candidates have a right to lie in the ads, and if they do, who gets to sue. and the other argument could have major implications for the way that you watch television a. company called aereo uses antennas to capture free broadcast tv and send it to the laptops and cell phone and some say it violates the copyright law, and if it doesn't, then it means more people watching tv through the streaming services. parent nbc is one of the companies that is oppose ing in aereo, the owner of msnbc. and so we will get an update with our correspondent pete williams on that. first this morning, vice president biden called on russia to stop talking and pull back from the borders. let's listen. >> no nation should threaten the neighbors by amassing troops on the border. we call on russia to pull back

these forces. we call on russia to stop supporting men hiding behind masks in unmarked uniforms, sowing unrest in eastern ukraine. >> the vice president met this morning with the ukrainian leaders and announced a new $58 million assistance package to help the ukrainian border patrol. and i want to welcome in craig meeks a member of the foreign affairs committee, and congressman meeks, thank you for being here. what more can the administration do? >> well, i think that the adm administration is being smart, and you have heard from the vice president, and what that tells me is that they are working with the nato allies and showing the world that if russia continues to move where it is looking like et is headed, that the world will be united, and the nato allies are going to be united and so if we have to come down with the stronger sanctions, it is not going to be just the united states, but everyone, because that is tnl oway to b

be -- that is the only way to be successful. >> what else would you add to the menu to discuss? >> well, the menu is that first we have to strengthen ukraine, because you understand that ukraine has been economically a weak nation, and that is why you will see the resources that we passed in congress and the money that you see in the imf and the world bank give and so we are strengthening them economically, and that sis important, and als, we are showing that the nato allies that russia does not want to resolve this in a diplomatic way, because they have an opportunity the do that based upon the agreement reached recently with the secretary of state kerry. >> well, let me pult this one out there, congressman. sep or the john mccain criticizing vice president biden's comments early on "morn "morning joe" and this is what he had to say about honoring the geneva agreement. >> and so what is the vice president saying, if they continue to do this, what will we do? >> what should we do? >> again, plans for energy, and

get them some e wweapons to def themselves. >> weapons? >> defensive weapons. >> oh. >> and that is what they are begging for. >> should we give them more defensive weapons like senator mccain says? >> and every time i hear him speakers i say that thank god he is not the president of the united states, because every time there is an issue he will give them weapons or something militarily involved. and he is a good man. and we live in a different world though than the one he came up in. and so we have to consider the interests, because even when we talk about the sanctions, the interests is of our allies is going to hurt everybody's economies and that is why we have to do it together. >> and mccain said that he is extremely nervous about what putin would do next, and why not more defensive weapons here for ukraine then? >> well, number one, you look at the ukraine military which is weak opposed to others, and so

what you are doing there, we are not putting people on the ground, and the only answer here is a diplomatic solution, and strong multilateral sanctions that will cripple russia's economy if in fact they decide to pursue this. >> i want to take a look at the picture s th pictures that we have seen as well. and the ukrainian government is saying that photos there of ma lish sha in the east, and they are the very same militias that were used to take over crimea from moscow, and are you agreeing with what the ukrainian government is saying, and two, how should the u.s. react? >> well, it is plain to say that russia does not know the troops or it is not them, but we saw from crimea, it is russia, and no question that these are the russian troops on the ground. >> and in both places you are saying? is. >> yes. and russia has to now step up to the agreement and tell the folks to back up, and also to get to those individuals in the eastern

ukraine and say that you have to give back the buildings. otherwise, the sang is shuns that you -- sanctions that you heard the vice president talk about will be intensified and inten intensified in a joint manner with our nato allies that is going to hurt the russian, and devastate the russian economy. >> congressman meeks, thank you for stopping by "jansing and co." appreciate itmen mentment mentm. >> one of the stops of the vice president is going to be south korea where the death toll is now up to 190. and we have the latest from jendo, south korea. >> yes, richard, the pace of the investigation is quick enquicked more crew men have been detaped. investigators are talk thing to six of the crew including one who tried to kill himself. they are under pressure from the investigators and under fire from the whole country for failing to help more passengers

get off of that ship. south korea's president calling the actions of the captain and some of the crew like murder. investigators are trying to now piece together a time line using the text messages and the calls from the passengers that were made from the ship. it turns out that the first emergency call that was made wasn't from the crew member at all, but from a very frightened young boy who called the police saying, i'm on a ship, and i think that it is sinking. sadly, that young boy called choi is one of the missing. his call was followed by the calls of about 20 other teenagers to the police. as for the crew, well, it is a story of chaos and confusion. as in any ship, the crew is split among the service crew, and the people like cooks and the commissioned officers. now, of the commissioned officers, every single one of them got off of the ship.

remember, they are the people who are responsible for the safety of the passengers. of the service crew, only three of the nine service crew got off, and of the passengers, only 1 in 3 of around 450 passengers survived, so again, the commissioned crew who should have been saving the passengers were in fact saving themselves. back to you. >> and thank you, bill neely for the very latest out of south korea. checking the newsfeed, we mentioned that later this hour, president obama's hearing in asia, and then first he is going to stop in washington state as the president will get a firsthand look of the devastation left behind from the mudslide that killed nearly 41 people. he will meet with the victims and the families. and a full blown terrorism training camp was hit showing that the u.s. and yemen government are working together

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we have breaking news from the supreme court on a case involving a affirmative action in michigan. we will get right to nbc news justice correspondent pete williams outside of the supreme court, and thank you, pete, what can you tell us about this decision? >> well, the supreme court by a vote of 6-2 said that the state of michigan did nothing wrong when the voters banned affirmative action in the state. you may recall that 11 years ago the supreme court said that universities could use affirmative action in the school admissions and that was 2003 and three years later the michigan voters went to the polls and approved a constitutional amendment banning affirmative

action and that amendment was challenged here in the supreme court, and the challenger said that it rigs the political system that if somebody wants to have affirmative action they have to get a constitutional amendment passed to allow it again, whereas if somebody else wants some admission process like the legacy admissions, all they have to do is to go to school board or the college board, and that is going to rig the political system, and the court rejected that argument today, but it goes out of the way to say it is not saying anything at all about the constitutional ti of the affirmative action programs which have been upheld a couple of timings by the supreme court. all they are saying is that you cannot take that decision about whether to have affirmative action away from the voters. so, frankly, this is the decision that we expected, and the only thing that is unusual about this is that the case was argued in october, and it has taken a long time for it to come. and it is a long opinion, and many of the justices write their own opinions on why this should happ happen, but it is a 6-2 vote,

because justice kagan sat it out. >> and of course, the people in c.a. can c.a. listening to what happening there as they debate affirmative action in their case in california. and also, free speech, and making tough claims about opponents in campaign ads, and what is that about? >> well, it is who gets to sue, and eventually challenge to the ohio law that says that you can't make a false statement during a political campaign. and now the opponents off that s say, how is the government to sort out what is true and what is not? it is a violation of the free speech, and today's case is about who gets to sue if the justices keep a case alive then it comes around for the constitutionality of the law. >> and busy day for you, pete. and now another challenge to aereo and cable news, and we want to say that msnbc is owned by nbc who is one of the claimants against aereo. >> well, aereo allows you to

watch live television or record other programs for later viewing on a computer or mobile device, and the networks say it violates the copyright laws and getting something for nothing and they take the signals over the air and then charges customers for the delivery. and aereo says it is nothing different than you putting it yourself and putting the antenna on the roof and connecting it to a digital individuvideo recorde they are doing it remotely, but the networks say it violates the copyright laws and there is a lot of money at stake, because the cage -- cable and the satellite companies pay the fees and aereo should do the same. >> thank you, pete williams there in fromt of the supreme court, appreciate it. and now to thousands of nonviolent drug offenders who could be released by the end of president obama's second term, and that is going to be following eric holder's pardonning nonviolent offenders earlier in the week.

and now holder is saying that more needs to be done following the act of 2010. >> there are still too many people in federal prison who were sentenced in the old regime, and as a result, that i will have to spend far more time in prison than if they were sentenced today for exactly the same crime. this is simply not right. >> and the new clemency criteria will be announced tomorrow. joining us right now is managing editor for msnbc.com, and we have dafna linder whose book "shades of murder" is all about this, and also ari melbern who is our msnbc's correspondent. and so you are two attached on this issue. but when you look at this development, what is behind the move that eric holder has mentioned? >> well, one thing that the administration has let congress do its thing, and go ahead with the sentencing reform, and the

fair sentencing agent and now they -- fair sentencing act, and they have decided that the president has an ability to do more, and that is the unfettered clemency power, and with the stroke of a pen, he can decide it is time for the non-violent drug offenders, and anybody he wants, but as holder said the cases they are looking for is to allow people to leave prison early. >> and he has the lowest number of pardons than any other president? >> yes, and every year it is lower and lower as they try to look at the political risk, and now they have laid out the political risk and public relations campaign, they are ready for the risk. >> and this is aimed at drug offenders and the staggering statistics of the people serving time for nonviolent offenses, and in 1980, 41,000, and three decades later, half a million, and they are saying that it will

affect thousands. and ari, what is the number? we don't have the criteria yet, but tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands? >> probably not that many, but several hundred to the low th thousands and the chart that you put up, richard, it tells the story, and the people in prison, we put in prison more than any other country per capita, and it is not because of the violence or the financial crime, but it is because of a failed war on drugs. so when you look at that area at the d.o.j., and the nonviolent and the private use, and you can go forward to say prosecutors need to rely on mandatory minimums, and if you do that, you have to continue. >> and how many lawyers or people hours to handle all of the cases? is. >> well, it is a great question, because one lawyer who is working on one person's case could be hundreds of hours and two directions, doj saying they will be relying on more attorneys and not one pardon attorney, and that is thousands of hours and the attorneys

trying to process the cases. >> and dafna, in all of your reporting what is the right time, and put more critics might say more danger on the streets? >> well, the statistics speak for themselves. there is never a case of someone who has been pardoned or commuted by a president, and no recidivism which is the fear, and that has not happened. it is a non-existent boogeyman and that is helpful, and the statistics speak for itself, and there is a real race discrimination in the awarding of the pardons as the president has seen, and now they feel like now is the time that they have the bipartisan support they need that gives them the political cover and real will to act. >> i have ten more questions and i will see you here later at 30 rock. thank you, both. as always, catch ari melber with the fellow cyclists later on "cycle" at 3:00 p.m. eastern. >> and just days away from a governor signing a bill to let people carry guns to churches

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national news, and perry is a proponent of the gun owners. and so when you look back, irin, what is the effect here? >> well, it is staggering that the guns anywhere any time lobby is so tremendously activated and yes, some pushback from the religious leaders and notably from the ebenezer baptist church where martin luther king used to preach, but what they have stacked against them is any fear of any future federal legislation, the gun movement is enormously activated to expand the gun rights as much as possible. >> and perry to, you, the bill passing with the bipartisan support including the democratic party's no, ma'minee jason cart and this is what he said on "daily rundown" yesterday. >> we worked across the aisle to try to make the bill better than

when it first started and we succeed in that, but ultimately, it is a license to carry in the state where the second amendment is incredibly important. >> and so, perry, is this the essence of the state, the state of georgia, and it cannot be turned around? >> well, it is broad in the state of georgia, but it is also in a number of conservative states in the kcountry. the analysis after the sandy hook shoot inings showed that te have been 39 laws passed in states to limit gun rights, and then double the amount to expand gun rights even further, and this is not just georgia, but you have seen it in legislative actions all over the country, where in 2014, some gun owners feel pressure, and the politicians are feeling the pressure to meet the needs. >> more essence or lobbying? >> well, the key thing here is that the gun rights advocates are more energetic, and they vote on this issue. like if you are mr. carter and

you are running for governor in georgia, you have to think about if i am gaiagainst the gunners, will lose a lot of votes, and it is not as clear as mayor bloomberg has shown in his efforts that it is not really a strong anti-gun, anti-gun movement in the country motivate the voters. >> and we also talked about the v violence over the weekend and talking about chicago, and here is mayor rahm emanuel. take a listen. >> the idea that if you have a disagreement on facebook, and it turns into a homicide. a husband comes home -- kills a wife. kids are walking to the corner gro grocery store, boys pull up and shoot them -- enough! >> and then later he essentially said that parents need to instill the right values in their kids and part of the solutions here. and so, you look at that possible solution that he is

bringing out versus the violence, and where do you start with this, irin? >> though it is not any comfort to the families of the murdered victims over the weekend, crime is significant down both around the country and actually homicides in 2013 were down in chicago, and while the community is feeling this in a brutal way, it is important to step back and look at the evidence. the problem is that because we have reactive responses to the gun violence and to the violence in general, there is no opportunity to kind of have the evidence-based solutions and see what kinds of programs whether they are gun safety programs or the anti-violence initiatives in communities that are broken and including by the schools closing of what works and then we need to give ourselves time to try that out, and come up with the evidence-based solutions. >> and so, she is talking about the comparing and the contrasting the different

situations in the country as chicago and georgia, and is there a connection and the bill in georgia give new movement to the pro gun movement or the opposite? >> well, the opposite. the stories are connected because a number of the gun violence incidents and in illinois are caused by guns purchased in other states and brought to illinois. the reason that people are talking about a national solution to gun control is because if you can obtain a gun in loose states like illinois, and places like d.c. for that matter and new york who have stronger gun control rules. so these issues are connected and having loose gun laws in georgia affects what is happening in states nearby. >> and thank you, perry bacon and irin carmone. >> thank you. >> thank you. and one senator wants to bring back the earmarks and the pet projects, and the pork, and add them to the bills and get some things done. and are electric cars the

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bring back the pork is what democratic senator dick durbin want wants. return for the earmarked cash for lawmaker's home pet projects. after 2010, earmarks were banned and durbin says this is the reason that congress is the least productive ever. >> it was the tea party reform who came in to eliminate it, and what they did is to take the glue out of the federal transportation bill and that is the glue that held everybody together, and democrats and republicans working together for a goal, and there were abuses for sure, and they can be policed, and those abuses can be eliminated with more transparency start to finish. joining me now is democratic strategist as well as a republican strategist. how does this grease the wheels? >> well, it is what senator dick durbin said, it is the glue to

hold us together, because it is the most ideological, and least productive congress in history, and so i think that there has been a lot of bad press around what earmarks are and so for every bridge to nowhere flshgs is funding going to the library or the local hospital. so it is what kind of ear marc it is, and not necessarily that the earmarks altogether are bad. >> and it brings something to the table or buying votes? >> well, i think that it is the way that you spin it, and the spin that you put on it, but the bottom line is that what is congress doing in office, the work of the people or in there blocking everything and getting nothing done? we have to change something, and in this post citizens united world where big money is getting the legislation they want, where are the people's voices in that process? >> and tyler to you, looking at the bills enact ed by congress and notice the before and after in 2010 and these are the number numbers as you look at them, and 2000 and 2008 and it goes from

460 to 383 to 238, and just a coincidence or more than that? >> well, dick durbin is living in the past. he does not really understand the concept of earmarks and he believes that congress can police itself, and that is like saying that the mob will police itself. it is really impossible. we have gone decades with earmarks before the ban and abuse after abuse is an understatement. congress was completely, completely unable to control itself, and it is not just bridge to nowhere, it is the fact that the earmarks were eaten up by the most senior members, and given as reward to so some of the e donors, and i think that to keep earmarks or to reintroduce earmarks will pull more money out of the communities and the more money allowed to stay with the people, and more money prompted to the economy pumped in, and the more they can pay for the expansios s and the local hospitals and the local schools and things like that, and we don't need the

federal government to keep more money. >> right. and you can both ask the question with me, and you know, pushing for more pork in a midterm election is not a controversial issue, and durbin is up for re-election, and is it gad for him to bring it up now? >> well, this is a winning message even though he is in a tough race, because it needs to be framed in the right way, because it is compared to the bridge to nowhere and all earmarks being equal, and they are not. and some earmarks do help the constituent, and if we shift the conversation, and focus on how to help the people, and instead of the worst of the worst and the bridge to nowhere or the, you know, the studies that, you know, focus on air or ridiculous things that we have heard all of those examples and we focus on the thing ths that help people, will be better off. >> and tyler, this has gotten people's attention, and in bloomberg, political hacks used to say that pork was the grease

that formed the legislative deals and so would it be so terrible to reintroduce sanctioned bribery? interesting words. a and that would lead to the odd millions of striking a deal. and so take to us the compromise, and take to us what it was and where it is that would be better? >> no, it could not ever be an earmark again and the reason is because the image and the thought of earmark is so absolutely negative that the public will never be able to absorb it without hundreds of millions of dollars rehabbing the idea of an earmark. i mean, basically what would have to happen is the united states government would have to run psas saying that earmarks are good and they will help you before we could get any public support for it. and earmarks are not the way to go and there are a number of different avenues including living the local and state

governments to keep the tax che collection that occurs every year, and that would allow those localities and those states to build what would otherwise be built by the federal government, but the answer to give the federal government more of our money to police themselves, nah, i don't buy it. i don't think it is going to happen. >> and i do get that sense that you are in agreement with that, tyler. >> thank you. >> and i appreciate both of you. checking the newsfeed, a salt lake city judge was forced to declare a mistrial in the case of a man being shot in court. a man grabbed a pen and rush ed towards the witness on the stand and lunging at him. he later died at the hospital, and then the judge said that she had never seen anything like this in the 19 years on the bench. the boy scouts are recounting the charter of in

washington because the troop will not fire the gay leader. they will have a chance to transfer, and he is believed to be the first gay a adult to be fired from the boy scouts since they declared their ban last ma may. >> and now the feds are are taking back last week's approval of palcohol, and they said that the approval was in error and there is discrepancy in how much powder is in each pact. and the company that makes the pact says they will resubmit for approval. the home of "house of cards" is about to change the price, and so we are joined with how to move your money. and so netflix planning to raise the fees, and what is this about? >> well, netflix wants to raise the fees for subscribers by $1 or $2 a month to offset production of new shows like

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report's coauthor, and thank you for being here with me. and president obama got 73% of the vote from the asian americans in 2012. when we look at the numbers and this report, what does it mean for 2014 and 2016? >> well shgs, i think that what shows you is that there is a pretty clear trend in this trend that has been happening over the past decade or two where asian americans and pacific islanders have been drifting more and more towards the democratic party, and that is a stunning reversal from what we have seen as little as ten years ago or 20 years ago. and 20 years ago, the vast majority of the asian americans supported the republicans and now a vast majority of them support the democrats and on the various issues they are within the progressive camp. >> and jeb bush said that asian americans are actual ly the canary in the coal mine and one of the issues that he is alluding to is immigration reform, and what caused this group the double in the support

of the path to scitizenship? >> well, a couple of things that happened over the intervening years and one, you had many asian americans showing how the community is being affected and we have over 1 million undocumented asians in the united states, and that is a big deal, and lot of the organizations have been touting that fact and it is also part of a more general trend in a move away from the republican party, and the democratic party and what the core of the democratic party believes and this is where the 2012 republican primaries didn't help and you have all of the talk of the deportation, and the harsh language on the immigration, and i think of it as collateral damage from the rhetoric, because most of the people were not thinking of asian immigrants when they are using this rhetoric, but asian americans are paying attention. >> and it may have activated what some call the fallow asian american opinion over that time,

and just the environment. and another thing surprising foe mr looking at a the support for the bigger government, and support for higher taxes and this is coming from a group that came from and fled from perhaps a oppressive governments and two, making higher than average salaries, and it does not seem to make sense here. >> absolutely. so what the one way to think about this, and we know of the one group in the united states and another voting group that tends to have on average higher levels of education, and higher levels of income, and support government spending and that is jewish-americans and these are two different groups in terms of the racial makeup, and the identificati identification, but it shows that one does not have to think narrowly in terms of the self-interests, but asian americans have grown more supportive of the government spending and the social safety n net. >> thanningk you, the coauthor of the americans for center

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jump from a year ago, and phil lebeau covers the car industry, and he is here on earth day. great to talk to you, phil. but electric car sales are up, but how does that stack up to the total auto sales and the projected sales? >> well, it is a drop in the bucket, richard, and in fact, if you look at the projections from j.d. powers you will see the projected sales of 16.1 million and the hybrids with some of them plug-in models, at 624,000, and if you look at the bottom the electrics the leaf and the test models, a nd it is 47,000, an minuscule amounts in relative sales and we are a country by far driven by gas-powered vehicles. >> phil, i go to the dealer, and i get a hybrid or electric and when does that increased cost

break even for the amount of money theym a saving by the time i get electric? >> well, it depends and that is what we are all waiting for which is the breakthrough which is going to happen in a couple more generations where you will see the price of the battery or the range of the miles you can get on one charge can, and the price go down and the range go u up, and that is going to be taking some time. they are making the progress when it comes to the technology in the vehicles, but battery technology is slow to evolve, and that is what we are waiting for. >> and talking about the battery technology and the giga factory, elon musk trying to change the fac or the here. >> they hope to have it up and running within a few years and it depends, because they need a final location. >> and what is the idea behind it here, phil? >> well, the idea here is that you will need more lithium ion battery cells to meet the demand out there, and because as it is, tesla projects if they continue to sell at the rate they are selling the vehicles here in the u.s. and around the world, they

are going to eat up all of the demand for the lithium ion sales, and they want a greater supply and therefore they will sell the giga factory to supply them and other potentially industries when it comes to the lithium battery sales. >> and the headline today is china and are they going to build there and then import to the u.s.? is what is the idea there? >> no, they will not import to the u.s. they have the factory in california, and that is going to supply the united states, but i suspect that they will build in china in a few years, but you have the build where you sell vehicles, and it is the largest auto market in the world. this is individuvideo of the fil s being delivered in china today. china, richard, it is going to be a huge market, because it has two things going for it, and one, they are pushing the electric vehicles, the government is, and two, this is the number one market in the world for luxury automobiles and

make no mistake, model s is a luxury automobile. >> and they have 2.1 billion people, and a few people who want cars there. >> yes. and the stock is showing it. thank you, phil lebeau. and chris christie has an interesting award to add to the r resume, father of the year, and the national father's day council gave him the honor. he mentions the four kids in the speeches all of the time, and the critics took a lot of heat for him to take the state chopper to the son's baseball game. and yesterday at an elementary school, a student asked chris christie if the president ever invited him to sleep over, and christie answered, i have been there many times and i was there many times, but i was not invited to go upstairs, end quote. >> and if you like stocks just like george w. bush, you can buy those flashy socks with orange and yellow and green and red and white and blue strikes and an

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