vice-versa, we've got a ways to go. camelot east, is caroline kennedy the next u.s. ambassador to japan? and two months since leaving the state department, hillary clinton about to reemerge this week, we'll tell you what other 2016 possible candidate will appear with her tomorrow. no it isn't leon panetta. and kick off our women in the world series with "newsweek" and "daily beast" editor in chief, tina brown. plus let the good times roll, the 135th easter egg roll at the white house. as the president and first family throw a party for more than 35,000 children of all ages on the south lawn. it is wonderful to see all of you, welcome, you guys brought the great weather. >> today we want you to have a great time. we want you to run around, we want you to go over and see the white house gardens. >> but hoops time with the

basketball editor in chief doesn't go so well. reports are he was only 2 for 22. >> and thankfully, on the mend -- an encouraging sign as louisville guard, kevin ware comes through surgery successfully. and the team hopes can even join them in his hometown of atlanta next weekend as the cardinals play in the final four. and good day, i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. is there or isn't there? all signs point to a senate deal on immigration reform. but marco rubio says not so fast. joining me for our daily fix, chris cillizza, msnbc contributor and managing editor of postpolitics.com. well, chris, marco rubio puts out his statement moments before the sunday talk shows. was he trying to watch his right flank or was he really saying it's not a done deal yet?

>> probably a little bit of both, and youia i think there's politic in policy and policy in politics. marco rubio put out a statement at 8:13 a.m. sunday morning. right before chuck schumer was going to be on with chuck todd on nbc's "meet the press." that was not by accident. i think marco rubio knew that schumer, another member of the gang of eight trying to make the immigration deal was likely to say look, it's all over but the shouting, we have to dot the i's and crossed t's, but we've reached an accord. for marco rubio it's about short-term and longer-term thinking and impact. he wants to be in the room to make a deal. that would help as he goes forward in a general election context. but in a primary, in a presidential primary. he can't look like he got rolled by chuck schumer and the white house, he has to look like he put up a fight. he got everything he can possibly get and they capitulated to him, not the other way around. i think it's probably not

totally done. and chuck schumer said something to thaesk. i think a lot of this is about perception, how this looks for marco rubio in the room and what it looks like when it comes out, if there is a deal. >> this involves the chamber of commerce and the labor movement, the afl-cio on the future flow of lower-skilled workers and that is a critical piece. that was the obstacle, really, in 2007. >> it's always been the stumbling block. you hit it exactly right. it's always been the thing that we could never get beyond it appears as though we're beyond it. >> speaking of stumbling blocks. guns. chuck schumer again front and center in negotiations on this. are we getting down to the lowest, lowest common denominator or are we even in jeopardy of not getting background checks? >> you know, andrea -- i still i harkin back about a week ago, tom coburn, oklahoma senator, a republican who has been in these negotiations about guns said look if the bill that's been

proposed. the bill with background checks but without assault weapons ban or high-capacity clips, if we voted on today, it wouldn't pass and many democrats wouldn't vote for it. i think everyone assumed when they put forward the bill that didn't have the assault weapons ban. didn't have the high-capacity clips ban that well of course, this will pass. it probably could pass, i think andrea today. the issue is, how big is the vote. can it be a bipartisan vote. will there be democrat ic defections? i tend to think something will get done. if you pull background checks out and now straw purchases and safety funding at school. those are both good things but nothing near what whee thought might happen in the wake of newtown. >> now i know you were on the tony cokornheiser radio show th really big show. the first day of april, first monday of april and it's 1:00 and it must mean that the nats

are having their ohm opener right now against the marlins. what do we know, strasburg is going to be on the mound. we know they were 9-9, even though the marlins were not near lay as good a team as the nats last time. but they split in terms of the record against each other. are we at risk in the home opener? >> we know how much i love you that i am on the television with you rather than at the nats' opener. that's point one. >> that's a real tribute. >> point two is look, this is a team that won, is you'll have a full year of strasburg. i think we got better in center field with denard span and yes i just said we. i'm not technically a member of the team. but after the georgetown defeat i have to latch on to something, andrea. i can't wait to take my 4-year-old son and my 8-month-old son to some games. there's nothing like going to a baseball game. my dad did it with me. i can't wait to did it with my boys. >> my dad did it with me. and girls and boys.

>> it's awesome. >> it's all about natitude. thanks so much. and in north korea today, state television showed video of soldiers firing live ammunition at targets labeled usa and south korea. nbc's chief foreign current, richard ingall joins me now from seoul, south korea. is this more provocative blus r bluster? how do we know what's going on with that untested young leader richard? >> that's a good question. the impression here is that this is bluster. that this is a way for the untested leader, who is probably 28? maybe 29? we don't even exactly know how old he is. to exert himself. that there's a power struggle under way inside the leading elite in pyongyang. and that he has whipped up or someone working with him has whipped up the country into a nationalist war-time frenzy.

while these internal shuffles are going on. that's the theory here in seoul. but the danger is, how far will this go? could there be a mistake? with all of this rhetoric, with the north saying that it is now in a state of war with weapons being put on a higher state of readiness, with the communications cut, the red phones that are designed specifically to avert a crisis, being unplugged by north korea. there is is a serious concern that this could, while it may be just an attempt to cover up a power struggle, or a cleaning house, if you will, that it could, it could, it could get out of control. >> and richard, the new president of south korea is first of all, just inaugurated, just held her first cabinet meetings within the last two weeks. the first woman leader, she's under a lot of political pressure. so she will have to respond to any overt provocation once it

gets past words. >> president park has been talking very tough. this is her first crisis. and other governments were criticized for being too soft on the north. after the north sunk a ship, warship that belonged to the south, after it attacked a civilian island. there were criticisms that this government, that governments in seoul were too soft. she said today that any kind of provocation will be met with a tough military response. and gave her general more leeway to respond directly from actions to, from the north. so again, more, more gas on the ground. more potential for an explosion. you have a new leader in the south, who is talking tough, who is coming from the background of criticism that the previous governments hadn't been doing enough. and you have a really unknown quantity in the north, who is

trying to organize some sort of power struggle. here's an image, by the way, trying to figure out exactly what is going on in pyongyang. who is up, who's down, is significantly harder than it is with your previous guest of trying to figure out the dynamics of politics in washington, it is really opaque about what is going on in pyongyang. but consider this image -- the last funeral for king jeongle, the previous leader of north korea, at that funeral there were eight people who were flanking his coffin. including his son, kim jong un. of the others, almost all of them have been removed from power or fallen out of favor. so big changes are under way. >>. >> joining me here is ben change, a former foreign service officer and communications director at the national security council at the white house, currently a principal at the pedestrian group.

thanks for joining me. you're still in the white house, p ut that hat on and you're in the situation room. and you're analyzing the latest intelligence. you're trying to figure out is this guy for real. and there's so little known about him. >> sure, sure. it is a big challenge and to be sure, the administration and all the relevant agencies are digging in as to what exactly is going on. but a couple basic principles are clear. one is, this administration and this country's commitment to the region and in particular to our allies, yes as richard pointed out, there's a new president in south korea. what's not new is our commitment to at lines, into the security of our allies and our homeland. and so this is what's undergirding in my opinion, what's undergirding the thought processes and decisions being made at the white house. >> which was, the stealth bombers that were sent. now the additional military exercises, which we were told from the pentagon are annual exercises, this is the fifth time we've sent the f-22s, but

certainly the timing given what's happening in the north. is interesting. significant and the way it's going to be interpreted in the north. one of the things that richard reported was that the hotline had been severed. they're no longer connected with the south. which was the fail-safe if there were an error, miscalculation that one could pick up the other and general to general, they could talk. if not leader to leader. one thing that has not stopped as of the last time i checked was the cross-border workers who go into that industrial district in north korea, where the south koreans are permitted. and that is a critical source of cash, of currency for the north. when that gets cut off, that might mean they're really serious? >> think it's an important data point you just picked up on and i think richard touched on some of the things going on in the capital right now. there's the people's assembly, the parliamentary assembly's meeting, as folks have pointed out, there's new administrations if you will throughout the

region this is springtime and there are exercises that occur. fall eagle will continue through the month of april. there's a question as we speak in our trade, of audiences, i think there's significant messaging going on to an internal audience for a very young leader. that is trying perhaps to establish himself. but at times seems to come off as a bit of a pet lant child perhaps. the u.s. will take these threats seriously. it's demonstrated in the robust nature of the exercises and the ongoing commitment that is expressed. and of course, u.s. forces, u.s. forces korea are there, ambassador kim is on the ground. the channels of communication are very strong between i imagine this white house and the white house in korea. and of course japan and china as well. >> now the other thing is that jay carney just said at the white house we're not seeing a real mobilization. as you say, he is appealing, he's speaking to a domestic audience, kim jeong on jong is.

he's not moving the troops yet. we're not seeing a mobilization. one thing that was reported today of concern, potential concern is that we picked up no radiation when we did the air monitoring after the february nuclear underground nuclear test. which led some to suspect that now he has uranium model for a weapon. not just the plutonium. which we knew he was, he was using and working through his stockpile. how much of a concern is it, if he now is also developing a uranium-based fuel model for a nuclear weapon? >> sure. good questions all. one thing i learned while in the administration is to always defer to jay carney and not comment on intelligence matters. to be sure the administration and all relevant agencies are looking at all the information we have and taking every data point seriously. the starting point on the written agreements that we have and exercises like the ones going on while real scrutiny is being given to what is being

developed, tom donnelly, when he spoke at the asian society, the national security adviser and president obama in his statement in february about the nuclear test made it very clear what our position is. as a country and as a government. and that is, commitment to the allies and commitment to insure that north korea has a path out of this corner that its continually patientsing itself into, with this bellicose rhetoric to invoke one of my long-time favorite bands, one ought to say, don't believe the hype, but do react to the threats in a concerted wise way. the rhetoric increasingly puts north korea in a more isolated position. and this is the real tragedy. is that the people that pay for this are the north korean people. by doubling down on both the threats and frankly these weapons programs, they have a country that is at the bottom of human developments indices. >> and starving the country to develop these weapons.

ben chang, thank you very much. up next, how real is the threat from north korea? we'll talk to someone who has just been to south korea, senator bob corker, the ranking republican on the foreign relations committee. and security is stepped up outside the kaufman county texas courthouse after the district attorney and his wife are found murdered in their home over the weekend. the latest on the manhunt, coming up. >> we're very much on alert. we obviously have some folks that are out to do harm to elected officials, so we take that very seriously. and our jobs, i have great confidence that we're being protected and our courthouse today. ♪ the middle of this special moment and i need to run off to the bathroom. ♪ i'm fed up with always having to put my bladder's needs ahead of my daughter. ♪ so today, i'm finally talking to my doctor about overactive bladder symptoms.

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i would note that despite the harsh rhetoric we're hearing

from pyongyang, we're not seeing changes to the north korean military posture, such as large-scale mobilizations and positioning of forces. >> that was of course jay carney moments ago. senate foreign relations committee top republican bob corker is just back from south korea where he met with leaders about the escalating crisis with the north. and senator corker now joins me from tennessee. senator, thank you very much for being with us. i know you met with president park and the other leaders. how high is the anxiety level? or do they think this is just kim jong un flexing his muscles and doing things rhetorically for domestic consumption? it certainly has citizens of the country concerned. and i met with numerous officials in addition to the president. and you know they told their troops to respond if there are provocations and i think what people are worried about, i spent a lot of time with general thurman who commands our 28,5

28,500-person force there. people are concerned that a provocation can get out of hand, there's a response and it escalates. it's my personal belief, andrea, that nothing is going to happen. as was mentioned by a previous person on your show. they're still working together. and that industrial area where thousands of workers come from north korea into an area, a neutral zone and workers from south korea help manage that area. so again i do not think anything is going to happen. somehow or another an incident gets out of hand. but certainly us showing strength and togetherness with our allies is very important at this time. >> nor, how do we calibrate this, we don't know how he's going to respond. i've never seen a situation like this i've been to pyongyang a couple of times. seen how the previous regime, his father ran things. he was bellicose and then it would die down. but this is something really unprecedented.

>> there's no question that this is a little more bellicose than in the past. no question these tests that have taken place create a lot of concerns, again it's my sense this is not an incident where he's actually going to take action, i think obviously that would be not an intelligent thing for him to do. but i think what it does speak to, andrea, is we've got to figure out a way to denuclearize north korea. this is the only thing that he has. and it's very important to get china in the game here. they are really the only country at this point that has the ability because of the way that north korea depends upon them to have the kind of effect that is necessary. but look, two-thirds of the people andrea, in south korea now want to see their country have nuclear arms. i met with numbers of elected officials that started talking about tactical weapons coming back. which i know is not going to be the case from our standpoint.

but the point is, it destabilizes the region. japan obviously has kerconcerns. i met with leaders there. we've got to figure out a way to denuclearize this immature leader who is acting out in this way. >> in fact, there is talk concern i've heard it from other people. but you have the most recent evidence. that in south korea and japan, some people are beginning, some leaders are beginning to talk about the possibility of nuclear weapons. and that's the proliferation concern we have. what about this report that we picked up no, none of the usual aerial evidence from the february nuclear underground nuclear test. and some concern that he now has a uranium weapons test in terms of a new form of, of nuclear weapons production. uranium rather than plutonium, more dangerous potentially.

and something which he could have actually gotten from iran. >> so like previous speakers, i don't want to speak to things that may be classified. and obviously open sources, there have been concerns about those kind of things. about uranium enrichment that's taking place there. there has been no to my knowledge. aerial evidence as was mentioned by other speakers. but look, there's a lot of concerns about having a leader like this. that appears to be very unstable with nuclear weapons and the proliferation that comes from this. and how they might be working with iran and others to cause even more proliferation. so again, andrea, let's face it. this has not been a u.s. foreign policy success. for years, this has been something that our country has focused on. probably not in the way that we should. we now have a country that has those weapons. whether they can deliver it or

not. obviously we don't think that they can actually deliver a weapon to the u.s. at this point in time. but the fact is that this destabilizes the region. it causes our allies to be concerned. we need to focus on this in a very, very different way. again, a country that has tremendous economic issues. this is the way they hold on to power is through these threats. and having outside enemies that they focus on in this way and we've got to figure out a way to have a better foreign policy approach to north korea and get them denuclearized. otherwise this is just going to continue as they increase their ability to deliver weapons of mass destruction. >> senator bob corker, thank you very much. thanks for joining us today from tennessee. >> thank you. and next we will be live from south africa with the very latest on nelson mandala. still ahead, is hillary

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94-year-old nelson mandala is spending his fifth day in a south african hospital where he is being treated for pneumonia. and joining us now, nbc's keir simmons in johannesburg, south africa, what's the latest on his condition? >> good afternoon, andrea. well the south african president's office issuing a short statement today, saying that there is no significant change to his condition and adding that he spent the day today close family members. it looks from the statements as if he is every day getting visits from members of his family. but this statement comes after a weekend in which there appear to be improvements, a statement last night saying that there have been further improvements in his condition. each of these statements will be carefully worded by the south african government, and youia

because you'll know all too well it goes without saying how important nelson mandala is to this country and to millions of people around the world. to tell you one story, i was talking to a south african today, who says when he has problems in his life, he says to his family, look at nelson mandala. look at the troubles he went through and that he won out in the end. so everything that the south african government is so saying is so important to people and even in a statement last night they went to pains to reassure people that the medical treatment he is getting is the best possible. andrea? >> keir simmons, thanks for the latest on nelson mandala. >> joining me is charmaine gault, an msnbc analyst. very good to see you. let's talk about mandala, his health, how important he is to his country.

if not only his historic role going all the way back, but also the way he brought all sides together through reconciliation. >> absolutely. andrea, thank you for having me. all the information i get from close people to mandala indicate that your report recently a few minutes ago, is accurate. that he is steadily improving. and of course, he is 94 years old and has had repeated problems with his lungs. i'm told it could be as much as two weeks that he's in the hospital. i'm sure they won't let him go until they feel confident that he is doing well. he is a symbol not only in south africa, the story that was just told is so symbolic of how people in south africa feel about nelson mandala. both black and white. because he stood for reconciliation. once he became president, and i think that even though today.

there is still gross disparities, still gross disparities in the economic situation, the racial climate is quiet, but still people have not come together as the rainbow nation that nelson mandala once called for. but there's no real racial antagonism that's overt. so all of that accrues to his leadership. and his moral authority. andrea? >> charlene, you've interviewed him many times. there is a wisdom, a peacefulness about him. in the few times when i've met him. what is the special quality that mandala has? from the time that he grew up in the royal household with his godfather i suppose you could say in the timbu region, who was his godfather. he has had a special approach to conditions. now he did have to grow up a little bit. because there were times in his

younger years when he was not as patient or as forgiving as he later became. but i think that those 27 years in prison in south africa helped him to focus on the kind of country he wanted to see once he was free or that he could allow those who were serving in prison, many teenagers by the way, allow him to gather the wid dom and education that would help him run the country. because he never gave up faith that the country could become multiracial and democratic. in his later years he was a much calmer person and yent he did have streaks when he could be quite strong. what he learned in his own culture was that you listen to everybody who has something to say about an issue no matter how contentious, and once he had processed everything he had heard, he would then speak on

it. this is a growth in mandala, there were times in his youth when he was not that patient. but that was the way he proceeded and that was the way he ran the government to the extent that he did. in the five years when he, after he became president in 1949. >> charlene hunter-gault. there would not have been a multiracial democratic south africa most likely if he had not taken the steps that he did take. thanks again, charlene. coming up next, hillary clinton's return to the public spotlight and we kick off our women in the world series with "daily beast" and "newsweek" editor in chief, tina brown. first, joke's on who? the white house has some fun on april fool's day with a pint-sized president on the website. >> it looks like you were

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"daily beast"or for the fourth annual women in the world summit. celebrating the achievements of women around the world and addressing the remaining hurdles to women's empowerment. joining me is tina brown, editor in chief of "newsweek" and the "daily beast." great to see you. you've got hillary clinton as one of the big headliners, you have susan rice, a lot going on at women in the world. and angelina jolie and announcing new aid in the name of malala, for women and girls, trying to get education. >> indeed, it's an incredible lineup and we're thrilled that hillary clinton is again coming to women in the world this friday, the fourth time she's been, so we feel enormously honored at her support. we have a great line-up. we've brought women in all over the world to talk about the issues that are confronting women right now. we have as well as the big headliners that you mentioned, including meryl streep, which you didn't, extraordinarily leaders from libya, syria,

afghanistan, sometimes those are the women that people leave lincoln center talking about, even more than the big headliners you talked about. >> let's go through a couple of the women that you and i have been talking about in your lineup. one is from sierra leone. mckenna deprince, an orphan from sierra leone. another example of the courageous women, considering what they're facing in the world. the youngest member of the dance theater of harlem. >> mckayla deprince, an 18-year-old girl. a war orphan in sierra leone. her mother died of starvation, she was adopted from an orphanage when she was a toddler by an amazing woman from new jersey. brought to the united states, she saw a picture of a ballerina that haunted her when she was a little girl and now of all things, she's going to debut next week, a week after in the dance theater of harlem as a company ballerina.

such an strond thing. at our summit on thursday night, mckayla is going to dance a story of her own life that she choreographed just for us, so it will be a very, very moving thing to see. >> i can't wait, because i'm going to be there as well. as sergeant julia brinklove, who won the distinguished flying cross. >> she's an incredibly brave woman. she flew these missions in afghanistan with the medivac crew and she rapelled down a rope and lifted up a wounded soldier from a hilltop with a rope. winched him back up to the helicopter. the helicopter banged against the side of these trees, in order to protect the patient from the trees she interposed her body so that she had a broken leg. rather than the patient. so that is the kind of incredible woman of courage that she is. julia bringlow is a rock. there's a woman from argentina who has led the crusade to prevent the sex slave

trafficking of women in argentina. >> suzannah tremarco. her daughter was snatched from the streets of a rural town in argentina over ten years ago now when she was 18. her mother, susanna tramarco spent the next ten years sear searching for her daughter in the brothels of argentina. she posed as a pimp in order to look for her daughter amongst these terrible dives of sin where her daughter had been taken. she actually brought 11 men to justice in argentina, who had touched her daughter's life. but the tragedy is that she never found her daughter yet. as a result she has really started an ngo in argentina to help other trafficked girls, because she feels she saw so many women who were in same situation as her daughter, she wanted to help them even if she couldn't find her own girl. >> imagine the grief that motivates her and also the passion that motivates her to

continue. and then afghanistan, a woman who, also talking about this woman from afghanistan fawz fawzia koofi, who will most likely be a candidate for president as the first orderly transition of the end of the karzai regime. he's supposed to leave power and she's going to be running. >> she is indeed, i'm very excited, andrea, thank you for moderating the opening panel with us on sunday night. she's got an extraordinary personal story. she was the 19th child of a village leader, left out in the sun to die. but she didn't. and now she's running, she's in parliament and actually probably going to be a presidential candidate. because education meant so much to her, as you can imagine, she has made education of girls a primary sort of plank in her political platform. so she's a remarkable woman. i think that so many of the women we're featuring have overcome such amazing odds.

here they are and you're in awe of people like this. >> that's why this event is so phenomenal. a quick question about caroline kennedy, now reported to be our next ambassador to japan unless they move her to another capital. it's most likely she will be going to japan as the next u.s. ambassador. some are questioning credentials, you know caroline, you've worked around her. ha do you think of her as our next ambassador to japan? >> well i know that her husband actually has a tremendous knowledge of japan so perhaps she's also become very interested in it herself. i think that caroline kennedy was enormously loyal and supportive to obama in the first election campaign. i think she's proved that she is very serious now about entering some kind of a public service role. for her to go to japan is a probably a very good appointment. out of the limelight of the american spotlight. she'll be able to serve in the way she wants to serve and develop her own public service

credentials, i think it's a smart move of caroline's and a very smart move of the president, too. >> tina brown, see you in new york, thank you so much of convening again of women of the world. >> i look forward to seeing you. and next our political panel with talk at the top g-man may be a woman and a programming note, msnbc's chris hayes is among to primetime, don't miss the premiere tonight of "all in" here on msnbc. [ female announcer ] the only pad made from a revolutionary material. [ erina ] it totally fits to your body. [ female announcer ] it's incredible protection, you'll barely feel it. always infinity. tell us what you think.

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could make headlines. joining me now bloomberg view margaret carlson and washington bureau chief, elizabeth bloomler. hillary clinton coming back from a little time to clean the closets, whatever she's been doing. get some rest. and she's been off since she left the state department now we're going to see her twice this week and in coming weeks on paid speeches. first, vital voices so near to her heart. this is the event tuesday night and joe biden will also be there i'm told. >> he's making noises, possibly. >> about 2016. she's going to appear at tina brown's event on friday in new york. this is a high profile relaunch of the former secretary of state. >> we had a great story by jim rootenberg on sunday, he did a lot ever reporting, a lot of push-back saying this is way early. but there is the friends of hillary political action committee. she is launching into paid public speeches later this month. a lot of you know, and she's writing a book.

she's, she has not by the way teaching at yale as the "yale daily news" reported this morning, that was a an april fool's joke. it was not from my organization, had to be recalled on that. >> i know you know someone very well. >> we, yeah, we checked that out, that's not true. but not that yale wouldn't like that there's early polling showing she's doing well in florida against marco rubio and jeb bush. but her people are saying you know, give us some space. >> as much as we say her staff, her loyal staff will say that until the very last minute before she announces, everything is being repositioned and prepositioned, if you will. margaret carlson for whatever hillary clinton wants to do. if you believe the polls, she's the one that will define the field. if she doesn't get out, it will be hard for somebody else to get in and raise the money. the danger for hillary clinton is being seen as the juggernaut.

as she was before as the front-runner against barack obama, that didn't particularly help her that time. this time, it won't hurt her as much. but you just never want that to be how you come into a race. because the day you announce is the day day you peak. but i think she is the one to beat. and all these things she's doing are excellent. i look forward to seeing her tomorrow night. >> in fact, not that she would clear the entire field. joe biden is not likely to back off. but it could stop someone like andrew cuomo, a fellow new yorker from getting into the race. speaking of new yorkers, caroline kennedy as an ambassador to japan. her grandfather, joe kennedy, was the ambassador to the court of st. james, to the court of great britain but japan is not the most logical place you would think of for caroline kennedy. >> it is not. but the japanese have a tradition of being very enthusiastic about very well

known political, american political names going to tokyo. i.e., mike mansfield, walter mondale both lived in a beautiful ambassador residence in central tokyo. >> i know you lived there and worked there. >> not in the residence. quite a bit smaller where we lived. >> but you and your husband were both working journalists. the bureau chief for the new york times. and you know that going all the way back to mike mansfield and howard baker and vice president mondale, the japanese loved having ambassadors with big names. and there isn't a bigger name in politics other than obama and clinton and kennedy. >> and of course, you know, the white house is extremely grateful to caroline kennedy for her support of obama in 2008. her early support. it was a big moment. so it makes a certain amount of sense, although i don't know what caroline kennedy, what her background is in japan at this point. >> and is there going to be any

kind of a kerfuffle about whether she is credentialed? we know that the ambassadors to many of the big camdepitals are people who raised big money and have had a lot more experience. she's had a lifetime in and around the political world. >> there will be a little kerfuffle but she doesn't have the experience. she is a big name. she sends a great message to japan's women as the first woman ambassador. and she has had a lifetime of service, if quiet. she shuns the limelight. and this would allow her to serve without being in that limelight or in the dysfunction that is the american political system at the moment. >> thanks so much. great to see you both. we'll be right back. everyone's retirement dream is different;

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