had ping-pong diplomacy, that's what's been bouncing around in my mind while we scoff and mock about this incident. there are sometimes where these unusual moments give themselves and lend themselves to very unique moments of potential diplomacy. why this is the wrong moment is that north korea just had a third nuclear test, and there are many things that kim jong-un who's a new leader in north korea. everyone else is newer than he is, nonetheless, he could have issued through rodman or even by letter a very -- a more sophisticated note on how he would like to stand down on the nuclear front, stand down on some of the posturing on south korea. there are many things he could have done to make this serious. he's a pop culture guy, he's a young man. we have to ask ourselves, is he trying to do what he knows. as inadequate and silly as it

sounds, maybe there's something deeper there. i don't think there is, but barack obama needs to respond to serious initiatives and not just the pop culture ones. and the leader of north korea needs to learn that. >> here's what i don't get about these diplomatic niceties. why isn't this the best time to call, after north korea has done something that we really really don't want and we really want them to stop doing it. the soviet missiles were in cuba, and so president kennedy was communicating as directly with nikita khrushchev as he could. he didn't say, i'm not going to talk to him now, now that he's done something that bothers me. >> the soviet union and the united states were two great powers vying for global control. north korea is a small state that exists through extortion, by misbehaving and trying to extract resources from other nations in the world by threatening the rest of the

nation and wanting to be nice to get resources. you can't reward that behavior too quickly. i think barack obama is probably calling it right here by keeping some distance. >> brian stelter, thank you very much for getting the story on how this all happened. thanks for joining us tonight. steve clemmons, thank you for joining us. >> thanks. >> thank you. the ed show is up next. >> good evening americans and welcome to the ed show from new york. republicans woke up this morning saying a new four letter word or an old four letter word. bush. this is the ed show. let's get to work. >> you will not definitively rule out a run for president the year 2016. >> you know the republican party is in bad shape when this happens. >> i won't but i'm not going to declare it today either. >> jim moore and jonathan altar will tell us if america could get fooled for the third time. in his first post election interview, mitt romney shares

his regrets. >> it was very harmful. what i said is not what i believe. >> katrina vandenhuevel of the nation. the american worker struggles. tonight i'll break down the numbers and make the case for higher wages. speaker john boehner flat out lies about the sequester. >> there is no plan from senate democrats or the white house to replace the sequester. >> the congressional panel will weigh in on the speaker's latest whopper. and dennis rodman visits the rogue state of north korea and brings home a message for the president. >> he wants obama to do one thing. call him. >> plus, rodman has a new best friend. >> he's a great guy. just a great guy. >> we'll bring you all the details from rodman's wild trip. >> thanks for watching. the republican party is struggling with branding issues, an identity crisis and a dem

dwrask shift going against the party platform. in the midst of all of this here comes another bush. >> i have a voice i want to share my beliefs about how the conservative movement and the republican party can regain its footing because we've lost our way. >> jeb bush declared his voice to be an important one in the future of the republican party. just when you washed away the taste of eight years under george w. bush the former governor from florida raised eyebrows when he had this exchange with matt lauer. >> you will not definitively rule out a run for president in the year 2016. >> i won't but i'm not going to declare today either matt. >> he is not ready to declare but jeb bush is definitely putting himself out there in the republican party. it is a smart move because jeb bush is the guy in the republican party who wants to have it both ways. he says his father and ronald reagan would be out of place in today's conservative republican party but then he shows up as one of the featured speakers at

cpac this year. jeb bush has remained popular in florida home to many and i mean many medicare and social security recipients. this is despite bush's lobbying ties to one of country's biggest medicare scam artists. then you have jeb bush's position on immigration which is now puzzling. he made his reputation on being one of the more moderate voices on immigration policy in the republican party. until today. >> if we want to create an immigration policy that's going to work we can't continue to make illegal immigration an easier path than legal immigration. >> so bush is coming down hard against a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. in a new book about immigration policy bush and his coauthor write, those who violated the law can remain but cannot obtain the cherished fruits of citizenship. in the book, bush continues, he says, a grant of citizenship is an undeserving reward for conduct that we cannot afford to encourage.

however, illegal immigrants who wish to become citizens should have the choice of returning to their native countries and applying through normal immigration processes that now would be much more open than before. this is a far cry from jeb bush's position on a path to citizenship as recently as a year ago. >> you have to deal with this issue. you can't ignore it. and so either a path to citizenship which i would support and that does put me probably out of the main stream of most conservatives, or a path to legalization. a path to residency of some kind. >> less than six months ago reporters wrote headlines like this. jeb bush, supports path to citizenship. today it's jeb bush path to citizenship not needed. this flip flop might look strange to the american main stream but for jeb bush i guess you could say it's necessary. it puts him further to the right on immigration from marco rubio and it puts him at odds with

texas governor rick perry who was i hope also considering another presidential run. jeb bush threw his hat in the ring today not just for the presidential election four years from now but as the new voice of the republican party. someone that is going to get attention and who already has hispanic credibility. here's the trick. jeb bush can come out and talk out of both sides of his mouth which is certainly important in today's climate. one other thing to really consider, democrats. what democrat is going to have the power, the capability to defeat jeb bush in florida if he did ever get the republican nomination? there is going to be over 600,000 registered hispanics by 2016 in the state of florida. it's true that romney could have won florida and still lost the election. but things change all the time. florida is a state the republicans would love to have and the only probably democrat that could beat jeb bush in florida arguably would be hillary clinton. is that going to happen?

get your cell phones out. we want to know what you think. tonight's question. will this country ever elect anosh nother bush? text a for yes, text b for no. go to our blog at ed@msnbc.com. i'm joined by the chairman of the democratic party in broward county, florida and member of the executive board of the democratic national committee. also with us tonight jonathan altar msnbc political analyst and bloomberg view columnist and jim moore director of the progress texas pac and author of "bush's brain." jim you first tonight. you know the bush family well. is jeb definitely positioning himself to do, make a run in 2016 and become a strong voice of the republican party to resurface as maybe a leader that they're desperately looking for? >> if so, ed, he has made a big mistake. i think this whole thing with immigration has been misguided. he's trying to parce the issue and make the people on the far right happy but also suggest to

latinos and hispanics that this is not something that is negative from me. the problem is he is suggesting if you give legal status to undocumenteds all they're interested in is a paycheck. all they want from america is money. they don't care about our future, history, dreams, principles. they came to america and he is suggesting in fact once they get the money they want they'll go home and that is sort of diminishing the whole thing for hispanics. i think what he has done inadvertently is position america as sort of an atm to undocumented workers and telling them to go ahead and go home when air done with us. >> jonathan, how can bush reconcile his new position on immigration without being viewed as somebody caving to the tea party? >> well, i think it was a flip flop that he executed in order to put himself in a position to get the republican nomination the next time around making himself a viable candidate which

he already was. it was a recognition that the base of the republican party is still very nativist, antiimmigrant, and he would not have been able to get nominated with his previous position. but i think as jim said he's been too clever by half in doing this. because latinos look very closely at this issue and they will feel betrayed by jeb bush. so all of the support that he's built up all these years by being fairly enlightened on this issue, he's just now thrown away. it was not a smart move. >> you bring up a great point. jeb bush i think disappointed democrats who thought they had a republican ally on immigration. here is a statement from annette today, of the democratic party in florida. she says today it is deeply troubling governor jeb bush has reversed his position on a pathway to citizenship and sided with tea party extremists in order to advance his political ambitions. as a hispanic american from florida it is sad to lose one of

the few pro-immigration republicans left. unfortunately, this reversal proves that there will never be nufr border security or a big enough fence to satisfy the republican base. mitch, you're in florida and you know the state well. is this a tough day for democrats as well who know that they have to have republican allies to get immigration reform done? >> well, i don't think we're really afraid of jeb bush in florida. he was never really 'vetvetted the tea party very much. he was out of office and has been for a in many of years and what he's trying to do is ride the dynamic of in effect a new republican party, primary voter and effect a new jeb bush to create the new normal. as we know there is nothing new about what they're doing. it is certainly not normal to most floridians or most americans. and i think he's made a great miscalibration if you will because people see through it.

what's most interesting is the fact that marco rubio has gone as you've said, ed, to the right of marco rubio which in most cases is kind of difficult. and in effect has staked himself out as a competitor of marco rubio. i'm convinced as i'm sure most are they won't run against each other. this is just an interesting first chapter. >> jeb bush jr., the conversation in florida i understand is that he may run against just newly elected congressman joe garcia which would be a precursor to the dad saying you know i'd really like to get that republican nomination. how influential is this? is jeb bush jr. going to run? >> well, i think it's been talked about since before the last election since before joe garcia won. we think that's a, not an easy district. joe garcia did great and is still doing very well. that is a serious challenge. what we have to look at is using him in effect as a stocking horse for the bush dynasty.

i think that is clearly what they're trying to do. >> here is bush talking to matt lauer. >> i think it's a little hard to imagine after january where the highest, biggest tax increase in american history took place to then go back to say that we have a revenue problem. i think the focus -- >> no wiggle room there at all? >> there may be if the president is sincere about dealing with our structural problems. >> jonathan, isn't this a no-no for the republican party to concede that there might be some room on new taxes? >> no. that is a smart position for him to take because all he is saying is let's go back to what mitt romney was saying during the debates which was close tax loop holes. one thing that is crazy about the john boehner position right now is it is a repudiation on what romney ran on last year. they're defining closing loop holes as somehow raising taxes when it's not. just to go back to the basic flip flop it is generally not good politics to do this. what it does is undermines

people's faith in your political consistency and your basic political profile being a principle person if you're just flopping around. it reminds me of what his father did many years ago. george h.w. bush, when he was in congress in the '60s, his nickname was rubbers as in condoms because he was so much in favor of birth control, planned parenthood. he was on the board of planned parenthood in connecticut. and then he does a 180 when he goes on the ticket with ronald reagan and suddenly is against abortion after being pro choice. that did not help him with women. this will not help him son with latinos. just because they liked him in the past doesn't mean they will in the future. if they don't he doesn't have a calling card and isn't a particularly strong candidate. >> what about his timing? what about his timing in all of this? last year bush told charlie rose he missed his chance to run for president. here it is. >> have you made the decision that do you not want to be president? >> i've not made that decision

although i think this, there is a window of opportunity in life for all sorts of reasons and this was probably my time. >> jim, you think he regrets not running in 2012? >> he didn't really have a chance because the country was real tired of the bushes after his brother. the problem for the bush family dynasty, ed, is that w. was the guy who won the state governorship here in texas and anybody who wins in texas is immediately considered a national candidate. jeb was always thought of as the smart bush which is a bit of a condemnation in any community but in this particular case they thought he would be the first one to run for president. i think that he is probably going to run again. he sees himself as the guy who is going to lead the republicans out of the wilderness in 2016. i doubt it but he's going to run. >> and is his other son already declared, george p. bush in texas? >> he's already said he is going to run. he's very much acting like a

bush trying to decide what office to run for. he hasn't talked about policy or principle. he's basically looking for what job he's going to apply for. >> sure. >> they're acting like they're kennedys with this dynasty and everything. it's not the same. we could have a titanic struggle between hillary clinton and jeb bush in 2016. the press is going to be going, yeah. let's get that. you know, let's move to that story which would be wonderful for all of us. but, you the premise of that is that the american people like this family so much they want to put them back in the white house. we're kind of, you know, 0 for 2 with bushes. i'm not sure americans will want to try this again. >> great to have you with us on theed show tonight. thanks so much. remember to answer tonight's question at the bottom of the screen. share your thoughts on twitter and ed show on facebook. we always want to know what you think. mitt romney is still trying to

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welcome back. he's had time to reflect. yet mitt romney is still divorced from reality. in an interview with chris wallace at fox news romney pointed to his failure to wecht with minority voters as the real reason for his loss yet romney is still convinced that his messaging was the problem. really, not his policies? here he is attempting to explain his 47% remarks. >> it was a very unfortunate statement that i made. it is not what i meant. i didn't express myself as i wished i would have. you know, when you speak in private you don't spend as much time thinking about how something could be twisted and distorted and could come out wrong and be used but i did and it was very harmful. what i said is not what i believe. obviously my whole campaign, my whole life has been devoted to helping people, all of the people. i care about all of the people

of the country, but that hurt. there is no question that hurt and did real damage to my campaign. >> when the story came out why didn't he say just that? we all know that those 47% remarks weren't just a one-time gaffe. romney made similar comments in a conference call to donors after the election blaming his loss on president obama's handing out gifts to minority groups. romney is still convinced that is the case. >> the president had the power of incumbency. obama care was very attractive. particularly to those without health insurance. and they came out in large numbers to vote so that was part of a successful campaign. >> get this. the man who created romney care beliefs the affordable care act was president obama's way of using patronage to secure votes. but again, romney asserts his loss was a messaging issue. certainly not a policy problem. >> the weakness that our campaign had, i had, is we weren't effective in taking my message primarily to minority

voters, to hispanic ambassador, african-americans, other minorities. that was a real weakness. we did well with the majority population but not with minority populations and that was a failing. that was a real mistake. >> why do you think that was? >> well, i think the obama care attractiveness and feature was something we under estimated in, particularly among lower incomes. >> joining us tonight katrina vandenhueval, great to have you with us tonight. >> thank you. >> what's the purpose? i mean, you can go to anybody who didn't win an election, john kerry, al gore, bob dole. this was a strange interview. what's the purpose? >> not clear to me. the romney revival tour? i think he wanted to repeat that what he said is not what he believed in. i'm not sure. this is mr. 47%. he's trying to say, you said, that it was the messaging.

no. it was very clearly this election was a mandate on policies that a majority of americans didn't want. this man is speaking about how he couldn't connect with minorities as the great demographic shifts in this country occur. yeah. if you talk about self-deportation as the answer to our immigration policy i don't think you're going to connect well with latinos in this country. >> doesn't the party, maybe not so much the next candidate, because the party is going to have to address the mistakes made by romney. doesn't the party have to come forward with some admission that it was wrong where they were on policy? >> but here's what i don't understand. i think this romney interview was irrelevant. what stuns me is that the republican party doesn't seem to understand a basic, fundamental american concept, elections matter. you have a republican party which continues a scorched earth obstructionism after its policies have been repudiated. it sits in washington and tries to tell the american people that

government is broken. no it's not. it's bought. the republicans are bought even more than the democrats. but their policies have failed. and that the republicans put up an example of the most brazen excesses of vulture capitalism and still adhere to that is a discrediting of a republican party that we need in this -- we need a real republican party but at the moment it is white, male, pale, stale, and even jeb bush is backtracking on his policies. because they still have the same billionaires running this party, ed, and they got the same base. you can rearrange the deck chairs on the titanic but until they take a really soul searching hard look this party is in trouble. >> they're convinced, the family is, the rom neeneys, they never a chance to show the real mitt. >> give me a break. it is the most sort of tired

thing in american political history to do the blame the media. give me a break. the campaign kept him in lockdown so he didn't really grapple with his mormonism and his faith. nor did he really move to try and explain his vista success. they can't have it both ways. ann romney with all respect for a wife of a defeated politician is saying they got sort of, you run over by the media. the only media that ran them over was fox because they lived in a bubble of delusional thinking they were going to win and this and that. karl rove election night remind your viewers, he literally walked into the control room to say, no. we didn't lose. yeah you did. >> what do you make of them believing obama care sealed his fate? >> i find it ugly because it is a kind of re-run of his 47 moochers, takers, and makers. if the power of kbeincumbency io provide universal health care which we need to build on to 30 million americans if that is

patronage and corruption and giveaway then this man, particularly romney care, the man who created romney care, should understand that this is part of american political life and it's a reform that this country has fought for and part of what millions need. he hasn't given up on the 47%. >> no, no. >> he says he wasn't understood that, you know, like i said what i didn't believe. it is so romney because that's part of why, you know, if there is a tragedy of romney he reinvented himself and reinvented himself and made the flip flop seem like a tired, tactical move because he flip flopped so many times there must be a new term for that. >> is the ego big enough for him to even think that maybe 16? i know it's crazy. >> it is not about romney. you know that. you know politics better than anyone. it is about this party. >> they have to disavow from what he is saying right there.

>> yeah. >> they have to admit he was wrong on all fronts. >> he knows that. that is why there is a sadness. defeated politicians are sad. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> the dow-jones closes within 50 points of an all time high. workers' wages are in the dumps. i got numbers for you next to explain all of that. john boehner thought he could get away with lying about the sequester on national television? he thought wrong. we're calling him out. our congressional panel will do the same. hey! did you know that honey nut cheerios

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highest level this year. in the meantime millions of americans are stranded and still out of work. the ed show's chart. i love it. it of course illustrates the exploding income inequality in america over the last 30 years. this chart doesn't look too different. it shows how america's corporations have racked up historic profits while labor income remains very sluggish. so as you can see corporate profits were on the rise as far back as 2003. they took a hit with the rest of the economy during the recession. but since the recovery, corporate profits, where have they gone? they have boomed. big time. now the share of national income going to corporations is at its highest level since 1950. and the amount going to individuals is near its lowest since 1966. there are several ways to explain this lop sided recovery. well, technology.

yeah. technology is up. corporations do more with fewer workers. multi national corporations have done what? they have outsourced for cheaper labor. they don't want to pay anybody. and the recession caused the corporations to slash payrolls and keep wages stagnant. at the same time, worker productivity went through the roof. americans are afraid to slack off because it's hard to find another job so employees are doing more work for less money. this has kept employment down while lifting corporate profits through the roof. the bottom line in all of this? instead of investing these profits back into the economy and hiring more americans, and paying their workers to do more, you know, corporations are just sitting on the cash enjoying the profits at the top. concentrating the wealth. corporations are choosing profits over the american worker. >> even today there is no plan from senate democrats or the white house to replace the

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and yet even today there is no plan from senate democrats or the white house to replace the sequester. >> boehner is flat out wrong. president obama has had a plan all along. it's called a balanced plan to avert the sequester. meet the press moderator david gregory confronted bain wer the facts. >> that's just not clear. they have made it very clear as the president just did that he has a plan that he's put forward that involves entitlement cuts, spending cuts, that you've made a choice as have republicans to leave tax loopholes in place and you'd rather have those and live with all these other debts david, that is just nonsense. if he had a plan why wouldn't senate democrats go ahead and pass it? >> well, boehner tried to push the same lie later in the interview. >> senate democrats have done nothing. it's time for them to vote. >> well, the boehner interview was taped on friday, so he would have known the senate was planning to vote on two different plans. the democratic plan got a

majority 51 votes but not enough to overcome a republican filibuster. how about those rules, harry? and the republican plan failed of course. there is more. speaker boehner was asked about the effect of sequestration on the economy. >> i don't know whether it's going to hurt the economy or not. i don't think anyone quite understands how the sequester is really going to work that is jaw dropping. in an op-ed of "the wall street journal" on february 20th not long ago boehner wrote, a week from now a democratic -- dramatic new federal policy is set to go into effect that threatens u.s. national security, thousands of jobs, and more. i mean, he wrote that. and then he goes and says, well i'm really not sure what's going to happen with the economy. which is it? let's turn to congressman bill pascrel of new jersey and our other guests. great to have you all with us tonight. you first. i mean, this is amazing.

boehner says the democrats didn't have a plan but they obviously did. are they just counting on people not paying attention to this stuff? >> i think they're in their own universe. you pointed out and it's been pointed out over and over again the president has laid many plans at their door step to see what they might be willing to do. our colleague congressman chris van holland introduced a substitute in the house side and, quite frankly, wouldn't even allow it to come up. they really want to go down this road of the sequester and, by the way, if the speaker doesn't know how bad this would be all he needs to do is listen to ben bernanke about what kind of an effect this would have on economic recovery. all he has to do is listen to the national association of business economists who said the sequestration is a bad idea. i would suggest to him that he talk to one of the 25,000 women who is going to be unwilling,

unable to be able to get a breast or cervical cancer screening or a family whose child is going to be kinlgd kicked off head start or a woman or infant or toddler who no longer will have access to wic. >> there is no question about it. congressman larson on one hand he said he doesn't know what the effect is and on the other hand has a op-ed saying gosh we'll lose a bunch of jobs. which is it? he that mixed up or just trying to fool people? >> they never let the truth get in the way of the real story. and that's unfortunate for the speaker and for the country. what we have here, ed, and you've done a great job on this show of pointing out we don't have a deficit crisis. we have a health care crisis in this nation that needs to be solved. we don't have a problem, sequester problem. we have a jobs problem. we need to put the country back to work. we've been in congress now and

we haven't met -- they haven't put any plan forward. most importantly, they haven't put any plan forward for jobs. that's what the real issue is out there with the american people. the people are tired of this. they're tired of all the games. they're tired of the lying. they're tired of all of this. they want to see results. they want to go back to work. they want us to solve their problems. >> how can one man have so much power in a representative government? i think this is a bad lesson for america. you got republicans who retain control of the congress. even though we had a 9% approval rating. congressman, is boehner making a political calculation that he can ride this thing out with no personal down side and just hope that the public gets frustrated with the president? >> well, the speaker likes to embellish the truth. his middle name is embellishment if not lies. the fact is this. he just said in that same interview that what we should do is be cutting taxes and that will create those jobs.

we went in 2001 and 2003. we had major tax cuts, mostly for those wealthy in our country, and what happened? we were supposed to have a creation of a million, 500,000 jobs. we lost millions and millions of jobs, which led to the great recession of 2007 and 2008. you can't have it both ways. and what we need to be doing is stimulating the economy and not coming to the end product, which they would like us to do, and say all you have to do is cut programs and we'll get back to where we belong. talk about phoneies. they put up a budget that supposedly is going to make things even, balance the budget in ten years. that budget was 40 years just last year. god knows what the heck cuts they're talking about for us in america. we're talking about the american people now. >> rosa, what is the conclusion here? what option does president obama have other than to go out on the road and ask the american people

to put pressure on republicans? >> that's what we need to do. it has to be the balanced approach that when you have to be looking at what are the revenue sources -- >> they say no more revenue. >> listen. let's just talk about spending. you want to talk about closing those loopholes for oil and gas or the special interests? that is spending. you want to cut spending? it ought to be included in what we view as spending cuts. and we ought to be cutting that and that in fact would give us additional revenue. >> i haven't heard one loophole identified. >> we can identified them. >> no, i mean the republicans have not identified one loophole that i'm aware of. >> it was the speaker who said not that long ago that we could deal with about $800 billion in closing down those loopholes and

reforming the tax code and the special interests and yet today they are unwilling to put one penny of that $800 billion on the table. those are expenditures and we should cut spending. >> it is absolutely true. you have to take a look at this thing. i think that people give the speaker a lot of credit that they don't deserve. that is primarily because he is a leader without followers. it's made this place dysfunctional. we need to get the country back to work through jobs and focus on the things that are important to the american people. >> what are the options of the president? what can he do? >> i think rosa is right. you have to take this out to the public and continue to get on the stump because it is the people that are going to make a difference. they are the ones that are going to emphasize the change needed. the hurt hasn't been felt dramatically but it will be. >> yeah. >> the unfortunate thing is it shouldn't be felt at all.

we should be focusing on putting the country back to work. that is the most disturbing. >> your thoughts? >> i think that we have them where we want them. but the american people aren't at the right spot right now because they're trying to figure this out. there is drama on both sides. we have got to get to the truth and not embellish the facts. they've done a great job embellishing. what we need is to come back to reality. this is not reality tv, ed. >> it is not. great to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. coming up there is good news for batman and bad news for sarah palin. i'll bring you the details next. max and penny kept our bookstore exciting and would always come to my rescue. but as time passed, i started to notice max just wasn't himself. and i knew he'd feel better if he lost a little weight. so i switched to purina cat chow healthy weight formula. i just fed the recommended amount... and they both loved the taste. after a few months max's "special powers" returned...

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obama loves basketball. let's start there. >> tonight's big finish, one of the most controversial sports stars has befriended one of the world's most controversial dictators, north korea's kim jong un. really likes basketball. so he allowed dennis rodman to visit the capital city with a film crew. rodman brought back this message for president obama. >> he want obama to do one thing, call him. >> he wants a call from president obama? >> that's right. he told me that. he said if you can, dennis, i don't want do war. i don't want do war. >> okay. i'm not sure we should take dennis's word for it, though. peace-loving north korea conducted its third nuclear test right before dennis rodman's visit, and now is working on a long-range missile. but let's forget about peace and talk about love. here is dennis rodman again. >> his country like him, not

like him, love him. love him. >> rodman and some harlem globetrotters got special tours of north korea's best sites. they did not see this north korea, where sic million people need food aid. 19% of the babies are malnourished, and most people make four bucks a day. those statistics explain why the state department was not thrilled about watching kim jong un roll out the red carpet for rodman. >> clearly you've got the regime spending money to wine and dine foreign visitors when they should be feeding their own people. >> so let's get this straight. the united states has not held formal talks with north korea since 2005, but this guy gets a seat at the table? dennis rodman, the player who head butted a ref and was once called the worm? the man who has always attracted attention for keeping strange company might have finally outdone himself. let's turn to eugene robinson, msnbc political analyst and

associate editor pulitzer prize winning columnist for "the washington post." okay. how bizarre is this? >> well, it's hard to get weirder than this, ed. i mean, dennis rodman has i think five nba championships. he has been defensive player of the year. he is in the hall of fame. he is not going to be adding a nobel peace prize to his list of honors. it's not going to happen. this was really bizarre. >> does this make north korea look approachable to the rest of the world? is this good press for north korea? >> well, if you're 6'9" alien who used to play basketball, yes, you can approach north korea. no, it doesn't. this is completely divorced from reality and the fact that kim jong un is conforming to the stereotype of him, which is of some sort of like spoiled brat who likes basketball and runs the most totalitarian country on earth and is threatening to launch nuclear weapons. if that's approachable, i don't know what unapproachable. >> well, rodman says he loves