it's highly superior. you are above us. we're down here is what you are saying, rate? >> it's not. it's just different. it's just different. >> do sd it work for scripts? >> yes. when i read just different. >> does it work with scripts? >> it does but i say what does it remind me of in my own life and what was i wearing when i read it? >> thank you very much. "way too early" is over. what time is it? >> 6:00, oh, it's time for "morning joe." >> yes, "morning joe"! >> i'm joanie ernst. i grew up castrating hogs on an iowa farm so when i get to washington, i'll know how to cut pork. my mother taught to us live within our means. it's time to force washington to do the same, to cut wasteful

spending, repeal obamacare and balance the budget. washington is full of big spenders. let's make 'em squeal. >> that's chatham, by the way. >> whoa, look at chatham, by the way. >> joanie ernst one of five republicans running for senate in iowa. >> give it to her now. she'll make washington better, if you are know what i mean. >> she would. >> ow. >> with us on set we've got mike, harold ford, jr., senior political editor for "the washington post" sam stein -- >> i'm going to give it back to you. >> oh, dear lord! stop! what are you doing? >> but you need to get her

spayed. >> where did that come from? >> did you just pull a cat out of your bag? >> you just pulled that poor cat out. >> she's good. i've been working her, joe. you have to work to handle her better because she's very well behaved. >> keep her in a bag? has this been cat in a bag for a week? >> no, i've been working with her because you told me she's a little aggressive and she jumps all over. you just have to give her love and take care of her and you never, of -- look at me. you never ignore her. >> i don't ignore her. >> cat in a bag, it sounds like a new product. >> this is a rescue. look how long she is. she's like a ferret. >> stop it, stop it. she's perfect. >> want your kitty back? >> where's the ball game. >> i think you need a little blanket here. >> dude, what are you doing? >> pet the kitty and be nice to

her. obamacare is our top story. >> i got the cat. i've handled my cat before. good god, what's wrong with you? i'm like a character out of a james bond movie. >> dr. evil. >> this is just awful. you, i don't know what's going on in your head these days. >> i loved taking care of her and i worked with her. so did carly. look how good she is. remember how much she used to squirm everywhere. >> i held her in the bag and i held her and pet her. she likes one paw out. i'm like joanie ernst. i know animals and times they need to be castrated, sometimes they need to be spayed and you need to schedule that.

they need their shots and sometimes they need to be put down. so there you go. >> geez! >> but luckily after a week with me she's fine. and we'll be keeping her. >> this cat was fine. >> spice, on the other hand -- >> this cat was fine before she went to your house. >> i have family members that i don't think are going to keep spice so -- jim's done. >> your boat is floating around like that boat in chatham. i don't know exactly where it's going. can we show the picture of chatham again just to distract people from the bizarreness. >> that's amazing. that's happening now? >> yeah. >> that's awful. that's a shame. happy spring, everybody.

>> schoohe was extending the ar. >> you're going to be taking care of the colonel in a few minutes. >> he's just horrified over there. >> i'm allergic to cats. >> let me tell what you to do when you're allergic to cats. get a cat and get over it. all this allergy thing is the problem with america. >> they say i'm dragging this thing out. >> i hardly think that being allergic to cats is the problem with america but if that's what you believe, you run with it, sister. >> the obama administration is about to announce a new change in the health care law that will allow certain people to sign up for coverage. the planned extension comes just six days before the march 31st deadline to enroll in the

federal marketplace or face a government fine. under the loophole people who ran into issues will reported ask -- will have until april to ask for extra time. nervous democrats base for the potential political fallout of the mid-term elections. officials had previously insisted the deadline was firm and would not be altered. that includes health and human secretary kathleen sebelius. here's what he she told congress. >> are you going to delay the mandate that individual have to buy health care or pay a tax? >> no. >> are you going to delay the open enrollment beyond march 31st?

>> no, sir. >> is it correct you don't have the authority to extend that deadline? the decisions that medicare and medicaid have made, do you agree with that? >> i haven't seen their statement, sir, but there is no delay beyond march 31st. >> but there is. mike barnicle, this is an ongoing concern with republicans on the hill. politico has a list of the unilateral changes to obamacare, all the delays, and it's one of the things irking the republicans on the hill is the white house just changes the plan whenever they want to. >> i understand it's irking people on the hill but it's not

irking people trying to get health care. if they're standing in line -- >> are they standing in line. >> that's the premise. it's like standing in line to get into a theater. >> or vote. they keep the polls open. but there's an honest system. clearly there are issues or they wouldn't be extending this. some of the other extensions i would tend to agree with you. but if indeed you're in line, the only odd part is that there's an honor system. >> it's like wind sprints in football. just check the honor system. >> if you want more people to have access to health care, it's positive they're delaying it.

i just wish they wouldn't put the poor secretary of state of health and human services out -- >> what do you say of that, sam? >> i generally agree with mike and harold. this is what happened at the end of december. they also allowed people in the queue to say, okay, you get another day if you were having technical problems to sign up. they're basically doing it again but they're doing it for two weeks. i talked to people in the system about the honor system, i'm not getting good answers about it. as i understand it, you will have to be in the queue. the honor system is explaining why you encountered trouble signing up while you were in the queue. so essentially they're just giving an extension of two weeks or so to people who were trying

and failing to get coverage. i'm curious what whiskers thinks, though. >> she's asleep. >> her name is the colonel. and like barbara boxer works hard to be called senator, the colonel worked very hard for her name as well and she would appreciate it if you'd show her the requisite respect, sir, or get off the show. >> is it colonel or the colonel? >> the colonel. god, what's wrong with you? >> she served time in a gutter in new york on the side of the road. >> haven't we all? >> you take a wrong turn in pelham on a saturday night, whoa-ho. >> nobody rescued me, though. >> obviously this is all political to an extent. and i think the republicans have

great, great material here and i'm going to argue it. having said that there is the bottom line that the white house has been trying to get young people to sign because in would be really useful to them. and the attempt to try and at least get people pulled in brings the debate to do you want people to have health care or not in time for the mid term? is there some strategy the democrats could pull out of the bag here? >> i don't know. at the end of the day does it work or not work? when i was in florida, i had the most fascinating conversation, i wake up early, too early, get into a coffee shop while these two young guys, it was a beach coffee shop and there was a surfer and a guy about five years older that was running the store and he was sitting there at 6:00 a.m. like, you know, getting the coffee all set up and everything and they were talking about obamacare. have you signed up yet? i don't know. i tried to go on.

i'm not talking about the politics of it all. i was fascinated that these two young guys instead of talking about surfing or girls or what they're doing that weekend, they were actually sitting there trying to figure out what was in their best interest. and i wish i had a recorder on it because that's happening 10 million times over every day and there's nothing the republican party or democratic party out of washington and there's no press release or anything kathleen sbe sebelius is going it say that is going to determine what is going to happen. when they get on, does it make sense for them, willie or does it not make sense for them?

>> part of the extension has to do with the fact that they need those two young guys to sign up. that's part of why you're seeing the system. just like when i was in my 20s paying my taxes on april 15th, i remembered on april 14th. >> listening to my boys trying to enroll and they talk about the difficulty. >> when we went over to the white house and they showed us how easy it was going to be to sign on, to sign in -- >> it was impressive. >> you looked at it and said if it's this easy, this is going to work. whether you agree with it or not, this is going to be a political winner. so that remains a question all these months later. >> senator harry reid has spent a lot of time talking about the koch brothers. >> he says nobody likes them.

>> he says america is addicted to koch. >> he says they're unamerican. if you're unamerican, i guess a lot of americans wouldn't like you. >> now stop. >> he says you're unamerican. that's what harry reid says. >> he's dared them to investigate him with a private detective and accused them of delaying aid to ukraine. >> which is kind of interesting because actually it was the white house that delayed aid to the ukraine because they wanted imf reforms and i thought that was really fascinating that republicans were trying to get aid to the ukraine before putin went into crimea, but it was the democrats that stopped it. but anyway, we don't want to distract harry reid with facts. anyway, he's calling the koch brothers unamerican and saying everybody hates them. where is this going, mika? i wish i knew. >> the majority leader said this about the billionaires late last

month. >> it's too bad they're trying to buy america and it's time the american people spoke out about the terrible dishonesty of these two brothers that are about as unamerican as anybody. >> so they're not going to bring america back, they're going to attack the koch brothers. >> new polls show the senators is less than popular with the koch brothers. it shows the kochs unfavorables at 25%. senator reid's unfavorables at 10 points higher. >> so harry reid is more unpopular than the koch brothers

is what you're saying. >> still president obama's unfavorables dwarf them both. >> what's impressive is harry reid has decided to take these two brothers, mike barnicle, and make them the issue. if my party said, hey, this year we're going to go after george soros and that guy that's going to spend $100 million on global warning, i would say my party is so devoid of ideas and so disconnected from america, they deserve to get absolutely blasted. i've said stuff like that about my party. this year the shoe's on the other foot. harry reid has lost his political mind. >> those poll numbers are mystifying. i think if you walked outside and asked about the koch brothers or harry reid, they wouldn't know either one.

the thing is it's the koch brothers throwing money at things, george soros throwing money at this evening ps. >> hey, george soros made the money. if george soros wants to spend the money on politics and making america more like the america he would like to see rather than let's say going to vegas and gambling that money away, i'm good with that. let george soros spend how the they want to spend, let the koch brothers spend how they want to spend but harry reid, i don't get this strategy. >> it's i get it with third party groups and on some blogs you made hear the koch brother setup is as boogie man. they putting a lot of money into the process, yes, they are.

are they playing by the rules as they are right now, yes, they are. i wonder if moderate, if swing brothers are interested in the koch brothers or they're interested in their own problems in their lives. we see what happens. >> sam stein, i mean, harry reid, what's behind all of this? harry reid calling these two brothers "unamerican." there are a lot of liberals in new york city that would disagree. there a lot of liberals in new york city that appreciate what they've done on cancer research, that appreciate what they've done with the lincoln center, what they've done with the art, what they've done in their lives. unamerican. where does that come from? what is going on with harry reid? >> i think we have to step back and look at the audience he's trying to speak to. i think he's trying to speak predominantly to democratic donors he's saying to them you need to chip in and help us out

because we have these two libertarian brothers that are contributing to all these groups that are going to bury us in the next election. >> can i ask what we would all be saying if mitch mckonld george soros unamerican from the senate floor? if a republican majority leader called george soros unamerican, i would be kicking him around this morning if he did that. why do democrats allow their majority leader in the united states senate to call business people unamerican? >> it's a really good question. i don't know the answer to that. i think that you're right that, there is a bit of a double standard here. i will say that the big issue is essentially what do we do and how do we treat billionaires who are basically spending small portions of their wealth in the

political process. you understand you say they have every right to spend it. the question is if they're going to spend it, shouldn't we know where it's going. and that brings us to how do you apply a little more transparency to this political system? >> and why didn't we have, sam, and this isn't about you, why didn't we have this conversation in 2008, in 2012 when barack obama got more money from more sources on wall street and the financial community than any other politician in the history of mankind. we didn't hear those stories in 2008 because the media was too busy corroonating him president of the united states. >> not necessarily true. i wrote how barack obama contradicted himself in 2008 and contradicted himself on super

pacs in 2012 so obama has been all over the map here, very little consistency from him. we did have a debate in transparency in 2010. it says if you're going to give to super pac, you should at least reveal who the donors are. it failed by one vote. it had been approved or supported by republicans in the past and now we have a system in which peel like the koch brothers and tom sayer, this billionaire san francisco donor, who can give to these groups and no one will know about money if they don't want them to know about the money. >> the colonel is pretty relaxed. this thing used to jump all over your house spastically. >> i'm just telling you right now it's a certain way you have

to have with animals. >> okay, will you just stop. >> coming up on "morning joe," chris russo, cokie roberts, dan senor. and up next, the top stories in the politico playbook, we got a good one. but first bill karins with a check on the forecast. >> do people live in nantucket year round? >> yeah. >> they're indoors. they're going to stay there all day. these pictures out of chatham are incredible. i can tell you, it's about twice as bad out on nantucket island than it is in either chatham. we just had a wind gust of 60 miles per hour on nantucket, we're approaching hurricane

gusts. thankfully it's mostly sparing everyone. it's about 200 miles off the coast. if it were a little bit closer, we'd be talk about this incredible storm for all of new england. the white is the snow, the blue is the heavier snow. most of the heavy snow will be held from nantucket and martha's vineyard. look at these wind gusts. even boast just gusted to 41, 61 mile-an-hour gusts in nantucket. the storm will slowly be moving by during the day today. even as the sun comes up, all day it's going to look just like this. we could see as much as a foot of snow out there on the cape and then the storm will be gone. the rest of the country is looking pretty quiet today. for this time of year, it's very

cold all the way to atlanta. middle of the country, you're just fine. i think this is it. how many times i have said this? i think this is it. we're looking at a big warmup across most of the country and no more snowstorms. i hope. you're watching "morning joe." be right back. salesperson #1: so again, throwing in the $1,000 fuel reward card is really what makes it like two deals in one. salesperson #2: actually, getting a great car with 42 highway miles per gallon makes it like two deals in one. salesperson #1: point is there's never been a better time to buy a jetta tdi clean diesel. avo: during the first ever volkswagen tdi clean diesel event get a great deal on a jetta tdi. it gets 42 highway miles per gallon. and get a $1,000 fuel reward card. it's like two deals in one. volkswagen has the most tdi clean diesel models of any brand. hurry in and get a $1,000 fuel reward card and 0.9% apr for 60 months on tdi models.

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steep slopes. officials believe a small earthquake 12 days ago may have played a role in causing the disaster. more than 100 people remain missing. >> and from the "houston chronicle," a five alarm fire broke out in an apartment complex in houston yesterday. video shows the dramatic rescue of a construction worker as he gets stranded on a balcony but he was able to hop to the balcony below and waited on firefighters. it took two and a half hours to contain the fire but it destroyed 369 units in the building scheduled to open in june. fortunately nobody was hurt. >> from "the washington post," three secret service agents assigned to keep president obama safe on his trip overseas this week are now on administrative leave. >> the agents were booted from their detail after a night of drinking in the netherlands. it happens.

one of the agents reportedly was found passed out in the hallway of a hotel. >> what's the deal? >> what do you mean what's the deal? it's the netherlands. it happened the day before president obama arrived in amsterdam. agents aren't allowed to drink alcohol within ten hours of a shift. thank god we don't have that requirement here. >> that's an elite unit, those agents. >> that's not the first time we've had a story like that. >> these guys are the best of the best of the best. that's incredible. >> "usa today," a warning to parents who keep e-cigarettes at home, store the liquid nicotine out of the reach of kids. poison control says children are getting sick by spilling or ingesting the liquid. officials say it should be locked up and skin contact should be included.

>> and from the "san francisco chronicle," facebook is adding a virtual reality startup to its empire. they acquired the maker of a virtual reality headset. mark zuckerberg said he believes it can be the next big computing platform and marks the company's second multi-billion dollar purchase this year after acquiri acquiring whats-app. >> i call complete strangers all the time and save enormous amounts of money and in france. >> porquoi? >> stop it. >> i have instagram, send me the

picture, snapcat. >> okay. willie, come on. >> he always takes it further. >> let's go to mike allen, the chief white house correspondent at politico. he has a look at the playbook. >> alex burns, new story out this morning on politico.com, breaking down the political operations behind the scenes of the 2016 republican hopefuls, who already has the ball rolling to the least prepared. let's start with the most prepared raspberry wepublicans n for president in 2016. this is what mike halpern called the invisible candidates, behind the scenes.

marco rubio and bobby jindal. marco rubio has been investing in data analytics and he's already spending to support other republicans. we talked on the show about how his reclaim america has spent for tom cotton in arkansas running for senate and for senator kelly ayotte in new hampshire. bobby jindal already been to new york city this year four times to raise money. >> now you have semi prepared on your list. what do you mean and who is in that category? >> semi prepared is people who are gearing up but haven't built as much of a structure as marco rubio has. these are probably the most visible on tv, senator rand paul of kentucky and senator ted cruz

of texas. rand paul has worked in iowa before and he has a great message, he's trying to reach beyond the republican base, aiming at mill ennialmillennialo surf off his dad, ron paul. and ted cruz of texas has visited the early states a good bit but doesn't have as much of a formal structure as rubio. >> and finally least prepared and maybe most talked about topping this list is jeb bush. >> and jeb bush can afford to wait. by just making a few calls, as he's done, by sending the signals that he clearly is tallahassee based on joe's reporting, he can get people who would support him to wait. as one person said, he's the one who doesn't have to sell

himself. and he staffed up a little bit, too. more and more formal, visible signs of what jeb bush may be contemplating. >> he's certainly getting out and talking a will the a ing ine phone calls telling donors i'm thinking about it, basically asking them stay on the sidelines, let me think about it. jeb had a foundation for florida's future from '94 to '98 that ended up running his campaign in '98. he still has a foundation and they are still gearing up from everything i hear for a run in the future. so maybe it's not formal but certainly people around him think he's running. like mike said, he can wait. >> it doesn't take much for him to ramp up. >> good piece by alex burns and maggie haberman.

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>> high heat! >> high heat, that's what i thought. >> high seat, what is that? >> it's early. >> high heat with chris russo. >> willie's still in sochi, for god sakes. >> exactly. >> it debuted on monday on mlb network. it's opening day, by the way. >> guys, how are you? willie, mike, good to see you. mlb network has given me so many utensils, if i screw it up, it's my fault, 230 shows a year, if they have games, guests. can you bring people in, you're in manhattan so when teams come in, i have a side kick. i mean, they really did a superb job. baseball every day now for an hour. i'm looking forward to it. that's my wheelhouse. >> so that's your wheelhouse? >> well, football. >> because i thought football, basketball. >> that's a good sign. >> baseball's your wheel house.

>> if you're thinking it's a lot of sports, i'm doing a good job in baseball. big giants fan from 1968. baseball, a lot of good teams, a lot of injuries beginning of the year with these pitchers. >> what are you going to do on the show? >> a monologue for the first five minutes, selig is going to come on the show, i have a side kick. i have guests. i yell and scream. i'm going to do what i'm going to do. >> let's talk a little shop here on baseball then. who do you like? >> i saw 18 teams in spring training. the best teams in the national are the cardinals and dodgers. dodgers won in australia and those are the three best teams. the american league east is loaded because the yankees are going to be much better, red sox won a world championship, tampa know what is they're doing, baltimore know what is they're

doing and -- >> i have an american league dark horse team, kansas city. >> that's good, mike. they're trying to go to the next division. that division is spotty, tigers lots of injuries, the white sox are bad, minnesota is bad. kansas city could be good. national league, a lot of people think the brewers will be good. the nl central is going to be shaky. chapman got hit in the head, that terrible thing. he'll be out for a while. braun a little something to prove coming pack from peds. the yankees, the red sox, detroit, oakland is very good. they got a little chip on their shoulder, they think nobody gives them any respect. watch the a's. >> what did you think of the poll taken among players in "sports illustrated" last week, bryce harper, the most overrated

player? >> i disagree with that entirely. they would know more than i would but based on what i see, when you go in the national locker room, everybody likes him, he's a 19, 20-year-old kid, works out, plays hard, doesn't screw around. everybody likes him on that team. he had a lot of injuries last year. last year he ran right into the center field wall in detroit and broke his face. >> how are the braves this year? >> a lot of injuries. medellin, they have two pitchers with the shoulder injuries, they had to bring in santana, gave him $14 million -- man, i'm flying here. >> whoo! >> pretty good for a guy who has never seen a baseball guy in his life. >> that could be a little shaky. i don't like atlanta. they could be shaky. i think the yankees are going to

be good. >> you think the yankees are going to be good? >> i do. jeter is going to be good, beltran, mccann. >> any hope for the mets? >> no, mets are a bad team. they have no shortstop. >> have you got your cell phone on you? if you do, you could try and maybe get the yankees a bullpen before next monday. >> that's true. panata is the guy they got from seat seattle. by the way, seattle is not good. they bring cano in the game, $240 million, nobody hitting around him. he got his money but i don't like the mariners. >> the yankees for the first time in 15 years are now number two in mlb payroll. >> dodgers got them. >> a lot of money. >> we win by being the little engine that could. i think i can. >> phillies are bad.

phillies are bad. >> what was rubin amaro thinking of? >> oh, my god, they got a bunch of hundred-year-old players. jimmy rollins, he didn't want to play in spring training games. they're a mess, mayor a mess. >> kentucky, louisville, tennessee, michigan, who do you like? >> i think florida and arizona are the best teams. everybody likes the louisville-kentucky team. how about that madison square garden regional? that's the toughest ticket in the world to get, the two games on friday night. they haven't had an ncaa tournament there since 1961 and the garden is excellent. arizona, i like them to beat san diego state, iowa state and connecticut, uconn is going to bring all their fans in, that will be fun on friday night. i any the three beast teams --

>> anybody think florida can beat michigan? 11 seed? seriously. >> if you're playing the play-in game, last year shaka smart went. i like kentucky. how good was that kentucky-wichita state game on saturday? that was a great game. kentucky has all this great talent. >> going to be a great weekend. mee mike, when do you want to have me on? willie, when you coming on? >> would you have me on? >> of course. >> that would be a waste.

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look like today? it is a difficult "to do" list that includes containing the iranian nuclear threat, challenges extreme imand fighting terrorism stabilizing egypt,nding the violence in syria and advancing an arab-israeli peace. >> there's been criticism that the president has not been strong enough with iran and there is that frustration from middle east leaders. what do you think of the piece? >> i think the president started off strong and consistent. you have to have an ad hoc approach. we need a shared understanding of vision for what america's role will be, how we will implement or execute that role. i think the syria comment wishes has come to color where we are today has hurt him in many

ways -- >> assad must go? >> and if you cross the line -- >> which he has, over 100,000 people dead. it is a jumbled policy, dr. brzezinski has said in the past, that there doesn't seem to be an overarching theme to his policy. >> fundamentally, i think that is problem. the management day to day and episode to episode has not been quite as bad as some suggest. i can appreciate and understand where the ambassador is coming from with those points. >> on monday we showed you how the "morning joe" team comes together every morning. we want to know what gives you moving. send us, send it to #morning jolt. >> we'll be right back. we asked people a question,

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a fifth grader in ohio is suspended for three days after pointing his finger like a gun. the principal said there is a zero tolerance policy and students have been warned about pretend gun play earlier this year. >> oh for [ bleep ] sakes. that's obviously a self-defense finger gun. it's not like he has one of them high capacity magazine finger guns. it's a regular old finger gun. it's not an assault finger gun. >> wait, what's wrong, dan? >> there's a cat here. >> and what's your point? >> i generally am not a big fan of cats, i'm more of a dog guy. i'm just not used to seeing cats on the set of a television show. >> if you could her by her given name, it's the colonel, okay?

>> you put the article "the"? >> the. >> it's not like the google? >> no. i explained last hour. call her the colonel. she earned the name like barbara boxer earned senator, she earned the colonel. >> the yonkers animal rescue shelter and pelham animal rescue shelter. >> why are you being so weird? >> dan, why are you so strange? >> listen, we don't have to answer your questions anymore. we're not on cross-examination anymore, you are. let's bring in npr senior analyst, our favorites, cokie roberts. >> we once had a dog named governor. my father was running for governor and earl long was governor and we did a live television show with the family, i was 7 years old and governor performed inappropriately. >> oh, sorry. >> and i screamed.

>> well, governors do that. >> and i screamed that governor wee-weed and it was on the air and everyone assumed it was our governor. >> that tops my rabbit. >> did you pronounce it "the governor"? >> governor. there was no article. >> look, she's turned her head. nothing to do with you, dan. >> just totally disengaged from the conversation. >> as a cat might be. >> i'm sorry, it's just weird. >> president obama is going to be delivering the center of peace speech on his trip today. >> he's supposed to reassure europe of the united states' backing. >> america's got a whole lot of challenges.

russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors, not out of strength but out of weakness. >> a major aid package is closer to clearing congress after harry reid reorganized the international monetary fund. we've had a couple different views on how to deal with ukraine on this set. >> by the way, your brother wrote a piece i strongly agree with. >> of course you do. >> as we always say of ian brzezinski, if you give him two tanks, he's going to canada. >> it's a great piece. i thought wow. >> cokie roberts, it's pretty remarkable times because people

don't know what's in vladimir putin's head and they don't know what's next. this isn't like 1979 where you have criminologists talking about internal fighting. this is all in one man's head. >> but he's a very powerful man and seems to be utterly determined and at the moment he seems to be wildly popular at home, unlike some other leaders we know. so i think that he's going to just keep doing this until somebody makes it clear that he can't. >> keep doing what? is kiev next? >> i'm not sure kiev but i certainly think parts of eastern ukraine. >> you think he'll keep moving? >> i do think he'll keep move persian gulf. >> why did he do this if he doesn't plan to move on? >> what does any american president do to stop vladimir putin if he moves east -- moves west? >> we could be expanding the sanctions. there's hundreds of russian officials and cronies of putin

who are identified for eligibility for sanctions, were not sanctioned -- >> is that going to stop him? >> we should beef up the security resources in the nato countries, that are farmer warsaw pact countries. >> we've been friends for some time. there's nothing we can really do, is there? what did george w. bush do in 2008? >> we did very little and look what happened. look at the signal that putin took from that. this notion that we're going to battle harden putin, but the idea that doing nothing is really doing nothing. >> he's encroaching farther into europe. this is a part of the world

where we have expended an enormous amount of time and treasure and lives and it matters to not allow ukraine to go back into the equivalent of a soviet orbit. >> dan, jeffrey sachs was on yesterday. >> i watched it. >> i usually agree with jeffrey when we talk about restraint militarily. but i have to say i'm with you on this one. somehow talking the way ian talked is going to provoke a man who has already moved on crimea? i think it's ridiculous. this man understands strength. i think it's time not to provoke but it's time to show that we may actually do something. don't say anything's off the table because putin takes that one way and one way only. he does not play by jeffrey sachs' rules, again who i usually agree with on a lot of foreign policy issues.

he doesn't play by anybody's rules. >> i watched that interview with jeffrey. he said that nato inclusion, expansion of nato to include ukraine would be such a provocative statement to putin, it would be dangerous. but in 2008 there was an effort to bring ukraine and georgia into nato. we didn't bring georgia and ukraine into nato primarily because of russian objections. we accommodated russian objections in the hopes we would make russia feel more secure. there was a headline over the weekend in the new york city that said "russian defiance in ukraine strengthens assad in syria." >> that's right. >> ukraine gave up all of its nuclear weapons for a deal.

>> and people act that these things happen independent of each other. the president draws a line in syria, nothing is done. maybe he can do something, maybe he can't. the iranians take a message from that. vladimir putin decides to go into crimea. nothing is done. what signal do the iranians get from that? we can act badly and nothing happens to us. >> the question is, then, what is the "do something." if we haven't done the right thing, what is the right thing? escalate sanctions? >> work more closely with our european allies and buck them up. strengthen nato. >> our own former ambassador to russia said, mike mcfall said in a big op-ed in the "times" on monday, he talked about u.s. disengagement. and that's what people in europe are very much feeling. i've had conversations recently with two of our major allies, ambassadors in washington and

there's a sense that the united states is just absent. >> you know, we read the ambassador to the ua, yousef, because he's an ambassador, he couldn't be as blunt as he wanted to but it was all coded. it said, okay, you want to be engaged? how about being engaged, the middle east is blowing up. we all hear it off the record from ambassadors across the planet and from world leaders across the planet that the -- >> even leaders that don't normally disagree with you. the israelis and gulf countries are speaking with one voice on this. >> the united states disengaged. >> he's laughed at sanctions. >> we've sanctions about 20 individuals and more banks. we should be doing sanctions on many more institutions, beefing up the action of nato, turning back on these missile defense agreements we have in the past. there's going to be an election

may 25th, presidential election, putin will try to do with that election what he did in crimea. we need to overwhelm ukraine with technical advisers, election monitors to make sure he cannot overtake that election. >> but an escalation with russia, we need to understand the consequences. it's not just us engaging in a way we perhaps we want to think very, very carefully about, we've made decisions not to engage in syria and other cases because we don't have collective support. try and get collective support, sam stein, from europe with russia and it gets complicated, especially because russia has something they need. >> we're talking about natural gas and russia supplies europe with a ton of natural gas. to your point, mika, and i'm wondering if dan can fill me in on this. there are strings attached when you bring a country into nato. i believe that the treaty says if that country is attacked, in this case say we bring the ukraine into nato that we have

an obligation with other allies to defend them. that is a step toward more confrontation. i don't know if that will work. i don't pretend to be an expert. i don't think that's a detail that's insignificant. >> on energy, europe imports a third of its energy, its natural gas, a third of its natural gas from russia. but natural gas is only about 20% of europe's overall energy needs. so it's about 7% of europe's energy needs comes from russia. not inconsequential. robert samuelson in the "washington post" yesterday had a terrific column, showed it's just about 7%. >> what's your point? >> and europe's storage capacity means they could actually cover a blip in terms of some sort of energy cutoff from russia. look, it's not a -- it's not without friction, but when

people throw around this one third number, they're talking about natural gas. >> let's go back to the president again. i find it hard to believe, and i'll be bipartisan here, that if bill clinton were president of the united states or george h.w. bush were president of the united states, they wouldn't have sent somebody over to be working with angela merkel's top leaders to figure something out. >> at the moment this started that should have happened. who would that person be? there is no clark clifford these days. >> hasn't john kerry been talking to -- >> hasn't been been talking to lavrov? >> and lavrov tried to call putin and putin wouldn't take

his call. bob gates, who is no bomb thrower, he's not like -- >> ian. >> that damn ian. bob gates has an op-ed today in the "wall street journal" that's worth a read. he quotes fdr saying the number one responsibility is to educate, education our public and education our allies. >> it's another word for leadership. >> the president needs to use the bully pulpit. there are really implications for the west and america and our allies if the vacuum is not filled. >> i can't believe, i agree with dan. if president clinton is sit side by side and do an interview with his outgoing secretary of state, he should be side by side with john kerry educating the nation on this and using him

appropriately. >> the problem is the white house pretty now is letting john kerry go across the globe and basically shape foreign policy. he's doing his own thing, not because john kerry wants to do his own thing but because he's not getting guidance from the white house. the white house has basically said, john kerry, go out and do your own thing. willie, i detect a little bit of skepticism from you as you're talking to dan. there a lot of people who are skeptical about whether the president can do anything about this or not. >> i don't think he can't do anything. i just don't think vladimir putin respects what he's doing. it's not because it's president obama, it's whoever it is. sanctions don't seem to work with vladimir putin. even if we ratchet up sanctions, i'm not sure if that stops him. >> i agree. but one thing we'll do is send a message to the world, the iranians and north koreans and syrians who are watching how we respond to this.

does america's word matter? in the 1990s when we orchestrated a deal for ukraine to give up their nuclear weapons, the third largest nuclear stockpile in the world, they gave it up because america put its name on the line saying ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty will be respected. what is that worth? does america stand for anything? so we may not be able to slow putin down but we can send a message to the world. >> i agree with you but we have to define in clear terms what it means to protect territorial sovereignty. >> that business about nuclear arms is very important. does is say to iran and north korea, hey, we're better off with nuclear arms. >> they are. one of the reasons ukraine is being treated as a door mat, putin would never have engaged in this if ukraine had their

nuclear weapons. >> and they're setting this up for hillary in 2016. >> where is hillary? >> hillary is the neocon's neocon. it's going to be fascinating that she will be more of a saber rattling than probably the republican nominee. is that not the case? there's hardly been a military engagement that hillary hasn't been for in the past 20 years. >> i think she is a traditional democrat, who is very -- tends to be very tough on foreign policy. you know, we've forgotten that in the vietnam and post-vietnam era but that was where the democratic party always was. and if you get a republican like rand paul as the nominee, she'll certainly be more out there on military mite. >> dan senor says "god help us." >> coming back, we're going to be taking a look at the real

world implications next. and later "fortune" magazine has assembled a list of the world's greatest leaders. >> yes, but there's one name not on that list that has people talking. but first, and it's not bill karins but here is bill karins with a check on the forecast. >> this huge nor'easter is bypassing new england and it is hitting areas like cape cod and martha's vineyard hard. it's a monster out there. we're so fortunate in hartford, new york city, d.c., baltimore that this is about a hundred miles offshore or we'd be dealing with it. even areas of southern new jersey picked up six inches. 4 to 5 inches on nantucket, on chatham, still seeing 30 mile-per-hour wind gusts and

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breaking news right now. there are reports that new debris field has been spotted in a search area, these are satellite images that are just coming in to us. of course the satellite images always -- several hours, even days hold because it's so hard to get to this search area. weather conditions improved overnight allowing crews of course to resume their search. and that's how these images came in. cokie, i just, i think about the families here, everyone does, and you have such a unique perspective on what they're going through. i thought it was worth bringing up if it's all right with you. >> yes. my father was lost in a plane and never found and the search was extensive. it was 39 days, it was the

biggest search in american history at that point. we brought in our spy planes, we're very good spies. they were spotting logs on the ground in alaska and literally rewrote the map of alaska but never found the plane. and there were all these sightings along the way and people calling and saying that they had herd something, some radio communication and then the psychics came in and all of that because people can't wrap their minds around the idea of a plane just disappearing into the bottom of the sea. >> how about you and your family? >> well, it was never easy obviously. and there was a period of time -- i live in the house i grew up in and there was a period of time i was sort of afraid to changes wall paper in the kitchen thinking maybe he'd come confused down the driveway and not recognize the kitchen, you know? but that's an irrational part of you, which we all have. the rational part of me said from the beginning this plane is

at the bottom of prince williams sound, which is very, very deep and it will never be found. but i know why those families are saying to the malaysian government why are you just telling us that without any proof? well, they do have the equivalent of proof but that's very hard for people to accept. >> that is an incredible insight to this and everyone tries to sort of figure out from their own perspective what happens. there are all these theories people are talking about. for the families, though, it's so deeply personal. it goes down to the wall paper. >> it is true, there's a reason we've had burial rituals from time out of mind. and there's never closure because you never want to close on somebody you love, but it's a point, it's a point in time. and then it becomes a place to go to honor that and remember that person. so it's all -- i really do understand what these families are going through and i feel terribly for them. >> well, thank you for that perspective.

we're going to turn now back to international politics. joining us live from brussels belgium, chief white house correspondent and host of the "daily rundown" chuck todd. >> get us up to date, check, wi -- chuck, with yesterday and what you expect today? >> there was an important american land mashes where hundreds of americans who died fighting in world war i were buried, the president participating in a wreath laying ceremony there. the rest of his day is focused on sort of reassuring and trying to continue to close the bonds with the europeans from economic interests, the trade agreement. but of course most importantly on security interests. he's got a meeting with the head of nato, a bilateral. perhaps we could hear a little bit of -- i wouldn't call it saber rattling when it comes to russia but a reminder of the importance of nato as a

protector of europe, particularly of some countries in eastern europe. and then the sole speech of this trip that the president is giving takes place in about five hours from now and that's where the president is going to lay out sort of his vision of the future of the u.s.-european partnership, a lot on ukraine. but of course the big -- i would say the shiny metal object of the day this morning is the secret service episode, the fact that they had an advance agent found passed out drunk outside his hotel, couldn't even make it into the room. but it all happened before the president got here. >> chuck, after we got your report yesterday, we suspected the same of you. you were a little more relaxed reporting from amsterdam than usual. >> you were loopy. >> so i was not surprised by that report. let's talk about germany and merkel, the most important ally

that we have right now in the standoff with vladimir putin. are you hearing anything on the ground about merkel and germany's -- how resolute they're going to be against putin and how far they will go with the united states to stand shoulder to shoulder against him? >> well, they'll stand shoulder to shoulder if putin makes another move. that's sort of a -- if you want to call it a stalemate of sorts, that's where we're at. there isn't -- there doesn't seem to be -- there seems to be european resolution to sit there and say, okay, we got to stay united against putin but at the same time, they're not ready to level the type of sanctions the united states would like to level to see if they could push putin back, even get him to second guess himself with crimea. that's not going to happen. you do get the sense that there is european acceptance that, well, crimea is going to be in russian hands, there's not a lot we can do about it.

in the meantime, these countries, particularly germany, need to start doing their own aid packages to ukraine to stand ukraine up so that he doesn't move further. again, this entire issue of the europeans being a little bit concerned about how could you sanction russia without hurting the european economy. >> chuck todd, thank you. we'll be watching "the daily rundown" right after "morning joe." have a nice cup of coffee. >> the crimea has been a part of russia longer than louisiana has been a part of the united states. >> that's right. i don't think anybody is ready to retake crimea. you know. but i do think that the concern obviously is what happens next. and it's going to be interesting, the president now goes to see the hope and were this john paul, i think that he would be talking a great deal

about ukraine because of his own experience as a polish person growing up as he did in the world war ii cold war period. i think he's going to hear something very, very different from francis that will be much more about poverty and about what you can do about refugee situations and all of that. and ukraine will suddenly be off the table. >> let's bring in david cohen, the treasury's undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence. very good to have you on board this morning. >> good morning, mika. >> why don't we talk about, first of all, the bicker issues when we deal with these meetings. cokie, thank you so much. >> okay. >> the biggest challenges as we look ahead to the president's speech today and the meeting of now the g-7. >> well, the president's speech today i think he is going to address our overall posture with europe, but, you know, while he's in brussels today i know he

will also be working with our european allies to talk about the sanctions that we have already imposed on russia with respect to what's going on in ukraine and to try to bring together to the greatest extent possible what the europeans are doing with what we have already done to impose costs on russia for its incursion to ukraine, its threat to the integrity and sovereignty of ukraine and to set up very powerful sanctions that are ready to go if the russians continue to escalate the situation. >> dan senor has a question for you, sir. >> hi, david. the obama administration and bush administrations consecutively did a very good job of sanctioning iran, isolating iran, traveling around the world persuading financial institutions to not do business with iran, ultimately contributed to iran coming to the table. how much is the iran sanction

strategy a template for what the administration is going to do as it deals with putin and russia? >> well, i think what we've done is iran is important here and it's important here in part because the russians have seen what we've done with iran over the years. they've seen how escalating sanctions have really isolated iran from the international financial system, put really significant question on the iranian economy. what we've done thus far in the context of ukraine with russia, as you noted before, is we've put sanctions on about two dozen individuals, including some very wealthy people who are very close to president putin, part of his inner circle, but also a bank. we put sanctions on something which is the bank of the inner system of putin, it has connections to the united states, those are all now severed and i think part of the

message from imposing sanctions on bank rossya, it's so the russians understand that we are prepared, if necessary, to essentially run the same play with respect to the russian financial sector as we have with the iranian financial actor. nobody wants to go there. i mean, what we're looking for is a political resolution here, a deescalation, but the president has been been very clear if the russians continue to escalate the situation, there will be much more severe costs to be paid by the russians for doing so. >> david cohen, thank you so much for joining us. we'll be looking ahead to see what happens today. dan senor, thank you as well. >> do you have any other questions? >> just for the colonel. it's been real. >> i'll send a snapshot.

>> it's been great being with you. >> the colonel turned away. >> the colonel does not like me. >> the colonel knows a neocon. >> the colonel is actually strong. >> the colonel is strong on foreign policy. >> the colonel is strong on foreign policy. >> wow. >> she's telling you something right now, dan. >> what are you doing? the colonel know as neocon when she sees it. >> get your hands off my cat -- >> this is your cat? >> peta just called. >> if anybody knows how to handle a cat, it's me. >> oh, oh, don't do that to my cat. >> she's happy. >> dylan dreyer is out again braving this -- >> dylan, can we do a lesson in know your value? you come out here and i'm

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a live look at chatham. i can't believe this. what's the date today? parts of the country are getting hit with a late winter blast and nbc meteorologist dylan dreyer is once again in the middle of it. dylan, do you like these locations? are you good with it? >> i love these locations. are you kidding? >> i knew you did. >> this is fantastic. it is pretty brutal here out in chatham right now. the winds have already gusted up near about 50 miles per hour. in nantucket, winds have gusted up near 60 miles per hour. this is a massive storm. and believe it or not, the storm itself is still 150 miles out to sea. we're just getting a glancing blow from this storm system here. we're going to end up with about 7 to 10 inches of snow. but as we go through the next couple of hours, winds will get stronger, up near 70 miles per hour and there's a high tide around 9:00 a.m. this morning. we could start to see some minor

coastal flooding as well. it's not a big storm for most of the country, but we are certainly seeing the effects of it eastern elbow of cape cod and around nantucket. we're hardly seeing any snow at all in boston, still windy along the coast but we're not going to see the 75 mile-per-hour wind gusts in boston. we're almost a week into spring but this has to be the last one, right? >> it has to be, dylan. every time we've had a big storm there's dylan, there's dylan, every single time. i pray for you it's the last time. thank you so much, dylan dreyer. >> fortune magazine's andy serwer is here. >> it's a fascinating list, talking about the world's greatest leaders. there's some provocative people on this list and of course maybe the biggest question mark is who is not on the list and why. >> big surprise. that's next, we'll be right back.

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andy serwer is here is "fortune" magazine's world's greatest leaders. >> number one, pope francis. >> donations are way up. >> angela merkel, for the most part she's running the e.u. what she's done is incredible, she's conservative economically

but even helping greece get out of the ditch. >> she's been basically the titular head of europe. the economy is picking up and it's the largest economy on the planet, bigger than the united states. >> what a surprise. she barely won, barely beat schroeder nine years ago but she's become the dominant force in europe and probably the world's most powerful leader. >> we'll talk about world leaders but she really has united all of europe behind her. >> number three, allan mulally, the ceo of ford. >> he oozes charisma. he's a great leader. look what he's done at ford, he's sharing the spoils of victory with the auto workers. just an incredible job. >> number four, warren buffett.

>> berkshire hathaway is the world's fourth largest company now but the line to his door seeking leadership is infinite. >> bill clinton. >> what he's done with his aid foundation, north korea, cgi, putting himself out there when he doesn't have to and people love to hear him speak. >> cbi gave him that platform, that legacy that he didn't want when he was in office. >> look what he's done with george w. bush, reaching across the aisle. >> is there a more credible u.s. leader on the global stage you think than bill clinton? >> no. i think that's a really good way of putting it. >> you just said notwithstanding the president, i see bono, i see

jeff bezos. >> he brings up the president of the united states. why is the president excluded? >> come on, andy. >> we had no intention of excluding the president of the united states, just as we had no intention of excluding speaker boehner or paul rand or cruz or rubio or ryan. none of these people are on the list. we put together a list of initially say 75 or 100 people and all of a sudden we realized none of these people are on the list. >> and why is that? >> they're not leading people. there's no quantitative measure to leading people but if approval ratings -- there are no approval ratings. >> when is the last time you heard somebody say in a board room across america, hey, you know, what we need to follow barack obama's lead on running an institution. >> we don't hear that very often. >> you don't hear it. you go from board room to board room to board room, you talk to

ambassadors and they're just wondering where the leadership skills are. and mika, you disagree. >> i do. >> we see ford on there, so mullaly with the bailout. he's demonstrating leadership in that cassipacitcapacity. >> i'm sorry, this seems like a concerted effort not to put him on the list. >> no, mika. the president of the united states and paul boehner and paul ryan, they did not come out. they're not on the list. maybe next year they'll be on the list but this year they're not on the list. >> let's talk about number six on the list, the head of berma,

aung san suu kyi. pretty incredible. >> number seven, general joe dunford. >> he's the head of troops in afghanistan. he was nominated by george casey of the army. he talks about leadership and says there's three goals of leadership, number one, surround yourself with great people and i forgot what two and three were. he's incredible. you should have him on the show. >> number eight is somebody who has been teased to come on the show, bono, who is fantastic as a leader and uses his celebrity. >> this is another person who uses his celebrity and uses his charisma. this is a person who has spent a lot of time trying to did good for the world and beside wearing some cool glasses. >> that's important. >> pop culture icons, there's sports people as well.

>> number nine, dalai lama. >> another religious leader. this is somebody who stood up to china. >> the leader of the free world is not on the list, the leader of the unfree world is not on the list, vladimir putin is not on the list either. >> jeff bezos, i like him a lot, he's on the lit. talk about jeffrey. >> sort of taking over blocks in harrem a harlem, adopting the kids and seeing they're achieving and moving forward year after year after year. >> he's the uber of education, such a disruptive kind of way to think about and the right way to think about education. >> mika? >> malala. this young woman at this point is one of the most beautiful symbols of our time. and you get to know her and she's not someone who is propped up in light of what has happened

to her. she lives it. she is it. there are few people in this world that hold the kind of soul she has. >> that's right. and standing up to the taliban. that'shas. >> and standing up to the taliban. it is personal courage. that is courage. >> you hear her talk and there is more. and there is more about the education of young women, about power, about elegance, beauty. she embodies it all. >> really quickly inside j.c. penney's melt down. >> a company that tried to turn itself into apple. they hired ron johnson who ran apple stores. ron said we can go like this and make it like an apple store. forgetting that the customer base is completely different. they have hundreds of thousands of employees who are used to working at this kind of old

place. it is not that easy. the mismanagement, infighting, lack of leadership. it is all about the l. word. >> acronym branding of jcp trying to make it hip and cooler. >> you can move the needle but you can't just flip it on the dime and borrow billions of dollars. >> fascinating. don't agree with everyone on your list or who is not for it. >> that is what these lists are for. >> we'll talk. >> quiet streak. >> look at those eyes. >> john meacham had to talk to that cat. >> she fell asleep. we are looking at the new issue of "fortune" magazine. we showed you what jolts us into

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good morning. it is 8:00 on the east coast. back with us on set we have mike and harold ford, jr. >> and also the cat. >> i think you need a little blanket here. >> what are you doing? >> pet the kitty.

be nice to her. i'm going to do the news. obamacare is the top story so we can handle the cat. >> what is wrong with you? >> like a character out of a movie here. >> dr. evil. >> this is just awful. you don't know what is going on in your head these days. >> i love taking care of her and worked with her. she is a good cat. look how good she is. she used to squirm everywhere. >> we are all uncomfortable. >> spice on the otherhand. >> this cat was fine before he went to your house. >> i have family members that i don't think are going to keep spice. >> you are unchanged. the obama administration is expected to announce today a new change in the health care law that will allow certain people more time to sign up for coverage. this is a good idea. the planned extension first

reported by the washington post comes just six days before the march 31 deadline. under the new loop hole people who ran into technical issues while applying to obamacare will reportedly have until mid april to ask for extra time. the government will rely on an honor system where people simply check a box. the white house has been pushing a major pr offensive to boost enrollment numbers as nervous democrats brace for the potential fallout. here is what kathleen sebelius told congress. >> are you going to delay the mandate that individuals have to buy government-approved health care or pay a tax? >> no, sir. >> are you going to delay the

open enrollment beyond march 31? >> no, sir. >> is it correct that you don't have the authority to extend that deadline? the position that the centers for medicare and medicaid have made, do you agree with that? >> i haven't seen their statements, sir, but there is no delay beyond march 31. >> but there is. this is an on going concern with republicans on the hill. politico has a list of the unilateral changes to obamacare. it's pretty telling all the delays. and, of course, it is what is irking one of the many things about this program that is irking republicans on the hill is that they change the rules at the white house when they feel like changing them. >> i understand it is irking republicans on the hill but i don't think it is irking people signing up for health care.

basically saying if you are standing in line even if you check the box and not standing in line you are allowed the extra two weeks to enroll. >> are they standing in line? >> well, that is the premise. if you have applied and you are having trouble with the paperwork in your state system they will extend it like standing in line to get into the theater. >> or standing in line to vote. they keep the polls open. there is an honor system. clearly there are issues otherwise they wouldn't be extending this. to mike's point i think it is more political. this one here if you are in line -- the only odd part is that there is an honor system. >> i would say like sprints in football. i'm going in now. just check the honor system. >> if you want more people to

sign up and want more people to have access to health care this is positive. i just wish they don't have her make comments. >> what about that? >> well, you know, it is unfortunate the timing where she was on the hill saying these things. i generally agree with harold and mike. this is what happened in the end of december. the december deadline for enrollment so you can get a plan covering in 2014 they allowed people in the queue to say you get another day. they are doing it again but doing it for two weeks. i talked to some people in the administration about the honor system. i am not getting good answers about it. it is a confusing thing. as i understand it you will have to be in the queue. the honor system is explaining why you had trouble signing up while in the queue. they expect we weren't just lazy

and didn't try but you tried and encountered a problem. they are giving an extension of two weeks or so to people who are trying and failing to get coverage. i'm curious what whiskers thinks. >> the name is the colonel. like barbara boxer worked hard to be called senator the colonel worked hard for her name, as well. she would appreciate it if you would show her the requisitet respect or get off the show. >> is it colonel or the colonel? >> it is the colonel. >> she spent time in the gutter in new york on the side of the road. >> haven't we all. >> you take a wrong turn. >> it's happened to us all. >> sleeping on the saw mill at

the end of the night. >> nobody rescued me. >> obviously this is all political to an extent. i think the republicans have great, great material here. i'm not going to argue it. having said that, there is the bottom line that the white house has been trying to get young people to sign up because this would be really useful to them. and the attempt to try at least get people pulled in brings the debate of do you want people to have health care or not. is there a strategy democrats could pull out of a bagging here? >> at the end of the work does it work or does it not work. in florida fascinating conversation, wake up, got into a coffee shop. these two young guys, a surfer and a guy running the store. they were sitting theret at 6:00 a.m. like getting the coffee. they were talking about

obamacare. are you signed up yet? i don't know. i tried to go on and it was difficult. i'm not talking about the politics of it all. i was fascinatedt that these two young guys instead of talking about surfing or girls or what they are doing that weekend they were trying to figure out what was in their best interest. and i wish i had a recorder on it because that's happening 10 million times over every day. there is nothing that the republican party out of washington or democratic party out of washington. there is no press release or anything kathleen sebelius is going to say that is going to determine whether this works or not in the end. it is going to be what the two young workers decide and what millions of others like them decide what makes sense.

when they get on does it make sense for them or does it not make sense for them? >> and part of this extension has to do with the fact the affordable care act needs those guys to sign up. you have to have the young people for this to work. that is why you are seeing the extension. they don't think young people knew about the deadline. when i was in my 20s paying taxes on april 15 i realized that on april 14. >> our boys trying to enroll listening to them talk about the degree of difficulty. >> when we went over to the white house and they showed us how ease ey it was going to be to sign on, to sign in. >> it was impressive. >> you said if it is this easy this is going to work. and this is whether you agree with it or not this is a political winner. that remains a question. >> senator harry reid spent a

lot of time talking about the koch brothers. >> he says nobody likes them. >> america is addicted to koch. >> i guess if you are unamerican then i guess a lot of americans wouldn't look you. he says you are unamerican. that is what harry reid says. >> he is there to investigate -- them to investigate him with the private detective and accused them of delaying to ukraine. >> which is interesting because it was the white house that delayed aid to ukraine because they wanted i.m.f. reforms. i thought it was fascinating that republicans were trying to get aid to the ukraine before putin went into crimea but it was the democrats that stopped it. we don't want to distract harry reid with facts. he is calling the koch brothers unamerican. >> we can debate that.

>> where is this going? >> the majority leader said this about the billionaires late last month. >> it is too bad that they are trying to buy america. it is time that the american people spoke out against this terrible dishonesty of these two brothers who are about as unamerican as anybody i can imagine. >> wow. so now he and the democrats have decided the way they will win the mid term elections is not by spending money trying to get young people to sign up for obamacare or bring jobs back to america. they are going to attack the koch brothers. you think that is going to work? >> new polls show the senator is less than popular with the billionaire brothers. the kochs unfavorablet at 25%. if you are looking at the

argument. >>er harry reid is more unpopular than the koch brothers. >> i can think of a lot of parallels. president obama's unfavorables and favorables dwarf them both. >> harry reid has decided to take these two brothers and try to make them the issue. listen, if my party said this year we are going to go after george and that guy that will spend $100 million on global warming i would say my party is so devoid of ideas and so disconnected from america they deserve to get blasted. this year the shoe is on the other foot. harry reid has lost his political mind. >> those poll numbers are mystifying. i think if you walk out the building and talk to the first 15 people you met about the koch brothers or harry reid they

wouldn't know either of the three. the pollution of money stems on both sides. the koch brothers throwing money at things, the fellow from san francisco investing. >> i got mow problem with it. and in the past there have been people that talk about george soros. he made the money. if he wants to spend the money on politics and making america more like the america he would like to see than going to vegas and gambling that money away, i'm good with that. let him spend all he wants to spend and let the koch brothers spend how they want to spend. harry reid, do you get this strategy? >> it's a little mystifying to hear it from the senate majority leader on the floor of the united states senate. i get it with third party groups or blogs.

are they pouring a lot of money into the process? yes they are. are they playing by the rules as they exist right now? yes they are. that is probably not a good day. i wonder if this strategy works. if modterate voters are interested in the koch brothers or their own problems in their lives. >> sam stein, harry reid, what is behind all of this? harry reid calling these two brothers, quote, unamerican. thral are a lot of liberals in new york city that would disagree. there are a lot of liberals in new york city that appreciate what they have done on cancer research and appreciate what they have done with the lincoln center, what they have done with the arts, in their lives. unamerican, where does that come from? what is going on with harry reid? >> i think we have to step back and look at the audience. i don't think harry reid is

trying to speak to all of america. he is trying to say to them you need to chip in and help us out. we have these two conservative brothers. >> what about unamerican? can i ask what we would all be saying if mitch mcconnell called george soros unamerican from the senate floor. if the republican majority leader called him unamerican i would be kicking him around this morning if he did that. why do democrats allow their majority leader in the united states senate to call business people unamerican? >> it's a really good question. i don't know the answer to that. i think that you are right that there is a bit of a double standard here. and i will say that the big issue is essentially what do we do and how do we treat

billionaires who are basically spending small portions of their wealth on the political process. you say they have every right to spend it. the question other people have is if they are going to spend it shouldn't we know where it is going. that brings us to a debate which is how to apply a little bit of transparency to this political system. >> why didn't we have, sam, and this isn't aboutt you, why didn't we have this conversation in 2008, in 2012. would barack obama get more money from more sources on wall street and the financial community than any other politician in the history of man kind? we didn't hear those stories in 2008 because the media was too busy coronating him president of the united states. >> i wrote stories about how

president obama contradicted himself on public financing and superpacks in 2012. now he will attend two fundraisers for the 2014 cycle. obama has been all over the map on here. there is very little consistency from him. we did have a debate on transparency in 2010 with the law called the disclose act which said if you will give to nonprofit groups you should reveal who the donors are. that failed to pass the senate by one vote. i thought it was common sense reform because it was approved or spored by republicans in the past. now we have a system in which people like the koch brothers who can give to nonprofit groups and no one will know about the money if they don't want them to know about the money. >> a lot to talk about. >> the colonel is relaxed. >> this thing used to jump all over the house. coming up on "morning joe," how can we best help our

veterans returning home from war? that is the question asked by two film makers who embarked on an unlikely journey. >> project 22 is about raising awareness for the fact that 22 veterans are committing suicide every single day. it is not just about awareness. it is prevention. we are trying to prevent. we have to show these veterans what is out there for them. >> you'll meet them coming up. up next there is plenty of chatter around jeb bush in the 2016 presidential election. will he actually run? >> yes. >> let me just counter that. mike allen is tracking the potential candidates for us in the political play book and you might be surprised at what he has to say. first here is bill carens who says it is over when it is over. >> we hope it is. this is an incredible satellite picture from outer space. we are so fortunate that this

storm wasn't 100 miles west and we would be talking about cape cod and amazing blizzard. be thankful this isn't over the top of us. let's go to jim cantore who is live on this rolling dock here outside of chatham. you have had amazing pictures this morning. is this impressing you? >> oh, my goodness. you hit the nail on the head. if we were 100 miles west and you are absolutely shutting down new york city and boston with 70 miles per hour winds we would probably be about 100 on the cape. you can see the tides coming in. by the way, yesterday, just to give you an idea of what it was like on this water here which is kind of an intercoastal water way out that way is what protects us from the 15 to 25 foot waves out there. this dock rises and falls when

you get the tide coming in. horizontal snow caked on to the piling here. caked on in the tune of about three inches here. it is easier to measure it horizontally than it is on the ground. let's go back down the plank here. we are probably looking at about a foot and a half of surge here. typically these docks are built below high tide or above high tide so you wouldn't normally see the water coming up over the top of it. occasionally we get storms like this and you see the water splash. i'm standing in three inches of water rather than three feet. look at the boat out there just bow to stern taking the 55 miles per hour winds on. highest gust we have seen so far 67 miles per hour on nantucket island. they are in a full fledged blizzard. we are about a blizzard here in terms of conditions. we have not seen power outages

respond to that. we have only had about 300 to 400 so far which i think given the conditions we have here is a good thing especially with this heavy snow. that is the real difference. it is a little bit lighter and fluffier in the mid cape. if it was heavy wet snow we would have 5,000 to 10,000 outages. >> it is amazing to look at the pictures because people are sitting here going how is that cape cod when it isn't that bad where we are. it is such a cutoff. have you bothered to check what is your estimated wind chill where you are standing? also, what is that water temperature you are standing in? >> well, i don't want to find out what that water temperature is. it is about 47, 48 degrees, the water temp. i think i looked at that a couple of days ago. we are at 50 miles per hour. it is about 30 degrees here so we are sitting about 20 with the

wind chill. >> unbelievable pictures. thanks for providing that and to your crew and camera men. i know they don't have it easy. >> no i in team. this storm passing by new england as we go throughout the day. that wind gust 69. we are almost up to hurricane force gusts. everyone else is chilly. after looking at those pictures i think we will take the cold. don't forget about the mudslide at washington state. they are dealing with on and off rain. they need dry weather to help things out. next seven days two to three more inches. not what we needed. those pictures from cap cod april can't come soon enough for you. you're watching "morning joe."

. time to take a look at the morning papers. the seattle times. officials facing growing criticism that more could have been done to prevent the loss of life. the disaster is now blamed for at least two dozen deaths. a report in 2010 warned of dangerous conditions. other research reportedly raised concerns, as well. officials believe a small earthquake 12 days ago may have

played a role in causing the disaster. more than 100 people remain missing. from the houston chronicle a massive five alarm fire broke out in an apartment complex in houston. video shows a dramatic rescue of a construction worker as he gets stranded on a balcony but was able to hop on the balcony below. it took 2 1/2 hours to contain the fire. it destroyed 369 units in the building which was scheduled to open in june. from the washington post three secret service agents designed to keep president obama safe overseas this week are on administrative leave. the agents were booted from their detail after a night of drinking in the netherlands. one agent reportedly was found passed out in the hallway of a hotel. it is the netherlands.

it happened the day before president obama arrived in amsterdam. agents aren't allowed to drink alcohol within ten hours of a shift. >> amsterdam is amsterdam but that is an elite unit. >>t that is not the first time we had a story like that. >> equivalent of a s.w.a.t. team. >> these guys are the best of the best at the best. that is incredible. usa today, a warning to parents who keep e sigs. store the liquid nicotine out of reach of kids. association of poison control says children are getting sick by spilling or inhaling the liquid. calls have surged from only 269 in 2011 to nearly 1,500 in 2013. >> and from the san francisco chronicle facebook is adding virtual reality startup to its

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come on. >> down with the kids. let's go to mike allen, the chief white house correspondent. he has a look at the play book. good morning. >> so your senior political reporter alex burns breaking down the political operations behind the scenes of the 2016 republican hopefuls or who we think may be hopefuls. you have broken it down to the most prepared to the least prepared. let's start with most prepared republicans who may run for president in 2016. >> this is the infrastructure primary of what mark hal purn called visible. they found that the most prepared were marco rubio from florida and bobby jindal, the louisiana governor. marco rubio has been investing in data analytics and has a bunch of people around him who worked in presidential campaigns

before. ehe is already spending to support other republicans. we talked about how his reclaim america has spent for tom cotton down in arkansas running for senate and for senator kelly in new hampshire. bobby jindal been to new york four times to raise money. he has been to other big cities like chicago. >> n you have semi prepared on your list. what do you mean by semi prepared? >> people who are obviously gearing up but haven't built as much of a formal structure as, say, marco rubio has. these are the two that we probably see the most on tv, the most visible. senator rand paul of kentucky and senator victor crcruis ted we talk about how he has a great

message trying to surf off his dad, ron paul. senator ted cruz of texas also has some experienced operatives around him but has also visited a good bit but doesn't have as much of a formal structure as marco rubio. >> least prepared and maybe most talked about topping this list is jeb bush. >> most likely to run or very likely to run. and jeb bush can afford to wait. by just making a few calls as he has done, by sending the signalst that he clearly is in tallahassee based on joe's reporting he can get people who would support him to wait, his donors and aides will wait they think he might go. he is the one who doesn't have to sell himself. he stepped up a little bit, too. more and more formal signs, visible signs of what jeb bush

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medicinal missions. they are the film makers of "project 22" a documentary with a mission to raise awareness about suicides among veterans. here is a clip of their trailer. >> everything that i was in my whole career, everything that i wanted to do stripped away from me. "project 22" is about raising awareness for the fact that 22 veterans are committing suicide every single day. but it is not just about awareness, it is prevention. we are trying prevent. we have to show the veterans what is out there for them.

>> we are a family that has seen the hell of war. we have taken the pain we have gone through and helped over 450 that have come through here. ♪ >> there is hope for you. and there is more than hope. there is a very high probability that you can get your life back and return to function. >> you take out the war and the killing and all the ugliness, the core of what we did and who we are is something beautiful. >> so daniel and doc king join us now. that looks incredible. the one thing that really struck me with all of the work that you

are doing to put this film together -- i know you wanted to reach all veterans you don't want anything out of this. usually people have an agenda. what is your agenda? >> we just want to show veterans the hope that is out there. 22 veterans are taking their own lives every day. it is an atrocious statistic. these veterans go and risk their lives for the country and come back home and feel hopeless. and all we want is for them all to get it free. we want them to all see what is out there. >> you want them all to be able to see the film for free. that is what you want out of it. >> let's talk about the film. that is you two on the motorcycles going across the country. what are you doing? what are you hoping to share with the world? >> we started at a sailing clinic in san francisco and road across the country and visitted

different clinics and treatment centers and different veterans that had contemplated or attempted suicide. our mission was to find the sources of hope that they have found or are being worked on. we just compile together the documentary that outlines some things and hopefully when the veterans watch it something in there will resonate and they think i can try sailing, equine therapy or meditation. that brings them the spark of hope. >> you are proving we have many military vets failing in the country. i'm the kid of a vietnam vet. i love this. there are times when i feel like my dad is a boy interrupted because of the service he gave to our country. my cousins served in iraq and afghanistan. how do we take the stigma out of ptsd? here are two vets who have thriving successful lives and

willing to pay it forward. explain how are you not suffering from ptsd? >> i would say both of us do have our challenges. we both have been working with providers to work on our own personal things. i think most importantly we have to realize that ptsd is a termt that was in the '80s came about. the first recorded instances of post traumatic stress go back to 3,000 b.c. we have been dealing with this for a long time without the stigma as a community issue. >> what you both are showing is that you can live with ptsd and actually there is a life you can have even after war which i think the problem here with 22 a day is that there are too many veterans who don't know that. the film, does it give themt that hope? do you think it will help in a way that can be constructive in terms of not combatting ptsd,

that would be too big of a goal, but dealing with it? >> yeah. that's the thing. we want to convey that there is nothing wrong with these, these people. ptsd is perfectly normal for what a warrior goes through. and that he can deal with this in a proper way. he or she can deal with this in a proper way. >> you both were wounded in combat yourselves. is that where the idea came from? how did this come together? both of you talented young men could be doing a lot of other things. why this? what was the inspiration? >> in early 2013 a v.a. study came out that showed us the number of 22 a day. among the veteran community it is already a conversation because we get the phone calls. it became a bigger conversation for us when we learned the number 22. that is a low estimate by a lot of accounts. last summer it became personal

when i got a phone call from a friend who needed me immediately. ask i called daniel shortly thereafter and said we have to do this now. >> so "project 22" is a movie that will come out this summer. what do you guys need to get it done? what are you looking for? >> $40,000 is the number we are looking for for post production. we were able to complete principle photography which included the road trip across the country. >> how did you do that? >> we had a campaign and were able to raise $40,000 already for the photography. we have all of the interviews recorded and everything set. >> thank you very much. "project 22" comes out this summer. for more information visit me c medicinalmissions.com. good luck.

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facebook buying oculus rift. they make these glasses, these sort of goggles that take you into a virtual world for gaming. it is not sold for consumers yet. mark zuckerburg is bullish on the technology. on the call he talked about it is a future as mobile as the present right now. he says it is the most social experience ever. it will be a question of how facebook integrates the rest of the building. >> which one of these as we look at what zuckerburg is doing for monopoly and buying up baltic avenue and st. james place and everything else that he can accumulate because he is fearful about future proofing the content of what is facebook. is this really a winner or does he give it the midas touch by

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>> that is her studio. my father built her that. >> we'll be talking about this a lot more. >> we are doing a piece on her. >> what time is it? >> time for "morning joe"? >> i think it is time -- chuck is still -- >> is he drunk? >> i think he is recovering. he just narrowly escaped the secret service there. >> let's have luke do it. >> here is luke. live this hour president obama speaks to the press in europe but the majorer headlines hammering here at home this morning center on reports of another health care signup deadline delay. and another embarrassing episode for the secret service. rescue teams continue to search through the devastating and deadly mudslide in washington state. we will hear from the state's