexander, there are eight republicans taking him on. they re likely to divide this anti-alexander vote and, guess what, he probably ends up winning by double digits simply because of that. then of course there s an even more unusual primary contest on saturday in hawaii. they may be running under the radar, but two statewide primaries are the best democratic matchups of the cycle. shatz was picked to fill the seat. hawaii is notoriously difficult to poll but a recent survey had schatz up high single digits. democratic outside groups are divided. president obama, he s a schatz guys too, in part because of the controversy over his senate pick, governthe governor faces e himself. in alaska four republicans led by former attorney general dan sullivan compete to take on the democratic senator there. the following week what was once a sleepy arizona primary to replace jan brewer is now red-hot thanks to the immigration issue. florida was supposed to be holding its primary on the 26th but last week a florida judge asked the state legislature to redraw its state congressional map after tossing out that map two weeks ago, arguing that the republican-controlled legislature in 2012 had made a mockery of the redistricting process and it singled out district 5, held by corin brown and district 10 represented by dan webster. could florida s house elections be postponed until after november 4th it s a big possibility. primaries may not be over but the general election is well under way. though americans agree congress hasn t done much this year, according to a new nbc news/marist poll 74% of voters call this congress unproductive. voters are divided on how to fix the problem. they give republicans a slight edge on who they want to see control the house and control the senate. now over the weekend, it was a tiny town in western kentucky who got to play host to the campaign kickoff and it may be the biggest campaign in the country as republican senator mitch mcconnell and his democratic foe, alison grimes, faced off at the fancy farm, a church picnic but it s not rev rent these days. rand paul launches a ten-stop tour of iowa today. he did spend time in his home state over the weekend and he was there to be a mcconnell attack dog, mocking grimes in verse. liberals she whispers coal makes you sick. in kentucky, she claims coal makes us tick. to the liberals she sells her soul, the same ones who hate kentucky coal. mcconnell and grimes had plenty of red meat for the crowd as well. mcconnell tried to nationalize this race, focusing on the president s war on coal and attacking grimes inexperience. grimes did her best to make 8 referendum on mcconnell and washington. what a huge crowd for senator mcconnell s retirement party. the barbecue smells so good, even jesse benton stopped holding his nose. for obama and his liberal buddies in the media, coming to kentucky is like foreign travel. these guys can t tell the difference between a coal miner and a european male model. if mitch mcconnell were a tv show, he d be mad men, treating women unfairly, stuck in 1968 and ending this season. so much turmoil around the world, we can t afford a leader who thinks the west bank is a hollywood fund-raiser. there were a lot of those groan type jokes there. that s what fancy farm is these days. wednesday, former president bill clinton will campaign for grimes in eastern kentucky. joining me now for this kickoff week of the general election, msnbc contributor chris cizzilla, susan page and perry bacon, who spent the weekend in his home state of kentucky at fancy farm. so quickly, perry, let s talk about fancy farm. it is, let s see, sam youngman called it heehaw meets the gong show. i thought that was a great line. heehaw was one of my favorite shows. there s a little bit of your mama joke stand off that comes across. this is not high-minded debate. this is not at all high-minded. you had this tiny town, 5,000 people from all over the state come to this event. no one goes to this town otherwise. fancy farm is a small town in kentucky. and yet you had this moment where there s lots of insults. everybody has only five minutes to speak essentially. it has to be an insult pretty much. the goal was mcconnell and grimes attacking each other. i thought paul s poem was the more deliver to describe grimes. that was one part people were listening and not booing because they were curious where this was going. you know, the real face-off that i m waiting for, susan, if it happens is when these two debate. you feel as if it actually is going to matter in this race. he, mcconnell, is desperate to debate her. thinks he can make this an experience argument stick, make her do what she did last week when she sort of con flated iron dome and destroying tunnels which doesn t make military sense in israel. they re looking for that moment. iron dome probably not the issue that will determine the kentucky race. no. but you do feel like a gaffe will. but look how good she looked. she looked tough. if she performs like that in a debate, i m not sure the experience argument sticks. he looked kind of uncomfortable. i mean he s a masterful washington insider. what deals has he made in town. but he is not a great performer on stage. and this is not his event. this is his worst. i think he d be first of all, i think he s 72 versus 35 shows a little bit. she had more energy. second of all, he has to hope that in a more formal debate setting, because mitch mcconnell it s not like this is a revelation. mitch mcconnell, if you check off the things that make a really great candidate, charisma, he s just not there. he s a really good fund-raiser, as susan pointed out he makes great deals. he s basically a campaign manager who became a senator. she is more of a natural sort of candidate. the question is in a formal debate setting could he point out that age gap to his benefit. let s move to the week here a little bit. we ve got a busy primary week to set the stage. kansas, where, perry, i m almost thinking are we going to wish we spent more time in kansas? do we think something is popping here? i know that there is this nervousness in the republican super pac world that if one of these goes bad left, it s this one. i do think that s right. if you look at mississippi, we covered a lot. kentucky was close. this feels that roberts, the fact that he doesn t live in the state, that s the one risk that i think he s not done a great job of campaigning. being challenged on camera he was ready for his moment. there was a moment people saw it. i think that could make a difference. ultimately we can t tell because the polls have been so bad all season. i can t tell if he s going to lose, you just can t tell, but it s going to be a close race. and of course the kansas republican party is so divided right now. the governor has divided that party. does that have an impact, does that end up oddly helping roberts? you know, there s all sorts of variables in this state that s a little bit different even from all the other primary challenges. i think it does help roberts because i think there are republicans that are pretty conservative. there are not a lot of liberal republicans in kansas but who have been put off by brownback. but if roberts wins this despite the campaign he s running you know what, he should debate. why should you be in a competitive senate race and refuse to debate. that s hard to defend. we talked about mcconnell s campaign skills being questionable. pat roberts, one of the underrated debaters, used to be a staple on sunday shows. why not debate? he s quick on his feet. when we talk about a guy who s run a bad race. a guy that s run a good race, lamar. he s taking advantage of a crowded field. i remember probably 18 months ago now but i was on with you and we were talking about lindsey graham and lamar. that on paper, right they should be the most vulnerable. they seem more on trouble on their record as roberts. as susan pointed out, a moderate republican in kansas is not like a moderate republican in connecticut. their records the cardinal sin. their records in the senate, and lamar by nature is not a tea party republican. he has done really good job. i think he s benefited you mentioned in the open, eight other people running against him. lindsey benefited from the same thing, very fractured, not a coalesce ens around one guy. i think lamar deserves credit. we ran him as the guy who ran unsuccessfully for president twice. i remember going down to kentucky when he was first running for the senate. he s a legendary figure in the state and a talented politician. howard baker started the republican renaissance. lamar grew it. very quickly, august being the new september. mostly because of money. i mean it really is, because of the saturation of money and both parties being very defensive. i guess the one issue you wonder how it s going to play in the month is immigration. in kentucky it didn t play out very much. so i think we re in a place the issue will be congress isn t doing anything. grimes is trying to push hard on the mcconnell is in charge of the congress that s dysfunctional. susan, what are you looking for in august? august is this where you lose campaigns, not where you win it. it s true. we re still looking to see if there s a wave that develops. you know, it s going to be a good republican year. is it going to be a great republican year? so far it doesn t look like it, in part because republicans are failing to deliver on some of the things that might give themselves some momentum. obama s numbers. it s a thing we know. presidential approval influences the party. if they go lower, it s going to be real trouble. thank you much. up next, the clock is ticking. here we go again, another cease-fire that seems to have expired already. we ll see. we ll have more in a few minutes, whether or not it was enforced is still up for debate. another u.n. school in gaza comes under fire. we ll have new details ahead. first a look at the politics planner. a summit with african leaders starts in washington this morning. the president will spend more time on it tomorrow but there s also been this fear about an ebola outbreak and whether that s somehow tied as people are coming over from 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that was housing 3,000 palestinians that were seeking shelter. the state department condemned that attack saying this, quote. the united states is appalled by the disgraceful shelling. strong language these days from the u.s., but that s a far different message than the president delivered friday. on the one hand, israel has a right to defend itself and it s got to be able to get at those rockets and those tunnel networks. joining me on the phone from gaza, nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel. richard, last night you were reporting that you saw the troop movements. it looked like israel was preparing to halt its movements in gaza, start pulling back. that it maybe was sending a signal they re almost done with destroying these tunnels. what do you see today? reporter: well, i just got back from the reason i m on the phone is we re still out reporting. i just got back from an area right on the edge of the gaza strip where israeli tanks had been and where israeli soldiers had been positioned in apartment buildings setting up sniper positions, watch positions, and those troops are now gone. they have pulled out of there. we could see the kbrien crete a broken concrete and the tank marks where the tanks had clearly been driving and the tanks had pulled back. generally they have pulled back from most places in the central and northern gaza strip. however, israeli troops are still inside southern gaza, still conducting close security missions in the southern parts of the gaza strip. and this cease-fire that was supposed to be happening for seven hours, this humanitarian cease-fire, was i think you could say very mixed success. there was still some fighting, still rockets falling, still some strikes coming in. not a full-on war but i think we were probably at a 60% level. the question now is what will happen next. if israel pulls back and pulls its troops away from the gaza strip, israel says it will continue its drone campaign and artillery campaign from a distance against hamas militants, hamas weapons and hamas says it s going to keep firing. so this could go on for a long time, even if you don t have israeli tanks parked inside gaza the gaza strip. all right, richard engel reporting right from the scene right now in the midst of it all. richard, thank you very much. joining me now from jerusalem is christopher gunness, spokesperson for the united nations relief and works agency. he joins me now. i want to start with, can you walk me through exactly how you inform the israeli defense ministry of the various u.n. schools that are being used as shelters right now. what are the procedures that you go through, how often do you let them know areas that you re asking them to stay away from? well, if i may, we have notified the israeli authorities before this conflict of the exact gps coordinants of every single one of our installations. not just the schools, but our health clinics, our microfinance offices, everything, because we do a full range of humanitarian activities. so that is a given. they knew the exact coordinants before the fighting. once the fighting started and where we are able to notify them which is in most cases because we have staff working these schools, we literally pick up the phone. we pick up the phone and we say we have 3,000 people in this compound. it s a school. it s clearly marked with a blue u.n. flag. and the fighting is getting closer. we politely request that you get the fighting away from here because civilian life is endangered. that s literally how the conversation goes. and in the case of rafah at 10:45, this shell, missile, whatever it was hit just outside the main gate. the last conversation was precisely one hour before that shell landed, which is why we say we d like an investigation, please, and we d like it to be a fair investigation and we d like it to establish the truth. and who should conduct that investigation? as you know, the distrust frankly that everybody has with each other these days, who should be conducting that investigation? well, todd, the distrust you refer to is something which others can make their own assessment of. israel, i m pleased to say is a member of the international club and the way it works is that when something like this has happened, the state party in the initial instance will make the investigation, which is why we say let us see that investigation. the state department last night threw its weight also in the latter part of that statement which you began to read, threw its weight behind an investigation. let s not prejudge what israel is going to do. let us assume that israel is going to act in good faith. israel, i m sure, wants to clear its name. it s in the interests of all, including israel, to have the facts out there. we have said that there should be accountability and a sense of responsibility and i m sure those are feelings which are shared by the state of israel. but let s also, if we may for a moment, focus on the victims. because if you ve ever, and i m sure you have, todd, interviewed victims of these sorts of incidents, the road to recovery is a very long one and the first baby step on that long road to recovery is knowing the truth. you know, if one of your relatives is killed in this way, all you want to know in the first instance as part of your profound grief and indig nation will be what on earth happened and we owe it to the victims. let s put the victims at the center of it. we owe it to the common humanity on both sides of the confrontation line here, whether it s civilians or whether it s inside gaza, the truth is always the starting point. let me ask you, tell me how you what do you do to try to limit hamas from using these schools, from using these refugee facilities as shields? well, let me tell you that when we discovered on three occasions during the course of this conflict that militant groups had hidden weapons in our schools, now, to be clear these were schools that had been moth balled and shut up for the summer, they weren t schools that were in use. as soon as we found them in the course of our own regular inspections, we notified all the relevant parties immediately and we issued a statement strongly condemning this group or groups who left them there as a flagrant violation of our neutrality. so point number one, publicity, advocacy. we hope that we will shame these groups that are endangering civilian life and compromising the neutrality of the united nations. but, todd, let s be clear about this. we are an unarmed humanitarian organization. so anyone who sort of expected us to have a firefight with a militant organization, we weren t even there, by the way, or anyone on the other side who expected us to pick up these rockets, chuck them in the back of a pickup, drive across the battlefield over the confrontation line and hand them over to the israeli army, clearly that is not to understand the position a neutral humanitarian organization is in. we have our neutrality. it s the family silver. that s why we guard it so jealously. mr. gunness, christopher gunness there who is heading up the effort of the united nations relief fund there, thanks for joining me. let me bring in former ambassador to israel, martin indick who just resigned. he s now vice president of foreign policy at brookings. ambassador, let me start with it seems as if let s go to the politics of the diplomacy here. the netanyahu government almost appears to be looking for distance from john kerry and the u.s. government here, almost not wanting the u.s. to play its traditional role of mediator when these conflicts rise up. well, i think after the last cease-fire broke down, there was a decision by the israeli cabinet not to negotiate but to act unilaterally. so there s no cease-fire negotiation going on with israel. the egyptians are talking to the various palestinian factions and maybe they can come up with something, lay the groundwork for a new cease-fire, and maybe not at the moment. prime minister netanyahu wants to basically just establish a kind of de facto calm for calm situation. i doubt that that will work, and i think both sides will have to find a cease-fire. but at the moment that s not what s at play. it appears he has two goals. you tell me. militarily, it s being able to say the hamas tunnels are destroyed, period. end point. and that that is a potential way for him to start retreating. but the second, he seems to think he can split abbas from hamas. i m speaking of mahmoud abbas, president of the palestinian authority there in the west bank. do you think that s possible? i wouldn t put it that way. what i think is possible and necessary is for abbas as you call him, the leader of the palestinian authority and head of the plo, to take responsibility in gaza. and it s important to bear in mind that before this war broke out, hamas and abbas party joined in a reconciliation pact that led to the establishment of a palestinian authority government that was supposed to take responsibility in gaza. the hamas ministers in gaza resigned for that purpose. so within palestinian politics, legitimacy exists for him to take control in gaza. that s a very necessary thing to get behind, to have the humanitarian assistance and reconstruction go through the palestinian authority, do have the palestinian authority take control of the passages and hopefully over time to be able to establish its control there. all right. martin indyk, now at brookings, i appreciate your perspective. thank you very much. before the break, today s quick tdr 50 trivia question. we re going to be in tennessee this week so all of our trivia questions will be tennessee focused. former presidents have called tennessee their home state, how many of them? there are three. name the three. the first person to tweet the correct answer will get the on-air shoutout. the answer and more is coming up on tdr. 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none that i accept. i mean you get your usual arguments on sovereignty, abortion and home schooling, which is no basis for it ought all. you know, disabled people are entitled to as many rights as we can give them. there are some limitations where they can t do certain things, but that doesn t mean they shouldn t have the right. we haven t given up yet. election year stuff is always tricky in election year, isn t it? oh, yeah. people dream up ideas about it s going to affect cuba, you know, anything any excuse to vote no, if you want to vote no. right. in this case, all the democrats are for it and i need or we need 12 republicans and we re still searching for a couple. and this is what strikes me. you were a win-win guy when it came to negotiations, but that was back in a day where there were swing voters. now there s this perception that nobody is looking nobody is trying to win a swing voter, they re maximizing their base. you re well aware of base politics. you ve been doing this a long time. but is that the part that s out of whack here, that we can t because there s this fear, republican, oh, my god it gives the democrats a win or it gives the republicans a win and then they re afraid to cross the aisle? in this case it s not true because all the democrats support it and the republicans, at least and i ve talked to nearly all of them never raise a question, well, this is we re against it because the democrats are for it. now, some are upset with harry reid, but that shouldn t stop them from voting for a treaty that helps the disabled. and some have the idea that we re giving up our sovereignty, which is true in every treaty you have. there s always the sovereignty issue. and we think we ve added language to take care of that concern. we ve added language to take care of abortion. we ve added language to take care of home schooling. so we don t know of any reason now that it couldn t be a unanimous vote. of course it won t be. of course not. but we need 12. well, we ll see. do you think better off before november or after november, you being the old legislative tactician there? well, we re not going to do it before congress has left town. we ll hopefully do it in september. that s your goal. you d like to see it then? 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it is difficult to contract. if you have the proper isolation capabilities and the people who take care of these individuals have the proper personal protective equipment, the virus does not spread. what the problem is, is that people see reports in the news on tv of the catastrophic situation that s going on in the countries in west africa, and that s because of a very, very dysfunctional in fact health care system. a lot of panic, not the proper capabilities and equipment. so that kind of spread just does not happen in a society in which you have a health care infrastructure where you can actually handle them. that s the reason why the people at emory feel very comfortable that taking care of dr. brantly down there is not a risk. we heard the president on friday saying extra screening measures are being put into place. we know peace corps volunteers what is that screening measure? can you demystify that for us? sure, it s very, very simple. first of all, this disease, when it does occur, usually starts with a fever and people feel achy and headache and then they go into the more catastrophic expression of the disease. so if a person is going to get on a plane to come over here, someone who, for example, a peace corps volunteer or someone of a similar type of a person, then you would screen them to see, a, do they have a fever, do they have any symptoms, do they feel well. when they get here, perhaps on the plane they may start to feel a problem before they can get off the plane and go into general society you want to screen them and ask them the same thing. are they ill, do they have a fever, do they feel nauseated? those are the kind of very simple screening things that you do when you re dealing with a situation like this. and if you re riding on a plane with somebody who s feeling these symptoms, explain again, it s almost impossible to contract the disease if that person is carrying it, correct? indeed. you are absolutely correct, chuck. you have to have direct contact with bodily fluids. when i say bodily fluids, i mean blood, vomit, vomit, kdiarrhea, fee ses. being on the plane with somebody, being in a physical space with someone does not put you at risk. do you take any comfort in the fact that the fatality rate of the outbreak is less than out%. it s down to 57%. what does it tell you? does it tell you that the treatments, the identification process going on is better overall in the world community? first of all, the strand of ebola is the most serious that we re dealing with in west africa right now. one of the things that markedly impacts the fatality rate when you get somebody in and replace fluids. a lot of them lose fluid with diarrhea and veterans hospital i vomiting. treat them for any secondary infections. get their fever down and take care of any organ systems you can dramatically decrease the mortality, which is going on with the people being treated there now. as desperate as the situation, getting someone into care and intervenous fluids is important. these two american aid workers being brought to emery, they pose zero risk to the u.s. population, correct? 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three-to-one, three-to-one today with violet birth, we have schreiber tonight, did nine on cnn welcome, to the whole, store i m anderson cooper, drag is an odd form that s been around for centuries, including shakespeare s times. women weren t allowed back then to appear on stage. so man dressed up to play the roles of female characters drag performances have evolved a lot over the decades, exploding in mainstream popularity in recent years with tv hits like rupaul s drag race. but now it s also become a political target. republican lawmakers and six days have passed laws aimed at restricting drag performances and places where children are present. the laws have been amended, blocked, are currently being challenged in federal courts. over the next hour, cnn s randy k digs into the colorful history of drag it takes a look at how and why its come under attack this. is how it begins yes, it is always starts with the foundation can sealer and foundation. right well, concealed. he just got some foundational not yet, but give me a few years. i probably well, we re going to let off quite how long does it take you to get all made up but phone drag it varies. would on average, you re talking 30 or 40 minutes, but the transition from your average homosexual to ravishing drag queen interesting it s good to see the process step by step. some can enjoy every bit it s my moment to just take myself into a whole another world and just be happy despite whatever going around at the palace bar and restaurant in miami south beach well, tiffany tiffany phantasia is lip-sync into the song, rather be by clean banded so she is slang. that s a drag term for killing it. she s been performing and drag for 20 years in drag. i feel more powerful i feel three. i feel independent. i feel love, i feel joy, especially when i m seeing some papers i love. the freedom of expression. i love making somebody has, i love the glitz and glam because no matter what i m going through a growing through somebody else, is that energy and for those five minutes nothing matters what do you think is the draw for an audience? why do you think people? i tend to directions because it s different. it goes against the status quo. it challenges society we are told as we grow up, you re supposed to act this way, talk this way to this man. that third and here s some body defying all events and performing for you. whether seeing live our lives, thinking or whatever they re defying the social norm, they re going against eagle and that s fascinating for a lot of people drag has fascinated audiences for more than a century there were hugely popular drag balls in harlem during the roaring 20s in the 50s and 60s, crowds packed into clubs featuring what were referred to at the time as female impersonators before a backlash shove, drag into the shadows but perhaps no one has helped bring dragged back into the spotlight today more than dragged superstar rupaul s with the tv competition show rupaul s drag race? sashay, away. but a hit show has been running for 16 seasons collecting a whopping 29 emmy awards along the way. rupaul s world. of wonder production company has built a drag empire launching drag race tv franchises. these type of good is minus zeta, a call in more than a dozen countries around the world. ready, i can show. was on drag race. the audience is connecting with the tenacity of the human spirit that s what that show is really about when you you tear it down to just nuts and bolts we all relate to someone who has been cast off and they prove us wrong. i remember, you can t love yourself. how the how you go, love somebody out. thanks in part to rue rupaul s drag has become more popular than ever. there are dragged branches, drag dinner shows, drag beauty pageants even drag bingo wright, eric, he was we re getting so close to me drag is the main attraction every new year s eve in key west, florida afraid at all, you re just kind of dangling up here a crowd of enthusiasts so revelers counts down to midnight as a drag queen descends from the balcony at this bar in a giant high-heeled shoe we found that queen of this. i ve reported live from these it s devotees for years. and now i m left wondering how did this can t be form of entertainment becomes such a target for the political right. like it is here in my home state of florida republican lawmakers and right-wing leaders across the country are pushing through laws restricting drag shows the law here in florida signed by republican governor ron desantis it aimed at banning children from attending drag shows. it blocks venues are publicly permitted events from admitting children to an adult live performance which according to the law includes any performance that quote, depicts or simulates the lwd exposure of prosthetic or imitation genitals or breasts there are these like these drag shows sexually explicit in what they re doing in luck adult entertainment, people can do what they want with some of that, but there should not be any of these kids. they re the law is up in the air now after a federal judge put it on hold pending a state appeals supporters of the restrictions claim that drag shows are harmful to children. some accused drag queens of being child a derogatory term often used to demonize members of the lgbtq community as pedophiles good the desantis administration filed a complaint against the miami restaurant. our house accusing it of exposing minors to what it called sexually explicit drag shows and threatening to pull its liquor license after a state investigation found no unlawful content in the performances the venue, which denied any wrongdoing, agreed to pay a $10,000 administrative fine and set a minimum age requirement of 18 for their drag shows read coming to your city. does desantis officials also threatened to yank the liquor licenses of the plaza live theatre in orlando, and the hyatt regency in miami for hosting an event called a drag queen christmas we re minors accompanied by their parents, were present even though a report by undercover state agents acknowledged they did not witness any lewd acts. both settled for a $5,000 fine. it is specifically intended with the heightened penalties ten $10,000 fines and fees the suspension of liquor licenses to create fear and to intimidate businesses out of wanting to host drag performances, especially when there are unclear about exactly what is allowed and what is not allowed representative smith, democratic carlos guillermo smith was florida s first lgbtq latino lawmaker. he s currently running for state senate it has led to a chilling effect with pride as well. several pride events across florida have also been canceled or restricted out of concern, drag queens might be seen by children in public resign, hit, particularly hard by the political backlash drag queen story hours like this there once was a boy with the rainbow harms they had signed saying that drag queens were pedophiles with aids. they were yelling and screaming at children and families. were you scared? i was scared. i was scared welcome to the waiver hood with waves. they re finding your style is fine when the music stops grabbing, it, doesn t matter i ll just dollars i m sorry, carl, this is me and chair form i don t see you this one perfect for you, but you love it. i told you we should have done opinion data i explained it how many dei then i d said you need to sit down every style, every home that they blocked the road trip everyone comfortable? yep. there s plenty of space hi, david gardner right. no, no going on one once arrive okay. i gave him and see despicable me before and theaters july 3rd rated pg last month, massive solar flare out at a 24 hour to the day, businesses are wondering what should we do with bacon and eggs 257, right? so spots from 20% with additional hour extra hour on thinking up the white power. now, let s put it through a book this is going to wreak havoc on overtime 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named mama ashley rows tell me just a little bit about your background. i was involved in church pretty much my whole life, which led me to get into ministry. and the whole time i knew i was gay, i knew i was struggling even through all that journey feeling of unwanted nus and unloved and never being good enough to where here i am today spreading this message that everyone it was love accepted, and wanted no matter who they are. i remember how it felt to not feel that way. so it s kinda drives me to do what i do today you were once a pastor at an lgbt church, was like pastor mike today, drag queen by night and again, the drag queen, it wasn t even just by night. we started doing events. we started doing fundraisers variety shows, drag dinner shows, drag gospel shows raising money for those in need perfect. it can be $100, could be a couple of thousand dollars. and our events and we not only focus on queer lgbtq plus charities, but we focus on animal shelters, domestic violence, mental health i always knew that my character, mama ashley rose was going to be something different. you re going to be wholesome, going to be not the club bar scene because it was never really my scene. and i just knew that i had to bring something to the table that no one else was doing i look forward to meeting oh, i can t wait for you to meet mama nice to reach. nice to meet you. good seeing you, to see you too. so tell me about you. so mama is just a southern lady that spreads a message to everyone is loved, accepted, and wanted no matter who they are. and we provide a safe space so my job is to make people for loved, make people feel safe, give them a little laugh, a little chocolate sometime i don t when people think of a drag queen this is not the look that i think most people think of. what if my life could bring. it s changed make somebody move absolutely. so drag is an art form and we know that art comes in all shapes, sizes types, and everything. and i love to tell people we have adult television, we have children s television, we have adult radio toluse radio, all that. so i m kinda like the disney channel of drag, who s ready for story time? all. kids if you can come up and have a seat on the floor. so for me, dragged story hour is first of all, teaching literacy. there once was a boy with, uh, rainbow heart it looks a little different. we know that illiteracy is an issue and the world right now. but teaching and reading about kindness, my books are about kindness, about love, about loving yourself. we read stories about how to handle bullies and the list goes on with that, just teaching life skills, you see it s literally just a person in a costume no different than a disney princess reading a story to kids and adults. my sparkly earrings, they see it as this like glamorous princess they re going to listen to a story from someone dressed in a costume before they will have just any random person what kind of backlash have you faced doing drag story hour up until last year? we had no issues and a year ago this december, we had neo-nazis show up outside this building. they had signs saying that drag queens were pedophiles with aids they were projecting on the side of buildings saying that grooming was in process. they were yelling and screaming at children and families. were you scared? i was scared. i was scared jason says he also had to find a new location for an annual drag pageant at the last minute, because the orlando venue was afraid of being targeted by the desantis administration they were really concerned about losing their liquor license so they asked us to make our event 18 up and my response was like, no, i m not going to make an event 18 up when it never has been we don t do 18 and up events. so we had four days to find a new venue to move a whole paget, a whole production show shortly after that in orlando high school was forced to cancel an event featuring jayson he had been scheduled to speak to the school s queer and ally alliance. i have been invited by students for years to go in and the students invite me and of course, with approval of educators and this after-school program, after school club. and i usually say, do you want me to come as json or do want me come as momma and always i mean, they wanted to drag queen, right? so a woman who is part of the moms for liberty, who is also on the orange county school board, basically had a shutdown educators and the principal and the dean were literally their jobs were being threatened if they allow this event to happen. that school board member, alicia for ronde, says she raised questions after hearing complaints it s from dozens of parents but an investigative report by spectrum news 13 in orlando revealed a majority of the emails for ron to received about the event were supportive of it. we have reached out several times different for a response to the report, but i ve heard nothing back i just wanted to be a drag queen and tell funny stories and make people laugh i had no idea it was going to be in this atmosphere. it s scary time. it was a scary time for us secondly, fear of threats, fear of safety the political backlash, jason and many others are now experiencing is familiar to me anyone who knows the history drag more on that next. every week, there ll be police raids every time there was a police raid, it was people in states of drag who were arrested the simons are going off and the tornado here i m thinking, i m going to die. and i thought that was violin earth with liev schreiber donated nine on cnn did you know sling has your favorite news progress for just $40 a month my favorite news for just $40 a month my favorite news for just $40 a month. $40 a month? my favorite for just $40 a month $40 get your favorite news. are $40 a month sling lets you do that with so many choices on booking.com, there are so many tina fey as i could be. so i hired body doubles to help me out splurge 18. it loves a hotel near row de you drive 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gorgeous, 200 page book outlining the history of drag and the political backlash against it. all intertwined with anecdotes from my own irresistible and unpredictable relevance to clean you re welcome why do you think the history of drag is so important? the history of drag is important because people don t know. and in fact, it feels like their cycles of acceptance and then backlash that have happened throughout history sasha grew up steeped in drag history one of sasha is biggest influences this was her grandmother dina she encouraged me to channel lane or diva. she coached me on how to make an inference and the gown the her condo had like one set of stairs coming down from the loft and i would put my costume on up there and then walked down the stairs dramatically. so i have a lot one of her grandmother s favorite hotspots, uh, clubs spotlighting female impersonators in san francisco called for nokia s she would go to for nokia on the weekends drive in from the suburbs of daly city and of course it was a club mostly targeted for straight audiences. and she loved the drag shows. she thought it was so entertaining, and she told you about it. and she told me about it as a little kid. i feel very lucky that i grew up with out shame around drag, at least at home female impersonator clubs across the country, including one in new york called club at t2, became all the rage during the 1950s and 60s the people. who came to the ad to club were everyday people your mom and dad may have come to the 82 club, but also it was packed with celebrities judy garland, milton, berle, elizabeth taylor, richard burton, errol flynn salvador dali, the surrealist, of course, loved drag and the ad he to club dragging the us has strong roots going back to harlem racially diverse groups of people flocked to the rockland palace for headline grabbing drag balls hosted by a black fraternal organization called the hamilton lodge during the harlem renaissance and the roaring 20s harlem drag balls were enlarge pageant deep masquerade experience. and it was meant largely for the black community later on, there started to be more and more white patrons alyssa max goodman wrote a book on the history of drag in new york city called glitter and concrete after a while, they re just became thousands upon thousands of people who would attend. there were prizes given for the best costumes. it was an affair that was i mean, i think it was considered social suicide. if you didn t go in the early 1900s, one of the biggest celebrities in the country, julian l tinge, performed in drag julia elton was one of the top paid performers in vaudeville of julia elton was a female impersonator. so there was this appetite for that type of entertainment we re looking to week four of the class, joey jeffries is a drag. his story, who also teaches a course on rupaul s drag race at the new school in new york city. and at new york university julia elton was very successful financially, artistically. julian elton had any number of plays with music on broadway julian l2 and had his on makeup line, his on magazines. julian l2 inch have a theater named after him el tinge also became a big movie star in films like the aisle of love featuring a van unknown rudolph valentino the premise of his movies was very much like the premise of his plays. which is also part of his identity. i m a guy. i m in some life-threatening situation that requires me to get an address and that is the only reason i am getting an address. it s the sum like get hot narrative it s a similar premise and the hollywood hit movie starring tony curtis and jack lemmon, as well as other hugely successful films like tutsi mrs. down, fire thank you for denia. don t fire drag was also popular among members of the us military. broadway productions and movies portrayed soldiers performing and drag shows for the troops drag was central to a morale effort during world war two. and to the point where eisenhower was giving commendations to troops that use dragged to say that you are doing a great job in your serving your country. in irving berlin, in stage musical, became a movie featuring soldiers and drag called this is the army starring none other than ronald reagan ready to the chorus curtain? but appearing in drag outside the movies and female impersonator clubs was a far different story. there were very strict rules at the club at two, for example, where he men had to arrive in men s clothes, put on their makeup, their and then leave in men s clothes that s largely due to a crackdown on what we now call drag queens and gaze during the mccarthy era in the 50s, that became known as the lavender scare. the attitude at the time that created the lavender scare was homosexuality was as much a threat to the us as communism. it was a dark period in the 50s four draft your performance because there was legislation out there that was stopping it banning it, and trying to restrict it somewhat in the ways that we re seeing today. we really never had a law that banned drag. but there was a law on the books here in new york that band masquerading and they started enforcing this ancient law against masquerade to cut down on people dressing up outside of their legal gender. if you re caught in a bar or walking the street and you didn t have enough pieces of the appropriate gender clothing on you literally would be taken to jail. being a drag queen was something shameful and you would maybe lose your job if people found out that you d like to dress and drag you could lose your family institutional and cultural stigma against drag was huge and it was deeply tied to fears of brown trans, people. and even around like gay people generally that harassment and discrimination against drag queens would go on to play a vital role in the uprising that ignited the fight for lgbtq rights that might finally, they d had enough of it they didn t enough of being pushed around it change that night next sunday on 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happen too often. was pleased to come in, take a pay off, and leave this was a little different rather than coming in and coming through doors commonly, they burst through the doors they started throwing things around. they were pick up the bottles, throw them away they took people, slam them against the wall. they smashed everything they could possibly see somebody started throwing things to do or when the police wanted to leave a stone according to have them your pocket. those people who actually fought that night or street kids like me, marginalized people, drag queens so drag queens were on the front lines. the stonewall up absolutely almost everything we did in that first year, which i call the first magical year leading from stonewall to the first pride. all of that had drag queens involved in every aspect there wasn t a demonstration that they weren t present some way, shape or form. they were at the meetings giving their voice, getting their opinion two of the most prominent activist to emerge from the movement where drag queens, marsha p. johnson and sylvia rivera, both women of color, who became icons of the fight for lgbtq rights. the two form to trans rights group and open north america s first lgbtq youth center i think one of the most impactful things that sylvia rivera and marsha p. johnson did was found a house that became a safe place for young queer and trans people for teenagers who had escaped home for homeless kids living in new york to come and live. and they called it the street transvestite action revolutionaries, or star house the became like an, an activist organization as well as a hub and a home for so many in need to do around the same time, gay and transgender kids founded another safe haven in an emerging underground drag scene called the house ballroom. it s like forcing into the looking glass captured in the critically acclaimed documentary. paris is burning and depicted in the tv hit post forum started in harlem in the 1960s it was created by drag queens of the time latino and african-american drag queens, who wanted to create her own pageants because that s what they were in the beginning. they were pageants. they were tired of competing in the patch since that were downtown and losing to their white counterparts beautiful. felix rodriguez get is as a filmmaker who has been documenting house ballroom culture for decades seen on his youtube channel, old school ballroom a boil is like the super bowl for black and latino, where people it s where all these houses which are like teams come to this venue to compete against each other it s a group of people that are together as a family. they can be compared to everything from be similar to fraternity and sorority to being a gay gang. it was a time when gay men and trans people pool of color were thrown out of their houses, literally from their family. and they had to find a place to live houses were the communities that welcomed people they ll situations a competitive new dance style also came out of the ballroom scene bogeying, which is very powerful hello, in a lot of people think that madonna created it, but she had vogue dancers in her tour and created song logan became in popular but vogue ing started in the ballroom scene and still continues to be in the ballroom scene the ballroom culture is still thriving today. in fact, the venue where we interviewed felix rodriguez is a brooklyn club named $3 bill that host weekly ballroom competitions called ota, or open to all right now, but back when ballroom was still under to ground, another drag phenomenon was also hitting the scene he was wearing mohawks and shoulder pads and waiting boots. let s just say that the repo of today look had not yet come together lady bunny is now an iconic drag queen who s been making audiences laugh for more than 40 years they tried to make me go to rehab and i said, you know what, that s done? an idea are you nervous not at all, but she got her start back in the 80s when drag was far from mainstream, along with another relatively obscure performer at the time named ru paul oh you want once they send that to the audience we met in atlanta and we re instantly as thick as thieves so what was the scene like? did you bond there will ruin. i did bond there at one point, we became homeless to get i came to new york with root paul. we can to the pyramid this is in 1983 and i was drunk i lip-sync to, i will survive halfway through it. there s that little low in the song. where did she comes back with the big gone now, go during that low, i had fallen lost a shoe and the wig was hanging by a thread, but i got up there on that one shoe and finish the rest of the number and i was a favorite at the pyramid wir sind then at the time all of this drag and all of this fun was happening at the pyramid. the specter of aids was raised and of course we were young and sexually active. we didn t know what to do. you found in wig stock yes. to help raise funds for the aids crisis? yes i started wig stuck in a park across the pyramid. i wanted to showcase the many different kinds of talent it. was drag queens who lyptsi lip-sync for example i just felt that there was this wealth of talent that could appeal to a wider audience. and my hunch was correct aids was running, ramping through new york how was drag and wigs docx a, a political reaction to what the reagan administration was doing or not doing. i think that the political statement was that there s no shame in our game that there s nothing wrong with us that we love what we do. and then it s entertaining so i felt like what my role was to be a jester and to put on a fun show to make us forget about aids, to make us forget about everything except we re still here and we re glad that we re here. and let s celebrate week stock went on to draw crowd swelling into the thousands stock, as well as becoming a subject of a welding receive documentary week stop. the movie, launching lady bunny into the limelight root. paul began rising to start ms well, transforming her punk drag look into the glamorous glitz of her breakout hit supermodel and paul definitely knew how to work in growing up, i knew i would be famous. i knew i wanted to be famous. i didn t know how i was going to be famous drag presented itself to me and i thought, okay, this is is the rest is root hall would say is history you may leave the stage rupaul s drag race over the past 16 years has hot rotted dragged back into the mainstream public consciousness. it makes drag accessible not only as an art form, but in a place that people can watch it right there on their television screen or streaming all that success may drag a huge draw for detractors to do no such thing as a family friendly drag show. we re going to make that clear in the state of florida coming up, a sponsor of the florida law aimed at drags speaks out and drag queens clap bashing. do i look like a stripper anderson cooper 360 weeknight today 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legacy. wednesday, june 19 at ten on cnn. close captioning brought to you by ru la law. i kinda brands up to 70% off retail at roulette law.com, rubella you never pay full price sees the deals on top before their car southward like their sisters at stonewall drag queens and florida are fighting back this was the scene in tallahassee in april of last year when hundreds of drag artists and their supporters marched on the florida state camp to protest the law aimed at restricting grab former democratic state lawmaker carlos guillermo smith, address the crowd from the state house steps they are fabulous are urea if you look at the current law in florida, it does not specifically mention a ban on drag shows. so what s wrong with it well, it doesn t have to directly mentioned drag queens for it to be targeting this community. in particular, when this legislation was filed it was filed by a republican lawmaker who made many ugly assertions and baseless attacks on drag queens as being a threat to children well, guess where else drag queens aren t and brynn mention in a big long list in the 20 line definition of this bill that republican lawmaker, he s referring to, is this man, florida state representative randy fine this bill didn t talk about drag queen it doesn t mention the word drag queens deals yet when representative fine, introduced the bill, which further restricts laws already on the books, protecting children from adult live performances he posted on facebook that would ban the city of melbourne from welcoming drag queen adult entertainers from grooming our children. it s not mentioned in the bill, but you have mentioned it in a post that s fair point, but that is the kind of entertainment that inspired me. to do the bill. you hadn t men dressed as strippers effectively performing as such in public? i don t care what consenting adults do, but i think we should keep this stuff away from our kids. what was the goal of the bill, the gold the bill to protect kids. what specifically do you think children need to be protected from? well, i think they need to be protected from sexualization. it s totally unnecessary and the fact that we already have so many good laws to protect children from adult performances. it exposed that this bill was really just about targeting drag if you think the law is targeting drag shows and drag queens, why not just mentioned that directly? because if they overtly mentioned drag performances in the letter of the law, it would have immediately been obvious to any attorney in any the judge that this is an unconstitutional censorship of their first amendment freedom representative fine argues that while the law mentions prosthetic breasts, which many drag queens where it spells out other criteria that would be necessary to make drag shows admitting children illegal so wearing prosthetic breasts does not equal an adult life performance. it has to be that and three or four other things. this is all meant to be vague. it s meant to intimidate, isn t there a danger in intimidating some of these venues from hosting drag? performances or not intimidating them were laying out what the definition is and we re saying if you do these, there s going to be consequences. do you think drag queen shows and drag queen story hours can be family-friendly no, i don t. that doesn t mean they re all illegal. that doesn t mean they re all adult life performances. but no, i don t believe it s appropriate for kids do you see drag queens as a threat to children i think that s a challenging question. that s like saying, do you think adults are a threat to let me put it this. i do think drag queens are looking to groom children. are they groomer? i think some are. i don t understand why a man wants to dress up like a woman. and then read stories to children. i don t think it s that complicated that doesn t mean that 100% of those violate the law. i want to be clear about that. how would that be harmful to children? because i think it confuses them drag queen story, our says our goal in doing this is to celebrate gender fluidity. there is a purpose behind this, and it is to confuse and indoctrinate children in a majority of this legislature, we do not believe in gender fluidity we do not believe in transgender science. do you know of one case of a child who attended drag queen story hour and then decided to become transgender. i do not know. have you ever been to drag queen story hour? no. have you ever been to a drag show not that i can remember. most of these people and i ve seen have never even been to a drag show. they ve never experienced the drag is an art and seeing that there are different types of drag jayson to dechambeau traveled to the florida capital when the bill was being debated. he did to testify before the legislature in full drag mama ashley robes. i have a question. do i look like a stripper? well, i walked up and my first response and comment to those do i look like a stripper because many politicians have said that i dress like strippers, like i don t dress like that. do you see yourself as a threat to children? no, i do not see myself as a threat to children nor do i see any drag performer threat to a child. drag performers know that if you re in a club, if you re in a nightclub, fearing a bar 18 and up, you perform differently, right? especially in our events, are performers know that when we have family here they dress different. they perform different. so now we know threat. but the overall message and the reason why you do drag story hour as what to teach that message that your love accepted and wanted no matter who you are and let you know that everyone should read the idea of the grooming that dragged does is just the message of tolerance. and that the message of acceptance could be so dangerous that it would brainwash a child. maybe if they don t want a world of tolerance they should be afraid of us because we are fighting for that. you know, about the history of drag. having written a book about it, do you worry about the history repeating itself? the history is repeating itself currently all around us. for awhile, it felt like we were getting progress they say if you don t learn the past, you re going to repeat it i think there s a lot of strength to be found in history to we see the way that despite being thrown in jail, despite being fine, despite losing their jobs queer people continued to gather together and put on shows and find ways to keep existing and stay true to ourselves. so if they can do it, we still have a chance today how much do you think gender identity and sexuality are playing a role in? these new laws that are targeting drag, gender, identity and sexuality are the reason that drag is being targeted. because if it was just costumes without any possibility of queerness, i think it would be fine they re ignorant and the ruud and homophobia i would tell ron desantis, we are not your political pawns stop using that s for clickbait the one and only miss tiffany fantasia there are tim million other things that you need to be taken care of and put policies in place to circumvent the problems of the average flow of radiant here we worried about a dam drag show. we re not doing anything, but making sure that you people i haven t a good time and not worry about the problem that they have because you re not doing your job governor desantis has not responded to our request for comment in her drag show called don t bring the kids, lady bunny takes on republican lawmakers pushing anti legislation with a parody of adele s song. rumor has it but given the guns birthday is that hooters with your under gop hypocrisy can t take it no more dreadfully aren t the people is d to watch out for groomer? is it? rumor? is it despite the crackdowns, these drag queens insist the drag show will go on. i would be a miss to stay. i wasn t scared. i d be a miss to say that i there are times i just want to pack the makeup up and not do it again but i m not going anywhere. we re going to keep fighting there is a fighting spirit in drag we can make magic with nothing and even if they take everything, like for a month we re still going to find a way to put on a show to entertain the thing i ve found is people love drag if we have a chance to put on a show for you, you re going to fall in love legal battles over drag performances continue. so far, laws proposed in florida texas, tennessee, and montana had been blocked by federal judges on constitutional grounds. the states are appealing those decisions. thanks for watching the whole story. i ll see you next sunday
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To differentiate between party politics and what is happening in terms of the transfer of power and the mechanics of elections here in south africa so when he was speaking here, the president was talking about all the parties working together and he referred the fact that his party really did not get a majority and he said this was a clear message from south africans that all parties had to come together, find common ground, but how easy it will that be a? we are joined, to answer that question, by the bbc s former south africa bureau chief. thank you forjoining us, milton. what did you make of the president s speech and his efforts to get people to gather? president s speech and his efforts to get people to gather?- president s speech and his efforts to get people to gather? thank you, i think president to get people to gather? thank you, i think president cyril to get people to gather? thank you, i think president cyril ramaphosa i i think president cyril ramaphosa was very i think president cyril ramaphosa was very statesman like, if you like was very statesman like, if you like he was very statesman like, if you like. he handles at the ceremony with the like. he handles at the ceremony with the dignity and the decorum it
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