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good morning, everyone. welcome. here is what is happening. new and pointed remarks from president obama over voting rights. the president addressed reverend al sharpton's network denouncing the gop for trying to pass voting recollections like photo id laws. >> the right to vote is threatened today in a way it has not been since the act because law five decades ago. across the country, republicans have led efforts to pass laws making it harder, not easier, for people to vote. >> nbc's kristin welker is at the white house this morning. what is reaction this morning? >> reporter: he got a strong reaction there in new york. president obama arguing that

republicans are creating this idea of widespread impropriety to try to deny democrats the right to vote and try to win elections. president obama did not offer any new proposals, alex, but he did say he supported attorney general eric holder who is trying to crack down on the tougher voting rights laws in various states. these comments particularly poignant and come a day after president obama marked the 50th anniversary of the passage of the civil rights act in austin, texas, and it's worth noting, alex, this is a key part of the democratic's strategy in 2014, a key way to try and rally the base and this is an issue the base is really fired up about. this is what obama had to say on friday. take a listen. >> i don't want folks changing the rules to try and restrict peoples' access to the ballot. i think responsible people, regardless of your party

affiliation should agree with that. if your strategy depends on having fewer people show up to vote. that's not a sign of strength. that's a sign of weakness. >> reporter: now, alex, some people including civil rights leader ambassador, andrew young, are calling on president obama to pass an executive order that would pictures so social security cards and this is something president clinton talked about earlier this week. i asked the white house about this, and they say at this point in time they have no plans to do that. it's an idea that they are certainly aware of, though. i asked if they are ruling it out. they said they are not going to enter that discussion right now, but they are aware of the calls for the president to do that. >> it would seem practical, a t task to get it done. let's look at the tax returns for the president.

what do they reveal? >> reporter: here is what they reveal. in 2013, the president and first lady's income, $481,000, and taxes paid, $98,000. they donated 59,000 -- just over $59,000 to charity. this is interesting. a little different than last year's numbers when they brought in $608,000, and they paid out $112,000, so took a little less. april 15th, time to get those taxes filed. >> thank you for that reminder. >> absolutely. and the cast of presidential hopefuls are descending on new hampshire this weekend. kentucky senator, rand paul, kicked off the freedom summit last night expressing the need to broaden the republicans'

appeal. >> the big states, illinois, michigan, ohio, pennsylvania, we win 80% of the geography but lose the cities. why? because we are not getting african-american vote. we have 5% of the vote, 3% in detroit. >> also attending the summit, ted cruz, and donald trump. a severe storm threat is in the station's midsection and finally a slice of spring here in the northeast. dylan dreyer is here. >> enjoy the weather today because we have snow to talk about in some areas for tomorrow. temperatures, though, really mild this morning in the 50s and 60s, and we should warm into the 70s across a good portion of the country today. there are some scattered showers, lighter rain up through minneapolis and that will move into chicago and spotty showers in the northeast, and it's going to turn into one of those days

where we could see stronger storms develop later on this afternoon, from milwaukee and wisconsin, and back into kansas. not so much tornados but we have threat for hail and straight-line wind gusts. look in the rockies as we go into tonight and tomorrow. temperatures will tumble. we could end up with six to 12 inches of snow in denver. actually, denver tends to get more snow in april than in january. we should top out at 80 in dallas and 70 in atlanta, and low 70s in the northeast, and then by tomorrow, look at the temperature in denver, dropping to 72 degrees. washington, d.c. on sunday should top out around 80 degrees with the cherry blossoms in full bloom. >> pretty. thank you. new details are emerging about the horrific bus crash in northern california.

it left ten dead. a fedex involved was already on fire before it crossed the median and plowed head on into the crowded tour bus. it happened 100 miles north of sacramento. and janet is in chico, california. both drivers were killed. where does this leave the investigation? >> reporter: the information that you mentioned will be critical to the ntsb if in fact the fedex trick was already on fire before it slammed into the bus. this is something that we have not heard before, and it would -- it might lend credence to the theory there was a mechanical issue at play here. that's something they will look at. but they say it's not going to yield any answers immediately, that the investigation could take up to three months. >> you know, we talk about ten people dead and i know that

includes some high school students. what are we learning about the victims? >> reporter: it's just tragic. we have this engaged couple that became engaged in paris last year and he was a counselor at humble state university, and she went along for the ride, and we have the 17-year-old teenager, the identical twin, marissa serrato. last night her family just waited for the news they didn't want to hear, but got the call late last night that in fact marissa had been one of the five students who passed. this is just heartbreaking because for some of these families, these are the first kids to be going to college and it's coming at a time of, you know, the end of the year, and it's promisees season, and graduation, and for the families to deal with this now is

inconceivable. >> you read about families having to make the long drive from southern california up to this area, and carrying things like dental records with them for identification purposes. it kills you. >> that's what the serrato family needed to provide last night. when they asked for those, they were fairly certain they were going to get the call they didn't want to receive. >> thank you very much, from chico, california. other news now, starting with wall street the stock market plummeted to close the week. s&p 500 fell more than 17, and the nasdaq fell more than 54, and fell four weeks before. the computer glitch is jeopardizing the launch of a

commercial supply to the international space station. the fix may be requiring a space walk. this morning, nicaraguans are recovering for their second earthquake in two days. no reports of serious damage or injuries. the australian prime minister said officials have a high degree of confidence transmissions they have been picking up in the ocean are indeed from the flight's black box, and the search narrowed considerably and finding the exact location will be anything but easy. >> i don't want to underestimate the difficulties of the task still ahead of us and trying to locate anything for and a half kilometers beneath the surface of the ocean, and 1000

kilometers from land is a massive, massive task. it is likely to continue for a long time to come. >> katie joins me from perth, australia. it's just about past 7:00 p.m. right now. what progress was made in the hunt today? >> reporter: not that much progress made in the hunt today. 1,100 to 1500 miles off the coast of perth, and they are narrowing down the search area. no new pings to hear today, and that's not a bad thing. they have 84 world war ii era buoys and a number of eyes on the water looking for debris. just because they didn't hear pings today was not unexpected. the beacons are expected to last 30 days, and today we are on day 36.

we believe they will wait a full ten days after they believe the batteries to die before they do anything else, and that would be wednesday, and that's when we believe they will put blue fin 21 in the water to scan the floor looking for wreckage or debris, or the black boxes or whatever could be down there. that could take many weeks and no telling how long it could take. and tony abbott told reporters yesterday they believe they know where the black boxes are within a few kilometers. it was one of the strongest statements and today he seemed to backtrack on that a little bit saying they do believe it's going to take quite sometime before they know anything for sure. remember, the blue fin 21 will take weeks to get down there to see what is going on. and for salvaging wreckage, they may have to go in and try to extract the black box. it's three miles deep down where they are searching. >> lots of challenges ahead.

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president obama on the offensive against republican led efforts to pass legislation citing fraud. >> out of 170 million votes casts between 2002 and 2005, only 40 voters out of 197 million were indicted for fraud.

now, as a percentage that is 0.0002%. >> joining me now, lynn sweet and the split kul reporter for the "washington post," aaron blake. the president went after the republicans directly on the voting rights while speaking to the network. is he trying to reach an audience beyond those in the room? >> without question. this is a major issue for democrats, especially heading into the mid-term elections. republicans took over so many legislators in 2010 and since then they passed a number of restrictions not just voter id, but also reducing the amount of early vote times, making it more difficult to vote by mail. so democrats need voters, like african-americans, and latinos and young people to vote in 2014 in ways that they did in 2012 in

2008. that doesn't always happen. these voter restrictions, could, according to the white house prevent african-americans from turning out. they need to make these voter groups want to turn out in order to send the message to republicans. >> lynn, let's talk about what else the president said. there was this. take a listen. >> i know where my birth certificate is, but a lot of people don't. a lot of people don't. i think it's still up on a website somewhere. >> that was the crazy stuff that he was referring to before we went to commercial. why bring that up? >> because, first of all, it's great to have him -- when you poke fun at yourself it's always the best joke, but he is doing it in the context of the voter id laws that he was talking about and it came in that same speech. you know, these voter laws in

states are solutions looking for problems that don't exist, so he was using his own and joking, alex, about his birth certificate to mock the whole nonproblem that these republicans and state legislators are trying to solve. >> let's take a look down south. your articles about mcallister is dealing with a scandal, showing the married lawmaker kissing a staffer. there is one calling for him to step down. what you have learned about this? >> the governor has called for him to step down as has the state republican chairman out there, so big names taking that step. this is not surprising. mcallister, he doesn't have a whole lot of friends. so the republican party's inclination is to say let's be rid of this guy and move on so

we don't have to deal with this anymore. that's why you see the republicans calling him to resign. whether or not he winds up doing that is completely up to him, but certainly the pressure is notable from big names in the republican party. >> let's listen to what house speaker, john boehner, is saying. >> i expect all members to be held to the highest ethical standards. this is no different. i have had a conversation with him, and you know, he has got decisions that he has to make. >> is this the last thing the gop needs, another headache like this? >> oh, yes, if you have a member -- how many ways is this a bad thing that he did, we could spend an hour talking about his bad judgment. but they don't need to focus on the member, and very few people know who he is, and this scandal has not seeped in a lot, so the republican leaders in the house would like him to go sooner than

later. >> aaron, we have scott brown running in new hampshire. how are his chances looking? >> i think it's certainly a situation where if the environment in 2014 is really good for republicans he's got a good shot. there was a poll this week that showed his opponent is much better liked than he is, and despite that fact, though, he was within six points of her in a state that he didn't represent in the senate before. i think this is definitely an interesting race and i don't think it's the republican party's top target in 2014 or close to it, but if this winds up being a big wave election, scott brown could return to the senate from a different state. >> lynn, could i ask you about the u.s. rejecting the visa plans for iran's pick for u.s. ambassador? do you know what that is about?

>> it is showing concern, it's part of the context of the negotiations to make sure that iran does not have a nuclear capacity. >> thank you both so much. good to see you. >> thank you. >> thank you. tensions in ukraine escalating while you swept. is putin preparing for a ground invasion? and then doubling down and increasing sagging sales. i'm j-a-n-e and i have copd.

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day/emergency fund put away. so the city went on to break it down. about 20% of people have about a month's worth of money, able to put away and save in case, and other people that have saved, three months, 40% of those people had enough for three months and 28% had enough money put away for a year. the savings rate of america right now in february was at 4.3%, up from january at 4.2%, but in 1975, the savings rate was 14.6%. so we are not really a country of savers here. >> yeah, those are not good stats right there. let's take a switch to the timely topic. the filing foul-ups. >> we know tax season is here and in 72 hours all of us will

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welcome back. a dozen armed menzies add police station in a small town in eastern ukraine. that is 50 miles south where prorussian protesters have been occupying a government building for nearly a week now. and russia is showing a military presence on the border. what are the photos all about? what do they tell us? >> reporter: well, these pictures show us in symbol -- simple terms russia is showing the force. it's a very short and limited period of time with little notice to the government in kiev and nato forces or other western forces, enough to give them anytime to do anything about it if they were to do anything about it. the russian government has been saying all along that those

photos, or particularly its forces are not a cause of concern but part of a military exercise, and they are in a very routine manner, and nothing aggressive about the posture. the ukrainian government and its allies are saying the presence of such a large number creates a problem for the eastern part of ukraine, and it allows some of the protests we see here to take place, because the people on the ground here feel they have support of the russian government and the possible support of the russian military if they were in trouble. and that has emboldened them to takeover buildings like we have seen recently. >> yeah, and there are troops along the border at about 100 different sites. how much do you think that is embolding the protesters? >> it's giving them the momentum that they have the support of russia and that russia is not

abandoning them, and why that is important, they are waving the russian flag and they speak russian in this part of the country and they are calling on the government to have a referendum to give them more aataupb me. and they want to break away, and that's possible if russia has a strong presence, and we are going to see some of that in the coming days, the united states, and the eu are supposed to sit down in geneva to hold talks. there are indications russia wants representatives from the eastern part of the country to attend those talks, an indication that it's increasingly divided. a group of high profile republicans gathering in new hampshire today looking to grow their appeal as potential 2016 candidates. rand paul kicking things off in

the city of dover saying the republican party needs to court young people. >> to win elections you have to have more people in your party and you have to have a bigger party. let's take this message and not dilute the messages. if you would be democrat-like, you can win is what some republicans say, and i say that is hogwash. >> the freedom summit, what is it all about and who is on the agenda today? >> good morning, alex. this freedom summit is hosted by americans for prosperity, and that's the coke-funded group airing so many ads and are expected to play a big role in the upcoming 2016 presidential contest. you have the conservative wing of the republican party here today, you have senator ted cruz, rand paul, and mike

huckabee and we will hear from donald trump at some.the later today, but the potential candidates are taking the opportunity to build ties in new hampshire, and senator paul has been doing fundraisers also with the republican party, so this is an early opportunity for them to start to connect with the key activists that would form the foundation of any potential presidential bid. >> okay. let's talk about other news from the state of new hampshire. we have scott brown making the announcement he could run for senate. >> for sure, senator scott brown kicking off the campaign that had been rumored for a long time, and he began, really, by showcasing the fact that his campaign is all about the health care law. >> my question once again, is new hampshire being well served by this out of step, out of

touch obama agenda? >> no. >> what are you going to do about it? >> reporter: his argument, of course, is that they should elect him. now, there is some early skepticism, i have been talking to conservatives and democrats in the state ahead of this, and he is going to have a real challenge overcoming the idea that he was the senator from massachusetts and now wants to be the senator from new hampshire. there is a carpet bagging idea. we have to wait and see whether or not he can overcome that charge. >> we heard echos of those challenges when hillary clinton was running in new york. he had a vacation home, right, in new hampshire, so he moved there permanently? >> his family is from here originally and they have a vacation home in rye.

he is now airing an ad similar to the one when he was driving around with massachusetts plates on that same truck. >> okay, thank you for that. good to see you from manchester. just as the white house is taking a victory lap for obamacare enrollment hitting 7.5 million, kathleen sebelius announces she is resigning. yesterday president obama thanked sebelius for her service and both admitted it had been a rocky road. >> kathleen has been here through the long fight to pass the affordable care act. she helped to guide its implementation, even when it got rough. she has got bumps and i got bumps. >> i knew it wouldn't be easy. there is a reason no earlier president was successful in passing health reform. >> joining me now from new jersey, a senior member of the congress committee and ranking member of the health sub committee.

thank you for being on set with me. you put all this together and would you consider kathleen sebelius's tenure as a successful one? >> absolutely. she was one of the people very much involved in passing affordable care act, and we are 7.5 million people enrolled, which is more than what the white house -- >> yeah, by half a million. >> yeah, this is a bill she helped put through. >> and she was one of the original cabinet members, and it's not uncommon for a second term to have a turnover, certainly. was there a rush you sensed in the democratic party for you to be replaced because of the issues of obamacare? >> the republicans are constantly harassing her and dragging her before the committees, and they continue to want to repeal the affordable care act. but i think the democrats felt that she was a -- she was the

insurance commissioner in kansas before she was the governor and the feeling was she was a good person to guide that all through. no, i think that she can say, look, i am successful in this and now it's time for somebody else to take it to the next step. >> now that she is leaving, do you wish she would have stayed on because -- >> i think, as you said, alex, a lot of cabinet people don't stay after the first term. she was a legislature and a governor and insurance commissioner and she probably wants to enjoy life at this time. >> we talk about the premium costs, do you expect those to increase next year once we get more statistics and information on who has enrolled, the age and the health and the quality of health of those enrolled? >> i don't think so.

there may be somewhat of an increase because insurance does tend to go up. if you look at what has been happening since the affordable care act has passed, prices have pretty much stabilized. i expect them to be pretty stable. the early indications are that there were a lot of people that were younger and were healthier that enrolled, and there's a good mix but i don't know that for sure. there's indications there's a good mix, and that should help to stabilize the prices, i think. >> all the criticism is coming from the gop and tell me where they get it wrong and where they might get it right? >> well, they don't realize or admit that the two major reasons for the affordable care act, one was to cover those that don't have insurance by medicare or the subsidy, and the other was to provide a good benefit package because many people were under insured and didn't have a

good benefit package and now they will. i think we have accomplished both of those things. a loft people signed up that didn't have insurance and many had lousy insurance and i think that will continue over the next few years until we cover almost everybody and provide a good package for people who are seeking. >> is there anything that they hit on or any nerves they such on that are legitimate and worthy of discussion? >> because of the president's statement of how you can keep your policy thought that meant they could keep a lousy policy. i have never been an advocate of saying you can keep a policy bare bones, but the president issued executive orders letting people keep insurance they had even if it was lousy, but i think the republicans, when they bring that up are ignoring the fact, you know, that in many cases people would be allowed to keep insurance policies that

don't cover much. i don't see that as a legitimate criticism. >> do you have concerned if the gop takes over the senate, the 50 some odd votes in the house would go somewhere? >> absolutely, alex. i think if the republicans took over the senate, they won't have the 60 votes but they will continue to push for repeal. if you look at the ryan budget that passed this last week, it eliminates the medicaid expansion which was a important part of the affordable care act, and that's one of the ways we covered a lot of people that didn't have insurance. they are continuing their effort to try and repeal it or water it down or kill parts of it. >> very quickly, the ryan budget, is there anything that passed in the house that democrats can get on board with? >> to be honest, there really isn't much. it makes medicare into a voucher, and it cuts back on the affordable care act through the

medicaid expansion, and it slashes pell grants and student loans. it's not going to become law because the senate is democrat and will never pass it, but there is not anything that i know in there is good for america. >> thank you so much for your time. >> thank you, alex. reflections from this week's civil right summit? what does it tell us about the on going struggle for equality? anything we purchase for the paper cottage goes on our ink card. so you can manage your business expenses and access them online instantly with the game changing app from ink. we didn't get into business to spend time managing receipts, that's why we have ink. we like being in business because we like being creative, we like interacting with people. so you have time to focus on the things you love. ink from chase. so you can. to help protect your eye health as you age... would you take it?

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still wracked with division and poverty. yes, race still colors our political debates. we know we cannot be come playant. history travels not only forward, but history can travel backwards. >> joining me now is adam who has been covering the summit all week. i am curious about the president's overall message and the mood of the summit. >> the mood was very celebratory. i think the president was really paying tribute to johnson in a way that democrats haven't for a very long time, and the great society, johnson's domestic legislative agenda was for a long time something republicans hung around, and then clinton and carter rejected johnson, and the speech embraced the johnson legacy in a way i don't think we

have seen democrats do in a very long time. >> yeah, people in movies run from godzilla is how people would address the legacy of lbj. with all the challenges that obama and johnson have faced, their styles are very different. has that served this president, president obama, well? >> there are things president johnson did that if a president did them today it would be on social media immediately. it was a much less transparent time, and i think, you know, we have a much cleaner and less corrupt politics because of that, but some of the wheeling and dealing that johnson got away with, some of the manipulation, i don't think that kind of thing will be possible from a president today. >> do you get a sense of president obama sees health care reform as a continuation of lbj's great society? >> i do, and i think that this is where the hole was when lbj was done, we had medicaid and

medicare, but there was a large swath of people who were falling in the middle, and remember, obama's predecessor, bill clinton, the first thing he did was to try and get a health care law passed and he failed. i think it's further to the right than a lot of democrats and liberals would have liked in an attempt to finish johnson's unfinished business. >> let's listen to part of his speech on wednesday. >> we're hear because the civil rights act and the voting rights act made it possible for them to be president of the united states. what was the role of race in his presidency? >> well, i mean, race plays a huge role in johnson's presidency. arguably you could say the united states only became a democracy, a true democracy for the first time after the voting

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more than a month into the search for flight 370 and

australia's prime minister is warning the effort could last a long time. joining me now is aviation analyst john cox. good morning. can you deconstruct the search? did they botch it early on and now we're in this position where it may never be found? >> good morning, alex. no, i think they are definitely going to find that, i u thought that from the beginning. history says we have always found these types of things since the dawn of the jet age. we're pushing technology. there's a lot of challenges, but i'm very confident that they will find it and we will solve this mystery. >> okay, john, day 36, and as you well know the black boxes have a battery life around 30 days, maybe pushing to 40. what are your thoughts about what happens next if we run out of time? >> well, the thing right now, and the searchers are being very wise with it, is to get as much information to try ang late the location while the pingers, the

transmitters are still active. after that, they can put underwater assets in place using side scan sonar and then start to look for the main body of the debris field. it's an incremental set of steps being done exactly as it should be. >> talk about why with the narrowing of the field so dramatically now, why is it still so difficult to locate that plane? >> well, there's a lot of small pieces for one. in all likelihood the plane hit the water with a lot of impact force. we're in 15,000 feet of water, about, and this is as deep as any recovery and search effort for an airliner has ever been attempted. we're pushing the edges of technology here and we're in a very difficult area. it's very remote, so getting the ships, getting the airplanes out there is tough. i agree with the prime minister. it is going to be a long process. >> okay, curiously, you talk about the plane having broken up

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