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crossing the finishing line will be a different type of history, one to honor the heroes and survivors and victims. for team mr8 each will take tribute to 8-year-old martin richard. >> everybody has such a goal to get to the finish line and have martin with us. >> and breaking news, a rule change in drug sentencing that could bring a wave of clem entcy applications to the white house. vice president joe biden arriving in ukraine to show support for the kiev government. but what will stop president putin's quest for a new russia? >> president putin has a dream to restore the soviet union. and every day he goes further and further and god knows where is the final destination. >> murderous behavior, south korea's president called the ship captain's action

inkprensible and murderous. four more crew members are arrested for abandoning passengers and fleeing to safety. we'll have a live report from the white house where the annual easter tradition is under way. >> hey, everybody! happy easter egg roll day. isn't this exciting? good day, everyone, 36,000 runners and estimated million spectators are along the route of today's boston marathon. among the runners natalie morales who filed this report on the "today" show. >> reporter: by the numbers this will be the largest and most advanced security presence in boston marathon history. 3500 law enforcement officers, twice as many as last year.

40 checkpoints in boston alone as well as over 100 security cameras feeding back to the mobile command center for the massachusetts state police. a massive highly coordinated effort so that the focus of the day returns to the marathon itself and those competing in it. for many of the runners here emotions and spirits are high and many saying they are looking forward to creating new memories and putting the tragic events of last year behind them. >> hash tag go natalie go. there's ron mott joining me from boston. the spirit is high. this is really a spirit of survival, of strength. >> reporter: of strength, of both, happy patriot's day to you. the marathon is running on schedule and a lot of folks are ready to party tonight because of the 36,000 runners, the first few have crossed the finish line, rita from kenya is the women's champion. she won last year and american

male is in the lead right now for the men so they should be finishing up here, they are two hours and three minutes and should be crossing the finish line in the next ten minutes. all in all as you mentioned, this have been a very difficult last year in the city of boston for family of those survivors and the families who lost loved ones here last year. today is a sense of renewal and common purpose and everybody coming together for this great event. the most anticipated of those races, one of the great courses -- great marathons around the world and as natalie mentioned, there's a heavy security presence here. i spoke with the kplees commissioner earlier, he's a marathon runner himself, in suit and tie because his role changed now that he is the top cop. he feels a personal sense of responsibility to make sure things go as planned and tonight of course there will be parties all over the city, fenway park is the first way for the after marathon party and then the

house of blues is hosting a big blowout tonight. folks are ready to let their hair down a little bit here in boston. >> thanks so much to ron mott going to be there all day. this morning msnbc contributor mike barnicle spoke on "morning joe" about what the marathon means to boston and his own family's experience last year. >> everybody knows someone who runs in the marathon. that's one of the reasons it was such a violation, what happened a year ago. a year ago my son colin was at the ball game with me and fenway park, left the ballpark a little early to go to the finish line to meet a friend of his at the finish line, colin barnicle stopped for a drink and got to the finish line not when he was supposed to get there but about you know, five minutes before he was supposed to get there, the first explosion occurred, then the second explosion occurred. his friend thankfully was just up from where the explosions

occurred and he was fine. there were so many memories and so many stories that are colliding here today that that's part of the magic of the day. >> that was mike barnicle earlier today. kevin collin is a columnist for "the boston globe." thank you very much. it's been an extraordinary day, beautiful day in boston. tell me about the spirit and what it means to you as a bostonian? >> i talked to you last week, andrea, that was a very somber day. this is just kind of a celebratory day. i walked down through the back bay and it's pretty obvious to me that the crowds are much larger than they were last year at this time because i was here last year at this time. i think in itself. it's a big field, 36,000 runners but there are many more people who come here and obviously a lot of people coming to make a statement. i heard accents and met people from sweden and england and ireland, a lot of people came

here to make a statement. >> and security is obviously tight and the video cameras and police presence. talk about what the police chief who had run 18 marathons himself but on duty today not running, the new police chief -- >> that's killing billy, let me tell you. >> and to the mayor. >> absolutely. put it this way, i bumped into a cop at one of the security check points, i used to play hockey with him. he made me open my coat. that is how tight security is. >> kevin, nobody looks safer than you do there let's just say that tells you a lot about security. but the spirit of the people -- first of all we should explain that as marathons go, boston is an elite marathon, you have to qualify to run in boston but you've got 36,000 people who qualified. >> yeah, it is a difficult marathon. i wouldn't know not being a marathoner, i find it difficult

to drive 26 miles. >> could have fooled me, kevin. >> it is hilly, the difference about a lot of marathons, whether london or other places, they don't have the hills boston does and it's a much harder course to run. if you talk to marathoners throughout the world this is the one they like to run because it is unique. not only the oldest but most unusual course. >> well, kevin, our hearts are with you and the spirit is in boston today and we'll have a lot more coverage as we go -- >> andrea, do you have a red sox -- fsox score for me. >> somebody give me a red sox score, the unusual thing is that fenway starts at 11:00 right on marathon day on patriot's day. it's the orioles, right and the red sox won 5-4 last night so it was a great game last night. >> last night was a walkoff and last year we won with a walkoff, let's hope it happens again. >> kevin, brace yourself, the sox are losing 6-0.

but -- >> it was 5-0 yesterday, they came back. >> it's only the middle of the third. stay tuned. thank you so much, kevin, keep it going there in boston. and breaking news from the justice department. we're getting information on new rules regarding sentencing and drug cases that could result in thousands of clemency applications. pete williams joins me from the newsroom. this could mean a wave of clemency applications to the white house. >> right, these new more expensive criteria will be announced later this week and they are actually having to have extra lawyers come into the justice department but these wider criteria will be used by government lawyers to make recommendations to the white house on who should get clemency. this is all part of a justice department push under attorney general eric holder to reduce sentencing disparities and the rules were recently changed but many remain in prison who were sentenced under the old system

that treated offenses for crack cocaine harshly than for powder cocaine. doj will bring in more lawyers to the pardon office in anticipation of these requests. president obama last december granted commutations to eight men and women who each served 15 years in prison for crack cocaine offenses and the attorney general says it bill restore a degree of fairness and proportionality for people who do not pose a threat to public safety. >> pete williams with the latest, thank you so much. >> coming up, much more of our special coverage of the 118th running of the boston marathon including the group running in honor of the bombing's youngest victims, 8-year-old martin richard. the spirit of boston strong is everywhere today. before last night's game between the red sox and the orioles, the boston faithful paid tribute to the victims and heroes of last month's marathon. banners from all 50 states representing all 30 major league

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vice president joe biden arrived in ukraine today announcing a package of economic support trying to salvage the fragile geneva agreement of last week for all sides to deescalate. so far it hasn't worked. ari shapiro just returned from a reporting trip from the ukraine. thank you so much. i know you went to ukraine thinking you were going to do one thing then all of a sudden these russian militias and

russian-sponsored militias took over the government buildings and you were off and running to donetsk. tell me what happened. >> i flew to kiev thinking i would report on the aftermath of the revolution and new government. then there were these demonstrations in eastern ukraine. i flew there. they seemed to settle down after about a week and whole new round of demonstrations happened where armed militia men took over buildings in roughly a dozen cities throughout eastern ukraine. i spent more than two weeks talking to as many of the locals and militia members as we were able to to figure out what was happening and whether this country is about to slip into civil war. >> over the weekend the ukrainian government shared pictures of a number of these pro-russian supporters who have taken over buildings and identified with american intelligence and other agencies, some of these as well known russian military and intelligence figures. it doesn't seem to be very much mystery as to who the people

are. >> that's right, i don't think that surprised anybody who has been on the ground in eastern ukraine. you talked to locals in the town and they would say people of the barricade speak with russian accents and all wearing same uniforms and carrying the same kind of weapons and helmets, having the actual names of the agents was interesting but it was very consistent with what we hsh hearing on the ground for the last week and then some. >> what is the impact of joe biden going today? this is show the flag, we also nato deployments to the nato border, the bordering countries but that doesn't help ukraine. >> right, i think in a way it's a similar impact to the thousands of russian troops that are sitting just over the border where they are not actively involving themselves in the conflict but their very presence sends a message. the united states is trying to send a message that it is involved and it is very much keyed into this and cares very much about what happens there. but i don't think we're going to see the vice president leave

with a significant policy change or significant announcement that will change the course of events in eastern ukraine right now. >> and over the weekend david gregory interviewed the prime minister from kiev and asked him about the pamphlets and disturbing pamphlets that were distributed outside the synagogue if donetsk and the impact, though nobody knows who was responsible, this was his response to it. >> made a clear statement and urged ukrainian military and security forces and ukrainian department of homeland security, urgently to find these batters and bring them to justice. >> between russia and eastern ukraine, a long history of anti-semitism which came to a peak -- >> these pamphlets were

distributed last night and said jews have to register with separatist. i don't think anyone in ukraine believed they were registering jews for any number of reasons. the rabbi i talked to, head of the jewish community center immediately dismissed this as a provocation and acceseparatistse furious about it. it taps into these deep horrible historical trends from massacres to the holocaust itself and nobody does know who put out the flyers, it's a sign of political tug of war and murky nature of everything plate play out there. we realize the jewish community is being used as a political pawn here and we're not a political game to play. >> we continue to listen to you on npr, thank you. >> thanks for having me. a terrifying incident in nigeria hundreds of school girls

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let's talk some pipeline politics, obama administration's latest punt on the keystone xl pipe line has environmental activists happy and senate democrats those facing tough re-election fights in energy states scrambling to come up with a strategy. joining me now for our daily fix, chris cillizza and "washington post" political reporter karen here with me. chris cillizza, first to you, the state department and latest report from the state department which has been examining this for six years. >> yep. >> came out with a report saying it was a wash in terms of climate change, either way there was no climate impact. and now they punted again, the state department having a briefing late on friday of easter weekend conveniently enough saying that they needed more time because of this nebraska legal case.

this to me is pure politics. >> indefinite amount of time, supposed to get something in may. andrea, again, i'm biased towards seeing things through a political lens because that's what i do all day but it's very hard to see how this is anything but that. you know, the problem for president obama, especially as early as november, some of the democrats in states that the senate majority may rest on, mark begich and mary landrieu. those are not places where rejecting the pipeline would go down well. i think this is not the worst thing president obama could do. it allows people like mary landrieu, all of whom have come out and condemned, i don't understand what the white house is doing, a lot better than if he real zi does not want to approve the pipeline, better

than canceling that project in the midst of a re-election race. it is not their ideal outcome but worgs the by far. >> karen, let me play devil's advocate. if you're mary landrieu and saying reelect me, i'm so powerful, i have a real impact and chair of the senate energy committee, and you can't persuade the state department and president to approve this pipeline after six years, what does that say about your power? >> it does put some of these democrats in a bad spot but the other concern that the white house has is keeping the base energized and especially the base that opens up their wallets and writes checks energized and we've seen a number of moves on the part of this president this year. he backed off of change cpi and budget which would have cut social security benefits or reduced them. he backed off of trade promotion authority. he's done a number of moves to

sort of satisfy the more liberal elements of the base in part because he wants to keep them enthused and again raising money going into the election. >> and we could call this, chris, cillizza, the tom stier prima primary, wealthy contributor, $100 million suggested today, his keystone victory says the koch brothers may get the media aengs it but the billionaire getting most political bang for his buck is tom steyer pledged to raise 100 million and received a major return on his investment when they delayed decision on the keystone xl pipeline. >> the koch brother do get a lot of attention and tom steyer $100 million is a lot of money in senate races and because of the coverage the koch brothers get

it's fair to say, look, this is guy who made quite clear his feeling on climate and environmental activists and $100 million when senate democrats go to the floor, harry reid going to the floor at least once a week condemning republicans and trying to gin up money from their donor base. you know, give and take is very fair in this situation. i don't think it's an unfair comparison. when you make decisions like this in an election year and it is as you point out andrea, an issue that they've spent a not inconsiderable amount of time considering, there's going to be the call of politics there and i think the obama administration probably knew that and was still willing to take the hit for it. >> which is not to discount karen, the koch brothers doing much more money up front. so they've had a big impact already in these races. >> where you've seen that is already, you're seeing it already on the air.

but this is just -- the politics of this are complicated not just because of these senators in these key states but also because a lot of unions are very much in favor of this pipeline. they want those jobs. >> and we should discount also the whole energy issue and if you want to go up against putin, you want to long term do more about natural gas and oil domesticically in the united states. a complicated issue but political choice that was made. karen and chris cillizza, thanks so much. a 16-year-old is lucky to be alive after stowing away in the wheel well of a plane from california to hawaii. the youngster survived the low oxygen at 38,000 feet and temperatures as cold as 80 degrees below zero as hawaiian airlines flight crossed the pacific. this photo was provided by mau we news shows the teen being taken to the hospital with only minor injuries. he was later questioned by the

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grief by the families. >> i think that's precisely it, andrea. this is standing by the family, but it is a fairly extraordinary intervention and it's certainly complicates the court case is about to take place because the captain has of course been charged with criminal negligence. south korea's president park calling his actions and actions of some of the crew inkprensible and they deserted the passengers and first to escape. it was like murder. it cannot and should not be tolerated. very much standing with the families for justice as you say expressing the sense of national outrage here and indeed national trauma. >> you were out on the water today earlier today and you saw just how complicated this is for those going under water to try to get into the ferry. they are now bringing out more and more bodies, but what's just

inkpre hencible is that this crew abandoned ship against all precedent and didn't even tell these youngsters and children how to get out. they told them to stay in their cab cabins, that's what's so hard to understand. >> yes, first of all, i was out at the scene today and it is extraordinary on the surface because there are dozens -- i lost count at 60 or 70 vessels, small ships, small boats, big ships, hundreds of divers. you can't see through the water at all. they are very, very murky waters and yes, you're absolutely right. the outrage of people first of all they see all of this activity happening on surface but the actual recovery operation, while they are

bringing bodies in one by one, it is immensely slow and a picture emerging seems like even more due plisty from the crew, a doctor is reporting that he treated the captain and remember the captain was one of the first off the ship and he says the captain told him he was a passenger. so the captain has a great deal of explaining to do. the 26-year-old what was steering the ship at the time refused to tell investigators why she made this hard turn that appears to have unbalanced the ship. she has apparently fainted repeatedly under questioning. for more crew members, including the chief engineer have now been detained today and they may well be charged as well. so certainly all of the focus is on the crew and it seems that complete confusion among the crew about what to do. one of the radio operators, the

communications operators apparently took it upon himself to tell the passengers to stay put and stay if you like, below deck. apparently he wasn't even given that instruction by the captain who was struggling even to keep his balance on the bridge. so a picture of complete confusion on the bridge and at the helm of the ship. >> bill, finally from your reporting i saw this promotional video of the captain on a different ship but talking about how these ferry rides are very, very safe as long as you observe and follow the orders of the crew. >> how ironic, andrea, yes, this was a video that was filmed with this captain promoting this very journey four years ago. he said the ferry is safer than any form of transport as long as you follow the crew's directions, well, of course on this ship, his ship, they did

and the instruction was stay inside and as a result, they were trapped. and many of those who were passengers are still trapped insi inside submerged today. >> bill neely, thanks for joining ugs today. president obama will be meeting south korea's president next week in seoul, that's one stop on his much anticipated four nation trip to asia, increasingly frout with tensions and nervous about the commitment of its american ally. chuck todd joins me now. you've got so much tension between japan and china and south korea in this mix and here you've had the president who has been forced to cancel several trips to the region. he's got a very heavy lift as i heads out tomorrow. >> it is all sort of diplomatic and sort of like doing diplomatic band aid work. there aren't major deliverables that are going to happen on

this. no announcement of new trade deals. it is a maintenance trip, particularly with both japan and korea, both of whom you recall they had that tri lateral summit back about a month ago. there have been tensions between japan and korea and some of that is their economic rivals and also nervousness in the individual relationships with the united states because of obviously the bilateral relationship that the united states continues to want to develop with china, so there is -- it is all maintenance. there is some underlying tension. it's not major. and when you look at what the president has been trying to do over the last two years, create this shift towards asia, which is frankly where the public expects the country to be looking to economically going forward, this pivot to asia, it is probably the one going the best if you're going to go by comparison to repairing relationships in europe which

had been set back by snowden or the middle east which are frougt with peril thanks to the arab spring and other things. this is going better than the rest but it will -- it could easily fall back if the maintenance trips don't go well. >> and in fact, there's so much tension in the area that during the world economic forum in davos after prime minister abe of japan's speech, there were some of my fellow journalists were saying, are japan and china about to go to war? that's how difficult those tensions were. >> by the way, let's connect it to what's going on with ukraine. there is real concern, i had this conversation this morning on my show, deputy national security, one of the deputy national security advisers about if you essentially allow russia to start redrawing borders in eastern europe, then what does that mean for what china and japan, they are having their own

disputes about territories and what does that do with the south china sea and the concern that some of america's closer asian allies have. there's some concern by japan and seoul and folks in seoul about how committed is the united states to asia. are they willing to push back at china if china starts doing some similar making some similar changes to territories or changes to boundaries that the russians have been doing? i think that that's where you see a little bit of a connection there and where you'll hear background chatter or blind quotes from supposedly friendly places. >> and chuck, speaking of friendly places, the south lawn of the white house just to prove you can do it all. we had the easter egg roll today. >> reporter: look at it. >> i don't know if you were among those with the spoon -- >> reporter: not this year. i've done it in previous years.

it is the weirdest thing to do race with the spoon. my kids don't want the eggs, they race with the spoon to get to the ice cream. good news, the president didn't have trouble with his free-throws this time as he's done in years past. >> he read "where the wild things are" there he is on the basketball court and third time -- that was the first. the third time was the charm. last year was a little humiliating for the commander in chief. one more shot at it, chuck and. >> reporter: gets the shooter's roll. he was 2 for 22 last year or the year before and that became sort of a -- you could tell he was a little bit frustrated because he kept shooting like any of us that want to play pickup hoops, gosh darn it, i know i can make this basket. >> he gets enough practice as it were. thank you very much, chuck. we have serious breaking news in salt lake city, the u.s. attorney's office is reporting there was a shooting at the

federal courthouse there. at least one person is reportedly hurt. federal trial had started this morning involving a gang crime. it's not clear if this incident is related. we will have more details as we get them. in chicago nine people are dead and 3 2 others hurt after a weekend of terrible gun violence. someone in a car open fire on a group of children leaving a park. five of them were hit ranging from 11 to 15. there were teenage girls involved, one is in critical condition. they were not at all connected to the gang violence. and we also have a winner this year's men's boston marathon champion is meb kef def ski, i'm trying, friends, first american to win since 1983. congratulations in a race often won by our kenyan brothers and sisters. coming up, more of our special coverage from boston on this patriot's day, the team 100

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on this patriot's day, boston is running strong but no one is for getting the victims of last year's atk, one of them, martin richard has a team of 100 running in his honor today. >> reporter: an adorable 8-year-old boy and nolan clearry's best friend. >> he was fun. he would do everything we wanted to. >> want the to be able to do something to give back. >> reporter: bob cleary, father of four and nolan's dad is part of a charity martin's family founded to honor their son's message, it's called team mr8, his initials, 8 for his age and favorite number. cleary is one of 100 team

members running in this year's marathon to raise money for the charity that will invest in investigation and athletics and communities. >> everybody has such a goal to get to the finish line and have martin with us. >> reporter: team mr8, running with a special purpose that would make a little boy proud. >> and joining me now is larry marquis, a board member and spokesperson for the foundation. this is such an important day, tell me about the spirit there for team mr8. >> the spirit has been tremendous, 102 runners have come together over the last three months and some of them knew the family and some of them knew martin but many of them were total strangers. over the last couple of months they've bonded together and become the team that the family hoped the foundation would inspire. it's been wonderful. >> tell me how jane is doing, jane richard. >> sure, jane is doing great.

she's -- people have seen in the last year she's had a real strong comeback from the moment that the doctors brought her out of the medical coma that her treatment called for, she's been all about go, can't is not a word in jane's vocabulary, she's just tackled everything, worked hard, put in more effort than they expected and hit a lot of her thresholds ahead of expectations. she's doing wonderfully. >> and the foundation, we touched a bit in rehema's story in what the foundation is doing, tell me about the broad reach of this foundation now. >> well, that's what they hope for, broad reach. they want to inspire people to come together, a lot of charities are about the idea of the power of one and thinking globally and acting locally. and richard's vision for this is similar to that. they want people to make a difference in their world but come out of their homes and team up.

they would like to have programs certainly that improve life in boston but also all around the country as well. >> one of things that's comes through in all of the reporting, martin richard was i think he was the middle child, he was the child that bound the family together. and i know his dad has lost his hearing in one ear and mom lost her vision in one eye. the whole family has been affected in such profound ways but most profoundly by the loss of a child. >> you know, absolutely. that's a part they no matter how far down the road of recovery they get, they will never make up for that hole and the hole is a significant one. but martin was a great little boy. he was a peace maker in his school, recognized as such and he had an empathy and understanding for fairness and he was great about if there was a disagreement in a game on a playground, he was great about making sure everybody had a voice and chance to be heard and focused on the issues that mattered.

if there was a small child or maybe a kid who wasn't a great athlete playing a game, martin made sure before the game was over that kid got a chance to get the ball and get a couple of shots. he would give them pointers and tips and look out for them. a great little boy for just 8 years old. >> thank you so much for keeping the spirit alive, for being with the family and with all of boston today. we thank you for joining us. >> absolutely, thank you very much for having me. >> our pleasure. and as we mentioned earlier, for the first time in more than three decades an american man was won the marathon. finished with an official time of 2:08.37. and rita jeptoo, unofficial time of 2:18.57, winning the women's field for the third time. avo: wherever your journey takes you the expedia app helps you save with mobile-exclusive deals

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. which political story will make headlines in the next 24 hours, chris cillizza is back with us. the president is hitting the road to washington state and going to oso to the devastation from the mud slide and meet with the first responders and survivors and there's a larger national issue here. look what we're seeing in jackson hole, wyoming where there has been a real mud slide and growing problem as well. >> yeah, andrea, added to the president's trip he's headed out of the country to asia but as you point out, added to his trip to visit what is a really i think a horrifying story and i know you've covered it, has not gotten all that much coverage on the east coast but an awful story. this is one of the jobs being president extremely difficult in any times, especially now, one of the jobs that happened for this president, is as some level mourner in chief and there to

console people, see what he says if he says anything after it. but you know, this is they are stopping in washington. he's heading to a much most poned trip to asia for a week. a busy couple of weeks for president obama. >> as patty murray and others were saying, it could take five months for them to continue digging through that area in oso. that does it for this patriot's day edition from boston of "andrea mitchell reports." we'll follow the marathon all day. tomorrow on the show, hunter biden on the launch of his live below the line campaign. and follow the show online on facebook and on twitter at mitchell reports. "ronan farrow daily" is up next. l with our new seafood trios! red lobster's new seafood trios is three times delicious! choose one option from the wood-fire grill,

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