a plan is requiring that women tell why they are taking birth control. and more about what the governor said about sonograms. >> i don't know how you make anybody watch, okay, because you just have to close your eyes. >> and president obama raising money for his campaign, his first of five fundraisers today, live coverage ahead right here on "andrea mitchell reports." and good day, i'm andrea mitchell. police arrested actor george clooney, his father, nick clooney and martin luther king, iii, and several members of congress outside of the embassy in washington, d.c., i was outside of that scrum while was happening. >> you know, i'm proud to be

standing here with my father. >> right before clooney was arrested, i was able to speak with him as he was escorted away by police. >> i'll stand together here with my father, so that at one moment in time when you people ask you where were you, where did you stand i want to say i'm standing on the right side of history. >> the father and son frafled to darfur in 2006 and have been trying bring attention to the regime. chris cillizza is managing editor of post politics.com and nbc haes david gregory is moderator of meet the press. you interviewed george clooney, he will be on "meet the press" this sunday. he is one of the celebrity using his fame, as angelina jolie has, he has traveled there and our

own ann curry as you know, he talks and talk and walks the walk. >> and he knows that people will follow after him and get a lot of attention. he thinks why not use it for this purpose. he also made the point in my interview with him, look, there's things i could be doing but causes that have a huge spotlight on them do not need me. i have to do something like that, to draw attention forlomd. >> nafs the message for the president when they met. chris, he testify method week and two members of congress. jim mcgovern all pressing. they were arrested today, i was talking to them as well. >> you know, andrea, i think that what you have here is to david's points, i was watching the point of you and gosh knows

how many other cameramen reporters and onlookers, that sort of thing. if it's just nick clooney, not that george clooney is not a political gierks he ran for congress in northern kentucky. >> indeed he did. >> it does not draw the level of attention that george clooney does. he recognizes his star power, better that than paparazzi shooting him because he is out late at a nightclub. i say kudos to using celebrity culture that we have in the country. it's not going away. using that culture to benefit and take on a serious issue that need as light shown on it. look at the crush on number of people there. i guarantee you if george clooney was not there, there would be nowhere near the level

of interest on him. i applaud him for it. >> the reformed jewish community, and here is martin luther king, iii, the inheriter of the legacy and i asked him about being arrested today. >> the first thing that goes through my mind is what my father and his team experienced. more importantly, the fact that this is an issue to raise the consciousness of the world community, when the world speaks than president bashir has to listen. >> and ben jelus of the naacp. >> we need to stop using rape and food as weapons in sudan. you know, so we are here to tell president bashir that this is what the end looks like. we will keep coming back, just like we did with south africa until this stops. >> and it does, david, take us back to those protests here. it was during the reagan years

when the real protests here against aparthied and it was one of the senators and george shuttle, secretary of state, this kind of movement starts small and grows and grows. >> i think we will see if it grows. that is the challenge here for george cloon and i other advocates. this is a weary time and how we use our influence overseas. what you can give clooney credit for is he is pragmatic about it. he is not saying send in troops. >> the contrariy. >> is saying let's influence china who has influence in this bart of to world and think of the real world consequences of a civil war that would break out. he is a big beliefer in the bono model, and the power of putting

disease, principally aids in african on the agenda for all the industrialized countries. that is something to aspire to. >> i have to tell you, just looking back and seeing 79-year-old dick gregory, i first met him in high school. he came to our community to speak. so all things come around. one little personal points, chris cillizza, the d.c. police handled it well. they were under the orders of the embassy. they have to arrest if someone gets to the steps. i came up behind the speakers and was standing on the steps and the police officer came to me and said, do you plan to be arrested? are you trying get arrested? and i said to the contrary, no, and they said you have to step down on the sidewalk. they were warning. but when the third warning comes anyone standing where you are,

you are going to be arrested. >> i would hold the signs saying free andrea. >> that is not my intention to get arrested. but they are a few blocks from here, we expect them to be out, we will see them later today. there's a point to be made here, ann curry, we are sitting here comfortably in the studio, it's ann curry that goes to the region and has of course been with george clooney and we will shore more of -- and we will show more of that tonight. >> and we will talk about politics with john mccain and have a round table on that as well, and others will be with us to talk about what is going on with the soldiers as well through multiple deployments and george clooney, we will talk politics with him as well. >> chris cillizza, great job yesterday when i was on

assignment. >> thanks for letting me do it. >> we will be reading and following you, have a great weekend as well. >> two new measures are drawing scrutiny in the fight over women's health. in arizona, the house bill will give employers the right to exclude birth control unless women can show employers proof that they are using it for medical reasons other than prevent pregnancy, there's an invasion of privacy issue there. and governor tom core bit is coming under fire for these comments in support of a bill which would require women seeking an abortion to listen to the fetal heartbeat and have an ultra sound first. >> we are waiting to see. >> making them watch, does that go too far in your mind? >> i don't know how you make anybody watch. okay? because you just have to close your eyes. but as long as it's on the

exterior and not interior. >> i'm still trying get my head around exterior and interior, what are we talking about here, mrs. schwartz, when we first met, it was in a women's organization in philadelphia. what is going on now? >> the fact that they are miss informed about the legislation and what he was talking about, it was offensive to women, it was dismissive, it was outrageous. for women to close their eyes, they are having a procedure, and the law requires them to watch t governor's comments were so offensive to women and men across pennsylvania, and you know, this is a governor who is

really not paid very much attention to the issues that many pennsylvania residents care about, he has cut education, there are a lot of issues for him to be dealing with, instead he takes this on. it's hard to understand what he is thinking. >> we saw the retreat in virginia and now we see of course in arizona another invasive issue on women's health. one question occurs, we are talking about expensive procedures here, so for the very people who are trying cut costs on medical, the explosion of medical costs, where are we talking about laying new requirements on for expensive procedures? >> well, you are right. i mean, what we are trying do broadly is to make sure that women and men have access to preventive care, there's serious issues here in terms of cost containment. and what we are finding across the country, legislators saying we want to add an unnecessary,

not medically called for invasive procedure. it does not make a whole lot of sense on any level. and, we have seen in pennsylvania the good thing is that some of the state legislators, republicans and democrats that signed on to the legislation are pulling their names off of it. so, again, at the same time, the governor is saying, it's fine with him, women can close their eyes. it's hard to understand you are that dismissive to more than half of the population in pennsylvania. >> and $35 million being turned back for preventive health care in texas, the state with the highest number of uninsured women, we are talking about pap tests and pap smears and not abortion services, turning it back because it's under the planned parenthood umbrella, more broadly what are we seeing

here? >> it's a pile on, one see one comment after another by people in responsible positions, certainly elected positions that are saying that women should not have access to preventive services to pap smears, to mammograms, or to contraception, and we know that the vast majority of americans, men and women, want women to have access to contraception and preventive services, this is just the kind of thing we are talking about, making sure that women have access to women's health care and coverage and you know, to have governors standing up and saying, doesn't matter to me. i do not care if we make it more expensive. i want to make it less available. you know, it's moving in the wrong direction after, you know, as we have worked for a long time to make sure that women have the access to the health care that we need. >> thank you very much for joining us. and coming up, president obama is kicking off another campaign

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for half the calories plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. >> and as you can see, the president has taken the stage now in chicago,s in a fundraiser here are his remarks. >> i have never seen the city look prettier, i have to say, and every time i come back, i am just overwhelmed with not only the beauty of this city, but i was explaining to folks as we were flying over dick durbin flew in with me, what makes this place so special is not just this is where my daughters were born, not just where you know, i really started my political career, but i've got so many good friends and so many relationships, and as i look out

across the room, seeing so many folks who put up with me before i was president and helped me get there, it is just extraordinary. so, i miss you guys, i wish i could stay the weekend. especially, this week. because we all know there's no better place to be on st. patrick's day than in chicago. [ applause ] let me say just thank you to, first of all, one of the finest attorney generals in the country, she proved it again in helping us to get the settlement on the housing issue. lisa madigan, doing out standing work. the senior center of the great state of illinois and one of my dearest friends, dick durban is

in the house. the govern of the great state of illinois, pat quinn. you have a new mayor here. i do not know how he is doing, but he seems to have a little bit of energy. mr. rahm emanual. [ applause ] we have representatives bobby rush and jan shakowsky in the house. my former alder woman, tony prakwinkel. the trees were always trimmed, snow was shovelled when tony was in charge. and i want to thank axelrod and

penny and daily for the preprogram. now, you might have noticed that we have some guests in illinois this week. apparently things have not quite wrapped up on the other side so -- so there's interest in the primary that we have here on tuesday. and my message to all the candidates is, welcome to the land of lincoln. because i'm thinking, maybe some lincoln will rub off on them while they are here. [ applause ] now, we remember lincoln as the leader that saved our union. but this is a president who in the midst of the civil war

launched the transcontinental railroad, understanding that in order for america to grow, we had to stitch ourselves together to be connect coast-to-coast. set up the first land grants colleges in the middle of a war. because this largely self-taught man understood that education could give people the chance to realize their potential and if we were able to give that kid on a farm the opportunity to learn that that would be good for all of us. not just for that kid. created the national academy of sciences to promote the discovery and innovation that would lead to new jobs and entire new industries. lincoln, the first republican president knew that if we as a nation through our federal government did not act to facilitate these things then they likely would not happen.

and as a results we would all be worse off. he understood that we are a people that take great pride in our self reliance and independence, but we are also one nation and one people, and that we rise or fall together. so, i hope that while my counter parts on the other side enjoy the out standing hospitality of the people of illinois and spend some money here to promote our economy, i hope they also take a bit of time to reflect on this great man. the first republican president. of course, you may not feel confident that will happen. you may be watching some of this avalanche of attack ads and think this is not appealing to

the better parts of our nature, but hope springs eternal. and that vision of lincoln's, a vision of a big, bold, generous, dynamic, active, inclusive america that is the vision that has driven this country for more than 200 years. that is the vision that helped create chicago. that is why we do not make little plans here. that is not a democratic vision or a republican vision, that is an american vision. [ applause ] that's the vision that drove our campaign in 2008. and that so many of you worked your hearts at to see realized.

it was not because you were willing to settle for an america where people are left to fend for themselves and everyone is playing by their own rules. what you believed in was an america where everyone who works hard has a chance to get ahead. everyone. doesn't matter what you look like, what you come great, what your name is. everyone has a chance. that is the vision we share. that is the change we believed in. that is why you got involved. you did not get involved because the odds were that a guy name barack obama was going to be president. we knew it was not going to be easy or that it would come quickly. we knew it was going to be hard. but as you just saw in that video, just think about what happened over the last three years because of what you did in

2008. because of your efforts, your commitment not to me, but to the exhibit number and to each other, we started to see what change looks like. so change is the first bill i signed into law, a law that says women deserve an equal day's pay for an equal day's work because our daughters should have the same opportunities as our sons. >> and president obama in chicago, he is at the palmer house, the first of five fundraisers today. they have been under a little bit of financial pressure, their campaign, they have not been raising at the pace they want to. so he is out there and michelle obama, the best fundraiser of the obama family and of the entire re-election campaign will be out later today as well. as we talk about the re-election campaign, we are talking about some interesting developments on the front of women and money. forbes magazine's annual

billionaire list is out, and she is the youngest woman bi billionaire, she turned $5,000 of her own saving s shaped out f an idea that mixed fabrics. the spanx alert. >>. [ laughing ] >> let's show everyone, yeah, the old spanx. >> thank you for taking care of me. >> all in good fun, sarah blakely, founder and owner of spanx, joins us now, congratulations on forbes magazine, how did you do it? this is a big deal. tell us about the inspiration.

>> do not under estimate the woman that does not like how her butt looks like in white pants. >> that is the sound bite of the day, honey. >> i had never taken a business class, i just wanted an under garment that did not exist. a frustrated consumer, i cut up the pantsy hose and i decided that shapers were thick and felt like we were wearing work out clothes until spanx. >> first of all, let's talk about oprah and the influence that oprah had in all of it. >> yes, so, i am in my apartment and i invented the product, it took me two years to work on it at night and on the weekends. i wrote my own patent and i sent a gift basket to oprah and she chose spanx as the best product

of the year. i quit my job selviging fax machines door to door -- job selv selling fax machines. >> you have never advertised it? >> no, we have never formally advertised. i invested in pr from the beginning. it's been a word of mouth brand and for the first time ever, you see these beautiful women on the red carpet saying hey, it's my spanx and until this under garment, i do not feel like people were spreading the word as much and sharing their secret of what is going on underneath it all. >> you do not have that many employees, you did the patent yourself. i'm told you have 125 people? >> yes. we do.

and we have added most of those in just the last two or three years. we are now in 40 countries. we have a big international push. we had our very first spanx store within the blooming dales store. i begged for a pocket of the hosery department. i did not get a row, i got a pocket. hit the ground running. i stood in stores and lifted my skirt and shook my back side for every woman that walked in the door. sglipted to run a profile of you. >> okay. >> i remember saying, i am asking for a sign, i flipped to end of oprah and that day oprah had told the world that she had been cutting feet off of her panty hose for years. >> and so what is next for you, sarah blakely and spanx? >> you know, we have just launched men's and what i wanted

to do there -- >> do you think that men are using it? >> they are and they are loving it. >> we wanted to reinvent the undershirt for men. it has been the same for over 100 years, it's boxy and bulky and stretches out quickly. we want to taper it dm at the waist, and put lycr a in it, so they can have low back support and go a belt loop tighter. mens, and we launched a power pant that makes women look thinner while they are trying get thinner and toned at the gym. where i can add comfort and function to fashion, it is not that hard to do, and women are wearing things that are beautiful but do not feel good or make sense. >> what are your opinions for other women trying start out in business? >> go for it, trust your gut and separate yourself, if there's one thing, why are you different and how does your customer know

quickly why you are different, what you're offering them that is unique. >> and when you say frustrate your gut, you know -- when you say trust your gut, you know of what you speak. it's great to meet you. >> it's great to meet you too. i'm a fan. >> well, thank you. and still ahead, the soldier accused of carrying out the deadly rampage against afghani civilians, heading back to u.s., the latest just ahead. . brad needs car insurance, but, uh, brad doesn't want to spend too much. who's brad? this is brad. ahh! well, progressive has lots of discounts for a guy like brad. brad's intrigued. paid in full, safe driver, multi-car, going paperless -- all can help brad save a bunch. sign brad up. cool! jamie will ring you up. show brad the way. who's brad? oh, here we go again. discounts that everyone can use. now, that's progressive. call or click today. ♪

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further. vy a -- i have the first donation to the andrea jail bail bond fund, next time you get on the steps. >> when i cross the line, so far trying avoid that. what about newt gingrich and yes is still in this -- and why he is still in this. you had interesting insight knowing newt as well as you do. >> well, i -- first of all, he does not have much else to do, so he may as well do this. and newt, you know, he has a -- i think you know that -- he has a long held history of suggesting that people fail in their jobs. the interview you did just now with the woman from spanx, if she had given up the first time somebody said no or something went wrong, we would never had that interview. ne newt's position is that post people fail because they give up too soon.

can he make an impression in tampa? i don't know. i don't think so. i cannot do the math that gets me there. but he believes, i think that if he and santorum, i'm not sure santorum wants him as a partner, but if he and santorum can prevent him from get to the 1144, that they can wow the convention that they will end up saying his name and demanding he is a nominee. >> do you think there's a reality, a self reality check in order here? >> well, you know, any of these guys, including the president, you have to have a large ego to do this in the first place. somebody corrected me the other day and i said other than ego, he has to explain yes is doing this and somebody sent in a note and said huberouas and i think

that is true. i think it has a lot to do wit. i think this goes back to december when he realized he was completely out manned and out gunned by romney in the super pac. newt had no money, no campaign. no plans to have a campaign that the point. and i think he is trying overcome the recent history of him getting into this thing so under prepared and for someone who is a military historian, it's surprising that he could not get his army organized before he jumped in with both feet. >> he has a way of turning the attack against whoever is questioning his motives or his rational for how he proceeds. >> yes, and he is very good at it. that is one of the reasons he did so well in the early debate also. everyone was waiting around for the newt gingrich attack to moderator and as he said on the elite media, he attacks the elite media as he calls it 17

time on day and he is on everyone's sunday show. he gets the best of both worlds. and spends the rest of the week attacking the very people he has been bending to his own ends and needs. >> in fact, he as a member of the fox news team was making money as a member of whatever the elite media means, and i don't know how you define it. rich, what about the effect on the party and mitt romney 53 is a front-runner. he has more delegates than anyone else. >> he is, and the real issue is romney will be the nominee. you can look for the number of states that are win or take all, as you remember. senator clinton went 0-february if we remember she won nevada, that was enough for senator obama to build a lead so that mrs. clinton could not ever win a state big enough to make it up. that is where santorum finds himself now and santorum has to

fight a two-front war, he has gingrich on the one side and romney on the other. romney only has to worry about santorum. santorum has to worry about gingrich. this is helpful in the long run to santorum, because it takes away a significant number of votes that gingrich is getting would clearly go to santorum. >> rich, thank you for your perspective, you've been in and done that, you know of what you speak. thanks for being with us. still ahead, we will talk to the u.s. ambassador ryan crocker and a verdict in the webcam spying case that shook the nation. send me your thoughts. this is "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. hey, this is challenger. i'll be waiting for you in stall 5. it confirms your reservation and the location your car is in, the moment you land. it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz.

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coming up in 15 minute on news nation, it's being called a new war on women, a bill is nearing passage in arizona that would require women who want their birth control covered by insurance to prove to their employer they are taking it for medical reasons and not for contraception. and rick santorum has been talking more about the economy and less about social issues, how did he manage to step into a big controversy regarding spanish and puerto rico, what he is saying about the controversy. and outrage over what was chanted at a basketball player during an ncaa game, march madness is taking on a whole new meaning. the madness that is now offensive to so many. we will play the tape for you and that is coming up on "newsnation." >> as the soldier accused of shooting 16 afghan civilians is flying back to the us at this hour, questions remain about his

mental condition and the military chain of command that permitted his condition to go unnoticed. >> i think this case is more political than legal. there will be an effort to paint him as a rogue soldier rather than focus on how we are treating our gis in general. and whether we should be over there to begin with. >> u.s. ambassador to afghanistan, ryan crocker is joining us. thank you for being with us. i know it's a difficult time. just today the president called president karzai from air force one and jay carney said that they discussed this issue of president karzai today suggesting that all u.s. soldiers now be pulled back from forward positions to bases how is this going to be resolved, how do we do our mission if they cannot not be in the field? >> it's been a tough couple of weeks. we have been through tough times before and we will be again.

but i think there's a way forward. the two presidents when they spoke this morning reaffirmed their shared commitment to the lisban frame work, that assured 2014 the afghans having full control. and they discussed the importance of moving ahead to increase the capability of afghan security forces so that by 2013 those afghan forces can be in a position to take the lead in combat operations while we are in support. that is, again, i think a natural progression. a natural transition. it's progress. there are difficulty issues to be resolved. one of them is president karzai's concern over foreign po forces in afghan villages, and the president agreed that we would discuss that further and it will be in the on going

negotiations for a strategic document. >> one of the things being transmitted from kabul is that president karzai is saying it has been going on too long. the behavior cannot be tolerated, it's past, past, past the time. clearly frustrated and playing to a local audience, is there the prospect that because of his concerns that we have to accelerate the withdraw and not be as forward based? >> again, i refer you to the statement that was issued both by the presidential palace in kabul, we remain commitmented to the frame work and we have issues such as the concerns of

the presence of foreign forces in villages and overnight operations, we will work it through, we will work through other tough issues. just a week ago, we signed a memorandum of understanding of the transfer of detention authorities from foreign forces to afghan control within six months. a lot of people did not think it was possible. we got it done. we both seek the same thing. a stable secure democratic afghanistan, able to protect itself and deny the presence, ever again, of al qaeda or those who would harbor it in afghan sfan and allow it to once again plan attacks to u.s. we face problems. i certainly understand the president's -- president karzai's outrage over the recent incident. we fully share that. we are going have to work through this in a way that

ensures that we maintain a focus on our ultimate goals here. >> ambassador, you came out of retirement to answer the call from the president to take on this most difficult task. you were in previously in iraq, you've been in pakistan, you were in beirut during the bombing of our embassy. you are seeing the worst of the worst. can you explain to americans because a lot of people in the u.s. do not understand this. people who are not muslim and have not lived in that region of the world, why there has been so little protest in afghanistan, where there's been -- contrast the protests over the burning that the u.s. said was accidental of the burnings of the korans? >> i think the incident involving the koran kind of reached the heart of just about every afghan muslim. muslims view the koran as the

lit erral word of god and hence it is taken very, very seriously. any perceived act of disrespect, intentional or in this case inadvertent. i've seen these kinds of things erupt before when i was in pakistan. we're all shocked over the loss of innocent human life in the incident last sunday. a lot of life has been lost in afghanistan both afghan and international including americans. we carry on. i think the reactions have been localized. i think that reflects not a lack of outrage, anger and sorrow, which we share very much in this country, but also an

appreciation of what the country has been through. >> the way the president worded his apology where he said the loss of these children is like the loss of our own. the way he personalized it was not as routine or boilerplate as some impact expected. that might had an impact. thank you very much. you take out of retirement to take this last assignment thanks for your service and safe travels back. >> thank you. what political story will be making headlines in the next 24 hours? that's next right here on "andrea mitchell reports."

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which political story will make headlines in the next 24 hours? chris cillizza returns. let's talk about the next 24 because the president is going

onto atlanta. trying to raise that money. michelle obama out there. they're not raising money as effectively as they had expected to. >> no. these are five fund raisers, $5.5 million is the goal. they are not that surprisingly struggling with low dollar fund raisers. it's easier for more people to donate to a candidate than a president. you can beat everything to everything harder as a president. they're trying to make up for it with big dollar donations among former clinton supporters. >> chris cillizza, thank you very much. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." monday on the show, eva longoria on the latino vote. paul conroy talks about his

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