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are you coming out as a spectator will not be like going through airport security. >> a women's race, one of two athletes. the women got off the mark, al. >> one of the emotional favorites is right at the front right there in red. she's a new englander. >> seeing what happened last year and what the victims have gone through, i think that's -- we have have the atren lynn to make sure this day goes off without a hitch. >> with the first wave on their heels everyone the elite and take off. feels like now the boston marathon is officially underway. >> it's important to come back to finish for myself, and for everybody else. >> all operations are working. communications are working.

and everything we're hearing is that the race is going well and there are no significant issues. >> we know of no specific credible threats to this event. we remain vigilant. this terrific event and this tradition on this terrific day in boston will continue. >> the boston marathon and a red sox game at fenway overlap each patriots day. more symbolism and emotion attached to it this year, of course, for obvious reasons. >> the boston marathon is back. and rita gento is back, and she's got it. the fastest woman who ever ran and his maim is medka. he knows a good photo

opportunity when he sees it coming. there's the line. he is across. >> so amazing. >> boston strong indeed. right now runners are continuing to cross the finish line in the city's 26.2 mile comeback. 118th boston marathon is underway this patriots day with no major security problems. 36,000 runners took their marks, including more than 5,000 athletes who are still on the course last year when the bombs exploded. as can you imagine, security this year is tight, but it cannot upset the spirit of the race. we talk with ron mott. ron. >> happy patriots day to you. you see some of the people streaming to the common, including some of the marathoners who have just run this exhausting 26.2 miles. you see on the faces of the runners that are coming down the promenade here, and some of them

really tired. you can tell they're very satisfied to have been able to finish what they started this morning. in some cases started all the way back to last year when those bombs exploded last year, and i think as much as people want to breathe a sigh of relief, you have to keep in mind that there's still a lot of race to be run here. half the field essentially -- a little more than half the field still out on the course as of a few minutes ago. about 17,000, 18,000 people still making they are way to the finish line, which is probably three-quarters of a mile behind us here. >> 3,500 police officers. double the amount of officers. he spoke with the new police commissioner. helms an avid runner who has run 18 of these marathons. today he is in class a uniform. we call it a suit and tie. his job has changed, and he is taking this as a personal

challenge to make sure this event goes off smoothly today. a couple of more hours to go, and i asked him is this the new normal, this security that we've seen in place today? here's what he had to say. >> unfortunately, it's a necessary evil based on what happened last year, but i hope, you know, next year we can scale it down and bring it back to the luster that it's always been. you know, boston marathon is the best marathon in the world. everybody runs all their marathons just to qualify for this marathon. i wanted to be a world class event, and i don't want people to ever have to worry about their safety. >> as you mention, the weather is glorious. in fact, it might be just a tad warm for some people. some of the runners who are getting up to the mid 60s raping today, and, of course, there are parties all over the city starting at fenway park and then the house of blues is a party that will go to the wee wee hours of the morning. a lot of folks are hoping for, dreaming about, perhaps, an american sweep, an american male hasn't won this race in 31 years

until today. how perfect is that? the american female, one of the top female runers was leading the race for a while, and then, of course, the kenyan, return champion, came back and won this race very convince leg. she set a new course record. all in all up until now it's been a fabulous day. >> all right. nbc's ron mott, thank you very much for that. joining us on the phone, boston globe crime reporter maria cramer. maria, last year the first bomb exploded at 2:49 p.m. you're at the finish line. was there any reaction from the crowd when 2:49 came? >> it's interesting you should say that. i was waiting for reaction, and there was none. people were ringing their cow bells. they were cheering. the runners were going for the finish line. it seemed like people were not aware of it. that was one of the things that our editor said. you know, he keep an eye out for people to see if they mark the hour at all. they didn't. >> it's incredible. maria, the marathon director called the route the safest

place on the planet. the safest place to be on april 21st. what's security like that tl? >> very tight. you have lines of police officers, and what they did was they roped off -- and by noon they just weren't allowing people. they said, nope, it's too congested. poom had to go to nearby and other outlying streets. they just didn't want the congestion. they want to be able to move to the crowds and they wanted the dogs to be able to move to the crowds. >> one of the things that was important too i think is some of the runners that were unable to finish last year were able to review the course to its completion this time. that's the most important moment as well. >> yes, it is.

that was what i was surprised by was how many people who were spectators who came back to be spectators again. it was really the most sprite inning thing was for them they were the ones -- they were there when the bombs went off, and one family i spoke with, they were there with their 8-month daughter last year. they were ten feet away from the second bomb. they came back this year. now their daughter is 20 months old, and they said, you know, we have to do this. >> here we talk about boston coming out this way. this is how we -- this made me proud of the city, the grit, the spirit, the resilience, and this is how we always associate boston. tough, strong city. this is a moment of rebirth for boston, and, you know, this -- the big holiday, and this just rebirth, healing moment makes it a little bit more of a glorious

day for boston. >> yeah. you know, time and time again when terror strikes, we don't run away in fear. we actually come back even stronger, and today is a perfect example of that. i mean, the boston marathon is one of the most important days of the we're for boston. going forward it will mean that much more, and the boston mayor marty walsh described it this way. i thought it was poignant. whatever the intended affects were, whatever the tsarnaevs thought were going to happen, it had the complete opposite effect. look around. this place is bombing. it looks very much like a celebration. as they were saying, you mentioned, folks that dent get to finish it last year, got to finish it this year. you got to love a man that finished at the end and got down on one knee and proposed to his girlfriend. such an inspiring story. a day of celebration for sure. >> this is definitely a story about boston. we should also keep in mind the boston marathon is a national event. it's an international event. people come from all over the world to celebrate and to run and to compete, and i think, like you were pointing out with

the mayor, last year we saw really the worse of humanity in that moment, and this year we see the best of it. people coming together. real patriots on patriots day coming together overcoming, seeing their community tightened and their bonds to one another as humans tightened. it's a neat thing, i think, to watch. not just for people who are from boston, but people from all over. >> yeah. i mean, you look at these images here and what you are seeing is resilience. you are seeing everyone finding a way to participate, and it is one of the sort of unavoidable contrasts to other terrorism we've seen like 9/11 where a lot of the attacks were on hard targets, on the pentagon, or on the world trade center, which we in new york know has been a seemingly endless set of -- a human event made up of people who go do something one year out it's completely reconstructed. the marathon is reconstructed. it's alive. >> bigger than ever.

>> exactly. that's because it's involving people and civilian who's can come right out and stand up against it, and that's what's inspiring about today. >> pretty cool. an american won for the first time in 31 years and a woman. american male. >> yeah. >> marathons are always a triumph of the spirit. this one a little bit more so than every other. up next, vice president biden arrives in ukraine. he has his work cut out for him. next few days could be pivotal and how this crisis unfolds, and there is new photographic evidence that russia may be stoking the violence. the cycle will roll on. it's monday, patriots day, april 21st.

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>> two new developments today. vice president biden arriveed in ukraine. is he meeting with the ukrainian president and prime minister, and tomorrow the u.s. is set to announce new economic and security aid to the country. meanwhile, a bipartisan group and members of congress is visiting the region and another major development we want to tell you about. the u.s. now says it has proof that the mill tabt uprising in ukraine are being directed by russia, and for the first time u.s. intelligence officials released extensive photographic evidence provided to them by the ukrainians that previously unidentified militants in ukraine are indeed linked russia. can you see the photos there. now, u.s. officials say these photos are offering "further confirmation of their view" that russia wra is behind those actions. this is all amid more deadly violence. there was a shoot-out at a checkpoint with pro-russian militants. two bodies found in a river in eastern ukraine for president obama. some of this is arguing that this strife could take away from his plansed trip to asia.

>> let's start with the new photographs that are being provided now by the u.s. this is a skwlikt that's had, of course, all kinds of allegations volleyed back and forth. >> photos directly tie the militants to putin. >> i think it's been frustrating for my former colleagues and the government to deal with the propaganda that comes out of the kremlin, the false statements that came out. we witness this and first with the annexation of crimea where there were obviously russian soldiers well trained soldiers, well armed soldiers, and yet, denials that they were soldiers. last week president putin on a major telephone answer session that he does every year went for about four hours finally admitted they were russian

soldiers. >> what the russian involvement is, to what extent, that there behind this i think there's no question. >> does russia care this link has sort of been proven? as you were pointing out, putin -- they've been relatively brazen about backing the -- do they actually care that they've been caught redhanded? >> they must care because they've been trying to hide the identities of these soldiers, and they do want to keep up the claim, important to their own citizens. not so much to citizens in the west that these soldiers and that these militias are an

organic response to the so-called instability in eastern ukraine. so from that perspective, for their own constituencies, it is important to them. >> ambassador, as you know, you have a number of republicans who are saying, you know, we've got to step up or game. we've got to put more sanctions on russia, but it's not just republicans. you have a number of democratic lawmakers who are saying the same thing. either stand by ukraine and sew them you are there from them and be tougher on russia. journalists wouldn't necessarily describe as right wing neo cons, which isnist nick krzysztof of the "new york times". he wrote this recently. he says the ukrainians have a point. a bear is charging them, and we offer spaghetti? president obama's concerns about provoking putin are understandable, and i disagree that arg ethey're on a rampage because of foreign policy weakness. i do think the white house can do more to stand with ukraine. the question, should we be doing more, should the president be doing more? is that perception, or is this

reality? >> i would say the key to diffusing russian aggression in europe in the long-term was to help ukraine succeed. economically or does not provide security and just basic governance for the people in eastern ukraine. that will be a disaster. that will be a very volatile situation. that's great that the vice president is traveling to kiev right today. that shows a sign of solidarity, and i look forward to what he will say in terms of increased support from the united states and our european allies. >> i want to go slightly deeper dive into that. just to back up for a step, the question would be, well, where? can you tell us why we, america,

have to do something to stop putin and what he is doing in ukraine, a direct non-slippery slopy reason why this has a direct impact on americans? >> we stopped violence in europe, and for the last two decades we've succeeded in having very little violence. some violence, of course, but comparatively little violence in europe. if we go back to a time where there's open warfare between countries with millions of people -- i'm talking about russia and ukraine -- that will be highly destabilizing for our allies and threatening to our allies and europe. that affects our alliance, and it affects our trade with europe. so we can't go back to that kind of world. we have to stop this in its tracks. >> ambassador michael mcfaul, thank you, always always, for your expertise. we appreciate it.

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still missing. the captain and two crew members are facing charges of allegedly abandoning people in need. the south korean president called the actions of the captain and crew "unforgivable and murderous." >> mount everest workers say they may strike following the nepalese government's compensation offer of just $400 for the families of those who died in last week's devastating avalanche. it killed at least 13 sherpas. the nepalese government brings in about $3.approximate 340u8 from everest climbing fees. families say they deserve much more. we should also note the discovery channel has canceled its special "everest jump live" out of respect for the workers and their families. president and mrs. obama hosted more than 30,000 guests at the annual white house easter egg roll. this egg-ellent easter tradition has been going on for 136 years. mrs. obama incorporated her fitness initiative "auto let's move" into the festivities and the president went 1 for 3 on the basketball court.

last year he didn't sync a single one. the basketball term for that is throwing bricks. >> i think you did an egg job on that reading. >> well, you know what, we are just a hop, a skip, and a jump from the midterms. see what you did there? >> so many puns. >> some demes in red states have serious strategy issues. there is the health care question. do they run on it as the president called for in last week's briefing room appearance, bringing out the eight million sign-ups, or do they keep running away from it, phobinging instead on wages and inequality. of course, there's the even trickier issue of the keystone punt. senators in hotly contested states have another delay in the approval process that puts off the decision until after the midterms. the obama administration issing blame it on an unresolved state supreme court situation in nebraska. a lot to talk about today. perry bacon is just that man to talk to. perry, it's great to see you. >> good to see you. i have to work on my

egg-pectation. >> you are always "egg-cellent." let's start with the keystone pipeline. this indecisiveness is really casting a shadow on prospective democrats running in red states. pro-pipeline democrat senator mary landrieu is one example, and here's what she said. she said the decision is irresponsible, unnecessary, and unacceptable. by making it clear that they will not move the process forward until there is a resolution in a lawsuit in nebraska member. the administration is acceptableding a signal that the small minority with tie up the process in court forever. there are 42,000 jobs, $20 billion in economic activity and north america's energy security at stake. perry, it's hard to see this as anything other than a political move. in my mind it's exactly what's wong with politics today. if you are president of the united states, many people are saying why not just make a decision and stop punting the ball? >> because it divides your party. i mean, if you look at mary

landrieu's statement, i think she's outraged, outraged. people are in politics. she's so outraged she can attack president obama who has 20% approval rating in her state. i think she's not too outrablged. probably pretty happy. we're going forward. it is clearly -- this is the political decision where the bases split it in obama's party between people like mary landrieu who were nervous and want the pipeline approved and want to see it create jobs and environmentals who don't. keystone has become something more than a pipe lien. it's now become a symbol, and president obama's doneors many of whom are californians and environmentalists, i think would stop giving money and criticize them sharply if he approved his pipeline. i think that's what is the big dominator in this issue. >> you want our leaders to make quick decisions on complicated issues, but let's move forward to talk about sean parker, the billionaire who helped found napster, who helped devise facebook. this guy is letting us than he is moving toward becoming a bigger financial force in politics.

mostly i will done eight to dems and give some to republicans who he thinks are helping the process. lefty super donors like to deal with the monstropolous on the right of big donors. >> i think you could. depends on what they want to do. if you remember last year, mark zuckerburg said hemented take on immigration reform and really push for it. you saw how well that's going because nothing is happening here. i think it's really hard no matter who you are to move things in washington. most democrats -- all democrats aren't unified on this. you have to start with them and then move to republicans. it's issue by issue, but i think

you have seen the billionaires, bloomberg's gun control movement has had very little impact as well. if they get behind democrats, they can help democrats with elections, but right now they're very focused on their own sort of pet causes. the koch brothers really focus on helping republicans. they're focused on helping them -- helping their own cause, and that's not helpful to the president art democrats. >> i think that's an excellent point. an egg-cellent point. i'm sorry. i'm going stop now. >> you're fired. >> anyway, looking to 2014, i have toll thank you, perry, about a month ago i was starting to get nervous about democrats chances of holding to the senate.

arkansas i -- we saw what happened to blanch lincoln there, and it was a pretty strong candidate for the republican party. essentially prior is running on a few messages, but he is painting tom cotton as extreme and that seems to be trumping cotton's attacks on prior over the affordable care act. i'm asking myself if mark pryor can win in arkansas, have we fund mentally misjudged the national political landscape for 2014? >> if you look at the polling right now, i have been surprised by it too, crystal. if you look at louisiana, north carolina, and arkansas, i thought a few months ago all three of the democratic income bents were dead, and i think the polling shows those'ses are tied and even prior ahead. >> yeah. >> i haven't figured out why that is, but it's clear that the

democrats have a better chance of holding on to the senate than i think we thought about. that's going to help there as well. it's a case to be said that obama care news was really terrible in november. >> you get further away and closer to the eight million number coming something voters actually understand. >> those are numbers a lot of people can run on. i want to turn to a big announcement from the justice department today. had an issue that we cyclists were talking about where the mrekz have gotten scrambled. >> that's looking at specifically an issue that the administration has talked a lot

about. reforming the war on drugs. let's take a listen to what the attorney general said just today. >> later this week the deputy attorney general will announce new criteria that the department will consider when recommending applications for the president's review. it is new and improved approach will take the criteria for clemency recommendation for expansive. this will allow the department of justice and the president to consider requests from a larger field of eligible individuals. >> put this in context for us. >> this is the comment obama and eric holder legacy project. they really want to be the people who change drug policy. remember wrerl last year they changed the prosecutorial guidelines that said try to avoid mandatory minimums if you can. this is an effort to now say if are you in jail for a mandatory minimum, the sentence is really high. particularly if you are a nonviolent offender, nonviolent being very important. we want you to come in and apply, and the president is

looking to grant clemency to a lot of people. maybe in the thousands. this is a big change. this country used to have a very strong war on drugs that sent a lot of people, particularly black men, to jail, and not only are you now seeing obama and holder really lead on this issue, but the only thing you hear from republicans is either silence or support of it. what you hear from rand paul and others. >> all really interesting points. you know what i'm craving, guys? little bacon and eggs. >> thanks, guys. >> thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. >> all right. up next new research proves what every woman pretty much already knows. even in most successful among us lack confidence. listen up. even men might be a bit too confident. >> what? >> okay. oozing intelligence. think about daniel and be fabulous with everyone else. i am the intellectual equal of everyone else here. oh -- >> it's like a whole theory of short fiction. you know? the problem with the definition

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how good are you at your job. excellent? average? maybe not so great? okay. now, how confident are you in that answer? if you are a woman research shows you are likely less certain and according to our next guest, that might be more of a problem than not being good at your job in the first place. claire shipman is a veteran network news correspondent now with abc, and after interviewing some of the most powerful and most successful women in the world and hearing them reveal their own insecurities, she did what good reporters do and dug

deeper. the result is the confidence code, and the research has important implications for men and women. claire, thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. thanks for having me. >> so your book certainly really speaks to me. this is something i struggle with a lot, and was somewhat comforted to learn from your book that women like christine, the head of the imf also struggles with this. you have a quote where she says i would often get nervous about presentations or speaking, and there were moments when i had to screw up my courage to raise my hand or make a point rather than hanging back. this is women at all levels of success that have had struggles with their own confidence, but what you write in the book is this isn't just some sort of internal struggle. your lack of confidence can really impact what you can do in the world and what you can do in your work. >> i was just lucky to have had

these opportunities, never really giving myself credit, and we all have felt that, but i'm not sure that we all understand what that is meant for us in terms of our careers and katty kay and i are digging into this to say is this real? are there numbers on this confidence gap we were feeling? what are the implications. just the numbers were really interesting to us. for example, hewlett-packard has done a study that has since been replicated. you won't be surprised to know that before women will apply for a job promotion, they usually feel they need 100% of the qualifications kwu imagine what over the course of a career what that means zish used to be an intern at "good morning america" i & i admired you so much. you always had so much confidence, and i think it's so help to feel have women like

yourself talking about this issue. where does this lack of confidence come from? we obviously -- some is cultural, but you have also found natural inherent tendencies to do start at a young age, right? >> yes. we've dug into the science because we thought let's see where confidence comes from. we really didn't think we were going to find much there, but we did. first we found confidences to some extent genetic. that really surprised us. there's a cluster of genes that really give you a confidence blueprint that's either more or less, you know -- i don't know strong, if you will. there's no real gender divide there, but we also found that, for example, testosterone gives men a huge boost in terms of risk taking. that's not always a great thing. just look at the financial crisis. the push to act is something that women don't come by as

easily, but we also found -- this really surprised us, that the way girls are being raised is still something of an issue. not in the way you would think. none of that happens anymore. it's that girls are growing up almost to be too over achieving, too perfect and they go all the way through school never making mistakes, and being nice to everybody, coloring within the lines. they don't know that it's okay, and that's what you need in the real world. >> fans, two questions. first, did you, do you have as much confidence as young intern abby falk, that you did, and how do we teach women to be more confident? >> great question. probably not. i'm sure i must give off some vibe from afar. certainly just having -- this is what's interesting. having a certain amount of success. often people think that must mean she's confident. not so. katty and i did our dna tests.

we found that neither of us particularly has a strong confidence blueprint. whatever confidence we have, we've really earned ourselves. in fact, what's great about this is we can get more confident, and it's not that hard. we can rewire our brains. the science there is so exciting too, and all it is is action. fail, risk, take small chances. you can't think your way to confidence. you can't just tell someone you're great. of course, you should be confident. what you can do is get out there and learn that failing sometimes isn't so bad, that taking a risk isn't so bad, doing things just outside of your comfort zone, that's an exercise in confidence building. >>. >> we realize that women could work on their own self-confidence. that doesn't mean we shouldn't also work to change a system that rewards confidence, over

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drugs, and hip-hop. now he is all grown up, and his life is about meditation, yoga, and models. some things never change. success through stillness, meditation made simple. welcome, russell. please tell us what has meditation done for your life? >> it's changed my life dramatically, but all -- the whole path aye taken. i can say specifically meditation has helped me. my in any case was rush. you know me all these year we're talking about, and my nickname was rush, and i discovered that quiet time was the graet thing. i remember coming out of my first yoga class and saying, oh, my god, if i keep doing this, i'm going to lose everything. >> right. >> and what i learned is that the seconds of stillness are the only seconds that were ever create he have or we ever have any revelations of any kind, and it's the only time that we can be happy is in the present. it can't be thoughtful and successful in the future, right? you have to do it all in the present. meditation helps you be present. >> well, rush, you have come a long way. i have to say.

i receipt read your tweets every single day. they're so inspiring. they always kautdz me to stay tai a step back and reflect on my life. wron where they come from, but you are such an inspirational figure. what was that moment in life where you adopted this whole new life philosophy, one of stillness, one of medicine taegs? >> i discovered that that presence is the gift that we all are searching for all the time. you know, i guess maybe 20, 15 years ago i started to meditate. about 18, 19 years ago. after practicing yoga, i started to really get into it, but a basketball player wants to be in the zone. right? we want to see the ball coming, touch it, pass it. you know what that is. we played. >> yeah. >> you see the guy lay it up before you catch it. the noise, the fluctuations in the mind, you can't catch the ball. you know, what you want is the mind settled. i discovered that in yoga, and then i read it in scripture. even had read lots of scripture,

yoga, science, buddhists. all he's things are taught to me, but what does it look like. it looked like being in the zone. being in the zone. and it was very interesting to me. he said like being in a car accident. and this kind of focus, this kind of intense presence is what we all want from everything that we do in life. everything that we do in life is geared towards getting towards a present consciousness. >> i can match what what you're saying a lot. i can focus when i'm running in the woods. you can't think too much. you have to make sure you're not tripping over a rock. you have to be in that moment. for people who are watching this and want to meditate, is this something you do on your own? do you need to maybe read the book? >> of course, you need to read the book. >> level just say, the book is

very simple. and the process is very simple. the only thing you need to be a good meditator is patience. if you sit -- and in my book, we give a mass mantra. many people have different mantras. but i gave a simple one that it's a good vibration. and if you sit and close your eyes reend pete this mantra, noise come and sound comes. let's go to the refrigerator comes. it's like a monkey in a cage. it will go crazy. >> why don't you teach us how to meditate. if you just sit -- >> a rom. >> rom. not alcohol. just a vibration has no meaning. now, if you sit and you close your eyes. close your eyes, toure. and repeat this mantra. thoughts are going to come, they're going to go. and as they come, it's okay to think them. but gently come back to the mantra. these vibrations, rum, become

more satisfying that's the thoughts. but when the monkey is bouncing around, is going to say all of these things, you have an alarm clock. you can't move. you can scratch if you like, but you really can't move. and if you're sitting and you have this moment, a second later, it will come to you, oh, my god, i'm meditating. so the mind will settle. once is begins to settle, then the mind will go crazy again when you realize it and it will settle even more. >> did your mind settle. >> i'm thinking that maybe national television is not the place for a settle. >> i've been on many shows. i've been on dr. oz and lots of shows. but the idea if you're patient and if you sit, the mind will settle. again, the mind's like a monkey, it bounced around in the cage until it realized the cage is not moving. you're in charge of your mind.

my 11-year-old and my 14-year-old do it for 20 minutes every morning. they've been doing it for years. my 11-year-old has been doing it since she was 8. >> and you don't have to make them. >> once they sit, in a few minutes, the mind settles and it's on. all the doctors will tell you now, it's been thousands of years, all the prophets have promoted this. now, the science tells you, greater brain functionality. >> russell, thank you so much. we're going to totally read the book. >> is that all? >> thank you very much. i got something up about that. the up next, stand strong, northwestern. the other big sports news of the week.

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sports history on friday, the northwestern university football team will vote on whether or not to form a union. the nlrb ruling you heard about earlier this month gave them the right to have this vote. and this vote not a foregone conclusion. many players have told reporters they will vote no, among them the young man who will probably be the next quarterback. the leader of the union, the previous qb is graduating so he can't vote. they've will be subjected to classic union-busting techniques. union busting playbook.com with several things employers commonly do to block unionization. one of them is to pressure supervisors to pressure you. the coach fitzgerald has told them to vote and said i don't believe we need a third party between our staff and administrators. you see how he posits the union. several plays say they don't want to violate coaches' wishes

but i think they're missing some of the picture. at "usa today," fitzgerald took spoke at the school's facility a $250 million athletic center. and it's common for players to send letters of those to the family of those seeking to unionize. northwestern did that. the women's coach announced that the football unionization would somehow lead to the end of the fencing team. he later apologized, fearmongering information is common in anti-union complains. northwestern has followed the playbook and not pressure on these young men is intense. the university that they love, they that they bled for, is fighting to stop unionization. the people who could be helped by unionization far outnumber those who fear it. college football players are those with a central force. but they're barely able to go to class or keep a few dollars in their pocket. the rule, often bizarre and sometimes leave the players

hungry. listen to the basketball player of the year shabazz napier. >> that doesn't cover everything. we do have hungry nights that we don't have enough money to get food. sometimes, needing money -- money is needed. >> the rule around feeding athletes recently changed. and they have the growing potential of unionization had something to do with why the rule changed. unionization would give these athletes a say in shaping their lives. but unionization is hard. it often comes with a personal price. curt flood, the baseball player, challenged his support in 1969 and the baseball union was new. the battle caused flood his career but changed sports forever giving players a bigger share of the money they generated. northwestern is voting on much more than whether or not to form a union but whether or not to give all football layers power over their lives. power to bend bizarre rules. power to get medical coverage after college.

power to get a share of the billions of dollars zwlern rate. guys tune out the anti-union voices in your ears and do something that will change the world. that does it for "the cycle." now starts now. his eyes may be in tokyo, but his head is in kiev. it's monday april 21st, and this is "now." >> foreign affairs dominate d.c. on two fronts. ♪ >> the president is getting set for a week-long trip to asia. the president will visit malaysia, the philippines, japan and south korea. >> a region previous fraught with tension and nerves. >> the ukraine visit also hangs over this. >> vice president biden is there. >> a show of support. >> lawmakers on both sides of the aisle pressing for president ob