over the weekend, late this weekend into next week, we could have a blockbuster of a coastal storm where we will be talking about snow in feet. >> al, go back to bed. come back with a better forecast! >> here we go again. the start of another wintry week with the good news it is one monday closer to spring. right now, the northeast is being hit with one of the biggest storms of the season. so far we're expecting eight inches or more here in new york city, punxsutawney phil says six more weeks of winter for you. got to be honest, starting to feel like ground hog day. >> this is pitiful. a thousand people freezing their butts off, waiting to worship a rat. what a hype. groundhog day used to mean something in this town. they used to pull the hog out and used to eat it. you're hypocrites! >> maybe mayor de blasio was on to something with staten island chuck when he slipped out of his

hands sunday. the forecast from a trained human meteorologist in a second. let's start with the elements, msnbc alex wilson drew that plum assignment, he is in queens. >> reporter: as of early afternoon, still under a winter storm warning for the new york area until 7:00 tonight. things will taper off as far as snow goes through the evening commute. new jersey governor chris christie declared a state of emergency for the state, and new york city mayor bill de blasio said he used lessons from the last snowstorm to help things go a little smoother this time. they did cancel trash pickup, decided to allow sanitation vehicles to focus on clearing the roads. it is a slushy, heavy snow that we're dealing with. this is not the last winter system the new york city area will be dealing with as we go through the week. we've got the winter storm warning in effect until 7:00, then winter storm watch in effect, tomorrow evening going into wednesday as we watch for

more snow, ice, and also some rain. more wintry weather expected for new york. back to you guys. >> thanks. covering that winter storm. that's no small task, and we say that from the warm studio. see how some of our stations are getting it done. >> video short in charleston. >> visibility very low in the upper and lower decks, leaving and entering town. >> really, this is the beginning of a wintry week for us. >> here is a snowball i got off the ground. it immediately turned into ice, into an ice ball so to speak once i compressed it, which is a real contrast to the snow we've been seeing in the past couple weeks, which has been more of a fluffy snow. if you're trying to shovel, you're going to be dealing with heavy ice. meanwhile, if you're trying to drive, very difficult. >> down route 40 in ham den, many drivers let caution be their guide as snow began to accumulate. >> i have four-wheel drive and

careful. >> that wasn't the case for all drivers, some seen slipping and sliding on the shoreline hills. >> bring in raphael miranda. >> this is one of the worst weeks in the northeast and around much of the country, seeing over a half foot of heavy, wet snow around new york city and the suburbs, airport delays have been a mess through the day. the good news, taking a close look at the radar, the heaviest snow is beginning to wind down across new york city. seeing temperatures just below freezing. roads are a mess. still dealing with heavy snow across long island. ten inches plus for many of us by the time it is said and done. no time to breathe. tuesday into wednesday, the next storm rolls across the country, starting in the midwest and plains, moves to places, all of the areas in purple, that's a winter storm watch for tuesday night into wednesday. that's going to bring a messy mix of snow, ice, sleet, freezing rain.

by wednesday morning, look at all of the country covered in the nasty storm. lots of ice here, even in new york city, dealing with icing potential into wednesday morning. expect major traffic delays wednesday, and believe it or not, that's not the worst storm we're going to see this week, that's going to be sunday night into monday. technically next week. but within seven days. sunday into monday. european model and american computer model that we talk about since sandy, they have been consistent with potential n nor easter. that signals that we have to be on the lookout for a major winter storm sunday into monday morning. no break in the northeast or midwest actually. >> the hardest working man in weather, raf eel miranda. be sure to like his page on the facebook. >> on the facebook. imagine being a denver fan, sitting through the super bowl, then getting stranded at the airport as you try to leave this

all behind you. you know what they say, to the victors go the spoils. >> manning gets hit. picked off by smith! malcolm smith! all alone! no flags! touchdown seattle. >> that's a serious burn. we aren't going to show many highlights of the game or of seattle's total domination, but the producers wanted to run one highlight from the show friday. the odds makers had denver winning and i stumbled into a weirdly dead on accurate prediction. >> i think the seahawks have the edge, i think they're a strong team because they're from seattle, i'm going to say they're going to win 40-love. 40-love. >> that's a big prediction. >> look. when you know, you know. and sometimes when you're guessing, you also know. that's how it works. >> i couldn't believe that. >> let's spin a little on this. >> it was pretty impressive.

>> i had the spread basically nailed. >> no one got that. >> ari with the bizarre prediction. early third quarter, midway through third quarter, i tweeted like ari melber is the man. >> appreciate that. my announcement of the game, speaking as an uninformed generalist, this is what i saw. a lot of people have been waiting. what's ari saying about the game. number one, defense, okay? defense was key in this game, all right? >> so was offense. >> what you saw was a team in seattle. i don't know if everyone has clued into this or not, whether or not people are more aware of it. they have a defensive team, different players playing defense than offense. i saw the beginning of the game when the defenders scored through a safety because they were so good.

people say a good defense can be an offense. they were that good. >> hold on. the safety happened purely by accident, by mistake of denver. seattle did not force that. >> i'm not done with my analysis, so we're going to get into the fight about it. i want to finish the analysis. number two, interceptions. you watch this game, interceptions, very important. and this is something that the seahawks are also good at. and you saw that they would be throwing the ball, broncos would throw trying to get to their teammates. >> right. >> and what happens, abby? seattle intercepts the ball. now the broncos don't have the ball any more. seattle can run it into the endzone. you see that on the screen. or even if they don't run it in that play, they now have the ball. what happens the next play? their offensive team comes back. i have one more point. i was right about the prediction. i want to do my third point. momentum. this was a game you saw momentum was key. the seahawks through the defense and interceptions which i spoke

about had the momentum. >> seattle had the momentum the entire game. you nailed it, ari. for people that want to be like this was a boring game. i don't think it was boring. we saw one team be extraordinary. >> no, it was a boring game. >> offensively, defensively, and even on special teams. the only thing i wanted that i didn't get was one of these great runs, nine guys around him, bounce off him, throws them off. runs into the endzone anyway. that's the main thing i love out of the seattle offense, seeing lynch run through everybody. that i wanted. but we saw russell wilson do his thing, saw the defense doing their thing. percy harvin, faster than anybody on the field. i found it a very exciting game, even though the score was never close. >> the super bowl stopped talking about the game, thank goodness for the half time show and half time show and twitter

universe. i got to say, guys, that the highlight for me was bruno mars. you see him playing. he was charming, he was talented. many people had no idea who bruno mars was before he performed that half time show. now i think a lot more know him. i think he outdid the red hot chili peppers. which was amazing to do. >> it was cute when i was watching this with my daughter. she kept saying i love this song. i didn't know he sings this song. i guess she agrees with you on this one, this is a direct quote. she said other than the night we welcomed her baby brother into the world, it was the best night of her life, simply because i made her nachos and let her drink soda. >> nachos but no velveeta. i was so mad, i looked everywhere for velveeta.

>> the tweet of the night for my money was from @pourmecoffee. denver had too many men on the field if you count the monkey on peyton manning's back. i don't think you count that. up next, the deadline on the chris christie investigation, and more allegations against the governor, didn't have the best super bowl weekend. bruno and the chili peppers did. play a little more of that performance. ♪ in the nation, we reward safe driving. add vanishing deductible from nationwide insurance and get $100 off for every year of safe driving. we put members first. join the nation. ♪ nationwide is on your side anybody have occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating? one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues

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cycling, chris christie. we are awaiting release of more documents in the george washington bridge scandal. most of the two dozen or so individuals and organizations that have subpoena deadlines in two hours have requested more time. as for the governor, he is wrapping up super bowl hosting duties and will be back in the who the seat tonight on a local radio broadcast of ask the governor. you can bet he will once again deny allegations by a former aide that says he has evidence that proves christie knew about the lane closures. nbc's ron allen is outside the statehouse in trenton. lots of developments since the show friday. where do things stand as of now? >> reporter: krystal, it is subpoena day, there's a 5:00 deadline. just about all or many of the 20 people and organizations

subpoenaed asked for extensions of deadline according to the committee that requested the information. they say it is reasonable and expected. remember, these people are asked for thousands upon thousands of pages, e-mails, texts, so on and so forth. the point is the process will go on for some time. you're right. over the weekend, chris christie was booed at an event launching the super bowl during a time when he wanted to be in the spotlight, enjoying the glow of new jersey having a national spotlight on it for the super bowl for the first time. but this is the problem he faces going forward in the investigation, as so many investigations continue, there's a drip, drip of new information. later today about 7:00, there's this ask the governor monthly radio show. it sounds like a relatively friendly environment for the governor, but it is a call-in show in part, and there will also be questions delivered to the show via social media, so you never know what's going to happen. it is for the most part a friendly environment, we will see how he handles it.

the governor has been keeping a low profile for the most part, probably thought all of this would die down after the initial release and initial allegations came forward, but now david weilstein says through his attorney that there's some evidence out there that he may have that suggests the governor's statements, that he didn't know about bridge closures until after they happened is not true. we don't know what the evidence is. he has not presented any evidence. and members of the committee investigating this said they don't have any evidence from him that suggests that is true. so where is the evidence? again, we'll see. and going forward, as the subpoenas are responded to, there may be more leaks, i suspect there are going to be. there may be a public release of information but may be awhile. for chris christie, he is trying to continue on, manage the affairs of the government while all of this is still in the background and it is going to be there for awhile. >> ron allen, thanks for that update. a lot going on here.

we turn to political writer at salon, brian, lots of developments in the case in addition to what ron was just saying. we also had a christie administration official, one who had been subpoenaed resign, you have new york star-ledger writing that chris christie should resign if bombshell proves true in an editorial. i mean, forget about 2016, he may not make it through the term as governor. >> i think you're always in a bad place when over the weekend you have to for a second time in a scandal dive back to high school when the first time was to say you didn't know the guy, second time, actually i did, he was a jerk, then i appointed him to be the point man at the port authority. that's the best scenario for christie, and that's pretty terrible. >> absolutely. chris christie's attack on david weilstein is like he is a poopy head, that juvenile.

when he was 16, sued the school board, he was tumultuous, using that word incorrectly, he was a controversial mayor, whatever that means. you're a controversial governor now, does that prove anything? he had an anonymous blog. so what! if you attack in ways that are pointless and ancient, it says to me that you are very afraid of this person. >> yeah. i think there's sort of like an attempt to discredit him ahead of what will be the bombshell, if and when david weilstein announces he got the deal he wanted, then he can come forward with the evidence he claims is out there or point them to where it is. wherever that is, that tells you whether or not chris christie's career is over or whether he has to slog through it and hope by the time primary season ramps up that people have forgiven him or decided to place their bets on

him anyway. but that's sort of like the big unanswered question. >> i think that's right, brian, and i know ari wants to get in here. before you take his comments too seriously, there are a few things to take into account. i prepared a short memo with some of the facts i think you in the audience need to know about who toure is. as a 16-year-old, he got a speeding ticket in his mom's car, and he was publicly accused by the high school social studies teacher failing to take a hall pass to the bathroom on multiple occasions. and i did hear one time he forgot his best friend's birthday. i just want to get that out there so everyone knows exactly the kind of guy we're dealing with here. >> i'm available to replace him on the cycle. >> really? >> want to throw that out there now. >> let me tell you something, brian, usually it is considered poor form to try to ask for someone's job in the tv interview. when it comes to toure, most

staff and co-hosts may be serious. part of the christie strategy is to just attack wherever bad information is coming from. that included mr. weilstein, and new york city who they went after aggressively, and included at times going after this television channel. but at what point do these kind of attacks run out of steam if there are too many targets? >> i honestly think that whatever the facts turn out to be over the course of the next few weeks will determine whether the attacks are necessary, successful, what have you. there was some legitimacy to the push back against "the new york times" which sort of overstated the wording of the letter. >> say what. >> weilstein alleges there's evidence that exists, he doesn't say he has it, or that it is in his control or that he can

release it. the times reported it, he says he has the goods, and he'll give them to prosecutors if he gets immunity. there's a difference between those things and sort of like the difference between christie's innocence and guilt. in a way, christie's push back suggests he is -- either he didn't know about this, or he thinks he can still keep it under wraps despite everything that's happening. you know, if he really didn't know anything about this, he still has a big political problem on his hands, but it makes sense for him to push back against the times or whoever is overstating the case against him. >> brian, i have been saying from the beginning of when this broke, if it means rallying behind a common enemy, in this case the liberal media, chris christie may find plenty of new friends among conservatives. cpac, last year he wasn't invited. this year he will speak. republicans under siege and

media attention under it, it could be something of a positive. and if christie is complaining about media attention, he will find plenty of allies at cpac. could you see a scenario where he is stronger among conservatives which he needs if he runs in 2016. >> if there's a perception on the right he is treated unfairly, naturally there would be a tribal aleanance, but i imagine it will be temporary. if christie knew about it all along and his career is over, nobody on the right will want to be near him. if he weathers this, old grievances that the right has will come back to the fore. if that's where we end up, we'll see that start to happen when primary season gets closer and other republicans are trying to bat christie out of the way to be the lead contender in the republican party. >> seems like there's a bit of a wait and see approach on the right as to how things unfold. i will tell you, you know how well sourced i am in the nfl,

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the news cycle begins with the latest on the death of a claimed actor, philip seymour hoffman over the weekend. he was found dead in his manhattan apartment on sunday. officials suspect a drug overdose, but toxicology reports are pending. broadway theaters will dim the marquise lights wednesday night in his memory. winter weather trouble continues today at the airport. nearly 2,000 cancellations, more than 3,000 delays. if that's not enough to put you in a bad mood, more misery from

the airlines today. usa today survey shows the big four carriers are laying fees on everything from booking the trip by phone to the checking a bag. now to a market alert you want to hear, a big day of losses on wall street, bad news from the manufacturing sector is being blamed partially for today's slide, the latest in a string of losing days for stocks. right now, dow-jones average is down about 300 points. that's a half hour from closing bell. now back to the super bowl, the game was a one sided romp, but always the pomp and circumstance of the event to keep us all interested, including ari and leash a quarrels that covered it. you didn't get to see at home, including beyonce and jay-z we'll get to later. the commercials, always very interesting. i notice this year a certain sweetness to a lot of commercials, a lot of family commercials. a lot of times it is this frat house thing.

we had the great puppy love ad from budweiser, the multi lingual ad for coke. >> that was controversial. >> the beautiful chevy ad for world cancer day. not a word spoken. >> the cheerios commercial, the dad announces he is getting another kid. she says okay, i'm getting a dog. more heart strings this year. the super bowl is a family affair. you have to remember that. parents are having parties but the kids are also watching. i think they went the opposite way. there was some sexuality, but it was on the flip side. usually the women that are sexualized. this time david beckham. >> a lot of naked david beckham. >> my favorite ad, john core sin ski. that was my favorite ad for esurance. he said we saved 1.5 in advertising. if you tweet us, we'll give you the 1.5 million.

i love that. >> giving back. >> giving back to the people. >> what i want to ask you about is the red hot chili peppers issue. when i first heard that red hot chili peppers and bruno mars would be out together, i thought huh, that sounds like a terrible idea. let's see what happens. then i saw the show, saw indeed it was to me a terrible idea. >> i feel like -- you better be glad we're not in a boxing ring now. it was a great idea. first of all, the super bowl is hard to pick an act, it can be polarizing. if you pick someone like bruno mars, someone people may not necessarily get, bring in the red hot chili peppers. they were asked over the years. >> i said why take off your shirts, it is cold. they said why not. they have nothing but high praise for bruno. usually we're close to performers, we were far away on

the opposite side. when they hit the stage, the energy was next level. this is smart, bringing in different genres. >> hard to tell watching, i thought bruno was the highlight, different in the moment and you're feeling it. >> can't have bruno mars without red hot chili peppers. >> they do go together. were those tights or tattoos? >> i don't know. can't take this from bruno. he was definitely the highlight. on the field, the acoustics, you couldn't hear it. when they hit the stage, the audience went crazy. >> even more amaziamazing, obvi the game ended fairly quickly. some well known politicians, governor bobby jindal, at least we turned the lights out to make it interesting last year. kidding. and so much more fun to watch someone getting blitzed and sacked. personalities coming out on twitter. >> i covered many super bowls,

from a game standpoint which we all saw, it was boring. even the press back stage, bruno rocked it out, queen latifah did an awesome interview. it was lackluster. i thought we need to bring it more. the best part was the preparties, guys. a young man named justin beiber hit our town. that's where it got craziment hit up the leather and laces party. he was all over, you would have thought the cia was here. best party i went to was jay-z's party for direct tv. i i realized it is robert craft over from the patriots. dust your shoulders off, i was like -- >> jay-z dusted your shoulders? >> the owner of the patriots, i did it back to him. i look over, there's paul mccartney, eli manning. that's the best part, the mixture. >> i didn't get invited. >> girl, you're going with me. i was on assignment.

>> can ari hold up the rock? >> krystal, i was putting up the rock. >> i just wanted to chime in on the justin beiber situation. i don't even know if i should admit this. i found out he was staying at a hotel not far from my apartment. my daughter who is five is obsessed with justin beiber. i then had this moral quandary, should i bring her over with the gaggle of teenage girls in hopes of seeing him, should i not tell her. i ended up telling her, we went over, waited outside with all of the girls for over an hour, he never showed up. she eventually was i am hungry, let's leave. i don't know if i am good mom, terrible mom, morally conflicted, that's my super bowl story. >> there was no way to avoid it. even my driver said bieber sightings, paparazzi are chasing him. and we have to cover the party. >> he wasn't at the hotel. >> one party i hit up was

amazing, life is good. >> clearly life is good. >> i was working. working. bringing it to the people. >> she's working at the hottest parties of the weekend. must be nice. >> not my fault you got a desk job, buddy. >> wow, we will be back, but we love you. up next, ready or not, the winter games in sochi, the biggest loser could be vladimir putin. much more to come. [ park sounds, sound of spray paint ]

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now with the winter olympics three days away, all eyes are on sochi and the man that championed them, russian president vladimir putin. some call these putin's games. make no mistake, the stakes for him and his political future are high from on-going terror threats to the cost of the games. it is an event of global and diplomatic significance, many say a test of putin's leadership.

russia already spent $50 billion prepping, the most expensive winter games in history at a time of increasing economic uncertainty for the country. before she leaves for sochi, american journalist joining us to discuss it, my so-called revolution is out, a look at russian politics, putin's presidency and the country's somewhat uncertain future. how are you? >> good, how are you? >> i want to ask you about the article, a quote that says about the is he session plan, the government of russia at most is a question to be resolved between two people. some skepticism about all of the talk of any kind of democratic reforms or legitimacy. how does that counteract against the types of protests we've seen recently? >> putin is still the man in charge. there's another quote in that article from a russian official from a loyalist russian official who when i asked him what he sees as the future for putin,

when he thinks he is going to go or what's going to happen when this presidential term runs out in 2018, he says we don't have a tradition like you do in the u.s. where you serve two terms and you leave. our tradition is you hold out until the end and leave feet first, which means in a coffin. >> on that note, in the piece you talked to a number of people, some of the protesters, one of which was a mother of a protester, she goes to the courthouse every day hoping her only son will get amnesty, she asked you what piece you were writing, you said you were writing about the russian olympics. she responded good, they should know what kind of country they're going to. did you get the sense that among this group there's hope that the world will get a better sense of the frustration that many of the people feel about their life in russia, and maybe they hope vladimir putin is embarrassed on the world stage? >> there's very much a hope like that. as we speak, vladimir putin is shutting down the only independent television channel left in russia, and a lot of

journalists that work there are trying to get the word out, trying to get western media to cover it, it is less than a week before the olympics. it undermines the narrative that putin is doing a lot of this stuff to improve his image before the olympics, but he just doesn't care and he doesn't care if we say you know what, how dare you shut down independent media, how dare you imprison innocent people. he doesn't care. he has a vision for russia, thinks he saved them from economic and political turmoil of the '90s, has his own ideas how things get done and doesn't care what we think. >> another part of russia and the games people are talking about, the price tag ari referenced, over $50 billion, not only the most expensive winter games ever, it costs more than all of the other winter games combined, it is just off the charts expensive. some are saying there might be a tiny bit of corruption involved in handing out political favors and that price tag. >> you know, as soon as it was announced russia got the games

for 2014, the people started scrambling for contracts, for government contracts in the area. when i was based in moscow, two, three years ago, people were saying the kickbacks on olympic projects were up to 80%. >> geez. >> yeah. keep in mind, $50 billion for winter olympics is a ton of money, not just because it is more expensive than other olympics, it is more expensive than summer games which has three times or five times as many athletes, three times as many events. shows a much more expensive enterprise. winter olympics are supposed to be cheaper. not in russia. there was a great piece in business week where the calculation was made that the road going up from sochi to the mountains where a lot of the events will be held, they paid so much for it that they might as well have -- and did the

calculation, they may as well have paved it with caviar. >> and fake snow. >> and would be way more delicious. >> than most other roads. >> you in the article, somebody calls him the most passively supported leader in the world and obviously that is going right to the amount of support, amount of power that he has at this moment. he recently let seven dissidents out of prison, people people thought wouldn't get out of prison for years or never get out. what is this moment where he's letting folks go do for putin's problems inside russia? >> inside russia what it does is it kind of shuts up the opposition a little bit and takes away some of their most potent, most important symbols. the other thing, though, is he let some people out, but some people are still facing tremendous amounts of jail time. in my article, i mention a young

father who is facing up to 13 years in jail for throwing a lemon at special forces cop who said that the lemon hit him in his kevlar vest, the cop said he felt intolerable pain. >> wow. >> now this guy who has i think a two-year-old daughter is facing 13 years in jail. so he let's some people out, but he did it again on his terms. he said you know what, i'm not doing this because anybody pressured me, i just felt like it. i just felt like leaving these other people in jail. at the same time, i just felt like shutting down this independent tv channel. he, putin, likes to make sure people understand that he cannot be pushed, that he cannot be pushed into a corner, that he does things on his own time line, by his own logic, on his own terms. >> yeah. that's what makes this so difficult for so many. this is clearly an authoritarian regime, yet the olympics are something that stand for ideally

cooperation, diplomacy. julia, thanks for sharing some of your reporting on what's going on over there. >> sure, my pleasure. >> last week, we had judge robert russell onto discuss work creating veterans courts. we received a lot of feedback on that story. we want to remind you i will be talking more about it online after the show if you want to converse, debate, question. we're going to take your questions, it is on the cycle list group on msnbc.com. and the interview is up there as well. up next, to have kids or not have kids, from the woman who set off a fire storm when she declared the childless are happier than parents. we have an in depth look at the effect children have on their parents, and what is she saying now. that's up ahead. you seem knowledgeable, professional. would you trust me as your financial advisor? i would. i would indeed. well, let's be clear here. i'm actually a dj. [ dance music plays ] [laughs] no way! i have no financial experience at all.

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having kids can simultaneously be one of the most nerve wracking, fulfilling times of your life. ask my mom and dad, they have been doing it the better part of three decades. i come from a family with seven kids, i have no idea how they do it. sleepless nights, skinned knees, the teenage years. almost every parent you tell will say it is worth it. after the next guest cause add stir with her 2010 article pointing to research that the childless are actually happier than parents, set out to dig deeper in her book "all joy and no fun." she talks about the high price of parenting and immeasurable

rewards. it isn't an average parenting book, it is about being a parent. jennifer, like i said, i am one of seven. i don't know how my parents have done it. one take away being older is that every child is extremely different. my oldest sister was a complete angel. i was a nightmare, there i am, i made a huge mess, blamed it on my older sister. >> you don't know for a fact you were a nightmare. >> my mom bought a book how to handle the terrible twos, it was so problematic. >> the other six weren't terrible? you were the terrible one? >> they were all different. i think i was the hardest. you talked to so many parents. is that a common theme that every child is different that you can't prepare yourself? >> that's interesting, and you're the first person to ask me that. >> i am not even a parent. >> but it is interesting because getting a kid's perspective, somebody that hasn't had kids who will talk about this, yes, how a parent's personality intersects with a particular child is a big deal.

the axiom that no two children are raised by the same parents happens to be true, the experience of raising each child is different. that said, you know, there are certain things that tie the whole experience together, right? like your marriage is going to be effected no matter what kind of child you have. it might be differently affected by one than another, but it will change. sense of autonomy will change. the teen years will stir something up in you, because no matter how fantastic your kids are, even if they're really loving, they're still not going to need you as much, and you're still going to be falling back on your own resources, having to reevaluate a lot of different life choices. do i like my spouse, do i like my job, do i like my friends, my hobbies. even if you have the most angelic child in the world, they're not going to need you as much. you're going to need something else to do. >> when you look at people who are of a certain age in their 20s, late 20s, making these judgments, right, part of what's happened, there's been a

demographic shift you write about. used to be that people finished the adolescence, basically were having kids pretty soon. how does that fit into the extended adolescence where people have an adult this extended adolescence where people have more of an adolescent freedom and then they decide to have the burden and benefit of the children? >> they have more money. if they start out in the middle class, it's a good thing. having more money as a parent is better. it's especially better for women. you're earning potential, the difference is really extreme. >> right. >> that's on the plus side. you're happier if you're starting at that age in the sense that you have more money and kind of professional opportunity. downside, i mean, you've had ten years of self-governoring glorious free wheeling -- you have a sense of what you're missing. of what you have just tossed out

the window. >> another piece of this is the way we view childhood and what childhood should be like has totally changed. >> that was the biggest revelation to me as i was doing my research. i think it's something that if parents knew, they'd calm down a lot and feel a lot less guilty. this is historical. we've never done this before until really, really recently. kids were our staff. they worked for us. they worked. >> and now we work for them. >> and now they're our bosses. it's only gotten worse in the last 20 years. now we're readying our kids for a future we can't see. almost everything that you and i know is totally useless to our children. like everything that you guys know now if you have kids, it's not going -- my kid is going to

have a job description that i can't even fathom of name. >> you talk about how children are a reason to get up in the morning and they become the purpose that gives your life more focus and changes your life. you talk about parents are less likely to commit suicide because they have this earthly grounding, that you have to be there for your kids. you get egocentric because everything you're doing is for somebody else. >> i'm glad you brought that up. it's not only the earthly grounding. the other thing is they're more apt to be embedded in institutions in their committees and neighborhood watch groups, school boards, exactly, churches and everything. and those are enriching and kind of growth experiences.

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>> no. please let me. >> scotty. >> i'm really sorry. i didn't mean to grab you like that or scare you. do you want to kiss me? >> scotty. >> no? forget it. >> philip seymour hoffman was one of the all-time greats. a true chameleon. he willfully rearranged his molecules to become a different person. he was endlessly curious about his characters. she said all people contain mystery and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you. he had the skills, but part of how hoffman maintained his ability to transform is in his

insistence on remaining private. he was a character actor until capote. hoffman would play the great and peculiar writer. i had to get my body in a place where it would behave unself-consciously in a way wildly different to whatever emotional life was in the character and he nailed it. >> i did everything i could. >> okay. >> i truly did. >> i know. >> he won an oscar for best actor and a slew of other awards for that movie, but he deserved an award for almost everything he did. he was always extraordinary.

>> jim morrison, he's a drunken buffoon. give me the guess who. they've got the courage to be drunken buffoons, which is poetic. iggy pop, amen. >> it's a little bit early for that. >> not for me. >> you have no right to act on your own. you have taken violence, obedience being one. you have no right to step outside the church. >> i will step outside the church if that's what needs to be done if the doors shut behind me. i'll do what needs to be done. i'm damned to hell. you should understand me.

>> you've never done anything wrong. >> you make this up. >> i know you're trying to calm me down, but just say something that's true. >> it's made your life a strugg struggle. is your behavior erratic? >> he was, indeed, a master and he will be missed. that does it for the "cycle." it's time for alex wagner. the snow keeps on coming and so does scandal. it is monday, february 3rd, and this is "now." >> the next storm. >> new revelations call into question what christie knew and when he knew it. >> hopefully, we want have a lot of stopped vehicles. >> the question is, is he alive? >> the setup for a real week of misery. >> if this man'sra