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>> i remember that now. good morning, everyone! >> pulling out the gary bauer? >> that's okay. it happens. >> that is bad. that is bad. >> it happens. good morning, everyone. it's tuesday, march 11th. welcome to "morning joe." with us on set, we have msnbc and "time" magazine -- >> that's something i would do. like i flip the pancakes. >> believe me, i've been there. >> we have with us "time" magazine senior political analyst mark halpern. mark? >> there you go. >> msnbc contributor mike barnicle. hello, mike. >> hello, mika. >> are you okay? >> i'm good. >> for "businessweek" josh green. good to have you all on board this morning. >> a quick question before you start with the news. all of the kids who gather around. can i ask mark halpern a question? >> make it true/false. >> true/false? i was wondering when the gary

bauer pancake flipping incident was. was it '96? >> i think it was -- no, 2000. he ran against george w. bush. >> that's how we the new millennial? >> he was a pretty good candidate, gary bauer. >> he was a good candidate. >> like the pat buchanan of his era. agile. >> you look very nice today. what happened? >> is like mike huckabee going to run? >> i hope so. huckabee, santorum, mike pence. every lane is going to be crowded. >> so we have something on that later. we start with our top story. >> what is our top story? >> we are going to begin right now with the latest on missing jet in southeast asia. the uncertainty surrounding its 239 passengers and crew. officials say they are skeptical of foul play. but that they cannot rule out a bombing or a hijacking.

nbc's tom costello whas the latest. >> reporter: the search for flight 370 has entered fourth day. dozens of ships and helicopters and planes running grid like searches in the waters between malaysia and vietnam. so far, nothing. an oil sheen and debris spotted over the weekend ended up being false leads an now sea conditions are expected to worsen. on "blue ridge" the commander. >> that will make search conditions more challenging but i can tell you our radars are very advanced and they can actually negate a lot of that surface clutter, but it does present a challenge for us big international effort. >> reporter: the last reported location for the boeing 777 was over the water halfway between malaysia and vietnam but with malaysian military suggesting the plane may have started to turn back the search zone is expanding mailings mainland and waters to the northwest.

>> reporter: among the questions why would the plane turn back? and why didn't the crew radio air traffic controllers? a former senior ntsb investigator says a sudden loss of cab bin pressure could have incapacitated the crew and passengers within seconds while the plane continued flying. >> you really have to start looking at a trajectory path, at a speed, at an at tuled they were at how far could this airplane go? it had 7 1/2 hours of fuel on it but you have to be realistic and coming up with a rated descent. >> reporter: a beacon should be send heing a signal, but if the plane went down in the sea, underwater pingers attached to the black boxes should be sending a homing signal. in florida they make the black box pingers. >> these devices are designed to activate in the water and once active they create a brief pulse

30 days at a depth up to 20 thousand feet. >> man. >> that was tom costello with that report. if anything happens the next three hours, we will certainly bring you up-to-date. we turn to politics now. >> first of all, did you see "the times"? >> yes, i did. i read that. that was the talk of the day today. >> mayor's interview talking when mayor de blasio was on "morning joe" yesterday. >> i thought he was great. i thought he was real. >> i think everybody got their sides out. you weren't here. what did you think? >> i thought it was excellent. i was at a party last night with a friend of mine, book on number five on amazon. people were talking about a long interview you don't normally see with anybody like that. everybody came to play and he got to say what he wanted to say and you guys asked tough questions and i think it advanced his position on a lot of stuff. >> it was good for him. >> it was good for him.

it was also good for eva moskowitz schools and the students because they found out yesterday he is going to figure out a way to take care of them, that they are going to have a place to continue learning, and with eva moskowitz head of those schoolhouse. >> i think the reason it took the time to do the interview, an issue like that is so complicated. it's not black and white. there's not one side that's right and one side that is completely, completely wrong. on a broad level, it's actually a national story and it's extremely complicated. i thought the mayor did a great job stating his case and i think if you're on the mayor's side with this, you would think he got his part out and i certainly heard from a lot of people who are in support of charter schools who feel the same way. >> i think that the mayor's biggest problem right now, you know? you can search twitter and find somebody that believes just

about anything, but i will say in this case, the approach he took was just dumb founding to about anybody unless they were in a teachers union just judging from the response in twitter. he doesn't have a lot of allies in the case it was presented but he did say in the article yesterday "the times" picked this up, willie, that he could of -- could have done a better job on the pr side of it. >> yeah. >> the one thing i was taken by bill de blasio, he certainly has been painted as a raging ideologue but everybody say meet the guy. he is very nice and very likal and has a winning personality. this is a big city and this is a big job. i'm sure everybody in the city is hoping -- you know, there have been a couple of speed bumps at the beginning. >> the big news and you'll find it in "the times" and other places today. he came out and said if governor cuomo finds 500 million a year

earmarked for this specific pre-k plan i will take that money and not raise the taxes. the argument you've heard in new york and other places, he has to get this tax on the wealthy to deliver on a campaign promise and live to his ideology. he says if he gives me the money, i'll take it. >> i love he was able to come to the table and talk about it an even deal. a lot of guys wait. he just showed up. he hit it out of the park quite frankly on every level and negotiated whatever it takes. he wan he wants to talk about it. you got to give him that. >> he used the time to clarify his position. he came back to the middle with regard to governor cuomo and albany and taxes. he was amenable to, you know, a compromise on charter schools. he indicated that, you know, he wasn't going to kill charter schools, he was in favor of charter schools, so he used his time very, very well. i thought -- i thought he was kind of impressive, actually. >> we stipulate that anything that happens in new york is a

national story but you guys asked about stuff that has complications not just for new york but for every city. >> every city in the country. we will ask "the times" for a correction. >> what is that? >> the next to the last paragraph referring to willie geist. the genial host. >> are you genial, joe? >> no. >> it's redacted. >> they made willie sound like soupy sails. >> soupy sails. >> we will keep following the story and we have already gotten great contacts on the issue of teacher retention. we will do a big segment on that. i'm going to read a mayor de blasio and i decided we are going to read a dr. seuss book to pre-k. >> we have some students in

today. >> we have a great group in today and talk about that as well. moving on to other forms of politics. a race held as a test case for democrats and republicans alike in 2014. a special election is set in the clearwater/saints petersburg area to replace long time republican congressman bill young who served 43 years before passing away in october. polls opening this morning. it is still considered a tossup between become alex sink and david jolly. slate is calling it obamacare's ground zero with the president's health plan in the front of the race. >> reporter: david jolly lobbed about being a lobbyist and now lying with alex sink's record on health care. the facts jolly would go back to letting insurance companies deny conch and pay thousands more for prescription drugs. >> we can't go back to letting insurance companies do what they want. we need to keep what is right

and fix what is wrong. i'll work with republicans and democrats for health care that is affordable and help us. >> you are looking at the two most important in my life. i'm fighting obamacare. it hass 700 million out of mark medicare. >> they are running ads to scare us that even the media condemns. >> this is going to be fascinating district. outside money has been pouring in. the tribune is reporting that $ million have been spent on outside groups and tv air spots have gone about 200 times daily in the market. this is a district republicans long assumed, mark halpern, that after billy young got out, it would go democratic. i don't know the exact numbers unless they have radically redistrict it.

i'm sure barack obama won this district the last time and it should be a democratic seat that is picked up. >> they have a strong candidate and run statewide. >> everybody knows alex sink. >> democrats are acting like they mays although and lower expectations. >> that would be a really bad sign, just like if republicans lost northwest florida seat. if democrats lose this seat, not a good sign. >> it's a district they should win with a strong candidate. they have arguably got the strong candidate. if they lose it sometimes the national cuba turns something into a bellwether that isn't but this is a pretty good bellwether. >> it's, again, josh green, for 20 years, the assumption has been that the only reason the seat is republican is because bill young was there, but tons of money coming in too. that's another fascinating side to this story that we're going to have to all be prepared for in 2014. >> well, it is. we see that in every special election that you get millions

from these outside groups pouring in which i think ratchets up the intensity and the negative attacks. but what is really unfortunate for alex sink is that the context she is running in both the ongoing debate over obamacare but the president has some of the lowest approval numbers we have ever seen and that helps drag down congressional candidates across the board so not only a concern for alex sink but also a concern for democrats running this fall if he can't get that turned around by november. >> what is the district mark exactly? >> ft. lauderdale -- st. pete, rather, south, i believe. i may be wrong. >> maybe rocks beach. >> and to answer the question, obama did win it 2008 and 2012 narrowly but he won both. >> not a slam dunk district with democrats. >> obama won by five points, six points in 2012. >> it's a lot of suburban voters but, again, it does lean democratic. and i can't emphasize enough.

she ran for governor. she almost won. she is well-funded and she's a moderate and has pretty good candidate skills. not great, but the republican jolly is a flawed candidate so, again, the outside money, yes, a lot of outside money is poured in but guess what? in the competitive races this year all over the country there is a lot of -- so that doesn't make it atypical. >> moving on. >> wait. i'm confused here. mark halpern, i'm sorry, mika, but did josh say something about obama's numbers being low? i saw some tweets over the weekend when i was tweeting about music and liverpool football. and i accidentally saw a couple of political tweets. i hate it when that happens but somebody, oh, barack obama all-time high since last summer on gallup or something like that. every story i'm reading in here -- >> in florida? >> no, just across the country. >> all-time high? >> yeah. everything i'm seeing here says

obama job approval rating hits record low. this is the des moines register. >> the thing about his approval rating, it doesn't move much. >> everybody was exploding this weekend like, you know, he was ike or something like that. he is, what? between 42, 43, 45. >> exactly. you'll see maybe 39 but basically the president has a floor under him 'cha is a huge political and never almost ever drops below 41. >> i think the president's best chance right now is for republicans to overreact as a couple of them did on the ukraine crisis. that will draw a country behind the commander in chief. i haven't seen that, though, yet, because i think other than a few republicans, the party has been little restrained. >> they have come back a bit, though. in terms of backing the president. >> that's what they have to do! >> and boehner and mcconnell,

the leaders are supportive. the prps wants to lure them into a fight over minimum wage and they are not letting that happen yet. >> do you want to do chris christie now i thought we would wait until must read's. >> whatever you want to do. is that winter white or is that just white. what are you wearing? >> hoping for spring. >> it's winter. >> hoping for spring? >> it looks snow white. way to go, josh. a good one. >> who is the witch in snow white? what was she called? >> the witch in snow white? i don't know. >> that isn't what i was implying. >> that isn't what he is implying at all. >> a good spring outfit and i like it. for good reason. i think it was 29 degrees morning. >> it's going to be worse tomorrow. >> what is going to happen tomorrow? >> we will talk to bill karins. >> after the show yesterday, you know, the guys with the bikes, i get in the back of one of those things. i say, take me, you know, to

starbucks. we go in and i just have my ole miss t-shirt on, right? we go to times square. i swear to god. i get out of times square and i'm in my ole miss t-shirt, that's it, sweat and my beach shoes. >> that's attractive. >> you think i wear this? i don't even wear this on the show. >> i can't believe how well dressed you are today. >> i'm walking across times sqarp a square and it starts snowing. >> what did you and the naked cowboy do? >> he sang and i did a little dance. a little salsa. it's snowing in march! >> 40 seconds. >> it was a long 40 seconds, my friend. are we done here? >> this block. coming up on "morning joe," chuck todd, senator claire mccaskill and kansas governor sam brownback and cesar milan one of the best known dog

trainers stops by the set. i should bring spice in. >> spice is a bad mess. >> and talk to kyle mclaughlin about his new nbc show "believe." up next the top stories and the political playbook. first, bill? >> i got bad news all around. >> what? >> you and de blasio. seriously, you two guys. >> i have an event in d.c. >> what is going on? what is happening? >> i-95 is fine. new york, d.c., boston. it's really our friends in chicago, detroit, buffalo, syracuse and all of northern new england. they got a big snowstorm heading your way. let me take you through the daleds. two storms merging through the middle of the country today. today the real know starts tonight in chicago so get your errands done today. a snow day probably for many kids in the chicago area and detroit too. the blue on the map is the snow. the areas of green is the rain. wednesday morning this time tomorrow, snow preeding super albany and new york state preway and heavy snow through detroit

and chicago. during the day, a lot of heavy rain will move up into southern new england and snow on the ground we are worried about flooding. buffalo and syracuse see snow maybe an inch per hour wednesday afternoon and evening. on the back side, really cold air whips down. how much snow are we talking? i mean, this is an impressive amount of snow. this purple shading is 12 to 24 inches! that is 1 to 2 feet of snow possible for buffalo, syracuse, burlington, vermont and the adirondacks and areas of northern new hampshire and blockbuster march snow event for you guys, while the rest of the country is actually pretty mild and looking for a beautiful day today. my apologies to you. washington, d.c. your snow is long gone. another day in the 60s for you today. enjoy it. you're watching "morning joe." ♪

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time to take a look at the morning papers. ♪ shattered look at me i'm in tatters ♪ >> so great, mika. >> mika, this is a great song for some girls, right? >> some girls. what an album. i used to always wake up in high school, put on "respectable." that one moves 90 miles an hour, right? ♪ look at me >> let's just say we are talking heroin with the president. that some good stuff. from our parade of papers.

"the washington post" keep shattered up. keep that up! no, keep the music up, t.j.! turn it up. >> more than 2,000 democratic senators are pulling an all-nighter to get climate change back in the headlines. hey, great job. you have a freshman from hawaii brian shatz organize it and harry reid kicked it off because he agreed with them on american -- or something. >> it's here. it's time to stop acting those who ignore this crisis. for example the oil barren koch brothers and allies in congress have a good point. they don't. >> that is like saying unaddicted to koch. >> a political stunt since democrats have no plans to actually introduce climate change legislation. the other connecticut senator. >> he is great and i'm glad that

they are trying to have a conversation. >> god knows, the media, a total blackout on climate change the past decade. if only the media would focus a little bit on climate change but those oil barrens control all of the major media companies. there's a guy, i hear there is this guy, al gore, i hear he has been trying to get funding for a movie about this that says florida is going to be under water in like 30 years and new york city is going to be a huge tidal wave and freeze and burning books in the public library but hollywood won't talk about climate change, the media won't talk about climate change. nobody will talk about climate change. thank god, thank god these brave democratic senators are risking the raft to talk about clim chan climate change on the floor. this is what america is all about. this is what america is all about. >> i don't understand what could be wrong with that, like, how

you could find a way to mock it and criticize it. >> you just said it. it's very emotional. you just said, thank god somebody is talking about it to get climate change back in the headlines. damn, "the new york times"! they will not talk to about climate change. it's up to these men and women! this is 2014's version of mr. smith goes to washington, willie! >> and freezes! >> and freezes! it's 3 degrees outside! >> and so now i'm allowing people and other liberal websites to go, well, when it's cold, it means there's climate change but when it's warm, it means there's climate change but like when it's in the middle, that means that's climate change. pass me a cheeto. >> they get it coming and going. >> i'll let that speak for itself. >> we get these brave, brave

hearts. what is mel gibson's last line in that movie? >> freedom. >> freedom. >> as he is having his innards removed. >> just another word for nothing left to lose. >> janis joplin! >> that is just some people talking. >> now it might be a good time to say you were just kidding and you do care about climate change. >> i love don henley although he hates everything i stand for but i love don henley. he has written some great songs. >> he is a climate change guy. >> i know he is and why i'm saying, it's sort of ironic. >> you know what they say about "morning joe"? you can check out, but you can never leave. >> really? >> i believe in climate change. please, don't say -- >> i never say anything. >> i'm glad somebody is putting this back in the headlines. we have been having that shoved down our throat nonstop since

2004. >> really? i'm glad to see we have done really meaningful things to address it, because it actually matters, it really does. >> it does. >> and i don't think you should make fun of it. >> i'm not. nobody is making fun of it. i'm making fun of the fact you're saying nobody is talking about it. that's all they have been talking about. al gore won a pulitzer, a nobel prize. i think he won the westminster dog show one year. he has won every award they could throw at him. >> he won a bafta also. >> this is our first news story. we have like seven more, willie. >> you know what the koch brothers say about gore? >> gore-a-doesn't wring a bell. >> never heard of him. >> go ahead. i'm getting my oatmeal. >> really? >> yeah. >> good. keep eating. the detroit free press.

commerce committee is investigating the general motors ignition switch recall. the committee will examine why gm and the national transportation safety board failed to act quickly when problems were first reported nearly ten years ago. the automaker is recalling 1.6 million vehicles. the ignition switch defect is linked to 13 deaths. the new york daily news. defense in the pistorious trial are trying to cast doubts on the doctor who performed the autopsy on model reeva steinkamp. the man known as blade runner became pale and repeatedly threw up as he heard some of the gruesome details from the autopsy report. he maintains he thought his girlfriend was a burglar and the shooting was a tragic accident. >> this may be one of the stranger 911 calls. a family in portland, oregon, called police after being forced to barricade themselves inside

their bedroom. they were hiding from an angry 22-pound himalayan house cat. >> yeah, i have kind of a particular emergency here. my cat attacked our 7-month-old child and i kicked the butt -- the cat in the rear and it has been went off over the edge and we aren't safe around the cat. it's a very large himalayan and we are trapped in our bedroom and he won't let us out of the door. >> does the child need medical attention? >> no. he just got scratched on his forehead but we don't know what to do about the cat. he is trying to attack us. he is very, very, very hostile. i tried to get a hold of animal control. >> you guys are inside your bedroom right now? >> yeah. when i leave out the bedroom to let the police in, i'm going to have to fight this cat!

>> the police were able to capture the cat with a doing snare when they arrived at the apartment. no one was seriously hurt. >> a situation like that, mike barnicle, you kill the cat. >> absolutely. >> you kick a field goal with the cat. >> i was just going to say. >> right through the uprights. >> i would have you run to the other side of the room and i would kick it. that cat attacks a 7-month-old kid i'm not on the other side of the door. >> what do you believe they kept the cat? >> i would call patrick gavin and have him talk the cat down. >> we haven't had a cat joke in a long time. >> we said patrick gavin. >> there we go! >> pat, we love, you baby. rig red button in the control room. >> there is gavin. we are pressing. >> we are getting close to that time, everybody. that means it's cat time. biggest games of our lives with some college teams.

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like which airplanes to fly across the country. we had a bad experience flying out to l.a. you say delta is the way to go? >> they are good. their employees are happy. they want to help you. >> there's this one airline, mika, that we usually take when we go to the west coast. >> i think they were tired. >> no. >> a united states airline? >> it's a united states airline. >> do they like apple pie? >> i will not get specific but the people were not happy on that plane and you say that this carry why were, you have this experience too? >> i have. >> that particular carrier has a new tag line on their advertisements. we are not happy until you're not happy. perhaps you've seen that? >> stop. >> they worked on about six hours at l.a.x. >> delta flies almost anywhere

now. >> boy, they have turned their act around. >> a great ceo. >> it is amazing what they have done the past three, four, five years. they actually act like they are happier there. >> and they want your business. >> and they want your business. then jetblue at the top. >> jetblue is huge. >> those guys are amazing. those two right there, willie. now we are ready for sports. >> flying kids too, nothing better than jetblue. >> and they are about to get wi-fi finally. >> love that. >> wi-fi and tv. >> that would be great. >> they are great. jetblue and delta is all i need. let's do a little sports. a scary moment in the nhl last night. dallas stars rich peverley collapsing. he is sitting on the bench actually. you can see something kind of going on around the dallas stars bench. not quite sure what it is. he was immediately carried down the tunnel by team staff and taken to the hospital. he was reportedly conscious while he left the arena being described as in good condition. the game was postponed. >> what happened? >> he had an irregular heartbeat

diagnosed earlier this season so there is some suspicion that had something to do with it. obviously, the players didn't know what was going on. they watched the guy collapsed and carried back in the locker room. you can see there despondent. they called the game and pick it up another date. last check he is in the hospital and conscious. college hoops last night. three teams punching their ticket to the ncaa tournaments last night. >> only three seconds to go. lowry has never made a three. the jaspers win the maac championship! they are going dancing! sumler for three. sumler fires the three! for the third time the last five years, the terriers are headed to ncaa tournaments. >> sadler. ba t he lays it in. can he do it? thornton? no. it's over.

the blue heads win their first ever caa championship! their first conference title in 15 years! >> in order there that was manhattan, wofford and delaware getting the automatic bid to the big dance. three plays that came down to the last shot of the game. great games last night. >> sunday, is that selection sunday? >> yes. who is on the bubble and your dark horse? you're talking about the last four in and last four out. talk about wichita state. jay was here last week. sleeper he says watch for green bay. he loves green bay. >> is that an actual school? >> green bay. >> is that a state college? is it green bay, wisconsin? >> yes. university of wisconsin at green bay. they just call it green bay now. >> i knew it wasn't green bay, kansas! >> wisconsin, exactly. spring training baseball. mets and marlins in the first inning. chris young drills one to deep

right center and bounces over the wall. not bad way to start but check out what happens at the end of the play here. >> oh, my. >> he left the kid in the cart! >> there he goes. >> hey, pick him up! >> everyone understands! >> sweet little boy is rolling down the hill! hundred aw run-away wagon! >> he didn't get the ball but he got the kid and then the kid runs into the outfield wall. nice work, dad! >> it happens! >> marlins won the game but who cares? >> coming up, mika's must read opinion pages. we will be right back on "morning joe."

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♪ new poll show the deepening political toll of the george washington bridge scandal for government chris christie. his approval rating in the state has evaporated by 20 points since november and the percentage of those who find him very trustworthy has fallen by the same amount. while 54% still call him a strong leader, that's his lowest score since taking office. there are also reverberations in iowa where christie's potential presidential bid would begin. a des moines register poll shows 50% of iowans disapprove house he has handled the scandal. a showdown to determine whether stepan and kelly have to hand over documents. and christie wielded the for his

own gain. it was used as politically motivated gifts to 20 new jersey mayors whose endorsements he wanted to secure. quote, the authority became a means to reward friends and hire them and punish adversaries. there is new unrelated trouble at the port authority. "wall street journal" reports federal prosecutors have subpoenaed records belonging to david samson. according to "the journal" looking at conflicts of interests between his law firm, one of the most prominent in the state and his role at the port authority. >> josh, but you write in bloomberg "businessweek" after the bridgegate scandal, chris christie is in better shape than a lot of people would think for all of the bad press over bridgegate. christie hasn't been abandoned by party leaders and some conservatives don't like him but

it has prompted others to rally behind him. the cpac had to lift the impression he is unacceptable to the base and christie may be better positioned to win the republican nomination than he was a year ago as far as that poll of republicans swearing up and down that never vote for him, don't believe it in 2011 gallup found 26% of republicans would definitely not vote for romney who went on to win the nomination. you go on. i agree with you. i thought his reception at cpac was good. i think the fact that you have conservatives on twitter railing against anybody now that says anything negative about chris christie is actually very positive thing. at the end of the day, chris christie, with all of the conservatives running taking up the far right lanes, he needs 25%, 30% to win the early primaries. >> right. i think if you look at recent history and who actually wins republican primaries over the last 30 years, he's in better shape vie vis-a-vis the nominat.

two knocks on him is conservatives despised him for embracing obama in the closing days of the 2012 campaign and that the bridgegate scandal had tarnished his image in that way made him unelectable and hurt him with independents and republicans as we saw in that approval poll in new jersey. if you look just at what he needs to do to win the gop nomination he isn't automatically disqualified. the major party leaders have not abandoned him yet and you need to appeal to the tea party and win over hard -core conservatives. it is is not the case. i don't think it will be this time around either. >> we talk about iowa and new hampshire for two or three years and then you have a moderate republican winning the nomination. it's happened time and time again. >> no perfect candidates.

if jeb bush and paul ryan don't run, christie is as strong as anybody. the story in the papers today, the hearing today, the investigative stuff is coming to a little bit of a head and subpoenas to samson are a big deal because he and the governor are closely aligned and based what is reported on the public record, he has a lot of explaining to do. maybe not illegality but a lot of explaining how the port authority has been used. >> it's worth pointing out the subpoenas that were issued by the manhattan prosecutors on friday were apparently withdrawn yesterday. so it's not clear that there is further subpoenas, although he has got a number of subpoenas from new jersey federal prosecutors. >> i would bet you the ones that were withdrawn are reissued by the new jersey prosecutor. >> that could be. the big caveat i think it's important to stipulate if chris christie is indicted, obviously, all bets are off and that hurts him in the republican primaries everywhere else. as of right now, not in as bad

shape as a lot of people assumed. >> mike, when i hear this breathless read about how chris christie used the port authority for political gain, i'm sitting here looking at you coming from boston thinking this is something mike barnicle would know nothing about. >> oh, god. >> that politicians in boston or in other areas would ever -- >> you're including new york? >> or new york would ever use instruments of power. >> no. >> to help them get re-elected. >> they are independent authorities and governors, i have been familiar with, have never called a member of an independent authority and said, i'd like to you meet my cousin who is looking for a toll taker's job. >> come on. >> we will follow him. >> chris christie's problem is he always just two words away from the end and the words are, he knew." we will see. >> i'm a little distracted by the cutest kids i've ever seen. >> oh, my gosh. you take care of the kids. >> thank you, josh! >> thank you, josh. we will be checking in with some of the young scholars from

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♪ alexander, can pawns kill in a diagonal? take it. take it. take it. come on, come on. fall for it! fall for it! we have been talking about charter schools. we had a heated debate with the mayor yesterday on the issue here in new york city which is really, really important in terms of the future of our children. i want to bring in andy malone who is the principal at success academy harlem central. you don't know where you will be next year? >> we don't, unfortunately. >> the good news out of yesterday they are going to work

something out. >> we are encouraged by the mayor's comments and we would love to hear specifically what the solution is and make sure we can stay together but we are encouraged. >> he seems willing to talk and work it out. you have incredible kids here. tell me what they are doing. i don't know what is going on over there. >> they are doing a lot what we were not doing in sixth grade. >> or ninth or tenth. >> you have ashland solving this multistep fraction here. bryce and andy are makie ining molecular models and stan is doing some composition. we have our great chess players. >> you didn't take it, alexander. come on, take the pawn. take the pawn. what about over here? >> destiny is doing some writing before she dances. >> these kids are incredibly talented. >> they are. >> what braigrade? >> fifth and sixth. raise your hand if you're in

sixth grade. >> beautiful. >> they were top in the state for math last year. we are really proud of them. >> that's really incredible. we are going to be talking to the kid and highlighting what they do throughout the show. thank you so much for coming in. >> thanks for having us. >> this is fun. we will highlight great schools across the board. coming up at the top of the hour, "the washington post" eugene robinson and nbc chuck todd, they are with us. "morning joe" will be right back. ♪ people laughing meet me in the crowd ♪ [ male announcer ] staples has everything you need to keep a germ-free office. from latex gloves and antibacterial wipes to steam cleaners, keyboard vacuums and microfiber cloths. yes, staples has everything you need for a germaphobe-friendly office... [ sneezes, coughs ] except germ-free coworkers. [ retches ] thousands of products added online every day... [ click ] even protective suits. [ sneezes ] now get 15% off your cleaning supply purchase.

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i guess i have to go behind the newsstand counter. >> joining us in washington pulitzer prize winner and columnist of "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst, eugene robinson. and nbc chief white corresponds and host of "the daily rundown" chuck todd. good to have you both on board' halpern and barnicle still with us this hour. the kids are just working over there. >> we talked about "the new york times" article on tense moments in the mayor's tv interview yesterday. >> no, it was a good interview. he was amazing. >> i think the big news, we have the kids, mika. >> yes. >> here obviously from the success academy. these kids, the top math students in the state of new york. >> in the state of new york. >> fifth graders. which is extraordinary. >> alexander there won that

trophy for chess. >> that's fantastic. any way the great news is that certainly we got out of the interview yesterday is the mayor said he is going to find a place for them to continue what they have been doing, which is just excelling in a way that should be a model for all public schools. >> yeah. >> they are a great success story for public school, i mean, and 82% propficient in math. sca sca scarsdale, 69% and that is in english. >> unbelievable. >> top in the state in math. >> it looked like the mayor was willing to come to the table and talk about these issues, which i liked a lot. and i think we will continue the conversation. i hope he comes back. we are also going to talk about what he wants to talk about which is teacher retention which is a huge issue. hopefully, we can bring this conversation to the next level in the days to come.

>> willie, there seems to be a compromise here about finding a place for these students to continue to learn the way they have been learning, but also you brought it up earlier. big news on the tax issue? >> that was a big deal that he went there yesterday. we brought up the fact that he wants to raise -- put a small tax on those making $500,000 or more in order to pay for universal pre-k in the city. governor cuomo come out say i'm willing to give existing money from the budget so you don't have to raise that tax. the mayor said yesterday if you can promise me, i need $530 million a year to pull this off. if you can promise me over five years i will have that money and used explicitly for that purpose i'll take the money. this is not a political thing. i'm not out to tax the rich. if golf qvernor cuomo can do th i'm in.

>> it's going to be tough but he certainly did give on those two issues. >> both those issues. he was pretty clear in his explanation of where he stood in charter schools, that he was in favor of charter schools. he didn't want to dispense with charter schools that he was going to make sure these children and their school, success academy, would have place to go to in the fall once their lease runs out on the public school where they are paying rent now. i thought it was a good day for the mayor. i thought he had a really -- he explained himself well. >> we want to thank these kids for coming and we will see them throughout the morning. beautiful and so talent. we are going to get to other news now. latest on the missing jet in southeast asia and the uncertainty surrounding its 239 passengers and crew. officials say they are skeptical of foul play, but they cannot rule out a bombing or a hijacking. nbc's tom costello reports.

>> reporter: the search for flight 370 has entered fourth day. dozens of ships and helicopters and planes running grid like searches in the waters between malaysia and vietnam. so far, nothing. an oil sheen and debris spotted over the weekend ended up being false leads an now sea conditions are expected to worsen. on "blue ridge" the commander. >> that will make search conditions more challenging but i can tell you our radars are very advanced and they can actually negate a lot of that surface clutter, but it does present a challenge for us big international effort. >> reporter: the last reported location for the boeing 777 was over the water halfway between malaysia and vietnam, but with malaysian military suggesting the plane may have started to turn back, the search zone is expanding mailings mainland and waters to the northwest. >> that is very important. >> reporter: among the questions why would the plane turn back? and why didn't the crew radio air traffic controllers?

a former senior ntsb investigator says a sudden loss of cabin pressure could have incapacitated the crew and passengers within seconds while the plane continued flying. >> you really have to start looking at a trajectory path, at a speed, at an altitude they were at, how far could this airplane go? it had 7 1/2 hours of fuel on it but you have to be realistic and come up with at least a rated descent. >> reporter: if a plane went down on land, a beacon should be sending a signal, but if the plane went down in the sea, underwater pingers attached to the black boxes should be sending a homing signal. in florida they make the black box pingers. >> these devices are designed to activate in the water and once active they create a brief pulse 30 days at a depth up to 20 thousand feet. >> that was nbc's tom costello

with that report. we will bring you the latest in we hear anything more. now let's go to a race that is really being held as a test case for democrats and republicans in 2014. could have national complications. it's a special election that is set today in florida's 13th district to replace long time republican congressman bill young who served 43 years before passing away in october. polls opening this morning. it is still considered a tossup between democrat alex sink and republican david jolly. slate is calling it obamacare's ground zero with the president's health plan in the front of the race. >> reporter: first, david jolly lied about being a lobbyist and now he is lying with alex sink's record on health care. the facts jolly would go back to letting insurance companies deny conch and pay thousands more for prescription drugs. >> we can't go back to letting insurance companies do what they want. instead of repealing the health

care law we need to keep what is right and fix what is wrong. i'll work with republicans and democrats for health care that is affordable and help us. >> you are looking at the two most important in my life. protecting their social security means everything to me. it's personal. that's why i'm fighting obamacare. it has taken 700 million out of medicare. >> they are running ads to scare us that even the media condemns. >> outside money is pouring in. let's bring in chuck todd right now. outside money is pouring in. "the tampa tribune" reporting 9 million have been spent on outside groups and tv spots and airing 200 times a day in that market, meaning they feel the impact of what connecticut voters felt over two terms when a certain republican candidate ran statewide. but, chuck, let's talk about this race. this is a race that we

republicans have said would go democratic the minute bill young retired and barack obama won it in 2008 and 2012. alex sink, of course, a national statewide figure. ran for governor. everybody knows who she is and been elected statewide office. do you agree with slate and this is an early indicator on where we stand on obamacare? >> i think it is because of the type of campaign sink has run. she has run a very aggressive campaign to try to neutralize the health care issue. if she pulls this off, this playbook that was developed by the sink and by key national consultants are part of her campaign will be used by mark pryor and others this whole idea of don't prepeel to fix the law and you can fight it to a draw. >> are you surprised by that strategy? i'm surprised she is even running 30-second commercials

talking about and having the affordable care act up there. she is fighting an enemy territory. >> how about this district? think about this district. what are you going to do? income inequality issue here? this is not the ideal place to go with the populace district. a lot of retirees. i think you would be whistling past the graveyard if you're not going to sit there and -- combat this issue. but, you know, what is fascinating about this race is the outside money is one aspect. alex sink is the better candidate. they have run the better campaign. david jolly has atmosphere behind him. the special election that means the electorate is probably slightly more republican than a general election in november so he has those intangibles in his favor. we have to go back to the outside money. alex sink has outspent jolly i

think 3-1 campaign-to-campaign but he has been propped up more so than she has with outside money and it's all on health care. it is all on that issue which is why you have no choice. joe, she's had $5 million of basically anti-health care ads thrown at her so how do you not go after it head-on? she had no choice to do this. >> the question, mark, is how do the democrats not answer dollar-for-dollar in a race like this when they know this is going to be seen as a bellwether certainly. again, because -- >> joe, they did. the money is even here. >> by outside groups? >> no. but if you take all of the money together. so the democratic money more propped up by and republicans propped up with the outside money. >> it's even as far as dollar-for-dollar. okay. well, the thing is -- maybe you can explain, too, about florida and alex sink.

you know, alex sink is -- like the bench for the state of florida has been for ten years alex sink. she's been like -- alex sink can run statewide. alex sink can run for governor. like the democrats bench in florida is so thin that you have a republican right now running for governor for the democratic nomination. if somebody like alex sink loses to this guy. >> in this district. >> in this district who is not a top-tier candidate, that's damming, is it not? >> the district i said is south of ft. laueder detail. she is known as a physical conservative which is a democrat in florida. you got to be to win in a race a competitive race. another big thing going on here is not just the amount of outside money but the coordination of outside money and one of the things that is going to harden conservatives here if they win is the message from the different outside groups has been both directly and indirectly coordinated in a

very effective way. they are advertising on obamacare and other issues in a way that is more effective. you can spend a lot of money but if you waste it, obviously, it's not going to be nearly as effective. if they win it's going to emboldened the outside groups and people who write the checks to these groups if we spend big and match dollar-for-dollar on this message we will win. >> they are focused on obamacare. obamacare, obamacare. >> that's what is out there. >> it's what i'm saying. >> if democrats lose with a superior candidate and equal amount of money, this is about obamacare, obamacare. >> run for the hills if that is what it is. mark you all. mary landrieu. >> with all of the special elections this year. gene, one of the things that is kind of interesting is alex sink's commercial that we just saw, a portion of it, is that a did being finally going back against the onslot and against

obamacare injects the insurance companies in the company. when it's more than obamacare when they think about it, it's the insurance companies. >> yeah, who loves the insurance companies? i don't know who does. i think this is -- this is a fascinating race because it's such a great test case and it's going to -- the result win or lose, whoever wins, if the results precinct by precinct is pores over by political pros on both sides to see how this obamacare message on both sides worked or didn't work, and it's going to be carried away from this to other races in the fall. so this is like a little laboratory and everybody wondering how the experiment is going to come out. for a democrat to step up, yeah, obamacare we like it and let's fix it, which, according to

polls, is where most people are. let's see if that is the way they are going to vote. >> gene, let me ask you if you agree with what we have been saying about the district. i'm, obviously, a republican. i come from florida. for a lot of democratic voters that watch this, i'd like to get your take on it just so they don't think i'm spinning tomorrow morning if a republican wins, we go, oh, gosh, this is problems for the affordable care act. i'm serious here for all of our viewers that are democratic and are big supporters of the president's health care plan. is it fair to say democrats have the superior candidate and if they lose this, as chuck said, art pryor and others need to be very worried? >> a little while ago when she was well ahead in the polls and now it's a dead heat. she is a more experienced candidate and a better candidate. i don't think the district is, you know, flat out guaranteed

democratic district necessarily, although did win it umpteen times. you have to say she would have been favored going into this. and, again, we are going to see how is message plays and it's going to be -- it's almost less important who wins or loses than how this message plays among various groups. >> right. >> and how it plays, you know, down to the block basically and that is what the takeaway is going to be. >> chuck todd, i ask you the same question. >> yeah. i mean, look. here -- if the republican wins, it proves you can run a b minus or c plus race with a b plus or b minus candidate and it will carry a swing district. this is a swing district, period. that is what will be so potentially disheartening to democrats. they had a superior candidate. they had equal money. this is a fair -- this is a fair territory and national environment prevented them. they could run as good of a

campaign as you can have. you could say maybe she could be a better candidate here or there but clearly when you compare her to jolly a much better candidate. come on. the republican is a lobbyist. you would think that is as easy of a target you could have. that is why it's sort of to me it's as fair of a fight as you can have. candidate superiority on the democratic side and organization on the democratic site and environment on the republican side. but if democrats win, then you have the road map to survival. >> but they have not able to knock him off message as much they like even though he has been knocked off. it's tampa, st. pete. northwest of st. petersburg. >> there is a big difference! >> thank you, chuck. >> see you coming up on "the daily rundown."

and eugene robinson, thank you as well. your latest column on the crisis in ukraine online at thewashingtonpost.com. the way sexual assault cases are handled by the military, senator claire mccaskill is here to explain why this bill is so important. bill mclauf rghlinclaughlin, hi. he looks like the devil. before we go to break we want to check back in with the scholars from the sixth grade success academy. who is winning the chess game? what? there is disagreement here. success academy students start playing chess in kindergarten, if you can believe it. in middle school choose to continue their chess career as

an elective course. harlem placed fifth in new york in the middle reserve category and alexander placed third of all divisional players in the division and why he has the massive trophies with them. a special thanks to their chess teachers christopher johnson and matt morales. you're watching "morning joe." we will be right back. ♪ running down the street

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♪ without opposition, the senate has passed a bill to reform the way the military handles sexual assault cases. the vote was 97-0. the victims protection act will establish new rules on how victims of sexual assaults are treated giving them more power during the legal process. cosponsor kelly ayotte

commanders take full responsibility for their units before passed in the house and before signed into law. joining us from washington member of the armed services committee and author of that bill, senator claire mccaskill. great to have you back on the show, senator. >> thanks, guys. >> >> congratulations on getting at least through one portion. tell us exactly how -- because there is concern, of course, if you don't take it completely out of the chain of command that there won't be proper accountability. how is this going to work to protect men and women from this issue? >> well, we have now passed with this passage yesterday, 35 major sweeping reforms as it relates to sexual assault in the military. we have now created the most victim friendly organization in the world. i mean, victims have their own lawyers and they have their own power. commanders have been stripped of much of their power. but there was an honest policy difference as to whether or not taking commanders completely out was going to help victims or

hurt victims. when you look at the facts, when you get away from some of the arguments that are based on a knee-jerk reaction and look what has happened, we realize that almost a hundred times in the last few years, commanders have been the ones to say this case should go to trial when prosecutors have said, you know, we don't think the evidence is quite strong enough. so it's counterintuitive but nonetheless true that more cases will be tried, more victims protected over keeping those commanders accountable but with a whole lot of checks and balances that we have now put in the system. >> how is it going to get the process to move along? because if i'm understanding correctly there are thousands, thousands of cases that haven't even been dealt with that are just sitting there. >> it's not the thousands sitting there. this is the most underreported crime in america. by the way, i'm moving on now to continue to monitor this, but also to start working on another place where this crime is

massively underreported and that is college campuses. women don't want to come forward and talk about the most personally painful moment of their life in public to be challenged about that, and so we have got to create a system, and i spent years in the courtroom prosecuting these cases where the victim gets good information, can report in a safe place and then be surrounded by their own counsel, support counsel in terms of counseling services, all of the things you have to have to have the courage to come out of the shadows and hold these folks accountable that have committed these heinous crimes. >> senator mccaskill, willie geist and good to see you this morning. >> thanks. >> you've been portrayed in the press at being at odds with senator kristen gillibrand on this issue. she made some strange bedfellows with harry reid supporting her. what is the distinction that made you go a different

direction than her bill? >> it was whether or not taking the commanders out and result in more prosecutors. we know our allies have done and this and they have not had increase in reporting and our reporting is spiked. this is a good sign more people are reporting this crime because it's what mika referred to, getting people out of the shadows and holding the perpetrators accountable. and the other thing is we know, as i just mentioned, that more cases are going to trial at the insistence of commanders over the objections of prosecutors. so the data and the facts fly in the face of the notion removing commanders entirely is somehow going to make this better for victims. >> senator, within each branch of the military is there or is there not an independent, for lack of a better phrase, a sex crimes unit to look at each case, rather than the general overview of the commander of the base or whatever? is there an independent sex crimes unit? >> i think there is a perception out there that commanders are running these things.

right now you can report outside the chain of command five different places you can report and the investigation is handled outside the chain of command. in fact, in that way, gillibrand's proposal is no different than what we have right now. the only difference at the end of that process, the prosecutors make a recommendation to the convening authority the commander of that unit and that convening authority has to sign off or not, which i think gives an added level of protection against retaliation to those victims. instead of lawyers a half a continent away deciding a case should go forward, it's the commander of the unit that says to that unit we are going to get to the bottom of this and that provides more protection. on top of that we have made retaliation a crime. >> claire, thank you so much. congratulations. >> you bet. >> it's big news. >> good work. >> very important, obviously, not only for men and women of the armed forces but now you're talking about taking this to college campuses. congratulations on that. now i made a promise to you and

what do people in missouri say about me? i'm a man who keeps my word. >> oh, my lord. >> a man who keeps my word is what they say. you can go from kansas city to st. louis. >> i'm not so sure that is what they say. >> that's why i love her. >> what the kids are saying in the streets right now. >> everywhere, oh, yeah. >> they love me everywhere. joe keeps his word. when joe says to claire mccaskill as they are doing the victory dance in the world series before game one that i feel bad, because i love the cardinals organization, that we are going to come out for opening day. well, what do the kids in missouri know? that i'm going to be out on opening day. so we are coming. "morning joe" is coming. >> yea! >> i'm going to be there. mika is going to be there. mike barnicle is all in this morning. he is going to be there. >> are you bringing that pesky allow lou louis? we are because he has that

mirror. >> i'll get the paparazzi present. >> willie, if you want to come along. we are going to pile into our bus and "partridge family" bus. >> no rv. no. >> we are heading out opening day april 7th. will you be there? >> i absolutely will be there. you will see how to do opening day. the cardinals, they do everything so well, this organization. we have a very special opening day in cardinals nation, so you're going to see something special. we are going to play the reds that day and hopefully dispatch their fairly decent pitching and, you know, get to see a great game. >> i can't wait. >> i can't wait to be there. >> they do have a spectacular opening day but they don't have a ring ceremony this year. >> stop it! see? look at this! >> barnicle, seriously? i'm going to get barnicle a seat way out in right field. >> i'm a uniter and barnicle is a divider. it makes us sad. >> i can't. >> by the way, you'll be able to see the pennants up on the top of the stadium, mike.

i think if you count them, we didn't wait a hundred years to win one. >> i've seen them and i've also seen the 21st century. >> stop it! >> i'm leaving it there. >> i think you guys are split. we are split the 21st century, are we not? 3-3. >> yes, we are. >> claire, we are really excited about going out there. your organization and the people were so kind, they saw us in boston even after we were wrapped in red sox gear. just great wonderful people. a class organization. a lot to be proud of. i can't wait until april 7th. we will see you out there. >> sounds great. >> claire mccaskill, thank you. >> you're going to see the kids? >> i'm going to help the kids on chess. >> good. actor kyle mclaughlin joins us on set about how to work with the academy award director of "gravity." >> let's first take a look at

what the scholars from harlem success academy are up to. fifth graders. >> she won! >> alexander? alexander, you were distracted. >> way to go. >> look at these kids. because they are working on their math skills. scholars at success academy rank in the top 1% statewide on their standardized math assessments. why don't we bring back -- she is making a molecule, joe. >> fifth grade, i still can't make a water molecule. >> you can't do that. >> it's wonderful. what are you making right here? that's oxygen? all right, man. bryce, this is impressive. so you teach them to build these models? >> our science teacher does a great job. m molecular chemistry. >> i think my last math class was in fourth grade. >> our math curriculum is very

progressive 37. they do a lot of problem solving. >> de blasio would like that. >> we give them a problem and let them work on it in groups and afterwards they talk about the different strategies they use so they really teach each other and think through it more than get the skill and apply it. >> go ahead and read the problem. >> we are working on this one here. turn on the television to watch "morning joe." when she started watching the show was halfway of. she watched a third of the time remaining. if the show was an hour long, how many minutes did she watch? a lot of them have already got it. you want to do the answer together? >> ten minutes! >> that's right. >> thank you for the confirmation. kids, keep at it! >> wow. >> we will be right back. we want to thank, of course, their teachers stephanie bleaker

and shelly mowe. you're watching "morning joe." we will be back in the classroom in a minute. ♪

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>> i'll be back tomorrow. >> tomorrow will be too late. winter will be back for her. >> milton winter, he's dead. >> what he wants everyone to think. >> i was very clear. tonight i have to be out of pocket. it's my mother' birthday. >> st. anne's hospital on the seventh floor. call me when you can. >> the new nbc series "believe" made a special premiere last night. here with us on the set over there is the show's co-star golden globe winning actor kyle mclaughlin. take it away with joe, mike barnicle, and halpern. >> kyle, we are safe here, man. they are doing math problems over there. they are putting together like

molecules. it really makes my teeth hurt. >> i'm going to avoid that. >> we will stay here. whatever side of the brain we are on, that is the side we are on. we stay here. >> i'm an actor. don't expect me to do anything over there. i know nothing about that world. >> i'm an actor too. first of all, congratulations on the premiere. >> thank you. >> and your lead in. a pretty good place to be sitting, right? >> oh, yes. >> this is a fascinating story about a young girl born with these extraordinary skills and why don't you tell everybody the setup and then how you're the villain that is trying to get your hands on this girl. misunderstood villain, yes! >> she is a little girl 10 years old who is born with these extraordinary powers and telekinesis which means you can read things with your mind and see into people and there are two factions that are interested in controlling her. as she is getting older and getting more powerful and these abilities are becoming stronger.

i happen to fall on the side of the guys that might want to exploit her a little more than nurture. >> a little bit more? you want to use this poor 10-year-old girl for your -- like an evil bond type. >> what can i say? >> your nemesis on the other side is a misgood death row inmate, the good guy. >> death row inmate and vung in an exciting fashion we saw in the pilot last night we saw. he is brought in to protect her and we don't know yet what the relationship is about and we will learn about it. but that is how it starts. the woman that you saw there in the teaser is actually my assassin who i have hired to -- >> of course, you have. even though you're misunderstood. good guy. of course, that's what you do. who are you trying to kill? you're not trying to kill the 10-year-old girl? >> no. i want her but i need to get rid of the people that are around her. >> protecting her. death row inmate may get behind bars again. >> we were talking briefly about the future of network tv series and this is a serious show.

nbc has put a lot of money into it. the e.p., j.j. abrams. >> looks great. >> the director from "gravity." >> just won the best director award, yeah. >> it has to be enticing given the competition you have against showtime and hbo shows. this seems to be a step up in competing against those type of shows. >> without question. two titans of the industry right now, alfonso and j.j. abrams and extraordinary group of people working on the show and it's a gamble. every time you do a network show and throw it out like that you're hoping for the best. this particular show is in mid season so can concentrate on 13 show as opposed the traditional 22. have you they make each story the best it can possibly be.

>> the genre of this is what? >> this is like a thriller, super natural but a very strong emotional relationship between the death row inmate you mentioned, joe, tate, and the little girl, bo. a back and forth banter. she is a toughy, that little kid and they have a wonderful back and forth chemistry. a little something for everyone in the show. >> it's a little different -- >> i love this. >> you play a mayor. can you explain to everybody that doesn't watch this show? >> no, joe, i can't. >> why you resigned and why you had the largest carbon footprint in all of oregon? >> yes. >> do you know this story? oh, my god! >> left a printer running for ten years! and had to apologize. >> you moved out to the woods! >> no. i went native. >> he went native! >> which was a lot of fun. i was able to quote some lines from "apocalypse" which is my

favorite movie so i went brando on everybody. >> you are no longer on "how i met your mother." you are bouncing around a bit. >> i'm bouncing around and i believe "believe" will stay a while and has potential. >> we have to go. j.j. abrams, obviously, picking up "star wars." the guy is an extraordinary director and producer. talk about what it's like working with him. >> j.j., as i said, very prolific. what he does best i think is surround himself with people are the best at what they do and alfonso, our director, just cinematic genius is a word that is tossed rnaround. he lent his vision to this first episode and he watched it last night and i thought it was spectacular. >> kyle, thank you so much. we are very excited. >> good. >> you can catch "believe" on sundays on nbc at 9:00 p.m.,

8:00 central. kyle, thanks so much. coming up next, governor sam brownback is here how he led the conservative revolution to kansas. first, another check-in our sec academy students from harlem. mika? >> we were looking up his name and his teacher found it on his iphone. your mom just texted you, by the way. it means deep inner desire to use your abilities in leadership and personal independence lamanu. i love him. i gave him a little kiss on the paper like that, joe, like my autograph, you know? you know what he did? he goes, okay. and just put it down. anyhow. mommy stays away. you're adorable. thank you. scholars bryce and tee anna are using a model to build physical models of molecules. yes, success academy scholars take science every day from

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>> it's joe and mika. with us is a republican governor from kansas, governor sam brownback. >> you guys go back. third game, don't let me down. don't let me down. come on, you get the trophy, baby. it's like ali holding up the trophy. don't let them take the belt away! >> classmate of joe's. >> oh, good lord. >> he was a real bomb thrower on the back bench all night. >> oh, my lord. such a bomb thrower and what they all say, sam. >> he was. he was. >> i make all of you guys tired. i have to say this, sam. first book i wrote when i talked about how republicans spent way too much money in 2004, it's sort of invoked now and i did it in 2004. i actually stole the title from my book from something you said to me when i'm throwing bombs on the back row and i'm really depressed. republicans are selling out and they are spending too much money. >> man without a country. >> sam came up to me and put his arm around me. he said, you know, joe, even

rome wasn't burned in a day. i kept that in my mind and five, six, seven years later, i used it in the book. how is the republican party doing? then we will talk about your state and then you basketball team. >> wichita state? >> no, kansas. >> a party, is it finding its way back to where we need to be? >> i think so. >> you got a bunch of factions in it. instead of the tea party forming their own party they went inside the republican party. >> which is great. >> ross perot in that era say i will form something separate and he came in and now you have to shorter through all of that. i like fred thompson's comment. we need a big magnet party instead of a big tent so you attract people into it. >> exactly. you are having a fight out in kansas and you appear to be doing pretty well. >> yeah. we have had to change a lot of things. we were losing a lot of population and i got real tired of that. saying we got to change things here so we went after our tax policy and went to zero on all small business taxes. we have had a record number of

small business filings. job growth is up. 4.9% unemployment rate. the energy and the ag boom has helped. >> keystone important to you guys? >> it would be helpful. i think it would be helpful to america because that to, is the manufacturing boom. >> coming back at home? >> our energy cost is starting now and we're get iting things that are happening now. you get those energy costs so much below asia and europe, which we have in a big, abundant supply. that's the piece that's really excited about it. we're getting now the early benefits of it the drilling, the development, the technology. but that's going to be really fun. >> mike? >> i'm wondering, governor, can

you turn down the free money for medicare? if you did, why? >> i haven't made an official decision because obama keeps changing the rules. maybe he's going to sweeten it up further on medicaid. we've not accepted the expansion of medicaid because obamacare isn't working, number one. number two, we can't pay for the ones on medicaid right now. we have a waiting list of people with physical or mental disabilities now. and that's where i want to get the money to, is people on the waiting list now. >> but you couldn't use the federal money to help those people right now? >> no. you have to have a certain category. this is an expanded medicaid group. it's singles. they don't have particular health disabilities. certain income level. and then the dpost wigovernment help you get started for three years and then pull money away. that's how so many of us got hooked on federal money in the first place.

the federal government is broke, it's broken. there's no money. a state like ours will go into a ratio that will go up and we'll be paying. former colleague, senator reid, has called the koch brothers unamerican. what do you think about that? >> they're american zblun american, what does that sound like? when you get a senator calling people that he disagrees one american? >> i wish harry reid would focus on his job of running the senate. senate has sat on the ball so long, not dealing with anything in regular order. i would love to see the senate be the senate again. mitch mcconnell saying if i take over senate leader we'll be a senate. we're going to debate things again, let bills come up that people have to vote on. to me this would be terribly frustrating. >> everybody says the same thing. both sides of it. harry reid has been a glorified pocket veto for barack obama. the house passes bill after bill

after bill. harry sits on and doesn't let anything go through the senate. >> and has gotten people re-elected on it. >> mika, you're going to be a big wichita state fan. >> that's a wu shocker, undefeated, 34-0. national championship against ku. i have to bet myself then in the national championship. >> best of luck with that. governor sam brownback, thank you so much. >> good to see you, buddy. >> good to see you again. success academy scholars both took dance elective as part of their coursework this year. scholars can choose to participate in courses ranging from robotics to basketball to musical theater. a special shout out to their teacher, darren weiss. you're watching "morning joe" as it welcomes success academy right here in the studio. we'll be right back.

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let's look back now at other cpac straw poll winners over the years. watch this. ♪ good morning. it's 8:00 am on the east coast. 5:00 am on the west coast. take a live look at new york city. >> beautiful. i could just eat it up. >> what a beautiful day.

>> yeah. welcome back to "morning joe." >> go ahead and take a bite of the apple. >> never liked that. >> never mind it's filld with frozen maggots. >> joe, people are eating breakfast. and if they could see you, they would see that you are eating your breakfast. >> i'm not eating my breakfast. mark halperin and swrojosh green. the missing jet in southeast asia and the 239 passengers and crew. officials are skeptical of foul play but they cannot rule out a bombing or hijacking. tom costello has the very latest. >> reporter: off the coast of malaysia, the search has entered its fourth day, running grid-like searches between malaysia and vietnam. so far, nothing. an oil sheen and debris spotted over the weekend ended up being false leads. now, sea conditions are expected to worsen.

on board the uss bloomridge commander william marks. >> that will make search conditions more challenging. i can tell you our radars are very advanced and they can actually negate a lot of that surface clutter. it does present a challenge for this international effort. >> the boeing 777 was over the water halfway between malaysia and vietnam but with malaysian radar suggesting the plane might have started to turn back, the search is expanding to now include waters to the west. >> reporter: among the questions, why would the plane turn back and why didn't the crew radio air traffic controllers? ntsb investigator says a sudden loss of cabin pressure could have incapacitated the crew and passengers within seconds while the plane continued flying. >> you really have to start looking at a trajectory path, at

a speed and an altitude that they were at, how far could this airplane go? with well, of course, it had 7 1/2 hours of fuel on it. but you have to be realistic. you have to come up with at least a rate of descent. >> reporter: if the plane went down on land, an emergency transmitter beacon should be sending a signal. but if the plane went down in the sea, underwater pingers attached to the black boxes should be sending a homing signal. seacom makes black boxes. >> once active they produce a brief pulse once a second for 30 days of a depth of up to 20,000 feet. >> man. >> that was nbc's tom costello with that report. we'll turn to politics now. >> couple of interesting store stories. >> did you see the new york times? >> that was the talk of the day. >> tense moments, talking about when mayor di blasio was on

"morning joe" yesterday. >> i thought it was great. >> it was tense. >> i thought it was real. >> everybody got their sides out. i don't know. you weren't here. what do you think? >> i was at a party last night for my friend, dan harris, at abc news, who has a new book at, number five on amazon and people were talking about the interview, long interview, which you don't normally get to see with somebody like that. as you said everybody came to play. he got to say what he wanted to say. you guys asked tough questions and it advanced his position on a lot of stuff. >> it was good for him. >> it was good for him. it was also good for eva moskawitz's schools because he said yesterday he's going to figure out a way to take care of them. that they're going to have a place to continue learning and with eva moskawitz at the head of those schools. >> an issue like that is so complicated. it's not black and white.

there's not one side that's right and one side that's completely, completely wrong. on a broad level, it's actually a national story. and it's extremely complicated. the mayor did a great job, stating his case. and i think if you are on the mayor's side with this, you would think he got his part out. i certainly have heard from a lot of people who were in support of charter schools who feel the same way. >> i think that's the mayor's biggest problem right now. you can search twitter and find somebody who believes just about anything. but i will say in this case the approach he took was dumbfounding to just about everybody unless they were in a teachers union. just judging from the response from twitter. he did say in the article yesterday in the times that picked this up, willie, that he could have done a better job on the pr side of it.

>> yeah. >> bill di blasio certainly has been painted as a ragiing ideolog. everybody said meet the guy. everybody in the city is helping. there's been a couple of speed bumps at the beginning. >> the big news, you'll find it in "the times" and other places today, is that he came out and said if governor cuomo finds me $5 million a year earmarked for this specific pre-k plan i'll take that money and won't raise the tax. >> right. >> the argument you've heard in new york and other places is that he has to get this tax on the wealthy to deliver on a campaign promise, to live up to his ideology. he said that's not true. if he gives me the money, i'll take it. >> i love that he wasn't afraid to come to the table and talk about it, and even deal. a lot of these guys wait and close off. he just showed up and hit it out of the park, quite frankly, on

every level and negotiated whatever it takes. he wants to talk about it. you have to give him that. >> even if he disagreed, mike -- >> he effectively used his time to clarify his position. he came back to the middle with regard to governor cuomo, albany and taxes. he was amenable to a compromise on charter schools. that he wasn't going to kill charter schools, was in favor of charter schools. he used his time very, very well. i thought he was kind of impressive actually. >> we stipulate that anything that happens in new york is a national story, but you asked about stuff which has implications not just for new york but for every city zblfr city with charter schools. we'll ask "the times" for a correction. >> absolutely. >> the next to the last paragraph, referred to the description of willie geist. >> what did it say? >> genial host. >> public editor. >> what did they say about you, joe? are you genial? >> no. they said an ornery son of a --

>> they made willie sound like soupy sales. >> ornery. >> ornery. other forms of politics here, a race being hailed as a test case for democrats and republicans alike. a special election is said in the clearwater st. petersburg area to replace long-time republican congressman bill young who served 43 years before passing away in october. with polls opening this morning, it's still considered a toss-up between democrat alex slate and david jolly. >> now he's lying about alex sink's record on health care. jolly would go back to letting them deny coverage, even forcing seniors to pay thousands more for prescription drugs.

>> we can't go back to letting insurance companies do whatever they want. instead of repealing the healthcare law, we need to keep what's right and fix what's wrong. i'll work with republicans and democrats for healthcare that's affordable and works for us. >> you're looking at two of the most important people in my life. so, protecting their social security means everything to me. it's personal. that's why i'm fighting obamacare. it takes $700 billion out of medicare, forcing many to lose their insurance and doctors. >> now sink and her friends are running ads to scare us, that even the media condemns. >> you know, this is going to be fascinating district outside money has been pouring, the tribune report iing ads from outside groups and tv air spots have gone about 200 times daily in the market. this is a district republicans long assumed, mark halperin. after bill young got out would go democratic.

i'm sure -- i don't know the exact numbers. let's say radically redistricted it. i'm sure barack obama won this district last time. it should be a democratic seat that's picked up. >> a strong candidate. >> everybody knows alex sink. >> democrats are acting like they may now lose. >> that would be a really bad sign. just like if republicans lost a northwest florida seat. if democrats lose this seat, not a good sign. >> they shouldn't. it's a district they should win with a strong candidate. they arguably have the stronger candidate. sometimes the national media turns something into a bellwether that isn't. this is a pretty good bellwether. >> again, josh green, for 20 years the assumption has been that the only reason this seat is republican is because bill young was there. but tons of money coming in, too. that's another fascinating side to this story that we're going

to have to all be prepared for in 2014. >> it is. we see that in every special election now. you get millions from these outside groups pouring in, which ratchets up the intensity, negative attacks. what's really unfortunate for alex sink is that the context she's running in, the ongoing debate over obamacare but also the president has some of the lowest approval numbers we've ever seen. that helps drag down candidates, congressional candidates across the board. that's not only a concern for alex sink but a concern for democrats running this fall. if you can't get that turned around by november. >> what is the district, mark, exact exactly? >> ft. lauderdale. >> st. pete. >> st. peter, rather. >> and south, i believe. i may be wrong. >> to answer your question, joe, obama did win in 2008 and '12. narrowly. >> it's not a slam dunk, this district. >> obama won by 6 points, 5, 6

points in 2012. >> it's a lot of suburban voters. it does lean democratic. i can't emphasize enough. she ran for governor. she almost run. she's well funded. she's a moderate. she has pretty good candidate skills. not great. but the republican is a flawed candidate. the outside money, yes, a lot of outside money is poured in. in the competitive races this year all over the country, there's going to be a lot. that doesn't make it atypical. >> all right. moving on, we're going to turn now to -- >> i'm confused here. i'm sorry, mika. i just heard josh say something about barack obama's numbers being low. i saw some tweets over the weekend when i was tweeting about music and liverpool, futbol. i saw a couple of political tweets. i hate when that happens but someone said barack obama all-time high since last summer on gallup or something like that. every story i'm reading -- >> in florida?

>> no. >> across the country? >> all-time high? >> everything i'm seeing here says obama job approval rating hits record low. this is the des moines register. >> the thing about his approval rating, it doesn't move much. >> gallup is 45 approval. everybody was exploding this morning like he was ike. he is between 42, 43, 44, 45? >> exactly. you'll see occasional outliers like that, 39. almost never drops below 41. >> the president's best chance right now is for republicans to overreact as a couple of them did on the ukraine crisis. that will draw a country behind a commander in chief. i haven't seen that, though, yet. i think other than a few republicans, the party has been a little restrained. >> they've come back a bit, though, in terms of backing the

president. >> that's what they have to do. >> yeah. >> boehner and mcconnell have. the leaders have really supported him. the president wants to lure republicans into a fight over minimum wage and unemployment benefits and they're not falling for that yet. they're not letting that happen. coming up on "morning joe," an all-nighter on capitol hill all for the sake of climate change. >> oh, yeah. boy, thank god they did that. >> well, maybe if you paid attention to climate change they wouldn't have to do that. >> maybe. >> that's in your morning papers. >> maybe if it's 8 degrees below zero in august. i'm cheering for global warming. >> full report on climate change. >> i can't wait. >> we're going to make it interesting for people like you who need cartoons. >> oh, my god, it's so cold. that means there's global warming. no. this is like 1978. for those of us that were alive in the '70s, this is how it was in the '70s. sometimes weather patterns vary. >> so, you really -- you want to

do that? you want to go there? >> you know what? i believe that there is climate change. >> thank you. >> but i don't believe that florida is going to be under water like in august. >> right. no, it won't be, but your great grandchildren might have less florida. your great, great, great grandchildren. >> maybe a gazillion years from now. >> it's the republican state of mind me now, money. >> it's the democratic state of mind. scare, scare, scare. you guys seriously should read a science book. you're so anti-science, anti-math when it comes to the deficit and the debt. you know, seriously, you're so anti-intellectual. hey, mike. he's coming up next. i love him. he's really good. doesn't he put a smile on your face? there are two kinds of walls.

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>> keep that up. no, keep the music up. turn it up! more than two dozen democratic senators are pulling an all-nighter to get climate change back in the headlines. hey, great job. freshman brian schatz organized the session. harry reid kicked it off by calling everybody who disagreed with him unamerican. >> climate change is real. it's here. it's time to stop acting like those who ignore this crisis. for example, the oil baron koch brothers and allies in congress -- >> that's better than saying doiktd koch. >> or unamerican. >> no plans to actually introduce climate change legislation. there's connecticut senator. >> he's great. i'm glad that they're trying to have a conversation.

>> i know. god knows the media -- there's been a total blackout on climate change over the past decade. if only the media would focus a little bit on climate change but there's just -- oil barons control all the media companies. there's this guy al gore. i hear he has been trying to get funding for a movie about this, that says florida is going to be under water in 30 years and new york city, a huge tidal wave. we're all going to freeze and burning the books in the public library. but the media won't talk about climate change. nobody will talk about climate change. thank god, thank god these brave, democratic senators are risking the wrath of the mainstream media and hollywood elites to talk about climate change on the floor. i feel better. this is what america is all about. >> i don't understand what could be wrong with that. how you could find a way to mock it. and criticize it.

>> it's very emotional. you just said thank god somebody is talking about it, to get climate change back in the headlines. damn "the new york times," they will not talk about climate change. it is up to these men and women. this is 2014's version of mr. smith goes to washington, willie. >> and freezes. >> and freezes. it's 3 degrees outside. and so now i'm allowing people on other liberal websites go, well, when it's cold, that means it's climate change but when it's warm, that means there's climate change. but when it's like in the middle that means there's climate change. pass me a cheeto. come on. they get it coming and going. >> i'm just going to let that speak for itself. >> i'm just glad we get these brave, brave hearts. what's mel gibson's last line of that movie, willie?

>> freedom. >> freedom. >> freedom. freedom. >> as he's having his innerds removed. >> just another word for nothing left to lose. >> oh, janice joplin. >> ah, freedom, that's just some people talking. that's a great line. >> so you're just kidding and you do care about climate change. >> i love don henley, even though he hates everything i stand for, i'm sure. i love don henley. he has written some great songs. >> he's a climate change guy. >> i know. that's why i'm saying, it's sort of ironic. >> you know what they say about "morning joe"? >> what do they say? >> you can check out but you can never leave. >> i believe in climate change. don't say, mika, i'm glad somebody is putting this back in the headlines. we've been having that shoved down our throat nonstop since 2004. >> really? >> yeah. >> i'm glad to see that we've done really meaningful things to

address it, because it actually matters. it really does. >> it does. >> and i don't think you should make fun of it. >> i'm not. nobody is making fun of t i'm making fun of the fact that you're saying nobody is talking about it. everybody is talking about it. al gore won a pulitzer prize, nobel prize, a grammy. i think they rewarded -- i think he won the westminster dog show one year. he won every award. >> stop! >> that they could throw at him. >> a bafta. i don't even know what it is, but he won one. this is just our first news story, willie. we've got like seven more. >> do you know what the koch brothers say about gore? >> what's that? >> gore, eh, doesn't ring a bell. >> never heard of him. >> keep eating. >> okay. >> the detroit free press, u.s. house, energy and commerce committee is investigating the general motors ignition switch

recall. the committee will examine why gm and the national highway traffic safety administration failed to act quickly when problem problems were first reported nearly ten years ago. the automaker is recalling 1.6 million vehicles. the ignition switch defect is linked to 13 deaths. new york daily news, oscar pistorius murder trial is back in session, defense trying to cast doubts about the doctor who performed the autopsy on model reeva steenkamp. he became violently ill during the testimony. the man known as blade runner became pale and repeatedly threw up as he heard the gruesome details from the autopsy report. he maintains he thought his girlfriend was a burglar and the shooting was a tragic accident. this may be one of the stranger 911 calls. a family in portland, oregon, called police after being forced to barricade themselves inside their bedroom. they were hiding from an angry

22-pound himalayan house cat. >> what? >> 911. >> yeah. hi. i have kind of a particular emergency here. my cat attacked our 7-month-old child and i kicked the butt in the -- the cat in the rear and it has went off over the edge and we aren't safe around the cat. it's a very large himalayan and we're trapped in our bedroom. he won't let us out of our door. >> does the child need medical attention? >> no, no. he just got scratches on his forehead, but the cat. we don't know what to do about the cat. he's trying to attack us. he's a very, very, very hostile. i tried to get ahold of animal control. >> hang on a second. you're inside your bedroom right now? >> yeah. yeah. when i leave out the bedroom to let the police in, i'm going to have to fight this cat. >> oh, man. >> oh, my god. >> the police were able to

capture the cat with a dog snare when they arrived at the apartment. no one was seriously hurt. >> do you know what you do in a situation like that, mike barnicle? you kill the cat. >> no. >> you kick a field goal with the cat. >> i was just going to say, right through the upright. >> seriously, i would have you run to the other side of the room. >> grab it by the neck. >> attacks a 7-month-old kid. i'm not on the other side of the door. that cat is -- >> what are the odds they kept the cat? >> they have the cat. >> i would have called patrick gavin, put him on speaker phone and have him talk the cat down. >> we haven't had a patrick gavin joke in a long time. >> pat, we love you, baby. business before the bell with cnbc's brian sullivan. "morning joe" will be right back. it's a growing trend in business:

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circulation? just a taste of president obama's appearance on zach galifinakis' "between two ferns." first, cnbc's brian sullivan. we spoke about congress launching an investigation into the gm ignition recall. what's going on out there in detroit? >> it's stepping up with gm, mike. thanks so much. the house is convening a committee to investigate why general motors took so long to issue the recall. it's been involved in at least 31 accidents. basically it has to do with an ignition switch and the disabling of air bags. it can disable the air bag. gm has known about the problem reportedly for years, a decade ago actually. only this february -- >> a decade? >> -- issued a recall.

>> they knew about it a decade ago? >> twice they considered issuing the recall but did not. congress has formed a committee to figure out and ask gm hard questions, why didn't you issue the recall basically before you were pressured to do so? >> the way congress asks though, speedily, i'm sure that will be cleared up quickly. probably today. right? >> listen, gm has, in their credit, basically hired a really tough internal investigator to ask pointed questions. which individual people at gm were the ones that said, hey, no, no, no. we're not going to issue the recall. 31 accidents here, disabling of the air bags. it's not like some minor things. number of lawsuits. they don't know how many. >> if it's gm, it is a big deal. brian sullivan, thank you so much. up next, he can handle a pack of

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neighborhood, tried to bite my kids, me. >> she hasn't bitten anybody? >> she's bitten every member of our household plus graham grandma and grandma had to go to the hospital for stitches. >> misty is a holy terror. that, a clip from the new series natgeo wild with cesar millan. if they have dogs they want to take you home right away. >> they do. >> we all have issues with dogs. this show is different from the dog whisperer how? >> it's not the owners who are calling me this time. it's the neighbors and the family members of the owners of the dog. and they feel that they need to do something about it. for example, misty, the whole neighborhood will stay away from this family because of the way she reacted to her owner. everybody felt if that dog does it to her owner, he's going to kill us. >> most owners, though, are

aware of their social behavioral issues with their dogs that might be embarrassed to get help. have people been receptive? >> no. not in the beginning, because they didn't call me. >> by other neighbors. >> they didn't call me. so when a human doesn't ask for help, they actually reject help. especially because they feel, like you say, embarrassed and feel bad. the owners -- the neighbors actually called. >> that dog there, misty. >> misty. >> was the dog always like that? did the dog react to the owner? >> that dog was insecure and they neurotur insecurity. a lot of people do that when they feel bad about a dog that the dog is unstable. you can actually make a dog aggressive by only giving them affectio affection. >> given that they haven't called you to let you in and do your magic and therapy, i imagine a lot of people would feel very embarrassed and defensive and want to hide that dog away in the garage. >> in the beginning, that

happens. i'm not welcomed, even though they know who i am and i mean well. because they didn't request the help, it becomes chaotic or becomes kind of difficult in the beginning. >> so, how often do you confront owners with the fact that perhaps the owners shouldn't own a dog? >> there's three kinds of people. one that abuse dogs and the other one, fearful humans and other ones, humans who have lack of knowledge. the lack of knowledge and fear, you can help them with education. the people who harm dogs shouldn't have a dog. >> what about a fourth category? that would be did adults whose children want them to get a dog, they get the dog for the children. the children have no interest in taking care of the dog and then it's up to the adults to take care of the dog and the dog goes largely unattended? >> exactly. hey, i could be in that category. my kids want to get a dog. i can see that happening at our place. >> i suggest to parents is to evaluate their kids' responsibility. if they're not responsible, don't give them another one,

because the dog is definitely going to require for his needs to be full fid, exercise, discipline and affection. it's very easy to give affection, buy candy -- i'm sorry, cookies, toys, stuff like that. that's it. most people, that's all they do. i have a big backyard. the dog gets exercise. no, the dog is inside, going back and forth. that's different from walking with the dog. >> have you turned into kind of a neighborhood good fairy where you've actually managed to heal bad relations between neighbors and things like that? >> that's definitely what i do. i train people, rehabilitate dogs. we all have to agree that it is a problem and then we have to commit. then we follow through. >> what did you do to calm that dog down? >> i actually used my dog, my pitbull, to help that dog. i just wanted to prove to her that the dog is not aggressive. most people think they have an aggressive dog. aggression is the outcome of a problem, not the problem. it's a symptom, right? so what i the saw when i saw that dog jump on the owner, a

dog with a frightened human. >> can you pay too much attention to a dog? starts whining. we have a female black lab. beautiful dog, you know. but the dog is very needy, you know. can you pay too much attention? >> it's wrong ta pay attention when the mind is anxious. instead of paying attention, give them something to do. the dog is saying, can we do something like exercise, swimming, retrieving, finding things? most people give affectionate that time because -- what, baby, what? oh, you want a cookie? so they actually reward the behavior. so the dog learns to communicate with anxiety. >> sounds a lot like dealing with a toddler. are there any dog that is you have completely failed with, where the neighborhoods have ended up not being healed because of these dog that is just will not behave properly? >> then it's not the dog. >> it's the snoern. >> if the human doesn't follow through -- people read things, watch things, hear things but

they don't follow through. the dog can't do anything without your help. that's as far as he can go. the dog never fails. it's a human that doesn't commit. >> at that point you need to call in the human psychologist or psychiatrist? >> i'm rehabilitating people in this show. >> probably cheaper than a new york psychiatrist, definitely. >> and more effective. >> can i volunteer for your show? we have two rescue dogs. you help to break stereotypes about pitbull. >> that's right. >> pit mix, roxie and riley right there. i need your help with his barking. he he's a barker. we come in, he bark bark bark bark bark. >> what's your reaction? >> we tell him to shut up. >> okay. >> honest. >> you get tense, frustrated. that's right. >> makes us anxious. we don't want the neighbors to think we are bad dog owners and we can't get him to stop barking. we ride it out. >> most people, stop, stop. shut up. >> yes. >> so it's you who needs --

>> what i do is i come in and -- and then you wait until the dog goes -- i address the situation but in a calm, assertive way. most people are frustrated or angry. >> what are you doing later today? can you go home with thomas? >> i would love to. we have to shoot it so you can see it. >> i have my iphone right here, cesar. >> there you go. >> cesar 911 airs on natgeo. we will work on my episode. >> let's do it. >> more "morning joe" coming up in a moment. [ male announcer ] at his current pace,

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zach galifianakis has had a lot of awkward exchanges on his show "between two ferns." his latest victim? president obama. >> sorry i had to cancel. my mouse pad broke and i had to get my aunt some diabetes shoes. >> zach, it's no problem. i have to say when i heard that people actually watch this show, i was actually pretty surprised. >> shhh, shhh. hi. welcome to another edition of "between two ferns." >> have you heard of healthcare.gov? >> here we go. let's get this out of the way. what did you come here to plug? >> first of all, it's fair to say i wouldn't be with you here today if i didn't have something to plug. have you heard of the affordable

care act? >> i heard about that. that's the thing that doesn't work. why would you get the guy that created the zune to make your website? >> healthcare.gov works great now. and millions of americans have already gotten health insurance plans and what we want is for people to know that you can get affordable healthcare. most young americans right now, they're not covered. and the truth is that they can get coverage all for what it costs to pay your cell phone bill. >> is this what they mean by drones? it must kind of stink, though, that you can't run three times. >> actually, i think it's a good idea. you know, if i ran a third time, it would be like doing a third "hangover" movie. it didn't really work out very well. did it? >> how does this work? did you send ambassador rodman to north korea on your behalf? i heard you may be sending hulk

hogan, or is that a job more for tonya harding? >> what should we do about north korea? >> why don't we move on? >> what is it like to be the last black president? >> seriously? what's it like for this to be the last time you ever talk to a president? >> i want to thank president obama for being on the show. >> i'm going to press this. >> don't touch that, please. [ buzzer ] >> thanks for the interview and thanks for letting me shoot my show here all these years. >> you've been shooting these shows here in the diplomatic room? who gave you permission to do that? >> bush. >> seriously? who gave him clearance? >> watch the spider bite. >> that's the other hand. >> no, no, it's everywhere. >> funny stuff. funny stuff.

speaking of funny stuff, we have a very funny weather guy. you've probably seen him a lot on msnbc. let's go find him. >> let's stroll. >> we want to introduce you again -- reintroduce you to bill karins, our favorite weather guy. this is where he hides, where we're about to go. >> two-thirds willard, one-third spencer christian. >> he's watching other weather men give their reports so he can give us a report. >> you like my little office? >> i do. >> it's not bad. isolation. >> yeah. >> how about a drink for my friend? >> coffee, eggs and forecast. pretty simple. here is what we're dealing with. major winter storm is coming. if you're in chicago, you want to go to chicago with me? >> i love chicago. >> maybe buffalo? >> no. >> ruling out buffalo, huh? >> i'll take chicago. >> chicago is going to get the storm. but as far as areas to the north, it will be a lot worse. two storms combining in the middle of the country. we are actually sparing a lot of

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time now to talk about what we learned today. bryce, come over here. you had a question. what's your question? >> do i get the kiss on the paper? >> he wants the kiss on the paper.

that's what we learned today. >> there you go, mika. >> there you go, bryce. >> it's what you don't say that makes a difference. it's what you don't do. >> there you go. >> equal. >> very good. >> what did you learn, mike? >> looking at all these children, including my friend right here, to look at these kids happy, successful from success academy you're looking at the face of the future america. >> that's right. >> it is. >> very exciting. what did you learn, mark halperin? >> barnicle no longer the cutest person on this set. >> not even close. >> did your mom text you anything nice? >> i haven't checked yet. >> all right. thank you all very much. >> thank you so much. success academy. >> you guys are so great. thank you for all your hard work. and if it's "way too early," it's "morning joe." stick around, though. chuck todd and the daily rundown begins.

>> sunshine to light the way. house seat in florida is about much more than just one seat in florida. national leaders know the results will echo across the eight months until the mid term. also this morning, a former top aide to governor christie is headed to court. we'll have the latest on what to expect once she's inside and why this is a pretty important day for governor christie's fight for survival. plus, planning the seeds for success. we're digging into the first tax revenue report for marijuana sales into colorado. president obama takes his healthcare sign-up push "between two ferns." yes, it's that kind of wacky, very green and herbal day here on "the daily rundown." good morning. it is tuesday, march 11th, 2014. this is the daily rundown. the latest on both the