then whitney houston's daughter opens up to oprah about her legendary mother's death. has she inherited some of whitney's woes? hi, everybody. hope you had a great weekend. i'm thomas roberts. the dreadful international incident triggered by cold-blooded murder. that's how military officials are describing the nighttime massacre in afghanistan where an american soldier shot up a city of sleeping civilians killing 16. all this on the heels of recent protests over koran burnings stirring new worries and heated political debate in the u.s. over the future of america's longest running war. >> i don't think we have the willpower or the capacity to do the things you have to do to fundamentally change the region. we need to understand that our being in the middle of countries like afghanistan is probaby probably counterproductive. we are not prepared to be ruthless enough to force them to change, and yet we are clearly

an alienated presence. >> for more on the fallout of the horrifying event, we kickoff coverage in kabul. atia has coverage from there and we'll speak to jim from the pentagon in a second. atia, this is not coming at a worse time given the controversy of the koran burnings last month. we have rumbles of escalating violence. what are you hearing today? >> reporter: hi, thomas. if things couldn't get worse, they just did, actually. and right now we are waiting to see the fallout of what's going to happen. news disseminates really slowly in afghanistan through the rural districts and villages in different provinces of afghanistan. so today we are beginning to see the pictures and stories spreading. conspiracy theories as well, was there more than one shooter? afghans say yes, other afghans say there was only one. i have to tell you, the pictures that are going around right now

are very graphic and very heart-wrenching. it is children, little babies with bullet holes through the forehead. these are pictures the afghan people are seeing. even on the social media for afghans who live in the cities who use computers, they have their facebook pages all abuzz in this incident that occurred in kandahar. many people changed their profile picture to the picture of a young teenager boy from the district crying because he lost every member of his family. >> atia, what is the government saying? are they calling for calm right now? >> reporter: the government is not surprisingly upset themselves. they think and say this was an intentional act and was unforgivable. that's the way many afghans feel and that's the way many nato officials feel as well. what the afghan government is saying is that they want the u.s. and nato to bring this man to justice, to bring it to the afghan hands of justice. the parliament today calling on the u.s. and nato to bring that

individual to the afghan court system. let the afghans decide his fate. right now we haven't heard much about the government to stop the unrest. there have been religious leaders, pro-government religious leaders i should say, that have called for demonstrations not to happen. that the violence should not continue, but unfortunately that's not expected. >> mick, as we are talking about the process in afghanistan, the longest running war ever in america's history up until this point, has been to ensure that the serpent doesn't grow another head. that al qaeda doesn't resurge, but the latest washington post/abc news poll is showing that 60% of americans no longer support this war. more want troops out of there, they want them home. what kind of a setback does this pose to the u.s. mission or is this a game-changing moment or a tragic blip on the radar screen that just keeps going on? >> well, just a short while ago a senior defense official

briefing reporter said, as tragic and horrifying as this incident was, the killing of the nine children, three women and four men, 16 in all, but apparently by a lone gunman, a u.s. army staff sergeant, which will absolutely not change the u.s. mission and strategy in afghanistan. we'll have to see how this plays out in the weeks and months ahead, but that's the position the pentagon is taking right now. and to answer a couple quick questions that were raised by atia a moment ago, u.s. military officials are convinced at this point in the early part of the investigation that it was a lone gunman. and in terms of who will prosecute this individual, the united states military has a standing agreement with afghanistan that the u.s. military would, in fact, prosecute any soldier, marine, sailor, whoever, if they are accused of a crime there in afghanistan.

so the likelihood that this soldier would be turned over to afghanistan is practically zero. and again, they still believe there was only one soldier involved, but it is very early in this process. they have identified him as a 38-year-old staff sergeant from ft. lewis, but that's as far as they'll go right now. >> we have the photo of the president leaving his daughter's basketball game to call hamid karzai to express condolences, but it is not calming the violence that could be coming in the next few days. >> so far, everybody is obviously holding their breath for fear that there will be another round of outbreaks and protests, deadly protests, that following the koran burning just a couple weeks ago. but so far, again, everybody is holding their breath and they hope that any treaties from the government or that we heard a moment ago from atia will calm the sensitivity and the nerves at this point. but they are fully geared up and ready for any possibility.

>> thank you to both of you. atia live in kabul, and jim m k miklaszewski, i appreciate it. turning to the campaign trail here at home, three candidates all depending on the poll that you look at, the three gop front-runners. the volatile contest is taking place in the south ahead of the presidential primaries in alabama and mississippi tomorrow. newt gingrich and rick santorum are splitting the vote. in alabama three different polls show each of the candidates in the lead, but rick santorum said the road to the republican nomination is more than just about a numbers kim game. >> the math is not the issue, the issue is vision. the issue is governor romney outspending me 10-1 and still not able to close the deal. >> in a poll from alabama's state university, santorum is third with 17% of the vote. let's bring in this morning's political power panel, i'm joined by ann cornblue, political editor for "the

washington post." former governor of ohio, ted strickland, and new york daily news columnist, s.e. cob. i want to start with you, ann, could santorum and gingrich split voters and that actually work to romney's advantage in the south? >> well, potentially, but with respect to santorum, that clip you played of him earlier saying it is not about the math, it really is. even if, now look, i don't want to downplay the stakes here, it is important whoever wins in the south symbolically. for mitt romney a win in the south suggests he has agree geographic reach. in newt gingrich's favor, it could be a huge win for him. if santorum wins, he'll say i'm the alternative to romney. in the end, neither of the states will decide who the nominee is. it is just another series of states and it really is about the math. >> governor, over the weekend we

saw santorum pull out of a very one-sided win in kansas. 51% of the vote there. mitt romney won a huge margin in wyoming with 44% of the vote. what do you make of the arguments with romney's delegate lead being virtually unbeatable. right now he leads 454 to santorum's 217. >> well, the fact is neither of these candidates within the republican primary base has been able to really solidify the support that's needed. and when you consider the independent voters and then the democratic voters, i don't think these candidates are really presenting themselves as a candidate that can win in november. and that's what is important. this primary battle is an inner family fight, but the american people are looking forward to november. and they want a candidate that is solid and stable and not irrational and erratic. that's what the president is giving them these days. and the republicans are

self-detrukting. i don't think it makes a lot of difference as to who -- finally emerges from this field of three people. >> so s.e., the primaries historically come to matter and now they really matter. who benefits the most come together? >> usually the states follow, they don't choose the next nominee, but it is interesting if you look back at 2008, john mccain and ron paul were the only candidates in the race at the time. john mccain won mississippi handedly, but if you look at who voters chose second, third and fourth. ruk huckabee, ron paul and romney came in at 3% of the vote. not good news for romney, but looking at somebody like john mccain winning the state, that could be good news for romney. if you look at alabama, huckabee won that handedly in 2008. mitt romney came in third and two days later withdrew from the race. >> things are getting really rough out there when there's a war over grits.

take a listen to what we heard on the campaign trail. >> morning, y'all. good to be with you. i got started right this morning with a biscuit and cheesy grits. >> governor romney yesterday morning actually tried grits. and i just want you to understand that has somebody who represented georgia for a long time, i like grits, i like cheese grits, i like grits with gravy. there's a number of ways you can have grits. >> do you like grits like your develop candidates, cheesy? >> every candidate tries to appeal to their region, but clearly mitt romney was hoping a win in tennessee last week would make the next two states a little less awkward for him. >> governor, are they serving grits in ohio? are you a fan? >> we eat grits in ohio, but we have gone from loving trees and loving cars to loving grits. >> love the one you're with,

governor, love the one you're with. >> well, we like bacon and eggs here in ohio, but quite frankly that's not how you're going to appeal to the voter. you appeal to the voters by talking about jobs, like economic opportunity, like health care. and these candidates are, quite frankly, sometimes humorous. "saturday night live" has rich material these days. but i don't think they are really connecting with the american people. >> all right. anna, a grits girl out of you or not? >> i'm with the governor. i'm just glad that he's not talking about the trees being the right height anymore because he said that so often in michigan. no one quite knew what to make of that. we'll see what he has to say about illinois. that's up next. >> thank you to all of you. ann, ted strickland and s.e.cupp, i'm now going to call you cup and plate. she brings a paper plate with notes on it.

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welcome back. breaking news right now here on msnbc. a jet blue flight diverted to buffalo, niagara international airport all because of a telephone bomb threat. the flight was headed to chicago when the crew requested this landing. according to the tsa the jet was cleared of any threats and a passenger was detained now for questioning. all right. so back to the campaign trail, back with decision 2012, right now rick santorum is in ocean springs, mississippi, preparing to address the gulf coast energy summit fresh off saturday's win in kansas. he's now hoping for victories in tomorrow's contests there in the magnolia state and alabama. on the "today" show the former senator came out swinging saying it's not mitt romney but him who really has the best chance of whipping the nomination and beating president obama. >> it's a conservative party, they are not going to nominate, if the opportunity provides itself in an open convention, they are not going to nominate a

moderate massachusetts governor. we are going to be the nominee. we're going to be the one that provides the best vision and the best contrast to president obama, that has the best chance of winning, governor romney will not make it. >> joining me this morning is senior strategist for the santorum campaign, john braebanner, thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> will conservatives rally around mitt romney if this goes all the way to tampa? but the romney campaign is looking at the numbers saying he's the only one on the path to the nomination. is your candidate a real rival or just a road block for now? >> look, i think if we just saw saturday alone in a state like kansas where rick santorum beat romney by 30 points, the other thing is rick santorum has won in iowa, colorado, minnesota, missouri, tennessee, oklahoma, he's shown he can win in the middle heartland of the country, in the west and also in the south. something mitt romney hasn't been able to show. the other thing people are

forgetting is that many of these delegates are unbound delegates, so if you voted for somebody other than mitt romney, you can still make your vote be for rick santorum if you're a delegate. and so what the romney people are using voodoo math trying to show they are inevitable, and the truth is anybody that knows the delegate count and studies it, they are having just as much trouble getting to the winning number and this has the real chance of going to a convention where the conservative will win. and frankly it should be a conservative to represent the party, we are a conservative party. >> when you're talking about going to the convention, you're counting on the brokered convention, correct? >> not necessarily. right now we have four players in the race. it is very possible, depending on what happens, that all of the conservatives unify behind rick santorum in the coming states. we are starting to see that. second of all, there are states that he's already won like iowa and missouri, which haven't actually done their delegates yet. the third thing is romney is

counting arizona and florida as winner-take-all states, which is absolutely wrong. according to the rnc, if you go earlier than march 1st, you can only give out proportionate delegates. first of all, it is possible rick santorum very well could win outright, but second of all it could go to a convention. and so this thing has a long way to go. there's only been one-third of the delegates assigned, so mitt romney doesn't want to talk about the issues, he's tried to spend $35 million in negative ads and that doesn't work. so basically in the middle of the second quarter he's trying to call the game. maybe we should all realize romney just has an enthusiasm gap where the party doesn't want to get behind him. >> still when talking about delegates, he has 454, 40% of the total he needs. rick santorum, 217 delegates in his column. when we talk about the effect of newt gingrich in the campaign with 107 delegates himself, a third place for sure right now,

but what are his chances or gingrich's campaign doing to your candidate's chances of taking the south? >> well, first of all, rick santorum won last week in tennessee and oklahoma. so rick santorum can prove that he can play almost anywhere. and, in fact, in both of the states, newt gingrich came in third place. so rick santorum shows he can geographically play everywhere. the real problem is today mitt romney is getting votes by the minority of our party. he can't seem to get above 35% to 40% in any state, and those are the moderates getting behind mitt romney. what we need are for all the conservatives to unify against the best person to symptom romney and clearly rick santorum has shown he can do that winning four times as many states as gingrich has. >> i'm just learning rick santorum did reach out to mitt romney to call to wish him a happy 65th birthday today. it is governor romney's birthday campaigning in mobile, alabama.

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another penny overnight to the national average of $3.80 a gallon. that's 29 cents higher than a month ago. and it's 24 cents higher than a year ago. joining me now, msnbc chief correspondent john harwood. the president is going to talk about his blueprint for a secure energy future in a series of interviews with local reporters, but what does he hope to accomplish by sitting down with those media-type representatives and is it successful in getting the message across? >> mideast trying to counter act the findings we see in the new washington post/abc news poll. the approval rating is taking a beating because of the high gas prices. the white house always said that his standing has improved the last couple of months but things out of their control, certain sevenths could harm his ability to win re-election. and high gases are one of those especially when the president is creating a psychcology of

optimism around the recovering economy. more people feel the difficulty at the pump and feel that the gas prices are out of control, even if they understand that president obama is not making that happen, it plays into republican arguments and hurts the president. >> sure. the disapproval of the president's overall handling of the economy, that's also taking a hit. a record number of americans holding strongly negative reviews and just last week we talked about how good the president's approval rating was. so what happened in that short period of time? >> well, you can't discount the possibility of sampling variation, so polls go up and down, and our nbc/wall street journal poll has a margin ofer roe. so does "the washington post"/abc survey, but i think the more attention there is to gas prices is one of the reasons why republicans are talking about this so often and noting that the president's policies -- trying to go away from fossil fuels to alternative energy, cap and trade policy, which might have caused an increase in

electricity prices. they have an interest in fueling this and that has some sort of impact when people take into account all the economic conditions they are looking at. >> tom, i want to get this in, as the president's approval ratings go down the same poll shows him trailing mitt romney in two points while the president leads santorum only by three points. as the white house tries to interpret this in the re-election campaign of president obama, what are they taking from this and the crafting of the message to come? >> i think they are taking it as an affirmation of the fact that this is going to be a close election, even though the president is in better shape than six months ago, structurally we have an evenly divided country. we have difficult and economic conditions even if they are getting better. this is a vulnerable democratic president seeking re-election. mitt romney is competitive, probably more competitive than rick santorum. that's his argument, but nobody at the white house, i think, is diluted into thinking they don't have a fight on their hands and the poll numbers show it.

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romney hit the campaign trail in alabama this morning with jeff foxworthy. their outdoor rally moved indoors when a massive rainstorm swept through moments before romney took the stage there. kelly o'connell is following mitt romney on the campaign trail. explain to all of us how romney is having interesting things to say today. and how is jeff foxworthy lending into the conversation? >> reporter: well, you mentioned the rain, and if i can just reference that first, i could have done double-duty for the weather channel today. we are talking massive buckets of rain sending supporters scurrying behind. romney did come out to talk to people soaked in the rain and moved inside. that's the kind of things campaigns have to be nimble about when mother nature doesn't cooperate. and having jeff foxworthy is significant because people who know him, a fan of jeff foxworthy, his southern roots is really the heart of his comedic

style. he talked about being a comedian he's been to all 50 states, never been in politics in his 53 years, but wanted to get involved now and to support romney. romney talked to voters here about, you mentioned the birthday, he said his president present best of all would be perhaps to win alabama. and what's happening now that maybe was a surprise is that in some of the polling in alabama it shows an uptick for romney. a closer race than expected. and gingrich is doing very well, santorum a little behind. it's the kind of thing where they added this event to try to capitalize on that. and they have sent ann romney to try to work for more delegates. even if it is not a win, they want to show a presence here. >> hopefully the weather doesn't scare the crowds off. we'll let the weather channel know you are open for double duty. >> thank you for that. president obama's re-election team is ramping up efforts to build support among women. starting today mailings will go out to 1 million women in more than a dozen battleground

states. separate versions will be mailed out for mothers, young women and older women. this follows nationwide outrage over crude remarks that radio personality rush limbaugh fired over birth control. i'm joined now by kerry rudolph brown, a white house reporter for politico. as we talk about women and being this enormous voting bloc in the country, the one thing is women don't vote as a whole. this is a vote to get women under the obama tent. tell us more about the campaign and the plans toward women voters. >> this is really a two-pronged attack for the obama campaign. one is they are trying to hit two targets. one is to build support for the health care law, which hasn't fared and been popular since it passed. but women, the administration has always thought would be predisposed to supporting a lot of the components, so on one hand they are building support for the health care law. on the other hand they are trying to exploit the weakness

rights now among four republicans, being that women and this focus on birth control the last few months has hurt republicans according to the polls. and this is a clear effort to sort of exploit that weakness, build that support. the president won among women in 2008. they turned against democrats in the 2010 election. so this is part of the very methodical campaign plan. it is perfectly timed for them. >> carrie, 53% of women in the national vote in 2008, so how much of this is a push to remind women, the independent women around the country, of what's going on and what is at stake and who is looking out for them? >> when the president goes to fund-raisers, almost always the first thing he mentions is that he signed into law an equal pay

for equal work. that's the first hinge he says all the time. then he ticks down the list. he did it friday talking about the health care law, talking about other things the administration has done. this is something that the president has always been focused on. you can only see it comes out more in recent weeks. he was asked about international women's day, for example, during a meeting with a foreign leader and he said, you know, i love the women, i'm surrounded by them. so it was kind of a blunt assessment in terms of where he sees his place in terms of promoting women's rights and programs that impact women. and we've been hearing about it for years but you can really feel the intensity ramping up with the president and the campaign. >> men and women alike look at it as a smart move. great to see you. thank you so much. on a different note for the first time we are hearing from whitney houston's daughter bobbi

kristina. she told oprah winfrey that her mom's spirit visits her all the time. she's never thought of the day that her mom would die but says she has accepted it. >> does it seem real yet to you that she's actually gone? does it seem real? >> sometimes no. sometimes it's -- it's so surreal that, you know, i still walk in the house and say, mom? i still call her name, but it's -- i've accepted it. >> i want to bring in allison samuel, a senior writer for "newsweek" who interviewed whitney houston many times. allison, nice to get your take on your reaction to seeing how oprah handled that and how bobbi it is kristina handled the questions. what's your take on that? >> i thought it was too son, but i thought she was as good as she could be saying she accepted it. it's not been long enough to appreciate the fact she's accepted it, but many people

said she needed this to heal and to get her feelings out about her mother and to remind people whitney was a mother aside the negative things you heard, she has this wonderful relationship with her daughter, bobbi. they were best friends. i think that came through very clearly. >> it did because bobbi kristina comes off as a strong defender of her mother, probably one of the strongest yet. we'll play another clip of the interview. take a look. >> i saw her cry and i held her through that. we held each other through that. we have so many people saying so many other things, but they don't know who she really was. >> so obviously the family is going to know the real deal of what's going on and there were public falldowns on whitney houston's brilliant career, but is this a circling of the wagons for the family to protect the late singer's legacy? this definitely was. >> people have forgotten how big

she was and what a game-changer she was. they want people to come back to the real whitney that was a really sweet woman. that was the woman i always met. i understood why but felt it was a little soon. i would have loved to hear bobbi kristina in two or three months when she fully processed the death of her mother. i don't know what the absence -- i don't know if it's hit in terms of never seeing her mother again. i thought the brother and sister were pretty good and honest in a way that i was surprised by. when they made the point, we sort of knew drugs would play a factor into her life. so i thought that was interesting. but my concern was bobbi kristina, why now. >> fact or fiction, she's looking to change her name to drop the bobbi part and the brown part? >> that's the talk. she doesn't have a great relationship with her father, and him bringing so many people like it was a party didn't help

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down any time soon on his couch to watch game change, and that kicks off today's polly side bar. >> it is based on a book completely biased and with unatriblted quotes, et cetera. >> so the movie debuted saturday night on hbo. what did mccain watch saturday instead in he told "fox news sunday" he watched hockey. "saturday night live" had fun at the expense of sarah palin, except this time around tina fey wasn't there to reprize her role. >> people keep asking me, what does sarah palin think of the new "game change" movie, and i say, i don't know, i'll ask ya. like alaska because that's where i'm from, don't you know? >> sarah palin is not the only one zinged on this weekend's

"snl." rush limbaugh took a hit. >> i have great new sponsors like sherman's imitation mayonnaise. it may not be mayonnaise, but it is a bargain. the syria tourism board. oh! no! there's nowhere to hide. syria. >> according to "the new york times," some newspapers won't be running the latest edition of the dunesbury comic. in this one the provider sends one woman to a, quote, shame room and says a white middle-aged let or the will be with you in a moment. have you heard about it? it is the must-see documentary for kids and kids can't even see it. it is called bullying examining the impact of bullying and it is getting push-back. it is rated "r" making it off limits to the intended

audiences, but one 17-year-old recently started a petition to change all that. and she's got some big support on her side. >> a petition has been started by a high school student in michigan to change the rating. her name is katie butler and is in the audience today. hi, katie. good for you. i'm proud of you. >> over 200,000 people have signed katie's petition, including ellen, but will it make a difference? katie butler is joining me now. nice to see you today. >> you too, thank you so much for having me. >> absolutely. you, yourself, had a personal reaction to bullying, the experience that you suffered in your own life and now seeing this film, what can you tell us about your own personal experiences and why you want a petition to make sure kids see this film? >> well, when i was in seventh grade, i came out as a lesbian to my school, and a lot of

people in any school didn't like. that they bullied me and pushed me into lockers and ended up one daybreaking my finger. and that was a really horrible experience. so when i saw that the new movie "bully" was coming out, i thought it was a wonderful thing. it was so exciting because it could be such a new take on bullying in the united states. >> so, katie, when you decided to do this petition, did you ever think you would get the attention of ellen degeneres, and how has that changed the media onslaught you have gotten since? >> i had absolutely no idea it would get this big. i'm so glad it did because bullying is such a real issue. and i think so many more people are paying attention to it now that ellen is supporting it. it's so great. i'm so thankful for it. >> i want to play a little clip of the film. take a peek. >> and i think he got to the

point where enough was enough. >> he had a tragic situation. >> a boy just 11 years old desperate enough to take his own life. >> boys will be boys. they are just cruel at this age. >> here what we get is, nothing is wrong, we didn't do anything, everything is fine. >> they would punch me, strangle me, take things from me, sit on me. >> give it to him hard! >> he's not safe on that bus. >> i've been on that bus. they are just as good as gold. >> katie, that's just part of the film from the trailer. it's really a raw and emotional look. it does have the "r" rating because of profanity in the film. do you think they should take it on the chin, basically, the company that's producing this, and re-edit the film to sanitize the language? or do you think they can win and you can win as well by having the rating changed to pg-13? >> i think we can definitely win. i think taking out the language in this movie is taking away

from the message. the message is so strong. and the language in the movie is the language kids hear every day and the language kids are bullied with. if we go in and take it out, it is definitely taking away from that. nobody goes into schools and edits out the language kids hear in schools, it just doesn't happen. >> the film comes out on march 30th nationally. we'll see what shall happen between now and then about whether or not it is going to get lowered to the pg-13, but your efforts need to be harrowed. katie butler, i appreciate it. >> thank you so much. >> all right. stay tuned because coming up at 1:00 p.m. eastern, we have bully director coming up to talk about his documentary. we are so excited. >> not only a home but a community. country singer shelly wright cutting the ribbon on a hopeful haven for members of the hgbt community in kansas city, missouri, this weekend with her

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>> welcome back to makers of the fastest growing viral video ever said they will release another video to answer the critics. the goal is to bring attention to the use of child soldiers and sex slaifs by warlord joseph kony to bring him to justice.

kenneth is joining me. it has been criticized for its approach for over simplifying the situation. where do you think the criticism is coming from? were they wrong with the social media approach? >> i think it's been fantastic. it simplifies the situation, if people want more information you can go to the human rights' website. but the fact that there's now, broad public support to arrest kony will help theity president in his risky effort to bring him to justice. >> some are saying this could make kony go on the offensive. you hear otherwise? >> he has in the past retaliated to various arrest efforts by trying to capture more kids and build up his ranks. in fact, what human rights watch is hearing from the ground, kony seems to be in the cental

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