young people can get the critical experience he needs to improve employment prospects for the rest of his life. with that shot someone with decades of experience can get back in the game and show the younger worker the ropes. we can give them that shot and that's what today is all about. >> peter alexander taking his brief window between the president's event and the white house briefing to join us live. good to see you, sir. this is part of the president's state of the union push, taking action to help those 4 million folks who have been out of work for six months now. the private sector has to get on board for this thing to work. how is the white house going to go about doing that? >> this is another example of what the president indicated in the state of the union, he's going to use his pen and phone when necessary to get things down with or without congress. this is an example of effectively going around congress but there are limits to what he can do. what he's basically doing now is

working with as many as 300 businesses around this country to have them sort of revamp their hiring processes to be more in the words of the president, inclusive in those screening processes so they are not discriminating against the long term unemployed. there was actually a researcher from northeastern university who came up with a stat i found to be pretty striking. almost identical resumes in terms of credentials to companies, 4,000 of them, they found nearly all of those out of work for six months did not get a call back. the president wants these companies among them apple, bank of america and morgan stanley, all agreeing to take part and create a form of better practices when it comes to this issue. for what he can control directly, he signed a presidential memorandum where he's putting $150 million towards a grant program that will help make sure the federal government has non-profits around this country that are participating in this process as well to make sure the people get a fair shot as he described it

as well. >> the president has tried but so far failed to get congress to extend those long term jobless benefits. where are we on that effort? >> it's a good question. right now we know there's some conversations taking place. we're told between democrats and republicans but at this point it appears to be very limited. recognize that for the entire month of january, these individuals, more than 1.3%, perhaps 1.6 million americans have seen their long term -- unemployment insurance benefits basically expire. they have lapsed and they are not getting help from congress right now. we know that congress didn't move or basically voted against this extension. so for a lot of those people they continue to wait and the real concern for the president and for those americans is that once you stop receiving those uninsurance -- those unemployment insurance benefits, then you leave the labor market all together and really stop looking. >> peter alexander at 1600 pennsylvania for us on a friday

afternoon. thank you, sir. let's go now to a member of congress who has been waging the fight for those jobless benefits, new york representative carolyn maloney. good to see you. >> good to see you again. >> democrats, including yourself, pushing for this extension since before christmas time. we're more than a month now, a month out since those benefits expired. has the window closed? >> well, it's been a month since 1. 6 million people lost their insurance because of the failure to extend it. democrats have been working very hard to extend it and the president and in the state of the union said i'm not waiting, i'm going to act on my own. his initiative to call together leaders in our country and i am plor that they hire the long term unemployed and not discriminating against him. he reported today 300 companies are participating including 80 of our largest companies. he also has a grant program, a

competitive grant program for public partnerships with ideas of ways to have incentives to extend long term unemployment. and i think a very important statistic came out of the joint economic committee on which i serve. and it was a study that showed of every dollar you spend on unemployment insurance, it generates 1.9 -- $1.90 in economic activity because it's plowed back into the economy. >> if we know that, why has it been such a tough sell in d.c.? >> why is everything so hard in d.c.? you name it. it's a hard time. but the president made it clear we're not going to wait. we're going to act on our own with initiatives and executive orders and programs such as the ones he announced today to move forward even if we cannot get the cooperation. but we'll keep reaching across the aisle and really working with our republican colleagues to extend unemployment benefits. it's the right thing to do.

not only for the individual but for our overall economy. >> let's pivot here and talk about so many of your colleagues seem to be leaving washington. we heard 20-term congressman henry waxman calling it quits and he joins a long, long list is what we're hearing about a possible run. what do you make of the exodus there in the nation's capitol? >> he had been there 40 years, time to move on. >> not just him. why does it seem so many are leaving? >> there's a frustration of inability to work together to get things done. we did pass a budget so they can't close down the government for two years. that was a step in the right direction. but too often, we we have not been working together. if you have a divided congress as we have, you have to work together. and we'll continue reaching across the aisle and trying to find areas that we can find

common ground and move forward. on sandra fluke, i would say run sandra run, i believe she would win. i was at that historic hearing when the republicans would not let her testify and i asked that question where are the women? it became a battle cry in the last election. and i would say they said she wasn't qualified to testify on women's health and reproductive health choices. i would say any woman is more qualified than the panel of 13 men or six men that are there testifying. she really is a statement of involving women at the table in congress. i think she would be a great addition to the democratic team. >> really quickly while i have you here. this is, of course, a big sports weekend here in the big apple. you are a host for the super bowl. it seems as if new york has hijacked the super bowl from new jersey in a lot of ways. who's your team? >> well, i'm for both of them -- >> that's such a politician's

answers. >> i'm for having more super bowls here and we need to have one of those reversible domes so if it's really cold -- >> who's going to pay for that? >> we'll do public/private partnerships and raise money and get the super bowl back. the business -- >> you're not going to pick a team, are you? >> i'm not going to pick a team. i want all the teams to come to new york and we have lots of hotel rooms and restaurants and activities, super bowl alley, all kinds of excitement. >> congresswoman kelly maloney. >> thank you. >> we'll talk about another politician playing host to the super bowl this week, governor chris christie. we'll also talk about some of the hits that his reputation continue to take over the bridge scandal. first though we'll check in on the gop retreat and the topic that has republicans a bit split. immigration. the power panel on the other side of this break. [ male announcer ] this is george.

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you can't begin the process of immigration reform without securing our borders. and the ability to enforce our laws. >> that is house speaker john boehner drawing his line the sand on immigration reform. there's talk, there's talk now that some of that may be happening among house republicans attending their annual retreat, talk of a break through may finally be in view. i want to bring in chip saltsman and "washington post" reporter jackie kucinich and victoria

defran chesko soto. >> let's talk about deportation numbers, the speaker talks about the ability to enforce our laws and we know that this is an administration that has deported more illegal immigrants than any administration in history. what is he talking about there? >> well, i think he's talking about a lot of different things. if you've been to the border, they get picked off for the border and held for 24 hours and released saying he's your court date in 30 days and never come back. secure the border first, that's what most republicans are saying, security the border and enforce the laws on the books. i don't necessarily think that's a line in the sand. i think that's good common sense. >> not a talking point? >> not a talking point. we have a border. why shouldn't we secure it? that's a simple deal and we have laws why shouldn't we enforce them? >> chip, those who would contend our borders now are safer than

they have been in a decade. >> let's succeed that point and say they are and still we have thousands crossing the border illegally every day. is that not true? >> jackie, here's -- >> go ahead, victoria. >> i was going to say the point chip is missing is that what about the demand. we can secure the border all we want but ultimately people are coming over because there's a command. employers are hiring unemploymented workers. the real issue is about employer identification, e verify, let's not waste money we don't have. let's get at the demand, that's the core of it, chip. >> there have been republican lawmakers from the midwest, his name escapes me immediately, who have complained that a lot of the money being talked about, being spent on bortder patrol and border security is pretty

outrageous when you look at the sort of bang we've gotten in the past, bang for buck on enforcement. jackie, president obama today taking about immigration. >> i generally believe speaker boehner and number of house republicans, folks like paul ryan really do want to get a serious immigration reform bill done. >> in simple terms, what are republicans afraid will happen in they pass some version of immigration reform this year before their primary elections and before the mid-term elections later this year? >> there is this fear of a challenge from the right from a lot of republicans. a lot of them do have these challengers. we're looking at maybe seeing an immigration bill in the house, these piecemeal bills, maybe sometime in the summertime. that's closer to the midterms and that's going to make it even harder for lawmakers to vote for something beyond border security. so they definitely have their work cut out for them. that said, you are hearing optimism from some democrats like the president and senator

chuck schumer and expressed cautious optimism that republicans are actually talking about this, which for immigration, reform proponents is a step in the right direction. >> victoria, the hill today reporting on a real split, real split among republicans at the retreat right now about whether to even move forward. there's the headline there from the hill. this is something that's been in the works for a long time. even george w. bush tried to get a bill that offered legalized status, if congress were to wait, if congress waits until later this year, how much of a difference would it make? what harm -- how much harm would there be if congress waited another six months? >> everything is relative, right? if you ask a question who is undocumented, the harm is immense. if you ask somebody not affected, big deal, let's wait another couple months. the immigration reform issue is going to have a sweet spot. we have to wait until after the

primary to get serious about immigration reform because of the split that jackie was just talking about. at the same time, if we get too close to elections, candidates and politicians don't want to touch the issue, which is ultimately a controversial issue. so i think if we want to see immigration reform done, it's going to have to happen sometime between may, june, maybe july at the latest. but that's the only way we're going to see it. we were just talking about long term unemployment, and when people talk about unemployment, and immigration, they start to get nervous. they say, we have so many people unemployed here in the u.s. why are we going to let more folks in. we can see why it's a skittish issue for politicians near election time. >> still ahead here, the snow and ice have melted in the south, but has there been any fall when it comes to the blame game? we're going to talk to a local mayor from georgia who plans to run for governor, would he have handled this differently than the man who currently has the

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come into the future. >> governor nathan deal accepting the blame for the snow sponsor lack thereof. this is how today's atlanta journal constitution framed it, in a front larger than the mast head itself. governor apologizes, about how his government handled the winter weather and massive traffic jams could not have come at a worse time. he's up for re-election and already looking over his shoulder at a federal probe involve ethics complaints and first run for governor and then there's deal's challenge to his right, our next guest, david pennington, the mayor of dalton, georgia. good to see you, sir. thanks for being with me. >> glad to be with you. >> georgia governors who want a second term almost always get it. why is it different this time around? >> well, this situation in atlanta with the snowstorm and

traffic situation, just points out the failing of nathan deal's really three years in office. this was obviously the most publicized but he's had quite a few other faux pas leading up to that. the ethics issues and we can go on and on and on. hopefully this will really illustrate the failure of three years in office in georgia. >> governor deal, he took responsibility for it, but there are others who argue that it wasn't just the governor who should get some of the blame down there in georgia. here's the other part. once you get into the hot summer days, are folks still going to remember the snow response? >> they are still talking about 2011. keep in mind, this was not something that nathan deal was and shouldn't have been prepared for. his own inauguration the same thing happened and he promised georgians then they were going to appoint a committee and come

up with a plan to handle the next situation better than they did the first time. obviously if they had a plan, they didn't execute the plan but nobody has told us know what the plan is. he's saying he has to make another commission which sounds like 18 years in congress. why would we have more confidence in this one when he promised three years ago we were going to have a plan. >> today, things back to normal down there? >> today in atlanta, i think they are getting close to back to normal. the schools are still out, but to shut down really basically the atlanta economy which is probably 80% of the gdp of georgia for four days. that's an economic disaster str out of recession. >> thank you for your time, sir. >> our next guest, ed rendell knows about snow responses, former philadelphia mayor and pennsylvania governor and currently msnbc analyst. do you have any sympathy for

mayor deal and the complaints they've been getting for the snow response? >> i do. i know mayor reed is an effective mayor and person who cares about his constituents but understand the key bottleneck was the highways that are state highways, they go through atlanta but they are state highways like in philadelphia, the state highways go through the city, they are the responsibility of the state. but everyone in an incident like this takes some share of the blame. i think the governor did the right thing by apologizes and admitting they screwed up and by saying it's not going to happen again. look, these things can happen. when i was governor, we did 95% of the time we did a great job with snow removal and of course in pennsylvania, snow is a huge issue. there was one time when people were trapped on i-78 from about 2:00 in the afternoon to 7:00 and my people never informed me about it. and i couldn't acty vat the

national guard. i'm the only one who could. the guard when they were activated they got people out of cars and got blankets and hot beverages to the people in the cars, opened up ramps. that was a screwup on behalf of my people but i took responsibility for it. i think the governor has to do that. none of this stuff is easy, you've got to depend on weather forecasts getting much more accurate but aren't always accurate. but for a place like atlanta that doesn't handle snow normally, i would say when you've got any possibility, you've got to be absolutely ready and ready to go into action pretty quickly. >> let's turn to another gop governor with his own set of problems, chris christie, wrapping his arms around the super bowl this week, basically becoming the super bowl governor. how long though -- how long can he keep avoiding the questions about how much he knew regarding the bridge gate scandal? >> well, he can't. and the longer it's out there,

the more death by 1,000 cuts occurs. you're seeing all of these different incidents where people are saying that the governor's people threatened them and they had to take action because they were threatened. and it's just going to be death by 1,000 cuts. it's a difficult position for the governor. let's assume the best case scenario, craig, that he did not know about the order to close the bridge, i'm not sure that that's credibility, but let's assume it is. then for four days, governor christie, who is an activist governor like i was, hands on governor for four days let this huge traffic jam which endangered public safety and inconvenienced his constituents for four days he let it go on and the only inquiry made he was told it was a traffic study. if that were me and they said it was a traffic study, i would have said stick the traffic study where the sun doesn't shine, you have 30 minutes to get the cones off bridge or

you're all fired. he didn't do that. how does he explain that activist hands on governor didn't take that action. >> before i let you get out of here, i know you're a big hillary guy. and her decision whether to run 2016 would quote, not directly affect his own. how open is the democratic primary right now? >> well, i'm not certain that hillary clinton has decided she wants to run. >> come on, governor. >> no, i'm absolutely not certain. and by the way, a number of people in the clinton inside camp feel the same way. hillary clinton has got to decide whether she wants to go through what has become a horrible business. because of the 24/7 news cycle and how polarized politics has become. let's assume she does for the moment do it. if she does, i think as a practical matter clears the democratic field. look, i feel -- >> is that a good thing?

should there be a coranation. >> i think for all of the things that hillary clinton has done in her career, she has basically earned it. with george w. bush ran, he had competition, but he hadn't done the things that hillary clinton had done. i'm saying whether it's a good or bad thing, the vice president who has done a great job as vice president, but his people are hillary's people. his fundraisers are hillary's fundraisers. and you look at the poll that was just released, with hillary having a 61% point, i've never seen anything like that in presidential pliksz and 12-point advantage in the general election. there's an old saying and you know it very well, there isn't an election that can't be lost. >> that's true. >> if hillary does run, she'll have to run a better campaign and make wiser decisions and hit her stride out of the gate.

she hit her stride in 2008 almost too late. she's got to hit her stride out of the gate. i think she will do it this time if she decides to run. >> we're out of time. former governor and mayor and msnbc contributor. quickly, broncos or seahawks. >> i'm rooting for the seahawks. we're nfc people in philadelphia. >> of course you are. >> i've been to that stadium, nfc might be -- anyway. we're going to go to super bowl boulevard where we're counting down until kickoff. first though, we'll get jon stewart final word on the snow meltdown in the south. >> i would not be in atlanta's snowshoes right now. >> had to sleep in their car and had a friend come and deliver food to them. >> the friend didn't have extra space in their car or maybe give them a right home. >> hey, man, i heard about your trouble, here's some cola and slim jims, got to go! . d up, i can't rest.

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cory is here tonight and like the army he loves and america he serves, sergeant first class cory ramsberg never gives up and he does not quit. [ applause ] hands down the most moving moment from the state of the union. president obama along with congress and u.s. military's top brass paying tribute. he is one of 2.5 million veterans who served either in iraq or afghanistan over the last decade, many of whom are making a difficult transition back to civilian life. right now there are roughly 140,000 veterans, veterans of the u.s. armed services who are in prison, 60% of them are dealing with substance abuse

issues. ar melber is one half of "the cycle." he spent time down in the commonwealth. folks from all walks of life struggle with addiction, what's especially troubling about this particular group is here you have people who have given so many to this country and come back and this is what they go through. this is attorney general eric holder talking about a special court program to address these cases. >> morally the right thing to do, to have a criminal justice system perceived as being fair and acts in proportionate ways. >> what did you see in virginia? >> we visited the second federal veterans court in the land, part of a new initiative from the attorney general's office, states veterans court there's over 100. and to your point, craig and an important point, what the veterans courts do is deal specifically with substance

abuse that is related to people's time serving us, protecting us and trying to give them rehabilitation over prison. as you know and many people know the typical response in the u.s. justice system to any kind of substance abuse is go to jail. the conversation about mandatory minimums is go to jail. what we know according to the rand corporation, one out of five come back with emotional strain, ptsd and often self-medicate with alcohol or substance abuse. what the attorney general is supporting here and what judge russell pioneered was a way to say to these folks who run into a problem with the law, let's work to get you rehab. when you look at the cases and how the system usually treats them, something is wrong here if someone has ptsd or emotional strain and using to deal with that and the first response, the first response they get is go to jail. >> lock them up. two of them right now, two

federal courts. talk of expansion at this point? >> absolutely. that's what they are doing. the attorney general was down visiting a program that worked. and i interviewed a veteran and said i made mistakes but i needed a second chance and i'm glad it existed. at the state/local level there are 130 of these courts. what is amazing though, craig, this enstir system was first developed in 2006. this is brand-new, again, because of the war on drugs for most of our country's history, people in this situation, including these veterans were just thrown into the normal system. trying to get them into the rehab and drug court model is a way to give them an alternative. i should mention, if they fail and don't meet their legal obligations, they still have jail hanging over their head. this is not a free by but it is something that looks at, something we agree on, veterans served us and we owe it to them to give them the best opportunities when they return. >> amen. >> thank you for introducing us

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less than 60 hours to go now before the big game, the super bowl excitement here in new york is mounting. times square has been turned into super bowl boulevard while new yorkers an visitors from out of town turned into super bowl fanatics. >> got my jersey, hat, the glove. i would wear the other one but smart phones, tattoo everywhere i go. >> denver broncos baby. >> peyton manning. peyton manning! >> seahawks! seahawks! yeah, baby. >> seems like the preparty has already started. nbc's katy tur is live from super bowl boulevard in times square. no doubt, folks having a lot of fun out there but security, of course, also very serious concern for sunday's game. what sort of security measures are being put into place? >> reporter: there's a lot of security measures we're at the

cross roads of the world right now. it's a interesting place to have a super bowl in the tri-state area because of the security concerns in general and threats of terrorism that they deal with on a day to day basis out here. because of that it's a massive undertaking. over 100 agencies are involved and they have setups across the state. there's mobile command units in new york and mobile command units in new jersey. the nypd is over there. the good news is all of this coordination, while it should be extremely hard to pull off they are doing an okay job because it's already in place after 9/11. they have the joint terrorism task force which enabled a lot of this to go off a little more smoothly than you probably think it would have normally. at the stadium itself, 2.5 miles of fencing surrounds it, cameras on everything, helicopters up pof and patrols and boats with infrared and night vision. they have real time surveillance. they can spot people acting suspiciously pretty much

anywhere in this area. they can spot suspicious packages. when you go into the stadium you have metal detectors and patdowns. can't bring a back pack or purse. you can only bring in clear plastic bags, a little like airport security, which i don't think anyone is looking forward to. >> having fun in front of to bog begin ride. >> are you going on? >> i'll do it later, not on camera. >> katy tur, always a pleasure. an nfl player with super bowl experience himself is going to join me, plus, a preview of those super bowl ads getting the most buzz ahead of sunday. >> anybody need help? >> i love it. have i mentioned to you you can never have too many puppies in a broadcast. the last minute game prediction still coming in too. >> let's release the puppies.

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for many sunday's football game is killing time while we wait for the main attraction, the commercials. a few of them are causing quite the buzz, including an early favorite from our friends at budweiser. ♪

for more on some of the most buzz worthy ads, i'm joined by senior editor kim serafin. here's the thing, that ad that budweiser had last year with the clydesdale that had gone away and come back, my wife, who covers sports, not to put her on blast here, she got a little choked up. when i say a little, she got a lot choked up. those are effective ads and buzz wiser back at it again. >> exactly. this year look for the trend of lots of celebrities and lots of dogs and cuteness. this one i think is the number one everyone is talking about this one, of course this puppy, the clydesdale horse. and the puppy bowl obviously airs opposite the super bowl, it got over 12 million viewers in all of their showings last year. someone is paying attention and said we need to put dogs in the commercials for the super bowl to get people to not tune into the puppy bowl. this is such a good ad and people will remember this and

talking about it already. millions of views already online for this. >> it seems like the recipe for super bowl commercial success is fairly simple, puppies, humor, sex, celebrities. >> right. >> the new john stamos commercial as well, striking a bit of a nostalgic chord. >> there it is right there. >> no, no, please, don't leave me alone with them. >> she wasn't good for us anyway. >> for those under the age of 25, john stamos hanging out with two of the folks there made famous about that show "full house." is the combination -- is this going to be a winning combination we think? >> oh, my gosh, yes, this is another one everyone is talking about, to see john stamos, uncle jesse and joey and tanner, having a pg-13 element to it, john stamos gets yogurt on his lip or girlfriend or some girl

kisses it off then it drips someplace else. but then the rest of the full house team is there to take his pants off and clean his pants because that is the way to get the yogurt off the pants. >> you keep those pg-13 for us in the middle of the day kim serafin. there's always the funny ads like the one for toyota starring the muppets. is the touching commercials or funny commercials that people talk about longer? >> i think the funny ones. this year you're not seeing as many racy sexy ads. i love this terry cruz and muppets commercial. it has the celebrities and humor and has muppets singing like crazy in a car. it has a little bit of that sexiness because by the end he's having a wild and crazy fun time with the muppets and takes his shirt off. that's what people talk about, the ones that have mix of people like the muppets and terry cruz,

who would have put that together? humor, a catchy tune. >> who's going to win the night sunday with regards to commercials? >> oh, man, i don't know, the pup puppies, i'm a dog lover. but a lot of celebrities everyone from ellen degeneres to scarlet joe hanson. >> i watched that three times at my desk, i'm proud of it. kim serafin, enjoy the game. thank you. >> thank you too. >> now to the intersection of sport and politics, signing young people up for the affordable care act continues to be a focus for the obama administration. >> moms get on your kids to sign up. kids call your mom and walk her through the application. give her piece of mind and plus she'll appreciate hearing from you. >> but exactly how to get this message through to young people

remains a challenge. the best way to do it according to stall worth is a flashmob in central park. ♪ >> fresh off that dance routine, former nfl receiver veteran donte stallworth. thanks for stopping by. how did you get involved? >> i think the most important thing is giving kids, young people to understand that your health is very vital to your livelihood as it is with me being a professional athlete. and it was great to partner with emily and generation progress doing the flash mob, me being a person with two left feet, that part was -- >> he was great. >> although they told me they

had to shoot it like six or seven times. >> yeah, the practice was a little bit on the iffy side. >> he did his film. >> what's the latest? what are you hearing with regards to how many young people have signed up so far and how that effort is going? >> i think we're on track if we look at massachusetts as a model for the pace which young people sign up. when they start to focus. young people a lot of things going on. they really do focus and tune in at the end. i think around now is the beginning of when we'll see the real full push efforts to get young people involved and get their attention and start where they are, that is what the video is all about, making the connection of sports and health and connecting it back to your own life. if they talk about the super bowl, olympics, march madness, these are times we can grab young people's attention to focus them on health. >> it seems as if organizations like yours are using some pretty unique ways to go about doing this, whether talking about flash mobs, what are the other

unique ways out there? >> we're going to see interesting ads going on. but of course there's nothing that you can never replace peer to peer, getting young people to talk about their own experiences and sounding like it was going to be so expensive, 6 in 10 people can get plans under $100 a month, hearing it was affordable. this is something that's basically been discussed in the political realm, are you for or against obama care? it's actually becoming personal to people. hearing the actual stories near friends, that's going to win the day. >> while i have you, i want to ask about the settlement between the nfl and 4,000 or so retired players and judge ruling recently that the $765 million may not in fact be enough to cover the costs. what's your take on that? what's your take on the long-term damage that the sport could be causing players? >> i think any time you have injuries with the brain, that's something that needs to be looked at. i think that the nfl is doing their best to try to reduce those type of injuries,

concussions have been a problem and especially more recently, there's been more light brought upon what's going on with the lawsuits and everything and more players becoming concussed during games. it's player safety first -- >> was that the culture when you played? >> no. and early in my career, a lot -- there were a lot of guys that were having concussions and going back into games but the nfl has done a good job of trying to really calm and taper that down some and pay attention more to guys having concussions and not going back into the games. >> who do you have sunday? >> who do you have? >> i think i'm going to go with the puppies and take the broncos. welker is a great friend of mine and we lost the super bowl together. >> i remember, you cost me -- i'm joking. you got the pron co-s, how about you? >> i'll stick with the broncos,

i'm manning supportive all the way. >> those are easy picks. >> big thanks to both of you. that will do it for me on a friday afternoon. up next "andrea mitchell reports." g me your mom has a mom cave? hi boys! i've made you campbell's chunky new england clam chowder. wow! this is incredible! i know. and now it has more clams! [ male announcer ] campbell's chunky soup. what? [ male announcer ] it fills you up right. you know the shirt he'll choose... the wine he'll order. you know him. yet now, after exploring vineyards in the hills of italy, he doesn't order the wine he always orders. he asks to be surprised. and for that moment, he's new to you. princess cruises. come back new. ♪

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