joy reid. in the next 60 minutes we're taking you to texas to florida to ukraine. in a moment, edward snowden speaks. he appear today at this year's south by southwest festival. we'll have a live report from us a stain, texas, on what was said and not said. and later, stand your ground. massive crowds in florida state capital at this hour all there to protest the controversial law many first heard about in the aftermath of the trayvon martin shooting. we'll have a live report there as well. we start with a question. how can a boeing 777 and its 239 passengers and crew just disappear an hour after takeoff? malaysian investigators today call the weekend disappearance of flight 370, quote, an unprecedented mystery. dozens of ships from ten countries are taking part in the search that now includes a second destroyer from the u.s. seventh fleet, the "uss kidd."

three days into the disappearance investigators say they are expanding their search radius since they are no closer to discovering what happened to the men and women on board. flight 370 disappeared one to two hours after cleving kuala lumpur to malaysia. no distress call was went. weather was clear. no sign of wreckage as earlier discoveries of an oil slick and other debris are not from flight 370. no cause for the disappearance is being given at this time. with boeing 777's generally having an excellent safety record. and while officials search for a cause, focus is centered on two passengers traveling on passports stolen from two men, twr fr austria and italy. they heard no chatter among terror groups claiming credit for the missing jet. a former special agent with the

u.s. secret service and security and threat assessment exfor the. let me ask you first about just the oddness of not discovering anything, any wreckage from the plane, whether you look at it in terms of a terror analyst does it speak to us or a mystery that makes utterly no sense to you as well? >> look, it can be both sides of the house. can it be terrorism? yes. is it ironic that we have two individuals with stolen passports on the plane and coincidentally this plane goes down and disappears. yes, they're following those leads chrksz they should. now, could it be possibly something random, mechanical, that as well. but like you mentioned, nobody is take anything claim for this. unnew orleans one is saying, hey, we are responsible for this. maybe this isn't terrorism. but on the other hand, what if that wasn't the plot. what if the plane was meant to do something else and it failed midair, what if they have another plan that's going forward and if they're smart they're going to lay quiet and plan whatever other attacks they

have going forward. >> now, both of these passports stolen, they were lost by their owners in bangkok, in thailand. has that country been on the radar at all as a place where you're seeing identity theft tied in any way to terrorism? >> yes, of course, especially that area over in asia. we do have lot of ties, malay a malaysia, bangkok, those areas. could those passports have been stolen rather than lost? that is most likely the case. they just don't randomly lose them and somehow end up in the hands of criminals. probably they were taken from them and now being used in this situation. but let's keep in mind though, a lot of criminals do travel via commercial, moving forward from one country to another, below the radar with these types of passports. again, it's the coincidence, how likely is it that this happened and they happen to be on this particular plane. >> right. and also the tickets were bought consecutively, the numbers are consecutive. there are a lot of strange

things. >> bought together, that's correct. another red flag. >> clive irving is the senior consulting editor and a contributor to "the daily beast." clive, talk a little bit about this plane, the boeing 777. obviously a plane with an excellent safety record. one that does not have a history of mechanical issues. you know, in your assessment, is this a plane that could theoretically have just simply broken up in the air for something other than intentional causes? >> no, it's a plane with a stellar safety record. it's been in operation for many years. it's evolved. and it's got a very promising future. so i think it's extremely -- of all the options available -- of course, there's a swamp of speculation here in this story which makes it very confusing for any lay person to really dig their way through it and find out and decide what they can believe and what they can't believe. but i would remove from this equation at the moment with quite a lot of confidence, any

failure of the plane itself. >> clive, you've written about the 777, whether it disintegrated in the air of explosion or hit the water in one piece is highly significant. can you explain that? >> that makes a big difference in the problems faced by the search of the ocean because the precursor to this is air france 447 which disappeared over the south atlantic in 2009 and in that case the plane was whole when it hit the water. it broke up on on impact with the water. if this 777 broke up at 36,000 feet where it was cruising, at cruise height, broke up into many pieces, the debris would take different courses down before it hit the water. the heaviest parts of the plane, for example, the engines, would fall very rapidly like bombs and go straight down into the water. whereas the lightest parts, parts of the airframe would flutter and be carried off by hi altitude winds all over place.

and the same would be true as they flutter down and would be caught in currents in the water. so that's the worst possible scenario. if this plane, in fact -- could it disappear instantaneously? the suspicion of all the experts i've talked to is it must have been without warning, it must have been a total catastrophic failure in one second. so if that happened, and the plane disintegrated at that altitude, it makes the search much, much harder. >> and, evy, the other issue is it appears perhaps the plane turned without any parts of the plane, without any actual evidence. you just heard clive talking about whether or not it disintegrated or broke in pieces he's still talking about parts of plane to be found and used in investigation. in terms of investigation of possible technology, how can that be done without any remn t remnants of the plane? >> it's difficult. their key thing is if they can't get their hands on their plane, it's a big negative for law enforcement and the authorities, they're going to follow those two leads. they're going to check those two leads, those individuals with

stolen passports. you're going to check the surveillance tapes. mark everybody gone on to that plane. id them. get all the tickets. lift prints off the tickets. can you get prints on these people. which maybe law enforcement probably have done these things, they're just not sharing it with us. and they're going to follow the trails. family members, friends, loved ones. they're going to do all of that to see if these two people have anything to do at all to do with it. if these people have absolutely nothing to do with it, then it leads them to believe perhaps this isn't terror related, maybe it is mechanical, maybe something happened with the actual plane. but i think that's where they're going to take that angle. once you can take that out of the equation, you can focus on, all right, no foul play here. maybe it is the plane itself. it's difficult. i mean, this thing broke up over the atlantic -- the ocean. if it's broken into pieces, they want to get them. they want to try to also put it together to see is it faulty, is it equipment. it's a very daunting task they have to do. >> clive, lastly, knowing that

the debris field or whatever, we just don't know where the plane is and not knowing its exact precise location when whatever occurred occurred, how difficult is it going to be for investigators to get to any conclusion in this case? >> well, the physical evidence of the plane tells a story. that's why it's so essential to get the pieces of the plane. for example, as soon as they pick up pieces of the plane they can see if there's been a fire because, whether there would be an explosion, an explosion would puncture many parts of the plane and you would see pitting in the t aluminum and wreckage. so there are clues. but i mean, it will take a long while. this is a tremendous forensic challenge. any plane that goes down into the ocean like this presents two challenges. the first challenge is to find it and the second challenge is to understand what happened to it. it's important in this case, i think, to find out what didn't happen as it is to find out what did happen. >> and lastly, evy, it is for the families, this has to be excruciating.

you don't have the finality of knowing that something happened to this plane, we don't know what. for the family members, what can they even look to from investigators? where do we even begin to investigate a case where we don't know where the plane physically is? >> it's unfortunate because this is one of those situation where's you don't have the answers. you can't -- all you can do is tell them we're trying, looking for answers. but i think a lot of times as the public watch these tv show, movies. in the tv, within 48 hour, it's solve. but in real life unfortunately it's a lot more daunting and difficult, given the situation as clive was pointing out, with finding the parts of the plane. comfort them, share information that they can, give them the resources they need to cope. but i think unfortunately we're going to see this is going to go on for a while and we're going to have a lot of unsolved answers for a period of time. >> tremendous mystery. thank you both. >> thank you. all right. next stop, texas. where nsa leaker edward snowden came out of his hiding spot in

russia today to address the south by southwest interactive festiv festival. it's his first live video appearance since fleeing hawaii nine months ago. we'll take you live to austin on details on what he's saying and what he's not saying. taking a stand against stand your ground. thousands emerge to protect the law. what will it take to convince lawmakers to change or repeal it. i [ christina caradona ] what do i wear when i'm on my period? with tampax radiant -- whatever i want. [ female announcer ] tampax radiant protects 30% better.

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. the man who sparked an international manhunt after leaking thousands of nsa secrets appeared in texas today via satellite hook-up. sitting in front of a mock-up of the u.s. constitution edward snowden discussed privacy, the nsa and whether the u.s. should hack into servers in china. even saying his disclosures have helped national security.

what hurts national security then, in snowden's words, the current and former heads of the nsa. their focus on mass surveillance comes with great opportunity costs. for instance, not being able to stop the boston marathon bombers. >> if we hadn't spent so much on mass surveil lns, if we'd followed the traditional models, we might have caught that. >> on the topic of russia snowden says there was no way the russians and chinese had access to the information he took. >> we've had both public and private acknowledgements that they know, at this point, that neither the russian government nor the chinese government, nor any other government, has possession of any of this information. sand that would be easy for them to find out. >> interestingly, no other mention was made about russia where snowden now lives. not its invasion of crimea, ukraine, not whether that government ingaenlgs in what snowden considers to be intrusive surveillance. before the forum began a gop

congressman from kansas wrote a letter to festival organizers complaining about snowden's conclusion. quote, his goal was not to fix what he saw as wrong, but rather to inflict harm upon the very nation that provided him with the rights he chose not to exercise. he is no more a whistle-blower than alger his was, the rosenbergs, or benedict arnold. sh snowden is both a traitor and common criminal. sarah, you were in the room for snowden's press conference. how was he received in that room? >> he was very warmly received. in fact, the audience broke into applause as soon as his face appeared on the screen. at points during the conversation they broke into more applause and cheers, depending on what he was saying. everybody, i would say, was listening with attention, even though the video feed was a little bit jerky, the awudio wasn't quite synced.

snowden tasked this tech industry with keeping their -- keeping the industry safe from mass surveillance. he said, quote, the nsa is setting fire to the future of the internet and then he called the people in the audience listening to his speech the firefighters. now, he said, encryption in the future is key and accountability from government agencies gathering information on citizens is important. they need to have that accountability there. he spoke to the audience for about an hour. it took about three months to secure his appearance. but when it was all over organizers say very well worth it to continue this debate of security versus safety. back to you. >> all right, thank you very much. and shawn is an author, historian, and contributor to "the new republic" and has written extensively on edward snowden. first, your overall reaction t to the snowden presentation today. >> well, i have three reactions.

disbeli disbelief, double disbelief, and confirmati confirmation. the disbelieve is what you bevan again with. he wassed card snowden in moscow talking about how the important government could be imitated by evil governments elsewhere. at the very moment his protector, vladimir putin, is launching a cyber attack on ukraine with a malware and so forth. it boggled my mind that nothing was said. nothing was going to be said, of course. >> were you surprised no one in the audience, we just don't know, were you surprised that no one brought up those questions and that irony about russia, his protector? >> yes, i gather they were prescreened. he is under the protection of the secret service of russia. vladimir putin's lawyer is his lawyer. he's not about to talk about that. if he were to talk about it -- well, it would be interesting to see if the russians let him talk about it but it's all mirrors within mirrors which is what a

lot of this story is about. >> and he talks about accountability of government agencies. i mean, that is something that within the united states we did litigate the idea of the bush era surveillance which resulted in this 2007 law which now govern what's the nsa is doing. there seemed -- when i watcheded the snowden presentation, there was of no acknowledgement that there was any oversight whatsoever and i think there was a presumption in the room that nsa is actively reading ordinary people's e-mails every day. that was presumed to be true. >> that's right. it's completely false. i mean, it's interesting. edward snowden did kick up a debate here. no question about that. and a lot of talk and a lot of investigation. what we found out actually is that the system is working pretty well. that the pfizer courts are doing their job more or less, yes. the nsa polices itself. that there has been not a single instance of official government misbehavior that has been shown here. it's interesting. we assume that everything is

bad. there's not a single instance there. it's on the realm of paranoia. >> he was going beyond sort of talking about his opinions as somebody who was sort of in the i.t. world. >> right. >> of the n zrk a and of the cia and talking about policy. he was giving opinions on what the u.s. should be doing regarding its actual national security, saying that we have more to gain by protecting ourselves from chinese encryption -- hacking into our computers than hacking into theirs and these comments about what we should have done, what we should have spent i have a i have the attacks in boston. did edward snowden have any actual national security background? >> none. he's no more national security expert than he is a constitutional scholar. and indeed, he seems to know a lot about the constitution. he seems to be a supreme court unto himself because he can decide what the constitution says and says what's going on in the unkongs conversatioconstitu >> he was sitting in front of a constitution. >> either a tea party move or

some other move. it was crazy. >> you think there is a tea party element? >> there was a point in the whole politics of this and techie world as well but there's a world meets left or right and paranoia about what the government is doing. he is not a liberal. i mean, that should be absolutely clear. >> yeah. you've written more about edward snowden than anybody else. i recommend people read your writing. back at the white house, the deadline looms for the president's health care law. americans have until march 31 tost sign up for coverage for 2015 and a new gallup survey that tracks the rollout shows the number of uninsured is going down. 15.9% of u.s. adults is uninsured, down from 17.1% at the end of last year. and translates to roughly 3 to 4 million americans getting health care. on capitol hill, house republicans have launched -- hatched a new strategy to at tack the health care law. they plan to hold a vote this week that ties delaying the

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stand your ground. three words that have become a flash point for political and racial tensions in florida and

across the country. while florida was the first state to enact the controversial law in 2005 when it was signed by then governor jeb bush, stand your ground now exists in 26 of our 50 states piptsz been used to free gang members who shot at rival gang members. by a clearwaterman who got into a fight with his neighbor over how many trash bags he put on the curb. and by a 64-year-old who got into an argument and then shot the man he was arguing with because he said his arthritis prevented him from otherwise defending himself. today stand your ground opponents converged on the florida state capital to protest the law. they said emboldens gun owner to shoot first and ask questions later. parents and attorneys of trayvon martin and jordan davis larched along the families of emmett till. speakers call for change or the repeal of the law that florida republicans are currently seeking to expand.

>> people, people, get ready because a change is coming. >> our purpose here today is to change these stand your ground laws that are disproportionately killing our people. >> florida is stuck on stupid. i'm going to say it again. florida is stuck on stupid. >> i didn't come down here to start trouble. i come down here to stop trouble. >> stand your ground will not stand. and i say that with authority because i know beyond a shadow of a doubt that this law is wrong. right is right and wrong is wrong. >> i am not here to accuse michael dunn of hiding behind this stand your ground law. i am here to accuse that law of giving him something to stand behind. >> today's ent was called the self-defense rally. stand your ground advocates say self-defense is the point of the

law and they cite the danger of retreating in a potentially life threatening situation. but as former florida state senator points out in his "sun sentinel" opinion piece, the law in florida even before the stand your ground was enacted never required someone to retreat if it meant endangering themselves or another. in other words, before stand yo ground you were allowed to stand you ground. should you be able to take another person's life when you don't need to? florida state senator and florida house democratic leader is here with us. dan, you were one of a lonely few who opposed the stand your ground law when it was passed in 2005. and i want to read you something you wrote about why you were against it. you wrote, it's not the killing of an attacking criminal that stabbed your ground i'm packs. those killings will always be justified and understandable, rather, it's the driver that cut you off in traffic, the patron talking loudly in a movie theater or the guy staring too much at your girlfriend.

you may feel contempt for these people and they may be obnoxious or rude or negligent but is it necessary to take their lives or create a scenario in which you or an innocent bystander's life. too many are turn out to be someone's father or son, a veteran, loves spouse, or by the grace of god, it could be you. did it turn out the way you feared it would? >> afs prosecutor for a long time before i was in the state led legislature. most of the prosecutors they they looked at this law said it was going to have precisely this kind of impact, that it was simply going to provide defenses to people who probably shouldn't get defenses and actually what it did which i didn't even think it would do is encourage the kind of bad behavior that, as a society, we should never encourage, which is killing as a matter of choice rather than as of last resort. >> dan, i need you to

florida-plain for the audience here, why are they seeking to expand stand your ground? >> you know, i think that a lot of folks up there get very caught up t in the rhetoric of the nra when the truth of the matter is i think most gun owners don't agree with the way stand your ground is really happening in florida right now. i mean, you really don't want -- with this many weapons in our state, people to believe that they have a choice to kill when they could clearly leave a scenario, an escalating scenario, without endangering themselves if that's the possibility. so i think the legislature gets very excited about this stuff. the nra has very little to do in florida. they've won almost every issue. so they get these other issues like stand your ground or some of the other things that they've done like bringing your gun to work or making it illegal for police to keep track of pawn shops that buy weapons from

criminals. they spend so much time on these other issues baz they want to exercise their constituency and give them time to get behind the issue even if that issue than falsely portrayed to them. you can always stand your ground in florida before this law was enacted. you had an absolute right to defend yourself with a gun if retreating would endanger you. but that's not what they were trying to address. >> all right. florida state senator -- former florida state senator, thank you very much. joining me now from tallahass tallahassee, reverend al sharpton, president of the national action network and host of msnbc's "politic nation." you rallied today. you had an impressive turnout in tallahassee. given what former state senator just said, the power of the nra, what hope do you have of actually getting the state legislature in that state to listen? >> well, i think that the hope we have is that today just showed the mass support.

now we're meeting with legislatures. this is an election year. it is a statewide election where the gubernatorial candidates are going to have to deal with this and a district by district election. i think what has to happen now is translate this into a movement that just says to the legislatures of both sides of the aisle that they cannot have a state where people are now being victimized by this law. as we said at the rally this morning, there's not just on one side of the state. yes, trayvon martin and jordan davis' family was there. but you have a white male who was texting to his baby sitter in the movie theater that got in an argument with an ex-law enforcement office whole killed him and is using stand your ground. it has become an issue across the board. and i think you're seeing we're now here today joining us, national action network, other groups that you will see, a broad cross section of groups

that will have the same balance against it that the nra and alec has had for it. i think that this is where we wanted to show and krytalize the issue today. it's not about a case. it's about a law. otherwise, we're going to keep having these cases. >> rev, obviously as you said you have a broad coalition of groups. is that what it's going to table to deracialize this issue. a lot of people only attach this to trayvon martin and jordan. but there are different people getting off on stand your grounds defense. >> that's exactly right. and as congresswoman brown said today at the rally, we don't shy away from there is a raiscial aspect but it's also a broad aspect and however you approach it we must approach it in problems in terms of a state law that now over 20 other states that undermines everyone's federal civil rights and now the

attorney general of the united states has addressed this, eric holder, when civil rights leaders, seven of us met with the president a couple weeks ago, we raised it. this is a real problem when you have a law that says, based on your feeling threatened, it does not have an an actual threat, that's the language in the law, it doesn't have to be actual, you can use deadly force. in plain language you're saying imagination now justifies killing someone. in a civilized society, that is unheard of. >> all right. reverend al sharpton, thank you very much, sir. >> well, thank you. i'm big-time now. i played "the reid report." >> no, i'm big time because i had reverend al sharpton on. thank you, sir. appreciate it. >> thank you. here in new york right now. mayor bill deblasio got an ear full this morning. take a will be. >> your son goes to -- is it brooklyn tech? >> brooklyn tech.

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larger than life figger in hip-hop. 17 years later, conspiracy theories at his shooting and death had the east coast/west coast rap rivalry and the backdrop for it remain numerous. his death remains unsolved. on this year's anniversary "vibe" is revisiting the cover story in which hopeful statement was presented after the editor lamented covering the death of yet another young rapper. just six months after the death of tupac shakur. there's a wonderful diversity of individuals in the hip-hop community and in that diversity lies strength. we all need to come together and take responsibility for ourselves and for each other before more lives are lost. if we simplial,000 things to stay as they are, if we are afraid to take a moral stand, there will be blood on all of our hands. we have passed the point for words. now is the time for action and change. the passinging of nearly two decades have wayned but young rappers are still fight for their lives in the courtroom. as this mother jones article

points out. next month, the supreme court of new jersey will hear arguments about whether rap lyrics written by a defendant are fair game in criminal proceedings in a case that advocates say could have major first amendment implications. the article cites a study by the aclu of new jersey that found 18 cases around the country in which prosecutors tried to cite rap lish ricks as evidence. prosecutors won the argument most of the time. here with me now to discuss the role of rap lyrics and the anniversary of biggie's death. >> it's so weird to be on this set. where is this? >> it's like so far away from. >> so far away. >> i don't know how you're going to get there on time. you are the one person i wanted to talk to about this. >> thank you. >> i noted that the anniversary happened on sunday, just take us back to that time. you were very much involved obviously in music journalism at that time. give us your personal reflection. >> it was very painful. i remember the moment that i heard that big was gone and

coming six months after pac it was like, oh, my god, what's happening. you know, and i wrote something that suggested poetically i would not be part of hip-hop similar to the "vibe" essay, if this is what it's going to be, if rappers are not going to get the chance to die of old age, i didn't want to be part of it. we have matured to the sense that we no r. no longer doing that. a few years later we had the jay-z, naz battle which was lyr lyricallc vicious, epic, but nobody got hurt at all and just reminded us once again we can do these battling which are very much a part of hip-hop history without it turning into violence and all this extra sort of madness. and b there's tons and tons of battles that happen with no violence. so i mean, this is not liken dimick, you say something on the record. this is not tip hop at all. >> it's still running just as

hot. >> absolutely. >> easy target. and now, i mean, this idea of using hip-hop lyrics, in the jordan davis murder, the defense for michael dunn, the man who shot him, listened to the lyrics, entered the song as evidence. where are we as a culture? >> i think that we're using hip-hop as an excuse to be scared of black men. right? just saying i was scared of brown skin, that's not enough, right? we would understand that immediately to be racist and we would throw that out. but using hip-hop is like that one degree of separation that allows you say that. i mean, i can kind of understand the t. prosecutors who want to use somebody's own lyrics against them and we can deconstruct that in a second. but this person was listening to this ergo i felt i had the right to be scared of him to take violent action against him. that is completely bizarre. what are you talking about? >> i hear what you're saying about overall demonization of black men, it needs to find its

location, something that does in hip-hop. what do you think about in terms of the industry overall? there was that vibe magazine piece. the fans of hip-hop, the artists, the history, do you think it's change m.d. >> i think music changed, that sort of gangsta strain that was huge with them. that's largely gone away and still exists very much somewhat in the south and somewhat in the west. for the most part that has waned. you have a lot more of drake and nicky minaj and these people dominating the charts. it's different now. >> you knew big. what do you think he would think of the current -- the quality level of commercial -- let's only say commercial hip-hop. >> i would never dame to speak for big but he was a guy who took hip-hop extraordinarily seriously, expert rapper, expert word smith. and just telling stories from -- he was a well rounded guy, right? he would tell the sort of i get

girls tale and then he could tell the street story, the thuggish sort of street story. he could go in every different aspect of hip-hop. he wasn't just a one-note sort of guy. that made him an extraordinary artist. i can't believe he was just 24 years old when he was killed because it reminds us how our black boys are man/children, right? they are older than they seem. he seemed a lot older than 24. and i can only imagine the sort of artist he would have become given more time to develop and the sort of man he would have become and especially even to get even a little deeper at that point, new york emcees were all about what's going on in new york that was not translating nationally. biggie was like, what's going on in l.a.? let's use their sound and structure to make our stuff more palatable. it's a guy with a lot of joy in his heard who wanted everybody to like his stuff, everybody be a part of his party. extraordinary individual. >> the sad thing about it is were he alive today he would still be the boogeyman that is

the target of so much fare regardless of whether he was rapping. >> alfred hitchcock. >> sad commentary on our culture. the one person i wanted to talk to about this today. thank you for being here, toure. catch toure in ten minutes on this show, on this cycle which, of course, takes place every day at 3:00 p.m. weekdays eastern on "the cycle" right here on msnb. how paul ryan's "little boy in paper bag" fell apart.oking i . as a police officer, i've helped many people in the last 23 years, but i needed help in quitting smoking. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix varenicline is proven to help people quit smoking. chantix reduced the urge for me to smoke. it actually caught me by surprise. [ male announcer ] some people had changes in behavior, thinking, or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood, and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. if you notice any of these, stop chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any history

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this reminds me of a story i heard from eloise anderson. she serves in the cab get net of my buddy, governor scott walker. he met a young boy from a poor family. he would get a free lunch from a government program. she he told her he didn't want a free lunch. he wanted his own lunch, one in a brown paper bag just like the

other kids. he wanted one, he said, because he knew a kid with a brown paper bag had someone who cared for him. this is what the left does not understand. >> congressman paul ryan has revised that story saying he mistakenly cribbed it without fact taking from wisconsin government official who took the story from a book called "the i visible thread" and warped it. in the real story a kind woman in 1986 befriended an 11-year-old panhandler named maurice. buying him lunch at mcdonald's and then giving him a choice of giving him money or buying the lunch himself. he would rather have the lunch and specifically he would rather have it packed in a brown paper bag because that's how people know that someone cares for them. besides getting the story wrong ryan missed the moral, too. because anything to telling their story of lifelong

friendship in a best-selling book and on television, laura and maurice have told it to promote the "share our strength no kid hungry" campaign, a campaign that supports free and reduced free lunches for hungry kids. here's what lucy had to say about paul ryan's plans to slash away at the supplemental nutrition assistance snap snoen as s.n.a.p. last year. it's important to remember that half of s.n.a.p. participants are children and the program provides a critical role in making sure that even when their families face tough economic times, children are still able to get healthy food they need. s.n.a.p. is one of our nation's most effective antipoverty programs and cuts like those included in this budget proposal will leave millions of children without access to the food they need to thrive. the no kid hungry campaign estimates that more than 15 million american kids, that's one kid in five, lives in a household that struggles to put food on the table.

and while 9.8 million kids receive free or reduced meals in school everyday 10.6 million go without because their parents don't know their eligible. and only one in seven kids who get free or reduced lunch during the school year get free summer lunch. you have to never have actually been hungry or be pretty heartless to think providing lunch somehow drains the souls of hungry kids or children would be asked to bear the burden of their parents economic want by going hungry as some sort of spiritual lesson. as someone who had a single mom who loved her kids and who didn't always have money i promise you that getting free summer lunch at my elementary school with my friends was great for our stomachs and our souls. and that wraps things up for "the reid report." i'll see you back here tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. eastern. "the cycle" is up next. did toure make it back? >> i made it back, joy. thanks for a little conversation. i would love to do more of that with you because i love your show.

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martin who literally wrote the book on jesus takes his seat at the head of the table, right where he belongs. aftershock. the west coast braces for what's next after a big quake struck overnight. i'm abby huntsman. scientists say it's not if but when the next one is going to strike. >> toure today becomes court tv. i'm making the case for why it's good to defend bad people. we begin with breaking news in the missing flight mystery. the fbi is about to run fingerprints lived by airport security in kuala lumpur against u.s. databases trying to id the two men who boarded the flight 370 using stolen pass ports and one-way tickets purchase with cash through an iranian middle man. right now there's no evidence terrorism brought down the plane but u.s. officials are not going to rule that out either. in fact, no evidence of the plane at all has been found or any of the 239 people who are on board. interpol is working to identify