>> what is it, porn stars and their families? >> maybe. geor >> mike barnicle, what did you learn? >> that kerry sanders is going to enter the kentucky derby. >> what have you learned harold? >> ukraine is a lot more complicated than any of us have an appreciation for. >> steve rattner? >> we realize how important budget decisions are. >> mika? >> you should read "thrive" cover to cover and i'm still learning how. >> number one on the best sellers list. >> she's amazing, darling. what did you learn, darling? >> i learned if it's way too early, it's "morning joe" but stick around because luke russert is just ahead. thank you always for your patience. live in just minutes,

secretary of state john kerry in geneva and his latest. >> and vladimir putin with at least one not so random caller. and the invisible primary for tea party players is unfolding between our very ice with some new names. and the ncaa makes some significant rule changes for a student athlete. this is april 17th, 2014. we begin with our eyes on geneva, switzerland, where we're expecting to hear from secretary of state john kerry any moment, giving us the latest to stem the tide on the crisis in ukraine. but the bar could hardly be any

lower. nevertheless, it may be the only shot these two sides have of stopping a potential slide in this civil war. and if last night is any indication, the situation can get worse before it gets better. overnight at a black sea base, pro russian separatists demanded they surrender their weapons and switch sides. when they refused, three of them were shot dead. ukrainian soldiers try to root out separatists in at least ten regions in the east. putin blamed kiev for dragging the nation into the abyss. putin said "it's all nonsense. there are no kinds of russian units in eastern ukraine, no special forces, they're all

"local citizens." it does not appear the u.s. is willing to send weapons or ammunition for fear of provoking a broader confrontation. >> we don't need a war. what we do need is a recognition that countries like ukraine can have relationships with the whole range of their neighbors and it is not up to anybody, whether it's russia or the united states or anybody else, to make decisions for them. >> nbc's jim maceda joins us live. jim, we have the deaths of those three russian separatists when they went against the ukrainian base. who is gaining the upper hand in that fight which is starting to unravel? >> luke, those pro-russian militias are. they've already overtaken police and state headquarters in close

to a dozen towns and cities now, including where we are here now in donetsk. they told us this don't believe the ukrainian military poses a real threat to them, unless the west were to join the fight and thef don they don't expect that to happen. it's been a humiliating 48 hours to say the least for those ukrainian units who surrendered tanks and armored troop carriers to militiamen yesterday. some told us they defected because they couldn't shoot at their on people. still others said they were blocked and ridiculed by crowds of angry civilians and had to retreat. so it's no surprise that overnight that gang of about 300 pro-russians feeling emboldened, carrying stun grenades and automatic weapons, by the way,

tried to charge that guard base. this time the ukrainian army did react but out of self-defense most of all. we're waiting to see a response. president putin called the attack a grave crime, saying that -- and this is scary. saying he hoped he didn't have to send in russian troops, which is his legal right. luke, i think this is all a reminder that ukraine now needs a very little push to move from what's been a low grade series of skirmishes to a full-blown war. keep in mind mariopol, this incident overnight, is the most lethal one so far in the ten-day crisis. >> obviously talks are ongoing now in geneva between secretary john kerry and his russian counterpart. when you talk to the average ukrainian on the street, do they expect anything from these types of diplomatic talks? >> no, unfortunately they don't.

you can probably sense behind me, i'm not speaking to you from a war zone. this is still extremely isolated, these pockets of resistance take place around police headquarters, around state centers of power. but generally in donetsk, life goes on. they just want this to be over. even the most moderate among them are saying nothing good is going to come out of geneva. they're feeling quite afraid about a war just around the corner, which they say they don't want. but they also say they have no intention of backing down. luke? >> nbc's jim maceda. thank you for joining us. joining me now is josh rogan, a senior correspondent for "the daily beast," who has written extensively about this issue. josh, it seems where we were yesterday, essentially this gray area where the pro-russian group

operates, it seems for the time being we're going to operate in this gray area president putin is to see how far they can move west. you wrote that odessa, the third largest city in ukraine could be the next one to go down. >> let's note for the first time putin admitted russia did put troops in crimea, contradicting his previous statements. this is a continuation of putin's strategy. he sends in special forces, sends in intelligence guys, stirs up unrest, sees what the national reaction would be and then decides whether to put special forces in. we saw this in crimea, in western ukraine and now we're seeing it in southern ukraine. putin may not have decided whether he's going to send troops into eastern ukraine, but he does have intelligence forces there, according to. >> else except for putin and those forces are proving to be

very effective in stirring up unrest. >> and when you have the deaths of these pro-russian separatists like you had earlier today, you see the sense of martyrdom, that only adds fuel to the fire. it plays into putin's hands that could quickly escalate. >> they can't fire on the protesters because they know it would play into putin's narrative, which is that the russian army needs to come in to defend ethnic speaking russians in ukraine. that would be a nightmare scenario for ukraine. every instance of violence is bad for the ukraines, good for the russians and bad for the international community trying to find a solution to the crisis. >> vladimir putin takes calls in russia and he had a random call

named edward snowden. he made a point to putin, sort of asking him about whether or not russia was engaged in the same type of surveillance programs the u.s. was engaged in and putin had a very interesting answer sort of saying let's speak agent to agent but russian is not involved that we value our citizens' freedoms. what's the propaganda play to bring in snowden publicly? >> putin's entire story is this is a western interference into his regional issues. he considers the nsa surveillance scanned a arl part of that knowledge. snowden, whether or not he was working with the russians when he was doing this collection, he's living in russia and now has a relationship with the russian government. that's what we're seeing with the opportunity for him to call in during the press conference. this is painted as aggressive,

ent fearing with the sovereign union crane and other countries and to paint russia as the country protecting sovereignty. >> and related to the kerry talks this morning, the u.s. government is pretty boxed in. the best they could hope for was this idea of some sort of coalition government where the east got more rights. >> so president obama has made it very clear we're not going to militarily intervene in ukraine. if we're not willing to do what we need to do to coerce putin to stop his activities, the only other option is to negotiate. some would say negotiating what we won't do is not a great negotiating tactics. but this is where we where and the deal may not be palatable to the american public but that's the only tool we have. >> josh, thank you very much. we're expecting to hear from secretary kerry in geneva any

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now to the latest on that tragic sinking of a south korean ferry on wednesday. nine people are confirmed dead, just 179 of the 475 people believed to have been on board have been rescued. rescue efforts continue today for survivors, many of them

students, including 325 from the same high school. they were on a holiday trip to an island known as the hawaii of korea. according to survivors, the ship began tilting after the students finished breakfast. eyewitnesses say they heard a loud bang before the ferry lost control. a 6-year-old girl was pulled to safety and is expected to be okay but her parents and brother are still missing. students texted their parents before the ship went down. "mom, in case i don't get a chance to speak to you, i love you." another said, "dad, the ferry has tilted too much, i can't move move." eunice yoon has more. >> the south korean coast guard said the visibility in the murky waters is less than 2 meters and fast current is impeding rescuers looking for survivors.

families of those on board, mostly students, are gathering on a nearby island. they are outraged at what they call a slow response. the prime minister visited the families and was greeted with relatives hurting water bottles, asking how could you let this happen? the president has also arrived on the scene. she was debriefed by the coast guard and urged rescuers to keep up the search. some of the children sent text messages from inside the vessel telling their parents that they loved them. the captain is facing a criminal investigation but there is still no cause for the incident. >> 12 planes and 11 ships are scouring more than 15,000 square miles of ocean for any debris floating on the surface.

bluefin 21 finished a successful 16-hour scan. after two aborted missions, this is the first 16-hour scan it was able to complete. the search will continue through easter this weekend. >> back at home president obama called congressman eric cantor on wednesday to wish him a happy pre passover. the white house described it as pleasant but kantor's office issued a blistering statement that said "the president called me hours after he issued a partisan statement which attacked me and my fellow republicans and indicated no sincere desire to work together. you do not attack the people you hope to engage in a serious dialogue." my gosh, we've gotten to a point where politicians can't even wish a happy easter or pass

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mainstream, the number of wells skyrocketed from a few hundred being brought online every year to a few thousands. that's no surprising when you consider the money at stake. there are 58 billion gallons of crude oil locked in shale formations. we're talking about nearly $6 trillion dollars' worth of oil in the ground. there's an estimated 660 trillion feet of natural gas in tapped and untapped reserve. the jump in production helped the u.s. hit a milestone in energy production less than six months ago. >> for the first time in near live two decades, we produced more oil here in the united states than we buy from the rest of the world. that hasn't happened in a very long time. >> but one problem is that all this happened so quickly. it's been difficult for regulators to keep up. and with washington leaving much

of the job of regulation to the states, fracking is already becoming a big issue in governor races in states like pennsylvania and colorado. as russell gold wrote in his book, "the boom," fed by a steady diet of fresh capital investors, the drilling industry proceeded with abandon, not caution. the growth of fracking took everyone by surprise. the energy industry wasn't prepared and neither with land owners and government officials. joining me now, russell gold, author of "the boom: how fracking united the american revolution and changed the world." thanks so much for coming on the program. wonderful book. i've read a fair amount of it. you say fracking has made the united states the envy of the world. >> there's no question about it. inexpensive electricity prices,

mostly driven by the natural gas we have. europe would love to have the prices we have. the reason we're talking about exports is gas in the united states costs $5 per million btus. if you want to be doing any fracking or anything with energy, you want to be doing it now in the united states. >> you sort of write this is a two-prong sword here. you have this idea that you're going to create a lot of natural gas, which is better for the environment, but you're going to also produce a lot of oil. either way in order to extract both of these things, you're doubling down on carbon once again. does this make carbon -- the united states a sort of carbon-based energy consumer for the foreseeable future? >> certainly. there's a lot more oil and natural gas being produced in the united states. the u.s. is now the world's leading producer of oil and natural gas combined.

yes, we are doubling down on fossil fuels. but with all this new energy, we really have an opportunity to ask and figure out where do we want to be in 20 or 30 years because renewables are growing very rapidly, too. people think you have to be pro renewable or pro fossil fuel, you have to take a side. that's not exactly true. as more renewables come on the grid, natural gas is doing a great job of backing it up and enabling more growth. >> there are a host of environmental concerns. people are worried the process could contaminate underground water. i was in oklahoma and talking to a group of residents. they just brought it up. they said we haven't noticed that much of a change in weather pattern, but my gosh, we feel a lot of earthquakes now. bloomberg said "the state on april 6 experienced its 109th earthquake of a magnitude 3 or higher, matching the total for all of 2013, according to austin holland, a research seismologist with the oklahoma geological

survey. more quakes followed including a magnitude 4 near langston and about 40 miles north of oklahoma city." a lot of people think that has to do with fracking. >> oh, no question about that. the science is there. the real question going forward is what do you do about it? there's been a lot of focus that maybe we shouldn't do injection wells where there's active faults. texas just hired a seismologist to be part of the expert regulatory group. there's being progress made. there's a fairly simple fix here. you don't inject this waste water where there are active faults and that should reduce the number of earthquakes. >> you say the best way moving forward is for a government to separate the agency that

attracts the frackers from that that regulates the frackers. do you see that happening? how much of this is sort of we're learning as we go along? >> we are definitely learning as we go along. you drill first and figure out what you're doing wrong and fix the problems later. the federal government after the deep horizon water still did exactly that. they took the agency from regulated and separated from the agency leasing and generated money. right now texas, north dakota and others have that under one agency. it proven very difficult to be a robust regulator when at the same time you're also trying to raise money and stimulate economic growth. >> moving forward do you think this is certainly going to be a a staple for the american economy for the next 20, 30 years? how long do you think the boom lasts? >> well, the boom itself with the really rapid job growth, not 20 or 30 years. but in terms of all this oil and gas production, sure, that's going to go on for a while. i do think it lab stwill be a s.

this is here to stay. we're drilling, fracking 100 wells a day. that's not going away any time soon. >> and it's closet frackers that came one this. folks in pennsylvania sort of drilled a hole and voila. >> there have been billions made and billions lost. the wild catting still goes on. >> amazing. russell gold, author of "the boom." probably you're the first volume of education on fracking there is in the united states. god love you. thank you so much. >> now to the next number in our data bank today, 40%. that's south carolina senator lindsay graham's approval rating. that's 3% higher than october of last year. while graham's approval rating is still upside down, 40 to 44%,

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the obama administration's use of drones last march. while his father sends out e-mails like this one saying, quote, my son, senator rand paul, is now considered a front-runner for president in 2016. but one man could get in the way of his presidential ambitions, ted cruz. the texas senator has not so subtly taken him on regarding social policy. this trip in his third trip to south carolina in a year, cruz refused to endorse senator lindsay graham, just moments before graham was set to introduce him on stage. >> do you want to see lindsay go back to the senate? >> well, what i want to see happen is i want to see the senate with a republican majority. and i am very optimist being about 2014. with respect to primaries, i have said for a long time, i am likely going to stay out of

incumbent primaries. i'm leaving that to the grass roots. >> he had no qualms backing t.w. shannon, who he endorsed yesterday in that state senate race. meanwhile paul has been on defense this week trying to explain these comments he made in 2009 at western kentucky university unearthed again by mother jones. he said vice president cheney was staunchly against invading iraq and then reversed course and backed the war as vice president, suggesting he was being opportunistic. paul said cheney loved his country but didn't take back his criticism. a wall street journal editorial mockingly boosted rand paul for president because what the gop needs is a humbling landslide defeat, criticizing his back at the moon lunacy about hallbert.

paul is also struggling to explain recent comments on iran writing "i am not for containment in iran. let me repeat that since no one seems to be listening closely. i am unequivalently not for containment in iran." >> are you ruling out running for president in 2016? are you comfortable ruling that out? >> i am absolutely committed to doing all that i can to make sure indiana continues to grow. we have the lowest unemployment rate in the midwest. >> you're not ruling it out. >> we'll stay focused. >> you're not ruling it out. this week pence said "we've had people talking about that with us. our decision on making any kind of decision on reelection will

come sometime in the next year. mollie, i want to go right to you. you sort of started this article talking about the daylight between ted cruz and rand paul. rand paul is going after that libertarian wing. ted cruz stands in his way. you say cruz is leading them all amongst the grass roots. >> i think so. i attended this gathering in new hampshire where they spoke back-to-back to this group of hundreds of tea party activists. it's a chance to see what is going on in the tea party lane. how does the party respond when they see both of them directly contrasted. almost everyone i spoke to said they liked cruz better, they said he was a more effect of speaker, more dynamic and better at giving a speech and was speaking more about the issues they care about.

paul seems to take a detour with issues that doesn't necessarily resonate. he's talking about lessening marijuana sentences. cruz's speech was about obamacare. rand paul in a speech to conservative activists barely mentioned obamacare. that's what they want to hear. that's the sort of red meat they want. >> rand paul sort of got this attention saying he's got the same idea as his dad but he's a much better candidate, he's much better on the stump and much better saying these things and fires up a certain segment of the base but is not mainstream enough, even within the grass roots. >> rand paul wants to change the republican party really broadly, make it more anti-war, wants to make it appeal to african-americans more, changes the war on drugs. i'm not sure republican voters are where he is. whenever you hear ted cruz, he's

on obamacare, bashing the president on national security. he's much more where the base is, which is they don't like barack obama and they don't like hillary clinton. he's speaking more of a fiery tone. rand paul has always been a soft spoken guy. that will be a challenge down the road. he's not a fiery speaking in that kind of way. >> cruz feeding on the red meat. if you are an establishment guy and you're sitting back watching these two guys go at it, at a time when the grass roots has more power internally in the gop than we've seen in quite a while, they seem to be cancelling each other out, opening that window for an establishment candidate to walk in. >> you mentioned mike pence. rand paul, ted cruz, they're fighting against washington but they're still in washington. they're still part of this body that is so unpopular with americans. the way that the senate works, they're not going to be able to

point to reaching across the aisle pretty much on anything to say, looking i can create solutions. somebody who is a governor, a mike pence or roseannia martinez, those are people who can say i've been a chief executive of a state, here's the kind of arguments i can bring to the presidency. if i'm a big donor, i'm going to be looking more at somebody like that than somebody who is a senator. >> mike pence is somebody who is fascinating. perry and i covered him on capitol hill when he was there. he seems to have built this interesting record in indiana where he's very conservative but he has an issue he gets a lot of attention on from both sides, education in indiana. he's trying to fill that by being conservative enough but also pragmatic. >> absolutely. i think he could be a sleeper candidate. even when he was congressman, people were talking about him potentially running for president. he's clearly someone who is politically skilled, but as kerry was saying has gone back to his state and made a record as a chief executive, which i think makes him much more sympathetic because he can point

to a record of actual leadership, instead of just being another vote on capitol hill, where everybody hates everybody. >> as you look ahead, we have the mid-terms coming in. does that pigeon hole presidential candidates or are we all on for 2016 do you think? >> rand paul, jeb bush are making comments. jeb bush is saying i'm the electable person, i'm going to be a little bit more moderate. rand paul is going to be revolutionary. everyone is trying at this stage to define what is my brand of republicanism in 2014. then next year they'll be out really competing against each other and saying here's why mine is better than yours. >> let go around the table with this. kerri, i'll start with you. republican, the results in the mid terms, if they're good, who does it help more? does it happy the tea party more or establishment part of the

party? >> one person i would say it would benefit maybe if the results are good for republicans, that might be a boost for hillary clinton. she'll be able to fight against that sort of gridlock in washington, d.c. so that's somebody i would say would probably benefit. >> there are a lot of republican donors, members of the republican establishment, that are actually afraid of the party having a good year in the mid terms because they feel like it's almost inevitable, they are definitely keeping the house, inevitably going to make some gains to the senate and they feel that will send the wrong signal to the base. the stestablishment has been telling the base we have to reform, become more moderate. >> jeb bush and chris christie who have been saying the party needs to move to the center more, we need to embrace immigration reform, that's going to make it a hard case if the party gains a bunch of seats in 2014. it's hard if you want to become the reformer. a little hard even for rand paul

talking about winning votes of more minorities. there's a worry of republicans where they repeat the lesson of 2010 where they won there, got confident, pushed mitt romney to the right too far and he couldn't win the election. you can see that happening again. >> there as a false sense of security going on by what was a rebuke election of the president's policy originally. thanks so much, we appreciate it. one more data bank number for you, $56 million. that's how much outside groups have spent so far in this year's mid-term elections and it's only mid april. the senator for response of politics report more than double the $23 million spent at this point in 2010 and the spending has outpaced almost every presidential election, except that of 2012. coming up on our tdr 50 states,

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connecticut for this next question. how is it that a marshally recognized athlete helps lead his team to a marshal championship still ends up going to bed hungry because he doesn't have enough money to buy food? according to shabbaz napier, senior guard with the uconn huskies it's partially due to the relationship between big colleges and student athletes. here's what he told fox sports in the midst of march madness. >> it's best to get a scholarship to our universities, but at the end of the day that doesn't cover everything. we do have hungry nights that we don't have enough money to get food and sometimes, you know, needing mono -- money is needed. >> it just so happens that a few weeks later division one officials approved unlimited meals and snacks for all athletes whether they're walk-ones or student athletes

with scholarships, but it is just one piece of increasingly complicated clfrgz to redefine the relationship between college athletes and their schools. next week, northwestern's football team will take a normal vote on whether to let a union represent them with their university and that could open the door to a stronger push for a piece of those multimillion dollar tv contracts and something that would raise the stakes considerably. keep in mind the ncaa as a whole made 872 million in 2012 and is currently approaching a billion dollars in annual revenue. joining me now is andy staples who covers college sports for sports illustrated and i spoke to him in my sports days. andy, thank you so much for being on the show. >> it's different without james carville. >> i know, right some. >> we all look better on tv. >> i want to ask you a question here, so we have the ncaa and they seem to have, shall we say, softened a little bit on this issue of allowing athletes to eat. amazing in 2014, but it seems to

be one of many things that they're getting hit on, on the licensing case on whether or not they have the ability to use the likeness on video games and a lot of negative headlines out there. the ncaa seems to be taking hits on all fronts. is it just a matter of time before they recognize, you know what some this isn't amateur ath letix and this is a multibillion-dollar industry and we're operating as a non-profit. >> i think there are smart people, and when we say ncaa, and i think there are smart people that know that. there are true believers that believe in the concept of amateurism and in the student athlete which was a term created in the 1950s to dodge workers' compensation claims. >> right. >> there are a few that just don't get it yet. but no, it is a multi-front battle and the ncaa can't win, you're in san francisco with the

case, and it's about selling likenesses to it of of it and the union fight in chicago and now you've anytime a lawsuit from jeffrey kessler, who is the attorney that essentially won the case that set up nfl free agency and you have that going in a federal court in new jersey and he's attacking the ncaa's entire business model. they'll either have to settle this to dry up the plaintiff pool or they're going to have to blow it all up and if you talk to the anyways in charge, they say everything will blow up and it will be a disaster. well, no. this is a multibillion-dollar business and you anyways are making seven-figure salaries. you will figure it out because you ilstill want to be rich. >> right. you think that the ncaa would at some point soften itself up and let's adopt the olympic standard and something like that. does that give them ten years? will they try to take on these lawsuits and i don't think they'd go that far and that's what i've been advocating for a

few years. if someone else wants to pay them, let them. >> if they want to be on a wheaties box or something. the schools say that would just result in bidding wars and the schools with the biggest boosters and the most money will get the best recruits. look at recruiting rankings now. guess what? alabama and ohio state will get the 25 football players they want every year anyway. it's not going to change anything, but i don't think they'll go that far. what i do think they might entertain is there's this new money about to hit the system and you have the college football playoff that will bring in $740 million a year in revenue and they're about to rene comboegotiate the tier 1 r. when you brad wait here's $80,000 or $100,000. >> a trust fund of some port. i think they'd agree to that. >> i just want to get your.this northwestern drive, do you think it will happen?

>> i don't think the northwestern players will vote to unionize. >> okay. >> what's more interesting is the appeal with the national labor relations board, will they still consider them employees because if the football players are considered employees then players at every private school will have the option to unionize if they want. >> it starts the conversation. andy stables of "sports illustrat illustrated," thank you for joining us. that's it for "the daily rundown." up next, chris jansing and company and she'll bring you the conversation with john kerry from geneva, switzerland if it happens. we'll see. thank for watching "daily rundown." if i can impart one lesson to a

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