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way to find out what went wrong. phoning home on immigration. president obama and eric cantor trade shots over renewed immigration push and trade versions of how that phone call went down. wage the debate. we'll talk to a pennsylvania state senator who wants to make his state next in line to raise the minimum wage as politics and the pocketbook collide across the u.s. good morning. i'm chris janesing and we begin with the latest developments in ukraine and we are waiting right now for secretary of state john kerry to give us an update on anything that might be happening with the volatile situation there. it could come out any minute now. secretary kerry has been meeting this morning with diplomats from ukraine, russia, the european union and all of this in geneva, talking about the crisis. to be fair, hopes for a breakthrough are not high and the u.s. is preparing new sanctions against russia. president obama has been clear, blaming russia for fueling unrest in the eastern part of ukraine where pro-russian militants have taken over government buildings in nine
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cities and the the violence has been escalating. ukrainian security forces killed three pro-russian militants and hurt 13 more in an intense fire fight in the southeastern port city of mirapol. let's bring in washington editor-at-large, steve clemens and washington post diplomatic correspondent ann gearan. >> good morning. >> colet's talk about the expectations. we will hear from john kerry any minute, but what are the expectations here. >> chris, as you said in the opening, the expectations for some sort of breakthrough among these four players, the united states, the european union, russia and ukraine coming out of this meeting are pretty low. the fact that they were supposed to finish up their meetings more than an hour ago and come out and have press conferences and that those things haven't happened suggest to me that they are trying to agree on what they can say they agreed on because
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it's always better to come out of a diplomatic meeting with something marginally good to say, but at the bedrock here, russia wants something very different and as an outcome from what the other three members of this diplomatic quartet also wanted. so it would be hard to see exactly what they could say they agreed on. >> vladimir putin spoke on russian tv, steve. he took questions from the public and there are three key takeaways and even though he says he's hopeful there will be a diplomatic solution to this crisis. he also said, while he hopes not to send russian troops into ukraine, he would not rule that out and for the first time he admitted that the troops in unmarked uniforms who took crimea before its annexation by moscow were, in fact, russian soldiers and tell me what you had to make about what vladimir putin had to say. >> he's finally going public with the fact that he invaded ukraine. he had soldiers in crimea before
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crimea voted and decided it wanted to go into a different direction and soldiers before the kremlin voted the duma voted to support what putin wanted. so what we see unfolding is that putin has planned this for some time and he's engaged in the same kind of tactics he's been talking about, a new russia and basically trying to raise aspirations with his domestic public that he's redrawing the lines of russian influence and its boundaries. while sergey lavrov and john kerry may be trying to put something in play that looks like diplomatic progress, vladimir putin back home is continuing to roll against ukraine. >> while that happens you have a situation of trying to decide what happens next. the president talked about that yesterday on cbs. let me play that. >> each time russia takes these kinds of steps that are designed to destabilize ukraine and violate their sovereignty, that they're going to be consequences, and what you've
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already seen is the russian economy weaker. >> so, ann, what's the administration's options here? what's the next move? >> the administration's options are really diplomatic which is what they're trying to do today which only goes so far and economic. there isn't a military, a true military option. they are talking about adding some additional nato sorties and other things that are mostly for show and mostly to show the other states near ukraine and the baltic states primarily that nato and the united states have their back, but that isn't really anything approaching an actual military protection of eastern ukraine. so we're really left with more of the same on economic sa sanctions. what the president was alluding to there and what other officials were talking about is sort of additional travel bans and sanctions on individual people, russians and russian-leaning ukrainians who were found complicit.
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what would make a larger difference are what they call sector sanctions which would be against the russian oil and gas industry. >> not only is it a problem for many u.s.-based companies, when you look at and again, we're talking now with the eu. when you look at dependence on russian oil, it's 100% for finland, 80% for hungary, poland, germany, italy all have heavy dependence on russian gas. the eu average is 24%. so steve, when ann says we're not there yet, what are the chances we ever get there? >> there is a divide in the white house and it's a division at the deputy's level and others involved around president obama who have been debating this point. there are some advocates in the white house for moving to the sectoral sanctions which would have more bite, but would hurt us as well, but they send a
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clear message. we are dealing with putin and his crony, the head state as a member of a permanent five as sort of a mob boss. if we basically go after his cronies and a couple of banks and institutions that have supported him that this will change the behavior of a state that identifies itself as a great state and many people have been arguing from the beginning that this approach of sanctioning individuals is very pathetic and not sending it state to state or europe to russia it would be inconsequential. it's keeping those possibilities in reserve in case there is a need to escalate, but there are people inside the white house that believe we need to be doing that now to show russia how really consequential and serious this is because ann is right. we're not going to take a military option. what we will do is try and shore up the military alliances with all of those nato members in the neighborhood because they're very frightened right now that we won't stand by them, but we
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won't deploy, if ukraine goes we will go and the white house is considering it at some level, and at least having the debate that these sectoral sanctions are something that will send a more severe signal to putin. >> let's talk about something john mccain talked about and that is sending arms to the ukrainians and people who follow writers were surprised that in "the new york times" nick christoph wrote this, ukrainians are mounting the revolution and they want to be like the west so it thrust freights them that the west won't return the love. europe fears that sanctioning russia would hurt business, and even the obama administration has been cautious and has resisted providing military assistance. the iranians have a point, a bear is charging them and we offer spaghetti? >> it's a powerful argument and i think syria is a pretty good guide here. there was -- it took a very long time and a great deal more blood
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was shed. it was a much -- it was an actual bloody civil war going on in syria before the obama administration saw that it was the right time to begin sending even small arms and then through the back door. this is an administration that for its own reasons which are quite separate from syria, ukraine or russia for that matter does not want to be seen as getting in the middle of somebody else's war, and i think it would take a real actual conflict of fighting in the streets or more than that for the administration to feel that it was approaching the time when it could be that actively involved and even though sending arms for someone else to use is getting involved militarily only at an arm's length. >> steve, you want to have a quick comment on that? >> it would be an exclamation point if we gave serious arms to ukraine that the cold war was
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definitely coming back and that would be a step so dramatic and bring us into a much closer possibility of u.s.-russian direct military conflict. we would have a proxy conflict in ukraine, but we haven't seen anything like that in decades so that would be the exclamation point that our history is returned. >> steve clemens, ann gearen, thanks to both of you. we are awaiting for the news conference to begin in geneva, secretary of state kerry and john ashton will get a sense of where the talks have gone and if they're making headway we will keep you poefrted. meantime, there is a harrowing and emotional race against the clock. could some of the 290 people unaccounted for in that sunken ferry off the coast of south korea still be alive? the u.s. navy has joined a massive search that includes 500 divers. a navy spokesman told the "today" show there is still optimism that some passengers may have found pockets of air to survive. as time pras asses, it shows
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confusion and fear from the school kids as the ferry was sinking. one telling her mom, i love you. another is frightened saying i can't move. the captain offered an emotional apology, but shielded his face from reporters. nbc's keir simmons joins us. >> the numbers are striking, 169 ships involved, 26 navy ships, 29 aircraft as well as the divers that you're talking about. the conditions are, though, are reported to be difficult. difficult weather, not clear visibility under the water. so a tricky search and rescue operation with 287 people including many of those high school students still missing. meanwhile, there is this growing outrage over questions over why this ship went down, we don't
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know the answer to that and why he abandoned ship. reports that he may have abandoned ship earlier than he should have or certainly before many passengers got off his own craft. he was seen, as you described, in a hoodie hiding his face from reporters, but he said sorry. not clear what he was saying sorry for, but the outrage is spreading meanwhile through to the political class in south korea with parents confronting the prime minister and the president are saying that more should be done. one saying, for example, to the prime minister out how dare you come here with your chin up. would you respond like this if your own child was in that ship? very difficult scenes for parents. some hundreds of them who are still waiting for news, chris. >> it is heartbreaking, obviously to watch those families. we saw those same kind of emotions with the missing malaysia airplane. of course, there say big distinction in that tragedy. those families don't know where
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the plane was and still don't. these families know where the vessel is. what do we know about the situation for these families that are watching and waiting? >> many of those high school students came from one high school. so they are a community all together, all waiting together and as you say, there are those huge differences between flight 370 and what happened here, but in the sense, the similarity is that you have families who simply don't know what happened and are having to sit and kind of just wait for news, and it was chaos. we certainly know that, when the ship went down. people onboards s, saying they e told. they're saying they were told to stay in their places for 30 or 40 minutes until the ship was listing and tilting and they realized that they needed to get off. we should just say that sometimes that is good advice to people onboard or a ferry or ship, stay where you are and it can be a safer place if there are waters that are cold and if
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you jump into the water you can get lost. so that can be good advice. one of the concerns is whether or not a secondary message got to passengers to say now it is time to get out of this ferry because it is sinking. so many questions, chris. lots of speculation and those questions will be answered in time, but for now as you say, the race against time is if there is anybody still out there surviving in air pockets to find out how many people have been victims of this tragedy. >> keir simmons from london. thank you so much. still to come, president obama calls the majority lead tore say happy passover, but it turns into a fight over immigration. can these frenemies work something out or maybe next time obama should text message. john edwards is back in the news. he's not running. he's working. st and get two safe driving bonus checks a year
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president obama and house majority leader eric cantor. a happy passover phone call turned into an immigration smackdown. they can't even agree on how that phone call went down. it doesn't bode well for cooperation between the president and republican-led house on immigration or any other issue. let's bring in our strategist victoria difrancesco soto at the lbj school of public policy. alex stewart is former press secretary for rick santorum. good to see both of you. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> let me lay this out chronologically on how this came to be. the president put out a statement putting out the anniversary of the gang of eight bill. unfortunately, republicans in the house of representatives have repeatedly failed to take action seemingly preferring the status quo of a broken immigration system over meaningful reform instead of
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advancing common sense reform and working to fix the immigration system, house republicans have voted in favor of extreme measures like punitive amendment to strip protections from dreamers. cantor says it was all about immigration and he puts out a statement after the call that says, the president call mead hours after he issue a partisan statement that attacked me and the fellow house republicans which indicated no sincere desire to work together. after years congress he has not learned how to effectively work with congress to get things done. >> i think it would have been better if it had not happened. the anniversary of the gang of eight bill has passed. nothing has happened. we've seen billions of dollars go into border enforce ment, 12 billion to be specific and the gang of eight say let's do another 8 billion.
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we've seen millions of people being deported and dozens of people going on hunger strikes and they say okay, republican house, you don't want to do a gang of eight bill and still we have seen nothing. nada. >> alex, eric cantor made it clear, house republicans don't support the bill and theyor opposed, and cantor can blame the president, but to victoria's point, be where what is the alternative. what are they waiting to do? you want a piecemeal approach? >> we all agree there needs to be some type of immigration reform and it's disingenuous for the president to go out and say there's no desire to work together by the republicans and then call and really force his position on this issue down their throat and the republicans in the house have made it quite clear. we need confirmation on border security first. i was in washington, d.c., last week at an immigration event for
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the federation of american immigration reform and i talked to ranchers that live on the border in arizona, john and joe beth ladd and they have ranges right there on the border and they say every day illegal immigrants are coming into the country, transporting drugs and human trafficking and they feel like prisoners in their own home. that's just from the danger aspect of the problems with not securing the border. >> is that what's really going on here, victoria? do you see this as the main point of contention is border security? >> you know, what we're bringing up here, what alice is noting is the issue of drugs and human trafficking and those are very important issues, but they need to be disentangled from the issue of immigration. if we're going deal with drug smuggling, there say route to do that spritly and if we're going to deal with trafficking separately. we can't mix up innocent immigrants coming over here because there is demand by u.s. employers for them to work here in the united states and to say we're not going to touch immigration because it has to do with drugs. that's not a fair excuse.
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>> the key point is it's all part of the same issue. we're talking about republicans, eric cantor and house republicans have made it clear, the first step in true immigration reform is securing the border. the gang of eight plan -- >> it is secure, alice. >> and that does not guarantee that securing the border is the top priority. >> we've heard something different that we've heard from john boehner. the last time john boehner was at the white house and what he and the president most agreed on is immigration. does this represent the divide within the republican party? >> they both agree that we need immigration reform and it needs to be a step by step approach and when the gang of eight plan was passed there was language in there about securing the border, but at the end of the day when we go back and look at it you see that there is not absolute, hard confirmation that securing the border is in there and that's the most important thing. keep in mind, the president had the house and senate under democrat control in his first year in office and he promised
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the american people this was going to be a priority and he wasn't able to get anything done so the president needs to look at himself in terms of who is to blame for the failure to pass immigration reform. >> we've heard this repeatedly from the republican side that this is a leadership issue and that the president has failed. >> has the president failed by not passing it in the last year the way he noted? yes, i absolutely agree and this argument about securing the border frustrates me to no end. over $5 billion is spent on customs and board enforcement and that's more than fbi, dea, atf, marshal service. it's curtailing the demand because people are not going to cross over from mexico, from latin america if folks are not giving them jobs, hiring them to take care of their elderly, of their kids, to mow their lawns and instead of going out to arizona, let's go to all the different places where folks are hiring undocumented persons.
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>> victoria defrancesco soto. alice, thanks for joining us. >> will pennsylvania be the newest state in a state by state movement to raise the minimum wage. we are still waiting for secretary of state john kerrie and he's been meeting with the ukraine, russia for a long time. is that bad news? we are expecting him to come got microphones any time now. we'll keep you posted. ation. who would have thought three cheese lasagna would go with chocolate cake and ceviche? the same guy who thought that small caps and bond funds would go with a merging markets. it's a masterpiece. thanks. clearly you are type e. you made it phil. welcome home. now what's our strategy with the fondue? diversifying your portfolio? e*trade gives you the tools and resources to get it right. are you type e*? sfuel 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
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what the feds aren't doing some states definitely are, talking minimum wage. with several states passing minimum wage hikes this year and more still considering it, the state's hiking include minnesota, connecticut, delaw e delaware, west virginia and washington d.c., different story in oklahoma, governor mary fallon just signed a bill banning individual cities from raising minimum wage. we saw that happening in washington state. on the other side of the issue, a pair of senators in
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pennsylvania recently introduced a bill that would raise that state's minimum wage to a whopping $12 an hour. mike stack joins me now from philadelphia. good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> so you hear critics like governor fallon who argue that raising the minimum wage will kill jobs and hurt small businesses and she defended her ban by saying, quote, most minimum wage workers are young, single people working part-time or entry-level jobs. is that true and why do you feel $12 is the right policy? >> that's not true. it's anecdotal as opposed to factual and most people receiving minimum wage are hard-working folks. they're not young people necessarily and probably about two-thirds of minimum wage workers are women so it's essentially paying women a much lower wage which is exploitive
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and so realistically, it's about time that you pay people a fair living wage because, chris, inevitably, people who don't make a big wage will have to use other government programs. >> are you getting pushback from businesses in pennsylvania on this? >> in pennsylvania we always get some kind of pushback from business, but let me just say this, it's not a huge pushback. we hear the same old story about you're going to kill jobs and what i always say is okay, show me the studies and show me the statistics of how we're going to kill jobs and then it goes silent for a while. the bottom line is most economists say it's not going to kill jobs. in 21 or -- or 20 of 21 states ahead of pennsylvania with a higher minimum wage have had greater job creation than we've had in pennsylvania. we're -- we're among the low nest job creatiocreation, and i
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raise the minimum wage other states have shown we'll create more jobs and we'll have a stronger economic effect and plus, it's the right thing to do. this is america. my grandfather was a congressman who helped pass the first minimum wage and it's the right thing to do. >> obviously, you have public opinion on your side. i should mention that you're running for lieutenant governor. this is politically pragmatic and take a look at the recent nbc news/wall street jornal poll, 50% said they would support a candidate who supports raising the minimum wage. that's different than saying that would compel me to go to the polls. how do you make this an issue that brings those people, the 58% much higher on the democratic side who say that this is going to be a key issue for them in deciding who to vote for. >> well, one of the things that constantly shows up and all roads lead back to it is in pennsylvania we've had terrible
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cuts in public education and terrible cuts to higher education and most people in the polls i've seen and the polls when i'm talking to people are really concerned about that issue and for the future of america and the future of pennsylvania. and one of the reasons these cuts take place is because of the need to spend on other programs including prisons and unemployment and food stamps and other things where i believe if you raise the minimum wage to a fair level you would -- you would turn the economy around and you would be able to fund other important things like public education and higher education which folks really believe is very important and i think would inspire folks to come out to the polls. so if you could frame the issue in terms of its about being able to fund education by paying people a fair minimum wage and i think that might be a way to get democrats to the polls and in pennsylvania, i believe, or
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republicans to polls and i'm feeling more and more a sense of urge senncy and i'm hoping peop are inspired to go out and vote and i think they will. >> pennsylvania senator michael stack. thank you so much for coming on the program. political reporter for yoet the new york times." i almost made you a columnist there and huffington post senior political reporter, good to see both of you. >> the lines are drawn and you is a one-sided governor fallon who says, as we said, this is a horrible idea and let me play for you what the president said. >> we've got to make sure this we have an economy that's not just growing from the top down because it doesn't really grow when it's just from the top down. we have to have an economy that grows from the middle class out and from the bottom up and everybody has a chance. that's the idea of america. if you work hard you can get ahead. >> that actually was in
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pennsylvania, but what's the political calculous here on the other side of this argument? >> well, look, higher minimum wage is basically an income transfer for business owners to their employees. there's not much you can do in an election year to tackle income and equality which isn't an issue for democrats and you can say you can raise minimum wage which is much more popular. the politics of it are that the republicans have more here, it is more white and more male. younger people who are more likely to earn the minimum wage, people of color and it's a way of changing who will come out to vote. >> one of the things we keep hearing, amanda, is that the republicans say they need to broaden their base and paul waldman in "the washington post" frames this fight as taking on the feel what he calls an economic culture war. so if they are serious about
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broadening their voter base how does this work for them? >> right. i think in many ways it puts them on the defensive because you have to say, look, i know the economy's tough. we talk about that all of the time and i want to get the economy going again, but we really right now don't want to make sure that you have more money in your pockets. the minimum wage has been shown in study after study that it will help stimulate the economy because the people who are making the minimum wage, they don't have enough money to invest and they have the basic necessities of life and they're going to make more money and they'll go out and spend it and it it will be good for the economy and good for businesses and it will be tough for republicans on such a popular issue to say, look, we're against this and what governor fallon does is risky that we'll not let municipalities who want to do this do this. >> and these economic debates are fueling the midterms and so is big money and you did an analysis of this. where does it stand right now, particularly in those critical
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u.s. senate races where the control hangs in the balance. >> in most of those key races, the democratic candidates have raised more money or they have a lot more money on hand. they have big bundles of cash in the bank. the problem is there is so much outside money for the races for american prosperity and other groups and that has forced a lot of these candidates to spend a lot of money early so we see higher burn rates as we call it and we see democratic candidates spending more and the republican candidates including those working their way through primaries can sit through more cash and holding on for a bit later in the campaign. the key question here is when can the democrats keep enough money in their bank accounts for that last push or are they going to have to spend heavily over the spring and summer to fend off these attacks. >> and all of this plays out after the supreme court ruling which said if you have the money you can support more candidates. >> that's right. amanda, is there any sense yet
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about whether or not that could be a game changer? >> i think that it could. we have yet to see what it -- what will happen and obviously, after 2012 with citizens united, i mean, the game completely changed with all of this money flowing into the system and i also wanted to jump on and this minimum wage issue could be an important factor in the 2014 elections and eight states could see ballot measures to raise the minimum wage and whether or not that will turn out voters, it could. these ballot measures are very popular with the public, but that could hurt republicans. >> it will be interesting to follow and i know you'll follow it with us. thank you both. >> thank you, chris. >> looking to make a move this year in forbes has a list of the best cities for raising a family, based on income statistics, home ownership, schools, followed bying on gen, utah, the runner-up, grand rapids, michigan and the best city to raise a family, raleigh, north carolina.
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whether you finally filed your taxes by the deadline this week or you're one of the roughly 9 million to 10 million procrastinators who filed for an extension, chances are you weren't feeling the love for the irs. time for the reputation report, jansing and company's look at who's hot and who's not according to social media with howard bragman, vice chairman of reputation.com and chairman of 15 minutes public relations. good morning. >> good morning. tax week. >> people are never too happy with the irs, but is it a case of people just being annoyed about taxes in general? having tax hangover? don't like to fill out the paperwork? what are you hearing? >> we all know april 15th's coming and you would think we would just deal with it, but it's really trending negative and i dug deep tore find out why, chris, and what i'm finding is you go to twitter and people really find things with the government they don't like.
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i don't want to pay for the affordable care act. i don't want to pay for nsa spying. i don't want to pay for other people's food stamps. people get kind of nasty on there. so we accept that we have to pay taxes and we think we should decide where our money goes which i don't think is going to happen. >> nevertheless, it's interesting to see that's what people are talking about. i just don't like numbers. what can i tell you? it's a good thing i came into this business. let's talk about google glass. kind of a case now of intriguing technology versus privacy. what do people think about it and what do people even know about it. it's very interesting -- we're calling google glass on the move and we're seeing it more and more and i'm out sometimes and i see people with them and they are intriguing and that's a great word and a lot of early adopters like them and a lot of other people have legitimate privacy concerns, who's wearing them, where are are you going to appear and those kind of balance each other out.
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i think over time we're going to see the google glass trends more popular as people become used to it and i think they're going to hit geek chicdom, and that's what they're going for. >> geek chic. let's talk about what's chic in the comedy world. steven colbert will take david letterman's spot as host of "the late show" on cbs. what's the buzz on stephen colbert? >> we can formerly call him the beloved stephen colbert. he's trending 3 to 1 positive. you know, what people are saying they love him the only questions being can he translate his character into a real person? but i think -- >> people who don't know -- let me interrupt you for a second. his show, he plays a character and they've said when he becomes the new david letterman he's going to be himself and who is
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that? >> well, i think what people will find is when you strip away that character he's created he's a very quick guy. he's a very intelligent guy. he's a very well-researched guy and he starts with comedy and the most successful people in late night from letterman to leno to johnny carson have all had comedy origins and i think colbert is going to do very, very well and particularly in the demographic. young people love him. you and i probably won't stay up that late, chris. >> never. >> we may see it on our dvr in the morning. >> exactly. >> this bodes very well for how he will do and this will see a late-night war with fallon because he's tracking very well. >> he's doing great. >> howard bragman, always good to see you. >> thanks, chris. >> a 19% jump in revenue for google by the way in the first quarter and it wasn't enough to satisfy wall street. it it sent shares of the largest internet search provider down.
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cnbc's courtney reagan is here with what's moving your money. courtney, a lot of companies would be pretty happy with 19%, but why not google? >> exactly, chris. it's all about expectations and that's what wall street really cares about and if you can meet those or not and google's fiscal first quarter and earnings came in while shy of those analyst expectations even though they were higher by some 19%. advertising revenue also increased 26% e but the price per click that fell more than 9% and that's largely because most of us are searching on our mobile phones now. that's not as lucrative for google's ad business. those aren't the only earnings wall street is paying attention to, goldman sachs is one of them, reporting an 11% drop in profit, but those results were better than expected. so wall street is okay with that. competitor, morgan stanley beat expectations. the ceo just on our air moments ago and chipotle, this is something we can all get next to poefrting an 8% earnings gain.
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they did have higher food costs and that offset strong sales. we are all paying higher prices for beef, avocado, cheese, and so, too, is chipotle and they could be better with those earnings if those costs weren't so high. >> i love my job, you love your job, but i would be happy to get fired if the same thing happened to me as happened to a former ceo. tell us about this unbelievable story. >> back in january, yahoo ceo mayer fired decastro, he was the company coo and second in charge to mayer. she said, look, he wasn't executing her plan for reviving advertising growth after 15 months with the company. so we knew that he got fired. it wasn't a surprised. what was a surprise like you mentioned was the severance package. we just now got the details, got the golden parachute. got $58 million. >> he worked for the company for 15 months. >> yes. >> he gets fired and he gets $58
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million. >> yahoo says that's because of what it costs to get him fromming gooel. a lot of these executives have compensation tied up in stock options, and if those options can't be vested when they leave the company the new company will have to buy them out, basically give them the value of what those options would have been worth and that was the cost to acquire him and then to fire him. >> courtney. oh, by the way, happy birthday. cnbc turns 25 today, yes? >> that's right. that's right. it is cnbc's 25th anniversary so it's a celebratory day all of here for all of us. >> free food, cake. >> coffee, too. >> champagne. >> courtney reagan. thank you. today's tweet of the day is more about a trending upon topic, the #taxdayexcuses. one person tweeted i got paid in bit coins. i never got a facebook event invite for tax day. a third tweeted i got 1099 problems, but an audit ain't one. salesperson #1: the real deal is the passat tdi clean diesel
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good morning, everyone. i'm tamron hall and this is "news nation." we're following a couple of developing stories this hour. first up, we are awaiting a news conference by secretary of state john kerry following critical talks on the crisis in ukraine. that news conference is almost two hours late now, but secretary kerry has been meeting in geneva today with russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and ukraine's acting foreign minister. we will bring you secretary kerry's remarks as soon as he steps to the podium as well as new remarks made this morning by russian president vladimir putin on the the crisis in ukraine. also developing news, out of south korea where almost 300 people are still missing after yesterday's ferry disaster that killed at least nine.
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that's the number confirmed, fatalities. families in anguish are now lashing out at government officials in the aftermath of this disaster. heartbreak there. today korea's herald newspaper reports that relatives threw water bottles at the prime minister as he visited them this morning shouting how dare you come here with your chin up? this morning, the captain of that vessel apologized for what happened. [ speaking foreign language ] >> there the captain covering his face saying, quote, i am really sorry and deeply ashamed. his face hidden there by a gray sweatshirt. he addeded, i don't know what to say, and this 6-year-old girl alone and crying in a hospital bed separated from her family. her parents and a brother have not been